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SCREENINGS Friday 17 May
DAY 4

MARKET

Friday 17 May

NOTHING FANCY: DIANA KENNEDY Director: Ana Elena Tejera BLOOD VESSEL (Premiere) rich family, becomes victim of a violent attack.
(Premiere) Casting: Cebaldo De Leon, Fernando Australia, 90’, Horror. Sent on the sea-side to recuperate he meets
USA, 90’, Documentary. Fernandez Gray 3 (Priority Badges Only) Brian, a young man angry with the world.The
Palais B Synopsis: Cebaldo, an indigenous dule from Sales: Film Mode Entertainment (L12) encounter of the two will bring out their true
Sales: Dogwoof (H6 (Marina Club)/H8 (Doc Panama is a fishermen’s assistant in a town of Section: Market nature.
Corner)) northern Portugal, who suffers from nostalgia. Director: Justin Dix SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (Premiere)
Section: Market In his loneliness, memories take him away from France, Canada, 102’, Drama.
Director: Elizabeth Carrol his daily routine, and immerse him in a journey AMERICA ST (Premiere) Palais I
back to his village in Guna Yala, where a
Synopsis: Master chef, teacher, writer, and botanical doctor confronts him with the USA, 76’, Documentary. Sales: Charades
activist Diana Kennedy has become one of the impossibility of returning to the past. Gray 5 (Press Allowed) (3 Rond-Point Duboys D’Angers)
most celebrated culinary legends of Mexican Sales: Idrissou Mora-Kpai (Independent)
cuisine but has also been fighting Next screening: 21 May, 13:30, Palais H Section: Market Section: Market
unapologetically for change in the environment APPARITION (Premiere) Director: Idrissou Mora-Kpai Director: Guillaume De Fontenay
to produce and sustain fresh food for future Casting: Joe Watson Casting: Niels Schneider, Vincent Rottiers, Ella
generations. USA, 110’, Horror. Rumpf
Palais J Synopsis: On America Street in Charleston’s Synopsis: 1992, war is raging in what will
RAPID RESPONSE (Premiere) Sales: Voltage Pictures (L5) East Side neighbourhood, Joe is the owner of a become ex-Yugoslavia. Paul is covering the
USA, 100’, Documentary. Section: Market small corner store, the heart of an old but slow- siege of Sarajevo. Flamboyant dandy, loud
ly disappearing black community. Almost half
Palais D (Priority Badges Only) Director: Waymon Boone of all African-Americans trace their origins back mouth, adrenaline junkie, provocative cigar-
Sales: A Mile A Way Productions Casting: Mena Suvari, Kevin Pollak to Charleston, a city that is still haunted by its smoker, Paul Marchand is the war
Section: Market Synopsis: A group of young people, guided by slave-owning past. My film captures three correspondent archetype.
Director: Roger Hinze, Michael Miles an app that connects living with the dead, find months during 2015 of Joe’s daily struggles set Next screening: 19 May, 11:30, Olympia 9
Casting: Dr. Stephen Olvey, Dr. Terry Trammell, themselves at an abandoned castle. A place against the backdrop of racist violence in the
Bobby Unser, Mario Andretti, Tony Kanaan, with a horrific history tied to each of them, for city, from the killing of Walter Scott by a police 11:30
officer to the Emanuel Church massacre by a
Helio Castroneves reasons they’ll soon discover. young white supremacist. I am a West African
Synopsis: Rapid Response is a feature film LILLIAN (Premiere) immigrant and I was, and still am, trying to CHANGE IN THE AIR (Premiere)
documentary that traces the history of Austria, 128’, True Story. navigate a country that feels, in many ways, USA, 94’, Drama.
American motorsports safety during some of increasingly unwelcoming towards black bod- Gray 2
the most dangerous years in racing. The film Riviera 1 (Priority Badges Only) ies. Through the character of Joe, my film exam- Sales: Electric Entertainment (21 Rue Des
highlights the devastating racing accidents and Sales: Cercamon (D6) ines how African Americans feel marginalized États-Unis, 5th Floor) +3235593954
injuries that pushed safety innovation into the Section: Market in a once predominantly black city like Section: Market
modern age and features interviews with Director: Andreas Horvath Charleston and how white supremacy is
motor racing legends Mario Andretti, Bobby Casting: Patrycja Planik becoming more pervasive and insidious in Director: Dianne Dreyer
Unser, Al Unser, Rick Mears, Chip Ganassi, Synopsis: Lillian, an emigrant stranded in New America. Casting: Rachel Brosnahan, Aidan Quinn,
Parnelli Jones, Tony Kanaan and Hélio York City, decides to walk back to her native Olympia Dukakis , Macy Gray, Peter Gerety, M.
Castroneves. This powerful documentary Russia. She resolutely starts out on the long MY NAME IS CLITORIS (Premiere) Emmet Walsh
