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MK2 Cannes 2015 Line Up
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Résidence du Grand Hôtel, Le Goëland, 11th floor
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45 la Croisette, Cannes
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To set up a meeting, please contact: intlsales@mk2.com
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by Jia ZHANGKE
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Cast: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jindong, Dong Zijian, Sylvia Chang
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Drama – China / Japan / France – 2015 – Mandarin / English
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China, 1999. In Fenyang, childhood friends Liangzi, a coal miner, and Zhang, the owner of a gas station, are both in love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually marries the wealthier Zhang and they have a son he names Dollar.
2014. Tao is divorced and her son emigrates to Australia with his business magnate father.
Australia, 2025. 19-year-old Dollar no longer speaks Chinese and can barely communicate with his now bankrupt father. All that he remembers of his mother is her name...
From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of three individuals in a society changing at breakneck speed.
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by Stéphane BRIZÉ
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Cast: Vincent Lindon, Karine Petit de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller
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Drama – France – 2015 – French
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Thierry starts a new job as a security guard in a supermarket. He soon finds himself faced with a moral dilemma when he is asked to spy on his colleagues.
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by Robert GUÉDIGUIAN
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Cast: Syrus Shahidi, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ariane Ascaride, Simon Abkarian
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Historical / Drama – France – 2015 – French
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Paris, 1981. Aram, a young man of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish Ambassador’s car seriously injuring Gilles, who just happens to have been passing on his bicycle.
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Original score by Alexandre Desplat
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by Naomi KAWASE
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Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida
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Drama – Japan / France / Germany – 2015 – Japanese
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Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…
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by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
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Cast: Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano
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Romance / Drama – Japan / France – 2015 – Japanese
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Mizuki’s husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.
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by Paolo and Vittorio TAVIANI
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Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Kim Rossi Stuart, Riccardo Scamarcio, Paola Cortellesi, Kasia Smutniak, Lello Arena
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Historical Drama – 121 min – Italy – 2015 – Italian
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Florence, Italy, 1348. As the plague ravages the city dwellers of Tuscany, a group of young men and women takes shelter in a remote villa in the surrounding hills of Florence. Now living as a community, they decide to tell each other a story a day to take their minds off their precarious situation…
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by Carlos SAURA
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With the participation of: Soledad Pastorutti, Chaqueño Palavecino, Dino Saluzzi, Roxana Amed
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Live performance – Argentina / Spain / France – 2015 – Spanish
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Both poetic and moving, this live performance choreographed by Carlos Saura calls on the entire history of a country set to the tune of guitars and accordions.
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by Raphaël NADJARI
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Cast: Géraldine Pailhas, Luc Picard, Éléonore Lagacé, Natalie Choquette
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Drama – France / Canada – 2015 – French / Hebrew
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Hannah is a passionate and determined classical singer who conducts a choir in Montreal with her husband Daniel. One day a young, gifted and fragile woman named Abigail comes knocking at their door.
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From the director of Tehilim (Cannes 2007 in Competition) and I am Josh Polonski's Brother (Berlin 2001)
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by Dominique ABEL, Fiona GORDON
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Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
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Comedy – Belgium – 2015 – French
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Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian, receives a letter od distress from her 93-year-old Aunt Martha living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first plane only to discover that Martha has disappeared.
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by Élodie NAMER
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Cast: Michelangelo Passaniti, Lou de Laâge, Magne-Håvard Brekke
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Comedy / Drama – 83 min – France – 2015 – French
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At an international chess tournament in Budapest, 22-year-old French mastermind Cal Fournier starts to lose control when challenged by an unknown prodigy half his age.
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DOP Julien Poupard (Party Girl, Caméra d’Or Cannes 2014).
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Cesar Award 2015 nomination for Most Promising Actress for Lou de Laâge.
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by Walter SALLES
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Cast: Jia Zhangke, Zhao Tao, Yu Lik-wai
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Documentary – 105 min – Brazil – 2015 – Mandarin
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Walter Salles follows Jia Zhangke in China to the sets of his films, drawing a touching portrait of one of today's greatest directors.
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