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]]>The 35th incarnation of the indie film festival’s lineup has been revealed and it is packed with an unprecedented number of features by female filmmakers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the lineup of 118 feature films, announced Wednesday features 44 first-time feature filmmakers. Of the 65 directors in the four competition categories, comprising 56 films, 46 percent are women, 38 percent are people of color and 12 percent are LGBTQ+.
A documentary on Taylor Swift will kick off Sundance Film Festival and the Will Ferrell-Julia Louis Dreyfus remake of the Swedish film “Force Majeure” and Benh Zeitlin’s long-awaited follow-up to “Beasts of the Southern Wild” are also set to premiere.
“We have lots of returning alumni this year, which really says a lot about the community that we create,” said festival director John Cooper, also explaining that with newcomers, “We’re seeing a lot more of how they tell a story, even if it’s an old story, with a lot more creativity.”
He added: “There is no Michael Jackson film this year. Not like last year with Leaving Neverland. That was truly controversial. But there will be films that will shock people and change their perception.”
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23–February 2 in Park City, Utah.
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]]>The festival’s headliners were announced by the charity Tuesday morning. They include Queen & Adam Lambert, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, OneRepublic, H.E.R. and Carole King.
Special guest performances include French Montana, Ben Platt, and Jon Batiste & Stay Human. The festival will be hosted by Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, while co-hosts include Rachel Brosnahan, Bill Nye, Rami Malek, Matt Bomer, Elvis Duran, Taraji P. Henson, Joy Reid, and Forest Whitaker.
According to the organizers, the festival “encourages global citizens to power the movement to end extreme poverty, calling on world leaders to fight diseases including HIV and AIDS and polio, empower women and girls, combat plastic pollution and provide quality education for all.”
The eighth annual Global Citizen festival is coming to Central Park in New York City on September 28.
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]]>Following the news that the festival’s poster will pay homage to French cinema icon Agnès Varda, it seems that this year’s festival is taking another step towards recognizing women in the industry. This year’s official selection includes four female in competition and 13 in the selection overall.
The 47 film-long lineup includes obvious selections such as Pedro Almodóvar (Pain & Glory), Terrence Malick (A Hidden Life) and Ken Loach (Sorry We Missed You). But it also includes major no-shows, particularly Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is currently in editing.
Cannes Film Festival’s artistic director Thierry Frémaux and Cannes president Pierre Lescure unveiled the festival’s lineup Thursday morning from the UGC Normandie theater on Paris’ Champs-Elysées.
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25. Check out the list below.
COMPETITION
Pain & Glory, dir: Pedro Almódovar
Parasite, dir: Bong Joon-ho
The Wild Goose Lake, dir: Diao Yinan
The Traitor, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Young Ahmed, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Matthias And Maxime, dir: Xavier Dolan
Oh Mercy, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
A Hidden Life, dir: Terrence Malick
Sorry We Missed You, dir: Ken Loach
Little Joe, dir: Jessica Hausner
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, dir: Céline Sciamma
Atlantique, dir: Mati Diop
Sibyl, dir: Justine Triet
It Must Be Heaven, dir: Elia Suleiman
Frankie, dir: Ira Sachs
Bacurau, dirs: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
The Whistlers, dir: Corneliu Porumboiu
Les Misérables, dir: Ladj Ly
OUT OF COMPETITION
Les Plus Belles Années D’Une Vie, dir: Claude Lelouch
Rocketman, dir: Dexter Fletcher
Too Old To Die Young – North Of Hollywood, West Of Hell (two episodes); dir: Nicolas Winding Refn
Diego Maradona, dir: Asif Kapadia
La Belle Epoque, dir: Nicolas Bedos
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, dir: Lee Won-Tae
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Tommaso, dir: Abel Ferrara
Share, dir: Pippa Bianco
For Sama, dirs: Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts
Etre Vivant Et Le Savoir, dir: Alain Cavalier
Family Romance LLC, dir: Werner Herzog
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Invisible Life, dir: Karim Aïnouz
Beanpole, dir: Kantemir Balagov
The Swallows Of Kabul, dirs: Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Brother’s Love, dir: Monia Chokri
The Climb, dir: Michael Covino
Jeanne, dir: Bruno Dumont
A Sun That Never Sets, dir: Olivier Laxe
Chambre 212, dir: Christophe Honoré
Port Authority, dir: Danielle Lessovitz
Papicha, dir: Mounia Meddour
Adam, dir: Maryam Touzani
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi, dir: Midi Z
Liberté, dir: Albert Serra
Bull, dir: Annie Silverstein
Summer Of Changsha, dir: Zu Feng
Evge, dir: Nariman Aliev
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]]>Rolling Stone magazine confirms that Aerosmith, Ludacris and Bruno Mars will be performing at the festival, which runs from January 31st through February 2nd.
The three-night music fest is one of the most anticipated music events in the days leading up to the NFL’s biggest night.
The lineup is definitely varied beginning with hip-hop on display with Ludacris, Migos, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby, Metro Boomin’ and Lil Jon taking the stage on the festival’s first day. February 1 is a rocking kind of day with Aerosmith and Post Malone. The next day will see performances by Bruno Mars and Cardi B.
Some artists have chosen to boycott events related to the Super Bowl, but not Lil Jon who told AJC, “It’s our hometown, we gotta. It’s rare when we’re able to showcase what we love about this city and showcase our city. I think it’s more about the city than it is anything else. The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl, but this is the city we’ve grown up in, we launched our careers in and the city we live in. It’s about showcasing everything we love about our city.”
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]]>The 30th annual festival lineup boasts a whopping 223 films from 78 countries, including 48 premieres.
Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True, which looks at William Shakespeare’s later years has been set to open the festival with Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black, which is set in the upscale department stores of 1959 Sydney, will close the event, which is set to run January 3-14.
According to Variety, the festival will screen 43 of the 87 official submissions in the Best Foreign Language Film category for this year’s Academy Awards.
A jury of international film critics will present the Fipresci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, the New Voices New Visions Award for first- and second-time directors, and the Schlesinger Documentary Award for first- or second-time documentary filmmakers.
To mark its 30th anniversary, the festival will screen a 30 film retrospective of films from past festivals including Chocolat, City of God, Memento and Strictly Ballroom, among others.
Check out the complete lineup below.
