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At the time of going to press, a quick glance at Cinando revealed that over 1,300 features and documentaries from 68 countries were due to be screened during the Marché; 990 of which are premieres. This is a phenomenal number, particularly considering there are just 10 days during which visiting buyers, press and festival programmers are expected to view them. And, of course, the numbers quoted above are bound to rise as last-minute screenings are added, amended or re-scheduled. It was a familiar scene during EFM in February— albeit with slightly fewer screenings—and my personal bugbear with the volume of films being brought to market is no secret. Just where is all this content meant to go, for how much, and how is it Lorianne Hall, Head Of Acquisitions, contributing to sustaining Shooting Stars (UAE) an industry which, for many, is already operating on wafer-thin margins? Finding the answers to these questions from an industry that, in some quarters at least, is desperately trying to cling onto rapidly eroding traditions is no easy task. Fortunately, there are some in the industry who are more than happy to share their views from the trenches, and it is those that we turned to for this issue.
‘The biggest challenge remains finding the quality films that connect with an audience, and to be able to deliver the film to that audience’
Distributors attending Cannes with the aim of securing theatrical distribution for their titles may wish to turn their attention to the piece by industry stalwarts and regular MOVIESCOPE contributors Mick Southworth and Martin McCabe of the Feature Film Company, in which they call for a rethink on the sustainability of the traditional release schedule (p.14). Elsewhere, Michael Gubbins of SampoMedia looks at the need to find new audiences for specialized films (p.20) and Anton Bitel investigates how social media may be used to predict box office successes and flops (p.42). With thousands of titles available in the Marché during the festival, we also talked to a selection of buyers from across the globe about their views on the challenges their industry faces, and what they now look for when considering an acquisition (p. 22). The interviews form part of a wider survey that we undertook with over 3,000 buyers, the results of which will be published online at MOVIESCOPEmag. com in the coming months. It makes for interesting reading. But for now, our focus—like yours—is on the Cannes Film Festival and in particular, the Marché Du Film. Wishing you success, Rinaldo Quacquarini Editor-In-Chief MOVIESCOPE
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Autobahn Races into Production ›› Silver Pictures’ action-thriller Autobahn is now in production, with British filmmaker Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch) directing a screenplay by F. Scott Frazier (The Numbers Station). Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies) and Felicity Jones (The Amazing SpiderMan 2) join Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley in this story about a young American couple who find themselves in
a cat-and-mouse game with two criminals as they drive across Germany. Silver is producing through his Silver Pictures banner, along with Ben Pugh of 42 and Brian Kavanaugh Jones of Automatik. Autobahn is financed by IM Global, who will also rep the project in Cannes. Additional financing is provided by Sycamore Pictures and DMG entertainment.
South Africa celebrates 20 years of film
Golden Kingdom
Eye On Films Looks to Golden Kingdom By Rinaldo Quacquarini ›› Headed by Loic Magneron, Paris-based Eye on Films are back in Cannes for the fourth consecutive year to debut four new films as part of the organisation’s remit to promote the work of new feature directors through their network of partner festivals and international distributors. Amongst the new films on offer are the thrillers Roseville from Bulgarian director Martin Makariev; The Man in the Orange Jacket from Latvian director Aik Karapetian; and drama Man Eater by French writer/ director Natalie Saracco. Written and di-
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rected by Brian Perkins, Golden Kingdom, a drama about four young monks left to fend for themselves in a remote monastery after their master unexpectedly leaves, rounds off the line-up of debuts. Other films available under the Eye On Films banner include Tamar Van Den Dop’s Supernova which recently competed in the Berlinale’s Generation Section and N – The Madness of Reason, director Peter Krüger’s documentary about the confrontation between Western expectations and African spirituality, which screened in the Berlinale’s Forum Section.
›› South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) returns to Cannes with a programme of events and screenings to celebrate the achievements of the country’s filmmakers and film industry in the 20 years since democracy was declared. Headed by CEO Zama Mkosi, the NFVF has overseen many of the country’s most recognised achievements, including 2012’s co-production treaty with Ireland and the market successes of local productions such as Blitz Patrollie, Black South Easter
and South African box-office animated hit, Khumba. Screenings lined up at Cannes this year include the democracy-inspired features Miners Shot Down, Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me, One Humanity and current local box-office hit, iNumber Number. Three co-production forums are also planned to help forge closer ties between filmmakers from South Africa and those from Brazil, the United Kingdom and Canada. The South African Pavilion is located in the Village International Riviera, #120.
Colin Firth Boards The Eye in the Sky ›› Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) has joined the cast of eOne’s contemporary political thriller The Eye in the Sky, directed by Gavin Hood (Ender’s Game). Written by Guy Hibbert, the story tells of a military intelligence officer charged with overseeing a drone operation to
capture a group of terrorists in Kenya. eOne will produce alongside Colin Firth and Ged Doherty’s Raindog Films, and directly distribute in the UK, Canada, Benelux, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. Other international rights will be shopped at Cannes.
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Aldamisa Hopes for Dearly Beloved
Madame Bovary
Warner Bros. Germany Courts Madame Bovary (We Need to Talk About Kevin), and is currently in postproduction. A Company Filmed Entertainment are distributing in select territories including Eastern Europe, Russia and Vietnam; Radiant Films International are handling foreign sales at Cannes.
OTHER ANGLE PICTURES ACQUIRE ARGENTO’S INCOMPRESA
BLOOD WINDOW OFFER MIDNIGHT GALAS ›› Emerging Argentinian films in Cannes this year include titles from independent filmmakers as part of the popular Ventana Sur genre market, Blood Window, which will screen five Midnight Galas of Latin American genre films during the festival. The screenings are made possible following an agreement of collaboration between Sitges; Austin’s Fantastic Fest; the Puchon Fantastic Festival; and the Frontières Co-Production Market, a joint venture between France’s Visionin-Motion and Montreal’s Fantasia Festival. Mexico’s Morbido Festival will once again provide the winning film with post-production services and Mexican distribution. Buenos Aires director Gabriel Grieco’s debut feature Still Life will kick off the Blood Window showcase with a midnight screening on Friday, May 16, at the Rue
France’s Other Angle Pictures have snapped up international rights to Asia Argento’s Incompresa which premieres in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar. Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in the film which is loosely inspired by Argento’s childhood.
d’Antibes Star Cinema. The thriller follows a journalist who arrives in a small town in Argentina to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cattle ranchers. Screenings will continue until 20 May and include two sci-fi films: Isaac Ezban’s time-loop thriller, The Incident (17 May); and Fallen Cape, director Santiago Alvarado’s thriller about a wrongly disgraced superhero who is forced to work in a store (18 May). Argentinian director Martin Desalvo’s Darkness by Day and Venezuelan Alejandro Hidalgo’s horror The House at the End of Time, will round off the gala with screenings on 19 and 20 May respectively. Following an agreement between Blood Window and Latin American VOD platform Clarovideo, each midnight screening will be available to watch online for 24 hours on the same day they screen in Cannes.
Content offers Little Girl Blue ›› Having secured worldwide sales to Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, Content Film are introducing it to buyers at Cannes. Produced by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), the music documentary will reveal a personal side to Joplin through rare and previously unseen footage. Jeff Jampol (The Doors: When You’re Strange) from JAM, Inc co-produces and Billy McMillin (West Of Memphis, Iraq In Fragments) will edit.
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›› Warner Bros. Germany have acquired all German speaking rights to Sophie Barthes’ adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary from A Company Filmed Entertainment. The film stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland), Paul Giamatti (Sideways), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) and Ezra Miller
›› Aldamisa are in Cannes to shop Brett Simon’s latest project, Dearly Beloved. The horror, which Josef Lieck (Cabin Fever 2) is set to produce, follows the story of a bride who starts to unravel on her wedding day as she uncovers what she believes is a sinister conspiracy between her fiancé and his family. Luke Grimes (Fifty Shades of Grey) is attached to star. The company will also be ramping up interest in two other projects previously announced: Summer Crossing which is still in pre-production with Scarlett Johansson set to direct; and Captive, director Simon Brand’s latest project about a construction mogul (Bruce Willis) who is taken hostage and kept prisoner by Brazilian gangsters.
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FEATURE FILM COMPANY RELAUNCHES
Genesis Bring SuperBob, Winter ›› Genesis Film Sales have introduced two new titles at the Marché by debut feature directors. SuperBob, a romantic comedy by Jon Drever, stars Brett Goldstein, Catherine Tate, Natalia Tena, Laura Haddock and David Harewood in the story of a civil servant who turns into a superhero following a freak meteor storm, yet finds his greatest challenge going on his first date in six years. Writer/director Heidi Greensmith’s drama Winter stars Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy) as an artist who must come to terms with his wife’s death in order to save his relationship with his two sons. Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac) co-stars alongside Tom Payne, Bill Milner and Judith Godrèche, with Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood on board as executive producer. Other titles on Genesis’ Cannes slate include thrillers Alone and Six, which the company is debuting at the Marché.
›› Former UK indie distributor Feature Film Company has been relaunched as an independent production, finance and consultancy company. Led by industry professionals Mick Southworth and Martin McCabe, the company is joint venturing with new UK funding partner Omeria—which will provide a minimum of £10m of production investment in the first year—to produce up to four low-to-medium-budget commercial genre movies per year. Feature Film Company has two films in post-production: music documentary The Cuban Way, which will premiere at Cannes, and an untitled Nelson Mandela documentary, also due to show at the festival. It has moved into pre-production on James Bannon’s adaptation of his own bestseller Running With the Firm, which tells of his time as an undercover cop on the trail of football hooligans in the 1980s.
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Here is Harold
TrustNordisk present Scandinavian Double ›› Danish international sales agency TrustNordisk will be screening Gunnar Vikene’s comedy drama Here is Harold for buyers at this year’s Marche du Film. Adapted from the book by Norwegian author Frode Grytten, the film tells of an independent furniture salesman who decides to kidnap IKEA’s founder Ingvar Kamprad when the superstore threatens his business. Swedish major Svensk
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Filmindustri will handle Scandinavian distribution from October. TrustNordisk are also screening Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation (selected by the festival for a Midnight Screening out of competition), which stars Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Eric Cantona. Nordisk Film is handling Scandinavian releasing, with a local premiere planned for October 2, 2014.
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108 Media brings The Insect King ›› 108 Media are in Cannes to launch world sales on newly acquired drama, The Insect King. Written and directed by Priscilla Cameron, the coming of age film stars Melissa George (30 Days Of Night) and follows the story of a 13-year-old boy who falls in love with an exotic 40-yearold woman only to discover that he is in competition with his father for her affections. Taika Waititi (Green Lantern) and up-and-coming Australian actress Sophie Lowe (Autumn Blood), co-star. “The Insect King is an avant-garde
masterpiece,” says CEO of 108 Media, Abhi Rastogi, “It brings together comedy, drama, romance and fantasy to create a fairytale exploration of the magic of love.” The Toronto-based company will also be selling two other titles at the Marche; Cannibal pic He Never Died, starring Henry Rollins in his first leading role, and The Priveleged, a morality tale about a lawyer and his wife who put everything at risk while on holiday at their boss’ vacation home. Leah Walker directs Sam Trammell (True Blood) in the lead role.
Galway Film Fair 10th–12th July 2014
Malta Upgrades Cash Rebate ›› Malta Film Commissioner Engelbert Grech is in Cannes to talk up the benefits for international productions shooting in the country, including an increased tax rebate (subject to State Aid approval). Qualifying productions who choose to shoot in the Mediterranean country can now benefit from a 25 per cent cash rebate, with an additional two per cent if they feature Maltese cultural elements. Additionally, post-production is now an eligible cost (with a cap of €150K per project), and rebates extend to international TV series and transmedia projects.
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XYZ FILMS PRESENT SMITH’S ANTI-CLAUS XYZ Films will tempt buyers with early of Kevin Smith’s upcoming horror Anti-Claus. The film, which stars Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez and Michael Parks, tells of the devil-like Krampus, who eats naughty children during the festive season. WME Global are representing domestic rights.
Reel Suspects hot with Fievre ›› All-rights distributor Reel Suspects are selling three newly completed titles at this year’s Marche du Film including their latest acquisition, Matthew Berkowitz’s debut feature Wild in Blue, featuring Karen Black’s (Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby) final performance. Also offered is Romain Basset’s debut
Fievre, the graphic story of a young girl trapped between real life, dreams and nightmares; and Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs’ Cat and Mouse, about a teenage girl struggling to find her own identity. The company also act as associate producers on Fievre and Cat and Mouse.
Reel Suspects will also be launching pre-sales on trilogy German Angst, directed by Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik), Andreas Marschall (Tears of Kali) and Michal Kosakowski (Zero Killed), as well as relaunching Craig Goodwill’s feature debut Patch Town, and German comedy Puppet Fiction.
Krakow Film Festival Celebrates 54th Year ›› The 54th Krakow Film Festival will get underway right after Cannes on 25 May with a programme which will screen a total of 250 films, including those in the four main competition categories of documentary, short film, music documentary and national. Out of competition titles will receive open air
screenings in the city’s central square. This year the festival will also feature a special Focus on Great Britain with a screening of Julian Temple’s immigration documentary, London - The Modern Babylon. Film professionals are invited to the Industry Zone, which will once again house the festival’s film market, and
offer space for networking and industry discussions. Accredited by FIAPF, the European Film Academy and AMPAS, films awarded at Krakow are automatically eligible for the European Film Awards and the Oscars in the short films categories. The festival runs through to 1 June. krakowfilmfestival.pl
SARGENT-DISC PRESENTS UK FILM TAX CREDITS SEMINAR ›› Sargent-Disc are in Cannes to offer indie producers advice on maximising the value of the UK’s enhanced tax credits system. The New Improved UK Tax Relief seminar will be presented in the UK Film Centre, on Saturday 17 May, 16.00 – 17.00. Company directors Lara Sargent and Laurence Sargent will be joined by experts from EP Financial Services - the company’s LA- based affiliate team - to offer specialist advice on Accessing Global Production Incentives and Tax Credits and Maximising the value of production incentives through effective budgeting, scheduling and production accounting. To book a one-on-one appointment with either EP Financial Solutions EVP Joseph Chianese, EVP John Hadity or the Sargent-Disc team, contact cannes@ sargent-disc.com.
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Hellion
VMI Bring Candler’s Hellion By Rinaldo Quacquarini ›› LA-based VMI Worldwide have arrived in Cannes to launch international sales on Kat Candler’s slow-burn drama, Hellion, which the company recently acquired from the filmmakers via UTA Independent Film Group. The film, which stars Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis and 15-year-old newcomer Josh Wiggins, premiered at Sundance earlier this year and played at SXSW in the Festival Favorites section, where it garnered rave reviews for Wiggins’ performance as a young teenager spinning out of control. Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams produced from a screenplay by Candler which tells the story of Jacob (Wiggins), a 13-year-old whose wayward behaviour and petty vandalism begins to raise concern
around town. When his younger brother is placed under the care of his aunt (Juliette Lewis), Jacob becomes obsessed with winning a local motocross championship in order to get his brother back. “Hellion is a beautifully lyrical and emotionally powerful film that tackles universal themes of family, friendship, love and loss,” says VMI Worldwide President Andre Relis, adding that “the discovery of Josh Wiggins is a revelation and surely the start of a long and interesting career.” Hellion was executive produced by Jeff Nichols (Mud), Sarah Green (The Tree of Life), Janice Beard, Tanner Beard and Suzanne Weinert, co-executive produced by Aaron Paul, and co-produced by Andrew Logan. Sundance Selects hold North American rights.
Hannibal bring eight To Cannes ›› Los Angeles based Hannibal Pictures / Hannibal Classics have brought a slate of eight acquisitions to the 2014 Cannes Marche du Film including market premieres for actioner Tokarev, starring Nicolas Cage as a retired criminal who must face his past when his daughter is kidnapped by the Russian mob, and
thriller The Prince, with Bruce Willis, Jason Patric and John Cusack. The company will also tout Misfire, set in Mexico’s criminal underworld; 5 Minutes to Live, which sees a team of criminals plan the ultimate heist and drug cartel actioner Red Squad by Die Hard director, John McTiernan.
Radiant to shine with The Driftless Area ›› Anton Yelchin (Only Lovers Left Alive, Star Trek) and Zooey Deschanel (500 Days of Summer) will join John Hawkes (Lincoln), Ciaran Hinds (Game of Thrones) and Alia Shawkat (Cedar Rapids) in dark comedy The Driftless Area, adapted from Tom Drury’s novel. Zachary Sluser directs, and co-wrote the screenplay with Drury. Billed as an atmospheric comedy, the film tells of a
bereaved young man (Yelchin) whose feelings for a woman (Deschanel) pit him against a volatile criminal (Hawkes). It’s being produced by Kjarval’s Unified Pictures and Aaron L. Gilbert’s Bron Studios, in association with CW Media Finance. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films are handling international sales, and are in Cannes to present the project to buyers. CAA represents the film’s domestic rights.
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KAMASUTRA 3D BACK TO SEDUCE CANNES ›› UAE-based GJ Entertainments brings writer/director Rupesh Paul’s erotic drama Kamasutra 3D back to the south of France for a Cannes premiere following last year’s market debut. Set against the Ω Ω backdrop of Vatsy ayana’s classic work Kama Sutra, the 3D epic stars Sherlyn Chopra as a princess who vows to restore her father’s lost wealth. Screenings of both 2D and 3D versions will be available with producers Dr. George John and Sohan Roy both in Cannes to tout buyers.
NU IMAGE/MILLENNIUM BELIEVES IN GOOD PEOPLE ›› Long-running independent distributor Millennium Films (The Expendables, Olympus Has Fallen) bring a slate of five films to the Marche du Film. Thriller Good People stars James Franco and Kate Hudson as a down-on-their-luck couple who find that a windfall doesn’t solve all their problems. Kelly Masterson (Snowpiercer) wrote the script based on the novel by Marcus Sakey. The company has also brought Brad Anderson’s thriller Eliza Graves, starring Jim Sturgess and Kate Beckinsale, which follows an apprentice doctor at a mental institution who falls in love with one of his patients. Company presidents Mark Gill and John Fremes will join co-chairman Avi Lerner to lead negotiations Cannes. MovieScope.pdf 1 2014-05-06 in11:01 AM
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The Devil Enters Cannes ›› New seller Devilworks is in Cannes to tempt buyers with a fresh line-up of genre titles which the company has snatched up from international festivals over the past six months. CEO Matteo Rolleri has lined up five market premieres during the Marche, which include Michael Walker’s Hamptons International Film Festival award-winner, The Maid’s Room; Canadian revenge thriller The Storm Within; and newly acquired sci-fi title Time Lapse, which follows three friends who discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future. “We are constantly looking for films that challenge current preconceptions about genre,” says Rolleri, “especially those that offer a new way of telling stories.” Devilworks will showcase their full line-up, including Jason Cuadrado’s thriller Devil May Call starring Tyler Mane and Traci Lords, at the Marina Showroom G17, table two.
LITHUANIA CELEBRATES EARLY INCENTIVES SUCCESS ›› Having introduced its new tax incentives during Berlin’s EFM, the Lithuanian Film Centre will be looking for further projects at the 2014 Cannes Marche du Film. To date, five applications have been received and three projects given the green light: We Will Sing, from British director Robert Mullan; Helena, from Finnish director Antti Jokinen; and Music in Ice, from Russian director Yuri Vasiliev. ‘We are also waiting for applications from the UK, Japan, Germany, Spain
and other countries. There is a number of meetings scheduled in Cannes so our expectations are high’, commented Rolandas Kvietkauskas, director of the Lithuanian Film Centre, which also administers the scheme. For producers wishing to find out more about the benefits of shooting in the Baltic country, representatives will be on hand to offer details at the Lithuanian Film Centre located in the Village International Pantiero, Pavilion No. 221, from May 14.
Reeves and Roth Team for Knock Knock Voltage will be showing footage from Eli Roth’s new film Knock Knock to buyers at Cannes. Production on the film, which stars Keanu Reeves as a married man whose life is thrown into chaos when he is visited by two beautiful women, is currently underway in Santiago, Chile.
IM GLOBAL EXTENDS LABOUR OF LOVE ›› Stuart Ford’s IM Global has arrived in Cannes to close more territories on M. Night Shyamalan’s Labor Of Love following a raft of deals for the title in Berlin which saw the title go to Kino Swiat (Poland), Roadshow (Australia), Corbi (Spain) and Golden Screen (Malaysia) amongst others.
Produced by Emmett/Furla Films, the drama - currently in pre-production - reunites the Sixth Sense director with Bruce Willis and centers on a grieving Philadelphia bookstore owner who honours his late wife by walking 3,000 miles across the US.
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Picture Tree take aim with A Hitman International sales and production company Picture Tree have brought an eclectic slate of seven new titles to Cannes, amongst them German/French comedy A Hitman’s Solitude Before the Shot about a hitman - who after eight years of waiting for his first job – struggles to complete the assignment. Benno Fürmann (In Darkness) and Mavie Hörbiger star. Also on offer from the Berlin-based company, is German comedy Miss Sixty about a molecular biologist looking to become a first-time mother at 60; Stones for the Rampart, an adaptation of Aleksander Kaminski’s novel about three young resistance fighters in Nazioccupied Poland and Austrian comedy, Therapy for a Vampire about a depressed bloodsucker who seeks the help of Sigmund Freud.
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The Scarehouse
Double Dutch Enters The Scarehouse Global sales company Double Dutch International (DDI) are selling new thriller The Scarehouse at the 2014 Cannes Marche du Film. Written and directed by Gavin Michael Booth, and starring Sarah Booth (Deadfall) and Kimberly-Sue Murray (Crimson Peak), the story tells of two former sorority girls who set up a Halloween fun house to inflict a terrifying revenge on their old classmates. D Films are to release theatrically in Canada later in 2014, and Universal are handling US digital sales.
›› Black Hangar Films, the production, investment and rights-holding division of Black Hangar Studios, are in Cannes to introduce their new film fund to attending producers. Benefitting from an experienced team led by CEO Jake Seal, the fund aims to participate in up to four qualifying projects per year by offering flexible investment across gap, bridge, equity, pre-sale and tax credit lending, finishing and selected P&A. The company is currently in production on Breaking the Bank, Vadim Jean’s comedy about an incompetent British banking chairman struggling to protect his familyrun private bank from a hostile takeover. Kelsey Grammer stars in a cast which includes Tamsin Greig, Mathew Horne and Andrew Sachs.
Breaking The Bank
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OPINION: BREAKING WINDOWS
Breaking Windows As the growth of on-demand platforms continue to feed consumer appetites for packaged film content, Feature Film Company executives Mick Southworth and Martin McCabe call for a rethink on the sustainability of the traditional theatrical release schedule. ›› There is a generally accepted agreement between most sensible manufacturers, wholesalers and retail outlets that should any product fail to sell sufficiently well to its target market, then that product is offered at a discount price. Seeing as any business folk worth their salt need to get their capital investment back, this would seem to be an obvious move. Well, not in the world of cinema distribution. Traditionally, release windows have been limited to such platforms as home entertainment, pay and free TV. The digital revolution, however, has seen these expanded to include numerous other home and mobile platforms including extant cable and satellite delivery systems, as well as a multitude of ondemand services. But, whatever the platform, the cinema exhibitors will gladly kill you if you attempt to break these windows. In fairness, they were rightly put into place when broadcast television and the burgeoning video rental market were the main drivers of
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ancillary revenues, at a time when films had the opportunity to play on at the cinema, free from the bottleneck release schedules and self-cannibalism of a regular 15 films per Friday stealing all the oxygen. Back then, a successful picture could play uninterrupted to widespread audiences for weeks on end before appearing on television after an FDA-mandated seven years after first theatrical release (subsequently reduced to five and then two years). Come the late 1970s, however, the video rental market began to gain consumer traction and an additional video rental window of nine to 12 months from first release was instigated. Just over half a decade later, the emergence of sellthrough VHS saw that window brought down to six months, which was where it largely remained until the DVD boom of the late 90s saw it reduced to a more typical four months. With this rapid growth in consumer appetites for packaged film content, the stridently successful video and TV platforms effectively supported the distributors’ financial margins if films unfortunately lost their shirts at the box office. And it is true that these windows were initially designed through mutual cooperation to protect the integrity and importance of the initial theatrical release. But times have changed. There are now many industry players who desperately want to see the old holdback restrictions lifted to engage with the multi-platform environment of the modern distribution landscape. The expansion of digital distribution systems, allied with new ‘second’ and even ‘third’ screen consumer technologies, has led to an explosive demand for filmed entertainment and increasing competition amongst digital retailers to acquire and sell this high-quality content to a growing market of consumers, who may no longer recognise the primacy of theatrical engagement within this transaction. Ultimately, then the industry has to find ways
‘There are now many industry players who desperately want to see the old holdback restrictions lifted to engage with the multiplatform environment of the modern distribution landscape.’ of getting people to pay for digital. The main catalyst for this need for change is the rise in Internet viewing which cannibalises audiences from impatient consumers who would otherwise pay for content. Indeed, the rise in online piracy threatens to consume our ancillary markets and capital returns; according to Internet consultancy Envisional, the number of illegally downloaded films in the UK alone has increased by 30 per cent in the last five years. And yet the industry’s decision makers seem almost paralysed with fear at the thought of trying to force through sensible change. Of course, we understand why cinema operators would fight tooth and nail to protect their ground. Theatrical exclusivity is possibly the last (thin) wall between them and the avalanche of new technology, home cinema and delivery vehicles that will undermine the ticket price value. That’s all well and good for the exhibitors, but where does that leave the rest of us—the financiers, producers and distributors et al. dependent on a successful revenue flow to make a living? Cinema owners standing their ground won’t make the problem go away; indeed, the only people who will ever see real value if the current draconian stranglehold continues are the burglars of our intellectual property.
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INCENTIVES ROUND-UP
FOLLOW THE MONEY
WHERE IN EUROPE TO SHOOT YOUR NEXT PRODUCTION By Alexandra Zeevalkink at KFTV ›› There are three important elements producers are looking at when they are planning a production: suitable locations; high-quality production services and crew; and low costs. With sinking budgets it is perhaps the cost aspect that is becoming more and more the key focus, and it is for precisely this reason that an increasing number of countries are offering incentives in the form of cash rebates, national film funds and tax relief.
While traditionally the big-budget productions all flocked to the US, we now see a clear shift towards Europe. Its experienced crews, professional studios, wide array of locations within a relatively short travel distance and some of the best film incentives in the world, are what swing the decision-making process. With this in mind we have compiled a list of some of the top locations in Europe when it comes to finding a bigger bang for your buck.
KFTV (formerly Kemps) has over 50 years experience in providing contacts and knowledge to the international film, television and commercial production industry. Our free-to-access online database holds production service companies in 173 countries. On top of this we aim to give you the latest news on international productions and locations—this includes up-to-date information on film incentives the world over.
ICELAND ›› Based perfectly in the middle between Europe and the US, Iceland has had its fair share of TV and film coverage lately and its well-organised crew and production services industry seems to keep attracting big-budget productions. Those choosing the country for filming can take advantage of straightforward legislation; by setting up a local production company, audiovisual productions can see a return of 20% of their total local expenditure. Titles that have benefited from this offer include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Game of Thrones.
IRELAND ›› Ireland’s government has recently said it will up its tax breaks for the production of international feature films and television shows to 32% from 2015. At the moment projects can already derive a benefit of up to 28% of their qualifying expenditure. The country has a solid track record with Ken Loach’s feature film Jimmy’s Hall and BBC series Ripper Street being examples of recent productions using the country’s available funding and experienced production services.
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›› This is an area where France has made a lot of effort. Since 2009, it has offered a 20% tax rebate for foreign features and TV productions. Known as TRIP (tax rebate for international production), the incentive can rise as high as €10m for feature films and TV dramas. France also has over 40 regional film commissions which provide free assistance on issues such as location scouting, finding crew and obtaining filming permits.
