SCREENINGS
Can love overpower hate? Can hate overpower love?
uncovers unsettling secrets throughout the building — including in their own apartment — and suddenly everyone seems like a reasonable suspect.
Gray 5
GOD’S NOT DEAD
(US) Pure Flix Entertainment. 112mins. Dir: Harold Cronk. Key cast: David AR White, Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, Willie Robertson. College freshman and devout Christian Josh Wheaton finds his faith challenged.
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22:00 AMOUR FOU
(Austria) Coproduction Office (Paris). 96mins. Dir: Jessica Hausner. Key cast: Birte Schnoink, Christian Friedel, Katharina Schuttler, Peter Jordan, Sandra Huller, Sebastian Hulk, Stephan Grossmann.
Star 4
HOT ROAD
(Japan) Shochiku Co. 119mins. Dir: Takahiro Miki. Key cast: Rena Nounen, Hiroomi Tosaka.
Theatre Claude Debussy Festival badge
22:30 VIKTOR
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INSECURE
(France) UDI — Urban Distribution International. 83mins. Dir: Marianne Tardieu. Key cast: Adele Exarchopoulos, Reda Kateb, Moussa Mansaly, Hassan N’Dibona, Mohammed Mouloudi, Rashid Debbouze. Cherif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Arcades 1
THE LEGEND OF QIN
Market 20:30 WELCOME TO ME
(US) Cargo Entertainment. 84mins. Dir: Shira Piven. Key cast: Kristen Wiig, Wes Bentley, James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Tudyk. Alice, obsessed with
their brave friends to venture to the moon to solvethe mystery.
(China) Golden Network Asia. 90mins. Dir: Robin Shen.
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Riviera 2 By invitation only
BLUE SKY BONES
NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC
(US) Submarine Entertainment. 73mins. Dir: One9. Key cast: Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones. Documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, ‘Illmatic’, and the social conditions that influenced its creation. Gray 4
SPACE DOGS 2
(Russia) Epic Pictures Group. 90mins. Dir: Inna Evlannikova. When strange phenomena begin to occur on planet Earth, it’s up to Belka, Strelka, Kazbek and
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(China) Ray Production Limited. 105mins. Dir: Jian Cui. Key cast: Fang yin, Han Lei, Hongjie Ni, Huan Huang, Jinglin Guo, Xuan Huang, ye Tao, youliang zhao. Riviera 3
GIRL WITH NO FEAR (CIUDAD SIN SOMBRA)
(Ecuador) Bluefilm, Consejo Nacional De Cinematografia Del Ecuador, House of Film. 110mins. Dir: Bernardo Canizares Esguerra. Key cast: Alejandro Buenaventura, Bernardo ycaza, Carolina Piechestein, Juan Ricardo Gomez.
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television and celebrity, wins $86m on the lottery only to spend it all on a TV show about herself. As her show gets out of control, Alice alienates the people who matter the most to her… until she realises that fame is not as great as it sounds. Arcades 3
The Latin American ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. Palais E Press allowed
HOME
(US) Xyz Films. 93mins. Dir: Nicholas McCarthy. Key cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Naya Rivera. As a young woman investigates a house that appears to be haunted by supernatural forces, she discovers a connection to an incident involving a previous tenant who unwittingly welcomed the devil into her life. Now the devil is looking for a new victim to call home. Palais I
KOLUMPO
(Malaysia) Striped Entertainment. 92mins. Dir: Rozi Izma, Sheikh Munasar, Bront Palarae. Key cast: Amirul Ariff,
Azad Jasmin, Mano Maniam, Nell Ng, Ruminah Sidek, Sharifah Amani, Soffi Jikan. Rahul, an Indian immigrant worker, arrives in town only to find the company that offered him a job has gone out of business. He is helped by a local restaurant owner and begins his life in the city. In Setapak, Gienna is a Chinese woman in her 30s. She is constantly avoiding phone calls from her mother and finds herself spending an afternoon helping a stranger, a senile old lady, who can’t remember where her house is. In Ampang, Hafidd, a young man, meets a cute stranger at the LRT Station after they both miss the last train. For someone who has never dated anyone in his life, this occasion is a life-defining moment for the young man and his only hope to see a glimpse of love. Together the three stories create a collage and kaleidoscope of surprising and electrifying human connections that give life to the city. Palais G
LIVE
Kadokawa Corporation. 105mins. Palais C
THE ROOM
(Thailand) Klongchai Picture Co. 100mins. Dir: Punjapong Kongkanoi, Jaded Ueachimplee. Key cast: Kawee Tanjararuk, Suhalit Siamwala, Sawika Chaidej, Atila Gunti, Taweelit Jullasup, Osar Wang. Every room has memory. Every room has mystery. Every room has a story. Lerins 2
WELCOME TO ME See box, above
WILD CANARIES
(US) Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmares. 98mins. Dir: Lawrence Michael Levine. Key cast: Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Alia Shawkat, Annie Parisse, Jason Ritter, Kevin Corrigan. Barri and Noah, a newly engaged Brooklyn couple, are disheartened by the death of their elderly neighbour, Sylvia. Though Noah sees nothing unusual about the old woman’s death, Barri suspects foul play and sets out to investigate, enlisting her roommate Jean to join her on a reconnaissance mission to trail a possible suspect. Tensions mount, however, when the investigation
(Russia) Saradan Media. 98mins. Dir: Philippe Martinez. Key cast: Gerard Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley, Eli Danker, Paulina Kuzminskaya, Marcello Mazarella, Denis Kasasov, Jenya Akhremenko. After seven years of imprisonment in his native France for an infamous art heist, Viktor Lambert returns to Moscow determined to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy’s brutal murder three months earlier. Star 2 Priority badges only
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(Argentina) Crep Films. 97mins. Dir: Gabriel Grieco. Key cast: Juan Palomino, Luz Cipriota, Nicolas Pauls, Mercedes Oviedo, Veronica Pelaccini, Nicolas Maiques, Sabrina Carballo, Nestor Sanchez, Sebastian Berta Muniz, Patricio Sardelli. For thousands of years man abused animals, using them for food, clothing and science experiments, till today, animal revenge has begun. In a town in Argentina, ‘the country of barbecues’, people linked to the cattle industry start to disappear. Some peasants talk about an economic war between farmers and ranchers. A journalist arrives in town by chance and decides to research. Soon she’ll find out a dark secret. Star 1 Blood Window