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Berlin Without Boundaries
Material Thomas Heise, Germany, 2009What makes up the material of history? The documentary filmmaker Heise explores this question in a compelling collage of filmed images of Berlin, spanning a 20-year period from the late 1980s to... |
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In Berlin Ciro Capellari, Michael Ballhaus, Germany, 2009A heartfelt tribute to a fascinating city, this cinematic essay is woven from a series of encounters with the people of Berlin. From a Turkish kiosk vendor to the Foreign Affairs Minister for... |
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Berlin Triple Bill Claudia Lehmann, Germany, 2009BERLIN PLAYGROUND Director: Claudia Lehmann. Germany 2009. 60 mins. German with English subtitles. Hans – a troubled musician awaiting judgement on a drink driving offence – is turning 40,... |
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Border Crossings
The Other Irene + Q&A Andrei Gruzsniczki, Romania, 2008Sharing themes as it does with some of the finest European thrillers – such as the nerve-wrecking THE VANISHING (George Sluizer, 1988) – it's hard to believe THE OTHER IRENE is, in fact, based... |
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Ghosted Monika Treut, Germany, 2009Combining the Taiwanese traditional ghost tale with a contemporary German perspective, GHOSTED depicts a haunting love story between a German artist, Sophie, and a young Taiwanese woman, Ai-Ling.... |
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Welcome + Q&A Philippe Lioret, France, 2009Bilal (Ayverdi), a young 17-year-old Kurdish boy, has travelled from the Middle East through Europe to join his newly emigrated girlfriend in England. However, his journey comes to an abrupt end... |
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Border Crossings Double Bill: Nomad's Land/The Storm Bird Switzerland/Germany, 2007NOMAD'S LAND Director: Gaël Métroz. Switzerland 2008. 90 mins. French with English subtitles. The young director takes to the road alone, camera in hand, following the footsteps of the... |
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Border Crossings Double Bill: We the Emigrants/Long Distance France/Algeria/UK, 2009WE THE EMIGRANTS (LA TRAVERSÉE) Director: Elizabeth Leuvrey. France/Algeria 2006. 55 mins. French and Arabic with English subtitles. This compelling documentary focuses on one particular... |
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Cambridgeshire Film Consortium Events
Lunchtime Archive Show: A Good Day Out UK/France, 2009From the BFI, East Anglian Film Archive and Pôle Image Haute-Normandie. Introduced by Jane Jarvis, Screen East Digital Heritage Project Manager, and Simon McCallum, BFI. If the British have... |
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CFC Workshops for Filmmakers and Professionals UK, 2009Professional Filmmakers - Get Involved With First Light Work with young people as a professional filmmaker, widen networks of professional contacts and contribute to your community with... |
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CFC Masterclass: From Script to Screen 2000Rick Harvey will talk about his experience of writing for EON, the company behind the James Bond films, and he will give a masterclass on the nuts and bolts of screenwriting. |
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CFC Masterclass: Things You Should Know About Music UK, 2009Drawing on his experience of 20 years of working with TV and film, Latin American composer Dr Julio d'Escriván will discuss issues of dramatic impact of music, image-music synchrony, sound... |
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CFC Masterclass: Film Critic UK, 2009Join us for a Q&A with Ian Nathan, Executive Editor of Empire, the monthly bestselling British film magazine reviewing both mainstream and arthouse films. Previously editor of Empire for many... |
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I Made This UK, 2009Watch films on the big screen produced by young people. They will include one-minute films, WAR OF MEMORIES, THE MACHINE, THE FREAKSHOW MURDER, WE ARE DETECTIVES, plus delightful animations,... |
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Cinema Palestine
Art for the Struggle / Struggle for the Art Syria/Palestine, 1969Taking its title from Mustafa Abu Ali's statement – "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'" – made as he was smuggled into Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his... |
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Cinema Now Various, 1984The history of Palestinian cinema is characterised by its losses. Contemporary filmmakers often use the medium as a political tool and as such the value of homegrown imagery becomes important in... |
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Danny Lyon: American Life
Danny Lyon: American Life Danny Lyon, USA, 2000Danny Lyon is a self-taught, American photographer and filmmaker and also an accomplished writer, primarily of accompanying text for his photographs. At a time when picture magazines were still the... |
