Lubna Playoust

An invitation to discover the life, work, and family of Arno Stern, who is dedicated to perpetuating his legacy. You may be wondering who Arno Stern is. He is a 99-year-old educator and researcher who believes that no matter what happens, we remain forever the children we once were. It is this total freedom that has guided his entire body of work.

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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?”

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A mother and her son are secluded in their house on an isolated island where two moments of their lives will intertwine -youth and maturity- and where the bonds of their fragile but indestructible relationship are forged.

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A pregnant young woman is listening the conversation of her table neighbours involuntary. On the first sight its seems to be the banalities of an old couple. But who are they to one another?

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Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?

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The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

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A mother and her son are secluded in their house on an isolated island where two moments of their lives will intertwine -youth and maturity- and where the bonds of their fragile but indestructible relationship are forged.

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A travel agent who has never travelled is sent on a business trip to Paris, only to find himself confronted by temptations he cannot handle.

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A pregnant young woman is listening the conversation of her table neighbours involuntary. On the first sight its seems to be the banalities of an old couple. But who are they to one another?

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A mother and her son are secluded in their house on an isolated island where two moments of their lives will intertwine -youth and maturity- and where the bonds of their fragile but indestructible relationship are forged.

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