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Cannes                                     REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
             Cannes 2015  2019






             AMERICAN BULLET             Ava B. (President-CEO-Sales    THE FEMALE BRAIN     Danielle Raaphorst (CEO),    Luc Roeg (CEO), Cora Palfrey
             Completed. Thriller, 96’.   & Acquisitions), Teresa Vandre    Post-Production. Comedy, 99’.  Zsofia Bodnar    (Chief Operating officer),
             With Spencer Treat Clark, Shanola   (Int’L and Domestic Sales Director),   By Whitney Cummings.  (Sales Executive)  Sarah Lebutsch (Head of Sales),
             Hampton, Dylan Baker.        Chantal Toporow (VP Sales,   Based  on  the  book,  "The  Female            Asia Muci (Sales Executive),
             A  collection  of  explosive,  action-  Acquisitions, & Special Projects)  Brain" comically demonstrates the   LITTLE CRUMB  Philip Herd (Head of Production),
             filled war tales from some of World’s              workings of brain chemistry among   Production. Family, 85’.  Rachel Brown (Marketing Manager),
             best, young storytellers. Each story   ALL YOU EVER WISHED FOR  couples at different stages of their   By Diede In ‘T Veld with Viggo Neijs,   Sonny Gill (Acquisitions &
             tackles subjects like war, honor,   Completed. Romance, 87’.  relationships.  Sabijn Dunnewijk, Rick Engelkes.  Development Executive)
             sacrifice and humanity.  By Barry Morrow with Darren Criss,                 Reunited with his parents, Little
                                      Ángela Molina, Madalina Ghenea.  HIDE AND SEEK     Crumb is having trouble getting   ARCHIVE
                 HIGHLAND FILM        BABY GIRL                 Post-Production. Thriller.  used to his new luxurious lifestyle.   Pre-Production. Science-fiction.
                                                                                         When he is abducted by an old
                                                                When a wealthy businessman sets
                      GROUP           Completed. Erotic, 92’.   out to find his missing brother,   enemy, he has to use the best of his   By Gavin Rothery with Theo James,
                                                                                                                   Stacy Martin.
              6310 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 500  By Kevin Stevenson with Sara   he dives headlong into a twisted   new and his old life to escape and   2049. Two and a half years into
              90048 Los Angeles, California, USA  Catherine Bellamy, Cory  Tucker,   underworld of squatters and   save his parents.  a three year research contract,
                                      Nathan Delatorre.
                  Tel: +1 310 271 84 00                         vagrants that  threatens to  tear                  George Almore is on the verge of a
                  [email protected]  BIKINI BLUE              apart his family as he struggles to   A MOST ANNOYING ISLAND  breakthrough.
                    highland.film     Completed. Drama, 78’.    maintain his sanity.     Completed. Family, 75’.
                  Arianne Fraser (CEO),    By Jaroslaw Marszewski with                   By Albert Jan Van Rees with Noortje   THE BILLION DOLLAR GAME
              Delphine Perrier (Coo), Laura Voros   Tomasz Kot, Lianne Harvey, Lech   SPY INTERVENTION  Herlaar, Henry  Van Loon, Jacob   Production. Documentary.
                                                                Post-Production. Comedy, 90’.
                                                                                         Derwig, Matsen Montsma.
                  (Executive VP, Sales),    Mackiewicz.         By Drew Mylrea with Drew Van                       By Rob Ryan.
                 Sebastien Aussal (Head of                                               BASTARD                   A feature documentary about the
                Marketing), Ryan Winterstern    BLACK FLOWERS   Acker, Poppy Delevigne, Blake   Completed. Drama, 104’.  video game franchise Grand Theft
                                      Completed. Action/Adventure, 108’.
                                                                Anderson.
                   (VP, Production),    By Martin Gooch with Krista De   A top-secret super spy comes out of   By  Mathieu  Mortelmans  with   Auto.
                Henry Winterstern (Partner)  Mille, Andrea  Sweeney-Blanco,   retirement  for  one  last  adventure,   Spencer Bogaert, Koen De Bouw,   A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD
                                      Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.                         Tine Reymer.              TO FIND
             BABA YAGA                                          hoping  to  save both his  listless
             Production. Family.      BOTERO                    marriage and the world.  After the loss of their oldest son,   Post-Production. Drama.
                                                                                                                   By Abner Pastoll with Sarah Bolger,
             By Slava Ushakov with Fedor   Completed. Art - Culture, 84’.                a grieving family gives shelter to   Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson.
             Bondarchuk, Alexander Chistyakov.  By Don Millar.  BACK ROADS               a homeless teenager. The sudden   A recently widowed young mother
                                                                Completed. Drama, 101’.