›› It’s only weeks ago that Malta announced an increase to its already generous cash rebate. It is effectively allowing filmmakers to benefit from a 25% rebate with an additional 2% if they feature ‘Maltese cultural elements’. This change will no doubt add to Malta’s appeal as a filming location. Productions to have filmed there recently include zombie flick World War Z and The Whale, a oneoff drama produced by the BBC. The new rebate now includes post-production as an eligible cost, which also extends to international TV series and transmedia.
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›› Britain is Europe’s hotbed for film production. Support for film culture and the industry in England is extensive, with tax breaks in place for film, high-end TV and animation. For films, companies can claim a payable cash rebate of up to 25% of UK qualifying film production expenditure. And it’s not just the incentives that make it an attractive place to shoot. The UK has world-class studios spread out over the country, innovative VFX houses and reliable, knowledgeable crews.
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›› There’s no shortage of funding options in Belgium. The Belgian Tax Shelter is a government-approved incentive designed to encourage the production of audiovisual works, which applies to the whole of Belgium rather than to a particular language community. The producer is offered an attractive way to finance projects, the investor obtains tax exemption, and the Belgian state benefits from increased economic activity. Besides this offering there are also regional funds—such as the Flanders Audiovisual Fund and the Wallimage Investment Fund—available to international and co-productions looking to shoot locally.
›› Since Germany launched the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) in 2007, the country has supported over 520 film productions with grants totalling around $300m. This funding measure has played a major role in raising the country’s profile as a location and increasing the international competitiveness of the German film industry versus rival countries. And support to film and TV productions isn’t just limited to national level. Germany has 17 regional film commissions, each of which is able to provide detailed information about regional and national filming incentives while also providing production support.
POLAND
›› The country has become a popular destination for foreign documentary crews and feature-film producers. The Polish Film Commission runs its own fund for international co-productions, which can receive up to a maximum of 50% of the total Polish budget. Foreign producers taking their production to Poland are exempt from certain taxes and fees, regardless of the form of cooperation with Polish business partners. These exemptions can make quite the difference as they include things like VAT on invoices from goods and service providers and social security contributions on local crew contracts.
HUNGARY ›› Films for cinema and TV produced in Hungary are eligible for a 20% rebate based on their expenditure in the country (an incentive which has increased the value of the sector significantly). A wide variety of projects are eligible but have to have a local partner on board and also pass a cultural test. As an added incentive, producers can spend 20% of the budget outside Hungary without any adverse impact.
CROATIA ›› While commercials producers are regular visitors to Croatia, the biggest story in recent times was HBO’s decision to use Dubrovnik as the backdrop for King’s Landing in its fantasy series Game of Thrones. HBO first visited Croatia for season two and returned for seasons three and four, adding locations around Split. This is no surprise as the country currently offers a maximum cash rebate of 20% aimed at film and television productions, based on the total expenditure on cast and crew plus goods and services purchased.
SERBIA ›› Serbia has a long tradition of great TV and film work and with its diverse locations is a popular place to shoot features. Cost savings have also helped inspire interest in the country and a 20% cash rebate on qualifying local spend for foreign productions, which is currently in the pipeline, will no doubt do the rest. The Serbia Film Commission is a great source for international productions as they assist with finding film locations, provide information on permits and offer local crew and business contacts.
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LITHUANIA ›› With a proven track record when it comes to commercial production and low costs for crew and equipment, the country is quickly becoming a very attractive location for international film shoots. At the start of 2014, a new 20% location filming incentive became available. Both foreign and local producers can benefit from the scheme. One necessity is that at least 80% of all production spending must be in Lithuania and there’s a maximum amount of funding that cannot exceed 20% of the production costs.
CZECH REPUBLIC ›› The Czech Republic is a well-known destination for international productions, and a country with an esteemed film history as well as a robust local film culture. To reflect this, the Czech Film Industry Support Programme offers a 20% rebate on qualifying local spend and 10% on qualifying international spend to a wide range of productions. Costs which qualify as Czech spend are goods and services provided within the country and paid to companies or individuals registered to pay income tax in the country.
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AND SCHEMES CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE INTRODUCTION NECESSARY TO BE COMPETITIVE ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THE TREND THAT IS BEGINNING TO EMERGE IS THE EXPANSION OF THOSE PROGRAMS TO INCLUDE MORE AREAS OF THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES.” Kevin Clark, Executive Director, AFCI
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FEATURE: EUROPEAN STUDIO PROFILE
Spotlight: Barrandov Studios With the largest agglomeration of sound stages, skill and reputation in New Europe, this 83-year-old institution stays fresh with expanded facilities and a string of production successes. By Will Tizard ›› Just a few minutes south of the medieval heart of Prague, Barrandov Studios specialises in time travel—and world hopping. International features and cable series shooting here of late have created the convincing look of Renaissance Italy, Cold War Russia, swashbuckling Paris and a post-apocalypse sci-fi world. Founded in 1931 by Václav Havel’s grandfather and his brother, the 14-stage studios and 40-acre backlot were modelled on the best facilities of the time in Hollywood, and many still prefer Barrandov’s grand old hall numbers five, six and seven, dating from WWII, for their 4,000 sq. metre area, 12m height and solid build. That said, the studio’s recent major expansion, the Max stage, so named for its 4,000+ sq. metre footprint, thoroughly updates the facility with modern lighting, lifts, winches and supercharged air and smoke removal system. With Czech film incentives online since 2010, offering up to 20 per cent cashback on local spends, business has been blossoming lately, with productions of Child 44, the US cable series Missing, French-German historic series Borgia and the BBC’s Musketeers shooting here to name just a few. Joon-ho Bong’s dystopia-on-
rails fantasy Snowpiercer also recently wrapped with glowing reviews from the director. Several local shingles are at this point experts at navigating the system and make solid strategic partners—and Barrandov itself launched services company Film Kolektiv last autumn to serve this need.
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FACILITIES Aside from the epic Max sound stage, which also features 13.75m ceilings, silent heating, catwalks, attached offices, make-up rooms and catering for 140, the older Barrandov infrastructure, including a 20x10m backlot water tank, headquarters for a dozen production companies and veteran construction and design crews, continues to prove its worth. Originally built for the Borgia series, the permanent set of early Renaissance Rome has for example been at the disposal of visiting producers since the spring. Additionally, the studio’s costumes and props departments are also among the largest in Europe—try more than 300,000 costumes and accessories and 60,000 furniture pieces and props—with an online catalogue showing off pieces from every imaginable age at www. fundus.barrandov.cz. The recent 1969-set HBO production
Burning Bush, chronicling the aftermath of Czechoslovakia’s most revered modern martyr, Jan Palach, who set himself ablaze to protest Soviet occupation, illustrated once again the remarkable versatility of the costumers, stylists and set builders on the studio’s roster. Director Agnieszka Holland said of the experience, “I always dreamed about shooting at Barrandov. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the skills of the Czech production crew, which is on the top world-class level. Simply fantastic.” For digital sceptics and old-school film lovers, Barrandov also offers Kodak Imagecare certified labs for 16mm, black-and-white and even classic optical printer special effects. Resources are up-to-date, though, with 2K/4K scans, Spirit HD Datacine telecine suite, videoto-digital transfers, Baselight colour-grading on a seven-metre screen, on- and offline editing, DCP mastering and digital retouching and restoration. Because of its long history, the studio is adept at breathing new life into old negatives and will happily take on even nitrate prints with safety assured. As for audio, dubbing has been a Barrandov speciality since 1949 and its editors, directors and voice actors have thousands of jobs under their belts while seven sound studios are on the lot. As studio CEO Petr Tichy puts it, the real value is in proven production know-how plus the unique combination of top-craft skills, a concentration of essential services and a geographical position that’s second to none. Barrandov stands not just 30 minutes from Prague’s airport but an hour or two from castles, forests, peaks and villages from another century. With the aim of serving as the central hub of the Czech film industry, he adds, Barrandov clearly intends to live up to its place in history.
“I always dreamed about shooting at Barrandov. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the skills of the Czech production crew, which is on the top world-class level. Simply fantastic.” Agnieszka Holland 18
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FEATURE: A NEW AUDIENCE
A New Audience The need to find new audiences for specialised films – rather than simply servicing existing enthusiasts – is growing. Mike Gubbins, industry analyst at SampoMedia, examines the implications for independent film.
The Hunter
›› A series of experiments in the day-and-date releasing of films in cinemas and on VoD have demonstrated one consistent fact: there is a core of cinemagoers for whom the theatrical experience cannot and will never be replaced. Even when a film is shown at the same time free on television, such as Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, there remains a fierce loyalty to the big screen. The BFI report on that film—available as a free download from bfi.org—shows that 77 per cent of the cinema audience was aware that the film could have been watched for free at home, but still went out to the movie theatre. The numbers are even more marked for older audiences. Exit polls for another simultaneous multi-platform release, A Late Quartet, showed that 83 per cent of the audience (with an average age of 53) would recommend to friends that they watch the film in cinemas, against just five per cent recommending VoD viewing. The cinema experience seems to retain its attraction, perhaps suggesting that the dogged boycotts of experiments in new release windows are a disproportionate reaction to a minor threat. The truth is rather more nuanced, with potential implications for all independent film. There is a genuine threat, and it is tied up with a core problem that the audience for specialised and art-house film is getting older. The reshaping of the overall audience is inevitable, given that in most advanced countries the population as a whole is getting increasingly old. But research suggests a growing demographic split. A study by Professor Elizabeth Prommer of the University of Rostock, for example, showed that in Germany, the core 20–29-yearold audience, while remaining the biggest in terms of cinema-going, has seen a small decline between 2007 and 2012, while the over-50s grew by 41 per cent.
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“There is a genuine threat, and it is tied up with a core problem that the audience for specialised and art-house film is getting older.”
The Hunter (above) and The Last Days on Mars (bottom, right) both received VoD releases either simultaneous with, or before theatrical in the USA.
A Late Quartet
There have been more films aimed at mature audiences in recent years but the impact of so-called ‘event cinema’ or ‘alternative content’, notably live streaming of opera and theatre, may also be significant. It is a trend that has its critics, particularly among independent films already struggling for space on the big screen. On the other hand, it may offer a clue to future growth: if you can capture audiences for one kind of experience, you may be able to sell them others. This may be particularly true of younger audiences, who are currently not exposed to much specialised and art-house film. A BFIbacked study from SampoMedia (sampomedia. com) into attitudes to cinema and VoD revealed two related and important trends. Firstly, younger audiences are much more ambivalent
about where they watch films than older ones, with a strong sense that only certain types of films must be seen at the cinema. And secondly, in areas without access to an art-house cinema, knowledge of art-house film is limited and hence demand to see a film on VoD low. The big change may be the big drop of film on terrestrial television services at peak times. An IPSOS Mori survey for the UK’s FILMCLUB revealed that 48 per cent of those exposed to film on TV at a young age become regular cinemagoers, compared with 20 per cent that do not. The challenge for those believing that on-demand services will herald a new era of access is how to build demand beyond the committed minority. Finding new ‘trigger points’ to drive new interest ought to be an industry obsession.
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FEATURE: MARKET BUZZ
As the Marche du Film kicks off, MOVIESCOPE selects some of the newest titles on offer from sales companies across the world. By Rinaldo Quacquarini and Liza Foreman USA SELLERS ›› The Solution Entertainment Group has brought the Ethan Hawke starrer Ten Thousand Saints to Cannes for a market debut. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the 1980s, the drama tells the story of the son of diehard hippies and his odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture. Asa Butterfield, Emile Hirsch, Emily Mortimer, Hailee Steinfeld and Julianne Nicholson also star. Other titles receiving market premieres include writer/director Victor Levin’s comedyromance 5 to 7 starring Glenn Close, and the Pierce Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko actionthriller November Man about an ex-CIA operative who finds himself pitted against his former pupil. The Maya Forbes helmed drama Infinitely Polar Bear, starring Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana, rounds off a solid line-up.
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›› FilmNation will premiere The Rover at Cannes following the film’s selection as part of the festival’s Midnight Screenings programme. Set in the Australian desert 10 years after an economic meltdown, the David Michôd directed thriller stars Guy Pearce as a hardened loner on the trail of a gang of thieves, and Robert Pattinson as a former gang member enlisted to help him retrieve his prize position. Buyers are also being offered A Most Violent Year, the J. C. Chandor directed thriller with Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac and Ashley Williams, and courtroom drama The Whole Truth with Daniel Craig attached to star from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan. Courtney Hunt will direct. ›› Voltage Pictures is at Cannes with three market debuts including: A Tale of Love and
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Darkness, set during the formation of the State of Israel, co-written, directed by and starring Natalie Portman whose Handsomecharlie Films produced alongside Ram Bergman Productions; war-thriller Drones directed by Andrew Niccol; and drama Fathers And Daughters, starring an ensemble cast that includes Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Diane Kruger and Amanda Seyfried. ›› The Exchange head to Cannes with the period drama Ithaca, Meg Ryan’s feature debut as director in which the actress will also co-star alongside fellow actors Sam Shepard, Jack Quaid and Melanie Griffith. Erik Jendresen adapted the screenplay from William Saroyan’s 1943 novel The Human Comedy, about a teenage bicycle messenger’s coming of age following his elder brother’s enlistment to fight in the Second World War. The Los Angeles based company is also packaging Men With No Fear, an action-thriller set to star Nicolas Cage. Paco Cabezas will direct the story about a vengeful conman who struggles to win his estranged son back from the mob kingpin who had him arrested. ›› Stuart Ford’s IM Global land in Cannes with no fewer than seven debuts including: The Signal starring Laurence Fishburne; the Kevin Costner drama Black And White; and the Brad Peyton directed thriller, Incarnate with Aaron Eckhart, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Carice van Houten. The company will also shop The Line, a suspense-thriller to be penned by Sang Kyu Kim (The Walking Dead) and directed by David Gordon Green. The story follows a corrupt border-crossing agent who must decide what is more important when he discovers a young, illegal boy who escaped a cartel hit on the border between the US and Mexico. Chris Pine is attached to star. ›› Sierra/Affinity bring Damien Chazelle’s Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner Whiplash to Cannes for a screening in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar while Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River gets a premiere in the festival’s Un Certain Regard section. Other titles in the company’s slate include:
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Tumbledown, a romantic comedy starring Jason Sudeikis, Rebecca Hall, Blythe Danner and Joe Manganiello, about a woman who hits it off with a young writer while trying to write a biography about her late husband; and crimethriller 999, directed by John Hillcoat from a screenplay by Matt Cook. Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Aaron Paul star.
›› Lightning Entertainment will hope to entice Cannesbound buyers with Gods Behaving Badly, from writer/director Marc Turtletaub. The comedy about Greek Gods living in modern-day New York stars an ensemble cast which includes: Christopher Walken; John Turturro; Sharon Stone; Alicia Silverstone; Edie Falco; Oliver Platt; Rosie Perez; and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The Santa Monica based company is also screening prison drama Healing by director Craig Monahan.
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›› Arclight Films will present Paper Planes 3D, a family film starring Sam Worthington in a story about an 11-year-old boy raised in a remote Australian town, who sees his life forever change when he wins a place in the Paper Plane Championships. The company will also be touting the thriller Reclaim, starring John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Luiz Guzmán and Rachelle Lefevre in a story about adoptive parents trying to uncover the truth behind their young daughter’s disappearance. Alan White directs from a screenplay by Luke Davies and Carmine Gaeta. Titles from its Darclight Films genre division include Submerged, a kidnapping thriller directed by Steven C. Miller and starring Mario Van Peebles, Jonathan Bennett and Talulah Riley.
Simon Brand directs the action-adventurer produced by Aldamisa’s Marina Bespalov with Alexandra Milchan, George Furla, Michael London and Randall Emmett. ›› XYZ Films is giving US thriller Preservation a premiere in Cannes alongside the Nicholas McCarthy directed supernatural horror, Home. The company is also screening Jeff Baena’s wellreceived Sundance zombie comedy Life After Beth, and will continue sales of Kevin Smith’s new horror Tusk, which commenced in Berlin. Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez and Michael Parks star in Smith’s contemporary monster movie about a reporter who finds the story of his career in a colourful global adventurer. ›› Meyers Media Group is selling Irish thriller Sacrifice about ritualistic murders on a remote Scottish island. Peter A. Dowling directs Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves and Colm Meaney from a screenplay he adapted of the novel by S. J. Bolton.
›› QED International is in Cannes representing international sales on Oren Moverman’s latest project, Time Out of Mind. The film, currently shooting in New York, stars Richard Gere as a homeless man struggling to fix a troubled relationship with his estranged daughter. Also on offer is the Barry Levinson directed comedy Rock The Kasbah, starring Bill Murray, Kate Hudson, Bruce Willis and Zooey Deschanel.
›› Myriad Pictures will continue sales on the drama You’re Not You from director George C. Wolfe, which receives its premiere at Cannes following a successful debut in Berlin. Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel and Marcia Gay Harden star in a story about the relationship between a woman who has been immobilised by ALS, and her college student caregiver. Market debuts After The Ball by Sean Garrity and October Gale by Rubba Nada round off a strong slate for the Santa Monica based company.
›› Aldamisa bring Brett Simon’s horror Dearly Beloved to the Croisette for a market debut. The film, about a bride who uncovers a sinister and perhaps imaginary conspiracy among her fiancé and his family on her wedding day, is currently in pre-production with Luke Grimes attached to star. The company is also hoping to tempt buyers with Chef, directed by Jon Favreau, and Captive starring Bruce Willis as a property developer kidnapped by Brazilian gangsters.
›› Electric Entertainment is giving the A. J. Edwards directed drama The Better Angels, starring Diane Kruger and Brit Marling, a market premiere at Cannes. The company will also premiere Before I Disappear, a drama based on the 2013 Academy Award winning live-action short by Shawn Christensen, starring Ron Perlman, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley and Fatima Ptacek. Christensen directs the feature remake, and rounds up the cast.
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Electric will also screen God’s Pocket, director John Slattery’s feature debut which premiered at Sundance in January. The film stars the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as a small-time thief who tries to cover up the accidental death of his stepson. John Turturro co-stars. ›› Cargo Entertainment will tout buyers with Welcome to Me starring Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The comedy follows a television-obsessed woman who spends her lottery win on creating a TV show about herself. Also being offered in Cannes is Lost in the Sun about an unlikely friendship between an orphan and a small-time crook on a crime spree across the Texas desert, and the Andy Garcia directed drama Hemingway & Fuentes, starring Jon Voight. ›› Inception Film Partners is giving Vanish a debut at Cannes. The film stars Danny Trejo, Maiara Walsh and Tony Todd from a screenplay written and directed by Bryan Bockbrader, about a kidnapped woman who is forced on a road trip of murder and mayhem. ›› Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has arrived in Cannes with a 20 minute promo of Ratchet & Clank, their 3D animation based on Sony’s bestselling PlayStation game, which sold well in Berlin. Directed by Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland, the story follows two unlikely heroes as they try to stop a badly behaved alien from Ratchet & Clank destroying the planets of the Solana Galaxy. A second Sony franchised 3D animation, Sly Cooper, is also on offer as is the Richard Trank documentary The Prime Ministers, which tracks historic world events as seen through the eyes of former Israeli ambassador Yehuda Avner, between 1948 and 1982. ›› Highland Film Group is in Cannes with market premieres of Pocket Listing starring Burt Reynolds, Caitlin Gerard and Rob Lowe and Reaper, the Philip Shih directed horror starring Danny Trejo, Shayla Beesley and Vinnie Jones. The Los Angeles based company is also offering market debuts to three UK titles: thriller Age Of Kill to be directed by Neil Jones with Martin Kemp in the lead; We Still Kill the Old Way with Sacha Bennett (Get Lucky) attached to direct; and World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen, a horror about undead WW1 soldiers who previously died at the Somme. ›› Bleiberg Entertainment brings the horrorcomedy Feed the Gods from second-time writer/ director Braden Croft to Cannes, together with writer/director Franck Khalfoun’s horrorthriller i-Lived, about a computer software reviewer whose life takes a turn after he slavishly follows instructions listed in an app he downloaded from the web.
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›› Headed by Nadine De Barros, new sales, financing and production outfit Fortitude International hit the Croisette with The End of the Tour, a comedy about a magazine reporter who recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour. Jason Segel plays the late novelist with Jesse Eisenberg taking on the role of the reporter. James Ponsoldt directs. ›› Epic Pictures Group is giving Milan Todorovic’s Serbian fantasy horror Nymph, about a killer mermaid, a market premiere following the film’s earlier debut at Filmart. ›› International Film Trust will screen a debut promo of Cell, with a cast including John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman and Stacy Keach. Tod Williams directs from a screenplay by Stephen King and Adam Alleca about a man desperately searching for his wife and son amid a post-apocalyptic landscape that has turned cell phone users against the rest of humanity. The company, headed by Christian De Gallegos, is also tempting buyers with Cymbeline, from writer/director Michael Almereyda. Set in a corruption riddled future America, the drama pits dirty cops against a drug-dealing biker gang in a story of love, betrayal and revenge. Ethan Hawke stars alongside Milla Jovovich, Ed Harris, Penn Badgley, Anton Yelchin and Bill Pullman. ›› Synchronicity Entertainment will present the market screening of the Sundance title Cooties. Elijah Wood stars in this film about a mysterious virus borne from chicken nuggets that hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the children into a feral swarm of mindless cannibals. Synchronicity will also present the market debut of Bleed For This from director Ben Younger. The film, currently in pre-production, has Aaron Eckhart and Miles Teller attached to star in a true story about Vinny Pazienza, one of boxing’s most charismatic figures.
Whiplash
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The Rover Every Secret Thing
›› Foresight Unlimited presents And So It Goes from director Rob Reiner. Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton star in this comedy about an egocentric realtor, whose life is turned upside down when he takes in a granddaughter he never knew about, and unexpectedly falls in love with his neighbour. The company is also selling Spinning Gold, the rags-to-riches biopic of record executive Neil Bogart. Justin Timberlake has been attached to the project since 2011, and is set to star from a screenplay by Timothy Scott Bogart. Spike Lee directs. ›› New York based Magnolia Pictures return to Cannes with three premieres, including: the Leigh Janiak horror-thriller Honeymoon; directors Rob Burke and Ronan Burke’s romcom Standby; and the Steve James directed
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Meet the buyers Jamie Hanley MANAGER, ACQUISITIONS Volgafilm (USA) Los Angeles-based distributor acquiring all rights for Russia and CIS countries
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documentary, Life Itself, based on Roger Ebert’s best-selling memoir. The company will also present on booth screenings the sequel to 2012’s horror anthology, The ABCs Of Death, and Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded, a feature-length documentary on the Miami drug scene. ›› Good Universe is offering psychological thriller Estranged as part of its five-title strong market line-up of Cannes debuts. Directed by Adam Levins, the story follows a young woman with amnesia who returns home after six years to find that her family is not as they seem. The film, from Insidious producer William Borthwick, has Amy Manson, James Cosmo and Nora-Jane Noone cast. Also on offer is Elton John biopic Rocketman by writer Lee Hall. Michael Gracey directs Tom Hardy with Steve Hamilton Shaw, David Furnish and Lawrence Bender on board to produce. ›› Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment will premiere Amy Berg’s Every Secret Thing at Cannes. Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning star in this crime-thriller about the kidnapping of a young girl from a small town. Also making their debuts in the market are Courteney Cox’s directorial debut Just Before I Go and the Roger Spottiswoode actionadventure family film Midnight Sun. ›› Lotus Entertainment will present Song One about a young archaeologist who returns home from a dig in order to see her injured brother, only
›› Exclusive Media will be showing additional footage of Pelé, the soccer drama from writer/directors Michael Zimbalist and Jeff Zimbalist. The story follows the legendary footballer, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who overcame all odds to become the greatest football player of all time. Exclusive is also presenting Murder of a Cat, a comedy directed by Gillian Greene and starring Greg Kinnear, Nikki Reed and J. K. Simmons. Sam Raimi produces from a screenplay by writers Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow.
to form a relationship with his favourite musician. Anne Hathaway, Johnny Flyn, Mary Steenburgen and Ben Rosenfield star in this music-driven romance, written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker, Kate Barker-Froyland. ›› Panorama Media bring Bennett Miller’s In Competition drama Foxcatcher to Cannes, which stars Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum and was written by Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye. The film tells the true story of Olympic wrestling champions, brothers Mark and Dave Schultz, and their relationship with paranoid schizophrenic John du Pont. Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller and Anthony Michael Hall co-star. ›› Radiant Film International is at Cannes to shop Decoding Annie Parker with Samantha Morton, Helen Hunt, Aaron Paul and Rashida Jones in a drama directed by Steven Bernstein. The Beverly Hills-based company is also offering Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert’s classic story of a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor to escape her countryside roots. Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Ezra Miller and Rhys Ifans star. ›› Film Bridge International will debut two, as yet untitled new projects. The first, a crime thriller by TV director Tom Dicillo, the second, a Shintaro Shimosawa directed thriller about blackmail and corruption. Adam Mason and Simon Boyes are set to star.
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Acquiring Theatrical, TV, Video, VOD Recent Acquisitions Earth To Echo (Dir. Dave Green / USA / Family / Relativity International); What We Do In The Shadows (Dirs. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi / NZ / Comedy / Elle Driver); Sly Cooper (Dir. Kevin Munroe/ USA / Animation / Cinema Management Group) The marketplace has grown more competitive since I first started in acquisitions, with new distributors, buyers and sales companies popping up constantly. I’ve watched the video market collapse, and the emergence of alternative digital platforms. This will always be both a challenge and an opportunity; when viewing habits change, how can we adapt? Is there a new opportunity for us to exploit rights and connect to audiences? Will it be enough to supplement revenues lost in outdated mediums? Exciting cast and proven directors still help sell films to audiences, but it all starts with a clear, marketable story. This was the case when we acquired The Hunger Games; we bought the first film before any cast was attached, because the books were so compelling.
Today, it is mostly theatrical and digital, with digital being widely marginalized with illegal downloading. Jon Gerrans
Jon Gerrans CO-PRESIDENT
Strand Releasing (USA) Independent multi-platform distributor acquiring titles from Europe and South America to release theatrically in North America. Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD, Airline, Domestic. Recent Acquisitions The Way He Looks (Dir. Daniel Ribeiro / Brazil / Drama / Films Boutique); The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears (Dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani / FR / Thriller / Bac Films); Lilting (Dir. Hong Khaou / UK / Drama / Protagonist Pictures) Just five years ago, we had successful and easily accessible media outlet that allowed us to distribute the film across ALL existing media; theatrical, home video and broadcast. Today, it is mostly theatrical and digital, with digital being widely marginalized with illegal downloading. The DVD rental market has all but evaporated, Cable VoD doesn’t seem to be interested in anything subtitled, and our traditional broadcast outlets have gone quiet. Now, my biggest challenge is finding a successful way to properly exploit the film on a level that will give me a chance to recoup. Right now, I don’t believe it is possible unless you have that one breakout hit. All the others will not profit.
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UK SELLERS ›› Altitude Film Sales bring another extensive line-up to the Croisette which includes: Daniel Wolfe’s highly anticipated UK thriller Catch Me Daddy which makes its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar; Julius Avery’s thriller Son of a Gun with Ewan McGregor; South African and UK sci-fi-thriller Outpost 37; and Hangar 10 from UK writer/director Daniel Simpson. Also on offer are: Cutter Hodierne’s feature debut Fishing Without Nets which won the US Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance earlier this year; Blood Mountain, an actiondrama currently in pre-production with Benedict Cumberbatch attached to star; and Kill Your Friends, a black comedy about the legendary Britpop era, starring Nicholas Hoult.
