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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Cate Shortland’s Lore

Published on January 1, 1970

Gist: Spring 1945. As the German front collapses, the Allied forces take control of Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 14-year-old Lore is left alone in charge of her four young siblings.

Prediction: With a limited numbers of slots, I would think there is only room for one WWII themed drama at a festival, and therefore Cate Shortland’s sophomore feature (her return to Cannes since she debuted Somersault in the Un Certain Regard section in 2004) might in the mind of the programmers, be going up against Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog. If the film isn’t retained, expect a fall festival showing.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).