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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2018

d3telefilm.com DARKSIDE RELEASING [email protected] Completed. Documentary, 83’. TALE OF THE SEA
Riviera: D15 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada dogwoof.com By Lorna Tucker. Completed. Drama, 97’.
Douglas Price (CEO-Producer- [email protected] Riviera: H8 & H6 Filmmaker Lorna Tucker has exclusive, By Bahman Farmanara with Bahman
Distributor-Buyer), Marina Moyer darksidereleasing.com Andy Whittaker (Founder), Anna unprecedented access, following Farmanara, Fatemeh Motamed Arya,
(VP-Global Sales), Betty Hourigan (Vice Canadian Pavillion Godas (CEO), Oli Harbottle (Head Vivienne throughout 2014 as she Leila Hatami, Saber Abar, Ali Nassirian,
President of Sales), Tara Hourigan (Sales Vince D’Amato (Director) of Distribution and Acquisitions), juggles the seemingly contradictory Roya Nonahali, Ali Mosaffa, Pantea
Agent) Ana Vicente (Head of Int’l Sales), roles of world-renowned fashion Panahiha.
ALL THROUGH THE HOUSES Luke Brawley (Festivals Manager), designer, and impassioned, outspoken Where I come from, metaphors have
THE CHRISTMAS CLAUSE Completed. Comedy, 88’. (often eccentric) environmental activist. replaced reality. The story of Taher
Completed. Comedy, 90’. By Todd Nunes with Jessica Cameron, Konstantinos Papageorgiou (Sales & Mohebi and his descent into madness
By George Erschbamer with Lea Ashley Nunes. Acquisitions Coordinator), Lucie Touboul DREAMLAB FILMS is the only way I could tell the story I
(Legal & Business Affairs)
Thompson, Andrew Airlie. There is a creature stirring. 14, Chemin des Chichourliers wanted to tell. One man’s madness is
H.P. LOVECRAFT’S COOL AIR ODYSSEY OF THE DEAD THE ICE KING 06110 Le Cannet, France a metaphor for the surreal lives of a
Post-Production. Documentary, 90’.
Completed. Thriller, 77’. Completed. Erotic, 67’. By James Erskine. Tel: +33 4 93 38 75 61 whole nation.
By Albert Pyun with Morgan Weisser, By Vince D’Amato with Tristan Risk, The greatest ice skater of all time, [email protected] TERMITES
Wendy Phillips, Crystal Green, Norbert Momona Komagata, Lynn Lowry. John Curry transformed a dated sport dreamlabfilms.com Completed. Road movie, 91’.
Weisser. into an art form and made history by Riviera: J12 (Tel: +33614010203) By Masoud Hatami with Maryam
A screenwriter wrestling with creative POOL PARTY MASSACRE becoming the first openly gay Olympian Nasrine Médard De Chardon (Manager Moghadam, Behtash Sanaee-Ha,
Completed. Horror, 82’.
block is confronted with unimaginable in a time when homosexuality was not & Int’l Sales), Romain Medard De Siavash Cheraghipoor, Khorshid
evil after suffering a heart attack, and RETURN TO RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM even fully legal. Chardon (Associate Manager), Cheraghipoor.
being saved by the mysterious doctor HIGH AKA VOL 2 Roy Bartley (Head of Marketing), We must all one day confront our own
who lives in an upstairs apartment. Completed. Comedy, 78’. CHI-TOWN Vahid Ghotbizadeh (Post Production personal fears.
By Lloyd Kaufman. Completed. Documentary, 82’.
HOLOMODOR By Nick Budabin. Supervisor) EASTWEST
Completed. Horror, 88’. SOFT MATTER An underdog basketball player from AFRICAN VIOLET FILMDISTRIBUTION
Completed. Comedy, 72’.
