Page 22 - CMN8_web

SCREENINGS

FESTIVAL & MARKET

21 TO 24 May
TH
ST

Synopsis: Jerem decides to settle at his Director: Martin Gonda her. But both the industry and the press are Aragon, Sebastian Aguirre Boëda, Coralia
grandma’s place to compose his first album. Casting: Martin Pisko, Adam Voloch, Jozef confident that the results are sensationally good. Manterola, Sara Rosa Aguilar
There, he meets So, a mysterious investigator Pantlikas, Lukas Hamaric, Tomas Balaz On the brink of triumph, though, Nina’s Synopsis: Every day Tiago goes into his
working on behalf of the startup Digital Cool. Synopsis: Financial crisis enters the psychological resolve begins to crack. She rushes garden, to feed the crocodile that killed his
Next screening: 24 May, 11:00, Theatre households of a provincial town and people back to her family home to deal with two crises: brother.
Croisette start to lose their jobs. Two adolescent her father’s business has gone bankrupt and her 14:30
mother has suffered a heart attack. She dreams
brothers rebel against their father, a factory
11:00 foreman, who becomes a scapegoat for the of rekindling a close relationship with her MATTHIAS & MAXIME (Premiere)
childhood friend Kiki but is haunted by paranoid
frustrated community.
ICE ON FIRE (Premiere) fantasies that a mysterious woman is stalking Canada, 119’, Drama.
and attacking her. As Nina clings to memories of
91’, Documentary. TALENT ADAMI & PRIX DE LA happier times, it seems that there is one crucial Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required)
Salle Du 60e (Press Screening) REVELATION FONDATION LOUIS memory that she is repressing. Sales: Seville International
Sales: Festival De Cannes ROEDERER (PREMIERE) (Albatros Entrance, 5th Floor)
Section: Out of Competition (Special Miramar 14:00 Section: In competition
Screening) Sales: Semaine De La Critique Director: Xavier Dolan
Casting: Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Xavier
Director: Leila Conners Section: Critics’ Week SUMMER OF CHANGSHA (Premiere)
Synopsis: In 2007, Leila Conners screened The China, 120’, Thriller. Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine
11th Hour at Cannes, a hard-hitting 11:30 Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Catherine Brunet,
documentary about climate change produced by Sales: Indie Sales Micheline Bernard, Anne Dorval
Leonardo DiCaprio. The Festival screens conflict OH MERCY (Premiere) (2 Rue Bivouac Napoléon, 5th Fl.) Synopsis: Two childhood best friends are asked
documentaries as part of a strong and proud France, 119’, Drama. Section: Un Certain Regard to share a kiss for the purposes of a student
tradition, like it also did with An Inconvenient Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required) Director: Zu Feng short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in,
Truth by Davis Guggenheim, which won an Sales: Wild Bunch Casting: Zu Feng, Huang Lu confronting both men with their preferences,
Oscar and earned Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize. (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor) Synopsis: China, nowadays, in the city of threatening the brotherhood of their social circle,
Twelve years later as the alarm bells are still Section: In competition Changsha. A Bin is a police detective. During the and, eventually, changing their lives.
multiplying all around the world (and more!), investigation of a bizarre murder case, he meets
Leila Conners and Leonardo DiCaprio teamed up Director: Arnaud Desplechin Li Xue, a surgeon. As they get to know each 14:45
again on the same topic to make a film with an Casting: Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, Roschdy other, A Bin happens to be more and more
eloquent title: Ice on Fire. Zem, Antoine Reinartz attracted to this mysterious woman, while both COURTS PROGRAMME 2 (84)
Synopsis: Christmas night in Roubaix. Police Théâtre Croisette
chief Daoud roams the city. Burn out cars, violent are struggling with their own love stories and
ONCE IN TRUBCHEVSK (Premiere) altercations… In the face of poverty, deception sins. Could a love affair help them find Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Russia, 81’, Drama. and distress, Daoud knows who is lying and redemption? GRAND BOUQUET (Premiere)
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) who is telling the truth. Next screening: 24 May, 11:30, Salle Du 60e 15’
Sales: Loco Films Director: Nao Yoshigai
Section: Un Certain Regard PARTICLES (Premiere) 14:15 Casting: Hanna Chan
Director: Larissa Sadilova France, Switzerland, 98’, Drama. Synopsis: A helpless woman confronts a
Synopsis: In a small town, nothing stays a Olympia 8 COURTS MÉTRAGES FESTIVAL “black object” with a power greater than
secret. No matter how hard you try to hide INTERNATIONAL DE MORELIA (80) hers. The “black object” shoots her
infidelities, the truth will come out sooner or Sales: Les Films Du Losange (G1) Miramar questions. The woman has answers to these
