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Woodrow resurfaces with Vendian venture BY JEREMY KAY
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Weisz snatches key role in kidnap thriller BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
Rachel Weisz is to star in and produce $15m kidnapping thriller Snatchback, being launched here by Protagonist Pictures. Oscar winner Weisz co-developed the project and will produce alongside Pan’s Labyrinth and Magic Magic producer Frida Torresblanco of New York-based Braven Films. Pete Travis (Dredd) has written the script and will direct. Snatchback is based on the true story of Maureen Dabbagh, a woman from Virginia whose exhusband stole away their two-yearold daughter and took her to the Middle East in 1992. Dabbagh spent more than a decade searching for her daughter before she finally found her. In Travis’s script, Weisz’s character becomes a mercenary engaged in dangerous missions across the Middle East to help other families recover kidnapped children — while never giving up her own search. An international cast is understood to be gathering around Weisz, with the shoot scheduled to kick off later this year. Eric Laufer, Giovanna Randall and Josh Goldstein will executive produce. Jon Furay and James LaVigne will co-produce, in association with Vigorous Pictures. Weisz, who is repped by CAA and Independent Talent Group, will be in Cannes with a pair of anticipated Competition titles: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth.
Christopher Woodrow flies into Cannes with a new finance and production venture that has raised $100m in equity and invested in six of the biggest titles to hit the market in the past two years. The former CEO of Worldview will continue to raise funds to enable Vendian Entertainment to mount six or more commercial films a year in the $15m-$65m range. CAA advised on the formation of the Los Angeles and New York-based company, which aims to greenlight projects with North American distribution in place. The six projects on which Vendian will co-finance and serve as executive producer include Oliver Stone’s Snowden, which Open Road will release in the US on
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December 25. Gary Ross’s Civil War drama The Free State Of Jones is shooting now with Matthew McConaughey and will open in March 2016 via STX. Vendian backs three Cross Creek Pictures titles: Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp, will open in September through Warner Bros;
while Lionsgate has eyed 2016 for Mel Gibson’s Second World War drama Hacksaw Ridge. Universal has earmarked a January 2017 launch for Doug Liman’s thriller Mena, starring Tom Cruise. Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, starring Elle Fanning and Keanu Reeves, is understood to be close to a US deal. Woodrow, who backed Birdman among other titles while at Worldview and is embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with the company, has hired former PalmStar Media Capital co-CEO Michael Bassick as partner, president and COO of Vendian. Ronald Hohauser arrives from Summit as CFO, and Blaine Johnston and Elexa Ruth are also on board.
Kidman circles John Cameron Mitchell’s space oddity BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
Nicole Kidman is in advanced discussions to join John Cameron Mitchell’s romantic comedy How To Talk To Girls At Parties, readying for an autumn shoot in the UK. Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson (The Affair) and Matt Lucas are also set to join the previously announced Elle Fanning (Maleficent) on the hot project, which has been newly boarded by production outfit See-Saw and sales outfit HanWay. They are launching the project in Cannes. Hedwig And The Angry Inch director Mitchell and Philippa
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Goslett (Little Ashes) have written the screenplay, which is adapted from Neil Gaiman’s short story of the same name in which an alien (Fanning) meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous
place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon. Howard Gertler (How To Survive A Plague) of Little Punk will produce alongside Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See-Saw (The King’s Speech), whose anticipated drama Macbeth plays here in Competition. Executive producers are Michael J Werner and Winnie Lau. CAA represents the US while HanWay will consult with Fortissimo — which previously handled the film — on Asian territories. The project is due to reunite Kidman with Mitchell, who directed her in Rabbit Hole.
Anderson and Smit-McPhee due to Croak Gillian Anderson is to star alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee (Slow West) in the first live-action film from director Sam Fell. Smit-McPhee is in final negotiations to star in Croak, which would reunite him with his ParaNorman director. Also cast is
newcomer Tilda Cobham-Hervey (52 Tuesdays). Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s new sales outfit, Cornerstone Films, is introducing the fantastical romantic comedy to buyers in Cannes. Nicole Carmen-
Davis, Rebekah Gilbertson and Philippa Campbell are producing the feature, about a world-weary teenager and a young grim reaper. Anderson will play the grim ‘Mistress’ who keeps watch over the reaper. Andreas Wiseman
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Jackie Chan vehicle steams into town BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has picked up the international rights to Jackie Chan’s next project, $50m action comedy Railroad Tigers, to be directed by Ding Sheng. Set in China in 1941, the film will star Chan as a railroad worker heading a team of freedom fighters who use their extensive knowledge of the train network to ambush Japanese forces and steal food for starving Chinese people. Investors in the film include Sparkle Roll Media Corporation, Shanghai Film Group, Beijing Going Zoom Media and Shanghai New Culture Media Group. Scheduled to start production in October, the film aims to revive the spirit of classic Chan comedies such as Project A and Drunken Master II, but with a bigger budget and more elaborate action sequences. Ding recently launched Beijing Going Zoom Media and previously worked with Chan on Little Big Soldier and Police Story 2013. Railroad Tigers is being lined up for release in October 2016, around the time of China’s National Day holidays. Chan scored a massive hit earlier this year with historical action film Dragon Blade, also starring Adrien Brody and John Cusack, which grossed $130m in Asia and will screen as one of the first titles on the new Lionsgate Premiere label. Railroad Tigers reunites some of the investors in that film.
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Showbox’s Assassination hits target By liz ShackletOn
Korea’s Showbox/Mediaplex has signed a string of pre-sales on Choi Dong-hoon’s Assassination, including North American rights, which have gone to Well Go USA. The film, which stars Gianna Jun, Lee Jung-jae and Ha Jungwoo, has also been sold to China (Bona Film Distribution), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Taiwan (Movie Cloud), Singapore and Malaysia (Dream Movies), Indonesia (PT. Prima Cinema Multimedia), Thailand (Coral Culture Content) and the Philippines (Viva Communications). Produced by Caper Films, Assassination is an espionage action title set in Shanghai and Seoul during Japanese occupation in 1933. It is scheduled for a wide Korean release in July, and Showbox will screen the first trailer in Cannes. Choi Dong-hoon’s credits include The Thieves, Woochi and Tazza: The High Rollers. Showbox’s slate includes three other titles from Korean directors: Kwak Kyung-taek’s The Classified File, Lee Joon-ik’s The Throne and Lee Yoon-ki’s A Man And A Woman.
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Gaumont goes ape for Odd Job and Pattaya By Melanie GOOdfellOw
Gaumont has launched sales on Pascal Chaumeil’s upcoming Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot), achieving a first early deal to Pathé Switzerland on the eve of the Marché. The production unites Chaumeil with Romain Duris, costar of his 2010 hit Heartbreaker, as a down-on-his-luck unemployed factory worker who takes on a job as a hitman. Odd Job, shooting in Mallorca, is based on Iain Levison’s novel Since The Layoffs and was adapted by actor Michel Blanc, who also appears in the film. Other new titles include Franck Gastambide’s comedy Pattaya, in which he stars alongside Malik Bentalha as friends on a madcap trip to a notorious Thai resort.
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It is Gastambide’s second feature after his 2012 hit Porn In The Hood. Benelux’s Alternative became one of the first distributors to sign for the film just before Cannes. Gaumont is also selling Mathieu Vadepied’s Learn By
Heart, about a reluctant teen drug dealer trying to raise cash for his mother. It is a debut feature for Vadepied, a director of photography whose credits include Intouchables by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, who produced the feature under the Ten Films banner.
Armitage, Harris get Clearance By andreaS wiSeMan
The Hobbit star Richard Armitage and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom actress Naomie Harris are to star in action drama Clearance. The film, being sold here by Umedia International, is from producers Ryan Haidarian (Vehicle 19), Andrew D Corkin (We Are What We Are), Jesse Fryckman (Sauna) and David Murdoch (1 Star). The English-language debut of Finnish director Aku Louhimies (Frozen Land) tells the
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story of a hardened mine clearance expert (Armitage) and his pregnant partner (Harris) who are kidnapped in South Sudan and must navigate a vast minefield during their escape. The script comes from Svet Rouskov (The Colony), with a South Africa shoot scheduled for November. Umedia has world rights excluding South Africa and Scandinavia. Forefront Media, Uncorked Productions, Solar Films and Sinner Films produce.
Armitage is currently filming the third series of US drama Hannibal, while Harris stars in Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Southpaw and reprises her role as Moneypenny in James Bond film Spectre. Umedia sales head Peter Rogers said Clearance was “a smart action film, set against an interesting, topical background”. Armitage is represented by Esther Chang at WME and Evelyn O’Neill at Management 360. Harris is represented by Jeremy Barber at UTA.
Geoblocking gets testy By Martin Blaney
On the eve of his first visit to Cannes, European commissioner Günther Oettinger has challenged the European film industry to evidence their calls for maintaining the territoriality principle. Speaking to European Parliament deputies after unveiling the commission’s Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy, Oettinger declared: “It’s up to the film industry to prove they cannot survive with one market. I will give them the chance to do this in conversations, financial figures and in a market analysis. “There is an unprecedented existential fear,” he said. “We will examine whether it is justified.” According to Oettinger, he is looking for “compromise” or “stepby-step solutions”. “I want to integrate and not divide,” he said. However, MEP Julia Reda of the Pirate Party, who dismissed the DSM Strategy’s proposed antigeoblocking measures as being limited to “roaming for Netflix”, countered that “if geoblocking is supposed to protect cultural diversity in European cinema, how is it that even the most successful European films are not legally available at all in most countries? I tested this with the winners of the European Film Awards from the past 10 years. If these films are dependent on the financing through VoD rights in other countries, why are they not available?” On May 18, Oettinger will open the second edition of the European Film Forum in Cannes.
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NTV’s Persona Non Grata pops up at Cannes BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Japan’s Nippon Television (NTV) has added Japanese historical drama Persona Non Grata — filmed entirely in Poland — to its Cannes slate. Directed by Cellin Gluck, the film tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat working in Lithuania during the Second World War, who rescued more than 10,000 Jewish people by issuing them with transit visas through Japan to Curacao. Gluck previously directed the Japanese version of Sideways. Persona Non Grata is produced by Tokyo-based Cine Bazar and had Poland’s Akson Studio on board as line producer. During the shoot, Polish cities doubled for Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, New York, Bucharest and Lithuania. Toshiaki Karasawa plays Sugihara and the cast also includes Koyuki (The Last Samurai), Agnieszka Grochowska (Walesa: Man Of Hope) and Borys Szyc (Snow White And Russian Red). NTV is holding an invitationonly work-in-progress screening of the film in Cannes. The Japanese release is set for December 2015.
Celluloid Dreams picks up Kurosawa’s Woman BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Celluloid Dreams has picked up sales on Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s upcoming Frenchlanguage fantasy tale The Woman In The Silver Plate, starring Olivier Gourmet and Tahar Rahim. Gourmet plays a man obsessed with an old photography technique — said to have given eternal afterlife to the souls of the people whose image it captured — while Rahim plays his new assistant who falls under the spell of the boss’s daughter.
Fortissimo in Closet Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Stephen Dunn’s directorial debut Closet Monster. The drama follows a teenager haunted by horrific images of a childhood trauma.
Shanghai Media Group Pictures is to market and distribute Arclight Films’ The Stone Forest in China. Nicholas McCallum will direct the 3D action romance. Arclight handles sales outside China.
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Noomi Rapace will play the most influential female opera singer of the 20th century in one of the most glamorous projects on the market, which Content introduces to buyers this week. Niki Caro is attached to direct the Maria Callas biopic from a screenplay she adapted from Alfonso Signorini’s biography Too Proud, Too Fragile. Callas centres on the US-born Greek soprano’s relationship in her final years with shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who she met while married to Italian industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini. Guido, Nicola and Marco De Angelis of Italy’s De Angelis Group are producing alongside René Bastian, Linda Moran and Victoria Bousis of New York-based Belladonna Productions and Ben Latham-Jones of the UK’s Ealing Studios and Londinium Films. Jeremy Kay
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some three years after the husband drowned. Rahim is the co-star of The Anarchists, which opens Critics’ Week, and is also a member of the Un Certain Regard jury. Celluloid Dreams will also market premiere Takeshi Kitano’s retired Yakuza comedy Ryuzo And The Seven Henchmen and animation series The Sushi Police. It is also handling sales of Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or contender Dheepan and Nabil Ayouch’s Much Loved.
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Kurosawa’s first French-language film is in post-production having shot earlier this year on the outskirts of Paris. It is produced by Paris-based Michiko Yoshitake of Film-inEvolution. Jérome Dopffer’s Les Productions Balthazar are co-producing with Tokyo-based Bitters End, with the backing of FrancoGerman broadcaster Arte. Kurosawa is here in Un Certain Regard with his supernatural romance Journey To The Shore, about a couple who are reunited
Conquistador Entertainment has unveiled its Cannes slate, which is led by Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Odyssea 3D. President Pascal Borno plans to show a promo reel to buyers today from the underwater nature documentary, which is in production.
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Cousteau and the Mantello brothers co-direct and 3D Entertainment Films produces the tribute to his father Jacques Cousteau, the renowned oceanographer and director of 1956 Palme d’Or winner The Silent World. “We are thrilled to bring JeanMichel Cousteau’s 3D masterpiece to the market this year,
working with such an incredible team of film-makers, following in the legacy of the great Jacques Cousteau,” said Borno. Conquistador’s slate includes Noah Buschel’s The Phenom, starring Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti and Johnny Simmons. It also features Devon Downs’ directorial debut Parlor.
Jensen plots Gothic revival BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Danish producer and Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen is plotting a new English-language feature based on a novel by Out Of Africa author Karen Blixen. The Angelic Avengers, published in 1946 under the pen name Isak Dinesen, is billed as “a Gothic romance”. The film will be directed by Birger Larsen, who directed several episodes of Scandinavian TV noir The Killing. The story centres on two poverty-stricken young women in the 19th century adopted by a seemingly kind Scottish cleric and his wife, who in reality lure girls to sell to the white slave trade. Jensen is looking for British partners for the project, which is likely to have a budget of around $6.75m. TrustNordisk will handle sales. Jensen will also be in Cannes this week pursuing finance on Viking movie The Long Ships, which is scripted by Tobias Lindholm and is to be directed by Hans Petter Moland.
Buyers board Ooops! Noah Is Gone BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
Global Screen’s 3D family animation Ooops! Noah Is Gone has scored a raft of global sales. Deals have closed for France (Paradis Films), Spain (Flins & Piniculas), Hungary and Romania (ADS Service), Czech Republic (Bohemia Motion Pictures), Iceland (Sam-Film), Japan (Zazie Films Inc), Thailand (Joyncontents Group), Malaysia (Suraya Filem) and Myanmar (Yejilim Entertainment). Directors Toby Genkel and Sean McCormack’s film comes from the makers of the hit animation feature Niko: Ulysses Films, Fabrique d’Images, Grid Animation and Moetion Films. Ooops! Noah Is Gone charts the adventures of a girl and boy who fall off Noah’s Ark. In the UK and Ireland, the film took more than $1.2m in four days after opening on May 1.
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SUM1, a committed young man who has lived his whole life underground, reports to his 100 day-task. He enters an alien and hostile world. His mission is to guard an automatic defense circle that keeps the Nonesuch at bay. As the news report of frequent, devastating attacks, the routine military operation slowly becomes a nightmare. Isolation and paranoia begin to eat away at the young soldier’s mind. Are the Nonesuch truly hiding in the dark forest waiting to strike at any moment or is SUM1 being pushed into madness?
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With persistent fox attacks threatening to close down the main tourist attraction of a small town in southern Australia – an island of Fairy Penguins – an eccentric chicken farmer teams up with his granddaughter to save the penguins using a very odd method … his rambunctious, troublemaking sheep dog. Based on a real-life event, the heart-warming program features excellent performances by up-and-coming Australian star Shane Jacobson (“Kenny”). Sarah Snook (“The Dressmaker”, “Steve Jobs”, “Predestination”) and Alan Tudyk (“Frozen”, “I, Robot”, “Death at a Funeral”) round up the entertaining tale, shot entirely on the beautiful Australian coast near Melbourne.
