ANTIDOTE at the Marché du Film Cannes Film Market 2020
ANTIDOTE at the Marché du Film Cannes Film Market 2020
ANTIDOTE Sales will be presented at the Marché du Film Cannes Film Market with 23 films in line-up.
Films in ANTIDOTE line-up:
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The film is divided into 4 chapters, each shows different levels of Russian drag. You will know about divas which started their job in the late 90s, about new generation of drag queens and you will see the largest travesty scene in Russia.
2.
Graciela dreams of going away and with a new life in the countryside. This longing begins to get frustrated when she discovers that his father has a relationship with a homeless young woman. Graciela does everything in her power to separate them, she doesn’t understand her father’s obsession until she finds out that the girl is pregnant.
The illusion generated in Rodowith the arrival of the baby will make Graciela find by helping them another possible future.
3.
Have the years of Glasnost and Perestroika - and the unique freedom that Russian artists knew back then - been just a moment in history?
4.
Lake Baikal is the biggest freshwater lake in the world. It’s famous for its beauty and its unique ecosystem. Presently, Lake Baikal is facing the threat of degradation because of human activity.
5.
Gosha is a self-employed trucker, who delivers goods to remote northern parts of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). He uses his competitive edge and his services are expensive. Moreover, he supplies fake low-quality vodka to his native community, thereby alcoholizing the locals.
After another trip, he exchanges vodka for meat and fish – the only currency the northerners are able to pay him. His greed lures him into driving back to the city without a partner-driver. During the journey, his truck breaks down. He is stuck in the middle of nowhere. Нe is the only living soul for hundreds of kilometers around.
6.
For thirty years, Chinari’s inhabitants have been trying to survive the war between the Azeris and the Armenians and the difficult conditions imposed by the blockade. Among them, there is the Petrossian family. The film accompanies their daily life in their struggle for survival.
7.
Santiago of Chile, a city that turned its back on the Andes Mountains.
Moving away from the ski center, Mateo takes his babysitter on an enigmatic journey to Cerro El Plomo, an ancient Inca sacred summit. Scarlett, desperate to return to the shelter, tries to ignore the voice of nature, but the mountain demands his child back.
8.
Tired of her meaningless existence at a Baltimore dance academy, disconnected youth Cecilia (Ali Michael) decides to return to the lively sprawl of downtown New York City. Over the course of a weekend, she revisits her old haunts and friends, including the troubled relationship with her vile DJ ex-boyfriend, Tom (Charlie Himmelstein). Lost in a warped middle ground between past and present, Cecilia will find herself in the most uncertain point of her life so far.
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Fidel is a child who migrates from Paraguay to the bowels of the jungle of Misionera, Argentina. In the mountain is horse the workers call "El Che" for his noble spirit; just like the Revolutionary Che Guevara. The boy will ride his dream horse wearing Maradona's number 10 jersey as his amulet. His goal will be to earn money to help his mother living in poverty.
10.
Why do we want to live in other people's lives?
The talented Jazz Singer Leyla, with her traumatized childhood, and mysterious photographer Murat with his dark world, try to find the answer to this question by living their love story.
11.
Leonie Brandt (1901-1978) dreamed of becoming an actress. After realising her dream she took on the role of her life: she became a spy for the Dutch intelligence service in Nazi Germany. After the war a number of prominent Dutchmen also feared Leonie for what she knew about their actions during the occupation. The film more or less follows the chronology of her astonishing life via scenes from old movies. Shrouded in a haze of mystery the ‘real’ or ‘fictional’ of her life is not always clear.
12.
The Melody of String Tree is a film-dilogy about the journey of the poet Velimir Khlebnikov and his ‘ka’ (double). In Ancient Egyptian mythology, ka is a vital essence in the shape of a person, which exists separately from its ‘master’. It is an immortal double that accompanies the poet through his creations and through time.
13.
This is an insight into unconscious state of mind.
