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Unifrance, export bodies condemn harassment

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Beyond The Edge

Buyers Edge closer to Banderas

BY WENDY MITCHELL

AMBI Distribution has closed a flurry of deals for action thriller Beyond The Edge starring Antonio Banderas.

The film had its first screening here at AFM and AMBI CEO Andrea Iervolino has confirmed deals to France and French-speaking Europe (Program Store), Japan (Klockworx), Germany (EuroVideo), China (Turbo Film), Spain (Selecta Vision), Russia (Karoprokat), Latin America/Eastern Europe/Turkey (SPI), Switzerland (Impuls), Middle East (Falcon), Greece (Feelgood), Portugal (Lusomundo), Singapore (Shaw), South Korea (AsiaPlus), Malaysia/Vietnam (Rainfilm) and former Yugoslavia (MCF).

Banderas plays a fraudster who has a conflicted relationship with his son, who also happens to be one of the world’s top thieves. The son’s plans to rob a bank are thwarted by an adversary with seemingly supernatural powers.

Starring alongside Banderas are Milos Bikovic and Petar Zekavica.

Russia’s Aleksandr Boguslavskiy and Italy’s Francesco Cinquemani co-directed Beyond The Edge, which shot in Italy, Russia and Georgia.

AMBI’s Iervolino and Monika Bacardi produced the film with Evgeniy Melentyev and Victor Denisyuk and his Kinodanz production company. Ares Film executive produced. The film will have a wide release in Russia on March 1, 2018.

Beyond The Edge marks AMBI’s third film with Banderas, after The Music Of Silence and Black Butterfly. He will also star in AMBI’s forthcoming Ferruccio Lamborghini biopic.

European industry organisations have responded to Screen’s report that senior sales executive Daniela Elstner was sexually assaulted while attending a festival on behalf of Unifrance 20 years ago.

Isabelle Giordano, managing director of Unifrance, the government-backed organisation for promoting French films outside France, told Screen: “I confirm that Unifrance offers all our support to Daniela Elstner. Her testimony is very courageous and useful to understand how violent acts can exist with a dramatic lack of reaction and help. Unifrance condemns these acts and it is obvious that we cannot tolerate any kind of violence, discrimination or inappropriate behaviour inside the markets, festivals or junkets we organise.

“We pride ourselves that in the

French industry many women have responsibilities and leading roles.

I work daily with a lot of gifted women such as Daniela Elstner who are managers in the French cinema industry, mostly among the international sales agents. I hope all those women can work in the future in a safe environment.”

Europa International, the European association representing 46 sales companies from 14 countries, commented: “Europa International is very concerned about any kind of sexual harassment its members might be victims of and condemns all acts of such sort under all circumstances.

“During our annual conference in Bucharest, Romania (November 24-26), we will address the subject in particular so that we can guarantee to the members of the industry, now and in the future, the best

possible working environment and protection against any kind of inappropriate behaviour.”

Meanwhile, Simon Crowe, chair of the UK sales companies’ trade body Film Export UK, said: “Daniela heads ADEF, our counterpart organisation in France and we applaud her courage and leadership in speaking of these hurtful events. The sales community is close and we stand in solidarity with all who speak out, because when we are silent or look away, we are complicit with those who abuse their power and influence.”

Elstner, managing director of Paris-based Doc & Film International and president of French sales agent organisation ADEF, became the first executive from the European sales and distribution business to detail her experience of harassment in the industry.

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NEWS Hamm plots Off Season Jon Hamm joins Protagonist Pictures’ Canada-set supernatural thriller Off Season » Page 4

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The Cured

Arrow finds a cure with Page

BY WENDY MITCHELL

Screen can reveal this exclusive photo of Roger Avary’s Lucky Day, starring Crispin Glover. FilmNation is handling sales and the cast also includes Nina Dobrev, Luke Bracey and Clifton Collins. The story follows an ex-con who is tracked down by Glover’s hitman. The film is shooting now in Toronto.

EJ Yong snaps Mirovision’s Picture Mirovision has confirmed EJ Yong (The Bacchus Lady) is to direct the company’s most ambitious in-house production to date, psychological thriller The Big Picture (working title). The Korean remake of Eric

Lartigau’s 2010 French movie of that title is adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s bestselling novel about a lawyer whose life falls apart when his wife begins an affair. The film will shoot from the third quarter of 2018.

Here at AFM, Mirovision has sold action noir Brothers In Heaven to Taiwan (MovieCloud), Philippines (VIVA) and world in-flight rights (Encore Inflight). Mirovision also sold Bittersweet Brew to AV-JET for Taiwan and Encore for world in-flight rights.

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Arrow Films has struck a UK/Ireland deal for David Freyne’s The Cured, sold by BAC Films. A 2018 release is planned.

Writer/director Freyne makes his feature directorial debut on the film, which had its world premiere in Toronto. Ellen Page stars in the story of a society that has cured a zombie virus but the formerly infected are discriminated against.

Tom Stewart, acquisitions director for Arrow Films, said: “We’re very excited to bring such a powerful and original film into the UK/ Ireland in 2018 and to be once again collaborating with BAC.” BAC’s VP of international sales Marie Garrett said: “We are thrilled to renew our collaboration with Arrow. Their great slate and taste make them the perfect partner.”

Rachael O’Kane and Rory Dungan produce for Tilted Pictures, with BAC also on board as a coproducer. The film has previously sold to IFC for North America.

