Compiled by Paul Lindsell
paullindsell@gmail.com
SCREENINGS
SCREENINGS 8:30AM
FESTIVAL & PRESS
WE HAVE A POPE (HABEMUS PAPAM) (Italy) Comedy, 104mins. Dir: Nanni Moretti. Key cast: Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr. The newly elected Pope gets stage fright right before his confirmation, leaving millions stranded in a spiritual waiting room. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, seek help from a renowned psychiatrist (and atheist) to talk him off the couch and onto St Peter’s balcony. Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
THE SLUT (Israel) Drama, 87mins. Dir: Hagar Ben Asher. Key cast: Daria Forman, Hagar Ben Asher, Ishay Golan. Tamar, 35, a beautiful young woman, lives alone with her two daughters. She can’t restrain her sexual appetite and gives herself to several men of the village. Shai, a young man, has just moved back in the region to handle his dead mother’s assets, but as he meets Tamar, he decides to stay. They soon fall in love, but will Tamar be satisfied with only one partner? Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel
9:00AM
THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP (Ireland, Netherlands, Hungary) Drama, 91mins. Dir: Rebecca Daly. Key cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Gina Moxley. One winter morning Irish factory worker Arlene wakes in the woodland to find herself lying beside the body of a murdered young woman. As she’s forced to question whether or not she’s responsible,
fired, work relations between these three characters change, and disturbing occurrences start to threaten Helena’s business. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
2:00PM
FESTIVAL & PRESS 11:00AM
TOOMELAH (Australia) Drama, 106mins. Dir: Ivan Sen. Key cast: Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards In a remote Aboriginal community, 10-year-old Daniel yearns to be a “gangster” like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, the main drug
she is drawn into the woman’s world, to those left behind: her younger sister and her teenage lover who is a suspect in the murder. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00AM
LAS ACACIAS (Argentina) Drama, 85mins. Dir: Pablo Giorgelli. German de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani. The motorway between Asuncion del Paraguay and Buenos Aires. A truck driver must transport a woman he doesn’t know. The woman is not alone. She’s carrying a baby. Critics’ Week Miramar
dealer in town, Daniel is well on his way to accomplishing his goal. When a rival drug dealer returns from prison, a violent showdown ensues. After Linden and his gang are taken off to jail, Daniel is suddenly alone and vulnerable. Can he make a choice for a better future? Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI (France) Documentary, 90mins. Dir: Michael Radford In this documentary, Michael Radford seeks to understand the nature of creativity as he retraces the portrait of this great jazz pianist by way of interviews and historical footage. Out of Competition, press screening Salle Bunuel
RESTLESS (US) Romance, 91mins. Dir: Gus Van Sant. Key cast: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper. A teen romance about a girl dying of cancer who falls in love with a death- obsessed boy who hangs
out with the ghost of a Kamikaze pilot. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
TOOMELAH See box, left
11:15AM
POLISSE (France) Drama, 127mins. Dir: Maiwenn. Key cast: Joey Starr, Karin Viard, Maiwenn. Fred, a rebel cop in Paris’ child protection unit, falls for Melissa, a photographer for the government. Torn between Fred and the world he reveals to her, and Lino, her wealthy, unfaithful conductor husband, how will uptown Melissa come to terms with Fred’s violent reality? Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
(UK, US) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Key cast: Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller. Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and
unforgivable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? Competition Salle du Soixantieme
11:30AM
THE SILENCE OF JOAN (JEANNE CAPTIVE) (France) Historical drama, 92mins. Dir: Philippe Ramos. Key cast: Bernard Blancan, Clemence Poesy. Jeanne d’Arc is sold to the English. Between the walls that imprison her and the stake at which she will perish, men attempt to approach this young woman who embodies the infinite. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
1:00PM
HARD LABOR (TRABALHAR CANSA) (Brazil) Drama, 99mins. Dir: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra. Key cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes. Young housewife Helena decides to open a grocery store. She hires Paula as a maid to take care of her home and daughter. When Otavio, her husband, is suddenly
THE FAIRY (LA FEE) (France, Belgium) Drama, 94mins. Dir: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz. Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, Fiona arrives with no luggage and no shoes. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who has fallen in love, searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her… in the psychiatric hospital. Directors’ Fortnight Le Raimu
VOLCANO (ELDFJALL) (Iceland) Drama, 95mins. Dir: Runar Runarsson. Key cast: Margret Helga Johannsdotir, Theodor Juliusson. When Hannes retires from his job as a janitor the big, empty time span that is the rest of his life begins. He is estranged from his family, has hardly any friends and his relationship with his wife has faded. Through drastic events, Hannes realises that he has to adjust his life in order to help someone he loves. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
MISS BALA (Mexico) Drama, 113mins. Dir: Gerardo Naranjo. Noe Hernandez, Stephanie Sigman. The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty queen in a Mexico dominated by organised crime. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
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