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Due to a curse, a werewolf has been terrorising Arga. The only way to free the place is to feed the beast with a member of the family. Tomas, a loser writer and the only male descendent, happens to be a perfect candidate for it. Marriott 1
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ROUGH HANDS (Morocco) Intramovies, 97mins. Dir: Mohamed Asli. Key cast: Mohamed Bastaoui, Houda Rihani, Abdessamad Miftah Lkheir. Mustapha is an illiterate
is a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing the people’s dirty work and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. Cubix 1
THE COLOUR OF THE OCEAN (Germany, Spain) Global Screen, 96mins. Dir: Maggie Peren. Key cast: Alex Gonzalez, Sabine Timoteo, Hubert Kounde. When a boatload of Senegalese refugees arrives on the Canary Islands, German tourist Nathalie gets involved with their fate. CinemaxX 1
THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING (Netherlands) Global Screen, 118mins. Dir: Maarten Treurniet. Key cast: Rutger Hauer, Reinout Scholten Van Aschat. Amsterdam, 1983. Alfred Heineken, one of the wealthiest brewers and the most influential man in Holland, has one weakness: he feels invulnerable. It takes a
hairdresser and runs an underground trade as a middleman, facilitating favours in exchange for money. His neighbour Zakia, a schoolteacher, asks for help to get emigration papers to join her fiance in Spain. CinemaxX Studio 11
band of hot-headed men to crumble down this wall of invulnerability. dffb-Kino
THE RIF LOVER (Morocco, France, Belgium) Urban Distribution International, 90mins. Dir: Narjiss Nejjar. Key cast: Omar Lotfi, Nadia Kounda, Nadia Niazi. Aya, 20, dreams of love like the opera character Carmen. She ends up falling for a powerful hashish trafficker known as The Baron who buys her viginity from her brothers and turns out to be an illusory prince charming. CinemaxX Studio 15
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GUILT (Canada) Filmoption International, 91mins. Dir: Marc Bisaillon. Key cast: Genevieve Rioux, Emile Mailhiot, Pierre- Luc Lafontaine. Two teenagers try to deal with the moral consequences of a homicide they committed after a night of partying. Cubix 4
n 70 Screen International at the Berlinale February 10, 2012
IN THE NAME OF THE GIRL (Ecuador) The Match Factory, 100mins. Dir: Tania Hermida. Key cast: Eva Mayu Mecham, Markus Mecham, Juana Estrella. Karl Marx’s famous quote “Religion is the opium of the people” is one of the ‘odd’ ideas nine-year-old Manuela confronts her ultra-catholic family with, while she tries to teach her little cousins the basic principles of communism. CineStar 1
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FACE.THE SUPERMODELS, THEN AND NOW (US) Films Transit International, 75mins. Dir: Timothy Greenfield- Sanders. Top models, whose images have defined our sense of beauty over the past five decades, reveal the stories behind the magazine covers. CinemaxX Studio 17
ROUGH HANDS See box, above
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WIDOWS (Argentina) Filmsharks International, 100mins. Dir: Marcos Carnevale. Key cast: Graciela Borges, Valeria Bertuccelli, Rita Cortese. CinemaxX Studio 19
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LA RUN (Canada) Cinemavault, 104mins. Dir: Demian
Fuica. Key cast: Jason Roy-Leveillee, Marc Beaupre, Pierre-Luc Brillant. Assuming his father’s gambling debt, Guillaume, honest and straightforward, is drawn into the savage world of drug trafficking. CinemaxX Studio 18
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HIGH SCHOOL (US) K5 International, 102mins. Dir: John Stalberg. Key cast: Adrien Brody, Sean Marquette, Matt Bush. A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate and fail. Marriott 2
RED TEARS (Japan) All Rights Entertainment, 87mins. Dir: Takanori Tsujimoto. Key cast: Yasuaki Kurata, Natuki Kato, Yuma Ishigaki. While investigating a bizarre serial murder case, Tetsuo meets a mysterious woman, Sayoko. MGB-Kino
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GAME OFWEREWOLVES (Spain) Vertice Sales, 103mins. Dir: Juan Martinez. Key cast: Gorka Otxoa, Carlos Areces, Secun De la Rosa.
MIDNIGHT SON (US) Jinga Films, 88mins. Dir: Scott Leberecht. Key cast: Tracey Walter, Arien Escarpeta, Maya Parish/ Jacob is reclusive and forced by a rare disease to drink human blood. His world opens up when he falls in love with Mary. He must control his violent tendencies as the police suspect his involvement in a series of grisly murders. Marriott 3
TWO DAYS IN NEWYORK (France) Rezo, 91mins. Dir: Julie Delpy. Key cast: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy. Julie Delpy strikes back. This time, her family will travel to New York for two unforgettable days. Will her relationship with radio host superstar Mingus survive this test? CinemaxX 4
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CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT (Canada, China) Cat&Docs, 89mins. Dir: Yung Chang. In central China, a master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. CineStar 5
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HYSTERIA (US) Elle Driver, 109mins. Dir: Tanya Wexler. Key cast: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Everett. 1880: With the help of his friend Edmund, young doctor Mortimer Granville invents the world’s first vibrator, which proves to be an extraordinary success. CinemaxX Studio 14
THE DINOSAUR PROJECT (UK) StudioCanal, 84mins. Dir: Sid Bennett.
Key cast: Richard Dillane, Matthew Kane, Peter Brooke. And the world thought that dinosaurs were extinct? Brace yourself for a chilling ride through the depths of the Congo jungle as a film crew discovers that the 65 million-year-old species is more than alive! CineStar 4
TORMENTED (Japan) Fortissimo Films, 83mins. Dir: Takashi Shimizu. Key cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takeru Shibuya. Centres on a young boy whose family seems to be falling apart around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit. CineStar 6
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A LETTER TOMOMO (Japan) Production I.G, 120mins. Dir: Hiroyuki Okiura. Key cast: Karen Miyama, Yuka. After the loss of her father, Momo moves to the family house on a remote island. Not too fond of the new place, she also feels uneasy about an unfinished letter left by her father. Then, strange things start to occur. CinemaxX Studio 12
AMERIQUA (Italy) The Little Film Company, 90mins. Dir: Giovanni Consonni, Marco Bellone. Key cast: Bobby Kennedy III, Alec Baldwin, Alessandra Mastronardi. Fresh from college, Charlie takes a leap of faith and arrives in Italy without plans, friends or a place to stay. He’s ready to experience the world and, at all costs, postpone adulthood. CinemaxX 3
BATTLE OFWARSAW 1920 (Poland) VMI Worldwide, 115mins. Dir: Jerzy Hoffman. Key cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Borys Szyc, Natasza Urbanska. An epic tale of bravery and love that depicts the Polish battle for independence against the
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