A few days ago, the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its selection. Our predictions were not far off! Here are the details of this selection:
COMPETITION
Jeanne Du Barry – Film d’ouverture
A film by Maïwenn
With: Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Pierre Richard, Noémie Lvovsky, Benjamin Lavernhe, India Hair, Melvil Poupaud, Pascal Greggory, Ibrahim Yaffa, David Decraene
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Club Zéro
A film by Jessica Hausner
With: Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Amir ElMasry, Elsa Zylberstein, Mathieu Demy, Amanda Lawrence, Sam Hoare, Camilla Rutherford, Keeley Forsyth, Lukas Turtur
A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students — a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
The Zone of interest
A film by Jonathan Glazer
With: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Fallen Leaves
A film by Aki Kaurismäki
With: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Anna Karjalainen, Kaisa Karjalainen, Janne Hyytiäinen
The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of the welfare state.
Four daughters
A film by Kaouther Ben Hania
With: Hend Sabry
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories.
Asteroid city
A film by Wes Anderson
With: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber
Set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Anatomy of a fall
A film by Justine Triet
With: Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado-Graner, Swann Arlaud, Saadia Bentaïeb, Jehnny Beth, Samuel Theis, Antoine Reinartz
A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness
Monster
A film by Hirokazu Kore-eda
With: Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Kakuta, Shidô Nakamura, Yūko Tanaka, Soya Kurokawa
The behavior of young Minato is more and more worrying.
His mother, who has been raising him alone since the death of her husband, decides to confront the educational team of her son’s school.
Everything seems to point to Minato’s teacher as the one responsible for the boy’s problems.
But as the story unfolds through the eyes of the mother, the teacher and the child, the truth turns out to be much more complex and nuanced than anyone had originally anticipated…
A brighter tomorrow
A film by Nanni Moretti
With: Nanni Moretti, Mathieu Amalric, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Elena Lietti, Barbora Bobuľová, Jerzy Stuhr, Valentina Romani, Arianna Serrao, Laura Nardi
A film director unhappy with the movie he’s shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife.
Last Summer
A film by Catherine Breillat
With: Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Samuel Kircher, Clotilde Courau
A lawyer, mother of two little girls, welcomes into her home the 17-year-old son from her husband’s first marriage, with whom she will have an affair.
Les Herbes Sèches / KURU OTLAR USTUNE
A film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
With: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Murat Kılıç, Onur Gürçay
The film follows Samet, a young teacher, who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia, while hoping to be assigned to Istanbul. When he and his colleague Kenan are accused of harassment by two female students, he loses all hope of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. But his meeting with Nuray, herself a teacher, may help him overcome his angst.
La chimère
A film by Alice Rohrwacher
With: Isabella Rossellini, Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Vincenzo Nemolato, Chiara Pazzaglia, Luca Chikovani
Follows the travails of Arthur, an Englishman in Italy with a preternatural ability to connect with the land.
La passion de Dodin Bouffant
A film by Tran Anh Hung
With: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Patrick d’Assumçao, Emmanuel Salinger, Jan Hammenecker, Frédéric Fisbach, Galatéa Bellugi, Pierre Gagnaire
Eugenie, an esteemed cook, has been working for over the last 20 years for Dodin, a fine gourmet. Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit to him, he decides to start cooking for her.
Kidnapped
A film by Marco Bellocchio
With: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Andrea Gherpelli, Samuele Teneggi, Corrado Invernizzi, Leonardo Maltese, Enea Sala
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
May/December
A film by Todd Haynes
With: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Elizabeth Yu, Andrea Frankle, Cory Michael Smith, Kelvin Han Yee, Joan Reilly, Piper Curda, Gabriel Chung
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Jeunesse
A film by Wang Bing
Liming is a working class district near Shanghai, the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages to settle here. They are between 17 and 20 years old and all come from the rural province of Yunnan, 2,500 km to the west, where the Yangtze River originates. These young Yunnanese often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitary rooms, or sometimes in small studios. They lack the time and space to meet each other. So they communicate via QQ, MSN China. They live like adults but they are teenagers, and the unstable situation, the economic pressures, the geographical dispersion, burn their innocence and their youth. Wang Bing spends a year with them in Liming: at work, at home, on the Internet, every day of their professional, romantic and friendly relationships. At the end of the year, he will follow them in the opposite direction, to their home province, to find their families and celebrate the Chinese New Year.
The old oak
A film by Ken Loach
With: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Debbie Honeywood, Andy Dawson, Chris Gotts, Rob Kirtley, Chris Braxton, Lloyd Mullings, Reuben Bainbridge, Joe Armstrong
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once-thriving mining community that has seen thirty hard years of decline. TJ Ballantyne, the landlord, hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship, TJ meets a curious young Syrian woman, Yara, who has a camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.
