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Cannes                                     REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
              Cannes 2015  2018






              peaceful meadows of England lives   Representative, International Sales)  SF STUDIOS  slefilms.com   night  of celebration, without  being
              a community of rabbits. When their   PALM BEACH    AB Svensk Filmindustri, Sveavägen 56  Lerins: M1  found out.
              warren is threatened, a small group   Development. Comedy.  SE-111 34 Stockholm, Sweden  Morris Ruskin (CEO-Producer), Sam   THE MAN FROM EARTH:
              of brave rabbits escapes into the   By Rachel Ward.     Tel: +46 8 409 188 00  Eigen (Exec. Vice-President), Melody   HOLOCENE
              unknown countryside in search of a                    [email protected]  Djavadi (Acquisitions Director), Vanessa   Completed. Science-fiction, 98’.
              new home.                THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F.                       Fuss (VP, Communications), Michelle   By Richard Schenkman with David
                                       DONOVAN                           sfstudios.se
                     SDP, INC.         Post-Production. Drama.  Robert Enmark (Head of Acquisitions),   Welch (Director of Sales)  Lee Smith, Vanessa Williams, Brittany
                                                                                                                   Curran, Sterling Knight, William Katt,
                 2-3-3 Ebisu-nishi Shibuyaku  By Xavier Dolan with Kit Harington,   Anita Simovic (Head of Int’l Sales),   30 NIGHTS OF SEX TO SAVE YOUR   John Billingsley.
                                                                                          MARRIAGE
                                       Natalie Portman, Jessica Chastain,
                   150-0021 Tokyo, Japan  Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates.  Martin Ilievski (International Sales   Completed. Romance, 91’.  A 14,000-year-old college professor
                   Tel: +81 3 5459 7171  10 years after the death of an American   Manager), Pia Grünler (Head of Nordic   By Tom Metz Iii with Johnny Giacalone,   notices that he has finally started
                 [email protected]  TV star, a young actor recollects the   Theatrical Distribution), Timo Räisänen   Mandy Kaplan, Dan Fogler, Jenny   showing signs of aging. Meanwhile,
                   stardustpictures.co.jp  pen-pal relationship he used to have   (Vice President Sales & Distribution), Atle   O’Hara, Alan Racins.  four of his students get suspicious of
                    Palais -1: 23,01   with his past idol.      Ellingsen (Theatrical Sales & Distribution   In a last ditch effort to save their   him and start investigating his past.
                                                                Manager), Helena Stahre (Nordic Product
                 Fongyi Tseng (Int’l Sales and   PYEWACKET      Manager), Sune Lind Thomsen (Head of   marriage, Nick and  Willa visit a   THE MEDICINE BUDDHA
                     Acquisitions)     Post-Production. Horror, 87’.  Theatrical Distribution Denmark)  renowned—yet eccentric—couples   Completed. Social issues, 130’.
              SAINT YOUNG MEN          By  Adam  Macdonald  with  Laurie   AMUNDSEN       therapist and embark on a month-long   By Benjamin Johns with Sir Ben
              Production. Comedy.      Holden, Nicole Munoz, Chloe Rose,   Pre-Production. Biography.  journey of provocative and hilarious sex   Kingsley.
              By  Yuichi  Fukuda  with  Kenichi   Eric Osborne, Shawne Doyle.  By Espen Sandberg with Christian   assignments.  This one-of-a-kind documentary
              Matsuyama, Shota Sometani.  A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl   Rubeck, Ida Ursin-Holm, Pål Sverre   492  narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley is a
              5 min live-action video x 10 episodes   awakens something in the woods when   Hagen, Ruby Dagnall.  Completed. Drama, 93’.  profoundly-cinematic  portrait  of  the
              (first season) Based on the comic series   she naively performs an occult ritual to   Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching   By Henrique Goldman with Marco   renowned Mongolian Buddhist leader,
              by Hikaru Nakamura.      evoke a witch to kill her mother.                  Pigossi,  Andre Mattos, Matheus   Khamba Lama Natsagdorj.
                                                                the North Pole haunts him throughout
              UNDER ONE UMBRELLA       ZOO                      his life. He is obsessed with the   Nachtergaele.  MORE THAN ENOUGH
              Post-Production. Drama, 116’.  Post-Production. Black comedy.  idea of discovering lands in this last   Julio Santana is a family man; he lived   Completed. Drama, 93’.
              By Takayuki Takuma  with  Kana   By Antonio Tublén  with  Zoë Tapper,   unchartered area of the world.  in the northern part of Brazil and took   By  Ann-Marie Hess with Maddie
              Kurashina, Hayato Ichihara, Dansyun   Edward Speleers, Antonia Campbell-    care of his wife and children by killing   Hasson, Billy Burke, Melora Walters.
