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16-year-old in search of his identity. Along with a few of his closest friends, he is trying to figure out who he is and where he stands in an ever- changing and complicated world. dffb-Kino
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LEILA (France) Wild Bunch, 87mins. Dir: Audrey Estrougo. Key cast: Leila Bekhti, Benjamin Siksou, Cecile Cassel. Gab, a young slacker from a rich Parisian family, falls passionately for Leila, a beautiful French-Arab law student. Their love grows, despite all opposition from the society that does everything in its power to keep them apart. CineStar 1
POST MORTEM (Chile, Mexico, Germany) Funny Balloons, 98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Key cast: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell. Santiago, 1973. Mario Cornejo works at a morgue, typing out reports on autopsies performed by the coroners. On the days surrounding the military coup, he gets involved in a love affair with a dancer from a cabaret. CinemaxX Studio 15
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EVIL: IN THE TIME OF HEROES (Greece) Filmsharks International, 88mins. Dir: Yorgos Noussias. Key cast: Billy Zane, Dinos Avgoustidis, Orfeas Avgoustidis. Marriott 3
FOSTER (US) SC Films International, 90mins. Dir: Jonathan Newman. Key cast: Toni Collette, Ioan Gruffudd, Maurice Cole. Heart-warming drama. Zooey and Alex are a married couple who are keen to adopt or foster a child because they are unable to conceive. One day, Eli, a seven-year- old boy appears on their
doorstep and changes their world forever. Marriott 1
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THE BLACK SHEEP (Italy) Beta Cinema, 93mins. Dir: Ascanio Celestini. Key cast: Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Maya Sansa. Nicola, born in the fantastic sixties is the black sheep of the family. Living as a patient in a lunatic asylum for 35 years, he heads for a supermarket once a week. CinemaxX Studio 12
BURNOUT (Germany) Jost Hering Filmproduktion, 102mins. Dir: Verena S. Freytag. Key cast: Maryam Zaree, Tilla Kratochwil, Lukas Steltner. Pelin, a young single mother from Berlin, is sent for a mother-child- recovery with her three kids. ‘Burnout’ tells of being uprooted, care by the welfare state, class society and the longing for love. CinemaxX Studio 13
ECO-PIRATE: THE STORY OF PAUL WATSON (Canada) Entertainment One, 110mins. Dir: Trish Dolman. A feature-length documentary about a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. Part Captain Nemo, part Grizzly Man, the film follows Watson in the act as he repeatedly flouts the law. MGB-Kino
LITTLE VOICES (Colombia) Films Boutique, 75mins. Dir: Jairo Carrillo, Oscar Andrade. An animated documentary film based on interviews and drawings of a new generation of displaced children who have grown-up in the middle of violence and chaos in Colombia. CineStar 2
MAD BASTARDS (Australia) Entertainment One, 94mins. Dir: Brendan
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Fletcher. Key cast: Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait, Lucas Yeeda. TJ’s quest to find the son he’s never known takes him on a journey across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape. ‘Mad Bastards’ is a raw and inspirational film about men. Men who are at a crossroads in their lives. CinemaxX 2
PETE SMALLS IS DEAD (US) W2 Media, 95mins. Dir: Alexander Rockwell. Key cast: Peter Dinklage, Mark Boone Jr, Steve Buscemi. CinemaxX 4
VAMPIRE (US, Canada) Fortissimo Films, 120mins. Dir: Iwai Shunji. Key cast: Kevin Zegers, Rachael Leigh Cook, Keisha Castle-Hughes. Simon may appear like a normal young man but underneath he craves blood. A modern, erotic and romantic tale on the vampire legend, ‘Vampire’ is a human story — a portrait of lost, lonely souls trying to find a connection. Kino Arsenal 2
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SECRET LETTER (Netherlands) Delphis Films, 80mins. Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp. Key cast: Daan Schuurmans, Lies Visschedijk, Hanna Obbeek. Eva, 11, 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
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20 CIGARETTES (Italy) Intramovies, 94mins. Dir: Aureliano Amadei. Key cast: Vinicio Marchioni, Carolina Crescentini, Giorgio Colangeli. Aureliano gets an offer as assistant director on a film about the military peace mission in Iraq. As the only civilian survivor of the attack on the Italian army headquarters on