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Documentaries
Nollywood Babylon Samir Mallal, Ben Addelman, Canada, 2008This in-depth look at the Nigerian video film industry – now officially the world's second largest, churning out 2,500 films a year – will change your perceptions of filmmaking forever. Made at... |
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Codename Melville Olivier Bohler, France, 2008Jean-Pierre Melville became famous in 1946 for adapting to the screen Le Silence de la Mer, a wartime novel dealing with the French resistance. What is less well-known is that Melville himself... |
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Houston, We Have A Problem Nicole Torre, USA, 2009HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM is a documentary about America’s ferocious appetite for oil and the companies that provide it, straight from the heart of the energy capital of the world, Houston.... |
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A History of Israeli Cinema Raphael Nadjari, Israel, 2009Perhaps wisely, considering the fractious nature of his homeland, Raphael Nadjari takes pains to stress that his is but one ‘history’. This documentary offers no single voice nor narration.... |
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'Sno Angel Winging It + Q&A Maria Mochnacz, UK, 2009One of the music world's best kept secrets, Tucson, Arizona-based musician Howe Gelb has remained the creative force behind the ever-changing configurations of Giant Sand, giving birth along the... |
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The Shock Doctrine Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross, UK, 2009Based on the best selling book of the same name by Naomi Klein (who provides narration), THE SHOCK DOCTRINE uses a combination of archive footage and animation to investigate the author's notion... |
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House of Numbers Brent Leung, Canada/USA/UK, 2009In his controversial documentary on the AIDS epidemic Canadian born director Leung portrays a research establishment in disarray and challenges what he terms the 'conventional wisdom' regarding... |
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Frag Mike Pasley, USA, 2008Professional video gamers exist. FRAG lifts the lid on the people that play games for a living and the surprisingly difficult lives they lead. Whilst competitive gaming may have begun with 1980s... |
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The Nature of Existence + Q&A Roger Nygard, USA, 2009Roger Nygard, who established a reputation as a quirky documentary maker in 1997 with TREKKIES, takes on a rather broader topic in his latest work, asking spiritual leaders, artists, scholars and... |
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The Shock Doctrine + Q&A Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross, UK, 2009Based on the best selling book of the same name by Naomi Klein (who provides narration), THE SHOCK DOCTRINE uses a combination of archive footage and animation to investigate the author’s notion... |
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Mental (Seishin) Soda Kazuhiro, Japan, 2008A feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinéma... |
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The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda, France, 2008Deliciously playful yet also poignant and serious, inclusive of others while preserving a sense of intimacy and beautifully poetic in the most accessible, down-to-earth way: Varda's cinematic... |
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Ballada + Q&A Andreas Maus, Germany, 2009Forty years after the Lada came into production on the banks of the river Volga, the ‘lunchbox on wheels’ is still common on Russian roads, loved or at least tolerated by drivers like Murad, a... |
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Nathan Frankowski, USA, 2008Lawyer, actor and writer Ben Stein is the protagonist in this documentary which contends that scientists, teachers and journalists who advocate the teaching or even the consideration of Intelligent... |
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Porgy & Me + Q&A Susanna Boehm, Germany, 2009The African American singers of the New York Harlem Theatre have been touring with Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, the world's first black opera, for decades, all over the world. Life on tour is... |
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The Last Days of Shishmaref Netherlands, 2008Shishmaref is the one and only settlement on Sarichef, an island just south of the Arctic circle in Alaska, home to a small community of Inupiaq. Whilst they have traditionally lived a sustainable... |
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Baraka Ron Fricke, USA, 1992BARAKA is a 'documentary' in the tradition of Godfrey Reggio's KOYAANISQATSI: a film without words shot in 70mm that attempts to transcend the boundaries of language, nationality and religion to... |
