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Amazon’s charm tactics cheer a muted market

BY JEREMY KAY Halle Berry

Insiders crowns Halle Berry’s Kings

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Los Angeles riots drama Kings, starring Halle Berry, has been drawing heat for Insiders following its launch here at the market.

The film has sold to France (Ad Vitam), UK (Studiocanal), Italy (BIM), Spain (Vertigo), Turkey (Fabula) and ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz).

Berry is to star as a mother caught up in the violence of the 1992 riots, sparked by the use of excessive police force in the arrest of Rodney King.

The film marks Erguven’s English-language debut following her Oscar-nominated Turkish feature Mustang. Kings is produced by Charles Gillibert, who produced Olivier Assayas’ Competition title Personal Shopper.

Separately, Insiders is to consolidate its international sales operations with Marc Butan’s MadRiver Pictures to create Los Angelesbased IMR International.

The entity will handle international sales across all MadRiver and Insiders films and plans to offer around 12-16 titles a year to buyers.

Both companies will continue to exist and operate as separate independent production and financing companies. CAA brokered the deal.

CANNES DEALS Mongrel International has sold UK and Ireland rights for Paddy Breathnach’s Viva, which is centred on the Havana drag scene, to Studiocanal and Element Pictures Distribution in a joint distribution venture.

The sunlight in Cannes may have confounded forecasts of interminable rain but the outlook for the film business remains stormy.

While several US companies with points to prove strutted their stuff and international buyers circled must-have titles, the struggle to survive in a post-financial crisis landscape remains the most urgent narrative.

That was reflected as buyers and sellers sent fewer staff, while the paucity of foot-traffic hit home as tourists stayed away while anti-terrorist police patrolled the Croisette.

STX Entertainment, the upstart studio launched by Bob Simonds in 2014, paid around $50m for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming The Irishman and $9m for Sierra/ Affinity’s Molly’s Game.

That placed a marker in the sand

but the talk of Cannes was unquestionably Amazon Studios. The platform arrived with five films in the festival and two notable market buys on You Were Never Really Here and Peterloo. The company has been on a charm offensive to the theatrical community and at a panel yesterday expressed its faith in the importance of sales agents.

“Amazon is willing to work with distributors to support their distribution efforts in any given territory,” said The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea, who reported a strong response to documentary Gleason, which Amazon and Open Road will release in the US. Yet for all its enthusiasm, Amazon Studios cannot mask its digital DNA and has inevitably sparked concern just as Netflix, which secured a deal for market title Wheelman (see below), did in 2015.

Except for the top 1%, most sales agents are at risk. They make a less compelling case when their buyers in high-piracy territories feel the pressure to release Amazon Studios content day-and-date with the US before it becomes available online in their country.

“The current drivers of the independent market are the US domestic buyers, the SVoD platforms, China and on the international side especially, the studios themselves,” said Bill Johnson of Lotus Entertainment, which scored sales on Keanu Reeves sci-fi Replicas.

Cast is essential at a time when TV is pulling talent to the smaller screen. Covert Media locked in Daisy Ridley from Star Wars: The Force Awakens alongside Naomi Watts to its upcoming drama Ophelia and buyers flocked. Not everybody will be so lucky.

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Director Pedro Almodovar with actresses Emma Suarez (left) and Adriana Ugarte at the premiere of Julieta.

Netflix steers world deal on Grillo’s Wheelman In a major deal secured at Amazondominated Cannes, Netflix has hit back with a worldwide acquisition agreement. The streaming giant has taken world rights and will fully finance upcoming thriller

Wheelman, which will star The Purge: Anarchy actor Frank Grillo.

The multi-million dollar deal, negotiated by CAA and The Solution Entertainment Group, is one of the biggest to go down at what has been

a relatively sedate market. Netflix is also understood to be lining up a significant full-finance deal on Iraq War drama Sand Castle, on which deal points are still being ironed out.

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NEWS Amazon reveals strategy Studio looks for ‘unique’ voices » Page 2

REVIEW Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart gives a committed performance in Olivier Assayas’ film » Page 8

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Clash brings together sales

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based Pyramide International has locked down sales on Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s Clash, which opened Un Certain Regard this year.

The film has sold to Scandinavia (Scanbox), Spain (Golem), Switzerland (Cineworx), Portugal (Midas Filmes), Benelux (Amstelfilm), Colombia (Cine Colombia), Greece (WeirdWave), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), Brazil (Imovision), former Yugoslavia (2I) and China VoD (Lemon Tree). Talks are ongoing for Turkey while interest has been shown from Poland and Australia.

Pyramide Distribution will release the film in France on September 14. “Opening Un Certain Regard was a great launch pad for the film and buyers have responded with enthusiasm to Mohamed’s fresh, young vision of post-revolutionary Egypt’s splintered society,” said Pyramide sales chief Agathe Valentin.

Set during violent demonstrations in Cairo at the end of president Mohamed Morsi’s reign in 2013, the film follows 25 protesters, from opposing camps, who find themselves locked in the same police van over the course of a day.

Mohamed Hefzy at Cairo-based Film Clinic lead-produced the film with Eric Lagesse’s Sampek Production, German Niko Films, Emirati EMC Pictures and Fortress Film Clinic on board as co-producers.

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Borg/McEnroe serve to France

By Wendy MiTchell

Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to Shia LaBeoufstarrer Borg/McEnroe.

Janus Metz will direct LaBeouf as tennis champion John McEnroe opposite Sverrir Gudnason as rival Bjorn Borg. Stellan Skarsgard will play Borg’s coach.

SF Studios handles sales and Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with SF head of international sales Anita Simovic.

Pretty Pictures has also boarded Benjamin Ree’s documentary Magnus from TrustNordisk in a deal that Velaise negotiated with sales manager Nicolai Korsgaard.

The Tribeca hit is about chess champion Magnus Carlsen.

Velaise told Screen that Borg/ McEnroe “is one of the best scripts we’ve read in a long time, combined with very good ideas on the casting front and an excellent director”.

AFM projects theatre boost A combination of refurbished and new theatre complexes in Santa Monica mean AFM will boast its highest number of screening facilities in November.

The recently renovated Monica Film Center houses six auditoriums offering a range of about 25 to 80 seats each, while the new Arclight at the Santa Monica Place shopping centre contains 12 screens seating between 50 and 260 each.

“Combined with the [nearby] AMC 7 and Broadway Cineplex 4, we have 29 auditoriums in four multiplexes — all brand new,” said Jonathan Wolf, AFM managing director and executive vicepresident of the Independent Film & Television Alliance.

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Theatrical experience key to Amazon strategy

By AndreAs WiseMAn

With five films in official selection and multiple splashy pre-buys, Amazon has been the talk of the festival and market in Cannes this year.

In a wide-ranging session yesterday, key executives from the company outlined the strategy and vision for the retail giant’s rapidly expanding film business.

Jason Ropell, Amazon’s head of worldwide film, told a packed industry session at the UK pavilion that Amazon sees the theatrical

Japan goes Gaga for Dias

By MelAnie GoodFelloW

Gaga Corporation has taken Japanese rights to Dias, Jonathan English’s Athens-set action thriller, following its market launch here.

The film, due to shoot in the city this September, revolves around an elite police motorbike force. Parisbased Memento Films International sold the title to Germany (Koch) at the start of the market.

experience as vital to its strategy.

“Disruption can be overplayed,” said Ropell. “We’re not particularly disruptive to the theatrical ecosystem. We believe in the theatrical experience and the romance of the experience. It is an essential component of film. Romance and commercial viability don’t need to be mutually exclusive.”

Ted Hope, Amazon Original Movies’ head of production, told the audience that the studio is looking to work with directors with “unique” and “original”

voices, including emerging filmmakers who he said will play a key role in the company’s strategy. “We jumped in right away with [director] Ben Dickinson and Creative Control,” said Hope. “We believe in the emerging film-maker space.

It’s a critical area. Customers and audiences want that.”

Hope also told industry that the Amazon slate would be diverse and said: “If you delved into our slate, you would see by far the greatest proportional representation of any studio.”

Jour2Fête snaps doc deals

By MichAel rosser

Paris-based distribution and sales company Jour2Fête has secured deals on a brace of documentaries screening here at the market.

Robert Doisneau: Through The Lens, about the life and work of the pioneering French photographer, has sold to South Korea (Jinjin Pictures), Brazil (Fenix), Spain (Avalon), Canada (Funfilm) and Portugal (Midas Filmes).

Merci Patron!, which has

recorded more than 450,000 admissions following its release in France, has been acquired for Benelux (O’Brother), Switzerland (Look Now!) and Spain (Compacto Cine).

The film, directed by journalist Francois Ruffin, is critical of the practice of outsourcing French jobs to foreign labour, and in particular it is critical of one of France’s richest men, LVMH boss Bernard Arnault.

