DA Y
6
MONDAY, MAY 18 2015
AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL www.ScreenDaily.com
Editorial +33 4 9706 8457
Advertising +33 4 9706 8495
WORLd PREMIERE TOdAY! VOLUME 2 ThE dESOLATE OnE MOn 18 MAY / 09:00 / ThEATRE CROISETTE / PRESS SCREEnInG MOn 18 MAY / 17:30 / ThEATRE CROISETTE / WORLd PREMIERE MOn 18 MAY / 18:15 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCREEnInG TUE 19 MAY / 18:30 / STUdIO 13 / PUBLIC SCREEEnInG
TODAY
SCREENINGS
» Page 32
VOLUME 1 ThE RESTLESS OnE MOn 18 MAY / 16:00 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCREEnInG
VOLUME 3 ThE EnChAnTEd OnE WEd 20 MAY / 09:00 / ThEATRE CROISETTE / PRESS SCREEnInG WEd 20 MAY / 17:15 / ThEATRE CROISETTE / WORLd PREMIERE ThU 21 MAY / 18:30 / STUdIO 13 / PUBLIC SCREEnInG
WORLd SALES: ThE MATCh FACTORY
AD_TMF_SCREENDAILY_COVER_ARABIEN_NIGHTS_VOL2_245x266_PRINT.indd 1
12.05.15 19:41
locofilms.indd 1
16/05/2015 23:36:48
DA Y
6
MONDAY, MAY 18 2015
AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL www.ScreenDaily.com
Editorial +33 4 9706 8457
Advertising +33 4 9706 8495
Todd Haynes lights up for Selznick’s Wonderstruck David Puttnam at Cannes this week
Puttnam comes in from cold with Arctic 30 BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Chariots Of Fire producer David Puttnam is returning to film-making for the first time in more than 15 years. The former Columbia studio boss is to make Arctic 30, a feature about the experiences of 30 Greenpeace activists thrown into Russia’s prison system after protesting against drilling in the Arctic. The film is based on Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg: The Extraordinary Story Of The Arctic 30, a book by Ben Stewart, published earlier this month. Puttnam and Le Pacte co-owner Hani Farsi, of Corniche Pictures, have signed a joint venture to produce the film. A director has yet to be announced. Puttnam, who will unveil the project in Cannes today, said: “For me it hits every button.” Puttnam credits Emma Thompson, who is involved in the film and is set to help script it, with kickstarting the project. “We wouldn’t have reached this point without her and it is very much her decision from here on in as to the degree to which she will be involved, but she couldn’t be more enthusiastic,” he added.
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN AND JEREMY KAY
Todd Haynes, the toast of the Croisette following a rousing reception for Carol yesterday, is set to direct Brian Selznick’s children’s book Wonderstruck. Screen understands the director’s longtime collaborator, Christine Vachon, will produce for Killer Films and the film-makers are mulling over cast options. Cinetic and CAA are arranging financing. Selznick, whose book The Invention Of Hugo Cabret inspired Martin Scorsese’s multiple Oscar winner Hugo, has adapted the story of two narratives set 50 years apart. The book centres on two intertwining stories: one set in 1977 and told with words as a boy, who is struck by lightning, pines for the father he never knew, while the other takes place half a century earlier and is told with pictures about a
Hubert Boesl
Rooney Mara, Todd Haynes and Cate Blanchett at last night’s Carol premiere
girl who dreams of a mysterious actress. One Los Angeles insider on the Croisette told Screen the script was “brilliant”. Haynes’ dance card includes a Peggy Lee biopic starring Reese Witherspoon, set up at Fox 2000. In an interview with Screen, Oscar nominee Haynes, who is in Cannes this weekend with Compe-
tition entry Carol starring Cate Blanchett, also revealed a TV series he is working on with Mildred Pierce co-writer Jon Raymond. It is based on 2012 documentary The Source Family, about an experiment in communal utopian living in 1970s California. “It has more of a series rather than a mini-series concept to it,” said the director.
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
Entertainment adapted the screenplay from Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war text. Paradigm represents US rights to the project, the latest iteration of the book that spawned Universal’s 1930 Oscar winner.
NEWS Journey man Pride star to play tragic photojournalist » Page 4
REVIEW Carol Stately, evocative film-making » Page 12
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Missing You Already
New Sparta Films, a female friendship is put to the test when one woman starts a family and the other falls ill. It has already sold in UK and Australia (eOne).
Corsan puts Western Front remake in its sights Paul Breuls’ Belgium-based Corsan has come on board to produce and sell the long-gestating remake of All Quiet On The Western Front, with Roger Donaldson set to direct. Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson of Sliding Down Rainbows
Ben Schnetzer, page 4
Oettinger talks digital markets
Salt seasons Hardwicke deals Thurman signs for 9/11 drama Following the Cannes market screening of Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) romantic comedy drama Miss You Already, starring Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore, UK sales outfit Salt has closed deals in Germany (Telepool), France (Océan Films), Japan (Showgate), South Korea (Dreamwest Pictures) and Hong Kong (Panorama Entertainment). In Miss You Already, produced by Christopher Simon and backed by
TODAY
The story follows a group of young German First World War recruits whose idealism is shattered when they reach the front line. Donaldson’s most recent release was The November Man, starring Pierce Brosnan. Jeremy Kay
Uma Thurman and Christopher Lee are among the ensemble cast to have signed for a Copenhagenbased drama set during the 24 hours before 9/11. The 11th follows eight interwoven stories, which occur in the lead-up to the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, but on the other side of the Atlantic. It is being introduced to buyers here by sales agent LevelK. The ensemble cast of the $5.7m (¤5m) project also includes Connie Nielsen, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Olin, Lars Mikkelsen and Paprika Steen. Thurman is to play an obsessive cop while Lee plays an alcoholic former surgeon who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Nyqvist plays his son and carer. The film, shooting in September, marks the directorial debut of Xavier Nemo.
European Commissioner Günther Oettinger warned on Sunday that Europe risks being dominated by US content platforms if it does not unify its digital markets. “It’s Google, Amazon and Microsoft that will be taking the decisions, with a clearly American strategy, the aim being to dominate Europe,” Oettinger told a Cannes conference on the EC’s plans for a digital single market (DSM). “The Americans and the South Koreans have digital superiority compared to us and we need to position ourselves to be on equal footing with the rest of the world.” Oettinger was in Cannes to discuss the EC’s strategy for a DSM, which he co-drafted. The strategy has alarmed the European film industry for its proposed changes to copyright and territoriality rules, which currently underpin the funding of creativity in the region. Many of the speakers at Sunday’s conference reiterated these fears, but there were also signs of willingness to negotiate, as Oettinger revealed there may be waivers for sport, broadcasters and film.
CANNES DEALS Better call Saul Films Distribution has sold Son Of Saul to Taiwan (Maison Motion), Benelux (Cinéart), Portugal (Midas), Israel (Orlando), Poland (Gutek), Italy (Teodora), Greece (Film Trade), Spain (Avalon) and France (Ad Vitam). A deal with Sony Pictures Classics includes the US, Latin America and Australia.
Krisha’s run continues StudioCanal has acquired UK rights from Visit Films to Critics’ Week selection Krisha.
News
Shochiku doubles up with Yamada Japanese studio Shochiku is launching sales on two projects from leading director Yoji Yamada: a drama based on a Hisashi Inoue story and the director’s first comedy since the end of the Tora-san series in 1995. The drama, Haha To Kuraseba (literal translation ‘Living With My Mother’), is in production with Sayuri Yoshinaga (Kabei: Our Mother) and Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters From Iwo Jima) heading the cast. The story follows a midwife in Nagasaki who is visited by her son who she thought had died three years earlier when an atomic bomb fell on the city. The Japanese release is tentatively scheduled for winter 2015. The comedy, Kazoku Wa Tsuraiyo!, in post-production, stars many of the cast from Yamada’s Tokyo Family, including Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura and Yui Natsukawa. The story follows a couple who decide to divorce after 50 years of marriage. Joe Hisaishi (Departures) is writing the score of the film, which is scheduled for Japanese release in March 2016. Liz Shackleton
Pride star Schnetzer finds his destination By Geoffrey MacnaB
Ben Schnetzer, star of gay activist drama Pride, is to play a tragic Reuters photojournalist who was stoned to death in Mogadishu in 1993. Schnetzer will play Dan Eldon in Journey Is The Destination, a $6m feature produced by Martin Katz at Prospero Pictures and executive produced by Don Ranvaud, both here in Cannes. The cast will also include Kath-
Ben Schnetzer
erine Waterston (Inherent Vice) and Ella Purnell (Maleficent). Eldon was set upon by an angry
mob while covering Somalia’s civil war and stoned to death, aged 22. The film’s title is from one of three books published after Eldon’s death, based on his journals. Directed by Bronwen Hughes, the film has long been in the pipeline, with Daniel Radcliffe attached to the role previously. It is due to shoot in South Africa this July. Voltage Pictures is on board as sales agent.
Sweden’s Kuhnke defends axing Film Agreement By Geoffrey MacnaB
Sweden’s minister for culture and democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke, has defended her decision to scrap Sweden’s Film Agreement. The agreement established a 10% levy on cinema tickets to raise money for Swedish film production when introduced in 1963. Earlier this week, the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) issued a statement protesting the decision, as well as warning against the minister’s proposals to increase the VAT rate on cinema tickets from 6% to 25%. “[The agreement] needs to
change for many reasons,” Kuhnke told Screen in Cannes. “It has been like the elephant in the room. Everybody knows that it doesn’t work any more.” However, she has not been surprised by the exhibitors’ complaints. “Of course, I knew they wouldn’t be happy but this is not something that was not well prepared,” the minister said of the lengthy consultation process around the changes to the agreement. “I knew this reaction would come. In two weeks’ time, they will see the whole plan and I’m sure they will see this is the best thing for the Swedish film indus-
williams back in the director’s chair at dubai film connection
Marché kicks off Chan award
By Melanie Goodfellow
By liz Shackleton
Jane Williams has returned as the head of Dubai International Film Festival’s (DIFF) reinstated coproduction market, Dubai Film Connection (DFC). Launched in 2007, the DFC was not held in 2014 but returns this year following demand from the region’s producers and filmmakers. “The moment we made the decision to reinstate the DFC we contacted Jane,” said DIFF managing director Shivani Pandya. “She set it up for us and did a great job over the years. We’re delighted to have her back.” The relaunched event will take a
Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film and Project A, Jackie Chan’s young film-maker development fund, have established an award of $164,000 (rmb1m) for the winner of the Marché’s third New Chinese Film Talents Forum. The forum has invited eight Chinese directors to pitch their projects during the Marché, at the same time as learning about the global film market and the commercial requirements of the film industry. The event was founded by the Marché and Champs Lis International in 2013. The cash award will be invested in making the winning project.
Jane williams
slightly different approach from its predecessor. “We were going to select 10 projects with 20% of the budget in place,” said Williams. “The feedback we got was that people wanted to see projects that were more developed.” A call for submissions is open until August 1 with an announcement on the selection around mid-October.
4 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
try and Swedish film-makers.” Kuhnke’s decision to abolish the old film agreement may have upset exhibitors but has received widespread support from other sectors of the industry. “What I can say now is that this new film policy won’t come with less money,” said Kuhnke. “The Swedish exhibitors, their biggest interest is that there are high-quality Swedish films to be shown and I am a guarantee for that.” The minister confirmed there are no plans at present for Sweden to establish a soft money or tax credit system to attract foreign production.
our last tango
Buyers thirsty for Tango in Cannes By Melanie Goodfellow
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has sealed several deals on Argentinian film-maker German Kral’s Our Last Tango. The film has sold for theatrical release in Taiwan (Swallow Wings) and Greece (Rosebud). As previously announced, Japanese New Select Co bought it at the beginning of the market. Deals are under negotiation in South Korea, Hong Kong, France and the US. The Buena Vista Social Clubstyle work charts the passionate and complicated relationship between Argentinian tango stars Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes. The company also sold Ulyana Lopatkina: A Russian Star, about the celebrated Russian ballerina, to Swallow Wings for Taiwan. Wide House chief Anais Clanet also announced the imminent completion of international arms trade documentary Shadow World.
zawya, Misr pact to launch egyptian arthouse distributor Egypt’s Zawya Cinema and Misr International Films are joining forces to launch arthouse distributor Zawya Distribution. The new outfit will focus on the growing number of independent Egyptian films and launches with titles such as Nadine Salib’s Mother Of The Unborn, which won the Fipresci award at Abu Dhabi Film Festival and IDFA’s Peter Wintonick award; and Dina Hamza’s The Past Will Return, which won the Independent Shabab Foundation award at Luxor African Film Festival. Headed by director Youssef Shazli and head of sales Ahmed
Sobky, Zawya Distribution will handle the release of films across theatrical, TV and VoD platforms. It will also work on film festival consulting, marketing and publicity. The company’s initial slate also includes Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk’s Out On The Streets, which played in Berlin’s Forum Expanded; and omnibus film The Mice Room, which played at Dubai and Sao Paulo film festivals. The first and only arthouse theatre in Egypt, Zawya Cinema screens both local and international arthouse films, including shorts and experimental work. Liz Shackleton
www.screendaily.com
DA S H I S H A H G L O B A L F I L M P RO D U C T I O N I S P RO U D T O I N T RO D U C E
W E L O O K F O RWA R D T O F U T U R E S U C C E S S F U L C O L L A B O R AT I O N S
ANWAR KAWADRI
DASHISHAH GLOBAL FILM PRODUCTION
METRO INTERNATIONAL CANNES ADDRESS
Royal Mougins 424 Avenue du Roi 06250 Mougins
7 Rue du Mont-Blanc 1201 Geneva 1 Switzerland
Relais de la Reine 42/43 la Croisette Apartment C-21
anwar@dgfilmproduction.com + 44 7973 873 827 +33 (0)4 92 92 49 69
Screen Int Ad_UH_v2.indd 1
12/05/2015 13:48
News
dolph Lundgren
VMI starts Riot By JeReMy KAy
Los Angeles-based VMI Worldwide has been tempting Croisette buyers with action titles Riot starring Dolph Lundgren and Perfect Weapon with Steven Seagal. Riot falls under the company’s new multi-title production deal with Lundgren and goes out in North America via output partner Cinedigm. Director John Lyde is in production in Utah on the revenge story about a former police officer who infiltrates a prison to strike at a mob boss. The cast includes Matthew Reese and Chuck Liddell. Lundgren also stars alongside Mickey Rourke, Liddell and Luke Goss in action title War Pigs. The $3m action film Perfect Weapon is scheduled to start shooting in late June and sees Seagal play a hitman for a future totalitarian regime who goes on the run. Sweden’s Titus Paar will direct from a screenplay by Jesse Cilio and Alex Brenner. Rafael Primorac and Andre Relis produce.
US and UK execs fuel up for Midnight Road By AndReAS WiSeMAn
Producer Vincent Sieber (The Hive), former Archery Pictures development executive Kitty Kaletsky and editor John-Michael Powell have launched Los Angeles-based production outfit Midnight Road Entertainment. First up for the joint-partners is The Killing Kind, an original drama written and directed by Powell that is scheduled to shoot in Louisiana this summer. Casting is underway on the dark drama, which follows a man trying to avoid a life of crime but
whose morals are put to the test when a member of a rival family guns down his fiancée. Sieber is managing director of the CS Lewis Company and is developing upcoming Narnia film The Silver Chair with the Mark Gordon Company. Powell, editor of Sundance 2010 hit Obselidia, also worked on 2014 drama All The Wilderness. Kaletsky, a development executive on Stephen Daldry’s Trash, previously worked at Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s Number 9 Films.
Creative england names iFeatures trio By SARAh CooPeR
Creative England has announced the three films to be greenlit for production through the latest round of its low-budget film-making initiative, iFeatures. Having been whittled down from more than 400 submissions, the three films — which all feature women at the centre of their storylines — will go into production in the autumn, each with a
budget of $550,000 (£350,000). Lady Macbeth is the first period drama to be made through iFeatures and centres around a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage in the 19th century. Written by playwright Alice Birch, it will be directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly. Apostasy, co-written by Dan Kokotajlo and Charlotte Wise, is
Green shoots encouraged The World Bank Group’s Film4Climate programme and Ecoprod are inviting film producers to join forces in the development of a plan to reduce the environmental impact of film production and to raise climate change awareness. The initiative is designed to drive consensus across the film community on a shared set of global standards to sustainably produce films. Overseen by Film4Climate creative producer Donald Ranvaud, the initiative will aim to establish a formal declaration to be signed by those who pledge to meet the standards and reduce their impact on the environment. Geoffrey Macnab
Also on the slate is the previously announced feature adaptation of James Ellroy novel Blood’s A Rover, which is being written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Iron Man, Children Of Men) and will be produced with Monster producer Clark Peterson. TV projects in the works for Midnight Road include King Of Oil, based on Daniel Ammann’s biography of oil tycoon Marc Rich. “We’re excited to be starting Midnight Road, bridging the gap between Hollywood and European cinema,” the company said.
set in the Jehovah’s Witness community. Kokotajlo will direct and Marcie MacLellan will produce. The Levelling, written and directed by Hope Dickson Leach and produced by Rachel Robey, is a drama set in the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods. iFeatures is run by Creative England, together with BBC Films, BFI Film Fund and Creative Skillset.
Passion for remastered Almodovar Kevin Williams Associates has closed a hatrick of deals on its remastered Pedro Almodovar film, Labyrinth Of Passion. The 1982 title has now gone to Arte (France), Shochiku (Japan) and Lucky Red (Italy), with a US deal in negotiation. Geoffrey Macnab
Labyrinth of Passion
Bogota’s BAM and IndieBo to overlap By JeReMy KAy
Colombia’s IndieBo film festival is to overlap the Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM) in July as film chiefs seek to form a creative and business platform for the country’s booming film industry. IndieBo co-founders Paola Tur-
6 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
bay and Juan Carvajal have moved the independent film festival from last year’s inaugural September slot to July 16-26. The sixth annual BAM, managed by the Bogota Chamber of Commerce and Proimagenes Colombia, runs from July 13-17.
While there is no official link yet and the overlap is short, organisers are hopeful of a productive synergy. It is understood some IndieBo guests have already begun scheduling BAM meetings into their agendas. IndieBo looks set to host more than 90 screenings from around 30 countries.
Soda takes Bridgend New Europe Film Sales has sold UK and Ireland rights for Jeppe Ronde’s Englishlanguage thriller Bridgend to Soda Pictures. Based on true events, the Tribeca award-winning film is set in a small part of Wales that has been plagued by a teen suicide epidemic since 2007. New Europe also sold TV rights for the film in eastern and central Europe to HBO Europe/Cinemax. Sales in Asia, Scandinavia and the US are said to be close. Michael Rosser
Arka sets out Bahubali recut By Liz ShACKLeton
India’s Arka Mediaworks is planning an international cut of its $40m action epic Bahubali, directed by SS Rajamouli, one of the biggest film-makers in the Telugu-language film industry. The first instalment of the twopart film will be released on 3,500 screens across India in July. Filmed in Telugu and Tamil, it will also be released in a Hindi version to be presented by leading Bollywood film-maker Karan Johar (My Name Is Khan). The cast includes top Telugu stars Prabhas, Rana Daggubati and Anushka Shetty. The film was shot over 450 days at Hyderabad’s Ramoji Film City, other Indian locations and Bulgaria. VFX houses such as John Hughes’ Tau Films and Korea’s Macrograph are now working on the film. Arka chief executive Shobu Yarlagadda said the international version of the film would shorten the two-parter’s 290-minute running time, adjusting the emphasis between drama and songs. “The film is set in a fictitious era and the story is completely original as we didn’t want the restraints or expectations that come with basing the film on Indian myth,” Yarlagadda said. Francois Da Silva is repping the film in Cannes.
www.screendaily.com
WORLD PREMIERE TODAY! SCREENINGS MON 18 MAY / 11:00 / DEBUSSY / WORLD PREMIERE MON 18 MAY / 16:30 / DEBUSSY / PUBLIC SCREENING TUE 19 MAY / 09:45 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCREENING TUE 19 MAY / 15:30 / SALLE BAZIN / PUBLIC SCREENING WED 20 MAY / 09:45 / ARCADES 2 / MARKET SCREENING FRI 22 MAY / 12:15 / PALAIS K / MARKET SCREENING WORLD SALES THE MATCH FACTORY
AD_TMF_SCREENDAILY_RHP_CEMETERY_245x335.indd 1
11.05.15 15:33
27th GALWAY FILM FLEADH
News
7-12 JULY 2015 WWW.GALWAYFILMFLEADH.COM
Paris Copro Village unveils its line-up By Melanie Goodfellow
Galway Film Fleadh 7th-12th July 2015
Hana Makhmalbaf, Ivan Tverdovsky and Jonas Carpignano will be among the directors presenting new projects at the second edition of the Paris Coproduction Village in June. A joint venture between Les Arcs European Film Festival and Champs-Élysées Film Festival, the event will run June 10-12 in the French capital.
