BREAKING THROUGH THE LENS - CANNES 2019
OFFICIAL SELECTION FILMS
Below please find the ten extraordinary feature films that presented at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19th, 2019.
A LIFE ELECTRIC
DOCUMENTARY | UK
A visual exploration of those living in defiance of epilepsy, the world’s oldest and most mysterious disease.
DIRECTOR:
MICHAELA MOIR
BINARANG
HORROR | USA, PHILIPPINES
A young couple, unknowingly pregnant, visits the Philippines and attracts a child-eating demon thought only to exist in folklore.
DIRECTOR:
MARITTE GO
CARBON
DRAMA | USA
Dr. Lauren Atwood has dedicated her life to human genetics; often, to the detriment of time with her husband and daughter. But when her daughter suddenly dies it’s within human genetics that Lauren finds her salvation and, maybe, a second chance by attempting to clone her daughter and carry the clone to term. Based in the present day and reflecting only real and current science and technologies, Carbon explores what happens when grief, innovation, and love collide and what happens when someone who can…does.
DIRECTOR:
PRISCILLA ANANY
CLARA SOLA
DRAMA | SWEDEN, COSTA RICA, BELGIUM, GERMANY
In a mountain village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 32-year-old woman, takes off on a journey to break free from social and religious conventions and become the master of her sexuality and newfound powers.
DIRECTOR:
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
DAWN, HER DAD & THE TRACTOR
DRAMA | CANADA
As a young trans woman and her estranged father begin to restore the old family tractor, they cautiously rebuild their relationship and come to understand the mechanics of the heart.
DIRECTOR:
SHELLEY THOMPSON
FINDING SATOSHI
HYBRID DOCUMENTARY | UK, NETHERLANDS
The film follows detective Jimmy Knight as he hunts for Satoshi Nakamoto – Bitcoin’s secretive inventor, whose true identity has never been uncovered, and whose billions in bitcoin remain untouched.
DIRECTOR:
EMILY JAMES
HEATSTROKE
THRILLER | USA, GERMANY, EGYPT
A thriller about estranged sisters set in LA and Cairo, HEATSTROKE is an Escher-like exploration of psychological conflict set against an explosive political background.
DIRECTOR:
NINA MENKES
MRS ROBINSON’S DISGRACE
PERIOD DRAMA | UK
Isabella Robinson’s erotic diary is the key evidence in one of Britain’s first divorce cases. Will she stand by her story and ruin the man she loves? Or court public shame as a sexual fantasist?
DIRECTOR:
OLIVIA HETREED
SIRENS
DOCUMENTARY | USA, LEBANON
In post-war Beirut, five young women navigate friendship, identity and the pressure to conform in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
DIRECTOR:
RITA BAGHDADI
THE GOOD IRANIAN
THRILLER | UNITED KINGDOM
Sisterhood isn't all it's cracked up to be... Revenge Iranian-style...
