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New Republic in Paramount pact Producer-financier Brian Oliver is officially launching his New Republic Pictures in Cannes backed by a fund out of the US, Europe, India and the Middle East, and has struck a first-look cofinancing and distribution deal with Paramount Pictures.

The four-year pact kicks off with Elton John musical Rocketman, which Paramount will distribute worldwide. Dexter Fletcher will direct from a screenplay by Billy

Dumont heads Luxbox quartet with Joan

Elliot writer Lee Hall. The film goes into production this year.

Under the tiered deal, Paramount gets first look on a 50-50 co-finance split and worldwide distribution.

Where New Republic is pre-selling a project, Paramount gets a first look on US distribution. In cases where New Republic is fully financing a project, Paramount gets a first look to distribute worldwide.

Former Cross Creek Pictures chief Oliver is in talks with Sierra/ Affinity to handle international

sales on those projects Paramount elects not to distribute worldwide.

Oliver plans to put another two projects into production this year.

New Republic and Johnny Lin’s Filmula, one of the investors in the fund, are co-producing and cofinancing Mexican Revolution thriller The Creed Of Violence to be directed by Todd Field, and a remake of the 1978 action-adventure The Wild Geese. CAA’s Roeg Sutherland and David Taghioff represent the fund.

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Voltage Pictures has struck key presales on After, an adaptation of the YA publishing phenomenon that marks the first feature from veteran producers Courtney Solomon and Mark Canton’s CalMaple Films.

Constantin has acquired German rights, Sun will distribute in Latin America and Spain, and Leone handles Italy. Julia Goldani Telles (The Affair) will star oppo-

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French filmmaker Bruno Dumont is developing a second feature exploring the life of iconic French figure Joan of Arc, following on from his musical depiction of her youth, Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight last year.

It is one of four upcoming titles that Paris-based sales company Luxbox is bringing to Cannes alongside Argentinian director Benjamin Naishtat’s Rojo, Israeli filmmaker Nimrod Eldar’s The Day After I’m Gone and Ray & Liz by UK photographer, artist and filmmaker Richard Billingham.

Simply entitled Joan, Dumont’s new film will focus on the adult life of Joan of Arc, including her trial after she was captured by the proEnglish Burgundians, bringing her victorious military career to an abrupt end.

As with the previous film, Dumont has taken inspiration from 20th-century poet Charles Péguy’s The Mystery Of The Charity Of Jeanne d’Arc but the new feature will not be a musical. “It will be more in the vein of past works like Camille Claudel 1915,” said Luxbox co-chief Hédi Zardi.

Dumont’s longtime partner 3B Productions is producing the feature, which is due to shoot this summer for a 2019 delivery.

Oliver has brought over his Cross Creek creative team: John Hilary Shepherd as head of development and Courtney Shepherd as creative executive. Other early hires include former Pixomondo production chief BJ Farmer as vice president of production, Exclusive Media and IMR International executive Angus Sutherland as vice president of acquisitions and production, and Paramount TV’s Matthew Quigg as development coordinator.

Cornerstone inks deals on Chadha’s Light

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Screen International can reveal the first-look exclusive of Sam Claflin in director Ron Scalpello’s London-set crime thriller The Corrupted.

Claflin stars as an ex-con determined to rebuild his life after losing everything. The Exchange is selling worldwide rights in Cannes.

UCR’s Border crosses to France Films Boutique has sealed an eyecatching sale on its title Border to powerhouse French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport.

Iran-born Danish director Ali Abbasi’s Sweden-France co-production will premiere on Thursday in Un Certain Regard.

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Films Boutique’s Cannes slate includes Sextape, also in Un Certain Regard, and a brace of Directors’ Fortnight titles: Birds Of Passage from Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, and Buy Me A Gun from Julio Hernandez Cordon.

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Cornerstone Films has secured early territory deals on Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light, which is currently shooting in the UK. The film has sold to France (UGC) and Scandinavia (Svensk).

Entertainment One previously picked up rights for the UK and Australia.

Starring newcomer Viveik Kalra with Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon and Kulvinder Ghir, Blinded By The Light follows a young Muslim boy who is inspired by the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen.

Producers are Chadha with Jane Barclay, Levantine Films and Peter Touche of Ingenious Media.

site Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince).

Production is scheduled to begin in Boston next month. Jenny Gage (All This Panic) will direct based on the first book in Anna Todd’s bestselling series.

Solomon and Canton are producing with Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment, Wattpad’s Aron Levitz, Todd, and Dennis Pelino from CalMaple.

Memento snares Goose Memento Films has boarded Wild Goose Lake, Chinese filmmaker Diao Yinan’s follow-up to his Berlin 2014 Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice, as co-producer and international sales agent.

Produced by China’s Shen Yang, the crime thriller reunites Diao with Black Coal stars Liao Fan, who won a Berlin Silver Bear for best actor, and Gwei Lun-mei.

The film, shooting now, tells the story of a gangster who sacrifices himself to save his family.

Memento’s Alexandre MalletGuy and Arte France Cinema are producing with Shen. Memento Films Distribution will distribute in France.

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Fisherman’s Friends reels in UK ensemble

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WTFilms gets Heavy in Cannes

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Paris-based sales company WTFilms has boarded sales on Jouri Smit’s revenge thriller Heavy, co-starring Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner and Daniel Zovatto as a couple living the high life against the backdrop of the illegal drugs scene, who become swept up in an irreversible chain of events. Paris and Los Angelesbased FullDawa Films lifted the lid on the production — produced with Parts & Labor and JoBro productions — on the eve of Cannes.

Based on a screenplay by Seth Miller, Heavy is Smit’s directing debut. David Atrakchi produces with Smit, Jay Van Hoy, Jonathan Bronfman, Dillon D Jordan, Zach Ty Bryan, Gael Cabouat and Boris Mendza. The film wrapped on April 6. CAA is representing North American rights.

Gnomes sets foot in China

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China’s Vision Film Entertainment has acquired animated feature Sherlock Gnomes from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (MGM) and has scheduled a July 6 theatrical release. Directed by John Stevenson, the film is a sequel to Gnomeo & Juliet, which grossed nearly $200m worldwide in 2011.

Headed by CEO Ricky Qi, Beijing-based Vision Film recently handled the Chinese release of Alex Garland’s Annihilation, which grossed around $10m. “We are very excited about working with MGM on Sherlock Gnomes as its Chinese distributor,” said Qi. Sherlock Gnomes was produced

by Steve Hamilton Shaw, David Furnish and Carolyn Soper with Elton John as executive producer.

Chris Foggin (Kids In Love) is directing, his second feature after a trio of award-winning shorts.

Producers are James Spring, Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft — the team behind Finding Your Feet, which has grossed more than $6.8m (£5m) to date in the UK following its release by eOne in February — with Piers Ashworth.

Leonard and Moorcroft also wrote the screenplay.

The film is inspired by the true story of male singing group Fisherman’s Friends, who went from

performing in their village harbour to securing a record deal and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury. It is filming on location in Port Isaac, Cornwall.

Legacy Rights, the newly launched sales company headed

by Hindsight Media exec James Scott, has already hooked buyers for multiple international territories including Latin America and Spain (Sun Distribution), Japan (New Select) and the Middle East (Gulf Film). Legacy will be looking to secure further deals in Cannes.

Friends and colleagues will gather on Sunday, May 13 in Cannes to celebrate the life of Robbie Little, the independent film industry stalwart who died last week en route to the market. The gathering will take place at The Members Club at La Plage 45 from 18.30-21.00.

Producer Debbie Gray and other organisers of the evening said those who knew Little and wish to attend are welcome to join. The Little Film Company associates are at the market and will oversee previously scheduled meetings with buyers.

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Shooting is underway on UK comedy Fisherman’s Friends, from the writing and producing team behind Finding Your Feet.

The film has an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays (Atonement), Tuppence Middleton (The Imitation Game), James Purefoy (Solomon Kane), David Hayman (Finding Your Feet), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), Sam Swainsbury (Thor: The Dark World), Maggie Steed (Paddington 2) and Noel Clarke (Brotherhood).

Robbie Little remembered

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Souvenir stays in the family for Swinton duo Screen International can reveal an exclusive first look at Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, which stars Honor Swinton Byrne alongside her mother Tilda Swinton, who is playing her on-screen parent, and Tom Burke. Protagonist Pictures is

handling sales in Cannes on the drama, which is in post-production.

The film follows a young, quietly ambitious film student (Swinton Byrne, above right) who embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man

(Burke). Producers are Hogg with Luke Schiller (Archipelago); Martin Scorsese is executive producing the film. Financiers on the project are BBC Films, BFI, JWH Films and Sikelia Productions.

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Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International has boarded international sales on Un Certain Regard selection Manto, the first feature produced by HP Studios.

Nandita Das’s film will receive its world premiere on Sunday, May 13 and is based on the life and work of Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the most distinguished short-story writers of the 1940s. Das produced through Nandita Das Initiatives alongside India’s Viacom18 Motion Pictures, and new companies HP Studios and FilmStoc.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui stars with Rasika Dugal and Tahir Raj Bhasin. Manto marks Das’s second directorial feature after Firaaq.

Siddiqui’s Magic If Films serves as co-producer alongside Marie Masmonteil and Sandrine Brauer of En Compagnie des Lamas, who handle French rights. India’s Viacom18 Motion Pictures will distribute in India later this year.

Buyers buzz around 3D ladybird adventure

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Paris-based production house Futurikon has unveiled a slew of sales for its upcoming family feature Miniscule — Mandibles From Far Away 3D ahead of premiering a 10-minute extract in Cannes on May 9 and 10.

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Set in the insect world, the hybrid work mixes live-action footage and animated characters.

It is the second feature in the Miniscule franchise, which began life as a popular children’s TV series, co-created by Hélene Giraud and Thomas Szabo, who

share directing credits on this latest instalment.

Futurikon reported deals including for France (Le Pacte and Les Editions Montparnasse), Sweden (Studio S), Poland (Kinoswiat) and China (Shangzhou Films).

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The Quake

Quake shakes Magnolia

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Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to The Quake from TrustNordisk; Screen International can also exclusively reveal this firstlook image from the film.

Other newly signed deals include to Canada (Mongrel); Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (Volga); Turkey (Sinema TV); and India (One World Movies).

Directed by John

Andreas Andersen, the $6.4m feature is a return to the disaster genre for Fantefilm, producers of hit The Wave, which Magnolia also distributed in the US. The Quake reunites The Wave producers Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrom of Fantefilm.

Previously confirmed deals include to Poland (Mowi Serwis); former Yugoslavia (Cinemania

Pathé sets sail with sub drama CANNES SCREENING Wednesday 9th May, Gray 4, 11:30am start

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Pathé International has launched sales on French diplomat turned screenwriter Antonin Baudry’s directorial debut The Wolf ’s Call, starring Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Reda Kateb, Francois Civil and Paula Beer.

The company will premiere first footage for the

underwater thriller starring Kateb and Sy as commanders of a ballistic missile submarine whose craft takes France to the brink of nuclear armageddon. The plot revolves around the complexity of operating these hi-tech vessels.

Paris-based Les Productions du Trésor and Pathé are producing.

Mindadze plans Parquet

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Russian writer/director Aleksandr Mindadze is plotting English-language drama Parquet — the story of three tango dancers who reunite 25 years after breaking up. London’s Reason8 is handling worldwide rights

and is introducing it to buyers in Cannes. Reason8 will also co-produce for the UK, with Mindadze’s Passenger Film Studio co-producing for Russia and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Les Films du Fleuve co-producing for Belgium.

Groupicon); Spain (Selectavision); Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia (CM Holdings); German-speaking territories (Square One); Latin America (California); China (DDDream); Hong Kong ( S u n d r e a m ) ; Ta i w a n (Moviecloud); the Middle East (Gulf ) and South Korea (AtNine Film).

The film’s Norwegian release is set for August 30.

IFC begins Harvest IFC Films has US rights to SXSW gothic sci-fi thriller Elizabeth Harvest, which Voltage Pictures is touting to international buyers. Abbey Lee, Dylan Baker, Matthew Beard, Ciaran Hinds and Carla Gugino star in Sebastian Gutierrez’s modern take on the Bluebeard folktale about a murderous French widower.

IFC Films has set an August 10 release.

Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger produced the film alongside Motion Picture Capital and Gutierrez. Arianna Bocco of IFC Films brokered the US deal with Ben Weiss of Paradigm on behalf of the filmmakers.

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CANNES BRIEFS Azure remakes for India Mumbai’s Azure Entertainment, Lionsgate India and Globalgate are remaking Mexican comedy smash Instructions Not Included and South Korean action-thriller The Terror Live for the Indian market as part of a multi-film deal.

TaTaTu bets on blockchain AMBI Media Group co-founder and CEO Andrea Iervolino is launching TaTaTu, a blockchainbased entertainment platform combining social media with content that will be free to users.

It will carry a range of film and TV.

Film Mode goes to US Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment is expanding into North American distribution with thrillers The Harrowing and Mad Genius, both of which are available here to international buyers.

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South Korean distributor Showbox has picked up sales rights to crime-action films Unstoppable and Hit-And-Run Squad.

Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok, whose credits include Train To Busan and The Outlaws) stars in debut director Kim Min-ho’s Unstoppable. He will play a gangster trying to clean up his act and live an ordinary life with his wife

Ji-soo (New World’s Song Ji-hyo), who keeps getting tricked into bad business decisions. One day, he returns home to find his wife has been kidnapped by a humantrafficking ring that doesn’t know who they’re dealing with. Kim Sung-oh (The Merciless) also stars.

The film is in post-production.

Hit-And-Run Squad, the latest film from Coin Locker Girl director Han Jun-hee, stars Kong Hyo-jin

(A Single Rider), Ryu Jun-yeol (A Taxi Driver) and Cho Jung-seok (The Drug King). Ryu plays a rookie police officer whose talent for driving sees him assigned to the hit-and-run squad, while Kong’s detective finds herself there as part of an unjust demotion. The two team up to arrest powerful criminal Jae-chul (Cho).

