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SCREENINGS Friday 17 May
DAY 4

FESTIVAL

Friday 17 May

13:45 One day, a stoning. Then an act of humiliation.
Then a fight… and life takes an irrevocable
ATLANTICS (Premiere) turn. When the lives of these diametrically
opposite couples become intertwined, sacrifice
Tax Incentives France, Senegal, Belgium, 105’, Drama. becomes the price to pay for love.
Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required)
Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette) Next screening: 18 May, 12:00, Palais K
ROCKETMAN (Premiere)
Section: In competition United Kingdom, 120’, Biography.
25% Casting: Mama Sané, Amadou Am, Ibrahima Salle Du 60e
Director: Mati Diop
Sales: Paramount Pictures
Traoré
Section: Day after screenings (Out of
Synopsis: Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-
Cash be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a Competition)
suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Souleiman, a young construction worker. .
Casting: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell
Next screening: 19 May, 12:00, Olympia 5
14:30
14:00
Rebate Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar, 105’, Drama. France, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina, 90’,
HEROES DON’T DIE (Premiere)
PAPICHA (Premiere)
Drama.
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening)
Miramar
Sales: Jour2Fête Sales (D8)
Sales: Le Pacte (M21)
in Serbia Section: Un Certain Regard Section: Critics’ Week (Special Screening)
Director: Mounia Meddour
Director: Aude Léa Rapin
Casting: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda
Casting: Adèle Haenel, Jonathan Couzinié
Daouada, Yasin Houicha, Nadia Kaci
Synopsis: After being violently called out by a
Synopsis: Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma, an 18-year-
Quick old student passionate about fashion design stranger, Joachim believes he is the
reincarnation of a Serbian soldier who died on
refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian
the very day he was born. .
Civil War to keep her from experiencing a nor-
Next screening: 19 May, 17:30, Lerins 2
mal life and going out at night with her friend
14:45
Wassila.
& Easy* Next screening: 18 May, 14:00, Bazin Latvia, Belgium, Lithuania, France, 108’, Drama.
OLEG (Premiere)
THE WITNESS (Premiere)
Hungary, 102’, Drama.
Theatre Croisette
Salle Buñuel
Sales: Cannes Classics Sales: Best Friend Forever
Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Section: Cannes Classics Director: Juris Kursietis
Director: Péter Bacsó
Synopsis: The original uncensored version Next screening: 18 May, 11:30, Arcades 1
*Quick incentive payout, presented by the Hungarian National Film Fund 16:15
– Film Archive. The film was restored in 4K
easy procedure using the original camera negative and THE HORSE THIEF (Premiere)
outtakes, the only existing uncensored positive China, 88’, Drama.
print and the original magnetic sound. The Salle Buñuel
restoration was carried out at the Hungarian
Filmlab. The digital colour grading was Sales: Cannes Classics
supervised by Tamás Andor (HSC, Hungarian Section: Cannes Classics
Society of Cinematographers). Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
Synopsis: Presented by Xi’An Film Studio. 4K
THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL (Premiere) Scan and 4K 48 fps digital restoration from the
France, 80’, Animation. 35mm original camera negative. Restoration
Salle Bazin financed and made by China Film Archive.
Sales: Celluloid Dreams 16:30
Section: Day after screenings (Un Certain
Regard) LITTLE JOE (Premiere)
Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, 105’,
Mévellec Drama.
Casting: Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon Grand Théâtre Lumière (Press Screening)
Abkarian Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris)
Synopsis: Kabul under Taliban rule. Two neigh- (L8) +33 4 92 993314
bourhoods and two couples. One conservative Section: In competition
– Atiq and Mussarat have been married for 20 Director: Jessica Hausner
years and are deeply engrained in the traditions
of Afghan life. Atiq works as the chief guard at Casting: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry
Film Center Serbia the women’s prison. Mussarat is very ill and Fox
in Cannes at SEE Pavilion #133, fights to remain a strong woman till the very Synopsis: Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated
senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged
Village International Riviera end. One modern – young and in love, Zunaira in developing new species. .
and Mohsen are against all the same traditions.
Under the Taliban, they’ve both lost their jobs Next screening: 18 May, 09:00, Lumiere
as lawyer anduniversity teacher and have diffi-
culties to make ends meet. They have to sell
their few possessions to buy food. Yet they’re
determined to maintain their modern values.
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