Makhmalbaf will present a new UK-produced project entitled Single Mother, her first feature since 2009’s Green Days. Russian film-maker Tverdovsky, touted as a director to watch following the festival success of his Corrections Class, will unveil Zoology. Carpignano, whose Mediterranea is premiering in Critics’ Week, will unveil his next film, Young Lions
Of Gypsy (A Ciambra), as part of the Cinéfondation selection, which will also be presented at the village (see Diary, page 10). A total of 14 projects have been selected for the central line-up, five of them European, three Asian and six Latin American. In a new initiative, the village will host a Brazil Focus in co-operation with Brazil’s Cinema do Brasil.
Full project line-up ■ Across The Fields dir: Daniel Joseph
TELLING STORIES
Borgman; prod co: Adomeit Film (Den) ■ Brotherhood dir: Pepe Diokno; prod co:
Epicmedia (Phil) ■ Fireflies dir: Bani Khoshnoudi;
IRELAND’S PREMIER MARKET
19th GALWAY FILM FAIR GATEWAY TO CO-PRODUCING WITH IRELAND
prod cos: Zensky Cine (Mex) Pensée Sauvage (US) ■ Look Up dir: Fulvio Risuleo; prod co: Revok
(It) ■ Lost Wolves dir: Carlos Moreno; prod co: 64-A Films (Col) ■ The Man From The Sea dir: Koji Fukada;
prod co: Nikkatsu Corporation (Jap) ■ The Omission dir: Sebastián Schjaer; prod
cos: Trapecio Cine (Arg), Titus Kreyenberg (Ger) ■ Opening Hours dir: Anocha
Suwichakornpong, Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, Wichanon Somumjarn; prod co: Electric Eel Films (Thai) ■ Pirate Of Love dir: Sara Gudmundsdottir,
Arni Sveinsson; prod co: Netop Films (Ice) ■ Single Mother dir: Hana Makhmalbaf; prod
co: Makhmalbaf Film House (UK) ■ Zoology dir: Ivan Tverdovsky; prod co: New
People (Russ) Brazilian projects, Cinéfondation, US-inProgress titles on ScreenDaily.com
Vajna toasts Hungary fund By Geoffrey MaCnaB
Galway Film Fair 9th–11th July 2015
SELLING STORIES
at Cannes May 18, 2015 15194 GFF8- Screen SCREENInternational DAILIES Half Page Vertical Ad V2.indd 1
A bullish Andrew G Vajna has hailed the work of the Hungarian National Film Fund in galvanising film production in the country and “cleaning up the mess” left after the dissolution of the debt-ridden Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation. The Terminator 3 and Die Hard: With A Vengeance producer also confirmed he would head the fund until at least 2018. Laszlo Nemes’ Cannes Competition title Son Of Saul was developed and financed by the fund. This follows on from the success another fund-
13/05/2015 11:51
backed film, Kornel Mundruczo’s Un Certain Regard award winner White God enjoyed last year. “We hope to continue trying to create films that provide interest for festivals and we’re working hard on movies that work for audiences at home,” Vajna said of the fund’s dual strategy. Speaking in Cannes, fund CEO Agnes Havas confirmed there will be a Hungarian Film Week next year and a Hungarian Film Awards, organised by the Hungarian Film Academy. Foreign productions are continuing to come to Hungary, lured by the 25% tax incentive.
RightsTrade adds 200plus titles Online film marketplace RightsTrade has closed deals with Lakeshore Entertainment, The Solution Entertainment Group, QED International, GFM and Arclight. The latest sales companies to use RightsTrade’s cloudbased sales and screening platform join recent signings Altitude Films, Inception Media, Mongrel Media and Electric Entertainment. “The addition of these sales agents adds more than 200 high-quality titles to the RightsTrade marketplace,” said CEO Steven Polster. Jeremy Kay
www.screendaily.com
Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Theodór júlíusson
a film by Grímur Hákonarson
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
SAT MAY 16
4:00 PM
MARCHÉ DU FILM SCREENINGS:
BAZIN
SAT MAY 16 TUE MAY 19 THU MAY 21
12:00 NOON 2:00 PM 12:00 NOON
New Europe Film Sales team in Cannes: Jan Naszewski, Katarzyna Siniarska Cannes office: Grand Hotel, 9th floor, Polish Cinema Terrace Book a meeting on kat@neweuropefilmsales.com, +48 698 900 936
NETOP FILMS presents in co-production with PROFILE PICTURES & in association with FILM FARMS & AEROPLAN FILMS a GRÍMUR HÁKONARSON film RAMS costume starring SIGURÐUR SIGURJÓNSSON, THEODÓR JÚLÍUSSON, CHARLOTTE BØVING, GUNNAR JÓNSSON, SVEINN ÓLAFUR GUNNARSSON, ÞORLEIFUR EINARSSON & JÓN BENÓNÝSSON designMARGRÉT EINARSDÓTTIR & ÓLÖF BENEDIKTSDÓTTIR make up production sound music director of line design BJARNI MASSI design HULDAR FREYR ARNARSON & BJÖRN VIKTORSSON by ATLI ÖRVARSSON editor KRISTJÁN LOÐMFJÖRÐ photography STURLA BRANDTH GRØVLEN producer EVA SIGURDARDOTTIR design KRISTÍN JÚLLA KRISTJÁNSDÓTTIR associate executive produced written & producer ATLI ÖRVARSSON, MAGNÚS SKARPHÉÐINSSON producers THOR SIGURJÓNSSON, ALAN R. MILLIGAN, TOM KJESETH, ELIZA OCZKOWSKA & KLAUDIA SMIEJA co-producers DITTE MILSTED & JACOB JAREK by GRÍMAR JÓNSSON directed by GRÍMUR HÁKONARSON
OLYMPIA 1 PALAIS K PALAIS I
DIARY
Today Sunny
High 24°c (75°f)
Edited by Wendy Mitchell wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com
Tomorrow Sunny with clouds
High 24°c (75°f)
Q&A JONAS CARPIGNANO him at a protest with a megaphone in hand speaking French, English, Italian, Ghanaian; his presence was commanding.
Chloe Zhao (inset); Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Jonas Carpignano
From China to Dakota BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Although the similarities between 1990s China and the Pine Ridge Native American reservation in South Dakota may not be immediately obvious, Chloe Zhao explains those parallels exist in her first feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight. “The young people on Pine Ridge remind me of my early years in China when the country first opened to the West,” says Beijing-born Zhao, who studied political science in Massachusetts and film-making at NYU. “They can be in the middle of the Badlands but also on Facebook and in touch with what young people are doing all over the world. They’re very confused and dealing with identity issues in a similar way I did as a teenager, when I didn’t quite believe what my country or family were telling me.”
Her film, which premiered to critical acclaim at Sundance and was picked up by Fortissimo Films, tells the story of a Native American teenage boy who is planning to leave the reservation when his father dies and he feels compelled to stay and look after his 13-yearold sister (see reviews, page 18). Zhao spent 17 months over three years living on the reservation while she wrote her script. “I just turned up and started knocking on doors and everyone was very inviting,” Zhao says. “People just thought it was funny that a Chinese girl wanted to make a film about them.” After 30 drafts, Zhao eventually tossed away half her script to make something more deeply rooted in the real-life characters and events she encountered. She filmed with non-professional actors, using the grant money she had received from institutions
Meeting of the minds BY WENDY MITCHELL
Truffaut or Hitchcock? How about both. Kent Jones’ Hitchcock/ Truffaut, premiering in Cannes Classics and sold by Cohen Media Group, will be a must see for any cinephile in Cannes. The film is inspired by Truffaut’s classic 1966 book Cinema According To Hitchcock, and goes behind the scenes of the epic 27 hours of audio recordings of the two great directors. Also, filmmakers from Wes Anderson and
David Fincher to Martin Scorsese and Arnaud Desplechin talk about how influential the book has been to their lives and careers. Jones, the director of New York Film Festival, co-wrote the film with Serge Toubiana, director of Cinématheque Francaise. Jones first read the book when he was 12. “I decided very early that I didn’t want to have interviews with experts or actors, I just wanted film-makers because it’s a passionate book about film-mak-
10 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
including IFP and Film Independent. Ironically, she met an investor — Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi’s Significant Productions — just before she started filming. Afraid of losing her main characters, and the tiny shooting window available in the harsh climate of the plains, she went ahead without investment, although they later financed post-production. Zhao says she is constantly asked why a Chinese woman wanted to make a film about Native Americans, but finds this less of a problem than people’s expectations that her film has to represent the entire culture. “I offer an outsider perspective, but one film cannot be representative of Pine Ridge,” Zhao says. “If people leave the theatre and feel like they’ve gotten to know a couple of very diverse and complex individuals, then I’ll be happy.”
ing,” Jones says. Showing clips of the masters’ films was essential. “Here are two people who are reticent about expressing themselves emotionally through conversation, they do it through their films. In certain cases I wanted to concentrate on films like Vertigo and Psycho. With every part of the film I saw where people’s passion Hitchcock/Truffaut lay,” he says.
Italian-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano returns to Cannes with Critics’ Week entry Mediterranea. The Sundance Lab alumnus talks about his feature debut, and why he continues to thread the same characters and their immigration plights through each of his films. WME Global handles sales. How did the film come about? My previous shorts — A Ciambra and A Chjana — also dealt with immigration. I wanted to continue these characters’ story, and more closely examine the relationship between immigrants and the Italian community. How did you choose the cast? All my films star the same group of non-actors who have endured some kind of immigration struggle. From the young, wheeling-and-dealing Albanian kid to the guys battling it out in the alleyways, these are the guys I see every day at home. The lead character Ayiva is played by my roommate and best friend Koudous Seihon. When I went down to southern Italy to cast one of my short films, I saw
What has made you so passionate about immigration? Because of my own background — my mother is African American, living in New York; my dad is an Italian from Rome — I could approach the story of African immigrants in Italy with some personal connection. What is your shooting style? I live near Gioia Tauro and Rosarno, situated in the southwestern toe of Italy’s boot. Many of the locals — including the police — know me as “the director guy”, and they give me free rein to shoot on the streets with crew. All the places we shot in were real places and with real people. How did you approach the film technically? I shot in Super 16, helping to give the film a gritty texture and wider format. And I try to use silence or wild sound when I can. I was also very lucky Benh Zeitlin, the director of Beasts Of The Southern Wild, helped compose the music [along with Dan Romer]. What’s next? I have two more feature films using the same narrative around Koudous’ character Ayiva — one pertaining to gypsies while the other is around the mafia, who are surprisingly very friendly. Tiffany Pritchard
Mediterranea
www.screendaily.com
FILM IN SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND DAY 19 MAY 2015 Join Creative Scotland and Scotland’s Filmmakers At Pavilion 117, The UK Film Centre, for a day of networking, panels and events focussed on how to make the most of filming in Scotland and working with our talent. 10.30-11.30 Co–Production in Scotland Scottish producers and their international partners discuss their experience of filming in Scotland.
14.00-15.00 International Finance Discussion on the current market for and trends in international film financing, including strategy, packaging and distribution.
www.creativescotlandlocations.com E locations@creativescotland.com T +44 (0) 141 302 1723/35 South Portland Street suspension bridge over the River Clyde, Glasgow. Photo: Tony Clerkson/Scottish Viewpoint
15.30-16.30 Talent Focus – Scotland How do actors and film-makers move their careers forward? By showcasing Scotland’s talent, we look at the various paths to becoming ‘established’ in the industry.
Reviews Reviews edited by Fionnuala Halligan finn.halligan@screendaily.com
Carol Reviewed by Tim Grierson An exquisite sadness envelops Carol, a delicate romantic drama guided and dominated by a wonderfully nuanced performance from Cate Blanchett, who plays the titular 1950s woman anxiously facing a crossroads. The first film from director Todd Haynes since 2007’s I’m Not There, this love story between Carol and a younger, more impressionable woman (Rooney Mara) aches with the quiet longing of both its characters, whose attraction needs to be kept behind closed doors. It’s such stately, evocative, confident film-making, the only reservation being that it’s also a bit chilly. Playing here in Competition, Carol will be released in the US through The Weinstein Company, which is surely planning a major awards push, especially for two-time Oscar winner Blanchett. Her star power — aided by Haynes’ arthouse following and Mara’s rising profile — will ensure must-see status for this sure-to-be well-reviewed beauty. As for the material’s lesbian subject matter, it’s depicted in such a tasteful, lovely way that it’s hard to imagine much controversy on that front. In the winter of 1952, New York City housewife Carol (Blanchett) meets department-store employee Therese (Mara), an immediate spark noticeable between them. Soon, they conspire
12 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
CoMPETITIoN UK-US. 2014. 118mins Director Todd Haynes Production companies Film4, StudioCanal, HanWay Films, Goldcrest, Dirty Films, InFilm, Number 9 Films, Killer Films, Larkhark Films International sales HanWay Films, jls@ hanwayfilms.com Producers Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Christine Vachon Screenplay Phyllis Nagy, based on the novel The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith Cinematography Ed Lachman Editor Affonso Goncalves Production design Judy Becker Costume design Sandy Powell Music Carter Burwell Main cast Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler
» Carol p12 » Mon Roi p14 » Disorder p14
to meet for lunch, their coy conversation barely hiding their attraction. With her divorce from stuffy businessman Harge (Kyle Chandler) imminent, Carol (who has had previous lesbian relationships) wants to take Therese away for the holidays while her husband insists on going with their young daughter to his family’s house for Christmas. A bit directionless, the early-20s Therese sees in Carol not just a seductive, assured woman but also a mentor and lover. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price Of Salt, Carol finds Haynes somewhat returning to the 1950s milieu of Far From Heaven, although his new movie doesn’t go so far as to deconstruct the period’s rigid conformity through the prism of a Douglas Sirk aesthetic. Instead, Carol is far more subtle, and perhaps more resigned, about the harmful effects mid-century US conservatism had on those who couldn’t fit into narrow societal perceptions of what was ‘normal’ behaviour. Carol’s tale is a quietly heartbreaking one, but it’s a testament to Blanchett’s deeply intelligent portrayal that we don’t realise it for quite some time. In Blanchett’s hands, Carol always comes across as a well-coiffed, elegantly madeup, dryly witty sophisticate. Her courtship of the less-confident Therese is a collection of precise, unassuming, just vaguely haughty comments that make her romantic intentions clear without being overt. In the past, Blanchett has sometimes amped up the acting pyrotechnics but she understands
» A Perfect Day p16 » Nahid p16
» Songs My Brothers Taught Me p18
» Dope p18
that Carol can’t afford to be flashy. Consequently, this is among Blanchett’s most muted work, and she deftly and slowly teases out the cracks in this proud woman’s gorgeous exterior. Haynes and Blanchett build the film around Carol’s wistful, possibly fleeting romance with Therese, and as a result the other half of this love affair doesn’t get fully developed. Unlike Blanchett, Mara can’t quite articulate a world of secret thoughts and buried needs in the simplest of expressions. Considering that Haynes has often preferred a slightly detached, intellectual approach, Carol is probably his most plainly emotional film, although it remains an icy construction. To be sure, such an effect produces a rich, endless melancholy, but it can also leave the movie feeling too restrained for its own good. That said, the movie’s most palpably expressive element is longtime Coen brothers composer Carter Burwell’s score, which is devastatingly spare and sad. Shot on film in Super 16 by frequent collaborator Ed Lachman, Carol effortlessly recalls a bygone era with a tart mixture of nostalgia and self-awareness: Haynes acknowledges the stylishness of the period (accentuated by Sandy Powell’s excellent costumes) but also recognises the silent bigotry that constantly threatens Carol’s hopes for love and happiness.
SCREEN SCoRE
★★★ www.screendaily.com
REVIEWS
Mon Roi Reviewed by Jonathan Romney The French tradition of tormented marital drama becomes a three-ring circus of tears, joy and angst in French director Maïwenn’s glossy follow-up to her 2011 drama Polisse. There’s no shortage of confidence in this elegantly shot number, which features two fine lead performances — especially from Emmanuelle Bercot, best known as a director, who gives a full-throttle turn. She and Vincent Cassel will ensure export appeal, and Gallic tales of fraught passion tend to travel well, but Mon Roi’s glossy melodrama grates more than it convinces. The film starts with Tony (Bercot), in her 40s, damaging her knee in a ski accident — perhaps less accidental than symbolic, suggests a doctor, pointing out that the French word for knee (genou) breaks down into je and nous (me, us — see what she did there?). Tony retreats to a convalescence centre where she hangs out with some lively young working-class guys, and muses in flashback on her 10-year relationship with husband Georgio (Cassel). An insouciantly flamboyant restaurateur whose life is one big charming performance, Georgio clicks instantly with lawyer Tony, and life becomes a festival of passion — hot sex on kitchen surfaces, the lot. They move in together, but his dazzling exterior conceals secrets:
Disorder Reviewed by Jonathan Romney French writer-director Alice Winocour takes a surprise detour into genre territory for second feature Disorder (Maryland), a tough, nuanced suspenser that could not be more different from her very arthouse debut, 2012’s period piece Augustine. Eminently exportable, Disorder should be a hot festival item too — not least thanks to a compelling performance from Matthias Schoenaerts, who after some uneasy turns in costumers such as A Little Chaos and Far From The Madding Crowd here lets his star quality shine. As in the films that made his name — Bullhead and Rust And Bone — Schoenaerts plays a troubled muscleman. Vincent is a soldier freshly returned from Afghanistan, where he has acquired some psychological and physical problems that may see him invalided out of the army. Meanwhile, he takes a job with the security corps at a swanky party in Maryland, the opulent estate of Whalid (Percy Kemp), a Lebanese businessman. Vincent’s eye is caught by Whalid’s beautiful wife Jessie (Diane Kruger) and shortly after, he is hired to look after her and her young son Ali. Nerves permanently crackling as if he is still in
14 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
CoMPETITIon Fr. 2015. 140mins Director Maïwenn Production company Productions du Trésor International sales StudioCanal, emilie. martel@studiocanal.com Producer Alain Attal Screenplay Maïwenn, Etienne Comar Cinematography Claire Mathon Editor Simon Jacquet Production design Dan Weil Music Stephen Warbeck Main cast Emmanuelle Bercot, Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco
Un CERTAIn REGARD Fr-Bel. 2015. 101mins Director Alice Winocour Production companies Dharamsala, Darius Films, Mars Films, France 3 Cinéma, Scope Pictures International sales Indie Sales, sales@indiesales.eu Producers Isabelle Madelaine, Emilie Tisné Screenplay Alice Winocour, JeanStéphane Bron Cinematography George Lechaptois Editor Julien Lacheray Production design Samuel Deshors Music Gesaffelstein Main cast Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy, Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant, Percy Kemp
profound egotism, addiction, womanising and unfinished business with his troubled ex, who, wouldn’t you know it, happens to be a Vogue cover star (played by model Chrystele Saint Louis Augustin). The bailiffs arrive to strip the couple’s deluxe flat, but before long, life is back to glamorous normal, and the couple return to their round of Moroccan holidays and dinners with exuberantly trendy pals, when not bickering over their young son Sindbad (yes, Sindbad). Luckily, Tony’s brother (an unusually likeable Louis Garrel) and his girlfriend (Isild Le Besco) are there to offer tea and sympathy. The film doesn’t lack energy. It’s vibrantly
shot in Scope by Claire Mathon, and the two leads are nothing if not charismatic, with Cassel effortlessly wolfish and charming in equal measure. Bercot’s intense performance feels honest and self-exposing, although the drama sometimes pushes her to emote way beyond what works. But as a female view of a damaging relationship, Mon Roi looks pretty thin beside Catherine Breillat’s recent, bruising Abuse Of Weakness. Maïwenn comes closer to the glibness of Claude Lelouch; for all its rough edges, this is a film drowning in its own chic.
a battle zone, Vincent saves his charges from a violent attack. But back at Maryland, it becomes clear that Jessie’s expensively cushioned world has fallen apart as a result of skullduggery in high places — which Vincent, considerably smarter than people assume, has sniffed out at the party. The final act, elegantly executed in the best action/suspense tradition, has Vincent attempting to repel intruders into Jessie’s palaceturned-prison. Winocour does not overstate her subtexts, but they are there — Disorder is a film about haves and have-nots, about the psychological effects of war, and about the abuse of women as
chattels. A TV clip about women and Islamic State carries parallels with Jessie’s own position, and reminds us that the capitalist West is hardly blameless when it comes to disempowering women. It’s a pity that Kruger’s role as Jessie is somewhat underdeveloped, although it’s part of the film’s logic that she’s often observed from afar, before her and Vincent’s rapport begins to open up. Both leads are on great form, though, and the slow-burn approach to their relationship pays off beautifully as things get ever tighter in the drama’s final stretch. Textured sound design also takes us right into Vincent’s head, ramping up the tension no end.