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›› WestEnd Films has arrived in Cannes with another strong line-up which includes Hindi drama Titli, in competition in Un Certain Regard, and Israeli drama Self Made which will receive its premiere in the festival’s Critics’ Week sidebar. Other titles receiving their market debuts from the London-based outfit include Fernando León de Aranoa’s drama A Perfect Day starring Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko, and Irish animation Song of the Sea with Brendan Gleeson.
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›› Protagonist Pictures arrive in Cannes to debut period dramas Testament of Youth starring Alicia Vikander, and The Childhood of a Leader with Juliette Binoche, Tim Roth and Robert Pattinson. Sienna Miller joins Chloe Sevigny on Love and Friendship, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novella “Lady Susan” which Whit Stillman will direct, while Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore are confirmed to star in Rebecca Miller’s forthcoming romcom Maggie’s Plan, currently in pre-production. ›› Newly-formed UK sales and distribution outfit Sunray Films has arrived in Cannes to rep international sales on In Competition title, Mr Turner by Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall. The company, headed by Alison Thompson will also tempt buyers with Asif Kapadia’s new as yet untitled, Amy Winehouse documentary exploring the life of the five-time Grammy award-winner, and Dexter Fletcher’s 2013 musical, Sunshine On Leith.
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›› Bankside will tout buyers with Hector and The Search For Happiness, a romantic comedy from Peter Chelsom starring Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård and Jean Reno. The company will also present Michael Petroni’s Backtrack with Adrien Brody and Sam Neill. The film follows a psychologist whose life is thrown into chaos when he discovers that his patients are the ghosts of people who all died on the same day 20 years previously.
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›› Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films will be out to entice buyers with a premiere of The Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, a thriller from director Daniel Alfredson about the infamous kidnapping of the brewing magnate with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. The company will also debut two new titles at the Marche: Boychoir by François Girard starring Dustin Hoffman and Kathy Bates; and crime-thriller Galveston from writer Nic Pizzolato with Matthias Schoenaerts in the lead role. ›› Mister Smith Entertainment will present the Jesse Owens biopic Race. Stephen Hopkins directs British actor John Boyega in the drama which focuses on Owens’ record-breaking appearance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Russell Crowe’s directorial debut The Water Diviner and Lasse Hallström’s drama The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, are also on the company’s slate at Cannes.
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›› Goldcrest Films International is presenting two projects currently in pre-production: UK horror The Autopsy of Jane Doe, from a screenplay by Ian B. Goldberg and Richard Naing; and Brooklyn Bridge, with Douglas McGrath set to direct Daniel Radcliffe in the period drama about a brilliant but inexperienced engineer who is left to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after the death of his father. ›› Independent bring Carol Morley’s drama The Falling and recently announced family comedy A Bollywoof Tale to Cannes. Andy Hamilton’s comedy What We Did On Our Holiday, about a family trying to survive through difficult circumstances, receives a market premiere. Billy Connolly, David Tennant and Rosamund Pike star. ›› Salt will be screening Northmen: A Viking Saga and will also tout the Neil LaBute thriller Geography Of Hope, starring Ed Harris and Ethan Hawke as small-time crooks who flee to Mexico following a botched store robbery. ›› K5 International’s slate includes the Bruce Willis sci-fi actioner Vice which receives a Cannes debut, and Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend starring Alice Eve and Matthew Broderick. ›› The Works bring the Toni Collette romcom Lucky Them and Canadian horror There Are Monsters, written and directed by Jay Dahl. ›› SC Films International is screening Phil Hawkins’ The Last Showing, starring Robert Englund, Finn Jones and Emily Berrington, and 3D animation Gnome Alone, a family adventure-comedy about a young boy, a group of garden gnomes and the trolls that are hunting them.
debut during the Marche last year, and is offering buyers a three-minute promo screening of The Diabolical by director Alistair Legrand, about a woman and her children who are awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. ›› GFM Films is shopping the Terry Jones comedy Absolutely Anything which is currently shooting in London with an ensemble cast including: Simon Pegg; Kate Beckinsale; Robin Williams; Terry Gilliam; John Cleese; Michael Palin; and Eddie Izzard. The story, which the Monty Python star co-wrote with Gavin Scott, follows a teacher as he experiences a series of mishaps after discovering he has magical powers. ›› Genesis Film Sales is shopping sci-fi-thriller Alone. Damian Lewis is attached to star as a lone astronaut orbiting the earth, who has 24 hours to prevent the planet’s destruction. ›› Kaleidoscope Film Distribution will debut four new titles in their lineup this year, including Ruairi Robinson’s sci-fi horror, The Last Days On Mars starring Liev Schreiber, and David Rebordão’s sci-fi action/ adventure RPG, with Rutger Hauer as a terminally ill millionaire in search of eternal youth. ›› Saradan Media bring Russian thriller Viktor to Cannes for a market screening. Written and directed by Philippe Martinez, the film stars Gérard Depardieu and Elizabeth Hurley.
›› High Point will debut the Dutch romcom Heart Street by Sanne Vogel which the company picked up from 2CFilm at Berlin earlier this year, and Australian feature Drown, which is currently in post-production.
›› Matteo Rolleri’s Devilworks arrive in Cannes to tempt buyers with a line-up which includes: Jason Cuadrado’s thriller Devil May Call; Renaud Gauthier’s Canadian horror Discopathe; and James Katz’s Chilean thriller, The Vineyard. Also receiving their Cannes premieres are: sci-fi pic Time Lapse; psychological thriller The Maid’s Room; and Martin Doepner’s 2013 Canadian Film Fest winner The Storm Within, starring Isabelle Guérard, Lothaire Bluteau, Peter Miller and Vincent Leclerc.
›› Content Media Corporation is in Cannes to tout Redirected, an action-comedy about four friends turned firsttime robbers, who get stranded in Eastern Europe through a series of misadventures. Vinnie Jones, Scot Williams, Gil Darnell and Oliver Jackson star. The London / Los Angeles based sales and finance shingle is also giving Paul Solet’s modern ghost story Dark Summer a premiere following its
›› Entertainment One Films bring three premieres to the Marche including David Cronenberg’s Maps To The Stars starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, John Cusak and Robert Pattinson; Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Atom Egoyan’s kidnap drama, The Captive with Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman and Rosario Dawson. Both Mommy and The Captive screen In Competition this year.
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Meet the buyer Tom Stewart HEAD OF ACQUISITIONS Arrow Film Distributors (UK) Leading independent, multi-platform UK distributor specialising in foreign language, cult, horror and art-house films. Acquiring: Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD, Airline Recent Acquisitions: A Thousand Times Goodnight (Dir. Erik Poppe / NO / Drama / Global Screen); Mr Morgan’s Last Love (Dir. Sandra Nettelbeck / DE / Romance / Global Screen); The Stag (Dir. John Butler / IE / Comedy / Metro International) Whether or not film markets are essential to sales and acquisitions is completely dependent upon the business model you’ve chosen. Here at Arrow Films, our acquisitions cover a wide area of film and television so to attend markets that involve premieres and workshops, and give you a chance to have that face-to-face meeting, is crucially important. It’s also a significant way to allow your company to be showcased in front of the sales agent and producer; no phone call or email can always manage that, and things naturally get lost in translation.
The biggest challenge remains finding the quality films that connect with an audience, and to be able to deliver the film to that audience Lorianne Hall
Lorianne Hall HEAD OF ACQUISITIONS Shooting Stars (UAE) Founded in 2004, Shooting Stars is one of the Gulf’s most established distribution companies with strong ties to Warner Bros. Pictures in the Middle East. Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, Domestic Recent Acquisitions Camp X-Ray (Dir. Peter Sattler / USA / Drama – from United Talent Agency); Killers (Dir. Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto / JP / Thriller – from WYZ Films); The Station (Blutgletscher): (Dir. Marvin Kren / AT / Horror – from Rezo)
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When I first started in acquisitions, there was a much more robust home entertainment industry, which was a real business for sellers and buyers alike. In the last three to four years this has segmented into different areas, with VOD ‘catch up’ TV and various other platforms. Yet filmmakers are still making home entertainment product (B/C level non theatricals, direct to DVD films) and the market has a glut of these mediocre titles that do little to no business. The entire market needs to change, to deliver quality product that people want to see and can be profitable. The biggest challenge remains finding the quality films that connect with an audience, and to be able to deliver the film to that audience. There are real opportunities to harness VOD in this regard; it is no longer seen as a dumping ground for mediocre films but a way of delivering high quality content to audiences everywhere.
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FRENCH AND GERMAN SELLERS ›› Paris-based Elle Driver is in Cannes with a market debut for Isabel Coixet’s drama Nobody Wants the Night, starring Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi and Gabriel Byrne; Audrey Dana’s French Women starring Isabelle Adjani and Vanessa Paradis; and André Téchiné’s drama, In The Name of My Daughter starring Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet. The film, which received a late addition to the festival’s Out Of Competition line up, is based on the unsolved mystery surrounding the 1977 disappearance of Riviera casino heiress, Agnès Le Roux. Also on offer is vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, which generated good buzz at Sundance. ›› French heavyweight Gaumont arrive with a market premiere for the Critics’ Week selected title, Breathe, from director Mélanie Laurent, and a debut for Fred Grivois’ thriller Through the Air, about a champion rifle marksman who is forced to become a hitman. The company will also unveil French comedies Takeaway Romance, My Summer in Provence, and Coming In, about a gay man who wakes up in bed with a stunning Swede on the day before his wedding. ›› Kinology bring documentary Cartoonists – Foot Soldiers of Democracy by Stéphanie Valloatto, which receives a Special Screening as part of the festival. The company is also giving a Cannes debut to French comedy Caprices while animation Mune receives a market premiere. Billed as the first Iranian vampire western, Ana Lily Amirpour’s Sundance hit A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night rounds off a strong slate for the Paris-based sales outfit. ›› Pathé International’s Cannes slate includes a premiere for Matthew Warchus’ Pride starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West. The Thatcher-era comedy about an unexpected alliance between a group of gay activists and striking miners has been included in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Also offered is Suffragette, Sarah Gavron’s drama about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, and market debuts Evolution Man by Jamel Debbouze and Invisible Boy by Gabriele Salvatores.
›› Bac Films will premiere Philippe Lacôte’s Run which screens in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar, and Les Combattants, a comedy starring Adèle Haenel and Kevin Azaïs, which plays in the Directors’ Fortnight. Also available is Argentinian drama Ardor, Pablo Fendrik’s jungle-set modern-day western starring Gael García Bernal and Alice Braga, which will receive a Special Screening at the festival. Footage of writer/director Vincent Mariette’s comedy Fool Circle will also be screened.
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›› Funny Balloons bring Ablations, a thriller about memory loss and organ trafficking by first-time feature director Arnold de Parscau, Laurent Cantet’s Cuba-set drama Return to Ithaca, and Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, starring Willem Dafoe as the famed Italian filmmaker. ›› Films on MK2’s slate include the Competition titles Clouds Of Sils Maria by Oliver Assayas, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche, and Naomi Kawase’s Japanese drama, Still the Water. Felix Vom Boehm’s Marin Karmitz – Bande À Part and Wondrous Boccaccio, about a group of young Florentines who take shelter in a remote countryside villa as a plague ravages their city, receive market debuts. ›› Wild Bunch are anticipating a busy market this year with no less than 27 titles in the Marche line-up, including six premieres. Michel Hazanavicius’ drama The Search, Jimmy’s Hall by Ken Loach, Two Days, One Night by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Goodbye To Language 3D by Jean-Luc Godard are all screening In Competition this year. Screening Out Of Competition is Zhang Yimou’s love story Coming Home while The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata screens in the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. ›› Loïc Magneron’s Wide Management will kick off sales with a market premiere of Brian Penkin’s narrative feature, Golden Kingdom about four young monks left to fend for themselves after their master leaves their remote monastery. Simone Scafidi’s Eva Braun, an erotic drama inspired by the Italian sex scandals of the Berlusconi era will also receive a premier while Dutch drama Supernova by Tamar van den Dop and Lech Majewski’s Polish drama Field of Dogs will continue the momentum they generated in Berlin with additional screenings in the Marche. ›› Versatile have added a premiere for Colombian drama Gente de Bien, while Eskil Vogt’s Sundance Screenwriting Award winner Blind is included in their line-up alongside Darren Lynn Bousman’s supernatural horror, Abattoir.
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Meet the buyer Carl Rickmers ACQUISITIONS Splendid Film (DE) Active in the film licensing business for more than 35 years, acquiring film rights for Benelux and Germanspeaking Europe Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD, Airline Recent Acquisitions Rock The Kasbah (Dir. Barry Levinson / USA / Comedy / QED International); Escape From Planet Earth (Dir. Cal Brunker / USA / Animation / The Weinstein Company); Maggie (Dir. Henry Hobson / USA / Drama / Lotus Entertainment) Even though Germany still has a robust DVD market, revenue for niche product has decreased over the past 12 months, as there is less shelf space available. VOD gives smaller films some opportunities, but bigger films still take much of the audience. Because of the speed of word of mouth, a film has to be genuinely good to attract an audience; it’s no longer enough to just have a nice poster and a big name star. On the upside, there are more VOD platforms than ever before, the pay TV market is growing and there are a lot of new small free-TV channels that need product—although at a lower price. So although the market has become more fragmented, it is still quite healthy.
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›› Alfama Films will premiere Mathieu Amalric’s crime-thriller The Blue Room in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. The company is also screening Michael Sturminger’s opera movie, Casanova Variations, starring John Malkovich as the legendary seducer.
David Mitjans HEAD OF ACQUISITIONS A Contracorriente Films (SP) Barcelona-based distributor of theatrical films, primarily from Europe, with an even split between drama, comedy, action/adventure and romance genres. Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD, Domestic Recent Acquisitions Jane Got A Gun (Dir. Gavin O’Connor / USA / Action/ Adventure / Exclusive Media); The Finishers (Dir. Nils Tavernier / FR / Drama / Pathe); Barbecue (Dir. Eric Lavaine / FR / Comedy / Studiocanal When I’m considering a title for acquisition, the quality of the film is vital, particularly for Spain, where the cinema audience is decreasing year after year. One of the acquisitions I am most proud of is Monsieur Lazhar (Dir. Philippe Falardeau). It screened at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2011 and I dealt with Films Distribution at Toronto Film Festival; it was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar and made more than €1.3m at the Spanish box office. When it comes to navigating the vast quantity of content at markets, the selection of the meetings and screenings is essential. There are too many sales companies and too many poor quality movies in the markets, and time is money.
Release windows keep shortening… it’s essential that we find a balance between the theatrical and VOD window. Elisa Martin De Blas Monforte
Elisa Martin De Blas Monforte HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITIONS TriPictures (SP) Madrid-based Spanish distributor and producer acquiring from North America and Europe across drama, family and action/adventure genres Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD Recent Acquisitions The Hundred Foot Journey (Dir. Lasse Hallström / USA / Drama / Mister Smith Entertainment); Three Days To Kill (Dir. McG / USA / Action/ Adventure / Europacorp); Homefront (Dir. Gary Fleder / USA / Action/Adventure / Nu Image/ Millennium) Over the past 12 months, independents and studios have had to adjust to a shrinking market due to the economic crisis, and to a change of business model at an industry level. Release windows keep shortening, as audiences demand immediate access to films; it’s essential that we find a balance between the theatrical and VOD window. There’s no longer much room for medium-sized films so, as a commercial distributor, we need to focus on safer bets or not buy at all. Box office revenues will never be back to what they were five years ago, but we believe VOD will become an important piece of the pie. It won’t take off, however, until there’s a player that can aggregate as much content as possible, and provide the best user experience.
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›› Les Films du Losange will give market debuts to French dramas My Friend Victoria and Les Jours Venus, both in postproduction, and Childhood, a new project by Philippe Claudel being produced by the company. Also on offer is pre-sales on Barbet Schroeder’s Amnesia about a German expat living on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. Géronimo, Tony Gatlif ’s drama about feuding families, receives a Special Screening in the festival.
and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Russian corruption drama, Leviathan, screening In Competition. Other titles on offer include Un Certain Regard selection Xenia and Boris Lojkine’s migrant drama, Hope, which will screen in the festival’s Critics’ Week sidebar.
›› UDI kick off sales with a debut for Rémi Chayé’s French animation Longway North, and Kazakh black comedy The Owners, which received a last-minute inclusion in the festival’s Special Screenings program. Other titles on offer include Jake Gavin’s upcoming UK drama Hector (working title), starring Peter Mullan, Gina McKee and Stephen Tompkinson, and Maxime Giroux’s love story, Félix and Meira.
›› Rezo will tempt buyers with Peter Sattler’s military drama Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi, and director Jonathan Nossiter’s Italian winegrowers documentary, Natural Resistance.
›› Le Pacte is screening five premieres, including: Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s documentary Salt of the Earth; John Boorman’s Queen and Country; Critics’ Week selection The Kindergarten Teacher; festival Competition entry Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako; and Thomas Lilti’s comedy, Hippocrates. ›› EuropaCorp have In Competition Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman with Hilary Swank, John Lithgow and Meryl Streep, and Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent with Léa Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel and Jérémie Renier. The company will also continue pre-sales on the Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen scripted Taken 3 starring Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen. ›› Pyramide International are selling directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis’ festival opener Party Girl,
›› Premium Films is giving Berlinale Panorama entry 2030 a premiere at Cannes alongside Bulgarian drama The Judgment and Andrea Jublin’s Italian comedy, Banana.
›› Memento Film International have on offer Jim Mickle’s home-invasion thriller Cold in July, screening in the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The company will also continue with sales on Jason Lew’s crime-thriller The Free World starring Cillian Murphy and Bryce Dallas Howard, and Still Alice starring Julianne Moore as a neuroscientist who develops Alzheimer’s. Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin and Kate Bosworth co-star. ›› As part of their line-up, Films Distribution bring Un Certain Regard entry Bird People, Directors’ Fortnight selections Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsallem and Girlhood, plus market debuts Now Or Never, comedy Ariane’s Thread and Gerard Johnstone’s New Zealand comedy-thriller, Housebound. ›› Celluloid Dream / Celluloid Nightmares will give Australian apocalyptic road movie These Final Hours an international premiere as part of the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The low-budget feature tells the story
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›› Indie Sales give Zoltan Mayer’s French/Mandarin drama Journey Through China a Cannes debut, alongside a line-up which includes Quentin Dupieux’s Los Angeles set Reality and Michele Alhaique’s drama Senza Pieta, starring Pierfrancesco Favino as a part-time mafia henchman who lands on the wrong side of his boss.
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of a young man on his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth, who is forced to question what really matters after saving the life of a young girl. ›› StudioCanal bring Hossein Amini’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s suspense novel, The Two Faces Of January. Viggo Mortensen stars alongside Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. ›› Doc & Film International premiere Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery, a documentary portrait of the day-to-day operations of the world’s foremost museums. ›› Matteo Lovadina’s Paris-based Reel Suspects bring Dutch drama Cat and Mouse to Cannes for a market premiere, alongside Fievre by Romain Basset and US thriller Wild in Blue from writer/director Matthew Berkowitz. ›› SND Films will give Fabrice Du Weltz horror-thriller Alleluia a premiere at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Yann Gozlan’s crime-drama A Perfect Man makes a debut.
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›› French art-house specialist Capricci Films bring Directors’ Fortnight film Mange Tes Morts (Eat Your Bones), a road movie about three brothers from a traveller community on a trip to find a cargo of copper, while fellow French sales company Backup Media Group will screen Diego Lerman’s Argentinian drama Refugiado in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. ›› Germany’s The Match Factory bring In Competition title Le Meraviglie by Alice Rohrwacher and Snow in Paradise by Andrew Hulme for Un Certain Regard. A market debut is reserved for Hebrew dark comedy Zero Motivation, about three female secretaries at a remote army base in the Israeli desert.
›› Arri Worldsales bring Doris Dörrie’s comedy-drama The Whole Shebang to a line-up which includes documentary Making of Heimat by directors Anja Pohl and Jörg Adolph, and controversial German euthanasia drama Zurich, by director Frederik Steiner. ›› Leading German sales company Global Screen will tempt buyers with Erik Poppe’s war photographer drama A Thousand Times Goodnight, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Juliette Binoche. The company is also giving at least two market screenings to Christian Alvart’s crime-drama Banklady, a true story about Gisela Werler, Germany’s first female bank robber. ›› Ida Martins’ Media Luna will be at the market with a screening of Argentinian drama Atlántida by Inés María Barrionuevo, fresh from its Sundance debut and European premiere at Berlin. ›› Beta Cinema arrive on the Croisette this year with high hopes for German box-office hit The Physician, starring Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgard, and Dietrich Brueggemann’s Stations of the Cross, a drama about a religious teenager who devotes her life to Jesus. ›› Austria’s EastWest have brought Berlin Panorama screener Fever to Cannes to premiere alongside Ben Pickering’s UK crime thriller London Payback and Bruno Irizarry’s Puerto Rican romcom, Looking For Maria Sanchez. ›› Family film specialists Sola Media will debut WW2 kids’ drama Secrets of War while Swedish comedy The Anderssons Hit The Road will get a market screening in the Palais.
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›› Adriana Chiesa Enterprises is in Cannes to launch sales on writer/director Fariborz Kamkari’s documentary, Sugar And Water, about Italian cinema masterpieces. The Rome-based company will also continue sales on English-language drama Anita. B, about a teenage girl trying to rebuild her life after surviving the Holocaust. Roberto Faenza directs. ›› Rai Trade is giving a market premiere to Pupi Avati’s drama A Golden Boy, and Sebastiano Riso’s Darker Than Midnight. The company will also continue sales on Berlin Panorama documentary, Happy To Be Different, about gay people in 20th century Italy. ›› Czech drama Fair Play by Andrea Sedlácková receives a market premiere from Intramovies, alongside screenings for Maciej Pieprzyca’s Life Feels Good and Edoardo Winspeare’s Quiet Bliss. ›› Picture Tree International will give market premieres to two new titles: Sigrid Hoerner’s German comedy Miss Sixty; and Robert Glínski’s Polish drama, Stones for the Rampart. The company will also be screening Bora Dagtekin’s German hit, Fack Ju Goehte (Suck Me Shakespeer), which has to date passed $60m at the box office. ›› Fandango will premiere Giovanni Veronesi’s Italian romcom A Woman As A Friend, while The Open Reel bring One Deep Breath from South African born director Antony Hickling. ›› Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk is attending the Marche with an Out Of Competition premiere for The Salvation, Kristian Levring’s 1870s-set western starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Eric Cantona and Jonathan Pryce. The company is also offering
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pre-sales on Anders Morgenthaler’s Kim Basinger drama I Am Here, Susanne Bier’s A Second Chance starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Danish fantasy The Shamer’s Daughter, about a young girl who has inherited her mother’s supernatural abilities.
›› Latido once again bring a raft of market debuts, including Spanish thriller The Ignorance of Blood and Cuban kids’ drama Behavior, from director Ernesto Daranas. Miguel Cohan’s crime-thriller Betibú and Santiago Tabernero’s Spanish drama Inside Love will screen alongside Maracanazo, Sebastián Bednarik and Andrés Varela’s documentary about Uruguay’s 1950 World Cup win over Brazil.
›› Svensk bring the Danish epic 1864 by Ole Bornedal and Swedish family drama Nobody Owns Me, an adaptation of the novel by Åsa Linderborg, starring Mikael Persbrandt as a struggling single father. Norwegian thriller Glass Dolls by Nils Gaup and Swedish comedy Medicine by Colin Nutley receive market premieres. ›› The Yellow Affair head to market to continue pre-sales on Australian drama Fell, directed by Crystal Bear winner Kasimir Burges, and The Girl King,, Mika Kaurismäki’s historical drama about Sweden’s iconic Queen Kristina, who ruled the country from the age of six until her abdication 22 years later. The company also gives Norwegian drama Underdog a market premiere. ›› Tine Klint’s LevelK is giving a market debut to Bille August’s Silent Heart and Tonje H. Schei’s war documentary, Drone. Australian teen romance feature My Mistress will get a market premiere. Stephen Lance directs Emmanuelle Béart, Harrison Gilbertson and Rachael Blake. ›› New Polish seller New Europe Film Sales will premiere writer/ actor/director Onur Tukel’s vampire comedy Summer of Blood,, alongside Cannes debuts for Eva Pervolovici’s Marussia and Caroline Strubbe’s Toronto/Rotterdam title, I’m The Same, I’m An Other.
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›› Barcelona’s Film Factory Entertainment will premiere In Competition title Wild Tales from director Damián Szifrón and screen additional footage of director Javier Fesser’s high-budget 3D animation, Mortadelo & Filemon: Mission Implausible. The company has also added Alberto Rodríguez’s anticipated Spanish detective thriller Marshland to their line-up alongside the comedy Spanish Affair by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. ››DeAPlaneta ›› DeAPlaneta bring Lucas Figueroa’s Spanish horror Viral Viral, Óscar Aibar’s Spanish Civil War drama The Forest and Alejandro Ezcurdia’s thriller Three-60 Three-60. Tom Fernández’s familyfriendly canine pic, Millionaire Dog, gets a screening. ››6 ›› 6 Sales arrive with a market premiere for Sebastián Del Amo’s Cantinflas and Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Polish spy thriller, Jack Strong. The company will also be screening Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto and Reece Ritchie in a story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian. ››Also ›› Also from Spain, Imagina will hope to tempt buyers with Maria Ripoll’s Traces of Sandalwood and Emilio Aragón’s road trip drama, A Night in Old Mexico, starring Robert Duvall and Jeremy Irvine.
