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DANCE OF THE ORCHIDS (SOONGAVA) (France, Nepal) 85mins. Cite Films. Dir: Subarna Thapa. Key cast: Deeya
SEE GIRL RUN (US) 89mins. Visit Films. Dir: Nate Meyer. Key cast: Adam Scott, Jeremy Strong, Robin Tunney. Emmie realises that her current relationship isn’t enough to keep her from wondering “what if?” about her high school sweetheart, Jason, who continues to live in their quaint, coastal Maine hometown, perpetually in pursuit of becoming a renowned artist. On a whim, Emmie treks up to Maine to find Jason and
Maskey, Nisha Adhikari, Saugat Malla. A love story between two young Nepalese women is shattered by local morals and tradition. Olympia 6
discover if who he is now could reignite her life. Lerins 1
VICTOR AND THE SECRET OF CROCODILE MANSION (Germany) 91mins. Sola Media Dir: Cyrill Boss. Key cast: Kristo Ferkic, Joanna Ferkic, Vijessna Ferkic, Gudrun Ritter, Christoph Maria Herbst, Waldemar Kobus, Uwe Friedrichsen, Thomas Ohrner. Eleven-year-old Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves
into his grand-uncle’s somber mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts — and a dark secret: four decades ago, his grand-cousin Cecilia, at the same age as he is now, lost her life on the mansion’s impressive staircase, and the circumstances of her death still remain obscure. Riviera 4
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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. Olympia 3
THE COLLECTION (US) 83mins. Cinema Management Group. Dir: Marcus Dunstan. Key cast: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald. Immediately after Arkin escapes with his life from ‘The Collector’, he is abducted and blackmailed into going back with a team of tough mercenaries to rescue the beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman. Lerins 2
GATTU (India) 80mins. All Rights Entertainment. Dir: Rajan Khosa. Key cast: Mohammad Samad, Naresh Kumar. In a small town in central India, kids and adults are equally obsessed with kite flying. The airspace is dominated by a black kite called kali with mysterious origins. A street kid, Gattu, dreams of defeating Kali but fails. He discovers that the local school has a roof which will give him a vantage point. Impersonating a student he sneaks into the school and must now pretend to study. The only problem — he is illiterate. Nonetheless, the little street urchin takes up the challenge. Dreams aren’t impossible when the desire is strong. Palais G
THE KIRISHIMA THING (Japan) 103mins. Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV). Dir: Daihachi Yoshida. Key cast: Ai Hashimoto, Ryunosuke Kamiki. Their world is the intense hierarchy of a Japanese High School. There are those that are “in” and those that are “out”. The gods and the lesser mortals. The unspoken rule is that you know your place and do not cross the line. One day in the world of the elite, word comes that the seemingly perfect Kirishima is quitting after-
school activities. With no one having a clue as to why, rumoUrs abound and the fragile ecosystem is plunged into chaos. Gray 3
ME @THE ZOO (US) 88mins. Memento Films International (MFI). Dir: Chris Moukarbel. Tells the story of Chris Crocker, a video blogger from small town in Tennessee. Crocker is part of the first generation of kids raised on the Internet, coming of age under constant self-surveillance. This portrait weaves a tapestry of Internet media with reactions from Crocker fans and haters to examine a new controversial kind of fame: the Internet folk hero. Palais I
THE PERFECT GUY (Ivory Coast) 100mins. Patou Films International. Dir: Owell Brown. Key cast: Emma Lohoues, Mike Danon, Serges Abessolo, Marie Louise Asseue. Estelle, a young girl emancipated, dreams of Prince Charming. Gray 1
PRIVATE PEACEFUL (UK) 109mins. Goldcrest Films. Dir: Pat O’Connor. Key cast: Alexandra Roach, Frances De La Tour, George Mackay, Jack O’Connell, Maxine Peake, Richard Griffiths. From a small country village in Devonshire, England to the First
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