November 12, 2003, he becomes an accidental hero. CinemaxX Studio 14
BEYOND THE BORDER (Sweden) NonStop Sales, 120mins. Dir: Richard Holm. Key cast: Andre Sjoberg, Johan Hedenberg, Marie Robertson. CineStar 5
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678 (Egypt) Al Arabia Cinema, 100mins. Dir: Mohamed Diab. Key cast: Boushra, Nelly Karim, Nahed el Sebai. True story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harrassment in Egypt. Three stories revealing a raw side of Egypt that the world has barely seen. Parliament
INNOCENT SATURDAY (Russia, Germany, Ukraine) Bavaria Film International, 99mins. Dir: Alexander Mindadze. Key cast: Anton Shagin, Svetlana Smirnova-Marcinkevich, Stanislav Rjadinskij. CineStar 6
KINSHASA SYMPHONY (Germany) C Major Entertainment, 95mins. Dir: Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer. CinemaxX 1
TERRITOIRE PERDU (France, Belgium) Dir: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, 75mins. In piercing black and white images shot on 8mm, ‘Territoire Perdu’ depicts the plight of the Saharauis in the divided West Sahara, throwing light on a crisis largely neglected by the international community. CinemaxX 6
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THE ITALIAN KEY (Finland) NonStop Sales, 100mins. Dir: Roosa Toivonen. Key cast: Gwendolyn Anslow, Joana Cartocci, John Shea. A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year-old orphan who gets, as
her sole inheritance, an antique key that unlocks both an old villa in Italy and the mysteries of her family history. CinemaxX Studio 17
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24 HOURS OF ANGER (Singapore) KWA, 126mins. Dir: TT Dhavamanni. Key cast: Vishnu Andhakrishnan. With gangsters at his doorstep and drug addicts for parents, Prakash struggles to hold his family together and protect his mentally challenged brother from dangers in and outside the family. CinemaxX Studio 19
JESSI
(Germany) dffb — German Film and Television Academy Berlin, 33mins. Dir: Mariejosephin Schneider. Key cast: Luzie Ahrens, Sophie Rogall, Pit Bukowski. Jessi lives with a foster family. Her mother is in prison. Her longing for identity takes her back to the village she grew up in. Here she discovers that her search will have to continue beyond the confines of her old life. dffb-Kino
KAFARNAUM (Germany) dffb — German Film and Television Academy Berlin, 24mins. Dir: Jasco Viefhues. Key cast: simone geisser, heidrun bartholomaus, Can Pestanli. Caro (full of emotion but still as hard as life can be) is torn between her sick mother, her job and an affair with Eddie. Stress and love, care and frustration merge into daily routine — until it finally changes for good. dffb-Kino
MANOLO (Germany) dffb — German Film and Television Academy Berlin, 19mins. Dir: Robert Bohrer. Key cast: Branco Saciri, Odine Johne, Eric Klotzsch. On a sunny afternoon at the pool, 12-year-old
YOU KNOWTHE PARK IS FILLED WITH FLOWERS (Germany) dffb — German Film and Television Academy Berlin, 28mins. Dir: Lothar Herzog. Key cast: Odine Johne, Christian Blumel, Thorsten Merten. Lena can’t find stability in her life. Her relationship has become a power struggle. And Lena’s need for love can never be satisfied. dffb-Kino
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THE BURMA CONSPIRACY (France) Wild Bunch, 117mins. Dir: Jerome Salle. Key cast: Tomer Sisley, Sharon Stone, Ulrich Tukur. Billionaire playboy hero Largo Winch decides to sell the W Group and establish a humanitarian foundation. But accused of crimes against humanity, Largo must return to the dark Burmese jungle to prove his innocence. CineStar 1
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PUNK IS NOT DEAD (Macedonia, Serbia) Macedonian Film Fund, 104mins. Dir: Vladimir Blazevski. Key cast: Jordan Simonov, Kamka Tocinovski, Toni Mihajlovski. The protagonists are punks who deliberately remained at the
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MY BROTHERS (Ireland) The Yellow Affair, 88mins. Dir: Paul Fraser. Key cast: Timmy Creed, Paul Courtney, TJ Griffin. A story of three young brothers’ journey to replace their dying father’s watch. They steal a bread van and embark on a journey as they cope with sibling rivalry and a broken down van to get an arcade machine. Marriott 2
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