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Black Bear Pictures is to co-finance Cannes sales title Mudbound, the latest addition to a growing stable of prestige titles that includes The Imitation Game, Gold and EFM sensation Suburbicon.

Good Universe has introduced the sub-$15m drama to international buyers here with Cassian Elwes and WME Global jointly representing US rights.

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Actors Raph, Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini on the red carpet here for the world premiere of Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay, which plays in Competition. See review, page 24

Metrodome invests in Personal Shopper

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Metrodome has taken UK rights to Olivier Assayas’ Kristen Stewartstarrer Personal Shopper, one of the most eagerly awaited films in Competition this year.

Other fresh deals by MK2 Films on the title include an exclusive VoD deal to China’s streaming giant iQiyi. The platform, which boasts 10 million subscribers, has previously struck deals with Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox. Strada also recently acquired the film for

Greece. It is the second time Stewart has worked with Assayas after Clouds Of Sils Maria, for which she became the first US actress to win a prestigious French César for her performance as a personal assistant to a famous actress, played by Juliette Binoche.

Their second collaboration continues the assistant theme with Stewart playing a young American woman making her living as a personal shopper in Paris who suspects she has psychic powers.

In previously announced deals, the film has also sold to the US and Canada (IFC), Germany (Weltkino), Austria (Film Laden), Benelux (The Searchers), Switzerland (Filmcooperative), the Middle East (Shooting Stars), South Korea (Challan), Hong Kong (Bravos Pictures), Southeast Asia (Noori), the Philippines (Pioneer Films) and Singapore (Shaw).

Les Films du Losange is due to release Personal Shopper in France this October.

Black Bear wades into Mudbound iQiyi clicks with overseas sales

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Ellen Page has signed to star in psychological horror The Third Wave, set in a post-zombie apocalypse Europe.

David Freyne will direct from his own screenplay set in the aftermath of a devastating virus that gripped Europe for six years, transforming humans into zombie-like monsters.

In the story, a cure has been found but society is divided into those who were once infected and committed terrible, violent acts, and those who never contracted the virus.

“The Third Wave brings an entirely new perspective to the zombie genre, which I love,” said Page. “David Freyne truly shifts his lens on society’s role in the apocalyptic world. I’m so grateful for this opportunity to share his thoughtful approach to horror with audiences.”

Rachael O’Kane and Rory Dungan at Dublin-based Tilted Pictures produce alongside Page.

Mark Huffam and Aidan Elliott of the UK’s Bounder & Cad and France’s Bac Films are co-producing. Financiers include the Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen and Bac Films.

Bac Films will handle international sales, while CAA and WME will handle North America.

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start in New Orleans on the story of two returning soldiers in post-war US who experience racism in rural Mississippi. The film is adapted from Hillary Jordan’s 2008 novel of the same name.

Charles King’s MACRO and Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros’s Armory are co-financing. Black Bear founder Teddy Schwarzman and Dan Steinman join the executive producer roster alongside Poppy Hanks.

Elwes, King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson, Carl Effenson, Lemole and Zajaros are producing.

Chinese streaming giant iQiyi has launched an international sales arm, which is attending Cannes with a slate of Chinese films headed

by Feng Xiaogang-produced drama Songs Of The Youth.

The two-part feature, which revolves around a director prepping a film about growing up in the 1960s, is scheduled for Chinese release in July. iQiyi’s debut slate also includes crime thriller Lost In White, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Li Yunbo’s drama Something In Blue.

iQiyi director of international sales Bryce Tsao said he is handling two types of films: web movies produced by iQiyi Motion Pictures, where iQiyi owns worldwide rights, and theatrical films produced by other companies, where iQiyi has acquired Chinese VoD and international rights. Web movies include Wang Gangli’s The Gang Leader and Wei Dong’s The Queen Of Fighters. iQiyi is China’s biggest streaming platform.

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Lionsgate tags The Great Gilly

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Lionsgate Premiere, the studio’s specialty division, has boarded US distribution on completed comedy drama The Great Gilly Hopkins.

Adapted from Katherine Paterson’s book and directed by Stephen Herek, the film will get a multi-platform release from October 7, with theatrical distribution in key cities.

In the family title, Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief) plays as a wisecracking 11-year old who is moved between foster homes but meets her match in the shape of a foster mum played by Kathy Bates. Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Octavia Spencer and Glenn Close co-star.

Script comes from David Paterson (Bridge To Terabithia) who produced with Bill Teitler (Jumanji) and businessman Brian Kennedy of Latium Enterprises. It marks Kennedy’s second significant film investment after 2014 Cannes drama The Homesman.

William Kay and Eve Schoukroun are executive producers. WestEnd handles international sales.

The deal was finalised between Teitler, Kennedy and Lionsgate.

CANNES DEALS STX Entertainment has shaken up a relatively quiet market with a reported $9m deal for US and China on Molly’s Game. At time of writing, Lynne Ramsay’s upcoming You Were Never Really Here was also believed to be close to a deal.

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Iranian-British film-maker Babak Le Pacte has secured French Jalali’s off-beat comedy Radio rights to Jim Jarmusch’s Cannes Dreams, which took the top prize Midnight Screening Gimme Danat this year’s International Film ger, about iconic US band The Festival Rotterdam, has been Stooges.

Independent closed the deal racking up sales for Paris-based with Le Pacte, which has previReel Suspects.

Gimme Danger The picture has sold to Turkey ously released the director’s films Additional territories sold (Mars Production), Taiwan including Only Lovers Left Alive.

Jean Labadie of Le Pacte said: include Australia (Transmission), (Moviecloud), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Artcam), Portugal “We are thrilled to continue with Japan (King Records), Germany (Nitrato Filmes), Ukraine Gimme Danger our long-time (Studiocanal), Hong Kong (Edko), Poland (Gutek), Portugal (Kinove) and Australia and New relationship with Jim Jarmusch.”

Zealand (Daricheh Cinema).

Set against the backdrop of the Iranian diaspora in San Francisco, the story follows an expat radio station as it prepares for a perforBy Melanie Goodfellow mance by Metallica drummer Lars Former EuropaCorp CEO ChrisUlrich with Afghanistan’s first tophe Lambert has passed away. rock band Kabul Dreams. The film He was 51. The advertising and is due to screen at Seattle Internastudio executive died after a battle tional Film Festival later this with cancer. month as well as BAMcinemaFest Christophe Lambert inScreenDaily Brooklyn in -June.

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Gimme Danger chronicles the context of The Stooges’ emergence and relates the band’s adventures through interviews with the musicians and family members. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive) produces with Fernando Sulichin and Robert S Wilson (Snowden) of New Element Media. Independent handles international sales, while ICM Partners, which represents Jarmusch, handles the US.

Cannes briefs Studio docks in Belfast A $30m film and TV production facility is planned for Northern Ireland. Plans for Belfast Harbour Studios will be unveiled in Cannes today. It will open for business later this year offering 64,000 sq ft of studio space, two sound stages, workshops and offices.

Silence casts Douglas Michael Douglas is to star with Halle Berry for director Adrian Lyne on Silence, which Lotus has introduced to buyers in Cannes.

Christophe Lambert dies aged 51 less than three months after he stepped down as CEO of Luc Besson’s Paris-based EuropaCorp.

The former ad executive took over the reins as MD at EuropaCorp in 2010, having originally become associated with the com-

pany through the advertising agency Blue, which he set up with Besson as a 50:50 partnership in 2008. During his time at the helm, Lambert pushed through the completion of Besson’s Cité du Cinéma and Les Studios de Paris projects.

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Microwave heats up duo

Arab CAT pounces on US

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Film London Microwave, the lowbudget production scheme behind Lilting and Shifty, has commissioned family drama Sick(er) and crime tale Looted.

These are among 12 projects in development by the ongoing scheme, funded by BBC Films, BFI and Creative Skillset.

Writer-director Rene Pannevis’ Looted explores crime and moral ambiguity in a tale of burglary, friendship and thieves who fall out.

It will be produced by Jennifer Eriksson, a post-production manager on Rooney Mara drama Una, and Goalpost Film executive Jessie Mangum (Holding The Man).

Sick(er) will explore anorexia and family bonds. Writer-director Lucy Brydon is a novelist with shorts experience, while producers are Dan Cleland (Orthodox) and Jeannette Sutton, who was an assistant director on Lilting.

Cairo-based Creative Arab Talent (CAT) — the Middle East’s first talent agency — is set to open an office in Los Angeles this June, to act as a bridge between the Arab world and agencies such as CAA and UTA. Founder and CEO Amr Koura launched CAT in April last year to fill a gap in the market in the Middle East.

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the Middle East. The concept isn’t really known,” Koura told Screen.

“There are managers for singers but when it comes to film and TV

talent there aren’t any agents.

Actors, directors and writers tend to get work through their network, cultivating ties with producers.”

Clients on CAT’s books include Egyptian star Yousra, Jordanian producer-actress Saba Mubarak and rising talent Amina Khalil.

Koura is in Cannes to further promote the agency as well as find a festival berth for Kamla Abou Zikri’s One Day For Women, which CAT helped package.

NYAFF selects Screen’s Rising Stars

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, June 22-July 9) has chosen Japan’s Go Ayano, China’s Jelly Lin and the Philippines’ Teri Malvar to receive Screen International’s Rising Star Asia awards.

Ayano, noted by NYAFF for his range, has recently played a Machiavellian fixer in A Bride For

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Rip Van Winkle and Japan’s most corrupt cop in Twisted Justice.

Lin is recognised as a gifted comedian for her debut in Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid.

The 15-year-old Malvar is praised for her performances in “daring roles that have expanded the range of contemporary Philippines’ cinema”. She will be pre-

sented with her award before a screening of Ralston Jover’s Haze (Hamog), in which she plays a violent street kid.

This year marks the third Screen International Rising Star Asia award at NYAFF. The award is designed to bring Asia’s most exciting new talent to international attention.

Lion Woman roars into Cannes Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk has closed further deals on The Lion Woman (Lovekvinnen). First International Production has picked up distribution rights for France, while Chinese outfit DDDream International Media has also taken the film.

Previous sales include to Benelux (September Film), South America (California Filmes), ex-Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group), Turkey (Sinema TV Yay. VE PROD), Czech Republic (Fenix Distribution), Estonia (Estin Film) and Hong Kong (EDKO Films).

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Reno’s hitman targets Germany

By Andreas Wiseman

Moviehouse Entertainment has struck a German pre-sale with Ascot Elite for upcoming Jean Reno thriller The Last Step.

The France-Canada-UK co-production is to be shot in Saskatchewan, Canada, in November with Sarah Lind (WolfCop) on board to co-star. The deal was negotiated by Ascot Elite’s Stephan Giger and Moviehouse’s Gary Phillips.

Turning Tide writer Frédéric Petitjean will direct the feature from producer Laurent Tolleron (Frontier(s)) of Seven 52 and Corinne Benichou and Florence Moos of Eight 35. Mark Montague, James Fler and Michael Paszt produce for Berserker in Canada and Mark Vennis and Phillips produce for Moviehouse.

Moviehouse’s Cannes slate includes horror The Power, Talulah Riley’s Scottish Mussel and comedy thriller Two Down.

Censors warn animators of dress code in Heaven

By Geoffrey Macnab

Stunning Media has revealed further details of its ambitious Iranian animated feature Release From Heaven — and of the problems the production continues to face with censors in Iran.

Directed by Ali Noori Oskouei, the story follows a female comicstrip writer and teacher who accompanies two students on a

life-changing journey. “The biggest problem we are facing right now [in Iran] is about dress code,” said S Vahid Olyaee, the producer of the film, which is being presented to buyers here.

The sticking point is that the main character is shown without a hijab. The film-makers argue covering her head and face makes it “impossible to show emotion”.

To avoid censorship and sway opinion at home, the producers are attempting to drum up international interest in the film.

The film is almost completed and is expected to screen for the first time in the late summer.

Oskouei is considered a major figure in Iranian animation, with the stature of Hayao Miyazaki in the local industry.

HandMade joins Circus

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Park Circus has snapped up rights to the library of HandMade Films, co-founded in 1979 by George Harrison. The deal, confirmed in Cannes, gives Park Circus the rights to handle worldwide in all media to more than 100 titles.

The library includes films such as Withnail & I, The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits and Mona Lisa.

Many are available in digitally restored, high-definition versions.

The library also include Animation Collective titles, including Kappa Mikey and Dancing Sushi.

Fantastic sells for AMBI AMBI Distribution has licensed key territories following a market screening here on Simon Aboud’s This Beautiful Fantastic starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Tom Wilkinson.

President and COO Julie Sultan has sold rights to Germany (NFP), Japan (Digital Networks Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Latin America (California Filmes), South Korea (Double And Joy Pictures), Portugal (Lusomundo) and Hong Kong (Intercontinental Films).

Further deals closed in Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Romania (P4M), Turkey (DigiTurk), ex-Yugoslavia (21 Film), Singapore (Shaw), South Africa (TMF), Middle East (Gulf Film), Taiwan (Encore Film) and Entertainment In Motion (EIM) for airlines.

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God’s alive for sequel buyers

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God’s Not Dead 2, the follow-up to the 2014 faith-based US smash, has secured a raft of deals through Pure Flix Entertainment.

The film, which screens in the market today and Monday, has sold to Australia (Crossroads), Hong Kong (United Artists), Latin America, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Scandinavia (California Filmes), Germany (Other Films), South Korea (Sycomad), Eastern Europe/Poland (Revolutionary Releasing/Monolith) and Africa (CMD).

God’s Not Dead 2 was released last month in the US, where it has grossed more than $20m theatrically. Pure Flix has also licensed rights for both films to the Middle East (Tanweer).

Sales are close on the sequel for mainland China and Sri Lanka.

Dominus has licensed God’s Not Dead for Italy.

Sochi fest launches to promote Russian talent

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Russia is to host the first Sochi International Film Festival (SIFF), designed to boost the international audience for the country’s films.

Announced in Cannes by Russian cinema promoter Roskino, the event will run December 10-16 at the Olympic sea resort of Sochi.

Designed with the objective of creating a greater international audience for Russian film, the festival will showcase Russian talent as well as film-makers from around the world.

Film-maker, poet, screenwriter and academic Luba Balagova has been announced as the festival’s president.

Balagova said: “The power of film to bring people together is unparalleled, and we hope that SIFF will harness this gift to unite film-makers from across the globe.”

Film-makers from around the world will be encouraged to submit for the IRIDA Award, the festival’s most significant prize.

Raven swoops for Another Evil

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Toronto-based Raven Banner has boarded as international sales agent on SXSW Midnight selection Another Evil and has begun talks here with buyers.

Carson D Mell’s exorcism comedy screened in the market on

Wednesday. It stars Steve Zissis and Jennifer Irwin as a married couple who hire an exorcist to rid their vacation home of evil forces.

Raven Banner’s Michael Paszt and James Fler negotiated the deal with producers Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo.

Content Media trumpets Baby Elephant Content Media is selling worldwide rights to documentary Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale after striking a deal with Paul G Allen’s Vulcan Productions.

The documentary is being screened by Content for distributors here at the Marché.

Directed by Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck, it is produced by Vulcan, which is run by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Allen.

The feature follows a baby elephant and her fight to survive after she loses her mother.

Other documentaries on Content’s international sales slate include Pistorius, a feature about Olympic hero-turned convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius, and Manolo, about shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.

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Devilworks rolls out mad sales

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Genre specialist Devilworks has brokered multiple deals for films on its Cannes slate.

Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has taken action sci-fi EZO1Madness, retitled The Last Starship for the UK. The title has also sold to Australia (Feature Films) and South Korea (Cinema Republic).

Feature Films has picked up Valley Of The Sasquatch and sci-fi Polder, while Cinema Republic has moved for sci-fi thriller Listening, to be released in Japan (Fine Films), Benelux and Scandinavia (Take 1) and Poland (Kino Swiat).

UK outfit 101 Films has taken Valley Of The Sasquatch and will release Arctic thriller Black Mountain Side. US horror Some Kind Of Hate has gone to China (Virtual Cinema) and Poland (Kino Swiat).

Market Trader sets up stall for third time Creative England is to launch the third edition of its producer development programme Market Trader here in Cannes.

Funded by Creative Skillset, it takes participants through residential workshops and mentoring in the UK to prepare them for international markets.

The programme will focus on co-production and will provide 10 producers with access to markets.

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DDI stokes its Quiet Passion

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Double Dutch International president Jason Moring has announced a slew of sales on Terence Davies’ Berlinale premiere A Quiet Passion starring Cynthia Nixon.

