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MARKET 1:30PM
TOMBOY (France) Drama, 80mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Celine Sciamma. Key cast: Jeanne Disson, Malonn Levana, Mathieu Demy. Laure is moving into a new neighborhood with her little sister. Because she is in need of new friends and does not know anybody, Laure decides to dress as a boy. She meets Lisa, they become close, but Lisa doesn’t know her new best friend is not a girl. Riviera 4
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A feel-good comedy sent straight from heaven about an affable guardian angel and his very human quest for true love. Palais J
MEMORIES CORNER (France) Drama, 80mins. Bac Films. Dir: Audrey Fouche. Key cast: Francois Papineau, Hiroshi Abe, Hidetoshi Nishijima. Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake in 1995. Fifteen years after the disaster, the city’s wounds have finally disappeared but the former victims continue to suffer. Among them is Kenji, whose past is hiding a secret that only Ada is willing to hear. By invitation only Star 3
NAKED SOLDIER (Hong Kong) Action/ adventure, 90mins. Mega-Vision Project Distribution. Dir: Marco Mak. Key cast: Jenn Tse, Sammo Hung, Philip Ng. Interpol agent CK Long busted a billion-dollar drug deal 15 years ago. The cartel avenged itself
by hiring Madame Rose’s organisation of assassins to kill CK Long’s entire family. Long himself survived and believes his young daughter is still alive. In fact, for these 15 years, the girl has been kidnapped by Madame Rose, brainwashed and trained into beautiful, sexy killer Phoenix. Phoenix has now become the top-ranked killer in Madame Rose’s organisation. Palais H
SCHOOL IS OVER (LA SCUOLA E FINITA) (Italy) Drama, 85mins. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. Dir: Jalongo Valerio. Key cast: Vincenzo Amato, Roberta Fossile, Luciano de Luca. The key to kearning is joy. Some encounters can change a life. Arcades 1
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WHAT ARE BEARS FOR? (PARA QUE SIRVE UN OSO?) (Spain) Comedy, 100mins. Imagina International Sales. Dir: Tom Fernandez. Key cast: Emma Suarez, Geraldine Chaplin, Gonzalo De Castro. Alejandro and Guillermo
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are two brothers who have dedicated their lives to science. Guillermo is a biologist who has lost his faith. Alejandro is a zoologist who has nothing but faith. The two brothers have spent so long trying to save the planet they have forgotten what matters most: doing it together. Riviera 2
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AM I HAPPY OR WHAT? (JESAM LI SRETNA?) (Croatia) Documentary, 59mins. Croatian Audiovisual Centre. Dir: Vanja Svilicic. Shows us a very different side of a hotel life. We observe the chambermaids’ daily routines, while the global financial crisis threatens the security of their humble positions. Gray 4
BENY, BACK TO THE WILD (France) Children’s, documentary, 90mins. SND — Groupe M6. Dir: Alain Tixier. Here comes the true story of Beny, the little monkey. Captured by hunters and held in captivity in the city of Kinshasa. But Beny is rescued by Claudine Andre. She has dedicated her life to Bonobos, monkeys who
share 98 per cent of the human DNA. Olympia 7
CODE BLUE (Netherlands) Drama, 80mins. Bavaria Film International. Dir: Urszula Antoniak. Key cast: Bien De Moor, Lars Eidinger. Olympia 3
DAM999 (UAE/India) Thriller, 110mins. Biz TV Network. Dir: Sohan Roy. Key cast: Ashish Vidhyarthi, Linda Arsenio, Joshua Smith. An extraordinary 3D movie re-creating the world’s biggest man- made disaster against the backdrop of 5,000 years of Indian heritage. Riviera 3
DEAR FRIEND HITLER… (India) Drama, Historical, 96mins. Bennett Coleman & Co. Dir: Rakesh Ranjan Kumar. Key cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Avijit Dutt. In 1939, when the dictator’s designs for German expansion in Eastern Europe became increasingly apparent, Mahatma Gandhi, the fervent defender of truth and justice, wrote a letter to the dictator in order to
prevent the advent of the Second World War. Palais E
FEAR OF FALLING (Poland) Drama, 90mins. Wide Management Enterprise. Dir: Bartosz Konopka. Key cast: Dorota Kolak, Krzysztof Stroinski, Magdalena Poplawska. Tomek (30) escaped from the province and decided to sort out his life in a big city. He has a career as a TV reporter and has just started a family when he receives a message from a psychiatric hospital in his home town. His estranged father is there. Against himself and the advice of his closest ones, Tomek decides to reach out to his father, although they haven’t seen each other for years. Palais G
HABEMUS PAPAM (Italy) Drama, 104mins. Fandango Portobello. Dir: Nanni Moretti. Key cast: Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli, Margherita Buy. The newly elected Pope gets stage fright right before his confirmation, leaving millions stranded in a spiritual waiting room. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for
the job, seek help from a renowned psychiatrist (and atheist) to talk him off the couch and onto St Peter’s balcony. Star 1
THE ISLAND (Bulgaria) Drama, 108mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Kamen Kalev. Key cast: Boyka Velkova, Laetitia Casta, Mihail Mutafov. Theatre Croisette
LOVE THE BOAT (France) Comedy, 100mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Pascale Pouzadoux. Key cast: Antoine Dulery, Armelle, Charlotte De Turckheim. The Mediterranean is not always the sea of tranquillity: that is what five women discover when they embark upon a dream cruise on the King Of The Sea. Chloe, 25, is a pretty, rebellious, romantic young woman who is trying to get over a difficult break-up and find her appetite for life once more. Palais I
MICHAEL (Austria) Drama, 94mins. Les Films Du Losange. Dir: Markus Schleinzer. Key cast: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger. Describes the last five
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