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POST MORTEM (Chile, Mexico, Germany) Funny Balloons, 98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Key cast: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell. Santiago, 1973. Mario Cornejo works at a morgue, typing out reports on autopsies performed by the coroners. In the days surrounding the military coup, he gets involved in a love affair with a dancer from a cabaret. CinemaxX Studio 15
URBAN EXPLORER (Germany) The Little Film Company, 93mins. Dir: Andy Fetscher. Key cast: Max Riemelt, Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman. A group of tourists in Berlin hire a local guide to lead them into a maze of tunnels and subterranean bunkers. When their guide has a bad fall, a former East German border guard appears spinning their tour into a nightmare. CinemaxX Studio 17
VENICE (Poland) Telewizja Polska, 110mins. Dir: Jan Jakub Kolski. Key cast: Magdalena Cielecka, Marcin Walewski, Agnieszka Grochowska. Tells the story of a voyage which never occurred, in which the power of dreams helped to transform the flooded basement of a rural family house into the most romantic city on earth. Kino Arsenal 2
WHAT’S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA (US) Inferno Entertainment, 116mins. Dir: Dustin Lance Black. Key cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Emma Roberts. A resort town sheriff sees his run for state senate collapse when his daughter begins to date the son of Virginia, a life- embracing and charming schizophrenic with whom the sheriff has been having a decades-long affair. Marriott 2
PREY (France) Rezo, 80mins. Dir: Antoine Blossier. Key cast: Gregoire Colin, Berenice Bejo, Francois Levantal. Hunting season is not over yet. Only now they’ve become the prey. dffb-Kino
RETORNOS (Spain, Portugal) Vertice Sales, 88mins. Dir: Luis Aviles Baquero. Key cast: Xavier Estevez, Xose Olveira, Emilio Guitierrez. The story of Alvaro, a man who after 10 years running away from himself returns to his hometown for the burial of his father. There he will attempt to reconcile with his brother and get his daughter back. Parliament
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(China) Wild Bunch, 115mins. Dir: Zhang Yimou. Key cast: Zhou Dongyu, Shawn Dou, Xi Meijuan, Li Xuejian. High school girl Jing is sent to a remote village
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INSIDE AMERICA (Austria) Austrian Film Commission, 107mins. Dir: Barbara Eder. Key cast: Raul Juarez, Aimee Lizette Saldivar, Zuleyma Jaime. A blunt view into America’s soul. CinemaxX Studio 13
RETREAT
(UK) SC Films International, 90mins. Dir: Carl Tibbetts. Key cast: Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell. A couple escape from personal tragedy to an island retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore with news that an airborne killer disease is sweeping through Europe. CinemaxX 3
THE BAIT (Canada) Delphis Films,
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for “reeducation” and falls for Sun, the son of an elite military family. Their dangerous romance blossoms, pure, passionate and secret. Then Sun vanishes and everything changes. CinemaxX 4
87mins. Dir: Yves Simoneau. Key cast: Guy A. Lepage, Rachid Badouri, Serge Dupire. Poirier is a lieutenant from Quebec’s police force and a walking disaster. Ventura is an elite member of the French Secret Service, a fearless spy. They are put together as partners. Will they work with or against each other? CinemaxX Studio 18
WHITE WHITE WORLD (Serbia, Sweden, Germany) Films Boutique, 121mins. Dir: Oleg Novkovic. Key cast: Uliks Fehmiu, Jasna Duricic, Hana Selimovic. King is a handsome 40-year-old bar owner. Once he had an affair with the town beauty Ruzica. When her husband found out and went mad, she killed him. After years in jail Ruzica returns to find
King involved with her daughter. CinemaxX Studio 11
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A HEARTBEAT AWAY (Australia) Arclight Films, 91mins. Dir: Gale Edwards. Key cast: Sebastian Gregory, Isabel Lucas, William Zappa. An aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition. CinemaxX 9
BEAUTIFUL LIES (France) Wild Bunch, 105mins. Dir: Pierre Salvadori. Key cast: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila. Lovable hairdresser Emilie receives a passionate, anonymous love letter. Desperate to revive the spirits of her depressed mother, she comes up with a crazy plan. CineStar 4
PIERCING 1 (Argentina) Filmsharks International, 75mins. Dir: Jian Liu. The wealthiest businessman in town, the corrupt Chinese police and two freaks are after the same booty. Marriott 3
THE TINIEST PLACE (Mexico) IMCINE — Mexican Film Institute, 100mins. Dir: Tatiana Huezo Sanchez. A cow carer that guards storms. A peasant that writes the story of his town on the walls of his house. A woman that wanders the streets avoiding her dead teenage daughter, drawn on the town walls CinemaxX Studio 19
UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE See box, above left
WE ARE THE NIGHT (Germany) Celluloid Dreams, 96mins. Dir: Dennis Gansel. Key cast: Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Karoline Herfurth.
One night 18-year-old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. CineStar 1
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BLACK BREAD (Spain) Beta Cinema, 108mins. Dir: Augusti Villaronga. Key cast: Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas. In post-war rural
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Catalunya, a boy discovers two buried bodies in the woods. With his father being wrongly accused of the murder, the boy sets out to find the real killers CinemaxX Studio 12
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: TOKYO NIGHT (Japan) IM Global, 90mins. Dir: Toshikazu Nagae. Key cast: Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama. Sequel to the worldwide horror phenomenon ‘Paranormal Activity’. CineStar 5
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2 SUNNY DAYS (Croatia, France) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 78mins. Dir: Ognjen Svilicic. Key cast: Maya Sansa, Bristol Pomeroy, Sylvia Kristel. Martina and Peter, a married couple who are growing apart, come to the Croatian coast to recapture the closeness they once shared. However, they are about to experience a vacation that is anything but quiet and intimate. CinemaxX Studio 14
ABOVE US ONLY SKY (Germany) Bavaria Film International, 88mins. Dir: Jan Schomburg. Key cast: Sandra Huller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp. Who was the man Martha loved and lived with for years? After her husband disappears, Martha begins to realise how little she knew him, and how his life with her was a charade. CineStar 6
FREE HANDS (France) Films Boutique, 100mins. Dir: Brigitte Sy. Key cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Carlo Brandt, Noemie Lvovsky. CinemaxX 6
HORRID HENRY: THE MOVIE PROMO REEL (UK) Protagonist Pictures, 60mins. Dir: Nick Moore. Key cast: Anjelica Huston, Richard E. Grant, Parminder Nagra. Horrid Henry, Lord High
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