Moring and his team licensed rights before Cannes to Gulf Films for the Middle East, RC Releasing for Germany, Golem for Spain and Palace Films for Australia and New Zealand.

In further deals, Lemon Tree acquired rights for China, Entermode for South Korea, MCF for former Yugoslavia, NonStop Entertainment for Scandinavia, and Encore Inflight for airlines.

As previously announced, Metrodome acquired UK rights.

Sherawat on Le Vision’s Time

By Liz Shackleton

Indian actress Mallika Sherawat has joined the cast of Le Vision Pictures’ big-budget action adventure Time Raiders, directed by Daniel Lee. Based on a bestselling novel written by Uncle Six, the film also stars Jing Boran (Monster Hunt), Lu Han, Ma Sichun and Wang

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A Quiet Passion tells the story of US poet Emily Dickinson, from her early days as a schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive artist whose work earned recognition years after her death. Jennifer Ehle also stars.

M-Line Distribution has added deals on South Korean comfortwomen drama Spirits’ Homecoming to China (Red Apollo) and Taiwan (Long Shong).

Directed by Cho Jung-rae, the film is based on the true story of young Korean girls taken to China and forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese imperial army during

Zee snaps up NFDC classics

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India’s National Film Development Corp (NFDC) has licensed 49 of its library titles to Zee Classic, owned by leading Indian broadcaster Zee Entertainment.

The deal includes classics such as Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley, Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! and Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala, along with more recent titles such as Anup Singh’s Qissa, which premiered at Toronto in 2013, and Gyan Correa’s The Good Road, India’s official submission to the 2014 Oscars.

Jingchun. Uncle Six also scripted and is one of the producers on the film, which tells the story of explorers searching for the secrets of immortality in ancient tombs.

The film, which is in post-production for a summer 2016 release, is co-produced by Le Vision, Shanghai Film Group and NanPai Entertainment.

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Zee Classic is planning to broadcast the titles in an NFDC film festival that will run for a couple of months from July.

“We’re delighted that we’re now seeing wider distribution of both our classics and newer films,” said NFDC finance director Nazhat J Shaikh.

Meanwhile, NFDC has also lined up a slate of theatrical releases over the next year, starting with Uday Bhandarkar’s Marathilanguage drama Vees Mhanje Vees on June 10 and also including Gurvinder Singh’s Cannes title The Fourth Direction, Ruchika Oberoi’s Venice title Island City, Partho SenGupta’s Sunrise and MS Prakash Babu’s Fig Fruits And The Wasps.

the Second World War. Starring Kang Hana and Son Suk, the film also takes place in 1991 in Korea, when a young spiritual medium — also trying to heal the scars of sexual violence — is asked to hold a Homecoming ritual to call back the spirits of those killed in China.

Considered a sleeper hit locally, Spirits’ Homecoming is set for a market screening on May 16.

F&ME pacts for Shindisi Film & Music Entertainment will pact with Independent Film Studio, 20 Steps Production and Lakumi in Georgia to produce the feature film Shindisi, starring Bridge Of Spies’ Merab Ninidze.

The wartime drama will be directed by Nika Agiashvili, from a screenplay by Irakli Solomanashvili, with a score by musical legend Giya Kancheli.

Shooting begins in rural Georgia this September as a Georgia-UK co-production.

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An interactive heist thriller will open up a cinema experience with multiple possibilities A cinema full of spectators with the power to dictate events on screen — could this be the most democratic film ever? Cinematic interactive experience Late Shift occupies an enticing intersection between film and video game, allowing the viewer regular input to shape the plot of this heist thriller from Sherlock Holmes scribe Michael Robert Johnson and director Tobias Weber.

The producers will hold a presentation at the NEXT Pavilion on Tuesday (12pm) and the film has its market debut on Wednesday (3pm, Palais J). Late Shift was softlaunched in a Zurich cinema in March, where the demand was so great that it ran for a week.

The process involves Swiss production outfit CtrlMovie visiting the venue to set up the hardware needed to deliver the film, as well as install an in-cinema wifi network. Audience members then

download a voting app to their phones, which enables them to make choices corresponding to prompts on screen; the option that receives the most votes then plays out. There is a total of 265 minutes of footage, but the average viewing experience is 70-90 minutes.

Viewers can then purchase a mobile version from iTunes or Apple TV, allowing them to play out alternative storylines.

The film-makers are hoping to get in contact with distributors with a view to programming the film abroad. They are also offering the CtrlMovie format licence without charge to people who would like to create their own films, with the company taking a small revenue share from distribution.

Weber is also plotting his next interactive movie experience, with a script in development for a psychological drama.

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DEPP IMPACT Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, at a photocall for The Dancer, which plays in Un Certain Regard. Depp stars alongside French singer Soko in the story of dancers in the Paris Opera.

In conversation with...

KLEBER MENDONCA FILHO, AQUARIUS (COMPETITION) With his debut feature Neighboring Sounds (2012), Brazilian film-maker Kleber Mendonca Filho exposed the uneasy dynamics of a middle-class street in Recife.

In Aquarius, which is playing in Competition, he returns to his native coastal city of Recife.

The story follows an old widow, played by Sonia Braga (Kiss Of The Spider Woman), who is pressured to sell her apartment. The film was shot in the only building on its street that has yet to be knocked down for urban renewal.

When did this idea first interest you?

It has always been on my mind. I shot the video Paz A Esta Casa in 1994 about a demolished house. The real-estate market doesn’t consider the heritage of cities.

I couldn’t shoot Aquarius in my first choice building because it was partially destroyed in 2013.

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Since Kiss Of The Spider Woman in 1985, Sonia Braga has focused on an international career. How did you convince her to film in Brazil?

I don’t think Sonia knew who I was when I sent her the script. But she said yes in less than 24 hours, based on the material. When we finally met, she was talking about the script in such detail it was like she had seen the movie already.

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For many years, you were a film critic in Cannes and saw several Palme d’Or contenders receive a chilly reception.

Does that make you nervous?

No. I’m curious to see the reaction. I wouldn’t have accepted to compete if I wasn’t sure of what I did. For a movie made by friends in Recife, having this level of exposure will be amazing. The whole world is here.

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The Italian production company run by Riccardo Scamarcio and Valeria Golino is back in Cannes In 2013, the screening of Honey (Miele) in Un Certain Regard signalled the debut both of Valeria Golino as a director and of a Buena Onda production in a major festival. Now the four-year-old company fronted by Golino, Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio (My Brother Is An Only Child) and producer Viola Prestieri (The Great Beauty) returns to Un Certain Regad with Pericles The Black, starring Scamarcio in the title role.

“Our company was born because the market in Italy was too fearful to produce Miele,” explains Scamarcio, “so as a consequence we are targeting the international market.”

Scamarcio has starred in some of the most successful Italian films of recent years, and has seen big changes at home in the market for international films, with smaller distributors now able to acquire.

“Since the two biggest distributors, Medusa and Rai Cinema, decided not to battle anymore for international acquisitions, these movies, mostly European, have

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been targeted by smaller distributors,” he says. “Films that used to be sold for ¤600,000 [$680,000] can now be acquired for ¤200,000 [$230,000], which is far less than what it costs to acquire Italian films.”

Buena Onda’s previous movie, Per Amor Vostro, played in Venice last September, where it landed Golino the best actress prize. “That movie was produced for ¤800,000 [$910,000], as the actors agreed to take shares,” he says. “We didn’t

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The maiden voyage of the first cruise liner to feature an Imax screen began today, carrying 4,000 passengers from Barcelona to Marseille, where it will dock tomorrow. Complete with a 125-seater, 50ft Imax screen, passengers can watch regular showings of Deadpool, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Batman Vs Superman. Film studios deal directly with cruise operator Carnival for rights, and Imax hopes digital delivery will enable it to stream new releases dayand-date while at sea. The installation was part of a twoscreen agreement with Carnival.

Imax CEO Richard Gelfond and EMEA president Andrew Cripps are leaving Cannes to join the ship at Marseille, destination Livorno, Italy.

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get rich with it but it repaid its costs. The same thing happened with Miele,, which we sold in 20 territories after being screened in Cannes.”

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With unique behind-the-scenes access in Cannes, photographer Greg Williams shoots the biggest stars who attend the festival away from the stylised red carpets and photocalls. This year, he has already snapped Justin Timberlake (pictured left) and George Clooney. Williams started working as an on-set photographer in the late 1990s, clocking up more than 160 features to date. He has been attending Cannes since 1998 but last year was the first time he received more intimate access, shooting the likes of Tom Hardy and Natalie Portman.

“I’d like to bring back the heyday of Hollywood glamour,” he says.

“It’s not a horror film,” It Follows director David Robert Mitchell says of his new film, Under The Silver Lake, due to shoot at the end of the summer. Mitchell, though, is not keen to share many more details. “In the tradition of hardboiled LA noir,” is all he volunteers on the new film, which is set to star Andrew Garfield and Dakota Johnson, and is being produced by Michael De Luca.

Mitchell, who is serving on the Critics’ Week jury this year, was happy to share his enthusiasm for the films that have influenced Under The Silver Lake, including Kiss Me Deadly and Chinatown.

Inspired by his film-loving father, who worked in the auto industry, the young auteur started making films as a teen and still works with friends from his student days (including, on the new

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movie, his cinematographer and editor).

As for Garfield, he is a confirmed fan: “I’m very excited to work with him on this.” Is the star of The Social Network playing a Bogart-like private eye? Mitchell is keeping us in the dark.

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» I, Daniel Blake p22 » Slack Bay p24 » Neruda p24 » Sweet Dreams p26

» The Student p26 » Clash p28 » Personal Affairs p28

I, Daniel Blake Reviewed by Wendy Ide An archetypal Ken Loach hero, Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is a forthright, decent everyman who finds himself pitted against the unwieldy and uncaring bureaucratic machine of the state.

For the first time, Daniel needs to claim welfare support after a heart attack has left him unable to work as a carpenter. The tone, which initially emphasises the Kafkaesque absurdity of the circles of hellish paperwork, darkens to tragedy as the film progresses and Daniel is stripped of his self-respect along with his benefits.

This is a film that passionately, if not subtly, gives voice to the collective anger that is mounting against the Cameron government’s punitive policies. As such, it feels timely and should chime with a left-leaning, British arthouse audience, as well as those in European countries that have suffered similarly draconian austerity measures, many of which have a strong history of support for Loach. Although stirring, it is perhaps too intimate in scope and ambition to generate the word-of-mouth required for a breakout success.

We are introduced to Daniel’s situation in an interview, which plays out as the opening titles flash up on a black screen. A ‘healthcare professional’ — the words are stressed to underline their fraudulence — conducts a box-ticking interview with Daniel to assess whether he is, in fact, entitled to the disability benefit he has been awarded. Ignoring the fact that his doctor’s advice forbids work while he recuperates, she

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COMPETITION UK-Fr. 2016. 100mins Director Ken Loach Production company Sixteen Films International Sales Wild Bunch, sales@wildbunch.eu Producer Rebecca O’Brien Screenplay Paul Laverty Cinematography Robbie Ryan Editor Jonathan Morris Production design Fergus Clegg, Linda Wilson Music George Fenton Main cast Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Briana Shann, Dylan Phillip Mckiernan

seems more concerned about whether he can put on a hat unaided. When, inevitably, he is stripped of this benefit, Daniel has to claim Jobseeker’s Allowance, despite the fact he is unable to work.

A chance encounter at the benefit office introduces Daniel to Katie (Hayley Squires) and her two children, Daisy (Briana Shann) and Dylan (Dylan Phillip Mckiernan). Katie has recently relocated from London — her only option to get out of a single room in a hostel was to accept the offer of a flat in Newcastle. She has also fallen foul of the system and, enraged, Daniel lets rip on her behalf with a torrent of Geordie invective.

This gets them both evicted from the premises, but signals the start of a tentative friendship.

This is the twelfth collaboration between Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty. It is a partnership that sometimes feels like the cinematic equivalent of a married couple who know each other so well, they can finish each other’s sentences. As such, it is unlikely to produce many stylistic or thematic surprises. Certainly, there is a kinship with many of their previous films, particularly My Name Is Joe, as well as earlier features like Ladybird, Ladybird. While it might not break new ground, there is no denying the potency of the film’s empathetic anguish and fury.

One devastating scene in particular stands out. Daniel accompanies Katie and her children to a food bank where, for once, they are treated with kindness. Drained by hunger and lack of sleep and disarmed by the sympathy of the women there, Katie cracks and surreptitiously

opens a can there and then, scooping the contents into her mouth with her fingers. It is a wrenching moment, which is heightened by Squire’s performance — panic, self-loathing and despair register on her face as tomato sauce drips through her fingers and down her coat.

Another emotive moment is Daniel’s final rebellion against the faceless office drones who refused to address his claim. Spray can in hand, he daubs a message on the benefit office walls, to much applause from passers-by. Iain Duncan Smith, the former UK minister for work and pensions, is namechecked in singularly unflattering terms by a vocal supporter of Daniel’s impromptu grassroots campaign for recognition.

Less successful is the decision to effectively martyr the central character in service of the message. It is a clumsy device. Equally, the decision to have Katie resort to employment in an escort agency is a melodramatic plot twist, which sits a little awkwardly with the understated realism of the rest of the film. A scene in which Daniel visits her place of employment and confronts her is uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons.

The cinematography, by Robbie Ryan, another Loach regular, favours a muted palette of drab browns and greens, but deftly captures the subtleties of the persuasive performances by Johns and Squire. The minimal score, just an ominous pulse at times of tension, subtly reminds us of Daniel’s generous but overworked heart.

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Neruda Reviewed by Allan Hunter Described by director Pablo Larrain as “more of a ‘Nerudian’ film than it is a film about Neruda”, his latest work weaves an exuberantly irreverent fantasy around events in the life of the poet and politician.

In the early days of the Cold War, as Chile aligned itself with the US, Pablo Neruda’s Communist beliefs made him an enemy of the state, forcing him into hiding. Executed with comic brio, Neruda follows his pursuit by the authorities and is pitched somewhere between the writing of Dennis Potter and Paolo Sorrentino’s more baroque side. Often very funny and unsettling, it still illuminates the character of Neruda and the battle for Chile in the 1940s.

Neruda provides further evidence of Larrain’s ability to shine a light in the darkest corners of his country’s past and still create accessible, entertaining films for the global arthouse trade.

It should be warmly welcomed by audiences that embraced No and The Club.

Larrain and screenwriter Guillermo Calderon envisage Neruda’s plight in the form of a shadowy, hardboiled film noir. Branded a traitor and threatened with jail, Neruda (Luis Gnecco)

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT Chile-Arg-Fr-Sp. 2016.

108mins Director Pablo Larrain Production companies Fabula, AZ Films, Funny Balloons, Setembro Cine International sales Funny Balloons, pdanner@ funny-ballons.com Producer Juan de Dios Larrain Screenplay Guillermo Calderon Cinematography Sergio Armstrong Editor Hervé Schneid Production design Estefania Larrain Music Federico Jusid Main cast Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Moran, Pablo Derqui

takes flight with his wife Delia del Carril (Mercedes Moran). Rather than cower in the shadows, he wants to hide in plain sight and enjoy the thrill of the chase. There are creative possibilities in his persecution and the possibility of inventing a Neruda who will never be forgotten by the people of Chile.

What good is a chase without a hunter? Police inspector Oscar Peluchonneau, described as “half moron, half-idiot”, is on the case. Played by Gael Garcia Bernal as a cross between the relentless Javert of Les Misérables and Inspector Clouseau, Peluchonneau does not want to be just a supporting character in the narrative that Neruda creates, but remains clueless even as Neruda leaves him autographed copies of his book and appears before his eyes in a cunning disguise.

Neruda is about myth making and embraces the famous John Ford dictum of print the legend and let the facts take care of themselves.

Gnecco’s affable Neruda is not overly burdened by humility, accepting the worship of fans and the privileges of wealth and position. Happily aware of his champagne socialist leanings, he is still eager to become a symbol of a greater struggle for freedom and civil liberties.

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film’s conceit, with Peluchonneau providing the voice-over narration to this playful tale and the use of back projection and a Bernard Herrmann-style score from Federico Jusid casting up reminders of Hitchcock’s more florid side.

