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                 (L8) +33 4 92 993314           Sales: SBS International       clan down from the mountains and into the   sophomore Mandy discovers that a series of
                 Section: Market (In cCmpetition)  (Building Comoran 2, 1st Floor)  world of men. After escaping terrible monsters   cell-phone videos of her—half-dressed and
                 Director: Jessica Hausner      Section: Market (In Competition)  and defeating an evil duke, the bears and men   semiconscious—have gone viral. Struggling to
                 Casting: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry   Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano   live together in peace – for a time.  piece together what happened, reeling at how
                 Fox                            Dornelles                                                     quickly the normalcy of her life has been
                 Synopsis: Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated   Casting: Barbara Colen, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier 16:30  upended, unsure about her friends’ attempts to
                 senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in   Synopsis: A few years from now… Bacurau, a   usher her back into their normal social routine,
                 developing new species.        small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the   THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS   and uneasy about her parents’ inclination to
                                                loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be   (PREMIERE)
                 13:30                          94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their   France, 85’, Documentary.  take action on her behalf, Mandy has to
                                                                                                              navigate a landscape littered with others’ good
                                                community has vanished from most maps.
                 TOMMASO (Premiere)                                            Palais K                       intentions and find a way to heal from a wound
                                                                               Sales: Pyramide International (J6)
                 Italy, 115’, Drama.            15:00                          Section: Market (Special Screening)  she can’t identify.
                 Olympia 1                                                     Synopsis: Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than  18:30
                                                                               Director: Patricio Guzmán
                 Sales: The Match Factory       THE WHISTLERS (Premiere)
                 (25 La Croisette) +33 6 43 63 46 73  Romania, France, Germany, 97’, Drama.  40 years ago when the military dictatorship took   THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL (Premiere)
                 Section: Market (Out of Competition)  Olympia 2               over the democratically-elected government, but   France, 80’, Animation.
                 Director: Ferrara Abel         Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette)  he never stopped thinking about a country, a   Palais J
                 Casting: Willem Dafoe, Anna Ferrara, Cristina   Section: Market (In Competition)  culture, and a place on the map that he never   Sales: Celluloid Dreams
                                                                               forgot. After covering the North in Nostalgia for
                 Chiriac                        Director: Corneliu Porumboiu   the Light and the South in The Pearl Button, his
                 Synopsis: the story of an American artist living   Casting: Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon  shots get up-close with what he calls “the vast   Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)
                 in Rome with his young European wife Nikki   Synopsis: Not everything is as it seems for   revealing backbone of Chile’s past and recent   Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-
                 and their three-year-old daughter, Dee Dee. A   Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays   history.” La Cordillera de los sueños is a visual   Mévellec
                 work concerning imagination.   both sides of the law. Embarked by the beautiful   poem, an historical inquiry, a cinematographic   Casting: Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon
                                                Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to
                                                                                                              Abkarian
                 13:45                          navigate the twists and turns of treachery and   essay, and magnificent personal exercise in soul-  Synopsis: Kabul under Taliban rule. Two
                                                                               searching
                                                deception.
                 5B (Premiere)                                                 17:00                          neighbourhoods and two couples. One
                                                                                                              conservative – Atiq and Mussarat have been
                 93’.                           15:30                                                         married for 20 years and are deeply engrained in
                 Palais J                       PROGRAMME DE L’AFTRS           JOAN OF ARC (Premiere)         the traditions of Afghan life. Atiq works as the
                 Sales: Festival De Cannes      Australia, 90’, Animation.     France, 133’, Historical.      chief guard at the women’s prison. Mussarat is
                 Section: Market (Special Screening)  Palais D                 Olympia 2                      very ill and fights to remain a strong woman till
                 Director: Dan Krauss           Sales: Cinéma Des Antipodes    Sales: Luxbox (23 Rue Bivouac Napoléon)  the very end. One modern – young and in love,
                 Synopsis: In the 1980s, only a number and                     Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)  Zunaira and Mohsen are against all the same
                 letter were used to designate a ward at San   Section: Market  Director: Bruno Dumont        traditions. Under the Talibans, they’ve both lost
                 Francisco General Hospital, the first in the   15:45                                         their jobs as lawyer and university teacher and
                 country to treat patients with AIDS. While a                  Casting: Lise Leplat Prudhomme  have difficulties to make ends meet. They have
                 portion of society saw these patients as pariahs,             Synopsis: In the 15th century, both France and
                 the male and female caregivers in 5B chose a   THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURÍDICE   England stake a blood claim for the French   to sell their few possessions to buy food. Yet
                 different route. This film is their story. Directed by   GUSMÃO (PREMIERE)  throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the   they’re determined to maintain their modern
                 Dan Krauss, 5B is a film about a past that   Brazil, 135’, Drama.  young Joan leads the army of the King of France.   values. One day, a stoning. Then an act of
                 questions our present. It will be distributed in   Palais J   When she is captured, the Church sends her for   humiliation. Then a fight… and life takes an
                 the United States, all around the world, and in   Sales: The Match Factory   trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the   irrevocable turn. When the lives of these
                 France, which in October will be hosting the   (25 La Croisette) +33 6 43 63 46 73  accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay   diametrically opposite couples become
                 world conference for all fund-raisers donating                true to her mission. Bruno Dumont’s decision to   intertwined, sacrifice becomes the price to pay
                 money over the next three years to fight HIV,   Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)  work with a 10-year-old actress re-injects this
                 tuberculosis, and malaria.     Director: Aïnouz Karim         heroine’s timeless cause and ideology with a   for love.