Through the story of Afghanistan war on Soviet side veteran who is working at the ship and experiences problems with aggression and through the ancient world that shows the true essence of war — from its birth to the the tragical consequences. The history repeating — the archetypes of war inside humanity.
14.
Paul and Anna live an apparently happy and successful life. But when their son inexplicably falls ill, the facade of a seemingly happy family life crumbles completely, like brittle porcelain that can no longer be glued.
15.
What binds a person to a certain place on Earth? What lets him say, “I'm from here, and this is my land?” What’s setting the boundaries of our existence? The film immerses us in the daily life of a village near Moscow, where local old-timers live side by side with immigrants from Tajikistan. How do the fences arise, then are destroyed and arise once again between cultures and people?
16.
Several dozen soldiers in the military echelon are transporting an exhibition with captured weapons from Syria across the whole of Russia. Musicians of military ensembles accompany this celebration. In each city, thousands of spectators meet them. People dance, take pictures. Children swear allegiance to their Motherland.
17.
In the industrial town of Nizhny Tagil, behind the Ural mountains, the pursuit of an impossible love story between the narrator and Ekaterina, a young woman descendant of Orlov’s dynasty. Navigating between poetic illustrations of the passion that blossoms under our eyes, and schizophrenic wanderings in a hostile environment, the film opens in its second part to some characters linked to Ekaterina's world, offering an intimate and heart-breaking portrait of Russia.
18.
Some time ago they would come here to walk their dogs, play with their kids or jog. Today they are two hostile parties fighting over a patch of ground in a park.
Every Sunday half of them come to pray by a wooden cross, and another half is there to defend a small spot of land, which they want to stay public.
The film focuses on a story of Torfyanka, a small park where contention between the believers and park defenders has turned into a severe struggle with night watches, physicalfights and mutual offence.
19.
The film is divided into 4 chapters, each shows different levels of Russian drag. You will know about divas which started their job in the late 90s, about new generation of drag queens and you will see the largest travesty scene in Russia.
20.
Isabela is the daughter of a powerful politician and grew up in a context of perks and luxury. In her process of maturity, Isabela falls in love with Giovani, founder of a community that preaches sustainability and free love, and, fascinated by a different logic of the world, abandoned everything she had in an attempt to build a different life. It's Father's Day and Isabela has not visited her family for four years. In an attempt at rapprochement, she decides to introduce Giovani to her parents and brother, but what she did not expect is that, back at home, she would discover that her Father is involved in one of the biggest corruption scandals ever recorded in Brazil. There will be no other option but to face and recognize the ghosts of your past.
21.
In a love triangle there are always three participants: the torturer, the saviour and the victim, who change roles depending on the situation. There is no room to condemn anyone, there is no right and no guilt. A betrayal can happen with everyone.
Margo admits to her husband George that she betrayed him with her student Anton. Her confession changes the life of three people. At first it seems that it is a usual story, but gradually it emerges that everything that happens to Margo has a deeper meaning. She begins to understand God, family, and love. She starts to realize how these values correspond with the eastern world, where she has grown up, and with the western world where she now lives.
22.
There's an island in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica. No one knows about it apart from the polar explorers who spend winter there. And their relatives.
The sarcophaguses are situated right on the rocks. These are people who aren’t mentioned on the pages of geography textbooks. But without them it would be impossible to explore Antarctica.
More than 60 years have passed since the first burial. During this time, the cemetery has never been renovated.
Our team of 8 people went to Antarctica to complete this task for the first time.
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A young recruit and a village girl. Two victims of massive political cataclysms. In other circumstances, they might have become friends or even more. The war made them enemies. But the war has long ended, the suffering is behind, the hostility has disappeared. Now they are allies. They are united by a common bitter experience. The two surviving witnesses of the worst events of the 20th century are now facing common enemies: time and oblivion. They define the borderline of our memory. A little more time will pass, and their story will turn into a distant legend just like the Napoleonic Wars.