Un Certain Regard Directed by : Hiner SALEEM Country: KURD, FRANCE, GERMANY Year: 2013 Duration: 100.00 minutes Synopsis After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, resolves to accept a position in a godforsaken village at the borders of Iran and Turkey, an illegal trafficking Mecca. There he meets Govend, a beautiful young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly-opened school despite her twelve brot...

Un Certain Regard Directed by : Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ Country: MEXICO, SPAIN Year: 2013 Duration: 110.00 minutes Synopsis Juan, Sara and Samuel, all 15 years old, flee from Guatemala towards the USA. On their journey through Mexico they meet Chauk, a Tzotzil indian who does not speak Spanish and has no official documents. They all believe they will find a better world beyond the USA-Mexico border but they ru...

In Competition Directed by : Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN Country: CHAD, FRANCE Year: 2013 Duration: 101.00 minutes Synopsis Despite a paralyzed leg that could have barred most avenues, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his uncle falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers... Credits Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN - Dir...

In Competition Directed by : Nicolas WINDING REFN Country: DENMARK, FRANCE Year: 2012 Duration: 90.00 minutes Synopsis Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the US to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy. Julian’s brother has just been killed after having savagely murdered a ...

  Ain't Them Bodies Saints By Moira Sullivan.  David Lowery, Rooney Mara, and Casey Affleck - Photo Courtesy of Getty Images On day five, La Semaine de la Critique featured David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. The introduction given by the organizers impressed even the director. Less impressive was the film, with a story that has been done before: an outlaw d...

Un Certain Regard Directed by : Lucía PUENZO Country: ARGENTINA, FRANCE, SPAIN, NORWAY Year: 2013 Duration: 93.00 minutes Synopsis Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perf...

Un Certain Regard Directed by : Claire DENIS Country: FRANCE, GERMANY Year: 2012 Duration: 100.00 minutes Synopsis Captain on a container-ship, Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate… her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift. Sandra accuses the powerful businessman, Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the buildin...

Un Certain Regard Directed by : Chloé ROBICHAUD Country: CANADA Year: 2013 Duration: 97.00 minutes   Synopsis Sarah is a gifted young middle-distance runner. Her life changes when she’s offered admission to Quebec’s best university athletics program, in Montreal - far from her suburban Quebec City home. Sarah doesn’t have her mother’s financial support for the move, or any support at all: her mother worries...

In Competition Directed by : Steven SODERBERGH Country: USA Year: 2013 Duration: 118.00 minutes Synopsis Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace: virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and television. Liberace lived lavishly and embraced a lifestyle of excess both on and off stage. In summer 1977, handsome young stranger Scott Thorson walked into his dressing room and, des...

Nadine Vinzens catches the stars of Shield of Straw and the press's reaction to the film's first screening in Cannes.       ...