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Cannes Film Festival 2019

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For Sama For Sama
For Sama and Family Romance LLC
5B (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Dan Krauss)
The story of the first designated hospital ward for AIDS patients in the US.
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Chicuarotes (Country: Mexico; Year: 2019; Director: Gael García Bernal; Writer: Augusto Mendoza; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Benny Emmanuel, Pedro Joaquín, Leidi Gutiérrez, Saúl Mercado, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Benny Emmanuel, Pedro Joaquín, Leidi Gutiérrez, Saúl Mercado)
Story focusing on Mexican teens.
The Cordillera Of Dreams (La Cordillera De Los Sueños) (Year: 2019; Director: Patricio Guzmán)
Documentary about Chilean history.
Etre Vivant Et Le Savoir (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Alain Cavalier; Stars: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Alain Cavalier)
Old friends make a film together but an unexpected delay complicates everything.
Family Romance LLC (Director: Werner Herzog)
Docudrama about a company which hires out people to pretend to be family members.
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Tommaso Tommaso
Tommaso and 5B
For Sama (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Waad al-Khateab, Edward Watts)
A young woman's struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.
Full Review See: Interview with Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts about For Sama
Ice On Fire (Country: US, Costa rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Icleand, Norway, UK; Director: Leila Conners)
Exploring ways in which we can reverse climate change.
Let It Be Law (Que Sea Ley) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2019; Director: Juan Solanas)
Details for this film have yet to be released.
Share (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Pippa Bianco; Writer: Pippa Bianco; Stars: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan, J.C. MacKenzie, Nicholas Galitzine, Lovie Simone, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Ivan Wanis-Ruiz, Emily Debowski, Darlene Cooke, Milcania Diaz-Rojas, Daimen Landori-Hoffman, Jai Jai Jones, Jhaleil Swaby, Kimmy Choi)
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, 16-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
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Tommaso (Country: Italy, UK, US, Greece; Year: 2019; Director: Abel Ferrara; Writer: Abel Ferrara; Stars: Willem Dafoe)
An American film director in Rome tries to understand where life has taken him.
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