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The Raincoats: Fairytales + Q&A Gina Birch, UK, 2009Ana da Silva and Gina Birch met at Hornsey school of Art and became enamoured of Patti Smith and The Slits. They formed The Raincoats in 1977, performed in Warsaw only weeks after picking up their... |
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German Cinema Today
Mogadishu Welcome Roland Suso Richter, Germany, 2008Filmed at the same time as THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX – in which she acted as a vicious second generation RAF terrorist – Nadia Uhl shines here as the brave stewardess Gabriele Dillmann, who... |
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Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) Maren Ade, Germany, 2009On the surface, Chris and Gitti are lost in perfect amorous bliss during a getaway in their Sardinian holiday home. But there are unspoken tensions. Full of verve,the idiosyncratic Gitti is... |
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Heinrich Breloer, Germany, 2008In this adaptation of Thomas Mann's famous novel, director Heinrich Breloer focuses on the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook family – a once-powerful lineage tragically hindered by personal... |
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Long Shadows Connie Walther, Germany, 2008After 22 years in prison, one-time terrorist Widmer has been released. Once a leading member of the second generation of the RAF (Red Army Faction), Widmer led a kidnapping that backfired badly,... |
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Tangerine + Q&A Irene von Alberti, Germany, 2009Tangiers, Morocco. Amira (Sabrina Ouazani) finds herself on the street after a row with her family because she wants to be a dancer rather than getting married or work as a housekeeper. Pia and... |
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Jack Cardiff: A Tribute
A Matter of Life and Death Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, USA, 1946Emerging from a commission for a propaganda feature to help ease tensions in Anglo-American wartime relations, this tale tells of a young airman (David Niven) who miraculously survives a leap from... |
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Black Narcissus Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1947A taut melodrama of unusually fierce passions and barely contained erotic tension, BLACK NARCISSUS, for which Cardiff won his first Oscar for Best Cinematography, tells the tale of a group of... |
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The Red Shoes Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948Loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a pair of enchanted crimson ballet slippers, THE RED SHOES follows the beautiful Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), a young socialite who loves... |
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Jack Cardiff: Painter with Light UK, 2009This special Festival tribute to the late Jack Cardiff reveals the influences behind Cardiff's stunning, Oscar-winning cinematography (for Powell and Pressburger's BLACK NARCISSUS) and, with clips... |
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Kuchar Brothers
Mike and George Kuchar Programme 3 George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, USA, 1976A REASON TO LIVE Director: George Kuchar. USA 1976. 30 mins. This film is about depression, although it's not that depressing. Shot in San Francisco and Central Oklahoma with a cast of one man... |
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Mike and George Kuchar Programme 1 George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, USA, 1957THE NAKED AND THE NUDE Director: George Kuchar. USA 1957. 36 mins. The oldest surviving Kuchar mini-epic, this patriotic WWII period piece (made by high schoolers) chronicles the desires and... |
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Mike and George Kuchar Programme 2 George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, USA, 2008MIDSUMMER'S NIGHTMARE Director: Mike Kuchar. USA 2008. 13 mins. A surreal exploration of a character with a creepy doll and a character in a cow mask exploring a redwood forest. A WIDOW'S WEB... |
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It Came from Kuchar + Q&A Jennifer M. Kroot, USA, 2009IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious and touching story of artistic obsession, compulsion and inspiration. Growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s, George and Mike became so obsessed with Hollywood... |
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Main Features
Triangle Australia, 2009From the director of CREEP and SEVERENCE comes this British horror film set in the Bermuda Triangle. When a young set of friends embarks on a yachting trip one of them in particular, Jess... |
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Morris: A Life with Bells On + Q&A Lucy Akhurst, UK, 2009Morris dancing may be an oft-mocked pastime, but it is no laughing matter if we’re to believe the characters in this charming British mockumentary. Derecq Twist (Oldham) is the leader of the... |
