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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. Olympia 9
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Keith Gamble. In Tinseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as ‘Senator’ hatches a plan to undermine the future successes of his shady arch rival, the ‘Master’, in more ways than one. His plot begins with the simple delivery of a silver briefcase. But nothing is simple in Hollywood. Palais I
EVERYTHING MUST GO (US) Comedy, 96mins. IM Global. Dir: Dan Rush. Key cast: Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern. After being abruptly fired and left by his wife, a sales executive left with nothing has an odd plan for survival — a yard sale. Olympia 7
FOOTNOTE (Israel) Drama, 105mins. Westend Films. Dir: Joseph Cedar. Key cast: Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenazi. Olympia 6
FREERUNNER (US) Action/adventure, 87mins. Topanga Pictures. Dir: Lawrence Silverstein. Key cast: Sean Faris, Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer. In this explosive action parkour thriller a young freerunner races from one end of the city to the other to save himself and his girlfriend. Palais C
IRIS IN BLOOM (France) Drama, 75mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Valerie Mrejen, Bertrand Schefer. Key cast: Adele Haenel, Lola Creton, Stanislas Merhar. Theatre Croisette
MAN WITHOUT A CELL PHONE (Israel/Palestine/ France/Belgium) Comedy, drama, 78mins. Memento Films International (MFI). Dir: Sameh Zoabi. Key cast: Razi Shawahdeh, Basem Loulou, Louay Noufi. Twenty-something Palestinian-Israeli slacker Jawdat just wants to have fun with his friends, talk on his cell phone and find love. Instead, he navigates unconvincing dates with Muslim, Christian and even Jewish girls, and wrestles with the Hebrew college entrance exam. Palais K
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (US) Thriller, 101mins. Twentieth Century Fox International. Dir: Sean Durkin. Key cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes. Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult. Salle Debussy
MEAT (Netherlands) Thriller, 86mins. Reel Suspects. Dir: Maartje Seyferth,
n 58 Screen International at the Cannes Film Festival May 15, 2011
Victor Nieuwenhuijs. Key cast: Hugo Metsers, Kitty Courbois, Nellie Benner. A butcher and a butchery, both look perfectly normal. The delivery arrives in the morning, the butcher prepares the meat as it should be. Not many clients though. It’s more like his fantasy world, his asylum. Here he can live out his sexual fantasies. Here he can play out his dark side and forget about the miserable life he has. Gray 5
MON PERE EST FEMME DE MENAGE (France) Comedy, drama, 80mins. Kinology. Dir: Saphia Azzeddine. Key cast: Francois Cluzet, Jeremie Duvall, Nanou Garcia. Palais G
MOONLIGHT ON THE STAGE (Iran) Comedy, 80mins. Documentary And Experimental Film Center. Dir: Fima Emami. Every year in the period of Muharram, Ebrahimi and his family, perform the ceremony of Tazieh (A religious theatre) in different villages. But this year, at the beginning of their journey, something happens that affects
Ebrahim profoundly. Palais E
OF WOMEN AND HORSES (France) Comedy, 105mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Patricia Mazuy. Key cast: Bruno Ganz, Josiane Balasko, Marina Hands. The story of a rider on the quest for a horse. Her horse. Disgusted to see the horses that she trained to the top levels of jumping taken away from her, Gracieuse decides to start over in the world of dressage when she meets the legendary trainer Franz Mann. Franz, now exhausted and cynical, is managing the domain of a rich landowner. Olympia 5
POLISSE (France) Drama, 127mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Maiwenn. Key cast: Joey Starr, Karin Viard, Mawenn. The daily grind for the cops of the Paris Police Department’s Child Protection Unit. How do these cops balance their private lives and the reality they face every working day? Star 1
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. Olympia 8
SIBERIA MONAMOUR (Russia) Drama, 101mins. Europacorp. Dir: Slava Ross. Key cast: Petr Zaichenko, Misha Protsko, Nikolay Kozak. The poignant story of a young boy waiting for his father in a remote village in Siberia’s vast, hostile taiga, where man is the greatest enemy to man. Olympia 4
SILVER CASE (Italy) Comedy, 80mins. Satyricon Pictures. Dir: Christian Filippella. Key cast: Eric Roberts, Shalim Ortiz, Brian
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Australia) Drama, 101mins. Entertainment One Films International. Dir: Julia Leigh. Key cast: Chris Haywood, Emily Browning, Ewan Leslie. Sleeping Beauty is a haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young university student, drawn into a hidden world of beauty and desire. Olympia 1
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TITEUF, THE FILM (France) Animation, 90mins. Pathe International. Dir: Zep. Nadia is about to celebrate her birthday and Titeuf isn’t invited. Why not? How could she have forgotten him, given the well-rehearsed, superseductive attitude he puts on every time their paths cross? But bigger disasters will push Titeuf ’s world further into chaos as once again adults prove just how lame they can be. Arcades 2
UNLAWFUL KILLING (UK) Documentary, 85mins. Locomotive Distribution. Dir: Keith Allen. Key cast: Diana Princess Of Wales, Mohamed Al Fayed, Tony Curtis. The true story of the violent death of Princess Diana, and the subsequent cover-up by the British Establishment, culminating (after a decade of delay) in an inquest held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Olympia 2
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