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Cannes Film Festival 2022

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Sick Of Myself Sick Of Myself
Sick Of Myself and The Worst Ones
Burning Days (Year: 2022; Director: Emin Alper)
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Butterfly Vision (Bachennya metelyka) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Maksym Nakonechnyi; Writer: Maksym Nakonechnyi; Stars: Rita Burkovska, Daria Lorenci, Lyubomyr Valivots, Natalya Vorozhbit), Trailer
Drama about a former prisoner of war, who struggles to resume her life in Ukraine.
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Corsage (Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Kreutzer; Writer: Marie Kreutzer; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Colin Morgan, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner , Aaron Friesz, Ivana Urban, Raphael von Bargen, Alexander Pschill, Regina Fritsch, Raphael Nicholas)
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
Full Review See: Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Empress Elisabeth of Austria with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Luchino Visconti, Finnegan Oldfield’s Louis Le Prince and the biographies of Sisi
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
Domingo And The Mist (Country: Costa Rica, Qatar; Year: 2022; Director: Ariel Escalante; Writer: Ariel Escalante; Stars: Carlos Ureña, Sylvia Sossa, Aris Vindas, Esteban Brenes Serrano)
The town of 65-year-old Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants. But his land hides a secret—the ghost of his deceased wife who visits him within the mist. Domingo is sure he will never give up his land, even if that means resorting to violence.
Father And Solider (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Mathieu Vadepied; Writer: Olivier Demangel, Mathieu Vadepied; Stars: Omar Sy, Alassane Doing)
A father enlists in the French army in 1917 to join his 17-year-old son.
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Harka Harka
Harka and Godland
Godland (Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Hlynur Pálmason; Writer: Hlynur Pálmason; Stars: Hilmar Guðjónsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Elliott Crosset Hove, Jacob Lohmann, Waage Sandø, Vic Carmen Sonne)
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.
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Harka (Country: France, Germany, United States, Tunisia; Year: 2022; Director: Lotfy Nathan; Writer: Lotfy Nathan; Stars: Adam Bessa, Hsouna Heni, Jamal Madani, Mohamed Ouni, Elyes Riahi, Mohamed Nsibi, Khaled Barsaoui, Moez Hannachi, Yahya Feidi, Arij Sebai, Monji Ben Said, Boulbeba Hedili, Anoir Nasr, Islem Ben Mlouka, Amine Zaafouri, Sajir Mkacher)
Ali earns a living illegally selling gasoline on the street. He doesn’t have any contact with his family, but when he receives news that his father has died, he is forced to become responsible for his two younger sisters.
Full Review See: Adam Bessa on embracing complexity and digging into character
, Lotfy Nathan on 'shedding the skin of accuracy' for stronger storytelling in Harka
Joyland (Country: Pakistan; Year: 2022; Director: Saim Sadiq; Writer: Saim Sadiq; Stars: Sana Jafri, Ali Junejo)
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Full Review See: Sounding it out - Nathan Ruyle on the new revolution in sound design
, Oliver Ridge on Joyland and the Corner Office
Mediterranean Fever (Country: Germany, France, Cyprus; Year: 2022; Director: Maha Haj; Writer: Maha Haj; Stars: Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, Anat Hadid, Samir Elias, Cynthia Saleem, Shaden Kanboura, Salam Husari)
Drama charts the unlikely bond between two very different Arab family men living in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
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Metronom (Country: Romania; Year: 2022; Director: Alexandru Belc; Writer: Alexandru Belc, Patrick Templin; Stars: Mara Bugarin, Serban Lazarovici, Vlad Ivanov, Mihai Calin, Andreea Bibiri)
A teenager finds herself grappling with love and the authorities during the rule of Ceaucescu.
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Metronom Metronom
Metronom and Butterfly Vision
Plan 75 (Country: Japan, France, Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Chie Hayakawa; Writer: Chie Hayakawa; Stars: Chieko Baishô, Hayato Isomura, Taka Takao, Yumi Kawai)
In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.
Full Review See: Interview with Chie Hayakawa about Plan 75
Return To Seoul (Country: Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Davy Chou)
A Frenchwoman adopted as a child returns to Korea to try to track down her birth parents.
Rodeo (Year: 2022; Director: Lola Quivoron)
Drama about a young woman in an underground dirt bike community.
Sick Of Myself (Syk Pike) (Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Kristoffer Borgli; Writer: Kristoffer Borgli; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Eirik Sæther, Kristine Kujath Thorp)
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.
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The Silent Twins (Country: Poland, US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska; Writer: Andrea Seigel, Marjorie Wallace; Stars: Letitia Wright, Jodhi May, Jack Bandeira, Treva Etienne, Tamara Lawrance, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Declan Joyce, Ewa Rodart, Franciszek Przanowski, Jordan J Gallagher, Tony Richardson, Rita Raider, John Hyatt, Martin Hugh Henley, Julian R. Booth)
Drama based on the true story of twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s who are sent to Broadmoor after a crime spree.
Joyland Joyland
Joyland and Plan 75
The Stranger (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Thomas M Wright; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris)
Crime thriller in which two strangers meet and strike up a friendship. But what one doesn't know is that the other is a seasoned undercover officer working to convict him.
Untitled Pine Ridge Project (Year: 2022; Director: Riley Keough)
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The Worst Ones (Les Pires) (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret; Writer: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, Elénore Gurrey; Stars: Johan Heldenbergh, Matthias Jacquin, Loïc Pech, Mallory Wanecques)
Film within a film about a group of youngsters who are street cast and how it changes their lives.
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