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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2019

Paul Hudson (Acquisitions), Syrinthia Studer LET’S DANCE Tel: +98 912 3184641 ZERO FLOOR
Eric Schnedecker (International Sales) (EVP Worldwide Acquisitions), Completed. [email protected] Completed. Drama, 90’.
Lejo Pet (VP-Acquisitions) By Chollat Ladislas. persiafilmdistribution.com By Ebrahim Ebrahimian with Javad
SOUVENIR Riviera: J11 Ezzati, Hamid Azarang, Behdokht
Completed. ROCKETMAN PATHÉ INTERNATIONAL Valian, Saeed Aghakhani.
Ali Haji Ghasemi
Completed. Biography, 120’. PROMOREEL (Managing Director) Vahid comes to Tehran to stop the
PALM TREE UNIVERSAL By Dexter Fletcher with Taron Completed. surgery of his four-year-old son
Studio 201, Embroidery Mill, Egerton, Jamie Bell. A MAN WITHOUT SHADOW Soheil but he finds out he has passed
Abbey Mill Business Park PATRA SPANOU Completed. Drama, 90’. away during the surgery.
PA1 1JS Paisley, United Kingdom PARKLAND PICTURES FILM MARKETING By Alireza Raissian with Leila
Tel: +44 7736800774 Suite 7, 79 Wardour Street & CONSULTING Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Amir Aghaee, PICTURE PALACE
[email protected] W1D 6QB London, United Kingdom Yorck Strasse 22 Farhad Aslani. PICTURES
Mahan is a documentary filmmaker.
palmtreefilm.com Tel: +44 203 432 16 96 40476 Dusseldorf, Germany When he makes a documentary PO Box 645 Prince Street Stn.
Mairi Sutherland (Producer) [email protected] Tel: +49 152 019 872 94 10012 New York, New York, USA
parklandpictures.com [email protected] about an honor killing, his film is Tel: +1 212 252 31 87
WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS Riviera: L16 patraspanou.com rejected by the broadcaster and he [email protected]
Completed. Documentary, 91’. (Tel: +44 787 262 79 11) Riviera: H6 (Marina Club) consequently gets fired. picturepalacepictures.com
By Robbie Moffat with Robbie John Cairns (CEO-Head of Sales & Patra Spanou (Sales-Festival Agent) DUBLAND
Moffat, Red Rock. Acquisitions), Justina Petkeviciute Completed. Fantasy, 90’. Madeleine Molyneaux (Producer)
Elephants are dying out by the hands (Sales & Acquisitions Coordinator), LANE 4 By Ebrahim Ebrahimian with Dimitri HANK
of humankind. Can humanity be Mitch Clare (Sales Assistant) Post-Production. First film, 95’. Tatishvili, Ana Matuashvili, Beka Development. Biography.
persuaded to change its ways to By Emiliano Cunha with Brídia Moni, Turmanidze, Salome Paghava. By David Jacobson.
save them from extinction? BEYOND THE RIVER Kethelen Guadagnini, Gabriel Braga Leni Bergasasco is the victim of
Completed. Drama, 107’. Nunes. greed and tricks of seven people in ALEPH
PANOCEANIC FILMS / By Craig Freimond. Amanda, a 12 year-old swimming different parts of his life who have Production. Second film.
athlete, finds comfort only
CINEMA ARTS Two lives. One journey. underneath the water. Lacking her destroyed his soul and body. By Iva Radivojevic.
12 rue Raynouard PROVENANCE parents’ attention, swimming is the THE VILLAGE DETECTIVE
75016 Paris, France Completed. Drama, 93’. only thing she has. THE GRAVELESS Production. Historical.
Tel: +33 1 53 92 29 29 By Ben Hecking with Charlotte Vega, Completed. Drama, 73’. By Bill Morrison.
