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BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

As the sovereignty of digital territory rights comes under threat from European lawmakers, Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke and Michel Hazanavicius have called for the protection of European culture.

The trio were among 80 European filmmakers who signed a petition demanding a unified EU vision on copyright and culture in the digital age.

“We believe that European filmmaking reflects Europe’s positive values,” the petition said as filmmakers descended on the European Film Forum in Cannes yesterday.

“That it can inspire ambition and renewal in Europe’s cultural policies. Europe isn’t just jobs, territories, markets and consumers.

European culture also supports multiple identities, democracy and freedom of expression.”

The petition called on SVoD giants to be subject to the same fiscal obligations as the traditional industry in Europe and pushed for the EU to issue a new directive on copyright, and protect digital territorial sovereignty.

“Europe is not a modern-day lawless wild west,” the petition said.

“It has to ensure the equal application of the rules to all broadcasters, platforms, sharing websites and social networks.”

BREAKING NEWS O-Scope has picked up US rights from Jour2Fete to Kaouther Ben Hania’s Un Certain Regard entry Beauty And The Dogs. Rights also closed in France (Jour2Fete), Sweden (Folkets Bio) and China (BlueShare/Time-In-Portrait).

WILD AT HEART Sunny Suljic, director Yorgos Lanthimos, Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman on the red carpet last night for the Competition premiere of disturbing melodrama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer.

Drishyam dishes up $20m boost for Indian indies

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Mumbai-based Drishyam Films is launching a $20m fund to produce between eight and 10 independent Indian films over the next two years.

“Our aim is to take Indian cinema to the next level, in terms of script development, production values and international reach,” said Drishyam founder Manish Mundra, whose credits include Masaan, which screened in Un Cer-

Jim Sturgess boards JT LeRoy biopic as cameras roll in Cannes

BY TOM GRATER

UK actor Jim Sturgess has joined Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger and Laura Dern in Justin Kelly’s upcoming JT LeRoy biopic, which is shooting preliminary footage here in Cannes.

Fortitude International has struck a multi-territory deal with a studio as well as a deal with Pony Canyon for Japan.

Cassian Elwes is financing and producing the film with Julie Yorn, Patrick Walmsley, Mark

Amin and Thor Bradwell. Executive producers are Fortitude’s Nadine de Barros, with Cami Winikoff and Tyler Boehm.

The story centres on two women who create a fake child-author persona, tricking the literary community and the Hollywood elite before the hoax is exposed.

Kelly is on the Croisette shooting footage with Elwes and cinematographer TJ Williams. “We’re keeping it small so we can move quick,” Kelly told Screen.

tain Regard in 2015, and Amit Masurkar’s Newton, which premiered at this year’s Berlin.

Mundra, who recently brought in Natasha Chopra as head of content development, expects to announce the first projects under the fund in early 2018. The money will also be used to develop Drishyam’s VFX studio in Mumbai, with the aim of improving the quality of visual effects in local films.

Separate from the fund, Mundra has two new features going into production over the summer: Mohamed Gani’s Cycle, about the importance of the humble bicycle in smalltown India; and Ganesh Shetty’s Anonymous, about a woman and her relationship with society as she undergoes an abortion. Both films are being readied for festival submission by the end of the year.

Lionsgate roars for El Americano Lionsgate UK has swooped on CGI animation El Americano 3D, which features a voice cast of Lisa Kudrow, Edward James Olmos, Rico Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Kate del Castillo, Erik Estrada, Mexico’s Adal Ramones and comedians Gabriel Iglesias and Paul Rodriguez.

The film will launch in the UK in the third quarter of this year as Cuco’s Big Adventure. It is directed

by Mexican animation ace Ricardo Arnaiz (La Leyenda De La Nahuala) and co-directed by Mike Kunkel, an

animator who worked on Disney’s Tarzan and Hercules. SpongeBob SquarePants writer Richard Pursel and The Simpsons show executive producer Phil Roman co-wrote the screenplay, and Kudrow serves as executive producer.

Grindstone Entertainment previously acquired all North American rights from FilmSharks, which also licensed all US streaming rights to Netflix, and Latin America to Sony Pictures Television, among other deals.

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Buyers fall hard for Mysius’ Ava

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

French sales company Bac Films is reporting strong interest for French director Léa Mysius’ debut feature Ava, which premiered to packed theatres in Critics’ Week earlier in the festival.

The title has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), China (Lemon Tree), Taiwan (Catchplay), Switzerland (Praesens) and Turkey (Filmarti).

Bac sales chief Gilles Sousa said there was strong interest from several other territories, notably Benelux, Germany and the US. The film

by Mysius, who is eligible for the Caméra d’Or, stars rising French actress Laure Calamy as a teenager who is losing her sight.

Other new Bac titles drawing buyers include Olivier Ayache-Vidal’s feelgood tale The Teacher, starring Denis Podalydes as a teacher seconded to a tough school who strikes up an unlikely rapport with a disruptive pupil.

The film has sold to Spain (Caramel), China (Lemon Tree) and Brazil (Imovision).

Sousa also unveiled sales for David Freyne’s Ellen Page-starring zombie drama The Third Wave, which is in post-production ahead of an autumn launch.

Other upcoming titles on the Bac slate include Paolo Virzi’s The Leisure Seeker and Babak Jalali’s Land, which are both expected to launch in the autumn.

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Okja, Daphne celebrate Edinburgh’s 70th bash Silk Road to success for Dutch Features

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Sales outfit Dutch Features has been enjoying a bumper market led by key sales on Silk Road starring Olivia Lonsdale.

Rights have gone in Germany (Tele München), Spain (AMC Network) and Scandinavia (Manymore Films). The psychological thriller is inspired by the life of a smalltown boy from Holland who becomes the world’s most wanted cybercriminal.

Meanwhile comedy Ron Goossens, Low Budget Stuntman from Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil has been snapped up for Germany and Italy (Koch Media) and China (HY Media).

Marc Conen’s thriller Sunset Contract, about a social-media mogul who encounters the devil in the form of a woman, has closed with HY Media for China.

CFP’s Teacher is Uncork’d

BY GABRIELE NIOLA

Coccinelle Film Placement (CFP) has licensed North American rights on its Russian Second World War drama I Am A Teacher to Uncork’d Entertainment and scored a deal with Times Vision for China.

Times Vision took Chinese VoD and home-video rights to Tallinn Black Nights 2016 Israeli winner A Quiet Heart, Alex Jovanoski’s Hey and Caterina Carone’s Italian comedy Fraulein — A Winter’s Tale starring Christian De Sica.

Coccinelle has licensed TV rights on circus documentary Grazing The Sky to Foxtel in Australia and Sky in New Zealand.

The film previously went to France and Germany (ZDF/Arte), Sweden (SVT), Spain (Canal Plus) and Taiwan ( Joint Entertainment), among others.

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has unveiled a host of films with Scottish connections set to play at its 70th anniversary edition (June 21-July 2).

Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns will bring his debut Daphne, which stars Emily Beecham and Geraldine James, while Scottish actress Freya Mavor (Sunshine On Leith) stars in the world premiere of comedy drama Modern Life Is Rubbish.

Filmmaker Justin Edgar also

returns to EIFF with The Marker starring John Hannah, while The Last Photograph with Danny Huston revolves around the Lockerbie disaster.

Bong Joon Ho’s latest offering Okja, which stars EIFF honorary patron Tilda Swinton, will also screen, and there will be showcases on local icons Sean Connery and Robbie Coltrane.

Titles filmed and set in Scotland will include Edie starring Kevin Guthrie, and psychological thriller The Dark Mile.

Documentaries will include Teenage Superstars, about the successful pre-Britpop Scottish music scene, and The Groove Is Not Trivial, about Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser.

The festival will also host an 80th anniversary screening of Michael Powell’s first major feature The Edge Of The World and a preview of Gaelic TV show Bannan, filmed on the island of Skye.

As previously announced, God’s Own Country and England Is Mine bookend the festival.

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CANNES BRIEFS Wizart counts Sheep deal Russian animation sales specialist Wizart has licensed Sheep & Wolves and the first instalment of the Snow Queen franchise to Spentzos Film in Greece. Cinemundo has picked up all three instalments for a theatrical release in Portugal.

Iron strong for SF Studios SF Studios has picked up Nordic rights (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland) for the sequel to cult film Iron Sky. Myriad Pictures’ genre label Scoundrel Media handles international sales on Iron Sky: The Coming Race and is showing a teaser here in Cannes.

Village people announced for co-pro event

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Recreation wags Two Tails around world Los Angeles-based Recreation Media has struck a number of deals here in Cannes on its family animations Two Tails and Princess In Wonderland.

Both films are currently in production and are being produced by Moscow-based animation studio Licensing Brands.

Recreation handles worldwide excluding CIS and Baltics, and has sold rights for Two Tails to Italy (Eagle Pictures) and South Korea (CiMax). Princess In

Wonderland has gone in South Korea (CJ), Middle East (Empire), Poland (Akson) and Iran (Ideal).

Recreation has licensed both films to Turkey (Bir), Bulgaria (Pro Films), India (Innovative), ex-Yugoslavia (Dexin), Vietnam (Green Media) and Indonesia (One Vision). Active negotiations for the titles are underway for China and additional territories, which are expected to be closed in the next few days.

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Buyers enjoy In And Out from Other Angle

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based Other Angle Pictures is racking up sales on its bodyswap comedy In And Out, about lovers who wake up to a surprise after a night of passion.

The film has sold to Switzerland (JMH), Russia (Capella),

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Latin America (Alebrije Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2i Film), Taiwan (Creative Century) and Poland (Monolith Films) with negotiations underway for Italy, Spain and Germany.

Louise Bourgoin and Stéphane De Groodt star as the lovers and

Universal Pictures International will open the film in France on September 20.

Other titles proving popular on Other Angle’s comedy-skewed slate include Don’t Tell Her, about a group of girlfriends whose web of lies catches up with them.

Ryota Nakano, Sharon Bar-Ziv and Mauro Mueller will be among the directors presenting projects at the fourth edition of the Paris Coproduction Village in June, which aims to connect international filmmakers with French partners.

Organised by the team behind Les Arcs European Film Festival, this year’s event runs from June 20-22. It takes place under the auspices of the Champs Elysées Film Festival’s industry week, which also includes the US In Progress showcase.

Switzerland-born, New Yorkbased director Mueller is bringing Fingerplay, about a jaded middleaged woman whose life is given fresh meaning after a mentally challenged man enters her life.

Israeli filmmaker Bar-Ziv will present her second feature Love Your Neighbor, in which a single mother feuds with her Jewish Orthodox neighbours who want to take over her flat.

The Paris Coproduction Village Award — a reciprocal award run with the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum — covers $4,500 (¤4,000) towards a filmmaker’s costs of attending the event and went to Japan’s The Asadas, directed by Ryota Nakano and produced by Ogawa Shinji.

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The Leopard leaps for TV Italy’s Indiana Production has acquired rights to Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard and is lining up an English-language TV adaptation.

Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib of Indiana Production, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli and Ilaria Castiglioni will produce the chronicle of Sicilian society at the time of Italian unification.

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teaches at DFI funds Jacir, Ben Attia Tarr China festival

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s upcoming dark comedy Wajib and Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia’s Weldi have won funding in the latest round of grants from Doha Film Institute (DFI).

Unveiling its spring 2017 grants round during Cannes, the Qatari institution said it had supported 29 projects from 16 countries, with 80% of the selected projects hailing from the Arab world.

DFI CEO Fatma Al Remaihi highlighted the fact 19 of the projects were directed by female filmmakers.

“This year’s grants projects are even more special for the large representation of women directors as well as themes that focus on coming-of-age stories of central female characters,” Al Remaihi said. “Stories of hope, self-discovery, women empowerment, tales of family life and of life in conflict zones are highlighted.”

Streep, Swinton docs score deals

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights from UK outfit Taskovski Films to documentary Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray, directed by acclaimed production designer Kristi Zea (The

Silence Of The Lambs). The film follows the struggles of painter Murray (1940-2007) as she looks to break through the barriers of the art-world establishment. Meryl Streep and art luminaries Roberta Smith, Paula Cooper, Jennifer Bar-

tlett and Vija Celmins read journal entries from Murray. Philip Glass composed the score.

Taskovski Films has finalised a deal with Curzon Artificial Eye for UK rights to Berlinale 2016 selection The Seasons In Quincy: Four

It has been a high-profile Cannes for the DFI grants programme, which backed Un Certain Regard titles Beauty And The Dogs and Until The Birds Return, as well as They, which premiered as a Special Screening.

Sonia Kronlund’s documentary Nothingwood, which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight, is a recipient in the latest round. Other grantees include Mounia Meddour’s Papicha and The Translator from Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf.

Portraits Of John Berger. Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz codirected the profile of late art critic, writer and painter Berger.

