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Palansky Dinklage, Julia Ormond, Anton Yelchin

“A thought-provoking film that’ll pique any Black Mirror fan’s curiosity” - Bustle

“A cerebral thriller” – CNET

“A talented ensemble that includes Julia Ormond, Henry Ian Cusick, and the late Anton Yelchin.”

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“Dinklage is hypnotic” – No Film School

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Potter CAST: Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Cillian Murphy, Bruno Ganz, Emily Mortimer, Timothy Spall “There’s nothing to dislike” - Variety

“Potter keeps the energy fizzing and the jokes crackling” – The Hollywood Reporter

“A crisp, energetic, highly compact comedy” – Screen

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Darin boards Farhadi thriller Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi was due to fly into Cannes last night to take part in tonight’s 70th edition opening ceremony as a surprise guest, and speak to buyers about his as-yet-untitled Spanishlanguage thriller.

Argentinian superstar Ricardo Darin has joined Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem on the project, which is due to shoot in Madrid from mid-August. Darin will play Cruz’s husband in the psychologi-

Cannes stands at crossroads

cal thriller, which will explore how the kidnapping of a young girl leads to the unravelling of family secrets.

Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s production outfit El Deseo is no longer on board to produce the $12m-$13m project, which is moving forward instead as a co-production between French producer Alexandre Mallet-Guy of Memento Films, Alvaro Longoria of Spanish stalwarts Morena Films and Andrea Occhipinti of Italian indie giant Lucky Red, which handled

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the release of Farhadi’s Oscarnominated The Salesman in Italy.

France 3 Cinema is also on board, supported by Canal Plus and France Télévision. Memento Films International is handling sales and

BY JEREMY KAY & MELANIE GOODFELLOW

As the 70th Cannes Film Festival gets underway, the evolution of the event and the industry at large will be a hot topic among attendees. The rise of Netflix and Amazon Studios has sent traditional film buyers into survival mode as they scramble to compete with deep-pocketed rivals with the wherewithal to bypass the theatrical model.

Netflix in particular is writ large over the festival. Two large billboards of the company’s first Competition selections Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) adorn the Croisette, and the streaming platform’s running battle with the French theatrical sector has forced festival head Thierry Frémaux to effect a dramatic rule change. From 2018, all Competition submissions must commit to a French theatrical release, a measure designed to appease those who fear Netflix’s modus operandi remains incompatible with France’s strict chronology laws.

This has provoked fierce debate within the French industry over whether or not its laws should be amended, and it remains to be seen what stance French president Emmanuel Macron will take. The festival finds itself at a critical juncture. Frémaux has welcomed Netflix and Amazon, yet the festival finds itself in the crosshairs of a feud pitting the old against the new.

the project will be launched in earnest in Cannes. The team is aiming for the film to be ready in time for next year’s festival.

Producer Mallet- Guy told Screen: “This is my third collaboration with Asghar Farhadi and I’m still amazed by the intensity and subtlety of his work. We’ve got a thrilling story, great locations and a five-star cast. It’s Asghar’s most commercial film to date and I’m looking forward to bringing it to the largest audience possible.”

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Monster Hunt 2

Lionsgate hunts Monster for US, UK

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Lionsgate has acquired North American and UK theatrical rights to Edko Films’ Monster Hunt 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2015 Chinese blockbuster. The agreement also gives Lionsgate rights to the Monster Hunt property for its location-based entertainment venues in select territories.

Directed by Raman Hui and produced by Edko Films’ Bill Kong, Monster Hunt 2 stars Tony Chiu-Wai Leung along with Bai

Baihe and Jing Boran, who both starred in the first instalment.

Currently in post-production, the film is scheduled to open in the US and UK day-and-date with its release in China over Chinese New Year 2018. “I’m thrilled to partner with Patrick Wachsberger, Wendy Reeds and the rest of the Lionsgate team,” said Kong. “Lionsgate is a powerful creative force and has demonstrated its marketing and distribution prowess across a broad range of blockbuster films.”

Ai Weiwei refugee doc in market Lionsgate has added Ai Weiwei’s refugee crisis documentary Human Flow from Participant Media and AC Films to a muscular Cannes slate.

The feature-length documentary is the latest title in the sales pact between Lionsgate International and Participant Media that kicked

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NEWS Ismael’s Ghost Cannes’ opening film goes to Arrow for the UK » Page 2

REVIEW Wind River Taylor Sheridan makes a muscular directorial debut » Page 18

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Cornerstone steps up for Leigh, Amazon’s Peterloo

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off in Berlin with Jose Padilha’s untitled Entebbe project and Rupert Wyatt’s sci-fi thriller Captive State.

The Chinese artist-activist’s film focuses on the plight of some of the 65 million displaced people who have fled home in search of better lives.

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Cornerstone Films has boarded international sales on Mike Leigh’s historical film Peterloo, which Amazon Studios is co-financing and will distribute in the US. Additional financing comes from Film4, which backed the film’s development, the BFI and posthouse-financier Lipsync.

Peterloo will begin shooting next week on location in England. A

SND spells out Asterix’s Magic Potion

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SND has unveiled details of French animation duo Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier’s 3D animated feature Asterix — The Secret Of The Magic Potion, the follow-up to their 2014 collaboration Asterix — The Mansions Of The Gods, which drew 3 million spectators in France and also did well worldwide.

In the new adventure Asterix and Obelix embark on a quest across Gaul to find a young druid.

Partners on the film are SND, M6 Studio, M6 Films and Editions Albert-René, the publishing house set-up by Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo. The feature is being produced in France by M6 Studio and developed by Mikros Animation.

cast of more than 100 actors has been assembled, with the production scheduled to run until late August. Leigh’s regular collaborator Georgina Lowe will produce the project, while Gail Egan is executive producer.

Peterloo tells the story of the infamous Peterloo massacre of 1819. The film is being touted as Leigh’s biggest-budget production to date.

MFI climbs Ceylan’s Tree Memento Films International (MFI) is launching sales on Palme d’Or-winning Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s upcoming film The Wild Pear Tree, which revolves around an aspiring writer whose father’s debts catch up with him, putting a stop to his personal aspirations.

The Wild Pear Tree is Ceylan’s eighth feature; his 2014 Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep was also sold internationally by MFI. Currently in post-production, the film is expected to be ready for Cannes 2018. Other titles on MFI’s slate include Directors’ Fortnight title The Nothing Factory and Palme d’Or contender Good Time.

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Porumboiu’s Gomera welcomes mk2 films Arrow scares up Ismael’s Ghosts for UK

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Arrow Films has snapped up UK rights to Ismael’s Ghosts, the opening film of this year’s festival, which is being sold by Wild Bunch. The UK distributor is planning to release it in the UK either later in the year or in early 2018.

Directed by Arnaud Desplechin, Ismael’s Ghosts stars Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel.

It is about a reclusive filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover. The film was pre-bought for the US by Magnolia last year. “We see it as a major arthouse theatrical release for the UK,” said Tom Stewart, acquisitions director at Arrow.

The ambitious UK company now releases selected films in the US as well as in the UK. It opens Whisky Galore in the UK this week.

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based mk2 films has boarded sales on Romanian director and Cannes regular Corneliu Porumboiu’s upcoming black comedy Gomera. The film, set on the Canary Island of La Gomera, stars long-time Porumboiu collaborator Vlad Ivanov as a Romanian policeman on a mission to free a crooked businessman from prison, which involves learning the local coded whistled language, known as El Silbo.

The company has also come on board the $3.9m (¤3.5m) project as a co-producer alongside Sylvie Pialat’s Les Films du Worso, Julie

Gayet and Nadia Turincev’s company Rouge International, and Apaches in Spain. Porumboiu was last in Cannes in 2015 with The Treasure, which premiered in Un Certain Regard.

Gomera is among a trio of titles boarded by mk2 films on the eve of Cannes, including Mikhaël Hers’ third film Amanda and directorial duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s debut feature Jessica Forever. Pierre Guyard at Paris-based Nord Ouest is producing $4.4m (¤4m) production Amanda, which stars Vincent Lacoste as a carefree 20-something who becomes the guardian of his seven-year-old

niece. Stacy Martin, in Cannes this year in Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable, plays his girlfriend.

Jessica Forever is about a group of violent lost boys who switch their energies to striving for a peaceful world under the guidance of a young woman they elevate to the status of queen. The feature is produced by Emmanuel Chaumet at Ecce Films, whose previous credits include last year’s Cannes Critics’ Week opener Victoria.

Festival titles on the mk2 films slate include Naomi Kawase’s Palme d’Or contender Radiance as well as Un Certain Regard title Until The Birds Return.

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BY JEREMY KAY BARING ALL Screen can reveal the first look at Dad’s Army director Oliver Parker’s comedy Swimming With Men, produced by Stewart le Maréchal, Anna MohrPietsch and Dignity Film Finance’s Maggie Monteith, in association with Amp Film. Executive producers include Paul Webster and Guy Heeley of Shoebox Films. The feature was written by Aschlin Ditta and

stars (from left) Adeel Akhtar, Thomas Turgoose, Jim Carter, Rob Brydon, Daniel Mays and Rupert Graves.

HanWay Films is handling sales on Swimming With Men, currently in production, about a man (Brydon) who finds new meaning in life as part of an all-male, amateur synchronised swimming team.

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Leone offers home to Rémi, Nobody’s Boy

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Italy’s Leone Film Group has picked up Italian rights to French director Antoine Blossier’s 19th century-set tale Rémi, Nobody’s Boy, which is about the adventures of a young orphan. France’s TF1 Studio is kicking off sales on the family

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WestEnd Films has boarded world sales to Claude Lelouch’s Everyone’s Life (Chacun Sa Vie) starring Jean Dujardin and Johnny Hallyday. The feelgood comedy is set in a Burgundy wine-country town.

The film was produced by Lelouch for Films 13, and Samuel Hadida and Victor Hadida for Davis Films. The Hadidas’ distribution arm Metropolitan Filmexport released it in France in late March. WestEnd will kick off world sales in Cannes, where it will also be screening to buyers.

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The Match Factory lights Bergman doc

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Buena Vista has Ten Days Buena Vista International has licensed multiple territories from FilmSharks to Patagonik’s Ten Days Without Mom, directed by Argentinian comedy specialist Ariel Winograd. The studio typically distributes films from local production powerhouse Patagonik in Argentina and has also acquired Colombia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, as well as Latin American TV and VoD rights.

Ten Days Without Mom is about an overworked mother of four who takes a break from her family.

It will open in Argentina in July.

FilmSharks head Guido Rud, who describes the film as “like Home Alone without mom”, is aiming for strong international sales on the title as well as remake rights.

WestEnd gets Lelouch’s Life

entertainment title at Cannes, where it will show first images.

“Rémi is a major brand in many territories and raised huge interest in Italy,” said TF1 Studio sales chief Sabine Chemaly. “We’re thrilled that Rémi has found a new home at Leone Film Group.”

Leone Film Group has carved itself a place as one of Italy’s major high-end distributors and production houses since floating on the Milan stock market in 2013.

Rémi began shooting in April. It is due to be released in September 2018 in France by Mars Films.

July 2018 marks 100 years since the birth of Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, director of such classics as The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, and the centenary is being marked with events, films and TV dramas. In Cannes, The Match Factory is starting presales on Bergman, an ambitious documentary conceived as a feature film and four-part TV series.

The project is billed as one of the most comprehensive documentaries ever to explore the life of the director. Produced by B-Reel Films in Sweden, it is a coproduction with Sveriges Television, Svensk Filmindustri, Motlys, Reel Ventures, Nordsvensk Filmunderhallning, Gotlands Filmfond and Film Capital Stockholm.

It is directed by Jane Magnusson.

A promo is available to view at The Match Factory’s Cannes office.

VR screenings Today’s VR screenings at the NEXT VR Theatre include a tour of some of the best 360º VR docs this year (3pm-4pm), a focus on Dutch VR from Netherlands Film Fund (4pm-5pm), and a preview of French VR projects from Centre National du Cinéma (5pm-6pm).

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Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop has picked up international rights to martial-arts action title The Hidden Sword, directed by Xu Haofeng. Starring Zhang Aoyue (The Final Master), Jessie Li (Port Of Call) and Chen Kuan Tai (14 Blades), the film is now in postproduction for tentative release towards the end of the year.

Based on Xu’s own novella, the film is set in the 1930s when a special sword has helped the Chinese army win the war against Japan.

The old man who created the sword tries to go into hiding with his family, but eventually the outside world starts to intrude.

Xu has also directed critically acclaimed films such as The Sword Identity (2011), Judge Archer (2012) and The Final Master (2015), and co-wrote the screenplay for The Grandmaster (2013) with Wong Kar Wai. The Final Master, which Xu considers his first commercial film, won best action choreography at the Golden Horse Awards.

Other titles on Distribution Workshop’s Cannes slate include Yuen Woo-ping’s martial-arts action fantasy The Thousand Faces Of Dunjia, Ann Hui’s historical drama Our Time Will Come and Adrian Kwan’s musical drama Find Your Voice, starring Andy Lau, which are all in postproduction.

THE EYES HAVE IT Nicolas Cage and Robin Tunney star in thriller Looking Glass. Directed by Tim Hunter, whose credits include 1986 crime drama River’s Edge, the film depicts a couple who buy a desert motel. Once there, they begin to encounter mysterious events. Braxton Pope and David M Wulf produced; executive producers include Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier of Highland Film Group, which is handling international sales here in Cannes. Tom Grater

Works punches with Thumper, Freak Show

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Arriving in Cannes under new ownership, The Works International has boarded international sales rights to Trudie Styler’s Berlin title Freak Show and Jordan Ross’s Tribeca title Thumper.

Alex Lawther, Abigail Breslin and Bette Midler star in the former, a Celine Rattray-produced comedy drama about a boy who decides to run for homecoming queen at his ultra-conservative high school.

Thumper, which is executiveproduced by Cary Fukunaga and stars Eliza Taylor, Ben Feldman and Lena Headey, follows a group of teens who are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer.

A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will change their lives forever.

This is the first Cannes for The Works Group under its new ownership team of Mick Southworth, Deepak Sikka, Martin McCabe

and Brooke Lyndon-Stanford, who acquired the sales and distribution outfit from financier and producer Costa Theo last year. The handover also saw the departure of longtime CEO Laurence Gornall.

In recent years The Works has scaled back its UK distribution operations but it is expected to remain active in sales, financing and production. Clare Crean continues to spearhead the international sales team.

Carnaby International has acquired the worldwide sales rights to children’s piracy title Captain Pugwash, which will set sail next year as a live-action, family comedy-adventure.

The deal was brokered by Carnaby International joint CEO Sean O’Kelly with Elliot Jenkins of Atticus Pictures.

With cast set to be announced imminently, the feature tells an origin story that is set in the Golden Age of Piracy, and spins the adventures of cowardly con-artist Pugwash.

The film will be written and directed by Berlin Crystal Bear winner John Hay and produced

by Bafta-nominated Jenkins.

Created by John Ryan in the late 1950s, Captain Pugwash has spawned an animated TV series and dozens of books.

Producer Jenkins says: “Just as Paddington refreshed a much-loved British brand without losing its charm, we’re going to do the same, albeit with a bit more of a mischievous indie spirit.”

O’Kelly said: “We are delighted to be working with such a talented team on a fresh, exciting reboot of an iconic title.”

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New Europe takes Pity Film Movement heads In Syria

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Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has signed Babis Makridis’s black comedy Pity for world sales.

