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- DirectorChris MengesStarsBarbara HersheyDavid SuchetJodhi May1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue for her as although, under apartheid, the Roths largely exist among other white people like them, she feels equally comfortable around the black people in her life, such as their servants and her parents' black friends. Beyond knowing that they are busy in their work, Molly is unaware of the full extent of what her parents do, Gus a leading member of the South African Communist Party and Ruth an anti-apartheid journalist who also secretly works for the underground in support of the outlawed African National Congress. Shortly after Gus quietly escapes the country to evade probable arrest by the government - Molly believing it just a short work related trip - Molly's carefree life starts to unravel when Diana is detained for ninety days under a new law that allows such detention without ever even being charged with a criminal offense. The goal of Diana's interrogators, led by Inspector Muller, is to get her to divulge details especially of the underground, most specifically proverbial "names". Beyond missing her mother, Molly begins to resent the anti-apartheid work which has directly and indirectly impacted her life in a negative way, she wanting a mother, not an activist-mother. As the situation with Diana evolves, which includes someone needing to act as caregivers to Molly and her younger sisters while Diana is in detention, Molly gets a broader perspective of her situation under apartheid as she is able to see more of life just outside her protected white enclave, and as she is made aware of what Diana is trying to achieve for society in her work.In Competition
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsYûsaku MatsudaYûko TanakaTatsuo NadakaA retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.In Competition
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsForest WhitakerDiane VenoraMichael ZelnikerThe troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker.In Competition
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléGiulia BoschiFrançois CluzetA French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.In Competition
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBernard HillJoan PlowrightJuliet StevensonThree generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.In Competition
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsOmero AntonuttiEusebio PoncelaLambert WilsonThe film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became Colombia. Three hundred men sold their property and souls to travel down the biggest and least known river in the world. After the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre (who took over command) against Philip II, the king of Spain, this expedition became one of the best-known episodes in the conquest of "The New World." Accompanied by a team of all types, Lope de Aguirre's adventure will end in tragedy, exposing the full range of human miseries.In Competition
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsYuan XieXuewen YangShaohua ChenThis film is adapted from the novel of Ah Cheng. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a young man is assigned to teach in village school.In Competition
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerErland JosephsonIldikó BánságiA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?In Competition
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsMiroslaw BakaKrzysztof GlobiszJan TesarzA soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.In Competition
- DirectorFrancis GirodStarsClotilde de BayserMichel BompoilAnne-Marie PhilipeA film director is making a film about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert, starring drama students at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. One of them, smart-mouthed actress Marie, decides to live with him.In Competition
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsGian Maria VolontèSami FreyJacques LippeIn the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. His methods and opinions are outside the mainstream, but he has the protection and friendship of the local Prior. Zénon, an aristocrat with a degree in canon law, lives humbly. He learns of bacchanals under Masonic signs involving monks and women, and he warns those involved. The Prior is dying, and he urges Zénon to flee to England. Zénon burns his writing. Will he leave or will he face ecclesiastical accusers and, perhaps, the stake?In Competition
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsImanol AriasJorge SanzPastora VegaEleuterio escapes from prison, joins with his children and embarks on a journey with his family avoiding the hunt for the Civil Guard.In Competition
- DirectorGary SiniseStarsRichard GerePenelope Ann MillerBrian DennehyTwo brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.In Competition
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraLeonor SilveiraDiogo DóriaA drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.In Competition
- DirectorJames DeardenStarsBen KingsleyCharles DanceKevork MalikyanA secret agent in Turkey is persuaded by his superiors to assist a couple of English cons in the theft of a priceless Greek statue.In Competition
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsNatasha RichardsonWilliam ForsytheVing RhamesIn the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.In Competition
- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.In Competition
