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SCREENINGS

FESTIVAL & MARKET

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21 TO 24 May

10:00 Section: Market Riviera 2 United Kingdom, 95’, Documentary.
FOR SAMA (Premiere)
Director: Michel Leclerc
Sales: Kinology (20bis Rue Des Serbes)
Synopsis: Corentin, Paul and Sofia’s 9-year-old Section: Market (Critics’ Week) Palais I
AS HAPPY AS POSSIBLE (Premiere) son, only has friends that look like him at school.
France, Portugal, 92’, Drama. After his friends leave for a Parisian private Director: Franco Lolli Sales: Autlook Filmsales (J5) +436769003771
Lerins 2 school, his parents get scared. From now on, Casting: Carolina Sanin, Leticia Gomez, Section: Market (Special Screenings)
Sales: UDI - Urban Distribution International Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only Antonio Martinez, Vladimir Duran Director: Waad Al Kateab, Edward Watts
(L2) what? Synopsis: In Bogota, Silvia, a single mum and a Synopsis: For Sama is both an intimate and
lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. A
epic journey into the female experience of war. A
Section: Market (ACID) deeper anxiety weighs on her as well. Leticia, love letter from a young mother to her daughter,
Director: Alain Raoust HEROES DON’T DIE (Premiere) her mother, is seriously ill. Upon having to face the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life
Synopsis: Salome gets a summer job in a France, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina, 90’, her inevitable passing, Silvia embarks on a love through five years of the uprising in Aleppo,
junkyard somewhere in the countryside. Under a Drama. story for the first time in years. Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives
western sun, in this place out of the world, her birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises
teenage rebellion springs up. From unexpected Lerins 3 12:30 around her. Her camera captures incredible
encounters to shared sorrows, arise promises of Sales: Le Pacte (M21) stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad
a new life. Section: Market (Critics’ Week, Special wrestles with an impossible choice- whether or
Screening) YOUNG AHMED (Premiere) not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life,
FRANKIE (Premiere) Director: Aude Léa Rapin France, Belgium, 84’, Drama. when leaving means abandoning the struggle
France, Portugal, 98’, Drama. Casting: Adèle Haenel, Jonathan Couzinié Olympia 2 for freedom for which she has already sacrificed
Lerins 3 Synopsis: After being violently called out by a Sales: Wild Bunch so much.
Sales: Sbs International (Building Comoran 2, stranger, Joachim believes he is the (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor)
reincarnation of a Serbian soldier who died on
1st Floor) the very day he was born. Section: Market (In competition) 14:30
Section: Market (In competition) Director: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Director: Ira Sachs LES MISÉRABLES (Premiere) Synopsis: In Belgium, today, the destiny of FAMILY ROMANCE LLC (Premiere)
Casting: Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, France, 102’, Drama. young Ahmed, 13, caught between his imam’s Japan, Germany, 89’, Drama.
Jérémie Renier, Marisa Tomei, Vinette Robinson, ideals of purity and life’s temptations. Palais K
Ariyon Bakare, Pascal Greggory Olympia 1 Sales: Film Constellation
Synopsis: Frankie, a famous French actress, Sales: Wild Bunch 13:30 (Dauphin Entrance, 2nd Floor)
learns that she only has a few months to live. (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) Section: Market (Special Screening)
For one final family vacation, she gathers Section: Market (In Competition) ADAM (Premiere) Director: Werner Herzog
everyone together in Sintra, Portugal. Director: Ladj Ly Morocco, 98’, Drama.
Casting: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Palais J ATLANTICS (Premiere)
GET IN (Premiere) Djebril Zonga Sales: Films Boutique (G3) +04 92 993220 France, Senegal, Belgium, 105’, Drama.
France, Belgium, 100’, Thriller. Synopsis: Stéphane has recently joined the Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) Olympia 2
Riviera 1 Anti-Crime Brigade in Montfermeil, in the Paris Director: Maryam Touzani Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette)
Sales: WTfilms suburbs. Synopsis: Abla runs a modest local bakery from Section: Market (In Competition)
(32 Rue Des Serbes (B), 6th Floor) her home in Casablanca where she lives alone Director: Mati Diop
Section: Market THE CLIMB (Premiere) with her eight-year-old daughter Warda. Their Casting: Mama Sané, Amadou Am, Ibrahima
Director: Olivier Abbou USA, 95’, Comedy. routine of housework and homework is Traoré
Casting: Leonard Glowinski, Stéphane Caillard Palais I interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Synopsis: Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-
