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Mohamed Hefzy takes Alice to Cairo

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Shadow falls on TriCoast

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has closed North American rights on Johan Grimonprez’s arms-trade exposé Shadow World following its premiere in Tribeca in April. TriCoast has taken US rights while KinoSmith will release the film in Canada.

I Wonder Pictures has acquired the film for Italy and other European territories are expected to follow suit in Cannes. Wide House chief Anais Clanet is also reporting strong interest on Harold And Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story. Japan’s Digital Works Entertainment acquired it in Cannes and Canal Plus has taken rights for Spain.

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Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy is developing a Cairo-set version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, plunging the character into the chaos of the city’s streets.

The project, In The Land Of Wonder, is the second film by Nadine Khan after debut feature Chaos, Disorder, which won the jury prize at Dubai International Film Festival in 2012.

Hefzy, who produces under the Cairo-based Film Clinic, is in Cannes this year with Mohamed Diab’s buzzy Un Certain Regard opener Clash, set against violent demonstrations at the end of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi’s reign in 2013.

The producer, supported by Film Clinic’s European representative Daniel Ziskind, is seeking a company to partner on VFX for the Alice project, which will combine live action and animation.

Upcoming Film Clinic titles include Sherif El Bendary’s Ali, The Goat And Ibrahim, which is looking for a late summer festival berth and Amr Salama’s bittersweet drama Sheikh Jackson.

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Actors Alex Brendemühl, Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel on the red carpet here for the world premiere of Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of The Moon, which plays in Competition. See review, page 14.

Erdmann laughs longest

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Buyers are stampeding to acquire Maren Ade’s comedy Toni Erdmann — one of the few German films to screen in Competition at Cannes in recent years — following a rapturous reception and glowing reviews.

Sony Pictures Classics has taken the film for the US, while Pim Hermeling’s September Films has snapped up Benelux rights. Haut

et Court is already on board for France. Sales agent The Match Factory anticipates further deals on Toni Erdmann, which recorded the highest score to date on Screen International’s jury grid (see page 56) and recounts the escapades of a prankster father who tries to rescue his daughter from her miserable, work-fuelled life.

Meanwhile, September has taken another Competition film

for Benelux, picking up rights from Elle Driver to Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada. Puiu’s return to the Croisette follows a family as they convene on the anniversary of their patriarch’s death.

In a third deal, September has picked up Dutch rights from Le Pacte to Joachim Lafosse’s marriage drama After Love (L’Economie Du Couple), which screens in Directors’ Fortnight.

Christmas comes early for Studiocanal, Blueprint

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) have struck a deal to represent screen rights to Matt Haig’s novel A Boy Called Christmas.

The duo won out over strong interest from a number of parties to the film rights and are now

considering talent for the project.

Canongate released the children’s book in the UK, which explores how an 11-year-old went from an ordinary boy to Father Christmas. Haig is represented by Curtis Brown, who helped broker the deal.

The partnership renews a fruit-

Constellation aligns over Lake Fabien Westerhoff’s newly launched Film Constellation has boarded sales on Scandinavian horror Lake Bodom, which is being pitched here in the ‘Frontieres Goes to Cannes’ genre strand.

Inspired by real events, Lake Bodom tells the story of four teens who travel to the site of a legendary unsolved murder. Taneli Mustonen, the director of the Finnish-language horror, is also shooting a sequel to

ful collaboration between Studiocanal and Blueprint, recently teaming on James Marsh’s upcoming Donald Crowhurst biopic, starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz.

Studiocanal has a sequel in the works for UK smash Paddington and is readying production of German classic The Little Witch.

his comedy The Reunion, the most successful Finnish movie at the local box office in more than a decade.

Lake Bodom is co-written by Mustonen and Aleksi Hyvarinen.

Hyvarinen also produces. The team is aiming for an autumn festival premiere.

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White King sits on UK throne

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Fortissimo Films has sold UK and Ireland rights for futuristic drama The White King to Signature Entertainment. The company is planning a theatrical release in the fourth quarter of 2016, followed by a home entertainment and digital release in early 2017.

The film, which marks the feature debut of UK co-directors Jorg Tittel and Alex Helfrecht, stars Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song) and Jonathan Pryce (Brazil). Teun Hilte (Black Book) and Philip Munger are producers on the film.

Based on the award-winning Hungarian novel of the same name, the film follows a 12-yearold boy coming to terms with his father’s imprisonment by the totalitarian state in which he lives.

The deal for UK rights was finalised by Fortissimo executive vicepresident of international sales Nicole Mackey and Signature’s head of acquisitions Elizabeth Williams.

CANNES DEALS STX Entertainment has acquired international rights to Martin Scorsese’s upcoming crime drama The Irishman to star Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The company cut the deal with Mexican producer Gaston Pavlovich, whose Fabrica de Cine boarded as financier and producer last week. Paramount will distribute in North America.

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Holliday packs for Animals

By Andreas Wiseman

Great Expectations star Holliday Grainger is attached to star in Animals, director Sophie Hyde’s first film since Sundance and Berlin winner 52 Tuesdays in 2013.

The film is an adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel, which has been championed by Girls star Lena Dunham and picked up the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Unsworth has written the screenplay for the Manchester-set comedy about two female friends whose hedonistic friendship is tested when one gets engaged to a teetotal pianist.

Producer is Screen Star of Tomorrow Sarah Brocklehurst, who was Bafta-nominated for her debut film Black Pond, through Sarah Brocklehurst Productions.

The film has been developed by Creative England through the BFI Net.Work. Production is set to begin this winter in Manchester, with further casting underway.

Fiennes holds leash for tale of jealous dog

By Jeremy Kay

Joseph Fiennes is to make his feature directorial debut on the Virginia Woolf adaptation Flush, one of several titles from Londonbased production company Genesius that The Little Film Company is touting to Cannes buyers.

Flush, due to shoot in the UK at the end of the year, centres on a jealous cocker spaniel that tries to come between its owner and her lover when they plan to elope.

Debbie Gray of Genesius produces and Ellen Little and Genesi-

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us’s Julian Gleek are executive producers.

T h e s l a te i n c l u d e s Th e Ladykiller, which Tim Fywell is lining up to direct in September based on Martina Cole’s crime thriller.

Hear Amazon’s Bombay Berlin maps out plans in Cannes Midi Z’s Road To Mandalay With five films in the festival and two big acquisitions so far, Amazon Studios is the talk of Cannes. Learn more about its plans as Amazon head of worldwide film Jason Ropell, Amazon Original Movies’ head of production Ted Hope and head of movie distribution and marketing Bob Berney talk to Screen’s Matt Mueller at the UK Film Centre on Tuesday (1:30pm).

By Liz Shackleton

Bombay Berlin Film Production (BBFP) has boarded Midi Z’s The Road To Mandalay as an official German co-producer.

The film, selected for Cannes’ co-production platform L’Atelier in 2015, is also produced by Taiwan’s Flash Forward Entertainment and Seashore Image Productions, France’s House On

Turner leads Hatton heist Gabe Turner (The Class Of ’92, I Am Bolt) is to direct true-crime drama The Hatton Garden Heist.

Leo Pearlman of UK production outfit Fulwell 73 is on board to produce alongside distributor-producer Metrodome.

The feature film retelling of the $20m (£14m) London heist is due to enter pre-production in early June.

The raid, which took place in April 2015 on a safe-deposit vault in central London, was one of the biggest heists in UK criminal history, carried out by a semi-retired group of men aged between 58 and 75 years.

Metrodome International is handling worldwide sales in Cannes.

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Gray produces with Cole and Chris Whiteside, while Gleek handles executive producer duties.

Lesley Manning will direct scifi thriller Extrasensory, about twins involved in a secret Russian space mission. Gray produces with Gleek as executive producer.

Principal photography is set to start in London in September.

“With this kind of talent attached, we have films which will travel internationally and also bring something special to a British audience,” said Gray.

Fire Films and Myanmar’s Montage Film. The Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund and CNC’s Cinemas du Monde are supporting the film, which follows two illegal immigrants who meet at the Thai border and then struggle to establish new lives in Bangkok.

Midi Z has credits including drug addiction drama Ice Poison, which premiered at Berlin 2014.

Eyes have it for Germany Neue Visionen has picked-up Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s French comedy He Even Has Your Eyes for Germany and Austria.

The film centres on a French couple of Senegalese and Martinique origins offered a white baby for adoption. Neue Visionen previously distributed French comedy Serial Bad Weddings.

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Swedes plan a ‘Wikipedia’ for female film-makers

By Wendy Mitchell

The Swedish Film Institute continues its pioneering work to achieve gender equality in film, including the launch of a new website that will be “a kind of Wikipedia” for female film-makers.

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there are already 700 film-makers listed, from cinema’s start in 1895 to the present day. The list will be expanded globally. “Anyone who says there are no good women [to hire] will be proven wrong,” said SFI CEO Anna Serner at the ‘50/50 by 2020’ seminar here in Cannes.

Eurimages, which now requires applicants for funding to declare the gender of anyone working in the cast and crew, disclosed what it called “shocking numbers”, including that just 19% of Eurimages-supported projects were made by female directors.

Italy bound for Glory I Wonder Pictures has acquired Italian rights to Bulgarian tragicomedy Glory, about a railway worker who discovers a small fortune on the train tracks but is not rewarded in the way he wants.

Paris-based Wide Management is handling sales on the film by directorial duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, whose The Lesson won multiple awards on the festival circuit.

Bologna-based I Wonder Pictures recently distributed The Brand New Testament in Italy, where it grossed $1.5m.

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BFI ponders covering childcare costs

By Andreas wiseman

The BFI has said that it expects 50% of its funding to go to women directors before 2020 — and is considering cover for the cost of childcare for selected writers and directors.

BFI CEO Amanda Nevill and director of BFI Film Fund Ben Roberts were among those taking part in a diversity panel here hosted by industry body Directors UK, which earlier this month released a report calling for 50:50 public funding for women directors by 2020.

“We agree with the 50:50 [target]” Nevill said. “In terms of the films we fund, we will do it together before 2020.”

In a bid to increase the number of women writers and directors active in the industry, she said the organisation is also mulling the cover of childcare costs for some writers and directors: “We’re interested to know whether funding creches, for example, could help.

Would it help when we’re funding women or men who are sole carers of children and who have optioned books, if they could apply to have childcare [costs covered]?

“We would be really open to this and it’s something that we’re looking at very hard in Film Forever 2 [the BFI’s next five-year plan for film].”

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Adomeit Film goes punk

By Wendy Mitchell

Katja Adomeit, producer of Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Directors’ Fortnight title Wolf And Sheep, will next shoot Annika Berg’s Forever 13.

The film, about eight teenage girls who meet at a youth club and form a band, has DFI backing.

“It’s a punk chick flick… creative, crazy and punk,” Adomeit said.

Production is set to start in July in Copenhagen.

She also has Pine Ridge director Anna Eborn’s documentary Lida in post, about an elderly woman living in an old Swedish colony in eastern Ukraine.

Adomeit Film is in post on Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Loving Pia (formerly Across The Fields), about a mentally challenged woman in her 60s looking for love. It was presented in Goteborg’s Work In Progress line-up.

Adomeit is a co-producer on Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, shooting this summer in Sweden.

She will also work on Sadat’s next film, due for a 2017 shoot.

Devilworks strikes Gold

By Tom Grater

Devilworks has sold North American rights for documentary The UK Gold to levelFILM and Level33 Entertainment.

Narrated by Dominic West, the film from director Mark Donne explores tax avoidance in the UK and abroad. The film was scored

by Thom Yorke, Guy Garvey and Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja.

Devilworks has also bolstered its recent move into documentaries with the acquisition of Tribeca premiere Killing Them Safely. Nick Berardini’s film explores the fatalities caused by lack of regulation for the use of tasers in North America.

Sundance Selects released the film theatrically in the US.

Colombia’s 64-A Films journeys to Eldorado

By Jeremy Kay

Colombian producer Diego Ramirez of 64-A Films is in town talking up several projects in the pipeline, including revenge drama Killing Jesus and an ambitious TV series about the Spanish Conquest of South America.

Killing Jesus is lined up for an August or September shoot in Medellin, Colombia, with Mexican powerhouse Canana on board alongside Argentina’s AZ Films.

The true story follows a woman who witnessed the murder of her

father, a human rights professor, and dedicates herself to avenging his death by getting to know the killer before exacting revenge.

Ramirez is also assembling a portfolio of “very ambitious TV projects” after he served as executive producer on Caracol Television’s Escobar series and guided 64-A Films into a production services role on the French web series Blanca, which shot over four weeks in Colombia.

Top of the pile is an epic Spanish Conquest series going under

the working title Eldorado, based on Colombian author William Ospina’s Amazon trilogy.

Carlos Moreno will direct, having worked with Ramirez on Sundance and Guadalajara 2008 selection Dog Eat Dog and Escobar. Spain’s Elena Manrique (Pan’s Labyrinth) will produce with Ramirez. Ospina is a consultant.

Eldorado will shoot in Spain, Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic, and will be an account of the Conquest told from a non-European perspective.

A first, behind-the-scenes look at Olga Kurylenko in horror Mara, co-starring Javier Botet (Mama), which wrapped this week on location in Savannah, Georgia. The Solution handles sales in Cannes.

Bucharest Studios set to relaunch Bucharest Film Studios, formerly known as Media Pro, has come under new ownership and is to be relaunched.

The new owners are Bobby Paunescu and Donald Kushner, and the move comes as Romania prepares to introduce a tax incentive, set to offer between 20% and 25%.

The Bucharest site has 19 fully equipped sound stages surrounded by a 445,000 sq m backlot.

Four of the stages have indoor water tanks, including one of the largest in Europe.

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Invincible picks up Doo Dah Man

By Geoffrey Macnab

London-based producer-distributor The Thing Is… has agreed a US rights deal with Invincible Pictures for road movie The Doo Dah Man. Directed by Claude Green, who also co-wrote the script with Jack Ballo, the film pairs a young hitchhiker played by Will Brittain (Everybody Wants Some!!) and a

con-artist on the run, played by Glenn Morshower (Moneyball).

Producer is Suzanne Weinert.

The deal was negotiated by Chris Johnson for The Thing Is… and Matthew Sarshik for Invincible. It marks Green’s directorial debut. He teamed with Weinert in Austin, where the pair raised equity funding in the US and UK.

Producers unpack board game doc

By Jeremy Kay

Vancouver-based Sepia Films and Stuttgart-based San Cinema have signed a deal in Cannes to co-produce a board games documentary.

Elizabeth Yake will direct and Sepia Films’ Tina Pehme and Kim C Roberts are producing

alongside Sven Schnell of San Cinema. Meyer Shwarzstein of Brainstorm Media will serve as executive producer on the project, which is lined up for an August start and will take a light-hearted look at the surge in popularity of the games.

Mirovision in frame for artist biopic South Korea’s Mirovision is launching The Whistleblower director Yim Soon-rye’s upcoming biopic of celebrated Korean painter Lee Jung-seob.

Mirovision head Jason Chae (The Housemaid ) is producing.

Known for his paintings on the silver foil paper from cigarette packs, the iconic artist whose short life (1916-56) spanned some of the most turbulent events in Korean history, has had works on display in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The film, in script development, is aiming to shoot in spring 2017 to be completed in time for Cannes 2018.

Mirovision has also sold Canola, from director Chang (The Target), to Lemon Tree for China. The film previously sold Chinese remake rights to Huace.

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Who Gets The Dog?

Epic deals give Dog leg up

By Jeremy Kay

Epic Pictures has closed key territories here on family film Who Gets The Dog?, featuring a cast led

by Alicia Silverstone and Ryan Kwanten.

Rights have gone in Australia (Roadshow), Spain (MediaSet), Germany (Polyband), Italy (Minerva), Turkey (DigiTurk) and Russia/CIS (MGN).

Further deals closed in Canada (VVS), Brazil (Globo), Middle East (Eagle Films), former Yugoslavia (Stars Ent), Spanish Latin America (Alebrije), Asia pay TV (Fox) and airlines (Captive).

Who Gets The Dog? follows the escapades of a couple on the brink of divorce, at war over who gets custody of their beloved pooch.

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Co-pros go double Dutch

By Geoffrey Macnab

Two of the Netherlands’ major festivals have joined forces to launch a co-production initiative.

BoostNL is a partnership between the co-production events at International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart and Netherlands Film Festival’s Holland Film Meeting (HFM).

The collaboration will maximise market support for international feature projects that have already been presented at CineMart or supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, and for Dutch feature projects in development.

BoostNL targets projects that are already recognised for their potential and quality. Throughout the new initiative, project participants will benefit from ongoing support and guidance, whether in terms of business planning or creative decision-making, and participants will be encour-

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aged to incorporate feedback into their project.

