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Elle Driver plots to make crime pay

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Elle Driver is launching sales on Roberto Saviano’s big-screen adaptation of his bestselling Italian novel La Paranza Dei Bambini, about the ferocious world of budding teenage crime bosses in Naples.

Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra at Rome-based Palomar are producing. Wild Bunch and Elle Driver are on board as French coproducers. Wild Bunch Distribution has taken French rights.

Saviano is working with long-

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time collaborator Maurizio Braucci on the screenplay. Claudio Giovannesi, who was in Directors’ Fortnight last year with Fiore, is attached to direct. The shoot will take place in late 2017.

“Everything happens in Naples, but our focus goes beyond Naples,” Saviano said. “Naples is a starting point to tell a story unfolding in peripheral city neighbourhoods all over the world, from Paris to Buenos Aires, New York to Mumbai, where a generation wipes out lives in a sec-

ond with a gunshot.” Published in Italy in 2016, La Paranza Dei Bambini is Saviano’s first purely fictional work but remains anchored in the heartlands of Naples’ Camorra crime gangs featured in his 2006 Gomorrah, which was made into a hit feature and TV series.

It charts the controversial rise of a gang of Neapolitan youngsters — known as the Paranza — who were originally recruited to act as hitmen by the Camorra but then started muscling into their territory.

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Christoffer Boe, who won Cannes’ Camera d’Or in 2003 with Reconstruction, will direct Zentropa’s fourth and final instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q thriller series.

The Purity Of Vengeance starts shooting in December and will star Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares, again playing mismatched detectives. Nordisk will release theatri-

Global Screen paints deals on Schnabel doc

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GIRL TALK Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman share a moment before yesterday’s premiere of John Cameron Mitchell’s out of competition punk-alien romance How To Talk To Girls At Parties

Buena Vista goes football crazy Buena Vista International has picked up Latin American rights to comedy superstar Adrian Suar’s My Love Or My Passion (El Futbol O Yo) and plans the distributor’s widest release of the year in August.

FilmSharks brokered the deal on the Patagonik comedy, which

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Boe takes the helm of Department Q swansong

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Beijing-based online ticketing giant Weying has acquired Chinese rights to nine Wild Bunch films including Palme d’Or contenders Loveless, Redoubtable, Rodin, You Were Never Really Here and A Gentle Creature, in a deal brokered by CAA. “One of our missions is to bridge content with its target audiences and let Chinese filmgoers truly enjoy high-quality films through our sophisticated and integrated platform,” Weying senior vice president Dan Yang said.

“Wild Bunch is an elite company that continually provides worldclass masterpieces. We feel honoured to have this opportunity to work with them.”

The other titles in the agreement include festival opener Ismael’s Ghosts, Un Certain Regard selection Tesnota, Special Screening 12 Jours and Racer And The Jailbird, which is in post-production.

Since its creation in 2014, Weying has been dedicated to growing the Chinese film market by sourcing and promoting diversified local and overseas content.

In 2016, it co-founded the Nationwide Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas led by SARFT’s China Film Archive, which covers 100 cinemas in 31 Chinese provinces.

Going by the innocent-sounding nicknames Pesce Moscio (Soft), Dentino (Little Tooth), Lollipop and Drone, these power-hungry adolescents are as trigger-happy with a real AK-47 as they are on their PlayStations.

“I am convinced that by having a young, talented director like Claudio Giovannesi together with Roberto Saviano, we are opening a completely new chapter in adaptations for the big screen of Roberto’s novels,” Degli Esposti said.

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centres on a football-mad husband and father who tries to control his obsession and win back his family.

Julieta Diaz co-stars.

Marcos Carnevale directed the feature, currently in post, and wrote the screenplay with Suar.

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Global Screen is doing a roaring trade on Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait, the documentary about the larger-than-life New York artist and filmmaker.

Midway through the market, deals have closed with Weltkino for Germany and Pretty Pictures for France. Cohen Media Group previously secured North American rights.

Pappi Corsicato (Libera, The Seed Of Discord) directed the film, which premiered in Tribeca and offers an in-depth portrait of the director of Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.

Al Pacino and Laurie Anderson are among the contributors.

cally in autumn 2018 and TrustNordisk handles sales.

The project is backed by Swedish regional fund Film i Vast, whose 2018-19 pipeline includes Marius Holst’s Betrayed from the producers of The Wave. The film will tell the story of Norwegian Jews during the Nazi occupation of Oslo.

Film i Vast also backs Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, which goes into editing on May 29.

Lazio targets co-productions Roma Lazio Film Commission head Luciano Sovena and governor of Lazio region Nicola Zingaretti have accepted 18 co-production submissions under the 2016 Lazio Cinema International Call.

Grants of $11.2m (€10m) are divided in two calls and the first round of winners will be announced at the end of June.

Submissions for the second round will be accepted from May 30 to July 31.

Zingaretti was encouraged the submissions count was two more than in 2015 as the region looks to establish itself after missing out on the economic benefits enjoyed by neighbouring Tuscany when it hosted 2009’s Twilight: New Moon.

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Foresight rings bell for Class Rank Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited has acquired international rights to actorturned-director Eric Stoltz’s Class Rank, starring Bruce Dern, Kristin Chenoweth and rising talents Skyler Gisondo and Olivia Holt.

SSS Entertainment’s Shaun Sanghani and Sandy Stern produce and Paradigm represents US rights. Written by Benjamin August, Class Rank follows two high school outsiders who join forces in an attempt to take over the local school board.

Foresight Unlimited is in production on Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure starring Sebastian Stan, Ed Harris, William Hurt and Samuel L Jackson. The slate also includes: Rob Cohen’s Category 5 starring Toby Kebbell and Maggie Grace; Michael Mailer’s Blind with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin; and Peter Segal’s $130m sci-fi epic Inversion.

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NYAFF makes Genius choice for opening film

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Thai high-school thriller Bad Genius will open this year’s New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, June 30-July 15), marking the first time that a Southeast Asian film has opened the festival.

Directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya, the film stars newcomer Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying as a straight-A student who starts making money by helping her classmates cheat on their exams.

When she is caught and loses her scholarship, she plots to undermine the US university entrance system.

“We’re really stepping off the beaten path of the ‘big three’ of Asian cinema: Japanese, Korean and Chinese-language cinema,” NYAFF executive director Samuel Jamier said. “This reflects our high regard for the originality of contemporary Southeast Asian cinema, following last year’s awards for the Philippines’ John Lloyd Cruz and Teri Malvar.”

The director and cast will both attend the film’s international premiere at NYAFF. Poonpiriya’s first feature, thriller Countdown, screened at the festival in 2013.

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Genius has grossed more than $2.9m (BAHT100m) in Thailand since its May 3 release, making it the highest grossing local film for 2017. GDH sold it to Cambodia (Westec Media), Singapore (Golden Village), Indonesia (PT Inter Solusindo), Malaysia (Suraya Filem) and Vietnam (Galaxy).

“Bad Genius is a transformational film for Thai cinema, proving that one doesn’t have to make movies in the comedy and horror genres to have a blockbuster success,” GDH associate director of international business Ruedee Pholthaweechai said.

Indie Sales picks up Arrhythmia

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Indie Sales has acquired Russian director Boris Khlebnikov’s relationship drama Arrhythmia in a mid-market addition to its Cannes sales slate.

The film is Khlebnikov’s sixth feature after the High Nooninspired A Long And Happy Life, which premiered in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013. Arrhythmia revolves around a couple whose busy lives at an A&E department threaten to tear them apart.

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The sales acquisition marks a second collaboration between Paris-based Indie Sales and the Moscow-based CTB Film Company, which is one of the main producers on the film.

“We are delighted to team-up with CTB Film Company again after the space-exploration picture Salyut 7, which we are currently showing at the market,” Indie Sales CEO and co-founder Nicolas Eschbach said.

“The film builds an accurate

image of a strong couple and offers an immersion into contemporary Russia and its healthcare system,” he added.

Other producer credits alongside the CTB Film Company include compatriot outfit Mars Media Entertainment, Germany’s Color of May, and Finnish partners Don Films and Post Control.

Arrhythmia is in post-production and will be released by Provzglyad in Russia on September 28 on more than 150 prints.

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CANNES BRIEFS Film Export elects board Sales company trade body Film Export UK has elected a new fiveperson board including two UK sales company heads originally from mainland Europe. They are: Natalie Brenner (Metro International), Caroline CouretDelegue (Truffle Pictures), Simon Crowe (SC Films International), Nicole Mackey (HanWay Films) and Fabien Westerhoff (Film Constellation).

Zeno stays Discreet M-Appeal has closed a deal on Travis Mathews’ Discreet with Zeno Pictures for the Benelux.

Mathews is this year’s president of the Queer Palm jury in Cannes.

Discreet centres on an eccentric drifter who plots revenge on his childhood abuser.

Amerika comes to Corinth Corinth Films has acquired North American rights in Cannes to Yannis Sakaridis’s Greece-UKGermany immigration drama Amerika Square, following a deal with Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting. Deals have already closed with CADA in Spain, and Fabular Films in Turkey, while HBO Europe holds TV rights for Eastern Europe. Feelgood Entertainment distributed Amerika Square in Greece in March. Makis Papadimitriou stars. » Full stories on ScreenDaily.com

Odin’s Eye locks in Cage

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Arrow Films has acquired UK rights to Cannes Midnight Screenings title The Villainess from Korea’s Contents Panda.

Directed by Jung Byung-gil (Confession Of Murder), the film follows a mysterious woman who has been raised as a killer and is recruited to be a secret agent. The cast is headed by Kim Ok-bin and Shin Ha-kyun, who both starred in Park Chan-wook’s 2009 Cannes title Thirst, along with Bang Sung-jun.

Arrow Films acquisitions director Tom Stewart said: “We’re so thrilled to be beginning a strong relationship with all the team from

Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye has closed a number of key deals on shark thriller Cage Dive, which will be rebranded Open Water: Cage Dive for some key markets.

Deals closed in the UK (Lionsgate), Germany and Benelux (Splendid), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), India (Krisco), Philippines (Crystal Sky), Turkey (Siyahbeyaz Movies), Switzerland (Praesens) and China (Bravos Pictures).

Previously announced sales include North America (Grindstone/Lionsgate), Italy (Eagle Pictures), South Korea (Scene & Sound) and Latin American payTV, Mexico and Colombia (Gussi).

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Contents Panda and to be bringing this exceptional action rollercoaster to the UK/Eire audiences.”

Contents Panda international business team leader Danny Lee said: “We’re excited to work with Arrow Films. We hope The Villainess will be loved by as many people as Train To Busan was last year.”

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READY FOR THE FLOOD Game Of Thrones duo Lena Headey and Iain Glen star alongside Humans star Ivanno Jeremiah in UK immigration drama The Flood. Headey, who also serves as executive producer, plays an immigration officer assigned the case of a seemingly dangerous asylum seeker (Jeremiah). Jack Gordon also stars. The Flood is in post and shot in the UK and France. Anthony Woodley directs from a screenplay by Helen Kingston.

Luke Healy produces and Julie-Anne Uggla is an executive producer. The team is in Cannes taking meetings with sales agents.

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BB88 brings Grammer in Bharal

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Fledgling UK production outfit BB88 is in Cannes to talk up a slate of films including revenge drama Bharal, which is due to star Kelsey Grammer and parkour pioneer Sébastien Foucan.

The feature, by Jake L Reid (The Antwerp Dolls), is due to start filing in early 2018 and charts the story of an African refugee who arrives in London to search for his missing sister. When he uncovers an immigrant sex trade, he becomes both a media sensation and a target for a crime syndicate.

Bharal is being lined up as a coproduction between BB88, Reid’s Liberal Region Productions and Compos Mentis productions.

Also new to the slate is Gate Crash, which will be directed by Lawrence Gough (Doctor Who).

The cast includes Marc Warren (Snatch) and Anton Lesser from Game Of Thrones.

Projects already on the slate include the company’s first feature out of the gate: Giantland, now in post-production and starring Hayley Squires.

BB88 will co-produce with Scott Mann and Another Bad Headache the revenge story Vigilante; and Break, which director Michael Elkin (The Wee Man) is due to shoot next month, starring Bernard Hill and snooker icon Jimmy White.

Finally, thriller Kruger marks the directorial debut of actor-producer Craig Conway.

BB88 is run by Goldfinch Entertainment founder and MD Kirsty Bell and Conway, and is focused on developing and producing independent films for the Chinese, UK and international markets. According to the founders, the company is one of the first to receive investment from the China-UK Film Fund.

Alumni Films, the new finance, production and development company based in Los Angeles, will fully finance and produce its first project, a revenge thriller written by Alex Litvak (Predators, The Three Musketeers).

Alumni Films president Alexander Izotov and development executive Natasha Dubrovskaya unveiled the $30m title in Cannes.

It will be set in Russia, Hong Kong and New York.

Alumni plans a $5m development fund and a complementary financing and production fund.

Dubrovskaya will head the development fund, which includes an untitled documentary about three Russian hackers. The idea is to develop the documentary and a separate dramatic feature based on the same story.

There are 50 investors behind the fund hailing from the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, the biggest business school

in eastern Europe. Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev is chairman of the Skolkovo international advisory board.

“We are educating [the investors] in how the film business works,” Dubrovskaya said, adding that the goal was to bolster the Russian film business.

“They [the investors] will feel that Russians are not just being portrayed as clichéd villains in James Bond films — we want to create complex, human stories.”

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Propellor spins FilmTech Hub Propellor FilmTech Hub, launched this year by Berlin’s European Film Market, International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX and Cinemathon, has received backing from Creative Europe’s MEDIA programme for 2018. The initiative is attempting to develop business models for the film industry in the digital age. A presentation yesterday at the Cannes NEXT programme shared ideas garnered during the pilot phase of the programme at events in 2017.

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Lacote tells war stories with Zama King

(From left) Meiske Taurisia, George Zakk, Endah Sulistianti and Lalu Rois Amri

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Indonesia plots route for international shoots Indonesian and international film experts discussed the opportunities for more foreign shoots to come to the archipelago during a panel at the Indonesian pavilion in the Village International on Saturday.

Endah Sulistianti, deputy chairman of the Indonesian Agency

for Creative Economy, spoke about how the country’s government is developing the film sector and working on implementing a tax incentive by 2018.

