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CELLULoid dreAMSCANNES 2015
CANNES 2015IN COMPETITION
DIRECTORS’FORTNIGHT
MARKET SCREENING
MARKET PREMIERE
DHEEPAN by Jaques Audiard
MUCH LOVEDby Nabil Ayouch
TAXIby Jafar Panahi
RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN by Takeshi Kitano
POST-PRODUCTION
POST-PRODUCTION
IN PRODUCTION
BONE TOMAHAWKby S. Craig Zahler
THE WOMAN IN THE SILVER PLATEby Kiyoshi Kurosawa
THE SUSHI POLICE by Tatsushi Momen
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COOKING WITH FERNET BRANCAby Bruce Beresford
THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL by Zabou Breitman & Elea Gobbe-Mevellec
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DHEEPAN by Jacques Audiard
Written by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Noé DebréProduced by Pascal Caucheteux & Grégoire SorlatCast Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga
French Distributor UGC
Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger.
In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe.
Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and his ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.In partnership with
FRANCE / 2015 / 2.40 / COLOR / 110 MIN
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MUCH LOVED by Nabil Ayouch
Produced by Saïd Hamich, Eric Poulet, Nabil Ayouch Cast Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima KaraouaneSara Elmhamdi Elalaoui
Marrakech today…
Noha, Randa, Soukaina, and Hlima live a life of ‘love for sale’. They’re whores, objects of desire, flashes of flesh. In the heat of the night money flows freely to the rhythms of pleasures and humiliations suffered. But united in their womanhood, they’re queens of their kingdom. Full of light, dignity and joy, they manage to keep their spirits and dreams alive.
They’re loved, they’re unloved, they’re too much loved….
FRANCE - MOROCCO / 2015 / 2K / 1.85 / COLOR / 108MIN
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TAXIIRAN / 2015 / 16:9 / COLOR / 82 MIN.
by Jafar Panahi
Writer & Producer Jafar Panahi Cast Jafar Panahi, Hana Saidi, Nasrin Sotoudeh
A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Teheran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
Award of the International Critics
“Playful yet profound…” Variety
“Something for Everyone…” Hollywood Reporter
“A Masterpiece” Le Monde
MARKET SCREENINGS
Friday May 15th17:30 - OLYMPIA 9
Sunday May 17th17:30 - GRAY 2
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RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN
JAPAN / 2015 / 35MM / 2.35 / COLOR / 110 MIN.
by Takeshi Kitano
Written, Edited, Directed by TAKESHI KITANOProduced by Masayuki MORI and Takio YOSHIDA
Release in Japan, April 25th, 2015 by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan and Office Kitano
Retired former yakuza boss Ryuzo is living a bored life. Together with his former right hand man, after one too many sake, they come up with the crazy idea of creating a team of old yakuzas. But what started as a laughing stock gradually becomes a confrontation between the old and the young yakusas leading to a showdown.
MARKET PREMIERE
Thurs May 14th20:30 - OLYMPIA 8
Sat May 16th20:00 - OLYMPIA 3
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BONE TOMAHAWK
by S. Craig Zahler
Editor FRED RASKIN (Django Unchained, Gardians of the Galaxy and Fast &Furious)
After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a journey into hell on earth as the posse comes to realise it is up against a foe whose savagery knows no bounds. The film takes place in the mid 1800’s around the border of what is now Texas and New Mexico.
USA / 2015 / 4K / 2.40 / COLOR
CAST Kurt Russell (Fast & Furious 7, Deathproof), Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring, Prometheus, Watchmen) Matthew Fox (Lost, World War Z) Jena Malone (The Hunger Games), James Ransone (Sinister), Richard Jenkins (Jack Reacher, Burn After Reading)
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THE WOMAN IN THE SILVER PLATE
by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer Kiyoshi KUROSAWA Producers Michiko YOSHITAKE & Jérôme DOPFFERCAST Tahar RAHIM Olivier GOURMET, Constance ROUSSEAU,Malik ZIDI,Mathieu AMALRIC
A former fashion photographer, Stephane works obsessively in an old 19th century photography technique, said to have given eternal after-life to the souls of the people whose image it captured.
Jean, a young man desperate for inspiration in his life, becomes Stephane’s assistant. He quickly feels captured himself, by Marie, Stephane’s only daughter and model. But after Marie takes a mysterious fall one evening, the difference between image and reality becomes much harder to decipher.
