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Industry addresses malaise

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

The Noble Family

IM Global takes Chinese remake rights to Noble

BY JEREMY KAY

Marking the latest in a string of initiatives exploring opportunities in the world’s biggest boom market, Los Angeles-based IM Global has picked up Chinese remake rights from FilmSharks to Mexican smash The Noble Family. IM Global will develop and produce a Chineselanguage remake via its Beijing operation under the auspices of Leslie Chen. The company’s senior vice-president of sales and acquisitions for Asia has led the office since IM Global chief Stuart Ford opened his China hub in 2012.

The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles) became a box-office sensation in Mexico in 2013, generating more than 7.6 million admissions.

The story of three spoiled children cut off from the family and forced to find work remains the second biggest Mexican release ever behind Instructions Not Included.

Leonardo Zimbron produced alongside director Gary Alazraki.

Such was the success of the film that Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks head Guido Rud has struck a number of local-language remake deals over the past year. The Italian version, Belli Di Papa, opened at number one in Italy last week following a deal with Colorado Films. “FilmSharks has built a very strong lineup of remake properties, including major high-concept projects from around the world,” said Rud. David Jourdan, IM Global’s SVP of international business development and operations, negotiated the Chinese remake rights. IM Global also serves as a sales platform for Chinese films. Recent successes include Hollywood Adventures, Venice closer Mr. Six and Toronto premiere A Tale Of Three Cities.

Despite a bevy of indie packages announced during AFM, a healthy pool of P&A sources, nimble new US distributors and the China boom, there remains a sense of unease in the halls of the Loews.

Beyond an obvious lack of brawny action titles, the challenges are myriad, from changing viewing habits to studios swooping on high-profile indie packages.

Speaking at an AFM finance conference yesterday, industry linchpins including former Universal Pictures chairman David Linde and East West Bank head of corporate banking Bennett C Pozil addressed the challenges. “The elephant in the room is windows,” said Linde, the newly minted Participant Media CEO. “In the west, we remain constricted by win-

David Linde at the AFM conference

dows. The reality is that the film business needs to more aggressively accommodate what the audience is asking.”

Producers and financiers must adjust expectations and embrace alternative platforms, said Linde.

“Where does your film have its best opportunity? People are struggling with those decisions right now because the market is a little off balance compared to 10 years ago. We live in an age when you have to be immensely precise

about where your movie lives. In my opinion, it’s ok if your movie ends up in theatrical and online at the same time.”

Senior media adviser Roy A Salter of FTI Consulting noted the growth in TV production has been astronomical but Linde and Salter both predicted a near-future dip in the TV boom. “The film sector will come back in about two-and-a-half years,” predicted Salter, a timeline seconded by Linde.

Also on the panel was Bona Film Group COO Jeffrey Chan, whose Chinese distribution giant was in the headlines this week for investing $235m in a slate of Fox theatrical titles. The Bona executive predicted the deal was a sign of things to come for China, whose population has “huge aspirations to be a global citizen”.

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger star in Midnight Sun, directed by Scott Speer from a script by Eric Kirsten. The film, which is based on the 2006 Japanese film of the same name directed by Norihiro Koizumi, is currently shooting in Vancouver. Mister Smith Entertainment launched sales here at AFM this week.

Saulnier’s Green Room secures France deal The Jokers Films has acquired French distribution rights to Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room from WestEnd Films.

Anton Yelchin and Patrick Stewart star in the tale of a punk band who must fight for their lives against a gang of white supremacists. The deal marks The Jokers’ second collaboration with Blue Ruin director Saulnier. The

company’s MD Manuel Chiche remains a champion of elevated genre having picked up titles including The Raid 2, Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon.

The film is set to be released in France close to A24’s US release in April. WestEnd previously sold the Cannes and TIFF title to the UK

(Altitude/Picturehouse), Canada (D Films), Germany (Universum), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Switzerland (Praesens), Middle East (ECS), Turkey (Kurmaca), Indonesia (Queen), Korea (Mountain Pictures), Thailand (M Pictures), Malaysia (Suraya) and the Philippines (Captive).

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NEWS Binoche renewed Recut Berlin opener Nobody Wants The Night re-enters the market » Page 3

FEATURES Breaking through Bryan Cranston-starrer Infiltrator puts Good Films on the map » Page 6

Tangerine dreams How Sean Baker and Mya Taylor created the Sundance smash » Page 10

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China production catching up to Hollywood

BY JEREMY KAY

The president of China Film CoProduction Corporation told an AFM panel on Friday that local producers want collaboration with US and international counterparts in order to make better films that can travel. Speaking at the Producing In China session at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Miao Xiaotian noted how the local talent pool was not yet sufficiently deep to sustain the roughly 600 films that are made annually in China.

The local production base is booming — Miao estimated it could go up from $4.8bn in 2014 to $7bn this year — as China plays catch-up with Hollywood practices and standards in many areas. April Ye, CEO of Film Finances China, explained how until recently not a single Chinese film or TV show was bonded. That is changing as her company, which launched this year, introduces the product to the local industry. “Directors used to be the boss of state-owned productions,” said Ye, explaining how the ability of bond companies to wield power should a production stray off course has raised eyebrows.

“It’s an education process.”

Wang Tianyun of Shanghai Kuailu Investment Group observed typical P&A spends have gone up from roughly 20% of the budget to around 50%. Indeed a $30m outlay has become “acceptable” with the rise of private capital investors.

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NEWS

Klockworx takes Madame Bovary, Hungry Hearts

By Jeremy Kay

Radiant Films International has struck at the market, with Klockworx taking Japanese rights to two titles on Radiant’s slate.

President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and her team have sold Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans and Ezra Miller and Hungry Hearts with Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher.

Madame Bovary is based on Gustave Flaubert’s classic story about a provincial doctor’s wife desperate to escape her banal existence.

Occupant Entertainment produced in association with Barthes’ Aden Film and Aleph Motion Picture. Alchemy distributed in the US. Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts earned its two leads best actor and actress prizes at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and tells the story of a couple at odds over their newborn child.

“Both Madame Bovary and Hungry Hearts are powerful films with distinctive and memorable performances from star-studded casts,” said Steinbauer. “I am thrilled that Klockworx, one of Japan’s finest distributors, has seen the potential of these films for their audiences.”

Benaroya’s IFT expands team Todd Olsson has joined International Film Trust (IFT) as a sales consultant and Kenner Bolt has been appointed to the newly created position of director of acquisitions. Olsson recently served as co-president of Ironclad Films and will work alongside director of sales Kevin Hoiseth and head of marketing and communications Marcin Janowski. He reports to IFT founder Michael Benaroya.

Bolt is tasked with sourcing completed and development feature projects for IFT’s pipeline. Prior to IFT she was at MediaXchange.

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Coixet’s recut Berlin opener back in market

By Andreas Wiseman

UK sales outfit Metro International has finalised a deal to take over sales rights from Elle Driver to a refashioned version of Isabel Coixet’s Berlin opener Nobody Wants The Night. The film is understood to have been “significantly” re-edited by the film-makers and now includes a voiceover narrated by lead Juliette Binoche.

Metro described the new version as “a leaner, revitalised final cut”, which had its Spanish premiere last week at Valladolid International Film Festival and will be released in Spain at the end of this month through Filmax. Few distribution deals have been announced on the drama, which has yet to get an international release and garnered mixed notices in Berlin. Metro

Nobody Wants The Night

and Elle Driver are currently negotiating carry-over deals.

In the Arctic-set drama, Oscar winner Binoche (The English Patient) stars alongside Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim) in the story of two women who find themselves in remote and challenging conditions waiting for a

man with whom they are both in love. The film is a co-production between Ariane & Garoe, Neo Art and Mediapro from Spain, Noodles Production from France and One More Movie from Bulgaria, with Andres Santana and Jaume Roures acting as main producers and Antonia Nava and Javier Mendez Zori as exec producers.

Geoghegan is ready to Panic

By Ian Sandwell

Dark Sky Films and Snowfort Pictures have teamed up for Satanic Panic, hiring Ted Geoghegan to direct the follow-up to his acclaimed SXSW 2015 selection We Are Still Here. MPI has begun talks with buyers at AFM. Satanic

Panic charts a delivery girl’s night of terror as she encounters a satanic cult among the leaders of an affluent neighbourhood. Casting will begin shortly on the project that reunites Geoghegan with producer Travis Stevens and Greg Newman. Grady Hendrix wrote

the screenplay. “We Are Still Here was incredibly well received by both critics and audiences alike,” said Newman, EVP of MPI/Dark Sky Films. “We’re happy to be working again with Ted Geoghegan, who has already created a unique voice for modern horror.”

