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China, market shifts dominate quiet AFM

BY JEREMY KAY

While China’s high-level forays into Hollywood have monopolised the conversation, the view at ground level at a quiet AFM is of a market in flux where lower-tier companies are locked in a fight for survival.

Heading into Santa Monica there was a handful of must-haves led by Insiders’ Enzo Ferrari, IM Global’s In Sand And Blood, FilmNation’s The Silent Wife, Protagonist’s The Discovery, Studiocanal’s The Commuter and TWC’s The Current War. Sierra/Affinity’s Liam Neeson-starrer Felt and Mute from Lotus Entertainment dropped into the market once proceedings got underway 2 Night Till Morning

and Lionsgate took US rights to The Commuter and Our Kind Of Traitor.

That, however, did not abate the anxiety that continues to permeate proceedings. The growing allure of TV and the challenges posed by digital have brought buyers’ chronic concerns about high prices and lack of product into focus.

Even well-capitalised distributors are looking over their shoulder at the digital titans such as Netflix, Amazon Studios, Hulu and iTunes, whose deep pockets and original content rosters have been wooing consumers in a new direction.

Sales companies outside the A-list that do not enjoy frequent

and direct lines of communication with the major US agencies are struggling to get scripts, while even those that can offer full financing on a project report difficulties securing talent. Still, the treacherous terrain of theatrical distribution makes long-term contracts and high fees in the Golden Age of Television more compelling to stars, writers and directors.

On the other hand, Participant Media CEO David Linde, the former Universal Pictures chairman who knows the business as well as anybody, predicted a drop in TV production that could see film bounce back within a few years.

The Last King

Dead Room flies for Raven

Wide inks Lat Am, Korea deals French sales outfit Wide Management has inked a number of deals here at AFM, including an all-rights deal in South Korea with Bluebrick for Mikko Kuparinen’s romantic drama 2 Nights Till Morning. Marie-Josée Croze stars in the Montreal World Film Festival premiere about a onenight stand that takes an unexpected turn when a volcanic ash cloud prevents flights from taking off. Kuparinen took Montreal’s best director award for the film.

Meanwhile Cordline has picked up TV and VoD rights in Latin America to titles including Pavle Vuckovic’s Cannes entry Panama, Joanna Coates’ Hide And Seek, Simone Scafidi’s Italian drama Eva Braun and Spanish LGBT romantic drama Hidden Away by Mikel Rueda. The Paris-based team also reported strong interest in San Sebastian title After Eden.

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Magnolia reigns with Last King

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to Nordic action-adventure epic The Last King from TrustNordisk. Directed

by Nils Gaup, the film stars Jakob Oftebro and Kristofer Hivju as medieval warriors who embark on a perilous journey through the Norwegian mountains to take their dying king’s infant son to safety.

The deal was negotiated by Magnolia SVP of acquisitions Dori Begley and Magnolia VP of acquisitions John Von Thaden with Susan Wendt of TrustNordisk.

“Nils Gaup has crafted another sweeping adventure with The Last King,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “The thrilling performances and high stakes of this incredible true story will reso-

That could be too long to wait for standalone sales companies in the middle-to-lower echelons without ties to a capital source. “There’s going to be a contraction,” said Fortitude International co-founder Rob Barnum. “Being just a foreign sales company without a production arm is going to be nearly impossible going forward.”

Drastic change does not mean extinction for those willing to study the new environment and adapt their models. “There are big shifts in the way people are consuming entertainment,” said head of Verve Ventures Amy Beecroft. “But in these shifts there’s opportunity.”

nate with audiences.” Magnolia is set to release the film in 2016.

Written by Ravn Lanesskog, The Last King was produced by Stein B Kvae and Finn Gjerdrum for Paradox Film 3 AS, co-produced by Nordisk Film, Newgrange Pictures and Proton Cinema+Theatre with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, Irish Film Board and Eurimages. It was developed in collaboration with The Media Programme, Film3 and Midtnorsk Filmsenter. A Norwegian release is set for February 12.

Previous deals include Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Koch Media), Italy (Minerva Pictures Group), Czech Republic (Film Europe Media Company), Middle East (Gulf Film), India (Pictureworks) and Estonia (Estinfilm).

Toronto-based Raven Banner has closed AFM deals on The Dead Room led by Falcon Films for the Middle East. Deals also closed for South Korea (Line Tree Entertainment), Philippines (Pioneer), Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia (Mundo Film) and Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Cambodia (Sahamongkol). XYZ Films handles North American rights to Jason Stutter’s haunted house title.

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FEATURE New horizons How Paul Thomas Anderson landed at MUBI with documentary Junun » Page 8

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The Neon Demon

Amazon lands Neon Demon Amazon Studios has acquired Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon for a US theatrical release next summer. It is being handled by Gaumont and Wild Bunch, who co-financed the film, which centres on an aspiring model (Elle Fanning) who moves to LA where her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women. Amazon Studios launched in June to acquire original movies for theatrical release and early-window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video.

Insiders goes 20,000 Leagues

BY JEREMY KAY

In another bold statement of intent, Insiders has dropped 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea into the market, an independent rival to at least one Hollywood version of the Jules Verne classic in the pipeline. The Wild Bunch offshoot has set Christophe Gans to direct the $55m (¤50m) English-language adventure inspired by the timehonoured underwater tale.

Pathé produces alongside Richard Grandpierre, who produced Gans’ 2014 fantasy romance Beauty And The Beast starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux. Currently in talks with cast, CAA

packaged 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and represents US rights.

Pathé will distribute in France.

Insiders has been courting buyers throughout the market with Enzo Ferrari, the $80m drama about the motor racing pioneer that will see Michael Mann direct Christian Bale. Paramount swooped on US rights before the market.

Bryan Singer recently announced on Instagram that he is preparing his own adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Further details remain unclear but a likely home for that project could be Fox, with whom Singer enjoys close ties through his X-Men series.

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Double Dutch springs $50m P&A fund with Fleet-Fairhaven

Cohen Media picks up Fritz Bauer Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American rights from Beta Cinema at AFM to Lars Kraume’s drama The People Vs Fritz Bauer. The film chronicles the efforts of West German district attorney Fritz Bauer (Burghart Klaussner) to bring Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. Cohen plans a spring release. Senior VP John Kochman brokered the deal with Beta CEO Dirk Schuerhoff. Bauer is a key character in Germany’s foreign-language Oscar submission Labyrinth Of Lies, which SPC distributes in the US. Jeremy Kay

BY JEREMY KAY

Voltage Pictures chief Nicolas Chartier celebrated his company’s tenth anniversary at the lively Wokano restaurant in Santa Monica on Friday night.