                                                Casting: Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler, Fernanda
                 14:00                          Montenegro                     modernity that highlights both the tragic female   Canada, 117’, Comedy.
                                                                                                              A BROTHER’S LOVE (Premiere)
                                                                               condition and the incredible fervor, strength and
                                                Synopsis: Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Euridice, 18 and
                 BLINDSPOT (Premiere)           Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters. They live   freedom women show when shackled by   Palais K
                                                                               societies and archaic virile orders that belittle
                 France, 104’, Drama.           at home, and each has a dream: becoming a   and alienate them.  Sales: Seville International
                                                renowned pianist, or finding true love.
                 Palais C                                                                                     (Albatros Entrance, 5th Floor)
                 Sales: Doc & Film International (L12)  16:00                  17:45                          Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)
                 Section: Market (ACID)                                                                       Director: Monia Chokri
                 Director: Pierre Trividic, Patrick Mario Bernard  SORRY WE MISSED YOU (Premiere)  PAPICHA (Premiere)   Casting: Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Patrick Hivon,
                 Casting: Jean-Christophe Folly, Golshifteh   United Kingdom, 102’, Drama.  Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar, 105’, Drama.  Sasson Gabai, Évelyne Brochu, Mani
                 Farahani, Isabelle Carré, Sami Ameziane, Peter   Olympia 1    Palais I                       Soleymanlou, Micheline Bernard, Magalie
                 Bonke, Tella Kpomahou, Charles Berberian  Sales: Wild Bunch   Sales: Jour2fete Sales (D8)    Lépine Blondeau
                 Synopsis: Dominick always had the power to   (5 Square Mérimée – 1st floor)  Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)  Synopsis: Sophia, an unemployed academic, is
                 turn invisible but he chose to keep it secret and             Director: Mounia Meddour       forced to change the way she thinks and lives
                 barely used it. One day, his ability to control it   Section: Market (In Competition)        her life when Karim, her beloved brother, falls in
                 gets out of his hands, throwing his life and loves   Director: Ken Loach  Casting: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda   love.
                 into turmoil.                  Casting: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood  Daouada, Yasin Houicha, Nadia Kaci
                                                Synopsis: Ricky and his family have been   Synopsis: Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma, an 18-year-  22:30
                                                fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the   old student passionate about fashion design
                 PORT AUTHORITY (Premiere)      2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle   refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian
                                                                                                              OH MERCY (Premiere)
                 USA, 94’, Drama.               back some independence appears with a shiny   Civil War to keep her from experiencing a   France, 19’, Drama.
                 Palais I                       new van and the chance to run a franchise as a   normal life and going out at night with her
                 Sales: MK2 Films (52 La Croisette)  self-employed delivery driver.  friend Wassila.          Olympia 1
                 Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)                                                          Sales: Wild Bunch
                                                                                                              (5 Square Mérimée – 1er Étage)
                 Director: Danielle Lessovitz   THE BEARS’ FAMOUS INVASION     18:00
                 Casting: Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom,   (PREMIERE)                                          Section: In competition (In competition)
                 Mccaul Lombardi                France, Italy, 80’, Animation.  SHARE (Premiere)              Director: Arnaud Desplechin
                 Synopsis: A transgender love story set in New   Palais I      USA, 89’, Drama.               Casting: Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, Roschdy
                 York’s underground ballroom culture.  Sales: Pathé Films (Ibis Entrance, 4a/E)  Olympia 1    Zem, Antoine Reinartz
                                                                                                              Synopsis: Christmas night in Roubaix. Police
                                                Section: Market (Un Certain Regard)  Sales: HBO (Home Box Office)  chief Daoud roams the city. Burn out cars, violent
                 BACURAU (Premiere)             Director: Lorenzo Mattotti     Section: Market (Special Screening)  altercations… In the face of poverty, deception
                 Brazil, France, 132’, Thriller.  Synopsis: To find his long lost son and food to   Director: Pippa Bianco  and distress, Daoud knows who is lying and
                 Palais K                       survive the winter, the great bear king leads his   Synopsis: After a night of partying, high-school   who is telling the truth. .

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