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Saudi outfit preps local horror title BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Saudi production company Holam is gearing up to shoot the foundfootage horror film Hajes, about a group of filmmakers who go missing while making a documentary. Saudi filmmaker Zyad Al Zahrany, whose credits include the short films Fire In and Quick Profit, will direct from a screenplay he wrote himself. The cast is composed of a group of young Saudis who have made a name for themselves on YouTube, as has the director. As in much of the Gulf region, horror films are popular in Saudi Arabia and the internet performance of the first Saudi horror film Twilight (Ghabash) two years ago has shown there is an appetite for homegrown fare. Hajes is produced by Saudi-born US producer Todd Albert Nims, who founded Holam with Saudi producer Omar Zahrani in 2014. Nims’s recent credits include Joud and Born A King, while Zahrani began his career at MBC Group. The nascent Saudi industry is fast-becoming the must-have new partner at Cannes this year. Dubaibased 03 Productions — the film and TV arm of pan-Arab media company MBC Group — and I m a g e Na t i o n A b u D h a b i announced they were teaming on a slate of Saudi projects aimed at audiences across the Gulf region on Saturday.
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Cautious optimism at market after slow start BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
As the festival reaches the midpoint of the main weekend, Cannes regulars are divided over how much business there is to be done in the market this year. Foot traffic in the Riviera, Lérins and Palais was notably lighter than usual earlier in the week. It was possible to get bookings at short notice in even the most exclusive restaurants. Many attendees questioned the decision to start the market a day earlier than usual. Marché executive director Jérome Paillard said he had little choice but
to keep in step with the festival, which opened on Tuesday. “We thought at the beginning [we’d] keep the opening on the Wednesday but logistically it would have been very difficult,” he explained. French sales agent Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Playtime International tweeted this weekend: “I have the unpleasant impression that people leave on Sunday instead of going over the weekend widely as before. #Cannes2018 too expensive and too gray.” Others are more upbeat. The Marché’s own research suggests
delegates are still staying for an average 9.1 days. Prices for exhibitors are exactly the same as last year and Paillard insists Cannes remains the least expensive market, “cheaper than EFM, AFM and the MIPs”. By Saturday, the terrace at the Grand was buzzing with activity, as were the halls of the Marché. Some of the bigger independent distributors who last year had next to nothing to buy — after Netflix and Amazon had hoovered up so much content — have been pleasantly surprised by what has been on offer. Continued on page 2
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TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for Niels Arden Oplev’s new feature Daniel, about Daniel Rye, a Danish photographer who was held captive by Islamic State for 398 days (along with other foreign nationals including James Foley). Esben Smed stars with Anders W Berthelsen and Sofie Torp. Anders Thomas Jensen has written the screenplay.
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Tim Robbins in Patriot act BY TOM GRATER
Tim Robbins has signed to star in Dan Pringle’s UK sci-fi thriller A Patriot with Eva Green, Kathy Bates and Ed Skrein. It is being sold by US-based The Exchange. A Patriot is produced by Adam J Merrifield from White Lantern Film and John Giwa-Amu from Red And Black Films. Angus Finney is executive producing. The project has also secured backing from Belgium’s Umedia and Italy’s Texit Films.
Bang hears Bay Of Silence CNC head Frédérique Bredin and French culture minister Francoise Nyssen with Cannes chiefs Thierry Frémaux and Pierre Lescure watch as jury head Cate Blanchett leads 82 women in a red-carpet protest against the lack of female representation in the festival over the years.
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The $6.5m (¤5.5m) feature will shoot in Denmark, Sweden and Jordan from October 1 for 10 weeks. “For me it’s a very hopeful story,” said Oplev. “It carries an important message of real people in conflict with evil or religious fundamentalism.” Daniel is being produced by Morten Kaufmann and Signe Leick Jensen for Toolbox Film. The co-producers are Annika Hell-
strom (Cinenic), Erika Malmgren and Gudny Hummelvoll (Hummelfilm), Morten Rasmussen (Deluca Film) and Peter Possne (Film i Väst). Oplev executive produces alongside Berthelsen. After working in Hollywood on films including Flatliners and Dead Man Down, Denmark-born, Los Angeles-based Oplev said he is looking forward “to coming back to work in my own language. I can
have complete artistic control.” Oplev’s local credits include the original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Daniel is being backed by the Danish Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute and West Danish Film Fund, in association with SVT and YLE. Nordisk is handling Nordic distribution.
Claes Bang is confirmed to have joined the cast of Paula van der Oest’s English-language thriller The Bay Of Silence, also starring Olga Kurylenko and Brian Cox. The long-gestating film is backed by Media Finance Capital and will start shooting on July 11 in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands. The US’s International Film Trust is handling international sales on the film (UTA Independent Film Group reps for the US) and has licensed rights to the Middle East (Shooting Stars), Spain (Corbi), China (Time-In-Portrait), Poland (Monolith) and Israel (Five Stars). The Bay Of Silence is about a man who embarks on a search across Europe when his family goes missing. Jeremy Kay
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Continued from page 1 Many distributors have pointed to the number of internationally appealing titles available from outfits such as FilmNation, Bloom, Sierra/Affinity, Millennium Media, Voltage, Global Road and AGC Studios. “We are exactly on the same trend [compared to] last year in terms of every activity, including buyers,” Paillard said in response to the suggestion attendance is down this year. Even Netflix has sent a reported 26 representatives to Cannes. Chinese buyers in particular have been out in force, accounting for 6% of the entire attendees, said Paillard. Los Angeles-based indie Rights Movies struck a 13-picture deal with Chinese outfit Huala Media in its “first meeting, first day,” according to Indie Rights principals Linda Nelson and Michael Madison. This one deal, they said, more than covered their costs for attending both Cannes and the next AFM. Nor does the Marché appear to hold any grudge against veteran producer/seller Paulo Branco, in spite of all the acrimony surrounding Branco’s failed lawsuit to stop the festival showing Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Is Branco still welcome? “Absolutely,” Paillard declared. “He has his booth, he has his badge… in terms of the market, there is no impact. This is not the first or the last dispute about rights.”
Location fund to spur Aussie studio growth BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Fox Studios Australia is working on plans to expand its Sydney facility following the creation of a $106m (a$140m) Location Incentive Fund, confirmed Wayne Borg, managing director of the studios, in Cannes on Saturday. The extra money, which will be delivered over four years from 2019-20, is intended to draw in at least $260m in foreign investment to the local economy. In
practice, this will mean the present location incentive, a tax offset of 16.5%, will almost double to 30%. The incentive will be available for high-end TV drama as well as for feature films. It has been put in place after intensive lobbying from the local industry. There is already a postproduction incentive, also set at 30%. “We are already beginning to see some interest on the back of
Logical moves into The Jokers BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
French film production and film financing company Logical Pictures has taken a minority stake in Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based genre distributor The Jokers. “We have the same DNA,” said Frédéric Fiore, president of Logical Pictures. “Beyond the films we have in common, Manuel’s input has been invaluable across our whole line-up.” The Jokers is set to distribute two upcoming films either produced or part financed by Logical: Eric Cherriere’s medieval action
drama No Gods No Masters and Gerard Johnson’s Englishlanguage psychological thriller Muscle, starring Craig Fairbrass and Cavan Clerkin. Fiore said the move was part of a long-term strategy to align with other distributors in Europe. Logical’s alliance with The Jokers comes two years after the company — co-founded by Fiore, Alexis Perrin and Yannick B ossenmeyer — official ly launched at Cannes in 2016. Since closing a $24m (¤20m) financing round in 2017, Logical
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has either invested in or developed 13 feature projects to date. One of latest additions to its slate is Julius Berg’s The Owners, about four teenage burglars who find themselves trapped by their elderly victims. The film is being produced by Alain de la Mata under his BlueLight banner. Logical has also recently joined forces with French producer Yves Darondeau at Bonne Pioche on an adaptation of the novel Du Crépitement Sous Les Néons by Rémy Lasource. Duo FGKO are attached to direct.
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Girls have moment in the sun BY LOUISE TUTT
French director Eva Husson (second from left) walked the red carpet on Saturday evening with her Competition title Girls Of The Sun. She was joined by her stars Golshifteh Farahani (second from right) and Emmanuelle Bercot
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A War Story
A War Story to be told by Moviehouse UK outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up John Laing’s New Zealand drama A War Story, starring John Leigh as Pulitzer Prizewinning CNN reporter Peter Arnett, who embarks on a life-defining pursuit for an interview with the then little-known Osama bin Laden. On the sales side, Moviehouse has sold UK comedy Funny Cow, starring Maxine Peake, to Rialto Distribution for Australia and New Zealand. The film had its release in the UK via Entertainment One in April this year and has grossed more than $540,000 (£400,000) to date. Rialto has also picked up Moviehouse’s drama Rose, starring Cybill Shepherd and James Brolin. The film has also now gone to Wing Sight for China and Cinesky for airlines. Tom Grater
Dencik, Karlsson make a Quick start with Film i Väst
TriCoast holds out for Zheng’s Everyday Hero US-based sales agent TriCoast Worldwide has picked up international rights to Chinese drama Everyday Hero. Directed by Zheng Hua, the film tells the true story of a man who rebuilds a poverty-stricken village in southern China after it is destroyed in a typhoon. Sun Hong Tao executive produced and also stars along with Ru Ping and Ai Liya. The film is backed by state-owned Guangdong Southern TV & Film Communication Co and China Film Group, along with other mainland Chinese investors. TriCoast is expanding its representation of Chineselanguage films. Liz Shackleton
this announcement,” said Borg of the Sydney facility. It has recently housed films such as Hacksaw Ridge and Peter Rabbit. “We are well positioned with infrastructure, crews and locations,” Borg continued. “This reflects the government’s view that this is an important sector, one they want to invest in and pursue not just from an economic perspective but from a cultural and social perspective too.”
(left) and the film’s producer Didar Domehri of France’s Maneki Films/Full House (right). Girls Of The Sun is inspired by a real-life Kurdish female battalion that set out to liberate their town after it had been overrun by Isis extremists.
David Dencik, Jonas Karlsson, and Alba August will star in Quick for director Mikael Hafstrom which TrustNordisk is selling. Quick is among the new projects backed by Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading film fund. The film, produced by Helena Danielsson for Brain Academy, is described as a “character-driven journalistic thriller and psychological drama”. Film i Väst is also backing Neasa Hardiman’s feature debut Sea Fever, a thriller set on a trawler off the coast of Ireland, which is set to shoot in August. Epic Pictures is handling sales, and Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell of Fantastic Films are producing. Hermione Corfield stars.
The fund is also on board Ari Folman’s English-language The Horse Boy, which will star Joel Kinnaman and Léa Seydoux as parents who take their autistic son to meet horses in Mongolia. Gaumont is handling sales (co-repping US with Endeavor) and the film starts shooting in October. The upcoming slate also includes Niels Arden Oplev’s Daniel (see full story, page 1). On the international side, Film i Väst is a partner on Syllas Tzoumerkas’s The Miracle Of The Sargasso Sea, Radu Muntean’s Alice T, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Comoara, Carlos Reygadas’s Where Life Is Born, Alejandro Landes’s Monos, Rahi Anil Barve’s Tumbad and Toby MacDonald’s Old Boys. www.screendaily.com
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Les Arcs shelves its Paris Co-Pro Village BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
The team behind Les Arcs European Film Festival, held in the French Alps every December, has confirmed it has put its sister summer event, the Paris Coproduction Village, on ice. The popular event was launched in 2014 out of the ashes of the Paris Project, which in turn was created from the now-defunct Paris Cinema Film Festival. Its aim was to connect interna-
tional projects with French partners. The co-production meeting had been shelved this year after its main sponsor, Champs-Elysées Film Festival, pulled out. “This has no impact on Les Arcs,” said its head of industry Jérémy Zelnik. “We are considering a new formula for 2019 as Paris is a very important city for coproductions and should have its own co-pro market.”
The Les Arcs team is planning a number of special events for the upcoming edition (December 15-22) to mark its 10th anniversary. This year’s country of honour will be Poland, in partnership with the Polish Film Institute. Les Arcs’ Industry Village has supported seven films in Cannes: Girl, In My Room, Diamantino, Chris The Swiss, Our Struggles, The Load and Cassandro, The Exotic!
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Sofia Boutella and Michael B Jordan were on the Croisette to celebrate Ramin Bahrani’s Midnight Screening title Fahrenheit 451, in which they star with Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon. Jordan is also an executive producer on the film, which is produced by HBO Films.
Youssef Chahine titles to be restored, tour globally Egypt’s Misr International Films (MIF) has launched a major restoration project for the films of the company’s founder, Youssef Chahine, to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. MIF is working on the restoration of 20 of Chahine’s films, the first of which was Baba Amin (1950). Chahine’s 1997 film Destiny (El Massir) is screening in Cinema de la Plage as part of Cannes Classics on Sunday night. “We’re especially happy the Cannes screening will
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be open to the public as Chahine always cared about the audience,” said Destiny producer Gabriel Khoury. All the films are being restored and digitised with subtitles to ensure they reach a wider worldwide
audience. Partners for the restoration include France’s CNC, La Cinematheque Francaise, TF1, Orange, the French American Fund, Les archives audiovisuelles de Monaco and Cineteca di Bologna.
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Franck Priot’s Paris-based production outfit Ghosts City is co-producing Tamillanguage drama Madras Beats, directed by Rajiv Menon, with India’s Mindscreen Cinemas. Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman has written the score for the film, about a boy from India’s ‘untouchable’ caste who dreams of becoming a drummer in the South Indian ‘Carnatic’ classical
music tradition. GV Prakash, who is a trained classical musician as well as an actor, heads the cast. French editor Nadia Ben Rachid and sound mixer Thierry Delor have also boarded the project. “While most Indian films have music and songs in them, they are essentially romcoms,” said Menon. “Madras Beats is a musical with a strong sense of realism and a story of hope where a young person
Boss Level scores sales for Highland BY JEREMY KAY
The US’s Highland Film Group has unveiled a slew of key deals on Joe Carnahan’s action title Boss Level, which has wrapped principal photography in Atlanta. It stars Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts and Frank Grillo. Deals have been closed in Germany (Universum), France (Metropolitan), Scandinavia (Nordisk), the Middle East (Eagle Films), Spain (You Planet), and Eastern Europe (ProRom, Blitz). The rights have also gone in CIS (Volga), Poland (Monolith), Indonesia (Prima Cinema), Thailand (Mono Film), Portugal
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from the outside overcomes odds to succeed in the rarefied world of classical Indian music.” The film is the longawaited third feature from Menon, who is also an acclaimed cinematographer with credits including Mani Ratnam’s Bombay (1995) and Guru (2007). His first two films, Minsara Kanavu (1997) and Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000), were critically acclaimed boxoffice hits.