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new europe high on one Week deals New Europe Film Sales has scored a brace of sales on Critics’ Week black comedy One Week And A Day. Brazil (Imovision) and Italy (Parthenos) have picked up the feature debut of US-born, Israeli film-maker Asaph Polonsky.

Before the market, Australian rights went to JIFF

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Distribution and French rights were sold to Sophie Dulac Distribution. New Europe also has further offers on the film from US and European buyers.

Polonsky is an AFI graduate, whose graduation film Samnang was nominated for an Oscar in 2013.

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Killers strike for TrustNordisk

By Wendy MiTchell

TrustNordisk has sold Ole Bornedal’s black comedy Small Town Killers across Europe.

Deals have been struck for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DCM), Poland (M2 Films) and former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group). A further agreement has been secured for Hong Kong (Edko) with more territories in negotiation.

The story follows two tradesmen who dream of better lives and hire a Russian hitman to kill their wives. Nordisk Film will release domestically on Christmas Day.

Arte circles short fantasy

By MelAnie GoodFelloW

Arte Cinema is close to signing a deal for Algerian-French filmmaker Damien Ounouri’s short film Kindil El Bahr ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight on Thursday.

The genre film revolves around a young mother who is killed by a group of young men while swimming alone at sea. As the search for her body continues, there are sightings of a strange nautical creature along the coast. The drama then flips over into the realm of the fantastical.

Algerian actress Adila Bendimerad, who co-wrote and stars in the film, said she and Ounouri put the production together in a matter of months in response to fierce debates around the female body in Algeria as well as the brutal killing of Farkhunda Malikzada, an Afghan woman who was murdered by a mob last December after being falsely accused of burning a copy of the Koran.

“We wrote the film in anger but also took pleasure from this mixture of reality and fantasy,” said Bendimerad.

The film is produced by Algeria’s Mediacorp in co-production with Kuwaiti-US producer Talal Al-Muhanna’s Linked Productions, which previously collaborated with Ounouri on his award-winning 2012 documentary Fidai.

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Lazio Film on the up Lazio Film Commission is in Cannes to announce a raft of new measures designed to attract film-makers to the Italian region.

According to Lazio governor Nicola Zingaretti, the region has an annual audiovisual funding budget of around $26m (€23m), second in Europe only to Berlin Brandenburg.

The region recently signed an accord with Brandenburg and France’s Ile-de-France for greater collaboration, including on marketing initiatives at festivals.

The commission will renew its international co-production fund Lazio Cinema International from October. The fund has a budget of around $11.3m (€10m) each year for three years, with the first year’s successful applicants announced next month.

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Mrs B gets own feature

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

South Korean director Jero Yun — whose feature-length documentary Mrs B, A North Korean Woman screens in Cannes’ ACID selection this year — is developing two fiction features, The Secret Of My Father and My Mother.

Both films are inspired by his documentary, which revolves around a North Korean woman who turns to human trafficking to raise money.

Paris and Shanghai-based Zorba — headed by founders Olivier Mardi and Guillaume de la Boulaye — is producing the film, having also collaborated with the director on Mrs B, A North Korean Woman.

The documentary is due to be released in France at the end of 2016 or early 2017, having been acquired by former Le Pacte sales executive Elisabeth Perlie’s fledgling company New Story.

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Raman Raghav star joins biopic

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, star of Directors’ Fortnight title Raman Raghav 2.0, has been cast in Nandita Das’s biopic of Indian writer Saadat Hasan Manto.

Vivek Kajaria of Holy Basil Productions and US-based investor Robin Raina have also boarded the project as producers.

Manto wrote extensively about the partition of India and was tried for obscenity six times but never convicted. Das’s biopic follows the last decade of his life until his death aged 42.

Das, an acclaimed actress who made her directing debut with Firaaq (2008), said: “Manto is a challenging role and the nuances

also working on an interactive project linked to a documentary called The Long Way South, which is due to go live at the same time as the release.

Other upcoming projects on the Zorba slate include Mosaic Portrait, the latest film from Song Chuan after Ciao, Ciao, which the company also produced, and Julian Starke’s transmedia project French Waves, about France’s electronic music scene.

required to perform Manto are found in very few actors.”

Manto is Kajaria’s Hindi-language debut after producing Marathi-language films including Fandry (2014) and Siddhant (2015). His upcoming films include Chaurya, Rakshas and The School.

Anurag Kashyap’s Raman Raghav 2.0 received its world premiere here in Directors’ Fortnight on Monday. See review, page 11.

Flix Premiere chief to talk VoD future

BY TOM GRATER

Martin Warner, founder of VoD platform Flix Premiere, is to deliver a keynote today, addressing the future of online cinema.

The producer and tech entrepreneur, who soft-launched the service in the UK last month, will speak at the NEXT pavilion from 4pm.

As online platforms grow their presence at Cannes, Warner will outline how Flix Premiere curates content and engages with audiences. He will also reveal titles set to be introduced next month.

The platform plans to add eight or nine films every 10 days and aims to distinguish itself from VoD platforms such as Netflix and a traditional cinema release by hosting films for five years with an exclusive rights window of at least 12 months.

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france and UK to ride Vod wave SVoD platform Nowave is due to launch in France and the UK this June, with ambitions to roll out across 140 countries.

There are plans to tie in the films with editorial content that will see personalities from the worlds of art and fashion as well as authors, chefs and journalists share their visions and the films that have inspired their lives and careers.

Other partners include French tech entrepreneur Benjamin Bohle-Roitelet, film producer and manager Daniel Ziskind, critic Anne-Laure Bell and producer Marianne Lere.

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Truenorth crosses language barrier

By Wendy miTchell

Iceland’s Truenorth continues to expand its production slate with two English-language projects, directed by Oskar Jonasson and USbased Michael G Kehoe.

The Malaga Prisoner is a comedy thriller about two Icelandic police officers who go to Malaga to pick up a petty thief. Jonasson wrote the script with crime author Arnaldur Indridason. The pair previously collaborated on hit Reykjavik-Rotterdam.

The film, to shoot in Malaga, Spain, in August 2017, is mostly in the English language with some dialogue in Icelandic and Spanish.

Truenorth is talking to

potential Spanish co-producers for what is believed to be the first Iceland-Spain film collaboration. The film is budgeted at up to $5m.

Kehoe’s Keflavik, budgeted at up to $3m, is about an alien life force discovered in an abandoned Nato base in Iceland. It will also shoot in 2017.

U S - b a s e d To m m y Harper, a long-time collaborator of JJ Abrams, produces alongside Truenorth’s Kristinn Thordarson and Leifur B Dagfinnsson.

The company’s next production to shoot will be thriller Mihkel, to be directed by Ari Alexander Ergis. The co-production

with Estonia and Norway will shoot later this year and tells the story of two immigrants in Iceland.

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson also produces.

“Our ambition is making commercial films and making more films in English, while still combining that Icelandic element. We want to reach a broad audience,” Thordarson told Screen.

Truenorth, a production services company that has worked on films including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has already released its first in-house production, Icelandic romantic comedy In Front Of Others. Media Luna handles sales and the film is on release in Iceland.

Genesius dives on Starfish

By Jeremy Kay

Debbie Gray and Julian Gleek’s London-based Genesius Pictures has acquired UK distribution rights and international sales rights to Starfish starring Joanne Froggatt and Tom Riley.

The Little Film Company is here in Cannes showing footage of the true story of

Tom Ray (Riley) and his wife Nicola (Froggatt), whose lives changed overnight when Tom contracted a rare and life-threatening illness that led to the loss of all four limbs and parts of his face. Writer-director Bill Clark based the script on interviews with the real-life couple.

Blue Fox horror finds home with Recreation, Level 33

By Jeremy Kay

Ariel Veneziano’s Recreation Media and Level 33 Entertainment have jointly acquired all international rights to two horror thrillers from Blue Fox Entertainment.

Robert Hamilton directed The Suffering, about a property appraiser

who starts to lose his mind when evaluating a rural estate owned by a recluse (Breaking Glass Pictures acquired US rights and will release in July); while Ayush Banker and Justin LaReau directed A Demon Within, a story of demonic possession in the late 19th century.

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The 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival (September 29-October 9) is to host Alejandro Jodorowsky (pictured) as its guest of honour, and will also welcome Noah director Darren Aronofsky. The festival will screen recent Icelandic hits including Rams, Sparrows and Virgin Mountain.

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Film Fest Gent’s Soundtrack Awards has ear for television

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Film Fest Gent’s World Soundtrack Awards will this year focus on music for TV. Here in Cannes, festival director Patrick Duynslaegher has confirmed that attendees at the festival, which runs October 11-21, will include David Arnold, Hans Richter, Jeff Russo and Jeff Beal.

The festival has also introduced a new prize for the best original score for a television series and miniseries.

Music from series such as Fargo, Homeland, House

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Of Cards, Mad Men and Sherlock will be performed at a concert by the Brussels Philharmonic and Flemish Radio Choir.

Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Revenant) will be in town to receive the festival’s main prize, the World Soundtrack lifetime achievement award.

Jury members judging best film will include UK novelist Jonathan Coe, Cyclo director Tran Anh Hung and US film-maker Mark Rappaport (Rock Hudson’s Home Movies).

latvia celebrates centennial Latvia is celebrating the country’s centennial in 2018 by funding a slate of 16 feature-length films.

With a total budget of $8.5m (€7.5m) from the National Film Centre of Latvia, an independent jury selected projects from 31 submissions in a bid to highlight a range of talent and genres.

The selected projects will go into production this year. » See ScreenDaily.com for the full list of titles.

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Na Hong Jin THE DISRUPTORS Nicholas Hamilton, Samantha Isler, Charlie Shotwell, Viggo Mortensen, Shree Crooks and Annalise Basso greet the press at the Captain Fantastic photocall in Cannes Hubert Boesl

Sevigny’s animal attraction Never work with animals or children is an oft-quoted adage in the film industry, and debut director Chloe Sevigny used to be a believer.

Speaking to Screen International ahead of the premiere of her short film Kitty — which is

one of three shorts closing Critics’ Week on May 20 — Sevigny recounted the challenges of working with feline movie stars.

“They are very expensive and you can never work with just one — we had two older cats and three kittens to rely on,” she says.

During filming, the production had a trainer who provides a range of ‘star cats’.

“She trained them for weeks in advance, we were so frightened how they might perform,” Sevigny recalls. Her fears were quickly allayed. “They turned up and they really churned it out.”

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Korean director Na Hong Jin (The Yellow Sea, The Chaser) is back in Cannes for the third time with the supernatural mystery thriller The Wailing (Gokseong), starring Kwak Do-won as a police officer trying to save his daughter from homicidal possession. Released locally on May 12, the film has clocked up more than 2.3 million admissions at the box office.

The film has its international premiere out of competition in Cannes today. The cast also features Hwang Jung-min.

How did you come up with the idea for The Wailing?

After The Yellow Sea, I lost two people very close to me and went to their funerals. It was the first time I lost anyone so dear to me.

I was very sad and cried a lot. And that’s what got me thinking about being in the position of a victim and focusing on that.

Are you interested in the occult?

Not especially, but I was curious about this different culture and wanted to explore its presence in daily life. Of course there are the old films everybody knows, made by great directors — like The Exorcist, The Shining, The Omen and Rosemary’s Baby — that I like and was no doubt influenced by. They’re like textbooks. But there hasn’t been much that’s been impressive since.

It seemed mostly like repetition.

It’s necessary to go back to them, but I wanted to put an Eastern and Korean twist on the canon.

Why set the film in the town of Gokseong?

It’s my grandmother’s home town and I spent a lot of time there when I was young. Gokseong is a place where Catholics who were persecuted in the North were smuggled down to, and finally were martyred there.

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who stars in Directors’ Fortnight selection Raman Raghav 2.0, has become something of a Cannes regular. The Indian actor has had seven films to date at the festival, including Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, which premiered in Critics’ Week in 2013.

“The film-makers who work with me say I’m a lucky charm for Cannes, I’m very proud of that,” says the actor. He is now looking to increase his presence in Western films, and has a small role in Dev Patel and Rooney Mara-starrer Lion, which filmed earlier this year.

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Personal Shopper Reviewed by Lee Marshall A teenager’s fascination with ouija boards and communication with the other side lurks just beneath the grown-up, arthouse surface of Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas’ second successive collaboration with Kristen Stewart after 2014’s Clouds Of Sils Maria. And it is Stewart’s committed account of an introverted woman’s attempt to find closure after her twin brother’s death that keeps this odd hybrid of ghost story, thriller, psychological drama and celebrity-culture satire from breaking up into its component parts.

In some ways, Personal Shopper feels like a Gallic cineaste’s attempt to recapture some of the freewheeling, kooky genre-drama of a 1980s Brian De Palma movie — there is more than an echo of Body Double — but what’s missing is the latter’s style and verve. The lack of glamour in Stewart’s introverted personal shopper character leaches into the visual style of a film that, with the exception of a couple of scenes set in a scary old house and a spoof period movie reconstruction, often feels flat and conventional.

This will not necessarily harm the commercial prospects of a film that hardly contains a scene where Stewart is not present. In fact, one might argue that now those teenybop Twihards are in their sophisticated twenties, an artsy Euro genre piece that swaps vampires for ectoplasm, and gothic garb for Chanel and Balenciaga is the perfect fit. Downbeat critical notices — presaged by

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105mins Director/screenplay Olivier Assayas Production company CG Cinéma Co-production Vortex Sutra, Sirena Films, Detail Films, Arte France Cinéma, Arte Deutschland/WDR International sales MK2 International, intlsales@mk2.com Producer Charles Gillibert Executive producer Sylvie Barthet Cinematography Yorick Le Saux Editor Marion Monnier Production designer Francois-Renaud Labarthe Main cast Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora Von Waldstätten

the loud boos at the Cannes press screening — may prove a stumbling block for older audiences.

Clouds Of Sils Maria casts a shadow over Personal Shopper. Not only are both works about the relationship between a young assistant, played in both cases by Stewart, and the cantankerous diva she serves, but it seems this latest was even inspired by an exchange in Sils Maria centring on whether fantasy, in cinema, can sometimes be more real than realism.

This time round, Stewart is Maureen, a Parisbased personal shopper for Kyra (Nora Von Waldstätten), a fashion-world celebrity. Maureen’s job takes her from boutique to atelier, where she knows all the staff and makes the call on which costly garments and accessories will catch the attention of her boss, of whom we see as little as Maureen does.

It is not as a personal shopper that we first meet Maureen, however. A friend drops her off in a big house somewhere in the Euro-woods, empty but for a few scraps of furniture. Here, in a sequence that provides a nicely understated but still scary take on a classic horror trope, she has some kind of encounter with a spirit presence.

This may or may not have something to do with her brother Lewis — a medium and cabinet maker — who recently died from a heart attack at the age of 27, and with who Maureen is desperate to connect, so she can — yes — move on.

It turns out the house belonged to Lewis, whose girlfriend Lara (Sigrid Bouaziz) has

rather quickly found herself a new flame. Maureen herself has a thing going with IT guy Gary (Ty Olwin), seen only as a pixelated Skype face calling from work in Oman, while Kyra has just dumped her fashion-editor love interest, the smooth but creepy Ingo (Lars Eidinger).

Shoehorned into the action are what feel like two undigested chunks of Assayas’ research into spiritualism, one regarding Victor Hugo’s dalliance with the craze around 1853, and the other involving Hilma af Klint, a Swedish artistmedium, who produced canvases she claimed were painted not by her but through her. We know this because Maureen Googles her and, in fact, we spend much of the time looking at her smartphone, especially during a shopping trip to London as she ill-advisedly begins an initially tense but ultimately wearing SMS conversation with a mysterious text stalker.

That all of the film’s women are never in the same space as their current or former lovers is a thematic trill that could, after a few more rewrites, have become a long-held chord, like the ones in the melancholic Jordi Savall Renaissance viol music that provides much of the film’s tasty soundtrack. But, ultimately, all we have to hold on to in a story that lurches inexorably into CGI absurdity is our emotional connection with Stewart’s lost, lonely character.

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Hands Of Stone Reviewed by Tim Grierson Chronicling the life of charismatic Panamanian boxing champion Roberto Duran, Hands Of Stone tests how far a film can go solely on heart, and in this case, it turns out to be just enough to overcome biopic conventionality. Venezuelan writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz aims for a rousing, crowd-pleasing drama, and he is assisted by Edgar Ramirez’s most impassioned performance since Carlos and, as Duran’s elderly trainer, Robert De Niro showing more fire than he has in far too long. The uneven, overlong Hands Of Stone will not inspire anyone to revise their list of the best boxing films of all-time, but it is a suitably impactful entertainment.

Screening here out of competition, this Weinstein offering could piggyback off the success of last year’s Creed, and will certainly appeal to fight fans who remember Duran’s heyday. As for De Niro, his commercial clout lately is tied to films in which he is hanging out with the Fockers, but moderate theatrical grosses could be supplemented by ancillary dollars from viewers who conclude they can watch Hands Of Stone from the comfort of home.

Ramirez plays Duran, showing how the

ouT oF CoMPETITIon Pan-US. 2016. 116mins Director/screenplay Jonathan Jakubowicz Production companies The Weinstein Company, Fuego Films, Vertical Media, Panama Film Commission, Epicentral Studios International sales The Weinstein Company, international@ weinsteinco.com Producers Jay Weisleder, Carlos Garcia de Paredes, Claudine Jakubowicz, Jonathan Jakubowicz Cinematography Miguel Ioan Littin Production design Tomas Voth Music Angelo Milli Main cast Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro, Usher Raymond

fighter evolved from a volatile young man into a disciplined boxer thanks to the tutelage of US trainer Ray Arcel (De Niro), who is close to retirement before taking a chance on the kid.