The film looks fantastic, from the amber glow of clandestine nightclubs to the glistening white snow of the final showdown. If there are times when the whole approach feels wearingly mannered, it seems a small price to pay for such an inventive and provocative film.

daughters, André’s sister Aude (Juliette Binoche) and her progeny Billie (Raph), a huskyvoiced beauty, apparently a girl who dresses as a boy, or possibly vice versa. S/he seems the only sane one among a borderline-hysterical bunch who are forever oohing and aahing about the sublimity of the landscape, or variously swooning, lapsing into undignified pratfalls or indulging — in Luchini’s case — in quasi-Pythonesque silly walks. Also in the vicinity are a Laurel and Hardy duo of bumbling cops investigating some mysterious disappearances. The solution, revealed soon into the story, is grisly indeed — funny at first, although Dumont’s characteristic occupation with the intransigently bestial inhumanity becomes gradually bleaker.

Dumont watchers will note Slack Bay repeats themes he has reworked several times since his 1999 quasi-policier, Humanity. In many ways, it is a period remix of L’il Quinquin — bloody crimes, dopey cops, taciturn locals, mock-sentimental romance and the deliberately provocative casting of ungainly non-professionals.

There is a new ingredient, however, the nest of preening gentlefolk, which gives Luchini, Bruni Tedeschi and Binoche, the chance to crank their eccentricities to the grotesque extreme, to comic effect that’s surprising at first, but quickly becomes grinding.

Slack Bay Reviewed by Jonathan Romney French auteur Bruno Dumont pushes the boat out once again — into murky comic waters and the mussel beds of northern France’s Cote d’Opale. This black comedy of manners is a follow-up to his 2014 TV mini-series L’il Quinquin.

The idea of a comedy from France’s arch-auteur of existential solemnity seemed counter-intuitive, but the production attracted 1.6 million viewers on French TV and scored a respectable standalone theatrical presence. Despite its starry cast and stunning production values, the period-set Slack Bay (Ma Loute) seems unlikely to win a vast following either in France — where it is released simultaneously with its Cannes premiere — or abroad, as its humour is too downright weird. Besides, this knowingly excessive brew of cartoonish knockabout and macabre comedy horror just is not that funny.

The setting is 1910 on France’s northern coast, where weatherbeaten locals the Bruforts — headed by lifeboat skipper dad ‘The Eternal’ (Thierry Lavieville) — make a living picking mussels and ferrying holidaymakers across stretches of water, Dad and saturnine son Ma Loute (impressive scowler Brandon Lavieville) sometimes carrying them bodily.

Every summer, Slack Bay, site of a mockEgyptian folly, is holiday venue to posh townies the Van Peteghems: spouses André and Isabelle (Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), their

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COMPETITION Fr-Ger. 2016. 122mins Director-screenplay Bruno Dumont Production companies 3B Productions, Arte France Cinema, Pallas Film, Twentytwenty Vision International sales Memento Films International, sales@ memento-films.com Producers Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin Cinematography Guillaume Deffontaines Editors Bruno Dumont, Basile Belkhiri Production design Riton Dupire-Clément Main cast Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jean-Luc Vincent, Raph, Brandon Lavieville

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The Student Reviewed by Sarah Ward

Sweet Dreams Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Marco Bellocchio casts a bleary eye over the travails of masculinity in crisis in Sweet Dreams (Fai Bei Sogni) — and although the result is not an all-out nightmare, it is not an idyll to rank with the Italian veteran’s best. Based on the autobiographical 2012 novel by journalist Massimo Gramellini, a bestseller in Italy, the film follows hero Massimo (Valerio Mastandrea) on a non-chronological path from traumatic childhood through to careworn adulthood and long-awaited emotional release.

But long before this point, the film’s solemnity and vaguely therapeutic tone have become so laborious that viewers will take little away from Sweet Dreams except the insight, not uncommon in Italian cinema, that the love between a boy and his mother can beat other cinematic amour fou when it comes to earnest intensity.

The film begins in the 1960s as little Massimo (Nicolo Cabras) dances the twist with his clearly troubled mother (Barbara Ronchi). When she dies soon after, no one around the boy, least of all his detached father (Guido Caprino), will tell him exactly what has happened, and Massimo subsequently goes through life in a state of angry denial: the film’s title was the last thing his mother said to him, but it also refers to Massimo’s more or less delusional state of emotional repression.

The film moves episodically, zigzagging back and forth, between Massimo’s childhood, his return as an adult to the family’s Turin flat, and his solitary existence in Rome — where, like Gramellini, he is a journalist with La Stampa. The film’s most frustrating aspect is that viewers are way ahead of Massimo in figuring out what really happened to his mother. Clearly, mystery per se is not the real crux of the story, it is more about the psychological processes that continue to blind Massimo to the truth. But it is increasingly difficult to care about his woes, given the one-note lugubriousness with which Mastandrea plays him as an adult.

A sudden panic attack should represent the moment at which Massimo’s repression starts to crack but leads instead to a feeble scene in which he is advised by Elisa (Bérénice Béjo), a sympathetic hospital doctor. It is no surprise Elisa eventually proves to be Massimo’s conduit to emotional release — he finally unleashes his inner mojo on a dancefloor — but she is barely defined as more than compassion and a nice smile.

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DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT It. 2016. 134mins Director Marco Bellocchio Production companies IBC Movie, Kavac Film, Rai Cinema International sales The Match Factory, info@matchfactory.de Producer Beppe Caschetto Screenplay Valia Santella, Edoardo Albinati, Marco Bellocchio, based on the novel by Massimo Gramellini Cinematography Daniele Cipri Editor Francesca Calvelli Production design Marco Dentici Music Carlo Crivelli Main cast Valerio Mastandrea, Bérénice Béjo, Guido Caprino, Nicolo Cabras, Emmanuelle Devos, Barbara Ronchi

Virtue is a matter of interpretation in The Student (Uchenik), as the titular teen challenges the patience and perspectives of his mother, teachers and classmates by spouting bible verse. Adapting German playwright Marius von Mayenburg’s controversial theatre work Martyr, writer/director Kirill Serebrennikov extends the concept of the disillusioned youthful know-it-all to an uncommon extreme, complete with new-found faith, near-constant theological debates, and alternately satirical, scathing and surreal dissections of religious fanaticism. However, his assured handling of the ambitious material inspires an intriguing film to match.

The Student is the type of feature programmers will appreciate but broader audiences may struggle with, marking the international film festival circuit as its likely home after its Un Certain Regard premiere. That said, Serebrennikov’s penchant for lengthy, unbroken shots ensures interest never wavers, as does his ability to stage a raft of standout scenes. In fact, the Russian film-maker astutely lets his aesthetics do as much heavy lifting as possible.

The feature’s opening, a prolonged argument between protagonist Veniamin (Petr Skvortsov) and his overworked single mother (Julia Aug), typifies this approach.

Shot in a continuous six-minute take that fluidly bobs and weaves through their apartment as they bicker over swimming lessons, it feels fitting as well as telling.

Veniamin’s unwillingness to get into the water is revealed to be spiritually motivated: adhering to the letter of biblical law, he is protesting about the revealing costumes donned by his female peers. As his objections and impromptu sermons on this and other matters escalate, his mother demands help from the school. The chaos that arises from Veniamin’s fundamentalist beliefs and feverish behaviour — successfully manipulating those around him through his rigid reading of ambiguous passages of scripture, with all references catalogued on screen — borders on farcical, though cultivating amusement is not The Student’s main aim.

The end result proves commanding and fascinating, even if it is not wholly satisfying from start to finish. In his first feature since 2012 Venice competitor Betrayal, Serebrennikov attacks his hefty subject with guns blazing but occasionally allows the unsubtle film to labour under its own weight. Thankfully, strong performances across the board offer just the jolts some scenes need.

UN CERTAIN REGARD Rus. 2016. 118mins Director-screenplay Kirill Serebrennikov Production company Hype Film International sales Wide, infos@ widemanagement.com Producers Ilya Stewart, Diana Safarova, Yury Kozyrev Executive producers Murad Osmann, Cosimo Fini Co-producers Sergey Shtern, Svetlana Ustinova, Ilya Dzhincharadze, Katerina Komolova Cinematographer Vladislav Opelyants Editor Yury Karikh Production designer Ekaterina Shcheglova Music Ilya Demutsky Main cast Petr Skvortsov, Julia Aug, Svetlana Bragarnik, Victoria Isakova, Alexandra Revenko, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Anton Vasiliev

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Clash Reviewed by Lee Marshall In an Egypt where the Arab Spring has soured into an autocratic autumn, Clash (Eshtebak) comes as a courageous cinematic challenge to the ongoing crackdown on press and artistic freedom. Film-maker Mohamed Diab is as famous at home for his role as an activist and blogger during the 2011 revolution that toppled the Mubarak regime, as he is as a director.

In this follow-up to anti-sexism drama Cairo 678 (2010), Diab turns his attention to the chaos and divisions of the pro- and anti-government protests that followed the toppling of elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. Topical, watchable and only occasionally melodramatic, Clash should travel wherever there are audiences interested in getting beneath the skin of a complex Islamic nation.

There is something a little theatrical, perhaps, in the premise, which sees the back of a police truck, where a pair of journalists and supporters of both sides are thrown pending arrest, as a pressure-cooker dramatic device and metaphor.

But while the stand-off does have its scripted moments, Clash rises above this for two reasons.

Firstly, it is intensely cinematic, inventively using a handheld camera in a confined space to not only stir tension but as a mirror of a society which itself has been ‘kettled’, with no room for manoeuvre. Secondly, underlying the drama is a

UN CERTAIN REGARD, OPENING FILM Egy-Fr. 2016. 97mins Director Mohamed Diab Production company Film Clinic International sales Pyramide, avalentin@ pyramidefilms.com Producers Mohamed Hefzy, Eric Lagesse, MW Zackie Screenplay Khaled Diab, Mohamed Diab Cinematography Ahmed Gabr Editor Ahmed Hafez Production designer Hend Haidar Music Khaled Dagher Main cast Nelly Karim, Hany Adel, Mohamed El Sabaey, Tarek Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Malek, Ahmed Dash, Husni Sheta, Aly Eltayeb, Amr El Kady

rather poignant lament for the unity and energy of Egyptian culture, something that comes through in a wealth of small details.

Terse opening titles set the scene, fast-forwarding from the 2011 revolution to the July 2013 day on which the film is set. The camera begins where it ends, at the back of the police van during one of the Cairo protests that followed Morsi’s deposition by the military. The first to be rounded up by the riot police and thrown into the truck are Adam (Hany Adel) and Zein (Mohammed El Sebaey), a reporter and photographer for Associated Press — a thinly veiled nod to the arrest of Australian Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste with two local colleagues in December 2013.

When a group of anti-Morsi supporters stone

the truck on learning that a US ‘spy’ is on board, they too are thrown in the back. Later, when the truck runs into an opposing Muslim Brotherhood protest on the way to the precinct, a proMorsi contingent joins the party. A Christian Copt policeman who rebels against orders and is himself locked up with his charges later adds another dramatic iron to the fire.

Riots, sniper shootings, stonings and tear-gas shot through the bars of the van’s windows, and the grilles that cover them, convey the blinkered vision that still — the film seems to suggest — plagues Egyptian attempts to reach some sort of national consensus. Inside, fluid movements and focus-pulls create games of perspective as the drama changes gear repeatedly, ratcheting up the tension and releasing it.

his fear of commitment when his girlfriend of three months, Maysa (Maisa Abd Elhadi), wants to get serious.

Throughout Personal Affairs, Haj weaves in commentary about how Palestinians learn to co-exist alongside Israelis, the characters often feeling trapped, yearning to break free. This is perhaps most poetically expressed in another subplot, which concerns Nabeela and Saleh’s very pregnant daughter, played by Hanan Hillo, and her blue-collar husband, played by Amer Hlehel, who is unexpectedly asked to audition for a film.

But Personal Affairs never drifts too deeply into metaphorical waters, letting its cultural observations wash over the viewer rather than becoming a deluge. A perfect example of Haj’s understated technique is demonstrated by a quiet motif of Hisham coming out to stand on his balcony, which prompts his female Swedish neighbour to conveniently find a reason to go back inside and ignore him. Is she bigoted or shy? Haj never says, but we register how subtly alienating the repetition is for him.

Amid a cast heavy with non-pros, it is perhaps unsurprising that seasoned young actress Maisa Abd Elhadi (Habibi Rasak Kharban) is a standout, transforming Maysa from a slightly clingy

girlfriend to a woman who finds her backbone when Tarek starts taking her for granted.

Haj also elicits likeable performances from her first-timers, but her real casting coup may be drafting Sana and Mahmoud Shawahdeh, friends of the film-maker, to play this silently unhappy couple. With their tightly controlled, inexpressive faces, they have the same kind of deadpan whimsy one expects in a Roy Andersson film. Equally, however, the actors convey the resignation and discontent that have eaten away at their marriage for too many years.

Personal Affairs Reviewed by Tim Grierson Slight but charming, Personal Affairs (Omor Shakhsiya) touches on the inescapable melancholy of modern life, but is as graceful as a tango dance in the process. Although the feature debut of writer-director Maha Haj is more of a gentle sigh than a tightly plotted film, this comedydrama gives its emotions and themes room to breathe in its episodic explorations of a Palestinian family coming to grips with their different circumstances, never forcing anything and always demonstrating a relaxed confidence.

Premiering in Un Certain Regard, Personal Affairs may prove too niche to attract significant theatrical business, especially since the film features a largely non-professional cast. But a healthy festival life seems certain, with sympathetic reviews and decent word-of-mouth from adult audiences sure to help.

Nabeela (Sana Shawahdeh) and Saleh (Mahmoud Shawahdeh) are an elderly married couple living in Nazareth; Saleh frustrated by how distant Nabeela has become. Their son Hisham (Ziad Bakri) tries to convince them to visit him in Stockholm in order to renew their bond, while their other son, Tarek (Doraid Liddawi), who resides in Ramallah, must confront

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UN CERTAIN REGARD Isr. 2016. 90mins Director-screenplay Maha Haj Production companies Majdal Films, Sophie Dulac Distribution, Isreal Film Fund, Other Israel Film Festival, JRY Clinic, Yellow Dawn Production International sales Films Boutique, simon@ filmsboutique.com, info@filmsboutique.com Producer Baher Agbariya Cinematography Elad Debi Editor Véronique Lange Music Habib Shehadeh Hanna Main cast Amer Hlehel, Doraid Liddawi, Mahmoud Shawahdeh, Sana Shawahdeh, Hanan Hillo, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Ziad Bakri

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Korea’s show of strength South Korean films are selling widely around the world but film-makers are concerned by a government clampdown on freedom of expression at home. Jean Noh reports

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outh Korea is back in Cannes with three highly anticipated features in official selection.

The titles are all from previous Cannes participants: Oldboy director Park Chan-wook’s erotic thriller The Handmaiden in Competition, The King Of Pigs director Yeon Sang-ho’s first liveaction feature Train To Busan in Midnight Screenings and The Yellow Sea director Na Hong Jin’s thriller The Wailing, which is screening out of competition.

In the first quarter of this year, the South Korean box office saw 49.4 million admissions, down from 50.4 million in the same period last year, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Local films secured a 50.4% market share, down slightly from 51.4% in the first quarter of 2015.

Showbox’s A Violent Prosecutor led the box office in this period, with 9.69 million admissions, followed by CJ E&M’s Kung Fu Panda 3 with 4 million and WAW Pictures’ sleeper hit drama Spirits’ Homecoming with 3.5 million. Disney Korea’s Zootopia came in fourth with 3.3 million admissions, while 20th Century Fox Korea’s Deadpool secured 3.3 million.

Among distributors, Showbox led with a 50.3% market share, with CJ E&M following on 15.7%, WAW Pictures with 14.1%, NEW with 7.8% and Megabox with 4.6%.

South Korean film-makers continue to launch into the rest of Asia with remakes, such as CJ’s multiple territory-specific versions of Miss Granny in China, Vietnam and Thailand. Korean films are selling well internationally, with The Handmaiden pre-selling to 116 territories. Mainland Chinese money is finding a home in the Korean industry, as in the case of Huace’s investment in NEW. For Korean film-makers, the most pressing issue these days is the government threat to freedom of expression.

Korean film industry organisations have declared a large-scale boycott of Busan International Film Festival this year in light of the city’s continued refusal to guarantee independence and autonomy for the organisers following the controversial screening two years ago of the documentary The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol, which the authorities had tried to ban.

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The Handmaiden

OFFICIAL SELECTION The Handmaiden Dir Park Chan-wook Two-time Cannes award-winner Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst) returns to Competition with The Handmaiden.

Inspired by Sarah Waters’ Victorian London-set crime novel Fingersmith, the erotic thriller has been relocated to the 1930s during Japan’s occupation of Korea. A young Korean woman, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden for a Japanese heiress, Hideko, living a secluded existence on an estate with her domineering uncle. The maid is secretly in league with a swindler posing as a count, who plans to marry Hideko and take her fortune, locking her up in an asylum. The Handmaiden stars Ha Jung-woo, Kim Min-hee and newcomer Kim Tae-ri as Sookee.

