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CELLULoid dreAMS
CANNES 2015
CANNES 2015
IN COMPETITION
DHEEPAN
by Jaques Audiard
DIRECTORS’FORTNIGHT
MUCH LOVED
SCREENING
IN PRODUCTION
PROJECTS
COMPLETED
by Nabil Ayouch
MARKET SCREENING
TAXI
by Jafar Panahi
IN CANNES NEW ADDRESS
29 RUE DU COMMANDANT ANDRE - 4th Floor
MARKET PREMIERE
Attending
POST-PRODUCTION
BONE TOMAHAWK
by S. Craig Zahler
POST-PRODUCTION
THE WOMAN IN THE SILVER PLATE
HENGAMEH PANAHI / President
+33 6 11 96 57 20 / [email protected]
KATE POMERANT / Sales & Acquisitions
+33 6 37 22 24 57 / [email protected]
by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
IN PRODUCTION
THE SUSHI POLICE
by Tatsushi Momen
PROJECT
COOKING WITH FERNET BRANCA
by Bruce Beresford
PROJECT
THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL
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HENRIK GOTBRANT / Sales Assistant
+33 6 77 33 48 75 / [email protected]
by Takeshi Kitano
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Celluloid Dreams I the directors label
2, rue Turgot
75009 Paris, France
Ph: +33 1 49 70 03 70
[email protected]
www.celluloid-dreams.com
RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN
by Zabou Breitman & Elea Gobbe-Mevellec
DHEEPAN
FRANCE / 2015 / 2.40 / COLOR / 110 MIN
Written by Jacques Audiard,
Thomas Bidegain & Noé Debré
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux
& Grégoire Sorlat
Cast Antonythasan Jesuthasan,
Kalieaswari Srinivasan,
Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent
Rottiers, Marc Zinga
French Distributor UGC
In partnership with
Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger.
In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is
near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a
woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for
him to claim asylum in Europe.
Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home
to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a rundown housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new
life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and his ‘daughter’, but the
daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and
Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to
protect the people he hopes will become his true family.
COMPLETED - IN COMPETITION
by Jacques Audiard
MUCH LOVED
FRANCE - MOROCCO / 2015 / 2K / 1.85 / COLOR / 108MIN
Produced by Saïd Hamich,
Eric Poulet, Nabil Ayouch
Cast Loubna Abidar, Asmaa
Lazrak, Halima Karaouane
Sara Elmhamdi Elalaoui
Marrakech today…
Noha, Randa, Soukaina, and Hlima live a life of ‘love for sale’. They’re whores,
objects of desire, flashes of flesh. In the heat of the night money flows
freely to the rhythms of pleasures and humiliations suffered. But united in
their womanhood, they’re queens of their kingdom. Full of light, dignity and
joy, they manage to keep their spirits and dreams alive.
They’re loved, they’re unloved, they’re too much loved….
COMPLETED - DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT
by Nabil Ayouch
MARKET SCREENING
“Playful yet profound…” Variety
“Something for Everyone…” Hollywood Reporter
“A Masterpiece” Le Monde
by Jafar Panahi
TAXI
Award of the
International Critics
IRAN / 2015 / 16:9 / COLOR / 82 MIN.
Writer & Producer Jafar Panahi
Cast Jafar Panahi, Hana Saidi,
Nasrin Sotoudeh
A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant
and colourful streets of Teheran. Very diverse
passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing
their views while being interviewed by the driver
who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi
himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of
his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian
society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
MARKET SCREENINGS
Friday May 15th
17:30 - OLYMPIA 9
Sunday May 17th
17:30 - GRAY 2
MARKET PREMIERE
by Takeshi Kitano
RYUZO AND HIS
SEVEN HENCHMEN
JAPAN / 2015 / 35MM / 2.35 / COLOR / 110 MIN.
Written, Edited, Directed by
TAKESHI KITANO
Produced by Masayuki MORI
and Takio YOSHIDA
Release in Japan, April 25th,
2015 by Warner Bros. Pictures
Japan and Office Kitano
Retired former yakuza boss Ryuzo is living
a bored life. Together with his former right
hand man, after one too many sake, they
come up with the crazy idea of creating
a team of old yakuzas. But what started
as a laughing stock gradually becomes a
confrontation between the old and the young
yakusas leading to a showdown.
MARKET PREMIERE
Thurs May 14th
20:30 - OLYMPIA 8
Sat May 16th
20:00 - OLYMPIA 3
CAST Kurt Russell (Fast & Furious 7,
Deathproof), Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring,
Prometheus, Watchmen) Matthew Fox (Lost,
World War Z) Jena Malone (The Hunger
Games), James Ransone (Sinister), Richard
Jenkins (Jack Reacher, Burn After Reading)
BONE
TOMAHAWK
USA / 2015 / 4K / 2.40 / COLOR
Editor FRED RASKIN (Django
Unchained, Gardians of the
Galaxy and Fast &Furious)
After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes
into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap
several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured
leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging
deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a journey into
hell on earth as the posse comes to realise it is up against a foe whose
savagery knows no bounds. The film takes place in the mid 1800’s around
the border of what is now Texas and New Mexico.
