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SCREENINGS

MARKET

Friday 11 May

BLUES BY THE BEACH 18:00 to make their name. In the new office the side life for the cruel city. She has to find money
group’s agency moves into Eun-ju finds an old
to pay off the large family debt that her father
Première TREAT ME LIKE FIRE videotape of an untitled music video. The song left behind, in order to save her mother from
72’. (JOUEURS) recorded on the video is dark and gloomy, but jail. Friends since their village childhood, her
Palais F Première also mesmerising. The group slowly falls under loyal, but penniless admirer Kuandyk follows
Sales: Mistral Artist Management France, 110’, Romance. a spell when they record the song. - her just to make sure his sweetheart is safe.
(Le Casino Café) +603639183 Arcades 2 (Priority badges only) Next screening: 17 May, 14:00, Debussy
Section: Market Sales: Playtime (3 Sq Mérimée (3rd Fl.)) BEHOLD MY HEART
Next screening: 14 May, 12:00, Gray 5 Section: Market (Directors Fortnight) Première THE MISEDUCATION
USA, 82’, Drama.
THE LAST SERMON Director: Marie Monge Lerins 1 OF CAMERON POST
Première Casting: Tahar Rahim, Stacy Martin Sales: Visit Films (Booth M4) USA, 103’, Comedy.
Olympia 5
USA, 5’, Documentary. Synopsis: When she meets Abel, Ella's life is Section: Market
Palais F turned upside down. Drawn to this elusive lov- Director: Joshua Leonard Sales: Elle Driver (7 La Croisette, 7th Floor)
Sales: Mistral Artist Management (Le Casino er, she discovers the underground world of Casting: Marisa Tomei, Charlie Plummer, Section: Market
Café) +603639183 Paris’ gaming circles. Their love story, begun as Timothy Olyphant, Mireille Enos, Emily Director: Desiree Akhavan
Section: Market a mere bet, turns into a devouring passion. Robinson Casting: Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane,
Director: Jack Baxter Next screening: 13 May, 10:00, Olympia 2 Synopsis: After the tragic death of his dad, Forrest Goodluck, John Gallagher Jr, Jennifer
Synopsis: In April 2003, Jack Baxter was JIM BUTTON AND LUKE 16-year-old Marcus must look after his self- Ehle
injured in a suicide bombing. This documentary THE ENGINE DRIVER destructive mother while navigating the diffi- Synopsis: Gay 16-year-old Cameron is living
was shot in 2017 in Jerusalem, Thessaloniki, (JIM KNOPF UND LUKAS DER culties of adolescence. with her born-again Evangelical aunt while
Skopje, Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Stuttgart, LOKOMOTIVFÜHRER) (secretly) sleeping with the prom queen. When
Prague, Paris, Nice, Avignon and London. Baxter Première PLACE PUBLIQUE the girls are caught she is sent to to God’s
interviewed Muslims challenging them with the Germany, 105’, Family. France, 98’, Comedy. Promise, a conversion therapy centre where
last words of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), try- Gray 1 Lerins 3 (Press Allowed) teens are “cured” of their homosexuality.
ing to encourage tolerance and co-existence. Sales: Timeless Films (The Bettina Yacht) Sales: Le Pacte (Booth M21) Next screening: 17 May, 12:00, Lerins 2
Next screening: 14 May, 12:00, Gray 5 Section: Market Section: Market
Director: Dennis Gansel Director: Agnès Jaoui BLAZE
THE ANTIQUE: SECRET Casting: Henning Baum, Solomon Gordon, Casting: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri Première
OF THE OLD BOOKS Annette Frier, Christoph Maria Herbst, Uwe Synopsis: Castro, once a famous TV host, goes USA, 127’, Drama.
(BIBLIA KOSHODO NO JIKEN TECHO) Ochsenknecht, Michael Bully Herbig to the party of longtime friend and producer Palais C
Première Synopsis: Once upon a time there was a tiny Nathalie. Hélène, Nathalie's sister and Castro's Sales: The Exchange
Japan, 121’, Drama. island called Morrowland. They lived in peace ex-wife, is carrying a petition in support of an Section: Market
Palais H for many years until one day the mailman Afghan refugee and their daughter has just Director: Ethan Hawke