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The Army of Crime + Q&A Robert Guediguian, France, 2009Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a group of youngsters and émigrés in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation: 22 men and 1 woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom.... |
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A Bad Day to go Fishing Alvaro Brechner, Spain/Uruguay, 2009A BAD DAY TO GO FISHING tells the story of Orsini (Piquer), an impresario who arrives in a small town with his protégé, a one-time German wrestling champion named Jacob van Oppen (Ahola).... |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Niels Arden Oplev, Sweden/Denmark/Germany, 2009Based on the first book of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy, and set in contemporary Sweden, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO stars the popular Swedish actor Michael... |
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Machan + Q&A Sri Lanka/Italy/Germany, 2008THE FULL MONTY producer, Uberto Pasolini, directs this funny and touching (true) story about a group of socially deprived and pressured slum dwellers who find an invitation to a handball tournament... |
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Little White Lies (Die Perlmutterfarbe) Marcus H Rodenmueller, Germany, 2009Set in 1930s Germany and based on the novel of the same name by Anna Maria Joki, LITTLE WHITE LIES is a humorous and subtly portentous parable about friendship, truth and the destructive power of... |
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The Calling Jan Dunn, UK, 2009Frustrated by her relationship with a depressed boyfriend – and driven to explore her lifelong battle with her own religious beliefs – Joanna (Beecham) takes the unfashionable step of entering... |
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Pontypool Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008Anyone familiar with GREMLINS or Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast will know that every disaster needs a deejay. Cue down-on-his-luck shock jock Grant Mazzy (McHattie), banished to the... |
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Can Go Through Skin (Kan Door Huid Heen) Esther Rots, Netherlands, 2008Esther Rot's outstanding film from the Netherlands tells of the claustrophobia and trauma experienced by a young woman (a brilliant performance by Rifka Lodeizen) after she is attacked in her... |
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Desire + Q&A Gareth Jones, UK, 2009Writer Ralph (Pearce) sits at the top of his London house, crippled by agoraphobia, emasculated by the success of his soap-star wife Phoebe (Smith), unable to complete the screenplay that will... |
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Hierro Gabe Ibanez, Spain, 2009Named after the Spanish island to which María (Anaya) and her five-year-old son Diego are travelling by ferry when the boy disappears, HIERRO bears a resemblance to Lars von Trier’s ANTICHRIST... |
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Crying with Laughter + Q&A Justin Molotnikov, UK, 2009Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life... |
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White Lightnin' + Q&A Dominic Murphy, UK, 2008Growing up, Jesco White (Edward Hogg) found himself shuffling between reform schools, work camps, and his home in West Virginia until his father, a famous mountain dancer, taught him how to tap.... |
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Born in 68 + Q&A Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, France, 2008An epic drama of life and sexual politics in France. Friends and lovers caught up in the excitement of May '68 at the Sorbonne eventually leave Paris for a communal life in the country. The... |
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Birdwatchers Marco Bechis, Italy/Brazil, 2009The Fazendeiros lead a wealthy and leisurely existence. They own huge fields with transgenic plantations and spend their nights with tourists who come bird watching. Meanwhile, at the borders of... |
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The Butterfly Tattoo Phil Hawkins, Netherlands, 2008Director Phil Hawkins teams with children’s author Stephen Potts to adapt Philip Pullman's novel detailing an adolescent romance gone horribly awry. Chris (Duncan Stuart) and Jenny (Jessica... |
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Creation + Q&A Jon Amiel, UK, 2009CREATION is the true story of the life of Charles Darwin and the single most explosive idea in history. Told in a collage of scenes from the past and present, laced with stories of exotic animals... |
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The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life France, 2008Bezançon’s second feature centres around the chaotic but close Duval family, and how five key days change the lives not only of each individual member, but the family unit as a whole.... |
