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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2018

Spencer Pollard (CEO), Michael A veteran of 119 professional bouts Zima, Grant Bowler, Debra Wilson, Japanese food culture. he leaves his native Denmark to teach
Chapman (Acquisitions and across four weight levels, Duran fought Mischa Barton, Naomi Grossman. BEYOND BLOOD (TENTATIVE) at the primary school in Tiniteqilaaq,
Development Manager) in an astonishing five decades. He was ‘The Machinist’ meets ‘Donnie Darko’ Post-Production. Documentary. a tiny village on Greenland’s remote
CREATION STORIES a world champion by the age of 21 and in this suspenseful drama. By Masato Kobayashi with Alexandre East coast.
Pre-Production. Drama. fought some of the greatest boxers of I, DOLOURS Aja, Xavier Gens, Pascal Laugier,
By Nick Moran with Ewen Bremner. all time: Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard and Completed. Documentary, 83’. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury. KOBE SANNOMIYA
Hearns to name a few. By Maurice Sweeney with Dolours A documentary about the new wave THEATER A TO
LITTLE PRINCESS AND THE 5-6-9 Kotonoocho, Chuo
LEGEND OF BLUE FOOT THE NEW RADICAL Price. of French horror movement and
Pre-Production. Children’s. Completed. Documentary, 117’. A cinematic yet intimate and complex influences, etc. 651-0094 Kobe, Japan
By Iain Harvey with Jane Horrocks, By Adam Bhala Lough with Julian portrait of Dolours Price, militant IRA EVIL AND THE MASK (TENTATIVE) Tel: +81 78 231 0011
Colin Mcfarlane, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Assange, Amir Taaki, Cody Wilson. activist, hunger striker and dissident Completed. Thriller, 138’. [email protected]
Julian Clary. Uncompromising, idealistic millennial Republican who two years before By Teppei Nakamura with Hiroshi a-to-kobe.jp
The much-loved Little Princess battles radicals from the United States and she died gave a filmed interview Tamaki, Yuko Araki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Yuko Nobe (Responsable Des Ventes
to save her family and her kingdom the United Kingdom wage digital war on condition that it would not be Tatsuya Nakamura, Mitsuishi Ken, Internationales)
in her first feature-length adventure! on governmental systems they view broadcast in her lifetime. Now for the Kunio Murai, Akira Emoto. CROW, MANTIS
as corrupt. For these crypto-anarchists, first time her story can be told.
HURRICANE resistance is technological and freedom The film is based on the novel "Evil Completed. First film, 115’.
Production. Action/Adventure. is in the code. THE LAST ANIMALS and the Mask (Aku to Kamen no Rule)" By Junichi Haruta with Junichi Haruta,
By David Blair with Iwan Rheon, Milo Completed. Documentary, 91’. by prize-winning Japanese novelist Junko Ohshita, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Gibson, Stephanie Martini, Kristof KATHY MORGAN Conflict photographer Kate Brooks Fuminori Nakamura. Masami Horiuchi, Taiji Murakami.
Hadek, Marcin Dorocinski. INTERNATIONAL turns her lens from the war zones HANGMAN’S KNOT A documentary-like story beyond the
The affecting, true story of the Polish 12250 Sky Lane she is used to covering to a new Completed. Action/Adventure, 87’. world of documentaries, without a
pilots in the Battle for Britain, fighting kind of genocide-the killing of By Yugo Sakamoto with Kengo Yoshii, script. The intense battle between
for their own country above a foreign 90049 Los Angeles, California, USA African Elephants and Rhinos-in this Yu Yasuda, Takuya Matsumoto. the husband and the wife will make
land. Tel: +1 310 472 6300 sweeping and sobering exposé of an A psychopath loner VS brutal hooligans. an impact.
[email protected] underreported crisis.