Hit-And-Run Squad is currently in production.

IFT seeks sales on rom-com pair

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International Film Trust (IFT) arrives at the market with sales titles Entanglement starring Thomas Middleditch (HBO’s Silicon Valley) and I Hate Kids with Tom Everett Scott (La La Land).

Family rom-com Entanglement also features Jess Weixler (The

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Good Wife) and Diana Bang. Jason James directed and produced alongside Amber Ripley. The producers represent North American rights, and IFT director of acquisitions Kenner Bolt brokered the deal with Jhod Cardinal of Thunderbird Entertainment.

John Asher directed family com-

edy I Hate Kids; producers are Rachel McHale of SwingLake Productions and Todd Traina for Route One Entertainment, and Red Rover Films. IFT’s head of international Todd Olsson negotiated the deal with Greg S Bernstein on behalf of the producers. Gersh represents North American rights.

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German sales outfit Global Screen has confirmed multiple deals on two of its Cannes market titles.

This Crazy Heart, directed by Marc Rothemund, has gone to Spain (Flins y Piniculas), Portugal (Pris), South Korea (Yejilim Entertainment), CIS (Voxell), Taiwan (Encore Film), Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary (Prorom) and Brazil (Globo). The film screens this week in the market.

Already a box-office hit in Germany, This Crazy Heart is about a thirtysomething rich kid who has to take care of an ill teenager.

Global Screen has also closed deals on action thriller Don’t Get Out, from Christian Alvart (Antibodies). It has been sold to Japan (Open Sesame), Spain (Avalon), South Korea (Jayne Entertainment), the Middle East (Gulf Film) and Brazil (Globo), with France and Italy in negotiation.

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Malek finds Montreal Girls Rising Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek, a 2017 Screen International Arab Star of Tomorrow, has signed for the lead role in Canadian director Patricia Chica’s coming-of-age drama Montreal Girls.

Mohamed Hefzy and Daniel Ziskind of Cairo-based production company Film Clinic will supervise the Egyptian part of the shoot.

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Carnaby adds genre trio

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UK sales outfit Carnaby International has added three genre titles to its Cannes slate on the eve of this year’s market.

Adventure thriller The Boat stars Joe Azzopardi as a lone fisherman who boards an abandoned sailing boat. The film, which is completed and screening to buyers in Cannes, is directed by Azzopardi’s father Winston Azzopardi.

Valentine is a superhero action vehicle co-directed by Agus Pestol

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and Ubay Fox. The film stars Estelle Linden in a role that showcases her martial-arts skills. The story follows a waitress who, after meeting a film director, embarks

on a dangerous adventure as a vigilante.

Carnaby has also picked up Summit Fever, which stars Freddie Thorp as a young English mountaineer who is lured to the Alps to conquer the ‘Big Three’ — the Matterhorn, the Eiger and Mont Blanc.

Shot at altitude in 4K by director Julian Gilbey, production began in January with further shooting planned for the summer. The script is being introduced to buyers at the market as casting continues.

Art Pictures Studio lines up Attraction sequel

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Russian production and sales outfit Art Pictures Studio is launching pre-sales in Cannes on the sequel to Fedor Bondarchuk’s sci-fi blockbuster Attraction. The original 3D alien invasion movie was a

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box-office success in Russia last year. Art Pictures Studio’s head of sales Anna Strunevskaya has confirmed shooting will begin this summer on the sequel, with Bondarchuk again set to direct and original cast members Irina

Starshenbaum and Oleg Menshikov due to return.

The company is also pre-selling Egor Abramenko’s $2.5m sci-fi drama The Passenger, produced by Bondarchuk, Dmitry Rudovsky, Alexander Andryushchenko,

Mikhail Vrubel, Michael Kitaev, Ilya Stewart and Murad Osmann.

Currently in production, the film follows spacecraft Orbit-4 as it encounters an aggressive life form in space and accidentally carries it back to Earth.

Pagan King reigns in US The Pagan King, an Englishlanguage historical action film, has inked key deals for Londonbased distribution and sales company Canoe Film, working on behalf of Latvia-based producer Platforma.

New deals have been reached for North America (Vertical Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Eagle Entertainment) and Spain (Mediaset).

Earlier sales include Germany (Ascot Elite), Japan (Zazie) and Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Romania (Mediasquad). A UK deal is in the works.

Released in Latvia in January, the UK-Latvia production is the highest-grossing film at the country’s box office this year to date.

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The Mediterranean port city of Marseille has gone from strength to strength as a location to become the second metropolitan shooting hub in France ‘Producers know they can come to Marseille and find all they need from A-Z for their productions’ Séréna Zouaghi, Mission Cinema

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arseille is set for a highprofile Cannes Film Festival: the southern French port city features as a backdrop in Un Certain Regard title Gueule d’ange (Angel Face), which stars Marion Cotillard, one of its best-known cineastes Robert Guédiguian is on the Competition jury, and its cinema and audiovisual mission will be setting up shop at the Marché du Film for the fifth year running.

The city has a long and illustrious connection with the moving image, which dates back to cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière, who captured the bustling streets leading down to the Vieux Port area as well as its then-working Joliette docks in 1895. “Filmmakers have always been drawn to Marseille,” says Séréna Zouaghi, head of Marseille’s cinema and audiovisual mission.

Some 120 years later, the docks are still used as a backdrop, most recently for filming the French live-action comic-book adaptation Gaston Lagaffe in May 2017.

The film was also shot at Provence Studios, which is based in Martigues. Covering 26,000 square metres across 22 hectares, Provence Studios welcomes productions for all types of film work.

That was one of 10 feature films in the city last year, alongside Angel Face, Christian Petzold’s Second World War thriller Transit, Taxi 5, the latest episode in Luc Besson’s high-octane adventure franchise, and comedy Beau-Fils à Papa, starring Julie Gayet and Kad Merad.

However, the city’s most significant coup in recent years has been Netflix’s

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‘Marseille is at once a French city, a European city, a Mediterranean city and an African city’ Didier Parakian, deputy mayor

political drama Marseille starring Gérard Depardieu, which raised its profile worldwide.

Global attraction Productions are drawn to the city for the multitude of backdrops, including the old-town neighbourhood of Le Panier’s narrow winding streets, the waterfront of Vieux Port, the ultra-modern glass-

fronted MuCEM museum complex, the island fortress of Chateau d’If and the picturesque fishing village of Les Goudes on the outskirts of the city.

“Marseille is at once a French city, a European city, a Mediterranean city and an African city. It’s unique in the way it has all these aspects rolled into one,” says Marseille deputy mayor Didier Parakian, who also highlights its claim to fame as the second sunniest city in Europe.

Marseille welcomed 513 shoots in 2017, including 10 features, 15 TV series and a number of advertising shoots — for a total of 1,250 shooting days.

Two hundred of those days were linked to international productions, yielding an economic benefit of $85m (¤71m).

This tally made it the second-busiest metropolitan shooting hub in France, after Paris.

“The number of shoots in the city has doubled over the course of five years,”

says Parakian, who is also the mayor’s counsel for economic development.

To this end, the city set up a dedicated cinema and audiovisual mission in 2009, known as Mission Cinema, aimed at helping film shoots at every stage of the project. “We offer a personalised support.

When a production arrives in the local area, we can help it with every aspect of the shoot, from location scouting to crew and equipment hire as well as with authorisations,” says Zouaghi.

Incoming productions can also tap into France’s 30% tax rebate for international productions while local works and coproductions can apply for regional funds.

Beyond these supports, Marseille is home to a growing pool of some 1,500 film and TV crew and dozens of service provider companies as well as a burgeoning eco­ system of audiovisual and digital companies clustered around its Media Park.

Established in 2015, this 23,000 square metre space hosts four film sets operated by Studios de Marseille, known for the production of French soap opera Plus Belle La Vie, along with many small and medium-sized enterprises in the multimedia industry and the Belle de Mai digital enterprises incubator, which is home to a number of innovative companies and motion-capture and specialeffects studios.

The city also supports many cinema events, notably the documentary-focused International Film Festival Marseille (FID Marseille) as well as the burgeoning Marseille Web Fest, focused on digital creation. This has helped foster a film and TV production-friendly climate.

“This has all contributed to the five-fold increase in activity since 2005, when there were 105 shoots compared to 513 shoots in 2017,” says Zouaghi. “Producers know they can come to Marseille and find all they need from A-Z for their productions.”

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The Croisette is awash with arthouse, genre, fiction and documentary titles. Screen International highlights some of the need-to-know projects that are here to tempt buyers

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By Jeremy Kay FilmNation will hit the ground running

with ensemble female spy thriller 355, which will star Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Fan Bingbing. The story follows a team of international agents who must learn to work together to thwart a sinister organisation. Simon Kinberg will direct and CAA media finance group represents North American and Chinese rights.

Sierra/Affinity has The American, which is set to star Jake Gyllenhaal as Leonard Bernstein, the composer of West Side Story. Cary Joji Fukunaga directs and produces through his Parliament Of Owls alongside Gyllenhaal and his Nine Stories partner Riva Marker, and BRON’s Aaron L Gilbert. BRON is financing the film, which is lined up for an autumn shoot. Endeavor Content represents North American rights.

Bloom kicks off sales on the Croisette with Luce starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Julius Onah directs the drama about a couple who adopt a child from war-torn Africa and watch him grow into a star pupil. Everything is thrown into question when his teacher finds a disturbing letter written by the youngster. CAA and Endeavor Content handle US sales.

In what will be his final Cannes market as the overlord of Lionsgate’s international sales business, Patrick Wachsberger will kick off sales on the horror Hell Fest, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Tucker Tooley. Gregory Plotkin directs the story of three friends who race to save unsuspecting guests from a masked serial killer at an amusement park. The film is in post-production.

Stuart Ford’s new venture AGC Studios will launch sales on Laika’s comedy adventure Film Five — the first time

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Travis Knight’s acclaimed animation house has made its product available to international buyers. Annapurna Pictures will handle US distribution.

Voltage Pictures will look to stir up enthusiasm for young-adult adaptation After, based on Anna Todd’s novel about a dutiful student in her first year of college who runs into a rebel and experiences a sexual awakening. Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Julia Goldani Telles star. Jenny Gage is scheduled to start shooting in June.

XYZ Films will tempt buyers on the Croisette with Titan, starring Lily Collins, from Killer Films. CAA and UTA Independent Group represent US rights to the story of a young musician who must confront Mother Nature herself in a fight for survival. XYZ serves as executive producer and Austin Bunn directs.

Cinema Management Group arrives with Falcon Lake, Sara Seligman’s thriller about a mother and her 17-year-old daughter who run a boarding house in a drug-smuggling corridor, where she kills dealers and human traffickers who spend the night. Everything changes when they are taken hostage. Principal photography starts this month and Camila Mendes, Adriana Barraza and Tyler Silva star. Good Deed Entertainment will distribute in the US. Seville International has secured international rights to Denys Arcand’s The Fall Of The American Empire, the Québécois filmmaker’s follow-up to 1986’s Oscar-nominated The Decline Of The American Empire. Arcand reunites with actor Rémy Girard alongside Pierre Curzi in an examination of capitalism in a society where all other values appear to have crumbled. Les Films Seville will release in Québec on June 28.

Denise Robert produces.

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and Ed Skrein. The story is set in 2050 as a UK border official is about to learn that everything she thought she knew was a lie. Dan Pringle directs for White Lantern Film and Red & Black Films.

Epic Pictures will be tempting buyers with The Golem from Doron and Yoav Paz (Jeruzalem). The horror tale reimagines the folklore surrounding one of European culture’s most monstrous beasts, as a woman in a devout Jewish community in 14th-century Europe summons a creature to repel invaders. Ariel Cohen wrote the script and Shalom Eisenbach produces the film, currently in post.

Visit Films arrives with Yen Tan’s 1985, about a closeted young man who returns home for Christmas during the first wave of the Aids crisis and struggles to reveal his circumstances to his conservative family. Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, Jamie

Chung and Aidan Langford star in the completed film from MuseLessMime Productions and Cranium Entertainment in association with Floren Shieh Productions and Rainmaker Films.

Magnolia International will launch sales on Sundance selection Tyrel starring Jason Mitchell, Ann Dowd and Michael Cera in the story of a lone black man who attends an all-white weekend of debauchery.

Raven Banner holds worldwide rights to Supergrid, a post-apocalyptic road movie from the creators of WolfCop that screens here. Leo Fafard and Marshall Williams star in the tale of estranged brothers who must travel the notorious ‘Grid’ in their quest to collect and deliver a mysterious cargo. Lowell Dean (WolfCop, Another WolfCop) directs. Raven Banner will distribute in Canada.

Producer Debbie Gray of Genesius Pictures will be in Cannes with Mrs Lowry & Son, starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave, and The More You Ignore Me starring Jo Brand. Gray is taking meetings and flying the flag alongside several associates for The Little Film Company following the death of co-president Robbie Little last week.

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Patagonik artistic director Juan Vera will direct the story of a married couple in their 50s who regret their decision to split up. Mercedes Moran also stars. Patagonik and Darin’s Kenya Films are producing.

Saboteur Media arrives with Danger Close, the true story of inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the Vietnam War who found themselves hopelessly outnumbered. Travis Fimmel and Luke Bracey lead the cast. Kriv Stenders directs from a screenplay by Stuart Beattie. Production is set to start on May 15 in Queensland, Australia on the $20m war story. Transmission has Australia/ New Zealand rights.

Millennium Media will be touting Rambo V, starring Sylvester Stallone as the Vietnam War veteran who takes on a sex-trafficking ring. Production is set to start on September 1.

Blue Fox International arrives with Summer ’03, a completed young-adult adaptation from production company Tadmor about a girl whose grandmother reveals shocking family secrets on her deathbed. Becca Gleason directs Joey King, Jack Kilmer and June Squibb.

