This year's edition of Cannes was such a solid edition that many of the foreign film titles are not only finding distribution deals in the U.S. but are also winding up at the premiere North Amercan film fests: Telluride, NYFF and Toronto. Personally, I'll be casting my net around 3 titles that I missed at Cannes that got resounding confidence votes from critics and buyers alike. I've got a Romanian film, a couple of Israeli titles and this first time feature from an Argentina director named Lucia Puenzo. Her feature won the grand prize for the Festival de Cannes' Critics Week.
XXY tells the tale of fifteen-year old Alex carries a heavy secret about her gender status and, at puberty, must make a decision one way or the other. But friends visiting from the family's former hometown with their 16-year-old son, Álvaro, and the inevitable attraction between teenagers, complicates matters.