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Hardly Bear To Look At You + Q&A Huck Melnick, UK, 2009Love isn't blind, it's just extremely shortsighted. In this tale of unrequited love, Daniel (Herman), a gourmet chef turned screenwriter, does his best to win the heart of Stella, a street... |
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Looking for Palladin Andrzej Krakowski, USA, 2008Few actors can boast having appeared in films by Otto Preminger, John Cassavetes, the Coen brothers and Spike Lee. Ben Gazzara can, and he stars here as two-time Oscar winner Jack Palladin, a... |
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For My Father Dror Zahavi, Germany, 2008Terek (Jabarin), a young Palestinian and would-be suicide bomber, is on a deadly mission into Israel for the sake of his father. But when a mechanical fault causes his bomb to fail, and the repair... |
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Thirst Chan-wook Park, South Korea, 2009THIRST is a vampire film with a twist. A devout, good-natured priest (Song), loved by the local community, volunteers to take part in a medical experiment seeking to cure a terrible disease. The... |
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Courting Condi USA, 2008Can one man with a dream woo the most powerful woman in the world? COURTING CONDI will answer this very question whilst exploring the life of one of the most inspiring and controversial figures in... |
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Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy, Germany/Kazakhstan/Poland/Russia/Switzerland, 2008Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative feature is a gorgeous marrying of tender comedy,... |
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The Calling + Q&A Jan Dunn, UK, 2009Frustrated by her relationship with a depressed boyfriend – and driven to explore her lifelong battle with her own religious beliefs – Joanna (Beecham) takes the unfashionable step of entering... |
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The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life + Q&A France, 2008Bezançon’s second feature centres around the chaotic but close Duval family, and how five key days change the lives not only of each individual member, but the family unit as a whole.... |
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Humpday Lynn Shelton, USA, 2009Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) share a friendship that dates back to college. Wishing to save Ben from what he perceives as a monotonous married life, Andrew invites him to a party attended by... |
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Brinkmann's Wrath Harald Bergmann, Germany, 2007* We regret to announce that due to technical difficulties BRINKMANN'S WRATH will no longer be screening in the Festival. * Harald Bergmann's film charts the final days in the life of German... |
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The Agent + Q&A Lesley Manning, UK, 2008The story of a frustrated writer and his agent, THE AGENT is a smart two-hander adapted from a hit source play. Skilled but self-doubting writer Stephen (Stephen Kennedy) hasn’t heard from his... |
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Hardly Bear To Look At You Huck Melnick, UK, 2009Love isn’t blind, it’s just extremely shortsighted. In this tale of unrequited love, Daniel (Herman), a gourmet chef turned screenwriter, does his best to win the heart of Stella, a street... |
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Cuckoo + Q&A Richard Bracewell, UK, 2009CUCKOO is a thriller about sound. The film follows the story of Polly (Fraser), a medical researcher desperate to get out of her dead-end life. She is feeling trapped in her own flat due to... |
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Katalin Varga Peter Strickland, Romania/UK/Hungary, 2009Peter Strickland’s Transylvania-set drama is a remarkable achievement: a road movie, a revenge narrative and a compassionate study of the drawn-out effects of trauma all tied together in a neat... |
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The Butterfly Tattoo + Q&A Phil Hawkins, Netherlands, 2008Director Phil Hawkins teams with children's author Stephen Potts to adapt Philip Pullman's novel detailing an adolescent romance gone horribly awry. Chris (Duncan Stuart) and Jenny (Jessica Blake)... |
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The Agent Lesley Manning, UK, 2008The story of a frustrated writer and his agent, THE AGENT is a smart two-hander adapted from a hit source play. Skilled but self-doubting writer Stephen (Stephen Kennedy) hasn’t heard from his... |
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Easier With Practice Kyle Patrick Alvarez, USA, 2009Brian Geraghty plays Davy, a writer trying to draw attention to his new, unpublished book. The answer, he decides, is a promotional tour, and with his brother (O’Neill) in tow he embarks on the... |