COMING SOON The deeply moving story of a young boy who must learn what heroism and courage are before he rises from lowly peasant to shining knight. From the producers of “Lilly The Witch.”
COMING SOON Molly Monster is the deeply-loved only-monster of Popo and Etna Monster. But when Mama gives birth to an egg (which Papa must hatch) Molly sets out on a journey to find her new place in the family.
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Japan opens the Gateways BY LIZ SHACKLETON
New promotional initiative Japan Day Project is launching a seminar series here in Cannes. Speakers at ‘New Gateways to the Japanese Industry’ (May 16-18) include producers Masa Sawada (An), Samuel Hadida (Silent Hill) and Filosophia founder Tetsu Fujimura. They will all share strategies for doing business with Japan. The line-up also includes casting director Yoko Narahashi and Cork, Inc co-founder Yuma Terada, who manages Japanese writers and manga artists. Seminar topics include sourcing Japanese talent for international productions, co-producing with Japan and tapping Japan’s vast manga and gaming industries. The programme concludes with the ‘All-Japan Summit: Power Players Panel Discussion’, which will feature top executives from Japanese studios.
Sixteen shoots for the Moon with Le Pacte BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
The UK’s Sixteen Films is joining forces with France’s Le Pacte, Germany’s Pandora and Egypt’s Film Clinic to co-produce Palestinian film-maker Sameh Zoabi’s Gazaset comedy Catch The Moon. The film revolves around a father and son’s attempts to bring a brand new Mercedes into Gaza
during an Israeli blockade, after the father promises the son’s new bride the car as a gift. Jean Labadie’s Paris-based production and distribution house Le Pacte is also handling international sales. Zoabi, whose credits include comedy Man Without A Cellphone, will direct the film from an origi-
nal screenplay by newcomer Anne Koski-Wood. The film is due to shoot for five weeks in Jordan and Palestine this autumn for release in 2016. “Anne’s starting point was imagining what on earth normal life could be like in Gaza,” said Sixteen Films co-founder Rebecca O’Brien. Paul Laverty is lead producing.
Carnaby and Signature on the Rise BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
Carnaby has taken world sales rights to action crime-thriller sequel Rise Of The Footsoldier Part II, starring Ricci Harnett (28 Days Later), Luke Mably (The Prince & Me) and Steven Berkoff (Red 2). Signature Entertainment has
snapped up UK distribution rights in a deal secured by Carnaby’s joint chief executive Andrew Loveday, together with Signature chief executive Marc Goldberg. Carnaby will have extended promo footage of the film in Cannes, which is about a man who
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must fight to regain his place in the criminal underworld. The first Rise Of The Footsoldier has sold close to 1 million copies in the UK. Also new to Carnaby’s slate is Charles Burmeister’s action thriller Mercury Plains and crime thriller North V South.
Tokyo unveils retrospectives BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is holding retrospectives of the work of Shuji Terayama and Orson Welles at this year’s 28th edition (October 22-31). Terayama was an avant-garde poet, and film and theatre director in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. In commemoration of 80 years since Terayama’s birth, TIFF will screen a selection of his films including Pastoral: To Die In The Country (1974), which screened in Competition at the 28th Cannes Film Festival. TIFF’s Orson Welles retrospective will present a special selection of the director’s work with the cooperation of Munich Film Museum. It will be co-hosted by the National Film Center, the Motion Picture Association, and the Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association.
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Cinéart gets best of Cannes By Geoffrey MaCnaB
Benelux distributor Cinéart has snapped up several high-profile arthouse and US indie titles both in official selection and the market. Competition titles include Nanni Moretti’s My Mother, sold by Films Distribution; Maïwenn’s Mon Roi, from StudioCanal; and valerie Donzelli’s Marguerite & Julien, from Wild Bunch. Cinéart also has Naomi Kawase’s Un Certain Regard opener, An, sold by MK2. From Midnight Screenings, Cinéart has taken Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, from Cornerstone Films, and Gaspar Noé’s Love, sold by Wild Bunch. Another new pick-up is Critics’ Week entry La Vie En Grand, directed by Mathieu vadepied, sold by Gaumont. Cinéart is already aboard the Dardenne brothers’ next film, The Unknown Girl.
Central muscles back with big-budget slate By Geoffrey MaCnaB
Leading Russian distributor Central Partnership is returning to sales after several years away and is in Cannes with a slate of bigbudget genre movies including sci-fi thrillers and action fare. “We are relaunching our sales outfit,” evP of international Armen Dishdishyan told Screen.
The four-film slate includes $10m 3D action adventure Mafia, shooting now, about a Tv gameshow in which the loser is killed. Also new to the market is Nikolay Lebedev’s Flight Crew, a $20m remake of 1979 Russian hit Air Crew, shot largely on Imax. Footage from both will screen here in the market.
A third project now shooting is Oleg Stepchenko’s period epic Furious, produced by Central Partnership, which follows warriors in their fight against the Mongol hordes in 10th-century Russia. The final title on the slate is Andrey Kravchuk’s $30m Viking. Central Partnership will be releasing all four films in Russia.
KWA shares Joke with Sundance By Geoffrey MaCnaB
Kevin Williams Associates has closed a multi-territory deal with the Sundance Channel for music documentary Killing Joke — The Death & Resurrection Show. Sundance has taken the film for France, Belgium, Netherlands,
eastern europe, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Malta, Asia (excluding India) and Canada. The film, a UK-New Zealand co-production directed by Shaun Pettigrew, was made through ILC Productions, Jaz Coleman and Coffee Films. It tells the story of
post-punk Goth rock band Killing Joke, formed in London in 1978, and features interviews with Jimmy Page and Dave Grohl. Sundance plans to roll out the doc to coincide with the band’s world tour later this autumn and the release of their new album.
Four’s a charm for Doc Corner By SCreen Staff
This year marks the fourth edition of Marché du Film’s Doc Corner, the dedicated space within the market for documentary film professionals offering a programme of documentary-related events. Doc Corner will also be home to nine exhibitors during the market: european Documentary Network (eDN), european training programme euroDoc and the global initiative Connect4Climate, along with sales agents Cinephil, Rise And Shine, Cat & Docs and Antipode, and festivals CPH:DOX and IDFA. CPH:DOX and IDFA have each curated selections in Doc Corner’s digital video library, which contains a total of 250 feature documentary titles, while Screen International contributing editor Wendy Mitchell will moderate two Doc_Talks panels on May 16 and 18, speaking to four prominent doc industry players.
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The question of the role of education, which is at the heart of the film, is timely.
Gabriel clarke is son of director alan clarke
emmanuelle Bercot
McQueen doc at finish line By Geoffrey MacnaB
When Steve McQueen starred in 1971’s Le Mans, he was among Hollywood’s highest paid and most powerful stars and the ‘king of cool’. But motor racing was his obsession. The film, which he wanted to be the ultimate racing movie, turned out to be one of the toughest he had ever made. Now, a feature documentary from UK directors Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna tells the story of the film that “almost destroyed” the actor. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (screening in Cannes Classics starting Saturday and sold by Content) boasts a treasure trove of material that had been presumed lost. “When we began our investigation into this passion project of
McQueen’s, we knew he had shot so many million feet of film in pursuit of his dream. There were issues with the storyline and the script not coming into place, but they continued to film the racing,” Clarke says. Clarke and McKenna eventually tracked down much of the material that had been presumed lost. There were film reels from one of the ‘making of ’ docs stored in a Los Angeles garage; plus 8mm material shot by one of the drivers, Paul Blancpain. McQueen’s missing film reels — the mythical million feet of film regarded by film and motor-racing enthusiasts as a holy grail — turned up as well. In February 2014, the film-makers received an e-mail saying that “hidden beneath a sound stage and cov-
Talent travels beyond borders Films Without Borders, the charitable foundation that works with young people from challenging communities around the globe to get involved in film production, is hosting its annual screening of recent work at the UK Film Centre at 3pm today. Those include The Dreamtime, made by aboriginal youths in Brisbane, Australia. Nadja Swarovski, patron of Films Without Borders and member of the Swarovski executive board, said: “Films
Without Borders is an incredible charity that educates and inspires young people, providing them with a platform to express themselves in a transcendental way beyond culture, religion and politics. Founder Jill Samuels’ vision is clear and impactful, offering industry internships to international students, providing them with great insight into the film world.” Swarovski will be hosting a Films Without Borders intimate industry breakfast this morning.
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ered in dust, we’ve found between 400 and 600 boxes of film. Each one reads ‘Le Mans’ along the spine. They don’t smell of vinegar and so may have survived”. Much of the film came without audio but the makers made sure the sound was authentic in postproduction. “If it is a Porsche 917 or a Ferrari 512, classic cars that were used in Le Mans 1970, then it is their distinctive sound that you hear,” Clarke says. Clarke, well known to UK audiences for his TV football reporting, is the son of the revered director Alan Clarke. He shares his father’s perfectionism. “If we have anything in common, what he gave me is that once you’re into a project, it’s this obsession to make the projects as good as it can possibly be.”
Time to See Her now First it was #AskHerMore on the Oscars red carpet and now in Cannes there is #SeeHerNow, to make women in film more visible. The Support Women Filmmakers coalition is spearheaded by writer Melissa Silverstein of Women and Hollywood. Check out supportwomenfilmmakers.com and @seehernow. Silverstein will also moderate a panel on Monday about increasing recognition for female film-makers at 11am at La Pantiéro.
French actress and director Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall (La Tete Haute) opens the festival today (Elle Driver handles sales). The gritty social drama follows a young delinquent as he makes his way through France’s juvenile justice system. What was the inspiration for Standing Tall? I have an uncle who is an educator within the youth judicial protection service. When I was eight I accompanied him on a seaside camp. For the first time in my life I came across children who were completely lost, rebellious. The idea for the film goes back as far as that day. Standing Tall has gained fresh resonance following the terror attacks in Paris. We were editing when the events of January took place. The reaction of those who saw it before and afterwards were quite different. The paths of the three young men who carried out the attacks were not far from that of the central character of Malony.
First-time actor Rod Paradot has won rave reviews. How did you cast him? We did a street casting, looking for potential actors at the highschool gate. We found Rod at a professional high school where he was studying carpentry. He has a young face, which worked well because I did not want to change the actor for the period from 13 to 18 years old. You’re only the second female director to open Cannes. Is that significant? No. For me it’s not significant because it’s not a woman who was chosen to open the festival but rather a film and a film does not have a gender. Your next film 150 Milligrams is inspired by Irene Frachon, who blew the whistle on one of France’s biggest health scandals. Why that story? It’s not the scandal but rather the incredible adventure of a woman that interested me. She is a sort of French Erin Brockovich. Who drove the decision to cast Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen in the main role? Me, but in truth it was Catherine Deneuve who gave me the idea. She adores Borgen and thinks Sidse is a fantastic actress. Melanie Goodfellow
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Mad Max: Fury Road Reviewed by Tim Grierson The chase is on — and on and on — in Mad Max: Fury Road, a bulldozer action movie that’s relentless, thrilling, exhausting and numbing in equal measure. Character drama and emotional investment take a backseat to orgiastic car chases, as director George Miller (returning to his franchise for the first time in 30 years) pours his heart and soul into some visionary and gonzo sequences of vehicular carnage. Consequently, Fury Road is perhaps best appreciated as an objet d’art: a kinetic, oddly distancing whirlygig that pummels you into awed submission. Playing Out of Competition in Cannes, Fury Road will open across most of the globe by May 15. Starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron — movie stars but not exactly box-office dynamos — this Warner Bros release should cater to hardcore action buffs and those smitten with the original trilogy. To be sure, Fury Road’s more-ismore approach should translate to considerable dollars around the world, but the one mystery is whether the film’s dark, unyielding tone will scare off some viewers. Not really a sequel or reboot, Fury Road is most accurately described as another instalment in the post-apocalyptic chronicles of Max Rockatansky (previously played by Mel Gibson, now
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OuT Of COMPeTiTiON US. 2015. 120mins Director George Miller Production companies Village Roadshow Pictures, Kennedy Miller Mitchell Worldwide distribution Warner Bros Pictures, www.warnerbros.com Producers Doug Mitchell, George Miller, PJ Voeten Screenplay George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris Cinematography John Seale Editor Margaret Sixel Production design Colin Gibson Music Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL Main Cast Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz
Hardy), who is tormented by brief, vivid flashbacks of past atrocities that he failed to prevent. Captured by lawless desert raiders called War Boys, Max is carted off to an outpost known as the Citadel. There his uninfected blood will be harvested as fuel for these outlaws, who do the bidding of their merciless masked ruler, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). Max’s fate seems bleak until he reluctantly befriends Imperator Furiosa (Theron), a steely driver who has masterminded a getaway for herself and Joe’s five wives (including Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Zoë Kravitz). Wanting his spouses back, Joe and his minions give chase. Max helps Furiosa fend off these savages as they try to make their way across the desolate Wasteland to an oasis where they will find safety. Miller has directed films since 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, including the two Happy Feet movies, but his return to the franchise he created seems to have spiked his adrenaline. With few exceptions, Fury Road is almost non-stop motion: Max and Furiosa’s perilous journey constantly endangered by Joe’s pursuing gang or by other marauders along the way. Preferring practical effects whenever possible, Miller and cinematographer John Seale have crafted an action movie that is stupendously physical, blessedly lacking the disheartening
weightlessness that mars a lot of CGI-heavy blockbusters. In Fury Road, there is a palpable sense of danger as actors balance precariously between vehicles, which makes the film’s many superb stunt set pieces hum with suspense. Pretty soon, though, it becomes obvious that Fury Road is a baldly one-dimensional movie, the film-makers’ energies almost entirely devoted to the elaborate car sequences. The rest of the time seems to have gone into developing the film’s aggressively grisly dystopian milieu via production designer Colin Gibson and costume designer Jenny Beavan. For a while, Fury Road’s complete disinterest in screenwriting fundamentals feels liberating but it does become monotonous, and Fury Road starts to drag once the frenetic sameness of Miller’s strategy takes hold. If one utterly bravura action sequence is revelatory, four or five in the exact same style borders on overkill. In such an overheated atmosphere, emoting isn’t as necessary as presence and Hardy instils Max with a haunted stoicism. Theron gives the more resonant performance, the taciturn Furiosa concealing her anxiety behind a cold expression. The wives leave little impression, indicative of Fury Road’s nagging limitation: the stakes are supersized but we never care much about the participants in the struggle.
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RivieRa Booth a 15 SUMMERTIME IN PRODUCTION - DELIVERY SPRING 2016 ENGLISH/ITALIAN VERSION Directed by Gabriele Muccino With: MatilDa lutz, branDo Pacitto, Joey Haro, t taylor Frey The memories of that summer will last for a lifetime. Teenagers Maria and Marco are on a typical road-trip through America, but they encounter an older gay couple. They will create a strong bond with the two and a great friendship will tie them together. This experience will be of inner growth and will change the way they look at their lives forever.
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IN PRODUCTION – DELIVERY FALL 2016 ANIMATION 3D/2D Directed by ivan caPPiello, Marino Guarnieri, alessanDro rak, Dario sansone Naples in a near future. A mysterious teenager seduced by a Mafia boss and persecuted by a vicious stepmother. “Gomorrah” meets “Cinderella”.
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Directed by Gabriele Mainetti With: clauDio santaMaria, luca Marinelli, ilenia Pastorelli, steFano F Fano aMbroGi Enzo uses his superpowers for petty crime until he meets Alessia, whose love and anime-inspired imaginings will teach him the value of helping others.
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Christian, neighbourhood loser, thinks he’s got his lucky break when the mob asks him to run some cocaine, but to do it he’ll need some jaguar pee.
