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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2019

Philippe Bober (Managing Director), BN21 3QE Eastbourne, DARKSIDE RELEASING DDI / DOUBLE DUTCH Smith, Zac Titus, Nicole Dambro,
Sophie Cabon (Head of Sales), United Kingdom Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada INTERNATIONAL Michael Peter Harrison, Taylor
Christina Demetriou (Festival Tel: +44 796 189 61 49 [email protected] 38 Wellington St. E., Unit 7B Flowers, William Kircher.
Coordinator), Léonie Duflot [email protected] https://darksidereleasing.com L4G 1H5 Aurora, Ontario, Canada At the risk of her friend’s safety,
(Sales Coordinator) crossingthescreen.org Village Int’L - Riviera: Pav 121 Tel: +1 905 503 47 00 a woman travels into a National
LITTLE JOE Domenico Della Valle (Director), Vince D’Amato (Director) [email protected] forest, in search for her missing
sister. Once in the wilderness, they
Completed. Drama, 102’. Manfredi Mancuso (Director) doubledutchinternational.com discover they have entered a multi-
By Jessica Hausner with Emily 7 SINS Jason Moring (President & CEO), dimensional world full of monsters.
Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox. THE COUNTDOWN Completed. Horror, 80’. Ron Moring (President & Coo),
Development. Science-fiction.
Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated By Msn Karthik with D Chaitanya By Domiziano Christopharo with Mark Padilla (Senior Vice President BLOOD BAGS
senior plant breeder at a corporation Chiara Pavoni, Sophia Cacciola. Sales & Aquisitions), Danielle Gasher Completed. Horror, 83’.
engaged in developing new species. Sharma, Msn Karthik. (Sales Coordinator) By Emiliano Ranzani with Makenna
A tale of hope and survival of THE BLACK FOREST Guyler, Emanuele Turetta, Marta
CREATIVE CENTURY humanity and the future of life on Completed. Horror, 96’. SATANIC PANIC Tananyan, Alberto Sette, Salvatore
By Rodrigo Aragão with Carol
Earth.
ENTERTAINMENT CO. Aragão, Jackson Antunes, Clarissa Production. Comedy. Palombi, Denitza Diakovska, Franco
By Chelsea Stardust Peters with
LTD AFTERWARDS Pinheiro. Rebecca Romijn, Jerry O’Connell, Olivero, Mario Cellini, Riccardo Leto.
5F-11, NO. 20, Minquan W. Rd. Completed. Drama, 94’. In a forest in the heart of Brazil, a Ruby Modine, Arden Myrin, Aj A monster stalks the corridors of
an abandoned mansion, targeting
104 Taipei, Taiwan By Noël Mitrani. young woman sees her life change Bowen, Hayley Griffith. those curious enough to find
Tel: +886 2 2543 1000 Marc has a harmonious family life as well as the lives of everyone themselves inside. Two friends break
[email protected] with his wife and Marion their eight around her when she finds the Lost THE CLEANSING HOUR in and discover that all exits have
years old daughter. But his world
creativecentury.tw Book of Cipriano, whose magic, Post-Production. Horror. been sealed off. The creature that
Palais -1: 25,01 collapses when a car in front of his besides granting power and wealth By Damien Leveck with Ryan hunts them is growing hungry for
James Cheng (Vgm), house kills Aurélie, his daughter’s to whoever possesses it, can release Guzman, Kyle Gallner, Alix Angelis. their blood and there is no escape.
Juliet Chen (Sales and best friend. a terrible Evil on the Earth. Best friends Max and Drew run
Acquisition Deputy Manager) ARMAGEDDON GOSPELS a popular webcast that stages BLUE WONDER
exorcisms to look real.
Completed. Fantasy, 95’. DANGER GOD Completed. Western, 90’.
49 DAYS Completed. Documentary, 96’. By Hermes Cavagnini with Elyse
Post-Production. Crime, 100’. By John Harrigan with Kate Alderton, By Joe O’Connell. THINK LIKE A DOG Dufour, Michael Badalucco, Ed
By Louis Chan with Lorene Ren, Scott Temple, Lucy Harrigan, Tereza Gary Kent was the king of B movies Post-Production. Family. Corbin, Brennan Keel Cook, Sandra
Lewis Liu, Chung-Hua Tou, Chia- Kamenicka, Claire Tregellas, Laura in the Sixties and Seventies, working By Gil Junger with Josh Duhamel, Elise Williams.
