SCREENINGS 2:15PM
AU PAIR, KANSAS (US) Drama, 94mins. Independent Festival Film Co. Dir: JT O’Neal. Key cast: Havard Lilliehie, Traci Lords. A recently widowed woman living on a buffalo ranch near a small town in Kansas hires a Norwegian soccer player to be a male au pair and help raise her two sons. Palais K
2:30PM
LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (France) Drama, 190mins. Festival De Cannes. Dir: Marcel
Carne.Key cast: Arletty, Pierre Renoir. Salle Du Soixantieme
3:00PM
COURTS METRAGES MORELIA 75mins. Semaine De La Critique. Miramar
3:15PM
BEYOND THE BORDER (GANSEN) See box, right
3:30PM
THE AGES OF LOVE (MANUALE D’AMORE 3) (Italy) Romance, comedy, 120mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Giovanni Veronesi. Key cast: Robert De Niro, Carlo Verdone, Riccardo Scamarcio. Three stories of love. Buyers only, no press Star 4
BULLHEAD (Belgium) Thriller, 129mins. Celluloid Dreams. Dir: Michael R Roskam. Key cast: Jeanne Dandoy, Jeroen Perceval, Matthias Schoenaerts. The young cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from Jacky’s past, set in motion a chain of events with unexpected tragic consequences. Arcades 3
EL GUSTO (Algeria) Documentary, 88mins. Babylone Productions. Dir: Safinez Bousbia. An orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by history and war reunite after 50 years and take the stage for an exceptional concert. Together once more, they share their never lost passion, the soul of the Algerian Casbah: Chaabi music. Gray 2
MY MATE MANCHESTER UNITED
(Bulgaria) Documentary, 57mins. Bulgarian National Film Center. Dir: Stefan Valdobrev. A single 48-year-old man from a small town on the bank of the river Danube lives alone with his mother and his cat called Beckham. The only thing of meaning in his life is his love for a football club. He is one of the millions who become significant through the successes of their idols. But there’s something
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special about him: his name. Palais F
STOPPED ON TRACK (Germany) Drama, 110mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Key cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kohnert, Talisa Lilly Lemke. Forty-year-old Frank has wife and family, a steady job and a new house in the suburbs. Out of the blue he is diagnosed with a brain tumour that leaves him with only a few months to live. The decision to home care Frank proves to be a struggle for him and his family to live and die in dignity. Star 3
THE BLACK BOX (Iran) Documentary. Documentary And Experimental Film Center. Dir: Mohamed Reza Eslamloo. Palais B
THE UNBORN CHILD (Thailand) Horror, 99mins. Phranakorn
MARKET 3:15PM
BEYOND THE BORDER (GANSEN) (Sweden) Action/ adventure, drama, 120mins. Nonstop Sales. Dir: Richard Holm. Key cast: Andre
Sjoberg, Antti Reini, Bjorn Sundquist. Two brothers on the wrong side of the border in a war that wasn’t theirs to fight. Palais J
Film Co. Dir: Poj Anon, Thanapol Nuansuth. Key cast: Somchai Khemklad, Pichanard Sakhakorn, Chudapa Jantrakhet. Palais D
THE WEDDING PARTY (Australia) Comedy, drama, 96mins. Arclight Films. Dir: Amanda Jane. Key cast: Josh Lawson, Isabel Lucas, Steve Bisley. They’re anything but ordinary: they’re deviant, deluded and dangerously familiar. They’re the Thompson family. Just thank God they’re not yours. Lerins 1
THE WHITE LIONS (Serbia) Comedy, 93mins. Film Center Serbia. Dir: Lazar Ristovski. Key cast: Lazar Ristovski, Gordan Kicic, Hristina Popovic. Gray 4
3:45PM
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. As a result, Tomek gets involved in a relationship on the verge of craziness and normality, which will make him re-evaluate his entire life. Palais H
TATSUMI (Singapore) Animation, 98mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Eric Khoo. Salle Bazin
4:00PM
AGRARIAN UTOPIA (Thailand) Drama, 90mins. Office Of Contemporary Art And Culture — Ministry Of Culture. Dir: Uruphong Raksasad. Key cast: Prayad Jumma, Sai Jumma, Sompong Jumma. Facing seizure of their own lands, two families find themselves farming together on the same field, hoping to get through just another rice-farming season like every year.’ Gray 3
BEFORE (Argentina) Drama, 90mins. Latido. Dir: Daniel Gimelberg. Key
cast: Nahuel Viale, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Guadalupe Docampo. Nacho wanders through the city at night. He is alone in looking for a new life. His former life no longer exists. As he moves forward, he begins to tread the short path from loneliness to violence. Palais C
ECO-PIRATE: THE STORY OF PAUL WATSON (Canada) Documentary, 110mins. Entertainment One Films International. Dir: Trish Dolman. Key cast: Anthony Kiedis, Martin Sheen, Patrick Moore. A feature-length documentary about a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. Part Captain Nemo, part Grizzly Man, the film follows Watson in the act as he repeatedly flouts the law, so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious law- breakers — the illegal poachers of the world. Palais 1
GANGOR (India) Drama, 92mins. Film Foundation Of India. Dir: Italo Spinelli. Key cast: Adil Hussain, Samrat Chakraborty, Priyanka Bose. The film unravels the struggle of migrant tribal Gangor, who excites the attention of ace photo
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