SCREENINGS
MARKET 11:30
XINGU (Brazil) 103mins. Rezo. Dir: Cao Hamburger. Key cast: Caio Blat, Maria Flor, Joao Miguel. Three brothers embark on a great
THE RESISTANCE (US) 90mins. Princ Films. Dir: Lee Zhang. Key cast: Hu Sang, Jeremy Williams, Li Zhang. In 1937 Japan begins the invasion of China by murdering more than 300,000 people in Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. In Beijing, rumours are spreading that a masked man is systematically killing Japanese soldiers, working his way up the chain of command. With the world’s attention on the war in Europe, the international treaties which should protect innocent civilians are useless and genocide rages throughout the country. An American reporter is sent to China to uncover the truth about the unrest between China and Japan. What he finds threatens his own life and the sovereignty of the US. Palais F
VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN (Chile) 110mins. Latido. Dir: Andres Wood. Key cast: Francisca Gavilan. Palais J
XINGU See box, above
n 54 Screen International at Cannes May 17, 2012 11:40
MINUSCULE — VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS (France) 2mins. Futurikon. Dir: Thomas Szabo, Helene Giraud. Riviera 2
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PLAYGROUND CHRONICLES (France) 85mins. Futurikon. Dir: Brahim Fritah. Key cast: Vincent Rottiers, Yanis Bahloul, Rocco Campochiaro. Brahim, who is 10 years old in 1980, takes us on an emotional journey into his daily life, his struggles and achievements in school, his friends, television and the factory where his father, a Moroccan immigrant, works as caretaker. Rooted in a social and economic era that is undergoing major changes, the end of the glorious industrial decades now marked by de-industrialisation and outsourcing, this historical period is also one of great changes for the young Brahim. He learns the meaning of friendship with Salvador, a Chilean refugee who becomes his inseparable playground companion. Riviera 2
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ARCADIA (US) 90mins. Visit Films.
adventure. Orlando, Claudio and Leonardo Villas Boas enlist in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition and head out on a trailblazing mission through Central Brazil. Arcades 1
Dir: Olivia Silver. Key cast: John Hawkes, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins. Greta’s dad is moving the family cross-country, promising a California paradise and packing half the household into a dented station wagon. All that’s missing is Mom. Riviera 1
GLADIATORS OF ROME (Italy) 85mins. Rainbow Spa. Dir: Iginio Straffi. After becoming an orphan in the eruption of Pompeii, a young boy named Timo gets saved by Chirone, founder of the biggest Gladiator’s academy of Rome. Timo does not seem to have any interest in becoming a gladiator though. Even after becoming and adult, he keeps spending his days in total apathy. The arrival of Lucilla turn the tables. The bony kid Timo remembered has grow up to a beautiful woman. Unfortunately for Timo, Chirone has promised his daughter to Cassio, Rome’s best gladiator in years. Olympia 8
HEATHENS AND THIEVES (US) 110mins. Multivisionnaire Pictures. Dir: John Douglas Sinclair, Megan Peterson. Key cast: Don Swayze, Gwendoline Yeo, Andrew Simpson.
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