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  Fjord Director Cristian Mungiu Cast Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve Music Kaspar Kaae Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd “Festival de Cannes 2026 - Palme d'Or” Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a Romanian-Norwegian Pentecostal couple, move with their five children from Romania to Norway after Mihai's parents die, seeking closeness to Lisbet's family, who share their faith. Settling in an isolated coastal village, they form a bond with their neighbors, the Halbergs. When their daughter Elia appears at school with bruises, suspicions arise about the family's strict religious upbringing. Fjord explores clashing worldviews, conformity, tolerance and the boundaries of freedom and intimacy. FJORD on Spotify "Working with the music for Fjord was quite a different task than usual. All the music is diegetic meaning that it is playing in the scenes and the music had to fit the different characters. Mia, the neighbor and lawyer, is listening to this spiritual music all t...

  Romería (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Carla Sim ó n Composed by Ernest Pip ó Selection Cannes Festival   With her mother’s diary in hand, Marina’s search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets. In 2004, Marina Piñeiro, an 18-year-old orphan, travels to Vigo for five days in search of information about her biological father, who died of AIDS and hoping to obtain a scholarship to study film. Upon arrival, Marina is welcomed by her uncle Lois, with whom she stays on his houseboat along with his wife Denise and their sons Nuno, Basilio, and Eugene. During her stay, Marina asks about where her parents lived. Lois tells her that they resided in an apartment in Playa Samil, but Marina insists they lived in Toralla, a version later confirmed by her uncle Iago and Marina's mother's diary, which she carries with her ...

  Gangs of Taiwan (Locust) Director Keff Cast Wei-Chen Liu, Rimong Ihwar, Devin Pan Music Yoshihiro Hanno And Meuko! Meuko! Plaza Mayor Company presents a soundtrack for the thriller Gangs of Taïwan (Locust). The album contains the score composed by Yoshihiro Hanno and two tracks by Meuko Meuko. The soundtrack is available to download on all digital music services Gangs of Taïwan is directed by Keff and stars Liu Wei Chen, Rimong Ihwar, Devin Pan, An-shun Yu, Yi Jung Wu and Nien-Hsien. Yoshihiro Hanno (Music Composer / Film Director / Screenwriter) Gangs of Taiwan on Spotify As the 2019 Hong Kong protests erupt across the strait, Zhong-Han, a silent twenty-nothing in Taiwan, leads a double life - working at a family restaurant by day, and running with a group of local gangsters by night. But when the ownership of the restaurant changes hands, it sets off an unexpected chain reaction that forces Zhong-Han to witness and confront the corrupt power games of his coun...

  Simón de la montaña (Simon of the Mountain) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Director Luis Federico Music by Hernán González Villamil Song Tender Dawn by Loud Neighbor Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Selection Cannes Film Festival – Critics Week Grand Prize Seeking change, 21-year-old Simon finds purpose by befriending two disabled children who teach him to embrace life's joys. Together, they navigate a world not designed for them, inventing their own rules for love and happiness. https://open.spotify.com/album/1T0Qf77sdpni4IQvDLnxBX Although it’s playing quite purposefully with various ambiguities and motifs Federico Luis directorial debut  Simon de la montaña  ( Simon of the Mountain ) is most successful at obscuring the usual cliches of identity exploration. Its title recalls Luis Bunuel’s religious themed 1965 short film “Simon of the Desert,” and there are some comparable allusions to temptation and forsakenness in some of the minor metaphorical momen...

  The Shameless Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Director Konstantin Bojanov Music by Peter Dundakov Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Cannes 2024 - Selection Un Certain Regard After killing a cop in a Delhi brothel, Renuka takes refuge in a northern India community of sex workers. There, she begins a forbidden romance with the 17-year-old Devika. Against all odds, they try to forge their path to freedom. The Shameless on Spotify “The original music of the film ‘Shameless’ is a hybrid score - a combination of acoustic and electronic sonorities. The soundtrack is inspired by the dramatic and emotional arch of the story and the main characters. It’s crafted with the idea of involving music as an independent element of the semantics of the film.” Petar Dudonkov – Composer The Shameless on Apple Music 1. Shadow's Flight 2. Blue Angel 3. Echoes of Fate 4. The Binding 5. Scarlet Requiem 6. Murad’s Call 7. Paths Divided 8. The Threat 9. Missing 10. The Return 11. Veil of Desti...

  VERTICAL (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Maryam Pirband Music by Marco Werba & Pierpaolo Lucca In Cannes Festival Film Market Rita is the daughter of a family carrying and ancient blood with extraordinary abilities. Every 100 years they need to sacrifice to protect the people. The destiny brings her to a rocky vertical mountains where the monsters lives… Vertical Ost on Spotify 1.       SACRIFICE                                                        (Prince Gaudy/Marco Werba/The Cobblers) 2.       EL PUENTE                      ...

  LA FEMME DU FOSSOYEUR THE GRAVEDIGGER’S WIFE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Director Khadar Ahmed Music by Andre Matthias Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd   Selection Cannes, Toronto, London BFI, Hamburg, Sydney… Fespaco Festival Awards Nomination AMAA - Oscar’s France cinema April 27th Sweeden cinema May 13th In times of misfortune, Guled hand his family have to push themselves to the limits in order to reunite with their family. Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra: urgently needs an expensive operation to treat chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how will they find the money to save Nasra and can they keep the family together? The Gravedigger's Wife Ost on Spotify "For Khadar Ayderus Ahmed's tender story about love and hope my goal was to create an intimate score built around sol...

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...