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CANNES SCREENINGS SCHEDULE

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I COMETE A CORSICAN SUMMER

9:30 AM @ OLYMPIA 5

127’

MEDUSA 9:00 AM @ OLYMPIA 5

127’

MEDUSA 9:00 AM @ OLYMPIA 9

127’

MEDUSA 8:30 AM @ THEATRE CROISETTE

127’

SOUAD 11:30 AM @ ARCADES 3

96’

BLOODY ORANGES 11:30 AM @ OLYMPIA 7

102’

I COMETE A CORSICAN SUMMER

2:00 PM @ PALAIS G

127’

I COMETE A CORSICAN SUMMER

3:00 PM @ ALEXANDRE 3

127’

BLOODY ORANGES 4:30 PM @ OLYMPIA 5

102’

I COMETE A CORSICAN SUMMER

8:30 PM@ ARCADES 1

9:00 PM @ ARCADES 2

127’

BLOODY ORANGES 8:30 PM @ SALLE BAZIN

102’

MEDUSA9:00 PM @ THEATRE CROISETTE

127’

BLOODY ORANGES 11:59 PM @ THEATRE LUMIERE

102’

Market Screening - available onlineOfficial Screening

Directed by Jean-Christophe Meurisse

Apnee - Cannes Critics’ Week 2016

BLOODY ORANGES (ORANGES SANGUINES)

CASTDenis Podalydès (La Belle Epoque, Sorry Angel)Blanche Gardin (Delete History, France)Christophe Paou (Synonyms)Alexandre Steiger (Alice and the Mayor)Vincent Dedienne (The Rose Maker) Olivier Saladin (Apnee)Lorella Cravotta (Romantics Anonymous)

EDITOR Flora Volpelière (Les Misérables)

PRODUCERSRectangle Productions (Aline, It Must Be Heaven, Climax) Mamma Roman

FRENCH DISTRIBUTORThe Jokers

LANGUAGEFrench

France, today.

Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder.

When the shoe drops, the winner won’t necessarily be the one we expected.

WORLD PREMIERE IN MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS. FRANCE.102 MIN.

Directed by Anita Rocha Da Silveira MEDUSAKill me Please – Venice Orizzonti 2015 & SXSW 2016

CASTMari OliveiraLara TremourouxJoana MedeirosFelipe FrazãoBruna Linzmeyer Thiago Fragoso

DOP João Atala (Oscar nominated The Edge of Democracy)

PRODUCTION DESIGN Dina Salem Levy (Loveling)

PRODUCERSBananeira Filmes (Zama, Jauja, Kill Me Please)

LANGUAGEBrazilian-Portuguese

Today, Brazil.

Mariana, 21 years old, belongs to a world where she must do her utmost to keep up the appearance of a perfect woman. In order to resist temptation, she and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. And that includes the town sinners.

At night, their girl squad put on masks, hunt & beat up all women who have deviated from the right path. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been…

WORLD PREMIERE.BRAZIL.127 MIN.

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Written & directed by Pascal Tagnati I COMETE -

A CORSICAN SUMMER

Acting coach on Thierry de Peretti’s film, The Fan short film

CASTJean-Christophe Folly (Montparnasse Bienvenue, Blind Spot)Pascal Tagnati (Fidelio - Alice’s Journey, Struggle for Life)Cédric Appietto (A Violent Life, Monsieur Chocolat, An Easy Girl)

PRODUCERS5à7 Films – Martin Bertier (Isadora’s Children, Takara) & Helen Olive (Los Conductos) Coproduced by Lotta Films - Delphine Leoni(A Violent Life)

FRENCH DISTRIBUTORNew Story

LANGUAGEFrench

Corsica, in a small village.

Kids brighten the streets, teens mess around, grown-ups discuss the future while elders reflect on time passing by. Those who never left welcome back those who went abroad. Family and long time friends share together this precious moment in the mountains.

Under the burning sun and to the sound of rippling laughter, summer suspends time but doesn’t heal all wounds.

CANNES PREMIERE. FRANCE.127 MIN.

“An ambitious debut.”

Directed by Ayten Amin

- BEST ACTRESS AWARD -

Director Villa 69 - Special Jury Award Abu Dhabi 2013,Co-director Tahrir 2011 Documentary - Venice & TIFF 2011

CASTBassant AhmedBasmala El Ghaiesh Hussein Ghanem

PRODUCERSSameh Awad for Vivid Reels

CO-PRODUCERSWim Wenders for Road Movies (Everything Will be Fine, Pina)Dora Bouchoucha for Nomadis Images (Hedi, Dear Son)Mohamed Hefzy for Film Clinic (Yomeddine, Luxor)Mark Lotfy for Fig Leaf Studios

LANGUAGE Arabic

US REPRESENTATIONCreative Artists Agency (CAA)

MIDDLE EAST DISTRIBUTORFilm Clinic Indie Distribution

Zagazig, a small city on the Nile Delta in Egypt. Today.

