SCREENINGS Edited by Paul Lindsell
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FESTIVAL AND PRESS
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AUGUSTINE (France) 95mins. Dir: Alice Winocour. Key cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, Soko, Vincent Lindon. Paris, winter 1885, Augustine is 17. She has been admitted to the Salpetriere hospital, where Charcot, the star of modern medicine, is studying the symptoms of a still mysterious ailment: hysteria. Augustine becomes his favourite guinea pig, his muse, the star of his hypnosis demonstrations. At first an object of study, she gradually becomes an object of desire. Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel
GOD’S NEIGHBORS (France) 98mins. Dir: Meni Yaesh. Key cast: Gal Friedman, Itzik Golan, Roy Assaf. Rules must be followed. For the supervisors of a Bat Yam neighborhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately and that Arabs from Jaffa don’t enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. Avi is their leader. The group’s dynamic is challenged when Avi threatens a young woman who doesn’t follow their rules — a woman he’s about to fall in love with. Critics’ Week Miramar
LOVE See box, above
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A RESPECTABLE FAMILY (Iran) 90mins. Dir: Massoud Bakhshi. Key cast: Ahoo Kheradmand, Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian. Arash is an Iranian academic newly returned
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THE SAPPHIRES (Australia) 98mins. Dir: Wayne Blair. Key cast: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell. 1968. Four young Aboriginal sisters from a remote mission are flown to Vietnam to sing soul music for the American troops. Based on a true story, ‘The Sapphires’ is a triumphant celebration of youthful emotion, family and music. Out of Competition Press Salle Bunuel
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LOVE (France) 125mins. Dir: Michael Haneke. Key cast: Jean- Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert. Georges and Anne, a
from the West. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he is reminded of the hardships of his childhood at the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1981. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
LAURENCE ANYWAYS (Canada) 170mins. Dir: Xavier Dolan. Key cast: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clement, Monia Chokri, Nathalie Baye. Laurence, a young French teacher and soon-to-be- published author, enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his fiancee, Fred. But on the day after his 30th birthday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support him in this transformation. Un Certain Regard Palais K
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REALITY (Italy) 116mins.
n 50 Screen International at Cannes May 20, 2012
couple in their eighties, are retired music teachers. When Anne has a mild stroke and is paralysed, the love that has united this couple for so many years is severely tested. In Competition Press Grand Theatre Lumiere
Dir: Matteo Garrone. Key cast: Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone. Luciano is a Neopolitan fishmonger who tries out for ‘Big Brother’. In chasing this dream his perception of reality begins to change. In Competition Riviera 3
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DARIO ARGENTO’S DRACULA 3D See box, right
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HORSES OF GOD (France) 115mins. Dir: Nabil Ayouch. Key cast: Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Ahmed El Idrissi El Amrani, Hamza Souidek. Yachine is 10 years old and lives with his family in the slums of Sidi Moumen in Casablanca. When his brother is sent to jail, Yachine takes up job after job, though empty, to break free from
the doldrums of violence, misery and drugs. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
THE PIROGUE (Senegal) 97mins. Dir: Moussa Toure. Key cast: Babacar Oualy, Balla Diarra, Laity Fall. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue who dreams of a new start,
and the chance to earn a better living for his family. When he is offered the chance to lead one of the many pirogues of illegal immigrants that head towards Europe via the Canary Islands, he reluctantly accepts the job, knowing full-well the dangers that lie ahead. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy
VILLEGAS (Argentina) 98mins. Dir: Gonzalo Tobal. Key cast: Esteban Lamothe, Esteban Bigliardi, Mauricio Minetti. Two cousins, Esteban and Pipa, have to drive together to their grandfather’s funeral in Villegas, their childhood village. The trip soon turns into an intense journey with conflicts, fears and emotions that lie on the border between youth and adulthood. Out of Competition Press Salle Bazin
FESTIVAL & PRESS 10:00
DARIO ARGENTO’S DRACULA 3D (Italy) 106mins. Dir: Dario Argento. Key cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer, Unax Ugalde, Miriam
Giovanelli, Maria Cristina Heller. The classic vampire tale retold in stereoscopic 3D by a master of horror cinema. Out of Competition Star 1
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