Wide Cannes 2015 Lineup

DIRECTED BY : Pavle Vučković

CAST : Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac, Tamara Dragicevic, Nebojsa Milovanovic, Jelisaveta Orasanin

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : Serbian

PRODUCED BY : Collapse Films

Jovan starts dating Maja casually, no strings attached. But overtime, her mysterious and shady behavior begins to disturb him. Jovan starts to follow videos and clues over social networks that hint at Maja’s parallel life. In a web of lies, pride, jealousy and passionate sex, Jovan loses himself, desperately trying to understand who Maja really is.

DIRECTED BY : Philippe Fernandez

CAST : Jackie Berroyer, Anna Mouglalis, Bernard Blancan, Emmanuel Moynot, Sascha Ley, Serge Larivière, Frédéric Tachou, Stéfanie Schuler

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : French

PRODUCED BY : Atopic

Maybe in the 1960s, maybe in the future. Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they have come from or where they are heading. As the ship operates by itself, they have plenty of time to meditate on matter, life and the universe.

DIRECTED BY BY : Sanna Lenken

CAST : Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlén, Maxim Mehmet

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES : Swedish, English

PRODUCED BY : Tangy in co-production with Fortune Cookie Film

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder.

The disease slowly tears the family apart.

A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter.

DIRECTED BY : Michal Rogalski

CAST : Filip Piotrowicz, Jonas Nay, Urszula Bogucka, Maria Semotiuk, Steffen Scheuman, Gerdy Zint, Bartłomiej Topa, Agnieszka Krukówna

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES : Polish, German

PRODUCED BY : Prasa & Film Ltd., Sunday Filmproduktion and Mafilm Gmbh

Poland, 1943. When love, friendship, and fate connect a simple Polish country boy, the daughter of a local farmer, a young German soldier, and a Jewish girl from Warsaw. Guido, Romek, Franka and Bunia, all come across something that both threatens and provides an escape from their harsh reality: love.

The ill-fated and unlikely connection of these four, in the context of a horrific war, leads to a series of tragedies.Will they be able to hold on to their dreams while facing the horrors of their time and the uncertainty of their future?

DIRECTED BY : Sudhanshu Saria

CAST : Shiv Pandit, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Menon

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES : English, Hindi

PRODUCED BY : Bombay Berlin Film Production

When hot shot, Wall Street dealmaker JAI thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, his young musician friend Sahil drops everything, including his boyfriend, to help him execute the perfect getaway.

Hiking the hills and canyons of the Western Ghats, amidst half-attempted conversations and sudden silences, skype calls and comfortable jokes, the friends discover there’s more than time-zones keeping them apart.

DIRECTED BY : René Féret

CAST : Nicolas Giraud, Lolita Chammah, Robinson Stévenin, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jenna Thiam, Brontis Jodorowsky

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : French

PRODUCED BY : Les Films Alyne

Anton Chekhov, a humble Russian doctor, writes novels he sells to newspapers to feed his family. As his talent gets noticed by his peers, Chekhov even gains Tolstoy’s admiration.

But when his brother dies from tuberculosis, Chekhov, remorseful, decides to flee his escalading notoriety and travels to the penal colony of the Sakhalin Island, in Siberia, to write about the depraved society the convicts live in.

This journey will inspire some of his most brilliant and famous pieces.

DIRECTED BY : Khadija Al Salami

CAST : Reham Mohammed, Rana Mohammed, Ibrahim Al Ashmori, Naziha Alansi, Husam Alshiabali, Sawadi Alkainai, Adnan Alkhader, Samaa Alhamdani 

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES : Arabic

PRODUCED BY : Hoopoe Film

A little girl walks into a court room, looks at the judge straight in the eye and tells him: « I want a divorce. »

In Yemen, where there is no age requirement for marriage, ten-year-old Nojoom is forced to marry a 30-year-old man. The dowry offers the family a small income and one less mouth to feed. A legitimate and acceptable arrangement for all, except for Nojoom who will soon see her life take a turn for the worse.

A beautiful plea for all these girls forced into womanhood too soon and for their right to a life on their own terms.

DIRECTED BY : Jean-Louis Daniel

CAST : Marine Renoir, Johanna Capliez, Marie Février, Benjamin Feitelson, David Atrakchi, Akim Ben Hafsia

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : French

PRODUCED BY: Shijokingo Entertainment

Two young women’s destinies parallel each other as they go from Paris to Cambodia, hell to redemption. They will finally meet at the seventh wonder of the world: the Angkor Temples, lost in deep jungle.

