2011 Cambridge Film Festival Brochure
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CAMBRIDGE<br />
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FILM FESTIVAL
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WELCOME<br />
to the 31st <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>!<br />
We’ve already received a huge number of film submissions<br />
from film-makers across the globe which brings a great<br />
wealth of new and exciting film-making talent to the<br />
screens of <strong>Cambridge</strong>. We’re also proud to say that we’ve<br />
got a record number of UK and World Premieres in the<br />
programme this year. Our cinema screens will be popping<br />
up in the largest number yet of outdoor locations, with<br />
spectacular open-air film screenings – now rightly feted<br />
nationally as <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s speciality – taking place right<br />
across the East Of England in Hertfordshire, Suffolk,<br />
and Bedfordshire, as well as at iconic spaces around<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> such as Jesus Green Lido, Magdalene Street,<br />
and Grantchester Meadows.<br />
A <strong>Festival</strong> Director’s job is a tricky one. We’re at the<br />
mercy of the challenging financial situation as much<br />
as the vagaries of the international film industry – and<br />
the frustrating competition between film festivals for<br />
premieres is always a headache when all we strive for is<br />
to get films that we have enthusiastically championed in<br />
front of appreciative <strong>Cambridge</strong> audiences. Not everything<br />
eventually works out – our planned Premiere of Lars Von<br />
Trier’s MELANCHOLIA was a victim of a change in its star<br />
Kirsten Dunst’s schedule, for instance. Someone who knows<br />
more than most about the challenges – and the rewards –<br />
of launching independent cinema to UK audiences is one of<br />
our special guests this year, Hamish McAlpine, who will be<br />
at the <strong>Festival</strong> telling about the controversial boom – and<br />
the eventual bust – of his beloved Tartan <strong>Film</strong>s, arthouse<br />
film distributor supreme.<br />
However, when it all comes together, it makes all the<br />
blood, sweat and tears seem worthwhile. We’ve secured<br />
Tomas Alfredson’s TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY for<br />
Opening Night, and close with THE LOOK, a new film about<br />
on-screen and off-screen legend Charlotte Rampling. We<br />
righted a wrong, giving UK audiences the chance to see<br />
the films of Joss Stelling – a great filmmaker from the<br />
Netherlands who has never had his works distributed<br />
here. And we coaxed composer and accompanist Neil<br />
Brand back with his unique accompaniment for the epic<br />
silent version of ROBIN HOOD – to be performed once in<br />
Rendlesham Forest, and then again in the dining hall at<br />
Trinity College – with dining option!<br />
In some ways our programme proved rather prescient –<br />
our previews of PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES and<br />
TABLOID afforded the opportunity to explore the whole<br />
history of journalism in the movies, and as it was being<br />
planned the phone hacking scandal broke and Murdoch<br />
faced questions from MPs. Suddenly, ALL THE PRESIDENTS<br />
MEN and CITIZEN KANE seemed more pertinent than ever.<br />
We’re delighted to welcome New York Times columnist<br />
David Carr in connection with this season.<br />
As ever we thank our generous sponsors and funders who<br />
enable us to present such an ambitious programme of<br />
films and events. We’ve been delighted with the manner<br />
in which EM Media have so enthusiastically taken on the<br />
responsibility for distributing film funding in the East<br />
of England, and the award of one-off Transition Funding<br />
from the BFI has given us a greater degree of financial<br />
stability to build on as the <strong>Festival</strong> continues to grow.<br />
Special thanks are due this year to TTP and the Westbrook<br />
Foundation for their on-going commitment to funding the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. <strong>Film</strong> is a collaborative medium, but it relies on<br />
individuals and organisations having faith in that medium<br />
in order to make anything happen. That such faith is<br />
apparent all around, even in difficult financial times, is<br />
heartening indeed.<br />
Tony Jones<br />
Director, <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Contents<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Guide 4<br />
Special Events 5-13<br />
Stop Press 14<br />
Opening and Closing <strong>Film</strong>s 15<br />
Main Features 17-29<br />
Documentaries 30-43<br />
Timetable 35-37<br />
Contemporary German Cinema 44-46<br />
Revivals 47<br />
Tartan <strong>Film</strong>s: A Tribute 48-49<br />
Hold The Front Page! 50-52<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> 53-55<br />
Jos Stelling: A Dutch Master 56-57<br />
The Romanian New Wave 58-60<br />
Shortfusion 62-67<br />
Ticket Prices & Map 68<br />
Venues 69<br />
Index 70<br />
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YOUR GUIDE TO THE CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL <strong>2011</strong><br />
SELECT YOUR FILMS AND EVENTS<br />
What you have in your hands contains full information and<br />
listings for all the films and events confirmed at the time of<br />
going to print – complete with a handy day-by-day calendar in<br />
the centre pages to help you choose by time of day, or day of<br />
the week.<br />
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New films, guests, events and other surprises continue to<br />
be added to the <strong>Festival</strong>, so don’t forget to check the latest<br />
arrivals online at www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
BOOK YOUR TICKETS<br />
Tickets are on sale from the 2 September<br />
(31 August for Picturehouse Members).<br />
Advance tickets for all venues are available:<br />
in person at the Arts Picturehouse Box Office<br />
over the phone on 0871 902 5720 (9.30am – 8.30pm)<br />
as well as online via www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
SAVE<br />
For the best value snap up one of our money-saving<br />
Three Colours Passes! RED PASS (£25) gives 20% off<br />
all tickets, WHITE PASS (£50) 25% off all tickets, plus free<br />
tea and coffee at bar and BLUE PASS (£75) 30% off all<br />
tickets, plus free tea and coffee at the bar.<br />
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TAKE YOUR SEAT<br />
Now for the fun part. The <strong>Festival</strong> takes place at a range of<br />
venues across the city, so to ensure things go with a swing check<br />
before setting out where your chosen screenings or events are<br />
taking place. If attending more than one venue on the same day,<br />
do also ensure you leave sufficient time between screenings.<br />
See page 69 for more information on our venues.<br />
GET ONLINE AND GET INTERACTIVE<br />
It doesn’t have to end when the lights go up. Our website, built<br />
by our website sponsor Studio 24, offers a total multimedia<br />
experience of the <strong>Festival</strong> in addition to the latest news, film<br />
listings, venue info and much more.<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk keeps you in the loop with<br />
all the latest info, including:<br />
up to the minute details about every screening and event<br />
quick and easy online booking<br />
user comments, ratings and reviews<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> coverage from ‘Take One’, with articles, interviews &<br />
reviews in addition to the printed issues<br />
We’ll also be regularly uploading a host of content to <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
accounts on: Flickr – Facebook – Vimeo – YouTube - Twitter<br />
Links to our social media pages can be found on our<br />
main website. Follow us on Twitter @camfilmfest. We’d<br />
also be thrilled if you could tag your own content with<br />
‘cff<strong>2011</strong>’ so that we can feature it on our site as well!
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SURPRISE MOVIE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Anonymous. Starring: Undisclosed. Country: Not Telling.<br />
Every year we present a surprise movie – a film which has<br />
absolutely no advance warning of title, director, stars or<br />
genre – just a screening time and a venue. Every year, it sells<br />
out. Considering we lavish so much energy on providing full<br />
information for our screenings, it may seem odd to actively<br />
keep something secret – but we know from past experience<br />
that you love a mystery... What will it be this year? Only the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Director knows for certain, and neither truth drugs<br />
nor hypnotic flashing lights have persuaded him to divulge<br />
the information. Even the projectionists are kept in the dark.<br />
Past Surprise Movies have included UP!, Herzog’s RESCUE<br />
DAWN, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, A COCK AND BULL<br />
STORY and BURN AFTER READING – all UK premieres! So<br />
with no hype and no reviews to distract you, simply sit<br />
back in your seat, let the lights dim and watch as the<br />
truth is finally revealed!<br />
The Screen Team <strong>2011</strong><br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust’s Events and Training Initiative<br />
This year sees our innovative Screen Team events and training programme – the first of its<br />
kind for any UK film festival – expand across the East of England as we deliver <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> On Location events in Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire (see page 8).<br />
We’ve already selected fifteen lucky Screen Team participants for this year, who have been<br />
receiving specialist training from the <strong>Festival</strong> team since July and have been working hard<br />
behind-the-scenes at our outdoor screenings and other special events. The Screen Team is a<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust initiative which has been funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent<br />
charity set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and<br />
Paralympic Games. For more information email: becky@cambridgefilmtrust.org.uk<br />
Picturehouse Membership<br />
REMEMBER – AS PICTUREHOUSE MEMBER YOU GET<br />
PRIORITY BOOKING FOR FESTIVAL FILMS AND EVENTS<br />
AND A £2 DISCOUNT ON EACH FESTIVAL FILM YOU<br />
ATTEND. THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR,<br />
YOU’LL ALSO BENEFIT FROM:<br />
Arts<br />
H H Three free tickets (six for Joint Members) when you join<br />
H Up to £2 discount on full-price tickets for a year (for the Member only)<br />
H Priority booking for selected premium events<br />
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H 10% off the Member’s food and drink<br />
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H Discounts and offers with local and national business partners<br />
Membership costs just £27 (£17 concessions)<br />
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Bernard<br />
Herrmann<br />
Knowing The Score<br />
Written and presented by Neil Brand<br />
Tuesday 20 September, 3.30pm<br />
Arts Picturehouse<br />
This year marks the centenary of the birth of film composer Bernard Herrmann,<br />
creator of some of the most powerful and instantly recognisable film scores in<br />
cinema history.<br />
Although best remembered for his collaborations with Hitchcock – from the shrieking,<br />
stabbing violins of PSYCHO to the uneasy rise and fall of VERTIGO’s romance theme –<br />
Herrmann was far more than merely accompanist to the Master of Suspense. Thanks to<br />
him we have the jaunty theme and brooding chords of CITIZEN KANE, the haunting, iconic<br />
theremins of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, the sleazy sax and doom-laden percussion<br />
of TAXI DRIVER. Herrmann’s groundbreaking work impacted upon almost every genre, and<br />
forever changed the way film music was regarded.<br />
Using film clips and interviews, fellow composer, acclaimed silent film accompanist and<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> favourite Neil Brand reveals some of the techniques employed by Herrmann in<br />
crafting his scores. An afternoon of unique insight into one of cinema’s undisputed geniuses.<br />
Bernard Herrmann<br />
redefined how music<br />
could be used in film with<br />
his heart racing, tense,<br />
luscious, atmospheric,<br />
inventive scores. His musical<br />
influence still resonates in<br />
contemporary cinema.”<br />
MARK COSGROVE, WATERSHED<br />
Mark Kermode<br />
The Good, The Bad, and the Multiplex<br />
Tuesday 20 September, 7.00pm Arts Picturehouse<br />
Join leading UK film critic, broadcaster and award-winning<br />
purveyor of wittertainment, Mark Kermode for a Q&A session and<br />
signing of his latest book The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex.<br />
His previous book, It’s Only a Movie, plunged us into the weird world<br />
of a film critic’s life. Now, in The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex<br />
he takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: “What’s wrong with<br />
the modern movie business – and how can we make it right?” If<br />
blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then<br />
why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be<br />
the future of cinema when it’s been giving audiences<br />
a headache for over a hundred years? Why pay<br />
to watch films in cinemas which don’t have<br />
a projectionist but do have a fast-food<br />
stand? And, in a world in which SEX AND THE CITY 2 was a hit,<br />
what the hell are film critics for?<br />
If you crave answers to these questions – or simply<br />
wish to challenge the belief that THE EXORCIST is<br />
the greatest movie ever made and that the<br />
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films should<br />
be buried in a very deep hole – then<br />
put away your 3D glasses, resist<br />
the urge to Tweet and join us<br />
for what promises to be a<br />
lively and outspoken<br />
evening’s<br />
entertainment.<br />
PRICES<br />
Adults £15<br />
Picturehouse Members £12<br />
Concessions £13
@ <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Thursday 15 September, <strong>2011</strong>, 4.00pm–6.30pm<br />
Harrods Room, Emmanuel College<br />
Screen Agency EM Media is in its tenth year of successfully supporting and developing<br />
film talent in the East Midlands. Following the closure of Screen East its support has<br />
recently been extended to include the East of England.<br />
The agency will be holding a road show during the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> offering film<br />
professionals a chance to find out more about EM Media’s Skillset supported Career<br />
Acceleration Programme EAST (CAPE).<br />
CAPE enables film professionals to apply for up to 50% towards costs of a bespoke package<br />
of training and skills support, supported by Skillset’s <strong>Film</strong> Skills Fund, as part of the UK film<br />
skills strategy, A Bigger Future 2. The road show will also give attendees the opportunity to<br />
discuss the future of film support for the East of England. <strong>Film</strong> industry professionals are<br />
invited to sign up to the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> event via Eventbrite<br />
www.emmediaroadshowcambfilmfest.eventbrite.com<br />
There is also an opportunity for one-to-one career development meetings throughout the<br />
day with members of the EM Media team, for more information or to book a slot please<br />
contact Sam Burton – sam.burton@em-media.org.uk before 5.00pm on 13 September <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
The Tartan Terror<br />
Hamish McAlpine in conversation<br />
with Peter Bradshaw<br />
Thursday 22 September 8.00pm Arts Picturehouse<br />
McAlpine was<br />
Eccentric and flamboyant, an adventurous<br />
distributor with a taste that ranged from the best US independent cinema to turn-of-thecentury<br />
pornography (THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS) to films about serial killers (ED GEIN,<br />
TED BUNDY) and classic European arthouse cinema (Tartan has released far more Ingmar<br />
Bergman titles on DVD than any Swedish distributor). He championed free speech, constantly<br />
jousting with the BBFC over ratings for films such as THE PORNOGRAPHER and THE ISLE. He was<br />
pioneering in introducing British cinemagoers to the work of Asian directors like Park Chanwook,<br />
Wong Kar-wai and Kim Ki-duk.” Geoffrey Macnab, The Guardian<br />
Few independent film distribution companies<br />
make a name for themselves – one that is<br />
remembered and recognised – but before it<br />
folded in 2008, Tartan <strong>Film</strong>s had achieved<br />
that honour – largely due to the bold and<br />
unorthodox leadership of Hamish McAlpine.<br />
A man with an uncanny eye for a great film,<br />
who established Tartan’s reputation as a<br />
the distributor of great arthouse and horror<br />
cinema, he also allegedly dressed<br />
up as Béatrice Dalle when the<br />
French actress failed to turn up to<br />
a press junket, and held a knife at<br />
the throat of a US executive in order<br />
to demonstrate that film was ‘a cutthroat<br />
business’.<br />
To get the inside story, join us as<br />
the enfant terrible himself talks with<br />
Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw for<br />
one night only.<br />
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CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL ON LOCATION<br />
August and September <strong>2011</strong><br />
ROBIN HOOD (PG)<br />
Monday 29 August, at dusk (approx 8.15pm)<br />
Director: Allan Dwan. Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery, William Lowery. USA 1922. 105 mins.<br />
Fairbanks shines in the role of the English aristocrat who turns outlaw<br />
to protect the poor, easily outdoing Errol Flynn in terms of stunts and<br />
spectacular set pieces. To add to the magic, this rare screening takes<br />
place in the heart of an English forest, and features the world premiere of<br />
a new LIVE score by Neil Brand.<br />
ROBIN HOOD will have a second performance in the hall of Trinity<br />
College, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, on 19 September, with Neil Brand again performing<br />
his new score LIVE. See page 12 for details.<br />
Spectacular outdoor screenings at the<br />
Theatre in the Forest, Rendlesham.<br />
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (PG)<br />
Tuesday 30 August, at dusk (approx 8.15pm)<br />
Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda<br />
Dillon, Bob Balaban. USA 1977. 137 mins.<br />
To celebrate Rendlesham’s reputation amongst ufologists as ‘Britain’s<br />
Roswell’ we present Spielberg’s classic take on the flying saucer movie.<br />
A gloriously rich, uplifting film, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography<br />
by Vilmos Szigmond, here presented in the director’s definitive 1998 cut.<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong>’s screens will be popping up across the East of England this summer as we present<br />
our most ambitious range of outdoor screenings yet. Please check our website for event location,<br />
booking and ticket information. >> www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:<br />
THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (12)<br />
Friday 9 September, at dusk (approx 8.00pm)<br />
Director: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom,<br />
Geoffrey Rush. United States 2003. 143 mins<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
The first – and best – of the Pirates series; a fantastic<br />
swashbuckling yarn with thrilling battles, dazzling sword<br />
play and a dark edge.<br />
FINDING NEMO (U)<br />
Saturday 10 September, at dusk (approx 8.00pm)<br />
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich. With the voices of: Albert Brooks, Ellen<br />
DeGeneres. United States 2003. 100 mins.<br />
Pixar’s classic comedy-adventure about finding a very small<br />
fish in a very large ocean...<br />
These events are part of the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust’s Screen Team<br />
training and events initiative and are funded by Legacy Trust UK,<br />
an independent charity set up to help build a lasting legacy from<br />
the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.<br />
The Screen Team will be re-grouping in Silsoe, near Luton<br />
in Bedfordshire, on Saturday 29th October to present an<br />
evening of very special Halloween screenings and events<br />
at English Heritage’s Wrest Park - a stylish French-style 18th<br />
century mansion, which is surrounded by some of the most<br />
magnificent but least well-known gardens in England.<br />
Enjoy two evenings of cinematic thrills and<br />
spills beside the rapids at the UK’s brand<br />
new state-of-the-art white water centre<br />
– the host venue for the Canoe Slalom<br />
events at the London 2012 Olympic Games.<br />
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MOVIES ON GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS<br />
Outdoor Screenings for August Bank Holiday Weekend<br />
Follow the River Cam out to Grantchester on August Bank Holiday weekend for another round of cinematic pleasures<br />
under the stars, as Movies on the Meadows return to what Pink Floyd once dubbed ‘a pastoral dream-like scene’.<br />
Have the time of your life and enjoy the sweet end of the lollipop with special screenings of DIRTY DANCING and SOME<br />
LIKE IT HOT in this idyllic open-air cinema, made possible by the <strong>Festival</strong>’s unique, inflatable Airscreen. So, bring a<br />
blanket and a picnic (refreshments also available on site) and enjoy classic films in this fabulous riverside setting!<br />
Gates open at 6.30pm with the films starting as night falls – approximately 8.15pm.<br />
How<br />
to get<br />
there<br />
Ticket price includes hire of FM receivers for personalised sound (£5 cash deposit required). Bring your own<br />
headphones (or use ours) to plug in and enjoy the fun. Numbers are strictly limited to 1,000.<br />
Erected on the banks of the River Cam, the Airscreen can be found in Spring Lane Field, behind<br />
the picturesque Orchard Tearooms. Walk or cycling through the Meadows from the city centre via<br />
Newnham, or access the venue via the main Orchard Tea Garden’s entrance located on45-47 Mill Way,<br />
Grantchester, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB3 9ND. You could also make your way through the Green Man Pub’s beer<br />
garden at 59 High Street CB3 9NF.<br />
Saturday 27 August<br />
Sunday 28 August<br />
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DIRTY DANCING (12A)<br />
Director: Emile Ardolino. Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey,<br />
Jerry Orbach. USA, 1987. 100 mins.<br />
What could be more romantic<br />
or thrilling then swaying with<br />
Swayze under the stars? Part<br />
of a troupe of 80s dance<br />
flicks, the light-hearted – and<br />
light footed – love shared<br />
between dance instructor<br />
Johnny Castle (Swayze) and<br />
blossoming student ‘Baby’<br />
(Grey) still sparkles more than<br />
30 years on. Sashaying her<br />
way out of the corner with<br />
her hunk Johnny, ‘Baby’ puts on an unforgettable show - a<br />
perfect curtain raiser for the 31st <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
SOME LIKE IT HOT (PG)<br />
Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis,<br />
Jack Lemmon. USA. 120 mins.<br />
For returning fans and fresh eyes<br />
the comedy caper SOME LIKE IT<br />
HOT has it all; Joe (Curtis) and<br />
Jerry (Lemmon) in drag on the<br />
run from mobsters, a hilariously<br />
complicated romance, and the<br />
breath-taking beauty Marilyn<br />
Monroe. Monroe dazzles as Sugar<br />
Kane, a ukulele player in search<br />
of something a little sweeter...<br />
that is before she bumps into<br />
‘Josephine’ and ‘Daphne’. From<br />
sweet to screwball to slapstick and back again, there is never a<br />
dull moment in Billy Wilder’s wonderful comedy classic.<br />
Movies on<br />
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Come with us to explore the darker side<br />
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THE LIDO PICTURE SHOW (CFF U)<br />
Sunday 11 September, 8.00pm • Jesus Green Outdoor Pool<br />
Join us again for our annual family film event at<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>’s renowned open-air swimming pool.<br />
Situated a duck’s waddle away from the river, the<br />
Jesus Green Outdoor Pool is not only a <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
institution, but also one of the few of its kind<br />
remaining in Britain – and one of the largest<br />
in Europe.<br />
To help you enjoy this delightful and unique<br />
setting, we have put together an exciting collection<br />
of shorts – including a selection from the Disposable <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, fresh from San Francisco – as<br />
well as early silent films and other aquatically-themed classics.<br />
Pack a picnic or choose from a delicious range of drinks and snacks from the poolside cafe,<br />
then simply sit back and enjoy a relaxed evening with the whole family. With punts drifting past<br />
the light-filled pool, and a medley of your favourite films playing against the backdrop of the<br />
surrounding trees, this is lounging by the pool as you’ve never experienced it before!<br />
Sunday 11th is also the last night of the Lido Summer Season - last chance to swim until 2012,<br />
with swimming until 7.30pm.<br />
FREE<br />
MAGDALENE STREET SCREENINGS (CFF U)<br />
Sunday 18 September, from 8.00pm<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> is delighted to return again to <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s oldest shopping street, where<br />
we will set up our screens to present you with a special evening out, giving you the<br />
opportunity to watch films completely FREE.<br />
Taking place along Bridge Street and Magdalene<br />
Street, these public screenings give you the chance<br />
to discover film in an entirely new way. We invite you<br />
to come along and stroll from the top of Magdalene<br />
Street down to Quayside to view screens on Magdalene<br />
College’s immaculate lawns, and on to Bridge Street<br />
and the stunning backdrop of St John’s College.<br />
The screenings begin at 8.00pm – but arrive any time until 10.00pm. There will be a<br />
continuous programme so if you miss the beginning, you can simply stay until it comes<br />
around again.<br />
Archive film productions courtesy of Norwich HEART’s Digital<br />
Heritage Project, a cross channel Interreg IVA project bringing<br />
the films of East Anglia and Upper Normandy alive – on<br />
screen, online, on mobile. www.heritagecity.org<br />
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Members £5<br />
Concessions £6<br />
Family group ticket £16
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ROBIN HOOD (PG)<br />
Director: Allan Dwan. Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,<br />
Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery. USA 1922. 105 mins.<br />
The radiant Douglas Fairbanks launches into<br />
action in his role as the Earl of Huntingdon –<br />
better known as Robin Hood – champion of the<br />
underdog and righter of wrongs. Wallace Beery’s<br />
King Richard proved so popular that the character<br />
starred in his own spin-off film the following year.<br />
PRICES<br />
<strong>Film</strong> only £10<br />
<strong>Film</strong> only (Members) £8<br />
<strong>Film</strong> + Dinner £35<br />
Live Score<br />
DINE WITH ROBIN<br />
HOOD AT TRINITY!<br />
Monday 19 September, dinner<br />
at 7.00pm, screening at 8.30pm<br />
Following its world premiere at the <strong>Festival</strong>’s ‘On<br />
Location’ screening in Rendlesham Forest (see<br />
page 8), composer and acclaimed silent film<br />
accompanist Neil Brand brings his new composition<br />
to the magnificent dining hall at Trinity College –<br />
the largest dining hall in <strong>Cambridge</strong>, built in 1604 –<br />
to once again accompany a rare screening of Allan<br />
Dwan’s epic silent version of the classic English<br />
legend, ROBIN HOOD.<br />
And epic it certainly was. An entire medieval village<br />
and a huge castle set were built for Dwan’s milliondollar<br />
film, which also became the first movie to<br />
boast a glamorous Hollywood premiere. To add to<br />
the excitement of the evening, we are delighted<br />
to be able to offer the opportunity to dine in this<br />
historic setting prior to the screening of the film.<br />
Join us for an evening of wine, fine feasting and<br />
medieval derring-do!<br />
Please note – dining is limited to 50 places. Unfortunately <strong>Festival</strong> Pass discounts<br />
do not apply to this unique event.<br />
Creative Front and Wired Present:<br />
THE PRICE OF STORYTELLING<br />
Wednesday 21st September, 2.00–6.00pm<br />
Emmanuel College<br />
Independent film-making has entered a new era with regards to financing films. New models<br />
enabled by crowd-funding, partnerships with online distributors and low cost, high-quality filming<br />
equipment have started to change the way films are being made – and the cost of doing so.<br />
This event brings together filmmakers, distributors and producers to explore new forms of funding<br />
filmmaking and the use of online/social media to tell great stories – brought to you by Creative<br />
Front – the business network for creative professionals in <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire – and Audio Visual<br />
special interest group Wired.<br />
Speakers and our panel include Sloane U’Ren and Anthony Neely, <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire-based director and<br />
producer, who mortgaged their house to fund their new feature DIMENSIONS; Heather Leach of Ginger<br />
Army Productions who produces long and short form media for multiple platforms and recently won the<br />
Current Crowd-Funding Pitch at Sheffield DocFest to make her new film, DANCING WITH HUGO BOSS; Head<br />
of the new <strong>Film</strong> 4.0 from Channel 4; Sean Coleman from Red Kingdom, a screenwriter and producer who<br />
specialises in cross-platform drama with recent projects for Bebo and MSN; and more to be confirmed.<br />
There is also an opportunity to see DIMENSIONS by Sloane U’Ren and Anthony Neely in the evening<br />
of Wednesday 21 September at 8.15pm – see the listing in the brochure’s main feature pages.<br />
This event is free for Creative Front members and £125 for non-members. You<br />
can join Creative Front from as little as £25 at www.creativefront.org/register to<br />
enjoy this and many other events like it for free!<br />
For more information and to book a place visit<br />
www.creativefront.org/events
ICO: THE BUSINESS AND CREATIVITY<br />
OF PROGRAMMING CULTURAL FILM<br />
CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL<br />
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE<br />
The Contemporary Women’s Programme<br />
Funded by <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire County Council, for the second year running, <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
<strong>2011</strong> is proud to present a series of <strong>Film</strong> and Creative Writing Workshops with writer in-residence,<br />
Jane Monson.<br />
Published writer and tutor, Dr Jane Monson, will lead creative writing workshops after selected screenings<br />
at the Arts Picturehouse throughout the <strong>Festival</strong>. All ages and levels are welcome and no experience of<br />
creative writing is necessary – just a passion for film and an interest in developing and learning how to use<br />
cinematic themes, images, and sounds as stimuli and material for new writing. The focus this year is on<br />
women and film and is open to ALL. Using featured and short films from the <strong>Festival</strong> – directed by women<br />
exploring the relationship between art, film and gender – these three-hour workshops will offer a chance to<br />
view, discuss, create, develop ideas and put them to paper.<br />
Screenings and Workshops:<br />
Tuesday 20 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Timmy Hele Room @ Emmanuel College<br />
Friday 23 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College<br />
Sunday 25 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College<br />
All workshops are 3 hours, including selected short screenings. Please see <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> website for updated details.<br />
TICKETS £20 per session<br />
CONTACT jemonson@eircom.net/ 07818 255 469<br />
BOX OFFICE 0871 902 5720<br />
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A BOATLOAD OF WILD<br />
IRISHMEN (CFF 12)<br />
Director: Mac Dara Ó’Curraidhín. Ireland/UK <strong>2011</strong>. 84 mins. English and<br />
Gaelic with English subtitles.<br />
Co-produced by the University of Lincoln, A BOATLOAD<br />
OF WILD IRISHMEN explores the moral complexities of<br />
controversial American documentary-maker Robert<br />
Flaherty, regarded as the father of the modern<br />
documentary – largely as a result of his hugely<br />
successful film NANOOK OF THE NORTH in 1922. Flaherty’s<br />
groundbreaking and intimate film of an Inuit family was<br />
a unique record of a traditional way of life – but as with<br />
his later films of life in Samoa, the Aran Islands and the<br />
Louisiana bayou, he was perfectly happy to stage scenes<br />
in order to make a better film, raising accusations of<br />
ethnographic falsification and exploitation of his subjects.<br />
Through archive film and interviews, Ó’Curraidhín’s film<br />
tackles the contradictions of the man and his work<br />
head on, painting a vibrant portrait of this complex and<br />
controversial figure.<br />
Print source: Wavelength Pictures<br />
Emmanuel<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
5.00pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
12.30pm<br />
MY LONG DISTANCE<br />
FRIEND (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Carina Molier, Maria Mok. The Netherlands <strong>2011</strong>. 73 mins.<br />
Dutch/German with English subtitles.<br />
Since the age of 9, when she ran away from her home<br />
country of Zimbabwe, Og has led a nomadic existence.<br />
Moving between countries and people, in an incredible<br />
tale that sees her falling pregnant when she was 14 and<br />
losing custody of her daughter, then eventually meeting<br />
director Carina Molier – her long distance friend – who<br />
tells Og’s story. Desperate to be reunited with her<br />
daughter, Og returns to her homeland – not only to fulfil<br />
her quest, but to face her past and her demons. It is<br />
through this search for inner peace that Molier is able to<br />
examine her own, and indeed all of our lives, in a beautiful<br />
film about being human. MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND is not<br />
just about streetwise Og’s story, but identity, home, and<br />
finding oneself in the transient world in which we live.<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
5.00pm<br />
Print source: SNG <strong>Film</strong> (The Netherlands)<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
1.00pm<br />
Murray Edwards<br />
(CFF 15) 77 mins.<br />
2<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
1.00pm<br />
A selection of shorts about dreams, danger and discovery by filmmakers<br />
from the East Midlands. The films were made with the support of the UK<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Council’s New Cinema Fund and received National Lottery through<br />
EM Media’s Regional Investment Fund for England.<br />
WINGS<br />
Writer: Catharine Ashdown. Director: Ester Richardson. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 13 mins.<br />
A mother’s love threatens to ruin Ellie’s dream of leaving home to join<br />
the RAF.<br />
HIT AND RUN<br />
Director: Al Mackay. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 17 mins.<br />
When Michael leaves Shelley lying injured in the middle of the road he<br />
soon realises he can run but he really can’t hide.<br />
PORK<br />
Director: Sally-Anne Betts. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 12 mins<br />
With the weight of hundreds of years of racial oppression bearing<br />
down on him, a boy of dual heritage finds it hard to takes sides when<br />
his parents fight.<br />
DIARY OF A THAGEE<br />
Director: Charlie Sen. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 10 mins.<br />
A man roams the streets at night looking to enact a ritual of Thagee<br />
heritage.<br />
PAPA<br />
Directors: Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 11 mins.<br />
A father and daughter embark on a journey of discovery and understanding<br />
when they find themselves working side by side over the Christmas period.<br />
JAM TODAY<br />
Director: Simon Ellis. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 14 mins.<br />
A young boy’s sexual awakening propels him into a curious and surprising<br />
new world.
