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Cannes Film Festival · 2014

Cannes Film Festival 2014

Special Screenings

Programme

11 films · 1 review

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The Bridges Of Sarajevo

An anthology of documentary and fictional portraits of the historically troubled city.

(Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France; Year: 2014; Director: Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde )

Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy (Caricaturistes, Fantassins De La Démocratie)

Twelve loveable lunatics, capturing the comic and tragic in all four corners of the earth: cartoonists who risk their lives to defend democracy, with a smile on their faces and a pencil as their only weapon.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Stéphanie Valloatto)

El Ardor

A mysterious man emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer after mercenaries murder her father and take over his property.

(Country: Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, France, US; Year: 2014; Director: Pablo Fendrik; Writer: Pablo Fendrik; Stars: Alice Braga, Gael García Bernal, Jorge Sesán, Claudio Tolcachir, Iván Steinhardt)

Les Gens Du Monde

A documentary exploration of the human story.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Yves Jeuland)

Geronimo

In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood in the south of France.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Tony Gatlif; Stars: Céline Sallette, Rachid Yous, David Murgia)

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Inspired by the beloved classic, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a young, mischievous girl and an imprisoned poet.

(Country: US, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar; Year: 2014; Director: Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz, Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, Michal Socha; Writer: Roger Allers, Kahlil Gibran, Douglas Wood; Stars: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Alfred Molina, Quvenzhané Wallis, Frank Langella, Assaf Cohen, Leah Allers, Gunnar Sizemore)

Maidan

Review preview for Maidan

Purely observational though it is, this is a film that becomes devastating in its intensity.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.

(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)

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Of Men And War

Anger consumes a squad of combat vets years after they return from the front. The dozen warriors in Of Men and War come home to the United States, but their minds are stuck out on the battlefield.

(Year: 2014; Director: Laurent Bécue-Renard)

The Owners

John, 25, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12-year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback.

(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2014; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov)

Red Army

The story of Russia's Red Army hockey team.

(Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Gabe Polsky; Writer: Gabe Polsky; Stars: Mark Deakins, Anatoli Karpov, Vyacheslav Fetisov)

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma'a al-Fidda, Eau Argentee)

A portrait of Syria.

(Country: Syria; Year: 2014; Director: Mohammed Ossama; Writer: Wiam Bedirxan, Mohammed Ossama)