2011 Cambridge Film Festival Brochure

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WELCOME
to the 31st Cambridge Film Festival!
We’ve already received a huge number of film submissions
from film-makers across the globe which brings a great
wealth of new and exciting film-making talent to the
screens of Cambridge. We’re also proud to say that we’ve
got a record number of UK and World Premieres in the
programme this year. Our cinema screens will be popping
up in the largest number yet of outdoor locations, with
spectacular open-air film screenings – now rightly feted
nationally as Cambridge’s speciality – taking place right
across the East Of England in Hertfordshire, Suffolk,
and Bedfordshire, as well as at iconic spaces around
Cambridge such as Jesus Green Lido, Magdalene Street,
and Grantchester Meadows.
A Festival Director’s job is a tricky one. We’re at the
mercy of the challenging financial situation as much
as the vagaries of the international film industry – and
the frustrating competition between film festivals for
premieres is always a headache when all we strive for is
to get films that we have enthusiastically championed in
front of appreciative Cambridge audiences. Not everything
eventually works out – our planned Premiere of Lars Von
Trier’s MELANCHOLIA was a victim of a change in its star
Kirsten Dunst’s schedule, for instance. Someone who knows
more than most about the challenges – and the rewards –
of launching independent cinema to UK audiences is one of
our special guests this year, Hamish McAlpine, who will be
at the Festival telling about the controversial boom – and
the eventual bust – of his beloved Tartan Films, arthouse
film distributor supreme.
However, when it all comes together, it makes all the
blood, sweat and tears seem worthwhile. We’ve secured
Tomas Alfredson’s TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY for
Opening Night, and close with THE LOOK, a new film about
on-screen and off-screen legend Charlotte Rampling. We
righted a wrong, giving UK audiences the chance to see
the films of Joss Stelling – a great filmmaker from the
Netherlands who has never had his works distributed
here. And we coaxed composer and accompanist Neil
Brand back with his unique accompaniment for the epic
silent version of ROBIN HOOD – to be performed once in
Rendlesham Forest, and then again in the dining hall at
Trinity College – with dining option!
In some ways our programme proved rather prescient –
our previews of PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES and
TABLOID afforded the opportunity to explore the whole
history of journalism in the movies, and as it was being
planned the phone hacking scandal broke and Murdoch
faced questions from MPs. Suddenly, ALL THE PRESIDENTS
MEN and CITIZEN KANE seemed more pertinent than ever.
We’re delighted to welcome New York Times columnist
David Carr in connection with this season.
As ever we thank our generous sponsors and funders who
enable us to present such an ambitious programme of
films and events. We’ve been delighted with the manner
in which EM Media have so enthusiastically taken on the
responsibility for distributing film funding in the East
of England, and the award of one-off Transition Funding
from the BFI has given us a greater degree of financial
stability to build on as the Festival continues to grow.
Special thanks are due this year to TTP and the Westbrook
Foundation for their on-going commitment to funding the
Festival. Film is a collaborative medium, but it relies on
individuals and organisations having faith in that medium
in order to make anything happen. That such faith is
apparent all around, even in difficult financial times, is
heartening indeed.
Tony Jones
Director, Cambridge Film Festival
Contents
Festival Guide 4
Special Events 5-13
Stop Press 14
Opening and Closing Films 15
Main Features 17-29
Documentaries 30-43
Timetable 35-37
Contemporary German Cinema 44-46
Revivals 47
Tartan Films: A Tribute 48-49
Hold The Front Page! 50-52
Cambridge Family Film Festival 53-55
Jos Stelling: A Dutch Master 56-57
The Romanian New Wave 58-60
Shortfusion 62-67
Ticket Prices & Map 68
Venues 69
Index 70
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YOUR GUIDE TO THE CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL 2011
SELECT YOUR FILMS AND EVENTS
What you have in your hands contains full information and
listings for all the films and events confirmed at the time of
going to print – complete with a handy day-by-day calendar in
the centre pages to help you choose by time of day, or day of
the week.
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New films, guests, events and other surprises continue to
be added to the Festival, so don’t forget to check the latest
arrivals online at www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
BOOK YOUR TICKETS
Tickets are on sale from the 2 September
(31 August for Picturehouse Members).
Advance tickets for all venues are available:
in person at the Arts Picturehouse Box Office
over the phone on 0871 902 5720 (9.30am – 8.30pm)
as well as online via www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
SAVE
For the best value snap up one of our money-saving
Three Colours Passes! RED PASS (£25) gives 20% off
all tickets, WHITE PASS (£50) 25% off all tickets, plus free
tea and coffee at bar and BLUE PASS (£75) 30% off all
tickets, plus free tea and coffee at the bar.
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TAKE YOUR SEAT
Now for the fun part. The Festival takes place at a range of
venues across the city, so to ensure things go with a swing check
before setting out where your chosen screenings or events are
taking place. If attending more than one venue on the same day,
do also ensure you leave sufficient time between screenings.
See page 69 for more information on our venues.
GET ONLINE AND GET INTERACTIVE
It doesn’t have to end when the lights go up. Our website, built
by our website sponsor Studio 24, offers a total multimedia
experience of the Festival in addition to the latest news, film
listings, venue info and much more.
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk keeps you in the loop with
all the latest info, including:
up to the minute details about every screening and event
quick and easy online booking
user comments, ratings and reviews
Festival coverage from ‘Take One’, with articles, interviews &
reviews in addition to the printed issues
We’ll also be regularly uploading a host of content to Cambridge Film Festival
accounts on: Flickr – Facebook – Vimeo – YouTube - Twitter
Links to our social media pages can be found on our
main website. Follow us on Twitter @camfilmfest. We’d
also be thrilled if you could tag your own content with
‘cff2011’ so that we can feature it on our site as well!

SUN
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6.00pm
SURPRISE MOVIE (CFF 15)
Director: Anonymous. Starring: Undisclosed. Country: Not Telling.
Every year we present a surprise movie – a film which has
absolutely no advance warning of title, director, stars or
genre – just a screening time and a venue. Every year, it sells
out. Considering we lavish so much energy on providing full
information for our screenings, it may seem odd to actively
keep something secret – but we know from past experience
that you love a mystery... What will it be this year? Only the
Festival Director knows for certain, and neither truth drugs
nor hypnotic flashing lights have persuaded him to divulge
the information. Even the projectionists are kept in the dark.
Past Surprise Movies have included UP!, Herzog’s RESCUE
DAWN, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, A COCK AND BULL
STORY and BURN AFTER READING – all UK premieres! So
with no hype and no reviews to distract you, simply sit
back in your seat, let the lights dim and watch as the
truth is finally revealed!
The Screen Team 2011
Cambridge Film Trust’s Events and Training Initiative
This year sees our innovative Screen Team events and training programme – the first of its
kind for any UK film festival – expand across the East of England as we deliver Cambridge
Film Festival On Location events in Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire (see page 8).
We’ve already selected fifteen lucky Screen Team participants for this year, who have been
receiving specialist training from the Festival team since July and have been working hard
behind-the-scenes at our outdoor screenings and other special events. The Screen Team is a
Cambridge Film Trust initiative which has been funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent
charity set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and
Paralympic Games. For more information email: becky@cambridgefilmtrust.org.uk
Picturehouse Membership
REMEMBER – AS PICTUREHOUSE MEMBER YOU GET
PRIORITY BOOKING FOR FESTIVAL FILMS AND EVENTS
AND A £2 DISCOUNT ON EACH FESTIVAL FILM YOU
ATTEND. THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR,
YOU’LL ALSO BENEFIT FROM:
Arts
H H Three free tickets (six for Joint Members) when you join
H Up to £2 discount on full-price tickets for a year (for the Member only)
H Priority booking for selected premium events
H No booking fee (save £1.60)
H 10% off the Member’s food and drink
H Picturehouse publications posted to your home
H Discounts at all Picturehouse cinemas nationwide
H Discounts and offers with local and national business partners
Membership costs just £27 (£17 concessions)
or £47 for joint Membership
Call 0871 902 5720 or visit
www.picturehouses.co.uk
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MEMBERSHIP
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Bernard
Herrmann
Knowing The Score
Written and presented by Neil Brand
Tuesday 20 September, 3.30pm
Arts Picturehouse
This year marks the centenary of the birth of film composer Bernard Herrmann,
creator of some of the most powerful and instantly recognisable film scores in
cinema history.
Although best remembered for his collaborations with Hitchcock – from the shrieking,
stabbing violins of PSYCHO to the uneasy rise and fall of VERTIGO’s romance theme –
Herrmann was far more than merely accompanist to the Master of Suspense. Thanks to
him we have the jaunty theme and brooding chords of CITIZEN KANE, the haunting, iconic
theremins of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, the sleazy sax and doom-laden percussion
of TAXI DRIVER. Herrmann’s groundbreaking work impacted upon almost every genre, and
forever changed the way film music was regarded.
Using film clips and interviews, fellow composer, acclaimed silent film accompanist and
Festival favourite Neil Brand reveals some of the techniques employed by Herrmann in
crafting his scores. An afternoon of unique insight into one of cinema’s undisputed geniuses.
Bernard Herrmann
redefined how music
could be used in film with
his heart racing, tense,
luscious, atmospheric,
inventive scores. His musical
influence still resonates in
contemporary cinema.”
MARK COSGROVE, WATERSHED
Mark Kermode
The Good, The Bad, and the Multiplex
Tuesday 20 September, 7.00pm Arts Picturehouse
Join leading UK film critic, broadcaster and award-winning
purveyor of wittertainment, Mark Kermode for a Q&A session and
signing of his latest book The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex.
His previous book, It’s Only a Movie, plunged us into the weird world
of a film critic’s life. Now, in The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
he takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: “What’s wrong with
the modern movie business – and how can we make it right?” If
blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then
why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be
the future of cinema when it’s been giving audiences
a headache for over a hundred years? Why pay
to watch films in cinemas which don’t have
a projectionist but do have a fast-food
stand? And, in a world in which SEX AND THE CITY 2 was a hit,
what the hell are film critics for?
If you crave answers to these questions – or simply
wish to challenge the belief that THE EXORCIST is
the greatest movie ever made and that the
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films should
be buried in a very deep hole – then
put away your 3D glasses, resist
the urge to Tweet and join us
for what promises to be a
lively and outspoken
evening’s
entertainment.
PRICES
Adults £15
Picturehouse Members £12
Concessions £13

@ Cambridge
Film Festival
Thursday 15 September, 2011, 4.00pm–6.30pm
Harrods Room, Emmanuel College
Screen Agency EM Media is in its tenth year of successfully supporting and developing
film talent in the East Midlands. Following the closure of Screen East its support has
recently been extended to include the East of England.
The agency will be holding a road show during the Cambridge Film Festival offering film
professionals a chance to find out more about EM Media’s Skillset supported Career
Acceleration Programme EAST (CAPE).
CAPE enables film professionals to apply for up to 50% towards costs of a bespoke package
of training and skills support, supported by Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, as part of the UK film
skills strategy, A Bigger Future 2. The road show will also give attendees the opportunity to
discuss the future of film support for the East of England. Film industry professionals are
invited to sign up to the Cambridge Film Festival event via Eventbrite
www.emmediaroadshowcambfilmfest.eventbrite.com
There is also an opportunity for one-to-one career development meetings throughout the
day with members of the EM Media team, for more information or to book a slot please
contact Sam Burton – sam.burton@em-media.org.uk before 5.00pm on 13 September 2011.
The Tartan Terror
Hamish McAlpine in conversation
with Peter Bradshaw
Thursday 22 September 8.00pm Arts Picturehouse
McAlpine was
Eccentric and flamboyant, an adventurous
distributor with a taste that ranged from the best US independent cinema to turn-of-thecentury
pornography (THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS) to films about serial killers (ED GEIN,
TED BUNDY) and classic European arthouse cinema (Tartan has released far more Ingmar
Bergman titles on DVD than any Swedish distributor). He championed free speech, constantly
jousting with the BBFC over ratings for films such as THE PORNOGRAPHER and THE ISLE. He was
pioneering in introducing British cinemagoers to the work of Asian directors like Park Chanwook,
Wong Kar-wai and Kim Ki-duk.” Geoffrey Macnab, The Guardian
Few independent film distribution companies
make a name for themselves – one that is
remembered and recognised – but before it
folded in 2008, Tartan Films had achieved
that honour – largely due to the bold and
unorthodox leadership of Hamish McAlpine.
A man with an uncanny eye for a great film,
who established Tartan’s reputation as a
the distributor of great arthouse and horror
cinema, he also allegedly dressed
up as Béatrice Dalle when the
French actress failed to turn up to
a press junket, and held a knife at
the throat of a US executive in order
to demonstrate that film was ‘a cutthroat
business’.
To get the inside story, join us as
the enfant terrible himself talks with
Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw for
one night only.
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CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL ON LOCATION
August and September 2011
ROBIN HOOD (PG)
Monday 29 August, at dusk (approx 8.15pm)
Director: Allan Dwan. Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery, William Lowery. USA 1922. 105 mins.
Fairbanks shines in the role of the English aristocrat who turns outlaw
to protect the poor, easily outdoing Errol Flynn in terms of stunts and
spectacular set pieces. To add to the magic, this rare screening takes
place in the heart of an English forest, and features the world premiere of
a new LIVE score by Neil Brand.
ROBIN HOOD will have a second performance in the hall of Trinity
College, Cambridge, on 19 September, with Neil Brand again performing
his new score LIVE. See page 12 for details.
Spectacular outdoor screenings at the
Theatre in the Forest, Rendlesham.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (PG)
Tuesday 30 August, at dusk (approx 8.15pm)
Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda
Dillon, Bob Balaban. USA 1977. 137 mins.
To celebrate Rendlesham’s reputation amongst ufologists as ‘Britain’s
Roswell’ we present Spielberg’s classic take on the flying saucer movie.
A gloriously rich, uplifting film, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography
by Vilmos Szigmond, here presented in the director’s definitive 1998 cut.
The Festival’s screens will be popping up across the East of England this summer as we present
our most ambitious range of outdoor screenings yet. Please check our website for event location,
booking and ticket information. >> www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:
THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (12)
Friday 9 September, at dusk (approx 8.00pm)
Director: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom,
Geoffrey Rush. United States 2003. 143 mins
DON’T MISS
The first – and best – of the Pirates series; a fantastic
swashbuckling yarn with thrilling battles, dazzling sword
play and a dark edge.
FINDING NEMO (U)
Saturday 10 September, at dusk (approx 8.00pm)
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich. With the voices of: Albert Brooks, Ellen
DeGeneres. United States 2003. 100 mins.
Pixar’s classic comedy-adventure about finding a very small
fish in a very large ocean...
These events are part of the Cambridge Film Trust’s Screen Team
training and events initiative and are funded by Legacy Trust UK,
an independent charity set up to help build a lasting legacy from
the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Screen Team will be re-grouping in Silsoe, near Luton
in Bedfordshire, on Saturday 29th October to present an
evening of very special Halloween screenings and events
at English Heritage’s Wrest Park - a stylish French-style 18th
century mansion, which is surrounded by some of the most
magnificent but least well-known gardens in England.
Enjoy two evenings of cinematic thrills and
spills beside the rapids at the UK’s brand
new state-of-the-art white water centre
– the host venue for the Canoe Slalom
events at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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MOVIES ON GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS
Outdoor Screenings for August Bank Holiday Weekend
Follow the River Cam out to Grantchester on August Bank Holiday weekend for another round of cinematic pleasures
under the stars, as Movies on the Meadows return to what Pink Floyd once dubbed ‘a pastoral dream-like scene’.
Have the time of your life and enjoy the sweet end of the lollipop with special screenings of DIRTY DANCING and SOME
LIKE IT HOT in this idyllic open-air cinema, made possible by the Festival’s unique, inflatable Airscreen. So, bring a
blanket and a picnic (refreshments also available on site) and enjoy classic films in this fabulous riverside setting!
Gates open at 6.30pm with the films starting as night falls – approximately 8.15pm.
How
to get
there
Ticket price includes hire of FM receivers for personalised sound (£5 cash deposit required). Bring your own
headphones (or use ours) to plug in and enjoy the fun. Numbers are strictly limited to 1,000.
Erected on the banks of the River Cam, the Airscreen can be found in Spring Lane Field, behind
the picturesque Orchard Tearooms. Walk or cycling through the Meadows from the city centre via
Newnham, or access the venue via the main Orchard Tea Garden’s entrance located on45-47 Mill Way,
Grantchester, Cambridge CB3 9ND. You could also make your way through the Green Man Pub’s beer
garden at 59 High Street CB3 9NF.
Saturday 27 August
Sunday 28 August
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DIRTY DANCING (12A)
Director: Emile Ardolino. Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey,
Jerry Orbach. USA, 1987. 100 mins.
What could be more romantic
or thrilling then swaying with
Swayze under the stars? Part
of a troupe of 80s dance
flicks, the light-hearted – and
light footed – love shared
between dance instructor
Johnny Castle (Swayze) and
blossoming student ‘Baby’
(Grey) still sparkles more than
30 years on. Sashaying her
way out of the corner with
her hunk Johnny, ‘Baby’ puts on an unforgettable show - a
perfect curtain raiser for the 31st Film Festival.
SOME LIKE IT HOT (PG)
Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis,
Jack Lemmon. USA. 120 mins.
For returning fans and fresh eyes
the comedy caper SOME LIKE IT
HOT has it all; Joe (Curtis) and
Jerry (Lemmon) in drag on the
run from mobsters, a hilariously
complicated romance, and the
breath-taking beauty Marilyn
Monroe. Monroe dazzles as Sugar
Kane, a ukulele player in search
of something a little sweeter...
that is before she bumps into
‘Josephine’ and ‘Daphne’. From
sweet to screwball to slapstick and back again, there is never a
dull moment in Billy Wilder’s wonderful comedy classic.
Movies on
Grantchester Meadows
is supported by

Halloween Punting &
Walking Ghost Tours
Come with us to explore the darker side
of Cambridge this Halloween. Tours run
from 21 st to 31 st October 2011, departing at
regular intervals from Scudamore’s Mill
Lane punt station. Tours last 90 minutes.
Prices
Adult £18.50
Concession £17.00
Under-12 £9.25
Tickets
01223 359750
www.scudamores.com
01223 457574
www.visitcambridge.org
Join us...if you dare!

THE LIDO PICTURE SHOW (CFF U)
Sunday 11 September, 8.00pm • Jesus Green Outdoor Pool
Join us again for our annual family film event at
Cambridge’s renowned open-air swimming pool.
Situated a duck’s waddle away from the river, the
Jesus Green Outdoor Pool is not only a Cambridge
institution, but also one of the few of its kind
remaining in Britain – and one of the largest
in Europe.
To help you enjoy this delightful and unique
setting, we have put together an exciting collection
of shorts – including a selection from the Disposable Film Festival, fresh from San Francisco – as
well as early silent films and other aquatically-themed classics.
Pack a picnic or choose from a delicious range of drinks and snacks from the poolside cafe,
then simply sit back and enjoy a relaxed evening with the whole family. With punts drifting past
the light-filled pool, and a medley of your favourite films playing against the backdrop of the
surrounding trees, this is lounging by the pool as you’ve never experienced it before!
Sunday 11th is also the last night of the Lido Summer Season - last chance to swim until 2012,
with swimming until 7.30pm.
FREE
MAGDALENE STREET SCREENINGS (CFF U)
Sunday 18 September, from 8.00pm
The Festival is delighted to return again to Cambridge’s oldest shopping street, where
we will set up our screens to present you with a special evening out, giving you the
opportunity to watch films completely FREE.
Taking place along Bridge Street and Magdalene
Street, these public screenings give you the chance
to discover film in an entirely new way. We invite you
to come along and stroll from the top of Magdalene
Street down to Quayside to view screens on Magdalene
College’s immaculate lawns, and on to Bridge Street
and the stunning backdrop of St John’s College.
The screenings begin at 8.00pm – but arrive any time until 10.00pm. There will be a
continuous programme so if you miss the beginning, you can simply stay until it comes
around again.
Archive film productions courtesy of Norwich HEART’s Digital
Heritage Project, a cross channel Interreg IVA project bringing
the films of East Anglia and Upper Normandy alive – on
screen, online, on mobile. www.heritagecity.org
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Tickets £7
Members £5
Concessions £6
Family group ticket £16

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ROBIN HOOD (PG)
Director: Allan Dwan. Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery. USA 1922. 105 mins.
The radiant Douglas Fairbanks launches into
action in his role as the Earl of Huntingdon –
better known as Robin Hood – champion of the
underdog and righter of wrongs. Wallace Beery’s
King Richard proved so popular that the character
starred in his own spin-off film the following year.
PRICES
Film only £10
Film only (Members) £8
Film + Dinner £35
Live Score
DINE WITH ROBIN
HOOD AT TRINITY!
Monday 19 September, dinner
at 7.00pm, screening at 8.30pm
Following its world premiere at the Festival’s ‘On
Location’ screening in Rendlesham Forest (see
page 8), composer and acclaimed silent film
accompanist Neil Brand brings his new composition
to the magnificent dining hall at Trinity College –
the largest dining hall in Cambridge, built in 1604 –
to once again accompany a rare screening of Allan
Dwan’s epic silent version of the classic English
legend, ROBIN HOOD.
And epic it certainly was. An entire medieval village
and a huge castle set were built for Dwan’s milliondollar
film, which also became the first movie to
boast a glamorous Hollywood premiere. To add to
the excitement of the evening, we are delighted
to be able to offer the opportunity to dine in this
historic setting prior to the screening of the film.
Join us for an evening of wine, fine feasting and
medieval derring-do!
Please note – dining is limited to 50 places. Unfortunately Festival Pass discounts
do not apply to this unique event.
Creative Front and Wired Present:
THE PRICE OF STORYTELLING
Wednesday 21st September, 2.00–6.00pm
Emmanuel College
Independent film-making has entered a new era with regards to financing films. New models
enabled by crowd-funding, partnerships with online distributors and low cost, high-quality filming
equipment have started to change the way films are being made – and the cost of doing so.
This event brings together filmmakers, distributors and producers to explore new forms of funding
filmmaking and the use of online/social media to tell great stories – brought to you by Creative
Front – the business network for creative professionals in Cambridgeshire – and Audio Visual
special interest group Wired.
Speakers and our panel include Sloane U’Ren and Anthony Neely, Cambridgeshire-based director and
producer, who mortgaged their house to fund their new feature DIMENSIONS; Heather Leach of Ginger
Army Productions who produces long and short form media for multiple platforms and recently won the
Current Crowd-Funding Pitch at Sheffield DocFest to make her new film, DANCING WITH HUGO BOSS; Head
of the new Film 4.0 from Channel 4; Sean Coleman from Red Kingdom, a screenwriter and producer who
specialises in cross-platform drama with recent projects for Bebo and MSN; and more to be confirmed.
There is also an opportunity to see DIMENSIONS by Sloane U’Ren and Anthony Neely in the evening
of Wednesday 21 September at 8.15pm – see the listing in the brochure’s main feature pages.
This event is free for Creative Front members and £125 for non-members. You
can join Creative Front from as little as £25 at www.creativefront.org/register to
enjoy this and many other events like it for free!
For more information and to book a place visit
www.creativefront.org/events