Souad, 19-year-old young woman, leads a double life. While remaining conservative and veiled among her family and society, Souad is obsessed with her image on social media, and goes in several secret virtual relationships with men. She constantly lies about her personal life, projecting wishfully images of a different desired life. Her ambitions are slowly crushed by the invasion of her true reality.

A series of small incidents lead to a tragic event, that makes Rabab, her 13-year-old little sister, embarks on a real-life journey looking for answers.

MARKET SCREENING.EGYPT, TUNISIA, GERMANY.96 MIN.

“Intensely involving... authentic and haunting... completely captivating performances... like a window into a world we might never otherwise see... should travel extensively on the festival circuit, attracting the attention of streaming

services and distributors along the way.”

“Ayten Amin’s bold second feature is brilliantly alive… razor-sharp, nonjudgmental insight, which captures lives as well as environment

with a cleareyed neorealist sensibility… flowing dialogue that feels unscripted and true… both

loving and critical.”

SOUAD

Written & Directed By Hadas Ben Aroya ALL EYES

OFF ME(MISHEHU YOHAV MISHESHU)

People That Are Not Me – Locarno 2016

CASTElisheva Weil Leib Lev LevinYoav HaitHadar Katz

PRODUCERSHadas Ben AroyaMaayan Eden

NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTOR Film Movement

LANGUAGEHebrew

Tel Aviv, today.

Danny is looking for Max through a party to share that she’s pregnant with his child.

But Max just started a new relationship with Avishag and attempts to realize her rough sexual fantasy.

Truth is, Avishag actually has someone else in mind.

MARKET SCREENINGS. ISRAEL.90 MIN.

“If there is one thing that All Eyes Off Me, captures really, really well, it’s that divide between trying to be liberated

versus actually, truly being so.”

Directed by Hubert Viel LOULOUTE Girls in the Middle Age

CASTLaure Calamy (My Donkey, My Lover and I, Call My Agent! TV Series)Erika Sainte (Sink or Swim, Montparnasse Bienvenüe)Alice HenryBruno Clairefond

PRODUCERbathysphere (Makala, 10 000 Nights in the Jungle)

FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR Tandem (August 18, 2021)

LANGUAGEFrench

Louise revisits her childhood when her family decides to sell their farm.

20 years ago, she was Louloute, a mischievous and exuberant little girl, helping her father with their farm, fighting with her siblings and worrying her mother…

When the family’s debts accumulate and overwhelm them, tender childhood moments become intertwined with the harsh adult reality of a disappearing rural world.

LINK AVAILABLE. FRANCE. 86 MIN.

Laure Calamy awarded2021 Cesar for Best Actress

Written & directed by Kamir Aïnouz HONEY

CIGAR (CIGARE AU MIEL)

Sundance Screenwriters Lab

CASTZoé Adjani Amira Casar (At Eternity’s Gate, Call me by your Name)Lyes Salem (Abou Leila, The Man from Oran)Louis Peres (How I Became a Super Hero)

PRODUCERSChristine Rouxel (Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami, Babies)Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (Heaven Will Wait, Once in a Lifetime)Coproduced by Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Dany Boon, Malek Ali Yahia.

DOPJeanne Lapoirie(Benedetta, BPM (Beats per Minute)

FRENCH DISTRIBUTORPaname Distribution (October 6, 2021)

LANGUAGEFrench with some Berber

Paris, 1993.

Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien, a provocative young man, she realizes for the first time how the heavy rules of the patriarchy affect her intimacy.

As she faces her own fears to explore the power and dangers of her desire, her family crumbles and the terror of fundamentalism emerges in her country of origin. Selma must fight back to reclaim her body and become a free woman.

LINK AVAILABLE.FRANCE, ALGERIA.100 MIN.

“In the headstrong Selma, viewers may see shades of Lady Bird. In the plight of a young woman seeking liberation, Mustang

might also spring to mind. Honey Cigar should earn a continued audience.”

“Adjani is impressively

natural.”