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Q Films touts busy slate

Hamm travels Off Season

BY WENDY MITCHELL

BY JEREMY KAY

Writer-director Arturo Montenegro of Panama-based Q Films is at AFM meeting potential producing and funding partners on a number of projects. First up is Frozen In Russia, a comedy about a soccer fan who promises to marry a Russian girl if Panama qualifies for the 2018 World Cup. Montenegro has earmarked a January start for a shoot in St Petersburg, Panama City and Portobelo.

Montenegro is lining up a summer 2018 shoot on an eight-part TV adaptation of Grace & Splendor, his hit rom-com.

English-language comedy 0 Fame is about a web show for celebrities where the prize is anonymity. Montenegro is targeting a September 2018 start.

Drama The Compagnie Family is based on a real-life married couple who are taking on Panama’s same-sex marriage ban.

Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales (and co-repping US with CAA) on supernatural thriller Off Season, which is set to star Jon Hamm.

Writer/director Jonathan van Tulleken will make his feature directorial debut, after being Bafta nominated for his short of the same name. The former Screen International Star of Tomorrow

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has also worked on TV’s Misfits and Top Boy. Nira Park of Big Talk (which worked with Hamm on Baby Driver) produces alongside J Miles Dale of Demilo Productions (The Shape Of Water).

Off Season is in pre-production, slated to begin principal photography in Canada in early 2018.

Set in the frozen Canadian tundra, a man goes in search of his elderly father who disappeared

mysteriously. His search exposes family secrets long buried but not forgotten by vengeful forces.

Van Tulleken said: “I never imagined I’d have the opportunity to do this with such an esteemed team around me. Nira Park and J Miles Dale are two of the most gifted and respected producers, and to have Jon Hamm in the lead is the kind of good fortune few first-time filmmakers are afforded.”

Buyers strike for Matches, Ashram

BY JEREMY KAY

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches

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Seville International has struck US deals with Gravitas Ventures on drama The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches and The Orchard on mystical thriller The Ashram.

Simon Lavoie’s Toronto premiere The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches will next screen in competition at Los Cabos Film Festival starting November 8.

Ben Rekhi’s mystery thriller The Ashram starring Sam Keeley, Melissa Leo and Kal Penn, has also sold to Portugal (Lusomundo), Middle East (Empire International Gulf ), Turkey (Yeni Film), China (Lemon Tree), Indonesia (Pratama), Malaysia (Suraya), Thailand (Major Kantana), Vietnam (Green Media) and airlines (Jaguar).

The Square leads EFA noms

BY ELISABET CABEZA

The nominations for the 2017 European Film Academy awards were revealed yesterday, with Ruben Ostlund’s The Square leading the pack with five nods. The Cannes Palme d’Or winner is nominated for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best comedy.

Ildiko Enyedi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner On Body And Soul has earned four nods: best film, best director, best actress and best screenplay. Cannes premieres The Killing Of A Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos and Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev have three nominations. Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope, Francois Ozon’s Frantz, Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute), Michael Haneke’s Happy End and William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth also make the list. The awards will be handed out in Berlin on December 9.

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Southern Fried horror deal Gravitas Ventures has acquired US rights to director Mark Newton’s Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies. Cardinal XD handles international sales.

“The film has a great southern vibe and gives a unique twist to the zombie genre, with a little Zombieland and Shaun Of The Dead in the mix,” said Joshua Spector, director of acquisitions for Gravitas.

China crowns Snow Queen

BY WENDY MITCHELL

Russian animation studio Wizart continues to do brisk business on its slate, with The Snow Queen 3: Fire And Ice now closing deals for China (Beijing Turbo Film Corporation), Czech and Slovak republics (CinemArt, which will release in February 2018 on at least 100 screens) and German-speaking Europe (Ascot Elite, which will launch later this month).

Beijing Turbo plans its release of Snow Queen 3 in China in

spring 2018, followed by a digital launch by the end of 2018.

“We are sincerely glad to start cooperation with Beijing Turbo Film,” said Yuri Moskvin, general producer of Wizart. “The first two films of our franchise were successfully released in China.”

Beijing Turbo added: “The Snow Queen franchise is the leading example of Russian animation with pre-existing brand awareness and we are thrilled to bring the third film to the Chinese market.”

Also, Thunderbird Releasing (formerly Soda Pictures) has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Sheep & Wolves and plans a spring 2018 release.

Thunderbird said: “Wizart has proven to be a new force in quality family animation. Sheep & Wolves is a lovely traditional tale with a modern spin that delivers universal appeal. We are looking forward to introducing it to the British audience in spring 2018.”

Berlin’s Wolf cinema eyes 2018 growth

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

The European exhibition and distribution executives behind fledgling Berlin arthouse cinema Wolf Kino have growth plans for 2018.

The boutique two-screen cinema with a capacity of 89 will be available for screenings during

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Berlin’s European Film Market.

Also in 2018, the venue will officially launch its upgraded postproduction facility Studio 6 under the supervision of filmmaker Marcin Malaszczak and colourist and DOP Jorge Piquer Rodriguez.

Wolf, located in trendy Neu-

kölln, is the brainchild of festival programmer Verena von Stackelberg. The site was conceived with partners including Vera Herchenbach (Madman Entertainment), Benny Drechsel (Rohfilm) and Roger Wingate (Curzon Artificial Eye) with advice from Malaszczak.

