2012 Cambridge Film Festival Brochure
The full Festival brochure for the 32nd Cambridge Film Festival.
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CAMBRIDGE<br />
FILM FESTIVAL<br />
<strong>2012</strong><br />
13<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
23<br />
SEPTEMBER
In some respects, it’s been a great<br />
year for British film. In Sight and<br />
Sound’s eagerly anticipated tenyearly<br />
poll of the Greatest <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
of All Time, a British director took<br />
the top slot with VERTIGO. And, at<br />
the opening ceremony of London<br />
<strong>2012</strong>, Danny Boyle drew on the<br />
finest technical expertise in the UK<br />
film industry to create a stunning<br />
spectacle. Creative industries are all<br />
too often undervalued or dismissed<br />
in this country – despite the billions<br />
they bring to it – so it was pleasing<br />
to have a demonstration of just<br />
how accomplished we are at the art<br />
of illusion on a grand scale, and a<br />
reminder of exactly why so many<br />
films – British or not – are made here.<br />
A film festival celebrates such<br />
achievements, but also a great deal<br />
more. As much as a festival of sport,<br />
it provides an occasion to share<br />
and celebrate common enthusiasms<br />
and values – the things that reach<br />
beyond national boundaries and<br />
make film a unifying phenomenon<br />
– as well as the characteristics that<br />
make each participant unique. In<br />
addition to bringing new mainstream<br />
films from established driectors –<br />
this year we have David Frankel’s<br />
HOPE SPRINGS, Woody Allen’s TO<br />
ROME WITH LOVE and Walter Salles’<br />
ON THE ROAD – it’s a chance to<br />
enjoy national cinemas that we may<br />
otherwise see only rarely, if ever, and<br />
to discover maverick filmmakers who<br />
defy categorisation altogether. As in<br />
previous years, we bring together the<br />
best of German contempory cinema,<br />
with a little help from <strong>Festival</strong> friend<br />
Monika Treut, whose own film THE<br />
RAW AND THE COOKED – a culinary<br />
journey around Taiwan – is also<br />
showing here. We bring together<br />
several key films from Catalonia,<br />
too, including Villaronga’s BLACK<br />
BREAD, and have a surreal glimpse<br />
of exciting new developments in<br />
Estonian cinema.<br />
Of course, film isn’t only about<br />
creating illusion – it’s also about<br />
capturing truths. The stunning<br />
CHASING ICE does something<br />
seemingly impossible, putting global<br />
warming up on the screen for all to<br />
see. We have more documentaries<br />
this year than ever before, from<br />
which emerge some spontaneous<br />
themes. Gender issues and sexual<br />
WELCOME<br />
to the 32nd <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
politics are explored in TALES OF<br />
THE WARIA, CALL ME KUCHU and<br />
FREEDOM FOR BIRTH – the latter part<br />
of a worldwide campaign. Matters<br />
of faith are investigated in LEAP,<br />
DIGITAL DHARMA and THE TROUBLE<br />
WITH ST MARY’S. There’s a strand<br />
of music documentaries, too: ANDA<br />
UNION charts efforts to rediscover<br />
Mongolian music, while EL GUSTO<br />
follows veteran Chaabi musicians<br />
from Algiers – Muslim and Jewish. We<br />
also have a little night music in the<br />
form of classic concert footage: THE<br />
DOORS LIVE AT THE BOWL ‘68, and<br />
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY: QUEEN LIVE<br />
IN BUDAPEST. As ever, there are films<br />
with live musical accompaniment,<br />
including Soviet science fiction epic<br />
AELITA, screened on the front steps<br />
of <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Library (and<br />
accompanied by our old friend Neil<br />
Brand) as well as several Hitchcock<br />
silents.<br />
Which brings us back to<br />
the greengrocer’s son from<br />
Leytonstone... Amongst the dozen<br />
Hitchcock films spanning the years<br />
1925-1964, we have six key titles in<br />
brand new digital prints – including<br />
VERTIGO. Writer and critic George<br />
Perry and director Richard Bracewell,<br />
both of whom have contributed to<br />
this brochure, will be joining us to<br />
reflect further on the the work of<br />
the master.<br />
And, if that isn’t enough, we also<br />
have even more free events this<br />
year than ever! None of this would<br />
be possible, of course, without the<br />
support of all our sponsors, of whom<br />
special thanks are due to Studio24,<br />
TTP, The Westbrook Trust and Hauser-<br />
Raspe for their continued support.<br />
Tony Jones<br />
Director, <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
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<strong>Festival</strong><br />
Guide<br />
SPECIAL<br />
EVENTS<br />
Stop<br />
Press<br />
Opening and<br />
Closing <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Main<br />
Features<br />
DIARY<br />
MICROCINEMA<br />
CONTEMPORARY<br />
GERMAN CINEMA<br />
HITCHCOCK<br />
REVISITED<br />
Revivals<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> Family<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
CatalaN<br />
CINEMA<br />
FOCUS ON<br />
estoNIA<br />
FRANCESCO<br />
rosi<br />
LATE NIGHT<br />
FRIGHTS<br />
TRIDENTFEST<br />
SHORTS<br />
TICKETs / MAP<br />
VENUES<br />
INDEX<br />
Box office: 0871 902 5720 WELCOME 3
YOUR GUIDE TO THE CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL <strong>2012</strong><br />
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SELECT YOUR FILMS AND EVENTS<br />
What you have in your hands contains full information and listings for all the films and<br />
events confirmed at the time of going to print – complete with a handy day-by-day<br />
calendar in the centre pages to help you choose by time of day, or day of the week.<br />
New films, guests, events and other surprises continue to be added to the <strong>Festival</strong>, so<br />
don’t forget to check the latest arrivals online at www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
BOOK YOUR TICKETS<br />
Tickets are on sale from 3 September (1 September for Picturehouse Members).<br />
Advance tickets for all venues are available:<br />
in person at the Arts Picturehouse Box Office<br />
over the phone on 0871 902 5720 (9.30am – 8.30pm)<br />
as well as online via www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
SAVE<br />
For the best value, snap up our money-saving <strong>Festival</strong> Pass<br />
(£60, or £40 for Picturehouse members). Pass holders get<br />
four free tickets and £4.00 off the adult ticket price<br />
– and if you’re also a Picturehouse Member, your<br />
second ticket gets the normal membership £2 discount<br />
so you can bring a guest to screenings at members’<br />
rates. See page 72 for more information. The<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Pass can be purchased by phone or in<br />
person at the Arts Picturehouse.<br />
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TAKE YOUR SEAT<br />
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Now for the fun part. The <strong>Festival</strong> takes place at a range of<br />
venues across the city so before setting out please check<br />
where your chosen screenings or events are taking place.<br />
If attending more than one venue on the same<br />
day, make sure that you leave sufficient transit<br />
time between screenings. See page 73 for more<br />
information on our venues.<br />
GET ONLINE AND GET INTERACTIVE<br />
WEBSITE - The best way for you to find out the latest news, added screenings, last minute<br />
guests and much more, is to become a regular visitor to our new website, built by awardwinning<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> web developers Studio 24. You can:<br />
review films you’ve watched at CFF<br />
book online<br />
learn more about the films we’re showing<br />
enjoy multimedia coverage as well as an independent take on the <strong>Festival</strong> from Take One<br />
(also available as free printed issues)<br />
search the programme<br />
E-NEWSLETTER If you haven’t done so already, make sure you also sign up to our<br />
newsletter so you don’t miss out on those hot tickets!<br />
SOCIAL MEDIA - you can find us across the online social spectrum:<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> @camfilmfest flickr: <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Cam<strong>Film</strong><strong>Festival</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
and more - visit our website for details.<br />
Audience Awards <strong>2012</strong> –<br />
Search For The Stars!<br />
IN COMPETITION<br />
FOR THE <strong>2012</strong><br />
AUDIENCE<br />
AWARD<br />
IN COMPETITION<br />
FOR BEST SHORT FILM<br />
<strong>2012</strong> AUDIENCE<br />
AWARD<br />
We like romantic comedies. But we also like hard-hitting<br />
documentaries. Which are best? There’s only one way to find<br />
out... VOTE!<br />
There are TWO awards this year – the Audience Award and the<br />
Audience Best Short Award. All the films eligible have the star<br />
symbol next to them in this brochure; where the symbol is next<br />
to a Shorts programme, you can vote for any individual film in<br />
that programme. Cast your vote with your ticket stub on the<br />
way out, or look for the CFF iPads (courtesy of John Lewis).<br />
To view the list of films in competition for our Audience Awards,<br />
visit www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/filmmakers/awards –<br />
and remember you must cast your vote in person as you leave<br />
the screening!<br />
ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
MEMBERSHIP<br />
Remember – as a Picturehouse Member you<br />
get priority booking for <strong>Festival</strong> films and<br />
events AND a £2 discount on each <strong>Festival</strong><br />
film you attend. Throughout the rest of the<br />
year, you’ll also benefit from:<br />
H Three free tickets per person for regular<br />
Picturehouse programmes<br />
H £2 discount on full price tickets<br />
H No booking fees<br />
H 10% off snacks and drinks in the bar<br />
H Picturehouse publications posted to your home<br />
H Valid at Picturehouse cinemas nationwide<br />
Membership costs just £33 (£25 concessions)<br />
or £60 for joint Membership (£49 concessions)<br />
Call 0871 902 5720<br />
or visit www.picturehouses.co.uk<br />
Arts Gift<br />
Membership<br />
Available<br />
Tony Jones<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Director<br />
Catherine Kemp<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Administrator<br />
Iris Ordonez<br />
Hospitality & Print Transport Manager<br />
Aline Conti<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Programme Coordinator & Programmer<br />
Verena Von Stackelberg<br />
International Programmer<br />
Becky Innes<br />
Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> & Screen Team<br />
Bill Lawrence • James Mackay<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Programmers<br />
João Serejo<br />
Shorts Programmer & Submissions Coordinator<br />
Claire Rastogi<br />
Web & Design Manager<br />
John Tobin<br />
Development Manager<br />
Vicky Fenton<br />
Marketing Manager<br />
Dan Taylor<br />
<strong>Brochure</strong> Designer<br />
Toby Venables<br />
Press & PR Manager & <strong>Brochure</strong> Editor<br />
Special thanks to<br />
Mike O’Brien & Mike Boyd<br />
Sam Grant, Jacob Klimaszewski, Angela Liu-Wilkin, Nashira<br />
Martinez, Sarah McIntosh, Marta Wisniewska<br />
CFF Interns<br />
Rosy Hunt (Editor) • Jim Ross (Deputy Editor) • Mike Boyd<br />
(Comms Manager) • Gavin Midgley (Sub Editor)<br />
Take One <strong>Festival</strong> Magazine<br />
Isabelle McNeill • Tony Jones • Jean Khalfa • Nicolas Joicey<br />
The Trustees<br />
Plus all the fantastic volunteers!<br />
AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
Keith Gehlert<br />
General Manager<br />
Daniel Patten • John Davis • Alicia Lopez Rios<br />
Duty Manager<br />
Joe Delaney<br />
Assistant Manager & Chief Projectionist<br />
Rydian Cook • Claire Mackenzie • Dermot Nolan • Christian<br />
Lapidge • Jesse Wood • Nashira Martinez<br />
Projectionists<br />
Roger Smith<br />
Projection & <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Projects<br />
Alex Rotherham<br />
Picturehouse Café<br />
And all the fantastic Front of House staff!<br />
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Saffron Screen on the Green<br />
Saturday 8 September, from 6.00pm, Saffron Walden Common<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> crosses the border to Essex to present Saffron<br />
Screen on the Green – an ABBA-solutely fabulous evening of free cinema on<br />
Saffron Walden Common which is only half an hour from <strong>Cambridge</strong>.<br />
We’ll be joining forces with<br />
independent cinema Saffron Screen<br />
to present a free family screening<br />
of the much-loved crowd-pleaser<br />
MAMMA MIA! (PG, 108 mins) at dusk<br />
(approximately 8.00pm). We’ll also<br />
be screening rare archive films<br />
of the local area, presented in<br />
partnership with the Media Archive<br />
of Central England.<br />
The Screen Team 2010-<strong>2012</strong><br />
More info is online at www.saffronscreen.com or by calling 01799 500238<br />
This September is the culmination of the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust’s innovative three year Screen Team events and training initiative.<br />
We’ve already selected twenty lucky Screen Team participants for this year, who have been receiving specialist training from<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong> team and will be working hard behind the scenes at our outdoor screenings this summer. The Screen Team is a<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust initiative which has been funded by Legacy Trust UK, creating a lasting impact from the London <strong>2012</strong><br />
Olympic and Paralympic Games by funding ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK. For more information,<br />
email becky@cambridgefilmtrust.org.uk<br />
With thanks to the Westbrook Trust for their on-going generous support of the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust.<br />
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Lido Picture Show<br />
Sunday 9 September, approx 8.00pm, Jesus Green Outdoor Pool<br />
Jaws (12A)*<br />
Dir: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Roy Schieder, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. USA 1975. 124 mins.<br />
Join us again for our annual family film<br />
event at <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s renowned open-air<br />
swimming pool – this year, FREE! Situated<br />
splashing distance from the river,<br />
Jesus Green Outdoor Pool is not only a<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> institution, but also one of the<br />
few of its kind remaining in Britain – and<br />
one of the largest in Europe.<br />
To help you enjoy this delightful and<br />
unique setting, we present another aquatically-themed classic that<br />
did for sharks what Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS did for our feathered<br />
Skyline Cinema<br />
Archive Programme<br />
Sunday 9 September, approx 8.00pm, Varsity Hotel<br />
Varsity Hotel, Thompson’s Lane, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB5 8AQ<br />
Skyline Cinema – the latest spectacular new open-air venue in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> – presents a FREE screening of archive film, featuring<br />
material selected from the East Anglian <strong>Film</strong> Archive, including<br />
HERE’S A HEALTH TO THE BARLEY MOW.<br />
In partnership with the <strong>Cambridge</strong> FIlm Trust, the Varsity Hotel on<br />
Thompson’s Lane has opened its rooftop to the public for a series<br />
of screenings throughout the summer. Stunning views to savour<br />
over St John’s, Magdalene and Trinity Colleges with the River Cam<br />
winding alongside Jesus Green and Midsummer Common. Show<br />
starts shortly after sunset.<br />
friends; the film that made an entire generation<br />
terrified to go into the water... Spielberg’s nail-,<br />
leg– and torso-biting masterpiece JAWS.<br />
Pack a picnic or choose from a delicious range<br />
of drinks and snacks from the poolside cafe,<br />
then simply sit back and enjoy the thrills.<br />
With the light-filled pool, and a backdrop of<br />
surrounding trees, this is cinematic sharkaction<br />
as you’ve never experienced it before!<br />
*Contains sustained threat and occasional bloody violence.<br />
See pages 72-73 for venue information.<br />
Rural Cinema Conference<br />
Tuesday 18 Sept 10.00am-5.00pm<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> Arts Picturehouse<br />
The BFI and Creative England are hosting the first UK<br />
conference dedicated to Rural Cinema. The Rural<br />
Cinema Conference aims to explore and develop<br />
ideas and strategies on rural cinema in order<br />
that practitioners, funders and commercial<br />
organisations can optimise their involvement<br />
in this arena.<br />
Our agenda will include panel discussions on<br />
Growing Audiences in Rural Communities, New Models<br />
for Rural Cinema, Rural Distribution, Funding and<br />
Sustainability and the Future of Rural Cinema.<br />
Speakers will include: Rose Regeneration,<br />
Rural Cinema Pilots, Digital Funding<br />
Partnership, Regional Screen Scotland,<br />
Dogwoof, @Curzon, City Screen, BFI<br />
and Creative England.<br />
For information about<br />
remaining places,<br />
please contact:<br />
ruralcinema@<br />
bfi.org.uk<br />
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SPECIALEVENTS 7
Open-Air Screening WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> University Library Friday 21 September, approx 8.00pm<br />
Aelita: Queen Of Mars (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Yakov Protazanov. Starring: Nikolai Tsereteli, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky.<br />
USSR 1924. 111 mins.<br />
Kindly sponsored by the Russkiy<br />
Mir Foundation and Gazprom<br />
Looking East: Lunchtime<br />
Archive <strong>Film</strong> Show (U)<br />
Throughout the summer of <strong>2012</strong> the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>’s Screen Team project (see page 6) has been<br />
working in partnership with MACE (Media Archive<br />
of Central England) as well as the East Anglian <strong>Film</strong><br />
Archive and the Norwich HEART (Heritage, Economic<br />
and Regeneration Trust) Digital Heritage Project, to<br />
present special screenings of archive films at unusual<br />
locations in the East of England. Join us at this special<br />
event to enjoy the very best of the film footage that<br />
has been showcased at these screenings. You’ll sample<br />
fascinating archive film featuring locations, people<br />
and events from across the Eastern region – including<br />
extracts from HEART’s new BON VOYAGE compilation<br />
of recently restored films exploring the history of<br />
travel and transport across the East of England, which<br />
has been brought back to life with a wonderful new<br />
voiceover by Norfolk resident John Hurt.<br />
PRICES<br />
Adults £4.60<br />
Concessions £3.60<br />
In 1920s Moscow, engineer Los is among a group of technicians who receive a strange<br />
radio message that seems to be from another world. Los dreams about a woman on the<br />
distant planet Mars, little realising that Aelita, the daughter of its totalitarian ruler, is<br />
observing him through a telescope. Tragedy strikes – but so does an opportunity... Building<br />
a spaceship he travels to the red planet, and with his comrade Gulev leads a proletarian<br />
uprising. But is everything quite what it seems? The USSR’s first science fiction film was a<br />
huge hit when first released. Screened in front of <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Library’s imposing<br />
facade, it is shown here in a newly restored version, with a live score performed by Neil<br />
Brand, and a special introduction by Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck University).<br />
The film starts at dusk – approx 8.00pm<br />
Screening organised in collaboration with the University Library to link up with their exhibition<br />
A Soviet Design for Life, and a conference organised by the Departments of Slavonic Studies and<br />
History of Art (University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>): Design without Frontiers: Interdisciplinary and Collaboration<br />
in Soviet Art, Architecture and Design (20-21 September).<br />
For more information, please go to: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions or www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events<br />
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ARU Screenings<br />
Lord Ashcroft Courtyard, ARU, East Rd, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB1 1PT<br />
Wednesday 19 September, approx 8.00pm<br />
A Hard Day’s Night (U)<br />
Director: Richard Lester. Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George<br />
Harrison, Ringo Starr. UK 1964. 87 mins.<br />
A ‘typical’ day in the life of The<br />
Beatles at the first peak of their<br />
popularity. The band is heading<br />
from Liverpool to London to<br />
appear on TV, but along the<br />
way they have to deal with<br />
Paul’s wayward grandad (Wilfrid<br />
Brambell) and a disappearing<br />
drummer. Stylish, fast-paced,<br />
highly influential, and with a pretty decent soundtrack, too.<br />
Thursday 20 September, approx 8.00pm<br />
The Blues Brothers (15)<br />
Director: John Landis. Starring: John Belushi, Dan Ayckroyd, Cab Calloway,<br />
Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. USA 1980. 133 mins. Blues.<br />
One black suit jacket. One pair<br />
black suit pants. One hat... Black.<br />
Do you see the light? The band...<br />
The band? The band! THE BAND!!!<br />
We’re on a mission from God.<br />
Tonight only, the fabulous Blues<br />
Brothers Rhythm and Blues revue.<br />
You on the motorcycle... You two<br />
girls... tell your friends. It’s 106<br />
miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark<br />
and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Not-So-Silent Movies (PG) starring Neil Brand<br />
Saturday 22 September, 11.00am<br />
Think that in the days before<br />
the arrival of ‘The Talkies’<br />
cinema audiences used to<br />
watch films in complete<br />
silence? Think again! Join<br />
Neil Brand, one of the<br />
world’s leading silent film<br />
accompanists, for a fun-filled,<br />
inspiring and interactive<br />
session celebrating the magic<br />
of the silent cinema era as<br />
well as exploring how live<br />
musical accompaniment can<br />
truly bring the images on screen to life. You’ll enjoy clips from some<br />
classic silent movies as well as having the chance to join in with<br />
Paper Cinema<br />
Sat 15, every half hour from 1.00pm<br />
(last performance at 6.30)<br />
Raging storms and supernatural forces prevail over one man’s<br />
almighty quest to get home. Immerse yourself in a journey through<br />
the high seas, soak up the adventure and encounter danger and<br />
exhilaration as a silent film is created before your eyes!<br />
The show is an interpretive live performance based on The<br />
Odyssey, using hand-drawn paper puppets that are brought to<br />
life through live cinema. Homer’s cornerstone of literature is<br />
vividly told with beautiful illustration, as cinematic projection and<br />
cunning tricks transform a suitcase full of cut-out paper puppets<br />
into an array of living characters and striking landscapes, set to<br />
a captivating live score from the<br />
exceptional Paper Cinema musicians.<br />
www.thepapercinema.com<br />
PRICES<br />
Adults £5<br />
Children under 15 £3<br />
presents<br />
the live musical accompaniment<br />
yourselves!<br />
Although primarily aimed at<br />
family groups, this event will be<br />
great fun for audiences of all ages<br />
– including those of you whose<br />
appetite for silent film has recently<br />
been whetted by THE ARTIST, and<br />
silent cinema aficionados alike.<br />
Children under 15 £4<br />
Kids Club Members £3<br />
Accompanying Adults £2<br />
PRICES<br />
For all over 15 not accompanying a child, normal <strong>Festival</strong> ticket<br />
prices apply (see page 72).<br />
Ages 11-25<br />
Saturday 15 September, 10.30am<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire <strong>Film</strong> Consortium Presents<br />
Music On <strong>Film</strong>:<br />
Masterclass<br />
For young<br />
filmmakers, composers<br />
and students aged 11-25<br />
If you are a student with an interest in film/music/sound,<br />
or have attended animation, digital film production, Jump Cuts or<br />
Short Cuts workshops, then join sound artist and composer James Rogers, who will<br />
discuss adding sound and music to film.<br />
Bookings: Tel 0871 902 5720 Enquiries: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk Follow us on twitter:@cfi lmconsortium<br />
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SPECIALEVENTS 9
The Trouble With Alfred<br />
George Perry and Richard<br />
Bracewell investigate Hitchcock<br />
To accompany screenings of two of Hitchcock’s finest works, we<br />
present talks by author and critic George Perry, and filmmaker<br />
Richard Bracewell (both of whom have also contributed pieces<br />
to the Hitchcock section in this brochure). The talks are free and<br />
are illustrated with clips from some of his key films.<br />
Please note: both these free events are ticketed.<br />
Sunday 16 September, 3.00pm<br />
Hitchcock: Master Of Technique<br />
Bright Sparks<br />
19-30 September <strong>2012</strong><br />
Ruskin Gallery, <strong>Cambridge</strong> School of Art,<br />
Anglia Ruskin University<br />
Prior to the screening of NORTH BY NORTHWEST, fellow director<br />
Richard Bracewell brings a filmmaker’s perspective to bear on<br />
the works of the ‘master of suspense’, looking at the ways in<br />
which Hitch hooked, enthralled and appalled his audiences.<br />
Richard Bracewell is a British director, writer, cinematographer<br />
and producer whose credits include THE GIGOLOS and CUCKOO.<br />
He runs the UK feature film production company Punk Cinema,<br />
which he set up in 2004 with co-producer and brother Tony<br />
Bracewell<br />
Thursday 20 September, 4.30pm<br />
George Perry On Hitchcock<br />
Before the screening of VERTIGO, George Perry considers the<br />
genius and the legacy of the humble lad from Leytonstone<br />
who went on to terrify the world – and make the film now<br />
voted the greatest of all time.<br />
George Perry – once editor of undergarduate newspaper<br />
Varsity – is a journalist, writer, film critic and author of<br />
numerous books, including biographies of Monty Python,<br />
Rupert Bear and James Dean, histories of film studios<br />
(Pinewood, Ealing and Warner Bros.) and studies of Hitchcock<br />
and Spielberg.<br />
A celebration of work by the BA <strong>Film</strong> and Television<br />
Production students and graduates of Anglia Ruskin<br />
University. It is the result of their passion, imagination, talent<br />
and creativity. If their films absorb you and keep you in the<br />
picture – they have succeeded.<br />
Psychosis Of A Sane Man<br />
And Others<br />
Thursday 20 September, 10.00am-11.45am<br />
Showcasing ARU Graduate <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
These short dramas, documentaries, animations and experimental<br />
films showcase the best work of students on the Communication,<br />
<strong>Film</strong> and Media Studies programme at Anglia Ruskin University,<br />
exploring the possibilities of cinema, telling<br />
stories, or<br />
working frameby-frame<br />
on<br />
the fundamental<br />
dynamism of<br />
film. All welcome.<br />
Pictures at the Press<br />
Working with <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press, The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> brings you two nights of openair<br />
screenings in the impressive surrounds of the oldest publishing house in the world.<br />
But that’s not all – through the magic of technology we bring you the first open air, pop-up multiplex!<br />
The addition of an extra screen and a choice of soundtracks via radio headsets means we’re able<br />
to offer TWO films each night, to be screened simultaneously, with a specially chosen child-friendly<br />
alternative title on both nights (suitable for under 12s). So, bring a picnic or browse the varied food<br />
and drink on offer from local vendors, choose your screen, tune into your soundtrack, and snuggle<br />
down on a rug under the stars to watch:<br />
The Artist (PG)<br />
Director: Michel Hazanavicius. Starring: Jean Dujardin,<br />
John Goodman, Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell.<br />
France/Belgium 2011. 100 mins.<br />
The Oscar-winning story of silent film star George Valentin and<br />
wannabe starlet Peppy Miller (and a dog), which wowed audiences<br />
at Cannes and showed that silent cinema was far from dead!<br />
or<br />
Monsters Inc. (U)<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
Moonrise Kingdom (12A)*<br />
Director: Wes Anderson. Starring: Jared Gilman,<br />
Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand.<br />
US <strong>2012</strong>. 94 mins. *(Contains moderate sex references)<br />
In 1960s New England, a young boy and girl in love run away<br />
together. As factions of the town mobilize to search for them, the<br />
