Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2021

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We Are Living Things and Pig
Blue Bayou (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Justin Chon; Writer: Justin Chon; Stars: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Emory Cohen)
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Catch The Fair One (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Josef Kubota Wladyka; Writer: Kali Reis, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Josef Kubota Wladyka; Stars: Kevin Dunn, Kimberly Guerrero, Lisa Emery, Daniel Henshall, Michael Drayer, Jonathan Kowalsky, Gerald Webb, Isabelle Chester, Tiffany Chu, Peter Johnson, Samantha Stack, Bill Smith, Jonathan Wilde, Christine Lauer, Elisabeth Manente)
A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Down With The King (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Diego Ongaro; Writer: Xabi Molia, Diego Ongaro; Stars: Freddie Gibbs, Bob Tarasuk, Jamie Neumann, David Krumholtz, Sharon Washington, Terry Holland, Polly MacIntyre, Leon Michels, Tara Turnbull, Freddie Gibbs, Bob Tarasuk, Jamie Neumann, David Krumholtz, Sharon Washington, Terry Holland)
Mon­ey Merc, a famous rap­per dis­il­lu­sioned with the music indus­try leaves his career behind to find him­self in a small-town farm­ing community.
John And The Hole (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Pascual Sisto; Writer: Nicolás Giacobone; Stars: Charlie Shotwell, Michael C Hall, Jennifer Ehle, Taissa Farmiga)
When a teenager finds a hole in the ground, he hatches a chilling plot.
The Last Son (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Tim Sutton; Writer: Greg Johnson; Stars: Heather Graham, Thomas Jane, Sam Worthington, Machine Gun Kelly, Alex Meraz, James Landry Hébert, Emily Marie Palmer, David Silverman, Bates Wilder, Andrew Stecker, Kim DeLonghi, Hiram A. Murray, Kathleen Timberman, James Di Giacomo, Michael McCartney)
Set in the late 19th cen­tu­ry, mur­der­ous out­law Isaac LeMay learns from a sooth­say­er that he is cursed by a ter­ri­ble prophe­cy: he will be killed by one of his chil­dren. To pre­vent his own death, he tracks down his kids...
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Catch The Fair One and Red Rocket
The Night House (Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: David Bruckner; Writer: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski; Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Stacy Martin, Evan Jonigkeit, Allie McCulloch, Samantha Buck, Patrick Klein, Michael Flores, James W. Meagher, Amy Zubieta, Andy Rich, Laura Austin, Dannielle Rose, Crystal Swann)
A widow struggles with grief as strange things happen in her lake house at night.
The Novice (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Lauren Hadaway; Writer: Lauren Hadaway; Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone Kate Drummond, Jonathan Cherry, Charlotte Ubben)
A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Pig (Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Michael Sarnoski; Writer: Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski, Michael Sarnoski; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Cassandra Violet, Julia Bray, Elijah Ungvary, Beth Harper, Brian Sutherland, David Shaughnessy, Gretchen Corbett, Sean Tarjyoto, Darius Pierce, Kevin Michael Moore, Tom Walton, Davis King, Nina Belforte)
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness is forced to return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped
Pleasure (Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France; Year: 2021; Director: Ninja Thyberg; Writer: Ninja Thyberg; Stars: Sofia Kappel, Revika Anne Reustle, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock, Dana DeArmond, Kendra Spade)
A 20-year-old woman moves from her small town in Sweden to LA for a shot at a career in the adult film industry.
Potato Dreams Of America (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Wes Hurley; Writer: Wes Hurley; Stars: Marya Sea Kaminski, Dan Lauria, Tyler Bocock, Lea DeLaria, Sera Barbieri, Hersh Powers, Jonathan Bennett, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Cynthia Lauren Tewes, James Grixoni)
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the Nineties.
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Potato Dreams Of America and John And The Hole
Red Rocket (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch; Stars: Simon Rex, Suzanna Son, Bree Elrod, Brenda Deiss, Ethan Darbone)
A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.
We Are Living Things (Country: US, China, Italy; Year: 2021; Director: Antonio Tibaldi; Writer: Àlex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi; Stars: O-Lan Jones, Isaac J. Conner, Lissa Carandang-Sweeney, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, James Patrick Nelson, Lan Zhong, Lawrence Ballard, Geoff Lee, Paul Cooper, Christopher Kien Dao, Kenny Chin, Charles Sweeney, Xiren Wang, Kenny Wong, Xingchen Lyu)
Two immigrants to the US go in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
We Burn Like This (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Alana Waksman; Writer: Alana Waksman; Stars: Devery Jacobs, Madeleine Coghlan, Kendra Mylnechuk, Kate Britton, Rinnan Henderson, Megan Folsom, Mary Riitano, Jenna Ciralli, Casidee Riley, Christina Valentine, John Budge, Andrew Rizzo, Tyson Gerhardt, Nathan Snow, Morgan Solonar)
When 22-year-old Rae, a descen­dant of Holo­caust sur­vivors, is tar­get­ed by neo-Nazis in Billings, Mon­tana where she lives, her ances­tors’ trau­ma becomes real.
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