features the extraordinary skills of the on-track journey. A road movie straight across the USA Belgium, 88’, First film. Synopsis: A peaceful community is forever
safety teams and looks at some of the most into the freezing temperatures of Alaska. The Lerins 3 changed when a mysterious young woman
significant safety innovations through the years chronicle of a slow disappearance. (Rachel Brosnahan) moves in. As the quirky
including the development and investment of a Sales: Be For Films (A6) +33 6 14 34 37 55 locals embrace her, their lives soon improve.
traveling safety team, trauma medicine, Next screening: 20 May, 14:30, Theatre Section: Market But, they can’t help notice that their strange
concussion research, advanced orthopedic Croisette Director: Daphné Leblond, Lisa Billuart Monet new neighbour has a secret.
surgery, and the HANS device. Synopsis: Twelve young women aged 20 to 25
10:00 tell the journey of their sexuality since SWEET INSPIRATIONS (Premiere)
FAREWELL SONG (Premiere) childhood. In their own bedroom, facing the USA, 101’, Comedy.
Japan, 116’, Drama. PAPICHA (Premiere) camera, they discuss openly with the two Gray 4
Palais E Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar, 105’, Drama. women directors who are facing the same Sales: Pure Flix / Quality Fix (B10)
Sales: Gaga Corporation (D13) Arcades 2 (Priority Badges Only) interrogations. Section: Market
Section: Market Sales: Jour2Fête Sales (D8) THE BANISHED (Premiere) Director: Brittany Yost
Director: Akihiko Shiota Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) Colombia, 88’, Horror. Casting: Dean Cain, Vanessa Angel, Verda
Casting: Mugi Kadowaki, Nana Komatsu, Ryo Director: Mounia Meddour Palais C Davenport, Natalie Canerday
Narita Casting: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda Sales: 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service Ltd. Synopsis: Four middle-aged ladies discover
Synopsis: A female duo band Haru-Leo and (The Members Club, La Plage 45) purpose when they launch a unique fundraising
their roadie Shima set out on a road trip for Daouada, Yasin Houicha, Nadia Kaci effort to save a local women’s shelter from
their final tour before the break-up of the unit. . Synopsis: Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma, an 18 year- Section: Market imminent foreclosure, testing the limits of their
old student passionate about fashion design Director: David Bohórquez
CRYPTO refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Casting: Tigre Haller, Fiona Horsey, Jennifer friendship and themselves.
USA, 103’, Thriller. Civil War to keep her from experiencing a Hyde, Julio Rod Marin, Kate Benson, David SALMA’S BIG WISH (Premiere)
Palais F normal life and going out at night with her Palmer Mexico, 94’, Family.
Sales: Film Mode Entertainment (L12) friend Wassila. Synopsis: A tight-knit community in 1990s Lerins 2 (Priority Badges Only)
Section: Market Next screening: 18 May, 14:00, Bazin upstate New York is forced to conceal its sinful Sales: Cmg - Cinema Management Group Llc
Director: John Stalberg Jr. HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD past when a terminally ill woman returns to her (M17) +18189141323
Casting: Beau Knapp, Kurt Russell, Alexis United Kingdom, 95’, Drama. childhood home in search of answers as to why Section: Market
Bledel, Luke Hemsworth, Vincent Kartheiser Gray 1 she was abandoned. Director: Carlos Gutierrez Medrano
Synopsis: Set in the high stakes world of bank- Sales: Goalpost Film (Bengali Entrance, 5th VERSUS Synopsis: In the little town of Santa Clara, lives
ing and blockchain technology, Martin an IT Floor) +447771966190 France, 92’, Drama. Salma, a 16-year-old orphan who never got to
specialist on Wall Street is promptly re-assigned Palais G meet her biological parents. Salma has spent
to his hometown after a fall out with his boss- Section: Market most of her life dedicated to searching out
es. . Director: Ben Wheatley Sales: Wide (G2/Palais -1 16.04 (Cannes XR)) clues for her parents’ identity and their wherea-
Casting: Neil Maskell, Sura Dohnke, Hayle Section: Market bouts with little to no luck. The only story she’s
PANQUIACO (Premiere) Squiers, Peter Ferdinando, Charles Dance, Joe Director: François Valla been told her whole life is that they abandoned
Panama, Portugal, 75’, Experimental. Cole Casting: Jérémie Duvall, Jules Pélissier, Lola Le her. Until she discovers a special book that is
Palais H Synopsis: Colin Burstead rents a lavish country Lann, Karidja Touré, Matilda Marty, Benjamin filled with stories of Santa Clara and the history
Sales: International Film Festival Panama manor for his extended family to celebrate New Baffie
Section: Market Year’s Eve. Synopsis: Achile, a Parisian teenager from a

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