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PRODUCT LISTINGShas to find it. (104 mins.; screening; debuting)Quiet Flows the Don (Italy; drama) Producer:Madison Motion Pictures Ltd., London;director: Serghey Bondarchuk; cast: RupertEverett, Murray Abraham, Delphine Forest.Based on the novel “... And Quiet Flows theDon” by Mikhail A. Sholokhov, Nobel Prize forLiterature, this epic story tells about war andrevolution and the progress of Grigory fromyouthful lover to Red Army soldier and finallyto Cossack nationalist. (187 mins.; screening;debuting)LES FILMS DE LA BUTTEPhone: 33-676702265On Offer:Alpha Predator (France; horror) Producers:Christophe Bruncher, Dan Burlac. AParisian talent scout is chasing new models inRomania, when he becomes the prey of a newrace of predators, threatening a remote villagein the Carpathians. (development; presales;debuting)Et Si On Vivait Tous Ensemble?(France; comedy) Producers: ChristopheBruncher, Philippe Gompel, Peter Rommel;director: Stéphane Robelin; cast: Jeanne Moreau,Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard. Five oldfriends, about 70 years old each, decide tomove in all together, to avoid finishing theirdays in a retirement home. Living as a communityisn’t that easy, but friendship is strongerthan anything and even at their age, life is stillfull of surprises. (preproduction; presales;debuting)LES FILMS DU LOSANGECannes 2009 Office: Riviera F7Office Phone: 336-89-85-96-95Phone: 33-1-44-43-87-28On Offer:Father of My Children (France; drama)Producers: David Thion, Philippe Martin (lesFilms Pelléas), Oliver Damian (27 Films); director:Mia Hansen-Løve; cast: Louis-do De Lencquesaing,Chiara Casselli, Alice De Lencquesaing.Grégoire Canvel has everything. Awoman he loves, three delightful daughters, ajob that he adores and to which he devotes allhis energy. He produces films. The artistic prestigeof his catalogue, along with his uniquecharm blending sensitivity, humour and elegance,make Grégoire Canvel one of the mostadmired French producers of his time. Grégoireis admired but he is heavily in debt. In order toproduce his films, Grégoire keeps taking hugefinancial risks. (110 mins.; premiere; debuting)King of Escape (France; drama) Producer:Sylvie Pialat (les Films Du Worso); director:Alain Guiraudie; cast: Ludovic Berthillot, HafsiaHerzi, Luc Palun. Armand Lacourtade, 43, is anagricultural equipment salesman. Recently,he’s been going through tough times and nolonger puts much effort into his work or hisfriends. He’s even fed up with his lifestyle as agay single man. One night, Armand rescues ayoung woman, Curly, who instantly fall in lovewith him. Armand is not impervious to hercharm too. They finally run away togetherturning this love escapade into a full-blownmanhunt. (97 mins.; premiere; debuting)The White Ribbon (France; drama) Producers:Stefan Arndt (x-filme – Germany),Margaret Menegoz (les Films Du Losange –France), Michael Katz, Dr. Veit Heiduschka(wega Films – Austria), Andrea Occhipinti &Stefano Massenzi (lucky Red – Italy); director:Michael Haneke; cast: Christian Friedel,Burkhart Klaussner, Ulrich Tukur. A village inProtestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. Onthe eve of World War I. The story of the childrenand teenagers of a choir run by the villageschoolteacher, and their families: the baron,the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife,the tenant farmers. Strange accidentsoccur and gradually take on the character of apunishment ritual. Who is behind it all? (142mins.; premiere; debuting)FILMS SANS FRONTIERESCannes 2009 Office: Palais Miramar #415 -65 La CroisetteOffice Phone: 33-6-0949-25-09Phone: 33-1-42-77-21-84On Offer:20 Classics of Italian Neorealism (inHD for Blu-ray) (Paris; drama) Directors:Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, GiuseppeDe Santis, Luchino Visconti (; debuting)The Blue Angel (musical remake)(Paris; musical) Producer: Galeshka Moravioff.A stuffy professor falls blindly in love withcabaret entertainer Lola-Lola , who ruins hislife. (development; debuting)The Dragon With Sad Eyes (Paris; animation)Producers: Films Sans Frontieres,Kecskemetfilm; directors: Katia Even, HoëlCaouissin. Hiccup and Bigshot, on a hunt forbutterflies, met the Flower Queen in tears. Shenames them Knights of the Kingdom of Flowersand off they go on a crusade to find Flowersstolen by the Dragon With the Sad Eyes.