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Ireland Shines at Cannes With one film in competition (Ken Loach’s political drama Jimmy Hall) and many more projects featuring Irish directors, producers and talent to be found on the Croisette, the Irish film industry has a sterling presence at Cannes 2014. By Nikki Baughan
›› Production activity for the Irish independent film, television, drama and animation sectors reached the highest level on record in 2013, contributing over €168m to the country’s economy; an increase of approximately 18 per cent on 2012 and 42 per cent on 2011. Just as high-end TV dramas such as Ripper Street, Vikings and Penny Dreadful are finding success on the small screen, Irish features have also been cutting a swathe through the cinematic landscape; films such as The Stag (directed by John Butler), The Last Days on Mars (Ruairi Robinson) and Calvary (John Michael McDonagh) have wowed critics and audiences across the globe. Many more exciting projects have made their way to this year’s Marche Du Film. One such hot prospect is The Canal, the fifth feature from writer/ director Ivan Kavanagh. Having recently premiered at Tribeca, where the US
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rights were secured by independent distributor The Orchard, it stars Rupert Evans as a man descending into insanity and paranoia, believing his wife may be cheating on him. As with Kavanagh’s previous two features, The Fading Light and Our Wonderful Home, funding was provided by the Irish Film Board. Elsewhere, buyers will be treated to an eclectic mix of Irish-backed titles, both narrative and documentary. Highlights to look out for include: Song of the Sea, Tomm Moore’s hotly anticipated followup to the Oscar-nominated Secret of Kells, featuring the voices of Brendan Gleeson and Fionnula Flanagan; Brooklyn, which stars Saoirse Ronan alongside Domhnall Gleeson as a young Irish immigrant finding her way in New York in the 1960s; Greek director Giorgos Lanthimos’ English-language debut The Lobster, currently filming in Kerry, which is set in a dystopian future in which single people must find a mate or be transformed into an animal; and John Boorman’s Queen and Country, which tells of an Englishman who grew up in London during World War II, heading off to fight in the Korean War. Documentaries Rough Rider, Adrian McCarthy’s look at whistle-blowing cycling journalist Paul Kimmage, and Gentlemen, Ken Wardrop’s study of the modern American man, will also be screening. It’s not just Irish films that will be lighting up the screen at Cannes; the country’s talent will be out in full force, too. Young actor Barry Keoghan (Love/ Hate, Stalker) can be seen in Yann Demange’s war drama ’71, as well as Rob Burke and Ronan Burke’s romantic
comedy Standby. After starring in smash hit Philomena, Irish actress Charlie Murphy takes a role in Claudio Fäh’s historical drama Northmen: A Viking Saga. And writer/director Brendan Muldowney’s Love Eternal will screen; based on Kei Oishi’s acclaimed Japanese novel Loving the Dead, the story tells of a young man forced to venture into the world after shutting himself away for a decade. Looking past Cannes, the Irish film and television industries look set to grow from strength to strength in 2014,
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with several big projects on the starting blocks. Whit Stillman’s (The Last Days of Disco) adaptation of Jane Austen’s Love & Friendship, starring Sienna Miller and Chloë Sevigny, will film this summer in rural Ireland. Pilgrimage is a period epic set in the 13th century, to be directed by Brendan Muldowney (Savage, Love Eternal). And for his next documentary, Ceasefire Massacre, the Oscar-winning Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) will turn his attention to the Loughinsisland Massacre, in which six fans were killed as they watched the Ireland/Italy game in the 1994 World Cup. For more information on Irish productions and talent, visit the Irish Film Board at the International Village Riviera Pavillon 117
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CANADIAN SELLERS ›› Arrow Entertainment arrive with Czech children’s film To See the Sea by Jirí Mádl, and will continue sales on Sexual Healing, a drama by director Julien Temple about the final years of Marvin Gaye’s life. Jesse L. Martin, Brendan Gleeson and Dwight Henry star. ›› Attraction Distribution will tempt buyers with a premiere of Ricardo Trogi’s Inbetweeners-esque comedy, 1987, and Sylvain Archambault’s father/son drama, The Custody. ›› Breakthrough Entertainment line up a premiere for Chad Archibald’s horror, The Drownsman, about a young woman’s hydrophobia following a near drowning, and Anthony Bonello’s ecology documentary, Stand. ›› Topping Double Dutch International’s Cannes line-up is a market premiere for Charles-Olivier Michaud’s sports redemption drama, 4 Minute Mile, starring Kim Basinger and Kelly Blatz. The company will also debut Gavin Michael Booth’s Halloween horror, The Scarehouse. ›› Filmoption International will screen Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Rock Paper Scissors and Another House, Mathieu Roy’s French/English drama about two adult brothers coming to terms with their father’s progressing dementia. The company is also giving Ismaël Saidi’s comedy Moroccan Gigolos a premiere. ›› Vancouver’s IndustryWorks Pictures (see breakout box) have arrived in Cannes with a full slate including market debuts for psychological thriller Nightmare Box, ‘road trip gone bad’ horror, Wrecker, family film Theresa Is A Mother, and BB, director CJ Wallis’ edgy thriller about an internet stripper and the mysterious client who begins to stalk her. ›› Toronto’s Raven Banner will give Marc Carrete’s Spanish horror Asmodexia a market premiere in the Palais following the film’s debut in Berlin. The story follows five days in the life of an exorcist and his granddaughter. The genre specialist will also introduce buyers to debut horror titles Beautiful People by Brini Amerigo and Breakdown Lane by Bob Schultz. ›› Montreal-based Seville International bring Stéphane Lafleur’s drama Tu dors Nicole to the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar alongside writer/director Xavier Dolan’s In Competition title, Mommy, about a mother coping with her ADHD-afflicted son in a fictional Canada where the law allows distressed parents to abandon their children. ›› 108 Media will tempt buyers with market debut The Insect King from writer/director Priscilla Cameron, and line-up titles Camera Trap by Alex Verner and He Never Died by writer-director Jason Krawczyk. The horror-thriller stars Henry Rollins as a depressed cannibal who is forced to deal with his past. Also offered is Shan Khan’s UK thriller Honour, starring Paddy Considine as a white racist bounty hunter hired by a British Asian family to hunt down and kill their runaway daughter.
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SELLER FOCUS: INDUSTRYWORKS PICTURES As Canada’s IndustryWorks brings an extensive line-up to Cannes, company president Evan Tylor explains why their individual approach results in such an original slate. By Nikki Baughan For IndustryWorks’ president Evan Tylor, having a multi-strand approach to filmmaking is what makes their content so unique; as an integrated company, it produces, acquires and distributes content across multiple genres and platforms. “Doing everything from script to screen allows us to create what the audience is looking for and then provide the platform for that audience to watch it,” he explains. This approach has certainly proved successful in the past; American Mary, for example, was a breakout hit at last year’s festival and went on to find a large cinema audience. “We’re passionate about originality in our content and that can— if everything else falls into place—contribute to the success of our films,” says Tylor. “We believe we have a knack for discovering new talent, such as [directors Jen and Sylvia Soska] who were completely unknown until we produced American Mary.” For Cannes 2014, IndustryWorks has lined up an impressive slate including 15 debuts, which includes both big and small screen fare. “A key title is BB, the debut film by CJ Wallis who was one of the original creators behind
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who have such a diverse range of product, markets like Cannes remain crucial to the way they do business. “The markets are important because it gives us face time with international buyers,” says Tylor. “Cannes has the feeling of movie making in the air, from the business side at the Marche to the Festival activity that happens at night.” industry-works.com Cannes Office: RIVIERA Stand B3 in the Riviera
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ASIAN SELLERS ›› Fortissimo Films will screen The Midnight After, a post-apocalyptic thriller which played in Berlin’s Panorama section in February. Directed by Hong Kong’s Fruit Chan, the thriller tells the story of a group of latenight minibus passengers who discover that they are the only people left alive in the city. Fortissimo’s screenings roster also includes a slot for gay-themed drama Unfriend by Filipino director Joselito Altarejos. Other titles include recent Asian Film Award winner The Grandmaster by Kar Wai Wong, and Terence Davies’ forthcoming 20th century drama, Sunset Song starring Agyness Deyn, Kevin Guthrie and Peter Mullan. ›› Hong Kong based Emperor Motion Pictures will give Dante Lam’s thriller That Demon Within a screening following the film’s world premiere in the Panorama section at Berlin. Fellow Hong Kong company Edko Films arrive with a slate which includes a 14-minute promo screening of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s action-adventure, Wolf Totem. ›› Distribution Workshop will give debut screenings to two titles by director Derek Yee: I Am Somebody and Sword Master. The company has also brought Tsui Hark’s 3D spy movie, The Taking of Tiger Mountain, to market. Based on the Chinese novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest, the film is about a battle of wits between a small military unit and a heavily armed and ruthless band of bandits during the civil war era of the 1940s. ›› We Distribution arrive with Aubrey Lam’s romcom, The Truth About Beauty, while fellow Hong Kong based company Pegasus Motion Pictures have lined up Clifton Ko’s This is 50 and David Lam’s Z Storm. Both films are currently in post-production. Media Asia bring Malaysian thriller In the Dark by Joonhan Yeo and Urban Games, directed by Peng Zhang. ›› Golden Network Asia bring a selection of animations, including invite-only premieres of The Legend of Qin and Frog Kingdom, directed by Nelson Shin. ›› Aymeric Contat Desfontaines’ Hong Kongbased All Rights Entertainment return to the Marche with a line-up of 27 titles including a debut of Chinese 3D animation, box-office success Boonie Bears, To The Rescue! ›› Japan’s Showgate bring Cannes debut Ju-On: Beginning Of The End. The horror, directed by Ochiai Masayuki, stars Nozomi Sasaki. ›› Ablaze Image will tout Doze Niu’s romance Paradise in Service, while hoping to continue sales on Cho Li’s The Rice Bomber, which premiered in Berlin.
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›› South Korea’s Finecut will premiere Dae-woo Kim’s Obsessed, and offer buyers a first look at erotic comedy A Case of Bachelor Abduction and fellow market debut Entangled. The company will also present Haemoo, a thriller-drama based on true events that follows the crew of a fishing ship as they attempt to smuggle in illegal migrants, with catastrophic results. Shim Sung-bo directs. ›› M-Line Distribution is selling Cannes debut Begging Island: Let It Be, a documentary about Gulup-do island in Korea’s western sea and the company that is trying to turn it into a gold resort, erotic comedy Casa Amor: Exclusive For Ladies, and romcom Love Clinic. ›› Lotte Entertainment will premiere Man On High Heels by Jin Jang and historical drama The Fatal Encounter by Jae-kyoo Lee. Also on offer is Jae-young Shin’s Korean thriller, Manhole. ›› Showbox will premiere action thriller A Hard Day directed by Seong-hun Kim and Ha Yoo’s Gangnam Blues, while 9ers Entertainment have lined up a debut for Sung-kyu Cho’s Santa Barbara. ›› CJ Entertainment have Out of Competition title The Target premiering in Cannes this year. Directed by Chang, the crime feature stars Seung-ryong Ryu, Jun-sang Yu, Jin-wook Lee, Sung-ryung Kim, Yeo-jeong Jo, Eun-ji Cho and Goo Jin. The company will also offer a promo reel screening of market title Roaring Currents, currently in post-production. ›› Japan’s Shochiko will debut Cruel Story of Youth, writer/director Nagisa Oshima’s drama about youthful delinquency in post-Hiroshima Japan, while Tokyo’s Gaga Corporation will debut Tetsuya Nakashima’s new drama The World Of Kanako, starring Joe Odagiri, Koji Yakusho, Miki Nakatani, Nana Komatsu and Satoshi Tsumabuki.
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›› Nikkatsu Corporation bring My Pretend Girlfriend by Saiji Yakumo, and market debuts for Kazuhiro Yokoyama’s martial arts action High Kick Angels and Yoshitaka Yamaguchi’s samurai drama, Neko Samurai. ›› India’s Yash Raj Films bring light-hearted relief to Cannes with a string of comedies, including debuts for Sharat Katariya’s Hindi comedy The Perfect Mismatch, Nupur Asthana’s Bewakoofiyaan, and A. Gokul Krishna’s Tamil romcom Aaha Kalyanam. The company also has Hindi drama Titli screening in Un Certain Regard, directed by Kanu Behl and starring Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey and Amit Sial. ›› Sunstone Entertainment will debut two Hindi films at Cannes: romance Jazbaat and Kodi’s thriller, The Goddess.
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Meet the buyers Jakob Abrahamsson DISTRIBUTION & ACQUISITIONS DIRECTOR NonStop Entertainment (SE) All-rights distributor of between 35 to 40 features per year for the Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltic markets. Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD, Airline. Recent Acquisitions Tracks (Dir. John Curran / AUS / Drama / Hanway); Supermensch The Legend Of Shep Gordon (Dir. Mike Myers / USA / Doc / Dogwoof); 20,000 Days On Earth (Dir. Lain Forsynth, Jane Pollard / UK / Doc / Hanway Select)
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We’ve always had an all rights/all windows approach, but I believe this is becoming increasingly important with the decline of the DVD market. We need to look for product that will sell in as many windows as possible. We’ve also got to try out new ways to rollout films, and experiment with windows. When approaching a market like Cannes, you do need to prepare as there is so much information to process. To be successful, we need to secure the important titles before panterritorial players step in and chop out certain rights, like SVoD. This would suggest more pre-buys and co-productions on content where the end result is fairly tangible, and where the investment is reasonably controlled.
We still operate in a bit of a gambling business where careful expertise is combined with intuition and—hopefully—good luck. Mila Rozanova
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The great thing about our business, which also makes it complicated, is that there is no formula and no line of product. Each film is an experiment. Of course, we gauge certain factors, such as director and his track record, subject matter, audience and overall originality of the idea. But we still operate in a bit of a gambling business where careful expertise is combined with intuition and—hopefully—good luck. A recent example is the theatrical success in Russia of the Spanish film I Want You (Dir. Fernano Gonzalez Molina). Thanks to good timing and targeted marketing, it resonated with young Russian moviegoers, and it made over $4m on 400 prints.
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›› Mundial is selling international rights to Chavez, from director Diego Luna. Michael Peña, John Malkovich, America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson star in the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. The company is also offering invitationonly screenings of: crime-thriller Mexico’s Most Wanted by Jose Manuel Craviotto; Alberto Arvelo’s The Liberator starring Golden Globe nominee Édgar Ramirez as the 19th century revolutionary Simón Bolívar; and Güeros,Alonso Ruiz Palacios’ road movie starring Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastián Aguirre and Tenoch Huerta. ›› Fellow Mexican outfit In Films We Trust bring a number of market debuts, including Héctor Ferreiro Dávila’s drama Pacha, about a young Bolivian shoeshiner who escapes the embarrassment of his predicament by dreaming
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›› Filmsharks bring multi award winning Icelandic comedy Of Horses and Men by Benedikt Erlingsson, together with Daniel Burman’s much buzzed about Argentinian romcom, The Mystery of Happiness, about a man who falls for his business partner’s wife after her husband unexplainably goes missing.
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›› NDM, who last year brought Competition title Heli, arrive with Argentinian drama Jauja which will screen in the Un Certain Regard festival sidebar. Lisandro Alondo directs Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjork Malling and Ghita Nørby in this drama about a father’s search for his runaway daughter. The company will also premiere Bruno Dumont’s comedythriller Li’l Quinquin in the Directors’ Fortnight.
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PRESIDENT Film Movement (USA) Full-service North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films across a multitude of distribution channels, including theatrical, day and date with VOD via its own DVD subscription program. Acquiring Theatrical, TV, DVD-Video, VOD, Airline Recent Acquisitions The Dark Valley (Dir. Andreas Prochaska / AT / Western / Films Distribution); A Thousand Times Goodnight (Dir. Erik Poppe / NO / Drama / Norwegian Film Institute); To Kill A Man (Dir. Alejandro Fernandes / CL / Drama / Film Factory Entertainment) Notwithstanding their increased frequency and continued growth, we still consider film markets essential. Markets and their associated film festivals remain vital settings in which we can meet face-to-face with sales agents and distributors very efficiently. These meetings, despite their brevity, provide much more context about new and upcoming films than we can get as easily or quickly in other ways. In addition, the markets provide the opportunity to see films, gauge buzz, and meet with business partners. Despite the connected present and future, we are still firm believers in seeing the people with whom we do business.
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Hot Titles: Films From Argentina Argentinian films to watch out for at Cannes this year include three competition entries: a comedy-thriller about the human breaking point; an urban road movie about lost innocence; and a fantasy-drama about a father’s search for his runaway daughter.
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(Relatos salvajes) Dir. Damián Szifron
In Competition ›› Celebrated 38-year-old Argentinian writer/director Damián Szifron brings his latest film to Cannes after an eight-year absence from directing. Made up of six separate stories, Wild Tales follows the lives of seven characters as they struggle with the pressures of their ensuing lives. Themes surrounding the drive for success, vertigo, competition and the inequality of the world feature as the film builds to a climax. Co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo in Spain and Kramer & Sigman Films in Argentina, the comedythriller stars Ricardo Darin, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Erica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg and Darío Grandinetti. The film is set for domestic release in Argentina on 14 August. Wild Tales debuted at AFM in 2013 and is repped in Cannes by Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment.
Refugee (Refugiado) Dir. Diego Lerman
The Directors’ Fortnight ›› Refugee represents a return to the Directors’ Fortnight for Buenos Aires born director Diego Lerman, whose previous film The Invisible Eye premiered there in 2010. Co-written with María Meira, the story follows sevenyear-old Matias, who together with his expectant mother, played by Argentinian actress Julieta Díaz, is forced to leave their home and seek temporary shelter in a refuge for battered women. Desperate for a place in which they can feel safe and protected, they embark on a wandering journey in search of a new home. Refugee was produced in association with Staron Films (Poland), Burning
Blue (Colombia) and Acorn Films (France), and in partnership with Red River Film, Argentina. France’s Memento Films International will offer the film in Cannes.
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Jauja
Dir. Lisandro Alonso Un Certain Regard ›› Co-written with Fabián Casas, Jauja represents writer/ director Lisandro Alonso’s first feature at Cannes since his 2008 merchant-sailor drama, Liverpool. Selected for the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar, Jauja stars Viggo Mortensen as a father who embarks on a journey from Denmark to Patagonia with his daughter. After she runs off with one of their young travel companions, he begins a desperate search to find her. Mortensen co-produced Jauja through his Perceval Press shingle together with Alonso’s 4L, Mantarraya, Les Films Du Worso, Kamoli Films and The Match Factory. Mexico’s NDM, a branch of production outfit Mantarraya, will handle sales in Cannes.
Wild Tales
Ardor (El Ardor) Dir. Pablo Fendrik
Special Screening ›› Director Pablo Fendrik’s third feature Ardor, which was a late addition to the Cannes Film Festival’s official selection, has been awarded a Special Screening at the festival. The film, which Fendrik also wrote, stars Gael García Bernal as a mysterious man who emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer, after a band of intruders murder her father and take over his property. Alice Braga co-stars alongside Bernal in this modernday western thriller, which France’s Bac Films are presenting to buyers at the Marche.
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FEATURE: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE BOX OFFICE
The Economics of
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The stratospheric rise of social media has had an undeniable effect on film marketing, but it’s also proving to be an effective tool for predicting box office performance. Anton Bitel investigates how Facebook, Twitter and the like are becoming important financial indicators for the creators of filmed content. ›› Word-of-mouth has always been important to the promotion of any film, but wordof-keyboard spreads faster and wider, and is—when its mechanisms are properly understood— ripe for manipulation. And it’s an area that Dr Bernardo Huberman, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Social Computing Lab at HP Labs, has spent years researching. “For many years, what I would call the standard media—newspapers, television channels and so on—made us think about certain topics if only because they were the ones who chose what to talk about and how often to repeat it,” Huberman states. “The whole equation has turned itself upside down since Web 2.0 started. We have a phenomenon of crowd sourcing where hundreds of millions of people are expressing their opinions, creating, sharing and consuming content, and therefore [we have] the ability to tap into where the attention is going—not just what the conversation is, but who’s actually being influenced by it. Being able to tap into that [information] allows us uncover the emerging topics that eventually will dominate the discussion of a society, a group… or a bunch of movie goers.” Huberman’s analytical research into social media focuses on which information gets the most attention, what defines a user’s relative influence, and on understanding the processes whereby online novelty decays. This might all sound very rarefied and academic, but Huberman has also captured Hollywood’s
attention as he has discovered a critical methodology, based on the volume of mentions that a film gets on social media in any given week, for predicting with unprecedented accuracy that film’s weekend box office takings. Indeed, the predictions of his analytic model, which were further fine-tuned when the sentiments (positive, negative or neutral) of the tweets were taken into account, proved considerably more accurate than pre-existing predictive models, including the industry’s gold standard, the Hollywood Stock Exchange (www. hsx.com). And while the study has taken Twitter as its focus, Huberman points out that “this can be done in any social medium.” Huberman and his associates are no longer lone prophetic voices in the digital wilderness. Now companies and consultancies are emerging that specialise in online branding and harnessing the peculiar characteristics of the social media. One such company, Socialtyze—whose mission statement reads ‘by looking at the conversations, the fans that start them and the friends who follow them, we are evolving what it means for a brand to be social’—have recently conducting their own study of how to predict a film’s box office from the surrounding status updates and Twitter talk. After all, in an age where film promotion is shifting to the Internet, the studios, production companies and distributors cannot afford to ignore all this online chatter, and are quickly catching on to the best ways to lead it.
I always had this notion that where attention goes, you can predict the future in a sense, if only because so many people are focused on that. And the reason I chose movies is because you can predict something very concrete, which is box-office revenue.” Dr Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs
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FEATURE: THE GROWTH OF ANIMATION
Animated Enthusiasm Animation is once again making a strong impression at Cannes with Dreamworks Animation celebrating their 20th anniversary with an outof-competition screening of How to Train Your Dragon 2. We talked to three regular Marché exhibitors about their animation line-ups and the growing appeal of the medium. ›› Dreamworks, which to date has generated over $11bn at the box office thanks to films like Shrek, The Croods and Kung Fu Panda, offers a pretty good endorsement for a medium which has gone from being associated with children’s entertainment to increasingly becoming a part of the choice for more mainstream audiences. Fresh too in audiences’ minds, is Disney’s hugely successful fairy-tale adaptation, Frozen, which has tracked well over $1bn at the box office and counting. But it’s not all about the studio behemoths. Consider the performance of independent animation titles like Boonie Bears, To the
“Animation has now moved into adult acceptance rather than just being ‘for kids’ primarily because of the quality of the screenplays being developed and written.” Michael Cowan, Stealth Media Group
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Rescue! from Hong Kong’s All Rights Entertainment ($39m in China by week five) or Cinema Management Group’s 2012 South African animation Adventures in Zambezia ($29m+ at the foreign box office), and it would be hard to deny that animation currently constitutes a massively successful and profitable sector of the film industry. For Michael Cowan, CEO of the UK’s Stealth Media Group, who is in town to tempt buyers with their own 3D animation Gummy Bear voiced by Hollywood heavyweight John Travolta, the commercial opportunities are clear. “Animation appeals to the whole family,” he notes. “Ticket sales are no longer for one person, but for three or more. Plus animation has now moved into adult acceptance, primarily because of the quality of the scripts being written and developed.” London’s SC Films, led by sales veteran Simon Crowe, have added no fewer than eight animations to a line-up which currently includes 10 horror-thriller titles, amongst them Bullet starring Danny Trejo and Mathias Hoene’s Cockneys vs Zombies. Speaking of animation’s appeal, Crowe cites its strength as lying in the power of the visual image. “It can be all things to all people,” he states. “From childhood to old age, great animated stories have delivered great imagination.” For Cinema Management Group CEO Edward Noeltner, the appeal of animation lies in the medium’s proven ability to generate healthy box-office returns. “As far as I know, no other independently produced features can consistently produce the kind of family oriented box-office numbers that 3D animated features can produce,” he said. “These films are really popular among exhibitors who want families patronising their venues... Families usually consume more concessions and that’s a real plus for exhibitors.” Noeltner cites
another big reason for the growing popularity of independently produced animation, and the secret behind his company’s success in Berlin with their animations Ratchet and Clank and Sly Cooper: namely cost. “Independently produced 3D animated features made for a reasonable price have also been a real bonus for independent distributors, who can acquire a great, 3D animated feature that costs $20m, as opposed to the average studio animation whose production costs are $60m or more, taking those films out of the reach of most independent distributors.” And the future? Can technology keep up with an ever more demanding audience eager for ultra-realistic rendering of their on-screen entertainment? “In my opinion,” notes Noetner, “it’s not so much the technology but the screenplays which have made independently produced animated features favourites among adults as well as kids. Smart, funny, and engaging scripts have been a boon for the medium.”
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TERRITORY IN FOCUS: PANAMA
Is Panama the New Regional Hub of Latin American Cinema? Production incentives, along with a strong commitment to expanding the country’s film industry and culture, put this Central American country on the global stage. By Daniel Loría, Overseas Editor at BoxOffice Media. ›› The glitz and glamour of the red carpet captured headlines across Latin America and the Iberian peninsula as Panama hosted the inaugural edition of the Premios Platino, an awards ceremony meant to promote the Ibero-American film industry in the same way the Academy Awards have raised Hollywood’s profile worldwide. The event was further indication of what has been a meteoric rise for Panama’s film industry over the last three years. The Central American country has made big strides in creating an industry from scratch, both in attracting foreign productions and founding a sustainable domestic industry. “We had spent a lot of time trying to pass a law that would establish a proper film industry in Panama, one that would support domestic films and incentivise foreign productions to come and shoot here,” explains
“We had spent a lot of time trying to pass a law that would establish a proper film industry in Panama, one that would support domestic films and incentivise foreign productions to come and shoot here.” Arianne Benedetti, head of the Panama Film Commission.
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Arianne Benedetti, head of the Panama Film Commission. The fiscal approach to their challenge brought in the desired results. The government passed a law in 2012 that offers incentives for foreign productions, such as a 15 per cent cash rebate to projects that spend over $3m, as well as expediting customs issues and offering tax credits on production materials. “Although 15 per cent might seem like a low number compared to what other countries offer, it’s important to note that in Panama the cost of a production is relatively lower than in other countries,” stresses Gabriel Padilla, projects relation manager of the Panama Film Commission. The lowered production costs in Panama are aided by the country’s use of US currency, protecting producers and investors from inflation and currency devaluation. “Many of the local currencies in our region suffer from devaluation, and it’s difficult for a producer in another country to hear that their $3m is now $2.5m. It’s a big risk that many producers aren’t willing to take,” adds Benedetti. The diversity of shooting locations in Southern California was a vital factor during the infancy of the US film industry, forever changing the landscape of studio filmmaking as soon as productions relocated from New
Jersey to head out west. Panama offers a similar allure for foreign productions looking to shoot in a range of different locations for a fraction of the associated cost. “We are a small country that is very diverse in terms of locations. That makes it easier to figure out the logistics of mobilising production from one place to another,” says Benedetti. “Say you’re shooting a film in a big country that involves filming in the jungle and in the city—that could take hours at best, and become very costly. In Panama you can shoot in the city and move your crew to a jungle within the hour. You can stay in the city and reach beaches and islands within the hour. Panama offers an ease of mobility across a diversity of locations for less cost.” The Panama Media Centre, a state-of-theart sound stage and digital arts complex, is currently being developed to offer additional resources for productions that choose to shoot in the country. “Foreign producers won’t have to travel far to have access to a production facility. They will be able to do it all right here in Panama,” comments Padilla. The incentives have begun to deliver results for the Panama Film Commission. The country received anywhere around $2–3m in foreign production investment before the law was passed, excluding Quantum of Solace,
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FILMS TO WATCH Historias del Canal
(Dir. Abner Benaim, Pinky Mon, Pituka OrtegaHeilbron, Carolina Borrero, Luis Franco Brantley Currently in post-production, the film centres around five key moments in the history of the Panama Canal with each of the five segments being directed by leading Panamanian directors.
Where Were You?
(During the US Invasion of Panama) (Wri/Dir. Abner Benaim) Making its debut at Cannes as part of Apertura Films’ Marche line-up, Where Were You? is a documentary about the collective memory of Panamanians and their recollection of the invasion of their country by the US in 1989. The film has received support from both the Fondo Cine Cinema Fund and the Doha Film Institute.
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(Dir. Ana Endara Mislov) A critical exploration of a singularly Panamanian phenomenon: the spectacular, strange and stressful world of ‘queen ceremonies’. Winner of the Grolsch Discovery Award at Festival Internacional de Cine de Panamá (IFF Panamá) and the Mención Especial del Jurado at Ícaro Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica, Guatemala, in 2013.
according to Benedetti. “Last year we finished with $23m,” she claims. The 2012 law also helped establish an economic base to develop domestic films. “The law introduced a $3m annual fund that supports domestic film production, with prizes awarded to 12 productions every year. Up until that point, Panama had only managed to sustain a single production per year. This year we have eight films in production,” says Benedetti. That’s not a bad figure for a country with an estimated population of 3.6m people. Film culture is also on the rise in the country after the third edition of the IFF Panama, which has quickly begun to distinguish itself as an important event in the region. This year’s festival saw the inaugural edition of MEETS, a Latin American film market designed to bridge the global film community with a select group of Latin American productions. The event presented a dozen films, five from Panama and seven from the rest of the region, to a group of industry professionals from around the world. The winning title of this year’s MEETS was the Mexican film The Darkness, which took home the event’s $25,000 cash prize. What makes the MEETS market different from similar events at other festivals is the award’s no-strings-attached cash prize, granting funds that don’t tie filmmakers into collaborations
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with any associated sponsors, thus allowing producers to spend the cash prize at their discretion. Even the fanfare surrounding the Premios Platino serves a strategic function in the growth of Panama’s film culture. The idea to host the award in Panama came after Panama agreed to contribute $1.5m and offer logistical help in hosting the event alongside the Spanish producers’ rights collection society (EGEDA) and the Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA). Like the Academy Awards, the Premios Platino is a vehicle to promote filmmaking and help build a star system across these regional industries, acting as a bridge between IberoAmerican films and fans, with Panama situated as the focus point of the activity. For Benedetti, hosting the awards in Panama is a big priority for the future of the local film industry. “The most important factor for us to grow as an industry is to receive foreign distribution. Panama is too small a country to recoup its costs through a domestic release. We need to distribute our films in other countries in order to become a self-sustaining industry.” “We want the world to begin recognising the actors, producers, and directors of our industry. We need to establish a culture where our films begin to be sought out by a global public.”