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MPI thrills with Downrange

BY JEREMY KAY

Chicago-based MPI Media Group has closed key territory sales at AFM on the thriller and recent Toronto premiere Downrange.

Rights have gone to France (Wild Side), Germany and Benelux (Splendid), Scandinavia (Njutafilms), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Koch), Middle East (Phoenicia) and India (Pictureworks).

Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train) directed the story about students on a road trip who become the targets of a sniper on a remote stretch of highway.

Kelly Connaire, Stephanie Pearson, Rod Hernandez, Anthony Kirlew, Alexa Yeames, Jason Tobias, Aion Boyd and Eric Matuschek star. Kitamura produced alongside Ko Mori.

“AFM has once again proven to be a vital market for independent films,” MPI’s VP of international sales Nicola Goelzhaeuser said.

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(Clockwise from main image) The Case For Christ took $14.7m in the US before its international rollout; AFM title Samson; God’s Not Dead 2

The leap of faith

Pure Flix/Quality Flix VP Ron Gell talks to Jeremy Kay about the growing international market for independent spiritual films, like their hit The Case For Christ

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aith-based drama The Case For Christ from Pure Flix/Quality Flix has been blazing a trail through international markets and in some territories has outperformed studio releases The Shack and Risen.

The film, based on the book by Lee Strobel about an investigative journalist who sets out to debunk Christianity, grossed $14.7m in the US through Pure Flix earlier this year and Pure Flix/Quality Flix VP of international sales and distribution Ron Gell has exploited a niche in the international arena as well.

The Case For Christ stars Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Robert Forster and Faye Dunaway. Jon Gunn directed from the adapted screenplay by Brian Bird.

In Australia and New Zealand, The Case For Christ amassed more than $1m through Crossroads — 50% more than Lionsgate’s The Shack and three times more than Pure Flix’s God’s Not Dead 2.

The film grossed more than $1m in South Korea through CBS, two times

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‘This speaks to the power of the independent.

In this difficult market, there’s the emergence of this niche’ Ron Gell, Pure Flix/Quality Flix

more than The Shack and roughly on a par with Sony’s Risen.

Other notable results from the early stages of international rollout include Canada, where the film generated more than $750,000 through Mongrel Media, with whom Gell recently extended an output deal, and Brazil through California Filmes. “We have had this wonderful run of success internationally,” Gell said.

“Hats off to all of our partners. We have brought in theatrical people who collabo-

rate with us. We’re picking distributors who are open to working with us and understand how these movies work and we’re seeing success.

“Some are independents, some are studios and some are Christian distributors. We travel to the territories and supervise marketing and collaborate with them. The tip of the spear is to have a movie perform theatrically [before ancillary success].

“In Africa, we’re doing a lot of work with CMD Entertainment and have broken through and created a market and are head-to-head [on The Case For Christ] with Sony on Risen,” Gell said. “This speaks to the power of the independent.

In this difficult market, there’s the emergence of this niche. Besides the studios, we’re the top international distribution and marketing company and our films are made for lower budgets.”

Gell has observed the trend in other Pure Flix/Quality Flix releases. Sequel God’s Not Dead 2 (2016) grossed $1.5m

through California Filmes in Brazil, while that film and the 2014 original stood out in Eastern Europe through Monolith.

The Case For Christ just opened in the UK through Kaleidoscope and is coming out soon in Poland through Rafael Films and in Germany via Great Movies. Upcoming markets include Benelux (Xcellence), and Singapore and Taiwan (Silver Media).

Gell is screening Samson here at AFM and the film will open on 1,000 screens in the US on February 16, 2018, with the international rollout to follow. Taylor James, Billy Zane and Rutger Hauer star in the Biblical tale about the young Hebrew man with supernatural strength.

He loses the love of his life to a Philistine prince and sets out to avenge her death and save his people.

The company’s slate includes God’s Not Dead 3, due out in the US on March 30, 2018. The first two films in the franchise s amassed more than $100m worldwide. n

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Biography. 94mins.

Dir: Mathieu Amalric.

Scr: Mathieu Amalric.

Cast: Matheiu Amalric, Jeanne Balibar. Gaumont.

An actress, Brigitte, is playing Barbara in a film that will start shooting soon. Brigitte works on her character, her voice, the songs and scores, the imitation of her gestures, her knitting, the lines to learn. Things move along.

The character grows inside her… invades her even…

Yves, the director, is also working — via encounters, archival footage, the music. He seems inhabited and inspired by her… but by whom? The actress or Barbara?

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DOUBTING THOMAS

Drama. 79mins.

Dir: Anthony O’Brien.

Scr: Will McFadden.

Cast: Will McFadden, Sarah Butler, Jamie Hector, Rob Belushi, Zack Cregger, James Morrison, Melora Walters. Lexicon Entertainment.

After a white couple gives birth to a black child, the purest bonds of trust, friendship and love are put to the ultimate test.

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FLAMMABLE CHILDREN

Comedy. 110mins.

Dir: Stephan Elliott.

Scr: Stephan Elliott.

Cast: Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Radha Mitchell. WestEnd Films.