Patrick gets greenlight Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants is to start shooting Patrick, starring Kevin Janssens (The Ardennes, Revenge) this summer in Belgium. It is produced by Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film. Patrick, which was presented as a project at last year’s CONNeXT! in Ghent, is an existential comedy-drama set on a naturist campsite. The project has been put together as a Belgium-NetherlandsGermany co-production. Further partners include Eyeworks, Topkapi and Versus. Geoffrey Macnab
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Germany brings back horror pics
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Berlin-based genre production outfit Schmerbeck Entertainment is preparing two new horror features hot on the heels of its German box-office hit Heilstatten. Michael David Pate is directing the English-language Smile, about a group of six successful online influencers, and visualeffects specialist Benjamin Diez is making his directorial debut with German-language title Death Strip. The latter is set on a party boat in Berlin as the souls of the dead return to wreak havoc. Till Schmerbeck, founder of Schmerbeck Entertainment, talked up his desire to make the company the “Blumhouse of Germany”. “After the Second World War, there was no German narrative tradition to develop horror films,” said Schmerbeck. “My company wants to change that. Long live the German horror movie!”
13 Films has announced a handful of deals on David Mahmoudieh’s romantic comedy See You Soon featuring Harvey Keitel, including to Enjoy Pictures for China. Liam McIntyre and newcomer Jenia Tanaeva star in the completed film about a football player who picks up a career-threatening injury in the run-up to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Eagle Films has acquired Middle Eastern rights and AONE
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Entertainment will distribute in South Korea. The film shot on location in Greece, Romania and St Petersburg, Russia.
Tanaeva co-wrote the screenplay with Mike Cestari and Joe Ballarini, and produced alongside Monella Kaplan. Alexander Mikhalskiy served as executive producer. “See You Soon is a story about people, about true love, about a man becoming a better person and doing his absolute best to be with a woman he loves,” Tanaeva said. “It’s a story about a single mom, taking a huge step into the unknown in order to get a better life for her son and herself.”
Time Trial cycles deals Austrian doc specialist Autlook has sold Finlay Pretsell’s Time Trial, about cyclist David Millar, to Dogwoof in the UK and Mindjazz for Germany and Austria. Autlook has also secured deals to broadcasters SVT in Sweden, DR in Denmark and VPRO in the Netherlands. It is in final negotiations for a theatrical release in the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and North America. Geoffrey Macnab
Regal Theatres drawn to Attraction for US BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk’s sci-fi blockbuster Attraction has secured a limited US theatrical release via Regal Theatres. The exhibitor has committed to screening the film in at least 20 theatres.
Attraction’s sales agent Art Pictures Studio has also closed a multi-territory deal for the home entertainment rights to the film in the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada with Berlinbased distributor Capelight Pic-
tures, which has handled such films as The Babadook and Hardcore Henry. Attraction will be available in these countries after the theatrical release in the US. “It will be a physical and digital release. We released the film in
Germany already and it worked very well there, and we loved the film,” said Capelight’s managing director Steffen Gerlach. Art Pictures has also sold Vadim Perelman’s Buy Me to At Entertainment for Japan.
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the NPA will only contribute to that.” Films to have done their post work in the Netherlands recently include Yorgo s L a n t h i m o s’s Th e Lobster, Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature and Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone. The association, which launched this week, represents the majority of Dutch companies focusing on premium-quality editing, colour grading, sound mixing and VFX for feature films, documentaries and high-end TV drama.
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Genre specialist sales agent Devilworks has secured a UK and Ireland deal on Kurtis David Harder’s sci-fi thriller Incontrol to Signature Entertainment. The film is about a group of students who discover a device that allows them to take control of other people.
Minerva takes two Rome-based Minerva Pictures has picked up two titles: Chilean director Arnaldo Valsecchi’s comedy-drama Calzones Rotos, and Scott Gormley’s Danseur. Minerva has also sold Italian comedies Welcome To Gomorrahland and Life Heart Beat to China’s Times Vision.
Chain links up Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide sales on US-Spain psychological thriller The Chain starring Ray Wise. David Martin-Porras directs the story of a man who enlists the services of an assisted suicide company but discovers in order to take part he must kill someone first.
Jacir triumphs at Arab Critics Awards BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Palestinian director and Un Certain Regard jury member Annemarie Jacir scooped best film and best screenplay for fatherson drama Wajib in the second edition of the Arab Critics Awards, which were announced in Cannes on Saturday. Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri clinched best director for his Oscarnominated political drama The Insult.
Mohammad Bakri won the best actor prize for Wajib, and Mariam Alferjani, a Screen International Arab Star of Tomorrow in 2016, was awarded the best actress prize for her performance in Beauty And The Dogs, which premiered here in Un Certain Regard in 2017. Best documentary went to Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste Of Cement, about Syrian refugees working on building sites in Lebanon.
Sobibor director defends imagery BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Russian filmmaker Konstantin Khabensky has defended his decision to include graphic imagery of the Nazi gas chambers in his film, Sobibor. The feature, which is being sold in the market by All Media Company, tells the story of a 1943 uprising at a Nazi extermination camp.
“Otherwise, I would not have been able to show how fast the human life would stop,” the director said. Khabensky said many younger Russians were not even aware of the Holocaust before they saw the film, which was released in Russia last month. “The film gave them the impulse to research it,” he added.
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Niklaus Hilber’s troubles in Paradise On the Borneo set of Paradise War, the filmmaker was confronted by extreme weather, falling trees and trench foot Filmmaking is never easy, but most productions do not have to cope with trench foot. Swiss director Niklaus Hilber had to display his own adventurous spirit during the 77-day shoot for Paradise War, about the Swiss explorer and environmentalist Bruno Manser. Manser lived with the Penan tribe in Sarawak, Malaysia from 1984 to 1990, also organising protests against the logging companies that were ruining their environment. Paradise War, now in post-production and being sold here by TrustNordisk, shot mostly in the jungles of Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of Borneo, to stand in for Sarawak. Director Hilber, whose past credits include 2015’s Amateur Teens, explains: “Shooting in the
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Swan song for Wachsberger Iconic British-French singer Jane Birkin serenaded Patrick Wachsberger at a swanky party at Hotel du Cap on Friday night in honour of the outgoing Lionsgate executive who has reigned over the Cannes sales scene for decades. Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, Sicario director Denis Villeneuve and actor Benicio del Toro were among hundreds of industry luminaries present. The French executive ran through a whistle-stop tour of his career, reminiscing about Pelle The Conqueror at Odyssey, through the franchisebuilding days at Summit Entertainment with The Hunger Games, and finally to Lionsgate, where he has worked for the past six-and-a-half years. And in case anybody needed reminding, Wachsberger, whose energy and vitality remain undiminished after decades at the top of the business, does not plan to put his feet up. “I want to do a lot of things between Lionsgate and the Pearly Gates,” he told guests. Jeremy Kay
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pens or doesn’t pan out as it should. The climate was extreme. Another big problem, because there was so much standing
about in water, was trench foot, which is a fungal infection that makes walking painful. Oh, and one day, a huge tree fell and
destroyed half of our set. Luckily, no one was hurt.” Swiss actor Sven Schelker plays Manser. Striving for authenticity, the director cast mostly non-professional actors, including many Penan people whom he found when travelling to remote villages, later flying them from Malaysia to Indonesia for three months. He explains: “None of them had any concept of what being in a film meant. I had to gain their trust.” Manser disappeared in the jungle in May 2000, yet Hilber knows his story is exceedingly relevant today. “Manser realised something that we have only just begun to learn… we have to co-operate with nature, not fight it in order to survive.” Wendy Mitchell
Jankel buzzes back to Tell It To The Bees Even by the punitive standards of Hollywood, Annabel Jankel’s spell in movie jail seemed unnecessarily harsh. Following a disappointing reception to 1993’s Super Mario Bros — which she co-directed with then-husband Rocky Morton — it has taken a full 25 years for her big-screen follow-up, Tell It To The Bees. In between, Jankel ran a commercials and pop promos company in Los Angeles with Morton, split up, returned to the UK, and made television projects such as Skellig for Sky TV. “It was a huge debacle,” reflects Jankel on the Super Mario Bros experience. “It became something more than the film.” In returning to feature filmmaking, Jankel — who with Morton made her name in the 1980s directing The Max Headroom Show for television — is hardly playing it safe. Lesbian romance Tell It To The Bees, a 1950s-set story starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger as a small-town Scottish doctor and local mother
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who fall in love, boasts a magical realist element and complicated VFX. It also faced the budgetary challenge of a period setting and limited daily shooting hours for child actor Gregor Selkirk, who has a significant role. “There was a certain amount of doubt as to whether it could be achieved with our budget,” admits Jankel, who developed the film with producer Daisy Allsop and the BFI. “It’s not a big movie. Try wrangling 40,000 wild animals
on a daily basis — which in fact we did do.” A crucial contribution came from bee keeper Peter Hopfgartner, who was brought in by cinematographer Attila Boa, and who Jankel dubs “the bee whisperer”. “He slept with the bees, seduced the bees, tickled the bees, fluffed the bees,” Jankel says. Film Constellation is selling the film, which is adapted from a novel by Fiona Shaw, in Cannes. Charles Gant
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Ash Is Purest White Reviewed by Allan Hunter Jolting, seismic shifts in 21st century Chinese society are viewed through the bittersweet ebb and flow of an epic love story in Ash Is Purest White. The latest state of the nation report from Jia Zhangke gives the viewer plenty to chew over and is suffused with a mournful melancholy. A thoughtful, measured piece that lacks the anger and intensity of his earlier work, it should attract the same level of interest as the more ambitious Mountains May Depart. There are many similarities with Mountains in terms of its time span, structure and focus on the way that individuals reflect the wider currents within their country. Ash Is Purest White begins in 2001 in Shanxi, a mining hub in northwest China that is threatened with the prospect of becoming a ghost town. We are introduced to the formidable Qiao (Zhao Tao), a woman with the personality of a hardboiled saloon keeper in a Hollywood western. She administers a hefty thump on the back to men she considers friends and greets her lover, local mobster Bin (Liao Fan) with a playful bite. When Bin’s car is stopped by a gang of young bikers and he is severely beaten, it is Qiao who intervenes, firing off an illegal gun. She claims
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COMPETITION China-Fr. 2018. 141mins Director/screenplay Jia Zhangke Production companies XStream Pictures, Huanxi Media Group International sales mk2 Films, intlsales@ mk2films.com Producer Shozo Ichiyama Production design Liu Weixin Editing Matthieu Laclau, Lin Xudong Cinematography Eric Gautier Music Lim Giong Main cast Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Xu Zheng, Casper Liang
ownership of the firearm and is sentenced to five years of imprisonment. When she is released in 2006, she goes in search of Bin, expecting to resume their life and assuming that things can just go back to the way they were. She is to discover that nothing stays the same and there is no going back. The meandering narrative sprawls like a great Dickens novel, but individual encounters and elements that may seem like distractions all reflect back on greater themes. Trains become faster and more efficient, technology advances, swathes of the population drift towards burgeoning cities the size of small countries, but values are eroded and certainties sacrificed. Bin, Qiao and their brotherhood may have been on the margins of society but they chose to live by a certain code. The couple seem decent and honourable but such virtues are a luxury in a society that now operates on the basis of dog eat dog. The clash between traditional values and modern attitudes plays out over the years between 2001 and the cusp of 2018, in the Three Gorges area on the Yangtze river and then back in Shanxi. Jia’s first collaboration with cinematographer Eric Gautier results in a film that is rich in
atmosphere. Both men have an eye for faces and places. The film’s earliest scenes use footage that the director shot in 2001 of ordinary people on a bus; stoical, lost in thought, oblivious to what might lie ahead. Gautier captures a real sense of place, from the muddy ground near a rainswept power station to the snow blanketed courtyard of the prison where Qiao is incarcerated. A river cruise traverses in an area where planned developments mean that everything will soon be underwater. Jia has suggested Ash Is Purest White in some way reflects a sense of his lost youth, and there is a palpable feel of nostalgia and even an uncharacteristic underlying sentimentality. He has created a fantastic showcase for the skills of his wife Zhao, whose character is the film’s purest spirit, seeking to recreate something that has already vanished and can never be again. The march of change is reflected in a poignant performance that shows the emotional wear and tear on a character who remains true to what she wants, even as it seems less and less likely that she will achieve it.
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The Spy Gone North Reviewed by Tim Grierson A film about stellar spycraft that has been made with comparable steely intelligence, The Spy Gone North (Gongjak) boasts little action but compensates with director Yoon Jong-bin’s ability to weave suspense while depicting the subtle manoeuvrings of a fraught covert operation. Fictionalising the real-life exploits of a South Korean agent known as Black Venus, who in the 1990s was tasked with infiltrating North Korea’s government, this thriller rewards patience over its 140-minute running time. A Midnight screening here in Cannes, Spy does not have the pyrotechnics of the James Bond or Jason Bourne franchises, but fans of smart, engrossing espionage thrillers will surely come calling. A former military officer named Park (Hwang Jungmin) is tapped by South Korea’s intelligence agency NIS to go undercover, posing as a businessman to meet with Ri (Lee Sung-min), a North Korean official with connections to the communist government. Park’s mission is to use Ri to determine if Kim Jong-il has developed nuclear weapons and is an imminent threat. Spy features no shoot-outs or car chases, instead it meticulously follows Park as he finagles his way into North Korea’s inner circle. The screenplay, which Yoon (Kundo) co-wrote with Kwon Sung-hui, spends considerable time establishing and developing Park’s cover story, and one of Spy’s unanticipated pleasures is its ability to wring drama out of the minutia involved in what might seem like an esoteric business deal. But that is only one element to which Yoon devotes his attention. Spanning roughly a decade, the film examines the two nations’ tense relationship, illustrating how each plot twist could affect both countries. Sometimes, this macro view makes it harder for the filmmaker to invest as deeply in the characters. Yet this change to the strategy seems to be in keeping with Yoon’s overall narrative, which is that these individuals are enmeshed in something much larger than themselves. Editors Kim Sang-bum and Kim Jae-bum deserve special kudos for maintaining Spy’s sober, stately pace throughout. Cho Young-wuk’s suspenseful score underlines but never overshadows the tense proceedings, while cinematographer Choi Chan-min adds a dynamism to intimate scenes in which two or three characters are simply sitting and talking.
