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Summit Entertainment. Dir: Terrence Malick. Key cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain. Lumiere
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THE LOOK (CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, THE LOOK) (France) Documentary, 90mins. Mk2. Dir: Angelina Maccarone. Key cast: Charlotte Rampling, Peter Lindberg, Paul Auster. Salle du Soixantieme
SWANS (Germany) Drama, 126mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Hugo Vieira Da Silva. Key cast: Kai Hillebrandt, Ralph Herforth, Maria Schuster. An unusual impression of Berlin, a strange family and a fascinating story of coming-of-age and of facing old age. A haunting exploration of the many facets of love and desire. Arcades 3
TEQUILA (Mexico) Drama, 105mins. Shoreline Entertainment. Dir: Sergio Sanchez Suarez. Key cast: Edward Furlong, Salvador Sanchez, Unax Uglade. Antonio, a young land- owner, is having a secret affair with Lola, the wife of Antonio’s uncle, local hero Vincente. Antonio does not tell the truth in order to protect Lola and keep their love in secret, but with each lie, Antonio is sucked deeper into a labyrinth of suspicion, endangering everything he loves. Gray 2
UNFORGIVABLE (France) Romance, 112mins. Tf1 International. Dir: Andre Techine. Key cast: Andre Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Melanie Thierry. Love, betrayal, forgiveness and unforgiving attitudes riddle this compelling drama in beautiful, romantic Venice. Theatre Croisette
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LUMPINEE (Thailand) Documentary,
120mins, Office Of Contemporary Art And Culture — Ministry Of Culture. Dir: Chira Wichaisuthikul. Destiny brings a group of hopeless kids into thai boxing. It may look like an unjust deed in some people’s eyes. But thai boxing is a two-sided coin in Thai society. For these kids, it could mean an opportunity to flip their life’s crisis into a chance. For them, it’s all about passion, determination and faith. Gray 4
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ALIVE AND TICKING (EIN TICK ANDERS) (Germany) Comedy, Drama, 85mins. Wuste Film West. Dir: Andreas Rogenhagen. Key cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Waldemar Kobus, Victoria Trauttmansdorff Eva is 17 and has Tourettes. Sometimes her ticks drive her nuts, but in general Eva is pretty happy. In the tight-knit circle of her eccentric family everyone accepts her as she is. But when her father loses his job, the family equilibrium is thrown off balance. Together with her dotty grandma and her wacky uncle Bernie, Eva launches numerous attempts to help secure the family’s financial existence, each one more chaotic than before — until Eva manages to rise above her illness and realises that it’s time she leads her own life. By invitation only Palais D
BATTLE ROYALE 3D (Japan) Action/ adventure, 120mins. Toei Company. Dir: Kinji Fukasaku. Key cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama. Forty-two delinquent students, three days, one deserted island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete
in a new forum of reality television. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives — or they all die. Lerins 1
DAY( RIVES) (France) Drama, 78mins. Acid. Dir: Armel Hostiou. Key cast: Abubakar Jamil, Cesar Lakits, Jasmina Sijercic. One day in Paris. Three characters, a woman, a man and a child. Though they don’t know each other, they share an insidious feeling of isolation. Arcades 1
EIGHTY LETTERS (Czech Republic) Drama, 75mins. Vaclav Kadrnka. Dir: Vaclav Kadrnka. Key cast: Martin Pavlus, Zuzana Lapikova Autobiographically based on the memories of the director and the surviving correspondence between his parents. The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to be reunited with him. Palais H
FOSTER (UK) Drama, 90mins. Sc Films International. Dir: Jonathan Newman. Key cast: Toni Collette, Ioan Gruffudd, Richard E Grant. Zooey and Alec Morrison are a married couple who have been unable to heal the wounds caused by the death of their five-year- old son several years ago. Now unable to conceive, the Morrisons await confirmation of a child to foster. Palais J
HOLLOW (UK) Horror, 95mins. Hollow Pictures. Dir: Michael Axelgaard.
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22ND OFMAY (22MEI) (Belgium) Drama, 88mins. Reel Suspects. Dir: Koen Mortier. Key cast: Jan Hammenecker, Sam Louwyck, Titus De Voogdt. We follow Sam, a security agent in a shopping mall. On a normal day, a
bomb explodes. Sam tries to save the victims, until something terrible happens. He runs off until he falls down from exhaustion. A woman’s voice makes him raise his head. She is one of the victims he saved. Gray 5
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For European professionals: TouLousE / France Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse For Latin-American professionals: VALdiViA / Chile Festival internacional de Cine de Valdivia
Created in 2009, the CinemaLAB/ Cine Sin Fronteras training workshops have been devised to offer extended possibilities of training, networking, and activities aimed at developing the diversity of the cinematographic offer on both the European and the Latin American continents.
CinemaLAB encourages and supports European distributors, art-houses’ managers and festivals’ programmers who wish to develop the presence of the Latin American cinematographic work in their program, catalogue and selection and reciprocally for Latin American cinema professionals who wish to develop the offer of European independent films in their countries.
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