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Cannes Film Festival · 2016

Cannes Film Festival 2016

Critics' Week

Programme

22 films · 2 reviews

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Apnée

The misadventures of three bosom friends.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Jean-Christophe Meurisse; Stars: Maxence Tual, Céline Fuhrer, Thomas Scimeca)

Arnie

Short film.

(Country: Taiwan, Philippines; Year: 2016; Director: Rina B Tsou)

Short.

Ascension (Ascensão)

During the sunrise, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from a well.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2016; Director: Pedro Peralta)

Short.

Campo De Viboras (Vipers' Field)

Drama.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2016; Director: Cristèle Alves Meira; Writer: Cristèle Alves Meira; Stars: Ana Padrão, Simão Cayatte, Ana Brito e Cunha, Ludovic Berthillot, Jacqueline Corado)

Short.

Delusion Is Redemption To Those In Distress

Short.

(Year: 2016; Director: Fellipe Fernande; Writer: Fellipe Fernande)

Short.

Diamond Island

A young man leaves his village to work in the construction industry and encounters his estranged older brother - who introduces him to the world of the middle class.

(Country: Cambodia; Year: 2016; Director: Davy Chou)

Happy Times Will Come Soon (I tempi felici verranno presto)

Prisoners in the past are linked to the present when a woman finds a strange hole in the forest.

(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2016; Director: Alessandro Comodin; Writer: Alessandro Comodin, Milena Magnani; Stars: Sabrina Seyvecou, Erikas Sizonovas, Luca Bernardi, Carlo Rigoni, Marco Giordana, Paolo Viano, Marinella Cichello)

In Bed With Victoria

Review preview for In Bed With Victoria

I like that this film includes a good deal of interesting, amusing gender role reversal

Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
Comedy about a single mum trying to strike a balance in her life.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Justine Triet; Writer: Justine Triet; Stars: Laure Calamy, Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Emmanuelle Lanfray, Laurent Poitrenaux, Melvil Poupaud)

Full review

Opening film

In Me

A director goes to the opera of Paris for the shooting of his next film. In loss of inspiration, he's looking for loopholes in the face of his loneliness and his fear of failure.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Laetitia Casta; Writer: Laetitia Casta)

Closing film. Short.

Kitty

A little girl dreams of becoming a kitten.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Chloë Sevigny; Writer: Paul Bowles, Chloë Sevigny; Stars: Ione Skye, Lee Meriwether, Edie Yvonne)

Closing film. Short.

L'Enfance D'Un Chef

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Antoine de Bary)

Short.

Limbo

Short.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Konstantina Kotzamani; Writer: Konstantina Kotzamani)

Short.

Mimosas

Review preview for Mimosas

Mauro Herce's cinematography is stunning and merges perfectly with the soundscape created by Emilio García Rivas.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Faust meets Arabic myth in the Moroccan desert.

(Country: France, Spain, Morocco; Year: 2016; Director: Oliver Laxe; Writer: Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol ; Stars: Abdelatif Hwidar, Ilham Oujri, Shakib Ben Omar, Ahmed Hammoud, Hamid Farjad, Said Agli, Margarita Albores, Laaziza Ikram, Moe Mohamed Oummad, Ahmed El Othmani)

Full review See: Interview with Oliver Laxe about Mimosas

Oh What a Wonderful Feeling

(Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: François Jaros; Writer: François Jaros; Stars: Stars: Ellen David, Karelle Tremblay, Louis Negin, Frédérike Bédard, Patrice Beauchesne, Tania Kontoyanni, Sarah Pellerin, Dominique Laurence, François Lambert, Catherine Hughes, Zachary Tremblay, Marguerite Laurence)

Short.

One Week And A Day

In the span of a day, a grieving father steals medicinal marijuana from a hospice, skips work and hangs out with his estranged neighbor's son while his wife tries to get back to her daily routine as she fights off school teachers, stray kittens and dental clinic workers.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2016; Director: Asaph Polonsky; Writer: Asaph Polonsky; Stars: Uri Gavriel, Tomer Kapon, Jenya Dodina, Shai Avivi, Sharon Alexander, Carmit Mesilati Kaplan)

Prenjak

(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2016; Director: Wregas Bhanuteja)

Raw (Grave)

A girl from a family of vegetarians decides to eat raw meat for the first time with unexpected consequences.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Julia Ducournau; Writer: Julia Ducournau; Stars: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Bouli Lanners, Joana Preiss, Marion Vernoux, )

Smile (Bon Figure)

Short film, one of three closing the festival.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Sandrine Kiberlain; Writer: Sandrine Kiberlain)

Closing film. Short.

Le Soldat Vierge

Short.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Erwan Le Duc )

Superbia

(Country: Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2016; Director: Luca Toth; Writer: Luca Toth)

Short.

Tramontane

A young blind man is forced to make a road trip after discovering his ID document is a forgery.

(Country: France, Lebanon; Year: 2016; Director: Vatche Boulghourjian; Writer: Vatche Boulghourjian; Stars: Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kassar, Odette Makhlouf, Michel Adabachi, Toufic Barakat, Sajed Amer, Nassim Khodr, Raymond Haddouni, Georges Diab, Abido Bacha)

A Yellow Bird

A man just released from prison is not welcomed home by his mother. Eager to locate his wife and daughter to build a new home, he instead learns that his past actions have led to irreversible tragedy.

(Country: Singapore; Year: 2016; Director: K Rajagopal; Writer: K Rajagopal)