SCREEn SCoRE
★★
www.screendaily.com
ACID
wide
OFFICIAL & MARKET SCREENINGS OF MAY 18TH
LA VANITÉ A film by Lionel Baier
MARKET SCREENINGS OF MAY 19TH
OFFICIAL SCREENING OF MAY 19TH
MARKET SCREENINGS
18/05 11AM Studio 13 (Official Screening) 18/05 8PM Arcades (Official Screening) 19/05 6PM Riviera 3 (Market Screening) 23/05 2PM Alexandre III (Official Screening)
A film by Jordan Goldnadel
A film by René Féret
A film by Philippe Fernandez
18/05 1.30PM Riviera 2
18/05 3.30PM Palais F
18/05 6PM Palais G
A film by Stina Werenfels
A film by Jakob M. Erwa
A film by Eric Cherrière
19/05 11.30AM Palais H
19/05 3.30PM Riviera 2
19/05 5.30PM Riviera 2
A film by Sanna Lenken
19/05 2PM Le Raimu (Official Screening) 20/05 9AM Studio 13 (Official Screening) 21/05 11AM Alexandre III (Official Screening)
DORA
OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS
BOOTH RIVIERA E6
Cannes2015_DailyScreen4_Wide_245x335_CMJN.indd 1
LOÏC MAGNERON +33 6 60 43 96 86 · GEORGIA POIVRE +33 7 61 57 96 86
07/05/2015 12:18
REVIEWS
A Perfect Day Reviewed by Lee Marshall It’s M*A*S*H in Bosnia — with aid workers. Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa (Mondays In The Sun) doesn’t take quite such a desecratory line as that evergreen Altman classic, but he does aim some refreshing potshots at a few taboos in his English-language debut, featuring Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins in a sparky double act. A Perfect Day isn’t perfect — the comic oneliners, the critique of the UN protection force’s procedure-bound bureaucracy, and the tragedy-of-war sentiment sometimes make for a bumpy tonal ride. But the humanity of the enterprise, hovering between sympathy and ironic detachment, keeps the script on course, delivering a story that, for all its motley-bandof-brothers clichés, feels as authentic as many more pious takes on the Bosnian conflict. Del Toro and Robbins as two veteran aid workers will do a lot to boost the film’s commercial prospects, although it will need to be carefully pitched to potential audiences, so avoiding the turn-off factor of the phrase ‘Bosnian war comedy’. A Perfect Day could equally well have been set in central Africa, New Guinea or Haiti: it’s about the misunderstandings, the bureaucracy and the relationships that have a habit of complicating the supposedly simple act of trying to do good.
DIRECtORS’ FORtNIGHt Sp. 2015. 105mins Director-screenplay Fernando Leon de Aranoa Production companies Reposado, Mediapro International sales WestEnd Film, nadine@ westendfilms.com Producers Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Jaume Roures Cinematography Alex Catalan Editor Nacho Ruiz Capillas Production designer Cesar Maccaron Music Arnau Bataller Main cast Benicio del toro, tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Mélanie thierry, Fedja Stukan
Set “somewhere in the Balkans” in 1995, the film opens with a shot that will recur as a kind of metaphoric touchstone throughout: up from the bottom of a dark well into the light. The water has been contaminated deliberately with a corpulent corpse, and Benicio del Toro’s warweathered Mambru is trying to get it out. He is in charge of the field unit of a fictional NGO called Aid Across Borders, which also includes wisecracking B (Robbins), another aid vet who unlike Mambru has no partner waiting at home, and who seems to thrive on the adrenalin of war zones (hence the loud guitar rock he plays on the car radio). Also part of the unit is fresh recruit Sophie (Mélanie Thierry), who like all newbies wants to do things by the book, deadpan local interpreter Damir (Fedja Stukan) and stern but glamorous Katya (Olga Kurylenko), a ‘conflict evaluator’ who may or may not have been sent to close down the unit, and who hasn’t seen Mambru since they had an affair and she told his girlfriend about it. A local kid, Nikola, also becomes a passenger on the NGO’s two-jeep convoy when Mambru saves him from a gang of bullies. The task-of-Sisyphus plot structure, as attempts to get “fatso” out of the well are repeatedly stymied, becomes an ideal container for a tale about dogged, unglamorous heroism — for this is basically a shaggy-dog story about hope and failure, about the attempt to fix a
small leak when the whole dam looks ready to burst. Set in a landscape of arid mountain scrub with snow-capped peaks beyond, the film uses aerial shots as a distancing device, depicting the unit’s scurries across the territory from the point of view of an ironic deity. Some of the comedy — especially the sparring between Katya and Mambru — is a little laboured, but other moments (such as one involving a booby-trapped cow carcass) are managed with a sure instinct for timing, something reflected in the high laugh-count at the film’s Cannes press screening.
Amiri, who also serves as editor. Nahid (Sareh Bayat) is a young, debt-ridden divorcee living in a small northern city in Iran. Her ex-husband Ahmad (Navid Mohammad Zadeh) has granted her custody of their increasingly unruly son Amir Reza (Milad Hossein Pour) who already sees the world as a place where he can do exactly what he likes. The custody exists on the condition she does not remarry. Nahid has met Masood (Pejman Bazeghi) who is keen for them to be wed and she now faces the seemingly impossible task of trying to keep her son and the man she loves. Panahandeh and photographer Morteza Gheidi do a fantastic job of capturing the mood in this bleak, wintry backwater where the muddy sea churns beneath glowering, slategrey skies and everyone seems to know everybody’s business. Gheidi’s cinematography is one of the film’s great strengths, capturing moments of glittering lights reflected in the river water, bustling markets and musty cafés. The script has some memorable lines. Confronted by ex-husband Ahmad seeking agreement to his latest demand, an embittered Nahid replies: “One yes was enough for a lifetime.” Panahandeh and Amiri have also created some well-drawn characters. Nihad is not entirely
admirable as she spends money she does not have on sending her spectacularly ungrateful son to a private school and buying a blazing red sofa. Ahmad initially seems boorish and threatening but his better instincts are also shown. It is a film in which everyone earns a little of our understanding, even as our sympathies flow inexorably to Nahid and her impossible dilemmas. “Even prisoners get fresh air once a day,” she concludes wearily.
Nahid Reviewed by Allan Hunter Ida Panahandeh’s accomplished debut feature Nahid marks her out as a welcome addition to the ranks of compassionate, social realist filmmakers that stretch from Vittorio De Sica to the Dardenne brothers. Nahid tells the story of a young woman whose heart’s desires are thwarted by a society in which everything conspires against her, from the patriarchal legal system to the strict codes of acceptable behaviour. Nahid may lack the dramatic intensity and aesthetic rigour of Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation (2011) or Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem (2014), but those titles give an idea of the potential audience for a film that tackles the role of women in Iranian society in a way that is accessible and as emotionally involving as any daily soap opera. Panahandeh has spent the past decade making short films, TV movies for the Iranian state network and documentaries. That wealth of experience shows in her confident handling of a debut feature that balances carefully all the elements of a complicated story and also sees the good and bad in each of the characters. Inspired by family memories, the film is cowritten by Panahandeh’s husband Arsalan
16 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
UN CERtAIN REGARD Iran. 2015. 105mins Director Ida Panahandeh Production companies Documentary & Experimental Film Center (DEFC) International sales Noori Pictures, katych.01@gmail.com Producers Bijan Emkanian Screenplay Ida Panahandeh, Arsalan Amiri Cinematography Morteza Gheidi Editor Arsalan Amiri Music Majid Pousti Main cast Sareh Bayat, Pejman Bazeghi, Navid Mohammad Zadeh, Milad Hossein Pour
www.screendaily.com
REVIEWS
Songs My Brothers Taught Me Reviewed by Dan Fainaru Shot on a South Dakota reservation with a cast consisting almost entirely of Lakota Indians, Chloe Zhao’s debut feature is a painfully authentic series of flash portraits painting yet another failed attempt to break out of a socially vicious circle that imprisons everyone in its perimeter. Songs My Brothers Taught Me is undertaken in a truly free spirit — which most independent cinema seems to have lost these days — and the script was reworked time and again during the shoot, and the film re-edited between its Sundance premiere and its Directors’ Fortnight debut. It may not qualify as movie entertainment in the full sense of the phrase, but it is an edifying picture of social stagnation at its saddest. Songs should enjoy a long festival career and possible wider interest, particularly in the social arena. Johnny (John Reddy) is about to graduate high school, and plans to leave the Pine Ridge Reservation where he has lived his whole life to go to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Aurelia (Taysha Fuller). She’ll go to college, he’ll find some work or maybe even become a boxer, as he has always dreamed. But then his father, who happens to also be the father of half the kids on the reservation, having impregnated no fewer than nine different women, dies in an accidental fire. Johnny now has to deal with the sad, mournful look in the eyes of his lively
Dope Reviewed by Tim Grierson A rambunctious, sexy, funny, irreverent whirlwind of a movie, Dope doesn’t seem like it has much discipline or focus but its frantic forward momentum and haphazard mixture of styles, although entertaining, shouldn’t distract from a rather pointed political message about race in the US. Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s story of some black high school nerds who get mixed up with drug dealers is a sight to behold, its more-is-more approach ingratiating rather than exhausting. Moving to Directors’ Fortnight after a Sundance premiere (where it won the editing prize), Dope stars Shameik Moore as Malcolm, a teenager living in one of Los Angeles’ most crime-ridden neighbourhoods. Like his friends Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons), he is enraptured by old-school rap. Geeks who are endlessly picked on by bullies at school, Malcolm and his pals are invited to a party by Nakia (an utterly charming Zoë Kravitz). But when a shootout occurs over a drug deal, Malcolm and his friends escape, only to discover the drugs have been stashed in his backpack. Pretty soon, he has plenty of dangerous men after him.
18 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
DIRECTOR’S FORTNIGHT US. 2015. 94mins Director Chloe Zhao Production company Significant Productions International sales Fortissimo Films, info@ fortissimo.ne Producers Chloe Zhao, Angela Lee, Molly Asher, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker Cinematography Joshua James Richards Editor Alan Canant Music Peter Golub Main cast John Reddy, Jashaun St John, Taysha Fuller, Eleonore Hendricks, Travis Lone Hill, Cat Clifford, Irene Bedard
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT US. 2015. 105mins Director-scriptwriter Rick Famuyiwa Production companies Significant Productions, I Am Other Entertainment, Revolt Films Distribution Sony Pictures Releasing International, sal_ ladestro@spe.sony.com Producers Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi Executive producers Michael Y Chow, Rick Famuyiwa, David Lonner Cinematography Rachel Morrison Editor Lee Haugen Production designer Scott Falconer Music Germaine Franco Main cast Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise, Chanel Iman, Keith Stanfield
12-year-old sister, Jashaun (a winning performance by Jashaun St John), who can’t stand the idea of sharing her brother with an older girl and even worse, allowing him to leave with her. This is the narrative trickle around which Zhao embroiders a series of episodes, ranging between harsh realism and poetic use of landscape. These offer an indelible image of a self-destructive society, stuck in the middle of nowhere, fully conscious of its own impotence and yet unable to even formulate the wish of becoming something better than all the generations before. When kids in school are questioned about their choices for the future, it seems all they want to do is ride bulls in rodeos, just like their parents. That is, when they have an answer at
all. Alcoholics live between their ravaged houses and the prison to which they are periodically dispatched after drunken brawls. They accept their defeats without even protesting. Zhao, a Chinese-born, US-educated filmmaker who lived for four years on the reservation before shooting her movie, says she tried to understand what keeps these people stuck in the same place with the fate they have been dealt. Her film, though it offers options for political, cultural, sociological, religious and anthropological queries, may not offer any scientific answer to the question. Instead it becomes like a kind of compelling report on things that should be inadmissible in the modern world, and yet they exist, in one shape or another, practically everywhere.
In the best way possible, Dope doesn’t know what kind of movie it wants to be. Skating between different genres, the film is a fitting reflection of Malcolm, who refuses to fall into any one neat media representation of AfricanAmericans. For instance, he lives in a poor black neighbourhood with a single mother (Kimberly Elise), but he’s no Boyz N The Hood inner-city stereotype. Although he is devoted to 1990s hip-hop, he and his buddies have started a punk band. This description of Malcolm may make Dope sound strident, but the opposite is true. Even when Famuyiwa (The Wood, Brown Sugar) makes his points about racial inequality and
white privilege, the movie is exceptionally funny. There is a playfulness to Dope’s politics that, rather than diminishing their sting, sharpens them. Perhaps intentionally, it channels the energy and enthusiasm of youth, lifting the story out of its potentially predictable drugs-and-gangs milieu and removing the furrowed-brow melodrama of so many narratives about underprivileged black kids. We may think we know the world of Dope, but the freshness that Famuyiwa brings to the proceedings suggest there is far more nuance in the African-American experience than is usually seen on screen.
www.screendaily.com
IN EXCLUSIVITY WORLD MARKET PREMIERE
MARKET PREMIERE
presents
OUR LAST TANGO A film by German Kral Executive producer: Wim Wenders
18.05 4PM Palais G
DCP/HD • 2015 • GERMANY/ARGENTINA • 85’ • DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
Maria Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes. Divided by life, united by Tango. Our Last Tango is a story of love between the two most famous dancers in tango’s history. And the story of their tremendous love of tango. María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together for nearly fifty years. In all those years they loved and hated each other and went through several painful separations but always got back together. Now, Juan and María are willing to open up about their love, their hatred, and their passion. In Our Last Tango Juan and María tell their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, who transform the most beautiful, moving and dramatic moments of Juan and Maria’s lives into incredible tango-choreographies. These beautifully-shot choreographies compliment the soul-searching interviews and documentary moments of the film to make this an unforgettable journey into the heart of the tango.
MARKET SCREENINGS
Original language: Spanish Produced by: German Kral Filmproduktion & Lailaps Pictures
MISFITS A film by Jannik Splidsboel
In some places, love equals courage. 19.05 12PM Palais G DCP/HD • 2015 • DENMARK/SWEDEN • 74’ & 58’ • DOCUMENTARY
WIDE HOUSE: BOOTH RIVIERA E6 ANAÏS CLANET General Manager +33 6 83 22 18 06 ac@widehouse.org
MATTHIAS ANGOULVANT Festivals Manager +33 7 70 07 64 04 ma@widemanagement.com
Cannes2015_Daily2_WideHouse_245x335_CMJN.indd 1
www.WIDEHOUSE.org
WIDE HOUSE Worldwide Sales 9, rue bleue - 75009 Paris - France Tel. +33 1 53 95 04 64 - Fax +33 1 53 95 04 65 infos@widehouse.org
06/05/2015 11:49
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL’S STARS OF TOMORROW AT LFF The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is proud to celebrate our collaboration with Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow, and looks forward to jointly introducing the UK and Ireland’s best emerging young actors, directors, writers and producers for the first time during the LFF in October.
