PROMO REEL SCREENINGS
TUE 13 MAY 10:00 & 14:30 (1h loop)
@ Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2)
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THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
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by Hasan Hadi (Debut Feature)
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2025 - Iraq/USA/Qatar - Drama - 102 min
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with Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat
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While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake or face the consequences.
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Screenings:
THU 15 MAY 09:30 OLYMPIA 3 Private Market Screening (Buyers Only)
FRI 16 MAY 08:45 THÉÂTRE CROISETTE Public Screening
FRI 16 MAY 17:45 THÉÂTRE CROISETTE World Premiere
SAT 17 MAY 11:30 ARCADES 1 Public Screening
SAT 17 MAY 15:45 OLYMPIA 7 Market Screening
MON 19 MAY 11:00 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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FRI 23 MAY 11:00 THÉÂTRE CROISETTE Public Screening
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PETER HUJAR'S DAY
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by Ira Sachs (PASSAGES, KEEP THE LIGHTS ON)
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2025 - USA/Germany - Drama - 76 min
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with Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall
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Based on a richly cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz the film re-imagines their talk that day in a single 24-hour period in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York's legendary cultural scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Screenings:
WED 14 MAY 12:00 LERINS 1 Market Screening
FRI 16 MAY 15:00 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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GIRLS ON WIRE
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by Vivian Qu (ANGELS WEAR WHITE, TRAP STREET)
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2025 - China - Drama/Thriller - 114 min
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with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao, Zhou You
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Cousins Tian Tian and Fang Di were raised like sisters until family struggles pushed them apart. Fang Di moves away to work as a stuntwoman in China's largest film studios to clear her family's debts. Tian Tian remains behind, forced to deal with her father's addiction, and falls prey to the local mafia. Forced to escape to the Film City, Tian Tian seeks out her cousin. Thrown together against their will and followed by the mob, they will need to combine their strength and resilience to escape a dramatic fate that threatens to consume them both.
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Screenings:
WED 14 MAY 09:30 LERINS 1 Market Screening
THU 15 MAY 15:00 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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TUE 20 MAY 09:30 LERINS 1 Market Screening
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TARIKA
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by Milko Lazarov (ÁGA, ALIENATION)
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2024 - Bulgaria/Germany/Luxembourg - Drama - 86 min
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with Vesela Valcheva, Zachary Baharov, Ivan Savov
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Tarika lives with her father and her grandmother in a small hut near the border far away from the local village. Marked by her “butterfly wings”, a rare bone condition she inherited from her mother, the girl has been the source of the community's superstition forever. When the local cattle is struck down by a mysterious disease, fear starts spreading among the villagers...
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Screenings:
SUN 18 MAY 11:45 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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TUE 20 MAY 11:00 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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THU 22 MAY 9:00 ALEXANDRE III Public Screening (French Subtitles only)
THU 22 MAY 11:00 RAIMU Public Screening (French Subtitles only)
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DJ AHMET
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by Georgi M. Unkovski (Debut Feature)
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2025 - North Macedonia/Czech Republic/Serbia/Croatia - Comedy/Drama - 99 min
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with Arif Jakup, Agush Аgushev, Aksel Mehmet, Dora Akan Zlatanova
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Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father's expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
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Screenings:
WED 14 MAY 17:45 RIVIERA 2 Market Screening
SUN 18 MAY 15:00 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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TUE 20 MAY 11:30 ALEXANDRE III Public Screening (French Subtitles only)
TUE 20 MAY 14:00 RAIMU Public Screening (French Subtitles only)
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WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM
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by Amel Guellaty (Debut Feature)
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2025 - Tunisia/France/Qatar - Drama - 99 min
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with Eya Bellagha, Slim Baccar
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Fearless spirit Alyssa and sensitive artist Mehdi, best friends since childhood, feel cramped in their life in the outskirts of Tunis. When Alyssa discovers an artist contest in Djerba that might be their ticket out, she pulls Mehdi into a fantastical journey across Tunisia which will put their friendship to the test.
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Screenings:
TUE 13 MAY 15:45 LERINS 2 Market Screening
SAT 17 MAY 11:30 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
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by Albert Serra
(PACIFICTION, THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV)
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2024 - Spain/France/Portugal - Non-fiction - 125 min
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with Andrés Roca Rey, Antonio Gutiérrez, Francisco Durán, Francisco Gómez, Manuel Lara
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SAN SEBASTIAN IFF 2024
GOLDEN SHELL
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Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.
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Screening:
TUE 20 MAY 15:00 Private Screening Room Riviera (L3-2) With Invitation
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