Sales: Kadokawa Corporation delivers a mysterious package, an adorable, published a book in which the main characters Casting: Alia Shawkat, Ben Dicky, Josh
(Booth C6) +04 92 99 33 26 baby boy from a far away, unknown land. So have from her parents flaws. Hamilton, Charlie Sexton
Section: Market the Morrowlanders took in the orphan boy. Synopsis: Inspired by the life of Blaze Foley,
Director: Mishima Yukiko RAOUL TABURIN the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas
YOUTOPIA Première outlaw music movement that spawned the
YELLOW IS FORBIDDEN Première France, Family. likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The
Première Italy, 94’, Drama. Olympia 2 (Priority badges only) film weaves together three different periods of
New Zealand, Australia, Netherlands, Israel, 95’, Gray 3 Sales: Wild Bunch (5 Square Mérimée) +33 4 time, braiding re-imagined versions of Blaze’s
Art - Culture. Sales: Tvco (Booth C1) 93 68 73 53 past, present and future.
Palais J Section: Market Section: Market
WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST
Sales: The Film Sales Company Director: Berardo Carboni Director: Pierre Godeau USA, 83’, Documentary.
Section: Market Casting: Matilda De Angelis, Alessandro Haber, Casting: Benoît Poelvoorde
Director: Pietra Brettkelly Donatella Finocchiaro, Federico Rosati, Paolo Synopsis: If anyone knows anything about Palais E
Sassanelli, Luca Lionello, Antoine-Olivier Pilon bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Sales: Dogwoof
CHAMPIONS (CAMPEONES) Synopsis: 18-year-old Matilde lives a bleak life Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of (Doc Corner H8 / Marina Club H6)
Spain, 119’, Comedy. with her senile grandmother and her mother, France. But Raoul has a terrible secret: he has Section: Market
Riviera 2 crushed by debts. Matilde copes with life never been able to keep his balance on a bike Director: Lorna Tucker
Sales: Latido Films (Booth A5) thanks to her online avatar from utopian uni- without using stabilisers. Synopsis: Filmmaker Lorna Tucker has exclu-
Section: Market verse Landing, a multiplayer online role-playing THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE sive, unprecedented access, following Vivienne
throughout 2014 as she juggles the seemingly
Director: Javier Fresser game where she hangs out with her friend. OF THE WORLD
Casting: Javier Gutiérrez, Sergio Olmos, Julio Next screening: 12 May, 20:00, Olympia 7 (LASKOVOE BEZRAZLICHIE MIRA) contradictory roles of world-renowned fashion
designer, and impassioned, outspoken (often
Fernández, Jesús Lago, Jesús Vidal, José De WHITE Première eccentric) environmental activist.
Luna, Gloria Ramos, Alberto Nieto Fernández, Première Kazakhstan, France, 100’, Comedy.
Fran Fuente India, 73’, Drama. Olympia 4 (Priority badges only) SHARKWATER EXTINCTION
Synopsis: Marco is an assistant coach in Gray 5 Sales: Beta Cinema (Goeland Entrance) Première
Spain’s top basketball league. After getting Sales: Adler And Associates Entertainment Inc. +4917610312646 Canada, South Africa, Spain, Panama, Costa
drunk, he is involved in a traffic accident that (Booth K3) Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) Rica, USA, 90’, Documentary.
lands him in court. He is sentenced to the worst Section: Market Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Palais G (Invite only)
possible punishment for his ego: coaching a Director: Aneek Chaudhuri Casting: Dinara Baktybayeva, Kuandyk Sales: Horizon Motion Pictures
group of intellectually-disabled players that Casting: Kaushik Roy, Arja Banerjee, Sayanti Dussenbaev Section: Market
have never touched a ball before. Chattoraj Synopsis: After her father’s untimely death, Director: Rob Stewart
Next screening: 14 May, 18:00, Lerins 3 Synopsis: Girl group Pink Dolls are struggling Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic country- Casting: Rob Stewart,

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