Bleiberg Entertainment will be talking up All Creatures Here Below starring Karen Gillan, David Dastmalchian and Jennifer Morrison. The thriller from Collin Schiffli is in post and centres on a young couple who go on the run after committing a crime that will change their lives forever. Planeo Films’ Ignacio Arenas produced with Amy Greene and Chris Stinson of Live Free Or Die Films.

Octane Entertainment has The Ranger, about teen punks who confront a deranged park ranger.

Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard arrives with Storyboard Media and will screen Heilstatten, about teenage YouTube stars who dare each other to spend the night at an abandoned sanatorium and record it for their followers.

AMBI Distribution has Moose from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and starring John Travolta, who will play the titular character — a man obsessed with a celebrity action star. The story is inspired by a real fan who stalked Durst, who directs and wrote the screenplay with Dave Bekerman. AMBI’s Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi are producing with Oscar Generale and Daniel Grodnik.

Film Mode arrives with Yale Productions’ Burn, about a mousy, unstable gasstation attendant who finds herself and her co-worker held at gunpoint by a desperate man. Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Josh

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Hutcherson, Suki Waterhouse, Harry Shum Jr and Shiloh Fernandez star. Mike Gan directs. The film is in post.

Premiere Entertainment Group holds worldwide rights to the historical action title Legionnaire’s Trail starring Mickey Rourke, Lance Henriksen, Max Matveev and Bai Ling. Jose Magan makes his directorial debut in the tale of a halfRoman sent to cross enemy-infested mountains and seek help for his dying comrades. The film is in production.

The Film Sales Company arrives with worldwide rights to Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché from director Pamela B Green. Jodie Foster narrates the story that recounts the life and work of cinema’s first female director, screenwriter, producer and studio owner, Alice Guy-Blaché.

Shoreline Entertainment will be talking up Boar from Slaughter FX and OZPIX Entertainment. The story is set in the Australian outback where a mon-

strous beast approaches a small town.

Nathan Jones, Bill Moseley, John Jarratt and Christie-Lee Britten star and Chris Sun wrote and directed. Universal will distribute in Australia.

13 Films will be selling Bigger starring Julianne Hough, Tyler Hoechlin and Robert Forster in the rags-to-riches story of body-building and fitness entrepreneurs Joe and Ben Weider, who founded the Mr Olympia competition and discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger along the way. Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) cowrote and George Gallo directed the film, which screens in the market.

Lightning Entertainment brings Tone Deaf

to the market.

Amanda Crew and Robert Pat(Right) Darlin’

rick star in the elevated suspense thriller from Circle Of Confusion, Lightning Entertainment and Hindsight Media.

Production is underway on the story of a beleaguered youth on a weekend getaway who checks into a country house run by a psychopath. Ricky Bates Jr directs.

Myriad Pictures will be touting Andrew Bujalski’s SXSW title Support The Girls, an all-female ensemble comedy led

by Regina Hall as the manager of a sports bar whose optimism is tested to its limits.

Magnolia Films will distribute in the US. Cohen Media Group has the documentary Spiral produced by John Battsek, Charles S Cohen and his former Cohen Media Group president Daniel Battsek. Spiral explores the resurgence of anti-Semitism in France and the wider world and explores whether the cycle of violence and hatred can end. Laura Fairrie directed the film, which Cohen Media Group will distribute in the US. Spotlight Pictures holds international rights to the recent US theatrical release Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero, an animation about a First World War military dog that saved many lives. The voice cast features Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman and Gérard Depardieu.

Virgil Films will present buyers with documentary The Coolest Guy Movie Ever, which pays tribute to and explores the making of John Sturges’s 1963 classic The Great Escape.

MPI Media Group will present buyers with Pollyanna McIntosh’s Darlin’, a horror film about a feral teenager taken from a Catholic hospital to a care home where her dark secret threatens to reveal itself. Lauryn Canny stars.

Film Bridge International

brings An Interview With God starring David Strathairn and Brenton Thwaites in the tale of a journalist who meets a man who claims to be God. The film is in post and the producers are in talks with North American distributors for an August release. »

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UNITED KINGDOM SELLERS

By Tom Grater Jack O’Connell and Lily Collins will lead the cast of The Cradle, which Protagonist Pictures is introducing to the market here in Cannes. The film, set to shoot this summer, is the second feature from UK director Hope Dickson Leach, whose debut The Levelling premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.

HanWay Films will be introducing Claire McCarthy’s Burning Season, which will star Naomi Watts and Sophia Lillis in the story of a primatologist and her teenage daughter as they journey into a drought-stricken region of Madagascar in search of endangered species.

Cornerstone Films will be showing first footage from Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light. Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir and newcomer Viveik Kalra star in a story based on journalist Sarfraz Manzoor’s experience of growing up as a Muslim in the UK in the 1980s. eOne has UK and Australia rights Altitude Film Sales will tout comedy Hallelujah starring Ralph Fiennes for director Chris Addison. Andrew Eaton and Gina Carter are producing. It will shoot in early 2019. Altitude will corelease the film in the UK and Ireland with Lorton Entertainment.

Bankside Films is selling Normal People, which stars Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville. Filming begins in July on the Northern Ireland-set love story from directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn. CAA arranged financing and is representing US rights.

Rocket Science will show a first promo for At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in the story of the Dutch Post-Impressionist master.

Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend and Niels Arestrup co-star. CAA has US rights.

Embankment Films will be showing footage from Driven, Nick Hamm’s thriller starring Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer and Lee Pace in the story of an elaborate FBI sting set up to entrap maverick car designer John DeLorean.

Embankment is co-representing US rights with WME Global.

Mister Smith Entertainment has Look Who’s Back director David Wnendt’s The Sunlit Night. Jenny Slate, Alex Sharp, Zach Galifianakis and Gillian Anderson star in a story set between New York City and Norway, following an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic Circle.

Film Constellation is introducing buyers to We Don’t Talk About Love, the latest feature from Shell and Iona director Scott

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Graham. Mark Stanley and Amy Manson star in the love story set over the course of one night in a small Scottish fishing town.

STXinternational will show new footage from Mile 22, the latest action film from director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg following their collaborations on Deepwater Horizon and Patriots Day. The new film follows an elite US intelligence officer who attempts to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of a foreign country.

WestEnd Films brings Agnieszka Holland’s politically charged Gareth Jones to Cannes, with James Norton and Vanessa Kirby starring. Set in Stalin-era Russia and based on real events, the film follows a Welsh journalist who exposed the 1933 genocide-famine in Ukraine.

Independent Film Company is selling Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods in Cannes following its well-received premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. Tessa Thompson and Lily James star. The film is a modern

western telling the story of two sisters who are driven to work outside the law to better their lives.

Metro International will be showing a new promo for Ivan Kavanagh’s Never Grow Old starring John Cusack and Emile Hirsch. The Ireland-shot western follows an undertaker who faces a moral dilemma when a gang of ruthless outlaws terrorise his frontier town. Rezo Films has French-speaking territories for distribution.

AMP International’s Outside is the feature directing debut of UK actress Romola Garai and will star Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu and Imelda Staunton, with production set to start in autumn 2018. Deals closed pre-market for German-speaking Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Great Point Media will be talking up Hot Air, Frank Coraci’s drama about a self-satisfied conservative radio host whose life is thrown into havoc by the emergence of his long-lost 16-year-old niece. Steve Coogan, Neve Campbell and Taylor Russell star. ICM is representing US rights.

SC Films will be touting family animation At The Ark At 8 (3D), Cédric Babouche’s feature based on the biblical tale. The film revolves around three penguins who attempt to cheat the system after learning that only two creatures from each species are allowed on the titular ark.

Documentary specialist Dogwoof has Mark Cousins’ The Eyes Of Orson Welles playing in this year’s Cannes Classics programme. The film profiles the life of the US actor and filmmaker through exclusive access to hundreds of his drawings and paintings, many of which are new to the public eye.

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UK SELLERS CONTINUED a family animation road-trip adventure that is in the early stages of production.

The film follows a teenage dog that goes in search of its missing father, a canine astronaut.

Goldcrest Films will be showing firstlook footage from psychological thriller Look Away, starring India Eisley, Jason Isaacs and Mira Sorvino in the story of an isolated 18-year-old who swaps places with her imagined evil twin.

Celsius Entertainment has The Artist’s Wife, which is now in post-production.

Bruce Dern and Lena Olin star in director Tom Dolby’s tale of the wife of a famed artist who lives in the shadow of her husband.

Moviehouse Entertainment will be hosting the market premiere of Funny Cow, starring Maxine Peake, which is one of the company’s first in-house productions. Director Adrian Shergold’s film, also starring Paddy Considine, had its UK release via eOne in April this year.

Timeless Films’ buzz title for Cannes is animated comedy Koati. Directed by Rodrigo Perez Castro and currently in production, the film follows three unlikely heroes: a free-spirited coati, a fearless monarch butterfly and a hyperactive glass frog who embark on an adventure.

Carnaby International has survival drama Summit Fever. Currently in the early stages of production, the film from director Julian Gilbey (A Lonely Place To Die) stars Freddie Thorp in the story of a young English mountaineer who travels to the Alps to take on three extreme climbs.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has Hurricane, director David Blair’s Second World War thriller starring Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson and Marcin Dorocinski in the tale of heroic Polish pilots fighting in the Battle of Britain.

Evolutionary Films will be presenting the market debut of The Tokoloshe, a psy-

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chological thriller set in South Africa from director Jerome Pikwane and producers Cati Weinek and Dumi Gumbi.

The film is in both English and isiZulu, the language of the Zulu people.

Parkland Pictures will be touting Ben Hecking’s Provenance, starring Christian McKay and Charlotte Vega in the story of a classical musician who travels to the south of France to escape his demons. The feature won the best film award at the 2017 Madrid International Film Festival.

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Kew Media Group has the market debut of Nothing Like A Dame, Roger Michell’s documentary that celebrates the lives of four of the UK’s most beloved actresses: Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith.

Reason8 Films has the worldwide rights to Dina Burlis and Sergey Gavrilov’s feature documentary Joy Womack: White Swan. Now in post-production, the film follows US ballerina Womack over several years while she is accomplishing her childhood dream

of performing for the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet in Moscow.

Devilworks has supernatural horror The Axiom starring William Kircher of The Hobbit franchise fame. Written and directed by Nicholas Woods, the film follows a woman who travels into a forest in search of her missing sister only to find that she has entered a multidimensional world full of monsters.

Starline Entertainment has Tom Collins’ Northern Ireland-set action film Penance in the market. Starring Peter Coonan and Gerard McSorley, the film follows a priest whose difficult political past catches up with him.

Genre outfit Jinga Films has Jon Knautz’s The Cleaning Lady. The horror film stars Alexis Kendra, Stelio Savante and Rachel Alig in the story of a lonely woman who finds companionship with her cleaning lady, whose face has been tragically disfigured.

Cinestaan Film Company will be showing first footage from Aasha The Street Dog (working title), the tale of a spirited three-legged dog who dreams of a better life. Directed by Frederik Du Chau, the film is the first live-action, allanimal feature to shoot in India, featuring a cast of dogs, pigs, camels and cows.

New outfit Film Seekers will be showing a promo for Witch In The Window, Andy Mitton’s horror film about a man and his 12-year-old son who, while attempting to renovate a farmhouse, encounter the spirit of a previous inhabitant. Alex Draper stars.

Film Republic has Barbara Vekaric’s Croatia-Serbia drama Aleksi, starring Tihana Lazovic in the story of a woman who moves back in with her parents after failing to find a job after graduating. Instead of taking on the responsibilities of adulthood, she turns to nightlife and dating.

Repertory cinema specialists Park Circus will be talking up Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning classic The Apartment, which will be screening in Cannes Classics as a 4k digital restoration. »

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By Melanie Goodfellow Wild Bunch is launching sales on upcoming films from a host of long-time collaborators including Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s radicalisation tale Ahmed, Elia Suleiman’s comedy It Must Be Heaven, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s French-language debut The Truth About Catherine, Arnaud Desplechin’s detective tale Roubaix, A Light and Pascal Plisson’s Kenyashot documentary Gogo. The company’s six festival titles comprise Palme d’Or contenders Shoplifters, Capernaum, The Image Book and Yomeddine, Un Certain Regard selection Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Gaspar Noé’s Climax, which is set to heat up Directors’ Fortnight.

Celluloid Dreams will introduce Australian director Shannon Murphy’s bittersweet comedy Babyteeth starring Ben Mendelsohn and Essie Davis as parents of a terminally ill teenage daughter who falls for a drug dealer, as well as Stripped, the first film in Israeli filmmaker Yaron Shani’s The Love Trilogy, for which the actors were asked to live the lives of their big-screen characters for one year. The company is also handling Jafar Panahi’s Competition title 3 Faces.

MPM Premium’s slate is led by Saudi director Mahmoud Sabbagh’s Amra And The Second Marriage, his follow-up to Barakah Meets Barakah, about a housewife whose husband decides to take a second wife, as well as Un Certain Regard title Friends.

Studiocanal’s titles include a new version of children’s classic The Secret Garden starring Colin Firth and Julie Walters and directed by Marc Munden, as well as Michel Hazanavicius’ The Lost Prince, starring Omar Sy as a father desperate to remain a hero to his daughter. Festival titles include aquatic comedy Sink Or Swim, The World Is Yours (Le Monde Est A Toi) and Guy. Cercamon will start pre-sales on Croatian director Dalibor Matanic’s The Dawn, the second film in his Trilogy Of The Sun, “juxtaposing the noblest and basest of human impulses”, after 2015 Un Certain Regard jury prize winner The High Sun. In the second instalment, a family agonises over whether to flee or stay as a dark political force rises in the country. Other new titles include Sébastien Betbeder’s Ulysse & Mona, starring Eric Cantona as a reclusive artist who is brought out of his shell by an art student played by Manal Issa. It is also handling ACID selections We The Coyotes and Alone At My Wedding.

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promo-reel for Jean-Francois Richet’s The Emperor Of Paris, starring Vincent Cassel as Francois Vidocq, a legendary 18th-century conman turned master police detective and pioneer of modern-day criminology.

