SCREENINGS
PEOPLE-POWERED CINEMA
Batytskyi, Lesya Kalynska.
(France) Marche Du Film. 120mins. Dir: Round-Table (Next).
Palais F
Palais I
(US) Yugy Pictures Entertainment. 135mins. Dir: Hugues Gentillon. Key cast: Aurelia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Deoud Gentillon.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
(Belgium) Wild Bunch. 95mins. Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne. Key cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet. Star 1 Press allowed
WHITE GOD
(Hungary) The Match Factory. 119mins. Dir: Kornel Mundruczo. Key cast: Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Lili Monori, Lili Horvath, Laszlo Galffy, Ervin Nagy, Kornel Mundruczo. Star 2
16:30 LOVE ME HAITI
(US) Yugy Pictures Entertainment. 135mins. Dir: Hugues Gentillon. Key cast: Aurelia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Deoud Gentillon. A woman struggles to free her husband after he is kidnapped and trapped in a prison cell, ultimately to cover up geopolitical corruption. Palais G
17:00 FANTASIA
(China) Les Films Du Losange. 85mins. Dir: Wang Chao. Key cast: Jeremie Elkaim, Geng Han. Theatre Claude Debussy Festival badge
LOVE ME HAITI
(US) Yugy Pictures Entertainment. 135mins. Dir: Hugues Gentillon. Key cast: Aurelia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Deoud Gentillon. Palais G
17:30
house, a rotting corpse. The journey begins. Palais D
LOVE ME HAITI
Palais G
MATEI CHILD MINER
(Romania) Romanian Film Centre. 80mins. Dir: Alexandra Gulea. Key cast: Alexandru Czuli, Remus Marginean, Cornel Scripcaru. Matei, 11, lives with his grandfather in a coal-mining region of Romania. His parents have left to work in Italy. A very close relationship builds up between grandfather and grandson. But their mutual trust will be destroyed by an incident at school. Palais H
PASSENGER FROM SAN FRANCISCO
(Russia) Apollo Film Production. 126mins. Dir: Anatoly Balchev. Key cast: Oleg Drach, Elvira Bolgova, Daz Crawford, Roy Werner, Daniel Olbrychski, Alex Kuznetsov, Valentin Smirnitskiy, William Stanford Davis. Portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service. Sent into ‘forced’ immigration on an assignment in the 1980s, he is forgotten after the regime changes that take place in Russia in the early 1990s. Supported by neither Russian nor American governments, he is forced into a struggle against the international drug mafia. Alone, he will have to find a way out of a labyrinth of highly complex and unforeseen difficulties.
18:00 Announce Earthquakes
(Argentina) The Open Reel. 68mins. Dir: Melina Marcow, Rocio Caliri. Key cast: Augustina Guerra, Jose Morales, Gabriela Solanas, Jacinto Bonillo, Jimena Sivila Soza, Juan Castro Olivera, Mariana Ferro, Rosario Traico. A wave of teenage suicides hits an Argentinian town. The protagonists live in a world where there’s only room for consequences. Gray 5
BODYBUILDER
(France) Wild Bunch. 100mins. Dir: Roschdy Zem. Key cast: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Vincent Rottiers, Yolin Francois Gauvin. A battered dreamer and his estranged son are thrown together with one last chance to heal the wounds of their longdivided family.
(Germany) Munich International Pictures. 117mins. Dir: Damian Chapa. Key cast: Daryl Hannah, Stacy Keach, Michael Mendl. Based on the true-life events of Germany’s Father Rupert Mayor, who served in both World Wars and was awarded the Iron Cross.
(France) Pyramide International. 123mins. Dir: Panos H Koutras. Key cast: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia.
THE LAST DIAMOND
(France) Other Angle Pictures. 90mins. Dir: Barbier Eric. Key cast: Berenice Bejo, Yvan Attal. Palais I
XENIA
(Belgium) Aa Les Films Belges. 105mins. Dir: Yvan Le Moine. Key cast: Hande Kodja, Rupert Everett, Jacques Boudet, Firmine Richard, Michael Lonsdale, Beatrice Dalle, Stanislas Merhar, Stefano Cassetti. A famous British writer, languidly elegant, seduces the young daughter of a rich cane-sugar plantation owner on Bourbon Island. He takes her back to
MERCURIALES
(Brazil) The Match Factory. 106mins. Dir: Karim Ainouz.
(France) Acid. 108mins. Dir: Virgil Vernier. This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe a war was spreading. Two sisters lived in a city.
Star 2
Arcades 1
Olympia 5
18:10 PRAIA DO FUTURO
Rossen
Palais H
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22:30
BLUE FAMILY
SNOW IN PARADISE
(US) Golden Ceiba Productions. 90mins. Dir: Guillermo Ivan Duenas. Key cast: Guillermo Ivan Duenas, Rheagan Wallace, Miriam Holmlund, Christopher Marquez, Rachel Truitt, Steven Bellairs, Erin Fogel.
(UK) The Match Factory. 108mins. Dir: Andrew Hulme. Key cast: Frederick Schmidt, Aymen Hamdouchi, Martin Askew, Claire-Louise Cordwell, David Spinx. Theatre Claude Debussy Festival badge
FOR ALL YOUR CUBAN FILMING NEEDS
Palais E
THE GREEN PRINCE
(Germany) Global Screen. 99mins. Dir: Nadav Schirman. Tells the story of one of Israel’s prized intelligence sources, recruited to spy on his own people for more than a decade. Riviera 1
(US) The Creative Mind Group. 110mins.
VACANT HOUSE
KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER
(US) Swimming Wings Productions. 108mins. Dir: Jeremy Casper. Key cast: Cris Cunningham, Dee Ann Newkirk, TJ Maxwell, Richard Miraan, Jason Zahodnik. A fugitive, an empty
(US) Submarine Entertainment. 105mins. Dir: David Zellner. Key cast: Rinko Kiluchi. A lonely Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a fictional film is, in fact, real. Abandoning her
(Ukraine) Pomegranate Studios. Dir: Ruslan
Palais C
Palais K
A suspenseful drama inspired by actual events about a man who kidnaps three women and keeps them locked in his basement for several years.
Father Rupert Mayor
Arcades 3 Press allowed
HEAVEN ADMITS NO SLAVES (UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 2013-2014)
war-torn Europe. Is it really love or is it something else he’s after?
Star 1 Priority badges only
THE CREATIVE MIND GROUP — SHORTS
Palais B
structured life in Tokyo for the frozen Minnesota wilderness, she embarks on an impulsive quest to search for her lost mythical fortune.
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