(development; debuting)FILMSHARKS INT’LCannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand B19Office Phone: 33-4-93-99-85-93Phone/Fax: -33-4-93-99-85-93On Offer:A Boyfriend for My Wife (Argentina;comedy) Producers: Juan Pablo Galli, AlejandroCacetta & Juan Vera; director: Juan Taratuto;cast: Adrian Suar, Valeria Bertuccelli &Gabriel Goity. “El Tenso” doesn’t know how todeal with his wife, “La Tana,” to say that hewants a divorce. She is constantly cranky andprotesting about everything. “El Tenso” gets“The Raven Flores,” an old-fashioned latinoirresistible seducer, to seduce his wife until shefalls in love with him so that she will leave “ElTenso.” (96 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;debuting)La Milagrosa (Argentina; drama) Producers:Rafael Lara & Julio Bove; director: RafaelLara; cast: Antonio Merlano; Guillermo Iván;Mónica Gómez; Hernán Méndez; Álvaro GarcíaTrujillo, Germán Quintero; Ana María Kamper;Montserrat Espadalé; Carlos Duplat; SantiagoReyes. Based on true events, much like IngridBetancourt’s horrific tale of abduction. Eduardo,the son of very powerful Colombian businessman, is on a road trip with a friend andhis friend’s bodyguard when they are suddenlykidnapped by a Colombian guerrilla and heldfor ransom. The film deeply narrates the lonelinessand trauma suffered by the victims, thearmed clashes and dangerous ventures fromcamp to camp in the jungle, depicting theguerrilla lifestyle as never shown before . (106mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)Tear This Heart Out (Argentina; drama)Producer: Monica Lozano; director: RobertoSneider; cast: Ana Claudia Talancón, DanielGiménez Cacho, José María De Tavira. An EpicDrama by Roberto Sneider . Mexican entry forthe Oscars 2009 and a Latin American boxofficehit. This pearl will take your breath awayand tear your heart out. Based on a perfectbook that turned into a filmed masterpiece.(107 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)FINECUT CO., LTD.Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand# E9/f12Office Phone: 33-4-92-99-33-32Phone: 822-569-8777On Offer:A Brand New Life (Korea; drama) Producers:Lee Chang-dong, Laurent Lavole, LeeJoon-dong; director: Ounie Lecomte; cast: KimSaeron, Park Doyeon. An emotional story of a9-year-old girl experiencing two extraordinaryevents: abandonment and adoption. (93mins.; premiere; debuting)Chaw (Korea; action-adventure) Producers:Kim Sun-yong, Son Kwang-ik, Park Kyungduk;director: Shin Jung-won; cast: Eum Taewoong,Jung Yu-mi. In a peaceful village, a terribleaccident happens involving a man-eatingboar, Chaw. People pursue it into the mountains,each with a different purpose. (postproduction;product reel/trailer; returning)Like You Know It All (Korea; drama) Producers:Hong Sangsoo, Kim Kyoung-hee; director:Hong Sangsoo; cast: Kim Tae-woo, KoHyun-jung. Director Ku attends a film festivalas a juror and meets a weird programmer.Sometime later, he is invited to Jeju Island andgets to meet his senior, whose wife was his ex10 years ago. (126 mins.; premiere; returning)FIVE STAR PRODUCTIONCannes 2009 Office: Riviera C13Phone: 662-246-9025Fax: -662-246-9025On Offer:The Red Eagle (Thailand; action-adventure)Producer: Five Star Production; director:Wisit Sasanatiieng; cast: Ananda Everingham.Thailand, year 