FRANCE - JAPAN - BELGIUM / 2016 / HD / 2.39 / COLOR / FRENCH
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THE SUSHI POLICE
by Tatsushi Momen
Not fair, not cool, and not brave - a team of Japanese Anti-heroes are here. It’s the Sushi Police! Meet Honda, Suzuki, and Kawasaki, the comedic squad of Japanese officers sent by newly formed WFCCO (World Food Culture Conservation Organization) to banish bad sushi. With the help of wasabi guns, sushi vacuum suckers, and space soy lasers these Japanese detectives show no mercy, as they raid Japanese restaurants around the world - on a madcap mission to ensure all counterfeit sushi perishes on earth!
Full of raw black humor that bites!
JAPAN / 2016 / COLOR / 13X4MIN
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COOKING WITH FERNET BRANCA
by Bruce Beresford
Producers Michael Fitzgerald (The Homesman,The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Pledge, Under The Volcano, Wise Blood), Ugo Tucci
Based on the novel by James Hamilton-Paterson
A romantic comedy of errors that plays on the distorted views and misperceptions men and women have of one another. GERALD and MARTA, our mischievous, sharp-witted, mettlesome protagonists, happen to be renting adjacent villas in a small hillside town in Tuscany. Through a series of hilarious misunderstandings involving a motley cast of criminals, rock stars, and film directors, he starts to think she’s a sex-crazed peasant woman from Eastern Europe, while she’s convinced he’s just a pompous, nitwitted Englishman. But underneath their mutual insults and condescending attitudes is a genuine attraction. They are, as it turns out, just two shy hermits trying to flirt. And in a sweetly ironic twist, it is the same bitter and foul-tasting liquor they both wickedly use to repel each other that winds up bringing them together in the end. A hilarious, wacky and wild British ‘battle of the sexes’ comedy.
UK - ITALY / 2016 / COLOR / ENGLISH / ROMANTIC COMEDY
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THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL
by Zabou Breitman & Elea Gobbe-Mevellec
Based on the best seller ‘The Swalllows of Kabul’ by Yasmina Khadra. Winner - Best Novel of the year, San Francisco Chronicle. International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards- Nomination. Prize -Salon LIttéraire de Metz. Prize -Algerian Booksellers.Yasmina Khadra is also the winner of the Great Prize of Literature Henri Gal.
Kabul under Taliban rule. Two neighborhoods and two couples.
One conservative - Atiq and Mussarat have been married for 20 years and are deeply engrained in the traditions of Afghan life. Atiq works as the chief guard at the women’s prison. Mussarat is very ill and fights to remain a strong woman till the very end.
One modern - young and in love, Zunaira and Mohsen are against all the same traditions. Under the Taliban, they’ve both lost their jobs as lawyer and university teacher and have difficulties to make ends meet. They have to sell their few possessions to buy food. Yet they re determined to maintain their modern values.
One day, a stoning. Then an act of humiliation. Then a fight... and life takes an irrevocable turn.When the lives of these diametrically opposite couples become intertwined, sacrifice becomes the price to pay for love.
FRANCE - LUXEMBURG / 2017 / COLOR / ANIMATION
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CLOSER TO THE MOON by Nae CaranfilCast Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring, Up in the Air), Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty, Kick-Ass), Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones)US Release IFC - April 2015
Bucharest 1959. Five high-ranking Jewish members of the Romanian Communist party and heroes of the resistance plan and carry out a spectacular bank robbery. They divert the attention of onlookers by pretending to be shooting a movie. They are arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death but not before being forced to reenact the robbery in a fake propaganda film. An opportunity they immediately seize to turn their absurd predicament into a comedy. This is a true story.
ROMANIA / USA / ITALY / POLAND - 2014 - 110 MIN - ENGLISH - COMEDY
THINGS PEOPLE DOby Saar Klein (Terence Malick´s twice Oscar
Nominated editor)
Cast Wes Bentley (Hunger Games, Interstellar, American Beauty), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter Series), Vinessa Shaw (Eyes Wide Shut, Side Effects, 3:10 to Yuma) Producer Sarah Green (Tree of Life, Take Shelter, Mud)US Release eOne - February 2015
Bill, a well meaning family man, unwittingly turns to crime as a last resort after losing his job. But his growing friendship with a police detective threatens to expose his double life.