ICO: THE BUSINESS AND CREATIVITY
OF PROGRAMMING CULTURAL FILM
CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
The Contemporary Women’s Programme
Funded by Cambridgeshire County Council, for the second year running, Cambridge Film Festival
2011 is proud to present a series of Film and Creative Writing Workshops with writer in-residence,
Jane Monson.
Published writer and tutor, Dr Jane Monson, will lead creative writing workshops after selected screenings
at the Arts Picturehouse throughout the Festival. All ages and levels are welcome and no experience of
creative writing is necessary – just a passion for film and an interest in developing and learning how to use
cinematic themes, images, and sounds as stimuli and material for new writing. The focus this year is on
women and film and is open to ALL. Using featured and short films from the Festival – directed by women
exploring the relationship between art, film and gender – these three-hour workshops will offer a chance to
view, discuss, create, develop ideas and put them to paper.
Screenings and Workshops:
Tuesday 20 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Timmy Hele Room @ Emmanuel College
Friday 23 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
Sunday 25 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
All workshops are 3 hours, including selected short screenings. Please see Cambridge Film Festival website for updated details.
TICKETS £20 per session
CONTACT jemonson@eircom.net/ 07818 255 469
BOX OFFICE 0871 902 5720
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A BOATLOAD OF WILD
IRISHMEN (CFF 12)
Director: Mac Dara Ó’Curraidhín. Ireland/UK 2011. 84 mins. English and
Gaelic with English subtitles.
Co-produced by the University of Lincoln, A BOATLOAD
OF WILD IRISHMEN explores the moral complexities of
controversial American documentary-maker Robert
Flaherty, regarded as the father of the modern
documentary – largely as a result of his hugely
successful film NANOOK OF THE NORTH in 1922. Flaherty’s
groundbreaking and intimate film of an Inuit family was
a unique record of a traditional way of life – but as with
his later films of life in Samoa, the Aran Islands and the
Louisiana bayou, he was perfectly happy to stage scenes
in order to make a better film, raising accusations of
ethnographic falsification and exploitation of his subjects.
Through archive film and interviews, Ó’Curraidhín’s film
tackles the contradictions of the man and his work
head on, painting a vibrant portrait of this complex and
controversial figure.
Print source: Wavelength Pictures
Emmanuel
SUN
18
5.00pm
WED
21
12.30pm
MY LONG DISTANCE
FRIEND (CFF 15)
Director: Carina Molier, Maria Mok. The Netherlands 2011. 73 mins.
Dutch/German with English subtitles.
Since the age of 9, when she ran away from her home
country of Zimbabwe, Og has led a nomadic existence.
Moving between countries and people, in an incredible
tale that sees her falling pregnant when she was 14 and
losing custody of her daughter, then eventually meeting
director Carina Molier – her long distance friend – who
tells Og’s story. Desperate to be reunited with her
daughter, Og returns to her homeland – not only to fulfil
her quest, but to face her past and her demons. It is
through this search for inner peace that Molier is able to
examine her own, and indeed all of our lives, in a beautiful
film about being human. MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND is not
just about streetwise Og’s story, but identity, home, and
finding oneself in the transient world in which we live.
WED
21
5.00pm
Print source: SNG Film (The Netherlands)
SAT
24
1.00pm
Murray Edwards
(CFF 15) 77 mins.
2
FRI
23
1.00pm
A selection of shorts about dreams, danger and discovery by filmmakers
from the East Midlands. The films were made with the support of the UK
Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and received National Lottery through
EM Media’s Regional Investment Fund for England.
WINGS
Writer: Catharine Ashdown. Director: Ester Richardson. UK 2011. 13 mins.
A mother’s love threatens to ruin Ellie’s dream of leaving home to join
the RAF.
HIT AND RUN
Director: Al Mackay. UK 2011. 17 mins.
When Michael leaves Shelley lying injured in the middle of the road he
soon realises he can run but he really can’t hide.
PORK
Director: Sally-Anne Betts. UK 2011. 12 mins
With the weight of hundreds of years of racial oppression bearing
down on him, a boy of dual heritage finds it hard to takes sides when
his parents fight.
DIARY OF A THAGEE
Director: Charlie Sen. UK 2011. 10 mins.
A man roams the streets at night looking to enact a ritual of Thagee
heritage.
PAPA
Directors: Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque. UK 2011. 11 mins.
A father and daughter embark on a journey of discovery and understanding
when they find themselves working side by side over the Christmas period.
JAM TODAY
Director: Simon Ellis. UK 2011. 14 mins.
A young boy’s sexual awakening propels him into a curious and surprising
new world.

OPENING NIGHT
THU
15
7.00pm
Cineworld
TINKER, TAILOR,
SOLDIER, SPY (CFF 15)
Director: Tomas Alfredson. Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt,
Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Stephen Graham. UK/France 2011. 128 mins.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN director Alfredson adapts the classic John le Carré 1974
espionage novel with a little help from the crème de la crème of British acting
talent. Gary Oldman (THE DARK KNIGHT) is George Smiley, a retired intelligence
agent recalled to sniff out a Soviet mole who’s managed to infiltrate the MI6.
Set in the 1970s, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY promises to be an intelligent
old-school spy caper that prizes atmosphere over whiz-bang special effects,
painting a portrait of international espionage very much at odds with the glitz
and glamour of Bond. A fantastic cast and an internationally revered director
mark this as an unmissable post-Bourne crime drama – already being tipped as
an awards season contender.
We hope to welcome director Tomas Alfredson and members of the cast to
this screening.
Print source: Studio Canal UK
THE LOOK (CFF 15)
THU
15
8.00pm
UK Premiere
Director: Angelina Maccarone. France. 2011. 94 mins. French and German with English subtitles.
Perhaps more than any other woman, Charlotte Rampling epitomizes sexual
liberation, from the swinging sixties when she was a young woman in
fashionable Chelsea, to the attractive mature woman that she is today.
To capture the person – the “phenomenon” Charlotte Rampling; breaker
of taboos, icon, superstar and avant-gardist – is a cinematic adventure
that can only succeed by being as brave as the woman herself. While
presented in countless films and photographs as the classic “object
of desire”, THE LOOK takes on her perspective, and we see the world
through her eyes. Going far beyond anecdotal trivia or linear biography,
Rampling fearlessly fathoms the major questions of life with companions
such as Peter Lindbergh and Paul Auster.
This extremely watchable film about actress Charlotte Rampling is
a fascinating series of discussions between her and a series of
photographers, writers and filmmakers” SCREEN DAILY
8.30pm
SUN
25
FRI
16
12.30pm
Print source: Park Circus / MK2
CLOSING NIGHT
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16
8.15pm
SAT
17
3.30pm
ACT OF GRACE (CFF 18)
Director: Noreen Kershaw. Starring: Leo Gregory, Jody Latham,
David Yip. UK 2010. 95 mins.
UK Premiere
East meets North-West in this gritty crime thriller, based on
a true story. When Dezzie (Leo Gregory) protects Chinese
immigrant Yasin at school from bullying little can he dream
where his compassion will lead. Years later Yasin returns to
Manchester only to make Dezzie an offer he can’t refuse: a
position within the family business. Dezzie has been invited
to join the Chinese mafia – the Triads – running businesses in
Manchester and Liverpool... Two of the three writers Marc Pye
and Alan Field met whilst scripting episodes for the Emmy
award-winning BBC series The Street where they first discussed
the idea. Shanghaiing a mob of UK acting talent, including
Gregory (STONED) and Jody Latham (Shameless) ACT OF GRACE
carves out a story of friendship and betrayal on the mean
streets of Salford.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to the Fri 16
screening.
Print source: KWA Associates
FRI
23
6.00pm
Cineworld
ALBATROSS (CFF 15)
Director: Niall MacCormick. Starring: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity
Jones, Jessica Brown Findley. UK 2011. 90 mins. English
Vivacious 17-year-old Emilia (Findlay) works at The Cliff House,
run by a squabbling couple Jonathan (Sebastian Koch, from
THE LIVES OF OTHERS), his wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and their
children. Emilia’s sense of adventure soon has an impact on
the family. She begins an affair with Jonathan that threatens
to have devastating consequences, and, finding herself at the
middle of a family set to implode, she must face up to truths of
her own background as well as the implications of her actions.
Echoes of David Leland’s much-loved 1987 British
feature Wish You Were Here very deliberately come
through in accomplished comedy drama Albatross, which
features a star-in-the-making performance by film
newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay.” SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
Print source: Cinemanx
MON
19
3.15pm
AS IF I AM NOT THERE
(CFF 18)
Director: Juanita Wilson. Starring: Stellan Skarsgaard, Miraj Grbic, Natasa
Petrovic, Irina Apelgren. Ireland 2010. 109 mins. Bosnian with English subtitles.
AS IF I AM NOT THERE is a story of a young woman from Sarajevo
whose life is shattered the day a young soldier walks into her
apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the
other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse
in a remote region of Bosnia, she quickly learns the rules of
camp life. The day she is picked out to ‘entertain’ the soldiers,
the real nightmare begins. Stripped of everything she ever had
and facing the constant threat of death, she struggles against
all the hatred she sees around her. In a final act of courage or
madness, she decides to make one last stand: to dare to be
herself. It’s when she realises that surviving means more than
staying alive that she has to make a decision that will change
her life forever.
Print source: Octagon Films
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WED
21
9.00pm
18
ATROCIOUS (CFF 18)
BULLHEAD (CFF 18)
DIMENSIONS: A LINE,
Director: Fernando Barreda Luna. Starring: Rafael Amaya, Jose Masegosa, Chus (RUNDSKOP)
A LOOP, A TANGLE OF
Pereiro. Spain/Mexico 2010. 75 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
In April 2010, the Quintanilla family travelled to their farmhouse
in Sitges, Spain, for their summer vacation. Not keen on the
countryside, siblings Christian and July started investigating the
strange legend of the girl in the Garraf woods to while away the
time. All day, they recorded whatever they did. On the fifth day
after their arrival the entire family was found brutally murdered,
leaving only the siblings’ recordings as a clue to what happened.
Based on a true story, the 37 hours of footage – from which this
film is made – was used by the local police department to find
clues as to what happened. Or so the filmmakers claim... But can
they be trusted? We’re saying nothing!
Print source: Revolver
SAT
17
8.30pm
THU
22
11.00pm
UK Premiere
Director: Michael R. Roskam. Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval,
Jeanne Dandoy. Belgium 2011. 124 mins. Dutch and French with English subtitles.
BULLHEAD, a thriller about gangsters and farmers, is set against
the backdrop of the Belgium cattle hormone mafia. Young
Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by
an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a
notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of
a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a
mysterious secret from Jacky’s past, set in motion a chain of
events with far-reaching consequences. Filmmaker Roskam says
about his debut film. “It is a film about people being driven to
extremes. It is not about good or evil, but about how seemingly
small events can sometimes have huge consequences for the
people involved. Their fate is also their destiny.”
Print source: Festival Strategies
WED
21
8.15pm
THU
22
10.30pm
THREADS (CFF 12A)
Director: Sloane U’Ren. Starring: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Camilla Rutherford, Olivia
Llewellyn, Sean Hart, Patrick Godfrey. UK 2011. 99 mins.
UK Premiere
Privately funded by writer/composer Ant Neely (Six Feet Under,
Boston Legal) and director/production designer Sloane U’Ren
(HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE, BATMAN BEGINS)
– who sold their house to realise the project – this intelligent
period science fiction drama shows what can be done on a micro
budget. Made entirely on location in Cambridge using professional
expertise, good will and volunteers, it tells the story of Stephen, a
brilliant young boy who lives in England in what appears to be the
1920s. But nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. By chance
he meets a charismatic professor at a garden party, who explains
that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel is theoretically
possible. But events soon compel Stephen to turn the Professor’s
theories into reality...
We are delighted to welcome the filmmakers and members
of the cast to the Wed 21 screening.
Print source: Sculptures of Dazzling Complexity

Cineworld
THU
15
10.00pm
SAT
17
10.30pm
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE
DARK (CFF 18)
Director: Troy Nixey. Starring: Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes.
USA/Australia/Mexico 2011. 99 mins. English.
Guillermo del Toro’s DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (he wrote the
screenplay) is a reworking of a telefilm that terrified him as a
tiny. Ten-year-old rebel Sally lives with her remote father Alex
(Guy Pearce) and his new wife Kim (Katie Holmes) in Falling Mill,
a dilapidated Gothic mansion. Unbeknownst to the young family,
the house they are lovingly renovating harbours something
more sinister than dry rot in its shadows, and when Alex
re-opens a hidden basement room, its occupants make their
furious feelings clear. This creepy New England fairytale feels
like a sketchbook for PAN’S LABYRINTH but is very much its own
film, and persistent lapses into horror cliché are redeemed by
nuanced performances from Katie Holmes and the outstanding
young actress Bailee Madison.
Print source: Studio Canal UK
MON
19
4.00pm
WED
21
7.00pm
Cineworld
DRIVE (18)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Ron
Perlman. USA 2011. 95 mins.
Based on a short story by the neo-noir crime novelist James
Sallis, DRIVE is a taught thriller spliced with high-octane chases
to match the pace of the FAST & FURIOUS series. Gosling stars
as the Hollywood stunt driver with no name, who dabbles as a
wheelman and becomes involved in a botched bank heist. When
things kick off, the ‘driver’ has to fall back on his death-defying
skills to save his own skin. This roaring, road-rage rampage may
invite comparisons with Quentin Tarantino’s DEATH PROOF, but
don’t let that fool you – and director Refn’s slick action movie
has already claimed pole position, winning him the Best Director
Award at Cannes. B-Movie thrills combined with a star-studded
cast look set to make DRIVE a runaway festival favourite.
We are delighted to welcome director Nicolas Winding Refn
to the Monday 19th screening.
Print source: Icon
MON
19
5.30pm
WED
21
10.15am
FLYING FISH (CFF 15)
Director: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara. Starring: Chaminda Sampath Jayaweera,
Gayesha Perera and Mohammed Ali Rajabdeen. Sri Lanka 2010. 125 mins.
UK Premiere
Two decades of civil disobedience conjoin three heart-rending
stories as moral decay takes its heavy toll on Sri Lanka. 45-yearold
Muthabanda commits suicide as his daughter Wasana fails
to abort the child of a soldier. Beaten by guilt, the girl flees the
stigma, leaving behind her offspring who find tender loving
care with a middle-aged widow. In a village living in the uneasy
tension between the army and the Tamil Tigers, what would
a fatherless son do upon discovering his mother’s amorous
intrigue with a local? Meanwhile, the war machine reaches
momentum when the Tigers break into a 13-year-old’s house
demanding a huge ransom for her. She chooses to escape. A
visually potent drama, FLYING FISH exemplifies the hopeless
endeavours of ordinary citizens to lead a normal life.
Print source: Asia Digital Entertainment Ltd
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FRI
23
10.45pm
20
THE GERBER SYNDROME GUILTY OF ROMANCE (CFF 18)
(CFF 15)
Director: Maxì Dejoie. Starring: Valentina Bartolo, Sax Nicosia, Luigi Piluso. Italy
2011. 88 mins. Italian with English subtitles.
Italian newcomer Maxì Dejoie infects our fears of global
pandemic to critical levels in THE GERBER SYNDROME. When a
new virus strikes a TV crew reports events from ground zero
in the Italian suburbs. The accounts of three people directly
involved with the disease are revealed: a doctor, an infected girl,
a young security agent. Naturally the authorities are holding
back on the violent truth for our own protection. Dejoie plays
it strictly low-key by making his film resemble a documentary,
recalling the all-too-real horrors of real-life emergent epidemics
such as the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak. Chillingly Dejoie
understands that people’s emotional reactions to tragedy are
what makes a horror story unforgettable. Don’t watch without
a face mask.
Print source: London Sci Fi Festival
Cineworld
THU
22
6.00pm
SAT
24
10.45pm
Director: Sono Sion. Starring: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka,
Kanji Tsuda, Kazuya Kojima. Japan 2011. 112 mins.
Japanese with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
Last in cult director Sono Sion’s Hate Trilogy (LOVE EXPOSURE and
COLD FISH) GUILTY OF ROMANCE is nothing short of his previous
provocative, sexually-charged signature films. Bending genres
such as film noir, melodrama, thriller and soft porn, GUILTY OF
ROMANCE tells the story of three women. Izumi, obedient but
bored wife of a famous author, finds distraction in modelling
naked, discovering secret desires and meeting shadowy people
from the Tokyo Love Hotel red-light area – including literary
professor Mitsuko who works as a prostitute at night (and
becomes Izumi’s dark mirror image). Intertwined is the story of
female detective Kazuko who finds a dismembered body near the
hotel. As these Freudian-charged stories unfold, all grow closer
together to culminate in a gruesome, phantasmagorical finale.
With its hallucinatory, eye-popping visuals, Guilty
Of Romance takes us on an odyssey into the heart
of sexual identity.” ICA
Print source: Eureka!
Cineworld
FRI
23
8.30pm
SUN
25
3.00pm
THE HELP (CFF 12)
Director: Tate Taylor Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain. USA 2011. 146 mins.
UK Premiere
Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from
college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’
lives – and their 1960s Mississippi town – upside down when she
decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives
taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis),
Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up – to
the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance,
she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more
women come forward to tell their stories – and as it turns out,
they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are
forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone
in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become
unwittingly – and unwillingly – caught up in the changing times.
Print source: Disney UK

Cineworld
FRI
16
9.00pm
SUN
25
12.45pm
INTIMATE GRAMMAR (CFF 15)
Director: Nir Bergman. Starring: Roee Elsberg, Orly Zilbershatz, Yehuda Almagor,
Yael Sgersk. Israel 2010. 110 mins. Hebrew with English subtitles.
In Israel in the early 1960s, a new generation is growing up: the
militant Israeli, the generation that will not go through another
Holocaust. But Hinda’s son, Aharon, a sensitive eleven year old
boy with a highly developed inner world, does not quite fit the
mould. His soul seeks refinement, art – everything he is unable
to find at home. Aharon refuses to become like his parents for
whom human existence is reduced to war and survival. As an
expression of protest he does not grow an inch during three
years. Betrayed by his family, by his best friend and his beloved,
lonely in his small body, but aware of his maturing soul, he
realizes something must be done. Aharon crosses the boundary
dividing childhood and adolescence in a dangerous inner
journey, but determined to treasure the child within. Based on
the acclaimed novel by David Grossman, INTIMATE GRAMMAR
took the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2010.
Print source: Films Boutique
THU
15
5.00pm
ISPANSI (CFF 15)
Director: Carlos Iglesias. Starring: Esther Regina, Carlos Iglesias, Eloísa Vargas,
Isabel Blanco. Spain/Germany 2010. 100 mins.
Spanish and Russian with English subtitles.
SUN
18
5.00pm
Cineworld
UK Premiere
Paula and Alvaro belong to opposite social and ideological
classes. Turbulent times in their homeland have led to them
being sent to the USSR, two of the 30,000 ‘war children’
evacuated abroad in 1937-38 by the Spanish Republican
government to spare them Franco’s bombings during the Civil
War. But when the Germans invade Russia in 1941, far tougher
times lie ahead. ISPANSI follows the epic journey of a group of
children and accompanying adults as they struggle for survival,
fleeing north from Stalingrad to spend a harsh winter in a
village of the Volga region, then being forced out by hunger to
face the long walk to the Ural Mountains. Though both may be
losers in the face of history and ideology, Alvaro and Paula grow
closer during their terrible journey, finally developing a love
freed from political hatred.
Print source: Un Franco 14 Pesetas
MON
19
8.15pm
JO FOR JONATHAN (CFF 15)
(JO POUR JONATHAN)
FRI
23
3.30pm
UK Premiere
Director: Maxime Giroux. Starring: Raphael Lacaille, Jean-Sebastien Courchesne,
Vanessa Pilon, Jean-Alexandre Letourneau. Canada 2010. 78 mins. French with
English subtitles.
JO FOR JONATHAN captures the adolescent life of its main
protagonist with great delicacy and control. A water bottle left
on top of a car dances to the rhythm of the car’s (unheard) sound
system – it parallels the inner turmoil of Jonathan (Raphael
Lacaille) as he deals with his failures and his guilt. Having
failed his driving test, he decides to pretend that he passed
and unwittingly kickstarts a chain of events which begins with
illegal car racing and ends with an irretrievable separation from
his much-adored older brother. JO FOR JONATHAN offers no
glamourised version of what it means to grow up in Canadian
Quebecois suburbia, but its honesty and cinematic achievement
make director Maxime Giroux a serious talent to watch.
Raphael Lacaille is
impressive” VARIETY
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SAT
24
12.30pm
SUN
25
8.15pm
KOSMOS (CFF 15)
Director: Reha Erdem. Starring: Sermet Yesil, Türkü Turan.
Turkey/Bulgaria 2010. 122 mins. Turkish with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
Set in a small, snowbound village, this is the story of a man
with extraordinary powers, who arrives unannounced just in
time to restore a young boy to life after drowning. Welcomed
as a miracle-worker, the tide soon changes as he turns to
stealing and his inability to become part of the community
becomes apparent. With this, his sixth feature, director Reha
Erdem has once again created a film completely different from
his previous work. The complex Kosmos is perfectly portrayed
by Sermet Yesil, with his worldly, wise and profound ramblings
about life, love and those around him, and the intricate plot,
with its simple, but visually stunning approach, makes this a
beautiful work to behold. The film bursts with philosophical
ideas, mystical subplots and some truly surreal moments, while
capturing the haunting sense of a seemingly never-ending
winter and exploring the primal nature of man.
Print source: Verve Pictures
SUN
18
6.00pm
TUE
20
10.30am
LATE SEPTEMBER (CFF 15)
Director: Jon Sanders. Starring: Anna Mottram, Richard Vanstone,
Charlotte Palmer, Bob Goody. UK 2010. 87 mins.
World Premiere
LATE SEPTEMBER takes place over a 24 hour period, following
the course and aftermath of a birthday celebration organised
by a woman for her husband to whom she has been married
for nearly 40 years. As the day and night progress, the
question of whether it is better to live alone or to live with
someone with whom you feel lonely is played out through all
the different characters in a beautiful Kent house, its garden
and the surrounding countryside. Old rifts, new relationships
and secrets emerge amongst friends, a tragedy occurs and
eventually the underlying tensions in the marriage can no
longer be contained. Although begging for comparisons, Von
Trier’s FESTEN this ain’t – LATE SEPTEMBER prefers to stay on
the side of its characters and seeks a truthful portrayal of
universally asked questions about modern relationships.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to the Sun 18
screening.
Print source: Jon Sanders Films
THU
15
8.00pm Cineworld
LION KING 3D (U)
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Voices: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons,
James Earl Jones. USA 1994. 89 mins.
What could be better than talking, singing lions? Talking, singing
lions in 3D of course! Nearly a decade since THE LION KING last
appeared on the big screen, Disney’s Oscar® and Golden Globe®
winning film is back; bolder and brighter and, um, in 3D. Disney’s
Bob Chapek, president of distribution, announces that “the
all-new 3D format immerses viewers in the epic settings and
puts them face-to-face with these beloved characters.” Tricked
into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees
into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. Helped
by wandering misfits Timon and Pumbaa, wise old Rafiki, and his
childhood love Nala, Simba journeys to reclaim his role in the
great circle of life.
This screening is open to all. LION KING 3D will also be
playing on the same day at 6.00pm as part of the Family
Film Festival at the Arts Picturehouse, with additional
activities and events. Please see page 53 for full details of
the special Family Film Festival screening.
Print source: Disney UK

