SCREENINGS
TBA PATHE Dir: Ryuhei Kitamura. Star 1
TO FORGIVE (China) 95mins. Pad International (Producers Alliance For Distribution). Dir: Minjiang Zhu. Key cast: Xiaowei Yu, Renliang Qiao, Vivian Wu. Palais K
TROPHY See box, below
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MARKET 20:30
HIMIZU (Japan) 129mins. Gaga Corporation. Dir: Sion Sono. Key cast: Shota Sometani, Fumi Nikaidou, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Ken
SEXUAL CHRONICLES OF A FRENCH FAMILY (France) 85mins. Wide. Dir: Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold. Key cast: Mathias Melloul, Valerie Maàs, Nathan Duval. The daily life of a today’s family is suddenly shaken when the youngest child, Romain, is caught masturbating and filming himself with his mobile phone in his biology class at school. Palais D
SEXWORK & ME (Netherlands) 55mins. TCF Film. Dir: Clare Sturges. A fresh perspective on 21st century legal prostitution through the frank stories of Amsterdam red-light district sexworkers at a time when tighter regulation threatens their livelihood. Palais B
WHEN ANGELS SING (US) 99mins. GRB Entertainment. Dir: Tim McCanlies. Key
Mitsuishi, Denden, Yosuke Kubozuka. The story of a boy and a girl who are confronted with a horrific personal reality against the backdrop of the devastation caused by last year’s earthquake in Japan. Palais E
cast: Harry Connick Jr, Connie Britton, Chandler Canterbury, Kris Kristofferson, Fionnula Flanagan, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. As a child Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That was until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can’t muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well- intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost. Palais F
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HIMIZU See box, above
MUM’S MOONLIGHT (China) 90mins. Inner Mongolia Film
n 102 Screen International at Cannes May 19, 2012
Association. Dir: Yaping Feng. Key cast: Ai Liya. The kindhearted and unyielding Sala is an elementary school teacher who grew up on the grasslands, is deeply passionate about life and her career, and has an undying faith and love for her husband, Qinggele. She had met and fell in love with the handsome, brave and expert horse- trainer one day on the banks of the mysterious and beautiful Moon Lake. They made a pledge to each other, and with Moon Lake bearing witness to their love, swore that they would return to Moon Lake at the end of their lives. Palais C
SADAKO 3D (Japan) 105mins. Kadokawa Shoten Co.. Dir: Tsutomu Hanabusa. Key cast: Satomi Ishihara, Koji Seto, Yusuke Yamamoto. In 2012, ‘Sadako’, the most horrifying character from the Ring series, will be resurrected in 3D. Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumour from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone’s suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumour at first, but when one of her female students dies
after viewing the footage, she and her boyfriend Takanori are fatefully drawn into the horror that has been created by the man who appears in the suicide footage, Kashiwada. Kashiwada’s intention is to create chaos in the world by bringing back Sadako and the power of her curse. Now Akane has to fight against Sadako and Kashiwada to save the lives of herself and Takanori. Palais I
THE CLOTH (US) 30mins. VMI- Vantage Media International/Vision Music. Dir: Justin Price. Key cast: Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts, Rachele Brooke Smith Riviera 2
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THE LITHIUM CONSPIRACY (BREVE STORIA DI LUNGHI TRADIMENTI) (Italy) 104mins. Intramovies. Dir: Davide Marengo. Key cast: Guido Caprino, Carolina Crescentini, Maya Sansa Giulio, torn between a demanding wife and a job that seems to have no future after a bank merger, is being practically pushed on a plane to a
place called Queimada in South America. Star 4
THE CLOTH (US) 30mins. VMI- Vantage Media International/Vision Music. Dir: Justin Price. Key cast: Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts, Rachele Brooke Smith. Riviera 2
PIAZZA FONTANA: THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY 130mins. Rai Trade Department. Lerins 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. Albert, Mason, Graham must fight the isolation, madness and arctic spiders to survive. Palais D
MARKET 20:30
TROPHY (US) 97mins. New Films International. Dir: Daniel J. Gillin. Key cast: Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour, Rick Fox. A compelling, uplifting, contemporary drama that centres on a Hollywood family falling apart and mending itself again. We take a journey with the
Anderson family — Brad, the talent manager father, Kristen, a devoted but naive wife, Tyler, a basketball sensation, and Justin, a free-spirited skateboard champ — and watch as they learn how all that really matters is having each other in a time where morals are evaporating, money is scarce and dreams only come true for those who give a shit. Riviera 1
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