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Saverio Crispo was a famous actor and a womanizer: his 5 daughters – born from 5 different mothers in different parts of the world – gather in his hometown on the 10th anniversary of his death. Crushed by their father’s legacy, the 5 daughters, are like strangers and this is the occasion they need to finally get to know each other and also learn an unsettling truth about their father.
Ermanno and Giacomo are sofa manufacturers and long standing friends. When they discover an oil well in the backyard, clamor and big interests at stake put their friendship in trouble. Between ethical dilemmas, difficult choices and subterfuges, their relationship will be questioned by Ermanno’s absolute honesty.
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Jenny’s dream of attending the synchronised swimming championships recedes into the distance when her dysfunctional family has to move from the warm seaside to the gloomy mountains. Dream-like underwater images of bodies moving rhythmically to music lend this debut feature its special atmosphere.
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Based on Oriana Fallaci’s life, the Italian journalist, author and political interviewer. A former partisan during WWII, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Oriana became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, her interviews with world leaders from the 60’s to the 80’s and her deep knowledge and critical position on Islam.
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World War 1st, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. The story unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern but every story told in the film is a true story. And since the past belongs to the memory, everyone can recall it.
Alberto organizes a dinner to persuade his teenage daughter to postpone her “first time”, but things turn out rather differently than he had planned.
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Loving Vincent
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Croisette offerings Screen profiles the hot projects available to international buyers at this year’s market North America By Jeremy Kay FilmNation will introduce Tom Ford’s directorial follow-up to A Single Man, the prestige mystery Nocturnal Animals starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. Smokehouse Pictures’ George Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing. CAA represents US rights. The company is also selling Second World War thriller HHHH, which stars Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, and Mia Wasikowska and is one of two titles in the market about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, alongside Altitude Film Sales’ Anthropoid. Keanu Reeves will return as the vengeful former hitman in Thunder Road’s John Wick 2, a sequel to the 2014 hit that Lionsgate International will introduce on the Croisette. Lionsgate is also selling The Shack with Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer attached. Gil Netter (The Sea Of Trees, Life Of Pi) produces the tale of the father of an abducted girl who meets god. Good Universe has Gold Circle’s supernatural thriller Break My Heart
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1,000 Times starring Hailee Steinfeld. The project is described as The Fault In Our Stars meets The Sixth Sense. The slate also includes action comedy The True Memoirs Of An International Assassin, starring Kevin James as a novelist who is mistaken for a hitman in Belize, and the action thriller High Wire Act, with Brad Anderson directing Jon Hamm from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. Sierra/Affinity has a tasty pair of projects in pre-production. Marc Forster’s All I See Is You stars Blake Lively and Jason Clarke in the story of a blind woman who learns scary things about her marriage when her sight is restored. Bold Films’ Shot Caller stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) as an ex-con coerced into carrying out a major score for a rival gang. Relativity Media holds US rights. IM Global arrives on the Croisette with Spike Lee’s Chiraq, a musical reimagining of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata about a woman on a quest to end gang warfare in Chicago. Kanye West, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack are lining up. IM Global also has the Tom Hardy thriller Journey
To Samarkand, in which he will star as a troubled former soldier on surveillance duty in London who may or may not have spotted a bomb threat. War photographer Greg Williams directs. Voltage Pictures is fully financing and producing Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut The Worst Marriage In Georgetown. Waltz will play real-life fabulist and social climber Albrect Muth, who married a much older woman in Washington DC and rose through the ranks of the elite until his wife was found murdered. Nicolas Chartier heads to Cannes with the new-look team of president, partner and COO Jonathan Deckter and president of international sales John Fremes. Bloom will kick off talks on Woodshock, which will star Kirsten Dunst and is based on a secretive script by Rodarte fashion label founders Kate and Laura Mulleavy. The sisters make their feature directorial debut and A24 will distribute in the US. Nu Image arrives on the Croisette with Leatherface, a Texas Chain Saw Massacre origins story to star Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor. Production is set to begin in mid-May. Recently promoted president
of international sales and distribution Jeffrey Greenstein will also talk up Septembers Of Shiraz, a thriller about a Jewish family caught in the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo star. Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel star in drama The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, to feature a score by Justin Timberlake. Content Media will show first footage and CAA represents US rights. Content’s sales slate also includes documentary and Cannes Classics selection Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans. The world’s first ‘painted animation’ project takes pride of place on the Cinema Management Group roster. Douglas Booth plays Vincent Van Gogh alongside Saoirse Ronan, Game Of Thrones’ Jerome Flynn and Chris O’Dowd in Loving Vincent. Also on its slate is Ping Pong Rabbit: The Magic Paddle, a 3D project from the animators behind The Nightmare Before Christmas. Lotus Entertainment has taken over sales on Magic City, a 1960s Miami-set crime thriller to star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Danny Huston and Kelly Lynch. »
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Nina Forever
Krisha
CAA represents US rights with Jeff Berg on the project, which QED International originally introduced to the market. The shoot is scheduled for an August start. Laura Dern will star alongside Ellen Burstyn and Sebastian Koch in Jennifer Fox’s investigative thriller The Tale, which Mongrel International will tout on the Croisette. Fox based the story on an episode from her own life and Dern will play a journalist who probes a story she wrote as a teenager about her part in a sex triangle with two grown-ups. Red Granite International label Blue Box International has Stowaway, which Marcus Nispel will direct. The thriller is based on a Norse myth and follows a woman who learns a terrifying secret about her fiancé’s family while on a yachting trip. Radiant Films International handles Hailee Steinfeld and Tom Wilkinson in the adaptation of Caren Lissner’s young-adult novel Carrie Pilby, about a Harvard graduate in search of love and happiness in New York. UTA Independent Film Group and ICM Partners are jointly handling North American rights. Krisha caused a stir when it premiered in SXSW and will screen here in Critics’ Week. Visit Films is the sales agent on the story of an estranged woman’s ill-advised return to the family fold. Visit is also bringing Just Jim, the tale of an enigmatic American played by Emile Hirsch who arrives in a Welsh town and takes a teen outcast under his wing. Annapurna International will kick off
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sales on 20th Century Women from Beginners director Mike Mills. The story takes place in the heady summer of 1979 as a boy comes of age, punk hits US suburbia and the oil crisis ravages the global economy. Block Entertainment will start talks on an untitled Jon Lucas and Scott Moore project, a female-led comedy to star Leslie Mann. Mann’s husband Judd Apatow is among the producers. Merced Media — the $500m fund launched late last year by former QED International chief Bill Block, PalmStar Media Capital CEO Kevin Frakes and Merced Capital — is fully financing. Paramount swooped on US rights on the eve of Cannes and will release on April 15, 2016. Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s White Horse Pictures is teaming up with StudioCanal to sell Ron Howard’s authorised documentary about The Beatles’ early years. The partners plan to show first footage.
Seville International will tempt buyers with Xavier Dolan’s upcoming It’s Only The End Of The World, featuring a to-die-for cast of Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel. Dolan expects to start shooting the family drama later this month once he has completed Competition jury duties. Seville’s slate also includes Critics’ Week selection Sleeping Giant from Andrew Cividino. International Film Trust heads to Cannes with sales rights to Werner Herzog’s super-volcano thriller Salt And Fire, currently shooting in Bolivia. Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal star and CAA handles US rights. The company also arrives with Tribeca world premiere Bleeding Heart, which stars Jessica Biel as a yoga instructor who must rescue her sister from an abusive relationship. ICM Partners holds US rights. Oscar winner JK Simmons stars
alongside Emile Hirsch in comedy The Runaround, which The Solution Entertainment Group is bringing to the Croisette. The Gersh Agency and UTA Independent Film Group represent North American rights on the story of a workaholic father who enlists the help of his daughter’s ex to find his girl during a layover in Los Angeles. The producers have earmarked a July shoot in Los Angeles. Myriad Pictures has the recent SXSW opener Brand: A Second Coming, Ondi Timoner’s documentary featuring UK comic Russell Brand in political firebrand mode. WME Global is the US sales agent. The company’s slate also includes The Parts You Lose, an upcoming drama about a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive. Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul stars and UTA represents US sales. Bleiberg Entertainment has snapped up international rights to Sundance selection Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard as the Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram who conducted controversial obedience tests in the early 1960s. Winona Ryder also stars in Michael Almereyda’s drama, which Magnolia Pictures is distributing in the US later this year. AMBI Distribution hits town with the animation Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, boasting the voice cast of Alec Baldwin, John Cleese, James Franco, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy. AMBI’s sci-fi thriller Rupture is set for a June start and stars Noomi Rapace as a single mother abducted by a shadowy organisation. Epic Pictures will be talking up Jeruzalem, an Israeli production about a US woman on holiday in Israel who is caught up in a Biblical apocalypse. The company also has SXSW selection Nina Forever, a darkly comic ménage-a-trois about a dead woman who haunts her ex to sabotage his new relationship. The Exchange slate features Modern Life Is Rubbish, starring Jack Lowden and Freya Mavor as a couple who cannot quite split up after they divvy up the record collection that defined their relationship. The company is also looking to reboot The Three Stooges, reuniting Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos from the 2012 Fox release. Buenos Aires-based Filmsharks will introduce the comedy No Kids (Sin Hijos), an Argentina-Spain co-production from the producers of swinger comedy 2+2 about a man who keeps his daughter secret after he meets a woman who does not like children. Diego Peretti and Maribel Verdu star. 13 Films has the Hitchcockian thriller Every Good Boy Does Fine, which will »
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The Pack
It’s Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong
Hitchcock/Truffaut
The Fencer
Deathgasm
star Michael Nyqvist and Famke Janssen in the tale of a piano prodigy who suspects his tutor may be a serial killer. The slate also includes action title Entry Level from Franck Khalfoun, director of the upcoming Amityville: The Awakening, which concerns a man embroiled in a crime with far-reaching consequences. Paradigm represents North America. Marina Cordoni Entertainment will be in town with The Ninth Cloud starring Michael Madsen, an existential comedy about a young girl in London looking for answers. The company is also kicking off sales on Fall, starring Michael Murphy as a priest accused of sexual assault many years ago. Mongrel Media releases in Canada. Premiere Entertainment Group is bringing survival thriller Abandoned, which shot recently in New Zealand and stars Dominic Purcell in the tale of four men whose yacht capsizes. The slate also includes American Hangman, the William Hurt-starring project in preproduction about a kidnapped judge who is put on public trial over the internet for sentencing to death a man his captor claims was innocent. Red Sea Media has the imminent Los
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Angeles Film Festival world premiere It’s Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong, about a Chinese-American in Hong Kong who falls for a US ex-pat. The slate includes completed script Spy Family. VMI Worldwide introduces Riot, a revenge saga to star Dolph Lundgren as a man who gets himself arrested in order to reach the powerful mob boss who destroyed his family. The film is shooting now. Margaret Williams’ version of Shakespeare’s enduring classic Hamlet is on The Little Film Company’s slate and stars Maxine Peake, John Shrapnel, Barbara Marten, Gillian Bevan, Katie West and Thomas Arnold. Co-president Robbie Little is also talking up The Fencer, which screens in the market and centres on a fugitive from the Russian secret police who winds up teaching fencing to children in a remote town. Cohen Media Group is showcasing Hitchcock/Truffaut, Kent Jones’ trawl through the 1962 series of interviews that Francois Truffaut conducted with Alfred Hitchcock. Talking heads include Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, Richard Linklater and Martin Scorsese. Cohen is also selling Magi-
cian: The Astonishing Life And Work Of Orson Welles, which showcases a starry roster of admirers in a look back at the career of the great Welles. Shoreline Entertainment has high hopes for Am*Dam, an Amsterdam-set adventure with a fairytale twist about a man’s bid to change the fortunes of his father’s ailing marijuana shop. Shoreline has also boarded the drama To Whom It May Concern, which stars Wilmer Valderrama as a young man who tries to save the life of a suicidal girl. MPI will introduce Deathgasm, the SXSW horror comedy about high-school misfits and heavy-metal fans who open the gates of hell after they perform an obscure piece of music. Dark Sky Films is distributing in the US. The company is also on board Cherry Tree, a supernatural horror about a young woman who makes a pact with a witches’ coven to save the life of her dying father. Lightning Entertainment will host the market premiere screening of The Pack, an Australian film about a farmer and his family whose home comes under attack from wolves. Psychological thriller Border Crossing, based on the novel by Pat Barker, is on Electric Entertainment’s slate. Josh Charles and Julia Stiles will star in the cat-and-mouse tale of a psychologist who reopens old wounds after rescuing a drowning person he had helped convict 12 years earlier. Expression Entertainment , a rebranded and expanded iteration of Continental Media led by Daniel Bort,
arrives with two completed films. Romcom No Stranger Than Love stars Alison Brie, Justin Chatwin and Colin Hanks, while fantasy Albion: The Rise Of Danann starts shooting this month with Stephen Dorff, Debra Messing, Jennifer Morrison, Liam McIntyre and John Cleese. Highland Film Group will commence talks on Precious Cargo from producers George Furla and Randall Emmett. Bruce Willis will play a crime boss who tries to pilfer another thief ’s loot. Highland has also boarded Summerstorm Entertainment and Vandal Entertainment’s action thriller The Feud, set to star Kellan Lutz as a young man who discovers he possesses remarkable skills when he goes up against a local crime boss. John Travolta is shooting I Am Wrath, an action thriller from producers Randall Emmett and George Furla about an engineer out to avenge his wife’s murder. Hannibal Classics is handling sales on the title as well as Bus 657, starring Robert De Niro and Kate Bosworth. In post-production, the heist thriller centres on a man who hijacks a city bus after a botched casino robbery to pay for his daughter’s surgery. Concourse Film Trade founders Matthew Shreder and Andrew Felts attend Cannes with the completed UFO conspiracy thriller The Phoenix Incident. XLrator Media holds US rights to the story about an incident in Arizona in 1997 when thousands of people claim to have witnessed unexplainable lights in » the sky.
