About the Festival
The Cannes Festival, named until 2002 as the?International Film Festival and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is one of the most publicised,together with the Berlin International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. The invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congres.
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Festival Films
Macbeth
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Run Time: 113 min Release: 2015
Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Jack Madigan, Frank Madigan, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard
Youth
A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.
Run Time: 124 min Release: 2015
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: The Retrosettes, Gabriella Belisario, Harvey Keitel, Alex Macqueen
Louder Than Bombs
An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house - forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently.
Run Time: 109 min Release: 2015
Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid
Panama
Depicts how digital communication, pornography and vanity obstruct true emotions and love.
Run Time: 97 min Release: 2015
Director: Pavle Vuckovic
Stars: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac, Tamara Dragicevic
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Disorder
Vincent is an ex-soldier with PTSD who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town. Despite the apparent tranquility on Maryland, Vincent perceives an external threat.
Run Time: 98 min Release: 2015
Director: Alice Winocour
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy, Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant
Embrace of the Serpent
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Run Time: 125 min Release: 2015
Director: Ciro Guerra
Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis
Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Run Time: 107 min Release: 2015
Director: László Nemes
Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont
Carol
In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) come to light.
Run Time: 118 min Release: 2015
Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson
Mustang
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
Run Time: 97 min Release: 2015
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Stars: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan
Amy
The story of Amy Winehouse in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.
Run Time: 128 min Release: 2015
Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Amy Winehouse, Lauren Gilbert, Juliette Ashby, Nick Shymansky
The Assassin
8th century China. 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised - a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings. A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.
Run Time: 105 min Release: 2015
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Chen Chang, Qi Shu, Yun Zhou, Satoshi Tsumabuki
The Visit
Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation.
Run Time: 94 min Release: 2015
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie
Clouds of Sils Maria
A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
Run Time: 124 min Release: 2014
Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger
The Captive
Teenager Cassandra is locked up against her will unable to contact her family to let them know she's still alive. Flashback to eight years ago when 9-year-old Cass was abducted from her father's truck and he goes straight to the authorities who immediately peg him as the prime suspect. Eight years later, her father, Matthew, is still being investigated by the police who are also trying to crack the bigger problem of crimes against children, Matthew's marriage has deteriorated and leads in the case are hard to come by. So much time but so little has changed and it's going to be up to Matthew and Cassandra herself to repair the estranged family.
Run Time: 112 min Release: 2014
Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Kevin Durand, Alexia Fast, Mireille Enos, Rosario Dawson
The Blue Room
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man ...
Run Time: 76 min Release: 2014
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau, Laurent Poitrenaux
Titli
"In the badlands of Delhi's dystopic underbelly, Titli, the youngest member of a violent car-jacking brotherhood plots a desperate bid to escape the 'family' business. His struggle to do, so is countered at each stage by his indignant brothers, who finally try marrying him off to 'settle' him. Titli finds an unlikely ally in his new wife, Neelu, who nurtures her own set of frustrated dreams. They form a strange, mutually exploitative partnership in a desperate bid to escape the stranglehold of their family roots. But is escape the same as freedom?
Run Time: 116 min Release: 2014
Director: Kanu Behl
Stars: Shashank Arora, Lalit Behl, Harish Dinkar, Sumit Gulati
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
One couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Run Time: 123 min Release: 2014
Director: Ned Benson
Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Nina Arianda, Viola Davis
Force Majeure
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
Run Time: 120 min Release: 2014
Director: Ruben Ã?stlund
Stars: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Vincent Wettergren, Clara Wettergren
It Follows
For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends must find a way to escape the horrors, that seem to be only a few steps behind.
Run Time: 100 min Release: 2014
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Stars: Bailey Spry, Carollette Phillips, Loren Bass, Keir Gilchrist
Xenia
Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away. Determined to force him to acknowledge paternity, little do they know that the road to the much-coveted Greek citizenship is paved with ghosts from the past, adult savagery and a dream that needs to come true, no matter what. Reaching the end of this initiatory journey they eventually come of age even if Greece refuses to follow.
Run Time: 134 min Release: 2014
Director: Panos H. Koutras
Stars: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Yannis Stankoglou, Marissa Triandafyllidou