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survivor of sexual violence during the Donbass anthropologist working for the Forensic Gray 4 Sales: Short Film Corner
conflict in Ukraine, an area where war is not Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. Sales: Greta Joanne Entertainment Section: Market
even recognised; Mark, one of the former One day, while hearing the account of an old Section: Market
interrogators in Guantanamo, denounces the woman, he thinks he has found a lead that Director: Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye ON A MAGICAL NIGHT (Premiere)
institutionalised system of sexual torture put in might guide him to his father, a guerrillero who Casting: The Ooni Of Ife, The Alaafin Of Ayo, France, 90’, Comedy.
place by the United States; Fatima, mother of went missing during the war. Against his Femi Kuti
11-year-old Nora, abducted like thousands of mother’s wishes, he flings himself body and soul Synopsis: When the slave boats docked in Riviera 2
other children and sexually tortured in the into the case, looking for truth and resilience. America, Brazil, Cuba and the Caribbean’s Sales: Charades
prisons of the Syrian regime… These stories hundreds of cultures, traditions, and religions (3 Rond-Point Duboys D’Angers)
confront us with the most obscure and 16:00 landed with the Africans, but only one remains Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)
horrendous mechanics of international prominent to date in the new world, the culture Director: Christophe Honore
institutions, a look backstage behind PAIN AND GLORY (Premiere) of the Yoruba. Bigger Than Africa follows the Synopsis: After 20 years of marriage, Maria
contemporary conflicts, spotlighting those who Spain, 112’, Drama. journey of these Africans from the point of no decides to leave. She moves to the room 212 of
have the courage to engage, resist and mobilise. return in West Africa to the final destinations. the hotel opposite her marital home. From there,
How can we rebuild ourselves when the values Olympia 1 Shot in six different countries with research and Maria can scrutinize her apartment, her
that define us have been stamped on and Sales: FilmNation Entertainment Llc interviews coming from around the world, this husband, her wedding. She wonders if she has
reduced to nothing? Zero Impunity offers a voice Section: Market (In Competition) film took us to places like Brazil, Cuba, United made the right decision.
and solutions to this dreaded universal social Director: Pedro Almodóvar States, Trinidad & Tobago and where it all began,
norm. A film about love, life and humanity. Join Casting: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas West Africa. 18:00
the Movement. Synopsis: Pain and Glory tells of a series of
re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a 17:30 LIBERTÉ (Premiere)
PIRANHAS film director in physical decline. Spain, France, 132’, Drama.
Italy, 110’, Drama. PAPICHA (Premiere) Palais I
Lerins 2 BULL (Premiere) Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar, 105’, Drama. Sales: Films Boutique (G3) +04 92 993220
Sales: Elle Driver (7 La Croisette) USA, 101’, Drama. Lerins 1 Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)
Section: Market Palais I Sales: Jour2Fête Sales (D8) Director: Albert Serra
Director: Claudio Giovannesi Sales: Film Constellation Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) Synopsis: 1774, shortly before the French
Synopsis: Naples. Nicola and his friends are (Dauphin Entrance, 2nd Floor) Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and
fifteen years old. They want to make money, buy Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) Director: Mounia Meddour Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duc de Tesis
designer clothes and brand new scooters. Director: Annie Silverstein Casting: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda and the Duc de Wand, libertines expelled from
Synopsis: In a near-abandoned subdivision Daouada, Yasin Houicha, Nadia Kaci the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the
LAND OF ASHES (Premiere) west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong Synopsis: Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma, an 18-year- support of the legendary Duc de Walchen,
old student passionate about fashion design
Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, France, 82’, Drama. into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a
Lerins 3 an aging bullfighter who’s seen his best days in Civil War to keep her from experiencing a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.
Their mission is to export libertinage, a
Sales: Totem Films the arena; it’s a collision that will change them normal life and going out at night with her philosophy of enlightenment founded on the
both.
(29 Rue Du Commandant André) friend Wassila. rejection of moral boundaries and authorities,
Section: Market (Critics’ Week, In Competition) 16:15 but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their
Director: Sofía Quirós Ubeda SUMMER OF CHANGSHA (Premiere) errant games, where the quest for pleasure no
Casting: Smachleen Gutiérrez, Humberto THE BEST YEARS OF A LIFE (Premiere) China, 120’, Thriller. longer obeys laws other than those dictated by
Samuels, Kesha Brown, Hortensia Smith France, 90’, Drama. Lerins 2 unfulfilled desires.
