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SCREENINGS Thursday 16 May 2019
DAY 3

FESTIVAL

Thursday 16 May

FESTIVAL Casting: Barbara Colen, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier Section: Critics’ Week (Opening) the lives of these diametrically opposite couples
Director: Franco Lolli
Synopsis: A few years from now… Bacurau, a
become intertwined, sacrifice becomes the
Casting: Carolina Sanin, Leticia Gomez,
small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the
price to pay for love.
loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be Antonio Martinez, Vladimir Duran Next screening: 17 May, 14:00, Bazin
8:30 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their Synopsis: In Bogota, Silvia, a single mum and Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, 109’, Second film.
A WHITE, WHITE DAY (Premiere)
a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal.
community has vanished from most maps.
BEANPOLE (Premiere) THE UNKNOWN SAINT (Premiere) A deeper anxiety weighs on her as well. Leticia, Miramar
Russia, 134’, Drama. Morocco, France, 100’, Comedy. her mother, is seriously ill. Upon having to face Sales: New Europe Film Sales (Scandinavian
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press screening) Miramar her inevitable passing, Silvia embarks on a love Terrace) +48698900936
Sales: Wild Bunch (5 Square Mérimée – 1st Sales: The Match Factory (25 La Croisette) +33 story for the first time in years. Section: Critics’ Week
floor) 6 43 63 46 73 Next screening: 17 May, 18:00, Olympia 4 Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Section: Un Certain Regard Section: Critics’ Week 8:45 Synopsis: In a remote Icelandic town, an off
Director: Kantemir Balagov Director: Aljem Alaa Eddine duty police chief begins to suspect a local man
Casting: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Casting: Younes Bouab, Salah Bensalah, AND THEN WE DANCED (Premiere) for having an affair with his wife, who recently
Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov, Bouchaib Essamak, Mohamed Naimane, Anas Sweden, Georgia, France, 106’, Romance. died in a car accident. .
Konstantin Balakirev, Ksenia Kutepova, Olga El Baz, Hassan Ben Bdida, Abdelghani Kitab, Theatre Croisette Next screening: 17 May, 08:30, Miramar
Dragunova Ahmed Yarziz Sales: Totem Films (29 Rue Du Commandant 11:45
André)
Synopsis: The sprawling city that just survived Synopsis: Moments before his capture by Section: Directors’ Fortnight
the war and the long siege looks like a termi- police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of Director: Levan Akin BLOW IT TO BITS (Premiere)
nally ill person. money. Released from prison years later he Casting: Ana Javakishvili, Bachi Valishvili , France, 109’, Documentary.
Next screening: 17 May, 16:45, Salle Du 60e returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine Levan Gelbakhiani Theatre Croisette
to an Unknown Saint built directly over his Sales: Revolt Cinema
BACURAU (Premiere) Synopsis: A young dancer falls in love with his Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Brazil, France, 132’, Thriller. loot, and a brand new village constructed all strongest rival in conservative Georgia. Director: Lech Kowalski
Grand Théâtre Lumière around it. Next screening: 17 May, 22:30, Arcades 1 Synopsis: A mix of Rock and Roll and Blues
Sales: Sbs International (Building Comoran 2, Next screening: 18 May, 11:30, Olympia 6 9:00 are the secret for successful rebellion. When I
1st Floor) LITIGANTE (Premiere) took my camera to the middle of France where
Section: In competition France, Colombia, 95’, Drama. LES MISÉRABLES (Premiere) the GM&S factory was threatened by a perma-
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Salle Buñuel France, 102’, Drama. nent shut down, I felt like something extraordi-
Dornelles Sales: Kinology (20bis Rue Des Serbes) Salle Du 60e nary was about to take place. And it did. The
Sales: Wild Bunch (5 Square Mérimée – 1st lyrics were written by workers who have had
floor) enough! The tune was composed by people not
Section: Day after screenings (In Competition) afraid to go against even the rules of revolt!
Director: Ladj Ly The volume was loud enough to attract the
Casting: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, media. Their working-class concert spread
Djebril Zonga across France like wild fire. I sat out of sight,
Synopsis: Stéphane has recently joined the camera in hand, filming like catching fish in a
Anti-Crime Brigade in Montfermeil, in the Paris barrel.
suburbs.
Next screening: 18 May, 15:30, Arcades 1 12:00
11:30 France, 102’, Drama.
LES MISÉRABLES (Premiere)
THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL (Premiere) Grand Théâtre Lumière
France, 80’, Animation. Sales: Wild Bunch (5 Square Mérimée – 1st
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press screening) floor)
Sales: Celluloid Dreams Section: In competition
Section: Un Certain Regard Director: Ladj Ly
Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé- Casting: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti,
Mévellec Djebril Zonga
Casting: Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon Synopsis: Stéphane has recently joined the
Abkarian Anti-Crime Brigade in Montfermeil, in the Paris
Synopsis: Kabul under Taliban rule. Two suburbs.
neighbourhoods and two couples. One Next screening: 18 May, 15:30, Arcades 1
conservative – Atiq and Mussarat have been
married for 20 years and are deeply engrained 13:30
in the traditions of Afghan life. Atiq works as FOR SAMA (Premiere)
the chief guard at the women’s prison. United Kingdom, 95’, Documentary.
Mussarat is very ill and fights to remain a Salle Du 60e (Press Screening)
strong woman till the very end. One modern – Sales: Autlook Filmsales (J5) +436769003771
young and in love, Zunaira and Mohsen are Section: Out of competition (Special
against all the same traditions. Under the Screening)
Talibans, they’ve both lost their jobs as lawyer Director: Waad Al Kateab, Edward Watts
anduniversity teacher and have difficulties to Synopsis: For Sama is both an intimate and
make ends meet. They have to sell their few epic journey into the female experience of war.
possessions to buy food. Yet they’re determined A love letter from a young mother to her
to maintain their modern values. One day, a daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-
stoning. Then an act of humiliation. Then a Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising
fight… and life takes an irrevocable turn. When in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married

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