One-on-one sessions with key international mentors will deliver bespoke festival, sales and marketing strategies that will support the project through all stages of development, from advanced script to post-production to marketing and distribution.

The selection of international projects will be announced at the end of June, while the Dutch projects will be announced by early August.

The programme, comanaged by CineMart’s Marit van den Elshout and HFM’s Vanja Kaludjercic,

Princess reigns in Bulgaria, Iran

By Geoffrey Macnab

Ukrainian outfit Film.UA Group, here at the Marché du Film for the first time, has closed deals on animated feature The Stolen Princess.

Film.UA has secured agreements with Bulgaria (Pro Films) and Iran (Cinema 24), following a deal earlier in the market with KLB Company for distribu-

tion in France and Frenchspeaking territories.

The Stolen Princess is a 3D animated feature in production at the Animagrad Animation Studio, which is part of FILM.UA Group.

Based on Aleksandr Pushkin’s poem ‘The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights’, the project is due to be delivered late 2017.

Marché attendance rises Marché du Film has seen a rise in overall attendance so far this year, according to organisers.

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jected the final total will reach 11,800. There are 118 countries represented this year and Asia has seen more participants register from numerous territories. China remains top of the list, with 428 registrants — around 100 more than in 2015.

will run in three stages, kicking off at this year’s HFM, which runs September 22-25. A second session is scheduled for the following month and a third will take place during CineMart in January 2017.

“What we have not been doing well enough and what we are now going to be doing is talent development — but in a more structured way,” IFFR director Bero Beyer told Screen of the new alliance between the two festivals.

Beyer said the “door was wide open” for further collaborations in a similar vein. “This idea of partnering up is so logical that it should be logical for others as well.”

CineMart’s Elshout said: “By joining forces, we will be able to offer a lot more services to projects that have already proven their quality. We are doing more for less in an overcrowded project market landscape.”

Home gets e-Mission certificate Home, the new film by Fien Troch, is the first feature to gain an e-Mission sustainability label under an initiative by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).

The e-Mission label is given to productions that make extra efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.

Since 2013, producers of majority Flemish features and drama series supported by VAF have been obliged to complete a carbon calculator. VAF has hired a sustainability employee to ensure compliance.

The carbon calculators show that between 2013 and last year, average CO2 emissions per film went down from 83 tons (2013) to 54 tons.

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Sally Sussman’s Cannes Classics doc tells the story of Midnight Express and Billy Hayes Last time Billy Hayes went to Turkey, he was arrested at the airport and thrown in prison for trying to leave the country with four pounds of hashish.

His nightmarish experiences inspired Alan Parker’s 1978 film Midnight Express, starring Brad Davis as Hayes and scripted by a young Oliver Stone.

Now a new documentary, Sally Sussman’s Midnight Returns: The Story Of Billy Hayes And Turkey (screening in Cannes Classics on May 17 and sold by the Film Sales Company) tells the story of the film and follows Hayes back to the country.

It is fitting that Hayes and his wife Wendy will be attending the Cannes premiere. After all, they first met in Cannes at the gala party following the festival screening of Midnight Express.

“I’d never seen a movie that stuck with me the way that movie

did,” Sussman recalls of seeing Midnight Express when she was a student at the University of Southern California.

Midnight Express was a big hit but, Sussman suggests, was “probably the most hated film ever” in Turkey.

It was blamed for destroying tourism in the country and poisoning relations between Turkey and the US. Sussman and her husband (and producer) Tony Morina accompanied Hayes on a clandestine return journey to Turkey.

It was an emotional experience for Hayes, who has “always loved” Turkey in spite of his prison ordeal and was accompanied by plain-clothes policemen for his own protection as he visited his old haunts — the prison and the insane asylum among them.

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PABLO LARRAIN (Neruda, Directors’ Fortnight) Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal team up after No for Neruda, a playful noir set in post-Second World War Chile where the communist poet and politician Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) goes on the run and is pursued by Bernal’s policeman. The Chilean director speaks to Screen about depicting a literary icon in all his glory and contradictions.

How is your Cannes experience?

When you take the plane to come here, you don’t know what’s going to happen and it can be very scary. But the movie worked well, we had a wonderful reception and it’s going to be very well distributed [around the world].

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Was it a challenge to find the funding?

I’ve never spent so much time working on the pre-production of a movie. It was hard to find the funding and that’s why we made The Club first. In the end, the production

involved five countries: Chile, Argentina, Spain, France and the US. Making expensive films in Spanish is always risky and I feel responsible to the people who bet on us, so I’m glad it’s working.

Neruda has a playful sense of humour.

Humour is an excellent way to say things that otherwise would sound very preachy. It’s a tool that helps you hide stuff and the audience will swallow it without being aware the message is there.

I love that.

When did you decide to work again with Gael Garcia Bernal?

We are friends and talk often. It was clear to me that he should play the inspector. I never considered anybody else for the part. He’s an actor who always manages to keep an air of mystery.

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Tennis team unleashes a volley Shia LaBeouf is limbering up to shout “You cannot be serious!” in Borg/McEnroe Shia LaBeouf is playing tennis every day in preparation for his next role, as John McEnroe in Janus Metz’s Borg/McEnroe. The film will look at the famous rivalry between US tennis star McEnroe and Sweden’s Bjorn Borg, which came to a head at Wimbledon in 1980. Rising Swedish talent Sverrir Gudnason plays Borg. “It’s very physical, you have to learn the craft of tennis,” says LaBeouf. “The rest of him I know really well. It’s just learning dance moves right now.”

The actor, also in Cannes with Andrea Arnold’s Competition entry American Honey, tells Screen he was drawn to the new film because “there are many parallels between me and McEnroe. It’s a very emotional script. The material is amazing. These men have been portrayed as caricatures by the media, and this goes deeper into their characters.”

Fisher’s reel Carrie Fisher is here in Cannes to promote Bright Lights, an intimate portrait of her family featuring her mother Debbie Reynolds and her brother Todd.

Fisher recalled in a talk at the American Pavilion how she “never wanted to be in show business” but her mother pressured her to drop out of high school at 13 to perform in her nightclub act (the film shows a 15-year-old Fisher on stage, performing ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, a song written by her future husband Paul Simon).

Fisher Stevens co-directed with Alexis Bloom, and the film premiered here before moving on to HBO. Fisher revealed she is working on a book based on her diaries written from the sets of Star Wars, which she wants to title The Princess Diaries.

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SF Studios is launching pre-sales here ahead of an autumn shoot, and the film’s backers include Film Vast, Swedish Televi-

sion, Yellow Film & TV, the Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and MEDIA. Now that the film is announced, LaBeouf plans to reach out to meet McEnroe. For now, he is getting his backhand ready.

“Training is harder than I ever imagined,” he says. It is the emotional depths of the role that are the real appeal, however: “I don’t give a shit about tennis, it’s not really a sports film at all.”

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Community in Cannes

Palestinian film diaspora gathers on the Croisette Palestine does not have an official stand at Cannes but the nation’s scattered film-makers are out in force thanks to a new initiative called Future Logic.

Ramallah-based Mohanad Yaqubi and Bassam Jarbawi and Pa r i s -b a s e d Ra e d An d o n i launched the platform at Dubai International Film Festival last December in response to the fact Palestinian film-makers are based all over the world, not just Gaza and the West Bank.

“We are trying to build an industry structure that is transborder,” explains Yaqubi.

Future Logic has teamed with the Marché to present a selection of upcoming Palestinian projects at a Producers Network breakfast on Tuesday.

The projects comprise Mahdi Fleifel’s The Return and Sameh Zoabi’s Catch The Moon, which is produced by Rebecca O’Brien at Sixteen Films.

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American Honey Reviewed by Jonathan Romney America’s wide open spaces have rarely felt as claustrophobic as in American Honey, a US road trip undertaken largely in a box-like white van and shot in tight Academy ratio format. This story of a young woman looking for escape, only to find herself on the proverbial Road to Nowhere, has an appropriately enclosed, tense feel in Andrea Arnold’s ambitious, assertively experimental travelogue, shot over 56 days in several US states.

Visually the film is terrific, Robbie Ryan’s restlessly shifting, often sun-soaked photography vividly snapping up moments of industrial drabness and bucolic bliss.

As a story about a young woman trying to find a better life, the film is of a piece with Arnold’s UK working-class tale, the appropriately named Fish Tank (2009). But American Honey represents a significant departure from her earlier work in being so open-ended, seemingly improvisatory and in overall ambition. But while it exudes ample energy, this episodic piece does not muster much narrative drive over its daunting running time of two-and-three-quarter hours. There is probably a stronger, tighter film in here, but Arnold should be applauded for her commitment to following the winding backroads of filmic experiment rather than the wellmapped highway of storytelling.

The story begins in a small US town where

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Competition UK-US. 2016. 162mins Director/screenplay Andrea Arnold Production companies Parts & Labor, Pulse Films, Mandown, Maven Pictures, Film4, BFI International sales Protagonist Pictures, vanessa@ protagonistpictures.com Producers Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa Cinematography Robbie Ryan Editor Joe Bini Production design Kelly McGehee Main cast Sasha Lane, Riley Keough, Shia LaBeouf, Arielle Holmes

we see dreadlocked 19-year-old Star (Sasha Lane) foraging for jettisoned foodstuffs in a supermarket skip. When a white van of rowdy youths passes through, Star finds herself flirting with their charismatic older leader Jake (Shia LaBeouf ), who offers her a job. Before long, she has joined his crew, who travel round the Midwest selling magazine subscriptions.

There is clearly a great sense of camaraderie to be had with this motley bunch, crammed together in the van to a permanent soundtrack of hip-hop and R’n’B. But Star soon comes to realise the terms of engagement are tough.

The show is really run by the hard-bitten Krystal (Riley Keough), who is suspicious of Star as a youthful sexual rival, and who has Jake completely in her thrall. Then there is the fact the selling is done by lying outrageously to gullible customers, whom Jake meanwhile robs.

And Krystal makes it clear that rich and dirt poor alike are fair game for ruthless milking.

The use of rootless innocents to do the work suggests the hippie dream, of which this generation bears the faintest traces, is long dead: freedom and rebellion have become just masks for the profit motive at its most merciless.

American Honey has a certain quasi-documentary dimension, insofar as the action — shot in sequence in as informal a manner as possible, road-trip style — appears to represent the process of the film being improvised from location to location. The story is based on a

2007 article in The New York Times by Ian Urbina, about just such sales crews, but there is little sense that Arnold wants to give us a journalistic exposé. We never see any of the other kids do their selling work — indeed, they seem so raucously anarchic that it is hard to imagine what their methods might be. And Arnold is not really interested in the other characters.

Instead, the film very much focuses on Star, played by bright discovery Lane as wide-eyed but hardly innocent, open to all the possibilities of life on the road — existential and sexual — but sufficiently sharp and initiative-filled to stand out from the crowd. LaBeouf ’s Jake never quite comes into focus as an ambivalent bad boy, but Keough (from TV’s The Girlfriend Experiment) gives Krystal a steely, cynical edge and it is unfortunate she does not get more time in the spotlight.

The film’s disabused take on American culture sometimes comes into sharp focus, notably near the end, in a contrast between Star’s sad features and the exuberant romance of Lady Antebellum’s titular country song. This would have made a good point to turn off the track, but a campfire coda, leaving Star’s fate undecided, suggests the road could go on forever, or just that Arnold has not quite found her ending.

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The Nice Guys Reviewed by Jonathan Romney The last time he directed, action screenwriter extraordinaire Shane Black hit paydirt — 2013’s Iron Man 3 scored both commercially (with a worldwide gross of more than $1.2bn) and artistically, a superhero movie with a genuine auteur stamp. Black’s previous directing venture, however, did not set the world on fire: comedy thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), starring Robert Downey Jr some three years before his Tony Stark role made him a box-office deity.

Black should do better with spoofy neo-noir exercise The Nice Guys, if only because of the cast-iron pairing of Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Even so, this affable retro number lacks the zing of both aforementioned films, and it is left to the leads — aided by terrific young find Angourie Rice — to keep the film afloat with self-mocking charm.

Set in 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys is a mismatched-buddy comedy thriller — Black’s natural home territory, as the writer of Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. Crowe, weatherbeaten and bloated in a blue leather jacket, plays bruiser Jack Healy, paid to terrify men who prey on young girls. Gosling, touting the period’s archetypal porn ’tache — and sometimes trying a little too hard for goofball effect — is Holland March, alcoholic widowed PI and father to 13-year-old Holly (Rice), a worldly

Out of Competition US. 2016. 116mins Director Shane Black Production company Silver Pictures, Waypoint Entertainment International sales Bloom, info@bloommedia.com Producer Joel Silver Screenplay Anthony Bagarozzi, Shane Black Cinematography Philippe Rousselot Editor Joel Negron Production design Richard Bridgland Music John Ottman, David Buckley Main cast Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Kim Basinger, Margaret Qualley, Matt Bomer

wise, intrepid lass who comes to play comic foil and unshakeable moral conscience to the two men.

Healy first introduces himself to March by beating him to a pulp, but they are soon working together on a case involving an elusive young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) and a dead porn star — whose demise, in the opening sequence, makes an explosive flourish that the rest of the film never quite matches.

The title use of a classic disco-era font —

shades of Boogie Nights — tells you exactly what sort of period lark this is. The glory era of Los Angeles’ adult film industry provides a racy background that The Nice Guys seems a little shy to make the most of; despite hints of hard-boiled cynicism, the film is essentially sweet-natured.

Crowe plays Jack as a lunkish, short-fuse doofus, straight man to Gosling’s hapless March, who is forever taking ludicrous booze-fuelled pratfalls (the old-school gags about his drinking habit quickly outstay their welcome).

There is a distinctly self-referential film-buff dimension at work, but it is nowhere near as charming as in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The Nice Guys harks back to the ’70s golden age of revisionist detective thrillers, but the result feels too knowingly déja vu, rather than bringing a truly fresh angle.

On the mystery front, the plot never feels satisfyingly complex or surprising: we can guess exactly where things are headed the moment a glacially inexpressive Kim Basinger rolls into view as a woman of power. But, while their oneliners could be a lot sharper, Crowe and Gosling more than get by on stumblebum amiability.

And, although the wham-bam sequences sometimes feel a touch messy, aficionados of that once-plentiful action staple, flying glass, will not feel short-changed. Still, while the ending sets up a sequel, you ultimately feel that once is nice enough.

teenage son is to compete in a piano competition. When they stop at a certain street, Gabrielle impulsively leaves them to seek news of a long-ago lover who once lived at this address.

We then return to her early life as a young woman infatuated with the notion of love, wading into a river to cool her burning sexual desire. Wilful and unpredictable, she accepts her family’s proposal of a loveless marriage to farm worker Jose — it is that or face incarceration in a mental hospital. Later, a diagnosis of kidney stones obliges her to take a six-week cure at a Swiss sanatorium where she meets Andre (Louis Garrel). Andre is a dashing lieutenant, wounded during the fighting in Indochina, and is her absolute romantic ideal; naturally they fall in love. He could have stepped from the pages of a Hemingway novel but his high moral standards and her married status seems to make their union impossible.

Garcia contrasts Gabrielle’s relationship with the key men in her life in two sex scenes. The one with Jose is a business transaction; brief and joyless. The one with Andre is slow and sensual as he guides her towards the heights of ecstasy that she has always wanted.

From The Land Of The Moon may sound like the stuff of cheap romantic fiction but Garcia

keeps it believable and very watchable. The performances avoid histrionics, the passage of time is subtly indicated and there is a generosity of spirit towards all the characters, including the long-suffering, incredibly understanding husband. It also looks a treat, from the sparkling azure seas to the sprawling fields of lavender and the clouds that circle the Alpine peaks.

Incurable romantics should happily surrender to its allure and the more cynical have the reward of eventually discovering there is more going on here than initially met the eye.

From The Land Of The Moon Reviewed by Allan Hunter A sensual, independent-minded woman is considered a danger to herself and the natural order of society in From The Land Of The Moon (Mal De Pierres), a languid, handsomely crafted adaptation of the Milena Agus novel. The ingredients of an old-fashioned romantic weepie are given class and conviction by director Nicole Garcia whose elegant restraint helps to ground the more fanciful elements in some sense of reality. Her approach also makes the 11th-hour revelations easier to swallow.

In an age dominated by superhero blockbusters and CGI-spectacle, there is an under-served audience of those who once happily wallowed in the tragic romance of The English Patient or Out Of Africa. From The Land Of The Moon is not in that epic league, being too conventional and tasteful to excite critical support, but it might prove more of a crowdpleaser in territories where the presence of Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel can draw crowds.

Transposed from the Sardinian setting of the novel to the south of France, From The Land Of The Moon unfolds almost entirely in flashback.

