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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2018

Munro Chambers, Michael Ironside. of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked organic farm. Put to work with a bunch By Stephen Hall with Ashleigh Dorrell, ARRI MEDIA
To catch a predator he must think through a polyphony of men, tales of misfit interns, Jakob soon discovers Matthew O’Brien, Angel Hannigan. INTERNATIONAL
like one and atmospheres. that not everything is as idyllic as it SAVING FLORA Tuerkenstrasse 89
LIFE AFTER FLASH KARENINA & I first appears. Post-Production. Drama. 80799 Munich, Germany
Completed. Documentary, 94’. Completed. Art-Culture, 89’. THE DIGGERS By Mark Taylor with Jenna Ortega, Tel: +49 89 38 09 12 88
By Lisa Downs with Sam J Jones, By Tommaso Mottola with Gorild Completed. Drama, 84’. David Arquette, Leonor Varela, Tom [email protected]
Melody Anderson, Brian Blessed, Peter Mauseth, Liam Neeson. By Patrick Mcgowan with Joshua Arnold. arrimedia.de/international/home
Wyngard. Destiny of an Actress Bitton, Shawn Kathryn Kane. Flora is a circus elephant who can Lerins: M11 (Tel: +04 92 99 32 04)
Gordon’s Alive! THE MAN SLAYER/THE VIRGIN/THE After a heist gone wrong Tom, a low no longer perform her tricks. The Antonio Exacoustos (Head of
TOMBIRUO SHADOW rent criminal is forced by the local crime night before she’s scheduled to be International Sales & Productions),
Completed. Action/Adventure, 92’. Completed. Drama, 140’. boss to kill his partner and best friend. euthanized, the circus owner’s 14-year Moritz Hemminger (Director of Sales
By Seth Larney. By Sulev Keedus with Rea Lest, Jörgen HOW JACK BECAME BLACK old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from and Acquisitions), Julia Pahl (Sales &
Based on the novels by best-selling Liik, Toomas Suuman, Üllar Saaremäe, Completed. Documentary, 84’. the circus. Acquisitions Manager), Ramona Sehr
Malaysian author Ramlee Awang Katariina Unt, Peeter Volkonski. By Elie Steele with Justin Gordon, Jack SUPERCON (Festivals & Acquisitions)
Murshid. SULEIMAN MONTAIN Steele, June Steele. Post-Production. Comedy. HANNA’S HOMECOMING
ANDANA FILMS Completed. First film, 102’. The births of Jack and June, the third By Zak Knutsen with Maggie Grace, Post-Production. Thriller, 96’.
multiracial generation in filmmaker
By Elizaveta Stishova with Perizat
By Esther Bialas with Valerie Stoll,
Clancy Brown, John Malkovich, Ryan
25 route de l’Echelette Ermanbetova, Daniel Daiyerbekov, Eli Steele’s family, coincided with a Kwanten, Mike Epps. Milena Tscharntke, Godehard Giese,
07170 Lussas, France Asset Imangaliev, Turgunay startling projection: by 2050, at least A rag-tag group of former TV stars and Sascha Alexander Gersak, Sebastian
Tel: +33 4 75 94 34 67 Erkinbekova. 20% of all Americans will self-identify comic book artists, who make their Hülk, Rick Okon.
[email protected] Karabas is a difficult man: a hard- as two or more races. What will this living working at conventions, decide to Hanna just wants to be a normal
andanafilms.com gambling, hard-drinking, child-in-a- mean in a nation tormented by race? steal the loot from a crooked promoter teenager. But with the mysterious
Stephan Riguet (Manager, Acquisition man’s body who puts only himself first ICE BLUE and an overbearing former TV icon. disappearance of her mother in the
and Sales) in his family. Completed. Thriller, 104’. ALIEN CODE marsh ten years ago and the new
KINSHASA MAKAMBO WHATEVER WE WANT By Sandi Somers with Michelle Morgan, Completed. Thriller, 97’. strange girl in the village things
Completed. Documentary, 75’. Completed. Crime, 83’. Billy Maclellan. By Sam Havenhurst with Kyle Gallner, become more and more dangerous
When home-schooled Arielle’s long-
every day.
