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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2019

THE ESPERANCE FRUIT Afshar, Fereshteh Hosseini, Sheyda in the 80s, a mine worker aims to MARIGHELLA By Herman Yau with Charlene Choi,
Completed. Action/Adventure, 76’. Khaligh, Afsaneh Kamali, Rojan improve his life by becoming a poet, Completed. Drama, 155’. Mario Maurer, Pakho Chau, Kara
Taghizadeh. with the help of his wife. By Wagner Moura. Wai, Michelle Wai.
DREAMLAB FILMS The tale of seven girls; Shabaneh, 1969. Marighella, declared Brazil’s
14, Chemin des Chichourliers Negar, Nahid, Fereshteh, Niloufar, ELECTRIC public enemy number one, has no CAUGHT IN TIME
Post-Production. Thriller.
06110 Le Cannet, France Rahil and Shekar. Though each has ENTERTAINMENT time for fear. On the one hand, a By Ho Leung Lau with Daniel Wu,
Tel: +33 4 93 38 75 61 her own individual story, none had 962 N La Cienega Blvd. violent military dictatorship, with Qianyuan Wang, Michelle Wai.
its heinous crimes of torture and
[email protected] the chance of finding love having 90069 Los Angeles, California, USA infamous censorship. On the other, Detective Zhong Cheng leads a task
lost control of their destiny through
dreamlabfilms.com either forced marriage or rape. Tel: +1 323 817 13 00 an intimidated opposition. force in pursuit of Eagle, a criminal
Riviera: J12 [email protected] gang led by Zhang Sun.
(Tel: +33 6 14 01 02 03) TALLA electricentertainment.com PIRANHAS
Nasrine Médard de Chardon Completed. Thriller, 90’. 21 rue des États-Unis Completed. Drama, 110’. DECLARED LEGALLY DEAD
(Manager & Int’L Sales), By Parviz Shahbazi with Negar Sonia Mehandjiyska (Head of Int’L By Claudio Giovannesi. Post-Production. Horror.
Romain Medard de Chardon Javaherian, Houman Seyedi, Tannaz Distribution), Nolan Pielak (SVP Naples. Nicola and his friends are By Steve Yuen with Anthony Wong,
(Associate Manager), Roy Bartley Tabatabaei, Mehrdad Sedighian. Int’L Distribution & Co-Production), fifteen years old. They want to make Karena Lam, Carlos Chan, Kai-Chi
(Head of Marketing), A group of friends decide to realise Jeff Gonzalez (CFO), Raul Piña money, buy designer clothes and Liu.
Vahid Ghotbizadeh their dream of opening a small (International Sales Assistant ) brand new scooters. DETECTIVE VS SLEUTHS
(Post Production Supervisor) Tehran restaurant and, in so doing, Post-Production. Crime.
earn a living. CHANGE IN THE AIR SAVAGE By Ka Fai Wai with Sean Lau,
AFRICAN VIOLET Completed. Drama, 94’. Completed. Thriller, 83’.
Completed. Drama, 92’. WOMEN ACCORDING TO MEN By Dianne Dreyer with Rachel By Vincent Mariette with Lily-Rose Charlene Choi, Raymond Lam.
By Mona Zandi Haghighi with Completed. Documentary, 84’. Brosnahan, Aidan Quinn, Olympia Depp, Laurent Lafitte, Camille Cottin. When Hong Kong is rocked by
Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Saeed By Saeed Nouri with Pouri Banaei, Dukakis, Macy Gray, Peter Gerety, Summertime. Somewhere in the multiple gruesome murders,
Aghakhani, Reza Babak, Mehdi Naser Malek Motiei, Fakhri M. Emmet Walsh. South of France, teenagers are the police forms a task force to
Hosseini Nia, Roya Javidnia, Neda Khorvash, Parvaneh Massoumi, A peaceful community is forever disappearing. The craziest rumors investigate.
