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Dolan world domination BY JEREMY KAY High heels are a Cannes must
Palais entry spiked for women in flats
Seville International has closed a raft of deals here on Xavier Dolan’s upcoming It’s Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde), featuring one of the most prestigious casts of any film in the market. Anick Poirier and Natalie Kampelmacher have licensed rights in Australia (Transmission), Germany (Weltkino), Switzerland (Praesens), Poland (Hagi), South
Korea (Atnine), ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery), Russia (A-One) and Portugal (Alambique). Shooting on the drama, produced by Sons Of Manual and MK2, is expected to begin at the end of May. The film, about a man who returns to the family fold to announce his imminent death, will star Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel.
In the run-up to Cannes, Curzon Artificial Eye licensed the UK, Lucky Red acquired Italy and Pictures Dept took Japan. MK2 will channel the film through Diaphana/MK2 in France. “The interest has been outstanding and speaks to Xavier’s unique position in film and his international appeal,” said Seville International vice-president of international sales Poirier.
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In a bad PR move, a handful of women in their 50s were turned away from the screening of Todd Haynes’ Competition entry Carol on Sunday night after being told the height of their footwear didn’t meet requirements. Multiple guests, some with medical conditions, were denied access for wearing rhinestone flats. The festival declined to comment on the matter, but did confirm it is obligatory for all women to wear high heels to red-carpet screenings. After being criticised for the lack of women film-makers playing at recent Cannes festivals, this year organisers have foregrounded women directors and producers, despite the main Competition including just two female directors. While glamour is an essential part of Cannes’ mystique and fun, the festival might need to rethink its sartorial policies to widen its accessibility.
Nahid sells in LatAm, Europe BY MICHAEL ROSSER
Un Certain Regard title Nahid has been picked up across Europe and Latin America. Noori Pictures has sold Ida Panahandeh’s debut feature to France (Memento Films), Greece (Strada Film), Spain (Caramel Film), Switzerland (Cineworx), Brazil (Tucuman Films) and Colombia (Cineplex). The rights for the UK, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Argentina, Turkey, Chile and Uruguay are under negotiation.
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Sony punches with Bleed BY JEREMY KAY
The Solution Entertainment Group has struck a multi-territory deal here with Sony on Miles Teller starrer Bleed For This following Open Road’s $4m swoop on US rights at the weekend. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions bought the boxing drama for Germany, France, Spain, Benelux, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, Latin America, eastern Europe, Greece and South Africa. Icon has the boxing drama for the UK. Actress Amy Poehler and Disney-Pixar chief John Lasseter at the world premiere of Inside Out, playing here out of competition
Jacir’s father-son tale journeys to Nazareth BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir has revealed details of her next feature, Wajib, about an estranged father and son’s attempts to reconnect. “It’s a dark comedy about the relationship between a father and son, who has just returned home after a long absence,” said Jacir, whose last film was the muchpraised When I Saw You. “It will unfold over the course of one day in Nazareth and be imbued with dark humour.” The film-maker’s long-term collaborator Ossama Bawardi is producing under their joint Philistine Films banner, and actor Saleh
Bakri has signed up to co-star. It is the first time that Jacir, who hails from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, has focused in on the story of Palestinians based within Israeli borders. “The film will also touch on the situation for Palestinians — the economic and social implications of living within Israel,” explained Jacir. Other upcoming projects on the Philistine slate include Dictynna Hood’s forthcoming Trojan Women, a contemporary telling of Euripides’ story and inspired by the plight of women in Syria, where it is set. Hiam Abbass and Amr Waked are in the cast.
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Forecaster predicts feature Finance documentary The Forecaster is set to be adapted into a narrative feature film. Berlin-based Sandor Söth of Intuit Pictures has secured the rights to produce a feature inspired by Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger’s documentary about economic forecaster Martin Armstrong, who the FBI tried to silence. The screenplay is being written by US writer-director Matthew Wilder, who has worked for such film-makers as Oliver Stone. Wilder previously wrote and directed Your Name Here. The Forecaster is currently screening on 52 screens throughout Germany and is being sold internationally by Autlook Film
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Sales, which has secured deals to France (Jupiter), Canada (Blue Ice), Spain (P40), Poland (Against Gravity), Italy (iWonder) and the US (Random Media), among others. In addition, TV sales have been concluded for the Balkans (Al Jazeera), Canada (TVO), Belgium (VRT), Finland (YLE), Israel (DBS) and New Zealand (Rialto). Martin Blaney
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Stray Dogs sniffs out sales By MeLanie GoodfeLLow
Fledgling sales company Stray Dogs has sold Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise, starring Adil Hussain as a detective investigating a series of child abductions over a decade, to Germany’s Rapid Eye. The Paris-based company, which made its Cannes debut this year, has also sealed deals on Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What to Japan (Transformer), Mexico (Axolote Distribucion) and ex-Yugoslavia (2i Films). Company founder Nathan Fischer is also reporting sales on experimental Filipino film-maker Khavn De La Cruz’s Ruined Heart to Taiwan (Flash Forward), Japan (Tokyo New Cinema), the UK (Third Window) and France (Spectrum). Manpower, from Israel’s Noam Kaplan, about a man who reassesses his job as an immigration police officer, has been picked up for the US by Menemsha Films.
Saulter out of the blocks with Sprinter By Geoffrey MacnaB
Some of Jamaica’s fastest runners are to feature in Storm Saulter’s sports drama Sprinter. “I want Sprinter to do for running films what Raging Bull did for the boxing film,” said Saulter, who has worked as a photographer and cinematographer on TV commercials featuring Olympic and World Champion Usain Bolt. “This is about the pressure that kids in Jamaica have to become athletes and, obviously, sprinters,” said producer Don Ranvaud, who has introduced Sprinter here at the market and is planning a series of three films with Saulter. Delivery is set in time for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
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Malaysian film-maker Chiu Keng Guan (The Journey) has kicked off production on football drama Ola Bola for Astro Shaw. The film, scheduled for release over Chinese New Year 2016, is set during the ‘Golden Age’ of Malaysian football in the 1980s and follows a multicultural team fighting for a place at the Asian Games. “It’s inspired by real players and events, but the characters are
fictional as our footballers are revered figures and Malaysians are extremely sensitive about how they are portrayed,” said Najwa Abu Bakar, Astro vice-president, business development. The cast includes Chee Jun Cherng, Eric Teng Shin Wang and Bront Palarae, who recently won the best actor award at the ASEAN International Film Festival for his role in Astro Shaw’s Nova. Directed by Nik Amir Mustapha, Nova also won best film at the festival.
Astro Shaw is also an investor in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery Of Splendour, which is screening in Un Certain Regard. The film arm of the Malaysian pay-TV giant Astro Holdings is also developing an adaptation of Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden Of Evening Mists with HBO Asia. Chiu Keng Guan’s road movie The Journey grossed more than $5m in Malaysia in 2014, making it the highest-grossing domestic production ever.
Buyers head to Luxembourg with Tribe director By MeLanie GoodfeLLow
Paris-based Alpha Violet has secured pre-sales on Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s film noir Luxembourg, set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, to Greece (Danaos) and ex-Yugoslavia (MCF), and is in discussions for Japan and France. The production is due to start shooting entirely in Chernobyl at the end of the year. The director and his creative producer Elena Slaboshpytskaia have already visited the exclusion zone for a shooting recce.
Untöt comes to life for 13 Action horror film Untöt, starring Hayden Christensen, has been sold to multiple territories by 13 Films. Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has taken rights in the UK and Splendid has acquired for Germany and Benelux. 13 Films president Tannaz Anisi also announced further deals with South Korea (Sookie Pictures), Middle East (Eagle Films), Indonesia (Tanweer), Malaysia (Red Pictures) and South Africa (Ster-Kinekor). Video-game producerdirector Kris Renkewitz makes his feature film debut on Untöt and Greg O’Connor of Solaris Entertainment produces. Jeremy Kay
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Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy and producer Elena Slaboshpytskaia on a recce in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone
Dark Sky gathers for horror flick MPI/Dark Sky Films has picked up US rights from Raven Banner to horror anthology Mexico Barbaro. The film has also sold to King Records in Japan and MovieCloud in Taiwan. Raven Banner will distribute in Canada. Jorge Michel Grau, Aaron Soto, Edgar Nito, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Isaac Ezban, Ulises Guzman, Laurette Flores and Lex Ortega contributed to the film, which premiered at Sitges and will play at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Raven Banner’s Michael Paszt and James Fler brokered the deal with Greg Newman of MPI Media. “The boogeyman, trolls, ghosts, creatures, Aztec sacrifices and Day of the Dead... are some of the issues that make up this anthology,” said producer Mayra Castro. Jeremy Kay
caNNes briefs It is Slaboshpytskiy’s second film after The Tribe, which picked up prizes in Critics’ Week last year
and sold to 40 countries. Alpha Violet continues sales on the title, including to Taiwan (Cineplex).
Creative England pushes for change By andreaS wiSeMan
TalentX, Creative England’s platform for development executives across Europe, has set several goals aimed at progressing the sector. In March, more than 40 developers, including film funds, film schools, development labs, training organisations, sales agents, distributors, production companies and film-makers, met at EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam for the inaugural event which explored best practice for talent
development in different markets. In a report published during Cannes, the programme has highlighted six key areas in which the sector can progress: ■ Bridging the gap between public and private sectors ■ Prioritising producers ■ Supporting talent beyond first features ■ Driving diversity and discovery ■ Developing creative teams and communities ■ Taking a fresh approach.
wtf sales of Bunker on fairway By MeLanie GoodfeLLow
Paris-based genre specialist WTF has sold Bunker Of The Dead 3D to the UK (Altitude), Japan (Broadmedia), Russia (Big Movie), Greece (Odeon) and Ger-
many (Wild Bunch Germany, Koch Media). The film centres on two friends, on the hunt for an underground Nazi bunker, who uncover “something crazily evil — and hungry”.
fundamental and europacorp renew deal China’s Fundamental Films has signed a five-year extension to its output deal with Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp and will invest up to $50m into Besson’s Valerian, starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne.
Magnolia goes Golden Magnolia Pictures has picked up all US rights from Wild Bunch to Arnaud Desplechin’s Directors’ Fortnight selection My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse).
SPc bows to truth SPC was last night understood to be paying $6m for US rights to Truth, RatPac Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment’s political thriller with Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett. FilmNation represents international rights. James Vanderbilt makes his directorial debut with the project
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Rome sees market value By MeLanIe GoodFeLLoW
Rome Film Festival has unveiled the International Audiovisual Market (MIA), extending its industry focus from film to TV series, documentaries and video games. The new event, running October 16-20 alongside the festival, will take place in the city’s Baths of Diocletian. “For the first time we will cover all the audiovisual sectors — films, TV, documentary and video games,” said Andrea Occhipinti of Lucky Red. “The focus is on two activities — finished productions and encouraging co-productions involving Italian producers as minority partners,” he added. “In a world where all media is converging and youngsters do not necessarily distinguish between different formats, bringing all the audiovisual sectors together makes absolute sense,” said producer Francesca Cima of Indigo Film. The new market will not have stands but rather will revolve around screenings debates, conferences and workshops and meetings for international coproductions.
BFI funding opens up to co-pro projects
London-based production outfit Scoop Films has attached brothers Danny and David Scheinmann (Believe) to direct their next film After Louise, which is due to shoot this summer. Scoop’s Fiona Gillies, Michael Mueller and Raj Sharma (City Slacker) will produce the darkly comic road movie about a teenage girl who runs out of her wedding and accidentally kidnaps a killer out on licence. Script comes from Mueller. Andreas Wiseman
The BFI Film Fund is opening up its development funding to include co-production projects. The fund, effective immediately, will earmark $390,000 (£250,000) per year of its existing funding towards support for co-productions at the development stage. This allocation of funding builds on the BFI’s decision in early 2013 to allocate up to $1.6m (£1m) a year for minority co-productions at the production stage. The first pro-
ject to see fruition from that funding is The Lobster, which premiered here last week in Competition. “It’s been a great year for coproductions in the UK, from The Lobster to Slow West and Brooklyn,” said BFI head of international Isabel Davis. “Arguably the story at Cannes is the way ambitious UK producers have worked with international talents like Justin Kurzel for Macbeth, Todd Haynes for Carol and Paolo Sorrentino for Youth. It’s great we have The Lob-
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New Los Angeles-based sales and production company BoulderLight Pictures has reported strong sales here on Contracted: Phase II, which screens today in the market. IFC Midnight released the original Contracted and pre-bought the sequel. Deals have closed in the UK, Benelux, Australia and Scandinavia (Primal Screen), Hong Kong (Bravos), Taiwan (Movie Cloud), Japan (New Select) and Malaysia and Vietnam (GSC).