Lionsgate snaps up pair of Studiocanal thrillers

By Matt Mueller

In one of the biggest deals yet for the market, Lionsgate has taken US rights to a pair of upcoming Studiocanal thrillers: The Commuter starring Liam Neeson and Our Kind Of Traitor starring Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris.

The Commuter, which is produced by The Picture Company’s Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman, will see Neeson as an ordinary businessman who is caught up in a deadly criminal conspiracy while on his commute home.

Shot in 2014, Our Kind Of Traitor was adapted from the John Le Carré novel by Oscar-winning screenwriter Hossein Amini and directed by Susanna White. The film sees McGregor as an ordi-

Liam Neeson

Ewan McGregor

nary British man dragged into a conspiracy while on a Caribbean holiday with his lawyer girlfriend, as a Russian money launderer asks for his help in defecting. The Ink Factory and Potboiler Productions produced.

The deals were announced by Lionsgate co-COO and president Steve Beeks and Studiocanal president of international distribution and marketing Rodolphe Buet.

“The Commuter and Our Kind Of Traitor are two suspenseful, action-packed, star-driven additions to our film slate,” said Beeks.

“We look forward to continuing to partner with Lionsgate on the distribution of our exciting lineup of movies,” said Buet.

Alchemy conjures Rebel slate for US US distributor Alchemy has picked up North American rights to four films from Madrid-based sales and production outfit Rebel Movies. The genre titles — the first on Rebel’s ‘Scare’ slate — include Overtime, The Malevolent, The Stacks and Ravenous.

Mischa Barton and Joaquim de Almeida (Our Brand Is Crisis) star in The Malevolent, currently in production, about a man who summons a sinister but seductive spirit after a car crash confines him to his apartment.

Paz De La Huerta (Boardwalk Empire, Nurse 3D) is due to star in Overtime — also in production — a thriller in which an office worker must fight for her life when a murderer dispatches her colleagues.

Tara Reid is on board for director Robert Reed Altman’s horror Ravenous, while Ana Coto will lead thriller The Stacks.

Both of the titles are in preproduction.

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Vladar flexes with UFC doc Hurt Business

By Jeremy Kay

New York-based The Vladar Company has been talking to buyers about a trio of new titles led by MMA documentary The Hurt Business. KSM has acquired German rights to the film, which will chronicle the lives of UFC fighters including the indomitable women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, light-heavyweight champion Jon ‘Bones’ Jones and former light-heavyweight champion Rashad ‘Suga’ Evans.

Vladar co-founder Vlad Yudin, whose credits include Generation Iron, will direct and serve as executive producer alongside co-founder Edwin Mejia and Jim Czarnecki.

Madman has picked up Australian and New Zealand rights to this and fashion documentary Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer.

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News

AFM briefs IM Global promotes three Joanne Lee and JR Smith have been promoted to director of acquisitions positions at IM Global and Weihan Zhang has been promoted to senior manager, sales and acquisitions Asia.

Alibaba to buy Youku Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is acquiring Youku Tudou, one of China’s largest video-streaming sites. Victor Koo will remain on board as Youku Tudou’s CEO following the merger.

Thunder in the Pipeline US-based production facility Thunder Studios has launched a film division and announced a strategic partnership with Tai Truesdell and Farouk Hadef of Pipeline Motion Picture Group to sell in-house and third-party film and TV titles.

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Sniper One hits target

By Andreas Wiseman

Fledgling Los Angeles-based film and TV production outfit Benattar/Thomas Productions, headed by UK executive Nigel Thomas (Killing Bono) and US producer Rick Benattar (Ironclad), has bought rights to Iraq war bestseller Sniper One. Written by former UK soldier Dan Mills, the producers are aiming to move the film into production in 2016. The book tells the

true story of a UK sniper unit in Iraq that finds itself engaged in a full-scale combat operation against overwhelming odds.

The book was brought to Benattar/Thomas by Tom Hopper, who is starring in the production outfit’s action thriller The Fixer, which just wrapped principal photography in Ireland. Hopper will serve as co-producer on the project alongside Mills.

UK veteran Thomas said: “Dan

Tencent bags 007 streaming rights

By Matt Mueller

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has acquired the exclusive online rights from MGM to stream the James Bond franchise to its customers. The deal, which encompasses the entire collection of adventures, from Dr No to Skyfall, is for transactional and subscription (VoD). Spectre, the latest

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Bond release, will be made available through the partnership in the future. Tencent also announced a deal to be the exclusive TVoD and SVoD distributor in China for all of Paramount Pictures’ new theatrical releases starting in April 2016, including the latest instalments of Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jack Reacher.

Mills walked the walk. But this is more than a war story. It’s a human tale of courage, comradeship and survival.”

Launched earlier this year, Benattar/Thomas Productions has three films in production as part of an output deal with XLrator Media: time-travel thriller Paradox starring Zoë Bell and Malik Yoba; The Last Heist, directed by Mike Mendez and starring Henry Rollins; and The Fixer.

Myriad sells Heartbeats Sales agency Myriad Pictures and Das Films have announced an exclusive deal with US-based Dance Network on upcoming India-set dance feature Heartbeats. Duane Adler (Step Up) will direct from his screenplay.

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Content Media hires Butterfield

By Jeremy Kay

Content Media has hired the producer and 2015 Screen Future Leader Tom Butterfield as head of production at its film division.

Butterfield will report to Content president of film Jamie Carmichael and assumes immediate oversight of the current and future slate. He will also be responsible for expanding national and international partnerships with key talent, producers, agents and publishers, and identifying new opportunities for film collaborations.

“Tom brings a wealth of production experience along with many strong industry relationships, from both London and Los Angeles,” said Carmichael.

Butterfield added: “I am excited to be joining the Content Team at this exciting time for the company and I’m looking forward to working with them to expand the film slate.”

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Spotlight Good films

Miriam Segal (centre) with Bryan Cranston and unit production manager Carla Aucoin on the set of Infiltrator

A Good year O

ver the summer, Miriam Segal, founder and lead producer of Good Films, made the move she had been resisting. She relocated full time from London to Los Angeles. Now the deed is done, the UK producer couldn’t be happier. “I just came back to London to grey skies and rain, and I e-mailed Brad [Furman, director of Infiltrator, formerly The Infiltrator] and said, ‘Now I know how you must have felt when you came here last November,’” she laughs. “LA is where the business is and it means I can have a normal life outside of office hours, rather than being on the phone to LA every night until two in the morning.”

Once Good Films has locked and delivered the final cut on Infiltrator, most of Segal’s London-based team will also relocate, leaving behind one or two people to manage physical production for any Europe-based shoots. “It’s making life so much easier,” says Segal of the move. “I don’t think it will make the films happen any quicker but it’s less frustrating. You’re able to react immediately.

“We will still make films in the UK and Europe but our ambitions are more in line with American independent cinema than European cinema,” she adds. “We are making English-language projects

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that are accessible but also intelligent and discerning. I see Infiltrator as ‘a movie’ rather than a film.”

Segal founded Good Films in 2007, in part with private investment secured through an Enterprise Investment Scheme, and Infiltrator is her company’s first completed production. Initial plans to shoot the film in the US were scrapped when they could not attach an actor who could justify the proposed $50m budget.

So Segal switched track, set the project up in the UK (where she gained the advantage of the UK tax credit) and is delighted they managed to land Bryan Cranston as the lead. “He really is amazing in the film,” she says.

The happy middle Directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer), the now $28m film is based on the autobiography of Robert Mazur — a US customs official who discovered a money-laundering scheme involving drug lord Pablo Escobar. The project sits in the mid-budget range market that has been largely abandoned by the studios, leaving space for companies such as Good Films to move in. It was co-financed

by Bank Leumi, Good Films and LipSync.

“It’s not about control, it’s more about management and aspirations,” says Segal

With her first production Infiltrator in the bag, Good Films producer Miriam Segal has ambitious plans for her slate in 2016. Matt Mueller reports

‘Infiltrator is a signpost that we can do it — we can support film-makers and won’t just put any bit of casting together to get a film made’ Miriam Segal, Good Pictures

of operating in the mid-range sphere.

“It’s about the kind of films you want to make. Audiences want to be challenged and engaged; that’s why television is so successful again. If you remain independent, you can protect from that almost knee-jerk instinct to play safe.”

Broad Green Pictures acquired US rights to Infiltrator off the back of a promo at Cannes for a reported $4m and are planning a 2016 theatrical release. WME Global brokered the deal, and at the time Relativity International were handling other sales. Sierra/Affinity has since come on board to take over Good Films’ slate, although Relativity International president Camela Galano is staying involved as a consultant. “Nick Meyer and Sierra were very open to that,” says Segal.