town is turned upside down – which might not be such a bad thing...<br />
or<br />
The Princess Bride (U)<br />
Screenings will be at the Cass<br />
Sports Ground, <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
University Press, Shaftesbury Road<br />
– see pages 72-73 for ticket prices<br />
and venue info.<br />
Keep checking www.cambridge<br />
filmfestival.org.uk for updates.<br />
Bring your own headphones and use our pre-tuned radios for a great cinematic<br />
experience. £5 deposit required. <strong>Film</strong> starts at dusk – approx. 8.00pm.<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
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STOPPRESS<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Wake up to The New Paul Stainton Breakfast Show<br />
on BBC Radio <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire from Mon 3rd Sept.<br />
Fast and fresh - raising eyebrows and raising smiles.<br />
Paul Stainton will keep you in touch with<br />
everything that matters to you.<br />
Turn on and Tune in. 96fm/95.7fm/DAB/Online<br />
Confessions Of<br />
A Child Of The<br />
Century (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Sylvie Verheyde. Starring: Pete<br />
Doherty, Charlotte Gainsbourg, August<br />
Diehl, Lily Cole. France/United Kingdom/<br />
Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 120 mins.<br />
Print source: Soda Pictures<br />
Late Night<br />
Frights<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
10.00pm<br />
Cannes Award Winner Charlotte Gainsbourg (MELANCHOLIA) stars opposite Pete Doherty<br />
in his film debut in CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY. Doherty plays Octave, a<br />
young and beautiful libertine who witnesses his lover being unfaithful. Despair leads to<br />
decadence, until he meets a young widow Brigitte and they embark on a relationship.<br />
But with one broken heart already Octave is quick to rise to suspicion and in a world<br />
where love is fragile will he be strong enough to stay faithful. Also starring Lily Cole<br />
(DR PARNASSUS), August Diehl (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) and Joséphine de La Baume<br />
(BOOGIE WOOGIE).<br />
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The Hidden<br />
Face (CFF 15)<br />
(La Cara Oculta)<br />
Director: Andrés Baiz. Starring: Martina<br />
García, Quim Gutiérrez and Clara Lago.<br />
Columbia/Spain 2011. 97 mins. Spanish<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
10.45pm<br />
A tense and intriguing thriller about orchestra director Adrian, who becomes a murder<br />
suspect when his girlfriend, Belén, disappears. He starts a relationship with Fabiana, who<br />
begins to hear noises, and experience strange events in the house. Is Belén reaching out<br />
from beyond the grave, or is something more sinister going on? What looks like a clichéd<br />
psychological thriller from the outside is actually a film with hidden depth, and soon turns<br />
into a compelling tale of intersecting narratives. Suspense is built up to a startling finale.<br />
Brilliantly constructed with impressive performances, and told with creativity and flair,<br />
this is a worthy addition to the incredible Spanish horror output of recent times.<br />
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PENING FILMS<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
We are delighted to welcome director David<br />
Frankel to this screening.<br />
Hope Springs<br />
(12A)*<br />
Director: David Frankel. Starring:<br />
Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve<br />
Carell. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 100 mins.<br />
Print source: Momentum<br />
*Contains frequent<br />
moderate sex references<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Robert Guédiguian to this screening.<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
6.00pm<br />
Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted<br />
couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things<br />
up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned<br />
couples specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope<br />
Springs, she attempts to persuade her sceptical husband – a steadfast<br />
man of routine – to get on a plane for an entire week of marriage<br />
therapy. Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is<br />
hard enough – the real challenge for both of them comes as they shed<br />
their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each<br />
other in the first place.<br />
Directed by David Frankel (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA) and featuring sparkling performances<br />
from Streep, Jones and Carell, this is one romantic comedy that isn’t afraid to suggest<br />
that sometimes, to keep the magic, you need to learn a few tricks...<br />
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (15)<br />
(Les Neiges Du Kilimandjaro)<br />
Director: Robert Guédiguian. Starring: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre<br />
Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Maryline Canto. 107 mins. France 2011.<br />
French with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Cinefile<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
8.30pm<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
12.30pm<br />
In 2009, acclaimed French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian brought his<br />
gripping wartime thriller THE ARMY OF CRIME to <strong>Cambridge</strong>. This year<br />
he returns with his latest work, an absorbing drama inspired by a<br />
Victor Hugo poem. Despite losing his job as a shipyard worker through<br />
voluntary redundancy, Michel, a proud trade unionist, lives happily with<br />
Marie-Claire. The pair have been a devoted couple for thirty years –<br />
their children and grandchildren are their pride and joy, and they have<br />
a close group of friends. But their happiness is shattered when two<br />
masked gunmen break into their home, tie them up and rob them of everything –<br />
including Michel’s severance package. By chance, the couple discover that the brutal<br />
attack was organized by one of the young workers laid off along with Michel. But when<br />
they set the wheels in motion to have the assailants brought to justice, they discover that<br />
true justice is not as straightforward as it might seem.<br />
To Rome With<br />
Love (12A)*<br />
Director: Woody Allen. Starring:<br />
Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto<br />
Benigni, Penélope Cruz. USA/Italy/<br />
Spain <strong>2012</strong>. 112 mins. English and<br />
Italian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Sony<br />
*Contains moderate sex references<br />
and one use of strong language<br />
CL SING<br />
FILM<br />
Holy Motors (18)<br />
Director: Leos Carax. Starring: Denis<br />
Lavant, Eva Mendes, Edith Scob, Kylie<br />
Minogue. France/Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 115<br />
mins. French, English and Chinese<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
7.45pm<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
8.00pm<br />
Woody Allen’s TO ROME WITH LOVE is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set<br />
in one of the world’s most enchanting cities. In it, we meet a<br />
well-known American architect reliving his youth, an average<br />
middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome’s biggest<br />
celebrity, a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic<br />
encounters and an American opera director endeavouring to put a<br />
singing mortician on stage. Their stories explore the eternal quest for<br />
love and sex in its many variations, from a betrothal and a honeymoon<br />
through to assorted acts of infidelity; from tender lovemaking to more spontaneous<br />
liaisons; from the absurd and ridiculous to the poignant and profound; from the<br />
exhilaration of newfound love all the way to heartbreak and its aftermath. With the<br />
writer-director also back in front of the camera, this is the kind of movie that Allen made<br />
his own: a paean to a great city with his own wry take on the nature of relationships.<br />
HOLY MOTORS, by French maverick Leos Carax (LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF,<br />
POLA X), was probably the most talked-about title at Cannes this year.<br />
Billed as a film that broke boundaries, this cinematic tour-de-force was<br />
described by Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw as ‘barking mad’, ‘weird and<br />
wonderful’ and ‘weightless and euphoric’. From dawn to dusk, we follow a<br />
few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys<br />
from one life to the next. He is in turn captain of industry, assassin,<br />
beggar, monster, family man... Monsieur Oscar is accompanied only by Céline, the slender<br />
blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast stretch limo that transports him through and<br />
around Paris, and in which he keeps his wardrobe of bizarre disguises...<br />
“Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking and completely bonkers – French auteur Leos<br />
Carax’s so-called comeback film, HOLY MOTORS, is a deliciously preposterous piece<br />
of filmmaking that appraises life and death and everything in between, reflected in a<br />
funhouse mirror.” The Hollywood Reporter<br />
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D C<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
We hope to welcome director Mat<br />
Whitecross to the screening.<br />
Winner, Sundance World Cinema Documentary Directing Award<br />
Winner, Best Documentary, Jerusalem <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
5 Broken<br />
Cameras (CFF 12A)<br />
Directors: Emad Burnat and Guy<br />
Davidi. Occupied Palestinian Territory/<br />
Israel/France/Netherlands 2011. 90<br />
mins. Arabic and Hebrew with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Print source: New Wave<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
6.30pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
3.00pm<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ed from the perspective of a Palestinian farm labourer (Emad Burnat), 5 BROKEN CAMERAS<br />
was shot using six different video cameras – five of which were destroyed in the process<br />
of filming. Emad, who lives in Bil’in, just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, was<br />
thrust into global politics when his community peacefully resisted Israeli plans to erect a wall<br />
through their land to separate them from the ever-growing Israeli settlements. Initially given<br />
the camera to chronicle the birth and childhood of his son Gibreel, the film captures Gibreel<br />
growing into a precocious preschooler over six years, against the backdrop of the many nonviolent<br />
protests that have become an intrinsic part of life in Bil’in. An extraordinary work of<br />
both cinematic and political activism, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS daringly meshes personal essay with<br />
political cinema, displaying how images and cameras can change lives and realities.<br />
Ashes (CFF 15)<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
Director: Mat Whitecross. Starring: Ray Winstone, Jim<br />
Sturgess, Leslie Manville, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Evans. 8.15pm<br />
UK 2010. TBC mins.<br />
Print source: CinemaNX<br />
Frank (Ray Winstone) is confined to a residential home, stricken<br />
with Alzheimer’s, past, present and future steadily disintegrating.<br />
Then, one day, James (Jim Sturgess) appears, wanting to reconnect<br />
with a father who no longer knows him. James springs Frank from<br />
the home, and the pair go on the run. As their haphazard journey<br />
unfolds – funny, violent and tragic by turns – the present merges with<br />
imperfect memories of the past, and fact with fiction, and we begin<br />
to realise that nothing is quite what it seems. Director of ROAD TO<br />
GUANTANAMO, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, and Ian Dury biopic SEX & DRUGS<br />
& ROCK & ROLL, Whitecross – a graduate of Revolution <strong>Film</strong>s – follows<br />
in mentor Michael Winterbottom’s eclectic footsteps by tackling yet<br />
another new genre. But ASHES itself defies neat categorisation; part<br />
road movie, part psycholocial thriller, part contemporary film noir, but<br />
all beautifully shot, and with a grimly satisfying twist.<br />
About Elly (CFF 12A)<br />
(Darbareye Elly)<br />
Director: Asghar Farhadi. Starring: Golshifteh Farahani,<br />
Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti. Iran 2009. 119 mins.<br />
Persian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Axiom<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
3.30pm<br />
From acclaimed director Asghar Farhadi (A SEPARATION) ABOUT ELLY<br />
follows a group of middle-class friends who travel from Tehran to<br />
spend the weekend by the sea. Elly, an unmarried teacher, is invited<br />
by Sepideh, mother of one of her pupils, to travel with them. Sepideh<br />
plans to introduce her to recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in<br />
Germany. The next morning, they go shopping, but when Elly suddenly<br />
announces she has to return to Tehran, Sepideh urges her to stay,<br />
hiding her luggage. While Elly watches the children playing in the sea,<br />
Sepideh’s daughter calls to some men on the beach to rescue one of<br />
them from the water. The little boy is saved – but Elly has disappeared.<br />
What has happened to her? Has she simply returned to her mother in<br />
Tehran? Or has something far worse happened? Is she even alive?<br />
Anda Union: From The<br />
Steppes To The City (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Sophie Lascelles, Tim Pearce. UK <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
97 mins. Mongolian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Eye4<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
ANDA UNION, a group of self-styled ‘gatherers’ of Mongolian music, aim<br />
to reconnect young Mongols with their forgotten heritage – revitalising<br />
the ancient tradition of storytelling through song. The troupe brings<br />
together instruments, singing traditions and dialects from several<br />
different Mongolian tribes, unified by Genghis Khan in the 13th century.<br />
In those times, nomadic minstrels would travel between riverside,<br />
grassland or mountain settlements, accompanying their lyric poetry<br />
with a lute or a ‘horse-violin’. Today, herders chat on mobile phones<br />
and live in eco-yurts. ANDA UNION charts a mission to inject modern<br />
life with the magic and mystery of Mongolian history, and features a<br />
colourful selection of incidental encounters with priests, musicians<br />
and nomads – as well as offering a glimpse into the personal stories,<br />
past lives and loves of the young musicians themselves.<br />
D<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
8.30pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
C<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
3.30pm<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Bert Stern: Original<br />
Madman (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Shannah Laumeister.<br />
USA 2011. 93 mins.<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s Transit<br />
A story of self-creation, celebrity and reinvention, documentary<br />
BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN looks at the 60 year career of hugely<br />
influential fashion photographer Bert Stern. From humble beginnings<br />
in the mailroom at Look Magazine, Stern ended up as photographer<br />
to the stars, from jazz greats and rock music icons, to the cream of<br />
the Hollywood crop – not least, Marilyn Monroe, who he photographed<br />
just six weeks before her death in the famous sequence known as<br />
‘The Last Sitting’. His style, and the brashness with which he flaunted<br />
it, led to the rise of the celebrity photographer, whilst his polished<br />
and inventive images helped define the golden age of advertising.<br />
Laumeister’s documentary, filled with examples of Stern’s work, rarely<br />
seen archive material, and revealing interviews, is the first time the<br />
photographer has been convinced to tell his story on film.<br />
D<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
6.00pm<br />
C<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
12.45pm<br />
Avalon (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Axel Petersen. Starring: Johannes Brost,<br />
Peter Carlberg, Léonore Ekstrand. Sweden 2011.<br />
79 mins. Swedish with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Swedish <strong>Film</strong> Institute<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
10.15pm<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
12.45pm<br />
Janne is an adult teenager, mentally stuck in the consumerist 80s.<br />
After serving time in prison, Janne (superbly acted by Johannes Brost)<br />
travels to Båstad to open an exclusive nightclub and get his life back<br />
on track. During the star-studded tennis week, he makes his final<br />
preparations and enjoys life as a soon-to-be-crowned club king. But<br />
just a few days before the club’s premiere, Janne causes a catastrophic<br />
accident. His increasingly desperate attempts to deal with the situation<br />
drag him into a dark downward spiral. Wherever the impressive mood<br />
thriller AVALON has been shown it has scooped awards, and was billed<br />
as “this year’s best Swedish film” by Lovefilm DK.<br />
A film that echoes some of the<br />
best of recent Scandinavian art<br />
cinema [...] The pic is a<br />
fascinating and ultimately<br />
haunting movie, partly because<br />
of the way Petersen choreographs<br />
his characters, but also because<br />
of those characters themselves.<br />
John Anderson, Variety<br />
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Premiere<br />
D<br />
C<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Fredrik Gertten to this screening.<br />
Bestiaire (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Denis Côté. France/Canada <strong>2012</strong>. 72 mins.<br />
Print Source: Figa <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
8.15pm<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
2.00pm<br />
To simply label this film a documentary would be wrong – equally<br />
‘fiction’ or ‘film-essay’ does not quite hit the mark. One thing is certain:<br />
we are in a safari park and we see animals. Or we see animals watching<br />
us watching them. BESTIAIRE is a captivating contemplation of the<br />
observer and the observed, of those who are captives and those<br />
who believe themselves to be free. Stunning cinematography and<br />
supremely manipulative sound design turn this film into a multi-layered<br />
philosophical (if you want) visual experience or a bestiary picture<br />
book. Denis Côté considers each new film he makes a revolt against<br />
his previous one – but, nonetheless, there is a fine line connecting<br />
his body of work (DRIFTING STATES, OUR PRIVATE LIVES, ALL THAT<br />
SHE WANTS, CARCASSES): a subtle, dark undercurrent flows through<br />
them, punctured by drops of light humour, all marked by an extreme<br />
confidence in creating his very own cinematic language.<br />
Big Boys Gone<br />
Bananas!* (Cert TBC)<br />
Director: Fredrik Gertten. Sweden 2011. 90 mins.<br />
English /Swedish with English subtitles<br />
Print source: Dogwoof<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
6.00pm<br />
When filmmaker Fredrik Gertten made his 2009 documentary<br />
BANANAS, recounting the lawsuit between 12 Nicaraguan plantation<br />
owners and the giant Dole Food company, he had no idea that it<br />
was only the start of the story. Angered by a film they hadn’t yet<br />
seen, Dole Food released a cease and desist letter to the producers,<br />
removing the film from the LA <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and beginning an eight<br />
month process of corporate bullying and media spin designed to<br />
discredit the film and its message. This powerful documentary<br />
reveals precisely how a multinational will stop at nothing to get its<br />
way. As Dole’s public relations company puts it, “It is easier to cope<br />
with a bad conscience than a bad reputation”.<br />
Camp 14: Total<br />
Control Zone<br />
(CFF 18)<br />
Director: Marc Wiese. With: Shin Dong<br />
Huyk, Hyuk Kwon, Oh Yangnam. Germany<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. 104 mins. English and Korean with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Global Screen<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
3.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
1.00pm<br />
CAMP 14 is a hard-hitting documentary about Shin Dong-Huyk, one of the many victims<br />
of the inhuman North Korean regime, giving a rare first-hand account of being born<br />
and raised behind barbed wire until his dramatic escape. He eloquently describes the<br />
brutal life in Camp 14, giving chilling accounts of inhumane living conditions, starvation,<br />
beatings, torture and execution of adults and children alike. Clever use of animation<br />
allows for some visualization of these events and as well as Shin talking to camera there<br />
are interviews with former Camp commanders and secretly filmed footage of brutal police<br />
interrogations. “Our sole purpose was to follow the rules of the work camp and then die.<br />
We knew nothing about the outside. All we knew was that our parents and our forefathers<br />
were guilty and that we had to work hard in order to make up for it.”<br />
D<br />
C<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
D C<br />
We hope to welcome director Christopher<br />
Wagner to the Sat 15 screening.<br />
We hope to welcome director Dylan<br />
Richards to this screening.<br />
D<br />
C<br />
Blind Spot (CFF 15)<br />
(Doudege Wenkel)<br />
Director: Christophe Wagner. Starring: Jules<br />
Werner, André Jung , Brigitte Urhausen.<br />
Luxembourg <strong>2012</strong>. 96 mins. Luxembourgish and<br />
French with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Samsa <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
3.15pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
10.00am<br />
Between Jo Nesbø, French detectives and Danish television, Europe<br />
would seem to have the murder mystery thriller all tied up – a<br />
postulation given extra weight by police drama DOUDEGE WENKEL,<br />
the first thriller to be made in Luxembourgish. When charismatic<br />
and mysterious Inspector Hastert is handed the investigation<br />
into the death of a fellow cop, he gets the awkward help of the<br />
policeman’s brother, the restless and resentful Olivier. What at first<br />
seems to be a murder linked to a previous case is slowly revealed<br />
to be much more complicated, with Olivier leading the reluctant<br />
Hastert (who of course is near retirement) into a world of big<br />
business, corruption and scandal.<br />
Burton: The Secret? (CFF 15)<br />
(Burton: Y Gyfrinach?)<br />
Director: Dylan Richards. Starring: Richard Harrington,<br />
Dafydd Hywel. Wales 2011. 82 mins. Welsh with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Green Bay Media<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
3.30pm<br />
A provocative drama that considers what might have occurred at a<br />
pivotal moment in the life of ‘60s superstar Richard Burton, Dylan<br />
Richards’ intimate two-hander captures Burton and his elder brother,<br />
Ifor Jenkins, in the aftermath of a Swiss funeral. For Burton it was the<br />
chance to re-connect with a revered father figure estranged since his<br />
love affair with CLEOPATRA co-star Elizabeth Taylor. For Jenkins it was<br />
a moment to reflect on the past and look to the future. The awkward,<br />
booze-fuelled reunion was to climax in a shattering accident that left<br />
Ifor paralysed from the neck down. Richard Harrington and Dafydd<br />
Hywel soak the screen in Welsh melancholy and familial angst; Richards<br />
and writer Wil Roberts dare to suggest a cause for an incident that was<br />
to haunt Burton for the rest of his days. Commissioned for Welsh TV,<br />
BURTON: THE SECRET? receives its English theatrical premiere at CFF.<br />
Call Me Kuchu (15)<br />
Directors: Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax<br />
Wright. Uganda <strong>2012</strong>. 87 mins.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
6.00pm<br />
“If we keep on hiding, they will say we’re not here,” states activist,<br />
and Uganda’s first openly gay man, David Kato. Facing the<br />
impossible, he fights Uganda’s government and media in the courts<br />
and at the United Nations to repeal the country’s homophobic laws,<br />
and to liberate his fellow homosexual men and women, or ‘kuchus’.<br />
Kato works with the few who dare to protest against an upcoming<br />
‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’, which will further ignite the ongoing<br />
witch-hunt to out the kuchus across the country. Not just an<br />
important chronicle of the victimisation of many and the courage of<br />
one man, but also the heartbreaking, deeply personal story of Kato<br />
and the Kampala kuchus, as they strive to change their fate and<br />
that of other kuchus around Africa.<br />
Chasing Ice (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Jeff Orlowski. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 74 mins.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
8.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
1.30pm<br />
How do you show climate change? National Geographic<br />
photographer James Balog sets out to do just this in CHASING ICE.<br />
Creating the Extreme Ice Survey, he headed out across the Arctic<br />
to capture photographic evidence of the world’s retreating glaciers<br />
using time-lapse cameras. But it was never going to be easy. Simply<br />
putting the cameras in position demanded risky expeditions to<br />
extreme locations in Greenland, Iceland and beyond. Freezing<br />
temperatures and equipment failure then challenged Balog and his<br />
team beyond human endurance. Nevertheless, their persistence<br />
paid off – and fellow team member and director Jeff Orlowski has<br />
captured some of the most astounding images ever committed to<br />
camera in his documentary about the project. Watch in awe – and<br />
more than a little humility – at perhaps the most important story on<br />
the planet. Seeing is believing.<br />
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Director: Geoffrey Enthoven.<br />
Starring: Gilles De Schrijver, Robrecht<br />
Vanden Thoren, Isabelle de Hertogh.<br />
Belgium 2011. 115 mins. Dutch with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
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1.30pm<br />
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they embark on a journey to Spain, heading for the one place where they hope to have their<br />
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confined to a wheelchair and the third is completely paralysed. Described by its director as a<br />
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UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Comic-Con Episode<br />
IV: A Fan’s Hope (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Morgan Spurlock. USA 2011. 86 mins.<br />
Print source: Autlook <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
12.00pm<br />
Have you ever imagined a place where vulcans and vampires get along?<br />
Where wizards and wookiees can be themselves? Welcome to Comic-<br />
Con San Diego. What started as a fringe comic book convention for<br />
500 fans has grown into the pop culture event of the year, influencing<br />
every form of entertainment. Made by SUPER-SIZE ME director Morgan<br />
Spurlock, the film explores this cultural phenomenon by following the<br />
lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek mecca<br />
in the hope of making a career in comic book illustration, winning an<br />
award with impressive monster-costumes (including facial muscles<br />
steered by electrodes!), and saving a library of rare comics. As if that is<br />
not drama enough, there is a young man who plans to propose to his<br />
geek-girlfriend during the biggest comic event of the fair.<br />
“Spurlock brings his usual good-humored approach to the subject,<br />
nicely balancing absurdity with genuine human interest.” VARIETY<br />
D<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
10.30pm<br />
C<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
A Cube Of Sugar (CFF U)<br />
(Ye Habe Gand)<br />
Director: Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi. Starring: Puneh<br />
Abdolkarim-Zadeh, Amir-Hossein Arman. Iran. 2011.<br />
116 mins. Persian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Soureh Cinema Org<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
2.00pm<br />
EMMANUEL<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
10.30am<br />
In A CUBE OF SUGAR, three generations come together to celebrate the<br />
wedding of young Pasandide, portrayed by a vibrant Negar Javaherian<br />
(winner of Best Actress at last year’s Fajr International <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>).<br />
Spanning the two days before the union, there is plenty of opportunity<br />
for familial frictions and affections to colour the atmosphere. Old Uncle<br />
Ezzatolah (Saeed Poursamimi) hosts the reunion in his beautiful and<br />
