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SCREENINGS

MARKET

Sunday 19 May

LUX ÆTERNA (Premiere) Synopsis: Abla runs a modest local bakery from her and on-set hysterics. It’s a brilliant fast-paced SATANIC PANIC (Premiere)
France, 50’, Drama. home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her medium-length film for Gaspar Noé’s return – an USA, 90’, Comedy.
Arcades 2 (Priority Badges Only) eight-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of unexpected one until recently – to the Official Palais B
housework and homework is interrupted one day by
Selection, for a film that the Selection Committee
Sales: Wild Bunch a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman watched at the last minute and which will be shown Sales: DDI - Double Dutch International
(5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little in a Midnight Screening as hyped as it is mysterious. (25 La Croisette, Bagatelle)
Section: Market (Midnight Screening) girl is immediately taken with the newcomer but her Next screening: 20 May, 13:15, Salle Du 60e Section: Market
Director: Gaspar Noe mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger 17:15 Director: Chelsea Stardust Peters
Synopsis: Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and into their lives. Casting: Rebecca Romijn, Jerry O’Connell,
Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling Next screening: 20 May, 11:30, Debussy ALL MY LOVING Ruby Modine, Arden Myrin, Aj Bowen,
Æterna is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, 16:45 Germany, 120’, Drama. Hayley Griffith
stories about witches – but that’s not all. Lux
and on-set hysterics. It’s a brilliant fast-paced THE STAGGERING GIRL (Premiere) Arcades 3 Synopsis: Fangoria presents Satanic Panic from the
producers of Brawl In Cell Block 99 and My Friend
medium-length film for Gaspar Noé’s return – an Italy, 37’, Drama. Sales: Beta Cinema (Goeland Entrance) Dahmer. When a pizza delivery girl at the end of her
unexpected one until recently – to the Official +4917610312646 financial rope has to fight for her life – and her tips
Selection, for a film that the Selection Committee Gray 1 Section: Market – when her last order of the night turns out to be
watched at the last minute and which will be shown Sales: Rai Com (A8) Director: Edward Berger high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.
in a Midnight Screening as hyped as it is mysterious. Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight) Casting: Lars Eidinger, Nele Mueller-Stöfen,
Next screening: 20 May, 13:15, Salle Du 60e Director: Luca Guadagnino Hans Löw WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS (Premiere)
Synopsis: The cinematographic language and the Synopsis: A family of three siblings. Each of them is United Kingdom, 91’, Documentary.
THE STAGGERING GIRL (Premiere) language of Couture simultaneously follow an faced with life challenges and different ideas of Palais D
Italy, 37’, Drama. intimate storyline, made of symbols, gestures and solutions. Sales: Palm Tree Universal
movie narrates the strength of a blood relationship 17:30
Gray 1 (Priority Badges Only) images. Moving between Rome and New York, the Section: Market
Sales: Rai Com (A8) between two women who have come to a day of Director: Robbie Moffat
Section: Market (Directors’ Fortnight) reckoning with themselves, through a diachronic THE HIDDEN SWORD (Premiere) Casting: Robbie Moffat , Red Rock
Director: Luca Guadagnino and introspective overview. China, 124’, Martial arts. Synopsis: Elephants are dying out by the hands of
Synopsis: The cinematographic language and the Gray 2 humankind. Can humanity be persuaded to change
language of Couture simultaneously follow an intimate 17:00 Sales: Distribution Workshop (26.04) its ways to save them from extinction?
storyline, made of symbols, gestures and images. Moving LUX ÆTERNA (Premiere) Section: Market
between Rome and New York, the movie narrates the Director: Haofeng Xu SADAKO (Premiere)
strength of a blood relationship between two women France, 50’, Drama. Casting: Aoyue Zhang, Jessie Li, Qing Xu, Japan, 99’, Horror.
who have come to a day of reckoning with themselves, Arcades 2 (Priority Badges Only) Jue Huang Palais F
through a diachronic and introspective overview. Sales: Wild Bunch Synopsis: In 1933, Chinese soldiers led by heroic Sales: Kadokawa Corporation (C6)
