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SCREENINGS
MARKET 10:00AM
THE WICKER TREE (UK) Horror, 96mins. High Point Media Group. Dir: Robin Hardy. Key cast: Brittania Nicol, Christopher Lee, Clive Russell. Robin Hardy’s long anticipated companion piece to his 1973 classic ‘The Wicker Man’. Now nearly 40 years later, another pagan community on a remote Scottish island lights a fire for the arrival of two fresh-faced evangelists from Texas. Palais C
F ROM T H E
N E T H E R LAN D S MONDAY MAY 16
CODE BLUE Dir: Urszula Antoniak Prod: IDTV Film
Sales: Bavaria Film International (feature, 81’)
14:00 Olympia 3 (market screening) 22:00 Studio 13 (Quinzaine) Mon May 20, 22:30 Cinéma Les Arcades (Quinzaine)
Alex is an inveterate loafer with dreams of being in the theatre, who takes no responsibility for himself or those closest to him, and his life is anything but under control. When his girlfriend Lisa eventually gets fed up and chucks him out onto the street, Alex is forced to look for a job in order to survive. All of a sudden, he finds himself working as an assistant to a troop of mentally handicapped people at a group living facility with inflexible routines, endless courses in how to tie your shoelaces and, above all, lots of very bored individuals. By invitation only Gray 1
MONSIEUR PAPA (France) Comedy, 89mins. Pathe International. Dir: Kad Merad. Key cast: Kad Merad, Michele Laroque, Gaspard Meier-Chaurand. Marius Vallois is 12 and needs a father. Marie Vallois has a 12-year-old son, huge professional responsibilities, a demanding lover, a job vacancy to fill, a beloved sister, a complicated cousin but no father for Marius. Robert Pique has a steam iron, a pile of ironing to do, a Chinese fantasy and a neighbour whom he protects while looking for work. ‘Monsieur Papa’ is the story of the strange bond that will be formed between these three characters. A bond that will give them plenty of headaches
and mark their lives. Arcades 2
STOPPED ON TRACK (HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE) (Germany) Drama, 110mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Key cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kohnert, Talisa Lilly Lemke. Star 2
SUKIYAKI (Japan) Comedy, 108mins. Free Stone Production. Dir: Tetsu Maeda. Key cast: Yu Nagaoka, Masanomu Katsumura, Motoki Ochiai. The four occupants of Cell 204, being careful not to be detected by their jailers, bet their osechi New Year’s dinners on who can concoct the most mouth-watering tale of “the best food I ever had”. The winner gets everyone elses’ New Year’s dinner, as well as his own. Gray 5
THE WICKER TREE See box, above
11:00AM
SNOWTOWN (Australia) Drama, 120mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Justin Kurzel. Key cast: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris. Miramar
STOPPED ON TRACK (HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE) (Germany) Drama, 110mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Key cast: Milan
Peschel, Steffi Kohnert, Talisa Lilly Lemke. Salle Bazin
TOOMELAH (Australia) Drama, 106mins. Visit Films. Dir. Ivan Sen. Key cast: Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, Danieka Connors. Salle Bunuel
11:30AM
CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION (Ireland) Documentary, 88mins. E2 Films. Dir: Shane O’Sullivan. Key cast: Ulrike Meinhof, Fusako Shigenobu, Bettina Rohl. Inspired by the protests of 1968, two women left their families in Germany and Japan and went in search of world revolution, becoming the most notorious terrorists of their time. What were they fighting for and what have we learned? Gray 4
COUSINHOOD (PRIMOS) (Spain) Comedy, 98mins. Film Factory Entertainment. Dir: Daniel Sanchez Arevalo. Key cast: Quim Gutierrez, Raul Arevalo, Adrian Lastra. Diego’s fiancee dumped him five days before their planned wedding. What’s a guy to do? Riviera 2
THE FATHERLESS (Austria) Drama, 105mins. Doc & Film International. Dir: Marie Kreutzer. Key cast: Andrea Wenzl, Andreas
Kiendl, Emily Cox. They never expected Kyra to turn up again. The two brothers and their sister, brought together when their father dies, are stunned by the appearance of their sister. Kyra vanished suddenly more than 20 years ago during the break-up of the hippie commune where they were all born. Palais H
FREE MEN (LES HOMMES LIBRE) (France) Drama, 110mins. Pyramide. Dir: Ismael Ferroukhi. Key cast: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmoud Shalaby. 1942, in German-occupied Paris. Younes, a young unemployed Algerian, earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities — among which Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, its rector — of helping Resistance fighters and Jews by giving them false certificates. Buyers only Star 3
INTIMATE GRAMMAR (HADIKDUK HAPNIMI) (Israel) Drama, 110mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Nir Bergman. Key cast: Eden Luttenberg, Evelyn Kaplun, Orly Zilbershatz. In Israel in the early 1960s, a new generation is growing up: the militant Israeli
AMSTERDAM
HEAVY Dir: Michael Wright Prod: The Content Factory (feature, 90’)
15:30 Palais B (market screening)
CLUB ZEUS Dir: David Verbeek Prod: Revolver Media Sales: Reel Suspects (feature, 75’)
18:00 Gray 5 (market screening)
eye film institute netherlands @ Cannes Dutch Pavilion, Village International #108 Ph: +33 492 590214
www.international.eyefilm.nl
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