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SCREENINGS

FESTIVAL & MARKET

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21 TO 24 May

YOUNG AHMED (Premiere)
FESTIVAL 8:30 France, Belgium, 84’, Drama. company offers his clients a chance to dive back
into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to
relive the most memorable week of his life: the
FRANKIE (Premiere) Salle Du 60e one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great
Sales: Wild Bunch
France, Portugal, 98’, Drama. (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) love .
21/05/2019 Grand Théâtre Lumière (Press Screening) Section: Day after screenings (In Competition) Next screening: 22 May, 09:00, Salle Du 60e
Director: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Sales: SbBS International
DIARY OF A NURSE (Premiere)
FESTIVAL (Building Comoran 2, 1st Floor) Synopsis: In Belgium, today, the destiny of China, 97’, Drama.
young Ahmed, 13, caught between his imam’s
Section: In competition
8:15 Director: Ira Sachs ideals of purity and life’s temptations. Salle Buñuel
Sales: Cannes Classics
Casting: Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson,
ABOU LEILA (Premiere) Jérémie Renier, Marisa Tomei, Vinette Robinson, 8:45 Section: Cannes Classics
Director: Tao Jin
Algeria, France, 140’, Drama. Ariyon Bakare, Pascal Greggory DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS (Premiere) Synopsis: Presented by IQIYI et New Ipicture
Synopsis: Frankie, a famous French actress,
Miramar learns that she only has a few months to live. Finland, 106’, Drama. Media co., ltd (NIPM). 4K Scan and 3K Digital
Sales: Films Boutique (G3) +04 92 993220 For one final family vacation, she gathers Theatre Croisette Restoration from the original 35mm print
Section: Critics’ Week (In Competition) everyone together in Sintra, Portugal. Sales: The Yellow Affair (D2) positive materials mastered in 2K. Restoration
financed by IQIYI & NIPM, and made by
Director: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène Next screening: 22 May, 10:00, Lerins 3 Section: Directors’ Fortnight L’Immagine Ritrovata (Italy) and Laser Digital
Casting: Slimane Benouari, Lyes Salem, Azouz Director: Valkeapää J-P Film SRL (Italy).
Abdelkader, Fouad Megiraga, Meryem THE BEARS’ FAMOUS INVASION Casting: Krista Kosonen, Pekka Strang
Synopsis: The film tells a story of Juha, who has
Medjkane, Hocine Mokhtar, Samir El Hakim (Premiere) lost his wife in an accident. Years after, he still 11:30
Synopsis: Algeria, 1994. With Civil War raging France, Italy, 82’, Animation. feels numb and unable to connect with people.
for years in the north of the country, each day Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes COURTS MÉTRAGES/SHORT FILMS
continues to bring its share of death and horror. Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) everything. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly (167)
Police officers S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, Sales: Pathé Films (Ibis Entrance, 4a/E) humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain Salle Bazin (Press screening)
travel through the desert looking for Abou Leila, Section: Un Certain Regard of being.
a dangerous terrorist on the run. In the Director: Lorenzo Mattotti Next screening: 22 May, 22:30, Arcades 1
immensity of the Sahara, their quest seems Synopsis: To find his long lost son and food to Section: In Competition
absurd, but Lofti has only one priority: to keep S. survive the winter, the great bear king leads his 10:45 THE VAN
as far from the capital as possible, knowing his clan down from the mountains and into the France, Albania, 15’
friend is too fragile to face more bloodshed. But world of men. After escaping terrible monsters TOMMASO (Premiere) Director: Erenik Beqiri
the deeper they get into the desert, the more and defeating an evil duke, the bears and men Italy, 115’, Drama. Casting: Phénix Brossard, Arben Bajraktaraj,
they are confronted with their own trauma and live together in peace – for a time. Salle Du 60e (Press Screening) Afrim Muçaj, Lulzim Zeqja
violence. Next screening: 22 May, 14:00, Bazin Sales: The Match Factory Synopsis: The Van finally stops, the doors
(25 La Croisette) +33 6 43 63 46 73 open and the son comes out alive. A few
more fights and he will be able to pay his
Section: Out of Competition (Special way out of Albania, and hopefully, take his
Screening) father with him.
Director: Ferrara Abel
Casting: Willem Dafoe, Anna Ferrara, Cristina ANNA
Chiriac Ukraine, United Kingdom, Israel, 15’
Synopsis: The story of an American artist living Director: Dekel Berenson
in Rome with his young European wife Nikki Casting: Svetlana Barandich, Anastasia
and their three-year-old daughter, Dee Dee. A Vyazovskaya, Eric Gilliatt, Liana Khobelia, Alina
work concerning imagination. Chornodub, Istan Rozumny
11:00 Synopsis: Anna, a middle-aged single
mother, lives in a small industrial town in
war-torn Eastern Ukraine. Despite not having
FIRE WILL COME (Premiere) been out for years, she is lured by a radio
France, Luxembourg, Spain, 85’, Drama. advertisement to attend a party of foreign
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) men who are touring the country, searching
for love.
Sales: Pyramide International (J6)
Section: Un Certain Regard LE GRAND SAUT
Director: Oliver Laxe France, 12’
Casting: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sanchez, Director: Vanessa Dumont, Nicolas Davenel
Inazio Abrao Casting: Alain Demaria
Synopsis: Amador Coro has been condemned Synopsis: At 22, Alain is already a living
for having provoked a fire. When he gets out of legend in Marseille. Of all the young divers
prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to who jump from the Corniche, he is the only
his home town, a small village hidden in the one to dive head and neck forward “to break
mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his the water”. If the jump allows him to control
mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life his impulses, he knows that he will not be
goes by slowly, following the rhythm of nature. able to brave forever the fear of heights.
Until one night when a fire starts to devastate
the region. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE
Next screening: 22 May, 21:00, Bazin SKY
Greece, France, 9’
LA BELLE EPOQUE (Premiere) Director: Vasilis Kekatos
France, 113’, Black comedy. Casting: Nikolakis Zeginoglou, Ioko Ioannis
Grand Théâtre Lumière (Press Screening) Kotidis
Synopsis: Night, national road. Two
Sales: Pathé Films (Ibis Entrance, 4a/E) strangers meet for the first time at an old
Section: Out of Competition gas station. One has stopped to gas up his
Director: Nicolas Bedos bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking
Casting: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, the €22.50 he needs to get home, he will try
Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant to sell him the distance that separates them
Synopsis: Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, from the sky.
sees his life turned upside down on the day
when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers ALL INCLUSIVE
him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical Finland, 15’
artifices and historical reconstruction, this Director: Teemu Nikki

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