Koan lineup in Cannes 2019
Riviera, Booth E6
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After losing her mom as a young girl, eighteen year old Alaska Rose finds herself in front of a judge in adult court for some out-of-control behavior. In lieu of a jail sentence, Alaska is ordered to do community service in an assisted living facility where she is assigned to Mrs. Foster, an elderly resident who is unapproachable at best and hostile at her worst. As Alaska tries to minimally fulfill her court obligation and dodge actual jail time, she deals with peer pressure, static from her family, outside influences and demons from her past. Endeavoring to navigate the tumult, she is forced to choose between re-discovering a relationship with God and her family or remaining caught in the cycle of bad choices, losing what little of either is left
Cast: Danny Trejo, Alex Heartman, Brad Schmidt
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The Temptation of Christ is detailed in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. After being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights in the desert where he was tormented by Satan.
Cast: Sean Ardalan, Sabastian Neudeck, Cazzey Louis Cereghino
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The story is set in year 2045. The war on drugs in Mexico has escalated as a ruthless drug Cartel use robots to enforce their operations. A Marine goes to Juarez in search for his brother who was kidnapped by a lieutenant who leads the robotic Cartel.
Cast: Danny Trejo, Alex Heartman, Brad Schmidt
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When a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged 'witch'. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts this monastery.
Cast: Jake Stormoen, Kristian Nairn, Adam Johnson
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Christmas Break-In is the story of Izzy, a spunky nine year-old who gets left at school on the last day before Christmas break. While her parents brave a blizzard to reach her, three bumbling crooks break into the school to hide out until the heat dies down. But when they take Ray, the school janitor, hostage Izzy will have to find a way to save him and teach the crooks a lesson.
Cast: Danny Glover, Denise Richards, Cameron Seely
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Kate Miller is a popular internet star who lands the role of a lifetime when she is cast to play Elizabeth Bennet in a new movie version of Pride and Prejudice. Unfortunately, not everyone is so happy, ans when the classically trained British actor playing Mr. Darcy show up, sparks fly as a more modern version of the timeless Jane Austen story unfolds.
Cast: Lexi Giovagnoli, David Witts, James Nitti
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The children in Millie’s family can’t wait for Grandma to arrive with her special Christmas apron. According to tradition, each grandchild will write down the gift he or she wants most in the world, and then slip that wish into the apron’s pocket. Then, on Christmas morning, those wished-for gifts will be magically waiting under the tree. But then eleven-year-old Millie overhears her parents: the family can’t afford gifts for all the little ones. She pictures the disappointment on her siblings’ faces: nothing to open on Christmas morning. Is Millie willing to sacrifice her own whole-soul wish so that someone else’s can come true? Full of tender emotion and delightful surprise, this story reminds us of the miracles that unfold when we think of others before ourselves.
Cast: Pam Eichner, Jennifer Erekson, Manning Hazen, Scarlett Hazen, Afton Grace Higbee
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Extinct
Written by Orson Scott Card
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From the creator of Ender's Game comes a new sci-fi TV series premiering on BYUtv on October 1, 2017 - 400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The aliens claim they want to restore the human species, but the reborn humans uncover new dangers, hidden agendas and powerful secrets that challenge that claim and threaten to annihilate the human race all over again.
Cast: Chad Michael Collins, Victoria Atkin, Yorke Fryer
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When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind German barbed wire and oppression, Cline and his fellow POWs must find a way to bond together to not just survive but transcend their captivity. Inspired by true events.
Cast: Jack Ashton, Elliot James Langridge, Daniel Betts
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Genie is a surprise party planner who hates surprises. Her partner Steven calls her out on every issue she owns. Danny would be perfect for her but she keeps him in the friend zone. Along comes Jeff. Everything she avoids—until now.
Meanwhile, Surprise Enterprise is hired by an anonymous Hollywood producer to throw a surprise wedding for his girlfriend. Genie must get her down the aisle without telling her she’s the bride. Jeff wants a commitment. Danny’s girlfriend is super annoying. Cookies and cereal summon Genie every night with a vengeance. In the end, Genie discovers that with life, with love, and crazy cravings, what’s real in life screams...
Cast: Jonathan Bennett, Sean Farris, Fiona Gubelmann, Nicole Sullivan
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Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael's series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and a merman. But no one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist - and Simon would like to keep it that way.
Cast: Felicia Day, Paula Marshall, Christopher Gorham
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It’s Christmas Eve, and Leland Jeppson’s hope is gone. Struggling to get by in their rustic homestead, he had at least wanted to give his family a special Christmas. But with a blizzard blowing in and the train bearing their gifts nowhere in sight, it seems Christmas is just one more thing they’ll have to do without. But as dusk falls, the Jeppsons’ packages unexpectedly arrive at the post office in the not-so-nearby town. Half-blind Postman George Schow is hesitant to brave the storm, but his son, Sidney, will stop at nothing to bring Christmas to the Jeppsons—and ask their daughter, Ellen, to the New Year’s Eve dance. Now it’s up to father and son to battle fierce elements in an attempt to deliver a Christmas miracle. Don’t miss this heartwarming reminder that while God helps those who help themselves, sometimes He does so through others.
Cast: Tiffani DiGregorio, Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Steve Luna
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