The director’s follow-up to 2012 Sundance selection L is co-written

by Makridis and Yorgos Lanthimos’s screenwriting collaborator Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer).

Pity is billed as the absurd story of a lawyer who feels happy only when he is unhappy. When his wife falls into a coma, he notices how much better life seems when people show pity for him.

Set for delivery later this year, the film is a Greece-Poland coproduction between Neda Film, Faliro House Productions,

New York-based distributor Film Movement has acquired US rights to Belgian director Philippe Van Leeuw’s Berlin Panorama audience award winner In Syria. Films Boutique represents international rights to the film formerly known as Insyriated and will screen it in Cannes tomorrow and on Monday.

Israeli-Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass stars as a mother of three who turns her home into a safe house for family and neighbours as Syria’s civil war rages outside. Maintaining a routine indoors becomes a matter of life and death over the course of one day, as bombs fall in the street,

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New Europe is also selling Israel’s Scaffolding and Holy Air.

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Film Movement celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and president Michael E Rosenberg is

in Cannes to scout for acquisitions. The company plans a theatrical release this winter.

Van Leeuw made his directorial debut in 2009 on The Day God Walked Away.

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Ablaze sparks Father To Son

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Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Hsiao Yachuan’s Father To Son, produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien. Both filmmakers have a long association with Cannes. Hsiao’s Mirror Image was selected for Directors’ Fortnight in 2001, while Hou won best director at Cannes in 2015 for The Assassin.

Father To Son follows two journeys of self-reconciliation: a 60-year-old man with a serious illness travels to Japan to search for the father who abandoned him 50 years ago, while a young man connected to his past arrives in Taiwan.

Now in post-production for release in autumn 2017, the film stars Michael JQ Huang, Chuang Kai-Hsun, Aria Wang and Lu Hsueh-Feng.

Ablaze is also selling Chen Yuhsun’s The Village Of No Return, which was released in Taiwan and China over Chinese New Year.

LevelK makes new friends with Wenham’s Ellipsis

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LevelK has come on board for international sales, concentrating on worldwide digital distribution rights, for Ellipsis, the feature directorial debut from actor David Wenham (Lion, Top Of The Lake).

Emily Barclay and Benedict Samuel star as two people who bump into each other one night in Syd-

ney, “leading to conversation, a coffee and a night-long adventure”.

Wenham and Liz Kearney produce for Arenamedia, and Robert Connolly is executive producer.

Cinemaplus will release in Australia in the autumn.

“Ellipsis was devised as an experiment,” said Wenham. “Conceived and workshopped in three

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days, shot in seven days, the idea was propelled out of my experiences as an actor over 30 years in film. Filmed largely in my innercity Sydney neighbourhood, Ellipsis is the result of this experiment.”

LevelK is handling international sales and distribution, and is acting as a digital partner for distributors in their home country.

Microwave heats pair Two titles from London-based filmmakers have been commissioned for Microwave, the low-budget feature scheme from Film London, BFI and BBC Films.

Violets Are Blue and Mari will each receive $129,000 (£100,000) towards a capped $193,000 (£150,000) production budget.

Premiere has sci-fi Encounter

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Premiere Entertainment Group has added sci-fi thriller Encounter, starring Peter Stormare, to its slate and will commence talks with worldwide buyers on the Croisette. The film screens tomorrow and centres on a documentary maker who travels to a UFO

convention in New Mexico where he meets an artist with a dark secret.

Ryan Carnes, Jordan Hinson, Dee Wallace and Martin Sensmeier also star. Effects artist Fulvio Sestito wrote the screenplay and makes his feature directorial debut. Rebecca Berrih and Mar-

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tine Melloul of Elysian Fields Entertainment produced with Evan Cholfin.

Encounter will screen in 4K and joins a Premiere slate that includes thrillers Incoming and You Were Never Here, drama Run The Tide and family title Breaking Brooklyn.

Music Box Films has acquired North American rights to Michael Roberts’ documentary Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes For Lizards.

Content Media will be selling international rights in Cannes.

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Shoreline clocks up Time

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Morris Ruskin’s Los Angelesbased Shoreline Entertainment has boarded worldwide rights heading into Cannes on timetravel romance Another Time.

The story centres on an employee who is tasked with firing the owner of one of his company’s corporate acquisitions.

When the man meets the owner and falls for her, he enlists the help of his best friend, a disgraced

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scientist, to travel back in time and meet her before she hooked up with her fiancé.

Justin Hartley, Arielle Kebbel, Chrishell Stause and James Kyson star. Thomas Hennessy directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Kennard. “We are excited to represent this film and eager to share it with audiences all over the world,” Ruskin said. Shoreline’s Melody Djavadi negotiated the deal with producer Alan Pietruszewski.

The company will also be tempting buyers on the Croisette with worldwide rights to crime drama The White Orchid, directed

by Steve Anderson. Olivia Thirlby plays a social services investigator who gets involved with the hunt for a murderer. John Carroll Lynch and Jennifer Beals also star, and Bogart Estate managers Robbert de Klerk and Stephen Bogart served as executive producers for Santana Films.

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Paramount Pictures has promoted Syrinthia Studer to executive vice president of worldwide acquisitions. Studer, who is in Cannes, will be in charge of acquiring films for theatrical release.

She reports to president of the motion picture group Marc Evans, and to president of worldwide home media distribution Bob Buchi on all worldwide home media acquisitions. Paramount’s recent notable acquisitions include Arrival, Denis Villeneuve’s Oscarnominated sci-fi that is on the cusp of $200m worldwide, as well as Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Frears and George Clooney’s November release Suburbicon.

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Highs and lows, but the magic endures Few living producers are more synonymous with the world’s most revered festival than Jeremy Thomas, an Oscar winner for The Last Emperor, who has had 15 films in Cannes’ official selection.

“I have a magnet pulling me here,” beams the Recorded Picture Company founder, who first attended in 1971 when he was 21.

Almost 40 years since he met his Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence director Nagisa Oshima at the festival, Thomas is back on the Croisette with another Japanese filmmaker, Takashi Miike, whose Blade Of The Immortal screens out of competition.

Thomas knows that as much as it is a celebration of cinema, Cannes has its fair share of pitfalls.

“Cutting through the noise is a craft. You have to be disciplined.

There are many casualties in Cannes; it’s a very easy place to party too hard. The best salesmen are down on the Croisette at six in the morning and in bed at 10pm.”

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John Hurt, Jeremy Thomas, Naomi Campbell and Bernardo Bertolucci at Cannes in 1998; (inset) Thomas’s 1975 press pass

Thomas himself has been caught in the Croisette crosshairs.

Twice he was at the centre of jury infamy, first when he sat on the 1987 Competition jury, which contentiously awarded the Palme d’Or to Maurice Pialat’s Under The Sun Of Satan. “It was very bad,” recalls Thomas, whose fellow jurors included Russian maverick Elem Klimov, Jerzy Skolimowski and

Norman Mailer. “People were very passionate about it. Not one of those jury members was a pushover. Klimov was very tough.”

In 1996, Thomas found himself in the eye of another Cannes storm when David Cronenberg’s Crash, on which he was an executive producer, caused a major stir. Jury president Francis Ford Coppola made his disapproval of the film

public, and UK critic Alexander Walker stormed out of the film’s press conference before describing it as “beyond the bounds of depravity” in the headline of his column. The film was subsequently banned by the London borough of Westminster.

“I’ve been eaten up and spat out,” says Thomas, who cites the

critical savaging of the Johnny Depp-directed The Brave as another challenging moment.

But for the uber-producer — who once got a film fully financed with the stroke of a pen at the festival (Francis Bouygues signed a $40m cheque for Thomas and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha there and then) — the highs have outduelled the lows. And the magic endures. “If you’re in the business, you’ve got to be there,” he says. “And you need to respect the real affection for rigorousness and selectivity about films, which is uniquely Cannes. It’s something unattainable. You can’t buy it.”

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BONG JOON HO, OKJA (COMPETITION) Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho follows up his previous Cannes entries The Host and Mother with adventure film Okja, which plays in Competition on Friday, May 19.

Netflix’s first film to run for the Palme d’Or and its first Korean feature, Okja stars Ahn Seo-hyun as a girl who sets out to save her best friend, a massive animal named Okja, from a multinational company.

Also featuring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and Byun Hee-bong, the film is set for online release in 190 countries on June 28. NEW will release it theatrically on June 29 in South Korea.

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Where did the idea for Okja come from?

While driving in Seoul, the image of an animal appeared to me. Under an overpass I saw this animal with a huge body that looked innocent, introverted and pathetic.

I tried to figure out why it would be so sad and that’s how I came up with this story.

directors who are adventurous and tell bold How did the project come together? stories. They take up challenges where I shared the idea with two producers, Lewis older, more conservative studios would Taewan Kim and Woo Sik Seo. I make more stable choices. gave them a synopsis with the title of Okja. It was when I Do you think the theatrical was preparing for experience is being Snowpiercer. DooHo threatened?

Choi, who was a Theatres will never producer on disappear. I ensured that Snowpiercer, joined my film would get a us. We were designing theatrical release in the Okja, selecting FX and US, Korea and the UK with CGI companies and Okja Netflix from the beginning. casting actors when Plan B and Netflix came on board.

What’s your favourite Cannes memory?

In 2011, when I went on the Camera d’Or How do you feel about the increasing jury, I met Tilda and talked with her about presence of Netflix and Amazon at festivals?

Snowpiercer. Also, with Mother [in 2009] I There is always a lot of controversy about stepped on the red carpet with Kim Hye-ja. distribution methods. As a creative, I That memory comes to mind. welcome Netflix. They seem to work with Jean Noh

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SPOTLIGHT CANNES AT 70

Cannes Decades 1946-55 As Cannes Film Festival celebrates its 70th edition, Nikki Baughan turns the spotlight on each decade.

Today, it’s all about the years from 1946 to 1955, which included the discovery of Brigitte Bardot

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riginally conceived by French historian Philippe Erlanger as a response to Hitler and Mussolini’s manipulation of Venice Film Festival, the first edition of the ‘International Film Festival’ opened in Cannes on September 1, 1939 — and lasted until France entered the Second World War two days later. In the summer of 1945, funds were raised through public subscription to resurrect the festival and the first event proper was held in 1946, showcasing 40 features and more than 50 shorts across 15 days.

The focus was on world cinema, with a particular emphasis on Italian and neorealism; films included Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City and Alessandro Blasetti’s Un Giorno Nella Vita, alongside works such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, David Lean’s Brief Encounter and Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend.

The festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 because of budgetary issues, but returned in 1951 with a new spring slot to avoid conflict with Venice. By the 1950s, the festival was finding its own identity, even as the Cold War led to tensions between east and west rising once again. Light relief came courtesy of French actresses Brigitte Bardot — discovered in Cannes in 1953 wearing a bikini on the beach — and, a year later, actress Simone Silva, whose decision to go topless at a photocall caused a scrum, resulting in several broken bones.

In 1955, the Palme d’Or was introduced, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival, which had been in place since the festival’s inception.

At the 2002 festival, organisers presented part of the original selection from the thwarted 1939 event to a jury, who awarded the Palme in s retrospect to Cecil B DeMille’s Union Pacific. ■

WINNERS GRAND PRIX & PALME D’OR Grand Prix du Festival 1946 The Turning Point (Fridrikh Ermler, Soviet Union); Men Without Wings (Frantisek Cap, Czechoslovakia); Brief Encounter (David Lean, UK); Iris And The Lieutenant (Alf Sjoberg, Sweden); The Last Chance (Leopold Lindtberg, Switzerland); The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, US); Portrait Of Maria (Emilio Fernandez, Mexico); Lowly City (Chetan Anand, India); Red Meadows (Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr, Denmark); Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, Italy); Pastoral Symphony (Jean Delannoy, France) 1947 Ziegfeld Follies (Vincente Minnelli et al, US); Antoine Et Antoniette (Jacques Becker, France); Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen et al, US); Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, US); Les Maudits (René Clément, France) 1949 The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK) 1951 Miss Julie (Alf Sjoberg, Sweden); Miracle In Milan (Vittorio De Sica, Italy) 1952 The Tragedy Of Othello: The Moor Of Venice (Orson Welles, US); Two Cents Worth Of Hope (Renato Castellani, Italy) 1953 The Wages Of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France) 1954 Gate Of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan) Palme d’Or 1955 Marty (Delbert Mann, US) Brigitte Bardot at Cannes Film Festival, May 1953

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Wind River Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Taylor Sheridan directs for the first time in Wind River, a film that is identifiable immediately as the work of the man who wrote Sicario (2015) and Hell Or High Water (2016). Combustible, masculine and tense, it demonstrates both that Sheridan can direct with ease and how eminently filmable his written work continues to be.

The story of a game tracker in Wyoming (Jeremy Renner) who becomes entangled in a murder on a Native American reservation (the titular Wind River), it shares some themes and character types with Sheridan’s earlier work; its rugged, snowy landscapes where one man faces the frontier occupy every inch of the screen.

Headlined by Renner and Elizabeth Olsen — as an inexperienced FBI investigator in over her head, much like Emily Blunt in Sicario — Wind River should have no problem attracting followers of Sheridan’s work: Hell Or High Water was one of the best-performing independent films of 2016. Those who had problems with Sicario may find themselves knocking up against the same issues here, but this is a solid thriller that feels at once like a studio release and an independent awards contender.

Sheridan sets a chilly tone for his Utah-shot film with a moonlight opening sequence in which a barefoot woman runs desperately for

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her life through the snow. We then encounter Renner’s Cory Lambert, a tracker who hunts predators for the local wildlife department.

Soon, he will discover her frozen body, immediately identifying the corpse as an 18-year-old girl from the reservation called Natalie (Kelsey Asbille). Renner is strong throughout as a closed-off, instinctive man with a past: he is separated from his Native American wife, with whom he maintains an uneasy relationship, and is the proud father of a young boy.

Lambert’s links with the local community and its independent police force are both lifelong and strong. When newbie FBI investigator Jane Banner (Olsen) is dispatched from Las Vegas to take over the investigation, she quickly realises she is out of her depth in more ways than one — those court shoes are not going to handle the sub-zero temperatures on snowmobile rides that give the film a jolt of pure adrenaline. But she is smart enough to call on Cory for help. While he is honest with her, he also has his own agenda. Giving Natalie’s father (Graham Greene) a fairly lengthy sermon in grief counselling is perhaps excessively expositional, but it does let the viewer know that Cory is wracked with guilt over the loss of his daughter, who was Natalie’s friend.

As a director, Sheridan opens his camera wide to the freezing vistas of wild Wyoming. He

draws a solid, ballast-like performance from Renner as a man who struggles internally but is finely attuned to his external surroundings. Life on the reservation is depicted as bleak and hopeless. This is a film concerned with man’s quest to protect his family and dominate his surroundings. Olsen’s Banner may be smart, but she is another female figure who needs to be watched over — Sheridan’s films, to date, have not exactly been feminist-friendly.

They are, however, also couched in the fluent language of big-screen drama. Wind River can be thrilling and it owns the ability to surprise and shock throughout. When the film approaches its denouement, delivered in flashback, it bares its teeth to become extremely violent. The body count suddenly rises among people we have barely met, making an extended interlude set on a mountain top seem a little excessive.

Music, from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, seems to underline the isolation and alienation of the reservation, to speak of the sadness of a people set apart. Beating in tune with the blowy, widescreen photography, Wind River has a heart. It may be a very male heart, and it may beat a little too loosely to succeed completely as a drama, but it enriches this film and makes Taylor Sheridan’s directorial debut more than just another action thriller.