Contact CJ E&M, Yoonhee Choi yoonheec@cj. net

The Wailing

Train To Busan

The Wailing

Dir Yeon Sang-ho

Dir Na Hong Jin

The director of animation The King Of Pigs, Yeon Sang-ho, returns to the Croisette with his first live-action feature Train To Busan. Starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, and Kim Su-an, the film follows a beleaguered father and daughter travelling on the high-speed train to Busan to visit her mother, when a virus on board starts to turn the passengers into zombies.

Na Hong Jin, the director of The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, returns to Cannes with the international premiere of The Wailing — also known as Goksung or Gokseong — which screens here out of competition. Produced and presented by Fox International Productions (Korea), with Side Mirror Co also producing, the thriller is set in an isolated village where the arrival of a mysterious stranger starts to wreak havoc. Rumours spread and the villagers inexplicably start killing one another in grotesque ways. The film stars Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jungmin, Kunimura Jun and Chun Woo-hee.

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SELECTED MARKET PROJECTS The Age Of Shadows Dir Kim Jee-woon A film about resistance fighters during the Japanese occupation, The Age Of Shadows is directed by Kim Jee-woon, whose previous works A Bittersweet Life and The Good, The Bad, The Weird also screened in Cannes. Set in the 1920s, The Age Of Shadows stars Song Kang-ho as a Korean-born Japanese police officer who is out to catch a band of rebels led by Gong Yoo, who are trying to smuggle in explosives from Shanghai to target Japanese facilities in Seoul. Now in post-production, the film is Warner Bros Korea’s first local-language production.

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Duel: Final Round Dir Shin Dong-ywup An action film featuring a mix of martial

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arts, Duel: Final Round is based on the idea of gamers who adopt their deadly online personas in the real world. Director Shin Dong-ywup, whose credits include Days Of Wrath and Untouchable Lawmen, uses his comedy-action chops to tell the story of a famous cop who is surprisingly beaten in a fight by a murder suspect. His younger brother tracks down the man only to be roundly beaten himself. The policeman then elicits the help of a drunken master who can teach him enough to prepare for a revenge battle. Lee Ju-seung, Oh Ji-ho and Lee Jung-jin star.

Contact 9ers Entertainment, Angela Kim angela@niners.co.kr

Run-off Dir Kim Jong-hyun In Run-off, KM Culture’s sequel to its hit ski-jump film Take Off, another underdog winter Olympics team is put together in South Korea — this time, a female national ice hockey team. Directed by Kim Jong-hyun (My New Partner) and starring Su Ae, Oh Dal-su and Oh Yeon-

seo, the film follows the fortunes of the motley crew, which includes a figure skater, a former field-hockey player who is now an overweight housewife, and an expelled short-track skater. The only ace is Ji-won, a former North Korean national team player, whose sister is on one of the opposing teams.

Contact M-Line Distribution sales@mline-distribution.com

The Tunnel Dir Kim Seong-hun From the director of A Hard Day, which screened in Cannes last year, Kim Seonghun’s The Tunnel stars Ha Jung-woo (The Handmaiden), Oh Dal-su and Doona Bae. The drama follows an ordinary man, on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter, when the tunnel through which he is driving collapses.

Outside, a media frenzy ensues and he is interviewed over the phone — causing his battery to wear out. The government promises a rescue, but a series of blunders delays the operation and threatens the man’s chances of making it out alive.

The Tunnel is set for release in the third quarter of the year.

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Will You Be There?

Dir Hong Ji-young Based on Guillaume Musso’s bestselling romantic French novel of the same name, Will You Be There? is directed by Hong Ji-young, whose The Naked Kitchen screened at the Berlinale and whose Marriage Blue was sold for a remake in China. Starring Kim Yun-seok and Byun Yo-han, Will You Be There? tells the story of a talented doctor with terminal cancer whose fervent wish is to see his long-dead girlfriend again. He meets a mysterious old man in Cambodia who gives him some pills that allow him to travel 30 years into the past where he is forced to decide whether to help his younger self save his girlfriend at the risk of changing his daughter’s fate. The film is set for release in the third quarter of 2016.

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KOREA FOCUS PARK CHAN-WOOK

Adapt and thrive The new film from Cannes favourite Park Chan-wook is an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Victorian era-set lesbian crime novel Fingersmith, transplanted to 1930s Korea. Jean Noh talks to the director

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he Handmaiden is Park Chanwook’s return to Korean production following his English-language debut Stoker.

Produced by Moho Film and Yong Film Inc., the erotic thriller has pre-sold to 116 territories. It tells the story of a young Korean woman, during the era of Japanese imperialist rule, in league with an aristocratic swindler who is trying to fool a Japanese heiress into marrying him. Park won the Grand Prix for Oldboy at Cannes in 2004 and the Jury Prize for Thirst in 2009. The Handmaiden is screening in Competition today.

sion, a temple, and some interiors in a traditional inn. For most of the other interiors, we went to Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA), which has Korea’s biggest soundstage.

We had 68 shooting days — which by American standards is a bit on the numerous side, but for a Korean film in the WON10bn ($8.6m) budget range, is not. Thirst had almost 100 shooting days.

My US experiences in that sense helped me make decisions faster on set. Korea also now has standard work contracts for crews, so if you go over 12 hours, or exceed the originally contracted period, the payroll costs go up tremendously.

The Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook

Why did you want to make this film?

I read the novel four or five years ago.

Stories with homosexual protagonists fighting against prejudice are, in a way, common, but a homosexual story that’s also a genre story is something special.

The plot twist is fabulous, too. In the script, I kept to the first part of the book, but changed the latter to be more suitable to genre cinema. After reading it, the author suggested we say the film’s “inspired by” rather than “based on” her novel.

Why did you set it in this period?

We needed an era with a caste system still employing handmaidens, but also with the modern institution of insane asylums.

My producer suggested bringing the story to Korea, during the era under Japanese imperialist rule. I thought I could do something that looked at the period from a different angle.

Why did you cast two of Korea’s biggest actors, Kim Min-hee and Ha Jung-woo, as the heiress and swindler respectively?

I had known there would come a day when I would work with Kim Min-hee and Ha Jung-woo. I saw Kim in Helpless and Very Ordinary Couple, and it’s needless to talk about Ha. For his count character, I wanted someone who, when he’s not being a swindler, wouldn’t always seem aristocratic and elegant, but sort of lax and an ordinary good-for-nothing.

The film I liked Ha in best was My Dear Enemy. Kim has an aristocratic elegance and poise, a kind of coldness — but also fragility. The character needed both.

Also, she had absolutely no qualms

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about playing a homosexual character, which in Korea, actors can be considerably reluctant to do.

How did you cast the role of the handmaiden?

I wasn’t looking for a type. I don’t when I look for a newcomer. I just kept asking Kim Tae-ri to do different things and the role naturally went to her. It was like with Kang Hye-jung on Oldboy. She has interesting features, never feels constrained or gets crestfallen. She’s dignified and confident.

I had the same crew that I always work with, but all the actors were new to me. But we got close right away.

‘Kim Min-hee had no qualms about playing a homosexual character, which in Korea actors can be considerably reluctant to do’ Park Chan-wook

What’s the most important issue in the Korean film industry right now?

Busan International Film Festival [and the issue of censorship and government influence, which Korean film-makers are threatening to boycott over]. If things keep going this way, the boycott will have to go through. It can’t be [resolved with] a serviceable compromise, because we can’t leave a precedent. It might be difficult, but you have to think about history and stand firm.

You can’t think [a boycott] will be the end of the festival forever. It could also make the mayor determine to normalise it. You have to take a long view.

What about international film-makers?

Should they attend Busan?

Of course they shouldn’t. Until we can give them glad tidings that the festival is back to normal, as comrades in art who make films, we ask you to put off your participation at BIFF. We will fight, negotiate and try hard to be able to share s the glad tidings. ■

The Handmaiden

How? Over drinks, of course.

Where did you shoot the film?

We shot in three different locations in Japan for exteriors like the man-

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Latin class New titles from Pablo Larrain and Anna Muylaert join the other hot titles from Latin America in this year’s festival and market. By Jeremy Kay

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he might of Latin American cinema continues to impress, as evidenced by the triumphant performance of Colombian selections in Cannes last year and the box-office success of Argentina’s The Clan. What follows is a sample of the next wave from the region on offer in the market and festival.

Ricardo Darin is shooting the thriller Black Snow, which promises another nail-biting delivery from one of Argentina’s most enduring talents, while Brazil’s Special Operations hails from the school of gritty realism that the country’s filmmakers do so well. The hope is it will do for director Tomas Portella what Elite Squad did for Jose Padilha.

A solid Chilean delegation casts a spotlight on Patricio Valladares’ Downhill, a winner at the Ventana Sur Blood Window sidebar in Buenos Aires last December, and Attitude Test from Fabrizio Copano and Augusto Matte. Pablo Larrain flies the flag in Competition with the eagerly awaited Neruda.

Black Snow

Downhill Dir Patricio Valladares The Blood Window winner from the director of Hidden In The Woods follows two cyclists in Chile who stumble on an injured man dying from a virus that is part of a much bigger secret.

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El Amparo Attitude Test Dirs Augusto Matte, Fabrizio Copano The feature directing debutants will screen a rough cut under the Guadalajara Goes To Cannes banner. The story follows four pretty but dim teens who head to the Chilean coast with a stolen copy of a high-school test and embark on a night of excess — only to lose the test sheet.

Contact Forestero florencia@forestero.cl

Black Snow Dir Martin Hodara Ricardo Darin stars in Black Snow (Nieve Negra), which is shooting now. Hodara’s Argentinian thriller is about a man living in self-imposed exile in Patagonia after he was falsely accused of murdering his brother. When his other brother and sister-in-law arrive decades later and try to

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Dir Rober Calzadilla El Amparo

persuade him to sell his property, old rivalries are rekindled. Leonardo Sbaraglia, Laia Costa and Federico Luppi round out the key cast and producer Pablo Bossi is on board with Gloriamundi Producciones and Pampa Films.

Contact FilmSharks florencia@filmsharks.com

California Dir Marina Person Mira Filmes’ 1984-set coming-of-age drama California was an award winner on the Brazilian festival circuit. It is about a young girl who comes to terms with life when the uncle she so revered returns from California looking sick and emaciated.

Contact Films Boutique gabor@filmsboutique.com

Don’t Call Me Son Dir Anna Muylaert Anna Muylaert’s follow-up to her Brazilian foreign-language Oscar submission The Second Mother was a Berlin Panorama selection. Don’t Call Me Son (Mae So Ha Uma), one of a cluster of Brazilian works on offer, stars Naomi Nero and Dani Nefussi in the tale of a high-school student who suddenly learns the identity of his biological mother and has to move in with his new family.

Contact Loco Films laurent.danielou @loco-films.com

Sandro Florin’s US-based FiGa Films introduces the Venezuela-Colombia coproduction El Amparo to Cannes. Rober Calzadilla directed the project, which was formerly known as Sobrevivientes and was introduced as a work-in-progress at San Sebastian last year. The story takes place on the Venezuela-Colombia border in the late 1980s as locals try to protect two survivors of a deadly armed assault whom the Army suspects might be guerrilla fighters.

Contact FiGa Films sandro@figafilms.com

Esteros Dir Papu Curotto A Latina Estudio production, Papu Curotto’s Esteros is a Brazil-Argentina(Left) The Lost Brother

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Chilean auteur’s hotly anticipated Competition selection and follow-up to his country’s foreign-language Oscar submission The Club. Luis Gnecco stars as the country’s famed poet Pablo Neruda, whose affiliation with the Communist Party in the 1940s plunged him into a game of cat-and-mouse with a tenacious inspector, played by Gael Garcia Bernal.

Contact Funny Balloons rartukmac@funny-balloons.com

Special Operations Neruda

France co-production about two 11-yearold boys who fall in love and meet a decade later when one of them is about to get married.

Contact Outplay philippe@outplayfilms.com

The Lost Brother Dir Israel Adrian Caetano Film Factory is commencing sales and will show first footage on Argentina-Uruguay-Spain-France co-production The Lost Brother (El Otro Hermano). The latest film from Israel Adrian Caetano, the

Dir Tomas Portella Uruguay-born director of Cannes 2006 Competition entry drama Chronicles Of An Escape, dwells on the apparatus of Argentina’s repressive past. A Buenos Aires man must take a dark path in order to collect an insurance payout after his mother and brother are gunned down.

Leonardo Sbaraglia stars.

Contact Film Factory info@filmfactory.es

Neruda Dir Pablo Larrain Funny Balloons handles sales on the

Tomas Portella’s thriller Special Operations (Operacoes Operacoes Especiais) centres on a new female recruit to a Rio-based task force who brings honour to the unit when she solves a crime. While the locals celebrate the law enforcement officers, however, the well-heeled residents with ties to corruption are not so thrilled. Cleo Pires stars with Fabricio Boliveira, Marcos Caruso

and Fabiula Nascimento. Rodrigo Castellar and Lucas de Andrade produce.

Contact Mundial cristina_garza@mundialsales.com

Through The Shadow Dir Walter Lima Jr Through The Shadow (Atraves Da Sombra), from Casa Forte Producoes, follows a tutor in a coffee farm who fears evil spirits are trying to control her young orphaned charges. Virginia Cavendish, Mel Maia, Domingos Montagner, Ana Lucia Torre and Xande Valois star.

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(France) 122mins.

Dir: Bruno Dumont.

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

A couple of inspectors investigate the mysterious disappearance of tourists in Slack Bay, where young fisherman Ma Loute mingles with Billie Van Peteghem’s bourgeois family.

and press

08:30 DIAMOND ISLAND

(France) 101mins. Dir: Davy Chou. Cast: Sobon Noun, Cheanik Nov, Madezza Chhem, Mean Korn, Somnang Nut. Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the rich on the river in Phnom Penh. Like many other country boys, Bora, 18, is lured from his village to work on the construction of this property developer’s dream. There, he forges new friendships and is even reunited with his charismatic older brother, Solei, who disappeared five years ago. Solei introduces Bora to the exciting world of Cambodia’s privileged urban youth, with its girls, its nightlife and its illusions.

Critics’ Week Miramar

HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON

(Italy) 102mins. Dir: Alessandro Comodin.

Cast: Sabrina Seyvecou, Erikas Sizonovas, Luca Bernardi, Marco Giordana, Carlo Rigoni, Paolo Viano, Marinella Cichello.

A dense forest becomes a mysterious backdrop for danger and legend over the years: two men on the run for survival, a series of wolf attacks and a young woman mystified by a peculiar hole in the ground.

Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel

THE HANDMAIDEN (AGASSI)

(South Korea) 145mins.

Dir: Park Chan-Wook.

Cast: Jung-woo Ha, Minhee Kim, Kim Tae-ri.

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress but she is secretly involved in a plot to defraud her.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Press, ticket required

Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

12:15 WRONG ELEMENTS

Festival & Press 12:00 ENDLESS POETRY

(Chile) 128mins.

Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Adan Jodorowsky.

Santiago de Chile, during the thrilling years of the 1940s and the ’50s. “Alejandrito” Jodorowsky, aged 20, decides to become a poet against the will of his family. He is introduced to the inner circle of the artistic and

08:45 LIKE CRAZY

(Italy) 116mins.

Dir: Paolo Virzi. Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti.

Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s intimate with world leaders.

Donatella is a young, quiet, tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery.

They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures. ‘Like Crazy’ tells the story of their unpredictable friendship and their escape from the treatment constraints; two technically insane

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intellectual avant-garde of the time and meets Enrique Lihn, Stella Diaz, Nicanor Parra and many other promising but anonymous young writers who will become the masters of Latin America’s modern literature. Totally immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before: sensually, authentically, freely, madly.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

creatures, looking for a bit of fun and love in this open-air nuthouse.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

10:00 THE DANCER

(France) 108mins.

Dir: Stephanie Di Giusto.

Cast: Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Lily-Rose Depp.

Born in the American midwest, nothing in her background destined farm girl Loie Fuller to become the toast of Europe’s Belle Epoque cabarets, even less to dance at the Paris Opera. Dazzling the capital, she becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. Eminent admirers fall at her feet.

But her meeting with Isadora Duncan — a young prodigy hungry for glory — will lead to the downfall of this icon of the early 20th century. The remarkable destiny of a modern woman who revolutionised her era.

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11:00

rituals, desperate to fit in whatever the cost, she strays from her family principles when she eats raw meat for the first time.

Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions when her true self begins to emerge.

Critics’ Week Miramar

SOLARIS

(Russia) 167mins.

Dir: Andrei Tarkovski.

Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

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11:30 RAW

(France) 95mins.

Dir: Julia Ducournau.

Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas, Bouli Lanners.

Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet. And a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a brilliant and promising student. When she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the first week of hazing

(US) 97mins. Dir: Michael O’Shea. Cast: Eric Ruffin, Chloe Levine, Aaron Clifton Moten.

First-time film-maker Michael O’Shea delivers an atmospheric New York tale about love, loss and vampires.

11:45 THE BFG

(US) 120mins.

Dir: Steven Spielberg.

Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton.

Hollywood adaptation of Roald Dahl’s much-loved tale of the big friendly giant.

Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Press, ticket required

12:00 ENDLESS POETRY See box, above

(France) 133mins.

Dir: Jonathan Littell.

Uganda, 1989. Joseph Kony, a young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, forms a rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s Resistance Army.

An “army” that grew by abducting teenagers – more than 60,000 over 25 years – of which fewer than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Michael were among these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. Today, in their efforts to rebuild their lives, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they did not fully understand, they are forever the wrong elements society struggles to accept. Meanwhile, in the immensity of the Central African jungle, the Ugandan army still continues to hunt the last scattered LRA rebels. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run.

Out of Competition Salle Bazin Press

14:00 HARMONIUM

(Japan) 118mins. Dir: Koji Fukada. Cast: Kanji Furutachi, Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui.

Koji Fukada anatomises the dismantlement of a traditional Japanese family in a precise and disturbing way.

Un Certain Regard Theatre Claude Debussy Press

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18:00 LIKE CRAZY

(Italy) 116mins. Dir: Paolo Virzi. Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

19:00 AMERICAN HONEY

(UK) 158mins. Dir: Andrea Arnold. Cast: Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane, Riley Keough.

The story of a teenager who falls into a life on the road.

Competition Theatre Claude Debussy Press

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Festival & Press 15:00 TONI ERDMANN

(Germany) 162mins.

Dir: Maren Ade. Cast: Sandra Huller, Peter Simonischek.

Practical joker Winfried disguises himself as flashy “Toni Erdmann” to get busy Ines’ attention and change

14:15 DECALOGUE 5

(Poland) 58mins. Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Artur Barcis, Krystyna Janda, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Maciej Szary, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz.

Classic European cinema from Krzysztof Kieslowski.

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HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON

(Italy) 102mins. Dir: Alessandro Comodin.

Cast: Sabrina Seyvecou, Erikas Sizonovas, Luca Bernardi, Marco Giordana, Carlo Rigoni, Paolo Viano, Marinella Cichello.

Critics’ Week Miramar

14:30 I, DANIEL BLAKE

(UK) 97mins. Dir: Ken Loach. Cast: Dave Johns,

her corporate lifestyle.

The father-daughter challenge reaches absurd proportions until Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Ticket required

Hayley Squires.

Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle.

Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the state. He crosses paths with a single mother, Katie, and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-room homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught in the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of “striver and skiver” in modern-day Britain.

Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

14:45 TRAIN TO BUSAN

(South Korea) 118mins.

Dir: Yeon Sang-Ho. Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-Mi, Ma DongSeok, Kim Su-An.

48 Screen International at Cannes May 14, 2016

Life-or-death struggles on a KTX train to Busan.

Comedy set in a small town in northern Italy.

Out of Competition Salle Bazin Press

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

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RAW

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(France) 95mins.

Dir: Julia Ducournau.

Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas,

15:15 DECALOGUE 6

(Poland) 57mins. Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Cast: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska, Artur Barcis, Stanislaw Gawlik, Piotr Machalica, Rafal Imbro, Malgorzata Rozniatowska.

Classic European cinema from Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Bouli Lanners.

Critics’ Week Miramar

THE STUDENT

(Russia) 118mins.

Dir: Kirill Serebrennikov.

Cast: Petr Skvortsov, Victoria Isakova, Julia Aug. “Those who follow the light have only ever invented darkness” –

(US) 120mins. Dir: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton.

Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Ticket required

19:15 WRONG ELEMENTS

(France) 133mins.

Dir: Jonathan Littell.

Out of Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

15:30 DOG EAT DOG See box, right

16:30 THE TRANSFIGURATION

(US) 97mins. Dir: Michael O’Shea. Cast: Eric Ruffin, Chloe Levine, Aaron Clifton Moten.

Festival & Press

Un Certain Regard Theatre Claude Debussy Press

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16:45 CES MESSIEURS DAMES / BELLES DAMES, VILAIN MESSIEURS

(Italy) 115mins. Dir: Pietro Germi. Cast: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Nora Ricci.

15:30

(US) 87mins. Dir: Paul Schrader.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Louisa Krause.

When three desperate ex-cons are offered a job by a Mexican mob boss, they know they should refuse but the payoff is too big to turn down. All they have to do is kidnap the kid of a colleague who’s ripping off the mob

boss. But the abduction goes awry when the kidnappers are forced to kill an unexpected intruder, who turns out to be the child’s father — the very man the mob boss intended to extort. Now unwelcome in the underworld and on the run for murder, the ex-cons find themselves as the most wanted fugitives in the City of Angels.

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09:30 FOREVER

Arcades 1 Press allowed

(South Africa) 101mins.

Princ Films. Dir: Jaco Smit. Cast: Ivan Botha, Donnalee Roberts, Kelsey Egan, Andre Jacobs.

Childhood friends Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown. Unbeknown to him, it is the day before Nina’s wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.

Gray 2

I, DANIEL BLAKE

Festival & Press 22:15 RAW

(France) 95mins.

Dir: Julia Ducournau.

Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas, Bouli Lanners.

Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet. And a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a brilliant and promising student. When she starts at veterinary school, she enters a

19:30

decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the first week of hazing rituals, desperate to fit in whatever the cost, she strays from her family principles when she eats raw meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions when her true self begins to emerge.

Critics’ Week Miramar

21:00

UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME

ENDLESS POETRY

(France) 102mins. Dir: Claude Lelouch. Cast: Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant.

The very simple story of a couple trying to form a relationship but are hampered by memories of their dead spouses.

(Chile) 128mins. Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Adan Jodorowsky.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

COUP DE TETE

19:45 HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON

(Italy) 102mins. Dir: Alessandro Comodin.

Cast: Sabrina Seyvecou, Erikas Sizonovas, Luca Bernardi, Marco Giordana, Carlo Rigoni, Paolo Viano, Marinella Cichello.

Critics’ Week Miramar

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

21:30

(France) 92mins. Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud.

Cast: Patrick Dewaere, Jean Bouise.

A down-on-his-luck factory worker is wrongfully convicted of a crime but uses his footballing talent to save the day.

Cinema on the Beach Plage Mace

THE HANDMAIDEN (AGASSI)

(South Korea) 145mins.

52 Screen International at Cannes May 14, 2016

Cj E&M Corporation/Cj Entertainment.

Dir: Park Chan-Wook.

Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Kim Min-hee, Jo Jin-woong.

Competition Olympia 1 Marché badge holders only

22:00 BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISCHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS

(US) 95mins. Dir: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens.

Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher.

This is an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty, in all its eccentricity. At 83 years old, grand dame Debbie Reynolds (star of ‘Singing In The Rain’) still performs a Las Vegas act, dressed in gold lame.

But performing takes its toll, and Debbie’s health suffers.

22:15 HARMONIUM

(Japan) 118mins. Dir: Koji Fukada. Cast: Kanji Furutachi, Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui.

Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio’s family life.

Un Certain Regard Theatre Claude Debussy Press

RAW See box, above left

Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught in the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of “striver and skiver” in modern-day Britain.

(UK) 97mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Ken Loach.

Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires.

Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle.

Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the state. He crosses paths with a single mother, Katie, and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a oneroom homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and

LADY BLOODFIGHT

(Hong Kong/China) 99mins. Voltage Pictures.

Dir: Chris Nahon. Cast: Amy Johnston.

Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking her way through Hong Kong.

When she successfully fends off three thugs trying to rob her, it draws the attention of Shu, a Wudang champion, who is impressed by her raw street fighting abilities.

Shu recruits Jane and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as “The Kumite”. After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready to face off against the deadliest female fighters in the world, including Ling, the apprentice of Shu’s nemesis, Wai, a Shaolin master. Other nefarious forces also lie in the shadows, taking Jane on a journey through the gritty underworld of Hong Kong as she fights to be named the best female fighter in the world.

Gray 4

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

THE HANDMAIDEN (AGASSI) See box, right

TRAIN TO BUSAN

(South Korea) 118mins.

Dir: Sang-Ho Yeon.

Cast: Yoo Gong, Yu-Mi Jung, Dong-Seok Ma, Su-An Kim. Life-or-death struggles on a KTX train to Busan.

Midnight Screenings Salle Du Soixantieme

Festival & Press 22:00 THE HANDMAIDEN (AGASSI)

(South Korea) 145mins. Dir: Park Chan-Wook. Cast: Jung-woo Ha, Minhee Kim, Kim Tae-ri.

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress but she is secretly involved in a plot to defraud her.

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its eighth year, a mother and daughter are slowly torn apart by the bombing campaigns on the city coupled with the country’s bloody revolution. As they struggle to stay together amid these terrors, a mysterious evil stalks through their apartment.

Olympia 9

THE UNSEEN

Market 09:30 THE SLEEPER BY THE RIVER

(France) 110mins.

Quizas. Dir: Manuel Sanchez. Cast: Dominique Pinon, Marina Tome, Delphine Depardieu, Pascal Turmo.

In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse

Duval, who has just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress.

She will unwittingly turn their life upside down.

Basile’s great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper ‘Le Quotidien de la Meuse’, witnesses the comical drama that is unfolding on the street outside his house, and will unwillingly be drawn into it.

passengers on a Pan Am flight that was hijacked in 1986 at Karachi airport.

Palais F

ROOMMATES WANTED

(France) 95mins. Snd — Groupe M6. Dir: Francois Desagnat.

Cast: Andre Dussollier, Berengere Krief, Arnaud Ducret, Julia Piaton, Nicolas Marie.

A fast-paced comedy about giving up your comfort zone and extra bedrooms.

Olympia 6

Palais G

Only when the longawaited guests are at her doorstep does Therese discover they are Syrian.

She vows this engagement will only happen over her dead body!

Palais H

UNDER THE SHADOW

(UK) 84mins. Xyz Films.

Dir: Babak Anvari. Cast: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi.

Tehran, 1988: As the IranIraq War rumbles into

(Canada) 104mins.

Goonworks Films. Dir: Geoff Redknap. Cast: Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone, Ben Cotton, Alison Araya.

A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.

Lerins 4

VOIR DU PAYS

(France) 102mins.

Films Distribution. Dir: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin. Cast: Soko, Ariane Labed.

At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it’s not that

easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.

Lerins 2 By invitation only

WILD SOCCER BUNCH — THE LEGEND LIVES! See box, below

THE YOUNG ONE

(France) 84mins. Alfama Films. Dir: Julien Samani. Cast: Kevin Azais, Samir Guesmi, Jean-Francois Stevenin.

Olympia 7

09.45 THE DAY WILL COME

(Denmark) 119mins.

Trustnordisk. Dir: Jesper W. Nielsen. Cast: Sofie Grabol, Lars Mikkelsen, Lars Ranthe.

The year is 1967 and a blooming youth culture is on the rise. In a workingclass neighbourhood of Copenhagen, two inseparable brothers — Elmer and Erik — are removed from their ill mother and put in the Gudbjerg Home for Boys, a place frozen in time.

Here, headmaster Heck practises his own brand of philosophy and regulation.

Unruly boys are transformed into obedient citizens at any cost. From their very first day, the boys understand that their freedom is lost and a daily

THE SLEEPER BY THE RIVER LEGACY OF SOMA — AONORAN

(Japan) 138mins. Village.

Dir: Hidenori Inoue, Hiroki Nakamura. Cast: Yuki Amami, Kenichi Matsuyama, Taichi Saotome, Zen Kajihara, Miharu Morina, Shoko Takada, Jun Hashimoto, Macoto Awane, Mikijiro Hira.

Soma and Masakado meet and fall in love. Their destinies take a turn when Masakado opposes the central government and sets up his own sovereign state. Can he win without an even more indomitable warrior?

present and how our past and present experiences shape the decisions we make when the fantasy of true love dissipates. Using cinematic expressions of past memories and possible futures, the film also examines nonfiction performance as a documentation of truth and a purveyor of memory. Following three surprising love stories in starkly different American landscapes, we dive into the mysterious, the familiar, the dysfunctional, and the imaginary aspects of their relationships.

(Russia) 35mins. Wizart.

Dir: Alexey Tsitsilin.

After heroically defeating both the Snow Queen and the Snow King, Gerda still cannot find peace. Her dream is to find her parents who were once taken away from her by the North Wind and finally reunite the family. Gerda and her friends venture on a difficult journey to find her parents and encounter new challenges along the way.

Palais J

SOLITAIRE NEERJA

(US) 90mins. Dogwoof.

Dir: Alma Har’el. Cast: Abraham Boyd, Angel Boyd, Harmony Boyd.

A unique exploration of the challenges that love can

THE SNOW QUEEN 3: FIRE AND ICE

Palais D

Riviera 1

LOVETRUE

See box, above

(India) 110mins.

Fox Star Studios India.

Dir: Madhvani Ram. Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi.

Biopic of the Indian Air hostess who saved 359

54 Screen International at Cannes May 14, 2016

(Lebanon) 90mins.

Fondation Liban Cinema.

Dir: Sophie Boutros.

Cast: Julia Kassar, Bassam Kousa, Nadine Khoury, Ali El Khalil, Betty Taoutel, Jaber Jokhadar, Serena Chami.

Market 09:30 WILD SOCCER BUNCH — THE LEGEND LIVES!

(Germany) 99mins. Global Screen.

Dir: Joachim Masannek. Cast: Michael Sommerer, Aaron Kissiov, Ron Anthony Renzenbrink.

Six boys and a girl called Moe have to show they’re wild enough to beat Fat Mikey’s team and save Wild Soccer Land. Will they prove worthy successors to the original Wild Soccer Bunch, who are now grown all up?

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Person. Cast: Clara Gallo, Caio Blat, Caio Horowicz, Livia Gijon, Leticia Fagnani, Giovani Gallo.

It is 1984. Estela is going through the convoluted stage of adolescence.

Sex, love, friendship… everything seems so complicated. Her uncle, Carlos, is her hero, and the trip to California to visit him, her biggest dream.

But everything falls apart when he comes back to Brazil looking skinny, weak and sick. Between crisis and discoveries, Estela has to face a reality that will change forever her way of seeing the world.

struggle for survival has begun.

Olympia 5 By invitation only

LIKE CRAZY

(Italy) 116mins. Bac Films.

Dir: Paolo Virzi. Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti.

Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s intimate with world leaders.

Donatella is a young, quiet, tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery.

They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures. ‘Like Crazy’ tells the story of their unpredictable friendship and their escape from the treatment constraints; two technically insane creatures, looking for a bit of fun and love in this open-air nuthouse.

Olympia 4

10:00 AWAY

(UK) 109mins. 7&7 Producers’ Sales Service.

Dir: David Blair. Cast: Timothy Spall, Juno Temple, Matt Ryan, Hayley Squires, Terry Stone, Susan Lynch.

In order to evade her violent pursuer, a troubled girl seeking a new life forms an unlikely friendship with a middleaged man longing for death in the coastal town where their fates intertwine.

Palais E

CHRISTMAS EVE

(US) 95mins. Bleiberg Entertainment. Dir: Mitch Davis. Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jon Heder, Cheryl Hines, James Roday, Julianna Guill.

When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance and a little holiday magic will get them through — and change their lives in unexpected ways.

Gray 2

THE DANCER

Market 10:00 MARIE & THE MISFITS

(France) 104mins.

Alpha Violet. Dir: Sebastien Betbeder.

Cast: Eric Cantona, Vimala Pons, Pierre Rochefort, Damien Chapelle, Andre Wilms, Wim Willaert.

An alternative love triangle swinging Noun, Cheanik Nov, Madezza Chhem, Mean Korn, Somnang Nut. Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultramodern paradise for the rich on the river in Phnom Penh. Like many other country boys, Bora, 18, is lured from his village to work on the construction of this property developer’s dream. There, he forges new friendships and is even reunited with his charismatic older brother Solei, who disappeared five years ago. Solei introduces Bora to the exciting world of Cambodia’s privileged urban youth, with its girls, its nightlife and its illusions.