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MIDNIGHT S Kor. 2017. 140mins Director Yoon Jong-bin Production companies CJ Entertainment, Moonlight Film, Sanai Pictures International sales CJ Entertainment, info@ cjentamerica.com Producers Han Jae-duk, Son Sang-bum, Kuk Su-ran Screenplay Kwon Sunghui, Yoon Jong-bin Production design Park Elhen Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Jae-bum Cinematography Choi Chan-min Music Cho Young-wuk Main cast Hwang Jungmin, Lee Sung-min, Cho Jin-woong, Ju Ji-hoon
Halla is nudging 50. She leads a choir, keeps healthy with Tai Chi, and lives alone in a cosy apartment decorated with posters of Nelson Mandela and Gandhi. She is also — according to the Icelandic press — an eco-terrorist, bent on wrecking the country’s economy and infrastructure. But nobody, outside of Halla’s most trusted confidantes, would link the two identities: the mild-mannered music teacher and the shadowy anticapitalist saboteur. Then Halla is forced to question everything she believes is worth fighting for when she learns that her long-cherished dream of adopting a child is tantalisingly close to fruition. Carried by a magnetic performance from Halldora Geirhardsdottir in a dual role (she plays both Halla and her identical twin sister Asa), Benedikt Erlingsson’s enjoyable follow-up to Of Horses And Men is elevated by wryly idiosyncratic flourishes in its execution. Less overtly comic than its predecessor, Woman At War will likely stage a concerted assault on the festival circuit. And given the relative paucity of films that feature complex middle-aged female characters — particularly female characters who blow up electricity pylons — it could find a warm reception theatrically. Shot from slightly below as she gazes up at the electricity cables, Halla exudes a single-minded purpose. Geirhardsdottir persuasively tackles a physically demanding role, but she is equally effective in conveying the softer side of this formidably determined character. Fittingly, given Halla’s profession, music plays a central role. But it is not just the score that asserts itself. In a bold and pleasingly quirky move, Erlingsson places the musicians on screen during the action. A Ukrainian vocal trio and a three-piece band consisting of accordion, drums and sousaphone interact with Halla, although she is unaware of their presence. It is a risky device that could lift the viewer out of the action, but here it works as a playful wink to the audience. The secrecy inherent in Halla’s activist identity places restrictions on the screenplay. There are no big heart-toheart scenes in which she thrashes out her conflicted loyalties: earth mother or real mother. But this is no great loss, in fact too much exposition would be counter to the Icelandic economy that characterises the most engaging scenes, between Halla and the farmer who may or may not be her cousin.
CRITICS’ WEEK Ice-Fr-Ukr. 2018. 101mins Director Benedikt Erlingsson Production companies Slot Machine, Gulldrengurinn International sales Beta Cinema, beta@ betacinema.com Producers Marianne Slot, Benedikt Erlingsson, Carine Leblanc Screenplay Benedikt Erlingsson, Olafur Egilsson Production design Snorri Hilmarsson Editing David Alexander Corno Cinematography Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson Music David Thor Jonsson Main cast Halldora Geirhardsdottir, Johann Sigurdarson, Jorundur Ragnarsson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Charlotte Boving
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Doha Film Institute Grants Programme Call for submissions to open in July 2018 Doha Film Institute continues its commitment to nurturing emerging filmmakers through its Grants Programme. First- and second-time filmmakers from around the world, as well as established directors from the MENA region, are invited to apply for funding. Consideration for funding is open to short and feature-length films in development, production and post-production, subject to eligibility criteria. Since 2010, Doha Film Institute supported more than 370 filmmakers across the globe. For more information on eligibility criteria and submission guidelines, please visit: www.dohafilminstitute.com/financing/grants/guidelines
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Shéhérazade Reviewed by Jonathan Romney
Treat Me Like Fire Reviewed by Tim Grierson Like the fleeting highs and crushing lows experienced by addicts, Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) starts off with energy and confidence, only to succumb to cliché and implausibility once the adrenaline rush subsides. Tahar Rahim and Stacy Martin have electric chemistry as compulsive lovers, but director Marie Monge’s stylish feature debut cannot quite sell us on the characters’ reckless leap into oblivion. Screening in Directors’ Fortnight, Fire offers promising commercial prospects thanks to its star power and accessible plotline. Opening in France on July 4, this may be familiar narrative territory, but the alluring world of illicit underground gambling could hustle up ample interest. Martin plays Ella, a young waitress who hires Abel (Rahim) to work in her father’s restaurant. They hit it off, but he quickly steals all the money from the register, forcing her to chase him to his final destination — a top-secret gambling club. Ella is furious at his thievery, but this seductive scoundrel gets her hooked on the thrill of betting, and soon they are sharing a bed and a seat at the tables. Fire follows a predictable story arc, mapping how the ecstasy the couple share in the early days of their steamy relationship eventually gives way to darker emotions once their luck starts to falter. It is no surprise that Abel’s killer smile belies dangerous secrets, but Monge daringly depicts Ella as a seemingly sensible woman who, despite her better judgment, becomes obsessed with the man and his milieu. This narrative gamble is helped by an urgent performance from Martin, but the segue from demure waitress to gambling junkie happens too abruptly, and Ella’s willingness to go along with Abel’s toxic lifestyle ultimately fails to convince. Rahim has an easier time as Abel, dragging this woman down into his personal hell. The character gets progressively uglier and more pathetic, but Rahim brings enough smouldering vulnerability that, even if it is partly a ploy to keep Ella around, we can almost understand why she would stay. Alas, Fire drifts deeper into movieland absurdity in its later reels, leaning hard into its thriller aesthetic without always justifying it on a narrative level. It becomes increasingly difficult to sympathise with these lovers, whose mutually assured spiritual descent stops feeling like a product of their addiction and more like a stylish pose meant to convey tormented depths.
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DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT Fr. 2018. 106mins Director Marie Monge Production companies The Film, Bac Films Production, Playtime Production International sales Playtime, info@playtime. group Producer Michael Gentile Screenplay Marie Monge, Julien Guetta Production design Marion Burger Editing Francois Quiqueré Cinematography Paul Guilhaume Music Nicolas Becker Main cast Tahar Rahim, Stacy Martin, Bruno Wolkowitch, Karim Leklou, Marie Denarnaud
The mythical Scheherazade told a thousand and one stories, while French street drama Shéhérazade tells one story that has been told many times before — about youth on the skids and the precarious hope of salvation. But while its theme may be overworked in French cinema, this tough debut feature from director Jean-Bernard Marlin evokes its milieu — that of a young North African Marseilles underworld — with nervy intensity, genuine emotional charge and an impressive non-professional cast. Theatrical prospects may be modest outside France, but festivals and other outlets will pick up on a film that has no shortage of freshness and vigour. The action is set around the gritty Rotonde and Belle de Mai neighbourhoods of Marseilles, where 17-year-old Zachary (Dylan Robert) is newly released from a juvenile facility for stealing. His unreliable mother is not there to meet him, and he sneaks out of a care home to see his only friends — young buck Ryad (Idir Azougli) and his brother Mehdi (Kader Benchoudar), a local hood. Zachary ends up with a slab of hash in his pocket — which is quickly stolen by Shéhérazade, or Shera (Kenza Fortas), a teenage prostitute. She and Zachary are soon at daggers drawn but go on to form a tender bond. Zachary soon finds himself becoming a pimp to Shera and the other hookers on her corner. When the girls face tough competition from Bulgarians with heavy protection, Zachary does a deal with Mehdi to take control of their rivals’ territory. At this point, the film shifts into crime territory. The more overt genre elements make Shéhérazade more ordinary but, in the final act, a return to the realism from the start makes for an emotionally satisfying ending. The film’s trump card lies in its bustling cast of young Maghrebi non-professionals, largely recruited in street casting. Young leads Robert and Fortas are terrific, bringing depth and nuance to what could have been off-thecuff roles. Unfortunately, the drama does not quite stand back far enough from the blinkered macho viewpoint of Zachary and his peers, while the female perspective suggested by the title never really opens up. Cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg makes the film visually distinctive, though sometimes markedly skewing it from its ostensible realism. He provides a striking, often expressionistically hot palette of blazing hues dominated by orange.
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Fr. 2018. 106mins Director Jean-Bernard Marlin Production company Geko Films International sales Films Boutique, contact@ filmsboutique.com Producer Grégoire Debailly Screenplay Jean-Bernard Marlin, Catherine Paillé Editing Nicolas Desmaison Cinematography Jonathan Ricquebourg Main cast Dylan Robert, Kenza Fortas, Idir Azougli, Lisa Amedjout, Kader Benchoudar
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Angel Face Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson
The Load Reviewed by Sarah Ward If any colour represents the long-term impact of war, it is the blend of beige and grey that fills The Load’s quietly powerful frames. The shade is so prominent that it is plastered across nearly every surface of the film — and also so common that it is easy, eventually, not to take much notice of it. That is the same impact that Nato’s 1999 bombing of Serbia had on its residents, filmmaker Ognjen Glavonic posits; as explosives rained down for months, the conflict proved a horrifying daily reality that was soon a standard part of the nation’s everyday routine. Taking inspiration from shocking real-life events, the writer/director’s debut fictional feature goes a step further, illustrating that the emotional toll is both utterly inescapable and often relegated to fester in the recesses of memory. A strong inclusion in Directors’ Fortnight as well as a the perfect companion piece to Glavonic’s Berlin-bowing 2016 documentary Depth Two, The Load should take its contemplation of the contradictions inherent in coping with war on a tour of the festival circuit — and, coupled with its similarities to both The Wages Of Fear and Sorcerer, arthouse audiences are also likely to be receptive. Where Depth Two delved incisively into a true account of war crimes, The Load avoids specific details, instead focusing on just over a day in the life of truck driver Vlada (Leon Luvec). Making a living by ferrying cargo during airstrikes, he is charged with an important run from Kosovo to Belgrade. His instructions are simple: no stopping, and he must avoid traffic and attention. As for the truck’s contents, they are unknown — at least to him. Still, Vlada is aware of the murky moral terrain he is traversing — a match, of sorts, to the bombed-out landscape he is crossing. Glavonic peppers the journey with complications. As fire blocks the road, 18-year-old hitchhiker Pava (Pavle Cemerikic) offers the only new route and Vlada is swiftly forced to break all of the stated rules. To stare into Lucev’s eyes is to stare into the soul of a man silently burdened by pain and guilt. It is a memorable performance that could not better encapsulate The Load’s tone: pensive and piercing, albeit unfurling patiently. The Croatian star is not short on words, but speaks volumes when he isn’t uttering a thing — all of which cinematographer Tatjana Krstevski (returning from Depth Two) captures with precision, often from within the truck.
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DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT Ser-Fr-Cro-Iran-Qat. 2018. 98mins Director/screenplay Ognjen Glavonic Production companies Non-Aligned Films, Cinéma Defacto, Kinorama, Three Gardens Film International sales New Europe Film Sales, jan@neweuropefilmsales. com Producers Dragana Jovovic, Stefan Ivancic, Ognjen Glavonic, Sophie Erbs Production design Zorana Petrov Editing Jelena Maksimovic Cinematography Tatjana Krstevski Main cast Leon Luvec, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic, Ivan Lucev, Igor Bencina, Radoje Cupic
If wanting to be a good mother and being a good mother were the same thing, Marlene (Marion Cotillard) would pass with flying colours. A party girl who pays more attention to her make-up than she does to the care of her smart, horribly lonely eight-year-old daughter Elli, Marlene is the kind of well-meaning screw-up that actors love to play but audiences do not necessarily line up to watch. A very affecting performance by Ayline Aksoy-Etaix as Elli — the ‘Angel Face’ (Gueule d’ange) of the title — is the main attraction of this debut film by Vanessa Filho. How Marlene ended up with such a smart, poised daughter is a mystery. A friend’s stab at an explanation finds the girl wondering whether her dad was some guy named Einstein, but accepting that she will never know because the whole thing happened “in the dark”. The entire cast does its best with borderline hackneyed material, and the proceedings are nicely shot by ace cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman. Anybody with functioning reproductive organs can have a child, but this film reminds us that being a parent is a major and neverending commitment, too overwhelming for some. A big chunk of the first half of the film is devoted to Marlene’s wedding to Jean (Stéphane Rideau). That very same evening, Jean finds Marlene doing something you are not supposed to do if you are married, let alone on your wedding night. It looks as if she is going to go on being a single — and singular — mother. Marlene lurches from bad choice to bad choice without ever really registering that she is supposed to look out for her child. Riveted to bad reality TV, Marlene tells Elli to do her homework only to be told that it is still summer vacation. When Marlene goes on an extended hiatus with some guy she meets, leaving a heartfelt phone message that she is “not far away” and “thinks about” Elli every day — but no food or money — Elli is left to her own devices. At the local fairground, Elli meets Julio (Alban Lenoir), a former cliff-diver forced to retire or else risk his heart “exploding”. Elli decides that Julio will make a good substitute father and finds excuses to install herself in his trailer. Julio’s own dad lives in the apartment across the landing from Marlene but never answers the door. Why not? “I was a rotten kid,” the now kind and upright adult explains to curious Elli.