dilapidated home, where Mir-Karimi’s painstaking compositions are<br />
complemented perfectly by Mohammad Reza Aligholi’s voluptuous<br />
score. Mir-Karimi’s experience in graphic design is evident in his<br />
instinctive and indulgent use of light and colour as a sweet backdrop to<br />
the light, tight script. Not just a chick flick, A CUBE OF SUGAR is a gently<br />
thought-provoking portrait of Iranian tradition and family life.<br />
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Premiere<br />
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Premiere<br />
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D<br />
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Digital Dharma<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
Director: Dafna Yachin.<br />
USA 2011. 82 mins.<br />
Print source: Off the Fence<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
6.15pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
10.30am<br />
When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political turmoil<br />
of the 1950s and 1960s, following the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the history of a whole<br />
society – its beliefs, customs and sense of enlightenment – is in danger of disappearing.<br />
Enter American pacifist E. Gene Smith, a Mormon from Utah, the unlikely leader of an<br />
effort to rescue, preserve and share these early insights into mankind’s consciousness,<br />
from the medical to the mystical. Crossing multiple borders – geographic, political and<br />
philosophical – DIGITAL DHARMA is an epic documentary of a cultural rescue and how one<br />
man’s mission became the catalyst for an international movement to provide free access<br />
to the story of a people.<br />
El Gusto (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Safinez Bousbia. Ireland 2011. 88 mins.<br />
French and Arabic with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Fortissimo<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
5.45pm<br />
Safinez Bousbia was exploring Algiers when she met old Mr Ferkioui<br />
selling mirrors in a back street. He reminisced about his days as a<br />
folk musician in the 1940s, when Chaabi music was a scandalous<br />
genre, enjoyed mainly in cannabis dens. In 1962, the resolution of the<br />
Algerian War had forced the orchestra to disperse, but Safinez vowed<br />
to track down Mr Ferkioui’s Jewish and Muslim band mates. It took her<br />
two years to find all surviving members. Nearly a half-century after<br />
disbanding, El Gusto are now enjoying a new lease of life: they opened<br />
at the Berlin Jazz <strong>Festival</strong> in 2007, and the following year released an<br />
album produced by Damon Albarn. EL GUSTO is a symphony of sound,<br />
memory and history – and a celebration of friends reunited.<br />
Fire In The Blood (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Dylan Mohan Gray. India <strong>2012</strong>. 84 mins.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
3.00pm<br />
AIDS may not have a cure, but antiretroviral drugs have been a<br />
treatment mainstay since the mid-1990s – yet originally they were<br />
heavily protected by patents from Western pharmaceutical firms.<br />
FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how access to low-cost or<br />
generic AIDS drugs was blocked by the drugs companies and the<br />
governments who supported them in North America and Europe by<br />
setting prices too high. AIDS sufferers elsewhere in the world were<br />
left unable to afford the medication they so desperately needed; it<br />
is estimated that ten million died unnecessarily. Dylan Mohan Gray’s<br />
powerful documentary recounts how campaigners brought together<br />
figures as diverse as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and the Indian<br />
government in a struggle to place human life before profit.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
D C<br />
D<br />
C<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Toni<br />
Harman to the morning screening and<br />
members of Brightlight to the afternoon’s.<br />
Drying For Freedom<br />
(Cert TBC)<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
Director: Steven Lake. UK/India/USA 2011. 60 mins.<br />
Our planet’s economic and environmental future hangs on an<br />
unlikely thread: the clothesline. British filmmaker Steven Lake<br />
criss-crosses the world to unravel the reasons and consequences<br />
for the banishing of the clotheslines in favour of tumble dryers.<br />
DRYING FOR FREEDOM is a voyage into the new environmental<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
1.00pm<br />
battlefield where money, status and class come first and our planet<br />
is a poor second.<br />
Programme 101 – Memory<br />
Of The Future (CFF PG)<br />
Directors: Alessandro Bernard and Paolo Ceretto. Italy 2011. 55mins.<br />
Italian with English subtitles. Print source: TBC<br />
Tasked with designing the future, engineers at Olivetti developed<br />
the Programma 101, the first commercial desktop computer,<br />
launched at the 1964 World’s Fair.<br />
Elena (Cert TBC)<br />
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring: Andrey Smirnov,<br />
Nadezhda Markina, Elena Lyadova. Russia 2011. 109 mins.<br />
Russian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: New Wave<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
5.30pm<br />
Winner at Cannes of the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize,<br />
ELENA is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixtyish<br />
spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share a palatial Moscow<br />
apartment—he’s a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his dowdy<br />
former nurse who has clearly ‘married up’. Estranged from his own<br />
wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly despises his wife’s freeloading<br />
son and family. But when a sudden illness and an unexpected<br />
reunion threaten the dutiful housewife’s potential inheritance, she<br />
must hatch a desperate plan. Masterfully crafted by award-winning<br />
Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (Golden Globe nominee THE<br />
RETURN) and featuring evocative, Hitchcockian music by Philip<br />
Glass, ELENA is a subtly stylish exploration of crime, punishment<br />
and human nature. (Text courtesy of Zeitgeistfilms).<br />
Flying Blind (Cert TBC)<br />
Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz. Starring: Helen<br />
McCrory, Najib Oudghiri, Kenneth Cranham. UK<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. 93 mins.<br />
Print source: Content <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
6.15pm<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
10.45pm<br />
Frankie is a successful aerospace engineer designing drones for<br />
the military. When she meets Kahil, a French-Algerian student, she<br />
embarks on a passionate affair, until one morning she is detained<br />
by the security services and told that Kahil is a “person of interest”.<br />
She now realises how little she knows of Khalil. Soon her certain<br />
world starts to crack, but is her love stronger than her mistrust?<br />
With an incredibly strong central performance from the magnificent<br />
Helen McCrory, this is an absorbing mix of erotic love story and<br />
political thriller. Carefully unfolding its secrets, while holding<br />
enough ambiguity to keep itself one step ahead of the viewer,<br />
FLYING BLIND is a ground-breaking debut feature.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz<br />
and producer Alison Sterling to the Mon 17 screening.<br />
Freedom For Birth<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Toni Harman, Alex Wakeford.<br />
UK <strong>2012</strong>. 50 mins.<br />
Print Source: Alto <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
11.00am<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
5.45pm<br />
Human rights abuses in childbirth are happening every day in every<br />
country around the world. These routine human rights abuses<br />
do not just affect the health and well-being of mothers and their<br />
babies, but on a global scale, these violations threaten our survival<br />
as a species. The film focuses on the story of two Hungarian<br />
women, a midwife Agnes Gereb and a mother, Anna Ternovsky. This<br />
film positions childbirth as the most pressing human issue globally<br />
and provides the key to unlock a revolution that will change the<br />
world. FREEDOM FOR BIRTH is premiering all over the world on<br />
this day – after this special <strong>Cambridge</strong> Premiere the audience are<br />
invited to join in with a discussion about how we can all help to<br />
change childbirth for the better.<br />
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UK<br />
Premiere<br />
D C<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Gregory<br />
Crewdson:<br />
Brief Encounters<br />
(CFF U)<br />
Director: Ben Shapiro.<br />
USA <strong>2012</strong>. 79 mins.<br />
Print source: Soda<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
5.30pm<br />
For acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson it is never a simple case of taking a<br />
picture; every image involves days and weeks of invention, design, and set-up. The epic<br />
production of these movie-like images is both an intensely personal work of creative art<br />
and a highly public process, coming to life on streets and soundstages in the hill towns of<br />
Western Massachusetts. <strong>Film</strong>ed over a decade, GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS<br />
reveals the life and story behind the work. The film is told through frank reflections on<br />
his life and career, including childhood fears and ideals, adult anxieties and desires, and<br />
the influences of pop-culture and his psychologist father. There is no specific backstory,<br />
no before-and-after to Gregory Crewdson’s images, simply a moment that lends itself to<br />
mystery and intrigue.<br />
Hit and Run (15)<br />
Directors: David Palmer,<br />
Dax Shepard. Starring: Dax<br />
Shepard, Kristen Bell, Tom<br />
Arnold, Bradley Cooper.<br />
USA <strong>2012</strong>. 100 mins.<br />
Print source: Momentum<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
10.45pm<br />
Young couple Annie and Charlie (Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard) risk it all when they leave<br />
their small town life to embark on a road trip to Los Angeles. Annie has a big interview<br />
lined up. It could mean her landing her dream job, and Charlie is determined to get her<br />
there on time. There’s just one problem. Charlie is an ex-getaway driver, and in order to<br />
get his girl to LA is having to bust out of his identity in the Witness Protection Program.<br />
The complications multiply as Annie and Charlie head west: Annie’s obsessive exboyfriend<br />
is after her, Charlie’s old gang – given the tip-off by Annie’s ex – are after him to<br />
settle old scores, and bringing up the rear is bumbling, closeted US Marshall (Tom Arnold)<br />
whose seemingly impossible mission is to keep Charlie alive. A romantic comedy with its<br />
foot permanently on the gas.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
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C<br />
D<br />
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Grandma Lo-Fi: The<br />
Basement Tapes Of<br />
Sigrídur Níelsdóttir<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
6.00pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
8.00pm<br />
VARSITY<br />
Directors: Orri Jónsson, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Ingibjörg<br />
Birgisdóttir. Denmark/Iceland 2011. 65 mins. Danish and Icelandic<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Killit <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
At the tender age of 70 Sigríður Níelsdóttir started recording and<br />
releasing her own music straight from her living room. 7 years later she<br />
had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs; an eccentric<br />
myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pet’s purrs and coos, found<br />
toys, kitchen percussion and casio keyboards. Before long she became<br />
a cult figure in the Icelandic music scene. Shot mostly on Super-8 and<br />
16mm film, GRANDMA LO-FI was created over a period of eight years by<br />
three musicians debuting as directors and capturing the most creative<br />
period in the life of Sigríður Níelsdóttir. GRANDMA LO-FI is a cinematic<br />
tribute to an amazing musician and her boundless creativity.<br />
Hemel (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Sacha Polak. Starring: Hannah Hoekstra,<br />
Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen. Netherlands/Spain,<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. 80 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Media Luna<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
5.15pm<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
12.30pm<br />
Hemel (the Dutch word for heaven) has an unconventional lifestyle.<br />
She is young, beautiful and in her father’s eyes the most<br />
precious thing on earth. She is also wild, sadistic, masochistic.<br />
She frequently goes clubbing, risks her life sleeping with dubious<br />
strangers and has an unhealthy admiration for her womanizing dad,<br />
Gijs. When Gijs finally finds his partner for life, Hemel goes through<br />
hell, and a time of loss and self-discovery lies ahead for the rebel.<br />
This absorbing, fresh portrait of a young woman living a life without<br />
boundaries and a never ending hunger for sex and attention is not<br />
simply provoking – it is done with tenderness, humour and a fine<br />
cinematographic eye. Whether director Sacha Polak has made the<br />
female answer to SHAME is for you to decide. HEMEL received the<br />
critic’s FIPRESCI award at Berlinale <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Hit So Hard (CFF 15)<br />
Director: P. David Epersole. USA 2011. 103 mins.<br />
Print source: Peccadillo Pictures<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
10.30pm<br />
In the early nineties, Grunge music burst into the scene and spread<br />
like wildfire across the TV and radio waves. The heroes of the era<br />
would come and go within three short years, famously ending with the<br />
untimely death of Nirvana front man, Kurt Cobain. One of the seminal<br />
bands of the time was Hole, and just before their Live Through This tour,<br />
the drummer, Patty Schemel, was given a video camera. Using this, she<br />
captured incredible footage from the eye of the storm that surrounded<br />
her, all unseen – until now. Using this footage as well as current-day<br />
interviews, HIT SO HARD is a rare and intimate record of the time as well<br />
as a personal story of overnight success, detailing the cost of addiction<br />
and fame, leading ultimately to recovery and redemption.<br />
Indignados (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Tony Gatlif. Starring: Mamebetty Honoré<br />
Diallo. France 2011. 88 mins. French, Wolof, Greek<br />
and Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Les <strong>Film</strong>s du Losange<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
8.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
12.00pm<br />
Shoes of African refugees are washed up onto a beach. Then Betty<br />
comes into view: she too has arrived in Europe by sea. Her journey as<br />
an illegal immigrant takes her across a Europe in transition. She meets<br />
people rising up against the system, joins their solidarity marches<br />
and becomes a witness to the Occupy movement, impoverished illegal<br />
immigrants, the dissatisfaction of a younger generation and a society<br />
in turmoil. A mixture of dramatised scenes and real-life events are used<br />
to portray Betty’s journey to the heart of today’s zeitgeist. Stéphane<br />
Hessel’s bestselling essay ‘Time for Outrage!’, an inspiration to many of<br />
the protagonists of this pan-generational movement, steers us through<br />
Tony Gatlif’s film. Images of flyers fluttering down from the skies and<br />
iridescent flamenco dancers are among the many colourful scenes that<br />
convey a powerful impression of the strength of these protests.<br />
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Premiere<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
We are hoping to welcome director<br />
Stelios Kammitsis to this screening.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Jesse Vile to this screening.<br />
Jerks (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Stelios Kammitsis. Starring: Giorgos<br />
Kafetzopoulos, Aineias Tsamatis , Diogenis<br />
Skaltsas. Greece 2011. 77 mins. Greek with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Astor <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
4.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
12.45pm<br />
Foibos, Andreas and Savas make a pact that in one year they will<br />
leave Athens and move to Berlin in search of a better life. Tonight<br />
is the last night before they depart and the three friends stand on<br />
the edge of their futures. But will their plans change as the hidden<br />
fears, hopes and truths of life reveal themselves over the course of<br />
the night? Taking place along the endless streets and passageways<br />
of Athens, the characters wander as if searching for reasons to go<br />
or stay, the film perfectly catching those life-changing moments<br />
of decision. Youthful playfulness and the wisdom gained with the<br />
passing of age come together in a charming, funny and deeply<br />
moving coming-of-age tale.<br />
Kid-Thing (CFF 15)<br />
Director: David Zellner. Starring: Sydney<br />
Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell, Nathan Zellner,<br />
David Zellner. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 83 mins.<br />
Print source: Zellner Brothers<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
2.45pm<br />
As school’s been out for days already and there’s no-one to look after her, 10-year-old Annie<br />
roams alone through forest and meadow, leaving a trail of destruction in her path. But her<br />
confidence is severely shaken when she comes across a hole in the ground from whose depths<br />
a woman’s voice can be heard calling for help. As if guided by some magic power, she returns<br />
again and again to this place of mystery, first with sandwiches and walkie-talkies, and later with<br />
a request. She may bellow defiantly “I’m not scared of nothing!” into the hole, but is frightened<br />
nonetheless – full of questions which no adult seems able to answer. The land that the Zellner<br />
brothers present is a run-down realm of the debilitated and the disturbed, their combination<br />
of hyperreal independent film motifs and fairy tale tropes generating something genuinely<br />
unique: disturbing, funny, brutal, offbeat and melancholy. (Text courtesy of Berlinale <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Jason Becker:<br />
Not Dead Yet (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jesse Vile. With: Jason Becker, Ehren Becker,<br />
Gary Becker, Pat Becker, Ron Becker, Marty Friedman, Dave<br />
Lopez, Serrana Pilar, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.<br />
UK/USA <strong>2012</strong>. 90 mins.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
8.15pm<br />
Award-winning<br />
documentary JASON<br />
BECKER: NOT DEAD<br />
YET charts the<br />
extraordinary life of<br />
Jason Becker, who in<br />
the 1980s was rising<br />
fast to stardom<br />
having made a name<br />
for himself as an<br />
exceptional guitarist<br />
playing in the legendary David Lee Roth band. When, aged 19, he was<br />
diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, his world collapsed. A paralysing,<br />
terminal illness with no cure, it has trapped Jason inside his own body<br />
for the past 22 years. Unable to move, speak, or play the guitar he<br />
has nevertheless overcome all odds with the help of his friends and<br />
family. Now immobilised he continues to write songs using an eye<br />
communication system invented by his father, thus releasing the music<br />
that is trapped inside his mind. Despite his immobility, his persona<br />
remains vibrant and his fan base huge.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
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Jiro Dreams<br />
Of Sushi (U)<br />
Director: David Gelb. USA 2011. 81 mins.<br />
Japanese with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Soda<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
6.00pm<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
12.45pm<br />
Described by film critics as “mouthwatering” and “maddeningly<br />
delicious looking” this documentary is a must for any sushi lover. JIRO<br />
DREAMS OF SUSHI is the story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered<br />
by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor<br />
of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously<br />
located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it<br />
is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious three-star<br />
Michelin Guide rating, and sushi lovers from around the globe make<br />
repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top<br />
dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar.JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI is<br />
a thoughtful and elegant meditation on work, family, and the art of<br />
perfection, chronicling Jiro’s life as both an unparalleled success in the<br />
culinary world and as a loving yet complicated father.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
We are hoping to welcome the<br />
executive producer to this screening.<br />
Kinderblock 66: Return<br />
To Buchenwald (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Rob Cohen.<br />
USA/Czech Republic/Israel/Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 87 mins.<br />
Print source: Big Foot Productions<br />
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23<br />
3.00pm<br />
Almost a thousand little boys were liberated from Buchenwald<br />
concentration camp, on April 11, 1945. Four of these children<br />
returned to the camp 65 years later. KINDERBLOCK 66 reveals how<br />
they found sanctuary in a special barracks run by an underground<br />
Communist resistance. In the seclusion of Block 66, their Czech<br />
guardians saved them from slaughter on several occasions.<br />
Producer Steve Moscovic avoids the usual ‘talking head’ approach,<br />
instead giving each survivor his own camera, and allowing their<br />
stories to unfold naturally. His father Alex, one of the survivors,<br />
speaks to schoolchildren today “so they will pass on our story to<br />
make sure it never happens again [...] I see it as my responsibility to<br />
try to leave the world a better place than I found it.”<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Leap (CFF PG)<br />
(Hyppy)<br />
Director: Jouko Aaltonen. Finland <strong>2012</strong>. 81 mins.<br />
Finnish and English with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Illume<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
8.30pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
10.30am<br />
LEAP is primarily a portrait of the international and controversial<br />
Hare Krishna movement, but also takes a broader look at religious<br />
experience in general – at the choices that must be made on any<br />
journey of surrender to a higher power, with the support of a mentor.<br />
Award-winning director Jouko Aaltonen’s documentary follows the<br />
story of Keshava Madhava Das, a Finnish tram driver, whose life was<br />
changed when he witnessed his grandfather’s death. His spiritual<br />
leader Radhanath Swami is one of the movement’s most charismatic<br />
Indian gurus. Endorsed by the International Society for Krishna<br />
Consciousness, LEAP offers unprecedented insight into the movement<br />
and charts the progress of the disciple Keshava over two years, as he<br />
faces the dilemmas of reconciling his personal life with the calling of<br />
one of the world’s most fascinating and demanding religions.<br />
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Liberal Arts (Cert TBC)<br />
Director: Josh Radnor. Starring: Josh Radnor,<br />
Elizabeth Olsen, Allison Janney, Richard<br />
Jenkins. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 96 mins.<br />
Print source: Picturehouse Entertainment/Revolver<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
8.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
10.30am<br />
D<br />
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Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher (writer-director<br />
Josh Radnor) worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter<br />
how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back.<br />
When his favourite college professor invites him to campus to speak at<br />
his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the<br />
nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry<br />
seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby (Olsen) — a beautiful,<br />
precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary,<br />
exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse<br />
thought buried forever.<br />
“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like<br />
an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and<br />
vision. Dryly affectionate and super-sharp.” Owen Gleiberman,<br />
Entertainment Weekly<br />
On The Road<br />
(CFF 18)<br />
Director: Walter Salles. Starring:<br />
Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen<br />
Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams,<br />
Viggo Mortensen. France/UK/USA/<br />
Brazil <strong>2012</strong>. 137 mins.<br />
Print source: Lionsgate<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
7.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
3.00pm<br />
Just after his father’s death, Sal Paradise (Riley), an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean<br />
Moriarty (Hedlund), a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and<br />
seductive Marylou (Stewart). Sal and Dean bond instantly. Determined not to get locked into a<br />
constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. Thirsting for<br />
freedom, the three young people head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of<br />
themselves. Featuring an all-star cast and based on Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel of the Beat<br />
Generation – itself a road movie waiting to happen, long before that term had meaning – Walter<br />
Salles’ eagerly anticipated ON THE ROAD is a fast-paced, rollercoaster ride through 1950s<br />
America – a portrait of a time of change, and those who were changed by their search for ‘it’.<br />
Official selection at the Cannes International <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Meet The Fokkens<br />
(Ouwehoeren) (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Gabrielle Provaas and Rob Schröder.<br />
Netherlands 2011. 76 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Autlook <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
5.45pm<br />
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“In the old days, the local copper would tap on the window if a girl was<br />
showing too much ankle, now the girls deal coke from their cubicles.”<br />
Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they<br />
were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of<br />
their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade<br />
union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam’s Red Light<br />
District, but soon they will bid their farewells. MEET THE FOKKENS is a<br />
portrait of these remarkable women.<br />
Despite its content, or more likely in<br />
a deliberate attempt at irreverence,<br />
the film is absolutely charming and<br />
presented almost like a piece of 60’s<br />
French cinema. The non-diegetic<br />
music is full of accordions and<br />
clarinets, the cinematography is<br />
whimsical and colourful and the<br />
overall message is one of enjoying the<br />
particulate experience of life.<br />
Sound on Sight<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Ol Parker to the Wed 19 screening.<br />
Now Is Good (12A)*<br />
Director: Ol Parker. Starring: Dakota Fanning,<br />
Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 103 mins.<br />
Print Source: Warner Brothers<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
8.00pm<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
10.30am<br />
Tessa is seventeen and passionate about life. Diagnosed with a<br />
terminal illness, she determines to use every moment and compiles<br />
a list of what a normal teenager would experience. While her<br />
parents and brother each deal with their fear of losing her in their<br />
own way, Tessa explores a whole new world, determined to live<br />
every day as intensely as possible. Falling in love with Adam, her<br />
new neighbour, wasn’t on the list – but it proves to be the most<br />
exhilarating experience of them all. Based on the novel Before I Die<br />
by Jenny Downham, this is a heart-warming, and at times heartwrenching,<br />
exploration of what really matters in life. A film that will<br />
stay with you long after you’ve left the cinema.<br />
*Contains strong language, drug use and sex references<br />
