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DAY 6
Sunday 19 May

Sunday 19 May

Section: Market Synopsis: A coming-of-age story that follows the WAKE UP a bad way. He has run out of ideas. After 30 years in
Director: Giuseppe Domingo Romano main character, Cameron, as he goes on a journey USA, 92’, Action/Adventure. politics, he feels empty.
Synopsis: This new exclusive documentary film by which opens his eyes to the world and to love. Gray 5 Next screening: 22 May, 17:30, Riviera 1
Sky Arts is dedicated to an extraordinary painter, Through a series of events, he realises you never Sales: VMI Worldwide (Cormoran Ii, 2nd
who was both erratic and highly spirited, as well as know who you are until you really know who you LE FRUIT DE L’ESPOIR (Premiere)
instinctive and passionate. Son of a dyer, which are. Floor) France, 80’, Action/Adventure.
earned him the name Tintoretto, or ‘little dyer’ MAD? Section: Market Palais G
(1519-1594), he was in fact the only great USA, 75’, Thriller. Director: Fedor Lyass, Aleksandr Chernyaev Sales: Dopamyne Films
Renaissance painter never to leave Venice, not even Palais H Casting: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Francesca Section: Market
during the years of the plague. We will be guided Eastwood, William Forsythe, Malik Yoba
through the events that occurred in the life of Sales: Pilgrims 7 Corp (19.08 (Palais Club)) Synopsis: On a quiet North Dakota evening, a Director: Alain Williams
Jacopo Robusti, professionally known as Tintoretto, +33 4 92 98 30 30 shabby beige sedan speeds down a country Casting: Robert Hossein, Ragunath Manet,
from the early years of his artistic training up to his Section: Market highway. Dust and gravel fly through the air when Sylvia Pouget, Emma Zimmermann,
death. The film, created and written by Melania G. Director: Saskia Rifkin suddenly the car slides our of control into a ravine. Candice Berner, Jean-Louis Trimes, Igor &
Mazzucco, with special guest, director Peter Casting: Suzanne Bertish, Catherine Curtin Grichka Bogdanoff, Cyrille Pien, Jean-Luc
Greenaway, is narrated by the engaging voice of AWAY (Premiere) Chetboun, Aurélien André
Helena Bonham Carter - twice Academy Award CRANSTON ACADEMY: MONSTER Latvia, 74’, Animation. Synopsis: Angeli researcher in medical biology is
nominee. ZONE (Premiere) Lerins 1 (Priority Badges Only) studying Noni, an exotic fruit that has interesting
PARTICLES (Premiere) Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, 80’, Sales: CMG - Cinema Management Group therapeutic properties, especially a variety that
France, Switzerland, 98’, Drama. Animation. Llc (M17) +18189141323 comes from a specific place in Kerala, India. To
Palais J
Olympia 6 (Priority Badges Only) Sales: DDI - Double Dutch International Section: Market advance in her research, Angeli has to mount an
expedition and to go on the spot, unfortunately, her
Sales: Les Films Du Losange (G1) (25 La Croisette, Bagatelle) FAMILY ROMANCE LLC (Premiere) laboratory having financial difficulties, she has to
Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight) Section: Market Japan, Germany, 89’, Drama. call on external financings, thus, she solicits her
Director: Blaise Harrison Director: Leopoldo Aguilar Lerins 3 grandfather, a great notable political from the
Casting: Thomas Daloz, Néa Lueders, Synopsis: From Anima Estudios and Prime Focus Sales: Film Constellation region that gets him a grant. the team then goes to
Salvatore Ferro, Emma Josserand, Léo World. Bullied for his intelligence and struggling to (Dauphin Entrance, 2nd Floor) Kerala where after various adventures, they discover
Couilfort, Nicolas Marcant fit in at school, Danny is a 15-year-old genius that is Section: Market (Special Screening) the place where this variety of noni grows.