Five cities have started their own film commissions to offer onestop shops for filmmakers — these are Siak, Bandung, Yogyakarta,

Lucky 13 for Hubert Bals Fund

BY TOM GRATER

Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), which is administered by International Film Festival Rotterdam, has backed 13 projects in its latest funding round.

The HBF Voices strand championing filmmakers who are relatively advanced in their careers has selected Babak Jalali (whose film is titled Hymns), Ricardo Silva (Sleepwalk) and Deepak

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Rauniyar (Raja). Each project will receive script and project development funding worth $11,200 (¤10,000).

The NFF+HBF co-production scheme — a joint initiative by Netherlands Film Fund and HBF — has backed two projects coproduced by Dutch producers.

Those are Muayad Alayan’s The Reports On Sarah And Saleem, which is co-produced by KeyFilm,

Bojonegoro and Banyuwangi.

The panel included Los Angelesbased producer George Zakk (The Chronicles Of Riddick); Lalu Rois Amri, head of locations promotion at Indonesia Film Council; and Jakarta-based producer Meiske Taurisia of Palari Films.

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and Leonardo Brzezicki’s Almost In Love, co-produced by Keplerfilm. Both films receive a production grant of $56,000 (¤50,000).

The HBF Bright Future fund will grant $11,200 (¤10,000) to eight filmmakers: Arun Karthick (Nasir), Sivaroj Kongsakul (Regretfully At Dawn), John Trengove (Estate), Omar Elzohairy (Feathers Of A Father), Luz Olivares Capelle (La Nina Del Rayo), Marcelo Caetano (Baby), Jazmin Lopez (My Dear Valentin) and Yang Zhengfan (The Stranger).

Ivorian director Philippe Lacote will shoot his second feature Zama King next year. The film follows Lacote’s well-received debut Run, set against the backdrop of Ivory Coast’s civil war, which premiered in Un Certain Regard in 2014.

Ivorian actor and Jim Jarmusch collaborator Isaach de Bankolé has signed up for a role in the film and Abdoul Bah, who played the central character in Run, will play 17-year-old protagonist Zama.

“We’re gearing up to shoot in Abidjan in June 2018,” Lacote told Screen.

Ernest Konan’s Abidjan-based Wassakara Productions and Delphine Jaquet’s Paris-based Banshee Film are co-producing.

Lacote was in Cannes for the announcement of a $336,000 (¤300,000) investment in the production by the Fonsic film fund of the Ivory Coast’s ministry of culture, which the producers hope will encourage the backing of other financiers.

Lacote described Zama King as a Scheherazade-style tale — in reference to the storyteller in One Thousand And One Nights — in which Zama finds himself locked up with a bunch of hardened criminals in an Abidjan jail. To survive, he keeps his companions entertained with an account of his life.

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Rise in female protagonists An increase in the number of female protagonists in US films was one of the topics discussed at a panel on gender equality in the NEXT programme on Saturday.

Lydia Dean Pilcher of the Producers Guild of America cited a report by academic Martha Lauzen earlier in the year that 29% of protagonists were female in the top 100-grossing US films in 2016. That represented a rise of seven percentage points against 2015.

Another report, also published on the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film website, found however that the number of female directors in the top 250 films in the US dropped from 9% in 2015 to 7% in 2016.

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UK entrepreneur Martin Warner’s US and UK-based VoD service Flix Premiere has announced a $50m production fund here.

The move comes one year after the platform launched on desktop, mobile and OTT channels, and will allow Warner and his team to produce five to 10 Flix Premiere Originals over the next two years.

“This will enable us to get in earlier on films and get involved in marketing at an earlier stage,” said Warner, who is on the Croisette scouting for titles.

Backed by media and technology investors, the fund will assemble an agnostic slate, picking up films from the international festival circuit and acquiring titles at script stage.

SP Releasing has acquired all North American rights to horror Demon Hole from SC Films International, which handles world sales. The film by Josh Crook (La Soga) is set in a forest where a fracking crew has unwittingly unleashed a demon. Cast includes Samantha Scaffidi, Austin Ramsey, Paris Campbell, Summer Bills and Adrian Denzel. Demon Hole is set for an October release in the US.

Warner expects to announce the first six titles by the end of the year.

“A couple of years on and a few hundred movies later, we haven’t digressed from that plan,” Warner said. “We have ambitions to scale.”

The Flix Premiere line-up rotates every 10 to 14 days and comprises gems such as Daniel Bonjour’s After The Rain, Navin Ramaswaran’s Chasing Valentine, and Interwoven starring Mo’Nique. Films remain exclusive on the site for 12 months.

Jazzy counts in One Two Jaga

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Malaysia’s Jazzy Group has boarded local thriller One Two Jaga as co-producer alongside Malaysian star Bront Palarae’s Pixel Play.

Palarae, who is producing with Rozi Izma, says he brought on board extra funding to boost the film’s production budget and help propel it into international markets at a time when few Malaysian features are crossing over.

“Jazzy shares our aspiration as an indie studio in telling regionally

themed stories that are not only unique for local and regional territories, but will also find an international audience,” Palarae said.

Directed by Nam Ron, the film follows two cops on the immigration beat and an Indonesian brother and sister who are trying to find their way home without passports. The cast is headed by Malaysia’s Zahiril Adzim and Rosdeen Suboh, along with Indonesian actor Ario Bayu. Rahmat Adam will serve as executive producer.

Jazzy CEO Joanne Goh said the co-production deal would be the first in a long-term collaboration between the two companies. “With Pixel Play, we hope to elevate the Malaysian film industry to a whole new level,” she commented.

One Two Jaga won two prizes at the Southeast Asian Film Financing Forum in 2015 and received funding from the Content Malaysia Pitching Centre under FINAS. Now in production, the film is scheduled for delivery in late 2017.

Incredible to move PV slate

BY GEOFFREY MCNAB

Dutch sales company Incredible Film has announced it will handle international sales on all PV Pictures’ family adventure films.

Leading the slate is Dummie The Mummy And The Tomb Of Achnetoet, about an adolescent Egyptian mummy in modern-day Holland.

The feature is in post-production ahead of a Dutch theatrical release slated for October.

PV titles also include Master Spy, about a 10-year old boy who meets a spy who has just woken up from the year 1973, the first two Dummie The Mummy films, and the company’s successful Mister Twister series.

Incredible Film MD Danielle Raaphorst is also handling sales on the documentary It Hurts So Much

by Dutch novelist Heleen van Royen, which charts a year spent with her ageing mother, who suffers from vascular dementia. The film attracted more than 30,000 admissions in the Netherlands and came second to Moonlight for the International Film Festival Rotterdam audience award in 2017.

Berlin’s European Film Market also proved profitable for Dennis Bots’ historical drama Storm — Letter Of Fire, which Incredible Film sold to 32 countries.

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Baker keeps it fresh in Florida Tangerine director switches up iPhone for 35mm celluloid but stays faithful to newcomers A stalwart of the US indie filmmaking scene, Sean Baker has found himself hitting the mainstream since his Los Angeles-set tale of transgender sex workers Tangerine premiered at Sundance 2015 to rave reviews.

Baker is in Cannes with his next feature, The Florida Project, which tells the story of a precocious sixyear-old and her friends whose carefree lives contrast with those of their struggling parents. Also starring Willem Dafoe, the film premieres in Directors’ Fortnight today. Protagonist handles sales.

Catching up with Screen, Baker explains that he has tried to make a point by shooting his new film on 35mm celluloid. “I didn’t want to become the iPhone guy,” he says. “It worked for Tangerine but I’m also a cinephile, I adore celluloid and wanted to switch it up.”

The kids in the film are a rag-tag group led by Moonee, played by newcomer Brooklynn Prince. “She was a godsend,” says the director, who discovered her though a local

Sean Baker and Willem Dafoe on the set of The Florida Project

casting agency in Orlando. “She is the best child actor I’ve ever come across. She is incredibly witty and funny; she held her own with Willem Dafoe,” he adds.

Leading actress Bria Vinaite was discovered through less conventional means. Baker came across her Instagram profile, finding himself captivated by her “physicality and kid-like sensibil-

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ity”. Despite never having acted before, Baker was convinced Vinaite was right and reached out to her through the socialmedia platform.

“She was fear(Right) Dafoe and Brooklynn Prince

less. She jumped in and showed us she truly had the gift; she was a natural.

It makes me feel great that it worked because it was such a gamble,” says Baker.

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Schroeder’s paradox It was the ‘fascist Buddhist’ paradox that inspired Barbet Schroeder’s film about The Venerable Wirathu, a respected Buddhist monk who spouts antiMuslim hate speech. “Because I feel very close to Buddhism I needed to understand the ambiguities of the Wirathu character,” says Schroeder.

He compares Wirathu with Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. “I explained to [Wirathu] that the French people who were going to vote for Marine Le Pen shared many of his ideas.”

Schroeder shot 100 hours of footage, and says Wirathu was a willing participant. “He was much more intelligent and devilishly clever than I thought.”

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Kubrick’s go-to guy The name Leon Vitali may not be synonymous with the work of Stanley Kubrick, but the UK actor played a crucial role on several of the director’s films. He was Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, and went on to work as Kubrick’s trusted assistant on such projects as The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, before appearing in the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut. He is here with Cannes Classics doc Filmworker, which chronicles Vitali’s time as Kubrick’s right-hand man.

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Zhao back in the saddle Director Chloe Zhao is in Cannes for the second time after her feature debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. Her latest, The Rider, premiered in the same strand on Saturday. It stars a cast of real-life cowboys playing fictionalised versions of themselves.

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Zhao encountered the riders while making her first film. She was shocked when she heard one of them, Brady Jandreau, had suffered a life-threatening accident.

“We were all waiting for news while Brady was in a coma,” says Zhao. She decided the accident and subsequent recovery presented strong material for a film.

“When he got hurt, it just made sense that this was the story to tell.”

When it comes to Cannes’ buzz topic — the rise of Netflix — she is positive. “During my last year of film school in 2009, there was a sense of panic for the future of independent film. Things have got better and these players are part of Tom Grater that change.”

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s it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997, it was clear that Cannes had come a long way from its original intention to mount a challenge to Venice. The expanded festival was no longer purely focused on introducing audiences to traditional cinematic expression, rather showcasing increasingly challenging works.

Unsurprisingly, these have elicited strong reactions from assembled audiences, such as Argentinian director Gaspar Noe’s brutal rape drama Irreversible which, in 2002, saw hundreds of audience members walk out, several more pass out, and star Vincent Cassel’s brother moved to shout abuse at the director across the auditorium.

The following year, critic Roger Ebert and Vincent Gallo got into a similar war of words after Ebert called Gallo’s The Brown Bunny “the worst film in the history of the festival”.

Alongside such extremes of cinema, Cannes has also become well known for its attentiongrabbing publicity stunts — Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren’s red carpet bustup while promoting Universal Soldier in 1992, for example. In 2001, the cast of Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People were evicted from a private beach after pummelling each other with stuffed pigeons, resulting in a storm of blood and feathers.

Back on more traditional ground, in 2002 the festival announced the Honorary Palme d’Or, given sporadically to directors in recognition of their body of work. Woody Allen was the first recipient and, in 2015, it was bestowed on Agnes Varda — the only woman to have been honoured with a Palme d’Or aside from Jane s Campion. ■

WINNERS PALME D’OR 1996 Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, UK) 1997 Taste Of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran); The Eel (Shohei Imamura, Japan) 1998 Eternity And A Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece) 1999 Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium) 2000 Dancer In The Dark (Lars von Trier, Denmark) 2001 The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, Italy) 2002 The Pianist (Roman Polanski, France-Poland) 2003 Elephant (Gus Van Sant, US) 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, US) 2005 The Child (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium)

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) Reviewed by Tim Grierson With The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), filmmaker Noah Baumbach writes a new, richly warm variation on a favourite theme: the maddening impossibility of family. As wonderfully, messily emotional as its characters, this comedy drama finds Baumbach in a slightly less caustic mood than he was for The Squid And The Whale and Margot At The Wedding — but not at the expense of the genuine pain coursing through the movie’s adult siblings, who are unable to let go of the withholding, narcissistic father they begrudgingly love.

As its full title suggests, The Meyerowitz Stories adopts a literary tone, breaking its narrative into distinct chapters that focus on different family members. Danny (Adam Sandler, in a rare serious role) and Jean (Elizabeth Marvel) are the eldest children of Harold Meyerowitz (Dustin Hoffman), a New York sculptor who never became as renowned as he thought he deserved.

Now on his fourth marriage, the bitter, egotistical Harold retains a powerful hold on his kids, exacerbating Danny’s sense of failure that he never succeeded as a songwriter and ignoring Jean to such a degree that she barely feels like a member of the family. Harold’s real affection seems to be concentrated on their younger half-sibling Matthew (Ben Stiller), who is a wealthy business manager out in Los Angeles.

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COMPETITION US. 2017. 111mins Director/screenplay Noah Baumbach Production companies Netflix, IAC Films Worldwide distribution Netflix Producers Scott Rudin, Noah Baumbach, Lila Yacoub, Eli Bush Cinematography Robbie Ryan Production design Gerald Sullivan Editor Jennifer Lame Music Randy Newman Main cast Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten

As a writer-director, Baumbach often charts the lingering emotional scars that parents inflict on their children, resulting in families full of lingering resentment and self-hatred. If The Meyerowitz Stories does not exactly rewrite this familiar narrative, Baumbach remains an eloquent chronicler of a universal anguish, understanding what can be traumatic and hilarious in the scenario.

The film’s most novelistic quality is its perceptive delineation of each character, recognising how no two members of the clan have the same relationship. Because Danny followed in his father’s footsteps by trying to be an artist — and he is the oldest son — it would stand to reason that he would be Harold’s pride and joy.

But Baumbach adroitly examines precisely why Harold has been so dismissive of Danny, instead boasting about Matthew’s business acumen to his friends. Tolstoy’s old adage about unhappy families being unhappy in their own way is particularly true here as the characters try to get to the core of what made them so miserable — especially after Harold’s health deteriorates unexpectedly.

A Baumbach comedy often features corrosive punchlines and awkward tensions and all three adult siblings engage in brittle, wry conversations with their dad and each other. But The Meyerowitz Stories never forgets the sadness underlying these interactions. Just about every-

one we meet in the film is suffering through a private humiliation, whether it be a divorce or unfulfilled dreams. Thanks to Baumbach’s lively screenplay, the characters are able to articulate their grievances in entertaining and revealing ways, even if it is not at the most opportune time.