PERFECT DAYS
A film by Wim Wenders
With: Koji Yakusho, Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura, Aoi Yamada, Min Tanaka, Yumi Asou
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.
FIREBRAND
A film by Karim Aïnouz
With: Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Simon Russell Beale, Erin Doherty, Sam Riley, Eddie Marsan, Ruby Bentall, Bryony Hannah, Maia Jemmett, Patsy Ferran
Follows Queen Catherine Parr and Henry VIII marriage.
BANEL E ADAMA
First film
A film by Ramata-Toulaye Sy
With: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Moussa Sow, Binta Racine Sy
Young adults Banel and Adama live in a small remote village in northern Senegal. Adama is introverted and discreet while Banel is passionate and rebellious, they are destined to love each other with an eternal love. But the couple will be put to the test by the conventions of the community, because where they live, there is no place for passions, and even less for the chaos.
BLACK FLIES
A film by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
With: Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt, Kali Reis, Mike Tyson, Onie Maceo Watlington, Raquel Nave
Young paramedic Ollie Cross is partnered with experienced medic Rutkovsky, who thrusts him into the harsh realities of New York’s inner-city streets. Amidst high crime rates, homelessness, and widespread drug use, Ollie finds his perspective on life and death beginning to shift.
LE RETOUR
A film by Catherine Corsini
With: Aissatou Diallo Sagna, Esther Gohourou, Suzy Bemba, Lomane de Dietrich, Cédric Appietto, Marie-Ange Geronimi, Harold Orsoni, Jean Michelangeli, Virginie Ledoyen, Denis Podalydès
Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. The opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances. While Khédidja struggles with her memories, the two teenagers indulge in all the summer temptations: unexpected encounters, the 400 knocks, and their first love affairs. This trip will be the occasion for them to discover a part of their history and to get closer.
UN CERTAIN REGARD
LE RÈGNE ANIMAL
Opening film
A film by Thomas Cailley
With: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Jean Boronat, Nathalie Richard, Nicolas Avinée, Louise Lehry, Jean Boronat
An adventure between a father and his son, in a world where some humans have started mutating into other animal species.
The delinquentes
A film by Rodrigo Moreno
With: Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Sergio Hernández, Cecilia Rainero, Daniel Elías
Two bank employees, Román and Morán, question their routines and their daily lives. One of them finds a solution: commit a crime. Somehow, he succeeds and extends his fate to his partner. This leads them to make a big change in their lives in the hope of a better existence.
HOW TO HAVE SEX
First feature film
A film by Molly Manning Walker
With: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Samuel Bottomley, Lara Peake, Eilidh Loan, Shaun Thomas, Daisy Jelley
Le film raconte l’histoirhree British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.e de trois amis qui font face à la pression de leurs pairs dans leur décision de passer à l’acte.
GOODBYE JULIA
First feature film
A film by Mohamed Kordofani
With: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Goma, Ger Duany
Just before the separation of South Sudan, a married former singer from the North seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid.
KADIB ABYAD
(LA MÈRE DE TOUS LES MENSONGES)
A film by Asmae El Moudir
The new film of Asmae EL MOUDIR
The nature of Love
A film by Monia Chokri
With: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Francis-William Rhéaume, Monia Chokri, Steve Laplante, Marie-Ginette Guay, Guy Thauvette, Micheline Lanctôt, Guillaume Laurin, Christine Beaulieu
In this film with caustic humor, Sophia’s comfortable life is turned upside down the day she meets Sylvain, an entrepreneur from the Laurentians. She will leave everything to live this burning passion, telling herself that it will perhaps be the last of her life. But a whole world separates lovers ··· She comes from a wealthy intellectual background in Montreal, while Sylvain comes from a family of manual workers. Sophia will be released from it for a solid questioning of her own values and aspirations after having however abandoned herself to her great romantic impulses.
The Buriti Flower
A film by João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
The new film of João SALAVIZA and Renée NADER MESSORA
The Settlers
First film
A film by Felipe Gálvez Haberle
With: Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley, Benjamín Westfall, Alfredo Castro, Marcelo Alonso, Mishell Guaña, Sam Spruell
Three horsemen are hired by a rich landowner to mark out the perimeter of his expansive property. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean native, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid.
Omen
First film
A film by Baloji Tshiani
With: Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay
Between Brussels, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Augure borrows from magic realism to paint a portrait of “undesirables” and “sorcerers” through the intertwined stories of protagonists of different genders and generations, confronted with the prejudice and suspicion of those around them
THE BREAKING ICE
A film by Anthony Chen
With: Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao
Nana travels with her two friends. They spent a free but melancholy weekend traveling from the city to the snowy forest in the North.