POST - PRODUCTION
by S. Craig Zahler
THE WOMAN IN
THE SILVER PLATE
FRANCE - JAPAN - BELGIUM / 2016 / HD / 2.39 / COLOR / FRENCH
Writer Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
Producers Michiko YOSHITAKE
& Jérôme DOPFFER
CAST Tahar RAHIM Olivier
GOURMET, Constance
ROUSSEAU,Malik ZIDI,
Mathieu AMALRIC
A former fashion photographer, Stephane works obsessively in an old 19th century
photography technique, said to have given eternal after-life to the souls of the people
whose image it captured.
Jean, a young man desperate for inspiration in his life, becomes Stephane’s assistant.
He quickly feels captured himself, by Marie, Stephane’s only daughter and model. But
after Marie takes a mysterious fall one evening, the difference between image and reality
becomes much harder to decipher.
POST - PRODUCTION
by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
THE SUSHI
POLICE
JAPAN / 2016 / COLOR / 13X4MIN
Producers Sedic International
Inc, Koo – Ki Co Ltd
Not fair, not cool, and not brave - a team of Japanese Anti-heroes are here. It’s the
Sushi Police!
Meet Honda, Suzuki, and Kawasaki, the comedic squad of Japanese officers
sent by newly formed WFCCO (World Food Culture Conservation Organization) to
banish bad sushi. With the help of wasabi guns, sushi vacuum suckers, and
space soy lasers these Japanese detectives show no mercy, as they raid Japanese
restaurants around the world - on a madcap mission to ensure all counterfeit
sushi perishes on earth!
Full of raw black humor that bites!
IN PRODUCTION
by Tatsushi Momen
PROJECT
by Bruce Beresford
COOKING WITH
FERNET BRANCA
UK - ITALY / 2016 / COLOR / ENGLISH / ROMANTIC COMEDY
Producers Michael Fitzgerald
(The Homesman,The Three
Burials of Melquiades Estrada,
The Pledge, Under The Volcano,
Wise Blood), Ugo Tucci
Based on the novel by James
Hamilton-Paterson
A romantic comedy of errors that plays on the distorted views and
misperceptions men and women have of one another.
GERALD and MARTA, our mischievous, sharp-witted, mettlesome protagonists,
happen to be renting adjacent villas in a small hillside town in Tuscany.
Through a series of hilarious misunderstandings involving a motley cast
of criminals, rock stars, and film directors, he starts to think she’s a sexcrazed peasant woman from Eastern Europe, while she’s convinced he’s just
a pompous, nitwitted Englishman. But underneath their mutual insults and
condescending attitudes is a genuine attraction. They are, as it turns out, just
two shy hermits trying to flirt. And in a sweetly ironic twist, it is the same
bitter and foul-tasting liquor they both wickedly use to repel each other that
winds up bringing them together in the end.
A hilarious, wacky and wild British ‘battle of the sexes’ comedy.
THE SWALLOWS
OF KABUL
FRANCE - LUXEMBURG / 2017 / COLOR / ANIMATION
Producer Les Armateurs
(Belleville Rendez-Vous, The
Kirikou Trilogy, Secrets of Kells,
Ernest & Celestine)
Based on the best seller ‘The Swalllows of Kabul’ by Yasmina Khadra. Winner - Best Novel of the year, San Francisco Chronicle.
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards- Nomination. Prize -Salon LIttéraire de Metz. Prize -Algerian Booksellers.Yasmina
Khadra is also the winner of the Great Prize of Literature Henri Gal.
Kabul under Taliban rule. Two neighborhoods and two couples.
One conservative - Atiq and Mussarat have been married for 20 years and are deeply engrained in the traditions of Afghan life.
Atiq works as the chief guard at the women’s prison. Mussarat is very ill and fights to remain a strong woman till the very end.
One modern - young and in love, Zunaira and Mohsen are against all the same traditions. Under the Taliban, they’ve both lost
their jobs as lawyer and university teacher and have difficulties to make ends meet. They have to sell their few possessions to
buy food. Yet they´re determined to maintain their modern values.
One day, a stoning. Then an act of humiliation. Then a fight... and life takes an irrevocable turn.
When the lives of these diametrically opposite couples become intertwined, sacrifice becomes the price to pay for love.
PROJECT
by Zabou Breitman & Elea` Gobbe-Mevellec
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COMPLETED
CLOSER TO
THE MOON
WILD
CANARIES
by Nae Caranfil
by Lawrence Michael Levine
Cast Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring, Up in the Air),
Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty, Kick-Ass), Harry Lloyd
(Game of Thrones)
US Release IFC - April 2015
Cast Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Alia
Shawkat , Annie Parisse, Jason Ritter, Kevin Corrigan
US Release IFC - March 2015
Bucharest 1959. Five high-ranking Jewish members of the Romanian Communist party and
heroes of the resistance plan and carry out a spectacular bank robbery. They divert the attention
of onlookers by pretending to be shooting a movie. They are arrested, tried, convicted and
sentenced to death but not before being forced to reenact the robbery in a fake propaganda film.
