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CANNES — The 70th anniversary Cannes Film Festival has wrapped, culminating with an unconventional awards ceremony in which Pedro Almodóvar and his jury bestowed a couple unexpected bonus prizes, including a tie for screenplay and a special award to Nicole Kidman, who appeared in four projects in this year’s official selection, including competition titles “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “The Beguiled,” season two of “Top of the Lake” and special screening “How to Talk to Girls at Parties.” Meanwhile, the fabled Palme d’Or went to Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s cutting art-world (and real-world) satire “The Square,” which dares to bring aspects of conceptual and performance art into the sphere of cinema. The choice came as something of a surprise, if only because the masterful, 142-minute film has divided audiences so far, and jury prizes rely on consensus. Östlund’s follow-up to Un Certain Regard winner “Force Majeure,” “The Square” centers on a posh museum cu...

Cesar Benito - Album “ La Sonata Del Silencio (Original Television Soundtrack)” Digital & Physical Distribution Label Plaza Mayor Company ltd The Orchard    Cesar Benito - "La Sonata del Silencio" Original Television Soundtrack in Itunes La Sonata del Silencio (The Sonata of Silence) is a story of passion, jealousy and dreams with Post-war Spain as a backdrop. Marta Ribas lives in the male-dominated society of the late 40s, full of conflict and economic hardship. She had a happy married life with Antonio but his health starts deteriorating, so to make ends meet Marta starts looking for a job. Antonio doesn ’ t approve it as he   feels it damages his reputation. He controls her every step and Marta feels like a prisoner in her own home. But an unexpected opportunity crosses her path that will allow her to secure her own survival and that of her daughter, and find her place in the world. The piano is an important element on this story. Ma...

Anthem, the specialist arm of sales and finance company IM Global, has added six Asian titles to its Cannes sales lineup. Four are sourced from China’s Enlight Pictures. New Enlight movies include animated adventure “The Guardian” (aka “Da Hu Fa”,) directed by Fan Bu Si. The fantasy quest, aimed at both adults and children, is told using a mix of Chinese ink painting and original hand-drawn animation. Enlight’s documentary “Return to the Wolves,” directed by Yi Feng, recounts the story of a painter, Li Weiyi, who lived in the wild for nine months in order to save an orphaned wolf cub in the grasslands of Sichuan. They join two previously announced Enlight titles: romantic drama “All About Secrets,” directed by Lien Yi-chi and adapted from Rao Xueman’s bestseller of the same title, about a family and friends whose secrets threaten to overwhelm them; and comedy drama “City of Rock,” about a man trying to protect the environment from property developers. It is directed...

Cannes’ works-in-progress series grows to cover 10 festivals, 43 productions and multiple on-the-rise events, territories and film types The Cannes Film Market, the world’s biggest – and still growing – film industry meet, is raising the bar once more in industry initiatives, adding four new events to its 5th Goes to Cannes works-in-progress brand: FilMart’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), Lithuania’s Vilnius Intl. Film Festival, New Horizon Polish Days and Greece’s Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival. The Marché du Film also added four more festival showcases last year to the Goes To series. In all, in the space of four years, from 2013’s inaugural single-event BAL Goes to Cannes, this year 10 festivals will showcase key movies at rough-cut, nearly always screened for the first time outside their own pix-in-post strands. HAF also marks Goes to Cannes’ first Asian fest partner. As in 2016, the new additions target some of the world’s fastest g...

New Cd Digital & Physical Plaza Mayor Company / Sergent Major Company / The Orchard Ref SERG142 Zhanna Sattarova - Album "Sketches for the Mood" in Itunes   Hommage a une grande dame. Dame de beaute, de charme et d’amour. Elle qui nous transportait a travers les steppes kazahke a rejoint les chevaux sauvages du vent et de l’aube eternelle. Une voix qui ne s’eteignait jamais tant que le vin et l’amour pouvait y croire encore. Un regard sur ces paysage sauvage de lac, de steppes et aussi de larmes et d’aventures. Elle etait jazz et passion, elle etait flamme et embellie. Le flambeau est cette petite lumiere que l’on s’achange par amitie… Voila Zhanna, je te transmet le flambeau de mon amitie … Et tes chansons sont tellement de cette fraternite. Ce n’est qu’un au revoir Zhanna Sattarova the voice of Kazakhstan. Graduate of Almaty Conservatory, Jazz singer, beign representative of Kazakhstan in the US, Russia, Kirgistan... Be...