L’embardee. Dir: Sylvie Moreaux, Enrique Carballido. It feels like fiction. Thirty- seven Paraguayan artists whose 35-year struggle against the Stroessner regime brought them to the use of a powerful weapon — art. Isolated within a forgotten country in the heart of Latin America, their voices blend as they tell stories, poems written between days of torture, songs for which they were taken prisoner, dances and paintings that the military regime could not understand, sculpture and theater performed even as far as concentration camps. Gray 1
FAST GIRLS (UK) 95mins. Ealing Metro International. Dir: Regan Hall. Key cast: Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, Noel Clarke. A sexy, feisty, frenetic and fast-paced drama with romance, conflict and the thrill of a championship final. Olympia 8
GLADIATORS OF ROME (Italy) 85mins. Rainbow Spa. Dir: Iginio Straffi. After becoming an orphan in the eruption of Pompeii, a young boy named Timo is 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 an adult, he keeps spending his days in total apathy. The arrival of Lucilla turns the tables. The bony kid Timo remembered has grown up into a beautiful woman. Unfortunately for Timo, Chirone has promised his daughter to Cassio, Rome’s best gladiator in years. Cassio is handsome and rich and he is the emperor Domitian’s nephew. Olympia 9
HELLO I MUST BE GOING (US) 100mins. 6 Sales. Dir: Todd Louiso. Key cast: Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, Christopher Abbott, Dan Futterman, John Rubinstein, Julie White.
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A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA (France) 90mins. Europacorp. Dir: Thierry Binisti. Key cast: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby. Based on the novel by Valerie Zenatti. Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She’s lsraeli. He’s Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. A bottle
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects seem ridiculously unpromising when she must move back in with her parents at the age of 35. As her patience with her situation dwindles, a bold 19 year old ignites Amy’s last bit of passion – accidentally illuminating a possible path to her true self.
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HOME (Japan) 109mins. Toei Company. Dir: Seiji Izumi. Key cast: Yutaka Mizmiutani, Narumi Yasuda, Tatsuomi Hamada, Ai Hashimoto, Mitsuko Kusabue. The Takahashi family moves from Tokyo to a small village in Iwate Prefecture when the father, Koichi, is transferred. The new home he has chosen, thinking it perfect for them, turns out to be a 200-year-old farmhouse.
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thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality, to grapple with it and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them? Star 3
This sudden move to the countryside leaves his wife Fumiko, accustomed to life in Tokyo, anxious, unhappy, and unable to warm to her many elderly neighbors. Palais C
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (Germany) 88mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Hans-Christian Schmid. Key cast: Corinna Harfouch, Lars Eidinger, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stotzner. Marko is in his mid- thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days — far enough away from his parents Gitte and Gunter with their bourgeois lifestyle that he could never quite get used to. Riviera 3
THE LOOKOUT (France) 88mins. Studiocanal. Dir: Michele
Placido. Key cast: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz. A cop and a rogue army sniper go head to head in this suspenseful action thriller. Olympia 1
MUSICAL CHAIRS (US) 90mins. Outsider Pictures. Dir: Susan Seidelman. Key cast: Angelic Zambrana, E J Bonilla, Jaimie Tirelli. Mia and Armando meet at a midtown Manhattan dance studio where Mia is an instructor and Armando is a part-time handyman who exchanges his janitorial duties for dance lessons. Despite their differences, there is clearly a spark between them that is ignited one night when they find themselves alone practising in the studio. But before their relationship has a chance to grow, a tragic accident changes Mia’s life forever. True to his nature, Armando dedicates himself to helping Mia overcome the everyday challenges that follow. Palais I
ON THE SHORE (France) 90mins. Insomnia World Sales. Dir: Julien Donada. Michel Matarasso is a worn-out police officer in the city of Nice. All the death and violence he encounters on the streets seems to make him restless and drawn inwards.
Nothing is able to satisfy him until one lazy sunny afternoon he discovers the body of a girl. The more he starts learning about the girl’s life the more he becomes obsessed with her. Reality and dreams cross leaving the viewer to wonder what is real and what is just figment of his imagination. Palais G
OTHER THAN (US) 100mins. Real Ideas Studio. Dir: James Kenney. Palais K
PARIS UNDER WATCH (France) 85mins. Films Distribution. Riviera 1
RADIOSTARS (France) 100mins. Other Angle Pictures. Dir: Romain Levy. Key cast: Clovis Cornillac, Manu Payet. Olympia 3
THE SECOND DEATH (Argentina) 95mins. Reel Suspects. Dir: Santiago Fernandez Calvete. Key cast: Agustina Lecouna, Guillermo Arengo, Mauricio Dayub. Alba Aiello, a young, secretive homicide detective, moves to a small town where, apparently, nothing ever happens. When various burnt corpses are found in a praying position in the middle of a field in strange circumstances, she starts
investigating with the help of her assistant Fidel who she feels attracted to. The investigations seem to lead to nowhere until the magician arrives in town, a strange child claiming to have the gift of seeing people’s past when he touches their photograph. Gray 5
WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY (US) 113mins. Hanway Films. Dir: Robert B. Weide. Woody Allen: iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician, has allowed his life and creative process to be documented on camera for the first time. Star 2
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BAD KARMA (US) 83mins. Screen Media. Dir: Suri Krishnamma. Key cast: Dominic Purcell, Ray Liotta, Vanessa Gray. Palais B
CALM AT SEA (France) 90mins. Wide. Dir: Volker Schlondorff. Key cast: Jean-Marc Roulot, Leo Paul Salmain, Marc Barbe, Ulrich Matthes. This authentic story recounts the events which led up to the early death of the 17-year-old French resistant. Palais D
THE COLLECTION (US) 83mins. Cinema Management Group. Dir: Marcus Dunstan Key cast: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald. Immediately after Arkin escapes with his life from ‘The Collector’, he is abducted and blackmailed into going back with a team of tough mercenaries to rescue the beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman. Lerins 1
DARK FLIGHT 3D (Thailand) 104mins. Five Star Production (Thailand). Dir: Kongkiat Komesiri, Issara Nadee. Key cast: Marsha
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