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DOGMAN is the name of a pet grooming shop and also the tragic prediction of the main character’s metamorphosis from man to animal. Based on a true story that took place 30 years ago and of which nobody will ever know the truth, DOGMAN digs deep into the human dilemmas of the violence hidden inside each one of us.

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Blended feelings between smile and violence. A father and his unloved children: a brother and a sister in permanent conflict, a young and seemingly peaceful couple, and as witnesses, their children, unable to react. Two families in an unseen Naples, far from the suburbs, a bourgeois city where wealth risks to turn into tragedy even when hope is just at hand.

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QUESTIONE DI KARMA by EDOARDO MARIA FALCONE 90’ - ITA

Cast: Fabio De Luigi, Elio Germano, Daniela Virgilio

Giacomo, an extravagant rich heir, deeply believes in reincarnation.

40 years after the loss of his father, he believes to see his father again when he meets Mario Pitagora, a man far from being spiritual, interested only in money and heavely indebted. This absurd encounter will change the lives of both. A surprising comedy about friendship.

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New York 1943. In a luxurious restaurant a Sicilian emigrant Arturo falls in love with Flora. Arturo and Flora dream to get married but need her father’s blessing. Without any means, Arturo enrolls the US Army and embarks to Sicily, where Flora’s father lives. An adventurous and romantic journey that unfolds the complexity of organized crime in its early days.

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IL PADRE D’ITALIA by FABIO MOLLO 93’ - ITA

Cast: Luca Marinelli, Isabella Ragonese

Paolo is a skeptical thirty-year-old young man. Mia is a back-up singer in a band. Paolo is looking to understand himself, his identity and his sexuality.

Mia has a shocking sexual life that is clearly defined. The two meet by coincidence one night in a gay club in Turin. It’s the beginning of an on-the-road journey throughout Italy looking for the father of the baby girl Mia is carrying within.

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In a small village on the eastern coast of Puglia, a continued war between the wealthy and the yokels starts over once again.

The class division of the young adults gives life to a number of guerrilla acts but all is put on hold when Angelo falls in love with Mela.

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CRAZY FOR FOOTBALL by VOLFANGO DE BIASI 75’ - ITA A documentary about the first national five-a-side football Italian team participating the Psychiatric Patients World Cup in Osaka. The group of mental patients from all over Italy faces the challenge together with a group of experts. A wonderful trip from Italy to Japan, full of hope and passion, where the real protagonists are the players and not their mental illness, fighting the cruel prejudice around them.

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Passion, desire, revenge and power are the main elements of a story that blend tradition, innovation and music.

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CANNES AT 70 THIERRY FREMAUX

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fter rising up the ranks of the Institut Lumiere, devoted to the preservation of the world’s cinema heritage, in his home city of Lyon, Thierry Frémaux was appointed artistic director of Cannes in 2000. His first official selection was for the 57th edition in 2004, in which a jury presided over by Quentin Tarantino awarded Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 the Palme d’Or. In 2007, he was appointed delegate general, a role that covers both the artistic direction and overall management of the festival.

Thierry Frémaux and Kristen Stewart arrive at last year’s opening gala dinner; (below) Apocalypse Now — the screening that got away

What are your earliest memories of Cannes?

Watching it on TV at home. I have one particular recollection of the scandal surrounding the screening of La Grande Bouffe [in 1973]; the cast and crew being insulted by spectators as they left the theatre and the director, Marco Ferreri, fighting with journalists.

When did you first attend the festival?

My first real Cannes was in 1979. I had just got my driving licence and set off from Lyon for the Croisette by car. I didn’t see a single film. I had no idea how to get into screenings but all that didn’t matter — I was there at the heart of the party. At night, I would park in a service station and sleep in my car. It was the year of Apocalypse Now. I was desperate to see it; it was several months before I finally did.

What were your habits as a regular festival-goer before joining the festival team?

I was in screenings from morning to night. I was one of those people roaming the pavements in front of the Palais at eight in the morning, demanding a place. Screenings were the only thing that mattered. The dinners — they were important too — as well as watching football matches in hotel rooms. Cannes is also about friendship. Nothing compares to the experience of spending 10 days on the Croisette. Even with the invention of Skype and smartphones, nothing beats a glass of Burgundy.

How did your life change when you became artistic director in 2001?

I was a beggar and I became a prince.

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But I never forget that the people in the upper circle today are just like me, passionate about cinema and about Cannes.

I love to walk around, stopping for coffee with friends, contemplating all the people who are fascinated by the festival without being able to see the films. I sometimes dream of becoming a simple festival-goer again: driving down, discovering films, sleeping in service stations.

How do you see the festival fitting into the global cinema ecosystem?

Even when I wasn’t involved personally with the festival, I always had this great love for Cannes — as well as Venice and Berlin — and I have been a great defender of it because

it carries an enormous weight that goes beyond its central function of selecting and showing films. I see it as a collective event. It doesn’t belong to us, but rather to all those people who come together to make it what it is: artists, producers, sales agents, industry professionals, cinephiles and tourists.

Are there any directors you’re proud to have discovered?

I’m proud to have accompanied the emergence of cinema from Latin America, Mexico, Argentina, Romania, Korea and the Middle East. But I don’t like the idea of claiming discoveries. Of course, Laszlo Nemes bowled over Cannes with his first feature [[Son Of Saul]. But that was not our doing, it was down to the film.

Are there films that you regret not selecting?

Lots, but I won’t tell you which ones.

What have been your biggest successes during your Cannes reign?

I’m not sure I’m the right person to ask.

That said, when Gilles Jacob asked me to join him, I wasn’t sure I was capable of succeeding him. People told me: “Mission impossible!” But I think I can say Cannes has continued to fulfil its mission and has a future, and I’m proud of that.

When you see the pace of change, do you ever wonder whether cinema will exist in 70 years’ time?

Since its beginnings, people have been announcing the death of cinema, but it has always survived. Of course, the world is changing, practices are evolving. My children spend their time surfing the net, but if I say we are going to the cinema on a Saturday they jump for joy. It’s like going to a theatre, a stadium or a concert.

I love Bruce Springsteen’s records but he is even better in concert. Cinema is the same. Cannes Film Festival is the equivas lent of 15 concerts a day. ■

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Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux tells Melanie Goodfellow about scoring tickets on the Croisette and becoming the “prince” of Cannes in 2001

ANALYSIS GENRE FILMS

From Russia with love From thrillers and horrors to epic period dramas and sci-fi, Russian genre films are proving a hit with international buyers. Geoffrey Macnab reports on how the country’s productions are going global

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t is more than 60 years since Kenneth Rive, founder of UK company Gala Films, ventured to Moscow to sign an agreement that made him the Soviet Union’s sole distributor of Russian films in the UK. Since then, Russian films have continued to surface in UK cinemas but have tended to be works by big-name auteurs such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Elem Klimov or even, in revival, Sergei Eisenstein.

One trend, though, that has become noticeable is that Russian genre movies are more visible both in the UK and the international marketplace. A decade ago, Timur Bekmambetov’s fantasies Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2005) were breakout hits — examples of Russian box-office successes that sold widely and caught the attention of the Hollywood studios. However, it was arguably only after the Russian financial crisis of 2014, as the rouble plummeted in value against other currencies, that local producers became aware they needed to target their films at the international market.

“The Russian market had never really thought of international sales before,” says Vadim Vereschagin, senior vice president of distribution at Central Partnership. “Nobody had realised there was this whole worldwide marketplace.”

Steppiong out Russian producers knew that getting a return on their investment in Russia was becoming increasingly difficult. Together with sales agents, they began thinking about foreign audiences, a move that is starting to pay off.

“We have noticed the growing interest from international buyers,” says Dmitry Litvinov, CEO of sales agent Planeta Inform. The firm has recently handled genre titles including Metro, Guardians, Quackerz and The Bride. In particular, he says China and other Asian markets are voracious buyers of Russian fare, even handing them a theatrical release.

It has not gone unnoticed in Russia that the biggest box-office hits around the world right now are genre titles. “We see that genre films occupy the major part of the [worldwide] market” points out Dmitry Rudovsky, co-founder of Art Pictures Media with Stalingrad director Fedor Bondarchuk.

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Bondarchuk’s sci-fi epic Attraction has sold to more than 70 countries and earned $3m-plus in minimum guarantee payment. “That covered almost half our production costs,” says Rudovsky.

Also catching the imagination of international buyers is Andrey Kravchuk’s big-budget Viking, produced by Studio TriTe, the company founded by Nikita Mikhalkov. UK independent distributor Arrow Films has acquired it along with three other Russian genre films in the past 18 months: Battle For Moscow (aka Panfilov’s 28) Battle For Sevastopol and Battalion. Arrow has also picked up Russian arthouse title Zoology, which it will release in the UK, US and Canada later in the year. These will all be shown in their original Russianlanguage versions.

“The production values are excellent.

They don’t have to be $20m or $30m productions,” says Tom Stewart, acquisitions director of Arrow. He adds that some films, like Battalion and Battle For Sevastopol, are even sold in UK supermarkets. “There’s no doubt that homeentertainment, retail and pay-TV are the three strong areas the audience will buy into.”

He talks of the “very close-knit Russian companies who all know each other

very well” and operate at film markets in a similar way to the Scandinavians.

But Vereschagin cautions against the idea the Russian industry is mass producing big historical epics such as Viking and Ivan Shurkhovetskiy’s Furious (which is being sold in the Marché and has already been bought by Well Go USA). Films of this scale remain relatively rare. Nonetheless, disaster movies, thrillers and horror pictures are being turned out in increasing numbers. Animation is booming, with Wizart doing brisk business with Sheep & Wolves.

Sales agents and distributors including Russian World Vision (which handled Battalion and Battle For Moscow), Central Partnership and Planeta Inform are selling populist genre fare. Vereschagin estimates there are around 100 Russian movies being sold in the marketplace.

The territory’s films are also attracting the attention of international sales agents. US outfit Covert Media has been doing good business through its international sales label Lexica Films on two Russian-language genre pieces, disaster film Earthquake and fantasy thriller The Night Watchmen.

Viking These films were

‘The production values are excellent.

They don’t have to be $20m or $30m productions’ Tom Stewart, Arrow Films

brought to the company by its Russian consultant Mila Rozanova, herself a producer on Battle For Sevastopol.

Liz Kim Schwan, Covert’s president of international sales, points to a “new wave” of Russian movies. Like Arrow’s Stewart, she talks of the high production values of the Russian movies and of their “self-aware, sophisticated humour”. The actors may not be recognisable to buyers, says Schwan, but the films’ trailers “speak for themselves”.

The language remains an obstacle, however, as does the lack of a star system.

The deals being done are more likely to be for digital and VoD than for theatrical.

Nevertheless, Russia is one of the few countries with the technical expertise to produce epic action, period and sci-fi movies with top production values — and that is why the Russian presence at markets such as Cannes, Berlin and s AFM looks set to keep on growing. ■

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By Jeremy Kay FilmNation Entertainment arrives with Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot from Gus Van Sant, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who turns to drawing when he is paralysed in a car crash.

Rooney Mara, Jonah Hill and Jack Black round out the cast.

Voltage Pictures has I Feel Pretty with comedy star Amy Schumer as a career woman who learns that beauty is only skin-deep after she suffers a life-changing accident. Abby Kohn directs, and Nicolas Chartier and McG are among the producers. Voltage and UTA represent US rights.

Lionsgate International will talk up sci-fi Chaos Walking. Doug Liman directs Daisy Ridley from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Tom Holland, star of July tentpole Spider-Man: Homecoming. The story takes place in a world without women where all living things can hear each other’s thoughts.

IM Global is selling and fully financing the thriller Unabomb. Viggo Mortensen will play the FBI agent who tracked down the notorious Unabomber who terrorised the US for more than two decades. Robert Lorenz will direct.

Sierra/Affinity hits Cannes with The Widow, an upcoming thriller from Neil Jordan to star Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz. The film is about a young arriviste in New York, grieving the loss of her mother, who befriends a widow with sinister intentions. SK Global produces.

Bloom Media arrives with Marie Colvin drama A Private War from Oscar-nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman. Rosamund Pike stars as the US war reporter who lost an eye during an assignment and years later died in a rocket attack in Syria. Basil Iwanyk, Marissa McMahon and Charlize Theron produce, with WME Global representing US rights.

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Mongrel International will tempt buyers with Directors’ Fortnight selection Mobile Homes. Imogen Poots plays a young mother drifting across the US who finds a new lease of life in a mobilehome community. Vladimir de Fontenay directs and CAA holds US rights.

Visit Films title M.F.A. stars Francesca Eastwood and Clifton Collins Jr in the story of an art student who seeks revenge when a classmate sexually assaults her. Visit Films is also screening The Maze for the first time.

Seville International will introduce Skin starring Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald, the breakout star of Sundance entry and Directors’ Fortnight closing film Patti Cake$. ICM Partners handles US sales on the story of a neoNazi who turns his back on his past when he falls in love. Oren Moverman produces.

Fortitude International arrives with The Medusa starring Jesse Eisenberg as painter Theodore Gericault, alongside Pierce Brosnan and Vanessa Redgrave.

Peter Webber will direct.

Saboteur Media’s new sales venture, led by Mark Lindsay, will introduce the upcoming New York-based noir thriller Cleaning House from director Nick Quested, while Brian Sweet’s APL screens the family drama On Wheels and holds worldwide rights.

The Weinstein Company will show footage from Untouchable, the Intouchables remake with Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston and Nicole Kidman. Neil Burger directs.

Lotus Entertainment will talk up Rob

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Cohen’s graphic novel adaptation Razor as part of its new deal with Number 11.

KMI will talk up Ambience Entertainment’s Australian family drama Storm Boy starring Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney, while Film Sales Company has Bob Shaye’s psychological thriller Ambition.

FilmSharks arrives with Lino 3D, an animated feature from Fox International Productions and Start Anima about a disillusioned children’s party entertainer who is turned into his own costume.

Rafael Ribas directs.

Radiant Films International will be selling The Guinea Pig Club, in which Richard E Grant will play a pioneering Second World War plastic surgeon from New Zealand who helped burns victims

among Battle of Britain fighter pilots. Jeremy Irvine and Sam Neill also star, and Roger Donaldson is in final talks to direct.

XYZ Films will show footage on the Croisette from thriller Arctic by Armory Films and Union Editorial. Mads Mikkelsen, who is expected to attend, plays a man fighting for his life in the icy wastes.

Joe Penna directs.

Chekhov classic The Seagull is on the Hyde Park International slate. It stars Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan in the tale of people in love with the wrong partner. CAA and WME Global handle North American rights.

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services investigator who becomes involved in the hunt for a murderer. John Carroll Lynch and Jennifer Beals star, and Bogart Estate managers Robbert de Klerk and Stephen Bogart served as executive producers for Santana Films.

The Highland Film Group slate includes Miscellaneous Entertainment’s war film Ghosts Of War starring Brenton Thwaites. Eric Bress wrote and directs the film about US soldiers who battle a supernatural force when they capture a French chateau formerly occupied by Nazis.

Foresight Unlimited will talk up political thriller The Last Full Measure, which features an all-star cast of Samuel L Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris and Peter Fonda. ICM Partners holds US rights.

Good Universe arrives with Oscar winner Viola Davis in drama The Personal History Of Rachel Dupree. CAA represents North American rights with Davis’s JuVee Productions.

