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SOUTH SOLITARY (Australia) Drama, 120mins. Entertainment One Films International. Dir: Shirley Barrett. Key cast: Barry Otto, Essie Davis, Marton Csokas. Meredith, in her thirties and unmarried, arrives at a remote lighthouse island with her uncle, the new head keeper. Bad weather and misadventure leave her marooned with only the sullen and withdrawn assistant keeper Fleet for companionship. A tender, faltering courtship ensues. Olympia 5
108mins. Vision Films. Dir: Joe Goodavage. Key cast: Steven Bauer, John Savage, Sally Kirkland. A gambler turns to a beautiful psychiatrist to help him stop gambling, an addiction which has driven him to hit rock bottom. He finds himself living on the edge, owing money to the mob and heading down a desperate path with no way out. Palais C
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (US) Thriller, 101mins. Twentieth Century Fox International. Dir: Sean Durkin. Key cast: Elisabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson. Salle Bazin
The documentary pays tribute to Bollywood that has contributed to establishing India’s identity in the eyes of the world and to making Mumbai one of the world capitals of the film history. Star 1
BONSAI (Chile) Comedy, 92mins. Rezo. Dir: Cristian Jimenez. Key cast: Diego Noguera, Gabriela Arancibia, Nathalial Galgani. Julio meets with Gazmuri, an old writer who needs someone to type up the manuscript of his latest novel. He ends up not getting the job. Instead of confessing to Blanca — his neighbour and lover — he decides to write by hand a novel of his own. In need of a plot, Julio turns to the romance he had eight years earlier with Emilia when both were studying literature in Valdivia… A story of love, books and plants. Palais I
CLUB ZEUS (Netherlands) Drama, 75mins. Reel Suspects.
Dir: David Veerbek. Key cast: Fu Ran, Ray Zhao, Yan Li Ping. Leonardo works as a host in Club Zeus in Shanghai. Host boys, like host girls, fulfill the need of attention, friendship and love. But whereas with host girls it is mostly about sex, with host boys the goal is to steal the hearts of their clients. Gray 5
COMBAT GIRLS (KRIEGERIN) (Germany) Dram, 105mins. Eastwest Filmdistribution. Dir: David Wnendt. Key cast: Alina Levshin, Jella Haase, Gerdy Zint A 20-year-old German girl hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The only place she feels home is the Neo- Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. Her convictions slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a
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young Afghan refugee. Olympia 7
THE FAIRY (LA FEE) (France) Drama, 94mins. Mk2. Dir: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz. Key cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel. Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who has fallen in love, searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her — n the psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. Star 2 No press
GO FOR IT! (US) Drama, 90mins. Odin’s eye entertainment. Dir: carmen marron. Key cast: Aimee Garcia, Gina Rodriguez, The Beat Freaks.
Carmen is a good student
with a bad attitude who lives for dancing in the underground clubs of Chicago. She yearns to be somebody but is afraid to believe in herself. Her immigrant Mexican, working-class parents want her to stay in school and get an education, so she attends junior college while working at a grocery store. Olympia 3
LES JEUNES GENS MODERNES (France) Documentary, 97mins. Memento Films International (MFI). Dir: Jerome De Missolz. A legendary 1970s rock critic takes hold of a group of young counter- culturalists. From Paris to Beijing, by way of New York, Montreal and Hong Kong, the nightdwellers ride a William Burroughsy wave. As the decadent pasts and urban futures interlace, music from yesterday and today pave a revolutionary road. Buyers only, no press Arcades 2
THE LAST GAMBLE (US) Thriller,
MILOCRORZE — A LOVE STORY (Japan) Action/ adventure, 90mins. Shochiku Co. Dir: Yoshimasa Ishibashi. Key cast: Takayuki Yamada, Maiko. Experience the crazy world of multi- dimensioned Love Story. Gray 1
MORTEM (France) Thriller, 94mins. Artistic Finances. Dir: Eric Atlan. Key cast: Daria Panchenko, Diana Rudychenko, Stany Coppet. The story of Jena, a young woman who defies her own death. Palais K
RED STATE (US) Thriller, 88mins. IM Global. Dir: Kevin Smith. Key cast: John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Michael Parks. Follows three libidinous high schoolers who respond to an online sex ad only to see their fantasies turn to terror of biblical proportions in the violent hands of a fanatical religious cult. Gray 3
SNOWMAN’S LAND (Germany) Thriller, 95mins. Filmsharks International. Dir: Tomasz Thomson. Key cast: Eva-Katrin
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Hermann, Jurgen Rissmann, Reiner Schone. Walter is a professional killer and has messed up a job. Now he has to leave the city and takes up an offer of the crime boss Berger to protect his house in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At his side: old friend Mickey. By accident Berger’s young and pretty wife, Sybille, is killed and Walter and Mickey hide her body because they fear Berger’s vengeance. What seemed to be a nice holiday trip with little work for Walter and Mickey soon becomes a fight for survival for all parties involved. Riviera 3
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STAR WATCHING DOG (HOSHIMAMORU INU) (Japan) Drama, 128mins. Toho Co. Dir: Tomoyuki Takimoto. Key cast: Toshiyuki Nishida, Tetsuji Tamayama, Umika Kawashima. One countryside town in Hokkaido, Japan. A six- month-old dead body and a one-month-old dog’s body are found inside a car left aside on a forest path. Palais G
ZAMBEZIA (South Africa) Animation, 80mins. Cinema Management Group. Dir: Wayne Thornley. Key cast: Jeremy Suarez, Phil Lamarr, Jennifer Lewis. On the edge of a majestic waterfall, nestled in the shell of an enormous Baobab tree, is a bustling city of birds called Zambezia. Famous for being the safest city in all of Africa, Zambezia has become the breeding sanctuary throughout the river valley where birds of every feather can flock together in harmony and peace. By invitation only Lerins 2
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THE TREE OF LIFE (US) Drama. 138mins.
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