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Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Valeria GOLINO
Country: ITALY, FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 96.00 minutes
Synopsis
Miele is the story of Irene a 30 years old girl who helps suffering people.Terminal patients who want to make shorter the struggle with death, people whose suffering injure the dignity of an human being. One day a 70 years old man in good health, who simply thinks to have lived enough, asks her to help him. The meeting will put to the test Irene’s convicti...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Alain GUIRAUDIE
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 97.00 minutes
Synopsis
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel. An attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.
Credits
Alain GUIRAUDIE - Director
Alain GUIRAUDIE - Screenplay
Claire M...
Documentary investigates role of media and politics in post-quake reconstruction efforts
(Cannes, France) – ID Communications announces the World market premiere of “Haiti Untold” a feature-length documentary taking us behind the scenes of the aftermath of Haiti's 2010 Earthquake. The film presents an overview of progress in the country in the last 3 years and features Joey Adler, CEO of OnexOne Foundation, Donna Karan (...
By Liza Foreman
Voltage Pictures has added the Taliban-themed Untitled Drones Project to its Cannes line up.
The package, as it is being presented here, includes Chris Pine (Star Trek Into Darkness) in the lead role, with Andrew Niccol (Lord of War, Gattaca) directing and writing. Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier is producing.
The story follows a fighter pilot turned drone pilot. Based in Las Vegas, he fights the Taliban by remote control all day befor...
From acclaimed indie director James O'Brien comes the new controversial cult sci-fi feature film HYPERFUTURA, starring break out talent Eric Kopatz- available now on iTunes and cable VOD and coming soon to Amazon Prime.
Utilizing experimental multi-media techniques, HYPERFUTURA challenges the Hollywood mainstream with an extreme alternative cinema that makes use of archival footage and special effects married to a live action narrative. Like Terrenc...
By Liza Foreman
Voltage Pictures has added the Taliban-themed Untitled Drones Project to its Cannes line up.
The package, as it is being presented here, includes Chris Pine (Star Trek Into Darkness) in the lead role, with Andrew Niccol (Lord of War, Gattaca) directing and writing. Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier is producing.
The story follows a fighter pilot turned drone pilot. Based in Las Vegas, he fights the Taliban by remote control all day before going home to the...
In Competition
Directed by: Amat ESCALANTE
Country: MEXICO, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, FRANCE
Year:2013
Duration: 105.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young police cadet who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve this dream, her family will have to live the violence that is devastating the region.
CREDITS
Amat ESCALANTE&nb...
IN competition
Directed by: François OZON
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 95.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
A coming-of-age portrait of a 17-year-old French girl over four seasons and four songs.
François OZON - Director
François OZON - Screenplay
Pascal MARTI - Cinematography
Katia WYSZKOP - Set Designer
Philippe ROMBI - Music
Laure GARDETTE - Film Editor
...
This Funny and Exciting Film Will Leave You Hot
Los Angeles, CA – May 13, 2013 / Writer, actor, and executive producer Richard Snyder brings the short film, On the Nature of Hotness, to viewers from all over the globe at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Among these viewers will be several directors and producers, financiers and people waiting to be influenced by this film.
On the Nature of Hotness is both a funny and a profound film that challenges ...
Los Angeles, CA May 15, 2013 / On a quiet night in the desert, a young man’s life is about to change. Mystify tells the story of a hitchhiker who gets much more out of a simple ride to town than he could have ever imagined: an education.
Mystify is South-African director Johnny Swanepoel’s fifth short film. It’s about a young hitchhiker (Cole) in the lone desert who is looking for a quiet ride to the next town. What he doesn’t know is that t...
Connecting through Dance
Los Angeles, CA May 15, 2013 / Director Javier Badillo and writer/actress Liberty Kee bring their second collaboration, a short film entitled Afternoon at Gudrun, to the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Short Film Corner. Shot on 35mm, the film explores what happens when a shy, awkward waitress with a passion for the waltz meets a friendly, handsome customer looking for lessons. The film also features an original and delightful musical score tha...
