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At War – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

En Guerre / At War Stéphane Brizé – France IN A NUTSHELL Set in Bologna, 2002, when the opposition to the Labor Law explodes in…

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Shoplifters – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Manbiki kazoku / Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda – Japan IN A NUTSHELL This moving drama, is centred around Osamu (Lily Franky) and his eccentric family. Osamu…

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BlacKkKlansman – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee – United States IN A NUTSHELL An adaptation of the book Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth, this film follows an African-American detective…

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Under the Silver Lake – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Under the Silver Lake David Robert Mitchell – United States IN A NUTSHELL Sam is aimless young man (Andrew Garfield) who becomes an unwitting detective…

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Happy as Lazzaro – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Lazzaro Felice / Happy as Lazzaro Alice Rohrwacher – Italy IN A NUTSHELL Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo), is a young peasant so good that he is…

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3 Faces – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Se Rokh / 3 Faces Jafar Panahi – Iran IN A NUTSHELL This Iranian film follows three actresses at different stages of their career. One…

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Ash Is Purest White – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Jiang hu er nv / Ash Is Purest White Jia Zhangke – China IN A NUTSHELL Spanning over 17 years, this film begins in 2001…

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The Image Book – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Le livre d’images / The Image Book Jean-Luc Godard – France, Switzerland IN A NUTSHELL In this latest film (probably best described as avant-garde pose…

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Cold War – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Zimna wojna / Cold War Paweł Pawlikowski – Poland IN A NUTSHELL This is director Pawlikowski’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Ida. Ziimma wojna is…

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Sorry Angel – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Plaire, aimer et courir vite / Sorry Angel Christophe Honoré – France IN A NUTSHELL Set in the early 1990s, at the height of the…

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Summer – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Leto / Summer Kirill Serebrennikov – Russia IN A NUTSHELL Kirill Serebrennikov’s latest film is punk movie-musical called Leto, fond tribute to the underground scene…

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Yomeddine – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Yomeddine Abu Bakr Shawky – Egypt IN A NUTSHELL Beshay (Rady Gamal) is a man afflicted by leprosy, traveling across Egypt after his wife’s death…

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Everybody Knows – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus

Todos lo saben / Everybody Knows Asghar Farhadi – Spain IN A NUTSHELL This is the latest film from Iranian director Farhadi who has had…

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Don Quixote Gets Back on his Horse: Gilliam's Film Will be the Closing Film of Cannes after all

On Wednesday 9th May, I received a message from fellow Filmotomy writer Rob Motto, saying ”Have you heard about this?” There was a link to…

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