Cannes Film Festival: Films in Competition Part I

American Honey

Country: Brazil

Star a teenage girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magaine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one whom is Jake, she soon gets into the group's lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love.

Director / Script: Andrea Arnold Cast: Shia Labeouf, Riley Keough, Sasha Lane

Graduation

Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town in Trnsylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams - a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first writtn exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he,as father, has taught his daughter.

Director / Script: Critian Mungiu Cast: Adrian Titieni, Lia Bugnar, Vlad Ivanov, Maria Dragus, Malina Manovici.

Elle

Country: France

Michel seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michele's life forever. When she resolutely track the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game - a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

Director: Paul Verhoeven Script: David Birke Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Anne Consigny, Virginie Efira, Laurent Lafitte, Charles Berling, Christian Berkel.

Forushande Country: France, Iran

Forced out of their department due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple's life.

Director/Script: Asghar Farhadi Cast: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Farid Sajjadihosseini, Mina Sadati, Mehdi Kooshi, Shirin Aghakashi, Sahra Asadollahe.

I, Daniel Blake Country: UK

Daniel Blake 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the state for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie's only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city he doesn't know some 300 miles away. Danil and Katie find themselves in no-man's land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of 'striver and skiver' in modern day Britain.

Director: Ken Loach Script: Paul Laverty Cast: Dave Johns, Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dylan Phillip McKiernan.

Julieta Country: Spain

Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. But at times grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart. When Antia turns 18 she abandons her mother, without a word of explanation. Julieta looks for her in every possible way, but all she discoverss is how little she knows of her daughter. Juliea is a bout a mother's struggle to survive uncertainty. It is also about fate, guilt complexes and that unfathomable mystery that leads us to abandon the people we love, erasing them from our lives as if they had never meant anything, as if they had never existed

Director / Script: Pedro Almodovar Cast: Emma Suarez, Daniel Grao, Dario Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Michelle Jenner.

Juste la Fin du Monde Country: Canada, France

After 12 years of absence, a writer goes back to his hometown on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, whila all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love

Director / Script: Xavier Dolan Cast: Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Lea Seydoux.

La Fille Inconnue Country: Belgium, France.

One evening, after closing her practice for the day, Jenny, a young doctor, hears the doorbell ring but doesn't answer it. The next day, the police inform her that an unidentified young woman has been found dead close by.

Director / Script: Jean - Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Cast: Adèle Haenel, Jeremie Renier, Louka Minnella, Olivier Bonnaud.

Loving Country: USA

"Loving" celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry- making their love story an inspiration to couples everywhere.

Director / Script: Jeff Nichols Cast: Joel Eggerton, Marton Csokas, Terri Abney, Jon Bass, Ruth Ngga, Nick Kroll, Alano Miller, Michael Shannon.

Ma Loute Country: France, Germany

Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished on the beaches of the Chanel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that these mysterious disappearances take place in Slack Bay. There lives a community of fishermen. Among them evolves a curious family, the Brufort, lead by the father "The Eternal", who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute. Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems' mansion. Every summer, this degenerate bourgeois family stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours with the local people. As starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute and the young mischievous Billie Van Peteghem, confusion and mystification wil descend on both families, shaking their foundations.

Director / Script: Bruno Dumont Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Raph.

Ma' Rosa Country: Philippines

Ma' Rosa has four children. She owns a smal convenient store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make end meets, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa and her children are ready to do anything to buy her freedom from the corrupt police.

Director: Brillante Mendoza Script: Troy Espiritu Cast: Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Baron Geisler, Jomari Angeles, Neil Ryan Sese, Mercedes Cabral.

Mademoiselle Country: Republic of Korea

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.

Director: Park Chan-Wook Script: Park Chan-Wook, Jung Seo-Kyung Cast: Kim Min-Hee, Ha Jung-Woo, Kim Hae-Sook.

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