ROSALIE
A film by Stéphanie Di Giusto
With: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Juliette Armanet, Gustave Kervern, Guillaume Gouix, Benjamin Voisin, Alexis Manenti
Set at the end of the 19th century, the film recounts the destiny of the first bearded woman, at the heart of a love story.
THE NEW BOY
A film by Warwick Thornton
With: Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Kenneth Radley
In 1940s Australia, a 9-year-old aboriginal orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, and his presence disturbs its delicately balanced world.
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
A film by Zoljargal Purevdash
Teenager Ulzii lives in an undeveloped area of Ulaanbaatar. When his alcoholic mother leaves him with his younger siblings to gather nuts for money, he has to keep his home warm while following his dream to participate in physics competitions.
HOPELESS
First film
A film by Kim Chang-hoon
With: Hong Xa-bin, Song Joong-ki, BIBI
A film noir about dangerous people who make risky choices to escape from their hellish realities
TERRESTRIAL VERSES (Ayeh haye zamini)
A film by Ali Asgari ,Alireza Khatami
With Majid Salehi, Sadaf Asgari, Gohar Kheirandish, Ardeshir Kazemi, Hossein Soleimani
A man declares the birth of his son. A mother dresses her daughter for school. A student is summoned by the principal. A young woman is contesting a parking ticket. A young girl is going to a job interview. A young man comes to collect his driver’s license. An unemployed man answers an ad. A director asks for permission to film. A woman tries to find her dog. Nine faces of daily life in Tehran.
RIEN À PERDRE
First film
A film by Delphine Deloget
With: Virginie Efira, Arieh Worthalter, Félix Lefebvre, India Hair, Mathieu Demy, Sandrine Bodenes, Louise Morin, Christophe Briand, Arnaud Stéphan, Kaou Langoët
Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
LES MEUTES
First film
A film by Kamal Lazraq
With: Ayoub Elaid, Abdellatif Masstouri
In the working class suburbs of Casablanca. Hassan and Issam, father and son, try to survive from day to day, doing small deals for the local underworld. One night, a man they were supposed to kidnap dies accidentally in their car. Hassan and Issam find themselves with a corpse to dispose of. Then begins a long night through the underworld of the city.
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS
A film by Wei Shujun
With: Zhu Yilong, Zeng Meihuizi, Tianlai Hou, Linkai Tong, Zeng Qi
Chief of police, Ma Zhe investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. Though an arrest is made quickly, certain clues push him to delve deeper into the hidden behavior of the locals and piece the truth together.
UNE NUIT
The film will be screened out of competition at the closing of Un Certain Regard
A film by Alex Lutz
With: Alex Lutz, Karin Viard
In a crowded subway train, a woman pushes a man. They argue. Their little joust « barks loudly », but does not lack charm… Later, in the corridors of the station, the two strangers make love awkwardly in the booth of a photo booth. At last, on the surface, they will say goodbye…
OUT OF COMPETITION
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
A film by James Mangold
With: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Olivier Richters
Finding himself in a new era, approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
COBWEB
A film by Kim Jee-woon
With: Song Kang-ho, Lim Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se, Jeon Yeo-been, Krystal Jung, Park Jeong-su, Jang Young-nam, Kim Min-jae, Kim Dong-young, Jeong In-gi
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can’t understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
THE IDOL
A Sam LEVINSON series
With The Weeknd, Lily-Rose Depp, Steve Zissis
Jocelyn, a young pop idol, after having a nervous breakdown that led to the cancellation of her last tour, decides to reclaim her title of sexiest pop star in America and begins a complicated relationship with Tendros, a guru and leader of a contemporary cult.
Killers of the flower moon
A film by Martin Scorsese
With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
L’ABBÉ PIERRE – UNE VIE DE COMBATS
A film by Frédéric Tellier
With: Benjamin Lavernhe, Emmanuelle Bercot, Michel Vuillermoz, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Xavier Mathieu, Chloé Stefani, Yann Lerat, Carmel Dylan, Audrey Marain, Alexandre De Caro
The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
KENNEDY
A film by Anurag Kashyap
With: Sunny Leone, Rahul Bhat
An insomniac ex-cop who dwells in different circumstances looking for redemption. The ex-cop, who is presumed dead for a long time, operates secretly for the corrupt system.
OMAR LA FRAISE
A film by Elias Belkeddar
With: Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel
Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come to terms with their new life together, which until now has been one of debauchery and violence.
ACIDE
A film by Just PHILIPPOT
With Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Dosch, Patience Munchenbach
In the middle of a heat wave, an ominous cloud appears and with it, a lethal acid rain. A separated family will have to come together to escape this plague ravaging the world.ourt
HYPNOTIC
A film by Robert Rodriguez
With: Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, J. D. Pardo, Jeff Fahey, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jackie Earle Haley, Kelly Frye, Melanie Hawkins
A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.