Gabrielle (Cotillard) and her husband Jose (Alex Brendemühl) arrive in Lyon where their

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competition Fr-Bel. 2016. 116mins Director Nicole Garcia Production companies Les Productions Du Tresor, Lunanime International sales Studiocanal, emilie. martel@studiocanal.com Producer Alain Attal Screenplay Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia, Natalie Carter, based on the novel by Milena Agus Cinematography Christophe Beaucarne Editor Simon Jacquet Production design Arnaud De Moléron Music Daniel Pemberton Main cast Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan

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Raw Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Cannibalism — it shouldn’t happen to a vet.

Raw proves a bang-on title for the previously named Grave, the inventively grisly (or gristly) genre debut by French up-and-comer Julia Ducournau. That’s because fresh meat, of various kinds, is at the centre of this femme-horror cannibal coming-of-ager. But it is also apt due to the young heroine’s own affecting gaucheness and the authentic red-blooded freshness of this stylistically rich, super-macabre piece from a French director who made her mark with the 2011 short Junior.

That film also starred up-and-coming actress Garance Marillier, whose ferociously uninhibited performance is one of Raw’s several aces.

The theme itself might not seem brand new — cannibalism with an arty twist has been the focus of recent films such as the remade Mexican feature We Are What We Are — but feminist and youth culture angles, plus distinctive visual flamboyance, give Raw a fresh flavour. Genre buffs and fests will gobble it up, and this prime cut should be the plat du jour on cult theatrical menus worldwide.

The film begins with a slyly presented whammy, a slow burn leading up to a mystery occurrence that is not explained until much later. Then we meet Justine (Marillier), a shy young woman being driven by her parents to

Critics’ Week Fr-Bel. 2016. 98mins Director/screenplay Julia Ducournau Production companies Petit Film, Rouge International, Frakas International sales Wild Bunch, ndevide@ wildbunch.eu Producers Jean des Forets, Julie Gayet, Nadia Turincev Cinematography Ruben Impens Editor Jean-Christophe Bouzy Production design Laurie Colson Music Jim Williams Main cast Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas

her first year at veterinary college. Life there seems to be a permanent hazing ritual, mixing brutally coercive stunts — rookies being forced to serve the whims of older students — with orgiastic party nights. Luckily, Justine has two friends there: new roommate, gay muscle boy Adrien (Rabah Naït Oufella) and older punky sister Alex (Ella Rumpf).

A confirmed vegetarian, Justine balks at being made to eat rabbit kidney for social acceptance but does so anyway, with drastic effects on her skin. And things get weirder still as she breaks the taboo barrier big time, following what can only be described as a bizarre depilation accident.

Raw’s feminist take on body horror is unfailingly confrontational, and it also passes the Bechdel Test with flying colours. Urgent

themes of young women’s body image and the violence of peer pressure are interwoven to smartly provocative effect. Once Justine has decisively given up on her veggie ethic she also embarks on a sexual apprenticeship, while getting some drastic tutoring on college survival from big sis. Her new appetites are predictably hazardous to potential lovers, however, and one outré scene involving blue and yellow body paint ends up with a little red mixed in too.

The film’s power stems partly from the disconnect between Justine’s feral inner fury and her ostensible vulnerability (there is a significant streak of Carrie in here from the start). The young cast, from the newbie leads to an army of go-for-it extras, are terrific, and Marillier is something else — fiercely expressive in a performance that is no-holds-barred on every front.

housing project. Strongly present in every scene, Ruffin brings a quiet intensity that proves consistently commanding.

The film pivots into slow-burn romance when the slightly older Sophie (Chloe Levine) shows up to stay with her never-seen grandfather — seemingly the only white family in this strongly African-American housing block. An orphan who self-harms, she is attracted to Milo’s taciturn self-possession, and is only slightly fazed by his attempt to lick her bleeding wrist scratches, or his showing her grisly documentary footage of an animal slaughterhouse.

She also finds his obsession with vampires cute, including his charmingly retro home-

taped collection of VHS films, although he has yet to see her particular favourite, Twilight. The steady chatter about vampire films risks becoming rather overdone, although horror geeks may enjoy brief cameos by film-makers Lloyd Kaufman and Larry Fessenden as Hobo and Drunk Man. While the romance helps humanise a protagonist who is essentially a serial killer, the dramatic stakes are raised when Milo witnesses a murder committed by the gang that torments him, generating a general sense of jeopardy while withholding some crucial information about the lad’s longer game plan. Intriguingly, the film continues to offer more than one plausible interpretation of Milo’s true nature.

Evoking a strong sense of place from the Rockaway Beach locations of O’Shea’s home town, The Transfiguration also benefits from the moody drone-toned score by Margaret Chardiet (aka industrial music artist Pharmakon). Overall, it is a strongly achieved piece from O’Shea, whose sole prior screen credit, per IMDb, is the 2014 10-minute short Milo. It is an achievement that should prove inspiring to late bloomers all over, as the film-maker concedes in the press notes, he is making his feature debut as a man who is “not young”.

The Transfiguration Reviewed by Charles Gant Native New Yorker Michael O’Shea makes an impressively confident directorial debut with The Transfiguration, a vampire movie that looks, feels, walks and talks like a gritty US indie flick. More credibly positioned as a nicely achieved example of the latter than as a full-on horror picture, the film should appeal to the smart genre audience that embraced the likes of Let The Right One In — referenced a couple of times in the dialogue — and It Follows.

Our teenage protagonist Milo (The Good Wife’s Eric Ruffin) is introduced in an act of seeming intimacy with an older man in the stall of a public bathroom; we quickly discover that he is in fact feasting on the blood from his victim’s neck. Milo then steals all the money from the man’s wallet before returning to the apartment in Rockaway, Long Island, which he shares with his older brother Lewis (Aaron Clifton Moten).

Writer-director O’Shea doles out the information skilfully, easily sustaining our interest in this misfit 14-year-old who is receiving counselling after committing acts of animal cruelty, has no parents or school friends and is routinely bullied by a gang of older males on his

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My Life As A Courgette Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson

Dogs Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson In Dogs (Caini), inheriting 550 hectares of apparent wasteland in the Romanian countryside near the border with Ukraine proves problematic for the young man whose late grandfather acquired it back in 1983. Writerdirector Bogdan Mirica makes a very assured feature debut, juggling an accretion of sinister clues and slowburn allegiances at a low-key pace kept humming thanks to attention-grabbing widescreen panache.

A fine entry in the tradition of advising city-slickerswho-won’t-listen to go back where they came from, this fable of lawlessness, percolating menace and foolish disregard for atavistic local traditions is enjoyable viewing for arthouse patrons who do not mind the occasional snippet of harsh, narratively motivated gore.

The film’s tone is expertly established in an unsettling opening shot as the patiently probing camera hovers close to the ground over scrub grass to a scummy pond where something distasteful bubbles to the surface.

Roman (Dragos Bucur) has come from Bucharest to see his grandfather’s spread where the soil is so unproductive that “even the Commies couldn’t plant their collective farms here”. A caretaker shows Roman his new domain complete with a hostile dog named Police.

Roman intends to sell the property and enlists a young notary to broker the deal but police chief Hogas (Gheorghe Visu) soon informs Roman that the notary has vanished. It would seem that parties unknown object to any change in the status quo.

The laconic characters do not say much most of the time but when they do speak, it is worth paying attention. Tension seems melded at a molecular level with the oppressive heat. The police chief hopes to get useful information from a so-far tight-lipped informant who works for a certain Samir (Vlad Ivanov), who answered to Roman’s late grandfather. Anyone who has ever seen a Mafia-inflected movie knows that Roman should probably get out while the going’s good.

But Roman has a stubborn belief in civilisation and the rule of law. Cue sardonic laughter.

A rabid boar and Roman’s visiting girlfriend are interesting elements en route to a few abrupt twists. Country rhythms are slow but the film itself never lags. Ever-sogradual dolly-in shots keep the creepiness quotient going, while the sparse score is very good indeed.

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Un Certain Regard Fr-Rom. 2016. 104mins Director/screenplay Bogdan Mirica Production companies EZ Films, 42 KM Film, ARGO Film International sales Bac Films, g.sousa@ bacfilms.fr Producers Elie Meirovitz, Marcela Ursu Cinematography Andrei Butica Editor Roxana Szel Production design Augustina Stanciu Music Codrin Lazar, Sorin Romanescu Main cast Dragos Bucur, Gheorghe Visu, Vlad Ivanov

A compact triumph of stop-motion animation in the service of a bittersweet tale, My Life As A Courgette (My Vie De Courgette) is as delightful as it is affecting. The story of a few months in the life of a 10-year-old orphan who believes he is responsible for the death of his alcoholic mother, Courgette sustains a tone that acknowledges life is a blend of good news and bad but that kindness and compassion can cut through a great deal of soul-crushing adversity. Acquisitions should be brisk following the film’s debut in Directors’ Fortnight.

His real name is Icare but he insists on being called by the nickname his mother gave him. When kindly policeman Raymond drives Courgette to the orphanage, the melancholy boy’s only possessions are an empty beer can and a kite he built and decorated himself. Courgette is gifted at drawing; the walls of his garret room served as his canvas until his mother’s unfortunate death, and his charming sketches are frequent props in the story.

The well-defined orphans fit at one table. Simon is the self-appointed tough guy. One little girl’s mother was deported back to Africa while she was at school. Another little girl is prey to obsessive tics. One little boy is curious about what adult couples do together in bed. Simon’s description is a classic kid’s-level interpretation of sexual congress. And one brief, narratively justified, element is a ‘Basic Instinct for 10-year-olds’ moment.

Courgette’s outlook brightens when 10-year-old Camille arrives by court order but his first stirrings of love may be thwarted by the hiss-worthy aunt jockeying for custody of her niece. The orphans devise a plan to interfere.

A board where each young resident can post his or her emotional “weather” each day, from stormy to sunny, is incredibly basic but it is the complexity of the feelings experienced by articulated puppets with impossibly large heads that gives the film — three years in the making despite its brief running time — its undeniable beauty.

By European standards, this is probably suitable for ages eight and up. But it is not a pure distraction in the manner of so much fare aimed at young people. Think Bambi. The themes are serious and handled with grace and humour. All but the most hardened adult hearts will be moved.

Directors’ Fortnight Swi-Fr. 2016. 66mins Director Claude Barras Production companies Rita Productions, Blue Spirit Productions, Gebeka Films, KNM International sales Indie Sales, nesbach@ indiesales.eu Producers Max Karli, Pauline Gygax, Armelle Glorennec, Eric Jacquot, Marc Bonny, Kate and Michel Merkt Screenplay Céline Sciamma, Claude Barras from Autobiographie d’une Courgette by Gilles Paris Cinematography David Toutevoix Editor Valentin Rotelli Production design Ludovic Chemarin Music Sophie Hunger Voice cast Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera, Estelle Hennard, Elliot Sanchez, Lou Wick, Brigitte Rosset

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Panama joins the heavyweights The Latin American country’s industry is booming, producing features with a local flavour as well as international co-productions. The Panama Projects round-table event uncovered the potential. By Geoffrey Macnab

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ow we are in the right time to make movies,” was the message from Panama Film Commission at a special event in Cannes this weekend to promote the country’s fast-growing film industry.

Under the new film law, there is now a 15% tax incentive in place — relatively modest by the standard of incentives elsewhere, Gabriel Padilla of Panama Film Commission acknowledged, but it comes with few strings attached and is soon to be raised to 25%. An added attraction is that the local currency, the balboa, is pegged to the dollar — so incomers do not have to worry about currency fluctuations.

Not only is Panama aiming to attract more international production, its indigenous industry is beginning to fire. Panama has gone from making no films of its own, to producing half-a-dozen features a year. This newfound activity is reflected in the number of films being pitched and presented in the festival.

Headlining the mini-Panamanian invasion is Jonathan Jakubowicz’s drama Hands Of Stone, an out-of-competition red-carpet screening here tonight, starring Edgar Ram-

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irez as legendary boxer Roberto Duran. Raging Bull’s Robert De Niro plays his trainer.

At the event round table, Frank Spano, whose documentary Hidden — co-directed with Guillermo Barcenas — is screening in the market, revealed further details about his upcoming projects. These include Human Persons, a thriller about human-organ trafficking, and Gauguin & Canal, in which Jean Reno is set to star.

Meanwhile Sultan, from documentary maker Enrique Castro Rios, should be ready by the end of the year. The debut feature deals with the experiences of three survivors of the US invasion of Panama in 1989.

Also stirring strong interest on the Croisette is Salsipuedes from Ricardo Aguilar Navarro and Manolito Rodriguez, an intense thriller/ social drama that drew plaudits at International Film Festival Panama earlier this year.

Worth the travel One key theme of the discussion was coproduction. Panama may seem out of the way to Europeans — but there are opportunities to be found. At the Panama symposium, veteran producer Donald K Ranvaud, who currently works with the World Bank

‘Don’t try to read what other people want… be true to yourself’ Donald K Ranvaud, producer

on climate change issues, made outspoken points about the way the co-production system works when Europeans are working with Latin Americans.

“All the funding that exists, especially in Europe, is really targeted to the European partner,” Ranvaud warned. “Some countries are friendlier than others and more open to support projects.”

One key question that Panamanian producers need to ask themselves, Ranvaud suggested, is whether foreign producers will respect the “cultural specificity” that gives a film its identity. Ranvaud called on Panama’s film-makers to be “true to themselves” and their vision. He warned them that some foreign producers can be “very heavy” and will look to “take care of themselves” first and foremost. The Scandinavians are less imposing — with Norway in particular earning Ranvaud’s praise for its light touch.

“If your heart is in the right place and you’re talking about the things that concern you and you’re very specific culturally, that’s probably the best way to make an impact,” Ranvaud suggested. “Don’t try to read what other people want… be true to yourself.”

Another challenge is to identify sales agents who can help Panamanian film-makers achieve some traction in the international marketplace. These sales agents will often be looking for films that have festival potential — and are able to attract attention by making a splash at events such as Cannes or Venice or Berlin.

Films may struggle to achieve big theatrical releases — but when Netflix has a $6bn content acquisition budget and other VoD and SVoD players are also on an acquisition drive, there are opportunities for Panamanian film-makers — as for those everywhere else — to reach a worldwide audience.

Panama has obvious attractions as a location. It is a small country but it offers diverse locations. Film-makers coming to Panama can find everything from beaches and forests to skyscrapers and urban settings within easy reach. There are also decent studio facilities.

Panama is on the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list, which makes it eligible for support from funders such as International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund, which assists film-makers from developing countries. These bodies tend to look for socially relevant dramas rooted in local experience.

Alongside the funders supporting artistic ‘festival films,’ there are also backers looking for more solidly commercial fare. They will pounce if they can find the next Alfonso Cuaron or Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, or if they can see a chance to make lucrative genre movies.

Panama may have been in the news for reasons other than film in recent weeks.

Nonetheless, as the Cannes session emphasised, Panama’s film industry is really begins ning to flourish. n

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And London stands at the heart of this continuing national success, both as a gateway to the rest of the UK and a veritable one-stop-shop for productions of all nationalities and sizes.

“London’s ability to deliver world-class film and TV is reflected across the screen industries,” says Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission (BFC). “Like film and television, our animation, games and VFX industries have a global reputation for top creativity and craftsmanship.”

“I am extremely proud of how our screen industries are producing awardwinning entertainment, with British success stories from Spectre to Suffragette winning the hearts and minds of audiences across the world,” agrees George Osborne, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. “The world-class facilities and talent in our great capital city attract major productions and significant inward investment, both of which benefit the whole of the British economy.” Recent research from independent consultancy firm BOP found that every £1 ($1.45) spent on relevant activities by Film Lon-

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‘London’s ability to deliver world-class film and TV is reflected across the industries’ Adrian Wootton, Film London and BFC

don in 2015 generated £250 ($361) of gross value added (GVA) to the national economy.

Crucially, this infrastructure is supported by the UK’s extremely competitive tax reliefs, which are available for qualifying film, high-end television, animation, children’s programmes and video game productions that have a minimum UK core spend of 10%.

Catalyst for success “Government support for the industry in 2015 reached £251m ($364m) through film tax relief, supporting over £1bn ($1.45bn) worth of direct investment in the UK in the last year alone,” says Osborne. “BFI figures also show that film production supports around 40,000 fulltime jobs right across the UK, which is a 22% increase from 2009. And that is in no small part to the success of London

acting as a catalyst for great success across the country.”

Tom Avison, studio head at 3 Mills, the 80,000 sq ft east London studio, agrees the capital’s value for money is a huge international draw. “It’s clear the comprehensive nature of the tax incentive, and its justified perception as a stable incentive in a stable economy, gives us a massive boost. There is also an undeniable standard of quality throughout the UK industry that is a magnet to international production. Companies know that when coming to London and the UK they will be met by people on top of their game, who want to make their productions successful.”

