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tHe mOnkBy Dominik Moll

tHe WOmAn in tHe FiFtHBy Pawel Pawlikowski

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SPOnSOrinGBy Malgorzata Szumowska

FOr ellenBy So Yong Kim

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HellO DArkneSSBy Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

lOreBy Cate Shortland

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BlAck HeAVenBy Gilles Marchand

tHe treeBy Julie Bertuccelli

Silent SOUlSBy Aleksei Fedorchenko

tHink GlOBAl, Act rUrAlBy Coline Serreau

tHe mOnk

The rise and fall of a Capuchin Monk in 17th century Madrid.

Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a monastery and raised in strict Capu-chin fashion, Ambrosio has become the most famous preacher in the country. While large crowds from all over the country come to hear his mesmerizing preaches, he’s also bitterly envied for his success by certain fellow monks.

Convinced of his virtue and righteousness, Brother Ambrosio thinks he is immune to temptation…

Until obscure events start terrorizing the monastery. Could they be connected to the unexpected arrival of Valerio, an apprentice monk who has the miracu-lous gift to relieve Ambrosio’s splitting headaches, and hides his disfigured face under a wax mask?

Adapted from Matthew Lewis’ eponymous cult classic Gothic novel.

A film by Dominik moll

WitH vincent Cassel (mesrine, eastern promises, irreversible), Deborah François (tHe First DaY oF tHe rest oF YoUr liFe, tHe paGe tUrner), Sergi lopez (PAN’S LABYRINTH, WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY), Geraldine Chaplin (THE ORPHANAGE, TALK TO HER)

By tHe DirectOr OF A FRIEND LIKE HARRY (Cannes 2000 / Official Competition), LEMMING (Cannes 2005 / Official Competition)

PrODUceD By Diaphana Films and Morena Films In association with Sofica Coficup-Backup Films

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tHe WOmAn in tHe FiFtHAmerican writer Tom Ricks arrives in Paris to be closer to his daughter Chloé, who recently moved there with her mother.

Completely broke, he accepts a job as a night guard for a local mob boss. Down in a basement, his only task is to push a button when a bell rings. The tranquility of the night, he hopes, will help him focus on a letter to his daughter.

Soon his days become more exciting than his nights when he starts a romance with Margit, a mysterious and elegant widow who sets strange rules to their meet-ings: she will only see him at her apartment, at 5pm sharp, twice a week. And he’s to ask no questions about her work, her past, her life…

As people suddenly start dying around Tom, he begins to believe that a dark force has entered his life, punishing anyone who has recently done him wrong.

When the police accuse him of murdering his neighbor, Tom tries to use his weekly visits to Margit’s apartment as an alibi, only to find out nobody has lived at this address for the past 15 years…

A film by Pawel Pawlikowski

WitH ethan Hawke (DAYBREAKERS, GATTACA, Oscar Nominated for TRAINING DAY and BEFORE SUNSET), Kristin Scott Thomas (I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG, THE GOLDEN COMPASS, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, Oscar Nominated for THE ENGLISH PATIENT), Joanna Kulig

BASeD On Douglas Kennedy’s eponymous bestseller

PrODUceD By Haut et Court and Film4in association with UK Film council, Coficup-Backup Films and Banque Postale in coproduction with SPI International Poland

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Gaspard and Marion are in love and enjoying summer in the south of France… until they stumble upon a lost cell phone. At first they decide to track down the owner… But the game takes a much darker turn when they find him dead, in a mysterious suicide ceremony. Next to him, lies a half unconscious girl, Audrey. With her enigmatic tattoo and her gothic looks, she soon lures Gaspard into Black Hole, a dan-gerously addictive video game. Gaspard discovers an obscure uni-verse, full of infinite possibilities.Creating an avatar who is miles away from him, he sets out on a

search for the beautiful but poisonous Sam, who attracts victims in the virtual world and seduces them to commit suicide in real life. Could Sam’s alter ego in the real world be Audrey? Could Gaspard be her next victim? He will have to creep further into Black Hole to find out the terrible truth.

