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Land And Shade and Sleeping Giant
The Anarchists (Les anarchistes)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Elie Wajeman; Writer: Gaëlle Macé, Elie Wajeman; Stars: Tahar Rahim, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Swann Arlaud, Guillaume Gouix, Cédric Kahn)
Out of competition special screening. Opening night.
When a policeman infiltrates a group of anarchists he finds himself becoming sympathetic towards them.
Les deux Amis
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Louis Garrel; Writer: Louis Garrel, Christophe Honoré; Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Louis Garrel, Vincent Macaigne, Rhizlaine El Cohen, Laurent Laffargue, Luc Poignant, Rachid Hami, Pierre Devérines, Pierre Maillet, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, Mahaut Adam, Hitomi Ryoke Duran, Yen Tram Le Thi)
Out of competition special screening.
Dramedy, loosely based on The Moods Of Marianne.
Dégradé
(Country: France, Lebanon, Occupied Palestinian Territory; Year: 2015; Director: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser; Writer: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser; Stars: Hiam Abbass, Raya Khatib, Maisa Abdelhadi, Dina Simon, Raneem Daoud, Manal Awad)
Comedy set in a beauty parlour on the Gaza Strip.
Krisha
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Trey Edward Shults; Writer: Trey Edward Shults; Stars: Olivia Grace Applegate, Bryan Casserly, Alex Dobrenko, Chris Doubek, Billie Fairchild, Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Victoria Fairchild, Atheena Frizzell, Augustine Frizzell, Chase Joliet, Rose Nelson, Bill Wise)
When Krisha returns for a holiday gathering, the only things standing in her way are family, dogs and turkey.
Land And Shade (La Tierra Y La Sombra)
(Country: Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: César Augusto Acevedo; Writer: César Augusto Acevedo; Stars: José Felipe Cárdenas, Haimer Leal, Edison Raigosa, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto)
A man returns home after a 17 year absence because his only son is gravely sick.
Paulina and Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Learn By Heart (La Vie En Grand)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Mathieu Vadepied; Writer: Olivier Demangel, Vincent Poymiro, Mathieu Vadepied; Stars: Marion Ploquin)
Out of competition special screening. Closing night.
Coming of age comedy about kids growing up in the French projects.
Mediterranea
(Country: Germany, US, UK, France, Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Jonas Carpignano; Writer: Jonas Carpignano; Stars: Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy, Joy Odundia, Vincenzina Siciliano, Sinka Bourehima, Mimma Papasergio, Koffi Appiah, Annalisa Spirli, Pomodoro, Susannah Amato, Pio Amato, Aisha, Adam Gnegne, Ernest Zire, Mary Elizabeth Innocence)
Drama tracking African migrants in Italy.
Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel, Ni La Terre, The Wakhan Front)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Clément Cogitore; Writer: Clément Cogitore, Thomas Bidegain; Stars: Jérémie Renier, Kévin Azaïs, Swann Arlaud, Sâm Mirhosseini, Marc Robert, Steve Tientcheu, Aria Faghih Habib, Hamid Reza Javdan, Finnegan Oldfield, Stéphane Boissel, Clément Bresson, Edouard Court, Chloé Astor )
French soldiers in Afghanistan are faced with unexpected circumstances.
Paulina (La Patota)
(Country: Argentina, Brazil, France; Year: 2015; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Eduardo Borrás, Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre, Daniel Tinayre; Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe)
A young woman survives a rape and her response confounds everyone around her.
Sleeping Giant (Le Géant Endormi, Spiacy olbrzym)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Andrew Cividino; Writer: Andrew Cividino, Blain Watters, Aaron Yeger; Stars: Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett, David Disher, Katelyn McKerracher)
Coming of age story about a trio of teenagers.
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