Chartier is pictured in the centre with (left to right) Dimension Films head Bob Weinstein, Fathers & Daughters producer Sherryl Clark, president and partner at Voltage Productions Craig Flores and Voltage Pictures president of production Zev Foreman. Last week Voltage kicked off sales on war thriller Sand Castle, directed by Fernando Coimbra and starring Nicholas Hoult and Henry Cavill as soldiers trapped during the Sunni insurgency.

Double Dutch International (DDI) has struck a $50m P&A fund with private wealth management firm Fleet-Fairhaven. The capital injection will be allotted exclusively to US releases of those films DDI sells worldwide such as Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer, which will get a $15m spend.

The fund will apply to strong cast-driven features with the ability to secure a US release on at least 100 screens. DDI president Jason Moring brokered the deal with Jon Turtle on behalf of FleetFairhaven. Fleet-Fairhaven manages a unique investment portfolio of more than $235m and specialises in putting up secured funding

Youth, The Lobster, Pigeon lead the pack in EFA nominations

BY WENDY MITCHELL

Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth leads the nominees for the 28th European Film Awards (EFAs), which will be presented on December 12 in Berlin. Youth has five nominations including best European film, best director and best screenplay, as well as acting nominations for Rachel Weisz and Michael Caine.

Close on its heels with four nominations each are Roy Andersson’s surreal Swedish comedy A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster. Both films are also nominated in the European film and director categories, as is Sebastian Schipper’s thriller Victoria, which has three nominations. Also with a trio of nominations is Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which took the best actor and actress prizes in Berlin earlier this year for stars Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Rampling and Courtenay received nominations for European actress and actor while Haigh was nominated for European screenwriter.

The nominations for European film of the year are rounded out

by Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang and popular Icelandic drama

Youth

A Pigeon Sat On A Branch…

Rams directed by Grimur Hakonarson. Both films are this year’s foreign-language film Oscar submissions for their respective countries France and Iceland.

Also vying for European director are Nanni Moretti for My Mother and Polish film-maker Malgorzata Szumowska for Body.

Moretti’s comedy drama received an actress nomination for its star Margherita Buy, who goes up against Weisz, Rampling, Victoria

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The Lobster

star Laia Costa and Alicia Vikander in Ex_Machina. Joining Courtenay on the European actor shortlist are Michael Caine in Youth, Colin Farrell in The Lobster, Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes and Vincent Lindon in The Measure Of A Man, who took the best actor prize in Cannes.

Documentary nominees are A Syrian Love Story by Sean McAllister, Amy by Asif Kapadia, Dancing With Maria by Ivan Gergolet,

The Look Of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer and Toto and His Sisters by Alexander Nanau. Roy Andersson’s Swedish Oscar submission is also nominated for European comedy alongside Eric Lartigau’s The Bélier Family and Jaco Van Dormael’s The Brand New Testament.

The nominees were announced at Seville European Film Festival yesterday. The ceremony’s biggest cheer was reserved for Spanish actress Costa, nominated for her role in Victoria. More than 3,000 EFA members will now vote on the winners.

All six European film nominees have US distributors on board.

Adopt Films acquired US rights to Silver Bear winner Victoria in Berlin (The Match Factory is handling international sales), while Fox Searchlight, Alchemy and Cohen Media Group struck deals at Cannes for, respectively, Youth, The Lobster and Mustang. Magnolia Pictures released Venice 2014 Golden Lion winner A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence in June, and Cohen Media Group acquired all North American distribution rights to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner Rams in August.

for the promotion of entertainment-related products such as video games, film and television and select music promotions.

“Thanks to Fleet-Fairhaven’s funding, our acquisitions capability has increased drastically,” said Moring. “Quality packaged movies have now more incentives to work with DDI.”

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AFM BRIEFS Momentum finds All Roads Lead To Rome Momentum Pictures has acquired all North American rights from AMBI Distribution to the feature All Roads Lead To Rome. Ella Lemhagen directed the rom-com, which stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Raoul Bova and Paz Vega. Josh Appignanesi and Cindy Myers co-wrote the screenplay. All Roads Lead To Rome, which was produced by Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi and Silvio Muraglia, will open day-and-date theatrically and on digital platforms in 2016.

Tommy Wiseau checks out Room at the Loews Tommy Wiseau, director-actorproducer of cult classic The Room, was at the Loews yesterday to promote the film for Cinema Epoch. The famously nonsensical 2003 drama follows a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée until one day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and seduces his best friend. Bad Neighbours star Seth Rogen has spoken about a potential feature based on Greg Sestero’s book The Disaster Artist about the making of The Room, also involving James and Dave Franco.

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Paul Thomas Anderson (left) worked with Jonny Greenwood (right) on films including There Will Be Blood; (below) MUBI secured exclusive digital rights to Junun for 30 days

There will be subs

MUBI’s global online rights deal for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Junun speaks to their ambitions and seismic market shifts. CEO Efe Cakarel tells Andreas Wiseman about curating an alternative to Netflix

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UBI CEO Efe Cakarel couldn’t believe his eyes when an e-mail dropped into his inbox early this year with the subject line ‘From Paul Thomas Anderson’. The six-time Oscar nominee, one of Cakarel’s favourite directors, had got in touch to compliment the Londonbased executive on his curated subscription service and to ask if he was free to meet for a chat. “I literally fell off my chair,” beams a still incredulous Cakarel.

“We had no idea he was a subscriber.”

While the Turkish cinephile and entrepreneur knew the service had some bigname subscribers — the Coen brothers among them — getting Anderson’s e-mail was a watershed moment. “It was incredible because Paul Thomas Anderson and the films he makes is the reason MUBI exists,” he says. “We have so much respect for what he does. And to do it in Hollywood, that is so hard. Michael Haneke is amazing, but try to do that in the studio system. Paul is a true auteur.”

Cakarel travelled to Los Angeles some weeks later, where he met the director of There Will Be Blood and The Master for the first time. The two got on well. But better was still to come. During subsequent cor-

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respondence, Anderson revealed to Cakarel a previously unannounced and very much under-the-radar documentary he had shot in India: Junun. The documentary tracks Radiohead musician Jonny Greenwood’s efforts to make an album with a host of international artists.

Sealing the deal Cakarel politely proffered that the indie film service would be happy to carry the film at a later date, not thinking for a minute he might be able to get it firstrun. He was duly surprised when

avowed celluloid junkie Anderson made it known he would be happy for his first documentary to debut on the digitalonly service, following its New York Film Festival world premiere.

Anderson’s CAA representatives cut the deal with MUBI in August. It is uncertain whether other deals were sought for the film although Netflix is rumoured to have put a considerably larger offer on the table. To Cakarel’s delight, however, MUBI secured exclusive digital rights for a 30-day period from mid-October, after which it may be sold to electronic sell-

through services such as iTunes and Netflix. Mostly positive reviews may help with an event theatrical release.