By Dieudo Hamadi. By Vladimir Kozlov with Yekaterina estranged mother mysteriously returns Azura Skye, Mary Mccormack, Richard
MAMA COLONEL Obraztsova, Alexei Kokorin. to their isolated family farm, it drives Schiff. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER
Katya and Pasha are a Moscow student
Completed. Documentary, 72’. couple in their early twenties. They a wedge into her seemingly-perfect After deciphering a message found in Post-Production. Drama, 114’.
By Damian John Harper with Eric
By Dieudo Hamadi. don’t care about politics or authorities. relationship with her father and reveals a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex
Colonel Honorine works for the DRC a chilling, dark past. Jacobs finds himself being stalked by Hunter, Max Thayer, Nikki Lowe.
A young man is confronted with the
Congolese police force, heading the APL FILM government agents and otherworldly
unit for protection of minors and the 14148 31A Avenue THE ORCHARD beings. most savage decision of his life. Can
he murder his abusive grandfather in
Completed. Drama, 103’.
fight against sexual violence. V4P 2J4 Surrey, British Columbia, By Kate Twa with Chris Mcnally, Piercey BEREAVE order to save his family?
NEVER STOP-A MUSIC THAT Canada Dalton, Morgan Taylor Campbell. Completed. Drama, 100’.
RESISTS Tel: +1 604 628 4444 His life changes when Los Angeles By Evangelos Giovanis, George THE SONATA
Completed. Art-Culture, 76’. [email protected] talent agent Max Roth inherits an Giovanis with Malcolm Mcdowell, Post-Production. Thriller.
By Jacqueline Caux. orchard in British Columbia’s Okanagan Jane Seymour, Keith Carradine, Vinessa By Andrew Desmond with Freya Tingley,
Filmmaker Jacqueline Caux takes an aplfilm.com Valley and finds that there’s more to the Shaw, Mike Starr, Ethan Embry. Simon Abkarian, Rutger Hauer, James
artful and introspective look at four Village Int’l-Riviera Side: Canadian real estate than its selling price. Fatally ill, Garvey thinks he has figured Faulkner, Catherine Schaub-Abkarian,
pioneers of Detroit Techno and the Pavilion (Tel: +17 026 128 126) out how to die alone. But when his Matthew Barber, Cristopher Brand,
trials and tribulations each experienced Warren Nimchuk (President), Brian STREAMER beloved wife Evelyn goes missing James Kermack, Fabrice Smadja, Laine
as they rose through the ranks of Sweet (President Global Sales) Completed. Thriller, 78’. on their anniversary, he must live to Ligere-Stengrevica.
electronic music to become some of MOON IN SAGITTARIUS By Jared Bratt, Vincent Pun with Jared save her. A young violinist unravels her long lost
the most respected musicians in the Post-Production. Drama, 110’. Bratt, Tanya Lee, Brennan Pedde. father’s past, triggering dark forces that
genres’ history. By Marcia Paraiso with Manuela When a misguided loner learns that DEAD ANT reach beyond her imagination.
a webcam girl lives in his building, he
THE RESOLUTE Campagna, Jean Pierre Noher, struggles to build a sincere relationship Completed. Comedy, 87’. ARTHUR & CLAIRE
By Ron Carlson with Tom Arnold,
Completed. Historical, 159’. Fagundes Emanuel, Andrea Buzato, with both her onscreen and off screen Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Leisha Hailey, Completed. Drama, 98’.
By Giovanni Donfrancesco. Ana Cecília Costa. personas. By Miguel Alexandre with Josef Hader,
An 87 year-old Italian, now retired in Ana puts her headphones on and the Michael Horse, Sydney Sweeney, Rhys Hannah Hoekstra.
the USA, looks back on his long life. world becames a videoclip. Music and ARCHSTONE Coiro. The chance meeting of two people at
Wartime memories trigger recollections an internet café are a way of running DISTRIBUTION THE LITTLE MERMAID the darkest moments of their lives leads
of his inconvenient past as a child away from reality and routine of a 3500 W. Olive Ave., Suite 300 Completed. Fantasy, 86’. to a bright new beginning. Arthur and
soldier. tiny city in the border of Brazil and 91505 Burbank, California, USA By Blake Harris with Gina Gershon, Claire pull each other from the abyss-by
trying to save the other they see the
Argentina.
LA SUPPLICATION (VOICES FROM Tel: +1 310 622 8773 William Moseley, Poppy Drayton, worth of their own life.