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UK By Andreas Wiseman Bankside Films’ in-demand Cannes slate will be headlined by War On Everyone, John Michael McDonagh’s followup to Calvary, which has been snapped up by Sony and Icon for multiple territories. Michael Peña, Alexander Skarsgard and Theo James star in the black comedy, currently shooting in the US, about two corrupt cops who meet their match. Embankment will be enticing buyers with Dakota Fanning and Helen Hunt road-trip drama Please Stand By from The Sessions director Ben Lewin, as well as intriguing Emily Blunt rodeo drama Bronco Belle. The busy Protagonist Pictures heads to the Croisette with new title Klown Forever, the sequel to the 2010 hit Danish comedy Klown, which will include cameos from Isla Fisher, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and Game Of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The company also has English-language drama Lords Of Chaos from music video director Jonas Akerlund and producers Scott Free London, RSA London and Vice. Among others, Thorsten Schumacher and the HanWay Films team will expect to see good traffic on Jane Goldman’s script The Limehouse Golem, set to star Alan Rickman, Olivia Cooke and Douglas Booth, and Lone Scherfig’s rom-com Their Finest Hour And A Half, with Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy. WestEnd Films will be kicking off sales on apartheid drama Shepherds And Butchers, in which Steve Coogan is due to star as a lawyer who uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa’s capital punishment system, and Dancer, a documentary following Ukraine-born ballet sensation Sergei Polunin, which comes from a team that includes Philomena producer Gaby Tana and acclaimed photographer David LaChapelle. David Garrett’s Mister Smith is to launch sales on Claude Lelouch’s French-language India-set romanticdrama Un Plus Une, set to star The Art-
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Meadowland
War On Everyone
ist’s Jean Dujardin, and will also be talking to buyers about Waste Land director Lucy Walker’s sequel to the acclaimed 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club. Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s newly minted Cornerstone Films will be at Cannes with a lively slate including prestige drama Denial, the fact-based thriller about a lawyer’s courtroom battle with Holocaust denier David Irving, written by David Hare and set to star Hilary Swank and Tom Wilkinson. The company also has novel adaptation Alone In Berlin. eOne International is looking to wrap up deals on strong duo Message From The King, the Chadwick Boseman thriller that has a new promo, and Matt Ross’s drama Captain Fantastic, which has a private screening. Altitude Film Sales heads to market with Brit List thriller She Who Brings Gifts, with Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close and Paddy Considine on board, Second World War thriller Anthropoid, set to star man-of-the-moment Jamie Dornan, and well-received Tribeca documentary Palio. Independent will be presenting USshot thriller I Am Not A Serial Killer, about a teenage boy hunting for a supernatural murderer in his snowbound midwestern town, and UK
Demon Hole
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thriller Level Up, which has Revenge star Josh Bowman in the lead. K5 comes to Cannes with a quartet of Tribeca titles, including drama Meadowland, starring Juno Temple, Olivia Wilde and Elisabeth Moss, and Stephen Fingleton’s thriller The Survivalist. Salt’s Cannes slate is spearheaded by horror-thriller script The Neighbor, from well-known genre writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton. Goldcrest International is looking to entice buyers with The Blob remake, from director Simon West, and Roland Emmerich’s gay rights drama Stonewall, which stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeremy Irvine and Ron Perlman. Umedia is shopping Giuseppe Tornatore’s romantic drama Correspondence, which is currently shooting with Jeremy
I Am Not A Serial Killer
Irons and Olga Kurylenko in the lead roles. Metro International is looking to sign more deals on the live-action family film Molly Moon And The Incredible Book Of Hypnotism. The company will also have first footage of the Michael Caton-Jonesdirected drama Urban Hymn, starring former Screen Star of Tomorrow Letitia Wright. Kaleidoscope Entertainment will continue to sell Gerard Barrett’s Sundance success Glassland alongside Frightfest horror title Digging Up the Marrow. Metrodome will be talking to buyers about supernatural horror film Thea, starring Antonia Thomas, and actionadventure Killers Point, which is in preproduction. Celsius’s slate is headed by Into The Forest, in which Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood star as two young women who live in a remote ancient forest and discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Simon Crowe’s SC Films is touting US comedy-horror title Demon Hole as well as completed UK-France thriller Road Games, produced by The Host producer Junyoung Jang and Guillaume Benski. The company also has Chinese animation Monkey King Returns. GFM’s Cannes slate includes Henry Cavill action thriller Stratton, which is due to get under way at the end of May. »
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MARCHÉ DU FILM 2015
TODAY, May 13th at 17:30 | Palais H May 19th at 15:30 | Olympia 7 DIRECTED BY MANUELA MORENO CAST NATALIA DE MOLINA, ÚRSULA CORBERÓ, CELIA DE MOLINA COMEDY, 95 min MALAG FILM FES A TIV “OFFICIA AL L SECTION ”
Five girl-friends in their late 20’s spend a crazy bachelorette week-end in Canary Islands.
May 15th at 20:30 | Palais G May 19th at 13:30 | Star 3
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DIRECTED BY NACHO G VELILLA CAST YON GONZÁLEZ, JULIÁN LÓPEZ, BLANCA SUÁREZ ROMANTIC COMEDY, 105 min Hugo’s new life turns upside down when his parents and his girlfriend decide to visit him to see how well he is doing in Berlin.
TODAY, May 13th at 14:00 | Gray 1 May 19th at 10:00 | Palais 1
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DIRECTED BY CARLOS SEDES CAST CHARLOTTE VEGA, IVANA BAQUERO, ÀLEX MARUNY DRAMA, 105 min Valeria is new in town. Together with other students from School Counselor meetings they create “The Misfits Club”, where she’ll find friendship and love.
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ADVENTURE / HISTORY 10 x 45 min BUDGET $23M ENGLISH SPEAKING After killing a man to save his family’s honor, young Cervantes is forced to abandon his true love and embark on a grueling journey which inspired the most celebrated novel of all time.
Feature market buzz
Arteholic
Hellions
GFM’s family animation Blazing Samurai has also begun production. Jason Biggs comedy Drive She Said and documentary Elstree 1976 remain the key sales titles for The Works International. Clare Crean’s team will have first footage of the latter, which charts the effect that cultural behemoth Star Wars had on the lives of those who featured in even the smallest roles in the film. Carnaby heads to market with the Jonathan Rhys Meyers espionage thriller Damascus Cover, currently in post-production, as well as Simon West’s crowd-funded action comedy Salty. Moviehouse arrives in Cannes with Julien Temple’s SXSW premiere The Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson, which has a market screening. Documentary specialist Dogwoof is discussing a host of titles including the drug-cartel exposé Cartel Land, which won the US documentary best directing award and cinematography award at Sundance, and Yayoi Kusama: A Life In Polka Dots. Starline Entertainment will be in Cannes with Joanne Froggatt drama Starfish, about a husband and wife whose love is tested to its limits by the affect of a rare and devastating disease,
Electricity
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Cartel Land
as well as completed Australian sports drama Drown, which has sold to the US, France, UK and Germany among other territories. Genre specialist Jinga’s titles include duo Hellions, the latest film from Pontypool director Bruce McDonald that had its world premiere at Sundance, and Max Perrier’s UK-Canada horror film Feed The Devil. Parkland Pictures’ slate includes drama thriller The Man In The Box, documentary Arteholic, about Udo Kier’s ‘addiction’ to art, and development title Monstrous Love, the story of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s disastrous final movie. Matteo Rolleri’s Devilworks will present horror film Black Mountain Side, which follows a group of archaeologists who unwittingly release an ancient virus. Andrew Brown and Billy Hurman’s 4SquareFilms slate includes completed drama Electricity, starring Agyness Deyn, horror film The Gathering and scifi project Genesis. The slate of 7 & 7 Sales includes A Nightingale Falling, which had its world premiere at Newport Beach Film Festival, and comedy romance Tea & Sangria.
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France By Melanie Goodfellow Wide Management will market pre-
miere Anton Chekhov — 1890, the last work of ultra-independent director René Féret who died in April, as well as Khadija Al-Salami’s I Am Nojoom, Age 10 And Divorced, UK director Joanna Coates’ Hide And Seek and Sudhanshu Saria’s Loev, about a relationship between two men in India where homosexuality is considered a crime. It is also selling Panama, which premieres as a Special Screening, and ACID selections Cosmodrama and La Vanité. Sister doc company Wide House will unveil Our Last Tango, a Buena Vista Social Club-style work charting the relationship between Argentinian tango stars Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, and Lucha Mexico about Mexico’s colourful wrestling scene. Urban Distribution International will host a private screening of Chanya Button’s road-trip comedy Burn Burn Burn and is also selling Un Certain Regard selection Alias Maria by Colombia’s José Luis Rugeles, which looks at that country’s armed conflict through the tale of a pregnant teenage rebel fighter. Elle Driver has Emmanuelle Bercot’s
Dégradé
opening film Standing Tall, Indian drama The Fourth Direction (Chauthi Koot) in Un Certain Regard, and Palestinian dark comedy Dégradé, set in a Gaza Strip beauty salon and premiering in Critics’ Week. Upcoming titles include Audrey Estrougo’s Jailbird, in which Sophie Marceau plays a woman who swaps places with her lover in jail, as well as Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada, which revolves around a heated family memorial, and André Téchiné’s comingof-age tale Being Seventeen (Quand On A 17 Ans). Already looking to Cannes 2016, Wild Bunch will launch sales on a trio of new works by past Palme d’Or winners: the Dardenne brothers’ The Unknown Girl, Cristian Mungiu’s untitled project about the responsibilities of fatherhood and Emir Kusturica’s On The Milky Road. Other new titles include Bercot’s upcoming Erin Brockovich-style tale 150 Milligrams; Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of The Moon, starring Marion Cotillard; Michael Dudok de Wit’s Studio Ghibli co-produced animation The Red Turtle; and Radu Mihaileanu’s epic The History Of Love. Wild Bunch is also handling 13 festival titles, including Palme d’Or contenders Marguerite & Julien, Our Little Sister, The Assassin, Chronic and Dheepan as well as Gaspar Noé’s Love, which premieres in a Midnight Screening, and Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days in Directors’ Fortnight. Memento Films International is launching Bruno Dumont’s dark comedy Slack Bay (Ma Loute), co-starring Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini. New projects include fantasy The Darkness from Mexico’s Daniel Castro Zimbron, and Cate Shortland’s psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome, about a holiday romance that turns sinister. The company is also selling Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s English-language debut and Palme d’Or contender Louder » Than Bombs.
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SND will kick off sales on Tommy Wirkola’s sci-fi action film What Happened To Monday?, starring Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close, and two new French titles: Julien Rappeneau’s quirky romantic comedy Rosalie Blum and Julien Leclercq’s action thriller The Crew. It will also have viticulture dramedy First Growth as a market premiere. Gaumont is marketing Pascal Chaumeil’s black comedy Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot), which reunites him with Heartbreaker star Romain Duris as a factory worker who takes on a hit-man job. It is also bringing Christian Clavier and Jean Reno to the Croisette to meet buyers for the The Visitors: Bastille Day, and is selling Mathieu Vadepied’s Critics’ Week closer Learn By Heart. Pathé International is launching Stephen Frears’ biopic Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep as the legendary society singer with a terrible voice, and Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, set in the lead-up to the partition of India. It is also selling Paolo Sorrentino’s Palme d’Or contender Youth, Un Certain Regard-screener Masaan and Thomas Bidegain’s Cowboys in Directors’ Fortnight. EuropaCorp will descend on the Majestic with a packed slate of commercial fare including Barry Sonnenfeld’s Kevin Spacey-starrer Nine Lives, which has just started shooting, and Jean-Francois Richet’s English-language Twice, about a woman whose image of her husband is shaken when she finds a military arsenal in their home. French-language titles include The Cab Driver, in which Reda Kateb plays a man wrongly suspected of abducting a young woman. Pyramide International will start presales on Mohamed Diab’s Clash, set against the backdrop of political unrest in his native Egypt. Upcoming films include Mikhael Hers’ This Summer Feeling about the impact of a woman’s unexpected death, co-starring Oslo, August 31st lead Anders Danielsen Lie, and coming-of-age tale Mountain from Portugal’s Joao Salaviza. Festival titles include Philippe Faucon’s Directors’ Fortnight screener Fatima and César Acevedo’s Land And Shade in Critics’ Week. Versatile will screen 10 minutes of Darren Lynn Bousman’s horror thriller Abattoir, starring Jessica Lowndes as a reporter who uncovers a house of horrors. It is also selling Santiago Mitre’s Argentinian social thriller and Critics’ Week title Paulina (La Patota), about a lawyer-turned-social activist whose ideals are tested after being assaulted by a gang. TF1 International will kick off sales on All Gone South, or Babysitting 2, a Brazil-set sequel to the 2014 breakout
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Two Lovers And A Bear
The Assistant
Cowboys
found-footage comedy hit Babysitting, and Oscar-nominated Kim Nguyen’s romance Two Lovers And A Bear about two youngsters fighting the elements and past demons in a small North Pole town. It is also handling sales on Official Selection title Samuel Benchetrit’s Macadam Stories (Asphalte). Celluloid Dreams is handling Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s French-language The Woman In The Silver Plate, starring Olivier Gourmet, as a widowed photographer opposite Tahar Rahim as his assistant. It will also market premiere Takeshi Kitano’s retired Yakuza comedy Ryuzo And The Seven Henchmen. Upcoming films include Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec’s animated adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s The Swallows Of Kabul, which captures life for women under the Taliban. Festival titles include Palme d’Or contender Dheepan and Nabil Ayouch’s Much Love in Directors’ Fortnight. Les Films du Losange will launch sales on Mia Hansen-Love’s Things To Come starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life. It will also host a market premiere of Christine Carriere’s A Mother about a violent mother-son relationship. Official selection titles comprise Barbet Schroeder’s Ibiza-set Amnesia, which will premiere at a Special Screening, and a restored 2K version of his 1969 film More. Bac Films will have a private screening for psychological thriller The Assistant starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman determined to exact revenge on the man
Raging Rose
who killed her son in a road accident, and show teasers for David Verbeek’s Full Contact, Nicolas Saada’s Taj Mahal and Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain. Alpha Violet will begin pre-sales on Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s film noir Luxembourg set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and show a first trailer for Sébastien Betbeder’s Marie & The Misfits, starring Vimala Pons as a woman who is the object of desire for two men. It is also handling sales on Julia Kowalski’s Raging Rose, which premieres in the ACID showcase. StudioCanal will launch Nick Park’s prehistoric tale Early Man about a plucky caveman — Park’s first film as a director since the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in 2006. It will also commence sales on Ron Howard’s authorised documentary about The Beatles, and is selling Maïwenn’s Palme d’Or contender Mon Roi. Indie Sales will show fresh footage of Stefano Sollima’s highly anticipated Suburra, set against Rome’s underworld, and market premiere the heart-warming tween tale The New Kid as well as the timely French Blood, which explores
France’s far-right skinhead community. Festival titles include Alice Winocour’s thriller Disorder — starring Diane Kruger as the wife of a wealthy Lebanese businessman and Matthias Schoenaerts as her bodyguard — 2 Friends in Un Certain Regard and Critics’ Week screener The Wakhan Front. Le Pacte kicks off sales on Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s Saint Amour, starring Gérard Depardieu and Benoit Poelvoorde as a farmer and son on an eventful wine tour. Its slate also includes Guillaume Nicloux’s Palme d’Or contender Valley Of Love, Laurent Lariviere’s debut feature I Am A Soldier in Un Certain Regard, and Jaco Van Dormael’s The Brand New Testament, which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight. MK2 is handling five festival titles including Competition titles Jia Zhangke’s family saga Mountains May Depart and Stéphane Brizé’s social drama The Measure Of A Man. It also has Special Screener Robert Guédiguian’s Don’t Tell Me The Boy Was Mad about the radicalisation of a young Armenian man in 1980s France, and Naomi Kawase’s An and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s »
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MIROVISION 2015 CANNES M My NEW Sassy Girl Romantic Comedy | 2015 | Korea
DIRECTOR CHO Keun-sik (Once In A Summer) CAST CHA Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl), Victoria, Fujii Mina
The sequel of the legendary hit <My Sassy Girl>! Based on the most beloved short story of all time in Korean literature.
Promo available! “Her love never changes”
Promo available!
Shower/
The Shaman Sorceress Animation | 80min | 2015 | Korea
DIRECTOR AHN Jae-hun, HAN Hye-jin
Canola (WORKING TITLE) Human Drama | 2015 | Korea
DIRECTOR CHANG (The Target) | CAST YOON Yeo-jung , KIM Ko-eun
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Booth No. Riviera B1 Serenade
Drama | 119min | 2014 | Japan
DIRECTOR Keinosuke HARA CAST Risa Sudo, Izumi Fujimoto, Ken Yasuda
“Oh my God! My mother’s longtime transgender friend is my father?!!!” •SCREENING SCHEDULE
May 13 (Wed)16:00 - GRAY 3 May 14 (Thu) 09:45 - GRAY 3
Life Is But An Empty Dream Music Drama | 75min | 2015 | Korea
DIRECTOR CHO Sung-kyu CAST KIM Dong-wan, Fujii Mina, CHOI Phillip
“Dream, love, and friendship at a music festival” •SCREENING SCHEDULE
May 13 (Wed) 13:30 - GRAY 4
Sunshine Drama | 92min | 2015 | Korea
DIRECTOR PARK Jin-Soon CAST Dana, KANG Eun-Tak, LEE Mi-So
“A mysterious street artist girl searching for her own voice…” •SCREENING SCHEDULE
May 13 (Wed) 10:00 - GRAY 5
To Be Sixteen Drama |116min | 2015 | Korea
DIRECTOR KIM Hyeon-seung CAST KIM Joo-yeop, LEE Joo-woo, JO Ha-seong
“A secrete, just between you and me” •SCREENING SCHEDULE
May 13 (Wed) 14:00 - GRAY 3
See, Beethoven Drama | 90 min | 2014 | Korea DIRECTOR PARK Jin-Soon CAST KIM So-Jin, KONG Sang-A, OH Yoo-Jin
Planck Constant Fantasy Drama | 70min | 2015 | Korea DIRECTOR CHO Sung-Kyu (Santa Barbara) | CAST KIM Je-Wook
“Illusory experience that can’t tell what the real ones are.”
