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football team of his school just to make his dreams come true. But there’s just one problem: he does not know anything about the game. Palais E
COME RAIN, COME SHINE (South Korea) Romantic drama. Fortissimo Films. Dir: Lee Yoon-Ki. Key cast: Lim Soo-Jung, Hyun Bin. While driving to the airport one day, a young woman tells her husband that she wants to leave him for another man. The husband responds with muted acknowledgement and drives on. On the day she is to move out a massive storm strikes, seemingly stranding her and forcing them to spend another day together. A lot can happen in one day, as their soon to be new reality sinks in. Olympia 3
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DO ELEPHANTS PRAY? (UK) Drama, 104mins. Elixir Entertainment. Dir: Paul Hills. Key cast: Jonnie Hurn, Julie Dray. Frustrated by the soulless Soutine world he is tied to and troubled by the need to find meaning in everything, the life of advertising executive Callum Cutter is thrown into poetic chaos when he meets the free- spirited French seductress Malika, who promises to change his life forever. Palais C
MY BEST ENEMY (MEIN BESTER FEIND) (Austria/Luxembourg) Drama, comedy, 109mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Wolfgang Murnberger. Key cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss. What happens when an SS man puts on concentration- camp attire and a Jew slips into the SS man’s uniform? Riviera 3
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (US) Documentary, 89mins. Content Media Corporation. Dir: Morgan Spurlock. Key cast: Morgan Spurlock. Acclaimed film-maker and master provocateur Morgan Spurlock returns
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THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Belgium) Thriller. Corsan. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Key cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier. This is the real story of
to a cinema near you with tongue-in-cheek perfection as he examines the world of product placement, marketing and advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement, marketing and advertising. Olympia 7
PROJECT NIM (UK) Documentary, 95mins. Icon Entertainment International. Dir: James Marsh. The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the mid-1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim’s extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature — and indeed our own — is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling. Olympia 8
ROGUE RIVER (US) Thriller, horror. Archstone Distribution.
lieutenant Latif Yahia, summoned to become Uday Hussein’s body double and his life in a monstrous underworld of self-indulgence, shameless violence, murder and deceit. Olympia 5
Dir: Jourdan Mcclure. Key cast: Art Alexakis, Bill Moseley, Chris Coy. When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, she reluctantly accepts, only to forever regret it. Gray 3
SIDEWAY (ITINERAIRE BIS) (France) Comedy. Elle Driver. Dir: Jean-Luc Perreard. Key cast: Fred Testot, Leola Bekhti. Jean is a 35-year-old man who still lives at home with his mother in a small Corsican town. He works as a chef in the family-owned restaurant. To his despair, his future is already mapped out: he will take over the family restaurant. However, one day, Nora, a very strong- headed young woman is on a racing yacht and is pushed overboard. Buyers only Gray 1
THERE BE DRAGONS (US/Spain/Argentina) Action/adventure, 125mins. Bleiberg Entertainment. Dir: Roland Joffe. Key cast:
Wes Bentley, Charlie Cox, Olga Kurylenko. An epic action/adventure set during the Spanish Civil War that follows two childhood friends who go down different paths in life. One chooses to become a priest and struggles to spread reconciliation; the other becomes a spy for the fascists and falls in love with a beautiful revolutionary. Olympia 9
UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE (Japan) Drama, 115mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Zhang Yimou. Key cast: Shawn Dou, Zhou Dongyu. An innocent high school girl is sent to a remote mountain village for reeducation during the Cultural Revolution. With her father imprisoned as a ‘rightist’, her ostracised mother struggles to support her three children. Jing knows that her future and her family’s well-being depend on how well she behaves in the eyes of the authorities. Star 1
WILDERNESS (US) Horror, 85mins. Outsider Pictures. Dir: Scooter Downey. Key cast: Lance Henriksen. A father and son hike into the wildernesss but there is something in the forest that won’t let them leave. Palais I
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ZAMBEZIA TRAILER (South Africa) Animation, 20mins. Cinema Management Group.
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