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Kin Brian Welsh, UK, 2008Frank’s life in London is uncomplicated. A game of pool, a pint and spending time with his care worker Sally are the extent of his wants. But Frank's life takes a dramatic turn when a phone call... |
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Can Go Through Skin (Kan Door Huid Heen) + Q&A Esther Rots, Netherlands, 2008Esther Rot's outstanding film from the Netherlands tells of the claustrophobia and trauma experienced by a young woman (a brilliant performance by Rifka Lodeizen) after she is attacked in her... |
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1234 Giles Borg, UK, 2008Bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie (Bonar) endures a job he despises and finds himself unable get a girlfriend – but at least he has music. With his friend Neil, he’s been kicking about in... |
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Navidad Sebastian Lelio, Chile/France, 2009Selected for the prestigious Directors' Fortnight at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, NAVIDAD offers an intimate portrait of three teenagers, each with diverse family problems. It is Christmas Eve in... |
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Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee Shane Meadows, UK, 2009The celebrated pairing of director Shane Meadows and actor Paddy Considine returns in this hilarious faux-rockumentary. Considine plays Donk, a rock ‘n’ roll roadie who has lived, loved and... |
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Adoration Atom Egoyan, Canada, 2008ADORATION is celebrated director Atom Egoyan’s twelth feature film. Sabine (Arsinée Kanjian), a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story... |
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Seraphine Martin Provost, Belgium, 2008Set in Senlis, France in 1914, SÉRAPHINE tells the remarkable true story of the mysterious painter of the same name. Art patron Wilhelm Uhde (Tukur) discovers Séraphine Louis (Moreau) while she... |
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Johnny Mad Dog Jean-Stephane Sauvaire, France/Belgium/Liberia, 200815-year-old Johnny Mad Dog (Christopher Minie) heads a platoon of soldiers who are younger than he is, fighting a war in an unnamed African country. Charged with taking over a city in an attempt to... |
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Boogie Woogie + Q&A Duncan Ward, UK, 2009The sale of one of Piet Mondrian's final Boogie Woogie paintings unleashes the false smiles and unsheathes the knives in this savage satire on the art world, featuring an all-star ensemble cast.... |
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White Lightnin' UK, 2008Growing up, Jesco White (Edward Hogg) found himself shuffling between reform schools, work camps, and his home in West Virginia until his father, a famous mountain dancer, taught him how to tap.... |
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The Cove Louie Psihoyos, USA, 2009In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. THE COVE is an astounding piece of investigative... |
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Mark Boswell: The Art of Nova-Kino
Mark Boswell: The Art of Nova-Kino Mark Boswell, USA, 2000Mark boswell studied film and film theory at various institutions in Switzerland, France, Germany, and the USA from 1986-1992 and is the author of the Nova-Kino Manifesto. Boswell founded Nova-Kino... |
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Revivals
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Paul Schrader, USA, 1985A newly restored, director's cut of Paul Schrader's ambitious, radically stylised film about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima: poet, playwright, novelist, militarist, aesthete, homosexual, whose... |
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Citizen Kane Orson Welles, USA, 1941From the opening sequence Orson Welles' first film – the most famous debut in all cinema – is replete with stylistic tropes and flourishes which evoke the German cinema of the '20s and '30s.... |
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The Pit and the Pendulum Roger Corman, USA, 1961Shot in just 15 days by the master of bargain-basement horror, Roger Corman – and scripted by science fiction author Richard Matheson – this was also the second of his films to be inspired by... |
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The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1972By almost any criterion, the most important American film of the 1970s, transforming a doorstop of pulp-fiction into an epic account of the ineradicable penetration of American life and... |
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ShortFusion
Nighttime Fables Various, 2009Themes of escaping the norm are explored with violent relish. Philosophical fights, an escaped animal at the zoo, and a suicidal pupil show what happens when the boundaries of the social order are... |
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Short International Documentaries Various, 2009This eclectic selection of short documentaries presents a refreshing outlook on the political and social aspects of life (and death) on Earth, both past and present. GRANDMOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS... |