The Penguin King 3D (U)<br />
Directors: Anthony Geffen, Slas Wilson. UK 2011. 75 mins.<br />
Print Source: Kaleidoscope <strong>Film</strong> Distribution<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
2.30pm<br />
Three years ago, the Penguin King left home. Now he is returning to<br />
the place where he was born and raised: Penguin City. What follows<br />
is a journey through the most challenging time of the Penguin<br />
King’s life. His story is often comic, sometimes tragic, and ultimately<br />
triumphant: a rite of passage set on one of the earth’s last great<br />
wildernesses. Enjoy this thrilling new wildlife documentary narrated<br />
by Sir David Attenborough in spectacular 3D.<br />
There is also a special Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> screening of this film<br />
on Sat 15 at 1.00pm<br />
Postcards From<br />
The Zoo (CFF 15)<br />
(Kebun Binatang)<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
8.15pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
3.15pm<br />
Director: Edwin. Starring: Ladya Cheryl, Nicholas Saputra, Adje<br />
Nur Ahmad. Indonesia/Germany/Hong Kong/China. <strong>2012</strong>. 96mins.<br />
Indonesian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: The Match Factory<br />
This is the story of Lana, whose father abandoned her in Jakarta’s zoo<br />
like an exotic animal. Lana will be raised by zookeepers and when old<br />
enough, she will help them to look after the animals. Her inspiration is<br />
the giraffe and she dreams that one day she may touch her. Before this<br />
can happen though, she will fall in love with a cowboy, and magician<br />
who can light a fire with his bare fingers. He is going to take her to her<br />
natural habitat – the city. This is a bitter-sweet fairytale for adults by<br />
director Edwin (BLIND PIGS WHO WANT TO FLY) with many layers and<br />
meanings, full of poetry, quirky moments and magical images.<br />
“An unclassifiable work of striking originality.”<br />
Screen International<br />
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Premiere<br />
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Premiere<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Monika Treut to the Friday 14 screening.<br />
The Raw And<br />
The Cooked<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
Director: Monika Treut. Germany/Taiwan<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. 83 mins. Mandarin, Taiwanese and<br />
English with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Hyena <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
8.15pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
4.00pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
THE RAW AND THE COOKED is a culinary journey around the gourmet’s paradise, Taiwan.<br />
In the capital, Taipei, we visit a traditional Taiwanese restaurant, a legendary dim-sum<br />
palace, and one of the city’s lively night markets. Next, we encounter the hearty cuisine of<br />
the Hakka, Taiwan’s largest ethnic community. We’re introduced to the pure and delicious<br />
seafood specialities of the Ami indigenous tribe, and get a glimpse of the Buddhist<br />
influences on Taiwanese cuisine. Finally, we are invited to a banquet by one of the island’s<br />
most creative chefs to witness him weave culinary magic to create spectacular and novel<br />
dishes. We also witness the efforts of Taiwan’s young environmental movement to resist the<br />
rapid pace of urbanisation destroying much of the island’s beautiful countryside. THE RAW<br />
AND THE COOKED is an island tour that celebrates fine food.<br />
Steve Jobs: The<br />
Lost Interview (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Paul Sen. USA 2011. 70 mins. English<br />
Print source: Autlook <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
8.45pm<br />
EMMANUEL<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
8.30pm<br />
While making TV series Triumph of the Nerds in 1995, Bob Cringely<br />
conducted an hour-long interview with Steve Jobs. At the time Jobs<br />
was running NeXT, the company he founded after being ousted from<br />
Apple in 1985. Jobs was at his charismatic best – witty, outspoken<br />
and visionary. He talked of his pioneering days with Steve Wozniak,<br />
developing the first Apple computer, his eventual departure from<br />
the company and finally, of a digital future – a world of astonishing<br />
products created by artists and poets. Long thought lost, a VHS<br />
copy of the tape was found in the series director’s garage and<br />
remastered using the latest technology, allowing us a second look<br />
at this fascinating interview. It reveals the drive and desire behind<br />
the man who redefined the modern technology landscape.<br />
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Premiere<br />
Salma And The<br />
Apple (CFF PG)<br />
(Sib O Salma)<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
1.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
8.30pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
Director: Habib Bahmani. Starring: Hadi Dibaji, Sogol Ghalatian.<br />
Iran. 2011. 90 mins. Persian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Soureh Cinema Org<br />
Notable Iranian director Habib Bahmani found success at Russia’s<br />
Golden Minbar festival (2011) and at Cannes this year with his social<br />
drama SIB O SALMA, a story which uses the symbol of the apple<br />
as forbidden fruit to represent issues of consent, accountability,<br />
forgiveness, human rights and free will. Contemporary Persian cinema,<br />
championed by Haneke and Herzog, is known for its elliptical, quaintly<br />
curious but always engaging appeal. Hadi Dibaji stars as a cunning,<br />
playful and impulsive Muslim seminary student and cleric, who embarks<br />
on a voyage of discovery which is bittersweet in its self-indulgent<br />
futility. Bright and mischievous as its central character, and grounded<br />
by a stalwart performance from co-star Behruz Baghaei, SIB O SALMA is<br />
thoughtful and philosophical, a compelling contemporary moral fable.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Starbuck (Cert TBC)<br />
Director: Ken Scott. Starring: Patrick Huard, Julie<br />
LeBreton, Antoine Bertrand. Canada 2011. 103 mins.<br />
French and Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Entertainment-One<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
5.45pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
12.45pm<br />
Both screwball farce and a heartwarming comedy, STARBUCK is an<br />
innovative angle on the arrested adolescent so popular in recent<br />
American films. David Wozniar (Huard) has reached 40 without<br />
lumbering himself with a single adult responsibility; he coasts<br />
through life as an unreliable delivery man and is a burden to his<br />
girlfriend Valerie. But when she announces her surprise pregnancy,<br />
David’s past suddenly catches up. Unsure he wants to be a father to<br />
one child, he discovers that a series of sperm donations he made 20<br />
years earlier mean he’s already the unwitting father of 533 children.<br />
STARBUCK has a plot of such high-concept simplicity it’s no surprise<br />
Hollywood has already lined up the re-make.<br />
Photo credit: Victor Arnolds<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Tony 10 (CFF U)<br />
Director: Mischa Kamp. Starring: Carlo Boszhard,<br />
Anna Drijver. Netherlands <strong>2012</strong>. 90 mins. Dutch with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Lemming <strong>Film</strong><br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
12.45pm<br />
Poor Tony, almost ten years old, is desperate to prevent his parents<br />
splitting up. He begins to suspect that his father has fallen for<br />
another woman – specifically, the Queen (the statuesque Annet<br />
Malherbe). How else would a lowly crane driver earn a promotion<br />
to Secretary of State? Tony takes matters into his own young<br />
hands and confronts the Queen herself – over a ping-pong table.<br />
He eventually learns to accept that some things just can’t be<br />
fixed, including his parents’ marriage – but his family can still find<br />
happiness. Scriptwriter Mieke de Jong takes the sensitive subject<br />
of divorce, seen from the perspective of a young boy, and turns<br />
the theme into a modern day fairy tale. Under Mischa Kamp’s<br />
drily humorous direction, TONY 10 is a surreal, and yet touchingly<br />
sensitive examination of loneliness.<br />
Tales Of The Waria<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Kathy Huang. Starring: Suhami, Mama Ria, Tiara.<br />
USA/Indonesia. 2011. 57 mins. Indonesian with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Print source: Kathy Huang<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
4.00pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
When Kathy Huang first learned of the Indonesian waria – biological<br />
men who identify as women – she was amazed to discover that<br />
a transgender community could exist so visibly in the world’s<br />
largest Muslim country. She travelled to Indonesia to hear their<br />
stories first hand, and discovered a world full of contradictions,<br />
tragedy and heroism. The waria willingly collaborated with Huang<br />
on this unprecedented glimpse into a little-known but remarkable<br />
community.<br />
Khaana (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Rajinder Sawhney. Starring: Ferena Wazeir,<br />
Rez Kempton. UK 2011. 8 mins.<br />
Print source: ImagineAsia Ltd<br />
Rajinder Sawhney’s delightful drama short about an orthodox Muslim<br />
mother-to-be dealing with the culture shock of life in London.<br />
KHAANA received the future filmmaker award at this year’s Palm<br />
Springs Shortfest.<br />
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Trattoria (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Soleen Yusef. Starring: Anna Hermann,<br />
Uwe Preuss. France/Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 40 mins.<br />
German with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>akademie Baden-Württemberg<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
4.15pm<br />
EMMANUEL<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
4.00pm<br />
Lea, 19 years old, wants to meet her father – but he doesn’t want<br />
to know. Undaunted, she smuggles herself into his life and starts<br />
working in his restaurant. But what does this world of pizza, pasta<br />
and shady deals really mean to him... and, finally, to her?<br />
Robyn O. (14) (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Cecilia Verheyden. Starring: Els Dottermans,<br />
Flor Decleir, Zoe Thielemans. Belgium <strong>2012</strong>. 27mins.<br />
Dutch with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Cecilia Verheyden<br />
A Trip To The Moon (U)<br />
(Le Voyage Dans La Lune)<br />
Director: Georges Méliès. Starring: Georges Méliès,<br />
Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, France 1902. 14mins.<br />
Print source: Park Circus<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
11.00am<br />
Presented in its fully restored original 1902 colours, Georges Méliès’<br />
classic adventure tale of a lunar voyage is now as beautiful as ever.<br />
A rare chance to enjoy the restoration that premiered at Cannes<br />
2011 and was hailed by New York Times film critic A.O. Scott as<br />
“surely a cinematic highlight of the year, maybe the century.”<br />
The Extraordinary Voyage (CFF U)<br />
Director: Serge Bromberg. France 2011. 63 mins.<br />
Print source: Park Circus<br />
The Trouble With<br />
St Marys (Cert U)<br />
Director: Peter Hegedus. Australia 2011. 75 mins.<br />
Print source: Wild Fury Pty Ltd<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
4.00am<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
11.00pm<br />
When seventy two year old Father Peter Kennedy is sacked by the<br />
Catholic Church for unorthodox practices, a fight ensues that will<br />
result in one of the biggest rifts in the history of the Australian<br />
Catholic Church. The sacking not only removes Peter Kennedy from<br />
the Church, but also effectively exiles over 1,000 members of his<br />
community who have followed him for almost thirty years. A new<br />
observational documentary originally produced for the Australian<br />
Broadcasting Corporation Compass programme by writer/director/<br />
producer Peter Hegedus, (director of MY AMERICA) THE TROUBLE<br />
WITH ST MARY’S follows the journey of a rebel priest and his<br />
community and their attempt to find a new way forward outside<br />
of the Catholic Church. Will they survive their struggle with the<br />
authority of a powerful establishment, and can they remain a united<br />
community under a common spirituality?<br />
Untouchable (CFF TBC)<br />
(Intouchables)<br />
Directors: Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.<br />
Starring: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny.<br />
France 2011. 112 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Entertainment<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
5.45pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
12.30pm<br />
Teenage girl Robyn is desperate to join her older brothers at parties,<br />
but they don’t want her around. When their parents leave for a business<br />
trip, Robyn’s little brother manages to achieve what she has never been<br />
able to. She totally loses control.<br />
Early Birds (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jeroen Bogaert. Starring: Szaga Lauwers,<br />
Tom Van Bauwel. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 21mins. Flemish with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Jeroen Bogaert<br />
Mila, a rebellious 12-year-old girl, has a secret crush on her 40-yearold<br />
neighbour and coach, Sam. When she finds out that he’s moving<br />
away to Italy for at least a year, she conceives the plan to go with him.<br />
THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE chronicles the painstaking restoration<br />
of Georges Méliès’ fantastical masterpiece A TRIP TO THE MOON to<br />
its original 1902 colours – from film archivists Serge Bromberg and<br />
Eric Lange of Lobster <strong>Film</strong>s acquiring a severely damaged colour<br />
print in 1999, to the final realisation of their dream, shown in its<br />
fully restored glory at Cannes in 2011. The film includes interviews<br />
with contemporary filmmakers such as Costa-Gavras, Michel Gondry,<br />
Michel Hazanavicius and Jean-Pierre Jeunet discussing Méliès’<br />
influence on cinema.<br />
Don’t miss Not-So-Silent Movies (p. 9), Neil Brand’s interactive<br />
musical exploration of the magic of silent cinema, including the<br />
work of Méliès.<br />
D<br />
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Bryn Higgins to this screening.<br />
Unconditional (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Bryn Higgins. Starring: Madeleine Clark ,<br />
Harry McEntire, Christian Cooke. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 92mins.<br />
English<br />
Print source: Media Luna<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
8.00pm<br />
Written by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Joe Fischer,<br />
UNCONDITIONAL is as unpredictable a movie as you could wish for.<br />
Part coming of age drama, part thriller and part psycho-sexual<br />
character study, the film has already been gathering praise at<br />
American film festivals. Teenage twins Kristen and Owen are misfits<br />
in the real world, bored of caring for their mum and spending their<br />
time idly fantasising about her murder. Spiraling money problems<br />
lead the pair to a loan shark, the charming Liam, who Kristen<br />
instantly takes a shine to. But Liam’s attentions focus instead on<br />
the impressionable Owen, to whom he offers unconditional love –<br />
on one condition: Owen must take his sister’s identity and become<br />
a new ‘Kristen’.<br />
Voted the top<br />
cultural event of<br />
2011 in France,<br />
where it became<br />
the second most<br />
viewed film of<br />
all time after<br />
just nine weeks,<br />
UNTOUCHABLE is<br />
the incredible true<br />
story of the unlikely<br />
friendship between Driss, the recently released convict turned<br />
live-in carer, and Phillipe, a disabled man. Poignant and memorable<br />
performances from the brilliant Sy and Cluzet form the heart of<br />
what is being hailed as a modern comedy masterpiece. A rare,<br />
perceptive and positive story of Paris life, rooted in both honesty<br />
and humour, it works as a feel-good buddy film which is also able to<br />
deal with some very difficult subjects.<br />
It has warmth, humour and an<br />
understated sweetness.<br />
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War Witch (CFF 18)<br />
(Rebelle)<br />
Director: Kim Nguyen. Starring:<br />
Rachel Mwanza, Alain Bastien, Serge<br />
Kanyinda. Canada <strong>2012</strong>. 90 mins.<br />
French, Lingala with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s Distribution<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
5.00pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
1.00pm<br />
When this film was shown in the official competition at this year’s Berlinale, people<br />
frequently stated that the synopsis scared them, but that when they actually saw the film,<br />
felt it was one of the best films in the competition. <strong>Film</strong> distributors also said it was one of<br />
their favourite films, but ‘too tough a sale’. Nevertheless, Rachel Mwanza was awarded the<br />
Silver Bear for Best Actress – all of which proves that audiences are far more open-minded<br />
and intelligent than some would have us believe. Komona – a child soldier in the Congo –<br />
tells her story to her unborn child. How she was abducted, became a sorceress and fell in<br />
love with an albino. How she could see ghosts and he would travel the world over twice<br />
to find the wedding gift she asked for. This is a fairytale about love, a story about war<br />
and finding inner peace. It’s a film with many facets – so moving and surprising that it is<br />
not easily forgotten. If you like it, tell your friends. Perhaps this will convince those in the<br />
business of film that an audience is not scared of challenging, intelligent, beautiful films.<br />
The World According<br />
To Irving (Cert TBC)<br />
Director: André Schäfer. Germany 2011. 90 mins.<br />
Print source: Florianfilm<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
5.30pm<br />
John Irving is one of the most popular and best-selling authors of<br />
our time; a household name around the world with more than 10<br />
million copies of his 12 novels having been sold in 30 languages.<br />
Now, for the first time, with unlimited access to the author, this<br />
documentary explores his life and work from a first-hand point<br />
of view. The film not only details his writing habits, his love of<br />
wrestling and talent as a pizza chef, but goes on a world-wide<br />
literary tour with the author, exploring the inspiration behind<br />
the books. Bringing the novels and characters remarkably to life<br />
through Irving’s own words and experiences, THE WORLD ACCORDING<br />
FILM FEST AD - LA RAZA EVENTS .pdf 15/8/12 14:30:45<br />
TO JOHN IRVING is a rare insight into a literary legend’s life.<br />
Yossi (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Eytan Fox. Starring: Ohad Knoller, Lior Ashkenazi,<br />
Orly Silbersatz Banai. Israel <strong>2012</strong>. 83 mins. Hebrew with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Peccadillo Pictures<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
6.00pm<br />
Returning to the same role from 2003’s YOSSI AND JAGGER, Ohad<br />
Knoller plays the perennially sad, closeted gay man, Yossi. When<br />
his past comes back to haunt him, he decides to take a road trip to<br />
escape. Picking up a group of fun-loving soldiers on holiday finally<br />
ignites a need to awaken from his emotional slumber. Not quite a<br />
sequel, YOSSI is an engaging and accomplished film. A wonderfully<br />
subtle performance from the incredible Knoller gives the film its<br />
emotional heart, with Fox’s skilful and honest filmmaking moving<br />
the character from the stark, empty world of the city into the rolling<br />
beauty of the road trip, as his world begins to crack open.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
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!Women Art Revolution:<br />
A Secret History (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Lynn Hershmann Leeson. USA 2011. 83 mins.<br />
Print source: Lynn Hershmann Leeson<br />
For over forty years, director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected<br />
hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians,<br />
curators and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist<br />
Art Movement. !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION elaborates the relationship<br />
of the Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights<br />
movements and explains how historical events, such as the all-male<br />
protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first<br />
of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions. The film<br />
details how major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including<br />
the first feminist art education programs, political organisations and<br />
protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery New York and<br />
the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and<br />
Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations<br />
radically transformed the art and culture of our times.<br />
34 MAINFEATURES<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
8.45pm<br />
The Well: Voices<br />
From Ethiopia (CFF PG)<br />
(Il Pozzo: Voci D’acqua<br />
Dall’ Etiopia)<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
6.15pm<br />
BUDDHIST<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
12.30pm<br />
Director: Paolo Barberi. Italy 2011. 52 mins. Borana with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Esplorare la Metropoli<br />
THE WELL describes the life of the Borana people, a semi-nomadic<br />
shepherd tribe of South Ethiopia that struggles perennially for survival.<br />
In a dry land of astonishing beauty, during the long periods of annual<br />
drought, the Borana life revolves around ancient perpetual wells – the<br />
only resource against the tragic effects of global climate change.<br />
Carbon For Water (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Evan Abramson. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 22 mins.<br />
English and Swahili with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Cows in the Field<br />
In Kenya’s Western Province, most drinking water is contaminated.<br />
CARBON FOR WATER introduces audiences to the inspiring people who<br />
face these hardships, and explores one company’s innovative solution.<br />
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15 TO ROME WITH LOVE<br />
14 HOPE SPRINGS<br />
24 HEMEL<br />
ABOUT ELLY<br />
16<br />
Remember<br />
There are no adverts or trailers<br />
before <strong>Festival</strong> screenings, so please<br />
be seated by the advertised time.<br />
DOC Documentary<br />
FFF Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
SHORTS Shortfusion<br />
You’ll notice a number of To Be<br />
Confirmed (TBC) screening slots in this<br />
timetable. This gives us the flexbililty<br />
to drop in last minute additions to<br />
the programme, as well as respond to<br />
audience demand by adding repeat<br />
screenings of popular titles. We will<br />
announce the TBC slots on www.<br />
cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk and at<br />
the Arts Picturehouse throughout the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>, so keep checking for the most<br />
recent updates – you never know what<br />
you might miss otherwise!<br />
All tickets must be collected at least<br />
15 minutes prior to the screening if it’s<br />
taking place at the Arts Picturehouse.<br />
If you are attending a screening at<br />
another venue you can collect prebooked<br />
tickets or buy tickets from the<br />
Arts Picturehouse up to an hour before<br />
the film starts. After that you must<br />
collect pre-booked tickets from the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> desk at the relevant screening<br />
venue, where you will also be able to<br />
buy tickets (subject to availability).<br />
THURSDAY 13<br />
3.30 ABOUT ELLY 16<br />
5.15 HEMEL 24<br />
5.30 COME AS YOU ARE 21<br />
6.00 HOPE SPRINGS 14<br />
7.45 TO ROME WITH LOVE 15<br />
8.00 GERMAN FORMENTERA 43<br />
8.30 THE SNOWS OF<br />
KILIMANJARO<br />
14<br />
10.15 AVALON 17<br />
10.30 SHORTS TO RUST 67<br />
Sawston Cinema<br />
6.30 THE 39 STEPS 48<br />
8.30 THE ARTIST 11<br />
56 BLACK BREAD<br />
FORMENTERA 43<br />
FRIDAY 14<br />
10.15 TBC<br />
10.30 HOPE SPRINGS 14<br />
12.30 THE SNOWS OF<br />
KILIMANJARO<br />
14<br />
12.45 AVALON 17<br />
1.00 SALMA AND THE APPLE 30<br />
3.00 DOC CAMP 14: TOTAL<br />
CONTROL ZONE<br />
3.15 TBC<br />
19<br />
3.30 GERMAN FORMENTERA 43<br />
5.30 CATALAN BLACK BREAD 56<br />
5.45 DOC MEET THE FOKKENS 28<br />
6.00 HITCHCOCK THE<br />
PLEASURE GARDEN<br />
47<br />
8.00 GERMAN BARBARA 42<br />
8.15 DOC THE RAW AND THE<br />
COOKED<br />
8.30 CATALAN THE BODY IN<br />
THE WOODS<br />
30<br />
56<br />
10.30 TRIDENTFEST 66<br />
10.45 SCALA SANTA SANGRE &<br />
UN CHANT D’AMOUR<br />
11.00 SHORTS TO BE IN THE<br />
PRESENT<br />
Buddhist Centre<br />
4.00 DOC THE TROUBLE WITH<br />
ST MARY’S<br />
59<br />
67<br />
33<br />
6.15 DOC DIGITAL DHARMA 22<br />
8.30 DOC LEAP 27<br />
COME AS YOU ARE 21<br />
SATURDAY 15<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.30 EVENT CFC MUSIC ON<br />
FILM MASTERCLASS<br />
10.30 FFF OCTONAUTS 52<br />
11.30 FFF GRUFFALO’S CHILD 52<br />
11.45 FFF LEGO NINJAGO 54<br />
12.15 FFF GRANDPA IN MY<br />
POCKET<br />
9<br />
53<br />
12.30 HEMEL 24<br />
1.00 FFF THE PENGUIN<br />
KING 3D<br />
1.00-<br />
7.00<br />
EVENT PAPER CINEMA<br />
(repeats every half hour)<br />
53<br />
1.30 HITCHCOCK REBECCA 47<br />
3.00 GERMAN BARBARA 42<br />
3.15 BLIND SPOT 18<br />
4.00 JERKS 26<br />
5.00 WAR WITCH 34<br />
5.45 STARBUCK 30<br />
6.00 GERMAN COMBAT GIRLS 43<br />
7.30 ON THE ROAD 29<br />
8.15 DOC JASON BECKER:<br />
NOT DEAD YET<br />
9<br />
26<br />
8.30 CATALAN V.O.S. 58<br />
10.30 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
SINISTER<br />
10.45 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D<br />
64<br />
65<br />
11.00 SHORTS TO CELEBRATE 68<br />
Emmanuel College<br />
2.00 A CUBE OF SUGAR 21<br />
4.15 TRATTORIA + ROBYN O<br />
(14) + EARLY BIRDS<br />
6.30 ESTONIAN THE<br />
TEMPTATION OF ST TONY<br />
8.45 DOC STEVE JOBS: THE<br />
LOST INTERVIEW<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press<br />
8.00 THE ARTIST &<br />
MONSTERS INC<br />
32<br />
60<br />
31<br />
11<br />
SUNDAY 16<br />
10.30 DOC LEAP 27<br />
10.30 FFF LEGO NINJAGO 54<br />
10.45 FFF GRUFFALO’S CHILD 52<br />
11.30 FFF SPRITES 11 54<br />
11.45 FFF DANGERMOUSE 53<br />
12.45 JERKS 27<br />
1.00 DOC CAMP 14: TOTAL<br />
CONTROL ZONE<br />
19<br />
1.30 FFF THE BFG 54<br />
2.45 KID THING 27<br />
3.00 ON THE ROAD 29<br />
3.00 RICHARD BRACEWELL<br />
ON HITCHCOCK<br />
3.30 HITCHCOCK NORTH BY<br />
NORTHWEST<br />
10<br />
47<br />
4.40 GERMAN THE BIG EDEN 43<br />
5.30 UNTOUCHABLE 33<br />
6.00 DOC GRANDMA LO-FI 24<br />
6.40 CATALAN WARSAW<br />
BRIDGE<br />
8.00 REVIVAL CHIMES AT<br />
MIDNIGHT<br />
8.15 POSTCARDS FROM<br />
THE ZOO<br />
8.30 DOC STEVE JOBS: THE<br />
LOST INTERVIEW<br />
58<br />
51<br />
29<br />
31<br />
10.15 GERMAN COMBAT GIRLS 43<br />
10.20 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D<br />
65<br />
10.30 THE 39 STEPS 48<br />
Buddhist Centre<br />
4.00 DOC THE RAW AND THE<br />
COOKED<br />
6.15 DOC THE WELL +<br />
CARBON FOR WATER<br />
30<br />
34<br />
8.30 SALMA AND THE APPLE 30<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press<br />
8.00 MOONRISE KINGDOM &<br />
THE PRINCESS BRIDE<br />
11<br />
MONDAY 17<br />
10.15 ESTONIAN THE<br />
TEMPTATION OF ST TONY<br />
60<br />
10.30 BLIND SPOT 18<br />
10.30 DOC DIGITAL DHARMA 22<br />
12.30 UNTOUCHABLE 33<br />
12.45 STARBUCK 30<br />
1.00 WAR WITCH 34<br />
3.00 DOC FIRE IN THE BLOOD 23<br />
3.15 POSTCARDS FROM<br />
THE ZOO<br />
29<br />
3.30 GERMAN THE BIG EDEN 43<br />
6.00 DOC JIRO DREAMS OF<br />
SUSHI<br />
6.00 HITCHCOCK THE<br />
LODGER<br />
26<br />
47<br />
6.15 FLYING BLIND 23<br />
8.00 NOW IS GOOD 28<br />
8.15 CATALAN THANKS FOR<br />
THE TIP<br />
8.45 GERMAN HOME FOR THE<br />
WEEKEND<br />
10.30 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
TOWER BLOCK<br />
57<br />
44<br />
65<br />
10.45 HIT AND RUN 25<br />
11.00 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
SLEEP TIGHT<br />
Varsity – Skyline Cinema<br />
64<br />
8.00 DOC GRANDMA LO-FI 24<br />
BARBERA 42<br />
WAR WITCH 34<br />
FIRE IN THE BLOOD 23<br />
THE GRUFFalo’S CHILD 52<br />
ON THE ROAD 29<br />
36 DIARY<br />
17 AVALON<br />
33 DANGERMOUSE<br />
33 UNTOUCHABLE<br />
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DIARY 37
63 HANDS OVER THE CITY<br />
51 HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY<br />
35 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JOHN<br />
TUESDAY 18<br />
9.00 EVENT RURAL CINEMA<br />
CONFERENCE (until<br />
5.00pm)<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.30 A CUBE OF SUGAR 21<br />