Epic Pictures is selling The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, about a war hero summoned to hunt down a plague-carrying beast in the Canadian wilderness. Sam Elliott will star for writer-director Robert D Krzykowski, who will produce with Lucky McKee, Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson.

John Sayles serves as executive producer and principal photography is set for August on the east coast.

Robert Patrick stars in thriller Last Rampage from The Little Film Company.

Patrick plays real-life Gary Tison, who embarks on a killing spree when his three sons break him out of an Arizona prison. Heather Graham also stars. Epic Releasing holds US rights.

Cinema Management Group and Richard Guardian are teaming up to sell the world on The BBQ, an Australian comedy about a suburban man who enlists the help of a tyrannical Scottish chef when he is invited to compete in an international contest. Revolution Partners recently wrapped production in Australia.

Content Media will talk up sci-fi 2067, which takes place on an Earth ravaged by climate change as mankind looks to the future to solve the problems of the present. Production is set for later this year in Australia. Seth Larney will direct the project for Arcadia, Buffalo Gal Pictures and Kojo Entertainment.

Concourse Media holds world sales rights to The Parting Glass, Stephen Moyer’s feature directorial debut starring his True Blood co-star (and wife) Anna Paquin. The story of a family who try to piece together their lives after a tragedy also stars Melissa Leo, Ed Asner, Cynthia Nixon, Denis O’Hare and Rhys Ifans.

Magnolia International arrives with the comedy drama Lucky starring Harry

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Dean Stanton as a 90-year-old atheist on a spiritual journey. John Carroll Lynch makes his feature directorial debut on the SWSW selection. Magnolia Pictures will open theatrically in the US this year.

The Exchange will launch worldwide pre-sales on graphic-novel adaptation Brodie’s Law, in which a man framed for the theft of a top-secret experiment uses his new abilities to rescue his kidnapped son and find the criminals who doublecrossed him. John Pogue will direct.

Red Sea Media has Trafficked, about three enslaved women who attempt to escape a Texas brothel. Ashley Judd, Anne Archer and Patrick Duffy star.

Raven Banner is in the market with Rendel, a Scandinavian superhero feature in the style of The Punisher and

Spawn. It follows a vigilante who targets a criminal organisation.

Cohen Media Group has out-of-competition documentary Visages, Villages from Agnes Varda and the muralist and photographer JR, which chronicles their blossoming friendship on a road trip.

Arclight brings the Killer Films drama First Reformed, which stars Ethan Hawke as a grieving father who uncovers secrets in his local church. Amanda Seyfried and Cedric The Entertainer also star, and Paul Schrader directs from his screenplay.

Bleiberg Entertainment produces and handles international sales on Burning Shadow, a sci-fi noir with echoes of David Lynch that has just wrapped. It centres on a loner who meets his double in the form of a blind homeless man. Roxane

Mesquida, Roger Guenveur Smith, Richard Edson, Julie Delpy and newcomer Matthew Dennis Lewis star.

Premiere Entertainment Group will talk up sci-fi Incoming from Benattar/ Thomas Productions. XLrator Media holds US rights to the story of terrorists who take over a prison orbiting Earth and threaten to attack Russia. Scott Adkins stars.

Electric Entertainment has Bad Samaritan, directed by company founder Dean Devlin, about burglars who find a woman held captive in a home they intend to rob. David Tennant and Robert Sheehan star.

Film Mode will be talking up Knights Of The Damned, in which the king’s knights must overcome supernatural challenges including a dragon and an army of the undead.

Octane Entertainment offers Mayhem, the SXSW selection starring Steven Yeun from The Walking Dead as an attorney trapped in a building where a virus has broken out. Paradigm handles North American rights.

Conquistador Entertainment will talk up Wonders Of The Sea 3D, a documentary directed by Jean-Michel Cousteau and Jean-Jacques Mantello, and narrated

by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Oceanside Media and Route One Entertainment represent The Claim, the thriller based on a screenplay by recent best director Oscar winner Damien Chazelle. Motion Picture Capital is financing the project about a single father who must find his kidnapped daughter while fighting the claims of another couple who insist the child is their own.

Film Bridge International will be in town with Spinning Man, starring Pierce Brosnan, Guy Pearce and Minnie Driver.

Simon Kaijser directs the thriller about a married professor whose seemingly idyllic life is shattered when he becomes the suspect in a missing-person case.

MPI Media Group has Bitch, which screened in the Midnight strand at Sundance. The film centres on a downtrodden wife and mother who transforms herself into a vicious dog. Jason Ritter and writer-director Marianna Palka star. Dark Sky Films will distribute in the US. It screens in the market.

AMBI Distribution arrives with Bent, a revenge thriller from Bobby Moresco that stars Karl Urban as a narcotics detective who gets out of prison and goes after the people who framed him. Sofia Vergara and Andy Garcia also star.

Spotlight Pictures will tout rom-com Access All Areas, set to receive its festival premiere at Edinburgh next month. Ella Purnell and Georgie Henley star as teenagers on a pilgrimage to see a legendary artist perform at an outdoor festival. »

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By Andreas Wiseman Bankside Films will begin sales on the untitled Reed Morano project, formerly called First Chair. Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane will star in the drama, written by Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right), about a virtuoso violinist (Bridges) who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

Embankment Films will launch sales on Second World War drama Summerland, the directorial debut of Olivier Award-winning playwright Jessica Swale.

Gemma Arterton will star as a woman who connects with a refugee boy in her care. Guy Heeley of Locke producer Shoebox Films is producing. Embankment coreps the US with The Gersh Agency.

David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment will be on the Croisette with Jim Sheridan prison-break drama H Block, set to star Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan and Pierce Brosnan. Currently in pre-production, the feature, which Dylan Sellers (Southpaw) and Brad Feinstein (Fences) are producing, recounts one of the UK’s biggest ever prison breakouts.

HanWay Films will be tempting buyers with Nigerian-British writer Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s feature directorial debut, based on his upbringing in a white working-class foster family in 1980s Britain. Farming will star Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale and Gugu Mbatha-Raw with production set to get underway in August.

Protagonist Pictures will launch Directors’ Fortnight title The Rider, written and directed by Chloé Zhao. After suffering a near-fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the US. Protagonist is corepresenting domestic rights with WME. Rocket Science will continue sales on Bubbles, the story of Michael Jackson’s celebrity pet chimpanzee. The stopmotion film from Hunt For The Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi and Fantastic Mr Fox animation director Mark Gustafson is handled by CAA in the US. Cornerstone Films is handling HenryAlex Rubin’s crime thriller Semper Fi, set to star Sam Claflin as a straight-laced cop who must break his brother out of jail.

Producers are David Lancaster (Whiplash) and Karina Miller (To The Bone).

Production is due to begin this summer; Cornerstone co-reps US with CAA. Altitude Film Sales will begin sales on Tribeca title The Boy Downstairs, starring Girls actress Zosia Mamet as a woman who moves into a seemingly perfect apartment only to discover her ex-boy-

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friend, played by Matthew Shear, lives in the apartment below.

Independent Film Company will launch the new film from Dreams Of A Life director Carol Morley. Out Of Blue will star Patricia Clarkson as homicide detective Mike Hoolihan. Toby Jones,

Mamie Gummer and Teyonah Parris are also attached. Production is due to begin in the US this autumn.

WestEnd Films will be touting Tribeca musical Saturday Church, about a teenager from the Bronx struggling with gender identity and religion. Producers

are Damon Cardasis and Rebecca Miller from Round Films (Maggie’s Plan), and Mandy Tagger-Brockey and Adi Ezroni from Spring Pictures (A Late Quartet).

For Metro International, Emile Hirsch is due to take the lead role in frontier western Never Grow Old. Hirsch will star as an undertaker who finds his business booming when outlaws take over his frontier town. Irish filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh (The Canal) directs from a script he co-wrote with regular collaborator Colin Downey.

Goldcrest Films has revealed that Hugh Bonneville of Downton Abbey fame is to star as beloved children’s author Roald Dahl in an untitled biopic about Dahl and his wife, Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal. The story moves between New York, England and Los Angeles in the early 1960s.

Film Constellation has boarded sales on doc-biopic Take Every Wave, about surfing icon Laird Hamilton. Directed by Rory Kennedy (Last Days In Vietnam), the film examines the life of the big-wave pioneer, and the passion and fear that drives his exploits.

Great Point Media’s Cannes slate includes Rememory, in which Peter Dinklage plays a model-maker turned investigator, while the late Anton Yelchin plays the emotionally unstable prime suspect in a crime. The film is written and directed by Mark Palansky, and produced by Daniel Bekerman and Lee Clay.

SC Films International will be talking to buyers about Around The World In 80 Days, an animated feature loosely based on Jules Verne’s classic novel. The production will be a 3D underwater adventure based on the characters from SC Films’ previous productions The Reef: Shark Bait and The Reef 2: High Tide. »

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AMP International will be shopping world rights to Ana, which will star Dafne Keen (Logan) alongside Luis Guzman in the story of an unlikely duo who set off on a fraught journey across Puerto Rico. The film is due to shoot on the Caribbean island this summer.

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(KFD) has nabbed international rights to Tribeca premiere Psychopaths. The horror feature from writer-director Mickey Keating (Carnage Park) is set over a single blood-soaked night when the paths of multiple serial killers cross. CAA will handle rights in North America.

Goalpost Film will be introducing feature-length documentary Michael X, about the life of the UK civil-rights activist who was executed in Trinidad & Tobago in 1975. Dog & Duck Films, which worked on Amy and Senna, is the archive producer.

GFM Films will have early footage of action thriller All The Devil’s Men, starring Milo Gibson, William Fichtner, Sylvia Hoeks and Gbenga Akinnagbe.

Shooting on the film, about a battlescarred ‘War on Terror’ bounty hunter, took place in locations throughout London before moving to Marrakech.

Celsius Entertainment will be in Cannes with action drama Forgotten War,, about a man who led a covert mission under US president Harry S Truman at the height of the Korean War. The mission was so secretive that the only evidence is from a small band of men who do not even know each other’s names.

Moviehouse is handling Harry Brown writer Gary Young’s directorial debut Two Graves, starring I, Daniel Blake’s Mona Lisa), Dave Johns, Cathy Tyson (Mona David Hayman (Taboo)) and Katie Jarvis ). The plot is about a doctor of (Fish Tank). pathology (Tyson) who captures and tor-

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tures the young man she believes murdered her son.

The Works International will be at the market with Trudie Styler’s Berlin title Freak Show, starring Alex Lawther, Abigail Breslin, AnnaSophia Robb, Laverne Cox and Bette Midler. The film follows the story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra-conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

Carnaby International will launch Pugwash, a live-action family adventure film about the flawed pirate who teams up with an ultra-smart cabin boy and a clumsy crew. The film is from writer-director John Hay (Stig Of The Dump) and producers Atticus Pictures and Elliot Jenkins.

Timeless Films will come to market with a promo and first footage of Jim Button And Luke The Engine Driver, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ende (The NeverEnding Story). The liveaction fantasy film will be released through Warner Bros Germany in 2018.

Truffle Pictures will be talking to buyers about UK feature documentary Ten Count. The Redeeming Features film, currently in post-production and showing on promo, charts the story of a former athlete’s painful breakdown and his comeback as a boxer.

Jinga Films will be shopping international rights to Brandon Christensen’s supernatural horror Still/ Born, with ICM Partners representing North America.

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award, Christensen’s debut follows a mother who spirals into madness after losing one of her twins during childbirth.

Dogwoof will be hitting the Croisette with doc-biopic Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, an exploration of the iconic Hollywood actress and secret inventor who was also infamous for her marriages and affairs with figures such as Spencer Tracy and John F Kennedy.

Parkland Pictures will be selling Steven Berkoff ’s film adaptation of his theatre production Tell Tale Heart. Based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the gothic tale is about a lonely servant who plots to kill an old man because of his evil ‘vulture’ eye.

Devilworks will be touting Australian comedy horror Red Christmas, about a mother (Dee Wallace) who tries to protect her family from a vengeful intruder in the Australian outback.

Evolutionary Films’ slate includes completed feature Let Me Go, a femaledriven drama about the generational impact of a terrible family secret. The cast includes Juliet Stevenson, Lucy Boynton and Jodhi May, and the film features the first original film score from Radiohead’s Philip Selway.

7&7 Producers Sales Service will be in Cannes with Irish romantic drama Twice Shy, about a young couple who travel to England for an abortion (the procedure is illegal in Ireland). The film, which played at last year’s Galway festival, features a soundtrack including The Corrs, Gavin James and Ash. Reason8 will be in Cannes with the international market premiere of Another Mother’s Son, based on the true story of a woman who took in an escaped Russian PoW and hid him during the Second World War. Bill Kenwright produces. The company also has rights outside the UK and North America for thriller The Ghoul.

Met Film launches its sales arm with a slate of documentaries including Last Breath, backed by BBC Scotland, about a commercial diver stranded on the seabed with five minutes of oxygen and no chance of rescue.

Sharp Teeth Films will be selling documentaries and genre features including Portuguese horror The Forest Of The Lost Souls Souls, a coming-of-age indie drama and slasher movie set in the 1970s. It has so far sold to the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, Sweden and Portugal.

Park Circus will have a market screening of documentary Damien Hirst: Treasures From The Wreck Of The Unbelievable Unbelievable, about the avant-garde UK artist and his latest major work, which depicts an ancient shipwreck and its excavation. The show is currently exhibiting in Venice. »

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By Melanie Goodfellow SBS Distribution launches Paul Verho-

even’s Blessed Virgin (Sainte Vierge), starring Virginie Efira, an adaptation of academic work Immodest Acts: The Life Of A Lesbian Nun In Renaissance Italy. Other new titles include Kleber Mendonca Filho’s sci-fi western Bacurau and Nadav Lapid’s long-gestating Micro Robert. The company is also selling Philippe Garrel’s Directors’ Fortnight title Lover For A Day. Celluloid Dreams kicks off sales on Sébastien Marnier’s high-school set thriller School’s Out starring Laurent Lafitte. It marks the director’s second feature after Irréprochable. Cannes titles comprise André Téchiné’s out of competition screener Golden Years, as well as Tehran Taboo and Familia, which both debut in Critics’ Week, and The Interpreter starring Peter Simonischek.

Memento Films International begins pre-sales on The Wild Pear Tree, the new feature from Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It is also handling Directors’ Fortnight title The Nothing Factory and Palme d’Or contender Good Time.

Le Pacte is at the market with Catherine Corsini’s An Impossible Love, a tale of unrequited love spanning 50 years, starring Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider; Agnes Jaoui’s ensemble drama Place Publique, which revolves around a television presenter whose career is on the wane; and Cédric Kahn’s The Prayer, about a drug addict who joins an isolated community in the mountains.

Wild Bunch kicks off sales on UK director Brian Welsh’s ’90s rave movie Beats, Chinese director Bi Gan’s detective drama Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Tang Wei, and thriller The Third Murder, which it is co-selling with Gaga.

Festival titles comprise opening film Ismael’s Ghosts and Competition titles Rodin, Redoubtable, A Gentle Creature and Loveless, as well as Before We Vanish in Un Certain Regard and Special Screening 12 Days.

Gaumont will market premiere Guillaume Gallienne’s Maryline (working title Bright Weakness) about a fragile but talented women. It is also selling Un Certain Regard opening film Barbara.

France TV Distribution launches Xabi Molia’s Kings For A Day, starring Kad Merad as a failed con-man opposite Kacey Mottet Klein and Sylvie Testud.