2013, introduced two phenomena.The first was the baffling case of politiciansgone mad and causing havoc all over thecity. Eventually they died of unknown causes.The other puzzling event was the appearanceof a mysterious man who is seen and recognizedby his disguise under a dark black suitwho strikes without mercy. (preproduction;presales; debuting)Slice (Thailand; thriller) Producer: Five StarProduction; director: Kongkiat Komesiri; cast:Arak Amornsupasiri. The police are baffled asmale victims turn up sliced and dead, and theyare hard pressed for results as the latest victimhappens to be a son of a politician. Their lastresort is to confront an ex-hitman named Tai,for his expertise in the field of hunting down akiller. The chase is on before a new victim turnsup sliced. (production; presales; debuting)Soul’s Code (Thailand; horror) Producer:Benjaporn Panyaying; director: AdsajunSattagovit; cast: M.l. Nattakorn DevakulaPatiwat Ruangsri. This story is dedicated to allthe lost souls who await the day of justice, fortheir death will not be in vain. The story startsoff with the police in the Prae province ofThailand and the gruesome discovery of abody. The body is identified as a female highschool student who was horrifically dismemberedand stuffed into a box. (111 mins.;screener cassette/DVD; returning)FLANDERS IMAGEPhone: 32-2-226-06-30On Offer:Altiplano (Belgium; drama) Producer: PeterBrosens; director: Brosens & Woodworth; cast:Magaly Solier, Olivier Gourmet. A war photographerloses her soul in Iraq. An Andean bridesacrifices herself in protest against the miningindustry. Their destinies cross on the Altiplano.(109 mins.; screening; debuting)Lost Persons Area (Belgium; drama) Producer:Tomas Leyers; director: CarolineStrubbe; cast: Zotan Miklos Hajdu, KimkeDesart. A story about people lost in their fearof rejection. (110 mins.; screening; debuting)My Queen Karo (Belgium; drama) Producers:Frank Van Passel, Bert Hamelinck, KatoMaes; director: Dorothée Van Den Berghe;cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Déborah François.Ten-year-old Karo grows up with her parentsin an Amsterdam commune in the early Seventies,where she leads carefree existence inthis utopia-for-adults. Caught in the crossfireof the internal conflicts that start to divide thegroup, Karo slowly realises that nothing canstay the same forever... (102 mins.; screening;debuting)FOCUS FEATURESINTERNATIONALCannes 2009 Office: Résidence Du GrayD’albion - 12, La Croisette, 2nd FloorOffice Phone: 33-4-93-39-76-46Phone: 00442073071330On Offer:Agora (U.K.; drama) Producer: FernandoBovaira; director: Alejandro Amenábar; cast:Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac.(postproduction; returning)Eagle of the Ninth (U.K.) Producer: DuncanKenworthy; director: Kevin Macdonald(preproduction; debuting)Greenberg (U.K.) Producers: Scott Rudin,Jennifer Jason Leigh; director: Noah Baumbach;cast: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, RhysIfans. (production; debuting)FORESIGHT UNLTD.Cannes 2009 Office: 3 La Croisette, 3rdFloorOffice Phone: 049-368-8061Phone: +1 310-275-5222On Offer:Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (USA;thriller) Producers: Moshe Diamant, MarkDamon, Ted Hartley; director: Peter Hyams;cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Michael Douglas.“Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” is a remake ofthe RKO classic from 1956, the last Americanfilm directed by the great Fritz Lang. In thissuspenseful and clever thriller a journalistseeks to expose a corrupt District Attorney bysetting himself up as the suspect in a murderhe didn’t commit. His plan backfires when theD.A. discovers the set up and gets rid of all theevidence the journalist has amassed to provehis innocence. (2 mins.; product reel/trailer;returning)Shi (USA; action-adventure) Director: TBA;cast: TBA. Based on the popular comic bookSHI, which has a worldwide fan base. Born to aJapanese father and American missionarymother, Ana Ishikawa witnesses her family’sbrutal murder at the hands of a Yakuza thug,and undergoes righteous martial arts-warriortraining to transform herself into SHI andavenge her family’s death. (development; presales;debuting)Universal Soldier: New Beginning(USA; action-adventure) Producer: MosheDiamant; director: John Hyams; cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren. When ateam of former Soviet radicals seizes Chernobyland threatens to unleash a lethal cloudof radioactive gas one hundred times deadlierthan Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, theUS military brings in a bio-mechanicallyenhanced super soldier, Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), to foil the plot. As Deverauxfights his way into the plant, he faces offwith his now revived former nemesis, AndrewScott (Dolph Lundgren), in a battle of battles,and must save the day. (postproduction; productreel/trailer; debuting)FORTISSIMO FILMSCannes 2009 Office: Résidence Du GrandHotel, Entrance Goeland, 7d, 45 La Croisette,06400 CannesPhone: +31 20 627 3215On Offer:Air Doll (The Netherlands; romance) Producers:Toshiro Uratani, Hirokazu Kore-eda;director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; cast: Bae Doo-na,Arata. A romantic fantasy about an inflatablesex doll (Bae) who develops a soul and falls inlove with a video store clerk. (120 mins.; productreel/trailer; debuting)Daniel and Ana (The Netherlands; drama)Producer: Daniel Birman Ripstein; director:Michel Franco; cast: Dario Yazbek Bernal, MarimarVega. The harmony of Daniel and Ana,brother and sister, is instantly shattered whenthey are kidnapped and something shockinghappens which forces them to confront theirdesires and fears. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)Nymph (The Netherlands; horror) Producers:Saksiri Chantarangsri, Wouter Barendrecht,Michael J. Werner; director: Pen-ekRatanaruang; cast: Wanida Termthanaporn,Nopachai Jayanama. The story follows a pho-CANNES ⁄ MAY 2009 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 12
PRODUCT LISTINGStographer who takes his wife on an assignmentinto the jungle and then disappears.(105 mins.; premiere; debuting)FOUNDATION FILMSCannes 2009 Office: Nicomar, Pontoon400, Vieux Port, CannesOffice Phone: 44-7941-020-531Phone: 44-20-3049-3459On Offer:The Crew (U.K.; thriller) Producers: IanBrady, Stephen Salter; director: Adrian Vitoria;cast: Scot Williams, Kenney Doughty, StephenGraham. A crime/ gangster thriller about arespected crime boss fighting for survival as hefaces betrayal in the build up to a major heist.(117 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)FUTURIKONCannes 2009 Office: B3Phone: 33144619469On Offer:Dragon Hunters (France; animation) Producers:Futurikon Films, Trixter, Luxanimation,France 3 Cinema, Rtl-tvi, Mac Guff Ligne; directors:Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak; cast: ForestWhitaker. Zoe is a little girl who believes infairy tales. Not because she is naive, butbecause she likes fairy tales. So in order to helpher uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible dragon,Zoe decides she has to find some heroes.And when she meets Gwizdo and Lian-Chu – acouple of two-bit, fly-by-night dragon hunters– well what the heck, she decides that she’sgoing to believe in them anyway! (82 mins.;returning)Minuscule (France; animation) Producer:Futurikon Films; directors: Helene Giraud,Thomas Szabo. In a peaceful little clearing, theremains of a picnic hastily abandoned in asummer storm are going to ignite a warbetween two tribes of ants. At stake is a boxof sugar. A young and bold ladybug finds herselfcaught in the middle of the battle. Shebecomes friends with one of the black antsand helps him to save his anthill from the terriblered ant warriors. (preproduction; presales;debuting)G-MACHINE INC.Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F 15 C/o NewFilms InternationalPhone: 818-501-2720On Offer:Palo Alto (USA; comedy) Producers: DanielEngelhardt, Rachel Morrison; director: BradLeong; cast: Tom Arnold, Aaron Ashmore,Johnny Lewis, Justin Mentell, Autumn ReeserBen Savage. On their last night of Thanksgivingbreak, four old friends, now all collegefreshmen, realize their small town has moremeaning than they ever imagined. (90 mins.;screener cassette/DVD; returning)PVC-1 (USA; thriller) Producers: Jace Hall,Spiros Stathoulopoulos; director: SpirosStathoulopoulos; cast: Merida Urquia, DanielPaez, Alberto Sornoza. Directors FortnightCannes 2007; Thessaloniki International FilmFestival (Nov 2007) Winner of the SilverAlexander (Special Jury Prize); Director SpirosStathoulopoulos Shot in real time and onecontinuous take, PVC-1 is based on the truestory of a woman who is turned into a humantime bomb in an act of terrorism. (85 mins.;screener cassette/DVD; returning)Witch Hunt (USA; documentary) Producers:Sean Penn (executive Producer) DonHardy, Jr. Dana Nachman; director: Don HardyJr. & Dana Nachman; cast: Sean Penn (narrator),Jackie Cummings, Jack Cummings, BrendaKniffen, Scott Kniffen. Executive ProducerSean Penn presents “Witch Hunt,” a grippingindictment of the American justice system toldthrough the lens of one small town. This storyon a micro level mirrors what the US has experiencedover the last eight years. When poweris allowed to exist without oversight civil rightsare in jeopardy. (91 mins.; screening; returning)GAGA COMMUNICATIONS,INC.Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 21.02 (japanBooth)Office Phone: 04-9299-8066Phone: 81-3-6823-7574On Offer:Be Sure to Share (Japan; drama) Producer:Yasushi Umemura; director: Sion Sono;cast: Akira, Eiji Okuda, Ayumi Ito. The canceraffectedbody does not show the past glory ofShiro’s father any longer. Facing the death ofhis respected but fearful father, the son startsto realize what his old man really meant in hislife for the first time. One day, however, Shirolearns he himself is also a cancer patient,worse than the father. Keeping his secret onhis own, on the contrary, he even starts to wishthe father to die earlier. What would Shirochoose to share with his loved ones in hisremaining time? (postproduction; productreel/trailer; debuting)DumBeast (Japan; comedy) Producers:Sachiko Sone, Naota Sugawara, Iwao Takase;director: Hideaki Hosono; cast: TadanobuAsano, Kazuki Kitamura, Yusuke Santamaria.An editor arrives at a village to find the missingaward-nominated writer Deko (Asano).Awaiting here are Deko’s weird friends: theboss of gigolo club, his yes-man cop friend,boss’ mistress and a bunny girl. There, the editorlearns Deko was back in town a year back;moreover, the friends have been desperatelytrying to kill him because of this award bookDeko wrote... Despite of their countless trialsof murder, Deko’s dumbness keeps him fromeven noticing his friends’ intentions... (106mins.; premiere; debuting)Halfway (Japan; romance) Producers:Shunji Iwai, Takeshi Kobayashi; director: ErikoKitagawa; cast: Kie Kitano, Masaki Okada.From the filmmaker Shunji Iwai (“Love Letter,”“Swallowtail”) comes another beautiful lovestory, introducing the first-time director ErikoKitagawa. It is a bitter-sweet love story of highschool couple who cares for each other butstruggles for their relationship as the graduationcomes closer. (85 mins.; screening; returning)GAUMONTCannes 2009 Office: 2 Rue BivouacNapoleonOffice Phone: 33-4-93-68-90-20Phone: 33-1-46-43-20-00On Offer:High Lane (France; horror) Director: AbelFerry; cast: Fanny Valette, Nicolas Giraud,Johan Libéreau, Raphael Lenglet, Maud Wyler.A group of friends on vacation decide to ventureonto a