ADAM (Premiere) (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) officer Shen Feixue defeat a Japanese attack on the Section: Market
Morocco, 98’, Drama. Section: Market (Midnight Screening) Great Wall using only swords. But Shen disappears, COUREUR
Olympia 8 (Priority Badges Only) Director: Gaspar Noe and an imposter seduces Shen’s widow, the sword- Belgium, 97’, Drama.
wielding beauty Zhihui. Together, they try to steal
Sales: Films Boutique (G3) +04 92 993220 Synopsis: Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Shen’s teacher Master Kong’s ultimate sword Palais H
Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling
Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) stories about witches – but that’s not all. Lux techniques, and manage to establish a flamboyantly Sales: Intramovies (A10-C1)
Director: Maryam Touzani Æterna is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, despotic rule over their small town. But heroic Section: Market
young Kong Dingyi, Master Kong’s grandson and Director: Kenneth Mercken
prize student, stands in their way. Complications Casting: Niels Willaerts, Koen De Graeve,
ensue in the person of an exotic female dancer/ Fortunato Cerlino, Karlijn Sileghem, Loïc
acrobat, who appears as a travelling saleswoman. Bellemans, Günther Lesage
And the Kongs adopt orphaned wastrel Qingqing,
facebok.com/cineuropa Synopsis: Felix, a cycling rider, signs up for an
twitter.com/cineuropa who grows into a beautiful young woman with eyes
for Dingyi. Will he defeat his own longings and Italian team, he wants to become a pro no matter
enemies both intimate and foreign, and preserve his what, excelling his father.
cineuropa.org family’s honour? India, 140’, Social issues.
BANDISHALA (Premiere)
QT8: THE FIRST EIGHT (Premiere)
USA, 97’, Documentary. Palais J
Gray 4 (Invite only) Sales: Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural
Sales: Wood Entertainment Development Corporation Ltd (22.06)
Section: Market Section: Market
Director: Milind Lele
HEROES DON’T DIE (Premiere) Casting: Mukta Barve, Vikram Gaikwad,
France, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Sharad Ponkshe, Umesh Jagtap, Hemangi
90’, Drama. Kavi, Pravin Tarde
Lerins 2 (Priority Badges Only) Synopsis: Madhavi Sawant is a conscientious
Sales: Le Pacte (M21) and proficient prison officer, a staunch believer
in transparent and disciplined prison
Section: Market (Critics’ Week) administration. She strives to transform the
Director: Aude Léa Rapin corrupt administration of prisons. In her attempt
Casting: Adèle Haenel, Jonathan Couzinié to clean the crooked system, she uncovers the
Synopsis: After being violently called out by a corrupt nexus of prison administrators and
stranger, Joachim believes he is the reincarnation of politicians. The people she hurts in this process
a Serbian soldier who died on the very day he was are unsettled and try to avenge for her deeds.
born. They ploy to shame her, destroy her confidence
Next screening: 22 May, 12:00, Lerins 3 and get rid of her. They conspire a gang rape on
her. Madhavi is shattered by this assault. She
WISH MAN (Premiere) has to fight now a battle of bringing change in
USA, 105’, Children’s. corrupt prison administration and also of facing
Lerins 4 humiliation of being a rape victim. Madhavi
stands strong during the inhumane procedure of
Sales: Pure Flix / Quality Fix (B10) fighting her case and strongly opposes the
Section: Market patriarchal society which objectifies women.
Director: Theo Davies
THE Casting: Danny Trejo, Dale Dickey, Kirby Argentina, Lebanon, USA, 98’, Comedy.
INITIALS S.G. (Premiere)
Bliss Blanton
BEST OF News, reviews, Synopsis: One boy’s wish changed a man. One Riviera 2
man’s wish changed the world.
Sales: Visit Films (M4)
interviews and
EUROPEAN festival reports Next screening: 20 May, 10:00, Lerins 1 Section: Market
Director: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
2040 (Premiere)
Casting: Diego Peretti, Julianne Nicholson ,
CINEMA Australia, 92’, Documentary. Daniel Fanego, Malena Sanchez, Francisco
Olympia 7
Lumerman
Sales: Metro International Entertainment
(Eider Penthouse, 7th Floor) TLAMESS (Premiere)
+447505659846 Tunisia, France, 120’, Drama.
Section: Market Olympia 9 (Priority Badges Only)
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