Synopsis: Paul Diallo, a history teacher, lives a Sales: Memento Films International (MFI) Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a
quiet life with his wife and kid. During (84 Rue D’Antibes, Fifth Floor) roof over her head. The little girl is immediately suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with
summertime, he lends his house to his son’s Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) taken with the newcomer but her mother Souleiman, a young construction worker.
babysitter and her boyfriend. When they return, Director: Michael Angelo Covino initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into
the Diallo family finds a closed door - locks have their lives. Next screening: 23 May, 12:00, Riviera 2
been changed and the new occupants maintain Casting: Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino,
they are in ‘their home’. With no one to turn to, Gayle Rankin, Judith Godrèche, George Wendt, 14:00 15:30
Paul gets closer to Mickey, a shady local man Talia Balsam
with a penchant for all things extreme and Synopsis: Kyle and Mike are best friends who REMEMBERING: THE MAURITS KIEK
illegal. Soon the once anti-violent teacher is share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with BURNING GHOST (Premiere) STORY (Premiere)
approaching the point of no return. Kyle’s fiancée. . France, 104’, Fantasy. United Kingdom, USA, 55’, Historical.
Palais C Gray 4
THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Premiere) PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Sales: Les Films Du Losange (G1) Sales: Greta Joanne Entertainment
China, 113’, Thriller. (Premiere) Section: Market (ACID) Section: Market
Riviera 2 France, 120’, Drama. Director: Stephane Batut Director: Cheryl Halpern
Sales: Memento Films International (MFI) Palais K Casting: Thimotée Robard, Judith Chemla Synopsis: Herinneren: Het verhaal van Maurits
(84 Rue D’Antibes, Fifth Floor) Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette) Synopsis: Juste wanders the streets of Paris Kiek... Remembering The Maurits Story presents
Section: Market (In Competition) Section: Market (In Competition) looking for people only he can see. He collects one man’s courage to return to Nazi-occupied
Director: Diao Yinan Director: Céline Sciamma their last memory before helping them into the Europe and serve as a covert MI-9 agent. His
Casting: Hu Ge, Kwai Lun Mei, Liao Fan, Wan Casting: Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant, afterlife. unwavering determination to stand up, in the
Qian Valeria Golino face of overwhelming odds, and fight the
Synopsis: The story of a gangster on the run Synopsis: Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a CHICUAROTES (Premiere) perpetrators of evil was acknowledged in Den
who eventually sacrifices himself to save his painter, is commissioned to do the wedding Mexico, 95’, Drama. Haag, The Hague, in 2015. He is a hero for us to
family and the woman he encounters along the portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just Olympia 1 remember as we, too, are challenged to respond
way. left the convent. to human injustice and cruelty.
Sales: Cinepolis
12:00 THE MORNING AFTER (Premiere) Section: Market (Special Screening) ZERO IMPUNITY
France, 98’, Comedy. Director: Gael García Bernal Luxembourg, France, 93’, Documentary.
LIL’ BUCK: REAL SWAN (Premiere) Riviera 1 Casting: Dolores Heredia, Daniel Giménez Lerins 1
France, 90’, Documentary. Sales: TF1 Studio (64 Rue D’Antibes, 2nd Fl.) Cacho, Benny Emmanuel Sales: Indie Sales
Lerins 1 Section: Market Synopsis: A full-fledged member of Mexico’s (2 Rue Bivouac Napoléon, 5th Fl.)
exceptionally talented generation, a first-rate
Sales: Versatile Director: Méliane Marcaggi actor in films by Iñárritu and Cuarón, Gael Section: Market
(20 Bis Rue Des Serbes - F- 1640a) Casting: Alexandra Lamy, Miou-Miou, García Bernal, along with Diego Luna, is a Director: Nicolas Blies, Stephane Hueber-Blies,
Section: Market Jonathan Zaccaï, Patrick Mille, Thomas Dutronc, devotee of Cannes, where he was on the Jury in Denis Lambert
Director: Louis Wallecan Guillaume Bouchède 2014. Chicuarotes is the actor’s second feature Synopsis: Although our contemporary society
Synopsis: He gave her a night. His mom gave film where he takes a deep dive into Mexican has ample legal arsenals to condemn sexual
violence in times of war, impunity remains total.
BATTLE OF THE CLASSES her a clan. society with a story about teenagers that is an Men and women have only just started to raise
France, 104’, Drama. affectionate portrayal, continuing in Mexican their voices: by telling their stories, they engage
Lerins 2 LITIGANTE (Premiere) cinema’s tradition to pay homage to its eternal us in their struggle for justice and the slow
Sales: Orange Studio (35 La Croisette) France, Colombia, 95’, Drama. country, film after film. process of healing these deep wounds. Alisa is a

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