FRI
16
6.30pm Cineworld
MADEMOISELLE
CHAMBON (CFF 15)
Director: Stéphane Brizé. Starring: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika.
France 2009. 101 mins. French with English subtitles.
After the international success of NOT HERE TO BE LOVED,
Stéphane Brizé returns with his usual elegance and subtle
scriptwriting, in a story that echoes in each and every one
of us. Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days
happily between his construction sites and his house, with
his loving wife and son. He feels comfortable in this routine.
One day, as he’s picking up Jérémy from school, he stumbles
upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet,
elegant, mesmerizing, in a way completely foreign to his
environment. This chance encounter will be a turning point
in his well-organized life. An opportunity for change or a folly
to regret...
Print source: Axiom
FRI
23
8.00pm
SUN
25
5.00pm Cineworld
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (CFF 12)
Director: Woody Allen. Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams,
Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody. USA 2011. 100 mins.
UK Premiere
In this romantic fantasy adventure Woody Allen indulges his
passion for France’s capital amid an exploration of the fallacy
of nostalgia. When wealthy Hollywood scriptwriter Gil (Wilson)
and fiancé Inez (McAdams) join Inez’ parents on a trip to Paris,
Gil is entranced by his idealised view of the city’s bygone days
and becomes increasingly distanced from the rest of the party.
While on a solitary midnight stroll Gil is picked up by mysterious
revellers and is transported through time to the golden age
he dreams of, and in which he meets artistic greats such as
Hemingway, Picasso, TS Eliot, and Adriana (Cotillard), Picasso’s
beautiful mistress. In her, and in her era, Gil finds a new
source of inspiration and passion, but it appears that Adriana
is suffering from a similar sense of disenchantment with her
own time.
Print source: Warner Bros
SUN
18
6.15 (Part 1), 8.30pm (Part 2)
MYSTERIES OF LISBON
(CFF 15) (MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA)
Director: Raoul Ruiz. Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira.
Portugal 2010. 272 mins. Portuguese and French with English subtitles.
Raoul Ruiz’s masterful adaptation of the nineteenth-century
Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) represents the
rare combination of a director at the top of his game working
with material perfectly suited to his unique sensibilities. Evoking
the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles
Dickens, the story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an
ill-fated romance between two aristocrats who are forbidden
to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage.
But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a
multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and
then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France
and Italy.
Print source: New Wave
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THE NINE MUSES (CFF 15)
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FRI
23
6.00pm
Director: John Akomfrah. Voices: Sean Barrett, John Barrymore, Richard Burton.
UK 2010. 92 mins.
Divided into nine musical chapters and mixing a vast array
of archival material, THE NINE MUSES reforges The Odyssey
as a reflection upon journeys, migration, memory and the
power of elegy. John Akomfrah, co-founder of the Black Audio
Film Collective, expands his exhibition Mnemosyne beyond
the gallery in this visual-poem telling the story of Britain’s
post-war migrations. Using spectacular landscape imagery
from Alaska with rare archive footage from the BBC, Akomfrah
sets the writings of Dante, Beckett and Basho to an equally
wide-ranging musical selection with readings from Richard
Burton, John Barrymore and Michael Sheen. THE NINE MUSES
unfolds as an utterly absorbing meditation on a journey towards
self-discovery, a ‘sorrow song’ on a quest for knowledge
and identity.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to this screening.
Print source: New Wave
Cineworld
SAT
17
6.00pm
TUE
20
11.00pm
RED STATE (18)
Director: Kevin Smith. Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo. USA 2011. 88 mins.
RED STATE was conceived by Kevin Smith as a vehicle for
Tarantino stalwart Michael Parks, who features as Abin Cooper
in this ultra low-budget, blood-spattered satire on religious
fanaticism. Peppered with plot twists and acts of unique
depravity, RED STATE is a cut above the usual splatter and
torture. Among its quirks of originality is the lack of musical
score: the soundtrack consists of songs performed by the cast
as part of the story. Smith has intimated that there are ten
‘Easter Eggs’ to spot throughout the film – for instance, keep an
eye out for Sheriff Wynan’s explosive motif. Actions might speak
louder than words, but this is a Kevin Smith film, so expect skull
cracking and wisecracking in equal measure – not least from
John Goodman as the volatile Agent Keenan.
Includes a specially recorded introduction by director
Kevin Smith.
Print source: E1 Entertainment
FRI
23
10.30pm
SAT
24
5.45pm
RED, WHITE AND BLUE (18)
Director: Simon Rumley. Starring: Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller. USA 2011. 103 mins.
This stunning, complex and original psychological drama
opens with a mostly dialogue-free portrait of promiscuity and
disaffection, but steadily evolves into a thought-provoking
revenge tragedy and culminates in Shakespearian levels of
violence. The story’s heavy reliance on coincidence and irony
can be easily overlooked in light of the powerfully sympathetic
characters, in particular the soft-spoken warhorse Nate (Taylor)
and Erica (Fuller), an uptight, loose woman with a ghastly
hidden agenda. Completing the triangle of core performances
is Marc Senter’s Franki, a rock star wannabe whose mother is
dying of cancer. It’s hard to understand at first how three such
disparate individuals could be brought together, but as events
provoke a series of shocking character revelations, feelings of
foreboding set in and we begin to glimpse the “barren rage of
death’s eternal cold”.
Print source: Trinity Films

FRI
16
5.45pm
TUE
20
8.30pm
RESISTANCE (CFF 15)
Director: Amit Gupta. Starring: Michael Sheen, Iwan Rheon.
UK 2011. 92 mins.
Cineworld
UK Premiere
Michael Sheen (FROST/NIXON) and Iwan Rheon (E4’s MISFITS)
star in RESISTANCE, a supernatural thriller set in a Welsh valley
among the Black Mountains. Based on a novel by Welsh poet
Owen Sheers, the story takes place in an alternate 1944, after
the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings. The menfolk
of the valley are disappearing one by one, their absences
sudden and unexplained. As the all-female community huddles
together, a group of German Wehrmacht soldiers invade the
valley. A cruel winter season forces the two groups to put aside
their differences and build a cautious entente cordiale, but as
farmer’s wife Sarah Lewis (Andrea Riseborough) grows closer
to the patrol’s commanding officer, the spirit of the valley is
threatened by the war raging beyond the mountain, and the
unlikely community is faced with unimaginable devastation.
Print source: Metrodome
SUN
18
8.00pm
MON
19
6.00pm Cineworld
ROMANTICS
ANONYMOUS (U)
(LES EMOTIFS ANONYMES)
UK Premiere
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris. Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella
Cravotta. Belguim/France 2010. 80 mins. French with English subtitles.
What happens when a gifted chocolate-maker with a lifelong
case of uncontrollable shyness meets a similar case of total
discomfiture? Director Jean-Pierre Améris offers these two
characters a chance to own up to their hidden affections in a
delectable comedy of everyday embarrassment. Little does
chocolate factory owner Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde) know
that he will soon end up facing his greatest fears after hiring
Angélique (Isabelle Carré) as his new sales associate. While
the fate of the business hangs in the balance, the two lovable
protagonists fight for their emotional freedom in this funny and
romantic modern fairy tale.
Print source: Picturehouse Entertainment
THU
22
10.45pm
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
(CFF 15)
Director: Nevio Marasovic. Starring: Sven Medvesek, Natasa Dorcic, Ivana Roscic.
Croatia 2010. 80 mins. Croatian with English subtitles.
During a ‘Big Brother’ style reality show set in the near future,
a war starts and escalates towards nuclear confrontation, but
the producer will do anything to hide it from the contestants.
As the war escalates, the show becomes a kind of escape
for the general population who enjoy watching the pointless
antics of the housemates. With increasing ratings, how can
the TV channel bosses protect their investment? A very
smart film, well produced and unsettling, which raises some
fundamental questions about the nature of TV, the role of
mass entertainment and the value of truth. If you were in the
house would you want to know what’s really going on in the
outside world?
Print source: Media & Nautica
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THE SILVER CLIFF (CFF 15) SLEEPING BEAUTY (CFF 18) TIRZA (CFF 15)
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FRI
16
8.10pm
(O ABISMO PRATEADO)
UK Premiere
Director: Karim Ainouz. Starring: Alessandra Negrini, Otto Jr., Thiago Martins,
Gabi Pereira, Carla Ribas. Brazil 2011. 85 mins. Portugese with English subtitles.
THE SILVER CLIFF was inspired by a song by Brazilian musician
Chico Buarque, called Eye to Eye, about the impossibility of
love and forgiveness. Having already won many admirers with
MADAM SATA, SUELY IN THE SKY and I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE
TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU. Director Karim Ainouz
here takes us on the lyrical and poetic journey of Violeta,
who retrieves a voicemail during her work at a dentail clinic,
in which her husband informs her he won’t be returning.
Confusion, despair and hurt propel her all over the city, as she
tries and fails to reach Djalma or gather information about his
unexplained decision. Arriving at the airport too late to catch
the last flight to Porto Alegre, on an impulse she takes a taxi to
Copacabana...
The story’s emotional texture is as rich as its
intoxicating visual flow” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Print source: Rendez-Vous Pictures
Cineworld
SAT
24
9.00pm
SUN
25
3.15pm
Director: Julia Leigh. Starring: Emily Browning, Rachel Blake.
Australia 2011. 101 mins.
UK Premiere
“You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those
hours never existed.” Death-haunted, quietly reckless Lucy
is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping
Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic
experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This
unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she
develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when
she is asleep. A disturbing sexual nightmare, with shades of
Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT, Julia Leigh’s adaptation of her own
novel is a technically elegant directorial debut – and was part of
the Official Selection at Cannes.
There is force and originality in
Leigh’s work” THE GUARDIAN
Print source: Revolver
MON
19
10.45pm
WED
21
1.00pm
Director: Rudolf van den Berg. Starring: Gijs Scholten van Asschat, Sylvia Hoeks,
Johanna ter Steege, Abbey Hoes. Netherlands 2010. 100 mins.
Dutch with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
Jörgen Hofmeester’s world is crumbling. Forced into early
retirement and harassed by his ex-wife, the only part of his life
that makes sense is his beloved daughter Tirza. But now even
this certainty is shattered when she disappears on holiday in
Namibia. After weeks of terrifying uncertainty, Jörgen goes
searching for her, but the heat, his drinking and bad memories
combine to unhinge him. His only ally is a child prostitute called
Kaisa. Together they journey into the wilderness on Tirza’s trail
to discover her fate. With a powerful, multifaceted performance
from Gijs Scholten van Asschat as Jörgen and featuring the
stunning Sylvia Hoeks (named as one of European films’
Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion) this is a journey
that is full of subtle twists, and with dark and unsettling depths.
Print source: Fuworks

THU
15
7.30pm
FRI
16
12.45pm
TOMBOY (15)
Director: Céline Sciamma. Starring: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson.
France 2011. 84 mins. French with English subtitles.
Michaël (Zoe Héran) enjoys playing football with the boys,
swimming and sharing quiet conversations with his girlfriend
Lisa. He is so popular with the locals one would hardly believe
he has only just arrived in suburban Paris. But Michaël isn’t
an ordinary boy – in fact he isn’t a boy at all, but a product of
10-year-old Laure’s androgyny, and it’s got everyone fooled. In
this vivid chronicle of ambiguous emotions, French director
Céline Sciamma (WATER LILIES) ponders on the issue of sexual
identity at an early age. Treating the subject with grace and
intelligence, TOMBOY attempts to protest the proverbial
childhood innocence above all.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to the Thu 15
screening.
One of the great films made by adults for adults
about children.” LITTLE WHITE LIES
Print source: Peccadillo Pictures
FRI
23
5.45pm
TOMORROW AT DAWN (CFF 15)
(Demain dès l’aube)
SAT
24
3.30pm
UK Premiere
Director: Denis Dercourt. Starring: Vincent Perez, Jérémie Reiner, Aurélien
Recoing, Anne Marvin. France 2009. 96 mins. French with English subtitles.
Denis Dercourt presents his follow-up to the UK arthouse THE
PAGE TURNER, again drawing his inspiration from classical music
(he also teaches music at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg). In his
latest film, Napoleonic France looms large. Mathieu is a virtuoso
pianist who goes home to care for his sick mother. He walks into a
world of historical re-enactments and dressing in character. At a
weekend event for enthusiasts, the stakes are raised to the highest
levels, and Dercourt is on top form with the thoroughly engaging
tale that unfolds. Tense, dramatic and precisely timed, TOMORROW
AT DAWN played in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
Those who assume classical musicians are sissies may
have to adjust their thinking after Tomorrow At
Dawn, in which classical music meets historical battle
re-enactments to excellent effect.” LISA NELSON, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
We are delighted to welcome director Denis Dercourt to
this screening.
Print source: Films Distribution
SAT
24
8.00pm
SUN
25
7.30pm
TYRANNOSAUR (18)
Director: Paddy Considine. Starring: Peter Mullan,
Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan. UK 2011. 91 mins.
Cineworld
UK Premiere
Actor Paddy Considine impressed audiences at Sundance with
this feature-length directorial debut, earning himself the Word
Cinema Directing Award in the process. TYRANNOSAUR takes an
unflinching look at one man’s submission to rage and violence
– emotions that threaten to consume him. Widower Joseph
(Mullan) is bitter and angry at the world, beating his dog to
death and lashing out at youths. Running from the kids he has
needlessly aggressed, he takes shelter in a charity shop where
he meets good Christian Hannah (Colman). Can she help Joseph
emerge from his self-destructive spiral, or will her own dark
secrets destroy them both? Themes of redemption, domestic
violence and religion are woven together for this intense yet
compelling drama – a bold piece of British cinema that places
Considine firmly alongside the likes of Mike Leigh.
We are delighted to welcome the director Paddy Considine
to the Sat 24 screening.
Print source: Studio Canal
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A USEFUL LIFE (CFF 12) WHITE WHITE WORLD THE YELLOW SEA (CFF 18)
Box office: 0871 902 5720 | MAIN FEATURES |
(LA VIDA ÚTIL)
MON
19
5.45pm
THU
22
10.00am
UK Premiere
Director: Federico Veiroj. Starring: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martínez Carril, Paola
Venditto. Uruguay 2010. 67 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
A timely yet magical film for everyone who is working in or
passionate about cinematheques. Jorge (played by Uruguayan
film critic Jorge Jellinek) has been devoted to Montevideo’s
cinematheque for 25 years when he is faced with its imminent
closure due to funding cuts and demands that only ‘profitable’
events be held. An ode to the black-and-white silent film era, A
USEFUL LIFE takes a turn when Jorge finds himself unemployed
and in need of a new distraction. He pursues his love and soon
becomes a protagonist in his own romantic movie.
Uruguay’s official submission for the foreignlanguage
Oscar, A Useful Life celebrates movies
while simultaneously acknowledging the insular nature of
watching them...” INDIEWIRE
Print source: Dogwoof
ULTIMATE SURVIVOR (PG)
See entry on p.43
SUN
18
5.45pm
THU
22
3.00pm
(BELI, BELI SVET) (CFF 15)
UK Premiere
Director: Oleg Novkovic. Starring: Uliks Fehmiu, Hana Selimovic, Jasna Duricic.
Serbia 2010. 120 mins. Serbian with English subtitles.
Rightly awarded the New Vision Award at Crossing Europe 2011,
WHITE WHITE WORLD is a tour-de-force of vision and innovation.
Transporting a famous Greek tragedy to Bor, a mining village in
today’s Serbia, the story begins when a prisoner returns home
to find her adolescent daughter is liaising with her old lover and
local bar owner, ‘King’. Realistic and convincing performances
are contrasted with music – moments when the main characters
break into solitary, melancholic songs to tell of their innermost
feelings. However, this never feels artificial. Rather, it lures
the viewer into sympathising and understanding some of the
characters’ most cruel and senseless actions. WHITE WHITE WORLD
is a great example of how opera, ancient storytelling and film can
meet to present a new vision of the modern world, and of cinema.
White White World builds tremendous power with
this unique rhythm of behavior” INDIEWIRE
Print source: Films Boutique
Cineworld
SUN
18
8.00pm
FRI
23
3.00pm
Director: Na Hong-jin. Starring: Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo,
Cho Seong-ha. South Korea 2010. 140 mins.
Korean with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
Set pulses to pound in this bruising South Korean crime thriller
– compared by the Hollywood Reporter to A TOUCH OF EVIL.
Full of some of the scrappiest on-screen fights since OLDBOY,
Na Hong-jin’s second feature delves into the hopeless lives
of the Korean-Chinese, or Joseonjok, who live near the North
Korean border. Gambler Gu-nam accepts a hit in Seoul to clear
his debts yet he secretly yearns to find his estranged wife. At
first, preparing to commit murder challenges Gu-nam morally,
but events soon crash violently off-course. Best known for THE
CHASER, Na Hong-jin’s film confirms South Korea’s ability to
make action films that stimulate the grey cells as much as the
adrenal glands.
Print source: Eureka

LATE ADDITION
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE
DOES IT (CERT TBC)
Director: Douglas MacGrath. Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce
Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer. USA 2011. TBC mins.
Based on critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I DON’T
KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT follows Boston-based working mother Kate
Reddy (Parker) trying desperately to juggle marriage, children and a
high-stress job. Devoting her days to her job, she spends her nights
going home to her adoring, recently downsized architect husband
Richard (Kinnear) and their two young children. When Kate gets
handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New
York, and Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for, both will
be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate’s
charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Brosnan), who
begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation.
Print source: Entertainment
We hope to arrange a special screening of this new film and also
to welcome Cambridge novelist Allison Pearson, author of the
best-selling book upon which the film is based. Keep a watch on
our website and Twitter feed!
THU
15
8.15pm
SAT
17
12.45pm
LATE ADDITION
JESS + MOSS (CFF 15)
Director: Clay Jeter. Starring: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers. US 2011.
UK Premiere
Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire
tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate
families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own
age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer
they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes
of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation,
abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.
Bravura cinematography transforms the meandering
tale of everyday boredom into a vivid collage of
childhood and nature in Jess + Moss with Sarah Hagan
resembling a young Brooke Shields or Paulina
Porizkova... one of the lessons of Jess + Moss is that
beauty is hard to resist.” DAVID D’ARCY
This art cinema gem...conveys a magical place’s
timeless quality” ROBERT KOEHLER, VARIETY
Print source: Visit Films
LATE ADDITION
THE WOMAN (18)
Director: Lucky McKee. Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Sean
Bridgers, Zach Rand, Lauren Ashley Carter. USA 2011. 100 mins.
From author Jack Ketchum (THE LOST, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, RED)
and director Lucky McKee (MAY) comes a scandalous tale of two
extremes, a feral female force of nature and an abusive parent,
on collision course for a brutal showdown with a family caught
in between. When Chris Cleek discovers a primitive woman in the
wilderness on a hunting trip, he traps and locks her up in a cellar
to domesticate her into a civilised human being. Assigning other
Cleek family members to her care, the treatment of the woman
shifts from compassionate to vicious; from sexual to violent.
McKee tests the limits of viewers’ tolerance with genuine shocks
and scares that don’t need sharp weapons to make a disturbing
statement. With psychological twists and emotional reveals that
keep its haunting climax impossible to turn away from, this stark
study of a dysfunctional family is unforgettable.
UK Frightfest 2011
MON
19
8.30pm Cineworld
Print source: Revolver
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Box office: 0871 902 5720 | DOCUMENTARIES |
DOCUMENTARIES
SUN
18
12.30pm
WED
21
8.30pm
AT NIGHT, THEY
DANCE (CFF 15)
(LA NUIT, ELLES DANSENT)
UK Premiere
Directors: Isabelle Lavigne, Stephane Thibault. Canada 2011.
80 mins. Arabic with English subtitles.
Life is not easy for Reda, aged 42, mother of
seven with an eighth baby on her way, recently
widowed. But she is a powerful and joyful
force to be reckoned with – especially when
it comes to taking care of her belly-dancing
dynasty in Cairo. AT NIGHT, THEY DANCE gives a
delightful and honest insight into the workings
of Reda’s trade.
The hard knocks endured by a
belly-dancing family in workingclass
Cairo are translated with artistry
and compassion (…) Seldom has Egypt’s
capital been so evocatively captured
through a domestic prism. (…) Such
frankness among Arabic women is all too
rare in film …” VARIETY
Print source: Autlook Films
THE BALLAD OF
GENESIS AND
LADY JAYE (CFF 15)
Director: Marie Losier. US/France 2011. 75 mins.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been a key figure
of the underground music scene for over 30
years. A cult artist in pre-punk and post-punk
groups Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, he is
considered to be the father of industrial music
and a pioneer of acid house and techno. Not
content with breaking new ground in music,
Genesis has also used his position at the limits
of society to challenge the very fundamentals
of biology. Transformation is central to his life.
He became a she to resemble his beloved Lady
Jaye, now deceased. With peroxide hair, full lips
and gold teeth, Genesis does not go unnoticed.
A unique life, modelled on his other, Lady
Jaye, who remains an integral part of himself.
Without subscribing to any movement but living
life as the ultimate experiment, he has made
his body a work of art.
Print source: Cat & Docs
SAT
24
8.30pm