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The Everybody Knows team in the town of Torrelaguna. From left: Ricardo Darin, director Asghar Farhadi, Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darin
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his year could not have started better at Film Madrid, the Region of Madrid filming promotion office: one of the most eagerly awaited productions of the year and Cannes’ opening film, Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, was shot entirely on location in the Spanish region. The screenplay of the film, starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin, was written to measure by the Iranian director, not only for his Spanish-speaking cast but also for the location itself. Most of Everybody Knows was shot in the town of Torrelaguna, about an hour’s drive north of Madrid, and a few other locations in the outskirts of the Spanish capital. Farhadi wrote the scenes with prechosen settings in mind; even the interiors were filmed on location. Alvaro Longoria, of the film’s Spanish co-producer Morena Films, describes Torrelaguna as a character in the story. “It’s a fantastic location, very fitting for Farhadi,” he says. “He is an aesthete and appreciated its beauty.” The Iranian director was apparently so delighted by his experience shooting in Spain that he is looking to make another project in the country. Part of Spain’s appeal to international filmmakers is its enhanced financial incentives that now provide a 20% tax rebate on the Spanish costs of feature films, TV series, animated features and documentaries. A big one has already come knocking at Film Madrid’s door: Paramount (Right) La Tribu
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In the know Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, the next instalment in the Terminator franchise, a slew of Spanish productions and new tax incentives are keeping Madrid busy. Elisabet Cabeza reports Pictures’ reboot of the Terminator saga, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. With shooting scheduled for early summer, the production will use several locations in the region, standing in for the USMexico border. Locations magnet Though most film commissions and service companies in Spain believe more shoots could be attracted if the incentives were higher — both in percentage terms but also in the limit of $3.7m (¤3m) per production — the diversity of locations, the climate and the quality of the local crews are on the plus side. “We might not be as competitive yet as other European countries, but productions like the new Terminator are drawn by an audiovisual industry that is reliable, and by the new incentives,” says Samuel Castro, co-ordinator at Film Madrid. According to Fresco Film, the service company that has worked with HBO on the Spanish locations for Game Of Thrones and is now working with
‘Productions are drawn by an audiovisual industry that is reliable and by the new incentives’ Samuel Castro, Film Madrid
Paramount on Terminator, international productions are aware they will find everything they need in Spain, from a good crew to equipment and vehicles. Fresco also worked on Dome Karukoski’s Tom Of Finland, which shot partly in Madrid. The company’s CEO, Peter Welter, was very happy with the experience and the support it received from Film Madrid. Asked for an anecdote that makes him smile, Welter remembers: “Shooting in a small town in the south of Spain, an actor in Game Of Thrones decided to go out on his mountain bike. The crowd outside the hotel spotted him and started chasing him, like in a scene from Forrest Gump. Luckily, he arrived at the location and managed to go out, unseen, through another exit. In a warm culture like the
Mediterranean, one where people can come up to an actor and take a picture without asking, privacy is sometimes an issue, but in cities it gets easier. That’s an advantage [to shooting in Madrid].” In a bid to attract more international producers, Film Madrid is organising a trip for producers from China, Taiwan, India and Japan in June to explore the region and companies. Spanish productions are also the target of the Region of Madrid’s filming promotion office, which opened in 2016. It has already welcomed local shoots including Daniel Calparsoro’s thriller The Warning and Fernando Colomo’s comedy La Tribu, both already released in Spain. The region has also seen a significant rise in TV productions from Movistar Plus and Netflix. This year it is expecting to host features including Lino Escalera’s Hamburgo and a documentary on artist Goya by veteran filmmaker Jose Luis Lopez Linares. The latter is one of four projects Film Madrid is presenting here tomorrow at Plage Le Goéland at midday. The other three are Boss (Jefe) by Sergio Barrejon and produced by Carlo D’Ursi; Endless (Sin Fin) by Cesar and Jose Esteban Alenda; and Lost And Found (Objetos Perdidos), an animation s feature from Zampano Productions. ■
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Spanish lessons As new financial mechanisms for both local and international producers settle in, Spain is becoming an increasingly attractive co-producer and filming location. Elisabet Cabeza reports
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wo Spanish collaborations open and close Cannes Film Festival this year: Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows and Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. They might not have a Spanish director at the helm, but both have Spanish producers behind them, were shot in Spain and, when it comes to Everybody Knows, there is a hard-to-beat line-up of Spanish co-stars in Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who are joined by Argentinian’s Ricardo Darin. Throughout Spain, producers can be found discussing the government’s funding policy, the push for gender parity spurred by the worldwide #MeToo movement, the reduction in the highest ticket levy in Europe from 21% to 10%, the impact of the US streaming giants and higher tax incentives to attract international shoots. These producers acknowledge they are still struggling to raise financing for local films, with public funding far below the levels of other European countries such as France or Italy. But a significant number have overcome this challenge to produce either local hits or arthouse films that are achieving international awareness via the festival circuit, such as Ramon Salazar’s Berlinale Panorama title Sunday’s Illness, which was snapped up by Netflix. There are high expectations for an active new wave of filmmakers, such as Salazar, at the same time as well-established names such as Pedro Almodovar, Isabel Coixet, Julio Medem and Alejandro Amenabar are all busy with new projects. Almodovar’s Pain And Glory ((Dolor Y Glo-
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ria), set to shoot this summer, is about a filmmaker reflecting on his past. In Cannes, Spanish features include Petra, the long-awaited return of Croisette regular Jaime Rosales (Beautiful Youth), and Arantxa Echevarria’s Carmen & Lola, which are both screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Un Certain Regard is premiering the Argentina-Spain coproduction El Angel, directed by Luis Ortega. Furthermore, Damian Nenow and Raul de la Fuente’s animated feature Another Day Of Life Life, a co-production with Poland and Belgium, is a late addition to the official selection as a special screening. Points subsidy system In January 2016, the national film body and government agency Instituto de la Cinematografia y Artes Visuales (ICAA), introduced a $34m (¤30m) financing mechanism for local producers. The more points a submitted project gets on paper, the more funding it will receive. One enhancement recently introduced after consultation with the industry is the rise of up to seven points for films with women in key posts, including director, producer or screenwriter. (Left) Isabel Coixet
Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darin in Everybody Knows
‘Competition’ is a word often used by producers when talking about the new points system. All agree on the need to increase the public support for the industry but the new points system has sparked some tensions, with concerns that there is a fixed amount to be shared — and it is not a large amount. In this context, Antonio Saura, executive director of sales company Latido Films and a producer himself, reflects on the Spanish presence in Cannes. “It’s a
miracle that such good films are being made and a credit to the producers behind them,” he says. Oscar Graefenhain, who was appointed as ICAA’s director in November 2016, is aware of the difficulties the sector has to deal with. When asked if there is a possibility of increasing the government support, he says: “We hope that, in the end, there’s more than ¤30m ($36m) for new projects, and that we are able to increase this amount this year.”
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Ramon Salazar and Barbara Lennie during the filming of Sunday’s Illness
STRONG CONNECTION SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA Gaston Duprat’s My Masterpiece
A special RELATIONSHIP Co-productions between Spain and Latin America are a longstanding tradition. Elisabet Cabeza reports hanks to a shared language, there is a longstanding tradition of co-production between Spain and Latin America. Companies such as Tornasol (The Man Who Killed Don Quixote) have strong bonds with Latin America and hits including Juan Jose Campanella’s Oscar-winning Argentinian film The Secret In Their Eyes to its credit. Tornasol is now working on Alvaro Brechner’s political drama A Twelve Year Night (previously titled Memories From The Cell ), which is set during Uruguay’s military dictatorship. It is a co-production between Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and France. Barcelona’s Mediapro and A Contracorriente both work regularly with Latin American filmmakers and producing partners. Mediapro has such a long relationship with Argentinian director Daniel Burman that the Catalan group recently appointed Burman to the position of head of content for the US and Mexico. It has also worked with Argentinian filmmakers Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn on The Distinguished Citizen, My Masterpiece and 4x4, respectively. Adolfo Blanco’s A Contracorriente, which co-
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ICAA should know by June, after the government’s budget is ratified in parliament. (The lowering of the levy on cinema tickets from 21% to 10% is also pending the government’s budget ratification. However, it is yet to be seen whether this will result in a reduction in the cost of cinema tickets, despite years of lobbying by the film industry.) Graefenhain believes that once the new points system has bedded in, ICAA will also be able to start funding strategies in 2020 to support “priority areas”, such as script development and distribution. Financial incentives aimed at attracting international film and TV production to Spain have also been enhanced. Last year, a 20% tax rebate on the Span-
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ish costs of features, TV series, animation and documentaries with a minimum local spend of $1.2m (¤1m) was introduced (it was previously 15%). The rebate may not exceed $3.6m (¤3m) per production. The Canary Islands has the most generous financial incentive in Spain, sporting a tax rebate of 40% (up from 35%). It also has a minimum spend of $1.2m (¤1m) but with a limit set at $5.4m (¤4.5m). Additionally, Navarre offers a tax credit of 35% of eligible expenses. Interest has been increasing, mainly for TV series, but there is belief other factors heighten the appeal of shooting in the country: diverse natural and architectural landscape, temperate climate, good transport network and experienced crews. Service companies such as Fresco Film, which has worked on HBO’s Game Of Thrones and is also handling the next Terminator film to be shot partly in Spain, know the benefits first-hand. As Fresco Film’s chief executive Peter Welter puts it: “Spain is very attractive. In a matter of hours you can go from a mountain forest to the coast, a desert, a plain, from a medieval fortress to a modern city, »
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produced The Distinguished Citizen, is now closing a deal for a big co-production involving Chile and France. No further details are yet known. A lot of smaller producing outlets are also busy at work on Latin American collaborations including Zentropa Spain, which is developing C Martin Ferrera’s El Año De La Plaga, with Mexico’s Cinema226, and Sin Rodeos Films, which is producing Venezuelan director Claudia Pinto’s Las Consecuencias — winner of the Eurimages co-production development award at San Sebastian Film Festival. Due to a perceived growth in interest in Latin America from other European territories, including France and Italy, Spanish producers are hoping for an increase in public incentives and a policy to clear some of the red tape involved in setting up a Spain-Latin America co-production. ICAA is readying a renewal of the bilateral agreement between Spain and Argentina that “will help financial co-productions that were not possible up to now”, according to ICAA director Oscar Graefenhain. He also underlines the key role played by the Ibermedia programme in fostering co-productions.
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even a rice field. Salaries are competitive, though social security costs are not.” What can Spain improve on? “We need a big studio, fit for big-budget international productions since the only one we had, Ciudad de la Luz in Alicante, closed,” says Welter. “We also need to ease the bureaucracy, create a better juridical framework for service companies and have a better tax incentive policy. “When big international productions hear about the $3.4m (¤3m) limit per production, we risk losing them to Hungary or the UK,” he continues. “It’s a shame, because those countries don’t have the same landscape diversity and climate for exterior shooting that we have.” The Netflix effect The impact of the US streaming giants is also provoking discussion in Spain. Net flix bought Spanish rights to Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Loving Pablo after it had been released theatrically in the territory by Filmax International. “Loving Pablo worked in Spain even better than we expected, and it has been a success abroad,” says the film’s producer Miguel Menendez de Zubillaga of Mono Films. “Netflix is clearly a key player in the
‘The Spanish market is getting more and more polarised’ Antonio Saura, Latido Films
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industry and you have to work with them. We had pre-sold a lot of territories before we talked to them, but Spain wasn’t sold and they put such a good offer on the table that we couldn’t refuse.” ICAA’s Graefenhain points out that Netflix should be subject to the same rules as Spain’s other streaming companies. “Spanish platforms have to invest [a proportion of their profit] in an estab-
lished percentage of European productions, so others should do it too,” he says. “We should regulate it somehow and Europe is working on it.” Spain’s private TV groups, Mediaset, Atresmedia and the public broadcaster Television Espanola, are continuing to invest in local films, usually ones with broad commercial appeal that will play well in prime time. Comedies reign
supreme and Javier Fesser’s Champions, produced by Morena Films and Spanish platform Movistar Plus, is the highestgrossing Spanish film of the year so far on $10.2m (¤9m). It is closely followed by two further comedies, Alex de la Iglesia’s Perfect Strangers and Fernando Colomo’s The Tribe. Total box office in the first four months of 2018 has gone up 7.5% compared with the same period last year, but not everything is rosy. “The Spanish market is getting more and more polarised,” says veteran producer Antonio Saura of Latido Films. “On one hand, you have big-budget boxoffice hits and on the other, small auteur films. Medium-sized productions, that before were key in the Spanish film s industry, are struggling.” n
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de la Torre and Belen Cuesta lead the cast in a story about people who hid in their homes for years after the Spanish Civil War, in fear of General Franco’s repressive policies. Contact Film Factory Entertainment info@filmfactory.es IN POST-PRODUCTION
Miriam Miente Dirs Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada This coming-of-age drama is produced by Paco Poch’s Mallerich Films and Dominican Republic’s Faula Films. Directors Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada showcased the project at Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte and Guadalajara film festival, where it won two post-production awards. Contact Latido Films latido@latidofilms.com IN PRE-PRODUCTION
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Dir Oliver Laxe Oliver Laxe’s first feature, You All Are Captains, won the Fipresci prize in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010. On his return to Cannes in 2016, he won the Critics’ Week grand prize with Mimosas. Laxe has again co-written the screenplay for his new film with Santiago Fillol.
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Dir Celia Rico Lola Duenas and Anna Castillo star in Journey To A Mother’s Room, which is the first feature by Celia Rico. It is about what happens to the relationship between a mother and daughter living in a small town in southern Spain when the daughter leaves home. Barcelona-based Amoros Productions and Arcadia Motion Pictures are producing the drama with Pecado Films and France’s Noodles Production. The project participated in Berlinale Talents at script stage in 2015. Contact Arcadia Motion Pictures sandra. tapia@arcadiamotionpictures.com
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Pedro Almodovar is working on his new film, Pain And Glory (Dolor Y Gloria). Shooting will start in July and will feature two of the director’s favourite actors: Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz. Almodovar says the story is about “a film director in the twilight of his career” and his reflections on life and work: “First loves, second loves, his mother, mortality, an actor who worked with him in the past, the seventies, the eighties, his present, the unbearable void brought by the fact he cannot keep on shooting.” In his eighth collaboration with the Spanish director, Banderas will play the central role alongside Asier Etxendia. Cruz and Julieta Serrano are in “key supporting roles”.
Miriam Miente, directed by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada
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La Trinchera Infinita Dirs Aitor Arregi, Jon Garano, Jose Mari Goenaga The team behind Basque titles including Flowers (Loreak), Spain’s entry for the best
foreign-language Oscar in 2015, and 10-time Goya winning Giant, which premiered at San Sebastian Film Festival last September, have started shooting their new feature, La Trinchera Infinita (literally, ‘Infinite Trench’). It is the first time they have shot in Spanish. Antonio
Alice Waddington’s much-anticipated debut feature Paradise Hills is now shooting in Spain. A young talent who has made her name in short films (Disco Inferno), photography, fashion shoots and costume design, Waddington will put her imagination to work on this sci-fi story set in a boarding school. The screenplay, with plenty of strong female roles, is written by Nacho Vigalondo and Brian DeLeeuw. The film is in English and has an international cast led by Emma Roberts and Danielle Macdonald, the breakout star of Sundance hit Patti Cake$. Contact Good Universe info@good-universe.com
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diva planning her comeback. One month before doing so, she has an accident and wakes up with amnesia. A fan helps her remember who she once was. Najwa Nimri, Natalia De Molina, Carme Elias and Eva Llorach star in the film, which is produced by Apaches Entertainment.
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Dir Albert Serra Following the critical success of The Death Of Louis XIV, Cannes regular Albert Serra is working on his next project I Am An Artist. As well as writing and directing, Serra is also producing through his company, Andergraun Films. Shooting is scheduled for summer 2019. The film will reflect on contemporary art, creativity and the idea of art as industry. In the meantime Serra is starting another film, Personalien, to be shot this summer. It will ponder themes such as the work of the actor, libertines and the 18th century.
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The Tree Of Blood Dir Julio Medem Julio Medem is one of a series of established Spanish directors heading back behind the camera this year. The Tree Of Blood is his first film since 2015’s Ma Ma, which starred Penelope Cruz. Shooting has wrapped and the film, produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures, is now in post-production. Ursula Corbero and Alvaro Cervantes lead a strong cast that includes Marta Etura, Angela Molina and Najwa Nimri.
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Quien Te Cantara Dir Carlos Vermut The new film by Carlos Vermut, the director of Magical Girl, is a femaledriven drama about a former music
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through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
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(Iran) 100mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei. Three actresses at different stages of their careers: one from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution; one a popular star of today in Iran; and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
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(France) 100mins. Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson. Cast: Halldora Geirharosdottir. Halla declares a onewoman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life. Critics’ Week Miramar
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(France) 90mins. Dir: Gaspar Noe. A tense film about a group of young dancers on a getaway that goes wrong. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
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(France) 115mins. Dir: Eva Husson. Cast: Emmanuelle Bercot. A young lawyer visits her family in a small town in Kurdistan. In a bloody attack led by extremists, her husband is killed and she’s taken prisoner with her son and thousands of other women and children. A few months after her escape, she’s
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(Belgium) 98mins. Dir: Guillaume Senez. Cast: Romain Duris, Laure Calamy, Lucie Debay, Laetitia Dosch, Lena Girard, Basile Grunberger. Olivier does the best he can to fight injustice at work. But when his wife
Laura abandons the family home, he is left alone to juggle between the children’s needs, life’s daily challenges and his job. Faced with these new responsibilities, he struggles to find a balance… because Laura’s not coming back. Critics’ Week Bunuel
now the commander of the ‘Girls of the Sun’, a female battalion. The objective: to take back the town where she was captured and bring back her hostage son. By her side is Mathilde, a veteran war reporter.