Jordanian producer Rula Nasser has boarded Dogme-style drama Medina, directed by Danish-Palestinian film-maker Omar Shargawi, as producer alongside Nordisk Film Production. Nasser’s production company The Imaginarium Films, was previously line producer on the project, which filmed in Jordan, and has now been set up as a DenmarkJordan co-production. TrustNordisk is handling international sales.
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ster in Competition, it’s the first film out of the trap from our minority co-production fund.” Any UK or European production company can apply for the co-production development funding. To qualify, projects need to have some sort of British creative element such as the mix of talent behind or in front of the camera, and relevant stories. “We are keen to support the UK’s offer as a creative partner,” Davis added.
The project is one of five selected for Dubai Film Market’s ‘DFM Goes to Cannes’ works-inprogress screenings in the Marché. The line-up includes another project produced by Nasser, Rifqi Assaf ’s road movie The Curve, which she co-produced with Egypt’s Film Clinic. Nasser is also in pre-production on Yahya Alabdallah’s Me, Myself And Murdoch, a co-production including French producer Thierry Lenouvel’s Ciné-Sud.
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Film London teases titles for export Film London has revealed a selection of new titles set to premiere at the 12th edition of London Screenings export market (June 22-25). This year’s edition, which is expected to draw hundreds of international and domestic buyers, will host the premieres of Cold War drama Despite The Falling Snow, handled by 6 Sales, riot drama Urban Hymn, sold by Metro International, and zombie thriller The ReZort, represented by Umedia. As well as premiering completed features, London Screenings will also showcase unseen and work-in-progress titles. Michael Rosser
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Louder Than Bombs actors Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert with director Joachim Trier at the photocall for the Competition title, which received its world premiere here last night. See review, page 10.
Dwyer shares her route to Brooklyn By tIFFany PrItchard
Brooklyn producer Finola Dwyer revealed details of the Sundance title’s intricate production and financing structure in an on-stage discussion at the UK Film Centre here in Cannes. Dwyer said the film’s $10m
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(¤9m) budget and three-city shooting schedule forced her to step outside of her comfort zone. “I have never worked on a film like this; it means you have to work with like-minded partners,” said Dwyer. Shot in Ireland, New York and Montreal, the produc-
UK genre sales outfit Devilworks has sold thriller Black Mountain Side to UK distributor 101 Films. The deal was negotiated between Devilworks chief executive Matteo Rolleri and head of acquisitions at 101 Films Steve Davey. Devilworks is debuting the horror in Cannes. Andreas Wiseman
tion had many different financing partners including the Irish Film Board, BBC and the BFI. “There were 13 different finance partners, which meant 13 different lawyers,” Dwyer said. “We had daily phone calls with at least 16 people for the three months of business prep. It was very challenging for all of us.”
to rise over Big Apple By JereMy kay
The 14th New York Asian Film Festival, in partnership with Screen International, will honour Japanese actor Shota Sometani with the International Rising Star Award on July 4. Sometani will attend the event and the New York premiere of Kabukicho Love Hotel with director Ryuichi Hiroki. Sometani, 22, has made a name for himself in his home country with lead roles in films such as Himizu, sharing the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best new young actor with Fumi Nikaido. The latter was the recipient of the International Rising Star Award in 2014. The festival (June 26-July 11) will showcase more than 50 films, most of which will receive their US and North American premieres. It will honour Aaron Kwok with the Star Asia Award. Kwok stars in Port Of Call, which receives its North American premiere. He earned back-to-back Golden Horse best actor awards in 2005 and 2006 for Divergence and After This Our Exile. Other notable premieres include Nobuhiro Yamashita’s La La La At Rock Bottom, Im Soonrye’s The Whistle Blower and the international premiere of Malaysian film Banglasia, directed by Namewee.
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Projects to Czech out on Croisette By Geoffrey MaCnaB
A raft of Czech production companies are here in Cannes with projects including a drama set in Afghanistan. Prague-based Sirena Film is planning to shoot high-end, Afghan-set TV series Nobel from Norwegian director Per-Olav Sorensen (The Heavy Water War) in August. This is a co-production with Norway’s Monster Scripted. Sirena is also partnering with Zentropa on Kristian Levring’s Devil’s Lake, sold by Zentropa, and is in negotiations with HBO to make detective TV series Nearest And Dearest, about missingpersons cases. Negativ has a new feature from festival favourite Bohdan Slama, winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell for Something Like Happiness. Slama’s latest
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project is titled Icy Mother. Axman Production is in Cannes looking to close financing on Czech-US coproduction American Chick from Viktor Taus. Scripted by Evita Nausova, this is the story of a teenage girl from a Czech background growing up as part of an American circus. She is kidnapped by her mother and taken back to eastern Europe where she is locked up in a Communist juvenile institution. Fellow production outfit Endorfilm is in post-production on Olmo Omerzu’s $1.7m Family Film, sold by
Sebastien Chesneau’s new company, Cercamon. The project is a multi-territory co-production involving Slovenia (Arsmedia), Germany (42Film), Slovakia (Punkchart Films), France (Rouge) and Croatia (Studio Dim), and has Eurimages support. Endorfilm is also co-producing She Is A Harbour from Iveta Grofova, the director of Slovak Oscar submission Made In Ash. Meanwhile, Czech producer Jan Macola of Mimesis Film is preparing the ambitious Il Boemo, to be directed by Petr Vaclav. The film is about composer Josef Myslivecek, Mozart’s teacher, who sacrificed everything to be loved and famous but died alone and forgotten. The film is a companion piece to doc Confession Of The Vanished, which Mimesis recently completed.
Circus welcomes classic Brit flicks Park Circus has acquired the Woodfall Library of classic British films. Woodfall was the UK production company founded by Tony Richardson, playwright John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman. The library includes such revered UK films as Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Tom Jones and A Taste Of Honey. “We will now represent internationally for theatrical licensing the Woodfall Films Library,” said Park Circus head of marketing
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VOICES answers with Polish focus By Martin Blaney
Polish cinema will be the focus of VOICES, Russia’s only film festival dedicated specifically to young European cinema. Veteran director Krzysztof Zanussi will come to Vologda to present his latest feature Foreign Body and a personal selection of Polish films.
Originally, the festival’s sixth edition had been cancelled due to the economic and political situation in Russia, but a concerted effort by the festival team, the regional and city administrations, private sponsors and the local audience in the festival’s home of Vologda has meant VOICES will be able to take
place on a more modest level from July 3-6. Russian TV film critic Sergey Sholokhov and Georgian film-maker Nana Djordjadze have already been named as members of the international jury. Past editions turned the spotlight on French, Italian, German, Dutch and UK cinema.
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“I have a predilection for love stories,” says French director Valérie Donzelli ahead of the Competition premiere of her fifth film, Marguerite And Julien, inspired by the true 17th century tale of an incestuous aristocratic brother and sister. The picture is based loosely on an original screenplay by Francois Truffaut’s late screenwriter Jean Gruault, whose credits include Jules Et Jim and The Story Of Adele H. “I wanted to make a film that wasn’t directly inspired by my life, as was the case with most of my
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films in the past. But I wanted to make a film which contained truth nonetheless,” Donzelli says. Her previous works range from the deeply personal Declaration Of
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Lissy Bellaiche, festival consultant for TrustNordisk and previously a long-serving international expert at the Danish Film Institute (DFI), is ready to retire. This festival marks her 36th and final year here. “It has been a fantastic 36 years, but it’s time now,” she says. “It’s time to enjoy my life with my family and see my grandchildren and so on. But I will surely miss it.” When the well-known festival expert told TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis she wanted to step down, she had one request. “I told
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TrustNordisk that I wanted to leave but I wanted to come to Cannes to say goodbye to all my friends. I just didn’t want to disappear,” she says. She has been trying to avoid any big retirement parties because, she says, “if people make speeches I will be too afraid of crying”. Some of her favourite memories in Cannes include “walking
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War, about a couple dealing with their child’s serious illness, which took Critics’ Week by storm in 2011, to Hand In Hand, a fantasy love story about a mismatched couple who literally cannot let go of one another. “Hand In Hand was clearly an invented story; I’ve never been in a situation where I was physically stuck to someone,” says Donzelli. “But the film talks about love, being in a relationship, fusion and separation and how we can’t master love.” The director received a copy of Gruault’s screenplay three years ago for her birthday. “It’s published in book format. I immediately loved it and decided that was what I wanted to do next,” says Donzelli, who adapted the script alongside Gilles Marchand and long-time collaborator Jérémie Elkaïm. The latter co-stars as the tragic figure of Julien de Ravalet opposite Anaïs Demoustier as his sister Marguerite. Donzelli has not pursued a faithful reproduction of the story’s 17th century backdrop. “I didn’t want to do a historical reconstruction and I didn’t research the historical details in any more depth than was in the original script,” Donzelli explains. “It’s a sort of invented past, more like a fairytale than an exact historical backdrop.”
the Croisette in 1980 and seeing all the big American film stars; it was like a dream”. She also remembers being “naïve” but brave when she started at the DFI and Cannes had not had a Danish film in Competition since the times of Carl Theodor Dreyer. “So I just called Gilles Jacob’s office and I invited him to Copenhagen to watch our fantastic films. My colleagues said, ‘You’re crazy, he’ll never travel here.’ “He came and I thought, ‘Shit! What am I going to show him?’ But I was following everyone at the film school and I knew this guy whose work I liked — Lars von Trier — who had made The Element Of Crime.” Her ambition paid off, and the film was shown in Competition in 1984.
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Q&a Alice Winocour wanted to show that women can do anything these days. They are not confined to certain types of films. The film is on the frontier between action and horror, inspired by the home-invasion horror genre.
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Action horror thriller Disorder (aka Maryland ), directed by Alice Winocour and starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger, screens in Un Certain Regard and is sold by Indie Sales. Schoenaerts plays an army veteran who takes a job in the south of France as a security guard for the family of a wealthy businessman. Along the way his psychological nightmares become reality. Winocour’s debut Augustine premiered in Critics’ Week in 2012. How did the project come about? I became fascinated with what it meant to return to civilian life, having spent time in a war zone, close to death. I met French soldiers who had been in Afghanistan who spoke to me about their fears, nightmares and the outbursts of violence they sometimes experienced on their return, or what we call posttraumatic stress syndrome. The film is radically different from Augustine. I wanted to explore a territory that is usually reserved for men — that of genre pictures — and I
How did you get Matthias Schoenaerts involved? I wrote the character of Vincent for Matthias. I wanted him on board from the beginning. For me, he was the only actor who could play the character, in that he has this sort of animality, a physical side that means he is authentic as an ex-soldier. At the same time, the character is borderline in terms of his behaviour; unbalanced and violent. He knew he had to immerse himself — he slept two hours a night during the shoot. On another level, I also wanted to do what men do with women, film a man as an object of desire, even though his character has more depth than that. You also have a co-writing credit on Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang, which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight. How did you get involved in that film? We were both at La Fémis together but we actually met at the Cannes L’Atelier when I was financing Augustine and she had another project. We started to discuss projects and ended up co-writing the film. It’s about a group of girls who try to emancipate themselves from their conservative families. Melanie Goodfellow
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Louder Than Bombs Reviewed by Dan Fainaru In what can only be described as the smoothest of transitions, Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s English-language debut finds him on top form, completely at ease with the language and using to great effect the same subtle approach and lively visual grammar perfected in his two earlier films, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st. His story about the husband and two sons of a celebrated war photographer who try to find common ground three years after her death in a traffic accident is richly detailed, sensitively played and cleverly mounted. An upcoming exhibition of the work of war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) reunites her husband Gene (Gabriel Byrne) with older son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), a teacher whose wife has just given birth to their first child. Then there’s 15-year-old Conrad (Devin Druid), a moody, solitary, introverted high-school student filled with pent-up anger and mistrust. To examine the relationships in a dysfunctional family, the script moves constantly back and forth in time and includes one or two brief dream sequences. Points of view are frequently switched, voiceovers sometimes complement and sometimes counterpoint the image and so much is bubbling under the surface that it is easy to be distracted by the rich cinematic language and forget what the picture is about.
