Cannes 2020 Label

Mary Anning (Winslet) devotes her days on Southwest England’s Dorset coast to finding and cataloguing fossils of ammonites, extinct and beautiful sea creatures. In the early 19th century this is no work for a woman, and no scientific society will have her. So Mary toils alone, even as male scientists visit to study and take [...]

Esther just turned 18. No longer at school and detached from her family, she makes both ends meet doing small jobs in the South of France. One summer she falls for Jean, ready to do anything to please him. She decides to find him back in Paris and starts a journey in a big city [...]

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana’s inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires. “Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature “Beginning” is a striking [...]