Palais I

Gray 5

FRIENDS FOREVER — A PIG’S TALE

DIAMOND ISLAND

(Germany) Studiocanal.

Dir: Theresa Strozyk, Tony Loeser.

(France) 101mins. Les Films Du Losange. Dir: Davy Chou. Cast: Sobon

Olympia 8

56 Screen International at Cannes May 14, 2016

between fiction and literature. Marie is an alluring young woman who lacks selfconfidence. When she leaves Antoine — a melancholic writer — she meets Simeon, a jobless journalist and prefers to let fate decide her future.

Lerins 1

MARIE & THE MISFITS See box, above

NERUDA

(Chile) 106mins. Funny Balloons. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Moran, Pablo Derqui, Alfredo Castro.

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile.

In congress, senator Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached by president Gonzalez Videla. Police prefect Oscar Peluchonneau is assigned to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to flee the country with his wife but is forced into hiding. Inspired by life as a fugitive, Neruda writes his epic collection of poems, ‘Canto General’.

Meanwhile, in Europe, the legend of the poet hounded by the policeman grows and artists led by Pablo

Picasso clamour for his freedom. Neruda, however, sees this struggle with his nemesis Peluchonneau as an opportunity to reinvent himself.

Olympia 2

OZZY

(Spain) 90mins. Sc Films International.

Dir: Alberto Rodriguez.

Cast: Benjamin Nathan, Stephen Hughes, Jonathan Mellor, Frank Robledano, James Shaw.

Ozzy is placed in a luxury kennel while his family heads on a once-in-a lifetime trip to Japan.

Unbeknown to the family and Ozzy, the luxury kennel is a front for an evil toy sweatshop empire. No dog has ever left this place.

Ozzy and his newfound friends must devise a hilarious escape plan.

Arcades 2

PRIVATE SCREENING

110mins. Rai Com. Palais C

TADMOR

(Lebanon) 103mins. Doc & Film International.

Dir: Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim.

Amid the popular uprising against the Syrian regime that began in 2011, a group of former Lebanese detainees decide to break their long-held silence about the horrific years they spent imprisoned in

Tadmor (Palmyra), one of the Assad regime’s most dreadful prisons. They decide to testify publicly about the systematic torture and humiliation they experienced. To reclaim and overcome this dark chapter in their lives, they rebuild Tadmor in an abandoned school near Beirut. By playing the role of both victim and victimiser, they will relive their survival.

Lerins 3

10:30 URFIN AND HIS WOODEN SOLDIERS

(Russia) 42mins. Wizart.

Dir: Vladimir Toropchin.

The sequel to the muchloved adaptation of Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, written by Alexander Volkov in 1963.

The story has stood the test of time and has all the ingredients to become a modern animated classic.

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 J

11:30 CALIFORNIA

(Brazil) 88mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Marina

(France) Wild Bunch.

Dir: Stephanie Di Giusto.

Cast: Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Lily-Rose Depp.

Born in the American midwest, nothing in her background destined farm girl Loie Fuller to become the toast of Europe’s Belle Epoque cabarets, even less to dance at the Paris Opera. Dazzling the capital, she becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. Eminent admirers fall at her feet.

But her meeting with Isadora Duncan — a young prodigy hungry for glory — will lead to the downfall of this icon of the early 20th century. The remarkable destiny of a modern woman who revolutionised her era.

Arcades 1 Press allowed

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(France) 36mins. Films Distribution.

Olympia 9

HIGHWAY TO HELLAS

(Germany) 89mins. Arri Media International. Dir: Aron Lehmann. Cast: Christoph Maria Herbst, Adam Bousdoukos, Akillas Karazisis.

Arcades 3

LIFE, ANIMATED

(US) 91mins. Dogwoof.

Dir: Roger Ross Williams. Cast: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind.

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Market 11:30 MIDORI: THE CAMELLIA GIRL

(Japan) 90mins. Lupercal Communication. Dir: Torico Torico.

Cast: Risa Nakamura.

A young orphan girl is tricked into working as a house maid for a travelling troupe of circus freaks where

she is constantly humiliated and denigrated — until she is taken under the wing of a magician who joins the troupe. Despite his reluctance, she persuades him to help her realise her dream of becoming a movie star. But there is a cost.

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way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet — Iago, the wisecracking parrot from ‘Aladdin’ — and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. ‘Life, Animated’ tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with verite scenes from Owen’s life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar and Ariel forge a conduit for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality.

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THE MASTER

(China) 109mins. Golden Network Asia. Dir:

Haofeng Xu. Cast: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang, Shih-Chieh Chin, Jue Huang, Yang Song.

A Wing Chun master must train — then sacrifice — a disciple to establish his martial arts school, only to become a pawn in a political conspiracy.

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who studies abroad. When late one night Milan is found semi-conscious in suspicious circumstances, it becomes apparent that not everything is as it seems. Lea must confront insinuations, hushed-up truths and her own fears, if she wants to protect her family… and herself.

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NIGHtLIFE

(Slovenia) 95mins.

Slovenian Film Centre.

Dir: Damjan Kozole.

Cast: Pia Zemljic, Jernej Sugman, Marko Mandic.

Lea Potokar is a college professor of solid principles. Her husband Milan is a successful attorney. They have everything expected of an affluent uppermiddle class couple — an attractive apartment, a dignified air and a son

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB

(US) 85mins. Jinga Films.

Dir: Kyle Rankin. Cast: Maria Thayer, Michael Cassidy, Ray Wise.

After a one night stand, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in town but pretty boy Ryan only knows it was a mistake and ushers her out the door... into a full-scale zombie apocalypse and a fight for survival as the mismatched pair discover that the only thing scarier than trusting someone with your life… is trusting

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them with your heart.

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THE PEOPLE GARDEN

(Canada) 83mins. Scythia Films. Dir: Nadia Litz.

Cast: Dree Hemingway, Jai Tatsuto West, Pamela Anderson.

When Sweetpea travels to Japan to break up with her rockstar boyfriend, she discovers he has gone missing in a mysterious forest.

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WAS SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH?

(UK) 97mins. Sirena Global Productions.

Dir: Alicia Maksimova.

An enthralling, provocative docu-journey in search of the real William Shakespeare.

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12:00 APPRENTICE

(Singapore) 96mins.

Luxbox. Dir: Junfeng Boo. Cast: Rahman Fir, Su Wan Hanafi, Ahmad Mastura, Boon Pin Koh, Nickson Cheng, Crispian Chan, Gerald Chew.

Aiman, a correctional officer, is transferred to the territory’s top prison.

He strikes up a friendship with Rahim, who is revealed to be the chief executioner of the prison,

and one of the world’s most prolific. Can Aiman overcome his conscience and his past to become the executioner’s apprentice?

CMG ANIMATION PROMOREEL

36mins. Cinema Management Group.

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COME AND FIND ME ARES

(France) 85mins.

Gaumont. Dir: Jean Patrick Benes. Cast: Ola Rapace, Micha Lescot, Helene Fillieres.

Guerilla warfare rages in a post-apocalyptic Paris. A free-fighter, with nothing left to lose, attempts at any cost, including his own life, to save his family. A well-meaning, humane hero caught up in the disconnect of a violent, twisted society.

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CIEN AnOS DE PERDoN

(Spain) 96mins. Film Factory Entertainment.

Dir: Daniel Calparsoro.

Cast: Luis Tosar, Rodrigo De La Serna, Raul Arevalo, Jose Coronado.

A rainy morning. Six armed men in disguise attack a bank in Valencia.

What seems like an easy, cut-and-dry heist quickly goes awry and nothing ends up going as planned. Mistrust and confrontations ensue between the two leaders of the group, The Uruguayan and The Spanish. But what exactly were the assailants looking for?

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(US) 109mins. Goldcrest Films International. Dir: Zack Whedon. Cast: Aaron Paul, Annabelle Wallis.

‘Come And Find Me’ follows the character of David (Paul) who must track down his missing girlfriend after he realises she is not who she is pretending to be.

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CRUSH THE SKULL

(US) 80mins. Breaking Glass Pictures. Dir: Viet Nguyen. Cast: Walter Michael Bost, Tim Chiou, Chris Dinh.

A couple of master thieves find themselves trapped within a house they intended to rob, only to discover they’ve inadvertently wandered into the lair of a deranged serial killer.

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DAUGHTER

(Iran) 103mins.

Dreamlab Films. Dir: Reza Mirkarimi. Cast: Farhad Aslani, Merila Zarei, Mahour Alvand.

The strict and traditional Mr Azizi leads an uneventful family life in an oil town in southern

Market 11:30 STALIN’S COUCH

(France) 92mins. Alfama Films. Dir: Fanny Ardant. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Seigner, Paul Hamy.

Follows the young artist Danilov as he travels to Stalin’s secret residence to present his plans for a monument to the Soviet dictator.

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CHIERI AND CHERRY

Market 13:30 AT YOUR DOORSTEP

(Spain) 93mins. Latido Films. Dir: Eduard Cortes. Cast: Silvia Perez Cruz, Lluis Homar, Adriana Ozores, Ivan Massague, Manuel Moron, Ivan Benet, Oriol Vila.

Three stories intertwine as different people deal with the challenges of

living through times of crisis. An evicted mother, a banker with a conscience and a police officer, who has to do his job no matter what, sing and dance in this Brechtian musical drama about the economic crisis, people’s struggle with daily life, solidarity and hope.

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Iran. Then one day, exasperated by her father’s authoritarianism, Setareh announces she is off to Tehran to say farewell to one of her best friends, who is leaving Iran for good. Unfortunately, the engagement celebrations for Setareh’s younger sister are taking place simultaneously. Despite her father’s objections, Setareh boards the plane for Tehran. This act of disobedience sets in motion a series of perturbations that upset the calm tranquility of the paterfamilias.

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Dir: Sebastien Laudenbach. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Jeremie Elkaim, Philippe Laudenbach, Olivier Broche, Francoise Lebrun, Sacha Bourdo, Elina Lowensohn.

In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands.

Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener and a prince in his castle. A long journey towards the light.

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DESTINY

RESET

(China) 97mins.

Fortissimo Films. Dir: Zhang Wei. Destiny is one’s fate sealed at birth

(France) 110mins. Upside Distribution. Dir: Thierry Demaiziere, Alban Teurlai. Cast: Benjamin Millepied.

Designated director of the company in 2014, Benjamin Millepied puts on a show, his first

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THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS

(France) 76mins.

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ballet, on September 25, 2015. From the very first rehearsal up until the opening night, directors Thierry Demaiziere and Alban Teurlai have immersed themselves in the world of the Paris Opera, right at the heart of its artistic creation.

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STRUGGLE FOR LIFE

(France) 99mins. Be For Films. Dir: Antonin Peretjatko. Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Vimala Pons, Mathieu Amalric, JeanLuc Bideau, Pascal Legitimus, Fred Tousch.

Marc Chestnut, an intern at the Norms and Standards Ministry, is sent to Guiana to ensure the implementation of European standards for Guyaneige — the first indoor ski slope in Amazonia designed to boost tourism in Guiana.

Getting tangled in one misadventure after the other, he is also saddled with a new co-worker.

Marc doesn’t have any luck — she’s a pin-up.

And worse — she’s got a strong head.

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life on an isolated ranch in Patagonia, the old foreman Evans is forced to retire, replaced by Jara, a younger man who plans to set up there with his wife and kids. But when winter comes, the region is cut off by snow. It’s no longer a matter of working but of surviving the harsh conditions. With nowhere else to go, in desperation Evans tries to scare Jara away. Confrontation is inevitable, as one tries to return, the other tries to remain.

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TRAMONTANE

(France) 105mins.

The Bureau Sales/Le Bureau. Dir: Vatche Boulghourjian. Cast: Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kassar, Michel Adabashi, Toufic Barakat.

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery.

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THE WINTER

(Argentina) 93mins. Cite Films. Dir: Emiliano Torres. Cast: Alejandro Sieveking, Cristian Salguero, Adrian Fondari, Pablo Cedron.

After working his whole

VOICE FROM THE STONE

(Italy) 106mins. 13 Films.

Dir: Eric D. Howell. Cast: Emilia Clarke, Marton Csokas, Caterina Murino.

A young nurse comes to the aid of a boy haunted

by malevolent forces in massive stone manor in the Italian countryside.

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12:15 DEATH BY DEATH

(Belgium) 90mins.

Stray Dogs. Dir: Xavier Seron. Cast: Jean Jacques Rausin.

Full of deadpan visual humour, this tale focuses on the relationship of anxious, part-time actor Michel and his ailing, overly attached mother, who has been told that she is living on borrowed time but has no intention of dying.

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12:45 CMG ANIMATION PROMOREEL

36mins. Cinema Management Group.

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13:30 A HOUSE ON THE 41 STREET

(Iran) 90mins. Farabi Cinema Foundation. Dir: Hamid Reza Ghorbani.

Cast: Mahnaz Afshar, Ali Mosaffa, Soheila Razavi, Sara Bahrami.

A major fight between two brothers leads to a family catastrophe. Their mother and her daughterin-laws live in the same three-storey building and they all try to resolve the conflict on their own.

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(Japan) 54mins.

Gaga Corporation.

Dir: Makoto Nakamura.

Cast: Natsumi Takamori, Gen Hoshino, Machiko Ono. Chieri is a sixth grade elementary schoolgirl. Her father died when she was little, so she lives with just her mother and her only friend, a stuffed doll called Cherry, which she found at the same time of her father’s funeral. In Chieri’s world of fantasy, Cherry talks and plays with her, advising and protecting her in place of her departed father.

When Chieri visits her grandmother’s house for the first time in a while to attend her father’s remembrance ceremony, she finds a stray dog about to give birth to puppies. But the a crow and a strange monster appear and try to take the pups. Can Chieri and Cherry save their lives?

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CONSIDERING LOVE AND OTHER MAGIC

(Canada) 93mins.

Attraction Distribution.

Dir: Dave Schultz. Cast: Eric Mccormack, Sheila McCarthy, Rory J Saper, Ryan Grantham, Maddie Phillips.

Wearing a baggy black sweater and a thick smear of black mascara around each eye, troubled teenager Jessie Wilson arrives at the home of Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Veronica Guest, the long-forgotten literary darling of 1948 and close confidante to the late-lamented writer Truman Capote. In desperate need of extra high school credits, Jessie agrees to tutor young Tommy Faber in science and maths, but when the timid boy insists he hasn’t left Veronica’s mansion in more than 60 years, Jessie knows she’s bitten off more than she can chew.

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THE EYES OF MY MOTHER

(US) 76mins. Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. Dir: Nicolas Pesce. Cast: Diana

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discovers she has become the victim of a diabolical plot.

(US) 105mins. Taylor & Dodge. Dir: William Kaufman. Cast: Johnny Strong, Lance Henriksen, Louis Mandylor, Chelsea Edmundson, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Farah White, Chris Kerson, Gary Cairns.

In the aftermath of a plague that has wiped out most of humanity, a group of survivors must escape from blood-thirsty scavengers.

(UK) 90mins. Bankside Films. Dir: Chris Smith.

Cast: Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen, Bel Powley.

Law student and all-round good guy Harper suspects his scheming step-father Vincent is responsible for the car crash that sent his mother into a coma.

Drowning his sorrows in a seedy LA whiskey bar, Harper is interrupted by a tough looking redneck called Johnny Ray who offers to “take care” of his stepdad for $20,000.

Angry and fuelled by alcohol, Harper agrees and spends the rest of his evening downing shots with Johnny Ray. The next morning, Harper awakes to the mother of all hangovers with hazy memory of the previous night’s events. Answering a knock at the front door, he is surprised to find Johnny Ray and his beautiful but distant girlfriend, Cherry, ready and waiting to drive to Vegas to kill Vincent.

Harper quickly realises that there is no easy way out; if he wants to survive this, he has no choice but to go along with the plan.

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CULT OF THE VAMPIRE

(France) 79mins. 1066 Pictures. Dir: Andrew Mackenzie. Cast: Iva Stelmak, Megan Porter, Christina Collard.

Xandra, a rebellious vampire sets out on her own in pursuit of love and Rock ‘n’ Roll, but there is no escape from the long arms of the coven.

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Market 13:30 LITTLE MOUNTAIN BOY

(Switzerland) 104mins. Arri Media International. Dir: Xavier Koller. Cast: Jonas Hartmann, Marcus Signer, Tonia Maria Zindel, Leonardo Nigro, Martin Rapold, Sarah Sophia Meyer, Julia Jeker, Laurin Michael.

A boy must brave deep winter snow to obtain an important family Agostini, Olivia Bond, Will Brill.