OPENING FILM

Written & directed by Lenny and Harpo Guit MOTHER

SCHMUCKERS (FILS DE PLOUC)

Radio Kiff, Nathalie f** you all short films

CASTHarpo GuitMaxi DelmelleMathieu Amalric (The French Dispatch, Sink or Swim)Claire Bodson (Young Ahmed)

PRODUCERRoue Libre Production

LANGUAGEFrench

BELGIAN DISTRIBUTORGaleries Distribution

Brussels, today.

Issachar & Zabulon are two brothers in their twenties living with their mother Cashmere in a low-rent neighborhood. Supremely stupid, they are never bored. For them, madness is part of daily life. When they lose January-Jack, their mother’s beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it otherwise she will kick them out.

They certainly won’t get away from trouble...

LINK AVAILABLE. BELGIUM.70 MIN.

“A shot of John Waters recklessness to a national cinema that has rarely behaved

this badly since Man Bites Dog.”

SAINT-NARCISSE

Directed by Bruce LaBruce

Misandrists - Berlinale 2017, Pierrot Lunaire - Berlinale Teddy Award 2014, Gerontophilia - Venice Days 2013, , L.A. Zombie - Locarno 2010

CASTFelix-Antoine DuvalTania KontoyanniAlexandra PetrachukAndreas Apergis

PRODUCERSNicolas Comeau for 1976 ProductionsPaul Scherzer for Six Island Productions

CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS Raven Banner & AZ Films

US DISTRIBUTORFilm Movement

LANGUAGESEnglish with some French

Canada, 1972.

22 year-old Dominic has a fetish... for himself. Nothing turns him on more than his own reflection and he spends much of his time taking Polaroid selfies. When his loving grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret: his lesbian mother didn’t die in childbirth, like he has been told, and he has a twin brother who was raised by a depraved priest in a remote monastery.

The power of destiny brings the two handsome, identical brothers back together. After being reunited with their mother, they are soon entangled in a strange web of sex, revenge and redemption.

LINK AVAILABLE. CANADA.101 MIN.

CLOSING FILM

“The filmmaking isn’t only ravishing to look; the writing and narrative construction have become a

little more sophisticated, too (...). A wild ride that’s enjoyable in all its B-movie glory while also titillating

the intellect.”

BOOTLEGGER

Written & directed by Caroline Monnet

Mobilize Short film - Sundance 2015, 6 Short Films in TIFF

Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter.

Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s, returns to her remoteIndigenous community and realizes that many outdatedpaternalistic laws are still in force. In hopes of emancipatingher people, she proposes a radical referendum to end theprohibition of alcohol.

This is catastrophic for Laura, a 45-year-old bootleggerwho has been smuggling illegal alcohol onto the reserve foryears. Mani’s and Laura’s opposing forces quickly divide thecommunity into two clans who must come face to face to determine the best path to independence.

UPCOMING.CANADA.

Best Screenplay at Cannes Cinéfondation 2017

CASTDevery Jacobs (The Order Netflix TV Series, American Gods TV Series)Pascale Bussières (The Demons, Ville-Marie)

DOPNicolas Canniccioni (Gerontophilia, Genesis)

PRODUCERSProduced by Catherine Chagnon for Microclimat Films (The Seven Last Words)Executive produced by Pierre Even (War Witch, C.R.A.Z.Y)

CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORMK2 Mile End

LANGUAGESFrench with some Anishinaabemowin

Directed by Valentyn Vasyanovych

DOP & Editor on The Tribe – Cannes Critics’ Week 2014 Winner, Business as Usual — Odessa IFF Special Jury Mention

ATLANTIS

Official Oscar contender for Ukraine

CASTAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl Antoniak

PRODUCERSIya MyslytskaValentyn VasyanovychVladimir Yatsenko (Homeward)

UKRAINIAN DISTRIBUTORArthouse Traffic

US DISTRIBUTOR Grasshopper Film(January 22, 2021)

LANGUAGEUkrainian

Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. A Wall is being build-up on the border.

Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses.Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.

ON RELEASE.UKRAINE.108 MIN.

“Dazzling, strange, tragic, comic,touching and eventually optimistic. Immensely compelling. Masterful.”

“Vasyanovych’s style is informed by both Kubrick and early

Jim Jarmusch.”

“One of the most jaw-dropping shots of the year… absolutely deserving of the biggest canvas possible — it’s a

world you want to live in.”