Kuei Chen, Jerry Huang, Patty Chu, Wolfe, Sabrina Rodríguez. for indie directors from Richard Megan Fox, Gabriel Bateman, A young troubled model becomes
Samuel Ku, Teresa Chen, Chih Yuan Refugee Gods struggle to complete Rush to Ray Dennis Steckler to Al Kunal Nayyar, Bryan Callen, Janet mixed up with the mafia, when she
Montgomery, Jay Pharoah.
Lee. an ancient ritual to save Britain from helps her love interest solve a dark
hate, racism, and bigotry. Adamson, but he’s tackled even
INVISIBLE JUSTICE larger real-life challenges. DEVILWORKS family mystery, that leads to betrayal
Post-Production. Drama, 110’. CASSY No. 2, Geraldu Farrugia Street, and corruption
By Chris Hung with Daniel Chang, Completed. Drama, 144’. DEADLY CRUSH Zebbug BURNING KISS
By Noël Mitrani with Ayana O’Shun,
Yu-Hsin Ma, Sean Ben, Yi-Ching Lu. Completed. Horror, 85’. Completed. Crime, 80’.
Natacha Mitrani, Stephane Krau. By Dakota Aesquivel with William ZBG 4351 Zebbug, Malta
LITTLE SPELL MASTERS Cassy, 10, has recently lost her Sadler, Courtney Gains, Aria London. Tel: +44 77 313 860 63 By Robbie Studsor with Liam Graham,
Alyson Walker, Richard Mellick.
Post-Production. Fantasy, 48’. mother. She feels sad and lonely, but True love never dies. [email protected] A hallucinogenic summer thriller,
her father feels no sorrow towards
By Kuo-Yang Hsu with Chen Jia- the loss of his wife. The relationship devilworks.eu wherein the unexpected arrival
Riviera: G14
Hong, Li Tong-Chi, Hsieh Rui-Chen. between father and daughter is ESCAPE ROOM : QUEST OF FEAR Matteo Rolleri (Director of Sales & of a mysterious stranger ignites
tense. One day, a woman named Completed. Thriller, 111’. an inferno of dark secrets, murder
LONELY MEMORY Maya enters their lives. By Andreas Marfori with Tatiana Marketing), Samantha Richardson and guilt.
Post-Production. Crime, 95’. Novik. (President-Acquisition & Sales),
By Alice Wang with Penny Lin, Candy DRAGONFLIES ONLY LIVE FOR 24 Escape. Run Die. Goodbye... Paul Stewart Lewis Yates THE CHILD REMAINS
Wang, Francesca Kao, Lin-En Lai, HOURS (Market Assistant) Completed. Thriller, 100’.
Jun-Hao Duan, Xiang Yu Wang. Completed. Crime, 88’. JUST A CHILD MY LOVER MY LAZY BOY By Michael Melski with Suzanne
Completed. Horror, 90’.
Four different women, Xiao-Yi, Qin, By Richard Anthony Dunford with Post-Production. Horror, 80’. Clement, Allan Hawco, Shelley
Scar and Da-Lai are all miserably Karl Kennedy Williams, Judson By Adam Ford with Chiara Pavoni. By Bernardo Rao with Jed Brophy, Thompson.
Barbara comes back to her old house
stuck in violent corruption. Vaughan, Julie Rose Smith, Paul Sarah Munn, Stacy King, Harley An expectant couple’s intimate
Coster, Harriet Madeley, Faith with a new boyfriend Anthony and Neville. weekend turns to terror as they
THE WAY HOME Elizabeth, Bhasker Patel, Christian her son Bob following the tragic A Killer reclining chair becomes discover their secluded country inn
Post-Production. Historical, 75’. Dapp. death of her husband, which had enchanted by a young woman and is a haunted maternity home where
Two ambitious detectives stakeout a
By Yu-Chen Wei with Zi-Mo Er-Mon. potential drugs ring. The story goes severely traumatized Bob as a child. begins committing deadly crimes infants and mothers were murdered.
