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SCREENINGS Wednesday 9 May 2018
DAY 2

FESTIVAL

Wednesday 9 May

FESTIVAL to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses 10:00 (Booth G3) +04 92 99 32 20
Section: Critics' Week (In competition)
his job — and his sense of purpose — he
decides to join the cause of fighting the fire,
leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. DEAD SOULS (Premiere) Director: Zsófia Szilágyi
Synopsis: Anna (40) has an average life: Three
Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe China, France, 495’, Documentary. healthy children, her work as an Italian teacher,
8:30 witnesses his mother embark on her own Salle Du 60e (Press screening) a flat she owns with her husband and a mort-
adventure, as she transgresses into an affair Sales: Doc & Film International (Booth L2) gage that is not too bad. Nevertheless, Anna
EVERYBODY KNOWS (Premiere) with an older man. Section: Out of Competition sometimes has the impression of upholding a
France, Spain, Italy, 132’, Thriller. Next screening: 10 May, 08:30, Bunuel (Special screening) life with all her might, one that leaves no room
Grand Théâtre Lumière Director: Wang Bing for her. When she finds out that her husband is
(Press screening+ticket required) 8:45 Synopsis: In Gansu Province, northwest China, cheating on her with her best friend, her well
lie the remains of countless prisoners aban-
Sales: Memento Films International doned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. situated life is put on the line and she runs the
(84 Rue D'Antibes, 5th Floor) BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Premiere) Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the risk to lose control...
Section: In competition Colombia, France, Mexico, Denmark, 120’, Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of Next screening: 10 May, 08:30, Miramar
Drama.
Director: Asghar Farhadi Theatre Croisette 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou
Casting: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Sales: Films Boutique and Mingshui re-education camps. The film 12:00
Darin (Booth G3) +04 92 99 32 20 invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to
Section: Directors' Fortnight find out firsthand who these persons were, the TUNISIA FACTORY
WILDLIFE [opening] (Premiere) Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra hardships they were forced to endure and what Théâtre Croisette
USA, 104’, Drama. Synopsis: In the 1970s, as American youth became their destiny. Section: Directors' Fortnight
Miramar embraces hippie culture, marijuana bonanza OMERTÀ
Sales: FilmNation Entertainment hits Colombia, quickly turning farmers into sea- 11:00 15’, Drama
(13 Rue Des Serbes, 5th Floor) soned businessmen. In the Guajira desert, a Director: Mariam Al Ferjani, Mehdi Hamnane
Section: Critics' Week Wayuu indigenous family takes a leading role L'ÎLE DES AMOURS (Premiere) Casting: Aïsha Ben Miled, Marwan Grati,
Director: Paul Dano in this new venture, and discovers the perks of Portugal, Japan, 169’. Montassar Ayari, Fares Landolsi
Casting: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan wealth and power. But when greed, passion, Salle Buñuel Synopsis: Donia, her brother Yahya, Ali and
Synopsis: Sensitive 16-year-old Joe is the only and honour blend together, a fratricidal war Sales: Cannes Classics Ibrahim are celebrating Donia’s last night
child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and breaks out and will soon put their family, their Section: Cannes Classics in Tunis before she leaves for studying in
golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. lives and their ancestral traditions at stake. Director: Paulo Rocha France. At one point, they decide to end the
Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close Next screening: 10 May, 09:30, Olympia 2 Casting: Luís Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana, night on the beach and have some joints.
Zita Duarte At dawn, when they wake up one of them
Synopsis: The period, work, love affairs, life is missing.
and death of Wenceslau de Moraes, the great
Portuguese writer of Asia, born in Lisbon in LEILA'S BLUES
1854, who died in Tokushima, Southern Japan, 15’, Drama
in 1929. “The Island of Love” is taken from the Director: Ismaël & Fateme Ahmadi
title of the most famous chapter in “The Casting: Rym Ben Messaoud, Amen Allah Arbi,
Lusiads”, the epic poem by Luiz Vaz de Walid Mouihbi
Camões, great Portuguese poet of the 16th Synopsis: Leila, mother of Youssef, 17, who
century. was born with special needs, is shocked to
find out she is pregnant. She decides to have
11:15 an abortion without telling her husband. She
books herself a room in a private clinic, but
DONBASS (Premiere) things turn against her on the day on the day
Germany, France, Ukraine, Netherlands, she wants to take action.
Romania, 110’, Drama.
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press screening) L’OISEAU BLEU
15’, Comedy
Sales: Pyramide International (Booth J6) Director: Rafik Omrani, Suba Sivakumaran
Section: Un Certain Regard
Director: Sergei Loznitsa Casting: Imen Cherif, Nacib Barhoumi, Aymen
Casting: Boris Kamorzin, Valeriu Andriuta Omrani, Sadok Boufehja, Hamdi Hadda
Synopsis: In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Synopsis: One night at l’Oiseau Bleu, a
Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an famous restaurant by the sea in the suburb
open armed conflict alongside robberies on a of Tunis. Imen, the secret but spectacular
mass scale perpetrated by gangs. In the owner and her faithful Moudir; Ferid, the
Donbass, war is called love, propaganda is playboy; Tarek, the intellectual and Saber,
uttered as truth, hatred is declared to be love. the drum player who is waiting for a phone
It’s not about one region, one country or one call… Fish couscous, music, drinks and more
political system, it’s about humanity and civili- music…
zation in general. It’s about each and every one BEST DAY EVER
of us. 15’, Drama
Next screening: 10 May, 12:00, Lerins 3 Director: Anissa Daoud, Aboozar Amini
Casting: Mohamed Dahech, Salha Nasraoui,
11:30 Amina Ben Smail, Karim Ben Salah
Synopsis: One house, one afternoon, one
ONE DAY (Premiere) misunderstanding, four points of view.
Hungary, 99’, Drama.
Miramar
Sales: Films Boutique

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