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mayhem that will change them all forever. Riviera 2
EDEN (US) 98mins. Cinema Management Group. Dir: Megan Griffiths. Key cast: Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O’Leary. Based on the true-life story of Chong Kim, a victim of human trafficking in her teenage years. Lerins 1
MARKET 13:30
SAXANA (Czech Republic) 95mins. Delphis Films. Dir: Vaclav Vorlicek. Key cast: Petra Cernocka, Jirina Bohdalova, Helena Novackova, Josef Somr, Jiri Labus, Jaromir Dulava. Once upon a time there was Saxana, a young pupil from the School of Magic,
who escaped from fairyland, fell in love with a mortal and lived happily ever after, keeping her past a secret from everyone. That is, until, many years later, her daughter Saxanka discovers the magic book and revisits her mom’s homeland, filled with strange creatures and magic. Palais B
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Romania) 107mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Radu Jude Key Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu, Serban Pavlu. Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five-year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is not allowed to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control. Riviera 4
GINGERCLOWN 80mins. Recreation. Star 4
I AGAINST I (UK) 82mins. Kaleidoscope Film Distribution. Dir: Mark Cripps, David Ellison. Key cast: Kenny Doughty, Ingvar Eggert Siguro∞sson, Mark Womack, Sonia Balaco, John Castle. A story of jealousy, murder and betrayal. Set in a nocturnal underworld, two men are unwittingly set up to kill each other by a third as part of a sinister trap. They have to learn to trust each other in order to stay alive but the clock is ticking and their pursuer is always one step ahead of them. Gray 2
IN A RUSH (France) 93mins. Pyramide. Dir: Louis- Do De Lencquesaing Key Cast: Alice De Lencquesaing, Mathe Keller, Valentina Cervi. Star 3
PIRATE BROTHERS (Indonesia) 96mins.
n 76 Screen International at Cannes May 19, 2012
Multivisionnaire Pictures. Dir: Asun Mawardi. Key cast: Robin Shou, Imd Verdy Bhawanta, Marcio Fernando Da Silva. Sunny and Verdy are orphan brothers, not by blood but by will. Life takes them down two completely different paths. Verdy is adopted by a wealthy family and inherits a powerful enterprise, and Sunny enters the pirate underworld. Years later Sunny and Verdy come face to face when Verdy’s fiancee is kidnapped by pirates. Reunited, they fight to save her and stop the international criminal scheme of the entire pirate operation. Gray 4
REZO PRIVATE SCREENING 2 Arcades 1
SAXANA See box, left
SELECTION DES FILMS ESRA NEW YORK 2012 (France) 100mins. Esra — Cote D’azur. Palais F
TOTEM (Germany) 82mins. Arepo Media. Dir: Jessica Krummacher. Key cast: Marina Frenk, Natja Brunckhorst, Benno Ifland, Alissa Wilms, Cedric Koch, Fritz Fenne, Dominik Buch. A young woman called Fiona shows up in a city in the Ruhr area to work for the Bauer family as a housekeeper. Father, mother, daughter and son all live their own lives, co-existing without communicating. Nobody realises that Fiona has made a decision. Only the neighbour is starting to worry. Arcades 3
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GROWING IN THE WIND (Iran) 84mins. Farabi Cinema Foundation. Dir: Rahbar Ghanbari. Key cast: Gohar Kheirandish, Omid Zendegani, Zabih Afshar. A top student in a nomads winter place, Aslan misses his chance to attend final exams due to the problems
his father is dealing with. Now he has to study while leading the herds as a shepherd. But in the first place he is obliged to teach something of life to an elder shepherd who has fallen for his big sister; to teach him to be a worthy man to love his sister. Palais D
PARADISE LOVE 120mins. Coproduction Office (Paris). Olympia 5
14:00
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION (France) 75mins. Wide House. Dir: Jung Henin, Laurent Boileau. Follows comicbook artist and co-director Jung as he returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of five. Animated sequences illustrate Jung’s memories of growing-up in Belgium with his adopted parents. Palais G
BLACK ROCK (US) 83mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Katie Aselton. Key cast: Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, Katie Aselton. A trio of childhood friends reunite for a camping trip on a woodsy getaway off the coast of Maine. Sarah, the group’s peacekeeper, tricks Abby and Lou into spending time together after a tricky romantic mishap drove a wedge between them. Bad blood appears to subside, but its relevance dissolves in the face of a much larger problem: when the group runs into a war veteran they know from high school, a nighttime hangout session turns sour and the women of Black Rock have to confront something far more dangerous — and heavily armed — than their feelings. Gray 1
CASA DE MI PADRE (US) 84mins. Sierra/ Affinity. Dir: Matt Piedmont. Key cast: Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna. Scheming on a way to save their father’s ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug
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