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children who have grown- up in the middle of violence and chaos in Colombia. CineStar 2
SECRET LETTER (Netherlands) Delphis Films, 80mins. Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp. Key cast: Daan Schuurmans, Lies Visschedijk, Hanna Obbeek. Eva has had it with all the tensions at home. She runs away. But when she receives a secret letter, her plans take an unexpected turn. CinemaxX Studio 18
THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST (US) Echo Bridge Entertainment, 93mins. Dir: Josh Shelov. Key cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Bonnie Somerville, Amy Sedaris. After a move to the Upper East Side, two parents go to great lengths to get their daughter into the one remaining spot in Manhattan’s most elite school. Marriott 1
THE GREAT BEAR (Denmark) Copenhagen Bombay Sales, 73mins. Dir: Esben Toft Jacobsen. Jonathan and his sister Sophie are on holiday at their grandfather’s place. Jonathan tries to get rid of Sophie, but when he finally succeeds, it’s in a way Jonathan would never have imagined. CinemaxX Studio 11
THE STOOL PIGEON (Hong Kong, China) Emperor Motion Pictures, 112mins. Dir: Dante Lam. Key cast: Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Kwai Lun-Mei. Kino Arsenal 1
TRIGGER (Canada) Entertainment One, 78mins. Dir: Bruce McDonald. Key cast: Molly Parker, Sarah Polley, Tracy Wright. Vic and Kat are friends from childhood who started a neighbourhood band together. Sticking to their rock ’n’ roll dream, they continued to trade up bands until they began
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receive mysterious phone calls she quickly begins to feel haunted in her own home by someone from the past. Kino Arsenal 2
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CONNECTED (US) The Moxie Institute, 85mins. Dir: Tiffany Shlain. Key cast: Peter Coyote. An exhilarating stream-of-consciousness ride through the interconnectedness of humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st century. Marriott 2
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THE HOLDING (UK) AV Pictures, 93mins. Dir: Susan Jacobson. Key cast: Kierston Wareing, Vincent Regan, David Bradley.
A charismatic stranger arrives into
to have real success. CinemaxX 2
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5 DAYS OF AUGUST (US) RexMedia, 113mins. Dir: Renny Harlin. Key cast: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Richard Coyle, Val Kilmer. A group of international reporters get caught in the crossfire during the Russian invasion of the country of Georgia in August 2008. Cubix 8
A GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY (US) Essential Entertainment, 95mins. Dir: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck. Key cast: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lucy Punch. When his father decides to sell the family vacation home, 30-year-old Eric enlists his long time friends to throw one final party — a good old- fashioned orgy. Cubix 7
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the lives of Cassie and her two children on their isolated farm. He charms them initially but it soon becomes apparent that he wants a ready-made family of his own — he wants her family. MGB-Kino
ASTERIX & OBELIX: GOD SAVE BRITANNIA — BUYERS ONLY (France) Wild Bunch, 60mins. Dir: Laurent Tirard. Key cast: Edouard Baer, Gerard Depardieu, Valerie Lemercier. Astor Film Lounge
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(US, Spain) Icon Group, 128mins. Dir: Emilio Estevez. Key cast: Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt. Set along the 1,000-year- old Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, it tells the moving story of Tom Avery, an American father who travels to France to reclaim the body of his estranged son, who died in a storm at the famous route. Cubix 3
THERE BE DRAGONS (Spain, US) Media 8 Entertainment, 120mins. Dir: Roland Joffe. Key
cast: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott. Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint’s life. Cubix 9
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ANYTHING YOU WANT (Spain) 6 Sales, 101mins. Dir: Achero Manas. Key cast: Juan Diego Botto, Najwa Nimri, Ana Risueno. How far would you go to see your child smile again? CineStar 5
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AGE OF HEROES (UK) ContentFilm International, 92mins. Dir: Adrian Vitoria. Key cast: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Izabella Miko. An action-packed adrenalin shot based on the true story of the formation of James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s ‘30 Commando’, from which the now legendary SAS was born. CinemaxX 5
NO TRESPASSING (France) Films Distribution, 95mins.
Dir: Helene Angel. Key cast: Valerie Bonneton, Charles Berling. Claire and Benoit, a married couple, arrive in the family house where Claire lived when she was young. They need to sell the house after the suicide of Claire’s brother. From the first night, Claire feels that they are not alone. CineStar 4
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ANGELE & TONY (France) Pyramide International, 87mins. Dir: Alix Delaporte. CinemaxX 9
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (Canada) TF1 International, 90mins. Dir: Jason Eisener. Key cast: Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith, Nick Bateman. A hobo delivers justice, one shell at a time. A completely demented and brutally entertaining badass film about vigilante justice in an urban hellhole, developed from its award-winning fake Grindhouse trailer. CinemaxX 3
THE CALLER (UK, Puerto Rico) Bankside Films, 88mins. Dir: Matthew Parkhill. Key cast: Stephen Moyer, Rachelle Lefevre, Luis Guzman. When Mary Kee begins to
THE GREEN WAVE (Germany) Visit Films, 80mins. Dir: Ali Samadi Ahadi. Key cast: Pegah Ferydoni, Navid Akhavan, Shirin Ebadi. A memorial for those who believed in freedom and lost their lives in support of Iran’s Green Revolution. Animation, interviews, blogs, tweets and cell phone footage to bring the audience into the streets with the protesters. dffb-Kino
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SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS (Canada) Visit Films, 75mins. Dir: Ed Gass- Donnelly. Key cast: Peter Stormare, Martha Plimpton, Jill Hennessy. A modern Gothic tale of crime and redemption about Walter, an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life. CinemaxX Studio 17
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ABRAXAS (Japan) Bitters End, 113mins. Dir: Naoki Kato. Key cast: Suneohair, Rie Tomosaka, Kaoru Kobayashi. Jonen is a Zen monk who works in the temple in a small town. Having a tendency towards clinical
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