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COMpETITION Nor-Fr-Den. 2015. 109mins Director Joachim Trier Production companies Motlys, Memento Films, Nimbus Film International sales Memento Films, info@ memento-films.com Producers Thomas Robsahm, Joshua Astrachan, Albert Berger, Ron Yerka, Marc Turtlebaum, Alexandre Mallet-Guy Screenplay Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt Cinematography Jakob Ihre Editor Olivier Bugge Coutté Production design Molly Hughes Music Ola Flottum Cast Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn, Rachel Brosnahan, Ruby Jerins
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But Trier uses these techniques to capture a much fuller image of each character and their relationships with each other, examining them from different perspectives and allowing the viewer to reach a much richer portrait of each individual. Gene, for instance, is the doting father who now desperately wants to communicate with his sons but may have missed opportunities he had in the past. He is also the husband who never openly opposed his wife’s dangerous career but never forgave her for it either — he couldn’t live with the frustration of never having her at home and the anguish of knowing she might not return. Isabelle herself, with all her deep affection for her family, can’t help her addiction to her job. But she is disturbed by the ethics of her profession and conscious that her frequent and long absences from home have turned her into an onlooker every time she returns. The fact her death may not have been an accident but a suicide is stated early on. Jonah knows this but has other issues that preoccupy him. Though he should now be a fully responsible adult with a young family of his own, the birth of his child has thrown him out of kilter and he is trying to regain his equilibrium. Conrad is immersed in the dark troubles of adolescence, yearning for a mother he misses and nursing his jaundiced view of the whole world in general and his father in particular, interpreting Gene’s concern as an attempt to infringe on his freedom. Towards the end, the film loses some of its initial impetus and begins to be preoccupied with finding the best possible solution to wrap up the plot. Still, Conrad’s encounter with the
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girl he secretly adores and their long walk home through the deserted streets at night is one of the film’s more touching moments. Writing with Eskil Vogt, just as he did for his first two films, Trier has made a deceptively complicated film that relies to a great extent on working with the same technical team that has been there since the beginning. This includes cinematographer Jakob Ihre and editor Olivier Bugge Coutté, who has tied a collection of puzzle pieces into one coherent picture. The cast deserves full credit. Gabriel Byrne’s character is soulful and sincere but he is not always the most admirable or determined person. Isabelle Huppert offers one of her least self-conscious performances as the sunburned, weather-beaten photographer who doesn’t mind looking her age. Devin Druid carries Conrad with all the rebellious spirit required, and David Strathairn offers a remarkable cameo as Isabelle’s former colleague who is about to write a revealing piece about her.
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The Measure Of A Man Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson An unflinching look at deteriorating working — and non-working — conditions for the common man and woman in contemporary France, The Measure Of A Man (La Loi Du Marché) has the disquieting ring of truth. Vincent Lindon, in his third collaboration with Stéphane Brizé, is the only trained actor in the cast. Thirty or so non-actors, performing roles close to their genuine professions, add an often heartbreaking note to this account of an honest 51-year-old factory worker who has been laid off. While putting profit before people has long been the trend in many an industrial nation, the brutal downturn in the French labour market is a more recent development. What may appear to be — literally — business as usual to viewers beyond France can still raise shocked and empathetic eyebrows for local audiences. The Measure Of A Man may be downbeat but, as with the Dardenne brothers or Ken Loach, it’s not boring. There’s plenty of violence — but ‘only’ the verbal and emotional kind. The film starts with Thierry Taugourdeau (Lindon) respectfully, but with escalating exasperation, telling an unemployment counsellor that he has just wasted four months doing a paid internship in a field where nobody is hir-
Cowboys Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson A sweeping yet intimate saga with enough incidents and twists to approximate a season’s worth of box-set binge-viewing, Cowboys packs a wallop. The directing debut of screenwriter Thomas Bidegain (Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, Rust And Bone and Cannes Competition title Dheepan) follows the repercussions (over roughly 15 years) after a 16-year-old girl vanishes one autumn night in 1995. With its low-key yet consistently suspenseful look at the ways in which traditional French and Islamic-Arabic culture intersect, this is an exciting debut in every sense of the word. The film’s very first, arresting image is of a man seen from the back as he beholds cascading waterfalls across a river in the heart of a forest. This gorgeous, near-mystical prelude somewhere in eastern France plants subtly the idea that we humans can control only so much of our environment. There’s not a particle of unease when the Balland family suit up in western gear for an outing to an Americana fair, complete with mechanical bulls, lots of US flags and country and western tunes performed live, including by patriarch Alain (frequent funnyman Francois Damiens, excellent in serious mode). The setting and
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COMPETITION Fr. 2015. 93mins Director stéphane Brizé Production companies Nord-Ouest Films, Arte France Cinéma International sales MK2, victoire.thevenin@ mk2.com Producers Christophe Rossignon, Philip Boeffard Screenplay stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce Cinematography Eric Dumont Editor Anne Klotz Production design Valérie saradjian Main cast Vincent Lindon, Yves Ory, Karine Petit de Mirbeck, Matthieu schaller, Xavier Mathieu, Catherine saint-Bonnet, Roland Thomin
DIRECTORs’ FORTNIGHT Fr-Bel. 2015. 114mins Director Thomas Bidegain Production company Les Productions du Trésor International sales Pathé International, muriel.sauzay@pathe. com Producer Alain Attal Screenplay Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré Cinematography Arnaud Potier Editor Géraldine Mangenot Production design Thierry Rouxel Music Raphael Main cast Francois Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, John C Reilly, Ellora Torchia, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Iliana Zabeth
ing. We can tell from the extended, documentary-style sequence that Thierry is a reasonable man without a shred of self-pity. A sequence with former co-workers shows they were laid off for bogus “economic reasons” from a firm that was turning a profit. They could go to a labour court and might even win. But pragmatic Thierry is only interested in getting back into the workforce. He is a loving father to his heavily disabled son (Matthieu Schaller) and does not relent in his job search, except to enjoy family meals or take community centre dance lessons with his wife (Karine Petit de Mirbeck). Brizé hired documentary cameraman Eric Dumont who has never before shot a fiction film and gave him a free hand, with the understanding that Thierry be the centre of the story. Interactions seem to take place in real time,
whether they be at the bank, or face-to-face with presumed shoplifters once Thierry finally gets a job as a mall store security guard, a good hour into the proceedings. This may be his last chance for a steady job. But Thierry finds it increasingly difficult to damp down his conscience. The suspense lies in whether he will manage to express himself in tiny but essential increments or take another path. Lindon has a wide range as an actor, from mass market comedies to physically challenging crime drama to socially conscious fare such as Welcome, but he often embodies an ordinary man in challenging circumstances. His performance here is rock solid. Thierry Taugourdeau is a character who lingers in the mind’s eye.
gung-ho activities are as charmingly peculiar as if a bunch of ranchers in Colorado decided to wear berets, clasp baguettes and sing Edith Piaf medleys. Alain dances with his daughter Kelly (Iliana Zabeth), enjoying the festivities with her, his wife and their son, fancifully named Kid. But when it’s time to head home, Kelly is nowhere to be found. Talking to her classmates, Alain learns that Kelly has a boyfriend named Ahmed who is 18. A search of Kelly’s bedroom turns up strange-looking tracts and notebooks in which Kelly has been practising words and phrases in, of all things, Arabic. Ahmed’s father, who runs a garage, pronounces these tracts as religious-themed propaganda “the bearded guys” spout, dismissing such nonsense as of no possible interest to his
son, who has also now vanished. Alain starts looking for his daughter and never gives up. A tight-lipped government official takes an interest in the case. Kelly’s taciturn younger brother Kid is a cute cipher when his sister disappears. Years later (now played by Finnegan Oldfield), Kid accompanies his obsessed father, following leads to Belgium, Holland, Yemen and beyond. Alain’s once-flourishing professional life and solid marriage have fallen away in his unrelenting quest. It’s classic gumshoe work in sometimes scary settings and Alain’s only ally is Kid. Names appear in large letters on screen as we meet — or hear of — various characters. A red bandana and a pistol left in inexperienced hands for safekeeping advance the search in unconventional ways, as the notorious terror attacks in New York, then Madrid, then London, mark the passing years. Kid ends up working in humanitarian aid, where he crosses paths with “The American,” a shady operator played by John C Reilly, complete with camels in tow. This wide-ranging story is never hard to follow. Bidegain and Noé Debré’s screenplay fashions familiar genre elements into an ambitious, original story that’s satisfyingly complex. By sometimes confounding and sometimes reinforcing expectations, the film posits that ethnic stereotypes are a minefield and that parents of all ideological persuasions love their children.
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The Brand New Testament Reviewed by Charles Gant Jaco Van Dormael has never lacked for inspired invention, but sustaining audience interest in the worlds he creates has not always proved so easy. Now with the consistently playful, often delightful and frequently funny God fantasy The Brand New Testament, the Belgian auteur delivers his most substantially enjoyable film since 1991’s Toto The Hero. His first full screenwriting collaboration on a feature — with Thomas Gunzig — signals a creative resuscitation for Van Dormael, who rather tried audiences’ patience with his last film, 2009’s ambitious, overloaded Mr Nobody. Congregations will likely respond strongly to The Brand New Testament’s inspired “what if?” scenario: God (Benoit Poelvoorde), it turns out, lives among us, or at least in a Brussels threebedroom apartment, with his unnamed goddess wife (Yolande Moreau) and 10-year-old daughter Ea (a well-chosen Pili Groyne). In this universe, God isn’t so much benign or vengeful, but more a heartless bastard who enjoys nothing more than heaping vexations large and small on the species he created in his own image. Perpetually attired in a grey T-shirt and ratty dressing gown, he’s an obnoxious bully to his wife and daughter — that’s when he’s not busy locked in his office, smoking, boozing and
dIRECToRS’ FoRTNIGhT Bel-Fr-Lux. 2015. 113mins Director Jaco Van dormael Production companies Terra Incognita Films, Climax Films, Apres Le deluge International sales Le Pacte, sales@ le-pacte.com Producers olivier Rausin, daniel Marquet, Jaco Van dormael Screenplay Jaco Van dormael, Thomas Gunzig Cinematography Christophe Beaucarne Editor hervé de Luze Production design Sylvie olivé Music An Pierlé Main cast Benoit Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Pili Groyne, Catherine deneuve, Francois damiens, Marco Lorenzini
inflicting misery on mankind via his vintage desktop computer. After God takes a belt to his daughter, who has never been allowed outside the family home, Ea solicits advice from a her long-lost brother ‘JC’ (a kitsch statuette of Jesus Christ that comes briefly to life) and enacts an ingenious revenge on her father. Hacking into his hard drive, she sends a text message to the mobile phone of every human advising them of the exact date of their death, crashes the computer to rob God of any power to cause more mischief, and then breaks out of the apartment prison via a secret portal at the back of the family’s washing machine. After such a strong set-up, sustaining the momentum and comic energy was always going to be a tough ask, and the pacing does sag as Ea hooks up with a homeless bum (Marco Lorenzini), and then recruits six more apostles to contribute fresh chapters for the titular Bible update. Some of these characters — which include a sex addict, a killer and a sickly boy — register more vividly than others, but best of all is the hautebourgeois lady (Catherine Deneuve) who, ignored by her businessman husband and with only five years left on her clock, enjoys an assignation with a young rentboy and then finds a more enduring romantic pairing with the gorilla she purchases from a local circus. Deneuve, it is now abundantly clear, is game for anything.