For Film London chairman and independent producer David Parfitt, who shot

animation Loving Vincent at 3 Mills, it is this “complete package” that sees international projects come back to the capital.

“As an independent producer I’m happy on a day-to-day level, and when something like Star Wars comes into town we can look after them too. Film London oversees the London Filming Partnership, a network of 400-plus venues, studios and public bodies, whose aim is to ensure filming runs smoothly in the capital. We get together once a year, and look at the past 12 months and see what we can do better. It’s an enthusiastic bunch of people who just want to make it work.”

While the success of this dedicated approach can be measured in the number of high-profile projects shooting in the capital, Film London does not rest on its laurels. New initiatives are constantly being developed, such as the three-year Games London programme, delivered in partnership with games industry trade body Ukie and funded by the Mayor of London, which will support London’s games and interactive entertainment sector. Its inaugural festival in April 2016 attracted 38,000 visitors.

Film London has also partnered with environmental and sustainability consultancy Greenshoot for Green Screen, a Creative Skillset-funded platform to help London’s screen industries be more environmentally aware. Ben Wheatley, director of Free Fire, has already benefited from the scheme. “The Green Screen initiative really helped us keep sustainability at the top of the agenda on a daily basis, something we were happy to do but also something that’s very easy to let slide on a production,” says the film-maker.

Film London is always evolving: “Maintaining and enhancing London’s offer is at the heart of what we do,” says Wootton. “It’s a constant process.”

CASE STUDY DOCTOR STRANGE “We want to have the best craftsmen and artists in the world, and they’re all here in London,” says Charles Newirth, executive producer of Marvel’s upcoming Doctor Strange. The production was based at Surrey’s Longcross Film Studios and shot sequences throughout the capital. It is the fifth Marvel film to have shot in the UK since 2010.

“Besides having a competitive tax incentive, you have the best crews in the world,” says Newirth.

Executive producer Stephen Broussard describes the UK’s crew base as “amazing, which is why we’ve gone back again and again. We’re able to put the money up on screen, and the experience for the audience is directly affected by our choice to shoot in the UK.”

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The perfect partner Now in its 10th year, the Film London Production Finance Market is enjoying success bringing together international producers and financiers

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his year marks the 10th anniversary of Film London’s Production Finance Market, which enables international producers and financiers to forge beneficial relationships. Building on the agency’s remit to ensure the capital is not just a great place to make films but a great place for the business of film, PFM takes place during the BFI London Film Festival and typically sees more than 800 pitch meetings between producers and financiers, and more than 300 financier-to-financier meetings. Last year, the event attracted more than $300m (¤264m) of production value from leading equity, hedge fund, tax, banking, and public and broadcaster financiers.

“The PFM promotes London as an international centre for independent film finance, but also as a key hub for international sales companies and mini-majors such as eOne, Lionsgate and Studiocanal,” says Angus Finney, PFM project manager. “The PFM has always been a selective but culturally inclusive finance market, enabling a rich and diverse level of producers and their productions to access hard market decision-makers in a bid to support and close their finance and distribution plans. The market is not solely about English-language productions, or attempting to attract foreign films to shoot in the capital.”

Paolo Virzi’s Human Capital is a PFM success story

formed across the world, including with Rome Film Festival’s New Cinema Network, Ile de France Film Commission and Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37˚ South. He is also proud of its ability to evolve with the needs of the industry.

“The PFM’s format, which is tightly managed around a meeting grid structure for producers to pitch to financiers, has listened carefully to market feedback,” he says. “In year two we introduced the idea of slate presentations, but Success stories found that most independent producers Over the past decade, PFM has enjoyed were talking too much about projects in huge success, resulting in films such as development, rather than ‘finance-ready’ Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, a productions with a full package, includGermany-Russia-UK co-production that ing script, director, budget and key cast. appeared at PFM in 2007; Tanya Wexler’s So we dropped that slate emphasis but, Hysteria, a UK-France-Germany-Luxemin 2009, introduced a second grid of bourg co-production at PFM in 2008; meetings, which pairs financiers with Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa, a UK-Denfinanciers on the second afternoon of the mark-Croatia-Canada co-production at market. This element was specifically PFM in 2010; and Paolo Virzi’s Human requested by financiers, and has Capital, an Italy-France co-producremained a key component of tion at PFM in 2013. PFM-origithe market to this day.” nated films have been released Shelly Bancroft, film acquiaround the world including in sitions consultant at Premiere the UK, US, Poland, PortuCapital, said: “It’s great because gal, France, Denmark, you get access to projects of Greece, Germany and potential quality at an early Australia. stage of development. It’s Finney credits also a brilliant event for PFM’s success to the networking — it’s helped Dartmoor Killing capped off its budget at the Micro Market partnerships it has us build some excellent

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‘The PFM has always been a selective but culturally inclusive finance market’ Angus Finney, PFM project manager

relationships with producers and also with other financiers.

“Premiere goes there actively looking for projects. As a general rule we look for projects that already have sales estimates and a portion of finance in place, and at the PFM we’re able to pick and choose who we meet based on who we think would be a good fit for us.”

In 2013, Film London introduced Micro Market for the lower-budget sector, with around 20 financiers, distributors and sales agents now committed to this space. This year the strand is set to develop further, welcoming more financiers and film-makers from mainland Europe in order to broaden the Market’s focus.

“Micro Market evolved partly by introducing European territories into the strand, and this year it is a fully inte-

grated part of the overall PFM,” says Finney. “We’re also introducing an upgraded website by way of cataloguing and connecting all PFM attendees this year, which will serve as a year-round tool to help support both producers and financiers on a rolling basis.”

Micro Market has seen great success, including writer-director Peter Nicholson’s Dartmoor Killing, which raised the remaining portion of its production budget as a result of attending the event in 2013, and writer-director Andrew Steggall’s Departure, which was fully financed at the inaugural event. More recently, the 2015 Micro Market saw director Peter Mackie Burns’ Daphne secure closing finance from Ingenious Media and, after attending the same event, director Matthew Jones’ Man From Unkle successfully applied to the BFI Distribution Fund, where it was given completion money for production ahead of release in late 2016.

HOW TO APPLY PFM and Micro Market will take place from 11-13 October, in association with the BFI London Film Festival. For applications visit www.filmlondon.org.uk/PFM. The deadline for applications is 4 July, 2016.

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‘We want to take bold creative risks that deliver great stories and expand our audiences’ Deborah Sathe, Film London

Crystal Bear winner Balcony

A creative hothouse Film London is committed to developing the next generation of the capital’s talent through a wide selection of initiatives and schemes

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hile London’s unbeatable combination of locations, facilities and infrastructure, together with the UK tax credits, are a huge attraction for the multitude of international productions that shoot in the city, of equal importance is the city’s huge talent base.

“Film London is dedicated to championing, training, developing and funding the capital’s storytellers,” says Deborah Sathe, Film London’s head of talent development and production. “From our short-film schemes London Calling and London Calling Plus right through to our feature film initiatives Microwave and Microwave International, we want to take bold creative risks that deliver great stories and expand our audiences.

These training and production schemes enable the talent to learn, practise and make mistakes before they deliver their Film London productions, and are vital steps for creatives to take.”

At the heart of all of these training initiatives is a commitment to diversity, and ensuring a variety of voices are heard.

“Film London has taken bold steps to address the gender and minority imbalance in the industry, launching two film schemes, London Calling Plus and

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Shakespeare’s Sister, which are dedicated to championing female and diverse voices,” says Sathe.

The fruits of these initiatives include a Berlinale 2016 Crystal Bear win for London Calling Plus short Balcony, the development of two shorts from female film-making teams, Marina And Adrienne and WYRDOES, and the greenlighting of the UK-Indian Titus Andronicus adaptation The Hungry in partnership with Cinestaan Film Company.

Routes to market “These schemes have yielded great wins for Film London, both domestically and internationally, proving that dedicating training and production funds to these voices makes cultural as well as business sense,” says Sathe.

Now in its third year, Build Your Audience (BYA), funded by Creative Skillset, provides film-makers with the skills and support needed to produce a tailored distribution plan and exploit the most relevant routes to market, be these traditional, hybrid or direct. The many projects to benefit from the scheme include Justin Trefgarne’s sci-fi thriller Narcopolis, Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behaviour, Jake Gavin’s Hector, Paul

Katis’s Kilo Two Bravo (aka Kajaki), Sean McAllister’s A Syrian Love Story and Ben and Chris Blaine’s Nina Forever.

“BYA has given me a much stronger understanding of distribution,” says Cassandra Sigsgaard, producer of Nina Forever. “In particular it has highlighted the ever-changing distribution models that are available to independent filmmakers. Clarity of thinking about audiences and positioning, building a strategy as early as possible and flexibil-

ity of thinking are also key skills that came from BYA.” Over the last 10 years, Film London’s unique funding and production scheme Microwave has also shepherded a broad range of projects to fruition. Each year, 12 film-making teams are shortlisted and receive training, mentoring from industry experts and development funding.

Six projects are then selected to move on to a second phase of development, from which two features are commissioned to receive production funding of $145,000 (£100,000), along with distribution funding for the finished films.

Microwave tiles include Hong Khaou’s Lilting, starring Ben Whishaw, while this year’s commissions are Rene Pannevis’ exploration of crime and moral ambiguity Looted and Lucy Brydon’s complex family drama Sick(er). Applications for the latest round of the scheme close on 13 July.

An early beneficiary of the scheme was Eran Creevy’s 2008 feature debut Shifty, which was produced by Rory Aitken.

“Microwave was a fantastic opportunity for us to make our first feature film, with excellent support available when we needed it,” says Aitken. “Shifty’s success opened many doors for us in the industry and the experience equipped us well for our next steps.” Aitken has gone on to produce Welcome To The Punch, Monsters: Dark Continent, The Other Side Of The Door and The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, and has set up the London-based production and management outfit 42 with Ben Pugh.

Justin Trefgarne’s Narcopolis tapped Build Your Audience’s market knowledge

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Window to the world Film London’s London Screenings offer UK sales companies and film-makers the chance to show new work to buyers, and raise awareness of a film on an international level

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s it enters its 13th year, Film London’s four-day London Screenings event has established itself as a crucial showcase for UK content.

“The Works has been attending London Screenings since its inception,” says Clare Crean, head of sales at The Works International. “Unlike other markets or festivals, London Screenings gives you the opportunity to meet international buyers in one place. It’s incredibly easy to do business, and buyers constantly say how well organised it is, and how it gives them the opportunity to connect and form relationships with companies they’ve never met before.

“There’s more to London Screenings

‘London Screenings continually attracts international buyers’ Helena Mackenzie, Film London

than simply finished films,” continues Crean, who secured worldwide sales for Roger Michell’s Venus after showing the film at the event. “With Venus, it gave us the opportunity to build excitement and interest in an up-and-coming title, and raise awareness on an international level.”

Helena Mackenzie, head of inward investment and business development at Film London, says: “London Screenings continually attracts established international buyers as well as engaging with new ones, and it’s a testament to the event that buyers return every year. The format is convenient, easy to navigate and works on many levels, yet we’re always looking to make improvements and tweak according to market trends and industry feedback.”

Through its Breakthrough strand, the event also provides an opportunity for emerging UK film-makers looking for sales representation and international festival exposure.

“As a first-time film-maker, I hadn’t thought about the selling of the film until I’d finished making it,” says writer-

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director Rayna Campbell, whose film Lapse Of Honour was screened at London Screenings in 2015. “Being at London Screenings and talking to sales agents gave an invaluable insight into what elements go into making a film saleable. That information will definitely be an important part of my pre-planning before making my next film.

“We were invited to screen Lapse Of Honour at Dinard Film Festival and from that I was invited to other festivals and had the chance to meet writers, direc-

tors, producers and actors who I hope to collaborate with in the future,” she says.

Campbell continues, pointing out how London Screenings gave her a good grounding in international market trends. “It’s incredible for networking and to see what the current trends are, what films sales agents are buying and why they’re buying them.”

London Screenings returns from 20-23 June, 2016, at BFI Southbank filmlondon.org.uk/LondonScreenings

For the team behind Netflix’s original drama series The Crown, which shot in locations including London, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, filming in the UK proved to be a rewarding experience on multiple levels.

“Our creative industries are a vital part of our economy,” says UK producer Andy Harries, who credits the country’s competitive tax credit and world-class crews with its ability to entice huge international projects. “The tax credit stimulates and helps our business hugely, and UK crews are increasingly fantastic.”

CASE STUDY BEST OF BRITISH “The British Film Commission is part of an overall offer the UK film industry makes to the outside world,” says Iain Smith, chairman of the BFC. “Over the last 20 years, the BFC has helped unite the industry, which has come together to provide a cohesive service principally for inward investment productions. We have a highly respected board, and we’re very close with the BFI and the industry as a whole.”

That prominent position means the BFC is well placed to ensure international producers can take full advantage of everything the UK has to offer, serving as a gateway to the country’s generous tax reliefs, competitive costs, award-winning talent, world-leading facilities and wealth of stunning locations.

As it is now easier than ever for global features and high-end television

programmes to access all those opportunities, the number of international productions throughout the regions and nations has increased exponentially.

This is facilitated by the BFC’s close relationships with the US, which it supports through a dedicated Los Angeles office, and its ongoing work with partners including the British Film Institute (BFI) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) to explore opportunities in emerging markets such as China.

Ever-increasing international demand has resulted in significant investment in the UK infrastructure, including new and expanded studios Warner Bros.

Studios Leavesden,

Pinewood Wales and new stages in Belfast.

Northern Ireland is particularly benefiting from HBO’s significant investment in Game Of Thrones, while elsewhere the UK offer is augmented by new and alternative spaces such as the old Gillette building in Brentford, Bristol’s The Bottle Yard Studios, and the Yorkshire Studios.

While the UK’s studios and filming spaces may be busy, however, they are never full, and the BFC continues to welcome and support any and all productions that wish to take advantage of the country’s wealth of opportunities.

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The special flight packages offer fully flexible fares across all cabins so if your schedule changes we can change with you; additional baggage to cope with the extra kit that needs transporting and those at the front of the plane in Business Premier get chauffeur transfers to and from London Heathrow.

We’re working with a select group of industry leading travel bookers who specialise in film and TV production and can offer you 24/7 support.

Meet us in Cannes To talk through our new entertainment fares or any other travel needs between London and LA get in touch with the Air New Zealand team today. Edward, Jorge and Dena from our UK and US teams will be hosting meetings at Cannes Film Festival from Sunday 15 May to Wednesday 18 May.

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P R C E R S O N M O P R O 20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe have been selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival 2016. Since 2000, European Film Promotion (EFP) has been offering support and guidance to European producers by creating a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 speed datings and industry networking opportunities.