CHERNOBYL) ANONYMOUS RUDY S [email protected] Shirley Maclaine.
Completed. Environmental, 86’. Completed. Thriller, 89’. archstonedistribution.com A young reporter and his niece discover DIRECTIONS
By Pol Cruchten. By B. P. Paquette with Darryl Hunter, Riviera: F6-F8 a beautiful and enchanting creature Completed. Drama, 103’.
David Schaap, Marianne Farley, Ayana they believe to be the real little By Stephan Komandarev with Vassil
ANTIPODE SALES & O’Shun. Brady Bowen (President-CEO), Scott mermaid. Vasilev-Zuek, Ivan Barnev, Assen
DISTRIBUTION LLC For over a year, an anonymous man Martin (Partner-Principal), Michael WARNING SHOT Blatechki, Irini Jambonas, Vasil Banov,
5-38, Novolesnoy lane who refers to himself simply as "Rudy Slifkin (Partner-Principal), Priscilla Ross Completed. Thriller, 90’. Troyan Gogov, Dimitar Banenkin, Stefan
127055 Moscow, Russia S." sends video-recorded "letters" (President of Worldwide Sales), Donald By Dustin Fairbanks with James Earl Denolyubov.
Smiley (Council)
Tel: +7 916 6045884 to the hostess of a yoga-instruction Jones, David Spade, Bruce Dern. In the span of twenty-four hours,
[email protected] program at his local public-access HOWLERS A single mother and her young while the death of one person gives
Post-Production. Horror.
a chance for a new life to another, in
TV station in the hope of eventually
antipode-sales.biz daughter struggle to make ends
Riviera: H8 winning her heart. By Josh Ridgway with Sean Patrick meet until they inherit their family’s a six taxicabs in Sofia, the destinies of
Flanery, Chad Michael Collins, Chelsea
different people from contemporary
Julia Kuzischina (Feature Sales, DECEIT AT FIRST SIGHT Edmundson. farmhouse. When a business rival Bulgarian reality are irrevocably
Documentary Sales), Elena Podolskaya Completed. Comedy, 108’. A gunslingin’ werewolf slayer from the covets their water rights, the situation intertwined.
(Head of Sales) By Johanan Benavides, Yecid Benavides Old West finds himself mysteriously spirals out of control.
with Johanan Benavides, Yecid FOUR HANDS
14 CASES Benavides. alive in the present, where he must ARIZONA Completed. Thriller, 87’.
Completed. Social issues, 83’. Two extremely nerdy brothers are hell- stop an also-risen band of bloodthirsty By Oliver Kienle with Frida-Lovisa
By Marianna Kaat. bent on winning the laptop of their lycanthropes from terrorizing a PRODUCTIONS Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christof
CENSOR dreams, but in order to do so they must, small town and spreading their evil 5, boulevard Barbès Letkowski, Detlef Bothe.
Completed. Thriller, 133’. in only 48 hours, get a kiss from two throughout the modern world. 75018 Paris, France After losing her beloved but paranoid
By Konstantin Shelepov with Stepan gorgeous girls who are completely out MERMAID DOWN Tel: +33 9 54 52 55 72 sister in a fatal accident, Sophie is
Beketov, Pavel Mihailov, Galina Sumina, of their league. Post-Production. First film, 100’. [email protected] hoping finally for starting a normal
Sergey Mardar. DELINQUENT By Jeffrey Grellman. arizonafilms.net life. But soon she recognizes that
In the not so distant future computer Completed. Thriller, 90’. A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, Guillaume De Seille (Producer), Benedicte another person is controlling her spirit.
game industry reaches its fullest flower By David Strasser with Katie Hayashida, her tail is chopped off and she’s thrown Thomas (Producer/Head of Distribution) How do you fight somebody who’s in
KALÈS Jessie Platt, Pauline Egan. into a mental home where no one HELL IS EMPTY (AKA THE GENTLE your head?
Completed. Social issues, 63’. Jakob Levin, a delinquent on a believes she is a mermaid. INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD) HELP, I SHRUNK MY PARENTS
By Laurent Van Lancker. downward spiral, is sentenced by the NIGHTSHIFT Completed. Thriller, 100’. Completed. Family, 95’.
An intimate and inside perspective courts to serve time on his uncle’s Post-Production. Horror. By Adilkhan Yerzhanov. By Tim Trageser with Oskar Keymer,
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