SCREENINGS 10:30PM
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (EL VELADOR) (Mexico) Drama, documentary, 72mins. Dir: Natalia Almada. Directors’ Fortnight Cinema Les Arcades 1
12:15AM
DAYS OF GRACE (DIAS DE GRACIA) (Mexico, France) Thriller, 128mins. Dir: Everardo Gout. Key cast: Tenoch huerta, Kristian Ferrer, Dolores Heredia.
A cop. A hostage. A city. Corruption, violence, revenge. Three lives, through 30 days and three football world cups. Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
SMARKET 8:30AM
LE HAVRE
(Finland) Drama, 93mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Aki Kaurismaki. Key cast: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel. Lumiere
SNOWTOWN (Australia) Drama, 120mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Justin Kurzel. Key cast: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris. Salle Bunuel
9:00AM
CORPO CELESTE (Italy) Drama, 100mins. Rai Trade Department. Dir: Alice Rohrwacher. Key cast: Anita Caprioli, Salvatore Cantalupo, Yle Vianello. Theatre Croisette
9:15AM
WHITE WHITE WORLD (BELI BELI SVET) (Serbia) Musical, 121mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Oleg Novkovic. Key cast: Uliks Fehmiu, Hana Selimovic, Jasna Duricic. In the town of Bor, a rotten mining centre in
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9:30AM TERRI
(US) Drama, 105mins. Coach 14. Dir: Azazel Jacobs. Key cast: Jacob Wysocki, John C Reilly, Creed Bratton. Abandoned by his parents, Terri is left with his ailing Uncle James, who needs the boy’s help more than Terri needs his. Sensitive, overweight and awkward, Terri is painfully aware that his circumstances put him irredeemably outside the inner circle of high school life. Resigned to his outsider status, Terri is surprised when his tough-talking high school vice-principal, Mr Fitzgerald, takes an interest in him. Star 4
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southeast Serbia, lives King, a lonesome cowboy of about 40, a former miner, now a local bar owner. Once he was involved with Ruzica, the town beauty and wife of his boxing coach Zivina. When Zivina found out about the affair Ruzica killed him. After seven years in jail, Ruzica comes back to Bor. She goes to see King, only to find out that he is involved with another woman. Her daughter Rosa. Riviera 4
9:30AM
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ENDINGS (US) Comedy, 92mins. Sierra/Affinity. Dir: Jonathan Sobol. Key cast: Harvey Keitel, JK Simmons, Scott Caan. Upon learning they only have a few days left to live, three brothers set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Arcades 3
ALICIA, GO YONDER (VETE MAS LEJOS, ALICIA) (Mexico) Drama, 62mins. Funny Balloons. Dir: Elisa Miller. Key cast: Sofia Espinosa, Martin Piroyansky, Sofia Celi. The story of Alicia, a
n 32 Screen International at the Cannes Film Festival May 17, 2011
19-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face-to-face with the immensity of the universe. Palais D
THE ASTRAL CITY (NOSSO LAR) (Brazil) Sci-fi, drama, 110mins. Filmsharks International. Dir: Wagner De Assis. Key cast: Renato Prieto, Fernando Alves Pinto, Rosane Mulholland. The selfish Dr Andre Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called Umbral, realising that there is life after life. Palais H
THE BACK (France) Drama, 85mins. Colifilms Diffusion. Dir: Liu Bingjian. Key cast: Bing Hu, Yuanyuan Jia, Chengfeng Xu. Palais F
CUCARACHA 3D (Russia) Animation, 70mins. Sovexportfilm. Dir: Amet Magometov. Always cheerful and merry, a little cockroach named Bite, who lives inside a computer processor, is sad today. He falls in love with a girl cockroach Lika, who is madly in love with
the theatre and Chuck, the beetle. Bite aims to win Lika’s heart and to survive in the street wars against beetles and pigeons. Lerins 1
GARBAGE PRINCE (Finland) Romance, 100mins. Periferia Productions. Dir: Raimo O Niemi. Key cast: Jon-Jon Geitel, Pihla Maalismaa, Heikki Silvennoinen. A jetset prince meets his match beside a sleepy little town’s garbage tip. Palais B
LESSONS OF A DREAM (DER GANZ GROSSE TRAUM) (Germany) Drama, 113mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Sebastian Grobler. Key cast: Daniel Bruhl, Burghart Klaussner, Justus Von Dohnanyi. The young teacher Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly run German school for boys in 1874. The reform- minded headmaster von Merfeld has hired Koch as one of the very first English teachers at a German secondary school in order to let a fresh new wind into his musty institution. Koch sees how badly this is needed in his first class and resorts
to unusual means. He introduces his students to a curious sport that comes from Britain: football. Riviera 2
MABUL (Israel) Drama, 97mins. K5 International. Dir: Guy Nattiv. Key cast: Michael Moshonov, Ronit Alkabetz, Yoav Rohman. A week before Yoni’s Bar Mitzvah and a moment before his parents’ separation — Yoni’s autistic older brother returns home, unexpectedly, and challenges the family to a final, uncompromising trial. Gray 2
PLAY (Sweden) Drama, 120mins. Coproduction Office (Paris). Dir: Ruben Ostlund. Key cast: Anas Abdirahman, Sebastian Blyckert, Yannick Diakite In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of black boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 70 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the ‘brother trick’, involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric. They did not
have to resort to physical violence or threats. Riviera 1
SOUL MAN (France) Animation, 90mins. Blacklight Movies. Dir: Guillaume Ivernel. Set in an alternate world built on two levels, ‘Soul Man’ turns on a former Polish detective entangled in a shady multibillion- dollar biotech deal — the key to which is a baby girl the detective is asked to look after. Palais K
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WALK AWAY RENEE (US) Documentary, 90mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Jonathan Caouette. Key cast: Adolph Davis, Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc. The documentary raises questions about love, sacrifice and the reality. Star 3
THE WAY (US) Drama, 140mins. Icon Entertainment International. Dir: Emilio Estevez. Key cast: Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger. Set along the thousand- year-old Camino de
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