OPENING NIGHT<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
7.00pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
TINKER, TAILOR,<br />
SOLDIER, SPY (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Tomas Alfredson. Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt,<br />
Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Stephen Graham. UK/France <strong>2011</strong>. 128 mins.<br />
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN director Alfredson adapts the classic John le Carré 1974<br />
espionage novel with a little help from the crème de la crème of British acting<br />
talent. Gary Oldman (THE DARK KNIGHT) is George Smiley, a retired intelligence<br />
agent recalled to sniff out a Soviet mole who’s managed to infiltrate the MI6.<br />
Set in the 1970s, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY promises to be an intelligent<br />
old-school spy caper that prizes atmosphere over whiz-bang special effects,<br />
painting a portrait of international espionage very much at odds with the glitz<br />
and glamour of Bond. A fantastic cast and an internationally revered director<br />
mark this as an unmissable post-Bourne crime drama – already being tipped as<br />
an awards season contender.<br />
We hope to welcome director Tomas Alfredson and members of the cast to<br />
this screening.<br />
Print source: Studio Canal UK<br />
THE LOOK (CFF 15)<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
8.00pm<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Angelina Maccarone. France. <strong>2011</strong>. 94 mins. French and German with English subtitles.<br />
Perhaps more than any other woman, Charlotte Rampling epitomizes sexual<br />
liberation, from the swinging sixties when she was a young woman in<br />
fashionable Chelsea, to the attractive mature woman that she is today.<br />
To capture the person – the “phenomenon” Charlotte Rampling; breaker<br />
of taboos, icon, superstar and avant-gardist – is a cinematic adventure<br />
that can only succeed by being as brave as the woman herself. While<br />
presented in countless films and photographs as the classic “object<br />
of desire”, THE LOOK takes on her perspective, and we see the world<br />
through her eyes. Going far beyond anecdotal trivia or linear biography,<br />
Rampling fearlessly fathoms the major questions of life with companions<br />
such as Peter Lindbergh and Paul Auster.<br />
This extremely watchable film about actress Charlotte Rampling is<br />
a fascinating series of discussions between her and a series of<br />
photographers, writers and filmmakers” SCREEN DAILY<br />
8.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
12.30pm<br />
Print source: Park Circus / MK2<br />
CLOSING NIGHT<br />
15<br />
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FRI<br />
16<br />
8.15pm<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
3.30pm<br />
ACT OF GRACE (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Noreen Kershaw. Starring: Leo Gregory, Jody Latham,<br />
David Yip. UK 2010. 95 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
East meets North-West in this gritty crime thriller, based on<br />
a true story. When Dezzie (Leo Gregory) protects Chinese<br />
immigrant Yasin at school from bullying little can he dream<br />
where his compassion will lead. Years later Yasin returns to<br />
Manchester only to make Dezzie an offer he can’t refuse: a<br />
position within the family business. Dezzie has been invited<br />
to join the Chinese mafia – the Triads – running businesses in<br />
Manchester and Liverpool... Two of the three writers Marc Pye<br />
and Alan Field met whilst scripting episodes for the Emmy<br />
award-winning BBC series The Street where they first discussed<br />
the idea. Shanghaiing a mob of UK acting talent, including<br />
Gregory (STONED) and Jody Latham (Shameless) ACT OF GRACE<br />
carves out a story of friendship and betrayal on the mean<br />
streets of Salford.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to the Fri 16<br />
screening.<br />
Print source: KWA Associates<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
6.00pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
ALBATROSS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Niall MacCormick. Starring: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity<br />
Jones, Jessica Brown Findley. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 90 mins. English<br />
Vivacious 17-year-old Emilia (Findlay) works at The Cliff House,<br />
run by a squabbling couple Jonathan (Sebastian Koch, from<br />
THE LIVES OF OTHERS), his wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and their<br />
children. Emilia’s sense of adventure soon has an impact on<br />
the family. She begins an affair with Jonathan that threatens<br />
to have devastating consequences, and, finding herself at the<br />
middle of a family set to implode, she must face up to truths of<br />
her own background as well as the implications of her actions.<br />
Echoes of David Leland’s much-loved 1987 British<br />
feature Wish You Were Here very deliberately come<br />
through in accomplished comedy drama Albatross, which<br />
features a star-in-the-making performance by film<br />
newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay.” SCREEN INTERNATIONAL<br />
Print source: Cinemanx<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
3.15pm<br />
AS IF I AM NOT THERE<br />
(CFF 18)<br />
Director: Juanita Wilson. Starring: Stellan Skarsgaard, Miraj Grbic, Natasa<br />
Petrovic, Irina Apelgren. Ireland 2010. 109 mins. Bosnian with English subtitles.<br />
AS IF I AM NOT THERE is a story of a young woman from Sarajevo<br />
whose life is shattered the day a young soldier walks into her<br />
apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the<br />
other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse<br />
in a remote region of Bosnia, she quickly learns the rules of<br />
camp life. The day she is picked out to ‘entertain’ the soldiers,<br />
the real nightmare begins. Stripped of everything she ever had<br />
and facing the constant threat of death, she struggles against<br />
all the hatred she sees around her. In a final act of courage or<br />
madness, she decides to make one last stand: to dare to be<br />
herself. It’s when she realises that surviving means more than<br />
staying alive that she has to make a decision that will change<br />
her life forever.<br />
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WED<br />
21<br />
9.00pm<br />
18<br />
ATROCIOUS (CFF 18)<br />
BULLHEAD (CFF 18)<br />
DIMENSIONS: A LINE,<br />
Director: Fernando Barreda Luna. Starring: Rafael Amaya, Jose Masegosa, Chus (RUNDSKOP)<br />
A LOOP, A TANGLE OF<br />
Pereiro. Spain/Mexico 2010. 75 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
In April 2010, the Quintanilla family travelled to their farmhouse<br />
in Sitges, Spain, for their summer vacation. Not keen on the<br />
countryside, siblings Christian and July started investigating the<br />
strange legend of the girl in the Garraf woods to while away the<br />
time. All day, they recorded whatever they did. On the fifth day<br />
after their arrival the entire family was found brutally murdered,<br />
leaving only the siblings’ recordings as a clue to what happened.<br />
Based on a true story, the 37 hours of footage – from which this<br />
film is made – was used by the local police department to find<br />
clues as to what happened. Or so the filmmakers claim... But can<br />
they be trusted? We’re saying nothing!<br />
Print source: Revolver<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
8.30pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
11.00pm<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Michael R. Roskam. Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval,<br />
Jeanne Dandoy. Belgium <strong>2011</strong>. 124 mins. Dutch and French with English subtitles.<br />
BULLHEAD, a thriller about gangsters and farmers, is set against<br />
the backdrop of the Belgium cattle hormone mafia. Young<br />
Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by<br />
an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a<br />
notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of<br />
a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a<br />
mysterious secret from Jacky’s past, set in motion a chain of<br />
events with far-reaching consequences. <strong>Film</strong>maker Roskam says<br />
about his debut film. “It is a film about people being driven to<br />
extremes. It is not about good or evil, but about how seemingly<br />
small events can sometimes have huge consequences for the<br />
people involved. Their fate is also their destiny.”<br />
Print source: <strong>Festival</strong> Strategies<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
8.15pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
10.30pm<br />
THREADS (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Sloane U’Ren. Starring: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Camilla Rutherford, Olivia<br />
Llewellyn, Sean Hart, Patrick Godfrey. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 99 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Privately funded by writer/composer Ant Neely (Six Feet Under,<br />
Boston Legal) and director/production designer Sloane U’Ren<br />
(HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE, BATMAN BEGINS)<br />
– who sold their house to realise the project – this intelligent<br />
period science fiction drama shows what can be done on a micro<br />
budget. Made entirely on location in <strong>Cambridge</strong> using professional<br />
expertise, good will and volunteers, it tells the story of Stephen, a<br />
brilliant young boy who lives in England in what appears to be the<br />
1920s. But nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. By chance<br />
he meets a charismatic professor at a garden party, who explains<br />
that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel is theoretically<br />
possible. But events soon compel Stephen to turn the Professor’s<br />
theories into reality...<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmakers and members<br />
of the cast to the Wed 21 screening.<br />
Print source: Sculptures of Dazzling Complexity
Cineworld<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
10.00pm<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
10.30pm<br />
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE<br />
DARK (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Troy Nixey. Starring: Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes.<br />
USA/Australia/Mexico <strong>2011</strong>. 99 mins. English.<br />
Guillermo del Toro’s DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (he wrote the<br />
screenplay) is a reworking of a telefilm that terrified him as a<br />
tiny. Ten-year-old rebel Sally lives with her remote father Alex<br />
(Guy Pearce) and his new wife Kim (Katie Holmes) in Falling Mill,<br />
a dilapidated Gothic mansion. Unbeknownst to the young family,<br />
the house they are lovingly renovating harbours something<br />
more sinister than dry rot in its shadows, and when Alex<br />
re-opens a hidden basement room, its occupants make their<br />
furious feelings clear. This creepy New England fairytale feels<br />
like a sketchbook for PAN’S LABYRINTH but is very much its own<br />
film, and persistent lapses into horror cliché are redeemed by<br />
nuanced performances from Katie Holmes and the outstanding<br />
young actress Bailee Madison.<br />
Print source: Studio Canal UK<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
4.00pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
7.00pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
DRIVE (18)<br />
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Ron<br />
Perlman. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 95 mins.<br />
Based on a short story by the neo-noir crime novelist James<br />
Sallis, DRIVE is a taught thriller spliced with high-octane chases<br />
to match the pace of the FAST & FURIOUS series. Gosling stars<br />
as the Hollywood stunt driver with no name, who dabbles as a<br />
wheelman and becomes involved in a botched bank heist. When<br />
things kick off, the ‘driver’ has to fall back on his death-defying<br />
skills to save his own skin. This roaring, road-rage rampage may<br />
invite comparisons with Quentin Tarantino’s DEATH PROOF, but<br />
don’t let that fool you – and director Refn’s slick action movie<br />
has already claimed pole position, winning him the Best Director<br />
Award at Cannes. B-Movie thrills combined with a star-studded<br />
cast look set to make DRIVE a runaway festival favourite.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Nicolas Winding Refn<br />
to the Monday 19th screening.<br />
Print source: Icon<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
5.30pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
10.15am<br />
FLYING FISH (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara. Starring: Chaminda Sampath Jayaweera,<br />
Gayesha Perera and Mohammed Ali Rajabdeen. Sri Lanka 2010. 125 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Two decades of civil disobedience conjoin three heart-rending<br />
stories as moral decay takes its heavy toll on Sri Lanka. 45-yearold<br />
Muthabanda commits suicide as his daughter Wasana fails<br />
to abort the child of a soldier. Beaten by guilt, the girl flees the<br />
stigma, leaving behind her offspring who find tender loving<br />
care with a middle-aged widow. In a village living in the uneasy<br />
tension between the army and the Tamil Tigers, what would<br />
a fatherless son do upon discovering his mother’s amorous<br />
intrigue with a local? Meanwhile, the war machine reaches<br />
momentum when the Tigers break into a 13-year-old’s house<br />
demanding a huge ransom for her. She chooses to escape. A<br />
visually potent drama, FLYING FISH exemplifies the hopeless<br />
endeavours of ordinary citizens to lead a normal life.<br />
Print source: Asia Digital Entertainment Ltd<br />
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FRI<br />
23<br />
10.45pm<br />
20<br />
THE GERBER SYNDROME GUILTY OF ROMANCE (CFF 18)<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Maxì Dejoie. Starring: Valentina Bartolo, Sax Nicosia, Luigi Piluso. Italy<br />
<strong>2011</strong>. 88 mins. Italian with English subtitles.<br />
Italian newcomer Maxì Dejoie infects our fears of global<br />
pandemic to critical levels in THE GERBER SYNDROME. When a<br />
new virus strikes a TV crew reports events from ground zero<br />
in the Italian suburbs. The accounts of three people directly<br />
involved with the disease are revealed: a doctor, an infected girl,<br />
a young security agent. Naturally the authorities are holding<br />
back on the violent truth for our own protection. Dejoie plays<br />
it strictly low-key by making his film resemble a documentary,<br />
recalling the all-too-real horrors of real-life emergent epidemics<br />
such as the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak. Chillingly Dejoie<br />
understands that people’s emotional reactions to tragedy are<br />
what makes a horror story unforgettable. Don’t watch without<br />
a face mask.<br />
Print source: London Sci Fi <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Cineworld<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
6.00pm<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
10.45pm<br />
Director: Sono Sion. Starring: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka,<br />
Kanji Tsuda, Kazuya Kojima. Japan <strong>2011</strong>. 112 mins.<br />
Japanese with English subtitles.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Last in cult director Sono Sion’s Hate Trilogy (LOVE EXPOSURE and<br />
COLD FISH) GUILTY OF ROMANCE is nothing short of his previous<br />
provocative, sexually-charged signature films. Bending genres<br />
such as film noir, melodrama, thriller and soft porn, GUILTY OF<br />
ROMANCE tells the story of three women. Izumi, obedient but<br />
bored wife of a famous author, finds distraction in modelling<br />
naked, discovering secret desires and meeting shadowy people<br />
from the Tokyo Love Hotel red-light area – including literary<br />
professor Mitsuko who works as a prostitute at night (and<br />
becomes Izumi’s dark mirror image). Intertwined is the story of<br />
female detective Kazuko who finds a dismembered body near the<br />
hotel. As these Freudian-charged stories unfold, all grow closer<br />
together to culminate in a gruesome, phantasmagorical finale.<br />
With its hallucinatory, eye-popping visuals, Guilty<br />
Of Romance takes us on an odyssey into the heart<br />
of sexual identity.” ICA<br />
Print source: Eureka!<br />
Cineworld<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
8.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
3.00pm<br />
THE HELP (CFF 12)<br />
Director: Tate Taylor Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard,<br />
Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 146 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from<br />
college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’<br />
lives – and their 1960s Mississippi town – upside down when she<br />
decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives<br />
taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis),<br />
Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up – to<br />
the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.<br />
Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance,<br />
she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more<br />
women come forward to tell their stories – and as it turns out,<br />
they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are<br />
forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone<br />
in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become<br />
unwittingly – and unwillingly – caught up in the changing times.<br />
Print source: Disney UK
Cineworld<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
9.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
12.45pm<br />
INTIMATE GRAMMAR (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Nir Bergman. Starring: Roee Elsberg, Orly Zilbershatz, Yehuda Almagor,<br />
Yael Sgersk. Israel 2010. 110 mins. Hebrew with English subtitles.<br />
In Israel in the early 1960s, a new generation is growing up: the<br />
militant Israeli, the generation that will not go through another<br />
Holocaust. But Hinda’s son, Aharon, a sensitive eleven year old<br />
boy with a highly developed inner world, does not quite fit the<br />
mould. His soul seeks refinement, art – everything he is unable<br />
to find at home. Aharon refuses to become like his parents for<br />
whom human existence is reduced to war and survival. As an<br />
expression of protest he does not grow an inch during three<br />
years. Betrayed by his family, by his best friend and his beloved,<br />
lonely in his small body, but aware of his maturing soul, he<br />
realizes something must be done. Aharon crosses the boundary<br />
dividing childhood and adolescence in a dangerous inner<br />
journey, but determined to treasure the child within. Based on<br />
the acclaimed novel by David Grossman, INTIMATE GRAMMAR<br />
took the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> 2010.<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s Boutique<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
5.00pm<br />
ISPANSI (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Carlos Iglesias. Starring: Esther Regina, Carlos Iglesias, Eloísa Vargas,<br />
Isabel Blanco. Spain/Germany 2010. 100 mins.<br />
Spanish and Russian with English subtitles.<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
5.00pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Paula and Alvaro belong to opposite social and ideological<br />
classes. Turbulent times in their homeland have led to them<br />
being sent to the USSR, two of the 30,000 ‘war children’<br />
evacuated abroad in 1937-38 by the Spanish Republican<br />
government to spare them Franco’s bombings during the Civil<br />
War. But when the Germans invade Russia in 1941, far tougher<br />
times lie ahead. ISPANSI follows the epic journey of a group of<br />
children and accompanying adults as they struggle for survival,<br />
fleeing north from Stalingrad to spend a harsh winter in a<br />
village of the Volga region, then being forced out by hunger to<br />
face the long walk to the Ural Mountains. Though both may be<br />
losers in the face of history and ideology, Alvaro and Paula grow<br />
closer during their terrible journey, finally developing a love<br />
freed from political hatred.<br />
Print source: Un Franco 14 Pesetas<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
8.15pm<br />
JO FOR JONATHAN (CFF 15)<br />
(JO POUR JONATHAN)<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
3.30pm<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Maxime Giroux. Starring: Raphael Lacaille, Jean-Sebastien Courchesne,<br />
Vanessa Pilon, Jean-Alexandre Letourneau. Canada 2010. 78 mins. French with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
JO FOR JONATHAN captures the adolescent life of its main<br />
protagonist with great delicacy and control. A water bottle left<br />
on top of a car dances to the rhythm of the car’s (unheard) sound<br />
system – it parallels the inner turmoil of Jonathan (Raphael<br />
Lacaille) as he deals with his failures and his guilt. Having<br />
failed his driving test, he decides to pretend that he passed<br />
and unwittingly kickstarts a chain of events which begins with<br />
illegal car racing and ends with an irretrievable separation from<br />
his much-adored older brother. JO FOR JONATHAN offers no<br />
glamourised version of what it means to grow up in Canadian<br />
Quebecois suburbia, but its honesty and cinematic achievement<br />
make director Maxime Giroux a serious talent to watch.<br />
Raphael Lacaille is<br />
impressive” VARIETY<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s Boutique<br />
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SAT<br />
24<br />
12.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
8.15pm<br />
KOSMOS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Reha Erdem. Starring: Sermet Yesil, Türkü Turan.<br />
Turkey/Bulgaria 2010. 122 mins. Turkish with English subtitles.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Set in a small, snowbound village, this is the story of a man<br />
with extraordinary powers, who arrives unannounced just in<br />
time to restore a young boy to life after drowning. Welcomed<br />
as a miracle-worker, the tide soon changes as he turns to<br />
stealing and his inability to become part of the community<br />
becomes apparent. With this, his sixth feature, director Reha<br />
Erdem has once again created a film completely different from<br />
his previous work. The complex Kosmos is perfectly portrayed<br />
by Sermet Yesil, with his worldly, wise and profound ramblings<br />
about life, love and those around him, and the intricate plot,<br />
with its simple, but visually stunning approach, makes this a<br />
beautiful work to behold. The film bursts with philosophical<br />
ideas, mystical subplots and some truly surreal moments, while<br />
capturing the haunting sense of a seemingly never-ending<br />
winter and exploring the primal nature of man.<br />
Print source: Verve Pictures<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
6.00pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
10.30am<br />
LATE SEPTEMBER (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jon Sanders. Starring: Anna Mottram, Richard Vanstone,<br />
Charlotte Palmer, Bob Goody. UK 2010. 87 mins.<br />
World Premiere<br />
LATE SEPTEMBER takes place over a 24 hour period, following<br />
the course and aftermath of a birthday celebration organised<br />
by a woman for her husband to whom she has been married<br />
for nearly 40 years. As the day and night progress, the<br />
question of whether it is better to live alone or to live with<br />
someone with whom you feel lonely is played out through all<br />
the different characters in a beautiful Kent house, its garden<br />
and the surrounding countryside. Old rifts, new relationships<br />
and secrets emerge amongst friends, a tragedy occurs and<br />
eventually the underlying tensions in the marriage can no<br />
longer be contained. Although begging for comparisons, Von<br />
Trier’s FESTEN this ain’t – LATE SEPTEMBER prefers to stay on<br />
the side of its characters and seeks a truthful portrayal of<br />
universally asked questions about modern relationships.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to the Sun 18<br />
screening.<br />
Print source: Jon Sanders <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
8.00pm Cineworld<br />
LION KING 3D (U)<br />
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Voices: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons,<br />
James Earl Jones. USA 1994. 89 mins.<br />
What could be better than talking, singing lions? Talking, singing<br />
lions in 3D of course! Nearly a decade since THE LION KING last<br />
appeared on the big screen, Disney’s Oscar® and Golden Globe®<br />
winning film is back; bolder and brighter and, um, in 3D. Disney’s<br />
Bob Chapek, president of distribution, announces that “the<br />
all-new 3D format immerses viewers in the epic settings and<br />
puts them face-to-face with these beloved characters.” Tricked<br />
into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees<br />
into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. Helped<br />
by wandering misfits Timon and Pumbaa, wise old Rafiki, and his<br />
childhood love Nala, Simba journeys to reclaim his role in the<br />
great circle of life.<br />
This screening is open to all. LION KING 3D will also be<br />
playing on the same day at 6.00pm as part of the Family<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> at the Arts Picturehouse, with additional<br />
activities and events. Please see page 53 for full details of<br />
the special Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> screening.<br />
Print source: Disney UK
FRI<br />
16<br />
6.30pm Cineworld<br />
MADEMOISELLE<br />
CHAMBON (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Stéphane Brizé. Starring: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika.<br />
France 2009. 101 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
After the international success of NOT HERE TO BE LOVED,<br />
Stéphane Brizé returns with his usual elegance and subtle<br />
scriptwriting, in a story that echoes in each and every one<br />
of us. Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days<br />
happily between his construction sites and his house, with<br />
his loving wife and son. He feels comfortable in this routine.<br />
One day, as he’s picking up Jérémy from school, he stumbles<br />
upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet,<br />
elegant, mesmerizing, in a way completely foreign to his<br />
environment. This chance encounter will be a turning point<br />
in his well-organized life. An opportunity for change or a folly<br />
to regret...<br />
Print source: Axiom<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
8.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
5.00pm Cineworld<br />
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (CFF 12)<br />
Director: Woody Allen. Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams,<br />
Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 100 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
In this romantic fantasy adventure Woody Allen indulges his<br />
passion for France’s capital amid an exploration of the fallacy<br />
of nostalgia. When wealthy Hollywood scriptwriter Gil (Wilson)<br />
and fiancé Inez (McAdams) join Inez’ parents on a trip to Paris,<br />
Gil is entranced by his idealised view of the city’s bygone days<br />
and becomes increasingly distanced from the rest of the party.<br />
While on a solitary midnight stroll Gil is picked up by mysterious<br />
revellers and is transported through time to the golden age<br />
he dreams of, and in which he meets artistic greats such as<br />
Hemingway, Picasso, TS Eliot, and Adriana (Cotillard), Picasso’s<br />
beautiful mistress. In her, and in her era, Gil finds a new<br />
source of inspiration and passion, but it appears that Adriana<br />
is suffering from a similar sense of disenchantment with her<br />
own time.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
6.15 (Part 1), 8.30pm (Part 2)<br />
MYSTERIES OF LISBON<br />
(CFF 15) (MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA)<br />
Director: Raoul Ruiz. Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira.<br />
Portugal 2010. 272 mins. Portuguese and French with English subtitles.<br />
Raoul Ruiz’s masterful adaptation of the nineteenth-century<br />
Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) represents the<br />
rare combination of a director at the top of his game working<br />
with material perfectly suited to his unique sensibilities. Evoking<br />
the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles<br />
Dickens, the story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an<br />
ill-fated romance between two aristocrats who are forbidden<br />
to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage.<br />
But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a<br />
multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and<br />
then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France<br />
and Italy.<br />
Print source: New Wave<br />
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THE NINE MUSES (CFF 15)<br />
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FRI<br />
23<br />
6.00pm<br />
Director: John Akomfrah. Voices: Sean Barrett, John Barrymore, Richard Burton.<br />