The company also has first images for Alexis Michalik’s comedy drama Edmond — set against the backdrop of the theatre world of Belle Epoque Paris — and family adventure Ailo’s Journey.

Memento Films International will

introduce Benedict Andrews’ Against All Enemies, inspired by the FBI’s illegal surveillance of actress Jean Seberg and starring Kristen Stewart as the New Wave icon, and Justin Kurzel’s The True History Of The Kelly Gang. The

Paris-based company’s festival titles include Asghar Farhadi’s Cannes opener Everybody Knows and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Competition contender The Wild Pear Tree.

Elle Driver is kicking off pre-sales on director Cédric Kahn’s comedy drama Happy Birthday, starring Catherine Deneuve as a (Right) My Polish Honeymoon

wealthy matriarch whose birthday celebrations turn chaotic with the arrival of her estranged daughter, played by Emmanuelle Bercot. The company is also selling Eva Husson’s Competition title Girls Of The Sun. Luxbox Films unveils Joan, in which Bruno Dumont will continue his exploration of French icon Jeanne d’Arc, and is also selling Directors’ Fortnight title Dear Son by Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia, who won the best first film prize at the 2016 Berlinale for Hedi. mk2 Films is set for a busy Cannes with seven festival titles on its slate, including Palme d’Or contenders Ash Is Purest White, At War, Asako I & II, Sorry Angel and Cold War, as well as Critics’ Week title Sir and The Trouble With You, which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight.

Hot titles on Pathé International’s slate include Paul Verhoeven’s erotic nun’s tale Blessed Virgin, starring Virginie Efira as a controversial 17th-century abbess, to which Charlotte Rampling has also been attached ahead of the shoot this summer; Rupert Goold’s Judy, starring Renée Zellweger as the showbiz legend Judy Garland; and Antonin Baudry’s submarine drama The Wolf’s Call.

Futurikon will unveil a 10-minute trailer for hybrid bug feature Miniscule – Mandibles From Far Away 3D on the big screen for the first time.

Buzzy upcoming features on Le Pacte’s slate include Elise Otzenberger’s debut feature My Polish Honeymoon, starring Judith Chemla and Arthur Igual as a young couple of Polish-Jewish origin who visit Poland for the first time, as well as Thomas Lilti’s medical comedy-drama The Freshmen, which will receive its market premiere.

Upcoming titles on the Doc & Film International slate include Gianfranco Rosi’s now untitled project exploring border areas of the Middle East, P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes’s House Of Cardin, about the story behind the fashion icon, and Bruno Dumont’s TV drama Coincoin And The Extra Humans. It is also selling Wang Bing’s documentary Dead Souls and Stefano Savona’s Samouni Road, which portrays a family living in the Gaza Strip.

The former is playing Out of Competition, while the latter premieres in Directors’ Fortnight.

Other Angle Pictures will market

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FRENCH SELLERS CONTINUED including The Hat Trick starring JeanPaul Belmondo, and Varante Soudjian’s action thriller Walter, which stars Issaka Sawadogo as an African military veteran turned supermarket security guard who terrorises a group of night-time raiders.

Playtime will premiere promos for Laszlo Nemes’ period drama Sunset, and Olivier Assayas’ Non Fiction, set against the backdrop of the French literary world. It will also market premiere Fred Grivois’ Somalia-set kidnap thriller 15 Minutes Of War. Festival titles include Un Certain Regard selection Angel Face, starring Marion Cotillard, and Directors’ Fortnight title Treat Me Like Fire.

Putting its financial woes to one side, EuropaCorp will hit Cannes with a slew of buzzy projects including Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies 2, reuniting most of the original film’s cast members including Marion Cotillard and Francois Cluzet, as well as a mysterious project called Spectrum, described simply as “the new film by Luc Besson”.

Indie Sales market premieres Paris Pigalle, starring Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lellouche as two police investigators who become involved in the world of pornography, and is also handling feature animation Another Day Of Life, about a journalist covering the Angolan Civil War in 1975, which premieres Out of Competition.

Alpha Violet kicks off sales on Daishi Matsunaga’s drama Hanalei Bay, about a Japanese mother drawn to a bay in Hawaii where her son was killed by a shark (based on a Haruki Murakami short story), and is also handling Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Critics’ Week title Fugue, about a woman struggling with motherhood.

Jour2Fête is handling official selection documentary To The Four Winds, about French farmer Cédric Herrou, who has embraced the cause of migrants trying to cross the Italian-French border near his farm.

Charades launches comedy The Shiny Shrimps, about an Olympic champion who takes on a flamboyant, amateur gay water polo team. Its festival titles include Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s Palme d’Or contender Summer (Leto), Directors’ Fortnight selection Mirai and Critics’ Week comedy Diamantino.

Bac Films International will premiere new trailers for David Oelhoffen’s thriller Close Enemies, starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Reda Kateb, and Paolo Virzi’s Rome-set comedy noir Notti Magiche.

Versatile is handling documentary The State Against Mandela And The

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Others, which is premiering as a Special Screening.

New titles on The Bureau Sales slate include Peter Mackie Burns’ Dublin-set Rialto starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as a man struggling to conquer his personal demons and not repeat the mistakes of his late father. The outfit is also co-handling sales on Siamak Etemadi’s Pari, about an Iranian mother searching for her missing son in Greece.

Hot upcoming titles on the Coproduction Office slate include Swedish director Roy Andersson’s latest reflection on life About Endlessness, Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl’s fraternal reunion tale Evil Games (Böse Spiele) and Jessica Hausner’s sci-fi drama Little Joe. Kinology commences sales on Mia HansenLove’s Bergman Island and Simon Jaquemet’s The Innocents, which is about a (Right) New Biz In The Hood

fragile neuroscientist whose lover reappears after 20 years in prison. It is also handing Competition title Knife + Heart

by Yann Gonzalez, as well as Terry Gilliam’s Cannes closer The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Highlights of the SND slate include Nicolas Vanier’s new project Spread Your Wings, starring Jean-Paul Rouvé as an ornithologist who tries to teach orphaned geese how to fly using an ultra-light airplane, as well as first footage of animation Asterix — The Secret Of The Magic Potion and Nils Tavernier’s The Ideal Palace. The latter is the story of real-life rural postman Ferdinand Cheval, who spent 33 years building a palace for his daughter.

Hot titles from documentary specialist Wide House include Marcus Lindeen’s The Raft, which topped the awards at CPH:DOX this year, as well as Austrian director Johannes Holzhausen’s

The Royal Train, about an annual rail trip across Romania by descendants of its last king. Holzhausen is best known for the award-winning The Great Museum.

TF1 International premieres promos for Mohamed Hamidi’s comedy New Biz In The Hood, starring Gilles Lellouche as a hip entrepreneur forced to relocate his business to a disadvantaged Paris suburb, and Julien Abraham’s comedy Made In China, about a photographer reconnecting with his Chinese roots. It will also market premiere Lola And Her Brothers starring Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Paul Rouve and Ramzy Bedia.

Loco Films will show fresh images from Pavel Lungin’s Leaving Afghanistan, about a division of the Russian military that is assigned one last mission in Afghanistan as their compatriots withdraw at the end of the Soviet-Afghan War. Pyramide Films International is handling a bumper haul of festival titles comprising Un Certain Regard’s The Harvesters and Donbass, Directors’ Fortnight titles Los Silencios and Amin, and Critics’ Week pick Sauvage.

New titles on the Urban Distribution International slate include ACID selection Cassandro The Exotico!, about the world of Mexican wrestling, and Critics’ Week documentary Chris The Swiss, which delves into the mysterious murder of a journalist during the Yugoslav War. It is also handling Un Certain Regard title My Favorite Fabric.

Wide Management market premieres Virginie Verrier’s 2 Hours From Paris, about a mother and daughter looking for the latter’s unknown father in northern France, Portuguese director Bruno Gascon’s human-trafficking drama Carga and Slovenian filmmaker Darko Stante’s double-identity tale Consequences.

Hot upcoming titles on the Stray Dogs slate include Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-di Koko-da and Yona Rozenkier’s The Dive, both of which will be ready for an autumn festival splash.

WTFilms’ Play Or Die makes its market debut. Jacques Kluger’s horror tale is about two gamers who are caught in a deadly contest.

Upcoming films on Les Films Du Losange’s slate include Merveilles In Montfermeil, the feature directorial debut of actress Jeanne Balibar, feted this year for her performance in Barbara. A comedy set against the backdrop of a busy town hall, the film features an ensemble cast including Emmanuelle Béart and Mathieu Amalric, who is also producing.

Other new films include sci-fi drama Particles, the debut feature of Blaise Harrison, who was the cinematographer on » The Paris Opera and Augustine.

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ITALIAN SELLERS

By Gabriele Niola Competition title Dogman from director Matteo Garrone headlines Rai Com’s market slate. Set on the outskirts of Rome, the story is inspired by true events and follows a man seeking revenge against the friend who landed him in prison.

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SPANISH SELLERS

By Elisabet Cabeza Spanish sales outfit Latido Films’ slate includes Carmen And Lola, directed by Arantxa Echevarria. The film, which is told in a documentary style, is premiering in Directors’ Fortnight and tells the story of two gypsy women who fall in love. Latido’s other new market titles include the latest films by the co-directors of Spanish-Argentinian hit The Distinguished Citizen, Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn, now flying solo as directors. Duprat has ventured into black comedy again with My Masterpiece, also a Spain-Argentina co-production and starring Guillermo Francella (The Clan). It will screen in the market, while Cohn’s new thriller 4x4 will show a first teaser.

Barcelona-based Film Factory Entertainment is handling two titles in the Cannes line-up: Jaime Rosales’ Petra, which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight, and Un Certain Regard selection The Angel Of Death, another

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film from the K&S Films/El Deseo collaboration after Wild Tales. New titles on the Film Factory slate include thrillers Twin Murders: The Silence Of The White City, Daniel Calparsoro’s adaptation of bestselling author Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi’s novel, set to star Belen Rueda (The Orphanage) and Manolo Solo (The Fury Of A Patient Man). In development, the script is available on request. Currently in post-production is Gracia Querejeta’s Crime Wave, described as a playful thriller with plenty of outrageous twists. Maribel Verdu, Luis Tosar (Retribution) and Javier Camara (Narcos) star and a promo is available.

Filmax International will be selling 70 Big Ones, currently in production, in the Cannes market. Starring Emma Suarez (Julieta) and Hugo Silva, the thriller is directed by Koldo Serra (Guernica) and revolves around a woman who has 24 hours to get a loan from a bank. Alex de la Iglesia, Nahikari Ipina and Pau Brunet produce. Filmax is also selling Kilian Jornet: Path To Everest, a completed documentary feature about the record-breaking Catalan mountain runner.

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includes Valeria Golino’s Un Certain Regard entry Euphoria, starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Valerio Mastandrea as two warring brothers forced to spend a few months together. The Italian outfit is also bringing to market the black comedy Put Grandma In The Freezer, about a woman who freezes her grandmother’s corpse so she can continue collecting her pension, directed by newcomers Giancarlo Fontana and Giuseppe Stasi.

Intramovies will launch sales on Spanish-Russian drama A Translator from the Barriuso brothers.

Rodrigo Santoro stars as a translator in a Cuban hospital, who helps medical staff to communicate with Ukrainian children brought to Havana for treatment following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The company is also selling Italian comedy I Am Tempesta, featuring 2010

Cannes best actor Elio Germano (Our Life) together with Marco Giallini (Perfect Strangers).

Fandango is selling Back Home, about an Italian and two Africans who migrate back to their motherland, starring comedy actor Antonio Albanese (Intrepido).

Minerva’s slate is led by The Hero, a drama about a mediocre journalist (Gomorrah’s Salvatore Esposito) who has the chance of a lifetime when a kidnapping happens in the small town he has been sent to report from.

The Italian company will also start selling ChileArgentina co-production Broken Panties, a corpsefilled black comedy.

Open Reel’s slate features new addition 7 Minutes, an Italian-French drama centred around a policeman who discovers his son’s homosexuality after his sudden death.

Summerside International will kickstart sales on Malarazza by Giovanni Virgilio, a Sicilian drama in which an abused mother seeks shelter from her mobster husband at his gay brother’s house.

Filmexport is selling legal drama The Great Noise Of Silence from director Nicolas Tuozzo, while Adriana Chiesa

has added Grannies On The Run starring Claudia Cardinale to its slate.

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Halvdan Viking

NORDIC SELLERS

By Wendy Mitchell TrustNordisk has Hans Petter Moland’s Norwegian drama Out Stealing Horses in production. Stellan Skarsgard, who also starred in Moland’s In Order Of Disappearance, leads the cast as a man seeking solitude who finds out he has a neighbour he knew in 1948. TrustNordisk’s new titles in post-production are Paradise War, directed by Niklaus Hilber and based on the true story of Swiss explorer Bruno Manser in the jungles of Borneo in 1984, and The Purity Of Vengeance, the fourth title in the hit series of Department Q thrillers.

Director Christoffer Boe joins the franchise, which sees Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares return as a pair of mismatched detectives.

New titles on the SF Studios slate include Gustaf Akerblom’s family film Halvdan Viking,, based on Martin Widmark’s popular novels about a Viking boy. Anagram Sweden produces and the live-action film will be delivered in late 2018. SF is also introducing Swedish thriller The Unthinkable, directed by collective Crazy Pictures, which is in post for a summer delivery. The high-concept disaster film, about the aftermath of a midsummer attack on Sweden, has already sold to more than 10 territories including France (Wild Bunch), German-speaking territories (Ascot Elite), Spain (Adso), Japan

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(New Select) and China (Times Vision). SF has also just announced production on another family film, animation Pelle No-Tail, which will be delivered for a Christmas 2019 release.

LevelK will be unveiling a promo of An Affair directed by Norway’s Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, about a teacher who is stalked by one of her students.