10.45 FLYING BLIND 23<br />
12.30 DOC THE WELL +<br />
CARBON FOR WATER<br />
12.45 DOC JIRO DREAMS OF<br />
SUSHI<br />
7<br />
34<br />
26<br />
3.00 HITCHCOCK NOTORIOUS 48<br />
3.00 GERMAN HOME FOR THE<br />
WEEKEND<br />
5.30 DOC THE WORLD<br />
ACCORDING TO IRVING<br />
44<br />
35<br />
5.30 ESTONIAN THE IDIOT 60<br />
6.00 DOC CALL ME KUCHU 19<br />
7.30 GERMAN REPORTED<br />
MISSING<br />
8.00 CATALAN THE NIGHT<br />
ELVIS DIED<br />
44<br />
56<br />
8.15 DOC BESTIAIRE 18<br />
10.00 REVIVAL MAGICAL<br />
MYSTERY TOUR<br />
51<br />
10.30 DOC COMIC-CON 21<br />
11.00 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
SINISTER<br />
Buddhist Centre<br />
4.00 TALES OF THE WARIA +<br />
KHAANA<br />
64<br />
31<br />
6.30 5 BROKEN CAMERAS 16<br />
8.30 ANDA UNION 16<br />
WEDNESDAY 19<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.30 NOW IS GOOD 28<br />
12.00 DOC COMIC-CON 21<br />
12.45 TBC<br />
1.00 LOOKING EAST ARCHIVE<br />
PROG<br />
2.00 DOC BESTIAIRE 18<br />
3.00 ROSI SALVATORE<br />
GIULIANO<br />
3.30 ESTONIAN SHORTS<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
3.45 GERMAN REPORTED<br />
MISSING<br />
8<br />
62<br />
61<br />
44<br />
5.30 GERMAN TOTEM 44<br />
6.00 DOC BIG BOYS GONE<br />
BANANAS!<br />
6.00 DOC BERT STERN:<br />
ORIGINAL MADMAN<br />
8.00 TBC<br />
18<br />
17<br />
8.00 ROSI THE MATTEI AFFAIR 63<br />
8.15 MICROCINEMA FRANK 40<br />
10.30 HITCHCOCK PSYCHO 48<br />
10.45 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
GUINEA PIGS<br />
11.00 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
SLEEP TIGHT<br />
Anglia Ruskin University<br />
8.00 A HARD DAYS NIGHT 8<br />
65<br />
64<br />
20<br />
THURSDAY<br />
10.00 EVENT PSYCHOSIS OF A<br />
SANE MAN + OTHERS<br />
10.30 DOC THE TROUBLE WITH<br />
ST MARY’S<br />
10<br />
33<br />
11.00 DOC FREEDOM FOR BIRTH 23<br />
12.45 DOC BERT STERN:<br />
ORIGINAL MADMAN<br />
1.00 DOC DRYING<br />
FOR FREEDOM +<br />
PROGRAMME 101<br />
17<br />
22<br />
1.30 COME AS YOU ARE 21<br />
3.15 GERMAN TOTEM 44<br />
3.30 ROSI HANDS OVER THE<br />
CITY<br />
4.30 GEORGE PERRY ON<br />
HITCHCOCK<br />
63<br />
10<br />
5.15 HITCHCOCK VERTIGO 48<br />
5.45 DOC FREEDOM FOR BIRTH 23<br />
6.00 YOSSI 35<br />
8.00 DOC CHASING ICE 19<br />
8.00 INDIGNADOS 25<br />
8.15 MICROCINEMA ALL<br />
DIVIDED SELVES<br />
10.00 REVIVAL HUNGARIAN<br />
RHAPSODY: QUEEN LIVE<br />
IN BUDAPEST<br />
10.00 SHORTS TO<br />
ACCOMMODATE<br />
10.45 LATE NIGHT FRIGHT<br />
HIDDEN FACE<br />
Sawston Cinema<br />
7.30 A TRIP TO THE MOON +<br />
THE EXTRAORDINARY<br />
VOYAGE<br />
40<br />
51<br />
68<br />
12<br />
32<br />
FRIDAY 21<br />
10.15 DOC CHASING ICE 19<br />
10.15 KID THING 27<br />
10.30 TBC<br />
12.30 NOW IS GOOD 28<br />
2.00 CATALAN WARSAW<br />
BRIDGE<br />
3.00 ROSI THE MATTEI<br />
AFFAIR<br />
3.15 TBC<br />
58<br />
63<br />
3.30 DOC ANDA UNION 16<br />
4.00 TRATTORIA + ROBYN O<br />
(14) + EARLY BIRDS<br />
32<br />
5.30 ELENA 22<br />
5.30 DOC GREGORY<br />
CREWDSON: BRIEF<br />
ENCOUNTERS<br />
24<br />
6.00 HITCHCOCK BLACKMAIL 49<br />
7.30 MICROCINEMA SAVAGE<br />
WITCHES + COMMUNION<br />
41<br />
8.00 UNCONDITIONAL 33<br />
10.00 CONFESSIONS OF A<br />
CHILD OF THE CENTURY<br />
12<br />
10.30 INDIGNADOS 25<br />
10.30 SHORTS TO CRY 69<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> University Library<br />
8.00 AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS 8<br />
SATURDAY 22<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.30 TBC<br />
11.00 FFF EVENT NOT-SO-<br />
SILENT MOVIES<br />
12.30 HITCHCOCK THE BIRDS 49<br />
12.45 TONY 10 31<br />
1.00 ROSI ILLUSTRIOUS<br />
CORPSES<br />
9<br />
63<br />
2.30 THE PENGUIN KING 3D 29<br />
3.00 DOC 5 BROKEN<br />
CAMERAS<br />
5.30 CATALAN BARCELONA<br />
(UNA MAPA)<br />
6.00 MICROCINEMA THE<br />
LACEY RITUALS<br />
16<br />
57<br />
41<br />
6.15 HITCHCOCK THE RING 49<br />
8.00 LIBERAL ARTS 28<br />
8.30 CATALAN BLACK BREAD 56<br />
8.45 DOC !WOMEN ART<br />
REVOLUTION<br />
10.30 SCALA THUNDERCRACK<br />
+ HOLD ME WHILE I’M<br />
NAKED<br />
10.45 REVIVAL THE DOORS<br />
LIVE AT THE BOWL ‘68<br />
34<br />
59<br />
51<br />
10.45 SHORTS TO BELONG 69<br />
SUNDAY 23<br />
10.15 HITCHCOCK THE BIRDS 49<br />
10.30 LIBERAL ARTS 28<br />
11.00 A TRIP TO THE MOON<br />
+ EXTRAORDINARY<br />
VOYAGE<br />
12.30 TBC<br />
32<br />
1.00 ROSI LUCKY LUCIANO 63<br />
1.00 SHORTS TO HATE 70<br />
3.00 KINDERBLOCK 66 27<br />
3.15 HITCHCOCK MARNIE 49<br />
3.30 BURTON: THE SECRET? 18<br />
5.30 TBC<br />
5.45 DOC EL GUSTO 23<br />
6.00 SHORTS TO BE A MAN 70<br />
8.00 CLOSING FILM HOLY<br />
MOTORS<br />
15<br />
8.15 ASHES 17<br />
8.30 TBC<br />
EL GUSTO 23<br />
ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES 63<br />
THE BIRDS 49<br />
Anglia Ruskin University<br />
8.00 THE BLUES BROTHERS 8<br />
GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS 24<br />
ASHES 17<br />
HOLY MOTORS 15<br />
SLEEP TIGHT 64<br />
44<br />
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND<br />
12<br />
CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY<br />
TO CRY: A FISTFUL OF SANDWICH 69<br />
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MICROCINEMA<br />
This year’s microcinema event focuses on the long form, or feature film. These represent the flipside<br />
of big-budget, mainstream film production in the UK – projects being made ‘outside the system’, and<br />
on shoestring budgets.<br />
Even in the world of the independent/artist’s film, works can<br />
all-too-easily find themselves falling into the familiar structures<br />
established by the film industry. There have, however, always been<br />
those filmmakers who are driven by a desire for expression and<br />
experimentation. We are living in a time when, more than ever before,<br />
filmmakers have access to tools which offer opportunities to make<br />
big cinematic statements – cheap technology making even ambitious<br />
films possible on very low budgets, with the only limits those of their<br />
own creativity. These films serve as a beacon for those interested in<br />
World<br />
premiere<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Richard Heslop and producer Ciska<br />
Faulkner to the screening.<br />
a cinema of no compromises, a cinema of art not largely driven by<br />
the desire for profit and acceptability.<br />
The three features here are of an extraordinarily high quality,<br />
each displaying a unique and innovative approach, miles removed<br />
from the directorial complacency of so much recent British film. If<br />
you’re seeking an indigenous auteur cinema that does not bow to the<br />
middle-brow, the middle-of-the-road, and the mainstream then look<br />
no further.<br />
James Mackay<br />
Frank (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Richard Heslop. Starring: Con O’Neill, Kellie Shirley,<br />
Darren Beaumont. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 94 mins.<br />
Print source: Ciska Faulkner and Andrea Pejovski<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
8.15pm<br />
Richard Heslop has won all manner of prizes for his previous films which include<br />
THE CHILD AND THE SAW and FLOATING, both of which were previously shown at<br />
the festival. FRANK is Heslop’s first feature length film. Living a lonely existence<br />
in a run-down boarding house in the North East of England, Frank finds his own<br />
idiosyncratic ways to cope with everyday life. When Frank meets fellow lodger Sasha,<br />
a tender friendship begins, and she becomes the map reader of Frank’s emotionally<br />
splintering life. Finding solace in the dystopian wastelands and beaches surrounding<br />
his home, Frank one day discovers Fidel, takes him home and eagerly tries to<br />
befriend him. Unfortunately Fidel reveals himself to be an unpleasant houseguest.<br />
When Frank encounters Polly – a jilted and morbidly depressed young bride – he<br />
becomes besotted in an instant, attempting to build a happy and loving home for<br />
them both. But as his new-found friends develop an intimate bond of their own, he is<br />
left as an outsider in his own home with his life spiralling out of control once again.<br />
World<br />
premiere<br />
We are delighted to welcome writer/directors<br />
Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais to the screening.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Nina Danino to the screening.<br />
Savage Witches (CFF PG)<br />
The Lacey Rituals: <strong>Film</strong>s By Bruce Lacey<br />
(And Friends) (CFF 18) 70 mins.<br />
Directors: Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais. Starring: Christina<br />
Wood, Victoria Smith. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 70mins.<br />
Print source: Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais.<br />
Following on from last year’s presentation of DIRT, Daniel Fawcett and<br />
Clara Pais bring the World Premiere of their new feature length film to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>. SAVAGE WITCHES is a playful and experimental film about<br />
two teenage girls who want nothing but to play games, dress up and<br />
have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict with the<br />
world around them they set out to transform it and break free! SAVAGE<br />
WITCHES is a colourful collage of sounds and images that has been<br />
created using all manner of processes and formats, from VHS and Super<br />
8 to drawn animation and hand-coloured frames, resulting in a bold and<br />
expressionistic exploration of the art of cinema.<br />
Communion (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Nina Danino. Starring: Thalia Somerville-Large.<br />
UK 2010. 10 mins.<br />
Print source: Nina Danino.<br />
A portrait of a young girl, filmed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Billy<br />
Williams BSC, creating a silent, translucent image drawing on the paradox<br />
between beauty as iconic, secular glamour and as religious interiority.<br />
Presenting experimental home movies, a pop promo for the Lonnie Donnegan skiffle smash hit Battle of New Orleans and more<br />
besides, this delightful programme showcases the playful, physical sense of humour and irreverent sensibility of great British<br />
artist and eccentric, Bruce Lacey. All films are digitally restored.<br />
How to Have a Bath<br />
Directors: Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce. UK 1971. 5 mins.<br />
Outside In (extract)<br />
Directors: John Lewis & Dennis Lowe. UK 1973. 6 mins.<br />
The Lacey Rituals (extract)<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
7.30pm<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
6.00pm<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Luke Fowler to the screening.<br />
All Divided Selves (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Luke Fowler. UK 2011. 90 mins.<br />
Print source: LUX<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
8.15pm<br />
Award-winning Scottish artist filmmaker Luke Fowler presents his first feature<br />
length work. The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by<br />
the charismatic, guru-like figure of Glasgow-born psychiatrist R.D. Laing. In his now<br />
classic text The Politics of Experience (1967) Laing argued that normality entailed<br />
adjusting ourselves to the mystification of an alienating and depersonalizing world.<br />
The film concentrates on archival representations of Laing and his colleagues as<br />
they struggled to acknowledge the importance of considering social environment<br />
and disturbed interaction in institutions as significant factors in the aetiology of<br />
human distress and suffering. ALL DIVIDED SELVES is a dense, engaging and lyrical<br />
collage, in which Fowler weaves archival material with his own filmic observations<br />
– marrying a dynamic soundtrack of field recordings with recorded music by Éric La<br />
Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Alasdair Roberts.<br />
Turner Prize shortlist <strong>2012</strong><br />
Everybody’s Nobody<br />
Director: John Sewell. UK 1960. 18 mins.<br />
Battle of New Orleans<br />
Director: Bob Godfrey. UK 1960. 4 mins.<br />
The Flying Alberts<br />
Director: Roger Graef. UK 1965. 9 mins.<br />
One Man Band<br />
Director: Bob Godfrey. UK 1965. 11 mins.<br />
Directors: The Lacey Family. UK 1973. 10 mins.<br />
From young children to fully grown adults, everyone in the Lacey<br />
family took turns to operate the camera and present a daily ritual in<br />
this highly unusual, brilliant experimental home movie.<br />
Stella Chase<br />
Directors: Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce. UK 1974. 4 mins.<br />
If I Had a Talking Picture of You<br />
Director: Bruce Lacey. UK 2002. 2 mins.<br />
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CONTEMPORARY<br />
GERMANCINEMA<br />
Defining a ‘national cinema’ is a tricky business. Many filmmakers<br />
would reject the idea that their films have anything in common with<br />
the work of fellow compatriots merely because of shared geopolitical<br />
boundaries – and most good national films transcend<br />
such boundaries and are significant in their own terms. But within<br />
the context of several films taken together, shown outside their<br />
native country, a different picture might emerge. While the films in<br />
this selection are stylistically eclectic, together they may provide a<br />
glimpse into what is moving the country today. Through them, we<br />
encounter internal struggles, expressions of the zeitgeist, strange<br />
creatures, unfulfilled desires, high-flying successes... We have sought<br />
out some of the very best of Contemporary German Cinema,<br />
presenting directors who are approaching the art of making films<br />
in their own individual way – some outside the regular production<br />
system. This is a unique collection of films that we believe will surprise<br />
and inspire you.<br />
With thanks to<br />
Monika Treut, for<br />
her help with this<br />
selection. She will<br />
be presenting her<br />
film THE RAW AND<br />
THE COOKED at the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
The Big Eden (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Peter Dörfler. Germany 2011.<br />
90 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Rohfilm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
4.40pm<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
3.30pm<br />
Billed as ‘Germany’s last Playboy’, King of Disco and DJ Rolf Eden<br />
started the first beauty contests and popularised striptease in a<br />
prudish West Berlin. He partied with the Rolling Stones, danced with<br />
Ella Fitzgerald and has seven children with seven women. With his<br />
dyed blond hair and a girlfriend younger than his own grandchild,<br />
the octogenarian playboy is not just a provocation because of his<br />
tabloid lifestyle, but because, as he (convincingly) states: “I’ve always<br />
had luck in life. I only, only, only had luck. Never a down, never real<br />
trouble, always up, up, up – until today.” A cinematic firework in<br />
cinemascope – nominated for Best German documentary <strong>2012</strong> –<br />
THE BIG EDEN tells the remarkable story of a hedonistic man who<br />
reinvented himself as a pop icon after escaping Nazi Germany and<br />
working as an elite soldier in the Israeli war in 1948.<br />
Combat Girls (CFF 15)<br />
(Kriegerin)<br />
Director: David Wnendt. Starring: Alina Levshin,<br />
Jella Haase, Sayed Ahmad Wasil Mrowat. Germany<br />
2011. 103 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: East West Distribution<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
6.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
10.15pm<br />
Twenty-year-old Marisa is a combat girl in a Neo-Nazi gang, using<br />
her general hatred and frustration against foreigners and society.<br />
When young Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role<br />
model to her: she fits the purest idea of a combat girl. But Marisa’s<br />
convictions will slowly evolve when she meets a young Afghan<br />
refugee. Lead actress Alina Levshin’s performance is a tour de<br />
force, creating fierce tension in her encounters with her family, the<br />
refugee and the gang – all complemented by the sharp dialogue,<br />
rhythmic camera work and precise editing. Winning multiple awards<br />
at festivals around the world, this is a film that reflects global<br />
issues of exclusion and humanity.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Barbara (CERT TBC)<br />
Director: Christian Petzold. Starring:<br />
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld and Rainer<br />
Bock. Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 105 mins. German<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Soda Pictures<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
8.00pm<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
2.30pm<br />
In 1980s GDR, asking for permission to move to West Germany could lead to surveillance,<br />
imprisonment and a ban on working within one’s chosen profession. Despite having been<br />
denied a permit to leave, Barbara (Nina Hoss) is determined to escape. In the meantime,<br />
she has to work in a shabby hospital in the countryside as an over-qualified doctor. She<br />
is manipulated and humiliated by Stasi officials. Her colleague André seems to follow<br />
her every step, and she is unsure whether he has a personal interest or is simply spying<br />
on her. All Barbara can do is hide her emotions – except with a young patient who is<br />
transferred from a juvenile detention, and who seems the only person to whom Barbara<br />
can show her true self while secretly planning her exit. BARBARA earned Christian Petzold<br />
(YELLA, JERICHOW) the Silver Bear for Best Director at this year’s Berlinale – this film is<br />
finally an honest portrayal of GDR end-times, featuring the ghost-like, subtle signature<br />
that has made him so popular among cinephiles worldwide.<br />
Formentera<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Ann-Kristin Reyels.<br />
Starring: Sabine Timoteo, Thure<br />
Lindhardt, Ilse Ritter. Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 93<br />
mins. German / Spanish with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Print source: Unafilm<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
8.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
3.30pm<br />
Formentera is a small island not far from Ibiza, and to a good swimmer it may seem as<br />
if one can simply swim over to the bigger island’s shore. Young couple Ben and Nina are<br />
enjoying their time away from Berlin, the sun and the company of friends. During a wild<br />
party at a beach, driven by jealousy, Nina decides to swim through the night. Nothing<br />
will be quite as it was before – dark secrets will emerge, people will disappear. After her<br />
critically-acclaimed, award-winning debut HOUNDS, Ann-Kristin Reyels once again proves<br />
herself a keen observer of humanity and sensitive storyteller. Featuring impressive<br />
performances by lead actors Sabine Timoteo and Thure Lindhardt, FORMENTERA is an<br />
intense and touching portrait of a generation in search of its own identity.<br />
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Premiere<br />
Home For The Weekend<br />
(CFF 15) (Was Bleibt)<br />
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid. Starring: Lars Eidinger,<br />
Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler. Germany <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
85 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: The Match Factory<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
8.45pm<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
3.00pm<br />
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its<br />
own way”. Whether or not director Hans-Christian Schmid had the<br />
opening line of Anna Karenina in mind, it forms the basic premise of<br />
this film’s plot. When Marko and his little son return to his parent’s<br />
bungalow for a weekend away from the capital, he is confronted by<br />
the complicated unhappiness his parents and brother are carrying<br />
underneath their jolly demeanour. His mother Gitte has been bipolar<br />
since his early childhood and has just stopped the numbing medical<br />
treatment in order to ‘live again’. But no one is pleased for her –<br />
everyone has become used to her ghost-like presence and in fact<br />
started hatching their own plans to escape their unhappiness. This is<br />
Schmid’s (REQUIEM, STORM) most subtle, quiet drama taking a look at<br />
the internal and universally valid struggles of modern family life.<br />
Reported Missing<br />
(CFF 15) (Die Vermissten)<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Jan<br />
Speckenbach to these screenings.<br />
Director: Jan Speckenbach. Starring: André<br />
Hennicke, Luzie Ahrens, Sylvana Krappatsch. Germany<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. 88 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Juni<strong>Film</strong><br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
7.30pm<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
3.45pm<br />
A grown-up man, Lothar, discovers that his estranged teenage<br />
daughter has gone missing. Looking more closely, he realises that<br />
many children are disappearing – as if some wave or mysterious force<br />
has taken hold of children of all ages. Lothar befriends young Lou<br />
and together they are drawn deeper into the inexplicable, dangerous<br />
movement that has taken hold of the country, travelling through dark<br />
forests and abandoned villages. Evoking the tale of The Pied Piper,<br />
director Jan Speckenbach traces the gap that has opened between<br />
generations with imagination and a child-like wonderment. But<br />
unlike the fairytale, this film’s Ratcatcher is a child himself – or more<br />
accurately, many children at once. Scratch the surface and you will<br />
find an eerie relevance to recent events: the youth riots in the UK, the<br />
earlier Paris uprising, Cairo’s revolution...<br />
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Totem (CFF 15)<br />
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Germany 2011. 86 mins. German with<br />
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WED<br />
19<br />
5.30pm<br />
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20<br />
3.15pm<br />
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Fiona works as a housemaid for the Bauer family. They have strangely inert twin babies,<br />
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all her personal needs. While an earlier film with a similar subject, THE PIANO TUNER,<br />
introduced us to a housemaid who seemed inconceivably desirable, TOTEM continues the<br />
theme of an irreplaceable foreign body that is also considered a threat to the household.<br />
The underlying horror – carried through both films – here takes place in the unbearable<br />
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the goings-on, the doll-like twin babies never uttering a sound, the caged rabbits in the<br />
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HITCHCOCK<br />
REVISITED<br />
New digital<br />
restorations of<br />
VERTIGO, PSYCHO,<br />
MARNIE, and THE BIRDS<br />
by kind permission of<br />
Universal<br />
ALFRED HITCHCOCK<br />
Introduction by George Perry<br />
Britain has given the world no greater filmmaker than Alfred Hitchcock.<br />
Born in London in 1899, he worked in films from the early 1920s to the<br />
late 1930s, and established himself as the foremost British director.<br />
In 1939 he left for Hollywood and was a dominant force in American<br />
cinema for five decades. He has been dead for 32 years but his creative<br />
reputation continues to grow. This summer his 1958 film VERTIGO was<br />
voted the greatest movie of all time in Sight & Sound’s ten-year poll of<br />
critics and film-makers, finally knocking CITIZEN KANE from its perch.<br />
Rarely do pantheon filmmakers connect well with the general public, and<br />
never as successfully as Hitchcock. His name above the title would generate<br />
massive box-office returns, and filmgoers knew him as ‘the master of<br />
suspense’ who would skilfully keep them on the edge of their seats. In his<br />
later career his weekly television series of mystery and suspense dramas,<br />
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which he introduced in a mordant, self-mocking,<br />
flat-voiced style ensured his personal recognition as a household familiar.<br />
So many of his films, which superficially could be perceived as fast thrillers,<br />
often involving the pursuit by the innocent of the real villain, probed much more<br />
deeply into the nature of guilt, the frailty of identity, the fear of retribution.<br />
He injected a sexual frisson with the interplay between a hero and an ice-cool<br />
blonde whose trust had to be won. He exploited the random, sudden nature<br />
of violence, and how it was as likely to erupt in sunny open spaces as in dark<br />
nocturnal alleys. He delighted in making it impossible for his protagonists to<br />
turn to the police for help, because they would never be believed.<br />
He was an extraordinary innovator. Many of his silent films had moments<br />
of brilliant visual imagination, and when talkies arrived he quickly explored<br />
unconventional ways to use sound – the ‘knife’ sequence in BLACKMAIL, the<br />
interior monologue in MURDER!, the Albert Hall assassination predicated on<br />
a cymbal clash in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. He shot an entire film in<br />
a tiny lifeboat in a studio tank (LIFEBOAT), another in a New York penthouse<br />
in what appeared to be a seamless take, punctuated only by reel changes<br />
(ROPE), and a Greenwich Village courtyard surrounded by apartments seen<br />
only from the viewpoint of an immobilised photographer (REAR WINDOW).<br />
Whether or not VERTIGO is his greatest film is a discussion point. It is<br />
abundant in Hitchcockian themes: obsession, voyeurism, false identity, sex,<br />
sudden death. Its Pygmalion-like plot magnificently engages the texture and<br />
topography of San Francisco as an integral element.<br />
Although his principal oeuvre was American, he never really lost his<br />
Britishness, living a quietly conservative life with his wife Alma in a relatively<br />
modest house in Bel Air, regarding Los Angeles as a company town, and<br />
retreating whenever he could to their ranch and vineyard in the hills above<br />
Santa Cruz. His sets were polite places. He would expect his crew to<br />
wear collars and ties, rather than the standard tee-shirts and<br />
jeans prevailing on other stages. He would even preface his<br />
shots with the gentlemanly request: “Action, please.”<br />
George Perry is a film critic and writer,<br />
whose books include Hitchcock and The<br />
Great British Picture Show.<br />
George Perry will be giving a<br />
free talk on Hitchcock’s<br />
work – see p.10 for<br />
details.<br />
With live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne.<br />
The Pleasure Garden (PG)<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Virginia Valli,<br />
Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander. Scenario: Eliot Stannard.<br />
Novel: Oliver Sandys. UK/Germany 1925. 75 mins. Print source: BFI<br />
Thrilling, emotional, and full of twists and turns, THE PLEASURE<br />
GARDEN is a fascinating overture to Hitchcock’s later features –<br />
which were to prove he had become undisputed master of just such<br />
qualities. Jill and Patsy forge a firm friendship as chorus girls in<br />
the same financial boat at the Pleasure Garden theatre. But money,<br />
men and morals begin to drive them apart as choices good and bad<br />
present themselves to the pair. The film was an early example of<br />
American talent imported to a UK production in order to attract as<br />
many cinema-goers as possible, in the form of Chicago-born Virginia<br />
Valli: gorgeous, charismatic, and at the height of a fame that sadly<br />
would not survive the advent of the talkies.<br />
New<br />
digital print<br />
North By Northwest (PG)<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
6.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie<br />
Saint, James Mason. Screenplay: Ernest Lehman. USA 1959. 3.30pm<br />
136 mins. Print source: BFI<br />
Packed with zingy one-liners and eye-popping chase sequences,<br />
the film (said to be Cary Grant’s favourite) tells the tall tale of<br />
Roger Thornhill, an adverting executive straight from the ‘Mad Men’<br />
school of snappy dressing and elegant cocktails. Within minutes,<br />
Thornhill has been mistaken for a government agent by a pack of<br />
foreign spies. This leads to a frenetic chase across the country, in<br />
the company of ice-cool Hitchcock blonde Eve (Eva Marie Saint), as<br />
Thornhill desperately seeks to solve the mystery – and survive. Add<br />
into the mix Saul Bass’s hugely influential ‘kinetic’ opening titles<br />
and Bernard Hermann’s gloriously frenetic score, and the result is a<br />
piece of work rightly regarded as one of Hitchcock’s finest.<br />
Rebecca (PG)<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Laurence Olivier,<br />
Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson. Screenplay: Robert E 1.30pm<br />
Sherwood, Joan Harrison. Novel: Daphne Du Maurier.<br />
USA 1940. 130 mins. Print source: BFI<br />
Hitchcock’s first US project tapped straight into the American<br />