An opportunity they immediately seize to turn their absurd predicament into a comedy. This is
a true story.
Barri and Noah, a newly engaged Brooklyn couple, are disheartened by the death of their elderly
neighbor, Sylvia. Though Noah sees nothing unusual about the old woman’s death, Barri suspects
foul play and sets out to investigate, enlisting her roommate Jean to join her on a reconnaissance
mission to trail a possible suspect. Tensions mount, however, when the investigation uncovers
unsettling secrets throughout the building including in their own apartment and suddenly
everyone seems like a reasonable suspect. A freshly comedic take on classic film noir, WILD
CANARIES brings a unique sensibility to a high-stakes murder mystery.
ROMANIA / USA / ITALY / POLAND - 2014 - 110 MIN - ENGLISH - COMEDY
USA - 2014 - 98 MIN - ENGLISH - COMEDY
THESE FINAL
HOURS
THINGS
PEOPLE DO
by Saar Klein (Terence Malick s twice Oscar
by Zak Hilditch
Nominated editor)
Cast Nathan Philips (Wolf Creek, Chernobyl Diaries),
Angourie Rice (Walking with Dinosaurs), Jessica de
Gouw (Dracula, Arrow, Kath & Kimderalla), Daniel
Henshall (Snowtown, The Babadook)
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Cast Wes Bentley (Hunger Games, Interstellar, American
Beauty), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter Series), Vinessa
Shaw (Eyes Wide Shut, Side Effects, 3:10 to Yuma)
Producer Sarah Green (Tree of Life, Take Shelter, Mud)
US Release eOne - February 2015
Bill, a well meaning family man, unwittingly turns to crime as a last resort after losing his job.
But his growing friendship with a police detective threatens to expose his double life.
It’s the last day on earth, twelve hours before an event will end life as we know it. James
(Nathan Phillips) makes his way across a lawless city to the party to end all parties. Along
the way he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose (Angourie Rice)
desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility James
is forced to question what really matters as the hours tick away.
USA - 2014 - 110 MIN - ENGLISH - THRILLER
AUSTRALIA - 2014 - 86 MIN - COLOR - ENGLISH - APOCALYPTIC THRILLER
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COMPLETED
BRAVE MEN S
BLOOD
by Olaf De Fleur (City State)
OVER YOUR
OVER
YOUR
DEAD
BODY
DEAD BODY
by Takashi Miike
“A compelling poetic meditation on human connection…” Indiewire
ELECTRIC
BOOGALOO
the Wild and Untold Story of Cannon Films
Cast Kô Shibasaki, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hitomi Katayama
by Mark Hartley
In order to take down a major criminal organization, the ambitious head of the internal affairs
unit of the Reykjavik P.D. decides to investigate a corrupt police lieutenant. Tipped off about the
lieutenant’s criminal dealings by a former crime kingpin, now imprisoned, he places a female
former narcotics officer undercover to spy on him. These actions set him off on a dangerous path
as he aims to catch both the lieutenant and the drug lord.
Yet another wild cinematic detour from madly prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, OVER YOUR
DEAD BODY unfolds within the walls of a theatre where a troupe of players are in rehearsals for
a production of Yotsuya Kaidan, a 200-year-old tale of murder, betray- al, and phantasmagorical
vengeance — and where life comes to imitate art in spooky and ultimately shocking ways. As
theatre and
life begin to intertwine, the film builds to a nightmarish finale that only a filmmaker
as perversely brilliant as Miike could have envisioned.
From acclaimed cult film documentarian Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, MACHETE
MAIDENS UNLEASHED), the film centers on the story of two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins,
Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the “American dream” launched an indie
studio that would produce over 120 exploitation films from 1979-1989. In doing so, the cousins
turned a renegade outfit into a major Hollywood powerhouse.
ICELAND - 2014 - 96 MIN - ICELANDIC / ENGLISH / SERBIAN ACTION/THRILLER
JAPAN - 2014 - 90 MIN - JAPANESE - HORROR
In partnership with
In partnership with
Cast Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, JJ Feild, Hilmir Snær
Guðnason, Gardar Halldorsson, Darri Ingolfsson,
Zlatko Krickic
AUSTRALIA / USA / ISRAEL / UK - 2014 - 105 MIN - ENGLISH - DOCUMENTARY
In partnership with
JAMIE MARKS
IS DEAD
by Carter Smith
Cast Cameron Monaghan (Shameless), Noah Silver,
Morgan Saylor (Homeland), Madisen Beaty with Judy
Greer (Carrie, The Descendants) and Liv Tyler
In a wintry small town, the body of a teenager named Jamie Marks is found by the river. Adam,
the star of his cross-country team, becomes fascinated with Jamie a boy nobody really knew or
interacted with, except occasionally to bully him. When Jamie’s ghost begins to appear both to
Adam and Gracie, the classmate who discovered the body, Adam is caught between two worlds.
He has a budding romance with Gracie, but he also feels a deep connection to Jamie, who brings
him closer to the world of the undead.
USA - 2014 - 100 MIN - ENGLISH - SUPERNATURAL THRILLER