Because of Broad Green’s wide release

plans for Infiltrator, including further test screenings, a big buyer push at AFM has been postponed until Berlin. For the rest of the Good Films’ slate, they are out to cast on crime drama LAbyrinth, about the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., which will shoot in Los Angeles and Las Vegas this spring.

There is also Invisible, a London-set drama about immigrants directed by Danis Tanovic, which is out to cast; Infiltrator screenwriter Ellen Brown Furman’s all-female comedy drama No Comment, which Segal describes as “Fried Green Tomatoes meets The Big Chill”; and The Postcard Killings, from author James Patterson and Liza Marklund, a project that is being scaled up in commercial ambition after interest from buyers, with Good Films looking to attach a high-profile film-maker who can attract cast.

Segal’s ambition is to get at least three of her projects into production next year.

“Infiltrator is a signpost to people that we can do it — we can support filmmakers and we won’t just put any bit of casting together to get a film made, and we can put proper money behind it,” says Segal. “In a system that’s become so polarised, it’s quite nice to have that s middle ground.” n

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SPOTLIGHT HAUT ET COURT

Crossing over Paris-based producer-distributor Haut et Court has carved a space in highend TV drama while remaining true to its cinema roots. Co-heads Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo tell Melanie Goodfellow how they bridge the divide

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s producers of the 2008 Palme d’Or winner The Class and most recently co-producers on The Lobster, Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo are regulars on film festival red carpets. This autumn, however, the co-chiefs of Paris-based Haut et Court have been hitting the circuit with TV shows rather than films.

They were at Toronto International Film Festival with the second series of The Returned (Les Revenants), which screened in the festival’s new Primetime section ahead of a Halloween-timed launch across Europe and the US. A month later, Benjo arrived on the Croisette with the $25m, pan-European crime thriller The Last Panthers, inspired by the story of the Balkans’ notorious Pink Panthers heist gang, which was the opening premiere screening of MIPTV. Haut et Court co-produced the series, which stars Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim and John Hurt, alongside the UK’s Warp Films, with Sky Atlantic and Canal Plus on board as key financiers. The show rolls out this month across Europe with a planned US launch in spring 2016 by SundanceTV. New horizons In cinema circles, Haut et Court remains best known as a producer and distributor of independent cinema and a major player on the European co-production scene. Kicking off with Alain Berliner’s Golden Globe-winning transgender tale Ma Vie En Rose in 1997, the company has produced close to 50 features.

For the past five years, however, it has been using the experience and contacts gained in the film industry to carve out a place in Europe’s burgeoning high-end TV drama production scene.

“We felt the pay-TV model in Europe and cable in the US was emerging and made a

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‘Our interest in TV came from a desire to build bridges between TV and cinema’ Carole Scotta, Haut et Court

‘There’s not enough time in a feature-length film to tell the story of The Last Panthers’ Caroline Benjo, Haut et Court

conscious move to distance ourselves from the traditional TV channels,” says Scotta.

“From the start, our interest in TV came from a desire to build bridges between TV and cinema.”

Early series included the ARTE-commissioned Xanadu, about a family porn empire on the verge of collapse. It was the Emmywinning The Returned — produced by Benjo and Jimmy Desmarais at Haut et Court TV with Scotta on board as associate producer — that put the company on the map as an emerging player on the European drama scene. The supernatural series, which revolves around the living dead returning to a small Alpine town, is based on Haut et Court’s 2004 production They Came Back, written and directed by Robin Campillo, who also co-wrote the screenplay for The Class alongside director Laurent Cantet.

Spearheaded by Fabrice Gobert, The Returned combines a TV and cinematic aesthetic and a cast of big-screen veterans, including Anne Consigny and Frédéric Pierrot, and rising stars such as Guillaume Gouix, Ana Girardot and Yara Pilartz, who made her debut in 17 Filles. “Fabrice was more than a showrunner, he was also the writer, alongside the talented Audrey Fouché, and director at the same time. He really drove the series,” says Scotta. “It was a particular model — every series we do has its own particular DNA.” The Last Panthers is the company’s most ambitious TV production to date Tahar Rahim in The Last Panthers

(Left) Season two of The Returned featured in Toronto’s Primetime section

and is a textbook example of the cinema world crossing over to TV. Haut et Court initiated the series after being approached by investigative journalist Jérome Pierrat, who spent years researching the real-life Pink Panthers gang. “When we read the elements he’d given us, we said, ‘There’s not enough time in a feature-length film to tell that story,’” says Benjo. “A series seems more appropriate.”

The partnership with London-based Warp Films, another film company that has delved into TV with Shane Meadows’ long-running series This Is England, grew out of a longtime friendship with producer Peter Carlton.

“I’ve known Carole and Caroline since my days at Film4,” says Carlton. “We’d meet all the time on the film festival circuits and watch and argue about films.”

They decided to go for a 50:50 co-production set-up, running it like a traditional feature film co-production. Scotta suggests Europe’s cinema co-production veterans are better placed to operate in the region’s emerging high-end TV series scene than long-time TV producers who have catered mainly for their domestic broadcasters. “We’re used to working across borders and with multiple partners. It’s second nature for us,” she notes.

Long-standing ties to the film world also led Haut et Court to join Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani at Rome-based Wildside as co-producers on Paolo Sorrentino’s upcoming The Young Pope, starring Jude Law and backed by Sky Italia, Canal Plus and HBO. “We’d worked together on a previous project that didn’t happen and then this came up,” says Scotta.

Keeping the faith Haut et Court remains faithful to cinema. It has just launched The Lobster in France and is gearing up for the release of Stefano Sollima’s Suburra and Naomi Kawase’s An. The company also starts production in Brittany this month on Emmanuelle Bercot’s 150 Milligrams (La Fille De Brest), starring Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen as a medic who discovers a link between a series of mysterious deaths and a state-approved drug.

Haut et Court also runs a handful of arthouse cinemas across France, including the Louxor — a beautifully restored 1920s theatre with a neoEgyptian décor — and the Nouvel Odéon in Paris. “We remain very much committed to the big screen as we feel cinema and TV still have a long-term dialogue to nurture,” s concludes Scotta. ■

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SPOTLIGHT TANGERINE

‘We used a Mike Leigh method of workshop where I encouraged improvisation’ Sean Baker, director

Tangerine

Tangerine dreams Director Sean Baker and co-star Mya Taylor tell Andreas Wiseman about the making of their innovative transgender hit Tangerine

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hot on iPhone 5s for a budget of $100,000 and starring nonprofessional actors, Sundance hit Tangerine is this year’s awards-season underdog. It would be any year’s underdog. And yet few films this season can match Tangerine for invention or breadth of critical support.

“I thought we would be splitting audiences 50-50,” admits multi-hyphenate Sean Baker about his fifth feature, a comedy drama in which a transgender sex worker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart, crossing paths with

clients, co-workers and enemies along the way.

Bold, insightful and hilarious, the risqué festival favourite, which has taken $700,000 at the US box office for Magnolia, was sold to key markets including the UK, France and Australia but also, refreshingly, further afield to the likes of Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico and Hungary. “Mirovision weren’t entirely sure how it would go down but it went well,” says Baker of the film’s Korean launch.

Tangerine was inspired by an underworld that plays out right

Director Sean Baker (right) shot Tangerine using the iPhone 5

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on the director’s doorstep. “I live half a mile from Santa Monica and Highland, where the film takes place,” says Baker, perhaps best known for 2012 SXSW drama Starlet. “For decades it’s been known as an area frequented by transgender sex workers and I was taken aback that it hadn’t been focused on before in film or TV.” Small victory Tangerine nearly didn’t happen. Indie champions Mark and Jay Duplass had offered Baker the budget to make another small-scale film after seeing his 2008 drama The Prince Of Broadway but the director was keen to break out of the micro-bubble.

“After Starlet another microbudget film was the last thing I wanted to do,” he says. “I had a film that cost more, in the $5m range, but it was hard to finance. The actors I wanted

wouldn’t read the script so I couldn’t get the money. So in the end I reached out to Mark and Jay Duplass and said, ‘I guess that I’m ready to make that microbudget film.’”

He ended up with half the budget of Starlet, which at the time Baker admits felt like a step back. His regular producers, including Chris Bergoch and Darren Dean, were convinced it wasn’t enough to make Tangerine, which is where the idea to shoot the film on iPhones came from. “I’m on my fifth film so I can’t pull favours any more like hiring budget cameras,” he says. “So we agreed to shoot the film on an iPhone 5 with the help of a Steadicam Smoothee, an anamorphic lens adapter and Final Cut Pro.” Baker had met the film’s co-lead Mya Taylor, a transgender woman with no prior acting experience, at a local LGBT centre. “She was the first one to show enthusiasm,” says Baker. “She was telling us stories and introducing us to women who were working the streets at the time, including Kiki [co-lead Kitana ‘Kiki’ Rodriguez]. I was drawn to their interaction.”

