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feminist collectives, and his home where his mum has shut herself away in an incomprehensible silence and his father tries to distract him by giving him little chicks to keep as if they were pets. Gray 3
MERCY See box, left
REZO PRIVATE SCREENING 1 90mins. Rezo. Olympia 6
SUSKIND See box, below
TUNISIANS STORIES (Tunisia) 120mins. Leyth Production. Dir: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh. Key cast: Chekra Rammeh, Hamdi Hadda, Khaled Houissa. Gray 1
19:30
AWESOME LIKE ALBERT (South Africa) 76mins. Le Futur Image. Dir: Wilbur Eddings. Key cast: Berne Van Den Bergh, Cathy Cilliers, Claire Winters. A found footage- style movie about two Americans who visit Africa to film a documentary and stumble across some supernatural activity. Gray 4
PABLO (US) 93mins. Shoreline Entertainment. Dir: Richard Goldgewicht. Key cast: Jeff Bridges, Pablo Ferro, Jon Voight. Gray 2
20:00
THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA (Germany) 90mins. Independent Festival Film Co. Gray 3
GERM (US) 90mins. Tomcat Films. Dir: John Craddock. Key cast: Marguerite Sundberg, Michael Flores, Mark Chiappone The military’s attempt to shoot down an orbiting satellite unleashes a space-borne epidemic on a remote, small town. Deputy Max Brody and his girlfriend Brooke must battle their way through an army of infected townsfolk and soldiers as they struggle to save themselves and their loved ones from a horrible, early death. When cannibalism is contagious, will even the strong survive? Palais D
THE HELPERS (US) 110mins. American Cinema International. Dir: Chris Stokes. Key
cast: Christopher Jones, Denyce Lawton, Kristen Quintrall, Seven friends from Sacramento, California all decide to go on a documented trip to Las Vegas. All seems fun until they hit a detour/road block. Riviera 2
PORN IN THE HOOD (LES KAIRA) (France) 98 mins. Gaumont. Dir: Franck Gastambide. Key cast: Franck Gastambide, Jib Pocthier, Medi Sadoun. Mousten, Abdelkrim and Momo, are three childhood friends who have always lived in the slums of Melun. All three wear baseball caps and gym shoes, and all three have the same problem: they are desperately single and spend their days watching life go by, unmotivated and with no ambition. And then one day they discover a classified ad in a porn magazine announcing auditions to become a porn star. Hard up for women and cash, they decide to go for what sounds like the best job in the world. Star 2
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF MR. & MRS. M (Iran) 80mins. Visual
Media Institute. Dir: Rouhollah Hejazi. Key cast: Hamid Farokh Nejad, Mahtab Keramati, Ebrahim Hatami Kiya Mohsen is improving his business life to higher levels, but when his wife gets involved in the business, he finds it so difficult to tolerate the underlying conflicts. Palais F
SOULLESS (Russia) 97mins. Art Pictures Media. Dir: Roman Prygunov. Key cast: Danila Kozlovsky, Artem Mikhalkov, Mikhail Efremov. Palais H
20:15
KEN & MARY: THE ASIAN TRUCK EXPRESS (Japan) 87mins. Shochiku Co. Dir: Kenta Fukasaku. Key cast: Hu Bing, Kie Kitano, Naoto Takenaka. Gray 1
20:30
BODY COMPLETE (Bosnia-Herzegovina) 85mins. Artdeluxe. Dir: Lukas Sturm. Key cast: Asli Bayram, Senad Basic, Miraj Gribic. Nicole is a journalist working for a TV station in Vienna, Austria. In 2004, she travels to Bosnia to film a report about Edina, a young woman who has gone missing. Edina wanted to bury her Muslim father in Bosnia. His remains were discovered in a mass grave. Nicole’s search takes her to Morovci, the place where Edina was last seen. Morovci is located in Republika Srpska, a nation created after the war. Palais C
CODENAME VENUS (UK) 90mins. Fifth Generation. Dir: Tamer
Garip. Key cast: Cengiz Bozkurt, Jolie M, Serhat Harman, Jonny Lee Kemp. Venus is Cyprus. Cyprus is Venus. This is the untold story of the tragedy of Cyprus based on real events. Venus came to find the truth about her parents’ disappearance on her childhood home of Cyprus years ago. What begins as a personal journey starts a secret odyssey that will lead her closer and closer to unearthing Cyprus’s tragic and hidden history. But in a land so deeply divided, how far will Venus go for a country that is not her own? Where hell and paradise meet. Palais K
JOYFUL REUNION (Taiwan) 107mins. Creative Century Entertainment Co. Dir: Jui-Yuan Tsao. Palais I
MARKET 18:00
SUSKIND (Netherlands) 118mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Rudolf Van Den Berg. Key cast: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Karl Markovics, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Katja Herbers,
Chava Voor In ’T Holt Tells the true story of Jewish resistance hero Walter Suskind who worked for the Jewish Council in Amsterdam during the Second World War. Olympia 7
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