Jebraeili. Soraya Ghassemi, Behrouz changed when a mysterious young are spreading out, some people even ECHOES OF THE THUNDER
Communication is the only way to Vossoughi, Shohreh Aghdashloo, woman (Rachel Brosnahan) moves in. talk about a wandering wild beast. Post-Production. Action/Adventure.
make relationships work. Farzaneh Taidi, Parviz Fannizadeh, As the quirky locals embrace her, By Tung Ming Tang with Chang
Vida Ghahremani. their lives soon improve. But, they EMBANKMENT FILMS Liu, Carlos Chan, Changjun Geng,
BACK SEAT
Completed. Comedy, 85’. A woman’s place, as seen through can’t help notice that their strange LTD Kara Wai.
By Faramarz Khalaj with David the eyes of essentially male Iranian new neighbor has a secret. Westbourne Studios. Unit 20, Nam and Fire are racing champions
Ayala, Joséphine Garreau, Widade film-makers, from the 1932 debut 242 Acklam Road of Asia’s track and street. However,
Akaaboune, Angelo Monaco, of Iranian fiction film-making to the ELLE DRIVER W10 5JJ London, United Kingdom when the owner of a racing team
Carmen Selena, Florence Lesecq, 1979 revolution. 66 rue de Miromesnil Tel: +44 207 183 47 39 recruits Nam to mentor her son
Hatem Ayadi, Hervé Gaboriau, 75008 Paris, France [email protected] Calvin to become a future champion,
Noëlle Perna, Patrice Quarteron. EDKO FILMS LTD Tel: +33 1 56 43 48 70 embankmentfilms.com Nam does not realize his choice will
Shot within the confines of a car, 1212, Tower 2, Admiralty Centre, [email protected] Tim Haslam (Partner), destroy everything he has.
the film closes no doors, but rather 18 Harcourt Road elledriver.fr Hugo Grumbar (Partner), Calum Gray FATAL VISIT
opens up to a plurality of destinies Hong Kong (China) 7 boulevard de la Croisette (Head of Sales), Max Pirkis (Head Post-Production. Drama.
and slices of life at the crossroads Tel: +852 2529 38 98 Adeline Fontan Tessaur (Managing of Acquisitions and Distribution) By Calvin Poon with Sammi Cheng,
between fact and fiction. Short [email protected] Director-Sales & Acquisition), Dawei Tong, Charlene Choi.
sketches, either improvised or based cinema.com.hk Alexis Reybet-Degat RIDE LIKE A GIRL
on true-life experiences, blend with Riviera: C4 (Tel: +85297398628) (Sales & Acquisitions Manager) Production. Drama. THE NIKAIDOS’ FALL
short fictions to add breadth to the Gary Mak (Director-Broadway By Rachel Griffiths with Teresa Post-Production. Drama, 106’.
whole. Cinematheque), Esther Yeung FAHIM - THE LITTLE CHESS PRINCE Palmer, Sam Neil, Jacki Weaver. By Ida Panahandeh.
(General Manager-Sales & Post-Production. Family. After his only son’s death, Tatsuya
BOMB, A LOVE STORY By Pierre-François Martin-Laval with CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? must confront his fate to save his
Completed. Drama, 97’. Acquisitions), Julian Chiu (Senior Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Nanty, Completed. Romance, 100’. family name and ancestral line.
By Payman Maadi with Leila Hatami, Manager-Int’L Sales & Distribution), Ahmed Assad. By Duran Elise.
Payman Maadi, Siamak Ansari, Mandy Wai Man Lam (Film Booking A modern fairytale of a refugee child THE ROOKIES
Habib Rezaei. Manager), Joycelyn Choi taking the chess world by storm. EMPEROR MOTION Post-Production. Action/Adventure.
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the (Director of Programming), PICTURES By Alan Yuen with Ta Lu Wang,
Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed Ventris Ma HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sandrine Pinna, Milla Jovovich.
relentlessly. The days that pass (Assistant Manager) Post-Production. Drama. 20/F, Emperor Group Centre, An extreme sport enthusiast, a
are full of foreboding, and yet, By Cédric Kahn with Catherine 288 Hennessy Rd., Wanchai bumbling cop and her best friend
love, affection, hope and life itself ANITA Deneuve, Emmanuelle Bercot, 040 Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) are dragged into the world of
Production. Biography.
manage to sweep away the fear of Vincent Macaigne, Cedric Kahn. Tel: +852 2969 7888 international espionage when
death from those surrounded by it. By Longman Leung with Louise A family gets together one summer [email protected] they’re recruited by a spy agency
Wong, Terrance Lau. day to celebrate the mother’s 70 emp.hk for a dangerous mission.