The story took place across one day for budgetary reasons. “We used a Mike Leigh method of workshop where I encouraged improvisation,” says Baker.

“Eight months later we were shooting.”

Taylor was intrepid. “I wasn’t nervous.

We had a lot of fun,” says the first-time actress. “The only challenge I had was that I’d just started my transition so I had my insecurities. I would wear shades all the time — even at night — to hide my features. I was scared. I struggle to look at the film because of the memories. I feel more comfortable now.”

Tangerine offers a unique insight into a little-known corner of Los Angeles inhabited by low-paid immigrants and sex workers. As it turned out, the film’s portrait of a particular transgender experience would also tap into a zeitgeist for trans-themed content. “We didn’t see that coming,” says Baker. The surge in trans content could help the film, along with an announced guerrilla marketingstyle Oscar push in the acting, cinematography and script categories.

“I was taken aback when I saw the news,” says Baker. “Who knows whether Magnolia has pockets deep enough to compete with campaigns for the other big films, but the fact this movie is out s there is enough.” ■

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1310 3rd Street Promenade, at Arizona Avenue

1700 Ocean Avenue — second floor

Broadway Cineplex

Ocean Screening Room

1441 3rd Street Promenade, just north of Broadway

1401 Ocean Avenue, at Santa Monica Boulevard

Doubletree Screening Room

Tunnel Post Screening Room

1707 4th Street, enter on lobby level

233 Wilshire Boulevard, at northwest corner of 3rd Street

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101 Wilshire Boulevard, enter from 2nd Street

08:45 Barca Dreams

Documentary. 120mins.

Dir: Jordi Llompart.

Scr: Jordi Llompart.

Cast: Xavi Hernandez, Leo Messi, Andres Iniesta. Filmax International.

The passionate history of one of the greatest football clubs of all time, FC Barcelona, narrated by some of its main characters and best soccer players ever.

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The Boy and the Beast

Animation. 119mins.

Dir: Mamoru Hosoda.

Scr: Mamoru Hosoda.

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Shota Sometani, Koji Yakusho. Gaumont.

A coming-of-age action fantasy tale about Kyuta, a misfortunate, lonely boy who lives in the human world, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast who lives in the imaginary world. The relationship — at times stormy — between the beast and his young apprentice gradually grows stronger.

Overcoming their solitude, they come to realise how much they need each other.

Their fortunate encounter will be the beginning of an adventure that goes beyond your imagination.

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Market Palm Trees in the Snow (Work in Progress)

Romance. 30mins.

Dir: Fernando Gonzalez Marina. Scr: Sergio G Sanchez. Cast: Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Alain Hernandez, Macarena Garcia. Film Factory Entertainment.

The accidental discovery of a long-lost letter drives Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Spain to Africa, to visit the land where his father Jacobo and uncle Kilian spent most of their youth.

In the heart of a land as lush and seductive as dangerous, Clarence unearths the secret of a forbidden love story framed within turbulent historical circumstances whose consequences will have repercussions in his present-day life.

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09:00 11 Minutes

Thriller. 81mins.

Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski.

Scr: Jerzy Skolimowski.

Cast: Richard Dormer, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik. HanWay Films.

A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled

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08:45 The Midwife

Drama. 118mins.

Dir: Antti J Jokinen.

Scr: Antti J Jokinen Katja Kettu. Cast: Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen. Picture Tree International.

Finland, 1944. The country is shaken by the Lapland War, a conflict between Germany and Finland in the aftermath student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns. A crosssection of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine. They live in an unsure world where anything could happen at any time. An unexpected chain of events can seal many fates in a mere 11 minutes.

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Baskin

Horror. 97mins.

Dir: Can Evrenol.

Scr: Can Evrenol, Ercin Sadikoglu, Cem Ozuduru, Ogulcan Eren Akay.

Cast: Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Sabahattin Yakut, Mehmet Fatih Dokgoz, Muharrem Bayrak. The Salt Company.

of the Second World War. Helena, a small community’s midwife, nicknamed “Wildeye”, meets the FinnishGerman Nazi officer Johannes Angelhurst.

She is attracted to the mysterious stranger and follows him to the prisoner of war camp where he serves to start working as a nurse.

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A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to hell when they stumble upon a black mass in an abandoned building.

Barry Humphries.

Studio 100 Film.

Blinky Bill is a koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his explorer father’s footsteps. Mr Bill went missing in the Outback sometime ago and Blinky is the only one who believes his father is still alive. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.

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Christmas Eve Black Rose

Action/adventure.

85mins. Dir: Alexander Nevsky. Scr: Brent Huff, George Saunders.

Cast: Alexander Nevsky, Kristianna Loken.

Lightning Entertainment Group.

A Russian police major is enlisted by the LAPD to solve a series of gruesome murders perpetrated against young women by a sadistic sociopathic.

Romantic comedy, drama. 95mins.

Dir: Mitch Davis.

Scr: Mitch Davis.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jon Heder, James Roday, Cheryl Hines, Gary Cole.

Bleiberg Entertainment.

Hilarity, romance, and transcendence prevail after a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve. Loews 3

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In the midst of a wedding, a princess is kidnapped by a dragon. He carries her away to his castle on the island. Everything is gone: her home, marriage.

All that is left is a stony imprisonment shared with a mystic creature and a mysterious young man… but who is he and how has he gotten to the island?

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Fast Convoy

Action/adventure.

95mins. Dir: Frederic Schoendoerffer. Scr: Frederic Schoendoerffer.

Cast: Benoit Magimel, Reem Kherici.

Indie Sales.

Seven men, four cars and 1,300 kilos of cannabis leave Malaga, southern Spain, headed for Creil on the outskirts of Paris. But for Alex, Yacine, Majid and the others, what should be a regular run turns into a fatal convoy.

When a woman is added to the convoy — Nadia, a young tourist travelling home from Morrocco — she’s dragged into their adventure. For one night, she and the audience are immersed in the violent reality of drug trafficking.

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Dragon Blinky Bill The Movie

Children’s, animation, family. 84mins. Dir: Deane Taylor. Scr: Fin Edquist. Cast: Toni Collette, Ryan Kwanten,

Fantasy, drama, romance.

100mins. Dir: Indar Dzhendunbaev.

Scr: Sergey Trofimov.

Cast: Matvey Lykov, Maria Poezzhaeva. Mirsand.

House of Time

Supernatural thriller.

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Camino

Action/adventure, suspense, thriller.

102mins. Dir: Josh C. Waller. Scr: Daniel Noah.

Cast: Zoe Bell, Nacho Vigalondo. Bleiberg Entertainment.

A veteran war photojournalist is embedded in the Colombian jungle with a group of missionaries led by a Charismatic Spaniard known as “El Guero”. When she catches El Guero committing a vicious atrocity on film, she flees into the rain forest with only her camera, evading missionaries who have been turned into violent guerrillas by their unhinged leader.

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Market 11:00 Departure

Drama. 110mins.

Dir: Andrew Steggall.

Scr: Andrew Steggall.

Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phoenix Brossard, Finbar Lynch.

Mongrel International.

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week packing up the contents of their remote holiday house in the south of France.

Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his Esther Comar.

Other Angle Pictures.

In a mysterious castle, a group of friends are going to experience time travel 70 years back. Is is true or is it a game?

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Chasing Niagara

dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice.

She, in turn, is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clement, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

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Dir: Daniel Guzman.

Scr: Daniel Guzman.

Cast: Miguel Herran, Antonio Bachiller, Antonia Guzman. 6 Sales.

Three generations meet in city that’s too big to be alone. It’s summertime.

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Mind Battle

Fantasy, comedy, action/ adventure. 100mins.

Dir: Artem Aksenenko.

Scr: Oleg Sirotkin.

Cast: Aleksandr Petrov, Diana Pozharskaya.

Planeta Inform Film Distribution.

Alex, a charming swindler with spoof extra sensorial powers, is substitute for a dropout contestant on TV show ‘Battle Of Minds’.

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Nothing in Return

Drama. 93mins.

Shangri-La Suite

Thriller, psycho-drama.

100mins. Dir: Eddie O’Keefe. Scr: Eddie O’Keefe. Cast: Emily Browning, Luke Grimes, Ron Livingston. Arclight Films.