THE LAND OF SOMETIMES kmifilms.com A bloody battle erupts. A Grand Jury KR MOVIES AND
Production. Animation. The Grand, 6th Floor, Dauphin NOTHING LIKE A DAME Prize at 2017 Kanazawa Film Festival
By Leon Joosen with Ewan Mcgregor, (Tel: +3108662672) Completed. Documentary, 82’. “Promising New Director” Section. ENTERTAINMENT
PVT LTD
Helena Bonham Carter, Terry Jones, By Roger Michell. THE LIMIT OF SLEEPING BEAUTY
David Walliams, Ruby Turner. Kathy Morgan (President), Julian Silver Nothing Like a Dame invites you to Completed. First film, 89’. 7 Sarat Bose Road, Dwarka First Floor
Over the ocean far away, there is (Sales and Acquisitions), Cindy Wu spend time with screen icons Dame By Ken Ninomiya with Yuki Sakurai, 700020 Kolkata, India
a magical place called The Land of (Assistant) Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Issei Takahashi, Niino Furuhata, Ryo Tel: +91 9830658415
Sometimes where four seasons pass STORM BOY [S] Joan Plowright and Dame Maggie Narita, Shinnosuke Mitsushima. [email protected]
within one day, and everyone who lives Post-Production. Drama. Smith. Aki, an unsuccessful 29-year-old krmoviez.com
there has a song. Follow the musical By Shawn Seet with Geoffrey Rush, Jai PERFECT SKIN actress is devastated by the harsh Jaspreet Kaur (Producer-Director)
adventures of twins Alfie and Elise Courtney, Morgana Davies, Finn Little. Completed. Thriller, 110’. reality and uncertain future. Unable to
who continually wish for more until the A story about a rebellious young boy By Kevin Chicken with Richard Brake, move forward, Aki gradually become SELF-EXILE
night before Christmas the mysterious and a pelican who changed each Natalia Kostrzewa, Jo Woodcock. confused with reality and delusions Completed. Drama, 86’.
Wish Collector whisks them off to this other’s lives forever. A bold, confrontational, beautiful, and and start losing her mind. By Middya Arnab K.
enchanted world. ultimately empowering film that dives KSM GMBH
MISSION MONSTERS KEW MEDIA GROUP deep into the culture of tattooing. KINOLOGY Otto-von-Guericke-Ring 15
(LONDON)
Production. Animation. THE SONG OF SWAY LAKE 30, rue Moret 65205 Wiesbaden, Germany
By Brian Smith. 19 Heddon St. Completed. Romance, 94’. 75011 Paris, France Tel: +49 61 22 53 45 70
When a team of international W1B 4BG London, United Kingdom By Ari Gold with Rory Culkin, Robert Tel: +33 9 51 47 43 44
super-agents hear of Peng the pig’s Tel: +44 20 7851 6500 Sheehan, Mary Beth Peil, Isabelle [email protected] [email protected]
extraordinarily special snout, the little [email protected] Mcnally, Elizabeth Peña, Jack Falahee, kinology.eu ksmfilm.de
piglet finds himself in a strange new kewmedia.com Brian Dennehy. 1 rue (du Docteur) Gérard Monod Riviera: K8
paranormal world, recruited in a secret 6 rue Florian, 4th floor A lush romantic drama about the Grégoire Melin (Agent De Vente), Gaëlle Benjamin Krause (General Manager),
war against a legion of crazy, evil Jonathan Ford (EVP of Sales, vanished grace of America, and the Mareschi (Agent De Vente), Emmanuel Charlotte Young (Manager Acquisitions),
monsters! Distribution), Mark Benmore (SVP of spell cast by the melodies of the dead. Pisarra (Agent De Vente), Grégoire Martin Brunnett (Sales Manager-Int’l
STARDOG AND TURBOCAT Sales, Distribution), Tom Bairstow (VP SOUFRA Graesslin (Festivals Manager), Alex Licensing), Sebastian Brummer (Sales
Manager-Int’l Licensing)
Production. Children’s. of Sales, Distribution), Stephen Joy Completed. Documentary, 73’. Sagalchik (Acquisitions)
By Ben Smith with Gemma Arterton, (VP of Sales, Distribution), Rebecca ANNETTE DEAD ON TIME
Bill Nighy. Berry (Senior Marketing Manager, KING RECORDS Pre-Production. Fantasy. Post-Production. Action/Adventure,
When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal Distribution), Lisa Rischke (Marketing CO.,LTD By Leos Carax with Adam Driver. 96’.
canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s Executive, Distribution), Fran Del Pizzo 1-2-3 Otowa-Bunkyo-Ku By Rish Mustaine with Michael
lost owner, they discover not only the (Marketing Assistant, Distribution) 112-0013 Tokyo, Japan BERGMAN ISLAND Madsen, Colt Cabana, Mohamed
power of friendship, but their inner TEDDY PENDERGRASS Tel: +81 3 3945 2181 Pre-Production. Drama, 100’. Zouaoui, Afif Ben Badra, John Sjogren,
By Mia Hansen-Løve with John Turturro,
superpowers along the way. Production. Documentary. [email protected] Greta Gerwig. Michele Ghersi.