USA - 2014 - 110 MIN - ENGLISH - THRILLER
THESE FINAL HOURS by Zak HilditchCast Nathan Philips (Wolf Creek, Chernobyl Diaries), Angourie Rice (Walking with Dinosaurs), Jessica de Gouw (Dracula, Arrow, Kath & Kimderalla), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, The Babadook)
It’s the last day on earth, twelve hours before an event will end life as we know it. James (Nathan Phillips) makes his way across a lawless city to the party to end all parties. Along the way he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose (Angourie Rice) desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility James is forced to question what really matters as the hours tick away.
AUSTRALIA - 2014 - 86 MIN - COLOR - ENGLISH - APOCALYPTIC THRILLER
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WILD CANARIESby Lawrence Michael LevineCast Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Alia Shawkat , Annie Parisse, Jason Ritter, Kevin CorriganUS Release IFC - March 2015
Barri and Noah, a newly engaged Brooklyn couple, are disheartened by the death of their elderly neighbor, Sylvia. Though Noah sees nothing unusual about the old woman’s death, Barri suspects foul play and sets out to investigate, enlisting her roommate Jean to join her on a reconnaissance mission to trail a possible suspect. Tensions mount, however, when the investigation uncovers unsettling secrets throughout the building including in their own apartment and suddenly everyone seems like a reasonable suspect. A freshly comedic take on classic film noir, WILD CANARIES brings a unique sensibility to a high-stakes murder mystery.
USA - 2014 - 98 MIN - ENGLISH - COMEDY
BRAVE MEN S BLOOD by Olaf De Fleur (City State)Cast Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, JJ Feild, Hilmir Snær Gu!nason, Gardar Halldorsson, Darri Ingolfsson, Zlatko Krickic
In order to take down a major criminal organization, the ambitious head of the internal affairs unit of the Reykjavik P.D. decides to investigate a corrupt police lieutenant. Tipped off about the lieutenant’s criminal dealings by a former crime kingpin, now imprisoned, he places a female former narcotics officer undercover to spy on him. These actions set him off on a dangerous path as he aims to catch both the lieutenant and the drug lord.
ICELAND - 2014 - 96 MIN - ICELANDIC / ENGLISH / SERBIAN � ACTION/THRILLER
OVER YOUR ELECTRIC BOOGALOOthe Wild and Untold Story of Cannon Films
by Mark Hartley From acclaimed cult film documentarian Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED), the film centers on the story of two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the “American dream” launched an indie studio that would produce over 120 exploitation films from 1979-1989. In doing so, the cousins turned a renegade outfit into a major Hollywood powerhouse.
AUSTRALIA / USA / ISRAEL / UK - 2014 - 105 MIN - ENGLISH - DOCUMENTARY
JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD by Carter SmithCast Cameron Monaghan (Shameless), Noah Silver, Morgan Saylor (Homeland), Madisen Beaty with Judy Greer (Carrie, The Descendants) and Liv Tyler
In a wintry small town, the body of a teenager named Jamie Marks is found by the river. Adam, the star of his cross-country team, becomes fascinated with Jamie a boy nobody really knew or interacted with, except occasionally to bully him. When Jamie’s ghost begins to appear both to Adam and Gracie, the classmate who discovered the body, Adam is caught between two worlds. He has a budding romance with Gracie, but he also feels a deep connection to Jamie, who brings him closer to the world of the undead.
USA - 2014 - 100 MIN - ENGLISH - SUPERNATURAL THRILLER
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OVER YOUR DEAD BODY by Takashi MiikeCast Kô Shibasaki, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hitomi Katayama
Yet another wild cinematic detour from madly prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, OVER YOUR DEAD BODY unfolds within the walls of a theatre where a troupe of players are in rehearsals for a production of Yotsuya Kaidan, a 200-year-old tale of murder, betray- al, and phantasmagorical vengeance — and where life comes to imitate art in spooky and ultimately shocking ways. As theatre andlife begin to intertwine, the film builds to a nightmarish finale that only a filmmakeras perversely brilliant as Miike could have envisioned.
JAPAN - 2014 - 90 MIN - JAPANESE - HORROR
“A compelling poetic meditation on human connection…” Indiewire
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