UK 2010. 92 mins.<br />
Divided into nine musical chapters and mixing a vast array<br />
of archival material, THE NINE MUSES reforges The Odyssey<br />
as a reflection upon journeys, migration, memory and the<br />
power of elegy. John Akomfrah, co-founder of the Black Audio<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Collective, expands his exhibition Mnemosyne beyond<br />
the gallery in this visual-poem telling the story of Britain’s<br />
post-war migrations. Using spectacular landscape imagery<br />
from Alaska with rare archive footage from the BBC, Akomfrah<br />
sets the writings of Dante, Beckett and Basho to an equally<br />
wide-ranging musical selection with readings from Richard<br />
Burton, John Barrymore and Michael Sheen. THE NINE MUSES<br />
unfolds as an utterly absorbing meditation on a journey towards<br />
self-discovery, a ‘sorrow song’ on a quest for knowledge<br />
and identity.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to this screening.<br />
Print source: New Wave<br />
Cineworld<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
6.00pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
11.00pm<br />
RED STATE (18)<br />
Director: Kevin Smith. Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 88 mins.<br />
RED STATE was conceived by Kevin Smith as a vehicle for<br />
Tarantino stalwart Michael Parks, who features as Abin Cooper<br />
in this ultra low-budget, blood-spattered satire on religious<br />
fanaticism. Peppered with plot twists and acts of unique<br />
depravity, RED STATE is a cut above the usual splatter and<br />
torture. Among its quirks of originality is the lack of musical<br />
score: the soundtrack consists of songs performed by the cast<br />
as part of the story. Smith has intimated that there are ten<br />
‘Easter Eggs’ to spot throughout the film – for instance, keep an<br />
eye out for Sheriff Wynan’s explosive motif. Actions might speak<br />
louder than words, but this is a Kevin Smith film, so expect skull<br />
cracking and wisecracking in equal measure – not least from<br />
John Goodman as the volatile Agent Keenan.<br />
Includes a specially recorded introduction by director<br />
Kevin Smith.<br />
Print source: E1 Entertainment<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
10.30pm<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
5.45pm<br />
RED, WHITE AND BLUE (18)<br />
Director: Simon Rumley. Starring: Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 103 mins.<br />
This stunning, complex and original psychological drama<br />
opens with a mostly dialogue-free portrait of promiscuity and<br />
disaffection, but steadily evolves into a thought-provoking<br />
revenge tragedy and culminates in Shakespearian levels of<br />
violence. The story’s heavy reliance on coincidence and irony<br />
can be easily overlooked in light of the powerfully sympathetic<br />
characters, in particular the soft-spoken warhorse Nate (Taylor)<br />
and Erica (Fuller), an uptight, loose woman with a ghastly<br />
hidden agenda. Completing the triangle of core performances<br />
is Marc Senter’s Franki, a rock star wannabe whose mother is<br />
dying of cancer. It’s hard to understand at first how three such<br />
disparate individuals could be brought together, but as events<br />
provoke a series of shocking character revelations, feelings of<br />
foreboding set in and we begin to glimpse the “barren rage of<br />
death’s eternal cold”.<br />
Print source: Trinity <strong>Film</strong>s
FRI<br />
16<br />
5.45pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
8.30pm<br />
RESISTANCE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Amit Gupta. Starring: Michael Sheen, Iwan Rheon.<br />
UK <strong>2011</strong>. 92 mins.<br />
Cineworld<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Michael Sheen (FROST/NIXON) and Iwan Rheon (E4’s MISFITS)<br />
star in RESISTANCE, a supernatural thriller set in a Welsh valley<br />
among the Black Mountains. Based on a novel by Welsh poet<br />
Owen Sheers, the story takes place in an alternate 1944, after<br />
the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings. The menfolk<br />
of the valley are disappearing one by one, their absences<br />
sudden and unexplained. As the all-female community huddles<br />
together, a group of German Wehrmacht soldiers invade the<br />
valley. A cruel winter season forces the two groups to put aside<br />
their differences and build a cautious entente cordiale, but as<br />
farmer’s wife Sarah Lewis (Andrea Riseborough) grows closer<br />
to the patrol’s commanding officer, the spirit of the valley is<br />
threatened by the war raging beyond the mountain, and the<br />
unlikely community is faced with unimaginable devastation.<br />
Print source: Metrodome<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
8.00pm<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
6.00pm Cineworld<br />
ROMANTICS<br />
ANONYMOUS (U)<br />
(LES EMOTIFS ANONYMES)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris. Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella<br />
Cravotta. Belguim/France 2010. 80 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
What happens when a gifted chocolate-maker with a lifelong<br />
case of uncontrollable shyness meets a similar case of total<br />
discomfiture? Director Jean-Pierre Améris offers these two<br />
characters a chance to own up to their hidden affections in a<br />
delectable comedy of everyday embarrassment. Little does<br />
chocolate factory owner Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde) know<br />
that he will soon end up facing his greatest fears after hiring<br />
Angélique (Isabelle Carré) as his new sales associate. While<br />
the fate of the business hangs in the balance, the two lovable<br />
protagonists fight for their emotional freedom in this funny and<br />
romantic modern fairy tale.<br />
Print source: Picturehouse Entertainment<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
10.45pm<br />
THE SHOW MUST GO ON<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Nevio Marasovic. Starring: Sven Medvesek, Natasa Dorcic, Ivana Roscic.<br />
Croatia 2010. 80 mins. Croatian with English subtitles.<br />
During a ‘Big Brother’ style reality show set in the near future,<br />
a war starts and escalates towards nuclear confrontation, but<br />
the producer will do anything to hide it from the contestants.<br />
As the war escalates, the show becomes a kind of escape<br />
for the general population who enjoy watching the pointless<br />
antics of the housemates. With increasing ratings, how can<br />
the TV channel bosses protect their investment? A very<br />
smart film, well produced and unsettling, which raises some<br />
fundamental questions about the nature of TV, the role of<br />
mass entertainment and the value of truth. If you were in the<br />
house would you want to know what’s really going on in the<br />
outside world?<br />
Print source: Media & Nautica<br />
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THE SILVER CLIFF (CFF 15) SLEEPING BEAUTY (CFF 18) TIRZA (CFF 15)<br />
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FRI<br />
16<br />
8.10pm<br />
(O ABISMO PRATEADO)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Karim Ainouz. Starring: Alessandra Negrini, Otto Jr., Thiago Martins,<br />
Gabi Pereira, Carla Ribas. Brazil <strong>2011</strong>. 85 mins. Portugese with English subtitles.<br />
THE SILVER CLIFF was inspired by a song by Brazilian musician<br />
Chico Buarque, called Eye to Eye, about the impossibility of<br />
love and forgiveness. Having already won many admirers with<br />
MADAM SATA, SUELY IN THE SKY and I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE<br />
TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU. Director Karim Ainouz<br />
here takes us on the lyrical and poetic journey of Violeta,<br />
who retrieves a voicemail during her work at a dentail clinic,<br />
in which her husband informs her he won’t be returning.<br />
Confusion, despair and hurt propel her all over the city, as she<br />
tries and fails to reach Djalma or gather information about his<br />
unexplained decision. Arriving at the airport too late to catch<br />
the last flight to Porto Alegre, on an impulse she takes a taxi to<br />
Copacabana...<br />
The story’s emotional texture is as rich as its<br />
intoxicating visual flow” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<br />
Print source: Rendez-Vous Pictures<br />
Cineworld<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
9.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
3.15pm<br />
Director: Julia Leigh. Starring: Emily Browning, Rachel Blake.<br />
Australia <strong>2011</strong>. 101 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
“You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those<br />
hours never existed.” Death-haunted, quietly reckless Lucy<br />
is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping<br />
Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic<br />
experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This<br />
unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she<br />
develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when<br />
she is asleep. A disturbing sexual nightmare, with shades of<br />
Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT, Julia Leigh’s adaptation of her own<br />
novel is a technically elegant directorial debut – and was part of<br />
the Official Selection at Cannes.<br />
There is force and originality in<br />
Leigh’s work” THE GUARDIAN<br />
Print source: Revolver<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
10.45pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
1.00pm<br />
Director: Rudolf van den Berg. Starring: Gijs Scholten van Asschat, Sylvia Hoeks,<br />
Johanna ter Steege, Abbey Hoes. Netherlands 2010. 100 mins.<br />
Dutch with English subtitles.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Jörgen Hofmeester’s world is crumbling. Forced into early<br />
retirement and harassed by his ex-wife, the only part of his life<br />
that makes sense is his beloved daughter Tirza. But now even<br />
this certainty is shattered when she disappears on holiday in<br />
Namibia. After weeks of terrifying uncertainty, Jörgen goes<br />
searching for her, but the heat, his drinking and bad memories<br />
combine to unhinge him. His only ally is a child prostitute called<br />
Kaisa. Together they journey into the wilderness on Tirza’s trail<br />
to discover her fate. With a powerful, multifaceted performance<br />
from Gijs Scholten van Asschat as Jörgen and featuring the<br />
stunning Sylvia Hoeks (named as one of European films’<br />
Shooting Stars by European <strong>Film</strong> Promotion) this is a journey<br />
that is full of subtle twists, and with dark and unsettling depths.<br />
Print source: Fuworks
THU<br />
15<br />
7.30pm<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
12.45pm<br />
TOMBOY (15)<br />
Director: Céline Sciamma. Starring: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson.<br />
France <strong>2011</strong>. 84 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Michaël (Zoe Héran) enjoys playing football with the boys,<br />
swimming and sharing quiet conversations with his girlfriend<br />
Lisa. He is so popular with the locals one would hardly believe<br />
he has only just arrived in suburban Paris. But Michaël isn’t<br />
an ordinary boy – in fact he isn’t a boy at all, but a product of<br />
10-year-old Laure’s androgyny, and it’s got everyone fooled. In<br />
this vivid chronicle of ambiguous emotions, French director<br />
Céline Sciamma (WATER LILIES) ponders on the issue of sexual<br />
identity at an early age. Treating the subject with grace and<br />
intelligence, TOMBOY attempts to protest the proverbial<br />
childhood innocence above all.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to the Thu 15<br />
screening.<br />
One of the great films made by adults for adults<br />
about children.” LITTLE WHITE LIES<br />
Print source: Peccadillo Pictures<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
5.45pm<br />
TOMORROW AT DAWN (CFF 15)<br />
(Demain dès l’aube)<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
3.30pm<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Denis Dercourt. Starring: Vincent Perez, Jérémie Reiner, Aurélien<br />
Recoing, Anne Marvin. France 2009. 96 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Denis Dercourt presents his follow-up to the UK arthouse THE<br />
PAGE TURNER, again drawing his inspiration from classical music<br />
(he also teaches music at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg). In his<br />
latest film, Napoleonic France looms large. Mathieu is a virtuoso<br />
pianist who goes home to care for his sick mother. He walks into a<br />
world of historical re-enactments and dressing in character. At a<br />
weekend event for enthusiasts, the stakes are raised to the highest<br />
levels, and Dercourt is on top form with the thoroughly engaging<br />
tale that unfolds. Tense, dramatic and precisely timed, TOMORROW<br />
AT DAWN played in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
Those who assume classical musicians are sissies may<br />
have to adjust their thinking after Tomorrow At<br />
Dawn, in which classical music meets historical battle<br />
re-enactments to excellent effect.” LISA NELSON, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Denis Dercourt to<br />
this screening.<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s Distribution<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
8.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
7.30pm<br />
TYRANNOSAUR (18)<br />
Director: Paddy Considine. Starring: Peter Mullan,<br />
Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 91 mins.<br />
Cineworld<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Actor Paddy Considine impressed audiences at Sundance with<br />
this feature-length directorial debut, earning himself the Word<br />
Cinema Directing Award in the process. TYRANNOSAUR takes an<br />
unflinching look at one man’s submission to rage and violence<br />
– emotions that threaten to consume him. Widower Joseph<br />
(Mullan) is bitter and angry at the world, beating his dog to<br />
death and lashing out at youths. Running from the kids he has<br />
needlessly aggressed, he takes shelter in a charity shop where<br />
he meets good Christian Hannah (Colman). Can she help Joseph<br />
emerge from his self-destructive spiral, or will her own dark<br />
secrets destroy them both? Themes of redemption, domestic<br />
violence and religion are woven together for this intense yet<br />
compelling drama – a bold piece of British cinema that places<br />
Considine firmly alongside the likes of Mike Leigh.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the director Paddy Considine<br />
to the Sat 24 screening.<br />
Print source: Studio Canal<br />
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(LA VIDA ÚTIL)<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
5.45pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
10.00am<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Federico Veiroj. Starring: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martínez Carril, Paola<br />
Venditto. Uruguay 2010. 67 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
A timely yet magical film for everyone who is working in or<br />
passionate about cinematheques. Jorge (played by Uruguayan<br />
film critic Jorge Jellinek) has been devoted to Montevideo’s<br />
cinematheque for 25 years when he is faced with its imminent<br />
closure due to funding cuts and demands that only ‘profitable’<br />
events be held. An ode to the black-and-white silent film era, A<br />
USEFUL LIFE takes a turn when Jorge finds himself unemployed<br />
and in need of a new distraction. He pursues his love and soon<br />
becomes a protagonist in his own romantic movie.<br />
Uruguay’s official submission for the foreignlanguage<br />
Oscar, A Useful Life celebrates movies<br />
while simultaneously acknowledging the insular nature of<br />
watching them...” INDIEWIRE<br />
Print source: Dogwoof<br />
ULTIMATE SURVIVOR (PG)<br />
See entry on p.43<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
5.45pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
3.00pm<br />
(BELI, BELI SVET) (CFF 15)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Oleg Novkovic. Starring: Uliks Fehmiu, Hana Selimovic, Jasna Duricic.<br />
Serbia 2010. 120 mins. Serbian with English subtitles.<br />
Rightly awarded the New Vision Award at Crossing Europe <strong>2011</strong>,<br />
WHITE WHITE WORLD is a tour-de-force of vision and innovation.<br />
Transporting a famous Greek tragedy to Bor, a mining village in<br />
today’s Serbia, the story begins when a prisoner returns home<br />
to find her adolescent daughter is liaising with her old lover and<br />
local bar owner, ‘King’. Realistic and convincing performances<br />
are contrasted with music – moments when the main characters<br />
break into solitary, melancholic songs to tell of their innermost<br />
feelings. However, this never feels artificial. Rather, it lures<br />
the viewer into sympathising and understanding some of the<br />
characters’ most cruel and senseless actions. WHITE WHITE WORLD<br />
is a great example of how opera, ancient storytelling and film can<br />
meet to present a new vision of the modern world, and of cinema.<br />
White White World builds tremendous power with<br />
this unique rhythm of behavior” INDIEWIRE<br />
Print source: <strong>Film</strong>s Boutique<br />
Cineworld<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
8.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
3.00pm<br />
Director: Na Hong-jin. Starring: Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo,<br />
Cho Seong-ha. South Korea 2010. 140 mins.<br />
Korean with English subtitles.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Set pulses to pound in this bruising South Korean crime thriller<br />
– compared by the Hollywood Reporter to A TOUCH OF EVIL.<br />
Full of some of the scrappiest on-screen fights since OLDBOY,<br />
Na Hong-jin’s second feature delves into the hopeless lives<br />
of the Korean-Chinese, or Joseonjok, who live near the North<br />
Korean border. Gambler Gu-nam accepts a hit in Seoul to clear<br />
his debts yet he secretly yearns to find his estranged wife. At<br />
first, preparing to commit murder challenges Gu-nam morally,<br />
but events soon crash violently off-course. Best known for THE<br />
CHASER, Na Hong-jin’s film confirms South Korea’s ability to<br />
make action films that stimulate the grey cells as much as the<br />
adrenal glands.<br />
Print source: Eureka
LATE ADDITION<br />
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE<br />
DOES IT (CERT TBC)<br />
Director: Douglas MacGrath. Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce<br />
Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer. USA <strong>2011</strong>. TBC mins.<br />
Based on critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I DON’T<br />
KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT follows Boston-based working mother Kate<br />
Reddy (Parker) trying desperately to juggle marriage, children and a<br />
high-stress job. Devoting her days to her job, she spends her nights<br />
going home to her adoring, recently downsized architect husband<br />
Richard (Kinnear) and their two young children. When Kate gets<br />
handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New<br />
York, and Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for, both will<br />
be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate’s<br />
charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Brosnan), who<br />
begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation.<br />
Print source: Entertainment<br />
We hope to arrange a special screening of this new film and also<br />
to welcome <strong>Cambridge</strong> novelist Allison Pearson, author of the<br />
best-selling book upon which the film is based. Keep a watch on<br />
our website and Twitter feed!<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
8.15pm<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
12.45pm<br />
LATE ADDITION<br />
JESS + MOSS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Clay Jeter. Starring: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers. US <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire<br />
tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate<br />
families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own<br />
age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer<br />
they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes<br />
of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation,<br />
abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.<br />
Bravura cinematography transforms the meandering<br />
tale of everyday boredom into a vivid collage of<br />
childhood and nature in Jess + Moss with Sarah Hagan<br />
resembling a young Brooke Shields or Paulina<br />
Porizkova... one of the lessons of Jess + Moss is that<br />
beauty is hard to resist.” DAVID D’ARCY<br />
This art cinema gem...conveys a magical place’s<br />
timeless quality” ROBERT KOEHLER, VARIETY<br />
Print source: Visit <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
LATE ADDITION<br />
THE WOMAN (18)<br />
Director: Lucky McKee. Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Sean<br />
Bridgers, Zach Rand, Lauren Ashley Carter. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 100 mins.<br />
From author Jack Ketchum (THE LOST, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, RED)<br />
and director Lucky McKee (MAY) comes a scandalous tale of two<br />
extremes, a feral female force of nature and an abusive parent,<br />
on collision course for a brutal showdown with a family caught<br />
in between. When Chris Cleek discovers a primitive woman in the<br />
wilderness on a hunting trip, he traps and locks her up in a cellar<br />
to domesticate her into a civilised human being. Assigning other<br />
Cleek family members to her care, the treatment of the woman<br />
shifts from compassionate to vicious; from sexual to violent.<br />
McKee tests the limits of viewers’ tolerance with genuine shocks<br />
and scares that don’t need sharp weapons to make a disturbing<br />
statement. With psychological twists and emotional reveals that<br />
keep its haunting climax impossible to turn away from, this stark<br />
study of a dysfunctional family is unforgettable.<br />
UK Frightfest <strong>2011</strong><br />
MON<br />
19<br />
8.30pm Cineworld<br />
Print source: Revolver<br />
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DOCUMENTARIES<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
12.30pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
8.30pm<br />
AT NIGHT, THEY<br />
DANCE (CFF 15)<br />
(LA NUIT, ELLES DANSENT)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Directors: Isabelle Lavigne, Stephane Thibault. Canada <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
80 mins. Arabic with English subtitles.<br />
Life is not easy for Reda, aged 42, mother of<br />
seven with an eighth baby on her way, recently<br />
widowed. But she is a powerful and joyful<br />
force to be reckoned with – especially when<br />
it comes to taking care of her belly-dancing<br />
dynasty in Cairo. AT NIGHT, THEY DANCE gives a<br />
delightful and honest insight into the workings<br />
of Reda’s trade.<br />
The hard knocks endured by a<br />
belly-dancing family in workingclass<br />
Cairo are translated with artistry<br />
and compassion (…) Seldom has Egypt’s<br />
capital been so evocatively captured<br />
through a domestic prism. (…) Such<br />
frankness among Arabic women is all too<br />
rare in film …” VARIETY<br />
Print source: Autlook <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
THE BALLAD OF<br />
GENESIS AND<br />
LADY JAYE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Marie Losier. US/France <strong>2011</strong>. 75 mins.<br />
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been a key figure<br />
of the underground music scene for over 30<br />
years. A cult artist in pre-punk and post-punk<br />
groups Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, he is<br />
considered to be the father of industrial music<br />
and a pioneer of acid house and techno. Not<br />
content with breaking new ground in music,<br />
Genesis has also used his position at the limits<br />
of society to challenge the very fundamentals<br />
of biology. Transformation is central to his life.<br />
He became a she to resemble his beloved Lady<br />
Jaye, now deceased. With peroxide hair, full lips<br />
and gold teeth, Genesis does not go unnoticed.<br />
A unique life, modelled on his other, Lady<br />
Jaye, who remains an integral part of himself.<br />
Without subscribing to any movement but living<br />
life as the ultimate experiment, he has made<br />
his body a work of art.<br />
Print source: Cat & Docs<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
8.30pm
MON<br />
19<br />
10.45pm<br />
BEATBOXING<br />
– THE FIFTH ELEMENT<br />
OF HIP HOP (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Klaus Schneyder. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 55 mins.<br />
In the late 70s a youth culture evolved in the<br />
poorer parts of New York which combined several<br />
disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. The<br />
four classic elements are graffiti writing, DJing,<br />
breakdancing, and rapping – but the musical side<br />
of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element:<br />
‘Beatboxing’ – vocal imitation of drum rhythms,<br />
first inspired by a lack of instruments. Schneyder’s<br />
documentary shows how Beatboxing has become<br />
a multilingual and diverse form applied in all<br />
genres of music, and how it continues to enrich<br />
the entertainment world.<br />
Print source: Eclectrix<br />
BEN IS BACK (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Elad Zakai. Israel <strong>2011</strong>. 26 mins.<br />
A single mother struggles to cope with her<br />
son’s release from psychiatric hospital.<br />
Print source: maysegal@gmail.com<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
6.00pm<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
4.00pm Cineworld<br />
THE BENGALI<br />
DETECTIVE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Phil Cox. USA/UK/India <strong>2011</strong>. TBC mins. English.<br />
Gujarati gumshoe detective Rajesh Ji deals with<br />
all the jobs that the corrupt, lazy police force can’t<br />
handle themselves – and what marks him out from<br />
other maverick crime fighters is the fact that he<br />
is absolutely real. THE BENGALI DETECTIVE is a<br />
docudrama set in the metropolis of Kolkata. And<br />
in true Bollywood tradition, he’s not content with<br />
putting his feet up on his desk at the Always agency<br />
in between cases – he’d rather be busting a move<br />
on TV. The glamour of the dance competition is<br />
offset by the Rajesh’s current list of “Investigatings<br />
and Security Concerns”: a counterfeit cosmetics<br />
company, a domestic violence case and a triple<br />
murder. Off duty, though, the comedy and drama of<br />
Ji’s life are offset by the touching story of his invalid<br />
wife and his young son. Director Phil Cox’s eye for<br />
detail makes for a touching and inspiring glimpse<br />
into Ji’s Kolkata lifestyle.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
the Thu 22 screening.<br />
Print source: Frequent Flyer <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
5.30pm<br />
BLOOD IN THE<br />
MOBILE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Frank Piasecki Poulsen. Denmark/Germany 2010.<br />
82 mins.<br />
Cassiterite is a mineral that is used by the<br />
electronics industry, in particular to manufacture<br />
mobile phones. Many cassiterite mines are found in<br />
the North-Kivu region of the Democratic Republic<br />
of the Congo, where there is no regulation of<br />
the mining. This is impacting disastrously on the<br />
local inhabitants and contributing to the violence<br />
in the country. Director Frank Piasecki Poulsen’s<br />
harrowing documentary leads him to explore this<br />
issue of conflict minerals. Not only deftly entering<br />
and filming in the war-torn area, but discovering<br />
the horrendous human rights violations that are<br />
taking place within the mines. Poulsen also asks<br />
who is responsible for this, and do we all have<br />
blood in our pockets, and on our hands? A film<br />
that makes you think before you send that text<br />
message or make that call.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
this screening.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
8.00pm<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
1.00pm<br />
BOMBAY BEACH<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Alma Har’el. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 80 mins.<br />
Featuring choreographed dance numbers<br />
set against music composed by Zach Condon<br />
from the band Beirut and songs by Bob Dylan,<br />
rarely has there been a more freewheeling<br />
documentary. The protagonists and dancers are<br />
the inhabitants Bombay Beach, a long-forgotten<br />
town set on the fringes of an artificial lake in the<br />
Arizona desert. Once hailed as a seaside resort<br />
for the rich and famous 50s Hollywood stars,<br />
it’s now populated by a marginalized society<br />
in which the American Dream has long since<br />
vanished. Alma Har’el captured the life of three<br />
protagonists and their relatives and friends with<br />
her unique camera-eye and an all-embracing<br />
passion for her subjects during the year she<br />
spent in Bombay Beach. Not to be missed.<br />
A beautiful, quirky, and ultimately<br />