Deal points and structure are being kept under wraps but the outlay for MUBI was far higher than anything it had spent before. The marketing campaign alone was close to $1m — five times the cost of the company’s biggest brand push to date earlier this year — and included a sizeable London Underground campaign matched by full-page print adverts in outlets including The New York Times and Time Out. The company consulted several highprofile advertising executives including Richard Flintham, who helped design the posters for the campaign. “If we’re going to blitz the adverts, this is the time,” Cakarel told Screen International just before the release. “Exclusive online premieres of Paul Thomas Anderson films don’t happen every day.”

According to Cakarel, the campaign paid off handsomely. “The uptick has been vast,” he says. “We are adding double the number of subs we would normally see each day across the world.”

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documentary, considering Anderson’s standing the decision to go with an online platform first (and one other than Netflix or Amazon Prime Instant Video) was unusual.

But the decision correlates with a number of industry trends: the growing ties between talent and platforms, the challenges in finding theatrical homes for even well-heeled independent films and the growing allure of online subscription services.

It also speaks to MUBI’s stamp of approval among indie-film aficionados and the growing ambitions of former Goldman Sachs banker and MIT computer-science graduate Cakarel (who holds an MBA from Stanford to boot). Formerly known as The Auteurs, the company is swiftly expanding its acquisition ambitions and operational footprint.

MUBI has active subscribers across 158 countries and this year closed its first studio library deals with Sony and Paramount. Out of Cannes it also picked up its first film for all-rights distribution: Miguel Gomes’s Directors’ Fortnight entry Arabian Nights, which it will release jointly in the UK with New Wave Distribution next year.

“In Cannes, there were only two online platforms negotiating to buy all rights on official selection films outside of the traditional distributors,” says Cakarel. “Netflix was one; we were the other. We talked to two or three distributors about potentially collaborating. We were competing to buy Son Of Saul. We won Arabian Nights.”

MUBI is lining up a second exclusive premiere with another well-known director for 2016, and is increasingly looking to pick up films earlier in their cycles. It recently closed deals to screen BFI London Film Festival titles Nicola Costantino: The Artefacta from Coccinelle Film Placement and Lucifer from NDM Sales during the festival. “Next Cannes we’ll be a lot stronger,” adds Cakarel. “We’ll be deploying more capital and we’ll see films and scripts much earlier. My team was at MIPCOM and they’ll be at AFM and Berlin.

But Cannes is really our port.”

Dollars and sense After eight years, and three adhering to the current curated model, the financials are improving. “We’re growing our revenue at 2% per week,” says Cakarel. “We doubled revenue last year, we’ll double again this year.”

But while revenue may be close to a couple of million dollars per year, the company, which charges subs around $4.99 per month, is yet to see profit. Inspired by the strategy of its super-scale rival Amazon, Cakarel is thinking long-term growth ahead of short-term gain. With only 100,000 subscribers, MUBI pales in size compared to its behemoth rivals Amazon and Netflix, with the latter listing an impressive 65 million subs worldwide.

Netflix is spending about $4bn a year on film and television content. MUBI, by contrast, spends just a few million dollars.

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‘Exclusive online premieres of Paul Thomas Anderson films don’t happen every day’ Efe Cakarel, MUBI Above right: Richard Flintham (crouching) and Efe Cakarel review poster designs for Junun (pictured inset)

Despite that, Cakarel still sees his company as the site’s biggest rival. “It’s about asking where the attention of my audience goes,” he says. “Forty percent of our subs are Netflix subs; I am one. The TV offering is great but the film diversity is terrible.”

Unlike Netflix, the cheaper MUBI goes for a less-is-more approach. The 30 films on its site at any one time are predominantly arthouse and it shows no TV, a strategy it will not be deviating from any time soon. “We’ll focus on movies, and will provide the best movie experience globally,” Cakarel says.

“That’s how we’ll complement Netflix, which is skewing heavily towards TV. The only way to win against Netflix is to have a clearly differentiated model.”

So despite the 2015 studio deals, do not expect to see Transformers on the site any time soon. “If Michael Bay had a film he wanted to show on MUBI, the answer would be no,” he says. “That’s when you start losing the brand. That’s when the Coen brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson leave MUBI. Transformers 4 was a bad

film. We say it loud and clear.” The CEO’s call is being heard by industry suitors. In its latest round of funding, MUBI raised an impressive $15m from individuals including Working Title co-chair Eric Fellner, Access Industries head of TMT Jorg Mohaupt, former co-president of Goldman Sachs Jon Winkelried and former CEO of Apple EMEA and Vivendi board member Pascal Cagni.

The company has staff in London, San Francisco, Munich, Mexico City and Istanbul. It is now eyeing an office in China and wants to grow its footprint in North America, particularly New York.

For the industry, the Junun deal represents a small but noticeable development in the global digital revolution, but for MUBI the acquisition is understandably a big deal. “If it’s a success, we’ll share the numbers,” promises Cakarel. “‘This is how many saw it, this is how much revenue we made, etc.’ This will make us even more interesting to film-makers as a platform for releasing their films.”

MUBI’s ceiling is expanding. Time will tell s how far it can stretch. ■

SCREEN GRABS MUBI’S TOP 10 Enjoying its most successful year to date, these are MUBI’s top 10 viewed titles of 2015.

Dreams Of Sushi Dir: David Gelb (2011) ■ Drive Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn (2011) ■ Serpico Dir: Sidney Lumet (1973) ■ Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown Dir: Pedro Almodovar (1988)

■ Broken

Listen Up Philip

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi

Flowers Dir: Jim Jarmusch (2005) ■ Listen Up Philip Dir: Alex Ross Perry (2014) ■ Dogtooth Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos (2009) ■ An Education Dir: Lone Scherfig (2009) ■ Another Year Dir: Mike Leigh (2010) ■ Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow Dir: Vittorio De Sica (1963)

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Drive

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08:45 The Kind Words See box, right

The King of Havana

Erotic, drama. 125mins.

Dir: Agusti Villaronga.

Scr: Agusti Villaronga, Pedro Juan Gutierrez.

Cast: Maykol David Tortolo, Yordanka Arioza.

Filmax International.

The story of Reinaldo, a teenager recently escaped from a correctional facility. His lack of scruples and sneaky ways are his only defence on the mean streets of 1990s Havana during Cuba’s “Special Period”. As he romps his way around downtown Havana, longing, disillusionment, rum and a good sense of humour are his only company. Until one day, he meets Magda. The two find they have a lot in common and a tragic story of impossible love ensues.

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Suburra

Thriller. 123mins.

Dir: Stefano Sollima.

Scr: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia.

Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Greta Scarano, Elio Germano. Indie Sales.

A gangster known as the Samurai wants to turn the waterfront of a small town close to Rome into a new Atlantic City. A corrupt politician and

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a powerful cardinal are protecting him, and it seems that all the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long and a ferocious war between the gangs is about to wreck the Samurai’s dream.

