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PIANOMANIA — IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT SOUND (Germany, Austria) Oval Filmemacher GbR, 93mins. Dir: Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck. Takes the viewer on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knupfer at his unusual job with famous pianists like Lang Lang, Pierre- Laurent Aimard and Alfred Brendel. CinemaxX 1
SNOWMAN’S LAND (Germany) Filmsharks International, 95mins. Dir: Tomasz Thomson. Key cast: Jurgen Riflmann Riflmann, Thomas Wodianka, Reiner Schone. A teutonic mix of Tarantino and Jarmusch. CinemaxX Studio 16
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BARNEY’S VERSION (Canada) Essential Entertainment, 140mins. Dir: Richard Lewis. Key cast: Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike. The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky. Cubix 4
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CHERRY (US) Unified Pictures, 105mins. Dir: Jeffrey Fine. Key cast: Kyle Gallner, Britany Robertson, Laura Allen. Aaron, a bright but sheltered freshman at an Ivy League University discovers life can be complicated by falling in lust with an older woman — while the woman’s 14-year-old daughter is in love with him. The love triangle begins. Cubix 8
THE MAGIC TRIP: KEN KESEY’S SEARCH FOR A KOOL PLACE (US) Fortissimo Films, 95mins. Dir: Alex Gibney. In 1964, Ken Kesey took
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E-LOVE (France) Europe Images, 97mins. Dir: Anne Villaceque. Key cast: Anne Consigny, Antoine Chappey, Carlo Brandt,. Paule is plunged into
the ultimate mythic trip across America. In a painted bus joined by ‘The Merry Pranksters’ and potions of CIA- pinched LSD, they set on a mission through time, space and the landscape of the imagination. CineStar 5
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THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN (Colombia) Umedia, 93mins. Dir: Carlos Cesar Arbelaez. Key cast: Hernan Mauricio Ocampo, Nolberto Sanchez, Genaro Aristizabal. Manuel, nine, has an old ball with which he plays football every day. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. But an accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure. CinemaxX 5
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a crisis following her 50th birthday. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, she throws herself into a series of meetings with men she finds through an online dating service. CinemaxX 6
MOOMIN & THE COMET CHASE
(Finland) NonStop Sales, 75mins. Dir: Maria Lindberg. Key cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Peter Stormare, Mads Mikkelsen. Moomin and his family and friends set out on a journey to the Lonely Mountains to prevent a mysterious threat from space. CineStar 2
SAINT (Netherlands) Film Factory Entertainment, 88mins. Dir: Dick Maas. Key cast: Huub Stapel, Egbert-Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen. Saint Nicholas is not the good-hearted children’s friend people think he is. In reality he is a cruel, bloodthirsty bishop who, whenever there’s a full moon on December 5, will try to slaughter as many children as possible. CinemaxX 9
ANNY, “VOLGA”, ROCK-N- ROLL (Ukraine) Filmport, 75mins. Dir: Konstantin Konovalov. Key cast: Oleg Drach, Oksana Sarabakha, Nina Sviridova. Marriott 2
DIRTY DIARIES (Sweden) Coproduction Office, 105mins. Dir: Various. Key cast: Ester Martin Bergsmark, Lena Huden, Axel Petersen. An innovative collection of Swedish feminist porn: orgasms and art in unique films displaying hardcore action and vanilla sex, queer and straight, flashing and fucking, provocation, penetration and poetry. Kino Arsenal 2
LOST KISSES (Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 80mins. Dir: Roberta Torre. Key cast: Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Piera Degli Esposti.
A mother and daughter between madonnas and witches. A post-modern fable of love and miracles. CineStar 4
PROJECT NIM (UK) Icon Group, 95mins.
Dir: James Marsh. Oscar-winning team behind ‘Man On Wire’ brings the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of an experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised like a human child. Cubix 3
THE MAGICIAN (Netherlands) Delphis Films, 94mins. Dir: Joram Lursen. Key cast: Thor Braun, Theo Maassen, Chantal Janzen. Ben learns magic tricks from a magician. He is fascinated by a particular special disappearing trick. However, when his friend Sylvie seems to have disappeared forever he has to find out what is real and what is an illusion. CinemaxX Studio 17
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A CAT IN PARIS (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) Films Distribution, 64mins. Dir: Alain Gagnol, Jean- Loup Felicioli. By day, Dino the cat lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a police officer. By night,
he works with Nico, a burglar with a big heart. One day, Dino brings Zoe a very valuable bracelet. CinemaxX 3
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EL BULLI-COOKING IN PROGRESS (Germany) Autlook Filmsales, 110mins. Dir: Gereon Wetzel. Key cast: Ferran Adria. Three-star chef Ferran Adria is the best, most innovative and craziest cook in the world. Now he closes his restaurant El Bulli forever. This film is his requiem. MGB-Kino
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SIN OF A FAMILY (South Korea) Mirovision, 104mins. Dir: Min Byung-jin. Key cast: Shin Hyun- joon, Jeon No-min, Lee Ki-woo. A boy’s dead body is found. Detectives can’t verify the identity, and the case is gradually forgotten. A few months later, they come across the boy’s picture while watching a missing child programme. They visit the boy’s house. CinemaxX Studio 19
THE SAMBA THAT LIVES WHITIN ME (Brazil) Bossa Nova Films, 72mins. Dir: Georgia Guerra-Peixe. Key cast: Timbaca, Vo Luciola, Mestre Taranta, Cosminho. Mangueira shantytown is home to Rio de Janeiro’s largest school of samba. The film is a poetic register of this community’s heart beat, hardly heard under the loud sound of guns and drums. CinemaxX Studio 18
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LOST IN AFRICA (Denmark) LevelK ApS, 90mins. Dir: Vibeke Muasya. Key cast: Connie Nielsen, Lars Mikkelsen, Simon Lougue Larsen. Simon an adopted black boy and soccer enthusiast, travels back to Kenya with his Danish mother Susanne. Soon after
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