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Key cast: Toni Servillo, Marco D’Amore, Juliane Kohler. An ex-mobster leaves his family to protect them and starts an undercover life. After 15 years his son visits him and his past starts haunting him again. CinemaxX Studio 12
APNEA (Greece) Insomnia World Sales, 90mins. Dir: Ari Bafalouka. Key cast: Sotiris Pastras, Yioulika Skafida, George Karamichos. Dimitri, a 23-year-old swimmer, frequently dives to the bottom of a pool to let his thoughts and memories surface. He remembers Elsa, an activist trying to save dolphins, who has mysteriously disappeared. CinemaxX Studio 16
FABIENNE (France) Films Distribution, 90mins. Dir: Jose Alcala. Key cast: Catherine Frot, Karim Seghair, Marie Raynal. Lieutenant Fabienne Bourrier’s work is to track down illegal immigrants. Her daily routine is changed when Olga, a prostitute, dies. Seemingly it’s a suicide, but she had a kid. Fabienne decides to look for the missing child. CineStar 6
THE CLOUD MAKING MACHINE (Spain) KWA, 90mins. Dir: Patxo Telleria, Aitor Mazo. Key cast: Aitor Mazo, Gracia Olayo, Bingen Elortza. Asier, a colour-blind teenager, decides to paint a portrait of the girl he fancies. But he doesn’t want any help from his father, an accomplished amateur painter. Marriott 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,
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Cinema, 103mins. Dir: Philipp Kadelbach. Key cast: Maximilian Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach. An awe-inspiring airship. A murderous conspiracy. A devastating catastrophe. dffb-Kino
NO RETURN (Spain, Argentina) Latido Films, 106mins. Dir: Miguel Cohan. Key cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Federico Luppi, Martin Slipak. An innocent man is wrongly accused of a deadly hit and run accident. A story of guilt and responsability in a spiral with no return. CineStar 4
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VINCENT WANTS TO SEA (Germany) Beta Cinema, 95mins. Dir: Ralf Huettner. Key cast: Florian David Fitz, Johannes Allmayer, Karoline Herfurth.
they continued to trade up bands until they began to have real success. CinemaxX 2
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A SERIES OF THOUGHTS (Germany) Dir: Heinz Emigholz, 91mins. ‘A Series of Thoughts’ is made up of four parts: El Greco in Toledo; Leonardos Tranen; An Bord der USS Ticonderoga; Ein Museumsbau in Essen. It is about painting, television, photography and architecture. CinemaxX 6
THE OFF HOURS (US) Rosen Lewis, 94mins. Dir: Megan Griffiths. Key cast: Amy Seimetz, Ross Partridge, Lynn Shelton. Working the night shift at a diner in a small town, Francine’s life is not what she’d planned. When a truck driver brings a new sense of optimism, she’s reminded that it’s never too late to become the person she was meant to be. CinemaxX Studio 18
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A young man suffering from Tourette’s syndrome absconds from an institution with two other inhabitants to travel to Italy to fulfil his mother’s last wish. CinemaxX 1
THE SECRET SPELL (Iceland) Little Big Films, 81mins. Dir: Bragi Thor Hinriksson. Key cast: Sverrir Thor Sverrisson, Vilhelm Anton Jonsson, Gudjon David Karlsson. When Sveppi and his friend Villi go on vacation to an old country hotel they soon find out that the place is haunted. Together they embark on a great adventure involving a happy ghost, a secret spell and a grumpy hotel manager. Astor Film Lounge
THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN MOVIE (Macedonia) Macedonian Film Fund, 90mins. Dir: Saso Pavlovski. Key cast: Ky Evans, Senko Velinov, Tony Naumovski. A gang of small-time criminals are trying to make their lives more interesting and relevant — into something that fits their ideal of life inside an American
film. Of course, they are not in an American film. Parliament
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YOU INSTEAD (UK) Bankside Films, 90mins. Dir: David Mackenzie. Key cast: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Sophie Wu. Two rival musicians find themselves handcuffed together at the world- renowned music festival T in the Park, where they are both scheduled to perform. CinemaxX 10
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THE MILL AND THE CROSS (Sweden) Wide Management, 97mins. Dir: Lech Majewski. Key cast: Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York. Lech Majewski translates Bruegel’s masterpiece ‘The Procession To Calvary’ into cinema, mischievously inviting the viewer to live inside the aesthetic universe of the painting as we watch it being created. CinemaxX Studio 11
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BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD (US) Ealing Studios International, 93mins. Dir: Elizabeth Garbus. Key cast: Michael
Levine, Matthew Justus, Rory Kennedy. Tells the spectacular story of the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master. Marriott 2
STORMHOUSE (UK) AV Pictures, 88mins. Dir: Dan Turner. Key cast: Katie Flynn, Grahame Fox, Patrick Flynn. Six months before the invasion of Iraq, the military caught and imprisoned a supernatural entity at a secret base. A ghost whisperer is brought in to try and establish contact. This film documents the days that followed. CineStar 5
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HAPPY, HAPPY (Norway) TrustNordisk, 88mins. Dir: Anne Sewitsky. Key cast: Agnes Kittelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Henrik Rafaelsen. To Kaja, family is the most important thing. She’s an eternal optimist living with a man who refuses to have sex with her. However, when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check CinemaxX 9
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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 19
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LOOK, STRANGER (Serbia, US, Slovenia) Visit Films, 81mins. Dir: Arielle Javitch. Key cast: Anamaria Marinca, Tom Burke, Valentina Berisa. Set in the urban wastelands and desolate forests of an unidentified world at war, this is the story of a woman making a dangerous journey home from a refugee camp. CinemaxX Studio 17
SOUTH SOLITARY (Australia) Entertainment One, 120mins. Dir: Shirley Barrett. Key cast: Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas, Barry Otto. Set on a remote lighthouse island in 1927, ‘South Solitary’ is a gently funny and tender love story that highlights the great human need for companionship. CinemaxX 2
THE KITE (India, US) Forum Office, 105mins.
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