ADVENTURES IN PUBLIC SCHOOL By Olivia Lichtenstein. kingrecords.co.jp The “Arab Spring of 2011” is in full
eruption, turmoil consumes the Mid-
Completed. Comedy, 86’. The untold and inspiring story of Akiko Uchida (Acquisitions & Sales THE MAN WHO KILLED DON East region as protesters, rebels
QUIXOTE
By Kyle Rideout with Judy Greer, Grace legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, Manager), Chikako Yoshizawa (Manager) Production. Fantasy.
Park, Siobhan Williams, Russell Peters, the man poised to be the biggest R&B By Terry Gilliam with Adam Driver, and insurgents wreak havoc and
destruction.
Andrew Mcnee, Daniel Doheny. artist of all time until the tragic accident CHISOBAE (TENTATIVE JAPANESE Jonathan Pryce, Olga Kurylenko.
A socially awkward home-schooled that changed his life forever at the age TITLE) TWINS
kid forces his way into public-school of only 31. Pre-Production. Action/Adventure. GIRLS WITH BALLS Post-Production. Horror, 90’.
against his suffocating but loving THE DEVIL’S DOORWAY By Kazuya Konaka. Post-Production. Horror. By Lamberto Bava with Gérard
mother’s wishes. Post-Production. Horror, 76’. A stylish Japanese vampire erotic By Olivier Afonso with Tiphaine Daviot, Depardieu, Lars Eidinger, Frederic
action/dark fantasy.
Danny Trejo, Vanessa Guide.
BARE KNUCKLE By Aislinn Clarke with Lalor Roddy, A womens’ volleyball team gets lost Lerner, Rabeah Rahimi, Isabella Orsini,
Damiana Fiammenghi, David Hallyday.
Completed. Documentary. Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen. FAMILY WARS (TENTATIVE) in a forest on the day that a peculiar
By Duncan Napier-Bell with Cody In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley Pre-Production. Action/Adventure. hunting season opens. The girls will The massacre of the Levi family, of
which only adopted twins Eva and
Mckenzie, Melvin Guillard, Jimmy & Father John Thornton were sent by By Yugo Sakamoto. have to fight for their survival.
Sweeney, Nathan Leeson, Billy the Vatican to investigate a miraculous A violent action movie by one of Greta survive, pits priests Father Michel
Hawthorn. event in an Irish home. the most promising young Japanese THE INNOCENT and Father Paul against the powers of
A powerful documentary exploring the FRED director. Post-Production. Second film, 90’. evil, both convinced that the twins are
meteoric growth of the ultimate British Post-Production. Documentary, 86’. VAMPIRE CLAY 2 (TENTATIVE) By Simon Jaquemet. diabolical.
blood sport; a subculture of honour, By Paul Van Carter with Freddie Pre-Production. Horror. After 20 years Andreas wants Ruth FALSELY ACCUSED
pride and violence as experienced Foreman. By Soichi Umezawa. back, but Ruth loves Jesus. Completed. Thriller, 82’.
through the eyes of some of the UK’s A sombre examination into the psyche Kakame, the possessed clay monster KNIFE + HEART By Maria Pulera with Rosanna Arquette,
bare-knuckle boxing elite. of former London gangster Freddie begins terrorizing the people again. Post-Production. Thriller. Emma Holzer, Jon Gries.
Foreman: 85 years old, allegedly By Yann Gonzalez with Vanessa Paradis, Guilty Until Proven Innocent
I AM DURAN WELCOME TO JAPAN (TENTATIVE)
Completed. Documentary, 90’. responsible for multiple murders, and Pre-Production. Action/Adventure. Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran. THE FROG
By Mat Hodgson with Roberto Duran, nearing the end of his life. By Yoshihiro Nishimura with Ena Fujita. A POLAR YEAR Completed. Drama, 81’.
Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson, Larry PAINKILLERS A unique violent action film by Yoshihiro Completed. Documentary, 94’. By Jann Preuss with Urs Jucker, Liliane
Merchant, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Post-Production. Thriller, 83’. Nishimura (Meatball Machine Kodoku) By Samuel Collardey. Amuat.
Hearns, Manuel Noriega, Ricky Hatton. By Roxy Shih with Adam Huss, Madeline about female assassins mixed with Anders, 28, has just gratuated when Depression, writer’s block and a bad
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