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his rival, the legendary Sultana Daku. He becomes an outcast and starts working at Ramadhir Singh’s colliery, only to set in motion a revenge battle that passes from generation to generation. Shahid’s son, Sardar Khan, vows to regain father’s honour, becoming the most feared man in Wasseypur (see 15:30 for Part 2). Star 3
PROGRAMME COURTS METRAGES 2 91mins. Semaine De La Critique. Salle Bunuel
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30 BEATS (US) 88mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Alexis Lloyd. Key cast: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Jason Day, Vahina Giocante. New York City, in the heart of summer: a heat wave transforms the city into a tropical zone. Ten characters are drawn, one after the other, into a ring of love and desire, each one caught beyond his or her control in a chain reaction of seduction, impulses and self-discovery. Riviera 4
THE ADVENTURES OF THE RED AIRPLANE (Brazil) 90mins. Cinema Do Brasil. Dir: Frederico Pinto. Palais B
CAESAR MUST DIE (Italy) 76mins. Rai Trade Department. Dir: Paolo And Vittorio Taviani, Vittorio Taviani. Key cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca. The theater in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison. A performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ has just ended amid much applause. The lights dim on the actors and they become prisoners once again as they are accompanied back to their cells. Palais J
CHARLIE ZONE 104mins. Myriad Pictures. Riviera 2
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MERCY (Germany) 132mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Matthias Glasner. Key cast: Jurgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange. 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 hope for a new beginning: Niels, Maria and son Markus. But soon after they arrive, Niels and Maria sense that their new surroundings will not be able to save their withering relationship. Riviera 3
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THE MATCH 117mins. Central Partnership Sales House. Dir: Andrey Malukov. Key cast: Sergey Bezrukov, Elisaveta Boyarskaya, Dirk Martens. This is a story of complicated relationship between Nikolay Ranevitch, goalkeeper of FC Dynamo Kiev, and his true love Anna. War breaks all the plans of the couple and now the future fortunes of many people depend on the match. Olympia 6
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(Thailand) 100Mins. Sahamongkolfilm International Co. Dir: Chaiporn Panichrutiwong, Prapas Cholsaranont. Inspired by characters from major Asia epic ‘Ramayana’, Yaak is an action comedy animation that opens with the excitement of war. It keeps up the beat with adventures and a variety of events of the three unlikely friends, and it ends with laughter and friendships beyond difference. Riviera 1 Private Screening
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EAMES, THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER 84mins. Autlook Filmsales. Palais E
L’ART DE LA FUGUE (France) 90mins. Herodiade. Dir: Brice Cauvin. Key cast: Laurent Lafitte, Agnes Jaoui, Frederic Pierrot, Nicolas Bedos, Guy Marchand, Marie-Christine Barrault, Benjamin Biolay, Elodie Frege. Gray 5
RARE (US) 56mins. Moon Shadow Films. Dir: Maren Grainger-Monsen. Key cast: Donna Appell, Ashley Appell, Heather Kirkwood. Donna Appell, an inspiring and extraordinary mother, races against time as she unites people from around the world in a quest to cure a rare genetic disease — a cure that could save her own daughter’s life. As formerly isolated patients with albinism, blindness, and the same fatal syndrome join together, they discover that community, laughter and hope are some of life’s greatest therapies. Palais D
SOMEONE LIKE ME 111mins. Catpics Coproductions. Palais I
UNION SQUARE (US) 82mins. Double Dutch International. Dir: Nancy Savoca. Key cast: Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Mike Doyle. A reluctant reunion of two estranged sisters. One is on the verge of marriage; the other is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both struggle with truths they’re hiding from each other — and from themselves. Jenny has rejected her tumultuous family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far from her roots in the Bronx. And she’s almost ready to commit to her longtime fiance when her sister Lucy — the personification of all that Jenny has been trying to flee — surprises her at a critical time. Lucy and Jenny’s combustible reunion brings both of them to unforeseen places, shattering and reconstructing the worlds
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KOTOKO (Japan) 91mins. Gold View Co. Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto. Key cast: Cocco, Shinya Tsukamoto. The story of a mother who suffers from double vision. She sees a person splitting into two — a negative person and a
positive person. Because of this, she never feels at ease and caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. Things get out of control and subsequently she is suspected of being a child abuser and her baby is taken away. Palais F
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