Cold Kisses – Cinéma du Réel 2016, Wounded Night – Special Mention Cinéma du Réel 2015 & Best Film at FICCI 2016

Directed by Nicolas Rincón Gille VALLEY

OF SOULS (TANTAS ALMAS)

CASTArley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo

DOPJuan Sarmiento G. (Central Airport THF)

PRODUCERSMedio de Contención Producciones

COPRODUCERSNeon Rouge / NRW SPRLSTO Lat FilmsTact Production(The Mercy of the Jungle)

COLOMBIAN DISTRIBUTORCine Colombia (September 16, 2021)

BELGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Galeries Distribution

LANGUAGESpanish

Colombia, on the banks of Magdalena Medio, 2002.

José returns to his home deep in the jungle after a long fishing night to discover that paramilitary forces killed his two sons, Dionisio and Rafael, and threw their bodies into the river.

José begins a lonely journey to retrieve and provide a proper burial for his boys preventing their tormented souls from being stuck in this world. Aboard his canoe, José discovers the magic of a country torn in pieces.

ON RELEASE. COLOMBIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, FRANCE.137 MIN.

“An immersive, riveting, exceptional debut, (…) a film of astonishing power. The way the swampy air feels thick with faith, phantasm

and fear recalls fellow Colombian Ciro Guerra’s masterful Embrace of the Serpent.”

“Arresting and accomplished, (...) striking widescreen cinematography.”

“Valley of Souls manages to find beauty and even tragicomedy amid the

darkness.”

LOS CONDUCTOS

Written & directed by Camilo Restrepo

Awarded two times Silver Pardino at Locarno Film Festival 2015 & 2016 with short films, La Bouche, Short Film – Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2017

CASTLuis Felipe LozanoFernando Úsuga Higuíta

PRODUCERS5à7 FilmsMutokinoIf You Hold a StoneMontanero Cine

US DISTRIBUTOR Grasshopper Film

LANGUAGESpanish

Medellin, Colombia.Pinky is on the run. He has just freed himself from the grip of a religious sect. He finds a place to squat and a job in a t-shirt factory. Misled by his own faith, he questions everything.

But as he tries to put back together the pieces of his broken life, violent memories return to haunt him, and ask for Revenge.

ON RELEASE.FRANCE, COLOMBIA, BRAZIL.70 MIN. SHOT ON KODAK 16MM FILM.

Freely inspired by a true story

WINNER

“Striking and evocative. A fever-dream.An arresting, committed

performance from newcomer Luis Felipe Lozano.”

“Restrepo’s scintillating first work is a medicinal film. A cathartic antidote

designed to heal a man’s soul.”

Directed by Radu Jude

Aferim! – Silver Bear Berlinale 2015, Scarred Hearts – Special Jury Prize Locarno 2016, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians – Crystal Globe Karlovy Vary 2018

UPPERCASE PRINT (TIPOGRAFIC MAJUSCUL)

SCREENWRITERSRadu Jude & Gianina Cărbunariu

CASTBogdan Zamfir (Young Ahmed, The Apparition)Șerban LazaroviciIoana IacobȘerban Pavlu

PRODUCERSAda Solomon for MicroFILM (Toni Erdmann,Child’s Pose, Radu Jude’s Films)In coproduction with Romanian Public Television, Hi Film Productions

ROMANIAN DISTRIBUTORHiFilm (February 21, 2020)

LANGUAGERomanian

Romania, 1981.Ceaușescu is in office, leading a communist Romania. He writes the official story with the help of the National Television. Mugur Călinescu, a 16 y.o. teenager, writes another story on walls with chalked uppercase protest messages against the regime. His actions are compiled in a voluminous file kept by the Secret Police (Securitate), which observed, apprehended, interrogated and destroyed him. Linking both stories - secret and public - personal and collective - brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.

ON RELEASE.ROMANIA.128 MIN.

The play ‘Tipografic Majuscul’ by Gianina Cărbunariu Inspired by true events

“Kafka meets Brecht with a splash of Pop Art (...). It delivers a quietly devas-

tating emotional punch.”“A fierce and impassioned

denunciation of evil.”

Latest film from 2021 Golden Bear Winner

IF IT WERE LOVE (SI C'ETAIT DE L’AMOUR)

A dance documentary directed by Patric Chiha

Brothers of the Night– Berlinale Panorama 2016

CINEMATOGRAPHERJordane Chouzenoux (Cannabis - Arte TV Serie &The Night Eats the World)

PRODUCERAurora films (Diamond Island, Heaven Sent, Patric Chiha’s films)

FRENCH DISTRIBUTORNorte Distribution (Back in cinemas on June 22, 2020)

LANGUAGESFrench, English

Fifteen young dancers of different origins and horizons are on tour with ‘Crowd’, Gisèle Vienne’s epic dance piece exploring the 90’s rave scene. From theatre to theatre, the work mutates into strange, intimate relationships. Is the stage contaminating real life – or the opposite? A disturbing journey exploring our nights, our parties, our loves.

