Fandor Films from the Cannes Film Festival
After Love
Year: 2016 US Movie Rating: NR Country: France Runtime: 100 mins
Genres: Drama, Foreign
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Writer: Fanny Burdino; Joachim Lafosse; Mazarine Pingeot
Producer: Benoît Quainon; Olivier Bronckart; Sylvie Pialat; Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Cédric Kahn
Synopsis: Boris and Marie decide to separate after 15 years together. Cash-strapped, Boris is still living in the family home. Now, the apartment is a war zone and their situation a nightmare.
Asako I & II
Year: 2018 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Japan Runtime: 120 mins
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Independent
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cast: Erika Karata, Masahiro Higashide
Synopsis: Asako and Baku share an intense, all-consuming romance—but one day the moody Baku ups and vanishes. Two years later, having moved from Osaka to Tokyo, Asako meets Baku’s exact double.
At War
Year: 2018 US Movie Rating: NR Country: France Runtime: 114 mins
Genres: Drama
Director: Stéphane Brizé
Cast: Vincent Lindon
Synopsis: Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory.
Before Summer Ends
Year: 2017 US Movie Rating: NR Country: France Runtime: 84 mins
Genres: Comedy
Director: Maryam Goormaghtigh
Synopsis: After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decided to return to Iran. In the hope of changing his mind, his two friends take him on one last trip across France.
Bright Future
Year: 2003 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Japan Runtime: 115 mins
Genres: Drama, Foreign, Asian
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Joe Odagiri
Synopsis: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, one of Japan’s most unique auteurs, builds a fascinatingly disorienting and quietly apocalyptic tale of alienated twenty- somethings in this haunting 2003 drama Bright Future.
Carmen & Lola
Year: 2018 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Spain Runtime: 107 mins
Genres: Drama
Director: Arantxa Echevarría
Cast: Rosy Rodríguez, Zaira Romero
Synopsis: Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very
La Soledad
Year: 2016 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Venezuela Runtime: 89 mins
Genres: Drama
Director: Jorge Thielen Armand
Writer: Rodrigo Michelangeli; Jorge Thielen Armand
Producer: Adriana Herrera; Rodrigo Michelangeli; Manon Ardisson
Cast: Jorge Roque Thielen, José Dolores Lopez, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ Lopez
Synopsis: A vivid and intimate account of the Venezuelan crisis told through the real-life struggle of a young father trying to save his family from the demolition of their home.
Misunderstood (1966)
Year: 1966 US Movie Rating: PG Country: Italy Runtime: 104 mins
Genres: Drama, Drama
Director: Luigi Comencini
Cast: Rino Benini, Anthony Quayle, Stefano Colagrande, Adriana Facchetti, John Sharp, Graziella Granata, Giorgia Moll, Anna Maria Nardini, Simone Giannozzi, Silla Bettini
Synopsis: John returns from his wife’s funeral to his children, unaware of their mother’s passing. He tells his eldest son, but hides the truth from youngest.
Moon Child
Year: 1989 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Spain Runtime: 120 mins
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Faith
Director: Agustí Villaronga
Writer: Agustí Villaronga
Cast: Lisa Gerrard, Enrique Saldana, Lucia Bosè, David Sust, Maribel Martín
Synopsis: Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.
Nighthawks (1978)
Year: 1978 US Movie Rating: NR Country: United Kingdom Runtime: 109 mins
Genres: Drama
Director: Ron Peck
Writer: Ron Peck; Paul Hallam
Producer: Paul Hallam; Ron Peck
Cast: Stuart Craig Turton, Tony Westrope, Frank Dilbert, Robert Merrick, Norman Bateson, John Angel, Phillip Beckett, Peter Radmall, Ernest Brightmore, Clive Peters, John Cooper, Rachel Nicholas James, Maureen Dolan, Ken Robertson, Derek Chandler
Synopsis: A homosexual man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night.
Polytechnique
Year: 2009 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Canada Runtime: 76 mins
Genres: Drama, Crime
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Eric Leca; Denis Villeneuve; Jacques Davidts
Producer: Andre Rouleau; Karine Vanasse; Maxime Remillard; Don Carmody
Cast: Karine Vanasse, Francesca Barcenas, Pierre Leblanc, Natalie Hamel Roy, Eve Duranceau, Martin Watier, Mathieu Ledoux, Larissa Corriveau, Manon Lapointe, Adam Kosh, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Johanne Marie Tremblay, Evelyne Brochu, Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau
Synopsis: A searing drama based on true events. In December, 1989, a disturbed killer stalked the campus of Montreal Polytechnique with one goal in mind: to target as many young women as possible.
The School of Flesh (L’école de la chair)
Year: 1998 US Movie Rating: NR Country: France Runtime: 97 mins
Genres: Drama
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Cast: Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis: Dominique lives the life of a well-off single woman. Her life is tinged with a natural elegance reinforced by her job in a big ” Maison de Couture “.
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Year: 1967 US Movie Rating: NR Country: Switzerland Runtime: 96 mins
Genres: Drama
Director: Jean-Louis Roy
Cast: Ben Carruthers
Synopsis: A long-lost mid-60s Pop Art super-spy thriller, part-DR. STRANGELOVE, part-ALPHAVILLE.
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