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Dir: Prashant Bhargava. Key cast: Seema Biswas, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg. CineStar 1
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FAMILIAR GROUND (Canada) Entertainment One, 89mins. Dir: Stephane Lafleur. Key cast: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel. CinemaxX Studio 15
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ALIEN GIRL (Russia) Fortissimo Films, 96mins. Dir: Anton Barmatov. Key cast: Natalia Romanycheva, Evgeny Tkachuk, Kirill Poluhin. A Russian gangster sends four of his best hitmen to pick up a woman hiding out in the Czech Republic, only to have her play them off of each other and come out on top. Marriott 1
GAINSBOURG BY GAINSBOURG (France) TF1 International, 100mins. Dir: Pierre Henry Salfati. This film is the story of Gainsbourg, told by himself in an original portrait, featuring previously unreleased personal footage, against a backdrop of poetic visual and musical illustrations of the artist’s inspirations. CinemaxX 4
I TRAVEL ALONE (Norway) NonStop Sales, 90mins. Dir: Stian Kristiansen. Key cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Amina Eleonora Bergrem, Ingrid Bolso 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. MGB-Kino
JUST LIKEME (Argentina) Filmsharks International, 90mins. Dir: Diego Kaplan. Key cast: Adrian Suar,
Florencia Bertotti, Claudia Fotan. Marriott 3
THE VANISHING OF PATO (Italy) Rai Trade, 107mins. Dir: Rocco Mortellitti. Key cast: Nino Frassica, Maurizio Casagrande, Neri Marcore. 1890, Good Friday. During the enacting of the Passion of Christ, the irreproachable Pato seems to have disappeared. Everyone’s wondering whether he’s hidden or dead. During the investigations an unexpected image of Italy emerges. CinemaxX Studio 12
TRACKER (UK, New Zealand) Independent, 102mins. Dir: Ian Sharp. Key cast: Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Mark Mitchinson. A tense chase story set in 1903 New Zealand’s Southern Alps exploring the courage and strength required to be a good man. Kino Arsenal 2
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THE HIGH COST OF LIVING (Canada) Filmoption International, 93mins. Dir: Deborah Chow. Key cast: Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labbe. Story of a young pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her baby in a hit and run accident. CineStar 2
THE NUTCRACKER IN 3D See box, below right
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THE GREEN WAVE (Germany) Visit Films, 80mins. Dir: Ali Samadi Ahadi. Key cast: Pegah Ferydoni, Navid Akhavan, Shirin Ebadi. CinemaxX 1
MOTHER OF ASPHALT (Croatia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 104mins. Dir: Dalibor Matanic. Key cast: Marija Skaricic, Kresimir Mikic, Janko Popovic- Volaric. Mare is a young woman who is aware that her
marriage is falling to pieces. In her intention to get out of that situation, her husband Janko “helps” her when he hits her. That blow finally forces Mare to take her son and leave. CinemaxX Studio 14
MY GRANDPA, THE BANKROBBER (Netherlands) Delphis Films, 90mins. Dir: Ineke Houtman. Key cast: Zoe van der Kust, Michiel Romeijn, Loes Haverkort. Grace wants to find out about her biological father that she never knew. Her Grandpa is the only one who can help. She convinces him to use his savings to travel with her, but the family blocks his bank account. CinemaxX Studio 18
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. CinemaxX 10
THEIR CHRISTMAS (Italy) Minerva Pictures, 73mins. Dir: Gaetano Di Vaio. Key cast: Mariarca
di Vaio, Maddalena Sibilli. A tale of the everyday lives of women whose families are in the jails of Naples during Christmas. Parliament
THE ZERO HOUR (Venezuela, US) Hollywood Studios International, 103mins. Dir: Diego Velasco. Key cast: Zapata 666, Amanda Key, Laureano Olivarez. Set in Caracas during a 24-hour medical strike, Parca, a tattooed hitman, takes an elite hospital hostage in order to save his pregnant girlfriend. It’s a story about a man’s mythic rise to power and inevitable fall from grace. CinemaxX Studio 16
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THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE (Norway) NonStop Sales, 90mins. Dir: Arild Andresen. Key cast: Ask van der Hagen, Susanne Boucher, Andrine Saether. Jo has a smart head but a weak body. Even so he gets by relatively well — until Mari throws him a glance and he acquires the Liverpool Goalie. CineStar 5
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ANARCHY IN ZIRMUNAI (Lithuania, Hungary) Reel Suspects, 93mins. Dir: Saulius Drunga. Key cast: Toma Vaskeviciute, Severija Janusauskaite,
Jurate Onaityte. A young provincial girl, Vile, moves to the city with great expectations about a higher education. She meets her landlord, Sandra, a boyish looking girl always wearing a T-shirt with anarchy symbols. Marriott 2
SELF REFERENTIAL TRAVERSE: ZEITGEIST AND ENGAGEMENT (South Korea) Dir: Kim Sun, 73mins. Key cast: Podori, Jung Ayoung, Kang Suk. Kim Sun’s wild and wacky satire pulls no punches in calling South Korea’s current president to account. The film starts as a mock sitcom before shifting up a gear to take in the story of an enraged police mascot without legs and a horde of rats. CinemaxX 6
SCORE: A HOCKEYMUSICAL (Canada) Lewis Birnberg Hanet, 93mins. Dir: Michael McGowan. Key cast: Noah Reid, Olivia Newton-John, Allie MacDonald. A teenage hockey phenomenon goes from obscurity to overwhelming fame within a matter of weeks. CinemaxX Studio 11
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45M2 (Greece) Feelgood Entertainment, 80mins. Dir: Stratos Tzitzis.
Key cast: Efi Logginou, Rania Oikonomidou, Alexandra Giannopoulos. Christina is a 23-year-old girl from a working- class family. She works as a sales assistant and belongs to what the Greek calls “the ¤700 generation”, the young people who work for the minimum wage and live with their parents. CinemaxX Studio 17
IN OUR NAME (UK) High Point Media Group, 90mins. Dir: Brian Welsh. Key cast: Joanne Froggatt, Mel Raido, Chloe-Jayne Wilkinson. Suzy’s a British soldier, born and bred, but fitting back into civilian life after a ‘hearts and minds’ tour of duty in Iraq proves the toughest battle she’s had to face yet. CinemaxX Studio 19
LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE (US) Echo Bridge Entertainment, 98mins. Dir: Dermot Mulroney. Key cast: Mandy Moore, Kellan Lutz, Jane Seymour. CineStar 4
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JITTERS (Iceland) The Icelandic Film Company, 98mins. Dir: Baldvin Z. Key cast: Atli Oskar Fjalarson, Hreindis Ylva Gardarsdottir. Gabriel is a confused
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THE NUTCRACKER IN 3D (UK, Hungary) Central Partnership, 108mins. Dir: Andrey Konchalovskiy. Key cast: Elle Fanning, John Turturro, Nathan Lane. On Christmas Eve Mary gets the gift of a nutcracker doll. The doll comes to life and takes her on a journey through a dimension where toys assume human form. There they must thwart the plans of the Rat King to overthrow humanity. Astor Film Lounge
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