The company also closed deals on A Queer Country from Lisa Morgenthau and Harriet Davies.

Uncork’d has taken the US and Indiecan has Canada.

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr will oversee the training camp at this year’s FIRST International Film Festival, Xining (July 21-30), which is emerging as a key platform for discovering new talent on mainland China.

Tarr will be the sole tutor at the FIRST Training Camp, a three-day series of workshops, seminars and hands-on shooting that culminates with each of the selected participants directing a short film.

Between nine and 12 young Chinese filmmakers will be selected for the programme. The submission process is open until June 5.

The festival, which takes place in Xining, Qinghai province, also hosts the Bingchi Lab, designed to support emerging talents working on features; and the FIRST Financing Forum, a pitching event that includes an awards ceremony.

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Trio pact on Norway’s Twin TrustNordisk, Nordisk Film Production and Nordisk Film Distribution are partnering on Norwegian TV series Twin, created

by Kristoffer Metcalfe and Game Of Thrones actor Kristofer Hivju.

TrustNordisk will handle all international sales on the project, which will star Hivju, who plays wildling Tormund Giantsbane in the HBO fantasy series. The drama centres on a surfer who has to assume his successful brother Adam’s identity after Adam’s wife accidentally kills him. Gisle Normann Melhus is a writer on the show.

“Twin is a dream project for TrustNordisk and a great example of the possibilities that lie ahead, when the right talent is combined with a great production team,” TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis said.

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Moviehouse kits up for Boots On The Ground

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded world sales on writerdirector Louis Melville’s completed UK war film Boots On The Ground.

Melville previously wrote and directed horror mystery The Man Who Sold The World. He produces Boots On The Ground with Moon co-producer Alex Francis.

The film follows five UK soldiers as they try to stay alive over the course of one night on deployment in Afghanistan. It stars Tom Ainsley, Ryan McParland, Sally Day, Ian Virgo and Valmike Rampersad.

Melville brokered the deal for the producers with Moviehouse’s Mark Vennis, who said: “We’re hugely excited to have secured sales rights for Boots On The Ground. We think it’s an innovative

Boots On The Ground

British horror that’ll take audiences to the edge of their seats.”

Melville said: “This film presented a whole new set of challenges for the five actors; not only did they have to manifest their characters but also film each scene themselves. Once they got into the rhythm, they found the

freedom to work in 360 degrees invigorating.”

“I wrote Boots On The Ground to shoot this way,” Melville added.

“The idea of creating this style of shooting came first and then I tailored a story where you could have each character wear a head camera for the duration of the film.”

CMG, Guardian bank on Billion

BY JEREMY KAY

Cinema Management Group (CMG) and Richard S Guardian Entertainment have partnered with Jason Wulfsohn to develop Billion Dollar Mirage, a film based on the story of US banker Glenn Stewart.

Guardian and CMG head Edward Noeltner are in Cannes talking to potential partners and have a script based on Stewart’s unpublished autobiography Never Do Business With Princes Or Kings.

The book recounts how in 2009 the Oxford-educated American found himself at the heart of the largest credit default in the history of the Middle East. He became a fugitive and the subject of a multibillion-dollar litigation involving more than 100 banks around the world.

Noeltner and Guardian will serve as executive producers and have private equity attachments.

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Filmmaking five for Three Rivers

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

PJLF Three Rivers has announced the five filmmakers selected for this year’s writing and editing residencies, which will take place over the summer in Italy.

The initiative, supported by the PJLF Arts Fund and the Chatwin Scholarship, is also continuing its partnership with Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). The selected filmmakers will present their projects at DIFF’s Dubai Film Market in December.

India’s Haobam Paban Kumar and Hungary’s Balazs Simonyi will take part in the first residency (May-June), with Marten Rabarts and Franz Rodenkirchen working with them on their projects, Joseph’s Story and Heartstop, respectively.

The second residency (Aug-Sept) will see Rabarts and Gyula Gazdag work with Florian Habicht on Under A Full Moon and Ishtiaque Zico on Cinema, City And Cats.

Belgium’s Cyborn lets fly with Hubris, Dragon

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Belgian animation specialist Cyborn, whose latest feature Ploey — You Never Fly Alone has been a big seller for Arri in the Marché, has announced details of its latest projects.

The Antwerp-based company is moving ahead on Hubris, an animated sci-fi aimed at young

adults and scripted by company founder Ives Agemans. The feature project is being set up as an international co-production and will include VR and possibly interactive elements.

“It’s a very ambitious project. It is creating a new world,” Iris Delafortry, associate producer at Cyborn, told Screen.

Cyborn is also the Belgian co-producer on 3D Germanoriginated animation Dragon Rider, which Tomer Eshed will direct based on the novel by Cornelia Funke.

Ploey — You Never Fly Alone is due to be completed by November and has pre-sold to around 60 countries.

Christmas comes early for Hishow

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Beijing-based distributor Hishow Entertainment has acquired two titles from France’s Gaumont: Christmas & Co, directed by and starring Alain Chabat, and family comedy Gaston, from PierreFrancois Martin-Laval.

Chabat plays Santa Claus in Christmas & Co, a combination of live-action and CGI, which also stars Audrey Tautou. Currently in production, the film is produced

by Gaumont, Legendaire, France 2 Cinema and Nexus Factory.

Martin-Laval is also serving as

both director and star of Gaston, an adaptation of a French classic that will be mostly live-action with some animation sequences. Also starring Théo Fernandez and Alison Wheeler, the film is produced

by Les Films du Premier, Les Films du 24 and TF1 Film Production.

CANNES BRIEFS Eisenstein returns for trip to Hollywood Peter Greenaway is following up 2015 romantic comedy Eisenstein In Guanajuato with sequel Eisenstein In Hollywood, in which Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Back) meets Hollywood icons such as Charlie Chaplin, DW Griffith and David O Selznick. Kees Kasander produces and The Works handles world sales.

Wolf put to Silver Sword Michael A Calace’s Los Angelesbased Silver Sword International (SSI) has acquired all North American rights to upcoming thriller Voice Of The Wolf. Vargo Film’s Alessandro Riccardi directs the story about the discovery of mutilated corpses in Italy that police think may be the work of a wolf. Calace and Canadian producer Claudio Castravelli have also attached Jerry Ciccoritti to direct the comedy Poor Choices.

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Cary Grant’s acid test

A documentary about the actor examines a little-known aspect of his life Mark Kidel’s Becoming Cary Grant, which screens in Cannes Classics today, foregrounds an aspect of the Hollywood star’s life that few of his fans knew about — his extensive therapeutic use of LSD in the late 1950s. This was a case, as a headline in a Vanity Fair article later put it, of “Cary In The Sky With Diamonds”.

Grant took LSD at least 100 times. “It was this massive exercise in introspection,” Kidel reflects on the way Grant used the drug in order to help himself deal with difficult memories of his childhood — then known as Archie Leach — in Bristol.

The LSD angle was the perfect entry into the subject’s life for the director. Kidel was also lucky to be able to draw on Grant’s home movies. These were given to him by the actor’s fifth wife, former publicist Barbara Harris. Shot in colour on 16mm, they were “kind of magical, not ordinary home movies”.

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Although Kidel was not originally a huge Grant fan, he identified strongly with aspects of the actor’s back story. There was a traumatic moment in Grant’s childhood when, aged only 11, his mother suddenly disappeared from his life. He didn’t know what had become of her — and only dis-

covered many years later that she had been committed to an asylum.

“My story is nothing like as dramatic but when I was 11, one day, on a Sunday walk with the family, my mother said, ‘I am leaving your father, I’ve met somebody else and you are staying with your father,’” the veteran UK documentary maker remembers.

Showtime will be showing the film on June 9. Kidel is also hoping for further festival exposure post-Cannes.

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#CannesChatter The Florida Project star Bria Vinaite (right) poses with co-star Brooklynn Prince as they prepare to launch the film in Cannes.

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One of the breakout stars of Cannes 2017 is Claes Bang, the Danish actor in Ruben Ostlund’s Competition title The Square. It is his first major starring role in an international production.

Ostlund likes to shoot up to 50 takes per scene. “For the first 20 days of the shoot, I kept thinking, ‘Are you sure you cast the right man for the role?’” Bang says. But eventually he became attached to the way of working. “It gets you into a very organic mode.”

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Screen caught up with Benny and Josh Safdie, who are in Competition for the first time with Good Time, having previously featured in Directors’ Fortnight with The Pleasure Of Being Robbed and Daddy Longlegs.

Their latest stars Robert Pattinson in what the actor called a “mentally damaged psychopath bank-robbery movie”. Good Time screens on Thursday. A24 has US rights and Memento is overseeing foreign rights.

How did you react to being selected for Competition?

Josh Safdie In Robert Pattinson’s house in LA he has an incredible, expensive toilet. After sitting on it for 20 minutes I said to him, ‘That’s the dream.’ He said, ‘If we get into Cannes Competition, I’ll buy you that toilet’. Six hours before the [Cannes] announcement… Rob texts me a picture of the toilet.

That’s how I found out!

How did the film come together?

JS Heaven Knows What was almost out, Robert saw it and said, ‘Whatever you’re doing next I

want to be a part of it, even if it means doing the catering.” As we cast the film [Barkhad Abdi and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star] the budget became what it was.

How was Pattinson’s performance?

JS I could liken [it to] Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, Tommy Lee Jones in The Executioner’s Song or Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver.

Ben Safdie We have so much respect for how deep he went, the places he went and his level of commitment, 16 hours a day.

Moonlight distributors A24 have US rights. What were they like?

BS They don’t have a model that they attach to every film. They treat each project as an object of preciousness. That’s very unique.

What do you think of the Cannes/Netflix row?

BS I’m not going to tell you how to watch a movie, militantly. A lot of people said theatrical would be dead five years ago and it’s still around.

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SPOTLIGHT CANNES AT 70

Cannes Decades 2006 to date As Cannes celebrates its 70th edition, Nikki Baughan recalls a period that has seen calls for greater gender parity across all sections of the festival and the arrival of TV dramas on the Croisette Camilla Morandi/REX/Shutterstock

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n recent years, the issue of gender diversity has become increasingly central to Cannes, as it has to the industry at large.

In 2012, incensed that not a single feature directed by a woman was selected for Competition, a group of female filmmakers had an accusatory letter published in Le Monde. In an unprecedented move in 2013, Blue Is The Warmest Colour stars Léa Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos became the first and only cast members to receive the Palme d’Or, alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche, but three years later the festival was once again under fire for seeming to insist women must wear heels on the red carpet to official screenings.

The controversy of recent years has not been restricted to women, however. In 2011, director Lars von Trier got himself banned from the festival after joking he had sympathy with Hitler, although he has hinted he would like to return to Cannes with The House That Jack Built.

Over the past decade, Cannes has continued to showcase works by new and established directors from around the world — including the UK’s Ken Loach, who won the Palme d’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes The Barley and in 2016 for I, Daniel Blake — and to embrace new trends. Festival director Thierry Frémaux’s decision to premiere two major TV shows this year — David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake: China Girl — is proof of Cannes’ willingness to adapt to the needs of both audience and industry, something that has helped it endure and s strengthen over the past seven decades. ■

WINNERS PALME D’OR 2006 The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach, UK-Ireland) 2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) 2008 The Class (Laurent Cantet, France) 2009 The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Austria) 2010 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) 2011 The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick, US) 2012 Amour (Michael Haneke, Austria) 2013 Blue Is The Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, France-Tunisia) 2014 Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey) 2015 Dheepan (Jacques Audiard, France) 2016 I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK) Léa Seydoux, Abdellatif Kechiche and Adele Exarchopoulos at Cannes in 2013

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The Killing Of A Sacred Deer Reviewed by Jonathan Romney The first shot of The Killing Of A Sacred Deer shows a beating heart, mid-operation. It is a startling image that sets the tone for the confrontational strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to The Lobster; a ruthlessly controlled drama that achieves its effect by holding back when its dramatic content is most intense.

A disturbing melodrama with shades of thriller and even horror, the film is less immediately outré than we have come to expect from the director, whose Dogtooth effectively launched the Greek ‘Weird Wave’. But while the film might be (only relatively) less weird than the Pythonesque The Lobster, it is considerably more Greek — an inventive attempt to map the stakes of classical tragedy onto a skewed modern realism. Polished production values and superb performances from a cast including Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and Irish up-andcomer Barry Keoghan (soon to be seen in Dunkirk) could give Lanthimos’s latest a wider appeal than its overtly oddball precursor.

