SCREENINGS Edited by Paul Lindsell
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FESTIVAL AND PRESS
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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 than he imagined. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. Critics’ Week Miramar
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ERNEST & CELESTINE (France) 80mins. Dir: Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier. This is the story of the friendship between Ernest, a big bear who wants to become an artist and Celestine, a little mouse who doesn’t want to become a dentist. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
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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 friends, both Catholic priests, both deeply respected by the local community for their tireless endeavours on behalf of the poor and the dispossessed — take very different paths in their struggle against violence, corruption and injustice. Un Certain Regard Star 1
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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 Star 3
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FESTIVAL & PRESS 08:30
ON THE ROAD (France) 142mins. Dir: Walter Salles. Key cast: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss. Just after his father’s death, Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets
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MEKONG HOTEL (Thailand) 57mins. Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. ‘Mekong Hotel’ is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called ‘Ecstasy Garden’. The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. Mekong Hotel — since it was shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand — also weaves in layers of demolition,
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Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. Sal and Dean bond instantly. Determined not to get locked in to a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. In Competition Press Grand Theatre Lumiere
politics and a drifting dream of the future. Out of Competition Arcades 2
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LA PLAYA DC (Colombia) 90mins. Dir: Juan Andres Arango. Tomas, an Afro- Colombian teenager who fled the country’s Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the difficulties of growing up in Bogota, a city of exclusion and racism. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy
ME AND YOU (Italy) 97mins. Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. Key cast: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco. Lorenzo, a solitary 14 year old with difficulties relating to the world around him, chooses to
FESTIVAL & PRESS 11:30
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, decide to take action. They rob a bank in order to denounce the Chilean dictatorship, but end up with a hostage. What happens next? Does the revolution have a price? Directors Fortnight Arcades 1
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spend a week hidden in the basement of his house. But Lorenzo’s fragile and rebellious step-sister, Olivia, appears at her brother’s place of refuge and disturbs the quiet. Out of Competition Press Salle Bunuel
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THE DREAM AND THE SILENCE (Spain) 110mins. Dir: Jaime Rosales. Key cast: Yolanda Galocha, Oriol
Rosello, Alba Ros Montet, Celia Correas, Jaume Terradas, Laura Latorre. Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. Oriol is an architect and Yolanda is a teacher. During a holiday at the Ebro River Delta they have an accident that changes their lives. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
LE GRAND SOIR (France) 90mins.
OUR CHILDREN (Belgium) 114mins. Dir: Joachim Lafosse. A generous doctor brings a young Moroccan boy back to Belgium to raise him as if he were his own son. When the boy reaches adulthood, falls in love and starts a family, his young wife finds herself trapped in an oppressive emotional atmosphere that will insidiously lead to a tragic outcome. With the birth of their children, the couple’s reliance on the doctor becomes excessive.
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