SCREENINGS Edited by Paul Lindsell
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FESTIVAL AND PRESS
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BEYOND THE WALLS (Belgium) 98mins Dir: David Lambert Key cast: Guillaume Gouix, Matila Malliarakis, David Salles. Paulo, a young pianist living an ambivalent life with Anka, meets Ilir, a loner bass player. It’s love at first sight and they start living on love alone. The day Paulo promises to love him for life, Ilir leaves town for a concert, and never comes back. Critics’ Week Miramar
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(Uruguay) 119mins. Dir: Pablo Stoll Ward. Key cast: Ana Clara Ferreyra Palfi, Sara Bessio, Humberto De Vargas. Rodolfo tries to slip back into the life he once had alongside his wife and children after he walked away from them 10 years ago. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
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AQUI Y ALLA (Spain) 110mins. Dir: Antonio Mendez Esparza. Key cast: Pedro De Los Santos Juarez, Teresa Ramirez Aguirre. Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years working in the US. He finds his daughters older and more distant. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. Critics’ Week Lerins 1
BEYOND THE HILLS (Romania) 155mins. Dir: Cristian Mungiu. Key cast: Catalina
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YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET! (France) 120mins. Dir: Alain Resnais. Key cast: Anne Consigny, Denis Podalydes, Lambert Wilson, Mathieu Amalric. From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have
Harabagiu, Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur. In an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. But when one questions the other’s beliefs, neither is prepared for the chain of events set in motion. In Competition Olympia 5
IN A RUSH (France) 93mins. Pyramide. Dir: Louis-Do De Lencquesaing Key cast: Alice De Lencquesaing, Marthe Keller, Valentina Cervi. Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a couple who seemed happy, she’d had a child, was even due to
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Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered the chance to lead one of the many pirogues that head towards Europe via the Canary Islands, he reluctantly accepts the job, knowing full-well the dangers that lie ahead. Leading a group of 30 men who don’t all speak the same language, some of whom have never seen the sea, Baye Laye will confront many perils in order to reach the distant coasts of Europe. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
appeared over the years in his play ‘Eurydice’. These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love-after- death still have any place on a theatre stage? It’s up to them to decide. In Competition Press Grand Theatre Lumiere
get married, and wham — she met Paul. Life started to gather speed. It was about time. Critics’ Week Arcades 3
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(Chile) 108mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Key cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers. When Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, facing international pressure, calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988, opposition leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and constant scrutiny by the despot’s watchmen, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan
to win the election and free their country from oppression. Directors Fortnight Star 4
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AFTER THE BATTLE (France) 122mins. Dir: Yousry Nasrallah. Key cast: Menna Chalaby, Bassem Samra, Najed El Sebai. Once a member of one of the notorious armed groups that were coerced by the Egyptian government to carry out violent attacks on protestors in Tahir Square on February 2, 2011, Mahmoud has since lost his job and been ostracised by his own community. Mahmoud is close to despair when he meets Reem, a divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Their encounter develops into a love story that will radically change the course of their lives forever. In Competition Star 1
LOVE (France) 125mins. Dir: Michael Haneke. Key cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert. Georges and Anne, a 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 Palais K
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CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO (Bosnia-Herzegovina) 90mins. Dir: Aida Begic. Key cast: Bojan Navojec, Ismir Gagula, Marija Pikik. Rahima and Nedim are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, including in the way it treats children of the people who were killed fighting for the freedom of their city. After crime-prone adolescent years, Rahima has found comfort in Islam and she hopes her brother will follow in her footsteps. Everything becomes more difficult the day Nedim gets into a fistfight at school with the son of a local strongman. This incident triggers a chain of events leading Rahima to discover that her young brother leads a double life. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy
THE PIROGUE (Senegal) 97mins. Dir: Moussa Toure. Key cast: Babacar Oualy, Balla Diarra, Laity Fall.
VILLEGAS (Argentina)98mins. Urban Distribution International (ex Umedia). Dir: Gonzalo Tobal. Key cast: Esteban Lamothe, Esteban Bigliardi, Mauricio Minetti, Paula Carruega, Lucia Cavallotti, Maria Ines Aldaburu. 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 Salle Bunuel
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GRANNY’S FUNERAL (France) 100mins. Dir: Bruno Podalydes. Key cast: Denis Podalydes, Isabelle Candelier, Valerie Lemercier. Armand, a chemist and amateur magician, is in the midst of a full-blown midlife crisis when his grandmother Berthe dies. He’s landed with the task of arranging the funeral, and is forced to confront a profound existential question: do we burn Granny, or bury her? Directors Fortnight Arcades 1
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