The US-set story centres on the family of heart surgeon Steven (Farrell) and ophthalmologist Anna (Kidman), who live a sumptuously perfect domestic existence with their two children, Bob (Sunny Suljic) and Kim (Raffey Cassidy). At the start, we see Steven meeting up with a teenager named Martin (Keoghan), with

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COMPETITION Ire-UK. 2017. 109mins Director Yorgos Lanthimos Production companies Element Pictures, Film4, New Sparta, HanWay Films, Limp International sales HanWay Films, tg@hanwayfilms.com Producers Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos Screenplay Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou Cinematography Thimios Bakatakis Production designer Jade Healy Editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis Main cast Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Camp

whom he seems to have a distant but protective relationship. For much of the first hour, Lanthimos and co-writer Efthymis Filippou keep us speculating on what’s going on between them, especially when we see Steven nestling down for a cosy night’s viewing of Groundhog Day with Martin’s mother (a droll cameo from Alicia Silverstone). But then Steven invites Martin to his family home, where the boy hits it off romantically with Kim. Soon we realise the truth is stranger and darker than we could have imagined, and involves a revenge drama straight out of Hellenic myth. In fact, it goes right back to Euripides and the story of Iphigenia, obliquely hinted at by the film’s title. Martin is pursuing his own baleful vendetta, forcing Steven to make an unthinkable choice. The outcome is brutal, and makes highly uncomfortable watching.

The film is elegantly shot, whether in the family’s interiors-catalogue home or in the glacial hospital scenes, with cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis providing geometrically chilly vistas.

This visual style is redolent of a Hollywood domestic invasion thriller, and creates a disconnect with the drama’s metaphysical dimension.

Another disconnect comes from the language, with outright banalities (running-gag conversations about wristwatches) being delivered by the cast with the same matter-of-fact impassivity as life-or-death themes or outra-

geous transgressive confessions. This leaves us wondering whether the small talk is just inconsequential or obscurely significant.

The acting is terrific. A heavily bearded Farrell paints a picture of an internalised, seemingly cold man who finally attains the grandeur of a hero of classical tragedy. Kidman’s highly ambivalent performance is one of her best in ages, recapturing the quizzical detachment she showed in Jonathan Glazer’s Birth before ramping up to an intensity that is all the more frightening for its chilly calm. Geoghan exudes downplayed menace with hints of vulnerability, and Suljic and Cassidy rise to the challenge of their sometimes nightmarish scenes.

The score, dominated by eldritch screeches and basso rumbles, is culled, à la Kubrick, from sources including modern composers Gyorgy Ligeti and Sofia Gubaidulina, although some scenes rely too heavily on the music to carry the dramatic weight. It is also arguable that the film’s rigorously controlled suspense means the drama stays too much within a narrow dynamic range, with too few high points to provide the dramatic modulation it needs. But it is a powerful and unsettling film that significantly broadens the repertoire of one of Europe’s most singular and wayward auteurs.

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Austrian director Michael Haneke’s first film since his Palme d’Or and Oscar winner Amour, Happy End is a sombre work whose formal rigour is, unusually for the director, never quite matched by its thematic resonance.

Charting the life of a wealthy family in the northern French town of Calais as cracks appear in their silverservice facade, it plays like a throwback to a 1960s film about bourgeois anomie and decadence.

Haneke’s control of tone, actors and frame is not to be underestimated: there are scenes of nuanced authority and menace that compel our attention. But Happy End feels like an assemblage of the director’s favourite tropes, an hors d’oeuvres spread of video surveillance, reticent camera long-shots, creepy, angel-faced kids and other Haneke nibbles that fail to make a full meal.

Ultimately, this may be regarded as an interlocutory title in the director’s impressive filmography, and translate into a small dip in the audience for a film that has been pre-sold to a raft of distributors worldwide.

Happy End opens with smartphone footage that paints a disturbing picture of a messed-up kid with access to anti-depressants and a guinea pig to try them out on. She turns out to be sad-eyed Eve Laurent (Fantine Harduin), an almost-13-year-old taken in by the family of her father Thomas — a nicely subdued Mathieu Kassovitz — when her mum is hospitalised after an apparent overdose.

Eve’s 85-year-old grandfather Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has handed over running of the family construction firm to his daughter Anne (Isabelle Huppert), engaged to a London financier (Toby Jones). Also living in the Laurent family’s townhouse are philandering Thomas’s second wife Anais (Laura Verlinden) and their baby, and Pierre (Franz Rogowski), Anne’s depressed son.

With the multiple viewpoints, stories have little time to flourish — Haneke is interested in the mosaic of desperation and disintegration. Is it all a metaphor for Europe’s inadequate response to the refugee crisis? A final scene might suggest as much — or not. Eve’s cyber-spying on her dad might suggest an alienated generation, or just something a mixed-up kid does. For once, Haneke’s narrative reticence feels frustrating rather than rewarding.

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107mins Director/screenplay Michael Haneke Production companies Les Films du Losange, X Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film International sales Les Films du Losange, b.vincent@ filmsdulosange.fr Producers Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz Cinematography Christian Berger Production design Olivier Radot Editor Monika Willi Main cast Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden, Toby Jones, Hassam Ghancy, Nabiha Akkari

Aliens meet punks and provincial Britain circa 1977 in John Cameron Mitchell’s likeably homemade adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short story, whose slight plot is used as little more than a first-act springboard. It is a film that flaunts its limitations, self-mockingly engaging its audience by practising the DIY punk aesthetic it preaches.

Nicole Kidman’s cameo as jaded punk matriarch ­Boadicea (think Siouxsie Sioux meets Cruella de Vil) will be a talking point, but driving the script’s engine is the old-fashioned girl-meets-boy chemistry between Elle Fanning’s rebellious alien tourist and Alex Sharp’s suburban ­London schoolboy.

An energising opening sequence played out to The Damned’s punk classic ‘New Rose’ sets the scene: Croydon, 1977, the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s silver jubilee, when patriotic street parties collided with the highwater mark of the first, heroic era of UK punk. Enn (Sharp) is a schoolboy punk fanzine editor living with his single mum in semi-detached suburbia. He hangs out with best mates Vic (AJ Lewis), a budding Billy Idol, and chubby John (Ethan Lawrence). They all look to punk for an antidote to their boredom. It is during a search for an afterparty venue that the three boys stumble into a semi-derelict house where another kind of knees-up is going on.

The premise, elaborated gradually through a series of nicely paced reveals, is that the boys have unwittingly stumbled on a houseful of human-seeming aliens — ‘parent teachers’ and their teen progeny, who have been brought to Earth on a kind of educational trip. One of these is Zan (Fanning), a rebellious innocent who sparks romantically with Enn and is granted permission by the council of elders to go on a 48-hour field trip.

If there is a dose of deja vu in the punk club scenes, that is not the case once we enter the alien house, where costume designer Sandy Powell clearly had enormous fun recasting these aliens as latex-clad figures that mix S&M fetish culture with 1980s performance art. She is ably ­abetted by Helen Scott’s lo-fi sci-fi production design and a kooky musical soundtrack created by Nico Muhly and Jamie Stewart, which taps into Krautrock and early ­electronic process music. But without the script’s deft control of this tale of rebellion and romance, these would be no more than enjoyable sideshows.

OUT OF COMPETITION US-UK. 2017. 102mins Director John Cameron Mitchell Production companies See-Saw Films, Little Punk International sales HanWay Films, info@ hanwayfilms.com Producers Howard Gertler, Iain Canning, John Cameron Mitchell, Emile Sherman Screenplay John Cameron Mitchell, Philippa Goslett, based on the short story by Neil Gaiman Cinematography Frank DeMarco Production design Helen Scott Editor Brian A Kates Music Nico Muhly, Jamie Stewart Main cast Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Matt Lucas, Ruth Wilson, AJ Lewis, Ethan Lawrence, Edward Petherbridge

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Alive In France Reviewed by Tim Grierson

April’s Daughter Reviewed by Allan Hunter Michel Franco does create great characters. Tim Roth’s fastidiously devoted carer in his last film, Chronic (2015), was full of creepy contradictions and ambiguity. The central figure in April’s Daughter (Las Hijas De Abril) is more transparent but equally diverting, as she is gradually revealed to be the worst advert for motherhood since Joan Crawford.

Less intimidatingly severe than Chronic, Franco’s flirtation with elements of genre storytelling here might well make April’s Daughter his most commercial offering to date. Emma Suarez’s sly star performance should also be a selling point for distributors in the wake of Julieta.

Franco’s minimalist style of static shots and socialrealist observation is in evidence at the start of the film, but there is a much greater sense of urgency and pace to his storytelling. Valeria (Ana Valeria Becerril) is 17 years old and happily pregnant, living a carefree existence with boyfriend Mateo (Enrique Arrizon) and older sister Clara (Joanna Larequi). Contact with her mother April (Suarez) is minimal; Valeria has not mentioned that she is pregnant and will not speak to her on the phone.

When April arrives in Puerto Vallarta full of concern, she hardly seems the monster we might have expected.

Anxious, a little over-protective perhaps, but no more.

Gradually, her true colours are revealed as she starts to interfere in the lives of her daughters. April is willing to go to breathtaking lengths to achieve her ends, and the film threatens to tip into 1980s potboiler territory with the mother from hell.

But Franco manages to maintain credibility as he ramps up the emotional stakes, creating situations in which the viewer longs to jump into the screen and change the course of events. You cannot help but respond to the manipulation even as you ponder some of the holes in the plot. Like Single White Female or The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, it is probably best not to question too much, but just savour the ride.

Credibility is also sustained by the impressive performances. Becerril brings a steely backbone to the waif-like Valeria as she refuses to become a victim, while Suarez makes April entirely plausible with a performance that is understated to the point of blithe. April spins webs of deceit, untroubled by anything resembling a conscience, and the character is all the more chilling for being so matter-of-fact about her actions.

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UN CERTAIN REGARD Mex. 2017. 103mins Director/screenplay Michel Franco Production company Lucia Films International sales Protagonist Pictures, vanessa@ protagonistpictures.com; mk2 films, intlsales@mk2.com Producers Lorenzo Vigas, Michel Franco, Moises Zonana Executive producers Rodolfo Cova, David Zonana, Gabriel Ripstein, Tim Roth Cinematography Yves Cape Editor Jorge Weisz, Michel Franco Main cast Emma Suarez, Ana Valeria Becerril, Enrique Arrizon, Joanna Larequi

Abel Ferrara’s concert film is much like his features — gritty, raw, idiosyncratic — but Alive In France might be the first time viewers could reasonably call one of his works endearing, even sentimental. Documenting a series of performances the 65-year-old director gave in France in October 2016 as part of a career retrospective, the movie is both a ragged lark and a portrait of the artist as the consummate seat-of-his-pants hustler, doing whatever it takes to put his vision out into the world.

Premiering in Directors’ Fortnight, Alive In France will lure Ferrara’s cult following, while those unfamiliar with his films may appreciate the Doors-ian swagger of the music and his lively presence in front of the camera.

Shot on the fly, the film follows the director and frequent collaborators Joe Delia and Paul Hipp in a handful of concerts in Toulouse and Paris, playing songs from Ferrara’s movies. Along the way, it catches up with the director as he does Q&As for a French film retrospective and works to attract attention for his shows.

From the outset, Alive In France has an appealingly jagged quality. Ferrara’s band quickly figures out they need to find drummers for each date, and rapper Schoolly D has to drop out after he discovers he is on a no-fly list. These obstacles seem to play perfectly to the strengths of this indomitable filmmaker, however, and we watch as Ferrara embraces the chaos, turning his documentary into a treatise on the logistical demands required to make any piece of art.

This Ferrara is a proud iconoclast, who exudes the air of a man who knows how to get things his way. He might be the platonic ideal of the driven director, yet there is something charming about his boundless enthusiasm and willingness to pour himself into everything he does.

That translates into performances that could hardly be described as bravura. Sporting a ragged voice and hulking manner, Ferrara is not as commanding behind the mic as he is as a director, but the vulnerability and passion in his singing humanises the famously combative auteur. That lack of vanity is most welcome.

Running a svelte 79 minutes, Alive In France is no definitive personal statement but it seems clear that Ferrara is communicating deeply held beliefs through the movie’s offhand depictions of messy artistic creation and the savouring of hard-earned pleasures.

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT Fr. 2017. 79mins Director Abel Ferrara Production company Bathysphere Productions International sales The Match Factory, info@matchfactory.de Producer Nicolas Anthomé Cinematography Emmanuel Gras Editors Fabio Nunziata Leonardo, Daniel Bianchi Featuring Abel Ferrara, Paul Hipp, Joe Delia, Cristina Chiriac, Dounia Sichov, PJ Delia, Anna Ferrara

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Mobile Homes Reviewed by Allan Hunter

A Violent Life Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson If you’ve ever wondered how a nice student from a good family ends up in a Marxist revolutionary cell bent on asserting nationalist goals against Mafia-style powersthat-be, A Violent Life, set in Corsican nationalist circles in the late 1990s, is an unsettling and convincing portrayal of the slippery slope of personal conviction.