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Klaudia Śmieja | Poland selected films Gareth Jones, in dev., by Agnieszka Holland (PL, D, UK, UAE) Under The Tree, in preproduction

by Hafsteinn Sigurdsson (Island, Poland and Denmark) Foam At The Mouth, in postprod.

by Janis Nords (LV, PL, LT)

Park, in postproduction

by Sofia Excharcou (Greece, Poland) Clair-Obscur, in postproduction

by Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey, Germany, Poland, France) Agnus Dei, 2016

by Anne Fontaine (France, Poland)

contact Madants Czerniakowska 73/79 PL-00-718 Warsaw C +48 605 075 197 k.smieja@icloud.com www.madants.pl

Milan Stojanović | Serbia selected films The Users, in development

by Ivan Ikić (Serbia, Slovenia) Classroom Rascals, in development

by Slobodan Skerlić (Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia)

The Forbidden Aunt in postproduction

by Bojana Novaković (Serbia, USA) Barbarians, 2014

by Ivan Ikić (Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro)

contact Sense Production Kosovska 8 SRB-11000 Belgrade C +381 66 9399 869 milan@senseproduction.rs www.senseproduction.rs

Macadam Stories, 2015

by Samuel Benchetrit (France) SK1, 2014

by Frédéric Tellier (France) Quantum Love, 2013

by Lisa Azuelos (France)

contact A Single Man Productions 9 rue Bleue FR-75009 Paris P +33 1 48 78 42 49 julien.madon@yahoo.fr

Julien Madon | France

selected films Prost, in development, 2017

by Julien Leclercq (France) Dalida, in production, 2016

by Lisa Azuelos (France) Braqueurs, 2015

by Julien Leclercq (France)

Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė | Lithuania

selected films People We Know Are Confused, in fin.

by Tomas Smulkis (Lithuania) Breathing Into Marble, in production

by Giedre Beinoriute (Lithuania, Croatia, Latvia) Together For Ever, in postproduction

by Lina Lužyte (Lithuania, Romania)

Dialogue With Joseph, in postprod.

by Elžbieta Noemi Josade (Lithuania) Master And Tatyana, 2015

by Giedre Žickyte (Lithuania) When We Talk About KGB, 2015

by V. Vareikyte, M. Dejoie (LT, IT)

contact Just A Moment Pylimo st. 9-13 LT-01118 Vilnius C +370 686 88980 dagne@justamoment.lt www.justamoment.lt

Sparrows, 2015

by Rúnar Rúnarsson (Denmark, Iceland, Croatia) Virgin Mountain, 2015

by Dagur Kari (Denmark, Iceland)

contact Snowglobe Aps Refshalevej 157 A - Stuen DK-1432 Copenhagen K C +45 61 30 95 88 mikkel@snowglobefilm.com www.snowglobefilm.com

Mikkel Jersin | Denmark

selected films Jutlandia, in development

by Kasper Gårdsøe (Denmark, Croatia, Asia, tba) Louder Than Bombs, 2015

by Joachim Trier (Norway, Denmark, France)

R O D U Misha Jaari | Finland

selected films Memory Of Water, in development

by Saara Saarela (tbc) White Point, in development

by Akseli Tuomivaara (tbc) Armi Alive!, 2015

by Jörn Donner (Finland)

Korso, 2014

by Akseli Tuomivaara (Finland) Concrete Night, 2013

by Pirjo Honkasalo (Finland, Sweden, Denmark) The Good Son, 2011

by Zaida Bergroth (Finland)

contact BUFO Työpajankatu 2 A R1 D, 2. krs FIN-00580 Helsinki C +358 45 6740 272 misha@bufo.fi www.bufo.fi

Nino Devdariani | Georgia selected films The Pass in development

by George Ovashvili (Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Spain)

Khibula, in production

by George Ovashvili (Georgia, Germany, France) Corn Island, 2014

by George Ovashvili (Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan)

contact Alamdary Film D. Agmashenebeli str 2a. apr 12.

GE-0131 Tbilisi C +995 591 01 09 10 devduka@yahoo.com

Emanuele Nespeca | Italy selected films Glassboy, in development

by Samuele Rossi (IT, A, SK) White Flowers, in financing

by M. De Angelis, A. Di Trapani (Italy, Japan, Poland, Norway) 7 Days, in postproduction

by Rolando Colla (CH, IT)

Banat The Journey, 2015

by Adriano Valerio (Italy, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania) Redemption Song, 2015

by Cristina Mantis (Italy) The Future, 2013

by Alicia Scherson (Chile, Germany, Spain, Italy)

contact Solaria Film Via Cantagallo 23 I-59100 Prato C +39 335 7580 884 emanuele.nespeca@solariafi lm.it www.solariafi lm.it

Fair Play, 2014

by Andrea Sedlácková (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Germany) Rocker, 2012

by Marian Crisan (Romania, France, Germany) Of Dogs And Horses, 2011

by Thomas Stuber (Germany) short

contact Departures Film Endersstr. 62 D-04177 Leipzig C +49 17945 19 283 filter@departuresfilm.de www.departuresfilm.de

T H E O V E D U Undine Filter | Germany selected films The Face, in financing

by Markus Imboden (D, CH) A Heavy Heart, 2015

by Thomas Stuber (Germany) Puppet Syndrome, 2015

by Elena Hazanov (Russia, Germany, Switzerland)

Roberts Vinovskis | Lativa selected films One Nine Zero Five, in development

by Davis Simanis (Latvia) Firstborn, in postproduction

by Aik Karapetian (Latvia) Exiled, 2016

by Davis Simanis, (Latvia, Lithuania)

Rocks In My Pockets, 2014

by Signe Baumane (USA, Latvia) The Man In The Orange Jacket, 2014

by Aik Karapetian (LV, EE) People Out There, 2012

by Aik Karapetian (Latvia)

contact Locomotive Productions Bruninieku iela 28-57 LV-1011 Riga C +371 67 298 538 rv@locomotive.lv www.locomotive.lv

*part one on 15 May Adis Djapo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Janneke Doolaard (The Netherlands), Pedro Hernández Santos (Spain), Anamaria Antoci (Romania), Bendik Strønstad (Norway), Joël Jent (Switzerland), Aet Laigu (Estonia), Lucas Ochoa (United Kingdom), Frida Bargo (Sweden), Boštjan Ikovic (Slovenia) Participating EFP members Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Council, Danish Film Institute, Estonian Film Institute, EYE International/The Netherlands, Film Center Serbia, Finnish Film Foundation, Georgian National Film Center, German Films, ICAA/Spain, Istituto Luce-Cinecittà/Italy, Lithuanian Film Centre, National Film Centre Latvia, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Romanian Film Promotion, Slovenian Film Centre, Swedish Film Institute, Swiss Films, UniFrance films.

EFP is supported by

contact in Cannes: +49 160 440 9595 European Film Promotion Friedensallee 14 – 16 22765 Hamburg, Germany info@efp-online.com

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desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in west Texas.

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Un Certain Regard Theatre Claude Debussy Press

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(France) 90mins.

Dir: Jean-Christophe Meurisse. Cast: Celine Furher, Thomas Scimeca, Maxence Tual.

Celine, Thomas and Maxence have just decided to get married. All three together.

(France) 90mins.

Dir: Jean-Christophe Meurisse. Cast: Celine Furher, Thomas Scimeca, Maxence Tual.

Critics’ Week

Miramar 14:20 WOLF AND SHEEP

Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel

(Afghanistan) 86mins.

Dir: Shahrbanoo Sadat.

The story of an Afghan community.

LOVING

(UK) 123mins.

Dir: Jeff Nichols.

Cast: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon.

Celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v.

Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry — making their love story an inspiration to couples everywhere.

Festival & Press 16:00 PATERSON

(US) 100mins. Dir: Jim Jarmusch. Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani.

Set in the present day in Paterson, New Jersey, this is a tale about a bus driver and poet. A wry

08:45 PSYCHO RAMAN

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Press, ticket required

(India) 128mins. Dir: Anurag Kashyap. Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal.

A story about Raman Raghav, a serial killer in Mumbai during the 1960s.

ONE WEEK AND A DAY

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

(Israel) 98mins.

Dir: Asaph Polonsky.

Cast: Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Uri Gavriel, Tomer Kapon, Sharon Alexander, Alona Shauloff.

When Eyal completes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their daily routine. Instead, he gets high with a young neighbour and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

Critics’ Week Miramar

comedy that chronicles the challenges of work and love, and observes the quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life, and the poetry evident in its smallest details.

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Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman.

An idea in their heads, a camera in their hands and the ambition to change the world.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

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CINEMA NOVO

(Singapore) 96mins.

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?

(Brazil) 90mins. Dir: Eryk Rocha. Cast: Nelson Pereira do Santos,

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10:30 DOGS

(France) 104mins.

Dir: Bogdan Mirica. Cast: Dragos Bucur, Gheorghe Visu, Vlad Ivanov.

A young man from Bucharest clashes with his departed grandfather’s vicious world of crime in the east Romania badlands.

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11:30 FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON

(France) 125mins. Dir: Nicole Garcia. Cast: Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemuhl.

The story of a free-spirited woman fighting for passionate dreams of true love against all odds.

Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

MIMOSAS

(Spain) 93mins. Dir: Oliver Laxe. Cast: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, Ikram Anzouli, Ahmed El Othemani, Hamid Fardjad, Margarita Albores.

A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain pass, refuse to continue transporting the corpse.

Ahmed and Said, two rogues travelling with the caravan, promise to take the body to its destination.

But do they really know the way? In another world, parallel and remote, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains where the caravan is. His assignment is clear: he has to help the improvised

caravaneers reach their destination.

Critics’ Week Miramar

12:15 THE LIVES OF THERESE

(France) 50mins. Dir: Sebastien Lifshitz. Cast: Therese Clerc.

Therese Clerc is one of the great figures of militantism. From the struggle to legalise abortion to the fight for equal rights of men and women and the battle for gay rights, she’s been on the front lines of all of them.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

13:00 HISSEIN HABRe, A CHADIAN TRADEGY

(Chad) 80mins.

Dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.

Habre’s arrest in Senegal, in 2013, was a decisive breakthrough in a 23-year struggle pitting the ex-tyrant against survivors.

Out of Competition Salle Bazin Press

14:00 HELL OR HIGH WATER

(US) 102mins. Dir: David Mackenzie. Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon.

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

14:30 A JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA

(France) 198mins.

Dir: Bertrand Tavernier.

“This voyage is first of all meant to be an entertaining, nonacademic stroll through the cinema I have learned to love. I would like to describe all the things that touch me. And I will also do what I can to put to rest some cliches, platitudes and legends” – Bertrand Tavernier.

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14:45 A JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA

(France) 198mins. Dir: Bertrand Tavernier.

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16:30 APPRENTICE

(Singapore) 96mins.

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

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17:00 THE LIVES OF THERESE

(France) 50mins.

Dir: Sebastien Lifshitz.

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Festival & Press 16:45 BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS

(Israel) 90mins. Dir: Eran Kolirin.

Cast: Alon Pdut, Shiri Nadav, Noam Ambar, Mili Eshet, Yoav Rothman.

David is discharged from the army after 27 years. He returns to his home and family and tries to settle in to civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will find his way in some managerial position in the private

sector, but he has difficulties adapting to the pace of the “new Israel”, a competitive culture obsessed with success and money. When a friend suggests working for a company that markets dietary supplements, David sees an opportunity to get his foot in the door of the business world. But this decision slowly entangles him and his family in the web of dark forces.

Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin

(Spain) 93mins.

Dir: Oliver Laxe. Cast: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, Ikram Anzouli, Ahmed El Othemani, Hamid Fardjad, Margarita Albores.

Critics’ Week Miramar

18:30 THE WOMEN WHO RUN HOLLYWOOD

(France) 52mins.

Dir: Clara and Julia Kuperberg. Cast: Paula Wagner, Robin Swicord,

Lynda Obst, Ally Acker, Cari Beauchamp.

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy; the first colour film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars; Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood.

And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten.

Underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

18:45 PSYCHO RAMAN

(India) 128mins.

Dir: Anurag Kashyap.

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

19:00 LOVING

(UK) 123mins.

Dir: Jeff Nichols.

Cast: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Ticket required

PERSONAL SHOPPER

(France) 105mins.

Dir: Olivier Assayas.

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Sigrid Bouaziz, Nora Von Waldstatten.

Revolves around a ghost story that takes place in the fashion underworld of Paris.

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19:15 HISSEIN HABRe, A CHADIAN TRADEGY

(Chad) 80mins. Dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.

Habre’s arrest in Senegal, in 2013, was a decisive breakthrough in a 23-year struggle pitting the ex-tyrant against survivors.

Out of Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

19:45 APNeE

(France) 90mins.

Dir: Jean-Christophe Meurisse. Cast: Celine Furher, Thomas Scimeca, Maxence Tual.

Critics’ Week Miramar

Festival & Press

INDOCHINE

21:30 THE ENDLESS SUMMER

(US) 95mins. Dir: Bruce Brown.

Cast: Mike Hynson, Robert August, Miki Dora.

Seminal documentary following surfers as they chase the waves, and the sun, around the globe.

Cinema on the Beach Plage Mace

(France) 152mins. Dir: Regis Wargnier. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, LinhDan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc,

Andrzej Seweryn.

French Indochina, 1930.

The world is about to change. The beautiful, elegant and controlled Eliane Devries, with her father Emile, rules over the vast domain of rich, red soil that is their rubber plantation. The only love of Eliane’s life is for Camille, her 16-yearold adopted Vietnamese daughter, a princess of Annam whose parents died in a plane crash.

Jean-Baptiste LeGuen, a French naval officer, has just arrived in Saigon in search of glory. In spite of himself, Jean-Baptiste will confront Eliane and Camille with their destiny.

The two women fall in love with him; Eliane will give him up but Camille refuses. Jean-Baptiste’s tour of duty exiles him to remote outpost on one of the Tonkin Islands.

Unable to live without him, young Camille

treks across the country in search of the man she loves. On this arduous journey she discovers her real country, her people, her past. Camille’s voyage, her reunion with Jean-Baptiste, which leads her to commit a murder, and their flight from the French, are the seeds of the legendary story that sweeps across Indochina.

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21:00 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 Salle Du Soixantieme

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PERSONAL SHOPPER

(France) 105mins.

Dir: Olivier Assayas.

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Sigrid Bouaziz, Nora Von Waldstatten.

Competition Salle Bazin Press

TRAIN TO BUSAN

Director: Matthew Newton (Three Blind Mice)

“Urgent and relevant (...) [McCree] impressively evinces charismatic screen presence and implosive intensity.”

Cast: Julianne Nicholson (Black Mass), Denis O’Hare (Dallas Buyers Club) Nearing their high school graduation, three undocumented Bronx teenagers navigate the difficulties of adolescence while living with the threat of being discovered by the authorities and their friends.

– Variety

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Cast: Lubna Azabal (Incendies), Samir Guesmi (Camille Rewinds, The Returned) While trying to impress his crush, a French-Tunisian teenager accidentally becomes the face of the Arab Spring in Paris.

Out of Competition Olympia 1 Marché badge holders only

21:45 WOLF AND SHEEP

(Afghanistan) 86mins.

Dir: Shahrbanoo Sadat.

The story of an Afghan community.

Directors’ Fortnight

Theatre Croisette 22:00

MY REVOLUTION

Director: Ramzi Ben Sliman

(South Korea) 118mins.

Contents Panda. Dir: Yeon Sang-Ho. Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-Mi, Ma DongSeok, Kim Su-An. Life-or-death struggles on a KTX train to Busan.

HANDS OF STONE

(US) 114mins. Dir: Jonathan Jakubowicz.

Cast: Ana de Armas, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramirez.

Biopic of the boxer Roberto Duran, whose career in the ring stretched for more than three decades.

Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Ticket required

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09:00 XUAN ZANG

110mins. Beijing Century Butterfly Film.

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22:15 HELL OR HIGH WATER

(US) 102mins. Dir: David Mackenzie. Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon.

Un Certain Regard Theatre Claude Debussy Press

MIMOSAS

(Spain) 93mins. Dir: Oliver Laxe. Cast: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, Ikram Anzouli, Ahmed El Othemani, Hamid Fardjad, Margarita Albores.

Critics’ Week Miramar

22:30 ONE-EYED JACKS See box, below

09:15 ENDLESS POETRY

(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

“A fun and fresh take on France’s Arab diaspora.”

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“A feel-good tale of love, youth, and teen angst.”

– The Upcoming

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22:30 ONE-EYED JACKS

(US) 141mins. Dir: Marlon Brando.

Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado.

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad

Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured. But Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.

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modern literature. Totally immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before: sensually, authentically, freely, madly.

THE STUDENT

One evening, the Prof and Constance burst into Vanni and Linda’s house.

Constance has found out that Alfredo has a lover.

This is the beginning of many recriminations also involving Vanni and Linda throughout the night.

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09:30

THE OLIVE TREE

(Spain) 98mins. Seville International. Dir: Iciar Bollain. Cast: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutierrez, Pep Ambros.

A spirited young woman embarks on a journey from Spain to Germany in order to retrieve an ancient olive tree precious to her ailing grandfather.

BIBI & TINA — GIRLS VS. BOYS

(Germany) 110mins.

Beta Cinema. Dir: Detlev Buck. Cast: Lina Larissa Strahl, Lisa-Marie Koroll, Louis Held, Phil Laude.

The third instalment in the ‘Bibi & Tina’ franchise.

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BOONIE BEARS THE BIG TOP SECRET

(China) 98mins. All Rights Entertainment.

Dir: Leon Ding.

A story of friends old and new, of being lost but most importantly being found. ‘The Big Top Secret’ follows Briar as he is whisked away from the home he knows and plunged into the ranks of a travelling circus.

The struggling circus, led by Hugo the Gorilla, is on its last legs and in desperate need of a boost. Frustrated with his brother, Bramble, and the rest of his forest friends, Briar finds a new and welcoming home among Wolfgang’s Big Top. Briar brings life back to the circus and quickly finds happiness in his new life filled with new friends

Market 09:15 THE STUDENT

(Russia) 118mins.

Wide. Dir: Kirill Serebrennikov. Cast: Petr Skvortsov, Victoria Isakova, Julia Aug. Contemporary Russia. and fame. While rising to the top has its benefits, it also comes with a price.

After searching high and low, Bramble and his forest friends are thrilled to have found their lost Briar, but Briar is not so sure that he wants to be found. He doesn’t want to leave his perfect new life in the big top. But even the most perfectseeming things have dark sides. Through trials and chases, all of the animals learn what it is to belong

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A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

Palais D

and the true meaning of family.