We see Duran win the welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard (pop star Usher Raymond) in 1980 but then face ignominy after he quits in the ring during their much-hyped rematch.

Jakubowicz (Secuestro Express) does not bring much that’s fresh to the biopic or the boxing drama, instead focusing his energies on portraying Duran as a whirlwind whose meteoric rise made him a folk hero in Panama, which saw his bouts with the US champ Leonard as a metaphor for the nation’s resentment at being controlled by the superpower. Though overdone at times, the film’s connecting of Duran’s struggle with that of his homeland gives this authorised dramatisation a sturdy poignancy, and it is to Jakubowicz’s credit that he even spends a little time fleshing out the back stories of Arcel and Leonard so that we come to understand these men better, too.

Blessedly, De Niro pulls back on the actorly tics that have plagued many of his recent dramatic turns, playing Arcel as an ageing boxing lifer who believes in Duran and wants to see him succeed. It is a relatively subdued perfor-

mance, and although the character is not richly detailed, De Niro gives him a punchy grittiness.

Even those not familiar with Duran’s career will be able to predict the arc of Hands Of Stone’s pedestrian rise-then-fall-then-rise-again narrative, which no amount of electrifying boxing sequences can surmount. Still, Ramirez displays the star power that has too often been misdirected since he broke through with Carlos six years ago. He has seemed muted in Hollywood films such as Joy and Deliver Us From Evil, but here he gets to play a shameless, secretly soulful showboat, which allows him to utilise all his animal magnetism and coiled ferocity.

in modern Brazil and a warm and perceptive study of the dynamics within an extended family. Sales should be strong and festival interest seems assured.

The device of the unscrupulous property developer is a timely theme, both in Brazil and elsewhere in the world. Clara comes from privilege — the contested apartment, named Aquarius, is on the upscale Avenida Boa Viagem — she is positioned as both a maverick rebel standing up against ‘the man’ and a stubborn old woman who is forcing the other residents to miss out on their potential windfall.

A three-chapter structure divides the story into segments dealing with Clara’s Hair, Clara’s Love and Clara’s Cancer. We are introduced to her as a younger woman, in 1980. She has recently survived cancer and is hosting a birthday party for her beloved aunt. Winding forward to the present day, it is not hard to see the parallels between Clara as an older woman and the forthright aunt she loved. Filho makes minimal use of flashbacks, but those he does allow give a playful sense of the accumulated history of the building.

As a music writer, Clara has a certain amount of fame. There is one lovely sequence early on, in which she delivers a fascinating anecdote to

illustrate her love of vinyl to a cub journalist who is doggedly obsessed with MP3s. And music is crucial in the film — Clara’s tastes are eclectic, ranging from Queen’s ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ to the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Favouring an unhurried pace, Filho takes the time to let us get to know Clara. And while the moments of drama are small and intimate, the effect is engrossing. The joy of this character is the fact she constantly surprises — her climactic confrontation features possibly the best use of insects at Cannes 2016 so far.

Aquarius Reviewed by Wendy Ide CoMPETITIon

A magnetic central performance from Sonia Braga is the driving force in a relatively conventional but compelling drama from Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho. This second fiction feature (he also made a full-length documentary, Critico) follows his acclaimed debut, Neighboring Sounds. But while it shares a setting — both films take place in the city of Recife in Brazil — and a fascination with the relationships between residents and the buildings in which they live, this film lacks some of the formal rigour that made his debut so arresting.

But this hardly matters, with force-of-nature Braga giving one of the most extraordinary performances of her career.

Her wonderful creation, the spirited 65-yearold former music journalist Clara, is a joy to behold. And the lack of complex, sexual leading roles for women over 50 is a huge selling point for this portrait of a prickly, pot-smoking thorn in the side of a bullying property development company. The film is ostensibly about Clara and her dogged refusal to sell her apartment, even though she is the last inhabitant remaining of the block. But this serves as a jumpingoff point for a commentary on social divisions

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A Journey Through French Cinema Reviewed by Allan Hunter

Hell Or High Water Reviewed by Charles Gant Nine films into his all-over-the-map 14-year movie career, David Mackenzie delivers what is certainly his most commercially appealing entry so far, and one of his most fully achieved. Building momentum from the acclaimed 2013 UK prison drama Starred Up, Hell Or High Water is also his most genre-inflected effort, working from an expertly honed screenplay by Sicario scribe Taylor Sheridan. Throw in a tangy cast toplined by Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and the UK director looks set to finally make good on his long-simmering, by turns warming and cooling, commercial promise.

Pine and Foster play west Texan siblings Toby and Tanner Howard. Elder brother Tanner (Foster) is an unrepentant hell raiser who has somehow managed to stay out of jail for a year. Law-abiding Toby (Pine) is estranged from his wife and two teen sons, embarrassed to visit them as he is way behind on his child support.

But Toby’s biggest problem is that the bank is foreclosing on a mortgage raised against the family ranch. He must raise cash quickly, or lose it all. That’s already getting ahead of ourselves. The film plunges us in just as the pair are committing their first bank robbery where, with smart restraint, they take only low-value bills and no bundles. They plan in rapid succession to hit all the smaller branches of the Texas Midland Bank — which happens to be the predatory lender closing in on the family property.

From the ‘Closing Down’ and ‘Debt Relief ’ signs that pepper the sun-bleached landscape, to the film’s steady-gazed depiction of hard-scrabble communities, Hell Or High Water announces its intention to elevate its themes beyond the rigid confines of the crime genre.

But all that is just bonus texture; the film’s ace card is its intertwining of not one but two mismatched buddy relationships.

As entertaining as the bank-robbing brothers often are, they are eclipsed by the men on their tail: nearretirement Texan Ranger Marcus Hamilton (Bridges) and his half-Comanche, half-Mexican partner Alberto (Twilight franchise’s Gil Birmingham). Whether ribbing Alberto for his Catholic faith, Native American ancestors or presumed preference for effete soccer over good ol’ American Football, Bridges tosses off the Sheridanscripted zingers, enriched with a dry Texan twang.

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Any cineaste worth their salt will want to devour Bertrand Tavernier’s A Journey Through French Cinema. It is a love letter straight from the heart to the films, actors, directors, composers, writers and cinematographers who have meant so much to him, and who played such a significant role in French film history. Anyone who cannot distinguish between Jeanne Moreau and Yolande Moreau, or cannot tell their Duvivier from their Deneuve, might regard it as the best film school class they could ever attend. Even those who think they know a good deal about French cinema will find it ventures far beyond Renoir, Godard and Varda.

Every frame is a reflection of Tavernier’s passion, enthusiasm and generous spirit. It is destined to be a constant festival presence over the coming months, with a long shelf life in ancillary markets as it becomes a library fixture for arts channels and film buffs alike.

Tavernier is not only one of the great French filmmakers but he has been a witness to history. This is the man who worked as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville, served as a press agent on Jean-Luc Godard films, chatted with Jean Gabin and interviewed Jean Renoir. It is his personal connections and insider knowledge that give the documentary that extra dimension.

Following on from the model of Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy (2001), the affable Tavernier talks directly to the camera, weaving together elements of personal memoir and film history. Tavernier’s total recall of films and ability to dissect individual scenes amounts to a masterclass in framing a shot, editing, the use of music or the movement of characters within the frame.

Augmenting Tavernier’s commentary is rare footage from behind the scenes of some films and the odd little bonus, like the audio footage of a ferocious argument between Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Pierre Melville during the shooting of Le Doulos (1963) when a clearly exasperated star berates his director for having little notion of punctuality or consideration for his colleagues.

Indeed the film, made with the “complicity of Thierry Frémaux”, makes lavish use of such expertly chosen clips and is also interwoven with a treasure trove of old interviews featuring Renoir, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Michel Deville, Claude Chabrol and many others.

CAnneS ClASSICS Fr. 2016. 190mins Director Bertrand Tavernier Production company little Bear Productions, Gaumont, Pathé International sales Gaumont, afalampin@ gaumont.fr Producer Frédéric Bourboulon Screenplay Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Ollélaprune, Stéphane lerouge Cinematography Jérome Alméras Editor Guy lecorne Music Bruno Coulais

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Raman Raghav 2.0 Reviewed by Wendy Ide

Mimosas Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Adventurous viewers are invited to take the road less travelled, and then some, in Mimosas, an enigmatic mountain odyssey by Morocco-based Spanish director Oliver Laxe.

Following his 2010 documentary You Are All Captains, about making a film with children in Tangiers, Laxe turns further south in Morocco, and towards fiction, albeit with a decided flavour of ethnographic documentary.

This mystically inflected travelogue will be mesmerising for some, perplexing for others, but will have a strong pull for aficionados of Arab-themed drama (such as the recent Oscar-nominated Theeb) as well as adepts of such oblique ‘slow cinema’ peregrinations as Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja. It should certainly appeal to adventurous niche distributors and the festival circuit will accommodate it warmly, not least where there is an element of art-world crossover.

