FESTIVAL DE CANNES
Special Screening
THE BELLE FROM GAZA
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Yolande Zauberman
They were a fleeting vision in the night. I was told that one of them had walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv. In my head I called her The belle from (...)
CANNES PREMIERE
JIM'S STORY
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu
Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, (...)
Official Competition
WILD DIAMOND
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Agathe Riedinger
Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved... Fate (...)
Un Certain Regard
SOULEYMANE'S STORY
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Boris Lojkine
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers. But Souleymane is not (...)
HOLY COW
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Louise Courvoisier
Totone, 18 years old, spends most of his time drinking beers and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends. But reality catches up with him: he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He (...)
VIET AND NAM
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Trương Minh Quý
Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. Black sea. Black coal. Burnt coal. Wet coal. Dusty coal. When Nam (...)
Directors’ Fortnight
IN HIS OWN IMAGE
echo JText::_('A_FILM_BY_FILM_BY'); ?>Thierry de Peretti
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the (...)