MK2 has five films including two coproductions in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2018

Ash is Purest White

Jia Zhangke

Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

Cast: Zhao Tao, Liao Fan

2018 / China, France / Drama / Mandarin / Colour

Production: Shanghai Film Group, Xstream Pictures (Beijing), Huanxi Media Group Limited, MK Productions, Beijing Runkin Investment, Wishart Media, Enchant Pictures

Cold War

Pawel Pawlikowski

Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris – the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

International sales mk2 films / Protagonist Pictures

Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar, Cédric Kahn

2018 / Poland, UK, France / Drama / Polish, French / B&W

Production: Opus Film, Apocalypso Pictures, MK Productions, Polish Film Institute, Film4, BFI

At War

Stéphane Brizé

Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.

Cast: Vincent Lindon

2018 / France / Drama / French / Colour

Production: Nord-Ouest Films

Sorry Angel

Christophe Honoré

Jacques is a writer living in Paris. He hasn’t turned 40 but already mistrusts that the best in life is yet to come. Arthur is a student living in Brittany. He reads and smiles a lot and refuses to think that everything in life might not be possible. Jacques and Arthur will like each other. Just like in a lovely dream. Just like in a sad story.

Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Podalydès

2018 / France / Drama / French / Colour

Production: Les Films Pelléas