Laughs reliably return every time the film cuts to the travails of God, who follows Ea through the portal (which his browbeaten wife immediately seals behind him), and is mistaken for a paperless illegal immigrant. His selfish nature repels anyone who tries to help, and the indignities pile up. A ratty-faced Poelvoorde is excellent in the role, brilliantly capturing the exasperation of a man who is entirely to blame for his own misfortune. As might be expected with Van Dormael, tech credits are very proficient, with Sylvie Olivé’s production design a particular standout.
Green Room Reviewed by Tim Grierson Green Room lacks the mournful poetry and thematic depth of writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s previous feature, Blue Ruin, but this nasty B-movie thriller delivers where it counts: in blood, body count and dark laughs. The grimly compelling tale of a punk band fighting for their lives after being trapped inside a club run by violent white supremacists, Green Room makes no apologies about its desire to cater to the midnight-movie crowd, and Saulnier certainly has the chops, flaunting a taut, cheeky assurance. Returning to Directors’ Fortnight two years after Blue Ruin premiered there, Saulnier may not enjoy the same glowing reviews for this gruesome follow-up, but Green Room boasts a much starrier cast, including Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and a change-of-pace turn from Patrick Stewart. A film that would have easily been part of the midnight programming at Sundance or Toronto, Green Room will probably be only a modest theatrical performer, although it could do robust VoD business. The story concerns the misadventures of a punk band known as the Ain’t Rights, including sensitive bassist Pat (Yelchin). During a last-
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dIRECToRS’ FoRTNIGhT US. 2015. 95mins Director-screenplay Jeremy Saulnier Production companies Broad Green Pictures, Filmscience International sales WestEnd Films, nadine@ westendfilms.com Producers Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Victor Moyers Cinematography Sean Porter Editor Julia Bloch Production design Ryan Warren Smith Music Brooke Blair, Will Blair Main cast Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Eric Edelstein, Macon Blair, Kai Lennox, Patrick Stewart
minute gig at a roadhouse in the middle of the Oregon woods, Pat stumbles on a murder committed by one of the patrons. The Ain’t Rights were worried enough about playing for an audience of tough-looking Neo-Nazis: now, they are trapped in the club’s green room as the skinheads, led by the stoic Darcy (Stewart), decide how best to dispose of them. Saulnier’s revenge drama Blue Ruin was a crafty mixture of pulp suspense and meditative character study, but Green Room returns him somewhat to the temperament of his little-seen 2007 horror satire Murder Party, about an innocent man lured to a party where the hosts kill off the attendees. Like Murder Party, Green Room seeks only to unleash bloody, hardcore
genre thrills, although thankfully Saulnier’s technical prowess and storytelling skill have evolved greatly since that amateurish outing. Green Room’s characters aren’t particularly well-drawn, but they’re memorable enough to anchor the claustrophobic narrative. Mostly, the lead actors’ job is to be scared and sympathetic, and Yelchin does fine work as the softspoken bassist who becomes the default leader once the showdown with the skinheads begins. The main disappointment among the ensemble is Stewart. He is convincing as a calmly lethal white supremacist who is coolly pragmatic about how best to kill these kids and keep it quiet. But there’s a certain expectation that an actor with such gravitas will bring complexity and extra layers of malice to the role, and Darcy just isn’t interesting enough, leaving Stewart with little to do. Although Green Room doesn’t leave viewers with as much to ponder as Blue Ruin did, Saulnier does sneak in some wry jokes about the so-called “authenticity” of punk rock and even lingers on a touching image of a ferocious dog gently resting its head on its dead master’s body. There may not be a lot of depth to Green Room, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t sufficient thought and care.
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helped pave the way for other productions looking to film here.” Now gearing up to shoot its second series at Wardpark Studios, a converted factory outside Glasgow comprising 135,000 sq ft of production space and four soundstages, Outlander’s continued presence is, according to producer and British Film Commission chair Iain Smith, a positive indicator the business and infrastructure in Scotland is growing. “What has changed for the better is that there’s a clear will at political as well as administrative level for a clear strategy and a desire to compete effectively,” he says. The cabinet secretary for culture, Europe and external affairs, Fiona Hyslop, has reaffirmed that desire, stating: “The Scottish Government and its agencies are committed to working together to continue to create the conditions that enable our screen sector to flourish.” The Scottish industry received a further boost last year with the appointment of a dedicated director of film and media at Creative Scotland in the form of Natalie Usher, who joined the Scottish development agency last May from entertainment law firm Lee &
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Thompson. “We want to signal to the UK and international marketplace that Scotland is committed to increasing film, high-end TV and animation production, and that it has a screen agency with an experienced, focused team dedicated to achieving that growth,” says Usher, whose first job in the post has been to produce Creative Scotland On Screen, a film strategy encompassing the entire screen sector. “Now it’s about making sure we don’t just talk about doing things — we actually do them,” adds Usher, who has already implemented a $3m (£2m) film, high-end TV and animation tax credit advance facility that provides loan funding to qualifying productions in Scotland and introduced a new $1.5m (£1m) Screen Skills Fund for Scotland in April 2015. Creative Scotland currently offers $6.1m (£4m) of direct support for film and high-end TV drama production through its Film Fund, which is open to both Scottish and international productions and has no tick-box application system (qualifying productions must instead promote Scotland, support Scottish talent and benefit the economy). The criteria and guidance for this Lottery fund
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have recently been reviewed and revised in order to make the funding more accessible, and a ‘locked box’ scheme, similar to the BFI’s, will enable Scotland-based producers to access a pool of recouped income that Creative Scotland will reinvest in their future film-making activities. The agency offers additional funding for location recces as well as a free and confidential locations service that provides support to producers looking to shoot in Scotland, including a detailed budget breakdown service and access to a regularly updated database of potential locations and build space. Usher’s next priority is to make the case for an inward investment fund, which she hopes will enable Scotland to compete on the same basis as the other nations and regions in the UK. Completing the puzzle Negotiations are also underway for the missing piece in the jigsaw: a significant permanent studio facility in Scotland aimed at housing large-scale productions, which has been the subject of much recent discussion. Creative Scotland has ring-fenced $1.5m (£1m) towards the cost of the studio, which looks set to be a public-private partnership, boosted by a $3m (£2m) loan from the Scottish Government. “A proposal is currently being considered, which we hope will deliver a film studio for Scotland soon,” says Usher, who is determined to make it happen and keen to ensure that when the studio does arrive, it will service both large-scale international productions and the local production community. “We want to see an increase in the number of Scottish productions.” What Scotland currently lacks in dedicated facilities, it makes up for in alternative build space options and varied locations. As well as Wardpark Studios, Scotland boasts the OKI building in Cumbernauld, which comprises 80,000 sq ft of space, with a further 40,000
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sq ft each of workshop space and wraparound offices. Information on additional studio and build space is updated regularly and made available to film-makers. The focus is not solely on large-scale production; Scotland offers production and build space for all budgets and provides professional facilities as far north and remote as Stornoway and Skye, as well as a healthy portfolio of successful and established companies in Glasgow, Edinburgh and across the central belt. Edinburgh offers a wide variety of backdrops and has provided locations for The Railway Man, Filth, Castles In The Sky, Cloud
‘There is a political and administrative will in Scotland for a clear strategy, and a desire to compete’ Iain Smith, British Film Commission
Atlas and Sunshine On Leith, while Glasgow has doubled for San Francisco (Cloud Atlas) and Philadelphia (World War Z) thanks to its wide streets and grid layout. Glasgow continues to justify its reputation as one of the world’s most film-friendly cities, with a further sweetener in the fact incoming productions based in Glasgow are eligible for a grant from the city’s Film Office. Terence Davies shot his latest feature Sunset Song, an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel about the daughter of a Scottish farmer, in Aberdeenshire last year. “It was important to Terence that the film was shot in Scotland in order to stay true to the story, even if we did have to pop over to New Zealand to find a bountiful wheatfield on a sunny day in February,” explains the film’s executive producer Bob Last. “The welcome from the local community made it a pleasure to work there with skilled and talented Scottish crew complementing our great cast.” When it comes to depth of crew, Scotland punches above its weight according to Outlander’s first assistant director Nick HeckstallSmith, whose credits include Skyfall and Under The Skin. “I love working up here,” he says. “You can crew a job across the board, from the top through to the bottom. There is no-one lacking.” As part of the UK, incoming productions can benefit from the UK’s generous film and TV tax incentives. The UK Film Tax Credit was increased in April to 25% for films of all budget levels. Says Usher: “People really want to come to Scotland and Outlander has proved that large-scale productions can establish themselves here. “We’ve got the UK tax incentives, we’ve got fantastic crews, extraordinary and unique locations, and a real commitment to making Scotland a fantastic offering for both international and local productions. It’s an exciting place to be.” »
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rom Paul Wright to David Mackenzie, Scott Graham to Lynne Ramsay, Scottish film-makers continue to make waves internationally. The recent crop of films that has brought critical acclaim and commercial success includes Sunshine On Leith, For Those In Peril, Starred Up, Under The Skin and ’71. Scotland’s craft and technical talent are also riding high, with Emmys in 2014 for Sheena Wichary’s costume design on HBO’s Game Of Thrones and Neville Kidd for his cinematography on Sherlock. This year will see the release of more hot Scottish projects, including Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut The Legend Of Barney Thomson, starring Emma Thompson (see sidebar, right). “There are so many brilliantly talented people in Scotland,” says Margaret Matheson, who produced former Screen Star of Tomorrow Scott Graham’s second feature Iona (see sidebar, right). “Now, the key thing is to support emerging film-makers.” Generation skill As well as launching the new $1.5m (£1m) Screen Sector Skills Fund in April aimed at training up the next generation of Scottish film-makers, Creative Scotland encourages incoming productions to take on trainees during shoots. Sony and Starz’s Outlander, for example, engaged 37 trainees across its craft and technical departments, while six trainees were given the opportunity to work on Iona last year. “In partnership with sector training agencies, we work with producers to provide trainee positions on every production we support,” explains Ross McKenzie, who leads film talent development for Crea-
Talent burns bright How Scotland is finding and nurturing emerging film-makers tive Scotland. “We want to make sure we are continually developing the local industry.” Last year saw the launch of Scottish Film Talent Network (SFTN), a $680,000 (£450,000) initiative to help new film-makers make the progression from shorts to first feature, through four programmes: New Talent Shorts, Emerging Talent Shorts, First Feature Development and Professional Development (for film-makers wanting to attend overseas development programmes such as TIFF’s Talent Lab). Backed by the BFI’s NET.WORK initiative, Creative Scotland and Creative Skillset, SFTN is led by Claudia Yusef, who previously worked for London-based production and management outfit 42. “This is the first time Scotland has had someone focused entirely on new and emerging film-making talent, which shows a real commitment to supporting the next generation of Scottish film-makers,” says Yusef. Last month, SFTN announced six short films commissioned as part of its New Talent Scottish Shorts initiative, which sees 14 teams of film-makers going through an intensive development process. Among the projects selected were Duncan Nicoll’s dark rites-ofpassage drama Crowman and Chris Watt’s zombie animation Dave. “It’s not just about
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those six films that get made, it’s also about the other eight teams and how we can offer them support by building up their networks,” says Yusef. “I don’t think there is only one type of Scottish film-maker emerging and that’s a good thing.” Among the local film-makers to benefit from SFTN support are Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson, the duo behind Baftanominated and Scottish Bafta-winning short animation Monkey Love Experiments, which was funded through Creative Scotland’s Scottish Shorts programme. The pair are now being supported by SFTN’s first feature development programme for Dom, a hybrid animation/drama/documentary about escaping reality. “Scotland feels like a really positive place to be,” says Henderson, pointing to a thriving animation scene in Edinburgh. “We are in a studio complex where there are four or five talented animators.” Scotland is also training up the next wave of documentary film-makers through the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI), which is run through the Edinburgh College of Art. SDI helps film-makers make the leap from graduation to first commission and provides both production and distribution support through its production arm, SDI Productions.