TF1 Studio will unveil Anne Fontaine’s Reinventing Marvin, starring Finnegan Oldfield as a young man reconstructing himself through drama. The ensemble

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The Prayer

Big Bang

cast features Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Macaigne and Grégory Gadebois.

SND Films unveils Philippe Le Guay’s comedy Normandie Nue, starring Francois Cluzet as the mayor of a village in Normandy chosen by a famous photographer (Toby Jones) for a naked shoot, and Cécilia Rouaud’s Big Bang starring Vanessa Paradis, Camille Cottin and Pierre Deladonchamps as three disconnected siblings thrown together in the family’s holiday home one last time.

MK2 launches sales on Corneliu Porumboiu’s new project Gomera and Mikhael Hers’ Amanda. It is also handling Naomi Kawase’s Palme d’Or con-

tender Radiance as well as Un Certain Regard titles Until The Birds Return and April’s Daughter, the latter jointly with Protagonist Pictures.

New titles on the Bac Films slate include Sebastiano Riso’s drama Una Famiglia, starring Micaela Ramazzotti and Patrick Bruel. It is Riso’s second film, after 2014 Critics’ Week hit Darker Than Midnight. The company will also be selling Critics’ Week title Ava. Cercamon is handling sales of Slovak filmmaker Gyorgy Kristof ’s Un Certain Regard selection Out, about a man in his 50s who sets off across Eastern Europe in search of work.

Alma Cinema will show a first promo for Guillaume Nicloux’s Indochina Warset drama To The Ends Of The Earth starring Gérard Depardieu and Gaspard Ulliel, English-language thriller A Bluebird In My Heart and cultural identity drama The Charmer.

Doc & Film International is flying in documentarian Nicolas Philibert to present his next project and will market premiere Gael Morel’s topical drama Catch The Wind, starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a woman who follows her delocalised factory job to Morocco. It is also handling Amos Gitai’s West Of The Jordan, which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight.

Studiocanal will kick off sales on Nima Nourizadeh’s The Tracking Of A Russian Spy as well as Gilles Lellouche’s Sink Or Swim (Le Grand Bain), which is about a group of 40-year-old men who take up synchronised swimming.

Upcoming films on the Pyramide International slate include Annemarie Jacir’s Nazareth-set father-son reconciliation tale Wajib and Marie Garel Weiss’s The Party Is Over, about two former addicts trying to stay clean. The company’s Cannes titles include Plot 35, After The War, A Violent Life, Bloody Milk and The Prince Of Nothingwood.

Fresh additions to the WTFilms slate include Mélanie Laurent’s Diving, which charts the unravelling of a passionate relationship between a former war photographer and the mother of his child, a free-spirited woman who abandons them, and Jared Moshe’s 35mm comingof-age western The Ballad Of Lefty Brown.

Elle Driver launches sales on streetart documentary The Man Who Stole Banksy and Eva Husson’s female Kurdish fighters tale Girls Of The Sun starring Golshifteh Farahani and Julie Delpy. It is also handling Atsuko Hirayanagi’s offbeat comedy Oh Lucy!, starring Shinobu Terajima opposite Josh Hartnett, which premieres in Critics’ Week.

New titles on the Films Distribution slate include Sou Abadi’s romance-witha-timely-twist Some Like It Veiled and black comedy 68 Kill. Cannes films comprise Competition titles L’Amant Double and Aids-activist drama BPM (Beats Per Minute) as well as Laurent Cantet’s Un Certain Regard entry The Workshop and Claire Denis’ Directors’ Fortnight opener Let The Sunshine In. Other Angle will launch pre-sales on Budapest, a comedy revolving around the true story of a company specialising in stag-night mini-breaks. Genre specialist Xavier Gens directs from a screenplay by Manu Payet, who also co-stars.

Indie Sales will kick off sales on Sophie Fillieres’ high-concept comedy When Margaux Meets Margaux starring this year’s Caméra d’Or jury president »

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Sandrine Kiberlain as a woman who meets her younger self. The company will also market premiere Russian director Klim Shipenko’s Soviet space drama Salyut 7.

Alfama Films kicks off sales on The Black Book, about the adventures of a young orphan and his Italian nanny, the latest collaboration between Valeria Sarmiento and Carlos Saboga.

Upcoming films for Luxbox include The Eternal Feminine, which captures the life of Mexican poetess and intellectual Rosario Castellanos. It is also handling a quartet of festival titles: Bruno Dumont’s musical drama Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc, They, A Ciambra and Frost.

Kinology kicks off pre-sales on Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart, which revolves around a 1970s producer of gay porn. It is his second film after orgy comedy You And The Night, which played in Critics’ Week in 2013. The company is also handling UK director Rungano Nyoni’s Directors’ Fortnight entry I Am Not A Witch, which sparked a mini-bidding war after it was presented at Les Arcs Paris Coproduction Village last December.

Upcoming titles for Urban Distribution International include Indian filmmaker Kanwal Sethi’s romance Once Again, which took the top prize at Film Bazaar last year, and UK director Louis Lagayette’s thriller Trendy. It is also handling family animation Zombillenium, which premieres as a Special Screening.

The Alpha Violet slate includes Christian Sonderegger’s Midwest US-set documentary Coby, which is about the impact of a young woman’s sex change on friends and family. The film is premiering in the Acid sidebar.

Jour2Fete will introduce the market to Guilhem Amesland’s romantic comedy Superlovers, and is also selling Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s rape drama Beauty And The Dogs, which premieres in Un Certain Regard.

New titles for The Bureau Sales include Fabienne Godet’s gritty drama Our Wonderful Lives, about a recovering addict who rebuilds her life, and So Help Me God, the latest work from fly-on-the-wall documentary makers Jean Libon and Yves Hinant, which tackles the legal system.

Les Films du Losange comes to Cannes with a quartet of festival titles: Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or contender Happy

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When Margaux Meets Margaux

Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc

End, Barbet Schroeder’s The Venerable W, Emmanuel Gras’ Critics’ Week screener Makala and Tony Gatlif ’s Djam, which will premiere as a beach screening.

Upcoming productions on the EuropaCorp slate include Norwegian director Pal Oie’s New York-set thriller Underground starring Peter Franzen, Carly Chaikin and Ben Kingsley.

Titles on the Wide Management slate include Romanian director Constantin Popescu’s drama Pororoca, about a contented man whose family life is shattered by the disappearance of his wife, and Finnish filmmaker Teemu Nikki’s Euthanizer, which explores human nature through the tale of a man whose second job is to put down sick pets.

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By Elisabet Cabeza

Sola (Fausto 5.0) about an 88-year-old tailor from Buenos Aires who travels to Poland in search of the man who saved him from certain death in Auschwitz.

The sales outfit is also selling Mist & The Maiden, a crime thriller set against the volcanic landscape of the Canary Islands, starring Veronica Echegui, Quim Gutierrez and Roberto Alamo.

The film is the debut feature by Andres Koppel. The Madrid-based company will also be showing footage from Memories From The Cell by Uruguayan director Alvaro Brechner, which is based on the true story of a secret military operation in 1970s Uruguay.

Film Factory Entertainment is selling Un Certain Regard entry The Summit from Santiago Mitre, whose Paulina won the Fipresci prize in 2015. The suspense thriller is set in the environs of a Latin American political summit where the Argentinian president, played by Ricardo Darin, ends up facing political and personal turmoil. Film Factory is also showcasing Sarah’s Notebook, about the adventures of a woman, played by The Orphanage star Belen Rueda, who travels to the heart of the Congo to look for her missing sister. Norberto Lopez Amado is directing. Also on Film Factory’s slate is Carlos Vermut’s After Magical Girl, a melodrama about a troubled, once-famous singer (Sex And Lucia’s Najwa Nimri), which is now in postproduction. The company also has the new film from Paco Plaza of REC franchise fame: Veronica stars Ana Torrent (Thesis) and Leticia Dolera (REC 3), and is based on a true story of a Ouija game gone wrong.

Filmax International has new footage of Jaume Balaguero’s Muse to show buyers here. The English-language supernatural thriller, about a troubled literature professor, stars Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente and Joanne Whalley. Filmax is also showing the first teaser for Errementari: The Blacksmith And The Devil, a horror fantasy that marks the directorial debut of Paul Urkijo. Alex de la Iglesia is a co-producer on the project. In post-production is Antonio Cuadri’s comedy Operation Golden Shell, starring Jordi Molla and Karra Elejalde, and set in and around San Sebastian Film Festival. »

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Solarz’s The Last Suit, a SpainArgentina co-production starring Angela Molina (Blancanieves) and Miguel Angel

(Right) Operation Golden Shell

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ITALIAN SELLERS

GERMAN SELLERS

By Gabriele Niola

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True Colours’ market slate includes Ser-

The Match Factory will be a major pres-

gio Castellitto’s Fortunata, which is in Un Certain Regard. Produced by Indigo, the film is an emotional tale of a strong woman (Jasmine Trinca) struggling in the suburbs against the odds — and her ex-husband — to fulfil her dreams. The company, led by Catia Rossi, will also start sales on body-swap fantasy comedy Wife & Husband and It’s The Law, a comedy hit at the Italian box office this year about what happens when a small Sicilian town elects an honest mayor.

Rai Com will be selling Matteo Garrone’s new project Dogman, a thriller set in the 1980s and inspired by one of Italy’s most gruesome homicides. The company is kickstarting sales on Holding Hands (La Tenerezza), a drama from Gianni Amelio starring Micaela Ramazzotti (Like Crazy) and Elio Germano (Our Life), and comedy It’s All About Karma, also starring Germano, about a small-time crook.

Intramovies will handle Israel-Austria co-production The Testament, about a Holocaust expert who discovers by accident that his mother may not have been who he thought she was. The Italian outfit is also selling Funne: Sea Dreaming Girls, a documentary about a group of elderly women who set up a Kickstarter campaign to finance their first ever trip to the sea, and Ignorance Is Bliss, a comedy about modern life and technology featuring Alessandro Gassman (Quiet Chaos) and Marco Giallini (Perfect Strangers).

Fandango is bringing to market Back Home, the new film from comedian Antonio Albanese (Days And Clouds), as well as kicking off sales on A Life Beyond Earth, Elisa Fuksas’s documentary about extraterrestrial experiences, and Made In Italy, a new film from music artist Luciano Ligabue featuring Stefano Accorsi, which is now in pre-production.

Minerva Pictures heads to Cannes with a pair of comedies. Welcome To Gomorrahland spoofs the neo-crime genre, while Life, Heart, Beat is a slapstick about an ignorant Neopolitan couple who find themselves mixing with the upper classes.

FlexyMovies will be selling The Gospel According To Mattei, a comedy about a film director attempting a Pasolini remake.

ence in the market, with seven titles in official selection. The company has Fatih Akin’s In The Fade and Kornel Mundruczo’s Jupiter’s Moon in Competition; Mohammad Rasoulof ’s A Man Of Integrity in Un Certain Regard; and Abel Ferrara’s Alive In France, Leonardo Di Costanzo’s The Intruder and Roberto De Paolis’ Pure Hearts in Directors’ Fortnight.

The Match Factory also represents Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Sicilian Ghost Story, which opens Critics’ Week.

Beta Cinema will bring Claus Rafle’s drama-documentary The Invisibles, based on the true story of four young Jews who survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin. It stars Maximilian Mauff (Bridge Of Spies), Alice Dwyer and Ruby O Fee. Also on Beta’s slate is Felix Randau’s Neolithic epic Iceman, starring Juergen Vogel and Andre M Hennicke, and Text For You, a dramedy from Karoline Herfurth about a woman sending texts to her late fiancé.

And there is likely to be strong buyer interest in Werk Ohne Autor, the latest feature from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives Of Others). Shot by Caleb Deschanel, the thriller stars Tom Schilling, Paula Beer and Sebastian Koch.

Sola Media has picked up worldwide rights for CGI animated feature Anchors Up: Boat To The Rescue. It is directed by Simen Alsvik and William John Ashurst.

Global Screen will bring a slate of new titles including Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait, a documentary about the artist and filmmaker. The company is also presenting 3D animated feature Marnie’s World, and will market premiere Halal For Beginners from writer/director Conor McDermottroe, a comedy set in Ireland’s first Halal meat factory.

ARRI Media International is presenting animated feature Ploey — You Never Fly Alone. The company will hold a private screening to show nine minutes of footage of the co-production between animation studios GunHil in Iceland and Cyborn in Belgium. ARRI is planning a market premiere at AFM later this year. The company is also introducing buyers to drama Directions by Stephan Komandarev, which screens in Un Certain Regard.

M-Appeal is handling Directors’ Fortnight title The Dragon Defense from young Colombian filmmaker Natalia Santa. It will also kick off sales in earnest on SXSW title Easy Living from director Adam Keleman. »

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The Hungarian National Film Fund has high hopes for adventure Kincsem, the country’s highest-grossing local film of the past 10 years. It tells the story of the titular thoroughbred race horse who won every race she ran from 1876-79.

Belgian outfit Be For Films’ new titles include surrogate mum drama Diane Has The Right Shape and Swiss drama Blue My Mind from Lisa Brühlmann.

NORDIC SELLERS

By Wendy Mitchell TrustNordisk has boarded hot Danish

debut The Guilty, which had a buzzy presentation at Goteborg’s Work In Progress sessions. The real-time, contained thriller is about an alarm dispatcher (Jakob Cedergren) racing against time to save a kidnapped woman. The film is the first feature to emerge from Nordisk’s new talRabbit ent arm SPRING. TrustNordisk will host market screenings of Peter Schnau Fog’s You Disappear, starring Trine Dyrholm, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Michael Nyqvist; Danish thriller Darkland directed by Fenar Ahmad; and Petra Volpe’s Swiss comedy drama The Divine Order, which won the audience award at Tribeca.

TrustNordisk is handling Lars von Triers’s now-shooting serial-killer story The House That Jack Built, starring Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz and Uma Thurman, as well as Icelandic horror thriller I Remember You; Norwegian war drama The 12th Bobbi Jene Man directed by Harald Zwart; and Norwegian fantasy epic The Ash Lad: In The Hall Of The Mountain King. The company is also selling Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Becoming Astrid, now shooting.

LevelK brings to market Luke Shanahan’s Australian thriller Rabbit, which is now in post, and is also introducing Mehdi Avaz and Milad Avaz’s Danish drama While We Live, about four people in northern Denmark whose lives intersect in a tragic accident. The company is also selling Christian Tafdrup’s A Horrible Woman, currently in post. Anders Juul and Amanda Collin star in the story of a crumbling relationship, told from the Scaffolding man’s perspective. Also new is Danish animation The Incredible Story Of The Danish thriller Robin, directed by Antonio Giant Pear directed by Philip Einstein Tublen. The sales company is also showLipski, Jorgen Lerdam and Amalie ing a promo of Tony Simpson’s New ZeaNaesby Fick, which is also in post.

SF Studios’ slate includes Janus Metz’s land family film Kiwi Christmas, which hotly anticipated Borg/McEnroe, which is stars Finland’s Kari Vaananen as Santa. It due for delivery in August and stars Sverwill be delivered this autumn, and Madrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf and Stellan man will release in Australia and New Skarsgard. SF also has two animated Zealand in November.

Eyewell’s slate includes Elmo projects: Sweden’s Bamse And The 1944 Nuganen’s Estonian drama 1944; Witch’s Daughter and Norway’s In Swedish horror American Burger Huckybucky SF is also Burger; The Forest Of Huckybucky.