craze for European gothic prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s.<br />
Whilst tensions were high between producer David O Selznick and<br />
his director, Hitchcock still managed to turn out a pitch-perfect<br />
melodrama that did justice to Du Maurier’s creepy, claustrophobic<br />
story. It tells of a young woman (never named) who marries a<br />
wealthy man in haste, and begins to repent at leisure when it<br />
appears he may still hanker after his late first wife. A deserved<br />
Oscar win for Best Picture was secured in 1940 – sadly not for<br />
Hitchcock, but for Selznick as producer.<br />
New<br />
digital print<br />
With a new musical score by Nitin Sawhney<br />
The Lodger (PG)<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Marie Ault, June Tripp,<br />
Ivor Novello. Scenario: Eliot Stannard. Novel: Marie Belloc 6.00pm<br />
Lowndes. UK 1927. 92 mins. Print source: BFI<br />
THE LODGER tells a story inspired by the crimes of Jack the Ripper;<br />
crimes that, at the time, were not yet 40 years old. Once again,<br />
fans will spot shades of themes to come, not least the central<br />
‘villain’ of the film depicted as physically attractive, boyish and<br />
bashful; in short, a proto-Norman Bates. The film is also notable<br />
for its innovative and creative camera tricks (namely a conceit<br />
whereby the inhabitants of the rooms below the Lodger’s can ‘see’<br />
him pace the floor above as they hear him, as though the ceiling is<br />
momentarily invisible). A dark, spine-tingling, highly atmospheric<br />
little tale of menace that is exceptionally well suited to its subtitle:<br />
A Tale of London Fog…<br />
46 HITCHCOCKREVISITED Box office: 0871 902 5720<br />
HITCHCOCKSEASON 47
With live musical accompaniment by Neil Brand.<br />
With live musical accompaniment by John Sweeney.<br />
The 39 Steps (U)<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Robert Donat,<br />
Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearl. Screenplay:<br />
Charles Bennett, Ian Hay. Novel: John Buchan.<br />
UK 1935. 86 mins. Print source: Park Circus<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
6.30pm<br />
SAWSTON<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
10.30pm<br />
THE 39 STEPS throws together suspense and action, along with<br />
tropes familiar to Hitchcock fans – a character falsely accused of<br />
wrong-doing, and his ensuing flight from sinister, unknown forces<br />
– all executed at breakneck speed. Canadian Richard Hannay is<br />
visiting London and finds himself offering refuge to a girl, Annabella,<br />
who claims to be a spy. When she is murdered at his flat Hannay<br />
finds that not only is he in the frame, but the real killers now have<br />
him in their sights. With no-one to turn to, Hannay must unravel the<br />
mystery of ‘the 39 steps’ – a phrase uttered but never explained by<br />
Annabella – before he becomes the next victim.<br />
Notorious (U)<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Cary Grant,<br />
Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Screenplay: Ben Hecht. 3.00pm<br />
From a story by: John Taintor Foote. USA 1946. 101 mins.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Combining a nuanced study of love, duty, trust and betrayal with<br />
a gripping espionage thriller, NOTORIOUS was further proof that<br />
Hitchcock was a master storyteller. Ingrid Bergman is Alicia, a<br />
woman who is at once using and being used by the men in her life:<br />
spy handler Devlin (Cary Grant) and Nazi Sebastian (Claude Rains).<br />
The fact that Sebastian is portrayed with a degree of sympathy adds<br />
depth, and was a bold move given its year of release. NOTORIOUS<br />
is also notable for the appearance of pre-war German actress<br />
Leopoldine Konstantin in her only American film role, as Sebastian’s<br />
evil mother, one of Hitchcock’s most memorable and chilling villains.<br />
The Ring (U)<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Carl Brisson,<br />
Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter. UK 1927. 116 mins.<br />
6.15pm<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Written and directed by Hitchcock, THE RING displays the talents<br />
of a rapidly evolving filmmaker champing at the bit to advance a<br />
medium still very much in its infancy. The story concerns a love<br />
triangle involving Nellie and two boxers, Jack and Bob. Nellie is<br />
engaged to Jack, but Bob seduces her, leaving Jack to plot revenge<br />
in the only way he knows how: in the boxing ring. The culture of<br />
boxing would have been a rich and vibrant source of inspiration for<br />
Hitchcock, who hailed from an area of London that gave the world<br />
Daniel Mendoza and Jack Broughton. As a story involving tension,<br />
jealousy and betrayal the film is a must for Hitchcock fans wishing<br />
to observe the ‘master of suspense’ developing his craft.<br />
Blackmail (PG)<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Anny Ondra,<br />
John Longden, Cyril Ritchard. Scenario: Alfred Hitchcock, 6.00pm<br />
Benn Levy. Play: Charles Bennett. UK 1929. 75 mins.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Hitchcock called this his farewell to the silent era, and it’s a<br />
fascinating piece of film history as much as an efficient and<br />
effective thriller. When a secret date with another man goes horribly<br />
wrong, Alice and her boyfriend Frank, a policeman, do what they<br />
can to avoid Alice’s arrest. But they haven’t reckoned with the<br />
attentions of a blackmailer, who knows of Alice’s guilty secret. Whilst<br />
seeming to be a straightforward story of suspense, BLACKMAIL<br />
challenges the audience with the moral ambiguity of the characters’<br />
actions and choices. Some might want or expect a neat ending, but<br />
Hitchcock, being Hitchcock, doesn’t let us off so lightly.<br />
New<br />
digital print<br />
New<br />
digital print<br />
New<br />
digital print<br />
New<br />
digital print<br />
Psycho (15)<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Anthony Perkins,<br />
Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin. Screenplay: Joseph 10.30pm<br />
Stefano. Novel: Robert Bloch. USA 1960. 109 mins.<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
Starting as a sleazy film noir with a femme fatale plotting to steal<br />
from her boss, PSYCHO literally changes genre – and protagonist<br />
– half-way. With its now iconic imagery, shock twist and nerveshredding<br />
score, the shower scene not only left audiences reeling,<br />
it ushered in a new species of horror film – one so ahead of its time<br />
it wouldn’t be fully realised until the 70s slasher boom. Arguably<br />
Hitchcock’s finest work, and certainly his most influential, it features<br />
edgy, intense performances by Leigh as the ill-fated blonde, and<br />
Perkins as a new type of cinematic monster – inspired by real-life<br />
killer Ed Gein, and light years from the world of Karloff and Lugosi.<br />
Vertigo (PG)<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: James<br />
Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
5.15pm<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
10.45am<br />
Screenplay: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor. Novel: Pierre Boileau &<br />
Thomas Narcejac. USA 1958. 128 mins. Print source: Universal<br />
Recently voted the greatest film of all time, VERTIGO met with a<br />
mix of muted praise and bemusement upon release. It largely has<br />
critics to thank for its rehabilitation, but is far from being a merely<br />
cerebral pleasure. A typically idiosyncratic take on film noir (shot in<br />
bright, Technicolor daylight) it manipulates us into seeing the world<br />
through the eyes of reliable, ex-cop Scottie (Stewart) as he pursues<br />
the apparently possessed Madeleine (Novak), then steadily unravels<br />
everything we thought we knew. Part thriller, part ghost story,<br />
part Freudian nightmare, with one of the most gripping opening<br />
sequences in cinema.<br />
The Birds (15)<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Tippi Hedren,<br />
Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette.<br />
Screenplay: Evan Hunter. From a story by: Daphne Du<br />
Maurier. USA 1963. 119 mins. Print source: Universal<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
12.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
10.15am<br />
Ostensibly a creature feature in 1950s mould, THE BIRDS sets out like<br />
a romantic comedy in which flighty (pun intended) socialite Melanie<br />
Daniels (Hedren) pursues suave lawyer Mitch Brenner (Taylor) to his<br />
home on the California coast. While Mitch’s mother (Tandy) seems<br />
none too happy at the arrival of this other woman, it seems to bring<br />
something far worse upon the town. Cue another Hitchcock gear<br />
shift... Birds randomly turn on humans – and romance turns jarringly<br />
to horror. As the attacks increase in ferocity, the group must fight to<br />
survive – the threat made all the more disturbing by the fact that it<br />
has no explanation.<br />
Marnie (15)<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Tippi Hedren,<br />
Sean Connery, Diane Baker. Screenplay: Jay Presson 3.15pm<br />
Allen. Novel: Winston Graham. USA 1964. 130 mins.<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
All of Hitchcock’s tropes are present in this underrated follow-up<br />
to THE BIRDS. Tippi Hedren returns to play Marnie, an habitual<br />
thief, who specialises in stealing from her employer (like Marion<br />
in PSYCHO). Apparently damaged by some childhood trauma (like<br />
Norman Bates), she flits from place to place and job to job – until<br />
wealthy boss Mark Rutland sees her for what she is, and, drawn to<br />
her, believes he can resolve her issues (like Scottie in VERTIGO).<br />
Although lacking the adrenaline rush of Hitchcock’s action-based<br />
thrillers, this is a rich and disturbing study of a damaged psyche that<br />
was well ahead of its time.<br />
48 HITCHCOCKREVISITED www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk Box office: 0871 902 5720<br />
HITCHCOCKSEASON 49
HITCHCOCK THE TECHNICIAN<br />
By Richard Bracewell<br />
Martin Scorsese believes that the filmmaker can find the answers to all<br />
his questions in Hitchcock. HALLOWEEN director John Carpenter put it<br />
more bluntly: “I try to steal from him as often as I possibly can.” And<br />
he’s not alone. For directors and screenwriters, every Hitchcock film is a<br />
masterclass. Some filmmakers have worn his art on their sleeve – Brian De<br />
Palma’s BODY DOUBLE (1984) borrowed the plots from both REAR WINDOW<br />
and VERTIGO, whilst Gus Van Sant’s PSYCHO (1998) was a shot-for-shot<br />
remake. More often than not the imitations are unconscious, which for<br />
Hitchcock is the sincerest form of flattery. His films delight in exposing the<br />
unconscious desires within us all.<br />
Hitchcock’s technical team<br />
remained almost unchanged<br />
throughout the 40 years of his<br />
work within the American studio<br />
system. Screenwriters, on the other<br />
hand, came and went. Some burned<br />
more brightly than others – Dorothy<br />
Parker wrote dialogue for SABOTEUR,<br />
Thornton Wilder penned SHADOW OF<br />
A DOUBT – but Hitchcock’s films are<br />
works of visual art, not literature,<br />
and few of his writers returned for<br />
second helpings of humble pie.<br />
“If it’s a good movie, the sound<br />
could go off and the audience would<br />
still have a perfectly clear idea of what<br />
was going on,” Hitchcock boasted.<br />
Using on-screen clips from<br />
Hitchcock’s films, we’ll take a<br />
closer look at the elements of<br />
this visual art: Point of View,<br />
Montage, and Composition.<br />
In other words: where to put<br />
the camera, and how long to<br />
leave it there.<br />
Point of View is about revealing or hiding<br />
information – how much the audience sees, how little<br />
the hero knows. Almost always the audience is ahead<br />
of the hero: Hitchcock delights in making us suffer<br />
because we know what’s going to happen next. We’re<br />
sitting in the dark, but so are they. In THE BIRDS,<br />
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) perches on<br />
a school bench as black crows swarm on a<br />
climbing frame behind her – she’s in blissful<br />
ignorance and we’re screaming at her. But<br />
she can’t hear us, and that’s Point of View.<br />
Montage is storytelling by pictures.<br />
It’s a rapid succession of shots used<br />
sometimes to truncate time, occasionally<br />
to slow it down, but always in Hitchcock<br />
to elicit emotion. The montage titles of<br />
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN introduce the rival<br />
protagonists, seen as two pairs of shoes<br />
hurrying to catch a Pullman. But as the<br />
editing speeds up and the shoes seem<br />
like they’re on a collision course we feel<br />
a mounting sense of dread in what will<br />
Give them pleasure,<br />
the same pleasure<br />
they have when they<br />
wake up from a<br />
nightmare.”<br />
happen if these two characters should ever meet.<br />
And Composition? Isn’t every shot in a film<br />
composed? Perhaps, but not always with such malice,<br />
or such glee, and invariably with the aim of telling the<br />
story in a single frame. When Cary Grant is introduced<br />
to Ingrid Bergman in the opening reel of NOTORIOUS<br />
we find him centre-frame at a drinks party, but in<br />
silhouette and with his back to us. Yet you can’t<br />
take your eyes off him for a moment. Hitchcock’s<br />
composition looks daring, 60 years on.<br />
At the heart of Hitchcock the Technician we’ll find<br />
a paradox. Despite his supreme technical artistry,<br />
Hitchcock claimed that he was unexcited by the<br />
process of actually making his films, a tiresome<br />
adjunct to the pleasant business of dreaming them<br />
up, where his fantasy could run riot. As a director he’s<br />
been portrayed as cold, unfeeling, treating his actors<br />
as if they were little more than mannequins.<br />
But Hitchcock’s technique isn’t the end in itself,<br />
it’s the means to an end (usually a sticky one). His<br />
technique generates emotion in his audience: the<br />
bond with our hero or heroine, fear as we find them in<br />
danger, relief as they make it safely to the other side;<br />
and always a suspicion that the next terror is lurking<br />
in the dark.<br />
“Give them pleasure,” advised Hitchcock of any<br />
aspiring filmmaker, “the same pleasure they have<br />
when they wake up from a nightmare.”<br />
Hitchcock created his nightmares out of closeups,<br />
pans, dollies, and dissolves. He invites us to<br />
admire the technique, knowing that we can’t resist<br />
the emotion. And are these nightmares any less<br />
frightening because we know how they are made?<br />
Richard Bracewell is a British film director and<br />
producer whose features include THE GIGOLOS<br />
and CUCKOO. Richard Bracewell will be giving a free<br />
talk on Hitchcock’s work – see p.10 for details.<br />
‘Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece<br />
Collection’ is released for the first time on<br />
Blu-ray from 1 October. Available online.<br />
Chimes At<br />
Midnight (PG)<br />
Director: Orson Welles. Starring:<br />
Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John<br />
Gieguld, Jeanne Moreau. France/Spain/<br />
Switzerland 1967. 115 mins<br />
Print source: Mr Bongo<br />
Magical Mystery<br />
Tour (PG)<br />
Director: Bernard Knowles / The<br />
Beatles. Starring: The Beatles, Victor<br />
Spinetti, Ivor Cutler, Bonzo Dog Doo-<br />
Dah Band. UK 1967. 55 mins.<br />
Print source: Omniverse<br />
Originally broadcast on Boxing Day 1967 by<br />
the BBC, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is a series of<br />
gently psychedelic vignettes, with the group<br />
let loose on a typically English ‘day trip to<br />
nowhere’. Full of crazy aunts, jolly bus drivers<br />
and seaside postcard humour, it captures<br />
The Beatles relaxing into their own identities,<br />
but before it all began to fall apart. And of<br />
course the music is peerless. Programme also<br />
includes an exclusive preview of a 50 min<br />
Arena documentary on the late 60s scene.<br />
REVIVALS<br />
Shot across two years with typical Wellesian trickery (he was supposed to be using<br />
the money to make Treasure Island), CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT is a hugely ambitious<br />
project. Weaving together five Shakespeare plays, it tells the story of Falstaff<br />
(Welles) and his friendship with Prince Hal – and of the latter’s eventual<br />
rejection of his boastful companion. All ends at the famous Battle<br />
of Shrewsbury, where Welles’ genius creates chaos out of a few<br />
extras and rapid, impressionistic editing. With CITIZEN KANE now<br />
knocked from atop the Sight and Sound poll, this is the perfect<br />
time to see the film Welles himself thought one of his best.<br />
50 HITCHCOCKREVISITED www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk Box office: 0871 902 5720 REVIVALS 51<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
8.00pm<br />
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
10.00pm<br />
Hungarian<br />
Rhapsody: Queen<br />
Live In Budapest (12A)*<br />
Director: János Zsombolyai.<br />
Hungary/Canada/USA/1987.<br />
English and Hungarian with English<br />
subtitles. 118 mins.<br />
Print source: More2Screen<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
10.00pm<br />
In 1985, with their fortunes seemingly in<br />
decline, Queen played Live Aid and stole the<br />
show. The following year, the Magic Tour<br />
saw them play to a record-breaking million<br />
people, including an 80,000 strong crowd at<br />
Budapest’s Népstadion. This is that concert.<br />
This was also to prove their final tour, with<br />
Freddie Mercury tragically being diagnosed<br />
with AIDS in 1987.<br />
*(Contains infrequent strong language)<br />
The Doors Live At<br />
The Bowl ‘68 (PG)<br />
Director: Ray Manzarek.<br />
USA 1987. 62mins.<br />
Print source: More2Screen<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
The only full live recorded 10.45pm<br />
performance by The Doors – from 1968,<br />
but not released until 1987 – captures<br />
the legendary band (and one of rock’s<br />
most enigmatic frontmen), at their quirky<br />
best. Shot with four cameras and skilfully<br />
creating an intimate atmosphere, it<br />
features songs that never appeared on any<br />
Doors studio album, as well as superlative<br />
performances of ‘The End’ and ‘Light<br />
my Fire’. Plus supporting documentary<br />
(approx 50 mins).
Now we<br />
are three!<br />
The<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
Family <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong><br />
The Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> returns with<br />
our much‐loved mixture of favourite<br />
film and television characters old and<br />
new, presented in a family-friendly<br />
environment and at an affordable price.<br />
And this year we’re staging our first ever<br />
Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Kids<br />
Takeover - yep, we’ll take over the entire Arts<br />
Picturehouse cinema on the morning of Saturday<br />
15 September to celebrate our Opening Weekend<br />
with an amazing Octonauts Underwater Party,<br />
face-painting, competitions and goodies galore!<br />
Our friends at Heffers Bookshop on Trinity Street<br />
and John Lewis will also be joining in the fun with<br />
special Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>-themed activities in<br />
store – check out www.heffers.co.uk/childrens or<br />
www.johnlewis.com/cambridge for more info.<br />
See pages 8-9 for more<br />
family-friendly treats, incl.<br />
music sessions with film<br />
composer Neil Brand!<br />
SAT<br />
10.30am<br />
15<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
11.30am<br />
SUN<br />
10.45am<br />
16<br />
Explore! Rescue! Protect! (U)<br />
Director: Darragh O’Connell. UK 2010. Approx. 45 mins.<br />
Print Source: Silver Gate<br />
The Octonauts are a team of undersea adventurers who are always<br />
ready to dive into action. Their mission: to explore underwater<br />
worlds, rescue amazing sea creatures, and protect the ocean. Based<br />
on the richly imaginative books by award-winning design team<br />
Meomi, this massively popular TV series combines elements of<br />
classic team adventure with stunning CGI animation to transport<br />
little ones into an exciting and magical world under the sea.<br />
Join us to celebrate the start of this year’s Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> with<br />
a fabulous Octonauts Underwater Party! Come dressed as your<br />
favourite Octonaut – the best costumes will win special Octo-prizes!<br />
– and join in with Octonauts-themed games and craft activities. As<br />
Captain Barnacles would say: Octonauts, let’s do this!<br />
www.theOctonauts.com<br />
The Gruffalo’s Child (U)<br />
Directors: Uwe Heidschotter, Johannes Weliand. UK 2011. 27 mins.<br />
Voices: Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane<br />
Print Source: Magic Light Pictures<br />
This beguiling and thrilling animated treat, with a star-studded<br />
cast, is based on the best-selling children’s picture book by author<br />
Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler. The Gruffalo lives<br />
with his daughter in a cave surrounded by woods. The Gruffalo’s<br />
child yearns to explore beyond their familiar clearing, but her<br />
father warns her not to go into the deep, dark woods because if she<br />
does, the Big Bad Mouse will be after her. But one wild and windy<br />
night the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warnings and bravely<br />
tiptoes out into the snow in search of the fabled Mouse…<br />
OCTONAUTS Meomi Design Inc.<br />
OCTONAUTS © <strong>2012</strong> Vampire Squid Productions Ltd.<br />
© Orange Eyes Limited 2011<br />
The Penguin King 3D (U)<br />
Directors: Anthony Geffen, Slas Wilson. UK 2011. 75 mins.<br />
Print Source: Kaleidoscope <strong>Film</strong> Distribution<br />
Three years ago, the Penguin King left home. Now<br />
he is returning to the place where he was born<br />
and raised: Penguin City. What follows is a journey<br />
through the most challenging time of the Penguin<br />
King’s life. His story is often comic, sometimes<br />
tragic, and ultimately triumphant: a rite of<br />
passage set on one of the earth’s last great<br />
wildernesses. Enjoy this thrilling new wildlife<br />
documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough<br />
in spectacular 3D. There is also a non-Family <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> screening of this film on Sat 22 at 3.00pm.<br />
SUN<br />
11.45am<br />
16<br />
Grandpa In My Pocket (U)<br />
plus Ha Ha Hairies<br />
Director: Martin Franks. UK 2009-<strong>2012</strong>. Approx 35 mins.<br />
Print Source: Adastra Creative<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
We’re delighted to welcome <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire-based TV production<br />
company Adastra Creative back to the Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, with two<br />
special screenings of their much-loved CBeebies favourite GRANDPA<br />
IN MY POCKET as well as an extra special treat – a rare showing for<br />
an episode from their fab new series HA-HA HAIRIES.<br />
Take one Grandpa (James Bolam) and his imaginative seven-year<br />
old grandson, Jason Mason. Give Grandpa a magic shrinking cap<br />
and watch him turn into the biggest kid of the lot – when he’s<br />
small he’s great fun to be with, but full of mischief… GRANDPA IN<br />
MY POCKET explores the hugely important relationship between<br />
grandchildren and grandparents by turning it on its head – and as<br />
the Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is all about encouraging families to enjoy<br />
film events together, there’ll be a special prize for any child who<br />
brings their own Grandpa – or Grandma – to this screening!<br />
www.grandpainmypocket.co.uk<br />
1.00pm<br />
12.15pm<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
Dangermouse (U)<br />
Creators: Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall. UK 1982. Approx 40 mins.<br />
Print source: Fremantle<br />
He’s the greatest He’s fantastic! Wherever there is danger he’ll<br />
be there…<br />
Legendary British film and TV production company Cosgrove<br />
Hall’s most celebrated creation was this fantastically witty<br />
series chronicling the adventures of our brave eye-patched hero<br />
Dangermouse (David Jason) and his slightly less brave assistant<br />
Penfold (Terry Scott) as they battle the evil Baron Greenback.<br />
We’ll be screening three of the very best episodes – Close<br />
Encounters of the Absurd Kind, The Duel and The Four Tasks<br />
of Danger Mouse (which features a cameo from another<br />
Cosgrove Hall creation, Count Duckula) – to showcase<br />
the combination of laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy, sly<br />
cultural references, and pure silliness which make this<br />
classic programme so well-loved by children and adults alike.<br />
52 FAMILYFILMFESTIVAL<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
Box office: 0871 902 5720<br />
FAMILYFILMFESTIVAL 53
SUN<br />
11.30am<br />
16<br />
THE BFG (U)<br />
Director: Brian Cosgrove. UK 1989. 87 mins.<br />
Voices: David Jason, Amanda Root.<br />
Print Source: Fremantle<br />
The official Roald Dahl Day takes place on 13 September<br />
every year, on what would have been the birthday of the<br />
World’s No. 1 Storyteller. We’re joining in the fun to celebrate<br />
30 years of the swizzfiggling Big Friendly Giant with a<br />
gloriumptious rare screening of this whizzpopping animated<br />
film which was created by Cosgrove Hall - who were also<br />
behind the equally scrumdiddlyumptious DANGERMOUSE<br />
episodes that we’re showing.<br />
Check out www.roalddahlday.com where there are<br />
tons of Dahl-inspired activities and competitions to<br />
get you in the mood for this splendiferous screening!<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
Sprites 11 (PG)<br />
Directors: Various. 2009 -2011. Approx 65 mins.<br />
Print Source: onedotzero<br />
This dazzling selection of visually stunning family-friendly shorts<br />
and pop videos from around the world has been hand-picked<br />
for the new digital generation by onedotzero – an international<br />
contemporary digital arts and design organisation. Let the Family<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> team guide you through this array of comical and<br />
charming stories which promise to entertain and enchant. All<br />
materials screened are suitable for children of all ages, although<br />
very young children may find some of the imagery and sounds<br />
rather intense – do feel free to dip in and out of the screening and<br />
use our separate Chill Out Zone area if this is the case.<br />
www.onedotzero.com<br />
1.30pm<br />
Halloween Punting & Walking Ghost Tours<br />
Come with us to explore the darker side of<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>. Halloween Punting & Walking Ghost<br />
Tours last 90 minutes and run each evening from<br />
24 th to 31 st October <strong>2012</strong>. Join us....if you dare!<br />
Prices<br />
Adult £18.50, concession £17.00 & under-12 £9.25<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
11.45am<br />
SUN<br />
10.30am<br />
16<br />
54 FAMILYFILMFESTIVAL<br />
LEGO NINJAGO – RISE<br />
OF THE SNAKES (PG)<br />
Director: Peter Hausner. USA 2011. Approx 65 mins.<br />
Print Source: LEGO<br />
At a time of peace in Ninjago, our four Ninja heroes are about to face a<br />
new dangerous enemy. Lloyd Garmadon, son of their arch-enemy Lord<br />
Garmadon, has unleashed four ancient breeds of sinister snake-people<br />
with magic weapons and unique powers. Catch the Masters of Spinjitzu<br />
in action at these extra special cinema screenings of the first three<br />
episodes from the latest LEGO Ninjago series – and bring along your<br />
own LEGO Ninjago minifigure to join in with exciting LEGO Ninjago<br />
activities and competitions before the on-screen action starts!<br />
Check out www.ninjago.com for more LEGO Ninjago fun - and to<br />
watch the rest of the Rise of the Snakes episodes.<br />
LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Knob configuration and the Minifigure are<br />
trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©<strong>2012</strong> The LEGO Group.<br />
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Barcelona (Un Mapa)<br />
Catalan<br />
CINEMA<br />
Catalonia is one of the oldest nations in Europe, currently an<br />
autonomous community of Spain, with a strong cultural and political<br />
heritage. Increasingly, here is a cinema that is less conventional<br />
than that of Spain or even the films of Pedro Almodóvar – which<br />
is not to say that they are inaccessible to general audiences. The<br />
legacy of the Spanish Civil War hangs heavily in the filmmaking of<br />
the region, but is interpreted in many different ways. In this overview,<br />
we highlight some extraordinary work from seven Catalan directors:<br />
from complex comedy to vibrant artistic cinema, these are directors<br />
pushing to the edge of what cinema can achieve.<br />
Thanks to Ramon Lamarca for all his knowledge, advice, help<br />