An ambitious, time-hopping tale cast with distinctivelooking but mostly little-known performers, Thierry de Peretti’s second feature — which premiered as a special screening in Critics’ Week — will inspire think pieces in French media outlets and should find additional festival berths and maybe more, thanks to a relentless accumulation of convincingly tense situations.

Opening words on screen explain that the citizens of Corsica have rankled against covetous and disrespectful outside influence since the island was sold to France by Genoa in 1768. In the 1990s, political resistance faced lethal opposition from criminal elements as organised crime put pressure on residents and resources.

Intent on preventing their beautiful island from going the way of Sicily or the French Riviera, certain people fight back. Suffice it to say, their model was not Gandhi.

As the film opens in Paris in 2001, Stephane (Jean Michelangeli) seems to have a bourgeois life. But he is on the mainland for a reason, and resolves to return to Bastia for a funeral. The film flashes back to when he was an apolitical young man attending university. His path towards armed resistance began pretty much by being born Corsican, but it coalesced when he transported a bag of weapons for friends — they were used in terrorist attacks and traced to him. Stephane is sentenced to prison where he remains stoic and bookish but is singled out by older, not at all intellectual men, who raise his consciousness.

Stephane knows the situation he finds himself in is not what he imagined when he set out to correct the imbalances bred by colonisation. His friends and comrades, girlfriend and mother are all possible targets.

We are shown a shockingly expedient scene in which men are executed point-blank and set on fire while agricultural workers tend to fruit trees yards away, a powerful indication that minding one’s own business is de rigueur.

The Corsica-born director imparts a powerful sense of place, aided by fine period details and a simmering sense of dread.

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CRITICS’ WEEK Fr. 2017. 111mins Director Thierry de Peretti Production company Les Films Velvet, Stanley White, Arte France Cinema International sales Pyramide International, avalentin@pyramidefilms. com Producers Frédéric Jouve, Marie Lecoq, Jean-Etienne Brat, Delphine Léoni, Olivier Pere, Rémi Burah Screenplay Thierry de Peretti, Guillaume Bréaud Cinematography Claire Mathon Editor Marion Monnier Production design Toma Baquéni Main cast Jean Michelangeli, Henri-Noel Tabary, Cédric Appietto, Marie-Pierre Nouveau, Délia Sepulcre-Nativi

The journey to a better life is derailed by a succession of wrong turns and bad choices in Mobile Homes, a plaintive tale in which a house never quite becomes a home.

The feature debut of Vladimir de Fontenay is an accomplished piece with a committed central performance from Imogen Poots but the emotional impact is lessened by an air of predictability and the sense that every bit of fresh hope is destined to end in disappointment.

Poots’ rootless drifter Ali is quickly established as a woman who will do anything for her eight-year-old son Bone — apart from the right thing. She constantly flouts the line between independence and irresponsibility as the boy is left to his own devices.

Struggling to stay afloat, Ali and boyfriend Evan (Callum Turner) drift from cheap motels to random nights in abandoned homes (the film was shot around the Niagara Falls border area with Canada). Meals are consumed at diners where they skip out on the bill.

Income is earned by supplying birds for illegal cockfights. The dream is to make enough money to secure a place of their own and build a future together.

It is often hard to feel sympathy for Ali and a life on the margins that requires her to beg, steal and deny the reality of her circumstances. As long as there is hope in the air and sex in the offing, Ali seems content to stay by Evan’s side. The story is at its most involving when Ali and Bone are given the chance of a fresh start working for kindly mobile-home contractor Robert (Callum Keith Rennie). Ali learns she is capable and able to stand on her own two feet, and they finally start to put down roots. Inevitably, it doesn’t last.

Adapted from de Fontenay’s award-winning 2013 short, Mobile Homes is aesthetically reminiscent of Andrea Arnold’s films. Rooted in the daily realities of people who have no part in the American Dream, de Fontenay uses camerawork that floats and looms to create an intimacy with the characters.

We know that Ali seeks stability in an uncertain world and we understand what homes (both mobile and stationary) represent, but less convincing is why such a seemingly smart woman would be drawn back to a boyfriend who only spells trouble. There is nothing about Turner’s infrequently volatile Evan that seems quite so irresistible. Add that to an increasingly melodramatic plot that takes a turn for the sentimental, and Mobile Homes is not as tough or real as you might have wanted.

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT Fr-Can. 2017. 105mins Director/screenplay Vladimir de Fontenay Production companies Madeleine Films, Incognito Films, Lithium Studios International sales Mongrel Media, charlotte@ mongrelmedia.com Producers Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Eric Dupont, Mike MacMillan Executive producers Charles de Rosen, Danielle Lessovitz Cinematography Benoit Soler Production design Zosia Mackenzie Editors Nicolas Chaudeurge, Maxime Pozzi-Garcia, Andonis Trattos Music Matthew Otto Main cast Imogen Poots, Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie, Frank Oulton

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Truth be told With Doc Day and Doc Lovers Mixer taking place as part of Doc Corner today, An Inconvenient Sequel directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk reveal why their film, which plays here as a Special Screening, has a surprising message of hope. Louise Tutt reports

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hen Participant Film’s founder and chairman Jeff Skoll and producer Diane Weyermann were considering the idea of a follow-up to the company’s hit 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about former US presidential candidate Al Gore’s personal crusade to make public the facts about impending global climate catastrophe, they turned to husband-and-wife directing team Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk.

Weyermann had previously worked with the duo, who were making a name for themselves as accomplished filmmakers of social issue documentaries. These included The Island President (charting the environmental efforts of the president of the Maldives), which won the People’s Choice Award for documentary at Toronto in 2012 and Audrie And Daisy (about the impact of online bullying), which premiered at Sundance in 2016.

Cohen and Shenk say they relished the chance to take the reins of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, which is a Special

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Screening here in Cannes and opens in the US on July 28 through Paramount.

The sequel promises to ramp up the drama, both personal and political, as it follows the tireless Gore on his global campaign. It includes tense behind-thescenes footage of the closed-door wheeling and dealing at the crucial Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015.

Once again Gore takes centre stage in the sequel, with Shenk describing him as “the leading man, who tramps around the world, training activists, cajoling businesses, buttonholing ministers of foreign governments to show them what is possible in the sustainable energy space.”

The film was greenlit a decade on from the 2006 original (directed by Davis Guggenheim, who is an executive producer on this new film), which grossed nearly $50m at the worldwide box office.

It seemed an opportune time to revisit the issues, to see what has been achieved in the last 10 years and to explore the many new opportunities governments and big businesses have to utilise cleaner forms of energy.

“The exciting thing about the film is that you will see this battle take place between what has become these entrenched fossil fuel interests — be that governments or large companies around the world — and this incredible new hopeful force that is out there in the world in the form of sustainable, alternative energy [from] solar and wind,” says Shenk.

Indeed, the filmmakers were galvanised by the film’s somewhat surprising message of hope. “For the first time in history, there really is a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of solving the climate

crisis,” says Shenk. “There is a lot of progress on the sustainable energy front.”

Even the election of no-friend-to-the environment Donald Trump has not dented the directors’ optimism. “One man, even one president, can’t stop the momentum that’s going on,” says Shenk.

“Business around the world has got the message. Giant economies like China and India are on board and are transforming their power supplies.”

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to Shenk and Cohen, who acknowledge that their kind of impact filmmaking can often end up preaching only to the converted — something of which they say Gore is well aware.

“We try and show how Al does not see the climate crisis as a partisan issue,” says Cohen. “In his work, while he comes up against obstacle after obstacle, one after the other, he continues to power through and make sure he’s moving forward beyond the partisan issues. There’s a wonderful scene where Al heads to Georgetown, Texas, which is a town of about 60,000 in the heart of the reddest [i.e. most Republican-leaning] county in the reddest state in the country, to meet with the mayor who has taken the town to 100% renewable energy. Gore and the mayor have a wonderful exchange about how they likely don’t agree on politics, but what they can agree on is that it makes economic and environmental sense to turn towards renewable energy.

“And if you feel disenfranchised from the environmental movement, this really is the drama of a man and his legacy,” Cohen continues. “On a personal level, you are watching a hero’s journey and his recovery from the 2000 election. He dusted himself off and now, 17 years later, he is the older, wiser, almost Lorax-like figure, out saving the planet.”

Achieving the impossible Cohen and Shenk met in the mid-1990s while both were on a documentary film masters programme at Stanford University. The pair, who describe An Inconvenient Sequel as the “pinnacle of their creative careers”, discovered they were both drawn to character-based films with a social-issue element. “In our minds, nothing is more dramatic than people who are up against high odds, trying to accomplish almost impossible things,” says Shenk.

The workload for the co-directors has a natural split: Cohen often takes on producer duties and Shenk works as the director of photography. An Inconvenient Sequel is the second film they have codirected, following Audrie And Daisy.

“We are lucky to see eye to eye,” Shenk says. “This is very personal work for Bonni and me because we have kids who are teenagers and we are getting to the point when we can start to see what it will

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be like for them when they grow up and live on the planet that they will inherit.”

They describe the brave new world of Amazon and Netflix as helping to usher in a golden age of documentaries.

Indeed, they believe documentaries are set to become more important than ever as the mainstream media loses its appeal for vast swathes of the populace.

“It is going to fall on documentary filmmakers like us to tell the truth, the stories of truth to power, because it’s hard to know where to get news any more,” says Cohen. “It’s a disparate world of social media guiding the story and documentaries are playing a more important role than ever in bringing the stories to the world, especially during the Trump era.

“The appetite for real stories and real-life dramas seems to exceed that of fiction for whatever reason right now. I think it has a lot to do with the state of the world. People are so desperate to connect both to each other and to real s stories.” ■

DOC DAY AT THE MARCHE The Doc Day conference at the Marché du Film is back for a second year.

Organised by the Marché with the support of JustFilms, Ford Foundation and the CNC, in association with L’Oeil d’Or, this year’s programme is titled ‘Impact and Solutions with Documentary Films’. Taking place today, the event will open at Plage Du Gray D’Albion (9:30am–12pm) with filmmaker Amos Gitai in conversation with film critic JeanMichel Frodon, discussing his film West Of The Jordan River, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight on Sunday. The film sheds light on the efforts of a number of Israelis and Palestinians as they try to overcome the reality of the occupied territories. That will be followed by a panel debating documentaries in the ‘post-truth era’. Speaking will be: Carrie Lozano, director, IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund; Kathleen Lingo, executive producer, Op-Docs, The New York Times; Kathy Im, director, journalism and media, the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation; Laurent Richard, investigative filmmaker, Premieres Lignes and founder of Freedom Voices Network; and Gonzalo Lamela, director, Films For Transparency. Screen’s Wendy Mitchell will moderate.

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In the afternoon, there will be three panels at the Olympia Theatre (3:30pm– 5:30pm). The second session will open with Jude Ratnam in conversation with Cara Mertes, director, JustFilms.

They will discuss Ratnam’s Demons In Paradise, which premieres as a Special Screening on Wednesday, May 24. The film follows a Tamil who, as a boy in 1983, escaped an ethnic massacre. Thirty years later, he explores how the recently ended civil war tore apart his country.

This will be followed by a discussion on female voices from the Arab world, featuring Kaouther Ben Hania, director of Beauty And The Dogs; filmmaker, producer, writer and visual artist Jihan El-Tahri; filmmaker and producer May Odeh; and Diana El Jeiroudi, general director of DOX BOX. The event will close with director Barbet Schroeder discussing his doc The Venerable W, which is playing as a Special Screening.

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requests his extradition.

Forced to flee with Viola, his 16-year-old daughter, his life will change forever, as will his family’s in Italy, who have to pay for Marco’s past faults.

FESTIVAL

AND PRESS

08:30 OH LUCY!

(Japan) 97mins. Dir: Atsuko Hirayanagi. Cast: Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, Kaho Minami.

Setsuko is seemingly stuck in a rut in Tokyo until she is convinced by her niece Mika to enroll in an unorthodox English class that requires her to wear a blonde wig and take on an American persona, ‘Lucy’.

The new identity awakens something dormant in Setsuko, and she quickly falls for her American teacher John. When John suddenly disappears from class, and Setsuko learns he and Mika were in fact dating, she enlists the help of her sister, Ayako, and flies halfway across the world to the outskirts of Southern California in search of the runaway couple.

Critics’ Week Miramar

RADIANCE See box, right

08:45

Un Certain Regard Debussy Press

14:45 RADIANCE

(Japan) 101mins.

Dir: Naomi Kawase.

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki.

Competition Salle Du 60Eme

16:00 THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...

FESTIVAL & PRESS 08:30 RADIANCE

(Japan) 101mins.

Dir: Naomi Kawase.

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki.

Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired.

At a screening, she meets Masaya, an older photographer who is

slowly losing his eyesight.

Misako soon discovers Masaya’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes.

