and will investigate. Star 4 THINK OF ME See box, left
VIVA BEL@RUS! See box, below
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THINK OF ME (US) 90mins. Breakthrough Entertainment. Dir: Bryan Wizeman. Key cast: Lauren Ambrose, Dylan Baker, Penelope Ann Miller, Audrey P Scott. Las Vegas. Present day. A downward spiraling economy. The heartbreaking story of Angela Jerome, a young single mother doing
they have both carefully constructed. Palais C
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THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS (Austria) 85mins. Rise And Shine World Sales. Dir: Friedrich Moser.
A docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all- embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites. Gray 4
FIRECROSSER (Ukraine) 109mins. Ukrainian State Film Agency. Dir: Mykhailo Illienko. Key cast: Dmytro Linartovych,
her level best not to fall apart. Her daughter Sunny is one of the few joys in her life, but raising a child alone is a struggle on even the best of days. When the worst week of Angela’s life builds to a breaking point, she is faced with an impossible choice: keep trying to make things work, or let it all go for the promise of something better. Palais H
Ivanna Illienko, Vitaliy Linetskiy. Based on the historical realities of those times, the film unfolds a credible sequence of events that turned the hero of the Soviet Union into a Gulag prisoner and then an Indian Chief. That is why the name Ivan Datsenko had to be changed for another — Firecrosser. Lerins 1
FONDI ’91 (Canada) 79mins. 108 Media Corp. Dir: Dev Khanna. Key cast: Mylene St-Sauveur, Raymond Ablack. Set against a background of lost innocence, youthful frivolity and dark moral themes, ‘Fondi ’91’ follows the lustful adventures of a New Jersey-based high school soccer team’s two-week trip to Italy. Dynamic friendships,
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rivalries and personal secrets compete in this tale of one boy’s stirring coming of age in a foreign land. Palais D
THE NEW WATCHDOGS (France) 100mins. Jem Productions. Dir: Gilles Balbastre. In 1932, writer Paul Nizan published ‘The Watchdogs’, a book denouncing the philosophers and writers of his era for imposing themselves as guardians of the establishment behind a pretense of intellectual neutrality. The new watchdogs of today are the journalists, editorial writers and media-friendly experts who openly crusade for free markets and the maintenance of social order. With sardonic humour, ‘The New Watchdogs’ convincingly and accurately exposes the growing threat of news being manufactured and deformed into a commodity by big business. Gray 2
NOUVEAUX COURTS METRAGES DU QUEBEC 2012 110mins. Sodec (Societe De Developpement Des Entreprises Culturelles). Palais F
QUAND JE SERAI PETIT (France) 90mins. Elia Films. Dir: Jean-Paul Rouve. Key cast: Jean-
Paul Rouve, Benoit Poelvoorde, Miou-Miou Mathias, 40 years old, married and father of a girl, offers his wife a surprise weekend into the fjord. On the ferry, he meets a little boy who looks suspiciously like him, when he was young. The little boy has same name, the same food tastes and goes in the same school that he did. Mathias is overwhelmed
VOICES OF LOVE: WHITNEY HOUSTON AND HER FAMILY (US) 76mins. Gary Keys Productions. Dir: Gary Keys. Key cast: Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Emily ‘Cissy’ Houston. A look into one of America’s most musically influential families: the Drinkard family, whose tradition of gospel produced such luminaries as Dionne Warwick, Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston. Featuring performances, never- before-seen footage and exclusive interviews, the documentary traces the history of song in this talent-infused family and celebrates the spirit, the strength of family, and the power of gospel music to heal, to transcend and to entertain. Palais J
WOULD YOU HAVE SEX WITH AN ARAB? See box, above right
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DORFMAN (US) 92mins. Double Dutch International. Dir: Brad Leong. Key cast: Catherine Hicks, Elliott Gould, Haaz Sleiman. A romantic comedy about Deb Dorfman, who is uprooted from the suburban San Fernando valley and caught up in the kaleidoscopic whirlwind of newly revitalised downtown Los Angeles. Palais E
THE END (Morocco) 90mins. Insomnia World Sales. Dir: Hicham Lasri. ‘The End’ begins in July 1999, on the eve of the death of Morocco’s longtime monarch Hassan II (1961-99), whose demise marked both the end of an era as well as the film- maker’s childhood. The film tells the story of a marginalised youth, M’key, a parking guard, who falls in love with Rita, a young woman whose virginity is ensured by her gang-member brothers by keeping her enchained. M’key is the protege of Daoud, the
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VIVA BEL@RUS! (Poland) 98mins. WFDIF — Documentary & Feature Film Studio. Dir: Krzysztof Lukaszewicz. Key cast: Aliaksandr Malchanau, Anatol Kot, Dzianis Tarasenka. Miron is 23. His true passion is music, especially playing rock music. When a concert his band is playing triggers
off anti-regime protests among the the mainly young audience, Miron is enlisted in the Belarussian army for 15 months as a punishment for “formenting political’’. In his military unit located in some remote area, Miron has to face up to object conditions which do not meet basic human needs and the absurdity of Soviet-inspired indoctrination. Palais B
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