By Stefano Pivelli, Alberto Ruga. Chicago goes on a meteoric rise Completed. Drama, 94’. GMBH
A horror movie that tells of a tragic By Jim Hickox. to become one of the best college By Mona Zandi Haghighi with Fatemeh
Two trespassing graffiti artists, two
act of alleged cannibalism that has immortality-obsessed scientists, and point guards in the nation. But while Motamed Arya, Saeed Aghakhani, Lerchengasse 24/25
its roots in one of the darkest events one furious sea-god. he pursues dreams of the NBA, his Reza Babak, Mehdi Hosseini Nia, Roya 1080 Vienna, Austria
in history of mankind: the Holodomor success contrasts with the effects of Javidnia, Neda Jebraeili. Tel: +43 1 890 83 76
-"Extermination by hunger". DOC & FILM gun violence on his friends back home. Communication is the only way to [email protected]
KNYSNA INTERNATIONAL COMMANDER ARIAN-A STORY OF make relationships work. eastwest-distribution.com
Riviera: K2
Completed. Comedy, 100’. 13, rue Portefoin WOMEN, WAR & FREEDOM BOMB, A LOVE STORY
By Maynard Kraak. 75003 Paris, France Completed. Documentary, 105’. Completed. Drama, 97’. Sasha Wieser (CEO), Yannick Rudynski
(Executive Sales and Acquisition
Dolf is a regular guy from a modest Tel: +33 1 42 77 56 87 By Alba Sotorra Clua. By Payman Maadi with Leila Hatami, Manager), Lilly Schulz (Festival and
background in Knysna. He is content [email protected] Hit by 5 bullets, commander Arian Payman Maadi, Siamak Ansari, Habib Sales Manager), Astrid Nolte (Marketing
with his normal small town existence, docandfilm.com experiences the cost of war in the flesh Rezaei. and Sales Manager), Susanne Wieser
as she is forced to redefine her role in
his group of friends and his eccentric Riviera: L2 the struggle for women’s freedom. It’s 1988 and, at the height of the (Finance Department)
grandparents. Daniela Elstner (Managing Director), Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed
LOCKED DOWN Clémence Lavigne (Sales & Acquisitions THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES [S] relentlessly. The days that pass are full COPS
Completed. Drama, 93’.
of foreboding, and yet, love, affection,
Completed. Action/Adventure, 90’. Manager), Théo Lionel (Festival Completed. Documentary, 115’. hope and life itself manage to sweep By Lukacs Stefan A..
By Daniel Zirilli. Manager), Kadi Kolk (Assistant) By Cousins Mark. away the fear of death from those
Granted exclusive access to hundreds
NIGHT FALL HAYATI (MY LIFE) of private drawings and paintings by surrounded by it. EDKO FILMS LTD
Completed. Thriller, 86’. Completed. Documentary, 82’. Orson Welles, filmmaker Mark Cousins DRESSAGE 1212, Tower 2, Admiralty Centre,
By David Decoteau with Dominique By Torres Liliana, Sofi Escude Poulenc. dives deep into the visual world of this Completed. First film, 95’. 18 Harcourt Rd, 18 Harcourt Road
Swain, Sharon Hinnendael, Parker In 2015, Osama Abdul Mohsen and legendary director and actor, to reveal a By Pooya Badkoobeh with Negar Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Young, Jason-Shane Scott. his son were abused by a Hungarian portrait of the artist as he’s never been Moghaddam, Ali Mosaffa, Shabnam Tel: +852 2529 3898
A modern, visual and visceral Romeo journalist. The video of the incident seen before. Moghaddami, Yasna Mirtahmasb, [email protected]
and Juliet story of the ultimate scandalized the entire world. GENERATION WEALTH [S] Baset Rezaei, Houshang Tavakoli, Beh cinema.com.hk
forbidden love affair-between a HOLY MOUNTAIN Completed. Documentary, 108’. Afarid Ghafarian, Shayan Fasihzadeh, Riviera: C4 (Tel: +85 297 398 628)
vampire and the descendant of vampire Completed. Documentary, 80’. By Lauren Greenfield. Rambod Motalebi, Lotfollah Seifi. Gary Sing Hei Mak (Director-Broadway
hunters. By Reinhold Messner with Simon Over the past 25 years, Lauren Golsa is a 16-year-old girl living with Cinematheque), Esther Yeung (General
SILENT VENOM Messner, Vitus Auer, Alfi Dworak, Greenfield’s documentary photography her family in a small town near Tehran. Manager-Sales & Acquisitions), Julian
Completed. Action/Adventure, 90’. Alexander Walpoth, Martin Dejori, and film projects have explored youth She spends most of her time hanging Chiu (Senior Manager-Int’l Sales &
By Fred Olen Ray with Tom Berenger, Philipp Prünster. culture, gender, body image, and out with a group of friends. Distribution), Joycelyn Choi (Director of
Krista Allen, Luke Perry. Nepal, 1979: a group of young New affluence. HENDI AND HORMOZ Programming), Mandy Wai Man Lam
At the tail end of what has become Zealanders led by Peter Hillary decide to MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. [S] Completed. Second film, 88’. (Film Booking Manager)
a lackluster career, Lt. Cmdr. James climb the 6828 metres high mountain Completed. Art-Culture, 97’. By Abbas Amini with Hamed Alipour, POETS
O’Neill gets a chance to redeem himself Ama Ablam. By Steve Loveridge. Zohreh Eslami, Asma Daneh-Chin, Production. Drama.