Synopsis: Selva (13) lives in a Caribbean coastal Sales: Indie Sales
town. After the sudden disappearance of her Palais K (2 Rue Bivouac Napoléon, 5th Fl.) OH MERCY (Premiere)
only motherly figure, Selva is the only one left to Sales: Other Angle Pictures France, 19’, Drama.
take care of her grandfather, who doesn’t want (Albatros Entrance, 2nd Floor) +33667512829 Section: Market (Un Certain Regard) Salle Du 60e
to live anymore. Between mysterious shadows Section: Market (Out of Competition) Director: Zu Feng Sales: Wild Bunch
and wild games, she debates whether helping Director: Claude Lelouch Casting: Zu Feng, Huang Lu
her grandfather achieve his desire, even though Casting: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Synopsis: China, nowadays, in the city of (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor)
this might mean going through her last Marianne Denicourt, Souad Amidou, Antoine Changsha. A Bin is a police detective. During the Section: Day after screenings (In Competition)
moments of childhood alone. Sire, Monica Bellucci investigation of a bizarre murder case, he meets Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Synopsis: They knew each other long ago: a Li Xue, a surgeon. As they get to know each Casting: Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, Roschdy
other, A Bin happens to be more and more
DIVERSITY IN CANNES 1 (Premiere) man and a woman whose dazzling and attracted to this mysterious woman, while both Zem, Antoine Reinartz
110’. unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic are struggling with their own love stories and Synopsis: Christmas night in Roubaix. Police
chief Daoud roams the city. Burn out cars, violent
Palais F film, revolutionised our understanding of love. sins. Could a love affair help them find altercations… In the face of poverty, deception
Sales: Short Film Corner Today, the former race car driver seems lost in redemption? and distress, Daoud knows who is lying and
Section: Market the pathways of his memory. In order to help who is telling the truth.
him, his son seeks out the woman his father Next screening: 23 May, 14:00, Debussy
wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly
THE BARE NECESSITY (Premiere) revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne SCHOOL LIFE (Premiere) TALENTS ADAMI CANNES + PRIX
France, 102’, Comedy. reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up France, 116’, Comedy. SACD (Premiere)
Riviera 1 where they left it… Lerins 3 90’.
Sales: Playtime (3 Square Mérimée) Sales: Gaumont (2 Rue Bivouac Napoleon) Miramar
Section: Market 16:30 +33 4 93 68 90 20 Sales: Semaine De La Critique
Director: Erwan Le Duc Section: Market Section: Critics’ Week
Casting: Swann Arlaud, Maud Wyler, Nicolas THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Premiere) Director: Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir
Maury, Fanny Ardant China, 113’, Thriller. Casting: Zita Hanrot, Alban Ivanov, Soufiane
Synopsis: Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an Olympia 2 Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly
enchanted though restless existence since the Sales: Memento Films International (MFI) Synopsis: Fresh from the South of France, FESTIVAL
enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. (84 Rue D’Antibes, Fifth Floor) Samia, a young educational consultant, arrives
Section: Market (In Competition) in a difficult middle-school in the suburbs of
OUR MOTHERS (Premiere) Director: Diao Yinan Paris. With Moussa and Dylan, two hall monitors
France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Casting: Hu Ge, Kwai Lun Mei, Liao Fan, Wan who also master punchlines, she runs the School 23/05/2019
Guatemala, 77’, Drama. Qian Life team that supervises students throughout
Riviera 2 Synopsis: The story of a gangster on the run the school year. Passionate about her job and 8:45
Sales: Pyramide International (J6) who eventually sacrifices himself to save his assisted by the school’s teachers and her
Section: Market family and the woman he encounters along the colleagues, Samia will do all she can to motivate ALL ABOUT YVES (Premiere)
discouraged kids and show them that a brighter
Director: César Diaz way. future is possible… France, 107’, Comedy.
Casting: Armando Espitia , Emma Dib Theatre Croisette
Synopsis: Guatemala, 2018. The whole country 17:00 Sales: Le Pacte (M21)
is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who DIVERSITY IN CANNES 2 (Premiere) Section: Directors’ Fortnight
sparked the civil war. Victim statements come BIGGER THAN AFRICA (Premiere) 110’. Director: Benoît Forgeard
one after another. Ernesto is a young Nigeria, USA, Cuba, Togo, 90’, Historical. Palais F Casting: William Lebghil, Doria Tillier

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