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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

#34. Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

Gist: Much in the same matter as fact tone as Darwin’s Nightmare – this looks at slave trade as it exists today, “in its modified way, a more industrial, massive and more global fashion than a hundred years ago.”

Prediction: His last docu was featured in Venice – so this will surely end up in a top tier film fest slot. This could easily fall into the Un Certain Regard or Special Screenings, but we’re thinking this is headed to the Directors’ Fortnight if it is indeed past the post-production point.

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).

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