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SCREENINGS


ECSTASY (Canada) Intandem Films, 100mins. Dir: Rob Heydon. Key cast: Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd. When Lloyd almost dies after a drug smuggling operation fails terribly and faces the possibility of losing the love of his life, he decides to turn his life around and finds that natural highs might be the best of all. Cubix 3


HAMILTON – IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION (Sweden) Svensk Filmindustri, 108mins. Dir: Kathrine Windfeld. Key cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Saba Mubarak, Jason Flemyng. Masked soldiers attack a vehicle loaded with high-tech missiles in an attempted smuggling operation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, a Swedish engineer is kidnapped in Ethiopia. Hamilton is ordered to investigate the kidnapping. CinemaxX Studio 18


HOUSE OFMY FATHER (US) Sierra/Affinity, 101mins. Dir: Matt Piedmont. Key cast: Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna. Scheming on a way to save their father’s ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord. Cubix 1


NTV PROMO REELS (Japan) Nippon Television Network, 50mins. Dir: Mamoru Hosoda. Marriott 2


OUR HOMELAND (Japan) Forum Office, 100mins. Dir: Yang Yonghi. Key cast: Iura Arata, Ando Sakura, Yang Ik-June. Sonho returns from North Korea to Japan to be treated for a brain tumour after having been sent to Pjongyang as a teenager by his father. His brief visit brings past emotions back to the surface. CinemaxX 6


Ishinomori. It features cyborg characters, humans with part of their body replaced by artificial materials to enhance physical ability. CineStar 1


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KING CURLING (Norway) Films Boutique, 75mins. Dir: Ole Endresen. Key cast: Atle Antonsen, Linn Skaber, Kare Conradi. Once a great curling star, Truls Paulsen is


ROMEO ELEVEN (Canada) Reprise Films, 93mins. Dir: Ivan Grbovic. Key cast: Ali Ammar, Joseph Bou Nassar, Sanda Bourenane. The intimate portrait of a shy young man looking for love in all the wrong places. CinemaxX 2


SONNY BOY (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium) Delphis Films, 133mins. Dir: Maria Peters. Key cast: Ricky Koole, Sergio Hasselbaink, Marcel Hensema. A controversial love story based on true events between a Dutch divorced mother and a younger Afro-Caribbean student. Their love conquers all prejudice and opposition but is alas destroyed by the devastating power of the Second World War. CinemaxX Studio 16


ZARAFA (France, Belgium, Belgium) Pathe


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SEA SHADOW (UAE) Fortissimo Films, 98mins. Dir: Nawaf Al-Janahi. Key cast: Omar Al Mulla, Neven Madi, Abrar Al Hamad. Follows a young Emirati boy and girl growing up in a small seaside village, who struggle with tradition and convention in their journey towards adulthood. Kino Arsenal 2


diagnosed with obsessive- compulsive disorder and banned from competing. When he learns that his coach Gordon is on his deathbed, Truls decides to compete again to save his friend’s life. Kino Arsenal 1


International, 78mins. Dir: Remi Bezancon, Jean-Christophe Lie. Recounts the magical adventure of an orphaned giraffe, given by the Pasha of Egypt to the King of France, her friend Maki, and Hassan, Prince of the Desert, in their epic journey that takes them from Sudan to Paris. CinemaxX 10


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ABOUT THE PINK SKY (Japan) Free Stone Productions, 113mins. Dir: Keeichi Kobayashi. Key cast: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara. High school girl Izumi finds a wallet with cash and lends some of the money to a middle-aged man. When she returns the wallet to its owner, a rich high-school boy, he notices the missing money and asks a favour. Cubix 2


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THE AMBASSADOR (Denmark, Sweden,


Belgium) TrustNordisk, 93mins. Dir: Mads Brugger. A strange and enigmatic white diplomat arrives in central Africa. Officially he is there to start a factory that produces matches. Unofficially he is really there to gain access to vast reserves of diamonds. CineStar 2


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HOWTO STOP BEING A LOSER (UK) Parkland Pictures, 109mins. Dir: Dominic Burns. Key cast: Richard E Grant, Gemma Atkinson, Simon Phillips. Useless with women, James’ luck changes under the tutelage of pick-up artist Ampersand. As he learns the art of seduction he begins to wonder about Ampersand’s intentions and questions what would truly make him happy in life. Marriott 2


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CAFE DE FLORE (Canada, France) Films Distribution, 120mins. Dir: Jean-Marc Vallee. Key cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Helene Florent. An epic love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. CineStar 5


CLEANSKIN (UK) The Salt Company, 110mins. Dir: Hadi Hajaig. Key cast: Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Burke. Ewan is a secret service agent working deep undercover. When the agency confirms there is a terrorist cell operating in London, Ewan is given a new mission: to find and kill them all before they strike again. CineStar 7


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THE PARADE (Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia) Wide, 115mins. Dir: Srdjan Dragojevic. Key cast: Nikola Kojo, Milos Samolov, Hristina Popovic. A homophobic middle- aged Serbian gangster ends up sacrificing himself to protect gay freedom in his country. Radmilo and Mirko are a young and successful gay couple and they would be a happy couple anywhere else except in Serbia. CinemaxX Studio 19


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009 RE:CYBORG (Japan) T-Joy/ Amazonlaterna, 30mins. Dir: Kenji Kamiyama. Based on a science fiction comic by one of the most influential Japanese comic artists Shotaro


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EMERGO (Spain) Kinology, 85mins. Dir: Carles Torrens. A group of scientists. A father. His two kids. Stuck in an apartment. The most terrifying experiment. CinemaxX Studio 11


MAMA ILLEGAL (Austria) Doc & Film International, 102mins. Dir: Ed Moschitz. They gave the smugglers all their money and risked their lives on their journey across borders: three women from a small town in Moldavia now living in Austria as cleaners. CinemaxX Studio 17


THE BIRD (France) Les Films du Losange, 93mins. Dir: Yves Caumon. Key cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Clement Sibony, Bruno Todeschini. Anne is discreet. Secretive. Anne does without love. It suits her fine. Anne has been through an ordeal, not lost her mind. Anne is making her way back upstream, retracing the journey, letting us wait for her joy to come back. CinemaxX Studio 13


THE FOURTH STATE (Germany) Celluloid


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