The art aspect comes to mind partly because Mimosas is, to all intents and purposes, the film seen being shot in UK artist/director Ben Rivers’ recent feature The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (footage from which also appears here) and the accompanying Artangel installation, part of which comprised a sort of ‘Making of Mimosas’. Laxe himself was the lead in The Sky Trembles…, but, despite spiritual and aesthetic affinities with Rivers’ work, Mimosas is very much its own film.

A quest narrative influenced by the tradition of Sufi storytelling, Mimosas has been described by Laxe as being about faith rather than religion. The action begins in a Moroccan city, where a man recruits a workforce to drive a fleet of taxis across the desert. The caravan is headed by an elderly sheikh who wishes to be buried close to his loved ones in a place called Sijilmasa, but two dissenters in his retinue have other plans.

Mimosas is divided into a prelude and three chapters, but the story does not go in a linear direction any more than the trajectory taken by its characters; section three in particular offers some disorienting jumps in space and time. This is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters often merging into the vastness of a profoundly inhospitable landscape. The cast makes striking use of non-professionals and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a story. In particular, Shakib Ben Omar’s wise fool/holy innocent has a mesmerising otherworldly presence, with an intense gaze and eccentric delivery.

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93mins Director oliver Laxe Production companies Zeitun Films, La Prod, Rouge International International sales Luxbox, fiorella@ luxboxfilms.com Producers Felipe Lage Coro, Lamia Chraibi, nadia turincev, Julie gayet Screenplay olivier Laxe, Santiago Fillol Cinematography Mauro herce Editor Cristobal Fernandez Music Vicente Vazquez Main cast Ahmed hammoud, Shakib Ben omar, Said Aagli, Ikram Anzouli

Something of a powerhouse in Indian independent cinema, Anurag Kashyap has made a name for himself with stylish, frequently visceral Desi reimaginings of wellworn genres. The sprawling epic Gangs Of Wasseypur took the Mafia saga and transposed it to rural Bihar. And now Raman Raghav 2.0 takes the cop/serial killer picture and sets it against the backdrop of Mumbai.

It is a propulsive and bloodthirsty thriller with a brash use of music and a jangling, adrenalised energy that rarely flags. It should connect with a young Indian audience, both domestically and within the wider diaspora, looking for a hip, confrontational alternative to mainstream Hindi cinema. And the slick production values and deadly charisma of Kashyap regular Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a lead role should make this a popular fixture on the festival circuit, where it would be well-suited to the Midnight slot. Broader theatrical prospects outside India are less certain, as the film does not bring much that is novel to the serial killer genre aside from the setting.

Raman Raghav — or ‘Psycho Raman’ — was a serial killer who was active during the 1960s and claimed to hear messages from God telling him to kill. But, as we are informed in a pre-titles sequence, this film is not about him. Instead, it focuses on a copycat killer who takes Raman Raghav as his inspiration and is driven by the connection he feels to police chief Raghavan (Vicky Kaushal), the morally bankrupt yin to his murderous yang.

The film opens with a prologue, set in January 2013.

Raman (Siddiqui) has just committed his first murder — a hammer attack on a drug dealer who just happens to supply Raghavan. When the police chief stumbles onto the scene, he coolly clobbers a stray junkie and the hiding Raman feels a kinship with the compromised law man.

What the film lacks is the sense of a Manhunter-style battle of wits. Raman is hardly a criminal mastermind.

He is hiding in plain sight, usually with a blood-caked tyre iron to hand. He is a lunatic blowhard who brags about his crimes to all and sundry. Raghavan, meanwhile, makes Harvey Keitel’s Bad Lieutenant look positively Pollyanna by comparison. Neither character is developed into much more than an assortment of base urges, which is one of the reasons that, bracing fun as it is to watch, the film is rather an empty thrill.

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VIRTUAL REALITY IN FOCUS

Cannes’ VR invasion Virtual-reality looks set to be the next big thing in film-making. The programming and panels at the Marché’s annual NEXT event offered a glimpse of things to come. Tiffany Pritchard reports

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irtual reality (VR) invaded the Marché du Film in its third instalment of NEXT. Focused on the future of cinema, the section has featured a jam-packed schedule of VR programming in an outdoor patio space located at the entrance of the International Village, as well as select locations around the Croisette.

NEXT has been brought to life thanks in part to consultant Michel Reilhac, former head of acquisitions at Arte, who now runs VR company Mélange. Reilhac’s programming brought together a curated selection of panels, an outdoor cinema and installations allowing users to move beyond the traditional headsets and into a more interactive space.

“I am very pleased with the footfall at this year’s event,” Reilhac told Screen International. “It’s too soon to give specific numbers, but I can say the VR cinema is full each day, and tickets are selling out for the game experiences. It shows the film industry is open to the idea of alternative storytelling. VR is not here to take the place of film; it is another interactive medium that allows filmmakers to tell different kinds of stories.”

Attracting audiences A selection of panels kicked off the event (which runs until tomorrow) with topics ranging from monetisation and the future of VR to insights into the making of the films. The overall consensus was that it is too soon to place guidelines around monetisation, with the focus instead on enticing both film-makers and audiences. “At this stage, we need to focus on directing audiences to VR — to let them see for themselves just how imaginative and innovative immersive storytelling can be,” said Reilhac.

In the ‘VR and Cinemas: opportunities for monetisation’ panel, moderInternational US ated by Screen International’s editor Jeremy Kay, Jip Samhoud of The VR Cinema stated that audience engagement would ultimately drive monetisation. “We don’t want to devalue content. It’s simple — the more interesting content that is produced, the more viewers will want to pay,” said

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Samhoud, who currently charges a typical cinema ticket fee for his VR Cinemas in Berlin and Amsterdam.

Oculus Story Studios presented its 20-minute film Allumette in a panel, revealing how it shot natively in VR using a bespoke VR creation tool. “This allows us to use pre-visualisation, storyboard and layout techniques,” said Eugene Chung, CEO of Penrose Studios and Oculus’s head of film and media.

“Different from many other VR films, we work entirely in CG so we avoid the limitations based in 360-degree film-making. And we’re able to better communicate the emotions of the characters.”

Other film-makers spoke out about the challenges of stitching and 360-degree filming, concluding that the rapid progression of the field meant exploration was key.

“Don’t be afraid — try anything,” said Tanna Frederick, co-director ( with Randal Kleiser (Grease) on VR series Defrost.

Attendees could be seen wearing an array of headsets that transported them into unknown spaces. VRWERX demoed its franchise game Para(Left) Real Virtuality’s motion-capture system is put through its paces

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normal Activity, an interactive experience in which users navigate their way around a darkened house. “There is not a better genre than horror for VR. People want to escape, and to be scared. And this is making people jump,” said VRWERX’s comanaging partner Alex Barder.

Previously, Barder was CEO of Strategic Film Partners, where he oversaw global film distribution and finance for studio films. “We know all about film distribution and sales. We’re not trying to take away work from the film industry. This is a brand-new platform. And it’s exciting to see so many people interested here in Cannes.” The full version of Paranormal Activity has up to six hours of gameplay, and will be available this summer on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Sony PlayStation.

As part of the Swiss Digital showcase, creators Max Rheiner and Michel Zei brought their Sundance hit Birdly to NEXT, allowing participants to fly through the skies via a full-body contraption. Also in the Swiss showcase, Real Virtuality was presented with a larger

set-up where users could interact with physical objects and meet other people via a motion-capture system.

Inside the Majestic Barriere hotel, Starbreeze previewed its zombie-fighting game The Walking Dead. Based on the television series, users sit in a wheelchair and are given a hand-held gun to shoot zombies. Further down the Croisette, Eric Darnell presented Invasion!, in which participants must fend off aliens.

Darnell previously co-directed Antz and the Madagascar franchise. Ethan Hawke provides the voiceover.

Shared experience Countries including Denmark, France and Switzerland presented VR films in the outdoor screening space. Users watched in tandem via headsets to create a shared cinematic experience. After the screenings, panels were held with the films’ directors. “We want to create a space where film professionals can both experience and discuss these new experiences.

While VR is not officially part of the competition line-up yet, we hope in the future it will have its own section,” said Reilhac.

He continued by revealing a featurelength VR film was in the works for an end-of-2016 release. “Just watch what happens — Samsung Gear, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Sony PlayStation will all have their headsets available to consumers and a feature-length film is due for s release. VR is going to get big.” ■

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(France) 110mins.

Dir: Paul Vecchiali.

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric and Edith Scob.

A father and son have a tense relationship. The lazy son misspent his youth. Now, however, he is trying to seek his own way in life. He will understand too late the affection that links him to his father.

08:30 THE UNKNOWN GIRL

(Belgium) 113mins.

Dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Cast: Adele Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jeremie Regnier, Louka Minnella.

