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Certified Universal
UK Premiere Watch trailerAvijit Mukul Kishore | India | 14 mins
The city of Bombay is a living film set that provides the backdrop for screen lives and real lives to unfold. ‘Certified Universal’ is a short film about the city’s engagement with image making, both of which have lived off and mirrored each other for over a hundred years.
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A Screening at the Tatry Cinema
Igor Chojna | Poland | 26 mins
Dariusz Ambroszczyk runs one of the oldest cinemas in Łódź – Tatry. He is boss of the cinema and its only employee at the same time, so among his duties are selling tickets, admitting people to the cinema and screening films. Although Dariusz waits for viewers every day, they seem to have totally forgotten about his cinema, only visiting occasionally. The man begins to understand that the cinema, the sense of his life, is slowly declining.
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Filming: An Everyday Struggle
World PremiereNicolas Ploumpidis | Greece | 30 mins
After a long career of working as a first assistant, notably with T. Angelopoulos, Margarita Manda shoots her first feature film. In spite of the tough financial conditions a team made up of friends joins her in this adventure. They beg steal and borrow. Is it still possible to create a cinema d’auteur in Greece? The backdrop is the harsh economic reality of the country, and the struggle attests to the resourcefulness of any filmmaker. Echoes of Truffaut’s Night for Day flicker in the margins and the film is a joyful peon to art as a shared endeavour.
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