Previous Stars of Tomorrow include Abi Morgan Emily Blunt Dominic Cooper Daniel Wolfe Robert Pattinson Eddie Redmayne Andrew Haigh Tom Harper Matt Smith Andrew Garfield Andrea Arnold Holliday Grainger Corin Hardy Phoebe Fox and
Benedict Cumberbatch
Carey Mulligan
Jack O’Connell
James McAvoy
Andrea Riseborough
With thanks to
bfi.org.uk/lff
ProMotional Feature
London: global competitor Enhanced tax credits have given London a global competitiveness but the city needs to be able to support the rise in demand. Ian Sandwell reports
Case study Mission: iMpossible — Rogue nation
‘‘I
t’s been an extraordinary time,” says Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, looking back over the past year since Film London celebrated its tenth anniversary. London has long been established as a one-stop shop for productions of all sizes and a gateway to the rest of the UK’s locations, facilities and talent. A key part of the recent boom has been the enhanced tax reliefs, which Wootton says have given London “global competitiveness”. But to capitalise on them, he adds that Film London is working “to back that up with the infrastructure and being able to provide production support on the ground so people can move around cities efficiently”. Producer David Parfitt, chairman of
‘Now, you’re seeing the new folk come up behind established talent’ david parfitt, Film london and producer
www.screendaily.com
Film London, also believes the enhanced tax reliefs have aided the capital’s postproduction facilities. “The tendency was if you were bringing in a big film, part of your budget was not allowable for tax relief so you’d take that away, leaving visual effects losing a bit of business,” explains Parfitt. “Now, the fact you can come here with that minimal spend of 10% means productions shot elsewhere are coming here for digital effects. That’s balanced things out again.” Generating around $1.5bn (£1bn) of the UK’s $2.3bn (£1.5bn) film production spend, London has seen the likes of Spectre, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation and The Man From UNCLE shoot in the city. “With such a thriving creative sector in the UK, the agency does a great job of attracting productions to London and the surrounding area, which is important in keeping the industry vibrant,” comments Dan Dark, SVP and managing director, Warner Bros Studios Leavesden. For director Stephen Frears, it is clear why he keeps coming back to shoot in London. “It’s one of the best places to make films, where the talent and facilities allow you to achieve almost anything,” says the film-maker. “Right now, I’m making a film [Florence Foster Jenkins] set entirely in New York, so of course I’m shooting it in London.” The upcoming Suffragette also benefited from shooting in London,
“Nowhere else in the world can you find the quality of crews, stages and facilities along with the amazing locations that London has to offer,” says Don Granger, executive producer of Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation. The fifth outing of the popular spy franchise was based at Leavesden Studios and shot in London and the surrounding area for four months from October 2014 to January 2015, including an action sequence in and around the Tower of London. Granger says of Film London: “I lost count of how many times we called them and asked them to pull a miracle from their hat. And, every time, they worked tirelessly to make our dreams come true.”
becoming the first-ever film allowed to shoot inside the Houses of Parliament. “We needed scale, authenticity and control, so we felt it was important to use actual London locations,” recalls producer Faye Ward. “Shooting in the Houses of Parliament was a profound moment. This had a deep resonance and meaning for ourselves and Parliament because we were recreating part of its own history.” Maria Walker, COO of Twickenham Studios, says London is desirable for its talent pool and language. “For the Americans, it just makes life easier. They know they can guarantee the quality of work,” says Walker. “Twickenham is ideally situated and our dubbing theatres are the best in the country, which is why most US mixers who come over here choose to mix with us.” London’s screen industries are converging across film, animation, VFX and games to ensure the city remains capable of delivering anything. “As the capital’s production industries agency, Film London has been doing a superb job over the past 10 years transforming
‘I’m making a film entirely set in New York, so of course I’m shooting it in London’ stephen Frears, director
the city into a booming global hub for content,” notes Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. “We’re excited to be expanding its remit to support our vibrant games industry.” Parfitt expands: “Because there has been this boom, I’m seeing the crews responding to that and there are some fantastically talented people out there. Now, you’re seeing the new folk come up behind established talent, which is exceptional. We need that flow and if you don’t have a thriving industry, it just stops.” www.filmlondon.org.uk/filminginlondon »
May 18, 2015 Screen International at Cannes 21
Promotional Feature
T
he Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) is entering its ninth year having established itself as an effective platform for international producers and financiers to form new and transformative relationships. Taking place in association with the BFI London Film Festival, the PFM remains the only event of its kind in the UK. “The PFM serves to highlight London as a financial and international sales hub for the independent film industry,” explains Angus Finney, PFM project manager. “Given the high level of expertise, international experience and significant companies of scale working out of London, the PFM attracts both international producers but also high-level financiers from Europe and beyond.” Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London, believes the strength of the PFM is that it is not just a “talking shop.” “There’s a whole series of films we can point to that have been made through the PFM,” enthuses Wootton. “It shows it’s a worthwhile financial structure for independent film production, and is a critical part of the diverse eco-structure we have at Film London.” The event will see more than 800 networking and pitching meetings in the form of ‘high-end speed dating’ where producers have 30 minutes to impress. Last year’s market attracted more than $260m (€235m) of production value and leading equity, hedge fund, tax, banking and public and broadcaster financiers. Simon Crowe, CEO of SC Films International, says the PFM’s most useful aspect is in its efficiency. “In 48 hours, you get to meet up with producers around Europe or the UK, plus financiers, lawyers, accountants, sales agents and distributors at a key time in the film year,” he says. “It connects SC Films to the key elements of making film-making happen. Everyone is in work mode and looking to create business opportunities for now, the following year and beyond.” At the PFM, Crowe met with the French producers of Yellowbird (aka Gus) where he agreed to work on the film, which is now finished and sold worldwide with theatrical releases in more than 20 territories to date. A new initiative announced this year,
‘There’s a whole series of films we can point to that have been made through the PFM’ adrian wootton, Film london
22 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
Market value Film London’s Production Finance Market is set to open its doors for business for a ninth year alongside the more recently established Micro Market. Ian Sandwell reports
Yellowbird: a PFM success story
TRL Espresso, will see Film London partnering with two Italian markets. One producer will be selected at Trieste 2016 and put on the fast-track to Rome International Film Festival’s New Cinema Market, before being brought to the PFM in 2016, an opportunity that puts them directly in front of international financiers. This year also sees a new partnership between Film London and Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), which is supported by entertainment accountancy firm Nyman Libson Paul. This will offer up to two UK producers the opportunity to take their features to the No Borders International Co-Production Market. Film London will be selecting suitable, eligible projects from its own talent pool, including this year’s PFM and Micro Market applications. Now in its third year, Micro Market is becoming an increasingly effective strategic enhancement of the PFM, offering a platform for financiers and producers working on projects valued up to $1.1m (€1m). Deborah Sathe, head of talent development and production at Film London, believes the success of the Micro Market is down to its preparation, which sees all projects packaged ahead of the market. “Micro Market allows a hungry industry to meet the most promising low-budget
film-making teams and projects from across the UK,” says Sathe. “Industry and talent alike are keen to build relationships and Film London is in prime position to create partnerships that will yield dividends for film markets and audiences.” More than 120 applications were received last year, with 20 projects selected. Sathe expects more applications this year, which will also see a more European focus following successful partnerships with Ireland and France last year. Andrea Scarso of Ingenious attended last year’s Micro Market and believes it offers an “unmissable opportunity” for financiers to meet young producers. “Ingenious is always looking to meet, identify and then work with the ‘next big thing’ in our sector,” says Scarso. “The quality of the talent and the projects they bring to the Micro Market seems to get stronger each year and we look forward to attending the event in 2015.” For Film London chief executive Adrian Wootton, Micro Market highlights the PFM’s commitment to independent film production at every level. “In the context of Film London’s portfolio, it’s important we are seen to be doing something that is really looking at the international marketplace and providing opportunities for film-makers who stand a real chance of getting the finance to get their film made.”
both offers’
‘It’s a pleasure to see some film-makers gravitate across
angus Finney, pFM
“The Micro Market is very complementary to the PFM, as it enables emerging film-makers to approach and connect with the film market rather than present in a vacuum, and provides them with crucial training,” says Finney. “It’s a pleasure to see some film-makers gravitate across both offers, depending on the nature of the material.”
How to apply PFM and Micro Market will take place October 12-14, 2015 in association with the BFI London Film Festival. For applications visit www. filmlondon.org.uk/finance Deadline PFM July 3, Micro Market June 29
www.screendaily.com
Shifty
Borrowed Time
Ill Manors
Lilting
Microwave goes global After establishing itself with features such as Lilting and Shifty, Microwave is greenlighting two new movies in the UK and going international. By Ian Sandwell
D
escribed by producer Ted Hope as “the best low-budget scheme in the world”, Microwave — Film London’s award-winning training-throughproduction feature film scheme — is going from strength to strength. “We have consolidated that we are here to take bold, risky, creative decisions in a way the commercial sector can’t or won’t, and that is Microwave’s real USP — enabling those big future storytellers to learn their craft and to meet a big audience with their low-budget films,” says Deborah Sathe, head of talent development and production, Film London. At last year’s Cannes, the BFI and the BBC Films boarded the latest iteration of the scheme, and a targeted recruitment campaign was launched to ensure “the message wasn’t just going out to filmmakers that were in the know”, says Sathe. The result? Microwave received more than 160 applications, which was whittled down to 12 and then six selections, of which two have been commissioned. These are Kill Her Witch from writer/ director Faye Gilbert and producer Yaw Basoah, and The Visitor from writer/ director Sebastian Godwin and producer Hugo Godwin (both former Screen International Stars of Tomorrow who made earlier shorts with Film London). The two teams can draw on the
www.screendaily.com
successful careers already launched by Microwave, such as Lilting’s director Hong Khaou and producer Dominic Buchanan, Borrowed Time producer Olivier Kaempfer, who went on to executive produce the Sundance hit Appropriate Behaviour, and Shifty team Eran Creevy, Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh, who have since delivered two multi-million pound features Welcome To The Punch and Autobahn. With two features in pre-production, the next round of the scheme is now open and Film London is inviting applications. Having established itself as core to Film London’s talent development strategy, Microwave is expanding globally in the form of Microwave International. Working with various international partners, Microwave is bringing its ‘Microschool’ training boot-camp to new territories, as well as establishing co-productions with Malta and India. “Our industry no longer exists within neat borders and I believe proactively partnering with other international territories is essential, and provides a wealth of opportunities to find new talent and audiences,” says Sathe. Film London chief executive Adrian Wootton adds: “Film is a global business and Film London spends all its time dealing with international film-makers who are coming here to make their films. Therefore it would seem very parochial
‘We take bold, risky, creative decisions in a way the commercial sector can’t or won’t’ Deborah Sathe, Film london
and very strange if all we did in terms of our emerging film-maker programmes was focus on the domestic.” Following a Microschool in Malta, the country’s first low-budget film production is now under way and, with further support from Film London, aims to premiere by the end of the year. Elsewhere, Microwave International: Shakespeare India will bring Asian talent from the UK and India together to work on projects inspired by the playwright. Teams will be trained through a British Council-supported Microschool, with Film London and its Indian production partner Cinestaan Film Company greenlighting one project for production. “Microwave International: Shakespeare India dovetails with Cinestaan’s own ambitions to preserve and celebrate India’s rich film heritage and will help
forge valuable international links for Indian talent,” says Rohit Khattar, founding chairman of Cinestaan Film Company. “There is a lot to learn about relationship management and cost-effective production from the Indian film industry. I’m also sure the Indian film-makers will gain a lot of insight about reaching a global audience.” “We want to be able to share the learnings that we’ve built up over quite a number of years with our international friends and partners who have been asking us to work with them,” explains Wootton. “It’s great for Microwave because it demonstrates that it is really a model that can be used across the world.” Filth producer Ken Marshall, who mentored the Lilting team, worked on the Indonesia iteration of Microschool and describes it as a “fantastic experience” to be part of its growing ambition. “We have been able to work with film-making teams who are hungry to learn how to improve their storytelling techniques and how to bring a project to market,” he says. Looking forward, Sathe notes the distribution landscape is changing and Microwave can now aid film-makers not just in production, but in getting their product into the market. “We’re not just launching new storytellers; we’re able to apply that same logic to how we get an audience to those films as well.”
How to apply Film London Microwave is now open for applications from London-based film-makers. Visit www.filmlondon. org.uk/microwave Deadline July 14
May 18, 2015 Screen International at Cannes 23
»
ProMotional Feature
London set for Screenings This year’s London Screenings will include BFI-funded films set for release in the coming months and a new focus on VoD. Ian Sandwell reports
‘‘ B
uyers get invited to a lot of places for showcases and screening events, so they have to be selective. It takes a lot more these days to get a buyer on a plane, so you’ve got to think of new ways to get them over, and London Screenings repeatedly does that,” outlines Helena Mackenzie, head of inward investment and business development at Film London. One of the new highlights of this year’s London Screenings will be a presentation of BFI-funded films that are released over the coming months. This will happen alongside the established main screenings strand and the Breakthrough strand, which is dedicated to emerging film-makers seeking sales representation. Narcopolis and The Hoarder are among the five titles of last year’s strand to attract sales agents. Catch Me Daddy, Robot Overlords and X+Y also screened at last year’s event.
X+Y featured in London Screenings 2014
Bankside Films’ director Stephen Kelliher notes the event was “instrumental” in X+Y’s sales. “London Screenings provides a focus and exclusivity for British companies and British films which is not attainable at any other film event in the year. We work in a very crowded marketplace and the
opportunity to come together to screen and discuss British films cannot be underestimated,” he says. Film London chief executive Adrian Wootton says the event is one of the most important in its portfolio. “It’s the one opportunity when all the major acquisition executives from around the world come into the UK and, not distracted by any other country’s product, get to sit with British sales companies and meet producers of that product in a very conducive, well-organised and efficient environment,” he observes.
london sCreenings Returning for its 12th year (June 22-25, 2015), this unique export initiative supports new UK films and UK film companies www. filmlondon.org.uk/londonscreenings
‘It takes a lot more these days to get a buyer on a plane, so you’ve got to think of new ways to get them over’ helena mackenzie, Film london
Crucial to this continued success is the fact the event is consistently evolving. “We’re inviting more buyers who are potentially focusing on VoD,” says Mackenzie. “We’re still looking at theatrical buyers too, but there are some buyers specifically for VoD, where three or four years ago, there wouldn’t have been that demand.”
British Film Commission
British benefits awaken Star Wars and high-end TV are among the productions being drawn to the UK by the BFC As the gateway to production in the UK, the British Film Commission (BFC) ensures the UK remains the most popular place for production outside North America, for both film and television. Important incentives include the recent enhancements to the UK’s tax reliefs, says BFC chairman Iain Smith. “The UK industry sells itself on quality, experience and reliability and not on being a low-cost option, but our tax reliefs allow us to compete on a more level playing field.” As a result, it means the BFC can continue to support investment in infrastructure, talent and skills throughout the UK. It is this investment that has seen the likes of Warner Bros Studios Leavesden and Pinewood (with the opening of Pinewood Studio Wales) expand their stage space. “You can really see the effect of the work the BFC is doing by the fact we’re not just talking about London and the South East any more; we are talking
24 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
about ambitious projects being made throughout the UK,” says BFC chief executive Adrian Wootton. Films to have shot recently in the UK include Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens and Disney’s Cinderella, while upcoming productions include Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. “The BFC plays an essential role in ensuring the UK remains at the top of its game, by advising the government to ensure we stay competitive and film-friendly, and by providing guidance and troubleshooting to the film and TV industry,” says Simon Emanuel, UPM on Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens. Smith cites the success of high-end television productions that shot in the UK, such as 24: Live Another Day, which he notes is an area with the “biggest growth potential of all”. So what challenges lie ahead for the BFC? “Other territories are building
Case study star Wars: episode Vii — the ForCe aWakens Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens shot at UK locations including military base Greenham Common in Berkshire, which served as the rebel base, and the 14acre ancient wood Puzzlewood in Gloucestershire. “We have the best set construction in the world, in terms of quality,” says Simon Emanuel, UPM on The Force Awakens. “I think that when you’re investing a huge amount of money into a project like this, you want to have that kind of security — the knowledge it will be done well.”
‘The BFC plays an essential role in ensuring the UK remains at the top of its game’ simon emanuel, film-maker
competitive tax schemes as well, so we can’t be complacent,” says Smith. “Despite the UK’s high-quality offer in terms of tax reliefs, talent and infrastructure, we are still vulnerable to exchange rates; but, right now, our offer is better than ever.” www.britishfilmcommission.org.uk
www.screendaily.com
BBC FILM S
PROUD TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING IN THE UK
MAKING BRITISH FILMS HAPPEN bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms @BBCFilms cannesavdert.indd 6
12/05/2015 19:10
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
Decent exposure Ahead of today’s Doc Corner Brunch at Plage Royale, Geoffrey Macnab explores this year’s festival crop and how documentaries are addressing the big questions
Luc Jacquet’s Ice And Sky is this year’s Cannes closer
W
hen Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine screened here in 2002, it marked the first time a documentary had been selected for the main competition in 46 years. Moore himself expressed his amazement it was programmed at all. Now, no-one shows any surprise when a documentary is screened in official selection, or that most international sales outfits tend to have a documentary or two on their slates. Some of the most highly anticipated films in Cannes this year are docuSky the new mentaries. Ice And Sky, global-warming documentary from Oscar winner Luc Jacquet March Of The Penguins), will close (March the festival and is being sold by Wild Bunch. “For me, documentary is 100% cinema. There’s no border between what is a film and what is a documentary,” Jacquet says. “It is quite natural and normal that a documentary can go to Cannes.” There is huge UK interest in Asif Kapadia’s controversial Amy Winehouse film, Amy, Amy which had a Midnight Screening on Saturday. Another much-hyped title, Chilean
28 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
director Marcia Tambutti Allende’s Beyond My Grandfather Allende, about her ill-fated politician grandfather Salvador Allende, had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight last night. Several intriguing new feature documentaries are screening in Cannes Classics. Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words, sold by TrustNordisk, has been made to tie in with the centenary of the legendary Swedish actress, who is this year’s Cannes poster girl. Cinephiles are in high excitement about Hitchcock/Truffaut Hitchcock/Truffaut, a new documentary from regular Martin Scorsese collaborator Kent Jones. There is also a documentary about Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans Mans, directed by Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna, which is being sold by Content Media, as well as an American Masters documentary, By Sidney Lumet Lumet, which is directed by Nancy Buirski and being sold by Cinephil. Boosting the visibility of documentaries within the Marché is
‘The traditional walls of journalism, documentary and features are breaking down’ Elizabeth McIntyre, Sheffield Doc/Fest
(Left) Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
the festival’s own Documentary Corner, which gives buyers access to a digital video library of new docs in the marketplace and the opportunity to attend networking and pitching events — as well as the celebrated Documentary Brunch, taking place today. “Five years ago, there was a real minimum of presence of documentary at Cannes,” notes Claire Aguilar, director of programming and industry engagement at the UK’s Sheffield Doc/Fest. Aguilar used to commission documentaries for US public television. One project she backed was Ari Folman’s animated war documentary Waltz With Bashir in 2008, a film whose international profile skyrocketed after it was chosen for the Cannes Competition. She says, “Nobody really expected that it would be shown at Cannes, but it launched our presence on the festival circuit and the film went on to be nominated for an Oscar.” Sales agents and distributors who specialise in documentaries all trumpet the newfound importance of Cannes to the documentary world. “We have two big theatrical markets [for documentary], which are Berlin and Cannes,” says Salma Abdalla, managing director of Autlook Filmsales, which specialises in documentaries. “Cannes is one of the most important markets because everyone is there.” Abdalla, who is selling alien-encounter
www.screendaily.com