One evening, after closing her practice for the day, Jenny, a young doctor, hears the doorbell ring but doesn’t answer it. The next day, the police inform her that an unidentified young woman has been found dead close by.

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TRAMONTANE

(France) 105mins. Dir: Vatche Boulghourjian.

Cast: Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kassar, Michel Adabashi, Toufic Barakat.

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

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08:45 TWO LOVERS AND A BEAR

(Canada) 97mins.

Dir: Kim Nguyen.

Cast: Dane Dehaan, Tatiana Maslany.

Two young adults looking for love not only have to deal with the harsh climate but their own inner demons.

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Cast: Toki Pilioko, Laurent Pakihivatau, Iliana Zabeth.

Soane, a young man of Wallisian origin from New Caledonia, defies his father’s authority to play Zahn, Ann Dowd.

In the forests of the Pacific northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the real world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.

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Dir: Behnam Behzadi.

Cast: Sahar Dowlatshahi, Ali Mosaffa, Alireza Aghakhani, Setareh Pesyani, Roya Javidnia, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Setareh Hosseini, Toufan Mehrdadian, Mojtaba Nam Nabat, Payam Yazdani.

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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 for success.

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Tehran’s air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30-something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar’s brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life, and pursuing a potential love interest. She is the youngest and has always obeyed their orders, but this time she must stand up for herself.

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Dir: Pedro Almodovar.

Cast: Emma Suarez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta, Dario Grandinetti, Michelle Jenner, Pilar Castro, Nathalie Poza, Susi Sanchez, Joaquin Notario.

Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia.

They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia’s father and Julieta’s husband. But at times grief doesn’t bring people closer, it drives them apart. When Antia turns 18 she abandons her mother, without a word of explanation. Julieta looks for her in every possible way, but all she discovers is how little she knows of her daughter. ‘Julieta’ is about a mother’s struggle to survive uncertainty.

It is also about fate, guilt complexes and that unfathomable mystery that leads us to abandon the people we love, erasing them from our lives as if they had never meant anything, as if they had never existed.

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THE WAILING

(South Korea) 156mins.

Dir: Na Hong Jin. Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woohee, Jun Kunimura.

An old stranger appears in a peaceful rural village but no one knows when or why.

As mysterious rumours begin to spread about this man, the villagers drop dead one by one. They grotesquely kill each other for inexplicable reasons.

The village is swept by turmoil and the stranger is the subject of suspicion.

Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Press, ticket required

11:45 A YELLOW BIRD

(Singapore) 112mins.

Dir: K Rajagopal. Cast: Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Huang Lu, Seema Biswas, Udaya Soundari.

Siva, a Singaporean Indian man released from jail, begins a quest to locate his ex-wife and daughter. How far can he go to redeem himself from guilt?

Critics’ Week Miramar

MERCENARY See box, above

(Japan) 118mins.

Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Kiki Kilin, Taiyo Yoshizawa.

Multi-award-winning and critically lauded director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with a sensitive and powerful story of family ties remade.

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15:00 SWEET AND SOUR (DRAGEES AU POIVRE)

(France) 93mins. Dir: Jacques Baratier. Cast: Guy Bedos, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francis Blanche, Jean-Marc Bory, Claude Brasseur, Francoise Brion.

Gerard, “a well-mannered young man”, dreams of becoming an actor.

To achieve his dream, he follows his sister Frederique, who is infatuated with “cinémavérité”.

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FRENCH TOUR (TOUR DE FRANCE)

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

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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.

after 12 years of absence to announce his impending death to his family. A reunion filled with doubts and tensions ensues.

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SORCERER

(USA) 120mins.

Dir: William Friedkin.

Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal.

Existential thriller: four misfits agree to a job transporting explosives across rural South America.

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16:00 MA’ ROSA

THE WAILING

(Philippines) 110mins.

Dir: Brillante Mendoza.

Cast: Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz.

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighbourhood in Manila where everybody likes her.

To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested.

Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.

(South Korea) 156mins.

Dir: Na Hong Jin. Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Ticket required

16:45 THE RED TURTLE

(France) 80mins. Dir: Michael Dudok De Wit, Pascale Ferran.

A man marooned on a desert island tries to escape, until one day he encounters a strange turtle that will change his life.

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17:00 A YELLOW BIRD

(Singapore) 112mins.

Dir: K Rajagopal. Cast: Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Huang Lu, Seema Biswas, Udaya Soundari.

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(France) 102mins.

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

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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17:45 TWO LOVERS AND A BEAR

(Canada) 97mins.

Dir: Kim Nguyen.

Cast: Dane Dehaan, Tatiana Maslany.

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19:00 IT’S JUST THE END OF THE WORLD

(Canada) 97mins. Dir:

Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a fivestar resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it is not that easy to forget the war and leave behind the violence.

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Xavier Dolan. Cast: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard.

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after 12 years to announce his impending death. A reunion filled with doubts and tensions ensues.

Competition Theatre Claude Debussy Press

THE UNKNOWN GIRL

(Belgium) 113mins. Dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Cast: Adele Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jeremie Regnier, Louka Minnella.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere Ticket required

19:15 LE CANCRE

(France) 110mins. Dir: Paul Vecchiali. Cast:

Paul Vecchiali, Catherine Deneuve, Pascal Cervo, Mathieu Amalric, Annie Cordy.

Out of Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

19:30 BERNADETTE LAFONT, AND GOD CREATED THE FREE WOMAN

(France) 65mins.

Dir: Esther Hoffenberg.

Cast: Bernadette Lafont.

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French cinema’s most atypical actress.

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20:30 MERCENARY

(France) 103mins.

Dir: Sacha Wolff.

Cast: Toki Pilioko, Laurent Pakihivatau, Iliana Zabeth.

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21:00 VALLEY OF PEACE

(Slovenia) 88mins.

Dir: France Stiglic.

Cast: John Kitzmiller, Evelyne Wohlfeiler, Tugo Stiglic.

The story of two war orphans, a German girl named Lottie and a Slovenian boy named

Marko, who escape from a town which has been bombed, in search of “a valley where there is no war”, as the four-yearold girl was told by her grandmother. Marko, who is a few years older, thinks that this is probably the place where he used to go for holidays at his uncle’s and so they bravely set off, retreating from the German soldiers.

Jim, a black American pilot who parachuted from a plane that had been shot down, joins them at the river. They continue the journey together and finally reach the place of peace the boy knows. However, “the valley of peace” is attacked by the Germans and the pilot is killed.

The children run away in despair and continue their search.

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21:30 IT’S JUST THE END OF THE WORLD

(Canada) 97mins.

Dir: Xavier Dolan.

Cast: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard.

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home

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21:45 AQUARIUS

(France) 140mins.

Dir: Kleber Mendonca Filho. Cast: Sonia Braga, Irandhir Santos.

Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius. All the neighbouring apartments have already been acquired by a company that has other plans for the plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death, and engages in a cold war of sorts with the company, a confrontation which is both mysterious, frightening and nervewracking. This tension both disturbs Clara and gives her an edge in her daily routine. It also gets her thinking about her loved ones, her past and her future.

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deteriorates into a settling of old scores.

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(Mexico) 105mins.

Cinephil. Dir: Tatiana Huezo.

The emotional journeys of two women victimised by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.

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09:45 LIKE CRAZY

22:00 THE WAILING

(South Korea) 156mins.

Dir: Na Hong Jin. Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woohee, Jun Kunimura.

An old stranger appears in a peaceful rural village, but no one knows when or why. As mysterious

22:00 A YELLOW BIRD

(Singapore) 112mins.

Dir: K Rajagopal. Cast: Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Huang Lu, Seema Biswas, Udaya Soundari.

Siva, a Singaporean Indian man released from jail, begins a quest to locate his ex-wife and daughter. How far can he go to redeem himself from guilt?

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22:15 AFTER THE STORM

(Japan) 118mins. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Kiki Kilin, Taiyo Yoshizawa.

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rumours begin to spread about this man, the villagers drop dead one by one. They grotesquely kill each other for inexplicable reasons. The village is swept by turmoil and the stranger is the subject of suspicion.

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Market screenings

09:30 HAPPINESS IS A FOURLETTER WORD

(South Africa) 90mins.

National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa. Dir: Thabang Moleya. Cast: Khanyi Mbau, Mmabatho Montsho, Renate Stuurman.

Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the new South African dream life within her grasp: black female partner in a major firm, an engagement, the perfect house — but it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly

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makes her happy and then fight to get it.

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THE NORTHLANDER

(Canada) 97mins.

Manifold Pictures.

Dir: Benjamin Ross Hayden. Cast: Corey Sevier, Roseanne Supernault, Michelle Thrush, Nathaniel Arcand.

In the year 2961, a time “after humanity” that has seen nature recover the land, a violent hunter named Cygnus is given a quest to defend his estranged tribe from a murderous band of Heretics who have arrived in the territory.

about the events of 9/11. Lary tries to calm the debate but opinions are so divided not even the priest’s flying visit succeeds in reconciling the two camps. Just when things seem to be settling down, the arrival of an uninvited guest throws the commemoration into turmoil, which

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open-air nuthouse.

