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SCREENINGS Monday 20 may 2019
DAY 7

FESTIVAL

Monday 20 May

DIEGO MARADONA (Premiere)
FESTIVAL United Kingdom, 125’, Documentary. despair and betrayal, of corruption and KANAL won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film
ultimately redemption.
Festival 1957
Salle Du 60e (Press Screening)
LAND OF ASHES (Premiere)
Sales: Altitude Film Sales/Altitude Film Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, France, 82’, Drama. 11:15
Entertainment (9 Rue Des États-Unis, 2nd Floor) Miramar
8:30 +33 4 89 68 50 15 Sales: Totem Films USA, 89’, Drama.
SHARE (Premiere)
Section: Day after screenings (Out of
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Premiere) Competition) (29 Rue Du Commandant André) Salle Du 60e (Press Screening)
France, 120’, Drama. Director: Asif Kapadia Section: Critics’ Week (In competition) Sales: HBO (Home Box Office)
Director: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required) Synopsis: Having never won a major Casting: Smachleen Gutiérrez, Humberto Section: Out of Competition (Special
Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette) tournament, ailing football giant SSC Napoli had Samuels, Kesha Brown, Hortensia Smith Screening)
Section: In competition criminally underachieved. Their fanatical support Synopsis: Selva (13) lives in a Caribbean coastal Director: Pippa Bianco
Director: Céline Sciamma was unequalled in both passion and size. None town. After the sudden disappearance of her Synopsis: After a night of partying, high-school
Casting: Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant, was more feared. But how they ached for only motherly figure, Selva is the only one left to sophomore Mandy discovers that a series of cell-
Valeria Golino success… On 5th July 1984, Diego Maradona take care of her grandfather, who doesn’t want phone videos of her—half-dressed and
Synopsis: Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a arrived in Naples for a world-record fee and for to live anymore. Between mysterious shadows semiconscious—have gone viral. Struggling to
painter, is commissioned to do the wedding seven years all hell broke loose. The world’s most and wild games, she debates whether helping piece together what happened, reeling at how
portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left celebrated football genius and the most her grandfather achieve his desire, even though quickly the normalcy of her life has been
upended, unsure about her friends’ attempts to
the convent. . dysfunctional city in Europe were a perfect this might mean going through her last moments usher her back into their normal social routine,
Next screening: 21 May, 09:30, Palais I match for each other. Maradona was blessed on of childhood alone.
the field but cursed off it; the charismatic Next screening: 22 May, 15:30, Lerins 3 and uneasy about her parents’ inclination to take
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURÍDICE Argentine, quickly led Naples to their first-ever action on her behalf, Mandy has to navigate a
landscape littered with others’ good intentions
GUSMÃO (Premiere) title. It was the stuff of dreams. But there was a 8:45 and find a way to heal from a wound she can’t
Brazil, 145’, Drama. price… Diego could do as he pleased whilst AN EASY GIRL (Premiere) identify.
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) performing miracles on the pitch, but when the France, 92’, Comedy.
magic faded he became almost a prisoner of the
Sales: The Match Factory (25 La Croisette) city. The third film from the Academy Award and Theatre Croisette ABOU LEILA (Premiere)
+33 6 43 63 46 73 BAFTA-winning team behind Senna and Amy, the Sales: Wild Bunch Algeria, France, 140’, Drama.
Section: Un Certain Regard film will be constructed from over 500 hours of (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) Miramar
Director: Aïnouz Karim never-before-seen footage from Maradona’s Section: Directors’ Fortnight Sales: Films Boutique (G3) +04 92 993220
Casting: Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler, Fernanda personal archive and in the style of Senna and Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Section: Critics’ Week (In Competition)
Montenegro Amy, will be a high-end and definitive feature Casting: Clotilde Coureau, Benoît Magimel, Director: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Synopsis: Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Euridice, 18 and documentary made with the full support of Zahia Dehar, Mina Farid, Nuno Lopes Casting: Slimane Benouari, Lyes Salem, Azouz
Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters. They live Maradona. In a city where the devil would have Synopsis: Naïma has just turned 16. This Abdelkader, Fouad Megiraga, Meryem
at home, and each has a dream: becoming a needed bodyguards, Maradona became bigger summer, she will have to decide what she wants Medjkane, Hocine Mokhtar, Samir El Hakim
renowned pianist, or finding true love. than God himself. This is the wild and from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Synopsis: Algeria, 1994. With Civil War raging
Next screening: 21 May, 18:00, Salle Du 60e unforgettable story of God-given talent, glory, Next screening: 21 May, 22:30, Arcades 1 for years in the north of the country, each day
continues to bring its share of death and horror.
10:45 Police officers S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends,
travel through the desert looking for Abou Leila,
TOMMASO (Premiere) a dangerous terrorist on the run. In the
Italy, 115’, Drama. immensity of the Sahara, their quest seems
Salle Buñuel absurd, but Lofti has only one priority: to keep S.
Sales: The Match Factory (25 La Croisette) as far from the capital as possible, knowing his
+33 6 43 63 46 73 friend is too fragile to face more bloodshed. But
Section: Out of Competition (Special the deeper they get into the desert, the more
Screening) they are confronted with their own trauma and
Director: Ferrara Abel violence.
Casting: Willem Dafoe, Anna Ferrara, Cristina Next screening: 21 May, 08:15, Miramar
Chiriac
Synopsis: The story of an American artist living 11:30
in Rome with his young European wife Nikki and A HIDDEN LIFE (Premiere)
their three-year-old daughter, Dee Dee. A work USA, Germany, 173’, Drama.
concerning imagination. Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required)
11:00 Sales: Mister Smith Entertainment
(Rond Point Dubois D’Angers)
THEY LOVED LIFE (Premiere) Section: In competition
Poland, 94’, Drama. Director: Terrence Malick
Salle Buñuel Casting: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael
Sales: Cannes Classics Nyqvist, Jürgen Prochnow, Martin Wuttke,
Section: Cannes Classics Maria Simon, Franz Rogowski, Matthias
Director: Andrzej Wajda Schoenaerts
Casting: Teresa Izewska, Tadeuz Janczar, Synopsis: Based on real events, A Hidden Life is
Wienczyslaw Glínski, Teresa Berezowska the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter,
Synopsis: Presented by Malavida. Scanned, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War
calibrated and restored in 4K under the artistic II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced
supervision of Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Wójcik, with the threat of execution for treason, it is his
second DOP, and regular collaborator of Wajda unwavering faith and his love for his wife, Fani,
(Ashes and Diamonds) and one of the greatest and children that keeps his spirit alive.
Polish DOPs. Technical supervision: Waldermar
Makula. 4k Scan from the original negative, ADAM (Premiere)
image and sound. Producted by Studio Filmowe Morocco, 98’, Drama.
Kadr with the participation of Filmoteka Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening)
Narodowa. French distribution: Malavida.
International Sales: Studio Filmowe Kadr. Sales: Films Boutique (G3) +04 92 993220
September, 1944. Day 56 after the Warsaw’s Section: Un Certain Regard
uprising against the Nazis. The third Platoon of Director: Maryam Touzani
the Resistance is down to 43 heroic men and Casting: Lubna Azabal, Nisrine Erradi, Douae
women. After a day of fighting, some of the Belkhaouda, Aziz Hattab, Hasnaa Tamtaoui
survivors make an attempt to leave through the Synopsis: Abla runs a modest local bakery from
city’s underground sewers. They all have a story, her home in Casablanca where she lives alone
are afraid of dying and they all want to live. with her eight-year-old daughter Warda. Their

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