[email protected] Christian Mckay, Harry Macqueen. THE COMPONENTS OF LOVE By Mostafa Sayari with Nader Fallah,
Elham Korda, Majid Aghakarimi,
artedis.net A classical musician travels to Completed. Drama, 97’. Vahid Rad. BLACK BUS STOP
Riviera: G13 the South of France to escape the By Miriam Bliese with Birte Schnöink, Completed. Social issues, 9’.
Pierre-Richard Muller (Chairman), pressures of his life and career. Ole Lagerpusch, Andreas Döhler. To fulfil the last will of their recently By Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena
departed father, three brothers,
N. Harold.
Chantal Lam Muller (Managing Sophie and Georg once loved each joined by their only sister, drive to
Director), Patricia Lam SNAP SHOT other, but they are now split up. a village in the middle of nowhere BREAKING THE FRAME
(Sales Manager) Completed. Thriller, 101’. A laconic portrait of a modern where he asked to be buried. Completed. Documentary, 100’.
By Marcus Warren with Adrian Paul, patchwork family that plays out By Marielle Nitoslawska with
AMAZING NORTHERN LIGHTS Sasha Jackson, Daniel Pirrie, Cian before a front door in Berlin. A
Completed. Documentary, 60’. serious comedy about separation, THE OATH Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney.
Completed. Second film, 85’.
An enigmatic portrait of the New
By Daniel Lafarge. Barry, Matthias Harris. interspersed with Schlager music.
Between subtle shading and the By Mohsen Tanabandeh with York artist Carolee Schneemann,
KINOA absence of light lies the nuance FAMILY MEMBERS Mahnaz Afshar, Saeed Aghakhani, recently awarded the prestigious
Completed. Animation, 60’. of illusion. Completed. Drama, 85’. Hassan Pourshirazi. Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice
By Jean-Loup Martin. By Mateo Bendesky with Tomas A woman, hell-bent on avenging her Biennale.
TITANIUM WHITE Wicz, Laila Maltz, Alejandro Russek. sister’s murder, takes 50 men and
LOVELY WORKING FOR THE NEW Completed. Thriller, 99’. Body-obsessed Lucas and his women from her family on a bus DAWSON CITY-FROZEN TIME
MOONLIGHT By Piotr Smigasiewicz with trip to another town for them all Completed. Documentary, 120’.
Completed. Family, 96’. Alessandra Mastronardi, Steven mystically-inclined sister become to take an oath in front of a judge By Bill Morrison with Kathy Jones-
By Hugo Dayan with Geraldo Berkoff, Torsten Voges. stranded when they travel to a declaring her brother-in-law as the Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula,
Espindola. Appearances are deceptive. province town to fulfill their dead murderer. But the road has so many Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, Bill
mother’s last wishes. A tale of love,
Geraldo, a brazilian singer- twists and turns. O’Farrell.
songwriter, puts its lyrics at the loss and fitness. The bizarre true history of a
service of nature protection. PATHÉ FILMS THE PRINCE OLD MEN NEVER DIE collection of 533 films dating from
2 rue Lamennais Completed. Drama, 95’. Completed. Drama, 85’. the 1910s to 1920s, which were lost
NOUR 75008 Paris, France By Sebastián Munoz with Alfredo By Reza Jamali with Nader Mahdilou, in the permafrost for over 50 years
Completed. Romance, 91’. Tel: +33 1 71 72 30 00 Hamdollah Salimi, Salman Abbasi, until being discovered buried in a
By Khalil Dreyfus Zaarour with [email protected] Castro, Gaston Pauls, Juan Carlos Neda Haghshenas. sub-arctic swimming pool deep in
Vanessa Ayoub Ayoub, Julia Kassar, pathefilms.com Maldonado. One-hundred-year-old Aslan, the the Yukon Territory.