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsSusú PecoraroMiguel Ángel SoláPhilippe LéotardThe movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few years in prison and especially discovering his wife has cheated on him soured their relation. He is not sure if he wants to go back to his old life and family. Wandering through the night his old friend "El-Negro" appears in the dark. He announces that he was assassinated during the military coup and he is a dead man now. But he has a special mission this night and he is back for this special occasion: To help Floreal catch up fast and face with his life and his time in prison. El-Negro helps him to watch through the important events happened in his absence. He confronts some people of importance to him as he wanders around through the night while his wife is waiting for him anxiously thinking he might never come back. During the long night El-Negro helps him to get past with his anger, makes him to understand the difficulties in such a controversial time and how military coup crushes people's lives and even killing a some of them relentlessly. Finally during the dawn, El-Negro announces that he is ready to go on with his life now and he must be back. Floreal figures that he must be strong and continue his life where he left off like his coup stricken country.In Competition
- DirectorVincent WardStarsBruce LyonsChris HaywoodHamish GoughMen seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.In Competition
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsFanny ArdantGreta ScacchiValeria GolinoRoberto and his three sisters don't know what to do with their lives.In Competition
- DirectorThomas BraschStarsTony CurtisKatharina ThalbachMatthias HabichAn US-based film director returns from the US to Germany, where he was forced along with other concentration camp prisoners to participate in an Anti-Semitic propaganda film in 1942. He plans to make a documentary on this part of his past.In Competition
- DirectorMerilee BennettThrough 30 years' worth of home movies and stills, we discover the filmmaker's childhood, a world marked by family traditions and church services; a childhood mainly determined by God and a strong and omnipotent father figure.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsVasant ChoudhuryPromode GangulyRabi GhoshA father encourages his daughter to marry a dying man in order to inherit his wealth.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJeanne LabruneStarsSami FreyPatrick CatalifoAndré DussollierBullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attends a bullfight, leaving early, retching. His wife, who is also his partner in a string quartet, worries about him: Manuel has a history of breakdown. Manuel, for his part, hates bullfighting and the memories it brings of Franco's Spain. His harsh views undermine Francisco's focus. He accompanies the young fighter to Spain for an important corrida. Will Francisco succeed? And what becomes of this friendship?Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsPaolo HendelGiovanni GuidelliMargherita BuyEdo and Lupo are two countrymen running away after having robbed their boss. They are chased by 3 mercernaries. They will meet real gangsters, then some excentric nobles. At this time, they are separated for an experiment. Edo is given education, while Lupo is left alone unattended. The goal is to determine whether education can make a man more clever.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsAytaç ArmanMacit KoperSahika TekandA confused scriptwriter takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church in a remote village while scouting locations for his next film.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFrans WeiszStarsWillem NijholtAnne Martien LousbergWill van KralingenUn Certain Regard
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsKlaus BarbieClaude LanzmannMarcel OphülsA documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMax von SydowStarsTammi ØstOle ErnstKurt RavnA new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with Katinka and her husband, Bai, the stationmaster. Katinka, childless and in frail health, gradually falls in love with Huus, though her husband does not seem to notice.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFiorella InfascelliStarsHelena Bonham CarterMichael MaloneyFeodor Chaliapin Jr.A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more successful. But the mask cannot conceal the evil in his soul.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJean-François AmiguetStarsJérôme AngerKristin Scott ThomasSylvie OrcierLiving single in an old house, 'La Méridienne', François asks his friends, Mary and Martha, to help him find love. He decides to hire Dubois, a detective in charge of watching over him. During his spinning, falls in love with Marie.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFrançois DupeyronStarsMonique ChaumetteDominique FaysseChronicles the hopeless reunion between a mother and daughter, as they try to rekindle their relationship after twelve years of being apart.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsMonique SpazianiGabriel ArcandMiou-MiouA quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorOliver SchmitzStarsThomas MogotlaneMarcel van HeerdenThembi MtshaliMapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsAndrzej SewerynJerzy TrelaGrazyna DylagA team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBernard CohnStarsPierre ArditiPhilippine Leroy-BeaulieuGérard BlainWW2: in an occupied France ,a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKarel SmyczekStarsJirí LangmajerMartin SobotkaPavel ZvaricBased on true event, football hooligans who support Sparta, are coming home after the away game and they demolished the train that they are traveling by.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFred TanStarsPatricia HaMing HsuEmily Y. ChangIt tells a tragic story in the early 20th century of China, a beautiful girl Yin Di got married to a sick wealthy man through an arranged marriage, despite the fact that she actually loves a neighborhood boy. After surviving in the new home, Yin Di gradually became one of those wealthy mean wives.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSlobodan D. PesicStarsFrano LasicDamjana LutharMilica TomicBased upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced by the Soviet authorities.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsIgor SharapovOksana ShlapakRoman LevchenkoThis film is based on a short story of Vladimir Korolenko, Russian (born in Ukrainia) writer. The story is about the writer's childhood, about his sad experiences of losing beloved people (his own mother and a little girlfriend Marusha).Un Certain Regard
