SCREENINGS
FESTIVAL & PRESS 10:00PM
POLISSE (France) Drama, 127mins. Dir: Maiwenn. Key cast: Joey Starr, Karin Viard, Maiwenn. Fred, a rebel cop in Paris’ child protection unit, falls for Melissa, a photographer for the government. Torn between Fred and the world he reveals to her, and Lino, her wealthy, unfaithful conductor husband, how will uptown Melissa come to terms with Fred’s violent reality? Competition, press screening Salle Bazin
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THE MOON CHILD (France) 110mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Delphine Gleize. Star 4
9:45AM
BEYOND THE BORDER (GANSEN) (Sweden) Action/ adventure, drama, 120mins. Nonstop Sales. Dir: Richard Holm. Key cast: Andre Sjoberg, Antti Reini, Bjorn Sundquist. Two brothers on the wrong side of the border in a war that wasn’t theirs to fight. Palais C
Donzelli. Key cast: Brigitte Sy, Jeremie Elkaim. A couple, Romeo and Juliette. A child, Adam. His illness, their battle. And, above all, their love story. Critics’ Week Miramar
9:30PM
GREED IN THE SUN (100,000 DOLLARS AU SOLEIL) (France) Comedy, 125mins. Dir: Henri Verneuil. Cinema On The Beach Plage Mace
10:00PM
POLISSE See box, above
THE SLUT (Israel) Drama, 87mins. Dir: Hagar Ben Asher. Key cast: Daria Forman, Hagar Ben Asher, Ishay Golan. Critics’ Week Miramar
10:30PM
HARD LABOR (TRABALHAR CANSA) (Brazil) Drama, 99mins. Dir: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra. Key cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
SMARKET 9:00AM
PROMO SCREENING 22mins. Gaumont. Star 1
9:15AM
GUZAARISH (India) 127mins. UTV Software Communication. Dir: Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life. Palais H
HERE
(US) Drama. K5 International. Dir: Braden King. Key cast: Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal. When an American satellite-mapping engineer and an
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(UK, US) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Key cast: Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
expatriate Armenian photographer impulsively decide to travel together through Armenia, a brief but intense romantic connection deepens, and their sense of themselves — and their world — expands. Palais J
9:30AM
BLACKTHORN (Spain) Western, Action/ Adventure, 100mins. 6 Sales. Dir: Mateo Gil. Key cast: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea. James Blackthorn is an old Gringo living quietly in the green tropical valleys of Bolivia. He breeds horses and has a romantic friendship with a native woman. He’s getting on in years and wants to die at home, in the United States. Arcades 1
CATCH .44 (US) Action/adventure, Thriller. Sierra/Affinity. Dir: Aaron Harvey. Key cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Ackerman. The lives of three female thieves take a sudden turn when they are lured into one last job by their charming boss. Palais D
DEAD AWAKE (US) Sci-fi, romance,
93mins. New Films International. Dir: Omar Naim. Key cast: Nick Stahl, Rose Mcgowan, Amy Smart. Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor, is trying to unravel a mystery that shattered his life 10 years earlier. After faking his own funeral to see who will show up, he befriends a mysterious street junkie and is reunited with an old love from his past. The lives of these three characters are transformed by supernatural forces as Dylan discovers that no one is who they seem to be.
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FINECUT PROMO SCREENING 20mins. Finecut Co. Palais B
KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR (DENJIN ZABORGAR) (Japan) 101mins, Action/ adventure. Nikkatsu Corporation. Dir: Noboru Iguchi. Key cast: Itsuji Itao, Yasuhisa Furuhata, Mami Yamasaki. Following the death of his scientist father, secret police officer Yutaka Daimon inherits a mighty robot warrior named Zaborgar. Equipped with an array of super weapons, an expertise
in karate and the power to transform into a motorcycle, Zaborgar assists Daimon in his fight against Sigma, the evil organisation responsible for his father’s death. Gray 2
KINYARWANDA (US/Rwanda) Drama, 96mins. Key cast: Qwest Media. Dir: Alrick Brown. Key cast: Cassandra Freeman, Cleophas Kabasiita, Edouard Bampokiri. During the Rwandan genocide, when neighbours killed neighbours and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. Palais F
MANIPULATION (Switzerland) Thriller, 90mins.
Filmfonds.Ch. Dir: Pascal Verdosci. Key cast: Klaus-Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch. 1956: the time of the Cold War. The Swiss national security monitors 10 per cent of its own citizens. As a compromising photograph exposes the Swiss star reporter Werner Eiselin as a Soviet spy, he is unable to withstand the pressure and he commits suicide in the interrogation room. Arcades 3
CORIOLANUS (UK) Thriller, 122mins. Icon Entertainment International. Dir: Ralph Fiennes. Key cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave. A contemporary version of Shakespeare’s dangerous political thriller. The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief, despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody. Olympia 7
OSAMU TEZUKA’S BUDDHA (Japan) Animation, 111mins. Toei Company. Dir: Kozo Morishita. Key cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masato Sakai, Kiyokazu Kanze. The spectacular drama of life told through the eyes of Siddhartha, who will later become Buddha, and the people he encountered now unfolds. Palais G
10:00AM
ECO-PIRATE: THE STORY OF PAUL WATSON (Canada) Documentary, 110mins. Entertainment One Films International. Dir: Trish Dolman. Key cast: Anthony Kiedis, Martin Sheen, Patrick Moore. 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
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