The company also has a new promo for Danish director Rasmus Kloster Bro’s dramatic thriller Cutterhead, Cutterhead about how disparate people deal with an accident during the construction of Copenhagen’s Metro.

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will present the market premiere of Fire Lily, an Estonian drama Lily directed by Maria Avdjushko. The mystical thriller is

about an opthamologist who wants to become a mother.

Michael Werner’s Eyewell will host the market premiere of Moonika Siimets’ The Little Comrade. The historical drama, timed to coincide with the Republic of Estonia’s 100th anniversary, is based on Leelo Tungal’s novels Comrade Kid And The GrownUps and Velvet And Sawdust. In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, a six-yearold girl tries to be on her best behaviour when her mother is sent to a prison camp. The slate also includes Swedish actionadventure title Operation Ragnarok, which is now ready for delivery. Fredrik Hiller directs and the cast includes Jonas Malmsjö, Per Ragnar and A Man Called Ove’s Bahar Pars.

The Match Factory arrives in Cannes with nine separate titles in official selection: two in Competition (Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Ayka and Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy As Lazzaro), three in Un Certain Regard (Lukas Dhont’s Girl, Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room, Alejandro Fadel’s Murder Me, Monster), one, Jane Magnusson’s Bergman — A Year In A Life, in Cannes Classics, and three in Directors’ Fortnight (Gianni Zanasi’s Lucia’s Grace, Agustin Toscano’s The Snatch Thief and Marco Bellocchio’s short The Fight).

German powerhouse Beta Films is handling Un Certain Regard selection The Gentle Indifference Of The World, billed as a poetic love story. Beta also has Critics’ Week title Woman At War, from Icelandic filmmaker Benedikt Erlingsson, whose Of Horses And Men sold all around the world.

Fellow German seller Arri Media is introducing buyers to kids’ movie Little Miss Doolittle, about a child who can converse with animals. The company is giving a first market screening to Arthur And Claire, starring Hannah Hoekstra and about a terminally ill man who travels to Amsterdam to die. While there, he encounters a suicidal young woman, and together they pull each other from the abyss. Julien Landais’ The Aspern Papers, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joely Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave, is now in post-production.

Picture Tree International is introducing buyers to road movie Drive Me Home starring Marco D’Amore (TV’s Gomorrah) and Borys Lankosz’s thriller Dark, Almost Night, in which a journalist investigates a series of child kidnappings.

Titles new to market from Global Screen include Barnaby Southcombe’s Scarborough starring Jessica Barden and Jodhi May, Philipp Leinemann’s political Game starring Ronald thriller Blame Game, Zehrfeld, and psycho-thriller Cutoff starring Moritz Bleibtreu.

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By Geoffrey Macnab Belgian outfit Be For Film is pre-selling The Best Of Dorien B (previously known as Floating), the debut feature of director Anke Blondé who also co-wrote the script with Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem (writer/producer of Moscow, Belgium).

The project is a dramatic comedy about 37-year-old Dorien, who has everything she needs to be happy: a successful husband, two kids and a thriving business.

But then the doubts creep in. Kinepolis Film Distribution will release the film in Belgium next year.

New Europe Film Sales is handling Directors’ Fortnight title The Load from Serbian director Ognjen Glavonic. The film follows a truck driver in Serbia during the Nato bombing of 1999. The company is also introducing buyers to portmanteau black comedy Panic Attack, already a hit in Poland.

The Hungarian National Film Fund is presenting Ruben Brandt, Collector, an animated feature from Berlinale Silver Bear-winning director Milorad Krstic.

It is the story of a famous psychotherapist forced to steal 13 paintings from world-renowned museums to stop himself suffering from terrible nightmares.

From Russia, Central Partnership will be introducing buyers to Mermaid, Lake Of The Dead, a horror picture from the team behind The Bride. Also new to market is Gogol adaptation Viy: Don’t Leave The Circle.

Mars Media is selling Second World War drama Sabre Dance. The company is also introducing buyers to high-concept melodrama The Perfect Ones, about a young woman receiving text messages from her deceased ex-boyfriend. The film is in post-production. The Russian release will be handled by Sony. Also new to market is Olga Zueva’s In The Hood, about two pleasure-seeking delinquents who run errands for a local criminal.

Reason8 Films, run by Anna Krupnova, is beginning sales on Russian horror-thriller Stray. The film, which will be released theatrically in Russia by 20th Century Fox next year, is about a grieving couple getting over the disappearance of their son. They adopt a boy but then sinister events begin.

Planeta Inform is presenting action adventure Tanks For Stalin, directed by Kim Druzhinin, and comedy I’m Losing It, directed by Aleksey Nuzhny. It also has new dystopian sci-fi thriller Coma.

Another leading Russian company, Arts Pictures Studio, is pre-selling Egor Abramenko’s The Passenger, a drama in

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which astronauts return to Earth having encountered an aggressive lifeform in space.

Dutch Features Global Entertainment

has Ruben Smit’s wildlife documentary Living On The Edge: Wadden Sea World Heritage Islands, which follows a group of seals, ducks and falcons in the Wadden Sea. The company is also handling Johan Nijenhuis’s The Full Monty-style comedy Boys Will Be Boys, about a construction crew who see more chance of making decent money by stripping than by working on building sites.

Films Boutique has Zsofia Szilagyi’s One Day, a Hungarian title screening in

Critics’ Week, which was supported through the national film fund’s In c u b a t o r p ro gramme designed to hothouse new talent. The company is also introducing buyers to Alamork Davidian’s debut film Fig Tree, based on her childhood memories of a civil-war-torn Ethiopia, and to (Right) All The Gods In The Sky

new sci-fi drama All The Gods In The Sky, from Quarxx. The short version of that film showed in 80 festivals worldwide.

New Hungary-based seller Luminescence will be selling Pinocchio — The True Story. Produced by Licensing Brands (Big Trip 3D, Magic Arch 3D), it is the story of young Pinocchio, who runs away from his creator Gepetto accompanied by Tibalt the horse and joins a travelling circus.

Austrian documentary specialist Autlook is giving a first market screening to Tribeca success Island Of The Hungry Ghosts. It also has AI-based feature documentary More Human Than Human from Femke Wolting and Tommy Pallotta, and architecture documentary Bauhaus Spirit.

Australian outfit Odin’s Eye is screening first footage from The Furies, a female-driven genre feature from the producers of Sundance hit Killing Ground, which is currently shooting in the Australian wilderness. The company is also introducing three animated feature films set within a single universe featuring anthropomorphic animals. Produced by Nadine Bates of Like A Photon, the series includes the titles Combat Wombat and The Wishmas Tree.

Among the highlights from Attraction Distribution is The Treasure Of Morgäa, an animated feature from the team behind s Rooster Doodle-Doo. ■ Screen International will cover the best of Asia’s titles over the course of the market, starting today with Taiwan (page 40) and continuing tomorrow with Japan

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Note perfect A hot-spring horror comedy, a supernatural thriller set in a high school and a real-life prison drama are among the buzz Taiwanese titles being sold in this year’s Cannes market. Silvia Wong reports Bad Boy Symphony

Golden Horse best supporting actor Bokeh Kosang and rising actress Yao Yi Ti. Ma Tien Tsung, renowned Taiwanese filmmaker Sylvia Chang and Hou Hsiaohsien’s regular producer/editor Liao Ching Sung are the producers.

Dir Charles Sun As Taiwan’s first film set in a youth prison, Sun’s directorial debut is an inspirational drama about how a group of criminals turn over a new leaf with the help of a teacher who prepares them for a music contest. Based on a true story, the film stars singer JR Jiyankai, JC Lin (The Last Painting) and up-andcoming actor Fandy Fan. Fox Taiwan will release the film in September. Sun previously produced The Spin Kid and local box-office hit Gatao.

Contact Activator Marketing Licensing enga.chang@gmail.com

Contact Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific lammy.li@fox.com

The Blue Choker Dir David Chang

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Double Trouble director Chang’s second feature is a supernatural thriller about a new high-school transfer student drawn to the myth of Room 420, where it is believed students will be rewarded with top grades if they hang themselves long enough to leave a blue bruise around their neck. Adapted from a bestselling novella and starring newcomer Jacko Fu, veteran actress Tien Niu and Nikki Hsieh, the film is produced by MandarinVision’s Yeh Jufeng and CMC Entertainment’s Dennis Wu. A local release is scheduled for September.

Dir Gavin Lin Starring popular idols Jasper Liu and Chen Yi Han in a remake of the Korean romance drama of the same name, Welcome To The Happy Days director Lin’s latest film is about two childhood friends. When a young man discovers that he is terminally ill, he sets out to look for a suitable husband for the girl he is secretly in love with. Produced by Singapore-based mm2 Entertainment, the film is in post-production for a thirdquarter release.

Contact MandarinVision desmond@mandarinvision.com

Contact mm2 Entertainment nelsonmok@mm2entertainment.com

Hidden Treasures In The Mountains

Dear Ex Dirs Mag Hsu, Hsu Chih Yen Selected for Taipei Film Festival’s international new talent competition, the feature directing debut of award-winning TV writer Mag Hsu and music-video director Hsu Chih Yen follows a new widow and her son who find themselves caught up in a feud when their late husband-father lists his gay lover as his insurance beneficiary. Popular TV actor Roy Chiu heads the cast, which also includes Spark Chen (lead singer of rock band Quarterback) in his acting debut, veteran actress Hsieh Ying Xuan and newcomer Joseph Huang. Warner Bros Taiwan will release the film in September.

Contact Dear Studio sanling.chang@gmail.com

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Hidden Treasures In The Mountains Dir Wang Dao Nan This comedy follows an unexpected 48-hour journey in the mountains involving a motley crew: a righteous patrol officer, a lame wood thief, a lazy hunter and a suicidal man, who find themselves caught up in ridiculous situations. The cast includes Esther Huang, Soda Voyu and Bernard Ho. The film marks the feature directing debut of veteran actor and TV director Wang.

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Selected to world premiere as the closing film at Taipei Film Festival in June, this crime mystery focuses on the investigation of a fisherman’s self-immolation during a protest against a petrochemical plant. Based on a script by Wang Li Wen (Forever Love), Chuang’s feature debut stars 2016 Golden Bell best actor Wu Kang Ren along with 2011

This horror comedy features rising actors Zhang Ting Hu, Hung Yan Siang and Lin He Xuan as three high-school students who spend one winter vacation at a dilapidated family hotel.

Despite bickering with one another at first, they begin to develop a close friendship as they unravel the secrets of the hot spring. Produced by Wang Tong and Yeh Jufeng, Lin’s first feature is set for a July release in Taiwan through Warner Bros, which will also roll it out in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

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IN FOCUS MARKET PREVIEW

Netflix and the streaming services will continue to cast a shadow over the Marché

Bridging the divide While the impasse with Netflix casts a long shadow, Cannes Film Festival and accompanying market are still the crucial platform for showcasing excellence in global cinema in the eyes of most buyers and sellers.

Jeremy Kay reports

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rust Netflix to throw the identity of Cannes Film Festival into question. The standoff between the venerable celebration of cinema and the disruptor-in-chief from Silicon Valley goes deeper than a tiff. The impasse feels epochal — more important than this year’s earlier start day and the edict blocking press from viewing a Competition film ahead of the evening world premiere. It reflects profound issues shaping today’s film business.

“Thierry is completely old school,” says one seasoned distributor of festival chief Thierry Frémaux in reference to last year’s ruling by Cannes that, starting this year, Competition selections must be available for French theatrical distribution. In fairness to Frémaux, his hands are tied in a political knot. The diktat is rooted in France’s media chro-

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nology laws, which forbid a title from streaming until three years after the theatrical release, and can only be undone by legislators.

‘The digital platforms have got independent distributors by the throat’ Stuart Ford, AGC Studios

However, Netflix has no time for a law that runs contrary to its model and chief content officer Ted Sarandos made it clear the digital titan will not bring any of its films to the Croisette.

The boycott includes a host of anticipated titles by several of the world’s best, among them Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Paul Greengrass’s Norway.

Most excruciatingly for cinephiles, Netflix is holding back The Other Side Of The Wind, the final film by Orson Welles — previously unfinished — that it paid for to complete.

Frémaux told Screen International he begged Netflix to reach some kind of entente cordiale on Roma. He could yet be vindicated if an official selection low on star wattage and minus a handful of auteurs tees up a discovery or two.

Yet Netflix is a million miles away in its mindset, and its intransigence is rooted in market forces. The streaming service says it is giving customers what they want — after all, it is hard to argue with 125 million global subscribers —

and its top buyers will be scouring the Croisette for the best available sales titles. “It wouldn’t be shocking if Net­flix came to Cannes and were the most aggressive acquirer out of the Competition, [for films that] would then play in North America or worldwide on their service,” says one veteran US sales agent.

On the matter of the Cannes-Netflix impasse, the executive adds, “Do you make a decision for the big screen, or do you make a decision for a big audience?

On some films, the audience might be greater on a service like Netflix than it would be were it distributed theatrically on a territory-by-territory basis.”

Netflix as a buyer continues to terrify the independent international theatrical buyers who strive to remain relevant in a time of deflated DVD sales and a TV advertising model decimated by streaming. More than ever, they are looking for the choice gems that will enable them to stand out.

“What we saw at Berlin was a sense that on both sides of the fence, buyers and sellers, the material brought to Berlin was more focused — in terms of the budget levels, cast, story ideas, zeitgeist, timing — and there was more business done on that material,” says Cornerstone Films co-founder Mark Gooder. “Some films pre-sold very well and some sold well on footage.” »

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Alfonso Cuaron at a press conference for Roma, a Netflix title many observers had expected to grace Cannes

Focus and quality are the keys. Buyers are no longer so attracted to ‘programmers’. Stuart Ford, who is in Cannes with new venture AGC Studios and has reconvened the bulk of his senior executive suite from IM Global, picks up the theme.