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(Brazil) 96mins. Dir: George Sluizer. Cast: Joffre Soares, Ana Maria Miranda, Joao-Augusto Azevedo. Joao, a poor and elderly hunter and cattle ranger marries Maria, a 19-yearold village girl, against logic and advice. As he cannot have children with his young bride, he travels to the Amazonian forest to make some money to give her a better life. On his return as a rich man four years later, he finds Maria carrying a little girl. He buys a knife
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(US) 98mins. Dir: Ramin Bahrani. Cast: Sofia Boutella, Michael Shannon, Michael B Jordan. Set in an America where reading is banned: a young man whose job as a fireman is to burn all books questions his actions and begins to rebel after meeting a young girl. Out of Competition Bazin Press
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because he doubts his wife’s fidelity. Will Joao be able to refrain from hurting the one he loves so much? Cannes Classics Bunuel
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(India) 112mins. Dir: Nandita Das. Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal. Charts the most tumultuous four years in the life of Manto and that of the two countries he inhabits: India and Pakistan. In Bombay’s seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings. His increasing alcoholism leads him into a downward spiral. Through all of this, he continues to write prolifically, without dilution. This is the tale of two emerging nations, two faltering cities, and one man who tries to make sense of it all. Un Certain Regard Debussy Press
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(Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Anja Kofmel. Cast: Joel Basman, Megan Gay. Croatia, January 7, 1992: in the middle of the Yugoslav wars, a young journalist is found dead, dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later his cousin, Anja Kofmel, investigates his story. Critics’ Week Miramar
(Tunisia) 105mins. Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia. Cast: Mohamed Dhrif, Mouna Mejri, Zakaria Ben Ayed, Imen Cherif, Taylan Mintas, Tarik Copti. Riadh is about to retire from his job as a forklift operator at the port of Tunis. The life he shares with his wife Nazli revolves around their only son Sami, who is preparing for his high school exams. The boy’s repeated migraine attacks are a cause of much worry to his parents. But when he finally seems to be getting better, Sami suddenly disappears. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
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(Brazil) 94mins. Dir: Carlos Diegues. Cast: Jesuita Barbosa, Bruna Linzmeyer, Rafael Lozano. Follows a century in the lives of the Knieps, an Austrian family of circus owners. Out of Competition Bazin Press
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(Serbia) 98mins. Dir: Ognjen Glavonic. Cast: Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic. Vlada works as a truck driver during the Nato bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives
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Ladislav Jansky, Ivan Asic. The journey of two teenage Jewish boys who are trying to stay alive after escaping from a German train bound for a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Cannes Classics Bunuel
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(US) 98mins. Dir: Ramin Bahrani. Cast: Sofia Boutella, Michael Shannon, Michael B Jordan. Out of Competition Salle Du 60eme
MURDER ME, MONSTER
(Argentina) 103mins. Dir: Alejandro Fadel. Cast: Esteban Bigliardi, Francisco Carrasco, Tania Casciani. Rural police officer Cruz investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman’s body found in a
remote region in the Andes. Un Certain Regard Debussy Press
OUR STRUGGLES
THE WORLD IS YOURS
(France) 110mins. Dir: Romain Gavras. Cast: Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Adjani. Francois is tired of being a petty drug dealer: his dream is to set up an ice lolly franchise in Morocco. But his ambition is smashed when he discovers that his mother, a compulsive gambler, has burnt through his savings. Putin, the local gang leader, offers Francois one last job in Spain so that he can make some money he desperately needs. Directors’ Fortnight Cinema Le Raimu
WOMAN AT WAR
(France) 100mins. Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson. Cast: Halldora Geirharosdottir. Critics’ Week Studio 13
14:30
(Belgium) 98mins. Dir: Guillaume Senez. Cast: Romain Duris, Laure Calamy, Lucie Debay, Laetitia Dosch, Lena Girard, Basile Grunberger. Critics’ Week Miramar
surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a perilous journey back to the wilderness, where they are finally forced to confront conflicting desires — a longing for community versus a fierce need to live apart. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
16:00
15:00
FIGHTS
LEAVE NO TRACE
(US) 108mins. Dir: Debra Granik. Cast: Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey. For years, Will and his teenage daughter, Tom, have lived off the grid, blissfully undetected by authorities in a vast nature reserve on the edge of Portland, Oregon. When a chance encounter blows their cover, they’re removed from their camp and put into the charge of social services. Struggling to adapt to their new
(Senegal) 18mins. Dir: Paulin Soumanou Vieyra. The traditional fight called ‘Lamb’ in Wolof, reminiscent of the GrecoRoman struggle, is a popular national sport in Senegal. It has special and very strict rules. Wrestlers train on the beach. They are preparing for their future fights. The fight take place and are presented as a sport and a folk festival, following the African tradition. Cannes Classics Bunuel
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16:15 ANGEL FACE
(France) 108mins. Dir: Vanessa Filho. Cast: Marion Cotillard, Ayline Etaix, Alban Lenoir, Amelie Daure. One day, Marlene suddenly chooses to abandon her daughter for a man she has just met after yet another night of excess. Elli must confront her mother’s demons to get her back. Un Certain Regard Salle Du 60eme
16:30 HAPPY AS LAZZARO
(Italy) 125mins. Dir: Alice Rohrwacher. Cast: Nicoletta Braschi. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious
that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. Competition Lumiere Ticket required, press
HYENES
(Senegal) 110mins. Dir: Djibril Diop Mambety. After being kicked out of her African village three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Linguere Ramatou has returned home. While Linguere has done well for herself, her home village has fallen on hard economic times. Intent on punishing Draman Drameh, the man who fathered her child but refused to own up to the act, Linguere makes a proposal: she will help the town financially, if the locals agree to execute Draman. Cannes Classics Bunuel
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SCREENINGS “The Quebecois teenage answer to Frances Ha.” - THE NEW YORK TIMES
SLUT IN A GOOD WAY
TREAT ME LIKE FIRE
(France) 110mins. Dir: Marie Monge. Cast: Tahar Rahim, Stacy Martin. When Ella meets Abel she discovers the world of Paris gaming circles. Directors’ Fortnight Cinema Alexandre III
WILDLIFE
(US) 104mins. Dir: Paul Dano. Cast: Carey Mulligan. In the 1960s, 14-yearold Joe witnesses the dissolution of his mother and father’s relationship. Critics’ Week Theatre De La Licorne
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TODAY / 09:30 / Lerins 2
When 17-year-old Charlotte’s newfound sexual empowerment gives her the ‘perfect score’ in a game created by her male coworkers, she bands her female colleagues together to go on a sex strike.
THOMAS MANN
LAIA COSTA
(Me and Earl and the Dying Girl)
(Victoria)
Schmidt. Cast: Carloto Cotta, Cleo Tavares.
Critics’ Week Miramar
Critics’ Week Cinema Alexandre III
18:15
19:30
CLIMAX
SINK OR SWIM
(France) 90mins. Dir: Gaspar Noe.
See box, below
Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
18:45
19:45 POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD
(UK) 164mins. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood.
(US) 96mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Pope Francis, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, John Kerry. Wenders follows the Pope around the world.
Cannes Classics Debussy Press
Special Screenings Salle Du 60eme
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
19:00
20:00
THE WORLD IS YOURS
3 FACES
(Italy) 125mins. Dir: Alice Rohrwacher. Cast: Nicoletta Braschi.
(France) 110mins. Dir: Romain Gavras. Cast: Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel.
Competition Bazin Press
Directors’ Fortnight Studio 13
(Iran) 100mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei.
HAPPY AS LAZZARO
MARKET SCREENING:
Cast: Joel Basman, Megan Gay.
17:15 CHRIS THE SWISS
(Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Anja Kofmel.
Competition Olympia 1
DIAMANTINO
(Portugal, France, Brazil) 92mins. Dir: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel
A VIOLENT DESIRE FOR JOY
(France) 75mins. Dir: Clement Schneider.
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MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 12:00 / Palais I
Backpacking alone on the Appalachian trail, a married woman meets a younger hiker and the two strangers become inexplicably drawn to one another. CANNES OFFICE: Lerins M4 +1.617.835.6307 info@visitfilms.com
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19:30 SINK OR SWIM
(France) 122mins. Dir: Gilles Lellouche. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Efira, Guillaume Canet. A group of forty-something guys, going through a midlife crisis, decide to form their local pool’s first ever synchronised swimming team for men. Braving the
scepticism and ridicule of those around them, and trained by a fallen champion trying to pull herself back together, the group set out on an unlikely adventure, and on the way will rediscover a little self-esteem and a lot about themselves and each other. Out of Competition Bazin Ticket required
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SCREENINGS
Nele Hardiman, Victor Polster. Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina. Un Certain Regard Salle Du 60eme
22:00 GIRLS OF THE SUN
(France) 115mins. Dir: Eva Husson. Cast: Emmanuelle Bercot. Competition Olympia 1
MURDER ME, MONSTER
(Argentina) 103mins. Dir: Alejandro Fadel. Cast: Esteban Bigliardi, Francisco Carrasco. Un Certain Regard Debussy Press
22:15 SINK OR SWIM
FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:30 SHOPLIFTERS
(Japan) 121mins. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda. Cast: Franky Lily, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Kilin Kiki, Kairi Jyo, Miyu Sasaki. Cast: Quentin Dolmaire, Grace Seri, Francis Leplay, Franc Bruneau, Vincent Cardona. 1792: the monastery of a young monk is requisitioned by revolutionary troops as a barracks. ACID Arcades 1
OUR STRUGGLES
(Belgium) 98mins.
A father and son find a little girl on the street and take her home. Before long, secrets are revealed and family bonds are tested. Competition Lumiere Ticket required
Dir: Guillaume Senez. Cast: Romain Duris, Laure Calamy, Lucie Debay, Laetitia Dosch, Lena Girard, Basile Grunberger. Critics’ Week Miramar
20:30 THE LOAD
(Serbia) 98mins. Dir: Ognjen Glavonic. Cast: Leon Lucev, Pavle
Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic. Directors’ Fortnight Olympia 2
20:45
but his liberal court judgements are not liked by everyone.
(France) 122mins. Dir: Gilles Lellouche. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Efira.
Cinema On The Beach Plage Mace
Special Screenings Bazin Press
DEAR SON
MANDY
(Tunisia) 105mins. Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia. Cast: Mohamed Dhrif, Mouna Mejri, Zakaria Ben Ayed, Imen Cherif, Taylan Mintas, Tarik Copti.
(Belgium) 120mins. Dir: Panos Cosmatos. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache. A broken and haunted man seeks vengeance against a biker gang who slaughtered the love of his life.
Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
21:30 DESTINY
(Egypt) 135mins. Dir: Youssef Chahine. Cast: Nour El-Sherif. Famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph
Directors’ Fortnight Studio 13
21:45 GIRL
(Belgium) 100mins. Dir: Lukas Dhont. Cast: Valentijn Dhaenens,
22:30 CHRIS THE SWISS
MARKET SCREENINGS
09:15 BISBEE ’17
(US) 118mins. Metfilm Sales. Dir: Robert Greene. Cast: James West. An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1,200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past. Gray 2
LOVE X DOC
(Japan) 114mins. Asmik Ace. Dir: Osamu Suzuki. Cast: Yo Yoshida, Shuhei Nomura, Ryoko Hirosue, Tamaki Hiroshi. Asuka’s vulnerability to love ends up costing her job and best friend. So she calls in at the Love Doc, which offers her a vaccine against bad relationships. Can it put her on the “right” romantic track?
(Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Anja Kofmel. Cast: Joel Basman, Megan Gay.
Gray 4
Critics’ Week Miramar
(Italy) 120mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Gianni Zanasi. Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston.
MANDY
(Belgium) 120mins. Dir: Panos Cosmatos. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache. Directors’ Fortnight Arcades 1
SHOPLIFTERS See box, above left
LUCIA’S GRACE
Olympia 9 Priority badges only
09:30 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON
(Germany) 115mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Emily Atef. Cast: Marie Baumer,
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SCREENINGS
Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hubner, Robert Gwisdek, Denis Lavant. In a spa hotel Romy Schneider — the biggest female star in Europe of her time — gives her last interview to two journalists. Three days, driven by romantic desire, professional ambition and the urge for living. Lerins 4
A MAN IN A HURRY
(France) 107mins. Gaumont. Dir: Herve Mimran. Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Leila Bekhti. Going back to the essential, taking a break, listening to oneself… a powerful man facing a difficult situation he can’t control: exasperating for him, very odd for his entourage and funny for the audience. Arcades 1
A TOUCH OF SPRING
(Canada) 88mins.
Filmoption International. Dir: Xiaodan He. Cast: Wen-Si Yan, Emile Proulx Cloutier. Li Fang is a Chinese immigrant who has been living in Montreal for more than 10 years. Her infertility and her violent separation from her Quebecois husband have pushed her to the brink of despair. Escaping the chaos in Montreal, Li Fang visits her grandfather in Dazu in south China. The support and inspiration provided by her family and an old lover helps her break the impasse in her life. Palais B
being reunite with their daughter Aga, who left the slowly eroding traditional way of life a long time ago.
found in front of a district attorney’s boat who is pursuing a child serial killer. Olympia 3
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JULIET, NAKED ASH IS PUREST WHITE
(China) 150mins. MK2 Films. Dir: Jia Zhangke. Cast: Zhao Tao, Fan Liao. China, 2001: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect her lover. This lands her five years in prison. Upon her release, Qiao goes looking for Bin to try and start over again.
(US) 105mins. Rocket Science. Dir: Jesse Peretz. Cast: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O’Dowd. A heart-warming romantic comedy about love and life’s second chances that follows the story of long-suffering Annie, her music-obsessed boyfriend Duncan, and music star Tucker Crowe, the object of Duncan’s obsession. Palais H
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AGA
(Bulgaria) 96mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Milko Lazarov. Cast: Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Galina Tikhonova. In the snowy Northern wilderness, Nanook and Sedna dream of
INTERFERENCE
LOUISE LECAVALIER — IN MOTION
(US) 85mins. LDF Pictures. Dir: Linda Di Franco. Cast: Bruce Thomas, Tom Wisdom, Leona Paraminski. A retiring detective must discover the identity of a half-charred woman
(Canada) 102mins. Filmoption International. Dir: Raymond St-Jean. Cast: Louise Lecavalier, Robert Abubo, Patrick Lamothe, Frederic Tavernini, Marc Beland, Pierre-Mary Toussaint,
Kier Knight, Angelo Barsetti. The inspiring story of an irrepressible artist who, revolutionised contemporary dance in the 1980s. Palais D
LOVE EXPRESS. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
THE MAN WHO STOLE BANKSY
(UK) 91mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Marco Proserpio. Cast: Iggy Pop, Stephan Keszler, Annabelle Gauberti. An adventure about street art, donkeys and capitalism. Arcades 3
(Poland) 72mins. New Europe Film Sales. Dir: Kuba Mikurda. Cast: Noel Very, Andrzej Wajda, Terry Gilliam, Neil Jordan. An account of a tumultuous relationship between high art, sexuality and the market illustrated by the puzzling career of maverick filmmaker and visual artist Walerian Borowczyk, celebrated by film critics and festivals in the 1970s and swallowed by the soft-porn circuit in the 1980s.