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08:45 The Kind Words

Drama, comedy.

118mins. Dir: Shemi Zarhin. Scr: Shemi Zarhin. Cast: Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf, Assaf BenShimon, Tsahi Halevi, Sasson Gabai, Maurice Benichou, Louise Portal. Beta Cinema.

The Manny

Three siblings are united by the death of their mother and a revelation about the identity of their real father. They set off on a quirky journey from Israel through Paris and Marseille but ultimately into the past, and their own confusing selves.

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Despite the Falling Snow

Thriller. 113mins.

Dir: Hanan Kattan.

Scr: Shamim Sarif.

Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Charles Dance, Sam Reid.

6 Sales.

In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya secretly spies for the Americans in the Cold War arms race. When she lands her biggest assignment, stealing secrets from rising government star Alexander, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him. When Alexander unwittingly closes the net around his own wife, Katya decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him — a sacrifice that Alexander only uncovers 40 years later.

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Land Of Mine

Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Martin Zandvliet.

Scr: Martin Zandvliet.

Cast: Roland Moller, Louis Hofmann.

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K5 International.

As the Second World War comes to an end, a group of German POWs, boys rather than men, are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task — to defuse and clear land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over. Inspired by real events, the untold story of one tragic moment in Denmark’s history.

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My Internship In Canada

Comedy. 108mins.

Dir: Philippe Falardeau.

Scr: Philippe Falardeau.

Cast: Patrick Huard, Irdens Exantus, Suzanne Clement, Clemence DugresneDeslieres, Sonia Cordeau, Paul Doucet.

Films Distribution.

Guibord is an

independent Member of Parliament who represents a vast county in Northern Quebec. As the entire country watches, Guibord unwillingly finds himself in the awkward position of holding the decisive vote to determine whether Canada will go to war. Accompanied by his wife, his daughter and an idealistic intern from Haiti named Sovereign, Guibord travels across his district in order to consult his constituents. While groups of lobbyists get involved in a debate that spins out of control, the MP will have to face his own conscience.

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The Hollow Point

Thriller. 97mins.

Dir: Gonzalo LopezGallego. Scr: Nils Lyew.

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo. Highland Film Group.

AMC Santa Monica 3

Comedy. 110mins.

Dir: Matthias Schweighoefer.

Scr: Murmel Clausen, Finn C. Stroeks, Lucy Astner. Cast: Milan Peschel, Matthias Schweighoefer, Paula Hartmann, Arved Friese, Joko Winterscheidt, Andrea Osvart, Friedrich Liechtenstein. Picture Tree International.

Clemens has very little time for his kids. He has been working on a big development for the City and the contracts are almost ready to sign.

Just a few remaining tenants will have to vacate their apartments and construction can start. When Rolf loses his apartment in the building, he vows vengeance and goes undercover as a male nanny for Clemens’ kids. His plan is simple: Sabotage. Yet he did not reckon that Clemens’ kids Winnie and Theo would be so well prepared.

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Retribution

Action/adventure, thriller.

94mins. Dir: Dani de la Torre. Scr: Alberto Marini. Cast: Luis Tosar, Javier Gutierrez, Goya Toledo, Elvira Minguez, Fernando Cayo. Film Factory Entertainment.

Carlos is an unscrupulous banker and a family

man who takes his kids to school. This morning, when he turns his keys in the ignition, a cellphone rings somewhere inside the car. When he finally finds it, the man on the other end demands a half million euros.

When Carlos refuses, the blackmailer informs him of the bomb placed under their seats. If they try to escape the car, if he even slows down too much, the bomb will go off.

His only way out is to comply. Trapped, Carlos’ deadly nightmare begins.

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11:00 Baby Steps

Drama. 102mins.

Dir: Barney Cheng.

Scr: Barney Cheng.

Cast: Barney Cheng, Ah-Leh Gua, Michael Adam Hamilton.

Media Luna New Films.

Danny and his boyfriend Tate long to have a baby.

When Danny’s mother, Ma, finds out about his plans, she is horrified by the idea of hiring a surrogate. She tries to stop Danny. However when she understands that he is determined, she starts to control every aspect of the process. The foursome must travel thousands of miles to Bangkok for the embryo transfer. The emotionally exhausting journey inevitably pulls Danny and Ma apart, as » www.screendaily.com

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After Isabel watches a man step into thin air on the subway platform, she is certain that she has witnessed a miracle. The next day, Detective Joey Harper is found dead in her neighbourhood with one of her shoes nearby. His partner, Detective Scott Galban, is assigned to the case. As he investigates further, he begins to unravel secrets about Joey that the police force would rather remain hidden.

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The Fencer

Market 11:00 Beeba Boys

Thriller. 103mins.

Dir: Deepa Mehta.

Scr: Deepa Mehta.

Cast: Randeep Hooda, Sarah Allen, Waris Ahluwalia, Paul Gross, Ali Momen. Mongrel International.

A ferocious, adrenalinecharged Indo Canadian gang war, and a violent clash of culture and crime. Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young,

loyal and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old-style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys (“nice boys”) do anything “to be seen and to be feared” in a white world.

Cast: Clive Owen, Maria Bello, Patton Oswalt, Jaeden Lieberher, Matthew Modine.

Arclight Films.

A down-and-out carpenter is offered a job that could turn his life around only to have his irreplaceable toolbox stolen. Now he must track down the thieves before the weekend is over with an unlikely partner: his young son whom he’s disappointed one too many times.

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Daughter Of God

Thriller. 102mins.

Dir: Gee Malik Linton.

Scr: Gee Malik Linton.

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas. Fortitude International.

Drama, Historical.

93mins. Dir: Klaus Haro.

Scr: Anna Heinamaa.

Cast: Mart Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere, Kaarle Aho. Little Film Company.

Inspired by the story of Estonia’s legendary fencing master, Endel Nelis, who founded a fencing dynasty which nurtured several worldclass fencers. While

escaping from the Russian secret police, he finds himself teaching children in a remote small town and when the kids push for their fencing team to participate in the national fencing competition in Leningrad, he realises exactly what he wants to do with his life.

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The Hallow

Horror. 96mins.

Dir: Corin Hardy.

Scr: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino.

Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael Smiley, Michael McElhatton. Altitude Film Sales.

When a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland with his wife and infant child to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground by superstitious locals, his actions unwittingly disturb a horde of demonic creatures who prey upon the lost. Alone and deep within the darkness of the

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she still has unresolved issues about Danny being gay and the nontraditional family that they are starting.

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Coconut Hero

Drama, comedy. 100mins.

Dir: Florian Cossen.

Scr: Elena von Saucken.

Cast: Alex Ozerov, Bea Santos, Krista Bridges, Sebastian Schipper, Udo Kier, Jim Annan, RD Reid, Jeff Clarke. Beta Cinema.