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Projects being developed through SDI include a documentary about Scottish cyclist David Millar and the story of a group of Rolls-Royce workers in East Kilbride who refused to work on bombers belonging to General Pinochet’s regime. Flying high A rising star is writer-director Paul Fegan, whose first feature documentary, Where You’re Meant To Be, is being executive produced through SDI, with funding from Creative Scotland and the Glasgow Cultural Programme Open Fund. The film follows singer Aidan Moffat as he travels around Scotland, performing new versions of old Scottish songs. Fegan, who started out as a music promoter, made his first short, Pouters (about the Scottish sport of doo fleein’ or pigeon flying), through SDI’s Bridging the Gap scheme. “I had no formal training and had never studied film, I just put an idea forward and [SDI] selected it,” says Fegan. “Everyone is judged on their own merit.”
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ScottiSh filmS in the Spotlight the biggest challenge was filming 155 scenes in 30 days. “I’m proud we were able to pull that off,” says the actordirector, describing his film — which is being distributed in the UK by Icon Film Distribution — as a dark Coen brothersinspired comedy with a Glasgow edge. “A lot of people will probably assume I would direct a kitchen sink type drama, but this is going to make people smile.”
Macbeth
With its stunning coastline and jagged rock formations, the Scottish island of Skye provided the perfect backdrop for Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth, which is screening in Competition in Cannes. “Shooting in Skye was essential to bringing a spirit to Macbeth that we would never have got anywhere else,” says Kurzel, who describes the landscape on the island as “muscular, brutal and breathtakingly beautiful”. “Scotland delivered the soul to our film and the heart to its tragedy. Creative Scotland allowed us to bring Macbeth home to its place of origin,” adds Kurzel. “My mother and grandparents are Scottish so I had a personal interest in making a project in Scotland,” says Iain Canning, who produced through his SeeSaw Films, picking up funding from Film4 and Creative Scotland. The film’s location manager Eugene Strange, who also scouted Scottish settings for Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin, was awestruck by Skye’s “almost prehistoric” beauty. “Scotland is my favourite place in the UK to work,” he says. “There’s a majesty and scale that you don’t get anywhere else.” 16 Years Till Summer
Developed through the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI), Lou McLoughlan’s feature 16 Years Till Summer received its world premiere last month at Visions du Réel. “It’s a strange feeling when people come up to you in the bar and tell you that they love your film,” McLoughlan
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says. “But it’s a typical human story, which I think is why people relate to it.” Focusing on a man who returns to his Highlands village after 16 years in prison, the feature came on the back of McLoughlan’s short Caring For Calum, which she made while taking a postgraduate course in documentary film-making at Edinburgh College of Art. Winner of a Bafta Scotland New Talent Award and having set up her own production company, Loumclou Films, McLoughlan is now developing a hybrid fiction/documentary feature and continues to be inspired by the Scottish landscape. “If you like to make films with a real sense of time, there’s nowhere nicer than the open spaces of the Highlands,” she says.
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For Glasgow-born Robert Carlyle, making his directorial debut in his home city was a trip down memory lane. “We filmed in the Saracen Head pub, in the Barrowland Ballroom, where I’ve seen so many gigs, and the Shawfield greyhound stadium where I spent years going with my father. It was a real journey into my past life,” says Carlyle, who also stars in the story of a Glaswegian barber living at home with his mother (Emma Thompson) whose mediocre life takes a turn when he enters the comically absurd world of a serial killer. Co-produced by Scotland’s Sigma Films and Canada’s Trinity Works, Carlyle’s film shot in Glasgow last June. “I’d recommend anyone to come to Glasgow,” says Carlyle, for whom
“Distinctive, committed, collaborative,” is how producer Margaret Matheson describes rising Scottish writer-director Scott Graham, whose first feature Shell secured him an Outstanding Debut Bafta nomination. Graham is now back with his second feature, which was shot on the Scottish islands of Iona and Mull last autumn. A UK-Germany co-production, Iona centres on a young woman (Ruth Negga) and her teenage son (Ben Gallagher) who seek refuge from a violent crime among a religious community on the Scottish island where she was born. On Iona, the crew borrowed bikes to cycle to set, before going on to shoot in the Glasgow area of Neilston. “Glasgow is a genuinely film-friendly city,” says Matheson, who produced Iona through her London-based outfit Bard Entertainments and regularly works in Scotland. “It’s a big city but small enough that you can have a coherent single policy,” says the producer, adding that the production was also “incredibly well served by the island of Iona”.
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The lives of Bebeth, Larry and Erwin intertwine after the super-typhoon Haiyan, which changed the city of Tacloban to its horrendous state. The breathing figures are left in search of the dead ones, of keeping their sanity intact and protecting what little faith there may be.
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08:30 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. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. Seventeen years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family. Critics’ Week Miramar
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14:15 MUCH LOVED
Festival & Press 11:30 MARGUERITE AND JULIEN
(France) 105mins. Dir: Valerie Donzelli. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Jeremie Elkaim. An aristocratic brother
MEDITERRANEA
and sister embrace passion and hope as they flee from society. A timeless story of desire, love and death beyond all morality. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
SICARIO
(US) 121mins. Dir: Denis Villeneuve. Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber. In the lawless border area stretching between the US and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is exposed to the brutal world of international drug trafficking by members of a government task force who have enlisted her in their plan to take out a Mexican cartel boss. Competition press 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 Salle Bunuel
09:00 MUSTANG
(France) 94mins. Dir: Deniz Gamze Erguven. Cast: Gunes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu. In a remote Turkish village, five vivacious girls led by the youngest — rebellious 13-yearold Lale — grow out of childhood in a family obsessed with tradition and, specifically, the girls’ virtue. A magnificent and poignant tale of tension between past and present in modern Turkey. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00 ALIAS MARIA
(Colombia) 92mins. 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
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pregnant — girl soldier. Un Certain Regard press Theatre Claude Debussy
OFFICE
(South Korea) 108mins. Dir: Hong Won-Chan. Cast: Ko A-Sung, Park Sung-Woong, Seong-Woo Bae. A hard-working manager murders his family and sneaks into an office building. A fierce dog-eatdog mentality of peers at work is unveiled. Out of Competition press Salle Bunuel
11:30
(Italy) 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. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs. Critics’ Week Miramar
11:45 SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
(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.
(US) 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. Explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Competition Salle du Soixantieme
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MARGUERITE AND JULIEN See box, above
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
13:00 JINGI NAKI TATAKAI
(Japan) 109mins. Dir: Kinji Fukasaku. Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko. Classic 1970s yakuza film. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
13:30 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 Isabelle Reed brings her husband and their two sons together for the first time in years. When an unsettling secret resurfaces, the three men are forced to look at each other and themselves in a new light, redefining their innermost needs and desires. Competition Salle du Soixantieme
14:00 TAKLUB
(Philippines) 97mins. Dir: Brillante Mendoza. Cast: Nora Aunor, Julio Diaz, Aaron Riviera, Rome Mallari, Lou Veloso.
(France) 108mins. Dir: Nabil Ayouch. Cast: Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima Karaouane, Sara Elmhamdi Elalaoui. Marrakech today. Noha, Randa, Soukaina and Hlima live a life of “love for sale”. They’re whores, objects of desire, flashes of flesh. In the heat of the night money flows freely, to the rhythms of pleasures and humiliations suffered. But united in their womanhood, they’re queens of their kingdom. Full of light, dignity and joy, they manage to keep their spirits and dreams alive. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
15:00 SICARIO
(US) 121mins. Dir: Denis Villeneuve. Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
15:30 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, a handsome soldier with » no family visitors. Jen www.screendaily.com
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befriends young medium Keng, who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen’s tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.
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09:15 AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS
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HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
(US) 85mins. Dir: Kent Jones. Documentary about Truffaut’s legendary book on Hitchcock and its impact. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
16:00 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 Salle du Soixantieme
16:30
Festival & Press 19:00 SICARIO
(US) 121mins. Dir: Denis Villeneuve. Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber. In the lawless border area stretching between the US and Mexico, an idealistic
FBI agent is exposed to the brutal world of international drug trafficking by members of a government task force who have enlisted her in their plan to take out a Mexican cartel boss. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
MASAAN
(India) 103mins. Dir: Neeraj Ghaywan. Cast: Richa Chadda, Sanjai Mishra, Pankaj Tripathi, Sweta Tripathi, Vicky Kaushal. Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love; a daughter ridden with guilt of a tragic sexual encounter; a father’s fading morality over a ransom; and a spirited child yearning for a family, longing to escape the moral constructs of a small town. Un Certain Regard press Theatre Claude Debussy
17:00 MEDITERRANEA
(Italy) 107mins. Dir: Jonas Carpignano. Cast: Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy, Mary Elizabeth Innocent. Critics’ Week Miramar
MUSTANG
(France) 94mins. Dir: Deniz Gamze Erguven. Cast: Gunes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
17:45 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 Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
19:00 MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART
(China) 135mins. Dir: Jia Zhangke. Cast: Zhao Tao, Yi Zhang, Sylvia Chang, Zijian Dong, Sanming Han, Jin Dong Liang. From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of three individuals in a society changing at breakneck speed. Competition press Theatre Claude Debussy
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19:15 INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS
(US) 114mins. Dir: Stig Bjorkman. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rossellini. A personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of Hollywood actress Ingrid Bergman. Cannes Classics Salle du Soixantieme
SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
(US) 94mins. Dir: Chloe Zhao. Cast: Irene Bedard, John Reddy, Jashaun St John. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
19:30 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.
OFFICE
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21:00
(South Korea) 108mins. Dir: Hong Won-Chan. Cast: Ko A-Sung, Park Sung-Woong, Bae SeongWoo.
22:00
JOE HILL
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(Sweden) 110mins. Dir: Bo Wideberg. Cast: Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave. A unionist goes on trial for murder.
(Italy) 107mins. Dir: Jonas Carpignano. Cast: Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy, Mary Elizabeth Innocent.
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21:15 MORE
(France) 115mins. Dir: Barbet Schroeder. Cast: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grunberg. Stefan, a German student, hitchhikes to Paris. He forms a friendship with Charlie, a cardshark and conman who soon drags Stefan into his schemes. One evening at a party, Stefan falls madly in love with Estelle. She leaves Paris and a week later he goes to join her in Ibiza. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
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Critics’ Week Miramar
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART
(China) 135mins. Dir: Jia Zhangke. Cast: Zhao Tao, Yi Zhang, Sylvia Chang, Zijian Dong, Sanming Han, Jin Dong Liang. From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusionment of three individuals in a fastchanging society. Competition press Salle Bazin
22:15 MARGUERITE AND JULIEN
(France) 105mins. Dir: Valerie Donzelli. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Jeremie Elkaim. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
MUCH LOVED
(France) 108mins. Dir: Nabil Ayouch. Cast: Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima Karaouane, Sara Elmhamdi Elalaoui.
TAKLUB
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(Philippines) 97mins. Dir: Brillante Mendoza. Cast: Nora Aunor, Julio Diaz, Aaron Riviera, Rome Mallari, Lou Veloso.
(Portugal) Alfama Films. 122mins. Dir: Hugo Vieira Da Silva. Cast: Nuno Lopes, Ivo Alexandre, Jose Manuel Mendes. At the end of the 19th century, two young Portuguese settlers disembark for a remote part of the Congo to manage a trading outpost. As time goes by, they both are increasingly demoralised by their failed attempts to find gold and to civilise the locals. Once they’ve locked themselves up in their outpost the descent to the abyss begins. Arcades 1 press allowed
FAMILY RELICS
(Bulgaria) Bulgarian National Film Center. 120mins. Dir: Ivan Cherkelov. Cast: Jana Karaivanova, Andrey Andreev, Blaje Dimitrov. Three, at first glance, independent, stories following three situations developing simultaneously within a few days. They gradually reveal the connections between the members of a family and, at the same time, the disintegrated human communication between the characters — husbands and wives, brothers, parents, children. Palais B
09:30 AN ITALIAN NAME
(Italy) Films Distribution. 94mins. Dir: Francesca Archibugi. Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio. The extrovert Paolo and the beautiful Simona are expecting a baby. At a dinner with Betta and Sandro — the refined and literate couple — and Claudio, the eccentric musician, one question will lead to an argument that will shake up the night: the name of Paolo and Simona’s son? Lerins 1
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the age of six to 16 as he goes through the juvenile justice system, and the tireless efforts of a judge and a counsellor to save him.
