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 Arcades 2


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 Olympia 5


17:00


JOURNAL DE FRANCE (France) 100mins. Dir: Raymond Depardon. Key cast: Raymond Depardon. Out of Competition Salle du 60eme


LE GRAND SOIR (France) 90mins. Dir: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern. Key cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy


the guesthouse of Oscar, the only family she has left. Here, on the shores of a great lake in the Andes, she tries to rebuild her life. Directors Fortnight Palais G


19:30


GRANNY’S FUNERAL (France) 100mins. Dir: Bruno Podalydes. Key cast: Denis Podalydes, Isabelle Candelier, Valerie Lemercier. Directors Fortnight Star 1


FESTIVAL & PRESS 17:30


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


17:30


AFTER LUCIA (Mexico) 93mins. Dir: Michel Franco. After Roberto’s wife dies, he falls into a depression and decides to move to Mexico City with his estranged teenage daughter. At her new school, the child endures emotional and sexual abuse in silence. The situation reaches the brink during a school trip to the


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


beach, when Alejandra escapes, swimming away from her torturers. Roberto thinks that those bullies killed his daughter and prepares revenge. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin


AQUI Y ALLA See box, above


CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO (Bosnia-Herzegovina)


90mins. Dir: Aida Begic. Key cast: Bojan Navojec, Ismir Gagula, Marija Pikik. Un Certain Regard Star 3


TWENTY YEARS LATER (Brazil) 120mins. Dir: Eduardo Coutinho. Key cast: Eduardo Coutinho. Documentary examining the life and assassination of a farmer and political figure in 1960s Brazil. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel


WHITE ELEPHANT (Argentina) 120mins. Dir: Pablo Trapero. Key cast: Ricardo Darin, Jeremie Renier, Martina Gusman. Un Certain Regard Star 1


18:00


LES INVISIBLES (France) 115mins. Dir: Sebastien Lifshitz. Men and women, born between the wars. They have nothing in common except their homosexuality, and their decision to live openly at a time when society rejected them. Today they tell us about their pioneering lives. Out of Competition Olympia 7


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 ends up in La Sirga, at


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HOLY MOTORS (France) 116mins. company Dir: Leos Carax. Key cast: Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes. Drama in which man travels between multiple lives in modern day Paris. In Competition Press Salle Debussy


KILLING THEM SOFTLY (US) 100mins. Dir: Andrew Dominik. Key cast: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini. In Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere


19:45


THE MUSIC ACCORDING TO ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM (Brazil) 84mins. Dir: Dora Jobim, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos. Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with ‘The Girl From


At the Plage Goëland (next to Cinema de la Plage)


■ 28 Screen International at Cannes May 22, 2012


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