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basement hospital. A German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialised in separating Siamese twins. However, his patients are not about to be separated but joined. Parliament
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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 1
AT THE END OF THE DAY (WAR GAMES) (Italy) Cinemavault, 93mins. Dir: Cosimo Alema. Key cast: Andrew Harwood Mills, Sam Cohan, Valene Kane. A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt where everyone is a target and no one is safe. Kino Arsenal 2
THE CALL (Italy, Argentina) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 93mins. Dir: Stefano Pasetto. Key cast: Sandra Ceccarelli, Francesca Inaudi, Cesar Bordon. The journey of two women from betrayal to love. A powerful story of a bond filled with feeling and sensitivity between two women.” CineStar 4
FLYINGMACHINE IN 3D (UK) Distribution Workshop, 120mins. Dir: Martin Clapp, Geoff Linddsey. Key cast: Heather Graham, Lang Lang. A spectacular 3D adventure for the whole
family, combining live action and stop-motion animation. Astor Film Lounge
PLUG & PRAY (Germany) United Docs, 92mins. Dir: Jens Schanze. Computer experts around the world strive towards the development of intelligent robots. The film questions the prevailing discourses on new technologies, and their ethical relationships to human life. CinemaxX 1
PRIEST OF EVIL (Finland) TrustNordisk, 106mins. Dir: Olli Saarela. Key cast: Peter Franzen, Irina Bjorklund, Sampo Sarkola. Detective Timo Harjunpaa loses his daughter in a tragic way and is swearing vengeance on his daughter’s killer. While he works on various cases involving strange deaths at Helsinki’s metro stations, he has to face the evilness. CinemaxX 2
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FOXHOUNDS (Canada) Entertainment One, 94mins. Dir: Jeff Prosserman. Compelling story of Harry Markopolos and his team of investigator’s 10-year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Bernard Madoff scandal. CineStar 5
I TRAVEL ALONE (Norway) NonStop Sales, 90mins. Dir: Stian Kristiansen. Key cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Amina Eleonora Bergrem, Ingrid Bols¯ Berdal. Jarle is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Proust and grown-up women and definitively not Tamagochi’s, and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven-year- old girl enters his life like a nuclear bomb. CinemaxX Studio 17
LETTERS TO ANGEL (Estonia) F-Seitse,
117mins. Dir: Sulev Keedus. Key cast: Katariina Lauk, Tınu Oja, Tiina Tauraite. Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja, a Soviet Army deserter, is returning to Estonia to attend his father’s funeral. On his way home, he stops in a small town. He tries to remain a bystander but fails because the place is run by women. Marriott 2
PRECIOUS LIFE (US, Israel) Bleiberg Entertainment, 90mins. Dir: Shlomi Eldar. With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, ‘Precious Life’ chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. CinemaxX Studio 18
UNDER CONTROL (Germany) Forum Office, 98mins. Dir: Volker Sattel. CinemaxX 6
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THE SHRINE (Canada) Indomina Media, 85 min. Dir: Jon Knautz. Key cast: Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Trevor Matthews. CinemaxX 19
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HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (Germany, US, Germany) Celluloid Dreams, 94mins. Dir: Dmitry Vasyukov. In the centre of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. MGB-Kino
SCORE: A HOCKEYMUSICAL (Canada) Lewis Birnberg Hanet, 93mins. Dir: Michael McGowan. Key cast: Noah Reid, Olivia Newton-John, Allie MacDonald. Much to the dismay of his intellectual parents, a teenage hockey phenomenon goes from
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LONDON BOULEVARD (UK) GK Films, 103mins. Dir: William Monahan. Key cast: Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Ray Winstone.
‘London Boulevard’ is the story of a South London criminal, newly released from prison, who becomes involved with a reclusive young actress. CinemaxX 10
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