SCREENINGS
MARKET 6:00PM
VAMPIRE (US) Romance, thriller, 120mins. Fortissimo Films. Dir: Shunji Iwai. Key cast: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rachael Leigh Cook. Simon is a fairly normal young man, dedicated to both his teaching job and ailing mother. Underneath the surface, however, things are not what they seem. Simon hunts through online chat rooms, searching for young, suicidal women from whom he can steal their life blood. Palais C
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Key cast: Nathalie Baye. Five stories with Nathalie Baye, directed by five young talentuous directors. Miramar
BEING ELMO
(US) Documentary, 76mins. Submarine Entertainment. Dir: Constance Marks. The film traces Kevin Clash’s rise from his modest beginnings in Baltimore to his current success as the man behind Elmo, one of the world’s most recognisable and adored characters. Palais D
THE BIG FIX
(US) Documentary, 112mins. Reboot Films. Dir: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell. Salle du Soixantieme
Dir: Katrin Laur. Key cast: Esther Koiv, Kerttu- Killu Grenman, Maria Avdjushko. Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi- Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family; her mother Maria is a drunk. Palais G
THE HUNTERS (France) Thriller, 105mins. Humal. Dir: Chris Briant. Key cast: Steven Waddington, Dianna Agron, Tony Becker. It’s their last week. In the city, six characters are inexorably drawn towards a tragic destiny. The last day finds them reunited by chance in an isolated place: the Fort. Reality collapses and turns into a nightmare. Gray 5
THE KING’S NECKLACE (LE COLLIER DU MAKOKO) Action/adventure., 105mins. Adelaide Production. Dir: Henri Joseph Koumba Bididi. Key cast: Helene De Fougerolles, Eriq Ebouaney, Phlippe Mory. Olympia 6
NARESUAN III (Thailand) Historical,
drama 150mins. Department Of Export Promotion. Dir: Chatrichalerm Yukol. Key cast: Sorapong Chatree, Nopachai Jayanama, Taksaorn Paksukcharoen. Having proclaimed sovereignty, King Naresuan the Great faces a new threat from a spy in his midst. The traitor’s flight in a Chinese junk leads to the vaunted river battle with an armada of royal barges. Riviera 3
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK (Ireland) Documentary, 87mins. Eastwest Filmdistribution. Dir: Dieter Auner. Chronicles one year in the life of Albin and his family of shepherds in the north of Transylvania. In direct cinema style, this documentary follows their day-to-day routines, and their struggle to adapt to a new world where traditions are gradually replaced by modern values. Olympia 4
THE PRIZE (EL PREMIO) (Mexico) Drama, 99mins. Urban Distribution International (ex Umedia). Dir: Paula Markovitch. Key cast: Laura Agorreca, Paula
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Galinelli Hertzog, Sharon Herrera. Ceci, a seven-year-old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn’t completely understand what the secret is about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Palais K
ROCK’N’BALL (Ukraine) Drama, 80mins. Ukrainian Cinema Foundation. Dir: Dmytro Prikhod’ko, Key cast: Alexey Min’ko, Anton Slepakov, Borys Brodskiy. Palais E
SUPERCAPITALIST (Hong Kong) Thriller, 96mins. All Rights Entertainment. Dir: Derek Ting. Key cast: Derek Ting, Kenneth Tsang, Linus Roache. A maverick New York hedge fund trader with a gambling habit moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control. Caught between competing forces in America and Asia in a ruthless culture of profits at all costs, he desperately negotiates and maneuvers inside China’s closed, complex society.
With his life and Hong Kong’s future staked on a corrupt billion dollar deal, the gambler makes the ultimate bet. Lerins 2
TOOMELAH (Australia) Drama, 106mins. Visit Films. Dir: Ivan Sen. Key cast: Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, Michael Connors. Palais I
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7:15PM
THE SILVER CLIFF (O ABISMO PRATEADO) (Brazil) Drama, 83mins. Rendez-Vous Pictures. Dir: Karim Ainouz. Key cast: Alessandra Negrini, Jr Otto, Thiago Martins. Theatre Croisette
7:30PM
THE BEAVER (US) Drama, 100mins. Summit Entertainment. Dir: Jodie Foster. Key cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin. Lumiere
BEDWAYS (Germany) Drama, 76mins. Jinga Films. Dir: Rolf Peter Kahl. Key cast: Arno Frisch, Lana Cooper, Laura Tonke. Director Nina Bader wants to shoot a film
about love and sex and invites her actor-friends Hans and Marie for screen tests for a couple of days. For Nina, love is not necessarily a matter of emotion — she is rather looking for an authentic depiction of sex. The intimate collaboration turns into experiments with film, love and bodies and finally has an impact on the private relationships between the three of them. It seems that the boundaries between acting and reality begin to disappear. Riviera 2
HELLO MY NAME IS MAXIME RENARD (France) Comedy, 85mins. Les Imposteurs Prod. Dir: Niels Dubost, Sevy Weber. Key cast: Niels Dubost, Sevy Weber, Bernard Verley. Gray 2
7:45PM
BELMONDO, ITINERAIRE.. (France) Documentary, 86mins. Festival De Cannes. Dir: Vincent Perrot. Key cast: Jean- Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon. Salle Debussy
8:00PM
5 FOIS NATHALIE BAYE (France) Comedy, 65mins. Premium Films. Dir: Edouard Duluc.
MY LAST VALENTINE IN BEIRUT
(Lebanon) Drama, romance, 84mins. T Group Productions. Dir: Salim El Turk. Key cast: Loren Kdeih, Assaad Tarabay, Ghassan Saeed. Juliet, a young Lebanese woman, takes us on a journey through her diary of last February before she commits suicide. Star 2
NOGODSLAND (France) Drama, 76mins. Prod2Demain. Dir: Michael Merle. Key cast: Laurent Bariohay, Eric Kailey, Louis Conilh De Beyssac. Stan and Dion are struggling in their jobs. The latter only believes in the absurdity of life and exerts a certain influence on Stan. When Dion’s father suddenly passes away, Stan inadvertently excludes Dion from his place as a son, starting a terrible hatred. Gray 5
OUT LOUD THE DOCUMENTARY 5mins. Fondation Liban Cinema. Lerins 1
SLUMS ROAD (RUE DES CITES) (France) Fiction, Documentary, 68mins. Acid. Dir: Carine May, Hakim Zouhani.
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