BY SIDNEY LUMET
(US) Cinephil. 103mins. Dir: Nancy Buirski. Cast: Sidney Lumet. Riviera 4
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(US) Boulderlight Pictures. 80mins. Dir: Josh Forbes. Cast: Matt Mercer. Picking up right after the events of the first film, this sequel takes everything to the next level. Riley will stop at nothing to confront BJ as the virus tears through him — and the city at large.
10:00 A PERFECT DAY
(Spain) Westend Films. 105mins. Dir: Fernando Leon De Aranoa. Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Melanie Thierry, Fedja Stukan. A group of aid workers try to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.
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HACKER
(US) Electric Entertainment. 105mins. Dir: Akan Satayev. Cast: Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold. Alex, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, moves to Toronto in search of greater opportunities and a better life. A young Alex takes refuge in his computer and over the years becomes a very capable coder. He eventually uses his computer skills to join up with an online criminal organisation called DarkWeb.
Market 09:30 DARE TO BE WILD
(Ireland) Radiant Films International. 96mins. Dir: Vivienne De Courcy. Cast: Emma Greenwell, Tom Hughes. The real-life story of an
interests anymore. All that changes when they take two much younger women on board who join them on their tour. Gray 4
JOURNEY TO THE SHORE
(France) Kinology. 80mins. Dir: Cyrille Barbancon, Andy Byatt.
(Japan) MK2. 128mins. Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Eri Kukatsu, Tadanobu Asano. A love story that challenges our usual conceptions of life, death and half-life.
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PARCOURS D’AMOUR
(US) Premium Films. 94mins. Dir: Bernard Tanguy. Cast: Sophie Verbeeck, Dinara Drukarova, Anne Serra, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus Raphael is 50-something and in a rut. Without telling his wife, he buys a sailboat and convinces his childhood friend Patrick, an eternal teenager, and Alain, a hypochondriac, to go on a tour of the Mediterranean Sea with him. Holidays just like in the old days! The three friends however soon notice that they are not as fit as they used to be and don’t really share the same
(Germany) Filmdelights. 81mins. Dir: Bettina Blumner. Cast: Bettina Blumner. How many rounds do you have to spin on the dancefloor until all your dreams come true? Eugene, Gino, Christiane and their friends are already past their prime. They meet daily in Paris’ dimly lit dance clubs. There they express their desire for living a full life in togetherness through dancing.
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Irish country girl who takes on the wealthiest of British high society in a world-renowned flower show — bringing her spirited, offbeat style into the traditionally conservative competition. Gray 2
International. 89mins. Dir: Andrew Cividino. Cast: Jackson Martin, Reece Moffett, Nick Serino. Teenager Adam is spending his summer vacation with his parents on rugged Lake Superior. His dull routine is shattered when he befriends Riley and Nate, cousins who pass their ample free time with debauchery and reckless cliff jumping. The revelation of a hurtful secret triggers Adam to set in motion irreversible events that test the bonds of friendship and change the boys forever.
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THE MAN IN THE WALL
(Germany) Autlook Filmsales. 92mins. Dir: Norbert Heitker.
(Israel) 6 Sales. 92mins. Dir: Evgeny Ruman. Cast: Tamar Alkan, Gilad Kahana, Eli Gornstein. One night. One apartment. One missing person.
(India) Euramco Pictures. 108mins. Dir: Pavan Kaul. Cast: Victor Banerji, Leonidas Gulaptis. The true-life story of a seeker who found the answer.
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PIONEER HEROES
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
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YOU’RE UGLY TOO
(Ireland) Picture Tree International. 81mins. Dir: Mark Noonan. Cast: Aidan Gillen, Lauren Kinsella, George Pistereanu. Will is released from prison on compassionate leave to care for his niece, Stacey, after the death of her mother. As they both head into the sleepy Irish midlands and attempt to be a family, they suffer a series of setbacks. As Stacey’s future hangs in the balance and Will must reckon with his own demons they search for a new way forward together. 09:45 CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR
SLEEPING GIANT
(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 save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
(Canada) Seville
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(Belgium) Le Pacte. 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. Arcades 2 priority badges only
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(Thailand) The Match Factory. 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, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng.
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(Russia) Alpha Violet. 116mins. Dir: Natalya Kudryashova. Cast: Daria Moroz, Aleksei Mitin, Varya Shablakova, Natalya Kudryashova. 1987. Olga, Katya and Andrey are going to be pioneers. Upholding Soviet ideology, the kids dream of becoming heroes. They are going to be the last “Pioneers of the USSR”. Now in their 30s, they face another reality with no place for heroic deeds.
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(UK) Carey Films. 112mins. Dir: Owen Carey Jones. Cast: Angelique Joan. Secret family relationships confuse and mislead as special investigator Carter Jefferson follows a twisting international trail to the French Riviera to track down an illicit source of synthetic diamonds. Palais E
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(France) Elle Driver. 120mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Benoit Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Parodot. The story of Malony from
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(Japan) Open Sesame Co. 89mins. Dir: Kenichi Omori. Cast: Miyu Honda, Tamao Nakamura, Nene Otsuka. Chiaki, whose father died suddenly, arrived at a tiny flat with her mother. The aged landlady told young Chiaki that “she delivers letters to the dead” and the connection with her helps Chiaki to get over her father’s death. Seventeen years later, Chiaki is informed of the landlady’s death. »
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Giraffes. 97mins. Dir: Kaan Mujdeci. Cast: Dogan Izci. Eleven-year-old schoolboy Aslan saves an injured sheepdog named Sivas, a fighting dog that was left for dead after losing a brutal match. He then tries to use Sivas to impress his classmates, in particular the girl he likes, and even sets up an amateur fight with another boy’s dog.
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(Spain) Deaplaneta. 110mins. Dir: Carlos Sedes. Cast: Charlotte Vega, Ivana Baquero, Alex Maruny. Valeria is new in town. Together with other students from school counsellor meetings they create The Misfits Club — where she’ll find friendship and love. Palais I
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(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins. Dir: Ariel Winograd. Cast: Diego Peretti, Maribel Verdu. After four years separated, Gabriel is now exclusively devoted to his little daughter Sofia. The arrival of Vicky, a beautiful woman and a true believer in the No Kids movement, shakes up his lethargic love life and, in order to keep the relationship afloat, Gabriel decides to keep his daughter a secret.
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(Austria) Terra Mater Film Studios. 99mins. Dir: Gerardo Olivares,
it’s time to recover the family memories and images of their daily life, snatched away during the coup.
Group. 90mins. Dir: Renato De Maria. A choral fresco on the trail of the greatest exponents of Italian crime.
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people, and two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of ancestral knowledge.
(Netherlands) EYE — Film Institute Netherlands. 112Mins. Dir: Diederick Koopal. Cast: Martijn Fischer, Hadewych Minis. The extraordinary life of folk singer Andre Hazes.
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Otmar Penker. Cast: Jean Reno, Manuel Camacho, Tobias Moretti. A bird and a boy — and a flight to freedom.
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(Japan) Wild Bunch. 128mins. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose. When three young women invite their shy teenage half-sister to live with them, a new life of joyful discovery begins for all four siblings.
(Chile) Media Luna New Films Ug. 85mins. Dir: Martin Tuta. Cast: Viviana Rodriguez, Alejandro Trejo, Tiago Correa. When justice uses a mask, is it justice?
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PHAnToM BoY
(France) Doc & Film International. 80mins. Dir: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicie. Cast: Audrey Tautou, JeanPierre Marielle. Leo, an 11-year-old boy from New York, is a phantom boy: he can become invisible and fly through walls. He befriends Alex, a police officer temporarily stuck in a wheelchair. Alex was hurt by a mysterious gangster threatening the city with a dangerous computer virus. Together they form an extraordinary duo, with Leo in the air and Alex on the ground. Riviera 3
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(Germany) Beta Cinema. 108mins. Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel. Cast: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schuttler, Burghart Klaussner, Johann Von Bulow. A stunning, emotional portrait of the resistance fighter who tried to assassinate Hitler in the Munich Burgerbraukeller on November 8, 1939.
Marche Du Film. 110mins.
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(US) Submarine Entertainment. 70mins. Dir: James Crump. Cast: Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson. Unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. gray 3
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(Colombia) Films Boutique. 122mins. Dir: Ciro Guerra. Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Luigi Sciamanna. A tale of the first encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, lifetranscending friendship between an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his
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(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, she believes that
(France) Short Film Corner. 110mins.
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(US) Cinephil. 92mins. Dir: Laura NIX, The Yes Men. For two decades, the Yes Men have pulled off spectacular media hoaxes to expose corporate crimes. Now they are approaching middle age, struggling to stay inspired in their fight against climate change. Can they get it together before the ice caps melt?
(Mexico) The Open Reel. 90mins. Dir: Fernando Urdapilleta. Cast: Dana Karvelas, Jorge Arriaga, Mauricio Isaac. To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams.
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(Switzerland) Wide. 90mins. Dir: Stina Werenfels. Cast: Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily, Lars Eidinger, Urs Jucker. The sexual awakening of a mentally disabled girl.
(US) Protagonist Pictures. 91mins. Dir: Andrew Droz Palermo. Cast: Kiernan Schipka, Timothee Chalamet, Grant Bowler. Siblings Zac and Eva possess a supernatural means of escape from their oppressive home life, but struggle with their secret when their mother falls gravely ill.
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(US) Golden Ceiba Productions. 90mins. Dir: Guillermo Ivan Duenas. Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Paul Calderon, Guillermo Ivan Duenas. After years of missed opportunities, criticism, and bad first impressions, three less-than-talented NYC actors take fate into their own hands when they devise a half-baked theatrical “siege” in order to prove they have what it takes.
(New Zealand) Rise And Shine World Sales. 93mins. Dir: Gareth Bryn Evans. Thirty senior citizens from New Zealand prepare for the World Hip-Hop Dance Championship in Las Vegas.
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(US) Film And Business Law. 82mins. Dir: Monica Richardson. Cast: Meghan Maureen McDonough, Andre Sogliuzzo. Exposes the murky underbelly of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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(Japan) Augment5. 40mins. Dir: Yasuhito Tsuge.
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A MOTHER
(France) Les Films Du Losange. 95mins. Dir: Christine Carriere. Cast: Mathilde Seigner, Kacey Mottet Klein, Pierfrancesco Favino. Marie is an ordinary woman with a strong personality. She lives alone with her son, a withdrawn and often violent adolescent. They clash incessantly and even uncontrollably. However, one day, thanks to the little love that remains between them, they decide to opt for life. Riviera 1
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(Japan) MK2. 113mins. Dir: Naomi Kawase. Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida. Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis — pastries filled with sweet red bean paste. When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen
he reluctantly accepts. But Tokue proves to have magic in her hands. Riviera 3 priority badges only
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(France) Alfama Films. 103mins. Dir: Andrzej Zulawski. Cast: Jonathan Genet, Sabine Azema, Jean-Francois Balmer. Witold, a law student, decides to escape from the city in order to study for his exams. On his way he meets the young Fuchs, who was recently fired, and both want to live and see other things in the distant countryside. They land at the family home of a retired couple, living with their beautiful daughter Lena and their maid. Arcades 2
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(France) StudioCanal. 97mins. Dir: Jean-Pierre Ameris. Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira. Olympia 4
THE FENCER
(Finland) The Little Film Company. 95mins. Dir: Klaus Haro. Cast: Mart Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere. While escaping from the Russian secret police, an ambitious young Estonian fencer finds himself teaching children in a remote small town. Lerins 2
HONEY NIGHT
(Macedonia) Macedonian Film Agency. 89mins. Dir: Ivo Trajkov. Cast: Nikola Ristanovski, Verica Nedeska. Skopje, on the night of the national holiday of the recently independent Republic of Macedonia, and the wedding anniversary of deputy minister Nikola and his wife Anna. Returning home from a gala reception, they start to experience their biggest marriage crisis yet. Anna starts a quarrel as Nikola has forgotten their
anniversary and is obsessed with a political scandal and the arrest of a minister. Palais E
LONG WAY NORTH
(France) UDI — Urban Distribution International. 81mins. Dir: Remi Chaye. An epic journey across history, from Saint Petersburg to the Far North.