PREMIERES
World premieres:
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Last Color (India), Director Vikas Khanna
Walk to Vegas (USA), Director Eric Balfour
North American premieres:
Ayka (Kazakhstan/Russia/Germany/Poland/China), Director Sergey Dvortsevoy
Don’t Shoot (Belgium/The Netherlands), Director Stijn Coninx
Hamid (India), Director Aijaz Khan
His Lost Name (Japan), Director Nanako Hirose
Ladies in Black (Australia), Director Bruce Beresford
Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence (India/Ukraine), Director Dar Gai
The Song of the Tree (Kyrgyzstan/Russia), Director Aibek Daiyrbekov
The Tobacconist (Austria/Germany), Director Nikolaus Leytner
Urgent (Morocco/Switzerland), Director Mohcine Besri
We Are the Heat (Colombia), Director Jorge Navas (CV Cine Competition)
Yuli (Spain/Cuba/U.K./Germany), Director Iciar Bollain (CV Cine Competition)
U.S. premieres:
Arctic (USA), Director Joe Penna
Botero (Canada/China/Colombia/France/Italy/Monaco/USA), Director Don Millar (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Cities of Last Things (Taiwan/China/USA/France), Director Ho Wi Ding (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Cold Sweat (Iran), Director Soheil Beiraghi
Donbass (Ukraine/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania), Director Sergey Loznitsa
EXT. Night (Egypt/United Arab Emirates), Director Ahmad Abdalla
The Factory (France/Russia/Armenia), Director Yury Bykov
Giant Little Ones (Canada), Director K eith Behrman
The Grizzlies (Canada), Director Miranda de Pencier
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (U.K.), Director Ben Wheatley
Hidden Man (China), Director Jiang Wen
Jirga (Australia/Afghanistan), Director Benjamin Gilmour
Keep Going (Belgium/France), Director Joachim Lafosse
Kursk (Belgium/Luxembourg), Director Thomas Vinterberg
Legend of the Demon Cat (China/Japan), Director Kaige Chen
The Little Comrade (Estonia), Director Moonika Siimets
Mademoiselle de Joncquières (France), Director Emmanuel Mouret
The Man Who Feels No Pain (India), Director Vasan Bala
Mouthpiece (Canada), Director Patricia Rozema
One Last Deal (Finland), Director Klaus Härö
Orange Days (Iran), Director Arash Lahooti
Papi Chulo (Ireland), Director J ohn Butler
Perfectos Desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) (Mexico), Director Manolo Caro (CV Cine Competition)
The Purity of Vengeance (Denmark/Germany), Director Christoffer Boe
The Quietude (Argentina), Director Pablo Trapero (CV Cine Competition)
The Resistance Banker (Netherlands), Director Joram Lürsen
Saf (Turkey), Director Ali Vatansever (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Sew the Winter to My Skin (S outh Africa/Germany), Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Shéhérazade (France), Director Jean-Bernard Marlin (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Shut Up and Play the Piano (Germany/France/UK), Director Philipp Jedicke
Vita & Virginia (U.K./Ireland), Director C hanya Button
The Wedding Guest (U.K.), Director Michael Winterbottom (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
TALKING PICTURES & BOOK TO SCREEN
BlacKkKlansman (USA) with Author Ron Stallworth (Book to Screen)
Bohemian Rhapsody (USA) with Actor Rami Malek
Border (Sweden/Denmark) with Director Ali Abbasi
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (USA) with Actor Richard E. Grant
The Public (USA) with Writer/Director/Actor Emilio Estevez (in Partnership with Palm Springs Speaks: A Speaker Series)
Roma (Mexico/USA) with Director Alfonso Cuarón (CV Cine Competition)
Shoplifters (Japan) with Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Support The Girls (USA) with Actress Regina Hall
The Wife (USA) with Actress Glenn Close
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (USA) with Director Morgan Neville
FLOS: FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
The Angel (Argentina), Director Luis Ortega (CV Cine Competition)
Ayka (Kazakhstan), Director Sergey Dvortsevoy
Birds of Passage (Colombia), Directors Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra (CV Cine, Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Border (Sweden) with Director Ali Abbasi
Buffalo Boys (Singapore), Director Mike Wiluan
Burning (South Korea), Director Lee Chang-Dong (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Cake (Pakistan), Director Asim Abbasi
Capernaum (Lebanon), Director Nadine Labaki
Champions (Spain), Director Javier Fesser (CV Cine Competition)
Cold War (Poland), Director Pawel Pawlikowski (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Dogman (Italy), Director Matteo Garrone (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Donbass (Ukraine), Director Sergey Loznitsa
Eldorado (Switzerland), Director Markus Imhoof
Euthanizer (Finland), Director Teemu Nikki
Family First (Canada), Director Sophie Dupuis
Girl (Belgium), Director Lukas Dhont
The Guilty (Denmark), Director Gustav Möller
The Heiresses (Paraguay), Director Marcelo Martinessi (CV Cine Competition)
Hidden Man (China), Director Jiang Wen
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Romania), Director Radu Jude
The Interpreter (Slovak Republic), Director Martin Šulík
Jirga (Australia), Director Benjamin Gilmour
Memoir of War (France), Director Emmanuel Finkiel
Namme (Georgia), Director Zaza Khalvashi
Never Look Away (Germany), Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Resistance Banker (Netherlands), Director Joram Lursen
Roma (Mexico) with Director Alfonso Cuarón (CV Cine Competition)
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name (Panama), Director Abner Benaim (CV Cine Competition)
Secret Ingredient (Macedonia), Director Gjorce Stavreski
Sew the Winter to My Skin (S outh Africa), Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Shoplifters (Japan) with Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Sunset (Hungary), Director László Nemes
Supa Modo (Kenya), Director Likarion Wainaina
Take It or Leave It (Estonia), Director Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo
A Twelve-Year-Night (Uruguay), Director Alvaro Brechner (CV Cine Competition)
Village Rockstars (India), Director Rima Das
The Waldheim Waltz (Austria), Director Ruth Beckermann
The Wedding Ring (Nigeria), Director Rahmatou Keïta
What Will People Say (Norway), Director Iram Haq
Winter Flies (Czech Republic), Director Olmo Omerzu
Woman at War (Iceland), Director Benedikt Erlingsson
Yellow Is Forbidden (New Zealand), Director Pietra Brettkelly
Yomeddine (Egypt), Director A.B. Shawky
FOCUS ON FRANCE
Knife+Heart (France/Mexico/Switzerland), Director Yann Gonzalez
Mademoiselle de Joncquières (France), Director Emmanuel Mouret
Shéhérazade (France), Director Jean-Bernard Marlin (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Sofia (France/Qatar), Director Meryem Benm’Barek (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Treat Me Like Fire (France), Director Marie Monge
The Trouble With You (France), Director Pierre Salvadori
Wild (France), Director Camille Vidal-Naquet
FOCUS ON INDIA
Husband Material (India), Director Anurag Kashyap
The Imposter Prince (India), Director Srijit Mukherji
The Last Color (India), Director Vikas Khanna
The Man Who Feels No Pain (India), Director Vasan Bala
Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence (India/Ukraine), Director Dar Gai
FOCUS ON MEXICO
Buy Me a Gun (Mexico), Director Julio Hernández Cordón (CV Cine Competition)
The Chambermaid (Mexico/USA), Director Lila Avilés (New Voices New Visions, CV Cine Competition)
The Good Girls (Mexico), Director Alejandra Márquez Abella (CV Cine, Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Museo (Mexico), Director Alonso Ruizpalacios (CV Cine Competition)
Perfectos Desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) (Mexico), Director Manolo Caro (CV Cine Competition)
MODERN MASTERS
Ash Is Purest White (China/France), Director Jia Zhangke (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Destroyer (USA), Director Karyn Kusama
Everybody Knows (France/Spain/Italy), Director Asghar Farhadi
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (U.K.), Director Ben Wheatley
Keep Going (Belgium/France), Director Joachim Lafosse
Kursk (Belgium/Luxembourg), Director Thomas Vinterberg
Legend of the Demon Cat (China/Japan), Director Kaige Chen
Mouthpiece (Canada), Director Patricia Rozema
Non-Fiction (France), Director Olivier Assayas