trail high up in the mountains thathas been closed for repairs. The climb provesmore perilous than planned, especially as theysoon realize that they’re not alone. The adventureturns into a nightmare… (screening;debuting)OSS 117, Lost in Rio (aka OSS 117, Rione Repond Plus) (France; comedy) Director:Michel Hazanavicius; cast: Jean Dujardin,Louise Monot. OSS 117 is still a very French spy.He is now in Rio, dealing with the 70s, hippies,ex nazis and ... chinese girls... (screening;debuting)Splice (France; sci-fi) Director: VincenzoNatali; cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley. Cliveand Elsa are young, brilliant and ambitious.The new animal species they engineered havemade them rebel superstars of the scientificworld. In secret, they introduce human DNAinto the experiment. The result is somethingthat is greater than the sum of its parts: afemale animal-human hybrid that may be astep up on the evolutionary ladder. (postproduction;debuting)GENERATION P LLCPhone: 310-933-5708On Offer:Generation “P” (USA; drama) Producers:Victor Ginzburg, Stas Yershov, AlekseyRyazantsev, Djina Ginzburg; director: VictorGinzburg; cast: Vladimir Yepifantsev, MikhailYefremov, Oleg Takhtarov, Andrei Panin, RenataLitvinova, Amaliya Goldanskaya, AndreiVasiliev, Leonid Parfyonov, Andrei Fomin.Imagine Vonnegut meeting Gogol. Imagine awonderful, sardonic, rueful, I’ve-been-therebelly laugh. Now imagine that you take amagical mystery tour through Babylonian,recent Soviet/Russian and Madison Avenuehistories. Put it all in the same movie, spicewith LSD, lots of vodka and hallucinogenicmushrooms and you might come close to filmbased on Victor Pelevin’s internationallyacclaimed novel Generation “P” (published as“Homo Zapiens” (US); Babylon (UK) (postproduction;product reel/trailer; debuting)GHENT INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVALPhone: 32-9-242-80-60On Offer:For The Record - Angelo Badalamenti(CD) (Belgium; musical) Producer: GhentInternational Film Festival. CD recording ofAngelo Badalamenti concert at 2008 GhentInternational Film Festival (postproduction;presales; debuting)For The Record - Craig Armstrong(CD) (Belgium; musical) Producer: GhentInternational Film Festival. CD recording of2006 Craig Armstrong concert at the GhentInternational Film Festival (returning)For The Record - Michael Danna(CD) (Belgium; musical) Producer: GhentInternational Film Festival. CD recording of2007 Michael Danna concert at the GhentInternational Film Festival (returning)GK FILMSCannes 2009 Office: The Penthouse, RivieraPalace, Square Duboys D’angers, 06400-cannesOffice Phone: 049-368-8551Phone: 310-315-1722On Offer:Edge of Darkness (USA) Producers: GrahamKing, Michael Wearing; director: MartinCampbell; cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone,Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, ShawnRoberts. A veteran homicide detective investigateshis daughter’s murder which leads into adangerous looking-glass world of corporatecover-ups, government collusion and murder.(postproduction; returning)London Boulevard (USA) Producers: GrahamKing, William Monahan, Quentin Curtis;director: William Monahan; cast: Colin Farrell,Keira Knightley, Ray Winstone, David Thewlis,Anna Friel. “London Boulevard” is the story ofa South London criminal, newly released fromprison, who becomes involved with a reclusiveyoung actress. (preproduction; debuting)The Rum Diary (USA) Producers: JohnnyDepp, Christi Dembrowski, Anthony Rhulen,Robert Kravis, And Graham King; director:Bruce Robinson; cast: Johnny Depp, AaronEckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli,Richard Jenkins, And Giovanni Ribisi. “The RumDiary” tells the story of itinerant journalist PaulKemp who travels to Puerto Rico to work for alocal newspaper and soon becomes obsessedwith the wildly attractive fiancée of a shadybusinessman. (production; debuting)GOALPOST FILMCannes 2009 Office: The Grand Hotel,(entrance Flamant, 4th Floor)Office Phone: 44-7771-966-190Phone/Fax: -44-7771-966-190On Offer:Closed for Winter (U.K.; drama) Producers:Ben Grant, Kent Smith; director: JamesBogle; cast: Natalie Imbruglia. How can youunderstand one day without understandingthe day before? At the beach one summer daya little girl goes missing. Twenty years on hersister finds the courage to rearrange the piecesof her broken life ... and invent a new beginning.