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arrondissement, Philippe finds himself left to organise the funeral of Avdal, a Kurd he just met. In the dead man’s suitcase, he finds some photos of his gorgeous fiancee, Siba. CinemaxX 5
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AN AFRICAN ELECTION (US, Switzerland) Urban Republic, 89mins. Dir: Kevin Merz. The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana unfold with the tension of a political thriller, revealing the emotions, passions, and ethical decisions that both threaten and maintain the integrity of the democratic process in Africa. dffb-Kino
BANGKOK KNOCKOUT (Thailand) Sahamongkolfilm International, 107mins. Dir: Panna Rittikrai. Key cast: Supaksorn Chaimongkol, Sorapong Chatri. A group of ‘fight club’ pals whose styles vary from Muay Thai and Capoeira to Kung Fu and Tai Chi must fight for their lives when one of their friends is kidnapped. CinemaxX 1
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Hong Kong, China) Media Asia Distribution, 117mins. Dir: Johnnie To. Key cast: Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Yuanyuan Gao. An original twist on the eternal triangle, where secret crush and unrequited love take on altogether newfangled meanings of their own. CinemaxX Studio 15
EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER (Italy) Rai Trade, 107mins. Dir: Edoardo Leo. Key cast: Edoardo Leo, Marco Bonini, Sabrina Impacciatore. Two brothers lost their mom in a car accident 18 years ago and have not spoken to each other since that day. When their father dies too, they bring his ashes to their mother’s grave. On the trip they rediscover
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SILENT SONATA (Slovenia) Fortissimo Films, 80mins. Dir: Janez Burger. Key cast: Leon Lueev, Pauliina Rasanen, Ravil Sultanov. When the deafening
brotherly love. CinemaxX Studio 13
HELLDRIVER (Japan) Nikkatsu Corporation, 105mins. Dir: Yoshihiro Nishimura. Key cast: Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, Yurei Yanagi. Japan has been split in two. A zombie area ruled by an alien- infected queen bitch and a human area teeming with overpopulation and poverty. Hope arrives in the form of a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw. Marriott 3
MAKE BELIEVE (US) Arrow Entertainment, 91mins. Dir: J. Clay Tweel. Key cast: Hiroki Hara, Bill Koch, Krystyn Lambert. Follows six of the world’s best young magicians as they pursue the title of Teen World Champion and lead us on their personal journeys of transformation through magic. CinemaxX Studio 17
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rattle of war dies away, Stevo, scared in the ruins of his home, his wife hit by a grenade, is left alone with his daughter and son as a rumble in the distance grows closer and closer. CineStar 4
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 85mins. Dir: Valerio Jalongo. Key cast: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Fulvio Forti. Joy is the key to all learning — and some encounters can change a life. CinemaxX 8
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THE POLL DIARIES (Germany, Austria, Estonia) Bavaria Film International, 134mins. Dir: Chris Kraus. Key cast: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk. On the eve of the First World War, a 14-year-old German girl returns to her home on the Baltic coast. While her morbid scientist father controls the family with cruelty, the passionate girl hides and nurses a wounded Estonian anarchist. CinemaxX 4
THE SHUNNING (US) American Cinema International, 100mins. Dir: Michael Landon Jr. Key cast: Danielle Panabaker, Sherry Stringfield, Bill Oberst Jr.
Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence — until a mysterious “Englisher” comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago. MGB-Kino
TICKET TO PARADISE (Cuba, Spain) I.C.A.I.C, 90mins. Dir: Gerardo Chijona. Key cast: Miriel Cejas, Hector Medina, Dunia Matos. Cuba 1993. Eunice is a teenager running away from her father’s sexual harassment. Alejandro is a rocker who has serious problems. When their fates meet on the road, they decide to travel together in search of a paradise. Marriott 2
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JO’S BOY (France) Gaumont, 95mins. Dir: Philippe Guillard. Key cast: Gerard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Vincent Moscato. Grandson of a rugby legend, son of a rugby legend and himself a rugby legend, Jo Canavaro is raising his 13-year-old son, Tom, on his own. Much to Jo’s disappointment, Tom is as good at maths as he is bad on a rugby field. CineStar 1
SIBERIA. MONAMOUR (Russia) EuropaCorp, 101mins. Dir: Slava Ross. Key cast: Petr
Zaichenko, Misha Protsko, Nikolai Kozak. The poignant story of a young boy waiting for his father in a remote village in Siberia’s vast, hostile taiga, where man is the greatest enemy to man. CineStar 6
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GOETHE! (Germany) Beta Cinema, 102mins. Dir: Philipp Stolzl. Key cast: Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu. The young law student Johann Goethe falls in love with Lotte, unaware that she is promised by her father to Kestner, Goethe’s superior at the Supreme Court. CinemaxX Studio 12
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ARGUS MONTENEGRO & THE INSTABILITY OF THE STRONG TIME (Brazil) Okna Productions, 75mins. Dir: Pedro Lucas. The professional journey, life experience and views on music of one of the most talented drummers in Brazil and in the world. Parliament
BLACK BROWN WHITE (Austria) Allegro- Filmproduktion, 107mins. Dir: Erwin Wagenhofer. Key cast: Fritz Karl, Clare Hope Ashitey, Theo Caleb Chapman. Don Pedro, an Austrian truck driver in his early 40s, smuggles the young
Nigerian Jacky and her son to Europe, falling in love with her. But the longer the trip, the more complicated and desperate the situation becomes for them. CinemaxX Studio 16
CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST (Australia) Inferno Entertainment, 90mins. Dir: Mark Lewis. A comic, provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder. CineStar 7
DAY IS DONE (Switzerland) Forum Office, 111mins. Dir: Thomas Imbach. In this ambitious film essay, director Thomas Imbach observes life unfolding in front of him from the window of his studio over several years, complementing the images with archived answer phone messages from the same period. CinemaxX 6
DOGTOOTH (Greece) MK2, 96mins. Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos. Key cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia. CinemaxX Studio 14
LITTLE VOICES (Colombia) Films Boutique, 75mins. Dir: Jairo Carrillo, Oscar Andrade. Animated documentary film based on interviews and drawings of a new generation of displaced
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