Shadow (China), Director Z hang Yimou
Transit (Germany/France), Director Christian Petzold (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
The Wedding Guest (U.K.), Director Michael Winterbottom (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
THE PALM SPRINGS CANON
Amélie (France/Germany), Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Band’s Visit (Israel), Director Eran Kolirin
The Boys of St. Vincent (Canada), Director John N. Smith
Caché (Austria), Director Michael Haneke
Character (Netherlands/Belgium), Director Mike van Diem
Chocolat (U.K./USA), Director Lasse Hallström
Cinema Paradiso (Italy/France), Director Giuseppe Tornatore
City of God (Brazil/France), Director Fernando Meirelles
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA/China), Director Ang Lee
Day Night Day Night (USA), Director Julia Loktev
The Double Life of Veronique (France/Poland/Norway), Director Krzysztof Kieslowski
For All Mankind (USA), Director Al Reinert
Golden Door (Italy/France/Argentina), Director Emanuele Crialese
Goodbye Solo (USA), Director Ramin Bahrani
Head-On (Germany/Turkey), Director Fatih Akin
The Holy Girl (Argentina/Italy/Netherlands/Spain), Director Lucrecia Martel
Hunger (Ireland/U.K.), Director Steve McQueen
Ida (Poland/Denmark/France/UK), Director Pawel Pawlikowski
Memento (USA), Director Christopher Nolan
Monsoon Wedding (India), Director Mira Nair
Nobody Knows (Japan), Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Orphanage (Spain), Director J.A. Bayona
Raise the Red Lantern (China/Hong Kong, Taiwan), Director Zhang Yimou
A Separation (Iran), Director Asghar Farhadi
Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong/China), Director Stephen Chow
Sound of Noise (Sweden/France), Directors Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne Nilsson
Strictly Ballroom (Australia), Director Baz Luhrmann
Tears of the Black Tiger (Thailand), Director Wisit Sasanatieng
The Triplets of Belleville (Belgium/Canada), Director Sylvain Chomet
Wild Tales (Argentina/Spain), Director Damián Szifron
TRUE STORIES
306 Hollywood (USA/Hungary), Directors Elan Bogarín, Jonathan Bogarín
Amazing Grace (USA), Director Sydney Pollack
Bathtubs Over Broadway (USA), Director Dava Whisenant (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (USA/Indonesia/Fiji/Costa Rica/El Salvador/Tahiti), Director Aaron Lieber
The Biggest Little Farm (USA), Director John Chester (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Switzerland/USA), Director Sophie Huber (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Botero (Canada/China/Colombia/France/Italy/Monaco/USA), Director Don Millar (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Devil We Know (USA), Director Stephanie Soechtig
Don’t Be Nice (USA), Director Max Powers (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (USA), Director Sasha Waters Freyer
General Magic (UK/USA), Directors Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Ghost Fleet (USA), Directors Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Home + Away (USA), Director Matt Ogens
Inventing Tomorrow (USA), Director Laura Nix
Kaye Ballard – The Show Goes On! (USA), Director Dan Wingate
The Land of High Mountains (USA/Haiti), Director Will Agee
The Proposal (USA), Director Jill Magid
Screwball (USA), Director Billy Corben
Sharkwater Extinction (Canada/Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, USA), Director Rob Stewart
Shirkers (USA), Director Sandi Tan (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Shut Up and Play the Piano (Germany/France/U.K.), Director Philipp Jedicke
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (USA), Director Rob Garver
NEW JEWISH STORIES
The Accountant of Auschwitz (Canada), Director Matthew Shoychet (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
City of Joel (USA), Director Jesse Sweet (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Other Story (Israel), Director Avi Nesher
Redemption (Israel), Directors Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, Joseph Madmony
Stockholm (Israel), Director Daniel Syrkin
The Tobacconist (Austria/Germany), Director Nikolaus Leytner
To Dust (USA), Director Shawn Snyder
Toman (Czech Republic/Slovakia), Director Ondrej Trojan
Who Will Write Our History (USA/Poland), Director Roberta Grossman
Working Woman (Israel), Director M ichal Aviad
QUEER CINEMA TODAY & THE GAY!LA
Anchor and Hope (Spain), Director Carlos Marques-Marcet (CV Cine Competition)
Carmen & Lola (Spain), Director Arantxa Echevarria (CV Cine Competition)
Diamantino (Portugal/France/Brazil), Directors Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt (New Voices New Visions, CV Cine Competition)
Eva + Candela (Colombia), Director Ruth Caudeli (CV Cine Competition)
Giant Little Ones (Canada), Director K eith Behrman
Hard Paint (Brazil), Directors Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon (CV Cine Competition)
The Ice King (U.K.), Director James Erskine
L’Animale (Austria), Director Katharina Mueckstein (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Light in the Water (USA), Director Lis Bartlett
Making Montgomery Clift (USA), Directors Robert A. Clift, Hillary Demmon (Gay!La Spotlight Presentation)
Papi Chulo (Ireland), Director J ohn Butler
Rafiki (Kenya/South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France/Norway/Lebanon), Director Wanuri Kahiu (Gay!La Spotlight Presentation)
Riot (Australia), Director Jeffrey Walker
Socrates (Brazil), Director Alex Moratto (CV Cine Competition)
Vita & Virginia (U.K./Ireland), Director C hanya Button
WORLD CINEMA NOW
Arctic (USA), Director Joe Penna, starring Mads Mikkelsen
Asako I & II (Japan), Director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Becoming Astrid (Sweden/Denmark), Director Pernille Fischer Christensen
Bel Canto (USA), Director Paul Weitz, starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Butterflies (Turkey), Director Tolga Karaçelik (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Cities of Last Things (Taiwan/China/USA/France), Director Ho Wi Ding (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Cold Sweat (Iran), Director Soheil Beiraghi
Core of the World (Russia), Director Natalia Meschaninova
Daughter of Mine (Italy/Germany/Switzerland), Director Laura Bispuri
Dead Pigs (China), Director Cathy Yan (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Diane (USA), Director Kent Jones
Don’t Shoot (Belgium/Netherlands), Director Stijn Coninx
Dragged Across Concrete (USA), Director S. Craig Zahler, starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn
Dukla 61, (Czech Republic) Director David Ondricek
El Chicano (USA), Director Ben Hernandez Bray, starring Raul Castillo, George Lopez, Aimee Garcia
The Etruscan Smile (Switzerland/USA/UK), Directors Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun, starring Brian Cox, Thora Birch, Rosanna Arquette, JJ Field
EXT. Night (Egypt/United Arab Emirates), Director Ahmad Abdalla
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García (Cuba/Germany), Director Arturo Infante (CV Cine Competition)
The Factory (France/Russia/Armenia), Director Yury Bykov
Fast Color (USA), Director Julia Hart, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Fig Tree (Israel/Ethiopia), Director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian
The Fireflies Are Gone (Canada), Director Sébastien Pilote
The Grizzlies (Canada), Director Miranda de Pencier
Hamid (India), Director Aijaz Khan
His Lost Name (Japan), Director Nanako Hirose
Hotel Mumbai (Australia), Director Anthony Maras, starring Armie Hammer, Dev Patel, Jason Isaacs
Leto (Russia/France), Director Kirill Serebrennikov
The Little Comrade (Estonia), Director Moonika Siimets
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (China/France), Director Bi Gan (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Look at Me (Tunisia/France/Qatar), Director N ejib Belkadhi
Miriam Lies (Dominican Republic/Spain), Directors Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada (CV Cine Competition)
Mothers’ Instinct (Belgium), Director Olivier Masset-Depasse
One Last Deal (Finland), Director Klaus Härö
Orange Days (Iran), Director Arash Lahooti
Our Struggles (Belgium/France), Director Guillaume Senez
The Parting Glass (USA), Director Stephen Moyer, starring Anna Paquin, Denis O’Hare, Melissa Leo, Cynthia Nixon, Ed Asner, Rhys Ifans