Aida Sabra, Yvonne Maalouf, Nibal A young inmate takes up with a head of a death squad in youth,
Arakji. Avery Grant (International Sales charismatic fellow-prisoner and is living with his other single old EARS, NOSE AND THROAT
discovers his true sexual identity
When fifteen-year-old Nour is Coordinator), Jerome Seydoux fellows in a remote village. Completed. True Story, 11’.
forced to marry Maurice whom (Co-President), Sophie Seydoux and the home he never had outside By Kevin Jerome Everson with
she despises, her carefree summer (Présidente - Fondation Jérôme the prison walls. THAT NIGHT’S TRAIN Shadeena Brooks, Dr. Eric Mansfield,
days morph into claustrophobic Seydoux-Pathé ), Ardavan Safaee Completed. Children’s, 85’. Dr. Heather Honeycutt.
confinement and household chores. (Managing Director), PAUL THILTGES By Hamidreza Ghotbi with Afshin
Henri Demoulin (Directeur Des DISTRIBUTIONS SARL Hashemi, Siamak Safari, Maryam THE ISLAND OF ST. MATTHEWS
READY PLAYER RUN Ventes France), Christine Hayet Filmland, 27, zone industrielle Boubani, Behnaz Naderi, Ailin Completed. Documentary, 64’.
Completed. Science-fiction, 104’. (Directrice Générale Adjointe L-8287 Kehlen, Luxembourg Rashidian. By Kevin Jerome Everson.
By Louisa Warren with Sarah T.cohen, Catalogue, Vidéo, Tv ), Tel: +3 52 25 03 93 A primary school teacher, meantime A 16mm feature film about the
Lorena Andrea, Tara Macgowran. Marie-Laure Montironi (Vice a novelist, wants to write her new loss of family history in the form of
A group of gamers are selected to President, International Sales), [email protected] story with the help of her students. heirlooms and photographs.
take part in a VR reality competition Agathe Theodore (Senior Vice ptd.lu The story is about a little girl who
in chance to win the grand prize of President-International Sales), Village Int’L - Riviera: Pav 125 has lost her mother and her heart POLLY ONE
1 million dollars. Mayalen de Croisoeuil (Senior Vice Paul Thiltges (Producer), lies in the love of a school teacher. Completed. Environmental, 6’.
President-International Sales), Adrien Chef (Producer), By Kevin Jerome Everson.
WHEN LOVE DIGS A HOLE Thomas Paquereau (International Micheline Jeanne Scheuren (CFO) WALNUT
Completed. Children’s, 87’.
Completed. Comedy, 90’. Sales Manager), Benoit Sauvage By Mohammadreza Haji Gholami TONSLER PARK
By Ara Ball with France Castel, Julie (Head of International Marketing MURER - ANATOMY OF A TRIAL with Anahita Nemati. Completed. Social issues, 80’.
By Kevin Jerome Everson.
Le Breton, Patrice Robitaille, Robert and Publicity), Corinne Tacchi Completed. Historical, 137’. Filmed in black and white 16mm
Naylor. (Technical Manager), Amelie Stevens By Christian Frosch. WEIGHTLESSNESS over the course of Election Day
(Int’L Marketing & Publicity), WHERE THE WIND BLEW Completed. Drama, 100’. in the U.S., November 8, 2016 in
PARAMOUNT PICTURES Marie de Cenival (Responsable Completed. Environmental, 74’. By Mehdi Fard Ghaderi with Amir Ali voting precincts in Charlottesville,
5555 Melrose Ave., Développement et Production) By André Singer. Danaei, Bahareh Kian Afshar, Nasim Virginia. The act of voting and
Balaban Building, Room #109 LA BELLE EPOQUE Adabi, Tina Pakravan. bearing witness to the process of
In the next morning of a wedding
90038 Hollywood, California, USA Completed. Black comedy, 110’. PERSIA FILM ceremony, held in a magnificent democratic expression.
Tel: +1 323 956 5555 By Nicolas Bedos with Daniel DISTRIBUTION mansion, the groom is disappeared.
[email protected] Auteuil, Fanny Ardant, Guillaume 9, Mozafari St., Mirdamad Nobody has seen him since last PICTURE TREE
paramount.com Canet. 1545654478 Tehran, Iran night. INTERNATIONAL GMBH
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