Australia, 1975: the beach suburb of Dee Why is a place that revolves around surf mats, baby oil, boxed wine and the new miracle of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Fourteen-year-old Jeff tries to find his feet in a world changing faster than his hormones, and deal with his crush on shy and sensitive girlnext-door Melly. When the beach town suddenly hits the spotlight after the body of a huge whale is washed ashore, Jeff and Melly think it is the biggest thing that ever happened in their lives.

Meanwhile, their eccentric parents are catching up with the sexual revolution that has also washed up on Australia’s beaches.

And just like the decaying whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.

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FLOWER

Comedy, drama. 90mins.

Dir: Max Winkler.

Scr: Alex McAulay, Matt Spicer, Max Winkler.

Cast: Zoey Deutch, Adam Scott, Kathryn

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09:00 LBJ

Biography, drama, historical. 97mins.

Dir: Rob Reiner.

Scr: Joey Hartstone.

Cast: Woody Harrelson.

Electric Entertainment.

After Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to John F Kennedy, he agrees to be his young rival’s running mate.

But once they win the election, Johnson finds himself sidelined.

That all changes on

November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.

As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with long-time adversary attorney general Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia senator Richard Russell as he seeks to honour JFK’s legacy by championing the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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of the official painters of China’s imperial court.

He was given the honourable task of painting the portrait of Empress Ulanara.

This former concubine, who became empress following the death of emperor Qien Long’s first wife, had a very particular destiny. Rejected and humiliated by the emperor, she found herself alone and abandoned by all at the end of her life. Nothing remains of her except her portrait, with its Jocondelike enigmatic sensuality.

The film recounts the feverish moment when the empress meets the Jesuit painter, a moment when the electric relationship between the painter and his model is caught up in the constraints of the court and its rigid rules of etiquette.

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Hahn, Tim Heidecker.

The Exchange.

A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.

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principality standing in their way. Little do they know their plans are about to be ruined by a small detachment of heroic strongmen led by a mysterious, brave warrior.

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FURIOUS

Action/adventure, historical. 122mins.

Dir: Ivan Shurkhovetsky.

Scr: Sergey Yudakov.

Cast: Ilya Malakov, Polina Chernyshova.

Central Partnership Sales House.

In 13th-century Mongolia, warrior hordes and their leader, Batu Khan, control most of the known world.

As the Mongols move towards Europe, they invade the last Russian

THE LADY IN THE PORTRAIT

Drama, historical, romance. 94mins.

Dir: Charles de Meaux.

Scr: Michel Fessler, Charles de Meaux.

Cast: Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Huang Jue, Thibault de Montalembert, Wu Yue. All Rights Entertainment.

In the middle of the 18th century, the Jesuit Jean Denis Attiret was one

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THE STRAY

Drama, family. 119mins.

Dir: Mitch Davis.

Scr: Mitch Davis, Parker Davis.

Cast: Sarah Lancaster, Michael Cassidy.

Pure Flix/Quality Flix.

A young father takes his nine-year-old son, the family dog and two of his son’s friends backpacking in the mountains of Colorado only for all five of them to be struck by lightning.

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09:30 FLASHBURN

Sci-fi. 101mins.

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Dir: Giorgio Serafini.

Scr: Garry Charles.

Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Cameron Richardson. Red Sea Media.

Wes Nolan wakes up in an abandoned warehouse with a case of amnesia.

He has been kidnapped by someone named Lazarus who is holding him captive in an abandoned warehouse in order to get the cure Wes was working on for an ebola outbreak.

Instead of destroying the ebola, Wes’s protein mutated the virus into something much more potent. Now Wes must try to regain his memory of what really happened to him to try to find the cure.

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WHEN THE STARLIGHT ENDS

Fantasy. 87mins.

Dir: Adam Sigal.

Scr: Adam Sigal.

Cast: Sam Heughan.

Red Sea Media.

An eccentric writer must choose between his work and the love of his life.

Looking back, he reflects on whether he has made the right decision.

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11:00 CHRISTMAS & CO

Comedy, family. 115mins.

Dir: Alain Chabat.

Scr: Alain Chabat.

Cast: Alain Chabat, Pio Marmai, Golshifteh Farahani, Audrey Tautou.

Gaumont.

Christmas eve is just around the corner when everything goes haywire.

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Large, Nicolas Maggio.

Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Tom Maden, Alexia Fast, Timothy Murphy. Film Mode Entertainment.

A group of salacious students party aboard a luxury yacht only to turn on each other as a predatorial mutant creature picks them off one by one.

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MARKET 11:00 THE COMPETITION

Romantic comedy.

90mins. Dir: Harvey Lowry. Scr: Kelsey Tucker. Cast: Thora Birch, Chris Klein, Claire Coffee. VMI Worldwide.

Lauren Mauldin is a strong-willed but misguided young woman who encourages her millions of blog followers to apply her scientific formula to all relationships. If you follow her six-month

That’s a harsh blow to jolly old St Nick. Now who will make the toys for all the kids? He’s got no choice.

Santa and his reindeer must go to Earth in search of a cure. But once he gets there, Mr Claus will need some help to save the magic of Christmas.

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‘PIG Theory’, you will always have the upper hand and you will never be cheated on. Her plan works smoothly until her sister Gena introduces her to the charming and undefeated women’s advocate attorney Calvin Chesney, who refuses to believe human connections can be so easily categorised. He challenges Lauren to a competition to prove her theory wrong.

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of him, Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother’s life.

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DEAD IN A WEEK (OR YOUR MONEY BACK)

THE CHANGEOVER

Comedy. 89mins.