when Adm. Bradley Wallace recruits SAMOUNI ROAD An intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan Mohammad Banouj. By Hao Liu with Jia Song, Yawen Zhu.
him to head a classified mission. Completed. Documentary, 100’. artist and musician who continues to On the island of Hormuz in the Persian During the Chinese economic reform in
TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE By Stefano Savona. shatter conventions. Gulf, according to local custom, the 80s, a mine worker aims to improve
his life by becoming a poet, with the
In the rural outskirts of Gaza
thirteen-year-old Hendi is married off
Completed. Fantasy, 86’. City a small community of THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING [S] to sixteen-year-old Hormoz. help of his wife.
By Albert Pyun with Kevin Sorbo, farmers, the Samouni extended family, Completed. Documentary, 98’.
Whitney Able, Victoria Maurette, is about to celebrate a wedding. By Kahn Nathaniel. IN THE MIST SEND ME TO THE CLOUD
Michael Pare. Deep dive into the rarefied world of Completed. Family, 95’. Production. Drama.
A princess is on a quest to unite the five TOUCH ME NOT contemporary art where everything By Pegah Arzi with Shahab Hossieni, By Congcong Teng with Chen Yao.
In order to raise money to cure her
of the world’s greatest warriors to save Completed. Art-Culture, 125’. can be bought and sold, The Price of Nazanin Farahani, Setayesh Mahmoodi, cancer, a female journalist accepts a
her kingdom from a demon sorceress. By Adina Pintilie with Laura Benson, Everything is a stunning expose of Masoomeh Rahmati, Tina Asadi,
Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Beyerlein, Pedram Janat Saraye Namin. job to write an autobiography of an
WASTELAND Grit Uhlemann, Adina Pintilie, Hanna the role of art in today’s consumerist Saeed, a 44 year old architect, is leading old painter.
Completed. Action/Adventure, 90’. Hoffmann, Seani Love, Irmena society. a happy life with his 12 year old THE WHISTLE BLOWER
By Hermes Cavagnini with Petra Chichikova, Rainer Steffen, Georgi STUDIO 54 [S] daughter, Nabat, in Tehran. Nabat has Production. Thriller.
Wright, Patrick Sane, Tim Tayler. Naldzhiev. Completed. Documentary, 98’. been raised by her father since she By Xiaolu Xue with Wei Tang.
The story of four outlaws and a female Tell me how you loved me, so I By Matt Tyrnauer. was one year old and Saeed’s dual A woman vows to expose the multi-
bounty hunter follow a path of violence understand how to love. Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s parenting role has formed a special national conspiracy her company
and murder along the Texas/Mexico hedonism, a monumental magnet bond between father and daughter. engages in and puts her own life at
border, only to discover overlapping WHERE ARE YOU, JOAO for beautiful stars, casual sex, and stake.
GILBERTO?
pasts. Completed. Documentary, 106’. mounds of cocaine, a den of excess that IRAN K9 THE LIQUIDATOR
Completed. Science-fiction, 140’.
WOMAN SEEKS FARMER By Georges Gachot. defined its own rules and enshrined the By Vahid Vakilifar with Marjan Sadeghi, Completed. Crime, 124’.
ostracized, queer, and fabulous.
Completed. Comedy, 123’. Seyed Ali Hosseini, Mehdi Mirzaeian, By Jizhou Xu with Chao Deng, Ethan
By Maynard Kraak. DOGWOOF THAT SUMMER Fatemeh Mortazi. Juan, Shishi Liu, Karena Lam.
Mareike is a city girl and successful in Ground Floor, 19-23 Ironmonger Row Completed. 80’. In a world cursed by an Endless eclipse, Based on a popular crime novel series,
her demanding career. The same cannot EC1V 3QN London, United Kingdom WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, unhinged and on the verge of madness, a criminal psychologist teams up with
be said for her love life. Tel: +44 207 253 6244 ACTIVIST [S] everyone yearns for the light. a forensic specialist to track down a
[S] Screening
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