Cannes Film Festival 2014

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Maidan Maidan
Maidan and Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
The Bridges Of Sarajevo (Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France; Year: 2014; Director: Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde )
An anthology of documentary and fictional portraits of the historically troubled city.
Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy (Caricaturistes, Fantassins De La Démocratie) (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Stéphanie Valloatto)
Twelve loveable lunatics, capturing the comic and tragic in all four corners of the earth: cartoonists who risk their lives to defend democracy, with a smile on their faces and a pencil as their only weapon.
El Ardor (Country: Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, France, US; Year: 2014; Director: Pablo Fendrik; Writer: Pablo Fendrik; Stars: Alice Braga, Gael García Bernal, Jorge Sesán, Claudio Tolcachir, Iván Steinhardt)
A mysterious man emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer after mercenaries murder her father and take over his property.
Les Gens Du Monde (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Yves Jeuland)
A documentary exploration of the human story.
Geronimo (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Tony Gatlif; Stars: Céline Sallette, Rachid Yous, David Murgia)
In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood in the south of France.
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (Country: US, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar; Year: 2014; Director: Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz, Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, Michal Socha; Writer: Roger Allers, Kahlil Gibran, Douglas Wood; Stars: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Alfred Molina, Quvenzhané Wallis, Frank Langella, Assaf Cohen, Leah Allers, Gunnar Sizemore)
Inspired by the beloved classic, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a young, mischievous girl and an imprisoned poet.
Maidan (Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
Of Men And War (Year: 2014; Director: Laurent Bécue-Renard)
Anger consumes a squad of combat vets years after they return from the front. The dozen warriors in Of Men and War come home to the United States, but their minds are stuck out on the battlefield.
The Owners (Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2014; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
John, 25, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12-year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback.
Red Army (Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Gabe Polsky; Writer: Gabe Polsky; Stars: Mark Deakins, Anatoli Karpov, Vyacheslav Fetisov)
The story of Russia's Red Army hockey team.
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma'a al-Fidda, Eau Argentee) (Country: Syria; Year: 2014; Director: Mohammed Ossama; Writer: Wiam Bedirxan, Mohammed Ossama)
A portrait of Syria.
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