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DAY 2
Wednesday 9 May 2018

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ing meld of career retrospective and film essay, Palais I (Priority badges only) Section: Market
Greenfield offers a meditation on her extensive Sales: Beta Cinema (Goeland Entrance) 15:30 Director: Larry Clark
body of work, structuring it through the lens of +4917610312646 Casting: Adam Mediano, Drake Burnette,
materialism and its increasing sway on culture Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) PLAYMAKER (Premiere) Mercedes Maxwell, Jonathan Velasquez
and society in America and throughout the Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Germany, 95’, Thriller. Synopsis: Chubby orange house cat Marnie is
world. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap Casting: Dinara Baktybayeva, Kuandyk Gray 2 living a comfortable life in the Sonnenschein
between the haves and the have-nots, her por- Dussenbaev Sales: Picture Tree International family home. One day Paul, who can't stand his
traits reveal a focus on cultivating image over Synopsis: After her father’s untimely death, (Booth G1) +04 92 99 32 06 sister's spoiled pet, abandons Marnie at a rural
substance, where subjects unable to attain Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic country- Section: Market gas station.Out on the road, Marnie is joined by
actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no side life for the cruel city. She has to find money Director: Timon Modersohn a loud-mouthed dog named Elvis, a donkey
matter their ability to pay for it. From her earli- to pay off the large family debt that her father Casting: Frederick Lau, Antje Traue, Karl named Anthony, who wants to become famous
est photo studies on the seemingly privileged left behind, in order to save her mother from Markovics, Oliver Masucci as a Zebra; and a neurotic rooster named
lives of Los Angeles high-school students, jail. Friends since their village childhood, her Synopsis: Ivo, former professional footballer Eggbert. When they are mistaken for the local
through her look at the pitfalls of extreme loyal, but penniless admirer Kuandyk follows and jailbird with nothing to lose, is a betting rooftop thieves they join forces to capture the
wealth in The Queen of Versailles (Directing her just to make sure his sweetheart is safe. natural. His feel for the sport and background real culprits and regain their honour.
Award: U.S. Documentary, 2012 Sundance Film Saltanat’s uncle introduces her to a possible draw the interest of Dejan, who takes him into Next screening: 10 May, 15:30, Olympia 6
Festival), to more recent images of conspicuous his family, sucking him quickly into football’s
consumption in Russia and China, Greenfield's groom, who promises to pay off her family’s underbelly, a world of global fraud and manipu- THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
work becomes a cautionary morality tale about debts. But Saltanat’s hopes are dashed, when lation where individuals are merely small cogs USA, 96’, Animation.
our unquenchable desire for more. she discovers that the men in this city don’t in an international network whose digital ten- Olympia 3
keep their word. When Kuandyk tries to help tacles stretch all the way to China and beyond. Sales: Protagonist Pictures
MR. PRESIDENT`S VACATION (Premiere) Saltanat get the money through other ways, he But when Ivo meets young Lukas, a talented (Ibis Entrance, 7th Floor) +04 93 3930 70
Russia, 90’, Comedy. ends up finding himself in more trouble than he lad in whom he sees his former self, and starts Section: Market
Palais G bargained for. Although life keeps dealing them training him for a top team trial while, at the Director: Sara Colangelo
Sales: Andrianova Kino (Booth M25) bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give same time, supposedly grooming and manipu- Synopsis: In a world that does not appreciate
Section: Market up, no matter what the odds. lating him on Dejan’s behalf, he also falls in artists, where sensitive souls don't stand a
Director: Ilya Sherstobitov Next screening: 11 May, 18:00, Olympia 4 love with the boy’s mother. Now Ivo finds him- chance, a poetry-loving kindergarten teacher
Next screening: 11 May, 15:30, Palais B self caught be - tween two fronts and two fam- discovers a child poet and decides to take it
GIFT (Premiere) ilies, and has to decide... upon herself to nurture him. To save his great-
THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE USA, 88’, Drama. Next screening: 11 May, 17:30, Olympia 9 ness for the world, to salvage him from the
OF THE WORLD (Premiere) Palais K banal, the mediocre and the crude, to save him
Kazakhstan, France, 100’, Comedy. Sales: Dreams Factory +8043065588 MARFA GIRL 2 (Premiere) from life itself. It is the story of a female Don
Section: Market USA, 77’, Drama. Quixote, who strives to save the world through
Director: Sunny Zhao Gray 4 the poetry of a child, and of a pensive child
Casting: Emma Barnett, Elyse DuFour, Eric Sales: Breaking Glass Pictures who has no desire to be saved.