Dir: Tom Edmunds.

Scr: Tom Edmunds.

Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Marion Bailey, Freya Mavor, Christopher Eccleston.

Altitude Film Sales.

After seven unsuccessful suicide attempts, William outsources the task to Leslie, an ageing hitman on the brink of retirement. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back) William finally discovers a reason to live. However, as far as Leslie is concerned, the contract is binding.

Supernatural thriller.

93mins. Dir: Miranda Harcourt, Stuart McKenzie. Scr: Stuart McKenzie. Cast: Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey, Lucy Lawless, Charlie Heaton, Erana James. Radiant Films International.

Sixteen-year-old Laura Chant lives in a lowrent suburb on the edge of earthquake-scarred Christchurch, New Zealand with her mother and four-year-old brother, Jacko. When an ancient spirit attacks Jacko and slowly draws the life out

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Animation, family.

90mins. Dir: Christopher Jenkins. Scr: Robert Muir. Cast: Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya, Lance Lim. GFM Films.

A bachelor goose must form a bond with two lost ducklings.

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KNUCKLEBALL

Thriller. 90mins.

Dir: Michael Peterson.

Scr: Kevin Cockle, Michael Peterson.

Cast: Michael Ironside, Munro Chambers, Luca Villacis.

AMP International.

After his grandfather dies unexpectedly in the night, 12-year-old Henry finds himself cut off and alone on an isolated farm. When his nearest neighbour, Dixon, realises the boy has no one to protect him, Henry becomes a target for reasons he cannot understand. With his parents at least 24 hours from returning, and a massive snowstorm brewing, Henry retreats into the house and prepares for a siege.

What follows is a desperate battle for survival that will also unlock the terrifying connection between his family and the killer next door.

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KODACHROME

movie. 104mins.

Dir: Mark Raso.

Scr: Jonathan Tropper.

Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris, Elizabeth Olsen. The Solution Entertainment Group.

Set during the final days of the admired photo development system known as Kodachrome, a father and son hit the road in order to reach a Kansas photolab before it closes its doors for good.

Scr: Wolfgang Lauenstein, Christoph Lauenstein.

Global Screen.

An 11-year-old boy makes friends with three loveable little aliens who crash their UFO into his house.

In return for Luis’s help in finding the homeshopping channel stuff they came for, they save Luis from boarding school — and an exciting adventure follows.

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THE NINTH PASSENGER LUIS AND THE ALIENS

Animation. 85mins.

Dir: Wolfgang Lauenstein.

Horror, thriller. 93mins.

Dir: Ian Pfaff. Scr: Steve Albert, Richard Janes, Chad Krowchuk, Corey

Action/adventure, animation, children’s, comedy, family. 93mins.

Dir: Gary Wang.

Scr: Gary Wang.

Cast: Guanlin Ji. All Rights Entertainment.

Tea pets are little porcelain figures that tea drinkers keep around and like to pour tea on. Atang, a tea pet, lives in a tea shop and is the only tea pet that cannot change colour, even though he was made by a master. One day, Atang meets a little robot and decides to join it on an adventure to find a way back to the future.

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VICTOR CROWLEY

Horror. 83mins.

Dir: Adam Green.

MARKET 11:00 KIKORIKI: DEJA VU

Action/adventure, comedy, family. 85mins.

Dir: Denis Chernov.

Scr: Denis Chernov, Dmitry Yakovenko.

Cast: Vadim Bochanov. Odin’s Eye Entertainment.

The third instalment in the adventure-packed franchise focuses on loveable furball Krash, who decides to throw his best buddy Barry an unforgettable birthday party. He contacts the Deja Vu Agency, which organises exciting time-

travel adventures. A cataclysmic accident occurs after the Kikoriki crew fail to follow the rules, scattering the group across time. Krash has to find and retrieve his friends through the ages.

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Comedy, drama, road

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MARKET 11:00 SILK ROAD

Suspense, thriller.

87mins. Dir: Mark de Cloe. Scr: Marc Linssen, Roeland Linssen. Cast: Olivia Lonsdale, Gijs Blom, Jonas Smulders.

Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

Scr: Adam Green.

Cast: Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Laura Ortiz, Dave Sheridan, Brian Quinn. MPI Media Group.

Ten years ago, more than 40 people were brutally torn into pieces in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. During the past decade, lone survivor Andrew Yong’s claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy, but when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Yong must face the bloodthirstry ghost from his past.

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11:30 BEAST

Drama. 107mins.

Dir: Michael Pearce.

Scr: Michael Pearce.

Cast: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn.

Protagonist Pictures.

In a small island community, a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape her oppressive family. When he

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A thriller about one of the world’s most wanted internet criminals, inspired by a true story.

When a 20-year-old girl meets the charismatic boy from across the street, it starts her on the road to becoming a successful drug dealer

on Silk Road. Along the way she is caught up in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse played by police, criminals and her boyfriend. How far will she go? Who can she trust? And just who is using who?

comes under suspicion for a series of brutal murders she defends him at all costs and learns what she is capable of.

GOLD

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THE BREADWINNER

Animation. 93mins.

Dir: Nora Twomey.

Scr: Anita Doron.

Cast: Noorin Gulamgaus, Saara Chaudry, Shaista Latif, Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah, Kawa Ada. WestEnd Films.