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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PERSONAL AFFAIRS

(Israel) 90mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Maha Haj. In Nazareth, an old couple live wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head. Between checkpoints and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want

to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.

hairdresser in a small town. In his lacklustre life, his wacky mother and his womanising cousin are his only friends. But meeting Rosalie Blum may just spice things up. She seems vaguely familiar. Vincent decides to investigate and starts following her.

Goofy and predictable Vincent’s detective work catches Rosalie’s attention.

The 50-something lady asks her niece Aude to investigate Vincent. Soon Aude is following Vincent who is following Rosalie.

This charming game of hide-and-seek will change their lives.

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ROAD TO ISTANBUL

THE SILENCE

(Algeria) 98mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Rachid Bouchareb. Cast: Astrid Whettnall, Pauline Burlet.

When the police inform Elizabeth that her daughter has left to join the Islamic State, her life is thrown into turmoil. Alone in her struggle, she decides to set off for Syria to look for her daughter and convince her to return home.

(India) 91mins. Smr Productions. Dir: Gajendra Ahire.

keepsake. Before he can even start this difficult journey he must first help his family survive financial ruin, rescue his beloved pet goat and with his best friend outwit a bratty bully who seems out to get him at every turn.

Will he make it back to the village in time to celebrate the endof-winter holiday of Chalandamarz?

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ROSALIE BLUM

(France) 96mins. Snd — Groupe M6. Dir: Julien Rappeneau. Cast: Noemie Lvoysky, Kyan Khojandi, Alice Isaaz, Anemone.

Thirty-something Vincent Machot is a lonely

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Cavendish, Domingos Montagner, Anna Lucia Torre, Mel Maia, Xande Valois.

Laura is hired to work as a tutor, looking after two orphaned children who live in their uncle’s coffee plantation, a remote estate haunted by hostile spirits.

As she investigates the history of the building and the family that own it, she

DETOUR

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SUNTAN

(Greece) 104mins.

Visit Films. Dir: Argyris Papadimitropoulos.

Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou.

On a hedonistic Greek island, a doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends.

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THROUGH THE SHADOW

(Brazil) 106mins. Jinga Films. Dir: Walter Lima Jr. Cast: Virginia

Market 14:00 A FLOWER AFLAME

(Japan) 95mins. Toei Company.

Dir: Hiroshi Ando. Cast: Eri Murakawa, Kento Hayashi, Masanobu Ando, Mariya Tomoko.

“It seems as if every fastener on your body is undone.” So says Ochi to his lover Sonoko. She is married to Amamiya, a man chosen by her parents, and has given birth to his son, but

she does not love her husband. The couple eventually moves to Kyoto, after Amamiya is transferred there by his company. One day, Sonoko meets Ochi for the first time near the lodgings where they both stay, and falls for him.

As she struggles to deal with emotions she has never before experienced, the cries of her womb grow so loud that she can no longer suppress them.

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EVERYTHING’S UNDER CONTROL

Market 14:00 KOBLIC

(Argentina) 95mins. Filmsharks International. Dir: Sebastian Borensztein. Cast: Ricardo Darin, Oscar Martinez, Inma Cuesta.

1977, during the days of the Argentinian dictatorship. A former pilot and captain

of the Argentinian Navy disobeys an order and becomes a fugitive in order to survive. He chooses to hide in a small town in the south of the country, where his presence will catch the attention of an unscrupulous and violent local marshal.

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(Austria) 93mins.

Doc & Film International.

Dir: Werner Boote.

Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around-the-clock access to a convenient digital world. Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences and social media posting?

Don’t we care about our privacy any more? In his unique charming and curious way, film-maker Werner Boote travels around the world to explore the “brave new world” of total control.

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The Fixer

(US) 102mins. Mongrel International. Dir: Ian Olds. Cast: James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan, Melissa Leo.

After being exiled from Afghanistan, a former war journalist settles in a small town in northern California and takes a job with a local newspaper, where he becomes embroiled in a local mystery.

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Britne Oldford, Matthew Willig.

When two friends embark on a journey to Mexicali for a birthday celebration, they soon realise their psychedelic shenanigans have taken a turn for the worse.

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GAME THERAPY

(Italy) 97mins. Ellipsis Media International.

Dir: Ryan Travis. Cast: Lorenzo Ostuni, Federico Clapis, Elisa Piazza, Leonardo De Carli, Daniele Sodano.

The story of a shy video games genius. A friend wants to help him with a machine to wean him off his dependence on video games. But the two protagonists will have to fight for their lives.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

(US) 90mins. Arclight Films. Dir: Casey Tebo.

Cast: Vanessa Lengies,

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OWL YOU NEED IS LOVE

(France) 83mins.

Gaumont. Dir: Ramzy Bedia. Cast: Ramzy Bedia, Elodie Bouchez.

Rocky leads the life of a model employee in a pharmaceutical laboratory.

He is happy apart from the fact that nobody is aware of his existence. He is invisible. On returning home one evening, he discovers a Eurasian eagle owl, which stares intently at him. Rocky understands that if he wants to regain his dignity, he must

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act. The next morning, he arrives at the office wearing a promotional owl costume, yet nobody pays him the least attention.

Until the day comes when he meets a panda in the street. When an owl meets a panda, everything becomes possible.

whom they have barely seen since he divorced their mother. Tom, in particular, knows next to nothing about this strange, solitary man who never seems to sleep. When he suggests they spend a few days at his cabin in the country, the boys are delighted But the cabin is totally isolated in the middle of a huge forest, a place both beautiful and troubling.

The boys grow uneasy. As for the father, he seems happy, at one with the environment. Cut off from the outside world, he can finally breathe again.

And the more time that passes, the less he appears to want to return to civilisation.

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PERFECT STRANGERS

(Italy) 97mins. True Colours. Dir: Paolo Genovese. Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Valerio Mastandrea.

Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner.

When they decide to share with each other the contents of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets are revealed and the equilibrium trembles.

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34mins. Europacorp.

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(Turkey) 120mins.

Montecristo International. Dir: Ozan Aciktan. Cast: Bora Akkas, Belcim

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Bilgin, Meryem Uzerli, Ozan Guven.

A gripping tale of family, love and identity as Salih searches for a trail of hope among war-torn lives.

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WE CAN BE HEROES

(France) 98mins. Mk2 Films. Dir: Sophie Reine.

Cast: Gustave Kervern, Camille Cottin, Heloise Dugas, Fanie Zanini, Franck Gastambide.

Denis struggles to raise his boisterous daughters Janine and Mercredi on his own while holding down two jobs. Everything goes sour when Denis forgets Mercredi one too many times at the school gates.

Severine, a cheerful social worker, is appointed to scrutinise the family’s daily lives.

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WHITE ISLAND

(UK) 90mins.

Independent.

Dir: Benjamin Turner.

Cast: Lyndon Ogbourne, Joel Dommett, Billy Boyd, Billy Zane.

Ex-DJ Connor is making his way in London, but is forced back to Ibiza to rescue his best friend Dex from the seductive danger of the White Island.

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XYZ PROMO

60mins. Xyz Films.

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MY MOTHER’S WOUND

Adam Carswell aims to gain the trust of the Muslim community in order to get their votes for the upcoming election.

Carswell calls on his own Muslim detective, Mohammed “Mo”, and partners him with a Middle Eastern officer, who just happens to be well-versed in Sharia Law. Mo is shocked with his new partner’s methods and pleads with the chief to send him back to the country he came from.

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15:15 THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN

(Spain) 117mins. Latido Films. Dir: Gaston Duprat, Mariano Cohn.

Cast: Oscar Martinez, Andrea Frigerio, Dady Brieva, Belen Chavanne, Nora Navas.

When reality overtakes fiction, the unexpected happens.

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15:30 AMERICAN SHARIA

(US) 98mins.

Halalywood. Dir: Omar Regan. Cast: Eric Roberts, Najmah Abraham, Nadine AbuJubara.

Officer Richardson profiles every Muslim he sees as a terrorist.

He goes on an arrest “frenzy”, which make community activists Jihad Akbar and Osama Khan rally the community to stand up for their rights.

Meanwhile, police chief

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THE CHILDREN OF CHANCE

(France) 90mins.

Other Angle Pictures.

Dir: Malik Chibane, Philippe Torreton.

The true story of a Jewish child who lost all his family but was saved during the war by a hospital doctor, and his friendship with the other children in the hospital who shared his faith.

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CLAIRE IN MOTION

(US) 80mins. Visit Films.

Dir: Annie Howell, Lisa

Robinson. Cast: Betsy Brandt, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Sakina Jaffrey.

When Claire’s search for her missing husband leads her to an alluring and manipulative graduate student, she uncovers a world of secrets that threatens to shatter their family.

when his wife announces she is expecting a child.

Whereas they have every reason to celebrate, the good news will unleash the fiery personalities of the highlanders, leading to a darkly comic twist of events. The white winter will soon turn red.

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THE GREEN FAIRY THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

(UK) 105mins. Altitude Film Sales. Dir: Colm McCarthy. Cast: Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua.

When the base guarding Melanie is overrun by Hungries, she escapes with the teacher who loves her, the soldier who would kill her and the scientist who would dissect her. Bound to each other as survivors on a life-raft, can the group recognise Melanie as the cure for the human race?

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GORAN

(Croatia) 86mins. Wide.

Dir: Nevio Marasovic.

Cast: Franjo Dijak, Natasa Janjic, Janko Popovic-Volaric.

Goran lives a simple life surrounded by his friends and family in the snow-covered Croatian highlands. This carefree existence is put to an end

(US) 90mins. Upward Rising Development. Dir: Dan Frank. Cast: Roddy Piper, Ashley Laurence, Manu Intiraymi, Linda Blair, Richard Grieco.

The history of absinthe from 1730 to 1915.

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(Japan) 100mins. Eleven Arts. Dir: Yuichi Hibi.

Cast: Michael Douglas, John Woo, Paul Schrader.

One year has passed since Mr Ken Takakura, a major Japanese film actor, has passed away. Through retrospective screenings and personal reminiscences, we revisit the life of Takakura and remember the impact he made on cinema. This documentary focuses on his success as a film actor both in Japan and internationally. Interviews with famous actors and directors from the US, China and Europe shed new light on the legendary actor.

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HAVENHURST

(US) 85mins. Cinema Management Group.

Dir: Andrew C Erin.

Cast: Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan, Belle Shouse.

A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

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INTO THE FOREST

(France) Wild Bunch.

Dir: Gilles Marchand.

Cast: Jeremie Elkaim, Timothe Vom Dorp, Theo Van De Voorde, Sophie Quinton, Mireille Perrier.

Tom and Benjamin travel to Stockholm to spend the summer with their father,

LAW & DISORDER: THE INSANITY DEFENSE

(UK) 101mins. Polaris Productions. Dir: Sylvie Bolioli. Cast: James Brady, David Kaczynski, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Prof.

Michael Perlin, Judge Steven Leifman, Dr. Michael Welner, Dr. Robert Berger, Sylvie Bolioli.

An in-depth look at criminal responsibility and mental illness, which puts the defence of insanity itself on trial.

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(Switzerland) 84mins. Rise And Shine World Sales. Dir: Susanne Regina Meuers.

Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.

Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organise one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in

Tehran, they try their luck selling their illegally printed music album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world.

Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them.

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Edouard Baer.

Who is Luigi, the dashing theatre director who acts more like a ship’s captain?

He runs one of the most prestigious theatres in Paris but tonight, on the eve of the opening of the new play ‘The Woman and the Monkey’, he is a bit lost. The team fusses, the rehearsal turns to disaster and the Grand Master Dazai, a great Japanese director, threatens to cancel everything if he cannot have a real monkey on stage immediately. Luigi accepts the challenge and goes off to find the damn animal. On this crazy search he is accompanied

by Faeza, a young, overconfident and uptight trainee. She will discover Luigi’s Paris, colourful and flamboyant, and learn that when all the problems are coming at once, you have to give priority to the one you find most amusing.

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band together to protect him from his Soviet enemies.

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

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RAVING IRAN

(UK) 98mins. HanWay Films. Dir: Philippa Lowthorpe. Cast: Rafe Spall, Kelly Macdonald, Gwendoline Christie.

Set during an idyllic English summer holiday, the four Walker children and their sailing rivals, the Blacketts, run amok in their boats against the stunning backdrop of the Lake District. The Walkers sail the agile Swallow and the Blacketts commandeer The Amazon, making camp on a nearby island. Their world is one of imagination — filled with pirates and cannons, where boats are captured and the enemy has to walk the plank. But when family friend, Uncle Jim is revealed to be a spy, our motley crew are forced to put down their imaginary swords and

The Tenth Man (EL REY DEL ONCE)

(Argentina) 80mins. Filmsharks International. Dir: Daniel Burman. Cast: Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg.

Ari, who has built a successful career in New York, thinks he has left his past behind. But his distant father Usher, who runs a Jewish aid foundation in El Once, the close-knit old Jewish neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, summons him back to his native city. What ensues is a comedy of errors, of missed and found people and connections, and a rumination on the extent to which we ever really leave behind our past.

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CLAIRE IN MOTION

THE TICKET

(US) 100mins. The Solution Entertainment Group. Dir: Ido Fluk.

Cast: Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt.

A blind man who regains his sight tries to take full advantage of his new lease of life but risks losing everything along the way.

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Director: Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell (Small, Beautifully Moving Parts) Cast: Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Anna Margaret Hollyman (White Reindeer) When Claire’s search for her missing husband leads her to an alluring and manipulative graduate student, she uncovers a world of secrets that threatens to shatter her family.

“A gentle tour-de-force. ” – Hammer to Nail

“A profound and engrossing character study riddled with the subtle undertones of a psychological thriller.”– Variety “An intimate, sorrowful meditation on loss.”

– The Austin Chronicle

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Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos (Wasted Youth) Cast: Makis Papadimitriou (Chevalier, L), Elli Tringou On a hedonistic Greek island, a doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends.

US Distributor: Strand Releasing

6.9 ON THE RICHTER SCALE

(Romania) 110mins.

Premium Films.

Dir: Nae Caranfil.

Cast: Teo Corban.

A humble Romanian actor in his 40s, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife and the obsession with an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.

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(Canada) 109mins.

Summerside International. Dir: Charles Olivier Michaud.

Anna is an independent photojournalist

“Confident, unflinching filmmaking (...) Secures a place for Papadimitropoulos (...) on the list of emerging talent from Greece.”

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“Tringou’s astonishing sexuality burns up the screen.”

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investigating a human trafficking and child prostitution network in Asia. On her journey to the root of all evil, she meets Sam, a fixer who will intervene decisively in her destiny.

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Dir: Mohamed Diab.

Cast: Ahmed Malek, Tarek Abdel Aziz, Nelly Karim.

Explores the confrontations between pro- and antiMuslim Brotherhood demonstrators that emerged following the removal of president Mohamed Morsi from power on July 3, 2013.

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CHECK POINT

(US) 90mins. Vision Films. Dir: Thomas J Churchill. Cast: William Forsythe, Bill Goldberg, Kenny Johnson, Michelle Lee, Fred Williamson, Tyler Mane, Ricky Harris, Mindy Robinson.

A ‘sleeper cell’ terrorist plot is discovered in a small town where everyone knows each other. But justice seems lost when an insurgent attack threatens to escalate into a fullblown US invasion and team of unlikely heroes must rise up to fight the enemy and protect their country.

THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV

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(Egypt) 97mins.

Pyramide International.

(Spain, France) Capricci Films. Dir: Albert Serra.

Cast: Jean Pierre Leaud.

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg.

The next day, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

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(Brazil) 82mins. Loco Films. Dir: Anna Muylaert. Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele, Dani

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BY WAY OF HELENA

(US) 110mins. WestEnd Films.

Dir: Kieran Darcy-Smith. Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Alice Braga, William Hurt.

Texas, 1887: A place filled with violence, lore and legend. The prophetic Abraham Brant, known as The Preacher to all, has a cult-like hold over the townsfolk of frontier town Mount Hermon. Stories of war, killing

and the divine follow him wherever he goes. Not far from this isolated town, a slew of dead bodies begins to appear, washed up on the shores of the Rio Grande. Battle-weary Texas ranger David Kingston is tasked with scouting Mount Hermon in order to find the source of the mysterious murders. In a twist of fate, Abraham is the very man who killed David’s father in a bloody duel when David was only a child.

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class society in Mumbai.

EXIL

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(Cambodia) 77mins.

Films Distribution. Dir: Rithy Panh.

Rithy Panh goes back to his childhood and depicts the decisive moment when one has to go in exile.

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(South Korea) 125mins.