It is not easy being a teenager and Mike, 16 years old, is having the very worst of times. He lives with his mother

Cynthia, a notorious nagger, in Faintville, a town based around the timber industry. He has no father, no friends. One day, Mike decides to put an end to the cynical joke that fate has played on him, or life as it is called in other words. He places his own obituary and shoots himself! To his greatest disappointment he wakes up the next day not in heaven but the local hospital. And suddenly Mike’s fate takes a very different turn when, during a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumour in his head.

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The Confirmation

Comedy, drama, family.

100mins. Dir: Bob Nelson. Scr: Bob Nelson.

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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.

Market 11:00 Brothers of the Wind

Family, drama, action/ adventure. 95mins.

Dir: Gerardo Olivares, Otmar Penker. Scr: Joanne Reay. Cast: Manuel Camacho, Jean Reno, Tobias Moretti.

Terra Mater Film Studios.

The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The

stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt those closest to him. Lukas suffers at the hands of a father who has withdrawn since the loss of his wife.

Killed while rescuing the infant Lukas, the boy now carries the burden of her death. Our eagle’s story begins in the nest. The

first-born chick pushes his weaker brother to a certain death on the forest floor.

But fate intervenes and the chick is found by Lukas.

Naming him Abel, Lukas cares for the creature in secret. But when the day comes to release Abel back to the wild, will Lukas find his own release into a new life?

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George Pistereanu, Erika Sainte. Picture Tree International.

Will is released from prison on compassionate leave to care for his niece, Stacey, after the death of her mother. As they both head into the sleepy Irish midlands and attempt to be a family, they suffer a series of setbacks: Stacey is refused admission to the local school because of her recently developed narcolepsy; Will repeatedly comes close to breaking his prison-ordered curfew; and his attempts at being a father figure to her prove disastrous. As Stacey’s future hangs in the balance and Will must reckon with his own demons they search for a new way forward together.

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Market 11:00 Nobody Wants The Night

Drama. 103mins.

Dir: Isabel Coixet.

Scr: Miguel Barros.

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne.

Metro International Entertainment.

This moving drama tells the story of Josephine who travels to the hostile remote wilderness, he must now fight back to protect his family against the ancient forces’ relentless attacks.

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HomeSick

Thriller. 98mins.

Dir: Jakob M Erwa.

Scr: Jakob M Erwa.

Cast: Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Matthias Lier, Hermann Beyer.

Wide Management.

Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives an invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be a great opportunity — but at the same time an enormous pressure.

At home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest. However,

hope, forgiveness and love. icy landscape of the remote north in search of her explorer husband.

As winter descends and determined not to turn back she finds companionship with an Inuit woman. With the elements against them and their survival reliant on each other, it becomes clear they are waiting for a man they both love.

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her own four walls don’t appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments.

What is the involvement of her neighbour, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains?

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Isn’t It Delicious

Comedy, drama. 104mins.

Dir: Michael Patrick Kelly. Scr: Kathleen J Kiley, Michael Patrick Kelly. Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, Keir Dullea, Alice Ripley, Mia Dillon, Malachy McCourt.

Angel Grace Worldwide.

After years of hard drinking and bad behaviour, Joan Weldon is told she is dying. With only a short time left, she tries to fix the broken relationships with her husband, children and friends — finding

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Level Up

Thriller. 96mins.

Dir: Adam Randall.

Scr: Adam Randall, Gary Young. Cast: Josh Bowman, Neil Maskell.

Independent.

A fast-paced, high concept thriller following a young man who, over the course of 24 hours, must make his way across London, fighting off a host of mysterious and sinister characters to save his kidnapped girlfriend.

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Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone.

Highland Film Group.

Once protected by regal white wolves, the village of 10-year-old Savva has fallen prey to a gang of ruthless hyenas led by the evil three-headed monkey queen, Mom Jozee. One day, Savva manages to escape to the woods, where he befriends Angee, one of the remaining white wolves. Together, with help from Puffy and Mosquito, they embark on an adventure to save the village. A great warrior- hero is born…

Savva!

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The Roommates Party

Comedy. 100mins.

Dir: Alexandra Leclerc.

Scr: Alexandra Leclerc.

Cast: Karin Viard, Valerie Bonneton. Other Angle Pictures.

A new law has just been voted in. Apartment owners who have spare rooms in Paris are obliged to house family who cannot afford to pay rent.

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Savva

Family, action/ adventure. 90mins.

Dir: Max Fadeev.

Scr: Gregory Poirier.

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Whoopi Goldberg,

Scherzo Diabolico

Horror, comedy.

91mins. Dir: Adrian Garcia Bogliano.

Scr: Adrian Garcia Bogliano. Cast: Francisco Barreiro, Daniela Soto Vell, Andrea Quiroz, Jorge Molina, Milena Pezzi, Vita Vargas. Jinga Films.

After losing his job and marriage, Aram decides to turn things around and kidnaps a teenage girl. He doesn’t know his plan has a flaw and the joke will ultimately be on him.

Ten-year-old Trenk, peasant and property of evil Sir Wertolt, wants to become a knight and free his family. His sword may be heavier than himself, but with unflagging practise he’s soon ready to take on terrifying dragons and save damsels in distress — before conquering their hearts!

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No Response. 115mins.

WestEnd Films.

WestEnd promo reel screening: Shepherds and Butchers, Blackbird, Dancer, By Way of Helena.

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Yellow Flowers On The Green Grass

Drama, family. 111mins.

Dir: Victor Vu. Scr: Viet Linh, Victor Vu, Doan Nhat Nam. Cast: Thinh Vinh, Trong Khang.

Fortissimo Films.

A compelling, touching and insightful look at rural village life in Vietnam during the early 1980s as seen through the rivalries, challenges, and jealousies that befell two brothers.

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You’re Ugly Too

Animation, family.

75mins. Dir: Anthony Power. Scr: Gerrit Hermans. Global Screen.

Drama. 79mins. Dir: Mark Noonan. Scr: Mark Noonan. Cast: Aidan Gillen, Lauren Kinsella,

13:00 Across The Line

Urban, romance, drama.

90mins. Dir: Director X. Scr: Floyd Kane.

Cast: Stephan James, Sarah Jeffrey. Little Film Company.

Mattie is a top ice hockey player tipped to be selected by one of the top teams in the National Hockey League but his plans are jeopardised by his hustling brother and the corrosive racial tension at his high school.

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Angry Indian Goddesses

Drama, comedy. 104mins.

Dir: Pan Nalin. Scr: Pan Nalin. Cast: Sarah-Jane Dias, Rajshri Deshpande, Sandhya Mridul, Amrit Maghera, Pavleen Gujral, Anushka Manchanda, Tannishtha Chatterjee.

Mongrel International.

A fresh, realistic portrait of women in India today. Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married!

Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette party that lasts for a full week — a riotous roller-coaster ride in a sumptuous setting.

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Comedy. 95mins.

Dir: Nicolas Carreras.

Scr: Federico Marcello.

Cast: Charlie Arturaola, Lino Pujia, Pandora Anwyl, Luca Gardini.

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Drama. 108mins.

Dir: Sandra Kogut.

Scr: Sandra Kogut, Felipe Sholl. Cast: Carla Ribas, Ygor Manoel, Rayane Do Amal, Julia Bernat.

Films Distribution.

Eight-year-old Ygor and six-year-old Rayane are left by their mother on Regina’s doorstep in the upscale Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. The sudden and unexpected arrival of these lower-class kids in Regina’s world and the search for their mother in a city rendered almost unrecognisable by massive modernisation will change their lives forever.

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Don’t Grow Up

Action/adventure, Horror. 81mins.

Dir: Thierry Poiraud. Scr: Marie Garel. Cast: Fergus Riordan. Indie Sales.

On an isolated island, a group of teenage delinquents living in a youth centre wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them.

After much partying, their supervisor appears out of nowhere, feverish and shaking. He suddenly attacks the students. They fight back and kill him

Media Luna New Films.

The famous Sommelier Charlie Arturaola fell from grace after a momentary loss of his taste during the shooting of a movie. After a few years, he becomes a taxi

driver. When Charlie accidentally gets to know the new Italian sommelier, he will come up with a crazy plan to try to get back into the wine world.

accidentally, leaving them no other choice than to flee the crime scene. As they run away, they realise the island has been deserted.

Or practically. The few adults they encounter on their journey all seem to be infected by a mysterious epidemic, making them violent and dangerous. It gradually becomes clear to them that children and adolescents aren’t affected by this disease. In order to survive, they need to respect one golden rule: ‘Don’t Grow Up’. But one of them is turning 18 very soon.

the evil that controls lives in the village. The only thing they now know for sure is that if they want to live they will have to be absolutely quiet!

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Don’t Speak

Horror. 82mins.

Dir: Amadeu Artasona.

Scr: Jaime Sacristan.

Cast: Liliana Cabal, Saras Gil, Chrys Hobbs, Melina Mathews. Princ Films.

A group of friends party on a boat. In the distance, a small town watches them in silence. One of the boys gets injured and the group decides to seek help in the village. But no one attends and the few terrified inhabitants order them to be quiet and leave as soon as they can. The group splits in order to find help faster and that is when they find out about

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Franny

Drama. 92mins.

Dir: Andrew Renzi.

Scr: Andrew Renzi.

Cast: Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning, Theo James. Covert Media.

A philanthropist meddles in the lives of newly married couples in an attempt to relive his past.

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Friend Request

Horror. 100mins. Dir: Simon Verhoeven. Scr: Matthew Ballen, Philip Koch, Simon Verhoeven.

Cast: Alycia DebnamCarey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan. The Exchange.

Laura is a popular college student who lives her collegiate life to the fullest, gladly sharing it with her all her Facebook friends. But when Laura accepts a friend request from a loner in her class, Marina, she unwittingly sets a terrible curse in »

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motion. Marina suddenly dies but her Facebook page continues to harass Laura and her friends.

And eventually the online harassment becomes real life danger. Laura’s friends start suffering gruesome accidents, or worse. Laura must solve the mystery of the curse before the evil haunting her kills everyone around her.

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i Am Hardwell — Living the Dream

Biography, documentary.

85mins. Dir: Robin Piree.

Scr: Robin Piree. Cast: dj Hardwell. Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

This music extravaganza follows DJ Hardwell — world’s no. 1 DJ — as he kicks off his world tour during Amsterdam Dance Event.

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Kill Command

Sci-fi, action/adventure.

90mins. Dir: Steve Gomez. Scr: Steve Gomez. Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Vanessa Kirby, David Ajala. Protagonist Pictures.

Set in a near future technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. An elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility.

What starts as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

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Mom and Me

Documentary. 76mins.

Dir: Ken Wardrop.

Scr: Ken Wardrop.

Cast: The men and mothers of Oklahoma, USA. Visit Films.

In this compelling portrait of the love between tough guys and their mothers, the only people stronger than the men are the women who raised them.

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My Men

Comedy, drama. 90mins.

Dir: Emma Luchini.

Scr: Nicolas Rey, Vanessa David, Emma Luchini.

Cast: Manu Payet, Veerle Baetens, Fabrice Luchini, Zacharie Chasseriaud.

Gaumont.

Martin, disillusioned after having lived and loved all too much, returns home to his father, a romantically inclined gardener in the autumn years of his life. He also encounters his 16-year-old brother, an idealistic enthusiast, whom he will incessantly try to put off love. But that is without taking into account Mathilde, a young, extravagant and capricious woman

who will upset all their bearings.

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The Squad

Action/adventure, thriller. 92mins.

Dir: Benjamin Rocher.

Scr: Francois Loubeyre.

Cast: Jean Reno.

SND Groupe M6.

Buren is an old time cop who doesn’t play by the rules. In the Paris underworld his squad is never afraid to use their muscle and guns to enforce the law. With their every move under the scrutiny of Lenoir, their new boss, Buren knows his time is running out. When a heist turns into murder, Buren follows his gut and raids the house of Kasper a former convict. But Kasper has a rock-solid alibi and Buren has to let him go.

Sidelined, Buren and his squad disobey Lenoir’s orders to try and stop an ongoing bank robbery. The

operation is a bloodbath and Buren takes the fall for it. But when he realises that the heists are part of a bigger operation, Buren with nothing to lose, decides to take action.

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Versus

Action/adventure.

100mins. Dir: Nurbek Egen. Scr: Oleg Malovichko. Cast: Alexei Chadov, Oksana Akinshina. Planeta Inform Film Distribution.

Victor aka Hammer is an MMA champion with the world title fight ahead.

After running into the mobster Shark he gets severely injured but is still determined to win. What Victor doesn’t know is that Shark stops at nothing to make this fight the last one for Hammer.

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War Pigs

Action/adventure,

suspense, historical.

90mins. Dir: Ryan Little.

Scr: Steven Luke. Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Luke Goss, Chuck Liddell, Noah Segan. VMI Worldwide.

A ragtag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.

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15:00 Belle and Sebastian, The Adventure Continues

Action/adventure, family.

98mins. Dir: Christian Duguay. Scr: Fabien Suarez, Juliette Sales.

Cast: Felix Bossuet, Tcheky Karyo, Thierry Neuvic. Gaumont.

September 1945. In the village, everybody is celebrating the end of the war. Sebastian has grown.

He and Belle are waiting impatiently for Angelina to return. But she never

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There is terrible news: Angelina was lost when her plane crashed deep in the Transalpine forest.

All the villagers mourn her. All except Caesar.

