SCREENINGS
BLOOD MOON
(UK) Jinga Films. 90mins. Dir: Jeremy Wooding. Key cast: Amber Jean Rowan, Shaun Dooley, Anna Skellern, Corey Johnson, David Sterne, Eleanor Matsuura, George Blagden, Ian Whyte. When the moon is red, you are dead. Palais E
THE CROCODILE OF BOTSWANGA
(France) Films Distribution. 88mins. Dir: Fabrice Eboue, Lionel Steketee. Key cast: Thomas Ngijol, Fabrice Eboue, Claudia Tagbo, Ibrahim Koma. Leslie, a French soccer rising star, is Didier’s protege. Marechal Bobo, the unpredictable President of Botswanga, invites Leslie to discover his motherland and Didier to join him on this trip. Lost in his megalomaniac
fantasies, what Marechal Bobo wants most is to see Leslie play for the national soccer team, The Crocodiles of Botswanga. Concerned with Leslie’s career, Didier disagrees with this idea. But a suitcase filled with dollars given by the dictator easily helps Didier to change his mind. Didier is now ready to do anything to convince his precious client to team up with the Crocodiles of Botswanga. Palais C
THE EASY WAY OUT
(France) Be For Films. 98mins. Dir: Brice Cauvin. Key cast: Laurent Lafitte, Agnes Jaoui, Benjamin Biolay, Nicolas Bedos, Marie-Christine Barrault, Guy Marchand, Irene Jacob, Bruno Putzulu, Elodie Frege. The intermingled story of three brothers told in a modern comedy. Olympia 6
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FRENCH DOLLS
(France) Wild Bunch. 95mins. Dir: Katia Lewkowicz. Key cast: Laura Smet, Marina Fois, Noemie Lvovsky. Three women trapped in roles of their own making. Three women united on the same mission — to change their lives forever. Olympia 5 Priority badges only
HARVEST
(France) Jour2Fete. 90mins. Dir: Paul Lacoste. South of France, midSeptember. A disparate group of men and women, all broken by life — some unemployed, others either penniless retirees, vagrant punks, students or immigrants — gather to harvest the good Lord’s grapes. Gray 1
ILLUSION
(Germany) Wtp International. 93mins. Dir: Roland Reber.
Key cast: Carolina Hoffmann, Antje Nikola Moenning, Wolfgang Seidenberg, Marina Anna Eich, Andreas Pegler, Thomas Kollhoff, Ute Meisenheimer, Christoph Baumann. Eight people, all of whom cannot be more different from each other, meet in a bar. They escape their everyday life and find themselves on a journey to their world of thoughts, their quintessential lust. Palais G
KELLY & CAL
(US) Electric Entertainment. 107mins. Dir: Jen McGowen. Key cast: Cybill Shepherd, Jonny Weston, Juliette Lewis. When Kelly, a ‘riot girl’ turned suburban mom, learns her teenage neighbour has been spying on her they strike up an unlikely friendship. Olympia 3
MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON
(Serbia) Films Boutique. 95mins. Dir: Darko Lungulov. Key cast: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Mirjana Karanovic, Ljubomir Bandovic. In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is removed from the main square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.
20mins. Dir: Kevin Munroe, Jericca Cleland. Key cast: James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward. Based on the bestselling PlayStation video game franchise. Lerins 2
RUN
(France) Bac Films. 100mins. Dir: Philippe Lacote. Key cast: Issach De Bankole, Abdoul Karim Konate, Rasmane Ouedraogo. Run is a runaway who has just killed the prime minister of his homeland. Disguised as a lunatic, he wanders across the city.
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THE NIGHT
SUPERCHONDRIAC
Coproduction Office (Paris). 95mins.
(France) Pathe International. 107mins. Dir: Dany Boon. Key cast: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol, Judith El Zein. Anna believes Romain is
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RATCHET & CLANK
(Canada) Cinema Management Group.