Films Boutique brings stories about life, death and dreams to Cannes
- The Berlin-based international sales agent has a very strong line-up for the imminent Cannes Film Festival
In several films that Berlin-based world sales agent Films Boutique is presenting at the Film Market of the Cannes Film Festival, changing circumstances force the protagonists out of their daily routines. In the Un Certain Regard entry The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis by Andrea Testa, which is set in Buenos Aires in 1977, an ordinary family man receives information about an upcoming kidnapping operation by the soldiers of the dictatorship. He then has to decide whether to take a risk and try to save innocent lives.
Another film in the Un Certain Regard programme is the Israeli-Palestinian comedy-drama Personal Affairs by Maha Haj, which deals with the plans and dreams of the different generations of a family on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, a young woman inthe Directors’ Fortnight title Divines [+see also:
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In California by Marina Person, a number of songs by David Bowie accentuate the atmosphere as well as affecting the attitude of a teenage girl who has to face an inconvenient reality that changes the way she looks at the world. Meanwhile, the worldview of a husband cheating on his wife is questioned when a mysterious stranger appears in his life, in Boris Without Beatrice by Denis Côté. In the Serbian drama A Good Wife [+see also:
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Further market titles include the award-winning Filipino drama A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery by Lav Diaz, Sara Jordenö’s Swedish documentary Kiki [+see also:
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