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Global Roads Various, 2009The last decade has seen a change in the nature of war and conflict. A new generation of filmmakers are showing an increasing awareness of the fear of terrorism. this highly political programme... |
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Best of British UK, 2009A chance to delve into the imagination of some of the most talented British directors. A mature selection of grit and realism from filmmakers not afraid to raise challenging questions. BOY... |
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Love Does Grow on Trees Various, 2009A refreshing programme of shorts exploring the weird and wonderful world of love and the unexpected places you find it. A floating girl, the land of the dead, the secrets of dreams and a stash of... |
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Screen East Digital Shorts UK, 2008Digital Shorts is a UK-wide scheme to find and develop new and upcoming filmmaking talent and enable them to make innovative short films using digital technology. Screen East is delighted to... |
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The Best of the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival Various, 2009The pick of the crop from around the world, freshly plucked from the 2009 Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival – which this year featured 98 short films and more than 60 world, international, European... |
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Tridentfest UK, 2009Project Trident presents a late night selection of short films showcasing resourceful no-budget filmmaking at its most imaginative. Subjects range from shocking horror to touching drama to even... |
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Animated Shorts Various, 2009Some eye-opening animation from around the globe. This programme promises to tantalise the senses, showcasing films from first-time animators as well as established artists who have inspired and... |
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Special Events
Our Hospitality John G Blystone, Buster Keaton, USA, 1923Buster Keaton's first feature-length comedy is also one of his finest. Young man Willie McKay (Keaton) is heading to Kentucky to claim his inheritance – but his life in the city, well away from... |
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Machinima: Programming with Light UK, 2009Machinima is a form of digital filmmaking that uses sets and characters from videogames or specialist tools like Moviestorm to generate computer animations, either in real time using multiple... |
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Identity of the Soul Thomas Høegh, United Kingdom, 2008Based on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s poem Terje Vigen and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies, IDENTITY OF THE SOUL is a unique, five-screen cinematic... |
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BAFTA Presents Peep Show + Q&A 2000Join the writers and main cast of PEEP SHOW at a special BAFTA event at the Cambridge Film Festival. Writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, and lead actors David Mitchell (Mark), Robert Webb (Jez)... |
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Riverside: Darklight Various, 2009Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema screens on the riverbank flickering into life as you... |
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Vampyr Carl Dreyer, France/Germany, 1932Loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu's genre-defining, 1872 vampire novel Carmilla (which preceded Stoker’s Dracula by 25 years), VAMPYR is a highly atmospheric, unsettling tale of fear and... |
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BAFTA Presents Michael Palin: A Life in Pictures UK, 2009Four-time BAFTA nominee and two-time BAFTA winner Michael Palin joins The Culture Show's Mark Kermode on stage at Ely Cathedral for a special, one-night-only BAFTA event celebrating his film... |
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Riverside: Heartland Various, 2009Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema screens on the riverbank flickering into life as you... |
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Science on Screen: Darwin, Denial and Documentary N/A, 2009A panel debate – produced by New Humanist magazine, in association with the Cambridge Film Festival – featuring Leonro Sierra, of Sense about Science, a charity that equips people to make sense... |
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Silents on the Streets UK, 2009The Festival once again comes to Cambridge's oldest shopping street, setting up six screens (twice as many as last year) to present a unique and diverse programme of entertainment that's completely... |
