COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE):
SOUND OF FALLING by MASCHA SCHILINSKI at 15:00 (runtime 2h29)
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
TWO PROSECUTORS (DEUX PROCUREURS) by SERGEI LOZNITSA at 22:30 (runtime 1h58)
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. Kornev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of corrupt agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.
UN CERTAIN REGARD (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE):
*OPENING FILM* PROMIS LE CIEL (PROMISED SKY) by ERIGE SEHIRI at 19:30 (runtime 1h32)
Marie, an Ivorian pastor and former journalist, has lived in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes a refuge for Naney, a young mother seeking a better future, and Jolie, a strong-willed student carrying her family’s hopes. The arrival of a little orphan girl challenges their sense of solidarity in a tense social climate, revealing both their fragility and strength.
CANNES CLASSICS (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE):
YI YI (YI YI – A ONE AND A TWO) by EDWARD YANG at 10:00 (runtime 2h53)=
NJ Jian, his wife Min-Min and their two kids are typical middle-class family, sharing their Taipei apartment with Min-Min’s elderly mother. NJ is a partner in a computer hardware firm which made big profits last year but will go bankrupt soon if it doesn’t change direction. He warms to the idea of teaming up with Ota, an innovative designer of games software in Japan, and enjoys spending time with the charming and urbane Japanese man. Things start to go wrong for the Jians on the day that Min-Min’s brother A-Di gets married. That’s the day when Min-Min’s mother suffers a stroke and is rushed to hospital in a coma from which she may never awaken. It’s also the day when NJ bumps into Sherry, his first childhood sweetheart, a woman (now married) he hasn’t seen for twenty years.
DAVID LYNCH, UNE ÉNIGME À HOLLYWOOD (WELCOME TO LYNCHLAND)by STÉPHANE GHEZ at 14:30 (runtime 1h02)
With an unwavering commitment to his creative vision and freedom, David Lynch, an artist fascinated by the most deviant depths of the human soul, has composed his oeuvre like a riddle to decipher, on the cusp between dreams and reality. From Eraserhead, his cult-classic first feature film; to Twin Peaks, which transformed the world of TV series; via Mulholland Drive, seen as the greatest movie of the 21st century, David Lynch has been taking us through the looking glass to explore the strange foundations of the American dream. In revisiting both the filmmaker’s life and his work, this documentary will probe his creative process and plumb the hidden meaning of an implacably consistent filmography.
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