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Dir: Victor Salva. Key cast: Rose McGowan, Lauren Velez. When Doctor Sonny Blake returns to live in the town she grew up in, a demon from her abusive past return as well. He’s the teenage paper delivery boy. AMC Santa Monica 2


SISTERS & BROTHERS Comedy, 85mins. Myriad Pictures. Dir: Carl Bessai. Key cast: Cory Monteith, Amanda Crew. The bond between sisters and brothers — sometimes loving, sometimes hating, always intense — is explored in four different stories about four very different sets of siblings. Criterion 6


THE SLEEPING VOICE Drama, 100mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Benito Zambrano. Key cast: Inma Cuesta, Maria Leon, Marc Clotet. A women’s prison in Ventas. General Franco and his army have seized power. The winners are not satisfied with their victory, they want to exterminate their enemy. Every man and woman who was part of, or supported, the Resistance, or who is just suspected of it, will be hunted down and eradicated without mercy. Ocean Screenings 1


SNOWFLAKE —THEWHITE GORILLA Animation, childrens, 90mins. Filmax International. Dir: Andres Schaer. Key cast: Elsa Pataky. Snowflake knows what it’s like to be different. His snow-white fur has set him apart from other gorillas since the day he was born. He is the main attraction at Barcelona Zoo, popular with everyone except the other gorillas. But now Snowflake has a plan: to visit a powerful witch that could help him become a “normal” gorilla. Laemmle Monica 1


THE SOURCE Drama, 120mins. EuropaCorp. Dir: Radu Mihaileanu. Key cast: Leila Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi.


for malevolent purposes, it closes in on one specific soul, threatening to expose the town’s deepest, darkest secret. Fairmont 2


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TRANSIT Action/adventure, 90mins. IM Global. Dir: Antonio Negret. Key cast: Elisabeth Rohm, James Caviezel, James Frain. To move four million dollars of stolen money


In a little village in the Maghreb, Leila, a woman aged 20, fights for an end to the water-fetching duty: the men sit around doing nothing while the women do all the work. Leila declares a sex strike: no more lovemaking until the men build a conduit to supply water to the village. Criterion 2


TARBOSAURUS (3D) Action/adventure, romance, 97mins. CJ Entertainment. Dir: Han Sang-ho. The cunning One-eye, an older Tyrannosaur looking for a new home, attacks Spotty’s herd one day and, smelling sure victory, viciously tears Spotty’s family away from him. Now on his own, he meets up with another lonely, lost Tarbosaur. Blue Eyes becomes his constant companion for two decades and the mother of his own children. AMC Santa Monica 4


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past a police roadblock, the perpetrators of a deadly bank heist use a suburban family as unwitting couriers. Now, the criminals want their money back and will stop at nothing to reclaim their ill-gotten gains. Fairmont 2


WUNDERKINDER Period drama, 96mins. Telepool/Cinepool — A Division of Telepool. Dir: Markus O Rosenmuller. Key cast: Kai Wiesinger, Catherine Flemming, Konstantin Wecker. During the Second World War in the Ukraine, three musical child prodigies — a German girl, Hannah, and the two Jewish kids, Larissa and Abrasha — have to learn to use their musical skill, their undying friendship and all their courage to survive in the face of a grown-up world gone mad. Laemmle Monica 2


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BOOKED OUT Romantic comedy, 82mins. Locomotive Distribution. Dir: Bryan O’Neil. Key cast: Rollo Weeks, Sylvia Syms, Claire Garvey, Mirren Burke. Ailidh has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic novels. The arrival of Jacob inspires Ailidh and she soon begins


conjuring up increasingly elaborate plans to bump into her “mystery man”. While Ailidh is taking care of her neighbour, Mrs Nicholls, who spends most of her day doting over her dead husband, enlists Jacob to teach him French. Unfortunately, Ailidh’s romantic endeavors are disrupted when she realises she isn’t the only girl in Jacob’s life. Le Merigot 1


INKUBUS Horror, thriller, 82mins. VMI Worldwide. Dir: Glenn Ciano. Key cast: Robert Englund, William Forsythe. A police crew working the sleepy night shift encounters a mysterious stranger, named Inkubus, appearing from out of nowhere and holding a young woman’s severed head. The police are fated to witness the demon’s crowning achievement of murder Fairmont 4


IVAN’S DREAM Comedy, 90mins. Latido Films. Dir: Roberto Santiago. Key cast: Oscar Casas, Demian Bichir. For the first time in history of football, a world-class selection of stars will play against a world-class selection of children. Ivan, an 11-year- old boy selected to play in the game, will also try to win Paula’s heart. And


this match is going to be much more difficult… Laemmle Monica 4


LITTLE OBAMA Family, 103mins. Allied Entertainment. Dir: John De Rantau, Damien Dematra. Key cast: Hasan Faruq Ali, Cara Lachelle. Explores themes on friendship and living in a diverse world. The story of Little Obama is to share the fact that even the most ordinary kid from a multicultural background can become President of the United States of America. An inspirational look at the growth and development from childhood to the world’s most powerful political figure. Le Merigot 2


MEETING SPENCER Comedy, 88mins. Fries Film Group. Dir: Malcolm Mowbray. Key cast: Jeffrey Tambor, Jesse Plemons, Don Stark. Fairmont 1


PLAYBACK Thriller, 94mins. Celluloid Nightmares. Dir: Michael Nickles. Key cast: Christian Slater, Toby Hemingway. When a group of high school students dig into their town’s infamous past they unwittingly unlock an evil that corrupts and destroys them. Possessing its victims through video playback and using them


BABYCALL Thriller, 95mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Pal Sletaune. Key cast: Noomi Rapace. Anna and her eight-year old son, Anders, are on the run from Anders’ violent father. They move to a secret address in a giant apartment building. Anna is terrified that her ex-husband will find them. She buys a babycall to make sure Anders is safe while he sleeps, but strange noises echo in the babycall from elsewhere in the building. Anna overhears what she believes is the murder of a child. Ocean Screenings 1


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AND IFWE ALL LIVED TOGETHER Drama, 96mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Stephane Robelin. Key cast: Guy Bedos, Daniel Bruhl, Geraldine Chaplin. Five close friends: five different problems with growing old. Ocean Screenings 1


CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO- TERRORIST Documentary, 90mins. The Little Film Company. Dir: Peter Jay Brown. Key cast: Captain Paul Watson. Reveals the true 30-year odyssey of the most wanted environmentalist today, Captain Paul Watson, the cult hero of Animal Planet’s critically acclaimed ‘Whale Wars’. Le Merigot 2


THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY Drama, 90mins. Maya Entertainment Group. Dir: Joe Maggio. Key cast: Dennis Farina, Jamie Allman. Chronicles the last days in the life of Joe May, an aging, short money hustler who, despite a life of loss and failure, has always believed that a


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