PROJECT SILENCE
A film by Kim Tae-gon
With: Lee Sun-kyun, Ju Ji-hoon, Kim Hee-won, Moon Sung-keun, Ye Soo-jung, Kim Tae-woo, Park Hee-von, Park Ju-hyun, Kim Su-an, Ha Do-kwon
The film takes place when an accident occurs on a foggy bridge and, as a result, an unknown beast is unleashed.
CANNES PREMIERE
Kubi
A film by Takeshi Kitano
With Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ryo Kase, Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shido Nakamura, Yuichi Kimura, Kenichi Endo, Masanobu Katsumura, Kenta Kiritani
Based on the real-life Honno-ji Incident, in which famed warlord Oda Nobunaga was assassinated at a temple in Kyoto in 1582.
Bonnard, Pierre & Marthe
A film by Martin Provost
With: Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Anouk Grinberg, Stacy Martin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, André Marcon, Philippe Richardin
Pierre Bonnard would not be the painter everyone knows without the enigmatic Marthe who occupies more than a third of his work. Maria Boursin, alias Marthe de Méligny, posed as a ruined Italian aristocrat the day they fell madly in love with each other. Little did she know that she would become the pillar of a gigantic work, now considered one of the most important of the early 20th century.
Close your eyes
A film by Víctor Erice
With: Jose Coronado, Ginés García Millán, Ana Torrent, María León, Soledad Villamil, Manolo Solo, Petra Martínez, Mario Pardo, Josep Maria Pou, Juan Margallo
While filming a movie, famous Spanish actor Julio Arenas disappears without a trace. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program, which offers previously unreleased images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay.
Le temps d’aimer
A film by Katell Quillévéré
With: Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste, Florence Venant, Morgan Bailey, Ambre Gollut
1947. On a beach, Madeleine, a waitress in a hotel restaurant, mother of a little boy, meets François, a rich and cultivated student. The force of attraction that pushes them towards each other is commensurate with the secrecy that each carries. If we know what Madeleine wants to leave behind by following this young man, we discover over time, what François is desperately trying to flee by mixing Madeleine’s fate with his.
Lost in the night
A film by Amat Escalante
With: Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Bárbara Mori, Ester Expósito, Fernando Bonilla, Maria Fernanda Osio
Just the two of us
A film by Valérie Donzelli
With: Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Reymond, Romane Bohringer, Virginie Ledoyen, Zoé Lenoir, Arthur Thunin
When she first crossed paths with Greg, Blanche thought she’d found the one she’d been looking for. They quickly formed an attachment, but their relationship is marred by Greg’s quick temper. Blanche ignores her niggling doubts and distances herself from her family, convinced that she’s reinventing herself. And little by little, she finds herself caught in the trap of a possessive and dangerous man. A man she’s too ashamed and frightened to report. Because there are only two possible exit routes from control: either the victim breaks free or they fall apart…
EUREKA
A film by Lisandro Alonso
With: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Maria de Medeiros, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Rafi Pitts, Jose Maria Yaspik, Luísa Cruz, Santiago Fumagalli, Natalia Ruiz
In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
MAN IN BLACK
A film by Wang Bing
Man in Black is a work rather intended for art galleries. The Chinese filmmaker filmed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord over three days without an audience, and formatted by Caroline Champetier, the Chinese composer Wang Xilin exiled in Germany, so that he recounts, stripped of all clothing, certain parts of his life
THE OCCUPIED CITY
A film by Steve McQueen
A documentary based on the illustrated history book “Atlas of an Occupied City. Amsterdam 1940-1945”.
ANSELM
A film by Wim Wenders
A portrait of ANSELM KIEFER by Wim Wenders
PICTURES OF GHOSTS
A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho
The new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho. A documentary that takes place in downtown Recife.
LITTLE GIRL BLUE
A film by Mona Achache
With: Marion Cotillard, Mona Achache, Marie Bunel, Didier Flamand, Pierre Aussedat, Tella Kpomahou, Guy Donald Koukissa
Docudrama about the life of director Mona Achache’s mother.
BREAD AND ROSES
A film by Sahra Mani
The documentary captures the experiences of Afghan women living under the Taliban since they took control of Kabul in 2021.
LE THÉORÈME DE MARGUERITE
A film by Anna Novion
With: Ella Rumpf, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Julien Frison, Sonia Bonny, Clotilde Courau
Marguerite is a young and brilliant mathematician, the only girl in her class at the ENS, entirely devoted to her passion. The day she discovers an error in her thesis, she is devastated. In a dizzy spell, she leaves the school, wipes out the past. She then dives into the real world, discovers autonomy, befriends the young Léa, and makes love for the first time. Grown by her experiences, it is in this new momentum that she will find the solution to her theorem.