- DirectorNadav LevitanStarsAharon AlmogEzra DaganRachel DobsonUn Certain Regard
- DirectorBob HoskinsStarsDexter FletcherZoë NathensonZoë WanamakerDuring WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds himUn Certain Regard
- DirectorLudmil StaikovStarsRousy ChanevIvan KrystevAnya PenchevaIn the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsJean-Marc BarrJean RenoRosanna ArquetteThe rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.Out of Competition
- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsRubén BladesRichard BradfordSonia BragaThe accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.Out of Competition
- DirectorDominique DeloucheStarsYvette ChauviréFlorence ClercSylvie GuillemThis feature, expanded from an earlier short subject, shows us the perennial tradition of classical dance and it's transmission through the stage performances and rehearsals of several famous practitioners.Out of Competition
- DirectorRon HowardStarsVal KilmerJoanne WhalleyWarwick DavisA young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen.Out of Competition
- DirectorBill CouturiéStarsTom BerengerEllen BurstynJ. Kenneth CampbellFeature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home.Special Screenings
- StarsJean-Luc GodardAlain CunyJulie DelpyAn 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century.Special Screenings
- DirectorJohn LafiaStarsDylan McDermottJessica HarperJames RussoTwo overzealous psychopathic US tax collectors blackmail bounty hunter Vince Holloway into stopping an illegal transfer of 20 Mio. dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the USA. So he arrives in Diablo, where life isn't worth a penny. It seems impossible to raid the heavily guarded bank. He has to assure himself of help of the barwoman Dakota and a little boy.Special Screenings
- DirectorTemur BabluaniStarsElguja BurduliTeimuraz BichiashviliL. AimbarashviliInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorSahin KaygunStarsAsli AltanMacit KoperKenan BalInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorFran Rubel KuzuiStarsCarrie HamiltonDiamond YukaiTaiji TonoyamaAspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock 'n' roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.International Critics' Week
- DirectorYalin LiStarsXiaoshu HeZhiyu LiHong PanIn a small pharmaceutical factory, Xu Lisha, a beautiful female worker who once went to college, was forced to work as a bottle washer in a dirty workshop, only to be treated unfairly because of her bourgeois background. At this moment, the new section chief, Zhu Shiyi, arrived at the pharmaceutical factory. He took a glance at Lisha and immediately pursued her. In the cruel present of the desolate world, Lisha felt the warmth and happiness she had never seen for a long time. She enjoyed the nourishment of sweet words, and without too much worry, she fell into the embrace of Zhu. However, the life after marriage was not as happy as expected. Zhu, who was born as a small citizen, was skilled in calculation, and his mother was even more typical of the ordinary people, who was acerbic and mean. Like Lisha trapped in a deep well, she longed to escape from this suffocating place.International Critics' Week
- DirectorJohn AkomfrahStarsTania RogersEvans Oma HunterFrank ParkesAn exiled Ghanaian politician returns to Ghana two decades after the 1966 coup.International Critics' Week
- DirectorRaja MitraStarsMunna ChakrabartyBiplab ChatterjeeSoumitra ChatterjeeInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorAnne-Marie MiévilleStarsGaële Le RoiAnny RomandHélène RousselFrom birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and always. And the men too, those they meet, those they love.International Critics' Week
- DirectorDiego RísquezStarsMaría Luisa MosqueraAlberto MartínHugo MárquezDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsMyriem RousselHorst Günter MarxSonja Kirchberger30-year-old Max works as an emergency doctor in a Berlin hospital. He has been in love with the attractive Coco for a long time, with whom he shares a well-kept apartment. Coco jealously defends the relationship, while Max feels restricted in his freedom. One day Max dials the wrong number and falls in love with a voice on the other end of the phone that says only one word: "Hello". On nightly forays through the city, Max looks for the woman who owns the voice and hopes to escape the close proximity of Coco. In a billiard salon he finally meets Marie, who is accompanied by her partner Kurt. Shortly afterwards, Marie and Max are involved in a car accident that causes them to hug each other and make love in the rain on the street. When Max and Coco later have a party, Marie and Kurt are guests at the door. As a result, Max and Marie try to couple their respective partners together.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsPete PostlethwaiteFreda DowieAngela WalshThe lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorDanniel DannielStarsJohan LeysenMarijke VeugelersCoby TimpDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorOrhan OguzStarsTalat BulutSerif SezerBülent OranAfter serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHubert-Yves RoseStarsCharlotte BoisjoliGérard PoirierGabriel Arcand-With his son Maxime, from whom he has been separated since his divorce, Robert Filion travels to Florida (USA) to repatriate the body of his father who has just died there. He decides to return to Quebec (in Canada) with his father's car. This long journey is an opportunity to evoke the various trips he made with his father and the relationship he had with him.