DIRECTED BY: Pavle Vučković

CAST: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac, Tamara Dragicevic, Nebojsa Milovanovic

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Serbian

PRODUCED BY: Collapse Films

Jovan starts dating Maja casually, no strings attached. But overtime, her mysterious and shady behavior begins to disturb him. Jovan starts to follow videos and clues over social networks that hint at Maja’s parallel life. In a web of lies, pride, jealousy and passionate sex, Jovan loses himself, desperately trying to understand who Maja really is.

MARKET SCREENINGS

Friday, May 15^th - 11:30AM - PALAIS H

Sunday, May 17^th - 4PM - PALAIS I

OFFICIAL SCREENING

  Saturday, May 16^th - 6:30PM - Soixantième Theater  

 PRESS SCREENING

Friday, May 15^th - 1:30PM - Bazin Theater 

DIRECTED BY: Sanna Lenken

CAST: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlén, Maxim Mehmet

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: Swedish, English

PRODUCED BY: Tangy in co-production with Fortune Cookie Film

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter.

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MARKET SCREENING

  Saturday, May 16^th - 6PM - Soixantième Theater  

  CANNES ÉCRANS JUNIORS OFFICIAL SCREENINGS  

Tuesday, May 19^th - 2PM - LE RAIMU

Wednesday, May 20^th - 9AM - STUDIO 13 

Thursday, May 21^th - 11AM - ALEXANDRE III

DIRECTED BY: Åse Svenheim Drivenes

CAST: Maiko Nishino-Ekberg

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: English, Norwegian, Japanese

PRODUCED BY: Sant & Usant

Maiko's destiny was decided before she was born. Her name Maiko means dancing child. Her mother, the driving force behind her career, sold their house and car to send 14 year old Maiko to the most prestigious dancing schools in Europe. She knew she couldn't return to Japan as a failure. Today Maiko is 32 on top of her career as a prima ballerina at the Norwegian National Ballet. Maiko is not a young dancer anymore and talented newcomers are longing for her position. Competition is getting tougher when Maiko decides to start a family... We follow Maiko at a breaking point in her life, where she is forced to make decisions that might jeopardice everything she has worked for.

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MARKET SCREENING

  Saturday, May 16^th - 6PM - PALAIS G  

A provocative modern tale on love and sex 

DIRECTED BY: Joanna Coates

CAST: Josh O’Connor, Hannah Arterton, Rea Mole, Daniel Metz, Joe Banks

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English

PRODUCED BY: Show Business Film Ltd 

In an isolated English cottage, four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partnerswapping. As their inhibitions and past traumas fade, they achieve a unique kind of collective happiness but the durability of their new living arrangement is tested by the arrival of an outsider, who fails to get in tune with the foursome's radical spirit.

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  Sunday, May 17^th - 1:30PM - PALAIS H  

A story about right and wrong

DIRECTED BY: Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov 

CAST: Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivan Savov, Stefan Denolyubov, Ivanka Bratoeva, Stefan Denolyubov

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Bulgarian

PRODUCED BY: Abraxas Film, Graal Film, Little Wing

In a small Bulgarian town Nadezhda, a young teacher, is looking for the robber in her class so she can teach him a lesson about right and wrong. But when she gets in debt to loan sharks, can she find the right way out herself ? Nadezhda is a high school English teacher near Sofia. Stunned by a theft report by one of her students she is determined to find the culprit and punish him. As this episode unravels at work, her personal life changes drastically. She is notified by a bailiff that the bank is about to seize her house and put it on auction due to overdue mortgage payments. Determined to keep her life afloat and her house she will do everything she can to get the money before it’s too late. Her personal and professional life will converge as she goes against all the lessons she teaches her students.

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  Sunday, May 17^th - 5:30PM - LERINS 1  

A generation breaking free from its upbringing

DIRECTED BY: Jordan Goldnadel 

CAST: Isabel Ryan, Jordan Goldnadel, Vladimir Perrin, Lea Moszkowicz

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French

PRODUCED BY: The Third Generation 

Florent, 23, is an upper class Parisian who dreams of going back to America, where he attended college. One summer he meets Alessia, an American girl, lost in the streets of Paris. Together and with random encounters while on a journey from Paris to Normandy, they explore their passions, which draws them closer as well as brings up their clashing differences. As they face a crucial crossroad in their lives, they will uncover new sides of themselves, struggling to determine who they are personally, professionally and sexually while trying to break free from their upbringings.