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SHOOTING IN PANAMA, AT A GLANCE ›› 15% cashback for foreign film and television projects when spending over $3m ›› Dollarized economy ›› Policy of tax-free temporary importation of all film equipment with no deposit required ›› Overall cost of filming in Panama is around 30% cheaper than in other South American countries. ›› Labour costs are low, location permits are cheap.
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FEATURE: BRANDED CONTENT
BRANDED CONTENT: WHEN CORPORATIONS BECOME CREATORS The ongoing convergence of the film and TV industries was a hot topic at April’s MipTV, particularly following Miramax’s announcement that they are to offer their theatrical back catalogue for TV adaptations. Yet the bigger blurring of boundaries surely comes in the advertising sector, as so-called ‘branded content’ begins to make its mark. Netribution’s Nic Wistreich takes a closer look.
›› The relationship between film, television and advertising is nothing new; indeed, the term soap opera originally referred to the radio dramas that were sponsored by soap manufacturers. And faced with a web generation who are reluctant to pay for their entertainment, branded content is one way of funding stories; the backer simply wants the content to reach as wide an audience as possible. It’s certainly easy to see why it’s an attractive space for advertisers; Jean Claude van Damme’s ‘Enya Splits’ commercial, for example, made an estimated $170m for Volvo, achieving over 70 million views on YouTube without anyone paying a cent for airtime. The nature of the engagement between brands and content varies considerably. At one end of the spectrum is traditional sponsorship, such as Stella Artois and Orange’s involvement with theatrical releases and Skoda’s purchase of
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VOD streams for a number of independent documentaries. At the other end is in-house branded production, such as Red Bull Media House; a fully owned subsidiary of Red Bull, it finances, produces and sells content which mainly revolves around the adrenaline sports theme with which the drink is closely associated. Recouping their costs through sales and commissions, they now have subsidiary producers that have no Red Bull branding at all; Terra Mater Factual and Servus TV. Red Bull are not the only brand
to produce and sell filmed content without overtly stating their involvement. Shell Creative Visual—the internal production arm of Shell Oil—distributes its rumoured £60m production budget through a network of producers, including BAFTA-winning Endemol subsidiary Darlow Smithson Productions. While most of their productions are corporate video, Shell Creative Visual also sells creative content to international broadcasters; most recently, a series to Fox USA. And the only indication to viewers that the oil company is behind the programme is a copyright name including ‘Shell’ in the credits. And this would seem to be the space where regulation has yet to catch up. For most TV content, brand involvement—from product placement to the content of adverts—is strictly regulated, yet the web is monitored far less. If Shell can quietly sell its productions to mainstream TV, then who knows how much is being released online silently by brands. But, as a YouTube executive told me at the festival, one key lesson with online video is to be honest. Backlashes against big companies pretending to be something they are not are often fierce, and damaging. There’s an important difference between corporate advertorial masquerading as art and a hands-off sponsorship that allows good stories to get told. For instance, Nokia Music recently commissioned six documentaries on the birth of modern music in six US cities, which also drew attention to emerging artists in those cities. Nokia stayed hands-off in the creative and post-production process, and simply branded the website that the films eventually appeared on. “You don’t need to wedge in logos or present a fake scenario to your consumers” explains Alana Hutton-Shaw of Hare Meets Tortoise, who worked on the project. “Be honest. Find a relevant story and people will love your work and respect the brand.” So what’s the future of branded content? Speaking at MipTV Asta Wellejus, of Die Asta Experience, suggested that the relationship between art and brands could be closer to the centuries-old patronage model; in other words, hands -off and transparent. And Jason DaPonte of The Swarm, asked panellists if there should be a kite mark for work that has been funded through a brand—equivalent to a newspaper’s ‘advertisement feature’—coupled with an industry-agreed set of best practices. For this lucrative space to develop, great care should be taken to avoid a situation in which big companies can buy themselves a cheap broadcast of commercially helpful misinformation; be that through regulation or the burgeoning industry being pro-active.
“You don’t need to wedge in logos or present a fake scenario to your consumers. Be honest. Find a relevant story and people will love your work & respect the brand.” Alana Hutton Shaw, Hare Meets Tortoise
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MARKET SCREENINGS
Screening Schedule: Market Premieres Selected Market Premieres as listed on Cinando.com at time of going to press. For updates, additions and amendments, visit Cinando.com MAY 14
Sales: We Distribution PALAIS H
11:30 GOODBYE WORLD USA, Thriller, 101’ Dir: Denis Hennelly Sales: Lightning Entertainment LERINS 1
14:00 A PATRIOTIC MAN Finland, Drama, 97’ Dir: Arto Halonen Sales: Art Films Production Afp Oy LERINS 2
KELLY & CAL USA, Comedy, Drama Dir: Jen Mcgowan Sales: Electric Entertainment RIVIERA 4
HILDA Mexico, First film, 88’ Dir: Rangel Andrés Clariond Sales: M-Appeal World Sales Ug PALAIS E
12:00 24 DAYS France, Drama, 110’ Dir: Alexandre Arcady Sales: Kinology ARCADES 2
HONEYMOON USA, Horror, 87’ Dir: Leigh Janiak Sales: Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing PALAIS I
ALMOST HEROES 3D Korea (South), Animation, 90’ Dir: Kyungho Lee, Wonjae Lee Sales: Inception Film Partners OLYMPIA 5
KAMASUTRA 3D India, Epic, 100’ Dir: Rupesh Paul Sales: Gj Entertainments Mfze PALAIS G
FORT MCCOY USA, Thriller, 101’ Dir: Kate Connor, Michael Worth Sales: Spotlight Pictures PALAIS G HOME USA, Horror, 93’ Dir: Nicholas Mccarthy Sales: Xyz Films PALAIS C
LEGEND OF A RABBIT: THE MARTIAL OF FIRE China, Animation, 90’ Dir: Da Ke Dong Sales: Tianjin North Film Group PALAIS K TAKEAWAY ROMANCE France, Comedy, 87’ Dir: Amelle Chahbi Sales: Gaumont STAR 2
13:15 GOOD LUCK！BOY Taiwan, First film, 120’ Dir: Shou-Ho Sales: Kbro Media PALAIS J
THE KIDNAPPING OF FREDDY HEINEKEN Netherlands, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Daniel Alfredson Sales: Embankment Films Ltd STAR 1
13:30 3D LOST IN WRESTLING Hong Kong (China), 3D, 98’ Dir: Casey Chan Sales: Gold Harbour International Films RIVIERA 4
THE LEGEND OF QIN China, Animation, 90’ Dir: Robin Shen Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd RIVIERA 1
DARK HOUSE USA, Horror, 102’ Dir: Victor Salva Sales: Lightning Entertainment LERINS 1 THE TRUTH ABOUT BEAUTY China, Romance, 84’ Dir: Aubrey Lam
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15:30 DEBUG Canada, Science-fiction, 89’ Sales: Wtfilms STAR 4 INDIGENOUS USA, Horror, 86’ Dir: Alastair Orr Sales: Lightning Entertainment LERINS 1
LONDON PAYBACK United Kingdom, Crime, 94’ Dir: Ben Pickering Sales: Eastwest Filmdistribution Gmbh PALAIS H OLIVER’S DEAL Spain, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Barney Elliott Sales: Dreamcatchers PALAIS D PRESERVATION USA, Thriller, 90’ Dir: Christopher Denham Sales: Xyz Films ARCADES 3 16:00 ASMODEXIA Spain, Horror, 85’ Dir: Marc Carrete Sales: Raven Banner Entertainment PALAIS E L’ECHANGE France, Action/Adventure, 78’ Dir: Jérome Léonard, Mickael Mongin Sales: Lbyl Films & Distribution Inc PALAIS C MIDNIGHT SUN Canada, Action/Adventure, 97’ Dir: Roger Spottiswoode Sales: Hyde Park International PALAIS K ONCE IN A LIFETIME (WORKING TITLE) France, Drama, 100’ Dir: Schaar Marie-Castille Mention Sales: Tf1 International OLYMPIA 5
Honeymoon, 14:00, May 14 Palais I ABERDEEN Hong Kong (China), Drama, 96’ Dir: Ho-Cheung Pang Sales: Bravos Pictures Ltd. ARCADES 3 ASK ME ANYTHING USA, Drama, 100’ Dir: Allison Burnett Sales: Lightning Entertainment LERINS 1 KEEP ROLLIN’ Switzerland, Drama, 95’ Dir: Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand Sales: Eastwest Filmdistribution Gmbh RIVIERA 2 MANOS SUCIAS USA, Drama, 82’ Dir: Josef Wladyka Sales: 6 Sales PALAIS B
SPANISH AFFAIR Spain, Comedy, 97’ Dir: Emilio Martínez-Lázaro Sales: Film Factory Entertainment RIVIERA 3
SISTER USA, Drama, 113’ Dir: David Lascher Sales: Film Sales Company PALAIS F
16:00 UNDER THE ELECTRIC SKY 89’ Sales: The Exchange OLYMPIA 6
STANDBY Ireland, Romance, 83’ Dir: Rob Burke, Ronan Burke Sales: Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing PALAIS H
17:30 4 MINUTE MILE USA, Drama, 96’ Dir: Charles Michaud Sales: Double Dutch International PALAIS D
THE BETTER ANGELS USA, Drama, 95’ Dir: A.J. Edwards Sales: Electric Entertainment RIVIERA 4
THE NEXT GENERATIONPATLABORJapan, Drama, 96’ Dir: Mamoru Oshii Sales: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation GRAY 2
20:30 JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD USA, Drama, 100’ Dir: Carter Smith Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares OLYMPIA 5
18:00 FROG KINGDOM China, Animation, 86’ Dir: Nelson Shin Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd RIVIERA 1
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KIKAIDER -THE ULTIMATE HUMAN ROBOTJapan, Action/Adventure, 110’ Dir: Ten Shimoyama Sales: Kadokawa Corporation PALAIS C
08:30 FAIRE:L’AMOUR France, Drama, 165’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Djinn Carrénard Sales: Elle Driver MIRAMAR 09:00 GIRLHOOD France, Drama, 112’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Céline Sciamma Sales: Films Distribution THEATRE CROISETTE
PETTSON AND FINDUS - A LITTLE NUISANCE, A GREAT FRIENDSHIP Germany, Family, 86’ Dir: Ahadi Ali Samadi Sales: Arri Worldsales OLYMPIA 6
09:15 MERCY RULE USA, Family, 107’ Dir: Doane Darren Sales: California Pictures, Inc. PALAIS B
THE JOURNEY Malaysia, Family, 103’ Dir: Keng Guan Chiu Sales: Astro Shaw Sdn. Bhd. LERINS 2
09:30 DARK HOUSE USA, Horror, 102’ Dir: Victor Salva Sales: Lightning Entertainment LERINS 1
18:45 PSEUDONYM France, Thriller, 75’ Dir: Thierry Sebban Sales: Talantis Productions STAR 1
DEBUG Canada, Science-fiction, 89’ Sales: Wtfilms STAR 3
GET WELL SOON France, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Jean Becker Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 PALAIS H HOUSEBOUND New Zealand, Comedy, 109’ Dir: Gerard Johnstone Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2 MERRY-GO-ROUND Poland, Drama, 92’ Dir: Robert Wichrowski Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 4 MORROCAN GIGOLOS Belgium, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Ismaël Saidi Sales: Filmoption International PALAIS F THE DROWNSMAN Canada, Horror, 87’ Dir: Chad Archibald Sales: Breakthrough Entertainment Inc. PALAIS D 09:45 FRENCH WOMEN France, Comedy, 118’ Dir: Audrey Dana Sales: Elle Driver ARCADES 2 10:00 BOONIE BEARS, TO THE RESCUE! (ENGLISH VERSION) China, 3D, 94’ Dir: Ding Liang Sales: All Rights Entertainment Limited OLYMPIA 6
GUARDIAN Indonesia, Action/ Adventure, 90’ Dir: Helfi Kardit Sales: Birch Tree Entertainment PALAIS E HONEYMOON USA, Horror, 87’ Dir: Leigh Janiak Sales: Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing PALAIS C LIFE PARTNERS USA, Comedy, 93’ Dir: Susanna Fogel Sales: Myriad Pictures GRAY 1 PLEASE BE NORMAL USA, Drama, 91’ Dir: Haik Kocharian Sales: Princ Films GRAY 5 THE ADVENTURES OF BEATLE USA, Comedy, 90’ Sales: Tricoast Worldwide RIVIERA 1 11:30 ELLE L’ADORE France, Drama, 109’ Dir: Jeanne Herry Sales: Studiocanal ARCADES 1 JUST BEFORE I GO USA, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Courteney Cox Sales: Hyde Park International GRAY 2
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NICHOLAS ON HOLIDAY France, Children’s, 102’ Dir: Laurent Tirard Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1 RUSHLIGHTS USA, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Antoni Stutz Sales: Moonstone Entertainment / Prestige Films PALAIS F SISTER USA, Drama, 113’ Dir: David Lascher Sales: Film Sales Company PALAIS J WOLFCOP Canada, Horror, 86’ Dir: Lowell Dean Sales: Raven Banner Entertainment PALAIS D 11:45 DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT Italy, Drama, 94’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Sebastiano Riso Sales: Rai Trade MIRAMAR 12:00 I AM FEMEN Switzerland, Documentary, 95’ Dir: Alain Margot Sales: Be For Films PALAIS K MILLIONAIRE DOG Spain, Family, 90’ Dir: Tom Fernández Sales: Deaplaneta OLYMPIA 6 PUDSEY: THE MOVIE United Kingdom, Action/ Adventure, 100’ Dir: Nick Moore Sales: Content Media Corporation ARCADES 2 RUFUS Canada, Thriller, 109’ Dir: Dave Schultz Sales: Breakthrough Entertainment Inc. PALAIS C SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS France, Comedy, 98’ Dir: Chauveron Philippe De Sales: Tf1 International OLYMPIA 5 THE BETTER ANGELS USA, Drama, 95’ Dir: A.J. Edwards Sales: Electric Entertainment LERINS 2 THE CURSE OF DOWNERS GROVE USA, Horror, 90’ Dir: Derick Martini Sales: Myriad Pictures OLYMPIA 7
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THE HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME Venezuela, Horror, 100’ Dir: Alejandro Hidalgo Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS E THE KIDNAPPING OF FREDDY HEINEKEN Netherlands, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Daniel Alfredson Sales: Embankment Films Ltd OLYMPIA 8 UNDERDOG Sweden, Drama, 100’ Dir: Ronnie Sandahl Sales: Yellow Affair Oy GRAY 3 13:00 NORDIC FACTORY 60’ Section: Directors Fortnight Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE 13:15 LIFE ITSELF USA, Documentary, 116’ Dir: Steve James Sales: Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing GRAY 2 13:30 AMONG THE LIVING France, Horror, 87’ Dir: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 ARCADES 3 ATTENTION A LIFE IN EXTREMES Austria, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Sascha Köllnreitner Sales: Adrialpe Media PALAIS F CLOSER TO THE MOON Romania, Drama, 110’ Dir: Nae Caranfil Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares ARCADES 1 DEAD OF WINTER Canada, Thriller, 90’ Dir: Robert Rice Sales: Park Entertainment PALAIS H DIVORCE A LA FRANCAISE France, Comedy, 105’ Dir: Dorothée Sebbagh Sales: Tf1 International STAR 4 FEED THE GODS Canada, Horror, 85’ Dir: Braden Croft Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment Llc PALAIS D I WON’T COME BACK Russia, Drama, 109’ Dir: Ilmar Raag Sales: Visit Films RIVIERA 4
POCKET LISTING USA, Action/Adventure, 93’ Dir: Conor Allyn Sales: Highland Film Group PALAIS J THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin Sales: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution Ltd LERINS 1 THE SOLDIER Russia, Action/Adventure, 89’ Dir: Alexandr Chernyaev Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 4 14:00 A GOLDEN BOY Italy, Drama, 102’ Dir: Pupi Avati Sales: Rai Trade OLYMPIA 6 ABOUT ALEX 100’ Sales: Red Sea Media Inc. PALAIS C MONSTERZ Japan, Action/Adventure, 111’ Dir: Hideo Nakata Sales: Nippon Television Network Corp. ( Ntv) PALAIS E
15:30 10.000 KM Spain, Drama, 99’ Dir: Carlos Marques-Marcet Sales: Visit Films PALAIS J ALBERI 27’ Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) RIVIERA 4 DELICIOUS United Kingdom, Romance, 83’ Dir: Tammy Riley-Smith Sales: 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service Ltd. PALAIS D LET US PREY United Kingdom, Horror, 90’ Dir: Brian O’Malley Sales: Metrodome International STAR 3 LIVE TV Korea (South), Thriller, 100’ Dir: Sun-Ung Kim, Kwang-Soo Son Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd GRAY 2 MAN EATER France, Erotic, 88’ Dir: Natalie Saracco Sales: Wide PALAIS H
MR. KAPLAN Uruguay, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Alvaro Brechner Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) ARCADES 2
NIGHTLIGHT USA, Horror, 85’ Dir: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck Sales: Synchronicity Entertainment ARCADES 3
MY SUMMER IN PROVENCE France, Comedy, 105’ Dir: Rose Bosch Sales: Gaumont STAR 2
PERNICIOUS Thailand, Horror, 93’ Dir: James Cullen Bressack Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 4
ON ANY SUNDAY USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Bruce Brown, Dana Brown Sales: Red Bull Media House PALAIS I PULP United Kingdom, Documentary, 93’ Dir: Florian Habicht Sales: Altitude Film Sales OLYMPIA 4 SPANISH AFFAIR Spain, Comedy, 97’ Dir: Emilio Martínez-Lázaro Sales: Film Factory Entertainment OLYMPIA 3 TOKAREV USA, Action/Adventure, 98’ Dir: Paco Cabezas Sales: Hannibal Pictures RIVIERA 3
PROVIDENCE 110’ Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE SON OF A GUN Australia, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Julius Avery Sales: Altitude Film Sales ARCADES 1 16:00 DANGER DOLLS Japan, Action/Adventure, 97’ Dir: Shusuke Kaneko Sales: Birch Tree Entertainment GRAY 3
Dir: Christian Bach Sales: Global Screen Gmbh GRAY 1 I-LIVED USA, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Franck Khalfoun Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment Llc OLYMPIA 6 NEXT IS NOW! France, 120’ Section: (NEXT) Round-Table Sales: Marche Du Film PALAIS I
Dir: Nelson Shin Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd RIVIERA 2 GO GO BOYS Israel, Biography, 88’ Dir: Hilla Medalia Sales: Other Angle Pictures PALAIS H HATCHED USA, 3D, 73’ Dir: Kerr Xu Sales: Gorilla Pictures PALAIS J
PSEUDONYM France, Thriller, 75’ Dir: Thierry Sebban Sales: Talantis Productions ARCADES 2
MARACANAZO: THE FOOTBALL LEGEND Uruguay, Documentary, 75’ Dir: Sebastián Bednarik, Andrés Varela Sales: Latido PALAIS F
REDIRECTED United Kingdom, Action/ Adventure, 97’ Dir: Emilis Velyvis Sales: Content Media Corporation OLYMPIA 4
THE KITCHEN IN PARIS Russia, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Dmitry Dyachenko Sales: All Media Company GRAY 2
THE DEAD 2 United Kingdom, Horror, 94’ Dir: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS E THE LOVERS Belgium, Action/Adventure, 110’ Dir: Roland Joffe Sales: Corsan OLYMPIA 1 17:00 DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT Italy, Drama, 94’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Sebastiano Riso Sales: Rai Trade MIRAMAR 17:30 3 NIGHTS IN THE DESERT USA, Drama, 90’ Dir: Gabriel Cowan Sales: Tricoast Worldwide LERINS 1 A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT USA, Thriller, 100’ Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour Sales: Kinology ARCADES 1 BABY BALLOON Belgium, Drama, 84’ Dir: Stefan Liberski Sales: Pyramide Distribution STAR 4
GOODBYE WORLD USA, Thriller, 101’ Dir: Denis Hennelly Sales: Lightning Entertainment PALAIS G
COUNTING DREAMS India, Children’s, 118’ Dir: Amole Gupte Sales: Fox Star Studios India Pvt Ltd. GRAY 4
HIRNGESPINSTER Germany, Drama, 100’
FROG KINGDOM China, Animation, 86’
TRACES OF SANDALWOOD Spain, Drama, 95’ Dir: Maria Ripoll Sales: Imagina International Sales PALAIS D 18:00 AGNES LETESTU - A SHINING STAR France, Documentary, 93’ Dir: Marlène Ionesco Sales: Wide House PALAIS G ALL-ROUND APPRAISER Q - THE EYES OF MONA LISAJapan, Drama, 120’ Dir: Shinsuke Sato Sales: Tbs (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.) RIVIERA 1 CATSKILL PARK USA, Thriller, 93’ Dir: Vlad Yudin Sales: The Vladar Company GRAY 5 HELLION USA, Drama, 94’ Dir: Kat Candler Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 3 JACK STRONG Poland, Thriller, 120’ Dir: Wladyslaw Pasikowski Sales: 6 Sales LERINS 2 MURDER OF A CAT USA, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Greene Gillian Sales: Exclusive Media ARCADES 2 STONES FOR THE RAMPART Poland, Drama, 112’ Dir: Robert Glínski
Sales: Picture Tree International Gmbh RIVIERA 3 THE GRAD JOB France, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Antoine Blossier Sales: Gaumont STAR 2 THE NECKLACE USA, Thriller, 85’ Dir: Gabriel Schmidt Sales: Swimming Wings Productions Inc PALAIS E URBAN GAMES China, Action/Adventure, 87’ Dir: Robert Brown, Peng Zhang Sales: Media Asia Film OLYMPIA 3 WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY United Kingdom, Comedy, 96’ Dir: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin Sales: Independent STAR 1 ZHENG HE 1405 VOYAGE EXTRAORDINAIRE China, 3D, 100’ Dir: Yi Gao, Yichang Zhu Sales: Zhuque Annimation Movie PALAIS I 19:30 GIRLHOOD France, Drama, 112’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Céline Sciamma Sales: Films Distribution THEATRE CROISETTE 20:00 FAIRE:L’AMOUR France, Drama, 165’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Djinn Carrénard Sales: Elle Driver MIRAMAR JULIA USA, Horror, 95’ Dir: Matthew Brown Sales: Archstone Distribution PALAIS F MAKE ME SHUDDER 2: MAE NAK HORROR Thailand, Horror, 120’ Sales: Phranakorn Film Co., Ltd. RIVIERA 4 TAKE ME TO DINNER Malaysia, Black comedy, 83’ Dir: Gavin Yap Sales: Striped Entertainment PALAIS H 20:30 A DARK REFLECTION United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Sales: Fact Not Fiction Films RIVIERA 1
IN THE DARK Malaysia, Thriller, 99’ Dir: Joon Han Yeo Sales: Media Asia Film PALAIS I ONCE UPON A TIME IN VIETNAM (LUA PHAT) Vietnam, Fantasy, 105’ Dir: Dustin Nguyen Sales: Vietnam Media Corp. / Bhd Co, Ltd PALAIS G SAY “I LOVE YOU” Japan, Romance, 103’ Dir: Asako Hyuga Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd PALAIS C 22:30 DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT Italy, Drama, 94’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Sebastiano Riso Sales: Rai Trade MIRAMAR
MAY 16 08:30 DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT Italy, Drama, 94’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Sebastiano Riso Sales: Rai Trade MIRAMAR 09:00 CATCH ME DADDY United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Daniel Wolfe Sales: Altitude Film Sales THEATRE CROISETTE 09:30 1987 Canada, Comedy, 105’ Dir: Ricardo Trogi Sales: Attraction Distribution ARCADES 3 ASK ME ANYTHING USA, Drama, 100’ Dir: Allison Burnett Sales: Lightning Entertainment LERINS 1 ETERNAL ASH Venezuela, Drama, 110’ Dir: Margarita Cadenas Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 4 FEED THE GODS Canada, Horror, 85’ Dir: Braden Croft Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment Llc PALAIS F FIDDLESTICKS Germany, Children’s, 82’ Dir: Veit Helmer Sales: Veit Helmer Filmproduktion RIVIERA 4
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I WON’T COME BACK Russia, Drama, 109’ Dir: Ilmar Raag Sales: Visit Films RIVIERA 2
THE JUDGMENT Bulgaria, Drama, 115’ Dir: Stephan Komandarev Sales: Premium Films PALAIS D
LIFE PARTNERS USA, Comedy, 93’ Dir: Susanna Fogel Sales: Myriad Pictures GRAY 2
THE TRIBE Ukraine, Drama, 130’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Sales: Alpha Violet PALAIS G
LITTLE ACCIDENTS USA, Thriller, 104’ Dir: Sara Colangelo Sales: Premiere Entertainment Group PALAIS J MONSTERS : DARK CONTINENT United Kingdom, Science-fiction, 135’ Dir: Tom Green Sales: Protagonist Pictures OLYMPIA 5 THE 7TH DWARF Germany, Animation, 80’ Dir: Harald Siepermann, Boris Aljinovic Sales: Global Screen Gmbh PALAIS H
09:45 KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS 120’ Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1 10:00 ANGEL United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Ray Burdis Sales: Arclight Films LERINS 2 BIBI & TINA Germany, Family, 101’ Dir: Detlev Buck Sales: Beta Cinema GRAY 1
DORAEMON NEW NOBITA’S: GREAT DEMON - PEKO AND THE EXPLORATION PARTY OF FIVE. Japan, Animation, 90’ Sales: Viz Media Europe GRAY 5 OUTPOST 37 South Africa, Sciencefiction, 110’ Dir: Jabbar Raisani Sales: Altitude Film Sales OLYMPIA 1 TEA & SANGRIA United Kingdom,Comedy,110’ Dir: Peter Domankiewicz Sales: 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service Ltd. PALAIS E THE DARK VALLEY Austria, Western, 105’ Dir: Andreas Prochaska Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 1 THE LOVERS Belgium, Action/Adventure, 110’ Dir: Roland Joffe Sales: Corsan OLYMPIA 2
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TOP DOG United Kingdom, Crime, 102’ Dir: Kemp Martin Sales: Manifest Film Sales OLYMPIA 3 11:30 AS WORLDS COLLIDE USA, Thriller, 92’ Dir: Andrew Mackenzie Sales: 1066 Pictures PALAIS D FAUST 2 Sweden, Horror, 80’ Dir: Johannes Pinter, Micke Von Engstrom, Nicolas Debot, Allan Gustafsson Sales: Jinga Films ARCADES 1 GOD LOVES CAVIAR 101’ Sales: Vision Films PALAIS F GOLDEN KINGDOM USA, Drama, 101’ Dir: Brian Perkins Sales: Wide PALAIS H JOY OF FATHERHOOD Germany, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Matthias Schweighöfer
Sales: Global Screen Gmbh STAR 4 KILL GAME USA, Horror, 102’ Dir: Robert Mearns Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 4 MARSEILLE Spain, Drama, 95’ Dir: Belén Macías Sales: Latido RIVIERA 2 NEXT TO HER Israel, First film, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Asaf Korman Sales: Films Boutique PALAIS J RIGHT TO SILENCE Iran, Drama, 72’ Dir: Hadi Naeiji Sales: Soureh Cinema Organization PALAIS B SELF MADE Israel, Drama, 105’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Shira Geffen Sales: Westend Films MIRAMAR
