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EASY MONEY II (Sweden) 97mins. Trustnordisk. Dir: Babak Najafi. Key cast: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic. JW, the promising business student who became an organised coke smuggler, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back to an honest life. But a man from his past — the former
hitman Mrado Slovovic — changes everything. Jorge returns to Sweden to pull off a giant coke deal. But the deal fails terribly and now he has to flee the country with both the police and the Serbian mafia on his tail. Mahmud owes the Serbian boss Radovan a large sum of money. When he can’t pay off his debt he is left with only one choice — to find and kill Jorge. Star 2
KUMA (Austria) 93mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Umut Dag. Key cast: Abdulkadir Gumus, Alev Irmak, Begum Akkaya, Dilara Karabayir, Merve Cevik, Murathan Muslu, Nihal Koldas, Vedat Erincin. Fatma lives with her husband and six children in Vienna, trying to preserve the traditional values and the social prestige of her family. When Ayse, a 19-year- old girl from the Turkish countryside, is chosen to be married to Fatma’s son, a special friendship evolves between the two women. But soon this relationship is put to the test as the family has to face a difficult stroke of fate. Olympia 4
LOST IN PARADISE (Vietnam) 93mins.
Fortissimo Films. Dir: Vu Ngoc Dang. Key cast: Hien Hieu, Manh Hai Luong, Thanh Phuong Khoa, a naive, innocent 20-year-old guy from the countryside, arrives in Saigon to begin a new life. He is soon befriended by Dong, a handsome smooth talker who offers him a place to stay. When Khoa goes to check out Dong’s apartment, he discovers that there is another guy, Lam, living there too. The two guys, who turn out to be boyfriends, steal all his cash and belongings and run away. Palais G
MOON MAN (Germany) 85mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Stephan Schesch. If only Moon Man knew just how much children loved him. But he’s not even remotely aware, he’s just sitting on the moon, bored stiff, in his lonely
silver sphere. One night, a shooting star appears, whizzing through outer space towards the moon. Moon Man seizes his chance, grabs the speeding comet by the tail and hitches a ride to earth. This attack from outer space sets the alarm bells ringing in the Presidential headquarters. Arcades 2
NAKED SOLDIER (Hong Kong) 93mins. Mega-Vision Project Distribution. Dir: Marco Mak. Key cast: Jennifer Tse, Sammo Hung, Philip Ng. Interpol agent CK Long busted a billion-dollar drug deal 15 years ago. The cartel avenged itself by hiring Madame Rose’s organisation of assassins to kill Long’s entire family. Long himself survived and believes his young daughter is still alive. In fact, for these 15 years, the
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