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  Monday, May 18^th - 1:30PM - RIVIERA 2  

The sexual awakening of a mentally disabled girl 

DIRECTED BY : Stina Werenfels

CAST : Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily, Lars Eidinger, Urs Jucker

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : German

PRODUCED BY : Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Niko Film, Aleppo Films  

After her mother decides that eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora discovers her sexuality, her strive for independence becomes increasingly risky. To her mother’s horror, Dora has a spontaneous sexual encounter with a dubious man who is obviously taken with the young girl’s uninhibited sensuality. As this encounter turns into a secret liaison, Dora’s parents struggle to protect their vulnerable child… 

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MARKET SCREENING

  Tuesday, May 19^th - 11:30AM - PALAIS H  

Passion and insanity are dark neighbors

DIRECTED BY: Jakob M. Erwa

CAST: Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Matthias Lier, Hermann Beyer

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: German

PRODUCED BY: Mojo:Pictures

Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat, with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives the honorable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be a great opportunity – but at the same time an enormous pressure. In her home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest. However, her own four walls don't appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments. What is the neighbor's involvement, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains ?

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  Tuesday, May 19^th - 3:30PM - RIVIERA 2  

The killer next door 

DIRECTED BY : Eric Cherrière

CAST : Jean-Jacques Lelte, Magali Moreau, Maurice Poli, Hans Meyer

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : French

PRODUCED BY : De Pure Fiction

Pierre Tardieu is a part-time worker living in an old house with his sick father. No one is aware of his existence. Pierre is a serial killer. His victims are ordinary people with ordinary lives. Men and women living, working and suffering side by side but never really together, forming a crowd lost in a big city. CRUEL is the story of a man who has grown up poorly, of a woman who could have saved him and of a city that is an invisible prison. CRUEL is a «film noir» but above all, there is a dialogue from William Holden in The Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah, which is the soul of the film: "'We all want to be children again, even the worst of us, especially the worst of us. " This is really where was born CRUEL, with its character of melancholic serial killer, pursued by the child he once was. 

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MARKET SCREENING

  Tuesday, May 19^th - 5:30PM - RIVIERA 2  

The story of a romantic mind trapped in a disobedient body

DIRECTED BY: Shonali Bose 

CAST: Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, William Moseley, Hussain Dalal

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: English, Hindi 

PRODUCED BY: Ishan Talkies, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Jakhotia Group and Adapt

Laila is a young romantic, a secret rebel in a wheelchair. Undeterred by cerebral palsy, she embarks on a journey of sexual discovery. Her exhilarating adventures cause a rift both within herself and with those she is closest to. Ultimately, it is in the intensity of these bonds that she finds the strength to be truly herself.

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Four young monks in a Myanmar monastery, embracing the world

DIRECTED BY : Brian Perkins

CAST : Shine Htet Zaw, Ko Yin Saw Ri, Ko Yin Than Maung, Ko Yin Maung Sein, Sayadaw U Zaw Ti Ka

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE : Burmese

PRODUCED BY : Bank & Shoal 

GOLDEN KINGDOM is a narrative feature film about four orphan boys, all novice monks, livingin a Buddhist monastery in a remote part of Northeast Burma. The head monk departs on along journey from which he may never return, leaving the boys alone in the middle of theforest.Once the boys are on their own, strange, magical events begin to occur. Orphan WITAZARA realizes he must protect the three other boys throughout this series of bizarre events, whichthreaten to unravel the fabric of the young monks’ reality.

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Love matures in Provence

DIRECTED BY: Philippe Audi-Dor

CAST: Simon Haycock, Elly Condron, Hugo Bolton

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English

PRODUCED BY: Blue Shadows Films

Having left England for a romantic escapade in the South of France, Olivier and James invite Caroline along at the very last minute. The trio arrives in a little Provencal village, somewhat cut off from the world. Though everything seems calm between the pool, sunshine and a village visit, Olivier finds himself more and more intrigued by Caroline. A tension of sexual jealousy and possessiveness will then escalade between the three of them.

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A man lives among the dead looking for love worth killing for… and then finds love worth living for

DIRECTED BY: Dimitar Dimitrov

CAST: Lydia Indjova, Mihail Bilalov, Stefan Shterev

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Bulgarian 

PRODUCED BY: Magic Shop 

Itso drives a special ambulance called a ‘corpse-van’. His job is to pick up the bodies of the recently deceased to transport them to the morgue. Mimi, a nice and lovable ward-maid from the morgue, likes Itso but he doesn’t really pay much attention to her as he is in love with Katya, an attractive 40 years old woman. Katya humiliates Itso and uses him, but it doesn't change his feelings for her. Katya turns out to be a mistress of the mafia boss Rocco, who beats her and one of the days brutally rapes her, which is seen by Itso. Itso decides to rescue Katya and her 14-year old son Mario from Rocco...

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This film is proposed by Amadeus Entertainment, sales agent partner of the Eye on Films network