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             Kenner Bolt (Director of Acquisitions),   Matijevec Jerman, Iva Krajnc.  to rot for his attitude on an off-shore   their adventure to the woods   By Eric Zimmerman with James
                 Alex Hundt (Operations)  Klemen (15) adores his brother Peter   platform, watching over a top-secret   until they realize they got into the   Duval, John Cho, Peter Greene.
                                      (18) who is also his idol and best   material : the Radiuzite.  whirlpool of paranormal activities.  A  sci-fi  conspiracy  thriller,  based
             THE BAY OF SILENCE       friend. The boys, raised by a single                                         on real phone messages and
             Post-Production. Thriller.  mother, are growing up in a small   ITN DISTRIBUTION  ART OF THE DEAD     testimonials from victims of mind
             By Paula Van Der Oest with Brian   countryside town, spending their         Completed. Horror, 90’.   control technology.
             Cox, Claes Bang, Olga Kurylenko.  days on the tennis court, training to   7582 Las Vegas Blvd. S. #062, 7582   By Rolfe Kanefsky with Tara Reid,
             The sudden disappearance of his   be champions.        Las Vegas Blvd. S. #062  Richard Grieco, Jessica Morris.  CHATTER
             wife and children after the traumatic                89123 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA  A collection of paintings unleash   Completed. Thriller, 90’.
             birth of their son sends Will on a   ICARUS            Tel: +1 702 882 69 26   horror on an unsuspecting family   By Matthew Solomon with Richard
             frantic search across Europe.  Post-Production. Drama, 90’.  [email protected]  corrupted by the seven deadly sins   Hatch, Alison Haislip, Brady Smith.
             AND THEN I GO            By Maciej Pieprzyca with Dawid   itndistribution.com  of greed, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth,   While monitoring Internet traffic
                                                                                                                   for  the  Department  of  Homeland
                                                                                         pride, and wrath.
                                                                       Riviera: E10
             Completed. Drama, 99’.   Ogrodnik, Mikolaj Chroboczek, Piotr   Stuart Alson (President),              Security, Agent Martin Takagi comes
             By Vincent Grashaw with Justin   Adamczyk,  Justyna Wasilewska,   Nicole Holland (Vice President-  ASTRO  across the intimate video chats of a
             Long, Melanie Lynskey,  Arman   Jowita Budnik, Jacek Koman.  Director), Ray Young (Founder)  Completed. Science-fiction, 90’.  couple, temporarily living in different
             Darbo, Sawyer Barth, Tony Hale,   Life and genius of Mietek Kosz, blind     By Asif Akbar with Michael Pare,   parts of the world, who begin to
             Carrie Preston, Melonie Diaz,   jazz pianist, a master improviser, a   VIKING BLOOD  Dominique Swain, Randy Wayne.  discover their new home is haunted.
             Royalty Hightower, Dallas Edwards.  bright lightning in jazz music history.  Pre-Production. Action/Adventure,   A billionaire’s private space
                                                                90’.                     exploration program returns to Earth   CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
             ENTANGLEMENT             ALL YOU NEED IS CRIME     By Uri L. Schwarz with Robert Follin,   with an abducted extraterrestrial   Completed. Comedy, 98’.
             Completed. Romance, 85’.  Completed. Crime, 102’.  Uri L. Schwarz, Martin Hestbæk.  from a newly discovered alien   By Tom Hutt, Will Hutt with Felix
             By Jason James with  Thomas   By Massimiliano Bruno with   A viking mercenary finds himself in   planet.  Taylor, Sam Wilkinson, Tim Charles.
             Middleditch, Jess Weixler, Diana   Alessandro Gassmann, Marco   the middle of a battle between the    Entangled in his Uncle’s gambling
             Bang.                    Giallini,  Gianmarco Tognazzi,   old gods and the new. He decides   ATELOPHOBIA  affairs, Scott and his dim-witted
             Looking for answers, contemplative   Edoardo Leo, Ilenia Pastorelli.  that neither side deserves to win.  Completed. Horror, 90’.  companion, Joel, find themselves
             slacker Ben uncovers a family secret   To make ends meet, three old friends   By Joe Lujan with Corey  Taylor,   desperately strapped up in the
             that  leads  him  to  Hanna. As  they              2177 : THE SAN FRANCISCO LOVE   Brittany Enos, Taylor Kilgore.  company of debt collectors, dog
             accidentally fall in love, his life is   think up a "vintage criminal tour"   HACKER CRIME  Meredith is a girl who so desperately   thieves and an unsuspected
             turned strangely and wonderfully   around the locations where the   Completed. Science-fiction, 98’.  tries to fit in with the beautiful   psychopath.
             turned upside down.      gangsters were acting during the   By Jose Figueroa with Sean Patrick   people. A group of beauty pageant
                                      80s.                      Flanery, Dominique Swain, Miracle   girls that have been friends since   CLOWN MOTEL : SPIRITS ARISE
             HEADLOCK                                           Laurie.                  they were kids.           Completed. Horror, 90’.
