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Rezo2009CannesRezo
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Jaffa - Official Selection – Out of Competition
I Killed My Mother – Directors’ Fortnight
Tsar - Official Selection – Un Certain Regard
Skirt Day – Market screening
The Admiral – Market screening
The Yes Men Fix The World – Market screening
Hooked – Market screening
Nurse.Fighter.Boy – Market screening
Khamsa – Market screening
Acne – Market screening
COMING UP
Mademoiselle Chambon
if One Holds On, Others Will Follow
Official Selection - Out of Competition
jaffa Keren Yedaya
With Dana Ivgy (Or), Moni Moshonov (We Own the Night, Two Lovers), Ronit Elkabetz (The Band’s Visit)Produced by Jérôme Bleitrach, Emmanuel Agneray (Bizibi Productions), Marek Rozenbaum (Transfax Film Production), Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stöter (Rohfilm)By the director of Or (Camera d’Or – Cannes 2004)
Drama, 2009, 104 min, Hebrew
Camera d’Or winner Keren Yedaya returns to Cannes with the poignant story of an impossible love.
Synopsis
In the heart of Jaffa, a city nicknamed «the Bride of the Sea» by the Israelis, Reuven has a garage, run as a family business. His daughter Mali and his son Meir, as well as Toufik and Hassan, a young Palestinian and his father, work there for Reuven. No one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years. As the two lovers are secretly making their wedding arrangements, tension builds between Meir and Toufik…
KEREN YEDaYa
«This is our tragedy: we just don’t listen to each other’s points of view. In the film, the characters don’t see each other, don’t speak to each other, don’t listen to each other…On the surface, this family looks completely normal and functional. Deep down, though, they’re pretty screwed up...»
I KILLED MY MOTHER
Directors’ Fortnight - Caméra d’Or Contender
Xavier Dolan
With anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, Suzanne Clément, François arnaud, Patricia Tulasne, Niels SchneiderProduced by Xavier Dolan, Daniel Morin (Boréal Films), Carole Mondello (Mifilifilms Inc.)
Drama, 2009, 90 min, french
Xavier Dolan, 19-years-old, portrays an unforgettable story of love/hate relationship between a son and his mother. Breathtaking !
Synopsis
Hubert Minel doesn’t love his mother. The 17-years-old haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent’s cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical – artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex and ostracism.
«Those who have no dreams will die out of cold»
Official Selection – Un Certain Regard
TSaR Pavel Lungin
With Piotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovsky, Ramilia Iskander, anastassia DontsovaProduced by Pavel Lungin, Olga VassilievaDoP: Tom Stern (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby) By the director of The Island
Drama, 2009, 114 min, Russian
With a 20M USD budget and a stunning cinematography by Clint Eastwood’s DoP, Lungin delivers a fascinating and spectacular story of the corruption of power.
Synopsis
16th century. In a Russia plagued by conspiracies and riots, Ivan the Terrible firmly believes he is invested with a divine mission. He establishes an absolute power, crushing, with a cruelty beyond belief , whoever gets in his way. In this atmosphere of terror, the Head of the Church, Filipp, great scholar and close friend of Ivan, dares to stand up and denounce the mystical tyranny of the Sovereign….
PaVEL LUNGIN
«It’s the story of a betrayed friendship, between two very Shakespearean characters : one has become a saint and the other a monster»
Market screening
SKIRT DaYjean-Paul Lilienfeld
With Isabelle adjani, Denis Podalydès, Yann Collette, Jackie BerroyerProduced by Bénédicte Lesage, ariel askénazi (Mascaret Films)Premiered at Berlin Panorama 2009.
After six years off-screen, Isabelle Adjani as never seen before…
Synopsis
One day, a school teacher takes her students hostage.
Quotes
«This film is deliberately provocative, challenging well-meaning liberalism and the loonier aspects of contempo political correctness.» VaRIETY
«A « shock » film, both funny and tragic»LE MOnDE
JEaN-PaUL LILIENFELD
«I have long believed the inner-city problem was fairly simple to express in the form of an equation using two widely known variables : poverty + racism = rage. I wanted to talk about the hardening of positions, the regression of boy-girl relationships. I hope Skirt Day is a story that reminds us that, whatever our political or religious choices, indisputable values do exist that cannot be transgressed.»
Drama, 2009, 88 min, french
Market screening
THE aDMIRaLandrey Kravchuk
With Konstantin Khabensky, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Sergei Bezrukov, Richard BohringerProduced by anatoly Maximov, Djanik Faiziev, Konstantin Ernst, Mikhail Churbanov, Dimitri Yurkov (Film Direction, Dago Studio Production)Premiered at Berlin 2009Sold to over 25 territoriesBy the director of The Italian
Epic drama, 2008, 118 min, Russian
The Admiral breaks all records : biggest Russian production ever and highest-grossing film in Russia with over 40.000.000 USD.
