Cannes Day 8

Official Selection

Poetry by Lee Chang-dong

8.30 19.00

Synopsis

Mija lives with her middle-schooler grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River. She is a dandy old lady who likes to dress up in flower-decorated hats and fashionable outfits, but she is also an unpredictable character with an inquisitive mind. By chance she takes a ‘poetry’ class at a neighborhood cultural center and is challenged to write a poem for the first time in her life.

Her quest for poetic inspiration begins with observing the everyday life she never intentionally took notice of before to find beauty within it. And with this, Mija is delightfully surprised with newfound trepidation as if she were a little girl discovering things for the first time in her life.

But when she is suddenly faced with a reality harsh beyond her imagination, she realizes perhaps life is not as beautiful as she had thought it is…

My Joy by Sergei Loznitsa

22.30





Out of Competition

Carlos by Olivier Assayas

12.00





Un Certain Regard

Udaan by Vikramaditya Motwane

14.00 22.00

Synopsis

After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn’t even know existed.

Forced to work in his father’s steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he tries to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.

October by Daniel Vega

17.00

Synopsis

Clemente, an extremely quiet pawnbroker, is Sofia’s hope to avoid solitude. Being his neighbor and a single woman, she spends her days as an October worshipper of the Lord of the Miracles. One day, Clemente is left with a newborn baby.

While he looks for the baby’s mother, a prostitute, Sofia joyfully starts taking care of this baby in Clemente’s house. Clemente will thus discover emotional attachments he never had.