documentary The Visit, acknowledges that most of the focus will be on those documentaries in official selection rather than market titles, but also points to the festival’s importance for “presenting the line-up for the rest of the year… it is where you start talking about your catalogue for the rest of the year.” It is also where Autlook will begin negotiations with festival programmers. “The effort Cannes puts into the Documentary Brunch and the high-profile documentary players they gather at the festival make Cannes a key event,” says Anna Godas, co-founder and CEO of London-based Dogwoof, of the mix of heavyweight European commissioners, US producers, international festival programmers and leading buyers who now attend the festival. “Cannes is a great opportunity to show theatrical buyers the documentaries we have in production.” The frenzied mood on the Croisette may be very different from that of more laid-back specialist documentary events such as IDFA, Hot Docs or Sheffield. Documentaries still make up a tiny proportion of the films screening in official selection and the marketplace. Nonetheless, if a film-maker wants to reach theatrical buyers or festival programmers, Cannes is the place to come. Driving the agenda Documentary-makers have long been trying to make their work cinematic, using music, animation, voice-over and dramatic reconstructions as they seek to give their audience a big-screen experience. “What is exciting is that there is quite a fluidity between the different mediums of storytelling,” notes Elizabeth McIntyre, the new CEO and festival director at Sheffield Doc/Fest. “The traditional walls of journalism, documentary and features are breaking down.” McIntyre points to a spate of films that are both intensely cinematic and “empower” audiences, providing them with a way to respond to the “big” questions they address. “These questions are so fundamental in our lives that they lend themselves well to theatrical release,” she notes. “What is interesting about the fashion and popularity of theatrical-release documentaries is the ability to play out these epic themes on screen and for the audience to immerse themselves in the characters from these documentaries.” She cites the Oscar-nominated, Netflixbacked UK title Virunga, about the battle to protect mountain gorillas in a national park in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, as an example of the kind of documentary that excites festival programmers. Virunga, McIntyre suggests, “just had the epic-ness of a movie, but through incredibly personal stories and engaging characters”. At the same time, she adds, it gave audiences the chance to engage directly with the subjects it addressed. In a digital age, McIntyre notes, documentaries can have an immediate impact. She
www.screendaily.com
‘Cannes is a great opportunity to show theatrical buyers the documentaries we have in production’ Anna Godas, Dogwoof
Hitchcock/Truffaut
mentions Chai Jing’s Under The Dome, a film about air pollution in China that went viral, attracting millions of viewers and sparking a heated debate in China itself. Another obvious reason documentary is prominent at festivals such as Cannes and Berlin is that financing models have changed. In the past, in Europe in particular, film-makers came from television and looked primarily to broadcasters to fund their work. Now, alongside traditional backers such as Arte and the BBC, HBO and Showtime, there are film agencies including the British Film Institute and the Irish Film Board ready to support documentaries. More and more are released theatrically. More than 80 were seen in UK cinemas last year, while in London there are now screens in major West End locations dedicated to documentaries. Indeed, documentaries are taking on the role that used to be played by old media in exposing injustice and corruption. When newspapers no longer have the budgets for in-depth investigative journalism, film-makers have been picking up the slack. Documentaries have often driven the news agenda whether it’s global warming, the ‘war on terror’, white-collar crime,
(Above) Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words; (inset) Amy
National Security Agency spying, genocide or environmental destruction. Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Aguilar has mixed feelings about documentary-makers assuming the role of reporters. “There is an opportunity for film-makers to become journalists using film,” she notes, citing work by Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act Of Killing), Laura Poitras (CitizenFour) and Kirby Dick (The Invisible War). “There is an interweaving now of print journalism and online journalism. The print media are using film and video for their stories.” The downside is that film-makers don’t always bring journalistic balance. “There is a trend for advocacy film-making right now,” Aguilar suggests. “There are some films that take a journalistic approach, or try to get an objective approach, and yet they are only reporting on one side. That sense of balance is lost.” Documentaries and fictional films come together in Cannes, but the differences between the two worlds remain profound. A dramatic movie will only be greenlit once the financing is all in place. In the documentary sphere, by contrast, the directors “plug on” (in Aguilar’s words) even when they don’t have the funding secured and try to piece together their budgets as they work. “You can even complete the film and go into distribution having a big debt,” she says. Documentary-makers cling to the dream that their films will become big international hits, sold to theatrical distributors around the world, thanks to being shown at major film festivals. In fact, insiders acknowledge, TV sales are still what drive most of the revenues in the documentary arena. Nonetheless, the documentary community is today treated with a respect in Cannes that would once s have been unthinkable. ■
May 18, 2015 Screen International at Cannes 29
PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
CREDITS: iFEATURES 2
The Goob Dir/scr Guy Myhill Producers Lee Groombridge, Mike Elliott Cast Sean Harris, Sienna Guillory, Liam Walpole Festivals Venice Days Competition 2014 (world premiere); BFI London Film Festival 2014 (UK premiere; nominee, first feature and best newcomer); SXSW 2015 (US premiere) Awards Best achievement in production, BIFAs 2014; The Golden Hitchcock, Dinard Film Festival 2014; Cineuropa Award, Mons International Love Film Festival; best music, Stockholm Film Festival 2014 UK distribution Soda Pictures International sales The Bureau Sales
Norfolk
The Goob
Going places iFeatures, the innovative low-budget film-making programme launched by Creative England, is proving an international success story
N
ow in its third iteration and headed up by Christopher Granier-Deferre, iFeatures Round 3 executive producer, Creative England’s flagship low-budget film-making initiative iFeatures, supported by the British Film Institute, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, has resulted in the completion of five award-winning, internationally acclaimed features. These are Eight Minutes Idle (directed by Mark Simon Hewis), In The Dark Half (Alastair Siddons), Flying Blind (Katarzyna Klimkiewicz), Norfolk (Martin Radich) and The Goob (Guy Myhill). With a sixth, Alex Z Taylor’s Spaceship,, in production, and three more titles to be announced in Cannes today, the scheme is going from strength to strength. This level of success is impressive, but the enduring legacy of iFeatures is the solid grounding it gives UK film-makers to develop their ideas and build a sustainable career. So it is for The Goob writer-director Myhill, who has seen his iFeatures 2 project pick up multiple festival awards ahead of its UK release on May 29. Hearing his film, which was made under the guidance of iFeatures 2 executive producer Tristan Goligher, had been greenlit was an obvious high point for Myhill. “I remember feeling quite tearful going down the escalator at the Under-
30 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
ground station,” he recalls. But each stage of the process proved enormously beneficial. “One of the most rewarding elements for me was the informal sessions and encounters with other participants and iFeatures staff,” he says of the ongoing support he received to explore fully his artistic vision. “They never interfered creatively. They let me realise the film I wanted to make, with the people I wanted to work with.” iFeatures’ remit to find exceptional storytellers with strong regional voices has also been of direct benefit to editor-turnedfilm-maker Rachel Tunnard. Encouraged to apply after BFI Film Fund executive Chris Collins saw some of her drawings on a Scottish cuttingroom wall, debut writer-director Tunnard says getting into the
(Right) Norfolk
‘They never interfered creatively. They let me realise the film I wanted to make’ Guy Myhill, film-maker, The Goob
Dir/scr Martin Radich Producers Finlay Pretsell, Rachel Dargavel Cast Denis Menochet, Barry Keoghan Festivals Rotterdam Film Festival 2015 (world premiere); Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015 UK distribution and international sales
iFeatures Limited
Spaceship Dir/scr Alex Taylor Producers Nicola Bowen, Olivier Kaempfer Cast Antti Reini, Alexa Davies, Lara Peake In post-production
programme was “a validation in itself. I was totally out of my comfort zone, but being chucked in at the deep end gave me the confidence to have a go at doing my own stuff.” While Tunnard exited iFeatures 2 in the final round, she did so with assurances from Creative England and the BFI that they would continue to support her by funding both the development of her feature script and her pilot short Emotional Fusebox, which was nominated for both a BAFTA and a BIFA. Following this success, Tunnard was given production finance to shoot her debut feature How To Live Yours Yours, set for release later this year. “I found out what I wanted to do while being part of iFeatures,” says Tunnard. “And I was able to execute that in the more tailored development that followed with Creative England.” This wall-to-wall support is key to iFeatures’ consistent success with UK grassroots projects that strike a chord with international audiences. It is of unparalleled value to film-makers like Myhill. “They have been there at every stage,” he says, “accompanying the film at festivals, being on top of press, offering advice all the way. If I or my producers have a query, we can just pick up a phone and speak with them. I like to think of them s as friends.” ■
www.screendaily.com
ScreeningS
Jury grid, page 52
edited by Paul Lindsell paullindsell@gmail.com
» Screening times and venues are correct at the time of going to press but subject to alteration
Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her.
FestivaL
and press
Un Certain regard press Theatre Claude Debussy
15:00
08:30
THe BraND NeW TeSTaMeNT
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.
(Belgium) 113mins. Dir: Jaco Van Dormael. Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau. Set in Jaco Van Dormael’s 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.
Critics’ Week Miramar
THe MeaSUre OF a MaN
(France) 93mins. Dir: Stephane Brize. Cast: Vincent Lindon. At the age of 51 — and after 20 months of unemployment — Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him a moral dilemma. Competition press grand Theatre Lumiere
09:00 araBIaN NIgHTS VOL. 2
(Portugal) 132mins. Dir: Miguel Gomes. Cast: Crista Alfaiate, Lu’sa Cruz, Adriano Luz, Carloto Cotta Cotta. Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00 CeMeTerY OF SPLeNDOUr
(Thailand) 122mins. Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast: Jenjira Pongpas Widner, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram. Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt. Jen befriends young medium Keng, who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Un Certain regard press Theatre Claude Debussy
Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
Festival & Press 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
INSIDe OUT
(US) 94mins. Dir: Pete Docter. Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader. Pixar’s latest animated film, about the emotions inside a person as they move across country. Out of Competition press grand Theatre Lumiere
MON rOI
(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. Why did they love each other? Competition Salle Du Soixantieme
THe HIgH SUN See box, above
32 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred. This is a film about the dangers — and the enduring strength — of forbidden love. Un Certain regard Salle Bazin
11:30 LaND aND SHaDe
(Colombia) 94mins. Dir: Cesar Augusto Acevedo. Cast: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto, Jose Felipe Cardenas. Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill, after 17 years. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. Critics’ Week Miramar
12:00 THe STOrY OF THe LaST CHrYSaNTHeMUMS
(Japan) 143mins. Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Shotaro Hanayagi, Kokichi Takada, Gonjuro Kawarazaki. Pre-war classic about a young Kabuki actor. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
12:15 COWBOYS
(France) 114mins. Dir: Thomas Bidegain. Cast: Francois Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne, Ellora Torchia, John C Reilly. A vast prairie, a country and western gathering in the east of France. Alain is attending the event with his wife and two children, Kelly, 16, and Kid, 14. But on this day, Kelly disappears, and the family falls apart. Alain embarks on a relentless search for his daughter. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
13:30 aMNeSIa
(Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Barbet Schroeder. Cast: Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz, Corinna Kirchhoff. Ibiza, the early 1990s. Jo is a 25-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island, Amnesia. Out of Competition press Salle Bazin
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 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. Competition grand Theatre Lumiere
TWO FrIeNDS
(France) 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. Critics’ Week Miramar
15:30 JOUrNeY TO THe SHOre
(UK) 118mins. Dir: Todd Haynes. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson. A powerful romance fuelled by the suspense, danger and exhilaration of forbidden love.
(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.
Competition Salle Du Soixantieme
Un Certain regard Salle Bazin
14:00 CarOL
THe CHOSeN ONeS
(Mexico) 105mins. Dir: David Pablos. Cast: Nancy Talamantes, Oscar Torres. Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him — in spite of him — she is forced into a prostitution ring in
16:30 CeMeTerY OF SPLeNDOUr
(Thailand) 122mins. Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast: Jenjira Pongpas Widner, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram. Un Certain regard press Theatre Claude Debussy
www.screendaily.com
»
SCREENINGS
Festival & Press 16:30 THE MEASURE OF A MAN
(France) 93mins. Dir: Stephane Brize. Cast: Vincent Lindon. At the age of 51 — and after 20
months of unemployment — Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him a moral dilemma. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
INSIdE OUT
Torchia, John C Reilly.
See box, above
(US) 94mins. Dir: Pete Docter. Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader.
directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
ORdERERS
(Canada) 108mins. Dir: Michel Brault. Cast: Jean Lapointe, Helene Loiselle, Guy Provost. About the incarceration of innocent civilians during the 1970 October Crisis. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
17:30 ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 2
(Portugal) 132mins. Dir: Miguel Gomes. Cast: Crista Alfaiate, Lu’sa Cruz, Adriano Luz, Carloto Cotta. directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
MARGUERITE ANd JULIEN
(France) 105mins. Dir: Valerie Donzelli. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Jeremie Elkaim. An aristocratic brother and sister embrace passion and hope as they flee from society. A timeless story of desire, love and death beyond all morality. Competition press Theatre Claude debussy
19:30 Z
LANd ANd SHAdE
(Colombia) 94mins. Dir: Cesar Augusto Acevedo. Cast: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto, Jose Felipe Cardenas. Critics’ Week Miramar
19:15 A TALE OF LOVE ANd dARKNESS
(Israel) 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. Out of Competition Salle du Soixantieme
34 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
(France) 127mins. Dir: Costa Gavras. Cast: JeanLouis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas. Fictional account of the Greek military coups of the 1960s. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
20:00 TWO FRIENdS
(France) 100mins. Dir: Louis Garrel. Cast: Louis Garrel, Vincent Macaigne. Critics’ Week Miramar
20:45 COWBOYS
(France) 114mins. Dir: Thomas Bidegain. Cast: Francois Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne, Ellora
21:00 RABId dOGS
(France) 100mins. Dir: Eric Hannezo. C ast: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix. A hostage scenario plays out after four robbbers botch a shopping centre heist. Cinema on the Beach Plage Mace
22:00 A TOUCH OF ZEN
(Taiwan) 210mins. Dir: King Hu. Cast: Hsu Feng, Shih Jun, Pai Ying. Classic wuxia film about a painter caught up in the intrigues of court. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
THE CHOSEN ONES
(Mexico) 105mins. Dir: David Pablos. Cast: Nancy Talamantes, Oscar Torres. Un Certain Regard press Theatre Claude debussy
LOUdER THAN BOMBS
(Norway) 103mins. Dir: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn, Devin Druid. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
MARGUERITE ANd JULIEN
(France) 105mins.
www.screendaily.com
»
SCREENINGS
dir: Valerie donzelli. Cast: Anais demoustier, Jeremie Elkaim. competition press Salle Bazin
22:30 LAND AND SHADe
(Colombia) 94mins. dir: Cesar Augusto Acevedo. Cast: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto, Jose Felipe Cardenas. critics’ Week Miramar
00:30 oFFIce
(South Korea) 108mins. dir: Hong Won-Chan. Cast: Ko A-Sung, Park Sung-Woong, Bae SeongWoo. A hard-working manager murders his family and sneaks into the office building. A fierce dog-eatdog mentality of peers at work is unveiled. out of competition Grand theatre Lumiere
Market screenings
09:00 DoN’t teLL Me tHe BoY WAS MAD
(France) MK2. 134mins. dir: Robert Guediguian. Cast: Gregoire LeprinceRinguet, Ariane Ascaride, Simon Abkarian. Paris, 1981. Aram, a young man of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish Ambassador’s car, seriously injuring Gilles, who just happens to have been passing by on his bicycle. Palais J priority badges only
09:15 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.
Films. 11mins. dir: Laure Hassan. Cast: Harvey Keitel, Alice Taglioni, Beatrice dalle. Following a deadly armed robbery, a shotgun passes through the hands of a series of characters. riviera 1
BeYoND MY GrANDFAtHer ALLeNDe
At GUN PoINt — teASer
(Chile) doc & Film international. 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.
(France) Humancorp
riviera 2
olympia 9
09:30 APrIL AND tHe eXtrAorDINArY WorLD
(France) StudioCanal. 105mins. dir: Franck Ekinci, Christian desmares. Cast: Marion Cotillard. One girl’s heroic journey to fulfil her destiny with the support of her closest friends. Arcades 1
KRISHA
tHe DIVer
Hector
(Canada) Filmoption international. 78mins. dir: Alain Vezina.
(UK) Udi — Urban distribution international. 100mins. dir: Jake Gavin. Cast: Peter Mullan, Gina Mckee, Stephen Tompkinson. The heartwarming story of a man who, after many years of aimless wandering, attempts to reconnect with his longestranged past.
riviera 4
DrAWerS
(Turkey) Cam Film. 110mins. dir: Mehmet Binay, M. Caner Alper. Cast: Nilufer Acikalin, Taner Birsel, Ece dizdar, Tilbe Saran. Deniz ends up in hospital after a traumatic night. Her shocking, tragic, finally liberating life journey of 25 years is reflected in a parallel timeline.
Lerins 1 priority badges only
I’M ALL YoUrS
(Sweden) Yellow Affair. 103mins. dir: AlexandraTherese Keining. Cast: Tuva Jagell, Emrik Ohlander, Wilma Holmen. A story about awakening sexuality and gender identity.
(France) indie Sales. 99mins. dir: Baya Kasmi. Cast: Vimala Pons, Mehdi djaadi, Agnes Jaoui, Ramzy Bedia. Hanna and Hakim are Franco-Algerian and, like their parents, have always been incapable of saying no. This neurotic kindness will lead them to different paths: Hanna choosing France; and Hakim Algeria.
Palais D invitation only
Star 4 priority badges only
Palais F
GIrLS LoSt
JUST JIM GRAND JURY AWARD WINNER
GRAND JURY AWARD WINNER
WINNER GRAND JURY & AUDIENCE AWARDS SXSW 2015
Director: Trey Edward Shults 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. MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 10:00 / Lerins 2 (Buyers Only)
“Powerful (...) dizzying.” – Indiewire
Director: Craig Roberts
“Ferociously impressive. ” – Variety
Cast: Emile Hirsch (Prince Avalanche, Into the Wild), Craig Roberts (Submarine)
“A stunning central performance.” – The Hollywood Reporter FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: May 20 / 11:30 / Miramar May 20 / 18:00 / Miramar May 20 / 22:00 / Miramar May 21 / 8:30 / Miramar
“Absurdly hilarious (...) quirky, sad, and amusing.” – MxDwn “One of the best quirky coming-ofrage comedies.” – Hammer to Nail
In a small Welsh town, a teenage outcast becomes the cool kid when an enigmatic American moves in next door and takes him under his wing.
“A twisted sense of humor.” – Side One Track One
MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 14:00 / Lerins 2
Ryan Kampe rk@visitfilms.com
Lorna-Lee Sagebiel lls@visitfilms.com
CANNES OFFICE Lerins S8
+1 646 548 4700
+1 646 421 4574
+1 646 673 1344
www.visitfilms.com info@visitfilms.com »
36 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
www.screendaily.com
SCREENINGS
LIFE IN A FISHBOWL
(Iceland) Films Boutique. 130mins. Dir: Baldvin Z. Cast: Thorsteinn Bachmann, Hera Hilmarsdottir, Thor Kristjansson. Reykjavik. After a tragedy, writer Mori drinks himself into oblivion on a 20-year binge. Eik, a young single mother, moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. Young father and good husband Solvi is recruited into the snake pit of the Icelandic international banking. Fate will make them meet.
(Hong Kong (China)) Universe Films Distribution Co. 112mins. Dir: Adrian Kwan. Cast: Miriam Yeung, Louis Koo, Richard Ng, Philip Keung, Anna Ng. An enthusiastic headmaster sticks to her principles and faith to run a kindergarten for underprivileged kids. Gray 2 press allowed
THE MAN WHO MENDS WOMEN — THE WRATH OF HIPPOCRATES
(Belgium) Les Films De La Passerelle. 112mins. Dir: Thierry Michel. Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who helps thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflict in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Palais B
MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER
(Germany) Sola Media. 90mins. Dir: Tommy Krappweis. Mara faces many challenges. She is being bullied at school and her single mother is drifting into an extreme esoteric spirituality. She just wants to be a normal kid. But when Mara starts to have visions of ancient gods, she discovers her biggest challenge is hidden in the past. Arcades 3
NO STRANGER THAN LOVE
(US) Expression Entertainment. 89mins. Dir: Nick Wernham.
turns ugly when a troubled woman returns to the family she abandoned years ago, in an attempt to prove that she has changed.
Riviera 3
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE
CHINESE FILM MARKET OVERVIEW
Next — Marche Du Film. 110mins.
Marche Du Film. 110mins.
Palais K
Olympia 1
POSSESSED
FLORIDA
Gray 1
LITTLE BIG MASTER
because Kiia has gone into premature labour. Their car hits something. While in the hospital, Kiia meets Hanna, a woman whose husband is in a coma — the victim of a hit-and-run.
Market 10:00 HACKER
(US) Electric Entertainment. 105mins. Dir: Akan Satayev. Cast: Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold. Alex, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, moves to Cast: Alison Brie, Colin Hanks, Justin Chatwin. What is stranger than the big hole that opens up in Lucy Sherrington’s living room floor? As it turns out, love. Palais H
TEN BILLION
(UK) HanWay Films. 82mins. Dir: Peter Webber. If we knew a meteor was destined to strike the Earth by 2050, wouldn’t we try to stop it? By the end of this century the human population is likely to be over 10 billion. Just 25 years ago it was less than five billion. How are the choices we’re making impacting upon our environment? Star 3
Toronto in search of greater opportunities and a better life. He takes refuge in his computer and becomes a very capable coder, eventually using his computer skills to join up with an online criminal organisation called DarkWeb. Palais G
on his way to Europe and falls in love with her without recognising she is actually his fiancee. Gray 4
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
(France) Be For Films. 103mins. Dir: Charlotte De Turckheim. Cast: Alice Pol, Audrey Lamy, Gregory Fitoussi, Charlotte De Turckheim. Sam, unemployed worker and amateur pompom girl, fights to keep custody of her younger sister and make ends meet. With her roommate and best friend Celine, the two women dream up every possible solution. One day an unexpected couple come knocking at their door. Olympia 7
THE WOMAN OF MY LIFE
(Bulgaria) Bulgarian National Film Centre. 103mins. Dir: Antoniy Donchev. Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Violeta Markovska, Selim Akgul. Six-year-old Azad is engaged to his cousin Vian but war separates them. Thirteen years later he accidentally meets her
38 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
09:45
murdered their parents more than 30 years ago, one seeks vengeance, the other justice. The only thing standing in their way is each other. Gray 3
THE LOBSTER
(Ireland) Protagonist Pictures. 119mins. Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw. 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”. Olympia 5
(France) Gaumont. 110mins. Dir: Philippe Le Guay. Cast: Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain. At over 80, Claude Lherminier has lost none of his charm and presence. Dressed in a white linen suit and a colourful cravat, we meet him on a plane bound for Florida. On a whim, Claude has decided to visit his youngest daughter. Star 2
FOU D’AMOUR
(France) Alfama Films. 106mins. Dir: Philippe Ramos. Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc, Jean-Francois Stevenin. 1959. At the bottom of the basket that just collected it, the head of a beheaded man seeks to convince us of his relative innocence by telling us his story.