(Italy) 116mins. BAC Films. Dir: Paolo Virzi.

Cast: Valeria BruniTedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti.

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

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

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

JACO

(US) 90mins. Submarine Entertainment. Dir: Stephen Kijak, Paul Marchand. Cast: Robert Trujillo, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius.

Award-winning documentary film about famed bass guitar player Jaco Pastorius. He is generally regarded as one of the most influential and important bass players in music history, and is often described as “the Jimi Hendrix of bass”. ‘Jaco’ explores the musician’s full history, from growing up in 1950s South Florida, to his meteoric rise to fame in legendary jazz-fusion group Weather Report, to his time with Joni Mitchell, to his own ground-breaking career as bandleader, and ultimately to his tragic demise at the age of 35.

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LISTEN

(Lebanon) 101mins.

Fondation Liban Cinema.

Dir: Philippe Aractingi.

Cast: Hadi Abou Ayash, Ruba Zaarour, Yara Bou Nassar.

Joud, a sound engineer,

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SIERANEVADA

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

Cast: Mimi Branescu, Judith State, Tatiana Lekel.

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

Market 09:30 MOLLY MONSTER

(Germany) 70mins. Global Screen.

Dir: Ted Sieger, Michael Ekblad, Matthias Bruhn.

Molly is a deeply loved monster onlychild. But when Mama gives birth to an egg, Molly sets out on a journey to find her new place in the family.

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Cast: Alejandro Guerrero S, Paco Rueda, Fabrizio Santini, Jose Carlos Rodriguez, Arcelia Ramirez, Daniel Jimenez Cacho.

An offbeat coming-of-age film about three teenage friends confronting their fear to grow up as they pursue a mission: to find some lost keys in a pile of dead leaves.

leaps towards his loved one Rana to bring her back after months of absence by pulling her into his universe of sound.

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11:30 AFTER LOVE

(France) 98mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Cast: Berenice Bejo, Cedric Kahn.

After 10 years of living together, Marie and Boris have decided to get a divorce. Marie is going to buy the apartment in which they live with their two daughters. But it was Boris who had completely renovated it, and since he cannot afford to find another place to live, they must share it. When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up.

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BEHIND ‘THE COVE’

(Japan) 105mins.

Metropolitan Pictures Entertainment, Inc. Dir: Keiko Yagi. Cast: Louise Psihoyos, Ric O’Barry, Joji Morishita, Hideki Moronuki, David Hance.

This film tries to rebut the Academy Award-winning documentary film ‘The Cove’ on dolphin hunting in Japan.

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THE CREATIVE MIND SHORTS

110mins. The Creative Mind Group.

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EXIL

(Cambodia) 77mins.

Films Distribution.

Dir: Rithy Panh.

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

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FRENCH TOUR (TOUR DE FRANCE)

(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

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(UK) 97mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Omer Fast. Cast: Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers, Danny Webb, Nicholas Farrell, Arsher Ali.

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.

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GO HOME

(France) 98mins. Wide.

Dir: Jihane Chouaib.

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Maximilien Seweryn, Francois Nour.

Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realises she’s a foreigner in her own country. But there’s still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the

PERICLES THE BLACK

A young man tries to understand himself after losing his memory in an accident, by obsessively delving into his fragmented past until he’s completely swallowed by it.

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civil war. Something happened in this house.

Something violent. The story of a young woman searching for the truth and discovering herself.

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GRIFFITH FILM SCHOOL 2016 SHOWCASE

(Italy) 106mins.

Rai Com. Dir: Stefano Mordini. Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Marina Fois, Gigio Morra, Valentina Acca, Maria Luisa Santella, Lucia Ragni.

‘Pericles’ is a film noir, a throwback to American movies of the 1940s, with a tight rhythm and a plot that never misses a beat. The protagonist of the story, Pericles, works for an underworld boss and during one of his nomerous assignments he makes a serious mistake which damages another powerful boss.

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110mins. Griffith Film School.

REMAINDER

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MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE

RESURRECTION

(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.

(Mexico) 93mins. Mexican Film Institute (Imcine).

Dir: Eugenio Polgovsky.

At the foot of the waterfall once known as the Mexican Niagra, the people of El Salto dream only of crystalline waters.

Fish, colourful birds and swimming in the river are now just memories for the fishermen who lost their world when the train and industry arrived.

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NOT SHORT ON TALENT

Beta Cinema. Dir: Laura Lackmann. Cast: Claudia Eisinger, Katja Riemann, Barbara Schone.

It’s no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she opts for radical change and goes into therapy. Although her therapist advises her to keep calm, Karo throws herself into it.

She wants to be a “super patient”, catch up on the mourning she hasn’t done, put her mother on the spot and break up with her boyfriend Philipp.

But it’s all too much in one go, her witty facade breaks and she slides into a depressive mood, to the extent neither her closest confidant Max nor her grandmother Bille can help her. It is only when her mother takes Karo in that she slowly pulls herself together again. She now declares war on her crisis, because ‘depression is a fucking event’.

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LEAF BLOWER

110mins. Telefilm Canada.

TOO HARD TO HANDLE

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(Germany) 112mins.

(Mexico) 96mins.

Habanero. Dir: Alejandro Iglesias Mendizabal.

(US) 100mins. K5 Media Group Gmbh. 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 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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SA SHOWCASE

(South Africa) 45mins.

National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa.

A show reel of various South African films and documentaries on offer.

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13:30 ALMOST PARIS

93mins. Odin’s Eye Entertainment.

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ANIMATION DAY IN CANNES DISCOVERIES

(UAE) 110mins. Animaze — Montreal International Animation Film Festival.

Dir: Ayman Jamal, Mohammad Hamedani, Georges Snow, Varsha Bansal, Kamal Bansal.

Celebrating animation in Cannes.

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THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY

(US) 100mins. 2 Bulls On The Hill Productions.

Dir: Greg Palast.

Cast: Willie Nelson, Ice T, Greg Palast.

Investigative journalist Greg Palast goes on the attack looking into voteswiping schemes and the sugar-daddies who fund »

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them. He’s joined by some of his celebrity fans such as Willie Nelson, Ice T and many others.

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FADO

(Germany) 100mins.

Wide. Dir: Jonas Rothlaender. Cast: Golo Euler, Louise Heyer, Albano Jeronimo, Pirjo Lonka.

Young doctor Fabian travels to Lisbon to win back his ex-girlfriend Doro. While the two of them are gradually getting closer again they are being haunted by their fears. Fabian’s jealousy once again puts their relationship to the test.

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TAGORE’S NATIR PUJA — THE COURT DANCER

(India) 90mins. Greta Joanne Entertainment.

Dir: Professor Karl Bardosh. Cast: Sutapa Awon Pradhan, Soumak Bhattacharyya, Professor Karl Bardosh.

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Market 13:30 ONE BREATH

(Germany) 96mins. Arri Media International.

Dir: Christian Zubert.

Cast: Jordis Triebel, Chara Mata Giannatou, Benjamin Sadler.

A loving mother searching for her child.

A pregnant woman escaping from her responsibility. Two women who couldn’t be more different will be pushed to their limits of humanity. Connected by one breath, which decides everything.

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VAKRATUNDA MAHAKAAYA

(India) 89mins.

Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation Ltd. Dir: Punarvasu Naik. Cast: Usha Nadkarni, Vijay Maurya, Murari Kumar, Naman Jain, Nachiket Purnapatre, Jayant Sawarkar.

Comedy thriller about an attempted terrorist attack in Mumbai during the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.

Depardieu, Swann Arlaud, Audrey Bonnet.

A hunter goes for a walk in the woods with his dog and his rifle. A few hours later, lost in the forest, he experiences strange encounters.

110mins. Adler And Associates Entertainment.

Dir: Adam Tsuei. Cast: Simon Yam, Kang-Sheng Lee. The landlord of a building full of cameras spends his days spying on his tenants.

He is fascinated by their mundane and secret lives.

And when a young woman asks him to be more than solely a witness, he finally decides to take control and free the tenants from their own lives.

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KEEPER OF THE REALM

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S IS FOR STANLEY

(Italy) 67mins. The Open Reel. Dir: Samuele Sestieri, Olmo Amato.

Cast: Freya Roberts, Bengt Roberts, Olmo Amato, Samuele Sestieri.

In a world that has been abandoned by humans, a mechanical monk follows a strange little red man.

(Italy) 78mins. Rai Com. Dir: Alex Infascelli. Cast: Emilio D’Alessandro.

The story of Emilio D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick’s personal driver.

A friendship that lasted through 30 years, helped create four cinema masterpieces and brought together two apparently opposite people.

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THE TENANTS DOWNSTAIRS

THE BEAR TALES

(France) 85mins.

