LIBERTÉ |
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A Film by Albert Serra (THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV)
Produced by Idéale Audience, Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films
2019 - Drama - France/Spain/Portugal - 1.85 - 132 min
with Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Baptiste Pinteaux
1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duc de Tesis and the Duc de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy of enlightenment founded on the rejection of moral boundaries and authorities, but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their errant games, where the quest for pleasure no longer obeys laws other than those dictated by unfulfilled desires.
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SCREENINGS
| SAT |
MAY |
18th |
17:00 |
DEBUSSY Premiere
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| SUN |
MAY |
19th |
10:30 |
DEBUSSY Official
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
19:00 |
BAZIN Official
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| TUE |
MAY |
21st |
16:00 |
OLYMPIA 4 Market
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CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTION – UN CERTAIN REGARD |
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ADAM |
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A Film by Maryam Touzani
Produced by Ali N’ Productions, Les Films Du Nouveau Monde, Artemis Productions
2019 - Drama - Morocco/France - 1.85 - 98 min
with Loubna Azabal (INCENDIES, SOFIA), Nessrine Erradi, Daoua Belkhaouda
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8 year old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their lives.
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SCREENINGS
| FRI |
MAY |
17th |
16:00 |
OLYMPIA 8 Private (buyers only)
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| SUN |
MAY |
19th |
16:00 |
OLYMPIA 8 Private (buyers only)
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
11:30 |
DEBUSSY Premiere
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
14:00 |
DEBUSSY Official
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| WED |
MAY |
22nd |
17:15 |
60eme
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| FRI |
MAY |
24th |
11:15 |
ARCADES 2
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CANNES DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT |
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TO LIVE TO SING |
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A Film by Johnny Ma
Produced by for Image X Productions, House On Fire
2019 - Drama - China/France - 1.78 - 100 min
with Zhao Xiaoli, Gan Guidan, Yan Xihu
Zhao Li is the manager of a small Sichuan Opera troupe, living and performing together in a rundown theatre located in the outskirts of Chengdu, China. When she receives the notice of demolition for the theatre, Zhao Li hides the news from everyone else, fearing that this could spell the end of her opera troupe: besides demolition, it’s the life of her “family” that is at stake. As she struggles to search for a new theatre for them to both sing and live in, the opera and its fantastic characters slowly begin to seep into her real world...
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SCREENINGS
| FRI |
MAY |
17th |
14:00 |
OLYMPIA 8 Private (buyers only)
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| SUN |
MAY |
19th |
09:30 |
OLYMPIA 3 Private (buyers only)
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
11:30 |
THEATRE CROISETTE Press
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
18:00 |
THEATRE CROISETTE Premiere
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CANNES CRITICS' WEEK - COMPETITION |
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ABOU LEILA |
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A Film by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Produced by In Vivo Films, Thala Films
2019 - Drama - Algeria/France/Qatar - 2.39 - 135 min
with Slimane Benouari, Lyes Salem, Azouz Abdelkader
Algeria, 1994. With Civil War raging for years in the north of the country, each day continues to bring its share of death and horror.
Police officers S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, travel through the desert looking for Abou Leila, a dangerous terrorist on the run. In the immensity of the Sahara, their quest seems absurd, but Lofti has only one priority: to keep S. as far from the capital as possible, knowing his friend is too fragile to face more bloodshed. But the deeper they get into the desert, the more they are confronted with their own trauma and violence.
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SCREENINGS
| SAT |
MAY |
18th |
11:30 |
OLYMPIA 3 Private (buyers only)
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
11:15 |
ESPACE MIRAMAR Premiere
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
17:30 |
ESPACE MIRAMAR Official
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
21:00 |
ESPACE MIRAMAR Official
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| TUE |
MAY |
21st |
08:15 |
ESPACE MIRAMAR Official
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| TUE |
MAY |
21st |
13:30 |
OLYMPIA 3 Market
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CANNES MARKET |
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TOP END WEDDING |
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A Film by Wayne Blair (THE SAPPHIRES)
Written by Miranda Tapsell, Joshua Tyler
2019 - Comedy - Australia - 2.39 - 103 min
with Miranda Tapsell (THE SAPPHIRES), Gwilym Lee (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY), Kerry Fox (INTIMACY)
Engaged and in love Lauren and Ned have just 10 days to reunite her newly separated parents and pull off their dream Top End Wedding. But Lauren’s mother has gone missing, experiencing a midlife crisis. In order to find her, the couple go on a fantastic road trip across northern Australia. Along the way they find fulfilment for their own personal journeys through the wild beauty of the landscapes and the unbeatable charm of the characters that they meet along the way. But will they finally recover Lauren’s mother and pursue their dream wedding?
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SCREENINGS
| FRI |
MAY |
17th |
09:30 |
OLYMPIA 3 Market
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| MON |
MAY |
20th |
11:30 |
OLYMPIA 9 Market
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CANNES MARKET |
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DOLCE FINE GIORNATA |
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A Film by Jacek Borcuch (ALL THAT I LOVE)
2019 - Drama - Poland - 2.39 - 96 min
with Krystyna Janda (INTERROGATION, MAN OF MARBLE, MEPHISTO), Kasia Smutniak (FROM PARIS WITH LOVE), Vincent Riotta
Free-spirited Maria Linde, a Jewish-Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with the much younger Egyptian man who runs a nearby seaside inn. After a terrorist attack in Rome, Maria refuses to succumb to the hysterical fear and anti-immigrant sentiment that quickly emerge, deciding in her acceptance speech of a local honor to boldly decry Europe’s eroding democracy—but she is unprepared for the public and personal havoc her comments wreak.
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SUNDANCE
BEST ACTRESS |
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SCREENINGS
| WED |
MAY |
15th |
15:30 |
RIVIERA 2 Market
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| FRI |
MAY |
17th |
11:30 |
OLYMPIA 3 Market
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CANNES MARKET |
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GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY |
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A Film by Denis Côté (VIC+FLO SAW A BEAR)
2019 - Fantasy Drama - Canada - 1.85 - 97 min
with Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil
In Irénée-les-Neiges, a small, isolated town with a population of 215, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for the Dubé family as well as for Mayor Smallwood and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. Something descends slowly upon the area. In this period of mourning and in this fog, strangers start to appear. Who are they? What is happening?
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SCREENING
| THU |
MAY |
16th |
13:30 |
LERINS 2 Market
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CANNES MARKET |
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FLESH OUT |
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A Film by Michela Occhipinti
2019 - Drama - Italy - 1.85 - 94 min
with Verida Beitta Ahmed Deiche, Amal Saab Bouh Oumar, Aichetou Abdallahi Najim
Verida is a modern girl. She works in a beauty salon, is addicted to social media and hangs out with her friends. Still, she is engaged to a man chosen by her family. Like many girls her age, she is under pressure to gain a substantial amount of weight in a tradition called gavage, in order to reach the voluptuous body considered in Mauritania a sign of great beauty, charm, wealth and social status. The wedding is fast approaching and meal after meal Verida is starting to challenge everything she always thought was normal: her loved ones, her way of life, and not least, her own body.
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SCREENING
| THU |
MAY |
16th |
15:30 |
OLYMPIA 3 Market
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