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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2019

SBS INTERNATIONAL a happy life in an abandoned house YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER ADVANTAGES OF TRAVELING BY Michael Porseryd (CEO),
29 rue Danielle Casanova that just won’t sell. Completed. Horror, 86’. TRAIN Robert Enmark (Head of
75001 Paris, France THE DUST WALKER By Brett Simmons with Alyson Post-Production. Thriller. Acquisitions), Anita Simovic (Head
Tel: +33 1 45 63 66 60 Post-Production. Science-fiction, Hannigan. By Aritz Moreno with Luis Tosar, of Int’L Sales), Martin Ilievski
[email protected] 100’. SCREENBOUND Javier Botet, Ernesto Alterio, Pilar (International Sales Manager),
Pia Grünler (Head of Nordic
sbs-distribution.fr By Sandra Sciberras with Jolene INTERNATIONAL Castro, Belén Cuesta, Ingrid García- Theatrical Distribution ),
Saïd Ben Said (CEO), Kevin Anderson, Stef Dawson, Richard PICTURES LTD Jonsson, Gilbert Melki. Timo Räisänen (Vice President
Chneiweiss (Sales-Production), Davies, Cassandra Magrath. BELOW Sales & Distribution ),
Sophie Roudaut (Sales) Two spaceships crash land on Earth. 14 Midland Court, Central Park Post-Production. Drama. Atle Ellingsen (Theatrical Sales
Sergeant Joanne Sharp fights to LE174PN Lutterworth, By Maziar Lahooti with Ryan Corr, & Distribution Manager),
BACURAU protect the town’s people from an United Kingdom
Post-Production. Thriller, 132’. insidious parasite carried by the Tel: +44 145 555 81 60 Anthony Lapaglia, Pheonix Rei, Helena Stahre (Nordic Product
By Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Aliens. [email protected] Alison Whyte, Morgana O’Reilly, Manager), Jenny Stjernströmer Björk
Dornelles with Barbara Colen, Sonia screenbound.co.uk Zenia Starr. (Chief Content officer), Frederik Juul
Braga, Udo Kier. HALLOWEEN ISLAND Riviera: E4 Darknet conman Dougie is recruited (Head of Theatrical Distribution),
Layla Baradaran
Completed. Animation, 90’. by his stepdad to work security at
FRANKIE By Sean Patrick O’Reilly with Alan Byron (Director), Nicole Byron a refugee detention centre. There, (Market Coordinator)
Completed. Drama, 98’. Tia Carrere, Teilor Grubbs, Mark (Service Manager), Martin Glew Dougie is faced with a fight club
By Ira Sachs with Isabelle Huppert, Dacascos. (Marketing Manager) style underground operation where A WAR WITHIN
Brendan Gleeson, Jérémie Renier, CRYSTAL’S SHADOW detainees are forced to fight. Completed. Drama, 103’.
Marisa Tomei, Vinette Robinson, SC FILMS PROMO REEL Completed. Science-fiction, 99’. By Kasper Torsting with Tom
Ariyon Bakare, Pascal Greggory. Completed. Action/Adventure, 60’. By Ilyas Kaduji with Mhairi Calvey, THE GREAT GREEN WALL Wlaschiha, Sebastian Jessen,
William B. Davis, Sienna Guillory, Post-Production. Documentary. Rosalinde Mynster, Thure Lindhardt,
SC FILMS SCREEN MEDIA Jack O’Halloran, Mark Arnold. By Jared P. Scott with Inna Modja. Ulrich Thomsen, Natalie Madueño.
INTERNATIONAL 800 Third Ave, 3rd Fl. An epic journey along Africa’s After three years at the front Esben
1st Floor, 56 Brewer Street, Soho 10022 New York, New York, USA SDP, INC. Great Green Wall - a wall of trees flees the trenches of World War I to
W1F 9TJ London, United Kingdom Tel: +1 212 308 17 90 2-3-3 Ebisu-nishi Shibuyaku, stretching across the continent to return to his beloved wife Kirstine
Tel: +44 207 287 19 00 [email protected] 150-0021 Tokyo, Japan fight climate change, migration and son Karl.