Star-crossed lovers Jack and Karen escape from a mental institution, leaving behind a trail of dead bodies as they head towards Los Angeles, where an angst-ridden Elvis Presley is due to perform at a long-overdue

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concert. Despite the police hot on their tracks and even at the expense of his one true love, Jack is determined to fulfil his personal mission: to assassinate Elvis.

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Wild For The Night 3D

Thriller. 90mins.

Dir: Benny Boom. Scr: Gregory Ramon Anderson, Rashad Anwar El Amin.

Cast: James Maslow.

Highland Film Group.

At the centre of the glamorous and fastpaced Hollywood dance underworld, Wyatt, an aspiring dancer who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and has been in and out of trouble with the law, is forced by the DEA to work undercover in a nightclub known for its illegal activities.

Everything changes when he falls in love with the daughter of the wealthy owner of the club and the twists and turns his life takes threaten to tear their romance apart.

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11:00 All Gone South

Comedy. 110mins. Dir: Nicolas Benamou, Philippe Lacheau.

Scr: Nicolas Lacheau.

Cast: Christian Clavier, Philippe Lacheau, Alice David, Elodie Fontan.

TF1 International.

The gang’s going on vacation — to Brazil!

Lovebirds Sonia and Franck have invited their buddies to the luxury hotel owned by Sonia’s pompous father, Alain. Franck secretly plans to propose to Sonia, but his attempts to win her father’s approval are disastrous — and with friends like his, who needs enemies?

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All Three of Us

Comedy. 107mins.

Dir: Kheiron. Scr: Kheiron. Cast: Kheiron, Leila Bekhti, Gerard Darmon, Zabou Breitman. Gaumont.

From a small village in the south of Iran to Parisian housing projects, Kheiron tells us about the extraordinary fate of his parents, eternal optimists Hibat and Fereshteh, in a comedy that very much resembles a universal tale about family love, selfsacrifice and, especially, the ideal of living together.

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Blind Date

Comedy, romance.

90mins. Dir: Clovis Cornillac. Scr: Clovis Cornillac. Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Melanie Bernier. Other Angle Pictures.

He is a dedicated workaholic who lives

and breathes his work.

He prefers nothing more than silence. She is an accomplished pianist working on her big-break concert. To her, music and sound is everything.

Separated only by a wall, things get interesting.

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The Call Up

Action/adventure, sci-fi.

93mins. Dir: Charles Barker. Scr: Charles Barker. Cast: Max Deacon, Morfydd Clark, Ali Cook, Parker Sawyers, Tom Benedict Knight, Boris Ler, Douggie McMeekin, Adriana Randall. Altitude Film Sales.

When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it is a dream come true and impossible to resist.

Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting-edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life!

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Action/adventure, documentary. 80mins.

Dir: Rush Sturges.

Scr: Mark Anders.

Cast: Rafa Ortiz, Rush Sturges, Evan Garcia, Gerd Serrasolses.

Red Bull Media House.

When pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz makes the decision to paddle over Niagara Falls, he sets in motion an incredible series of events that eventually takes on a life of its own. To prepare for this mission, Rafa enlists the help of worldrenowned paddler Rush Sturges and a tight team of their friends. Together they go on a remarkable three-year journey from the rainforest rivers of Mexico to the towering waterfalls of the US Northwest. Their journey concludes in Canada where the team plays a cat-and-mouse game with local police before Rafa’s mission comes to a heartstopping climax at the iconic Falls.

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Hangman

Horror. 90mins. Dir: Adam Mason. Scr: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes.

Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield. Myriad Pictures.

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Cast: Jeremy Sumpter, Michael Nouri, Christopher McDonald, Jillian Murray. American Cinema International.

A humble young man with uncommon skills from a small southern town gets caught up in high stakes golf matches between bigtime gamblers… until the game becomes life and death!

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Market 11:00 Hevn (Revenge)

Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Kjersti G. Steinsbo.

Scr: Kjersti G Steinsbo.

Cast: Siren Jorgensen, Frode Winther, Maria Bock, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Trond Espen Seim. Beta Cinema.

Rebekka’s younger sister has committed suicide after spending years in a psychiatric broken into. After cleaning up the mess, they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. But little do they know the nightmare has just begun.

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I Was There See box, right

I’m Off Then

Drama, biography.

90mins. Dir: Julia von Heinz. Scr: Jane Ainscought, Hape Kerkeling, Christoph Silber. Cast: Devid Striesow, Martina Gedeck, Karoline Schuch, Katharina Thalbach, Annette Frier.

Global Screen.

Overweight, overworked, and disenchanted, German

institution. After the funeral, Rebekka gets into her car and drives off, taking nothing but a kitchen knife. Set within the majestic back drop of the fjords of western Norway, she is looking for retribution. Under a false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister’s violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to now destroy his life.

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comedian and TV star Hape realises he can’t keep on this way. He takes a six-month sabbatical, and embarks on a pilgrimage on St James’ Way, the famed path to Santiago de Compostela. He sets out in search of… what, exactly? God? Truth?

Peace? Himself ? A film about finding and seeking — sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes moving and emotional.

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Pali Road

Thriller. 100mins.

Dir: Jonathan Lim. Scr: Victoria Arch, Doc Pedrolie.

Cast: Kang Sung, Michelle Chen, Jackson Rathbone. Arclight Films.

A young doctor wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is married to another man and living

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a life she can’t remember.

Her search for the truth to her past life will lead her to question everyone around her and her entire existence.

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Reparation

Thriller. 104mins.

Dir: Kyle Ham. Scr: Steve Timm, Kyle Ham. Cast: Jon Huertas, Marc Menchaca, Virginia Newcomb, Dale Dye Thomas.

Little Film Company.

Bob Stevens is a smalltown Indiana farmer with a three-year hole in his memory. When a mysterious stranger claims to have been his best friend in the Air Force Police, Bob’s peaceful existence begins to unravel from the outside in. His entire family is caught in the storm but none more than his eight-year-old daughter, who discovers that she has inherited her father’s missing years… stowaways on her DNA. As Charlotte comes to learn, “balance is everything”.

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Some Kind Of Hate

Supernatural thriller, horror. 82mins.

Dir: Adam Egypt Mortimer. Scr: Adam Egypt Mortimer, Brian DeLeeuw.

Cast: Grace Phipps, Ronen Rubinstein, Lexi

Atkins, Spencer Breslin, Sierra McCormick, Brando Eaton.

Devilworks.

When a troubled teen is subjected to severe bullying, he accidentally conjures Moira Karp.

Once a teenage girl pushed to suicide, Moira is now an unstoppable force on

a mission of gruesome retribution. But when she goes too far, he must prevent her from spiralling out of control.

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The Squeeze

Drama, comedy. 95mins.

Dir: Terry Jastrow.

Scr: Terry Jastrow.

Supernatural thriller, horror, drama. 74mins.

Dir: Jed Brian. Scr: Jed Brian, Tyler Landers.

Cast: Gavin Groves, Andrea Potts, Levi Atkins, Hadiee Carona.

Lawford County Productions.

The ‘Owner House’ has been vacant for several years because of its very dark history but with the recent series of murders it has been taken to the next level. A family who just moved in has been murdered causing the curiosity of a group of friends to get the best of them. Deciding to break in and investigate with hand held cameras would

Market 11:00 I Was There

Drama. 85mins.

Dir: Jorge Valdes-Iga. Scr: Jorge Valdes-Iga, James A. Lee. Cast: James A Lee, Sebastian Zurita, Carl Ford.

Media Luna New Films.

Gus Johnson is a New York City firefighter

who barely survived the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 and instantly became a hero. However, survivor’s guilt haunted Gus and he turned into a self-loathing alcoholic, who pushed away his wife and son. Years later, Samuel Lyons, a

photographer who crossed paths with Gus on 9/11, confronts him with a compromising photo he took that morning and blackmails him into telling the truth to his family, forcing him into a journey of self-discovery and acceptance.

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has tried to forget.

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Get Squirrely (3D)

Action/adventure, animation, family.

95mins. Dir: Ross Venokur. Scr: Lenore Venokur. Cast: John Leguizamo, Will Forte, John Cleese, Hayden Panettiere, Samantha Bee, Jim Cummings.

SC Films International.

A squirrel plots to pull off a major heist at a giant nut factory.

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The Legend of Barney Thomson

Market 13:00 All You Need Is Love

Drama. 102mins.

Dir: Richie Jen, Andy Luo. Scr: Andy Luo, Richie Jen, Shr Geng Jian, Qi Shu, Virginia Liu, Shin Shiuan Liou, Shian Jang Tzeng.

Cast: Richie Jen, Qi Shu. Media Asia Distribution.