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

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FREDDY/EDDY

Thriller. 94mins.

Dir: Tini Tuellmann.

Scr: Tini Tuellmann.

Cast: Felix Schaefer, Jessica Schwarz, Greta Bohacek, Burghart Klaussner, Katharina Schuettler, Robert Stadlober. Jinga Films.

After being accused of beating his wife, Freddy discovers that his twin brother Eddy, who supposedly died at birth, has now reappeared and is intent on destroying his life.

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Action/adventure, historical. 105mins.

Dir: Agustin Diaz Yanes.

Scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes.

Cast: Raul Arevalo, Barbara Lennie, Jose Coronado. Film Factory Entertainment.

Central America, 1540: a group of Spanish deserters advance laboriously through landscapes populated by wild animals and hostile natives and cannibals with whom they must fight at every turn, driven by their ambition for gold. They know they are being chased because word has reached them that the viceroy has sent another group of soldiers to take them prisoner or kill them in the name of the emperor. So the rebels’ only hope is to keep moving forward until they achieve their goal, because with gold all is forgiven. At the same time, their mutual hatred and passions are unleashed.

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THE HOLLOW CHILD

Horror, supernatural thriller. 88mins.

Dir: Jeremy Lutter.

Scr: Ben Rollo.

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Logger Vick, join forces with a sassy archaeological robot and set out on a journey to save their world and find the Deer Clan’s legendary Golden Antlers before the villains do.

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THE NEIGHBOR See box, below

ON THE ROPES

Action/adventure, martial arts, thriller. 90mins. Dir: James Mark. Scr: James Mark. Cast: Can Aydin, Phong Giang, Yoon ChaLee. WTFilms.

Two brothers fight over their family crime business.

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13:30 MARKET 13:00 CRAVING

Drama. 96mins.

Dir: Saskia Diesing.

Scr: Saskia Diesing, Esther Gerritsen.

Cast: Simone Kleinsma, Elise van ’t Laar, Leopold Witte, Stefan de Walle, Margot Ros. Media Luna New Films.

Coco is a chaotic young woman who is embroiled in a hopeless affair with Cast: Jessica McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula, Genevieve Buechner, Connor Stanhope. Devilworks.

Highly intelligent and malicious creatures known as the Hollow Ones capture children by enticing them into the woods with their hypnotic folklore music. Samantha, a young foster teen, must fight to expose these dangerous supernatural impostors and save her sister, who has been taken; otherwise her soul will be lost in the woods forever.

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TOMORROW AND THEREAFTER

Drama. 95mins.

Dir: Noemie Lvovsky.

Scr: Noemie Lvovsky, Florence Seyvos.

Cast: Noemie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Anais

Hans, recently divorced and in his 50s. She has no idea what to do with her life, until she discovers her mother is seriously ill. Wholeheartedly, she embraces this new purpose in life and moves in with her to help, ignoring their distant relationship, as well as her mother’s desire to be left alone.

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Demoustier. Gaumont.

Mathilde is 10 years old.

Her parents are separated and she lives alone with her mother, who is disturbed and has trouble coping with the real world.

Mathilde can see that others consider her mother crazy but to her it’s dayto-day life. She protects her mother. She can sense the threat of separation, without knowing when or how it could take place. She does all she can to forestall it, fully aware that all her efforts are doomed to fail.

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13:00 A VIOLENT MAN

Martial arts, mystery, thriller. 107mins.

Dir: Matt Berkowitz.

Scr: Justin Steele.

Cast: Thomas Jones, Bruce Davison, Denise Richards, Chuck Liddell, Issach de Bankole.

TriCoast Worldwide.

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A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one-night stand is found dead in her home.

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CRAVING See box, left

THE DEATH OF STALIN

Comedy. 116mins.

Dir: Armando Iannucci.

Scr: Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Fabien Nury.

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin, Jeffrey Tambor, Rupert Friend, Olga Kurylenko, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Paddy Considine. Gaumont.

Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.

Scr: Liang Ding.

Cast: Paul Rinehart.

Fantawild Animation.

Follows an elite team of thieves, sent by a notorious treasure hunter from the real world to the animated realm to steal each universe’s most prized and powerful item.

On learning of this evil plan, that would destroy the cartoon world, the bear brothers, along with

BALKAN LINE/SHACKLE TEASERS

Action/adventure, horror. 30mins.

Dir: Andrey Volgin.

Scr: Sergey Kempo.

Cast: Sergey Kempo, Lukerya Ilyashenko, Milos Bikovic, Yuriy Kutsenko.

Amadeus Entertainment.

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DEAD SHACK

Horror. 85mins. Dir: Peter Ricq. Scr: Davila

LeBlanc, Phil Ivanusic.

Cast: Valerie Tian, Donovan Stinson, Lizzie Boys, Gabriel LaBelle. Double Dutch International.

Teenager Jason is heading up to his family’s rustic cottage with his best friend Colin, Colin’s older sister Summer and his parents.

Things quickly take a turn for the worse when the three of them spy on their neighbour’s cabin and see a woman feeding people to her undead family. Now they have to deal with a shotgun-totting psycho, zombie neighbours trying eat them and parents who are too busy partying to know what’s going on. It is up to Jason, Colin and Summer to learn to work together and bash in some zombie skulls before they become their neighbour’s next family dinner.

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THE DREAMSELLER

Drama, true story.