after 20 months of unemployment — Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. Star 2 priority badges only
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(Denmark) Wide House. 75mins. Dir: Jannik Splidsboel. In some places love equals courage. Palais G
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THE RECORD MAN MAN UP
(UK) Studiocanal. 88mins. Dir: Ben Palmer. Cast: Simon Pegg, Lake Bell. A romantic comedy about taking chances and rolling with the consequences. One night, two people, on a first date like no other. Olympia 5
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(France) MK2. 93mins. Dir: Stephane Brize. Cast: Vincent Lindon. At the age of 51 — and
(US) Submarine Entertainment. 110mins. Dir: Mark Moormann. Cast: Henry Stone, KC And The Sunshine Band, James Brown. Before there was a music business there was Henry Stone, The Record Man. From distributing records out of his ’48 Packard to establishing TK Records as the largest independent label of the 1970s, Henry had an ear for hits. Gray 3
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(US) Film Sales Company. 88mins. Dir: Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman. A freedom fighter who used stories as weapons: meet Ousmane Sembene, the father of African cinema. Olympia 8
EL PATRON, RADIOGRAFIA DE UN CRIMEN
(Argentina) Habanero. 98mins. Dir: Sebastian Schindel. Cast: German De Silva, Guillermo Pfening, Joaquin Furriel. How much exploitation can a man take? Gray 5
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(Macedonia) Macedonian Film Agency. 90mins. Dir: Darijan Pejovski. Cast: Irena Ristic, Kamka Tocinovski. A psychological thriller that deals with the
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implications of domestic and sexual violence. Jana and Marika meet on a train and quickly become friends. They go to the countryside, a remote mountain area that holds a lot of secrets about Jana’s past. The time moves slowly and anxiously, and the doubts as to their true intentions grow stronger. One by one, the secrets unravel.
THE CLUB
(Chile) Funny Balloons. 98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro. Four men live together in a secluded house in a small seaside town. Each of them has been sent to this place to purge sins from the past. They live according to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker, when the fragile stability of their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth man, a newly disgraced companion, bringing with him the past they thought they had left behind.
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(Germany) Autlook Filmsales. 102mins. Dir: Valentin Thurn. By 2050, the world’s population will grow to 10 billion people. In the middle of the heated debate about food security comes this broad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of global food production and distribution — from artificial meat, insects and industrial farming to trendy self-cultivation. Riviera 4
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Centro Nacional Autonomo De Cinematografia. 90mins. Dir: Carlos Caridad Montero. Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true. Including destroying her own family. “3 Beauties” is an unsettling dark comedy about Venezuela’s national obsession: its beauty queens and cosmetic surgery. Palais G
LE COMBAT ORDINAIRE
(France) Films Distribution. 105mins. Dir: Laurent Tuel. Cast: Nicolas Duvauchelle. Olympia 6
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(France) Elle Driver. 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
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Suonpaa, Joel Hirvonen, Mari Rantasila, Matti Onnismaa, Pyry Laakso. A story about love, robots and bodybuilding.
(Finland) Reel Suspects. 98mins. Dir: Teemu Nikki, Rami Rusinen. Cast: Milka
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of gunshots that break out just in front of the salon.
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Verica Nedeska.
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(Germany) Doc & Film International. 100mins. Dir: Katja Von Garnier. Cast: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs. After 50 years on stages all around the world, The Scorpions decided in 2010 it was time to say goodbye to the rock-star lifestyle and to embark on one last music tour. Palais H
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(France) Ecce Films. 86mins. Dir: Benoit Forgeard. Cast: Philippe Katerine, Olivier Rabourdin, Alka Balbir. France, 2020. The president gathers a crisis team of spindoctors to raise his popularity, after the fiasco of his “sing along austerity” campaign. Gray 4
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(Macedonia) Macedonian Film Agency. 89mins. Dir: Ivo Trajkov. Cast: Nikola Ristanovski,
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Diego Peretti, Pablo Echarri, Pablo Rago, Diego Torres. When El Mono dies, his three longtime friends try to recover from the loss and want to secure his little girl’s future. But for Fernando, Mauricio and El Ruso this will not be easy. They decide to recover a big investment El Mono had made when he had bought a soccer player who was supposed to become a star.
(Trinidad & Tobago) Stray Dogs. 100mins. Dir: Damian Marcano. Cast: Darren Cheewah, Zion Henry, Simon Junior John. Welcome to Port of Spain, the murder capital of the Caribbean, where the pimps, pushers and prostitutes keep the city’s heartbeat pumping every day.
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(Canada) Short Film Corner. 110mins.
SISKA DELUXE
(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.
however, her ex-husband has granted her that right on the condition she doesn’t remarry. Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones, she has to think about the third option: temporary marriage (Sighe). However, this puts her in a predicament. Despite being legal, Sighe is not well-received by society. Palais D
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(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 2
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(Iran) Noori Pictures. 105mins. Dir: Ida Panahandeh. Cast: Sareh Bayat, Navid Mohammad Zadeh, Pouria Rahimi. A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city in Iran falls in love with a man who wants to marry her. According to the current rules the father has the custody of children;
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(Spain) Deaplaneta. 102mins. Dir: Nacho G Velilla. Cast: Yon Gonzalez, Blanca Suarez, Julian Lopez. Hugo and Braulio are graduates fed up with Spain’s inability to provide jobs or a future. So they decide to move to Germany, under the spell of a TV programme showing other Spanish expats’ success. But they soon discover that being surplus to requirements in one country doesn’t mean you’re wanted in another and that following a German dream can be a nightmare. Star 3
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(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins. Dir: Taratuto Juan. Cast:
(Slovenia) Slovenian Film Centre. 107mins. Dir: Jan Cvitkovic. Cast: Ziga Fodransberg, Marko Miladinovic, David Furlan. Three childhood friends in their 30s, doing odd jobs for a living, decide to open a pizzeria together. Gray 2
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(India) Euramco Pictures. 108mins. Dir: Pavan Kaul. Cast: Victor Banerji, Leonidas Gulaptis. Palais C
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(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 4
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(Japan) Kirinzi. 70mins. Dir: Yusuke Inaba. Cast: Emiko Izawa, Chanon Rikulsurakan, Shugo Oshinari. Prince Ariel of the Kingdom of Levelle, together with his minder Chris, visits a Kumamoto hotel for a secret holiday, where Hide, an old friend of Prince Ariel’s father, works as the general manager. Immediately after arriving, the prince attempts to wander off by
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(US) Drafthouse Films. 97mins. Dir: Karyn Kusama. Cast: Logan Marshall Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Tammy Blanchard. A dinner party in the Hollywood Hills becomes a nightmare for a man who begins to suspect that his hosts have a terrifying agenda. Palais e
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(Colombia) Pyramide International. 94mins. Dir: Cesar Augusto Acevedo. Cast: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto. Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. Seventeen years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family. riviera 3
money to go and live with her brother in the capital, not knowing she will face her unresolved past. riviera 1
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(Netherlands) Eastwest Filmdistribution. 84mins. Dir: Maurice Trouwborst. Wyne is 32 — and lonely. Her boyfriend Arjen leaves her because she doesn’t share his wish for children, just as her roommate and friend Nanda moves out to live with her partner. In her frustration, Wyne decides to start a woman’s football team. lerins 2
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(UK) Carnaby International. 90mins. Dir: Steven Nesbit. Cast: Bernard Hill, Freema Agyeman. Two star-crossed lovers navigate through all-out war between the North and South criminal underworlds. Gray 3
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(Norway) NDM. 80mins. Dir: Ole Giæver. Cast: Ole Giæver, Marte Magnusdotter Solem. A journey inside Martin’s head and out into the wilds. Martin is alone on a hiking trip in the mountains and we hear all of his uncensored thoughts and brutally honest observations about himself and the people around him.
day, feeling especially melodramatic and rebellious, she decides to pull the plug on her life. Luckily she fails — and discovers what fun life and love can really be.
opaque operations. In his search for the truth and his attempt to reveal the “Affair of all affairs”, he ends up crossing paths with Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke.
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(US) Industrial Motion Pictures. 53mins. Dir: Robert Corna. A little girl from Thailand, born with HIV, goes on a journey to America in pursuit of life-changing surgery.
(Israel) The Match Factory. 105mins. Dir: Elad Keidan. Cast: Itay Tiran, Uri Klauzner. Haifa walks down Mount Carmel to catch a ship and forever leave all the things he loves to despise. He’s evading military reserve service, thus risking jail. Moshe is a crumbling man going up the mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse? Will the two collide or pass one another by?
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(Germany) Global Screen. 104mins. Dir: Mark Monheim. Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Heike Makatsch, Aurel Manthei. Charleen, 15, quick-witted and sassy, is Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan and wonders why “growing up” has to be so complicated. One
(France) Films Distribution. 110mins. Dir: Vincent Garenq. Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto. 2001. The journalist Denis Robert sets the world of finance ablaze when he exposes Clearstream Banking’s
(France) Elle Driver. 96mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon. Early 20th century in the French provinces. Much courted for her beauty, Celestine is a young chambermaid who has just arrived from Paris in the service of the Lanlaire household. Fending off her master’s advances, Celestine must also deal with the very strict Madame Lanlaire, who lords over the house with an iron fist. Among the domestics is Joseph, the enigmatic gardener, who exerts total fascination over her.
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(US) Submarine Entertainment. 100mins. Dir: Tara Subkoff. Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Taryn Manning, Natasha Lyonne. Inspired by actual events. A group of 12-year-old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity. Olympia 9
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(Canada) MCE (Marina Cordoni Entertainment). 82mins. Dir: Terence Odette. Cast: Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Katie Boland. An ageing Catholic Priest
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(US) Wild Bunch. 81mins. Dir: Michael Goetz, Kevin Goetz. Cast: Bailey Noble, Troian Bellisario, Kate Burton, Blake Robbins. A survivor of childhood torture faces a martyr’s fate. star 2 priority badges only
THe MUD WOMAN
(Chile) Media Luna New Films Ug. 92mins. Dir: Sergio Castro San Martin. Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus, Daniel Antivilo. Ten years have passed since Maria last worked as a seasonal worker. This season, she decided to return to save enough
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(Iceland, Denmark ) New Europe Film Sales. 93Mins. Dir: Grimur Hakonarson. Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Theodor Juliusson, Charlotte Boving. In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them – their sheep. Palais K
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receives a letter forcing his complacent life into descent. Now he must reconcile the truth: did a sexual encounter take place 40 years ago? Can a moral custodian of the faithful transcend his own fall? Arcades 3
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(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins. Dir: Beda DocampoFeijoo. Cast: Dario Grandinetti. Based on the Pope’s official biography “Francisco, Vida y Revolucion”. Palais B
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(Spain) Deaplaneta. 100mins. Dir: Manuela Moreno. Cast: Natalia De Molina, Ursula Corbero, Celia De Molina. Five girlfriends in their late 20s spend a crazy bachelorette weekend in the Canary Islands. Olympia 7
HABANA INsTANT
(US) Golden Ceiba Productions. 90mins. Dir: Guillermo Ivan Duenas. Cast: Guillermo Ivan Duenas, Christopher Marquez, Zair Montes. Marcelo Quevedo and his brother Carlos were separated in childhood when Carlos departed for Cuba on a boat with his mother during the Balseros crisis in 1994. After 23 years of exile, Carlos goes back to Cuba to meet Marcelo. Palais F
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(Germany) Wide. 98mins. Dir: Jakob M. Erwa. Cast: Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Matthias Lier, Hermann Beyer. Passion and insanity are dark neighbours.
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(India) Yash Raj Films. 113mins. Dir: Pradeep Sarkar. Cast: Rani Mukerji. Shivani Shivaji Roy is an astute cop working in a Mumbai Crime Branch unit. Deft at picking up hidden clues and fearless in confronting hardened criminals, Shivani stumbles on a
case that will change her life forever. A teenage girl is kidnapped by the child trafficking mafia and smuggled outside the city. Shivani embarks on an obsessive hunt for the girl and what follows is a cat-and-mouse game between a fearless cop and a ruthless mafia kingpin. Palais J
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(Israel) 2 Bulls On The Hill Productions. 60mins. Dir: Judith Montell, Emmy Scharlatt. Explores the daily lives of »
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100mins. Dir: Fred Grivois. Cast: Reda Kateb, Ludivine Sagnier, Tcheky Karyo, Johan Heldenbergh. The story of a shooting champion who will be forced to become a hitman.