Palais J

THE CHARRO OF TOLUQUILLA

(Mexico) 86mins.

Mexican Film Institute (Imcine). Dir: Jose Villalobos Romero.

Documentary film about a mariachi singer called Jaime Garcia Dominguez, who became fascinated by the recklessness and ladies’ man lifestyle of the classic Mexican movie characters

but with one difference: he’s got HIV.

who revolutionised her era.

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LET’S TALK THE DANCER

(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

(Italy) 101mins.

Filmexport Group. Dir: Sergio Rubini. Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Isabella Raganose, Maria Pia Calzone, Sergio Rubini.

“Let’s talk” is the most feared sentence in a speech between any couple.

Vanni, 50, is a wellknown writer. Linda, 30, is his ghost writer. They live in a beautiful attic in central Rome as a perfect couple. Sure of their love, they prefer cohabitation to the traditional bourgeois marriage. Their best friends however, Constance and Alfredo, the so-called ‘Prof ’ who is a famous heart surgeon, are married.

PRISONER X

(Canada) 90mins. Raven Banner Entertainment.

Dir: Gaurav Seth.

As the world rages in war and civil strife, a CIA agent arrives at a secret underground prison to interrogate a time-travelling terrorist who is responsible for the unfolding catastrophe.

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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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preparing his marriage, his boss sends him to the seaside town of Mahdia to seek out new clients. At a crossroads, Hedi begins avoiding his professional duties and soon meets Rim, a free-spirited globetrotter working as an activity leader at a local resort. Rim’s lust for life quickly rubs off on Hedi and the two begin a passionate love affair.

With preparations for the wedding in full swing back at home, Hedi is finally forced to make a choice for himself.

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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SUMMERTIME

(Italy) 105mins. Rai Com. Dir: Gabriele Muccino.

Cast: Matilda Lutz, Brando Pacitto, Taylor Frey, Joey Haro.

The memories of that summer will last for a lifetime.

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MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE

Market 10:00 AMOK

(Macedonia) 103mins.

Reel Suspects. Dir: Vardan Tozija. Cast: Deniz Abdula, Risto Burazdenov, Boris Damovski, Martin Gjorgoski, Nikola Ristanovski, Goran Stojanovski, Ljupcho

Todorovski, Martin Zivkovski.

A cruel chain of events turns an introverted boy from a desolate adoption centre into a ruthless leader of a group of angry youngsters with nothing to lose.

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THE UNSPOKEN

(Canada) 96mins.

Arclight Films. Dir: Sheldon Wilson. Cast: Jodelle Ferland, Sunny Suljic, Neal Mcdonough, Jessie Fraser.

In a small town, a teenage girl, Angela, stumbles upon an old house. She has heard about a history of mysterious occurrences here and the town’s citizens all avoid going near it. A widowed mother has just moved in with her young son who hasn’t spoken since his father died. They hire Angela to be the nanny. As Angela spends more time with the boy and in the house, she discovers her mysterious connection to the building.

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09:45 FIGHT VALLEY

(US) 85mins. Breaking Glass Pictures. Dir: Rob Hawk. Cast: Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, Cris Cyborg, Susie Celek, Erin O’Brien.

When Tory Coro turns up dead, the neighbourhood turns silent. Rumour has

it she became yet another victim of the small town known as Fight Valley.

Tory’s sister Windsor moves to town to begin her own investigation of her sister’s mysterious death after weeks of progress by the police. She’s quick to learn that Tory fought for money to make ends meet.

If Windsor is going to find out the truth about Tory, she’s going to have to fight her way in. “Jabs” swore she would never throw a punch in the Valley again. Jabs now finds herself training Windsor to survive the painful, unexpected path she’s about to take. Every corner. Every alley. Every doorway. She must follow the last footsteps of her sister in order to come face to face with Tory’s killer.

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YOU ARE MY SUNDAY

(India) 119mins. Media Luna New Films Ug. Dir: Milind Dhaimade.

Cast: Barun Sobti, Shahana Goswami, Shiv Subramaniam, Vishal

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While looking for a place to play football in congested Mumbai, five young men find themselves struggling for their personal space.

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ANNECY GOES TO CANNES

110mins. Citia.

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival and its market (Mifa) present a selection of worksin-progress by animators.

Palais K Press allowed

BOUNTY HUNTER

(Hong Kong/China) 100mins. Pegasus Motion Pictures Distribution.

Dir: Shin Terra. Cast: Lee Min-ho.

Ex-interpol agents Lee Shan and Ayo, framed for bombing a hotel, join forces with the legendary bounty hunter Cat and her team to find the real bomber.

Palais I By invitation only

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DARK SHOW

(France) 90mins. Doc & Film International. Dir: Karim Dridi. Cast: Sofian Khammes, Foued Nabba, Oussama Abdul Aal, Zine Darar, Foziwa Mohamed.

Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him.

(UK) 80mins. Dark Show. Dir: Olivier Parthonnaud. Cast: Joanne McCallin, Malcolm Conrath, Matthew Mellalieu, Tony Simonneau.

A TV reality show turns into a nightmare.

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THE CIRCLES OF THE VICIOUS

(France) 110mins.

Films Du Toucan. Dir: Philippe Vallois. Cast: Alexis Sageot, Philippe Vallois, Tony Zarouel, Belen Ferris, Maellise Banton, Alice Oliot, Laurent Estimbre, Thea Foudrinier.

May 1973: Coming back from the Cannes film festival, a young hitchhiker is lost at nightfall and finds refuge in a farm where an old man claims to be a homosexual and pretends to come from the future.

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CLINTON CASH

(US) 62mins. Arc Entertainment. Dir: MA Taylor.

Based on the New York Times 2015 bestseller.

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(France) 66mins. Indie Sales. Dir: Claude Barras.

Cast: Michel Vuillermoz, Paulin Jaccoud, Natacha Koutchoumov.

Courgette is an odd nickname for a 10-yearold boy. After his mother’s death, he ends up in a special orphanage. There he will discover friendship, trust and even love.

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NERUDA THE EXILE

(Spain) 87mins. Cinema Republic. Dir: Arturo Ruiz. Cast: Joan Carles Suau, Eric Frances, Monika Kowalska.

Two Spanish soldiers are guarding an outpost during wartime and discover a Polish woman, hurt and unconscious.

They nurse her back to health and must decide if they should turn her in to their commanders or keep her hidden.

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INHEBBEK HEDI

(Tunisia) 88mins.

Luxbox. Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia. Cast: Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita, Omnia Ben Ghali, Hakim Boumessouadi, Arwa Ben Smail.

Hedi is a quiet young man following the path that’s been traced out for him. Tunisia is changing but Hedi doesn’t expect much from the future and lets others make his big decisions for him. The same week his mother is

(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.

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(India) 72mins. Alpha Violet. Dir: Bauddhayan Mukherji. Cast: Ritwick Chakraborty, Adil Hussain.

One day, one stranger, one request, one life-changing moment that makes everything pale into insignificance — this is what ‘The Violin Player’ is about.

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SWISS ARMY MAN

(Cuba) 105mins.

Habanero. Dir: Carlos Lechuga. Cast: Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez.

The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a non-compliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.

95mins. A24 Films.

(US) 88mins. Lightning Entertainment. Dir: Marc Dacascos. Cast: Alexander Nevsky, Casper Van Dien, Tia Carrere, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

When a murder investigation leads two private investigators to the jungle camp of an international terrorist called

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SHOWDOWN IN MANILA

THE VIOLIN PLAYER

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81mins. Tf1 International.

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(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.

Yvan Attal. Cast: Dany Boon, Gilles Lelouche, Gregory Gadebois, Benoit Poelvoorde, Francois Damiens, Denys Podalydes, Valerie Bonneton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal.

Yvan feels persecuted by a growing anti-Semitism and is used to being told that he is overreacting, that he is being paranoid.

During his counselling sessions, Yvan speaks of his particular concerns: his identity, to be French and Jewish today. But these sessions are above all a key thread that links together several short stories, which are intended to dismantle, in a tragi-comic style, the most persistent antiSemitic cliches.

The Wrath, they assemble a team of daredevils to walk into the Wrath’s lair and fight his renegade army.

PRIVATE SCREENING TF1 INTernational

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11:15 THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN

11:30 #THE JEWS

(France) 100mins. Other Angle Pictures. Dir:

ANIMAL CRACKERS PROMO SCREENING

Arclight Films.

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BETWEEN SEA AND LAND

(Colombia) 98mins.

Global Screen. Dir: Carlos Del Castillo. Cast: Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernandez, Viviana Serna.

Alberto lives on a swampy marsh adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, which he dreams of one day visiting.

But Alberto is afflicted with a neurological disorder that confines him to his bed, and his mother, Rosa, lovingly takes care of him.

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I, DANIEL BLAKE

HIGANJIMA (ORIGINAL TITLE)

(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 one-roomed 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 on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.

100mins. Shochiku Co.

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SAVE THE DATE

Dir: Takeshi Watanabe.

(France) 101mins. Les Films Du Losange. 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.

I’M OFF THEN: LOSING AND FINDING MYSELF ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

(Germany) 90mins.

Global Screen.

Dir: Julia Von Heinz.

Cast: Devid Striesow, Martina Gedeck, Karoline Schuch.

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.

Gianmarco Tognazzi, Alessia Barela, Fortunato Cerlino.

Scandals, bribes, corruption an unscrupulous entrepreneur, a corrupt minister.

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.

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DIAMOND ISLAND

(Canada) 105mins.

Seville International.

Dir: Louis Belanger.

Cast: Alexis Martin, Gilles Renaud, Emmanuelle LussierMartinez, Luc Picard.

A bittersweet comedy about a marijuana farmer who enlists a couple of confederates to help him harvest a huge crop.

24/10/16

BAD SEEDS

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KOMBISSIRI

(France) 90mins. Star Production. Dir: Rene Letzgus.

Doc Corner

THE MINISTER

(Italy) 104mins. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. Dir: Giorgio Amato. Cast:

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NOT SHORT ON TALENT

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110mins. Telefilm Canada.

RINGAN

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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 act. The

(India) 106mins.

Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation. Dir: Makarand Mane. Cast: Shashank Shende, Saahil Joshi, Suhas Sirsat, Kalyanee Mulay, Umesh Jagtap, Ketan Pawar, Abhay Mahajan, Vijay Salve, Shantanu Gangane, Shyam Savaji.

A story about the relationship between father and son. It is about what they have to face and how they deal with their individual problems and redeem themselves. It is a heart-wrenching tale that

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depicts the harsh reality confronting the farmers and their families for several years.

man in a wheelchair living in a large apartment in Trieste, to do the cooking and cleaning for him and wash him. Ida is confronted with his sarcasm and cynicism, which he uses to pick on people, including her, but she resists it with dignity up until the last moment when old Albert discovers her true identity. Ida originally comes from Bosnia but speaks perfect Slovenian. This discovery infuriates Albert, who has been talking disrespectfully about people who are not pure Slovenians every day since Ida arrived.

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SPARK

(Canada) 94mins. Double Dutch International. Dir: Aaron Woodley. Cast: Jace Norman, Jessica Biel, Patrick Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Hillary Swank.

Thirteen years ago the power-mad General Zhong seized control of Planet Bana, tearing it to pieces in the process. Enter Spark and his friends, Chunk and Vix, who learn of Zhong’s plan to take over the universe. If Zhong is able to harness the power of an ancient beast known as the Kraken, he’ll have history’s deadliest weapon at his fingertips.

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TRAMONTANE

(France) 105mins. The Bureau Sales. 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.

Palais J Priority badges only

THE WINTER

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

After working his whole 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.

Gray 2

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THE AFRICAN DOCTOR

Market 12:00 THE LAST WILL BE LAST

(Italy) 103mins.

True Colours. Dir: Massimiliano Bruno.

Cast: Paola Cortellesi, Alessandro Gassmann, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Stefano Fresi, Ilaria Spada.

Luciana is deeply in love

12:00 FLY AWAY HOME

(Austria) 109mins.

Afc — Austrian Films.

Dir: Mirjam Unger.

Cast: Zita Gaier, Ursula Strauss, Gerald Votava, Paula Brunner, Lino Gaier, Krista Stadler.

Vienna 1945: The powder keg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of nineyear-old Christine. She knows as little about peace as children today know about war. Bombed out and penniless, she and her family are put up in a fancy villa on the outskirts of Vienna. They now have a roof over their heads, nothing more. After the German soldiers capitulate, the Russians take over the house. Everybody is scared of the Russians, who are believed to be a capricious lot. Everybody, except Christine.

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FUCKING BERLIN

(Germany) 100mins.

Solidmovies. Dir: Florian

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with her husband and lives the life she always desired. But, shortly after she gets pregnant, she loses her job and her world falls apart. Desperate, she decides to kidnap the CEO of her former company.

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Gottschick. Cast: Rudolf Martin, Christoph Letkowski, Svenja Jung.

Steve and his wife Michel discovered that Michel was pregnant with their first child. Director Clay Tweel’s film masterfully assembles roughly four years’ of footage, including personal and surprisingly humorous video journals shot by Gleason himself for his then-unborn son Rivers, and the athlete’s globe-trotting adventures undertaken as part of his mission to live his life to the fullest.

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ITALIAN RACE

(Austria) 90mins. Rise And Shine World Sales.

Dir: Monika Grassl.

Narrating the story of four young Ghanian girls learning to fly, the film showcases the cultural diversity on display and the contradictions that arise when Western ideals meet African values.

(Italy) 119mins.

Fandango. Dir: Matteo Rovere. Cast: Stefano Accorsi.

The De Martino family has been racing cars for generations. Mario, the head of the family, is forced to make way for his very young and exceptionally talented daughter, Giulia.

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GIRL ASLEEP

LAND LEGS

95mins. Memento Films International.

(France) 89mins. Stray Dogs. Dir: Samuel Collardey. Cast: Dominique Leborne, Mailys Leborne, Matteo Leborne.

Dom has always been a sea dog. When his 16-year-old daughter gets pregnant, he has to face his father responsibilities on land. But can he really?

GIRLS DON’T FLY

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GLEASON

(US) 110mins. The Exchange. Dir: Clay Tweel. Cast: Steve Gleason.

At the age of 34, Steve Gleason, a former NFL defensive back and New Orleans hero, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. Weeks later,

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THE LAST WILL BE LAST Se box, above

(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 check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.

(France) 96mins. Other Angle Pictures. Dir: Julien Rambaldi, Marc Zinga, Aissa Maiga.

A brilliant doctor from the Congo, who wants to get away from the dictatorship in his country, is hired by the mayor of a small village in the North of France. The locals are afraid as they have never seen a black person before, and he and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. Nothing is like they dreamed of but they end up finding something good they didn’t expect.

Based on a true story.

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PRIVATE SCREENING CERCAMON

ALDABRA: ONCE UPON AN ISLAND

85mins. Cercamon.

(US) 73mins. Vision Films. Dir: Steve Lichtag.

Cast: Flightless Birds, Ferocious Sharks, Giant Turtles.

We invite you on a 3D voyage to Aldabra, a magical coral island located south of the Seychelles, one of the last pristine locations on Earth. The story is told through the eyes of the inhabitants: Elvi the Giant Tortoise, Buster the Robber Crab, Coastguards the Blacktip Sharks and many more.

PERSONAL AFFAIRS

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VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH

(UK) 90mins. Dogwoof.

Dir: Louise Osmond.

A funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach, as he turns 80 and looks back at more than 50 years of film-making.

Gray 3 By invitation only

13:30 A COMEDY OF TEARS

(Slovenia) 75mins.

Slovenian Film Centre.

Dir: Marko Sosic.

Cast: Marjuta Slamic, Ivo Barisic.

Ida, a carer for the elderly, drives from the Slovenian coast to see Albert, an old

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CHIERI AND CHERRY

(Japan) 54mins. Gaga Corporation. Dir: Makoto Nakamura. Cast: Natsumi Takamori, Gen Hoshino, Machiko Ono. Chieri is a sixth grade »

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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?

Doc Corner

THE FIREFLY SUMMERS

(Japan) 108mins.

Kadokawa Corporation.

Dir: Ryuichi Hiroki. Cast: Kasumi Arimura, Asuka Kudo, Ken Mitsuishi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki.

We all need someone to lean on.

Market 14:00 A DRAGON ARRIVES!

(Iran) 108mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Mani Haghighi. Cast: Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Ehsan Goudarzi, Kiana Tajammol, Nader Fallah.

Three adventurous young men are

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THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS

(France) 76mins.

Pyramide International.

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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JOHNNY FRANK GARRETT’S LAST WORD

(US) 94mins. Altitude Film Sales. Dir: Simon Rumley. Cast: Mike Doyle, Erin Cummings, Sean Patrick Flanery.

