17^th THE ANGEL FILM AWARDS - Monaco International Film Festival

ART NOVO THEATRE - NOVOTEL - MONTE-CARLO

Friday 21^th February

13:45 'OPEN PRESS & PHOTOCALL' - ART NOVO PRESS LOUNGE - NOVOTEL

FESTIVAL OPENING

Official Line - Up Nominated Films - Day & Evening Screenings

On stage Q & A sessions for all nominated cast & crew members

U.S.A. DAY OPENER WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING

15:00 'World Premiere' "LIKE NO OTHER" (US) Documentary (39.45 min)

Directed by Aziz Ahmed; Written by Claudia C. Adams; Director of Photography Aziz Ahmed; Edited by Michael; Paul Girard; Executive Produced by Claudia C. Adams; Associate Producer Tariq Zafar; Music by Farhan Alam;

Storyline: Caused by a combination of global warming and climate change, the 2010 Pakistan floods were the worst natural disaster in Pakistan's history. Using "never before seen footage," LIKE NO OTHER shows the world, first hand, what happens to victims during and after a disaster of this unimaginable magnitude. (Writer/Producer and Director attending)

16:00 'World Premiere' "ON THAT DAY" Drama (Japan) (20:00 min)

Written, Directed & Edited by Hiroyuki Yokoyama; DP/Cinematography: Yukihiro Miyakawa; Producer: Takashi Yoshinaga; Music: Katsufumi Mizoguchi, Koh Liam

Starring: Mio Kadoshima (as Asuka); Jin Sasaki (as Ryuichi); Yudai Kawakami (singer)

Storyline: After 10 years absence, a brother and a sister reunite on a day after the big earthquake hit their hometown, it was just a day before her wedding. (Director attending)

16:30 'Monaco – France Premiere' "AND THE WALTZ GROWS LOUDER" Comedy (Russia) (17:35 min)

Directed, Written & Produced by Ravshaniya; DP/Cinematography: Fares Demenyuk; Composer: Kevin MacLeod

Starring: Natalia Nelubina (Valya); Dmitry Krasilnikov (Fedya); Sergei Nabiroukhin (Alexey Petrovich); Anastasia Rebrikova (Venera); Irina Shishova (Katya); Andrey Danilyuk (Oleg)

Storyline: Valya a mother of three children feels like a man and wants to go for plastic surgery. To Fyodor her husband this was like another collapse of the Soviet Union and like a snowball news catches on to friends and neighbors...

16:50 'Monaco-France Premiere' "ONE HALF OF ME" Drama - based on true events (Finland) (100 min)

Written, Directed by Tuukka Temonen; Producers Olga & Tuukka Temonen; DP/Cinematography: Aki Huttunen; Editing: Juha Klakkainen; Production Design: Inka Rautjaervi; Music: Mikka Huttunen

Starring: Olga Temonen (Jaana); Sebastian Rejman (Marko); Pilvi Hamalainen (Marjut); Ville Myllyrinne (Teppo)

Storyline: Jaana is a middle-aged mother and equestrian whose life takes a new direction after a severe injury which leads her into a wheelchair. She is fighting for what is important in her life and sets new goals as a para-equestrian. (Director, Producer & Cast attending)

18:35 INTERVAL – time to get dressed up and ready for the evening screenings

THE OFFICIAL OPENING EVENING - MOVIE SCREENINGS

20:30 Red Carpet PHOTOCALL

21:00 'European Premiere' "RESEMBLANCE" Historical Drama (US) (11:00 min)

Written and Directed by Kevin James O’Neill; Executive Produced by Bethanne Lee Weiss; Producers: Phillip Deems & Ylian Alfaro Snyder; Assistant Director: Lee Karlinsky, Nathan McMahan, Sandhi Gupta; DP/Cinematography: Daniel Stilling; Production Design: Ryan Rainey; Editor: Hunter M. Via; Original Music by: Charleene Closshey; Composer: Andrew Garraway

Starring: Jordan Woods-Robinson (Dirk Kramer): Brayden Benson (Younger Dirk); Pete Penuel (Nick Taylor); Midge Mamatas (Helen Berkowitz); Ann Ayres (Miriam Klausner); Michael Skarbek (Freddie Bennett)

Storyline: Dirk Kramer finds out late in his life that his great-grandfather had been an SS officer in the Dachau concentration camps. This revelation dishearten’s Dirk so he looks for a way to use his talents as an actor to give patients from a Jewish mental facility closure for their losses in life. (Director & Crew attending)

21:15 'FEATURE FILM WORLD PREMIERE EVENING SÉANCE FROM JAPAN' "THE REAL EXORCIST" Drama (Japan) (108 min)

Directed by Shokyo Oda; Screenplay by Sayaka Okawa; Executive Producer: Ryuho Okawa DP/Cinematography: Akiko Ashizawa; Editor: Hirohide Abe; Production Design: Tomoyuki Maruo; Costume Design: Masae Miyamoto; Visual Effects: Jun Yokoishi, Shuji Asano; Music: Yuichi Mizusawa

Starring: Yoshiko Sengen (Waitress Sayuri); Mirai Irako (Isamu); Rin Kijima (Kyoka); Joe Hyuga (Master); Nao Hasegawa (Yumeko); Ryuichi Ohura (Onodera);Yoshimi Ashikawa (Ruriko); Ayumi Orii (Melephis)

Storyline: Sayuri, a coffee shop waitress, uses her supernatural powers to help those who are troubled by spiritual phenomena. She gradually gets involved in serious matters, eventually facing a fierce battle with the devil... (Director, Cast & Crew attending)