WHITE SETTLERS United Kingdom, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Simeon Halligan Sales: Metrodome International GRAY 2 11:45 THE NIGHT 95’ Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) RIVIERA 3 12:00 5 TO 7 USA, Romance, 96’ Dir: Victor Levin Sales: The Solution Entertainment Group OLYMPIA 5 A WOMAN AS A FRIEND Italy, Romance, 90’ Dir: Giovanni Veronesi Sales: Fandango PALAIS G BODYBUILDER France, Drama, 100’ Dir: Roschdy Zem Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1
FAULTS USA, First film, 99’ Dir: Riley Stearns Sales: Hanway Films OLYMPIA 9 GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALLEM France, Drama, 115’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Sales: Films Distribution THEATRE CROISETTE MY MISTRESS Australia, Romance, 104’ Dir: Stephen Lance Sales: Levelk OLYMPIA 3 MY SUMMER IN PROVENCE France, Comedy, 105’ Dir: Rose Bosch Sales: Gaumont STAR 2 PARTY GIRL France, Drama, 95’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis Sales: Pyramide International PALAIS I
SAKURASAKU ‘BLOSSOMS BLOOM’ Japan, Drama, 107’ Dir: Mitsutoshi Tanaka Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C YOU’RE NOT YOU USA, Drama, 103’ Dir: George C. Wolfe Sales: Myriad Pictures OLYMPIA 1 13:00 CHE Iran, Action/Adventure, 125’ Dir: Ebrahim Hatamikia Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS B 13:30 10.000 KM Spain, Drama, 99’ Dir: Carlos Marques-Marcet Sales: Visit Films PALAIS J ENTER THE JUNGLE USA, Martial arts, 90’ Dir: Alex Harvey, Tommy Sowards Sales: Park Entertainment PALAIS H
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LEÓN’S HEART Argentina, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Marcos Carnevale Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 4 ONCE IN A LIFETIME (WORKING TITLE) France, Drama, 100’ Dir: Schaar Marie-Castille Mention Sales: Tf1 International ARCADES 1 THE HOUSE WITH 100 EYES USA, Horror, 80’ Dir: Jay Lee, Jim Roof Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS D 13:45 CAMP X-RAY USA, Drama, 117’ Dir: Peter Sattler Sales: Rezo ARCADES 2 14:00 ARIANE’S THREAD France, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Robert Guédiguian Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 1 DARK SUMMER USA, Horror, 90’ Dir: Paul Solet Sales: Content Media Corporation OLYMPIA 3 FEVER France, Drama, 90’ Dir: Raphaël Neal Sales: Jour2Fete GRAY 1 FRENCH DOLLS France, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Katia Lewkowicz Sales: Wild Bunch OLYMPIA 5 GLASS DOLLS Norway, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Nils Gaup Sales: Svensk Filmindustri, Ab STAR 1 GO ON LIVING Mexico, Action/Adventure, 81’ Dir: Alejandra Sánchez Sales: Mexican Film Institute (Imcine) LERINS 2 ILLUSION Germany, Drama, 93’ Dir: Roland Reber Sales: Wtp International Gmbh PALAIS I MINERS SHOT DOWN 90’ Sales: National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa PALAIS K MISS MEADOWS USA, Black comedy, 92’ Dir: Hopkins Karen Leigh
Sales: Myriad Pictures OLYMPIA 9 PALE REFLECTION Tunisia, Drama, 95’ Sales: Sindbad Productions PALAIS G PATCHWORK FAMILY France, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Pascal Rabaté Sales: Films Boutique RIVIERA 3 THIS LAST LONELY PLACE USA, Drama, 89’ Dir: Steve Anderson Sales: Multivisionnaire Pictures PALAIS E TIME TRIP APP Japan, Action/Adventure, 108’ Dir: Toshio Lee Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C 15:00 FAIRE:L’AMOUR France, Drama, 165’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Djinn Carrénard Sales: Elle Driver MIRAMAR GIRLHOOD France, Drama, 112’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Céline Sciamma Sales: Films Distribution THEATRE CROISETTE 15:30 FASTLIFE France, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Thomas N’Gijol Sales: Europacorp STAR 4 FIEVRE France, Fantasy, 85’ Dir: Romain Basset Sales: Reel Suspects PALAIS D FLYING BODIES Japan, Documentary, 78’ Dir: Hiroyuki Nakano Sales: Open Sesame Co, Ltd GRAY 4 MONSTERZ Japan, Action/Adventure, 111’ Dir: Hideo Nakata Sales: Nippon Television Network Corp. ( Ntv) PALAIS B SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN WORLD United Kingdom, Documentary, 103’ Dir: George Hencken Hencken Sales: Metro International Entertainment ARCADES 1 STREIF Austria, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Gerald Salmina Sales: Red Bull Media House PALAIS H
TWO STEP USA, First film, 90’ Dir: Alex R. Johnson Sales: Films Boutique RIVIERA 2
JUNGLE MASTER USA, 3D, 84’ Dir: Kerr Xu Sales: Gorilla Pictures PALAIS J
16:00 A BOLT FROM THE BLUE Japan, Drama, 95’ Dir: Gekidan Hitori Sales: Toho Co., Ltd. PALAIS C
OBSESSED Korea (South), Drama, 132’ Dir: Dae-Woo Kim Sales: Finecut Co. Ltd. RIVIERA 2
ANOTHER ME 86’ Sales: Fortissimo Films STAR 1 CATCH ME DADDY United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Daniel Wolfe Sales: Altitude Film Sales ARCADES 2 EVERY SECRET THING USA, Crime, 93’ Dir: Amy Berg Sales: Hyde Park International GRAY 1 INUMBER NUMBER 99’ Sales: National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa PALAIS K LEA, AN ANGEL IN MY HOUSE France, First film, 101’ Dir: Jacques-Hervé Fichet Sales: Quasar M4 Productions GRAY 5 SHIRIN IN LOVE USA, Romance, 104’ Dir: Ramin Niami Sales: Vision Films LERINS 2 THE GRAD JOB France, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Antoine Blossier Sales: Gaumont STAR 2 THE GREAT HYPNOTIST China, Thriller, 100’ Dir: Leste Chen Sales: Wanda Media Co., Ltd PALAIS G THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY United Kingdom, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Hossein Amini Sales: Studiocanal OLYMPIA 4 17:30 13 Iran, Drama, 90’ Dir: Hooman Seyedi Sales: Visual Media Institute PALAIS B CAT AND MOUSE Netherlands, Drama, 90’ Dir: Maartje Seyferth, Victor Nieuwenhuijs Sales: Reel Suspects PALAIS F
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PARADISE EAST USA, Drama, 92’ Dir: Nick Taylor Sales: New World Cinemas, Inc PALAIS H 18:00 BABY BALLOON Belgium, Drama, 84’ Dir: Stefan Liberski Sales: Pyramide Distribution PALAIS I BOONIE BEARS: TO THE RESCUE! China, Animation, 95’ Dir: Liang Ding, Fuyuan Liu Sales: Fantawild Animation Inc PALAIS K CARMINA & AMEN Spain, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Paco León Sales: Film Factory Entertainment OLYMPIA 7 CATCH ME DADDY United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Daniel Wolfe Sales: Altitude Film Sales THEATRE CROISETTE FRENCH WOMEN France, Comedy, 118’ Dir: Audrey Dana Sales: Elle Driver STAR 2 MISS SIXTY Germany, Comedy, 98’ Dir: Sigrid Hoerner Sales: Picture Tree International Gmbh OLYMPIA 3 MYSTERY: BORN TO ROCK Australia, Musical, 85’ Dir: Steve Ravic Sales: Majestic Film PALAIS E NOVEMBER MAN USA, Action/Adventure, 108’ Dir: Roger Donaldson Sales: The Solution Entertainment Group ARCADES 2 THE PRINCE USA, Action/Adventure, 93’ Dir: Brian A. Miller Sales: Hannibal Pictures LERINS 2
TRUSTNORDISK CLOSED SCREENING, INVITATION ONLY NO PRESS 100’ Sales: Trustnordisk STAR 1
20:30 BLUE SKY BONES China, First film, 105’ Dir: Jian Cui Sales: Ray Production Limited RIVIERA 3
YOU & I Germany, LGBT, 85’ Dir: Nils Bökamp Sales: Salzgeber & Co. Medien Gmbh GRAY 3
GIRL WITH NO FEAR Ecuador, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Esguerra Bernardo Cañizares Sales: Bluefilm PALAIS E
18:30 SELF MADE Israel, Drama, 105’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Shira Geffen Sales: Westend Films MIRAMAR
GIRL WITH NO FEAR Colombia, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Bernardo Cañizares Esguerra Sales: House Of Film Llc PALAIS E
19:30 NORDLAND Germany, First film, 96’ Dir: Biermann Ingo J. Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 4
GIRL WITH NO FEAR Ecuador, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Esguerra Bernardo Cañizares Sales: Consejo Nacional De Cinematografía Del Ecuador PALAIS E
22:00 SELF MADE Israel, Drama, 105’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Shira Geffen Sales: Westend Films MIRAMAR
MAY 17 08:30 SELF MADE Israel, Drama, 105’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Shira Geffen Sales: Westend Films MIRAMAR 09:00 NATIONAL GALLERY France, Documentary, 174’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Frederick Wiseman Sales: Doc & Film International THEATRE CROISETTE
HOME USA, Horror, 93’ Dir: Nicholas Mccarthy Sales: Xyz Films PALAIS I
09:15 MY HAWAIIAN DISCOVERY Japan, Comedy, 119’ Dir: Koji Maeda Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C
KOLUMPO Malaysia, Drama, 92’ Dir: Rozi Izma, Sheikh Munasar, Bront Palarae Sales: Striped Entertainment PALAIS G
09:30 ANGEL United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Ray Burdis Sales: Arclight Films LERINS 1
HOT ROAD Japan, Drama, 119’ Dir: Takahiro Miki Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd GRAY 2
LIVE Russia, Drama, Dir: Yuri Bykov Sales: Lbyl Films & Distribution Inc PALAIS C
DEAD OF WINTER Canada, Thriller, 90’ Dir: Robert Rice Sales: Park Entertainment PALAIS H
INSECURE France, Drama, 83’ Section: ACID Dir: Marianne Tardieu Sales: Udi - Urban Distribution International ARCADES 1
THE ROOM Thailand, Horror, 100’ Dir: Punjapong Kongkanoi, Jaded Ueachimplee Sales: Klongchai Picture Co. Ltd LERINS 2
NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC USA, Documentary, 73’ Dir: One9 Sales: Submarine Entertainment GRAY 4
WELCOME TO ME USA, Comedy, 84’ Dir: Shira Piven Sales: Cargo Entertainment ARCADES 3
20:00 BLACK ROOM Japan, Drama, 90’ Dir: Masato Tsujioka Sales: Tsujioka Production GRAY 5 GOD’S NOT DEAD USA, Drama, 112’ Dir: Harold Cronk Sales: Pure Flix Entertainment STAR 4
SPACE DOGS 2 Russia, 3D, 90’ Dir: Inna Evlannikova Sales: Epic Pictures Group GRAY 1 THE LEGEND OF QIN China, Animation, 90’ Dir: Robin Shen Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd RIVIERA 2 THE TRUTH ABOUT BEAUTY China, Romance, 84’ Dir: Aubrey Lam Sales: We Distribution PALAIS J
WILD CANARIES USA, Comedy, 98’ Dir: Lawrence Michael Levine Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares OLYMPIA 5 21:00 GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALLEM France, Drama, 115’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz Sales: Films Distribution THEATRE CROISETTE
THE TREATMENT Belgium, Thriller, 120’ Dir: Hans Herbots Sales: Be For Films OLYMPIA 7 10:00 DELICIOUS United Kingdom, Romance, 83’ Dir: Tammy Riley-Smith Sales: 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service Ltd. PALAIS E DIVORCE A LA FRANCAISE France, Comedy, 105’ Dir: Dorothée Sebbagh Sales: Tf1 International PALAIS K FAR FROM HIS ABSENCE Israel, Drama, 97’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Keren Yedaya Sales: Other Angle Pictures GRAY 3 HASTA MANANA France, Drama, 80’ Dir: Olivier Vidal, Sébastien Maggiani Sales: Cinexport GRAY 5 INSECURE France, Drama, 83’ Section: ACID Dir: Marianne Tardieu Sales: Udi - Urban Distribution International RIVIERA 1 SON OF A GUN Australia, Thriller, 110’ Dir: Julius Avery Sales: Altitude Film Sales OLYMPIA 5
I-LIVED USA, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Franck Khalfoun Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment Llc PALAIS F
STOCKHOLM Spain, Thriller, 90’ Dir: Rodrigo Sorogoyen Sales: Outsider Pictures OLYMPIA 8
INDIGENOUS USA, Horror, 86’ Dir: Alastair Orr Sales: Lightning Entertainment RIVIERA 4
THAT DEMON WITHIN Hong Kong (China), Thriller, 112’ Dir: Dante Lam Sales: Emperor Motion Pictures OLYMPIA 3
KUNG FU ELLIOT Canada, Documentary, 83’ Dir: Jaret Belliveau, Matthew Bauckman Sales: Cargo Film & Releasing PALAIS J WOLFCOP Canada, Horror, 86’ Dir: Lowell Dean Sales: Raven Banner Entertainment GRAY 4 09:45 HALFWAY Belgium, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Geoffrey Enthoven Sales: Films Boutique RIVIERA 3
TRUSTNORDISK CLOSED SCREENING, INVITATION ONLY NO PRESS 100’ Sales: Trustnordisk STAR 2 WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY United Kingdom, Comedy, 96’ Dir: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin Sales: Independent STAR 1
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11:30 BEHAVIOR Cuba, Drama, 108’ Dir: Ernesto Daranas Sales: Latido LERINS 1
HONEYMOON USA, Horror, 87’ Dir: Leigh Janiak Sales: Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing GRAY 1
CATCH ME DADDY United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Daniel Wolfe Sales: Altitude Film Sales ARCADES 1
HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International PALAIS I
MIDNIGHT SUN Canada, Action/Adventure, 97’ Dir: Roger Spottiswoode Sales: Hyde Park International PALAIS J OF GIRLS AND HORSES Germany, LGBT, 82’ Dir: Monika Treut Sales: Salzgeber & Co. Medien Gmbh ARCADES 3
IT FOLLOWS USA, Horror, 100’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: David Robert Mitchell Sales: Visit Films MIRAMAR
JOHNNY WINTER: DOWN AND DIRTY USA, Documentary, 87’ Dir: Greg Olliver Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 5
THE DEAD 2 United Kingdom, Horror, 94’ Dir: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS B
MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON Serbia, Second film, 95’ Dir: Darko Lungulov Sales: Films Boutique PALAIS H
MAGICARENA Italy, Documentary, 85’ Dir: Andrea Prandstraller, Niccolo Bruna Sales: Wide House PALAIS G
SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELFPORTRAIT France, Documentary, 90’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan Sales: Doc & Film International RIVIERA 2
MEDICINE Sweden, Comedy, 120’ Dir: Colin Nutley Sales: Svensk Filmindustri, Ab STAR 1
THE LITTLE SPARROW Iran, Children’s, 91’ Dir: Gholamreza Ramezani, Masoud Keramati, Vahid Nikkhah Azad Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS D
THE FURTHEST END AWAITS Japan, Drama, 119’ Dir: Hsiu Chiung Chiang Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C THE LAMB Chile, Black comedy, 90’ Dir: Juan Francisco Olea Sales: Habanero PALAIS D TIMBUKTU France, Drama, 100’ Section: Competition Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako Sales: Le Pacte STAR 3 12:00 5 TO 7 USA, Romance, 96’ Dir: Victor Levin Sales: The Solution Entertainment Group OLYMPIA 6 ALMOST HEROES 3D Korea (South), Animation, 90’ Dir: Kyungho Lee, Wonjae Lee Sales: Inception Film Partners , Llc. OLYMPIA 2
ONE HUMANITY 120’ Sales: National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa PALAIS K 13:00 LES COMBATTANTS France, Romance, 98’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Thomas Cailley Sales: Bac Films THEATRE CROISETTE 13:30 10.000 KM Spain, Drama, 99’ Dir: Carlos Marques-Marcet Sales: Visit Films RIVIERA 4 ADVANCED STYLE USA, Documentary, 75’ Dir: Lina Plioplyte Sales: Dogwoof GRAY 2 ELLE L’ADORE France, Drama, 109’ Dir: Jeanne Herry Sales: Studiocanal ARCADES 1 GOLDEN KINGDOM USA, Drama, 101’ Dir: Brian Perkins Sales: Wide PALAIS H
ARIANE’S THREAD France, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Robert Guédiguian Sales: Films Distribution OLYMPIA 7
HOUSEBOUND New Zealand, Comedy, 109’ Dir: Gerard Johnstone Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2
BLACK COAL, THIN ICE China, Drama, 106’ Dir: Diao Yinan Sales: Fortissimo Films STAR 2
LE GROUPE ESRA PRÉSENTE France, 110’ Sales: Short Film Corner PALAIS F
WE ARE THE GIANT USA, Documentary, 92’ Dir: Greg Barker Sales: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution Ltd LERINS 1 13:45 AGAIN (WORKING TITLE) Japan, Drama, 119’ Dir: Sumio Omori Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C 14:00 ALLELUIA Belgium, Horror, 92’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Welz Fabrice Du Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 ARCADES 2 ATTENTION A LIFE IN EXTREMES Austria, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Sascha Köllnreitner Sales: Adrialpe Media PALAIS E CARMINA & AMEN Spain, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Paco León Sales: Film Factory Entertainment LERINS 2 FALLING STAR Spain, First film, 110’ Dir: Luis Miñarro Sales: Ndm OLYMPIA 3 FAULTS USA, First film, 99’ Dir: Riley Stearns Sales: Hanway Films OLYMPIA 9 GHADI Lebanon, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Amin Dora Sales: Fortissimo Films OLYMPIA 7
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MILLIONAIRE DOG Spain, Family, 90’ Dir: Tom Fernández Sales: Deaplaneta GRAY 3 PROGRAMME COURT- METRAGES 140’ Section: Critic’s Week Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR SELF MADE Israel, Drama, 105’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Shira Geffen Sales: Westend Films OLYMPIA 5 THE CURSE OF DOWNERS GROVE USA, Horror, 90’ Dir: Derick Martini Sales: Myriad Pictures OLYMPIA 2 THE LONGEST DISTANCE Venezuela, First film, 113’ Dir: Claudia Pinto Sales: Centro Nacional Autonomo De Cinematografia PALAIS G THE STRANGER Dominican Republic, Drama, 105’ Dir: César Rodríguez Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 5 WELCOME TO NEW YORK USA, Drama, 124’ Dir: Abel Ferrara Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1 14:15 SOUTH AFRICAN SHOWCASE ,60’ Sales: National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa PALAIS K 15:30 AMONG RAVENS USA, Drama, 105’ Dir: Russel Friedenberg, Randy Redroad Sales: Tricoast Worldwide STAR 3 GIRLHOOD France, Drama, 112’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Céline Sciamma Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2 INNENKIND Germany, Drama, 75’ Dir: Thomas Lee Sales: Sakura Filmproduktion E.K. PALAIS J JINN USA, Thriller, 85’ Dir: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad Sales: Red Sea Media Inc. RIVIERA 4
LET US PREY United Kingdom, Horror, 90’ Dir: Brian O’Malley Sales: Metrodome International STAR 4 TOMORROW Iran, First film, 86’ Dir: Mahdi Pakdel, Iman Afsharian Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS D WILD IN BLUE USA, Thriller, Dir: Matthew Berkowitz Sales: Reel Suspects PALAIS F 16:00 CINEMA & TRANSMEDIA PROJECTS France, 120’ Section: (NEXT) Pitching Session Sales: Marche Du Film PALAIS I DESIRES OF THE HEART USA, Drama, 88’ Dir: James Kicklighter, Rajesh Rathi Sales: Smile Films GRAY 5 NATIONAL GALLERY France, Documentary, 174’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Frederick Wiseman Sales: Doc & Film International THEATRE CROISETTE REAPER USA, Horror, 88’ Dir: Philip Shih Sales: Highland Film Group PALAIS C THE LOVERS Belgium, Action/Adventure, 110’ Dir: Roland Joffe Sales: Corsan OLYMPIA 2 THE MAID’S ROOM Canada, Thriller, 100’ Dir: Michael Walker Sales: Devilworks PALAIS G THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET Latvia, Thriller, 71’ Dir: Aik Karapetian Sales: Wide RIVIERA 1 THE RETURN Iran, Drama, 81’ Dir: Ali Ghavitan Sales: Visual Media Institute PALAIS E 16:30 WELCOME TO NEW YORK USA, Drama, 124’ Dir: Abel Ferrara Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1
17:00 IT FOLLOWS USA, Horror, 100’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: David Robert Mitchell Sales: Visit Films MIRAMAR TOUCHING LIFE Germany, Drama, 19’ Dir: Carolin Färber Sales: Sakura Filmproduktion E.K. PALAIS J 17:30 BEHAVIOR Cuba, Drama, 108’ Dir: Ernest Daranas Sales: Icaic - Productora Internacional PALAIS F LIVE TV Korea (South), Thriller, 100’ Dir: Sun-Ung Kim, Kwang-Soo Son Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd GRAY 2 MARIE’S STORY France, Drama, 94’ Dir: Jean-Pierre Améris Sales: Indie Sales STAR 3
JACK STRONG Poland, Thriller, 120’ Dir: Wladyslaw Pasikowski Sales: 6 Sales RIVIERA 1 JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD
USA, Drama, 100’ Dir: Carter Smith Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares OLYMPIA 4 KIKAIDER -THE ULTIMATE HUMAN ROBOTJapan, Action/Adventure, 110’ Dir: Ten Shimoyama Sales: Kadokawa Corporation PALAIS C MAN ON HIGH HEELS Korea (South), Action/ Adventure, 120’ Dir: Jin Jang Sales: Lotte Entertainment PALAIS K MURDER OF A CAT USA, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Greene Gillian Sales: Exclusive Media OLYMPIA 5
MEHRABAD, TWO HOURS LATER Iran, Drama, 74’ Dir: Alireza Farid Sales: Visual Media Institute PALAIS B
PUDSEY: THE MOVIE United Kingdom, Action/ Adventure, 100’ Dir: Nick Moore Sales: Content Media Corporation OLYMPIA 7
NOW OR NEVER France, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Serge Frydman Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2
QUIZ Netherlands, Thriller, 85’ Dir: Dick Maas Sales: T Films GRAY 5
THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE Japan, Drama, 120’ Dir: Mipo O Sales: Open Sesame Co, Ltd GRAY 4
ROSEVILLE Bulgaria, Thriller, 120’ Dir: Martin Makariev Sales: Wide PALAIS I
THE LITTLE GHOST 88’ Dir: Alain Gsponer Sales: Arri Worldsales ARCADES 3 WE HAVE A GUEST Iran, Family, 102’ Dir: Moammad Mehdi Asgarpour Sales: Soureh Cinema Organization PALAIS D 18:00 I LOVED YOU SO MUCH Turkey, Drama, 98’ Dir: Orhan Tekeoglu Sales: Medya Ton PALAIS E IN THE NAME OF SATAN Italy, Drama, 100’ Dir: Emanuele Cerquiglini Sales: New World Cinemas, Inc PALAIS G
20:00 ARTLESS Canada, Romance, 95’ Dir: Jeremy Major Sales: The Shooting Eye GRAY 5
TAKEAWAY ROMANCE France, Comedy, 87’ Dir: Amelle Chahbi Sales: Gaumont STAR 2 THE PRINCE USA, Action/Adventure, 93’ Dir: Brian A. Miller Sales: Hannibal Pictures LERINS 2 ZERO MOTIVATION Israel, Drama, 100’ Dir: Talya Lavie Sales: The Match Factory GRAY 1 18:45 WELCOME TO NEW YORK USA, Drama, 124’ Dir: Abel Ferrara Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1
BOONIE BEARS, TO THE RESCUE! (ENGLISH VERSION) China, 3D, 94’ Dir: Ding Liang Sales: All Rights Entertainment Limited OLYMPIA 3 BREATHE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Mélanie Laurent Sales: Gaumont MIRAMAR BUDDY Germany, Comedy, 94’ Dir: Herbig Michael Bully Sales: Beta Cinema PALAIS J JULIA USA, Horror, 95’ Dir: Matthew Brown Sales: Archstone Distribution PALAIS D LES COMBATTANTS France, Romance, 98’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Thomas Cailley Sales: Bac Films THEATRE CROISETTE NYMPH Serbia, Horror, 90’ Dir: Milan Todorovic Sales: Epic Pictures Group GRAY 1 PRESERVATION USA, Thriller, 90’ Dir: Christopher Denham Sales: Xyz Films PALAIS H SMING Thailand, Thriller, 105’ Sales: M Thirtynine Co., Ltd LERINS 1 SPARTACUS & CASSANDRA France, Documentary, 80’ Section: ACID Dir: Ioanis Nuguet Sales: Acid ARCADES 1 STORM WARNING Russia, Drama, 93’ Dir: Nigina Sayfullaeva Sales: Antipode Sales & Distribution Llc PALAIS F 20:30 AMERICAN MUSTANG USA, Family, 72’ Dir: Monty Miranda Sales: Blairwood Entertainment RIVIERA 3
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MERCHANTS OF DOUBT 91’ Sales: Participant Media OLYMPIA 5 MOTHER Japan, Horror, 84’ Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd PALAIS G THIRST Ecuador, First film, 90’ Dir: Joe Houlberg Sales: Consejo Nacional De Cinematografía Del Ecuador PALAIS E 22:00 IT FOLLOWS USA, Horror, 100’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: David Robert Mitchell Sales: Visit Films MIRAMAR 22:30 GIRLHOOD France, Drama, 112’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Céline Sciamma Sales: Films Distribution ARCADES 1 24:00:00 THE INCIDENT Mexico, Science-fiction, 104’ Dir: Isaac Ezban Sales: Yellow Films STAR 1
MAY 18 08:30 IT FOLLOWS USA, Horror, 100’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: David Robert Mitchell Sales: Visit Films MIRAMAR 09:00 A HARD DAY Korea (South), Action/ Adventure, 111’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Seong-Hun Kim Sales: Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc. THEATRE CROISETTE FAIRE:L’AMOUR France, Drama, 165’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Djinn Carrénard Sales: Elle Driver STAR 2 NATIONAL GALLERY France, Documentary, 174’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Frederick Wiseman Sales: Doc & Film International PALAIS G 09:30 BIBI & TINA Germany, Family, 101’ Dir: Detlev Buck Sales: Beta Cinema RIVIERA 4 DAWN PATROL USA, Drama, 96’ Dir: Jr. Daniel Petrie Sales: Red Sea Media Inc. GRAY 2
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FEVER Luxembourg, Drama, 90’ Dir: Elfi Mikesch Sales: Eastwest Filmdistribution Gmbh RIVIERA 2
NEXT TO HER Israel, First film, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Asaf Korman Sales: Films Boutique RIVIERA 3
NORDIC FACTORY 60’ Section: Directors Fortnight Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs ARCADES 1
MONKEY DUST Belgium, Drama, 86’ Dir: Karim Ouelhaj Sales: Sick Screen PALAIS B
NIGHTLIGHT USA, Horror, 85’ Dir: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck Sales: Synchronicity Entertainment OLYMPIA 2
THE TREE Slovenia, Drama, 90’ Dir: Sonja Prosenc Sales: Slovenian Film Centre PALAIS H
MONSTERS : DARK CONTINENT United Kingdom, Science-fiction, 135’ Dir: Tom Green Sales: Protagonist Pictures STAR 1 MORROCAN GIGOLOS Belgium, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Ismaël Saidi Sales: Filmoption International PALAIS F OUTPOST 37 South Africa, Sciencefiction, 110’ Dir: Jabbar Raisani Sales: Altitude Film Sales ARCADES 1 VIOLENT Canada, Drama, 100’ Dir: Andrew Huculiak Sales: Media Darling ARCADES 3 09:45 CASANOVA VARIATIONS France, Biography, 118’ Dir: Michael Sturminger Sales: Alfama Films ARCADES 2 10:00 AMONG THE LIVING France, Horror, 87’ Dir: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 OLYMPIA 3 ARIANE’S THREAD France, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Robert Guédiguian Sales: Films Distribution OLYMPIA 6 BODYBUILDER France, Drama, 100’ Dir: Roschdy Zem Sales: Wild Bunch OLYMPIA 5 COMING IN Germany, Comedy, 104’ Dir: Marco Kreuzpaintner Sales: Global Screen Gmbh LERINS 2 INSECURE France, Drama, 83’ Section: ACID Dir: Marianne Tardieu Sales: Udi - Urban Distribution International RIVIERA 1 MAESTRO 84’ Sales: Rezo OLYMPIA 1