YOU CAN’T SAVE YOURSELF ALONE
Star 1 press allowed
(Italy) Beta Cinema. 103mins. Dir: Sergio Castellitto. Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca. Gaetano and Delia meet for dinner to discuss the terms of a holiday break for their children. The meal immediately becomes a wide reflection of the past 10 years, which led this separated couple to the sad, but realistic, point.
HACKER
Palais I
10:00
DIAS SANTANA
ABSOLUTION
(South Africa) Zenhq Films. 115mins. Dir: Chris Roland, Maradona Dias Dos Santos. Cast: David O’Hara, Hakeem Kae Kazim, Rapulana Seiphemo. When Dias and Matias discover the man who
(Finland) Media Luna New Films. 92mins. Dir: Petri Kotwica. Cast: Laura Birn, Mari Rantasila, Eero Aho. Kiia and Lauri are speeding down a dark country road, anxious to reach the hospital
See box, above
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
(US) Cohen Media Group. 85mins. Dir: Kent Jones. Riviera 1 priority badges only
IN HARMONY
(France) StudioCanal. 88mins. Dir: Denis Dercourt. Cast: Albert Dupontel, Cecile De France. An inspiring story about rediscovering one’s personal passion through an improbable romantic encounter. Olympia 8
KRISHA
(US) Visit Films. 83mins. Dir: Trey Edward Shults. Cast: Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Bill Wise. A holiday celebration
Lerins 2 priority badges only
(Spain) Filmsharks International. 83mins. Dir: Sam. Cast: Anabel Alonso, Santiago Segura, Josema Yuste. Trini, the world-famous flamenco dancer, has been deeply depressed and has abandoned the stage. Damian, her eight-yearold son, is possessed by a malicious devil that makes him do the most bloody and cruel misdeeds. Palais E
TE PROMETO ANARQUIA
(Guatemala) Panama Film Commission. 103mins. Dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon. Palais C
11:20 STRANGERLAND
(Australia) Wild Bunch. 110mins. Dir: Kim Farrant. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving. Newcomers to a remote Australian desert town, Catherine and Matthew Parker are pushed to the brink after the mysterious disappearance of their two teenage kids. Star 4 press allowed
11:30 A GERMAN YOUTH
(France) Films Boutique. 93mins. Dir: JeanGabriel Periot. Tells the history of the Red Army Faction, a German revolutionary terrorist group from the 1970s. Palais B
ALL ABOUT THEM
(France) Versatile. 90mins. Dir: Jerome Bonnell. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Sophie Verbeeck, Felix Moati. Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Melodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte »
www.screendaily.com
FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT AT ITS BEST FANTASY
THE AMAZING WIPL AL A
L ABYRINTHUS
MINOES
ACTION
ANTBOY
THE CROCODILES
TRILOGY
TRILOGY
FIGHTER
ANIMATION
TRIPLE TROUBLE
ROOSTER DOODLE-DOO
GNOMES & TROLLS
A CHRISTMOOSE STORY
LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO
ANIMALS
WINDSTORM 2
COME SEE US @ GRAND HOTEL RESIDENCES, ALBATROS 5B xiao88@attraction.ca
|
M: +1 514 758 0055
|
www.attractiondistribution.ca
SCREENINGS
— but also with Melodie. For Melodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies and is in love with both of them at the same time. Star 3
AMNESIA
(Switzerland) Les Films Du Losange. 90mins. Dir: Barbet Schroeder. Cast: Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz, Corinna Kirchhoff. Ibiza, the early 1990s. Jo is a 25-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island, Amnesia. Palais J priority badges only
Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman is on a mission. After forging an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he wants to improve relations between North Korea and the US by staging an historic basketball game between the two countries. Olympia 6
FEED THE DEVIL
(Canada) Jinga Films. 95mins. Dir: Max Perrier. Cast: Ardis Barrow, Jared Cohn. A small-time drug dealer, his girlfriend and her sister travel to a remote forest location in search of a valuable drugs stash but their quest for easy money soon becomes a journey into the heart of darkness as they are confronted by a mythical indian tribe.
DENNIS RODMAN’S BIG BANG IN PYONGYANG
Gray 4
(UK) The Works International. 92mins.
GREEN ROOM
(US) Westend Films.
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. Arcades 1
HAPPY 140
(Spain) Latido. 98mins. Dir: Gracia Querejeta. Cast: Maribel Verdu, Antonio De La Torre. Great celebration. Big mistake. Riviera 4
HEATWAVE
(France) Doc & Film International. 100mins. Dir: Raphael Jacoulot. As temperatures soar in a summer heatwave, daily life in an outwardly quiet French hamlet is
disrupted by Josef Bousou, the son of a family of scrap merchants. The villagers single him out as a troublemaker, the source of all their problems. One day, Josef is found lying dead in his family’s yard. Palais H
HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK
(Germany) The Match Factory. 92mins. Dir: Sonja Heiss. Cast: Laura Tonke, Hans Low. Hedi and her son Uli take each day as it comes, dreaming of the future. Then suddenly Hedi gets stuck. Arcades 3
THE OFFICIAL STORY
(Argentina) Pyramide International. 112mins. Dir: Luis Puenzo. Cast: Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio. 1983 — Alicia, the mother of an adopted girl, teaches history in a Buenos Aires high school. Both in her
professional and private life she has always accepted the “official version”, until one day when the regime’s facade and that of its surroundings begin to fall to pieces around her. In the crevices of this enormous lie Alicia dares to suspect that Gabi, the girl she has adopted, might be the daughter of a “desaparecido”. Riviera 2
Republic. 88mins. Dir: Robert Bellsola. Cast: Adria Collado, Andoni Agirregomezkorta, Carolina Bang. Oscar, a smart stockbroker from the big city, and Dan, a goofy slacker from hicksville, get some big news: they’re brothers. Now they’re stuck sharing their deceased father’s estate, Can Pitu, a failing country-style restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
LARRY GAYE, RENEGADE MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
Palais D
(US) Other Angle Pictures. 100mins. Dir: Sam Friedlander. Cast: Mark Fuerstein, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. A self-anointed “renegade” male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure.
MUNE
Olympia 3
MENU FOR TWO
(Spain) Cinema
(France) Kinology. 80mins. Dir: Alexandre Heboyan, Benoit Philippon. The magical tale of loveable Mune, the moon’s keeper, who fights to restore the world when the evil forces of darkness steal the sun. He may speak softly and tread gently, but his love for the moon and for the woman of his dreams turn him
»
40 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
www.screendaily.com
PREMIERES
2015
I M E D I V S W E N D N A L C R O I W M V REENING TODAY USIC, INC N1M5 0 2 s e n I D n E M E a G RE NTA VAc E I M E R
SC
SCREENINGS
IO IONAL / VIS T A N R E T A IN
LD PG TODAY R O W NIN SCREE
into the unstoppable hero he was meant to be. A heartwarming story for the entire family. Gray 2
NOT SHORT ON TALENT 3
(Canada) Short Film Corner. 110mins. Palais F
RAGING ROSE
(France) Alpha Violet. 80mins. Dir: Jula Kowalski. Cast: Liv Henneguier, Yoann Zimmer, Andrzej Chyra, Artur Steranko. Rose, a raging teenager, finds herself involved with Jozef, a blue-collar Polish man searching for his son. Lerins 1
12:00 ALIAS MARIA
Albertine, a brilliant and rebellious 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone in her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a fugitive who feels instantly protective of her. He takes her to Paris and hides her. Star 1 press allowed
BROTHERS OF THE WIND (FORMERLY THE WAY OF THE EAGLE)
(Austria) Terra Mater Film Studios. 99mins. Dir: Gerardo Olivares, Otmar Penker. Cast: Jean Reno, Manuel Camacho, Tobias Moretti. A bird and a boy — and a flight to freedom.
DEEP DARK
(Cuba) ICAIC — Productora Internacional. 95mins. Dir: Alejandro Gil. Cast: Tomas Cao, Patricio Wood, Caleb Casas, Armando Miguel Gomez. Four men escape an ambush where the enemy never shows his face.
(US) VMI Worldwide. 84mins. Dir: Michael Medgalia. Cast: Sean McGrath, Anne Sorce. A failed sculptor discovers a strange, talking hole in the wall. It has the power to fulfil his wildest dreams… and become his worst nightmare. Gray 5
Palais C
FRESH DRESSED ASTRAGAL
(France) Alfama Films. 97mins. Dir: Brigitte Sy. Cast: Leila Bekhti, Reda Kateb, Esther Garrel. On a night in April 1957,
M
Palais G
I WAS THERE
(US) Media Luna New Films. 86mins. Dir: Jorge Valdes-Iga. Cast: James A Lee, Carl Ford, Sebastian Zurita, CC Loveheart. A 9/11 hero firefighter struggling with survivor’s guilt is forced on a journey of self-discovery by a photographer who took a compromising picture of him inside one of the World Trade Center towers. Riviera 3
MEDITERRANEA
Gray 1
See box, below
THE AMBUSCADE
and graffiti-drenched jackets from the New York discount markets to high fashion’s catwalks and shopping malls all around the world.
(US) Dogwoof. 82mins. Dir: Sacha Jenkins. The fascinating chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion, and the hustle that brought oversized pants
(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. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Palais K priority badges only
RK A D P E E D h
t 12 : 0 0 8 1 Y A M , Y A D N O
5 Y A R G
G22G: E T I U DIN S ES ATTEN A R E XECUTIV , PRESIDENT E I M ELIS RIV ANDRE RELIS@VMIWORLDWIDE.CO AR UTIVE F J.D. BE AU
ES E XECWIDE.COM ILS, SAL@ LD JD VMIWOR
Market 12:00
VMI 1419 WILCOX AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CA 90028 USA PHONE: 323.703.1115 FAX: 323.207.8024 SALES@VMIWORLDWIDE.COM WWW.VMIWORLDWIDE.COM
ALIAS MARIA
(Colombia) 92mins. UDI — Urban Distribution International. Dir: Jose Luis Rugeles Gracia. Cast: Karen Torres, Erik Ruiz, Anderson Gomez,
Carlos Clavijo, Fabio Velasco, Lola Lagos. A vision of Colombia’s inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young – and pregnant – girl soldier. Lerins 2 priority badges only
»
42 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
www.screendaily.com
media luna
market screenings
ABSOLUTION
I WAS THERE
When the truth finally dawns… How to bear the guilt? How to forgive? (Drama)
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)
Screening:
Screening:
Mon 18th, 10:00H (Riviera 3)
Mon 18th, 12:00H (Riviera 3)
THE SNAKE BROTHERS
GUARANI
by Petri Kotwica
by Jan Prusinovsk ˇ y´
by Jorge Valdés-Iga
by Luis Zorraquín
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)
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)
Screening:
Screening:
Mon 18th, 13:30H (Riviera 4)
Mon 18th, 16:00H (Lerins 2)
TALION
THE MUD WOMAN
by Martín Tuta
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)
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)
Screening:
Screening:
Tue 19th, 10:00H (Riviera 1)
Tue 19th, 14:00H (Riviera 1)
SWEET GIRLS
MARINA
by Jean-Paul Cardinaux & Xavier Ruiz
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:
Tue 19th, 15:30H (Lerins 1)
by Stijn Coninx
The international successs about the love story behind a song, which makes the whole world shake and whistle! (Romance/Feeling Good/Drama) @ Cannes Écrans Juniors (In Competition)!
Screenings:
Mon 18th, 14:00H (Le Raimu) Tue 19th, 09:00H (Studio 13) Wed 20th, 09:00H (Alexandre III)
UPCOMING FILMS THE PARADISE THE DUEL OF WINE SUITE by Nicolas Carreras
by Joost van Ginkel
Amsterdam is a mosaic of intertwine destinies. Six touching stories that interconnect and show the deepness of human souls. (Drama) Status: Post Production Expected: June 2015
Visit us!
www.medialuna.biz
Charlie fell from grace as a famous sommelier when he lost his palate. Now his senses are back but not his reputation. How far he can go to gain his reputation back? (Comedy) Status: Post Production Expected: June 2015
media luna new films @ MIF – Riviera D10
Ida Martins • idamartins@medialuna.biz • Stand Phone Nr.: +33 (0) 4 92 99 33 09
SCREENINGS
Entertainment. 94mins. Dir: Christopher N Rowley. Cast: Emily Watson, Ann-Marie Duff, Dominic Monaghan. When 12-year-old Molly Moon finds a mysterious book on hypnotism, she escapes from the orphanage where she lives to pursue her dreams of fame and fortune in London.
OUR FUTURES
(France) Gaumont. 91mins. Dir: Remi Bezancon. Cast: Pierre Rochefort, Pio Marmai. After contacting a childhood friend, a man stuck in the routine of adult life will rediscover the optimism and lightheartedness of his teens. Star 2
QUEEN OF EARTH
(US) The Match Factory. 90mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry. Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston. Catherine has entered a particularly dark period in her life: her father, a famous artist whose affairs she managed, has recently died and on the heels of his death she’s dumped by her boyfriend James. Looking to recuperate, Catherine heads out to her best friend Virginia’s lake house for some much-needed relaxation. However, once Catherine arrives relaxation proves impossible to find. Olympia 5
ROAD GAMES
(UK) SC Films International. 90mins. Dir: Abner Pastoll. Cast: Andrew Simpson, Josephine De La Baume, Frederic Pierrot. The sun-drenched days of summer turn dark and ominous when hitchhiking duo Jack and Veronique become inexplicably entangled with a mysterious married couple and a road-kill collector in rural France. Olympia 4
RUINED HEART
(Philippines) Stray Dogs. 72mins. Dir: Khavn De La Cruz. Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Nathalia Acevedo. Another love story between a criminal and a whore.
Gray 2
MONKEY KING RETURNS
(China) SC Films International. 90mins. Dir: Tian Xiao Peng. Based on a Chinese legend. Charts the story of the once powerful “Monkey King” who breaks free from imprisonment with the help of a young boy to save a besieged village.
13:30 PARTISAN
(Australia) Protagonist Pictures. 98mins. Dir: Ariel Kleiman. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Kolb. Gregori’s eldest child, save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. Riviera 1
STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN
(South Africa) National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa. 96mins. Dir: Jon Savage. Cast: Rob Van Vuuren, Jon Savage, Kurt Darren. A mockumentary comedy about an English-speaking rock band from South Africa trying to break into the profitable Afrikaans music market… without even being able to speak the language. Palais I
Gray 3
SON OF SAUL
(Hungary) Films Distribution. 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
Olympia 9
Market
TORRENTE 5, MISSION EUROVEGAS
(Spain) Filmsharks International. 103mins. Dir: Santiago Segura. Cast: Santiago Segura. Palais E
THE WAKHAN FRONT
(France) Indie Sales. 100mins. Dir: Clement Cogitore. Cast: Jeremie Renier, Kevin Azais.
44 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
Alexander, is like any other kid: playful, curious and naive. He is also a trained assassin. As Alexander approaches his 12th birthday, he begins to question Gregori’s teachings. Olympia 7
Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned to a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. On a dark September night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley. Olympia 8
13:30 ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY
(Denmark) Attraction Distribution. 84mins. Dir: Ask Hasselbalch. Cast: Amalie Kruse Jensen, Marcuz Jess Petersen, Nicolas Bro. Our pint-sized superhero is back, facing greater challenges. His triumph over The Flea has made Antboy hugely popular. But he is now up against a more formidable foe in the shape of the new boy in school, a smooth charmer who is fully intent on luring Ida away. As if this isn’t trouble enough, Antboy also finds himself being haunted; a
brand new supervillain has announced her arrival: the invisible Red Fury. Palais D
THE CULPABLE
(Germany) Pluto Film Distribution Network. 96mins. Dir: Gerd Schneider. Cast: Sebastian Blomberg, Kai Schumann, Jan Messutat, Sandra Borgmann. “Someone is blackening our name. Shit sticks if there’s enough of it!” Catholic minister of a state penitentiary Jakob Voelz would be more than happy to believe this statement as his hieratical colleague and best friend Dominik Bertram is arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse. Yet what Jakob is beginning to suspect but doesn’t want to know becomes a crucial test of his faith. Arcades 3
FRANCIS: PRAY FOR ME
NOT SHORT ON TALENT 4
(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins. Dir: Beda DocampoFeijoo. Cast: Dario Grandinetti. Based on the Pope’s official biography “Francisco, Vida y Revolucion” by Elisabetta Pique.
(Canada) Short Film Corner. 110mins.
Palais B
THE GIRL KING
(Finland) Yellow Affair. 106mins. Dir: Mika Kaurismaki. Cast: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist. The story of one of the most iconic and controversial figures in history.
Palais F
ORIANA…
(Italy) Rai Com. 110mins. Dir: Marco Turco. Cast: Vittoria Puccini, Vinicio Marchioni, Stephane Freiss. A biopic about Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist, author, and interviewer. The underlying theme of the movie is about her thoughts as well as the missed opportunity to be both a frontline reporter and a mother. Palais J
Star 3 invitation only
PARTISAN HAPPY
(France) Wide. 100mins. Dir: Jordan Goldnadel. Cast: Isabel Ryan, Jordan Goldnadel, Vladimir Perrin. A generation breaking free from its upbringing.
See box, above
ROUKLI
(Estonia) Estonian Film Institute. 110mins. Dir: Veiko Ounpuu. Cast: A film about about love, war and something else.
Riviera 2
Lerins 1
(Sweden) Rise And Shine World Sales. 76mins. Dir: Magnus Gertten. Cast: Piotr Gorski, Phillip Jacksson, Bernhard Kempler. Survivors from the German camps tell their stories as they discover themselves in an archive reel shot on April 28, 1945 — the day of their liberation.
I STAY WITH YOU
THAT SUGAR FILM
(Mexico) Stray Dogs. 99mins. Dir: Artemio Narro. Cast: Diego Luna. A bachelorette party gets out of control when four girls decide to kidnap a brooding cowboy.
MOLLY MOON AND THE INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM
(Australia) Metro International Entertainment. 101mins. Dir: Damon Gameau. Cast: Damon Gameau. Damon Gameau becomes a human guinea-pig when he puts himself through a gruelling six-week diet consuming the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day.
