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KURU OTLAR USTUNE (LES HERBES SÈCHES / ABOUT DRY GRASSES) de/by NURI BILGE CEYLAN
About Dry Grasses is by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who won the Palme d’Or in 2014 for Winter Sleep. The film follows Samet, a young art teacher, who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in, and hopes that his encounter with fellow teacher Nuray will help him overcome his angst. Deniz Celilo?lu, Merve Dizdar and Musab Ekici are among the cast.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST de / by JONATHAN GLAZER
Focusing on the everyday domesticity of the Auschwitz commandant’s family might only reflect the horror indirectly, but the film pulls the banality of evil into pin-sharp focus
- Controversy around Auchwitz
The Zone of Interest, by Jonathan Glazer, starring Cate Blanchett. Based on a novel by Martin Amis, who died today.
LES FILLES D’OLFA (FOUR DAUGHTERS) de / by KAOUTHER BEN HANIA
Ben Hania walked the red carpet with the real-life Hamrouni and her two daughters, as well as the actors playing the missing daughters and Sabri for the film’s premiere on Friday evening.
Indiana Jones press conference
RETRATOS FANTASMAS (PORTRAITS FANTÔMES / PICTURES OF GHOSTS) de/by KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO
“A multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture, and filmmaking”
EUREKA de / by LISANDRO ALONSO
OMAR LA FRAISE (THE KING OF ALGIERS) de / by ELIAS BELKEDDAR
French director Romain Gavras and Dua Lipa attended the screening of the film Omar la Fraise (The King of Algiers) on Friday evening, May 20 with French-Algerian director Elias Belkeddar, French actor Reda Kateb, Benoit Magimel and actress Meriem Amiar. Red carpet pics – Billboard
LES MEUTES (HOUNDS) de/by KAMAL LAZRAQ
HOW TO HAVE SEX de / by MOLLY MANNING WALKER
THE NEW BOY de / by WARWICK THORNTON
IN FLAMES de/by ZARRAR KAHN
UN PRINCE (A PRINCE) de / by PIERRE CRETON
THE SWEET EAST de / by SEAN PRICE WILLIAMS
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED de / by JOANNA ARNOW
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“Sharply cynical…Marks Joanna Arnow out as a talent unafraid to go the full nine yards.” —Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
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CONANN de / by BERTRAND MANDICO
DÉSERTS (DESERTS) de / by FAOUZI BENSAÏDI
Inshallah Walad (Inshallah a boy) – Ahjad al Rasheed
Il pleut dans la maison (it’s raining in the house) – Palmoma Sermon-Dai
Vincent doit mourir (Vincent must die) – Stéphan Castang