[email protected] screenmedia.net Tel: +81 3 5459 71 71 and conflict. AMUNDSEN
scfilmsinternational.com Riviera: L12 [email protected] THE LAST RIGHT Completed. Biography, 125’.
24 La Croisette, 3rd floor Seth Needle (SVP-Worldwide stardustpictures.co.jp Post-Production. Comedy. By Espen Sandberg with Pål Sverre
(Tel: +33 4 93 39 89 87) Acquisitions), Conor Mcadam Palais -1: 23,01 By Aoife Crehan with Michiel Hagen, Christian Rubeck, Katherine
Simon Crowe (Managing Director), (Acquisitions), Michael Kosche Fongyi Tseng (International Sales Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Waterston.
Matthew Joynes (Chairman), Manager, Actor Agent) Bottomley, Colm Meaney, Brian
Fumie Suzuki Lancaster (Director A VERY NUTTY CHRISTMAS Cox, Jim Norton. Roald Amundsen’s dream of
of Int’L Sales and Marketing), Completed. Comedy, 84’. HOKUSAI A reluctant stranger is tasked with reaching the North Pole haunts him
Russell Webber (Acquisitions By Christie Will Wolf with Melissa Pre-Production. Biography. driving a corpse across Ireland in throughout his life. He is obsessed
& Business Affairs) Joan Hart, Barry Watson. Everyone knows the paintings, while time for an important burial service, with the idea of discovering lands
no one knows about the painter. evading the police, finding love and in this last unchartered area of the
3 DAYS ON PLANET EARTH BLAME world.
Pre-Production. Science-fiction. Completed. Drama, 100’. GHOST MASTER fixing family relations along the way.
By Phillip Escott. By Quinn Shephard with Quinn Completed. First film, 104’. MAFIA INC. AN AFFAIR
An alien spaceship crash lands Shephard, Nadia Alexander, Chris By Paul Young with Takahiro Miura, Post-Production. Crime. Completed. Thriller, 91’.
onto Efa’s farm with devastating Messina. Riko Narumi, Mizuki Itagaki. By Daniel Grou with Marc-André By Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken with
consequences for all ! A sci-fi action A drama teacher’s taboo relationship The shooting of a low-budget Grondin, Sergio Castellitto, Gilbert Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tarjei Sandvik
adventure. with an unstable student strikes adolescent romantic drama has Sicotte, Mylène Mackay. Moe, Carsten Bjørnlund.
started on a deserted island, aiming
a nerve in her jealous classmate, Attempting to pull off a major coup When former gymnast Anita gets a
ARK AT 8 (3D) sparking a vengeful chain of to make a quick profit with trendy
Production. Animation. events within their suburban high scenes. to curry favour with the country’s job as a gym teacher in a wealthy
By Cedric Babouche. school that draws parallels to "The most powerful godfather, a young area of Oslo, her student Markus
Inspired by Noah’s Ark, three Crucible". SEVEN LIGHT mobster antagonizes the Sicilian immediately comes on to her.
penguins attempt to board the Le Mollard mafia and puts his own family in
historical ship when they discover ONE LAST THING 38190 Sainte-Agnès, France the greatest danger. BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE
that only two creatures from each Completed. Drama, 92’. Tel: +33 6 14 03 42 31 A BROTHER’S LOVE Completed. Comedy, 100’.
species are allowed. By Tim Rouhana with Wendell [email protected] Completed. Comedy, 116’. By Tuva Novotny with Pernilla
August, Peter Haber.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS : Pierce, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Joanne sevenlight.fr By Monia Chokri with Anne- When Britt-Marie, age 63, leaves her
THE REEF 3 (3D) Froggatt. Élizabeth Bossé, Patrick Hivon, husband after 40 years of marriage,
Production. Action/Adventure. Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in TROUBLES Sasson Gabai, Évelyne Brochu, Mani she is forced to reconsider her life
Completed.