Synopsis: At the foot of the Jura Mountains, Pa, always coming up with crazy inventions. When he is Director: Werner Herzog Throughout the trip, our friends were under the
aged 17, and his gang of friends are in their last unexpectedly offered a scholarship to Cranston Next screening: 20 May, 17:30, Olympia 3 supervision of a competing laboratory that
year at high school. Academy, a secret, prestigious boarding school for managed to infiltrate one of its team members who
geniuses, Danny views it as a place where his
Next screening: 22 May, 11:45, Theatre cleverness will be recognised and where he will I LOST MY BODY (Premiere) reported all their deeds and actions. Back in France,
Croisette have a chance to finally fit in. However, a school full France, 110’, Animation. Angeli’s work continued until the antagonistic
of geniuses can make things quite competitive – Olympia 2 laboratory suddenly broke out and the story turned
I’LL GO WHERE YOU GO (Premiere) getting a 99% is considered a fail! In his quest to
France, 92’, Comedy. prove his smarts amongst his peers, Danny Sales: Charades to a police plot where Angeli’s work became the
Olympia 7 inadvertently opens a portal to another dimension (3 Rond-Point Duboys D’Angers) subject of a merciless fight.
Sales: Playtime (3 Square Mérimée) and unleashes a slew of monsters on the school – Section: Market (Critics’ Week) BILLICH: BEYOND THE CANVAS (Premiere)
Director: Jérémy Clapin
Section: Market giant flying eyeballs, two-headed dogs and a slimy Synopsis: A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection Australia, 98’, Documentary.
Director: Géraldine Nakache pink tentacle to name a few! Together with his lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As Palais I (Press Allowed)
roommate Liz, and a half-moth, half-man professor
Casting: Géraldine Nakache, Leïla Bekti, aptly nicknamed Mothman, Danny must overcome it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it Sales: Majestic Film (22.04)
Patrick Timsit the demons of the 5th dimension and those that remembers its life with the young man it was once Section: Market
Synopsis: Vali and Mina are two sisters who are lurk inside him in order to save the school. attached to… until they met Gabrielle. Director: Steve Ravic
polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and Next screening: 20 May, 12:00, Arcades 2 Casting: Charles Billich, Christa Billich
trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The LITTLE JOE (Premiere)
other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, 105’, THE BEST YEARS OF A LIFE (Premiere) Synopsis: After a dark childhood set in war and
father has finally found the perfect opportunity to Drama. France, 90’, Drama. oppression, the maverick Charles Billich escaped
bring them together, if only for a weekend, in order Riviera 2 (Invite Only) Olympia 4 (Press Allowed) tyranny and realised his aspirations by becoming an
artistic virtuoso now synonymous for his grandiose
to hopefully patch things up between them: Vali has way of life in the company of popes, kings and
an audition in Paris and it’s mina who has to Sales: Coproduction Office (Paris) (L8) Sales: Other Angle Pictures (Albatros playboy bunnies.
accompany her despite her contempt for her sister’s +33 4 92 993314 Entrance, 2nd Floor)
passion. Section: Market (In Competition) Section: Market (Out of Competition) Next screening: 20 May, 12:00, Olympia 5
XY CHELSEA (Premiere) Director: Jessica Hausner Director: Claude Lelouch BUYERS SHOWCASE (Premiere)
United Kingdom, 92’, Documentary. Casting: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Casting: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis 110’.
Trintignant, Marianne Denicourt, Souad
Palais B Kerry Fox Amidou, Antoine Sire, Monica Bellucci Palais K
Synopsis: Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated
Sales: Dogwoof (H6 (Marina Club)/H8 senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in Synopsis: They knew each other long ago: a man Sales: Frontières Platform
(Doc Corner)) developing new species. . and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected Section: Market
Section: Market Next screening: 20 May, 12:00, Olympia 2 romance captured in the now-iconic film, Synopsis: Screening of the footage of six films in
Director: Hawkins Tim revolutionised our understanding of love. Today, the post-production or recently completed: The Furies by
Tamae Garateguy/Marionette by Elbert Van Strien/A
Synopsis: After instigating the largest of leak of 16:00 former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of Nightmare Wakes by Nora Unkel/PG (Psycho
secrets in US history – when she disclosed 750,000 GLORIOUS DEAD (Premiere) his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out Goreman) by Steven Kostanski/Skin Walker by
documents to Wikileaks – ex-soldier and trans India, 87’, Art - Culture. Christian Neuman/Slaxx by Elza Kephart.
