SCREENINGS FESTIVAL
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MADDENED BY HIS ABSENCE (France) 98mins. Dir: Sandrine Bonnaire. Key cast: Alexandra Lamy, Augustin Legrand, Jalil Mehenni, William Hurt. After a 10-year absence, Jacques, 50, comes back into Mado’s life. To be closer to his estranged wife, he moves into her basement — much to the consternation of her new husband. Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel
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
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OPERATION LIBERTAD (Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Nicolas Wadimoff. Key cast: Natacha Koutchoumov, Stipe Erceg, Laurent Capelluto. Switzerland in the late 1970s. The GAR, a group of young revolutionaries, decides to take action. They rob a bank in order to denounce the Chilean dictatorship but end up with a hostage. What happens next? Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
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DANGEROUS LIAISONS (China) 109mins. Dir: Jin-Ho Hur. Key cast: Ziyi Zhnag, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung. A new adaptation of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, set in the glamorous, tumultuous ‘Paris of the East’ – 1930s Shanghai. Directors Fortnight Lerins 1
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KILLING THEM SOFTLY (US) 100mins. Dir: Andrew Dominik. Key cast: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini. When their illegal card game is held up, and the lifeblood of the criminal economy is on the verge of collapse, the
THE REPENTANT (Algeria) 87mins. Dir: Merzak Allouache. Key cast: Adila Bendimered, Khaled Benaissa, Nabil Asli. Algeria: as Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. Directors Fortnight Riviera 2
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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
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mob calls in enforcer Jackie Cogan to fix the situation. Navigating between his indecisive crime bosses and the dim- witted lowlifes behind the heist, Cogan moves to restore order, and protect his interests before the situation spirals out of control. In Competition Press Grand Theatre Lumiere
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
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FOR LOVE’S SAKE (Japan) company 134mins. Dir: Takashi Miike. Key cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Takumi Saitoh, Ito Ono, Sakura Ando, Ken Maeda. A teenager is drawn into the bloody world of teen gang violence in the hope
of saving her love. Out of Competition Midnight Screening Press
LE GRAND SOIR (France) 90mins. Dir: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern. Key cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem. Two brothers are complete opposites: one a salesman in a chain store, the other an ageing punk. But the circumstances of modern life reunite them — by putting them both on the street. The two men put everything on the line to spark off a new revolution in France. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy
JOURNAL DE FRANCE (France) 100mins. Dir: Raymond Depardon. Key cast: Raymond Depardon. Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed photographer and film-maker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing his home country with a large format camera. Intimate, compelling, revelatory, ‘Journal De France’ offers a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes, an overview of
a truly remarkable career and a fascinating resume of the development of the photographic art over the past half century. Out of Competition Press Salle Bazin
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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 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? In Competition Salle du 60eme
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THE ANGELS’ SHARE (UK) 106mins. Dir: Ken Loach. Key cast: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, William Ruane.
Chancer Robbie sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his
newborn son Luke for the first time. Overwhelmed by the moment, he swears that Luke will not have the same tragic life he has had. Chased out of Glasgow, he strikes out for the Highlands, in pursuit of a job in the whisky industry. In Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
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 than he imagined. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. Critics’ Week Miramar
BEYOND THE WALLS (HORS LES MURS) (Canada) 97mins. Dir: David Lambert. Critics’ Week Arcades 3
CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD (Argentina) 110mins. Dir: Benjamin Avila. Key cast: Cesar Troncoso, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Oreiro. Argentina 1979. After years of exile, Juan (12) and his family come back to Argentina under fake identities. Juan’s parents and his uncle Beto are members of the Montoneros Organisation, which is fighting against the military junta that rules the country. Because of their political activities they are being tracked down relentlessly. His friends at school and the girl he loves, Maria, know him as Ernesto, a name he must not forget, his family’s survival being at stake. Directors’ Fortnight Star 2
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