UDI Cannes 2015 final Lineup

 

ALIAS MARIA

 

Drama - Colombia, Argentina, France - 2015 - 92min

Maria, a 13-year-old guerrilla soldier, has to fulfill a mission along with 3 other soldier-kids: take the commander’s new-born baby to a safe town.
But nobody knows the secret she conceals: she’s pregnant and giving birth is forbidden in the guerrilla.

Screenings 16/05/2015 16:00 Riviera 1 Private - Buyers Only 18/05/2015 12:00 Lerins 2 Private - Buyers Only 19/05/2015 11:00 Debussy Official 20/05/2015 11:00 Bazin Repetition 21/05/2015 12:00 Riviera 2 Market 22/05/2015 14:00 Debussy Repetition

 

LONG WAY NORTH

 

Animation - France, Denmark - 2015 - 81min

Sasha, a young aristocratic girl growing up in Russia at the end of the 19th century, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole.
Oloukine has passed on his calling as an explorer to Sasha, but her parents, who have already made the arrangements for their daughter’s marriage, do not approve in the least. So Sasha rebels against her destiny, flees her home and resolves to go join Oloukine... a long way North.

Screenings 15/05/2015 14:00 Riviera 1 Private - Buyers Only 17/05/2015 10:00 Riviera 1 Private - Buyers Only Budget: USD $10,000,000


Produced by: Sacrebleu Productions
Co-Produced by: Maybe Movies
(ERNEST & CELESTINE)
& Norlum (SONG OF THE SEA)

 

BURN BURN BURN

 

Comedy - UK - 2015

Dan is dead. He was only 29. Alex and Seph loved him like a sibling. And now he’s left them his ashes to scatter across the UK, along with elaborate video instructions for doing so. London, Stonehenge, Cardiff, York, Ben Lomond : road trip ! BURN BURN BURN is a dark comedy with a warmth at its heart. Alex and Seph are in the eye of a storm, with decisions to make in every corner of their lives; and the one helping them make those decisions… is dead. It’s just like Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’. In a Volvo. With a dead friend's ashes in some tupperware in the glove compartment.

Starring Laura Carmichael
(DOWNTON ABBEY)
&
Chloe Pirrie
(BAFTA nominated in 2013 for SHELL)

 

HECTOR

 

Drama - UK - 2015 - 100min

Hector has been living around the motorways with transient friends for years. After so long on the move, he hopes to have left his past far behind. The story follows Hec’s annual pilgrimage, on the roads and in the cities, from Scotland to a Christmas shelter in London where he finds warmth and friendship. But his clock is ticking and he is compelled to try to reconnect with his real family that he last saw 15 years before…
A portrait of an invisible man and an authentic account of homelessness within contemporary Britain, HECTOR is at once a powerful character study and an insight into the lives of those on the margins.

Screening 18/05/2015 09:30 Lerins 1 Private - Buyers Only Starring Peter Mullan
(WAR HORSE, TYRANNOSAUR, BOY A)
&
Gina McKee
(JIMMY P, NOTTING HILL)

 

THE ENDLESS RIVER

 

Crime Drama - South Africa - 2015

A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend after his four-year jail sentence. At first it appears that her plans for a new life together have finally been realized.
But when a farmer’s wife and sons are brutally slaughtered at a nearby farm, the young waitress and the widowed farmer start gravitating toward one another. They form an unlikely bond, fueled by mutual anger, pain and loneliness that ultimately results in more violence and bloodshed.

A fierce crime drama set against an unforgiving landscape, THE ENDLESS RIVER is a story about morality, love, revenge and forgiveness.

Starring Nicolas Duvauchelle
(POLISSE, BRAQUO, WHITE MATERIAL)

From the acclaimed director of BEAUTY

 

INCIDENT LIGHT

 

Drama - Argentina, France, Uruguay - 2015

Since the accident, Luisa is not been able to put her life back together. That is when a seductive stranger comes into her life with vehemence and proposes starting over. When this man appears, Luisa gets confronted to a grieving process that she had previously systematically avoided. The new man’s overwhelming energy may serve to hide some warning signs about his character, but Luisa’s confused state means that the desire she feels for the present man is juxtaposed with the figure of the absent man, and her inability to accept her husband’s death is blurred with the possibility to rebuild a family. Luisa is caught in contradictions, hurled into a world of blurry lines between what’s possible and what’s advisable. A powerful anxiety ravishes everything and everyone that comes in its path.

From the director of EL OTRO
Berlinale 2007
Jury Grand Prix - Silver Bear
Silver Bear for Best Actor

 

BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES

 

Drama - Vietnam, France, Germany, The Netherlands - 2015 - 102min

Saigon, early 2000’s. Vu, a photography student, has just arrived in town. Immediately attracted to his handsome roommate Thang, a bouncer and low-level drug dealer, Vu starts following him on his escapades through the city's nightlife, where he discovers a whole new world. He soon also meets Van, a sensual female dancer who maintains a casual relationship with Thang. The three of them develop an increasingly ambiguous friendship. One night, they are involved in a street fight and forced to flee to Vu’s native village. There they are warmly welcomed by his father, who seizes the occasion to introduce Vu to the wife he has chosen for him...

Screening 16/05/2015 09:30 Lerins 1 Market "Channeling early
Wong Kar-Waiand Tsai Ming-Liang,
mixed with a touch of French New Wave and Thai arthouse (…)
Big Father is shot through with desire and nostalgia, and it does capture something about an age of freedom without responsibility, when anything seems possible"
SCREEN

 

FELIX AND MEIRA

 

Romance - Canada - 2014 - 105min

Félix is an eccentric and penniless French Canadian whose wealthy father is dying. Meira is a Hasidic woman married with a child, searching for something new. They were not meant to meet, let alone fall in love.
Félix and Meira tells the miraculous love story between two separate beings from two distinct communities, who attempt to love each other despite what separate them. 

Winner Best Canadian Film at Toronto IFF
for "its immense sophistication and craftmanship in telling a brave story bridging two disparate worlds, its generosity of spirit, masterful use of music, and exquisite performances"

 

RED ROSE

 

Drama - France, Greece, Iran - 2014 - 87min

Tehran. June 2009.
The uproar of a city swinging with the "Green Wave" of protest to the rigged presidential election.
An apartment as a shelter.
A man and a woman who belong to two different generations.
A mobile phone and a computer to communicate with the free world.
A love story, that will change two lives.

A love story forged in the flames of the
"Green Revolution"

 

THESE ARE THE RULES

 

Drama - Croatia, France, Serbia, Macedonia - 2014 - 78min

Ivo & Maja live a quiet life in a dull suburb of Zagreb. One night their only son Tomica is violently attacked on the street by another teenager, beaten and left severely injured. Their world of false security collapses. 
As they go through an unbearable ordeal, they are forced to re-examine their lives and question everything they believed in.

Best Actor Prize in Venice Orizzonti

 

KURAI KURAI: TALES ON THE WIND

 

Drama - The Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan - 2014 - 85min

A journey based on tales of the wind, about life and death, through the land of the kurai (tumbleweed), where nothing is as it seems. A collection of stories and characters connected by the kurai as it rolls along with the wind.