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BUSAN 2013 |
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BORGMAN
Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
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| THE NETHERLANDS NOMINATED FILM FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® |
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The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark / 2013 / 113’ / Dutch / Drama
Official Selection: Busan; Toronto; Strassbourg Int’I Fantastic Festival; London; Sitiges; Athens; Cannes Competition 2013
Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
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Synopsis:
Borgman’s arrival in the tree-lined avenues of an exclusive residential area is the beginning of a series of unsettling events around the carefully constructed facade of a wealthy couple, their three children and their nanny.
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| Screenings in BUSAN |
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Oct 4, Fri, 7.00 pm, Megabox Haeundae 6 (Asian Premiere)
Oct 6, Sun, 10.00 am, Megabox Haeundae 6
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Directed by Donovan Marsh
South Africa / 2013 / 96’ / Zulu / Action, Thriller
Status: Completed
Official Selection: Contemporary World Cinema, Toronto
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Synopsis:
When an honest undercover cop is cheated out of a reward by his corrupt superiors he joins a cash-in-transit heist gang for a once off score.
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KISS THE WATER
Directed by Eric Steel
USA / 2013 / 80’ / English / Documentary
Status: Completed
Official Selection: Tribeca, Edinburgh, Woods Hole Cape Cod
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Synopsis:
In northern Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold into elaborate fishing flies -- at once miniature works of art and absolutely lethal. With breathtaking cinematography and expressive, hand painted animation, KISS THE WATER adheres to and escapes from traditional documentary form, spinning the facts and fictions of one woman's life into a stunning film about craft, devotion, love, and its illusions.
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LINSANITY
Directed by Evan Jackson Leong
USA / 2013 / 88' / English / Documentary
Status: Completed
Featuring: Jeremy Lin
Official Selection: Sundance
2013, Hong Kong, Zurich
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Synopsis:
Basketball super star, Jeremy Lin's
inspirational story long before that fateful month and at a time when Lin was
still struggling to find a place in the NBA.
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RIGOR MORTIS
Directed by Juno Mak
Hong Kong / 2013 / 101’ / Cantonese / Action, Horror, Drama
Status: Completed
Official Selection: Venice, Toronto, FantasticFest-Austin, Sitiges, London, Tokyo
Cast: Chin Siu-Ho, Kara Wai, Nina Paw, Antony "Friend" Chan, Lo Hoi Pang, Richard Ng, Chung Fat
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Synopsis:
Juno Mak’s directorial debut, Rigor Mortis is an eerie and chilling, contemporary, action/special effects laden homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980’s.
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SIDDHARTH
Directed by Richie Mehta
Canada, India / 2013 / 96’ / Hindi / Drama
Status: Completed
Official Selection: Venice, Toronto, London, Mumbai
Cast: Rajesh Tailang, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anurag Arora, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Naseeruddin Shah
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Synopsis:
A heart-wrenching, beautifully told story of a father from Delhi travelling across India in search of his young son, who may have been taken by human traffickers when he was sent to work illegally in a nearby factory.
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UPCOMING FILMS |
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CAMERA
Directed by James Jeong
Singapore, Hong Kong / 2013 / 95' / Cantonese, Mandarin / Suspense, Thriller
Status: Completed
Cast: Sean Li, Venus Wong, Calvin Poon Yuen Leung
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Synopsis:
Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession - he wants to film everything he sees. It’s a compulsion born of a childhood accident, which left him blind in one eye. Following a design he believes his father left him, Ming builds a miniature camera which he installs in his bad eye, restoring his sight and allowing him to record everything he sees. He becomes the perfect surveillance device.
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DJINN
Directed by Tobe Hooper
UAE / 2013 / 86' / English, Arabic / Supernatural Horror Thriller
Status: Completed
Cast: Khalid Laith, Razane Jammal
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Synopsis:
Renowned genre master Tobe Hooper returns to form with DJINN, a powerful story of a young Emirati couple who return home only to discover that their new apartment in a luxury high-rise is also home to the malevolent beings known as Djinn.
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HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
USA / English / Romance, Sci-Fi, Music
Status: Pre-production
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Synopsis:
Based on a science fiction short story by Neil Gaiman, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES is about a couple of British 1970s wannabe punk rocker teenage boys, Enn and Vic, who head to a party to meet girls, only to find that the girls there are much different than they could have ever imagined.
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LOVE IS STRANGE
Directed by Ira Sachs
USA / 2014 / English / Drama
Status: In production
Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei
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Synopsis:
After 28 years together, Ben and Jorge tie the knot in a City Hall wedding in lower Manhattan. On the return from their honeymoon, Ben gets fired from his longtime job. Suddenly, with no real savings to count on, the couple finds that they can’t afford the rent on their small Chelsea apartment and married life is absolutely not what they expected it to be.
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NED RIFLE
Directed by Hal Hartley
USA / English / Drama
Status: Pre-production
Cast: Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, Thomas Jay Ryan,
James Urbaniak
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Synopsis:
Henry and Fay's son, Ned, sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome, sexy, and hilarious Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family. A funny, sad, and sexy adventure, Ned Rifle is an intellectually stimulating and compassionate satire.
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SUNSET SONG
Directed by Terence
Davies
UK / English / Epic
Drama
Status: Pre-production
Based on the original
novel by: Lewis Grassic Gibson
Cast: Peter Mullan, Agyness
Deyn
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Synopsis:
Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie suddenly finds herself running the farm and raising her siblings after her mother’s death and her father’s incapacity. But when love comes to Chris she must send her man
off to the Great War and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever
by the onset of technology and war.
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UNFRIEND
Directed by Joselito Altarejos
Philippines / 2013 / 93' / Filipino / Drama
Status: Completed
Cast: Sandino Martin, Angelo Ilagan, Boots Anson-Roa
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Synopsis:
On Christmas Day, DAVID, 15, finds out that his boyfriend, JONATHAN, 17, has taken another lover. The discovery leads him on the brink of depression making him think of ways to get him back at all cost.
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