Competition Lumiere Ticket required, Press & Debussy

FROST

(France) 130mins.

Dir: Sharunas Bartas. Cast: Mantas Janciauskas, Lyja Maknaviciute, Vanessa Paradis, Andrzej Chyra.

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region in search of allies and shelter, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

11:00

MONTPARNASSE BIENVENUE

(France) 97mins.

Dir: Leonor Serraille.

Cast: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Gregoire Monsaingeon.

Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she’s determined to make a new start and she’ll do it with style.

Un Certain Regard Debussy Press

24 FRAMES

(Iran) 120mins.

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami.

A compilation of short films from the late auteur.

Out of Competition Lumiere Ticket required

OUT

(Hungary) 83mins.

Dir: Gyorgy Kristof.

Cast: Sandor Terhes.

The power plant is closing — unemployment takes

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over a town in Eastern Slovakia. Agoston, a family man in his 50s, ventures through Eastern Europe in a desperate attempt to get a job and fulfil his dream — to catch a big fish.

Un Certain Regard Bazin

11:30 LA FAMILIA

(Venezuela) 84mins.

Dir: Gustavo Rondon Cordova. Cast: Giovanny Garcia, Reggie Reyes.

Twelve-year-old Pedro roams the streets with his friends, raised in the violent, urban atmosphere around him in a workingclass district of Caracas.

After Pedro seriously injures another boy playing a rough game, single father Andres decides they must flee to hide. Andres

will realise he is a father incapable of controlling his own teenage son, but their situation will bring them closer than they have ever been.

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami.

Critics’ Week Miramar

(Italy) 114mins.

Dir: Roberto De Paolis.

Cast: Selene Caramazza, Simone Liberati, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Fresi, Edoardo Pesce.

The encounter between two worlds that are about to collide. Love made of stolen moments but also mutual help. A love devastated by betrayal and sins.

WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER

(France) 90mins.

Dir: Amos Gitai.

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since 1982.

‘West Of The Jordan River’ describes the efforts of citizens — Israelis and Palestinians — who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation.

Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

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12:15 24 FRAMES

(Iran) 120mins.

Out of Competition Salle Du 60Eme

12:30

(France) 100mins.

Dir: Max Ophuls.

Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica.

This classic film follows a pair of earrings as they change hands during a series of betrayals and romances.

Cannes Classics Bunuel

PURE HEARTS

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

14:00 AFTER THE WAR

(Italy) 92mins.

Dir: Annarita Zambrano.

Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Barbora Babulova, Charlotte Cetaire.

Bologna, 2002: opposition to the Labour Law explodes in universities.

The murder of a judge reopens old political wounds between Italy and France. Marco, a former left-wing activist sentenced for murder and exiled in France for 20 years thanks to the Mitterrand doctrine, is accused of having ordered the attack.

The Italian government

FROST

(France) 130mins.

Dir: Sharunas Bartas. Cast: Mantas Janciauskas, Lyja Maknaviciute, Vanessa Paradis, Andrzej Chyra.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

16:30 MONTPARNASSE BIENVENUE

(France) 97mins.

Dir: Leonor Serraille.

Cast: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Gregoire Monsaingeon.

Un Certain Regard Debussy Press

17:30 LA FAMILIA

(Venezuela) 84mins.

Dir: Gustavo Rondon Cordova. Cast: Giovanny Garcia, Reggie Reyes.

Critics’ Week Miramar

18:15 BELLE DE JOUR

(France) 101mins.

Dir: Luis Bunuel.

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Classic French drama about a high-class prostitute.

Cannes Classics Bunuel

19:30 HAPPY END

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Michael Haneke.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz.

A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

Competition Salle Du 60Eme

and captivated by Antoine’s violence.

Un Certain Regard Bazin

20:00 THE ASSEMBLY

(France) 98mins.

Dir: Mariana Otero.

Paris, Nuit Debout movement on Place de la Republique: people from all horizons passionately try to invent a new form of democracy.

ACID Arcades 1

20:15

PURE HEARTS

BECOMING CARY GRANT

(Italy) 114mins.

Dir: Roberto De Paolis.

Cast: Selene Caramazza, Simone Liberati, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Fresi, Edoardo Pesce.

(US) 85mins. Dir: Mark Kidel. Cast: Judy Balaban, David Thomson, Barbara Jaynes.

Documentary on the life of the famed Hollywood actor.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

Cannes Classics Bunuel

RADIANCE

(Japan) 101mins.

Dir: Naomi Kawase.

Competition Olympia 1 Market + Festival badges allowed/no press

RODIN

(France) 119mins.

Dir: Jacques Doillon.

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Izia Higelin, Severine Caneele.

An account of the famous French sculptor’s romance with Camille Claudel.

Competition Debussy Press

THE WORKSHOP

(France) 114mins.

Dir: Laurent Cantet.

Cast: Marina Fois, Matthieu Lucci.

La Ciotat, the south of France, summer. Antoine has agreed to attend a writing workshop in which a few young people have to write a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The writing process will recall the town’s industrial past, a form of nostalgia that doesn’t interest Antoine.

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21:30 MISSING

22:00 RADIANCE

(Japan) 101mins.

Dir: Naomi Kawase.

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki.

Competition Lumiere Ticket required

RODIN (France) 119mins.

Dir: Jacques Doillon.

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Izia Higelin, Severine Caneele.

Competition Bazin Press

22:15 AFTER THE WAR

(Italy) 92mins.

Dir: Annarita Zambrano.

Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Barbora Babulova, Charlotte Cetaire.

Un Certain Regard Debussy Press

Cinema De La Plage Plage Mace

Critics’ Week Miramar

(South Korea) 92mins.

Dir: Hong Sangsoo.

Cast: Kwon Haehyo, Kim Minhee, Kim Saebyuk, Cho Yunhee, Ki Jubong, Park Yeaju, Kang Taeu.

It is Areum’s first day working for a small publisher. Her boss, Bongwan, loved and recently broke up with the woman who previously worked there. Today, as usual, Bongwan leaves home in the dark and sets off for work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. When Bongwan’s wife finds a love note, she bursts into the office and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.

Competition Olympia 1

SCREENING TIME:

TODAY / 16:00 / Lerins 3 (Buyers Only)

THE ASSEMBLY

(France) 98mins.

Dir: Mariana Otero.

ACID Arcades 2

THE DAY AFTER

*MARKET PREMIERE*

22:30

(US) 122mins.

Dir: Costa-Gavras.

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, John Shea.

Based on the story of an American journalist who goes missing during a coup in Chile.

21:45

Based on the true story of the 1983 mass break-out of 38 prisoners from the HMP Maze high security prison, Maze is a gripping prison break film that follows the relationship between two men on opposite sides of the prison bars.

MARK WEBBER

MADELINE BREWER

(Green Room)

(A Handmaid’s Tale)

LA FAMILIA

(Venezuela) 84mins.

Dir: Gustavo Rondon Cordova. Cast: Giovanny Garcia, Reggie Reyes.

JEANNETTE, THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

(France) 106mins.

Dir: Bruno Dumont. Cast: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin.

France, 1425: in the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the tender age of eight, looks after her sheep in the village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English.

Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France.

Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc. Directors’ Fortnight Arcades 1

“QUIETLY SEARING.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber (The End of Love) captures the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia.

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father, Nikki Singh tries to score a major hit but instead finds himself in huge debt to a rival gang.

To repay this debt, Nikki hires a hitman to kidnap his own sister — Kehri, one and only beloved child — and tentatively blackmail his father. But things don’t go as planned.

MARKET SCREENINGS

09:15 BOOMER HOGS

(US) Benway Institute Studios. 71mins. Dir: Natalie Lauer, Ryan Kibby.

Cast: Natalie Lauer, James Duval, Eric Roberts, Ivan Katz, Shani Drake, Eric Toms.

Ivan’s daughter vanished, presumed kidnapped, in a 30-year-old cold case investigated by Sergeant Hal Stoltz, who stalks a woman he suspects to be the missing girl.

Torn by this tragedy, two dysfunctional generations of Ivan’s family set out on a wrong-way journey, desperate to find each other.

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GINTAMA

(Japan) Gaga Corporation.

131mins. Dir: Yuichi Fukuda. Cast: Shun Oguri, Masaki Suda, Kana Hashimoto.

Based on the best-selling sci-fi action-comedy comic: in the Edo shogunate in Japan the power of the samurai is in decline after aliens from outer space invade the country and outlaw their swords. A highly skilled but usually lazy samurai, Gintoki Sakata, works as a handyman to pay the bills, but a request from his client puts him and his friends in danger and Gintoki must face the dark force.

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WESTERN

(Germany) Films Boutique. 119mins.

Dir: Valeska Grisebach.

Cast: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov.

A group of German workers set off to a construction site in the border region between Bulgaria and Greece. This foreign land and its breathtaking landscape awaken the men’s sense of adventure, but they are also confronted with their own prejudice and mistrust due to the language barrier and cultural differences. The stage is quickly set for a showdown when the

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THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

(Greece) Hanway Films.

119mins. Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos. Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman.

A prominent surgeon adopts a teenager, but as the teen’s actions grow increasingly sinister, the doctor is forced to make a terrible decision.

Salle Du 60Eme

MARKET 10:00 SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS

(Ecuador) Media Luna New Films. 100mins.

Dir: Sebastian Cordero.

Cast: Daniel Adum Gilbert, Victor Arauz, Diego Catano Elizondo.

In Guayaquil, a populous city in Ecuador, a

men begin to compete for recognition and favour from the local villagers.

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09:30 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)

(France) Films Distribution. 143mins.

Dir: Robin Campillo.

Cast: Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adele Haenel.

Early 1990s: with Aids having already claimed countless lives for nearly 10 years, Act Up-Paris activists step up thier actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle.

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BYE BYE GERMANY

(Germany) The Match Factory. 103mins. Dir: Sam Garbarski. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Mark Ivanir.

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wealthy young man is trying to evict 250 families who have been squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatters is willing to negotiate, but can this tense conflict be resolved without bloodshed?

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In post-war Frankfurt, David Bermann and his surviving Jewish friends use their charms selling bed linen from door to door to make money to emigrate to America. But smoothtalking Bermann meets his match when attractive US Army officer Sara Simon interrogates him about his wartime past.

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SATURDAY CHURCH

(US) Westend Films.

83mins. Dir: Damon Cardasis. Cast: Luka Kain, Margot Bingham, Regina Taylor.

The Bronx, New York City: a 14-year-old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion issues, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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SEA SORROW

(UK) Autlook Filmsales.

74mins. Dir: Vanessa

Redgrave. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson.

An examination of the historical context for the current migrant crisis.

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THE TEACHER

(France) BAC Films.

106mins. Dir: Olivier Ayache-Vidal. Cast: Denis Podalydes, Pauline Huruguen, Abdoulaye Diallo.

A literature professor is transferred from a prestigious high school to a tough, underprivileged suburb. He prepares himself for the worst.

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Petrick, Tibor Gaspar.

Hungarian aristocrat and supreme horse trainer Sandor Blaskovich is killed by his former friend, Austrian officer Otto von Oettingen. Von Oettingen takes over Blaskovich Castle with his young daughter, while Sandor’s orphaned son Erno has to move to a poor labourer’s cottage. Erno cannot forgive Oettingen for taking his father’s life, land and honour. Years later, he goes on to purchase and train a magnificent horse, Kincsem, which he believes will be his winning ticket to regaining the family home.

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UNSEEN ENEMY

(US) Cinephil. 90mins.

Dir: Janet Tobias.

A feature-length documentary about the threat of epidemics in the 21st century and what we can do to fight them.

TALES OF MEXICO

Doc Corner

CRIMES AT NORTH SEA

09:45 EVERYONE’S LIFE

(Mexico) Outsider Pictures. 120mins.

Dir: various.

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10:00

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (Imcine).

95mins. Dir: Buil Jose.

(France) Westend Films.

113mins. Dir: Claude Lelouch.

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(India) Stray Dogs.

107mins. Dir: Shanker Raman. Cast: Akshay Oberoi, Pankaj Tripathy, Aamir Bashir.

Kehri Singh reigns over crime in Gurgaon: frustrated at constantly being sidelined by his

KINCSEM — BET ON REVENGE

(Hungary) HNFF World Sales/Hungarian National Film Fund. 122mins.

Dir: Gabor Herendi.

Cast: Ervin Nagy, Andrea

GURGAON

NEW HORIZONS’ POLISH DAYS GOES TO CANNES

T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival/New Horizons Association. 110mins.

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ON WHEELS

(Brazil) APL Film.

75mins. Dir: Mauro D’Addio. Cast: Caua Martins, Lara Boldorini.

Lucas, 13, is wheelchair bound after suffering an accident. Lais, 12, helps her mother selling breakfast at a truck stop, in the small town where they live. The girl would love to meet her father, a truck driver who left when she was little and never returned. Lais and Lucas become friends in school and when she finds out where her father lives, the two set off on a trip.