“Magical time at a magical cafe. Girls’ hilarious chitchats!”
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Journey To The Shore, both premiering in Un Certain Regard. Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office is launching comedy Creative Control, written, directed by and starring Benjamin Dickinson. The film received enthusiastic reviews at SXSW where it won a special jury award for visual excellence. Le Bureau Sales will show a new promo for Fabienne Berthaud’s English-language Sky, starring Diane Kruger as a tourist who sets off across Nevada after a violent row with her husband. New titles include Cavanna, He Was Charlie, a documentary about one of the co-founders of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, who died a year before the terrorist attack on its staff in January. Doc & Film International will private screen Raphael Jacoulot’s rural murder drama Heatwave and is also handling Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side, a hybrid work capturing the US’s underclass, premiering in Un Certain Regard, and Directors’ Fortnight title Marcia Tambutti Allende’s documentary Beyond My Grandfather Allende. Funny Balloons will market screen Pablo Larrain’s Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix winner The Club, about discredited Catholic priests who retreat to a secluded house by the sea. Genre specialist Reel Suspects will launch sales on sci-fi comedy Lovemilla, a spin-off of a popular Finnish teenaimed series, and Indian horror picture Ludo, the latest film from directorial duo Q and Nikon, who have a growing fanbase at home and abroad. Kinology is handling Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Directors’ Fortnight screener Mustang, which is about five girls who rebel against a preordained destiny of marriage and children. Films Distribution is selling Palme d’Or contenders Laszlo Nemes’ Holocaust drama Son Of Saul and Nanni Moretti’s My Mother as well as Un Certain Regard titles Taklub by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza, and the first
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Creative Control
A Holy Venetian Family
Last Cab To Darwin
Ethiopian picture to screen in Official Selection, Lamb. It will also market premiere Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab To Darwin about a terminally ill man’s epic drive across Australia. Hot upcoming titles on its slate include Eva Husson’s sexually charged Gang Bang. Other Angle will launch Clovis Cornillac’s romantic comedy Blind Date and continue sales on Sam Friedlander’s comedy Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant, about a flight attendant who fights his airline’s plan to replace cabin crew with robots. WTF will show new promos for Hyena Road and launch sales on French-language title Inside The Cell, about terrorists in Paris, and Thank You For Calling, a true story about a French con artist starring Vincent Elbaz and Julie Gayet.
Pizza And Dates
Italy By Melanie Goodfellow Rai Com will launch sales on Gabriele Muccino’s Summertime (L’Estate Adesso), a coming-of-age tale set between Rome, the US and Cuba, which explores four friends at key stages of their adolescence and early adulthood. It will also continue selling feature-length animation Cinderella The Cat. A retelling of the classic fairy tale by Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Alessandro Rak and Dario Sansone — the team behind the award-winning The Art Of Happiness — the film is set sometime in the near future against the backdrop of the Italian city of Naples, in honour of the story’s author Giambattista Basile who hailed from the city. Basile’s work was also the inspiration for Matteo Garrone’s Cannes Competition title Tale Of Tales. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises will market premiere Fariborz Kamkari’s exotic comedy Pizza And Dates, which is set against the backdrop of Venice’s recently established Middle Eastern immigrant community and revolves around a young Afghan’s attempts to integrate into the city. Turin-based The Open Reel will market premiere Rocio Caliri and Melina Marcow’s second feature To The Children The Beauty, a tale of medical experimentation set against the backdrop of a remote Danish colony in Argentina in the early 20th century; Carmin Tropical
Don’t Accept Dreams From Strangers
by Mexico’s Rigoberto Perezcano, about a woman who returns to her home town to seek vengeance for the murder of her best friend; Russian director Lika Alekseeva’s Parallel Lines Meet At Infinity; and Roberto Cuzzillo’s Don’t Accept Dreams From Strangers, about an Italian swimmer who falls in love with his interpreter while at a competition in St Petersburg, all set against the backdrop of Russia’s anti-gay legislation. Coccinelle Film Placement will kick off sales on Remy van Heugten’s intense father and son social drama Son Of Mine, which premiered at Rotterdam, and Italian comedy A Holy Venetian Family, about a wealthy heir and daddy’s boy who dreams up an ingenious way to maintain his lifestyle when the economic crisis bankrupts the family business. The company is also selling documentary The Holy Shroud, shedding new light on the mystery surrounding the Shroud of Turin. Intramovies will market premiere Lorenzo Sportiello’s sci-fi drama Index Zero, set in a futuristic Europe where natural childbirth has been outlawed. The film premiered last year at Rome Film Festival. Fledgling Aurelia Film Production Company will also be in Cannes with it first production Calibro 10 — Il Decalogo Del Crimine, which stars Franco Nero as a Mafia boss and is inspired by a list 10 commandments for real-life Mafiosi, found on the arrest of a Sicilian Mafia » chief in 2007.
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The Last King
Oddball
Germany By Geoffrey Macnab ARRI Worldsales is giving a market pre-
miere to V82 — Revenge Of The Nitros by director Joachim Masannek (creator of The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise), which will be released by Universal in German theatres next year. ARRI is also showing footage from family feature Help, I Shrunk My Teacher by director Sven Unterwaldt. Meanwhile, the company will have new material from its longgestating animated feature Ploe — You Never Fly Alone, which is from the creators of Legends Of Valhalla — Thor. The film is in pre-production with an expected delivery date in late 2016. Beta Cinema is giving a market premiere to Sergio Castellitto’s You Can’t Save Yourself Alone. A promo reel is available for Florian Gallenberger’s Colonia starring Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl and Michael Nyqvist. Also an international market premiere is Ghosthunters — On Icy Trails, an English-language adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s bestselling novel, starring Milo Parker and German comedian Anke Engelke. Meanwhile, The Pasta Detectives, which has already earned $4.5m (¤4m) in Germany, marks the first collaboration between Beta and Fox International Productions. Global Screen is preselling Til Schweiger movie Nick — Off Duty, in which the German superstar plays a Hamburg cop in a race against time to save his daughter’s life. The company is also giving a market premiere to Oddball, an A u s t ra l i a n f a m i l y
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Bridgend
drama based on an apparently true story of a sheepdog befriending a penguin. It stars Shane Jacobson and Sarah Snook. Another of the company’s market premieres is German road movie Half Brothers, directed by Christian Alvart. The cast is headlined by Fahri Yard im , Yo uTube star Te dro s Teclebrhan and German rapper Paul ‘Sido’ Würdig. Another big film in its line-up is Sum1, the apocalyptic sci-fi movie by Christian Pasquariello and starring Game Of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon. The Match Factory’s Cannes slate is led by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery Of Splendour, Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights and Israeli comedy Afterthought. Sola Media is representing Code M, (aka The Sword Of D’Artagnan), directed by Dennis Bots (Secrets Of War, Cool Kids Don’t Cry). The company also has two animated features, Two Buddies And A Badger and Raven, The Little Rascal. M-Appeal is launching sales on new Argentinian title How To Win Enemies, which is the second feature from Gabriel Lichtmann (Jews In Space). M-Appeal will also be giving a market debut to Gerald McCullouch’s drama Daddy. Sister company Raspberry & Cream is introducing buyers to erotic drama Like Cattle Towards Glow. Media Luna will be bringing to the market Vera Glagoleva’s Russian-language Two Woman, based on Ivan Turgenev’s A Month In The Country and starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud. (Left) Colonia
Scandinavia and rest of Europe By Geoffrey Macnab
Danish powerhouse TrustNordisk will be holding its annual promo reel screening on Thursday. It will include such titles as Nils Gaup’s action drama The Last King and Swedish comedy drama A Man Called Ove from Hannes Holm. The company is also beginning sales on Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words, a feature documentary about the legendary actress, which screens in Cannes Classics. The company is pre-selling A Conspiracy Of Faith, the latest in the Department Q-franchise, based on the books by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Shooting has just started on the film, which has already gone to several territories. TrustNordisk is also screening a promo of its recently acquired Danish feature Walk With Me from Lisa Ohlin and will be introducing buyers to Zentropa drama The Day Will Come, starring Lars Mikkelsen. Meanwhile, in official selection, TrustNordisk is handling Magnus von Horn’s debut feature, the Poland-Sweden co-production The Here After, which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight. However, the company will not yet be pre-selling Lars von Trier’s new TV series, The House That Jack Built. Danish outfit Level K will be introducing buyers to human rights documentary Motley’s Law (formerly Afghan Justice). The film by Helle Faber (Putin’s Kiss) profiles Kimberley Motley, who left the US to work as a defence lawyer in Afghanistan. Svensk is continuing pre-sales on Heaven And Earth and 1864, the feature version from the TV series that is likely to be completed by the autumn. Also from Scandinavia, The Yellow Affair is beginning sales on its new
The Peter Pan Man
Swedish feature, Girls Lost, from Alexandra-Therese Keining. This drama about gender and sexual identity follows three bullied teenage girls who come across a magical plant that transforms them temporarily into boys. Dutch outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment is pre-selling Dummie The Mummy And The Sphinx Of Shakaba, the sequel to box-office hit Dummie The Mummy. Also new on the company’s slate is Michiel ten Horn’s The Peter Pan Man, thriller Undercover from Boris Paval Conen, Israeli action thriller Suicide and family adventure Kidnap from Topkapi Films. Lemming Films will be holding a market screening of Blood, Sweat & Tears, its biopic of troubled Dutch folk singer André Hazes. Austrian documentary specialists Autlook will be giving a market premiere to 10 Billion — What Will We Eat Tomorrow?, the new film from Valentin Thurn that assesses the likely social and environmental impact of the world’s population reaching 10 billion by 2050. The company will also be introducing buyers to Ghostland by Simon Stadler, a new film that follows the Ju/’Hoansi bushmen as they travel into the heart of Europe from the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Poland’s New Europe Film Sales is handling Icelandic Un Certain Regard title Rams (Hrutar) as well as Danish thriller and Tribeca multi-award winner Bridgend. The Hungarian Film Fund will be holding two market premieres. One is local box-office hit Argo 2 from Attila Arpa, an action comedy about a smalltime Hungarian crook who becomes involved with a Japanese crime syndicate. The other is Liza, The Fox Fairy, a 1970s-set black comedy billed as a »
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To Rob A Thief
The Shameless
Madonna
Perdiendo El Norte
Happy 140
“sarcastic fairy tale” from first-time director Karoly Ujj Meszaros. Leading Spanish outfit Film Factory Entertainment is introducing buyers to black comedy My Big Night, the latest feature from the ever outrageous Alex De La Iglesia, about tumultuous events during the taping of a New Year’s Eve TV special in the middle of August in Madrid. The company is also handling To Rob A Thief, the latest feature from Daniel Calparsoro. Luis Tosar and Rodrigo De La Serna star. Also from Spain, DeAPlaneta is screening local box-office hit Perdiendo El Norte. Nacho Garcia Velilla’s romantic comedy is about a young Spaniard looking for love in Berlin. Madrid-based 6 Sales is pre-selling dark comedy Speed Freak, starring Zach Gilford, and Joey Curtis’s sci-fi drama Winter’s Dream. The company will be pushing thriller Emelie, starring Sarah Bolger, fresh from its Tribeca premiere, and Despite The Falling Snow, which stars Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance. Spanish outfit Latido brings I Want To Be Like You, Konstantin Bojanov’s road movie, which is co-scripted by playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz (co-writer of Oscar winner Ida). Latido is also preselling drama The Tip Of The Iceberg by David Canovas. Its market screenings of new films include black comedy Happy 140, about the family fallout from a huge
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lottery win, award-winning Mexican drama The Thin Yellow Line, thriller The Seed Of Silence that stars Andres Parra, Second World War drama Dirty Wolves, starring Marian Alvarez, and Gerardo Herrero’s crime film Death Of A Fisherman, which is an adaptation from the best-selling novel by Domingo Villar. Fellow Spanish seller Filmax will be pre-selling thriller The Chosen, which stars Hannah Murray and Julian Sands and is about the assassination of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. The company is also selling Cesc Gay’s Truman, starring Ricardo Darin.
Australian outfit Odin’s Eye is screening the first footage from its animated feature Animal Crackers with a confirmed voice cast that includes John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen and Sylvester Stallone. Odin Eye’s market debuts include Turkish animated feature Bad Cat and US thriller The Girl Is In Trouble (pictured).
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Asia By Liz Shackleton
Japan has a strong showing in the major festival sections, with Hirokazu Koreeda’s Our Little Sister in Competition; Naomi Kawase’s An opening Un Certain Regard; Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey To The Shore in Un Certain Regard; and Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse in Directors’ Fortnight. France’s MK2 is selling both the Kawase and Kurosawa titles. Nikkatsu is selling Yakuza Apocalypse, while Gaga Corporation is handling Asian territories on Our Little Sister, with Wild Bunch selling the rest of the world. Gaga is also selling Sion Sono comedy The Virgin Psychics, which stars Shota Sometani as a high school student saving the world from ‘erotic terrorism’. New titles on Nikkatsu’s slate include Rikiya Imaizumi’s The Strangers, starring members of Korean pop band NU’EST, and Koichi Sakamoto’s KIRI — Profession: Assassin, starring Yumiko Shaku (The Princess Blade). Among other Japanese studios, Toho’s slate is headed by Attack On Titan Part 1 and Part 2, the highly anticipated live-action adaption of the bestselling manga, while Shochiku is selling Sion Sono’s Tag, starring Reina Triendl, about a bloody battle of wits at a high school for girls.
In addition, Nippon Television (NTV) has picked up Cellin Gluck’s Persona Non Grata, about a Japanese diplomat helping Jewish refugees escape Nazi Europe, and is handling Asian territories on Mamoru Hosoda’s Gaumontbacked anime The Boy And The Beast, which Gaumont is selling in the rest of the world. Free Stone Productions ’ slate includes Girls Of The Sea, directed by 19-year-old prodigy Ryugo Nakamura, and Yudai Yamaguchi’s fantasy horror title Rokuroku. Korea has two titles in Un Certain Regard — Finecut is selling Madonna, from Pluto director Shin Su-won, while CJ Entertainment has Oh Seung-uk’s romantic noir The Shameless, starring Jeon Do-yeon. CJ also has Han Jun-hee’s Coin Locker Girl in Critics’ Week and is selling Baek Woon-hak’s cop thriller The Chronicles Of Evil, produced by Jang Wonseok (A Hard Day). Finecut also has Park Eun-gyoung and Lee Dongha’s thriller Circle Of Atonement and is handling European territories on Min Kyu-dong’s period drama The Treacherous, which Lotte Entertainment is selling in the rest of the world. Lotte’s slate also includes Lee Haeyoung’s mystery thriller The Silenced, set in a sanitorium where young women keep disappearing, while Showbox has added A Man And A Woman, directed by »
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Lee Yoon-ki (Come Rain, Come Shine) and starring Jeon Do-yeon, to its Cannes slate. Korea’s 9ers Entertainment has acclaimed writer Hong Won-chan’s directorial debut Office in official selection’s Midnight Screenings and is also selling 3D circus performance film Odysseo and Kim Sang-jin’s comedy Three Summer Nights. Contents Panda, the sales arm of NEW, is selling Park Hoon-jung’s The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale, starring Choi Min-sik, and Baik’s high-concept romance The Beauty Inside. M-Line Distribution’s slate includes Im Sang-soo’s Intimate Enemies and Kang Hyo-jin’s Wonderful Nightmare, about a female lawyer who dies but is returned to earth as a housewife.
