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MIDNIGHT FM (Sang-Man Kim/South Korea)A Sang-Man Kim filmScreenplay: Kim Hwi & Sang-Man KimCast: Soo-Ae, Ji-Tae Yoo, Dong-Seok Ma, Man-Sik Jeong, Song-Hyeon Choi, Min-Gyoo KimRunning time: 106 min.Sun-young is a popular radio DJ with a big fan base for a cinema musicprogramme that is aired live at midnight. She is a perfectionist who has built asuccessful career for the past 5 years, but when her young daughter needssurgery overseas, the single mum decides to quit. She prepares for her finalshow, from song selections down to the smallest details, but during the show,she receives a call from a listener named Dong-soo. He tells her that shemust follow his orders while she hosts her live radio show and not tellanyone, or her family's lives will be at stake. Without knowing what he wantsor why this is happening to her, she continues with her 2-hour radioprogramme as things start to get worse.Here it is: the edgy thriller that exploded at the Korean box-office, tramplingover the usual blockbusters from the U.S.! Banking on a very tense cat-andmousegame that made films such as Speed a success, director Sang ManKim knows exactly how to tease your ticker, helped by his main actors: Su-Ae, usually seen in romances and dramas (Sunny, Wedding Campaign), finally gets the opportunity to hitsome jaws, while Ji-tae Yu – from Into the Mirror (which got its US remake by Alexandre Aja) and, of course,Old Boy – plays the insane fan.NEON FLESH (Paco Cabezas/Spain)A Paco Cabezas filmScreenplay : Paco CabezasCast : Mario Casas, Vicente Romero, Macarena Gomez, Dario Grandinetti, Damaso Conde, Angela Molina, Blanca Suarez,LucianoCaceres, Antonio de la Torre, Vanessa Oliveira, Juan Carlos VellidoRunning time : 109 min.As a child of the theatre, Ricky is not the kind that hits a whore with his pole.And he has a very good reason : his mother has 20 years of experiencebetween her legs. The only hitch is that mama is in jail and Ricky has to learnhow to survive alone in Barcelona’s most disreputable streets at an agewhen most teenagers are raving in Ibiza. But Ricky has a plan. With the helpof his two buddies, Angelito and El Niño, he’ll open the hottest whorehouse intown. This will certainly surprise his mother on her release from prison. Rickystarts recruiting girls and finds the perfect name for his sex bombs’ nest:Hiroshima. The problem is that Chino, the biggest pimp in theneighbourhood, strongly disapproves of his young competitor’s arrival and isgoing to make him understand that he has to pay him, unless he wants toend up in little pieces.Five years after his eponymous short film, Paco Cabezas strikes back withthis long version. With the collaboration of Miguel Marti (writer of Sexykiller –Audience Choice at the BIFFF 2009) and Juan Gordon (producer of Cell 211- Thriller Award at the BIFFF 2011), Paco gives us a Spanish Snatch, with apowerful cast, such as the beautiful Macarena “sexykiller” Gomez, and Antonio de la Torre (Che, Volver)29