DOCUMENTARIES AT CANNES FEATURE REEL LIFE: DOCS ON THE CROISETTE
Walk Away Renée
Arirang
The Look
ARIRANG (Kor) Dir Kim Ki-duk The fi rst docu-drama from Kim, Arirang is a monologue about the director’s life and fi lm-making, and how he conveys life through his fi lms. Kim was last at Cannes with Breath, starring Chang Chen, which played in Competition in 2007. Sales Finecut Un Certain Regard
AT NIGHT, THEY DANCE (LA NUIT, ELLES DANSENT) (Can) Dirs Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault This Canadian fi lm was shot by night in Cairo and takes us into the hidden world of belly dancing through a family of women who practise it. Sales Autlook FilmSales Directors’ Fortnight, special screening
BELMONDO… ITINERAIRE (Fr) Dirs Vincent Perrot, Jeff Domenech The subject of a tribute at Cannes on May 17, actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is an icon of French cinema with credits including Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, and Pierrot Le Fou and Francois Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid. Six of Belmondo’s fi lms have screened in Competition at Cannes and he returns to the Croisette this year, where feature documentary Belmondo… Itineraire will screen alongside new prints of The Magnifi cent Secret Agent by Philippe de Broca and Greed In The Sun by Henri Verneuil. Contact France Television Distribution, (33) 1 56 22 90 87 Cannes Classics
THE BIG FIX (US-Fr-Ger) Dirs Rebecca Tickell, Josh Tickell Peter Fonda produced this fi lm which uncovers a web of corruption in the aftermath of the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in 2010, which resulted in the worst oil spill in history. Contact Green Planet Productions,
www.greenplanetprods.com Offi cial Selection, special screening
BOLLYWOOD — THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD (Ind) Dirs Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Jeffrey Zimbalist
Kids Of Today
Produced by Shekhar Kapur and co-directed by Delhi-6’s Mehra and documentarian Zimbalist, this musical documentary is a swoon to the global phenomenon that is Hindi-language cinema. It is borne out of a conversation between Kapur and Thierry Frémaux, who spoke of his desire to fi nd a Bollywood fi lm he could programme in Offi cial Selection. Cannes regular Aishwarya Rai is one of the many Bollywood fi gures featured. Sales UTV Offi cial Selection, out of competition
CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL (US) Dir Alex Stapleton A homage to the legendary independent producer and actor Roger Corman featuring interviews with Corman, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese among others and covering his fi lms including Swamp Women, The Little Shop Of Horrors and Frankenstein Unbound. Sales Fortissimo Films Cannes Classics
DUCH, MASTER OF THE FORGES OF HELL (Fr-Cambodia) Dir Rithy Panh Rithy Panh documents a face-to-face encounter with Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, the man who was in charge of the Khmer Rouge killing machine which murdered more than 12,000 people between 1975 and 1979, and countless others whose deaths went undocumented. Panh illustrates the minutiae of the Angkar and shows how Duch obsessively followed the dictates of the organisation to commit the collective crime. Sales Films Distribution Offi cial Selection, special screening
KIDS OF TODAY (DES JEUNES GENS MODERNES) (Fr) Dir Jérome de Missolz Having explored the 1980s and 1990s music scene in Liverpool in You’ll Never Walk Alone and the rock world in Wild Thing, French documentary maker de Missolz turns his attention to France’s post-punk, New Wave movement, spanning the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Alongside writer Jean-
Francois Sanz, de Missolz revisits the era and a number of its protagonists — such as music critic Yves Adrien, pop icon Lio and Andy Warhol muse Edwige — as well as looking at its legacy today. Sales Memento Films International Directors’ Fortnight
KUROSAWA’S WAY (Fr) Dir Catherine Cadou Eleven fi lm-makers from Europe, Asia and the US discuss Akira Kurosawa and how he infl uenced their own work. They include Bernardo Bertolucci, Clint Eastwood, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Theo Angelopoulos and Bong Joon-ho. Sales Canal Plus Cannes Classics
LEADERSHEEP (TOUS AU LARZAC) (Fr) Dir Christian Rouaud A special screening in Offi cial Selection at Cannes, this 1970s-set feature documentary tells the story of a group of isolated farmers who take on the French government after it announces plans to extend a military camp in the region from 3,000 to 14,000 hectares. A struggle is set in motion which lasts for a decade. Produced by Elzévir Films, LeaderSheep will be released in France by Ad Vitam. Sales MK2,
juliette.schrameck@
mk2.com Offi cial Selection, Special Screening
THE LOOK (Ger-Fr) Dir Angelina Maccarone An unconventional portrait of iconic actress Charlotte Rampling in which Rampling herself probes the questions of life with eight artists including photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, writer Paul Auster and painter Anthony Palliser. Sales MK2 Cannes Classics
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI (Fr-Ger-It) Dir Michael Radford Radford will be in Cannes along with Alexandre Petrucciani, the son of the brilliant jazz artist of the title, who was born with brittle bone disease and stood just three feet tall as an adult. Radford explores the man through
Kurosawa’s Way
interviews and archive material, and conveys his extraordinary lust for life. Sales Wild Bunch Offi cial Selection, special screening
NO MORE FEAR (LA KHAOUFA BAADA AL’YAOUM) (Tun) Dir Mourad Ben Cheikh A documentary about the recent Tunisian revolution which sparked the so-called Arab Spring, Mourad Ben Cheikh’s fi lm explores the uprising and the territory’s frame of mind — from the youth who mounted the fi rst revolution of the virtual era to the older people who have defi ed fear to resist dictatorship. It is produced by Cinetelefi lms in Tunisia. Sales Cinetelefi lms,
mh.attia@cinetelefi
lms.net Offi cial Selection, special screening
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (EL VELADOR) (US-Mex-Fr) Dir Natalia Almada A special screening in Directors’ Fortnight, The Night Watchman is a Spanish-language documentary following Martin, who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico’s drug lords night after night. It is a reminder of how ordinary life continues amid the turmoil of the country’s bloody drug wars. The Night Watchman is produced by Mexico’s Altamura Films, co-produced by POV in the US and associate-produced by France’s Tita Production and Les Films d’Ici. Sales Doc & Film International, d.elstner@docandfi
lm.com Directors’ Fortnight, special screening
WALK AWAY RENÉE (US) Dir Jonathan Caouette Caouette made a name for himself with Tarnation, an unfl inching autobiographical look at his relationship with his schizophrenic mother. It played in Cannes in 2004 and, seven years later, Caouette returns with Walk Away Renée, in which he embarks on a road trip with his mother. Over the course of the journey, the director deploys fl ashbacks, psychedelic sequences and his own imagination to illustrate their relationship. Int’l sales Wild Bunch Critics’ Week, special screening
s May 17, 2011 Screen International at the Cannes Film Festival 25 ■
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