Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2015

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Tangerine Tangerine
Tangerine and Songs My Brothers Taught Me
99 Homes (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Ramin Bahrani; Writer: Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi, Bahareh Azimi; Stars: Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern, Michael Shannon, Tim Guinee, J.D. Evermore, Patrick Kearns, Noah Lomax, Gus Rhodes, Judd Lormand, Cullen Moss, Donna Duplantier, Tom Bui, John L. Armijo, Wayne Pére, Jamie Elliott)
A man struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real-estate broker who's the source of his frustration.
Babysitter (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Morgan Krantz; Writer: Morgan Krantz; Stars: Max Burkholder, Danièle Watts, Valerie Azlynn)
A dysfunctional L.A. family hires a mysterious babysitter who changes their lives.
Cop Car (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jon Watts; Writer: Christopher D Ford, Jon Watts; Stars: Kevin Bacon, Shea Whigham, Camryn Manheim, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford)
Two 10-year-old boys steal an abandoned police car.
Day Out Of Days (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Zoe R Cassavetes; Writer: Zoe R Cassavetes; Stars: Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Bellamy Young, Alessandro Nivola, Brooke Smith, Ione Skye, Eddie Izzard)
In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old actress works to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Marielle Heller; Writer: Phoebe Gloekner, Marielle Heller; Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Margarita Levieva, Quinn Nagle, Madeleine Waters, Austin Lyon, Miranda Bailey, Giovanni Miller, Samantha Hyde, David Fine, Natalie Stephany Aguilar, Drew Benda, Davy Clements)
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she's sleeping with her mother's boyfriend.
Dope Dope
Dope and Green Room
Dixieland (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Hank Bedford; Writer: Hank Bedford; Stars: RJ Mitte, Riley Keough, Faith Hill, Chris Zylka, Spencer Lofranco, Brad Carter, Steve Earle, Mick Foley, Corey Jantzen, Hans Marrero, Shy Pilgreen, James W. Evermore, Vincent Eugene Hatten, Sergio Figueroa, Fabian C. Moreno)
In the hot lazy days of a Mississippi summer two star-crossed lovers, a recently released ex-con and an aspiring stripper, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their small town lives.
Dope (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Rick Famuyiwa; Writer: Rick Famuyiwa; Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Zoë Kravitz, Kimberly Elise, A$AP Rocky )
Self confessed teen geek from the wrong side of the tracks in Inglewood, Cal, with aspirations to go to Harvard, is compromised by a stash of drugs and threats from gangster crews.
Emelie (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Thelin; Writer: Richard Raymond, Harry Herbeck; Stars: Sarah Bolger, Susan Pourfar, Ryan Monolopolus, Elizabeth Jayne, Dante Hoagland, Robert Bozek, Randi Langdon, Brian Mysliwy, Daniel James, Sara Kow-Falcone, Christopher Srock, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey, Michael Joseph Dugan, Daniel James)
A replacement babysitter seems to have sinister intentions towards her young charges.
Green Room (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jeremy Saulnier; Writer: Jeremy Saulnier; Stars: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Mark Webber, Joe Cole)
A young punk band is trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling on a murder committed by neo-Nazis.
James White (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Josh Mond; Writer: Josh Mond; Stars: Chris Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Makenzie Leigh, David Call)
A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behaviour in the face of momentous family challenges.
99 Homes 99 Homes
99 Homes and Emelie
Krisha (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Trey Edward Shults; Writer: Trey Edward Shults; Stars: Olivia Grace Applegate, Bryan Casserly, Alex Dobrenko, Chris Doubek, Billie Fairchild, Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Victoria Fairchild, Atheena Frizzell, Augustine Frizzell, Chase Joliet, Rose Nelson, Bill Wise)
When Krisha returns for a holiday gathering, the only things standing in her way are family, dogs and turkey.
Madame Bovary (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Sophie Barthes; Writer: Rose Barreneche, Sophie Barthes; Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Ezra Miller, Rhys Ifans, Laura Carmichael, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Luke Tittensor, Richard Cordery, Olivier Gourmet, Morfydd Clark)
Story of a small town doctor's wife who tries to advance her social standing through a series of affairs.
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Chloé Zhao; Writer: Chloé Zhao; Stars: Irene Bedard, Eleonore Hendricks, Taysha Fuller, Travis Lone Hill, Dakota Brown, John Reddy, Lauren Janis, Cat Clifford, Kevin Hunter, Keanna Rowland, Jorge Dullknife, Gabby Montileaux, Derrick Janis, Allen Reddy, Jashaun St. John)
Life for siblings on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Tangerine (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch; Stars: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, James Ransone, Clu Gulager, Scott Krinsky, Katja Kassin, Josh Sussman, John Gulager, Ana Foxx, Jason Stuart, Anni Weisband, Frances Green, Scott Lyons, Richie Lillard, Mickey O'Hagan, Karren Karagulian, Tess Hunt)
A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.
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