PARANORMAL ISLAND USA, Horror, 82’ Dir: Marty Murray Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 3 PARTY GIRL France, Drama, 95’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis Sales: Pyramide International PALAIS I VIKTORIA Bulgaria, Drama, 155’ Dir: Maya Vitkova Sales: Bulgarian National Film Center GRAY 5 11:30 A SEPARATE WIND Mexico, Drama, 100’ Dir: Bicecci Alejandro Gerber Sales: Mexican Film Institute (Imcine) RIVIERA 2 CANADA: NOT SHORT ON TALENT Canada, , 110’ Sales: Telefilm Canada PALAIS F FAIR PLAY Czech Republic, Drama, 100’ Dir: Andrea Sedlácková Sales: Intramovies GRAY 4 FANTASIA China, , 85’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Wang Chao Sales: Les Films Du Losange LERINS 1 GENTE DE BIEN Colombia, First film, 90’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Franco Lolli Sales: Evidencia Films Y Producciones Ltda. MIRAMAR MARIE’S STORY France, Drama, 94’ Dir: Jean-Pierre Améris Sales: Indie Sales ARCADES 3 NEW CHINESE FILM TALENTS PITCH SESSION 110’ Sales: Champs Lis International Ltd. PALAIS J
TODAY Iran, Drama, 87’ Dir: Reza Mirkarimi Sales: Dreamlab Films PALAIS B 12:00 BIG IN JAPAN USA, Second film, 99’ Dir: John Jeffcoat Sales: Outsider Pictures OLYMPIA 9
THE NIGHT 95’ Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) RIVIERA 3 YOU’RE NOT YOU USA, Drama, 103’ Dir: George C. Wolfe Sales: Myriad Pictures OLYMPIA 2 13:30 DARK AWAKENING USA, Fantasy, 95’ Dir: Dean Jones Sales: The Little Film Company PALAIS D HOOKED UP Spain, Horror, 78’ Dir: Pablo Larcuen Sales: Raven Banner Entertainment ARCADES 3
BLOOD MOON United Kingdom, Western, 90’ Dir: Jeremy Wooding Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS E
KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS 120’ Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 3
FRENCH DOLLS France, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Katia Lewkowicz Sales: Wild Bunch OLYMPIA 5
PATCHWORK FAMILY France, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Pascal Rabaté Sales: Films Boutique RIVIERA 2
HARVEST France, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Paul Lacoste Sales: Jour2Fete GRAY 1
ROMANIAN SHORT WAVES Romania, , 103’ Sales: Short Film Corner PALAIS F
ILLUSION Germany, Drama, 93’ Dir: Roland Reber Sales: Wtp International Gmbh PALAIS G
SHOWRUNNERS 90’ Sales: Submarine Entertainment GRAY 4
KELLY & CAL 107’ Sales: Electric Entertainment OLYMPIA 3 MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON Serbia, Second film, 95’ Dir: Darko Lungulov Sales: Films Boutique PALAIS K REFUGIADO Argentina, Drama, 93’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Diego Lerman Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) THEATRE CROISETTE RUN France, Drama, 100’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Philippe Lacôte Sales: Bac Films OLYMPIA 1 THE EASY WAY OUT France, Comedy, 98’ Dir: Brice Cauvin Sales: Be For Films OLYMPIA 6
SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN WORLD United Kingdom, Documentary, 103’ Dir: George Hencken Hencken Sales: Metro International Entertainment ARCADES 1 STANDBY Ireland, Romance, 83’ Dir: Rob Burke, Ronan Burke Sales: Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing GRAY 2 THE GREAT HYPNOTIST China, Thriller, 100’ Dir: Leste Chen Sales: Wanda Media Co., Ltd PALAIS J TIMBUKTU France, Drama, 100’ Section: Competition Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako Sales: Le Pacte LERINS 1
TRAGEDY Iran, First film, 107’ Dir: Azita Mogouee Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS B 13:45 WHITE GOD Hungary, Drama, 119’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Kornél Mundruczó Sales: The Match Factory STAR 1 14:00 A CRY FROM WITHIN USA, Thriller, 94’ Dir: Zachary Miller, Deborah Twiss Sales: 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service Ltd. LERINS 2 ANOTHER ME 86’ Sales: Fortissimo Films ARCADES 2 BANANA Italy, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Andrea Jublin Sales: Premium Films PALAIS E CATCH ME DADDY United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Daniel Wolfe Sales: Altitude Film Sales OLYMPIA 1 DARK SUMMER USA, Horror, 90’ Dir: Paul Solet Sales: Content Media Corporation OLYMPIA 7 FLOWER AND SNAKE: ZERO Japan, Erotic, 113’ Dir: Hajime Hashimoto Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C GET WELL SOON France, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Jean Becker Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 OLYMPIA 4 GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALLEM France, Drama, 115’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 1 IT FOLLOWS USA, Horror, 100’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: David Robert Mitchell Sales: Visit Films PALAIS I MY SUMMER IN PROVENCE France, Comedy, 105’ Dir: Rose Bosch Sales: Gaumont STAR 2
NOBLE Ireland, Drama, 100’ Dir: Stephen Bradley Sales: Continental Media OLYMPIA 3
THE WHOLE SHEBANG Germany, Drama, 124’ Dir: Doris Dörrie Sales: Arri Worldsales RIVIERA 4
STONES FOR THE RAMPART Poland, Drama, 112’ Dir: Robert Glínski Sales: Picture Tree International Gmbh GRAY 1
TWO STEP USA, First film, 90’ Dir: Alex R. Johnson Sales: Films Boutique GRAY 2
SYRUP USA, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Aram Rappaport Sales: T Films GRAY 5 THE RULES OF THE GAME France, Documentary, 106’ Section: ACID Dir: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard Sales: Doc & Film International RIVIERA 3 15:00 BREATHE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Mélanie Laurent Sales: Gaumont MIRAMAR LES COMBATTANTS France, Romance, 98’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Thomas Cailley Sales: Bac Films THEATRE CROISETTE 15:30 AMOUR FOU Austria, Drama, 96’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Jessica Hausner Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) RIVIERA 2 FOUR MOONS Mexico, LGBT, 95’ Dir: Velarde Sergio Tovar Sales: Habanero PALAIS F MIRACULUM Canada, Drama, 109’ Dir: (Podz) Daniel Grou Sales: Item 7 Inc. ARCADES 3 ON THE WINGS OF IMAGINATION Iran, Drama, 100’ Dir: Farhad Mehranfar Sales: Visual Media Institute PALAIS B SHIRIN IN LOVE USA, Romance, 104’ Dir: Ramin Niami Sales: Vision Films PALAIS D THE VINEYARD Chile, Fantasy, 106’ Dir: James Katz Sales: Devilworks PALAIS H
VOLANTÍN CORTAO Chile, Drama, 76’ Dir: Diego Ayala, Aníbal Jofré Sales: Latido GRAY 4 16:00 AIBOU: THE MOVIE 3 Japan, Crime, 114’ Dir: Seiji Izumi Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C FAR FROM HIS ABSENCE Israel, Drama, 97’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Keren Yedaya Sales: Other Angle Pictures GRAY 3 INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR DOCUMENTARIES France, 120’ Section: (DOC CORNER) Round-Table Sales: Marche Du Film PALAIS I NOVEMBER MAN USA, Action/Adventure, 108’ Dir: Roger Donaldson Sales: The Solution Entertainment Group OLYMPIA 5 ON ANY SUNDAY USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Bruce Brown, Dana Brown Sales: Red Bull Media House PALAIS G SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS France, Comedy, 98’ Dir: Chauveron Philippe De Sales: Tf1 International OLYMPIA 1 THE GARDEN OF WORDS Japan, Animation, 46’ Dir: Makoto Shinkai Sales: Viz Media Europe GRAY 5 TOP DOG United Kingdom, Crime, 102’ Dir: Kemp Martin Sales: Manifest Film Sales OLYMPIA 6 WILD CANARIES USA, Comedy, 98’ Dir: Lawrence Michael Levine Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares OLYMPIA 3
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16:15 THE DARK VALLEY Austria, Western, 105’ Dir: Andreas Prochaska Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 1 17:00 GENTE DE BIEN Colombia, First film, 90’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Franco Lolli Sales: Evidencia Films Y Producciones Ltda. MIRAMAR THE GARDEN OF WORDS Japan, Animation, 46’ Dir: Makoto Shinkai Sales: Viz Media Europe GRAY 5 17:30 A HARD DAY Korea (South), Action/ Adventure, 111’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Seong-Hun Kim Sales: Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc. THEATRE CROISETTE
FIEVRE France, Fantasy, 85’ Dir: Romain Basset Sales: Reel Suspects PALAIS F HIRNGESPINSTER Germany, Drama, 100’ Dir: Christian Bach Sales: Global Screen Gmbh GRAY 2 MERRY-GO-ROUND Poland, Drama, 92’ Dir: Robert Wichrowski Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 4 PIRANHA SHARKS USA, Comedy, 100’ Sales: Red Sea Media Inc. RIVIERA 2 SONG FOR A LANDSCAPE OF DREAMS Switzerland, Documentary, 82’ Dir: Arno Oehri, Olivier Primus Sales: New World Cinemas, Inc PALAIS H STRANGER Iran, Drama, 90’ Dir: Bahram Tavakoli
Sales: Visual Media Institute PALAIS B THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Sweden, Action/Adventure, 115’ Dir: Felix Herngren Sales: Studiocanal ARCADES 1 YOU ARE NOT ALONE USA, Horror, 115’ Dir: Derek Mungor Sales: Dc Medias PALAIS D 18:00 BAD HAIR Venezuela, Drama, 93’ Dir: Mariana Rondón Sales: Centro Nacional Autonomo De Cinematografia PALAIS G HAMLET’S GHOST USA, Thriller, 85’ Dir: Walker Haynes Sales: Swimming Wings Productions Inc PALAIS E
HELLION USA, Drama, 94’ Dir: Kat Candler Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 3 IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER France, Drama, 120’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: André Téchiné Sales: Elle Driver OLYMPIA 5 KAMASUTRA 3D India, Epic, 100’ Dir: Rupesh Paul Sales: Gj Entertainments Mfze OLYMPIA 6 LE MERAVIGLIE Italy, Drama, 95’ Section: Competition Dir: Alice Rohrwacher Sales: The Match Factory OLYMPIA 1 PRETTY ROSEBUD USA, Drama, 82’ Dir: Oscar Torre Sales: Wonderphil Entertainment GRAY 5
RED ARMY USA, Documentary, 85’ Section: Competition Dir: Polsky Gabe Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1 ROSEVILLE Bulgaria, Thriller, 120’ Dir: Martin Makariev Sales: Wide PALAIS I THE FIRST USA, Science-fiction, 90’ Dir: Jacobo Rispa Sales: Striped Entertainment RIVIERA 3 THE LAST 5 YEARS USA, Musical, 94’ Dir: Richard Lagravenese Sales: The Exchange OLYMPIA 4 THE MAGIC ASTER China, Fantasy, 99’ Dir: Guang Hua Yao Sales: Shanghai Animation Film Studio PALAIS K
TRACK 143 Iran, Second film, 95’ Dir: Narges Abyar Sales: Irib Media Trade PALAIS C WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY United Kingdom, Comedy, 96’ Dir: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin Sales: Independent OLYMPIA 7 20:00 4 MINUTE MILE USA, Drama, 96’ Dir: Charles Michaud Sales: Double Dutch International PALAIS B BROOKLYN France, First film, 83’ Section: ACID Dir: Pascal Tessaud Sales: Acid ARCADES 1 COMMITTED Cyprus, Romance, 90’ Dir: Stelana Kliris Sales: Wonderphil Entertainment GRAY 5
EXTRATERRESTRIAL Canada, Science-fiction, 104’ Dir: Colin Minihan Sales: Cargo Entertainment STAR 4 FINDING FELA USA, Biography, 119’ Dir: Alex Gibney Sales: Dogwoof PALAIS H GOD’S NOT DEAD USA, Drama, 112’ Dir: Harold Cronk Sales: Pure Flix Entertainment STAR 3
THE HEART OF BRUNO WIZARD Norway, Documentary, 100’ Dir: Elisabeth Rasmussen Sales: Virgil Films And Entertainment PALAIS F 20:15 NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2014 Germany, Comedy, 110’ Sales: German Films Service & Marketing Gmbh STAR 2
SMING Thailand, Thriller, 105’ Sales: M Thirtynine Co., Ltd LERINS 1
20:30 A LITTLE HEART OF MUAYTHAI Thailand, Documentary, 25’ Dir: Duangkhae Buaprakhone Sales: Urbanice Co., Ltd. RIVIERA 2
THE ELEPHANT VILLAGE Thailand, Documentary, 25’ Dir: Duangkhae Buaprakhone Sales: Urbanice Co., Ltd. RIVIERA 2
REFUGIADO Argentina, Drama, 93’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Diego Lerman Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) THEATRE CROISETTE
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• Unlimited back lot and parking • Cold War bunkers and watchtowers • Plant and military vehicle hire on site
• Studio, catering and workshops • 24/7 access, security and privacy • Local tradesmen and services on site
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SAY “I LOVE YOU” Japan, Romance, 103’ Dir: Asako Hyuga Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd PALAIS G SOTTO VOCE Morocco, Drama, 93’ Dir: Kamal Kamal Sales: New Tree Productions PALAIS K SUMMER OF BLOOD USA, Comedy, 86’ Dir: Onur Tukel Sales: New Europe Film Sales PALAIS C THE DESERT Argentina, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Christoph Behl Sales: Curator Films PALAIS E THE WOODS ARE STILL GREEN Austria, Drama, 107’ Dir: Marko Nabersnik Sales: Artdeluxe Gmbh PALAIS I WILD TALES Spain, Thriller, 122’ Section: Competition Dir: Damián Szifron Sales: Film Factory Entertainment OLYMPIA 6 22:00 GENTE DE BIEN Colombia, First film, 90’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Franco Lolli Sales: Evidencia Films Y Producciones Ltda. MIRAMAR 22:30 GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALLEM France, Drama, 115’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz Sales: Films Distribution ARCADES 1 24:00:00 FALLEN CAPE Spain, Science-fiction, 88’ Dir: Santiago Alvarado Sales: Magno Entertainment Sl STAR 1 GEORGE A. ROMERO’S “DAWN OF THE DEAD” 3-D USA, 3D, 128’ Dir: George A. Romero Sales: New Amsterdam Entertainment, Inc. STAR 2
MAY 19 08:30 GENTE DE BIEN Colombia, First film, 90’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Franco Lolli Sales: Evidencia Films Y Producciones Ltda. MIRAMAR
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09:00 EAT YOUR BONES France, Action/Adventure, 94’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Jean-Charles Hue Sales: Capricci Films THEATRE CROISETTE HALFWAY Belgium, Comedy, 90’ Dir: Geoffrey Enthoven Sales: Films Boutique PALAIS H 09:15 CASANOVA VARIATIONS France, Biography, 118’ Dir: Michael Sturminger Sales: Alfama Films ARCADES 1 09:30 A DARK REFLECTION United Kingdom, Thriller, 110’ Sales: Fact Not Fiction Films PALAIS J GHADI Lebanon, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Amin Dora Sales: Fortissimo Films STAR 4 INNENKIND Germany, Drama, 75’ Dir: Thomas Lee Sales: Sakura Filmproduktion E.K. ARCADES 3 KINGSTON PARADISE Jamaica, Thriller, 84’ Dir: Mary Wells Sales: California Pictures, Inc. PALAIS D
09:45 IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER France, Drama, 120’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: André Téchiné Sales: Elle Driver OLYMPIA 6 TURIST Sweden, Drama, 120’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Ruben Östlund Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) RIVIERA 3 WHITE GOD Hungary, Drama, 119’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Kornél Mundruczó Sales: The Match Factory OLYMPIA 5 10:00 CHILDREN 404 Russia, Documentary, 76’ Dir: Askold Kurov, Pavel Loparev Sales: Rise And Shine World Sales PALAIS C LA TIRISIA Mexico, Drama, 110’ Dir: Solano Jorge Pérez Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 1 PARANORMAL BAD TRIP 3D France, 3D, 72’ Dir: Frédéric Grousset Sales: Artus Films PALAIS I
LINDENFELD Romania, Drama, 95’ Dir: Radu Gabrea Sales: Romanian Film Centre PALAIS B
PULP United Kingdom, Documentary, 93’ Dir: Florian Habicht Sales: Altitude Film Sales ARCADES 2
MR.X 71’ Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2
TIMBUKTU France, Drama, 100’ Section: Competition Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako Sales: Le Pacte GRAY 1
PIRANHA SHARKS USA, Comedy, 100’ Sales: Red Sea Media Inc. GRAY 4 PLEASURE ISLAND United Kingdom, Drama, 98’ Dir: Mike Doxford Sales: Achilles Entertainments GRAY 2 THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Japan, Animation, 137’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Isao Takahata Sales: Wild Bunch OLYMPIA 4 TU DORS NICOLE Canada, Drama, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Stéphane Lafleur Sales: Seville International RIVIERA 4
11:10 THE TRIBE Ukraine, Drama, 130’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Sales: Alpha Violet RIVIERA 4 11:15 GIRLHOOD France, Drama, 112’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Céline Sciamma Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2 11:30 2030 Vietnam, Science-fiction, 98’ Dir: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo Sales: Premium Films PALAIS D
112 WEDDINGS USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Doug Block Sales: Dogwoof PALAIS H A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT USA, Thriller, 100’ Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour Sales: Kinology STAR 3 BLACK COAL, THIN ICE China, Drama, 106’ Dir: Diao Yinan Sales: Fortissimo Films STAR 4 CANADA: NOT SHORT ON TALENT Canada, , 110’ Sales: Telefilm Canada PALAIS F CANTINFLAS Mexico, Biography, 98’ Dir: Amo Sebastián Del Sales: 6 Sales GRAY 4 HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International LERINS 1 HUSSEIN WHO SAID NO Iran, Historical, 172’ Dir: Ahmad Reza Darvish Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS B MOTHER Japan, Horror, 84’ Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd GRAY 2 REFUGIADO Argentina, Drama, 93’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Diego Lerman Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) ARCADES 1 WHEN ANIMALS DREAM Denmark, Horror, 84’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Jonas Arnby Sales: Gaumont MIRAMAR 12:00 3 MILE LIMIT New Zealand, Comedy, 92’ Dir: Craig Newland Sales: Park Entertainment PALAIS I DAWN PATROL USA, Drama, 96’ Dir: Jr. Daniel Petrie Sales: Red Sea Media Inc. LERINS 2 ETERNAL ASH Venezuela, Drama, 110’ Dir: Margarita Cadenas Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 3
GUARDIAN Indonesia, Action/ Adventure, 90’ Dir: Helfi Kardit Sales: Birch Tree Entertainment GRAY 5 JAUJA Argentina, Drama, 108’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Lisandro Alonso Sales: Ndm OLYMPIA 5 KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE Japan, Action/Adventure, 109’ Dir: Takashi Shimizu Sales: Toei Company, Ltd. PALAIS C LE MERAVIGLIE Italy, Drama, 95’ Section: Competition Dir: Alice Rohrwacher Sales: The Match Factory STAR 2 LES COMBATTANTS France, Romance, 98’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Thomas Cailley Sales: Bac Films OLYMPIA 4 MARACANAZO: THE FOOTBALL LEGEND Uruguay, Documentary, 75’ Dir: Sebastián Bednarik, Andrés Varela Sales: Latido PALAIS E MISS MEADOWS USA, Black comedy, 92’ Dir: Hopkins Karen Leigh Sales: Myriad Pictures OLYMPIA 3 MR. KAPLAN Uruguay, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Alvaro Brechner Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) ARCADES 2 13:15 GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALLEM France, Drama, 115’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 2 13:30 BEHAVIOR Cuba, Drama, 108’ Dir: Ernesto Daranas Sales: Latido PALAIS D DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT Italy, Drama, 94’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Sebastiano Riso Sales: Rai Trade STAR 4
ELLE L’ADORE France, Drama, 109’ Dir: Jeanne Herry Sales: Studiocanal ARCADES 1
THE STORM WITHIN Canada, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Martin Doepner Sales: Devilworks PALAIS G
IT FOLLOWS USA, Horror, 100’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: David Robert Mitchell Sales: Visit Films RIVIERA 4
14:30 THE SCENT OF LEMON AT DAWN Iran, Documentary, 48’ Sales: Documentary And Experimental Film Center PALAIS B
L’INCOMPRESA Italy, Drama, 105’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Asia Argento Sales: Other Angle Pictures PALAIS J ROAMING WILD USA, Documentary, 66’ Dir: Sylvia Johnson Sales: Vmi Worldwide GRAY 4 14:00 ALLELUIA Belgium, Horror, 92’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Welz Fabrice Du Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 OLYMPIA 3 ANNA’S GATE France, Documentary, 82’ Dir: Patrick Dumont, François Hébrard Sales: Wide House PALAIS C FAULTS USA, First film, 99’ Dir: Riley Stearns Sales: Hanway Films OLYMPIA 4 INSECURE France, Drama, 83’ Section: ACID Dir: Marianne Tardieu Sales: Udi - Urban Distribution International RIVIERA 3 ONCE IN A LIFETIME (WORKING TITLE) France, Drama, 100’ Dir: Schaar Marie-Castille Mention Sales: Tf1 International OLYMPIA 5 ONLY CHILD China, Children’s, 88’ Dir: Wei Dong Yuan Sales: Beijing Sun Dance Co.,Ltd GRAY 1 PROGRAMME COURT - METRAGES 2 40’ Section: Critic’s Week Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR THE 7TH DWARF Germany, Animation, 80’ Dir: Harald Siepermann, Boris Aljinovic Sales: Global Screen Gmbh RIVIERA 1
THESE FINAL HOURS Australia, Thriller, 86’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Zak Hilditch Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares THEATRE CROISETTE 15:30 BUDDY Germany, Comedy, 94’ Dir: Herbig Michael Bully Sales: Beta Cinema ARCADES 3 CONCERNING VIOLENCE Sweden, Documentary, Dir: Göran Olsson Sales: Films Boutique RIVIERA 2 EVA BRAUN Italy, Erotic, 82’ Dir: Simone Scafidi Sales: Wide PALAIS H FANTASIA China, , 85’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Wang Chao Sales: Les Films Du Losange LERINS 1 INFERNO Slovenia, Drama, 100’ Dir: Vinko Möderndorfer Sales: Slovenian Film Centre PALAIS J
WILD TALES Spain, Thriller, 122’ Section: Competition Dir: Damián Szifron Sales: Film Factory Entertainment OLYMPIA 6 16:00 A CRY FROM WITHIN USA, Thriller, 94’ Dir: Zachary Miller, Deborah Twiss Sales: 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service Ltd. LERINS 2 A GOLDEN BOY Italy, Drama, 102’ Dir: Pupi Avati Sales: Rai Trade GRAY 1 AMOUR FOU Austria, Drama, 96’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Jessica Hausner Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) RIVIERA 3 BLUE AND NOT SO PINK Venezuela, Drama, 110’ Dir: Miguel Ferrari Sales: Centro Nacional Autonomo De Cinematografia PALAIS G FLYING HOME Belgium, Romance, 95’ Dir: Dominique Deruddere Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 1 HARD TO BE A GOD Russia, Drama, 177’ Dir: Aleksei German Sales: Capricci Films GRAY 3
LIFE TRACKER USA, Science-fiction, 102’ Dir: Joe Mcclean Sales: California Pictures, Inc. PALAIS B
HIS WEDDING DRESS Cuba, Drama, 100’ Dir: Marilyn Solaya Sales: Habanero PALAIS E MAESTRO 84’ Sales: Rezo ARCADES 2
ON TENDER HOOKS United Kingdom, Documentary, 70’ Dir: Kate Shenton Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS F
NELSON MANDELA: THE MYTH AND ME 86’ Sales: National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa PALAIS K
THE BOY AND THE WORLD Brazil, Animation, 80’ Dir: Ale Abreu Sales: Elo Company GRAY 4
NEULAND (UNKNOWN TERRITORY) Switzerland, Documentary, 93’ Dir: Anna Thommen Sales: Rise And Shine World Sales PALAIS C
THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY United Kingdom, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Hossein Amini Sales: Studiocanal ARCADES 1
RIO I LOVE YOU Brazil, Romance, 98’ Dir: Paolo Sorrentino Sales: Westend Films OLYMPIA 5
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WINTER SLEEP Turkey, Drama, 196’ Section: Competition Dir: Ceylan Nuri Bilge Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) OLYMPIA 3 WORKING THE CROWDS France, , 120’ Section: (NEXT) Round-Table Sales: Marche Du Film PALAIS I 17:00 EAT YOUR BONES France, Action/Adventure, 94’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Jean-Charles Hue Sales: Capricci Films THEATRE CROISETTE WHEN ANIMALS DREAM Denmark, Horror, 84’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Jonas Arnby Sales: Gaumont MIRAMAR 17:30 GEORGE A. ROMERO’S “DAWN OF THE DEAD” 3-D USA, 3D, 128’ Dir: George A. Romero Sales: New Amsterdam Entertainment, Inc. ARCADES 1 GO GO BOYS Israel, Biography, 88’ Dir: Hilla Medalia Sales: Other Angle Pictures STAR 4 MUET Turkey, Drama, 90’ Sales: Adelaware Company Karabulut Production Film Usa PALAIS J OLIVER’S DEAL Spain, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Barney Elliott Sales: Dreamcatchers GRAY 2 RUSHLIGHTS USA, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Antoni Stutz Sales: Moonstone Entertainment / Prestige Films PALAIS F SENSITIVE FLOOR Iran, Comedy, 88’ Dir: Kamal Tabrizi Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS B STREIF Austria, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Gerald Salmina Sales: Red Bull Media House PALAIS H
THE NEW WILDERNESS Netherlands, Documentary, 97’ Dir: Mark Verkerk, Ruben Smit Sales: Atlas International Film Gmbh PALAIS D 18:00 13 Iran, Drama, 90’ Dir: Hooman Seyedi Sales: Visual Media Institute PALAIS E 24 DAYS France, Drama, 110’ Dir: Alexandre Arcady Sales: Kinology OLYMPIA 4 BEAUTIFUL YOUTH Spain, Drama, 106’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Jaime Rosales Sales: Ndm OLYMPIA 6 FROG KINGDOM China, Animation, 86’ Dir: Nelson Shin Sales: Golden Network Asia Ltd RIVIERA 3 GENTE DE BIEN Colombia, First film, 90’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Franco Lolli Sales: Evidencia Films Y Producciones Ltda. ARCADES 2 JACKHAMMER Canada, Comedy, 109’ Dir: Michael Hanus Sales: Swimming Wings Productions Inc GRAY 5 KAMASUTRA 3D India, Epic, 100’ Dir: Rupesh Paul Sales: Gj Entertainments Mfze PALAIS K KUIBA China, Action/Adventure, 83’ Dir: Chuan Wang Sales: Vasoon Animation Co.,Ltd PALAIS G MAGICARENA Italy, Documentary, 85’ Dir: Andrea Prandstraller, Niccolo Bruna Sales: Wide House PALAIS C NICHOLAS ON HOLIDAY France, Children’s, 102’ Dir: Laurent Tirard Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1 REDIRECTED United Kingdom, Action/ Adventure, 97’ Dir: Emilis Velyvis Sales: Content Media Corporation OLYMPIA 5