             A good-natured witch named Baba                    By Alex Pettyfer with Alex Pettyfer,   presence of this mysterious stranger   will go to any length to protect
             Yaga teams up with a teenage   THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN CRIED  Jennifer Morrison, Nicola Peltz,   will have a deep impact on their lives   her children as she seeks the truth
             Princess in order to retrieve her   Completed. Romance, 107’.  Robert Patrick, Juliette Lewis.  and future...  behind her husband’s murder.
             Book of Spells that was stolen from   By Jang In Hak with Ryung Min Kim,   After his mother goes to jail for   CIRCUS NOEL FEEL THE MAGIC
             her as a child by the Princess’s evil   Jung Taik Park, Hyang Suk Kim.  shooting and killing his abusive   Completed. Family, 89’.  ILKLEY
             stepmother.              EL SECADERO DE IGUANAS    father, Harley Altmyer (Alex Pettyfer)   By Dennis Bots with Luna Wijnands,   Post-Production. Comedy.
                                                                                                                   By Harry Michell with Derek Jacobi,
             A SCORE TO SETTLE        Completed. Thriller, 106’.  is left to care for his three younger   Tommy Van Lent, Samuel Reurekas.  Roger Allam, Tom  Brooke, Anna
             Post-Production. Action/Adventure.  By  Antonio Donaire with Marta   sisters in a rural Pennsylvania town.  Caz runs away from home because   Maxwell Martin, Harry Melling.
             By Shawn Ku with Nicolas Cage,   Costa,  Antonio Estrada, Cristina          her parents are arguing all the   A comedy following two hapless
             Benjamin Bratt, Noah Le Gros,   Hoyos.             THE BROMLEY BOYS         time and want to get divorced.   evangelicals tasked with killing the
                                                                Completed. Comedy, 106’.
             Karolina Wydra.          GIRLS AFTER DARK          By Steve Kelly with Alan Davies,   She joins her circus friends Victor   world’s most famous secularist at a
                                                                                         and Tony from Circus Noel on their
             Frank (Nicolas Cage), a criminal   Completed. Crime, 81’.  Martine Mccutcheon, Jamie                  literary festival.
             battling life threatening insomnia,   By Peter Daskaloff with Jordi   Foreman.  way to Cultura Nova, an important
                                                                                         circus festival which they have
             is released from prison many years   Vilasuso, Abigail Titmuss.  You can’t choose who you fall in     DARK LIES THE ISLAND
             after taking the fall for a crime he               love with.               unexpectedly been invited to take   Completed. Black comedy, 87’.
                                                                                                                   By Ian Fitzgibbon with Peter Coonan,
             didn’t commit. Now free, he sets out   GOLD DUST                            part in.                  Pat Shortt, Moe Dunford, Charlie
             on a path for revenge against the   Completed. Action/Adventure, 100’.  BUCKOUT ROAD  THE CONDUCTOR   Murphy, Tommy Tiernan,  Jana
             men whose actions sent him to jail.  By David Wall with Darin Brooks,   Completed. Thriller, 97’.  Completed. Romance, 137’.  Mohieden.
                                      Chris Romano, David Wysocki.                       By Maria Peters with Benjamin
             BOSS LEVEL               Wild Adventures and Treasure Hunt   By Matthew Currie Holmes with   Wainwright, Christanne De Bruijn,   DIRTY GOD
             Post-Production. Thriller.  in the Desert          Evan Ross, Henry Czerny, Dominique                 Completed. Drama, 105’.
             By Joe Carnahan with Frank Grillo,                 Provost-Chalkey, Colm Feore, Danny   Scott  Turner Schofield, Richard   By Sacha Polak with Vicky Knight,
                                                                                         Sammel.
             Naomi Watts, Annabelle Wallis, Ken   LESS THAN     Glover.                                            Katherine Kelly.
             Jeong, Rob Gronkowski, Michelle   Completed. Social issues, 55’.  A college class project on creation   DON’T SHOOT  Jade is a young mother recovering
             Yeoh.                    By Patrick Kemp.          and destruction of modern myth,   Completed. Drama, 139’.  from an acid attack that has left her
             GHOSTS OF WAR            THE MAN FROM KATHMANDU    turns terrifying when a trio of young   By Stijn Coninx with Jan Decleir,   with severe facial burns. Her face has
                                                                                                                   been reconstructed, but her beauty
                                                                people come  to realize the  urban
             Post-Production. Horror.  Completed. Action/Adventure, 93’.  legends surrounding the famed   Viviane De Muynck, Jonas Van Geel.  is gone.
