the bride and groom find themselves in the middle of a hellish ordeal, as an uncontrollable torrent of violence is unleashed on the wedding. Palais H
SHARQIYA (Israel) 85mins. Ez Films. Dir: Ami Livne Key cast: Adnan Abu Wadi. Kamel Nadjer, the Bedouin security guard at the Beier Sheba central bus station, strives to save the poor tin shacks he shares with his family in the desert from demolition by the Israeli Authorities. Palais D
THE BARRENS (US) 110mins. Voltage Pictures. Dir: Darren Bousman. Key cast: Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirschner, Erik Knudsen, J Larose. Intent on bringing his family closer together,
Richard Marlow organises a weekend camping trip to the Pine Barrens. When rumours of the New Jersey Devil circulate, the trip soon takes a dark turn as numerous animals wind up mutilated and murdered. As Richard becomes violently ill, his family begins to wonder if their father has become deranged, or if the folklore is true. Gray 2
THE LIABILITY (UK) 92mins. AV Pictures. Dir: Craig Viveiros. Key cast: Tim Roth, Talulah Riley, Jack O’Connell, Peter Mullan. A veteran assassin, dreaming of retirement, has to fulfil one last contract on which he’s accompanied by a young novice driver. Their plans go awry when a beautiful femme fatale witnesses the hit and thus begins a deadly cat and mouse
chase across the country. Star 4
UNDERGROUND (US) Twinstar Productions. Dir: Joe Eckardt. Key cast: Corin Nemec, Rebecca Blumhagen, Nick Stevenson, William D Coleman. A group of scientists wake up in a underground safe room. Separated from the outside they try to piece together why the emergency protocols have been activated. Quickly they realise that the virus they were working on has escaped and could have infected them. With limited time and supplies they must figure out how to escape without potentially unleashing a deadly virus on the world. Gray 3
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DARK HEARTS (US) 101mins. Axel
Pictures. Dir: Rudolf Buitendach. Key cast: Sonja Kinski, Lucas Till, Kyle Schmid, Goran Visnjic, Rachel Blanchard, Richard Edson, Juliet Landau. Colson is a downtown artist who is trying to make a living from his paintings. His brother Sam arrives in town to spend time with him and get away from the trouble back home. The brothers’ first night is spent at an underground nightclub where they meet sexy and alluring singer Fran. A fierce romance between Colson and Fran erupts that very night. However, despite their passion, nothing can prepare them for the betrayal, obsession and destruction that this union will unleash. Gray 3
DEAD IN FRANCE (UK) 88mins. Delacheroy Films. Dir: Kris
McManus. Key cast: Celia Muir, Darren Bransford, Lee Cheney, Kate Loustau. Socially-challenged hitman Charles hits Cannes looking for a yacht and a wife — with no experience of either. An Essex-girl cleaner and her punk boyfriend, two Brit con-men and a foul-mouthed hitwoman soon change Charles’s retirement plans. Gray 5
FAREWELL MY QUEEN (France) 97mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Key cast: Diane Kruger, Lea Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen. A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution. Olympia 4
FROST (Iceland) Trustnordisk. Dir: Reynir Lyngdal.
Key cast: Bjorn Thors, Anna Gunndis Gudmundsdottir. A young couple, physiologist Agla and film-maker Gunnar,wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realise they’re up against an unknown deadly force. Star 1
K-11 (US) 100mins. Intandem Films. Dir: Jules Mann Stewart. Key cast: Kristen Stewart. Ray Saxx is a very successful music producer who gets very, very stoned one evening after finding out that his new recording artist is having a torrid affair with his wife. The two men wrestle and punches are thrown. Ray is knocked out and
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