Dir: Gereon Wetzel. Three-star chef Ferran Adria is widely considered the best, most innovative and craziest chef in the world. CinemaxX 1
HARD ROMANTICKER (Japan) Toei Company, 110mins. Dir: Suyeon Gu. Key cast: Shota Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Shidou Nakamura. Gu, a second-generation Korean, is living in a town brimming with fights, sex and hard drugs. He gets caught up in local uproars and at times he runs rampant as well. Marriott 3
LAST CALL AT THE OASIS (US) Ealing Metro International, 99mins. Dir: Jessica Yu. Global water shortage is the biggest social issue facing the world today. This powerful, shocking film shatters myths and provides solutions that will make all of us take one less sip from a natural resource we take for granted. Cubix 2
NAKED HUMAN NATURE (China) All Rights Entertainment, 78mins. Dir: Anastasia Tsang, Ches Yim, Lee Siu Lung, Nip Ling. Key cast: Anastasia Tsang, Ches Yim, Lee Siu Lung. P1: When a transsexual becomes a homosexual. Born male, Terrence claims to have a female soul. P2: An adolescent
decides to save his mother and sister, by killing them. With no regrets, he claims that the world has too many sinners. Parliament
SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS (Germany) Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH, 82mins. Dir: Stefan Butzmuhlen, Cristina Diz. Key cast: Raul Godoy, Jaime Pedruelo. Two men meet in the bucolic atmosphere of a late Extremadurian summer, as the traditional customs of the area and the older generation’s re-enactments in full knight’s garb come again and again to the fore. CinemaxX 6
WINNIE (South Africa, Canada) Film Bridge International, 108mins. Dir: Darrell Roodt. Key cast: Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard, Elias Koteas. The powerful love story that changed the world. Winnie and Nelson Mandela endured more than 20 years of separation and political turmoil … ultimately tearing them apart. Marriott 2
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DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL (US) HanWay Films, 88mins. Dir: Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Key cast: Frederic Tcheng. This stylish, intimate
documentary celebrates the 20th century’s greatest arbiter of style, the ‘High Priestess of Fashion’ – the witty, vibrant, legendary Diana Vreeland. CinemaxX Studio 19
RITES OF SPRING (US) Jinga Films, 83mins. Dir: Padraig Reynolds. Key cast: Katherine Randolph, Anessa Ramsey, AJ Bowen. A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring. Marriott 1
WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: SEEDIQ BALE (Taiwan) Fortissimo Films, 150mins. Dir: Wei Te-Sheng. Key cast: Lin Ching-Tai, Boya Umin, Ando Masanobu. Tells the true story of the Wushe Incident in which the aboriginal Seediq tribe warrior Mouna Rudo led his people to rebel against Japan, then occupying the island. Kino Arsenal 2
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KARAMAN (Germany) EYZ Media, 104mins. Dir: Tamer Yigit, Branka Prlic. Key cast: Isilay Gul, Talu Emre Tuntas, Burak Yigit Hamit Bey: Ex-member of the military junta, proud of the modern Turkey of today, threatened by prosecution. He must now cope with his daughter Zehra being
a practising Muslim and his son Erol listening to black metal. How to accept? CinemaxX Studio 12
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THE FIELD OF ENCHANTMENT (France) Wild Bunch, 81mins. Dir: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou. Key cast: Simon Delagnes, Lindsey Henocque, Jean- Claude Ayrinhac. Two lonely children fall under the spell of a wild place, a secret wonderland that draws them closer and gives them the strength to cope with life. MGB-Kino
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CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND (Romania, Poland) Wide, 73mins. Dir: Anca Damian. Key cast: Vlad Ivanov, Jamie Sives. Tells the story of a 33-year-old Romanian, who died in a Polish prison while on hunger strike. CinemaxX Studio 13
THE IMPOSTER (UK) Protagonist Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Bart Layton. In 1994, a boy disappears without a trace from Texas. 3 years later he is found alive halfway across the world in Spain with a horrifying tale of kidnap. His family is overjoyed to bring him home – but all is not quite as it seems. CineStar 5
THE OTHER SON (France) Wild Bunch, 104mins. Dir: Lorraine Levy. Key cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbe, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari. Joseph, an 18-year-old Israeli boy, discovers that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the lives of these two families around. CineStar 1
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BALLROOMDANCER (Denmark) Autlook Filmsales, 81mins. Dir: Christian Holten Bonke, Andreas Koefoed. Key cast: Slavik Kryklyvyy, Anna Melnikova. Ten years after he won the world championship, Slavik plans a comeback with his new love and dance partner Anna. This is the dazzling story of their love for dancing and each other. Is it strong enough for the world championship? CinemaxX Studio 18
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A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA (France) EuropaCorp 90mins. Dir: Thierry Binisti. Key cast: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass Tal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She’s Israeli. He’s Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They must endure
an explosive situation. CineStar 6
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Romania, Netherlands) Films Boutique, 107mins. Dir: Radu Jude. Key cast: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Mihaela Sirbu. Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius deep frustration. The planning of a short holiday causes a family dispute which soon gets out of control. CinemaxX Studio 15
HOTCHPOTCH (Iran) Farabi Cinema Foundation, 90mins. Dir: Ebrahim Forouzesh. Key cast: Leila Otadi, Setareh Eskandari, Hedayat Hashemi. A mother dies giving birth to a baby. Responsible for taking care of the newborn child single- handedly, the father faces so many problems as the baby does not want to be bottle-fed. The problem continues even when he’s grown up. CinemaxX Studio 11
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(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 100mins. Dir: Christian E. Christiansen. Key cast: Tuva Novotny, Flemming Enevold, Carsten Bjornlund Aliena wakes up in a river in France with no memory, a bag with two million euros and a scar across her chest. And
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