very moving film about the American<br />
Dream as it teeters on the edge of a<br />
desert sea.” TERRY GILLIAM<br />
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures<br />
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SAT<br />
17<br />
6.00pm<br />
32<br />
BRITAIN THROUGH CALVET (18)<br />
A LENS: THE BRITISH<br />
DOCUMENTARY FILM MOB (U)<br />
Director: Chris Durlacher. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 60 mins.<br />
Between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing<br />
radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the<br />
most influential movement in the history of British<br />
film: the British Documentary Movement. They<br />
were inspired by a big idea – that films about real<br />
life would change the world. BRITAIN THROUGH A<br />
LENS assembles a collection of captivating film<br />
portraits of Britain, during the economic crisis<br />
of the 1930s and the Second World War, revealing<br />
the fascinating story of what was also going on<br />
behind the camera and of how the documentary<br />
became part of British culture.<br />
Print source: Lambent Productions<br />
HUMPHREY JENNINGS<br />
A lovingly restored selection of<br />
early films by the renowned British<br />
documentarian and visual poet.<br />
New digital HD print.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
6.00pm<br />
Director: Dominic Allan.<br />
UK <strong>2011</strong>. 86 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
“See you next Saturday” were the final words<br />
Jean Marc Calvet said to his son before he<br />
disappeared from his life in 1996. Tattooed,<br />
pierced and heavily-built Calvet hardly<br />
inspires sympathy. Having lived a dark and<br />
violent life his life spiralled out of control.<br />
When director Dominic Allan encountered<br />
him in Nicaragua years later he found a man<br />
at rock bottom. Yet this man was somehow<br />
producing magnificent paintings despite his<br />
rampant paranoia, isolation and insatiable<br />
appetite for crack cocaine and alcohol. Today<br />
Jean Marc Calvet’s work exhibits in New York<br />
and sells for tens of thousands of dollars. At<br />
the end of the road Allan discovers a man<br />
whose art is as electrifying as his life story,<br />
accompanying the painter on a powerful quest<br />
for personal redemption.<br />
Print source: Firewalk <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
3.30pm<br />
THE CAMERA THAT<br />
CHANGED THE<br />
WORLD (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Mandy Chang. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 62 mins. English, French<br />
with English subtitles.<br />
THE CAMERA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD celebrates<br />
craftsmen and artists who built and handled the<br />
first portable cameras in the summer of 1960.<br />
Unfettered by the behemoth equipment that had<br />
hampered documentary film making for so long,<br />
young camera operators such as D.A. Pennebaker<br />
and Richard Leacock were able to trial run a new<br />
‘Direct Cinema’ approach. Here the two pioneers<br />
offer their memories of a new cinematic dawn,<br />
which coincided with the emergence of Cinéma<br />
Vérité in France.<br />
Print source: Lambent Productions<br />
DON’T LOOK BACK (CFF PG)<br />
Director: D.A. Pennebaker. USA 1967. 96 mins.<br />
English.<br />
D.A. Pennebaker’s film of Bob Dylan’s 1965 solo<br />
acoustic tour, capturing the artist at a key<br />
stage in his life.<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
8.30pm Cineworld<br />
CANE TOADS: THE<br />
CONQUEST 3D (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Mark Lewis. Australia 2010. 85 mins.<br />
In 1988, Mark Lewis brought us CANE TOADS: AN<br />
UNNATURAL HISTORY, highlighting the disastrous<br />
impact of a rather unpleasant amphibian on the<br />
fragile Australian ecosystem. Imported from Hawaii<br />
as a potential predator for a pest afflicting sugar<br />
cane crops, the giant, poisonous-skinned toads<br />
turned out to be a far worse problem, ignoring<br />
the grubs they were brought in to control and<br />
eating just about everything else instead, breeding<br />
out of control. 22 years on, Lewis picks up the<br />
story in this irreverent eco-horror documentary<br />
charting the toad’s unstoppable march across<br />
the continent. The first independently financed<br />
documentary ever to be shot in 3D, Lewis’s film<br />
demonstrates several inventive ways for dealing<br />
with these oversized pests, including cricket bats,<br />
lawn mowers and rockets – but with the cane toad<br />
population estimated at 1.5 billion, there’s still<br />
some way to go.<br />
Print source: Kaleidoscope <strong>Film</strong>s
MON<br />
19<br />
6.30pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
6.30pm Emmanuel<br />
Theatre<br />
CARTOGRAPHY OF<br />
LONELINESS (CFF U)<br />
(CARTOGRAFIA DE LA SOLEDAD)<br />
Director: Nocem Collado. Spain <strong>2011</strong>. 68 mins. Hindi/Nepali/<br />
Dari with English subtitles.<br />
Observing widows from India, Nepal and<br />
Afghanistan – countries with the highest<br />
population of widows in the world, the most<br />
child widows and largest percentage of widows<br />
respectively – CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS is not<br />
just telling their stories, but showing how they are<br />
able to rise out of their solitude. What emerges<br />
are their similarities, despite location and culture.<br />
Filled with heart-breaking accounts, beautiful<br />
photography and simple, truthful filmmaking, this<br />
is an important testament of unjustifiable pain.<br />
Print source: nocemcollado@gmail.com<br />
CHARCOAL BURNERS (CFF U)<br />
(SMOLARZE)<br />
Director: Piotr Zlotorowicz. Poland <strong>2011</strong>. 15 mins.<br />
Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal<br />
burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from<br />
civilization, they live according to a rhythm set<br />
by nature. Print source: Polish National <strong>Film</strong> School<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
10.30am<br />
EGGS FOR LATER<br />
(CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Marieke Schellart. Netherlands <strong>2011</strong>. 50 mins<br />
In this personal documentary director Marieke<br />
Schellart (35) reveals how she as a single<br />
modern woman struggles with the biological<br />
clock – and how, to give herself more time, she<br />
plans to extend fertility by freezing her eggs.<br />
Print source: Trueworks<br />
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Stephane Goldsand. Mexico/USA<br />
<strong>2011</strong>. 22 mins<br />
Faced with his wife’s desire to become a<br />
mother, a filmmaker goes on a quest to find out<br />
how people decide to have kids and identify the<br />
source of his own hesitation.<br />
Print source: Catharsis Media<br />
BOFFIN & BOFFIN (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Ed Blythe. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 15 mins.<br />
A pair of distinguished IVF scientists struggle<br />
to get pregnant – but you can’t always make<br />
babies without making love...<br />
Print source: edblythe@gmail.com<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
5.45pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
8.30pm Emmanuel<br />
Theatre<br />
EL BULLI (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Gereon Wetzel. Starring: Ferran Adrià, Oriol Castro.<br />
Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 108 mins. Catalan, French, English with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Kitchen king Ferran Adrià is serious about<br />
eating. He doesn’t just sample and sip, he<br />
scoffs like Homer Simpson, and you can see for<br />
yourself in Gereon Wetzel’s documentary EL<br />
BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS. Regular winner<br />
of the San Pellegrino ‘World’s Best Eatery’<br />
award, Adrià’s restaurant closed in 2010 and<br />
was converted into a non-profit organisation<br />
promoting culinary creativity. EL BULLI spans<br />
fifteen months of hectic behind-the-scenes<br />
footage, covering the conception of a menu for<br />
El Bulli’s notoriously brief and exclusive open<br />
season. Short on interview or explanation,<br />
Wetzel’s celebration of a cooking master is a<br />
vicarious feast of food fetishism and kitchen<br />
choreography, which will leave you with a<br />
rumbling belly and a deeper appreciation of the<br />
genius behind El Bulli.<br />
Print source: Autlook films<br />
Documentaries<br />
continue after the<br />
intermission<br />
>> page 38<br />
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www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk | DOCUMENTARIES |
THURSDAY<br />
15<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
FRIDAY<br />
16<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
SATURDAY<br />
17<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
Remember:<br />
there are no adverts or trailers before<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> screenings, so please be seated by<br />
the advertised time.<br />
FFF<br />
GER<br />
ROM<br />
DOC<br />
SHO<br />
Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Contemporary German Cinema<br />
Romanian New Wave<br />
Documentary<br />
Shortfusion<br />
You’ll notice a number of To Be Confirmed<br />
(TBC) screening slots in this timetable. This<br />
gives us the flexbililty to drop in last minute<br />
additions to the programme, as well as<br />
respond to audience demand by adding repeat<br />
screenings of popular titles. We will announce<br />
the TBC slots on www.cambridgefilmfestival.<br />
org.uk and at the Arts Picturehouse throughout<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>, so keep checking for the most<br />
recent updates – you never know what you<br />
might miss otherwise!<br />
4.45 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
ACE IN THE HOLE 52<br />
5.00 ISPANSI 21<br />
6.00 FFF THE LION KING 3D 53<br />
7.30 TOMBOY 27<br />
8.00 OPENING FILM:<br />
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY 15<br />
8.15 JESS + MOSS 29<br />
10.30 SHO LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX 62<br />
Emmanuel College Harrods Room<br />
4.00 EVENT: EM MEDIA @ CFF 7<br />
Cineworld<br />
7.00 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 15<br />
8.00 THE LION KING 3D 22<br />
10.00 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK 19<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.15 MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 23<br />
10.30 SHO DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 1 65<br />
12.30 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 15<br />
12.45 TOMBOY 27<br />
1.00 SHO DILATING TIME 62<br />
3.00 DOC MANN VS FORD 41<br />
3.15 STELLING: REMBRANDT<br />
FECIT 1669 56-57<br />
3.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 50<br />
5.45 RESISTANCE 25<br />
6.00 DOC CALVET 32<br />
6.00 DOC ELEANORE AND THE<br />
TIMEKEEPER 38<br />
8.10 THE SILVER CLIFF 26<br />
8.15 ACT OF GRACE 17<br />
8.30 STELLING: THE ILLUSIONIST 56-57<br />
10.30 DOC SOUND IT OUT &<br />
ANALOGUE KINGDOM 42<br />
10.45 SHO TRIDENTFEST 65<br />
11.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE 51<br />
Cineworld<br />
6.30 MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 23<br />
10.15 TBC<br />
10.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
THE FRONT PAGE 52<br />
11.00 FFF OCTONAUTS, EXPLORE! RESCUE!<br />
PROTECT! 54<br />
12.30 FFF NATURE’S WAY –<br />
CHARLIE & LOLA/TINGA TINGA TALES 54<br />
12.45 JESS + MOSS 29<br />
1.00 SHO WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME 63<br />
3.00 GER BLACK BUTTERFLIES 45<br />
3.15 STELLING: THE POINTSMAN 56-57<br />
3.30 ACT OF GRACE 52<br />
5.30 MUMBAI CHARLIE 55<br />
5.45 TBC<br />
6.00 DOC BRITAIN THROUGH A LENS<br />
& H JENNINGS 32<br />
8.00 DOC BOMBAY BEACH 31<br />
8.15 EVENT: JOS STELLING<br />
IN CONVERSATION (Q&A) 56<br />
8.30 BULLHEAD 18<br />
10.30 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK 19<br />
10.45 TBC<br />
11.00 SHO LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX 62<br />
Cineworld<br />
3.30 GER THE SILENCE 46<br />
35<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk | TIMETABLE |<br />
All tickets must be collected at least 15 minutes<br />
prior to the screening if it’s taking place at<br />
the Arts Picturehouse. If you are attending a<br />
screening at another venue you can collect<br />
pre-booked tickets or buy tickets from the Arts<br />
Picturehouse up to an hour before the film<br />
starts. After that you must collect pre-booked<br />
tickets from the <strong>Festival</strong> desk at the relevant<br />
screening venue, where you will also be able to<br />
buy tickets (subject to availability).<br />
9.00 INTIMATE GRAMMAR 20<br />
6.00 RED STATE 24<br />
8.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: TABLOID 52<br />
Thanks go to Clare McCollum, Roy Gower, and<br />
John Lyle at Cineworld.
SUNDAY<br />
18<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
MONDAY<br />
19<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
TUESDAY<br />
20<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
21<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
10.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN 51<br />
11.00 FFF THE GRUFFALO 54<br />
11.30 FFF TO INFINITY AND BEYOND 55<br />
12.30 DOC AT NIGHT THEY DANCE 30<br />
12.45 DOC MANN VS FORD 41<br />
1.00 SHO LOVE, LOST AND FOUND 63<br />
3.00 GER ABOVE US ONLY SKY<br />
& PHILIPP 44<br />
3.15 STELLING:<br />
NO TRAINS NO PLANES 56-57<br />
3.30 DOC THE LAST PROJECTIONIST 40<br />
5.45 WHITE WHITE WORLD 28<br />
6.00 LATE SEPTEMBER 22<br />
6.15 MYSTERIES OF LISBON PART 1 23<br />
8.00 ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS 25<br />
8.15 GER BURNOUT 45<br />
8.30 MYSTERIES OF LISBON PART 2 23<br />
Magdalene Street<br />
8.00 FREE ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES AND<br />
SELECTED EXTRACTS 11<br />
Emmanuel College<br />
2.30 TBC<br />
5.00 DOC A BOATLOAD OF<br />
WILD IRISHMEN 14<br />
Cineworld<br />
5.00 ISPANSI 27<br />
8.00 THE YELLOW SEA 28<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.15 STELLING: DUSKA 56<br />
10.30 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
VERONICA GUERIN 51<br />
12.30 GER THE POLL DIARIES 46<br />
12.45 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: TABLOID 52<br />
1.00 DOC BOMBAY BEACH 31<br />
3.15 AS IF I AM NOT THERE 17<br />
3.30 DOC THE CAMERA THAT CHANGED<br />
THE WORLD & DON’T LOOK BACK 32<br />
4.00 DRIVE 19<br />
5.30 FLYING FISH 19<br />
5.45 A USEFUL LIFE 28<br />
6.30 DOC CARTOGRAPHY OF<br />
LONELINESS 33<br />
8.00 DOC GIBRALTAR 39<br />
8.15 JO FOR JONATHAN 21<br />
8.30 GER THE SILENCE 46<br />
10.30 TARTAN: SYMPATHY FOR MR<br />
VENGEANCE 49<br />
10.45 DOC BEATBOXING & BEN IS BACK 31<br />
10.45 TIRZA 26<br />
Trinity College<br />
8.30 ROBIN HOOD (7.00 FOR DINNER) 12<br />
Cineworld<br />
6.00 ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS 25<br />
8.30 THE WOMAN 29<br />
10.00 TBC<br />
10.15 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: ZODIAC 52<br />
10.30 LATE SEPTEMBER 22<br />
12.30 TBC<br />
12.45 GIBRALTAR 39<br />
1.00 THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR<br />
& THE LAST PROJECTIONIST 43<br />
2.30 GER IF NOT US, WHO? 45<br />
3.15 DOC MODIGLIANI’S GENUINE FAKE<br />
HEADS & WATER LILIES 41<br />
3.30 EVENT: BERNARD HERRMANN<br />
TRIBUTE – NEIL BRAND 6<br />
4.45 GER UNDER CONTROL 46<br />
5.30 DOC BLOOD IN THE MOBILE 31<br />
5.45 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
CITIZEN KANE 50<br />
7.00 EVENT: MARK KERMODE 6<br />
8.15 DRIVE 19<br />
8.45 GER ANDUNI 46<br />
9.00 TBC<br />
10.45 TARTAN: IRREVERSIBLE 48<br />
11.00 RED STATE 24<br />
11.00 THE WOMAN 29<br />
Emmanuel College Harrods Room<br />
9.00 EVENT: ICO ROADSHOW 13<br />
Timmy Hele Room<br />
12.00 EVENT: WRITER IN RESIDENCE 13<br />
Theatre<br />
6.00 SHO LOCAL TASTES 65<br />
8.30 DOC THE FOREST PRINCE<br />
AND THE PIGMAN & THE STRANGER 39<br />
Sawston Village College<br />
7.30 DOC HERE’S A HEALTH TO THE<br />
BARLEY MOW 40<br />
Cineworld<br />
6.00 GER THE CITY BELOW 45<br />
8.30 RESISTANCE 25<br />
10.00 GER BLACK BUTTERFLIES 45<br />
10.15 FLYING FISH 19<br />
10.30 DOC EGGS FOR LATER &<br />
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK &<br />
BOFFIN & BOFFIN 33<br />
12.30 DOC A BOATLOAD OF<br />
WILD IRISHMEN 14<br />
12.45 TBC<br />
1.00 TIRZA 26<br />
3.00 ROM THE OAK 58<br />
3.15 AS IF I AM NOT THERE 17<br />
3.30 DOC ELEANORE AND THE<br />
TIMEKEEPER 38<br />
5.00 MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND 14<br />
5.45 DOC EL BULLI 33<br />
6.00 DOC A MAN’S STORY:<br />
OZWALD BOATENG 41<br />
7.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: PAGE ONE:<br />
INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES 50<br />
8.15 DIMENSIONS 18<br />
8.30 DOC AT NIGHT, THEY DANCE 30<br />
10.30 GER UNDER CONTROL 46<br />
10.45 SHO DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 2 65<br />
11.00 TARTAN: WILD SIDE 49<br />
Emmanuel College Theatre<br />
2.00 -6.00 EVENT: CREATIVE FRONT 12<br />
7.00 TARTAN: THE SEVENTH SEAL 49<br />
9.00 DOC THE LULU SESSIONS 40<br />
Cineworld<br />
7.00 DRIVE 19<br />
9.00 ATROCIOUS 18
10.00 A USEFUL LIFE & THE ULTIMATE<br />
SURVIVOR 28<br />
10.15 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
ACE IN THE HOLE 52<br />
10.30 CRASSH EVENT: DIVA DOLOROSA<br />
& CENERE<br />
12.30 TARTAN: THE SEVENTH SEAL 49<br />
12.45 ROM THE AFTERNOON OF<br />
A TORTURER 58<br />
1.00 GER THE SILENCE 46<br />
3.00 WHITE WHITE WORLD 28<br />
3.15 SHO EM MEDIA SHORTS 66<br />
3.30 TARTAN: FUNNY GAMES (1997) 48<br />
6.00 DOC THE BENGALI DETECTIVE 31<br />
5.45 DOC STREET KIDS UNITED 43<br />
6.00 ROM STUFF AND DOUGH 59<br />
8.00 EVENT: TARTAN TERROR - HAMISH<br />
MCALPINE IN CONVERSATION 7<br />
8.15 DOC FORKS OVER KNIVES 39<br />
8.30 DOC HENRY MORRIS & BFI ARCHIVE<br />
PROG 40<br />
10.30 DIMENSIONS 18<br />
10.45 THE SHOW MUST GO ON 25<br />
11.00 BULLHEAD 18<br />
Emmanuel College Theatre<br />
4.00 DOC THE FOREST PRINCE<br />
AND THE PIGMAN 39<br />
6.30 DOC CARTOGRAPHY OF<br />
LONELINESS 33<br />
8.30 DOC EL BULLI 33<br />
Cineworld<br />
THURSDAY<br />
22<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
6.00 GUILTY OF ROMANCE 20<br />
8.30 DOC CANE TOADS:<br />
THE CONQUEST 3D 32<br />
10.30 SHO ANIMATION FROM CROATIA 1<br />
& ARU SHORTS 67<br />
11.00 ROM THE OAK 58<br />
11.00 DOC THE LULU SESSIONS 40<br />
12.30 DOC STREET KIDS UNITED 43<br />
1.00 SHO EM MEDIA 2 14<br />
1.30 ROM THE PAPER WILL BE BLUE 59<br />
3.00 THE YELLOW SEA 28<br />
3.30 JO FOR JONATHAN 21<br />
4.00 DOC HENRY MORRIS 40<br />
5.45 TOMORROW AT DAWN 27<br />
6.00 THE NINE MUSES 24<br />
6.00 TBC<br />
8.00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 23<br />
8.15 DOC GERHARD RICHTER: PAINTING 39<br />
8.30 ROM OCCIDENT 59<br />
10.30 RED WHITE & BLUE 24<br />
10.45 THE GERBER SYNDROME 20<br />
11.00 SHO MAD WORLD 64<br />
Cineworld<br />
4.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: PAGE ONE:<br />
INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES 50<br />
6.00 ALBATROSS 17<br />
8.30 THE HELP 21<br />
Murray Edwards<br />
1.00 TBC<br />
3.00 TBC<br />
5.00 TBC<br />
Seminar Room<br />
FRIDAY<br />
23<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
12.00 WRITER IN RESIDENCE WORKSHOP 13<br />
10.30 SHO ANIMATION FROM CROATIA 2 67<br />
11.00 FFF THE GRUFFALO 54<br />
11.30 FFF SPRITES 10 55<br />
12.30 KOSMOS 22<br />
12.45 AGE OF CHAMPIONS<br />
1.00 DOC FC CHECHNYA & FUNGUS 38<br />
3.00 REVIVAL: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS 47<br />
3.15 ROM NIKI AND FLO 58<br />
3.30 TOMORROW AT DAWN 27<br />
5.30 DOC TROUBADORS 43<br />
5.45 RED, WHITE AND BLUE 24<br />
6.00 ROM ROMANIAN<br />
NEW WAVE SHORTS 60<br />
8.00 TYRANNOSAUR 27<br />
8.15 DOC TASTE THE WASTE 43<br />
8.30 DOC THE BALLAD OF GENESIS<br />
AND LADY JAYE 30<br />
10.30 REVIVAL: SILENT RUNNING 47<br />
10.45 GUILTY OF ROMANCE 20<br />
11.00 DOC SOUND IT OUT &<br />
ANALOGUE KINGDOM 42<br />
Cineworld<br />
4.00 DOC THE BENGALI DETECTIVE 31<br />
6.30 DOC POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS:<br />
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD 41<br />
9.00 SLEEPING BEAUTY 26<br />
Murray Edwards<br />
1.00 MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND 14<br />
3.00 HOLD THE FRONT PAGE:<br />
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 50<br />
5.00 TBC<br />
SATURDAY<br />
24<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
10.00 REVIVALS: SILENT RUNNING 47<br />
10.15 TBC<br />
10.30 FFF TBC<br />
12.30 TBC<br />
12.45 INTIMATE GRAMMAR 20<br />
1.00 SHO MAD WORLD 64<br />
3.00 THE HELP 21<br />
3.15 SLEEPING BEAUTY 26<br />
3.30 TROUBADORS 43<br />
5.45 DOC POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS:<br />
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD 41<br />
6.00 SURPRISE MOVIE 5<br />
6.00 SHO WOUNDS AND SCARS 64<br />
8.00 TBC<br />
8.15 KOSMOS 22<br />
8.30 CLOSING FILM: THE LOOK 15<br />
Murray Edwards<br />
1.00 TBC<br />
3.00 TBC<br />
5.00 DOC GERHARD RICHTER: PAINTING 39<br />
Seminar Room<br />
12.00 EVENT: WRITER IN RESIDENCE<br />
WORKSHOP 13<br />
Cineworld<br />
SUNDAY<br />
25<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
2.30 REVIVAL: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS 47<br />
5.00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 23<br />
7.30 TYRANNOSAUR 27
38<br />
ELEANORE AND FC CHECHNYA (CFF 15)<br />
THE TIMEKEEPER (U)<br />
Director: Hairless <strong>Film</strong>s Collective. USA. 76 mins.<br />
Box office: 0871 902 5720 | DOCUMENTARIES |<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
6.00pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
3.30pm<br />
In a rural Pennsylvanian farming and logging<br />
community, Eleanore, aged 91, has been caring for<br />
her developmentally disabled son Ronnie for 64<br />
years. Theirs is an extremely close bond, based<br />
around profound love and a life of quiet daily ritual.<br />
Deciding that she can go on no longer, Eleanore<br />
decides to move Ronnie into a group home. The<br />
resulting film traces the surprising and changing<br />
nature of their relationship over the next 7 year.<br />
Beautifully and movingly told, the story of Ronnie<br />
and Eleanore highlights themes – the loneliness of<br />
old age, independence, mortality and dealing with<br />
disability – that resonate the world over.<br />
Print source: Hairless <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
1.00pm<br />
Director: Fahad Mustafa. Austria <strong>2011</strong>. 70 mins. German and<br />
Russian with English subtitles.<br />
FC Chechnya is a football club run solely by<br />
Chechen refugees and asylum seekers in<br />
Carinthia. Acting as a social support base and<br />
a means for psychological release during the<br />
horrendously drawn-out and mentally exhausting<br />
asylum process, the football club is home to a<br />
number of fascinating stories. The film focuses on<br />
three young asylum seekers who find themselves<br />
submerged in the murky waters of the asylum<br />
seeking process. Through a series of perceptive<br />
and insightful interviews, the film explores their<br />
hopes and dreams for the future, and how football<br />
provides them a lifeline to the world they were<br />
once used to. Print source: Globalistan <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
OUR ORDERED LIVES (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Christine Entwisle. UK. 10 mins<br />
Escaping from the horror of her own actions,<br />
a young woman is catapulted from the<br />
claustrophobia of her West Cumbrian home,<br />
leaving a trail of feathers in her wake.<br />
FUNGUS (SVAMP) (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Charlotta Miller. Sweden. 8 mins.<br />
Paralyzed by grief and with an itchy genital<br />
area, Katrin lets things fall apart.<br />
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TUE<br />
20<br />
8.30pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
4.00pm Emmanuel<br />
Theatre<br />
THE FOREST<br />
PRINCE AND THE<br />
PIGMAN (CFF 12)<br />
Director: Craig Constantine. With: Bernd Wechner, Elijah<br />
Wald, Morgan Strub. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 71 mins.<br />
Interweaving a coast-to-coast hitchhiking trip<br />
with the underground history of bumming<br />
rides, documentary maker Craig Constantine<br />
thumbs a lift and pops the bonnet on a secret<br />
stash of archive materials, including a longsuppressed<br />
US government study on the safety<br />
of hitchhiking. Overtaking myths and pulling<br />
over for plenty of surprising facts, the film<br />
reveals a kaleidoscope of road-going chancers<br />
– from teenage thrill-seekers to an acclaimed<br />
sculptor and cop blasting ABBA.<br />
Print source: October Wind Productions<br />
THE STRANGER (CERT TBC)<br />
Director: Rodd Rathjen. Australia <strong>2011</strong>. 10 mins.<br />
Inappropriate behaviour costs nothing...<br />
Print source: roddrathjen@gmail.com<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
8.15pm<br />
FORKS OVER<br />
KNIVES (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Lee Fulkerson. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 96 mins.<br />
Tracing the research of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a<br />
nutritional biochemist, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn,<br />
a former surgeon, director Lee Fulkerson argues<br />
that heart disease, diabetes and even some<br />
forms of cancer could be prevented by adopting<br />
a whole foods, plant-based diet. Stemming from<br />
his own personal desire for lifestyle change,<br />
Fulkerson attempts to alter his own diet as he<br />
talks to people about their health conditions and<br />
discusses change with representatives across the<br />
health industry. Whether you’re a health guru or<br />
hamburger apologista, this film is guaranteed to<br />
make you think twice before your next lunch.<br />
Print source: Monica Beach Media<br />
Wallace Cancer Care will host a panel discussion<br />
and take questions after the screening. The<br />
panel will be lead by Professor Rob Thomas,<br />
consultant oncologist at Addenbrooke’s and<br />
Bedford Hospitals and Dr Eleni Tsiompanou,<br />
Specialist in Palliative Care and Chair of<br />
Nutrition and Food Group for Help the Hospices.<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
8.15pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
5.00pm Murray<br />
Edwards<br />
GERHARD RICHTER<br />
– PAINTING (CERT TBC)<br />
Director: Corinna Belz. Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 97 mins.<br />
Gerhard Richter, one of the internationally most<br />
significant contemporary artists of our times,<br />
granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his<br />
studio in the spring and summer of 2009 where<br />
he was working on a series of large abstract<br />
paintings. In quiet, highly concentrated images,<br />
the film gives us a fly-on-the-wall perspective<br />
of a very personal, tension-filled process<br />
of artistic creation. In her intelligent and<br />
perceptive film, Corinna Belz brings us closer<br />
to the complex processes of artistic creation.<br />
Gerhard Richter Painting is the penetrating<br />
portrait of an artist at work – and a fascinating<br />
film about the art of seeing.<br />
Print source: Soda Pictures<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
8.00pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
12.45pm<br />
GIBRALTAR (CFF U)<br />
Director: Ana Garcia. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 83 mins.<br />
Intertwining the history of her homeland with<br />
the story of her return there for her marriage,<br />
filmmaker Ana Garcia successfully brings<br />
together her past and her future. The union<br />
that is her wedding is portrayed in parallel<br />
with the troubled history between Spain and<br />
Gibraltar, and as these two opposing forces come<br />
together it becomes powerfully apparent that<br />
the country’s history is her family’s story as<br />
Gibraltarians. And this is where the film finds its<br />
heart – in the people, who have a deep-rooted<br />
sense of who they are; their patriotism both<br />
resilient and moving. Themes of love and respect<br />
run throughout, as strong as the rock that<br />
represents the country itself. Told with energy<br />
and spirit through the many voices of her family,<br />
friends and countrymen, this is a film that truly<br />
shows that home is where the heart is.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
the Mon 19 screening.<br />
Print source: Revolution <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
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THU<br />
22<br />
8.30pm<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
4.00pm<br />
40<br />
HENRY MORRIS (CFF U) HERE’S A HEALTH THE LAST<br />
Director: Peter Harmer. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 60 mins. TO THE BARLEY<br />
MOW (CFF U)<br />
Directors: various. UK. 70 mins.<br />
Young filmmakers from Sawston have recruited<br />
Peter Harmer of Stories – Projects in <strong>Film</strong> to<br />
help them commemorate the 80th anniversary<br />
of the opening of their school. The Village<br />
College was created as part of a pioneering<br />
educational and social initiative conceived by<br />
Henry Morris, then Secretary of Education for<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire. During the Great Depression,<br />
Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) toured some<br />
of the most poverty stricken areas of his<br />
father’s kingdom – including Sawston, where<br />
the young Prince had the privilege of opening<br />