Cj E&M Corporation/ Cj Entertainment.

Dir: Jo Sung-Hee. Cast: Lee Je-Hoon, Kim Sung-Kyun, Go A-Ra. Hong Gil-dong is a

ruthless private detective with an exceptional memory and quirky personality. While chasing the only target he has failed to find, he gets entangled in a much bigger conspiracy than he bargained for.

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letters, film clips and candid conversations with Harold and Lillian, Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks, Francis Coppola and others, this heartfelt documentary chronicles their remarkable relationship and two extraordinary careers spanning six decades of movie-making history.

SAMUEL STREET

(India) 80mins. Arc Pictures. Dir: Aliakbar Campwala. Cast: Sarita Joshi, Saif Thakur, Anne Adams.

‘Samuel Street’ revolves around the characters who live on this street, which is famous for a very conservative and middle-

(Italy) 87mins.

Filmexport Group.

Dir: Stefano Amatucci.

Cast: Luisa Amatucci, Helmi Dridi, Isa Danieli, Gabriele Saurio.

Caina passes her nights on a beach where she practises the rather particular profession of body hunter. Her job entails recovering the corpses of drowned foreigners that the sea spits onto the shore. The stranded bodies are then dissolved into cement in a state-run disposal facility. Caina earns 15 euros for each drowned cadaver. She can hear the dead speak, express fear and cry. Caina was a hired killer in the past, a cold-hearted, contemptuous killer who specialised in immigrants.

Her xenophobic soul is violent and in possession of a visceral hatred for anything foreign to her race, her skin colour and especially her religion.

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FAREWELL MY INDIAN SOLDIER

71mins. Rajya Sabha Television.

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GALLOPING MIND

(Belgium) 115mins. Be For Films. Dir: Wim Vandekeybus. Cast: Natali Broods, Jerry Kilick.

Twin babies are separated at birth. The girl grows up in a middle-class environment, her brother in a street gang. Twelve years later, their paths cross again and they discover their common destiny, imposed upon them by the adults. It is the beginning of an exciting journey to the discovery of their roots and their independence, but neither of them is able to escape the past.

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GOD’S NOT DEAD 2

(US) 120mins. Pure Flix/ Quality Fix. Dir: Harold Cronk. Cast: Melissa

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Nefussi, Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Luciana Paes, Helena Albergaria.

A bike, high school, joints, girls, a rock band. Pierre is a teenager like many others. After a DNA test, he discovers that the woman he calls Mom is not his real mother and he now has to move in with his biological family. In a new home and with a new name, he starts to wonder about his identity.

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ENCLOSURE

(US) 93mins. Film Mode Entertainment. Dir: Patrick Rea. Cast: Jake Busey, Fiona Dourif, Kevin Ryan.

A couple’s romantic camping trip is cut short after a group of nearby hunters are brutally killed by a mysterious creature.

As the creature turns its focus on the couple, they must fight for their

survival while their shelter is destroyed.

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HAROLD & LILLIAN — A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY

(US) 95mins. Wide House. Dir: Daniel Raim.

Cast: Lillian Michelson, Harold Michelson, Danny DeVito.

Harold and Lillian worked on hundreds of iconic films during Hollywood’s golden age including ‘The Ten Commandments’, ‘The Apartment’, ‘The Birds, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ?’, ‘The Graduate’, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘Fiddler On The Roof ’, ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’, ‘Scarface’, ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and more. Although the couple was responsible for some of Hollywood’s most iconic examples of visual storytelling, their contributions remain largely uncredited. Through an engaging mix of love

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THE HERO CHIYOU

(China) 104mins.

California Pictures. Dir: Jian Zhao. Cast: Kai Tan, Dong Han, Xue Qin. ChiYou must fight betrayal, the loss of his warrior father and his love to survive, persevere and become Lord of War. Palais G

MANTO’S WORLD

(India) 92mins. Rahat Kazmi Films. Dir: Rahat Kazmi. Cast: Shoib Kazmi.

Based on searing stories by legendary Urdu writer Saadat Hassan Manto about the partitioning of India and Pakistan.

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81mins. TF1 International.

(Japan) 115mins. Toei Company. Dir: Takanori Jinnai. Cast: Daichi Yasuo, Haruka Kinami, Kiichi Nakai, Tae Kimura, Toshiro Yanagiba.

“Coming-of-age, marriage, childbirth, funeral” — these are all important turning points. This drama will lead us to laugh and cry, seeking the true happiness of life.

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Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Ernie Hudson, Ray Wise, Robin Givens, David A. R White.

After answering a simple question by a student, a high school teacher faces an epic court case with the help of sympathetic and charismatic defence lawyer, that could cost her the career she had always dreamed of — and expel God from the classroom once and for all!

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HETMAN

(Ukraine) 120mins.

Foundation Of Citizens “Molodist”. Dir: Valeriy Yambursky. Cast: Kostiantyn Linartovych, Dmytro Linartovych.

An artistic concept of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi’s difficult personality and the dramas of his personal life in the context of the Ukrainian national liberation war in the middle of the seventeenth century as well as foundation of the Cossack state.

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Overweight, overworked, overwrought — celebrated TV star Hape realises he can’t go on this way.

He takes a six-month sabbatical and embarks on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the famed spiritual path of St James’ Way. He sets out in search of himself. A film about finding and seeking — amusing, moving and emotional.

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THE GREASY STRANGLER

17:30 PROOF OF INNOCENCE

(South Korea) 115mins. Contents Panda. Dir: Kwon Jong-Kwan.

Cast: Kim Myung-Min, Kim Sang-Ho, Sung Dong-Il. Taxi driver Soon-tae, a loving single father and a proud citizen of Korea, is arrested for the murder of the daughterin-law of a major conglomerate. Despite his pleas of innocence, he is sentenced to

death. In desperation, Soon-tae writes to Pil-jae, a model policeman. However, Pil-jae has hung up his uniform and now works as an illegal broker. When he receives the letter from Soon-tae, he first disregards it but later learns that the case has something to do with the incident that forced him to retire from service. As Pil-jae tries to solve the case, he soon learns that the rabbit hole is deeper than he thought.

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(US) 93mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Jim Hosking. Cast: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar.

Having enjoyed its midnight launch at Sundance, Jim Hosking’s outrageous feature film debut is in equal parts provoking, offensive, and manically entertaining.

Destined for cult status.

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(Mexico) 19mins. Blood Window. Dir: Alonso Valdez, Raúl Terriquez.

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85mins. Cercamon.

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CHAMELEON

(Germany) 90mins.

Global Screen. Dir: Julia Von Heinz. Cast: Devid Striesow, Martina

(Chile) 86mins. Blood Window. Dir: Jorge Riquelme Serrano.

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MARKET 18:00 ADULT LIFE SKILLS

(UK) 96mins.

Independent. Dir: Rachel Tunnard. Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Edward Hogg, Lorraine Ashbourne, Alice Lowe, Brett Goldstein.

Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30, living in a

Paula and Paulina spend their last day together before one of them undertakes a long trip abroad. Their peaceful day will be disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Gaston, a guest from last night’s farewell party. As the afternoon progresses, we discover what kind of relationship they have, and who this intruder is. The viewer will witness a shocking transformation that reveals to us the dark recesses of the human mind.

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100mins. Central Partnership Sales House.

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DON’T KNOCK TWICE

(UK) 104mins. Content Media Corporation. Dir: Caradog James. Cast: Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton, Nick Moran.

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FROM NOWHERE

shed in her mum’s garden and making videos with her thumbs. Her mum wants her to get on with her life and get a haircut that doesn’t put her gender in question; Anna wants her mum “to back the F-off ”.

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(US) 89mins. Visit Films.

Dir: Matthew Newton.

Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Denis O’Hare, Mallory McCree.

Three undocumented Bronx teenagers nearing their high school graduation, navigate the difficulties of adolescence while living with the threat of being discovered by the authorities and their friends

Ring’ in a psychologically terrifying, twisted urban legend that will have you clinging to the edge of your seat for dear life.

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ENDLESS POETRY

KITCHENS OF GRATITUDE

(Chile) 128mins. Le Pacte.

Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Adan Jodorowsky.

Santiago de Chile, during the thrilling years of the 1940s and the ’50s. “Alejandrito” Jodorowsky, aged 20, decides to become a poet against the will of his family. He is introduced to the inner circle of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of the time and meets Enrique Lihn, Stella Diaz, Nicanor Parra and many other promising but anonymous young writers who will become the masters of Latin America’s modern literature. Totally immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before: sensually, authentically, freely, madly.

(India) 45mins. Smile Films/ Siffcy. Dir: Vikas Khanna.

A documentary presented

by Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna that explores the world of faiths with a simple message of peace and harmony.

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HIMITSU THE TOP SECRET

(Japan) 149mins. Shochiku Co. Dir: Keishi Otomo.

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LIVING LOST

(US) 110mins. New World Cinemas, Inc. Dir: Jon Bessire. Cast: Alan Pietruszewski, Arman Ali, Jessica Buda, John Church, Jon Bessire, Lauren Tafoya, Luis Back, Natalie Pero, Brent Gordon, Daphne Bach.

One more deal will make Gene Timbault a billionaire, but on the eve of his big score, he discovers he has an incurable disease. Does he attempt an experimental treatment and sacrifice his

career, or go full throttle for the deal, but lose his life?

Gene surprises everyone when he chooses the unexpected... escape! The adventure begins.

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TIKKUN

(Israel) 119mins. Bleiberg Entertainment. Dir: Avishai Sivan. Cast: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich.

An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.

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TOMORROW

(France) 118mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Melanie Laurent, Cyril Dion.

What if telling a story that gives hope by pointing out solutions was the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that shake our world?

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WE GO ON

(US) 89mins. Metrodome International. Dir: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton.

Cast: Annette O’Toole, John Glover, Clark Freeman.

Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.

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(Norway) 90mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Rune Denstad Langlo. Cast: Andres »

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mental asylum looking for a mysterious composer.

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WE ARE X

(UK) 93mins. Mongrel International. Dir: Stephen Kijak. Cast: Yoshiki, Toshi, Pata.

The story of the most influential band in the world that you’ve never heard of… yet!

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(Japan) Shochiku Co. Dir: Yoshihiro Nakamura.

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Market 19:30 DOLORES

(Germany) 89mins.

Media Luna New Films UG. Dir: Michael Rosel. Cast: Udo Schenk, Franziska Petri, Mona Petri, Mathias Herrmann, Alexander Horbe, Marcus Grusser, Andreas Wellano, Hede Beck, Wolfgang Muller, Vilmar Bieri.

Georg Letterer is a perfectionist model maker. An order from the world-famous, no longer so very young Hollywood actress Dolores Moor to make a model of her extravagant villa Baasmo Christiansen, Olivier Mukuta, Slimane Dazi, Henriette Steenstrup.

A comedy about a racist and broke hotel owner who starts a refugee reception centre at the family’s mountain resort in order to save their business.

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19:00 KITCHENS OF GRATITUDE

(India) 45mins. Smile Films/Siffcy. Dir: Vikas Khanna.

could bring salvation.

One day Georg makes a discovery: by means of the model he is suddenly able to influence the physical reality of the villa and therefore his environment. The boundaries between model and reality are starting to blur. The introverted modeller becomes a calculating “puppetmaster”, who holds the threads of life of those around him in his hands. Georg opens up entirely new possibilities to win Dolores Moor for himself.

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GARO THE ANIMATION THE MOVIE — DIVINE FLAME

(Japan) 80mins.

Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. Dir: Yuichiro Hayashi. Cast: Daisuke Namikawa.

SWAGGER

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(France) 84mins. Acid.

Dir: Olivier Babinet. Cast: Aissatou Dia, Mariyama Diallo, Abou Fofana, Nazzario Giordano, Astan Gonle, Salimata Gonle, Naila Hanafi, Aaron N’Kiambi, Regis Marvin Merveille N’Kissi Moggzi, Paul Turgot.

A documentary about the astonishing minds of 11 teenagers.

DROPPING THE S BOMB

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(US) 78mins. Selah Pictures. Dir: Christina July Kim. Cast: Christina

UARGH!

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NERUDA

(Chile) 106mins. Funny Balloons. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Moran, Pablo Derqui, Alfredo Castro.

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SWAGGER

(France) 84mins. Acid.

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(UK) 98mins. Carnaby International Sales And Distribution. Dir: Chris Foggin. Cast: Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky, Cara Delevingne.

Six happy-go-lucky, bohemian Londoners find life, love and each other in the best summer of their lives.

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(US) 87mins. Cardinal XD. Dir: Mc G. Cast: Max Burkholder, Lesley Ann Warren, Amy Landecker.

A dysfunctional LA family hires a mysterious babysitter who changes their lives.

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BABYSITTER

Gioconda. Dir: Maria Lodovica Marini. Cast: Raffaella Izzo, Guido Dagnino, Fabrizio Polini, Simona Serra, Andrea Zanzottera, Michela Resi, Ornella Ferraro, Pierluigi Curci, Carlo Marenco, Sara Simoncelli.

A journalist and a cameraman break into a

(US) 96mins.

Vision Entertainment.

Dir: Lawrence Russo.

This deeply moving documentary illuminates the lives of a Sephardic community in Greece whose story speaks for all people who have been displaced and wronged by war and discrimination. The story is set in the idyllic city

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99mins. Medallion Releasing.

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July Kim, Shani Park, Joel Clark, Madeleine Gerhart.

Infatuation can make you do some crazy things.

of Kastoria, where Jews and Christians lived in harmony for more than two millennia. In October 1940, this would change after the invasion of Greece by Axis forces.

Initially occupied by Italy, the Jewish community remained safe but after Mussolini fell from power the Nazis took control, dooming the community that had existed since the times of the Roman Empire.

The film uses neverbefore-seen archival footage, vibrantly bringing to life just one of the many communities that had existed in Greece prior to the end of the Second World War.

Market 20:30 MONSIEUR CHOCOLAT

(France) 119mins. Gaumont. Dir: Roschdy Zem. Cast: James Thierree, Omar Sy. Rafael Padilla, aka Chocolat, was born

in Cuba in 1860. He was the first black artist to appear on a French stage, and he and the clown Footit were the first to create a duo between a whiteface clown and a black Auguste.

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(Italy) 86mins. Lamaca

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Tim Robey and Robbie Collin The Daily Telegraph, UK

Staying Vertical (Fr) Alain Guiraudie

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Nick James Sight & Sound, UK

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Justin Chang Los Angeles Times, US

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Stephanie Zacharek Time, US

Kong Rithdee The Bangkok Post, Thailand

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Manohla Dargis The New York Times, US

Fabio Ferzetti Il Messaggero, Italy

Sieranevada (Rom-Fr) Cristi Puiu

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Jan Schulz-Ojala Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

Michel Ciment Positif, France Culture, France

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An adaptation novel ★★ Fingersmith , Park’s film relocates erotic drama Victorian London to ★★ ★★of Sarah ★★Waters’ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ the★★ ★★ from ★★ ★★ Korea Japan in ★★ the 1930s, for the ★★ story of a★★ Japanese heiress★★ who falls★★ in love with thief. ★★ and★★ ★★ ★★ ★★a female ★★petty★★

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From The Land Of The Moon (Fr) Nicole Garcia

Garcia’s of Milena★★ Agus’s novel, years in the a woman★★ in a loveless ★★ adaptation ★★ ★★ ★★ following ★★ 20★★ ★★life of★★ ★★marriage ★★ who falls for another★★ man in the Second★★ World War. Cotillard and Louis star. ★★ ★★ ★★aftermath ★★ of the ★★ ★★Marion ★★ ★★ ★★Garrel★★

Paterson (US) Jim Jarmusch

Bus driver★★ Paterson★★ (Adam Driver) his daily route, writing notebook and ★★ ★★ follows ★★ a simple ★★ routine, ★★driving ★★ ★★ ★★ poetry ★★ in a★★ drinking single beer in a bar.

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The Unknown Girl (Bel-Fr) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

The tenth ★★ feature from brothers,★★ who have★★ been Competition fixtures★★ since Rosetta the Palme ★★ ★★the Dardenne ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ won ★★ d’Or stars Adele changed★★ by the death young girl near her practice. ★★in 1999, ★★ ★★ Haenel ★★as a doctor ★★ whose ★★life is★★ ★★ of a★★ ★★ ★★

Graduation (Rom-Fr) Cristian Mungiu

The winner★★ of the 2007 d’Or for★★ 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days returns with a family ★★ ★★Palme ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ drama ★★focusing ★★on a small-town doctor and student★★ daughter,★★ who is assaulted just before an important ★★ ★★ ★★his psychology ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ exam. ★★

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