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorNodar ManagadzeStarsZurab KapianidzeTemo JaparidzeJemal MoniavaDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorIgor MinaievStarsMaksim KiselyovAndrey TolubeevLyudmila DavydovaMitia (Maxim Kisilev) is the new boy in a technical school who must adjust to his environment. He goes through a series of initiations before his classmates are ready to accept him. Andrei Ivanovich (Andrei Tolubeev) is the stern but kindly instructor who looks out for Mitia. Mitia loses his girlfriend when her mother comes to take her home, and Andrei leaves the institution when his wife becomes gravely ill.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPaulo César SaraceniStarsMilton GonçalvesAlmir GuinetoGrande OteloBiography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsLin YangFan YangShu-Fen HsinThe eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorOssama MohammedStarsZuhair AbdlulkarimSabah As-SalemSaad Eddin BaqdoonesIn his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsBetty FariaDaniel FilhoBrandão FilhoFausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land and build a house. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMira NairStarsShafiq SyedAnjaanAmrit PatelYoung Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsAhmad Mohamad AhmadChohdi SrourMenha BatraouiThe struggle of Aristocratic family after the political desicisons taken in the 60's era of Egypt. Yasser is the grandchild whose parents are getting a divorce due to this struggle. A journey inside the family and the major changes due to Moral and Political ideologys.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMike NewellStarsSylvia ChangDanny DunJodi LongJust married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsMelanie GriffithTommy Lee JonesStingA crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorRaymond RajaonariveloStarsPhilippe NahounFrançois BotozandryLucien DadakisyTabataba tells the story of a small Malagasy village during the independence uprising which took place in 1947 in the south of the country. For several months, part of the Malagasy population revolted against the French colonial army in a bloody struggle. The repression in villages that followed was terrible, leading to fires, arrests and torture. Women, children and the elderly were the indirect victims of the conflict and suffered particularly from famine and illness. One leader of the MDRM Malagasy Party, which campaigns for the independence of the country, arrives in a village. Solo (François Botozandry), the main character, is still too young to fight but he sees his brother and most of the men in his clan join up. His grandmother, Bakanga (Soavelo), knows what will happen, but Solo still hopes his elder brother will return a hero. After months of rumors, he sees instead the French army arrive to crush the rebellion.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGhasem EbrahimianStarsPouran EsrafilyAli AzizianShahab NavabIranian businessman Haji returns to Manhattan with his new bride, Mariyam. Haji's friends plan a feast to celebrate the marriage in the traditional style, which includes a slaughtered lamb. Lamb's blood from the messy ritual dripping into the apartment below causes a suspicious neighbor to call the police. When Haji is killed in the ensuing police intervention, the widow Mariyam is wooed by Haji's friends. Sensing Mariyam's reluctance, Mohammed acts quickly to propose marriage with tragi-comedic consequences.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorClaude GaignaireStarsJean-Claude FrissungLolette GregognaJean-Michel YoyotteIn a not-too-distant future, a devoted police investigator tracks down a young man suspected of a Sète fisherman's murder, his only clue being a videotape showing the whereabouts of a local gang who appears to include the man in question.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorEmilio PacullStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaIsabel OteroJulien GuiomarPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPaul VecchialiStarsJacques NolotBrigitte RoüanLionel GoldsteinAbsurd revenge of the blue collars against the white ones in a cafe.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJean-Claude BrisseauStarsVincent GasperitschMaría Luisa GarcíaFrançois NégretBruno is 14. When his grandmother dies, he returns to Bagnolet with his mother who is rarely there. At school he meets Jean-Roger, who introduces him to a group of delinquents.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJean-Pierre LimosinStarsJulie DelpyLuc ThuillierSylvain JamoisWhile Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run. Marie hides the truth from Éric, investigates the accident alone, and soon finds the presumed culprit.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorTimon KoulmasisStarsAnna CondoGilles LottheAnne LeroyTells the story of Sara, a girl of Greek descent, who lives in a small village on the French Atlantic coast and dreams of traveling to the country of her ancestors. It tells the story of her love for Simon, a young theater manager in Paris.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorDidier GoldschmidtStarsNiels ArestrupAnne WiazemskyIsabel OteroGregor Keuschning, press attaché at the Austrian Embassy, leads a normal family life, until the day - or rather, the night - when he dreams of murdering an old woman.Perspectives du Cinéma Français