Hoffman is superb as the bearded, solipsistic Harold, always cutting down others’ accomplishments as proof of the world’s superficiality, while Stiller connects easily to Matthew’s driven, slightly haughty demeanour, hinting that this son has built his life as a rejection of his father’s art-over-commerce worldview.

Marvel makes the most of a muted character who is intentionally pushed to the side.

As for Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories may represent his most nuanced screen work.

Known mostly for juvenile comedies, he occasionally tries his hand at something more challenging, such as the violent, emotionally fragile lover of Punch-Drunk Love (2002). As Danny, though, there is a winning naturalness to Sandler’s portrayal of a defeated man who has had very little go right in his life — that is, except for raising his adoring, happy collegeage daughter (Grace Van Patten), who alone sees the good person that he is.

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Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson

Redoubtable Reviewed by Jonathan Romney

COMPETITION

Arguably, more question marks hung over Redoubtable than any other film in Cannes this year. One reason was that Michel Hazanavicius, director of The Artist, seemed too mainstream a talent to take on a story about such a radical and heavyweight figure as Jean-Luc Godard.

Another was that early stills of Louis Garrel as Godard suggested the mother of bad hair days.

Yet Redoubtable pretty much merits its title. It is a dazzlingly executed, hugely enjoyable act of stylistic homage. It is also a poignant story of a marriage and an insightful recreation of a critical and contradictionridden period of modern French history. Only hardcore Godardians would reject it out of hand.

The film is the story of Godard’s short-lived marriage to actress and, later, novelist Anne Wiazemsky, on whose autobiographical work One Year Later (Un An Apres) it is substantially based. Much of the film is narrated in voiceover by Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin), who married Godard when he was 37 and she was 19, having starred in his Maoist-influenced film La Chinoise. Divided into chapters and set largely in the critical year of 1968, the feature traces their difficult relationship from La Chinoise until they split after his radical Vent d’Est (1970).

Much of Redoubtable centres on Godard, and Garrel’s magnetic performance, rather than on Wiazemsky and, in many ways, the film is an act of impersonation, not least stylistically. Garrel jettisons his usual, often distractingly narcissistic mannerisms to submerge himself in an evocation of Godard that is not just imitation. He, compellingly and often very amusingly, evokes a man tormented by self-doubt, political anguish and fear of ageing, combining melancholic vulnerability with streaks of buffoonery. Martin does not resemble Wiazemsky, but she conveys a fragile coolness and intelligence that emerge from behind her inexperience.

Cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman channels superbly the vivid palettes and precise compositions of Raoul Coutard’s 1960s camerawork, while Hazanavicius revels in his own versions of the disorienting visual, sonic and editing tricks associated with Godard — with the fourth wall taking numerous, very droll batterings.

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Fr. 2017. 107mins Director/screenplay Michel Hazanavicius Production companies La Classe Américaine, Les Compagnons Du Cinéma, Studiocanal Sales agent Wild Bunch, sales@wildbunch.eu Producers Michel Hazanavicius, Florence Gastaud, Riad Sattouf Cinematography Guillaume Schiffman Production designer Christian Marti Editor Anne-Sophie Bion Main cast Louis Garrel, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Stacy Martin, Micha Lescot

Faced with the sights and sounds of confident musical oddity Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc — some 20 years after its director’s debut The Life Of Jesus and after Li’l Quinquin and Slack Bay by way of Humanity, Hadewijch and Hors Satan — one of the least likely sentences in the English language has to be “Bruno Dumont has fallen into a rut”. His wacky yet assured take on the childhood and adolescence of the future Joan of Arc would be a perfect opening night offering if anybody starts a ‘Love It or Hate It’ film festival.

In song and dance — with all the dialogue and lyrics drawn from two volumes by essayist Charles Péguy (1873-1914) — the film wears its literary and historical pedigree lightly, with religious fervour channelled into silly dances and earnest expressions.

Nature and faith were the main influences in the countryside in 1425. Jeannette, aged eight (Lise Leplat Prudhomme), sings about how, after 14 centuries of Christianity, there is still “nothing” on the tangible God front. But when the Lord created the heavens and the earth, he must also have created electrical outlets and power chords because the whiplash-inducing moves of headbanging are back. Choreographer Philippe Decouflé has given the actors basic movements to perform, which they do with gusto but little grace.

Jeannette’s friend Hauviette (Lucile Gauthier) senses the pious girl may seem happy but is actually miserable.

Jeannette wants to speak with a certain Madame Gervaise, a nun in a nearby convent. When Madame Gervaise materialises there are two of her, singing in harmony.

Eight years go by and Jeannette at 16 (Jeanne Voisin) now wants to be called Jeanne because that is what she says Saint Michael calls her. Jeanne starts thinking that if God does not send a warlord to chase the English out of France, she may have to look into it herself. She and her uncle plan to head for Orleans but do not quite manage to depart. Will Jeanne ever connect with her destiny?

Originally destined for TV, Dumont has re-jigged the aspect ratio and running time for the big screen.

Whether Joan will drive the English out of France or first out of cinemas is an open question. For those who remain seated, this is a strange and forthright cinematic object with considerable rough-hewn charm.

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT Fr. 2016. 107mins Director/screenplay Bruno Dumont Production companies Taos Films, Arte France International sales Luxbox, fiorella@ luxboxfilms.com Producers Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin Cinematography Guillaume Deffontaines Editors Bruno Dumont, Basile Belkhiri Music Igorrr Choreographer Philippe Decouflé Main cast Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin, Lucile Gauthier, Victoria Lefebvre

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The Venerable W Reviewed by Lee Marshall

Tehran Taboo Reviewed by Wendy Ide This striking animated drama reveals the stratified society in Tehran where sex, drugs and corruption are concealed beneath the veil of morality and propriety. Unlike the arresting animation, the narrative often resorts to broad brushstrokes to stress its points, which usually involve Olympian levels of hypocrisy and glaring double standards. Iran-born, Germany-based Ali Soozandeh’s debut demonstrates his considerable talents as a visual stylist, but he is less confident shaping the screenplay on which this vividly sordid portrait of the city is based.

Although somewhat obvious in its approach — the key characters include a hooker with a heart of gold and a wife whose husband thwarts her ambition to work — Tehran Taboo is a glimpse of Iranian culture that is largely unknown outside the country and unseen within.

For Soozandeh, the use of rotoscoped characters and a combination of 3D and drawn elements for the backdrop was not just an aesthetic choice. Shooting in Tehran was not an option for a film about young Iranians’ pursuit of illicit good times. And animation helps create the schizophrenic character of the city — as essential as any of the human components of this multi-stranded story — in a more satisfying way than using a live-action double such as Morocco or Jordan.

The key character is Pari (Elmira Rafizadeh), a prostitute who turns tricks while her mute son, Elias (Bilal Yasar) waits outside. Pari moves into a flat provided by a judge at the religious court where she is seeking a divorce from her imprisoned, drug addict husband. Her new neighbour is Sara (Zahra Amir Ebrahimi), a pregnant wife who dreams of her own career but must settle for a slow death by domesticity. Struggling musician Babak (Arash Marandi) gets high at a club and ends up in a toilet with Donya (Negar Mona Alizadeh). She then worries she is supposed to be a virgin for her wedding and demands he pay for an operation to restore her virginity.

Visual devices suggest the layering of double standards — Soozandeh uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces that peel back to reveal an alternative reality — and are more successful than the slightly schematic narrative approach.

But while the plot points are delivered a little too emphatically, this wily account of 20-something Iranians negotiating an assault course of laws and prohibitions to get their kicks fizzes with energy and bad behaviour.

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CRITICS’ WEEK Ger-Aust. 2017. 96mins Director/screenplay/ production design Ali Soozandeh Production companies Little Dream Entertainment International sales Celluloid Dreams, hengameh@celluloiddreams.com Producers Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Mark Fencer, Armin Hofmann, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner Cinematography Martin Gschlacht Editor Frank Geiger, Andrea Mertens Music Ali N Askin Main cast Elmira Rafizadeh, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi, Bilal Yasar, Negar Mona Alizadeh, Payam Madjlessi

Buddhism is the religion of peace, love and understanding, so there is something deeply wrong about a Buddhist monk who calmly spouts anti-Muslim hate speech and incites ethnic riots. The monk in question, an influential Burmese figure known as The Venerable Wirathu, is the subject of the powerful final instalment of Swiss director Barbet Schroeder’s ‘Axis of Evil’ documentary trilogy, which began in 1974 with General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait and continued in 2007 with Terror’s Advocate, a portrait of controversial lawyer Jacques Verges.

The film is a chilling corrective to accounts of Burma that paint its recent history as a fight between pro-democracy forces led by Aung San Suu Kyi (by no means a heroine in this particular story) and a repressive military regime. In the era of Trump (Wirathu is a fan), Farage and Le Pen, it shines a timely light on the mechanisms of nationalistic rhetoric. That should be enough to guarantee The Venerable W a foothold in mature, doc-friendly markets despite its potentially niche subject matter, and it appears ripe for VoD distribution.

Wirathu is presented partly through outtakes from an interview Schroeder filmed with the monk in the Mandalay monastery that he heads. He talks openly about what he sees to be the Muslim threat to Buddhist purity, calmly spouting extreme racial slurs. Schroeder’s method at first is simply to dwell on the awful fascination of the ‘Fascist Buddhist’ paradox, with passages promoting the brotherhood of man from the religion’s sacred texts, voiced by veteran French actress Bulle Ogier, underlining the contradiction. Wirathu’s rise from provincial obscurity to ethnic rabble-rouser is then charted, including his nine-year stretch for inciting ethnic hatred after a spate of 2003 riots in his hometown of Kyaukse and elsewhere.

In the film’s second half, Wirathu returns to the campaign trail after his release in 2012 and the mood of the film turns darker. News and mobile-phone footage captures some of the pogroms launched against Burma’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. By now we have worked out who the monk really is. Forget the robes: he is a classic extremist politician, fanning tensions through the crudest of rhetoric then visiting the affected regions to ‘restore order’. Shot under the noses of a repressive regime, The Venerable W is a stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action.

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Claire’s Camera Reviewed by Jason Bechervaise

Gabriel And The Mountain Reviewed by Sarah Ward Gabriel And The Mountain turns death into a rumination on the actions and ideas that resound in life. Based on the plight of Brazilian backpacker Gabriel Buchmann, Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa’s follow-up to 2014’s Casa Grande offers a moving meditation on the transformative nature of travel; both on those hopping around the world in search of a new perspective and those encountered along the way.

Never taking the familiar travelogue-drama path, this involving effort’s premiere in Critics’ Week should prove the first stop on the way to further festival play.

In 2009, before he was due to start his doctorate in public policy in the US, Buchmann disappeared while climbing Malawi’s Mount Mulanje. Roaming through Africa and scaling its lofty peaks on the last leg of a yearlong global trek, he was determined to research poverty experientially. Far away from his comfortable Rio de Janeiro upbringing, he lived cheaply, explored widely and endeavoured to give away 80% of his daily budget to those in need.

Distinguishing Gabriel And The Mountain from other fictionalised accounts of traumatic adventures such as Into The Wild and 127 Hours, Barbosa brings together both actors and the actual Kenyan, Tanzanian, Zambian and Malawian residents Buchmann encountered: tribesmen, hiking guides, safari operators and bus drivers among them. Each recreates their time with Buchmann (Joao Pedro Zappa), with their affectionate reflections about his passing overlaid on pivotal scenes.

Although it does not purport to be a documentary, the film approaches its narrative with an added, inescapably emotional air of authenticity. Crisp cinematography by Pedro Sotero easily achieves the same effect; after lensing Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Neighboring Sounds and Aquarius, he fills this feature’s frames with scenic yet contemplative sights well off the beaten track.

With snippets of voiceover relaying the extent of Buchmann’s influence, Zappa’s naturalistic performance infuses him with openness above all else; whether he is being welcomed into the world of the Maasai or sightseeing with a girlfriend when she visits briefly. That his eagerness often drifts from well-meaning-but-naive to arrogant-yet-passionate also helps the film serve as a shrewd, lightly comic skewering of traveller stereotypes.

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CRITICS’ WEEK Bra-Fra. 2017. 127mins.

Director Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa Production companies TV Zero, Damned Films International sales Films Boutique, valeska@ filmsboutique.com Producers Rodrigo Letier, Roberto Berliner, Clara Linhart, Yohann Cornu Screenplay Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky Cinematographer Pedro Sotero Editor Théo Lichtenberger Music Arthur Bartlett Gillette Production design Ana Paula Cardoso Main cast Joao Pedro Zappa, Caroline Abras, Alex Alembe, Leonard Siampala, John Goodluck, Rashidi Athuman, Rhosinah Sekeleti, Luke Mpata, Lewis Gadson

With three films on the festival circuit so far this year, including two in Cannes, Hong Sangsoo is certainly one of South Korea’s most prolific directors. Quantity, however, is not necessarily a mark of quality, even for a filmmaker like Hong. While Claire’s Camera, set during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, is charming in places and bears the hallmarks of his idiosyncratic style, it ultimately feels dashed and somewhat shallow.

The fact that Kim Minhee and Isabelle Huppert headline, coupled with its Cannes premiere, does mean that Claire’s Camera should, like all of Hong’s features, have no problems attracting further festival exposure, even if it is unlikely to be ranked among his finest works.

The film follows Manhee (Kim Minhee), a manager at a film sales company who is abruptly fired during the festival by her boss, Yanghye (Chang Mihee), for being dishonest. It later transpires Yanghye was acting out of jealousy over the relationship between Manhee and filmmaker So Wansoo (Jung Jinyoung) attending the festival with his new film.

Meanwhile, Claire (Isabelle Huppert), a teacher from Paris, is also in Cannes and, as she walks around the Croisette taking pictures with her Polaroid camera, she comes into contact with Manhee and forms a friendship.

She also has separate interactions with both Yanghye and Wansoo.

Hong’s narrative framework, which is often one of the most compelling aspects of his films, again refuses to adhere to a traditional linear structure, forcing the audience to piece together the story. Yet, Claire’s Camera lacks the complexity of some of his finest work and, while awkwardness is synonymous with Hong’s approach, weak performances by Chang and Jung — who both struggle with their English lines — do not help the story to flow. Stylistically, the long takes and abrupt zooms are characteristic of Hong’s cinematic techniques but sound issues are a distraction, perhaps owing to the foreign setting.

