Doc & Film International @ CANNES 2017

WEST OF THE JORDAN

RIVER

by Amos Gitai

Nilaya Productions - Agav Films

France / 84' / 2017 / Documentary

OFFICIAL SCREENINGS:

Sun 21/05 - 15:00 - Theatre Croisette

Mon 22/05 - 15:00 - Theatre Croisette

Tue 23/05 - 11:30 - Cinema Les Arcades

Tue 23/05 - 16:00 - Cinema Alexandre III

Wed 24/05 - 18:30 - Studio 13

MARKET SCREENINGS:

Mon 22/05 - 13:30 - Riviera 2

Tue 23/05 - 11:30 - Lerins 4

Amos Gitai (Rabin, Free Zone) returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary. West of the Jordan River describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

CATCH THE WIND

by Gaël Morel

TS Productions 

France / 103' / 2017 / Feature Film

PRIVATE MARKET SCREENINGS

(Buyers by invitation only):

Fri 19/05 - 11:30 - Riviera 2

Sun 21/05 - 16:00 - Palais I

With: Sandrine Bonnaire, Lubna Azabal, Mouna Fettou, Ilian Bergala

Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.

VOLUBILIS

by Faouzi Bensaïdi

Barney Production - Mont Fleuri Production - Shadi Films

Morocco - France / 106' / 2017 / Feature Film

PRIVATE MARKET SCREENINGS

(Buyers by invitation only):

Sat 20/05 - 13:30 - Lerins 4

Thu 25/05 - 10:00 - Lerins 3

With: Mouhcine Malzi, Nadia Kounda, Abdelhadi Talbi, Nezha Rahil, Faouzi Bensaïdi

In the Moroccan city of Meknes, recently married Abdelkader and Malika struggle to make ends meet. They dream of leaving the family house and finally start a life of their own together. But one day at work, Abdelkader experiences a violent incident that will turn their destiny upside down. Volubilis is a tale of love in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins.

CHILDREN OF CHANCE

by Thierry Michel & Pascal Colson

Les Films de la Passerelle

Belgium / 108' / 2017 / Documentary

MARKET SCREENINGS:

Mon 22/05 - 15:30 - Lerins 2

Fri 26/05 - 12:00 - Lerins 1

In the small local school of Cheratte, a former mining town, 11-year old students with an immigrant background are coming to the end of their primary school education with Brigitte, a dynamic teacher. Her pedagogical approach aims to integrate these pupils into a constantly changing world. Throughout the school year, the film follows these grandsons of miners, mainly Turks and Muslims. While some of their elders opt for identity closure, this film evokes the challenge awaiting these children to integrate into current society, in the face of terrorist attacks.

BONES OF

CONTENTION

by Andrea Weiss 

Berlin 2017 - Panorama Dokumente

Official Selection

Jezebel Productions

USA / 75' / 2017 / Documentary

MARKET SCREENING:

Thu 18/05 - 11:30 - Palais D

Lining the roads of Spain, masked by miles and miles of pine trees, are unmarked graves in which over a hundred twenty thousand victims of the Franco regime are buried. Among them is Spain’s most famous poet, Federico García Lorca, who has become the symbol for both the historical memory and LGBT movements. The film explores the unexamined history of LGBT oppression during Spain’s fascism regime, and places it within the larger human rights struggle to find some justice for Franco’s victims. But how does a country excavate a past that is actively suppressed?