“Cannes is still a dynamic marketplace for the top 20% of product — the presale or finished movies that promise significant financial or critical performance,” he observes. “But the independent marketplace for the other 80% — the programmers, small indies and docs — is fighting a losing battle with the multiterritory streaming universe, which presents a more efficient and lucrative way to monetise that volume-driven end of the market.

“Premium content counts more than ever. So I think we’ll see this Cannes accelerate the trend of strong business among a small circle of buyers and sellers at the top end of the food chain and increasingly slim pickings elsewhere.”

Ford aims to adopt a more boutiqueoriented approach to sales as he focuses on offering a 360-degree service that, besides sales, places a heavy emphasis on developing and producing film and TV for multiple platforms. Gone are the days, he says, when a producer could rely on a sales agent to drum up enthusiasm for any package and secure 50%-100% of the budget in presales: “It can still happen, but only for the crème de la crème.”

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tough place to be,” Bloom president Alex Walton says, adding that buyers want to find distinctive material they can market. “It’s more selective than ever, which is challenging for all of us. But if you have that distinctive material of whatever size, the business is there.”

“We all have to get on with our business,” notes Cornerstone Films cofounder Alison Thompson. “We’re about making sure distributors have something on their slate for the end of this year and into 2019. These guys need product, but they are being very selective, buying 15 titles per annum rather than 30 now.

“We actually like that, it gets rid of the noise and distraction — there are far fewer of those packages which never really felt real in the first place that would be sufficiently annoying for a seller to distract a distributor’s attention until the noise died down.”

Art of the deal Arianna Bocco, executive vice president of acquisitions and production for IFC Films and Sundance Selects, says Cannes is “probably the most important market to go to” because of the prevalence of decision-makers, filmmakers and promos.

“Whereas you’re tracking more at AFM, Cannes is the place where you sit down and meet people and try to do deals,” she says. “It’s mid-year and right now we’re well into scheduling our 2019 slate. It’s important in Cannes to get a sense of what 2019 looks like.”

‘There are far fewer of those packages that never felt real in the first place’ Alison Thompson, Cornerstone Films

For HanWay Films managing director Gabrielle Stewart, while Berlin is a strong platform to showcase footage, the Croisette is more about the deeper dive.

“Cannes is a good place for longer conversations,” she says. “People go to Berlin for more contracted periods of time, same with AFM. In Cannes, people are there for a week so you can have drinks, leisurely lunches with people — it hasn’t been contracted in the same way.”

The large sums of money that Netflix, Amazon Studios and now Apple are willing to pay for content make them a go-to for producers, whom Ford notes are prepared to get a worldwide deal done in one place because they are “agnostic” about where their content launches.

“The digital platforms have currently got independent distributors by the throat,” he says. “At one end, they’ve shifted the relationship with the audience so that opening an indie movie in theatres is trickier than ever before. On the other end, they’ve seized control of the ancillary economics and they’re dis-

rupting the pipeline of movies.” As international acquisitions executives ask themselves what they need to do to stay relevant, their US counterparts know that Cannes Film Festival is all about finding that arthouse treasure that can make noise in the crowded distribution landscape back home.

Sony Pictures Classics co-founder Michael Barker has built a company on releasing some of the most acclaimed foreign-language films of modern times, including this year’s Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman from Chile’s Sebastian Lelio. However, he refuses to rest on his laurels and is under no illusion about the task at hand. While he says these days can be more rewarding for distributors with the best content, “all the other foreign-language films are more and more difficult — there are fewer theatres that want to play them and it’s a tough marketplace.”

Yet Thompson remains adamant that the south of France is special. “Cannes is still considered to be the most important film festival in the world,” she says. “My personal view is that nothing has changed. It’s still the most important platform for demonstrating excellence in global cinema.”

That will be music to the ears of Frémaux, who will be hoping buyers and critics hail his 2018 choices as emblematic of a curated event that remains as vital as ever, and not merely the hallmark of an ancien régime losing s influence to the rich newcomer. n

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A foreign affair The Spanish producer of Asghar Farhadi’s Cannes opener Everybody Knows tells Elisabet Cabeza how the Iranian director embraced the challenge of working in a foreign culture and language

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t was Penelope Cruz’s admiration for Asghar Farhadi’s work that triggered Cannes’ opening film Everybody Knows. The Spanish actress wanted to work with the Iranian director, and it turned out the admiration was mutual.

The idea was always to shoot in Spain. Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s production outfit El Deseo was originally involved but dropped out, to be replaced by Morena Films. Paris-based Memento Films, which backed Farhadi’s foreign-language Oscar winners The Past and The Salesman, was also on board. It had previously handled international sales on Alvaro Longoria’s documentary The Propaganda Game, and co-produced Dominik Moll’s The Monk with Morena Films.

“The idea to work together again was appealing,” says Longoria, the producer for Morena Films. “Not to mention the chance to work on a project as interesting as Farhadi’s.”

Everybody Knows was set up as a coproduction between Memento Films, Morena Films and Italy’s Lucky Red with backing from France 3 Cinema, Untitled Films AIE and Rai Cinema. Memento Films International pre-sold most major territories and Universal Pictures Inter-

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national is distributing the film in Spain in September.

The film takes place in Torrelaguna, a small town about an hour’s drive north of Madrid. Cruz plays a woman who returns to the town to attend her sister’s wedding after several years living in Argentina with her husband, played by Ricardo Darin. While back home she becomes re-acquainted with an old boyfriend, played by Javier Bardem (Cruz’s real-life husband) and the celebrations take a dark turn.

Location is a key ingredient

Farhadi wrote the script in Farsi after familiarising himself with Torrelaguna.

The film then shot entirely on location in the town — save for a few scenes around Madrid — with the main square featuring prominently.

Longoria describes Torrelaguna as a character in itself.

“It is a fantastic location, very fitting for Farhadi,” says Longoria. “He is a real aesthete and appreciated its beauty.”

The script was then translated into Spanish (Right) Asghar Farhadi

and when shooting began Farhadi knew it by heart, and even learnt this version phonetically. He also had two translators with him on set.

After the director researched practically every actor in Spain — according to Longoria, who is only half-joking — a careful casting process began. The supporting cast includes Barbara Lennie (Sunday’s Illness), Eduard Fernandez (Smoke & Mirrors) and Inma Cuesta (Julieta).

The film shot for three months. “It allowed Farhadi and his team to work both thoroughly and in a relaxed manner,” says Longoria.

“Watching Farhadi work was like attending a three-month masterclass. He’s very thorough, and he thinks and plans everything in great detail. He knew what he wanted from the actors. He is a fantastic actor’s director.”

According to Long o r i a , Fa r h a d i embraced his ‘foreign-ness’ as a nonspeaking Spanish person on a Spanish-language film.

‘Farhadi thinks and plans everything in great detail.

He is a fantastic actor’s director’ Alvaro Longoria, Morena Films

The key local crew included cinematographer Jose Luis Alcaine, who works regularly with Pedro Almodovar and also Cruz, and costume designer Sonia Grande, whose credits include Midnight In Paris, Broken Embraces and The Others.

Farhadi’s major Iranian collaborator was editor Hayedeh Safiyari, with whom he has worked on A Separation and The Salesman.

Longoria is confident Farhadi enjoyed his time in Spain. “He likes Spain because he found our culture had a lot of things in common with Iran, in the idea of family, for example,” the producer says. “He is so happy with how the shoot went that he wants to come back and make another film in Spain. I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but he said it’s one of the best s shoots he has ever had in his career.” ■

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SPOTLIGHT THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE

Adam Driver and Terry Gilliam on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Magnificent obsession Terry Gilliam has battled for 18 years to bring his vision of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the screen.

Charles Gant speaks to the filmmaker and producer Amy Gilliam about the hair-raising journey

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he only footage that saw cinemas from the disastrous, abandoned autumn 2000 shoot of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp was what appeared in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s 2002 documentary Lost In La Mancha. Flash-flooding of the Bardenas Reales desert location in Spanish Navarre and an actor (Jean Rochefort, playing Quixote) who was too impaired by a double-herniated disc and prostate infection to ride a horse were the main causes of one of the biggest insurance write-offs ($15m) in film history.

Traumatic as it was for him, this experience did not extinguish Gilliam’s dream of one day making the film, with reports regularly surfacing of attempts to revive the production with Depp or other lead actors such as Ewan McGregor and Jack O’Connell, opposite John Hurt or Michael Palin as Don Quixote. The quest, so the joke went, seemed every bit as epic and misguided as the film’s original inspiration, Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-

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century text Don Quixote and its ageing knight “tilting at windmills”.

Sitting down in late April with Screen International and his daughter Amy Gilliam — one of the film’s five producers — at the London offices of creative agency Empire Design, the filmmaker is giddy at the prospect of being able to talk about a finished film, rather than an unrealised dream, and not even legal action by Portuguese producer Paulo Branco — a claim for ownership that delayed the title’s announcement as the closing night of this year’s Cannes Film Festival — can dampen his mood.

Evolving story The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is based on a screenplay by Tony Grisoni (a previous collaborator on both Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and Tideland) and Gilliam. In the original, Depp played an advertising executive who travels back in time to the 17th century, where he is mistaken by ageing knight Don Quixote for his squire Sancho Panza. As the years

ticked by, Gilliam and Grisoni evolved a whole new conception for the storyline.

Gilliam reflected that he had already covered time travel, twice, with Time Bandits and 12 Monkeys. “I thought, ‘Is this an old cliché?’” he says. “And we decided, actually it would be cheaper if we kept it in the modern world.”

In the reconfigured story, Adam Driver plays Toby, a successful commercials director making an advert for an energy company in Spain, near the village where 10 years earlier he had shot his acclaimed student film using characters from Don Quixote. When he returns to the village, he realises he has created a life-changing situation there. “He’s fucked people’s lives up, basically,” says Gilliam. The shoemaker (Jonathan Pryce) who had played Don Quixote in the original film now believes he really is the character; as per the original version, he mistakes Toby for Sancho Panza.

“What it has placed now is the power of movies over imagination, good and bad,” says Gilliam, who was also inspired

‘When I finished a project, it was [always] back to this: how are we going to do [Quixote]?

It was so Sisyphean’ Terry Gilliam

by his recollections of making Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) in the Scottish village of Doune. “We come up, rapacious filmmakers from the big city — the number of relationships that grew, marriages that collapsed, pregnancies that occurred,” he recalls. “Filmmakers come into these stable worlds and things happen. I kept thinking, ‘We kind of fucked up that village, in many ways.’

Some benefited, but others did not.”

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got in 2006. New attempts with various producers (notably Spain’s Adrian Guerra and Denise O’Dell) and financiers followed, and Gilliam came close to making the film in 2015, when Amazon Studios came on board for North America. But producer O’Dell had budgeted the film at $19.1m (¤15.9m), and the available finance remained $3.6m (¤3m) short.

“I was determined that I was going to make it,” reflects Gilliam. “I learned that I ignore reasonable, intelligent people who say, ‘Move on.’ I did move on. I made other films. But this has been my default position when I finish a project. It’s back to this: how are we going to do it? It was so Sisyphean. You push it up to the top of the hill, and it rolls back. Most people are too smart to do what I did.”

Enter Paulo Branco, who was introduced by Italian producer Gabriele Oricchio, for whom Gilliam had directed the 2011 short The Wholly Family. Gilliam met Branco for lunch in London in February 2016, and the director recalls the producer’s opening gambit: “‘Hello, my name is Paulo Branco. I’ve made over 275 films, and I’ve had more films in Competition in Cannes than any other producer.’ You can see this guy had energy. He’s an interesting character.

He’s very smart, he can be very charming. This is a guy who’s hungry.”

According to Gilliam, Branco convinced him that he could round up $19.3m (¤16m) from Spain, Portugal, France and presales. “There wasn’t a shadow of doubt in his mind that this was all possible,” says Gilliam.

Strained relationships Gilliam next introduced Branco to Thomas, who still held the rights. By all accounts, the meeting did not go well, with Gilliam claiming that Branco seemed intent on asserting his authority over his fellow producer. “Jeremy said, ‘Nobody has ever talked to me like that in my life,’” says Gilliam. “Paulo has done a million films. Jeremy’s done half that number, but they’re good films, famous and successful films. It was like Jeremy was a threat. It was bizarre.”

Thomas and [Recorded Picture Company CEO] Peter Watson were discouraged. “They said, ‘We can’t work with this guy. Don’t do it, Terry,’” he recalls.

“They were trying other ways. I said, ‘I have to start shooting this year. If I don’t, I will go mad.’” Thomas and Watson relented, giving Branco a six-month option to pull the money together and start shooting the film.

What happened next is a matter of dispute, but, per the Gilliams, the promised finance failed to materialise and the plug

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Adam Driver (left) and Jonathan Pryce in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

‘So we got the money, and wait a minute, you’re crippled now.

You’re half blind! Life is like that, folks’ Terry Gilliam

was pulled on the film during pre-production while star Driver was on his way to the airport to fly to Lisbon for hair and make-up tests. (At press time, Branco was continuing to insist that distribution of the film was in violation of the rights of his Alfama Films — the latest court hearing was expected to take place yesterday.)

The Gilliams were back to square one.

They could return to the previous budget model, but there remained that $3.6m (¤3m) gap. It was then that fate intervened in the form of Italianborn, London-resident Alessandra Lo Savio and her firm Alacran Pictures. Lo Savio invited the Gilliams to her home to see if she could help close the gap — which she did to the tune of ¤3m.

“She was the fairy godmother. She’s an extraordi(Right) Terry Gilliam on set

nary woman,” says Gilliam. Lo Savio and her sister and Alacran partner Giorgia Lo Savio have executive producer credits on the film.

Appropriately, given the rollercoaster ride of his Don Quixote journey, Gilliam left the meeting and immediately had problems with his vision. He attended hospital the next morning and was offered a surprise diagnosis: he had suffered a mild stroke. “So we got the money, and wait a minute, you’re crippled now,” exclaims Gilliam, who has made a full recovery. “You’re half blind!

Life is like that, folks.”