the first Village College in the country. Shot on<br />
a £25,000 budget from the Heritage Lottery<br />
fund, HENRY MORRIS looks at the life and<br />
legacy of the ‘educator extraordinary’ himself,<br />
mingling modern re-enactment with original<br />
archive footage preserved by the school.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
the Thu 22 screening.<br />
Print source: Stories – Projects in <strong>Film</strong><br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
7.30pm Sawston<br />
A collection of films from the BFI archive,<br />
offering unique insight into some of the varied<br />
and curious folk traditions from across Britain<br />
– a rare document of many local customs<br />
that might otherwise be lost. From the ‘sexy,<br />
savage’ Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax’s<br />
OSS OSS WEE OSS, to Jeremy Deller and Alan<br />
Kane’s footage of ferociously fought traditional<br />
football; from children’s games in London’s<br />
bombed East End to intricate sword and step<br />
dances, this collection of poetic documentaries,<br />
long unseen television reports and rare silent<br />
film footage reveals just how powerful and<br />
enduring the folk traditions of Great Britain<br />
have always been. This selection of newly<br />
remastered films features innovative fiddle and<br />
melodeon accompaniments by contemporary<br />
folk musicians.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
3.30pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
1.00pm<br />
PROJECTIONIST<br />
(CFF 12)<br />
Director: Thomas Lawes. UK <strong>2011</strong> TBC mins. English.<br />
Thomas Lawes’ nostalgic documentary celebrates<br />
independent cinema tradition, showing how its<br />
renaissance is now a worldwide phenomenon.<br />
Lawes interviews former staff, industry experts<br />
and customers, including proud projectionist<br />
John Brockington, who has been a stalwart<br />
of Birmingham’s projection boxes since 1955.<br />
Old picture palaces all over the UK are facing<br />
extinction, and THE LAST PROJECTIONIST focuses<br />
on Birmingham’s Electric, the oldest working<br />
cinema in Britain – which saw out the silents over<br />
a hundred years ago, had a stint as a wartime<br />
news outlet during WWII and spent the 70s and<br />
80s catering to connoisseurs of adult film. These<br />
venerable vintage cinemas offer contemporary<br />
film lovers an old school alternative to the<br />
mainstream – but does the switch from 35mm to<br />
digital mark the end of an era for projectionists?<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
the Sun 18 screening. Print source: Thomas Lawes<br />
Emmanuel<br />
Theatre<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
9.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
11.00am<br />
THE LULU<br />
SESSIONS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: S. Casper Wong. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 75 mins.<br />
Raw and intense, LULU captures those emotions<br />
we hold closest to us, and is soon completely<br />
enthralling – at once unbelievable yet fiercely<br />
real. Lulu is a world-class cancer researcher<br />
breaking new ground, when she discovers<br />
she herself is dying of breast cancer at 42.<br />
Her remaining 15 months are captured by her<br />
best friend and lover (Wong), who fell in love<br />
with the brilliant scientist and chain-smoking<br />
rebel when she was Lulu’s student abroad. Like<br />
no other documentary seen this year, Lulu’s<br />
story, her passion and character, will stay<br />
with you: this is more than just a testament to<br />
great documentary filmmaking. As aptly put<br />
by LA Weekly: “Lulu will absolutely charm you,<br />
precisely because she’s not trying to”.<br />
We hope to welcome the filmmaker to the<br />
Wednesday 21 screening.<br />
Print source: S Casper Wong
WED<br />
21<br />
6.00pm<br />
A MAN’S STORY –<br />
OZWALD BOATENG<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Varon Bonicos. UK 2010. 90 mins.<br />
Suit up for this stylish documentary covering<br />
the last 12 years of fashion designer Ozwald<br />
Boateng. Director Varon Bonicos intimately<br />
charts the extraordinary career of the first black<br />
tailor to open up shop on London’s Savile Row,<br />
capturing the journey and evolution of the man<br />
as well as the designer. Originally intended to be<br />
a five month project, Bonicos hung around as<br />
Boateng’s life hurtled breakneck through divorce,<br />
business meltdown, appointment at Givenchy,<br />
marriage to a Russian model, his own American<br />
reality series and all with a work ethic to match.<br />
Jamie Foxx, Giorgio Armani, Paul Bettany and<br />
many more smartly-attired commentators step<br />
up in a biographical film as unique, layered and<br />
compelling as its subject. Quick simply the bestdressed<br />
film you’ll see this year.<br />
Print source: Trinity <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
3.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
12.45pm<br />
MANN V. FORD (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Maro Chermayeff, Micah Fink. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 105 mins.<br />
In the late 1960s a Ford Motors plant in Mahwah,<br />
New Jersey dumped toxic paint sludge. As the<br />
local Indian community’s children played in<br />
this colourful waste little could they conceive<br />
of the devastation to follow. Rashes swiftly<br />
led to cancer, chronic diseases and for many,<br />
death. Ford officially tidied up the site in the<br />
1990s but most of the waste remained. MANN V.<br />
FORD follows the resident Ramapough Indians<br />
and their legal team as they take on Ford and<br />
the US Environmental Protection Agency. Over<br />
the course of five years their fight for justice<br />
led from community centres to the halls of<br />
government. Maro Chermayeff and Micah Fink’s<br />
red-raw documentary charts the emotional<br />
journey of this real-life, high-stakes drama.<br />
Print source: Show of Force<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
3.15pm<br />
MODIGLIANI’S<br />
GENUINE FAKE<br />
HEADS (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Giovanni Donfrancesco. Italy/France <strong>2011</strong>. 60 mins.<br />
Italian, English and French with English subtitles.<br />
In 1984, during one hot summer in Livorno, Italy<br />
(the hometown of painter and sculptor Amedeo<br />
Modigliani) three students with a wicked sense of<br />
humour and an electric drill went to work carving<br />
several Modigliani-esque busts, partly as a joke,<br />
partly as a means of demonstrating their skills.<br />
This set off an international chain reaction among<br />
art critics and historians who raved about these<br />
exceptional new discoveries of the Master’s work.<br />
Soon the town was over-run by experts and news<br />
crews all wanting to catch a glimpse, much to the<br />
bafflement of the locals.<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
WATER LILIES IN BLOOM<br />
(VANNLILJER I BLOMST)<br />
Director: Emil Stang Lund. Norway. 14 mons.<br />
The suspended synchronized swimming guru<br />
Labanosov entices overweight women to join<br />
him in his mission to prove Isaac Newton wrong.<br />
Cineworld<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
6.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
5.45pm<br />
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS:<br />
THE GREATEST<br />
MOVIE EVER SOLD<br />
(12A)<br />
Director: Morgan Spurlock. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 88 mins.<br />
Everything’s for sale these days, including the<br />
title of Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about<br />
product placement in the movies. Spurlock<br />
made a name for himself in SUPERSIZE ME by<br />
eating nothing but McDonalds for a month.<br />
Here he tackles advertising head-on by making<br />
a film about advertising financed solely by<br />
advertisers he manages to find in the film.<br />
Taking viewers through the process from<br />
cold calling to pitching ideas to eventually<br />
shoehorning their commercials into the movie<br />
itself, Spurlock blows the lid off product<br />
placement with outrageous levels of cheek.<br />
Part advert, part education – THE GREATEST<br />
MOVIE EVER SOLD is the most fun audiences will<br />
have with product placement since the sponsor<br />
scene in WAYNE’S WORLD. And yes, he even<br />
gives McDonalds a call...<br />
Print source: The Works<br />
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FRI<br />
16<br />
10.30pm<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
11.00pm<br />
Director: Jeanie Finlay. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 74 mins. English<br />
A cultural heaven in one of the most deprived<br />
areas in the country, Sound It Out Records is run<br />
by the drily philosophical Tom Butchart, whose<br />
wealth of knowledge helps customers track down<br />
that elusive rare vinyl. Directed by Jeanie Finlay,<br />
who grew up nearby, the film follows a number<br />
of the shop’s long-standing customers, from the<br />
Makina boys and the devout Status Quo fan, to the<br />
presenters of a dance music radio show run from<br />
a garden shed in Billingham. Funny, heartfelt and<br />
intimate, SOUND IT OUT is a celebration both of<br />
the Northern soul and good music.<br />
Print source: Pipoca Pictures<br />
ANALOGUE KINGDOM (U)<br />
Director: Esther Johnson. UK. 24 mins. English.<br />
An intricately composed, lovingly paced and<br />
charming paean to Gerald Wells, founder and<br />
Curator of the British Vintage Wireless and<br />
Television Museum, and his passion.<br />
Print source: Blanche Pictures<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
5.45pm<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
12.30pm<br />
STREET KIDS<br />
UNITED (CFF U)<br />
Director: Tim Pritchard. UK 2010. 75 mins.<br />
Following the South African team, the Umthombo<br />
Young Stars, throughout the Street Child World<br />
Cup in Durban in 2010, this is a heartwarming<br />
story of determination, spirit and hope.<br />
Emerging from varied backgrounds of poverty<br />
and crime, the children need to show discipline<br />
and willpower to turn their backs on the<br />
attractions of the street. Through the trials and<br />
tribulations that they need to overcome, one<br />
question remains unanswered: once it is all over,<br />
will the children go back to their former lives?<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
the Thu 22 screening.<br />
Building on the success of the inaugural event,<br />
Street Child United has been established by<br />
Amos Trust, Action for Brazil’s Children’s Trust<br />
and Momentum Arts to deliver the 2014 Street<br />
Child World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The<br />
Street Child World Cup was an idea born in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> that aims to transform the lives of<br />
street children around the world.<br />
Print source: Momentum Arts
SAT<br />
24<br />
8.15pm<br />
TASTE THE WASTE<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
Director: Valetin Thurn. Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 88 mins. German,<br />
French & English with English subtitles.<br />
In a world constantly battling against famine,<br />
TASTE THE WASTE presents an uncomfortable<br />
truth: 50 percent of all food is thrown away –<br />
every second salad, every second potato and<br />
every fifth loaf of bread. The majority ends<br />
up in waste disposals before it even reaches<br />
the consumer. Valentin Thurn asks urgent<br />
questions: Who turns food into waste? What<br />
are the consequences of the global food waste<br />
for our climate, and for seven billion people?<br />
He finds answers from farmers, supermarket<br />
managers, garbage men and cooks in Germany,<br />
Austria, Japan, France, Cameroon, Italy and the<br />
US. He also finds people who have developed<br />
alternatives to stop this waste. TASTE THE WASTE<br />
is a documentary everyone should see – one<br />
that, despite its shocking message, offers hope.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker to<br />
this screening.<br />
Print source: Schnittstelle Tthurn<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
5.30pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
3.30pm<br />
TROUBADOURS<br />
(CFF 12)<br />
Director: Morgan Neville. USA <strong>2011</strong>. 91 mins. English.<br />
In the midst of the international social upheavals<br />
of the 1960s, a new style of songwriter was<br />
emerging. Defined by a tendency for brutal<br />
self-analysis and raw, open emotion, these<br />
songwriters counterpointed heart-stopping tales<br />
with the simplest of musical accompaniments.<br />
Los Angeles became the city where these<br />
songwriters gathered, and their musical<br />
home became an old beatnik folk club with an<br />
appropriate moniker: The Troubadour. It quickly<br />
became the beating heart of the American<br />
musical scene. Recounting their stories (amongst<br />
others) are the now world-famous singersongwriters<br />
Carole King, James Taylor, Jackson<br />
Browne, Joni Mitchell and Kris Kristofferson, all<br />
of whom found initial fame playing at The Troub’.<br />
Following the club’s 50th anniversary in 2007,<br />
the film follows the celebratory concerts and<br />
discusses the enduring spirit of friendship and<br />
creativity which defined the era.<br />
Print source: Tremelo<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
1.00pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
10.00am<br />
THE ULTIMATE<br />
SURVIVOR (PG)<br />
Director: Philip Hind. Narrator: Neil Wood. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 59 mins.<br />
THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR is director and writer<br />
Philip Hind’s first solo project, an in depth look at<br />
one of Oxford’s historic and unusual landmarks;<br />
the Picture Palace cinema. The Owners, staff,<br />
cinemagoers and historians celebrate its 100th<br />
anniversary in this centennial-spanning look<br />
at how the cinema deserved the proudly bared<br />
title of ‘the ultimate survivor’. Overcoming<br />
neglect, squatters and the very real threat of<br />
demolition, the Picture Palace has proved it is<br />
not just a historical icon but also a much beloved<br />
feature of Oxford’s current cultural scene. The<br />
documentary is a permanent testament to<br />
the importance of a local cinema with a bright<br />
future.<br />
Print source: Picture Palace<br />
THE LAST PROJECTIONIST<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
See entry on page 40.<br />
CFF STAFF <strong>2011</strong><br />
Tony Jones<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Director<br />
Catherine Kemp<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Administrator<br />
Becky Innes<br />
Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> & Screen Team<br />
Claire Rastogi<br />
Marketing, Design & Web Manager<br />
Aline Conti<br />
Shorts Programmer & Submissions<br />
Coordinator<br />
Verena Von Stackelberg<br />
International Programme Coordinator<br />
Bill Lawrence • Tony Earnshaw<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Programmers<br />
Iris Ordonez<br />
Hospitality & Logistics<br />
Toby Venables<br />
Press & PR Manager & <strong>Brochure</strong> Editor<br />
Dan Taylor<br />
<strong>Brochure</strong> Designer<br />
Emma Woolerton<br />
Q&A Producer<br />
Matt Pink<br />
CFF Twitter<br />
Camilla Cockcroft • Dean Dodd-Ramsey<br />
Bobby Marrone • Ieva Marscionkaite<br />
Suzy Milburn • Alex Phillips • Kath Singer<br />
Ivan Stoyanov • Katerina Webb-Bourne<br />
CFF Interns<br />
Rosy Hunt (Editor) • Fiona Scoble • Mike Boyd<br />
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AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
Keith Gehlert<br />
General Manager<br />
John Davis • Daniel Patten • Alicia Lopez Rios<br />
Duty Managers<br />
Peter Phillips<br />
Duty Manager & Copy Editor<br />
Joe Delaney<br />
Assistant Manager & Chief Projectionist<br />
Rydian Cook • Claire Mackenzie • Dermot Nolan<br />
Christian Lapidge • Jesse Wood<br />
Projectionists<br />
Roger Smith<br />
Projection & <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Projects
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3.00pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
8.45pm<br />
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There is a colourful mixture on<br />
offer from this year’s German film<br />
productions, dealing with some<br />
rarely explored historical subjects<br />
(the Baltic German history in THE<br />
POLL DIARIES, for example) as<br />
well as providing a fresh perspective<br />
on more familiar themes (IF NOT<br />
US, WHO? dealing with the Baader<br />
Meinhof story). There are pressing<br />
political issues at stake in the<br />
documentary UNDER CONTROL,<br />
examining the validity of nuclear<br />
power plants, and urgent questions<br />
asked about corporate power<br />
(THE CITY BELOW). Private<br />
lives in modern, multicultural Berlin<br />
are pushed into the limelight in<br />
BURNOUT, and you will experience<br />
a gripping thriller if you decide to<br />
watch THE SILENCE.<br />
ABOVE US ONLY SKY (CFF 15)<br />
(ÜBER UNS DAS ALL)<br />
Director: Jan Schomburg. Starring: Sandra Hüller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp. Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 88 mins.<br />
German with English subtitles.<br />
One could say of Martha’s life that it’s wellbalanced,<br />
fulfilling – happy. She enjoys her teaching<br />
job, has a group of loyal, loving friends and, above<br />
all, she has Paul. The man she loves and has been<br />
living with for several years now. With Paul at her<br />
side, the positive, energetic Martha has no fear of<br />
the future. Then two policewomen show up at her<br />
door, and with just a few words tear her life apart.<br />
The man Martha has been living with is a phantom<br />
– a presence that seems to have glided out of her<br />
life without leaving a trace – his life a lie. As she<br />
tries to cope, she meets Alexander, and a simple,<br />
single gesture of his hand suffices to remind her<br />
of Paul. But can Alexander fill the void? Winner of<br />
the European Cinema Label at Berlinale <strong>2011</strong> for its<br />
“economical story-telling (and) humour alongside<br />
strong emotions”.<br />
PHILIPP (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Fabian Möhrke. Starring: Max Hegewald, Hans Jochen Wagner, Vanessa Krüger,<br />
Anna Bolk. Germany 2010. 40 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
With oversized glasses on his narrow face and<br />
abundant sarcasm, Philipp lurches through<br />
a life that is not actually his own. At an age<br />
when people should be talking about plans for<br />
the future, he is trapped in helpless silence.<br />
His overly chummy father aims to sort it<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Print source: Bavaria <strong>Film</strong><br />
UK Premiere<br />
out – but opposition slowly rears its head.<br />
(<strong>Film</strong>festival Cottbus)<br />
Audience Award <strong>Festival</strong> Premiers Plans<br />
d´Angers <strong>2011</strong>, France<br />
Print source: Jost Hering <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
ANDUNI (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Samira Radsi. Starring: Irina Potapenko,<br />
Florian Lukas, Tilo Prückner. Germany/Armenia <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
88 mins. German and Armenian with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Armenian Belinda feels at home in Germany,<br />
where she was born, lives and studies just<br />
like any other German girl her age. But when<br />
she loses her father, she is suddenly drawn<br />
into the traditional Armenian lifestyle of her<br />
migrant relatives. Her aunts require her to<br />
work in their seamstress shop and secretly<br />
plot to marry her off to one of her kind. While<br />
Belinda is becoming increasingly curious about<br />
her roots, their traditional ways also threaten<br />
her relationship with Manuel, a German. She<br />
embarks on a journey into the past and the<br />
present to find out who she really is. ANDUNI<br />
shows a culture that is exciting and complex,<br />
and a love story that reaches beyond family<br />
traditions.<br />
Print source: Elsani <strong>Film</strong>
SAT<br />
17<br />
3.00pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
10.00am<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
8.15pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
6.00pm Cineworld<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
2.30pm<br />
45<br />
BLACK<br />
BUTTERFLIES (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Paula van der Oest. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Carice<br />
van Houten, Liam Cunningham. Germany, Netherlands, South<br />
Africa 2010. 100 mins.<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Rejected by her father and despite love affairs<br />
with many men, no one can give South African<br />
poet Ingrid Jonker what she seeks. It is not until<br />
Nelson Mandela, in his first speech to the South<br />
African Parliament in 1994, reads Ingrid Jonker’s<br />
poem ‘The child who was shot dead by soldiers in<br />
Nyanga’ that she finds recognition, being hailed<br />
as one of the greatest poets in South Africa..<br />
BLACK BUTTERFLIES is the riveting love- and lifestory<br />
of the young poet – a powerful portrait of a<br />
strong-headed woman and talented yet troubled<br />
artist during the Apartheid regime. Carice<br />
van Houten (VALKYRIE, BLACK BOOK) inhabits<br />
the character in a breathtaking tour de force,<br />
starring opposite Liam Cunningham (THE WIND<br />
THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY) as her all-consuming<br />
love and Rutger Hauer (BLADE RUNNER) as her<br />
oppressive father.<br />
Print source: Bavaria <strong>Film</strong><br />
BURNOUT (CFF 15)<br />
(ABGEBRANNT)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Verena S. Freytag. Starring: Maryam Zaree, Tilla<br />
Kratochwil, Lukas Steltner, Keywann Fischer, Marie Louise<br />
Heinzel, Leon Kilian. Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 102 mins. German with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Berlin tattooist and single mother of three,<br />
Pelin (Maryam Zaree) collapses when one day<br />
her problems overwhelm her: her son eats her<br />
boyfriends drugs and ends up in hospital, social<br />
services threaten to take away her children<br />
and she loses her job. Burnt out, she is offered<br />
the chance to go on a recovery programme<br />
for single mothers by the seaside. At first she<br />
causes trouble, but then she meets the very<br />
different Christa (Kratochwil) and slowly a<br />
friendship develops. Director Verena S. Freytag’s<br />
award-winning script tells a story that could be<br />
taken from many existing lives in Berlin. At its<br />
heart, BURNOUT is a coming of age story about<br />
an immature woman who is learning how to<br />
become a grown up, and a mother.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the filmmaker<br />
to this screening.<br />
Print source: Jost Hering <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
THE CITY BELOW<br />
(CFF 15) (UNTER DIR DIE STADT)<br />
Director: Christoph Hochhäusler. Starring: Mark Waschke,<br />
Nicolette Krebitz, Robert Hunger-Buehle. Germany 2010. 110<br />
mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
Thanks to a chance meeting at a mandatory<br />
cultural event, Roland Cordes, 55, and<br />
a member of the board of a large bank,<br />
encounters the wife of a new employee: Svenja<br />
Steve, 33. There is an immediate attraction<br />
between the two. When a bank manager is<br />
murdered in Indonesia, Cordes seizes his<br />
chance and suggests Svenja’s husband Oliver<br />
for the position, even though there are better<br />
qualified people to take the job. With Oliver<br />
in Jakarta, a love affair develops – but when<br />
Cordes’ scheme is exposed, Svenja suddenly<br />
ends the relationship, plunging him into<br />
turmoil. At the same time in Jakarta: Oliver is<br />
being threatened. Svenja begs him to return. In<br />
a dramatic night, Cordes quits his position on<br />
the board of directors, Svenja jogs through a<br />
park at night, and Oliver stops to reflect for the<br />
first time in his life... But is it really over?<br />
Print source: The Match Factory<br />
IF NOT US, WHO?<br />
(CFF 15) WER WENN NICHT<br />
WIR?<br />
Director: Andres Veiel. Starring: Michael Wittenborn,<br />
Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Maria-Victoria Dragus,<br />
August Diehl. Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 104 mins. German with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Germany in the early 60s: a time of departure.<br />
Bernward Vesper, son of the Nazi writer Will<br />
Vesper, is rebellious. During the night, he slams<br />
the angry words into his typewriter that he<br />
wants to throw in the face of the establishment.<br />
When he meets Gudrun Ensslin, it’s the<br />
beginning of an extreme affair: unconditional,<br />
excessive, beyond all thresholds of pain.<br />
Together they set off to conquer the world. But<br />
less than 10 years later, Bernward is caught up<br />
in the madness of drugs and Gudrun throws<br />
herself into the armed underground. For both<br />
of them, there is no turning back.<br />
Vesper (is) a remarkable,<br />
fascinating, figure and uncovering<br />
it is the true achievement of Veiel’s film.”<br />
FILM DAILY<br />
Print source: The Match Factory<br />
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19<br />
12.30pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
3.30pm<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
8.30pm<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
4.45pm<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
10.30pm<br />
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THE POLL DIARIES (CFF 15)<br />
(POLL)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Chris Kraus. Starring: Edgar Selge, Paula Beer, Richy Mülle. Germany<br />
2010. 134 mins. German, Estonian, French, Russian with English subtitles.<br />
On the eve of World War I, 14-year-old Oda von Siering returns to<br />
Poll, her family home on the Baltic coast, a region uneasily shared<br />
by Germans, Russians and Estonians. She carries with her the<br />
mortal remains of her mother. Awaiting the inquisitive girl are<br />
her father Ebbo, an eccentric scientist with a dubious interest in<br />
eugenics, her aunt Milla, who flees reality through music and affairs,<br />
and other members of her aristocratic German family who cling to<br />
their privileges in a world on the brink of disaster. Upon finding a<br />
wounded Estonian anarchist on the estate, the impulsive Oda hides<br />
him and secretly nurses him back to health, aware that her deed<br />
could trigger a chain reaction of uncontrollable violence. FOUR<br />
MINUTES director Chris Kraus’ THE POLL DIARIES hauntingly evokes<br />
the end-of-days atmosphere of a doomed society at the crossroads<br />
of the German and Russian Empires.<br />
Print source: Bavaria <strong>Film</strong>s International<br />
THE SILENCE (CFF 18)<br />
(DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN)<br />
Director: Baran bo Odar. Starring: Katrin Sass, Burghart Klaußner, Karoline<br />
Eichhorn, Roeland Wiesnekker. Germany 2010. 119 mins. German with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
A bicycle found in a wheat field. A missing girl. Is history<br />
repeating itself? 23 years ago, a young girl named Pia was raped<br />
and murdered at this exact spot. Has the same thing happened<br />
now to 13-year-old Sinikka? Krischan, the retired police inspector<br />
who led the first investigation, is convinced that there’s a<br />
connection between the two crimes. As the days go by, an<br />
unbearable heat sits over the town’s modest homes like a bell<br />
jar. And behind the doors, once intact worlds begin to fall apart.<br />
In this strikingly commanding feature, Baran bo Odar (UNDER<br />
THE SUN) confirms his status as one of the most promising and<br />
talented young directors of today. His exceptional directing<br />
skills and distinctly cinematic language give this screen<br />
adaptation of a bestselling novel his unmistakable signature.<br />
Print source: Soda Pictures<br />
UNDER CONTROL (CFF 15)<br />
(UNTER KONTROLLE)<br />
UK Premiere<br />
Director: Volker Sattel. Germany <strong>2011</strong>. 98 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
Coincidentally made just before the atomic catastrophe in<br />
Japan, UNDER CONTROL gives an exclusive and fascinating<br />
insight into nuclear power – with frank and thorough access<br />
filmmaker Volker Sattel (AFTER EFFECT) would not have been<br />
able to gain post-Fokushima. Beautiful compositions of retro<br />
control rooms, old villages and rural farms overshadowed by the<br />
towering plants are accompanied by interviews with employees<br />
and managers about security procedures and safety measures,<br />
their relationship to the (occasionally opposing) villagers and<br />
past experiences of near accidents. With its often meditative<br />
images and restrained soundtrack, the film gives the viewer<br />
time to observe and reflect upon the history and safety of<br />
nuclear power plants without imposing any opinion of its own.<br />
Perhaps cinema’s most magnificent look at<br />
nuclear energy” VARIETY<br />
Print source: Credo <strong>Film</strong><br />
The screening will be followed by a talk on this topic by<br />
specially invited guests – please visit our website for details.
