SCREENINGS
Filmexport Group. Dir: Ruggero Dipaola. Key cast: Laura Morante, Richard Sammel, Gerasimos Skiadaresis. Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well- off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a 10-year-old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a 12-year- old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. Palais E
CAPTIVE (France) 120mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Brillante Mendoza. Key cast: Isabelle Huppert, Katherine Mulville, Marc Zanetta. Therese Bourgoine is a
French national who is a volunteer humanitarian-social worker with a non- government organisation on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. While transporting supplies to the organisation base in Puerto Princesa, she and her fellow volunteer, Filipina Soledad Carpio, are unwittingly kidnapped by an extremist group of Muslim men fighting for the independence of Muslim Mindanao. Lerins 2
CATS AND TREES (UK) 100mins. Con Abbandono Cinema. Dir: Isy Oliver. Key cast: Maya Von Doll, Sophie Linfield, Joe Swanberg. A quirky romance set around a quintessential British music festival in all its muddy glory and the eccentricities of London’s gig scene. Gray 5
THE CONVICT PATIENT (Mexico) 90mins. Mexican Film Institute (Imcine). Dir: Alejandro Solar Luna. On February 5, 1970, Carlos Castao±eda de la Fuente tried to assassinate Mexican President Gustavo Doaz Ordaz as revenge for the student massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2, 1968, for which he was condemned to oblivion in a psychiatric hospital, where he remained for 23 years. Forty years later, this failed avenger and survivor of an excessive punishment by the system, wanders aimlessly along Mexico City’s streets asking for alms, as he tries to reconstruct his past to tell this unfinished but living story. Palais C
FLY AWAY (Germany) 90mins. Global Screen.
Dir: Bernd Boehlich. Key cast: Angelica Domrose, Anna Maria Muhe, Marion Van De Kamp. On a sightseeing tour, a gang of pensioners kidnap their plane and set off in search of their destiny. Riviera 3
GHOST GRADUATION (Spain) 88mins. Film Factory Entertainment. Dir: Javier Ruiz Caldera. Key cast: Raul Arevalo, Alexandra Jimenez, Aura Garrido. Modesto is a teacher whosometimes sees dead people. Not only has this cost him a fortune at the shrink’s, it has also gotten him fired from every school he’s ever worked at. His luck changes when he lands a job at Monforte, where five students have turned the prestigious school into a house of horrors. Modesto is charged with getting all five kids to pass their senior year and to get out of there
once and for all. But it won’t be that easy, they’ve been dead for more than 20 years. Palais G
JACKIE (Netherlands) 90mins. Eyeworks Film & TV Drama. Dir: Antoinette Beumer. Key cast: Carice Van Houten, Holly Hunter, Jelka Van Houten. Sofie and Daan are twins, but that is all there is to it. They cannot seem to get along, their lifestyles are just too different for this. Sofie is single and she lives for her work. She is the editor of a magazine and she is rather hard on herself. Daan is married to Joost. She prefers to avoid conflicts, tries to keep things good humored at all times, and she hardly ever stands up for herself. Joost wants kids, but that doesn’t seem to work out.
Then there is a phone call that turns the twin sisters’ lives upside down. Olympia 7
KINGS OF THE NIGHT (France) 84mins. Artistic Finances. Dir: Patrick Levy. Key cast: Arthur Jugnot, Dany Verissimo, Arnaud Gidouin. Seb, a young thug, in love with a stripper, dreams of making movies. The only way he finds to get into the movie business is to blackmail a producer. But why is it so difficult to make a movie about dealers, strippers and thugs of your neighborhood when you’re one of them ? Palais I
THE LEVENGER TAPES (US) 93mins. New Films International. Dir: Mark Edwin Robinson. Key cast: Johanna Braddy, Lili Mirojnick, Morgan Krantz. Gray 3
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