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SCREENINGS Friday 17 May
DAY 4

MARKET

Friday 17 May

Director: Muye Wen Sales: Myriad Pictures (57 La Croisette) mind, body, and soul are vital aspects in re-discover her youth and become an
Casting: Zheng Xu, Chuanjun Wang, Zhuo Tan, Section: Market realizing the true values of life. Disability is only adulteress manifests itself in the ice cream
Yu Zhang, Yiwei Zhou Director: Claudia Myers what we perceive, ability is everything of what man, an evil slasher that stalks the suburbs.
Synopsis: An unexpected visitor broke the Casting: Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Megan we believe. ELCANO & MAGELLAN: THE FIRST
ordinary life of Cheng Yong, owner of an Indian Fox DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (Premiere) VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD
Oil Store. He is no longer a health care products Synopsis: A romantic tale about a young
vendor who could not afford to pay rent, but a woman who has faded to the point of China, 90’, Documentary. Spain, 90’, Animation.
sole agent of Indian generic drug “Glenin”. He becoming literally invisible. Gray 5 Palais E
reaped huge profits and was called “the God of Sales: Shanghai Seedling Film Inc. Sales: Filmax (A1)
medicine” by the patients. However, a seesaw SONG WITHOUT A NAME (Premiere) Section: Market Section: Market
battle for redemption is also unfolding slowly Peru, 97’, Drama. Director: Chen Miao Director: Angel Alonso
and stealthily… Palais H (Priority Badges Only) Synopsis: This is the story of the brave seafar-
BORN OUT OF THE ASHES (Premiere)
ADVENTURES OF A BOY GENIUS Sales: Luxbox (23 Rue Bivouac Napoléon) Uzbekistan, 105’, Historical. ers who grabbed the helm of history and
(Premiere) Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight) Lerins 1 changed its course forever. A journey which, as
many people know, was started by Magellan,
USA, 91’, Family. Director: Melina León Sales: Uzbekistan Republican Film Distribution but that not so many know was concluded by
Olympia 3 (Press Allowed) Synopsis: Peru, at the height of the political Juan Sebastian Elcano, the real protagonist of
Sales: Tricoast Worldwide (D3) crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young Center - URFCC (23.10) +04 92 998051 our story. What motivated these sailors to
Section: Market woman from the Andes whose newborn Section: Market undertake such a potentially perilous voyage?
daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic.
Director: Abduvohid Ganiyev
THE MORNING AFTER (Premiere) Next screening: 18 May, 15:30, Palais D Synopsis: The young man, who lived during Their desire to reach the Maluku Islands, an
Indonesian archipelago and faraway paradise
France, 98’, Comedy. SANTIAGO, ITALIA (Premiere) the Mongol invasion, was aware of the splen- filled with spices and aromatic plants. But how
Olympia 6 Italy, France, Chile, 80’, Documentary. dour of our great ancestors Jaloliddin would they get there if the only known route
Manguberdi and other brutal fellow
Sales: TF1 Studio (64 Rue D’Antibes, 2nd Fl.) Riviera 2 (Press Allowed) countrymen and raised the feeling of was the sole privilege of the Kingdom of
Section: Market Sales: Le Pacte (M21) patriotism. Portugal? Well, the answer is simple; by sailing
Director: Méliane Marcaggi Section: Market in the other direction! What was laying in wait
for these courageous men however, was much
Casting: Alexandra Lamy, Miou-Miou, Director: Nanni Moretti COME AS YOU ARE (Premiere) more challenging: storms, hunger, hostile tribes
Jonathan Zaccaï, Patrick Mille, Thomas Dutronc, Synopsis: From September 1973, after the USA, 106’, Comedy. and all kinds of incredible trials and tribulations
Guillaume Bouchède military coup led by General Pinochet, the Lerins 3 would hinder the progress of our intrepid
Synopsis: He gave her a night. His mom gave Italian embassy in Santiago has hosted Sales: Blue Fox Entertainment (29 Rue Du voyagers. Five ships set sail from Seville in
her a clan. hundreds and hundreds of asylum seekers. Commandant André) 1519. Three years later, only one of them
Next screening: 22 May, 12:00, Riviera 1 Section: Market managed to return, bringing their adventure
THE BEARS’ FAMOUS INVASION 16:00 I AM TOXIC full circle and finally proving that the Earth was
round.
(Premiere) BUOYANCY Argentina, 80’, Science-fiction.
France, Italy, 80’, Animation. Australia, 93’, Drama. Olympia 4 (Press Allowed) TRAFFICKED
Olympia 7 (Priority Badges Only) Gray 1 Sales: Blood Window USA, 104’, Thriller.
Sales: Pathé Films (Ibis Entrance, 4a/E) Sales: Charades Section: Market Palais G
Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) (3 Rond-Point Duboys D’Angers) Director: Daniel De La Vega, Pablo Parés Sales: California Pictures (Booth C5)
