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Fair Game de Doug Liman
8.30 13.45 19.30

Route Irish de Ken Loach
16.30
Synopsis
Liverpool, August 1976. 5-year-old Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school. They’ve been in each others’ shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and
drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about travelling the world. Little did Fergus realise his dream would come true as a highly trained member of the UK’s elite special forces, the SAS.
After resigning in September 2004, Fergus persuaded Frankie (by now an ex-Para) to join his security team in Baghdad. £10,000 a month, tax free. Their last chance
to “load up” in this increasingly privatised war. Together they risked their lives in a city steeped in violence, terror and greed, and awash with billions of US dollars. In September 2007, Frankie died on Route Irish, the most dangerous road in the world.
Back in Liverpool, a grief-stricken Fergus rejects the official explanation, and begins his own investigation into his soul mate’s death. Only Rachel, Frankie’s partner, grasps the depth of Fergus’s sorrow, and the lethal possibilities of his fury. As Fergus tries to find out what happened to Frankie on Route Irish, he and Rachel grow closer. As he approaches the truth behind Frankie’s death, Fergus struggles to find his old self and the happiness he shared with Frankie twenty years earlier on the Mersey.

La Nostra Vita de Daniele Luchetti
11.15 22.30
Synopsis
Claudio, ouvrier dans le bâtiment, travaille sur un chantier dans la banlieue de Rome. Il est très amoureux de sa femme, enceinte de leur troisième enfant. Un drame inattendu va soudain bouleverser l’insouciance de cette vie simple et heureuse. Pour survivre, Claudio va affronter avec rage l’injustice intime et sociale qui le touche. Le soutien de sa famille, de ses amis et l’amour de ses enfants vont l’aider à réussir le pari de la vie.

Un Certain Regard

Simon Werner a disparu de Fabrice Gobert
11.00 16.45
Synopsis
March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris.
During an alcohol fuelled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless.
Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder?
A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon.
The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins…

Rebecca H. de Lodge Kerrigan
14.00 22.00