Undoubtedly the film’s charm comes from the performances of Kim and Huppert, and scenes involving the pair and their tangible chemistry resonate the strongest.

Indeed, it is rather telling that both Kim and Huppert have previously worked with Hong; Kim can also be seen in Hong’s The Day After, which is premiering in Competition.

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PRODUCTION FOCUS I AM NOT A WITCH

Witch craft How an African chief using WhatsApp helped filmmaker Rungano Nyoni find her lead for I Am Not A Witch. Wendy Mitchell reports

The production team tracked down Maggie Mulubwa after she was spotted in pictures taken during the film’s recce

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t’s not often that an African chief helps with an international film production. Yet one Zambian leader gave a helping hand behind the scenes of Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not A Witch. The UK-Zambia-France-Germany co-production has its world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight on May 25.

Nyoni, who was born in Zambia but grew up in Wales, returned to Zambia to shoot her debut feature, a satire about a nine-year-old girl’s exile in a travelling witch camp. The filmmaker found her young leading actress Maggie Mulubwa after location scout Tobias Tembo and location manager Gabriel Gauchet had randomly taken a few pictures of her playing on a beach in northern Zambia during an early recce. Nyoni and her casting team had formally auditioned 900 children in Zambian capital Lusaka but, Nyoni says, “I wasn’t that convinced by any of them.”

So the team set out to find this mysterious girl in the pictures — not an easy task. They contacted Senior Chief Mwewa of the Ng’umbo people of Samfya District, Luapula province, and sent a picture to him via WhatsApp. “He sent out his people and asked them to scour an area of 50,000 sq km to find this little girl,” Nyoni recalls. “They eventually tracked her down and she was brought to the chief, who sent her to Lusaka.

I auditioned her with three other kids and I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. She was incredible.”

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Rungano Nyoni

That story is unlike anything seen before in African cinema or, indeed, in UK or European cinema. “Setting the story in the witch camp seemed to fit all the themes I wanted to tackle,” Nyoni says. “I wanted to make this story absurdist because the subject matter is absurd. I researched witch camps and witch accusations and I found the whole thing comical and ridiculous in its blatant misogyny.”

Nyoni, who has previously directed four award-winning shorts, developed the story at the Cinéfondation Residence in 2013, which she enjoyed because it was nurturing yet hands-off.

“People associate Cannes with glamour and the festival itself, but what they don’t see is the amount of dedication they have to fostering new talent throughout the year,” she says. “It opened up so many doors and allowed me to find my story.”

Audacious approach Emily Morgan, a 2016 Screen Star of Tomorrow, produced the film with France’s Juliette Grandmont. Now head of production at Soda Pictures, Morgan met Nyoni working on a National Film & Television School short back in 2011. She describes the I Am Not A Witch script as “the best thing I’ve come across in a long time. There was such originality. She writes in such a convincing way, quite

‘I wanted to make this story absurdist because the subject matter is absurd’

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audaciously and bold and strong. The way she blends humour with important messages, that runs through her work and the way she approaches everything”.

Ffilm Cymru Wales was one of the first supporters of the feature, which was also backed by the BFI Film Fund, Film4, the CNC’s Cinémas du Monde, the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund, Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and Locarno’s Vision Sud Est Development Fund. Kinology handles international sales.

Whatever challenges Zambia’s lack of infrastructure posed were made up for in the authenticity of shooting there, and the passion of the locals to enable Nyoni’s vision. “Everybody was so wonderfully helpful,” says Morgan. “There was a real enthusiasm for the project from the government and crew members.”

Nyoni adds: “Lack of experience never scares me if there is willingness to learn.

Our casting director, for example, had no experience in casting — she was a hotel manager. It took me half a day to explain her role and she took to it very quickly.”

Mulubwa joined a cast largely composed of other inexperienced actors. “My approach to actors — especially non-professional ones — is to give them freedom to make their own choices,” explains Nyoni, who once studied acting at London’s Central St Martins. “Improvisation is great but it can be shapeless and unfocused. I work a lot with the actors to refine those choices for the scene and character, s and make everything more deliberate.” n

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A flowering in Wales The rising profile of the Welsh film industry can be credited to the ongoing support and investment of Ffilm Cymru Wales and its Magnifier programme FfCW children’s workshop during the development of Magdalena Osinska’s animated feature Jasia

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he film industry in Wales passes another milestone at Cannes when Welsh-Zambian film-maker Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not A Witch screens in Directors’ Fortnight — a first for the nation. It is just one sign of a flowering creative culture and film industry in the UK nation.

At the heart of this remarkable story is Ffilm Cymru Wales (FfCW), which was formed a decade ago at a time when few films came from Wales, and when access and engagement with film culture was very limited.

FfCW has now taken 58 feature films into production — 56 of them with Welsh writers, directors and/or producers — and 10 in the Welsh language.

And it has made it a mission to connect sustainable business and diverse, high-quality content with a participatory film culture for all communities, where audience development and diversity are integral to the process of production,

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business support and distribution in its broadest sense. This audience-centred stance, which FfCW refers to as its Magnifier approach (explained below), is making a significant contribution to the growth of a dynamic film and audiovisual sector, which, from a standing start, has begun to accelerate impressively.

Other examples include Cardiff-based production company Red & Black, which is currently finalising a television series pilot for NBC Universal based on its FfCW-backed genre hit The Machine.

And here in Cannes, WestEnd Films is handling sales for Severn Screen’s comedy Denmark, starring Rafe Spall, and Bankside brings Craig Roberts’ new film Eternal Beauty, starring Sally Hawkins, to market.

FfCW-backed films are increasingly enjoying commercial and critical success.

Examples include multiple award winners such as Dark Horse and Sleep Furiously, box-office hits such as Submarine,

FfCW has now taken 58 feature films into production — 56 of them with Welsh writers, directors or producers and international genre classics, such as A Dark Song.

FfCW has invested $8.5m (£6.5m) and leveraged $25m (£19m) of direct spend in Wales, more than $65m (£50m) of co-financing — including $19.6m (£15m) of presales — and supported more than 1,100 jobs.

Wales is also attracting investment and enjoying success elsewhere. Backed by the Welsh Government, Pinewood Wales opened its studios in 2014 with a $39m (£30m) film and television fund. And Wales is picking up international accolades for TV dramas, such as Hinterland.

This reflects in part the accumulator effect, ensuring that each penny of public funding generates significantly greater private investment and other economic benefits, such as jobs and infrastructure. But Magnifier is more than that.

The Magnifier effect FfCW uses the term Magnifier to describe the organisation’s approach to film and creative business: making the most of good ideas.

FfCW set itself a task to unite audience development, talent development, international film production, creative innovation, education and businessbuilding into a single coherent strategy.

Put simply, the organisation wanted to make films that people actually watched and a film culture in which a diverse range of people could and would want to participate.

Therefore, Magnifier is the term that

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Magnifier is the term that brings together a set of principles and practices on which FfCW strategies are built brings together a set of foundational principles and practices on which the FfCW production support, training schemes, education and audience development strategies are built.

At the heart of the Magnifier work is the idea that the development of audiences needs to begin at the earliest possible stage, and can be accelerated through sharing knowledge across multi-disciplined networks.

Sustainable business in a changing environment means developing new sources of intellectual property, finance and a structured audience development plan. It also means building effective brands on the best available knowledge and data — none of which can wait until a product is finished.

This early holistic approach includes data sharing, collaboration between producers and other parts of the value

chain, direct company support, relationships with non-film creative sectors (such as publishing and games) and a high degree of flexibility in the way individual projects evolve.

More than 20 productions have developed IP beyond the core film, from a VR game alongside Red & Black’s Don’t Knock Twice movie, picked by PlayStation for release next month, to education assets alongside The Machine and animated feature Ethel & Ernest.

These successes are built on partnership and collaboration at home with bodies such as Arts Council Wales and the Welsh Government; communitybased organisations such as housing associations; at UK-wide level with education charity Into Film; with the BFI, including its Film Audience Network; and with the National Lottery, which supported the groundbreaking Film in Afan community film project.

Internationally, more than 28% of FfCW films are co-productions, and FfCW is looking forward to working with partners to develop Magnifier. The benefits will be seen long after Cannes.

Producer John Giwa-Amu during a demo of the Don’t Knock Twice VR game

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INTERVIEW KIMBERLEY WARNER, HEAD OF CREATIVE BUSINESS s newly appointed head of creative business at Ffilm Cymru Wales, Kimberley Warner will be leading the organisation into the next stage in the evolution of its Magnifier strategy.

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Supported by a multidisciplinary board, headed by chair Michael Gubbins and founding CEO Pauline Burt, and backed by a brilliant team of executives, Warner is aiming to help Welsh talent reach new levels.

She brings exceptional experience, not least as creative producer on Adam Benzine’s Oscar-nominated Claude Lanzmann: Spectres Of The Shoah in 2016. Prior to that she was development executive at FfCW and, before that, head of acquisitions and development at sales agent/distributor Mercury Media and Journeyman Pictures.

Warner also helped build the world’s first subscription video-ondemand platform for documentaries in partnership with The Guardian, and worked with filmmakers of the calibre of Ken Loach, Kim Longinotto, Franny Armstrong and James Moll.

Here she spells out her thoughts on the Magnifier programme.

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Why is Magnifier important?

Sustainability in the film industry has never been higher on the agenda. And an agile and collaborative talent pool is the only way to achieve that. That’s why we have focused on systematic project and talent development. We are interested in producers who are able to identify the core value of the stories they tell across multiple platforms or art forms, who are entrepreneurial and partnershipdriven. This is really the only way that any film fund can help to build longstanding careers, rather than just helping to build films.

How does Magnifier impact projects creatively?

A core part of Magnifier is putting audiences at the centre — not just keeping them in mind but including them in the development process, getting their feedback and testing ideas. Listening to your audience and collaborating with individuals from other creative fields can only boost creativity. I have often seen our filmmakers inspired by encountering a radically different point of view on a project. A film industry that is directly

informed by the wide diversity of potential cinemagoers, which can identify that golden story-nugget at the centre of a film idea that can be extrapolated across different platforms, sounds like an extremely creative film industry to me.

What does this mean for the future of Ffilm Cymru Wales?

We’re talking to other international funding bodies about applying the systematic Magnifier approach to their work. We have been presented with opportunities to incorporate Magnifier into the education of filmmakers across the UK. Being a small and relatively underfunded nation in many ways forces us to be bold and innovative.

This is something we intend to continue with national and international Magnifier symposiums planned for 2017-18 around key festival dates. And it extends to our commitment to diversity — while development executive at Ffilm Cymru, I worked with the talent team to bring our gender split at

Kimberley Warner

application stage up to 50/50 (male/ male-identifying to female/femaleidentifying). Our selection in Cannes this year, I Am Not A Witch by WelshZambian director Rungano Nyoni, exemplifies this commitment as one of only seven of the 20 in Directors’ Fortnight that is directed by a woman this year. As does our entry-level training programme for people not in education or employment, Foot in the Door, which will be rolled out nationally in 2017-18. We welcome approaches from like-minded organisations who want to capitalise on what we have learned from Magnifier over the past two years.

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GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN

(Brazil) 125mins.

Dir: Fellipe Barbosa.

Cast: Caroline Abras, Joao Pedro Zappa, Luke Mpata.

Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel decides to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After 10 months on the road, he arrives in Kenya where he is joined by his girlfriend.

But discovering Africa as a tourist is not enough for Gabriel. He decides to go deeper, leaving on his own for a journey across countries, new friendships and raw emotions to reach Mount Mulanje in Malawi, his final destination.

Critics’ Week Miramar

08:30 A VIOLENT LIFE

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Thierry De Peretti.

Cast: Jean Michelangeli, Henri-Noel Tabary.

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

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08:45 THE INTRUDER

(Italy) 95mins. Dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo.

Cast: Raffaella Giordano, Valentina Vannino, Marcello Fonte.

A tale of conflict and danger set in present-day Naples. Like a modern

(US) 98mins.

Dir: Bonni Cohen.

Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight travelling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy.

Cameras follow him behind the scenes — in moments both private and public, funny and poignant — as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.

FESTIVAL & PRESS 11:45 THE FLORIDA PROJECT

(US) 112mins. Dir: Sean Baker. Cast: Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry Jones, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite.

The story of a precocious six-year-old and her

rag-tag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

Antigone, a social worker on the frontline of the daily war against criminal mentality is confronted with a moral choice that can destroy the sense of her work and her life forever.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Franz Rogowski, Fantine Harduin.

A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

Competition Lumiere Ticket required

10:00 THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW & SELECTED)

(US) 114mins.

Dir: Noah Baumbach.

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, Adam Sandler.

The intergenerational tale of adult siblings contending with the influence of their ageing father.

Competition Salle Du 60Eme

11:00 HAPPY END

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Michael Haneke.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert,

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THE VILLAINESS

(South Korea) 129mins.

Dir: Jung Byung-Gil. Cast: Kim Ok-Vin, Shin Ha-Kyun, Bang Sung-Jun. The story of a female killer who crosses paths with two mysterious men.

Out of Competition Bunuel Press

UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN

(Algeria) 113mins.

Dir: Karim Moussaoui.

Cast: Mohamed Djouhri, Sonia Mekkiou, Mehdi Ramdani, Hania Amar, Hassan Kachach, Nadia Kaci, Samir El Hakim, Aure Atika.

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

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11:30 OH LUCY!

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

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

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

new world of tattoo parlors and seedy motels, family ties and past lives are tested as Setsuko struggles to preserve the dream and promise of ‘Lucy’.

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12:30 HAPPY END

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Michael Haneke.

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

Competition Salle Du 60Eme

13:00 WIND RIVER

(US) 105mins.

Dir: Taylor Sheridan.

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Jon Bernthal, Graham Greene.

Cory, an experienced tracker and hunter, uncovers the frozen body of a teenage girl. He teams up with new FBI agent Jane Banner, and tribal Police Chief Ben Shoyo to piece together what happened and who is responsible for the grisly crime. The deeper Cory, Jane and Ben delve into the

Out of Competition Bunuel Press

14:00 THE WORKSHOP

(France) 114mins.

Dir: Laurent Cantet.

Cast: Marina Fois, Matthieu Lucci.

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

More concerned with the fears of the modern world, the young man soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who will be both alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s violence.

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14:15 A VIOLENT LIFE

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Thierry De Peretti.

Cast: Jean Michelangeli, Henri-Noel Tabary.

Critics’ Week Miramar

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Paris 1967: Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting ‘La Chinoise’ with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love.

They marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc. The events of May ’68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker.

Deep-rooted conflicts and misunderstandings will change him irrevocably.

Revolutionary, off-the-wall, destructive, brilliant, he will pursue his choices and his beliefs to breaking point.

FESTIVAL & PRESS 17:00 BEFORE WE VANISH

(Japan) 129mins. Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Hiroki Hasegawa.

Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for

a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being — leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake.

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“INTENSELY ENGAGING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING, MESMERIZING.” BLOODY DISGUSTING

Competition Salle Du 60Eme

15:00 WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER

(France) 90mins.

Dir: Amos Gitai.

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

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

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

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FRANCESCA EASTWOOD

CLIFTON COLLINS JR.

(OUTLAWS AND ANGELS)

(PACIFIC RIM)

(France) 98mins.

Dir: Med Hondo.

Charts the journey of a black immigrant to Paris.

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After being sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate, an art student takes justice into her own hands.

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THE DAY AFTER

(South Korea) 92mins.

Dir: Hong Sangsoo.

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

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

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17:15 OH LUCY!

(Japan) 97mins.

Dir: Atsuko Hirayanagi.

Critics’ Week Miramar

17:45 THE INTRUDER

(Italy) 95mins. Dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo.

Cast: Raffaella Giordano, Valentina Vannino.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

18:30 L’ATALANTE

OUT

(Hungary) 83mins.

Dir: Gyorgy Kristof.

Cast: Sandor Terhes.

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

Un Certain Regard Debussy Press

17:00

(France) 87mins.

Dir: Jean Vigo. Cast: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo.

Classic film about the captain of a canal barge.

Cannes Classics Bunuel

19:30 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER

(US) 98mins.

Dir: Bonni Cohen.

Out of Competition Salle Du 60Eme

19:45

BEFORE WE VANISH

GOLDEN YEARS

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(France) 103mins.

Dir: Andre Techine.

Cast: Celine Sallette, Pierre Deladonchamps, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet.

Paul and Louise get married on the eve of the First World War. After two years on the front, Paul injures himself and decides to desert, risking execution. Louise dresses him up as a woman to hide him. He becomes ‘Suzanne’, a Parisian celebrity, enjoying a life of lust and pleasure in the ‘Roaring 20s’. Louise plays along, willing to sacrifice anything for him.

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

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES

(UK) 102mins.

Dir: John Cameron Mitchell. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning.

Suburban London in the late 1970s: under the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero Enn. Hearing the local punk Queen Boadicea is throwing a party, Enn crashes the fun and discovers every horny boy’s dream: gorgeous foreign exchange students. When he meets the enigmatic Zan, it’s lust at first sight. But these girls have come from a lot further away than America.

They are, in fact, aliens from another galaxy, sent to Earth to prepare for a mysterious rite of passage.

When the dark secret behind the rite is revealed, our galaxy-crossed lover Enn must turn to Boadicea and her punk followers for help in order to save the alien he loves from certain death.

Out of Competition Salle Du 60Eme

Out of Competition Debussy Press

20:00 A VIOLENT LIFE

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Thierry De Peretti.

Cast: Jean Michelangeli, Henri-Noel Tabary.

Critics’ Week Miramar

KISS AND CRY

(France) 75mins. Dir: Lila Pinell, Chloe Mahieu.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:00 FORTUNATA

(Italy) 103mins. Dir: Sergio Castellitto.

Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Stefano Accorsi, Alessandro Borghi, Edoardo Pesce, Anna Schygulla.

Fortunata struggles to achieve her

Unable to confront Bastien, who raised him, or to reveal his identity to Joseph and Anna, Erwan also has to deal with Juliette, his own daughter. Now several months pregnant, she still doesn’t know who the father of her baby is. All of sudden Erwan’s life just got really complicated.

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BABATU, LES TROIS CONSEILS

(Belgium) 67mins.

Dir: Henri De Gerlache.

Documentary charting the history of Belgian film through its locations.

(France) 93mins.

Dir: Jean Rouch.

Cast: Lam Dia, Diama.

Classic Franco-Nigerian drama entered into the 1976 competition.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT

(US) 112mins. Dir: Sean Baker. Cast: Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry Jones, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

20:30 JUST TO BE SURE

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Sarah, at 15 years of age, returns to figure skating at the Colmar club without knowing whether she is doing it for herself or for her mother. She is confronted with the violence of highlevel competition, rivalry between the girls and the harsh words of the trainer.

While her body is put through its paces on the ice, her adolescent desires turn her attention away from her sporting ambitions.

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dreams, trying the best to be a good mother while fighting hard with her ex-husband. But the transforming power of love will change her life, giving her new hope and a new chance for happiness.

(France) 95mins.

Dir: Carine Tardieu.

Cast: François Damiens, Cecile De France, Andre Wilms, Guy Marchand.

Erwan, 45, finds out his father is not his biological father. His real father is Joseph, a man his mother briefly knew. How unlucky that Erwan had just fallen in love with the beautiful Anna, who happens to be Joseph’s only daughter?

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21:00

Cannes Classics Bunuel

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22:00 FORTUNATA See box,above

22:15 THE WORKSHOP

(France) 114mins.

Dir: Laurent Cantet.

Cast: Marina Fois, Matthieu Lucci.

Un Certain Regard Debussy Press

22:30

Cannes Classics Bunuel

BAD BOYS

HAPPY END

(US) 119mins. Dir: Michael Bay. Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence.

Explosive action comedy about two cops chasing the mafia.

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Michael Haneke.

Cinema De La Plage Plage Mace

(France) 75mins.

Dir: Lila Pinell, Chloe Mahieu.

21:45 THE VILLAINESS

(South Korea) 129mins.

Dir: Jung Byung-Gil. Cast: Kim Ok-Vin, Shin Ha-Kyun, Bang Sung-Jun. Out of Competition Salle Du 60Eme

Competition Lumiere Ticket required

KISS AND CRY

ACID Arcades 2

OH LUCY!

(Japan) 97mins.

Dir: Atsuko Hirayanagi.

Critics’ Week Miramar

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08:30 THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER See box, below

09:00 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)

(France) Films Distribution. 143mins.

Dir: Robin Campillo.

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

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

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LEGEND OF THE DEMON CAT

(China) Moonstone Entertainment/Prestige Films. 25mins. Dir: Kaige Chen. Cast: Shota Sometani, Xuan Huang, Yuqi Zhang, Hao Qin, Hiroshi Abe, Mason Lee, Sandrine Pinna, Luyi Zhang.

The Japanese monk Kukai

arrives at the Imperial Court, summoned to clear away evil and drive out demons. As he investigates the death of the emperor, he learns of a mysterious demon cat that is terrorising the Imperial court. Kukai and his sidekick slowly uncover the motivation behind the demon cat’s actions: revenge for a princess buried alive by the previous emperor and his court.

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09:15 APRIL’S DAUGHTER

(Mexico) MK2 Films.

103mins. Dir: Michel Franco. Cast: Emma Suarez, Hernan Mendoza, Joanna Larequi.

Seventeen-year-old Valeria is pregnant by her teenage boyfriend, but she hasn’t informed her absent mother April. When her sister Clara goes behind her back and calls April, their mother arrives full of concern, support and tenderness. But once the baby is born, it soon becomes clear why Valeria wanted to keep April as far away as possible.

Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Barbora Babulova, Charlotte Cetaire.

Bologna, 2002: opposition to the Labour Law explodes in universities. The murder of a judge reopens old political wounds between Italy and France. Marco, a former left-wing activist sentenced for murder and exiled in France for 20 years thanks to the Mitterrand doctrine, is accused of having ordered the attack. The Italian government requests his extradition. Forced to flee with Viola, his 16-yearold daughter, his life will change forever, as will that of his family in Italy who have to pay for Marco’s past faults.

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ANA, MON AMOUR

(Romania) Beta Cinema.

127mins. Dir: Calin Peter Netzer. Cast: Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavalioti, Adrian Titieni, Vasile Muraru.

The story of a couple facing co-dependency and repression.

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BABYPHONE

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09:30 AFTER THE WAR

(Italy) Pyramide International. 92mins.

Dir: Annarita Zambrano.

(France) Other Angle Pictures. 85mins. Dir: Olivier Casas. Cast: Medi Sadoun, Anne Marivin, Pascal Demolon, Lannick Gautry, Marie-Christine

MARKET 08:30 THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

(Greece) Hanway Films. 119mins.

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

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

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GOOD MATCH

(US) Boulderlight Pictures. 90mins.

Dir: David Chirchirillo.

Cast: Lili Simmons, Noureen Dewulf, Jack Cutmore-Scott.

An internet-dating playboy’s life spirals out of control after meeting a woman online.

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THE LEGEND OF AKAM

MARKET 09:30 PURE HEARTS

(Italy) The Match Factory. 114mins.

Dir: Roberto De Paolis.

Cast: Selene Caramazza, Simone Liberati, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Fresi, Adam, Barbara Schulz.

Two mates visit a couple of friends. When they go to see their baby in its room, they start a series of bad jokes about its looks. What they do not know is that in the kitchen all can hear what they are saying through the baby monitor!

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DJAM

(France) Les Films Du Losange. 97. Dir: Tony Gatlif. Cast: Daphne Patakia, Alexandra Kladaki, Simon Abkarian.

Young Greek woman Djam is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos on a mission to find a rare engine part for their boat.

There she meets Avril, 18, who came from France to volunteer with refugees, ran out of money and knows no one in Turkey. Generous, sassy, unpredictable and free, Djam takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene — a journey made of music, encounters, sharing and hope.

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THE FAMILY I HAD

(US) Dogwoof. 77mins.

Dir: Katie Green, Carlye Rubin.

Edoardo Pesce.

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

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Charity walks a fine line between love and fear of her son Paris. It’s been 10 years since he killed her daughter and she is left questioning his chance at redemption and her ability to forgive. We peel back the layers to reveal a family history previously marked by intra-family violence as Charity embraces motherhood for a third time with a new baby boy.

Multiple accounts allow for conflicting points of view, leaving the audience questioning where the ultimate truth and accountability lies.

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FIFTY SPRINGTIMES

(France) Be For Films.

89mins. Dir: Blandine Lenoir. Cast: Agnes Jaoui, Thibault De Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot.

Aurore, separated from her husband, has just lost her job and been told that she is going to be a grandmother.

She is slowly being pushed to the outskirts of society, but when she accidentally runs into the great love of her youth, she puts her foot down and refuses to be relegated to the scrap yard.

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What if now was the time to start over?

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FLASHBURN

(US) Red Sea Media.

90mins. Dir: George Serafini. Cast: Sean Patrick Flannery, Cameron Richardson.

Wes Nolan finds himself injured behind the wheel of a car in an abandoned warehouse with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He soon discovers that he is prevented from leaving by an unseen captor and must frantically search for answers to questions that may save more than just his life.

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GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN

(Brazil) Films Boutique.

125mins. Dir: Fellipe Barbosa. Cast: Joao Pedro Zappa, Caroline Abbras, Alex Alembe Asukule.

Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel decides to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After 10 months on the road, he arrives in Kenya where he is joined by his girlfriend.

But discovering Africa as a tourist is not enough for Gabriel. He decides to go deeper, leaving on his own for a journey across countries, new friendships and raw emotions to finally reach Mount Mulanje in Malawi, his final destination.

(France) Wide. 86mins.

Dir: Pierre Meynadier.

Arach is a baby caiman.

His father, Akam the valiant is a legend: not only is he the greatest hunter of the Great Kingdom but he is also the first caiman to decide to have a family. As Arach tells us how this all happened, we set off on a magical journey throughout the mesmerising Amazon.

A tale of hope, love and family where animals talk and nature unveils its finest marvels.

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PROJECTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Danish Documentary.

120mins.

Doc Corner

PURE HEARTS

Gray 5

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SPEAK UP THE QUEEN OF SPAIN

(Spain) Myriad Pictures.

128mins. Dir: Fernando Trueba. Cast: Penelope Cruz, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin.

A sultry Spanish film star and an eclectic cast of actors must rescue a long-time friend when he is kidnapped in the middle of the biggest American-Spanish coproduction of the year during the Golden Age of the Hollywood studio system.

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S HAKESPEARE WALLAH

(US) Cohen Media Group.

120mins. Dir: James Ivory.

Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, Felicity Kendal.

Arcades 1

(France) Upside Distribution. 99mins.

Dir: Stephane De Freitas, Ladj Ly. Cast: Leila Alaouf, Eddy Moniot.

Follows a group of college students partaking in an annual oratory competition in Paris.

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TAXI STORIES

(Hong Kong) Avalon Films. 97mins.

Dir: Doris Yeung.

Three stories in three different Asian cities where the paths of the rich and poor cross one another in and around taxis.

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09:45 FELICITE

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ORCHESTRA CLASS

(France) Gaumont.

96mins. 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 music in a working-class neighbourhood in Paris.

Arnold is a shy and chubby student who is fascinated with the violin and discovers he has a real talent for it.

gangsters, more like wannabe gangsters. Lacking motivation and a plan, they’re at the bottom of the bucket, and they are always tripping over their past.

SHIVERSTONE CASTLE See box, below

SMOKIN’ ON THE MOON

(Japan) Open Sesame Co,. 135mins. Dir: Kanata Wolf. Cast: Arata Iura, Ryo Narita.

Sota and Rakuto, two young men who work latenight shifts at a bar, have a secret: serving drinks isn’t their only means of living, they are also drug dealers, illegally trafficking marijuana. But they’re not

(France) Jour2Fete.

123mins. Dir: Alain Gomis.

Felicite is a proud, freewilled woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son falls victim to an accident. To save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa — a world of music and dreams where she’ll cross paths with Tabu.

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MARKET 09:30 SHIVERSTONE CASTLE

(Germany) Beta Cinema. 93mins.

Dir: Ralf Huettner. Cast: Maurizio Magno, Chieloka Nwokolo, Eloi Christ, Benedict Glockle.

Eleven-year-old Stephan transfers to the boarding school at Shiverstone Castle.

There he takes part in a prank-competition between the boys of Shiverstone and the neighbouring girls’ school.

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A brilliant scientist on a mission to hack the human mind in order to save humanity from its own catastrophic errors is pushed to do whatever is necessary to accomplish his mission.

GUKOROKU — TRACES OF SIN See box, right

10:00 GUADALAJARA GOES TO CANNES

Festival Internacional De Cine En Guadalajaramins.