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United Pictures is selling Jang Jaehyun’s exorcist thriller The Priests, starring Kim Yun-seok (Haemoo) and Gang Dong-won (Woochi), while Mirovision is selling Sung-kyo Cho’s musical drama Life Is But An Empty Dream. Hong Kong sellers unveiled a number of high-profile titles from top directors at Filmart in March. Media Asia has John Woo’s action thriller Manhunt, adapted from a famous Japanese novel, and Johnnie To’s crime thriller Three, starring Vicky Zhao and Louis Koo. Edko Films also has a Johnnie To project — Office starring Chow Yun-fat and Sylvia Chang, and based on Chang’s musical — and is also selling Raman Hui’s Monster Hunt, starring Jing Boran and Tang Wei. Emperor Motion Pictures is selling Dante Lam’s To The Fore, set in the world of competitive cycling, and also has Fruit Chan’s thriller Kill Time, starring Angelababy and Ethan Juan. Both titles are in post-production. Distribution Workshop has Ringo Lam’s first film in seven years, Wild City, starring Louis Koo and Shawn Yue, and Lo Chi Leung’s The Vanished Murderer, starring Lau Ching Wan. Both titles are in post-production. Universe Films Distribution is selling Benny Chan’s action title The Deadly
Reclaim, starring Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo and Eddie Peng. Golden Network Asia will be unveiling Jackie Chan’s new project, Railroad Tigers, along with an international 3D version of his recent hit Dragon Blade, and Ding Sheng’s Saving Mr Wu, starring Andy Lau and Liu Ye. Pegasus Motion Pictures is selling Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 3, in which Mike Tyson will do battle with Donnie Yen, while Filmko Entertainment has Soi Cheang’s The Monkey King 2, starring Aaron Kwok and Gong Li. Both films are scheduled to open over Chinese New Year 2016. Hong Kong’s Mega-Vision Project Workshop is lining up a third instalment in Wong Jing’s hugely popular From Vegas To Macau franchise, which is targeting Chinese New Year 2016. Bravos Pictures is selling Soi Cheang’s SPL2: A Time For Consequences. Taiwan’s leading sales company, Ablaze Image, will be launching sales on Cheng Wei-hao’s horror film The TagAlong at Cannes and is also selling Lee Chung’s The Laundryman and Tom Shu-yu Lin’s Zinnia Flower, starring Karena Lam. Some of the most high-profile titles from mainland China are being handled by US sellers. IM Global is selling Wuer-
shan’s The Ghouls, co-produced by Wanda Pictures, Huayi Brothers and Enlight Media, with Wanda handling Asian territories. Arclight Films’ Easternlight label is selling Wu Jing’s Wolf Warriors, which has grossed $86m in China, and Sun Zhou’s Impossible 3D. Meanwhile, the two Chinese-language titles in Cannes Competition — Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart and Taiwanese film-maker Hou Hsiaohsien’s The Assassin — are being sold by French companies MK2 and Wild Bunch respectively. India also has two titles in Un Certain Regard — Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan, sold by Pathé International, and Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction, which Elle Driver picked up on the eve of the market. Mumbai-based Yash Raj Films, one of India’s most outwardlooking studios, is bringing Dibakar Banerjee’s Calcutta Detective to Cannes, along with Sharat Katariya’s comedy My Big Fat Bride. Fortissimo Films has picked up one of the most highly anticipated titles from Southeast Asia — Victor Vu’s nostalgic drama Yellow Flowers In The Green Grass — and also has Chloe Zhao’s USset Songs My Brothers Taught Me screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Thai sellers will also be out in force in Cannes. Sahamongkol International is selling Thailand’s first zombie movie, The Black Death, while Five Star Production has Achira Nokthet’s horror film Ghost Ship in pre-production. Thailand’s GTH is introducing romantic drama Heart Attack, directed by Ter Nawapol (Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy). Singapore also has several strong projects in the market including Royston Tan’s musical comedy 3688 and Randy Ang’s historical drama 1965, which are both being sold by mm2 Entertainment. Hong Kong’s Distribution Workshop is selling Eric Khoo’s erotic drama In The Room, while Bravos Pictures is selling Kelvin Tong’s horror s The Faith Of Anna Waters. n
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The Assassin
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Buzz titles Taiwan A local ghost story, an introspective drama, a black comedy and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s foray into martial arts are just some of the high-profile upcoming titles from Taiwan. Liz Shackleton reports The Assassin Dir Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien’s highly anticipated first foray into the martial-arts genre is screening in Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in 9th century China, the film stars Shu Qi (Gone With The Bullets) as a high-level assassin who questions her loyalties when she is ordered to kill the man she was supposed to wed. Chang Chen and Japan’s Satoshi Tsumabuki also star. Produced by Hou’s SPOTfilms and China’s Sil Metropole Organisation, the film had a lengthy development and production
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history, due partly to financing difficulties. But the delays have only heightened anticipation for the first film in eight years from Hou, whose credits include A City Of Sadness (1989) and more recently Three Times (2005) and Flight Of The Red Balloon (2007). Contact Olivier Barbier, Wild Bunch obarbier@wildbunch.eu
The Laundryman Dir Lee Chung A strong ensemble cast headlines the feature debut of award-winning shortfilm director Lee Chung, including
Chang Hsiao-chuan (GF*BF), Wan Qian (Paradise In Service), Sui Tang (TV series The Fierce Wife) and award-winning Singaporean actress Yeo Yann Yann (Ilo Ilo). Produced by Lee Lieh and Roger Huang, the black comedy revolves around a laundry shop that serves as a front for a group of contract killers. One of the killers enlists the help of a psychic when he is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. In post-production, the film will receive its world premiere at Taipei Film Festival (June 26-July 18) ahead of a summer release in Taiwan. Contact June Wu, Ablaze Image junewu@ablazeimage.com
Maverick Dir Cheng Wen-tang Selected as the opening film of next month’s Taipei Film Festival, Cheng Wen-tang’s crime drama tackles issues of social justice through the story of a cop battling a corrupt local councillor whose son is accused of causing bodily harm. Produced by Taiwan’s Joint Entertainment International and Dreamosa Film, Maverick stars Chris Wang, Chien Manshu and Chuang Kai-hsun. Cheng’s debut feature Somewhere Over The Dreamland (2002) won the Critics’ Week Award at Venice Film Festival. His most »
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Murmur Of The Hearts Dir Sylvia Chang Actress-director Sylvia Chang returns to the director’s chair for the first time since 2008 drama Run Papa Run with this introspective story about three young people struggling to come to terms with their lives. Isabella Leong plays a painter, who has left her father and brother behind on Taiwan’s Green Island, and fallen for an under-achieving boxer in Taipei. The cast also includes Joseph Chang, Lawrence Ko and Angelica Lee Sinje. Produced by Taiwan’s Dream Creek Production and Hong Kong-based Red On Red, the film received its world premiere as the opening film of this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. Contact Enga Chang, Central Motion Pictures enga_chang@movie.com.tw
The Road To Mandalay Dir Midi Z The fourth feature from Myanmar-born, Taiwan-based film-maker Midi Z follows two illegal immigrants who meet at the Thai border and then struggle to establish their new lives in Bangkok. Guo finds a factory job and falls in love with Lianqing, but the young woman suppresses her feelings and focuses on her restaurant job and securing her Thai ID. The Taiwan-France-Myanmar co-production is taking part in Cinéfondation’s L’Atelier programme in Cannes and has also won prizes at several projects markets. Midi Z’s previous features — Return To Burma, Poor Folk and Ice Poison — have screened
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at festivals including Berlin, Tribeca and Rotterdam. Contact Patrick Mao Huang, Flash Forward Entertainment patrick3.ffe@gmail.com
The Tag-Along Dir Cheng Wei-hao In post-production, Cheng Wei-hao’s horror film The Tag-Along is based on a popular urban myth in Taiwan about a mysterious little girl in red who appears just before people die or go missing. Starring River Huang and Wei-ning Hsu, the film follows a hard-working estate agent who is hoping to marry his girlfriend when his grandmother goes missing. He and his girlfriend start to unravel the mystery when they find a video depicting
a little girl in red. Cheng is making his feature debut after directing several wellreceived short crime dramas and mystery thrillers, which are genres rarely tackled in Taiwan. Contact June Wu, Ablaze Image junewu@ablazeimage.com
Wawa No Cidal Dirs Cheng Yu-chieh, Lekal Sumi Cheng Yu-chieh, whose second film Yang Yang (2008) screened in Berlin’s Panorama section, is teaming up with new talent Lekal Sumi on this drama set in one of Taiwan’s aboriginal communities. The story follows a mother who returns to her home village after a long period working in Taipei to visit her two children who are
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being cared for by her father. She finds her tribe’s original tranquility has been shattered by sightseeing buses and decides to repair the waterway to grow rice and revive their traditional culture. Cheng won Taipei Film Festival’s grand prize for his debut feature Do Over (2006). Sumi, whose mother is from the Pangcah tribe, made a documentary about her, Wish Of The Ocean Rice, in 2012. Wawa No Cidal will receive its world premiere at Taipei Film Festival. Contact Wang Yihua, Filmosa Production yihua@filmosa.com
Zinnia Flower Dir Tom Shu-yu Lin Starring Karena Lam and Shih Chinhang, the lead guitarist of Taiwanese rock band Mayday, Zinnia Flower revolves around the friendship between a man and a woman who have lost loved ones in the same accident. They share their grief throughout the 100 days that Buddhist rituals set aside to mourn the dead. Tom Lin previously directed award-winning youth drama Winds Of September (2008) and fantasy drama Starry Starry Night (2011). Produced by Atom Cinema, Zinnia Flower gets its world premiere at Taipei Film Festival ahead of an autumn release. Contact June Wu, Ablaze Image junewu@ s ablazeimage.com ■
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Critics’ Week selection Sleeping Giant; (inset) Xavier Dolan’s Cannes 2014 favourite Mommy
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nick Poirier, vice-president of sales at Seville International, cannot wait to start pre-sales on Xavier Dolan’s latest feature It’s Only The End Of The World. “It’s a coup,” says Poirier of landing what will be Seville’s second Dolan film following Mommy, which played in Competition here last year. “The buyer response has been ecstatic.” Dolan, the French-Canadian enfant terrible, has assembled an enticing cast for the family drama based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play of the same name. “It could be the roles of their lives for [Marion] Cotillard, [Vincent] Cassel and [Léa] Seydoux,” says Poirier of the story of a writer who returns home to announce his imminent death. “As an actor himself, Dolan is great at bringing the best out of his actors.” The same can be said of Seville International, eOne’s Montreal-based sales agency led by Poirier, and its ability and willingness to support the vision of its film-makers. That Dolan elected to entrust his upcoming film — set to begin shooting this month — with Seville International says a lot about the passion Poirier and director of sales Natalie Kampelmacher bring to their jobs. Their expertise was in full view on Mommy. The Palme d’Or contender generated about $16m at the worldwide box office. Dolan’s upcoming film takes its place on a Cannes slate that includes Andrew Cividino’s
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Critics’ Week selection Sleeping Giant and Sophie Deraspe’s The Wolves, which —like Cividino’s film — is part of Telefilm Canada’s Perspectives Canada market showcase. Seville is hoping to add a fourth, still unannounced, sales title. Poirier is an effusive presence who previously worked at Les Films Séville before eOne unveiled the boutique sales house in late March 2014. She says finding projects is easy but the challenge is identifying the right ones. “We want to find the right projects, arthouse with crossover potential,” she says. “When buyers see us they say we have so much passion.” For Poirier, a maximum of 10 titles a year seems right and there are no plans to expand what is a “lean and mean” team. While Canada remains an important focus, the goal is to nurture film-makers and their gems from around the globe. “We’re very proud of the line-up we’ve built in just over a year. We’ve been able to build in solid films like Ma ma [Julio Medem’s Spanishlanguage drama that stars Penelope Cruz, in post], The Olive Tree by Iciar Bollain and Hany Abu-Assad’s Arab Idol.” The departure in January of eOne Films International president Harold van Lier signalled a shift towards in-house productions at the parent company. However, Xavier Marchand, president of Entertainment One Features, insists the sales mandate
‘We’re very proud of the line-up we have built in just over a year’ Anick Poirier, Seville International
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is alive and well at both divisions. “One hundred percent,” he affirms. “In terms of international sales, both Charlotte van Weede [SVP international sales, Entertainment One Features] and Anick were in place and doing the heavy lifting so I was lucky when I arrived. “I love the Seville profile and that we had these passion projects to go with Anick. We want to carry on doing this. We can represent a lot of film-makers from around the world, like we did on The Babadook and Ma ma.” Marchand notes that while each film is evaluated before a decision is made on who will sell it, generally eOne handles the bigger, English-speaking titles where it is able to distribute directly in its territories. “If it’s more of a worldwide sales agency play, we feel it’s more of a Seville title,” he says, adding: “It creates interesting discussions.” For example, Jay Roach’s upcoming drama Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, fits the Seville mould yet it went through eOne because it is a higher-budget, English-language title and there were existing relationships. But even if Dolan moves on to bigger-budget, English-language fare, both Marchand and Poirier indicate he would stay within the Seville International fold. “We want the distributors in our territories to be as passionate as we are,” says Poirier. “If it’s eOne, that’s fine; otherwise it’s one s of our buyers.” ■
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INTERVIEW JUSTIN KURZEL
Director Justin Kurzel on location with Marion Cotillard
Touch of evil
Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel explains to Andreas Wiseman why following his chilling debut Snowtown with Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy Macbeth, which plays here on May 23, worked out to be the ‘perfect storm’
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ringing freshness to a Shakespeare classic is always a daunting task. But coming off his explosive 2011 Critics’ Week debut Snowtown and aching to work with Michael Fassbender, director Justin Kurzel is bang on the money when he describes Cannes Competition entry Macbeth (May 23) as “a perfect storm”. Shot in Scotland on a budget of around $14m, Kurzel’s follow-up to Snowtown brings new verve to the story of the fearless Scottish warrior Macbeth who is ultimately brought low by ambition and desire. The highly anticipated adaptation saw The King’s Speech and Top Of The Lake producers See-Saw Films put together in-demand Australian director Kurzel with on-screen luminaries Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in a bold re-imagining of Shakespeare’s dark play. Add to the mix industry powerhouses StudioCanal, The Weinstein Company and Film4, in addition to behind-the-scenes talent including DoP Adam Arkapaw (Animal Kingdom), production designer Fiona
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Crombie (Top Of The Lake) and costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Atonement), and it’s easy to see why the film is generating so much pre-Cannes buzz. Screen met up with Kurzel in London two weeks before the festival to talk about working with his red-hot lead actors, his penchant for darkness and summoning spirits on set. Congratulations on Macbeth’s acceptance into Cannes. It’s your first time in Competition and only your second film, making you two for two in showing at the festival. How did the project come about? I was on another film that I had spent probably 18 months of my life doing, which for various reasons didn’t happen. Towards the end of that period, Iain Canning [of See-Saw Films] approached me about Macbeth. I was a huge fan of Michael. There’s something generational about him — a masculinity and a vulnerability, kind of like a Paul Newman or a De Niro. So that’s kind of how it came
‘The idea of being seduced by evil was still fresh in me [after Snowtown]’ Justin Kurzel
about; it was a real desire to work with Michael. Thankfully, Iain brought us the perfect storm in the shape of Macbeth. What convinced you to take the plunge on this project rather than stick with the one you had nurtured for 18 months? Coming off a social-realist piece like Snowtown, I would never have thought I would direct a Shakespeare play but it just became more and more fascinating, and more scary. This project connected with many aspects of the psychology of Snowtown. The idea of being seduced by evil was still pretty fresh in me. I find those figures that dance with evil really fascinating. I think Macbeth has always been a study of ambition and power, and I thought there would be something really interesting in seeing how that could arise from trauma and grief, a sense of loss — of a child, perhaps — or through a sense of posttraumatic stress after all the battles he had been through. I wanted to bring an intimacy to the overt ideas of the play. Macbeth, as a »
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warrior, was a product of an incredibly brutal landscape and I was interested in how that landscape and other external factors influence ambition.
