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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2019

hometown Utsunomiya with Misaki, CALIFORNIA PICTURES A film about power, love, delusion, An unassuming waitress is spotted (Head of Tv Sales and New Media),
her young daughter. 5225 Wilshire Blvd, Suite #900 confinement delivered through by a film director and embarks on Dzhamilya Atakishieva (Assistant)
FOR LOVE’S SAKE 90036 Los Angeles, California, USA the not-so-ordinary relationship an adrenaline-fuelled adventure CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP LINE-UP
between a mother and daughter.
against real criminals in Batavia
Completed. Drama, 117’. Tel: +1 323 424 40 66 City, transforming herself into VIDEO CANNES 2019
By Naoki Segi with Rina Kawaei, [email protected] PAPA "Valentine" - the city’s heroine of Completed.
Hayato Onozuka. californiapicturesinc.com Completed. Drama, 107’. hope.
Set in Saijo in Higashi-Hiroshima. Riviera: C5 By Dan Israely with Robert Scott CHARADES
A female science student who (Tel: +1 310 466 51 06) Wilson, David Proval, Paul Sorvino, CELLULOID DREAMS 17 boulevard Jules Ferry
studies fermentation in university Steven Istock (President & CEO), Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Michael 75011 Paris, France
unexpectedly has to do an internship Monique R. White (Senior Vice Madsen. 2 rue Turgot Tel: +33 6 29 87 45 04
in a long-established Sake factory. President of Distribution), Inspired by a true story of an adopted 75009 Paris, France [email protected]
Dylan Whitehead (Director of son looking for his biological Tel: +33 1 49 70 03 70
GRANDMA IS ALL GOOD Distribution), Roberta Marcondes parents. Papa is a heart-warming [email protected] lineup.charades.eu
Completed. Drama, 90’. (Distribution Executive), Jenniffer movie about love, companionship, celluloid-dreams.com 3, Rond-Point Duboys d’Angers
Giron (Latin America Sales Executive) relationships, and family. Carole Baraton (Co-Founder),
THE PORTRAIT OF THE BROTHERS Hengameh Panahi (President), Yohann Comte (Co-Founder),
Completed. Drama, 104’. FINAL FREQUENCY STRANGEWAYS HERE Charlotte Mickie (Vice President), Pierre Mazars (Co-Founder),
By Nobuhiro Nishikawa with Shinichi Post-Production. Thriller. WE COME François-Nicolas Descombes Jean-Félix Dealberto (Sales Agent),
Yanagisawa, Choei Takahashi. By Tim Lowry with Lou Ferrigno Jr., Completed. Crime, 86’. (Legal Affairs and Sales) Nicolas Rebeschini (Festival
Charles Shaughnessy, Kirby Bliss By Chris Green with Elaine Cassidy, THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL Manager), Jonas Benhaiem
BURDIGALA Blanton, Luke Guldan, Nikki Soohoo. Michelle Keegan, Lauren Socha, Completed. Animation, 80’. (Acquisitions)
PRODUCTION A ph.D student investigates Oliver Coopersmith, Stephen Lord. By Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-
840, chemin de Tambourlan unusual seismic activity in Los A comedy in which the tenants of a Mévellec with Zita Hanrot, Swann THE GIRL WITH A BRACELET
Pre-Production. Thriller.
33420 Génissac, France Angeles, leading to a cabal of elitist high rise work together to defeat a Arlaud, Simon Abkarian. By Stéphane Demoustier with
scientists, who plan to weaponize
Tel: +33 6 76 29 82 06 Nikola Tesla’s most secret research cruel loan shark. Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroiani.
[email protected] to manipulate thought patterns and TRAFFICKED CELSIUS
burdigalaproduction.com earthquakes. Completed. Thriller, 104’. ENTERTAINMENT LOST AND FOUND
Olivier Bureau By Will Wallace with Ashley Judd, 18 Spring Street, Hyde Park Post-Production. Romance.