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Globalisation of Indian Cinema: Opportunities for the West N/A, 2009Indian films have always enjoyed a large global audience, but it is only recently that the Indian fi lm industry has begun to engage its Western counterparts and vice versa. Examples of growing... |
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Riverside: Up to the South Lebanon, 2009Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema screens on the riverbank flickering into life as you... |
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Riverside: Past Time UK, 2009Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema screens on the riverbank flickering into life as you... |
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The Spying Game: British Cinema and the Secret State
Defence of the Realm David Drury, UK, 1985A thriller that stands out for its superb sense of time and place (a 1980s London, in particular Fleet Street, on the brink of radical change, and the arrival of the US nuclear bases in the Fens),... |
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Goldeneye UK/USA, 1995The film that relaunched James Bond as a modern action hero. The stunts dominate, but Pierce Brosnan conjures up some old-fashioned matinee idol presence, and Judi Dench's female controller M... |
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Martin Ritt, UK, 1965Martin Ritt's superb adaptation of John Le Carré's novel turned away from the gimmicks, chases and lavish locations of the Bond films (which began in 1962) to focus on the personal rivalry,... |
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The Ipcress File Sidney J Furie, UK, 1965Harry Palmer is, grudgingly, still in the army after his boss got him out of detention camp. He is working in London for the intelligence service and finds himself moved to a unit investigating the... |
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Spying Game Double Bill: Traitor/Blade on the Feather UK, 1971TRAITOR (CFF PG) Director: Alan Bridges. Starring: John Le Mesurier, Jack Hedley, Vincent Ball. A former double agent is questioned by journalists in his decrepit Moscow flat, exploring the... |
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The Secret Agent Alfred Hitchcock, United Kingdom, 1936An early film role for John Gielgud, playing the British soldier sent to kill an enemy spy and grappling with the moral dilemmas he faces. Peter Lorre is his over-enthusiastic assistant, Madeleine... |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Irvin, UK, 1979Alec Guinness was the perfect embodiment of retired spymaster George Smiley, in this remarkable BBC adaptation of John Le Carré. Loosely based on the scandal surrounding Kim Philby, it evoked a... |
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From Russia with Love Terence Young, United Kingdom, 1963The second and, according to many, best of all the Bond films sees Sean Conney’s incarnation of Bond travelling to Turkey to assist in the defection of a Soviet agent. Complicating matters is the... |
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The Third Man Carol Reed, UK, 1949Orson Welles thrives and captivates as black marketeer Harry Lime in the sewers and alleys of postwar Vienna. This wonderful collaboration between Graham Greene and director Carol Reed works as a... |
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Spying Game Double Bill: The Next of Kin/The Man Between UK, 1942THE NEXT OF KIN (CFF PG) Director: Thorold Dickinson. Starring: Jack Hawkins, Mervyn Johns, John Chandos. UK 1942. 102 mins. "Careless talk costs lives" is the theme of this wartime drama, in... |
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The Deadly Affair Sidney Lumet, UK, 1966When a foreign office diplomat supposedly commits suicide, intelligence officer James Mason doubts the cause of death. Based on John Le Carré's first novel A Call for the Dead, this adaptation... |
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The Bourne Supremacy Paul Greengrass, USA/Germany, 2004Superb Hollywood debut by British director Paul Greengrass and perhaps the best of the Bourne films; a series of action chases across Europe that rivals anything in modern cinema for adrenalin and... |
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The 39 Steps Alfred Hitchcock, United Kingdom, 1935Faced with a murdered woman in his flat, Robert Donat flees by train to Scotland, is chased through the moors, enjoys a handcuffed rendezvous with the beautiful Madeleine Carroll, and has a final... |
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Spying Game Double Bill: A Question of Attribution/An Englishman Abroad UK, 1983AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD Director: John Schlesinger. Starring: Alan Bates, Coral Browne. UK 1983. 60 mins. Isolated in his Moscow flat, Guy Burgess invites a visiting actress from London for lunch... |
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Secret Spy Event ?, 2009From the Fesival with Love. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: keep your eyes peeled for clues and information as to the whereabouts of our Secret Spy Screening. |
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