Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2021

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Stillwater Stillwater
Stillwater and Jane By Charlotte
Compartment No 6 (Hytti Nro 6) (Country: Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia; Year: 2021; Director: Juho Kuosmanen; Writer: Andris Feldmanis, Juho Kuosmanen and Livia Ulman, based on the book by Rosa Liksom; Stars: Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Seidi Haarla, Vladimir Lysenko, Dmitriy Belenikhin)
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk, but is forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner.
The Divide (La Fracture) (Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini, Agnès Feuvre, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marina Foïs, Pio Marmaï, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h)
Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
A Hero (Ghahreman) (Country: Iran; Year: 2021; Director: Asghar Farhadi; Writer: Asghar Farhadi; Stars: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sarina Farhadi)
When an ex-con's decides to try and rehabilitate himself by returning a lost bag of coins and exploiting the media attention, nothing goes to plan.
Jane By Charlotte (Jane par Charlotte) (Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Charlotte Gainsbourg; Stars: Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg)
The director's portrait of her mother.
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Oliver Stone; Writer: James DiEugenio; Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg)
Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.
The Divide The Divide
The Divide and Compartment No 6
Stillwater (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Tom McCarthy; Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Marcus Hinchey, Tom McCarthy; Stars: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Deanna Dunagan, Ginifer Ree, Robert Peters, Lena Harmon, Ryan Music, Moussa Maaskri, Dustin Wilson, Justin France, Thomas Rivas, April Warren, Gary Sievers, Lisandro Boccacci)
An American oil rig worker attempts to clear his daughter's name in France, where she is imprisoned.
The Worst Person In The World (Verdens Verste Menneske) (Country: Norway, France, Sweden; Year: 2021; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Herbert Nordrum)
Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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