MON
19
10.45pm
BEATBOXING
– THE FIFTH ELEMENT
OF HIP HOP (CFF 15)
Director: Klaus Schneyder. USA 2011. 55 mins.
In the late 70s a youth culture evolved in the
poorer parts of New York which combined several
disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. The
four classic elements are graffiti writing, DJing,
breakdancing, and rapping – but the musical side
of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element:
‘Beatboxing’ – vocal imitation of drum rhythms,
first inspired by a lack of instruments. Schneyder’s
documentary shows how Beatboxing has become
a multilingual and diverse form applied in all
genres of music, and how it continues to enrich
the entertainment world.
Print source: Eclectrix
BEN IS BACK (CFF 15)
Director: Elad Zakai. Israel 2011. 26 mins.
A single mother struggles to cope with her
son’s release from psychiatric hospital.
Print source: maysegal@gmail.com
THU
22
6.00pm
SAT
24
4.00pm Cineworld
THE BENGALI
DETECTIVE (CFF 15)
Director: Phil Cox. USA/UK/India 2011. TBC mins. English.
Gujarati gumshoe detective Rajesh Ji deals with
all the jobs that the corrupt, lazy police force can’t
handle themselves – and what marks him out from
other maverick crime fighters is the fact that he
is absolutely real. THE BENGALI DETECTIVE is a
docudrama set in the metropolis of Kolkata. And
in true Bollywood tradition, he’s not content with
putting his feet up on his desk at the Always agency
in between cases – he’d rather be busting a move
on TV. The glamour of the dance competition is
offset by the Rajesh’s current list of “Investigatings
and Security Concerns”: a counterfeit cosmetics
company, a domestic violence case and a triple
murder. Off duty, though, the comedy and drama of
Ji’s life are offset by the touching story of his invalid
wife and his young son. Director Phil Cox’s eye for
detail makes for a touching and inspiring glimpse
into Ji’s Kolkata lifestyle.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
the Thu 22 screening.
Print source: Frequent Flyer Films
TUE
20
5.30pm
BLOOD IN THE
MOBILE (CFF 15)
Director: Frank Piasecki Poulsen. Denmark/Germany 2010.
82 mins.
Cassiterite is a mineral that is used by the
electronics industry, in particular to manufacture
mobile phones. Many cassiterite mines are found in
the North-Kivu region of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, where there is no regulation of
the mining. This is impacting disastrously on the
local inhabitants and contributing to the violence
in the country. Director Frank Piasecki Poulsen’s
harrowing documentary leads him to explore this
issue of conflict minerals. Not only deftly entering
and filming in the war-torn area, but discovering
the horrendous human rights violations that are
taking place within the mines. Poulsen also asks
who is responsible for this, and do we all have
blood in our pockets, and on our hands? A film
that makes you think before you send that text
message or make that call.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
this screening.
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures
SAT
17
8.00pm
MON
19
1.00pm
BOMBAY BEACH
(CFF 15)
Director: Alma Har’el. USA 2011. 80 mins.
Featuring choreographed dance numbers
set against music composed by Zach Condon
from the band Beirut and songs by Bob Dylan,
rarely has there been a more freewheeling
documentary. The protagonists and dancers are
the inhabitants Bombay Beach, a long-forgotten
town set on the fringes of an artificial lake in the
Arizona desert. Once hailed as a seaside resort
for the rich and famous 50s Hollywood stars,
it’s now populated by a marginalized society
in which the American Dream has long since
vanished. Alma Har’el captured the life of three
protagonists and their relatives and friends with
her unique camera-eye and an all-embracing
passion for her subjects during the year she
spent in Bombay Beach. Not to be missed.
A beautiful, quirky, and ultimately
very moving film about the American
Dream as it teeters on the edge of a
desert sea.” TERRY GILLIAM
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures
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17
6.00pm
32
BRITAIN THROUGH CALVET (18)
A LENS: THE BRITISH
DOCUMENTARY FILM MOB (U)
Director: Chris Durlacher. UK 2011. 60 mins.
Between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing
radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the
most influential movement in the history of British
film: the British Documentary Movement. They
were inspired by a big idea – that films about real
life would change the world. BRITAIN THROUGH A
LENS assembles a collection of captivating film
portraits of Britain, during the economic crisis
of the 1930s and the Second World War, revealing
the fascinating story of what was also going on
behind the camera and of how the documentary
became part of British culture.
Print source: Lambent Productions
HUMPHREY JENNINGS
A lovingly restored selection of
early films by the renowned British
documentarian and visual poet.
New digital HD print.
Print source: BFI
FRI
16
6.00pm
Director: Dominic Allan.
UK 2011. 86 mins. French with English subtitles.
“See you next Saturday” were the final words
Jean Marc Calvet said to his son before he
disappeared from his life in 1996. Tattooed,
pierced and heavily-built Calvet hardly
inspires sympathy. Having lived a dark and
violent life his life spiralled out of control.
When director Dominic Allan encountered
him in Nicaragua years later he found a man
at rock bottom. Yet this man was somehow
producing magnificent paintings despite his
rampant paranoia, isolation and insatiable
appetite for crack cocaine and alcohol. Today
Jean Marc Calvet’s work exhibits in New York
and sells for tens of thousands of dollars. At
the end of the road Allan discovers a man
whose art is as electrifying as his life story,
accompanying the painter on a powerful quest
for personal redemption.
Print source: Firewalk Films
MON
19
3.30pm
THE CAMERA THAT
CHANGED THE
WORLD (CFF PG)
Director: Mandy Chang. UK 2011. 62 mins. English, French
with English subtitles.
THE CAMERA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD celebrates
craftsmen and artists who built and handled the
first portable cameras in the summer of 1960.
Unfettered by the behemoth equipment that had
hampered documentary film making for so long,
young camera operators such as D.A. Pennebaker
and Richard Leacock were able to trial run a new
‘Direct Cinema’ approach. Here the two pioneers
offer their memories of a new cinematic dawn,
which coincided with the emergence of Cinéma
Vérité in France.
Print source: Lambent Productions
DON’T LOOK BACK (CFF PG)
Director: D.A. Pennebaker. USA 1967. 96 mins.
English.
D.A. Pennebaker’s film of Bob Dylan’s 1965 solo
acoustic tour, capturing the artist at a key
stage in his life.
Print source: TBC
THU
22
8.30pm Cineworld
CANE TOADS: THE
CONQUEST 3D (CFF 15)
Director: Mark Lewis. Australia 2010. 85 mins.
In 1988, Mark Lewis brought us CANE TOADS: AN
UNNATURAL HISTORY, highlighting the disastrous
impact of a rather unpleasant amphibian on the
fragile Australian ecosystem. Imported from Hawaii
as a potential predator for a pest afflicting sugar
cane crops, the giant, poisonous-skinned toads
turned out to be a far worse problem, ignoring
the grubs they were brought in to control and
eating just about everything else instead, breeding
out of control. 22 years on, Lewis picks up the
story in this irreverent eco-horror documentary
charting the toad’s unstoppable march across
the continent. The first independently financed
documentary ever to be shot in 3D, Lewis’s film
demonstrates several inventive ways for dealing
with these oversized pests, including cricket bats,
lawn mowers and rockets – but with the cane toad
population estimated at 1.5 billion, there’s still
some way to go.
Print source: Kaleidoscope Films

MON
19
6.30pm
THU
22
6.30pm Emmanuel
Theatre
CARTOGRAPHY OF
LONELINESS (CFF U)
(CARTOGRAFIA DE LA SOLEDAD)
Director: Nocem Collado. Spain 2011. 68 mins. Hindi/Nepali/
Dari with English subtitles.
Observing widows from India, Nepal and
Afghanistan – countries with the highest
population of widows in the world, the most
child widows and largest percentage of widows
respectively – CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS is not
just telling their stories, but showing how they are
able to rise out of their solitude. What emerges
are their similarities, despite location and culture.
Filled with heart-breaking accounts, beautiful
photography and simple, truthful filmmaking, this
is an important testament of unjustifiable pain.
Print source: nocemcollado@gmail.com
CHARCOAL BURNERS (CFF U)
(SMOLARZE)
Director: Piotr Zlotorowicz. Poland 2011. 15 mins.
Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal
burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from
civilization, they live according to a rhythm set
by nature. Print source: Polish National Film School
WED
21
10.30am
EGGS FOR LATER
(CFF 12A)
Director: Marieke Schellart. Netherlands 2011. 50 mins
In this personal documentary director Marieke
Schellart (35) reveals how she as a single
modern woman struggles with the biological
clock – and how, to give herself more time, she
plans to extend fertility by freezing her eggs.
Print source: Trueworks
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK (CFF 12A)
Director: Stephane Goldsand. Mexico/USA
2011. 22 mins
Faced with his wife’s desire to become a
mother, a filmmaker goes on a quest to find out
how people decide to have kids and identify the
source of his own hesitation.
Print source: Catharsis Media
BOFFIN & BOFFIN (CFF 12A)
Director: Ed Blythe. USA 2011. 15 mins.
A pair of distinguished IVF scientists struggle
to get pregnant – but you can’t always make
babies without making love...
Print source: edblythe@gmail.com
WED
21
5.45pm
THU
22
8.30pm Emmanuel
Theatre
EL BULLI (CFF PG)
Director: Gereon Wetzel. Starring: Ferran Adrià, Oriol Castro.
Germany 2011. 108 mins. Catalan, French, English with
English subtitles.
Kitchen king Ferran Adrià is serious about
eating. He doesn’t just sample and sip, he
scoffs like Homer Simpson, and you can see for
yourself in Gereon Wetzel’s documentary EL
BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS. Regular winner
of the San Pellegrino ‘World’s Best Eatery’
award, Adrià’s restaurant closed in 2010 and
was converted into a non-profit organisation
promoting culinary creativity. EL BULLI spans
fifteen months of hectic behind-the-scenes
footage, covering the conception of a menu for
El Bulli’s notoriously brief and exclusive open
season. Short on interview or explanation,
Wetzel’s celebration of a cooking master is a
vicarious feast of food fetishism and kitchen
choreography, which will leave you with a
rumbling belly and a deeper appreciation of the
genius behind El Bulli.
Print source: Autlook films
Documentaries
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SEPTEMBER
FRIDAY
16
SEPTEMBER
SATURDAY
17
SEPTEMBER
Remember:
there are no adverts or trailers before
Festival screenings, so please be seated by
the advertised time.
FFF
GER
ROM
DOC
SHO
Family Film Festival
Contemporary German Cinema
Romanian New Wave
Documentary
Shortfusion
You’ll notice a number of To Be Confirmed
(TBC) screening slots in this timetable. This
gives us the flexbililty to drop in last minute
additions to the programme, as well as
respond to audience demand by adding repeat
screenings of popular titles. We will announce
the TBC slots on www.cambridgefilmfestival.
org.uk and at the Arts Picturehouse throughout
the Festival, so keep checking for the most
recent updates – you never know what you
might miss otherwise!
4.45 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
ACE IN THE HOLE 52
5.00 ISPANSI 21
6.00 FFF THE LION KING 3D 53
7.30 TOMBOY 27
8.00 OPENING FILM:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY 15
8.15 JESS + MOSS 29
10.30 SHO LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX 62
Emmanuel College Harrods Room
4.00 EVENT: EM MEDIA @ CFF 7
Cineworld
7.00 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 15
8.00 THE LION KING 3D 22
10.00 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK 19
10.00 TBC
10.15 MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 23
10.30 SHO DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 1 65
12.30 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 15
12.45 TOMBOY 27
1.00 SHO DILATING TIME 62
3.00 DOC MANN VS FORD 41
3.15 STELLING: REMBRANDT
FECIT 1669 56-57
3.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 50
5.45 RESISTANCE 25
6.00 DOC CALVET 32
6.00 DOC ELEANORE AND THE
TIMEKEEPER 38
8.10 THE SILVER CLIFF 26
8.15 ACT OF GRACE 17
8.30 STELLING: THE ILLUSIONIST 56-57
10.30 DOC SOUND IT OUT &
ANALOGUE KINGDOM 42
10.45 SHO TRIDENTFEST 65
11.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE 51
Cineworld
6.30 MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 23
10.15 TBC
10.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
THE FRONT PAGE 52
11.00 FFF OCTONAUTS, EXPLORE! RESCUE!
PROTECT! 54
12.30 FFF NATURE’S WAY –
CHARLIE & LOLA/TINGA TINGA TALES 54
12.45 JESS + MOSS 29
1.00 SHO WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME 63
3.00 GER BLACK BUTTERFLIES 45
3.15 STELLING: THE POINTSMAN 56-57
3.30 ACT OF GRACE 52
5.30 MUMBAI CHARLIE 55
5.45 TBC
6.00 DOC BRITAIN THROUGH A LENS
& H JENNINGS 32
8.00 DOC BOMBAY BEACH 31
8.15 EVENT: JOS STELLING
IN CONVERSATION (Q&A) 56
8.30 BULLHEAD 18
10.30 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK 19
10.45 TBC
11.00 SHO LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX 62
Cineworld
3.30 GER THE SILENCE 46
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prior to the screening if it’s taking place at
the Arts Picturehouse. If you are attending a
screening at another venue you can collect
pre-booked tickets or buy tickets from the Arts
Picturehouse up to an hour before the film
starts. After that you must collect pre-booked
tickets from the Festival desk at the relevant
screening venue, where you will also be able to
buy tickets (subject to availability).
9.00 INTIMATE GRAMMAR 20
6.00 RED STATE 24
8.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: TABLOID 52
Thanks go to Clare McCollum, Roy Gower, and
John Lyle at Cineworld.

SUNDAY
18
SEPTEMBER
MONDAY
19
SEPTEMBER
TUESDAY
20
SEPTEMBER
WEDNESDAY
21
SEPTEMBER
10.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN 51
11.00 FFF THE GRUFFALO 54
11.30 FFF TO INFINITY AND BEYOND 55
12.30 DOC AT NIGHT THEY DANCE 30
12.45 DOC MANN VS FORD 41
1.00 SHO LOVE, LOST AND FOUND 63
3.00 GER ABOVE US ONLY SKY
& PHILIPP 44
3.15 STELLING:
NO TRAINS NO PLANES 56-57
3.30 DOC THE LAST PROJECTIONIST 40
5.45 WHITE WHITE WORLD 28
6.00 LATE SEPTEMBER 22
6.15 MYSTERIES OF LISBON PART 1 23
8.00 ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS 25
8.15 GER BURNOUT 45
8.30 MYSTERIES OF LISBON PART 2 23
Magdalene Street
8.00 FREE ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES AND
SELECTED EXTRACTS 11
Emmanuel College
2.30 TBC
5.00 DOC A BOATLOAD OF
WILD IRISHMEN 14
Cineworld
5.00 ISPANSI 27
8.00 THE YELLOW SEA 28
10.00 TBC
10.15 STELLING: DUSKA 56
10.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
VERONICA GUERIN 51
12.30 GER THE POLL DIARIES 46
12.45 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: TABLOID 52
1.00 DOC BOMBAY BEACH 31
3.15 AS IF I AM NOT THERE 17
3.30 DOC THE CAMERA THAT CHANGED
THE WORLD & DON’T LOOK BACK 32
4.00 DRIVE 19
5.30 FLYING FISH 19
5.45 A USEFUL LIFE 28
6.30 DOC CARTOGRAPHY OF
LONELINESS 33
8.00 DOC GIBRALTAR 39
8.15 JO FOR JONATHAN 21
8.30 GER THE SILENCE 46
10.30 TARTAN: SYMPATHY FOR MR
VENGEANCE 49
10.45 DOC BEATBOXING & BEN IS BACK 31
10.45 TIRZA 26
Trinity College
8.30 ROBIN HOOD (7.00 FOR DINNER) 12
Cineworld
6.00 ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS 25
8.30 THE WOMAN 29
10.00 TBC
10.15 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: ZODIAC 52
10.30 LATE SEPTEMBER 22
12.30 TBC
12.45 GIBRALTAR 39
1.00 THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR
& THE LAST PROJECTIONIST 43
2.30 GER IF NOT US, WHO? 45
3.15 DOC MODIGLIANI’S GENUINE FAKE
HEADS & WATER LILIES 41
3.30 EVENT: BERNARD HERRMANN
TRIBUTE – NEIL BRAND 6
4.45 GER UNDER CONTROL 46
5.30 DOC BLOOD IN THE MOBILE 31
5.45 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
CITIZEN KANE 50
7.00 EVENT: MARK KERMODE 6
8.15 DRIVE 19
8.45 GER ANDUNI 46
9.00 TBC
10.45 TARTAN: IRREVERSIBLE 48
11.00 RED STATE 24
11.00 THE WOMAN 29
Emmanuel College Harrods Room
9.00 EVENT: ICO ROADSHOW 13
Timmy Hele Room
12.00 EVENT: WRITER IN RESIDENCE 13
Theatre
6.00 SHO LOCAL TASTES 65
8.30 DOC THE FOREST PRINCE
AND THE PIGMAN & THE STRANGER 39
Sawston Village College
7.30 DOC HERE’S A HEALTH TO THE
BARLEY MOW 40
Cineworld
6.00 GER THE CITY BELOW 45
8.30 RESISTANCE 25
10.00 GER BLACK BUTTERFLIES 45
10.15 FLYING FISH 19
10.30 DOC EGGS FOR LATER &
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK &
BOFFIN & BOFFIN 33
12.30 DOC A BOATLOAD OF
WILD IRISHMEN 14
12.45 TBC
1.00 TIRZA 26
3.00 ROM THE OAK 58
3.15 AS IF I AM NOT THERE 17
3.30 DOC ELEANORE AND THE
TIMEKEEPER 38
5.00 MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND 14
5.45 DOC EL BULLI 33
6.00 DOC A MAN’S STORY:
OZWALD BOATENG 41
7.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: PAGE ONE:
INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES 50
8.15 DIMENSIONS 18
8.30 DOC AT NIGHT, THEY DANCE 30
10.30 GER UNDER CONTROL 46
10.45 SHO DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 2 65
11.00 TARTAN: WILD SIDE 49
Emmanuel College Theatre
2.00 -6.00 EVENT: CREATIVE FRONT 12
7.00 TARTAN: THE SEVENTH SEAL 49
9.00 DOC THE LULU SESSIONS 40
Cineworld
7.00 DRIVE 19
9.00 ATROCIOUS 18

10.00 A USEFUL LIFE & THE ULTIMATE
SURVIVOR 28
10.15 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
ACE IN THE HOLE 52
10.30 CRASSH EVENT: DIVA DOLOROSA
& CENERE
12.30 TARTAN: THE SEVENTH SEAL 49
12.45 ROM THE AFTERNOON OF
A TORTURER 58
1.00 GER THE SILENCE 46
3.00 WHITE WHITE WORLD 28
3.15 SHO EM MEDIA SHORTS 66
3.30 TARTAN: FUNNY GAMES (1997) 48
6.00 DOC THE BENGALI DETECTIVE 31
5.45 DOC STREET KIDS UNITED 43
6.00 ROM STUFF AND DOUGH 59
8.00 EVENT: TARTAN TERROR - HAMISH
MCALPINE IN CONVERSATION 7
8.15 DOC FORKS OVER KNIVES 39
8.30 DOC HENRY MORRIS & BFI ARCHIVE
PROG 40
10.30 DIMENSIONS 18
10.45 THE SHOW MUST GO ON 25
11.00 BULLHEAD 18
Emmanuel College Theatre
4.00 DOC THE FOREST PRINCE
AND THE PIGMAN 39
6.30 DOC CARTOGRAPHY OF
LONELINESS 33
8.30 DOC EL BULLI 33
Cineworld
THURSDAY
22
SEPTEMBER
6.00 GUILTY OF ROMANCE 20
8.30 DOC CANE TOADS:
THE CONQUEST 3D 32
10.30 SHO ANIMATION FROM CROATIA 1
& ARU SHORTS 67
11.00 ROM THE OAK 58
11.00 DOC THE LULU SESSIONS 40
12.30 DOC STREET KIDS UNITED 43
1.00 SHO EM MEDIA 2 14
1.30 ROM THE PAPER WILL BE BLUE 59
3.00 THE YELLOW SEA 28
3.30 JO FOR JONATHAN 21
4.00 DOC HENRY MORRIS 40
5.45 TOMORROW AT DAWN 27
6.00 THE NINE MUSES 24
6.00 TBC
8.00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 23
8.15 DOC GERHARD RICHTER: PAINTING 39
8.30 ROM OCCIDENT 59
10.30 RED WHITE & BLUE 24
10.45 THE GERBER SYNDROME 20
11.00 SHO MAD WORLD 64
Cineworld
4.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: PAGE ONE:
INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES 50
6.00 ALBATROSS 17
8.30 THE HELP 21
Murray Edwards
1.00 TBC
3.00 TBC
5.00 TBC
Seminar Room
FRIDAY
23
SEPTEMBER
12.00 WRITER IN RESIDENCE WORKSHOP 13
10.30 SHO ANIMATION FROM CROATIA 2 67
11.00 FFF THE GRUFFALO 54
11.30 FFF SPRITES 10 55
12.30 KOSMOS 22
12.45 AGE OF CHAMPIONS
1.00 DOC FC CHECHNYA & FUNGUS 38
3.00 REVIVAL: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS 47
3.15 ROM NIKI AND FLO 58
3.30 TOMORROW AT DAWN 27
5.30 DOC TROUBADORS 43
5.45 RED, WHITE AND BLUE 24
6.00 ROM ROMANIAN
NEW WAVE SHORTS 60
8.00 TYRANNOSAUR 27
8.15 DOC TASTE THE WASTE 43
8.30 DOC THE BALLAD OF GENESIS
AND LADY JAYE 30
10.30 REVIVAL: SILENT RUNNING 47
10.45 GUILTY OF ROMANCE 20
11.00 DOC SOUND IT OUT &
ANALOGUE KINGDOM 42
Cineworld
4.00 DOC THE BENGALI DETECTIVE 31
6.30 DOC POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS:
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD 41
9.00 SLEEPING BEAUTY 26
Murray Edwards
1.00 MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND 14
3.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 50
5.00 TBC
SATURDAY
24
SEPTEMBER
10.00 REVIVALS: SILENT RUNNING 47
10.15 TBC
10.30 FFF TBC
12.30 TBC
12.45 INTIMATE GRAMMAR 20
1.00 SHO MAD WORLD 64
3.00 THE HELP 21
3.15 SLEEPING BEAUTY 26
3.30 TROUBADORS 43
5.45 DOC POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS:
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD 41
6.00 SURPRISE MOVIE 5
6.00 SHO WOUNDS AND SCARS 64
8.00 TBC
8.15 KOSMOS 22
8.30 CLOSING FILM: THE LOOK 15
Murray Edwards
1.00 TBC
3.00 TBC
5.00 DOC GERHARD RICHTER: PAINTING 39
Seminar Room
12.00 EVENT: WRITER IN RESIDENCE
WORKSHOP 13
Cineworld
SUNDAY
25
SEPTEMBER
2.30 REVIVAL: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS 47
5.00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 23
7.30 TYRANNOSAUR 27