Synopsis
Gifted officer, devoted heart and soul to the monarchy, Admiral Koltchak chooses to fight the 1917 Bolchevik revolution. He must also battle not to fall for his forbidden love, Anna, the young wife of an agent. Leading the White Army to Siberia, he comes across the one he loves and, encircled by the Reds, will be forced to face his destiny.
Quotes
«Entertaining and epic !» VaRIETY
«Admiral is a rare action film that has both a strong script and an excellent cast. An outstanding achievement.»THE TIMES
aNDREI KRaVChUK
«The main task of the film wasn’t to recreate an exact transposition of history, but to tell the passionate love story between a man who became a Russian civil war hero and his beloved. This is a love story that can defeat time and death.»
Market screening
THE YES MEn fIX THE WORLDandy Bichlbaum, Mike BonannoCo-directed by Kurt Engfehr (Bowling for Columbine, fahrenheit 911)
Produced by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike BonannoExecutive producers: Patrice Barrat, Alan HaylingPremiered at Sundance 2009. Opening documentary film at Berlin Panorama 2009. Winner audience award Berlin 2009.
Documentary, 2009, 90 min, Englishwww.theyesmen.org
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can’t take «no» for an answer. They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate.
Synopsis
Through this blistering feature documentary, we nervously follow the daring political pranks of two gonzo activists ; they take on the fake identity of corporate executives in a bid to highlight the greed and brutal selfishness of some of the world’s biggest and most powerful multi-national corporations.
Quotes
«The Yes Men Fix The World could be this season’s choice.»SCREEn
«This movie is a hoot, and a pertinent one at that.... There’s something tonic about the impudent laughter this engaging documentary provokes.»HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
«The Yes Men Fix the World» finds its titular merry pranksters up to yet more capitalist-critiquing chicanery and fat-cat-fooling fun.» VaRIETY
«It shines with raw wit and originality.»nEWSWEEK«Comedic vigilante justice... Media-savvy pie-to-the-face.»USa Today
In post-production
MaDEMOISELLE CHaMBOn
With Vincent Lindon (Welcome), Sandrine Kiberlain (After you…, Love me), Aure Atika (OSS 117, The Beat that my Heart Skipped)Produced by Milena Poylo, Gilles Sacuto (TS Productions : Exterminating Angels, Seraphine)By the director of not Here To Be Loved.
Drama, 2009, french
After the international success of Not Here To Be Loved (sold to over 35 territories), Stéphane Brizé returns with his usual elegance and subtle scriptwriting, in a story that echoes in each and everyone of us.
Synopsis
Antonio leads a pretty ordinary life : he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerizing, unlike any woman he has ever met before. This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organized life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret ?
A Woman.A Revelation.A Decision.
Stephane Brizé
In post-production New Acquisition
If OnE HOLDS On, OTHERS WILL fOLLOW Léa fehner
With Farida Rahouadj, Reda Kateb, Pauline Etienne, Marc BarbéProduced by Jean-Michel Rey, Philippe Liégeois (Rezo Productions)
Drama, 2009, french
A new powerful voice in French cinema. In the spirit of the Dardenne brothers, Fehner invites you to an emotional journey.
Synopsis
Zorah, an elderly woman, wants to meet her son’s murderer. Laure, a sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum, needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. Stephane, a young delivery man, is offered a deal to take the place of a gangster inmate so that the latter may escape. Two women, one man, three destinies that come together in the visiting room of a prison…
LEa FEhNER
«The visiting room of a prison is for me a fictional place by nature. Subject to very strict rules, men and women share a moment of their lives. Under such pressure, situations become more tense leaving no space for intimacy.»
nURSE.fIGHTER.BOYCharles Officer
HOOKED adrian Sitaru
Drama, 2008, 80’, RomanianVenice 2008 – Venice Days
A remarkable voice in Romanian cinema
KHaMSa Karim Dridi
Drama, 2008, 95’, frenchPiazza Grande Locarno 2008 – Toronto 2008
«A performance of such intensity comes along rarely, and well-crafted pic could connect solidly to arthouse auds.» Variety
aCnE federico Veiroj
Drama, 2008, 90’, SpanishCannes 2008 – Directors’ fortnightWinner Grand jury Prize at afI fest 2008
«Familiar themes get a fresh spin in a well-crafted and assured debut (…) The enjoyable youth perfs are delicately stylized with a soupçon of Aki Kaurismaki deadpan» Variety
Drama, 2008, 93’, EnglishToronto 2008
«Strong performances, accomplished story telling, and lyrical visual style» Variety