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SCREENINGS


THE PATRON SAINTS (US) Pigeon Projects, 72mins. Dir: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky. A disquieting and hyperrealistic glimpse into life at a nursing home. Bound by the confessions of a recently disabled resident, the film weaves haunting scenes and stories from within the institution walls. Cubix 2


WALK AWAY RENEE (France) Wild Bunch, 90mins. Dir: Jonathan Caouette. Key cast: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis. An explosive, hallucinatory and deeply moving account of a road trip across the US with his volatile, vulnerable mother. CineStar 6


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EARLY ONE MORNING (France, Belgium) Les Films du Losange, 91mins. Dir: Jean-Marc Moutout. Key cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valerie Dreville, Xavier Beauvois. Monday morning, Paul Wertret heads off to his job at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He takes out a gun and kills his bosses. As he waits for the police, he looks back over the events that led him to commit such an act. CinemaxX Studio 14


HIROKIN (US) Echo Bridge Entertainment, 100mins. Dir: Alejo Mo-Sun. Key cast: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, Angus Macfadyen. Hirokin, a reluctant hero marked by a dark past, must fulfil his destiny when forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family or fighting for the freedom of a people long abused. CineStar Event Cinema


OLYMPIA (Argentina) KAFilms, 78mins. Dir: Leo Damario. Key cast:


Follows the wraith-like crack hooked Pentagram leader Bobby Liebling, as he struggles to kick drugs and his demons, move out of his parents basement and reset his life and career. CinemaxX Studio 18


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BLOOT BROTHAZ (Germany) Corazon International, 85mins. Dir: Ozgur Yildirim. Key cast: Sido. Story of Otis and Eddy, two pals since whenever. They share the little they have, and above all, a love for music. Their friendship crumbles when they sign at a major label. CinemaxX 1


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ELECTRICK CHILDREN (US) m-appeal – Raspberry & Cream, 96mins. Dir: Rebecca Thomas. Key cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken. Rachel, a 15-year old Mormon girl, discovers


Mercedes Moran, Lolo Fuentes, Mercedes Indigo. Tells the story of an 18-year-old aspiring actress. The use of social media mixed with personalities from the fashion, rock and porn universe accompany the 18-year-old Olympia to become a renowned pop culture star. Marriott 2


SHADOW PEOPLE (US) Arclight Films, 88mins. Dir: Matthew Arnold. Key cast: Dallas Roberts, Alison Eastwood. A late-night DJ exploring a terrifying encounter told to him by a caller, and a public health agent investigating unexplained deaths have their mysteries intertwined as they are taken into the dark world of the Shadow People. Marriott 1


Y/N YOU LIE YOU DIE (TRUE LOVE) (Italy) TF1 International, 103mins. Dir: Enrico Clerico Nasino. Key cast: John Brotherton, Ellen


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a forbidden rock music tape. Three months later, she claims to have had an immaculate conception. Her parents arrange a marriage, but Rachel runs away to the closest city, Las Vegas. CinemaxX 4


Hollman, Gabriel Myers. A seemingly perfect couple are tested on their love and commitment in the most terrifying way. CineStar 4


ZAMBEZIA (South Africa) Cinema Management Group, 83mins. Dir: Wayne Thornley. Key cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum. A young falcon leaves the desolate desert where he lives with his father to discover action and adventure in the big city of Zambezia. CineStar 1


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LOST IN PARADISE (Vietnam) Fortissimo Films, 97mins. Dir: VU Ngoc Dang. Key cast: Luong Manh Hai, Ho Vinh Khoa, Linh Son. Takes a provocative yet compassionate look at a group of people who live, love and exist on the fringes of contemporary Vietnam. CinemaxX Studio 15


A TRIP TO THE MOON & THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE (France) MK2, 79mins. Dir: Georges Melies, Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange. Key cast: Tom Hanks, Michel Gondry, Costa-Gavras. dffb-Kino


BARBARA (Germany) The Match Factory, 105mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Key cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock. A film about the personal transformation of a woman who is forced by ‘the wall’, an inexplicable phenomenon, to break with her regular life and lead a completely new life in a strange world. CineStar 2


DONNER PASS (US) Inferno Entertainment, 86mins. Dir: Elise Robertson. Key cast: Desiree Hall, Erik Stocklin, Colley Bailey. For seven teens that head up for a ski weekend to Donner Pass, tales of its horrifying legend are just a scary story but when one of them turns up not only dead, but half-eaten, they’re forced to confront that the tale may be true. Parliament


LAST DAYS HERE (US) Monoduo Films 91mins. Dir: Don Argott, Demian Fenton.


FRANCINE (US, Canada) Washington Square Films, 74mins. Dir: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky. Key cast: Melissa Leo, Victoria Charkut, Keith Leonard. A woman struggles to find her place in society after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs working with animals, Francine seeks intimacy in the most unlikely of places. CinemaxX 6


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PARIS UNDER WATCH (France) Films Distribution, 85mins. Dir: Cedric Jimenez, Arnaud Duprey. Key cast: Melanie Doutey, Olivier Barthelemy, Francis Renaud. Paris. One day before the presidential elections. A bomb attack in Gare d’Austerlitz: the government accuses Islamic groups, but a computer hacker finds images of the bombing and tracks down a young couple responsible for it. MGB-Kino


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UNFAIR WORLD (Germany, Greece) Films Boutique, 107mins. Dir: Filippos Tsitos. Key cast: Christos Stergioglou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Minas Hatzisavvas. Sotiris is a police


interrogator in Athens. One day, he has enough and decides to pardon every poor person to whom life is cruel. With the intention of saving an innocent soul, he eventually kills a corrupt security guard. CinemaxX Studio 13


YOLKI 2012 (Russia) Bazelevs, 106mins. Dir: Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Baranov, Alexander Kott, Levan Gabriadze. Key cast: Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Vera Brezhneva. Sometimes it happens and everything goes haywire. Even worse things happen if today is December 31. Our heroes have to fix everything overnight, on New Year’s Eve. CinemaxX Studio 12


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LEGEND OF A RABBIT (China) Tianjin Film Studio, 90mins. Dir: Sun Lijun. Key cast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Rebecca Black, Claire Geare. To keep a promise to a dying Kung Fu master on the run, a humble farmhouse rabbit must step out of the kitchen and take on ancient Beijing’s baddest bear to save the fate of China’s Kung Fu Academy forever. CinemaxX Studio 11


SEANCE: THE SUMMONING (Canada) Arrow Entertainment, 89mins. Dir: Alex Wright. Key cast: Bobby Campo, Nazneen Contractor, Chris Olivero. A night of hell when four college kids hold a seance in the city morgue. CinemaxX Studio 16


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HICK (US) Content 90mins. Dir: Derick Martini. Key cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne. An emotive, often funny but compelling story about 13-year-old Luli’s life on the road and the extraordinary experiences that will shape her life forever. CineStar 5


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