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Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2017

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The Rider The Rider
The Rider and Menashe
The Bachelors (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kurt Voelker; Writer: Kurt Voelker; Stars: Odeya Rush, Jean Louisa Kelly, JK Simmons, Julie Delpy)
A widowed father and his son meet two women who slowly begin to transform their lives.
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Beach Rats (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Eliza Hittman; Writer: Eliza Hittman; Stars: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Neal Huff)
A Brooklyn teen struggles with his sexuality.
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Dayveon (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Amman Abbasi; Writer: Amman Abbasi, Steven Reneau; Stars: Devin Blackmon, Dontrell Bright, Lachion Buckingham)
A young teenager is drawn into a gang after the death of his brother.
A Ghost Story (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: David Lowery; Writer: David Lowery; Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Rob Zabrecky, Will Oldham, Liz Franke, Sonia Acevedo)
This is the story of a ghost and the house he haunts.
Full Review See: Interview with Casey Affleck about A Ghost Story
Gifted (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Marc Webb; Writer: Tom Flynn; Stars: Chris Evans, McKenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer, Michael Kendall Kaplan, John M. Jackson, Glenn Plummer, John Finn, Elizabeth Marvel, Candace B. Harris, Jon Sklaroff, Jona Xiao, Julie Ann Emery, Keir O'Donnell)
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
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The Bachelors The Bachelors
The Bachelors and Sweet Virginia
Gook (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Justin Chon; Writer: Justin Chon; Stars: Simone Baker, Justin Chon, Curtiss Cook Jr., David So, Jeff Corbett, Cesar Garcia, Chris Jai Alex, Natalie Sutherland, Saadiqa Muhammad, Ben Munoz, Isaiah Jarel, Aida Lembo, Terence Dickson, Omono Okojie, Trinecia Moore-Pernell)
Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 LA riots, the trio must defend their store — and contemplate the meaning of family, their personal dreams and the future.
Ingrid Goes West (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Matt Spicer; Writer: David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer; Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, Wyatt Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Pom Klementieff, Billy Magnussen, Charlie Wright, Megan Griffey, Hannah Pearl Utt, Angelica Amor, Malika Williams, Tina Lorraine, Jana Ritter)
A young woman becomes obsessed with an Instagram lifestyle blogger and moves to Los Angeles to try to befriend her in real life.
Katie Says Goodbye (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Wayne Roberts; Writer: Wayne Roberts; Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Mireille Enos, Olivia Cooke, Jim Belushi, Keir Gilchrist)
A teenager in a small Midwestern town tries to finance her escape through sex work.
Menashe (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Joshua Z Weinstein; Writer: Joshua Z Weinstein, Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed; Stars: Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus), Trailer
A man faces losing custody of his son after the death of his wife.
Full Review See: Menashe co-writer/producer Alex Lipschultz on the challenges of making the film
My Friend Dahmer (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Marc Meyers; Writer: Marc Meyers, based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf; Stars: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Vincent Kartheiser, Dallas Roberts, Jack DeVillers, Cameron McKendry, Christopher Mele, Harrison Holzer, Miles Robbins, Tommy Nelson, Liam Koeth,)
Before Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, he was a teenage loner.
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Gifted Gifted
Gifted and Beach Rats
The Rider (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Chloé Zhao; Writer: Chloé Zhao; Stars: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Pourier, Lane Scott, Tanner Langdeau, James Calhoon, Derrick Janis)
A young cowboy tries to carve out a new identity.
Full Review See: Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau in conversation on Brady's family, autism, training horses, and cinematographer Joshua James Richards for The Rider
, Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau in conversation on Werner Herzog and filming The Rider
Sweet Virginia (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Jamie M Dagg; Writer: Benjamin China, Paul China; Stars: Jon Bernthal, Rosemarie DeWitt, Imogen Poots, Odessa Young. Christopher Abbot)
A burglary-homicide rattles the residents of a small Alaska town.
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They (Country: US, Denmark, Qatar; Year: 2017; Director: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh; Writer: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh; Stars: Almai Sinai, Rhys Fehrenbacher, Nicole Coffineau)
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