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step he takes seems to get him deeper into trouble, from both the terrorists, and the police. Gray 4
RED DOG (Australia) Drama, 95mins. Essential Entertainment. Dir: Kriv Stenders. Key cast: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Noah Taylor. A stray dog changes the lives and unites a disparate group of locals living in a rough and tumble mining town. Star 4
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ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL (US) Drama, 95mins. Bristol Media International, Inc. Dir: Dover Kosashvili. Key cast: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Niall Buggy.
Centres on n’er do well Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to abandon her. Gray 3
THERE BE DRAGONS (US) Action/adventure, 125mins. Bleiberg Entertainment. Dir: Roland Joffe. Key cast: Wes Bentley, Charlie Cox, Olga Kurylenko. 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. Riviera 4
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WHATEVER HAPPENS (PASSI EL QUE PASSI) (Spain) Comedy, 81mins. Joker Films Inc. Dir: Robert Bellsola. Key cast: Antonio De Matteo, Carlotta Bosch, Mavel De La Rosa. A marriage with a weekend goal — let’s do it four times. Palais F
WWE’S THAT’S WHAT I AM (US) Family, 102mins. Im Global. Dir: Mike Pavone. Key cast: Chase Ellison, Ed Harris, Molly Parker. A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers. Gray 2
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ABOVE US ONLY SKY (Germany) Drama, 95mins. Bavaria Film International. Dir: Jan Schomburg. Key cast:
Felix Knopp, Georg Friedrich, Kathrin Wehlisch. Who was the man Martha loved and lived with for years? And can he simply be replaced by another? After her husband disappears, Martha begins to realise how little she knew him, and how his life with her was a charade. Riviera 2
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ALZHEIMER (Iran) Drama, 103mins. Farabi Cinema Foundation. Dir: Ahmad Reza Motamedi. Key cast: Faramarz Gharibian, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahtab Karamati. Twenty years after losing her husband in an accident and confronting his burnt body, a woman still cannot believe the loss. While the family holds annual memorandum for the dead husband, she still prints ‘Desperately seeking…’ ads in the papers. Palais E
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BLACK BUTTERFLIES (Germany, Netherlands, South Africa) Drama, 100mins. Bavaria Film International. Dir: Paula Van Der Oest. Key cast: Carice Van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer. Rejected by her cruel father and despite the love of many men, the young and talented South African poet Ingrid Jonker struggles to find what she seeks: love, home and recognition. Not until that day when Nelson Mandela reads one of her poems in his first speech to the parliament. Olympia 4
CARRE BLANC (France) Drama, 80mins. Coach 14. Dir: Jean Baptiste Leonetti. Key cast: Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Jean-Pierre Andreani. A bleak society where those who are weak or fail to adapt are turned into industrial food in total
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indifference. Philippe and Marie, two teenagers whose parents have been destroyed by the system, end up in an orphanage where teaching methods are terrifying. Twenty years later, they are husband and wife and look like a wealthy couple who fit into society. Buyers only Palais I
THE CUP (Australia) Action/ adventure, 106mins. Myriad Pictures. Dir: Simon Wincer. Key cast: Brendon Gleeson, Stephen Curry. A grieving jockey overcomes the odds with the help of a veteran horse trainer and goes on to win the Melbourne Cup. Olympia 6
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Belgium) Thriller, 104mins. Corsan. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Key cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier. This is the real story of 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
THE HOT POTATO (UK) Comedy, 110mins. Locomotive Distribution. Dir: Tim Lewiston. Key cast: Ray Winstone, Jack Huston, Colm Meaney. Kenny and Danny, leading relatively normal and law-abiding lives in the scrap metal business, find themselves in possession of a large lump of misappropriated uranium. Kenny, Danny and Danny’s girlfriend, Carole, embark on a comedic and perilous adventure to try and make a profit before either radioactivity or the international organised crime fraternity catches up with them. Olympia 2
THE IMMATURE (Italy) Comedy, 108mins. Intramovies. Dir: Paolo Genovese. Key cast: Raoul Bova, Luca Bizzarri, Ambra Angiolini.
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