110mins.

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MONTPARNASSE BIENVENUE

LIGHT THEREAFTER

(France) Be For Films.

97mins. Dir: Leonor Serraille. Cast: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Gregoire Monsaingeon.

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

(Bulgaria) Latido Films.

107. Dir: Konstantin Bojanov. Cast: Barry Keoghan, Kim Bodnia, Lubna Azabal, Solene Rigot, Thure Lindhardt.

Pavel is a young man obsessed with becoming an artist who, looking for inspiration, sets across Europe in search of his idol: the enigmatic painter Arnaud. In reverse, like a fragmented memory suspended in time, we witness his journey and the emotional impact the characters he meets on the road have on him.

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PICCOLI CRIMINI CONIUGALI

(Italy) Minerva Pictures Group. 84mins. Dir: Alex Infascelli. Cast: Sergio Castellito, Margherita Buy. A gangster action drama set in the city of Naples.

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MARKET 09:45 GUKOROKU — TRACES OF SIN

(Japan) Alpha Violet.

120mins. Dir: Kei Ishikawa. Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hikari Mitsushima.

Investigative reporter Tanaka immerses himself into a story about a murder case gone cold.

The “perfect” family – successful businessman, beautiful wife and adorable child — were

brutally murdered a year ago and the case remains unsolved. Tanaka interviews their friends and acquaintances, and as stories of their true nature unfold, he begins to discover the family was not as ideal as believed. The interviewees themselves unveil their own hidden natures, revealing a disturbing portrait of social elitism – inside and out.

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SALTY

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

Dir: Simon West.

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Olga Kurylenko.

Turk Henry is a megaplatinum rock star who’s married to a supermodel and rich beyond his wildest dreams. While on holiday, his wife is abducted by a group of renegade, ship-less pirates. With little assistance from local authorities, Henry is forced to embark on a mission to rescue his wife.

With life skills better suited to playing bass, playing the field and partying, he is forced to navigate through deadly jungles and take on ruthless bandits in this truly hilarious, action-packed romp.

94mins. Dir: Gerard Jugnot. Cast: Gerard Jugnot, Francois Deblock, Isabelle Mergault.

Loic’s life is turned upsidedown the day his teenager son dies in a car accident.

Loic is devastated and discovers after this tragedy that his son was a heart donor. He decides to find the lucky one who received his son’s heart.

Arcades 1

BOBBI JENE

ACCIDENTAL FAMILY

(Denmark) Autlook Filmsales. 90mins. Dir: Elvira Lind.

After a decade of stardom in Israel, the American dancer, Bobbi Jene takes intensity to a new level: she decides to leave her great mentor/choreographer Ohad Nahardi and the love of her life behind to return to US.

(France) Gaumont.

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Telefilm Canada. 110mins.

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CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN

(Norway) Rise And Shine World Sales. 90mins.

Dir: Anniken Hoel.

In 2005, director Anniken Hoel’s sister died mysteriously while being treated with antipsychotics.

Wanting to learn more about what led to her untimely death, Anniken discovers that her sister was only one of many victims worldwide.

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CRAVING

(Netherlands) Media Luna New Films. 96mins.

Dir: Saskia Diesing. Cast: Simone Kleinsma, Elise Van ‘T Laar, Leopold Witte.

Coco has no idea what to do with her life until she discovers her mother is terminally ill. Ignoring their distant relationship, as well as her mother’s desire to be alone, she wholeheartedly embraces this new purpose in life and moves in with her mother to take care of her.

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DIRECTIONS

(Bulgaria) Arri Media International. 103mins.

Dir: Stephan Komandarev.

Cast: Vassil VasilevZuek, Ivan Barnev, Assen Blatechki, Irini Jambonas, Vasil Banov, Troyan Gogov, Dimitar Banenkin, Stefan Denolyubov.

A road movie set in presentday Bulgaria, a country that remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left.

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HELLO AGAIN

(US) Bob’s Your Uncle.

95mins. Dir: Tom Gustafson. Cast: Sam Underwood, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jenna Ushkowitz, Rumor Willis, TR Knight, Cheyenne Jackson, Audra McDonald, Matha Plimpton.

Ten lost souls slip in and out of each other’s arms in a daisy-chain musical exploration of love’s bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of LaChiusa’s celebrated musical.

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I AM NOT A WITCH

(Uk, France, Zambia) Kinology. 95mins.

Dir: Rungano Nyoni.

Cast: Juliette Grandmont, Emily Morgan, Titus Kreyenberg.

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IT COMES AT NIGHT

(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 test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

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KEMTIYU — CHEIKH ANTA

(France) Autoproduction & Les Films Mame Yandemins. 94mins. Dir: Ousmane William Mbaye.

The story of a man who fought his whole life for truth and justice in order to restore historical awareness and dignity to Africa.

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NEWNESS

(US) Seville International.

112mins. Dir: Drake Doremus. Cast: Luke Baybak, Rene Cadet, Eva Ceja.

In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social mediadriven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

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NURSERY RHYME OF A MADMAN

(Canada) Rados Film Corp 98mins. Dir: Igor Stephen Rados. Cast: Christoper James R, Pola Stankovic, Keith Fernandes, Tim Kachurov.

A poet is trapped in an asylum by two competing doctors with opposing schools of thought.

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SECRET SCREENING BLUE

(US) Submarine Entertainment. 90mins.

Gray 2

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THEY MINDHACK: #SAVETHEWORLD

(US) Film Mode Entertainment. 106mins.

Dir: Royce Gorsuch. Cast: Spencer Locke, Faran Tahir, Scott Mechlowicz, Chri Mason.

(US) Luxboxmins.

80mins. Dir: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh. Cast: Rhys Fehrenbacher, Koohyar Hosseini, Nicole Coffineau.

Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They’

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and lives with ‘their’ parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition. Over this crucial weekend while their parents are away, J’s sister Lauren and her maybe/maybe-not Iranian partner Araz arrive to take care of ‘They’.

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TIGER GIRL

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ready to step into his big brother’s shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.

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12:00 A CIAMBRA

AT WAR FOR LOVE

(Italy) Luxbox. 120mins.

Dir: Jonas Carpignano.

Cast: Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Iolanda Amato, Damiano Amato.

Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions — the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their home town. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s

(Italy) Rai Com. 99mins.

Dir: Pierfrancesco Diliberto.

New York 1943. Arturo, a Sicilian immigrant, is in love with Flora and they would like to get married.

He enlists in the US Army in order to start a journey to Sicily to get Flora’s father’s blessing.

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AVA

(France) BAC Films.

106mins. Dir: Lea Mysius.

Cast: Noee Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano.

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her

mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run.

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BLOODY MILK

(France) Pyramide International. 90mins.

Dir: Hubert Charuel.

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

Pierre is a 30-year-old dairy farmer. His life revolves around the family farm he took over, his cows, his veterinarian sister and his parents. When the first cases of an epidemic disease break out in France, Pierre finds out one of his animals is infected. Losing his cows is not an option for Pierre.

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

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CAN’T SAY GOODBYE

(Spain) Inside Content.

96mins. Dir: Lino Escalera. Cast: Nathalie Poza, Juan Diego, Lola Duenas, Pau Dura.

Carla gets a call from her sister: her father, to whom she hasn’t spoken for some time, is ill. That same day, Carla takes a flight to Almeria, her home town.

There, the doctors give her father a few months to live.

She refuses to accept this and, against everyone’s opinion, decides to take him to Barcelona for treatment. The two of them set out on a journey to escape a reality that neither dares to face.

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DEVIL’S FREEDOM

(Mexico) Films Boutique.

74mins. Dir: Everardo Gonzalez.

Mexico, 2016: in some of the world’s most dangerous cities life is not worth much. Looking into the

eyes of the pepertrators of violence, victims as well as executioners, help us to understand how fear inserted itself in the subconscious of our society.

Through a network of concrete stories, we are facing the most obscure traits of the human psyche, the frail balance between humanity and evil.

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FORTUNATA

(Italy) True Colours.

103mins. Dir: Sergio Castellitto. Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Stefano Accorsi, Alessandro Borghi, Edoardo Pesce, Anna Schygulla.

Fortunata struggles to achieve her dreams, trying the best to be a good mother while fighting hard with her ex-husband. But the overturning power of love will change her life, giving her new hope and a new chance for happiness.

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(Germany) Picture Tree International. 90mins.

Dir: Jakob Lass. Cast: Ella Rumpf, Maria-Victoria Dragus.

Tiger gets what she wants.

Rule#2: The biter will bite.

Vanilla does not even know what she wants. Apart from one important thing: a uniform — an assignment.

But she fails the police exam and ends up at a private security firm. Tiger

is intrigued by the girl, who just desperately tries to belong. Tiger teaches her to bite and Vanilla tastes blood.

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M.F.A.

(US) Visit Films. 93mins.

Dir: Natalia Leite. Cast: Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr, Leah Mckendrick, Peter Vack.

After being sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate, an art student takes justice into her own hands.

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SAMURAI RAUNI

(Finland) Black Lion Pictures. 80mins.

Dir: Mika Ratto.

Cast: Mika Ratto.

Villagers are afraid of Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen, who keeps them on their toes every day. When someone places a bounty on Rauni’s head, he goes after this mysterious person.

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involving politics, organised crime and part of the Church. The film tells the true story of the Orlandi case, her kidnapping and the results of the multiple investigations, which never succeeded in finding her body.

CYCLE

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13:15 IN LOVE WITH LOU — A PHILOSOPHER’S LIFE

(Germany) Arri Media International. 112mins.

Dir: Cordula Kablitz-Post, Susanne Hertel. Cast: Katharina Lorenz, Nicole Heesters, Liv Lisa Fries.

When writer and psychoanalyst Lou AndreasSalome meets young German scholar Ernst Pfeiffer he helps her write the story of her life and falls in love with her as many before.

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STARLESS DREAMS

(Iran) Les Films Du Whippet. 76mins.

Dir: Mehrdad Oskouei.

Teenage girls consigned to the Iranian ‘Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre’ discuss their troubled lives and reveal what brought them there.

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TEHRAN TABOO

(Germany) Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares.

96mins. Dir: Ali Soozandeh. Cast: Elmira Rafizadeh, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi.

The lives of three strongwilled women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

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THE TRUTH LIES IN HEAVEN

(Italy) Amadeus Entertainment. Dir: Roberto Faenza. 91mins.

In 1983, Emanuela Orlandi, a teenager and a Vatican citizen, disappeared. The event had heinous ramifications that are still pertinent today in a typically Italian fabric 40 Screen International at Cannes May 22, 2017

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

102mins. Dir: Prakash Kunte. Cast: Hrishikesh Joshi, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Bhalachandra Kadam.

THE EXES

(France) SND — Groupe M6. 105mins. Dir: Maurice Barthelemy. Cast: Jean-Paul Rouve, Arnaud Ducret, Patrick Chesnais.

In Paris, the City of Love, five very different couples cross paths while dealing with break-ups, exes and new love interests.

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THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

(Greece) Hanway Films.

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

ALBERT PINTO KO GUSSA KYUN AATA HAI

Competition Lumiere Ticket required

(India) Indie Muviz.

91mins.

LUCKY

Gray 2

THE BACHELORS

(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-year-old son move to the big city in an attempt to make a fresh start. As they each begin to adjust to their new lives and seek ways to heal their wounds, they both find comfort in newfound romance.

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(US) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing.

88mins. Dir: John Carroll Lynch. Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr, Tom Skerritt.

Follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.

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Mexican Film Institute (Imcine). 120mins.

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THE RIDER

Telefilm Canada. 110mins.

(US) Protagonist Pictures.

102mins. Dir: Chloe Zhao.

Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau.

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, young cowboy Brady is warned his riding days are over after a horse crushes his skull. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Brady’s sense of inadequacy mounts as he is unable to ride or rodeo — the essentials of being a cowboy. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

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BEYOND DREAMS

(Sweden) Pluto Film Distribution Network.

90mins. Dir: Rojda Sekersoz. Cast: Evin Ahmad, Ella Ahman, Gizem Erdogan.

Rebellious Mirja and her friends have had enough of the society they’ve grown up in. They want to get out.

Their dream is Montevideo and a house at a beach.

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97mins. Dir: Audrey Dana. Cast: Audrey Dana, Christian Clavier, Eric Elmosnino, Alice Belaidi.

Jeanne has had such a lousy time with men that she swears them off for good. But one day she wakes up… with a penis! As much as some women may fantasise about it, Jeanne definitely doesn’t.

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INSYRIATED

MARKET 14:00 HOUSE IN THE FIELDS

(Morocco) Alpha Violet.

86mins. Dir: Tala Hadid.

Examines the life of an

SEQUENCE BREAK

(US) Jinga Films.

80mins. Dir: Graham Skipper. Cast: Chase Williamson, Fabianne Therese, Audrey Wasilewski, Lisa Long.

A beautiful young woman threatens the reality of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in a biomechanical mutation.

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STEP BY STEP

(France) Gaumont.

110mins. Dir: Fabien Marsaud, Mehdi Idir.

Cast: Pablo Pauly.

Following an accident, a college student wakes up to find himself a bedridden tetraplegic. One day, Ben miraculously moves a toe and is transferred from a hopeless hospital bed to a rehab centre where he can look forward to some kind of future.

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isolated rural Amazigh community in the southwest region of the High Atlas Mountains.

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the consequences of occupation.

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WIZ KIDS: MAKING SCHOOL A BETTER PLACE

(France) Jour2Fete.

90mins. Dir: Antoine Fromental.

The headmaster of a public middle school in a diverse Parisian suburb has decided to implement an alternative teaching programme based on intensive acting classes and rugby training — 2016 is the final year for the two classes that were at the spearhead of the experiment.

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(Canada) Seville International. 93mins.

Dir: Robert Morin.

(France) Doc & Film International. 90mins.

Dir: Amos Gitai.

The efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome

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THE DESERT BRIDE

(Argentina) Cite Films.

78mins. Dir: Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato.

Cast: Paulina Garcia, Claudio Rissi.

Teresa has worked for decades as a live-in maid with a family in Buenos Aires. When the family sells the house, she is forced to take a job in the distant town of San Juan. Although feeling uncomfortable with travelling, she embarks on a journey through the desert. During her first stop, in the land of the miraculous ‘Saint Correa’, she loses her bag with all her belongings. This unexpected incident leads her to cross paths with El Gringo, a travelling salesman, the only one who can help Teresa find her bag. What seemed like the end of her world will ultimately prove her salvation.