Sebastian’s grandfather knows a man who could help them find Angelina.

But before the boy and his dog can rescue the young woman, they must face a thousand dangers, endure a thousand ordeals and confront a secret… One that will change Belle & Sebastian’s lives forever.

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Big Dance Family

Documentary. 88mins.

Dir: Adam Tysoe.

Scr: Debbie Shuter.

Cast: Entity. 4Square Films.

After their incredible opening performance in the 2015 final of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ in front of over 13 million viewers, Entity are now the UK’s most

successful and controversial under-16 dance crew and they are also the stars of ‘Big Dance Family’. This film is the captivating story of their journey to the IDO World Championships 2014 which is fraught with difficulties and emotion as they battle to overcome the many challenges that face them in their bid for glory on the world stage.

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Brand: A Second Coming

Documentary. 90mins.

Dir: Ondi Timoner.

Scr: Ondi Timoner.

Cast: Russell Brand.

Myriad Pictures.

Follows comedian/author/ activist Russell Brand as he dives headlong into drugs, sex and fame in an attempt to find happiness, only to realise we have all been nurtured on bad ideas and empty celebrity idols. Brand leaves Los Angeles to

embark on a stand-up comedy tour about his own true icons — Gandhi, Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Jesus Christ — and transforms from addict and Hollywood star into an unexpected political disruptor and newfound hero to the undeserved.

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Broken Vows

Thriller. 89mins. Dir: Bram Coppens. Scr: Jim Agnew, Sean Keller. Cast: Jaimie Alexander, Wes Bentley, Cam Gigandet.

Cinema Management Group (CMG).

Tells the story of Patrick Flynn, whose charm and charisma masks a profound psychosis.

Patrick seduces Tara Bloom, instantly becoming infatuated with her beauty.

Tara — regretting her actions — rejects Patrick sending him spiraling into madness and delusion.

Ocean

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.

him. But for his newest coup, Yanis brings in an explosives expert, Eric.

Everything goes according to plan. They hit the jackpot! But Amine is too greedy and makes a mistake that forces them to work for a powerful dealer.

Their job: hijack a go-fast and take all the cash and drugs they can. If they fail, their families will suffer the consequences. The stakes never have been higher.

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Cupid’s Guillotine

Action/adventure, thriller. 90mins.

Dir: Julien Leclercq.

Scr: Julien Leclercq.

Cast: Sami Bouajila, Guillaume Gouix. SND Groupe M6.

Yanis Zeri is one of the most talented armoredtruck hijackers in Paris.

His friends, Franck and Nasser, and his brother Amine are the only men he trusts to work with

Mystery, Suspense, drama. 88mins.

Dir: Justin Viggiano.

Scr: Justin Viggiano.

Cast: Max Redman, Brittany Meyer, Brandon Tyler Jones, Daniel Patrick Ellis, Anthony C Brown, Alphonso Jones, Lee Munro, Don Preston, Christina Jensen.

Jersey Style Films.

About a young couple in love, Scott and Jamie.

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Scott runs Cupid’s Manor, a walk-through haunted tunnel of love attraction in a small amusement park, where he plans to propose to Jamie. However, things go terribly wrong as the amusement attraction apparently malfunctions and Jamie is mysteriously abducted. She is later returned to Scott, after a harrowing search, revealing that she has been unwillingly surgically changed.

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The Debt

Drama, thriller. 97mins.

Dir: Barney Elliott.

Scr: Barney Elliott.

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Alberto Ammann, Carlos Bardem. 6 Sales.

An ambitious businessman sets out to score the deal of a lifetime and gets entangled in a battle for land, money and power in Peru.

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Action/adventure, comedy. 94mins.

Dir: Javier Ruiz Caldera. Scr: Fernando Navarro, Pablo Alen, Breixo Corral.

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Drama. 90mins. Dir: Stina Werenfels. Scr: Stina Werenfels, Boris Treyer. Cast: Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily, Lars Eidinger, Urs Jucker.

Wide Management.

After her mother decides that 18-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora discovers her sexuality, her struggle for independence becomes increasingly risky.

To her mother’s horror, Dora has a spontaneous sexual encounter with a dubious man. As this encounter turns into a secret liaison, Dora’s parents struggle to protect their vulnerable child.

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Man Down

Thriller, action/ adventure, Suspense.

92mins. Dir: Dito Montiel. Scr: Adam Simon. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Gary Oldman, Jai Courtney, Terrence

Areces. Film Factory Entertainment.

This Christmas is going to become a living hell for Adolfo. Not only does his girlfriend leave him for being a guy with no ambition who works in a security company but, to top it off, he becomes the

target of a series of thugs led by Vazquez, a dangerous criminal who just escaped prison.

What did he do to get into such a mess? It’s then that he discovers his father has a double identity.

Howard. The Solution Entertainment Group.

In a savage postapocalyptic America, US Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife.

Accompanied by his best friend, a hardnosed marine whose natural instinct is to shoot first and ask questions later, the two intercept Charles, an apocalyptic survivor carrying vital information about the whereabouts of Gabriel’s family.

apocalypse. Now, a walk of shame becomes a fight for survival as the mismatched pair discover that the only thing scarier than trusting someone with your life… is trusting them with your heart.

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Night Of The Living Deb

Comedy, Horror. 85mins.

Dir: Kyle Rankin. Scr: Kyle Rankin, Andy Selsor.

Cast: Maria Thayer, Ray Wise, Chris Marquette, Chad Nicholson. Jinga Films.

After a girls’ night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. She’s thrilled but can’t remember how she got there. Pretty boy Ryan only knows it was a mistake and ushers her out the door… into a full-scale zombie

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NWA & Eazy-E: The Kings of Compton

Documentary, Biography, Musical. 90mins. Dir: Andre Relis, Mike Corbera. Scr: Jonathan Terrio. Cast: Eazy-E , Dr. Dre, Ice Cube. VMI Worldwide.

An inside look at one of the most controversial musical acts of all time who pioneered gangsta rap and West Coast hip- hop featuring the testimony of those who experienced it all.

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Oddball

Family, childrens.

95mins. Dir: Stuart McDonald. Scr: Peter Ivan. Cast: Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook, Alan Tudky, Coco Jack Gillies. Global Screen.

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down the main tourist attraction of a small town in southern Australia — an island of Fairy Penguins — an eccentric chicken farmer teams up with his granddaughter to save the penguins using an usual method… his rambunctious, troublemaking sheep dog.

Based on a true story.

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Ruben Gutherie

Comedy. 93mins.

Dir: Brendan Cowell.

Scr: Brendan Cowell.

Cast: Patrick Brammall, Brenton Thwaites.

Arclight Films.

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

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Celsius Entertainment.

Daring beats diamonds any day.

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The Boy and the Beast

information. To cover 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.

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.

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Colonia

Macho Man

Thriller, drama.

