The return of Sean Penn as a family

Directed by Sean Penn to the greater glory of his daughter Dylan, Flag Day, which competed in the official Cannes section, is the story of an absent father and a daughter who must search for life alone. The film follows one of the great criminals in the United States, starring in the fourth largest seizure of counterfeit bills in the history of the country. Forger, bank robber and con man, but also a family man who has a daughter who receives his legacy.

He is John Vogel, the greatest thing for his daughter in life. As a child, Jennifer marveled at her magnetizing energy and her ability to make life feel like a great adventure. He taught him a lot about love and joy, but he also turned out to be a delinquent that he has to deal with in his life development. Based on a true story, the film is an intimate family portrait about a young woman struggling to overcome the rubble of her past while reconciling the bond between a daughter and her father.

“The Honest Spy”, a true story in East Germany

Based on a true story, that of Dr. Werner Teskle, it tells how the scientist Franz Walter is hired by the East German secret service to be sent as a spy to West Germany. He pledges absolute loyalty to the system until he can assume his new position as a professor at the university. Franz will soon be forced to use unsuitable practices to get requests from his superiors: surveillance and wiretapping, falsified letters and diagnoses, blackmail and psychological pressure. But this is more than he can bear. And there will be a sudden turn in history. Directed by Franziska Stünkel, it stars Lars Eidinger (The Persian Teacher).

“Delicious”, French gastronomic comedy

The French director Eric Besnard has built in Delicious a comedy based on historical data that recreates – with an uneven love story in the middle – the birth of the first restaurant in France at the dawn of the French Revolution.

France, 1789. With the help of an unexpected woman, a chef who has been fired by his boss finds the courage to open what will become a restaurant on his own.