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14:00 AMBITION

WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER

involved in a frightening trap that she has to find her way out of.

(US) Film Sales Company.

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

A young aspiring musician preparing for a competition gets herself

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HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (Imcine).

92mins. Dir: Chavez Jose Ramon.

A family is at its breaking point. Dad kicked Mum out of the house because she is a gambling addict, the older child’s fiancée

wants to cancel their wedding, and the youngest child believes he can fix his family and bring them back together. An accident will make everyone reconsider their decisions; the doctors say one of them will not make it through the night.

(Belgium) Films Boutique. 85mins.

Dir: Philippe Van Leeuw.

Cast: Hiam Abbas.

Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan, mother of three, turns her flat into a safe haven for her family and neighbours, trying to protect them from the war outside. When bombs threaten to destroy the building, when snipers turn the courtyards into deadly zones and burglars break in to claim their dreadful bounties, maintaining the thin balance of routine inside the walls becomes a matter of life and death.

Zapata, Deanne Bray, Daniel Riordan.

The US Border Patrol goes after a young Latina with no “papers” — so her only choice is to enlist the help of a homeless veteran on his crazy quest for a dying unicorn.

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LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA

(Italy, Poland) All Rights Entertainment.

85mins. Dir: Sergio Manfio.

Life flows peacefully in Vinci: Leonardo is struggling with his incredible inventions, Lorenzo helps him and Gioconda observes them mockingly. When a mysterious story-teller comes to town and speaks of a hidden treasure, an adventure begins.

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LEVELK SCREENING 1

Levelk. 90mins.

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LINDY LOU: JUROR NUMBER 2

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LIONHEART: THE PRINCE & THE MAP OF DESTINY

(US) Legend 44 Productions. 100mins.

Dir: Robert Fleet. Cast: Soon-Tek Oh, Lorina

(Hong Kong) All Rights Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Jack Mahboobani.

Set in a stunning fantasy

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HOUSE IN THE FIELDS See box, above

IF I WERE A BOY

(France) Elle Driver.

MARKET 14:00 LINDY LOU: JUROR NUMBER 2

(France) Wide House. 85mins.

Dir: Florent Vassault.

For 20 years, she has lived with an unbearable feeling of guilt and no one in this Republican and Protestant community understood her distress.

In 2006, Lindy met the man, Bobby Wilcher, who didn’t have a single visitor

on Death Row in Parchman. She sought his forgiveness and became his friend.

This friendship shocked people and she lost dear friends along the way.

Traumatised, this is how Lindy begins her journey and finds her 11 fellow jurors since they sentenced this man to death and questions the impact this experience had on them.

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world where magic meets steampunk. Best friends Jack and Alex come across a magical map that could lead them to ‘everything your heart desires’, setting them on an incredible journey across the perilous Outlands.

candid, often funny, sometimes shocking experiences in the company of Kubrick are woven together with rich and varied elements including previously unseen photos, videos, letters, notebooks and memos from Leon’s private collection.

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SATURDAY CHURCH

(US) Westend Films.

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

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

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VILNIUS GOES TO CANNES

Vilnius Film Festival ‘Kino Pavasaris’. 110mins.

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YOU ARE KILLING ME SUSANA

(Mexico) Filmsharks.

102mins. Dir: Roberto Sneider. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Veronica Echegui.

Eligio embarks on a quest to find and win back his wife, Susana, who without a word, left Mexico City behind for a writers’ conference held in the chilly US heartland.

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(Spain) Stray Dogs.

94mins. Dir: Pedro Aguilera. Cast: Ivana Baquero, Julio Perillan.

Oliver, a young film director, discovers on an erotic website that the

Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Mavie Horbiger.

Mifti is 16, looks like she’s 12 and acts like she’s in her mid-30s. Wild, sad, sensible and in love, Mifti has to grow up, one way or another.

EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY

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EVERYDAY HEROES

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(France) All Rights Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Charles De Meaux.

Cast: Fan Bing Bing, Yue Wu.

(Spain) Urdaneta Representation. 97mins.

Dir: Antonio Pelaez Barcelo.

Known for his blockbuster movies, Spanish director Javier Aguirre worked meanwhile on his avantgarde (almost unknown) films, breaking all the rules of cinema.

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15:15 A MAN OF INTEGRITY

(France) UDI — Urban Distribution International.

80mins. Dir: Arthur De Pins, Alexis Ducord.

Zombillenium is an amusement park like no other: only genuine werewolves, vampires, zombies are employed there… for eternity. One day, Hector, a young compliance officer, comes to control the park’s safety and threatens to shut it down. Francis, the vampire who manages the park, has no choice but to bite him to protect his business. And so Hector is hired…and could well be Zombillenium’s last chance.

(Iran) The Match Factory. 117mins.

Dir: Mohammad Rasoulof. Cast: Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Beizaee, Nasim Adabi, Misagh Zare, Zeynab Shabani, Zhila Shahi.

Having distanced himself from urban life years ago, Reza turned to goldfish breeding. Somewhere deep in the countryside, his breeding farm provides him with a way of life.

But the farm’s administration has recently met a series of difficulties, so he tries to circumvent them while avoiding falling into the trap of a corrupt nexus of human relations.

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ZOMBILLENIUM

protagonist of one of the videos is his younger half-sister, Aurora.

In the process of finding out what she was doing there, Oliver will become fascinated by Aurora.

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A MODERN MAN

(Denmark) Rise And Shine World Sales.

84mins. Dir: Eva Mulvad.

Young, beautiful, rich, Charlie Siem is the perfect modern man: a young, wealthy photo model for Hugo Boss — and even an accomplished violinist with an army of worldwide fans. But is there also a human being behind the perfectionist?

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AXOLOTL OVERKILL

(Germany) The Match Factory. 94mins.

Dir: Helene Hegemann.

(US) Dogwoof. 90mins.

Dir: Alexandra Dean.

Cast: Hedy Lamarr.

Hollywood wild-child Hedy Lamarr was infamous for her marriages and affairs.

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CHILDREN OF CHANCE

(Belgium) Doc & Film International. 100mins.

Dir: Thierry Michel, Pascal Coison.

In the small, local school of Cheratte, a former mining town, 11-year-old students with an immigrant background are coming to the end of their primary school education with Brigitte, a dynamic teacher.

Her pedagogical approach aims to integrate these pupils into a constantly changing world. Throughout the school year, the film follows these grandsons of miners, mainly Turks and Muslims. While some of their elders opt for identity closure, this film evokes the challenge awaiting these children to integrate into current society, in the face of terrorist attacks.

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(UK) Goldcrest Films International. 90mins.

Dir: Peter Webber, Richard Dale.

Cast: Robert Redford.

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(France) TF1 Studio.

80mins. Dir: Anne Dauphine Julliand.

A feature-length documentary about the power of life and resiliency, featuring five children who are willing to share with us their everyday life, their doubts and their joys. These children among all children have a particularity: Imad, Ambre, Charles, Tugdual and Camille have been diagnosed with serious pathologies, which make them both very mature and self-aware of the power of now.

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FILMWORKER

(US) Cinetic Media.

89mins. Dir: Tony Zierra.

Cast: Leon Vitali, Ryan O’Neal, Danny Lloyd.

It’s a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else’s creative vision. Yet, that’s what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’. The young actor gave up his thriving career to become Kubrick’s loyal right-hand man. Leon’s

(UK) Carnaby International Sales & 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’.

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JUST CHARLIE

(UK) Media Luna New Films. 99mins.

Dir: Rebekah Fortune.

Cast: Harry Gilby, Scot Williams, Patricia Potter, Elinor Machen-Fortune, Peter Lloyd, Karen Bryson.

Football star Charlie has the world at his feet. With a top club desperate to sign him, his future is seemingly mapped out.

But the teenager only sees a nightmare. Trapped in the body of a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father’s expectations and shedding this ill-fitting skin. Charlie’s next move will tear the family apart and threaten everything they hold dear.

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LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA

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

Dir: Sergio Manfio.

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

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MADAME

(France) Studiocanal.

110mins. Dir: Amanda Sthers. Cast: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy De Palma.

Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne and Bob, a wealthy and wellconnected American couple, move into a manor house in romantic Paris. While preparing a particularly luxurious dinner for sophisticated international friends, our hostess discovers there are 13 guests. Panicstricken, Anne insists her loyal maid Maria disguise herself as a mysterious Spanish noblewoman to even out the numbers. But a little too much wine and some playful chat leads Maria to accidently endear herself to a dandy British artbroker. Their budding romance will have Anne chasing her maid around Paris and finally plotting to destroy this most unexpected

and joyous love affair.

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MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH

(UK) The Exchange.

104mins. Dir: Daniel Jerome Gill. Cast: Freya Mavor, Josh Whitehouse.

First brought together by their shared love of music, 10 years later Liam and Natalie have reached a breaking point. Opposites attract, but aren’t necessarily working long-term. Liam, a struggling musician, cannot let go of his vinyl collection and refuses to adapt to a world of smartphones and instant downloads. Natalie has let go of her dream of designing album covers and has become a rising star at her advertising firm. As they make the difficult decision to separate, they start by splitting their prized music library, but the soundtrack that defined their relationship keeps pulling them back together.

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SHANKAR, THE GROCER

(India) Custard Apple Pictures. 110mins.

Dir: Aniket Chattopadhyay.

Cast: Kaushik Ganguly, Sreela Majumder, Anjan Dutt, Ankitaa Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee.

Foreign direct investment

is slowly but steadily spreading its wings in the towns and suburban areas of India. The film looks at the impact of forein investment on society.

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SOME LIKE IT VEILED

(France) Films Distribution.

87mins. Dir: Sou Abadi.

Cast: Felix Moati, Camelia Jordana, William Lebghil, Anne Alvaro, Miki Manojlovic.

Armand and Leila are in love. Together they plan to go to New York for an internship. But a few days before their departure, Mahmoud, Leila’s big brother, comes back from a long-term stay in Yemen, during which he has changed drastically. Wanting to reframe Leila’s life, which he judges indecent, Mahmoud decides to confine his sister and keep her apart from her boyfriend. How can Armand free Leila? Armand has no choice — if he wants to sneak into Leila’s apartment he will have to wear a niqab. The next day, a new woman in a niqab walks through Paris… her name is Sheherazade.

Cast: Leopold Witte, Tim Linde, Helen Belbin, Julie Mclellan, The Waterboys.

Victor and his son Zach have to sort out their relationship during a turbulent trip to Scotland where Victor’s latest book has to be promoted.

A film about a father who needs to grow up and a son who should take life less seriously.

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16:00 THE CHAMBER

(UK) Great Point Media.

91mins. Dir: Ben Parker.

Cast: Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Charlotte Salt, James McArdle.

Dropped into the Yellow Sea and commandeering a research submersible along with its pilot Mats, a Special Ops team lead by the headstrong Edwards descends to the ocean floor to search for an unknown object before it falls into enemy hands. Following an accident deep underwater the crew find themselves fighting for their lives and against each other as the water rises and their air supply runs out.

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DUBAI GOES TO CANNES WATERBOYS

(Netherlands) Wide. 93mins.

Dir: Robert Jan Westdijk.

Dubai International Film Festival. 110mins.

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(Hong Kong) All Rights

Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Jack Mahboobani.

Set in a fantasy world where magic meets steampunk,

best friends Jack and Alexc ome across a magical map that could lead them to “everything your heart

desires”, setting them on an incredible journey across the perilous Outlands.

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through Eastern Europe in desperate attempt to get a job and fulfil his dream — to catch a big fish.

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SECRET SCREENING PINK

(US) Submarine Entertainment. 90mins.

Yoel is certain that this is a mistake, but the further he plunges into his research the more he doubts his mother’s Jewish identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.

16:00 MOBILE HOMES

(Canada) Mongrel International. 104mins.

Dir: Vladimir De Fontenay. Cast: Imogen Poots, Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie.

A wanderlust young mother must decide between her recklessly hypnotic boyfriend and the unspoken promise of finding a solid home for her son.

Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France.

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JULIAN SCHNABEL — A PRIVATE PORTRAIT HOSTILE

(France) All Rights Entertainment.

90mins. Dir: Mathieu Turi. Cast: Javier Botet, Brittany Ashworth, Gregory Fitoussi.

A worldwide epidemic kills most of the planet’s population. Only a few thousand have survived and are struggling to find food and shelter. But they’re not alone: they have to hide from strange creatures that go hunting at night... Juliette, a young woman whose life has taught her to handle things on her own, is the only one in her group to have the guts to go anywhere near cities to find food. But, on her way back to the camp one afternoon, she loses control as she’s driving… she wakes up upside down, stuck in her car with a broken leg, in the middle of the desert, and… it’s nighttime.

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IT’S ALL ABOUT KARMA

(Italy) Rai Com. 90mins.

Dir: Edoardo Falcone.

Cast: Fabio De Luigi, Elio

Germano, Eros Pagni, Daniela Virgilio.

Giacomo, an extravagant rich heir, deeply believes in reincarnation. Forty years after the loss of his father, he is convinced he has seen his father again when he meets Mario Pitagora, a man far from being spiritual, interested only in money and heavily indebted. This absurd encounter will change the lives of both. A surprising comedy about friendship.

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JEANNETTE, THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

(France) Luxbox.

106mins. Dir: Bruno Dumont.

France, 1425: in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of eight, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but

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(Italy) Global Screen.

90mins. Dir: Pappi Corsicato. Cast: Julian Schnabel.

A look at the personal life and public career of New York artist Julian Schnabel.

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BRIMSTONE & GLORY UNTITLED

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AHWAL-E-DARYA

(Afghanistan) Axobarax.

96mins. Dir: Homayoun Karimpour. Cast: Hajigul Asser.

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(Russia) Mirsand.

141mins. Dir: Sergey Kiselyov, Yuriy Bykov.

Cast: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabensky.

Based on real events: the spacecraft enters orbit.

Clad in a special spacesuit, Leonov is the first person ever to step out into open space. Everything seems to be running smoothly, but the broadcast is suddenly interrupted…

(Austria) Autlook FilmSales. 107mins. Dir: Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi.

Michael Glawogger: “I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one’s own curiosity and intuition.”

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YEVA

(Israel) Intramovies.

90mins. Dir: Amichai Greenberg. Cast: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Agit Dasberg, Ori Yaniv.