110mins. Dir: Florian Gallenberger. Scr: Torsten Wenzel, Florian Gallenberger. Cast: Emma Watson, Daniel Bruhl, Michael Nyqvist.

Beta Cinema.

The Chilean coup of 1973. The masses are protesting against General Pinochet. Among them, Daniel and Lena, a young couple who get arrested

by Pinochet’s secret police.

Shortly after, Daniel finds himself trapped in a secret interrogation camp located underground, beneath the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a German sect.

The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission but, in fact, it is a place nobody ever escaped from.

Desperate to rescue her boyfriend, Lena joins the mysterious cult, hoping to find Daniel there and make their way out. Based on true events.

Comedy. 100mins.

Dir: Christof Wahl.

Scr: Moritz Netenjakob.

Cast: Christian Ulmen, Aylin Tezel, Axel Stein.

Global Screen.

What makes a man a man’s man? Slacker Daniel has to man up when he falls in love with a Turkish woman whose traditional family expects a he-man at her side.

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Drama. 92mins.

Dir: Sudhanshu Saria.

Scr: Sudhanshu Saria.

Cast: Shiv Pandit, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Menon.

Wide Management.

When hot shot Wall Street dealmaker Jai thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, his young musician friend Sahil drops everything, including his boyfriend, to help him execute the perfect getaway.

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The Trust

Heist, comedy. 90mins.

Dir: Ben Brewer, Alex Brewer. Scr: Adam Hirsch, Ben Brewer.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood. Highland Film Group.

Two evil cops discover a strangely hidden safe, guarded by a gang, and filled with mysterious contents. Little do the crooked cops know their lust for the contents will thrust them into a deadly well of corruption leaving them fighting for their lives, unsure of who to trust.

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17:00 Atomic Falafel

Comedy, drama. 93mins.

Dir: Dror Shaul. Scr: Dror Shaul. Cast: Michelle Treves, Mali Levi Gershon. 6 Sales.

Two girls from nuclear towns in Israel and Iran spill their countries most valuable secrets on Facebook while trying to prevent a nuclear crisis.

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Bling

Animation, action/ adventure, comedy.

82mins. Dir: Kyung Ho Lee, Wonjae Lee. Scr: Chris Denk. Cast: Carla Gugino, Taylor Kitsch, James Woods, Jon Heder. www.screendaily.com

Broadway 4

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

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My Name is Nobody

Drama, action/adventure.

130mins. Dir: Phillip Penza. Scr: Phillip Penza.

Cast: Jeff Holder, Robert Cordero, Salhaddin Keskin, Eric Roberts, Lorenzo Lamas, Big Daddy Kane. Little Books Little Films.

The story of a boy becoming a man in 1970s New York. He struggles with racial prejudice, true love and loss, and finding out what it takes to survive life from the streets of New York to the military at a very young age.

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Police Evo

Action/adventure, comedy. 120mins.

Dir: Ghaz Abu Bakar.

Scr: Joel Soh, Kyle Goonting, Anwari Ashraf, Adib Zaini. Cast: Zizan Razak, Shaheizy Sam. Creative Content Malaysia.

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Market 17:00 Truman

Drama, comedy.

110mins. Dir: Cesc Gay. Scr: Cesc Gay, Tomas Aragay. Cast: Ricardo Darin, Javier Camara.

Filmax International.

Two childhood friends are reunited after years without seeing one another. Separated by the Atlantic Ocean, the two friends have made their lives on different continents, but when they

meet again it feels like they’ve never been apart.

Julian and Tomas will spend a few unforgettable days together laughing, reminiscing, crying… because their reunion is also their last goodbye.

Truman is an elegy to friendship and love. A humorous and honest portrait of the courage it takes to accept that death is just another part of life.

Searching for Eddie Running Wolf

Documentary. 97mins.

Dir: Thomas Hartmann.

Scr: Thomas Hartmann.

Cast: Eddie Running Wolf. RadioactiveGiant.

Film-makers Thomas Hartmann and Juan Montelongo embark on a road trip in search of the elusive Native American artist. What is captured on film is at times almost unbelievable.

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SuperBob

Big city cop is reluctantly paired with a small town cop in a mission to take down a drug lord. Things don’t go down well for the duo until they realise that their loved ones are caught in the crossfire.

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The Price of Desire

Romance, drama.

102mins. Dir: Mary McGuckian. Scr: Mary McGukian. Cast: Orla Brady, Vincent Perez, Francesco Scianna, Alanis Morrissette.

Little Film Company.

The brilliant Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray was a leading light in the modern design movement. This compelling portrayal focuses on the love triangle between the bisexual Gray and her lovers Jean

Badovici and Marisa Damia in her longrunning feud with the Father of Modernism, Le Corbusier.

Ocean

Roadduster

Road Movie, Black Comedy, drama. 107mins.

Dir: Eric de Bruyn. Scr: Jan Verdonck. Cast: Frank Lammers, Fedja van Huet. Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

A crazy ride in a flameadorned Plymouth Gold Duster from provincial Holland to Hamburg’s Reeperbahn and back.

And a hallucinatory trip through the mind of an author, who no longer knows if his novel is a product of his own imagination or if he is actually living it.

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Comedy. 90mins.

Dir: Jon Drever.

Scr: Brett Goldstein.

Cast: Brett Goldstein, Catherine Tate, Natalia Tena, Laura Haddock.

VMI Worldwide.

When a meteor crashes into earth, regular guy Bob appears to be the one guy affected. Previously clumsy and awkward, Bob now possesses super strength and speed and the ability to fly and has reluctantly become the world’s only superhero.

He’s now doing his best to live a “normal” life but somehow, saving the world always gets in the way.

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The Wait

Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Piero Messina.

Scr: Giacomo Bendotti, Ilaria Macchia, Andrea Paolo Massara, Piero Messina. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Lou de Laage, Giorgio Colangeli.

Pathe International.

Among the large rooms of an old villa marked by time, Anna spends her days in solitude. Only the footsteps of Pietro, the handyman, break the silence. And all of a sudden Jeanne appears, a young woman who claims to be the girlfriend of Giuseppe, Anna’s son.

Pure Flix Entertainment/ Quality Flix.

In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African-American superstar, Tony Nathan.

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Weaponized

Action/adventure.

90mins. Dir: Timothy Woodward, Jr. Scr: Sean Ryan.

Cast: Mickey Rourke, Johnny Messner, Taylor Cole, Tom Sizemore.

VMI Worldwide.

A damaged homicide detective must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a robotic virus that he believes will destroy the terrorist cell that murdered his son, but at an unimaginable cost.

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Woodlawn

Drama. 130mins.

Dir: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin. Scr: Jon Erwin, Quinton Peeples.

Cast: Jon Voight, Sean Astin, Caleb Castille.

19:00 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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