Brenner, Jeffery Klemmer, Sandra Simpson, (Marina Club H6) Next screening: 12 May, 09:30, Arcades 3
Slash Coleman, Garet Chester, Tara Dail Section: Market
Synopsis: Abigail Phillips is an American farm Director: Larry Clark HOLY TOUR (Premiere)
girl who grows up to become a world- Casting: Adam Mediano, Drake Burnette, Belgium, 70’, Documentary.
renowned pianist. Behind her success there is a Mercedes Maxwell, Jonathan Velasquez Olympia 6
secret. When Abigail is 10-years-old, she stum- Sales: Be For Films (Booth A6)
bles upon a mysterious piano on her father's BETWEEN WORLDS (Premiere) Section: Market
farm. As the mystery of the piano begins to USA, 89’, Thriller. Director: Valéry Rosier, Méryl Fortunat-Rossi
unravel, its origin is far beyond anyone could Lerins 2 (Invite only) Synopsis: A film about the fans who come to
have ever imagined. Sales: Voltage Pictures (Booth L5) cheer the Tour de France race, a film about
Section: Market modern-day pilgrims, a film about the hairpin
THE LAST PRINCE OF ATLANTIS Director: Maria Pulera bends of the legendary Izoard pass, a film
(Premiere) Synopsis: Bina (46), religious woman from about RVs that stake their spots two weeks
USA, 84’, Animation. Jerusalem, arrives panic-stricken at the hospital ahead of time, a film about the passing of time
Riviera 1 (Press allowed) after her son Oliel (25) was severely injured in a perched between the road and the cliff, a film
Sales: Cinema Libre International (Booth F3) stabbing attack. This is the first time she sees about summertime and a new daily routine, a
Section: Market him since he became secular and lost contact film about our need to belong.
Director: Barbe Vladlen with the family. Her husband, Meir (50) comes Next screening: 12 May, 13:30, Palais B
Next screening: 14 May, 11:30, Olympia 1 later only after their daughter Ester’s (28) insist-
ence. At the hospital, Bina meets Amal (24). LITTLE WOODS (Premiere)
15:00 While Meir searches for answers to revive Oliel, USA, 105’, Drama.
the two despondent women bond with one Olympia 7
VR WITH A SOUL PRESENTS: another. However, Amal hides a secret from Sales: Independent
THE CLIFFS OF V. (Premiere) Bina and Meir. While waiting for Oliel’s revival, (Numa Blanc, 23 Rue Mace)
26’, VR. they will learn about truth, faith, understand- Section: Market
Next Vr Cinema (Ticket required) ing, acceptance, and love that can and maybe Director: Nia DaCosta
Sales: Gengiskhan Production should replace fear of the unknown. Next screening: 10 May, 17:30, Olympia 7
Section: Market Next screening: 13 May, 10:00, Lerins 1
Synopsis: Facing an organ shortage crisis, the UNTOGETHER (Premiere)
government offers sentence remission to long- MARNIE´S WORLD (Premiere) USA, Romance.
term prisoners, in exchange of a part of their Germany, 85’, 3D. Olympia 9
body. Wearing a VR headset, the viewer is invit- Lerins 4 Sales: Ambassador Film Group
ed to share the life of a prisoner who is about Sales: Global Screen Section: Market
to trade something for years of freedom. (Booth L7) +04 92 99 33 33/35

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