Dear film buyers we are happy to invite to our market introductions of the Ones to Watch from Filmfestivals.com with two films from Iran and a film from Romania and one from Japan.
Last save the date for the Animation Day in Cannes Discoveries May 23
Angel's Salvation by Hassan AKHONDPOOR
Buyers are cordially invited to the Market PREMIERE in Cannes of Angel's Salvation
by Hassan AKHONDPOOR
24 Mai / Palais B / 9h30
Iran 2017 90 minutes
Angel (Fereshtehin persian) is the daughter of Ahmad. Her father has gone bankrupt during Iran’s nuclear sanctions years and troubled economy. The family had to sell their home and are now living in a small, ran down, house. The creditors pressure Fereshteh for their money and hurt her feminine family. Farzaneh, Fereshteh’s sister, was going to marry but her wedding was cancelled because of their situation. Fereshteh’s mother sells all home appliances and now there is only one creditor left who wants Fereshteh instead of his money. Fereshteh is in a dilemma of giving in to a married man, which will lead to her father’s release, or fighting the problems of lacking money and lacking her father.
A film by Hassan AKHONDPOOR, produced by Ebrahim ASGHARIstarring Elahe SHAHPARAST, Roshanak SE GHALEGI, Neda KOHI
Trailer I Worldwide Rights Available I Ask for a screener I Screening in Cannes may 24 10:00 am Gray 1 RSVP I Festival Placement
Release from Heaven Ali Nouri OSKOUIE
May 22, 8:00 pm - Gray 1
ANIMATION THAT MATTERS AWARD - ANIMATION DAY IN CANNES 2017
In a war torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a life changing journey.
Sareh is a school teacher who writes comic strips. Due to a happening, she has to start a journey with two of her students to take them to their fathers. During the journey she tries to make them calm by telling them a part of the last story she has written. Regarding that the story is sort of related to her own past and nostalgia she herself gets submerged in it as well as the kids. In the middle of their journey they discover a cave which has been in Sareh's childhood imagination and she had described it in her story. However the discovery of this cave in real world makes her realize a truth about her childhood and makes her love the hero of her story. She finds out that the man who is the hero of her story is not just an imaginary person but a real character who had made her childhood world beautiful with his kind behavior and nice stories. Now she has just realized that her heaven like daily life is no longer attractive to her and she is determined to embrace the hardships and find her lost hero along with the search of her students' fathers; unaware of the fact that she herself is becoming a hero for her students by her behavior and stories just like her own childhood hero with whom she had gone on a journey.
Trailer I Worldwide Rights Available I Ask for a screener I Screening in Cannes may 22 8:00 pm Gray 1 RSVP I Festival Placement
Junod by Schichiro Kimura, supervised by Shizuko Tsuya
Junod 63 minutes
Screening 25 May / Palais E / 10h
ANIMATION THAT MATTERS AWARD - ANIMATION DAY IN CANNES 2017
It is 1945. Dr. Junod has been appointed head of the ICRC delegation in Japan. He is shocked when he learns of the devastation in Hiroshima just after the atomic bombing. At the urging of Dr. Junod, the GHQ agrees to provide 15 tons of medical supplies to the city. Dr. Junod devotes himself to the treatment of victims of the bombing. When he meets Gen. Douglas MacArthur later, the general asks him, "What motivates you to work so hard for people?"
"Love," replies Dr. Junod. This is the answer to their question that Mii and Yuko, who have watched Dr. Junod at work, were looking for. Having learned what motivated him, they return to the present. Their eyes glow with the warm, strong light of love.
More info http://www.junod.biz
Buyers are cordially invited to the Market PREMIERE in Cannes of THE WANDERERS by Dragos Buliga
May 18, 12:00 - Gray d'Albion1
Please RSVP: Claudia Stavrositu
“THE WANDERERS” starring Armand Assante and Lior Ashkenazi is an independent production shot last summer in the breathtaking surroundings of Transylvania -Romania, based on a powerful and original script, with an outstanding cinematography and directed by a very talented Romanian director Dragos Buliga.
THE WANDERERS is an original feature film drawing inspiration from a wealth of dark fairytales and local Transylvanian legends to create a truly horrifying modern fable. And it is just the beginning for a series of adventures following the wanderers, a new species of cinematic demons.
The movie is a mystery thriller, where we discover the story of Louis Moudon (Armand Assante), a hardened vampire hunter and Robert Landau (Lior Ashkenazi), a journalist who are travelling to a reclusive village in Transilvania to unreveal the mystery surrounding a weird event which happened recently in Zalesky Castle.
They are guided by the young Romanian Sorana and are joined by the team of a sensationalist korean tv reality show, the couple Ji-Won and Sung-Ho.
The secret they untagle is deeper and more terrifying than they expected... The villagers seem to be tormented by the appearance of a young girl, who seems to be connected with the events that took place at the estated. The priests of the village are trying to protect their kin of an unspeakable evil, which falls on the village and the visitors. Louis is confroted with a startling revelation and forced to accept a frightening secret he tried to hide all along.
Click to watch the trailer, password is ratacitorii
Animation Day in Cannes Discoveries
May 23, 1:30 pm - Palais B
On the occasion of the celebration of Animation Day in Cannes filmfestivals.com and Animaze compiled an amazing program of animations: The Animation Discoveries in Cannes with a selection of the best trailers from Animaze Daze in Cannes competition, Best of Fest trailers from recent winners in animation in the top festivals and 3 showcase presentations of 'Buñuel in the labyrinth of the tortules' produced by Manuel Cristóbal'; Release from Heaven by Seyed Vahid Olyaee, Junod by Shinichiro Kimura and a selection of up coming features and shorts.
'Buñuel in the labyrinth of the tortules' - 2018 - directed by Salvador Simo
1930, Paris, the film The Golden Age is a scandal and Luis Buñuel, who thought he was destined to be the star of surrealism, is left with nothing. He is offered a documentary project on one of the poorest places in Spain, Las Hurdes, but he has no money.
His friend the sculptor Ramón Acín buys a lottery ticket while jokingly promising to finance the film with it. He wins and keeps his promise.
The harshness of Las Hurdes and the extreme misery of its people affect Buñuel deeply. Reality, dreams, memories of his childhood and of Salvador Dalí intermingle in his mind, endangering the production and his friendship with Ramón. From there will emerge the Buñuel of the future.
But what is left on the way? How much does that step cost?
More info: www.bunuelenellaberinto.com