REVIVALS<br />
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (U)<br />
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant. USA<br />
1951. 113 mins.<br />
Gene Kelly plays Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter<br />
living in Paris who is discovered by a wealthy heiress on the<br />
streets of Montmartre. Jerry soon meets and falls in love with a<br />
beautiful young dancer called Lise (Leslie Caron) who is already<br />
engaged to a famous cabaret artist. Jerry’s friend Adam Cook<br />
(Oscar Levant), an aspiring pianist/composer, offers a comically<br />
cynical take on matters as complications begin to arise. Winner<br />
of six Academy Awards in 1951, including Best Picture, Vincente<br />
Minnelli’s AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is possibly the greatest<br />
achievement in movie musicals from the 1950s.<br />
New digital HD print.<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
3.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
25<br />
2.30pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
SILENT RUNNING (U)<br />
Director: Douglas Trumbull. Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse<br />
Vint. USA 1972. 89 mins.<br />
Bruce Dern stars as Lowell, introverted caretaker of a vast<br />
greenhouse located on a space station – the last remaining<br />
greenery rescued from a dying planet earth. Regarded as a weirdo<br />
by the three other human crewmembers, he takes refuge in the<br />
company of a trio of endearing robots named Huey, Dewey and<br />
Louie. But when word comes from home that the greenhouse can<br />
no longer be sustained and is to be destroyed, Lowell is faced with<br />
a stark choice: obey orders and watch the last of nature disappear<br />
forever, or turn against his own crewmates... A classic – but<br />
frequently overlooked – piece of cinematic SF, directed by legendary<br />
visual effects genius Doug Trumbull, who supplied the stunning<br />
spaceships for (amongst many others) Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE<br />
ODYSSEY and Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.<br />
New digital HD print.<br />
SAT SUN<br />
24 25<br />
10.30pm 10.00am<br />
Print source: Eureka<br />
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Tartan <strong>Film</strong>s: A Tribute<br />
Under the idiosyncratic leadership of Hamish McAlpine,<br />
Tartan brought a staggering array of international cinema<br />
to the UK – including classic works by Eisenstein, Bergman,<br />
Pasolini, Cocteau and Herzog. But it was in finding and<br />
distributing works by, new, groundbreaking filmmakers that<br />
McAlpine proved most adept. In a world increasingly given<br />
over to the multiplex, it was largely thanks to Tartan that<br />
cinephiles were able to discover and explore Almodóvar,<br />
Breillat, von Trier, Haneke and dozens more – not to mention<br />
the new wave of hugely influential Asian horrors, including<br />
AUDITION, RING, THE EYE and DARK WATER. Many of the latter<br />
were released on Tartan’s subsidiary VHS/DVD labels Tartan<br />
Terror and Tartan Asia Extreme, whose output attracted a<br />
huge following.<br />
For those in the know, Tartan became a byword for<br />
cinema that was genuinely new, adventurous and exciting.<br />
It also made a stand for the integrity of these works,<br />
sparking some memorable scraps with the BBFC. At a<br />
time when some distributors were growing conservative<br />
and circumspect, McAlpine championed the raw and the<br />
uncut, preserving many controversial works threatened by<br />
censors – not least IRREVERSIBLE and OLDBOY.<br />
We celebrate the work of Tartan with a selection of films<br />
from its rich back catalogue, and an opportunity to hear<br />
the inside story from the passionate provocateur himself.<br />
Hamish McAlpine will be in conversation with Guardian<br />
film critic Peter Bradshaw on Thursday 22 September,<br />
at 8.00pm. See page 7 for full details.<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
3.30pm<br />
FUNNY GAMES (18)<br />
Director: Michael Haneke. Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Arno Frisch,<br />
Frank Giering. Austria 1997. 108 mins.<br />
Georg is looking forward to a happy holiday with his wife Anna,<br />
son Georgie and their dog. But when they arrive at their idyllic<br />
Austrian lake house, they soon find themselves pestered by a<br />
polite but rather insistent pair of young men named Peter and<br />
Paul (or is it Paul and Peter?) – both of whom are dressed in<br />
tennis whites and seem to have a keen interest in golf. But these<br />
are not the games they have in mind. As Peter and Paul take<br />
over and their ‘games’ become increasingly sadistic, the family<br />
realise they must turn to violence to survive this relentless,<br />
inexplicable ordeal. Haneke’s film – as much to do with cinema<br />
itself as it is to do with contemporary tastes in horror –<br />
prompted walkouts at Cannes, but remains one of the most<br />
memorable and affecting films of – and about – screen violence,<br />
as gripping as it is disturbing.<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
10.45pm<br />
IRREVERSIBLE (18)<br />
Director: Gasper Noé. Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel,<br />
Philippe Nahon, Jo Prestia. France 2002. 97 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
A remarkable, provocative and horrifyingly brutal portrayal of<br />
love and revenge from controversial director Gasper Noé (SEUL<br />
CONTRE TOUS). Starring off-screen husband and wife Vincent<br />
Cassel (L’APPARTEMENT) and Monica Bellucci as lovers whose<br />
lives are shattered by an act of extraordinary violence, Noé’s<br />
much discussed film tells the story backwards through a series<br />
of carefully choreographed, audaciously long takes. The end<br />
result is a powerful, transgressive, nihilistic and profoundly<br />
disturbing treatise on the nature of free will. Something of an<br />
enfant terrible who once stated an ambition to make a film<br />
more violent than STRAW DOGS and SALO combined, Noé is<br />
also a director of real intelligence and insight; IRREVERSIBLE is<br />
perhaps his masterpiece.<br />
Warning: contains scenes of graphic violence that may<br />
disturb some viewers.
Emmanuel<br />
Theatre<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
7.00pm<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
12.30pm<br />
THE SEVENTH SEAL (PG)<br />
Director: Ingmar Bergman. Starring: Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe,<br />
Bibi Andersson. Sweden 1957. 96 mins. Swedish with English subtitles.<br />
Endlessly imitated and parodied, Bergman’s landmark THE<br />
SEVENTH SEAL retains its ability to spellbind the audience.<br />
Von Sydow stars as a 14th-century knight, Antonius Block,<br />
wearily heading home after ten years of combat. Disillusioned<br />
by unending war, plague and misery Block has concluded that<br />
God does not exist. As he comes to consciousness on a bleak<br />
and forbidding shore, he encounters Death (Ekrot). Unwilling to<br />
give up the ghost, Block challenges Death to a game of chess;<br />
if he wins, he lives; if not, he’ll allow Death to claim him. As<br />
they play, the knight and the Grim Reaper get into a discussion<br />
about whether God exists. One of the most influential European<br />
movies of all time.<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
10.30pm<br />
SYMPATHY FOR MR.<br />
VENGEANCE (18)<br />
Director: Park Chan-wook. Starring: Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Du-na, Lim<br />
Ji-Eun. South Korea 2002. 121 mins. Korean with English subtitles.<br />
The first of Park Chan-wook’s remarkable Vengeance trilogy<br />
(with OLDBOY and LADY VENGEANCE) is as brutal a revenge<br />
movie as you’re ever likely to see. For want of a suitable donor,<br />
the deaf-mute brother of a young woman visits a blackmarket<br />
ring, which leads to organ theft, which in turn prompts<br />
kidnapping, suicide and several revenge killings of Jacobean<br />
savagery. No director diagnoses the dolorous underbelly of<br />
contemporary Asia as perceptively as Park, who examines<br />
a Korean nation reeling from economic free fall. Though a<br />
deserving avenger, Ryu acts out of a determined miasma<br />
of human indifference, and somehow unexpectedly elicits<br />
sympathy as he carries out his murderous retribution.<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
11.00pm<br />
WILD SIDE (18)<br />
Director: Donald Cammell. Starring: Christopher Walken, Anne Heche, Joan Chen.<br />
UK/USA 1995. 111 mins.<br />
Bruno Buckingham (Walken) is an international money launderer<br />
who has need of the talents of Long Beach bank executive<br />
Alex Lee (Heche). But Alex offers more than the usual counter<br />
services – she also moonlights as a $1,500-a-night call girl.<br />
Little does Bruno realise, however, that she’s also caught the<br />
eye of his beautiful wife Virginia (Chen). Bruno’s chauffeur,<br />
meanwhile, is setting out to blackmail Alex – and isn’t at all what<br />
he seems to be. This noirish, erotic thriller was the fourth and<br />
final film by Scottish director Donald Cammell (his debut was<br />
PERFORMANCE – which he wrote and co-directed with Nic Roeg);<br />
tragically, he committed suicide when arguments with WILD<br />
SIDE’s producers led to the film being substantially recut against<br />
his wishes. This restored version was released by Tartan in 2000<br />
to critical acclaim.<br />
We hope to welcome Tartan <strong>Film</strong>s founder Hamish McAlpine<br />
to this screening.<br />
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Newspaper journalism goes to the movies<br />
PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Andrew Rossi. With: David Carr, Carl Bernstein, Bruce Headlam. USA, <strong>2011</strong>. 88 mins.<br />
TWEETS AND WIKILEAKS ARE CONSPIRING to subvert today’s<br />
media landscape in ways that could never have been anticipated.<br />
Andrew Rossi’s PAGE ONE offers us the opportunity to think<br />
about the choices we have in learning about the changing world<br />
in which we live. Rossi spotlights the burgeoning blogosphere<br />
from the perspective of the media division of The New York Times,<br />
and shows us how the old school journalistic grapevine still has<br />
a place in modern media alongside newer working models. PAGE<br />
ONE depicts an institution whose proven techniques need to be<br />
preserved even as technology races ahead of itself. The face of<br />
the paper is the incisive social media watchdog David Carr, who<br />
fights to defend the validity of hard newsprint copy in a society<br />
spoon-fed on internet news.<br />
CITIZEN KANE (U)<br />
Director: Orson Welles. Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten,<br />
Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead. USA, 1941. 119 mins.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
5.45pm<br />
As aged newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in<br />
his cavernous mansion, Xanadu, a servant hears him utter his<br />
enigmatic last word, “Rosebud”. A reporter sets out to piece<br />
together Kane’s life and uncover “Rosebud’s” significance.<br />
Orson Welles’s cinema debut, 70 years ago, rightly remains<br />
in most enlightened film critics’ top ten films. CITIZEN<br />
KANE displays a dazzling mastery of the medium that has<br />
seldom been matched, from the opening sequence of<br />
impressionistic moonlit atmospherics to expressionist<br />
camera angles, chiaroscuro lighting and complex long<br />
takes – together marking the most striking technical and<br />
stylistic advances since Fritz Lang’s innovations in M. A<br />
fascinating jigsaw of scenes from a life pieced together<br />
with great artistry and verve, it remains as relevant<br />
today as it was in 1941 and is a prescient exploration<br />
of the absolute power of the media mogul and how power<br />
inevitably corrupts.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (PG)<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
7.00pm<br />
Director: Alexander Mackendrick. Starring: Burt Lancaster,<br />
Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, Sam Levene. USA 1957. 92 mins.<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
3.30pm<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
3.00pm<br />
Murray<br />
Edwards<br />
This compelling story of an<br />
untouchable Broadway columnist<br />
and a toadying press agent in the<br />
1950s features Burt Lancaster<br />
and Tony Curtis at their absolute<br />
best. Lancaster is plausibly cold<br />
and mean as J.J. Hunsecker,<br />
a megalomaniacal character<br />
modeled on the once-all-powerful<br />
Walter Winchell. Hunsecker is<br />
portrayed as a grotesque man<br />
who loves, and revels in, the dirty<br />
business of destroying lives in<br />
print. Curtis’s corrupt, power-worshipping Sidney Falco moves<br />
toward him like a moth to a flame; he’s a sycophant for all<br />
seasons. Perverse and decadent.<br />
Print source: Park Circus
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (15)<br />
Director: Alan J. Pakula. Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook. USA, 1976. 138 mins.<br />
A journalistic detective<br />
story of unprecedented<br />
importance that eventually<br />
brought down the<br />
presidency of Richard<br />
Nixon, the tale of<br />
Washington Post reporters<br />
Carl Bernstein and Bob<br />
Woodward is the stuff<br />
of legend. Pakula’s film<br />
painstakingly follows the<br />
trail from a minor break-in at Democratic Party National<br />
headquarters to the very heart of government, illustrating<br />
the rottenness of 1970s American politics and the<br />
integrity of a few good men determined to do right. As<br />
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (PG)<br />
Director: Val Guest. Starring: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe. GB, 1961. 98 mins.<br />
In THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE ex-journalist Val<br />
Guest crosses the news story with the disaster movie.<br />
Hero reporter Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) has to cover<br />
the disastrous consequences caused by America’s and<br />
the Soviet Union’s nuclear test programmes: the Earth<br />
has been knocked off its axis and is headed for the sun.<br />
The film used the actual offices of the Daily Express for<br />
some scenes, and Guest cast the paper’s ex-editor Arthur<br />
Christiansen. The threat to humanity seems frighteningly<br />
contemporary, whilst the newspaper world is strikingly<br />
accurate. And whilst the film lacks the special effects<br />
of contemporary films, it offers the pleasures of pacy<br />
journalistic dialogue, a typically realistic London and<br />
an imaginative take on science-fiction’s never-ending<br />
prophecies of doom. The closing scene ranks with the<br />
best cinema finales: the Express prepares two headlines:<br />
“Earth Saved” and “Earth Doomed”.<br />
Print source: Park Circus<br />
the dogged duo the pairing<br />
of Redford and Hoffman<br />
makes for inspired<br />
casting, and Jack Warden<br />
is equally impressive as<br />
their courageous editor.<br />
A riveting, relentless,<br />
cerebral thriller with an<br />
authentic backdrop, ALL<br />
THE PRESIDENT’S MEN<br />
remains an absorbing<br />
portrait of a local story that became national and then<br />
international, with two incredulous men at its heart – as<br />
relevant now as it was on release.<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
11.00pm<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
10.30am<br />
Print source: Warner Bros<br />
VERONICA GUERIN (18)<br />
Director: Joel Schumacher. Starring: Cate Blanchett, Brenda Fricker,<br />
Ciarán Hinds, Gerard McSorley. USA 2003. 98 mins.<br />
This largely factual account of the life and death of<br />
crusading Irish crime journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate<br />
Blanchett, who attended the screening at the 2003<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> with director Joel Schumacher) combines<br />
standard biopic with an exposé of the ruthless gangster<br />
subculture that existed in 1990s Dublin. Cate Blanchett<br />
is Guerin, the real-life glory-hunting reporter who<br />
seemingly roamed Dublin with impunity, flitting from<br />
the police to informer to the very highest criminals,<br />
and accumulating exclusives along the way. As Guerin,<br />
Blanchett exhibits ambition and a tireless pursuit of<br />
her quarry, and a burning desire to do the right thing.<br />
In short, the entire film, perhaps deliberately, begs<br />
the question of how far one should go for principles<br />
and career. Was she brave or foolish? Tenacious or<br />
complacent in her self-belief she was untouchable?<br />
Where does it stop? Whatever our conclusions, for<br />
Guerin it meant paying the ultimate price for her byline.<br />
Print source: Park Circus<br />
CHECK OUT PAGE 42 FOR MORE MEDIA MASTERPIECES<br />
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ACE IN THE HOLE (U)<br />
Box office: 0871 902 5720 | HOLD THE FRONT PAGE |<br />
Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling,<br />
Bob Arthur, Porter Hall, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal.<br />
USA, 1951. 111 mins.<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
4.45pm<br />
This unsentimental portrait of a reptilian journalist<br />
and the media circus he creates around a news story<br />
gave Kirk Douglas arguably his greatest role. Cynical<br />
big city reporter Chuck Tatum, languishing on a smalltown<br />
paper after one scandal too many, hits upon the<br />
story of his career. Manipulating and manufacturing the<br />
drama of a local man trapped inside a silver mine to<br />
suit his own needs, he abuses his profession (and the<br />
fading victim) to create a sensation that will renew his<br />
reputation. Based on real-life events, ACE IN THE HOLE<br />
is that rare piece of cinema: a harsh and sour portrait<br />
of a hard-boiled newspaperman pursuing a story like a<br />
terrier. Prescient and bitter, it showcases the public’s<br />
insatiable appetite for bad news and, in Chuck Tatum,<br />
presents the journalist as malicious puppet master.<br />
Quite simply, a masterpiece.<br />
Print source: TBC<br />
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS (U)<br />
Director: Lindsay Anderson. GB, 1952. 33 mins.<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
10.15am<br />
Heavily influenced by the work of Humphrey Jennings,<br />
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS is a documentary featurette that<br />
follows the journey of a small West Yorkshire newspaper<br />
in its centenary year – from a reporter interviewing an<br />
elderly woman through to the paper going to press.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
ZODIAC (15)<br />
Director: David Fincher. Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch,<br />
Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas. USA, 2007. 158 mins.<br />
Opening with a one-line statement<br />
that “what follows is based on<br />
actual case files” ZODIAC tells the<br />
story of a crime spree that gripped<br />
San Francisco and baffled the law.<br />
The Zodiac carried out a string of<br />
indiscriminate killings between July<br />
1969 and the early ‘70s. But it was<br />
his taunting of the police in a series<br />
of sinister letters and peculiar coded<br />
messages that set him apart from ‘regular’ murderers.<br />
TABLOID (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Errol Morris. Starring: Kent Gavin,<br />
Joyce McKinney. USA, 2010. 87 mins.<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
8.30pm<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
12.45pm<br />
Cineworld<br />
Casting aside the conventionality<br />
that characterised his earlier<br />
output, Errol Morris allows<br />
seasoned celebrity Joyce<br />
McKinney to speak for herself<br />
in this portrait of a scandalous<br />
siren. In the mid-1970s, the<br />
mysterious McKinney, a former<br />
Miss Wyoming, was accused of pursuing a missionary<br />
to the UK, abducting him and keeping him in captivity as<br />
a love toy. To this day, McKinney maintains the outdated<br />
belief that Mormons are cult leaders, and claims that her<br />
relationship with the missionary was based on mutually<br />
romantic ardour. Morris describes his documentary<br />
style as a seesaw between “completely whacked out”<br />
and “politically concerned”, and TABLOID’s examination<br />
of “the case of the manacled Mormon” falls under the<br />
former category. There is scant regard given to truth and<br />
much affection is evident in Morris’s celebration of a<br />
character whose exploits, real or imagined, would make<br />
Bettie Page blush.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures<br />
TUE<br />
20<br />
10.15am<br />
David Fincher’s take on the story<br />
considers how the overwhelming<br />
nature of the case took its toll on<br />
those at its heart. Thus his film, far<br />
from being a straight detective story,<br />
becomes a multi-personality biopic,<br />
focusing on the various individuals<br />
at the heart of the investigation<br />
and what their personal sacrifices<br />
meant for their health and minds.<br />
THE FRONT PAGE (PG)<br />
Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,<br />
Susan Sarandon. USA 1974. 105 mins.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
10.30am<br />
Jaded newshound Hildy<br />
Johnson (Lemmon) is<br />
quitting his job at the<br />
Chicago Examiner to get<br />
married – but plans are<br />
cut short when notorious<br />
murderer Earl Williams<br />
escapes and turns up hidden<br />
in a roll-top desk. With the<br />
scoop of a lifetime under<br />
his nose, Hildy is conflicted – and scheming editor Walter Burns<br />
(Matthau) sees a way to hang on to his star reporter... The 1928 hit<br />
play upon which the film was based had already proved a rich seam<br />
for filmmakers, being adapted in 1931 and then remade in 1940<br />
by Howard Hawks as HIS GIRL FRIDAY. For Wilder, it was a return<br />
to the familiar territory of SOME LIKE IT HOT, sharing its 1920s<br />
setting, madcap plot and snappy dialogue, as well as screenwriter<br />
I.A.L. Diamond and one of its leads (Lemmon). Nevertheless, its<br />
tempting to read echoes of contemporary events in its underlying<br />
themes of corruption – not least the Watergate scandal.<br />
Print source: Dogwoof Pictures
Tinga Tinga Tales TM and ©<br />
Tiger Aspect Productions<br />
Limited/ Classic Media<br />
Distribution Limited 2010<br />
THU<br />
15<br />
6.00pm<br />
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Following the super success of last year, the Second <strong>Cambridge</strong> Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> will<br />
once again present special programmes featuring kids’ favourite TV and film characters,<br />
old and new, in a family-friendly environment – and at an affordable price.<br />
Whether they’re infatuated with OCTONAUTS, entranced by<br />
TINGA TINGA TALES, bewitched by BAGPUSS or gripped by THE<br />
GRUFFALO (not literally, we hope...) there’ll be something<br />
that’s just right for all junior film fans. We’re really excited<br />
to be launching this year’s <strong>Festival</strong> with a very special sneak<br />
preview of the new 3D version of one of the greatest family<br />
films of all time – Disney’s THE LION KING!<br />
Look out for the friendly Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> team, who will<br />
be clearly visible around the Arts Picturehouse and who are<br />
there to make your child’s visit to the cinema (and yours) a<br />
little bit easier – and a whole lot more fun! There’ll even be a<br />
quiet ‘chill-out’ zone in the venue complete with kids’ books<br />
and craft materials, where you can settle down if all the<br />
excitement gets too much for little ones…<br />
With competitions, craft activities and giveaways adding to<br />
the film fun, you’ll all be able to enjoy a family trip to the<br />
cinema as never before. On the <strong>Festival</strong>’s opening Saturday,<br />
17th September, ticket holders for OCTONAUTS will also be<br />
able to try some amazing cake pops made by our friends<br />
The Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is sponsored by Barratt and Children’s at Heffers<br />
at <strong>Cambridge</strong> Cookery School! Plus our lovely sponsors at<br />
Heffers Bookshop on Trinity Street will be hosting some<br />
special Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>-themed activitiesin-store at<br />
3pm to celebrate the <strong>Festival</strong> - pop along on Saturday<br />
10th September to explore, rescue and protect with the<br />
Octonauts, and on Saturday 24th September you can find<br />
out how your favourite animals came to be with a terrific<br />
Tinga Tinga Tales storytime. Check out the Family <strong>Film</strong><br />
Fest pages on www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk for<br />
more info.<br />
All children must be accompanied by an adult<br />
at all times and we cannot be<br />
responsible for children who<br />
are left alone – anyway,<br />
we’d rather you enjoyed<br />
our events together! No<br />
unaccompanied adults will<br />
be admitted to any Family<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> screening.<br />
Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Opening Night Preview Screening!<br />
LION KING 3D (U)<br />
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Voices: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons,<br />
James Earl Jones. USA 1994. 89 mins.<br />
What could be better than talking, singing lions? Talking, singing<br />
lions in 3D of course! Nearly a decade since THE LION KING last<br />
appeared on the big screen, Disney’s Oscar® and Golden Globe®<br />
winning film is back; bolder and brighter and, um, in 3D. Disney’s<br />
Bob Chapek, president of distribution, announces that “the<br />
all-new 3D format immerses viewers in the epic settings and<br />
puts them face-to-face with these beloved characters.” Tricked<br />
into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees<br />
into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. Helped<br />
by wandering misfits Timon and Pumbaa, wise old Rafiki, and his<br />
childhood love Nala, Simba journeys to reclaim his role in the<br />
great circle of life.<br />
Print source: Disney UK<br />
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Box office: 0871 902 5720 | FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL |<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
11.00am<br />
OCTONAUTS – EXPLORE!<br />
RESCUE! PROTECT! (U)<br />
Director: Darragh O’Connell. UK 2010. 45 mins.<br />
The Octonauts are a team of undersea adventurers who are<br />
always ready to dive into action! Their mission: to explore<br />
new underwater worlds, rescue amazing sea creatures and<br />
protect the ocean. Based on the richly imaginative books by<br />
award-winning design team, Meomi, this massively-popular new<br />
TV series combines elements of classic team adventure with<br />
stunning CGI animation to transport little ones into a magical<br />
world under the sea. We’re presenting three exciting Octonauts<br />
episodes – The Blobfish Brothers, The Electric Torpedo Rays, and<br />
the double-length special The Great Penguin Race.<br />
Print source: Chorion<br />
www.theoctonauts.com<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
12.30pm<br />
NATURE’S WAY CHARLIE AND<br />
LOLA AND TINGA TINGA TALES (U)<br />
Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions. UK 2007 and 2010. 45 mins.<br />
A special programme of three beautifully-crafted and gloriouslyanimated<br />
tales from celebrated children’s television production<br />
company Tiger Aspect Productions.<br />
Charlie and Lola Autumn Special – Everything Is Different<br />
And Not The Same. Lola is so looking forward to going back to<br />
school for the Autumn Term – she has her new woolly tights,<br />
though they do crinkle a bit, and can’t wait to show Mrs Hanson<br />
her new pencil case. But soon she finds out that everything at<br />
school is a little bit different and not the same – and she doesn’t<br />
like it one bit.<br />
PLUS Tinga Tinga Tales – Why Ants Work Together... Life is<br />
hard when you’re so tiny!<br />
And Tinga Tinga Tales – Why Skunk Smells… Naughty baboon<br />
tricks skunk into tasting the yucky smellyfruit!<br />
SUN<br />
18<br />
11.00am<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
11.00am<br />
THE GRUFFALO (U)<br />
Directors: Jakob Shuh, Max Lang. Voices: Rob Brydon, Helena Bonham Carter,<br />
Robbie Coltrane, James Corden, John Hurt. UK 2009. 30 mins.<br />
Recently voted the nation’s favourite bedtime story, the magical<br />
tale of a plucky mouse who takes a walk through the deep, dark<br />
wood is brought to enchanting life in an all-star adaptation of<br />
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling book. This<br />
