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MERCY (Germany) 132mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Matthias Glasner. Key cast: Jurgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange, Ane Dahl Torp, Maria Bock. Polar night at the edge of the Arctic Sea — for two months the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon. In a magical twilight, amid snow and ice, a family of German expatriates
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27TH OF FEBRUARY 2013
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION (France) 75mins. Wide House. Dir: Jung Henin. Palais G
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LA BAS: A CRIMINAL EDUCATION (Italy) 100mins. Minerva Pictures Group. Key cast: Abdou Kader Alassane, Esther Elisha, Moussa Mone. When a young African man emigrates to Italy to work with his “rich” uncle he finds himself penniless and alone in a foreign land with no way of finding his relative. He is taken in by other African immigrants who tell him the reality of the situation and he learns quickly that the only way he can try to make any money is by selling useless items in the streets. Lerins 2
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BATTLE OF WARSAW 1920 (Poland) 110mins. Vmi-Vantage Media International/Vision Music. Dir: Jerzy Hoffman. Key cast: Borys Szyc, Natasza Urbanska, Daniel Olbrychski, Adam Ferency.
hope for a new beginning: Niels, Maria and son Markus. But soon after they arrive, Niels and Maria sense their new surroundings will not be able to save their withering relationship. Niels throws himself into his work as an engineer — and into an affair. Maria does overtime at the hospice, and Markus struggles with puberty and his new fellow students. Riviera 3
An epic tale of bravery and love that depicts the Polish battle for independence against the Bolsheviks after the First World War. Star 1
DEAD SHADOWS (France) 75mins. DC Medias. Dir: David Cholewa. Key cast: Fabian Wolfrom, Blandine Marmigere, John Fallon. Terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that Halley’s Comet could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in his building is getting ready for a party to celebrate the event. There’s even an apocalypse theory going around. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange — and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world. In a fight for survival, Chris has to try to escape
from his building with the help from some other tenants — but will they make it out alive? Palais K
DR KETEL (Germany) 80mins. Reel Suspects. Dir: Linus De Paoli. Key cast: Amanda Plummer, Burak Yigit, Ketel Weber. Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future, a time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without licence as a doctor. He treats people in the streets, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor. Barely being able to cope with the situation, he doesn’t notice that an American security agent is on to him. Gray 5
GODDESS (Australia) 104mins. Ealing Metro International. Dir: Mark Lamprell. Key cast: Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan Keating, Magda Szubanski. In this musical romantic comedy, stir-crazy Elspeth Dickens has to choose between fame and family when a glittering opportunity for international stardom beckons. Olympia 8
THE HORDE (Russia) 123mins. Rezo. Dir: Andrei Proshkin. Key cast: Alexander Yatsenko, Maxim Sukhanov, Roza Khairullina Arcades 2
I, ANNA (UK) 93mins. Global Screen. Dir: Barnaby Southcombe. Key cast: Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, Gabriel Byrne. An absorbing film noir told from the perspective of an intriguing woman, a key suspect in a murder case, who becomes an obsession for the detective in charge of the investigation. Riviera 1
KRAPETZ (Bulgaria) 100mins. Bulgarian National Film Center. Dir: Barnaby Southcombe. Key cast: Kasiel Noah Asher, Paraskeva Djukelova, Yana Titova, Ovanes Torosyan, Filip Avramov. A film about three women of a generation that has lost its hopes in the post-Communist years. They try to avoid the arrogance of the world they live in for a while but it turns out that they have nowhere to hide. The only solution is to find their lost selves. Palais E
KRYPTONITE! (Italy) 98mins. Rai Trade Department. Dir: Ivan Cotroneo. Key cast: Valeria Golino, Cristiana Capotondi, Luca Zingaretti. Naples. 1973. Peppino Sansone, aged nine, comes from a large and fairly chaotic family and has an older cousin, Gennaro, who thinks he is Superman. Peppino divides his days between the crazy and colourful world of his young aunt and uncle, Titina and Salvatore, made up of dancing in squares, parties in basements and attending
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