After a man is wrongly convicted and executed for murder, the people responsible for his fate begin dying unexpectedly.

Can juror Adam Redman

put an end to the curse before it’s too late?

for success.

Riviera 2 Priority badges only

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MY REVOLUTION THE JOURNEY TO GREENLAND

(France) 98mins. Acid.

Dir: Sebastien Betbeder.

Cast: Thomas Blanchard, Thomas Scimeca, Francois Chattot, Ole Eliassen, Adam Eskildsen, Benedikte Eliassen, Mathias Petersen, Judith Henry, Martin Jensen.

An ice odyssey starring two not-so-adventurous friends, Thomas and Thomas.

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MERCENARY

(France) 103mins. Be For Films. Dir: Sacha Wolff. Cast: Toki Pilioko, Laurent Pakihivatau, Iliana Zabeth.

Soane, a young man of Wallisian origin from New Caledonia, defies his father’s authority to go play rugby in France. Left to his own devices on the other side of the world, his odyssey will take him on the path to becoming a man in a world where there is a price to be paid

48 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2016

110mins. Telefilm Canada.

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

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put in danger by their unauthorised investigation into the legend of an earthquake phenomenon in an ancient graveyard on a mysterious island. Based on a true story that could not seem any further from the truth.

(France) 80mins. Visit Films. Dir: Ramzi Ben Sliman. Cast: Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi.

While trying to impress his crush, a French-Tunisian teenager accidentally becomes the face of the Arab Spring in Paris.

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THE NIGHT MY MOTHER KILLED MY FATHER

(Spain) 93mins. Inside Content. Dir: Ines Paris.

Cast: Belen Rueda, Eduard Fernandez, Maria Pujalte, Diego Peretti, Fele Martinez, Patricia Montero.

What will Isabel, a 40-yearold actress who nobody wants to hire, be able to do in order to persuade her husband to let her play the lead role in the next film he is preparing? An evening, a perfect hostess, some guests, and a dinner whichnone of them will ever forget.

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ROCCO

(France) Wild Bunch.

Dir: Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai. Cast: Rocco Siffredi, John Stagliano, Mark Spiegler, James Deen.

A behind-the-scenes account of the porn world and its stars as they’ve never been seen before — and the no-holds-barred portrait of a true giant.

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14:00 A DRAGON ARRIVES! See box, left

AMERICAN HONEY

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

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

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DEEP IN THE WOOD VULCANIA

(Spain) 91mins. Snd — Groupe M6. Dir: Jose Skaf. Cast: Aura Garrido, Miquel Fernandez.

In a small place lost in space and time, there is no other option but to obey the village leaders. Jonas has always been playing by the rules. Until he meets Marta. Falling for her, Jonas will question the system and unveil its dark secrets. As he realises they have been fed a lie, Jonas has no alternative but to try to plan an escape.

To fulfil his destiny and save Marta from a deadly future, Jonas will prove to be more than himself. He too has secrets.

Arcades 3 Priority badges only

(Italy) 90mins. Minerva Pictures Group. Dir: Stefano Lodovichi. Cast: Filippo Nigro, Camilla Filippi, Teo Achille Caprio.

The story of a broken family that can’t seem to reemerge from the pit of darkness it has fallen into after the son’s disappearance.

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DOGS

(France) 104mins. Bac Films. Dir: Bogdan Mirica. Cast: Dragos Bucur, Gheorghe Visu, Vlad Ivanov.

A young Bucharest man clashes with his departed grandfather’s vicious world of crime in the east Romania badlands.

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WE ARE X

(UK) 93mins. Mongrel International.

Dir: Stephen Kijak.

The story of the most

HEAVEN WILL WAIT

(France) 105mins.

Gaumont. Dir: MarieCastille Mention-Schaar.

Cast: Noemie Merlant, Naomi Amarger, Ariane Arscaride, Clotilde Courau, Sandrine Bonnaire.

How French minors, teenagers from all sociocultural backgrounds, can be brainwashed to the point of attempting to leave for Syria and what are the challenges facing those who try to help to turn them around before it’s too late. Melanie is 16 years old. She ponders the meaning of life and the state of the world. She wants to be a doctor. She lives in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, with her mother, who is raising her on her own. Like her friends, Melanie is constantly “connected” via social networks. Spotted by recruiters, she falls in love with one of them before converting and growing increasingly radical, one by one cutting off ties with her former life.

Sonia is 17. She is caught trying to leave for Syria and almost commits the unthinkable. Because she is still a minor, the judge allows her to return home under the surveillance of her parents and special educators. As Melanie is gradually indoctrinated, Sonia follows the opposite path, the return path. Will she be able to leave the spiral and rebuild her life?

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HOPE

(Netherlands) 90mins.

Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

Dir: Erik De Bruyn.

Cast: Monic Hendrickx, Gene Bervoets.

The story of the secret affair and a fatal attraction between an impassioned woman and a prominent banker. An affair that pitches head against heart.

An affair that completely spins out of control.

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LEBANON GOES TO CANNES

110mins. Fondation Liban Cinema.

The Fondation Liban Cinema presents a selection of works-inprogress by Lebanese filmmakers.

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(US) 100mins. Love Entertainment. Dir: Vincent Tran, Riyaana Hartley. Cast: Pooja Batra, Gene Farber, Michael Keeley, Ava Cantrell.

Imagine a day without war.

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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NEERJA

(India) 110mins. Fox Star Studios India. Dir: Madhvani Ram. Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi.

Biopic of the Indian Air hostess who saved 359 passengers on a Pan Am flight that was hijacked in 1986 at Karachi airport.

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ONE UNDER THE SUN

SCOTTISH MUSSEL

(UK) 93mins.

Moviehouse Entertainment. Dir: Talulah Riley. Cast: Martin Compston, Talulah Riley, Morgan Watkins, Joe Thomas, Paul Brannigan.

Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects.

Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highlands. Falling for her instantly, Ritchie must beat off competition in the form of Highland Ranger Ethan, a smooth talking American Adonis convinced that Beth can’t resist his charms forever. After the success of pearl fishing attracts the unwanted attentions of old school Glaswegian mobster Gavin and his work at the centre leads him to question his true motivations, Ritchie must risk life and limb to save the Highlands from ecological disaster and win Beth’s heart.

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SHARING STELLA

(Cuba) 85mins.

Habanero. Dir: Kiki Alvarez. Cast: Tony

Market 14:00 SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS

(South Africa) 107mins.

Westend Films. Dir: Oliver Schmitz. Cast: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough.

Alonso, Deisy Forcade, Claudia Muniz, Yarlo Ruiz, Yaima Morfa, Marybel Garcia Garzon, Yanier Palmero, May Reguera, Kiki Alvarez.

Havana, December 2014.

A director is looking for an actress to play Stella in a Cuban adaptation of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ when the announcement that Cuba and the US are restoring diplomatic relations errupts into the ordinarily lives of a group of actors getting ready for the casting.

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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

50 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2016

THE GREEN FAIRY

As Apartheid crumbles in South Africa, a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men.

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easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.

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15:30 A KID

(France) 98mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Philippe Lioret. Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Gabriel Arcand.

Mathieu is 35 but he has never met his father. His late mother always told him that he was the result of a casual encounter. One day, Mathieu receives a call telling him that his father was Canadian, and that he has just passed away.

He also discovers that he has two stepbrothers and decides to go to the funeral in order to meet them.

But once in Montreal, he realises that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory.

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THE ALIEN

(Mexico) 80mins.

Outsider Pictures. Dir: Jesus Magana Vazquez.

Cast: Ines De Tavira, Paco De La Fuente, Juan Ugarte, Juan Pablo Campa.

Lauro, Rita and Agus have a punk band that’s not very successful, so they decide to recruit a keyboard player to “refresh” their sound.

That’s when they meet Pepe, a talented player.

In spite of the fact that he has Down’s syndrome, they accept him in the band and call him “The Alien”. Thanks to Pepe’s “touch”, Mr Gramophone, a legendary music manager, decides to represent the band and takes them to the top of the music scene with a new genre. However, Lauro gets jealous of The Alien because he steals attention from him, and it seems he’s going to steal the love of Rita, his ex-girlfriend, as well.

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THE ANNIVERSARY

(Romania) 92mins.

Romanian Film Centre.

Dir: Dan Chisu. Cast: Mircea Albulescu.

It is Radu Maligan’s 94th birthday. Family members and former colleagues are invited.

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family and tries settle into civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will find his way in some managerial position in the private sector but he has difficulties adapting to the pace of the “new Israel”, a competitive culture obsessed with success and money.

When a friend suggests working for a company that markets dietary supplements, David sees this as an opportunity to get his foot in the door of the business world. But this decision slowly gets him and his family entangled in the web of dark forces.

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BREATH

(Iran) 118mins. Farabi Cinema Foundation.

Dir: Narges Abyar. Cast: Pantea Panahiha, Mehran Ahmadi, Sareh NourMousavi.

The wandering and daily life of a daydreaming little girl before puberty and her persistent efforts to discover the world so she can experience life with all its sweetness and bitterness in her own way.

BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS

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(Israel) 90mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Eran Kolirin. Cast: Alon Pdut, Shiri Nadav, Noam Ambar, Mili Eshet, Yoav Rothman.

David is discharged from the army after 27 years.

He returns to his home and

CONSIDERING LOVE AND OTHER MAGIC

(Canada) 93mins.

Attraction Distribution.

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

(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.

Doc Corner

HEAVYSAURS

(Finland) 85mins.

Eastwest Filmdistribution.

Dir: Pekka Karjalainen.

Cast: Milo Snellman, Salli Siivonen.

While staying at an amusement park with their class, 10-year-old Toni and his classmate Suvi discover the “Heavysaurs”: a group of dino-like creatures that think of nothing but food and hard rock. The Heavysaurs are friendly, funny and know how to rock the stage — but they are kept in captivity

by Maxim, a reckless entrepreneur who plans to use them for his business.

Suvi and Toni have to fight together in order to save their rocking Jurassic friends.

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I MARRIED A DUMBASS

(Argentina) 100mins.

Filmsharks International.

Dir: Taratuto Juan. Cast: Adrian Suar, Valeria Bertucelli.

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the film and not the real person.

Los Angeles to explore the Church of Scientology.

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JUST CHARLIE

OUR LOVERS

(UK) 96mins. Media Luna New Films. Dir: Rebekah Fortune. Cast: Harry Gilby, Patricia Potter, Scot Williams, Karen Bryson.

Football star Charlie is a girl trapped in the body of a boy. Rejected by her father and teammates, will she ever play football again?

(Spain) 90mins. Filmax International. Dir: Miguel Angel Lamata.

Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Michelle Jenner.

His heart has been broken.

Hers has been shattered.

Now they only have each other, their love for books and their sense of humour.

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RESET LOST IN ARMENIA

(France) 90mins.

Wtfilms. Dir: Serge Avedikian. Cast: Patrick Chesnais.

A French comedian accidentally crosses the border and lands in a small Armenian village. Not speaking the language, with no passport and no phone, will he ever be able to leave?

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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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MELLOW MUD See box, above

RAMMSTEIN PARIS

(Germany) 97mins.

Nfp Marketing & Distribution. Dir: Jonas Akerlund.

A state-of the-artconcert-film featuring the extraordinary German band Rammstein.

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TERRAFORMARS

(Japan) 108mins. Gaga Corporation. Dir: Takashi Miike. Cast: Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Tomohisa Yamashita.

Slum-dwelling Shokichi takes responsibility for a murder to protect Nanao.

Rather than go to prison, they agree to be a part of a secret mission: 500 years ago, to solve the population explosion on Earth, cockroaches and mosses were sent to Mars to make the atmosphere habitable for humankind.

Market 15:30 MELLOW MUD

(Latvia) 105mins.

Pluto Film Distribution Network Gmbh.

Dir: Renars Vimba.

Cast: Elina Vaska, Andzejs Lilientals, Edgars Samitis, Zane Jancevska.

DUBAI GOES TO CANNES

With her father out of the picture, her mother out of the country and her little brother on her back, a young girl in rural Latvia has to make life decisions that even a grown woman would hesitate to tackle.

110mins. Dubai International Film Festival.

The Dubai Film Market presents a selection of works-in-progress by filmmakers from the Arab world.

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FACTORY BOSS

Now in 2599, the mission is to exterminate the roaches and colonise Mars.

Fifteen destitute people from all walks of life have been assembled for the task. However, the moment Shokichi and the others set foot on the planet, they find out the cockroaches have evolved into huge creatures that mercilessly attack humans.

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TRAIN DRIVER’S DIARY

(Serbia) 90mins. Film Center Serbia. Dir: Milos Radovic. Cast: Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Karanovic, Nina Jankovic, Petar Korac, Danica Ristovski.

During his professional career, every train driver inadvertently kills 20 to 30 people. Their victims are usually suicides, or simply unfortunate absentminded people. This is a tragic comedy about innocent murderers and their lives.

Curtis. Cast: Paul Sidhu, Branden Coles, Brad Potts, Anne-Solenne Hatte.

In 2307, a future soldier is sent on a mission to hunt down the leader of the humanoid rebellion.

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16:00 AFTER THE STORM

(Japan) 118mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Kiki Kilin, Taiyo Yoshizawa.

A sensitive and powerful story of family ties remade.

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THE BODYGUARD

(China) 92mins. All Rights Entertainment Limited. Dir: Yue Song.

Cast: Wai-Man Chan, Collin Chou, Yue Song.

Wu-Lin becomes a bodyguard. When his fellow apprentice comes to town, his loyalties are split between his ancient clan of the Iron Kick and his ward, Fei-Fei.

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WINTER’S DREAM

THE DOG LOVER

(US) 100mins. Sc Films International. Dir: Joey

Red Sea Media.

(China) 100mins.

Fortissimo Films. Dir: Zhang Wei. Cast: Anlian Yao, Yan Tang, Ju Zhao.

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GARY NUMAN: ANDROID IN LA LA LAND

(UK) 85mins. Fandango.

Dir: Steve Read, Rob Alexander.

Music, madness, love, loss and second chances.

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KALINKA

(France) 105mins.

Studiocanal. Dir: Vincent Garenq. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josee Croze.

Based on the true story of Andre Bamberski’s struggle to bring his daughter Kalinka’s killer to justice after she died in suspicious circumstances. His more than 30 year investigation into her death leads him to abduct the presumed murderer and have him stand trial.

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MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE

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(UK) 99mins. HanWay Films. Dir: John Dower.

Louis Theroux heads to

(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 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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in a remote bus station in the middle of nowhere start experiencing a strange phenomenon.

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VAMPYRES

(Spain) 82mins. Reel Suspects. Dir: Victor Matellano. Cast: Caroline Munro, Marta Flich.

In 1974, a horror film titled ‘Vampyres’ was premiered in England.

It was an English production, written and directed by Joseph Larraz. Soon, it became a successful movie, especially because of its sensuality, its gruesomeness and its twisted atmosphere.

This new version of the universe of ‘Vampyres’ keeps its sensuality, its gruesomeness, its insolence and the twisted atmosphere, but includes more action, more horror and more gore, according to modern times. This is the story of two vamps that “live” in a dark manor where they lure men with the promise of sex orgies that finally become blood orgies.

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ROCK DOG

(US) 88mins. Timeless Films. Dir: Ash Brannon. Cast: Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, Jk Simmons, Lewis Black, Kenan Thompson, Mae Whitman, Jorge Garcia, Matt Dillon, Sam Elliott.

Bodi, a naive mastiff from the Himalayas bent on becoming a musician, forms an unlikely friendship with a cat, British rock legend Angus Scattergood.

WORRY DOLLS

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THE DOG LOVER

(US) 90mins. Jinga Films. Dir: Padraig Reynolds. Cast: Christopher Wiehl, Kym Jackson, Tina Lifford, Kennedy Brice.

A series of brutal voodooinspired murders pits a detective against the clock to save his daughter from evil spirits.

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SEVEN DAYS

(China) 73mins.

China Film Promotion International. Dir: Jian Xing. Cast: Deshun Wang.

Tells the story of a lonely old man in the snow mountain with a fish, a bird and a child.

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17:25 BOBBY THE HEDGEHOG

25mins. All Rights Entertainment.

Dir: James Huang.

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THE SIMILARS

(Mexico) 90mins. Stray Dogs. Dir: Isaac Ezban.

Cast: Luis Alberti, Carmen Beato, Fernando Becerril.

Eight characters waiting

(Italy) 60mins. Ellipsis Media International.

Dir: Lorenzo Berghella.

A journey into the heart of Bangland, a city in a dystopian America.