Michael Fassbender takes the lead role as Macbeth
Violence and unease pervade Snowtown and Macbeth. As a film-maker, do you feel most comfortable in that area? The landscape and communities of Australia definitely have an effect on you. It can be a very alienating and strange place. Snowtown is definitely about that: disparate souls. In a weird way it is like a Western. As is Macbeth. The characters are defined, especially through the witches, by the stories and the curses of the land. And the characters are fighting over land. So I think the way environment either puts a curse on us or watches us, or reminds us that we are small among it, is something that I feel very close to. Also, I do like seeing characters dismantled. There is something inherently watchable about characters struggling to make sense of their actions and justify them. Shakespeare is the ultimate exponent of that kind of struggle. Yes, a big part of Macbeth is about family. We really looked at yearning for that sense of community and family in both characters [Macbeth and Lady Macbeth]. That’s a really powerful thing, something we all want — to belong. We got excited about that dilemma within the characters of yearning for community but also their destruction. Macbeth goes about destroying families and the big thing is that he doesn’t have one. It’s a loaded piece... Very loaded. And strange. You know the whole ‘Don’t say Macbeth’ thing [theatrical superstition where actors avoid saying the play’s name inside a theatre]? Well, so many things started to go wrong during the production. You could just feel stuff was hovering over us and that’s strange because you’re determined not to get sucked into it. But it just does. When Lady Macbeth is summoning the witches, it is kind of like you’re actively summoning spirits. It’s a strange dance. Did you have to go through a process of adjustment working with such experienced lead actors? Yes and no. The idea of working with Michael and Marion with their body of work was very intimidating. As actors, their precision is amazing. Michael had read the script more than 200 times before our first readthrough. It’s like having a finely tuned Ferrari that allows you to direct by fractions. It was a big learning curve for me. In the end I think what bonded us was the fear of it all. There was a mountain over us — Michael playing Macbeth, Marion playing Lady Macbeth as a French woman, and me being an Australian coming to England and making a film of one of the most famous British plays.
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But that pressure seemed to really galvanise us. Right from the beginning we made a pact to just be there for each other and be very honest and just trust, step-by-step, what we were doing. The shoot must have been hugely intense for both of them. To what extent did Michael and Marion go ‘method’? I don’t think that’s the way Michael works and I don’t think it’s necessarily how Marion works either. They are incredibly technical but deeply emotional. Like all great actors, they can separate time when they’re walking to set and time when they’re about to go into a take. They’re just extraordinary listeners and extraordinarily brave. What was the biggest challenge for you? The weather and landscape was a major factor. Macduff ’s ‘pretty chickens’ verse [when he learns of his family’s murder], for example, was delivered on top of a mountain, with wind gusting across Sean Harris’s face. Those opportunities made it very cinematic but also gave something extra to the verse. However, it was also really fucking hard, just technically, trying to deliver the intimacy of the verse and for our mics to pick it all up. Among the returning Snowtown crew, Adam Arkapaw was DoP and your brother Jed scored the film. Did working with regular collaborators ease any worries you had? Yes, it felt fantastic having a bunch of Aussies
‘There’s something generational about Michael Fassbender, like a Paul Newman or a De Niro’ Justin Kurzel
around me and people that I’ve worked with before. It was a really great combination with the UK crew. In a sense it kind of felt like we were making our first film again. It was really nice to be able to offload any insecurity through my Snowtown team. How does it feel to be in Competition at Cannes, in what has been hailed as a fresh and somewhat atypical year? For a director, it’s the mecca. My student film, Blue Tongue, played in Cannes in 2005 [in Critics’ Week]. Six years later, Snowtown also played in Critics’ Week. The fact I’m now in Competition is an incredible privilege. It’s really exciting to be next to someone like Yorgos [Lanthimos, director of The Lobster] who I deeply admire, and to be part of a group of new film-makers who are showing in Competition. When I was there with Snowtown, I could kind of sense there were some strong and interesting new voices coming through. Is an adaptation of video-game Assassin’s Creed, also starring Fassbender and Cotillard, next? Yes, we’re shooting in August. It’s exciting because it’s a completely different genre. But it deals with really big and interesting themes, which the game kind of taps into. I’m fortunate I get the opportunity to work with these guys again but in a completely difs ferent way. ■
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Joachim Trier (right) on set with DoP Jakob Ihre; (below) Louder Than Bombs
The voyager Norwegian director Joachim Trier tells Wendy Mitchell about his first English-language feature, Louder Than Bombs, a father-son drama that plays in Cannes Competition on Monday
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or his first English-language feature, Joachim Trier says he is “venturing almost anthropologically” into a new world. In making Louder Than Bombs, which is here in Competition on May 18, he even spent time hanging out with American teenagers. “I had to go hang out in an American high school and listen to them,” he says of his third film, which is about a father (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons (Jesse Eisenberg and newcomer Devin Druid — “a real discovery”, says Trier) who uncover the secrets of their late wife/ mother (Isabelle Huppert) as they prepare a retrospective of her war photography. The story’s New York setting gives Trier and long-time co-writer Eskil Vogt “a new culture” to explore. While acknowledging that Louder Than Bombs has a bigger budget ($11m) and name cast, he doesn’t feel making it was wildly different from his first two much-praised features, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st. “In a way it’s a natural progression,” he says. “I decided not to go for offers of a studio film, but to develop from scratch our own story and our own film. I set out
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to make a personal film and it’s turned out to be a personal film.” The journey to screen was neither quick nor easy. Trier and Vogt began developing the project in 2008, had a first draft in 2009 and were set to shoot in 2013 when the financing fell apart. “It was a very upsetting period in my life. It was the first time I experienced getting something that close [to production] and having it collapse,” says Trier, who got through the experience by writing another script with Vogt. Seeing the passion others had to keep the project alive also kept him going (the shoot was revived in 2014 with increased backing from existing partners and ARTE joining as a co-producer). “The actors really hung on to it and that made a difference,” he says. “I got the sense of how passionate the partners were.” Louder Than Bombs scheduled an eight-week shoot in New York State, with a larger crew than Trier had on his first two features. But he made sure “we kept it simple around the camera. It was a tight team around [director of photography] Jakob [Ihre].” The film was shot on 35mm, and Trier was keen that it “be a big-screen movie.
‘I set out to make a personal film and it’s turned out to be a personal film’ Joachim Trier
As a Scandinavian, I am a fan of Dreyer, Bergman. I love watching the human face on screen. But we also have lots of VFX. It’s not just a grief drama sitting in a house. It explores imagination in a visual way.” Expounding further, Trier explains that the film contains “flashbacks, flashforwards, dreams and memories”. “Whereas Reprise was about the anxiety of career and identity in your early 20s and Oslo was about a personal crisis in your early 30s,” he adds, “this is a cross-generational family story dealing with how close we are in a family, yet we can’t fully connect.” Trier himself was born in Denmark and grew up in Norway, the son of a Danish father and Norwegian mother, and he defines himself as more of the latter nationality. His father was a jazz
musician who also worked as a sound technician on hit films such as 1975’s The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, while his grandfather, Erik Lochen, was a film-maker whose debut picture The Hunt (Jakten) was selected for Cannes in 1960. “He was showing alongside Fellini, Buñuel, Antonioni, Bergman,” Trier says. “It’s no wonder I’ve gravitated towards that kind of European cinema… It feels like a very touching thing, that the family has a tradition in Cannes.” Lochen died when Trier was nine so the two never had the chance to talk about cinema, although he remembers his grandfather fondly. “He taught me how to ski jump, and said, ‘When you go through the jump, you can’t stop halfway through.’ That’s similar to embarking on a big film project,” says Trier. Attending the UK’s National Film and Television School was a pivotal step in his career. “I began at 23, one of the youngest students, and I loved the visuals of Antonioni and De Palma, so I needed to learn character,” he says. “Years later, I understood how much I learned. I’m really interesting in characs ter-driven storytelling.” n
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‘What are your most cherished Cannes memories?’ Compiled by Andreas Wiseman
“It was exciting when Pirates sold to more than 15 countries last year. We only presented a 30-second promo but the reaction was great. Also when I bumped into my favourite actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai two years ago. It was an unforgettable moment.” Eunhye Byeon Senior manager, Lotte Entertainment
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“My favourite was New Line’s The Lord Of The Rings party at a fabulous chateau. Bilbo Baggins’ Hobbit Hole was shipped over from New Zealand and Ringwraiths rode across the lawn on their black horses. As the evening drew to a close, the owner of the chateau — a dashing older gentlemen — asked me to move to France and live with him in the chateau!”
Sean Bean and guests at the 2001 party for The Lord Of The Rings
“One of my favourite memories of Cannes takes me back to a few years ago when I went for an early morning run along the Croisette with my friend — and formidable runner — Lamberto Mancini. “It was completely empty except for some young couples still in their evening attire, heading back after partying all night. Typical in Cannes, I guess.”
Mimi Steinbauer President and CEO, Radiant Films International
Velvet Goldmine
Marco Chimenz
“The Velvet Goldmine party in 1998 was the most glamorous Cannes event I’ve ever attended. While the following year, the ovation for The Straight Story was the longest I’ve experienced. The late Richard Farnsworth went to the bathroom, and the audience waited. When he emerged, the applause started again.”
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Cannes party-goers: not to be found jogging along the Croisette
“The Filmax parties — the Spanish certainly know how to enjoy themselves.” Simon Crowe Managing director, SC Films International
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JOVAN MARJANOVIC, HEAD OF INDUSTRY, SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL
“I am sure I could come up with a more amusing story over a drink or two, but bringing Bridges Of Sarajevo to last year’s Special Screenings section with most of its 13 directors in attendance must be my favourite Cannes memory.”
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(South Africa) Archstone Distribution. 87mins. Dir: Jyoti Mistry. Cast: Alex McGregor, Desmond Dube, Francis Chouler.
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STANDING TALL
(France) 120mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Benoit Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Parodot. The story of Malony as he moves through the juvenile justice system, and the tireless efforts of a judge and a counsellor to save him.
PUMP
(US) 13 Films. 88mins. Dir: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell. Cast: Jason Bateman. An inspiring, eye-opening documentary that tells the story of America’s addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and explains clearly and simply how we can end it — and finally win choice at the pump.
Out of Competition press Theatre Claude Debussy
13:00 OUR LITTLE SISTER
(Japan) 128mins. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose. When three young women invite their shy teenage half-sister to live with them, a new life of joyful discovery begins for all four siblings. Competition press Salle Bazin
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Festival & Press 16:00, 19:45 & 23:30 STANDING TALL
(France) 120mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Benoit Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Parodot. 19:45
STANDING TALL
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21:00 TALE OF TALES
(Italy) 125mins. Dir: Matteo Garrone. Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C Reilly.
(Japan) 128mins. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose.
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19:00 TALE OF TALES
(Italy) 125mins. Dir: Matteo Garrone. Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly. Inspired by the fairytales of medieval Naples, Matteo Garrone’s “Tale of Tales” is an epic and ambitious vision of cinema. Competition press Theatre Claude Debussy
The story of Malony, as he moves through the juvenile justice system, and the tireless efforts of a judge and a counsellor to save him. Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
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Altitude Film Sales. 15mins.
After being diagnosed with dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find that she harbours a sinister secret. Palais D
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FILOSOFI kOPI
(France) 120mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Benoit Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Parodot. Out of Competition press Theatre Claude Debussy
AMERICAN hERO
North Korea, she starts painting.
23:30 STANDING TALL
BEING EVEL
106mins. Dir: Alejandro Monteverde. Cast: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson. A powerful and moving film about a boy who is willing to do whatever it takes to bring his dad home from the Second World War alive. The heartwarming story will capture your heart and lift your spirits as it reveals the indescribable love between a father and son. Star 1
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Market screenings
09:00 GAUMONT PROMO REELS
(France) Gaumont. 120mins. Star 2
10:00 LITTLE BOY
(US) Good Universe.
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(South Korea) Mirovision. 97mins. Dir: Park Jin-soon. It has been two years since Seol-ji escaped from North Korea and settled down in South Korea. She tries her best to survive in a new society, working at her fellow defector friend’s flower shop. The life is lonely and tough for her. As she needs extra money to send to her family left behind in
(US) K5 International. 110mins. Dir: Daniel Junge. Millions know the man, but few know his story. A candid look at US daredevil and icon Robert ‘Evel’ Knievel, while also reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle. Gray 2
ChICkLIT
Spotlight Pictures. 92mins. Dir: Tony Britten. Cast: Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz. Comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a “mummy porn” novel in the style of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and it gets snapped up. Gray 4
DEMENTIA
(US) Boulderlight Pictures. 90mins. Dir: Mike Testin.
(Indonesia) Indonesian Cinema. 117mins. Dir: Angga Dwimas Sasongko. Cast: Chicco Jerikho, Rio Dewanto, Julie Estelle. A film about two best friends who founded “Filosofi Kopi”, a coffee shop that only provides the best Indonesian coffee. This is a story about soulsearching and making peace with the past, while exploring new horizons — in this case, to celebrate coffee with passion and love.
(UK) Protagonist Pictures. 93mins. Dir: Nick Love. Cast: Stephen Dorff, Eddie Griffin. Melvin, a reluctant American superhero, lives only for crime, women and drugs — until he realises that the only way he will ever get to see his estranged son is to go straight. But in a world where no-one understands Melvin’s condition, his incredible powers could ultimately be his demise. Star 2
MY BAkERY IN BROOkLYN
(US) Annapurna International (Panorama Media). 97mins. Dir: John Krasinski. Cast: John Krasinski, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick. A man returns to his small hometown after learning that his mother has fallen ill and is about to undergo surgery.
(Spain) Moonrise Pictures. 95mins. Dir: Gustavo Ron. Cast: Aimee Teegarden, Ward Horton, Blanca Suarez. Vivien and Chloe have just inherited their Aunt Isabelle’s bakery, a boulangerie that has been the cornerstone of the neighbourhood for years. Chloe wants a new image and product, while Vivien wants to make sure nothing changes. Their clash of ideas leads to a peculiar solution: they split the shop in half with a blank line in the middle and each runs her business as she sees fit. Things heat up as they’re forced to fight over every customer who walks in the door.
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APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD
WE WERE YOUNG
(France) Studiocanal. 105mins. Dir: Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares. Cast: Marion Cotillard. The adventuresome animation of one girl’s heroic journey to fulfil her destiny with the support of her closest friends.
(France) Gaumont. 91mins. Dir: Philippe Guillard. Cast: Kad Merad, Benoit Magimel, Vincent Moscato. Five guys who have been friends for more than 30 years have long ago abandoned their teenage dreams. One day they learn that the most serious of the group has decided to set sail around the world. When they uncover the true reason for this sudden decision, they begin to question themselves, awakening all those old dreams.
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CHECKmATE
(US) Cardinal Xd. 90mins. Dir: Timothy Woodward Jr. Cast: Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, Sean Astin. Six people are thrown together during an elaborate bank heist where any move can alter the outcome. Is it coincidence, or are they merely pawns in a much bigger game? Riviera 2
LIFE IS BUT AN EmPTY DREAm
(South Korea) Mirovision. 80mins. Dir: Cho Sung-Kyu. Cast: Kim Dong Wan, Mina Fujii, Philip Choi. Pentaport Rock Festival is a leading summer music festival in Korea. The core of music festivals is always the musicians and audiences. But there is another essential group that makes the festival possible — the staff and volunteers. This movie is about passion, love and friendship of those behind the scenes. Gray 4
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15:30
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(US) Good Universe. 106mins. Dir: Alejandro Monteverde. Cast: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson. A powerful and moving film about a boy who is
willing to do whatever it takes to bring his dad home alive from the Second World War. The heartwarming story will capture your heart and lift your spirits as it reveals the indescribable love between a father and son. Star 1
30 years old. They carry around $100,000 in cash on the way to pay for their first home. But the seller can’t make it to the signing and postpones to the next day. Distressed and frustrated, they head back to their old rented apartment and hide the money for safekeeping. They try to pretend the day is like any other. But it’s actually quite the opposite.
regarded as the protector of the village defeating bandits and upholding justice. However, with no real foundation in Kung Fu, Tu has to start from zero in order to harness the Kung Fu skills which he inherited from the Grandmaster.