Prospect (USA), Directors Chris Caldwell, Zeek Earl, starring Sophie Thatcher, Pedro Pascal, Jay Duplass (New Voices New Visions Competition)
The Purity of Vengeance (Denmark/Germany), Director Christoffer Boe
The Quake, (Norway) Director John Andreas Anderson
The Quietude (Argentina), Director Pablo Trapero, starring Edgar Ramirez (CV Cine Competition)
Ray & Liz (U.K.), Director Richard Billingham (New Voices New Visions)
The Realm (Spain/France), Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (CV Cine Competition)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Hungary), Director Milorad Krstic
Saf (Turkey), Director Ali Vatansever (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Sibel (Turkey/France/Germany/Luxembourg), Directors Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Simple Wedding (USA), Director Sara Zandieh
Smuggling Hendrix (Cyprus/Germany/Greece), Director Marios Piperides
The Song of the Tree (Kyrgyzstan/Russia), Director Aibek Daiyrbekov
Stan & Ollie (U.K.), Director Jon S. Baird, starring Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (USA), Director Henry Dunham, starring James Badge Dale (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Styx (Germany/Austria), Director Wolfgang Fischer (New Voices New Visions Competition)
There Is No Place Like Home (Italy), Director Gabriele Muccino
The Third Wife (Vietnam), Director Ash Mayfair (New Voices New Visions Competition)
The Upside (USA), Director Neil Burger, starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Julianna Margulies
Urgent (Morocco/Switzerland), Director Mohcine Besri
We Are the Heat (Colombia), Director Jorge Navas (CV Cine Competition)
Yuli (Spain/Cuba/U.K./Germany), Director Iciar Bollain (CV Cine Competition)
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]]>The festival was first launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance. From Jan. 19 to 25, the audience will get the chance to see 18 movies, 10 of which are world premieres, two N. American premieres, and four U.S. premieres.
Below is the list of competition features:
NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Birds Without Feathers
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Wendy McColm
Screenwriter: Wendy McColm
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cruel-world comedy populated by struggling Instagram stars, Russian cowboys, Self-help gurus and more, their lives collide and crash in astounding ways.
Cast: Wendy McColm, Lenae Day Cooper Oznowicz, William Gabriel Greer, Sara Estefanos, and Alexander Stasko
Charlie And Hannah’s Grand Night Out
(Belgium) World Premiere
Director: Bert Scholiers
Screenwriter: Bert Scholiers
Two Girls. One Night. Magical Candy Consumed. Twenty-somethings, Charlie and Hannah, find themselves strolling through the city as events take a wildly surreal turn. Transported to a trippy galaxy, filled with cosmic wisdom and contradictions, the pair learn to realize the search for love can take many forms.
Cast: Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens, Patrick Vervueren
Fake Tattoos
(Canada) US Premiere
Director: Pascal Plante
Screenwriter: Pascal Plante
Shy Theo finds himself unexpectedly kicked in the heart by a punk-rock romance on his 18th birthday as Mag bursts into his life for a rollicking encounter. Set against a backdrop of music and mayhem, this coming-of-age tale, explores the thrashing fragility of summer love as life choices and separation loom with no true answers in sight.
Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault
Fish Bones
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joanne Mony Park
Screenwriter: Joanne Mony Park
Hana, a Korean immigrant on winter break, is caught between worlds. While struggling to find peace with her conservative mother and the expectations surrounding her future, Hana finds herself falling for Nico, a tender and affectionate Latina music producer.
Cast: Joony Kim, Cris Gris
Human Affairs
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Charlie Birns
Screenwriter: Charlie Birns
This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be.
Cast: Dominic Fumusa, Kerry Condon, David Harbour, Julie Sokolowski
Lovers
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Niels Holstein Kaa
Screenwriter: Magnus B. B. Lysbakken
In the streets, parks and cafes of Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a superb naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.
Cast: Marie Mailand, Niklas Herskind, Nina Terese Rask
M/M
(Canada, Germany) World Premiere
Director: Drew Lint
Screenwriter: Drew Lint
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
Cast: Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher
Rock Steady Row
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Trevor Stevens
Screenwriter: Bomani Story
Demented chaos rules this bizarro-world college campus where the reigning gang-frats target a freshman, who dare crosses their path. Trapped between a blaze of twisted ‘Mad Max’ style power games, he shrewdly plays both sides, fueling apocalyptic-sized battles that escalate to ensnare the school Dean who’s coming unglued.
Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Logan Huffman, Isaac Alisma, Allie Marie Evans, Larry Miller, Peter Gilroy
Songs in the Sun
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Screenwriter: Allan Hyde, Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Off the coast of Denmark, young Anna discovers she is the only lifeline to ailing childhood friend Julie and Sonja, Julie’s apathetic mother. Over the course of one momentous afternoon, Anna will learn the healing power of belief and myth-making in everyday living
Cast: Emma Sehested Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Victoria Carmen Sonne
The Starry Sky Above Me
(France) US Premiere
Director: Ilan Klipper
Screenwriter: Ilan Klipper, Raphaël Neal
Bruno is happy to live out his days luxuriating in the existential highs and lows only a brilliant literary mind can appreciate. But when his loved ones seek to intervene with the help of a psychiatrist, Bruno’s bohemian lifestyle may in fact be the perfect anecdote to the colorless, PC lives they didn’t know they hated.
Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky, François Chattot, Michèle Moretti, Frank Williams
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Circus Ecuador
(Ecuador, USA) World Premiere
Directors: Ashley Bishop and Jim Brassard
James and Ashley travel to the jungles of Ecuador to make a documentary about a school being built for an indigenous community only to discover that the community may or may not be involved in aliens, gold smuggling, human trafficking, and murder.
Freedom for the Wolf
(Germany, USA)
Director: Rupert Russell
From Hong Kong to Tunisia to Bollywood, people are fighting against elected leaders dismantling freedom and democracy. These seemingly disparate international stories are cohesively tied into what is happening in the US to reach some very compelling conclusions.
Ingrid
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Morrisa Maltz
An intimate look at a woman who left her life as a successful fashion designer and mother in Texas to become a reclusive hermit, immersed in nature, focused solely on creating art.
Instant Dreams
(Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Willem Baptist
An essayistic quest for the secret of instant film, the magic appeal of Polaroid and what that tells us about the fascinating relationship we have with the photographic image.
Man on Fire
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joel Fendelman
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town–until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town’s racism in 2014.
MexMan
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Josh Polon
Germán is a young artist and filmmaker struggling to complete his first feature film and express his undying love to a girl, while secretly living at an airport and trying to stay sane.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End
(USA)
Director: Pablo Bryant
This personal documentary follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.
Sunnyside
(Belgium, Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Frederik Carbon
On a seaside mountain in Northern California two old friends (one a visionary architect and the other an influential sound artist) dream, talk, live, and create.
