Cannes Uncut revels in the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over the last eight decades, as well as looking to the future.

Cannes Uncut

The story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish film maker Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell. Bill Douglas was Scotland’s finest director, celebrated by the likes of Lynne Ramsay, Lenny Abrahamson, Satajit Ray and Yuliya Solntseva. Bill’s life was turned around in the Egyptian desert when during National Service he met the man who would become his lifelong friend, Peter Jewell. The two men had very different backgrounds but they formed a unique bond that channelled a tremendous creative energy. In this film Peter reminisces about the life he shared with Bill in their tiny Soho flat filled with cinema memorabilia. Their shared love of the movies lead them to start experimenting with an 8mm camera. Peter’s memories and musings about the legacy Bill left behind are illustrated with these never-before-seen short films.

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”

Room 999

Mesleğinde bir ömre yetecek kadar şiddete tanık olan Joe, geride kalan hayatını, seks ticareti için kaçırılan kızları kurtararak kazanmaya başlamıştır. New York senatörünün kızını kurtarması için kiralandığı zaman ise bir komplo ağının içine sürüklenir. Joe kısa sürede, kendisini ölü görmek isteyen düşmanlarıyla savaşmak zorunda olduğunu kavrayacaktır.

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A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.