Pushing Boundaries and Provoking Thought is what this Film is All About
Los Angeles, CA – May 13, 2013 / Russian-born writer, director, and producer Marusya Syroechkovskaya and co-producer and assistant director Gleb Nechaev are bringing their short film, Exploration of Confinement, to viewers from around the world at the 2013 Cannes Court Metrage and its Short Film Corner. Among these viewers will be film financiers, famous directors and produce...
For These Small-Town Indie Filmmakers, the Show Must Go On!
Los Angeles, CA (May 13, 2013)
Texas indie filmmakers, producer Geoff McGee and director Derek Presley, have been accepted by the official 66th Festival De Cannes Court Metrage 2013 to screen their short film, Stryngs. A dramatic tale of the life and death of Ambrosio the Great (played by well-known and accomplished actor Grant James), the short is about an aging puppeteer whose end is im...
SHORT FILM TIRAMISU TO PREMIERE AT 66TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES COURT METRAGE
Indie Filmmaker Centers on Character-Driven Story
Los Angeles, CA – May 13, 2013 / Writer and director Lawrence Michael Parker brings the world his directorial debut, TIRAMISU, a short film to be seen at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the short film corner. Directors, producers, and critics from all over the world will be exposed to Parker&rsqu...
Un Certain Regard - Film d'Ouverture
Directed by : Sofia COPPOLA
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 90.00 minutes
Synopsis
In the fame-obsessed world of Los Angeles, a group of teenagers take us on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree in the Hollywood hills. Based on true events, the group, who were fixated on the glamorous life, tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orl...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Ryan COOGLER
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 85.00 minutes
Synopsis
This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn't ...
Paramount is the first distributor to go live with a new data collection service in Australia and the UK. The data collection service is part of a suite of web services called Cinemabridge created by MACCS International to integrate the distribution workflow between distributors and exhibitors.
The data collection service of CinemaBridge is a secure data exchange to collect electronic box office returns from exhibitors and match them to the bookings collected from the distribu...
In Competition
Directed by: Asghar FARHADI
Country: FRANCE, ITALY
Year:2013
Duration:130.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his French wife Marie's request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure. During his brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her daughter Lucie. Ahmad's efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from...
Out of Competition - Opening Film
Directed by : Baz LUHRMANN
Country: USA, AUSTRALIA
Year: 2012
Duration: 142.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
"The Great Gatsby" follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a myster...
' Bombay Talkies'- An Ode to Indian Cinema
Cannes Festival, 2013 - Country Focus : INDIA
INDIA is the Country in focus,at this year's Ca...
CROATIAN FILM "HALIMA'S PATH"
A FILM ABOUT TWO MOTHER”S WHO SHARE ONE SON
A REVELATION AT LA SOUTHEAST EURO FESTIVAL
By Alex Deleon
The Southeast European Film Festival of Los Angeles, now in its eight year, was founded by Vera Mijojic a go-getting Serbian lady from Sarajevo, Bosnia, with a strong cinema background in ex-Yugoslavia as an international production assistant and critic. She left Yugoslavia as it was descending into civil war in 1992 and rese...
A comedic short that was conceived at the 65th Cannes Film Festival returns to be part of the Court de Metrage: Merci Beaucoup Bradley Cooper.
Merci Beaucoup Bradley Cooper is a comedic short film about the power of fame and the determination of an aspiring actress named Barbara. When Barbara, played by Anne-Christine Caro, stumbles upon what truly could be Bradley Cooper’s Doppelganger, Nicolas-Henri Bozzi, she hatches a plan on how to ...
The Luminance, a short about finding human connection, will be coming to the Cannes Film Festival’s Court de Metrage this May.
A man seeks out an arbitrary connection and finds it with a prostitute. The two seek a cure for their loneliness in Tehran and find that they have more in common than what appears at first glance.
Iranian filmmaker, Hasti Saadi, who came from Iran and moved to Toronto at age 17 with her family, brings a touching tale of the search for understanding and ...
The young men who live in the same building with Writer/Director/Producer Bruce B. Gordon often chat about sports, work, and “girlfriend drama.” The fact that they are disabled doesn’t affect the kinds of desires, hopes and dreams they have – and that’s exactly the humanizing story Gordon seeks to tell in his new short film, Whole ‘Nother Level, which will be featured at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Los Angeles, CA – May 7, 2013 / In th...
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