             By Eric Bress with Brenton Thwaites,   By Pema Dhondup with Gulshan   Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.  PREY
             Skylar Astin, Alan  Ritchson,  Kyle   Grover, Hameed Sheikh-Moor, Anna      Completed. Horror, 103’.      INDIE RIGHTS
                                      Sharma-Jerry.
             Gallner, Theo Rossi.                               THE SEAGULL              By Dick Maas with Sophie  Van
             During the darkest days of World   MELODY MAKERS: SHOULD’VE   Completed. Drama, 98’.  Winden, Julian Looman, Mark Frost.  770 South Grand Ave. Suite 6161
             War 2, five battle-hardened soldiers   BEEN THERE!  By Michael Mayer with Annette   Dick Maas is back with the horror/  90017 Los Angeles, California, USA
             are  assigned  to  guard  a  Chateau   Completed. Documentary, 78’.  Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll,   slasher film Prey. When an enormous   Tel: +1 213 280 53 50 
             deep in the French countryside   By Leslie  Ann Coles with Steve   Elisabeth Moss, Mare Winningham,   and aggressive lion escapes from   [email protected]
             formerly occupied by the Nazi high   "Abbo" Abbot, Ian Anderson, Eric   Jon Tenney, Michael Zegan,  Billy   Amsterdam Zoo, causing havoc on   indierights.com
             command.                 Burdon.                                            the city streets, female vet Lizzy and   Palais -1: 21,01
                                      The Ultimate Chronicle of the   Howle, Brian Dennehy.                           (Tel: +1 213 280 53 50)
             THE NIGHT CLERK          Golden Age of Rock and Roll.  An adaptation of Chekhov’s famous   British hunter Jack must go on its   Linda Nelson (CEO),
             Post-Production. Thriller.                         play.                    trail and hunt it down…       Michael Madison (Coo),
             By  Michael  Cristofer  with  Tye   HYDE PARK                               REDBAD                          Jeremy Andorfer
             Sheridan, Helen Hunt, Ana De Armas,    INTERNATIONAL  SO B. IT              Completed. Historical, 158’.  (Acquisitions Executive),
             John Leguizamo.                                    Completed. Family, 98’.  By Roel Reiné with Jonathan Banks,   Alexis Moeller (Assistant des Ventes)
             Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley   15456 Ventura Blvd. - Suite 302,   By Stephen Gyllenhaal with Alfre   Søren Malling, Gijs Naber, Loes
             (Tye Sheridan), a highly intelligent   Sherman Oaks  Woodard, Cloris Leachman, Jacinda   Haverkort.   ALONE IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
             young man on the Autism spectrum,   91403 Sherman Oaks,   Barrett, John Heard.                        Completed. Horror, 95’.
             uses secret surveillance cameras to   California, USA  A young girl named Heidi who lives   SUPER MISS
             record guests in efforts to improve   Tel: +1 818 783 60 60   with her mentally disabled mother,   Completed. Family, 84’.  BETTER THAN LOVE
             his social interaction skills.  [email protected]  travels across the country to  find   By Martijn Smits with Diewertje Dir,   Completed. Romance, 95’.
                                         hydeparkentertainment.com  out about her and her mothers past.  Hassan Slaby.  By Ted  Carney  with Andrew
                 HOUSE OF FILM             Res. Du Grand Hotel:                                                    Lawrence, Alexandra  Rodriguez,
               14622 Ventura Blvd, Suite 710  Flamant Entrance, 5th floor   INCREDIBLE FILM   INDEPENDENT          Matthew Lawrence.
                                                                                                                   A compassionate teenager born
                  91403 Sherman Oaks,     (Tel: +44 790 056 10 71)   Hekendorperweg 21         195 Wardour Street  on the wrong side of the tracks
                    California, USA        Carl Clifton (President)  3421 VJ Oudewater, Netherlands  W1F 8ZG London, United Kingdom  reluctantly deals drugs in order
                  Tel: +1 310 777 0237   THE COLDEST GAME           Tel: +31 6 53 94 89 86    Tel: +44 207 257 8734   to escape the suburban ghetto. A
                  [email protected]  Post-Production. Thriller.  [email protected]  [email protected]  severe accident and an ignorant
                   houseoffilm.com    By Lukasz Kosmicki with Bill Pullman,   incrediblefilm.com  independentfilmcompany.com  OxyContin prescription flips his role
                   Palais -1: 21,01   Lotte Verbeek, Aleksey Serebryakov.  Riviera: K4      Numa Blanc, 23 rue Macé  from dealer to customer.
                Screening
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