Gaumont. Dir: Guillaume Nicloux. Cast: Gerard

(Taiwan) 95mins.

Amazing Film Studio.

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15:00 ESRA NEW YORK 2016

110mins. Esra — Cote D’Azur.

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15:30 1962 MY COUNTRY LAND

(India) 109mins. Living Dreams. Dir: Chow Partha Borgohain. Cast: Aham Sharma, Daniel Shin Han, Lakhpa Lepcha, Ketholeno Kense.

Three people fight for a piece of land that is neither in India nor China. The confrontation changes their lives forever

in the Indo-Sino war of 1962. Two fall in love and become inseparable lovers; the other betrays his nation, sacrificing the other two in the process.

departed grandfather’s vicious world of crime in the east Romania badlands.

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LATE SHIFT — YOUR DECISIONS ARE YOU

A TWO WAY MIRROR

(UK) 264mins.

Ctrlmovie. Dir: Tobias Weber. Cast: Joe Sowerbutts, Haruka Abe, Joel Basman, Richard Durden, Lily Travers.

Matt, a student, has to prove his innocence after being forced into the robbery of a famous London auction house. How will the audience decide to act when everything is turning against him? The audience takes decisions for the interactive thriller’s hero while the movie keeps on running seamlessly.

(Croatia) 42mins.

Croatian Audiovisual Centre. Dir: Zrinka Katarina Matijevic.

A poetic documentary that illustrates different states of mind, inner struggles and revelations through the beautiful but bitterly cold mountainous landscapes of Lika.

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ANTARDRISHTI

(India) 101mins. Flying River Films. Dir: Rima Das. Cast: Bishnu Kharghariya.

The story of Chaudhury, a retired geography teacher whose life is turned upside-down when his son, who has come for a visit, gifts him a pair of binoculars. The man with the binoculars can only find peace by becoming the man without the binoculars.

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DOGS

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

A young man from Bucharest clashes with his

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 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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CHILD OF THE SAHARA

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93mins. Adler And Associates Entertainment.

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92mins. Galloping Films.

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PERSONAL SHOPPER

(France) 105mins. MK2 Films. 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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POWER TO CHANGE — THE ENERGY REBELLION

(Germany) 94mins.

Fechnermedia. Dir: Carl-A Fechner.

Takes us on a journey to the heart of a historically unique event: the transformation of the world’s energy supply to decentralised systems, fuelled exclusively by renewable sources of energy.

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16:00 BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS

(Israel) 90mins.

PRESUMED GUILTY

(US) 87mins. World Media Docs. Dir: Jijo Reed.

Exposes illegal practices

by Swiss banks and their aggressive campaigns that target foreign nationals.

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SAMUEL STREET

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

‘Samuel Street’ revolves around the characters who live on this street,

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which is famous for being a very conservative and middle-class neighbourhood in Mumbai.

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SOPHIE’S MISFORTUNES

(France) 104mins.

Gaumont. Dir: Christophe Honore. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Muriel Robin.

Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. She cuts her mother’s fish into tiny pieces, she just misses burning herself wading through quicklime, she tortures her wax doll or cuts off her own eyelashes to look prettier. In a word, Sophie is constantly up to no good and has some naughty vices, such as gluttony, laziness and even dishonesty. But her mother is unbending and otherwise inclined. She wants her daughter to enjoy a good upbringing. She will not let her get away with anything, and poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behaviour and learn her lesson. This is not always very easy.

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SUMMERTIME

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

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

Marco and Maria, two 18-year-old Italian kids taking a road trip in America, meet a gay couple, not much older than they are, who are trying to escape from a world that does not accept them. The journey that results will teach them all about the world and themselves and about who they want to be in their lives.

Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation. Dir: Shivaji Lotan Patil. Cast: Pritam Kagne, Priydarshan Jadhav, Chinmay Mandalekar, Vijay Chouhan, Vimal Mhatre, Chaya Kadam, Sanjay Sugavkar, Praglbha Kolekar, Neha Dakhinkar.

Based on Muslim marriages.

Waterfall Pictures.

Five friends, staying in a hostel, are busy with their academic plans for the next morning. They fall asleep only to freak out when late at night they receive a disturbing message warning them that they will all die before dawn.

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SAC LA MORT

(France) 78mins. Acid.

Dir: Emmanuel Parraud.

Cast: Patrice Planesse, Charles-Henri Lamonge, Martine Talbot, Nagibe Chader.

Patrice must avenge the death of his murdered brother.

KALACHAKRA — L’EVEIL

(France) 83mins.

Leelame Production.

Dir: Natalie Fuchs. Cast: Jampa Legdhen, Tenzin Norzom, Uma Thurman, Natalie Fuchs.

Immersed in the colourful and vibrant setting of Dharamsala (India), four characters from very different backgrounds come together to face their deepest fears as they approach the transformational power of the Kalachakra initiation, led by the Dalai Lama and followed by millions.

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STRAIGHT 8 2016

(UK) 80mins. Altitude Film Sales.

‘Straight 8’ challenged film-makers worldwide to make films on Super 8 film with no retakes, edits or post-production. The efforts and results are wild.

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TWO ZIONS: THE LIVING LEGACY OF QUEEN SHEBA AND KING SOLOMON

(Ethiopia) 90mins. Greta Joanne Entertainment.

Dir: Cheryl Halpern.

Focuses on the Zions of Jerusalem, Israel and Axum, Ethiopia. It describes the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba that has connected two peoples and cultures through their religious observances from approximately 950BC until today.

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100mins. Zazen Producoes.

110mins. 48 Hour Film Project.

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BRIDGE IN CLOUDS

(India) 109mins.

(China) 95mins. Beijing

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YOU’LL NEVER BE ALONE

Market 20:00 YOU’LL NEVER BE ALONE

(Chile) 81mins. Wide.

Dir: Alex Anwandter.

Cast: Antonia Zegers, Sergio Hernandez, Gabriela Hernandez, Andrew Bargstead.

After his gay teenage son, Pablo, is badly beaten up by some homophobic youngsters, Juan, a withdrawn manager at a mannequin factory,

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struggles between having to pay his son’s exorbitant medical bills and his last attempt at making partner at his company. As he runs into dead-ends and unexpected betrayals, he will discover that the world can be violent with him too. Juan has made too many mistakes, but his son can still be saved.

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unsuccessfully trying to make a career and win a girl’s love, meets an economic consultant who is really successful and independent and has a strange hobby — Old Turkic runes.

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18.05 THE LONER

100mins. The Moonshot Company.

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ONE WEEK AND A DAY

Star Dragon Movie.

Dir: Xuan Zhong. Cast: Xuan Zhong, Deric Wan, Yuting Liu, Xia Wang, Zhuolin Li. An extraordinary horror film from one of the most talented Chinese directors.

Zhong Xuan, who studied in Britain, has made several inspection tours to Yuyao. The movie is based on local folklore gathered by her team.

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decides to return.

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THE LAST FIVE DAYS OF A DIRECTOR

(China) 88mins. Beijing Pisces Culture Media Co. Dir: Yao Zhang. Cast: Ke Shu. Gray 3

MANGORE

101mins. Adler And Associates Entertainment.

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THE CULT

(Brazil) 70mins. The open Reel. Dir: Andre Antonio. Cast: Pedro Neves, Ericka Rolim, Felipe Araujo, Julio Emilio, Paulo Faltay.

In the year 2040, the city of Recife, in Brazil, is deserted and in ruins.

It was abandoned by the wealthy, who migrated to space colonies. The son of one of these rich families, bored in his new address,

RUNNING BY RUNES

(Kazakhstan) 88mins.

Calligraphy Pictures.

Dir: Arman Calbay.

Cast: Salamat Rakhimov, Zhannel Nurseitova, Roman Chekhonadski, Arman Calbay, Gulfairus Sarybayeva, Petr Bochkarev, Yuri Tolochko, Zhulduz Tergeussizova, Daulet Insibayev, Roman Starikov.

An office clerk,

(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 neighbour and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

20:30 THE VISITORS: BASTILLE DAY

(France) 109mins.

Gaumont. Dir: JeanMarie Poir2. Cast: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Franck Dubosc, Ary Abittan, Karin Viard, Alex Lutz, Sylvie Testud, Marie-Anne Chazel.

Godefroy the Hardy and his loyal Jacquasse the Crass are back, in the middle of the French Revolution.

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22:30 FIORE

(Italy) 105mins. Rai Com. Dir: Claudio Giovannesi.

Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Daphne Scoccia, Josciua Algeri.

Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their relationship exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations.

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NO OTHER GO

(France) 78mins. Acid.

Dir: Emmanuel Parraud.

Cast: Patrice Planesse, Charles-Henri Lamonge, Martine Talbot, Nagibe Chader.

Patrice must avenge the death of his brother, who has been brutally murdered.

(India) 64mins.

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NGO ‘CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN CINEMA’

90mins. NGo Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema.

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

The unKnown girl (Bel-Fr) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

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

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