Palme d’or , 2008 Directed by: Laurent CANTET Year: 2008 Country: FRANCE Length: 128 minutes Genre: drama François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics [...]
OFFICIAL SELECTION, CANNES 2019 Special Screenings, Cannes 2019 Directed by: Gael GARCIA BERNAL Year of production: 2019 Country: MEXICO Genre: drama Length: 95 minutes Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of [...]
IVANOV 50 In Competition, Cannes 2019 Directed by: Corneliu PORUMBOIU Year of production: 2019 Country: ROMANIA, FRANCE, GERMANY Genre: drama Length: 97 minutes Cristi, a Romanian police officer who is a whistle blower for mafia, is going to La Gomera Island to learn an ancestral whistling language. In Romania he is under police [...]
OFFICIAL SELECTION, CANNES 2019 Jury Prize, Cannes 2019 Directed by: Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO , Juliano DORNELLES Year of production: 2019 Country: BRAZIL, FRANCE Genre: drama Length: 132 minutes A few years from now… Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be [...]
OFFICIAL SELECTION, CANNES 2019 Directing Prize of Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2019 Directed by: Kantemir BALAGOV Year of production: 2019 Country: RUSSIA Genre: drama Length: 134 minutes 1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Although the siege – [...]
OFFICIAL SELECTION, CANNES 2019 In Competition, Cannes 2019 Directed by: Terrence MALICK Year of production: 2019 Country: GERMANY, USA Genre: drama Length: 173 minutes Based on real events, A HIDDEN LIFE is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. [...]
Golden Leopard, Locarno 2013 Directed by: Albert SERRA Year of production: 2013 Country: SPAIN, FRANCE Genre: drama Length: 140 minutes Casanova, a mature Marquis always accompanied by his servant and reputed for his spectacular sexual conquests, arrive in a small peasant village surrounded by thick forests. There, he will encounter the mysterious Count [...]
Award for Best Actor, Cannes 1984 Directed by: Mario Camus Year of production: 1984 Country: Spain Genre: drama Length: 105 minutes The picture tells the story of a peasant family from Estremadura who, as many others, lives under and is subjected to the landowning class ruling over them through the control of resources. [...]
Special Jury Prize (ex-aequo), Cannes 1976 Directed by: Carlos Saura Year of production: 1976 Country: Spain Genre: drama Length: 107 minutes Carlos Saura's exquisite Cría cuervos heralded a turning point in Spain: shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the [...]
Palme d’Or (ex-aequo), Cannes 1961 Directed by: Luis BUÑUEL Year of production: 1961 Country: Spain, Mexico Genre: drama Length: 90 minutes In Luis Buñuel’s controversial masterpiece, Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed [...]