and support in delivering this season. Additional thanks to the<br />
Institut Ramon Llull and Catalan <strong>Film</strong>s & TV.<br />
We hope to welcome director<br />
Ventura Pons to the screening.<br />
Barcelona<br />
(Un Mapa) (CFF15)<br />
Director: Ventura Pons. Starring: Núria<br />
Espert, Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria<br />
Sardà, María Botto. Catalonia 2007.<br />
90 mins. Catalan with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Catalan <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
5.30pm<br />
BARCELONA (UN MAPA) is based on a stage production by Lluïsa Cunillé, which director<br />
Ventura Pons was compelled to bring to the cinema, entranced by its dialogue and<br />
relationships. In doing so he has maintained much of the intensity and claustrophobia of<br />
the production in a series of five duets centring on an elderly couple who rent rooms in<br />
their apartment to three people. Each conversation reveals more about the couple until<br />
the final conversation, when long held secrets are released. The cadence of the dialogue<br />
is enthralling and the performances magical. While the human dramas may seem farfetched,<br />
the resonance with the images of General Franco that open the piece lead to the<br />
film as metaphor for the recent history of Catalonia. A fascinating drama.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
We hope to welcome producer<br />
Toni Espinosa to the screening.<br />
The Body In<br />
The Woods (CFF 18)<br />
(Un Cos Al Bosc)<br />
Director: Joaquim Jordà. Starring: Rossy de Palma, Ricard Borràs,<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
8.30pm<br />
Núria Prims. Catalonia 1996. 90 mins. Catalan with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Catalan <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Jordà was a well-established, internationally renowned documentary<br />
maker, but he made a short foray into the world of fiction with this<br />
exceptional thriller. Set deep in the woodlands of Catalonia, some<br />
hunters discover the corpse of a young woman who has been brutally<br />
murdered. Sent to investigate is lieutenant Cifuentes, a woman in<br />
a man’s world. As her investigation proceeds, she uncovers the<br />
dark and dirty secrets of the town. With twists and turns this is an<br />
excellent thriller, written and directed with intelligence.<br />
Black Bread (CFF 18)<br />
(Pa Negre)<br />
Director: Agustí Villaronga. Starring: Francesc<br />
Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas. Catalonia 2010.<br />
108 mins. Catalan with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Beta Cinema<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
5.30pm<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
8.30pm<br />
Spain’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is the first<br />
film in the Catalan language to win the Goya for Best <strong>Film</strong> as well as<br />
in eight other categories. It is set during the aftermath of the civil<br />
war, and against the backdrop of the beautiful Catalan countryside.<br />
Beneath this beauty lies the debris of nationwide conflict. A young<br />
boy, Andreu, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The<br />
authorities want his father to be made responsible for the deaths, but<br />
Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them.<br />
From a shocking opening, Villaronga follows his themes of childhood,<br />
war, horror and guilt in a powerful film.<br />
The Night Elvis Died<br />
(CFF 18)<br />
(La Nit Que Va Morir L’Elvis)<br />
Director: Oriol Ferrer. Starring: David Bagés, Pere Cuscó, Eli Iranzo.<br />
Catalonia 2010. 104 mins. Catalan with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Enunai produccions<br />
Aureli is a solitary, extremely sensitive man. He is in a dark place<br />
with a violent memory locked away. Maria is directing a very<br />
important Passion play production. Dark forces are afoot and the<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
8.00pm<br />
production is under threat, from funding and strange occurrences.<br />
As the wheels of destiny turn, Aureli’s memories start to return.<br />
Owing much to Wim Wenders’ PARIS TEXAS (Aureli is a distant cousin<br />
of the Harry Dean Stanton role), THE NIGHT ELVIS DIED, is a bizarre<br />
slice of Catalan culture, mixing religion, aggressive forces and off<br />
the wall humour with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War just under<br />
the surface.<br />
Thanks For The Tip (CFF 15)<br />
(Gracies Per La Propina)<br />
Director: Francesc Bellmunt. Starring: Santiago Ramos,<br />
Juli Mira, Lluís Ferrer. Catalonia 1997. 117 mins. Catalan<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Catalan <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
8.15pm<br />
Catalan film director Francesc Bellmunt adapts Valencian writer<br />
Ferran Torrent’s book about two orphan brothers who are raised<br />
by their uncles in a Valencian village in Franco’s fascist Spain.<br />
Mediterranean charm and warmth abound in this film that<br />
showcases Bellmunt’s skills for comedy, with splendid photography<br />
in scope and a score by famous Catalan jazz pianist Manel Camp.<br />
The family saga portrayed in this film represents the desire<br />
for freedom in an era when Spain was dominated by a dictator<br />
(Franco) and an oppressive religion (mostly) in connivance with<br />
Franco’s regime.<br />
56 CATALANSEASON<br />
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CATALANSEASON 57
SCALA BEYOND<br />
Recalling the heady, trashy heyday of the<br />
infamous Scala Cinema – one of London’s most famous<br />
repertory/arthouse cinemas – SCALA BEYOND is part of a free-form,<br />
nationwide film season celebrating all forms of cinema exhibition across the UK.<br />
www.scalabeyond.com<br />
V.O.S. (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Cesc Gay. Starring: Àgata Roca, Vicenta N’Dongo,<br />
Andrés Herrera, Paul Berrondo. Catalonia 2009. 87 mins.<br />
Catalan/Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Catalan <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
8.30pm<br />
In a similar wavelength to that of Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman<br />
and Michael Gondry, Cesc Gay directs a very charming and original<br />
example of a film within a film (the title refers to the acronym for<br />
Original Version with Subtitles). Clara and Manu are having a baby<br />
together and Ander and Vicky are romantically involved. However,<br />
appearances deceive in this film where the drama is played out<br />
against the background of a film being made, so it is not clear what<br />
is reality and what is drama. It has to be seen to be understood.<br />
With great coup de cinema, the audience is kept guessing and never<br />
allowed to settle into this very different romantic comedy.<br />
Warsaw Bridge (CFF 15)<br />
(Pont De Varsòvia)<br />
Director: Pere Portabella. Starring: Carme Elias,<br />
Francisco Guijar and Jordi Dauder. Catalonia 1990.<br />
85 mins. Catalan with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s 59<br />
This is a film that is impossible to describe, but was beautifully<br />
praised by SILENCE OF THE LAMBS director, Jonathan Demme: “I was<br />
lucky enough to first see Warsaw Bridge in Barcelona in 2000 as part<br />
of a retrospective of Portabella’s work. I was literally freaked and said,<br />
‘Who? Pere Portabella? Used to produce Buñuel films? How could a<br />
rich and dazzling and sumptuous film such as this remain so utterly<br />
unknown in my country? The exquisite images, the superbly rendered<br />
music, the bravura style, this bold narrative, the great performances,<br />
the perfection of the totality of this unique and vibrant wonderland of<br />
a film...?” As one reviewer said, time to get excited about film again.<br />
LET US ENTERTAIN YOU...<br />
SUN<br />
16<br />
6.40pm<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
2.00pm<br />
Santa Sangre (18)<br />
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky. Starring: Axel Jodorowsky,<br />
Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell. Italy/Mexico 1989. 123 mins.<br />
Print source: Mr Bongo<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
10.45pm<br />
Recognised as one of the greatest horror films of all time, SANTA SANGRE is<br />
a terrifying and psychedelic experience, where circus horrors cross over into<br />
everyday life. Divided into a flashback and a flash-forward, the film tells the<br />
story of Fenix, a patient in a mental hospital, and his shattered past as a boy<br />
growing up in a circus, and his vengeful life beyond the asylum. From the<br />
celebrated director of EL TOPO, this is unlike any film ever made; an epic and<br />
surreal odyssey of beauty and madness. A show not to be missed.<br />
“I am reminded by Alejandro Jodorowsky that true psychic horror is<br />
possible on the screen – horror, poetry, surrealism, psychological pain and<br />
wicked humour, all at once.” Roger Ebert<br />
Un Chant D’Amour (18)<br />
Director: Jean Genet. Starring: Java, Coco Le Martiniquais and<br />
Lucien Sénémaud. France 1950. 26 mins.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Two prisoners in adjacent cells use an unusual means of communication<br />
to overcome their isolation – but the jealous and sadistic prison guard<br />
proves a tougher obstacle. Genet’s only film as director, and banned for<br />
years, UN CHANT D’AMOUR is a silent, poetic, and intensely physical vision of<br />
homosexual desire.<br />
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Thundercrack! (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Curt McDowell. Starring: Marion Eaton, Melinda McDowell<br />
and George Kuchar. USA 1975. 120 mins approx.<br />
Print source: n/a<br />
If John Waters had remade THE OLD DARK HOUSE as a hardcore<br />
pornographic black comedy whilst under the influence of Paul Morrissey<br />
and the Marx Brothers, it might have turned out something like this. It’s a<br />
dark and stormy night, and a seemingly endless stream of travellers take<br />
refuge at the house of the very drunk and somewhat insane Mrs Hammond<br />
– a house apparently replete with sex toys – but things get really out of<br />
hand when the circus animals turn up. Co-written by George Kuchar, king<br />
of underground porno kitsch, this symphony of sleaze shares his distinctly<br />
low-fi aesthetic, featuring clearly fake sets and ‘bad’ acting, and exploiting<br />
every possible opportunity for improbable sexual interaction between its<br />
parodic protagonists. Packed with absurdities, bad taste jokes and graphic<br />
sex, THUNDERCRACK! is definitely NOT for the faint of heart!<br />
Hold Me While I’m Naked (15)<br />
Director: George Kuchar. Starring: Starring: Donna Kerness, George Kuchar and Stella Kuchar. USA 1966. 17 mins.<br />
Print source: Lux<br />
A camp classic from the director whose salacious shorts caused his banishment from the New York Eight Millimeter Motion Picture Club. The<br />
sudden, unplanned departure of lead actress Donna Kerness due to excessive shower scenes swiftly becomes the subject of the film.<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
10.30pm<br />
Box office: 0871 902 5720 SCALABEYOND 59
FOCUS ON<br />
ESTONIa<br />
When we saw THE IDIOT, we had the sense that something was up in Estonia’s film world and started to dig<br />
a bit deeper. It turned out that THE IDIOT’s producer, Katrin Kissa, is a driving force in her country, and was<br />
also responsible for the impressive THE TEMPATION OF ST. TONY. Looking at a large number of short films<br />
and documentaries it became immediately apparent that Estonian film production is undergoing an<br />
exciting new phase, as well as fostering their tradition of creating masterful<br />
animation. Here we present just a glimpse of this highly artistic and<br />
imaginative new work.<br />
UK<br />
Premiere<br />
The Idiot (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Rainer Sarnet. Starring: Risto Kübar, Katariina Unt, Tambet Tuisk,<br />
Tiina Tauraite. Estonia 2011. 132 mins. Estonian with English subtitles<br />
Print source: Homeless Bob Production<br />
Based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same name, THE IDIOT tells the story<br />
of Prince Myshkin, a naïve, pure and fragile character who tries to save the soul<br />
of the beautiful, fallen Nastassya Filippovna. His almost angelic behaviour makes<br />
those around him realize what pitiful, vain and greedy characters they have become.<br />
Sarnet’s take on The Idiot can be perceived as a passionate love story, or as a<br />
philosophical parable about the human condition. He has created a remarkable,<br />
essentially faithful adaptation of the great novel, albeit from his own very personal<br />
viewpoint. THE IDIOT should be seen on the big screen (and this is a rare chance):<br />
it was shot entirely in a cathedral, including sportive beach scenes dotted by sexy<br />
bikinis, train carriages, tree-lined parks and pompous interiors, accompanied by a<br />
racy soundtrack with classical, 60s beat and 80s pop-music, carried along by strong<br />
performances, capturing the spirit of Dostoyevsky with ease and confidence.<br />
Recent winner of Best <strong>Film</strong> in Parallels & Encounters, Palic <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
The Temptation of St. Tony (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Veiko Õunpuu. Starring: Taavi Eelmaa, Ravshana Kurkova,<br />
Denis Lavant. Estonia, Sweden, Finland 2009. 115 mins. Estonian with<br />
English subtitles<br />
Print source: Homeless Bob Productions<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
5.30pm<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
6.30pm<br />
EMMANUEL<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
10.15am<br />
“Midway upon the journey of our life<br />
I found myself within a forest dark,<br />
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.”<br />
Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy<br />
Inexplicably, Tony finds himself in exactly the darkening forest that Dante describes. An<br />
unusual problem intrudes upon his moderately prosperous and quiet life – morality. Is it<br />
possible to be a ‘good person’? What does that mean anyway? And what’s in it for him? On<br />
his journey towards a clearer conscience, he finds an increasingly complicated reality.<br />
“Looking like a grown-up version of the hero of ERASERHEAD, Tony seems at times<br />
a two-dimensional character traversing a multidimensional, Lynchian landscape.”<br />
New York Times<br />
“Full of beautifully choreographed and surreal set pieces that virtually define<br />
bravura.” NY Magazine<br />
Estonia’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language <strong>Film</strong> at the<br />
83rd Academy Awards.<br />
Visions From Estonia (CFF 15)<br />
Print source: Estonian <strong>Film</strong> Foundation<br />
Immerse yourself in the weird and wonderful world of Estonia’s most recent short animations,<br />
documentaries and fictional stories. All films shown in Estonian with English subtitles.<br />
Big House (Suur Maja)<br />
Director: Kristjan Holm. Animation. 2011.10 mins.<br />
This rhythmic, funny animation takes us to an ordinary warm<br />
summer night when the residents of an ordinary apartment house<br />
gather in their yard. A citizen of questionable motives takes<br />
advantage of the situation.<br />
Another Dimension (Salme Saladus)<br />
Director: Moonika Siimets. Documentary. <strong>2012</strong>. 28 mins.<br />
The Estonian Christian pop-quartet Sonajalad (‘The Ferns’) is formed<br />
by two pairs of twins living together on a remote island. Their<br />
preferred mode of transport is a helicopter, which comes in handy<br />
when managing their windmills. Dressed in white, with pumped-up<br />
lips, the girls read Ave Maria as if it was phone sex. An older lady<br />
from Salme, the same village, firmly believes that her garden has<br />
a gateway to another dimension. Through parallel montage these<br />
two stories start to play off each other, forming a truly bizarre and<br />
hilarious viewing experience.<br />
The Other Side Of The Rainbow<br />
(Teiselpool Vikerkaart)<br />
Director: Triin Ruumet. Starring: Hendrik Toompere Jr., Katre Kaseleht.<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. 18 mins.<br />
Perhaps there is no big difference between games and reality. One<br />
can be replaced with the other. But what happens if we go too far?<br />
Aivar and Leeni are a couple pretending that he just gave a lift to<br />
her, a sexy hitchhiker.<br />
As Time Goes On (Aeg Ei Peatu)<br />
Director: Moonika Siimets. Starring: Ene Järvis, Feliks Kark, Carita<br />
Vaikjärv. <strong>2012</strong>. 22 mins.<br />
Malle doesn’t want to live any more. She doesn’t get out from bed<br />
and watches whodunits on TV, which makes her even sicker than she<br />
actually is. The only meaning in Malle’s life is her daughter Miina.<br />
But one day there is an unexpected surprise behind her door.<br />
Body Memory (Keha Mälu)<br />
Director: Ülo Pikkov. Animation. 2011. 9 mins.<br />
Our body remembers more than we imagine. It remembers the<br />
sorrow and pain of our predecessors. It keeps alive the stories of our<br />
parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. How far back is<br />
it possible to go in your bodily memory?<br />
With thanks to Tristan Priimägi and the Estonian <strong>Film</strong> Foundation<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
3.45pm<br />
We are delighted to welcome producer<br />
Mari Kallas to the screening.<br />
60 ESTONIANCINEMA<br />
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Francesco Rosi<br />
As the great Italian director Francesco Rosi celebrates his 90th birthday, we present a short<br />
review of a remarkable career, focusing on key films that dissected the political and criminal<br />
corruption that was endemic in Italian society. Developing a style of dramatic political cinema,<br />
he created an international reputation for exciting filmmaking that remains powerful today.<br />
Borrowing from the success of American models he appropriates the gangster film and makes<br />
it his own. He focused on the top stories of the time, creating a socially committed cinema that<br />
remained entertaining and accessible to international audiences.<br />
Hands Over<br />
The City (U)<br />
(Le Mani Sulla Città)<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
3.30pm<br />
Director: Francesco Rosi. Starring: Rod Steiger, Guido Alberti, Salvon<br />
Randone. Italy 1963. 105 mins. Italian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Contemporary <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Francesco Rosi is remembered for his films on Italian corruption,<br />
such as ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES and SALVATORE GIULIANO. This film<br />
centres on the irresistible rise of property speculator Nottola as<br />
he makes sure that new public buildings are constructed on his<br />
own land. ‘It’s not only totally convincing as an analysis of civic<br />
corruption, but also one of the very few left-wing movies that<br />
one can imagine reaching the mass audience it’s aimed at.’ – Tony<br />
Rayns, Time Out<br />
Lucky Luciano (18)<br />
Director: Francesco Rosi. Starring: Gian Maria Volontè,<br />
Rod Steiger, Vincent Gardenia. Italy 1973 105 mins.<br />
English and Italian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
1.00pm<br />
With all his investigations of Italian society, it was only natural<br />
that Rosi should turn his attention to the Italian emigrants to<br />
America from the Mafia families. Again employing his fractured<br />
chronology, he looks at the career of Lucky Luciano starting at<br />
the point of his departure from America in 1946, having been<br />
pardoned for his support for the war effort. Rosi digs deep into<br />
the legend of Luciano and seeks the truth, looking at his life in<br />
both the USA and Italy. With an American and Italian cast and an<br />
almost operatic style, LUCKY LUCIANO is a fascinating contrast to<br />
the contemporary THE GODFATHER.<br />
The Mattei Affair (U)<br />
(Il Caso Mattei)<br />
Director: Francesco Rosi. Starring: Gian Maria<br />
Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranci Ombuen. Italy 1972.<br />
116 mins. Italian with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Cineteca di Bologna<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
8.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
3.00pm<br />
Illustrious Corpses (PG)<br />
(Cadaveri Eccellenti)<br />
Director: Francesco Rosi. Starring: Lino Ventura, Max von<br />
Sydow, Fernando Rey. Italy/France. 1976 120 mins. Italian<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
1.00pm<br />
Salvatore<br />
Giuliano (18)<br />
Director: Francesco Rosi. Starring:<br />
Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Pietro<br />
Cammarata. Italy 1962. 123 mins. Italian<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
3.00pm<br />
Winning the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1962, SALVATORE GIULIANO brought Rosi to<br />
international attention. Based on a true story, it opens in 1950 as 28-year-old outlaw<br />
Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. In flashback, the life of<br />
Giuliano unfolds: a Sicilian bandit who could be bought by politicians to fight for them,<br />
or equally for the Mafia. Beautifully filmed in black and white, it has an intense quasidocumentary<br />
style that is never less than compelling.<br />
Enrico Mattei was tasked with the rebuilding of the Italian<br />
Petroleum industry after the end of the Second World War and<br />
created the powerful National Fuel Trust, seen by many as a state<br />
within a state with control of many areas of Italian industry. He<br />
was killed in an unexplained plane crash in 1962. Rosi investigates<br />
the life of this prominent citizen – his own Citizen Kane – and<br />
looks for the causes of his death. He had many enemies. With<br />
Gian Maria Volonté in a towering performance, THE MATTEI AFFAIR<br />
is a powerful portrait of state corruption.<br />
At its simplest level ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES is about a rash of<br />
killings which threatens to decimate the High Court judiciary<br />
and throw an unnamed European country into a state of violence<br />
and terrorism. But behind the violence someone is scheming.<br />
Inspector Rogas is assigned to investigate the murders of<br />
Supreme Court justices. As he goes deeper he finds conspiracy<br />
upon conspiracy. Based on the novel il Contesto by Leonardo<br />
Sciascia.<br />
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Sinister (15)<br />
Director: Scott Derrickson. Starring:<br />
Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Juliet<br />
Rylance, Fred Dalton Thomspon,<br />
James Ransone. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 110 mns.<br />
Print source: Momentum<br />
SAT<br />
15<br />
10.30pm<br />
TUE<br />
18<br />
10.30pm<br />
Don’t buy a house where the previous family was hanged, drowned, incinerated or otherwise<br />
murdered, unless you have the strongest of constitutions. True crime writer Ellison Oswald<br />
has made a career out of exposing police mistakes and now he’s investigating a shocking<br />
small-town death first hand by moving into the house where it actually took place. But<br />
strange occurrences start happening and Ellison becomes convinced the figure he sees<br />
lurking in some old home movies he discovers is the ancient occult ‘eater of children’<br />
demon. The scares are not just intense but unyielding in this compelling horror yarn from<br />
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE director Scott Derrickson. Impressive in its restraint during<br />
quieter moments, and powerfully disturbing at its nastiest, SINISTER is a very creepy, darkly<br />
entertaining terror tale. And Ethan Hawke shines as the agonized writer whose deteriorating<br />
state of his mind shatters everything he holds dear.<br />
Tower Block<br />
(15)<br />
Directors: James Nunn, Ronnie<br />
Thompson. Starring: Sheridan Smith,<br />
Russell Tovey, Jack O’Connell, Jill<br />
Baker. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 87 mins.<br />
Print source: Lionsgate<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
10.30pm<br />
The tower block was first built for affordable living after World War II. Communities<br />
welcomed them as their excellent views made them popular places to live. Until they<br />
deteriorated, and became breeding grounds for crime and violence. Redevelopers took<br />
over, knocking them down. However it’s not easy moving out existing tenants. Now it’s the<br />
turn of Serenity House to be demolished. And the top floor residents are the final people<br />
left to be re-housed. But something is about to happen in Serenity House that will make<br />
the tenants sitting targets for a psychopathic sniper. With all the lifts booby-trapped,<br />
every entrance and exit obstructed, the mysterious killer has thought of every last detail<br />
to divide and conquer the panic-stricken and maimed occupants. See no evil, hear no<br />
evil, speak no evil… A rousing, riveting British thriller high on tension, scares and nastily<br />
effective splatter chaos.<br />
We hope to welcome director April Mullen and<br />
writer Tim Doiron to the Sat 15 screening.<br />
Sleep Tight (15)<br />
(Mientras Duermes)<br />
Director: Jaume Balaguero. Starring:<br />
Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San<br />
Juan, Iris Ameida. Spain 2011. 102 mins.<br />
Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
Print source: Lionsgate<br />
MON<br />
17<br />
11.00pm<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
11.00pm<br />
[REC] director Jaume Balaguero says “Hola Hitchcock” in this scary and darkly unsettling<br />
psychological horror thriller. Unassuming Cesar is janitor at an upscale apartment block in<br />
Barcelona. However, his quiet politeness hides a much more sinister personality. His current<br />
obsession is Clara, the new cheerful tenant on the fifth floor. At night when Clara is fast<br />
asleep, Cesar sneaks into her flat – and bed – to appease his twisted fantasies. If only the<br />
pesky young girl down the corridor would mind her own business, and one senior citizen<br />
wouldn’t poke her nose in. But soon Cesar’s life is going to spiral out of all control due to a<br />
police investigation that threatens to ruin his whole miserable master plan… Provocative and<br />
intense, with Spanish superstar Luis Tosar delivering a sensationally disturbing performance,<br />
the growing tension, clever twists and startling chills will keep you biting your nails to<br />
the end.<br />
Dead Before<br />
Dawn 3D (CFF 18)<br />
Director: April Mullen. Starring: Devon Bostick,<br />
Christopher Lloyd, April Mullen, Tim Doiron, Kevin McDonald.<br />
Canada <strong>2012</strong>. 88 mins.<br />
Print source: Wango <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT SUN<br />
15 16<br />
10.45pm 10.20pm<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> regulars April Mullen and Tim Doiron, who previously<br />
brought popular comedies ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE WAY OF THE<br />
TOSSER and GRAVYTRAIN to <strong>Cambridge</strong>, return with this horror romp<br />
– the first ever 100% Canadian 3D feature. Devon Bostick (DIARY OF A<br />
WIMPY KID) stars as Casper Galloway, a college student on the brink<br />
of failing his course, whose grandfather (Christopher Lloyd – BACK TO<br />
THE FUTURE) owns an occult antiques store. When he and his friends<br />
accidentally smash a rather fragile urn, people in the neighborhood start<br />
to turn into zombie demons – or Zemons, to be exact. Can Casper and co.<br />
find a way to reverse the curse before the Zemons take over the world?<br />
Guinea Pigs (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Ian Clark. Starring: Alex Reid, Aneurin Barnard,<br />
Nia Roberts, Steve Evets, Skye Lourie. UK 2011. 90 mins.<br />
Print source: Vertigo <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
WED<br />
19<br />
10.45pm<br />
10 August 2010. Seven volunteers arrive at the isolated and hightech<br />
Limebrook Clinic to take part in a clinical trial for ProStasia<br />
Pharmaceuticals’ new drug – PRO-9. Initially, everything seems<br />
innocuous – one by one they are injected, eat dinner and retire.<br />
Ahead of them, two weeks of blood tests, bed rest and boredom, with<br />
a £2K cheque at the end. But shortly after midnight the guinea pigs<br />
are awoken by the anguished screams of the first of their number to<br />
have been injected. He is quickly removed from the ward for close<br />
observation, leaving the rest of the volunteers wondering what might<br />
be in store for each of them. So begins the horror fraught night<br />
for the seven volunteers as one by one, in the order the Pro-9 was<br />
administered, they succumb to the drug’s terrible consequences.<br />
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SHORTFUSION<br />
CFF 15<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
10.30pm<br />
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Following the acclaimed premiere of THE PURPLE FIEND at last year’s <strong>Festival</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong>-based indie filmmakers Project Trident<br />
return with another explosive collection of shorts.<br />
