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FATAL CALL (US) 95mins. Artist View Entertainment. Dir: Jack Snyder. Key cast: Jason London, Kevin Sorbo, Danielle Harris. As Mitch is starting a new life in the big city he meets Amy, a woman out of his league, who draws him into an exciting romance. Soon, he finds himself accused of murder and relentlessly pursued by both the law and an unknown hit man. Gray 2
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AMERICAN MARY (Canada) 100mins. Industryworks Pictures. Dir: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska. Key cast: Katharine Isabelle. The story of a medical student named Mary who is growing increasingly broke and disenchanted with medical school and the established doctors she once idolised. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the messy world of underground surgeries, which leaves more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele. Gray 3
BATTLEFIELD AMERICA (US) 110mins. American Cinema International. Dir: Chris Stokes. Key cast: Kida Burns, Marques Houston, Tristen M Carter. Takes a steady look at the underbelly of the youth battle dance culture in Long Beach, California. Gray 1
EXCISION (US) 81mins. Archstone Distribution. Dir: Richard Bates Jr. Key cast: AnnaLynne McCord, Ariel Winter, Jeremy Sumpter. Life sucks when you’re seventeen. Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her parents and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a
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social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon… that is if she doesn’t go mentally insane first. Palais B
FALSE HISTORY (Ukraine) 98mins. N-Novini. Dir: Konstantin Stogniy. Our group, having gone on an expedition to Patagonia with a goal to unravel the mystery of Hitler’s disappearance after the Second World War, absolutely clearly now understand the meaning of these words written by Miguel Serrano Fernandez, Hitler’s ‘right hand’ in esoteric matters. Palais J
GOOD VIBRATIONS (Ireland) 97mins. The Works International. Dir: Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D’sa. Key cast: Richard Dormer, Dylan Moran, Jody Whittaker. Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast, when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city’s nascent underground punk scene. Galvanising the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life. Star 2
HIP MOVES (France) 87mins. Capricci Films. Dir: Hpg. Key cast: HPG, Eric Cantona, Rachida Brakni. Palais D
MUIRHOUSE (Australia) 75mins. The Media Collective Pty.
Dir: Tanzeal Rahim. Key cast: David Saporito, Iain Mcdonald, Jordie McKay. Phillip Muirhouse spent one night in Australia’s most haunted house: the Monte Cristo. He was there to find evidence of ghosts, but he broke the first rule of all ghost hunters, he was there alone. Riviera 2
SHARQIYA (Israel) 85mins. Ez Films. Dir: Ami Livne Key Cast: Adnan Abu Wadi. Arcades 1
WOULD YOU RATHER (US) 93mins. VMI- Vantage Media International/Vision Music. Dir: David Guy Levy. Key cast: Brittany Snow, Sasha Grey, Jeffrey Combs. Iris has been left in charge of her ailing brother. The hospital bills are overwhelming and she is near hopelessness. When she gets an invitation to join a wealthy philanthropist for a fundraising dinner, her hopes are high. However, the dinner turns out to be a sadistic game of “Would You Rather’’ in which other desperate people compete in a horrific game to determine who will walk away with the money, and who will never walk again. Palais F
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BLACK DAWN (Japan) 129mins. Sdp. Dir: Kentaro Horikirizono. Key cast: Atsuro Watabe, Kang Woo Kim, Yoko Maki. Palais C
LOVE AND HONOR (US) 96mins. Lightning Entertainment. Dir: Danny Mooney. Key cast: Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Austin Stowell. Palais I
WORKERS (Italy) 106mins. Minerva Pictures Group. Dir: Lorenzo Vignolo. Key cast: Alessandro Tiberi, Dario Bandiera, Francesco Pannofino. Arcades 3
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