MY FAVORITE FABRIC
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(France) 95mins. UDI — Urban Distribution International. Dir: Gaya Jiji. Cast: Manal Issa, Ula Tabari, Souraya Baghdadi. Damascus, spring 2011, in the early stages of the revolution: Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with a Syrian expatriate in America. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister, Nahla finds refuge with her neighbour.
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SCREENINGS
SLUT IN A GOOD WAY
money reign supreme.
(Canada) 89mins. Visit Films. Dir: Sophie Lorain. Cast: Marguerite Bouchard, Romane Denis, Rose Adam, Alex Godbout, Anthony Therrien, Vassili Schneider. When 17-year-old Charlotte discovers that her newfound sexual empowerment has all been part of a game created by her male co-workers, she bands her female colleagues together to go on a sex strike.
Olympia 2
11:00 I TO EYE: STORIES OF DISABILITY IN VR
44mins. Gesher Multicultural Film Fund. Next VR Cinema Ticket required
11:30 AMIN
Lerins 2
THE WALDHEIM WALTZ
(Austria) 93mins. Wide House. Dir: Ruth Beckermann. Cast: Kurt Waldheim. A film about truth and lies and how a dishonest man can rise to power. Palais F
09:45 A TWELVE-YEAR-NIGHT
(Spain) 122mins. Latido Films. Dir: Alvaro Brechner. Cast: Antonio De La Torre, Chino Darin, Alfonso Tort, Darine El Khatib. One autumn night in 1972, three political prisoners are taken from their cells in a secret military operation that will last 12 years. The three men remain isolated in tiny cells in which they spend most of the time with hoods over their heads. Among them is Pepe Mujica — later to become president of Uruguay. Lerins 3 Priority badges only
BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE
(US) 90mins. The Film Sales Company. Dir: Pamela Green. Cast: Alice Guy, Evan Rachel Wood, Jodie Foster. How could Alice Guy Blache, a contemporary of Edison, the Lumieres, and Melies — who wrote, directed or produced a thousand films and who had a career longer than any of them — reach the heights of fame and financial success and then be forgotten by an industry she helped create? Olympia 8
MARKET 10:00 RUIN ME
(US) 87mins. Jinga Films. Dir: Preston DeFrancis. Cast: Marcienne Dwyer, Matt Dellapina, Chris Hill, Eva Hamilton, John Odom, Sam Ashdown,
Cameron Gordon, Rocky Rector. A horror re-enactment game turns into a nightmare when the participants find themselves up against a knife-wielding maniac. Palais G
MARIO
WHERE HANDS TOUCH
(Switzerland) 119mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Marcel Gisler. Cast: Max Hubacher, Aaron Altaras, Jessy Moravec. There’s a ripple of disquiet in the locker room when Leon, a new striker, joins the football team. Sharing a flat with keen rival Mario sets the scene for an unexpected love affair but the path of gay love in this macho world is not an easy one.
(UK) 118mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Amma Asante. Cast: Amandla Stenberg, George Mackay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston, Tom Sweet. An epic tale of forbidden love in war-torn Nazi Germany.
Gray 1
THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES
(US) 115mins. Dogwoof. Dir: Mark Cousins. Granted exclusive access to hundreds of private drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, filmmaker Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director and actor, to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before — through his own eyes, sketched with his own hand, painted with his own brush. Palais C
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10:00 BACK HOME
(Italy) 100mins. Fandango. Dir: Antonio Albanese. Cast: Antonio Albanese. A bittersweet — and occasionally surreal — comedy that sees an exasperated sales assistant from Milan take a street vendor back to Senegal. Lerins 1 By invitation only
Dir: Benjamin Goalabre. Cast: Michael Madsen, William Baldwin, Ivan Gonzalez, Cassie Howarth. What would you do if you woke up in the trunk of a car all tied up? Don’t expect to see any landscapes, you won’t get out of this hell hole. So buckle up! Olympia 5
DISCONNECTED
(Italy) 90mins. True Colours Glorious Films. Dir: Cristian Marazziti. Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Carolina Crescentini. A famous writer decides to spend a few days with his family in the mountains to celebrate his birthday. However, instead of enjoying this time together they are all stuck to their digital devices checking apps and emails. Everything changes when the internet connection suddenly disappears, making the guests panic. Being disconnected will force everyone to really talk to each other, to face their own insecurities and “reset” their relationships. Riviera 1
45mins. Telefilm Canada.
NEW HORIZONS’ POLISH DAYS GOES TO CANNES
CATS
(France) 105mins. All Rights Entertainment.
(Brazil) 88mins. Habanero. Dir: Andre Carvalheira. Cast: Renan Rovida, Murilo Grossi, Wellington Abreu, Andre Deca. An idealistic architect embarks on an ambitious real-estate development project, convinced that he could actually help transform people’s lives.
Riviera 2 Priority badges only
Gray 5
CANADA. BIG ON VR — PROGRAM 2 Next VR Cinema Ticket required
NEW LIFE INC
(France) 91mins. Pyramide International. Dir: Philippe Faucon. Cast: Moustapha Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Noureddine Benallouche. Amin came from Senegal nine years ago to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aisha and their three children. His work is his life, his friends the men who live with him in the social home. Aisha sees her husband only once or twice a year, for a week or two, sometimes a month. She accepts this situation as a necessity: the money that Amin sends to Senegal provides for several people. One day, Amin meets Gabrielle and begins a relationship.
110mins. New Horizons International Film Festival/New Horizons Association. Palais K
APRIL IN AUTUMN
RUIN ME
(Canada) 89mins. Raging River Pictures. Dir: Warren Sulatycky. Cast: Caitlyn Sponheimer, Elizabeth Stuart-Morris, Warren Sulatycky, Sandra Pascuzzi, Mike Sniezek, Constantine Pavlou, Jimmy Limb, Savannah Rankin, Oscar Moreno. April returns home after travelling abroad and unearths buried family secrets in her mother’s backyard that threaten the harmony of home.
See box, above
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TREAT ME LIKE FIRE
BROTHERS IN ARMS, THE MAKING OF PLATOON
PORTUGAL
(Estonia) 112mins. Estonian Film Institute. Dir: Lauri Lagle. Cast: Mirtel Pohla, Margus Prangel, Taavi Eelmaa, Jarmo Reha, Anne Turnpu. A story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost. Palais E
(France) 110mins. Playtime. Dir: Marie Monge. Cast: Tahar Rahim, Stacy Martin. Ella’s life is turned upside down when she meets Abel. Irresistibly drawn to this elusive lover, the young woman discovers the cosmopolitan, underground world of Paris gaming circles, where adrenaline and
(US) 100mins. VMI Worldwide. Dir: Sanchez Paul. Gray 2
GRANNIES ON THE RUN
(Italy) 90mins. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. Dir: Laszlo Barbo. Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Nunzia Schiano, Jordi Molla. »
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SCREENINGS
The adventure of Angela and Franca, who take the dream trip of their lives escaping from the retirement home to Venice.
Dir: Matthew Brown. Cast: Laia Costa, Thomas Mann.
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OUR HAPPY HOLIDAY
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(France) 100mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Patrick Cassir. Cast: Camille Chamoux, Jonathan Cohen, Camille Cottin. Marion and Ben are both in their thirties and have very little in common except the Tinder app. But Paris is hot in summer, so soon after their first date they decide to go to Bulgaria.
NANCY See box, right
OCTAV
(Romania) 100mins. The Little Film Company. Dir: Serge Ioan Celebidachi. Cast: Marcel Iures, Victor Rebengiuc, Eric Aradits, Alessia Tofan. A life-affirming story that celebrates the purity of childhood, friendship, love and the bitter sweetness of nostalgia.
Riviera 1 Press allowed
THE TOWER
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OFFICE UPRISING
(US) 95mins. The Exchange. Dir: Lin Oeding. Cast: Brenton Thwaites, Jane Levy, Karan Soni, Zachary Levi, Alan Richtson. The world’s leading arms manufacturer tests a new energy drink on its staff to see if they become more efficient workers. Unfortunately, the office is given the wrong formula and turns into hyperaggressive homicidal maniacs. Desmond, the resident office slacker, must step up his game to save his office crush and the rest of the planet from being infected or murdered by the growing horde of office zombies being led by his overzealous boss. Palais F
SHEHERAZADE
(France) 106mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin. Cast: Nacer Khemir. Zachary, 17, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. This is where he meets Sheherazade. Arcades 3
TOYS & PETS ADVENTURES
(China) 98mins. All Rights Entertainment. Atang lives in a shop and is the only toy that cannot change colour. One day, Atang meets a little robot and decides to join it on an adventure to find a
MARKET 11:30 NANCY
(US) 86mins. Cercamon. Dir: Christina Choe. Cast: Andrea Riseborough, J Smith-Cameron, Steve Buscemi, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo. Nancy is a 35-yearold temp living with her mother and cat in
a modest home in a modest town.When she encounters a couple whose five-year-old daughter went missing 30 years ago, fact and fiction begin to blur in Nancy’s mind, and she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents. Palais J
way back to his creator — and to finally change his colour.
her independence while her universe is struck by a series of crises.
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TRICKY OLD DOGS
(France) 90mins. Gaumont. Dir: Christophe Duthuron. Cast: Pierre Richard, Eddy Mitchell, Alice Pol. Three elderly men who have been friends since the 1960s bond over their lifetime of experiences together despite their differences. Arcades 1
VIRUS TROPICAL
(Colombia) 97mins. Stray Dogs. Dir: Santiago Caicedo. Cast: Alejandro Borrero, Maria Cecilia Sanchez, Martina Toro. Born in a not-soconventional family, Paola grows up between Ecuador and Colombia and finds herself unable to fit in. With a unique feminine vision of the world, she will have to fight against prejudice and struggle for
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11:45 DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN
(Germany) 91mins. Media Luna New Films. Dir: Isa Prahl. Cast: Bibiana Beglau, Bjarne Madel, Emma Bading, Janina Fautz, Louis Hofmann. Suddenly, the door is locked. A boy has shut himself in. His family stays out. In trying to cope with the situation, the door to his room increasingly mirrors his father’s, mother’s, and sister’s own lives. Lerins 4
12:00 THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
(Belgium) 90mins. Be For Films (Paris). Dir: Samuel Tilman. Cast: Fabrizio Rongione, Natacha Regnier, Baptiste Lalieu.
David is taken in for questioning by the police as part of a murder investigation. Before long the investigation reveals that all is not what it seems behind the happy and respectable facade of David’s life. Even if Noel, his best friend, and Marco, his lawyer, stand by him come what may, in his entourage doubt begins to spread and clans begin to form. Olympia 4
FROM SONG TO CINEMA: IMMERSIVE EXPLORATIONS
39mins. Twiceout. Next VR Cinema Ticket required
HISTORY OF LOVE
(Slovenia) 100mins. Slovenian Film Centre. Dir: Sonja Prosenc. For a night and a day a girl submerges into a world completely different from the one she is used to, only to come to terms with reality. Palais E By invitation only
I AM TEMPESTA
(Italy) 107mins. Intramovies. Dir: Daniele Luchetti. Cast: Marco Giallini, Elio Germano, Eleonora Danco. Sentenced to carry out one year’s community service at a day-care centre for homeless people, Numa Tempesta, a wealthy financier, tries every trick in the book to get himself off
the hook and cut short the unwelcome task. Palais G
I USED TO BE NORMAL: A BOYBAND FANGIRL STORY
(Australia) 92mins. Seville International. Dir: Jessica Leski. A documentary about fangirls — the beating heart of boybands for over five decades. Olympia 8
JUST BELIEVE
(Italy) 100mins. True Colours Glorious Films. Dir: Alessandro Aronadio. Cast: Edoardo Leo, Margherita Buy, Giuseppe Battiston. Massimo is the owner of a crumbling bed and breakfast with too few clients to host and too many taxes to pay. To make his business survive, he has a brilliant idea: he needs to turn the bed and breakfast into a sacred place of worship in which he can welcome and accommodate his “believers” tax free, just receiving a “generous” donation from them. But in order to do that, he must first found his own religion. Lerins 3
(Norway) 80mins. Jour2Fete Sales. Dir: Mats Grorud. Present-day Beiru: an 11-year-old Palestinian girl lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. The day Sidi gives her the key to his old house back in Galilee, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next. Lerins 1 Priority badges only
WHAT COUPLES DO
(Peru) 90mins. Habanero. Dir: Antolin Prieto. Cast: Pold Gastello, Fernanda Gutierrez, Mariana Palau. Three couples. A weekend escape. Nothing to do but to chill out and relax. What can go wrong? Gray 5
WINE CALLING
(France) 94mins. WTFilms. Dir: Bruno Sauvard. Follow over a year, from the harvest to the bottling, some of the most exciting of France’s new wine growers.
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YOU SHALL NOT SLEEP
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(Argentina) 105mins. Filmsharks International. Dir: Gustavo Hernandez. Cast: Belen Rueda, Eva »
MAINE
(US) 85mins. Visit Films.
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SCREENINGS
De Dominici, Eugenia Tobal, German Palacios, Natalia De Molina, Juan Manuel Guilera. In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre company experiments with insomnia in preparation for a stageplay. When young actress Bianca joins the cast, competing for the lead role, she must survive, not only the intensity of the work and her cast mates but the unknown force that’s pulling them towards a tragic outcome.
rejected by their families. Lerins 1 Priority badges only
LOS CABOS GOES TO CANNES
110mins. Los Cabos International Film Festival. Palais K
THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS
(Brazil) 114mins. Luxbox. Dirs: Joao Salaviza, Renee Nader Messora. Cast: Henrique Ihjac Kraho, Raene Koto Kraho. Denying his duty and in order to escape a process of becoming a shaman, Ihjac runs away to the city. Far from his people and culture, he faces the reality of being an indigenous in contemporary Brazil.
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YOUNG SOLITUDE
(France) 100mins. Wide House. Dir: Claire Simon. Portrays an important time for any individual from 16 to 18 years of age. Gray 1
13:30 ABDEL AND THE COUNTESS
(France) 95mins. SND — Groupe M6. Dir: Isabelle Doval. Cast: Charlotte De Turckheim, Amir El Kacem, Margaux Chatelier. Olympia 6
BOONIE BEARS: THE BIG SHRINK
(China) 95mins. Fantawild Animation. Dir: Leon Ding. Cast: Tan Xiao, Zhang Bingjun. One day Vick receives a mysterious machine from an old friend. A shrink ray. Briar and Bramble, the two bear brothers always getting in Vick’s way, are in for a rude awakening. Vick heads out to shrink them out of his life. In the tussle the device is tossed and all three of them are caught in the beam and find themselves looking up at the rest of the world. The three now go on a wild chase through a magnificent world just underneath our feet to not only restore their size but to restore family. Lerins 2
BURNING MEN
(UK) 95mins. Stretch Limo Productions. Dir: Jeremy Wooding. Cast: Ed Hayter, Aki
MARKET 13:30 HOT DOG
(Germany) 105mins. Picture Tree International. Dir: Torsten Kunstler. Cast: Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighofer. Trying to rescue a
kidnapped ambassador’s daughter, an elite anti-terror cop and an armchair detective wind up in danger themselves during a high-speed chase through the underground drug world. Lerins 4
Omoshaybi, Elinor Crawley, Katie Collins. When two young musicians steal a rare vinyl record and take to the road to sell it, dark forces follow them.
love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compels Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.