90mins. Dir: Jayme Monjardim. Scr: Augusto Cury. Cast: Cesar Troncoso, Dan Stulbach.

All Rights Entertainment.

Julio Cesar stands on the ledge of a 20-storey building poised to jump

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DOMINION

Biography, drama.

101mins. Dir: Steven Bernstein. Scr: Steven Bernstein. Cast: Rhys Ifans, Romola Garai, Rodrigo Santoro, John Malkovich, Zosia Mamet.

Lightning Entertainment Group.

The last days of the poet Dylan Thomas as he dreams and drinks.

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FANTASTICA

Animation. 105mins.

Dir: Liang Ding.

MARKET 13:00 THE NEIGHBOR

Suspense, thriller. 90mins.

Dir: Aaron Harvey. Scr: Richard Byard. Cast: William Fichtner, Jessica McNamee, Jean Louisa Kelly, Michael Rosenbaum. VMI Worldwide.

Mike, a middle-aged man in a stagnant marriage, finds his life upended when

Jenna, a young, attractive young woman, and her seemingly abusive husband move in next door. Mike watches Jenna’s daily tasks and becomes infatuated with her. He decides to throw away his life and marriage to run away with Jenna but she has no intention of going with him.

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more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last. As Goodman digs into their stories, his carefully maintained and rational world starts to dissolve around him. Is it a trick of the mind or are darker forces at work?

Gradually Goodman is drawn towards the unearthing of a longburied secret that will pull his life, and everything he thought he knew, apart.

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GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD

MARKET 15:00 BELLA DONNAS

Black comedy, comedy.

95mins. Dir: Jon Karthaus. Scr: Diederik Jekel. Cast: Kiki van Deursen, Carolien Karthaus-Spoor, Eva Laurenssen.

Dutch Features

Global Entertainment.

After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list — only to find one entry particularly challenging: to find true love.

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when he is suddenly joined by a mysterious, dishevelled stranger, a ‘dreamseller’, whose mission is to convince people to love life.

A philosophical dialogue follows as the stranger talks Julio down from the ledge and invites him to become a dreamseller.

At first Julio views the journey as a sociological experiment but he soon begins to believe. Others join, and the band of misfits under the tutelage of the dreamseller visit sites as diverse as a retirement home and a funeral, delivering a lesson at each place. As Julio’s influence grows, detractors emerge but he has an answer for everyone, until Megasoft, the corporate monolith and a favourite target of the dreamseller, forces him into a corner.

Andre Morency.

Cast: Sylvie Moreau, Guillaume LemayThivierge, Rachid Badouri. Cinema Management Group.

Quebec City, 1955: Nelly Maloye, an ebullient novice detective, accidentally crosses paths with Simon Picard, an ambitious research assistant in anthropology at the local university. Backed by a glory-seeking philanthropist, the intuitive but disorganised Nelly and the methodical, obsessive Simon set off on a wild adventure, determined to prove the existence of the Abominable Snowman.

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BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS FOR LIFE

MISSION KATHMANDU

Animation. 83mins.

Dir: Pierre Greco, Nancy Florence Savard.

Scr: Pierre Greco,

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15:00 BELLA DONNAS See box, above

Action/adventure, family.

115mins. Dir: Clovis Cornillac. Scr: Juliette Sales, Fabien Suarez.

Cast: Felix Bossuet,

Tcheky Karyo, Clovis Cornillac. Gaumont.

This new adventure starts right where the last one ended: Belle is now a mother of three and Sebastian is 12 years old.

While Sebastian refuses to follow his father, who decided to move to Canada with Angelina, he will also have to face a new threat: Joseph, who claims to be Belle’s rightful owner. He wants to put his hands on Belle and her puppies.

Sebastian will do all it takes to protect his best friend and her little ones.

and arch-sceptic, has his rationality tested to the hilt when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three terrifying hauntings.

Shaken by what he reads, Goodman embarks on a mission to find rational explanations for these ghostly stories. As Goodman investigates, he meets three tormented people, each with a tale

Drama. 113mins.

Dir: Harold Cronk.

Scr: Jennifer Dornbush, Harold Cronk. Cast: Lindsay Pulsipher, Jordin Sparks. American Cinema International.

The story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence. The film combines elements of faith, country music and stockcar racing while paying tribute to those who serve in the US military.

94mins. Dir: Heather Graham. Scr: Heather Graham. Cast: Heather Graham, Stephanie Beatriz, Jason Lewis.

Arclight Films.

Explores themes of female empowerment through sex, work and friendship. These women are able to come together through their frustration over male dominance and in fact use their newly formed sisterhood to lean on each other and understand that they must first learn to love themselves before doing anything else.

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HANNI & NANNI — MORE THAN BEST FRIENDS

HALF MAGIC

Children’s. 97mins.

Dir: Isabella Suba.

Scr: Katrin Milhahn.

Cast: Laila Meinecke.

Global Screen.

Hanni and Nanni reluctantly end up in Lindenhof boarding school. They decide to make as much mischief as possible, so that they will quickly get thrown out again. But when Nanni finds new friends, the twins, for the first time, go their separate ways.

Romantic comedy.

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THE DATING PROJECT

Documentary. 120mins.

Dir: Jonathan Cipiti.

Pure Flix/Quality Flix.

Five single people try to figure out dating in the age of social media, texting, hanging out and hooking up.