(Sales Agent / Producer) OUT OF TIME Amiah Miller, Sean Patrick Flanery. W2 3RA London, United Kingdom By Ronan Le Page with Pio Marmaï,
Post-Production. Science-fiction, In this story inspired by real Tel: +44 20 7193 1801 Léa Drucker.
NIGHT BUS 90’. characters, three girls from America, [email protected] Franck wants a quiet life and a
Post-Production. Social issues, 100’. By Handy Matt with Blake Boyd, Nigeria and India are trafficked fresh start. After 15 years of a failed
By Emil Heradi. Nadège August. through an elaborate global network celsiusentertainment.com theatre career, he nds a seemingly
Res. Du Gray D’Albion :
A time traveling G-man from the and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and perfect job : museum guard. But
THE FORGIVEN 1950’s chases three escaped aliens 20bis rue des Serbes, 2nd floor that is before he meets Sybille, his
Completed. Drama, 115’. to present day Los Angeles, where must together attempt a daring Thierry Wase-Bailey (Managing neurotic colleague.
By Roland Joffe with Forest Whitaker, he’s forced to convince an LAPD escape to reclaim their freedom. Director), Henriette Wollmann
Eric Bana. Detective to help him prevent the WING GIRLS (Acquisitions, Legal & Business MARONA’S FANTASTIC TALE
Archbishop Desmond Tutu destruction of the world. Completed. Action/Adventure, 90’. Affairs, Consultant) Post-Production. Animation.
(Whitaker) finds himself morally By Ashley L. Gibson with Susannah HEART OF DARKNESS By Anca Damian.
and intellectually challenged by BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEP Jane, Cabrina Collesides, Marisa Pre-Production. Animation. Marona, at the end of her dog days,
Piet Blomfield (Bana), a convicted Completed. Thriller. Pangaro, Brandi Mosko, Erica Seelig. By Gerald Conn with Michael Sheen, re ects on those that she has loved
murderer serving a life sentence in By Joe Davison with Taylor Cynthia Six female US Navy fighter pilots Matthew Rhys, Andrew Scott, unconditionally throughout her life.
prison and seeking redemption for Halsey, Mercedez Gutierrez, Tiffany travel around the world performing Camille Cottin, Judi Dench. From her puppy days, through to
the atrocities he committed. Amanda, Jessica Louise Lemon. at airshows representing women in A young sailor named Marlow her last woof. Marona’s life is a
THE GLASS COFFIN CHILDREN OF GENGHIS today’s military. travels to the Congo to take up a lesson in love.
Completed. Thriller, 78’. Completed. Action/Adventure, 101’. YOU & ME position as riverboat captain for an MY FAMILY AND THE WOLF
By Haritz Zubillaga. By Zolbayar Dorj with Brittany Belt, Completed. Romance, 90’. ivory trading company. Post-Production. Family.
Dressed for the occasion with an Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Batmend By Alexander Baack with Hillary THE LAST BUS By Adrià Garcia with Carmen Maura.
elegant evening dress, Amanda Baast. Baack, Paul Guyet. Pre-Production. Drama. Everybody is gathered to celebrate
enters on a luxurious limousine Renowned horse trainer Bold recruits A deaf woman meets a recently By Gillies Mackinnon with Timothy Granny Sara’s 80th birthday at
waiting in front of her house. Dambii’s oldest son to compete in blinded man, as the two navigate Spall, Phyllis Logan. the seaside family house. It’s a
Suddenly the windows are tinted the town’s most prestigious horse life and love. beautiful summer for 9 years old
black, Amanda’s cell phone is race. Dambii’s middle soon, deemed THE ARTIST’S WIFE Hugo. However this year, Granny
disabled and can not open any of too young to ride Bold’s prized CARNABY Completed. Drama, 94’. Sara has fallen ill.
the doors. horse, becomes jealous and secretly INTERNATIONAL By Tom Dolby with Bruce Dern, Lena
trains to race against his older Olin, Juliet Rylance. MY TRAITOR, MY LOVE
LITTLE BOY brother. SALES AND Claire, wife of famed artist Richard Post-Production. Historical.
