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Meet us @ Cannes Film Market Stand: Riviera D10 Booth phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 33 29
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
by Darezhan Omirbayev
Screening Dates: Thu 17th at 2:00pm (Salle Debussy)
MARKET SCREENINGS:
Screening: Sun 20th at 11:30am (Riviera 4) by Tina von Traben
Screening: Mon 21st at 11:30 am (Riviera 2) by Sacha Polak
Screening: Tue 22nd at 10am (Palais E) by Bryn Higgins
"Media Luna adds two new Cannes titles" and "also booked screening slots in the Marché" [read more!]
Download Line-up Cannes 2012 here!
NEW ACQUISITIONS STUDENT by Darezhan Omyrbaev (Kazakhstan, Drama) A student of Philosophy decides to kill a man and has to learn the influence of conscience and to take responsability for his actions. Cannes Film Festival Official Selection Un Certain Regard
LILET NEVER HAPPENED by Jacco Groen (The Netherlands, Drama) Lilet is viciously resisting arrest for streetwalking. She is an angry, bitter young girl, hardened by misery and poverty. But if she wants to, she can look innocent and angelic.
KID by Fien Troch (Belgium, Drama) Kid, a little boy of seven, lives whit his mother and his slightly older brother Billy on a farm outside a small town. Then fate strikes and their mother will be murdered. Kid misses his mother more than ever...
GOLDEN SHOES by Antonio Hens (Spain in co-production with Cuba, Drama) in post-production Two Cuban boys on the edge of marginality fight to lead a life together in the hard world of Cuban slums. In an island where baseball was the king, soccer seems to be the only way to escape …
VOYAGE by Scud (Hong Kong, Drama) in production A young psychatrist vertures into a lone voyage from Hong Kong along the coast of South East Asia to overcome the sad experience he made with former clients. A tragic story about love, fate and the struggle of loosing loved ones.
9 FULL MOONS by Tomer Almagor (USA, Love-Story) Fire meets Ice when Frankie, a wildly enigmatic and hard-partying social butterfly, who compensates her loneliness with different men, falls in love with the solitary musician Lev...
PATTY'S CATCHUP by Tina von Traben (Germany, Family) The struggle of Patty's family's little "Imbiss" versus uncle Walther's chain of fastfood restaurants, fighting to guard the secret her family inherited: the best ever German sausage sauce!
THE LION OF JUDAH by Deryck Broom & Roger Hawkins (3D-Family-Animation, USA) Join Judah, a lamb with the heart of a lion, and his Stable-Mates as they embark on a roaring adventure towards freedom!
UNCONDITIONAL by Bryn Higgins (UK, Drama/Gay/Thriller) Two teenage twins fall under the spell of a charismatic man, who is offering love on one condition: the boy becomes his sister. Slamdance, Frameline San Francisco LGBT
HEMEL by Sacha Polak (Netherlands/Spain, Drama/Erotic) Hemel is fighting a guerrilla war with every man in town, looking for the difference between sex and love. Berlin (FIPRESCI FILM AWARD), New Directors/New Films, BAFICI (In Competition), CPHPIX (In Competition)
BEAT DOWN by Deanne Foley (Canada, Family/Youth) When a sweet but headstrong teenage girl is prevented from wrestling by her father, a fomer pro, she runs away to train with his one time rival. Starring Tony Nappo (SAW II, FOUR BROTHERS), Marthe Bernard (REPUBLIC OF DOYLE) and Robb Wells (TRAILER PARK BOYS)
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
nominated in INTL. COMPETITION at Spriti of Fire Film Festival.
SNEAKERS won the SPECIAL MENTION AWARD in Moscow and has been selectedKarlovy Vary.
NEWS AND REVIEWS Screen International: Hong Kong filmmaker Scud has made his first foray into shooting in Europe with his fifth feature Voyage which was filming in Germany’s Hanover this week before moving on to the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. [read more] > click here for shooting photos!
Screen International: "[...] an impressively made and darkly disturbing drama, nicely scripted and impressively shot [...]. It offers up a delightfully skewed look at that dramatic chliché of obsessive love, with Christian Cooke and Harry McEntire intensely watchable as their strange romance develops." [read more]
The Hollywood Reporter: "[...] an unexpected turn on its plot, which makes the story unique." [read more]
Variety-Review: "Beautifully lensed look at the moment just before a daughter has to let go of her father should travel extensively and turn Polak into a name to watch." [read more] Twitch Film: "Blowfish has everything to be one of the most romantic films of 2011..." [read more]
Film Business Asia: "Media Luna nets Blowfish" and "opens a door for movies from Taiwan to reach a wider European audience." [read more] Rotterdam Intl. Film Festival: " Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr sentenced for role in film" [read more] Screen International: Hollywood rallies in support of detained Iranian filmmakers. [read more]
FILMMAKERS OFFER SUPPORT TO IRANIAN ACTRESS: The Australian filmmakers and investors behind the film MY TEHRAN FOR SALE are deeply shocked and appalled at the news of actress Marzieh Vafamehr's sentence over the weekend. [read more] Taipei Times: "An artful combination of improvisational acting, non-linear storytelling, long takes and handheld camerawork make ‘Beautiful Crazy’ a beautiful movie" [read more]
Chicago Intl. Film Festival: "[...] Scud challenges our notions of the traditional cinematic love story. Love Actually…Sucks! works as a unique form of film criticism." [read more]
German Films Archiv [read more] Seattle's LGBT News & Entertainment Weekly: "an extremely complex and provocative masterpiece. [...] cinema at its absolute best in a contemporary feature that addresses gender and sexual identity and the resulting cultural matters in a modernistic, 21st-century way!" [read more]
Screen Daily: "It is breezily watchable and delightfully romantic." [read more]
German Films Archiv [read more]
German Films Archiv [read more]
Film International: Adapting For the Screen: An Interview With Director Isabelle Stever [read more]
German Films Archiv [read more]
Variety: Black Field Review [read more]
Fridae: Controversy at the Hong Kong International Film Festival [read more]
Time Out Hong Kong: Scud interview [read more]
Notes from Hollywood: Taiwan censor approves Scud’s controversial gay drama, “Amphetamine” [read more]
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STUDENT
LILET NEVER HAPPENED
KID
GOLDEN SHOES
9 FULL MOONS
THE LION OF JUDAH
VOYAGE
PATTY'S CATCHUP
UNCONDITIONAL
HEMEL
BEAT DOWN
WHERE THE ROAD MEETS THE SUN
BIG MAMMA'S BOY
IMPLOSION
TANGUERO
MILONGUEROS
BEHOLD THE LAMB
SNEAKERS |