After the sudden death of her husband, Dawn must face her own mourning yet still care for her four children. Her only daughter, 8-year-old Simone, seems to take the loss the hardest of all. Simone shares a special secret with her mother: her father whis-pers to her through the leaves of the magnificient tree next to their home. Convinced he’s come back to protect the family, Simone spends more and more time up in the tree, speaking with her father. Soon, Dawn herself becomes mesmerized by the tree’s com-manding presence. When Dawn becomes more intimate with George, her new

employer, the bond between mother and daughter is threatened. With branches infiltrating the house and roots destroying the foundations, the tree seems to be siding with Simone. Fearful the tree is in danger of being cut down, she protests by setting up house high up in the branches. But Dawn refuses to let the tree take control of her family…

A film by Gilles marchand

A film by Julie Bertuccelli

WitH Grégoire leprince-ringuet (LOVE SONGS, THE BEAUTIFUL PERSON), louise bourgoin (ADELE BLANC-SEC, THE GIRL FROM MONACO), melvil poupaud (TIME TO LEAVE, A CHRISTMAS TALE)

By tHe DirectOr OF WHO KILLED BAMBI (Cannes 2003 / Official Selection)

cO-Written By Dominik Moll (WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY, LEMMING, THE MONK)

PrODUceD By Haut Et Court (THE CLASS, COCO BEFORE CHANEL) and Versus Production (DAYS OF GLORY)Co-produced by France 2 Cinéma, Wallimage and RTBFin association with Sofica Coficup a fund operated by Backup Films

FRAnCe, BelGiUM 2009 / 104 MinUteS

WitH Charlotte Gainsbourg (ANTICHRIST / BEST ACTRESS CANNES 2009, THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, 21 GRAMS) and marton Csokas (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, LORD OF THE RINGS)

By tHe DirectOr OF SINCE OTAR LEFT (Cannes 2004 Official Selection, César for Best First Feature)

PrODUceD By Les Films du Poisson (JELLYFISH, ON TOUR), Taylor Media, Arte France Cinéma, and Tatfilm in association with Screen Australia, Dorje Film, and Coficup2 – a fund operated by Backup Films.

FRAnCe, AUStRAliA 2010 / 100 MinUteS

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“Julie Bertuccelli’s delicate film knows how to express all the nuances.” Libération

“ Smart and seductive” Screen DaiLy

“ Aesthetically impressive” Variety

“ An intelligent thriller with riveting twists” HoLLywooD reporter

Silent SOUlS

tHink GlOBAl, Act rUrAl

When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a pictur-esque region in West-Central Russia. Although the Merya people assimi-lated into Russians in the 17th cen-tury, their myths and traditions live on in their descendants’ modern life.The two men set out on a road-trip thousands of miles across the boundless lands. With them, two small birds in a cage. Along the way, as is custom for the Meryas, Miron shares intimate mem-ories of his conjugal life.

But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realizes he wasn’t the only one in love with Tanya…

Explore the very concrete local solutions to the global ecologi-cal mess. What are the common points between the millions of landless workers of the plains of Brazil, a couple of microbiologists in France, the world’s biggest organic plantation in Ukraine and Vandana Shina’s experimental farms in India?Their struggle: a better soil quality and a wiser access to seeds.Their goals: agricultural self-suffi-ciency and a better use of limited resources.Multi-awarded filmmaker Coline Serreau, who started her career as a militant documentarist, returns to her grassroot tech-

niques. As she travels the world in search of the ones who respect the soil, she sheds a new light on the multiple initiatives that will allow everyone to answer the key question: “What can I do to save our planet?”

A film by Aleksei Fedorchenko

A documentary by coline Serreau

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WitH igor Sergeyev, Yuri Tsurilo, Yuliya aug

PrODUceD By April Mig Pictures Films Company and Media Mir Foundation

RUSSiA / 2010 / 77 MinUteS

By tHe DirectOr OF SAINT JACQUES LA MECQUE, THREE MEN AND A CRADLE

PrODUceD By Cinemao

FRAnCe / 2010 / 113 MinUteS

FiPreSci Prize, Best Cinematography Award,

Nazareno Taddei Award

“Breathtaking.” IndIewIre

“A profound and moving cinematic poem.”Screen InternatIonal

“An art-house heaven”daIly telegraph

“A haunting film.” new york tImeS

“Bio, radical and exhilarating.” nouvel obServateur, France

“A heap of positive energy!” trIbune de genève

“Militant and driven, a convincing demonstration led with flair.” le FIgaro, France

