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WORLD PREMIERE - ACID
INSECURE (QUI VIVE)
by Marianne Tardieu
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Drama - France - 2014 - 83min
Chérif, in his thirties and having moved back in with his parents, is trying to pass the nursing exam. In the meantime, he works a job as a security guard to get by. He manages to pass the written section of the exam and meets a woman he likes, Jenny.... But the kids from the hood who hang at the mall where he works are starting to get to him. To finally get them off his back, he agrees to tip off a friend about an upcoming delivery. But in the course of that night, Chérif’s life goes off the rails...
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SCREENING DATES :
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Fri
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16th
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11:00
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Studio 13
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Public
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Fri
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16th
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20:00
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Arcades
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Official
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Sat
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17th
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10:00
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Riviera 1
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Market
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Sun
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18th
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10:00
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Riviera 1
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Market
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Mon
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19th
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14:00
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Riviera 3
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Market
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Starring Reda Kateb
(ZERO DARK THIRTY, A PROPHET)
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Adèle Exarchopoulos
(LA VIE D'ADELE - Palme D'Or 2013)
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WORLD PREMIERE - SPECIAL SCREENING
THE OWNERS
by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
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Black Comedy - Kazakhstan - 2014 - 93min
25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback. But the house appears to be on the wish list of the District Officer’s alcoholic brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years. The police will do everything in their power to make the brothers’ lives in the village impossible.
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SCREENING DATES :
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Fri
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16th
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10:00
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Riviera 3
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Market - Private
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Sat
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17th
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morning TBA
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Salle Bazin
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Press
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Sun
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18th
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12:00
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Riviera 1
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Market - Private
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Sun
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18th
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evening TBA
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Salle 60ème
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Official
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Through the alembic of absurd
THE OWNERS depicts routine injustice growing to unexpected cruelty, against a background of general indifference.
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CANNES JUNIOR
NATURAL SCIENCES (CAÑADA MORRISON)
by Matias Lucchesi
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Drama - Argentina, France - 2014 - 71min
There’s nothing to keep Lila at her boarding school high up in the cold and foggy mountains. This 12-year-old girl does not know who her father is but wants to find him. She sets out on a complicated quest for the truth.
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SCREENING DATE :
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Sat
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17th
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16:00
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Riviera 3
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Market
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"This film shows us a pure, distilled and unsentimental journey towards identity. It is a captivating tale with wonderful acting and a clear vision. Strong in its simplicity, the film touched our hearts."
 
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 TRAILER
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STILL AVAILABLE - SCREENING
LIKE THE WIND (COME IL VENTO)
by Marco S. Puccioni
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Drama - Italy, France - 2013 - 110min
Based on a true story, LIKE THE WIND chronicles the life of Armida Miserere (Valeria Golino) who became Italy’s first female prison governor. After suffering the loss of her loved one, Armida dedicated her entire life to her job and came in contact with the worst criminals & mafia bosses of our time. LIKE THE WIND is the intimate portrait of an exceptional woman, both tough and fragile, driven by her sense of justice and her inner pain.
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SCREENING DATE :
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Fri
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16th
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13:30
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Riviera 2
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Market
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"The depth of Golino's performance will be reason enough for many to watch it"
VARIETY
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TRAILER
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IN POST-PRODUCTION
FELIX AND MEIRA
by Maxime Giroux
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Romance - Canada - 2014
Félix is an eccentric and penniless French Canadian whose wealthy father is dying. Meira is a Hasidic woman married with a child, searching for something new. They were not meant to meet, let alone fall in love. Félix and Meira tells the miraculous love story between two separate beings from two distinct communities, who attempt to love each other despite what separates them.
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Starring Hadas Yaron (FILL THE VOID)
& Martin Dubreuil
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PROMOREEL AVAILABLE ON BOOTH
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IN POST-PRODUCTION
HEC MCADAM
by Jake Gavin
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Drama - UK - 2014
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge…
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Starring Peter Mullan
(WAR HORSE, TYRANNOSAUR, BOY A)
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Gina Mckee
(JIMMY P, NOTTING HILL)
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PROMOREEL AVAILABLE ON BOOTH
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IN PRODUCTION
LONG WAY NORTH
by Rémi Chayé
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Animation - France - 2015
Sasha, a young aristocratic girl growing up in Russia at the end of the 19th century, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole. Oloukine has passed on his calling as an explorer to Sasha, but her parents, who have already made the arrangements for their daughter’s marriage, do not approve in the least. So Sasha rebels against her destiny, flees her home and resolves to go join Oloukine... a long way North.
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Budget: USD $10,000,000
French Distribution: Diaphana (PERSEPOLIS, AZUR & ASMAR)
Produced by: Sacrebleu Productions
Co-Produced by: Maybe Movies
(ERNEST & CELESTINE)
& Norlum (SONG OF THE SEA)
Delivery: First semester 2015
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PROMOREEL AVAILABLE ON BOOTH
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IN PRODUCTION
THE ENDLESS RIVER
by Olivier Hermanus
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Crime Drama - South Africa - 2015
A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend after his four-year jail sentence. At first it appears that her plans for a new life together have finally been realized. But when a farmer’s wife and sons are brutally slaughtered at a nearby farm, the young waitress and the widowed farmer start gravitating toward one another. They form an unlikely bond, fueled by mutual anger, pain and loneliness that ultimately results in more violence and bloodshed.
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A fierce crime drama set against an unforgiving landscape,
THE ENDLESS RIVER is a story about morality, love, revenge and forgiveness.
Starring Nicolas Duchauvelle
(POLISSE, BRAQUO, WHITE MATERIAL)
Delivery 2015
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