Director: Lorenzo Mattotti Section: Market Casting: Esteban Prol, Horacio Fontova, Sergio +13104665106
Synopsis: To find his long lost son and food to Podeley, Gaston Cochiarale Section: Market
survive the winter, the great bear king leads his Director: Rodd Rathjen Synopsis: In a pile of dead bodies, someone Director: Will Wallace
clan down from the mountains and into the Synopsis: An innocent Cambodian boy is wakes up. Who is he? How did he end up Casting: Ashley Judd, Amiah Miller, Sean
world of men. After escaping terrible monsters enslaved on a Thai fishing trawler and soon there? Amnesia is the first stage of an infection Patrick Flanery
and defeating an evil duke, the bears and men realises that his only hope of freedom may be that turns humans into dried beings. Hunger Synopsis: In this story inspired by real
live together in peace – for a time. to become as violent as his captors. led them to eat corpses from the bacteriological characters, three girls from America, Nigeria
Next screening: 21 May, 08:30, Debussy ONE LITTLE FINGER (Premiere) war of the North, thrown from the sky to the and India are trafficked through an elaborate
TOMORROW’S A NEW DAY (Premiere) USA, India, 105’, Drama. South of the American continent. Dog, the global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel,
name given to him by a group of three wild
and must together attempt a daring escape to
Spain, 101’, Drama. Gray 3 (Press Allowed) men and a young girl, begins an insane race to reclaim their freedom.
Palais B Sales: RJ Global Media survive.
Sales: Filmax (A1) Section: Market AN UNEXPECTED LOVE THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL (Premiere)
Section: Market Director: Sarmah Rupam France, 80’, Animation.
Director: Simone Spada Casting: Tamela D’Amico, Sayomdeb Argentina, 129’, Romance. Palais I
Casting: Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Mukherjee, Abhinaya M.G., Siedah Garrett, Olympia 5 Sales: Celluloid Dreams
Anna Ferzetti Malaya Goswami, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Jeeja Sales: Filmsharks / The Remake Co. (D12) Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)
Synopsis: True friendship lasts more than a Ghosh Nag, Jonathan Stoddard, Pabitra Rabha, Section: Market Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-
lifetime. Kushal Chakrabarty Director: Juan Vera Mévellec
Synopsis: When an American neurologist, Casting: Ricardo Darin, Mercedes Moran
MYSTIFY (Premiere) Raina, uproots her life to research music Synopsis: Marcos and Ana (50) have been Casting: Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon
Australia, 108’, Documentary. therapy in India, she finds herself teaching married for twenty-five years. One day, the Abkarian
Synopsis: Kabul under Taliban rule. Two neigh-
Palais D children and adults with disabilities by bringing couple enters a deep existential crisis and bourhoods and two couples. One conservative
Sales: Dogwoof (H6 (Marina Club)/H8 them together through music and inspiring decides to split up. – Atiq and Mussarat have been married for 20
(Doc Corner)) them to challenge themselves through their THE ICE CREAM TRUCK (Premiere) years and are deeply engrained in the traditions
abilities. Den and Angel are persons with
Section: Market disabilities who want to contribute towards the USA, 90’, Horror. of Afghan life. Atiq works as the chief guard at
Director: Lowenstein Richard betterment of society by overcoming their Palais C (Press Allowed) the women’s prison. Mussarat is very ill and
Synopsis: Michael Hutchence came to epito- physical challenges. As Den and Angel come of Sales: Jinga Films (G7) +447971845546 fights to remain a strong woman till the very
mise the very definition of leather-clad sexually age, they learn to cope with abuse and end. One modern – young and in love, Zunaira
magnetic rock front man, but underneath it all bullying. Their lives intersect when Raina Section: Market and Mohsen are against all the same traditions.
he was a poetic and gentle soul. . struggles to further her research. Raina’s Director: Megan Freels Johnston Under the Talibans, they’ve both lost their jobs
Next screening: 18 May, 09:30, Palais H philosophy and life are changed with the time Casting: Deanna Russo, Emil Johnsen, John as lawyer anduniversity teacher and have diffi-
that she spent in India, where she is touched by Redlinger culties to make ends meet. They have to sell
ABOVE THE SHADOWS the beauty of the culture and real-life stories of Synopsis: A young mother moves back to her their few possessions to buy food. Yet they’re
USA, 110’, Drama. children with disabilities. Through her home town where she becomes the focus of determined to maintain their modern values.
Palais F experience, she understands that balance of her neighbour’s teenage son. The temptation to

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