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MOOS

by Job Gosschalk Starring: Jip Smit, Daniel Cornelissen & Michiel Romeijn

A kosher comedy in which love, laughter and friendship are more important than beauty and appearances.

Comedy | Dutch with English subtitles The Netherlands, 2016 Completed

LITTLE WING

by Selma Vilhunen Starring: Linnea Skog, Paula Vesala & Lauri Maijala

Varpu wishes her mother would treat her as a child and not as an adult. She also wants to find her father. To take destiny into her own hands, a car is needed – not an easy task for a 12-year-old.

Drama | Finnish with English subtitles Finland & Denmark Expected: July 2016

LIVE FOR ME

by Chema de la Peña Starring: Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Martha Higareda & Tiaré Scanda

One night, a man dies in a traffic accident. Shortly after, three people get the same call: the chance to finally obtain the long wanted kidney transplant they all have been waiting for.

Drama | Spanish with English subtitles Mexico & Spain Expected: August 2016

JUST CHARLIE

by Rebekah Fortune Starring: Harry Gilby, Scot Williams & Patricia Potter

Charlie, a fun-loving teenager, decides to unveil a well-guarded secret. An inspiring and heartwarming story paved with obstacles, prejudices and confusion.

Drama | English United Kingdom Expected: TBA

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later, an elderly lady attempts to reunite with the spirit of her lost friend.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

(Germany) 97mins.

Picture Tree International. Dir: Stephan Rick. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Jurgen Prochnow, Nora Von Waldstatten, Doris Schretzmayer, Luc Feit.

Corporate lawyer Urs Blank is the undisputed star of his profession. He has money and the perfect wife. But the suicide of a business colleague throws him off track and leads to an attraction with Lucille and her alternative lifestyle. Seduced into experimenting with hallucinogenic mushrooms, his dark side emerges. The once civilised lawyer turns into an erratic murderer. Deeply unsettled by the change he flees to the woods in search of an antidote but the police and his vindictive business partner are already on his tracks.

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DO RE MI FA

(Malta) 140mins.

Dragonfly Films.. Dir: Chris Zarb. Cast: Paul Flanagan, Irene Christ, Sean O’Neil, Marc Cabourdin.

An ensemble set in Malta that focuses on four characters: Bozo, a children’s party clown who is a closet pedophile; Claudia, a stage actress who is paralysed with feelings of insignificance and is driven to do the extreme; Kyle, a family man with a deaf son who finds it increasingly difficult to cope with challenges at home and at work; and DJ Trim, a talk radio show presenter suffering from an anxiety disorder who advocates for the rights of illegal immigrants and becomes the target of unwanted attention from a threatening caller.

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FANNY’S JOURNEY

(France) 98mins. Indie Sales. Dir: Lola Doillon.

Cast: Cecile De France.

France, 1943. The true story of Fanny Ben Ami, who crossed France with 10 other Jewish children to escape deportation.

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TRUE CONNECTION (SHORT VERSION)

(Argentina) 1mins. Blood Window. Dir: Jose Cicala, Nicolas Cuno. Cast: Guillermo Francella, Nicolas Francella.

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17:30 WE ARE THE FLESH

(Mexico) 80mins. Blood Window. Dir: Emiliano Rocha Minter. Cast: Noe Hernandez, Maria Evoli, Diego Gamaliel.

An allegorical vision of an apocalyptic Mexico.

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Market 17:30 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 at a ministers’ festival 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?

Insightmedia Producing Center. Dir: Taras Tkachenko. Cast: Rymma Zyubina, Vitaliy Linetskiy, Mauro Chipriani, Lina Bernardi, Nataliya Vasko, Mykola Boklan.

A Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.

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Slack BAy (MA LOUTE) FROM NOWHERE

(US) 89mins. Visit Films.

Dir: Matthew Newton.

Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Denis O’Hare, J 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 Lerins 4

GOD’S NOT DEAD 2

(US) 120mins. Pure Flix/ Quality Fix. Dir: Harold Cronk. Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Ernie Hudson, Ray Wise, Robin Givens, David AR 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 —

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and expel God from the classroom once and for all.

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LEGACY OF SOMA — AONORAN See box, above

LESLIE HOWARD: THE MAN WHO DIDN’T GIVE A DAMN

(UK) 84mins. Galloping Films. Dir: Thomas Hamilton. Cast: Leslie Howard, Isabella Rossellini, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable.

An intimate and compelling look at the life and career of one of Hollywood’s most unique stars.

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THE MAGNIFISENT NINE

(Japan) Shochiku Co. Dir: Yoshihiro Nakamura.

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THE NEST OF THE TURTLEDOVE

(Ukraine) 110mins.

STOLEN

(Iran) 86mins. Farabi Cinema Foundation.

Dir: Bijan Mirbagheri.

Cast: Niki Karimi, Rouzbeh Bemani, Soroush Sehat, Maral Farjad.

A couple, on the brink of emigrating, is faced with a new problem. Now they must do anything they can to solve it.

(France) 122mins.

Memento Films International. 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.

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SPIRITS’ HOMECOMING

(South Korea) 127mins.

M-Line Distribution. Dir: Jo Jung-Rae. Cast: Hana Kang, Lee Choi, Son Suk, Hwang Hwa-Sun. Two Korean girls are kidnapped by the Japanese Imperial Army and taken to a ‘Comfort Station’ in China. There, they join other kidnapped girls in serving Japanese soldiers as sexual slaves known as ‘Comfort Women’. By the end of the war, only one of the girls survives. Decades

17:50 Sweet dreams (FAI BEI SOGNI)

(Italy) 134mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Marco Bellocchio. Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Berenice Bejo, Guido Caprino, Nicolo’ Cabras, Dario Dal Pero, Barbara Ronchi.

Massimo’s idyllic childhood was shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, he is haunted by his traumatic past.

Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds.

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18:00 74TH GENOCIDE SHINGAL

(France) 115mins.

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A DOUBLE LIFE

(Japan) 126mins. Alpha

Violet. Dir: Hyoshiyuki Kishi. Cast: Mugi Kadokawi, Lili Franky, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masaki Suda.

Tama is a post-graduate student working on her PHD thesis in philosophy.

Her professor convinces her to randomly choose one stranger, to tail him and to report his daily routines and encounters. She finds her subject: her neighbour, a rich and successful book publisher.

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THE LIGHT ON THE HILL

(Peru) 85mins. Wide.

Dir: Ricardo Velarde.

Cast: Ramon Garcia, Manuel Gold, Emilram Cossio.

Only the pure hearted will find the light.

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ONE WEEK AND A DAY

(Israel) 98mins. New Europe Film Sales.

Dir: Asaph Polonsky.

Cast: Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Uri Gavriel, Tomer Kapon, Sharon Alexander, Alona Shauloff.

When Eyal completes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their daily routine. Instead, he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

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PRIVATE SCREENING

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SIERANEVADA

(Romania) 175mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Cristi Puiu.

Cast: Mimi Branescu, Judith State, Tatiana Iekel.

Lary, a neurologist at the top of his career, and his wife, are attending a family meal in Bucharest to commemorate the death of his father, who died 40 days earlier. All the guests are waiting for the priest’s arrival.

In the meantime, they argue about the events of 9/11. Larry tries to calm the debate but opinions are so divided not even the priest’s flying visit succeeds in reconciling

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the two camps. Just when things seem to be settling down, the arrival of an uninvited guest throws the commemoration into turmoil, which deteriorates into a settling of old scores.

avenge his parents.

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DESPERATE SUNFLOWERS

(Japan) 105mins.

Shochiku Co. Dir: Kuroki Hitomi. Cast: Yo Yoshida, Yoshino Kimura, Yuta Furukawa.

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THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD

(Romania) 108mins.

Romanian Film Centre.

Dir: Anca Miruna Lazarescu. Cast: Alex Margineanu, Razvan Enciu, Ovidiu Schumacher.

A moving story playing in a turbulent year — 1968, with the “Prague Spring” setting the scene for the film in which a German family from Arad (Romania) start a journey towards the German Democratic Republic.

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THE TRANSFIGURATION

(US) 97mins. Protagonist Pictures. 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.

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FRENCH TOUR (TOUR DE FRANCE)

Market 18:00 URBAN FAMILY

(Finland) 105mins.

Summerside International. Dir: Oskari Sipola. Cast: Maria Ylipaa, Johannes Brotherus, Riku Nieminen.

Selja is in her 30s and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy

children’s book. appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption 16 years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends’ lives. ‘Urban Family’ is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world.

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THEM WHO?

(Italy) 92mins. True Colours. Dir: Fabio Bonifacci, Francesco Micciche’. Cast: Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Catrinel Marlon, Lisa Bor. What would you do if your life gets twisted upside down by the best of the tricksters? With no money, job or even a girlfriend, David runs after his swindler Marcello, but charmed by his life, he suddenly decides to join him.

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TOMCAT

(Austria) 114mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Klaus Handl. Cast: Lukas Turtur, Philipp Hochmair.

Together with their tomcat Moses, Andreas and Stefan live in paradise.

An inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly calls everything into question.

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UNREQUITED LOVE

(Japan) 123mins. Toei Company. Dir: Ken Iizuka, Koto Nagata, Takayuki Takuma, Keinosuke Hara, Mitsuhito Fujii, Santa Yamagishi, Hidehiro Ito. Cast: Sairi Itoh, Taishi Nakagawa, Erika Mori, Yoji Tanaka, Dori Sakurada, Alice Hirose, Takumi Saitoh, Jiyoung (Kara), Yua Shinkawa, Jun Shison.

A local radio in Yokohama broadcasts a series of unrequited love stories posted by listeners.

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URBAN FAMILY

Jane, Matt Lanter, Cody Walker.

The incredible true story of the worst Naval disaster in US history brought to the screen for the first time.

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WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT

(US) 90mins. Xviii Entertainment. Dir: Candice Cain. Cast: Amber Rose, Shelly Regner, Dave Otunga, Jake Thomas, Lauren Mayhew.

Partying too hard can lead to short-term memory loss.

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RICO, OSKAR AND THE BROKEN HEARTED

USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE

(Germany) 95mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Wolfgang Groos. Cast: Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, Karoline Herfurth, Moritz Bleibtreu.

Based on a best-selling

(US) 119mins. Hannibal Classics. Dir: Mario Van Peebles. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Brian Presley, Thomas

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20:00 BEST OF WORLD CINEMA

Greta Joanne Entertainment.

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HIDDEN

(Panama) 75mins.

Panama Film Commission.

Dir: Frank Spano, Guillermo Barcenas.

An adventure documentary with three Panamanian athletes.

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MONODIALOGUE

(UK) 50mins.

Sv Productions. Dir: Veronika Silchenko. Cast: Pavel Borodatov.

He was betrayed by his country and is finally speaking the truth.

Zoran Boukherma. Cast: Daniel Vannet, Noemie Lvovsky, Romain Leger, Eric Jacquet, Alexandre Jacques, Robert Follet, Genevieve Plet.

Willy, a boorish 50-something, finally moves out of his parents’ home to start a new life.

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20:30 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.

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BAAHUBALI

(Russia) 52mins. Apollo Film Production. Dir: Anatoly Balchev.

This is a story of a great poet, musician and bard — Vladimir Visotsky. A story of his life in Odessa, told by many witnesses.

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WILLY I

(France) 82mins. Acid.

Dir: Hugo P Thomas, Marielle Gautier, Ludovic Boukherma,

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VISOTSKY THROUGH THE EYES OF ODESSITES

(France) 95mins. Cite Films. Dir: Rachid Djaidani. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Sadek, Louise Grinberg.

Far’Hook is a 20-year-old rapper. Following a violent dispute with a rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for a while. His producer, Bilal, suggests that Far’Hook acts as driver for Bilal’s father, Serge, on a tour of French ports, following in the footsteps of the classic painter Joseph Vernet.

Despite the age gap and culture clash, an unlikely friendship forms between this talented rapper and the bricklayer from the north of France during a road trip that concludes in Marseille for a final concert, one of reconciliation.

(India) 137mins.

Arka Mediaworks.

Dir: Rajamouli Sri Sailasri. Cast: Prabhas Uppalapati, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah Bhatia, Anushka Shetty.

A mother chooses an adopted nephew over her own son to be the new king. The young king spurns the throne for love.

But treachery and betrayal lead to his murder, leaving behind an ostracised wife.

Their rescued infant child raised by a tribe returns to

(South Korea) 40mins.

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22:30 MEAN DREAMS

(Canada) 108mins.

Telefilm Canada. Dir: Nathan Morlando. Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton.

‘Mean Dreams’ is a coming-of-age thriller about a 15-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves while her corrupt cop father hunts them down.

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WILLY I

(France) 82mins. Acid.

Dir: Hugo P. Thomas, Marielle Gautier, Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma. Cast: Daniel Vannet, Noemie Lvovsky, Romain Leger, Eric Jacquet, Alexandre Jacques, Robert Follet, Genevieve Plet.

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Anton Dolin Afisha, Russia

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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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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.

By contrast Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), ever-changing ★★ a ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ his loving ★★ wife, ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★lives an ★★ ★★ life.

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Aquarius (Bra-Fr) Kleber Mendonca Filho

Sonia stars in★★ the Brazilian debut, the tale of★★ a 65-year-old ★★ Braga ★★ ★★ director’s ★★ Competition ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ widow ★★who ponders ★★ the past engages★★ in a war★★ of attrition with developers who want to throw her out★★ of her home. ★★as she★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

Julieta (Sp) Pedro Almodovar

A★★ story of loss three short

by Canadian Alice Munro, woman (played ★★and grief ★★adapted ★★from★★ ★★stories★★ ★★ writer ★★ ★★ following ★★ a ★★ at★★ different★★ ages by★★ Adriana Ugarte Emma★★ Suarez) on the verge overwhelmed her mysterious ★★ and ★★ ★★ ★★of being ★★ ★★ by ★★ ★★ past.

Personal Shopper (Fr) Olivier Assayas

The French★★ director★★ reteams★★ with Kristen in Clouds Maria in★★ 2014, for★★ his fourth ★★ ★★Stewart, ★★who also ★★starred ★★ ★★Of Sils★★ appearance in Competition set in Paris’s ★★ ★★ ★★ with ★★this ghost ★★ story ★★ ★★ fashion ★★ underworld. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

Ma’ Rosa (Phil) Brillante Mendoza

Filipino highlight★★ the plight★★ of those★★ living on★★ the margins his fifth film ★★ auteur ★★Mendoza ★★ continues ★★ to★★ ★★of society ★★ with★★ to★★ screen at Cannes, the tale★★ of a poor★★ mother-of-four Manila who the side to make ends ★★ ★★ ★★ in★★ ★★sells drugs ★★ on ★★ ★★ ★★meet.

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. ★★

It’s Only The End Of The World (Can-Fr) Xavier Dolan

The 27-year-old third Competition a drama ★★ about a terminally ill writer★★ returning to ★★ ★★ director ★★ is back ★★with his ★★ ★★ ★★entry,★★ ★★ ★★ his family after Seydoux,★★ Gaspard★★ Ulliel and★★ Vincent★★ Cassel star. ★★ ★★ a 12-year ★★ absence. ★★ Marion ★★Cotillard, ★★ Léa★★ ★★

The Last Face (US) Sean Penn

The director of an international for a relief aid doctor Bardem) in war-torn ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★aid agency ★★ (Charlize ★★ Theron) ★★ falls★★ ★★ ★★(Javier ★★ ★★ Liberia finds their relationship as a result of their★★ differing★★ views on★★ how to solve crisis. ★★ but★★ ★★ ★★ under ★★strain★★ ★★ ★★ the ★★

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Fanning stars as★★ a teenage ingenue trying to crack Los Jena Malone ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★Angeles’ ★★cutthroat ★★modelling ★★ scene, ★★while ★★ The Neon Demon (Fr-US-Den) Elle Nicolas Winding Refn plays takes her under her in an exploration the city’s vicious★★ obsession with beauty. ★★the make-up ★★ artist ★★ who★★ ★★ ★★wing, ★★ ★★ of★★ ★★ ★★

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Elle (Fr-Ger-Bel) Paul Verhoeven

Verhoeven’s psychological first Competition entry since Basic Instinct 1992, sees Isabelle Huppert star ★★ ★★ thriller, ★★ his★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ in★★ ★★ ★★ as★★ a videogame company who is★★ attacked★★ by an intruder her home★★ and vows to track★★ down the assailant. ★★ boss ★★ ★★ at ★★ ★★ ★★

The Salesman (Iran-Fr) Asghar Farhadi

Forced of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighbouring building, ★★ Emad and★★ Rana move ★★ out★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★into a new flat in the centre Tehran. An incident★★ linked to the previous change★★ the young couple’s life. ★★ ★★ of ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ tenant ★★will dramatically ★★ ★★ ★★

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