Finally the project could proceed, and cameras started rolling in March 2017, with Driver, Pryce, Olga Kurylenko and Stellan Skarsgard. The production stayed loyal to the Spanish partners brought on by Branco, Tornasol, although, as Gilliam explains, they could have easily reverted to Denise O’Dell.

“It wouldn’t be fair to just say, ‘Alright, thanks, you’ve lost [money in pre-production on the aborted 2016 shoot], we’re going back to Denise.’ It just was not the thing to do, and that’s why we stayed,” he says.

Grégoire Melin at French financier and sales agency Kinology, long attached, produced the film with Amy G i l l i a m , E n t re Chien Et Loup’s Sébastien Delloye and Tornasol’s Gerardo

Herrero and Mariela Besuievsky. RPC’s Thomas and Watson stayed on as executive producers, and Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes served as co-producer. The film shot primarily in Spain, accessing the Navarre tax credit, with a couple of weeks apiece in the Canary Islands and Portugal — the latter an inheritance of the Branco association.

Despite a tight schedule, a peripatetic shoot moving constantly from location to location with no margin for error, and much reliance on weather due to the outdoor scenes, “We were incredibly lucky,” says Gilliam. “We got away with it.”

The director pauses, then launches into one final anecdote. “The only time it rained, and that’s where nature has such a great sense of humour, it was the big night,” he recalls. “We had 350 extras in these extraordinary costumes, we’d built this huge conical structure, and then everything is burnt at the end of the day, this great sacrifice. We’re ready to do it, it’s the most expensive part of the shoot, and then the rain belts down on us. We couldn’t burn it. We had to do it the next night. That was the only time nature said, ‘Watch this!’

“It got funnier,” he adds. “To protect the stones of the cloisters, we had put sand down, and we had plastic under the sand, which was covering all the drainage. The rain came down, and the place began to flood. We’re back to the rain storms, we’re back to Las Bardenas!

I was laughing because it was so absurd and almost perfect, that after 2000 being s flooded out, it’s happening again.” ■

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Le Pacte. Dir: Thomas Lilti. Cast: Vincent Lacoste, William Lebghil.

Antoine is starting his first year of medical school for the third time.

Benjamin is making his first try. In this competitive environment, the two freshmen search for some balance between despair for the present and hope for the future.

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THE LAST FULL MEASURE

(US) 110mins.

Foresight Unlimited.

Dir: Todd Robinson.

Cast: Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Diane Ladd, Peter Fonda, Bradley Whitford, Michael Imperioli, Linus Roache, John Savage.

The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an air force medic who saved more than 60 men before being killed in the bloodiest

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(France) 45mins.

Tf1 Studio.

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11:30 FAMILY COUNCIL

(France) 90mins. SND — Groupe M6. Dirs: David Diane, Morgan Spillemaecker. Cast: Chantal Ladesou, Vincent Desagnat, Julien Arruti, Josephine Drai.

Yet another family lunch for Nicolas, Fanny and Ben. Yet another opportunity for their mother to keep them down… and ask for money.

Nicolas, done with it, convinces Ben and Fanny to get rid of their mother.

The plan is simple: a poisoned mojito and they are free. But things are never so simple in families.

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(Spain) 96mins. Film Factory Entertainment.

Dir: Miguel Angel Lamata. Cast: Julio Bohigas, Milene Mayer, Marcos Milara.

Francisco and his closest friends play for a soccer team that has reached its lowest point. They have got to win one of the next three games to keep the school from cutting their team altogether. A series of strange events take place in the first two games. Coincidence?

Conspiracy? Francisco and his friends decide to create The Footballest, an investigative team that will get them into all kinds of adventures, where both their ingenuity and friendships will be put to the test.

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THE SNOW QUEEN: MIRRORLANDS

(Russia) 15mins. Wizart.

Dirs: Alexey Tsitsilin, Robert Lence.

A mighty king who lost his family because of the Snow Queen finds a way to expel all magic creatures from his world to Wonderland. Gerda and Snow Queen, along with all the wizards and magicians, have to forget their differences to defend

their right to exist and to ensure fairy tales do not disappear.

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TANKS FOR STALIN

(Russia) 95mins.

Planeta Inform Film Distribution. Dir: Kim Druzhinin.

1940: a prototype for a cutting-edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Comrade Stalin in Moscow. Soon the crosscountry run turns into a ruthless race. Followed

by Nazis, the tank’s team defeat their pursuers and prove the great ability and vast superiority of the machine that is about to become a legendary T-34.

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12:00 EMBANKMENT PRIVATE SCREENING

100mins. Embankment Films.

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KEEPERS

(UK) 107mins.

Protagonist Pictures.

Dir: Nyholm Kristoffer.

Cast: Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Olafur Darri Olafsson.

On an uninhabited island 20 miles off the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their six-week shift.

(Australia) 90mins.

Raven Banner Entertainment.

Dir: David Barker.

Cast: Ella Scott Lynch, Benedict Samuel, Heather Mitchell, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Robin Goldsworthy, Emma Potts.

Two twisted housemates lure an unbalanced woman into a sexual trap, with murderous results.

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(Spain) 91mins. Film Factory Entertainment.

Dir: Marta Diaz De Lope Diaz. Cast: Gloria Munoz, Pepa Aniorte, Juan Gea. Carmen, a devout Catholic woman from Malaga, is about to be chosen leader of her local religious guild. But it all goes up in smoke when Ignacio — her biggest rival — is chosen: a ridiculous, arrogant man who is also hell-bent on demoting her from her post. After an unfortunate “accident”, Ignacio is left unconscious in the bathroom and Carmen is forced to keep him hidden in her home while she receives a series of unexpected visitors. What at first seems like a terrible » predicament could turn www.screendaily.com

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Antonio Pinhao Botelho.

Cast: Igor Regalla, Afonso Lagarto.

A film about the society of metropolitan Portugal and its African colonies at the beginning of the 1960s. This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined for great achievements, coveted by a rival club, Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

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(France) 106mins.

Gaumont. Dir: Franck Dubosc. Cast: Franck Dubosc, Alexandra Lamy.

Jocelyn is a successful into Carmen’s chance to fulfil her dream.

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SUMMER ’03

(US) 96mins. Blue Fox Entertainment.

Dir: Becca Gleason.

Cast: Joey King, Jack Kilmer, June Squibb, Andrea Savage, Paul Scheer.

The hilarious story of 16-year-old Jamie and her extended family, who are shocked after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of family secrets on her deathbed.

Jamie is left to navigate her own love life and maintain her closest friendships in the midst of this family crisis.

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TZANTZA

(Ecuador) 89mins.

Adler & Associates Entertainment.

Dir: Javier Jacome.

Cast: Geronimo Garrido, Lenin Mendoza, Zaydum Choez, Sofia

businessman, selfish and a misogynist. He tries to seduce a pretty young woman by pretending to be handicapped, until the day she presents him with her sister in a wheelchair.

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Dominguez, Rosa Bodero, Jayron Flores.

According to ancient legends passed down by the indigenous peoples of South America, when one creates a “tzantza” — a shrunken head of another human — it allows the bearer of the head to steal the victim’s soul. When an unscrupulous group of black market collectors offer a hefty bounty for tzantzas, it unleashes a wave of terror as victims falls prey to a vicious killer.

Based on a true crime spree whose perpetrators are still at large.

forced to face his toughest opponent yet: his past.

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14:00 ASHER

(US) 90mins. XYZ Films. Dir: Michael Caton-Jones. Cast: Ron Perlman, Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Facinelli.

Asher is a former Mossad member-turned gun-forhire, living an austere life in Brooklyn. He breaks an oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a job gone sideways. In an effort to live a life before it is too late, he must kill the man he was for a last chance at becoming the man he wants to be.

Dir: Gustavo Pizzi.

Cast: Karine Teles, Otavio Müller, Adriana Esteves.

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and regain her inner confidence before sending her eldest son out into the world.

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RUTH

(Portugal) 105mins.

Alfama Films. Dir:

SHOWBOX PRIVATE SCR

(South Korea) 110mins.

Showbox.

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ANIMAL

(Argentina) 95mins. Film Factory Entertainment.

Dir: Armando Bo. Cast: Guillermo Francella, Carla Peterson, Gloria Carra.

Antonio has the perfect

life: a loving family, a good job and a nice house.

But that bubble bursts when he finds out he’s in urgent need of a kidney transplant. Antonio has always been a by-the-book kind of guy, but when all legal means for obtaining a kidney fall through, he turns to the black market where he’s forced to the moral edge by a couple who put his desperation to the test.

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BLAZE

(US) 127mins. The Exchange. Dir: Ethan Hawke. Cast: Alia Shawkat, Ben Dicky, Josh Hamilton, Charlie Sexton.

Inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three different periods of time, braiding re-imagined versions of Blaze’s past, present and future. The different strands explore his love affair with Sybil Rosen; his last, dark night on earth; and the impact his songs and death had on his fans, friends and foes.

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BAD SEEDS

(France) 110mins.

Studiocanal.

Dir: Kheiron.

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(UK) 100mins.

Independent. Dir: Ed Lilly. Cast: Connor Swindells, Fola EvansAkingbola, Ruth Sheen, Nicholas Pinnock, Adam Lazarus.

A troubled foster kid uses his scathing word skills to become an unlikely rap battle champion. But when he doorsteps his biological mother after 10 years in care, he is

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THE DISCOVERER OF NEW WORLDS

(Turkey) 65mins.

Uluslararasi Bogazici Sinema Dernegi.

Dir: Burhan Gun. Palais E

KINODANZ PROMO REEL

(Russia) 11mins.

Kinodanz.

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LOVELING

(Brazil) 98mins.

New Europe Film Sales.

MARKET 15:30 15 MINUTES OF WAR

(France) 95mins. Playtime.

Dir: Fred Grivois. Cast: Alban Lenoir, Olga Kurylenko.

1976: Somalian rebels hijack a school bus with 21 French children and an American teacher on board and drive it to a no-man’s-land, on the border between the French colony and Somalia.

French captain Andre Gerval is called to lead a small team of elite snipers to secretly prepare an emergency rescue.

With diplomacy stalling and time running out, Gerval and his team take on the responsibility of carrying out a simultaneous five-man sniper attack to get the children and their teacher out safely. A true story.

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Kang-Jen Wu, Cincin Jao. Xiao Mei is missing.

The interviews and memories of nine individuals who all had connections with her gradually piece together the puzzles of her life.

Tyson, Larry Merchant, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Manuel Noriega, Ricky Hatton.

The iconic story of a boxer ranked as one of the most entertaining, controversial and greatest of all time.

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A CROOKED SOMEBODY

(US) 103mins. Octane Entertainment. Dir: Trevor White. Cast: Rich Sommer, Clifton Collins, Jr, Joanne Froggatt, Amanda Crew, Amy Madigan.

An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.

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MARKET 15:30 OUR HAPPY HOLIDAY

(France) 100mins.

Le Pacte. Dir: Patrick Cassir. Cast: Camille Chamoux, Jonathan Cohen, Camille Cottin.

Marion and Ben are both in their 30s and

COHEN MEDIA PROMO SCREENING

15mins. Cohen Media Group.

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CRUCIBLE OF THE VAMPIRE

(UK) 97mins.

Screenbound International Pictures..

Dir: Iain Ross-Mcnamee.

Cast: Neil Morrissey, Katie Goldfinch, Charles O’Neill.

Isabelle is a naive university researcher who is sent to a Gothic manor to appraise an ancient crucible once belonging to a sorcerer from the 17th century. It soon becomes apparent that the house holds more than one dark secret.

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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 together. Let the happy holiday begin…

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Makua Rothman, Danny Fuller, Herbie Fletcher.

Big wave surfer Nathan Fletcher and filmmaker Michael Oblowitz team up to capture the essence of what it means to surf one of the largest breaks in the world.

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on a full-scale replica of the raft, this film tells the hidden story behind one of the strangest group experiments of all time.

120mins. Contents Panda/Next Entertainment World.

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TOKYO LIVING DEAD IDOL

(UK) 110mins. BFI — British Film Institute.

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XIAO MEI

I AM DURAN

(Taiwan) 95mins.

MandarinVision. Dir: Maren Hwang. Cast: Yi-Wen Chen, Shin Yin, Samantha Ko, Kuan-Ting Liu, Shao-Huai Chang,

(UK) 90mins.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution.

Dir: Mat Hodgson.

Cast: Roberto Duran, Sylvester Stallone, Mike

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KILIAN JORNET: PATH TO EVEREST

(Spain) 80mins.

Filmax International.

Dir: Josep Serra.

Cast: Kilian Jornet.

Retraces the journey that led Kilian Jornet to the world’s highest peak, in an intimate portrait that reveals his fears, his contradictions and his desire to keep finding new challenges.

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LOOKING FOR TEDDY

(France) 82mins.

Pathe International.

Dir: Philippe Mechelen, Julien Hervé. Cast: Kad Merad, Malik Bentalha, Ludovic Berthillot.

Sofiane spots a reward advertised for the recovery of a lost teddy at the airport. He does not hesitate to claim it.

Teaming up with the square father of the teddy’s owner, a hilarious hunt, filled with twists, ensues.

(France) 30mins.

Gaumont. Dir: various.

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HEAVY WATER

(US) 90mins. Red Bull Media House.

Dir: Michael Oblowitz.

Cast: Nathan Fletcher,

Francois Régis-Jeanne.

Cast: Sabrina Ouazani, Alice David, Charlotte Gabris.

Salma, Olivia and Lauren meet for the first time when they inherit a luxurious flat in Paris from their estranged biological father. The three sisters have nothing in common and cohabitation is rocky. Salma teaches in a difficult suburb, Lauren is a true Parisian fashionista and Olivia is obsessed by finding the perfect husband. They will have to learn to become sisters to keep the flat their father’s legitimate family want back.

(Canada) 100mins.

Moonrise Pictures.

Dir: Stephen Campanelli.

Cast: Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit.