beautifully animated, BAFTA-nominated treat features the vocal<br />
talents of Robbie Coltrane as The Gruffalo, Helena Bonham<br />
Carter as the Narrator, Rob Brydon as the Snake, and James<br />
Corden as the Mouse.<br />
Print source: Magic Light Pictures<br />
© 2007 Tiger Aspect Productions LTD<br />
<br />
OCTONAUTS OCTOPOD © <strong>2011</strong> Chorion Rights Limited.<br />
All rights reserved.<br />
Tinga Tinga Tales TM and © Tiger Aspect Productions Limited/<br />
Classic Media Distribution Limited 2010<br />
© Orange Eyes Limited 2009
SUN<br />
18<br />
11.30am<br />
TO INFINITY – AND<br />
BEYOND! (U)<br />
Directors: various. UK 1969 – 1977. Approx 65 mins.<br />
Join Mr Benn, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine, and Bagpuss as<br />
they head up, up and away for exciting adventures in outer<br />
space. Mr Benn steps into the Fancy Dress Shop’s changing<br />
room and emerges as a Spaceman; Major Clanger makes a flying<br />
machine; the mice use their Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ<br />
to sing Bagpuss a song about a woman who flew up to the Sun;<br />
and Ivor The Engine discovers a UFO… or is it?<br />
Characterised by their easy charm, iconic imagery and<br />
wonderfully catchy soundtracks, these beautifully-crafted<br />
animations feature some of the most enduring TV characters<br />
of all time. This special programme is designed to introduce<br />
children to a range of televisual delights from the days before<br />
CBeebies – and to bring a nostalgic smile to parents’ faces.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
SPRITES 10 (PG)<br />
Directors: Various. 2008 – 2010. Approx 65 mins.<br />
This dazzling selection of family-friendly shorts has been<br />
hand-picked for the new digital generation by ondotzero – an<br />
international contemporary digital arts and design organisation.<br />
Let the Family <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> team guide you through this brave<br />
new digital world, and dip into a range of fun stories and visually<br />
stimulating animations from across the globe which promise to<br />
entertain, enchant and delight. All materials screened are suitable<br />
for children of all ages, although very young audiences may find<br />
the nature of some of the scenes and imagery rather intense.<br />
www.onedotzero.com<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
11.30am<br />
Print source: onedotzero<br />
And, for families with slightly older children...<br />
MUMBAI CHARLIE (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Deepak Verma. Starring: Kulvinder Ghir, Neeraj Pathak, Jace Desay.<br />
India/UK <strong>2011</strong>. 28 mins.<br />
MUMBAI CHARLIE is a heartwarming film about the curious and<br />
unexpected adventures of VJ – a young Mumbai businessman<br />
and reluctant heir to a business empire. On his way to the<br />
biggest meeting of his life in rural Gujarat, lost, ill and extremely<br />
stressed, he finds himself in the strange and wonderful world<br />
of a community entirely dedicated to the magic of Charlie<br />
Chaplin. There, he begins to understand what is truly important<br />
in life, learning from Charlie’s philosophy that “a day without<br />
laughter is a day wasted”. The film was inspired by the real-life<br />
‘Charlie Circle’, a Chaplin appreciation society in the Gujarat<br />
town of Adipur.<br />
Join the cast and crew<br />
of MUMBAI CHARLIE for a<br />
free, informal Q&A and<br />
interactive workshop after<br />
the film – giving you the<br />
chance to perfect your<br />
own Charlie Chaplin walk!<br />
We recommend<br />
that this event<br />
is suitable for<br />
children aged 10<br />
upwards.<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
5.30pm<br />
Print source: Pukkanasha <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
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www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk | FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL |<br />
As this is not a Family<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> screening it<br />
is open to all, including<br />
unaccompanied adults for<br />
whom normal <strong>Festival</strong> ticket<br />
prices apply. Tickets for 16<br />
year olds and younger cost<br />
£4.00, with adults who<br />
are accompanying them<br />
paying just £2.00.<br />
© Small<strong>Film</strong>s
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Box office: 0871 902 5720 | JOS STELLING |<br />
A Dutch<br />
Master<br />
Jos Stelling, filmmaker, cinema owner, visionary. At the age of<br />
seven he was given a projector and started to show films to<br />
children in the neighbourhood, developing a profound passion for<br />
film. He spent all of his spare time filming with an 8mm camera,<br />
and after 10 years experimentation began his first feature.<br />
Released in 1974, MARIKEN VAN NIEUMEGHEN – ultimately a<br />
collaboration with 800 people – was selected for the Official<br />
Competition of the Cannes <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. No film from the<br />
Netherlands has received this honour since. His subsequent<br />
features have followed a unique and often bizarre vision.<br />
Although popular on the festival circuit, none of his films<br />
have achieved distribution in the UK. <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
presents a chance to catch up with a unique vision of cinema,<br />
and meet the man himself.<br />
JOS STELLING IN CONVERSATION<br />
Saturday 17 September 8.15pm • Arts Picturehouse<br />
Jos Stelling will talk about his career and<br />
fascination with art and culture, interrupted by<br />
his three short films THE WAITING ROOM, THE GAS<br />
STATION and THE GALLERY, with opportunities for<br />
the audience to ask questions about his work.<br />
MON<br />
19<br />
10.15am<br />
DUSKA (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Gene Bervoets, Sylvia Hoeks, Sergey Makovetskiy.<br />
Netherlands 2007. 110 mins. Dutch and Russian with English subtitles.<br />
The submission for Best Foreign <strong>Film</strong> Oscar 2008 from the<br />
Netherlands, DUSKA is the perfect <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> movie. Bob is<br />
a film critic who lives opposite his favourite cinema. He is now<br />
working on a screenplay inspired by the young cashier in the<br />
cinema. While attracted to her, he expects nothing but fantasy<br />
until she has a row with her boyfriend. At the same time, Duska<br />
arrives on his doorstep – a man he met at a Russian film festival<br />
some years back – but neither speaks the other’s language.<br />
Once in Bob’s apartment, Duska shows no sign of leaving.<br />
DUSKA demonstrates all of Stelling’s fascination with language,<br />
communication and humour and with European Shooting Star,<br />
Sylvia Hoeks, lighting up the picture, it is enchanting viewing.<br />
Print source: Stelling<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
8.30pm<br />
THE ILLUSIONIST (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Freek de Jonge, Jim van der Woude, Catrine<br />
Wolthuizen, Gerard Thoolen. Netherlands 1984. 90 mins.<br />
Opening with a beautiful sequence in a theatre, THE ILLUSIONIST<br />
establishes its genesis in Freek de Jonge’s stage show. However,<br />
Stelling quickly opens it out into the imagination of a figure who<br />
looks around the corner of the theatre dressing room. Blending<br />
fiction, reality, dream and illusion effortlessly THE ILLUSIONIST<br />
is the story of two brothers, one of whom pursues his ambitions,<br />
while the other is sent to a mental institution by their parents.<br />
Lost childhood, failed ambitions, the threat of brain surgery,<br />
an unremitting mother, a suicidal father and a rich grandfather<br />
define the course of action. A film with no dialogue but much<br />
sound and fury – and winner of the Golden Calf and Critics Prize<br />
at the 1984 Dutch <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
Brings to mind a much more bizarre Tati movie.”<br />
THE WORLDWIDE CELLULOID MASSACRE<br />
Print source: Stelling<strong>Film</strong>s
SUN<br />
18<br />
3.15pm<br />
NO TRAINS NO PLANES<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Dirk van Dijck, Kees Prins, Peer Mascini, Katja<br />
Schuurman, Netherlands 1999. 105 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.<br />
Like THE POINTSMAN, NO PLANES NO TRAINS is based on a book<br />
by Jean-Paul Franssens. It floats beautifully from the opening<br />
close-up of a butterfly on a plant to the final moments of<br />
the film – a dream-like comedy, resplendent with larger then<br />
life characters. Gerard goes to his regular pub just as the<br />
manager is setting up for the day, ready to say goodbye to all<br />
the regulars as he is leaving for Italy that night. Gerard goes<br />
completely unnoticed by the rest of the company, however, and<br />
one sad event follows the next. He only gets attention when<br />
he brags about his brother Mario Russo, a popular singer, with<br />
whom he is at odds – a fact that becomes painfully apparent<br />
when Mario unexpectedly drops by the pub...<br />
Print source: Stelling<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
SAT<br />
17<br />
3.15pm<br />
THE POINTSMAN (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Jim van der Woude, Stéphane Excoffier, John<br />
Kraaykamp Netherlands 1986. 96 mins. Dutch and French with English Subtitles.<br />
When an elegant French woman steps of a train in the middle<br />
of the night, she finds herself not on a platform, but the middle<br />
of nowhere, yet close to a signal box. Stranded, she finds the<br />
pointsman, a man who barely speaks. She meets the small<br />
number of characters who come into his life, surviving winter<br />
into spring and summer. Shot in the UK’s most remote station,<br />
Corrour, THE POINTSMAN is a study of characters, largely free of<br />
dialogue, understood through gesture and look.<br />
Stelling’s exploration of the uses and abuses of<br />
power is art house fare, but neither obscure nor<br />
elitist. Enthralling performances generate a<br />
claustrophobic tension, but there’s humour too.” TIME OUT<br />
Print source: Stelling<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
FRI<br />
16<br />
3.15pm<br />
REMBRANDT FECIT 1669<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jos Stelling. Starring: Frans Stelling, Ton de Koff, Lucie Singeling, Aya<br />
Gill. Netherlands 1977. 120 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.<br />
An unusual and opulent portrait of the great painter, sketcher<br />
and etcher is Stelling’s third film and continues a fascination<br />
with Dutch culture, using the imagery of early Dutch masters.<br />
From an early age he had always wanted to make a film about<br />
Rembrandt. He chose his twilight years, when Holland’s<br />
greatest painter made his last self-portrait, attempting to<br />
capture the painter’s past by means of his paintings and<br />
drawings. The film is like a search for the light, a lesson in<br />
looking. Using almost exclusively amateurs who worked<br />
for nearly two years in front of Jos Stelling’s camera in old<br />
robes, it is amazing what is achieved – the 17th century and<br />
Rembrandt’s paintings are brought to life. To accentuate his<br />
personal involvement, Stelling chose his brother Frans to play<br />
the young Rembrandt.<br />
Print source: Stelling<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
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Box office: 0871 902 5720 | ROMANIAN CINEMA |<br />
3 films<br />
|<br />
by Lucian Pintilie<br />
(selected by the director)<br />
THE AFTERNOON OF<br />
A TORTURER (CFF 18)<br />
(Dupa-amiaza unui tortionar)<br />
THU<br />
22<br />
Starring: Gheorghe Dinica, Radu Beligan, Ioana Ana Macaria. Romania 2001.<br />
80 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
12.45pm<br />
“This was the first time I tried to make a film with the ambition<br />
of triggering a moral electroshock. (…) THE AFTERNOON OF A<br />
TORTURER is a film about the total incapacity of Romanians<br />
to confess and repent.” In Romania, Frant Tandără, a former<br />
torturer in the prisons of the Communist regime, is ready to<br />
confess his crimes to a journalist and former political prisoner.<br />
Print source: Romanian <strong>Film</strong> Centre, Bucharest<br />
Lucian Pintilie, whose debut was the groundbreaking SUNDAY AT SIX in 1965 “came to embody Romanian<br />
cinema almost by himself, before a young generation – which he helped hatch – started drawing the<br />
attention of the world.” MICHEL CLEMENT<br />
NIKI AND FLO (CFF 18)<br />
(Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezervă)<br />
Starring: Victor Rebengiuc, Razvan Vasilescu, Coca Bloos.<br />
Romania 2003. 99 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
“NIKI AND FLO is a very dear film of mine. Maybe because it’s<br />
my last film, in every way, or maybe, who knows, my first film in<br />
a different kind of accounting.” Angela and her husband have<br />
decided to leave Romania for a life in the United States. Niki,<br />
Angela’s father, is torn between his wish to see his daughter<br />
happy and his desire to have her close by; meanwhile, Flo, the<br />
father of Niki’s son-in-law and a kind of domestic tyrant, slowly<br />
exerts control over Niki. The script was written by Cristi Puiu<br />
(STUFF AND DOUGH, THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU).<br />
Print source: Romanian <strong>Film</strong> Centre, Bucharest<br />
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Romania’s<br />
infamous New Wave. Born in 2001 – after not a single<br />
film was produced in Romania during 2000 – it marked a dramatic renaissance of the<br />
nation’s cinema, its generation of young directors taking an unsuspecting international<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
3.15pm<br />
THE OAK (CFF 15)<br />
(Stejarul)<br />
Starring: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu,<br />
Victor Rebengiuc. Romania, 1992. 105 mins.<br />
Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
WED<br />
21<br />
3.00pm<br />
FRI<br />
23<br />
11.00am<br />
THE OAK was made after a 20 year ban, in which Pintilie was not<br />
allowed to make films. In 1989, having just lost her father, Nela<br />
decides to go and teach in a small provincial town. There she<br />
meets Mitică, a doctor at the hospital who, like her, no longer<br />
believes in either God or man, and who shares her salutary<br />
humour. But the couple stirs up bad feelings.<br />
Print source: Romanian <strong>Film</strong> Centre, Bucharest
film world by storm. To celebrate, we look back at some of the highlights of the<br />
movement, starting with the work of one of the most inspiring figures for young<br />
directors, Lucian Pintilie – widely regarded as Romania’s Godard or Bergman. He<br />
has chosen three of his own films especially for <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. Renowned<br />
selected by<br />
3 films | Anamaria Marinca<br />
OCCIDENT (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Cristian Mungiu. Starring: Alexandru Papadopol,<br />
Anca-Ioana Androne and Samuel Tastet. Romania 2002.<br />
105 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
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A rare chance to see the debut feature by Cristian Mungiu<br />
(who made the groundbreaking 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS<br />
starring Anamaria Marinca), premiered in Cannes in 2002. This<br />
tragicomedy is set in post-Ceausescu Romania, where the<br />
destinies of several people cross – a couple going through a<br />
crisis, a young woman seeking a husband in Italy and a police<br />
officer on the verge of retirement.<br />
We are delighted to welcome actress Anamaria Marinca to<br />
the Fri 23 screening.<br />
Print source: Romanian <strong>Film</strong> Centre, Bucharest<br />
Before her breathtaking performance in 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS (2008) Anamaria Marinca played roles in SEX TRAFFIC (2004)<br />
and YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (2007). She has since performed on the London stage, at the Young Vic and National Theatre, and has<br />
appeared in BOOGIE, THE COUNTESS, STORM, FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN and many more.<br />
THE PAPER WILL<br />
BE BLUE (CFF 15)<br />
(Hîrtia va fi albastrã)<br />
Director: Radu Muntean. Starring: Paul Ipate, Adi Carauleanu and Dragos Bucur.<br />
Romania 2006. 92 mins.<br />
Set during the confusing night of 22 December 1989, when<br />
Ceausescu was about to fall after decades of harsh dictatorship.<br />
The original inspiration for the film was a tragic incident that<br />
received considerable media attention, in which two armoured<br />
squads of Interior Ministry troops who went to protect a military<br />
unit were accidentally butchered. Radu Muntean (BOOGIE,<br />
TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS) creates a highly unusual, personal<br />
view of those days.<br />
Print source: Romanian <strong>Film</strong> Centre, Bucharest<br />
actress Anamaria Marinca (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS) has also selected her three<br />
favourite New Wave films, and will be attending the <strong>Festival</strong> to talk about her choices<br />
and experiences. To give you a glimpse of the future, we also present a short film<br />
programme featuring some of Romania’s most promising new directors.<br />
FRI<br />
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STUFF AND DOUGH (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Cristi Puiu. Starring: Alexandru Papadopol, Dragos Bucur,<br />
Ioana Flora. Romania 2001. 91 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
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STUFF AND DOUGH follows a young man who is given a<br />
suspiciously large amount of money and only four hours<br />
to deliver a bag of ‘medical goods’. Directed by Cristi Puiu (who<br />
went on to make the internationally acclaimed THE DEATH OF<br />
MR. LAZARESCU), it marked the beginning of the New Wave and<br />
an exciting decade of cinematic goods.<br />
The rawness and the energy, together with the exacting<br />
precision of the formal concept were so breathtaking that<br />
(…) he proved to have influenced profoundly the evolution of the<br />
New Romanian Cinema. I myself divided it into BC (before<br />
Cristi Puiu) and after.” ALEX. LEO ȘERBAN<br />
Print source: Romanian <strong>Film</strong> Centre, Bucharest<br />
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STRUNG LOVE<br />
Director: Victor Dragomir. 21 mins.<br />
May 1984. Viorel – a nerd from the smithing class of a communist<br />
industrial high-school – enters a rivet-production contest hoping<br />
to win the attention and affection of Ileana – a schoolmate from<br />
the sewing class.<br />
MUSIC IN THE BLOOD<br />
(MUZICA IN SANGE)<br />
Director: Alexandru Mavrodineanu. 17 mins.<br />
Petre (Andi Vasluianu) is convinced that his son is very gifted,<br />
but Gypsy music business is very tough.<br />
97 mins<br />
THE COUNTING DEVICE<br />
(NUMARATOAREA MANUALA)<br />
Director: Daniel Sandu. 15 mins.<br />
Mircea, a long-time employee of the National Company of<br />
Motorways and National Roads, brings along his nephew George,<br />
an educated but jobless young man, in order to introduce him to<br />
his boss in the hopes of getting him a job at the same company.<br />
STOPOVER<br />
Director: Ioana Uricaru. 14 mins.<br />
Ingrid (Monica Barladeanu), a beautiful and cosmopolitan<br />
Romanian woman, is travelling by plane returning to her home<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
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in Oslo. During a short layover on the Malpensa airport in Milan,<br />
she realizes her wallet is gone.<br />
OXYGEN<br />
Director: Adina Pintilie. 30 mins.<br />
Some time during the communist dictatorship in Romania, a man<br />
tries to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder.<br />
With thanks to: Mihai Chirilov (Transilvania International <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>),<br />
actress Anamaria Marinca, director Lucian Pintilie, Alina Salcudeanu (Romanian <strong>Film</strong><br />
Centre, Bucharest), James Bell (Sight & Sound), Ramona Mitrica (Ratiu Foundation/<br />
Romanian Cultural Centre, London)<br />
The Romanian New Wave Celebration is supported by
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(CFF 18) 87 mins<br />
SCORE<br />
Director: Lawrence Côté-Collins. Canada. 9 mins.<br />
Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while<br />
debating the question: “How much is too much?”<br />
GRANDPA’S WET DREAM<br />
Director: Chihiro Amemiya. Japan/USA. 16 mins.<br />
A 75-year-old Japanese man has been acting in<br />
adult videos for 15 years without telling his family.<br />
LITTLE DEATHS<br />
Director: Ruth Lingford. USA/UK. 11 mins.<br />
Set to an aural mosaic where the speakers<br />
articulate their deeply personal thoughts on the<br />
orgasmic experience, LITTLE DEATHS depicts an<br />
intoxicating series of impressionistic, animated<br />
interpretations of these thoughts.<br />
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SIMPLY ROB<br />
Director: Tom Shrapnel. UK. 15 mins.<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ed during World Aids Day 2010, the film follows<br />
New York-based poet and activist Rob Vassilarakis<br />
as he tells his turbulent life story through his<br />
poetry, and comes to terms with his sexuality and<br />
life with HIV.<br />
MONSIEUR L’ABBÉ<br />
Director: Blandine Lenoir. France. 36 mins.<br />
Father Viollet is a modern priest (for the 1930s and<br />
40s). He fields thousands of questions from men<br />
and women who are all trying to strike the delicate<br />
balance between Catholic morality and the physical<br />
practicalities of marriage. No easy task...<br />
(CFF 15) 84 mins<br />
NANCY, SID & SERGIO<br />
Director: Craig Pickles. UK. 18 mins.<br />
When God and the Devil go on a rock<br />
climbing weekend in Wales, it’s down time<br />
– a chance to call a temporary truce.<br />
A SCENE AT THE SEA<br />
(GU YEO-RUM-EUI BA-DA)<br />
Director: Jaehee Lee. Korea. 21 mins.<br />
A father and son – roles now reversed as<br />
one becomes the caretaker of the other<br />
– execute a delicate dance at the edge of<br />
the sea.<br />
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LOST TRACKS<br />
Director: Jon Stanford. UK. 21 mins.<br />
Set in rural Shropshire, the film explores<br />
the life of Tobi, a teenager disillusioned<br />
with family life, friends and the community<br />
around her as she makes preparations to<br />
run away.<br />
A BIT OF SUMMER<br />
(KAWALEK LATA)<br />
Director: Marta Minorowicz. Poland. 24 mins.<br />
At the end of the summer holidays, a man<br />
who works in the Bieszczady Mountains<br />
spends time with his grandson. Surrounded<br />
by the wilderness, they try to understand<br />
one another.
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SUMMER KNOWS<br />
Director: Jan Seeman. Germany. 12 mins.<br />
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An accidental encounter between a young man and<br />
a couple turns into a game of light and shadow.<br />
INITIATION<br />
Director: Alex Hardy. UK. 7 mins.<br />
It is Giorgi’s day of reckoning: his initiation into<br />
the violent world of the family business.<br />
CLEANING UP<br />
Director: Thomas Guerrier. UK. 12 mins.<br />
Mark Gatiss stars as a glacial hitman who gets<br />
out of his depth in a run-down B&B.<br />
THE PIANO TUNER<br />
(L’ACCORDEUR)<br />
Director: Olivier Treiner. France. 13 mins.<br />
A piano tuner pretends to be blind in order to<br />
get close to his clients. Because he sees things<br />
that he should not, Adrien witnesses a murder.<br />
DEMON’S DILEMA<br />
Director: Hanjin Park. USA. 14 mins.<br />
Mistakes have consequences, even for those<br />
demons that walk among us.<br />
THE KISS<br />
Director: Ashlee Page. Australia. 15 mins.<br />
Returning home through the scrub after<br />
a night out two teenage girls seek respite<br />
from the stifling heat in a water tank. But the<br />
intimate mood takes a dangerous turn when<br />
they discover they are trapped...<br />
SEVENTH DAY<br />
(SIEBTER TAG)<br />
Director: Nadine Voss. France/Germany. 20 mins.<br />
Away from home – the Congo – Michel seeks<br />
asylum in Germany. Meanwhile, nine-year-old<br />
Sophie misses the school field trip and is<br />
forced to return home alone. Events bring the<br />
two together in a tragic way.<br />
(CFF 12A) 77 mins SUN<br />
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THE MAN WITH THE<br />
STOLEN HEART<br />
Director: Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith. UK. 8 mins.<br />
A surreal tale about a Man who wakes up one<br />
day only to discover his heart has run away.<br />
ALMOST (BEINAHE)<br />
Director: Uwe Greiner. Germany. 11 mins.<br />
Oscar jumps on his subway train as he does<br />
every day. But that morning, a sideways glance<br />
changes everything...<br />
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT<br />
Director: Michael Davies. UK. 13 mins.<br />
Challenging the belief that old people can’t<br />
fall in love, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT is also<br />
an acknowledgement of a fear of losing<br />
one’s memory – and of facing up to a lifethreatening<br />
illness.<br />
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CHILD’S PLAY<br />
(KINDERSPIEL)<br />
Director: Lars Kornhoff. Germany. 18 mins.<br />
16-year-old Leon breaks into a chic mansion in<br />
a wealthy neighbourhood. He heads straight<br />
for the nursery where he takes a sleeping child<br />
from its crib, leaving nothing but a handwritten<br />
note behind. But Leon has something entirely<br />
different in mind than it first seems...<br />
THE ROAR OF THE SEA<br />
(DAS RAUSCHEN DES MEERES)<br />
Directors: Ana R. Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit.<br />
Cape Verde/Germany. 27 mins.<br />
An African refugee, whose identity is unknown, is<br />
being interrogated in prison. The guard decides to<br />
help the refugee, even if it means risking his own<br />
job. But time is getting short and the deportation<br />
machinery is already in full swing.<br />
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(CFF 15) 94 mins<br />
A MORNING STROLL<br />
Director: Grant Orchard. UK. 7 mins.<br />
A New Yorker’s daily encounter with a chicken<br />
plays out over 100 years with increasingly<br />
apocalyptic results.<br />
AIR<br />
Director: Keir Burrows. UK. 15 mins.<br />
When all the air on the planet suddenly<br />
becomes unbreathable, the struggle for<br />
survival brings together two unlikely<br />
heroes.<br />
THE EXTERNAL WORLD<br />
Director: David O’Reilly. Ireland/Germany. 15 mins.<br />
A little boy learns to play the piano.<br />
COLOURBLEED<br />
Director: Peter Szewczyk. Poland/UK. 9 mins.<br />
A young girl dreams of brighter days in a<br />
forgotten Eastern European city. Her fate<br />
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is sealed when she crosses paths with a<br />
scheming old woman who harbours a dark<br />
secret.<br />
THE HALF-LIGHT<br />
Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah. UK. 13 mins.<br />
A man searches for a simple beacon of<br />
tungsten light in a world over-lit by energysaving<br />
bulbs.<br />
THE SOLOIST (DER SOLIST)<br />
Director: Pierre Hansen. Luxembourg. 15 mins.<br />
Heinrich Lob, a single, overweight, 55-year-old<br />
PE teacher, had no intentions of reinventing<br />
the wheel. His life was in perfect harmony until<br />
a ping-pong paddle hit his head.<br />
BLINK OF AN EYE<br />
(AUGENBLICKE)<br />
Director: Martin Bargiel. Germany. 20 mins.<br />
Some dreams shouldn’t be remembered.<br />
(CFF 15) 91 mins<br />
WRITTEN IN PENCIL<br />
Director: Yaron Bar. Israel. 8 mins.<br />
An everyday train voyage slowly turns into a<br />
nightmare.<br />
THE WELL (EL POZO)<br />
Director: Guillermo Arriaga. Mexico. 8 mins.<br />
In the middle of the remote and rugged desert<br />
of Coahuila two grandparents take care of their<br />
orphaned grandchildren – but the smallest falls<br />
into a deep well.<br />
NOWHERE ELSEWHERE<br />
(AU MILIEU DE NULLE PART<br />
AILLEURS)<br />
Director: Annick Blanc. Canada. 16 mins.<br />
En route to visit her mother, Jade stops at a<br />
motel with her family. There she gets lost in<br />
the torrid labyrinth of her mind...<br />
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GHOST<br />
Director: Dahci Ma. Korea. 10 mins.<br />
A starving man’s imagination spirals out of<br />
control in an empty house.<br />
HERE, NOW &<br />
TOMORROW (AB MORGEN)<br />
Directors: Stefan Elsenbruch and Raphael Wallner. Germany.<br />
24 mins.<br />
The story of a man who buys another man’s life<br />
in order to save his own.<br />
LIN<br />
Director: Piers Thompson. UK. 25 mins.<br />
A woman arrives at a port town in an unknown<br />
country at dawn, and appears to be running<br />
from her past.