“Energetic, often funny, always pertinent.” leS echoS, France

SPOnSOrinG

Anne (Juliette Binoche), journalist for ELLE in Paris, is researching an article about female student prostitution. Although these young women are naturally not keen on publicity, she persuades two students into talking to her: the provocative Alicja (Joanna Kulig), an ambi-tious economics student who left Poland to further her education; and the subtle Charlotte (Anaïs Demoustier), enroled in a Parisian business school, determined to leave her modest French countryside background behind. Where Anne is expecting misery and distress, she discovers freedom, pride, and empowerment. As Anne’s professional curiosity in the two liberated women becomes personal, she starts to question her own sexuality.

A film by malgorzata Szumowska

WitH Juliette binoche (CERTIFIED COPY, THE ENGLISH PATIENT / Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), anais Demoustier (GROWN UPS, DEAR PRUDENCE), Joanna Kulig

DirecteD By Malgorzata Szumowska

PrODUceD By Slot Machine (ANTICHRIST, THE HEADLESS WOMAN, LIVERPOOL)

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FOr ellen

When Joby, an aspiring young rock star finally agrees to sign divorce papers with his estranged wife, he discovers that he is about to forfeit all custody of his six-year-old daughter, Ellen. Never having been in Ellen’s life before, Joby suddenly realizes that he’s not ready to lose that part of himself. Hoping to make up for lost time, he tries to win her heart.

A film by So yong kim

WitH paul Dano (tHere Will be blooD, little miss sUnsHine), Jena malone (sUCKer pUnCH, tHe messenGer), Jon Heder (napoleon DYnamite)

By tHe DirectOr OF treeless moUntain, in betWeen DaYs

PrODUceD By Jen Gatien, So-Yong Kim and Bradley Rust-Gray

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lOre

Spring 1945. As the German front collapses, the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 14-year-old Lore is left alone in charge of her four young siblings. The only place they can go to is their grandmother’s house, 900km away up north. Embarking on a journey across the devastated country, the children struggle to survive, slowly realizing the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. When Thomas, a young Jewish refugee, offers his help, Lore has to learn to trust a person whom she had always been told was the enemy.

A film by cate Shortland

By tHe DirectOr OF SOMMERSAULT (Cannes 2004 / Official Selection)

BASeD On the Booker Prize nominated novel THE DARK ROOM by Rachel Steiffert

PrODUceD By Rohfilm, Edge City Films, Porchlight Films and KGP

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HellO DArkneSS

Enter the dark world of the working-class vampire…Mark Cooper, a handsome former footballer, has to balance working nightshifts in a warehouse, prowling the pubs for young women to feed on, and dealing with his wife, a hemophiliac who refuses to join him in eternity.This tried and tested routine is shattered when lucy, a beautiful university stu-dent, sparks real passion in forever-young Cooper. He is now faced with his wife’s jealousy, Lucy’s vengeful ex-boyfriend, and a young delinquent who dreams of becoming a vampire.And when the accidental death of one of his victims resurfaces, Cooper becomes the target of a citywide manhunt for the “Newcastle vampire killer…”

A film by richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

WitH Dominic Cooper (TAMARA DREWE, THE DUCHESS, MAMMA MIA!, AN EDUCATION), imogen poots (CHATROOM, CENTURION, 28 WEEKS LATER), Julie Christie (DARLING / Oscar Winner, AWAY FROM HER / Oscar Nominated)

By tHe DirectOrS OF QUinCeanera (Audience Award & Grand Jury Prize / Sundance 2006)

PrODUceD By Bobby Allen (BUFFALO SOLDIERS) and Alexandra Stone (YOUNG ADAM, KIDULTHOOD, FRANKLYN)Co-produced by Jane Hooks (SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL, BRONSON, BUNNY & THE BULL)executive producers Todd Haynes (FAR FROM HEAVEN, I’M NOT THERE), Steve Golin (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND, BABEL), Adam Shulman (KINSEY)

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