ON RELEASE.FRANCE.82 MIN.

Based on Gisèle Vienne’s dance piece ‘Crowd’

« A dazzling piece, transfixing and strangely resonant. »

on ‘Crowd’

“A sensational journey, widening our perception of time, space, movement

and emotion (...), an extremely powerful work.”

WINNER

Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rankin

The Tesla World Light Short

Film – Cannes Critic’ Week 2017. TIFF & Sundance Alumnus

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

WINNER

CASTDan Beirne (FX’s Fargo TV Series)Mikhaïl AhoojaSarianne CormierCatherine St-Laurent

PRODUCERSVoyelles Films (All You Can Eat Buddha)

US DISTRIBUTOROscilloscope Laboratories

LANGUAGESEnglish with some French

Toronto, 1899.Aspiring young politician Mackenzie King dreams ofbecoming the Prime Minister of Canada. In his quest forpower, he must face his imperious Mother, a war-mongeringGovernor-General and the utopian idealism of a Québécoismystic.

Meanwhile, King hesitates in love between a British soldierand a French-Canadian nurse and furtively indulges afetishistic obsession for women’s footwear…

When his vainglorious run for leadership culminates inan epic battle between good and evil, King will learn thatdisappointment may be the only way to survive the 20th century.

ON RELEASE.CANADA. 90 MIN.3 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS WINNER.

Based upon the perfervid youth of Canada’s most enigmatic politician, W. L. Mackenzie King

“Possibly the craziest and most

unique biopic ever made.”

SLASH FILM

“A twisted, cult atmosphere.”

A compelling pastiche of German

Expressionism, early melodrama, science

fiction, disturbing midnight madness

situations, Monty Python.”

“Feel like both a throwback to an

MGM weepie and a colorized acid

trip through historic hell (...).

So enjoyable.”Canadian Best First feature

WINNERFIPRESCI AWARDWINNER

Modris – New Directors Award Special Mention in San Sebastian 2014

OLEG Directed by Juris Kursietis

S L A V E .

VACANT POSITION IN BELGIUM.

“A timely and impressive sec-ond feature. The screenplay is

a particular strong point.”

“Thanks to welcome flecks of comic relief, Oleg is consist-ently watchable as well as il-luminating about an emerging

social problem.”

CASTValentin NovopolskijDawid Ogrodnik (European Shooting Star 2019)Anna Prochniak (The Innocent)

PRODUCERSTasse Film (Dogs Don’t Wear Pants)Iota Productions (Our Struggles, Keeper)In Script (Miracle)Arizona Productions (The Gentle Indifference of the World, Aga, My Happy Family)

FRENCH DISTRIBUTORArizona Distribution (October 30, 2019)

LANGUAGESEnglish with some Russian, Polish, Latvian, French & Flemish

Belgium, today. Oleg is a young Latvian butcher. He arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague.

Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.

ON RELEASE. LATVIA, BELGIUM, LITHUANIA, FRANCE.108 MIN.

“A sharp, scorching, surprisingly raucous social thriller (...), “Oleg”

would be politically essential even if it weren’t so cinematically

exciting.”

A COLONY Directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles

The Cut – Best International Short Film Sundance 2014

WINNER

Best Film, Best Actress & Best First Feature at the Canadian Screen Awards

CASTEmilie Bierre (Genesis)Irlande CôtéJacob Whiteduck-Lavoie

PRODUCERColonelle Films

CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORFunfilm Distribution (February 1, 2019)

FRENCH DISTRIBUTORWaynapitch (November 6, 2019)

LANGUAGEFrench

Pierreville, Quebec. End of summer.

Mylia, a timid 12-year-old, must leave her little sister and native countryside to enter high school. Lost in this new hostile environment, she meets Jacinthe, who introduces her to teenage rituals and absurdities, and Jimmy, a fierce young native from the neighbouring reserve with whom she secretly befriends.

Together, they will trace the contours of a new life. The age of the first times…

ON RELEASE. CANADA.102 MIN.

“A Colony showcases an emotional sensitivity and cultural specificity that

gives it a strong individual identity, (...), handled with a quiet dignity by

both writer/director De Celles and her accomplished young star Emilie Bierre.” “Berlin hidden gem.”

“Award-Winning crowd-pleaser.”