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THE TUNNEL GANG

(Spain) Filmax International. 97mins.

Dir: Pepon Montero.

Cast: Natalia De Molina, Arturo Valls, Manolo Solo, Raul Cimas.

A group of survivors are finally pulled from the rubble of a collapsed tunnel, 15 days after their terrifying ordeal began. Sounds like a typical happy ending to a film, right? But what »

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QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS

A CIAMBRA

by Jonas Carpignano world sales LUXBOX FRI 19 20:00 Théâtre Croisette

PURE HEARTS CUORI PURI

by Roberto De Paolis SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE Opening Film

world sales

THE MATCH FACTORY TUE 23 19:30 Théâtre Croisette

SICILIAN GHOST STORY

THE INTRUDER L’INTRUSA OFFICIAL SELECTION Un Certain Regard

AFTER THE WAR APRÈS LA GUERRE

by Leonardo Di Costanzo world sales

by Antonio Piazza Fabio Grassadonia world sales

THE MATCH FACTORY

THE MATCH FACTORY

MON 22 17:45 Théâtre Croisette

THU 18 19.00 Espace Miramar

CANNES CLASSICS

OFFICIAL JURY

by Annarita Zambrano world sales

PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL Paolo Sorrentino TUE 23 22:15 Salle Debussy

BLOW-UP (1966) MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES

by Michelangelo Antonioni

FORTUNATA

by Sergio Castellitto world sales

TRUE COLOURS SUN 21 22.00 Salle Debussy

GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DU FESTIVAL, 1967 Presented by Criterion, Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Luce - Cinecittà

ITALIAN PAVILION · Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic · Salon Marta

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Tommaso Bertani RING FILM

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Films. 97mins. Dir: Joy RS Mathur.

A 12-year-old boy is forced to attend a school he dislikes and finds to be boring. What follows is an amusing journey of a boy wrestling with the fear of studies and exploring his passion and creativity in a society which looks down upon those who wish to follow their dreams.

happened next, after the cameras had gone? Were the group’s lives changed forever? How did those characters get over such a traumatic experience? By meeting for dinner every Friday night!

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UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN

(Algeria) MK2 Films.

113mins. Dir: Karim Moussaoui. Cast: Mohamed Djouhri, Sonia Mekkiou, Mehdi Ramdani, Hania Amar.

Algeria today: past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment, and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society.

Palais I

VIVE LA CRISE

(France) Colored Films.

92mins. Dir: JeanFrancois Davy. Cast: JeanMarie Bigard, Jean-Claude Dreyfus.

Palais E

10:20 BOOMER HOGS

(US) Benway Institute Studios. 71mins.

Dir: Natalie Lauer, Ryan Kibby. Cast: Natalie Lauer, James Duval, Eric Roberts, Ivan Katz, Shani Drake, Eric Toms.

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11:30 A VIOLENT LIFE

(France) Pyramide International. 107mins.

Dir: Thierry De Peretti.

Cast: Jean Michelangeli, Henri-Noel Tabary.

Despite the death threat hanging over his head, Stephane decides to return to Corsica to attend the funeral of his best friend and comrade in arms, Christophe, murdered the day before. It’s an opportunity for Stephane to reminisce about the events that led him, a cultured petty bourgeois from Bastia, to move from small crime onto political radicalisation and the underground movement.

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THE BRIGADE

MARKET 11:30 OUR PATRIOTS

(France) Other Angle Pictures. 107mins.

Dir: Gabriel Le Bomin.

Cast: Marc Zinga, Alexandra Lamy, Pierre Deladonchamps.

After the French defeat in the summer of 1940, a young Senegalese infantryman, Addi Ba, flees the army and takes refuge in the Vosges Mountains. Aided by

villagers, he manages to obtain false papers that enable him to come out of hiding. He attracts the attention of people who are planning to take action against the occupying forces, who do not yet call themselves members of the ‘Resistance’, and helps them to set up the region’s first ‘underground’ network.

Kunte. Cast: Hrishikesh Joshi, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Bhalachandra Kadam.

personal breakdown.

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(Iran) Farabi Cinema Foundation. 86mins.

Dir: Ebrahim Mokhtari.

Cast: Mehdi Ahmadi, Saeid Pour Samimi, Maryam Moghadam.

DEMONS IN PARADISE

(France, Sri Lanka) Upside Distribution. 94mins. Dir: Jude Ratnam.

A Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka sees the country’s civil war from the inside.

Riviera 2 Priority badges only

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THE DEVOUT ANIMALS

(Switzerland) Be For Films. 95mins. Dir: Greg Zglinski. Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Ostrowski.

A collision with a sheep initiates a series of weird experiences for Anna and Nick, which leaves them incapable of being certain exactly where they are: in the real world, in their own imaginations… or in someone else’s imagination.

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BARBARA

(France) Gaumont.

94mins. Dir: Mathieu Amalric. Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric.

An actress, Brigitte, is playing Barbara in a film that soon begins shooting. Brigitte works on her character: her voice, the songs and scores, the

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imitation of her gestures, her knitting, the lines to learn. Things move along.

The character grows inside her. Invades her, even…

Yves, the director, is also working — via encounters, archival footage, the music.

He seems inhabited and inspired by her… but by whom? The actress or Barbara?

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CARTER & JUNE

(US) Octane Entertainment.

87mins. Dir: Nicholas Kalikow. Cast: Michael Raymond-James, Samaire Armstrong, Timothy Omundson.

Do the job. Get the money.

Get the girl. Get the kid.

Simple, right?

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CYCLE

(India) Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation.

102mins. Dir: Prakash

(Canada) MCE (Marina Cordoni Entertainment).

102mins. Dir: Connor Gaston. Cast: Charlie Carrick, Ali Liebert, Olivia Martin, Gabrielle Rose.

After his terminally ill fouryear-old daughter claims to have had a past life, a Christian school teacher experiences a profound crisis of faith. Obsessively seeking answers, he risks his marriage and the last remaining days with his child to determine if she has lived before… and will live again.

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IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT

(Germany) Beta Cinema.

100mins. Dir: Matti Geschonneck. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Sylvester Groth, Hildegard Schmahl.

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and

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LEAF OF LIFE

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NO DRESS CODE REQUIRED

(Mexico) Outsider Pictures. 92mins. Dir: Cristina Herrera Borquez.

Cast: Victor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza, Victor Fernando Urias Amparo.

A couple in love from Baja California in Mexico are in the middle of the preparations for a huge wedding. The only problem is that their marriage is not legal, since they are both male.

(France) Studiocanal.

110mins. Dir: Pierre Jolivet. Cast: Roschdy Zem, Emilie Dequenne, Michael Abiteboul.

It’s a hot summer in the south of France. Fires are starting everywhere and tempers are flaring at the local fire station, where Benedicte has begun her new job, leading a group of seasoned veteran firefighters who have difficulty accepting a woman in her position. But in the heat of chaos, personal tensions are cast aside as the courageous brigade pulls together to battle fierce fires threatening their lives and those in the community.

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THE FLORIDA PROJECT

OUR PATRIOTS

(US) Protagonist Pictures.

112mins. Dir: Sean Baker.

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry Jones, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite.

The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

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WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER

IN A LONELY PLACE

Doc Corner

(France) Doc & Film International. 90mins.

Dir: Amos Gitai.

The efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation.

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12:00 ALBERT EINSTEIN — A SURVIVAL STORY OF A STUDENT

(India) White Shadow

(Italy) Summerside International. 90mins.

Dir: Davide Montecchi.

Cast: Luigi Busignani.

Its all about, love, passion, possession.

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INDIGO LAKE

(Australia) Ompyx Communications. 92mins.

Dir: Martin Simpson.

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Lauren Clair.

A celebrated artist is hired by a nightclub owner to paint a portrait of his beautiful wife. When the artist and wife fall in love, the nightclub owner’s jealousy erupts into violence, and the lovers conspire to murder him, but things do not go to plan. Murder is not as easy as it’s painted.

they will need to remain united to come out alive and find out who’s hunting them.

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PLOT 35

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IPEDA: NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR SUBTITLING IN EUROPE

Under The Milky Way International. 110mins.

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JULIE AND THE SHOE FACTORY — BASIC SCREENER

(France) Films Boutique.

90mins. Dir: Kostia Testut, Paul Calori. Cast: Pauline Etienne, Olivier Chantreau, Francois Morel.

Julie finally lands a job at a luxury shoemaker but her dreams of stability collapse as the owner threatens to close the factory. Together with an intrepid group of women, they decide to resist, bringing back to life a bold and elegant shoe design to save the renowned brand.

MARKET 13:30 LITTLE SECRET

(Brazil) All Rights Entertainment. 107mins.

Dir: David Schurmann.

Cast: Fionnula Flanagan, Maria Flor, Erroll Shand, Thomas Silvestre, Julia Lemmertz.

Based on a true story: a

film with three interlocked tales, all connected by a single secret, that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world.

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MR HAPPINESS

(Italy) Filmsharks International. 95mins.

Dir: Alessandro Siani.

Cast: Alessandro Siani, Diego Abatantuono, Carla Signoris, Elena Cucci.

Martino has no job nor prospects and is financially supported by his sister — until he causes an accident that puts her in hospital.

Martino must fill in for her as a housekeeper at the home of a psychiatrist who motivates people through positive thinking.

Martino takes advantage of a misunderstanding and pretends to be the doctor’s assistant, Mister Happiness.

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OH LUCY!

(Japan) Elle Driver.

97mins. Dir: Atsuko Hirayanagi. Cast: Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, Kaho Minami.

Setsuko is seemingly stuck in a rut in Tokyo until she is convinced by her niece Mika to enroll in an unorthodox English class

that requires her to wear a blonde wig and take on an American persona, ‘Lucy’.

The new identity awakens something dormant in Setsuko, and she quickly falls for her American teacher John. When John suddenly disappears from class and Setsuko learns he and Mika were in fact dating, she enlists the help of her sister, Ayako, and flies halfway across the world to the outskirts of Southern California in search of the runaway couple.

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REQUIEM FOR MRS J

(Serbia) Film Center Serbia. 94mins.

Dir: Bojan Vuletic.

Cast: Mirjana Karanovic, Danica Nedeljkovic, Jovana Gavrilovic.

Mrs J wants to settle all private and administrative work so she may commit suicide. In a country going through social transition, this will be highly complicated.

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SCAFFOLDING

(Israel) New Europe Film Sales. 89mins.

Dir: Matan Yair.

Cast: Asher Lax, Ami Smolarchik, Yaacov Cohen.

Seventeen-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

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SECRET INGREDIENT

(Macedonia) Wide.

107mins. Dir: Gjorce Stavreski. Cast: Blagoj Veselinov, Anastas Tanovski, Aksel Mehmet.

A young man is on a quest to save his ill father with the help of one secret ingredient.

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SECRET SCREENING PINK

(US) Submarine Entertainment. 90mins.

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UKRAINE ON FIRE

(Ukraine) Cinema Libre International. 95mins.

Dir: Igor Lopanotok.

Reveals the historical premises of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, its current political background and its dangerous potential for the world.

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13:30 ANIMATION DAY IN CANNES 2017

(Spain) Filmfestivals.com.

110mins.

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CENTAUR

(Kyrgyzstan) The Match Factory. 89mins. Dir: Aktan Arym Kubat. Cast: Nuraly Tursunkojoev, Zarema Asanalieva, Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, Ilim Kalmuratov, Bolot Tentimyshov, Maksat Mamyrkanov.

Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the centre of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night.

A story inspired by the myth where horses became the wings of men.

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DUSTARDS

(Ukraine) Red Glass.

56mins. Dir: Stanislav Gurenko. Cast: Volodymyr Cheremys, Sergey Dozer, Igor Kalyuh.

Four friends take us on a motorcycle journey to Western Ukraine and down the road within themselves.

Doc Corner

KELILEH & DEMNEH

(Iran) Farabi Cinema Foundation. 80mins.

Dir: Alireza Tavakoli Bina.

Kelileh and Demneh are two young jackals affected by the excessive hunting going on in the jungle.

When they get older, Kelileh narrates the story of those difficult days, when the greed and disloyalty of some of the animals to the lion king almost resulted in famine. The drama starts in the middle of a rainy night when the horrified owl pays a visit to the king of the jungle to report about the hunting he had witnessed.

(France) Pyramide International. 67mins.

Dir: Eric Caravaca.

Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died aged three, is buried. The sister about whom I was told nothing, or nearly nothing, and of whom my parents had oddly never kept a single photograph. It was to make up for the missing images that I decided to make this film. Thinking that I would simply chronicle a forgotten life, in fact I opened up the hidden door to a past that I was unaware of, to the subconscious memory that lies inside each of us and which makes us what we are.

