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(France) Pyramide International, 145mins. Dir: Lea Fehner. They travel from town to town, carrying their circus tent with them, their show packed in their bags. They bring fantasy and disorder into our lives.
(Ghana, US) Wide, 90mins. Dir: Kelly Daniela Norris. Cast: Jacob Ayanaba, Grace Ayariga, Abdul Aziz, Justina Kulidu. After his father’s death, Iddrisu returns to his home village of northern Ghana. Faced with a debt that could destroy his family, Iddrisu has no choice but to turn their farm and fortunes around.
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(US) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 85mins. Dir: Andrew C. Erin. Cast: Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan, Belle House, Josh Stamberg. A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil. CinemaxX Studio 11
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(US) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 126mins. Dir: Harold Cronk. Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Robin Givens, David A R White.
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After answering a simple question by a student, a high school teacher faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she had always dreamed of. Parliament
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(Brazil, France) Films Distribution, 108mins. Dir: Sandra Kogut. Cast: Carla Ribas, Ygor Manoel, Rayane Do Amal, Julia Bernat. Ygor and Rayane are left on Regina’s doorstep in an upscale neigborhood of Rio de Janeiro. The sudden arrival of these lower-class kids is mixed with the search for their mother in an unrecognisable city. CineStar 2
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(US) Hyde Park International, 92mins. Dir: Robert Legato. Cast: Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick. Four friends break into an insane asylum nicknamed Eloise, where they fight to escape not only the confines of the institution but their own minds. CineStar 4
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(France) Indie Sales, 98mins. Dir: Lola Doillon. Cast: Cecile de France, Leonie Souchaud. France, 1943. The true story of Fanny Ben Ami, 13 years old, who crossed France with 10 other
Jewish children to escape deportation. CinemaxX 1 invitation only
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(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 122mins. Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast: Junichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono. In Nepal, a photographer hears about a genius mountaineer suddenly vanishing from the Japan climbing scene. Taking an interest in his motives to climb Mount Everest, the photographer is consumed by the mountaineer’s zest for life. CinemaxX 18
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(Brazil) Pluto Film, 113mins. Dir: Aly Muritiba. Cast: Fernando Alves Pinto, Lourinelson Vladmir, Mayana Neiva, Giuly Biancato. During an investigation, a judge realises that the defendant is the biological mother of her adopted son. CinemaxX 17
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(Canada, Brazil) WTFilms, 96mins. Dir:
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Pedro Morelli. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alison Pill, Jason Priestley. Three creative spirits, a comic book artist, a novelist and a film director, who live in different realities, end up each writing a story about one of the others. mgb-kino
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(France, Switzerland) Be for Films, 144mins. Dir: Claire Simon. Everybody comes to the Bois de Vincennes to seek refuge in nature. Rich, poor, French, foreign, gay, straight, alone or accompanied, old-school or hip. CinemaxX 19
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(Japan) Nippon TV, 139mins. Dir: Cellin Gluck. Diplomat Sugihara hopes to be posted in USSR with his mastery of the Russian language but is sent to Lithuania. In 1939, when Germany invades Poland, hordes of Jewish refugees oppressed by the Nazis turn to Sugihara for visas. CinemaxX 10
19:10 NagaSaki: memorieS of my SoN
(Japan) Shochiku, 130mins. Dir: Yoji Yamada. Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazunari Ninomiya, Haru Kuroki, Tadanobu Asano. “Mom, you wouldn’t let me go so I had a hard time getting here.” August 9, 1948. Nobuko, a midwife in Nagasaki, is stunned when she is suddenly visited by her son who she thought had died when an atomic bomb fell on the city. CineStar 6
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(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 110mins. Dir: Viktor Lakisov. Cast: Robbie Daymond, Michael Gross, Enn Reitel, Alanna Ubach. A conflict flares up between local Mandarin Ducks and the Military Mallards who land on the Chinese island. But only together they can battle their foe, the daunting Ms Knout, who seeks to destroy the sun. efm Cinemobile
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(France) Java Films, 90mins. Dir: Sylvie Gilman, Thierry De Lestrade. For generations, we have believed that man is driven by ruthless self-interest. But now this idea is being increasingly challenged. ‘The Altruism Revolution’ examines the scientific reasons behind the call. dffb-kino
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(France) Kinovista, 191mins. Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand. A collection of stories and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
(US) VMI Worldwide, 84mins. Dir: Teddy Smith. Cast: Luke Perry, Danielle Campbell, Aiden Flowers, Thomas Francis Murphy. After losing her father, a young woman must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.
(US) Spotlight Pictures, 104mins. Dir: George Mendeluk. Cast: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Terence Stamp. During Stalin’s deliberately engineered genocidal famine of the Ukraine a young pacifist man must find a way to fight for freedom and love.
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(Italy) Wide House, 78mins. Dir: Carmine Amoroso. Cast: Riccardo Schicchi, Lasse Braun, Ilona (Cicciolina) Staller, Judith Malina. Tracing porn’s incredible genesis from the first magazines, photoshoots andcensorship issues to its political and social repercussions. CinemaxX 14
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(US) Little Horse Crossing the River, 84mins. Dir: Nanfu Wang. Cast: Andrew Cohen, Alison Klayman. Chinese activist Ye Haiyan (aka Sparrow) protests against two government officials who raped six schoolgirls. Sparrow becomes an enemy of the state, but detentions and evictions can’t stop her protest from going viral. CineStar 4
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(Czech Republic, France) Wide, 105mins. Dir: Petr Vaclav. A resentful prison guard, an unemployed hypochondriac, a wife gone astray and children dreaming of a different life: the key players in a darkly humorous portrait of the gloom of the Czech provinces. CinemaxX 6
20:10 SoNgS for tHe lake
(Turkey) Ares Production & Hermes Film, 95mins. Dir: Ozgur Can Alkan. Cast: Ziya Azazi. CineStar 5
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