             Completed. Thriller, 102’.  COUREUR                A man wakes up after an attempt on                 By Joseph Kelly with Martin Klebba,
             By Mark Polish with Dianna Agron,   Completed. Drama, 97’.  his life, with no memory of who he is.   BAD NUN  Tony Moran, Ari Lehman.
             Andy Garcia, Justin Bartha, Mark   By Kenneth Mercken with Niels   He suddenly finds himself on the run   Completed. Horror, 100’.  Clown Motel follows a group of
             Polish.                  Willaerts, Koen De Graeve, Fortunato   with his would-be assassin. His wife,   By Scott Jeffrey with Becca Hirani,   ghost  hunters,  coming  from  an
             When CIA operative Kelley   Cerlino,  Karlijn Sileghem, Loïc   a hard-edged, cool-headed police   Lucy Chappell, Georgia Wood.  old ghost town and a bachelorette
             Chandler’s latest mission to retrieve   Bellemans, Günther Lesage.  officer,  begins  a  desperate  search   Based on true events. Aesha goes   party, returning home from Las
             classified intelligence goes awry,   Felix, a cycling rider, signs up for an   to find him. A move that could end   to an isolated former convent   Vegas. When the groups meet up,
             leaving him in a coma, his wife Tess,   Italian team, he wants to become   her career.  turned bed and breakfast for some   by mistake, they’re left to discover
             a former CIA agent herself, set outs   a pro no matter what, excelling      much needed relaxation. Aesha is   if the motel is really abandoned and
             to uncover what happened - a truth   his father.   7 SPLINTERS IN TIME      visited by a nun at the door who   haunted by the souls, of the clowns,
             the CIA wants concealed at all cost.               Completed. Science-fiction, 75’.  progressively begins to show her   that once lived there.
                                      DREAMFOOLS                By Gabriel Judet-Weinshel with   true colors as the night unfolds.
             I HATE KIDS              Completed. Comedy, 102’.  Emmanuelle Chriqui, Al Sapienza,                   THE DARK BELOW
             Completed. Family, 90’.  By Francesco Miccichè with Sergio   Akiva Schaffer.  THE BARN                Completed. Thriller, 75’.
             By  John Asher  with Tom  Everett   Castellitto, Sabrina Ferilli, Valeria   A detective investigates a murder,   Completed. Horror, 90’.  By Douglas Schulze with Lauren Mae
             Scott, Tituss Burgess, Rachel Boston,   Fabrizi, Matilde Gioli,  Antonio   only to find that the victim is...   By Matt Beurois with Guillaume   Shafer, David G.b. Brown, Veronica
             Rhea Seehorn, Julian Feder.  Catania, Paolo Calabresi, Antonella   himself. Soon, he discovers multiple   Faure, Ken Samuels.  Cartwright.
             PARTY CRASHER            Attili.                   versions of himself, not all of them   A serial killer strikes Sugar Grove,   A woman struggles for  survival
                                                                                         Virginia. A rising journalist comes
                                                                friendly.
             Completed. Horror, 99’.  Sergio, a carpenter, and Sabrina,                  to town to cover the story: her   beneath a frozen lake while a serial
             By Brant Sersen with Jacob Artist,   an unsuccessful singer, have a long   A LIFE LIVED  investigation will soon lead her to   killer stalks her from the surface.
             Jayson Blair, Molly Tarlov, Shanley   time affair, but they are unable to   Completed. Drama, 77’.  the town’s darkest secret, at her   DEATHDAY
             Caswell, Stephanie Honore, Ashton   leave their partners, living in reduced   With Denise Richards, Lili Bordán,   own risks.  Completed. Horror, 84’.
             Moio, Claudia Lee.       circumstances.            Jennifer Taylor.                                   By J. Horton with Rachel Amanda
             A fraternity house throws their big   IL SINDACO, ITALIAN POLITICS    The story about the life of a dollar   BIGFOOT  Bryant, Brit Sheridan, Scott Menville.
             "Winter Luau" party but when   4 DUMMIES           bill, and the many lives it passes   Completed. Action/Adventure, 86’.
             fraternity  brothers  and  coeds  begin   Completed. Documentary, 80’.  along the way.  By Evan Tramel with Nathan Gray,   FAMILY GAMES
             dying horrible deaths they discover an   By Davide Parenti, Claudio Canepari.  Martin Singer.         Completed. Drama, 72’.
             evil entity has taken over the house.  What happens when a 23-year-old   ALIEN DOMICILE 2 : LOT 24  THE BLAZING CANNONS  With Megan Boone, Larry Bryggman,
                                                                Completed. Thriller, 90’.
