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ALIYAH (France) 90mins. Dir: Elie Wajeman. Key cast: Adele Hanel, Cedric Kahn, Pio Marmai. Paris, 2011. Alex is 27. He makes a living selling hash and pays off the debts of his brother Isaac


But when one questions the other’s beliefs, neither is prepared for the chain of events set in motion. Competition Press Salle Debussy


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MADAGASCAR 3, EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (US) 90mins. Dir: Eric Darnell, Tom Mcgrath, Conrad Vernon. Key cast: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock.


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who, after providing him with support, has become a burden. So when his cousin tells him that he is opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines joining him to start a new life at last. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette


Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent — Madagascar style. Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere


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ALIYAH See box, above


PROJECT A 100mins. Dir: Jackie Chan. Plage Mace


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BEYOND THE HILLS (Romania) 155mins. Dir: Cristian Mungiu. Key cast: Catalina Harabagiu, Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur. Competition Press Salle Bazin


IN A RUSH (France) 94mins. Dir: Louis-Do De Lencquesaing. Key cast: Alice De Lencquesaing, Mathe Keller, Valentina Cervi, Xavier Beauvois. Critics’ Week Miramar


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LAURENCE ANYWAYS (Canada) 170mins.


Dir: Xavier Dolan. Key cast: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clement, Monia Chokri, Nathalie Baye. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy


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REALITY (Italy) 116mins. Dir: Matteo Garrone. Key cast: Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone. In Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere


MARKET SCREENINGS


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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Finland) 128mins. Nonstop Sales Ab. Dir: JP Siili. Key cast:


Lauri Tilkanen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola. Nineteenth century. In the plainlands of Ostrobothnia, Western Finland, a tradition prevails, according to which the first-born son inherits everything and the remaining offspring must fend for themselves. The law has been cast aside in many areas and groups of men, knife- wielding thugs, nicknamed “toughs”, control the fields. The blade rules the land. The household and farm are vast and affluent. There are two sons. The younger son Matti is an upstanding man fit to inherit the farm, and secretly engaged to a young woman named Aino from the neighbouring farm. Palais H


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COME AS YOU ARE (Belgium) 115mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Geoffrey Enthoven Key cast: Gilles de Schryver, Isabelle de Hertogh, Robrecht Vanden Thoren Three guys in their early twenties love wine and women but they are still virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experience. Nothing will stop them. Not even their handicaps: one is blind, the other is confined to a wheelchair and the third one is completely paralysed. Riviera 2


SUSKIND (Netherlands) 118mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Rudolf Van Den Berg. Key cast: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Karl Markovics, Nyncke Beekhuyzen. Tells the true story of Jewish resistance hero Walter Suskind who worked for the Jewish Council in Amsterdam during the Second World War. By playing a cat- and-mouse game with SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Aus der Funten, he managed to save almost a thousand Jewish children from deportation. Star 4


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COMES A BRIGHT DAY See box, right


EASY MONEY II (Sweden) 97mins. Trustnordisk. Dir: Babak Najafi. Key cast: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares, Dejan Cukic. JW, the promising business student who became an organised coke smuggler, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back to an honest life. But a man from his past — the former hitman Mrado Slovovic — changes everything. Jorge returns to Sweden to pull off a giant coke deal. But the deal fails terribly and now he has to flee the country with both the police and the Serbian mafia on his tail. Mahmud owes the Serbian boss Radovan a large sum of money. When he can’t pay off his debt he


n 72 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2012


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