He was a happy-go-lucky Taiwanese wanderer

be the worst decision of their fun- filled night.

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who had settled down in his hometown running a crummy B&B. His carefree and peaceful existence is turned topsyturvy when she appears: a wealthy, educated and popular travelogue blogger from China who finds herself stranded in his decrepit B&B with her passport, cash and luggage lost in the sea.

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blood-thirsty mob who force them to the extreme to escape alive.

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What We Become

Drama, horror. 81mins.

Dir: Bo Mikkelsen.

Scr: Bo Mikkelsen.

Cast: Mille Dinesen, Troels Lyby, Mikael Birkkjaer. Indie Sales.

The Johansson family’s idyllic summer is brought to an abrupt halt as deaths stack up from a virulent strand of the flu. The authorities start off by cordoningoff the neighbourhood but they soon panic and force the inhabitants into quarantine in their hermetically-sealed houses.

Isolated from the rest of the world, teen Gustav realises that the situation is getting out of control.

He breaks out but soon the family of four comes under attack from the riotous,

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Anne of Green Gables

Family. 90mins.

Dir: John Kent Harrison.

Scr: Susan Coyne.

Cast: Ella Ballentine, Martin Sheen.

Breakthrough Entertainment.

The story of a fiercely imaginative little girl who, with her irrepressible spirit, touches the lives of everyone that she meets. In particular, it is the story of Anne’s stormy relationship with the strait-laced Marilla Cuthbert, who discovers through Anne a capacity for love that she never knew she had.

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The Callback Queen

Romantic comedy.

89mins. Dir: Graham Cantwell. Scr: Graham Cantwell. Cast: Mark Killen, Amy-Joyce Hastings, Eoin Macken.

Princ Films.

Kate Loughlin is a vivacious young actress struggling to get her big break in the London film industry. When she lands an audition for the lead role in a massive movie franchise she goes after the opportunity with all guns blazing while her sleazy agent is trying to pimp her to the director Vincent Catalano.

Determined to prove her strict professionalism, she starts second guessing Vincent’s interest in her.

In the cut-throat arena of show business, Kate stands to learn that her profession is personal and sometimes friction can create a spark.

Terra Mater Film Studios.

A group of young bioengineers discover that quantum theory can be used to transfer motor-skills from one brain to another.

They freely spread this technology, believing it to be a first step towards a new intellectual equality. But as the mysterious past of one of their group is revealed, dark forces emerge that threaten to subvert this technology into a means of mass-control.

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Fair Haven

Drama. 90mins.

Dir: Krestin Karlhuber Scr: Jack Bryant.

Cast: Michael Grant, Tom Wopat, Josh Green, Lily Anne. Little Film Company.

When James, a young piano prodigy, returns home after a long stay in gay conversion therapy, he finds himself torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father and the past, loving relationship he

Black comedy. 95mins.

Dir: Robert Carlyle.

Scr: Colin Maclaren, Rich Cowan.

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay.

Myriad Pictures.

Barney Thomson is an awkward barber who inadvertently stumbles into serial murder, with both absurd and macabre consequences. When a series of accidental events causes Barney’s dark fantasies to become reality, his uninteresting life suddenly gets very complicated, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

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DXM

Sci-fi, action/adventure.

95mins. Dir: Andrew Goth. Scr: Joanne Reay.

Cast: Sam Neill, Melia Kreiling, Tom Payne, Antonia CampbellHughes, Ursula Strauss, Dominique Tipper, Oliver Stark, Turlough Convery, Ryan Doyle, Pedja Bjelac, Simon Paisley-Day.

Market 13:00 Are You Here

Horror. 90mins.

Dir: Pak Kei Wong.

Scr: Patrick Kong.

Cast: Yam Yam Sui, Hee Ching Paw, Lan Law, Jacaqulin Ch’ng, Sammy Sum. Young

Live Entertainment (HK) Co. Man, Lung, Kiang and Fun’s online game design company faces closure as the business has been quiet for a while.

One day, Mrs Wong shows her deceased son’s

unfinished online game of Ouija board to them, and hopes they can fulfill his unfinished dream.

They gladly accept the business. But since then, they have been on a streak of bad luck…

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Horror, thriller. 97mins.

Dir: Ruth Platt.

Scr: Ruth Platt.

Cast: Robert Hands, Evan Bendall, Michaela Prchalova, Dolya Gavanski, Tom Cox, Rory Coltart. Jinga Films.

Two schoolboy delinquents are taught a lesson they will never forget when a bullied teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct and punish them.

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and the cruel killing of her father right before her eyes, this weak girl wiped her tears and decided to fight back.

Sci-fi, action/adventure.

95mins. Dir: Sarik Andreasyan. Scr: Andrey Gavrilov. Cast: Yuri Chursin, Veniamin Smekhov, Victor Verzhbitsky. Planeta Inform Film Distribution.

The distant future. In need of a new kind of entertainment, society created Mafia, a liveaction game that took the world by storm and became the most popular TV show. Eleven participants, each of whom has their own reasons to try their luck in this game of love, lust, fear anger and death. The cold-blooded audience craves for new emotions and challenges on the screen. In front of the world a game where winner takes all and losers die commences. Who will be able to fight their fear and come out victorious this time?

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Mysterious Family

Mystery, thriller, suspense. 93mins.

Dir: Park Yu-hwan.

Scr: Park Yu-hwan.

Cast: Ariel Lin, Wu Jiang, Kara Hui, Ching-Lung Lan, Xiao Chen. Pegasus Motion Pictures.

Miaomaio was filled with pain after suffering grave physical and mental hurt.

All she wanted was to live in peace and quiet, yet the murderer did not let her go. Seeing her desperate mother, helpless brother

Drama. 32mins.

Dir: Various. Scr: Various. Cast: Various.

Films Distribution.

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RIOT

Action/adventure.

87mins. Dir: John Lyde.

Scr: John Lyde.

Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Liddell, Matthew Reese. VMI Worldwide.

Copper Jack Stone purposefully orchestrates a bank robbery in order to be thrown into prison with the notorious Russian kingpin Balam.

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Sheep and Wolves

Animation, family.

80mins. Dir: Maxim Volkov. Scr: Neil Landau.

Cast: Maxim Volkov.

Wizart Animation.

In a magical faraway land, in a picturesque little village nestled among green meadows and rolling hills, lives a flock of carefree sheep. But their pastoral and stress-free life is interrupted when a pack of wolves set up camp in the nearby ravine.

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Streif — One Hell of a Ride

Action/adventure, documentary. 103mins.

Dir: Gerald Salmina.

Scr: Tom Dauer. Cast: Aksel lund Svindal, Erik Guay, Max Franz.

Red Bull Media House.

Five downhill ski racers offer a glimpse into the soul of extreme athletes as they take on the Super Bowl of skiing in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

rates are soaring. But Vernon Stynes might have the answer — Trading.

Two people empty their bank accounts, sell everything they own and put the cash into nondescript green bags. They travel to a remote location, dig a grave and fight to the death. Winner buries the loser and takes the two bags. Then you find someone else and do it again, and again and again… until you are rich enough or dead, whichever comes first. Harry Fox has lost his job, his dignity, his best friend. What else has he got to lose? Why not become a Trader?

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Urban Hymn

Drama. 113mins.

Dir: Michael Caton-Jones.

Scr: Nick Moorcroft.

Cast: Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Letitia Wright.

Metro International Entertainment.

A redemptive comingof-age story following neglected and wayward teen Jamie, whose incredible singing voice offers an escape until her loyalties are divided.

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The Virgin Psychics

Comedy. 114mins.

Dir: Sion Sono. Scr: Sion Sono, Shinichi SonoTanaka. Cast: Shota Sometani, Elaiza Ikeda, Erina Mano. GAGA Corporation.

A high-school student spends his days aimlessly.

He is in love with a girl.

Completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in the future. One day, he discovers he has mind-reading psychic powers.

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Traders

Romantic comedy.

97mins. Dir: John L’Ecuyer. Scr: Jeannette Sousa, Ryan Scott.

Cast: Joaquim de Almeida, Jeannette Sousa, Ryan Scott, Nelly Furtado. Vision Films.

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Action/adventure.

90mins. Dir: Rachael Moriarty, Peter Murphy.

Scr: Rachel Moriarty, Peter Murphy. Cast: Killian Scott, John Bradley, Nika McGuigan.

MPI Media Group.

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Black comedy. 105mins.

Dir: Fernando Leon de Aranoa. Scr: Fernando has no idea that his life and luck are both about to change. But will they overcome their families’ cultural differences?

A vibrant, funny and romantic story about passion, destiny and crosscultural relationships.

