Cannes Label Films represented at TIFF

TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival

Three amazing movies that were showcased at the Cannes Film Festival are being represented by The PR Factory at the Toronto International Film Festival 2020.

 

A GOOD MAN
A film by MARIE-CASTILLE MENTION-SCHAAR
​With Noémie Merlant, Soko, Vincent Dedienne, Gabriel Almaer, Alysson Paradis, Anne Loiret, Geneviève Mnich & Jonas Ben Ahmed
108 minutes  –  France
​Language: French
CANNES LABEL 2020

SYNOPSIS
Aude and Benjamin have been in love for six years. Because Aude suffers deeply from not being able to have a child, Benjamin decides he will carry the pregnancy.

PRODUCTION
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, WILLOW FILMS

PASSION SIMPLE
A film by DANIELLE ARBID
​With Laetitia Dosch, Sergueï Polunin, Lou-Teymour Thion, Caroline Ducey, Grégoire Colin & Slimane Dazi
99 minutes  –  France, Belgium, Lebanon
​Language: French
CANNES LABEL 2020

Passion Simple

SYNOPSIS
“Since last September I have done nothing but wait for a man : for him to call me and come to my place… Everything about him was so precious to me, his eyes, his mouth, his penis, his childhood memories, his voice…”

PRODUCTION
David Thion and Philippe Martin, LES FILMS PELLEAS, in coproduction with Jacques-Henri Bronckart, VERSUS PRODUCTION

MEMORY HOUSE
A film by JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA
With Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Sam Louwyck

93 minutes  –  Brazil, France
​Language: Portuguese – German
CANNES LABEL 2020

Memory House is a spiritual and fantastical story encapsulating the social and racial tensions of modern day Brazil.  Memory House will compete in the New Directors section at San Sebastian film festival, after screening in the Discovery section of TIFF. Memory House is the only Latin-American entry of the Cannes Label 2020.

SYNOPSIS
Modern day Brazil, but lost in time. Cristovam, a native Black man from the rural North, moves to a Southern town, a strange sort of Austrian colony, to work in a milk factory. Confronted with xenophobic conservative people, he feels isolated and estranged from the white world.

He discovers an abandoned house, filled with objects and memorabilia reminding him of his origins. He settles in, reconnecting with his roots. As if this memory house were alive, more objects start to appear. Slowly, Cristovam begins a metamorphosis.

PRODUCERS
Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenza and Didar Domehri

PRODUCTION Be Bossa Entertainment (Brazil) and Maneki Films (France)
Coproduction: Canal Brasil and Cinema Caipira