Palais H press allowed
(UK) Metro International
Star 4
EVERY FACE HAS A NAME
Gray 4
»
www.screendaily.com
pagina screen-res_Opmaak 1 17-05-15 15:11 Pagina 1
# DRINKS # NL # SATURDAY 16 MAY 1
GUEST LIST
2 1
Rosanna Serigni (Producer / SINTRA), Violeta Bava (Programmer / BAFICI & Director BAL) Tatiana Leite (Producer / Bubbles Project), Ilse Hughan (Producer / Fortuna Films)
2
Ronald Wigman (Lawyer / VWS Advocaten), Petra Goedings (Producer / PhantaVision), Doreen Boonekamp (CEO / Netherlands Film Fonds)
3
4
3
Tobias Pausinger (Programmer / Art:Film, International Film Festival Rotterdam), Gülin Ustun (Head of Meetings on the Bridge, Istanbul Film Festival)
4
Willemien van Aalst (CEO / Netherlands Film Festival), Marnix van Wijk (Publicity Manager / EYE Film Institute Netherlands), Harry Bos (Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris), Matthijs Wouter Knol (Director / European Film Market)
5
6
5
Jacobine van der Vloed (Programmer / Art:Film, International Film Festival Rotterdam), Vanessa Henneman (CEO / Henneman Agency), Lorna Tee (Director / Cinemasia Film Festival), June Wu (Director of Int. Sales & Acquisitions / Ablaze Image)
6
Sandra den Hamer (CEO / EYE Film Institute Netherlands), Marten Rabarts (Head / EYE International, EYE Film Institute Netherlands)
7
8
Nicole Mackey (EVP Int. Sales / Fortissimo Films)
7
Helena Danielson (Producer / Hepp Film), Ido Abram (Deputy Director / EYE Film Institute Netherlands)
8
Gaston Solnicki (Producer, Director), Gerwin Tamsma (Programmer / International Film Festival Rotterdam), Violeta Bava (Programmer / BAFICI & Director BAL), Elia Suleiman (Producer, Director, Actor), Jerômé Paillard (Executive Directer /
9
Marche du Film, Festival de Cannes), Maud Amson (Head of Sales & Operations / Marche du Film, Festival de Cannes)
9
Wieland Speck (Director / Panorama, Berlinale) Sandra den Hamer (CEO / EYE Film Institute Netherlands), Michèle Maheux (Executive Director COO / Toronto International Film Festival)
GermanFilmsSCREENCannesTuesday19May_Screen_107x304 29.04.15 10:38 Seite 1
NEW GERMAN FILMS IN CANNES 2015 TUESDAY, 19 MAY 09:30 h RIVIERA 2
PARCOURS D’AMOUR
Bettina Blümner · 81 min · Sales: filmdelights
………………………………......................... 11:30 h RIVIERA 4
13 MINUTES
Oliver Hirschbiegel · 109 min · Sales: Beta Cinema
………………………………......................... 13:30 h RIVIERA 4 10 BILLION – WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? Valentin Thurn · 103 min · Sales: Autlook Filmsales
………………………………......................... 15:30 h RIVIERA 4
ABOUT A GIRL
Mark Monheim · 104 min · Sales: Global Screen
………………………………......................... 17:30 h RIVIERA 4
SANCTUARY
Marc Brummund · 104 min · Sales: Pluto Film
……………………………….........................
SCREENINGS
THe SNaKe BrOTHerS
(Czech Republic) Media Luna New Films. 111mins. Dir: Jan Prusinovsky. Cast: Krystof Hadek, Matej Hadek, Martin Bonhard. Coming from a dysfunctional family, brothers Cobra and Viper both feel unable to build a life to be satisfied with. Viper, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie, troublemaker brother Cobra.
Ismail Sahin & Oona-Devi Liebich 91 min · Sales: Macchiato Pictures
………………………………......................... 11:30 h RIVIERA 4
PETTING ZOO
Micah Magee · 95 min · Sales: The Match Factory
………………………………......................... 13:30 h RIVIERA 4
WE MONSTERS
Sebastian Ko · 92 min · Sales: Pluto Film
INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE · GERMAN PAVILION · #123 phone +33-(0)4-92 59 01 80 · www.german-films.de
46 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
Lerins 2
LaDYgreY
(France) The Bureau Sales. 109mins. Dir: Alain Choquart. Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Emily Mortimer, Jeremie Renier. A few days in the lives of several characters from different horizons who happen to live in the small town of Ladygrey at the foot of the Drakensberg, South Africa.
eVerY LaST CHILD
(Czech Republic) Czech Film Centre. 115mins. Dir: Tomas Masin. The story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War began a rampage in Wilson City.
(UAE) Cercamon. 83mins. Dir: Tom Roberts. Families and healthcare workers find themselves in the cross-hairs of politics and bloodshed. riviera 3
MaNIeggS : reVeNge OF THe HarD egg
Olympia 6
FaTIMa
(Hungary) Reel Suspects. 90mins. Dir: Zoltan Miklosy, Attila Herko. Cast: Andy Hefler, Marc McMenemy, Patrick Mullownay. A movie for those who know what lies behind stereotypes.
14:00 aFTerIMageS
THe BIrTH OF SaKe
OH NO, NOT RUDY AGAIN!
(US) Radiant Films International. 106mins. Dir: Zachary Sluser. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, John Hawkes. Tale of an unconventional romance. Pierre’s life is saved by a beautiful stranger and their pasts catch up with them in a violent and transcendent finale.
THe WILSON CITY
09:30 h RIVIERA 4
Claudia Boysen · 95 min Sales: Michael Gautsch Filmproduktion
THe DrIFTLeSS area
(UK) Visit Films. 84mins. Dir: Craig Roberts. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Craig Roberts. In a small Welsh town, a teenage outcast becomes the cool kid when an enigmatic American moves in next door and takes him under his wing.
Palais I
WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY
UNSAID
gray 3
JUST JIM
riviera 4
(US) Devilworks. 92mins. Dir: Tony Kern. Cast: Sheena Chan, Pamelyn Chee. First of an anthology of ghost stories about a group of students who burn effigies of cameras for the wandering spirits during ghost month in Singapore.
19:30 h RIVIERA 4
dangerous ex-lover hellbent on revenge.
Palais C press allowed
(US) Film Sales Company. 91mins. Dir: Erik Shirai. Documentary profiling the workers and production seasons at Yoshida Shuzo, a fifth-generation, familyowned sake brewery. Olympia 8
BLOOD OraNge
(UK) Carnaby International. 89mins. Dir: Toby Tobias. Cast: Kacey Barnfield, Iggy Pop, Antonio Magro, Ben Lamb. Set in the hills of southern Spain, home to an ageing rock star, Bill, and his much younger and very beautiful wife, Isabelle. Beneath the perfect surface of their lives, dark secrets lurk. Into this paradise comes Lucas — a
(France) Pyramide International. 79mins. Dir: Philippe Faucon. Cast: Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot. Fatima lives on her own with two daughters to support: 15-year-old Souad, a teenager in revolt, and 18-year-old Nesrine, who is starting medical school. Fatima speaks French poorly and is constantly frustrated by her daily interactions with her daughters. Her pride and joy, they are also a source of worry. To ensure the best possible future for them, she works odd hours as a cleaning woman. One day, she takes a fall. Palais K
greeN rOOM
(US) Westend Films. 95mins. Dir: Jeremy Saulnier. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart.
Olympia 4
gray 5
MY MOTHer
(Italy) Films Distribution. 106mins. Dir: Nanni Moretti. Cast: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Nanni Moretti. 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. riviera 1
MISS HOKUSaI
(Canada) Jinga Films. 82mins. Dir: Bruce Mcdonald. Cast: Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick. Teenage Dora Vogel must survive a Halloween night from hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.
(Japan) Production IG. 90mins. Dir: Keiichi Hara. Cast: Kumiko Aso, Anne Watanabe, Kengo Kora. The untold story of Master Hokusai’s daughter: a lively portrayal of a freespirited, utterly outspoken and highly talented woman unfolding through the changing seasons.
Palais g
Palais e
Olympia 5
HeLLIONS
»
www.screendaily.com
SCREENING TOMORROW TUES 19 MAY - 17:30 Lerins 1
DE WARRENNE PICTURES Stand 20.02 Palais 01
sales@dewarrenne.com
SCREENINGS
PAULINE
(France) Jour2Fete. 88mins. Dir: Emilie Brisavoine. It starts out like a fairytale: there’s a queen, a king and their beautiful children, Pauline, Anais and Guillaume. But it’s actually a bit more complicated. Gray 1
SØRFOND congratulates Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Yared Zeleke with their slots in Un Certain Regard. We are proud contributors. Thank you for having us on board!
GREENERY WILL BLOOM TODAY
Arcades 2 priority badges only
Palais J
(US) HanWay Films. 97mins. Dir: Lisa Immordino Vreeland. An intimate portrait of the life of the art icon. 15:30 AMERICAN HERO
Sørfond funds films from developing countries. Deadline for production support February 2016 Deadline for pitching forum August 15TH 2015
(UK) Protagonist Pictures. 93mins. Dir: Nick Love. Cast: Stephen Dorff, Eddie Griffin. Melvin, a reluctant American superhero, lives only for crime, women and drugs — until he realises that the only way he will ever get to see his estranged son is to go straight. But in a world where no-one understands Melvin’s condition, his incredible powers could ultimately be his demise. Olympia 6
Meet us at Scandinavian Locations Pavilion 217, International Village Pantiero www.sorfond.com
48 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
(Japan) Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV). 110mins. Dir: Shunji Iwai. Cast: Shoko Aida, Yu Aoi, Sei Hiraizumi.
(US) Fortissimo Films. 94mins. Dir: Chloe Zhao. Cast: Irene Bedard, John Reddy, Jashaun St John. A complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT
ANTON CHECKHOV — 1890
(France) Wide. 96mins. Dir: Rene Feret. Cast: Nicolas Giraud, Lolita Chammah, Robinson Stevenin. Anton Chekhov, a humble Russian doctor, writes novels he sells to newspapers to feed his family. As his talent gets noticed by his peers, Chekhov even gains Tolstoy’s admiration. But when his brother dies, Chekhov, remorseful, decides to flee his escalating notoriety and
kidnapper. But suddenly Oskar disappears and Rico has to pluck up all his courage to find his friend. Arcades 3
THE CASE OF HANA AND ALICE
Palais B press allowed
Olympia 2
Lamb, Yared Zeleke
Palais F
SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
14:10
Cemetery of Splendour, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
travels to the penal colony of the Sakhalin Island in Siberia.
(Italy) Rai Com. 80mins. Dir: Ermanno Olmi. Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Alessandro Sperduti, Francesco Formichetti. We are on the north-eastern front, following the last bloody battles of 1917 on the Altopiano. The story unfolds in the space of one night. Everything really happened.
IXCANUL VOLCANO
(Guatemala) Film Factory Entertainment. 90mins. Dir: Jayro Bustamante. Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Justo Lorenzo. Maria is a 17-year-old girl living and working on the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala. A snakebite forces her into the modern world, about which she has dreamt so much. It saves her life, but at too high a cost.
PEACE TO US IN OUR DREAMS
Riviera 4
(Lithuania) NDM. 107mins. Dir: Sharunas Bartas. Cast: Sharunas Bartas, Lora Kmieliauskaite, Ina Marija Bartaite. On a summer day, a man, his daughter and his companion arrive at their country house to spend the weekend. The daughter has just moved in with her father, whose attention she desires. The man is tired of his life, and does not know where to find the strength to carry on living. The woman, a violinist, is confused in her priorities — music, love or career? Despite the fact that the man and the woman love each other, their tense relationship is on the brink of collapse.
THE THIN YELLOW LINE
Olympia 9 priority badges only
(Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. 92mins. Dir: Fariborz Kamkari. Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Medi Meskar, Maud Buquet. An exotic, explosive and tender comedy. Star 3
PRIVATE SCREENING LAST SHIFT
Bac Films. 100mins.
(US) Archstone Distribution. 85mins. Dir: Anthony Diblasi. Cast: Juliana Harkavy, Joshua Mikel, J Larose.
Olympia 3 invitation only
ONE WILD MOMENT
(France) Kinology. 105mins. Dir: Jean-Francois Richet. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Francois Cluzet, Lola Le Lann, Alice Isaaz. Gray 2
THE PROPAGANDA GAME
(Spain) Memento Films International (MFI). 90mins. Dir: Alvaro Longoria. North Korea. One of the last Communist countries in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Practically non-existent information makes it the perfect setting for a propaganda war. Star 4 priority badges only
THE PASTA DETECTIVES
(Germany) Beta Cinema. 96mins. Dir: Neele Leana Vollmar. Cast: Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, Karoline Herfurth. Searching for the owner of a “lost and found macaroni”, the lowly gifted Rico meets the highly gifted Oskar and the two become friends for life. Across Berlin they are after Mr 2000, a notorious
(Mexico) Latido. 90mins. Dir: Celso Garcia. Cast: Damian Alcazar, Joaquin Cosio, Silverio Palacios. The journey of five men who are hired to paint the median line of a road that connects two villages in Mexico. Palais H
WA SHOKU
(Japan) All Rights Entertainment. 107mins. Dir: Junichi Suzuki. Cast: Noritoshi Kanai, Nobu Matsuhisa, Katsuya Uechi. The passionate story behind the men who dedicate their lives to spreading Japan’s traditional cultural cuisine. Riviera 2
16:00 ALL CATS ARE GREY
PIzzA AND DATES
Lerins 1
Palais D
Mackay. Cast: Julia Sarah Stone, Craig Arnold, Kenneth Welsh. Sam is a self-conscious and stubborn 14-year-old girl, finding it difficult to fit in.
SNOW
(Bulgaria) Bulgarian National Film Centre. 80mins. Dir: Ventsislav Vasilev. Cast: Plamen Velikov, Ovanes Torosian, Vladimir Yamnenko. Gray 4
SURFACING
(Canada) Reel Suspects. 98mins. Dir: Lindsay
(Belgium) Be For Films. 85mins. Dir: Savina Dellicour. Cast: Manon Capelle, Bouli Lanners, Anne Coesens. Paul is a detective in his 40s. Dorothy, almost 16, is going through a serious identity crisis. Paul lives on the fringe of Brussels’ self-righteous society, while Dorothy has grown up in its heart. What connects them? Paul knows that he is Dorothy’s biological father. One day she comes knocking at his door. She’s heard he’s a detective and she wants him to help her find her biological father. Riviera 1
THE ANARCHISTS
(France) Wild Bunch. 101mins. Dir: Elie Wajeman. Cast: Tahar Rahim, Adele Exarchopoulos. Nineteenth-century Paris. An ambitious officer finds himself torn between desire and duty when he is charged with infiltrating an anarchist organisation. Olympia 1 press allowed
ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 1
(Portugal) The Match Factory. 125mins. Dir: Miguel Gomes. Cast: Crista Alfaiate,
www.screendaily.com
NN
(Peru) Habanero. 90mins. Dir: Hector Galvez. Cast: Paul Vega, Antonieta Pari, Isabel Gaona, Lucho Caceres. The body of a male who disappeared during the years of political violence is exhumed but nobody claims him. The only clue to his identity is the picture of a smiling girl found in his shirt. Only a blurred photograph, a snap of a time and a memory. Gray 5
OUR LAST TANGO See box, left
PAULINA
Market 16:00 OUR LAST TANGO
(Germany) Wide House. 90mins. Dir: German Kral. Cast: Maria Nieves Rego, Juan Carlos Copes, Adriano Luz, Carloto Cotta. Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country. Olympia 5
BLACK DEATH
(Thailand) Sahamongkolfilm International Co. 100mins. Only the undead survive. Palais I
Pablo Veron. Maria Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes are a couple who are divided by life but united by tango. Palais G
all of mankind, dictating everyone’s upcoming destiny. Celestial tea server Chasuke never misses a chance to catch up on some of the latest chapters, especially those about Yuri, on whom he has a secret crush. But when he discovers that the writers accidentally kill her off, he decides to break the rules and go down to Earth to save her. Olympia 4
BREAKING THE BANK
(UK) The Exchange. 104mins. Dir: Vadim Jean. Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Tasmin Greig, John Michael Higgins. Charles Bunbury is the bumbling, affable chairman of Tuftons, a historic bank based in London. Chairman more in name than in practice, Bunbury married into the position and spends most of his time on the golf course. But when a rogue trader leaves Tuftons skating on thin ice, Charles must transform himself from a labrador of Liverpool Street into the wolf of Wall Street. Palais C
CHASUKE’S JOURNEY
(Japan) Films Boutique. 106mins. Dir: Sabu. Cast: Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Ito Ohno, Ren Osugi. In heaven, scribes are busy writing scenarios for
www.screendaily.com
New Films. 93mins. Dir: Luis Zorraquin. Cast: Emilio Barreto, Jazmin Bogarin. Atilio lives with his granddaughter Iara. When he discovers that Iara’s mother, Helena, is awaiting a son, he decides to go on a long journey. Lerins 2
JOURNEY THROUGH CHINA
(France) Indie Sales. 96mins. Dir: Zoltan Mayer. Cast: Yolande Moreau. Liliane, a provincial nurse in her 50s, is faced with the sudden death of her son in China. She decides to bring his body home. Olympia 8
CHAUTHI KOOT
(India) Elle Driver. 115mins. Dir: Gurvinder Singh. Cast: Harnek Aulakh, Gurpreet Bhangu, Rajbir Kaur. Olympia 2
DUBAI FILM MARKET GOES TO CANNES
(UAE) Dubai Film Market. 110mins. A selection of works-inprogress by Arabic filmmakers.
LAND AND SHADE
(Colombia) Pyramide International. 94mins. Dir: Cesar Augusto Acevedo. Cast: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto, Jose Felipe Cardenas. Star 1
GUARANI
(Argentina) Media Luna
Star 2 press allowed
DXM
(Austria) Terra Mater Film Studios. 97mins. Dir: Andrew Goth. Cast: Sam Neill, Melia Kreiling, Tom Payne. A sub-atomic fight for the subconscious. Gray 1
Arcades 2
THE RISE OF THE KRAYS
(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. Gray 3
WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED
(Australia) Hollywood Classics. 99mins. Dir: Gillian Armstrong. Cast: Darren Gilshenan, Deborah Kennedy, Louis Alexander. The life of Oscar-winning Australian designer OrryKelly, who created costumes for Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman and Natalie Wood. Palais E
MY GOLDEN DAYS
(France) Wild Bunch. 123mins. Dir: Arnaud Desplechin. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Rabourdin, Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet. 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.
Palais K
(Argentina) Versatile. 103mins. Dir: Santiago Mitre. Cast: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martinez, Esteban Lamothe.
17:30 ATOMIC EDEN
(US) Generation X Group. 90mins. Dir: Nico Sentner. Cast: Fred Williamson, Mike Moller, Hazuki Kato, Everett Ray Aponte. A team of mercenaries find themselves in a last stand against an army of Hazmatwearing, trigger-happy madmen during a mysterious mission in Chernobyl.
UKRAINIAN PAVILION #102 AT VILLAGE INTERNATIONAL RIVIERA
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, 16 May, 17:30 Market Screening Palais des Festivals, Palais H CAPTIVITY Ukraine, 2015, 84’ Director: Anatoliy Mateshko Production: Oleksandr Itygilov Production Monday, 18 May, 12:00 Presentation NOW I ‘M GONNA LOVE YOU (Post-production) Director: Roman Shyrman Production: INTERFILM Production Studio, Artizm Ltd. GOOD GAME WELL PLAYED (in Development) Director: Olena Fetisova Production: INTERFILM Production Studio Speakers: Olena Fetisova (Director, Producer), Volodymyr Kozyr (Producer) Tuesday, 19 May, 16:00 Presentation 5th Odessa International Film Festival (Ukraine, Odessa, 10-18 July, 2015) Speakers: Viktoriya Tigipko (President), Julia Sinkevych (Executive producer) Wednesday, 20 May, 12:00 Presentation Ukrainian State Film Agency Completed & Work-in-Progress films Speaker: Pylyp Illienko (Head of Ukrainian State Film Agency) MAKSYM OSA (Production) Director: Ivan Sautkin Production: Pronto Film Speaker: Maksim Asadchiy (Producer) BLUE DRESS (Completed) Director: Igor Minaev Production: Trempel Films Speaker: Yuri Leuta (Producer) THE NEST OF THE TURTLEDOVE (Production) Director: Taras Tkachenko Production: Insightmedia Producing Center THE OCCUPATION (Production) Director: Valeriu Jereghi Production: Insightmedia Producing Center Speaker: Andriy Suyarko (Producer)
Palais D
BAAHUBALI
(India) Arka Mediaworks.