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SUNSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE

(US) Sunscreen Film Festival. 90mins.

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TAKE CARE GOOD NIGHT

LITTLE SECRET

(India) Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation.

110mins. Dir: Girish Jayant Joshi. Cast: Sachin Khedekar, Iravati Harshe, Parna Pethe, Mahesh Manjrekar.

A metro family decides to fight a cyber criminal threatening their stability and pride.

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THE MANSION

TEXT FOR YOU

(France) Gaumont.

96mins. Dir: Tony T Datis. Cast: Marc ‘Kemar’ Jarousseau, Nathalie ‘Natoo’ Odzierejko, Yvick ‘Mister V’ Letexier.

A gang of friends, wise guys and web addicts plan on ringing in the New Year in a mansion in the middle of nowhere with no internet connection… a first time for all of them! But as soon as they arrive, strange events begin to perturb the festive mood, until the party morphs into a genuine nightmare. Their minibus breaks down, the first murders occur, panic breaks out. Trapped in the mansion,

(Germany) Beta Cinema.

107mins. Dir: Karoline Herfurth. Cast: Karoline Herfurth, Friedrich Mucke, Nora Tschirner, Frederick Lau. A romantic dramedy about a woman sending texts to her late fiance and finding new love where she didn’t expect to.

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13:45 ALMOST LEGENDS

(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 116mins.

Dir: Gabriel Nesci. Cast: Santiago Segura, Peretti Diego, Diego Torres.

Axel, a peculiar Spanish

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Bonhomme, Claire Suchet.

A tent in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere.

It was supposed to be a romantic weekend in the wild. But when darkness fell, it became a nightmare.

They were not alone.

guy, goes on a search for his former bandmates in Buenos Aires — 25 years ago they formed a musical group that was about to be famous but for some mysterious reason never made it.

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DISAPPEARANCE

48HFP 2016: THE BEST FROM AROUND THE WORLD

(Netherlands) Pluto Film Distribution Network.

92mins. Dir: Boudewijn Koole. Cast: Elsie De Brauw, Jakob Oftebro, Marcus Hanssen.

The idyllic family life set in a beautiful snowy countryside of Norway is shaken after Roos returns home and eventually finds a way to say goodbye.

Short Film Corner 2017.

110mins.

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BAD INFLUENCE

(Chile) Alpha Violet.

90mins. Dir: Claudia Huaiquimilla.

Cast: Andrew Bargsted, Eliseo Fernandez.

When Tano commits yet another crime, he is sent to live with his father in the countryside, where he befriends Cheo. A political conflict in the area and the lousy relations with their parents challenge them to face together the prejudices they have to endure in their already complicated adolescence.

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CHOSEN MEN

14:00 MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS

(Indonesia) Asian Shadows — Chinese Shadows. 93mins.

Dir: Mouly Surya.

Cast: Marsha Timothy, Dea Panendra, Yoga Pratama, Egi Fedly.

In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island,

Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and robbed for her cattle. To defend herself, she is forced to kill. Seeking justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption. But the road is long, especially when the ghost of her headless victim begins to haunt her.

(UK) Eden Gate Pictures.

82mins. Dir: Aaron Sayers.

Cast: Andy McNab. Documentary exploring the changing identities of the modern soldier and the challenges faced by them upon returning to civilian life.

unapologetically straddles the line between narrative and documentary to lay bare the beautifully flawed nature of life.

MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS

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THE ESPADRILLO FORTUNE

GOLDEN YEARS

(Switzerland) Aurora Studios. 90mins. Dir: Luis Ventura. Cast: Harry Leonard Feltham, Katie Marie Kneen, Lucinda Farrelle, Danny D’Anzieri, Alexander Davies.

An outlaw with a mysterious past travels to southern Sardinia on the hunt for a longlost Spanish shipwreck rumoured to have sunk in one of the idyllic bays.

(France) Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares.

103mins. Dir: Andre Techine. Cast: Celine Sallette, Pierre Deladonchamps, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet.

Paul and Louise get married on the eve of the First World War. After two years on the front, Paul injures himself and decides to desert, risking execution.

Louise dresses him up as a woman to hide him.

He becomes ‘Suzanne’, a Parisian celebrity, enjoying a life of lust and pleasure in the ‘roaring 20s’. Louise plays along, willing to sacrifice anything for him.

In 1925, he is granted amnesty. He is free to become Paul again. But can he?

(Italy) Rai Com. 100mins.

Dir: Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte.

Summer 1975: in a village on the eastern coast of Puglia, a war is rekindled between the sons of the well-to-do familes and the children of the local fishermen, shepherds and farmers: the so-called cafoni or bumpkins.

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FLESH AND BLOOD

(US) Visit Films. 88mins.

Dir: Mark Webber. Cast: Mark Webber, Cheri Honkala, Madeline Brewer.

Based on real-life events and captured in a hyperrealistic style, ‘Flesh And Blood’

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THE WAR OF THE YOKELS

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THESSALONIKI GOES TO CANNES

Thessaloniki International Film Festival. 110mins.

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14:30 3000

A Queen Kim Film.

73mins. Dir: Queen Kim. Running afoul with his debts and lifestyle, Jihyuk decides to leave Los Angeles.

He establishes a new life in New York as a taxi driver,

but is still unable to keep his finances in check.

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15:30 ALIVE IN FRANCE

(France) The Match Factory. 79mins.

Dir: Abel Ferrara.

Cast: Abel Ferrara, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp, Cristina Chiriac, Dounia Sichov, Anna Ferrara, PJ Delia.

A rock ’n’ roll glance at cult director Abel Ferrara when he headlines a series of concerts dedicated to songs and music from his films.

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BLOODY MILK

(France) Pyramide International. 90mins.

Dir: Hubert Charuel.

Cast: Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, Isabelle Candelier-Parnes.

Pierre is a 30-year-old dairy farmer. His life revolves around the family farm he took over, his cows, his veterinarian sister and his parents.

When the first cases of an epidemic break out in France, Pierre finds out one of his animals is infected. Losing his cows is not an option for Pierre.

He has nothing else and he will do whatever it takes to save them.

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THE DARKEST

(France) Seven Light.

68mins. Dir: Robin Entreinger. Cast: Valentin

(France) Axxon Films.

90mins. Dir: Nicolas Ubelman, Sophie Mitrani.

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THE MINER

(Slovenia) Slovenian Film Centre. 100mins.

Dir: Hanna Slak.

Cast: Leon Lucev, Marina Redzepovic, Zala Duric Ribic, Tim Marn, Boris Cavazza, Nikolaj Burger, Jure Henigman, Boris Petkovic.

The Srebrenica massacre and its consequences in the region are approached in an unconventional way.

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NADIE NOS MIRA

Marche Du Film. 120mins.

(Argentina) Figa Films.

90mins. Dir: Julia Solomonoff.

A film about the struggle of self-imposed exile.

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FOUR AGAINST THE BANK

NEUROTIC QUEST FOR SERENITY

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MARKET

MAUVAIS ELEVE

DOC DAY — AFTERNOON SESSION

(Germany) Picture Tree International. 96mins.

Dir: Wolfgang Petersen.

Cast: Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighofer, Michael Bully Herbig, Jan Josef Liefers, Antje Traue, Alexandra Maria Lara.

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HAPPY END

(France) Les Films Du Losange. 107mins.

Dir: Michael Haneke.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Franz Rogowski, Fantine Harduin.

A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

(Brazil) Cinema Do Brasil. 105mins.

Dir: Paulo Caruso, Teodoro Poppovic.

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POINT 453

(US) Take18 Entertainment. 45mins.

Dir: Ethan Paisley. Cast: Caelan Scrivener, Kristin Kueter, Craig Miller, Rheagan Rizio, Hunter Woelfle, Ken Thrift.

Follows a young boy presenting symptoms of bipolar disorder as he searches for a normal and meaningful life.

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PROBLEMOS

MARIE CURIE — THE COURAGE OF KNOWLEDGE

(France) Studiocanal.

110mins. Dir: Eric Judor.

Cast: Eric Judor, Blanche Gardin, Youssef Hajdi.

(Germany) Films Boutique. 95mins.

Dir: Marie Noelle.

Cast: Karolina Gruszka.

The most turbulent years in the life of a genius woman: between 1905, when Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radioactivity, and 1911, when she receives her second Nobel Prize after challenging France’s male-dominated academic establishment.

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SAME SAME

(Sweden) Pool Productions. 75mins.

Dir: Anders Lennberg.

Cast: Jan Mybrand, Tomio Araki, Peeranut Kiatchalermkhun.

A man lives in alcoholic, but wealthy, isolation high up on a mountain in the north of Sweden. A strange presence in the form of a young man haunts the man. Is the young man real, or just an image from »

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17:15 THE DAY AFTER

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(South Korea) Finecut Co. 92mins. Dir: Hong Sangsoo. Cast: Kwon Haehyo, Kim Minhee, Kim Saebyuk, Cho Yunhee, Ki Jubong, Park Yeaju, Kang Taeu.

It is Areum’s first day working for a small publisher. Her boss, Bongwan, loved and recently broke up with the woman who previously worked there. Today, as usual, Bongwan leaves home in the dark and sets off for work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. When Bongwan’s wife finds a love note, she bursts into the office and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.

THE STRANGE ONES

(US) Cinetic Media.

80mins. Dir: Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff. Cast: Alex Pettyfer, James Freedson-Jackson.

Mysterious events surround two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape.

On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets.

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15:40 LOVELESS

(Russia) Wild Bunch.

128mins. Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev. Cast: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov.

Divorcing couple Zhenya and Boris are impatient to start their new lives. Then, after witnessing one of their vicious fights, their 12-yearold son disappears.

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16:00 THE CAGED

(Spain) Media Luna New Films. 80mins.

Dir: Jordan Taratoot.

Cast: Mischa Barton.

After a serious car accident that took the life of his wife, Keith finds himself confined to a wheelchair and imprisoned in his fourthfloor apartment. Lonely and understandably questioning his faith, Keith is visited by his long-time priest counsellor Father Salvo, home healthcare supervisor Julia, and his best friend Carlos.

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DO YOU SEE ME?

(US) Global Genesis Group. 90mins.

Dir: Corbin Timbrook.

Cast: Rya Meyers, Philip Boyd, Lisa London.

Emily is stalked by a rogue clown. He’s everywhere... including her closet.

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I AM HERCULES

(Romania) CNC Centrul National Al Cinematografiei. 68mins.

Dir: Marius Iacob.

Cast: Petre Baleanu, Petre Dorin Balteanu,

MARKET 16:00 THE WORKSHOP

(France) Films Distribution. 114mins.

Dir: Laurent Cantet.

Cast: Marina Fois, Matthieu Lucci.

La Ciotat, the south of France, summer. Antoine has agreed to attend a writing workshop in which a few young people have to write a crime thriller with the help of Catalin Bondrea.

Herculane Baths, one of the oldest resorts in Europe: Relu, Mitica and Gelu, three masseurs, are tour guides through the maze of an Eastern Europe garden of Eden.

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KUSO

(US) Stray Dogs. 105mins.

Dir: Flying Lotus. Cast: Hannibal Buress, George Clinton, David Firth.

Events unfold after a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles.

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LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA

(Italy, Poland) All Rights Entertainment. 85mins.

Dir: Sergio Manfio.

Life flows peacefully in Vinci: Leonardo is struggling with his incredible inventions, Lorenzo helps him and Gioconda observes them

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LA PARISIENNE

Olivia, a famous novelist.

The writing process will recall the town’s industrial past, a form of nostalgia that doesn’t interest Antoine. More concerned with the fears of the modern world, the young man soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who will be both alarmed and captivated

by Antoine’s violence.

Arcades 2

mockingly. When a mysterious story-teller comes to town and speaks of a hidden treasure, an adventure begins.

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MAZE

(Ireland) Visit Films.

93mins. Dir: Stephen Burke. Cast: Martin McCann, Niamh Mcgrady, Elva Trill.

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout.

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PATTI CAKE$

(US) Twentieth Century Fox France. 108mins.

Dir: Geremy Jasper.

Cast: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay.

An aspiring rapper is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden home town in New Jersey.

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(France) Orange Studio.

100mins. Dir: Ludovic Bernard. Cast: Florent Peyre, Elodie Fontan.

Parisian working girl Sibylle wants to buy a hardware store in order to open a supermarket instead. But the store is located in a rural and traditional area of the southwest of France: the Basque Country. Sibylle thinks she has tricked the landlord, but to close the deal she must negotiate with Ramon, the landlord’s nephew.

From the start, she knows it won’t be easy as the Basques don’t intend to let a Parisian girl boss them around, no matter how pretty she is.

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in the world — Raphael Sanzio.

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(India) Rowdy Rathore Productions. 93mins.