Jaak Kilmi’s Estonian comedy Bay selling Norwegian thriller King’s Bay, Dissidents which will The Dissidents, directed by Stig Svendsen and ’s John have a market screenproduced by Trollhunter’s ing; and Fredrik HillM Jacobsen. er’s Swedish action The Yellow Affair will be film Zone 261: hosting market screenings of Becker: Small Town Operation Ragnarok now in post Gangster,, a Swedish arok, black comedy directed with a promo reel Becker: Small Town Gangster

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REST OF THE WORLD SELLERS

By Geoffrey Macnab Austrian doc specialist Autlook Filmsales is representing an eclectic mix of films, among them Vanessa Redgrave’s directorial debut Sea Sorrow, which tells the story of refugees fleeing warzones throughout the last century; Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s Big Time, about design guru Bjarke Ingels; and Marieke Schroeder’s Schumann’s Bar Talks, which profiles bartender Charles Schumann.

Autlook will also give a market screening to Elvira Lind’s Bobbi Jene, about the US dancer, which arrives with festival awards from Tribeca and Hot Docs.

ny’s first English-language production, Sunset Contract, billed as a modern folktale about a CEO who is confronted by the devil. The company also has Dutch comedy Ron Goossens, Low-Budget Stuntman and contemporary drama The Swell, which explores what happens when the national flood defences of the Netherlands and Belgium start to collapse.

New Europe Film Sales’ Scaffolding by Matan Yair has been chosen for the festival’s Acid section. The company will also be introducing Israeli comedy Holy Air from Shady Srour to the market.

Australian outfit Odin’s Eye is beginning sales on high-concept sci-fi movie Quanta. Directed by Nathan Dalton, and produced by Jesse O’Brien and Christian D’Alessio of Raygun with Ben Whimpey of Indimax Productions, it is the story of a middle-aged physicist who reluctantly takes on a younger man with Asperger’s syndrome for a research project.

The Russians will be out in force at the market. Central Partnership will be presenting 13th-century action epic Furious, basketball drama Three Seconds, which tells the story of how the Soviet team beat the supposedly invincible US at the Munich Olympics of 1972, ballet drama The Bolshoi and fantasy adventure Frontier.

Planeta Inform is going to present new materials from The Coma by Russian VFX specialist Nikita Argunov; action fantasy The Scythian, produced by Sergey Selyanov; and historical blockbuster Prince Oleg, co-produced by Vladimir Kilburg and Dmitry Litvinov.

Russian outfit Indie Vision (part of World Vision) is bringing some upscale projects to Cannes, among them four stage productions in HD, based on famous Russian literature, from the country’s most renowned theatre companies. The titles are Eugene Onegin, The Cherry Orchard, The Black Monk and Anna Karenina. The company also has a project in post-production called Light Up, billed as “an unusual satire on contemporary Russian reality”.

Art Pictures Studio, the outfit behind Stalingrad and Attraction, is set to announce a sequel to the latter, which was a big success in Russia and has now s sold to 74 countries. ■

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most out of their last days together, and to confess his undying love to his sweetheart Suzette. To do this, Spirou and his buddies organise an extraordinary adventure that she will never forget.

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AND PRESS

10:00 ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

(France) 110mins.

Dir: Arnaud Desplechin.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel.

Filmmaker Ismaïl Vuillard’s life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.

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THE MIDNIGHT MAN

Out of Competition Debussy Press

13:00 SEA SORROW

(UK) 74mins.

Dir: Vanessa Redgrave.

Documentary charting the life of a Syrian refugee.

Directorial debut from the legendary actor.

Out of Competition Bazin Press

16:00 ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

(France) 110mins.

Dir: Arnaud Desplechin.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel.

Out of Competition Debussy Press

19:15

FESTIVAL & PRESS 19:15 ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

(France) 110mins.

Dir: Arnaud Desplechin.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel.

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09:30

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(UK) Embankment Films.

110mins. Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky. Cast: Brian Cox. June 1944: Allied forces stand on the brink — a million soldiers are secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to invade Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill.

19:30 LOVELESS

(Russia) 128mins.

Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Cast: Aleksei Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova.

After ‘Leviathan’, Andrey Zvyagintsev once again depicts a brutal and pitiless humanity — fragile, broken — in this uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a loveless family.

Competition Debussy & Bazin Press

23:30 ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

(France) 110mins.

Dir: Arnaud Desplechin.

Out of Competition Lumiere Ticket required

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THE CLAPPER

(US) Fortitude International. 90mins.

Dir: Dito Montiel.

Cast: Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried.

Eddie Krumble is a ‘clapper’, someone who is paid to be in the audience for infomercials, and he

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Filmmaker Ismaïl Vuillard’s life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.

Out of Competition Lumiere Ticket required

books any gig he can get.

A late-night talk show host ridicules Eddie’s repeat appearances on the infomercials in varying unintentionally hilarious disguises and calls for a nationwide search to find him. Eddie, apprehensive of the attention and caught up in a budding romance with Judy, tries to avoid the fame at all costs. Ultimately left with no other choice, he goes on the late-night show and embraces the fame, which backfires, Judy gets unnerved at the attention and leaves Eddie. Chewed up and spit out by the media, he must find a way to restore his reputation, rekindle his relationship with Judy and return to his abnormal life.

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GAUMONT PROMO REELS

(France) Gaumont.

25mins. Dir: various.

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TRUSTNORDISKK PROMO REEL

(Denmark) TrustNordisk.

90mins.

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09:45 DJANGO

(France) Pathe International. 117mins.

Dir: Etienne Comar.

Cast: Reda Kateb, Cecile De France, Beata Palya.

1943, occupied Paris: Django Reinhardt is at the pinnacle of his art. The king of ethereal swing plays to standing-room-only crowds in the capital’s greatest venues. Meanwhile, his gypsy brethren are being persecuted.

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MR & MRS ADELMAN

(France) Le Pacte.

120mins. Dir: Nicolas Bedos. Cast: Nicolas Bedos, Doria Tillier.

A love story between a famous writer and his muse. The latter, who was also his wife, remembers the various ups and downs of their long and adventurous relationship.

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10:00 THE BIG BAD FOX & OTHER TALES

(France) StudioCanal.

109mins. Dir: Benjamin

Renner, Patrick Imbert.

The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it is made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks; a rabbit who plays the stork; and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. If you think life in the country is a walk in the park, think again.

Olympia 8

(US) Voltage Pictures.

93mins. Dir: Travis Zarwiny. Cast: Gabrielle Haugh, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Kyle Strauts, Louise Linton.

Alex is a typical teenage girl who lives with her sick grandmother, Anna. While searching through the attic, Alex finds directions to a game, which played properly, will awaken ‘The Midnight Man’, an evil being who will make your worst nightmare come true. At first, Alex and her friends think the game is harmless fun. It is — until The Midnight Man comes to play for real.

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10:35 FILMS DISTRIBUTION PROMO REEL

(France) Films Distribution. 30mins.

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FILMS DISTRIBUTION PROMO REEL

(France) Films Distribution. 30mins.

(France) Films Distribution. 30mins.

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LITTLE SPIROU

(France) TF1 Studio.

90mins. Dir: Nicolas Bary. Cast: Sacha Pinault, Pierre Richard, Francois Damiens, Natacha Regnier, Gwendolyn Gourvenec, Philippe Katerine, Armelle.

Like every hero, the intrepid Spirou was once a kid. And when you’re a kid, you have to obey your elders. Like his entire family before him, Little Spirou is destined to become a professional bellboy. So when his mom announces that he’ll be starting bellhop academy next year, Little Spirou decides, with the help of his friends, to make the

11:30 ANIMAL CRACKERS

(US) Arclight Films.

100mins. Dir: Scott Christian Sava, Tony Bancroft. Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Sylvester Stallone.

A workaholic dad inherits a rundown circus and uncovers a magical box of animal crackers that gives him the uncanny ability to become any animal from the box.

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(US) Fortitude International. 90mins.

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A teenage girl and a dictator become unlikely yet innocent pen pals, but when the dictator is forced out of his country, he suddenly shows up at her house to seek refuge with his only remaining friend.

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HAYFLICK LIMIT

(US) California Pictures.

90mins. Dir: David Shannon. Cast: Clint Hughes, Patricia Isenberg, Brittany Kracerud.

A woman born in the early 1950s is rendered ageless after her 21st birthday due to a genetic mutation.

Her Hayflick Limit — the point at which cells begin to die — has been eliminated and given her the gift of biological immortality. After many years evading capture by the government, which wants to test her immunity to ageing, she is abducted by a grieving father who

believes she is the link to saving his dying daughter.

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I REMEMBER YOU

(Iceland) TrustNordisk.

110mins. Dir: Oskar Thor Axelsson. Cast: Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Anna Gunndis Gudmundsdottir, Thor Kristjansson.

A story about a young man and woman who move into a small abandoned town in Iceland to renovate an old house. Little do they know the town has a dark history.

(UK) Embankment Films.

110mins. Dir: Ron Scalpello. Cast: Josh Helman.

The true-life story of one of Britain’s most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as ‘The Guv’nor’.

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MY FRIEND DAHMER

(US) Altitude Film Sales.

107mins. Dir: Marc Meyers. Cast: Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts.

Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy — and in his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he became.

She has managed to send living tissue back in time by 110 minutes. News of her success attracts the attention of Tsui Hu, who kidnaps Doudou. Although Xia Tian follows Tsui Hu’s every instruction, she cannot save her son, so she does the only thing left in her power, sending herself back in time by 110 minutes to put everything right.

(France) TF1 Studio.

60mins.

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THE SCYTHIAN

RESET

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MY NAME IS LENNY

(China) Golden Network Asia. 106mins. Dir: Chang. Cast: Mi Yang, Wallace Huo, Shih-Chieh King, Chang Liu. Scientist Xia Tian has dedicated so many years to developing her time machine that she hasn’t been able to give her son, Doudou, the attention he craves. Xia Tian vows to spend more time with him once her research is finished.

(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution.

100mins. Dir: Rustam Mosafir.

Eleventh-century Eastern Europe: in the time of vikings and epic battles unfolds the story of a young noble warrior who chooses justice over duty.

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THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT

(Canada) IndustryWorks Pictures. 93mins.

Dir: Kirsten Carthew.

Cast: Duane Howard, Kawennahere Devery Jacobs.

The story of an unexpected friendship between a hunter obsessed with finding a missing caribou herd and a teenage rebel who gets lost while on the run.

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TRAGEDY GIRLS

(US) The Exchange.

97mins. Dir: Tyler MacIntyre. Cast: Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson.

Two death-obsessed teenage girls use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into a frenzy.

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VIVE LA CRISE

(France) Colored Films.

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

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YOU, ME AND HIM

(UK) Double Dutch International. 98mins.

Dir: Daisy Aitkens. Cast: Lucy Punch, Faye Marsay, Gemma Jones, David Warner, David Tennant.

Despite their age difference, lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.

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(UK) Metro International Entertainment. 110mins.

Dir: Gilles PaquetBrenner. Cast: Glenn Close, Max Irons, Gilian Anderson, Christina Hendricks.

Private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion,

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Director: Amos Gitai Producer: Patricia Butinard, Laurent Truchot, Romain Card Production: Nilaya Films & Agav Films World Sales: Doc & Film E-mail: d.elstner@docandfilm.com Web: www.docandfilm.com SUN MON TUE TUE WED

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Director: Gilberto Tofano Producer: Yaacov Agmon Sales: United King Films Web: www.unitedking.co.il WED MAY 24 12:30

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DARKNESS RISING

(Finland) Raven Banner Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Austin Reading.

Cast: Katrina Law, Bryce Johnson, Tara Holt.

Haunted by her mysterious past, the lone survivor of a family massacre revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruction, awakening the evil that resides there.

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Director: Matan Yair Producers: Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery Associate Producers: Maya Fischer, Adi Bar Yossef Production Companies: Green Productions, Film Produkcja, United King Films World Sales: New Europe Film Sales Web: www.neweuropefilmsales E-mail: kat@neweuropefilmsales MAY 20 MAY 20 MAY 20 MAY 24

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including Sophia, his client and former lover.

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CINEFONDATION HERITAGE

Director: Yuval Aharoni Producers: Shlomi Elkabetz, Eilon Shani Production Company: Deux Beaux Garçons Films Sales Contact: Yuval Aharoni E-mail: aharoni.yuval@gmail.com THU MAY 25 11:00

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Director: Amichai Greenberg Producers: Yoav Roeh, Aurit Zamir Co-producers: Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann Production Company: Gum Films World Sales: INTRAMOVIES E-mail: Fabio.tucci@intramovies.com SAT MAY 20 16:00 MON MAY 22 16:00

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THE CAKEBAKER

(Czech Republic) The Match Factory. 105mins.

Dir: Bohdan Slama.

Cast: Zuzana Kronerova, Pavel Novy, Daniel Vizek, VaClav NeuzIl. Hana has had enough of her selfish family. When she joins a group of eccentric ice swimmers, a new world opens to her.

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MANOLO: THE BOY WHO MADE SHOES FOR LIZARDS

(UK) Content Media Corporation. 90mins. Dir: Michael Roberts. Cast: Manolo Blahnik, Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Andre Leon Talley, Naomi Campbell.

A behind-the-scenes look at one of the most revered people in all of

fashion. From personal interviews with Manolo, his muses, clients and contemporaries, we’ll get to understand the man behind the most beautiful shoes on earth.

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MAUS

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Herrero Yayo.

Cast: Alma Terzic, August Wittgenstein.

Alec and Sasa are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Sasa feels a mysterious force is chasing them.

John Smith, Michael Shannon, Carla Gugino.

Anthony is a standout player on his Manhattan high school’s basketball team with seemingly everything going for him: a killer three-point shot; a loving girlfriend; and a chance at a scholarship to Cornell. But Anthony’s dreams of playing college ball are jeopardised by his volatile father, a harddrinking writer whose compulsive gambling threatens to derail the lives of both his wife and son.

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(US) Great Point Media.

99mins. Dir: Mark Palansky. Cast: Peter Dinklage, Anton Yelchin, Julia Ormond.

A visionary inventor found dead. A machine that can record people’s memories. A man haunted by the past.

This noir mystery explores the ways in which memory defines the present.

(US) Fortitude International. 99mins.

Dir: Kurt Voelker. Cast: JK Simmons, Julie Delpy, Odeya Rush, Josh Wiggins.

After the loss of his wife, Bill Ponder and his 17-yearold son, Wes, move out of their small town into the big city to make a fresh start. As they each begin to adjust to their new life, they both find comfort in newfound romance.

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(France) Cinephil. 55mins.

Dir: Bernard-Henri Levy.

In October 2016, the battle for Mosul, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital in northern Iraq,

REMEMORY

WOLVES

(US) Lotus Entertainment.

109mins. Dir: Bart Freundlich. Cast: Taylor

Director: Ofir Raul Graizer Producer: Itai Tamir Co-Producer: Mathias Schwerbrock, Production Companies: Laila Films, Film Base Berlin World Sales: Films Boutique Web: www.filmsboutique.com E-mail: contact@filmsboutique.com SAT MAY 10 20:00 SUN MAY 21 18:00

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HOLY AIR (HAWA MOQADDAS)

Director: Shady Srour Producer: Ilan Moskovitch, Shady Srour Production Company: Tree M Productions World Sales: New Europe Film Sales Web: www.neweuropefilmsales.com E-mail: kat@neweuropefilmsales WED MAY 7

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Director: Avi Nesher Producers: Dr. David M. Milch, David Silber, Avi Nesher, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Ruth Cats Co-Producers: Ellamilch Sheriff, Elad Naggar Production Companies: Metro Communications, Artomas Communicaitons, Ars Veritas Productions, Sunshine Productions World Sales: Beliberg Entertainment E-mail: sales@bleibergent.com Web: www. bleibergent.com THU MAY 18 9:30

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(US) Voltage Pictures. 104mins.

