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Les Films du Losange has released the trailer for Tony Gatlif’s “Ange,” starring Arthur H. and Mathieu Amalric, which screens Thursday in Cannes Official Selection as part of the Cinéma de la Plage section. The open-air screening will be preceded by a live concert featuring the film’s musicians, including Arthur H.

Les Films du Losange will distribute the film in France and is handling international sales.

The film centers on Ange, a rootless musician who, at 60 years old, feels a vital need to reconnect with his old friend Marco. Solea, his past love’s daughter, who is in revolt against the world, joins him on this journey. Together, they rediscover the path to joy.

As well as Arthur H. and Amalric, the cast includes Suzanne Aubert, Maria de Medeiros and Christine Citti.

The producer is Delphine Mantoulet at Prince Production, and the co-producers are Pastorale Productions and Cosmotone.

Project is debut feature from the director of award-winning short April 4th 1968.

Paris-based Mpm Films and Greek production company Blonde Sa are teaming on French director Myriam Gharbi’s debut feature Pirates.

The semi-autobiographical tale revolves around a rebellious young woman from a tough outer-city suburb who is given a new lease of life when she hooks up with two anarchical squatters – Z and Manos - after serving time in prison on drug-dealing charges.

It was among nine upcoming productions presented at the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab pitching event on Friday.

Mpm producer Claire Gadéa, who is lead producing out of France, previously produced Philippe Lacôte’s Run, which was also developed at the lab before going on to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2014.

Gadéa has also already secured development money from France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc).

Blonde Sa founding chief Fenia Cossovitsa is one of Greece’s best known independent producers...

Algerian-born French writer-director Tony Gatlif has carved a unique niche making quasi-documentary dramas rooted in underclass folk music and the marginalized migrant groups who perform it. A former best director prize-winner, Gatlif's fifth Cannes premiere, Djam, revolves around the subculture of "rebetiko," an emotionally charged storytelling style that spread from poor urban communities in Greece and Turkey to the islands of the Aegean. The plot loosely mirrors key themes in the songs, which are steeped in exile and loss, but still lusty and defiant.

Djam is very much in Gatlif's signature style, with flavorsome musical set-pieces taking precedence over scrappy...

Exclusive: Cannes Classics additions also include Michael Bay’s Bad Boys.

Cannes Classics is understood to have added three movies to its lineup in the shape of Bugsy Malone, Saturday Night Fever and Bad Boys.

Director Alan Parker has been closely involved in the restoration of his 1976 classic Bugsy Malone, which is due to get a Cinéma de la Plage (beach screening) on Friday May 19th.

The director’s cut of John Travolta dance drama Saturday Night Fever, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with a Us re-release, is slated for a Cinéma de la Plage on Saturday 20th May.

The cut will include three scenes not in the original release.

Michael Bay’s 1995 action-comedy Bad Boys will also get a beach screening on Monday 22 May. The film’s star Will Smith is on the festival jury this year.

The trio are among the Classics lineup restored by distributor Park Circus, which has also...

Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera, Li Ruijun’s Walking Past The Future join Ucr.

Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story is one of several additions to the Cannes line-up announced on Thursday.

The film will play out of competition and stars Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner and Vincent Perez and tells of a writer who gets involved with an obsessive fan.

Meanwhile Ruben Östlund’s The Square lands a competition slot. Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West star in the drama about a city square where there are no rules. Östlund’s last film, Force Majeure, won the Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2014.

There are two additions to Un Certain Regard. Political drama La Cordillera stars Ricardo Darin and is Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s follow-up to his Cannes Critics’ Week 2015 Nespresso Grand Prize-winner Paulina. The other new selection is Walking Past The Future from Li Ruijun.

Joiing the Special Screenings roster are Barbet Schroeder’s [link...