Palestinian women living in the occupied West Bank. The film portrays their stories in a novel and eyeopening manner; through video footage captured by the women themselves. Gray 4
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(US) Industrial Motion Pictures. 52mins. Dir: Robert Corna. An exhilirating journey through the 2014 World Cup through the eyes of the fans.
OLOIBIRI
(Nigeria) Right Angle Productions. 106mins. Dir: Curtis Graham. Cast: Olu Jacobs, Richard Mofe Damijo, William R Moses. Based in Nigeria’s NigerDelta town Oloibiri, which is credited as the country’s first point of crude-oil discovery in January 1956. “Oloibiri” speaks the central theme: governmental pacification of a long-abused people. Arcades 1
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(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment. 98mins. Dir: Michiel Ten Horn. Cast: Pepijn Cladder, Anis De Jong, Yannick Van De Velde. Gray 2
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(Switzerland) Media Luna New Films. 103mins. Dir: Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz. Cast: Flore Babled, Marie Petiot, Julie Nicolet, Gilles Tschudi. Elodie and Marie are two teenagers who face the lack of opportunities offered by the housing crisis. They come up with an extreme solution: empty the apartments unjustly occupied by the old people, who, in their eyes, are responsible for the current social imbalance. In this journey they will discover that there are human beings just as lost and forgotten by society as they are. Lerins 1
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(Germany) Attraction Distribution. 106mins. Dir: Katja Von Garnier. Cast: Hanna Hoppner, Jannis Niewohner, Tilo Pruckner, Cornelia Froboess. Mika is thrilled to be back
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(France) TF1 International. 102mins. Dir: Samuel Benchetrit. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Michael Pitt, Valeria
at her grandmother’s stable for yet another summer vacation spent in the company of her beloved horse Windstorm. But the Kaltenbach stable faces great financial distress and Mika reluctantly offers her help by participating in high-paying tournaments. Windstorm is strangely distracted during training sessions and flees into the woods. Mika founds out why: Windstorm is in love. Palais H
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Bruni Tedeschi, Jules Benchetrit. Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation. Star 3
Dir: Douglas Tirola. Cast: Judd Apatow, Kevin Bacon, John Belushi. The story of the rise and fall of “National Lampoon”. Amid the cultural shift of the 1970s, American comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine stuck its middle finger up at the establishment. Palais G
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(Argentina) Bafici. 90mins. A selection of LatinAmerican works-inprogress.
(Cuba) ICAIC — Productora Internacional. 84mins. Dir: Rigoberto Lopez. Cast: Sanaa Alaoui, Paulo FG. A man and a woman go on a journey to find out the truth about each other.
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(France) Doc & Film International. 90mins. Dir: Roberto Minervini. In an invisible territory on the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat of being forgotten by society’s institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled on. Riviera 1 priority badges only
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Pyramide International. 100mins. Riviera 3 priority badges only
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(France) Et Bim. 83mins. Dir: Ambroise Carminati. Cast: Azedine Kasri, Mathieu Lardier, Noemie Chicheportiche. Ten office colleagues engage in a questions and answers game on pieces of paper. Little by little, each of them realises that the game is getting out of hand. Gray 3
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(France) Stray Dogs. 80mins. Dir: Philippe Gerard. This immersive 3D diving documentary follows Pierre Frolla, quadruple world champion of freediving, and his unique relationship with the ocean and its wild creatures.
(US) Cinephil. 92mins.
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(Chile) Doc & Film International. 97mins. Dir: Marcia Tambutti Allende. Palais C
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(US) Condor Pictures. 92mins. Dir: Liana Marabini. Cast: David Wall, Gedeon Burkhard, Jennifer Mischiati. The difficult history of a controversial Pope, Pius XII, accused of not having condemned the Holocaust. The film
portrays a very different truth, based on a huge amount of documentation. But the subject continues to create discussions and contestation. Star 1
SHEEP AND WOLVES
(Russia) Wizart Animation. 80mins. Dir: Maxim Volkov, Andrey Galat. A young wolf called The Grey is afraid of responsibility and doesn’t wish to become the new leader of the pack. The Grey is convinced that wolves are the leaders under the sun and they need sheep only to have a full belly. But suddenly all things have changed in a magic manner. One morning The Grey wakes up in a skin of a ram and finds itself in a flock of sheep. From this moment, The Grey will look at the world in a different way. Palais I
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(Germany) Apollomedia Film Management Gmbh. 94mins. Dir: Kerstin Ahlrichs. Cast: Peter Dinklage, Rosalie Thomass, Robert Stadlober. Alex, a taxi driver in the 1980s, takes us on a bumpy tour to meet Hamburg’s nightcrawlers. Gray 5
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(France) Gaumont.
(Russia) Wizart Animation. 82mins. Dir: Vladimir Toropchin. The sequel to the muchloved adaptation of Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz”, written by Alexander Volkov in 1963. Urfin, a troubled carpenter, discovers a magical powder that brings his creations to life. With an army of wooden soldiers, he captures the Emerald City. Dorothy and her friends — the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the now-brave Lion — come to the rescue of the city dwellers. Palais I
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(France) WTFilms. Dir: Alice Philippon, Rose Philippon. Cast: Jeremie Elkaïm, Sara Giraudeau, Jonathan Lambert. Star 3
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(Argentina) Aura Films. 103mins. Dir: Marco Berger. Cast: Ailin Salas, Javier De Pietro. The flapping of a butterfly’s wings splits Romina’s universe into two parallel and plausible realities. Arcades 3
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(India) Yash Raj Films. 140mins. Dir: Dibakar Banerjee. Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput. In a contemporary interpretation of war-torn Calcutta during the 1940s,
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(Italy) Ahora! Film. 105mins. Dir: Marco Pollini. About Lola, a dark LatinAmerican woman; Irina, an Eastern European woman; and Carmen, an Oriental. All three have sad stories: they’ve just lost their jobs in a region in the north of Italy and they want to change their lives and cut with the past.
Penpak Sirikul, David Asavanond, Nirut Sirichanya. The astonishing true story of Thailand’s last prison executioner — one ordinary man’s journey through life, death and karma. Lerins 1
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(US) Filmpro Finance. 84mins. Dir: Christian de Rezendes. This inspirational documentary profiles the life of Matty Christian from a small town in Massachusetts, who was born without a full set of arms, legs and tongue, and yet inspired many people to do better.
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(France) Wide. 108mins. Dir: Eric Cherriere. Cast: Jean-Jacques Lelte, Magali Moreau, Yves Afonso. The killer next door… Pierre Tardieu is a parttime worker living in an old house with his sick father. No one is aware of his existence. Pierre is a serial killer.
(Germany) Pluto Film Distribution Network Gmbh. 104mins. Dir: Marc Brummund. Cast: Alexander Held, Stefan Grossmann, Max Riemelt. A movie based on true stories, about the merciless fight of a boy to save the last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system of society.
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(France) Cinexport. 85mins. Dir: Jean Perisse. Pierre-Paul Riquet, baron de Bonrepos, was the engineer and canalbuilder responsible for the building of the Canal du Midi (south of France), a 240km-long artificial waterway. A portrait of the man who was only interested in mathematics and science. Palais F
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(Panama) Panama Film Commission. 94mins. Dir: Abner Benaim. Palais D
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(Thailand) De Warrenne Pictures. 95mins. Dir: Tom Waller. Cast: Vithaya Pansringarm,
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(Romania) Romanian Film Centre. 116mins. Dir: Adrian Popovici. Cast: Ioan Andrei Ionescu, Gabriel Vodnar, Iuliua Verdes. Three stories, three characters in three different time periods make up this story about one of the world’s most talented and famous Romanian artists: Constantin Brancusi. Palais G press allowed
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(Mexico) The Open Reel. 80mins. Dir: Rigoberto Perezcano. Cast: Luis Alberti, Juan Carlos Medellin, Jose Pescina. This is a story about coming back. Mabel returns to her hometown to find the murderer of her friend Daniela and finds herself. Palais e
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(France) Euroobscura. 90mins. Dir: Nathan Ambrosioni. Cast: Julie Venturelli, Luna-Miti Belan, Shelley Ward. Fear has no face. Gray 3 press allowed
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(Kyrgyzstan) All Rights Entertainment. 135mins. Dir: Sadyk Sher-Niyaz. An historical epic from Kyrgyzstan, set in the 19th century, which tells the true story of Kurmanjan
(Russia) Apollo Film Production. 61mins. Gray 4
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Datka, a strong-willed and courageous woman who becomes the ruler of her country and saves the nation from total destruction when the Russians invade. Riviera 1
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(Italy) Poker Entertainment. 93mins. Dir: Stefano Calvagna. Cast: Gianfranco Butinar, Enzo Salvi, Nadia Rinaldi. A story about the “third life” of the Italian songwriter Franco Califano: from his decline to the rebirth, until his death. Palais K press allowed
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(Bulgaria) Greta Joanne Entertainment. 150mins. Dir: Maxim Genchev. Cast: Veselin Plachkov, Simeon Filipov, Nikolai Sotirov. “If I win, all my people shall win. If I lose, I shall only lose myself.” A classic tale about the life and death of Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski. Palais C
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(UK) Reel Suspects. 99mins. Dir: Simon Blake. Cast: Aidan Gillen, Jonathan Slinger, Elodie Yung. A gritty and atmospheric thriller about the traumatic disintegration of a man and a father. Gray 5
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(Argentina) Blood Window. 74mins. Dir: Valentin Javier Diment. Cast: German de Silva, Luis Ziembrowski, Valentin Javier Diment. In a small isolated village lives Raulo, a mentally handicapped lumberjack, with Ercilia, his senile witch-doctor mother, and Roberta, his sister, the town’s young and favourite prostitute. They unconditionally love and take care of each other. But when Ercilia feels the closeness of death she insistently threatens Roberta: if she ever has sexual intercourse with all the men in town, the town will discard her, dismiss her and she will die. olympia 4
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(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. However, nothing goes right. Riviera 3
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(Germany) Michael Gautsch Filmproduktion. 95mins. Dir: Claudia Boysen. Cast: Felicia Ruf,
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Sophie Charlotte Conrad, Alexander Khuon. How much love can friendship take? Riviera 4
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(Japan) Film And Business Law. 78mins. Dir: Zak Baney. A coming-of-age film which explores the lives of Kenji, who is forced to return from his new life in America, and his brother, who is tragically paralysed. Gray 5
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(US) Acid. 103mins. Dir: Patrick Wang. A family struggles with a tragic loss when an unexpected visitor arrives. She stirs the pain of past betrayals but might also offer an unforeseen gift: a way out of their isolating grief. Arcades 1
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(Belgium) Artisan Films. 105mins. Dir: Yvan Le Moine. Cast: Hande Kodja, Rupert Everett, Jacques Boudet. A famous Bristish writer, languidly elegant, seduces the young daughter of a rich sugarcane plantation owner on Bourbon Island. He takes her back to wartorn Europe. Is it really love or is it something else he’s after? Palais K
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(US) Vesuvio Entertainment. 97mins. Dir: Amy Berg. Cast: Todd Bridges, Joey Coleman, Marc Collins-Rector. The film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see.
(France) Pathe International. 114mins. Dir: Thomas Bidegain. Cast: Francois Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne. A vast prairie, a country and western gathering somewhere 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, even though it costs him everything and takes him to some dark places.
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(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? Is she a hero or a cold-blooded killer? Arcades 2
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(Mexico) Filmsharks Int’L. 90mins. Dir: Mike Kunkel, Ricardo Arnaiz. Cast: Edward James Olmos, Erik Estrada, Kate Del Castillo.
Cuco is a Mexican boy parrot who would rather imitate the crazy stunts of his TV superhero parrot, El Americano, than help with his chores at the family bird circus. Palais I
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