EVERYTHING FOR LOVE This long-awaited biopic provides birthday. Riviera: E13-05
Completed. Drama, 95’. a vivid account of the remarkable Timothy Yuen (General Manager), THE LADY IMPROPER
By Amir Hossein Saghafi with Amir life of Anita Mui in and behind the IN THE BOTTLE Miriam Cheung (Senior Manager, Completed. Romance, 107’.
Post-Production. Documentary.
Aghaei, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber limelight, chronicling her journey By Favio Vinson with José Garcia, Sales & Distribution), Van Choi By Tsui Shan Tsang with Charlene
Abar, Milad Keymaram. from a child performer to becoming Thierry Barré, Joël Dupuch. (Assistant Manager, Sales Choi, Kang-Jen Wu.
Toomaj, recently escaped from one of world’s most recognized A tale of adventures and encounters & Distribution) Ann is a repressed young lady
prison, is seeking the man who music icons. in the heart of the wine-making whose psychological inability to
raped his wife, Marjan. Toomaj’s world. RAGING FIRE consummate her marriage leads
surprise is great when he believes THE WHISTLEBLOWER Pre-Production. Crime. to divorce.
he’s found the rapist, but is even Production. Thriller. THE ROOM By Benny Chan with Donnie Yen,
greater when he confronts Marjan, By Xiaolu Xue with Wei Tang. Post-Production. Horror. Nicholas Tse. ENDEAVOR CONTENT
still habouring romantic illusions A woman vows to expose the multi- By Christian Volckman with Olga Shan is a righteous cop who’s solved 9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite #300
about her former love, Yusef. national conspiracy her company Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens. countless cases. One day, his past 90210 Beverly Hills, California, USA
Kate and Matt are a young New
HENDI AND HORMOZ engages in and puts her own life York couple in their thirties. He’s a comes back to haunt him when Tel: +1 323 510 3330
his sting operation is attacked by
Completed. Second film, 88’. at stake. struggling comic book artist, she’s a mysterious group of criminals [email protected]
By Abbas Amini with Hamed Alipour, tired of her job in a big law firm. led by Ngo. wmeentertainment.com
Zohreh Eslami, Asma Daneh-Chin, SEND ME TO THE CLOUDS 13 rue Molière, 06400 Cannes
Mohammad Banouj. Post-Production. Drama. CASANOVA, LAST LOVE THE RESCUE William Maxfield (Associate),
On the island of Hormuz in the By Congcong Teng with Chen Yao. Completed. Drama, 98’. Production. Action/Adventure. Alex Walton (EVP, International Sales
Persian Gulf, according to local In order to raise money to cure her By Benoît Jacquot with Vincent By Dante Lam with Eddie Peng, and Distribution),
custom, thirteen-year-old Hendi cancer, a female journalist accepts Lindon, Stacy Martin. Carlos Chan, Zhilei Xin, Ian Wang. Mark Ankner (Agent, Global
is married off to sixteen-year-old a job to write an autobiography of London, 18th century. Casanova, The film focuses on an emergency Finance and Distribution),
Hormoz. an old painter. famous for his taste of pleasure rescue operation and his pilot Deborah Mcintosh (Sales Agent),
and gambling, arrives from Paris, girlfriend, whose team find courage Kristen Figeroid (SVP, International
SEVEN AND A HALF THE POET forced into exile. In this city he and camaraderie in adversity. Sales and Distribution), Beth Mcphee
Completed. Drama, 75’. Completed. Drama. knows nothing about, the libertine (SVP, Marketing & Publicity),
By Navid Mahmoudi with Neda By Hao Liu with Jia Song, Yawen Zhu. meets on several occasions a young 77 HEARTWARMINGS Dan Guando (SVP, Production),
Jebreili, Hasti Mahdavi, Anahita During the Chinese economic reform prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon. Post-Production. Romance. Negeen Yazdi (Senior Vice-President
Screening
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