(CFF 15) 76 mins<br />
Selected by MovieMaker Magazine as one<br />
America’s “coolest film festivals,” the Disposable<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> was created in 2007 to celebrate the<br />
artistic potential of disposable video: short films<br />
made on non-professional devices such as one-time<br />
use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot<br />
cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software,<br />
and other readily available video capture devices. Now<br />
in its fourth year, the San Francisco-based Disposable<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> offers a forum dedicated to the creative<br />
potential of this new mode of filmmaking through<br />
screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase<br />
the best work within the disposable genre.<br />
For <strong>Cambridge</strong> we have a special programme of selected<br />
films highlighting the startling new creative possibilities<br />
opened up by the lo-fi, low-tech and low cost; refreshing,<br />
spontaneous and the complete antithesis of the megabudget,<br />
CG-laden style-over-content Hollywood blockbuster.<br />
(CFF 15) 86 mins<br />
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HEAVEN’S SECRET<br />
Director: Ed Wiles. UK. 7 mins.<br />
Inspired by the murder of<br />
Hertfordshire traveller, Mark Lindgren,<br />
HEAVEN’S SECRET is narrated by a young<br />
inhabitant of Heaven who wants to tell us<br />
how he died and the secret to ascendance.<br />
THE NEST<br />
Director: Emily Cooper. UK. 11mins.<br />
It is seemingly just another school<br />
morning for Laura and her mother, Alice.<br />
But the differences between their points<br />
of view leave us haunted by questions<br />
about Laura’s father.<br />
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THROWN<br />
Director: Rydian Cook. UK. 14 mins.<br />
The Disposable <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Mission:<br />
“The Disposable <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> supports and celebrates<br />
the democratization of cinema made possible by new,<br />
inexpensive video technology, offering a legitimate forum<br />
in which the work of zero-budget and non-traditional<br />
filmmakers is taken seriously and exhibited in theaters<br />
around the United States and internationally. Through<br />
workshops, competitions, panels, and other events<br />
intended to educate and inspire, the Disposable <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> promotes experimentation and helps build the<br />
track record needed for a new generation of filmmakers<br />
to enter and change the industry.”<br />
A family bereavement leads to a favourite chair<br />
being assigned to the scrap heap, until a seemingly<br />
insignificant discovery leads to a change of heart.<br />
STATESMEN<br />
Director: Tom Goudsmit. UK. 24 mins.<br />
A portrait of three American men and their relationship with the world<br />
around them.<br />
EARTH TO EARTH: NATURAL BURIAL<br />
AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND<br />
Director: Sarah Thomas. UK. 30 mins.<br />
Set in the ever changing landscape of Barton Glebe – a<br />
Christian, woodland burial site near <strong>Cambridge</strong> – this film explores changing<br />
attitudes towards death, disposal and relationships with the landscape.<br />
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(CFF 18) Approx 100 mins<br />
Project Trident returns to the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> for the<br />
third consecutive year, with a very special selection of the<br />
dark, the weird, and the downright ridiculous – films so new, so<br />
revolutionary, that most of them are still in a state of feverish<br />
production as we write. That is the beauty of Tridentfest!<br />
What we can say is that there will certainly be a selection of films<br />
by Ryd Cook, Thom Dobbin, Christian Lapidge, Simon Panrucker,<br />
Johnboy Davis, Tom Martin, Andrzej Sosnowski and Carl Peck. And,<br />
in addition to the customary extravaganza of strange, homemade<br />
B-movies – with the usual interactive Q&A’s from the filmmakers<br />
themselves – Tridentfest <strong>2011</strong> also features the world premiere<br />
of THE PURPLE FIEND!<br />
Directed by Trident alumnus Carl Peck – a year and a half in the<br />
making and surrounded by a fever of hype (it says here) – this 30<br />
minute mini-epic promises “to smash boundaries and blow minds<br />
to smithereens”.<br />
On New Years Eve, dapper chums Professor Laminut and Googy<br />
are celebrating, but when their evil nemesis Count Viper crashes<br />
the party they must use all their cunning and zeal if they are to<br />
save the world by the stroke of midnight. This globe-spanning tale<br />
follows Professor Laminut and Googy on their quest to find the<br />
‘Sacred Colocolo of Porabolus’ – a holy relic thought by modern<br />
society to have been lost in the mists of time...<br />
Was it worth all those months of fake blood, real sweat and<br />
occasional tears? Come and find out at TRIDENTFEST <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
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(CFF 15) 66 mins.<br />
A selection of shorts by filmmakers from the East of England capturing the drama of life, love<br />
and the relationships that can make and break us. The films were made with the support of the<br />
UK <strong>Film</strong> Council’s New Cinema Fund and received National Lottery through EM Media East.<br />
ELLIE<br />
Director: Chris Dundon. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 18 mins.<br />
Ellie is a teenage boxer desperate to make<br />
the ABA Boxing Academy and leave behind<br />
her unsupportive father. With the trials fast<br />
approaching she must face the challenges<br />
outside the ring and learn the true meaning of<br />
success.<br />
I WISH I WERE AN<br />
ELEPHANT<br />
Directors: Karen Penman, Liam Brazier. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 4 mins.<br />
An animation conveying the fragility of life, how<br />
we should make the most of every moment and<br />
accept, without regret, the inevitability of our<br />
own existence.<br />
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SUNNY BOY<br />
Director: Jane Gull. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 11 mins.<br />
Danny and his overprotective father live in a<br />
world of darkness due to his rare skin condition.<br />
He longs to be a regular teenager playing<br />
football out in the sun.<br />
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE<br />
Director: Andrew Brand. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 15 mins.<br />
A couple’s troubled relationship collides with a<br />
stranger’s good intentions.<br />
JUMPING FOR JOY<br />
Director: David O’Neil. UK <strong>2011</strong>. 18 mins.<br />
An unrequited love is finally resolved over a<br />
painful insurance scam.
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Zagreb School Of Animation (CFF PG) 71 mins<br />
A series of award-winning shorts from the Zagreb School of animation, spanning the ‘golden<br />
years’ from the 1950s through to the 1970s, presented by animator Elizabeth Hobbs.<br />
This programme is accompanied by a selection of short animations from Anglia Ruskin<br />
University students, introduced by artist and university lecturer Jim Butler, who runs the BA in<br />
Illustration & Animation at Anglia Ruskin University.<br />
ALONE (SAMAC)<br />
Directior: Vatroslav Mimica. Croatia 1959. 11 mins.<br />
Mimica uses a dialogue-free animation to<br />
explore abstract emotions in this Kafkaesque<br />
tale of isolation in a bureaucratic system.<br />
ERSATZ (SUROGAT)<br />
Director: Dušan Vukotić. Croatia 1961. 9 mins.<br />
On the beach, a tourist inflates a whole village<br />
in plastic in which everything is reproduced,<br />
including sentiments.<br />
THE WALL (ZID)<br />
Director: Ante Zaninovic. Croatia 1965. 3mins.<br />
Two people encounter a wall. One immediately<br />
gives up, but the other refuses to admit defeat.<br />
THE CAT (MACKA)<br />
Director: Zlatko Bourek. Croatia 1971. 10mins.<br />
It is based on an old Aesop fable: a young poet is<br />
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lonesome until Venus provides him with company,<br />
transforming his cat into a wonderful girl.<br />
THE FLY (MUHA)<br />
Director: Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša. Croatia 1966.<br />
8 mins.<br />
The relationship between a man and<br />
bothersome fly, whose aggravating persistence<br />
grows into an obsession.<br />
TUP TUP<br />
Director: Nedeljko Dragic. Croatia 1973. 10 mins<br />
A city dweller in a big apartment is kept<br />
awake at night by the constant sounds of two<br />
musical beats.<br />
SATIEMANIA<br />
Director: Zdenko Gasparovic. Croatia 1978. 14 mins.<br />
An animated short based upon the music of<br />
Eric Satie.<br />
Elizabeth Hobbs is an award-winning, independent animator working in East London under the<br />
name Spellbound Animations. Elizabeth also runs animation workshops in museums, galleries<br />
and schools and lectures at Anglia Ruskin University, <strong>Cambridge</strong>.<br />
New Croatian Animation 2010-11 (CFF 15) 69 mins<br />
The latest crop from Croatia, including titles featured at Cannes and the<br />
prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
MY WAY (MOJ PUT)<br />
Director: Veljko Popović and Svjetlan Junaković. Croatia<br />
2010. 7 mins.<br />
A story about growing up and maturing, about<br />
anxiety and ambition illustrated through a tale<br />
of shoes.<br />
THE ORNAMENT OF THE<br />
SOUL (ORNAMENT DUSE)<br />
Director: Irena Pranjic Jukic. Croatia <strong>2011</strong>. 6 mins.<br />
The film visualises a phrase often used as a<br />
figure of speech, each character’s personality<br />
and character depicted as diverse pulsating<br />
ornaments interwoven with their visible aura.<br />
THE ROOM (SOBA)<br />
Director: Ivana Juric. Croatia 2010. 5 mins.<br />
In a hotel room a woman (doll) is waiting for the<br />
call from her lover (doll). His arrival and their<br />
sexual intercourse are like a ritual.<br />
DOVE SEI, AMOR MIO<br />
Director: Velijko Popović. Croatia <strong>2011</strong>. 10mins.<br />
Is the comfort of routine and the happiness it<br />
provides enough to keep us slaves forever?<br />
SAT<br />
24<br />
10.30am<br />
IN CHAINS (U LANCIMA)<br />
Director: Daniel Sulijic. Croatia <strong>2011</strong>. 8 mins.<br />
We observe two monsters insulting each other,<br />
a noble weapon auction... Through several<br />
interconnected episodes, this film criticizes<br />
today’s lifestyles.<br />
NO SLEEP WON’T KILL<br />
YOU (NESPAVANJE NE UBIJA)<br />
Director: Marko Mestrovic. Croatia 2010. 9 mins.<br />
What happens when the dream takes control<br />
over reality?<br />
FLOWER OF BATTLE<br />
(CVIJET BITKE)<br />
Director: Simon Bogojevic Narath. Croatia <strong>2011</strong>. 20 mins.<br />
The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld<br />
hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a<br />
Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but<br />
dangerous Swordsman.<br />
Many thanks to: Sanja Borcic (Zagreb <strong>Film</strong>),<br />
Vanja Sremac (Croatian Audiovisual Centre),<br />
Vanja Andrijevic (Bonobostudio), Elizabeth<br />
Hobbs and Jim Butler.<br />
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TICKET PRICES<br />
Advance tickets for all venues<br />
are available: in person at the<br />
Arts Picturehouse Box Office<br />
by making a phone booking on<br />
0871 902 5720 (9.30am–<br />
8.30pm) as well as online at<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
Three Colours<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Passes<br />
RED PASS £25<br />
£25 credit, saving 20% off all tickets<br />
WHITE PASS £50<br />
£50 credit with 25% off all tickets, plus free<br />
tea and coffee at Picturehouse Bar<br />
BLUE PASS £75<br />
£75 credit with 30% off all tickets, plus free<br />
tea and coffee at Picturehouse Bar<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Passes, and tickets bought with<br />
passes, must be purchased in person<br />
at the Arts Picturehouse. Discounts are<br />
applied in addition to Concession and<br />
Membership prices on proof of status.<br />
Once you have your Pass card, we<br />
recommend purchasing <strong>Festival</strong> tickets in<br />
advance of your chosen screenings/events<br />
to avoid disappointment. Prices of special<br />
screenings and events may vary.<br />
AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
Only shows after 5.00pm have allocated<br />
seating<br />
MON - FRI (before 5.00pm) & LATE SHOWS (after<br />
10.30pm)<br />
Adults £7.50<br />
Picturehouse Members £5.50<br />
Concessions* £6.50<br />
MON - FRI (5.00pm – 10.30pm) & WEEKENDS<br />
Adults £8.50<br />
Picturehouse Members £6.50<br />
Concessions* £7.50<br />
CINEWORLD<br />
Standard Cineworld prices apply for<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> tickets bought via Cineworld’s<br />
Box Office. “Unlimited” pass holders<br />
should book via Cineworld’s Box Office.<br />
EMMANUEL COLLEGE<br />
Prices as above unless otherwise stated<br />
SAWSTON CINEMA<br />
Adults £3.50<br />
Concessions* £2.50<br />
FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL<br />
PROGRAMMES<br />
Children £4<br />
Kids Club Members £3<br />
Accompanying Adults £2<br />
No unaccompanied adults to be admitted.<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
FILMS IN THE FOREST and<br />
WHITE WATER CINEMA<br />
Adults £12<br />
Concessions £8<br />
Under 12s £6<br />
Members £10<br />
Family Ticket £25<br />
Group Ticket 6 tickets £54<br />
A1303<br />
A603<br />
A1134<br />
QUEEN’S RD<br />
CASTLE ST<br />
A1134<br />
NEWNHAM RD<br />
SILVER ST<br />
MAGDALENE ST BRIDGE ST<br />
Outdoor<br />
Screenings<br />
THE FEN CAUSEWAY<br />
Grantchester<br />
Meadows<br />
NORTHAMPTON ST<br />
SIDNEY ST<br />
CORN EXCHANGE ST<br />
P<br />
Arts<br />
Picturehouse<br />
Booking opens |<br />
Jesus Green<br />
Lido<br />
TRUMPINGTON ST<br />
DOWNING ST<br />
TENNIS COURT RD<br />
TRUMPINGTON RD<br />
BUS<br />
STATION<br />
JESUS<br />
GREEN<br />
DRUMMER ST<br />
ST ANDREW’S ST<br />
CHESTERTON RD<br />
CHRIST’S<br />
PIECES<br />
REGENT ST<br />
LENSFIELD RD<br />
PARKER’S<br />
PIECE<br />
HILLS RD<br />
Sawston<br />
Cinema<br />
MIDSUMMER<br />
COMMON<br />
Emmanuel<br />
College<br />
PARKSIDE MILL RD<br />
P<br />
GONVILLE PLACE EAST RD<br />
A1307<br />
Cineworld<br />
31 August for members<br />
2 September for non-members<br />
STATION RD<br />
For the latest information on tickets and prices, please check our website at<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk, or call the Picturehouse booking line on 0871 902 5720.<br />
* Concessionary tickets are available at all times for people in full time studies, claimants and senior<br />
citizens (valid ID required). You must bring proof of status when you collect your ticket. Calls cost 10p per<br />
minute from a landline.<br />
Box Office | 0871 902 5720 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
P<br />
A603<br />
STATION<br />
A1134<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is operated by the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust (registered charity no. 1120059). We therefore regret that Picturehouse gift vouchers and Membership free tickets cannot be redeemed for <strong>Festival</strong> screenings.<br />
There will also be no Student Beans, Big Scream!, Orange Wednesdays, Kids’ Club or Silver Screen offers for the duration of the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> Three Colour Pass enables you to buy multiple tickets at a discounted rate. Members who buy a <strong>Festival</strong> Three Colour Pass receive the discount on Member ticket prices.
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www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk | VENUES |<br />
THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 www.picturehouses.co.uk 38-39 St Andrew’s Street,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB2 3AR<br />
Book tickets in advance for ALL venues through the Arts Picturehouse.<br />
The Arts Picturehouse screens a year-round programme of the best<br />
in new and classic cinema over three screens (including one THXcertificated<br />
for best quality sound and another RealD 3D enabled). All<br />
screens are licensed, so you can take your drink from the café-bar in<br />
with you. You do not have to be a member to view films at the Arts<br />
Picturehouse, but if you are you’ll receive discounts on tickets, free<br />
preview screenings and priority booking for the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
CINEWORLD<br />
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |<br />
www.cineworld.co.uk | Leisure Park, Clifton Way, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB1 7BY<br />
Tickets can be booked in advance at the Arts Picturehouse and via<br />
Cineworld’s Box Office for showings at Cineworld (recommended for<br />
Unlimited Pass holders). Cineworld Cinema offers a wide range of<br />
films from around the world, from Hollywood to Bollywood, specialist<br />
films to family films. Regular presentations include Monday Classics,<br />
Wednesday Specials and a dedicated children’s club, Movies for Juniors,<br />
every Saturday morning.<br />
EMMANUEL COLLEGE<br />
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |<br />
www.emma.cam.ac.uk | St Andrew’s Street, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB2 3AP<br />
Founded in the 16th century, Emmanuel College is ideally located<br />
just opposite the Arts Picturehouse. Its historic surroundings will<br />
play host to a number of special screenings and events. The Queen’s<br />
Building, designed by Sir Michael and Patty Hopkins and voted<br />
‘Building of the Year’ when it first opened, houses an impressive<br />
tiered auditorium.<br />
JESUS GREEN LIDO<br />
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) | Jesus Green,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB4 3AX<br />
At around 90 metres long the Jesus Green Swimming Pool is one of<br />
the longest outdoor lidos in Europe. Found hidden behind tall trees<br />
next to the River Cam on Jesus Green the pool was opened in 1923.<br />
Today it retains many of its original features and constantly proves to<br />
be a much used attraction for <strong>Cambridge</strong> residents and visitors alike.<br />
Back in 2005 a short documentary, JESUS GREEN POOL, exploring<br />
the seasonal nature of the pool and its devotees was shown at<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>. Season closes Sunday 11th September.<br />
SAWSTON CINEMA AT THE MARVEN CENTRE,<br />
SAWSTON VILLAGE COLLEGE<br />
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |<br />
www.sawstoncinema.org.uk | Youth Community Centre, New Road, Sawston, CB22 3BP<br />
Spicer’s Theatre was the home of cinema in Sawston from 1932 until<br />
falling attendance led to its closure in the ‘60s. Since then, it has been a<br />
Youth and Community Centre managed by the neighbouring secondary<br />
school, Sawston Village College – but thanks to support from the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust, the UK <strong>Film</strong> Council and South <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire<br />
District Council, films are once again being screened, with young people<br />
from the school running projection and all front-of-house operations.<br />
Parking is available on the Sawston Village College site.<br />
MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE<br />
BOX OFFICE: 0871 902 5720 (via Picturehouse box office) |<br />
www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk | Huntingdon Road, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB3 0DF<br />
Purpose-built conference rooms in this modern centre provide<br />
facilities for product launches, summer schools, receptions and<br />
conferences. The private foyer leads to the raked lecture theatre and<br />
a flexible range of syndicate rooms and offers a beautiful reception<br />
area, which overlooks the decking area and gardens.
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Box office: 0871 902 5720 | INDEX |<br />
A<br />
ABOVE US ONLY SKY (GERMAN) 44<br />
ACE IN THE HOLE (FRONT PAGE) 52<br />
ACT OF GRACE 17<br />
AFTERNOON OF A TORTURER, THE (ROMANIAN) 58<br />
ALBATROSS 17<br />
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (FRONT PAGE) 51<br />
AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN 47<br />
ANALOGUE KINGDOM 42<br />
ANDUNI (GERMAN) 44<br />
ANIMATION FROM CROATIA (SHORTFUSION) 67<br />
AS IF I AM NOT THERE 17<br />
AT NIGHT THEY DANCE 30<br />
ATROCIOUS 18<br />
B<br />
BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, THE 30<br />
BEAT BOXING 31<br />
BEN IS BACK 31<br />
BENGALI DETECTIVE, THE 31<br />
BERNARD HERRMANN 6<br />
BLACK BUTTERFLIES (GERMAN) 45<br />
BLOOD IN THE MOBILE 31<br />
BOATLOAD OF WILD IRISHMEN, A 14<br />
BOFFIN & BOFFIN 33<br />
BOMBAY BEACH 31<br />
BRITAIN THROUGH A LENS: THE BRITISH<br />
DOCUMENTARY FILM MOB 32<br />
BULLHEAD 18<br />
BURNOUT (GERMAN) 45<br />
C<br />
CALVET 32<br />
CAMERA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, THE 32<br />
CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST 3D 32<br />
CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS 33<br />
CITIZEN KANE (FRONT PAGE) 50<br />
CITY BELOW, THE (GERMAN) 45<br />
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 8<br />
CREATIVE FRONT 12<br />
D<br />
DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, THE (FRONT PAGE) 51<br />
DILATING TIME (SHORTFUSION) 62<br />
DIMENSIONS 18<br />
DIRTY DANCING 9<br />
DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL (SHORTFUSION) 65<br />
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK 19<br />
DON’T LOOK BACK 32<br />
DRIVE 19<br />
DUSKA (STELLING) 56<br />
E<br />
EGGS FOR LATER 33<br />
EL BULLI 33<br />
ELEANORE AND THE TIMEKEEPER 38<br />
EM MEDIA @ CFF 7<br />
EM MEDIA SHORTS (SHORTFUSION) 66<br />
EM MEDIA SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) 14<br />
F<br />
FC CHECHNYA 38<br />
FILMS IN THE FOREST 8<br />
FINDING NEMO 8<br />
FLYING FISH 19<br />
FOREST PRINCE AND THE PIGMAN 39<br />
FORKS OVER KNIVES 39<br />
FRONT PAGE, THE (FRONT PAGE) 52<br />
FUNNY GAMES (TARTAN) 48<br />
G<br />
GERBER SYNDROME, THE 20<br />
GERHARD RICHTER: PAINTING 39<br />
GIBRALTAR 39<br />
GRUFFALO, THE (FFF) 54<br />
GUILTY OF ROMANCE 20<br />
H<br />
HAMISH MCALPINE 7<br />
HELP, THE 20<br />
HENRY MORRIS 40<br />
HERE’S HEALTH TO THE BARLEY MOW 40<br />
HUMPHREY JENNINGS 32<br />
I<br />
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT 29<br />
ICO 13<br />
IF NOT US WHO? (GERMAN) 45<br />
ILLUSIONIST, THE (STELLING) 56<br />
INTIMATE GRAMMAR 21<br />
IRREVERSIBLE (TARTAN) 48<br />
ISPANSI 21<br />
J<br />
JESS + MOSS 29<br />
JO IS FOR JONATHAN 21<br />
JOS STELLING IN CONVERSATION (STELLING) 56<br />
K<br />
KOSMOS 22<br />
L<br />
LAST PROJECTIONIST, THE 40, 43<br />
LATE SEPTEMBER 22<br />
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK 33<br />
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX (SHORTFUSION) 62<br />
LIDO PICTURE SHOW 11<br />
LION KING, THE 22<br />
LION KING, THE (FFF) 53<br />
LOCAL TASTES (SHORTFUSION) 65<br />
LOOK, THE 15<br />
LOVE: LOST AND FOUND (SHORTFUSION) 63<br />
LULU SESSIONS, THE 40<br />
M<br />
MAD WORLD (SHORTFUSION) 64<br />
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 23<br />
MAGDALENE ST SCREENINGS 11<br />
MAN’S STORY, A: OZWALD BOATENG 41<br />
MANN Vs FORD 41<br />
MARK KERMODE 6<br />
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 23<br />
MODIGLIANI’S GENUINE FAKE HEADS 41<br />
MOVIES ON THE MEADOWS 9<br />
MUMBAI CHARLIE 55<br />
MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND 14<br />
MYSTERIES OF LISBON 23<br />
N<br />
NATURE’S WAY CHARLIE AND LOLA AND<br />
TINGA TINGA TALES (FFF) 54<br />
NIKI AND FLO (ROMANIAN) 58<br />
NINE MUSES, THE 24<br />
NO TRAINS NO PLANES (STELLING) 57<br />
O<br />
OAK, THE (ROMANIAN) 58<br />
OCCIDENT (ROMANIAN) 59<br />
OCTONAUTS – EXPLORE! RESCUE! PROTECT! (FFF) 54<br />
P<br />
PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (FRONT PAGE) 50<br />
PAPER WILL BE BLUE, THE (ROMANIAN) 59<br />
PHILIPP (GERMAN) 44<br />
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 8<br />
POINTSMAN, THE (STELLING) 57<br />
POLL DIARIES, THE (GERMAN) 46<br />
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST<br />
MOVIE EVER SOLD 41<br />
R<br />
RED STATE 24<br />
RED WHITE AND BLUE 24<br />
REMBRANDT FECIT 1669 (STELLING) 57<br />
RESISTANCE 25<br />
ROBIN HOOD (FOREST) 8<br />
ROBIN HOOD (TRINITY) 12<br />
ROMANIAN NEW WAVE SHORTS (ROMANIAN) 60<br />
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS 25<br />
S<br />
SEVENTH SEAL, THE (TARTAN) 49<br />
SHOW MUST GO ON, THE 25<br />
SILENCE, THE (GERMAN) 46<br />
SILENT RUNNING 47<br />
SILVER CLIFF, THE 26<br />
SLEEPING BEAUTY 26<br />
SOME LIKE IT HOT 9<br />
SOUND IT OUT 42<br />
SPRITES 10 (FFF) 55<br />
STREET KIDS UNITED 42<br />
STUFF AND DOUGH (ROMANIAN) 59<br />
SURPRISE MOVIE 5<br />
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (FRONT PAGE) 50<br />
SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE (TARTAN) 49<br />
T<br />
TABLOID (FRONT PAGE) 52<br />
TASTE THE WASTE 43<br />
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 15<br />
TIRZA 26<br />
TO INFINITY- AND BEYOND! (FFF) 55<br />
TOMBOY 27<br />
TOMORROW AT DAWN 27<br />
TRIDENTFEST (SHORTFUSION) 65<br />
TROUBADOURS 43<br />
TYRANNOSAUR 27<br />
U<br />
ULTIMATE SURVIVOR, THE 43<br />
UNDER CONTROL (GERMAN) 46<br />
USEFUL LIFE, A 28<br />
V<br />
VERONICA GUERIN (FRONT PAGE) 51<br />
W<br />
WHITE WATER CINEMA 8<br />
WHITE WHITE WORLD 28<br />
WILD SIDE (TARTAN) 49<br />
WOMAN, THE 29<br />
WOUNDS AND SCARS (SHORTFUSION) 64<br />
WRITER IN RESIDENCE 13<br />
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME (SHORTFUSION) 63<br />
Y<br />
YELLOW SEA, THE 28<br />
Z<br />
ZODIAC (FRONT PAGE) 52
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