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]]>The 35th incarnation of the indie film festival’s lineup has been revealed and it is packed with an unprecedented number of features by female filmmakers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the lineup of 118 feature films, announced Wednesday features 44 first-time feature filmmakers. Of the 65 directors in the four competition categories, comprising 56 films, 46 percent are women, 38 percent are people of color and 12 percent are LGBTQ+.
A documentary on Taylor Swift will kick off Sundance Film Festival and the Will Ferrell-Julia Louis Dreyfus remake of the Swedish film “Force Majeure” and Benh Zeitlin’s long-awaited follow-up to “Beasts of the Southern Wild” are also set to premiere.
“We have lots of returning alumni this year, which really says a lot about the community that we create,” said festival director John Cooper, also explaining that with newcomers, “We’re seeing a lot more of how they tell a story, even if it’s an old story, with a lot more creativity.”
He added: “There is no Michael Jackson film this year. Not like last year with Leaving Neverland. That was truly controversial. But there will be films that will shock people and change their perception.”
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23–February 2 in Park City, Utah.
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]]>The festival’s headliners were announced by the charity Tuesday morning. They include Queen & Adam Lambert, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, OneRepublic, H.E.R. and Carole King.
Special guest performances include French Montana, Ben Platt, and Jon Batiste & Stay Human. The festival will be hosted by Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, while co-hosts include Rachel Brosnahan, Bill Nye, Rami Malek, Matt Bomer, Elvis Duran, Taraji P. Henson, Joy Reid, and Forest Whitaker.
According to the organizers, the festival “encourages global citizens to power the movement to end extreme poverty, calling on world leaders to fight diseases including HIV and AIDS and polio, empower women and girls, combat plastic pollution and provide quality education for all.”
The eighth annual Global Citizen festival is coming to Central Park in New York City on September 28.
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]]>Following the news that the festival’s poster will pay homage to French cinema icon Agnès Varda, it seems that this year’s festival is taking another step towards recognizing women in the industry. This year’s official selection includes four female in competition and 13 in the selection overall.
The 47 film-long lineup includes obvious selections such as Pedro Almodóvar (Pain & Glory), Terrence Malick (A Hidden Life) and Ken Loach (Sorry We Missed You). But it also includes major no-shows, particularly Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is currently in editing.
Cannes Film Festival’s artistic director Thierry Frémaux and Cannes president Pierre Lescure unveiled the festival’s lineup Thursday morning from the UGC Normandie theater on Paris’ Champs-Elysées.
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25. Check out the list below.
COMPETITION
Pain & Glory, dir: Pedro Almódovar
Parasite, dir: Bong Joon-ho
The Wild Goose Lake, dir: Diao Yinan
The Traitor, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Young Ahmed, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Matthias And Maxime, dir: Xavier Dolan
Oh Mercy, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
A Hidden Life, dir: Terrence Malick
Sorry We Missed You, dir: Ken Loach
Little Joe, dir: Jessica Hausner
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, dir: Céline Sciamma
Atlantique, dir: Mati Diop
Sibyl, dir: Justine Triet
It Must Be Heaven, dir: Elia Suleiman
Frankie, dir: Ira Sachs
Bacurau, dirs: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
The Whistlers, dir: Corneliu Porumboiu
Les Misérables, dir: Ladj Ly
OUT OF COMPETITION
Les Plus Belles Années D’Une Vie, dir: Claude Lelouch
Rocketman, dir: Dexter Fletcher
Too Old To Die Young – North Of Hollywood, West Of Hell (two episodes); dir: Nicolas Winding Refn
Diego Maradona, dir: Asif Kapadia
La Belle Epoque, dir: Nicolas Bedos
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, dir: Lee Won-Tae
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Tommaso, dir: Abel Ferrara
Share, dir: Pippa Bianco
For Sama, dirs: Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts
Etre Vivant Et Le Savoir, dir: Alain Cavalier
Family Romance LLC, dir: Werner Herzog
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Invisible Life, dir: Karim Aïnouz
Beanpole, dir: Kantemir Balagov
The Swallows Of Kabul, dirs: Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Brother’s Love, dir: Monia Chokri
The Climb, dir: Michael Covino
Jeanne, dir: Bruno Dumont
A Sun That Never Sets, dir: Olivier Laxe
Chambre 212, dir: Christophe Honoré
Port Authority, dir: Danielle Lessovitz
Papicha, dir: Mounia Meddour
Adam, dir: Maryam Touzani
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi, dir: Midi Z
Liberté, dir: Albert Serra
Bull, dir: Annie Silverstein
Summer Of Changsha, dir: Zu Feng
Evge, dir: Nariman Aliev
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]]>Rolling Stone magazine confirms that Aerosmith, Ludacris and Bruno Mars will be performing at the festival, which runs from January 31st through February 2nd.
The three-night music fest is one of the most anticipated music events in the days leading up to the NFL’s biggest night.
The lineup is definitely varied beginning with hip-hop on display with Ludacris, Migos, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby, Metro Boomin’ and Lil Jon taking the stage on the festival’s first day. February 1 is a rocking kind of day with Aerosmith and Post Malone. The next day will see performances by Bruno Mars and Cardi B.
Some artists have chosen to boycott events related to the Super Bowl, but not Lil Jon who told AJC, “It’s our hometown, we gotta. It’s rare when we’re able to showcase what we love about this city and showcase our city. I think it’s more about the city than it is anything else. The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl, but this is the city we’ve grown up in, we launched our careers in and the city we live in. It’s about showcasing everything we love about our city.”
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]]>The 30th annual festival lineup boasts a whopping 223 films from 78 countries, including 48 premieres.
Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True, which looks at William Shakespeare’s later years has been set to open the festival with Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black, which is set in the upscale department stores of 1959 Sydney, will close the event, which is set to run January 3-14.
According to Variety, the festival will screen 43 of the 87 official submissions in the Best Foreign Language Film category for this year’s Academy Awards.
A jury of international film critics will present the Fipresci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, the New Voices New Visions Award for first- and second-time directors, and the Schlesinger Documentary Award for first- or second-time documentary filmmakers.
To mark its 30th anniversary, the festival will screen a 30 film retrospective of films from past festivals including Chocolat, City of God, Memento and Strictly Ballroom, among others.
Check out the complete lineup below.
