EDITIONS
COMPETENCIA OFICIAL
Monday 25 April h. 20.00
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other, but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
BABYSITTER
Tuesday 26 April h. 16.00
Middle-aged Cédric is suspended from work after drunkenly kissing a female reporter on live TV. Stuck at home with his girlfriend, Nadine and their crying baby, Cédric teams up with his brother, Jean-Michel, to co-author a book apologizing for their past misogyny. Enter Amy: a mysterious and provocative young babysitter who, like a Mary Poppins of the libido, forces the trio to confront their sexual anxieties while turning their lives upside down.
MAMÁ O PAPÁ
Tuesday 26 April h. 20.00
Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.
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IRRÉDUCTIBLE
Wednsday 27 April h. 11.00
Vincent Peltier lives the life he always wanted and has the job of his dream. As public servant, he has spent his life enjoying the benefits of his status. When the new reformist government decides to cut down on bureaucracy, Vincent refuses to go. However, the ministry employee Isabelle Bailliencourt has vowed to get rid of him. Vincent gets transferred from one senseless job to another, from one isolated location to another. Sent to the north pole he meets Eva, a scientist that changes his perspective on life… It is time for him to make a decision.
INGENTING Å LE AV
Wednsday 27 April h. 16.00
Kasper Berntsen (40) is a successful stand-up comedian. He has everything a man could ask for: his regular gig at the city’s top comedy club, his beautiful girlfriend, and his fabulous life as a public figure. However, one day everything changes. Kasper is laid off and loses his regular gig, and the same night he gets home, his girlfriend leaves him. To make matters even worse, Kasper is faced with the worst nightmare imaginable when he is called to the doctor to discover that he has incurable cancer. All this on the same day.
DAS SCHWARZE QUADRAT
Wednsday 27 April h. 20.00
Vincent, a struggling art-thief and failed artist, stole Malewitsch’s legendary abstract painting “The Black Square”. The sale and handover to a Russian oligarch and his designated art expert Martha is set to take place on a cruise ship. When Vincent and his younger partner Nils realise that their principal accomplice will not show-up to provide the boarding tickets and fake IDs, they desperately overbear two men in order
to sneak their way onto the ship. To their horror they quickly learn that their victims are part of the cruise ship’s entertainment act. Desperate not to blow their cover, Vincent and Nils take on their roles as David
Bowie and Elvis Presley doubles with varying degrees of success. Despite his best efforts, Vincent’s talents hardly convince the passengers and it does not take long until various crew members discover their true
identities and the value of their loot. A wild goose chase for “The Black Square” breaks loose in the belly of the cruise ship…
PERFUME DE GARDENIAS
Thursday 28 April h. 11.00
After an elderly Puerto Rican widow crafts a beautiful custom-made funeral for her husband, she gets enlisted to put her unusual talents to design customized, idiosyncratic funerals for her ailing neighbours.
MISS VIBORG
Thursday 28 April h. 16.00
Former beauty queen Solvej lives isolated with her dog, her routine, and her shattered dreams. When she forms an unlikely friendship with her neighbour’s daughter, rebellious 17-year-old Kate, Miss Viborg’s horizon widens.
UNA BOCCATA D'ARIA
Thursday 28 April h. 20.00
Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father – whom he has not seen in many years – Salvo (Aldo Baglio) returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria,
which is about to go bankrupt – a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.
TAPIRULÀN
Friday 29 April h. 16.00
Everyday Emma does online counseling running on her tapis roulant. She unlocks the lives of others while hers remains blocked. She never leaves the house, and she doesn’t let anyone into her life. But this illusory equilibrium is broken when her sister, after 26 years of silence, breaks into her fortress with an unbearable request, which will force Emma to face the ghosts of the past.
LASCIARSI UN GIORNO A ROMA
Friday 29 April h. 20.00
How hard is it to break up a ten-year relationship, a marriage, a cohabitation? How difficult is it to find the right way, the right words? How complicated is it to leave a man you don’t want to hurt? What if, one day, at a time of desperate solitude, you ended up writing a letter to the problem page of your favorite magazine? And, finally, what if that letter landed on the desk of the very person you are trying to break up with?
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