Yoel, 45, an international expert in Holocaust research, has spent more than 15 years diligently studying the Nazi’s methods of annihilating Jews in Austria and Hungary. In the course of his research he discovers, almost by chance, classified documents which hint to the fact that his mother is living under an assumed identity.

(Iran) Farabi Cinema Foundation. 94mins.

Dir: Anahid Abad. Cast: Narina Grigorian, Shant Hovhanisian, Sergay Tovmasian.

After her husband’s tragic death, Yeva escapes her influential in-laws with her daughter Nareh and takes refuge in one of the villages of Karabakh, Armenia.

Yeva is a complete stranger in this village and is obliged to live her daily life in disguise.

THE SPACEWALKER

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(US) Mongrel International. 67mins.

Dir: Viktor Jakovleski.

An immersive exploration of celebration, rituals, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks.

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DROPPING THE SOAP

(US) Glass House Distribution. 136mins.

Dir: Ellie Kanner.

Cast: Jane Lynch, Missi Pyle, Paul Witten, John Michael Higgins, Patrick Fabian, Mimi Rogers.

The bubble is about to burst for the cast and crew of the long-running soap-opera ‘Collided Lives’ when new executive producer Olivia Vanderstein shows up.

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HOW I MET MY FATHER

(France) Other Angle Pictures. 90mins.

Dir: Maxime Motte.

Cast: Francois-Xavier Demaison, Isabelle Carre.

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reason for living: her job in the crash test team of a car manufacturing plant.

When the management announces the activity will be relocated to India, she decides to move there rather than lose her

job. Together with two (reluctant) colleagues and an old shabby car as means of transport, she embarks on an absurd journey to the end of the world.

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OUR EVIL

(Brazil) Blood Window 92mins. Dir: Samuel Galli.

Cast: Ademir Esteves, Ricardo Casella, Sonia Morena, Anthony Mello, Luara Pepita, Fernando Cardoso.

In the seedy underbelly of Sao Paulo, a spiritualist employs a serial killer to protect his daughter from demonic possession.

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(Hungary) Cercamon.

83mins. Dir: Gyorgy Kristof. Cast: Sandor Terhes.

The power plant is closing — unemployment takes over a town in Eastern Slovakia. Agoston, a family man in his 50s, ventures

MARKET 17:30 CRASH TEST AGLAE

(France) Le Pacte.

85mins. Dir: Eric Gravel.

Cast: India Hair, Julie Depardieu, Yolande Moreau.

A young woman has one

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IT’S YOUR TURN, HONEY!

A SILENT VOICE

(Germany) Global Screen.

90mins. Dir: Sven Unterwaldt. Cast: Carolin Kebekus, Maxim Mehmet, Axel Stein, Jasmin Schwiers.

When their passion for each other seems lost for good, Toni and Marc agree to separate on friendly terms.

But starting over is not as easy as they thought: they each have a shot at a great new job abroad. Who will take care of their kids, Emma and Tobias? So they come up with a deal: “Let’s just let Emma and Tobias decide who they want to live with.” Simple, right? But now the race is on: with the sneakiest tricks, Toni and Marc try to convince their kids they’d be much happier with the other parent in a no-holds-barred backward custody battle.

(Japan) Viz Media Europe. 129mins.

Dir: Naoko Yamada.

Cast: Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yuuki, Kensho Ono, Yuki Kaneko, Yui Ishikawa, Megumi Han. A grade school student with impaired hearing transfers to a new school, where she is bullied by her classmates, especially Ishida Shouya.

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

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ANA AND BRUNO

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ROBIN

(Denmark) The Yellow Affair. 81mins.

Dir: Antonio Tublen.

Cast: Rosalinde Mynster, Jesper Christensen, Julie G Wester.

A female-centric psychological thriller about Robin, who mysteriously awakens in a forest, naked and confused, and comes to the conviction, without any tangible evidence, she has witnessed a murder.

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SAMSON

(South Africa) Pure Flix/ Quality Fix. 70mins. Dir: Bruce Macdonald. Cast: Taylor James, Billy Zane, Jackson Rathbone, Rutger Hauer, Lindsay Wagner.

Out of the pages of ancient scripture arises the first superhero saga ­— that of a child born with supernatural strength in 1200BC who, as an adult, leads his oppressed tribe against the mighty empire of his day. Though seduced by women and wine, his feats of might and valour strike fear into the heart of his enemies. In the end, only one God can stand in this tale of seduction, revenge, and supernatural might.

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(South Korea) Fabulous.

130mins. Dir: Sungbok Jung. Cast: Hiba Tawaji, Angelo Del Vecchio, Daniel Lavoie, Richard Charest, Martin Giroux, Alyzee Lalande.

The gypsy Esmeralda captures the hearts of many men, including those

of Captain Phoebus,the poet Pierre Gringoire, the hunchback Quasimodo, and his guardian Archdeacon Frollo. A story of love and desire set against a backdrop of social and class turmoil, the tragic story of NotreDame de Paris comes to life on screen.

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SLOVENIA, AUSTRALIA AND TOMORROW THE WORLD

(Slovenia) Slovenian Film Centre. 116mins.

Dir: Marko Nabersnik.

Cast: Jure Ivanusic, Minca Lorenci, Aljosa Ternovsek, Milada Kalezic, Vlado Novak.

A social drama, complemented by comical and witty scenes.

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THE SQUARE SAMURAI IN AUTUMN

(Serbia) Wide. 88mins.

Dir: Danilo Beckovic.

Cast: Petar Strugar, Hristina Popovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Nikola Kojo.

A karate champion falls from grace after being caught in a doping scandal. He returns to his birthplace, a small town in Serbia and finds redemption by falling in love with a single mother whose son participates in his karate class. Unable to maintain his lifestyle, he secretly enters the underground fighting circuit and risks losing it all.

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SHOCK WAVE

(Hong Kong) Universe Films Distribution Co. 119mins. Dir: Herman Yau. Cast: Andy Lau, Wu Jiang, Philip Keung, Jia Song, Ron Ng. When a terrorist who specialises in explosives takes hold of an

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underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.

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SICILIAN GHOST STORY

(Italy) The Match Factory.

122mins. Dir: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza. Cast: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari, Vincenzo Amato, Sabine Timoteo.

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance.

She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

Only their indestructible love will be able to bring her back.

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(Sweden) Coproduction Office. 142mins.

Dir: Ruben Ostlund.

Cast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss.

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

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TUFTLAND

(Finland) Bright Fame Pictures. 89mins.

Dir: Roope Olenius.

Cast: Veera W Vilo, Saara Elina, Miikka J Anttila, Neea Viitamaki, Arja Pekurinen, Mirja Oksanen, Ari Savonen, Janne-Markus Katila, Enni Ojutkangas.

To overcome her problems, a textile student decides to accept an unexpected summer job offer at the secluded and self-sufficient village of Kyrsya. As she begins to get a grip of herself in the middle of the endless Finnish forest, the harmless and offbeat hillbillies begin to reveal

their true nature.

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WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY! 2

(Japan) Shochiku Co. 113mins. Dir: Yoji Yamada. Cast: Isao Hashizume, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yu Aoi. Several years have passed since Shuzo Hirata and his wife Tomiko came within inches of getting divorced. Shuzo enjoys getting out of the house and going for drives, but after his car starts to collect more dents than ever before, his eldest son Konosuke and daughterin-law Fumie begin to worry about his safety as an elderly driver, and decide to ask him to relinquish his licence.

However, how on earth are they going to convince such a stubborn old man to do so?

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (Imcine).

95mins. Dir: Carlos Carreras. Cast: Marina De Tavira, Damian Alcazar, Silverio Palacios.

Animated adventure about a young girl who seeks out her father in order to help save her troubled mother.

Palais G

ANNA KARENINA. VRONSKY’S STORY

(Japan) Gaga Corporation.

127mins. Dir: Daihachi Yoshida. Cast: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ai Hashimoto, Tomoko Nakajima.

Portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.

(Russia) Mosfilm Cinema Concernmins.

138mins. Dir: Karen Shakhnazarov. Cast: Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Maksim Matveyev, Vitaly Kishchenko, Kirill Grebenschikov.

There is no single truth in love. How do we choose?

And who gets to judge?

These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei struggling to understand why his mother took such a terrible path, and Count Vronsky, haunted by the memory of the woman whose death he still blames himself for 30 years later.

In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russian-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexey Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and to find the answers both have long been seeking.

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(Turkey) Kisakes Short Film Festival. 110mins.

Dir: various.

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(Iran) Filmfestivals.com.

76mins. Dir: Ali Nouri Oskouie.

In a war-torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a lifechanging journey.

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(Japan) Wild Bunch.

129mins. Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa.

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Contents Panda. 129mins.

TWO CROWNS

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Telewizja Polska.

82mins.

FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES)

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(France) Cohen Media Group. 100mins.

Dir: Agnes Varda, JR. Cast: Agnes Varda, JR. Agnes Varda and JR have a few things in common.

They share a passion for art and they love talking to people. They share part of their lives to create a simple, humorous and peaceful chronicle, and road movie of their friendship Palais I

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(Canada) N5 Pictures.

90mins. Dir: Ant Horasanli. Cast: Tyler Blake Smith, Gregory Hlady, Nicola Posener.

Nate is a driver working for a Russian crime syndicate in Canada. Running drugs between Montreal and Toronto, his life is thrown into turmoil one day when his car is stolen with a shipment of heroin inside the trunk. Nate must now convince his boss Roman, the leader of the organisation, that there was no foul play.

To test his loyalty, Roman asks Nate to do another job for him — pick up a girl from Montreal and bring her back to Toronto for execution. Having no choice in the matter, Nate heads to Montreal and it is only there that he learns that the girl is Zoe... his late wife’s little sister.

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(Japan) Village.

134mins. Dir: Hidenori Inoue, Takuji Izumi.

Cast: Arata Furuta, Izumi Inamori, Shunsuke Daito.

A chivalrous thief is betrayed by his henchman and his entire gang is slaughtered. Gravely wounded, Juzuaburo escapes and is saved by Inspector Sadaemon and a couple, Kansuke and Okayo, who run a tavern. There, the thief Cast: Ervin Nagy, Andrea Petrick, Tibor Gaspar.

Hungarian aristocrat and supreme horse trainer Sandor Blaskovich is killed by his former friend, Austrian officer Otto von Oettingen. Von Oettingen takes over Blaskovich castle with his young daughter, while Sandor’s orphaned son Erno has to move to a poor labourer’s cottage.

Erno cannot forgive Oettingen for taking his father’s life, land and honour. Years later, he goes on to purchase and train a magnificent horse, Kincsem, which he believes will be his winning ticket to regaining the family home.

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retires from the trade and changes his name to Genzaburo. A few peaceful years go by then Kansuke dies from an illness. Genzaburo helps Okayo to run the prosperous tavern. One night, a local police chief inquires about a bandit named Sunakichi.

Genzaburo realises that Katsunosuke is the son of the man who saved his life years ago. Genzaburo comes up with a plan to repay his debt.

Palais B

Dir: Sergio Manfio.

Life flows peacefully in Vinci: Leonardo is struggling with his incredible inventions, Lorenzo helps him and Gioconda observes them mockingly. When a mysterious story-teller comes to town and speaks of a hidden treasure, an adventure begins.

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LINO

(Brazil) Filmsharks International. 60mins.

Dir: Rafael Ribas.

A children’s party entertainer who can’t stand his routine and his cat costume anymore decides to seek help from a not very talented wizard.

KINCSEM — BET ON REVENGE

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

Dir: Gabor Herendi.

LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA

RETURN TO MONTAUK

(Italy) All Rights Entertainment. 85mins.

(France) Gaumont.

106mins. Dir: Volker

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Schlondorff. Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Nina Hoss, Bibiana Beglau.

Max Zorn arrives in New York to promote his latest novel. As he’s doing some readings, an old, failed love reappears: 17 years ago he had a fling with Rebecca, a German expat. Montauk, at the far end of Long Island, was home to their passion.

Max intended never to see her again but when he learns that Rebecca is in town he tries to get in touch with her. She decides to take him back to Montauk, a place of hope and regret.

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WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN

(Taiwan) Mandarinvision.

117mins. Dir: Wei-Hao Cheng. Cast: Kai-Hsun Chuang, Wei-Ning Hsu, Chia-Yen Ko, Christopher Lee, Mason Lee. Reporter Chi discovers that his second-hand car was involved a hit-and-run accident nine years earlier and begins searching for the truth behind this longforgotten case. Although his boss is reluctant to help, Chi enlists the aid of a rookie police officer. When Chi discovers that the sole survivor of the accident has suddenly disappeared, he must beat the clock to get her back. It soon becomes clear that there is a dark truth behind this case that Chi never imagined possible.

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18:35 ONE BUCK

(US) All Rights Entertainment. 87mins.

Dir: Fabien Dufils.

Cast: John Freeman, Katie Ryan, Leslie Coutterand, Darren Kendrick.

Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man’s drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, ‘one buck’, takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.

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19:30 THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

(Greece) 119mins.

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman.

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20:00 ASURA GIRL

(Japan) Nega Co. 89mins. Dir: Shutaro Oku. Cast: Kaede Aono, Ryunosuke Matsumura, Arata Furuta.

In Japan before the Second World War, a captain of the Special Political Police was murdered in a small village. SPP conducted a brutal investigation, which raised tensions. The conflict led to the appearance of a mysterious girl.

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EASTER ISLAND

(Poland) Sas De Zaklikamins. 67mins.

(US) Eastwest Filmdistribution. 85mins.

Dir: Dean Matthew Ronalds. Cast: Tom Malloy.

When an internet company decides to investigate a series of ‘Screamer’ videos, it is confronted with havoc and hell it could never have expected.

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20:35 A TALE OF WATER, PALM TREES, AND FAMILY

(UAE) Greta Joanne Entertainment. 142mins.

Dir: Nasser Aldhaheri.

Cast: Sultan Alkowaiti, Hussain Albadi, Alhaz Gayah.

A deep-rooted journey through the UAE, meeting its people and looking at its culture.

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22:15 HAPPY END

(France) Les Films Du Losange. 107mins.

Dir: Michael Haneke.

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

A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

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22:30 THE RIDER

(US) Protagonist Pictures. 102mins. Dir: Chloe Zhao. Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau.

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

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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. ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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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 ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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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. ★★ ★★

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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.

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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 ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★

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

AMANT DOUBLE (Fr-Bel) Francois Ozon

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

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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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