THE FATAL ENCOUNTER Korea (South), Drama, 120’ Dir: Jae-Kyoo Lee Sales: Lotte Entertainment LERINS 2 THE SECOND GAME Romania, Documentary, 97’ Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu Sales: Romanian Film Centre PALAIS I 19:30 SONG FROM THE FOREST Germany, Documentary, Dir: Michael Obert Sales: Deckert Distribution Gmbh ARCADES 3
22:30 A HARD DAY Korea (South), Action/ Adventure, 111’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Seong-Hun Kim Sales: Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc. ARCADES 1 THE WINEDANCERS 110’ Sales: Godam Films PALAIS F WHEN ANIMALS DREAM Denmark, Horror, 84’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Jonas Arnby Sales: Gaumont MIRAMAR
20:00 SACRED JOURNEY OF THE HEART USA, Documentary, 86’ Dir: Skip Thomas Sales: 2 Bulls On The Hill Productions PALAIS B
24:00:00 DARKNESS BY DAY Argentina, Drama, 76’ Dir: Martín Desalvo Sales: M-Appeal World Sales Ug STAR 1
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Israel, Drama, 120’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Nadav Lapid Sales: Le Pacte MIRAMAR
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THE WAY OUT Czech Republic, Drama, 102’ Section: ACID Dir: Petr Vaclav Sales: Acid ARCADES 1 THE WOODS ARE STILL GREEN Austria, Drama, 107’ Dir: Marko Nabersnik Sales: Artdeluxe Gmbh PALAIS D VENGEFUL HEART Vietnam, Horror, 100’ Dir: Victor Vu Sales: Vietnam Media Corp. / Bhd Co, Ltd PALAIS J 20:30 CLOSER TO THE MOON Romania, Drama, 110’ Dir: Nae Caranfil Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares OLYMPIA 5 HOT ROAD Japan, Drama, 119’ Dir: Takahiro Miki Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd PALAIS G 22:00 THESE FINAL HOURS Australia, Thriller, 86’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Zak Hilditch Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares THEATRE CROISETTE
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08:30 WHEN ANIMALS DREAM Denmark, Horror, 84’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Jonas Arnby Sales: Gaumont MIRAMAR 09:00 QUEEN AND COUNTRY United Kingdom, Comedy, 114’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: John Boorman Sales: Le Pacte THEATRE CROISETTE 09:30 KIRA KIRALINA Romania, Drama, 100’ Dir: Dan Pita Sales: Romanian Film Centre PALAIS F TURNING 21: RICHARD LINKLATER USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Michael Dunaway Sales: Wood Entertainment GRAY 4 WILD TALES Spain, Thriller, 122’ Section: Competition Dir: Damián Szifron Sales: Film Factory Entertainment STAR 2 XENIA France, Drama, 123’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Panos H. Koutras Sales: Pyramide International LERINS 2
09:45 NOW OR NEVER France, Thriller, 95’ Dir: Serge Frydman Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 3 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Israel, Drama, 120’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Nadav Lapid Sales: Le Pacte OLYMPIA 4 10:00 BEAUTIFUL YOUTH Spain, Drama, 106’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Jaime Rosales Sales: Ndm OLYMPIA 6 CIUDAD DELIRIO Colombia, Musical, 90’ Dir: Chus Gutierrez Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 1 FLARE Japan, Drama, 93’ Dir: Yuki Otsuka Sales: 2017 Films PALAIS E SELF MADE Israel, Drama, 105’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Shira Geffen Sales: Westend Films PALAIS K THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG Philippines, Documentary Dir: Andrew Leavold Sales: Monster Pictures GRAY 3 THE STATESMAN France, Drama, 90’ Dir: Pierre Courrege Sales: Cinexport PALAIS C TO THE HILT Macedonia, Drama, 165’ Dir: Stole Popov Sales: Macedonian Film Agency GRAY 1 10:30 FAIRE:L’AMOUR France, Drama, 165’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Djinn Carrénard Sales: Elle Driver STAR 4 11:30 BACKCOUNTRY Canada, Thriller, 89’ Dir: Adam Macdonald Sales: Fella Films ARCADES 3 BIRD PEOPLE France, unknown, 127’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Pascale Ferran Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 3
CANADA: NOT SHORT ON TALENT Canada, 110’ Sales: Telefilm Canada PALAIS F CANTINFLAS Mexico, Biography, 98’ Dir: Amo Sebastián Del Sales: 6 Sales GRAY 4 EAT YOUR BONES France, Action/Adventure, 94’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Jean-Charles Hue Sales: Capricci Films ARCADES 1 HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International MIRAMAR JAUJA Argentina, Drama, 108’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Lisandro Alonso Sales: Ndm PALAIS H LOVELY LOUISE Switzerland, Comedy, 91’ Dir: Bettina Oberli Sales: Picture Tree International Gmbh GRAY 2 SISYPHUS K. Serbia, Drama, 84’ Dir: Filip Gajic Sales: Film Center Serbia PALAIS J
EAT YOUR BONES France, Action/Adventure, 94’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Jean-Charles Hue Sales: Capricci Films PALAIS E I-LIVED USA, Thriller, 98’ Dir: Franck Khalfoun Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment Llc LERINS 2
PARTY GIRL France, Drama, 95’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis Sales: Pyramide International STAR 3
JULIA USA, Horror, 95’ Dir: Matthew Brown Sales: Archstone Distribution GRAY 3
THE BLUE ROOM France, Thriller, 76’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Mathieu Amalric Sales: Alfama Films ARCADES 1
MERCHANTS OF DOUBT 91’ Sales: Participant Media OLYMPIA 5
THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Japan, Animation, 137’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Isao Takahata Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 4
ROSENN Belgium, Drama, 105’ Dir: Moine Yvan Le Sales: Aa Les Films Belges PALAIS K ZERO MOTIVATION Israel, Drama, 100’ Dir: Talya Lavie Sales: The Match Factory OLYMPIA 4 12:10 RED ARMY USA, Documentary, 85’ Section: Competition Dir: Polsky Gabe Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1
12:00 A PATRIOTIC MAN Finland, Comedy, 97’ Dir: Arto Halonen Sales: Croatian Audiovisual Centre OLYMPIA 3
13:30 AZAR, SHAHDOKHT, PARVIZ AND OTHERS Iran, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Behruz Afkhami Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS B
ANSELM, THE YOUNG WEREWOLF Finland, Drama, 80’ Dir: Matti Pekkanen Sales: Black Lion Pictures Ltd GRAY 5
CANADA: NOT SHORT ON TALENT Canada, 110’ Sales: Telefilm Canada PALAIS F
BEST OF THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT USA, 110’ Sales: Short Film Corner PALAIS I CARTOONISTS : FOOT SOLDIERS OF DEMOCRATY? France, Documentary, 105’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: Stéphanie Valloatto Sales: Kinology OLYMPIA 6 DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT Italy, Drama, 94’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Sebastiano Riso Sales: Rai Trade OLYMPIA 7
MANOS SUCIAS USA, Drama, 82’ Dir: Josef Wladyka Sales: 6 Sales GRAY 2
THE WHOLE WORLD AT OUR FEET Kazakstan, Action/ Adventure, 105’ Dir: Salamat MukhammedAli Sales: “Bes Karu” Federation PALAIS J 13:45 GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALLEM France, Drama, 115’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 3 14:00 ARDOR Argentina, Thriller, 90’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: Pablo Fendrik Sales: Bac Films PALAIS I
CONCERNING VIOLENCE Sweden, Documentary Dir: Göran Olsson Sales: Films Boutique PALAIS H
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT USA, Documentary, 110’ Dir: Pj Raval Sales: Wide House RIVIERA 1 BEIJING LOVE STORY China, Romance, 110’ Dir: Sicheng Chen Sales: Wanda Media Co., Ltd PALAIS C
DIOR AND I USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Frederic Tcheng Sales: Submarine Entertainment GRAY 4
CHAVORET: THE LAST EXECUTIONER Thailand, Biography, 90’ Dir: Tom Waller Sales: De Warrenne Pictures LERINS 2
LOOKING FOR MARIA SANCHEZ Puerto Rico, Comedy, 97’ Dir: Bruno Irizarry Sales: Eastwest Filmdistribution Gmbh LERINS 1
HASTA MANANA France, Drama, 80’ Dir: Olivier Vidal, Sébastien Maggiani Sales: Cinexport GRAY 5
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LEA, AN ANGEL IN MY HOUSE France, First film, 101’ Dir: Jacques-Hervé Fichet Sales: Quasar M4 Productions PALAIS E LEGEND OF A RABBIT: THE MARTIAL OF FIRE China, Animation, 90’ Dir: Da Ke Dong Sales: Tianjin North Film Group PALAIS K
ANGELS DESCEND TOGETHER Iran, Drama, 92’ Dir: Hamed Mohammadi Sales: Soureh Cinema Organization PALAIS B DER LETZTE MENTSCH Germany, Drama, 95’ Dir: Pierre-Henry Salfati Sales: Atlas International Film Gmbh RIVIERA 4
NOBLE Ireland, Drama, 100’ Dir: Stephen Bradley Sales: Continental Media OLYMPIA 6
FAUST 2 Sweden, Horror, 80’ Dir: Johannes Pinter, Micke Von Engstrom, Nicolas Debot, Allan Gustafsson Sales: Jinga Films PALAIS D
ON ANY SUNDAY USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Bruce Brown, Dana Brown Sales: Red Bull Media House PALAIS G
JOY OF FATHERHOOD Germany, Comedy, 110’ Dir: Matthias Schweighöfer Sales: Global Screen Gmbh LERINS 1
PSEUDONYM France, Thriller, 75’ Dir: Thierry Sebban Sales: Talantis Productions OLYMPIA 3 RIO I LOVE YOU Brazil, Romance, 98’ Dir: Paolo Sorrentino Sales: Westend Films ARCADES 2 SORRY I LOVE YOU China, Drama, 107’ Dir: Larry Yang Sales: Bravos Pictures Ltd. OLYMPIA 4 TIME LAPSE USA, Science-fiction, 104’ Dir: Bradley King Sales: Devilworks GRAY 3 14:30 TU DORS NICOLE Canada, Drama, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Stéphane Lafleur Sales: Seville International THEATRE CROISETTE 15:00 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Israel, Drama, 120’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Nadav Lapid Sales: Le Pacte MIRAMAR
15:15 IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER France, Drama, 120’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: André Téchiné Sales: Elle Driver STAR 3 15:30 ACES Spain, Black comedy, 100’ Dir: Alfonso Zarauza Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 2
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LAWRENCE & HOLLOMAN Canada, Comedy, 88’ Dir: Matthew Kowalchuk Sales: Ameland Films Inc. PALAIS H MEMORIES OF THE DESERT Brazil, Crime, 98’ Dir: Jorge Duran Sales: Bogeydom Licensing GRAY 4 PHANTASMAGORIA France, Fantasy, 82’ Dir: Mickael Abbate, Tiziano Martella, Domiziano Cristopharo Sales: The Open Reel PALAIS F PLEASURE ISLAND United Kingdom, Drama, 98’ Dir: Mike Doxford Sales: Achilles Entertainments GRAY 2 RED CARPET Iran, Drama, 80’ Dir: Reza Attaran Sales: Iran Novin Film ARCADES 1 16:00 AUGUST FOOLS Finland, Romance, 100’ Dir: Taru Mäkela Sales: Insomnia World Sales ARCADES 2 BAL GOES TO CANNES 90’ Sales: Bafici PALAIS K DISCOPATH Canada, Horror, 80’ Dir: Renaud Gauthier Sales: Devilworks PALAIS G LE MERAVIGLIE Italy, Drama, 95’ Section: Competition Dir: Alice Rohrwacher Sales: The Match Factory STAR 2
LEÓN’S HEART Argentina, Comedy, 100’ Dir: Marcos Carnevale Sales: Filmexport Group GRAY 3 LITTLE QUINQUIN France, Comedy, 200’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Bruno Dumont Sales: Ndm OLYMPIA 3
DEJA VU Romania, Drama, 74’ Dir: Dan Chisu Sales: Romanian Film Centre PALAIS D ETA CARINAE France, Drama, 97’ Dir: Robin Entreinger Sales: 2017 Films PALAIS H
PLEASE BE NORMAL USA, Drama, 91’ Dir: Haik Kocharian Sales: Princ Films GRAY 5
GONZAGA Brazil, Biography, 130’ Dir: Breno Silveira Sales: Jangada GRAY 4
PUTTING THE DEMAND IN VIDEO-ON-DEMAND France, 120’ Section: (NEXT) Round-Table Sales: Marche Du Film PALAIS I
HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International MIRAMAR
RECYCLING LILY Switzerland, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Pierre Monnard Sales: Be For Films OLYMPIA 6
KALACHAKRA - L’EVEIL France, Documentary, 83’ Dir: Natalie Fuchs Sales: Leelame Production GRAY 2
REFUGIADO Argentina, Drama, 93’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Diego Lerman Sales: Memento Films International (Mfi) STAR 1
PUFF USA, First film, 93’ Dir: Tod Lautenberg Sales: Psychedelic Pictures PALAIS J
THE LAST 5 YEARS USA, Musical, 94’ Dir: Richard Lagravenese Sales: The Exchange OLYMPIA 5 TRACES OF SANDALWOOD Spain, Drama, 95’ Dir: Maria Ripoll Sales: Imagina International Sales PALAIS E WORKS IN PROGRESS Czech Republic, Drama, 90’ Sales: Czech Film Center RIVIERA 3 ZAGREB CAPPUCCINO Croatia, Drama, 74’ Dir: Vanja Sviličić Sales: Croatian Audiovisual Centre GRAY 1 17:00 QUEEN AND COUNTRY United Kingdom, Comedy, 114’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: John Boorman Sales: Le Pacte THEATRE CROISETTE 17:30 BURNING CALCUTTA India, Drama, 87’ Dir: Kajal Choudhury Sales: New World Cinemas, Inc LERINS 1
RELATIVE HAPPINESS Canada, Comedy, 95’ Sales: The Acme Film Company ARCADES 3 TRANSGRESSION France, Erotic, 72’ Dir: Jean-François Davy Sales: Wide RIVIERA 2 WE ARE ALL SOLDIERS Iran, Documentary, 60’ Sales: Documentary And Experimental Film Center PALAIS B 18:00 5 MINUTES USA, Second film, 89’ Dir: Gabriel Schmidt Sales: Swimming Wings Productions Inc GRAY 5 CHILDREN OF THE SUN Macedonia, Drama, 92’ Dir: Antonio Mitrikeski Sales: Macedonian Film Agency RIVIERA 1 DEALER France, First film, 75’ Dir: Jean-Luc Herbulot Sales: Multipass Prod ARCADES 2 FANTASIE ADVENTURE 99’ Sales: Beijing Film Academy (Bfa) PALAIS I
FOUR MOONS Mexico, LGBT, 95’ Dir: Velarde Sergio Tovar Sales: Habanero PALAIS E FRENCH DOLLS France, Comedy, 95’ Dir: Katia Lewkowicz Sales: Wild Bunch OLYMPIA 5 RUSSIAN CINEMA SCREENING PRESENTATION 110’ Sales: Russian Cinema Fund PALAIS K THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY: ELITIST, DELUDED OR DORMANT? United Kingdom, Documentary, 110’ Dir: Robin Dutta, Vinod Mahindru Sales: Quota Films Limited GRAY 3 THE TORTURE CLUB Japan, Erotic, 97’ Dir: Kota Yoshida Sales: Kadokawa Corporation PALAIS C UNDER THE ELECTRIC SKY 89’ Sales: The Exchange OLYMPIA 7 19:45 TRUE LOVE WAYS Germany, Erotic, 103’ Dir: Mathieu Seiler Sales: House Of Film Llc RIVIERA 4 20:00 PROGRAMME COURT - METRAGES 2 140’ Section: Critic’s Week Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR THE GIRL AND THE RIVER France, Second film, 65’ Section: ACID Dir: Aurélia Georges Sales: Acid ARCADES 1 22:00 HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International MIRAMAR 22:15 TU DORS NICOLE Canada, Drama, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Stéphane Lafleur Sales: Seville International THEATRE CROISETTE
22:30 THESE FINAL HOURS Australia, Thriller, 86’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Zak Hilditch Sales: Celluloid Dreams / Nightmares ARCADES 1 24:00 THE HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME Venezuela, Horror, 100’ Dir: Alejandro Hidalgo Sales: Jinga Films STAR 1
MAY 21 08:30 HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International MIRAMAR 09:30 XENIA France, Drama, 123’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Panos H. Koutras Sales: Pyramide International RIVIERA 2 09:45 COMING HOME China, Drama, 111’ Section: Out of Competition Dir: Zhang Yimou Sales: Wild Bunch OLYMPIA 5 10:00 HANDYMEN Croatia, Comedy, 75’ Dir: Dalibor Matanic Sales: Croatian Audiovisual Centre PALAIS G L’INCOMPRESA Italy, Drama, 105’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Asia Argento Sales: Other Angle Pictures PALAIS I LITTLE QUINQUIN France, Comedy, 200’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Bruno Dumont Sales: Ndm THEATRE CROISETTE 11:15 FRENCH WOMEN France, Comedy, 118’ Dir: Audrey Dana Sales: Elle Driver ARCADES 3 11:30 “BURNING, BURNOUT” 70’ Sales: Viewniverse Studio PALAIS J A PATRIOTIC MAN Finland, Drama, 101’ Dir: Arto Halonen Sales: Wide PALAIS H
ACTING INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE France, , 110’ Sales: Short Film Corner PALAIS F HOPE France, Drama, 91’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Boris Lojkine Sales: Pyramide International LERINS 1 I AM YOURS Norway, First film, 96’ Dir: Iram Haq Sales: Premium Films PALAIS B RIVERRUN Brazil, Drama, 97’ Dir: Paulo Sacramento Sales: One Eyed Films GRAY 4 STABLE UNSTABLE Lebanon, First film, 87’ Dir: Mahmoud Hojeij Sales: Fondation Liban Cinema PALAIS E THE LAMB Chile, Black comedy, 90’ Dir: Juan Francisco Olea Sales: Habanero PALAIS D THE TRIBE Ukraine, Drama, 130’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Sales: Alpha Violet MIRAMAR 12:00 ONE FOR THE ROAD Mexico, Comedy, 91’ Dir: Kababie Jack Zagha Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 3 THE STRANGER Dominican Republic, Drama, 105’ Dir: César Rodríguez Sales: Filmexport Group PALAIS C WHISPERS OF THE FOREST Chile, 3D, 90’ Dir: Jorge Olguín Sales: Demente Producciones PALAIS I 13:30 BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER Lebanon, Documentary, 95’ Dir: Sarah Francis Sales: Fondation Liban Cinema PALAIS B CANADA: NOT SHORT ON TALENT Canada, 110’ Sales: Telefilm Canada PALAIS F
DESERT WORLD OF BLACK SOULS Brazil, Thriller, 100’ Dir: Ruy Veridiano Sales: Heavybunker PALAIS D MY BROTHER’S KEEPER Germany, Drama, 88’ Dir: Maximilian Leo Sales: Media Luna New Films Ug RIVIERA 4 14:00 3D LOST IN WRESTLING Hong Kong (China), 3D, 98’ Dir: Casey Chan Sales: Gold Harbour International Films PALAIS I BIRD PEOPLE France, unknown, 127’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Pascale Ferran Sales: Films Distribution RIVIERA 3 ROMANTIC NOSTALGIA Iran, Drama, 88’ Dir: Reza Azamian Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS E SCRAP YARD France, Documentary, 87’ Dir: Nadège Trebal Sales: Doc & Film International RIVIERA 1 THE 808 96’ Sales: Paul Thiltges Distributions Sarl PALAIS G 14:30 THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Japan, Animation, 137’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Isao Takahata Sales: Wild Bunch THEATRE CROISETTE 15:00 COLLECTION CANAL + 74’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR 15:30 ARTLESS Canada, Romance, 95’ Dir: Jeremy Major Sales: The Shooting Eye PALAIS B EAT YOUR BONES France, Action/Adventure, 94’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Jean-Charles Hue Sales: Capricci Films PALAIS D
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ILLUSION Germany, Drama, 93’ Dir: Roland Reber Sales: Wtp International Gmbh RIVIERA 4 NO WAY OUT 83’ Sales: National Cinema Center Of Armenia PALAIS F THE WHOLE WORLD AT OUR FEET Kazakstan, Action/ Adventure, 105’ Dir: Salamat MukhammedAli Sales: “Bes Karu” Federation PALAIS H 16:00 DIOR AND I USA, Documentary, 90’ Dir: Frederic Tcheng Sales: Submarine Entertainment GRAY 3 GHOSTS Iran, Drama, 95’ Dir: Dariush Mehrjui
Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation PALAIS E I AM A WOLF China, Animation, 110’ Dir: Shengjun Yu Sales: Inlook Vision Media RIVIERA 1 LOVE ME HAITI USA, Drama, 135’ Dir: Hugues Gentillon Sales: Yugy Pictures Entertainment PALAIS G PEOPLE-POWERED CINEMA France, , 120’ Section: (NEXT) Round-Table Sales: Marche Du Film PALAIS I TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Belgium, Drama, 95’ Section: Competition Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1
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WHITE GOD Hungary, Drama, 119’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Kornél Mundruczó Sales: The Match Factory STAR 2 16:30 LOVE ME HAITI USA, Drama, 135’ Dir: Hugues Gentillon Sales: Yugy Pictures Entertainment PALAIS G 17:00 LOVE ME HAITI USA, Drama, 135’ Dir: Hugues Gentillon Sales: Yugy Pictures Entertainment PALAIS G THE TRIBE Ukraine, Drama, 130’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Sales: Alpha Violet MIRAMAR
17:30 HEAVEN ADMITS NO SLAVES (UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 2013-2014) Ukraine, Documentary Dir: Ruslan Batytskyi, Lesya Kalynska Sales: Pomegranate Studios Inc PALAIS F
THE CREATIVE MIND GROUP - SHORTS USA, 110’ Sales: The Creative Mind Group PALAIS B VACANT HOUSE USA, Drama, 108’ Dir: Jeremy Casper Sales: Swimming Wings Productions Inc PALAIS D
LOVE ME HAITI USA, Drama, 135’ Dir: Hugues Gentillon Sales: Yugy Pictures Entertainment PALAIS G
17:45 QUEEN AND COUNTRY United Kingdom, Comedy, 114’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: John Boorman Sales: Le Pacte THEATRE CROISETTE
MATEI CHILD MINER Romania, Drama, 80’ Dir: Alexandra Gulea Sales: Romanian Film Centre PALAIS H PASSENGER FROM SAN FRANCISCO Russia, Drama, 126’ Dir: Anatoly Balchev Sales: Apollo Film Production ARCADES 3
18:00 BODYBUILDER France, Drama, 100’ Dir: Roschdy Zem Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 1 KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER USA, Drama, 105’ Dir: David Zellner
Sales: Submarine Entertainment PALAIS C ROSENN Belgium, Drama, 105’ Dir: Moine Yvan Le Sales: Aa Les Films Belges PALAIS K XENIA France, Drama, 123’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Panos H. Koutras Sales: Pyramide International OLYMPIA 5 20:00 MERCURIALES France, First film, 108’ Section: ACID Dir: Virgil Vernier Sales: Acid ARCADES 1 20:30 THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Japan, Animation, 137’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Isao Takahata Sales: Wild Bunch THEATRE CROISETTE
22:00 THE TRIBE Ukraine, Drama, 130’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Sales: Alpha Violet MIRAMAR
09:00 NEXT TO HER Israel, First film, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Asaf Korman Sales: Films Boutique THEATRE CROISETTE
22:30 QUEEN AND COUNTRY United Kingdom, Comedy, 114’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: John Boorman Sales: Le Pacte ARCADES 1
09:30 SNOW IN PARADISE United Kingdom, Drama, 108’ Section: Un Certain Regard Dir: Andrew Hulme Sales: The Match Factory STAR 3
MAY 22 08:30 THE TRIBE Ukraine, Drama, 130’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Sales: Alpha Violet MIRAMAR
10:00 THE SEARCH France, Drama, 160’ Section: Competition Dir: Michel Hazanavicius Sales: Wild Bunch STAR 2 11:30 ALLELUIA Belgium, Horror, 92’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Welz Fabrice Du Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 THEATRE CROISETTE
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PALMARES DE MORALIA 90’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR TU DORS NICOLE Canada, Drama, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Stéphane Lafleur Sales: Seville International ARCADES 1 13:30 GRIFFITH FILM SCHOOL 2014 SHOWCASE Australia, , 110’ Sales: Short Film Corner PALAIS F 14:00 PROGRAMME COURTS 1 92’ Section: Directors Fortnight Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE
17:00 NEXT TO HER Israel, First film, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Asaf Korman Sales: Films Boutique THEATRE CROISETTE 19:00 CEREMONIE DE CLOTURE 90’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR 19:30 ALLELUIA Belgium, Horror, 92’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Welz Fabrice Du Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 THEATRE CROISETTE 20:00 THE CREATIVE MIND GROUP - SHORTS USA, 110’ Sales: The Creative Mind Group STAR 2
THE RULES OF THE GAME France, Documentary, 106’ Section: ACID Dir: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard Sales: Doc & Film International ARCADES 1 20:30 HIPPOCRATES France, Comedy, 101’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Thomas Lilti Sales: Le Pacte MIRAMAR 22:00 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE USA, Horror, 84’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Tobe Hooper Sales: Mpi Media Group THEATRE CROISETTE
MAY 23 10:00 PRIDE United Kingdom, Comedy, 117’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Matthew Warchus Sales: Pathe International (Fr) THEATRE CROISETTE 11:30 NEXT TO HER Israel, First film, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Asaf Korman Sales: Films Boutique ARCADES 1 PRIX CANAL+ ET PRIX REVELATION FRANCE 4 90’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR 14:00 PROGRAMME COURTS 2 99’ Section: Directors Fortnight
Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE 15:00 HIPPOCRATES France, Comedy, 101’ Section: Critic’s Week Dir: Thomas Lilti Sales: Le Pacte MIRAMAR 17:00 PRIX DECOUVERTE SONY CINE ALTA + GRAND PRIX NESPRESSO 90’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR 19:30 PRIDE United Kingdom, Comedy, 117’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Matthew Warchus Sales: Pathe International (Fr) THEATRE CROISETTE
20:00 AIDE FONDATION GAN A LA DIFFUSION 90’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR NEW TERRITORIES France, First film, 88’ Section: ACID Dir: Fabianny Deschamps Sales: Acid ARCADES 1 22:00 PRIX SACD 90’ Sales: Semaine De La Critique MIRAMAR 22:30 NEXT TO HER Israel, First film, 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Asaf Korman Sales: Films Boutique ARCADES 1
MAY 24 10:00 LITTLE QUINQUIN France, Comedy, 200’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Bruno Dumont Sales: Ndm THEATRE CROISETTE 11:30 ALLELUIA Belgium, Horror, 92’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Welz Fabrice Du Sales: Snd - Groupe M6 ARCADES 1 14:00 FILM PRIMÉ - LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE PRIX OCÉANS FRANCE Ô 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight
Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE 17:00 FILMS PRIMÉS - PRIX ILLY, ART CINEMA AWARD 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE 19:30 FILM PRIMÉ - PRIX SACD 90’ Section: Directors Fortnight Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs THEATRE CROISETTE 22:30 THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Japan, Animation, 137’ Section: Directors Fortnight Dir: Isao Takahata Sales: Wild Bunch ARCADES 1
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