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Romantic comedy.

112mins. Dir: Yanyong Kuruaungkoul.

Cast: Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Dan Aron Ramnarong.

Mono Film Co. Kong is a high school student from 2015, the digital era. He lives with his parents Tum and Maem, who always argue with each other about Som, a girl who was in love with Tum a long time ago. One day, Kong accidentally finds an old pager with an incoming message. He decides to call the shown number via a phone booth. Kong is instantly transported to 1995, to the time when his parents are his age, so he befriends his father and has a chance to meet Som. He then thinks of a plan

Leon de Aranoa.

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Melanie Thierry, Fedja Stukan.

WestEnd Films.

A group of aid workers try to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.

to separate Som from his father and fix the past.

But Kong falls in love with Som instead.

Scr: Robert Budreau.

Cast: Ethan Hawke.

K5 International.

A reimagining of jazz legend Chet Baker’s life in the 1960s. When Chet (with talent to burn and movie-star looks that have him dubbed the James Dean of jazz) stars in a film about himself, a romance heats up with the African-American female lead, the enigmatic Jane.

Production is shelved when a vicious beating means he may never play music again. Jane challenges Chet to avoid self-destruction, stay clean and mount a musical comeback against all the odds.

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Bite

Horror. 85mins.

Dir: Chad Archibald.

Scr: Jayme LaForest.

Cast: Emma Begovic.

Breakthrough Entertainment.

While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect.

After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she’s able to, she starts exhibiting insectlike traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs but feeds on the flesh of others.

As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.

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Born To Be Blue

Drama. 97mins.

Dir: Robert Budreau.

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Born to Dance

Drama. 96mins.

Dir: Tammy Davis.

Scr: Steve Barr, Casey Whelan, Hone Kouka.

Cast: Stan Walker, Kherington Payne, Tia-Taharoa Maipi.

Cinema Management Group (CMG).

Tu, an ambitious young man from an underprivileged South Auckland suburb, dreams of being a professional hip-hop dancer. When his father, a Sergeant in »

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Screenings

Market 15:00 Pandemic

Supernatural thriller, action/adventure.

93mins. Dir: John Suits. Scr: Dustin Benson. Cast: Rachel Nichols, Mekhi Phifer, Missi Pyle, Alfie Allen.

Content.

Featuring nonstop action from a first-person shooter

the New Zealand Army, issues an ultimatum — find a purpose in life by the end of the summer or enlist — Tu decides that dance is his way out. After being offered a chance to try out for K-Crew, a prestigious international dance group, Tu must juggle the pressures of his gruelling job, demanding father and turn his back on his South Auckland crew. Things become further complicated when he falls for Sasha, the girlfriend of K-Crew’s malicious leader, Kane.

Tu learns that the whole audition process has been a scam to steal the best moves from dancers across Auckland and create animosity within the other teams. He will unite his old crew and his new friends to battle their way into nationals and face K-Crew in the finals.

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perspective, ‘Pandemic’ is ‘World War Z’ meets ‘Call of Duty’ — an innovative and intense action film that puts you in the middle of every fight and feeling in control of every punch thrown and shot fired.

It’s a new model of action thriller for the video-game generation.

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Courted

Drama, romance.

98mins. Dir: Christian Vincent. Scr: Christian Vincent. Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen. Gaumont.

Xavier Racine is a feared presiding judge at Criminal Court. His nickname is The Two Figure Judge, because he always hands down sentences of at least 10 years. Everything changes dramatically the day Racine meets Ditte Lorensen-Coteret. She is on the jury trying a man accused of homicide. Six years earlier, Racine fell in love with the same woman. Almost in secret.

She is perhaps the only woman he has ever loved.

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God’s Not Dead 2

Drama. 110mins.

Dir: Harold Cronk.

Scr: Chuck Konzelman,

24 Screen International at AFM November 7, 2015

Cary Solomon. Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Ernie Hudson, Ray Wise, David A. R White, Pat Boone, Robin Givens. Pure Flix Entertainment/Quality Flix.

After answering a simple question by a student, a high school teacher faces an epic court case with the help of sympathetic and charismatic defence lawyer, that could cost her the career she had always dreamed of — and expel God from the classroom once and for all.

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his backpack — because that is where the miniprincipal is now and she is still ranting and raving.

AMC Santa Monica 4

How He Fell in Love

Drama. 108mins.

Dir: Marc Meyers.

Scr: Marc Meyers.

Cast: Matt McGorry, Amy Hargreaves, Britne Oldford, Mark Blum.

Visit Films.

A casual affair between a young musician and a married woman turns into an intimate and profound connection that threatens to derail their lives.

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HELP, I Shrunk My Teacher

Family, action/adventure.

90mins. Dir: Sven Unterwaldt Jr. Scr: Gerrit Hermans. Cast: Oskar Keymar, Anja Kling, Justus Von Dohnanyi, Axel Stein, Otto Waalkes, Lina Huesker, Georg Sulzer. ARRI Media World Sales.

The story of 11-year-old Felix, whom nobody believes has “shrunk” the universally hated school principal Dr SchmittGossenwein to a height of just 15cm. Even he does not know how it happened and whether it maybe has something to do with the ghost of the school’s founder. But he now has the problem on his hands — or, more accurately, in

I am Wrath

Action/adventure. 92mins.

Dir: Chuck Russell. Scr: Paul Sloan. Cast: John Travolta, Christopher Meloni, Sam Tramell.

Hannibal Pictures/ Hannibal Classics.

An out-of-work engineer witnesses his wife’s brutal murder. When the police are unable to bring the killers to justice, he takes the law into his own hands.

AMC Santa Monica 3

Kampai! For the Love of Sake

Documentary. 95mins.

Dir: Mirai Konishi.

Scr: Mirai Konishi.

Cast: Philip Harper, John Gauntner, Kosuke Kuji. Fortissimo Films.

The exploration of the

traditional, complex and secretive world of sake, often called Japanese rice wine, through the eyes of three distinctive outsiders who have devoted themselves to sake.

at home and at the church, the pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling.

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No Way Out

Lost in the Pacific

Thriller, sci-fi. 100mins.

Dir: Vincent Zhou.

Scr: Vincent Zhou.

Cast: Brandon Routh, Kitty Zhang. Arclight Films.

On its maiden flight, a lightening storm forces a luxury airliner to make an emergency landing on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean that, unbeknown to its passengers, is overrun with mutant creatures.

Two surviving military personnel force the pilot to a secret military base, but once in the air they discover something sinister has come on board.

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The Masked Saint

Action/adventure.

111mins. Dir: Warren P Sonoda. Scr: Scott Crowell. Cast: Brett Granstaff, Laura Jean Chorostecki. Archstone Distribution.

The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small-town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises

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Action/adventure, Thriler. 83mins.

Dir: Hector Echavarria.

Scr: Hector Echavarria.

Cast: Estella Warren, Danny Trejo, Hector Echavarria. Moonrise Pictures.

Juan de los Santos, an undercover cop in Los Angeles, is working to take down the biggest drug cartel in Latin America when he is attacked and witnesses the execution of his wife. Sleepless and afflicted by treacherous nightmares, he is willing to take any job to alleviate his suffering. Juan starts working at Velvet, a glamorous nightclub, but soon he will find out that behind the sophistication of Velvet is a breeding ground for chaos.

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The Phenom

Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Noah Buschel.

Scr: Noah Buschel.

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti, Johnny Simmons. Conquistador Entertainment. »

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A very talented young athlete that is so tortured by his past that he suddenly can’t perform during games. Through the help of his therapist he is guided thru the healing process and learns to deal with his demons and especially with his abusive father.

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Plan Z

Market 15:00 Sin Hijos

Comedy, family. 90mins.

Dir: Ariel Winograd. Scr: Mariano Vera. Cast: Diego Peretti, Maribel Verdu.

FilmSharks International.

After four years separated, Gabriel is now devoted exclusively to his little daughter, Sofia. The arrival of Vicky, a beautiful woman and a true believer of

the No Kids movement, shakes up his lethargic love life and, in order to keep the relationship afloat, Gabriel decides to keep his daughter a secret.

AMC Santa Monica 2

Horror. 90mins.

Dir: Stuart Brennan.

Scr: Stuart Brennan.

Cast: Stuart Brennan, Mark Paul Wake, Eugene Horan, Terry Deary. Carnaby International Sales and Distribution.

Craig has always thought about what he might do in a zombie apocalypse.

When a deadly outbreak of Ebola erupts, his planning becomes more serious. As the virus mutates and makes the dead rise again, he must put his plan

to action. Barricading himself in his house, his plan quickly unravels and he must adapt and decide on a new and more aggressive course of action.