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THE HUmAN CENTIPEDE III
THE mAD KINGS
(Belgium) Archstone Distribution. 102mins. Dir: Tom Six. Cast: Eric Roberts, Robert Lasardo, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister. The third and final installment of the legendary cult series.
(France) Jour2Fete. 100mins. Dir: Laurent Laffargue. Cast: Sergi Lopez, Celine Sallette, Eric Cantona. In Casteljaloux, a town in southwestern France, friendship, drunken nights, heat and the pleasure of conversation set the pace of daily life. And here, men are “Kings of the World”. But when Jeannot gets out of prison, he has only one thing in mind: to win back Chantal, the love of his life, who moved in with the village butcher while he
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LITTLE BOY
BACK TO THE 90S
(Thailand) Mono Film Co. 112mins. Dir: Yanyong Kuruaungkoul. Cast: Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon, Achita Pramoj Na Ayudhya. The story of a boy living in 2015 who accidentally finds a pager that leads to the journey that changes his life forever — back to the ’90s. Riviera 1
EL INCENDIO
(Argentina) Figa Films. 95mins. Dir: Juan Schnitman. Cast: Pilar Gamboa, Juan Barberini. Lucia and Marcelo are
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LEGEND OF A RABBIT: THE mARTIAL OF FIRE
(China) Tianjin North Film Group. 90mins. Dir: Da Ke Dong. Cast: Donnie Yen. It has been two years since Tu defeated Slash. More than a hero, Tu is
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was serving time. A Greek tragedy that soon takes on the feel of a Western. Palais E
THE mISFITS CLUB
(Spain) Deaplaneta. 110mins. Dir: Carlos Sedes. Cast: Charlotte Vega, Ivana Baquero, Alex Maruny. Valeria is new in town. Together with other students from school counsellor meetings, they create The Misfits Club, where she’ll find friendship and love. Gray 1
mONKEY KING RETURNS
(China) SC Films International. 90mins. Dir: Tian Xiao Peng. Cast: Donnie Yen. Charts the story of the once powerful “Monkey King”, who breaks free from imprisonment with the help of a young boy to save a besieged village. Olympia 8
NEWCOmER
(US) Content Media Corporation. 101mins. Dir: Kai Barry. Cast: James Floyd, Noemie Merlant, Anthony Lapaglia. Follows in the tradition of a young Bourne or Bond and introduces the world to a new covert operative who learns to use his quick wits and stellar intuition to beat the best in the business at their own game. Olympia 4
TO BE SIXTEEN
400 DAYS
(South Korea) Mirovision. 110mins. Dir: Kim Hyun-Seong. Cast: Kim Joo-Yeop. Sejun lives in a small suburban city with his sickly mother, incompetent father and an elder brother. Sejun had a crush on Sukyung and one day, he finds out Sukyung got pregnant by his best friend, Jinyoung. Sejun shares this secret with Sukyung and feels he has to protect her. The story of a 16-yearold boy who wishes to hide behind the secret of a girl, taking shelter from his mother’s impending death.
(US) Content Media Corporation. 90mins. Dir: Matt Osterman. Cast: Brandon Routh, Dane Cook, Caity Lotz, Ben Feldman. In preparation for a journey into deep space, a group of four astronauts spend 400 days in an incredibly realistic space capsule simulator, only to discover that their mission may not be as simulated as they were led to believe.
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UNCAGED
(US) Boulderlight Pictures. 90mins. Dir: Daniel Robbins. Cast: Ben Getz, Gene Jones, Mikey Gelfand. After nights of waking up in the woods, a troubled teen straps a camera to himself to find out how he got there, only to find some things are better left a mystery. Palais C
URFIN AND HIS WOODEN SOLDIERS
(Russia) Wizart Animation. 82mins. Dir: Vladimir Toropchin. The sequel to the muchloved adaptation of Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by
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THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ
(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment. 76mins. Dir: Hector Hernandez Vicens. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbo. Anna Fritz — a famous and beautiful actress — has just died. Three young guys sneak into the morgue not only to see her naked body but also to have sex with her corpse. But sometimes the dead come back to life. Riviera 4
THE FARm
(Puerto Rico) Kafilms. 90mins. Dir: Angel Manuel Soto. A young boxer, a fat kid with a bike, a reckless teenage girl and a lawless bookie cross paths when their pursuit of happiness pushes them to the limit. »
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of radical behaviour experiments that tested ordinary humans’ willingness to obey authority by using electric shocks.
HONG HOON
(Thailand) Kantana Group Public Co. 97mins. Dir: Kulp Kaljareuk. Cast: Ananda Everingham, Rattanarat “Ploy” Aurthaveekul. Revolves around a woman who believes she lost her father in an accident, but is approached by a stranger who explains that he died because he had a wax figure made of himself.
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FLYING COLORS
(Japan) Tbs (Tokyo broadcasting system Television). 116mins. Dir: Nobuhiro Doi. Cast: Kasumi Arimura, Atsushi Ito. A miracle that could happen to anyone, anywhere. A true story full of laughter and tears that moved readers all over Japan.
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THE MAN WHO MENDS WOMEN — THE WRATH OF HIPPOCRATES
(belgium) Les Films De La Passerelle. 112mins. Dir: Thierry Michel. Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — one of the poorest countries on the planet — despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. Gray 4
PARTLY CLOUDY (WITH SUNNY SPELLS)
(Italy) Rai Com. 95mins. Dir: Marco Pontecorvo. Cast: Luca Zingaretti, John Turturro, Carolina Crescentini. Two friends find oil in the courtyard of their company, which is going bankrupt. An explosive mixture which breaks friendships, ends marriages and leaves the city a mess. A metaphor of vices in modern Italy. Palais H
QUACKERZ
(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution. 75mins. Dir: Viktor Lakisov. A conflict flares up between local Mandarin Ducks and the Military Mallards who land on a Chinese island, mistaking it for Hawaii. While the fathers fight and argue, Longway, the Emperor’s son, and Erica, the commander’s daughter, meet and become friends.
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GARO GOLD STORM THE MOVIE
Market 16:00 THE CHRONICLES OF EVIL
(south Korea) CJ E&M Corporation/ CJ Entertainment. 102mins. Dir: baek Woon-hak. Cast: son Hyun-joo, Daniel Choi,
The kids must ally all the ducks to battle their foe, the daunting Ms Knout, who seeks to destroy the Sun. Olympia 7
SAVVA : HEART OF THE WARRIOR
(Russia) Highland Film Group. 85mins. Dir: Max Fadeev. Cast: Milla Jovovich, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Pesci, sharon stone. Once protected by regal white wolves, the village of 10-year-old Savva has fallen prey to a gang of ruthless Hyenas led by the evil three-headed monkey queen, Mom Jozee. One day, Savva manages to escape to the woods, where he befriends Angee, one of the remaining white wolves. Together, with help from Puffy and Mosquito, they embark on an adventure to save the village, and find their warrior hero… Savva.
Park seo-jun. A decorated detective involved in a taxi driver’s death realises he is caught in a trap and must untangle past mistakes, figuring out why he was targeted in the first place. Riviera 1
92mins. Dir: Liana Marabini. Cast: David Wall, Gedeon burkhard, Jennifer Mischiati. The difficult history of a controversial Pope, Pius XII, accused of not having condemned the Holocaust. The film portrays a very different truth, based on a huge amount of documentation. But the subject continues to create discussions and contestation. Palais B
SUICIDE
(Israel) Dutch Features Global Entertainment. 110mins. Dir: benny Fredman. Cast: Mali Levi Gershon, Rotem Keinan, Dror Keren. Depicting the final hours of Oded Tsur before he must end his life. Oded owes money to a loanshark who demands his life as payment. How do you commit the perfect crime in 24 hours?
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SHADES OF TRUTH
THE SURPRISE
(Us) Condor Pictures.
(Netherlands) Content
Media Corporation. 104mins. Dir: Mike Van Diem. Cast: Jeroen Van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman. A beautiful and complex story that is at once romantic, melancholic, comical and astonishing — a unique film that will sweep you off your feet and ultimately surprise you. Olympia 9
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TRUMAN
(spain) Filmax International. 110mins. Dir: Cesc Gay. Cast: Ricardo Darin, Javier Camara. Two childhood friends are reunited after years without seeing one another. A humorous and honest portrait of the courage it takes to accept that death is just another part of life. Lerins 1 invitation only
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DEMON HOLE
(Us) sC Films International. 90mins. Dir: Josh Crook. Cast: samantha scaffidi, Austin Ramsey, Paris Campbell. A fracking crew drills a hole on sacred Native American land, unleashing an ancient demon. Six teens have to serve community service in the remote forest where the demon is lurking. Palais I
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(Thailand) benetone Films. 93mins. Dir: James Cullen bressack. Cast: Ciara Hanna, Emily R O’brien, Jackie Moore, sara Lane Malakul. It was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime: three young girls spending the summer in Thailand. But their adventure quickly becomes a nightmare when the trio unleashes the spirit of a murdered child with only one thing on her mind: revenge. Palais E
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Earle Haley. Cast: John Travolta, Michael Pitt, Dan stevens. When four young men reunite at an ex-classmate’s funeral, one of them offers up some inside information on a stock that’s guaranteed to make them all instant millionaires. They agree to formalise a partnership before the night’s end to invest in what they believe to be a sure thing.
(Japan) Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. 83mins. Dir: Keita Amemiya. Cast: Wataru Kuriyama, Miki Nanri, shigeru Izumiya. The third Garo theatrical film.
(Us) Diamond Pictures. 94mins. Dir: Jackie
(Us) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. 94mins. Dir: Michael Almereyda. Cast: Peter sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan. Based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series
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(Japan) Mirovision. 110mins. Dir: Keinosuke Hara. Cast: Risa sudo, Izumi Fujimoto, Ken Yasuda. Manami runs Snack Bar Sayoko. She raised her daughter Sayoko alone. Sayoko’s father is known »
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as Angel and works as a drag queen dancer. Sayoko doesn’t know Angel is her father. After graduating from high school, Sayoko moves to Tokyo but after experiencing several failed romances she returns to her mother. Aware her snack bar is having financial difficulties and may shut down, she decides to open a drag queen bar and asks her mother’s longtime friend Angel for help.
known her father but she now has to live with him. Cerise has never shown any interest in anyone or anything but herself, but now here she is, lost in the collectivist ideals of a society that no longer exists. Cerise has never opened a book but has fallen in love with a guy who talks about nothing but Maupassant, Flaubert and Godard. Cerise, an adolescent’s rambling search for a perfect love: a search for herself.
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(US) Hanway Films. 81mins. Dir: Ethan Hawke. Cast: Seymour Bernstein. How should we live? A question asked by philosophers and the masses alike, and one which Seymour Bernstein has been cultivating an answer to during more than 50 years of piano playing. Bernstein, the octogenarian master pianist, choose to forgo a promising career as a concert pianist in order to teach, thus revealing his profound world-view, a breathtakingly clearheaded perspective on art, personal commitment to it and the overarching and essential value extending beyond and into all aspects of life. olympia 4
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(Spain) Deaplaneta. 100mins. Dir: manuela moreno. Cast: Natalia De molina, Ursula Corbero, Celia De molina. Five girlfriends in their late 20s spend a crazy bachelorette weekend in the Canary Islands. Palais h
The GReaT BRiTiSh MoRTGaGe SWindle
(UK) AFP. 110mins. Dir: michael O’Bernicia, michael O’Deira. A powerfully compelling shockumentary film about banking crimes, the arrogant complicity of the legal professions and her majesty’s judiciary; and five pioneering lay litigants, who have spent
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(US) 13 Films. 88mins. Dir: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell. Cast: Jason Bateman. An inspiring, eye-opening documentary that tells the story of America’s
the past six years fighting for justice. Palais B
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(UK) Cinema management Group Llc. 90mins. Dir: David Blair. Cast: Robert Sheehan, Lily Cole, Joely Richardson. To the outside world looking in, Jack’s not well. He’s been in and out of secure units all of his young life, had every drug they can throw at him, every treatment they can think of… but nothing can make the dead go away. The dead always find a way through. lerins 1
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(US) Archstone Distribution. 90mins. Dir: Damien Lay. Cast: Chris Klein, Victoria Summer, Werner Daehn. A rescue attempt of a German traitor during the First World War
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addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and explains clearly and simply how we can end it — and finally win choice at the pump. Palais i
Corporation. 112mins. Dir: Gabriel Clarke, John mcKenna. Cast: Steve mcQueen. Interweaves stunning newly discovered footage and voice recordings with original interviews. The true story of how a cinema legend would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.
has unexpected consequences and sets off an adventure across the Arabian desert.
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(ireland) Picture Tree international. 81mins. Dir: mark Noonan. Cast: Aidan Gillen, Lauren Kinsella, George Pistereanu. Will is released from prison on compassionate leave to care for his niece Stacey after the death of her mother. As they both head into the sleepy Irish midlands and attempt to be a family, they suffer a series of setbacks; Stacey is refused admission to the local school because of her recently developed narcolepsy; Will repeatedly comes close to breaking his prison-ordered curfew; and his attempts at being a father figure to her prove disastrous. As Stacey’s future hangs in the balance and Will must reckon with his own
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(France) Doc & Film international. 80mins. Dir: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicie. Cast: Audrey Tautou, JeanPierre marielle. Leo, an 11-year-old boy from New York, is a phantom boy: he can become invisible and fly through walls. He befriends Alex, a police officer temporarily stuck in a wheelchair. Alex was hurt by a mysterious gangster threatening the city with a dangerous computer virus. Together they form an extraordinary duo, with Leo in the air and Alex on the ground. Riviera 2
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(China) Fantawild Animation. 96mins. Dir: Leon Ding, Fuyuan Liu. Cast: Wei Zhang, Dean Zhang, Xiao Tan. A particularly heavy snowstorm on Pine Tree Mountain places everything under its frozen spell. A strange but familiar looking creature shows up and causes memories of Bramble’s youth to come flooding back. A bunch of strangers arrive trying to hunt down that mysterious creature, leaving the place in turmoil. Riviera 3
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(France) Gaumont. 90mins. Dir: Jerome Enrico. Cast: Zoe Adjani-Vallat, Jonathan Zaccai. Cerise is 14 but she looks 20. Cerise grew up on the outskirts of Paris, but she is now in exile in Ukraine. Cerise makes herself up like a scarlet woman but she still cherishes the dreams of a little girl. Cerise has never
(US) Vmi Worldwide. 100mins. Dir: William DeVital. Cast: Natasha Alam, Sally Kirkland, Eric Roberts. World-renowned journalist Sara Ogden is traversing the world in pursuit of carriers of a fatally dangerous “Stamp of Cain” in order to prevent seemingly unrelated events such as mass murders, turmoil, revolutions and chaos. She doesn’t even suspect how close she is to the edge of the abyss, when in her search she ends up in Belarus to meet face to face with the one whom she has been searching for her entire life. Gray 5
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(UK) SC Films international. 90mins. Dir: Abner Pastoll. Cast: Andrew Simpson, Josephine De La Baume, Frederic Pierrot, Barbara Crampton. The sun-drenched days of summer turn dark and ominous when hitchhiking duo Jack and Veronique become inexplicably entangled with a mysterious married couple and a road-kill collector in rural France. Palais K
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(Thailand) Klongchai Picture Co. 100mins. Dir: Pisut Praesangeam. Cast: Fandee Chanyathanakorn, Harin Suthamjarus. Palais C
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