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team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to Next screening: 19 May, 14:00, Gray 3 +33 7 54 59 51 89 France, 95’, Documentary.
help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a Section: Market
shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of LOCUSTS (Premiere) Director: Tom Donahue Riviera 1 (Press Allowed)
the Champion. Sparks will fly between the two Australia, 86’, Crime. Casting: Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Sales: Le Pacte (M21)
at first, but soon their relationship will change Gray 5 (Press Allowed) Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Section: Market
both for the better. “ Sales: Closereef Productions Portman, Geena Davis Director: Renaud Barret
ZOMBI CHILD (Premiere) Section: Market Synopsis: A a timely documentary that Synopsis: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of
Congo, nowadays. In a city of 13 million, amid
France, 103’, Drama. Director: Davis Heath uncovers what is behind one of the most social and political chaos, a new generation of
Arcades 3 Casting: Benjamin Geurens, Jessica Mcnamee, confounding dilemmas in the entertainment underground performers and musicians uses
Sales: Playtime (3 Square Mérimée) Nathaniel Dean industry: the under-representation and street art to give a voice to the people and
Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight) NO HARD FEELINGS (Premiere) misrepresentation of women. Backed by bring hope.
hundreds of stories and overwhelming data,
Director: Bertrand Bonello Germany, 89’, LGBT. director Tom Donahue puts forward decades of MASTERCLASS NICOLAS WINDING
Casting: Louise Labèque, Wislanda Louimat, Lerins 1 (Invite Only) discrimination against women in Hollywood, REFN (Premiere)
Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou Sales: M-Appeal World Sales Ug behind and in front of the camera. Most 120’.
Synopsis: Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back (E2) +33 4 92 99 32 49 importantly, the film seeks pathways and Salle Buñuel
from the dead only to be sent to the living hell Section: Market solutions from within and outside the industry,
of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, Director: Faraz Shariat and around the world. The documentary Sales: Festival De Cannes
at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding Casting: Benjamin Radjaipour, Banafshe features first-hand accounts from several of Section: Market
school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family Hollywood’s leading voices, including Meryl 17:15
secret to a group of new friends - never Hourmazdi, Eidin Jalali Streep, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Reese
imagining that this strange tale will convince a Synopsis: Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, Witherspoon, Sandra Oh, Jessica Chastain, THE COLLINI CASE (Premiere)
heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable. copes with life in his small hometown by Chloë Grace Moretz, Shonda Rhimes and Germany, 123’, Drama.
Next screening: 20 May, 09:30, Olympia 7 indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr executive producer Geena Davis. Lerins 4
16:00 dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, DOUBLE PLUS FIFTEEN (Premiere) Sales: Global Screen Gmbh (L7)
+491721539839
he is sentenced to community service at a
THE PRADO MUSEUM. A COLLECTION refugee shelter where he meets siblings Spain, 103’, Drama. Section: Market
Palais C
OF WONDERS (Premiere) Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Italy, 92’, Documentary. Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a Sales: Filmax (A1) Casting: Elyas M´Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Section: Market
Arcades 2 romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon Director: Mikel Rueda Franco Nero, Heiner Lauterbach, Pia
Sales: Nexo Digital S.r.l. (H6 (Marina Club)) grows, the fragile relationship between the Casting: Maribel Verdu, German Alcarazu Stutzenstein, Jannis Niewohner, Rainer Bock,
+393474457929 three is put to a test. They find and lose each Synopsis: Two people, with an age difference Peter Prager
Section: Market other throughout a summer of fleeting youth, of double plus fifteen who, thanks to finding Synopsis: For over 30 years, Fabrizio Collini has
Director: Valeria Parisi an intense first love, an attempt at a joint each other, also find themselves. worked diligently for a German carmaker
Casting: Jeremy Irons future, as well as the stark realisation that, in before going and killing a man, seemingly on a
MYSTERY OF THE NIGHT (Premiere)
Synopsis: Magnificent masterpieces tell the Germany, they are not equal. Philippines, 106’, Fantasy. whim.
story of Spain and of an entire continent. We 8 (Premiere) Palais E 17:30
are in one of the temples of world art, a site of South Africa, 100’, Horror. Sales: Reel Suspects (E3) +33 6 14 45 62 78 SPREAD YOUR WINGS (Premiere)
memory and a mirror to the present with 1,700 Lerins 3 (Press Allowed) Section: Market France, 120’, Family.
