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The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 12 to 23. Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson are to receive honorary Palmes d'Or at the 79th edition. Park Chan-Wook will head the jury. The line-up will be announced on April 9. The festival will open with The Electric Kiss. We are currently inputting the line-up so please check back.
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The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
The Sauvage family just wants to be loved. Carole is trying to improve her poor reputation among her employees, while Jacques is trying to do the same with his friends. As for their son Blaise, politely, he's about to embark on a revolutionary, violent, and completely impromptu crusade for a girl.
The story follows Tsubasa, a quiet boy, and Akitarō, a child prodigy. Jealousy and misunderstanding sever their childhood bond. Years later, as their lives take different directions, each must make a decision when the weight of the past resurfaces.
Prishtina, Kosovo, late 1990s. As war looms and ethnic tensions escalate, 13-year-old Dua struggles to find her place among her peers and within her changing body.
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
A grieving artist tries to reconnect with his dead wife via a clairvoyant, who is in fact a penniless performer who has cooked up a ruse.
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a lonely girl encounters a mysterious faun.
At the height of the Solidarity movement, a Polish TV journalist is assigned by the government to undermine an independent trade union leader.
LA street racers are infiltrated by undercover cop.
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