Recounting the story of Saul Indian Horse and his remarkable journey from a northern Ojibway child torn from his family and placed in one of Canada’s notorious Catholic residential schools, to a man who ultimately finds his place in the world.

SISTERHOOD

(France) 106mins.

SND — Groupe M6.

Dirs: Saphia Azzeddine,

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SOLA MEDIA PROMO REEL

100mins. Sola Media.

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THE RAFT

(Sweden) 98mins.

Wide House. Dir: Marcus Lindeen.

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying violence and sexual attraction.

Although the project became known in the press as “The Sex Raft”, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three-month journey.

Through extraordinary archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition

MARKET 15:30 TOKYO LIVING DEAD IDOL

(Japan) 82mins. Crei. Dir: Yuki Kumagai. Cast: Nana Asakawa, Shogen, Asami, Sana Hoshimori.

An idol is bitten by a zombie and has 72 hours left until she becomes a one herself. She must try to find the zombie serum and make it to the destination within the time limit. Will she survive?

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WTFILMS PROMO

20mins. WTFilms.

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17:45 WE THE ANIMALS

94mins. The Exchange.

Dir: Jeremiah Zagar.

Cast: Raul Castillo, Josiah Gabriel, Terry Holland.

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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17:30 REDBAD

(Netherlands) 165mins.

Incredible Film.

Dir: Roel Reiné.

Cast: Jonathan Banks, Soren Malling, Gijs Naber, Loes Haverkort.

M PICTURES PROMO REEL

(Thailand) 90mins.

M Pictures Co. Lerins 3

UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER

(US) 86mins. The Orchard. Dir: Archie Borders. Cast: Matt Walsh, Judith Godreche, David Wain, Reid Scott, Gary Cole, Ary Abittan.

A heart-crushing breakup in Paris sets a life crisis in motion for a bourbon salesman. This comingof-middle-age tale follows him on a journey across the French countryside where a possible romance blooms with a local wine saleswoman.

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WAITING FOR YOU

(UK) 92mins. Film Bridge International. Dir: Charles Garrad. Cast: Fanny Ardant, Colin Morgan.

A young man travels to the south of France where he meets a mysterious woman who uncovers a family secret hidden for decades.

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17:30 A NEW GIRL IN PARIS

(France) 100mins.

Tf1 Studio. Dir:

About the sagas and ancient legends surrounding the Frisian king Redbad and his battle with his nemesis Pepin Herstal, lord of the Franks.

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Alexandre Castagnetti.

Cast: Héloise Martin, Noémie Chicheportiche, Jimmy Labeeu, Oussama Kheddam, Rayane Bensetti, Idrissa Hanrot, Annie Cordy, Sylvie Testud, Blanche Gardin, Cyril Guei.

Free at last, well, almost…

Tamara and her best friend Sam finally leave their provincial hometown to study and make it on their own — in Paris. It’s a big city but a small world after all when they end up renting rooms in their old classmate Wagner’s huge family apartment. And guess who else happens to be living there? Diego, Tam’s ex. Caught between her studies, her new life, her friends, her future ex and her parents always on her back, Tamara has some tough choices to make and some growing up to do.

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I FEEL GOOD

(France) 103mins.

Wild Bunch. Dir: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern. Cast: Jean Dujardin, Yolande Moreau.

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Dive into a joyfully crazed world in the this offbeat comedy.

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THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING

(US) 98mins. Dogwoof.

Dir: Nathaniel Kahn.

Cast: Amy Cappellazzo, George Condo, Njideka Akunyili Crosby.

Jump into the rarefied world of contemporary art where everything can be bought and sold: a stunning expose of the role of art in today’s consumerist society.

of leading his father’s company and turning it into a flourishing business. After his father’s retirement, Ferhat becomes the head of his family’s construction business.

Despite his sizeable wealth, he is very stingy and he and his right-hand man and lifelong friend Gokhan tyrannise their employees.

One night these inseparable friends have to deal with an act of robbery and cross paths with Elif, a gorgeous police officer.

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BERGMAN — A YEAR IN A LIFE

(Sweden) The Match Factory. Dir: Jane Magnusson.

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CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP LINE-UP

(Russia) 100mins.

Central Partnership Sales House.

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MARKET

of his exam papers and her divorce papers.

However, neither Ben nor Ms Bushnell are cut out for this task of extracting information from an ex-SAS reservist.

ASK THE CHEAT

GASTON

(UK) 95mins. Adler & Associates Entertainment.

Dir: Raza Mallal.

Cast: Nick Moran, Martin Trenaman, Nicole Faraday, Jeremy Edwards, Max Abraham.

Ben, a student with dyscalculia, is caught cheating in his final A-level maths exam by his teacher, Ms Bushnell. In return for not reporting him Ms Bushnell gets Ben to help kidnap her cheating husband over the weekend, before the deadline for the delivery

(France) 85mins.

Gaumont. Dir: Pierre Francois Martin-Laval.

Cast: Theo Fernandez, Pierre Francois MartinLaval, Alison Wheeler, Arnaud Ducret.

Gaston might just be the clumsiest yet most endearing character you have ever met. He lives in a world of his own, with his animal friends.

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PLAYTIME PROMO REEL

30mins. Playtime.

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THE SCYTHIAN LAMB See box, right

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

(US) 92mins. The Solution Entertainment Group. Dir: Tim Hill. Cast: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken.

Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.

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WHAT A CRUSH!

(Turkey) 113mins.

Uluslararasi Bogazici Sinema Dernegi. Dir: Aydemir Selcuk. Cast: Murat Cemcir, Ahmet Kural, Saadet Isil Aksoy, Cengiz Bozkurt.

Since he was a little boy, Ferhat has dreampt

(Japan) 126mins. Asmik Ace. Dir: Daihachi Yoshida. Cast: Ryo Nishikido, Fumino Kimura.

Suffering from population decline, the small seaside town of Uobuka decides to welcome six strangers into the community: a malevolent fishing boat operator, a sexy caregiver, a frightening launderer, a timid barber, a methodical

cleaning woman and a simple-minded deliveryman are all brought together by this mysterious government-sponsored programme. Tsukisue, the young city official put in charge of the programme, has no idea why they’ve been brought to town. But when the truth comes out about the strangers’ mysterious past and a body is discovered in the harbour, he begins to suspect foul play.

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JUSTIN CHANG Los Angeles Times, US

TIM ROBEY, ROBBIE COLLIN The Daily Telegraph, UK

KONG RITHDEE Bangkok Post, Thailand

NICK JAMES Sight & Sound, UK

WANG MUYAN Ellemen, China

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KATJA NICODEMUS Die Zeit, Germany

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EVERYBODY KNOWS (Iran) Asghar Farhadi

Farhadi’s stars Penelope story of a woman Buenos Aires to ★★ thriller ★★ ★★ Cruz and ★★Javier Bardem ★★ in the★★ ★★ journeying ★★ from★★ her★★ native village in Spain for a family wedding is soon disrupted. ★★ ★★ ★★ that★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

YOMEDDINE (Egy-Aust) AB Shawky

A Coptic and his orphaned on a journey families. Shawky is ★★ leper ★★ ★★ apprentice ★★ embark ★★ ★★across Egypt ★★ to search ★★for their ★★ the★★ only feature-debut this year. ★★ filmmaker ★★ selected ★★ for Competition ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

SUMMER (Rus-Fr) Kirill Serebrennikov

Russian Serebrennikov the 1981 Leningrad rock-and-roll scene, ★★ director ★★ ★★ presents ★★his love triangle ★★ set in ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ as a group of young of age. Teo Yoo, and Filipp Avdeev ★★ musicians ★★ come ★★ ★★Irina Starshenbaum ★★ ★★ ★★ star. ★★ ★★

SORRY ANGEL (Fr) Christophe Honoré

Honoré’s a 40-year-old literature student Pierre ★★ bittersweet ★★ love story ★★ between ★★ ★★ writer and ★★a young★★ ★★ stars★★ Deladonchamps and Vincent Lacoste.★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

COLD WAR (Pol-Fr-UK) Pawel Pawlikowski

Pawlikowski’s Cold love story follows love couple. ★★ ★★War-era★★ ★★ the passionate ★★ ★★affair between ★★ a mismatched ★★ ★★ The cast includes Kot, Joanna Kulig and★★ Agata Kulesza. ★★ Tomasz ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

THE IMAGE BOOK (Fr) Jean-Luc Godard

The latest project Wave legend fiction to★★ explore the★★ contemporary ★★ ★★from New ★★ ★★Godard mixes ★★ fact and ★★ ★★Arab world, having nearly two★★ years in various across the region. ★★ ★★shot for★★ ★★countries ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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ASH IS PUREST WHITE (China-Fr-Jap) Jia Zhangke

Set★★ in China’s underworld, this tale of love a dancer who to protect★★ her mobster ★★ ★★ ★★and betrayal ★★ follows★★ ★★fires a gun ★★ boyfriend a fight. On release from prison five years later, she sets out to find him.

Zhao Tao ★★ and Liao Fan star. ★★ during ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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GIRLS OF THE SUN (Fr) Eva Husson

Golshifteh the leader★★ of a real-life★★ Kurdish female that sets★★ out to liberate ★★ Farahani ★★ stars as ★★ ★★ battalion ★★ ★★their town, which overrun by★★ Isis extremists. co-stars as★★ a journalist★★ embedded★★ with the fighters. ★★has been★★ ★★Emmanuelle ★★ Bercot★★

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THREE FACES (Iran) Jafar Panahi

Panahi story of three one from the ★★ pre-revolution days who★★ had to stop★★ acting, one ★★tells the★★ ★★Iranian actresses: ★★ ★★ ★★ popular today and one a drama conservatory. ★★ star of★★ ★★girl longing ★★to attend★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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Italy’s to the countryside homeland★★ for the tale★★ of a man, living margins of society, ★★Rohrwacher ★★returns★★ ★★ of her ★★ ★★on the ★★ HAPPY AS LAZZARO (It-Ger-Fr-Swi) Alice Rohrwacher who can travel★★ through time.

The cast ★★ includes Sergi Lopez and Nicoletta ★★ Braschi. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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SHOPLIFTERS (Jap) Hirokazu Kore-eda

Lily★★ Franky, Sakura Ando and Mayu Matsuoka in the story★★ of a shoplifting and the little girl ★★ ★★ ★★ star★★ ★★father-and-son ★★ duo★★ they take in from the street.

It is Kore-eda’s ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ fifth time ★★in Competition. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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ASAKO I & II (Jap) Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Asako boyfriend’s perfect double abrupt disappearance.

Masahiro Higashide and ★★meets her ★★ ★★ ★★ two years ★★after his★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ Erika Karata star for Hamaguchi, makes his Cannes in Competition. ★★ ★★ ★★ who ★★ ★★ debut★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

BLACKKKLANSMAN (US) Spike Lee

Lee’s latest is inspired true story of Ron Stallworth, African-American officer who ★★ ★★ by the ★★ ★★ ★★ an undercover ★★ ★★ ★★ police★★ infiltrated Klux Klan.

John David★★ Washington and Adam★★ Driver star.★★ ★★ the Ku ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

AT WAR (Fr) Stéphane Brizé

Brizé and actor★★ Vincent Lindon after Cannes 2015 prize winner The Measure Of A Man for★★ another socially ★★ ★★ reunite★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ engaged a factory★★ closure. ★★ ★★ tale, this ★★time about ★★a union leader ★★ fighting ★★ ★★ ★★

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heads this★★ trippy crime tale as a curious who investigates from his ★★ Garfield ★★ ★★ ★★ mind★★ ★★ missing ★★persons ★★ UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (US) Andrew David Robert Mitchell neighbourhood.

Riley Keough star. ★★ ★★ ★★and Topher ★★Grace also ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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BURNING (S Kor) Lee Chang-dong

Lee’s love triangle a well-to-do a secret hobby, ★★ ★★sees Steven ★★Yeun play ★★ ★★man with★★ ★★ Yoo Ah-in ★★as a part-time ★★ deliveryman hoping novelist and★★ newcomer★★ Jeon Jong-seo ★★to be a★★ ★★as the woman ★★ who comes ★★ between ★★them. ★★

DOGMAN (It-Fr-UK) Matteo Garrone

Billed , Dogman is★★ based on a★★ 30-year-old★★ news story★★ and centres★★ on a man (Marcello Fonte) ★★as an ‘urban ★★western’★★ ★★ seeking on an old ★★ friend who landed jail. ★★ revenge ★★ ★★ him in★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

CAPERNAUM (Leb-Fr) Nadine Labaki

Lebanese focuses on★★ a rebellious★★ youth who★★ wishes to sue his parents for having him. ★★ filmmaker ★★ Labaki’s ★★third film★★ ★★ ★★ Set★★ in the titular Palestinian fishing village, has a cast ★★ of mainly non-professional ★★ ★★ ★★ the film★★ ★★ ★★actors. ★★

KNIFE + HEART (Fr) Yann Gonzalez

Vanessa stars in a ★★ late-1970s-set TV executive to restore her credibility with ★★ Paradis ★★ ★★story about ★★a Parisian ★★ ★★seeking ★★ ★★ a more production, which is disrupted when is targeted ★★ by a serial killer. ★★ creatively ★★ambitious ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★the cast★★ ★★

AYKA (Rus-Ger-Pol) Sergei Dvortsevoy

A young immigrant worker track down her baby, who ★★ Asian ★★ ★★ in Moscow ★★ tries to ★★ ★★ ★★she abandoned ★★ at the ★★hospital.

Samal Yeslyamova, Pashnin and David Alaverdyan ★★ ★★ Andrey★★ ★★ ★★ star.★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

THE WILD PEAR TREE (Tur-Fr) Nuri Bilge Ceylan

An★★ aspiring writer to his native★★ village in rural his father’s debts. ★★returns ★★ ★★Turkey, where ★★ he becomes ★★ overwhelmed ★★ by★★ Dogu T Hazar Erguclu ★★Demirkol,★★ ★★ and Ahmet ★★ Rifat Sungar ★★ star. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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