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Thu26May

Art/Experimental Shorts

Venue: The Groucho Club

26 May 2011 7:00 pm

Strips

UK Premiere
Felix Dufour-Laperriere | 6 mins

Masculine noun, shortened form of striptease. From "strip", to remove, to take away, and "tease", to entice, to tempt. And then all this in the plural. ...read more

ENG

UK Premiere Watch trailer
Eckhard Kruse | | 9:55 mins

Compiling shots from different parts of the world, the film takes a humourous look at - somehow very strange - human behaviour. ...read more

Paintbrushes and Panels

UK Premiere
Vivian Ostrovsky | , | 15'51 mins

A collage of archival footage and music about Paulo Werneck, one of Oscar Niemeyer's collaborators. ...read more

Undertow Eyes – BEST SHORT FILM LIDF 2011

Petra Costa | | 20 mins

Vera and Gabriel have been married for sixty years. In Undertow Eyes they reflect on their own story: the first flirtations, the birth of their children, life and aging. In the act of remembering, images from their family history and from the present intermingle, creating an affectionate and oneiric tone. Through the couple’s recollections and ...read more

Stranger

UK Premiere
Christophe Hermans | | 12 mins

Sophie lives alone. She spends her time between small jobs and moving flat. She creates a sculpture of her body, to fill the empty space of her life. ...read more

Face

European Premiere
Adele Wilkes | | 26 mins

'Face' focuses on Beautiful Agony, on ongoing collaborative art project that collects video self-portraits of faces during orgasm. A filmmaker who has been working behind the scenes on the project decides to experience the other side of the lens, turning the camera on herself for the first time. This intimate and confronting documentary features a ...read more

Thu26May

Steam of Life (Miesten vuoro)

Venue: The Horse Hospital

26 May 2011 6:30 pm

Steam of Life

UK Premiere
Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen | , | 81 mins

Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart and, in the warmth of rusty stoves, cleanse themselves, both physically and mentally. The film travels through Finland joining men of all walks of life in many different saunas to let us hear their touching stories about love, death, birth, and friendship ─ about life. ...read more

Thu26May

I Was Worth 50 Sheep

Venue: Curzon Soho

26 May 2011 6:20 pm

I Was Worth 50 Sheep

+ Panel Discussion UK Premiere Watch trailer
Nima Sarvestani | | 58 mins

The story of a brave girl, Sabere, and her struggle for life. Through the prism of her family this heart-rending and thought-provoking film brings the tragedy that is Afghanistan vividly to life. Sabere, has a price on her head. When she was just ten years old she was sold to a man forty years her ...read more

Wed25May

California is a Place & Fragments of Different Everyday Life

Venue: The Horse Hospital

25 May 2011 8:30 pm

California is a Place

World Premiere
Drea Cooper | | 26 mins

An ongoing short film series about curious subjects and interesting people from the golden state ...read more

Fragments of a Different Everyday Life

UK Premiere
Lab. A Mundzuku Ka Hina | | 64 mins

A remarkable film made by the young people, children, that live amongst the massive refuse tip of Maputo. With brutal realism, and without commentary, their everyday struggle for survival is revealed.. The images are those of the post-apocalypse so often depicted in Hollywood sci-fi films and dystopias. But this is today, and this is here. Children ...read more

Wed25May

Just Like Us + Comedy Night + Music from unit-d

Venue: The Gopher Hole

25 May 2011 8:00 pm

Just Like Us + Stand-Up Performance by Ahmed Ahmed followed by music from unit-d (http://www.unit-d.net/music/). ...read more

Wed25May

Nimbus & A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue

Venue: Courthouse Hotel Cinema

25 May 2011 7:30 pm

Nimbus

UK Premiere
Huang Hsinyao | | 36 mins

explores the ecology of the wetlands and lagoons of Kouhu Township and the lives of the people ...read more

A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue

World Premiere Watch trailer
Mario Pfeifer | | 52 mins

A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE describes a contemporary Asian Metropolis through an observational, anthropological approach of filmmaking. ...read more

Wed25May

Vertical City & Ghettomotto

Venue: The Horse Hospital

25 May 2011 6:30 pm

Vertical City

World Premiere Watch trailer
Avijit Mukul Kishore | | 34 mins

A visual essay on the architecture of contemporary Bombay. The State imagined these constructions as the realisation of an urban utopia, but in the far suburb of the city residents from slums are given free houses in decrepit and dysfunctional high-rise building complexes. A occurrence only too frequent in too many suburbs of too many ...read more

Ghettomotto

World Premiere
Izzy Brown | 47 mins

A phone call from the front line of post-election riots in Kenya opens the story of Timothy Mwaura, a ghetto poet and rapper who gives an eye-witness account of the chaos and tribal tension that surrounds him. Ghettomotto follows Tim from the dirty streets of Kangemi, a ghetto in Nairobi, to the land of his ...read more

Wed25May

No Comment (Без Думи)

Venue: Europe House

25 May 2011 6:30 pm

Supported by the European Commission, UK Office ...read more

No Comment

+ Panel Discussion European Premiere
Lubomir Halatchev | | mins

In 1993 Martin and Georgi, two abandoned children, were living in an children’s institution. At least Georgi had documents and could be adopted. Today Georgi has a family in Sweden and studies in college, while Martin looks after cows on a farm in Bulgaria. Two contrasting fortunes. Since 1993 many things have improved in the ...read more

Tue24May

Invisible City

Venue: Roxy Bar and Screen

24 May 2011 8:30 pm

Notes from the City

World Premiere
James McGilchrist | | mins

Anonymous letters challenge three buskers to undertake three different journeys across London with unknown purpose and unknown rendevouz. ...read more

Bonnington Square

World Premiere
Alistair Oldham | | 20 mins

A short film about squatting and sustainable communities. ...read more

Cueca in London

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Sahba Saberian | | mins

According to this group of friends, dancing the traditional Cueca in their native Chile was something only ‘old people would do'. Today, thousand of miles away in London, they look at how this folk dance brought them closer together and to their roots. Amidst intense rehearsals and preparing to celebrate the upcoming bicentenary of their ...read more

Sweep

World Premiere
Harold Chapman | | 10 Mins mins

On a typical day in London, nine street sweepers ruminate on the nature of the job. ...read more

The Thames Herring

Jon Spaull | | 7 mins

Following Andrew Davies and his son during a days fishing for Herring in the Thames Estuary ...read more

Underground

World Premiere Watch trailer
Sandra Lim | | 13 mins

A series of chance and fleeing encounters becomes an epic journey of moods set in the London Underground. ...read more

Wood of Value

London Premiere
Bjorn Bratberg | , | 16 mins

'Wood of value' is an observational documentary of a tree's journey from the forests of Norway to the metropolis of London. The annual tradition of transporting a Christmas tree across the North Sea has been running for more than 60 years in appreciation of British aid during the Second World War. The documentary depicts the ...read more

Tue24May

My Perestroika

Venue: Rich Mix

24 May 2011 8:30 pm

My Perestroika

London Premiere
Robin Hessman | | 87 mins

My Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times - from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron ...read more

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