woman Chelsea Manning was supposed to spend Gray 3 the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but
most of the rest of her life behind bars in an all-male whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and DITHEE (Premiere)
military prison. Sales: Nez Moving Pixels dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their India, 89’, Drama.
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA Section: Market story picks up where they left it. Riviera 1
Sweden, Denmark, 86’, Thriller. Director: Sarkar Sudeep Ranjan Next screening: 20 May, 17:30, Salle Du 60e Sales: Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural
Casting: Mandeep Ghai, Ravi Sharma,
Palais D Sanjit Jha, Gisela Berk, Rashmi Sharma, HAIFA STREET Development Corporation Ltd (22.06)
Sales: Stray Dogs (H6 (Marina Club)) Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar, Rita Jhawar Iraq, Qatar, 77’, Drama. Section: Market
Section: Market Synopsis: The movie begins from the time of first Palais C Director: Sumitra Bhave
Director: Johannes Nyholm human and moves seamlessly between a pseudo Sales: Wide (G2/Palais -1 16.04 Casting: Kishor Kadam , Dilip Prabhavlakar,
Casting: Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Katarina religious societal brahminical order that is gradually (Cannes XR) Uttara Baokar, Shashank Shende, Girish
Jacobson, Peter Belli demolished by seemingly powerless women, to the Section: Market Kulkarni, Amruta Subhash, Onkar
Synopsis: A couple goes on a trip to find their way story of a legendary German actress living in Director: Mohanad Hayal Gowardhan, Kailash Waghmare, Anjali Patil
back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady seclusion in Cannes and slow unraveling of a larger Synopsis: It’s 2006 and Baghdad is ravaged by Synopsis: Ramji is a humble iron-smith who
entourage emerge from the woods, terrorising them, than life aura of an Indian Film Director and the sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicentre of follows the age-old Waarkari tradition prevalent in
luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of the conflict,with masked gunmen and snipers Maharashtra, where millions of pilgrims walk for a
psychological terror and humiliating slapstick. libidinous relationship of him with his cantankerous reigning down terror for reasons and political couple of weeks from the holy town of Alandi to
actress by a seemingly illusionary Lucifer and his
FATHER AFRICA female companion. They both, the illusionary Lucifer allegiances that are unclear. Pandharpur, the abode of Lord Vitthal. His world
comes crashing down after his only son drowns in a
Tanzania, USA, 105’, Drama. and his companion, teach the German actress ALICE AND THE MAYOR (Premiere) flooding river. Ramji is not only sad but also angry at
Palais F emancipation from restricting thoughts of glory, France, 110’, Drama. God, to whom he has been devoted since decades.
Sales: California Pictures (Booth C5) darkness, and the frailty of fame. The entire narrative Palais E He and his friends are trying to make sense of the
+13104665106 stems from the seemingly harmless journey of four Sales: Bac Films (24 La Croisette) tragedy. Destiny offers Ramji a chance to attain the
ultimate realisation that birth and death are no
Section: Market forest women through the treachery of ego, and the Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight) different from each other by helping a troubled cow
Director: Chase Crittenden ensuing human sins and their subsequent actions Director: Nicolas Pariser deliver a calf. Thus unfolds a tale of death and life, of
Casting: Paul Johansson, Benjamin A. which leave everlasting impressions on every Casting: Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier grief and ecstasy - where the seeming opposites just
Onyango character of the movie thereafter. Synopsis: The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in collapse and dissolve into the oneness of being.
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