Dir: Scott Speer. Cast: Ross Lynch, Olivia Holt, Courtney Eaton, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Martin Donovan, John Michael Higgins, Rob Riggle, Famke Janssen.

When Kyle, a social outcast, happens

upon a magical phone app that causes anything he posts to come true, he uses it to create his idea of the ‘perfect’ life. He even wins the affection of the two most beautiful girls in school, Dani and Charlotte. However, he soon learns that the life he created is far from perfect.

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began. With unprecedented access, Bernard-Henri Levy and his team follow the Kurdish units and the Iraqi special Golden Division.

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BYPASS

(South Africa) Princ Films. 90mins. Dir: Shane Vermooten. Cast: Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Natalie Becker, Melisa Haiden.

When Dr Lisa Cooper, a renowned cardiac surgeon, is forced to make decisions regarding the life of her son, Sam, she has no choice but to turn her back on the medical system she has devoted her life to.

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(Australia) Cinema Management Group.

90mins. Dir: Dorota Kobiela.

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(Denmark) TrustNordisk.

110mins. Dir: Fenar Ahmad. Cast: Dar Salim, Stine Fischer Christensen, Ali Sivandi, Roland Moller.

SMITTEN!

A successful doctor who loses his little brother in a gang-related assault gives up his privileged life to become a masked warrior and avenge his death.

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FANTASTIC JOURNEY TO OZ

(Russia) Wizart. 92mins.

Dir: Vladimir Toropchin.

The sequel to the much-loved adaptation of Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz’: Urfin, a troubled carpenter, discovers a magical powder that brings his creations to life. With an army of wooden soldiers, he captures the Emerald City. Dorothy and her friends — the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the now-brave Lion — come to the rescue of the city dwellers.

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GAUGUIN

(France) StudioCanal.

110mins. Dir: Edouard Deluc. Cast: Vincent Cassel.

Paris, 1891: painter Paul Gauguin is already well known in Parisian artistic circles but is tired of the so-called civilised world and its political, moral and artistic conventions. In search of his soul, he ventures alone to the other end of the world, Tahiti, consumed with a yearning for original purity and ready to sacrifice everything for his quest.

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LANDING LAKE

(UK) Euroobscura. 98mins.

Dir: Cesare P Libardi Di K. Cast: Victoire Vecchierini, Phil Zimmerman, Aaron Stielstra, Emma Bown.

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A team of satellite technicians enter the woods to repair a communication station but they are forced to rescue the crew of an airplane that crashed near a lake. They quickly realise that something may be coming from the lake that is affecting their minds and the passing of time. As they lose their inhibitions, their most primal desires take hold.

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LUCKY

(US) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. 88mins.

Dir: John Carroll Lynch.

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr, Tom Skerritt, Beth Grant, James Darren, Barry Shabaka Henley, Yvonne Huff Lee. Follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. Having outlived and outsmoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment.

Dir: Rachid Hami.

Cast: Kad Merad, Samir Guesmi.

Simon is a distinguished but disillusioned violinist. He has recently gone through a divorce and found a job teaching orchestra in a working-class neighbourhood in Paris. Arnold is a shy and chubby student who is fascinated with the violin and discovers that he has a real talent for it.

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REMINISCENCE

(Japan) Toho Co. 99mins.

Dir: Yasuo Furuhata. Cast: Junichi Okada, Shun Oguri, Tasuku Emoto, Sakura Ando, Masami Nagasawa.

A murder case brings three men together again, who share a secret incident from their childhood.

(US) Film Sales Company.

107. Dir: Barry Morrow.

Cast: Darren Criss, Madalina Diana Ghenea, Duccio Camerini.

A young New York fashion executive’s trip to Milan takes a bad turn when he is kidnapped and whisked off to an Alpine village to be held for ransom money. Little does he (or his three abductors) know that the small, rustic cottage they end up spending the night in is under a gypsy love spell.

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(UK) The Exchange.

97mins. Dir: Niall Johnson.

Cast: Alice Eve, Jack Davenport.

The story of a woman who must find her kidnapped son, navigating a world she doesn’t know, on the edge of danger with every heartbeat.

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ORCHESTRA CLASS

(South Africa) National Film & Video Foundation Of South Africa. 110mins.

Dir: Gersh Kgamedi.

Cast: Khabonina Qukeka, Gugu Zulu, Aubrey Poo, Mandisa Nduna.

A talented young rural woman travels to Joburg, City of Gold, to pursue her dream of being a ‘star’.

(Japan) Blast. 83mins.

Dir: Junya Okabe. Cast: Yuki Matsuzaki, Shunsuke Daito, Chihiro Yamamoto.

In the year 2050, mankind is extinct on Earth. The last survivors, five Kasuga brothers, plan to use a time machine and exterminate invader Kyrgyz before he invades Earth. They travel back in time to 2015 armed with the design data of Kyrgyz’s giant robot, Black Baron, and their three powers: a device for identifying aliens; psychic ability; and powered suits.

(France) Gaumont. 96mins.

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MAZE

Director: Stephen Burke (Happy Ever Afters) Cast: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Love/Hate), Barry Ward (Jimmy’s Hall), Martin McCann (The Survivalist) 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.

MARKET SCREENINGS: May 20 / 9:30 / Lerins 4 (Buyers Only) May 23 / 16:00 / Lerins 3 (Buyers Only)

*MARKET PREMIERE* - PRIVATE SCREENING

M.F.A.

Director: Natalia Leite (Bare) Cast: Francesca Eastwood (Outlaws and Angels), Clifton Collins Jr. (Pacific Rim, Star Trek), Leah McKendrick (Bad Moms), Peter Vack (Mozart in the Jungle) After being sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate, an art student takes justice into her own hands.

“Intensely engaging, thought-provoking, and mesmerizing.” – Bloody Disgusting

MARKET SCREENINGS: May 19 / 15:30 / Lerins 2 May 22 / 12:00 / Lerins 3

“Perhaps the bravest, rawest rape-revenge thriller yet.” – No Film School

FLESH AND BLOOD

Director: Mark Webber (The Ever After, The End of Love) Cast: Mark Webber (Green Room), Madeline Brewer (A Handmaid’s Tale) Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber captures the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia.

“Quietly searing (...) Webber harnesses the natural dynamics of offscreen bonds, however strong or frayed they may be.” – The Hollywood Reporter

MARKET SCREENINGS: May 19 / 14:00 / Lerins 3 May 23 / 14:00 / Lerins 3

“Beautiful to behold. Gritty, revealing, realistic.” – The Iris

COLD NOVEMBER

Director: Karl Jacob (Pollywogs) Cast: Bijou Abas, Karl Jacob (Pollywogs, Applesauce), Anna Klemp, Heidi Fellner On the cusp of womanhood, 12-year-old Florence goes on her first deer hunt, a traditional rite-of-passage in her matriarchal family.

MARKET SCREENING: May 19 / 18:00 / Riviera 1

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COLUMBUS

Director: Kogonada Cast: John Cho (Star Trek, Harold & Kumar), Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen), Parker Posey (Café Society, Mascots), Rory Culkin (Scream 4) A younger girl reluctant to leave home forms a close bond with a son visiting his dying father.

“Imbued with warmth and humanity (…) simply gorgeous.” – Variety

MARKET SCREENING: May 18 / 16:00 / Lerins 3

FAMILY LIFE

“A remarkable first film from new and exciting director Kogonada.” – Vanity Fair Directors: Alicia Scherson (Il Futuro, Tourists), Cristián Jiménez (Bonsai, Voice Over)

DAYVEON

Director: Amman Abbasi Exec. Producers: David Gordon Green, James Schamus, Jody Hill, Danny McBride

A lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

Mourning the death of his older brother, 13-year-old Dayveon becomes drawn to the camaraderie of a local gang.

“A sharply observed and poignant parable.”

- The Hollywood Reporter

“A gorgeous mix of emotional sincerity and pure cinema.” – RogerEbert.com

MARKET SCREENING: May 18 / 14:00 / Lerins 3

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Cast: Alfred Willer.

Marina Willer retraces her father’s family journey as one of only 12 Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during the Second World War.

ESCAPE ROOM

(US) Global Genesis Group. 87. Dir: Peter Dukes. Cast: Skeet Ulrich.

To celebrate his 30th birthday, Tyler’s girlfriend, Kristen, takes him and two other couples to play the latest craze — Escape Room. In an escape room, you are locked in a room and given one hour to figure out cryptic clues in order to escape. Harmless fun... until now! The group is led into a locked room and the clock starts ticking. They quickly sense something is wrong, the puzzles become increasingly difficult and increasingly deadly. One by one the escape room claims a new victim and the surviving players realise they are no longer playing a game; they are playing for their lives.

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(Canada) Jinga Films.

101mins. Dir: Norbert Keil. Cast: Rebecca Forsythe, Lucie Aron, Barbara Crampton, Sean Knopp, Adnan Maral.

Kira’s skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else’s.

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THE JUNGLE BUNCH — THE 3D MOVIE

(France) SND — Groupe M6. 95mins. Dir: David Alaux.

Meet the Jungle Bunch, led by the tiger-striped kung fu penguin Maurice. Having just defeated the latest menace to the jungle — evil baboons — they face Igor, the koala. Years ago Igor’s evil plan to blow up the jungle came to a halt when he faced the Champs — the original heroes of the jungle, led by Natasha the tiger, Maurice’s adoptive mother. Now Igor wants revenge.

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PLANETA INFORM PROMO REEL

(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution.

60mins.

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RENDEL

(Finland) Raven Banner Entertainment. 105mins.

Dir: Jesse Haaja. Cast: Bianca Bradey, Kristofer Gummerus, Sheila Shah.

One devastating hit after another: a dark avenger destroys both criminals and the equipment needed to run a criminal empire.

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SALTY

(UK) Carnaby International Sales And Distribution. 100mins.

(Austria) The Match Factory. 100mins. Dir: Josef Hader. Cast: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Jorg Hartmann, Georg Friedrich.

Dir: Simon West.

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Olga Kurylenko.

An ageing rock star is forced to navigate deadly jungles and ruthless bandits to save his wife.

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SLUMBER

(UK) Goldcrest Films International. 86mins.

Dir: Jonathan Hopkins.

Cast: Maggie Q, Will Kemp, Sylvester McCoy, William Hope.

Tells the story of Alice, a rationally minded sleep doctor who is forced to abandon scientific reason and accept a family is being terrorised by a parasitic demon that has existed in every human culture since records began.

Paralysing victims as they sleep, the ‘Night Hag’ is the original nightmare.

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14:15 FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment. 93mins.

Dir: Carlos Theron. Cast: Jose Coronado, Javier Camara, Roberto Alamo, Pilar Castro, Carmen Ruiz.

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ROUND OZ RIDE

Famous music critic Georg’s tame, bourgeois life gets completely out of hand when he secretly begins a revenge campaign against the editor who fired him.

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A father’s worst nightmare is the day he meets his daughter’s boyfriend… who, of course, turns out to be a lowdown dirty dog who only wants one thing from his beloved little girl. And that day has finally come for Arturo, Poli and Chus. Their sweet daughters have decided to throw away their futures on three loathsome guys.

The only way to get rid of them is to join forces and do whatever it takes, come hell or high water. This is war!.

the highest level of the organisation.

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DUCK DUCK GOOSE

(China) GFM Films.

110mins. Dir: Christopher Jenkins. Cast: Jim Gaffigan, Lance Lim, Stephen Fry. Peng, a freewheeling young bachelor goose, reluctantly finds himself having to take two ducklings under his wing.

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GAUMONT PROMO REELS

(France) Gaumont.

25mins. Dir: Various.

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GHOST HOUSE

EMERGING TRENDS IN 360° DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING

(US) The Exchange.

99mins. Dir: Rich Ragsdale.

Two visitors get lost in the Thai countryside and become the prey of an angry ghost. Desperate for a solution, they spiral deeper into a surreal, supernatural world leading to a terrifying confrontation.

(US) Next. 60mins.

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Next VR Cinema

15:30 BACKSTABBING FOR BEGINNERS

(Denmark) Fortitude International. 107mins.

Dir: Per Fly. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Theo James.

A young UN programme coordinator risks his life and the woman he loves to expose a conspiracy at

THE LADY IN THE PORTRAIT

(France) All Rights Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Charles De Meaux.

Cast: Fan Bing Bing, Yue Wu. Riviera 2

RED TREES

(UK) Cohen Media Group. 80mins.

Dir: Marina Willer.

(Australia) Imagine If. 15mins. Dir: Peter ‘Kog’ Godfrey.

An epic 18,000km motorcycle journey of awakening for a father and his son, circumnavigating Australia in 40 days.

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SAFE

(Netherlands) Princ Films. 77mins. Dir: Paul Ruven. Cast: Fiona Dourif, Jason London.

The National Security Agency Deputy Director’s baby daughter is kidnapped and locked in a cage with a huge dog that will kill her on a simple command from the kidnapper. In a race against the clock, the NSA Deputy Director has to come up with a genius plan to save his child and at the same time not betray the privacy of US citizens and secrets of the agency he works for.

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SCHOOL LIFE

(Ireland) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. 100mins.

Dir: Neasa Ni Chianain, David Rane.

Long careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: “Reading.

‘Rithmetic. Rock ‘n’ roll!”

But leaving is the hardest lesson.

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SOLA MEDIA PROMO REEL

(Germany) Sola Media.

90mins.

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STRANGE WEATHER

(US) Great Point Media.

91mins. Dir: Katharine Deickmann. Cast: Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon, Kim Coates, Glenne Headly.

A mother clinging to her grief needs answers about her son’s suicide. A strong, independent woman failing to process her enormous loss starts her journey towards acceptance.

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SWEET VIRGINIA

(US) XYZ Films. 100mins.

Dir: Jamie M. Dagg. Cast: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots.

A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.

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TWO TAILS AND PRINCESS IN WONDERLAND SELECTED SCENES

(Russia) Recreation.

40mins. Dir: Marina Nefedova.

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15:45 SALYUT 7

(Russia) Indie Sales.

121mins. Dir: Klim Shipenko. Cast: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Alexandr Samoylenko, Maria Mironova, Oksana Fandera, Lubov Novikova.

Based on actual events.

1985: the Soviet space station Salyut 7, which is in low Earth orbit, suddenly stops responding to commands from the control centre. To investigate the failure, people must be sent to the station. Yet no one in history has ever attempted to dock an uncontrolled vehicle in space.

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16:00 THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS

(US) Altitude Film Sales.

90mins. Dir: Sophie Brooks. Cast: Zosia Mamet, Matthew Shear, Deidre O’Connell, Sarah Ramos, Diana Irvine.

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to New York City and inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend’s apartment building, forcing her to reflect on the nature of her first love.

GROTTO

(Italy) Adler And Associates Entertainment.

93mins. Dir: Micol Pallucca. Cast: Samuele Biscossi, Iris Caporuscio, Gabriele Fiore, Christian Roberto, Leonardo Similaro.

Five children, lost in a cavern, meet a mythical creature named Grotto.

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DAYVEON

(US) Visit Films. 75mins.

Dir: Amman Abbasi.

Cast: Devin Blackmon, Dontrell Bright, Chasity Moore, Lachion Buckingham.