                                                                                                                   Derek Cecil.
             TO THE STARS             kid runs for mayor in one of the   By  Curtis  Johnson  with  Shane   Completed. Comedy, 81’.  Sloane and her boyfriend Barrett
             Completed. Drama, 109’.  biggest cities of Southern Italy and   Franklin, Enoch Greenhood, Trenell   By Mark Noyce, Ben Shockley with   return to her childhood home
             By Martha Stephens with Kara   records his entire campaign with a   Blanks.  Mark Noyce, Ben Shockley, Michael   determined to ruin her father Roan’s
             Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin   hidden camera?    When Rachel is extended an   Cross.                re-marriage. Family secrets surface
             Akerman, Shea Whigham, Tony Hale,                  invitation to stay at the camping   A serial killer has the city in a   and give rise to a puzzling future.
             Jordana Spiro, Adelaide Clemens,   IQIYI, INC.     lot (Lot 24) of her missing uncle, she   murderous grip of fear. Assigned to
             Lucas Jade Zumann.           BEIJING IQIYI SCIENCE &   is leery, but excited at the thought of   the case are Saxon and Steel, and   FAMILY POSSESSION
                                       TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, 17/F, iQIYI   spending some time away.   although they have an unhealthy   Completed. Horror, 111’.
                  INTRAMOVIES            Innovation Building, Haidian                    obsession with cop shows of the   By Tommy Faircloth with Felissa
                Via Eustachio Manfredi, 15  100080 Beijing, China  AMERICAN POLTERGEIST :    70’s they also have a reputation   Rose, Mark Patton, Elizabeth Mears.
                                                                THE CURSE OF LILITH RATCHET
                                                                                                                   After moving into the home of a
                   00197 Rome, Italy       Tel: +86 1062677171   Completed. Horror, 90’.  for "coming down hard on the bad
                  Tel: +39 06 8077 252       [email protected]      By Eddie Lengyel with Angela Cole,   boys".        deceased relative, a family discovers
                                                                                                                   they may have inherited more than
                 [email protected]          iqiyi.com        Kate Newberry, Layla Cushman.  BRIDE OF SCARECROW  just the house.
                   intramovies.com           Palais -1: 21,03   "American Poltergeist : The Curse of   Completed. Thriller, 88’.
                   Riviera: A10-C1        Yi Bu (Business Manager),   Lilith Ratchet" revolves around the   By Louisa Warren with Claire-Maria   THE FORGIVEN
             Micaela Fusco (Head of International   Alice Leung (General Manager,   discovery of a mysterious shrunken   Fox, Manny Jai Montana, Shawn   Completed. Thriller, 80’.
              Sales), Marco Valerio Fusco (Head   International Distribution),    head that leads to the sudden death   C. Phillips.  Twenty years after the horrors of a
               of Acquisitions & Production),   Bryce Tsao (Director of International   of anyone who encounters it.  A failing radio host finds out she has   West African civil war, Reverend Brian
               Geremia Biagiotti (International   Sales), Wanqi Peng (Film Acquisition   inherited a farm house from a family   William confronts his past when his
             Sales Manager), Manuela Tambascia   Coordinator), Sinan Liu (International   AMITYVILLE : MT. MISERY ROAD  she never knew she had. What she   wife and daughter are kidnapped.
               (International Sales Manager),    Distribution)  Completed. Thriller, 75’.  discovers may well be what she
                  Fabio Tucci (Festivals )                      By Karolina Morrongiello, Chuck   would least expect - for every 20   FRONTIER
                                      SPYCIES                   Morrongiello.            years, the Scarecrow will rise, and   Completed. Western, 90’.
             DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE   Completed. Animation, 95’.  Charlie  and Buzi are ghosts’   this time - he’s seeking a bride.  By  Marcos  Almada  with Roque
             Post-Production. Drama, 100’.  By Guillaume Ivernel, Zhiyi Zhang.  enthusiasts fascinated by the legend   Chavez, Fernando Madrid, Sandra
             By Martin Turk with Matija Valant,   Vladimir, a highly skilled but   of the scariest road in America, Mt.   CALLER ID : ENTITY  Guzman.
             Tine  Ugrin,  Klara Kuk, Ronja   disobedient secret agent, gets left   Misery Road. The couple continues   Completed. Science-fiction, 90’.  Texas. 1848. Mexican families are
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