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Mikael Persbrandt, Tobias Zilliacus, Lena Olin. In the middle of a dark December night, psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark is woken by a telephone call from a hospital in Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna asks for his immediate help in treating an unconscious patient suffering from acute trauma. Star 1
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CARELESS LOVE (Australia) 105mins. 7 & 7 Producers’ Sales Service. Dir: John Duigan. Key cast: Nammi Le, Peter O’Brien, Andrew Hazzard.
In order to help her debt-burdened parents, a university student takes on work as a call girl but struggles to keep her nocturnal activities from overwhelming her life. Palais B
THE LAST MESSAGE (Japan) 130mins. Toei Company. Dir: Hajime Hashimoto. Key cast: Masaaki Uchino, Yuki Matsushita, Dai Watanabe Winter, 2010. A young man goes berserk with a knife in the suburban Tokyo area of Kichijoji in a bloody rampage that leaves four dead and 15 injured. Arrested at the scene, however, Hatano undergoes psychiatric testing and is pronounced innocent by reason of insanity under Article 39 of Japan’s Criminal Code. The bereaved families of the victims are left at a dead end. Riviera 2
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ARMED HANDS (France) 105mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Pierre Jolivet. Key cast: Roshdy Zem, Leila Bekhti, Marc Lavoine. Lucas is 46 years old. A high-profile cop. The Marseilles’ weapons trafficking boss. Maya is 25 years’ old. She’s a young narco cop in Paris. As it so often happens, weapons and drugs mingle. And Lucas and Maya will meet. Maybe not coincidentally. Their investigations overlap. Their lives too. Because their story started long before they met. Riviera 4
BAD KIDS GO TO HELL (US) 110mins. Red Sea Media. Dir: Matthew Spradlin. Key cast: Judd Nelson, Ben Browder, Eloise Dejoria, Marc Donato. Six prep school kids
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from Crestview Academy, home to the spoiled offspring of society’s elite, find themselves stuck in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their eight-hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible “accident” until only one of them remains. As each of these spoiled rich kids bites the dust, the story takes on a series of humorous and frantic twists and turns. Gray 4
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DOOMSDAY BOOK (South Korea) 110mins. M-Line Distribution. Dir: Kim Jee-Woon, Yim Phil- Sung. Key cast: Ryoo Seung-Bum, Kim Kang- Woo, Song Sae-Byeok Two acclaimed directors approach the topic of doom. In ‘A Brave New World’, a mysterious virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In ‘The Heavenly Creature’, a robot reaches enlightenment on its own while working at a temple. Its creators regard this phenomenon as a threat to mankind and decide to terminate the robot. In ‘Happy Birthday’, a little girl logs into a strange website and puts in an order for a new pool ball for her billiards- obsessed father. Soon an unidentified meteor heads toward Earth and all human beings flee to underground bomb shelters. Palais J
FLIGHT OF KITES (PARVAZ-E BADBADAK’HA) (Iran) 80mins. Visual Media Institute. Dir: Ali Ghavitan. Key cast: Ali Ghavitan. Palais F
HOT HOT HOT (Austria) 90mins. Insomnia World Sales. Dir: Beryl Koltz. Ferdinand is a long- standing employee at Fish Land, the aquatic centre within the globalised leisure complex Worlds Apart. He’s a small,
bald 40 year old, and a solitary, anxious introvert, entirely devoted to his passion for fish. But Ferdinand’s obsessive little existence is turned upside down the day Fish Land closes down for six months of renovation. He is transferred to another section of Worlds Apart, the Finnish-Turkish Delight spa, entirely geared towards the pleasure of saunas and steam rooms. Ferdinand is suddenly thrown into a world of nudity, sensuality, relaxation and letting go. In short, everything he could possibly be afraid of. Arcades 3
LOVE LASTS THREE YEARS (France) 90mins. Europacorp. Dir: Frederic Beigbeder. Key cast: Gaspard Proust, Louise Bourgoin, Joey Starr, Jonathan Lambert, Frederique Bel, Nicolas Bedos, Elisa Sednaoui, Bernard Menez, Anny Duperey, Valerie Lemercier. When his wife Anne leaves him for a successful writer, Marc Marronnier, a high- profile literary critic, is rocked by her accusations that he is immature and fickle. In despair or maybe defiance, Marc starts writing a cynical pamphlet denouncing love. At the same time, his life is turned on its head by his encounter with Alice, an irresistible and inaccessible young woman, who forces Marc to reconsider everything he believes in. Star 3
REC3 GENESIS (Spain) 80mins. Filmax International. Dir: Paco Plaza. Key cast: Diego Martin, Leticia Dolera. Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate the most important day of their lives: their wedding. The reception is being held at a beautiful old stately home in the middle of the countryside. Everything appears to be running smoothly and the bride and groom and their families are enjoying a wonderful day; that is until some of the guests start showing signs of a strange illness. Before they know what is happening,
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