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GHOST STORIES

Supernatural thriller.

97mins. Dir: Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman.

Scr: Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman.

Cast: Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Paul Whitehouse. Altitude Film Sales.

Professor Phillip Goodman, psychologist

MARKET 15:00 DARK RIVER

Drama. 89mins. Dir: Clio Barnard.

Scr: Clio Barnard. Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean. Protagonist Pictures.

Following the death of her father, Alice returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.

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MARKET 15:00 SERGIO & SERGEI

Comedy. 93mins.

Dir: Ernesto Daranas.

Scr: Ernesto and Marta Daranas. Cast: Tomas Cao Uriza, Hector Noas, Ron Perlman. WestEnd Films.

It’s 1991, the Cold War is over but one man has yet to find out: on the space station Mir, Sergei, the last Soviet cosmonaut. Meanwhile in Cuba, the communist dream is also ending for Sergio. One fateful night,

an exchange of radio frequencies accidentally connects Sergio and Sergei. The two men quickly form an unusual friendship. When a meteorite damages Mir, Sergei asks Sergio to help him get back to Earth.

Sergio designs a plan to rescue Sergei from the icy depths of space but doesn’t know that he is under surveillance and that his plan will be watched every step of the way.

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Drama. 128mins.

Dir: Ignacio Castillo Cottin. Scr: Ada Hernandez. Cast: Alexander Leterni, Scarlet Jaimes, Daniela Bueno, Miguel Ferrari. Wide.

Tragic love story based on the life of Edwin El Inca Valero, the greatest Latin American boxer from the Venezuelan Andes. Based on a powerful true story, this vertiginous film focuses on the life of a talented young man who achieves success but ends up the victim of his countless fears.

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Dancer Shinjiro is forced into retirement following an accident while on stage. He tries his hand at directing, but struggles to make the transition.

Shinjiro turns to alcohol to cope with his plight. But when the manager of a theatre being closed down turns to Shinjiro to direct its final performance, he works with a group young dancers and in the process learns a few things about himself.

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Drama, musical.

133mins. Dir: Yutaka Mizutani. Scr: Kazuyuki Morosawa. Cast: Yutaka Mizutani, Ittoku Kishibe, Kie Kitano.

Toei Company.

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OBAMALAND

THE STOLEN PRINCESS (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Comedy. 90mins.

Dir: AD Freese.

Scr: Gregory Bergman.

Cast: Issac Anderson.

Bergman Film Company.

In 2017, the newly elected president Trump falls mysteriously from the balcony of Trump Tower and Barack Obama declares himself PresidentFor-Life. Now, in 2040, in a gunless, godless America renamed Obamaland, a ragtag group of patriotic Trumpublikans plot to take back their country once and for all. That’s right, Obama is back. And guess what you so-called “real” Americans? He’s more Muslim, more Communist and even more black than ever before.

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SEQUENCE BREAK

Horror, sci-fi. 81mins.

Dir: Graham Skipper.

Scr: Graham Skipper.

Cast: John Dinan, Lyle Kanouse, Fabianne Therese, Audrey Wasllewski, Chase Williamson. Jinga Films.

A beautiful young woman threatens the reality of a reclusive video-arcade technician, resulting in

Animation, comedy, family. 85mins. Dir: Oleg Malamuzh. Scr: Yaroslav Voytseshek. FILMUA Group.

Ruslan, a wandering artist who dreams of becoming a knight, meets Mila and falls in love; he doesn’t suspect she is the king’s daughter. However, the lovers’ happiness doesn’t last long. Chernomor, the evil sorcerer, appears in a magic vortex and steals Mila. Ruslan sets out on a quest after the stolen princess to overcome all obstacles and to prove real love is stronger than magic.

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TALL TALES

Animation, children’s.

80mins. Dir: Antoon Krings, Arnaud Bouron.

Scr: Antoon Krings, Arnaud Delalande, Christel Gonnard. Cast: Virginie Efira, Kev Adams.

PGS Entertainment.

When Apollo, a kindhearted travelling performer, lands in the village of the Funny Little Bugs, it is not too long before he upsets the life of the kingdom.

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15:30 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOBY SIMPSON

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a bizarre bio-mechanical mutation.

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Adam, a young college professor, and his pregnant wife Lisa open an antique box when moving into their new home. After an unexpected tragedy befalls them, Lisa starts being plagued by visions and hauntings that convince her there is something evil in the house. Adam is convinced she must be having a nervous breakdown. It is only when Adam calls on Dr Clark, a professor of parapsychology at the university, that the true horror of what they have let out becomes clear: the opening of the box has unleashed a malevolent entity that will stop at

nothing until it satisfies its murderous intentions.

Horror. 95mins.

Dir: Michael Winnick.

Scr: Michael Winnick.

Cast: Josh Stewart, Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona, Delroy Lindo.

AMP International.

MARKET 15:30 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOBY SIMPSON

Comedy, romance.

82mins. Dir: Patrick Makin. Scr: Patrick Makin. Cast: Alexander Perkins, Edyta Budnik, Zara Symes, Gary

Heasman. Media Luna New Films.

Toby Simpson is having a tough time trying to appease a crazy boss, a jealous girlfriend and a pushy father. Things go from bad to worse when he finds himself

on a coach full of people going to the local music festival – and is pickpocketed. Fuming, he heads into the festival to find the thief but ends up finding love and freedom instead.

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