Page 72 - bumper_cannes_market_news_2019

Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2019

KATE NASH UNDERESTIMATE By Kirill Mikhanovsky with Chris Based on the famous fairytale by the Marc Fitoussi, Cyril Gelblat, Vianney THE BOAT
THE GIRL Galust, Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer, Grimm brothers. Lebasque with Manu Payet, Elsa Completed. Drama, 72’.
Completed. Documentary, 89’. Maksim Stoyanov. Zylberstein, Max Boublil, Marc By Petrus Cariry.
By Amy Goldstein with Kate Nash, Vic, a hapless young Russian SHEEP AND WOLVES : PIG DEAL Fraize, Blanche Gardin, Alma In an isolated fishing village,
Linda Buratto, Emma Hugues, Alicia American, drives a handicapped Completed. Family, 74’. Jodorowsky, Finnegan Oldfield. Esmerina is married to a fisherman
Warrington. transportation vehicle in Milwaukee. By Vladimir Nikolaev. In a world where technology and has 26 children. The daily
At 18, Kate Nash reached the The united town of sheep and invaded our lives, some of us go
stratosphere of pop music, vaulting IT MUST BE HEAVEN wolves lives a peaceful and quiet crazy. Addicted or technophobe, in routine of the family is altered when
from a working class family in North Post-Production. Black comedy, 97’. life until two unexpected guests family or at school, at work or in a mysterious boat runs aground on
London into worldwide tours, a By Elia Suleiman with Elia Suleiman. turn up - a polar fox and a tiny ewe. relationships, SMILEY tells the comic the beach entering Ana, a girl who
platinum record. Elia Suleiman, the central character fates of savages Homo Numericus survived the shipwreck.
and narrator, escapes from Palestine THE SNOW QUEEN : on a verge of a breakdown.
THE MEN’S ROOM seeking an alternative homeland, MIRRORLANDS COIOTE
Completed. Black comedy, 75’. only to realize that Palestine is Completed. Animation, 86’. ADOPT A DADDY Completed. Drama, 70’.
By Petter Sommer, Jo Vemund Svendsen. always there, just behind him. By Alexey Tsitsilin, Robert Lence. Completed. Comedy, 98’. By Sergio Borges with Caio Horowicz,
An intimate peek inside a world of A mighty king has merely lost By Xavier De Choudens with Franck Enrique Diaz, Maeve Jinkings.
tough men finding true friendship. BEANPOLE his family because of the Snow Gastambide, Melisa Sözen, Camille André is a broken man, who lives
Completed. Drama, 120’. Queen. He finds a way to expel all isolated in a forest. Haunted by his
MERATA HOW MUM By Kantemir Balagov with Viktoria magic creatures from his world to Lellouche. past, he wishes to heal his sorrow
DECOLONIZED THE SCREEN Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Wonderland. A feel-good comedy about the
Completed. Biography, 95’. Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov, difficult situation of migrant kids. and take the responsibility from
By Heperi Mita. Konstantin Balakirev, Ksenia WOOD KNIVES AND SKIN his acts. He puts himself before the
The sudden death of pioneering M Kutepova, Olga Dragunova. ENTERTAINMENT Completed. Drama, 111’. abyss where he must change his skin
The sprawling city that just survived
ori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010, the war and the long siege looks like By Jennifer Reeder with Kate in order to survive.
led her son on a journey to uncover a a terminally ill person. 1515 7th st #138 Arrington, Tim Hopper, Marilyn
story of mother’s love that changed 90401 Santa Monica, California, USA Dodds-Frank, Grace Smith, Ireon ELEGY OF A CRIME
the landscape of indigenous films LES MISÉRABLES Tel: +1 310 351 33 16 Roach. Completed. Documentary, 92’.
forever. Completed. Drama, 102’. [email protected] By Cristiano Burlan.
By Ladj Ly with Damien Bonnard, woodentertainment.net "Knives and Skin" is a mystical Uberlândia,Brazil, February 24,
MY FRIEND FELA Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga. teen noir that follows a young girl’s 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva,
Completed. Biography, 94’. Stéphane has recently joined the QT8 : THE FIRST EIGHT disappearance in the rural Midwest director’s mother, is murdered by
By Joel Zito Araújo. Anti-Crime Brigade in Montfermeil, Completed. Documentary, 97’. and its effect on teens and parents. her companion.
in the Paris suburbs.
STILL STANDING OH MERCY WTFILMS PROMO FABIANA
Completed. Documentary, 88’. Completed. Drama, 120’. 20 rue Bachaumont Completed. Completed. Documentary, 89’.
By Stéphane Haskell. By Arnaud Desplechin with Léa 75002 Paris, France By Brunna Laboissière.
In his early forties, Stéphane Haskell Seydoux, Sara Forestier, Roschdy Tel: +33 1 42 61 09 83 YELLOW VEIL After thirty years living as a nomad
is a talented director-photographer Zem, Antoine Reinartz. [email protected] PICTURES
burning life at both ends. Christmas night in Roubaix. Police wtfilms.fr 17913 Califa Street on the Brazilian roads, as she
chief Daoud roams the city. Burn Res. Du Gray D’Albion: 91316 Encino, California, USA approaches retirement, Fabiana, a
TALKING ABOUT TREES out cars, violent altercations… In 32 rue des Serbes (B), 6th floor Tel: +1 619 518 57 88 transgender truck driver, looks back
Completed. First film, 90’. the face of poverty, deception and Grégory Chambet (Partner), [email protected] on her life before leaving behind her
By Suhaib Gasmelbari. distress, Daoud knows who is lying Dimitri Stephanides (Partner), yellowveilpictures.com adventures on the road.
Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and and who is telling the truth. Clara Flageollet Schmit (International Palais -1: 19.08 (Palais Club)
Altayeb, filmmakers and friends SORRY WE MISSED YOU Sales), Agathe Corbin (Acquisitions Hugues Barbier (Co-Founder), GUAICURUS STREET
for more than 45 years, idealists Completed. Drama, 102’. & Production), Youri Rapoport Joe Yanick (Co-Founder), Completed. Documentary, 75’.
and intensely humane. They were By Ken Loach with Kris Hitchen, (Business Affairs, Sales & Servicing) Justin Timms (Co-Founder) By João Borges.
reunited again, after long years of Debbie Honeywood. Guaicurus Street, in Belo Horizonte,
distance and exile, to bring life back Ricky and his family have been LE DAIM DEPRAVED has been one of the largest
to their old dream : make cinema a fighting an uphill struggle against Production. Black comedy. Completed. Horror, 114’. prostitution zones in Brazil. There
reality in Sudan. debt since the 2008 financial crash. By Quentin Dupieux with Jean By Fessenden Larry.
An opportunity to wrestle back Dujardin, Adèle Haenel. are currently 25 hotels in the area,
WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED some independence appears with A man leaves everything behind to HARPOON gathering over three thousand
Completed. Documentary, 72’. a shiny new van and the chance to buy the jacket of his dreams. But his Completed. Thriller, 82’. sex workers. The film reveals this
By Mariam Ghani. run a franchise as a self-employed obsession with his 100% deerskin By Rob Grant with Munro Chambers, prostitution complex.
delivery driver.
Five unfinished features from the jacket will push him into a bloody Emily Tyra, Christopher Gray.
Communist era in Afghanistan. YOUNG AHMED spiral... ISLAND
Then, films were a weapon and Completed. Drama, 84’. I TRAPPED THE DEVIL Completed. Drama, 93’.
filmmakers, targets. By Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne. AV THE HUNT Completed. Horror, 83’. By Ary Rosa, Glenda Nicácio with
By Josh Lobo with Aj Bowen, Jocelin
In Belgium, today, the destiny of Post-Production. Thriller, 90’. Aldri Anunciação, Renan Motta,
WILD BUNCH young Ahmed, 13, caught between By Emre Akay with Billur Melis Koç, Donahue Donahue, Scott Poythress, Valdineia Soriano, Thacle De Souza,
65 rue de Dunkerque his imam’s ideals of purity and life’s Ahmet Rifat Sungar,Ya ızcan Konyali, Susan Burke, Chris Sullivan, Rowan Arlete Dias, Aline Brune, Sérgio
Russell, Josh Marrott.
75009 Paris, France temptations. Baki Kaymaz. A man descends into paranoia after Laurentino.
Tel: +33 1 43 13 22 54 A young couple makes love when trapping what he believes to be the Emerson, a young man from the
[email protected] WIZART FILM LLC a cop barges in. Young and athletic devil in his basement, but things outskirts, wants to make a movie
wildbunch.eu Altufyevskoe Ave., 5, office 31 Ayse escapes but her lover dies. take a dark turn when his family about his personal story in the
Alain de La Mata (Acquisitions 127106 Moscow, Russia Now all the men in her family are unexpectedly arrive for Christmas. Island, a place from where is not
Int’L Sales), Marie-Pierre Vallé Tel: +7 499 201 21 62 chasing her around the city and possible to leave once you are
(Head of Acquisitions), [email protected] the countryside to avenge their ZAG born there.
Agnès Mentré (Acquisitions Us), wizartanimation.com honor. Ayse’s only key for survival
Geoff Cox (Acquisitions Int’L Sales), Lerins: M3 is to become as ruthless as those Rua Lagoa Dourada, 492 MY OWN PRIVATE HELL
Vincent Duda (Servicing), Yuri Moskvin (Producer), Vladimir hunting her. 30411-150 Belo Horizonte, Brazil Completed. Drama, 82’.
Arnaud Cudel (Servicing) Nikolaev (Producer), Anna Tel: +55 31 329 315 82 By Guto Parente.
Pokorskaya JUMBO [email protected] Deusimar is the owner of Inferninho,
AN EASY GIRL (International Sales Post-Production. zagfilm.com.br a dark and run-down bar that is
Post-Production. Comedy. & Licensing Manager), By Zoé Wittock with Emmanuelle (Tel: +55 31 999 781 331) refuge of dreams and fantasies. Her
By Rebecca Zlotowski with Clotilde Valeriya Zaitseva (International Bercot, Noémie Merlant. Eduardo Cerqueira (Head of Sales) dream is to leave everything behind.
Coureau, Benoît Magimel, Zahia Sales Manager) Jeanne, a shy young woman, works
Dehar, Mina Farid, Nuno Lopes. at night in an amusement park. AZOUGUE NAZARETH But she falls in love with Jarbas, a
Naïma has just turned 16. This FANTASTIC RETURN TO OZ Fascinated with carousels, she still Completed. First film, 80’. handsome sailor.
summer, she will have to decide Production. Children’s, 50’. lives with her mother, the extrovert By Tiago Melo. RODANTES
what she wants from life if she By Fedor Dmitriev. Margarette. In sugar cane country of North East Completed. First film, 108’.
doesn’t want to miss out. Brazil, where Evangelicism is on the
HANSEL AND GRETEL SMILEY rise, people begin to disappear and By Leandro Hbl, Leandro Lara with
GIVE ME LIBERTY Production. Animation, 80’. Post-Production. Comedy, 90’. other strange things start to happen Caroline Abras, Jonathan Well, Felix
Post-Production. Drama. By Alexey Tsitsilin. By Tristan Aurouet, Thomas Bidegain, as Maracatu carnival season begins. Smith.
Screening
72 le film f r ançais CAN N ES 2019 SPECIAL IS SUE