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All three wear baseball caps and gym shoes, and all three have the same problem: they are desperately single and spend their days watching life go by, unmotivated and with no ambition. And then one day they discover a classified ad in a porn magazine, announcing auditions to become a porn star. Hard up for women and cash, they decide to go for what sounds like the best job in the world. Star 2
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SIX BULLETS (US) 93mins. Motion Picture Corporation Of America. Dir: Ernie Barbarash. Key cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joe Flanigan. When the daughter of a mixed martial artist is kidnapped, there is only one man who can help find her: an ex-mercenary rumoured to have once taken six bullets to his chest. Palais C
STOP CRYING PENELOPE! (France) 90mins. SND — Groupe M6. Dir: Corinne Puget, Juliette Arnaud. Key cast: Christine Anglio, Corinne Puget, Juliette Arnaud. Thirty-something Chloe is dissatisfied with growing older and plans a radical physical makeover. She will finance her plastic surgery through the sale of her recently deceased aunt’s country home. But Chloe’s plans are altered when she discovers that her aunt’s will surprisingly includes two other heirs: Leonie and Penelope, Chloe’s childhood friends. The three friends, who haven’t seen each other in several years, take a weekend trip to country house they inherited — and where they spent their summer holidays as adolescents. Palais I
TERRIBLE ANGELS (US) 95mins. Princ Films. Dir: Anthony Pierce. Key cast: Michael Madsen, Geppina
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MYN BALA (Kazakhstan) 127mins. Silversalt Pr. Dir: Akan Satayev. Key cast: Aliya Telebarisova, Kuralay Anaberkova, Assylkhan Tolepov. Kazakhstan, 1729: The Dzungars, a ferocious Mongol tribe, has swept across the steppes. Kazakh sultans have left their people to fend for themselves. Young Sartai and other survivors of a Dzungar attack fled to the inhospitable mountains, where they
Scrigna, Una Jo Blade, Hank Cartwright, Meiko Mitchell, Adrienne Vogel, Spencer Montoya. Detective Ben Nolan is sent to a state penitentiary to investigate the story of convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Over the course of the interview Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks by a man named Justice. Throughout the interview, Linda goes on to describe her captor and how he had buried people alive in coffins. Although Ben does not believe Linda, he tries to uncover the truth. As the investigation unfolds Ben soon discovers very similar stories from people who are known drug addicts. Soon Linda’s sanity is put to questioned as she retraces her steps of what had happened throughout the supposed abduction. Palais E
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learned to eke out a living. Curiosity and a growing sense of revenge drive Sartai and his friends back to the steppe, where he can’t help falling in love with the beautiful Zere, daughter of a local khan who chose to protect his village by working with the hated Mongols. Discovering his own strength, Sartai assembles a detachment of young warriors called ‘myn bala’, ‘a thousand boys’ in Kazakh. Arcades 3
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CAPTIVE (France) 120mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Brillante Mendoza. Key cast: Isabelle Huppert, Katherine Mulville, Marc Zanetta, Maria Isabel Lopez, Rustica Carpio Carpio. Therese Bourgoine is a French national who is a volunteer humanitarian- social worker with a non- governmental organisation on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. While transporting supplies to the organisation base in Puerto Princesa (the capital of Palawan), she and her fellow volunteer, Filipina Soledad Carpio, are unwittingly kidnapped by an extremist group. Lerins 1
EUNGYO (South Korea) 120mins. Lotte Entertainment. Dir: Jung Ji-Woo. Key cast: Park Hae-Il, Kim Moo-
Yeol, Kim Go-Eun. Lee Jeok-yo, a celebrated poet in his seventies, meets a 17-year-old girl named Eungyo, who brought back both passion and desire to him. Inspired by her, he writes a novel. But his protege, jealous about their relationship, steals Lee’s literary work. Star 4
GENGHIS KHAN (China) 120mins. Inner Mongolia Film Association. Dir: Sai Fu, Mai Lisi. Key cast: Tu Men. Temujin (later known as Genghis Khan) was born in the 12th century amid the turbulence of ongoing battles between the tribes in the Mongolian grasslands. Faced with continuous upheaval, life is a struggle as Temujin grows up — his father is poisoned, his family are abandoned by their tribe, and his mother is left alone to raise his three brothers and himself. Through his mother’s love, Genghis discovers the meaning of life, the good and evil of human nature, and survives through the misfortunes to become the founder of the Mongol Empire. Palais H
GRANNY GOES TO SCHOOL (South Korea) 102mins. 9Ers Entertainment. Dir: Jin Gwang-Kyo. Key cast: Kim Jin-Koo, Shin Chae-Yeon. Palais J
JALPARI — “THE DESERT MERMAID’’ (India) 94mins. Ultra
Distributors Pvt. Dir: Nila Madhab Panda. Key cast: Lehar Khan, Parvin Dabas, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Suhasini Mulay, Krishang Trivedi, Harsh Mayar, V N Badola, Rahul Singh. Palais F
JUAN OF THE DEAD (Spain) 100mins. Latinofusion. Dir: Alejandro Brugues. Key cast: Alexis Do≠az De Villegas, Andrea Duro, Andros Perugorro≠a, Antonio Dechent, Jorge Molina. Riviera 4
LESS THAN NOTHING (Brazil) 105mins. Cinema Do Brasil. Dir: Carlos Gerbase. Key cast: Branca Messina, Felipe Kannenberg, Rosane Mulholland, Maria Manoella. The story of Dante, a mental patient hospitalised for 10 years in a psychiatric hospital. He is considered a hopeless case, until a young doctor decides to treat and study him. Palais B
LOVE HURTS (Italy) 94mins. Minerva Pictures Group. Dir: Mirca Viola. Key cast: Diane Fleri, Nicole Grimaudo, Paolo Briguglia, Stefania Rocca. Germana is an unemployed actress and mother. Her lover is an older man, Massimo, who is a rich lawyer. By chance, she meets the handsome Gianmarco and begins an affair with him. Elizabeth, a young doctor
in crisis with her husband Aldo, decides to invite her friend Germana to come to Sicily. Riviera 2
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OUTPOST 11 (UK) 100mins. The Film Festival Doctor. Dir: Anthony Woodley. Key cast: Bernard Hill, Billy Clarke, Luke Healy Set in an alternative past where steam power still rules the world, ‘Outpost 11’ is the story of three soldiers manning a remote listening post in the Arctic Circle. One day the warning light goes off unexpectedly and their world is plunged into chaos. Palais D
RED TEARS (Japan) 87mins. All Rights Entertainment Limited. Dir: Takanori Tsujimoto. Key cast: Ayaka Morita, Natuki Kato, Yasuaki Kurata, Yuma Ishigaki. A serial killer leaves behind a trail of headless bodies. Hazuki appeals to detective Tetsuo that her missing boyfriend is involved in the case because of a lady who was with him when he disappeared. Hazuki shows him a picture of the lady, Sayoko, and he is attracted to her beauty. Tetsuo unexpectedly runs into Sayoko while investigating the location in the picture. He is fascinated by her, and she is also drawn to the righteous Tetsuo. Gray 4
STITCHES (Ireland) 80mins. MPI Media Group. Dir: Conor McMahon. Key cast: Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Gemma Leah Devereaux A clown killed by a birthday party prank gone horribly wrong is years later brought back to life by a cult of black magic clowns and plots his revenge on the teenagers who killed him. Comedy and gore come together in this twisted tale of a very bad clown. Arcades 1
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