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Cannes Film Festival · 2014

Cannes Film Festival 2014

Critics' Week Competition

Programme

7 films · 2 reviews

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Darker Than Midnight (Più Buio Di Mezzanotte)

A feminine boy who can't fit in at home finds new friends among the outcasts in the city park, but his double life threatens to tear him in two.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Sebastiano Riso; Writer: Sebastiano Riso, Stefano Grasso; Stars: Vincenzo Amato, Micaela Ramazzotti, Pippo Delbono, Lucia Sardo, Fabio Grossi)

Gente De Bien

Communication founders between a father and his nine-year-old son.

(Country: Colombia; Year: 2014; Director: Franco Lolli)

Hope

A woman from Nigeria and a man from Cameroon meet in the Sahara and try to get to Europe together.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Boris Lojkine; Writer: Boris Lojkine; Stars: Endurance Newton, Justin Wang)

It Follows

Review preview for It Follows

A simple but compelling dynamic... the execution is superb.

Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
A teenager finds herself having strange visions and becomes convinced that something dangerous is following her.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: David Robert Mitchell; Writer: David Robert Mitchell; Stars: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Jake Weary, Daniel Zovatto, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe)

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Self Made

Amnesia leads to a confusion of identities, with an Israeli woman discovering life in a refugee camp whilst a Palestinian woman finds herself in a middle class Jerusalem home.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2014; Director: Shira Geffen; Stars: Sarah Adler, Samira Saraya)

The Tribe (Plemya)

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Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A deaf teenager runs into gang trouble at a boarding school.

(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy; Writer: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy; Stars: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich, Yaroslav Biletskiy)

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When Animals Dream (Når Dyrene Drømmer)

The appearance of dead bodies troubles an adolescent girl living on an island who can feel herself beginning to change.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2014; Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby; Writer: Rasmus Birch; Stars: Lars Mikkelsen, Jakob Oftebro, Sonja Richter, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Mads Riisom, Stig Hoffmeyer, Tina Gylling Mortensen)