SCREENINGS
LOVE (France) 125mins. Dir: Michael Haneke. Key cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert. In Competition Salle du 60eme
PEDDLERS (India) 116mins. Dir: Vasan Bala. Key cast: Gulshan Devaiah, Siddharth Mennon. Follows the intersecting lives of three social outcasts in Mumbai. Critics’ Week Miramar
12:00
A SPECIAL DAY (France) 52mins. Dir: Gilles Jacob. As president of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob conceived and directed this film. Using archive material and official footage, Jacob follows 35 renowned directors in their special day in Cannes during the 60th anniversary of the festival. Out of Competition Lerins 2
HOLD BACK (France) 75mins. Dir: Rachid Djaidani. Key cast: Sabrina Hamida, Slimane Dazi, Stephane Soo Mongo. Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It would be a simple matter if it weren’t for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and a taboo still rooted in the mentalities of the two communities: no marriages
FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:15
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-
between Blacks and Arabs. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
LA SIRGA (Colombia) 88mins. Dir: William Vega. Key cast: David Fernando Guacas, Heraldo Romero, Joghis Seudin Aras, Julio Cesar Roble. Alicia is helpless. Fleeing the armed violence that has claimed the lives of those dearest to her, she
THE HUNT (Denmark) 111mins. Dir: Thomas Vinterberg. Key cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Susse Vold. Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of re-establishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. Then one day, a small lie threatens to turn the entire community against itself. In Competition Star 2
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
ends up in La Sirga, at the guesthouse of Oscar, the only family she has left. Directors Fortnight Olympia 3
12:15
GRANNY’S FUNERAL See box, above
13:00
CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY (UK) 125mins. Dir: Sylvie Verheyde. Key cast:
Peter Doherty, Charlotte Gainsbourg, August Diehl. The early 18th century: Octave, a cuckolded aristocrat, must overcome his past and learn to love again. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
14:00
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. An object of study, she gradually
becomes an object of desire. Critics’ Week Olympia 5
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 Olympia 6
POLLUTING PARADISE (Germany) 98mins. Dir: Fatih Akin. Camburnu is a small mountain village in northeastern Turkey. Thanks to the Black Sea’s mild and humid climate, the villagers have lived for generations off tea cultivation and fishing in harmony with the nature surrounding them. But this idyllic environment is threatened by the government’s decision 10 years ago to build a garbage landfill directly above the village. Out of Competition Star 1
WHITE ELEPHANT (Argentina) 120mins. Dir: Pablo Trapero. Key cast: Ricardo Darin, Jeremie Renier, Martina Gusman. In the vast, poverty- stricken and highly dangerous Buenos Aires slum that is the Villa Virgen, two men — both
MARKET SCREENINGS: DIRECTED BY
Guido Lombardi CAST
Abdou Kader Alassane Moussa Mone Esther Elisha
PRODUCED BY Eskimo
Figli del Bronx Minerva Pictures
in collaboration with Rai Cinema
GENRE action/drama
MAY 21 | 18:00 | LERINS 2
When a young African man immigrates to Italy to work with his “rich” uncle he finds himself penniless and alone in a foreign land with no way of finding his relative. He is taken in by otherAfrican immigrants who tell him the reality of the situation and he learns quickly that the only way he can try to make any money is by selling useless items in the streets. When he finally finds his uncle, he realizes that his uncle’s success is based on illegal sales of athletic shoes makes him want to follow in his footsteps. One thing leads to another…
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