(85 mins.; screening; debuting)Jean Charles (U.K.; drama) Producers: LukeSchiller, Carlos Nader, Henrique Goldman;director: Henrique Goldman; cast: SeltonMello. The tragic true story of Jean Charles deMenezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead byBritish police in 2005 at the height of the Londonterrorist alerts. (postproduction; productreel/trailer; debuting)Three Miles North of Molkom (U.K.;documentary) Producers/directors: RobertCannan, Corinna Villari-mcfarlaneThree milesnorth of Molkom, hidden deep in the lakesideforests of Sweden, lies Angsbacka; a 21st Centuryplayground for adults. Once a year, theirgates open to a thousand international participants,placed in ‘Sharing Groups’ at random. ASwedish celebrity, a Californian hippy, aFinnish grandmother and a back-packing Australianrugby coach, who stumbled on thewrong party, are amongst the group that takeus on an unforgettably quirky, two-week emotionalroller-coaster. (102 mins.; screening;debuting)GOLD VIEW CO., LTD.Phone: 81-3-5347-2501On Offer:The Clone Returns Home (Japan; sci-fi)Producers: Kiyoshi Inoue, Rie Yamamoto,Yoshiaki Tago; director: Kanji Nakajima; cast:Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku,Kyusaku Shimada, Toru Shinagawa. KoheiTAKAHARA, an astronaut who dies in the lineof duty, is legally resurrected as a clone; however,contrary to the scientists’ expectations,he reverts to his childhood memories when histwin brother drowned sacrificing his life forKohei. Kohei’s clone discovers the body of hisformer self mistakenly believing that it is hisdeceased twin. Relieving his tragic past, hesets off carrying his corpse on a journey to thebeautiful hometown where he lived twin hisnow dead mother... (110 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;returning)MIyoko (working title) (Japan; drama)Producers: Kazuhiro Shirao, Noboru Miyashita;director: Yoshifumi Tsubota; cast: KenjiMizuhashi, Marie Machida. (86 mins.; returning)The Portrait Series: Saekingdom +Utakata (Japan; documentary) Director:Bun Nakata; cast: Saekingdom [kenzo Saeki]Utakata [usagi Nakamura]. [saekingdom]Kenzo Saeki was born on July 28th, 1958. He isnot just a musician and his work as a lyricist,essayist, and producer have earned himrespect as a major charismatic figure andcommentator on subculture and all aspects ofJapanese culture. This film follows KenzoSaeki before and after the 2006 Pearl Brothers[his Electro-pop band]’ come-back gig.(120 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)GOLDCREST INDEPENDENTCannes 2009 Office: La Bagatelle, 7th Floor,25 La CroisetteOffice Phone: 33-4-93-39-63-48Phone: 44-20-7437-8696On Offer:Amalia - The Movie (U.K.; drama) Producer:Manuel Fonseca; director: Carlos CoelhoDa Silva; cast: Sandra Barata Belo, RicardoPereira, Ana Padrão. The extraordinary tale oflove and glory of Amalia, the greatest PortugueseFado singer, unveiling her secret storiesand the most memorable moments of hercareer. The biography of a diva who foundfame across the world with her phenomenalsinging talent and whose life was wrapped inpassion and grief. (127 mins.; screening; debuting)Cartagena (U.K.; drama) Producers: PierreForrette, Thierry Wong, Christine Gozlan; direc-CANNES ⁄ MAY 2009 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 13
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