This weird and wonderful collection of no-budget films covers everything from comedy, documentary and music video to their<br />
trademark schlock horror – with TRIDENTFEST, you just never know quite what you’re going to get.<br />
So join Project Trident for a night of nightmare birthday parties, talking severed heads, weird chess collections, super-powers and<br />
battleships. This year will also see Project Trident unveil their plans for their first ever feature film. Not to be missed!<br />
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The Verse (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Christian Lapidge. 3 mins.<br />
A young woman faces certain death in the<br />
deep jungles of the distant past.<br />
Powers (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: The Fabulous Poo Brothers. 2 mins.<br />
Andrzej tests his superpowers out.<br />
Listening (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: The Fabulous Poo Brothers. 1 min.<br />
Andrzej doesn’t listen.<br />
Devrin Comes To Play<br />
(<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: Carl Peck & Simon Panrucker.<br />
8 mins. Alistair’s birthday takes a turn for<br />
the worse when Devrin comes to play.<br />
The Trim<br />
(<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: The<br />
Fabulous Poo Brothers.<br />
1 min.<br />
According to Simon,<br />
Andrzej’s tash needs a<br />
trim. Should he do it?<br />
Chess Man (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Sammy Patterson. 8 mins.<br />
A documentary about a man. A chess man.<br />
Teaching Simon How To<br />
Skateboard (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: Simon Panrucker & Ryd Cook.<br />
7 mins. A documentary in which Ryd<br />
teaches Simon how to skateboard on a<br />
skateboard.<br />
Victory Points Music<br />
Video (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Ryd Cook. 3 mins.<br />
A music video for local band Victory Points.<br />
Andy Needs His Milk<br />
(<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Carl Peck. 12 mins.<br />
When a loner stumbles across an<br />
incapacitated man named Andy, he finds<br />
solace in his company. But now ‘Andy’<br />
needs his Milk.<br />
Winston And Colchester<br />
(<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Carl Peck. 3 mins.<br />
The first ever Project Trident animation! Our<br />
heroes spend some time together in their<br />
undies with little to say.<br />
Training (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: The Fabulous Poo Brothers. 1 min.<br />
Andrzej’s training hard and loud. Can Simon<br />
stand it?<br />
Feature Teaser (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Christian Lapidge. 2 mins.<br />
Project Trident are making a feature film<br />
and we’re going to tell you a bit about<br />
how that is going to work.<br />
“Bears” Music Video<br />
(<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director: Tom Martin. 3 mins.<br />
Music video for The British Public.<br />
Confession (<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Directors: The Fabulous Poo Brothers. 2 mins.<br />
Simon needs Andrzej to hear something<br />
important.<br />
To Rust (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about experimentalism. 83 mins.<br />
THU<br />
13<br />
10.30pm<br />
RUSKIN’S POND<br />
Director: John Woodman. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 10 mins.<br />
An investigation into landscape film and duration, and the way in<br />
which, through time, changes in light, weather and season, affect<br />
our perception of space and place.<br />
LEMONS AND TACKS<br />
Director: Trisha McRae. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 6 mins<br />
A visual stream of consciousness that moves from childhood<br />
through the differing phases of life, inspired by a drawing of lemons<br />
and tacks seen on a kitchen wall.<br />
DIP: THE FAR END<br />
Director: Sebahat Ersoy. Turkey <strong>2012</strong>. 14 mins<br />
Mehmet, a kid who has just suffered abuse, heads home. His family<br />
begin to notice his strange behaviour.<br />
AU FIL DU TEMPS<br />
Director: Neil Boynton. UK 2011. 8 mins<br />
Ten time-lapse sequences captured during the same season in<br />
three different Alpine locations.<br />
THE VOICE OF GOD<br />
Director: Bernd Luetzeler. Germany/India 2011. 10 mins<br />
A melodramatic docu-drama with voice-over, in stop-motion and<br />
long time exposure.<br />
SMOKE AND MIRRORS (RAUCH UND SPIEGEL)<br />
Director: Nick Moore. Australia <strong>2012</strong>. 6 mins.<br />
A trapeze routine is transformed into a stage trick, a music box<br />
automaton and a mesmerising carousel.<br />
APSIS<br />
Director: Max Weinman. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 16 mins<br />
A caped demon lost in the limitless expanse of another world<br />
realises his existence through the brief encounter.<br />
THE FUNERAL<br />
Director: Jun-Woo Lee. South Korea 2011. 13 mins.<br />
A family gathers around the death of a father. As the corpse<br />
carriage glides in, they begin to detect that something is wrong.<br />
To Be In the Present (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about parallel universes. 80 mins.<br />
10 MINUTES<br />
Director: Charlie Bray. UK 2011. 15 mins.<br />
FRI<br />
14<br />
11.00pm<br />
In this short sci-fi thriller, John, a heart-broken university tutor, can<br />
think of only one thing. To achieve it, he needs to blackmail, lie and<br />
bend the laws of physics.<br />
THE LIFT (AUFZUG)<br />
Director: Emily Kuhnke. Germany 2011. 18 mins.<br />
The lift is a place of relative safety. But floor by floor, with each<br />
passenger in his or her tableaux, the atmosphere of mayhem seeps<br />
in to afflict the young lift operator.<br />
O.V.N.I.<br />
Director: Flore Aste. France <strong>2012</strong>. 6 mins.<br />
Marianne walks the streets of the city, sinking slowly into madness.<br />
GRACE<br />
Director: Keir Burrows. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 21 mins.<br />
Set the night a nuclear war breaks out, GRACE is a compelling<br />
drama of interconnected lives in the hours before the bombs fall.<br />
THE GAME<br />
Director: Marcin Janiec. Poland 2011. 5 mins.<br />
Somewhere between life and death a thrilling chess match takes<br />
place. The stake is high – a way to the world of living.<br />
BURNING HEARTS<br />
Director: James McFay. Australia/Japan 2011.15 mins<br />
A washed-up taxi driver must save a young model from the Yakuza.<br />
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To Celebrate (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about mourning. 88 mins.<br />
SAT<br />
16<br />
5<br />
11.00pm<br />
CALLUM<br />
Director: Michael Van Der Put. UK 2011. 14 mins<br />
When his first love Joanna is killed at a railway station, average<br />
schoolboy Callum struggles to cope with guilt, grief and fear. But he<br />
must look for the courage to do the right thing.<br />
THE WAY THE LAMP SWINGS<br />
Director: Peter Kelly. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 11 mins<br />
Adrift on a boat in the middle of the ocean, a fisherman and his<br />
daughter are desperately trying to fix their engine and return<br />
home.<br />
BLACK DUST<br />
Director: James Lawes, UK <strong>2012</strong>. 11 mins.<br />
Best friends Andy and Bryn are coal miners’ sons growing up in 70’s<br />
Britain. A cave-in has resulted in Andy’s father being trapped, and<br />
it’s left up to Ike, Bryn’s abusive father, to get him out.<br />
DYLAN’S ROOM<br />
Director: Layke Anderson. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 20 mins<br />
A mother finds a way back to her lost son.<br />
DAYS OF AWE<br />
Director: Rehana Rose Khan. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 12 mins.<br />
Ten days of mercy, introspection and forgiveness.<br />
LINE 102<br />
Director: Damian Schipporeit. Germany 2011. 20 mins<br />
One cold winter night bus driver Margret, ejects Jessica, a drunk<br />
teenage girl travelling without a ticket. But the girl becomes the<br />
victim of a crime – and Margret’s life breaks apart.<br />
To Accommodate (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about innovative filmmaking. 79 mins.<br />
HOLLOW DATE<br />
Director: Alexander Tuschinski. Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 3 mins.<br />
THU<br />
20<br />
10.00pm<br />
How do college students get together? This surreal look at dating<br />
norms and smalltalk offers unexpected insight...<br />
WHEN SUDDENLY THE EAST LIES IN THE<br />
WEST (WENN DER OSTEN PLÖTZLICH IM WESTEN LIEGT)<br />
Director: Ki Bun. Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 15 mins.<br />
What happens to a human being whose society – whose decade’s<br />
work – disappears overnight?<br />
MAGIC LAMP<br />
Director: Dino Kazamia. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 10 mins.<br />
Ray and Frank are businessmen catching up over a pint. A sinister<br />
negotiation follows as one desperate man attempts to make a sale.<br />
MARCHEN II<br />
Director: Kondo Reiko. France 2011. 14 mins.<br />
The new trip of Little Red Riding Hood.<br />
THE PUB<br />
Director: Joseph Pierce. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 8 mins.<br />
Kemi lives and works in the murky slipstream of a North London<br />
pub. As the booze flows, the line between who belongs behind and<br />
in front of the bar becomes increasingly blurred.<br />
THE OLD WOMAN (DIE ALTE FRAU)<br />
Director: Ariane Mayer. Germany 2011. 29 mins.<br />
In a time when the publication of a poem may lead to death, a<br />
writer plans to write a subversive novel, but the sudden death of an<br />
old woman turns his life into a nightmare.<br />
To Cry (CFF 12A)*<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about the act of laughing. 77 mins.<br />
FRI<br />
21<br />
10.30pm<br />
COOK BOOK<br />
Directors: Martin Briggs-Watson & Andrew William Robb.<br />
UK <strong>2012</strong>. 6 mins.<br />
A hapless bachelor struggles to cook a romantic dinner and gets<br />
some unexpected help from his kitchen appliances.<br />
THE FINNISH COW (VACA FINLANDEZA)<br />
Director: Gheorghe Preda. Romania <strong>2012</strong>. 20 mins.<br />
Fane, a farmer who loves animals, sells a cow to a contemporary<br />
art museum unaware that the animal’s exposure in the museum will<br />
cause him to radically change his life.<br />
THE FOREIGNER<br />
Director: Alethea Avramis. Greece <strong>2012</strong>. 15 mins.<br />
A remote Greek village must increase its population in order to<br />
avoid being cut off from the local government.<br />
AILEMA<br />
Director: Cecilia Frugiuele. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 10 mins.<br />
Amelia is a 7 year-old dyslexic who has learned to transform her<br />
shortcomings into creativity – even in the unforgiving restrictions<br />
of the classroom.<br />
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM<br />
Director: Giles Ripley. UK 2011. 5 mins.<br />
What could be more fun than throwing Jim a surprise birthday<br />
party? The guests are hushed, the phone’s on loudspeaker and Ed’s<br />
begun his prank. But Jim’s not really fussed for a party. Not with<br />
that lot, anyway…<br />
THE THINGS MY FATHER NEVER TAUGHT ME<br />
Director: Burleigh Smith. Australia <strong>2012</strong>. 7 mins.<br />
Melvin gives dating advice to his three-year-old son.<br />
A FISTFUL OF SANDWICH<br />
Director: Philippe Leone. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 14 mins.<br />
A car park security guard is faced with a dilemma: whether to<br />
confront two martial arts enthusiasts whose samurai sword-fight<br />
has interrupted enjoyment of his lovingly crafted sandwich.<br />
*(Contains moderate bad language)<br />
To Belong (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about different points-of-view. 82 mins.<br />
SAT<br />
22<br />
10.45pm<br />
THE TORTOISE<br />
Directors: Pedro Lino, Luis da Matta Almeida. Portugal/UK <strong>2012</strong>. 10<br />
mins.<br />
One day, while out walking, a man spots something he has never<br />
seen before: a tortoise. He runs home to tell the family. But will they<br />
believe him?<br />
BUBBLY<br />
Director: Steven Carne. UK <strong>2012</strong>. 15 mins.<br />
A businessman signs a deal that will ensure financial security for<br />
the next twenty years, little knowing his business is about to end<br />
his family’s lives. Who is the terrorist? The man who designed the<br />
bomb, the man who made it, the man who sold it or the man who<br />
planted it?<br />
MAN IN FEAR<br />
Director: William Jewell. UK 2011. 11 mins.<br />
Fleeing a coach crash, Anthony wanders the streets, bloodied<br />
and desperate, convinced that people are trying to kill him – by<br />
accident.<br />
JT VS. THE GOOD GUYS<br />
Director: Chris Shimojima. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 12 mins.<br />
A short portrait of youth through the eyes of the high school bully.<br />
THE RUNNER<br />
Director: Parker Ellerman. Germany <strong>2012</strong>. 9 mins.<br />
A little boy from a township in Cape Town needs to find money for<br />
his mother’s vital surgery, and pays a high price that changes his<br />
world.<br />
THE LIFE SMUGGLERS<br />
Director: David W. Wells. USA 2011. 25 mins.<br />
Two retirees from Phoenix, Arizona run prescription drugs from<br />
Mexico to help pay for a wife’s medical bills. But when their work<br />
suddenly includes people smuggling, it becomes more ethically<br />
complex.<br />
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To Hate (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about love. 96 mins<br />
GEMALOGIA<br />
Director: Rick Limentani. Spain/UK 2011. 12 mins.<br />
Erick is fired from his job classifying diamonds when he claims to<br />
have found the perfect gem – and all because he has fallen in love<br />
with a girl called Gemma.<br />
THE OTHER SIDE (DE OTRO LADO)<br />
Director: Yanillis Pérez. Dominican Republic/France / 2011. 15 mins.<br />
Miguel, a young Dominican, earns a living by selling food on the<br />
street and dreams of a home with Laura. But when her grandmother<br />
finds out, Laura’s life changes forever.<br />
ONE NIGHT STAND<br />
Director: Michael Thai. China/USA <strong>2012</strong>. 16 mins.<br />
What begins as a fun and flirtatious game of cat and mouse for Liu<br />
and Yan ends up leaving an indelible mark on them both.<br />
NO MESSAGES<br />
Director: Cian McGarrigle. Ireland <strong>2012</strong>.18 mins.<br />
Somtimes, that much-needed kick up the arse can come when you<br />
least expect it – as Dave, a beleaguered Irish barman, is about to<br />
find out.<br />
AND IF TOMORROW...<br />
Director: Joe Iacovino. USA <strong>2012</strong>. 20 mins.<br />
A man. A woman. An abstract painting.<br />
PRATTLE: YOUR WORDS ARE SO EMPTY<br />
AND SO IS YOUR HEART (NOW IN BLACK AND<br />
WHITE!)<br />
Directors: Ryan Daniel Dobson & Patrick Cavanaugh. USA 2011. 15 mins<br />
A neo-noir comedy about two best friends who make an illconceived<br />
bet: the first person to meet, date, and successfully<br />
propose to a woman online wins $500.<br />
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SHORTS<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
1.00pm<br />
To Be a Man (CFF 15)<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s about women. 102 mins<br />
SUN<br />
23<br />
6.00pm<br />
GHOST IN THE MACHINE<br />
Director: Oliver Krimpas. UK 2011. 18 mins.<br />
Lonely Noreen dreams of being whisked away by a square-jawed<br />
cowboy, but has to make do with an abandoned 60 year-old talking<br />
tractor.<br />
MADELEINE ZABEL<br />
Director: Chris Shimojima. USA 2011. 17 mins.<br />
Infamous socialite Maddy Z, a stressed reporter, and the phone<br />
interview from hell...<br />
CANDID<br />
Director: Nicholas Paton. UK 2011. 10 mins.<br />
A supernatural mystery emerges from the images snapped by a<br />
broken-hearted photographer in this hypnotic thriller.<br />
REPRISE<br />
Director: Shripriya Mahesh. USA 2011. 13 mins.<br />
Struggling in an abusive same-sex marriage, Meena is forced to<br />
confront the difficult choice between staying and leaving.<br />
LIFE THROUGH A LENS<br />
Director: Ellenor Argyropoulos. Australia 2011. 17 mins<br />
After 50 years of struggling with her own family’s identity, Rose<br />
realises she must conquer her fears of rejection or continue living<br />
her photographic fantasy.<br />
RUBY<br />
Director: Iain Mitchell. UK 2011. 10 mins.<br />
What do forty years of marriage mean if you can’t remember them?<br />
On their ruby wedding, a wife attempts to spark the memories in<br />
her husband who has dementia.<br />
MADAME IDA<br />
Director: Lisa Forrell. UK 2011.17 mins.<br />
On the last day of her life, infamous ballerina Ida Rubinstein reveals<br />
her ancient ballet shoes and begins to dance.<br />
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BOOKING TICKETS<br />
Advance tickets can be purchased for all venues from any of the following:<br />
ONLINE www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
IN PERSON at any till at the Arts Picturehouse<br />
BY TELEPHONE 0871 902 5720 (9:30am – 8:30pm | 10p a minute from a landline)<br />
ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
AND BUDDHIST CENTRE<br />
Weekday matinees (before 5pm) and all<br />
day Monday:<br />
Adult £7.50<br />
Picturehouse Member £5.50<br />
Concession* £6.50<br />
Child (under 15s) £5.00<br />
Family (4) £21.00<br />
Weekday evenings (from 5pm): Tue,<br />
Wed, Thu<br />
Adult £8.50<br />
Picturehouse Member £6.50<br />
Concession* £7.50<br />
Child (under 15s) £5.50<br />
Family (4) £24.00<br />
Weekends: Fri (from 5pm), Sat, Sun,<br />
(and bank holidays)<br />
Adult £9.50<br />
Picturehouse Member £7.50<br />
Concession* £8.50<br />
Child (under 15s) £6.50<br />
Family (4) £27.00<br />
SAWSTON CINEMA<br />
Adult £3.50<br />
Concession* £2.50<br />
FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL<br />
PROGRAMMES<br />
Children £4<br />
Kids Club Members £3<br />
Accompanying Adults £2<br />
No unaccompanied adults to be admitted<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
PICTURES AT THE PRESS<br />
Adult £12<br />
Concession* and Picturehouse Member £10<br />
Family (4) £25<br />
For the latest information on tickets and prices,<br />
please check our website at<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk, or call the<br />
Picturehouse booking line on 0871 902 5720.<br />
Calls cost 10p per minute from a landline.<br />
* Concessionary tickets are available at all times<br />
for people in full time studies, claimants and senior<br />
citizens (valid ID required). You must bring proof of<br />
status when you collect your ticket.<br />
A1303<br />
A603<br />
A1134<br />
QUEEN’S RD<br />
CASTLE ST<br />
A1134<br />
NEWNHAM RD<br />
SILVER ST<br />
MAGDALENE ST BRIDGE ST<br />
Outdoor<br />
Screenings<br />
NORTHAMPTON ST<br />
THE FEN CAUSEWAY<br />
SIDNEY ST<br />
CORN EXCHANGE ST<br />
Arts<br />
Picturehouse<br />
Jesus Green<br />
Lido<br />
P<br />
TRUMPINGTON ST<br />
DOWNING ST<br />
TENNIS COURT RD<br />
TRUMPINGTON RD<br />
BUS<br />
STATION<br />
JESUS<br />
GREEN<br />
DRUMMER ST<br />
ST ANDREW’S ST<br />
CHESTERTON RD<br />
CHRIST’S<br />
PIECES<br />
REGENT ST<br />
LENSFIELD RD<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press,<br />
Shaftesbury Road, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB2<br />
8BS. Visitors will be directed to the<br />
Cass Centre sports ground.<br />
PARKER’S<br />
PIECE<br />
HILLS RD<br />
MIDSUMMER<br />
COMMON<br />
MAIDS CAUSEWAY<br />
PARKSIDE MILL RD<br />
P<br />
GONVILLE PLACE EAST RD<br />
Sawston<br />
Cinema<br />
Emmanuel<br />
College<br />
A1307<br />
NEWMARKET RD<br />
STATION RD<br />
BOOKING OPENS<br />
1 September for Picturehouse members<br />
3 September for general public<br />
• Booking for all outdoor events opens 3 August<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> Pass<br />
£40 for Picturehouse Members, £60 for non Picturehouse Members<br />
Valid for <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> screenings (13-23 September <strong>2012</strong>), the <strong>Festival</strong> Pass can be bought<br />
by phone or in person, and used online, over the phone, and at the cinema.<br />
Pass holders get four free tickets, plus £4.00 off the adult ticket price – and if you’re also a<br />
Picturehouse Member, your second ticket gets the normal membership £2 discount so bring a guest<br />
to screenings at members’ rates. Add your Pass (and Picturehouse Membership) to your online<br />
shopping basket to enable its discounts<br />
ARTS PICTUREHOUSE MEMBERSHIP<br />
Remember – as Picturehouse Member you get priority booking for <strong>Festival</strong> films<br />
and events AND a £2 discount on each <strong>Festival</strong> film you attend. Throughout the<br />
rest of the year, you’ll also benefit from:<br />
• three free tickets per person for regular Picturehouse programmes<br />
• £2 discount on full price tickets<br />
• no booking fees<br />
• 10% off snacks and drinks in the bar<br />
• Picturehouse publications posted to your home<br />
All of the above are applicable at Picturehouse cinemas nationwide<br />
P<br />
A603<br />
STATION<br />
A1134<br />
Buddhist<br />
Centre<br />
VENUES<br />
The Arts Picturehouse<br />
www.picturehouses.co.uk | 38-39 St Andrew’s Street,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB2 3AR<br />
Book tickets in advance for ALL venues through the Arts Picturehouse.<br />
The Arts Picturehouse screens a year-round programme of the best<br />
in new and classic cinema over three screens (including one THXcertificated<br />
for best quality sound and another RealD 3D enabled). All<br />
screens are licensed, so you can take your drink from the café-bar in<br />
with you. You do not have to be a member to view films at the Arts<br />
Picturehouse, but if you are you’ll receive discounts on tickets, free<br />
preview screenings and priority booking for the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
The Buddhist Centre<br />
(Formerly <strong>Festival</strong> Theatre)<br />
www.cambridgebuddhistcentre.com | 38 Newmarket Rd,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB5 8DT<br />
A short walk away from the Arts Picturehouse through Christ’s Pieces,<br />
the Buddhist Centre is home to the ‘<strong>Festival</strong>’ Theatre, one of only<br />
a handful of pre-Victorian theatres outside London. The two tiered<br />
galleries stand as they were originally designed in 1814 as well as the<br />
large curved screen or ‘cyclorama’ built by Terence Gray in 1926. For<br />
the first time this year, a number of screenings will take place in this<br />
remarkable building.<br />
Emmanuel College<br />
www.emma.cam.ac.uk | St Andrew’s Street, <strong>Cambridge</strong>,<br />
CB2 3AP<br />
Founded in the 16th century, Emmanuel College is ideally located just<br />
opposite the Arts Picturehouse. Its historic surroundings will play<br />
host to a number of screenings again this year. The Queen’s Building,<br />
designed by Sir Michael and Patty Hopkins and voted ‘Building of the<br />
Year’ when it first opened, houses an impressive tiered auditorium.<br />
Sawston Cinema<br />
At The Marven Centre, Sawston Village College<br />
www.sawstoncinema.org.uk | New Road, Sawston, CB22 3BP<br />
Spicer’s Theatre was the home of cinema in Sawston from 1932 until<br />
falling attendance led to its closure in the ‘60s. However, supported by<br />
the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust, 2008 saw screenings return once again to<br />
Sawston with the establishment of Sawston Cinema in the very same<br />
building, which today is called the Marven Centre. Sawston Cinema<br />
is operated by young people from Sawston Village College who also<br />
engage in their own filmmaking activities.<br />
Parking is available on the Sawston Village College site.<br />
72 TICKETS | MAP www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk Box office: 0871 902 5720<br />
VENUES 73
5 BROKEN CAMERAS 16<br />
39 STEPS, THE 48<br />
A<br />
ABOUT ELLY 16<br />
AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS 8<br />
ALL DIVIDED SELVES (MICROCINEMA) 40<br />
ANDA UNION 16<br />
ARTIST, THE 11<br />
ASHES 17<br />
AVALON 17<br />
B<br />
BARBARA (GERMAN) 42<br />
BARCELONA (UNA MAPA) (CATALAN) 57<br />
BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN 17<br />
BESTIAIRE 18<br />
BFG, THE (FFF) 54<br />
BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS! 18<br />
BIG EDEN, THE (GERMAN) 43<br />
BIRDS, THE (HITCHCOCK) 49<br />
BLACK BREAD (CATALAN) 56<br />
BLACKMAIL (HITCHCOCK) 49<br />
BLIND SPOT 18<br />
BLUES BROTHERS, THE 8<br />
BODY IN THE WOODS, THE (CATALAN) 56<br />
BURTON: THE SECRET? 18<br />
C<br />
CALL ME KUCHU 19<br />
CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE 19<br />
CARBON FOR WATER 34<br />
CHASING ICE 19<br />
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (REVIVAL) 51<br />
COMBAT GIRLS (GERMAN) 43<br />
COME AS YOU ARE 21<br />
COMIC-CON 21<br />
COMMUNION (MICROCINEMA) 41<br />
CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE<br />
CENTURY 12<br />
CUBE OF SUGAR, A 21<br />
D<br />
DANGERMOUSE (FFF) 53<br />
DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D (LATE NIGHT<br />
FRIGHTS) 65<br />
DIGITAL DHARMA 22<br />
DOORS LIVE AT THE BOWL ‘68,<br />
THE (REVIVAL) 51<br />
DRYING FOR FREEDOM 22<br />
E<br />
EARLY BIRDS 32<br />
EL GUSTO 23<br />
ELENA 22<br />
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE 32<br />
F<br />
FIRE IN THE BLOOD 23<br />
FLYING BLIND 23<br />
FORMENTERA (GERMAN) 43<br />
FRANK (MICROCINEMA) 40<br />
FREEDOM FOR BIRTH 23<br />
G<br />
GEORGE PERRY ON HITCHCOCK<br />
(HITCHCOCK) 10<br />
GRANDMA LO-FI 24<br />
GRANDPA IN MY POCKET (FFF) 53<br />
GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF<br />
ENCOUNTERS 24<br />
INDEX<br />
GRUFFALO’S CHILD, THE (FFF) 52<br />
GUINEA PIGS (LATE NIGHT FRIGHTS) 65<br />
GUSTO, EL 23<br />
H<br />
HANDS OVER THE CITY (ROSI) 63<br />
HARD DAYS NIGHT, A 8<br />
HEMEL 24<br />
HIDDEN FACE (LATE NIGHT FRIGHTS) 12<br />
HIT AND RUN 25<br />
HIT SO HARD 25<br />
HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (SCALA) 59<br />
HOLY MOTORS 15<br />
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (GERMAN) 44<br />
HOPE SPRINGS 14<br />
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY: QUEEN LIVE<br />
IN BUDAPEST (REVIVAL) 51<br />
I<br />
IDIOT, THE (ESTONIAN) 60<br />
ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES (ROSI) 63<br />
INDIGNADOS 25<br />
J<br />
JASON BECKER: NOT DEAD YET 26<br />
JAWS 7<br />
JERKS 26<br />
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI 26<br />
K<br />
KHAANA 31<br />
KID-THING 27<br />
KINDERBLOCK 66 27<br />
L<br />
LACEY RITUALS, THE (MICROCINEMA) 41<br />
LEAP 27<br />
LEGO NINJAGO (FFF) 54<br />
LIBERAL ARTS 28<br />
LODGER, THE (HITCHCOCK) 47<br />
LOOKING EAST ARCHIVE PROG 8<br />
LUCKY LUCIANO (ROSI) 63<br />
M<br />
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (REVIVAL) 51<br />
MARNIE (HITCHCOCK) 49<br />
MATTEI AFFAIR, THE (ROSI) 63<br />
MEET THE FOKKENS 28<br />
MONSTERS INC 11<br />
MOONRISE KINGDOM 11<br />
MUSIC ON FILM MASTERCLASS 9<br />
N<br />
NIGHT ELVIS DIED, THE (CATALAN) 57<br />
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (HITCHCOCK) 47<br />
NOT-SO-SILENT MOVIES (FFF) 9<br />
NOTORIOUS (HITCHCOCK) 48<br />
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (GERMAN) 44<br />
NOW IS GOOD 28<br />
O<br />
OCTONAUTS (FFF) 52<br />
ON THE ROAD 29<br />
P<br />
PAPER CINEMA 9<br />
PENGUIN KING 3D, THE (FFF) 29, 53<br />
PLEASURE GARDEN, THE (HITCHCOCK) 47<br />
POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO 29<br />
PRINCESS BRIDE, THE 11<br />
PROGRAMME 101 22<br />
PSYCHO (HITCHCOCK) 48<br />
PSYCHOSIS OF A SANE MAN + OTHERS 10<br />
R<br />
RAW AND THE COOKED, THE 30<br />
REBECCA (HITCHCOCK) 47<br />
REPORTED MISSING (GERMAN) 44<br />
RICHARD BRACEWELL ON HITCHCOCK<br />
(HITCHCOCK) 10<br />
RING, THE (HITCHCOCK) 49<br />
ROBYN O (14) 32<br />
RURAL CINEMA CONFERENCE 7<br />
S<br />
SALMA AND THE APPLE 30<br />
SALVATORE GIULIANO (ROSI) 62<br />
SANTA SANGRE (SCALA) 59<br />
SAVAGE WITCHES (MICROCINEMA) 41<br />
SINISTER (LATE NIGHT FRIGHTS) 64<br />
SLEEP TIGHT (LATE NIGHT FRIGHTS) 64<br />
SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, THE 14<br />
SPRITES 11 (FFF) 54<br />
STARBUCK 30<br />
STEVE JOBS: THE LOST INTERVIEW 31<br />
T<br />
TALES OF THE WARIA 31<br />
TEMPTATION OF ST TONY, THE<br />
(ESTONIAN) 60<br />
THANKS FOR THE TIP (CATALAN) 57<br />
THUNDERCRACK (SCALA) 59<br />
TO ACCOMMODATE (SHORTFUSION) 68<br />
TO BE A MAN (SHORTFUSION) 70<br />
TO BE IN THE PRESENT<br />
(SHORTFUSION) 67<br />
TO BELONG (SHORTFUSION) 69<br />
TO CELEBRATE (SHORTFUSION) 68<br />
TO CRY (SHORTFUSION) 69<br />
TO HATE (SHORTFUSION) 70<br />
TO ROME WITH LOVE 15<br />
TO RUST (SHORTFUSION) 67<br />
TONY 10 31<br />
TOTEM (GERMAN) 44<br />
TOWER BLOCK (LATE NIGHT FRIGHTS) 65<br />
TRATTORIA 32<br />
TRIDENTFEST 66<br />
TRIP TO THE MOON, A 32<br />
TROUBLE WITH ST MARY’S, THE 33<br />
U<br />
UN CHANT D’AMOUR (SCALA) 59<br />
UNCONDITIONAL 33<br />
UNTOUCHABLE 33<br />
V<br />
V.O.S. (CATALAN) 58<br />
VERTIGO (HITCHCOCK) 48<br />
VISIONS FROM ESTONIA SHORTS<br />
PROGRAMME (ESTONIAN) 61<br />
W<br />
WAR WITCH 34<br />
WARSAW BRIDGE (CATALAN) 58<br />
WELL, THE 34<br />
!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION 34<br />
WORLD ACCORDING TO IRVING, THE 35<br />
Y<br />
YOSSI 35<br />
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