Les fantômes d'Ismaël

Arnaud Desplechin : 2017
Ismael's Ghosts

Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death of Carlotta, twenty years earlier. Yet he has started his life over again with Sylvia. Sylvia is his light. Then Carlotta returns from the dead. Sylvia runs away. Ismaël rejects Carlotta. Driven mad by these ordeals, he abandons the shoot for his family home in Roubaix. There, he lives as a recluse, besieged by his ghosts. Arnaud Desplechin's feature premiered out of competition at Festival de Cannes 2017.

After the War

Annarita Zambrano : 2017
Dopo la guerra

Bologna, 2002. The opposition to the Labour Law explodes in universities. The murder of a judge reopens old political wounds between Italy and France. Marco, a former left-wing activist, sentenced for murder and exiled in France for 20 years, thanks to the Mitterrand doctrine, is accused of having ordered the attack. The Italian government requests his extradition. Discovering that he no longer has political asylum, he is forced to flee with Viola, his 16-year-old daughter. His life will change forever, as well as his family's in Italy who has to pay for Marco's past faults. Annarita Zambrano's feature premiered in competition in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2017.

Jeune femme

Léonor Serraille : 2017
Montparnasse Bienvenüe

Paula, in the heat of a tense situation, recounts her life in a disjointed and feverish manner from the hospital to which she has been taken after trying to break down the door of Joachim, a famous photographer. After sharing a life for ten years, Joachim has apparently lost any interest in seeing her now that she's back in Paris after an extended stay in Mexico. At 31 years old, the door to la dolce vita slams in Paula's face, and she finds herself, suddenly and without warning, in dire straits in the capital, with no money and no realistic possibility of turning to her family. Nevertheless, this exuberant, straight-talking, hyper-social, sharp-tongued and occasionally borderline disturbed young woman is not entirely without resources. Léonor Serraille's feature debut was winner of the Caméra d'Or when it premiered in competition in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2017.