PREMIERES
World premieres:
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Last Color (India), Director Vikas Khanna
Walk to Vegas (USA), Director Eric Balfour
North American premieres:
Ayka (Kazakhstan/Russia/Germany/Poland/China), Director Sergey Dvortsevoy
Don’t Shoot (Belgium/The Netherlands), Director Stijn Coninx
Hamid (India), Director Aijaz Khan
His Lost Name (Japan), Director Nanako Hirose
Ladies in Black (Australia), Director Bruce Beresford
Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence (India/Ukraine), Director Dar Gai
The Song of the Tree (Kyrgyzstan/Russia), Director Aibek Daiyrbekov
The Tobacconist (Austria/Germany), Director Nikolaus Leytner
Urgent (Morocco/Switzerland), Director Mohcine Besri
We Are the Heat (Colombia), Director Jorge Navas (CV Cine Competition)
Yuli (Spain/Cuba/U.K./Germany), Director Iciar Bollain (CV Cine Competition)
U.S. premieres:
Arctic (USA), Director Joe Penna
Botero (Canada/China/Colombia/France/Italy/Monaco/USA), Director Don Millar (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Cities of Last Things (Taiwan/China/USA/France), Director Ho Wi Ding (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Cold Sweat (Iran), Director Soheil Beiraghi
Donbass (Ukraine/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania), Director Sergey Loznitsa
EXT. Night (Egypt/United Arab Emirates), Director Ahmad Abdalla
The Factory (France/Russia/Armenia), Director Yury Bykov
Giant Little Ones (Canada), Director K eith Behrman
The Grizzlies (Canada), Director Miranda de Pencier
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (U.K.), Director Ben Wheatley
Hidden Man (China), Director Jiang Wen
Jirga (Australia/Afghanistan), Director Benjamin Gilmour
Keep Going (Belgium/France), Director Joachim Lafosse
Kursk (Belgium/Luxembourg), Director Thomas Vinterberg
Legend of the Demon Cat (China/Japan), Director Kaige Chen
The Little Comrade (Estonia), Director Moonika Siimets
Mademoiselle de Joncquières (France), Director Emmanuel Mouret
The Man Who Feels No Pain (India), Director Vasan Bala
Mouthpiece (Canada), Director Patricia Rozema
One Last Deal (Finland), Director Klaus Härö
Orange Days (Iran), Director Arash Lahooti
Papi Chulo (Ireland), Director J ohn Butler
Perfectos Desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) (Mexico), Director Manolo Caro (CV Cine Competition)
The Purity of Vengeance (Denmark/Germany), Director Christoffer Boe
The Quietude (Argentina), Director Pablo Trapero (CV Cine Competition)
The Resistance Banker (Netherlands), Director Joram Lürsen
Saf (Turkey), Director Ali Vatansever (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Sew the Winter to My Skin (S outh Africa/Germany), Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Shéhérazade (France), Director Jean-Bernard Marlin (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Shut Up and Play the Piano (Germany/France/UK), Director Philipp Jedicke
Vita & Virginia (U.K./Ireland), Director C hanya Button
The Wedding Guest (U.K.), Director Michael Winterbottom (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
TALKING PICTURES & BOOK TO SCREEN
BlacKkKlansman (USA) with Author Ron Stallworth (Book to Screen)
Bohemian Rhapsody (USA) with Actor Rami Malek
Border (Sweden/Denmark) with Director Ali Abbasi
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (USA) with Actor Richard E. Grant
The Public (USA) with Writer/Director/Actor Emilio Estevez (in Partnership with Palm Springs Speaks: A Speaker Series)
Roma (Mexico/USA) with Director Alfonso Cuarón (CV Cine Competition)
Shoplifters (Japan) with Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Support The Girls (USA) with Actress Regina Hall
The Wife (USA) with Actress Glenn Close
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (USA) with Director Morgan Neville
FLOS: FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
The Angel (Argentina), Director Luis Ortega (CV Cine Competition)
Ayka (Kazakhstan), Director Sergey Dvortsevoy
Birds of Passage (Colombia), Directors Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra (CV Cine, Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Border (Sweden) with Director Ali Abbasi
Buffalo Boys (Singapore), Director Mike Wiluan
Burning (South Korea), Director Lee Chang-Dong (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Cake (Pakistan), Director Asim Abbasi
Capernaum (Lebanon), Director Nadine Labaki
Champions (Spain), Director Javier Fesser (CV Cine Competition)
Cold War (Poland), Director Pawel Pawlikowski (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Dogman (Italy), Director Matteo Garrone (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Donbass (Ukraine), Director Sergey Loznitsa
Eldorado (Switzerland), Director Markus Imhoof
Euthanizer (Finland), Director Teemu Nikki
Family First (Canada), Director Sophie Dupuis
Girl (Belgium), Director Lukas Dhont
The Guilty (Denmark), Director Gustav Möller
The Heiresses (Paraguay), Director Marcelo Martinessi (CV Cine Competition)
Hidden Man (China), Director Jiang Wen
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Romania), Director Radu Jude
The Interpreter (Slovak Republic), Director Martin Šulík
Jirga (Australia), Director Benjamin Gilmour
Memoir of War (France), Director Emmanuel Finkiel
Namme (Georgia), Director Zaza Khalvashi
Never Look Away (Germany), Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Resistance Banker (Netherlands), Director Joram Lursen
Roma (Mexico) with Director Alfonso Cuarón (CV Cine Competition)
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name (Panama), Director Abner Benaim (CV Cine Competition)
Secret Ingredient (Macedonia), Director Gjorce Stavreski
Sew the Winter to My Skin (S outh Africa), Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Shoplifters (Japan) with Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Sunset (Hungary), Director László Nemes
Supa Modo (Kenya), Director Likarion Wainaina
Take It or Leave It (Estonia), Director Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo
A Twelve-Year-Night (Uruguay), Director Alvaro Brechner (CV Cine Competition)
Village Rockstars (India), Director Rima Das
The Waldheim Waltz (Austria), Director Ruth Beckermann
The Wedding Ring (Nigeria), Director Rahmatou Keïta
What Will People Say (Norway), Director Iram Haq
Winter Flies (Czech Republic), Director Olmo Omerzu
Woman at War (Iceland), Director Benedikt Erlingsson
Yellow Is Forbidden (New Zealand), Director Pietra Brettkelly
Yomeddine (Egypt), Director A.B. Shawky
FOCUS ON FRANCE
Knife+Heart (France/Mexico/Switzerland), Director Yann Gonzalez
Mademoiselle de Joncquières (France), Director Emmanuel Mouret
Shéhérazade (France), Director Jean-Bernard Marlin (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Sofia (France/Qatar), Director Meryem Benm’Barek (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Treat Me Like Fire (France), Director Marie Monge
The Trouble With You (France), Director Pierre Salvadori
Wild (France), Director Camille Vidal-Naquet
FOCUS ON INDIA
Husband Material (India), Director Anurag Kashyap
The Imposter Prince (India), Director Srijit Mukherji
The Last Color (India), Director Vikas Khanna
The Man Who Feels No Pain (India), Director Vasan Bala
Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence (India/Ukraine), Director Dar Gai
FOCUS ON MEXICO
Buy Me a Gun (Mexico), Director Julio Hernández Cordón (CV Cine Competition)
The Chambermaid (Mexico/USA), Director Lila Avilés (New Voices New Visions, CV Cine Competition)
The Good Girls (Mexico), Director Alejandra Márquez Abella (CV Cine, Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Museo (Mexico), Director Alonso Ruizpalacios (CV Cine Competition)
Perfectos Desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) (Mexico), Director Manolo Caro (CV Cine Competition)
MODERN MASTERS
Ash Is Purest White (China/France), Director Jia Zhangke (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Destroyer (USA), Director Karyn Kusama
Everybody Knows (France/Spain/Italy), Director Asghar Farhadi
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (U.K.), Director Ben Wheatley
Keep Going (Belgium/France), Director Joachim Lafosse
Kursk (Belgium/Luxembourg), Director Thomas Vinterberg
Legend of the Demon Cat (China/Japan), Director Kaige Chen
Mouthpiece (Canada), Director Patricia Rozema
Non-Fiction (France), Director Olivier Assayas
