Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Geremy JASPER Year: 2017 Country: USA, BRAZIL Length: 108 minutes Genre: drama Patti Cake$ introduces Australian native Danielle Macdonald in a breakout role, as aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$. Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in Jersey where [...]
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Kantemir BALAGOV Year: 2017 Country: RUSSIA Length: 118 minutes Genre: drama 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Benny SAFDIE , Josh SAFDIE Year: 2017 Country: UNITED STATES, LUXEMBOURG Genre: drama Length: 100 minutes After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Sergei LOZNITSA Year: 2017 Country: FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, LITHUANIA Genre: drama Length: 143 minutes One day, a woman receives the parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband some time earlier. Confused and deeply concerned, she decides to go to the prison in a remote area of Russia, [...]
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Santiago MITRE Year: 2017 Country: Argentina, France, Spain Length: 114 minutes Genre: drama At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile, where the region´s geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures a political and family drama that will force him [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Naomi KAWASE Year: 2017 Country: JAPAN, FRANCE Genre: drama, romance Length: 101 minutes Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, who will [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: HONG Sangsoo Year: 2017 Country: KOREA Genre: drama Length: 92 minutes It is Areum's first day of work at a small publisher. Her boss Bongwan loved and recently broke up with the woman who previously worked there. Today too, the married Bongwan leaves home in the dark [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Michael HANEKE Year: 2017 Country: FRANCE, GERMANY , AUSTRIA Genre: drama Length: 107 minutes "All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind". A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family. Michael HANEKE - Director Michael HANEKE - Script / Dialogue Christian [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: François OZON Year: 2017 Country: FRANCE Genre: drama Length: 107 minutes Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity. François [...]
Award for Best Director, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Sofia COPPOLA Year: 2017 Country: UNITED STATES Genre: drama Length: 94 minutes The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the [...]