Second film of the Skin Teritory trilogy.

Part 1: SHANGHAI BELLE (2015)

Part 3: NEON ANGEL (2016)

DIRECTED BY : Joanna Coates

CAST : Josh O’Connor, Hannah Arterton, Rea Mole, Daniel Metz, Joe Banks

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : English

PRODUCED BY : Show Business Film Ltd

In an isolated English cottage, four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping. 

As their inhibitions and past traumas fade, they achieve a unique kind of collective happiness but the durability of their new living arrangement is tested by the arrival of an outsider, who fails to get in tune with the foursome's radical spirit.

DIRECTED BY : Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

CAST : Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivan Savov, Stefan Denolyubov, Ivanka Bratoeva, Stefan Denolyubov

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : Bulgarian

PRODUCED BY : Abraxas Film, Graal Film, Little Wing 

In a small Bulgarian town, Nadezhda, a young teacher, is looking for the thief in her classroom so that she can teach him a « lesson » on right and wrong. As this episode unravels at work, her personal life changes drastically and when she becomes indebted to loan sharks. Can she stay true to her own values?

DIRECTED BY : Jordan Goldnadel

CAST : Isabel Ryan, Jordan Goldnadel, Vladimir Perrin, Lea Moszkowicz, Arthur Jalta, Marcel Aloro, Charlotte Vercoustre

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES : English, French

PRODUCED BY : The Third Generation

Florent, 23, is an upper class Parisian who dreams of going back to America, where he attended college. One summer he meets Alessia, an American girl, lost in the streets of Paris. Together and with random encounters while on a journey from Paris to Normandy, they explore their passions, which draws them closer as well as brings up their clashing differences.

As they face a crucial crossroad in their lives, they will uncover new sides of themselves, struggling to determine who they are personally, professionally and sexually while trying to break free from their upbringings

DIRECTED BY : Stina Werenfels

CAST : Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily, Lars Eidinger, Urs Jucker

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : German

PRODUCED BY : Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Niko Film, Aleppo Films

After her mother decides that eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora discovers her sexuality, her strive for independence becomes increasingly risky. To her mother’s horror, Dora has a spontaneous sexual encounter with a dubious man who is obviously taken with the young girl’s uninhibited sensuality.

DIRECTED BY : Jakob M. Erwa

CAST : Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Matthias Lier, Hermann Beyer

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : German

PRODUCED BY : Mojo:Pictures

Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat, with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives the honorable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be a great opportunity – but at the same time an enormous pressure. In her home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest.

However, her own four walls don't appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments. What is the neighbor's involvement, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains?

DIRECTED BY : Eric Cherrière

CAST : Jean-Jacques Lelte, Magali Moreau, Maurice Poli, Hans Meyer

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : French

PRODUCED BY : De Pure Fiction

Pierre Tardieu is a part-time worker living in an old house with his sick father. No one is aware of his existence. Pierre is a serial killer. His victims are ordinary people with ordinary lives. Men and women living, working and suffering side by side yet apart, forming together a crowd lost in a big city…

DIRECTED BY : Willy Rozier

CAST : Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé, Howard Vernon

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : French

PRODUCED BY : Sport-Films

Gerard, a young student, discovers a fragment from a Phoenician amphora in Corsica. A few years later, he embarks on a smuggler’s boat in order to find the treasure. When he returns to the island in Corsica, he falls in love with the young Manina…

DIRECTED BY : Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : Persian

PRODUCED BY : Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

“Our problems are all our assets.” 

Understanding this promising paradox helped us not to lose hope, and to be able to go on since we believe wherever in the world that we live, we are going to face problems, big or small. But it is our duty not to be defeated and to think of solutions.

The reality of being alive and the dream of keeping cinema alive motivated us to go through the existing limitations in Iranian cinema.

The existing possibilities in cinema have convinced us that a filmmaker has only himself to blame if he is unable to make films. The discerning nature of art not only paves the way for the artist to overcome problems, but in the process of creativity, it turns every limitation into a subject for work.

The  unpleasant reality governing Iranian cinema and filmmakers today drove us to not overlook this (perhaps transient) reality and to depict parts of it that were reflected in us.

SOLD IN MORE THAN 20 TERRITORIES WORLDWIDE

Awards:

Muhr AsiaAfrica Documentaries – First Prize – Dubai Film Festival 2011

Sofia International Film Festival 2012 - Unesco Award For Best Documentary

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2012 - Amnesty Award

International Film Festival of Uruguay 2012 - Best Documentary Film