Completed. Action/Adventure, 106’. DISTRIBUTION Smythson and once a promising By Hélier Cisterne.
EMULSION 20 Orange Street, Bubbenhall 1956. Algeria is a French colony.
LOST Completed. Thriller, 90’. artist herself, has been living in the
Completed. Thriller, 135’. By Suki Singh with Sam Heughan, WC2H 7EF London, United Kingdom shadow of her husband’s illustrious Fernand and Helene are madly in
Tel: +44 207 434 01 85
By Sérgio Graciano. Claudia Bassols, Lex Shrapnel, David [email protected] career. love. Fernand is an activist, ghting
for independence alongside the
NIGHT BUS Ajala. carnabysales.com THE BOOKSHOP Algerians. Helena is ghting for
Completed. Road movie, 139’. In dreams we live and die. Andrew Loveday (CEO), Evelyn Yue Completed. Drama, 113’. Fernand’s life. History will irrevocably
By Emil Heradi with Rifnu Wikana. FATHER AFRICA Xing (Sales & Acquisitions Executive) By Isabel Coixet with Emily Mortimer, change the course of their destiny.
A group of civilians share a bus ride Completed. Drama, 105’. Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson.
to Sampar, a town full of natural By Chase Crittenden with Paul SUMMIT FEVER A town that lacks a bookshop isn’t SUICIDE TOURIST
resources. It is heavily guarded Johansson, Benjamin A. Onyango. Pre-Production. Action/Adventure. always a town that wants one. Post-Production. Drama.
by the state army who is fighting A coming-of-age story that follows By Julian Gilbey. By Jonas Alexander Arnby with
against the rebel militias, who want the main character, Cameron, as CENTRAL Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tuva
freedom over their homeland. he goes on a journey which opens RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER : PARTNERSHIP Novotny.
THE SPANISH HEIST
Insurance detective Max is investi-
VIRGIN CHEERLEADERS IN his eyes to the world and to love. Production. Thriller. SALES HOUSE gating the disappearance of Arthur.
CHAINS Through a series of events, he 29, Vereyskaya st., bld. 134-33 The assignment takes him on a long
Completed. Comedy, 96’. realizes you never know who you are THE BOAT 121357 Moscow, Russia and mysterious journey into the
By Paulo Biscaia Filho with Ezekiel until you really know who you are. Completed. Thriller, 90’. Tel: +7 495 777 49 61 clandestine Aurora Hotel.
Swinford, Gary Warner Kent, Kelsey INNOCENT By Azzopardi Winston. [email protected]
Pribilski, Don Daro, Elizabeth Completed. Comedy, 88’. SHE’S MISSING centpart.com SWALLOW
Maxwell, Ammie Leonards, Michael By Marc-André Lavoie with Dorothée Completed. Drama, 103’. (Tel: +89160116704) Post-Production. Thriller.
Morford, Eric Cepeda, Dominique Berryman, Bobby Beshro, Emmanuel By Alexandra Mcguinness. Vadim Vereshchagin (President), By Carlo Mirabella - Davis with
Davalos, Lindsey Lemke. Bilodeau. A dessert thriller in which an aspiring Armen Dishdishyan (EVP-Int’L), Hayley Bennett, Austin Stowell.
A bumbling young film crew, rodeo queen goes missing. Katerina Pshenitsyna (VP-Int’L Hunter has a seemingly perfect
shooting a low-budget horror MILLION LOVES IN ME Distribution), Leyla Atakishieva life. She is pregnant, happy and
movie in an abandoned orphanage, Completed. Drama, 108’. VALENTINE (International Sales Manager), harmonious in her everyday life.
discovers that a family of sadistic By Sampson Yuen with John Y., Completed. Fantasy, 97’. Nadia Danilova (Head of New Media Out of the blue, Hunter begins to
killers has rewritten their script. Koon-Lan Law, Wilson Lee, Ruby Yap. By Ubay Fox, Agus Pestol. Department), Natalia Shibanova uncontrollably eat objects.
Screening
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