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ELEANORE AND FC CHECHNYA (CFF 15)
THE TIMEKEEPER (U)
Director: Hairless Films Collective. USA. 76 mins.
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FRI
16
6.00pm
WED
21
3.30pm
In a rural Pennsylvanian farming and logging
community, Eleanore, aged 91, has been caring for
her developmentally disabled son Ronnie for 64
years. Theirs is an extremely close bond, based
around profound love and a life of quiet daily ritual.
Deciding that she can go on no longer, Eleanore
decides to move Ronnie into a group home. The
resulting film traces the surprising and changing
nature of their relationship over the next 7 year.
Beautifully and movingly told, the story of Ronnie
and Eleanore highlights themes – the loneliness of
old age, independence, mortality and dealing with
disability – that resonate the world over.
Print source: Hairless Films
SAT
24
1.00pm
Director: Fahad Mustafa. Austria 2011. 70 mins. German and
Russian with English subtitles.
FC Chechnya is a football club run solely by
Chechen refugees and asylum seekers in
Carinthia. Acting as a social support base and
a means for psychological release during the
horrendously drawn-out and mentally exhausting
asylum process, the football club is home to a
number of fascinating stories. The film focuses on
three young asylum seekers who find themselves
submerged in the murky waters of the asylum
seeking process. Through a series of perceptive
and insightful interviews, the film explores their
hopes and dreams for the future, and how football
provides them a lifeline to the world they were
once used to. Print source: Globalistan Films
OUR ORDERED LIVES (CFF 12A)
Director: Christine Entwisle. UK. 10 mins
Escaping from the horror of her own actions,
a young woman is catapulted from the
claustrophobia of her West Cumbrian home,
leaving a trail of feathers in her wake.
FUNGUS (SVAMP) (CFF 15)
Director: Charlotta Miller. Sweden. 8 mins.
Paralyzed by grief and with an itchy genital
area, Katrin lets things fall apart.
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TUE
20
8.30pm
THU
22
4.00pm Emmanuel
Theatre
THE FOREST
PRINCE AND THE
PIGMAN (CFF 12)
Director: Craig Constantine. With: Bernd Wechner, Elijah
Wald, Morgan Strub. USA 2011. 71 mins.
Interweaving a coast-to-coast hitchhiking trip
with the underground history of bumming
rides, documentary maker Craig Constantine
thumbs a lift and pops the bonnet on a secret
stash of archive materials, including a longsuppressed
US government study on the safety
of hitchhiking. Overtaking myths and pulling
over for plenty of surprising facts, the film
reveals a kaleidoscope of road-going chancers
– from teenage thrill-seekers to an acclaimed
sculptor and cop blasting ABBA.
Print source: October Wind Productions
THE STRANGER (CERT TBC)
Director: Rodd Rathjen. Australia 2011. 10 mins.
Inappropriate behaviour costs nothing...
Print source: roddrathjen@gmail.com
THU
22
8.15pm
FORKS OVER
KNIVES (CFF PG)
Director: Lee Fulkerson. USA 2011. 96 mins.
Tracing the research of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a
nutritional biochemist, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn,
a former surgeon, director Lee Fulkerson argues
that heart disease, diabetes and even some
forms of cancer could be prevented by adopting
a whole foods, plant-based diet. Stemming from
his own personal desire for lifestyle change,
Fulkerson attempts to alter his own diet as he
talks to people about their health conditions and
discusses change with representatives across the
health industry. Whether you’re a health guru or
hamburger apologista, this film is guaranteed to
make you think twice before your next lunch.
Print source: Monica Beach Media
Wallace Cancer Care will host a panel discussion
and take questions after the screening. The
panel will be lead by Professor Rob Thomas,
consultant oncologist at Addenbrooke’s and
Bedford Hospitals and Dr Eleni Tsiompanou,
Specialist in Palliative Care and Chair of
Nutrition and Food Group for Help the Hospices.
FRI
23
8.15pm
SUN
25
5.00pm Murray
Edwards
GERHARD RICHTER
– PAINTING (CERT TBC)
Director: Corinna Belz. Germany 2011. 97 mins.
Gerhard Richter, one of the internationally most
significant contemporary artists of our times,
granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his
studio in the spring and summer of 2009 where
he was working on a series of large abstract
paintings. In quiet, highly concentrated images,
the film gives us a fly-on-the-wall perspective
of a very personal, tension-filled process
of artistic creation. In her intelligent and
perceptive film, Corinna Belz brings us closer
to the complex processes of artistic creation.
Gerhard Richter Painting is the penetrating
portrait of an artist at work – and a fascinating
film about the art of seeing.
Print source: Soda Pictures
MON
19
8.00pm
TUE
20
12.45pm
GIBRALTAR (CFF U)
Director: Ana Garcia. UK 2011. 83 mins.
Intertwining the history of her homeland with
the story of her return there for her marriage,
filmmaker Ana Garcia successfully brings
together her past and her future. The union
that is her wedding is portrayed in parallel
with the troubled history between Spain and
Gibraltar, and as these two opposing forces come
together it becomes powerfully apparent that
the country’s history is her family’s story as
Gibraltarians. And this is where the film finds its
heart – in the people, who have a deep-rooted
sense of who they are; their patriotism both
resilient and moving. Themes of love and respect
run throughout, as strong as the rock that
represents the country itself. Told with energy
and spirit through the many voices of her family,
friends and countrymen, this is a film that truly
shows that home is where the heart is.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
the Mon 19 screening.
Print source: Revolution Films
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THU
22
8.30pm
FRI
23
4.00pm
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HENRY MORRIS (CFF U) HERE’S A HEALTH THE LAST
Director: Peter Harmer. UK 2011. 60 mins. TO THE BARLEY
MOW (CFF U)
Directors: various. UK. 70 mins.
Young filmmakers from Sawston have recruited
Peter Harmer of Stories – Projects in Film to
help them commemorate the 80th anniversary
of the opening of their school. The Village
College was created as part of a pioneering
educational and social initiative conceived by
Henry Morris, then Secretary of Education for
Cambridgeshire. During the Great Depression,
Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) toured some
of the most poverty stricken areas of his
father’s kingdom – including Sawston, where
the young Prince had the privilege of opening
the first Village College in the country. Shot on
a £25,000 budget from the Heritage Lottery
fund, HENRY MORRIS looks at the life and
legacy of the ‘educator extraordinary’ himself,
mingling modern re-enactment with original
archive footage preserved by the school.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
the Thu 22 screening.
Print source: Stories – Projects in Film
TUE
20
7.30pm Sawston
A collection of films from the BFI archive,
offering unique insight into some of the varied
and curious folk traditions from across Britain
– a rare document of many local customs
that might otherwise be lost. From the ‘sexy,
savage’ Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax’s
OSS OSS WEE OSS, to Jeremy Deller and Alan
Kane’s footage of ferociously fought traditional
football; from children’s games in London’s
bombed East End to intricate sword and step
dances, this collection of poetic documentaries,
long unseen television reports and rare silent
film footage reveals just how powerful and
enduring the folk traditions of Great Britain
have always been. This selection of newly
remastered films features innovative fiddle and
melodeon accompaniments by contemporary
folk musicians.
Print source: BFI
SUN
18
3.30pm
TUE
20
1.00pm
PROJECTIONIST
(CFF 12)
Director: Thomas Lawes. UK 2011 TBC mins. English.
Thomas Lawes’ nostalgic documentary celebrates
independent cinema tradition, showing how its
renaissance is now a worldwide phenomenon.
Lawes interviews former staff, industry experts
and customers, including proud projectionist
John Brockington, who has been a stalwart
of Birmingham’s projection boxes since 1955.
Old picture palaces all over the UK are facing
extinction, and THE LAST PROJECTIONIST focuses
on Birmingham’s Electric, the oldest working
cinema in Britain – which saw out the silents over
a hundred years ago, had a stint as a wartime
news outlet during WWII and spent the 70s and
80s catering to connoisseurs of adult film. These
venerable vintage cinemas offer contemporary
film lovers an old school alternative to the
mainstream – but does the switch from 35mm to
digital mark the end of an era for projectionists?
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
the Sun 18 screening. Print source: Thomas Lawes
Emmanuel
Theatre
WED
21
9.00pm
FRI
23
11.00am
THE LULU
SESSIONS (CFF 15)
Director: S. Casper Wong. USA 2011. 75 mins.
Raw and intense, LULU captures those emotions
we hold closest to us, and is soon completely
enthralling – at once unbelievable yet fiercely
real. Lulu is a world-class cancer researcher
breaking new ground, when she discovers
she herself is dying of breast cancer at 42.
Her remaining 15 months are captured by her
best friend and lover (Wong), who fell in love
with the brilliant scientist and chain-smoking
rebel when she was Lulu’s student abroad. Like
no other documentary seen this year, Lulu’s
story, her passion and character, will stay
with you: this is more than just a testament to
great documentary filmmaking. As aptly put
by LA Weekly: “Lulu will absolutely charm you,
precisely because she’s not trying to”.
We hope to welcome the filmmaker to the
Wednesday 21 screening.
Print source: S Casper Wong

WED
21
6.00pm
A MAN’S STORY –
OZWALD BOATENG
(CFF 15)
Director: Varon Bonicos. UK 2010. 90 mins.
Suit up for this stylish documentary covering
the last 12 years of fashion designer Ozwald
Boateng. Director Varon Bonicos intimately
charts the extraordinary career of the first black
tailor to open up shop on London’s Savile Row,
capturing the journey and evolution of the man
as well as the designer. Originally intended to be
a five month project, Bonicos hung around as
Boateng’s life hurtled breakneck through divorce,
business meltdown, appointment at Givenchy,
marriage to a Russian model, his own American
reality series and all with a work ethic to match.
Jamie Foxx, Giorgio Armani, Paul Bettany and
many more smartly-attired commentators step
up in a biographical film as unique, layered and
compelling as its subject. Quick simply the bestdressed
film you’ll see this year.
Print source: Trinity Films
FRI
16
3.00pm
SUN
18
12.45pm
MANN V. FORD (CFF 15)
Directors: Maro Chermayeff, Micah Fink. USA 2011. 105 mins.
In the late 1960s a Ford Motors plant in Mahwah,
New Jersey dumped toxic paint sludge. As the
local Indian community’s children played in
this colourful waste little could they conceive
of the devastation to follow. Rashes swiftly
led to cancer, chronic diseases and for many,
death. Ford officially tidied up the site in the
1990s but most of the waste remained. MANN V.
FORD follows the resident Ramapough Indians
and their legal team as they take on Ford and
the US Environmental Protection Agency. Over
the course of five years their fight for justice
led from community centres to the halls of
government. Maro Chermayeff and Micah Fink’s
red-raw documentary charts the emotional
journey of this real-life, high-stakes drama.
Print source: Show of Force
TUE
20
3.15pm
MODIGLIANI’S
GENUINE FAKE
HEADS (CFF PG)
Director: Giovanni Donfrancesco. Italy/France 2011. 60 mins.
Italian, English and French with English subtitles.
In 1984, during one hot summer in Livorno, Italy
(the hometown of painter and sculptor Amedeo
Modigliani) three students with a wicked sense of
humour and an electric drill went to work carving
several Modigliani-esque busts, partly as a joke,
partly as a means of demonstrating their skills.
This set off an international chain reaction among
art critics and historians who raved about these
exceptional new discoveries of the Master’s work.
Soon the town was over-run by experts and news
crews all wanting to catch a glimpse, much to the
bafflement of the locals.
Print source: TBC
WATER LILIES IN BLOOM
(VANNLILJER I BLOMST)
Director: Emil Stang Lund. Norway. 14 mons.
The suspended synchronized swimming guru
Labanosov entices overweight women to join
him in his mission to prove Isaac Newton wrong.
Cineworld
SAT
24
6.30pm
SUN
25
5.45pm
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS:
THE GREATEST
MOVIE EVER SOLD
(12A)
Director: Morgan Spurlock. USA 2011. 88 mins.
Everything’s for sale these days, including the
title of Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about
product placement in the movies. Spurlock
made a name for himself in SUPERSIZE ME by
eating nothing but McDonalds for a month.
Here he tackles advertising head-on by making
a film about advertising financed solely by
advertisers he manages to find in the film.
Taking viewers through the process from
cold calling to pitching ideas to eventually
shoehorning their commercials into the movie
itself, Spurlock blows the lid off product
placement with outrageous levels of cheek.
Part advert, part education – THE GREATEST
MOVIE EVER SOLD is the most fun audiences will
have with product placement since the sponsor
scene in WAYNE’S WORLD. And yes, he even
gives McDonalds a call...
Print source: The Works
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SOUND IT OUT (CFF 12)
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FRI
16
10.30pm
SAT
24
11.00pm
Director: Jeanie Finlay. UK 2011. 74 mins. English
A cultural heaven in one of the most deprived
areas in the country, Sound It Out Records is run
by the drily philosophical Tom Butchart, whose
wealth of knowledge helps customers track down
that elusive rare vinyl. Directed by Jeanie Finlay,
who grew up nearby, the film follows a number
of the shop’s long-standing customers, from the
Makina boys and the devout Status Quo fan, to the
presenters of a dance music radio show run from
a garden shed in Billingham. Funny, heartfelt and
intimate, SOUND IT OUT is a celebration both of
the Northern soul and good music.
Print source: Pipoca Pictures
ANALOGUE KINGDOM (U)
Director: Esther Johnson. UK. 24 mins. English.
An intricately composed, lovingly paced and
charming paean to Gerald Wells, founder and
Curator of the British Vintage Wireless and
Television Museum, and his passion.
Print source: Blanche Pictures
THU
22
5.45pm
FRI
23
12.30pm
STREET KIDS
UNITED (CFF U)
Director: Tim Pritchard. UK 2010. 75 mins.
Following the South African team, the Umthombo
Young Stars, throughout the Street Child World
Cup in Durban in 2010, this is a heartwarming
story of determination, spirit and hope.
Emerging from varied backgrounds of poverty
and crime, the children need to show discipline
and willpower to turn their backs on the
attractions of the street. Through the trials and
tribulations that they need to overcome, one
question remains unanswered: once it is all over,
will the children go back to their former lives?
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
the Thu 22 screening.
Building on the success of the inaugural event,
Street Child United has been established by
Amos Trust, Action for Brazil’s Children’s Trust
and Momentum Arts to deliver the 2014 Street
Child World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The
Street Child World Cup was an idea born in
Cambridge that aims to transform the lives of
street children around the world.
Print source: Momentum Arts

SAT
24
8.15pm
TASTE THE WASTE
(CFF PG)
Director: Valetin Thurn. Germany 2011. 88 mins. German,
French & English with English subtitles.
In a world constantly battling against famine,
TASTE THE WASTE presents an uncomfortable
truth: 50 percent of all food is thrown away –
every second salad, every second potato and
every fifth loaf of bread. The majority ends
up in waste disposals before it even reaches
the consumer. Valentin Thurn asks urgent
questions: Who turns food into waste? What
are the consequences of the global food waste
for our climate, and for seven billion people?
He finds answers from farmers, supermarket
managers, garbage men and cooks in Germany,
Austria, Japan, France, Cameroon, Italy and the
US. He also finds people who have developed
alternatives to stop this waste. TASTE THE WASTE
is a documentary everyone should see – one
that, despite its shocking message, offers hope.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to
this screening.
Print source: Schnittstelle Tthurn
SAT
24
5.30pm
SUN
25
3.30pm
TROUBADOURS
(CFF 12)
Director: Morgan Neville. USA 2011. 91 mins. English.
In the midst of the international social upheavals
of the 1960s, a new style of songwriter was
emerging. Defined by a tendency for brutal
self-analysis and raw, open emotion, these
songwriters counterpointed heart-stopping tales
with the simplest of musical accompaniments.
Los Angeles became the city where these
songwriters gathered, and their musical
home became an old beatnik folk club with an
appropriate moniker: The Troubadour. It quickly
became the beating heart of the American
musical scene. Recounting their stories (amongst
others) are the now world-famous singersongwriters
Carole King, James Taylor, Jackson
Browne, Joni Mitchell and Kris Kristofferson, all
of whom found initial fame playing at The Troub’.
Following the club’s 50th anniversary in 2007,
the film follows the celebratory concerts and
discusses the enduring spirit of friendship and
creativity which defined the era.
Print source: Tremelo
TUE
20
1.00pm
THU
22
10.00am
THE ULTIMATE
SURVIVOR (PG)
Director: Philip Hind. Narrator: Neil Wood. UK 2011. 59 mins.
THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR is director and writer
Philip Hind’s first solo project, an in depth look at
one of Oxford’s historic and unusual landmarks;
the Picture Palace cinema. The Owners, staff,
cinemagoers and historians celebrate its 100th
anniversary in this centennial-spanning look
at how the cinema deserved the proudly bared
title of ‘the ultimate survivor’. Overcoming
neglect, squatters and the very real threat of
demolition, the Picture Palace has proved it is
not just a historical icon but also a much beloved
feature of Oxford’s current cultural scene. The
documentary is a permanent testament to
the importance of a local cinema with a bright
future.
Print source: Picture Palace
THE LAST PROJECTIONIST
(CFF PG)
See entry on page 40.
CFF STAFF 2011
Tony Jones
Festival Director
Catherine Kemp
Festival Administrator
Becky Innes
Family Film Festival & Screen Team
Claire Rastogi
Marketing, Design & Web Manager
Aline Conti
Shorts Programmer & Submissions
Coordinator
Verena Von Stackelberg
International Programme Coordinator
Bill Lawrence • Tony Earnshaw
Festival Programmers
Iris Ordonez
Hospitality & Logistics
Toby Venables
Press & PR Manager & Brochure Editor
Dan Taylor
Brochure Designer
Emma Woolerton
Q&A Producer
Matt Pink
CFF Twitter
Camilla Cockcroft • Dean Dodd-Ramsey
Bobby Marrone • Ieva Marscionkaite
Suzy Milburn • Alex Phillips • Kath Singer
Ivan Stoyanov • Katerina Webb-Bourne
CFF Interns
Rosy Hunt (Editor) • Fiona Scoble • Mike Boyd
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Keith Gehlert
General Manager
John Davis • Daniel Patten • Alicia Lopez Rios
Duty Managers
Peter Phillips
Duty Manager & Copy Editor
Joe Delaney
Assistant Manager & Chief Projectionist
Rydian Cook • Claire Mackenzie • Dermot Nolan
Christian Lapidge • Jesse Wood
Projectionists
Roger Smith
Projection & Cambridge Film Projects

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18
3.00pm
TUE
20
8.45pm
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There is a colourful mixture on
offer from this year’s German film
productions, dealing with some
rarely explored historical subjects
(the Baltic German history in THE
POLL DIARIES, for example) as
well as providing a fresh perspective
on more familiar themes (IF NOT
US, WHO? dealing with the Baader
Meinhof story). There are pressing
political issues at stake in the
documentary UNDER CONTROL,
examining the validity of nuclear
power plants, and urgent questions
asked about corporate power
(THE CITY BELOW). Private
lives in modern, multicultural Berlin
are pushed into the limelight in
BURNOUT, and you will experience
a gripping thriller if you decide to
watch THE SILENCE.
ABOVE US ONLY SKY (CFF 15)
(ÜBER UNS DAS ALL)
Director: Jan Schomburg. Starring: Sandra Hüller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp. Germany 2011. 88 mins.
German with English subtitles.
One could say of Martha’s life that it’s wellbalanced,
fulfilling – happy. She enjoys her teaching
job, has a group of loyal, loving friends and, above
all, she has Paul. The man she loves and has been
living with for several years now. With Paul at her
side, the positive, energetic Martha has no fear of
the future. Then two policewomen show up at her
door, and with just a few words tear her life apart.
The man Martha has been living with is a phantom
– a presence that seems to have glided out of her
life without leaving a trace – his life a lie. As she
tries to cope, she meets Alexander, and a simple,
single gesture of his hand suffices to remind her
of Paul. But can Alexander fill the void? Winner of
the European Cinema Label at Berlinale 2011 for its
“economical story-telling (and) humour alongside
strong emotions”.
PHILIPP (CFF 15)
Director: Fabian Möhrke. Starring: Max Hegewald, Hans Jochen Wagner, Vanessa Krüger,
Anna Bolk. Germany 2010. 40 mins. German with English subtitles.
With oversized glasses on his narrow face and
abundant sarcasm, Philipp lurches through
a life that is not actually his own. At an age
when people should be talking about plans for
the future, he is trapped in helpless silence.
His overly chummy father aims to sort it
UK Premiere
Print source: Bavaria Film
UK Premiere
out – but opposition slowly rears its head.
(Filmfestival Cottbus)
Audience Award Festival Premiers Plans
d´Angers 2011, France
Print source: Jost Hering Films
ANDUNI (CFF 15)
Director: Samira Radsi. Starring: Irina Potapenko,
Florian Lukas, Tilo Prückner. Germany/Armenia 2011.
88 mins. German and Armenian with
English subtitles.
UK Premiere
Armenian Belinda feels at home in Germany,
where she was born, lives and studies just
like any other German girl her age. But when
she loses her father, she is suddenly drawn
into the traditional Armenian lifestyle of her
migrant relatives. Her aunts require her to
work in their seamstress shop and secretly
plot to marry her off to one of her kind. While
Belinda is becoming increasingly curious about
her roots, their traditional ways also threaten
her relationship with Manuel, a German. She
embarks on a journey into the past and the
present to find out who she really is. ANDUNI
shows a culture that is exciting and complex,
and a love story that reaches beyond family
traditions.
Print source: Elsani Film

