Cannes Market Dailies

GENRE - Psychological Drama
COUNTRY - France / Luxembourg / Belgium
PRODUCED BY Cinema Defacto (Tom Dercourt, Sophie Erbs), Tarantula (Donato Rotunno)
CO-PRODUCED BY Artemis (Patrick Quinet)
CAST - Nathalie Baye, Malik Zidi
 

SYNOPSIS
As he is driving his wife to the maternity ward, Thomas runs over and kills a young man on the road. Marie-France, the mother, will not get over the mourning of her lost son.
Nine years have passed. Marie-France has become Thomas' secretary and dangerously starts to interfere into his life, with one idea in mind: to get closer to his son...
 

VIRGIN MOUNTAIN
By Dagur KARI
Director of NOI ALBINOI, DARK HORSE, THE GOOD HEART
 

GENRE - Drama, 94 min
COUNTRY - Iceland / Denmark
PRODUCED BY RVK Studios - Sögn ehf (Baltasar Kormákur, Agnes Johansen)
CO-PRODUCED BY Nimbus Film (Bo Ehrhardt, Mikkel Jersin)
CAST - Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir
 

SYNOPSIS

Fúsi is in his forties and yet to find courage to enter the adult world. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key. When a bubbly woman and an 8-year old girl unexpectedly enter his life, he is forced to take a leap.


"Winner of the top prize and an acting award at Tribeca, “Virgin Mountain” could shine in arthouse play"
VARIETY
 

MUSICAL CHAIRS
By Marie BELHOMME
World Premiere - Selected at CANNES JUNIOR
 

GENRE - Comedy, 82 min
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY 31 Juin Films (Emmanuel Barraux, Agnès Vallée)
CAST - Isabelle Carré, Philippe Rebbot, Carmen Maura

SYNOPSIS
Perrine, a thirty-something woman, is a child at heart. When she accidentally makes a man fall in a dumpster, she runs away after calling for help.
But upon learning he is in a coma, she starts visiting him every day and does everything in her power to wake him up. Even if it means stealing his job, his apartment, his dog, his son’s custody, and even if it means falling for him…
 

UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS
 

TAJ MAHAL
By Nicolas SAADA
Scriptwriter of SLEEPLESS NIGHT, Director of SPY
 

GENRE - Thriller
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY Agat Films (Patrick Sobelman)
CAST - Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Gina McKee


Click here for Director's Q&A in Variety

SYNOPSIS
One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor. Within minutes, she realises that a terrorist attack is underway. Her only connection to the outside world is her cell phone, which allows her to maintain contact with her father, who is desperately trying to reach her from the other side of a city that has been plunged into chaos. Louise must spend a long night alone in the face of danger. She will never be the same again.
 

THE GREAT GAME
By Nicolas PARISER
 

GENRE - Political thriller
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY Bizibi (Emmanuel Agneray)
CAST - Melvil Poupaud, André Dussollier, Clémence Poésy, Sophie Cattani

SYNOPSIS
Pierre, a one-time best-selling author, agrees to work as a ghost writer for Joseph - a man who commands the political influence at the heart of the French State. Joseph is fomenting a conspiracy against the Interior Minister and will take advantage of his new protégé to achieve his own ends.

Soon realizing the life-threatening implications linked to his new job, Pierre will be seduced by Laura, a young activist. But is she really as harmless as she looks?

FULL CONTACT
By David VERBEEK
Director of R U THERE
 

GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - Netherlands / Croatia
PRODUCED BY Lemming Film (Eva Eisenloeffel, Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries)
CO-PRODUCED BY Nukleus Film (Siniša Juričić)
CAST - Grégoire Colin, Lizzie Brocheré, Slimane Dazi

SYNOPSIS
Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man who accidentally bombed a school through a remotely operated drone plane. Ivan, operating the plane from a far away air force base, has never been to the foreign countries of his attacks, nor has he ever touched the plane he uses to kill. Modern warfare keeps him safe and disconnected from his prey. However, after this incident Ivan's disconnectedness starts to apply to everything in his life. He is unable to process his overwhelming feelings of guilt, but needs to open up to his new love Cindy. Only by facing his victims he can rediscover his humanity and find a new purpose in life.
 

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EXTRAORDINARY TALES
By Raul GARCIA

GENRE - Animation, 73 min
COUNTRY - Luxembourg / USA / Spain / Belgium
PRODUCED BY Mélusine Productions (Stephan Roelants)
CO-PRODUCED BY Melon Digital, The Big Farm, R&R Communications

THE TALES • The fall of the house of Usher • The tell-tale heart • The facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar • The mask of the red death • The pit and the pendulum

WITH THE VOICES OF Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, Guillermo del Toro
 

SYNOPSIS
A feature film anthology composed of five stories of Edgar Allan Poe, each crafted in a graphic design style uniquely suited to the individual segments and inspired by visual artists and illustrators, whose style best expresses the psychological depth and complexity of Poe’s dark universe. The animation styles and techniques used for each segment vary with the graphic styles as we use textures, rendering techniques, colorization, and mixtures of 2D and 3D backgrounds with 3D animation to uniquely express the psychological adventures of Poe’s characters as they twist and turn in the darkest crevices of his tortured imagination.