Dir: Sudhish Kumar.

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TAXI STORIES

(Hong Kong) Avalon Films. 97mins. Dir: Doris Yeung.

A mosaic film of three stories in three different Asian cities, where the paths of the rich and poor cross one and other in and around taxis.

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16:15 HOSTILE

(Russia) Avalon Production Center 110mins. Dir: Ekaterina Tardif. Cast: Maria Sherbina, Dmitriy Miller, Dahsa Kondratyeva.

A fast-paced conspiracy thriller set in the world of aviation.

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RAPHAEL — THE LORD OF THE ARTS

(Italy) Nexo Digital.

90mins. Dir: Luca Viotto.

Cast: Flavio Parenti, Angela Curri, Enrico Lo Verso, Marco Cocci.

The life and work of one of the most famous artists

17:30 12 DAYS

SILENCE OF SLEEP

(France) All Rights Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Mathieu Turi. Cast: Javier Botet, Brittany Ashworth, Gregory Fitoussi.

My name is Juliette, and I survived the Apocalypse.

You think I’m lucky? You’re wrong.

POINT OF NO RETURN

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16:30 POINT 453

(US) Take18 Entertainment. 45mins.

Dir: Ethan Paisley. Cast: Caelan Scrivener, Kristin Kueter, Craig Miller, Rheagan Rizio.

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(France) Wild Bunch.

90mins. Dir: Raymond Depardon.

A new documentary by legendary filmmakerphotographer Raymond Depardon — where justice and psychiatry meet.

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(Germany) The Match Factory. 86mins. Dir: Thomas Arslan. Cast: Georg Friedrich, Tristan Gobel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg.

While on a trip to bury his father in remote northern Norway, Michael is determined to bond with his estranged teenage son.

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DASHAKRIYA

(India) Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation.

122mins. Dir: Sandeep Bhalchandra Patil. Cast: Dilip Prabhavalkar, Manoj Joshi, Aditi Deshpande, Milind Shinde, Nandkishore Chaugule, Milind Fatak, Asha Shelar.

The story of Bhanudas, a resourcefulness and hardworking boy.

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EXTREMITY

(Canada) Dark Elegy Films. 92mins.

Dir: Anthony Diblasi.

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Cast: Chad Rook, Dana Hollenbach, J La Rose, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Ami Tomite, Dylan Sloane.

A transgressive voyage through the traumas that terrify us and shape us.

Cast: Christian Nicolson, Sez Niederer.

Three ordinary guys are thrust into a parallel world of an old sci-fi movie. Trapped in a lowbudget universe, they must somehow fight their way home before it is too late.

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FROST

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(France) Luxbox.

130mins. Dir: Sharunas Bartas. Cast: Mantas Janciauskas, Lyja Maknaviciute, Vanessa Paradis, Andrzej Chyra.

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

TOMORROW AND THEREAFTER

(France) Gaumont.

95mins. Dir: Noemie Lvovsky. Cast: Noemie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Anais Demoustier.

Mathilde is 10 years old. A unique love story between a daughter and her mother.

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THE LAST SOLDIER

WRITTEN BY MRS BACH: BROKEN SILENCE

Panama Film Commission. 54mins.

Dir: Luis Romero.

Doc Corner RETURN TO RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH AKA VOL. 2

(US) Troma Entertainment. 85mins.

Dir: Lloyd Kaufman.

Lauren and Chrissy, two lesbian lovers, must face and defeat the most corrupt and evil forces ever to descend upon Tromaville... and the world!

Arcades 3 THE STARRY SKY ABOVE ME

(France) Stray Dogs.

77mins. Dirr: Ilan Klipper Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Maryline Canto, Alma Jodorowsky.

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THE WANDERERS

(Romania) Content Cloud.

109mins. Dir: Dragos Buliga. Cast: Armand Assante, Lior Ashkenazi, Razvan Vasilescu, Oana Marcu.

A hardened vampire hunter and journalist head to Transilvania to investigate a weird event.

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UNFORMUNG THE TRANSFORMATION

(India) Rahat Kazmi Films. 126mins. Dir: Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar.

Two parallel stories about a monk and a woman.

The movie is all about the journey within for both these protagonists.

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MARKET 17:30 WALKING PAST THE FUTURE

(China) Edko Films.

129mins. Dir: Ruijun Li. Cast: Zishan Yang, Fang Yin. Yaoting, daughter of ageing migrant workers living in the city, is coping with harsh reality while

their dreams of a better future are crumbling in an era of drastic changes in China. With little hope of providing her family with a home of their own, she takes part in a series of highly paid medical experiments, with tragic consequences.

96mins. Dir: Scott Marshall Smith.

Cast: John Larroquette, John Rhys-Davis, Paul Ben-Victor, David James Elliott, Laura Silverman.

Every photograph has two sides — positive and negative.

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FOUR US VAZANTE

(Brazil) Films Boutique.

116mins. Dir: Daniela Thomas. Cast: Adriano Carvalho, Luana Nastas, Sandra Corveloni.

Brazil, 1821: upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a slave trader, finds out his wife died in labour. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife’s niece.

A restless soul, he returns to his trading expeditions, leaving his young wife behind alone with the slaves.

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18:00 A SILENT VOICE

(Japan) Viz Media Europe.

129mins.

Dir: Naoko Yamada.

Cast: Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yuuki, Kensho Ono, Yuki Kaneko.

A grade-school student with impaired hearing transfers to a new school, where she

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is bullied by her classmates, especially Ishida Shouya.

It gets to the point where she transfers to another school and, as a result, Shouya is ostracised and bullied himself. Years later, he sets himself on a path to redemption.

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ANGAMALLY DIARIES

(India) Basil Content.

132mins. Dir: Lijo Jose Pellissery. Cast: Antony Varghese, Sarath Kumar, Tito Wilson.

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THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS

(Austria) RitzlFilm.

103mins. Dir: Adrian Goiginger. Cast: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy Miliker, Lukas Miko, Michael Pink.

Based on true events: sevenyear-old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of the Austrian city Salzburg.

(Belgium) Ulysses Grant Productions. 104mins.

Dir: Stephane Henocque.

Cast: Pierre Olivier, Francois Huberty, Florian Paque, Justine Louis, Marcos Adamantiadis, Yannick Flotte.

David’s life completely changes when he learns that there is no compatible donor for his bone marrow transplant.

His adoptive father gives him his biological father’s address. Can this guy save his life? Guided by his survival skills and by his need to meet his dad, David is going to look for him.

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JUST MEET

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute. 60mins.

Dir: Fernanda Romandia.

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(Serbia) Film Center Serbia. 107mins.

Dir: Dejan Zecevic.

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THE SQUARE

(Sweden) Coproduction Office. 142mins.

Dir: Ruben Ostlund.

Cast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss.

People gather in city square, where there are no rules and you can do whatever you want.

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THE STOLEN PRINCESS

(UKraine) Film.Ua Group. 85mins. Dir: Oleg Malamuzh.

Told in the time of valiant knights, beautiful princesses and battling sorcerers, this is a story about a determined young warrior named Ruslan, who travels to meet the King’s daughter, Mila.

In spite of their disparate standings in society, Mila and Ruslan find themselves to be kindred spirits and quickly fall in love. But their happiness is short-lived when Mila is abducted by Chernomor, an evil sorcerer with many ruthless tricks up his sleeve.

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LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA

CAMERA STORE

(Italy) All Rights Entertainment.

85mins. Dir: Sergio Manfio.

(US) Saradan Media.

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(UK) Glasgow Film Productions. 83mins.

Dir: Alex Mccall, Eirini Vachlioti.

Cast: Myleene Klass, Sally Beamish, Martin Jarvis, Alma Deutscher, Heidi Harralson.

Using forensic document examination and professional testimony, this film sets out to prove that Anna Magdalena Bach, the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, was the composer — or the principal composer — of some of the maestro’s most famous works.

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18:30 THE LADY IN THE PORTRAIT

(France) All Rights Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Charles De Meaux.

Cast: Fan Bing Bing, Yue Wu. Riviera 1

19:00 THE STRONGHOLD

(UKraine) Film.Ua Group. 110mins. Dir: Yury Kovaliov. Cast: Daniil Kamensky, Eva Kosheva, Roman Lutsky.

A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy, Vitya from the 21st century, goes a thousand years back in time.

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THIS GIANT PAPIER MACHE BOULDER IS ACTUALLY REALLY HEAVY

(New Zealand) Oration Films. 109mins.

Dir: Christian Nicolson.

20:30 STRAIGHT 8 2017

(UK) Straight 8.

70mins.

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SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

KATJA NICODEMUS Die Zeit, Germany

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ANTON DOLIN Meduza, Russia

TIM ROBEY, ROBBIE COLLIN The Daily Telegraph, UK

NICK JAMES Sight & Sound, UK

JUSTIN CHANG Los Angeles Times, US

STEPHANIE ZACHAREK Time Magazine, US

KONG RITHDEE Bangkok Post, Thailand

MICHEL CIMENT Positif, France Culture, France

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JULIEN GESTER, DIDIER PERON Libération, France

THE SCREEN JURY AT CANNES

FABIO FERZETTI Il Fatto Quotidiano, Italy

JURY GRID

WONDERSTRUCK (US) Todd Haynes

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THE DAY AFTER (S Kor) Hong Sangsoo

Kim Minhee★★ stars as a★★ new employee small publishing a philandering Haehyo and ★★ ★★ at a★★ ★★ company ★★ with ★★ ★★ boss. ★★Kwon ★★ Kim Saebyuk co-star ★★ in Hong’s ★★ fourth appearance in Competition. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

RADIANCE (Jap-Fr) Naomi Kawase

Masatoshi with failing★★ eyesight★★ who strikes up a relationship with a writer. ★★ Nagase ★★ plays ★★a photographer ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★Ayame Misaki co-star ★★ for Cannes regular Kawase. ★★ and Tatsuya ★★ Fuji ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

THE BEGUILED (US) Sofia Coppola

A★★ Civil War potboiler who stirs★★ up sexual★★ tension at the all-girl’s in Virginia ★★ about ★★ a wounded ★★ Union ★★soldier★★ ★★ ★★school ★★ where Coppola★★ stalwart ★★ Kirsten Dunst alongside★★ Nicole Kidman, Fanning and ★★ he takes ★★shelter. ★★ ★★stars ★★ ★★ Elle★★ ★★Colin Farrell.

RODIN (Fr-Bel) Jacques Doillon

Vincent moody proto-modernist a film that charts ★★ his stormy★★ relationship ★★ Lindon ★★plays ★★ ★★ ★★ sculptor ★★Auguste ★★Rodin in ★★ ★★ with Claudel (Izia his junior, who becomes lover, model ★★Camille★★ ★★Higelin), ★★25 years ★★ ★★ ★★ his★★ ★★and co-worker. ★★ ★★

GOOD TIME (US) Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

The Safdie brothers for the★★ first time.★★ Robert Pattinson on the run ★★ ★★ step ★★up to Competition ★★ ★★ ★★ stars ★★as a bank ★★robber★★ from streets ★★ of New York.

Jennifer★★ Jason Leigh co-star.★★ ★★dangerous ★★ criminals ★★ on the ★★ ★★ ★★and Barkhad ★★ Abdi ★★

A GENTLE CREATURE (Fr-RusGer-Neth-Lith) Sergei Loznitsa

A★★ Gentle Creature Dostoyevsky of the same about the★★ relationship ★★ is loosely ★★ inspired ★★ by the ★★ ★★ story★★ ★★name★★ ★★between an executioner and his victim, from the ★★ executioner’s of view. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ told★★ ★★point ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

IN THE FADE (Ger-Fr) Fatih Akin

Akin’s death of her in a bomb★★ blast. ★★ Hamburg-set ★★ thriller ★★ follows ★★a woman ★★who takes ★★revenge ★★for the★★ ★★family★★ Germany-born, stars in★★ her first German-language ★★ ★★France-based ★★ Diane ★★ Kruger ★★ ★★ ★★ film. ★★ ★★ ★★

AMANT DOUBLE (Fr-Bel) Francois Ozon

Ozon with Marine and Jérémie in an erotically of a fragile young woman ★★reunites ★★ ★★ Vacth★★ ★★ Renier ★★ ★★ charged ★★ tale★★ ★★ ★★ who moves her therapist, to find he is not what ★★ in with ★★ ★★ only ★★ ★★ ★★he seems. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (US-Fr) Lynne Ramsay

Joaquin this thriller veteran★★ who attempts a young★★ girl from★★ a sex-trafficking ★★ Phoenix ★★ leads★★ ★★as a war ★★ ★★ to save ★★ ★★ ring.

But things not go to plan. Ekaterina co-star.★★ ★★ do ★★ ★★ ★★ Samsonov ★★ and ★★Alessandro ★★ Nivola ★★ ★★ ★★

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