SAT
17
3.00pm
WED
21
10.00am
SUN
18
8.15pm
TUE
20
6.00pm Cineworld
TUE
20
2.30pm
45
BLACK
BUTTERFLIES (CFF 15)
Director: Paula van der Oest. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Carice
van Houten, Liam Cunningham. Germany, Netherlands, South
Africa 2010. 100 mins.
UK Premiere
Rejected by her father and despite love affairs
with many men, no one can give South African
poet Ingrid Jonker what she seeks. It is not until
Nelson Mandela, in his first speech to the South
African Parliament in 1994, reads Ingrid Jonker’s
poem ‘The child who was shot dead by soldiers in
Nyanga’ that she finds recognition, being hailed
as one of the greatest poets in South Africa..
BLACK BUTTERFLIES is the riveting love- and lifestory
of the young poet – a powerful portrait of a
strong-headed woman and talented yet troubled
artist during the Apartheid regime. Carice
van Houten (VALKYRIE, BLACK BOOK) inhabits
the character in a breathtaking tour de force,
starring opposite Liam Cunningham (THE WIND
THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY) as her all-consuming
love and Rutger Hauer (BLADE RUNNER) as her
oppressive father.
Print source: Bavaria Film
BURNOUT (CFF 15)
(ABGEBRANNT)
UK Premiere
Director: Verena S. Freytag. Starring: Maryam Zaree, Tilla
Kratochwil, Lukas Steltner, Keywann Fischer, Marie Louise
Heinzel, Leon Kilian. Germany 2011. 102 mins. German with
English subtitles.
Berlin tattooist and single mother of three,
Pelin (Maryam Zaree) collapses when one day
her problems overwhelm her: her son eats her
boyfriends drugs and ends up in hospital, social
services threaten to take away her children
and she loses her job. Burnt out, she is offered
the chance to go on a recovery programme
for single mothers by the seaside. At first she
causes trouble, but then she meets the very
different Christa (Kratochwil) and slowly a
friendship develops. Director Verena S. Freytag’s
award-winning script tells a story that could be
taken from many existing lives in Berlin. At its
heart, BURNOUT is a coming of age story about
an immature woman who is learning how to
become a grown up, and a mother.
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker
to this screening.
Print source: Jost Hering Films
THE CITY BELOW
(CFF 15) (UNTER DIR DIE STADT)
Director: Christoph Hochhäusler. Starring: Mark Waschke,
Nicolette Krebitz, Robert Hunger-Buehle. Germany 2010. 110
mins. German with English subtitles.
Thanks to a chance meeting at a mandatory
cultural event, Roland Cordes, 55, and
a member of the board of a large bank,
encounters the wife of a new employee: Svenja
Steve, 33. There is an immediate attraction
between the two. When a bank manager is
murdered in Indonesia, Cordes seizes his
chance and suggests Svenja’s husband Oliver
for the position, even though there are better
qualified people to take the job. With Oliver
in Jakarta, a love affair develops – but when
Cordes’ scheme is exposed, Svenja suddenly
ends the relationship, plunging him into
turmoil. At the same time in Jakarta: Oliver is
being threatened. Svenja begs him to return. In
a dramatic night, Cordes quits his position on
the board of directors, Svenja jogs through a
park at night, and Oliver stops to reflect for the
first time in his life... But is it really over?
Print source: The Match Factory
IF NOT US, WHO?
(CFF 15) WER WENN NICHT
WIR?
Director: Andres Veiel. Starring: Michael Wittenborn,
Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Maria-Victoria Dragus,
August Diehl. Germany 2011. 104 mins. German with English
subtitles.
Germany in the early 60s: a time of departure.
Bernward Vesper, son of the Nazi writer Will
Vesper, is rebellious. During the night, he slams
the angry words into his typewriter that he
wants to throw in the face of the establishment.
When he meets Gudrun Ensslin, it’s the
beginning of an extreme affair: unconditional,
excessive, beyond all thresholds of pain.
Together they set off to conquer the world. But
less than 10 years later, Bernward is caught up
in the madness of drugs and Gudrun throws
herself into the armed underground. For both
of them, there is no turning back.
Vesper (is) a remarkable,
fascinating, figure and uncovering
it is the true achievement of Veiel’s film.”
FILM DAILY
Print source: The Match Factory
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MON
19
12.30pm
Cineworld
SAT
17
3.30pm
MON
19
8.30pm
TUE
20
4.45pm
WED
21
10.30pm
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THE POLL DIARIES (CFF 15)
(POLL)
UK Premiere
Director: Chris Kraus. Starring: Edgar Selge, Paula Beer, Richy Mülle. Germany
2010. 134 mins. German, Estonian, French, Russian with English subtitles.
On the eve of World War I, 14-year-old Oda von Siering returns to
Poll, her family home on the Baltic coast, a region uneasily shared
by Germans, Russians and Estonians. She carries with her the
mortal remains of her mother. Awaiting the inquisitive girl are
her father Ebbo, an eccentric scientist with a dubious interest in
eugenics, her aunt Milla, who flees reality through music and affairs,
and other members of her aristocratic German family who cling to
their privileges in a world on the brink of disaster. Upon finding a
wounded Estonian anarchist on the estate, the impulsive Oda hides
him and secretly nurses him back to health, aware that her deed
could trigger a chain reaction of uncontrollable violence. FOUR
MINUTES director Chris Kraus’ THE POLL DIARIES hauntingly evokes
the end-of-days atmosphere of a doomed society at the crossroads
of the German and Russian Empires.
Print source: Bavaria Films International
THE SILENCE (CFF 18)
(DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN)
Director: Baran bo Odar. Starring: Katrin Sass, Burghart Klaußner, Karoline
Eichhorn, Roeland Wiesnekker. Germany 2010. 119 mins. German with English
subtitles.
A bicycle found in a wheat field. A missing girl. Is history
repeating itself? 23 years ago, a young girl named Pia was raped
and murdered at this exact spot. Has the same thing happened
now to 13-year-old Sinikka? Krischan, the retired police inspector
who led the first investigation, is convinced that there’s a
connection between the two crimes. As the days go by, an
unbearable heat sits over the town’s modest homes like a bell
jar. And behind the doors, once intact worlds begin to fall apart.
In this strikingly commanding feature, Baran bo Odar (UNDER
THE SUN) confirms his status as one of the most promising and
talented young directors of today. His exceptional directing
skills and distinctly cinematic language give this screen
adaptation of a bestselling novel his unmistakable signature.
Print source: Soda Pictures
UNDER CONTROL (CFF 15)
(UNTER KONTROLLE)
UK Premiere
Director: Volker Sattel. Germany 2011. 98 mins. German with English subtitles.
Coincidentally made just before the atomic catastrophe in
Japan, UNDER CONTROL gives an exclusive and fascinating
insight into nuclear power – with frank and thorough access
filmmaker Volker Sattel (AFTER EFFECT) would not have been
able to gain post-Fokushima. Beautiful compositions of retro
control rooms, old villages and rural farms overshadowed by the
towering plants are accompanied by interviews with employees
and managers about security procedures and safety measures,
their relationship to the (occasionally opposing) villagers and
past experiences of near accidents. With its often meditative
images and restrained soundtrack, the film gives the viewer
time to observe and reflect upon the history and safety of
nuclear power plants without imposing any opinion of its own.
Perhaps cinema’s most magnificent look at
nuclear energy” VARIETY
Print source: Credo Film
The screening will be followed by a talk on this topic by
specially invited guests – please visit our website for details.

REVIVALS
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (U)
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant. USA
1951. 113 mins.
Gene Kelly plays Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter
living in Paris who is discovered by a wealthy heiress on the
streets of Montmartre. Jerry soon meets and falls in love with a
beautiful young dancer called Lise (Leslie Caron) who is already
engaged to a famous cabaret artist. Jerry’s friend Adam Cook
(Oscar Levant), an aspiring pianist/composer, offers a comically
cynical take on matters as complications begin to arise. Winner
of six Academy Awards in 1951, including Best Picture, Vincente
Minnelli’s AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is possibly the greatest
achievement in movie musicals from the 1950s.
New digital HD print.
SAT
24
3.00pm
SUN
25
2.30pm
Cineworld
Print source: BFI
SILENT RUNNING (U)
Director: Douglas Trumbull. Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse
Vint. USA 1972. 89 mins.
Bruce Dern stars as Lowell, introverted caretaker of a vast
greenhouse located on a space station – the last remaining
greenery rescued from a dying planet earth. Regarded as a weirdo
by the three other human crewmembers, he takes refuge in the
company of a trio of endearing robots named Huey, Dewey and
Louie. But when word comes from home that the greenhouse can
no longer be sustained and is to be destroyed, Lowell is faced with
a stark choice: obey orders and watch the last of nature disappear
forever, or turn against his own crewmates... A classic – but
frequently overlooked – piece of cinematic SF, directed by legendary
visual effects genius Doug Trumbull, who supplied the stunning
spaceships for (amongst many others) Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY and Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
New digital HD print.
SAT SUN
24 25
10.30pm 10.00am
Print source: Eureka
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Tartan Films: A Tribute
Under the idiosyncratic leadership of Hamish McAlpine,
Tartan brought a staggering array of international cinema
to the UK – including classic works by Eisenstein, Bergman,
Pasolini, Cocteau and Herzog. But it was in finding and
distributing works by, new, groundbreaking filmmakers that
McAlpine proved most adept. In a world increasingly given
over to the multiplex, it was largely thanks to Tartan that
cinephiles were able to discover and explore Almodóvar,
Breillat, von Trier, Haneke and dozens more – not to mention
the new wave of hugely influential Asian horrors, including
AUDITION, RING, THE EYE and DARK WATER. Many of the latter
were released on Tartan’s subsidiary VHS/DVD labels Tartan
Terror and Tartan Asia Extreme, whose output attracted a
huge following.
For those in the know, Tartan became a byword for
cinema that was genuinely new, adventurous and exciting.
It also made a stand for the integrity of these works,
sparking some memorable scraps with the BBFC. At a
time when some distributors were growing conservative
and circumspect, McAlpine championed the raw and the
uncut, preserving many controversial works threatened by
censors – not least IRREVERSIBLE and OLDBOY.
We celebrate the work of Tartan with a selection of films
from its rich back catalogue, and an opportunity to hear
the inside story from the passionate provocateur himself.
Hamish McAlpine will be in conversation with Guardian
film critic Peter Bradshaw on Thursday 22 September,
at 8.00pm. See page 7 for full details.
THU
22
3.30pm
FUNNY GAMES (18)
Director: Michael Haneke. Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Arno Frisch,
Frank Giering. Austria 1997. 108 mins.
Georg is looking forward to a happy holiday with his wife Anna,
son Georgie and their dog. But when they arrive at their idyllic
Austrian lake house, they soon find themselves pestered by a
polite but rather insistent pair of young men named Peter and
Paul (or is it Paul and Peter?) – both of whom are dressed in
tennis whites and seem to have a keen interest in golf. But these
are not the games they have in mind. As Peter and Paul take
over and their ‘games’ become increasingly sadistic, the family
realise they must turn to violence to survive this relentless,
inexplicable ordeal. Haneke’s film – as much to do with cinema
itself as it is to do with contemporary tastes in horror –
prompted walkouts at Cannes, but remains one of the most
memorable and affecting films of – and about – screen violence,
as gripping as it is disturbing.
TUE
20
10.45pm
IRREVERSIBLE (18)
Director: Gasper Noé. Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel,
Philippe Nahon, Jo Prestia. France 2002. 97 mins. French with English subtitles.
A remarkable, provocative and horrifyingly brutal portrayal of
love and revenge from controversial director Gasper Noé (SEUL
CONTRE TOUS). Starring off-screen husband and wife Vincent
Cassel (L’APPARTEMENT) and Monica Bellucci as lovers whose
lives are shattered by an act of extraordinary violence, Noé’s
much discussed film tells the story backwards through a series
of carefully choreographed, audaciously long takes. The end
result is a powerful, transgressive, nihilistic and profoundly
disturbing treatise on the nature of free will. Something of an
enfant terrible who once stated an ambition to make a film
more violent than STRAW DOGS and SALO combined, Noé is
also a director of real intelligence and insight; IRREVERSIBLE is
perhaps his masterpiece.
Warning: contains scenes of graphic violence that may
disturb some viewers.

Emmanuel
Theatre
WED
21
7.00pm
THU
22
12.30pm
THE SEVENTH SEAL (PG)
Director: Ingmar Bergman. Starring: Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe,
Bibi Andersson. Sweden 1957. 96 mins. Swedish with English subtitles.
Endlessly imitated and parodied, Bergman’s landmark THE
SEVENTH SEAL retains its ability to spellbind the audience.
Von Sydow stars as a 14th-century knight, Antonius Block,
wearily heading home after ten years of combat. Disillusioned
by unending war, plague and misery Block has concluded that
God does not exist. As he comes to consciousness on a bleak
and forbidding shore, he encounters Death (Ekrot). Unwilling to
give up the ghost, Block challenges Death to a game of chess;
if he wins, he lives; if not, he’ll allow Death to claim him. As
they play, the knight and the Grim Reaper get into a discussion
about whether God exists. One of the most influential European
movies of all time.
MON
19
10.30pm
SYMPATHY FOR MR.
VENGEANCE (18)
Director: Park Chan-wook. Starring: Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Du-na, Lim
Ji-Eun. South Korea 2002. 121 mins. Korean with English subtitles.
The first of Park Chan-wook’s remarkable Vengeance trilogy
(with OLDBOY and LADY VENGEANCE) is as brutal a revenge
movie as you’re ever likely to see. For want of a suitable donor,
the deaf-mute brother of a young woman visits a blackmarket
ring, which leads to organ theft, which in turn prompts
kidnapping, suicide and several revenge killings of Jacobean
savagery. No director diagnoses the dolorous underbelly of
contemporary Asia as perceptively as Park, who examines
a Korean nation reeling from economic free fall. Though a
deserving avenger, Ryu acts out of a determined miasma
of human indifference, and somehow unexpectedly elicits
sympathy as he carries out his murderous retribution.
WED
21
11.00pm
WILD SIDE (18)
Director: Donald Cammell. Starring: Christopher Walken, Anne Heche, Joan Chen.
UK/USA 1995. 111 mins.
Bruno Buckingham (Walken) is an international money launderer
who has need of the talents of Long Beach bank executive
Alex Lee (Heche). But Alex offers more than the usual counter
services – she also moonlights as a $1,500-a-night call girl.
Little does Bruno realise, however, that she’s also caught the
eye of his beautiful wife Virginia (Chen). Bruno’s chauffeur,
meanwhile, is setting out to blackmail Alex – and isn’t at all what
he seems to be. This noirish, erotic thriller was the fourth and
final film by Scottish director Donald Cammell (his debut was
PERFORMANCE – which he wrote and co-directed with Nic Roeg);
tragically, he committed suicide when arguments with WILD
SIDE’s producers led to the film being substantially recut against
his wishes. This restored version was released by Tartan in 2000
to critical acclaim.
We hope to welcome Tartan Films founder Hamish McAlpine
to this screening.
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Newspaper journalism goes to the movies
PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (CFF 15)
Director: Andrew Rossi. With: David Carr, Carl Bernstein, Bruce Headlam. USA, 2011. 88 mins.
TWEETS AND WIKILEAKS ARE CONSPIRING to subvert today’s
media landscape in ways that could never have been anticipated.
Andrew Rossi’s PAGE ONE offers us the opportunity to think
about the choices we have in learning about the changing world
in which we live. Rossi spotlights the burgeoning blogosphere
from the perspective of the media division of The New York Times,
and shows us how the old school journalistic grapevine still has
a place in modern media alongside newer working models. PAGE
ONE depicts an institution whose proven techniques need to be
preserved even as technology races ahead of itself. The face of
the paper is the incisive social media watchdog David Carr, who
fights to defend the validity of hard newsprint copy in a society
spoon-fed on internet news.
CITIZEN KANE (U)
Director: Orson Welles. Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten,
Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead. USA, 1941. 119 mins.
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures
TUE
20
5.45pm
As aged newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in
his cavernous mansion, Xanadu, a servant hears him utter his
enigmatic last word, “Rosebud”. A reporter sets out to piece
together Kane’s life and uncover “Rosebud’s” significance.
Orson Welles’s cinema debut, 70 years ago, rightly remains
in most enlightened film critics’ top ten films. CITIZEN
KANE displays a dazzling mastery of the medium that has
seldom been matched, from the opening sequence of
impressionistic moonlit atmospherics to expressionist
camera angles, chiaroscuro lighting and complex long
takes – together marking the most striking technical and
stylistic advances since Fritz Lang’s innovations in M. A
fascinating jigsaw of scenes from a life pieced together
with great artistry and verve, it remains as relevant
today as it was in 1941 and is a prescient exploration
of the absolute power of the media mogul and how power
inevitably corrupts.
Print source: BFI
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (PG)
WED
21
7.00pm
Director: Alexander Mackendrick. Starring: Burt Lancaster,
Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, Sam Levene. USA 1957. 92 mins.
FRI
16
3.30pm
SAT
24
3.00pm
Murray
Edwards
This compelling story of an
untouchable Broadway columnist
and a toadying press agent in the
1950s features Burt Lancaster
and Tony Curtis at their absolute
best. Lancaster is plausibly cold
and mean as J.J. Hunsecker,
a megalomaniacal character
modeled on the once-all-powerful
Walter Winchell. Hunsecker is
portrayed as a grotesque man
who loves, and revels in, the dirty
business of destroying lives in
print. Curtis’s corrupt, power-worshipping Sidney Falco moves
toward him like a moth to a flame; he’s a sycophant for all
seasons. Perverse and decadent.
Print source: Park Circus

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (15)
Director: Alan J. Pakula. Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook. USA, 1976. 138 mins.
A journalistic detective
story of unprecedented
importance that eventually
brought down the
presidency of Richard
Nixon, the tale of
Washington Post reporters
Carl Bernstein and Bob
Woodward is the stuff
of legend. Pakula’s film
painstakingly follows the
trail from a minor break-in at Democratic Party National
headquarters to the very heart of government, illustrating
the rottenness of 1970s American politics and the
integrity of a few good men determined to do right. As
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (PG)
Director: Val Guest. Starring: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe. GB, 1961. 98 mins.
In THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE ex-journalist Val
Guest crosses the news story with the disaster movie.
Hero reporter Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) has to cover
the disastrous consequences caused by America’s and
the Soviet Union’s nuclear test programmes: the Earth
has been knocked off its axis and is headed for the sun.
The film used the actual offices of the Daily Express for
some scenes, and Guest cast the paper’s ex-editor Arthur
Christiansen. The threat to humanity seems frighteningly
contemporary, whilst the newspaper world is strikingly
accurate. And whilst the film lacks the special effects
of contemporary films, it offers the pleasures of pacy
journalistic dialogue, a typically realistic London and
an imaginative take on science-fiction’s never-ending
prophecies of doom. The closing scene ranks with the
best cinema finales: the Express prepares two headlines:
“Earth Saved” and “Earth Doomed”.
Print source: Park Circus
the dogged duo the pairing
of Redford and Hoffman
makes for inspired
casting, and Jack Warden
is equally impressive as
their courageous editor.
A riveting, relentless,
cerebral thriller with an
authentic backdrop, ALL
THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
remains an absorbing
portrait of a local story that became national and then
international, with two incredulous men at its heart – as
relevant now as it was on release.
FRI
16
11.00pm
SUN
18
10.30am
Print source: Warner Bros
VERONICA GUERIN (18)
Director: Joel Schumacher. Starring: Cate Blanchett, Brenda Fricker,
Ciarán Hinds, Gerard McSorley. USA 2003. 98 mins.
This largely factual account of the life and death of
crusading Irish crime journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate
Blanchett, who attended the screening at the 2003
Festival with director Joel Schumacher) combines
standard biopic with an exposé of the ruthless gangster
subculture that existed in 1990s Dublin. Cate Blanchett
is Guerin, the real-life glory-hunting reporter who
seemingly roamed Dublin with impunity, flitting from
the police to informer to the very highest criminals,
and accumulating exclusives along the way. As Guerin,
Blanchett exhibits ambition and a tireless pursuit of
her quarry, and a burning desire to do the right thing.
In short, the entire film, perhaps deliberately, begs
the question of how far one should go for principles
and career. Was she brave or foolish? Tenacious or
complacent in her self-belief she was untouchable?
Where does it stop? Whatever our conclusions, for
Guerin it meant paying the ultimate price for her byline.
Print source: Park Circus
CHECK OUT PAGE 42 FOR MORE MEDIA MASTERPIECES
MON
19
10.30am
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ACE IN THE HOLE (U)
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Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling,
Bob Arthur, Porter Hall, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal.
USA, 1951. 111 mins.
THU
15
4.45pm
This unsentimental portrait of a reptilian journalist
and the media circus he creates around a news story
gave Kirk Douglas arguably his greatest role. Cynical
big city reporter Chuck Tatum, languishing on a smalltown
paper after one scandal too many, hits upon the
story of his career. Manipulating and manufacturing the
drama of a local man trapped inside a silver mine to
suit his own needs, he abuses his profession (and the
fading victim) to create a sensation that will renew his
reputation. Based on real-life events, ACE IN THE HOLE
is that rare piece of cinema: a harsh and sour portrait
of a hard-boiled newspaperman pursuing a story like a
terrier. Prescient and bitter, it showcases the public’s
insatiable appetite for bad news and, in Chuck Tatum,
presents the journalist as malicious puppet master.
Quite simply, a masterpiece.
Print source: TBC
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS (U)
Director: Lindsay Anderson. GB, 1952. 33 mins.
THU
22
10.15am
Heavily influenced by the work of Humphrey Jennings,
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS is a documentary featurette that
follows the journey of a small West Yorkshire newspaper
in its centenary year – from a reporter interviewing an
elderly woman through to the paper going to press.
Print source: BFI
ZODIAC (15)
Director: David Fincher. Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch,
Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas. USA, 2007. 158 mins.
Opening with a one-line statement
that “what follows is based on
actual case files” ZODIAC tells the
story of a crime spree that gripped
San Francisco and baffled the law.
The Zodiac carried out a string of
indiscriminate killings between July
1969 and the early ‘70s. But it was
his taunting of the police in a series
of sinister letters and peculiar coded
messages that set him apart from ‘regular’ murderers.
TABLOID (CFF 15)
Director: Errol Morris. Starring: Kent Gavin,
Joyce McKinney. USA, 2010. 87 mins.
SAT
17
8.30pm
MON
19
12.45pm
Cineworld
Casting aside the conventionality
that characterised his earlier
output, Errol Morris allows
seasoned celebrity Joyce
McKinney to speak for herself
in this portrait of a scandalous
siren. In the mid-1970s, the
mysterious McKinney, a former
Miss Wyoming, was accused of pursuing a missionary
to the UK, abducting him and keeping him in captivity as
a love toy. To this day, McKinney maintains the outdated
belief that Mormons are cult leaders, and claims that her
relationship with the missionary was based on mutually
romantic ardour. Morris describes his documentary
style as a seesaw between “completely whacked out”
and “politically concerned”, and TABLOID’s examination
of “the case of the manacled Mormon” falls under the
former category. There is scant regard given to truth and
much affection is evident in Morris’s celebration of a
character whose exploits, real or imagined, would make
Bettie Page blush.
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures
TUE
20
10.15am
David Fincher’s take on the story
considers how the overwhelming
nature of the case took its toll on
those at its heart. Thus his film, far
from being a straight detective story,
becomes a multi-personality biopic,
focusing on the various individuals
at the heart of the investigation
and what their personal sacrifices
meant for their health and minds.
THE FRONT PAGE (PG)
Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Susan Sarandon. USA 1974. 105 mins.
Print source: Warner Bros
SAT
17
10.30am
Jaded newshound Hildy
Johnson (Lemmon) is
quitting his job at the
Chicago Examiner to get
married – but plans are
cut short when notorious
murderer Earl Williams
escapes and turns up hidden
in a roll-top desk. With the
scoop of a lifetime under
his nose, Hildy is conflicted – and scheming editor Walter Burns
(Matthau) sees a way to hang on to his star reporter... The 1928 hit
play upon which the film was based had already proved a rich seam
for filmmakers, being adapted in 1931 and then remade in 1940
by Howard Hawks as HIS GIRL FRIDAY. For Wilder, it was a return
to the familiar territory of SOME LIKE IT HOT, sharing its 1920s
setting, madcap plot and snappy dialogue, as well as screenwriter
I.A.L. Diamond and one of its leads (Lemmon). Nevertheless, its
tempting to read echoes of contemporary events in its underlying
themes of corruption – not least the Watergate scandal.
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures

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15
6.00pm
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Following the super success of last year, the Second Cambridge Family Film Festival will
once again present special programmes featuring kids’ favourite TV and film characters,
old and new, in a family-friendly environment – and at an affordable price.
Whether they’re infatuated with OCTONAUTS, entranced by
TINGA TINGA TALES, bewitched by BAGPUSS or gripped by THE
GRUFFALO (not literally, we hope...) there’ll be something
that’s just right for all junior film fans. We’re really excited
to be launching this year’s Festival with a very special sneak
preview of the new 3D version of one of the greatest family
films of all time – Disney’s THE LION KING!
Look out for the friendly Family Film Festival team, who will
be clearly visible around the Arts Picturehouse and who are
there to make your child’s visit to the cinema (and yours) a
little bit easier – and a whole lot more fun! There’ll even be a
quiet ‘chill-out’ zone in the venue complete with kids’ books
and craft materials, where you can settle down if all the
excitement gets too much for little ones…
With competitions, craft activities and giveaways adding to
the film fun, you’ll all be able to enjoy a family trip to the
cinema as never before. On the Festival’s opening Saturday,
17th September, ticket holders for OCTONAUTS will also be
able to try some amazing cake pops made by our friends
The Family Film Festival is sponsored by Barratt and Children’s at Heffers
at Cambridge Cookery School! Plus our lovely sponsors at
Heffers Bookshop on Trinity Street will be hosting some
special Family Film Festival-themed activitiesin-store at
3pm to celebrate the Festival - pop along on Saturday
10th September to explore, rescue and protect with the
Octonauts, and on Saturday 24th September you can find
out how your favourite animals came to be with a terrific
Tinga Tinga Tales storytime. Check out the Family Film
Fest pages on www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk for
more info.
All children must be accompanied by an adult
at all times and we cannot be
responsible for children who
are left alone – anyway,
we’d rather you enjoyed
our events together! No
unaccompanied adults will
be admitted to any Family
Film Festival screening.
Family Film Festival
Opening Night Preview Screening!
LION KING 3D (U)
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Voices: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons,
James Earl Jones. USA 1994. 89 mins.
What could be better than talking, singing lions? Talking, singing
lions in 3D of course! Nearly a decade since THE LION KING last
appeared on the big screen, Disney’s Oscar® and Golden Globe®
winning film is back; bolder and brighter and, um, in 3D. Disney’s
Bob Chapek, president of distribution, announces that “the
all-new 3D format immerses viewers in the epic settings and
puts them face-to-face with these beloved characters.” Tricked
into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees
into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. Helped
by wandering misfits Timon and Pumbaa, wise old Rafiki, and his
childhood love Nala, Simba journeys to reclaim his role in the
great circle of life.
Print source: Disney UK
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SAT
17
11.00am
OCTONAUTS – EXPLORE!
RESCUE! PROTECT! (U)
Director: Darragh O’Connell. UK 2010. 45 mins.
The Octonauts are a team of undersea adventurers who are
always ready to dive into action! Their mission: to explore
new underwater worlds, rescue amazing sea creatures and
protect the ocean. Based on the richly imaginative books by
award-winning design team, Meomi, this massively-popular new
TV series combines elements of classic team adventure with
stunning CGI animation to transport little ones into a magical
world under the sea. We’re presenting three exciting Octonauts
episodes – The Blobfish Brothers, The Electric Torpedo Rays, and
the double-length special The Great Penguin Race.
Print source: Chorion
www.theoctonauts.com
SAT
17
12.30pm
NATURE’S WAY CHARLIE AND
LOLA AND TINGA TINGA TALES (U)
Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions. UK 2007 and 2010. 45 mins.
A special programme of three beautifully-crafted and gloriouslyanimated
tales from celebrated children’s television production
company Tiger Aspect Productions.
Charlie and Lola Autumn Special – Everything Is Different
And Not The Same. Lola is so looking forward to going back to
school for the Autumn Term – she has her new woolly tights,
though they do crinkle a bit, and can’t wait to show Mrs Hanson
her new pencil case. But soon she finds out that everything at
school is a little bit different and not the same – and she doesn’t
like it one bit.
PLUS Tinga Tinga Tales – Why Ants Work Together... Life is
hard when you’re so tiny!
And Tinga Tinga Tales – Why Skunk Smells… Naughty baboon
tricks skunk into tasting the yucky smellyfruit!
SUN
18
11.00am
SAT
24
11.00am
THE GRUFFALO (U)
Directors: Jakob Shuh, Max Lang. Voices: Rob Brydon, Helena Bonham Carter,
Robbie Coltrane, James Corden, John Hurt. UK 2009. 30 mins.
Recently voted the nation’s favourite bedtime story, the magical
tale of a plucky mouse who takes a walk through the deep, dark
wood is brought to enchanting life in an all-star adaptation of
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling book. This
beautifully animated, BAFTA-nominated treat features the vocal
talents of Robbie Coltrane as The Gruffalo, Helena Bonham
Carter as the Narrator, Rob Brydon as the Snake, and James
Corden as the Mouse.
Print source: Magic Light Pictures
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OCTONAUTS OCTOPOD © 2011 Chorion Rights Limited.
All rights reserved.
Tinga Tinga Tales TM and © Tiger Aspect Productions Limited/
Classic Media Distribution Limited 2010
© Orange Eyes Limited 2009

SUN
18
11.30am
TO INFINITY – AND
BEYOND! (U)
Directors: various. UK 1969 – 1977. Approx 65 mins.
Join Mr Benn, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine, and Bagpuss as
they head up, up and away for exciting adventures in outer
space. Mr Benn steps into the Fancy Dress Shop’s changing
room and emerges as a Spaceman; Major Clanger makes a flying
machine; the mice use their Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ
to sing Bagpuss a song about a woman who flew up to the Sun;
and Ivor The Engine discovers a UFO… or is it?
Characterised by their easy charm, iconic imagery and
wonderfully catchy soundtracks, these beautifully-crafted
animations feature some of the most enduring TV characters
of all time. This special programme is designed to introduce
children to a range of televisual delights from the days before
CBeebies – and to bring a nostalgic smile to parents’ faces.
Print source: BFI
SPRITES 10 (PG)
Directors: Various. 2008 – 2010. Approx 65 mins.
This dazzling selection of family-friendly shorts has been
hand-picked for the new digital generation by ondotzero – an
international contemporary digital arts and design organisation.
Let the Family Film Festival team guide you through this brave
new digital world, and dip into a range of fun stories and visually
stimulating animations from across the globe which promise to
entertain, enchant and delight. All materials screened are suitable
for children of all ages, although very young audiences may find
the nature of some of the scenes and imagery rather intense.
www.onedotzero.com
SAT
24
11.30am
Print source: onedotzero
And, for families with slightly older children...
MUMBAI CHARLIE (CFF PG)
Director: Deepak Verma. Starring: Kulvinder Ghir, Neeraj Pathak, Jace Desay.
India/UK 2011. 28 mins.
MUMBAI CHARLIE is a heartwarming film about the curious and
unexpected adventures of VJ – a young Mumbai businessman
and reluctant heir to a business empire. On his way to the
biggest meeting of his life in rural Gujarat, lost, ill and extremely
stressed, he finds himself in the strange and wonderful world
of a community entirely dedicated to the magic of Charlie
Chaplin. There, he begins to understand what is truly important
in life, learning from Charlie’s philosophy that “a day without
laughter is a day wasted”. The film was inspired by the real-life
‘Charlie Circle’, a Chaplin appreciation society in the Gujarat
town of Adipur.
Join the cast and crew
of MUMBAI CHARLIE for a
free, informal Q&A and
interactive workshop after
the film – giving you the
chance to perfect your
own Charlie Chaplin walk!
We recommend
that this event
is suitable for
children aged 10
upwards.
SAT
17
5.30pm
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As this is not a Family
Film Festival screening it
is open to all, including
unaccompanied adults for
whom normal Festival ticket
prices apply. Tickets for 16
year olds and younger cost
£4.00, with adults who
are accompanying them
paying just £2.00.
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A Dutch
Master
Jos Stelling, filmmaker, cinema owner, visionary. At the age of
seven he was given a projector and started to show films to
children in the neighbourhood, developing a profound passion for
film. He spent all of his spare time filming with an 8mm camera,
and after 10 years experimentation began his first feature.
Released in 1974, MARIKEN VAN NIEUMEGHEN – ultimately a
collaboration with 800 people – was selected for the Official
Competition of the Cannes Film Festival. No film from the
Netherlands has received this honour since. His subsequent
features have followed a unique and often bizarre vision.
Although popular on the festival circuit, none of his films
have achieved distribution in the UK. Cambridge Film Festival
presents a chance to catch up with a unique vision of cinema,
and meet the man himself.
JOS STELLING IN CONVERSATION
Saturday 17 September 8.15pm • Arts Picturehouse
Jos Stelling will talk about his career and
fascination with art and culture, interrupted by
his three short films THE WAITING ROOM, THE GAS
STATION and THE GALLERY, with opportunities for
the audience to ask questions about his work.
MON
19
10.15am
DUSKA (CFF 15)
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Gene Bervoets, Sylvia Hoeks, Sergey Makovetskiy.
Netherlands 2007. 110 mins. Dutch and Russian with English subtitles.
The submission for Best Foreign Film Oscar 2008 from the
Netherlands, DUSKA is the perfect Film Festival movie. Bob is
a film critic who lives opposite his favourite cinema. He is now
working on a screenplay inspired by the young cashier in the
cinema. While attracted to her, he expects nothing but fantasy
until she has a row with her boyfriend. At the same time, Duska
arrives on his doorstep – a man he met at a Russian film festival
some years back – but neither speaks the other’s language.
Once in Bob’s apartment, Duska shows no sign of leaving.
DUSKA demonstrates all of Stelling’s fascination with language,
communication and humour and with European Shooting Star,
Sylvia Hoeks, lighting up the picture, it is enchanting viewing.
Print source: StellingFilms
FRI
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8.30pm
THE ILLUSIONIST (CFF 15)
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Freek de Jonge, Jim van der Woude, Catrine
Wolthuizen, Gerard Thoolen. Netherlands 1984. 90 mins.
Opening with a beautiful sequence in a theatre, THE ILLUSIONIST
establishes its genesis in Freek de Jonge’s stage show. However,
Stelling quickly opens it out into the imagination of a figure who
looks around the corner of the theatre dressing room. Blending
fiction, reality, dream and illusion effortlessly THE ILLUSIONIST
is the story of two brothers, one of whom pursues his ambitions,
while the other is sent to a mental institution by their parents.
Lost childhood, failed ambitions, the threat of brain surgery,
an unremitting mother, a suicidal father and a rich grandfather
define the course of action. A film with no dialogue but much
sound and fury – and winner of the Golden Calf and Critics Prize
at the 1984 Dutch Film Festival.
Brings to mind a much more bizarre Tati movie.”
THE WORLDWIDE CELLULOID MASSACRE
Print source: StellingFilms

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18
3.15pm
NO TRAINS NO PLANES
(CFF 15)
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Dirk van Dijck, Kees Prins, Peer Mascini, Katja
Schuurman, Netherlands 1999. 105 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.
Like THE POINTSMAN, NO PLANES NO TRAINS is based on a book
by Jean-Paul Franssens. It floats beautifully from the opening
close-up of a butterfly on a plant to the final moments of
the film – a dream-like comedy, resplendent with larger then
life characters. Gerard goes to his regular pub just as the
manager is setting up for the day, ready to say goodbye to all
the regulars as he is leaving for Italy that night. Gerard goes
completely unnoticed by the rest of the company, however, and
one sad event follows the next. He only gets attention when
he brags about his brother Mario Russo, a popular singer, with
whom he is at odds – a fact that becomes painfully apparent
when Mario unexpectedly drops by the pub...
Print source: StellingFilms
SAT
17
3.15pm
THE POINTSMAN (CFF 15)
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Jim van der Woude, Stéphane Excoffier, John
Kraaykamp Netherlands 1986. 96 mins. Dutch and French with English Subtitles.
When an elegant French woman steps of a train in the middle
of the night, she finds herself not on a platform, but the middle
of nowhere, yet close to a signal box. Stranded, she finds the
pointsman, a man who barely speaks. She meets the small
number of characters who come into his life, surviving winter
into spring and summer. Shot in the UK’s most remote station,
Corrour, THE POINTSMAN is a study of characters, largely free of
dialogue, understood through gesture and look.
Stelling’s exploration of the uses and abuses of
power is art house fare, but neither obscure nor
elitist. Enthralling performances generate a
claustrophobic tension, but there’s humour too.” TIME OUT
Print source: StellingFilms
FRI
16
3.15pm
REMBRANDT FECIT 1669
(CFF 15)
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Frans Stelling, Ton de Koff, Lucie Singeling, Aya
Gill. Netherlands 1977. 120 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.
An unusual and opulent portrait of the great painter, sketcher
and etcher is Stelling’s third film and continues a fascination
with Dutch culture, using the imagery of early Dutch masters.
From an early age he had always wanted to make a film about
Rembrandt. He chose his twilight years, when Holland’s
greatest painter made his last self-portrait, attempting to
capture the painter’s past by means of his paintings and
drawings. The film is like a search for the light, a lesson in
looking. Using almost exclusively amateurs who worked
for nearly two years in front of Jos Stelling’s camera in old
robes, it is amazing what is achieved – the 17th century and
Rembrandt’s paintings are brought to life. To accentuate his
personal involvement, Stelling chose his brother Frans to play
the young Rembrandt.
Print source: StellingFilms
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3 films
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by Lucian Pintilie
(selected by the director)
THE AFTERNOON OF
A TORTURER (CFF 18)
(Dupa-amiaza unui tortionar)
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Starring: Gheorghe Dinica, Radu Beligan, Ioana Ana Macaria. Romania 2001.
80 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.
12.45pm
“This was the first time I tried to make a film with the ambition
of triggering a moral electroshock. (…) THE AFTERNOON OF A
TORTURER is a film about the total incapacity of Romanians
to confess and repent.” In Romania, Frant Tandără, a former
torturer in the prisons of the Communist regime, is ready to
confess his crimes to a journalist and former political prisoner.
Print source: Romanian Film Centre, Bucharest
Lucian Pintilie, whose debut was the groundbreaking SUNDAY AT SIX in 1965 “came to embody Romanian
cinema almost by himself, before a young generation – which he helped hatch – started drawing the
attention of the world.” MICHEL CLEMENT
NIKI AND FLO (CFF 18)
(Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezervă)
Starring: Victor Rebengiuc, Razvan Vasilescu, Coca Bloos.
Romania 2003. 99 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.
“NIKI AND FLO is a very dear film of mine. Maybe because it’s
my last film, in every way, or maybe, who knows, my first film in
a different kind of accounting.” Angela and her husband have
decided to leave Romania for a life in the United States. Niki,
Angela’s father, is torn between his wish to see his daughter
happy and his desire to have her close by; meanwhile, Flo, the
father of Niki’s son-in-law and a kind of domestic tyrant, slowly
exerts control over Niki. The script was written by Cristi Puiu
(STUFF AND DOUGH, THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU).
Print source: Romanian Film Centre, Bucharest
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Romania’s
infamous New Wave. Born in 2001 – after not a single
film was produced in Romania during 2000 – it marked a dramatic renaissance of the
nation’s cinema, its generation of young directors taking an unsuspecting international
SAT
24
3.15pm
THE OAK (CFF 15)
(Stejarul)
Starring: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu,
Victor Rebengiuc. Romania, 1992. 105 mins.
Romanian with English subtitles.
WED
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3.00pm
FRI
23
11.00am
THE OAK was made after a 20 year ban, in which Pintilie was not
allowed to make films. In 1989, having just lost her father, Nela
decides to go and teach in a small provincial town. There she
meets Mitică, a doctor at the hospital who, like her, no longer
believes in either God or man, and who shares her salutary
humour. But the couple stirs up bad feelings.
Print source: Romanian Film Centre, Bucharest

film world by storm. To celebrate, we look back at some of the highlights of the
movement, starting with the work of one of the most inspiring figures for young
directors, Lucian Pintilie – widely regarded as Romania’s Godard or Bergman. He
has chosen three of his own films especially for Cambridge Film Festival. Renowned
selected by
3 films | Anamaria Marinca
OCCIDENT (CFF 15)
Director: Cristian Mungiu. Starring: Alexandru Papadopol,
Anca-Ioana Androne and Samuel Tastet. Romania 2002.
105 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.
FRI
23
8.30pm
A rare chance to see the debut feature by Cristian Mungiu
(who made the groundbreaking 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
starring Anamaria Marinca), premiered in Cannes in 2002. This
tragicomedy is set in post-Ceausescu Romania, where the
destinies of several people cross – a couple going through a
crisis, a young woman seeking a husband in Italy and a police
officer on the verge of retirement.
We are delighted to welcome actress Anamaria Marinca to
the Fri 23 screening.
Print source: Romanian Film Centre, Bucharest
Before her breathtaking performance in 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS (2008) Anamaria Marinca played roles in SEX TRAFFIC (2004)
and YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (2007). She has since performed on the London stage, at the Young Vic and National Theatre, and has
appeared in BOOGIE, THE COUNTESS, STORM, FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN and many more.
THE PAPER WILL
BE BLUE (CFF 15)
(Hîrtia va fi albastrã)
Director: Radu Muntean. Starring: Paul Ipate, Adi Carauleanu and Dragos Bucur.
Romania 2006. 92 mins.
Set during the confusing night of 22 December 1989, when
Ceausescu was about to fall after decades of harsh dictatorship.
The original inspiration for the film was a tragic incident that
received considerable media attention, in which two armoured
squads of Interior Ministry troops who went to protect a military
unit were accidentally butchered. Radu Muntean (BOOGIE,
TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS) creates a highly unusual, personal
view of those days.
Print source: Romanian Film Centre, Bucharest
actress Anamaria Marinca (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS) has also selected her three
favourite New Wave films, and will be attending the Festival to talk about her choices
and experiences. To give you a glimpse of the future, we also present a short film
programme featuring some of Romania’s most promising new directors.
FRI
23
1.30pm
STUFF AND DOUGH (CFF 15)
Director: Cristi Puiu. Starring: Alexandru Papadopol, Dragos Bucur,
Ioana Flora. Romania 2001. 91 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.
THU
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STUFF AND DOUGH follows a young man who is given a
suspiciously large amount of money and only four hours
to deliver a bag of ‘medical goods’. Directed by Cristi Puiu (who
went on to make the internationally acclaimed THE DEATH OF
MR. LAZARESCU), it marked the beginning of the New Wave and
an exciting decade of cinematic goods.
The rawness and the energy, together with the exacting
precision of the formal concept were so breathtaking that
(…) he proved to have influenced profoundly the evolution of the
New Romanian Cinema. I myself divided it into BC (before
Cristi Puiu) and after.” ALEX. LEO ȘERBAN
Print source: Romanian Film Centre, Bucharest
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STRUNG LOVE
Director: Victor Dragomir. 21 mins.
May 1984. Viorel – a nerd from the smithing class of a communist
industrial high-school – enters a rivet-production contest hoping
to win the attention and affection of Ileana – a schoolmate from
the sewing class.
MUSIC IN THE BLOOD
(MUZICA IN SANGE)
Director: Alexandru Mavrodineanu. 17 mins.
Petre (Andi Vasluianu) is convinced that his son is very gifted,
but Gypsy music business is very tough.
97 mins
THE COUNTING DEVICE
(NUMARATOAREA MANUALA)
Director: Daniel Sandu. 15 mins.
Mircea, a long-time employee of the National Company of
Motorways and National Roads, brings along his nephew George,
an educated but jobless young man, in order to introduce him to
his boss in the hopes of getting him a job at the same company.
STOPOVER
Director: Ioana Uricaru. 14 mins.
Ingrid (Monica Barladeanu), a beautiful and cosmopolitan
Romanian woman, is travelling by plane returning to her home
(CFF 15)
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in Oslo. During a short layover on the Malpensa airport in Milan,
she realizes her wallet is gone.
OXYGEN
Director: Adina Pintilie. 30 mins.
Some time during the communist dictatorship in Romania, a man
tries to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder.
With thanks to: Mihai Chirilov (Transilvania International Film Festival),
actress Anamaria Marinca, director Lucian Pintilie, Alina Salcudeanu (Romanian Film
Centre, Bucharest), James Bell (Sight & Sound), Ramona Mitrica (Ratiu Foundation/
Romanian Cultural Centre, London)
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(CFF 18) 87 mins
SCORE
Director: Lawrence Côté-Collins. Canada. 9 mins.
Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while
debating the question: “How much is too much?”
GRANDPA’S WET DREAM
Director: Chihiro Amemiya. Japan/USA. 16 mins.
A 75-year-old Japanese man has been acting in
adult videos for 15 years without telling his family.
LITTLE DEATHS
Director: Ruth Lingford. USA/UK. 11 mins.
Set to an aural mosaic where the speakers
articulate their deeply personal thoughts on the
orgasmic experience, LITTLE DEATHS depicts an
intoxicating series of impressionistic, animated
interpretations of these thoughts.
THU
15
10.30am
SAT
17
11.00pm
SIMPLY ROB
Director: Tom Shrapnel. UK. 15 mins.
Filmed during World Aids Day 2010, the film follows
New York-based poet and activist Rob Vassilarakis
as he tells his turbulent life story through his
poetry, and comes to terms with his sexuality and
life with HIV.
MONSIEUR L’ABBÉ
Director: Blandine Lenoir. France. 36 mins.
Father Viollet is a modern priest (for the 1930s and
40s). He fields thousands of questions from men
and women who are all trying to strike the delicate
balance between Catholic morality and the physical
practicalities of marriage. No easy task...
(CFF 15) 84 mins
NANCY, SID & SERGIO
Director: Craig Pickles. UK. 18 mins.
When God and the Devil go on a rock
climbing weekend in Wales, it’s down time
– a chance to call a temporary truce.
A SCENE AT THE SEA
(GU YEO-RUM-EUI BA-DA)
Director: Jaehee Lee. Korea. 21 mins.
A father and son – roles now reversed as
one becomes the caretaker of the other
– execute a delicate dance at the edge of
the sea.
FRI
16
1.00pm
LOST TRACKS
Director: Jon Stanford. UK. 21 mins.
Set in rural Shropshire, the film explores
the life of Tobi, a teenager disillusioned
with family life, friends and the community
around her as she makes preparations to
run away.
A BIT OF SUMMER
(KAWALEK LATA)
Director: Marta Minorowicz. Poland. 24 mins.
At the end of the summer holidays, a man
who works in the Bieszczady Mountains
spends time with his grandson. Surrounded
by the wilderness, they try to understand
one another.