»
May 18, 2015 Screen International at Cannes 49
SCREENINGS
145mins. Dir: Rajamouli Sri Sailasri. Cast: Prabhas Uppalapati, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah Bhatia. A mother chooses an adopted nephew over her own son to be the new king. The young king spurns the throne for love. But treachery and betrayal lead to his vile murder, leaving behind an ostracised wife. Their rescued infant child, raised by tribals, returns to avenge his parents. Palais J
COCONUT THE LITTLE DRAGON
(Germany) Sola Media. 95mins. Dir: Hubert Weiland, Nina Wels. Coconut and his friend Oscar are outsiders on Dragon Island. Coconut is supposed to be a flying dragon but he can’t fly, and Oscar, a carnivore by nature, is a vegetarian by choice. Together with the
porcupine Matilda they go on fabulous adventures. Arcades 3
DEMON HOLE
Shepard, Sean Austin. Follows the deeply personal journey of a handful of characters in interweaving stories.
(US) SC Films International. 90mins. Dir: Josh Crook. Cast: Samantha Scaffidi, Austin Ramsey, Paris Campbell. Don’t frack around.
Olympia 3
Olympia 7
(UK) The Little Film Company. 180mins. Dir: Margaret Williams. Cast: Maxine Peake. Shakespeare’s most iconic play, “Hamlet”, explodes with big ideas and is the ultimate play about loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness.
trying to save his future are bound by a sinister pact.
Lerins 1
Riviera 2
THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON
INNOCENT KILLERS
MON ROI
(Spain) Filmax International. 95mins. Dir: Gonzalo Bendala. Cast: Miguel Angel Sola, Maxi Iglesias, Aura Garrido. A professor torn apart by his past and a student
(France) StudioCanal. 126mins. Dir: Maiwenn. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot.
(UK) Moviehouse Entertainment. 91mins. Dir: Julien Temple.
DIE WINDPOMP
(South Africa) Zenhq Films. 102mins. Dir: Etienne Fourie. Cast: Armand Greyling, Grethe Fox, Ian Roberts. A love story between two young people during their summer at a retirement village. Palais H
DO YOU BELIEVE?
(US) Pure Flix Entertainment. 119mins. Dir: Jonathan M Gunn. Cast: Alexa Pena Vega, Mira Sorvino, Cybill
THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON See box, right
HAMLET
# CANNES # NL # GLOBAL INDUSTRY # Semaine de la Critique
LAND AND SHADE
Market
Arcades 1
XII, accused of not having condemned the Holocaust.
NEVER LET GO
Palais B
(UK) Latitude Films. 93mins. Dir: Howard Ford. Cast: Angela Dixon, Heather Peace, Velibor Topic. A single mother takes the law into her own hands when her child is abducted while on vacation. Olympia 9
NOBODY’S PERFECT
(US) Greta Joanne Entertainment. 94mins. Dir: Derrick Simmons. Cast: Derrick Simmons, Lexi Moeller, Don Wallace. She loves me. He loves me not.
La Tierra y la Sombra (drama, 94’, CO/FR/NL) Dir: César Augusto Acevedo NL Co-prod: Topkapi Films Sales: Pyramide International Festival screenings: Mon May 18, 11:30 Miramar Mon May 18, 17:30 Miramar Mon May 18, 22:30 Miramar Tue May 19, 08:30 Miramar Market screenings: Mon May 18, 16:00 Star 1 Tue May 19, 14:00 Riviera 3 Wed May 20, 15:30 Lerins 1
17:30
THE WOLVES
(Canada) Seville International. 106mins. Dir: Sophie Deraspe. Cast: Evelyne Brochu, Benoit Gouin, Gilbert Sicotte. Elie is a young outsider who arrives on a North Seas island, a place at the mercy of nature’s brute force. It’s the spring thaw, and the men are busy with the annual seal hunt when the mysterious presence of this foreign woman sparks feelings of both curiosity and mistrust.
adv screen-4 10-05-15-res.indd 1
50 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
Star 3
In a desperate attempt to leave the past behind, Nina is wandering along Europe’s motorways. Slowly it becomes clear that Nina’s pain is caused by an ultimate betrayal that has befallen her. Palais F
18:00 BATTLE FOR SEVASTOPOL
(Ukraine, Russia) Loco Films. 120mins. Dir: Sergey Mokritskiy. What made Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a beautiful young woman, pick up a rifle and become one of the deadliest snipers of the Second World War?
Riviera 4
Olympia 8
VILLA NABILA
BLOOD RANSOM
(Malaysia) Creative Content Association Malaysia. 83mins. Dir: Syafiq Yusof. Cast: Pekin Ibrahim, Tisha Shamsir. A teenager’s disappearance in an abandoned house sparks an investigation, which ultimately leads to the discovery of an alltoo-powerful supernatural presence that intends to wreak vengeance.
(US) Devilworks. 101mins. Dir: Francis Dela Torre. Cast: Anne Curtis, Alexander Dreymon, Vanessa Evigan. Crystal, a recently turned vampire, has seven days to kill a human or otherwise die in agony; but the human she’s meant to kill has liberated her from her vampire master and they plan to run away together; him unaware of her condition.
Gray 4
THE RUNNER
(US) Fortitude International. 100mins. Dir: Austin Stark. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen, Sarah Paulson. Portrait of an idealistic but flawed politician forced to confront his dysfunctional past after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal. Olympia 6
Gray 2
SHADES OF TRUTH
# NL
Cast: Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltrey. The extraordinary, yet universal story of the legendary musician.
The Netherlands Pavilion, Village International #112
(US) Condor Pictures. 92mins. Dir: Liana Marabini. Cast: David Wall, Gedeon Burkhard, Jennifer Mischiati. The difficult history of a controversial Pope, Pius
13-05-15 16:37
ZURICH
(Netherlands) Beta Cinema. 89mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry Atsma.
Riviera 1 press allowed
BOMBAY VELVET
(India) Fox Star Studios India. 212mins. Dir: Anurag Kashyap. Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka
www.screendaily.com
Sharma, Karan Johar. The story spans a period from the late 1940s through to the 1970s. “Bombay Velvet” is the story of the rise and fall of one boy, Balraj, who transforms into Karan, a gangster in Mumbai post-independence and on the verge of becoming a metropolis. Palais I
COSMODRAMA
(France) Wide. 110mins. Dir: Philippe Fernandez. Cast: Jackie Berroyer, Anna Mouglalis, Bernard Blancan. The unexpected spaceodyssey. Palais G
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS
(US) Pure Flix Entertainment. 117mins. Dir: Carey Scott. Cast: Stephen Baldwin, David White, Kevin Downes. With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A quarter of a century later, their sons meet as strangers. Gray 1
THE JOURNEY TO HER SMILE
(India) Sucheta Phule Production. 70mins. Dir: Sucheta Phule. Cast: Aastad Kale, Girija Oak, Anahita H. The rise in cases of child abuse and rape in India and worldwide forms the premise and also lends a dark reality to this moving yet gritty tale of Revati. Gray 5
MINA WALKING
(Afghanistan) Minerva Pictures Group. 125mins. Dir: Yosef Baraki. Cast: Farzana Nawabi, Hashmatullah Fanai, Qadir Aryaie. Twelve-year-old Mina cooks, sews, washes and works selling knick-knacks on the war-torn streets of Kabul to feed her neglectful father and senile grandfather. Gray 3
PIETA IN THE TOILET
(Japan) Shochiku Co, Ltd. 120mins. Dir: Daishi Matsunaga. Cast: Yojiro Noda, Hana Sugisaki, Lily Franky, Rie Miyazawa. Palais C
www.screendaily.com
THE LEGENDARY GIULIA AND OTHER MIRACLES
(Italy) Intramovies. 115mins. Dir: Edoardo Leo. Cast: Luca Argentero, Edoardo Leo, Claudio Amendola. Five losers decide to flee the city and open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the countryside. But when a local mobster arrives and asks for protection money, the guys knock him out and lock him in the basement. Riviera 3
THE SANTISO REPORT
(Argentina) Blood Window. 84mins. Dir: Brian Maya. Cast: Leonora Balcarce, Carlos Belloso, viviana Saccone. A superstar reporter goes mad after losing his daughter in an international rescue mission. Upon his release from an asylum, he must get his life back together, including his marriage.
Cruz, Adriano Luz. Tells of how desolation invaded men. Olympia 5
18:30 BAAHUBALI
(India) Arka Mediaworks. 145mins. Dir: Rajamouli Sri Sailasri. Cast: Prabhas Uppalapati, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah Bhatia. Palais J
COUP DE GRACE
(India) Kalinga Tv. 106mins. Dir: Himanshu Khatua. Cast: Gargi Mohanty, Samresh Routray, Priya Mishra. Depicts the struggle of a woman in her political career. Palais E
19:30 HALF BROTHERS
(South Korea) CJ E&M Corporation/CJ Entertainment. 120mins. Dir: Oh Seung-Wook. Cast: Jeon Do-Yeon, Kim Nam-Gil, Park SungWoon. In order to capture a mob enforcer, homicide detective Jung befriends his girlfriend, Hye-kyung, only to fall in love with her.
(Germany) Global Screen. 117mins. Dir: Christian Alvart. Cast: Paul “Sido” Wuerdig, Fahri Yardim, Tedros Teclebrhan. Take three half brothers who have nothing in common, shake them up with some unvarnished truths, send them off on a quest, and what have you got? Long-lost relatives who come to realise that there’s only one thing in life more important than brotherly love, friendship and team spirit: an inheritance.
Lerins 2
Arcades 3
Olympia 4
THE SHAMELESS
WICKED FLYING MONKEYS 3D
(Mexico) Filmsharks International. 80mins. Dir: Alberto Mar. Ozzy is an enthusiastic and friendly flying monkey, son of the legendary Goliath, the brave warrior. They serve Evilene — the wicked witch — just as the rest of their kin do. But Ozzy is not happy about it and when Evilene’s plans put Oz once again in peril, Ozzy reaches out to the “Champions of Oz”. Palais K
18:15
20:00 A LOVE YOU
(France) Europacorp. 90mins. Dir: Paul Lefevre. Cast: Antoine Gouy, Paul Lefevre, Fanny valette. Two buddies embark on a curious journey across the French countryside to find the beautiful stranger one of them met during a night of heavy drinking. Olympia 6
Gene Bervoets, Laura verlinden, Nabil Mallat. Eva Hendrickx, an ambitious young journalist working as part of television legend Herman Verbeeck’s team, is determined to cover a story about riots in the suburbs of Brussels. She meets Lahbib, a Moroccan with a dark past who is her guide to this complex and brutal world. But Herman sees a way to exploit Eva’s story.
VANITY
Gray 5
(Israel) voltage Pictures. 105mins. Dir: Natalie Portman. Cast: Natalie Portman, Makram Khoury, Shira Haas.
TRADING GERMANS
(Romania) Romanian Film Centre. 88mins. Dir: Razvan Georgescu. Cast: Heinz-Gunther Husch, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Klaus Kinkel. An entire ethnic group of 245,000 Germans were traded out of Communist Romania between 1968 and 1989. Palais H press allowed
(Switzerland) Acid. 75mins. Dir: Lionel Baier. Cast: Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgviev. David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He has planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. Arcades 1
20:30 A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS
Olympia 1
RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN
(Japan) Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares. 110mins. Dir: Takeshi Kitano. Cast: Masaomi Kondo, Akira Nakao, Beat Takeshi. Retired former yakuza boss Ryuzo is living a bored life. Together with his former right-hand man, after one too many sake, they come up with the crazy idea of creating a team of old yakuzas — but what started as a joke gradually becomes a confrontation between the old and the young yakusas. Olympia 8
22:30
OLVIDADOS
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
(Bolivia) Cinema Libre International. 112mins. Dir: Carlos Bolado. Cast: Carla Ortiz, Damian Alcazar, Rafael Ferro. Do you dare to remember?
(Belgium) Le Pacte. 113mins. Dir: Jaco van Dormael. Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau.
Palais K press allowed
Arcades 1
“The London Film School provides a vibrant, challenging, intense environment. I will always remember it as a whirlwind of experience and discovery.”
lfs.org.uk
Daina O. Pusic, MA Filmmaking graduate, commissioned by Creative England’s ‘iShorts+ Funny Girls’ 2015
GASSOH
(Japan) Shochiku Co. 87mins. Dir: Tatsuo Kobayashi. Cast: Yuya Yagira, Koji Sato. Gray 4
ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 2
(Portugal) The Match Factory. 132mins. Dir: Miguel Gomes. Cast: Crista Alfaiate, Luisa
IMAGE
(Belgium) Axxons Films. 90Mins. Dir: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah. Cast:
LFS is a Creative Skillset Film Academy
May 18, 2015 Screen International at Cannes 51
★★★
Good
averaGe
Screen inTernaTional
Excellent
Paul byrneS Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Australia
STePhanie zacharek The Village Voice, US
Fabio FerzeTTi Il Messaggero, Italy
jan Schulz-ojala Der Tagesspiegel, Germany
julien GeSTer, didier Peron Liberation, France
michel cimenT Positif, France
kaTe muir, Wendy ide The Times, UK
nick jameS Sight & Sound, UK
The Screen jury aT canneS
★★★★
konG riThdee Bangkok Post, Thailand
Jury Grid
our liTTle SiSTer (Jap) Hirokazu Kore-eda
★★
★★
★★
★★
★★★
★★
★★
★★★★
★★
★★★★
Tale oF TaleS (It-Fr-UK) Matteo Garrone
★★
★★★
✖
★
★
★★★
★★★
★★★
★
★★★
2
The lobSTer (Ire-Gr-FrNeth-UK) Yorgos Lanthimos
★★★
★★★
★
★
★★★
★★
★★★
★★
★★★
★★★
2.4
★★★
★
★★
★★★
★★
★★★★
★★
★★★★
2.8
Son oF Saul (Hung) Laszlo Nemes
★★★★ ★★★
2.5
✖ Bad
Screen office Majestic Barriere, 1st floor, Suites Joy and Alexandre, 10 Boulevard De La Croisette, 06400 Cannes E-mail: firstname.lastname@ screendaily.com (unless stated) editorial Tel +33 4 9706 8457 Editor Matt Mueller News editor Michael Rosser US editor Jeremy Kay (jeremykay67@gmail.com) Asia editor Liz Shackleton (lizshackleton@gmail. com) Chief critic and reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan Chief reporter Andreas Wiseman
my moTher (It-Fr) Nanni Moretti
★★
★★
★★★
★★★
★★★
★★★
★
★★★★
★★
★★★
2.6
The Sea oF TreeS (US) Gus Van Sant
✖
★
★
★
✖
★
✖
★
✖
★
0.6
mon roi (Fr) Maïwenn
★
★★
★
✖
★★
★★
★★★
★
★★
1.6
★★★
3.5
carol (US-UK) Todd Haynes
★★ Average ★ Poor
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★
★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★
Vincent Lindon continues his collaboration with Brizé (Mademoiselle Chambon, A Few Hours Of Spring) with the story
Reporters Melanie Goodfellow (melanie. goodfellow@btinternet.com) Geoffrey Macnab (geoffrey@macnab. demon.co.uk) Diary editor Wendy Mitchell Group head of production and art Mark Mowbray Sub-editors Paul Lindsell, Eva Peaty, Adam Richmond, Chris Young, Richard Young Screenings Kelly Gibbens, Ben Sillis Contributing reporter Tiffany Pritchard
The meaSure oF a man (Fr) Stéphane Brizé
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ guard. of a 50-year-old unemployed man who faces a moral crisis when he finally finds a job as a supermarket security0.0
advertising and publishing Tel +33 4 9706 8495
louder Than bombS (Nor-Fr-Den) Joachim Trier
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 While mounting a retrospective of her work after her death, they must confront their very different memories of her.
Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid play the husband and sons of a late war photographer (Isabelle Huppert).
Commercial director Nadia Romdhani +44 7540 100 315
Sicario (US) Denis Villeneuve
A showcase role for Emily Blunt as an FBI agent who becomes embroiled in a CIA mission to take down the boss of a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Mexican drug cartel. Sicario co-stars Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, who plays a mysterious CIA operative.
0.0
marGueriTe and julien (Fr) Aristocratic siblings Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet (Jérémie Elkaïm and Anaïs Demoustier) have loved each other ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ since childhood. But as their affection veers toward voracious passion, they are hounded by society and are forced to flee. Valérie Donzelli
0.0
Michael Caine is a semi-retired composer on holiday in the Alps with his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and his film director
youTh (It-Switz-Fr-UK) Paolo Sorrentino
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ friend (Harvey Keitel), when he receives a summons to play one final concert for the Queen of England.
mounTainS may deParT (Chi) Jia Zhangke
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ in 1999 to Australia in 2025, with the latter section unfolding in English.
dheePan (Fr) Jacques Audiard
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 asylum in France more solid. But life is also difficult in the slums of Paris, and he will need his warrior’s instinct to survive.
The aSSaSSin (Tai-Chi) Hou Hsiao Hsien
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Taiwanese auteur Hou, who unexpectedly turns his hand to the wuxia action genre. Chang Chen co-stars.
0.0
Zhao Tao and Sylvia Chang star in an unusual departure for Jia, a family drama set over three time periods from China
0.0
A Tamil Tiger in Sri Lanka flees with a makeshift ‘family’ — a woman and a girl — in the hope they will make his claim for
Shu Qi plays an assassin ordered to kill the cousin she loves, in a 9th century Tang Dynasty China brought to life by
0.0
Tim Roth stars in writer-director Franco’s English-language debut as David, a troubled nurse who helps terminally ill
chronic (US-Mex) Michel Franco
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ patients and tries to reconnect with his own estranged family.
valley oF love (Fr) Guillaume Nicloux
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 posthumously by him to Death Valley, California, where he promises to reappear. Despite obvious reservations, they go.
macbeTh (UK) Justin Kurzel
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 crown in the bloodiest-possible manner, urged on by his scheming wife (Marion Cotillard) in Shakespeare’s brutal play.
0.0
Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu play actors who had a son 25 years ago. After his death, they are summoned
Sales manager Scott Benfold + 44 7540 100 315 International account managers Ingrid Hammond +39 348 5165 631 (ingridhammond@mac.com) Gunter Zerbich +44 7540 100 254 VP business development, North America Nigel Daly +1 213 447 5120 (nigeldalymail@gmail.com) US sales and business development executive Nikki Tilmouth +1 323 868 7633 (nikki.screeninternational@gmail.com) Production manager Jonathon Cooke +44 7584 335 148 (jonathon.cooke@mb-insight.com) Production assistant Neil Sinclair (neil.sinclair@mb-insight.com) Festival manager Jessica Stacey +44 7468 707 867 (jessica.stacey@mb-insight.com) Group commercial director Alison Pitchford Chief executive, MBI Conor Dignam Printer Riccobono Imprimeur ZA Les Ferrieres, 83490 Le Muy Screen International, London Zetland House, 5-25 Scrutton Street, London EC2A 4HJ Subscription enquiries Tel +44 1604 828 706 help@subscribe.screendaily.com
General Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) receives a prophecy from three witches and goes about securing the Scottish
52 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2015
www.screendaily.com
PRINCIPAL PARTNERS
FILM DOES ! MATTER MEDIA PARTNER
20 15
01 . OCT– 1 0. OCT