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DARKNESS VISIBLE
HOT DOG
(UK) 107mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Neil Biswas. Cast: Jaz Deol, Sayani Gupta, Seema Biswas. London-raised Ronnie returns to his home in India to discover his mother Suleka has died in mysterious circumstances. As he uncovers a series of similar past murders, Ronnie’s own innerdarkness comes to light.
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DRY MARTINA
(Chile) 90mins. Film Factory Entertainment. Dir: Che Sandoval. Cast: Antonella Costa, Patricio Contreras, Dindi Jane. Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the 1990s, who’s become completely frigid and disenchanted with
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THE MOTHER
(Mongolia) 84mins. California Pictures. Dir: Erdenetsetseg Bazarragchaa. Cast: Enkhtuwshin Baljaa, Erdenetsetseg Bazarragchaa, Altan-Ulzii Chultem. A elderly Mongolian mother fights with everything she has for her only child after he is convicted of murder while serving in the Republic Army. Palais F
RAISING COLORS
(France) 101mins. Gaumont. Dir: Helene Fillieres. Cast: Diane Rouxel, Lambert Wilson. The story of the emancipation of a
young woman in a very masculine world.
an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
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SNOWMAN TREK
(US) 90mins. Blue Fox Entertainment. Dir: Benjamin Clark. A team of ultra-marathon runners journey to Bhutan to set a speed record on the world’s hardest trek.
14:00 3 FACES
(US) 96mins. Submarine Entertainment. Dirs: Molly Bernstein, Dolin Phillip.
(Iran) 100mins. Celluloid Dreams/Celluloid Nightmares. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei. Three actresses at different stages of their careers: one from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution; one a popular star of today in Iran; and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
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WITNESSES
CARMEN & LOLA
(Russia) 107mins. Cinema Libre International. Dir: Konstantin Fam. Cast: Oksana Fandera, Philipp Yankovsky, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko. The history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting witnesses.
(Spain) 103mins. Latido Films. Dir: Arantxa Echevarria. Cast: Zaira Romero, Rosy Rodriguez, Moreno Borja, Rafela Leon, Carolina Yuste. Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti and likes girls. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be
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THE SHOW’S THE THING (WORKING TITLE)
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WOMAN AT WAR
(France) 100mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson. Cast: Halldora Geirharosdottir. Halla declares a onewoman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… until
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GOLD SEEKERS
(Paraguay) 102mins. Filmsharks International. Dirs: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori. Cast: Tomas Arredondo. Manu is looking through an ancient book his grandfather gave him when he discovers an old map and photos. Knowing his grandfather was a treasure hunter who was always looking for the gold and jewels of the famous Paraguayan triple border war treasures, he thinks this map may be a clue. Quickly enlisting a friend, he soon discovers that the location in the map is now an embassy and decides to begin an adventure of his own. Palais G
THE HARVESTERS
(France) 105mins. Pyramide International. Dir: Etienne Kallos. Cast: Morne Visser, Alex van Dyk, Juliana Venter. South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his fiercely religious mother brings home Pieter, a hardened orphan. Riviera 1 Priority badges only »
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SCREENINGS
THE HERO
MALARAZZA
(Italy) 90mins. Minerva Pictures Group. Dir: Cristiano Anania. Cast: Salvatore Esposito, Cristina Donadio, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marta Gastini. The life of Giorgio, a mediocre journalist, changes when the director of the newspaper decides to transfer him to a provincial office. Olympia 8
(Italy) 98mins. Summerside International. Dir: Giovanni Virgilio. Cast: Stella Egitto, Paolo Briguglia. When life does not leave any chance, freedom is the only way to survive. Palais F
MY NAME IS THOMAS
(Italy) 90mins. Acek. Dir: Terence Hill. Cast: Eva Basteiro-Bertoli, Francesca Beggio, Veronica Bitto. An easy-rider sets off for the desert. Western atmospheres, dust and desert become the backdrop for a moving on-the-road journey that celebrates life and friendship.
JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION
(US) 95mins. Film Constellation. Dir: Julien Faraut. Cast: John McEnroe. An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his game, documenting his battle for perfection, frustrations and the hardest loss of his career, the 1984 French Open. Palais I
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SKATE KITCHEN
(US) 106mins. Charades. Dir: Crystal Moselle. Cast: Kabrina Adams, Tom Bruno, Thaddeus Daniels. A teen girl gets on the ride of her life when she joins all-girl New York skateboard collective Skate Kitchen and falls for a mysterious guy. Gray 1
URGENT LOVE
(Argentina) 90mins. Compania De Cine. Dir: Diego Lublinksy. Cast: Paula Hertzog, Martin Covini, Paola Barrientos, Miranda De La Serna, Brian Sichel, Fabian Arenillas, Gonzalo Uritzberea, Martin Policastro, Ximena Banus, Camila Romagnolo. Agustina and Pedro, both 15, fall in love. She is afraid of sex but together, they will seek to experience love for the first time. Palais E
VROOM@CANNES — PART 2
46mins. Vrroom. Next VR Cinema Ticket required
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(Philippines) 98mins. Stray Dogs. Dir: Alberto Monteras II. Cast: Abra, Dido De La Paz, Loonie. Hendrix dreams of hiphop greatness but he’s spiraling down a rabbithole of crime and poverty
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until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. In this era of extrajudicial killings under the reign of the current president, Duterte, here is a film reminding us that true hip-hop is political. Gray 5
Europacorp. Dir: Jacquot Benoit. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy. A young playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm, leading to a life-changing obsession. Olympia 9
15:00 IMMERSIVE CHINA: BEST SELECTION OF CHINESE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
41mins. Polyhedron VR Studio. Next VR Cinema Ticket required
15:30 EL ANGEL
(Argentina) 105mins. Film Factory Entertainment. Dir: Luis Ortega. Cast: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darin, Mercedes Moran, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani, Cecilia Roth. Carlitos is a 17-year-old youth with movie-star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people’s things, but it wasn’t until his early adolescence that his true calling — to be a thief — manifested itself. When he meets Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discovery, love
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and crime. Arcades 1
ELIZABETH HARVEST
(US) 95mins. Voltage Pictures. Dir: Sebastian Gutierrez. Cast: Dylan Baker, Matthew Beard, Carla Gugino. Newlywed Elizabeth arrives with her brilliant scientist husband Henry to his magnificent estate, where he wows her with lavish dinners and a dazzling tour of the property. The house staff Claire and Oliver treat her deferentially but she can’t shake the feeling something is off. Henry explains that everything in his world now belongs to her, all is for her to play in — all except for a locked-off room he forbids her from entering. When he goes away for business Elizabeth decides to investigate and finds she may not be who she thinks she is at all. Lerins 2 By invitation only
EVA
(France) 90mins.
THE FAMOUS FIVE — AND THE VALLEY OF DINOSAURS
(Germany) 101mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Mike Marzuk. Cast: Allegra Tinnefeld, Amelie Lammers, Marinus Hohmann, Ron Antony Renzenbrink. During the summer holidays, unscrupulous criminals steal the coordinates to the legendary Valley of Dinosaurs. The Famous Five have to find the dinosaur skeleton first, or the bones will be lost forever. Arcades 3
THE HANDYMAN
(Italy) 98mins. True Colours Glorious Films. Dir: Valerio Attanasio. Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Guglielmo Poggi, Elena Sofia Ricci. A trainee lawyer dreams of joining his mentor’s firm. But Salvatore “Toti” Bellastella, the best lawyer in Italy is also an exploitative tyrant, who asks Antonio to perform
all manner of menial tasks. When Antonio passes the bar, he gets an offer to become a partner in the firm but there is one condition: he must marry Isabel, Toti’s lover, an Argentinian girl who needs Italian citizenship. Riviera 2
FRIENDS IN LAW
(India) 100mins. Dancing Shiva. Dir: Amit Khanna. Cast: Shreedevi Chowdary. A south Indian orthodox woman ends up spending 10 days with her gay son’s boyfriend in Bangkok. Palais H
IDAK — THE GOAT
(India) 106mins. Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation. Dir: Deepak Gawade. Cast: Sandeep Phatak, Usha Naik, Kishore Kadam. Namya is on a journey with a goat to fulfil his mother’s dreams. But the notorious goat won’t make the journey easy. Gray 4
ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
(Germany) 94mins. Autlook Filmsales. Dir: Gabrielle Brady. Millions of crabs journey across Australia’s Christmas Island in one of the planet’s largest land migrations. Palais D
OBEY
(UK) 92mins. Wide. Dir: Jamie Jones. Cast: Marcus Rutherford, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michael Quartey. As London slides towards a time of violent social unrest, on the estates of east London a young man’s life is torn apart by a love for a girl from a different place. Palais B
TRAFFICKED
(US) 104mins. California Pictures. Dir: Will Wallace. Cast: Ashley Judd, Amiah Miller, Sean Patrick Flanery. In this story inspired by real characters, three girls are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom. Palais J
UP AND AWAY
(Denmark) 80mins. Sola Media. Dir: Karsten Kiilerich. Hodja borrows a flying carpet to see the world. In return, he has to find and return Diamond to her grandfather while preventing the all-eating Sultan from getting his hands on the flying carpet. Lerins 4 Press allowed
16:00 AVERNO
(Bolivia) 87mins. Media »
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Mariana develops a paranoid disorder after witnessing the murder of two people. She now decides to take care of the victims’ little girl, Any. In a race against time, Mariana has to protect herself and Any from the assassins and overcome her fears.
BEING IMPOSSIBLE by
Patricia Ortega
A young woman discovers she was submitted to several surgeries to correct her intersexual body as a baby. She now has to choose between oppression and freedom outside gender binaries.
KANTOR by
Amsterdam, 1988. Detective Lucas is charged to investigate the mysterious death of music legend Chet Baker. While penetrating the mind of the infamous trumpetist, Lucas needs to face his own deamons and shadows.
ANGELA by
Agamenon Quintero
Colombian plantations, 1940s. Rich landowner Calixto buys 13-year-old peasant Angela for his disposal. Soon she gives birth to her first child and manages to flee. Set against the outbreak of national widespread violence, Calixto is firm to get her back.
THE PROJECTIONIST by
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War, love and madness shape the glamourous international career of Tadeusz Kantor and his absolute and uncompromising devotion to art, set against a backdrop of milestones of the twentieth century.
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SCREENINGS
Luna New Films. Dir: Marcos Loayza. Cast: Paolo Vargas, Luigi Antezana, Alejandro Maranon. Averno, an imaginary place where the living and dead co-exist and where everything finds its opposite face. Many have heard it mentioned but very few have seen it; Tupah, a young shoeshine boy, must find it to rescue his uncle.
Simon Yam, Hans Zhang.
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THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION
CAMILA’S AWAKENING
(Chile) 88mins. Bubble Media. Dir: Rosario Jimenez-Gili. Cast: Francisca Walker, Koke Santa Ana, Dayana Amigo, Andrea Freund, Renato Munster. Camila loves swimming and doesn’t know failure. However, the water now leads her to the biggest setback of her life: an accident will force Camila to reinvent herself.
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GIRL
(Belgium) 100mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Lukas Dhont. Cast: Valentijn Dhaenens, Nele Hardiman, Victor Polster. Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina. Arcades 1
15mins. Cohen Media Group. Lerins 1 Priority badges only
16:00 STRIKE
(UK) 95mins. Hollywood Classics International/101 Films International. Dir: Trevor Hardy. Cast: Ken Stott, Lizzie ambition, to finish the last level of his computer game. But finishing the game turns out to be only the start of a real adventure. Gray 3 Press allowed
DIAMANTINO
(Portugal) 92mins. Charades. Dir: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt. Cast: Carla Maciel, Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira. The world’s premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for new purpose, the icon embarks on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, and the hunt for the source of genius.
INQUILINOS
110mins. Frontieres Platform.
(Mexico) 92mins. Blood Window. Dir: Chava Cartas. Cast: Danny Perea, Erick Elias, Gabriela Roel, Noe Hernandez. Luzma and Demian have just moved to an old neighbourhood trying to leave behind an incident that torments them. Hopeful, they do their best to take this change as an opportunity to start over. Nevertheless, Luzma begins to discover that her neighbours hide terrible secrets that lead to paranormal phenomena. Demian, however, is starting to believe that Luzma is losing her mind.
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HARVIE & THE MAGIC MUSEUM
MK2 FILMS & VR
(Czech Republic) 86mins. Planet Nemo Animation. Dir: Martin Kotik. Cast: Martin Dejdar, Ota Jirak, Martin Klasek. Harvie is a smart and lively boy with one
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NIGHT COMES ON
TERRIFIED
IMPERFECT AGE
(US) 86mins. Cercamon. Dir: Jordana Spiro. Cast: Dominique Fishback, Tatum Marilyn Hall, John Earls Jelks, Max Casella, James McDaniel. Eighteen-year-old Angel leaves her stint in juvenile detention with nothing but a few bucks and a dead cellphone. After serving time for unlawful possession of a weapon, she’s thrown back onto the streets and into a world riddled with the demons of her past. Her little sister, Abby, is stuck in foster care while her dad, responsible for the murder of their mother, roams free. But Angel, strong-willed and resourceful, has a plan: find Abby, get a gun, hunt down her father, and hit the reset button on her and her sister’s life.
(Argentina) 85mins. Aura Films (Argentina). Dir: Demian Rugna. Cast: Maxi Ghione, Norberto Amadeo Gonzalo, Elvira Onetto. People who disappear. Dead returning from their graves. Voices in the drains. Commissioner Maza will try to give an explanation to these facts.
(Italy) 96mins. Intramovies. Dir: Ulisse Lendaro. Cast: Marina Occhionero, Paola Calliari, Anita Kravos, Anna Valle. Camilla wants to be a ballet dancer and an upcoming audition to be accepted in a prestigious academy is a great opportunity. Sara, another aspiring ballet dancer, disrupts Camilla’s life.
MARKET Waterworth-Santo, Naomi Mcdonald. To save his family, a young mole needs to defeat a mobster cat and get selected to play in the Wild World Soccer Cup. Gray 5
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COHEN MEDIA PROMO SCREENING
top of the art scene.
(Canada) 75mins. Metfilm Sales. Dir: Maya Gallus. It takes a bold personality to ascend the ranks of the male-dominated restaurant industry.
