THE PIROGUE (Senegal, France) 87mins. Memento Films International (Mfi). Dir: Moussa Toure. Key cast: Babacar Oualy, Balla Diarra, Laity Fall. Arcades 2
THE SUICIDE SHOP (France) 85mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Patrice Leconte. Imagine a shop that for generations has sold all the accoutrements of the perfect suicide. Star 1
TAD, THE LOST EXPLORER (Spain) 88mins. Studiocanal. Dir: Enrique Gato. Wannabe adventurer Tad races to find a lost city in this spectacular 3D comedy that will have you travel from the Amazonian jungle to the mountain peaks of the Andes. Palais K
TRADE OF INNOCENTS (US) 94mins. Worldwide Film Entertainment. Dir: Christopher Bessette. Key cast: Mira Sorvino, Dermot Mulroney. A compelling story examining the heart- breaking reality of human trafficking. An American couple in Cambodia become the only hope to save a trusting young girl from the clutches of a sadistic and inhumane supplier to backalley brothels. Riviera 1
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AFTER FALL, WINTER (US) 131mins. 2 Bulls On The Hill Productions. Dir: Eric Schaeffer. Key cast: Eric Schaeffer, Lizzie Brochere. A dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times a darkly funny story about two people seeking love in Paris. Michael is a NYC writer going through a hard time, professionally and mentally, and decides to spend a winter in Paris to find new inspiration. Sophie is a young French nurse hiding a dark secret behind her strong personality. Gray 2
GENERAL EDUCATION See box, above
An uncensored look at many of the biggest names in modeling. Palais C
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GENERAL EDUCATION (US) 85mins. Double Dutch International. Dir: Tom Morris. Key cast: Bobby Campo, Chris Sheffield, Elaine Hendrix.
Levi Collins is set to go to the local university on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing — he
HIMIZU (Japan) 129mins. Gaga Corporation. Dir: Sion Sono. Key cast: Shota Sometani, Fumi Nikaidou, Tetsu Watanabe, Ken Mitsuishi, Denden, Yosuke Kubozuka. The story of a boy and a girl who are confronted with a horrific personal reality against the backdrop of the devastation caused by this year’s earthquake in Japan. Gray 4
KISSING THE MOON-LIKE FACE (Iran) 100mins. Soureh Cinema Organisation. Dir: Homayoun Assadian. Key cast: Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Rabea Madani, Saeed Poursamimi. Palais D
THE MONKEY KING — UPROAR IN HEAVEN 3D (China) 90mins. Shanghai Film Group
n 38 Screen International at Cannes May 22, 2012
didn’t graduate. As a result, he must go to summer school before his mom and dad discover he’s failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate Katie, and learns he has to make the choice between playing tennis and receiving a proper education. Palais B
Corporation. Dir: Da Su. Star 4
MY ENGINE’S FRAGILE SOUND (Portugal) 180mins. Recycled Films. Dir: Leonardo Antonio. Key cast: Alexandra Rocha, Gustavo Vargas, Joao Villas-Boas. The existencial doubts of a human being begin within the womb. “Will I ever be born and meet my mother?” The story is told by an unborn child still inside his mother. Gabi, a burns unit nurse, receives a pregnant woman in coma, whose entire body is burned, supposedly by a serial killer who is stalking the dark city for female victims. Palais H
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(US) 105mins. The Exchange. Dir: Lavinia Currier. Key cast: Kris Marshall, Isaach De Bankole. Bayaka Pygmy people of
Central Africa are known for their acute hearing. When Sataka hears a menacing sound, he uses magic to call his friend Larry, back from New York and Larry returns, unaware he is bringing trouble with him Riviera 4
PAIR OF HEARTS (Argentina) 106mins. Instituto Nacional De Cine Y Artes Audiovisuales/Incaa. Lerins 1
PRIME TIME SOAP (Brazil) 102mins. Cinema Do Brasil. Dir: Odilon Rocha. Key cast: Claudia Ohana, Vanessa Giacomo, Mateus Solano. It is 1978. Two women have to escape from the police and reach Rio, a city fulled with disco music and the impact of the soap ‘Dancin’ Days’. Palais F
SHANGHAI GYPSY (Slovenia) 122mins. Slovenian Film Centre. Dir: Marko Nabersnik. Key cast: Asli Bayram, Bojan Emersic, Jasna Diklic. Riviera 2
SHE’S NOT CRYING, SHE’S SINGING (Belgium) 78mins. Insomnia World Sales. Dir: Philippe De Pierpont. Laura, 27 years old, lives in a big city. She learns that her father is in a
coma. She decides to visit him at the hospital. to tell him the horror of her childhood, when she was abused by him. But life is unpredictable, and laura’s revenge will cause painful memories. Arcades 3
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13 EERIE (Canada) 87mins. Entertainment One Films International. Dir: Lowell Dean. Key cast: Brendan Fehr, Brendan Fletcher, Katherine Isabelle Nine ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknown to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals who were then left for dead. The arrival of the students disturbs the resting place, unleashing a pack of zombie criminal convicts. Star 2
ABOUT FACE — SUPERMODELS, THEN AND NOW
(US) 72mins. Autlook Filmsales. Dir: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield- Sanders’s lush new film is an intimate view of women whose images have defined our sense of beauty over the past five decades.
(US) 98mins. Myriad Pictures. Dir: Jennifer Lynch. Key cast: Vincent D’onofrio, Julia Ormond, Eamon Farren. One Saturday afternoon, eight-year-old Tim and his mother Sarah are picked up by deranged taxi cab driver, Bob, on the hunt for his next victim. To his horror, Tim witnesses his first murder, the murder of his mother, but it would not be his last. Bob keeps Tim as a slave, locking him up and forcing him to clean and bury the bodies of the young women he drags home. Now a teenager, Tim learns he will be allowed some freedom if he becomes a killer himself. Gray 1
DEAD MINE (Indonesia) 100mins. Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmares. Dir: Steven Sheil. Key cast: Joe Taslim, Sam Hazeldine, Miki Mizuno. A group of treasure hunters venture deep into the heart of the Indonesian jungle in search of gold looted by Japanese forces during the Second World War. But the mission quickly goes haywire and the group finds itself trapped underground in an apparently abandoned mine. The treasure hunters slowly realise that the mine is not what it seems and, even worse, that they are not alone. Palais K
ESCAPE FROM TIBET (Germany) 105mins. Global Screen. Dir: Maria Blumencron. Key cast: David Lee Mcinnis, Hannah Herzsprung, Pema Shitsetsang. After deciding to accompany a group of Tibetan children into exile over an icy Himalayan pass, Johanna falls under the watchful eye of the Chinese authorities. Riviera 3
FIRE BY LOUBOUTIN (France) 110mins. Mk2 International. Dir: Bruno Hullin. Key cast:
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