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 ...
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...
“RectoVerso” Cannes Premiere, prestige market screening on Tuesday May 21st
Directed by five Indonesian female directors: Marcella Zalianty, Happy Salma, Olga Lydia, Cathy Sharon and Rachel Maryam
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 minutes
Subtitle: English
Synopsis: Below
Award: Special Jury Award - Asian Int...
Nadine Vinzens catches the stars of Shield of Straw and the press's reaction to the film's first screening in Cannes.
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“RectoVerso” Cannes Premiere, prestige market screening on Tuesday May 21st
Directed by five Indonesian female directors: Marcella Zalianty, Happy Salma, Olga Lydia, Cathy Sharon and Rachel Maryam
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 minutes
Subtitle: English
Synopsis: Below
Award: Special Jury Award - Asian International Film Festival 2013
The Premiere will be held tomorrow Tuesday the 21st at 6pm at Star 1, 98 rue d’Antib...
Out of Competition
Directed by : Guillaume CANET
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 144.00 minutes
Synopsis
New York, 1974. Fifty year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother, Frank, a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon, who’d raised them al...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : James FRANCO
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
Based on the acclaimed novel by William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING follows a family through their turmoil-filled journey to bring their mother to her gravesite.
Credits
James FRANCO - Director
James FRANCO - Screenplay
M...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Hany ABU-ASSAD
Country: PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Year: 2013
Duration: 97.00 minutes
Synopsis
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must fa...
In Competition
Directed by : Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 104.00 minutes
Synopsis
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
Credits
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In Competition
Directed by : Takashi MIIKE
Country: JAPAN
Year: 2013
Duration: 125.00 minutes
Synopsis
"Kill Kunihide Kiyomaru, and I will pay you 1 billion Yen". This is the ad placed in all the main newspapers in Japan. In placing the ad, the powerful multi-billionnaire Ninagawa puts an irresistible price on the head of the man he believes to be his granddaughter's killer. Realising he has become a target for millions of ...
Press Release
MARC FORSTER’S “WORLD WAR Z” WITH BRAD PITT
ANNOUNCED TO OPEN 35TH MOSCOW FILM INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
WITH FIRST FILMS IN COMPETITION LINE-UP
Cannes - Saturday 18 May. Leonid Vereshchagin, Producer General of the 35th Moscow International Film Festival (20-29 June) announced today at the Russian Film Pavilion, the first 10 films in competition at the 35th Moscow International Film ...
Russia’s new studio GLAVKINO announces its investment four new feature films
The largest studio in Eastern Europe set for further investment and expansion
CANNES – Sunday 19 May 2013. Russia’s new largest purpose-built film and TV studio, GLAVKINO, set up by filmmaker Feodor Bondarchuk and Ilya Bachurin, has announced its first feature film production investments and the intention to expand its studio...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Adolfo ALIX JR.
Country: PHILIPPINES, JAPAN
Year: 2013
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
Bataan. 1942. Thousands of Filipino and American soldiers were forced to march in the blistering heat amidst disease, starvation and maltreatment by the displeasured and disgusted Japanese guards. Miguel is horrified by the dead soldiers talking to him. Alex starts to hallucinate and question his ...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Rithy PANH
Country: CAMBODIA, FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 95.00 minutes
Synopsis
For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched f...
NEW RUSSIAN CINEMA
ROSKINO INTRODUCES NINE NEW RUSSIAN FILMS AND DIRECTORS TO INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS AND FESTIVAL SELECTORS AT THE 66TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
CANNES - Friday 17 May 2013. The Russian Film Pavilion, which is supported by the Russian Federations‘ Ministry of Culture and ROSKINO, presented nine new Russian films and filmmakers for the first time to international distributors, festival selectors and the inter...
Cannes, Thursday 16th May
Making his Cannes Film Festival debut, as he embarks on his new career as a film star, is PUDSEY, the lovable quadruped who, with his human partner and trainer, ASHLEIGH, won a nation's hearts in 2012 as the winners of ITV's hit show, "Britain's Got Talent".
Directed by Nick Moore ("Horrid Henry: The Movie") from a screenplay by Paul Rose, the live-action talking-dog adventure PUDSEY: THE MOVIE ...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI
Country: FRANCE, AUSTRIA
Year: 2013
Duration: 94.00 minutes
Synopsis
Gary is young, agile, a quick learner. He's one of those who's never been promised anything. After a succession of odd jobs, he's taken on at a nuclear power plant. There, amongst the reactors and their high doses of radioactivity, he finally finds what he's been looking for: money, a ...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Flora LAU
Country: HONG KONG
Year: 2013
Duration: 95.00 minutes
Synopsis
BENDS straddles the Hong Kong--Shenzhen border and tells the story of ANNA, an affluent housewife and FAI, her chauffeur, and their unexpected friendship as they each negotiate the pressures of Hong Kong life and the city’s increasingly complex relationship to mainland China. ...
Nadine Vinzens gets the chance to talk to Michael B. Jordan, star of the new film, Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler. The film, a competitor in the Un Certain Regard section at the 66th Cannes Fillm Festival, is based on a true story of a man shot to death by a police officer in Oakland, California in 2009.
The two talk about Jordan's approach to the difficult role, and they practice a little French along the way.
by: Caroline Meintzer
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The Love Your Shorts Film Festival celebrates short films in Sanford, Florida.
The Festival screens only short films under 30 minutes in length. Films are divided into different blocks for screening and the audience votes for their favorites.
The winning films from each block advance to a final block for a panel of judges to pick the overall festival winner. Winners of each block earn the festival’s award, the “Monroe,” an original piece of metal artwork named after S...