works exhibited and a further 7,000 art Sales: Tricoast Worldwide (D3) Director: Adolfo Alix Jr. Arcades 1 (Invite only)
treasures preserved there. In 2019, the year of Section: Market Casting: Solenn Heussaff, Benjamin Alves , Sales: SND - Groupe M6 (42 Rue Des Serbes)
its 200th Anniversary celebrations, telling the Director: Harold Holscher Gina Alajar, Elizabeth Oropesa, Allan Paul Section: Market
story of the Prado in Madrid from the day it Casting: Inge Beckmann , Garth Breytenbach, Synopsis: 1900 colonial Philippines. During the Director: Nicolas Vanier
time of Spanish tyranny and oppression, a
was founded in 1819 means covering not only Chris April, Tshamano Sebe woman raised in the enchanted woods by Casting: Jean-Paul Rouve, Melanie Doutey
the last 200 years, but at least six centuries of I LOST MY BODY (Premiere) nymphs experiences love for the first time from Synopsis: Christian, an ornithologist, works on
history. ,Taking the leading role are its art France, 110’, Animation. a man from town. a lifetime project. He wants to teach orphaned
geese how to migrate. Using his ultralight
masterpieces and the great artists who made Olympia 2 MY LITTLE ONE airplane he will guide them, from Norway to
them, the crowned heads who collected them, Sales: Charades Switzerland, 101’, Drama. France, along safe migration routes. Thomas is
but also the European and libertarian (3 Rond-Point Duboys D’Angers) Palais G sceptical about his father foolhardy plans. Stuck
inspiration behind a museum and its wealth of Section: Market (Critics’ Week) Sales: Wide (G2/Palais -1 16.04 (Cannes XR) at his father’s farm, the teenager gets to spend
art treasures and stories. This is the common Director: Jérémy Clapin Section: Market time with the birds. Gradually, Thomas connects
with the geese and cares about them. Soon
thread that runs through the new documentary Synopsis: A cut-off hand escapes from a Director: Frédéric Choffat, Julie Gilbert father and son embark on the most fantastic
film, a 3D Produzioni and Nexo Digital dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back Synopsis: An urgent plea from Jade brings journey.
Alex and Bernardo to the Arizona desert in
production in collaboration with the Prado to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls Navajo Nation. They are introduced to Jade’s ALL ABOUT YVES (Premiere)
Museum, with the support of the Intesa of Paris, it remembers its life with the young life by her free-spirited daughter Frida. Their France, 107’, Comedy.
Sanpaolo Bank Group. man it was once attached to… until they met views on life, love and even death are about to Arcades 3 (Priority Badges Only)
Next screening: 20 May, 16:00, Arcades 2 Gabrielle. change. Sales: Le Pacte (M21)
Next screening: 19 May, 16:00, Olympia 2 CLARENCE CLEMONS WHO DO
LIL’ BUCK: REAL SWAN (Premiere) Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight)
France, 90’, Documentary. UPCOMING FANTASTIC FILMS I THINK I AM (Premiere) Director: Benoît Forgeard
Gray 1 (Press Allowed) Argentina, 100’, Horror. USA, 90’, Documentary. Casting: William Lebghil, Doria Tillier
Palais I
Sales: Versatile Olympia 4 (Press Allowed) Sales: Virgil Films And Entertainment Synopsis: Jerem decides to settle at his
grandma’s place to compose his first album.
(20 Bis Rue Des Serbes - F- 1640a) Sales: Blood Window There, he meets So, a mysterious investigator
Section: Market Section: Market Section: Market working on behalf of the startup Digital Cool.
Director: Louis Wallecan Synopsis: Abrakadabra (Argentina) Dir. Onetti Director: Mead Nick Next screening: 20 May, 11:30, Olympia 7
Next screening: 22 May, 12:00, Lerins 1 Brothers/Embryon (Chile) Dir. Patricio Valladares HAF GOES TO CANNES (Premiere) BOTERO (Premiere)
/Respira(Argentina) Dir. Gabriel Grieco/A Mata
NEMESIS (Premiere) Negra-The Black Forest (Brasil) Dir. Rodrigo 110’. Canada, 84’, Art - Culture.
Palais K
Thailand, 82’, Thriller. Aragao/El Diablo Blanco (Argentina) Dir. Sales: Hong Kong International Film Festival Gray 2
Gray 3 Ignacio Rogers/Deus Irae! (USA - Argentina) Dir. Society Limited (Hkiffs) Sales: House Of Film (21.01)
Sales: M Pictures Co., Ltd. (22.01) Pedro Cristiani/Piedra, Papel y Tijera (Argentina) Section: Market Section: Market
+66868199936 Dir. Macarena García Lenzi y Martín Blousson. Synopsis: HAF Goes to Cannes presents a Director: Don Millar
Section: Market THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING (Premiere) selection of films work-in-progress: Invitation Synopsis: The intimate, in-depth and inspiring
Director: Gunparwitt Phuwadolwisid USA, 97’, Documentary. by Saurav Rai/Marygoround by Daria Woszek/ portrait of this monumental artist weaves
Casting: Jirayu Thantrakul, Ramawadee Olympia 5 Odoriko by Yoichiro Okutani/Suk Suk by Ray together original footage shot in 10 cities
Nakchattree, Kiat Kitchareon Sales: WestEnd Films (Entrance C, 1st Floor) Yeung/To Live To Sing by Johnny Ma. across China, Europe, New York and Colombia,

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