Shadow (China), Director Z hang Yimou
Transit (Germany/France), Director Christian Petzold (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
The Wedding Guest (U.K.), Director Michael Winterbottom (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
THE PALM SPRINGS CANON
Amélie (France/Germany), Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Band’s Visit (Israel), Director Eran Kolirin
The Boys of St. Vincent (Canada), Director John N. Smith
Caché (Austria), Director Michael Haneke
Character (Netherlands/Belgium), Director Mike van Diem
Chocolat (U.K./USA), Director Lasse Hallström
Cinema Paradiso (Italy/France), Director Giuseppe Tornatore
City of God (Brazil/France), Director Fernando Meirelles
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA/China), Director Ang Lee
Day Night Day Night (USA), Director Julia Loktev
The Double Life of Veronique (France/Poland/Norway), Director Krzysztof Kieslowski
For All Mankind (USA), Director Al Reinert
Golden Door (Italy/France/Argentina), Director Emanuele Crialese
Goodbye Solo (USA), Director Ramin Bahrani
Head-On (Germany/Turkey), Director Fatih Akin
The Holy Girl (Argentina/Italy/Netherlands/Spain), Director Lucrecia Martel
Hunger (Ireland/U.K.), Director Steve McQueen
Ida (Poland/Denmark/France/UK), Director Pawel Pawlikowski
Memento (USA), Director Christopher Nolan
Monsoon Wedding (India), Director Mira Nair
Nobody Knows (Japan), Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Orphanage (Spain), Director J.A. Bayona
Raise the Red Lantern (China/Hong Kong, Taiwan), Director Zhang Yimou
A Separation (Iran), Director Asghar Farhadi
Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong/China), Director Stephen Chow
Sound of Noise (Sweden/France), Directors Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne Nilsson
Strictly Ballroom (Australia), Director Baz Luhrmann
Tears of the Black Tiger (Thailand), Director Wisit Sasanatieng
The Triplets of Belleville (Belgium/Canada), Director Sylvain Chomet
Wild Tales (Argentina/Spain), Director Damián Szifron
TRUE STORIES
306 Hollywood (USA/Hungary), Directors Elan Bogarín, Jonathan Bogarín
Amazing Grace (USA), Director Sydney Pollack
Bathtubs Over Broadway (USA), Director Dava Whisenant (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (USA/Indonesia/Fiji/Costa Rica/El Salvador/Tahiti), Director Aaron Lieber
The Biggest Little Farm (USA), Director John Chester (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Switzerland/USA), Director Sophie Huber (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Botero (Canada/China/Colombia/France/Italy/Monaco/USA), Director Don Millar (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Devil We Know (USA), Director Stephanie Soechtig
Don’t Be Nice (USA), Director Max Powers (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (USA), Director Sasha Waters Freyer
General Magic (UK/USA), Directors Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Ghost Fleet (USA), Directors Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Home + Away (USA), Director Matt Ogens
Inventing Tomorrow (USA), Director Laura Nix
Kaye Ballard – The Show Goes On! (USA), Director Dan Wingate
The Land of High Mountains (USA/Haiti), Director Will Agee
The Proposal (USA), Director Jill Magid
Screwball (USA), Director Billy Corben
Sharkwater Extinction (Canada/Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, USA), Director Rob Stewart
Shirkers (USA), Director Sandi Tan (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
Shut Up and Play the Piano (Germany/France/U.K.), Director Philipp Jedicke
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (USA), Director Rob Garver
NEW JEWISH STORIES
The Accountant of Auschwitz (Canada), Director Matthew Shoychet (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
City of Joel (USA), Director Jesse Sweet (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Other Story (Israel), Director Avi Nesher
Redemption (Israel), Directors Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, Joseph Madmony
Stockholm (Israel), Director Daniel Syrkin
The Tobacconist (Austria/Germany), Director Nikolaus Leytner
To Dust (USA), Director Shawn Snyder
Toman (Czech Republic/Slovakia), Director Ondrej Trojan
Who Will Write Our History (USA/Poland), Director Roberta Grossman
Working Woman (Israel), Director M ichal Aviad
QUEER CINEMA TODAY & THE GAY!LA
Anchor and Hope (Spain), Director Carlos Marques-Marcet (CV Cine Competition)
Carmen & Lola (Spain), Director Arantxa Echevarria (CV Cine Competition)
Diamantino (Portugal/France/Brazil), Directors Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt (New Voices New Visions, CV Cine Competition)
Eva + Candela (Colombia), Director Ruth Caudeli (CV Cine Competition)
Giant Little Ones (Canada), Director K eith Behrman
Hard Paint (Brazil), Directors Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon (CV Cine Competition)
The Ice King (U.K.), Director James Erskine
L’Animale (Austria), Director Katharina Mueckstein (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Light in the Water (USA), Director Lis Bartlett
Making Montgomery Clift (USA), Directors Robert A. Clift, Hillary Demmon (Gay!La Spotlight Presentation)
Papi Chulo (Ireland), Director J ohn Butler
Rafiki (Kenya/South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France/Norway/Lebanon), Director Wanuri Kahiu (Gay!La Spotlight Presentation)
Riot (Australia), Director Jeffrey Walker
Socrates (Brazil), Director Alex Moratto (CV Cine Competition)
Vita & Virginia (U.K./Ireland), Director C hanya Button
WORLD CINEMA NOW
Arctic (USA), Director Joe Penna, starring Mads Mikkelsen
Asako I & II (Japan), Director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Becoming Astrid (Sweden/Denmark), Director Pernille Fischer Christensen
Bel Canto (USA), Director Paul Weitz, starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Butterflies (Turkey), Director Tolga Karaçelik (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Cities of Last Things (Taiwan/China/USA/France), Director Ho Wi Ding (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Cold Sweat (Iran), Director Soheil Beiraghi
Core of the World (Russia), Director Natalia Meschaninova
Daughter of Mine (Italy/Germany/Switzerland), Director Laura Bispuri
Dead Pigs (China), Director Cathy Yan (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Diane (USA), Director Kent Jones
Don’t Shoot (Belgium/Netherlands), Director Stijn Coninx
Dragged Across Concrete (USA), Director S. Craig Zahler, starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn
Dukla 61, (Czech Republic) Director David Ondricek
El Chicano (USA), Director Ben Hernandez Bray, starring Raul Castillo, George Lopez, Aimee Garcia
The Etruscan Smile (Switzerland/USA/UK), Directors Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun, starring Brian Cox, Thora Birch, Rosanna Arquette, JJ Field
EXT. Night (Egypt/United Arab Emirates), Director Ahmad Abdalla
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García (Cuba/Germany), Director Arturo Infante (CV Cine Competition)
The Factory (France/Russia/Armenia), Director Yury Bykov
Fast Color (USA), Director Julia Hart, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Fig Tree (Israel/Ethiopia), Director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian
The Fireflies Are Gone (Canada), Director Sébastien Pilote
The Grizzlies (Canada), Director Miranda de Pencier
Hamid (India), Director Aijaz Khan
His Lost Name (Japan), Director Nanako Hirose
Hotel Mumbai (Australia), Director Anthony Maras, starring Armie Hammer, Dev Patel, Jason Isaacs
Leto (Russia/France), Director Kirill Serebrennikov
The Little Comrade (Estonia), Director Moonika Siimets
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (China/France), Director Bi Gan (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Look at Me (Tunisia/France/Qatar), Director N ejib Belkadhi
Miriam Lies (Dominican Republic/Spain), Directors Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada (CV Cine Competition)
Mothers’ Instinct (Belgium), Director Olivier Masset-Depasse
One Last Deal (Finland), Director Klaus Härö
Orange Days (Iran), Director Arash Lahooti
Our Struggles (Belgium/France), Director Guillaume Senez
The Parting Glass (USA), Director Stephen Moyer, starring Anna Paquin, Denis O’Hare, Melissa Leo, Cynthia Nixon, Ed Asner, Rhys Ifans