MK2 Films.
THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME
(UK) 100mins. The Little Film Company. Dir: Keith English.
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Cast: Sheridan Smith, Mark Addy, Sally Phillips, Ella Hunt, Sheila Hancock, Lisa Stansfield, Ricky Tomlinson. Alice’s mum, Gina, is more than a bit weird. With a non-responsive mother and a stoned father, Alice grows into an awkward teenager and develops an obsession with Morrissey and The Smiths. Havoc ensues when Alice hatches a plan to bring Gina back to “normal”. Palais I
MY MASTERPIECE
(Argentina) 100mins. Latido Films. Dir: Gaston Duprat. Cast: Guillermo Francella, Raul Arevalo, Luis Brandoni. Arturo is the owner of an art gallery in Buenos Aires; charming, sophisticated but rather unscrupulous. He represents Renzo, a complex and extremely unruly painter undergoing a steep decline. Their relationship is one of love and hate. One day Renzo suffers an accident and loses his memory. Taking advantage of this situation, Arturo comes up with an extreme and risky plan to return them to the
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(France) 85mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Jeremie Guez. Cast: Roland Moller, Veerle Baetens, Lola Le Lann. An ex-con finds refuge in a motel run by a single mother and her daughter Clara. The peace he has found in this haven disappears when Clara is assaulted. Lerins 4
OUR STRUGGLES
(Belgium) 98mins. Be For Films. Dir: Guillaume Senez. Cast: Romain Duris, Laetitia Dosch, Laure Calamy. Olivier does the best he can to fight injustice at work. But when his wife Laura abandons the family, he is left alone to juggle between the children’s needs, life’s daily challenges and his job. Faced with these new responsibilities, he struggles to find a balance… because Laura’s not coming back. Olympia 5 By invitation only
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A BLUEBIRD IN MY HEART
ARTHUR & CLAIRE
(Germany) 98mins. Arri Media International. Dir: Miguel Alexandre. Cast: Josef Hader, Hannah Hoekstra. The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning. Arcades 3 ETERNAL WAVE
(China) 100mins. Global Chinese Film Forum. Dir: Chung Siu-Hung. Cast: Aaron Kwok,
LINO 3D
(Brazil) 93mins. Filmsharks International. Dir: Rafael Ribas. Cast: Selton Mello, Paolla Oliveira, Dira Paes. Lino is an entertainer and clown for children’s parties who can’t stand his job — especially the cat costume he has to wear. Deciding to seek outside help, he finds a very untalented wizard who transforms him into the thing he hates most: his cat costume. Lerins 2
NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2018
(Germany) 100mins. German Films Service & Marketing. Olympia 1
NEVER GOIN’ BACK
(US) 86mins. A24 Films. Dir: Augustine Frizzell. Cast: Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone, Kyle Mooney. Jessie and Angela, high »
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THE DIVIDE Screening 14 May, Olympia 3, 1530 hours
"In his debut effort as a feature film director, King gives an extraordinary performance...Working in concert with screenwriter Jana Brown, he has fashioned an uncommonly compelling and emotionally rich drama ...the chance to do what his admirers have always known he was capable of doing: Be drop-dead brilliant without working up a sweat." - Joe Leydon
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SCREENINGS
Dir: Stefano Savona. In the rural outskirts of Gaza City, a small community of farmers celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the last war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and their cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighbourhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory.
school dropouts, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent’s due, they’re about to get fired and they’re broke. Olympia 7 By invitation only
PAPER YEAR
(Canada) 106mins. Myriad Pictures. Dir: Rebecca Addelman. Cast: Eve Hewson, Avan Jogia, Andie MacDowell, Hamish Linklater. A very young but madly in love couple decide to get married despite their parents’ lack of support. As their first, and what is supposed to be best, year of marriage drags on, new opportunities and multiple temptations put their relationship to the test. Palais B
PT OF PALSHI
(India) 101mins. Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation. Dir: Dhondiba Karande. Cast: Kiran Dhane, Rahul Belapurkar, Dhondiba Karande. Gray 4
TYREL
(US) 86mins. Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. Dir: Sebastian Silva. Cast: Jason Mitchell, Christopher Abbott, Michael Cera. Tyler, a sole black man, attends an otherwise allwhite weekend of drunken bro debauchery on a birthday trip to a cabin in the Catskills. Palais J
WE ARE MERMAIDS
(US) 90mins. NCHD Productions. Dir: David Lee Morea. An intimate glimpse of what it takes to become a world-famous Weeki Wachee Mermaid and the profound, lasting effects it has on the performers of Florida’s oldest and last remaining roadside attractions. Palais H
WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY! 3: MY WIFE, MY LIFE
(Japan) 120mins. Shochiku Co. Dir: Yoji Yamada. Cast: Isao Hashizume, Kazuko
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(US) 118mins. Pure Flix/Quality Fix. Dir: Michael Mason. Cast: John Corbett, David AR White, Tatum O’Neal. When a tragic accident rocks the Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura. A housewife’s rebellion results in the biggest crisis yet for the uproarious Hirata family. Palais F
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entire community and threatens the future of Pastor Dave’s church, his faith is put to the test. Dave is forced to confront the questions that so many of us face: “Where is He when bad things happen?” Lerins 1
One day, Marlene suddenly chooses to abandon her daughter for a man she has just met after yet another night of excess. Elli must confront her mother’s demons to get her back. Arcades 2
A DAY OF TROUBLE
(US) 90mins. Foremost Entertainment Media. Dir: Marc Cayce. Cast: Omar Gooding, Kathleen Bradley, Hawthorne James. Two suspects on the run for bank robbery and kidnapping… only one is innocent. Gray 5
A ROSE IN WINTER
(UK) 137mins. Tricoast Worldwide. Dir: Joshua Sinclair. Cast: Zana Marjanovic, Christian Cooke, Ken Duken. Explores the truth behind Edith Stein’s life as one of the most compelling women in Judeo-Christian history.
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GOD’S NOT DEAD: A LIGHT IN DARKNESS
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(France) 108mins. Playtime. Dir: Vanessa Filho. Cast: Marion Cotillard, Ayline Etaix, Alban Lenoir.
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100mins. Kinology. Olympia 5
20:00 A VIOLENT DESIRE FOR JOY
(France) 75mins. ACID. Dir: Clement Schneider. Cast: Quentin Dolmaire, Grace Seri, Francis Leplay, Franc Bruneau, Vincent Cardona. Far from the epicentre of the French Revolution, the monastery of young monk Gabriel is requisitioned by the revolutionary troops to serve as barracks.
THE LAST RACE
(Turkey) 97mins. Cinepotamya. Dir: Bulent Gunduz. Cast: Delil Dilanar, Egite Cimo. A singer of traditional Kurdish songs continues to keep alive a rich and complex musical style known as dengbej. However, after 20 years of exile in Europe, he finds that his heart hasn’t followed him. During a concert in New York, he announces his return to his roots. Once back in Kurdistan, he falls into a deep depression, and he must turn to his old music master to find his way forward.
(US) 74mins. Submarine Entertainment. Dir: Michael Dweck. Cast: Marty Berger, Mike Cappiello, Barbara Cromarty. Riverhead Raceway is a rare beast. For decades it has hosted showdowns between local residents who bring their Mad Max–inspired stock cars to do battle on a quarter-mile track, passions spilling out of the cockpit when the checkered flag drops. Forty such tracks used to exist on Long Island alone. Today Riverhead is the last. Gray 3
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(Serbia) 98mins. New Europe Film Sales. Dir: Ognjen Glavonic. Cast: Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic. A truck driver tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by war. He knows that once the job is over he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
(Iran) 108mins. Ayat Media. Dir: Ebrahim Hatamikia. Cast: Babak Hamidian, Hadi Hejazifar, Pierre Dagher. ISIS have surrounded an airport in Syria where many people await emergency evacuation. A young pilot has to risk his life to help evacuate these people while they are under direct fire.
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105mins. Versatile.
(Japan) 119mins. Shochiku Co. Dir: Miki Koichiro. Cast: Sota Fukushi, Mitsuki Takahata.
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LEGEND OF THE DEMON CAT
(China) 120mins. Moonstone Entertainment/Prestige Films. Dir: Chen Kaige. Cast: Xuan Huang, Shota Sometani, Yuqi Zhang. The Japanese monk Kukai arrives at the Imperial Court, summoned to clear away evil and drive out demons. As he investigates the death of the emperor, he learns of a mysterious demon cat who is terrorising the Imperial Court. Kukai and his sidekick slowly uncover the motivation behind the demon cat’s actions: revenge for a princess buried alive by the previous emperor and his court. Lerins 3
KINOLOGY PRIVATE SCREENING 2
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EDHEL
(Italy) 84mins. TVCO. Dir: Marco Renda. Cast: Gaia Forte, Roberta Mattei, Mariano Rigillo, Nicolo Ernesto Alaimo, Fioretta Mari. Edhel is a young girl born with a malformation that makes her ears look pointy, like those of an elf, setting her apart from her peers. Edhel’s encounter with Silvano, the bizarre school janitor who introduces her to the world of fantasy, convinces the girl of the possibility that those ears are the clear sign of belonging to the noble line of the elves.
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all his own.
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(France) 126mins. Doc & Film International.
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(US) 94mins. The Exchange. Dir: Jeremiah Zagar. Cast: Raul Castillo, Josiah Gabriel, Terry Holland.
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ASTRO
(US) 100mins. XVIII Entertainment. Dir: Asif Akbar. Cast: Gary Daniels, Marshal Hilton, Courtney Akbar. A billionaire’s private space exploration programme returns to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet.
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several years. She has been attending the Cannes Film Festival for the past 3 years and participates, among other things, in the financing of the Cinéfondation. In 2017, she co-produced two French films, «E-book» by Olivier Assayas, and the first feature film by Vanessa Fihlo with Marion Cottillard ‘Gueule d’ange’. This is the first time that Vietnam, represented by Miss Ky, provides financial support
in the French film industry. A winning bet for this astonishing Vietnamese talent as Vanessa Fihlo’s film ‘Gueule d’ange’ is featured in the Un Certain Regard section of FIF2018, and will allow her to once again walk the Cannes red carpet. Miss Ky wants to keep investing in the cinema industry by meeting other projects that could seduce her and will be present throughout the festival. 2018 will
be a year of commitment for Miss Ky and it feels like we are going to her a lot about this talented woman of influence in the near future. S.H.
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LY NHA KY AN ASTONISHING PRINCESS Ly Nha Ky, President of LYNK Group, a Vietnamese entrepreneur whose 18 companies are mainly based in HO CHI MINH, represents Vietnamese art and culture around the world for her country. Vietnamese tourism ambassador, Princess of Asia, Miss Ky is an actress and has been developing film production in her country for
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Golshifteh as the leader battalion that to liberate★★ their town, ★★ Farahani ★★ stars ★★ ★★of a real-life ★★ Kurdish ★★female★★ ★★sets out★★ which by Isis extremists. Bercot co-stars with ★★has been ★★overrun★★ ★★ Emmanuelle ★★ ★★ ★★ as a journalist ★★ embedded ★★ ★★the fighters.
THREE FACES (Iran) Jafar Panahi
Panahi story of★★ three Iranian actresses: one from the pre-revolution days to stop acting, ★★ tells the ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★who had ★★ ★★ one popular of today and one girl longing ★★ star ★★ ★★ ★★ to attend ★★ a drama ★★conservatory. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
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Lily Franky, Sakura Ando and Mayu★★ Matsuoka★★ star in the★★ story of a shoplifting father-and-son the little girl ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ duo and ★★ they take in from time in Competition. ★★ ★★the street. ★★It is Kore-eda’s ★★ fifth ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
ASAKO I & II (Jap) Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Asako her boyfriend’s double two ★★meets★★ ★★ perfect ★★ ★★years after ★★his abrupt ★★disappearance. ★★ Masahiro ★★ Higashide ★★ and Erika Karata star for Hamaguchi, who his Cannes★★ debut in Competition. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★makes ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
BLACKKKLANSMAN (US) Spike Lee
Lee’s inspired by the true story Stallworth, an undercover police officer ★★latest is★★ ★★ ★★ of Ron★★ ★★ ★★ African-American ★★ ★★ ★★ who infiltrated Ku Klux Klan. Adam Driver star. ★★ ★★ the★★ ★★John David ★★ Washington ★★ and★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
AT WAR (Fr) Stéphane Brizé
Brizé Vincent★★ Lindon reunite prize winner Man for another ★★and actor ★★ ★★after Cannes ★★ 2015 ★★ ★★The Measure ★★ Of A★★ ★★ socially engaged this time about leader fighting ★★ tale,★★ ★★ a union ★★ ★★ a factory ★★ closure. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
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Lee’s Steven Yeun play a well-to-do with a secret Yoo Ah-in★★ as a part-time ★★love triangle ★★ sees ★★ ★★ ★★ man ★★ ★★ hobby,★★ ★★deliveryman hoping a novelist and woman ★★ who comes★★ between them. ★★ to be ★★ ★★newcomer ★★Jun Jong-seo ★★ as the ★★ ★★ ★★
DOGMAN (It-Fr-UK) Matteo Garrone
Billed is based★★ on a 30-year-old story and★★ centres on★★ a man (Marcello ★★as an ‘urban ★★ western’ ★★, Dogman ★★ ★★ news ★★ ★★ Fonte) seeking friend who him in jail. ★★ ★★ revenge ★★on an old ★★ ★★landed ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
CAPERNAUM (Leb-Fr) Nadine Labaki
Lebanese film focuses on a rebellious who wishes parents★★ for having him. ★★ filmmaker ★★ Labaki’s ★★ third★★ ★★ ★★ youth ★★ ★★to sue his ★★ Set in the titular village, the★★ film has a★★ cast of mainly actors. ★★ ★★ ★★Palestinian ★★fishing★★ ★★non-professional ★★ ★★
KNIFE + HEART (Fr) Yann Gonzalez
Vanessa a late-1970s-set about a Parisian executive seeking credibility with ★★ Paradis ★★stars in★★ ★★ story★★ ★★ TV★★ ★★ to restore ★★ her★★ a more is disrupted cast is targeted a serial killer. ★★ creatively ★★ ambitious ★★production, ★★ which★★ ★★when the ★★ ★★ by ★★ ★★
AYKA (Rus-Ger-Pol) Sergei Dvortsevoy
A young immigrant worker in★★ Moscow tries down her★★ baby, who★★ she abandoned hospital. ★★ Asian★★ ★★ ★★to track★★ ★★ at the★★ Samal Yeslyamova, and David★★ Alaverdyan star. ★★ ★★ Andrey ★★Pashnin★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
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An★★ aspiring writer to his native in rural Turkey, he becomes overwhelmed father’s debts. ★★ returns ★★ ★★village★★ ★★ where★★ ★★ ★★ by his★★ Dogu T Hazar★★ Erguclu and Ahmet Rifat star. ★★Demirkol, ★★ ★★ ★★Sungar★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★
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