By Mark Dippe, Taedong Park. Florida, is confronted by a figure Soleymanlou, Micheline Bernard. and break up with old habits in order
from the past bringing news that By Entreinger Robin. Sophia, an unemployed academic, is
DRAGONKEEPER (3D) sends him on an eventful and forced to change the way she thinks to meet the real world.
Production. Action/Adventure. ultimately life-altering journey of SEVILLE and lives her life when Karim, her GRANDPAS
By Ignacio Ferreras. discovery. INTERNATIONAL beloved brother, falls in love. Completed. Comedy, 98’.
455 St-Antoine Street West, By Santiago Requejo with Ramón
MARMADUKE (3D) STRAY MATTHIAS & MAXIME
Production. Animation. Completed. Fantasy, 87’. Suite 300 Completed. Drama, 119’. Barea, Carlos Iglesias, Roberto
By Mark Dippe. By Joe Sill with Karen Fukuhara, H2Z 1J1 Montreal, Quebec, Canada By Xavier Dolan with Gabriel Alvarez.
Christine Woods, Miyavi. Tel: +1 514 878 2282 D’Almeida Freitas, Xavier Dolan,
MY FATHER’S SECRETS An orphaned teenager forms an [email protected] Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, OUT OF TUNE
Production. Drama. unlikely friendship with a detective. sevilleinternational.com Completed. Drama, 94’.
By Vera Belmont, Xavier Picard. Together they investigate her Res. Du Grand Hotel: Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, By Frederikke Aspöck with Anders
Catherine Brunet, Micheline
A family’s journey to reconciliation mother’s murder, and uncover the Albatros Entrance, 5th floor Matthesen, Jacob Hauberg
after facing the trauma of the supernatural force that proves to Anick Poirier (Senior Vice Bernard, Anne Dorval. Lohmann, Christoffer Læssø, Søren
Holocaust and Auschwitz. President, International Sales), Two childhood best friends are asked Malling.
be a threat to her family. to share a kiss for the purposes of a
NEIGHBORHOOD PET WATCH Lorne Price (Director, Sales), student short film. Soon, a lingering SHELLAC
Benjamin Mohr
Production. Animation. WARNING SHOT (Sales Representative, doubt sets in, confronting both men Friche La belle de mai
Completed. Thriller, 87’.
Frederick, an adorable puppy and with their preferences, threatening
his best friend Mila team up with By Dustin Fairbanks with Tommy International Sales) the brotherhood of their social circle, 41 rue Jobin
the local neighborhood pets that Blanchard, Guillermo Diaz, Bruce 14 DAYS 12 NIGHTS and, eventually, changing their lives. 13003 Marseille, France
include a boa constrictor, guinea Dern, David Spade, James Earl Jones. Post-Production. Drama. Tel: +33 4 95 04 95 92
pig, a cat and a tortoise, to thwart A single mother and her young By Jean-Philippe Duval with Anne SF STUDIOS [email protected]
an evil gang attempting to take over daughter struggling to make ends Dorval, Léanna Chea, François AB Svensk Filmindustri, shellac-altern.org
their beloved city. meet until they inherit a farmhouse Thomas Ordonneau
from their grandfather. When a Papineau, Laurence Barrette. Sveavägen 56 (Head Manager-Buyer-Gérant)
WAR OF THEIR WORLDS (3D) family business rival sends armed Isabelle travels to Vietnam, the 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden
Production. Family. men to take the water rights to the birthplace of her adopted daughter Tel: +46 8 409 188 00 CHILDREN OF ISADORA
By Peter Lepeniotis. farm’s creek by force, the situation and unexpectedly meets the woman [email protected] Post-Production. Drama, 80’.
Nipsy, a mouse, and her family have spirals out of control. who brought her into this world. sfstudios.se By Damien Manivel with Agathe
Screening
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