later. A decision then arises: to start a new life Section: Directors’ Fortnight questions, but can’t say them aloud. She
together or to confess and hope for forgiveness. Director: Blaise Harrison Section: Critics’ Week feels up against the wall, and begins to
This is the choice the protagonists are faced Casting: Thomas Daloz, Néa Lueders, Salvatore EL AIRE DELGADO (THE THIN AIR) throw up beautiful colorful flowers instead
with. Ferro, Emma Josserand, Léo Couilfort, Nicolas Mexico, 30’ of speaking.
Next screening: 24 May, 14:00, Bazin Marcant Director: Pablo Giles
Synopsis: At the foot of the Jura Mountains, Pa, Casting: Sonia-Cassandra Ciangherotti, QUELLO CHE VERRÀ È SOLO UNA
aged 17, and his gang of friends are in their last PROMESSA (Premiere)
PROGRAMME 4 (79) year at high school. Mateo-Fernando Álvarez Rebeil
Salle Buñuel (Press screening) Synopsis: Sonia and Mateo embark on a 20’
Director: Flatform
11:45 road trip with the excuse of mending the Casting: Tuvaluans
cracks in their relationship. Crossing the
Section: Cinéfondation highway and in an emotional roller coaster Synopsis: In the course of a long, slow take
ADAM SICK, SICK, SICK (Premiere) they will find out if there is more friction and over Funafuti, both drought and floods
Singapore, 19’ Brazil, France, Netherlands, 104’, First film. aggression in the world surrounding them or appear in a constant uninterrupted rhythm.
Director: Shoki Lin Theatre Croisette deep within them both. There’s always a final The state of flux between both type of events
is reflected in the places and actions of the
Casting: Ayden Liow, Wan Sharmila Wan Sales: Alpha Violet (E18) straw. inhabitants making the island’s extremes
Mohamed, Elvis Chin, Serina Sng Section: Directors’ Fortnight THE GIRL WITH TWO HEADS seem familiar: the air is riven with waiting
Synopsis: Tired of his turbulent family life, Director: Alice Furtado United Kingdom, 12’
Adam seeks out an alternative arrangement Casting: Luiza Kosovski, Juan Paiva, Nahuel Director: Betzabé García and suspension. The island of Funafuti, in the
in hopes of finding his place. Pérez Biscayart, Casting: Emily Allen, Michèle Belgrand, archipelago of Tuvalu, for some years now
Synopsis: Silvia and Artur’s teenage-romance has become the stage for a unique
NETEK starts abruptly, and ends up all of sudden when Monique Etienne phenomenon. Due to the unnatural warming
Israel, 21’ Artur dies. Silvia gets sick and her days turn into Synopsis: 18-year-old Anne explores body of the sea, saltwater seeps into the subsoil
Director: Yarden Lipshitz Louz dark. Her mourning becomes an obsessive quest image, self perception and her understanding bubbling up through the porous terrain
Casting: Bar Meron, Gali Reshef to bring him back to life. being a woman today in two different provoking floods which put the future of life
Synopsis: The power cut in 15-year-old Next screening: 24 May, 20:30, Olympia 8 worlds: that of her traditionally “feminine” on this island at risk.
Lidor’s home forces her to set out on a mother, Céline, at home; and the gym where MOVEMENTS (Premiere)
she trains among like-minded people
relationship with her unemployed alcoholic 13:00 Sales: National Film And Television School 10’, Animation
journey to restore it, and to re-establish her
father. NINA WU (Premiere) SAN MIGUEL Director: Dahee Jeong
Synopsis: In the space of 10 minutes, the
DUSZYCZKA Taiwan, 103’, Drama. Mexico, 19’ African baobab tree grows 0.008 mm, the
Poland, 9’, Animation Salle Du 60e Director: Cris Gris fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can
Director: Barbara Rupik Sales: Luxbox (23 Rue Bivouac Napoléon) Casting: Melisa Pena Rodriguez, Elva Luz run 12 km, and the Earth travels 18,000 km
Synopsis: A dead body became stuck by a Garcia, Barbara Delgado around the Sun. Movements is a 10-minute
river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a Section: Day after screenings (Un Certain Synopsis: In order to heal her grieving animated film which I drew at a rate of 2
human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Regard) mother, Ana, a devout nine-year-old girl, seconds of animation per day. We are all
Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets Director: Midi Z pushes her faith to its limit in hopes of divine walking, seeing, working, running, and
out. Standing on the river bank, it says Synopsis: After eight years toiling in bit-parts, intervention stopping together.
goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a aspiring actress Nina Wu finally gets her big SATÁN DEUX SŒURS QUI NE SONT PAS SŒURS
journey through the post-mortem land. break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in Switzerland/Mexico, 17’ (Premiere)
the 1960s. The part is challenging, not least
PURA VIDA because it calls for full nudity and explicit sex Director: Carlos Tapia González 22’
Slovak Republic, 30’ scenes, and the film’s director is often hard on Casting: Emilio Puente Bustindui, Angelica Director: Beatrice Gibson

22 NEWS