Films

Biography, Drama, Thriller.
Dir: Frank Marshall.
USA.

In 1972, stranded after a plane crash in the Andes mountains, individual members of Uruguay’s rugby team respond differently. Group leader Nando (Ethan Hawke) tries to keep everyone’s spirits up; medical student Roberto (Josh Hamilton) diligently treats cases of frostbite and gangrene; loose cannon Antonio (Vincent Spano) gradually loses his composure. Once all available food stuffs run out, the group faces a terrible dilemma…

An incredible true story. Immersive cinema!

OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY 17 JANUARY AT 7PM

Drama.
Dir: Sandrine Ray.
France.

One summer night, Claire, 19, is attacked. The violence of the attack destroys her world: physical expression is denied, desire is dead, words say the opposite of what they mean. Claire can’t bring herself to talk about the incident and is torn apart by the secret she’s buried deep inside herself. Words can no longer express who she is, and she hides from herself and the world.

‘Perfect performance, really realistic.’ ‘A self healing journey.’

SATURDAY 18 AT 1PM

Drama.
Dir: Park Jung-Bum.
South Korea.

Work, earn a salary, live off that money. This simple postulate has always been a problem for Jungchul, who works at a soybean paste factory. During the winter, he fantasizes about traveling to the Philippines in spring, where the weather is mild, and life is easier. The only thing he must do to reach his dream and leave is to achieve the soybean paste quota he promised his boss, but soon the fermentation room turns musty and black mould starts spreading from the thousands of fermented soybean lumps.

A simple labourer in a remote mountain village is driven to desperate measures to provide for the women in his life.

SATURDAY 18 AT 4PM

Drama, Mystery, War.
Dir: Aleksandr Veledinskiy.
Russia.

Kir returns home from the war in Chechnya, missing a leg, but still alive. Kir had enlisted to earn enough money to marry Tatyana. But now that he has returned, he feels distant from her, and all that he had known. Kir is still haunted by his experiences in Chechnya, and the tragic deaths there of his two friends, fellow soldiers Nikich and Igor. Unable to adjust to civilian life, Kir begins to get into trouble. He impulsively commits a robbery, then a more horrible crime. After a traffic accident on a lonely stretch of road, the ghosts of his two fallen comrades begin to appear to him. Can Nikich and Igor reach out from the grave to help their friend Kir come to terms with his past and find forgiveness in his heart for himself and others?

SATURDAY 18 AT 8PM

Comedy.
Dir: Cyril Frankel.
UK.

Three elderly ladies tire of living in an old people’s home and when they hear that they are about to be separated, they make a bid for freedom. They escape to an island off the Irish coast and are about to occupy a group of cottages when the owner, an Irish millionaire, just returned from making his fortune in America, appears on the scene.

Film debut of Richard Harris. ‘Whisky and fun galore on Irish island!’

SUNDAY 19 AT 1PM

Drama.
Dir: Artan Minarolli.
Albania, Austria, France.

In a country where tradition is constantly at war with modernity, Koll is a college student set on enjoying his youth to the fullest. When his father dies and he is forced to assume responsibility for an ancient crime, Koll is thrust into the gruesome, feudal heart of contemporary Albania.

Albania’s official submission to 82nd Academy Award’s Foreign Language in 2010.

SUNDAY 19 AT 4PM

Action, Drama, Thriller.
Dirs: Il Cho & Jo Il Hyung.
South Korea.

Without warning, people in the streets of Seoul become extremely violent, cannibalistic, attacking passersby, behaving like zombies. A young man alone in his parents’ 4th floor apartment becomes spectator to all this. There’re no groceries left in the apartment. He foolishly opens the door and a neighbour forces himself in. He’s infected but is finally forced out. TV informs him that the virus is spreading nationwide. As the days pass, the phone and internet stop working, then the water’s gone. When all hope is gone, he sees a cute girl in the apartment across from his.

SUNDAY 19 AT 7PM