              Takekawa, Tomoyo Harada.  Hughes, Jan Bijvoet.            SHELLAC           people for money. After 35 years and   When a bullied young girl with a
              A touching story of father-daughter   An unhappy couple tries to save their   Friche La belle de mai, 41 rue Jobin,  492 deaths, he finally quit.  mentally unstable mother reaches her
              bond                     marriage in a zombie apocalypse.  41 rue Jobin     THE BEST PEOPLE          breaking point, she finds refuge in
                                                                                                                   the company of an eccentric, wealthy
              GOODBYE, GRANDPA!        ALLURE                        13003 Marseille, France  Completed. Comedy, 83’.  bachelor who encourages her to believe
              Completed. Family, 104’.  Completed. Thriller, 105’.   Tel: +33 4 95 04 95 92  By  Dan  Levy  Dagerman  with Anna   in herself and find her own voice.
              By Yukihiro Morigaki with Yukon Kishii.  By Jason Sanchez, Carlos Sanchez with   [email protected]  Evelyn Joy, Claire Donald,  Arthur
              ”21st Century version of Juzo Itami’s   Julia Sarah Stone, Denis O’Hare.  shellac-altern.org  Napiontek, Johnny Cannizzaro, Charley   MRS. MCCUTCHEON
              The Funeral”             An unstable woman persuades a high-  Riviera: H6   Rossman, Kyle Trueblood, Ivana De   Completed. Family, 17’.
                                                                                          Maria.
                                                                                                                   By John Sheedy with Alec Golinger,
              LENSES ON HER HEART      school  girl  to  move  in  with  her  in   Thomas Ordonneau (Head Manager-  Just  as  she  is  recovering  from  a   Wesley Patten, Nadine Garner, Virginia
              Completed. Romance, 121’.  secret. Despite illusions of love, their   Buyer-Gérant), Félicie Roger   breakdown, Anna’s world is rocked   Gay.
              By Kazutoshi Inudo with Chizuru   relationship teeters on the edge of   (International Sales Manager)  when her younger sister gets engaged.   A school dance is revolutionized by
              Ikewaki, Masanobu Ando, Hiroto Kanai.  captor and captive  THE HIDDEN CITY [S]  She teams up with the best man to   a young boy who wears a dress and
              A painful love story for all the broken   BAREFOOT AT DAWN  Completed. Documentary, 80’.  break up the engagement; convinced   makes a friend.
              hearts.                  Completed. Drama, 112’.  By Moreno Victor.         they are trying to save her sister, his
                                       By Francis Leclerc with Justin Leyrolles-                                   NOELLE
              RIDING UPHILL                                                               best friend, and themselves  from  a   Completed. Family, 90’.
              Completed. Drama, 105’.  Bouchard, Julien Leclerc, Roy Dupuis,   SHOCHIKU CO., LTD  lifetime of misery.  By David Wall with David Wall, Sean
                                       Catherine Sénart.
              By Kan Eguchi with Kenichi Abe, Shodai             4-1-1 Tsukiji, Togeki Bldg. 12F, Chuo-Ku  BOAR    Patrick Brennan, Kerry Wall, Brennan
              Fukuyama, Mari Hayashida, Hanamaru   1927. Felix’ last year with his family   104-8422 Tokyo, Japan  Completed. Horror, 96’.  Wall.
                                       before attending a private college in
              Hakata, Morooka Moro.                                   Tel: +81 3 5550 1623  By Chris Sun with Nathan Jones, John   A priest arrives in a tiny fishing village
              Life is an uphill road to run furiously.  the fall. Accompanied by Fidor, his                        the week before Christmas to shut
                                       faithful friend, he will face adversity,   [email protected]  Jarratt, Madeleine Kennedy, Sam
                SEVERIN FILMS (US)     love, death, and will embark on the   shochikufilms.com  Coward, Christie-Lee Britten, Melissa   down a dying parish...and becomes
                                                                                                                   entangled in the lives of the town’s
                                                                                          Tkautz, Roger Ward, Chris Bridgewater,
                                                                        Riviera: G15
                 3493A Cahuenga Blvd West  path of adulthood.                             Justin Gerardin, Christian Radford.  eccentric characters while learning the
                                                                   Meri Koyama (Senior Manager,
               90068 Los Angeles, California, USA  FAKE TATTOOS   Acquisitions), Shion Komatsu (Sales   A group of teenagers find themselves   power of forgiveness and redemption.
                   Tel: +1 323 668 0076  Completed. Romance, 87’.  Exec. (Europe & Oceania)), Chiaki Omori   terrorized in the woods by an   THE TERROR OF HALLOW’S EVE
                  [email protected]  By Pascal Plante with Anthony Therrien,   (Acquisitions Manager), Yuhka Matoi   overgrown blood-hungry hog.  Completed. Horror, 80’.
                    severin-films.com  Rose-Marie Perreault.     (Sales Executive), Toshihiro Takahashi   DOE      By Todd Tucker  with  Caleb Thomas,
                                       Theo spends his 18th birthday alone,
              David  Gregory  (President-CEO),  Carl   getting drunk at a brutal punk rock   (General Manager-Acquisitions), Akiko   Completed. Thriller, 100’.  Sarah Lancaster, Doug Jones, Christian
                      Daft (COO)       show. There, he meets Mag, a marginal   Shimpo (Marketing), Hitomi Hosoda   By Justin Foia with Timothy Davis,   Kane, Eric Roberts.
              ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE  teenager who invites him to spend the   (Sales Executive)  Tatyana Ali, Mira Sorvino, Mathew   After a fifteen-year-old is brutally
              Production. Martial arts.  night at her place.    THE TRAVELING CAT CHRONICLES   St.patrick.         beaten up by High School bullies,
              THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH   HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS  [S]               A man wakes up with no memory   his wish for revenge unknowingly
                                                                                                                   unleashes the Terror of Halloween.
              OF AL ADAMSON (WORKING   Completed. 100’.         Post-Production. Drama, 119’.  of his past but  the ability to speak
              TITLE)                   By François Girard.      By Miki Koichiro with Sota Fukushi,   dozens of languages fluently. After   SHOWBOX
              Production. Documentary.  Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny   Mitsuki Takahata.  finding a clue about his former self, he   9F, 916bldg, 310, Dosan-daero,
              BAG BOY LOVER BOY        engages in a search for his ancestors   The  gentle,  warmhearted,  extremely   will race against time to discover his   Gangnam-gu
              Completed. Comedy.       following a tragic terrain slump in the   popular and best-selling novel by   true identity.
                                       Percival Molson Stadium, in François   Hiro ARIKAWA, that kept its readers   EVA + CANDELA  06054 Seoul, Korea (South)
              LOST SOUL                                         constantly in tears, will become a live-                 Tel: +82 2 3218 5640
              Completed. Documentary.  Girard’s multifaceted portrait of                  Completed. LGBT, 100’.         [email protected]
                                       Montreal’s rich history.  action film!             By  Ruth  Caudeli  with  Luna  Baxter,
              SUFFER, LITTLE CHILDREN                                                     Kristina Lilley, Roberto Cano, David   showbox.co.kr/english
              Completed. Horror.       I USED TO BE NORMAL: A   WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY! 3:                                Lerins: M5
                                       BOYBAND FANGIRL STORY    MY WIFE, MY LIFE [S]      Ojalvo.
              THE THEATRE BIZARRE      Completed. Documentary, 92’.  Completed. Drama, 120’.  The demise of a lesbian couple’s   Judy Ahn (Head of Int’l Business), Luna
              Completed. Horror.       By Jessica Leski.        By Yamada Yoji  with  Satoshi   relationship is poignantly depicted   H.y. Kim (SVP of Int’l Sales), Dana Kim
                                       A documentary about fangirls-the   Tsumabuki, Yu Aoi,  Ko  Hashizume,   alongside their meeting and falling   (Assistant Manager of Int’l Sales),
                     SEVILLE           beating heart of boybands for over   Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura,   in love.  Evelyn S. Park (Int’l Sales/Marketing)
                 INTERNATIONAL         five decades.            Yui Natsukawa.                                     DARK FIGURE OF CRIME
              455 St-Antoine Street West, Suite 300  JUNIOR LEAGUE  Master filmmaker Yoji Yamada returns   I KILLED MY HUSBAND!  Post-Production. Thriller, 120’.
                                                                                          Completed. Comedy, 108’.
               H2Z 1J1 Montreal, Quebec, Canada  Completed. Drama, 114’.  with the third entry in his new instant   By Francisco Lupini-Basagoiti with   By Tae-Gyoon Kim with Yoon-Seok Kim,
                   Tel: +1 514 878 2282  By  Éric Tessier  with Antoine-Olivier   classic comedy series.  Maria  Conchita Alonso, Assumpta   Ji-Hoon Ju.
               [email protected]  Pilon,  Rémi  Goulet,  Alice  Morel-  Serna, Eduardo Yañez, Rafael De La   Hyung-min is a prominent police
                  sevilleinternational.com  Michaud, Claude Legault.   SHORELINE          Fuente, Guy Ecker, Fernanda Romero.  detective who lives to solve criminal
              Res. Du Grand Hotel: Ent. Albatros,  On the cusp of being drafted to the pros,   ENTERTAINMENT  A desperate woman accidentally   cases.
                    5th floor, Door D  18 year-old hockey prodigy, Janeau   400 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 210  murders her unfaithful husband the   THE DRUG KING
               Anick Poirier (Senior Vice President,   Trudel, faces numerous obstacles that   90212 Los Angeles, California, USA  morning of a big party honoring his   Post-Production. Drama, 120’.
               Int’l Sales), Natalie Kampelmacher   threaten to compromise both his career   Tel: +1 310 551 2060  recent Pritzker Prize, now she must   By Min-Ho Woo with Kang-Ho Song,
              (Director-Sales), Benjamin Mohr (Sales   and his most cherished friendships.  [email protected]  survive the pain of heartbreak and a   Jung-Seok Cho, Doona Bae.
              [S] Screening
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