A ‘Plan Z’.

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17:00 Bikini Body Conscious Living/Just Leo/ Strippers

Comedy. 95mins. Dir: Phillip Penza. Scr: Phillip Penza. Cast: Audrey Beth, Toni L. Mitchell, Kamese Rasheed, Selena, Coco. Little Books Little Films.

An up and coming halfhour talk show featuring a panel of diverse and courageous women that speak straight from the hip about a variety of fun, informative and heartfelt topics.

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Market 17:00 Do You Believe?

Drama. 110mins.

Dir: Jon Gunn.

Scr: ALexa Penavega.

Cast: Mira Sorvino, Cybil Shepherd, Sean Austin, Brian Bosworth, Delroy Lindo, Andrea Logan White, Lee Majors. Pure Flix Entertainment/Quality Flix.

The deeply personal journey of a handful of characters in

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interweaving stories. The tale that unfolds is one of love and forgiveness, heartbreak and healing, broken dreams and hope restored, courage, suffering, unwavering faith, second chances and the gift of new life. We are each given only so much time on this Earth.

What you do with it makes all the difference.

What will you do? What ‘Do you Believe’?

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Comedy. 90mins.

Dir: Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse. Scr: Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse.

Cast: Jason Biggs, Janet Montgomery, Ashley Tisdale. The Works.

Guy Carter is an insecure expectant father who, unable to find work in his field, accepts a job chauffeuring prostitutes around Los Angeles. In the course of one night the reluctant dad finds he just may have the right stuff for fatherhood after all.

himself, he starts to write a fake article stating that he was threatened by the killer and ends up getting caught in the web of lies.

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Go With Me See box, below

The Good, The Bad, and The Dead

Action/adventure.

90mins. Dir: Timothy Woodward, Jr. Scr: Sean Ryan. Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo.

VMI Worldwide.

Brian Barnes wakes up in the desert wounded and with no memory and no idea why he’s surrounded by eight dead bodies, three million in cash and a van full of cocaine. Pursued by not only notorious

drug lord Mateo Perez, who desperately wants his money back, and DEA Agent Rooker, but by the corrupt Sheriff Olson, all of whom will stop at nothing to get their hands on the fortune and the man holding it.

Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Joe Gangemi. Electric Entertainment.

A desperate young woman enlists the help of a hardened ex-logger

— the only man in town brave enough to help her take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, an ex-cop turned crime lord.

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Good Kids

Comedy. 89mins.

AMC Santa Monica 5

Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story

Documentary. 120mins.

Dir: Marco La Villa, Mauro La Villa. Scr: Marco La Villa, Mauro La Villa. Cast: F Murray Abraham (English narrator), Giancarlo Giannini (Italian narrator), Juventus FC, the Agnelli family.

Visit Films.

The epic story of Juventus FC, Italy’s legendary soccer team, and the Agnelli family, their passionate owners and managers since 1923.

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Damascus Cover

Thriller. 105mins.

Dir: Daniel Berk.

Scr: Daniel Berk.

Cast: Jonathan Rhys

Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, John Hurt. Carnaby International Sales and Distribution.

A veteran spy is sent undercover in Syria to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Damascus.

Within days of his arrival he realises he’s being followed, his partner doesn’t show, his local contact disappears and a group of men are trying to kill him. It is not long before his routine mission unravels to reveal a string of murderous conspirators.

Marked for death and caught in a maddening puzzle, he must race for survival.

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Do You Believe?

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30 Screen International at AFM November 7, 2015

Even Lambs Have Teeth

Thriller, horror. 80mins.

Dir: Terry Miles. Scr: Terry Miles. Cast: Kirsten Prout, Tiera Skovbye.

WTFilms.

Two BFFs are taking revenge on the family of savages who kidnapped and abused them.

AMC Santa Monica 3

The Exclusive: Beat the Devil’s Tattoo

Thriller. 125mins.

Dir: Roh Deok.

Scr: Roh Deok. Cast: Cho Jung-Seok. Lotte Entertainment.

Mu-hyuk writes an exclusive article about a serial killer and becomes a star overnight. But soon he realises that his article was based on false information. To cover

Market 17:00 Go With Me

Thriller. 90mins.

Dir: Daniel Alfredson.

Scr: Greg Jacobs.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins,

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Market 17:00 Le Mans 3D Promo Loop

Documentary.

120mins. Dir: James Erskine. Cast: Mark Webber, Andre Lotterer, Sebastien Buemi, Jann Mardenborough, Darren Turner, David Cheng, Ho-Pin Tung.

Dir: Chris McCoy. Scr: Chris McCoy. Cast: Zoey Deutch, Ashley Judd, Virginia Gardner. Voltage Pictures.

Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.

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Le Mans 3D Promo Loop See box, above

Port of Call

Suspense, drama.

120mins. Dir: Philip Yung. Scr: Philip Yung.

Cast: Aaron Kwok, Elaine Jin, Patrick Tam. Mei Ah Entertainment Group.

During sex, an escort tells her client she wants to die.

He squeezes her neck until she passes away. A quirky police officer investigating the case already has enough evidence to charge the man but he wants to get to know him better.

Human nature begins where truth ends.

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Kaleidoscope Film Distribution.

Presented in blistering 4K 3D, this is the inside story of Le Mans 2015 — the drama, the adrenalin, the tears and the tragedy — as iconic names and famous marks contest the most famous of motor races.

Ocean

Stonewall

Drama. 127mins.

Dir: Roland Emmerich.

Scr: Jon Robin Baitz.

Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Goldcrest Films International.

Danny Winters is forced to leave behind friends and loved ones when he is kicked out of his parent’s home and flees to New York. Alone in Greenwich Village, homeless and destitute, he befriends a group of street kids who soon introduce him to the local watering hole, the Stonewall Inn. However, this shady, Mafia-run club is far from a safe-haven.

As Danny and his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, we see a rage begin to build. This emotion runs through Danny and the entire community of young gays, lesbians and drag queens who populate

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the Stonewall Inn and erupts in a storm of anger.

With the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born.

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Unchained: The True Story of Freestyle Motocross

Documentary. 100mins.

Dir: Paul Taublieb, Jon Freeman. Scr: Paul Taublieb. Cast: Tony Hawk, Travis Pastrana, Jeremy McGrath, Josh Brolin, Cary Hart.

The Exchange.

The adrenaline-soaked, heart-wrenching story of the birth and boom of the most extreme sport on the planet: freestyle Motocross (fMX). The film features the biggest names in extreme sports, all baring their souls in an unprecedented fashion.

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Wonderland

Drama. 99mins. Dir: Michael Krummenacher, Jan Gassmann, Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Lionel Rupp, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nolle, Mike Scheiwiller. Scr: Michael Krummenacher, Jan Gassmann, Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Lionel Rupp, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nolle,

Mike Scheiwiller. Cast: Peter Jecklin, Julia Glaus, Issaka Sawadogo. Wide Management.

A hurricane of catastrophic proportions is brewing over Switzerland.

The country seems to be facing its last three days before destruction. A state of emergency begins. A new generation of 10 film-makers imagine how the Swiss would deal with the worst imaginable scenario: having to depend on foreign countries.

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19:00 Kikoriki: Legend of the Golden Dragon (Work in Progress)

Animation. 60mins.

Dir: Denis Chernov. Scr: Denis Chernov, Dmitry Yakovenko. Art Pictures Studio.

The lovably simple residents of peaceful Kikoriki Island are thrown kicking and screaming into a big adventure, when their resident scientist invents an amazing device — a helmet called “the Improverisor,” which takes personality traits from one person and swaps them with someone else’s. But when spineless young Wally tries to use the untested device to cure his cowardice, he ends up even more spineless — by getting accidentally body-

switched with a squirmy little caterpillar.

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Movie Madness

Horror, thriller. 90mins.

Dir: Phillip Penza.

Scr: Phillip Penza.

Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Hardy Antonio, Big Brody, Toni L Mitchell.

Little Books Little Films.

A local movie bootlegger makes it to the last show of the evening only to witness two masked gunmen opening fire in the crowded theatre. Chaos ensues as the theatre becomes a torture chamber of real-life horrors and he realises that not only is he recording a movie, he’s recording a massacre and is witness to the most gruesome and coldblooded murders ever recorded live in history.

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Synchronicity

Thriller, sci-fi. 101mins.

Dir: Jacob Gentry.

Scr: Jacob Gentry. Cast: Chad McKnight, Brianne Davis, AJ Bowen, Michael Ironside, Scott Poythress.

Magnolia Pictures.

A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention.

Once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman and his own fractured reality.

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