A female chief’s arduous journey to back and forth between this present of passion. CHRISTMAS PRESENCE
heed the call of her ancestral roots. day thread and seeing how they LONELY HEARTS Completed. Horror, 85’.
Completed. Horror, 91’.
quickly rose through the ranks of ALIEN INVASION By James Cook with Charlotte
KARMA the police force while investigating By Sam Mason Bell, Jessica Hunt Completed. Fantasy, 80’. Atkinson, Lorna Brown, Danny Webb,
Completed. Crime, 88’. a suspected gang-related murder with Sue Dawes, Chris Mills. By Marc Carrete with Andrea Mark Chatterton, Orla Cottingham,
By Wei-Heng Chung with Daniel with racial connotations. A reality TV show has deadly Guasch, Mark Schardan, Carlus William Holstead, Elsie Bennett.
Chan, Lorene Jen, Kurt Chou. consequences for five single people Fàbrega, Joe Manjón. A group of friends gather for the
Newbie teacher Ling Shen’s first day FLESH CITY looking for romance... A young journalist travels to an old Christmas holidays at a remote
at school coincides with a student’s Completed. Horror, 85’. THE OBSESSED war shelter in the forest, to research Country house; however, the
an alien encounter. Soon after her
accidental death at home. By Thorsten Fleisch with Christian
Serritiello, Eva Ferox, Maria Hengge, Completed. Horror, 90’. arrival, an extraordinary abduction festivities are soon over when they
MERMAID WHISPERING Marilena Netzker, Helena Prince. The Obsessed is a very intense takes place and she becomes the discover a dead body and McKenzie
is forced to face her dark past.
Completed. Environmental, 79’. THE MILITARY MAN journey into madness... This film hunted of a terrifying hybrid family.
By Hsu-Hu Yuan with Aviis Zhong, Completed. Social issues, 80’. has a an 80s/90s vibe that genre AN ACCIDENTAL ZOMBIE CUT SHOOT KILL
Patty Lee, Na-Wei Tsai. By Noël Mitrani. audiences will love ! Inspired by the (NAMED TED) Completed. Horror, 97’.
Neville, the son of a fisherman, is A former French soldier who fought true story of Ricardo Lopez. Completed. Horror, 83’. By Michael Walker with Alexandra
a free diver at the Orchid Island. in Afghanistan, lives in solitude in ODYSSEY OF THE DEAD By Anne Welles with Kane Hodder, Socha, Alex Hurt, Phil Burke, Jay
One day he is caught in an accident Montreal. The trauma caused by his Completed. Erotic, 67’. Naomi Grossman, Cameron Mckendry, Devore, Lexi Lapp, Zanny Laird,
at sea. memories of the conflict leads him By Vince D’Amato with Tristan Risk, Akari Endo. Josh Salt, Michael Oberholtzer, Kett
towards an unhealthy relationship Ted is not your usual Zombie; even Turton, Nils Lawton.
THE SILENCE OF OM with women. Momona Komagata, Lynn Lowry. as his skin transforms and his Serena Brooks, an ambitious young
Completed. Crime, 100’. (Odyssey of the Dead) - The exclusive hunger for brains increases, he is actress, signs on as the star of a
By Leading Lee with Ren-Shuo TIDES International [non-Canadian] still in denial that he is the living horror film with a crew of filmmakers
Completed. Documentary, 47’.
Cheng, Yi-Jie Li, Ray Yang. By Alessandro Negrini. version of Brivido Giallo’s "Valley dead… Until he meets a beautiful that have worked together for years.
When the hooligan Om-Ga thinks Imagine an island. Within this island, of the Rats" An erotic and surreal young Vampire at a therapy session When the cast starts disappearing,
odyssey of violence.
that his life is coming to the end, a there is another island. And within for the Paranormal & his World turns Serena has to become her character
woman named Jing-juan shows up. this other island, there is a city : a city RETURN TO RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM totally kooky. if she wants to survive.
with two different names. Inside this HIGH AKA VOL. 2 THE AXIOM DEMON EYE
CROSSING THE SCREEN city with two names, flows a river. Completed. Comedy, 78’. Completed. Horror, 95’. Completed. Horror, 86’.
81 Langney Road This is its autobiography. By Lloyd Kaufman. By Nicholas Woods with Hattie By Ryan Simons with Darren Day,
Screening
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