Mourning the death of his older brother, 13-year-old Dayveon becomes drawn to the camaraderie of a local gang while spending his days roaming around his rural Arkansas town.

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DUTCH VR

(Netherlands) Next.

60mins. Dutch VR presented by The Netherlands Film Fund.

The Netherlands Film Fund presents, in association with Submarine Channel, a selection of four of the best Dutch recent VR films.

Next VR Cinema

(Colombia) M-Appeal World Sales. 80mins.

Dir: Natalia Santa.

Cast: Gonzalo De Sagarminaga, Manuel Navarro, Hernan Mendez.

This is the story of three old friends in downtown Bogota. A chess player and small-time gambler, a watch maker who

refuses to close down his shop, and a Spanish homeopath obsessed with poker. Finding comfort in the confines of their routines, they avoid facing failure at all costs. When this comfort is put at risk however, each man will have to figure out that in life, as in love, it’s never too late to take a chance.

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EASTERN BUSINESS

(Romania) CNC Centrul National Al Cinematografiei. 87. Dir: Igor Cobileanski. Cast: Ion Sapdaru, Constantin Puscasu, Daniel Busuioc.

Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense, trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.

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THE LAST BOY

PARIS CAN WAIT

(UK) Kirlian Pictures.

109mins. Dir: Perry Bhandal. Cast: Flynn Allen, Matilda Freeman, Luke Goss, Peter Guinness, Jennifer Scott, Anna Wilson-Jones, Aneta Piotrowska.

The world at an end, a young boy’s dying mother sends him on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.

(US) Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. 92mins.

Dir: Eleanor Coppola.

Cast: Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage.

A Hollywood producer’s wife reluctantly embarks on a trip through France that reawakens her senses and lust for life.

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(US) Embankment Films.

100mins. Dir: Ben Lewin.

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Toni Collette.

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a writing competition.

HOLY AIR

(Israel) New Europe Film Sales. 81mins. Dir: Shady Srour. Cast: Shady Srour, Laetitia Eido, Shmulik Calderon, Tareq Copti.

Adam and Lamia are a Christian Arab couple from Nazareth — members of a vanishing minority in the Holy Land. When Lamia gets pregnant, Adam decides it’s time to make it big and provide for his family by entering the biggest local business — religion. He begins to sell…

Holy Air.

ME AND EL CHE

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(France) Wide.

90mins. Dir: Patrice Gautier. Cast: Patrick Chesnais, Michel Aumont, Fanny Cottencon, Philippe Caroit, Florence Thomassin.

Go is not just an ageing college teacher. He still is the young 18-yearold idealist who dared to engage in social and political action to defend his principle — one of the last of Che’s companions.

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is the cause of reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station.

In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

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SUPERLOVERS

(France) Jour2fete.

90mins. Dir: Guilhem Amesland. Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Philippe Rebbot, Hafsia Herzi, Suzanne Clement.

Michel and his brother Franck are associates in a small construction company. It is love at first sight when Michel meets Michele, a realestate agent who entrusts them with a big project.

But in order to seduce her, Michel has to deal with Franck, whose scheming soon begins to threaten his romantic designs.

Next VR Cinema

17:30 AMBITION

(US) Film Sales Company.

87mins. Dir: Robert Shaye. Cast: Sonoya Mizuno, Katherine Hughes, Kyanna Simone.

A young aspiring musician preparing for a competition is incredibly confidant and gets herself involved in a frightening trap that she has to find her way out of. It raises the question: if an insane person is telling a story, is it real?

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MEATBALL MACHINE KODOKU

BLOOD MONEY

(Japan) WTFilms.

100mins. Dir: Yoshihiko Nishimura.

Alien parasites from outer space take control of humans and transform them into killing machines.

(France) Conquistador Entertainment. 87mins.

Dir: Jean Michel Cousteau. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Life under the water like you have never seen before.

(US) Radiant Films International. 90mins.

Dir: Lucky Mckee.

Cast: John Cusack, Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald, Jacob Artist.

Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white-collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other.

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and filmmaking to virtual reality in these bracing new works of fiction.

WONDERS OF THE SEA 3D

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FRENCH VIRTUALITIES

(US) Spotlight Pictures.

91mins. Dir: Jenna Mattison. Cast: Rose McGowan, Michael Eklund.

A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low-frequency tactile sound

(France) Next.

60mins.

Tracing new lines between genres and art forms, Jerome Blanquet and Laurent Bazin bring their unique perspectives on storytelling

(US) A24 Films. 95mins.

Dir: Trey Edward Shults.

Cast: Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott, Kelvin Harrison Jr. Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorises the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to the test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

LOGAN LUCKY

(US) Filmnation Entertainment. 115mins.

Dir: Steven Soderbergh.

Cast: Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Adam Driver.

Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.

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PERMANENT

Dogwoof.

90mins.

(US) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing.

87mins. Dir: Colette Burson. Cast: Patricia Arquette, Rainn Wilson, Kira Mcclean.

This comedy, set in 1983 in small-town Virginia, centres around a 13-yearold and her family. The story of a hairstyle gone incredibly wrong and a young girl’s plight to fit in while encountering bullies at a new school.

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(South Korea) Contents Panda. 120mins.

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re-election campaign. But one obstacle after another is thrown their way while the opposing candidate is in the lead. And soon, the dirty realities of politics soil everyone’s hands.

SEXTASY

(Taiwan) Creative Century Entertainment Co. 104mins. Dir: Wei Yen Yu. When you are lonely, do not awake the demon inside us… A beautiful young girl intrudes into the life of a married couple, and while seducing each of them, she brings pleasures they have never experienced before.

To her, it is all a game and she doesn’t realise the grave consequences it entails.

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SPOOR

(Poland) Beta Cinema.

128mins. Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Cast: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny.

When a number of murdered hunters are found, eccentric animal activist Janina has her own explanation: the murders were committed by the animals themselves — finally taking their revenge.

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THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES

(US) Fortitude International. 104mins.

Dir: Emmett Malloy, Brendan Malloy.

Cast: Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe.

When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.

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WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN See box, right

WINNIE

(France) Cinephil.

84mins. Dir: Pascale Lamche.

Winnie Madikizela Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and intriguingly powerful contemporary female political figures. For the first time, ‘Winnie’ pieces together and properly considers her life and contribution to the struggle to bring down apartheid from the inside. With intimate insight from Winnie herself, and with testimony from the enemies who sought to suppress her radical capacities, this film is about the real Winnie.

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17:50 BLOOD MONEY

(US) Radiant Films International. 90mins.

Dir: Lucky McKee. Cast: John Cusack, Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald.

Sharp, quick-witted businessman Miller left everything behind, including his family, to start a new life after embezzling a client’s money. All had been going according to plan until he

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MARKET 17:30 WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN

(Taiwan) Mandarinvision. 117.

Dir: Wei-Hao Cheng.

Cast: Kai-Hsun Chuang, Wei-Ning Hsu, Chia-Yen Ko, Christopher Lee, Mason Lee. Chi is an ambitious reporter with a bright future ahead of him.

After he discovers that his second-hand car has ties to a hit-and-run accident that occurred nine years ago, he begins

becomes separated from his cash in the middle of the wilderness. Three young friends happen upon the lost fortune, and a desperate and violent Miller will do anything to get his money back.

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(Russia) Central Partnership Sales House. 132mins. Dir: Valery Todorovsky. Cast: Margarita Simonova, Alisa Freindlich, Valentina Telishkina, Alexander Domogarov.

The story of a young, provincial girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

Through a difficult and challenging journey, she achieves her goal. With talent, mastery, patience and determination, she

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his search for the truth behind this long-forgotten case. Although his boss is reluctant to help out, Chi enlists the aid of a rookie police officer, as well as his colleague, to crack the case. When Chi discovers the sole survivor of the accident has suddenly disappeared, he must beat the clock to get her back. It soon becomes clear there is a dark truth behind this case that Chi never imagined possible.

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achieves the pinnacle of success in ballet, becoming a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Theatre.

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COUP D’ETAT

(US) Fortitude International. 90mins.

Dir: Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse. Cast: Michael Caine, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes.

A teenage girl and a dictator become unlikely yet innocent pen pals, but when the dictator is forced out of his country, he suddenly shows up at her house to seek refuge with his only remaining friend.

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ELON DOESN’T BELIEVE IN DEATH

(Brazil) Wide. 75mins.

Dir: Ricardo Alves Jr. Cast: Lourenco Mutarelli,

Silvana Stein, Germano Melo, Romulo Braga, Clara Choveaux.

After the mysterious disappearance of his wife Madalena, Elon embarks on a restless journey through the darkest sides of town in the search for an answer.

The journey becomes a nightmare and Elon tries not to lose his sanity.

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FINDING SORAYA

(UK) Ambi Distribution.

113mins. Dir: Najia Khaan. Cast: Naija Khaan.

Her Majesty Queen Soraya Tarzi is considered to be the most eminent and revolutionary woman in Afghan history. She was more than a queen; she was a leader, the minister of education, a feminist, an intellectual, a mother, a wife and worked tirelessly to educate and liberate the women of Afghanistan.

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GOD OF WAR

(Hong Kong) Media Asia Film. 128mins.

Dir: Gordon Chan.

Cast: Sammo Hung, Vincent Zhao.

Period war action extravaganza about how Chinese general Qi Jiguang defeated Japanese pirates that proliferated along the Chinese coastline during the 16th century with unique stratagems and maverick tactics.

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INTERLUDE IN PRAGUE

STAND-UP, GIRL!

(UK) Carnaby International Sales And Distribution. 103mins.

Dir: John Stephenson.

Cast: Aneurin Barnard, James Purefoy, Samantha Barks, Morfydd Clark, Charlotte Peters, Adrian Edmondson.

Prague, 1787: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spends a few turbulent months escaping the frustrating, privileged elite of Vienna. However, his unconventional presence soon unleashes a series of dramatic and tragic events. Overwhelmed by the tangled web of violence and intrigue that surrounds him, and with his mind affected, Mozart creates the astonishing music and drama that becomes ‘Don Giovanni’.

(France) Gaumont.

100mins. Dir: Nawell Madani, Ludovic Colbeau-Justin.

Cast: Nawell Madani, Francois Berleand.

Lila, a young Belgian girl from the suburbs, has only one thing on her mind: to become a comedian, although this is not exactly what her father had in mind for her. She leaves her home town determined to conquer Paris and make a name for herself in showbiz.

Facing struggles and disillusions, Lila will give it all to show her talent.

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THE MAYOR

(South Korea) Showbox.

130mins. Dir: Park In-Je. Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Kwak Do-Won, Shim EunKyung.

The Mayor of Seoul announces his plans to run for a third term while hinting of his ultimate goal to run for the presidency. A heavily resourced campaign team is formed, headed by the campaign manager Shim, who is known as a crafty politician, while Park, a young prodigy from advertising, is recruited for fresh perspectives in the

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TALES OF MEXICO

(Mexico) Outsider Pictures.

120mins. Dir: Carlos Carrera, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Ernesto Contreras, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Natalia Beristain, Ivan Avila Duenas, Alejandro Valle.

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WISH (WORK IN PROGRESS)

(US) SC Films International. 100mins.

Dir: Cory Edwards.

Tells the story of Doran, a whip-smart Wish-Agent who embarks on a funfilled and action-packed adventure to defeat an evil villain, restore the world’s faith and belief, and make one little girl’s special dream come true.

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WONDERSTRUCK (US) Todd Haynes

Wonderstruck generations as a boy in 1977 pines father he never knew, half a century ★★ ★★jumps★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ for the ★★ ★★ ★★while★★ ★★ earlier a girl dreams★★ of a mysterious and Michelle ★★ ★★ actress. ★★ Julianne ★★Moore★★ ★★Williams ★★star. ★★ ★★ ★★

LOVELESS (Fr-Rus) Andrey Zvyagintsev

Inspired Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes film the disappearance of a 12-year★★ by★★ ★★ ★★ From ★★A Marriage ★★, Zvyagintsev’s ★★ ★★is about ★★ ★★ ★★ old boy who★★ is caught★★ in the midst ★★ ★★of his parents’ ★★ bitter ★★divorce. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

OKJA (S Kor-US) Bong Joon Ho

Ahn Seo-hyun a young★★ girl who sets save her best a massive animal named from a ★★ ★★stars as★★ ★★out to★★ ★★friend,★★ ★★ ★★ Okja, ★★ powerful company.

Tilda Swinton, Gyllenhaal Dano co-star. ★★ multinational ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ Jake ★★ ★★and Paul ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

JUPITER’S MOON (Hun-Ger) Kornel Mundruczo

A★★ 17-year-old boy illegally the border is shot by★★ a police ★★ officer and, as result★★ of his injuries, ★★ ★★crosses ★★ ★★into Hungary. ★★ He★★ ★★ develops ability to★★ levitate. Merab ★★ the ★★ ★★ Ninidze ★★ and Zsombor ★★ Jeger ★★ star. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (Fr) Robin Campillo

Based own experiences an Aids★★ activist, Campillo’s film centres on direct-action ★★ on his ★★ ★★ as ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ group ★★ Act Up, ★★which targeted potential★★ cures. Adele and Nahuel Biscayart★★ star. ★★ pharmaceutical ★★ ★★labs withholding ★★ ★★ ★★Haenel★★ ★★Pérez ★★

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museum ★★ director (Claes is about★★ to unveil ★★ a show featuring artist (Dominic whose ★★ latest THE SQUARE (Swe-Ger-Fr-Den) A★★ ★★ Bang) ★★ ★★ an★★ ★★ West) ★★ installation makes the★★ news thanks shock tactics company.

Ruben Ostlund ★★ ★★ ★★to the★★ ★★ of a PR ★★ ★★Elisabeth ★★Moss co-stars. ★★ ★★

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THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (US) Noah Baumbach

Baumbach makes his★★ Cannes debut film starring Sandler★★ alongside Ben Stiller, Hoffman and ★★ ★★ ★★ in this ★★ ★★ Adam ★★ ★★ ★★Dustin★★ Emma story follows siblings ★★ dealing with their ageing ★★ Thompson. ★★ The ★★ ★★ adult★★ ★★ ★★ father. ★★ ★★ ★★

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Hazanavicius offers up his take★★ on the romance Wave director ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ between ★★ New★★ ★★ Jean-Luc ★★ Godard ★★and actress ★★ Anne Wiazemsky, who he would in 1967 ★★ after directing La Chinoise . Louis ★★ Garrel and★★ Stacy Martin ★★ ★★ ★★ marry ★★ ★★ her in★★ ★★ ★★ star.

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Colin stars opposite Kidman★★ in a dark★★ tale inspired surgeon finds THE KILLING OF A SACRED ★★Farrell★★ ★★ Nicole ★★ ★★by a Euripides ★★ tragedy. ★★ A charismatic ★★ ★★ life starting apart after★★ meeting★★ a troubled★★ teenage★★ boy.

DEER (UK-US) Yorgos Lanthimos his ★★ ★★to fall ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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HAPPY END (Fr-Ger-Aust) Michael Haneke

An★★ exploration it means★★ to be oblivious suffering of others, Haneke★★ chronicles the lives★★ of a bourgeois ★★of what★★ ★★ to the ★★ ★★ ★★ family the backdrop refugee★★ crisis. Isabelle Trintignant star. ★★ in Calais, ★★against ★★ ★★ of the ★★ ★★ Huppert and Jean-Louis ★★ ★★ ★★

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. ★★ ★★ ★★

L’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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