FROM THE NETHERLANDS
SCREENINGS
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7
Forum Expanded
INFERNO
Dir: Yael Bartana Prod: My-I Productions (short, 18’) 22:00 CineStar IMAX
Market 14:35 Suck Me Shakespeer (Fack Ju Goehte)
LOVE IS THE WORD
Dir: Pieter Kuijpers Prod: Pupkin Film Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment (feature, 102’) 16:40 CinemaxX 14 (EFM)
(Germany) Picture Tree International, 118mins. Dir: Bora Dagtekin. Cast: Elyas M’Barek, Karoline Herfurth. Somebody built a goddamn school gym directly over the stolen cash his girlfriend
As the annual Black SouthEasters blow dark clouds over Table Mountain, bringing storms to Cape Town, the ill winds of corruption blow through the city’s townships. In a murky moral underworld where men are challenged with daily temptations, their survival depends not only on physical courage, but also the courage to stand up for their principals. Marriott 2
THE NEW RIJKSMUSEUM
Dir: Oeke Hoogendijk Prod: Column Film Sales: Autlook Filmsales (documentary, 2 parts of 54’) 11:15 CinemaxX 18 (EFM - Part 1)
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Half of a Yellow Sun
(UK, Nigeria) Metro International, 111mins. Dir: Biyi Bandele. Cast: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Based on the best-selling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun is an epic love story weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war. Zoo Palast 5
buried for him. And now ex-con Zeki Muller has no choice but to pass himself off as a substitute teacher at Goethe Comprehensive School, thus providing the German educational system with one more problem — the craziest teacher of all time. CinemaxX Studio 14
Javier Camara, Natalia De Molina, Fransesc Colomer. In 1966, John Lennon comes to Almeria to shoot a movie, “‘How I Won The War’. Paco, who works as an English teacher, decides to meet him. In his travels he is joined by two youngsters, Juanjo and Belen. CineStar IMAX
Parts per Billion
(US) XYZ Films, 95mins. Dir: Brian Hourichi. Cast: Rosario Dawson, Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Josh Harnett. A riveting sci-fi drama interweaving the stories of three couples caught in the climax of a new world war. As the US is devastated by biological attacks, life as we know it is pushed to the brink of extinction and the couples must fight for love, survival, and the legacy of humanity. CinemaxX 8
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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
Private Violence
(Spain) 6 Sales, 108mins. Dir: David Trueba. Cast:
(US) Markay Media, 82mins. Dir: Cynthia Hill.
One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn’t she just leave?” ‘Private Violence’ shatters the brutality of our logic and intimately one in four women experience violence in their homes.
Seventy billion dollars; the estimated total which changes hands globally within the art world every year. How did art become such big business?
Zoo Palast Club B
(Sweden) Outplay, 90mins. Dir: Ester Martin Bergsmark. Cast: Saga Becker, Iggy Malmborg, Mattias Åhlen, Shima Niavarani. This love story set in Stockholm in summer, between androgynous Sebastian (who likes to dress as “superwoman” Ellie) and Andreas, who is not gay. Together against the smoothed-over, blunted IKEA society.
Swim Little Fish Swim
(France) Jour 2 Fête, 95mins. Dir: Lola Bessis. Cast: Lola Bessis, Dustin Guy Deffa, Brooke Bloom, Anne Consigny. Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, ‘Swim Little Fish Swim’ is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood. CinemaxX Studio 19
The Way He Looks
CineStar 4
Something Must Break
CinemaxX 1
(Brazil) Films Boutique, 96mins. Dir: Daniel Ribeiro. Cast: Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim, Fabio Audi, Eucir de Souza. Leonardo is a teenager trying to be more independent from his overprotective parents. Together with his best friend Giovana, they dream to travel abroad and to experience their first kiss. When the new classmate Gabriel arrives, new feelings blossom among them and make them question their plans.
(Sweden, Norway) Svensk Filmindustri, 80mins. Dir: Pontus Klange. Cast: Peter Magnusson, Adam Pålsson, Amanda Pajus, Kajsa Ernst.
CinemaxX Studio 13
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14:25 JerryMaya’s Detective Agency: Von Broms’ Secret
MGB-Kino
14:35 Suck Me Shakespeer (Fack Ju Goehte) 14:40
The Art Rush
Mexico’s Most Wanted
(France) HanWay Films, 87mins. Dir: Marianne Lamour.
(Mexico) Mundial, 110mins. Dir: Jose Manuel Cravioto. Cast: Tenoch Huerta, Noe »