SCREENINGS
BLACK NOVEMBER (Nigeria) 105mins. Wells And Jeta Entertainment. Dir: Jeta Amata. Key cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Mbong Amata. One local Niger Delta community’s struggle against their own government and a multi- national oil corporation that has plundered their land and destroyed the environment Riviera 1
CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE WEDDING (UK) 86mins. Goldcrest Films. Dir: Donald Rice. Key cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Crook. Today is Dolly’s wedding, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and petty grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. However, when the time comes for the beautiful but secretive bride to make her grand entrance, the uninvited appearance of Dolly’s lover from a previous summer, Joseph, cuts short her desire to join in the festivities and embark on her new life with her
new husband in South America. Olympia 9
COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES (UK) 90mins. Sc Films International. Dir: Mathias Hoene. Key cast: Alan Ford, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan. A gang of bank robbers fight their way out of a zombie-infested London. Arcades 2
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EL GUSTO (Algeria) 93mins. Fortissimo Films. Dir: Safinez Bousbia. Key cast: Ahmed Bernaoui Bernaoui, Mamad Haoder Benchaouch. Moving documentary tells the amazing story of the reunion of a group of Muslim and Jewish musicians 50 years after their separation during the Algerian Civil War and follows their story as they form a new orchestra. Palais K
FIRE BY LOUBOUTIN (France) 110mins. Mk2 International. Dir:
Bruno Hullin. Key cast: Christian Louboutin, The Crazy Horse Dancers. After having received a number of ‘Guest Creatures’ on its mythical stage, Dita Von Teese and Arielle Dombasle among others, it is Christian Louboutin’s turn to take over Le Crazy Horse. The famous creator of the red sole revisits the Crazy show, which he considers to be “an iconic monument of Paris, a monument to dance, a modern, dream- like idea of the celebration of Women for Women”. Star 2
GLORY – A TALE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) 103mins. Global Screen. Dir: Isabel Kleefeld Key cast: Axel Ranisch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Heino Ferch. What could a timid, technologically inept electrical engineer, a crime novelist stuck in the middle of Central Asia, an aging woman dying of pancreatic cancer, a movie star caught in the whirlwind of a public scandal, and an overweight computer
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CRAWL (Australia/US) 80mins. Epic Pictures Group. Dir: Paul China Key cast: Andy Barclay, George Shevtsov, Georgina Haig. A seedy bar-owner hires a mysterious Croatian to murder an acquaintance
over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out but a planned double- crossing backfires and an innocent waitress suddenly becomes involved. Now a hostage in her own home, the young woman is driven to desperate measures for survival. Star 1
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