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DAY 8
Tuesday 21 May 2019

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21 TO 24 May
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France, 27’ TIGRE ET DRAGONS might guide him to his father, a guerrillero who USA, 115’, Comedy.
Director: Cecilia De Arce 120’. went missing during the war. Against his Palais C
Casting: Rime Nahmani, Hicham Talib, Tobias Plage Macé mother’s wishes, he flings himself body and soul Sales: IuviT Media Sales (Stand 26.03)
Nuytten, Big John De Paname, Rebecca Finet, Section: Cinéma de la plage into the case, looking for truth and resilience. Section: Market
Chainez Dehchar, Florian Lemaire Director: Ang Lee Next screening: 22 May, 08:30, Miramar
Synopsis: N.vine, a secondary school Casting: Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Premiere)
monitor, is fully committed to her day job. AN EASY GIRL (Premiere) France, 120’, Drama.
Logan, one of the pupils, insists on getting a 22:00 France, 92’, Comedy.
cap back from lost and found. Arcades 1 Palais I (Priority Badges Only)
Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette)
SHE RUNS PARASITE (Premiere) Sales: Wild Bunch Section: Market (In competition)
20’ Korea (South), 132’, Drama. (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) Director: Céline Sciamma
Director: Qiu Yang Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required) Section: Directors’ Fortnight Casting: Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant,
Casting: Xue Jiayi Sales: CJ Entertainment/CJ E&M Corporation Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Valeria Golino
Synopsis: In an ordinary Chinese winter, a (E19) Casting: Clotilde Coureau, Benoît Magimel, Synopsis: Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a
small city junior high student, Yu, tries to quit Section: In competition Zahia Dehar, Mina Farid, Nuno Lopes painter, is commissioned to do the wedding
her school aerobic dancing team. Director: Joon-Ho Bong Synopsis: Naïma has just turned 16. This portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just
LUCÍA EN EL LIMBO Casting: Kang-Ho Song, Sun-Kyun Lee, Yeo- summer, she will have to decide what she wants left the convent.
from life if she doesn’t want to miss out.
20’ Jeong Cho, Woo-Shik Choi, So-Dam Park, Hyae-
Director: Valentina Maurel Jin Chang 10:00
Casting: Ana Camila Arenas, Reynaldo Amien, Next screening: 22 May, 08:30, Lumiere
José Alberto Romero, Mayté Ortega Floris, MARKET NINA WU (Premiere)
Rosibel De La Trinidad Carvajal, Javier Gómez FRANKIE (Premiere) Taiwan, 103’, Drama.
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Lucia wants to France, Portugal, 98’, Drama. Palais G (Priority Badges Only)
get rid of two things more than anything: her Olympia 1 21/05/2019 Sales: Luxbox (23 Rue Bivouac Napoléon)
lice and her virginity. Sales: Sbs International Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)
(Building Comoran 2, 1st Floor) 9:30 Director: Midi Z
SOLO (Premiere) Section: In competition Synopsis: After eight years toiling in bit-parts,
Czech Republic, France, Argentina, Austria, 85’, Director: Ira Sachs MOSQUITO (Premiere) aspiring actress Nina Wu finally gets her big
Documentary. Casting: Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Portugal, 125’. break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in
Arcades 1 Jérémie Renier, Marisa Tomei, Vinette Robinson, Arcades 2 (Invite Only) the 1960s. The part is challenging, not least
Sales: Slingshot Films Ariyon Bakare, Pascal Greggory Sales: Alfama Films (F1) because it calls for full nudity and explicit sex
scenes, and the film’s director is often hard on
Section: ACID Synopsis: Frankie, a famous French actress, Section: Market her. But both the industry and the press are
Director: Artemio Benki learns that she only has a few months to live. confident that the results are sensationally good.
Synopsis: Martin is a young Argentinian piano For one final family vacation, she gathers TOSS IT (Premiere) On the brink of triumph, though, Nina’s
virtuoso and composer, who is, since his everyone together in Sintra, Portugal.
breakdown three years ago, a patient of El
Borda, the largest, most notable but PARASITE (Premiere)
controversial psychiatric hospital in Latin Korea (South), 132’, Drama. facebok.com/cineuropa
America. A child prodigy and the most promising Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) twitter.com/cineuropa
talent of his generation is now trying to find his Sales: CJ Entertainment/CJ E&M Corporation
own way how to come back to life outside the (E19)
walls of asylym and on stage. Section: In competition cineuropa.org
21:00 Director: Joon-Ho Bong
Casting: Kang-Ho Song, Sun-Kyun Lee, Yeo-
Jeong Cho, Woo-Shik Choi, So-Dam Park, Hyae-
FRANKIE (Premiere) Jin Chang
France, Portugal, 98’, Drama.
Salle Du 60e 22:15
Sales: SBS International
(Building Comoran 2, 1st Floor) PARASITE (Premiere)
Section: Day after screenings (In competition) Korea (South), 132’, Drama.
Director: Ira Sachs Salle Bazin (Press screening)
Casting: Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Sales: CJ Entertainment/CJ E&M Corporation
Jérémie Renier, Marisa Tomei, Vinette Robinson, (E19)
Ariyon Bakare, Pascal Greggory Section: In competition
Synopsis: Frankie, a famous French actress, Director: Joon-Ho Bong
learns that she only has a few months to live. Casting: Kang-Ho Song, Sun-Kyun Lee, Yeo-
For one final family vacation, she gathers Jeong Cho, Woo-Shik Choi, So-Dam Park, Hyae-
everyone together in Sintra, Portugal. Jin Chang
Next screening: 22 May, 10:00, Lerins 3
22:30
DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS (Premiere)
Finland, 106’, Drama. OUR MOTHERS (Premiere)
Theatre Croisette France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Sales: The Yellow Affair (D2) Guatemala, 77’, Drama.
Section: Directors’ Fortnight Miramar
Director: Valkeapää J-P Sales: Pyramide International (J6) THE
Casting: Krista Kosonen, Pekka Strang Section: Critics’ Week (In Competition) News, reviews,
Synopsis: The film tells a story of Juha, who has Director: César Diaz BEST OF
lost his wife in an accident. Years after, he still Casting: Armando Espitia , Emma Dib interviews and
feels numb and unable to connect with people. Synopsis: Guatemala, 2018. The whole country EUROPEAN
Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who festival reports
everything. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly sparked the civil war. Victim statements come
humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain one after another. Ernesto is a young CINEMA
of being. anthropologist working for the Forensic
Next screening: 22 May, 22:30, Arcades 1 Foundation; his job is to identify the missing.
One day, while hearing the account of an old
21:30 woman, he thinks he has found a lead that

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