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SUMMER KNOWS
Director: Jan Seeman. Germany. 12 mins.
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1.00pm
An accidental encounter between a young man and
a couple turns into a game of light and shadow.
INITIATION
Director: Alex Hardy. UK. 7 mins.
It is Giorgi’s day of reckoning: his initiation into
the violent world of the family business.
CLEANING UP
Director: Thomas Guerrier. UK. 12 mins.
Mark Gatiss stars as a glacial hitman who gets
out of his depth in a run-down B&B.
THE PIANO TUNER
(L’ACCORDEUR)
Director: Olivier Treiner. France. 13 mins.
A piano tuner pretends to be blind in order to
get close to his clients. Because he sees things
that he should not, Adrien witnesses a murder.
DEMON’S DILEMA
Director: Hanjin Park. USA. 14 mins.
Mistakes have consequences, even for those
demons that walk among us.
THE KISS
Director: Ashlee Page. Australia. 15 mins.
Returning home through the scrub after
a night out two teenage girls seek respite
from the stifling heat in a water tank. But the
intimate mood takes a dangerous turn when
they discover they are trapped...
SEVENTH DAY
(SIEBTER TAG)
Director: Nadine Voss. France/Germany. 20 mins.
Away from home – the Congo – Michel seeks
asylum in Germany. Meanwhile, nine-year-old
Sophie misses the school field trip and is
forced to return home alone. Events bring the
two together in a tragic way.
(CFF 12A) 77 mins SUN
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THE MAN WITH THE
STOLEN HEART
Director: Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith. UK. 8 mins.
A surreal tale about a Man who wakes up one
day only to discover his heart has run away.
ALMOST (BEINAHE)
Director: Uwe Greiner. Germany. 11 mins.
Oscar jumps on his subway train as he does
every day. But that morning, a sideways glance
changes everything...
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
Director: Michael Davies. UK. 13 mins.
Challenging the belief that old people can’t
fall in love, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT is also
an acknowledgement of a fear of losing
one’s memory – and of facing up to a lifethreatening
illness.
1.00pm
CHILD’S PLAY
(KINDERSPIEL)
Director: Lars Kornhoff. Germany. 18 mins.
16-year-old Leon breaks into a chic mansion in
a wealthy neighbourhood. He heads straight
for the nursery where he takes a sleeping child
from its crib, leaving nothing but a handwritten
note behind. But Leon has something entirely
different in mind than it first seems...
THE ROAR OF THE SEA
(DAS RAUSCHEN DES MEERES)
Directors: Ana R. Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit.
Cape Verde/Germany. 27 mins.
An African refugee, whose identity is unknown, is
being interrogated in prison. The guard decides to
help the refugee, even if it means risking his own
job. But time is getting short and the deportation
machinery is already in full swing.
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(CFF 15) 94 mins
A MORNING STROLL
Director: Grant Orchard. UK. 7 mins.
A New Yorker’s daily encounter with a chicken
plays out over 100 years with increasingly
apocalyptic results.
AIR
Director: Keir Burrows. UK. 15 mins.
When all the air on the planet suddenly
becomes unbreathable, the struggle for
survival brings together two unlikely
heroes.
THE EXTERNAL WORLD
Director: David O’Reilly. Ireland/Germany. 15 mins.
A little boy learns to play the piano.
COLOURBLEED
Director: Peter Szewczyk. Poland/UK. 9 mins.
A young girl dreams of brighter days in a
forgotten Eastern European city. Her fate
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1.00pm
is sealed when she crosses paths with a
scheming old woman who harbours a dark
secret.
THE HALF-LIGHT
Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah. UK. 13 mins.
A man searches for a simple beacon of
tungsten light in a world over-lit by energysaving
bulbs.
THE SOLOIST (DER SOLIST)
Director: Pierre Hansen. Luxembourg. 15 mins.
Heinrich Lob, a single, overweight, 55-year-old
PE teacher, had no intentions of reinventing
the wheel. His life was in perfect harmony until
a ping-pong paddle hit his head.
BLINK OF AN EYE
(AUGENBLICKE)
Director: Martin Bargiel. Germany. 20 mins.
Some dreams shouldn’t be remembered.
(CFF 15) 91 mins
WRITTEN IN PENCIL
Director: Yaron Bar. Israel. 8 mins.
An everyday train voyage slowly turns into a
nightmare.
THE WELL (EL POZO)
Director: Guillermo Arriaga. Mexico. 8 mins.
In the middle of the remote and rugged desert
of Coahuila two grandparents take care of their
orphaned grandchildren – but the smallest falls
into a deep well.
NOWHERE ELSEWHERE
(AU MILIEU DE NULLE PART
AILLEURS)
Director: Annick Blanc. Canada. 16 mins.
En route to visit her mother, Jade stops at a
motel with her family. There she gets lost in
the torrid labyrinth of her mind...
SUN
25
6.00pm
GHOST
Director: Dahci Ma. Korea. 10 mins.
A starving man’s imagination spirals out of
control in an empty house.
HERE, NOW &
TOMORROW (AB MORGEN)
Directors: Stefan Elsenbruch and Raphael Wallner. Germany.
24 mins.
The story of a man who buys another man’s life
in order to save his own.
LIN
Director: Piers Thompson. UK. 25 mins.
A woman arrives at a port town in an unknown
country at dawn, and appears to be running
from her past.

(CFF 15) 76 mins
Selected by MovieMaker Magazine as one
America’s “coolest film festivals,” the Disposable
Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the
artistic potential of disposable video: short films
made on non-professional devices such as one-time
use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot
cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software,
and other readily available video capture devices. Now
in its fourth year, the San Francisco-based Disposable
Film Festival offers a forum dedicated to the creative
potential of this new mode of filmmaking through
screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase
the best work within the disposable genre.
For Cambridge we have a special programme of selected
films highlighting the startling new creative possibilities
opened up by the lo-fi, low-tech and low cost; refreshing,
spontaneous and the complete antithesis of the megabudget,
CG-laden style-over-content Hollywood blockbuster.
(CFF 15) 86 mins
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HEAVEN’S SECRET
Director: Ed Wiles. UK. 7 mins.
Inspired by the murder of
Hertfordshire traveller, Mark Lindgren,
HEAVEN’S SECRET is narrated by a young
inhabitant of Heaven who wants to tell us
how he died and the secret to ascendance.
THE NEST
Director: Emily Cooper. UK. 11mins.
It is seemingly just another school
morning for Laura and her mother, Alice.
But the differences between their points
of view leave us haunted by questions
about Laura’s father.
6.00pm
Emmanuel
Theatre
FRI
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10.30am
WED
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10.45pm
THROWN
Director: Rydian Cook. UK. 14 mins.
The Disposable Film Festival Mission:
“The Disposable Film Festival supports and celebrates
the democratization of cinema made possible by new,
inexpensive video technology, offering a legitimate forum
in which the work of zero-budget and non-traditional
filmmakers is taken seriously and exhibited in theaters
around the United States and internationally. Through
workshops, competitions, panels, and other events
intended to educate and inspire, the Disposable Film
Festival promotes experimentation and helps build the
track record needed for a new generation of filmmakers
to enter and change the industry.”
A family bereavement leads to a favourite chair
being assigned to the scrap heap, until a seemingly
insignificant discovery leads to a change of heart.
STATESMEN
Director: Tom Goudsmit. UK. 24 mins.
A portrait of three American men and their relationship with the world
around them.
EARTH TO EARTH: NATURAL BURIAL
AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Director: Sarah Thomas. UK. 30 mins.
Set in the ever changing landscape of Barton Glebe – a
Christian, woodland burial site near Cambridge – this film explores changing
attitudes towards death, disposal and relationships with the landscape.
FRI
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10.45pm
(CFF 18) Approx 100 mins
Project Trident returns to the Cambridge Film Festival for the
third consecutive year, with a very special selection of the
dark, the weird, and the downright ridiculous – films so new, so
revolutionary, that most of them are still in a state of feverish
production as we write. That is the beauty of Tridentfest!
What we can say is that there will certainly be a selection of films
by Ryd Cook, Thom Dobbin, Christian Lapidge, Simon Panrucker,
Johnboy Davis, Tom Martin, Andrzej Sosnowski and Carl Peck. And,
in addition to the customary extravaganza of strange, homemade
B-movies – with the usual interactive Q&A’s from the filmmakers
themselves – Tridentfest 2011 also features the world premiere
of THE PURPLE FIEND!
Directed by Trident alumnus Carl Peck – a year and a half in the
making and surrounded by a fever of hype (it says here) – this 30
minute mini-epic promises “to smash boundaries and blow minds
to smithereens”.
On New Years Eve, dapper chums Professor Laminut and Googy
are celebrating, but when their evil nemesis Count Viper crashes
the party they must use all their cunning and zeal if they are to
save the world by the stroke of midnight. This globe-spanning tale
follows Professor Laminut and Googy on their quest to find the
‘Sacred Colocolo of Porabolus’ – a holy relic thought by modern
society to have been lost in the mists of time...
Was it worth all those months of fake blood, real sweat and
occasional tears? Come and find out at TRIDENTFEST 2011.
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(CFF 15) 66 mins.
A selection of shorts by filmmakers from the East of England capturing the drama of life, love
and the relationships that can make and break us. The films were made with the support of the
UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and received National Lottery through EM Media East.
ELLIE
Director: Chris Dundon. UK 2011. 18 mins.
Ellie is a teenage boxer desperate to make
the ABA Boxing Academy and leave behind
her unsupportive father. With the trials fast
approaching she must face the challenges
outside the ring and learn the true meaning of
success.
I WISH I WERE AN
ELEPHANT
Directors: Karen Penman, Liam Brazier. UK 2011. 4 mins.
An animation conveying the fragility of life, how
we should make the most of every moment and
accept, without regret, the inevitability of our
own existence.
THU
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3.15pm
SUNNY BOY
Director: Jane Gull. UK 2011. 11 mins.
Danny and his overprotective father live in a
world of darkness due to his rare skin condition.
He longs to be a regular teenager playing
football out in the sun.
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE
Director: Andrew Brand. UK 2011. 15 mins.
A couple’s troubled relationship collides with a
stranger’s good intentions.
JUMPING FOR JOY
Director: David O’Neil. UK 2011. 18 mins.
An unrequited love is finally resolved over a
painful insurance scam.

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Zagreb School Of Animation (CFF PG) 71 mins
A series of award-winning shorts from the Zagreb School of animation, spanning the ‘golden
years’ from the 1950s through to the 1970s, presented by animator Elizabeth Hobbs.
This programme is accompanied by a selection of short animations from Anglia Ruskin
University students, introduced by artist and university lecturer Jim Butler, who runs the BA in
Illustration & Animation at Anglia Ruskin University.
ALONE (SAMAC)
Directior: Vatroslav Mimica. Croatia 1959. 11 mins.
Mimica uses a dialogue-free animation to
explore abstract emotions in this Kafkaesque
tale of isolation in a bureaucratic system.
ERSATZ (SUROGAT)
Director: Dušan Vukotić. Croatia 1961. 9 mins.
On the beach, a tourist inflates a whole village
in plastic in which everything is reproduced,
including sentiments.
THE WALL (ZID)
Director: Ante Zaninovic. Croatia 1965. 3mins.
Two people encounter a wall. One immediately
gives up, but the other refuses to admit defeat.
THE CAT (MACKA)
Director: Zlatko Bourek. Croatia 1971. 10mins.
It is based on an old Aesop fable: a young poet is
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lonesome until Venus provides him with company,
transforming his cat into a wonderful girl.
THE FLY (MUHA)
Director: Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša. Croatia 1966.
8 mins.
The relationship between a man and
bothersome fly, whose aggravating persistence
grows into an obsession.
TUP TUP
Director: Nedeljko Dragic. Croatia 1973. 10 mins
A city dweller in a big apartment is kept
awake at night by the constant sounds of two
musical beats.
SATIEMANIA
Director: Zdenko Gasparovic. Croatia 1978. 14 mins.
An animated short based upon the music of
Eric Satie.
Elizabeth Hobbs is an award-winning, independent animator working in East London under the
name Spellbound Animations. Elizabeth also runs animation workshops in museums, galleries
and schools and lectures at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
New Croatian Animation 2010-11 (CFF 15) 69 mins
The latest crop from Croatia, including titles featured at Cannes and the
prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.
MY WAY (MOJ PUT)
Director: Veljko Popović and Svjetlan Junaković. Croatia
2010. 7 mins.
A story about growing up and maturing, about
anxiety and ambition illustrated through a tale
of shoes.
THE ORNAMENT OF THE
SOUL (ORNAMENT DUSE)
Director: Irena Pranjic Jukic. Croatia 2011. 6 mins.
The film visualises a phrase often used as a
figure of speech, each character’s personality
and character depicted as diverse pulsating
ornaments interwoven with their visible aura.
THE ROOM (SOBA)
Director: Ivana Juric. Croatia 2010. 5 mins.
In a hotel room a woman (doll) is waiting for the
call from her lover (doll). His arrival and their
sexual intercourse are like a ritual.
DOVE SEI, AMOR MIO
Director: Velijko Popović. Croatia 2011. 10mins.
Is the comfort of routine and the happiness it
provides enough to keep us slaves forever?
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IN CHAINS (U LANCIMA)
Director: Daniel Sulijic. Croatia 2011. 8 mins.
We observe two monsters insulting each other,
a noble weapon auction... Through several
interconnected episodes, this film criticizes
today’s lifestyles.
NO SLEEP WON’T KILL
YOU (NESPAVANJE NE UBIJA)
Director: Marko Mestrovic. Croatia 2010. 9 mins.
What happens when the dream takes control
over reality?
FLOWER OF BATTLE
(CVIJET BITKE)
Director: Simon Bogojevic Narath. Croatia 2011. 20 mins.
The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld
hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a
Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but
dangerous Swordsman.
Many thanks to: Sanja Borcic (Zagreb Film),
Vanja Sremac (Croatian Audiovisual Centre),
Vanja Andrijevic (Bonobostudio), Elizabeth
Hobbs and Jim Butler.
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SAWSTON CINEMA
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www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk | VENUES |
THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 www.picturehouses.co.uk 38-39 St Andrew’s Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3AR
Book tickets in advance for ALL venues through the Arts Picturehouse.
The Arts Picturehouse screens a year-round programme of the best
in new and classic cinema over three screens (including one THXcertificated
for best quality sound and another RealD 3D enabled). All
screens are licensed, so you can take your drink from the café-bar in
with you. You do not have to be a member to view films at the Arts
Picturehouse, but if you are you’ll receive discounts on tickets, free
preview screenings and priority booking for the Festival.
CINEWORLD
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |
www.cineworld.co.uk | Leisure Park, Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7BY
Tickets can be booked in advance at the Arts Picturehouse and via
Cineworld’s Box Office for showings at Cineworld (recommended for
Unlimited Pass holders). Cineworld Cinema offers a wide range of
films from around the world, from Hollywood to Bollywood, specialist
films to family films. Regular presentations include Monday Classics,
Wednesday Specials and a dedicated children’s club, Movies for Juniors,
every Saturday morning.
EMMANUEL COLLEGE
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |
www.emma.cam.ac.uk | St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AP
Founded in the 16th century, Emmanuel College is ideally located
just opposite the Arts Picturehouse. Its historic surroundings will
play host to a number of special screenings and events. The Queen’s
Building, designed by Sir Michael and Patty Hopkins and voted
‘Building of the Year’ when it first opened, houses an impressive
tiered auditorium.
JESUS GREEN LIDO
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) | Jesus Green,
Cambridge, CB4 3AX
At around 90 metres long the Jesus Green Swimming Pool is one of
the longest outdoor lidos in Europe. Found hidden behind tall trees
next to the River Cam on Jesus Green the pool was opened in 1923.
Today it retains many of its original features and constantly proves to
be a much used attraction for Cambridge residents and visitors alike.
Back in 2005 a short documentary, JESUS GREEN POOL, exploring
the seasonal nature of the pool and its devotees was shown at
the Festival. Season closes Sunday 11th September.
SAWSTON CINEMA AT THE MARVEN CENTRE,
SAWSTON VILLAGE COLLEGE
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |
www.sawstoncinema.org.uk | Youth Community Centre, New Road, Sawston, CB22 3BP
Spicer’s Theatre was the home of cinema in Sawston from 1932 until
falling attendance led to its closure in the ‘60s. Since then, it has been a
Youth and Community Centre managed by the neighbouring secondary
school, Sawston Village College – but thanks to support from the
Cambridge Film Trust, the UK Film Council and South Cambridgeshire
District Council, films are once again being screened, with young people
from the school running projection and all front-of-house operations.
Parking is available on the Sawston Village College site.
MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |
www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk | Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF
Purpose-built conference rooms in this modern centre provide
facilities for product launches, summer schools, receptions and
conferences. The private foyer leads to the raked lecture theatre and
a flexible range of syndicate rooms and offers a beautiful reception
area, which overlooks the decking area and gardens.

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Box office: 0871 902 5720 | INDEX |
A
ABOVE US ONLY SKY (GERMAN) 44
ACE IN THE HOLE (FRONT PAGE) 52
ACT OF GRACE 17
AFTERNOON OF A TORTURER, THE (ROMANIAN) 58
ALBATROSS 17
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (FRONT PAGE) 51
AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN 47
ANALOGUE KINGDOM 42
ANDUNI (GERMAN) 44
ANIMATION FROM CROATIA (SHORTFUSION) 67
AS IF I AM NOT THERE 17
AT NIGHT THEY DANCE 30
ATROCIOUS 18
B
BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, THE 30
BEAT BOXING 31
BEN IS BACK 31
BENGALI DETECTIVE, THE 31
BERNARD HERRMANN 6
BLACK BUTTERFLIES (GERMAN) 45
BLOOD IN THE MOBILE 31
BOATLOAD OF WILD IRISHMEN, A 14
BOFFIN & BOFFIN 33
BOMBAY BEACH 31
BRITAIN THROUGH A LENS: THE BRITISH
DOCUMENTARY FILM MOB 32
BULLHEAD 18
BURNOUT (GERMAN) 45
C
CALVET 32
CAMERA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, THE 32
CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST 3D 32
CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS 33
CITIZEN KANE (FRONT PAGE) 50
CITY BELOW, THE (GERMAN) 45
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 8
CREATIVE FRONT 12
D
DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, THE (FRONT PAGE) 51
DILATING TIME (SHORTFUSION) 62
DIMENSIONS 18
DIRTY DANCING 9
DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL (SHORTFUSION) 65
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK 19
DON’T LOOK BACK 32
DRIVE 19
DUSKA (STELLING) 56
E
EGGS FOR LATER 33
EL BULLI 33
ELEANORE AND THE TIMEKEEPER 38
EM MEDIA @ CFF 7
EM MEDIA SHORTS (SHORTFUSION) 66
EM MEDIA SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) 14
F
FC CHECHNYA 38
FILMS IN THE FOREST 8
FINDING NEMO 8
FLYING FISH 19
FOREST PRINCE AND THE PIGMAN 39
FORKS OVER KNIVES 39
FRONT PAGE, THE (FRONT PAGE) 52
FUNNY GAMES (TARTAN) 48
G
GERBER SYNDROME, THE 20
GERHARD RICHTER: PAINTING 39
GIBRALTAR 39
GRUFFALO, THE (FFF) 54
GUILTY OF ROMANCE 20
H
HAMISH MCALPINE 7
HELP, THE 20
HENRY MORRIS 40
HERE’S HEALTH TO THE BARLEY MOW 40
HUMPHREY JENNINGS 32
I
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT 29
ICO 13
IF NOT US WHO? (GERMAN) 45
ILLUSIONIST, THE (STELLING) 56
INTIMATE GRAMMAR 21
IRREVERSIBLE (TARTAN) 48
ISPANSI 21
J
JESS + MOSS 29
JO IS FOR JONATHAN 21
JOS STELLING IN CONVERSATION (STELLING) 56
K
KOSMOS 22
L
LAST PROJECTIONIST, THE 40, 43
LATE SEPTEMBER 22
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK 33
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX (SHORTFUSION) 62
LIDO PICTURE SHOW 11
LION KING, THE 22
LION KING, THE (FFF) 53
LOCAL TASTES (SHORTFUSION) 65
LOOK, THE 15
LOVE: LOST AND FOUND (SHORTFUSION) 63
LULU SESSIONS, THE 40
M
MAD WORLD (SHORTFUSION) 64
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 23
MAGDALENE ST SCREENINGS 11
MAN’S STORY, A: OZWALD BOATENG 41
MANN Vs FORD 41
MARK KERMODE 6
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 23
MODIGLIANI’S GENUINE FAKE HEADS 41
MOVIES ON THE MEADOWS 9
MUMBAI CHARLIE 55
MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND 14
MYSTERIES OF LISBON 23
N
NATURE’S WAY CHARLIE AND LOLA AND
TINGA TINGA TALES (FFF) 54
NIKI AND FLO (ROMANIAN) 58
NINE MUSES, THE 24
NO TRAINS NO PLANES (STELLING) 57
O
OAK, THE (ROMANIAN) 58
OCCIDENT (ROMANIAN) 59
OCTONAUTS – EXPLORE! RESCUE! PROTECT! (FFF) 54
P
PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (FRONT PAGE) 50
PAPER WILL BE BLUE, THE (ROMANIAN) 59
PHILIPP (GERMAN) 44
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 8
POINTSMAN, THE (STELLING) 57
POLL DIARIES, THE (GERMAN) 46
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST
MOVIE EVER SOLD 41
R
RED STATE 24
RED WHITE AND BLUE 24
REMBRANDT FECIT 1669 (STELLING) 57
RESISTANCE 25
ROBIN HOOD (FOREST) 8
ROBIN HOOD (TRINITY) 12
ROMANIAN NEW WAVE SHORTS (ROMANIAN) 60
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS 25
S
SEVENTH SEAL, THE (TARTAN) 49
SHOW MUST GO ON, THE 25
SILENCE, THE (GERMAN) 46
SILENT RUNNING 47
SILVER CLIFF, THE 26
SLEEPING BEAUTY 26
SOME LIKE IT HOT 9
SOUND IT OUT 42
SPRITES 10 (FFF) 55
STREET KIDS UNITED 42
STUFF AND DOUGH (ROMANIAN) 59
SURPRISE MOVIE 5
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (FRONT PAGE) 50
SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE (TARTAN) 49
T
TABLOID (FRONT PAGE) 52
TASTE THE WASTE 43
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 15
TIRZA 26
TO INFINITY- AND BEYOND! (FFF) 55
TOMBOY 27
TOMORROW AT DAWN 27
TRIDENTFEST (SHORTFUSION) 65
TROUBADOURS 43
TYRANNOSAUR 27
U
ULTIMATE SURVIVOR, THE 43
UNDER CONTROL (GERMAN) 46
USEFUL LIFE, A 28
V
VERONICA GUERIN (FRONT PAGE) 51
W
WHITE WATER CINEMA 8
WHITE WHITE WORLD 28
WILD SIDE (TARTAN) 49
WOMAN, THE 29
WOUNDS AND SCARS (SHORTFUSION) 64
WRITER IN RESIDENCE 13
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME (SHORTFUSION) 63
Y
YELLOW SEA, THE 28
Z
ZODIAC (FRONT PAGE) 52

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