Compiled by Paul Lindsell
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SCREENINGS
SCREENINGS 8:30AM
FESTIVAL & PRESS
LE HAVRE See box, right
SNOWTOWN (Australia) Drama, 120mins. Dir: Justin Kurzel. Key cast: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris. With French subtitles When 16-year-old Jamie is introduced to a charismatic man, a friendship begins. However, as the relationship grows, so do Jamie’s suspicions, until he finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father figure, John Bunting: Australia’s most notorious serial killer. Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel
9:00AM
CORPO CELESTE (Italy) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Alice Rohrwacher. Key cast: Cantalupo Salvatore. Thirteen-year-old Marta, her mother and her sister have just returned to Reggio di Calabria, their home town. Each tries to rediscover a place in this chaotic province. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00AM AVE
(Bulgaria) Romance, 86mins. Dir: Konstantin Bojanov. Key cast: Ovanes Torosyan, Angela Nedyalkova. With French and English subtitles. While hitchhiking to the funeral of his art school friend, Kamen meets Ave, a 17-year-old runaway who is looking for her troubled brother. With each ride they hitch, Ave invents new identities for them and gets Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Critics’ Week Miramar
FESTIVAL & PRESS 8:30AM
LE HAVRE (Finland, France, Germany) Drama, 93mins. Dir: Aki Kaurismaki. Key cast: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blonidn Miguel. The story of shoeshiner Marcel Marx, a former author and a well- known Bohemian, who has retreated into a voluntary exile in the
THE BEAVER (US) Drama, 91mins. Dir: Jodie Foster. Key cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin. A depressed toy company CEO begins speaking through a beaver puppet to work out his personal and professional problems. Out of Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
BEAUTY (SKOONHEID) (South Africa) Drama, 99mins. Dir: Oliver Hermanus. Key cast: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott. Tells the story of Francois van Heerden, a mid-40s,
port city of Le Havre. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from Africa. Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
white, Afrikaans-speaking family man living in Bloemfontein, who has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
OUTSIDE SATAN (HORS SATAN) (France) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Bruno Dumont. Key cast: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lematre, Valerie Mestdagh. Near a hamlet with river and marshland lives a strange guy who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires. A girl from a local farm takes care of
him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
THE TREE OF LIFE (US) Drama, 138mins. Dir: Terrence Malick. Key cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain. The story of a family who must come to terms with a devastating loss. In doing so, they discover life’s most important lessons of unselfish love and forgiveness. Competition Salle du Soixantieme
11:30AM BUSONG
(Philippines) Drama, 95mins. Dir: Auraeus Solito. Key cast: Alessandra De Rossi, Bonivie Budao, Clifford Banagale. Busong is the indigenous Palawan concept of fate or instant karma. Nature reacts instantly to man’s disrespect of nature and other men — as it does to the people a troubled brother and sister meet
on their travels. Directors’ Fortnight Arcades 1
THE SILVER CLIFF (O ABISMO PRATEADO) (Brazil) Drama, 85mins. Dir: Karim Ainouz. Key cast: Alessandra Negrini, JR Otto. Violeta, a 40-year-old dentist, is ready to start another ordinary day between her office and her new apartment in Copacabana. But a message left on her phone will take her on a journey into the streets of Rio. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
1:00PM
THE BIG FIX (US, France, Germany) Documentary, 112mins. Dir: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell. On April 22, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig run by BP sunk into the Gulf of Mexico creating the worst oil spill in history. By exposing the root causes of the spill, film- makers Josh and Rebecca Tickell uncover a vast network of corruption. Out of Competition, press screening Salle du Soixantieme
1:30PM
LE HAVRE (Finland, France, Germany) Drama, 93mins. Dir: Aki Kaurismaki. Key cast: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blonidn Miguel Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (ET MAINTENANT ON VA OU?) (France) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Nadine Labaki. Key cast: Claude Msawbaa, Leyla Fouad Set against the backdrop of a war-torn country, this film tells the heart- warming tale of a group of women’s determination to protect their isolated, mine-encircled community from the pervasive and divisive outside forces that threaten to destroy it from within. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
2:00PM
BONSAI (Chile, France, Argentina, Portugal) Comedy, 92mins. Dir: Cristian Jimenez. Key cast: Diego Noguera, Nathalia Galgani, Gabriela Arancibia At the end of this film,
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