Prospect (USA), Directors Chris Caldwell, Zeek Earl, starring Sophie Thatcher, Pedro Pascal, Jay Duplass (New Voices New Visions Competition)
The Purity of Vengeance (Denmark/Germany), Director Christoffer Boe
The Quake, (Norway) Director John Andreas Anderson
The Quietude (Argentina), Director Pablo Trapero, starring Edgar Ramirez (CV Cine Competition)
Ray & Liz (U.K.), Director Richard Billingham (New Voices New Visions)
The Realm (Spain/France), Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (CV Cine Competition)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Hungary), Director Milorad Krstic
Saf (Turkey), Director Ali Vatansever (New Voices New Visions Competition)
Sibel (Turkey/France/Germany/Luxembourg), Directors Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Simple Wedding (USA), Director Sara Zandieh
Smuggling Hendrix (Cyprus/Germany/Greece), Director Marios Piperides
The Song of the Tree (Kyrgyzstan/Russia), Director Aibek Daiyrbekov
Stan & Ollie (U.K.), Director Jon S. Baird, starring Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (USA), Director Henry Dunham, starring James Badge Dale (Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Competition)
Styx (Germany/Austria), Director Wolfgang Fischer (New Voices New Visions Competition)
There Is No Place Like Home (Italy), Director Gabriele Muccino
The Third Wife (Vietnam), Director Ash Mayfair (New Voices New Visions Competition)
The Upside (USA), Director Neil Burger, starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Julianna Margulies
Urgent (Morocco/Switzerland), Director Mohcine Besri
We Are the Heat (Colombia), Director Jorge Navas (CV Cine Competition)
Yuli (Spain/Cuba/U.K./Germany), Director Iciar Bollain (CV Cine Competition)
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]]>The festival was first launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance. From Jan. 19 to 25, the audience will get the chance to see 18 movies, 10 of which are world premieres, two N. American premieres, and four U.S. premieres.
Below is the list of competition features:
NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Birds Without Feathers
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Wendy McColm
Screenwriter: Wendy McColm
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cruel-world comedy populated by struggling Instagram stars, Russian cowboys, Self-help gurus and more, their lives collide and crash in astounding ways.
Cast: Wendy McColm, Lenae Day Cooper Oznowicz, William Gabriel Greer, Sara Estefanos, and Alexander Stasko
Charlie And Hannah’s Grand Night Out
(Belgium) World Premiere
Director: Bert Scholiers
Screenwriter: Bert Scholiers
Two Girls. One Night. Magical Candy Consumed. Twenty-somethings, Charlie and Hannah, find themselves strolling through the city as events take a wildly surreal turn. Transported to a trippy galaxy, filled with cosmic wisdom and contradictions, the pair learn to realize the search for love can take many forms.
Cast: Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens, Patrick Vervueren
Fake Tattoos
(Canada) US Premiere
Director: Pascal Plante
Screenwriter: Pascal Plante
Shy Theo finds himself unexpectedly kicked in the heart by a punk-rock romance on his 18th birthday as Mag bursts into his life for a rollicking encounter. Set against a backdrop of music and mayhem, this coming-of-age tale, explores the thrashing fragility of summer love as life choices and separation loom with no true answers in sight.
Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault
Fish Bones
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joanne Mony Park
Screenwriter: Joanne Mony Park
Hana, a Korean immigrant on winter break, is caught between worlds. While struggling to find peace with her conservative mother and the expectations surrounding her future, Hana finds herself falling for Nico, a tender and affectionate Latina music producer.
Cast: Joony Kim, Cris Gris
Human Affairs
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Charlie Birns
Screenwriter: Charlie Birns
This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be.
Cast: Dominic Fumusa, Kerry Condon, David Harbour, Julie Sokolowski
Lovers
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Niels Holstein Kaa
Screenwriter: Magnus B. B. Lysbakken
In the streets, parks and cafes of Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a superb naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.
Cast: Marie Mailand, Niklas Herskind, Nina Terese Rask
M/M
(Canada, Germany) World Premiere
Director: Drew Lint
Screenwriter: Drew Lint
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
Cast: Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher
Rock Steady Row
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Trevor Stevens
Screenwriter: Bomani Story
Demented chaos rules this bizarro-world college campus where the reigning gang-frats target a freshman, who dare crosses their path. Trapped between a blaze of twisted ‘Mad Max’ style power games, he shrewdly plays both sides, fueling apocalyptic-sized battles that escalate to ensnare the school Dean who’s coming unglued.
Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Logan Huffman, Isaac Alisma, Allie Marie Evans, Larry Miller, Peter Gilroy
Songs in the Sun
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Screenwriter: Allan Hyde, Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Off the coast of Denmark, young Anna discovers she is the only lifeline to ailing childhood friend Julie and Sonja, Julie’s apathetic mother. Over the course of one momentous afternoon, Anna will learn the healing power of belief and myth-making in everyday living
Cast: Emma Sehested Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Victoria Carmen Sonne
The Starry Sky Above Me
(France) US Premiere
Director: Ilan Klipper
Screenwriter: Ilan Klipper, Raphaël Neal
Bruno is happy to live out his days luxuriating in the existential highs and lows only a brilliant literary mind can appreciate. But when his loved ones seek to intervene with the help of a psychiatrist, Bruno’s bohemian lifestyle may in fact be the perfect anecdote to the colorless, PC lives they didn’t know they hated.
Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky, François Chattot, Michèle Moretti, Frank Williams
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Circus Ecuador
(Ecuador, USA) World Premiere
Directors: Ashley Bishop and Jim Brassard
James and Ashley travel to the jungles of Ecuador to make a documentary about a school being built for an indigenous community only to discover that the community may or may not be involved in aliens, gold smuggling, human trafficking, and murder.
Freedom for the Wolf
(Germany, USA)
Director: Rupert Russell
From Hong Kong to Tunisia to Bollywood, people are fighting against elected leaders dismantling freedom and democracy. These seemingly disparate international stories are cohesively tied into what is happening in the US to reach some very compelling conclusions.
Ingrid
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Morrisa Maltz
An intimate look at a woman who left her life as a successful fashion designer and mother in Texas to become a reclusive hermit, immersed in nature, focused solely on creating art.
Instant Dreams
(Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Willem Baptist
An essayistic quest for the secret of instant film, the magic appeal of Polaroid and what that tells us about the fascinating relationship we have with the photographic image.
Man on Fire
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joel Fendelman
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town–until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town’s racism in 2014.
MexMan
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Josh Polon
Germán is a young artist and filmmaker struggling to complete his first feature film and express his undying love to a girl, while secretly living at an airport and trying to stay sane.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End
(USA)
Director: Pablo Bryant
This personal documentary follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.
Sunnyside
(Belgium, Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Frederik Carbon
On a seaside mountain in Northern California two old friends (one a visionary architect and the other an influential sound artist) dream, talk, live, and create.
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