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Sat02Jun

Better on the Inside + Grandma Neyde`s House + Aside the Sea + Crossed Out + With Fidel Whatever Happens

Venue: The Horse Hospital

2 June 2012 7:30 pm

Grandma Neyde`s House

European Premiere
Caio Cavechini | | 20 mins

It had once been a full house, full of family, food, laughter. Now Grandma Neyde lives alone except for her crack addict son, whom she protects and cares for even though he is violent, keeping others from the house, shaming her and tiring her out. Finally, things must change. The last chance is to seek ...read more

Aside the Sea

European Premiere
Sine Skibsholt | | 29 mins

A portrait of a vanishing place and it's family of men: In the far North of Denmark lies the small fishing village Thorupstrand. It is the last place left where an otherwise extinct life form still exists, and where things are the way they've always been: The boats are pulled up upon the beach, there is no harbour. Weather conditions are foretold by watching the waves. Everybody knows everybody ...read more

Crossed Out

European Premiere
Roberto Duarte | , | 28 mins

Roberto's grandmother denies two of her children and no one in the family has ever dared talk to her about it… ...read more

With Fidel whatever happens

World Premiere
Goran Radovanovic | , | 47 mins

Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana.  The day before the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution.  An old man is repair a motorcycle a few decades old.  A young dentist is trying to find some transport to a clinic in a remote mountain, where - among other patients - he is to treat a ...read more

Better on the Inside

UK Premiere
Christopher Haysom | | 6 mins

A look at three different perspectives from within the family of someone with a disability. ...read more

Sat02Jun

CLOSING NIGHT GALA: Susya + War Matador

Venue: Soho Hotel

2 June 2012 7:00 pm

Presented in association with the Embassy of Israel in the UK ...read more

SUSYA

UK Premiere Watch trailer
Dani Rosenberg and Yoav Gross | , | 15 mins

A 60-year-old Palestinian and his son return to their abandoned home village, which they have not visited for 25 years. ...read more

War Matador

UK Premiere
Avner Faingulernt, Macabit Abramson | | 70 mins

In January 2009, during the war in Gaza, two courageous Israeli directors grabbed their cameras to shoot material along the common border. The bombs are filmed from a distance, out of focus and at extreme focal length – the tourists’ point of view. The impact of the bombs in the distance is muffled, which is ...read more

Sat02Jun

Solo, Piano – NYC + The Man Who Got Away + Metro

Venue: The Horse Hospital

2 June 2012 6:00 pm

Solo, Piano – NYC

European Premiere
Anthony Sherin | | 5 mins

On a cold winter morning, a lone piano stands curbside in New York City. All day long, passersby stop to play. They collect and disperse, measure and push. Who abandons a piano? Plinking slightly out-of-tune over the white noise of Broadway's cars, buses, trucks, and sirens, the piano awaits its fate. Solo, Piano - NYC is ...read more

The Man That Got Away

UK Premiere
Trevor Anderson | | 25 mins

A unique musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor's great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs. Jimmy joins the Navy, discovers gay sex, treads the boards on Broadway, meets Judy Garland before his tragic demise. ...read more

METRO

World Premiere
Guilherme Hoffmann | , | 51 mins

The underground wanderings of a not-so-young Brazilian student who, without knowing what to look for in life, goes to the Paris subway to meet those he values most... the strangers. ...read more

Sat02Jun

Not Without You

Venue: Roxy Bar and Screen

2 June 2012 2:00 pm

Not Without You

UK Premiere
Peter Lataster | | 84 mins

An elderly artist couple has to say goodbye to life and to each other. Does love and passion for art help them through the most difficult part of their lives? ...read more

Sat02Jun

My Fancy High Heels

Venue: Roxy Bar and Screen

2 June 2012 1:00 pm

My Fancy High Heels

London Premiere
Ho Chao-t | 55 mins

This is a film about dreams, and a tale bound together by beautiful high-heeled shoes. Brand-name high heels costing anywhere from $300 to $1000 – exactly who is it that makes them? From procuring the leather, to the assembly line, to the contract manufacturer, to the moment when lily-white feet slip into each pair of ...read more

Sat02Jun

UK Shorts 2

Venue: Roxy Bar and Screen

2 June 2012 12:00 pm

Roger The Real Life Superhero

World Premiere
Cathy MacDonald | | 10 mins

Nineteen-year-old Roger Hayhurst lives on an estate in Salford, Manchester. With the unwavering support of his mum Jennifer, Roger dresses in a spandex suit and cape and patrols the streets at night, handing out food packages to the homeless. Roger the Real Life Superhero is a story of courage and self-transformation in troubled times. ...read more

Why I Had an FGC

Suzanne Cohen | | 8 mins

A Way with Voices

London Premiere
Rose Tate | | 21 mins

Peter tells us about the voices he has heard since he was a child. A moving and challenging portrait of mental illness. ...read more

Bee Fever

London Premiere
Rebecca E Marshall | | 17 mins

This carefully observed character study of a woman with cancer uses her love of beekeeping as a metaphor to understand death and the cycle of life. ...read more

Fri01Jun

Radici

Venue: The Horse Hospital

1 June 2012 9:00 pm

Radici

UK Premiere
Carlo Luglio | | 60 mins

The film is a musical journey with Enzo Gragnaniello through the magic, mythology and history of the Neapolitan underworld. Gragnaniello, together with the Sud Express, mixes his own music with other Neapolitan artists. A light “musicarello” of the past and present. An evocative musical and visual narrative revealing the local beauty and vitality too ...read more

Fri01Jun

Zelal

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

1 June 2012 8:30 pm

Zelal

Marianne Khoury, Mustapha Hasnaoui | , , , | 90 mins

A quiet masterpiece of hard-hitting reportage, Mustapha Hasnaoui and Marianne Khoury's 'Zelal' has drawn global critical praise for its hard-hitting and sobering insight into the lives of those afflicted by mental illness in Egypt today. Filmed in two large asylums, the film reveals the horrific conditions in which patients are expected to live - squalor ...read more

Fri01Jun

Derailments + Atelier Colla

Venue: The Horse Hospital

1 June 2012 7:30 pm

Derailments

World Premiere
Chelsea McMullan | | 11 mins

"Milo Manara tells the story behind his illustrating Federico Fellini's vision of afterlife" ...read more

Atelier Colla

UK Premiere
Pietro De Tilla, Guglielmo Trupia, Elvio Manuzzi | | 49 mins

The sheer daily hard work of the company Carlo Colla & Figli is filmed on the quiet, in front of and behind the scenes, with empathy and respect, in the Atelier laboratory. It reveals how this art is subject to strict discipline. A group of students at the Scuola Civica in Milan are the creators of the ...read more

Fri01Jun

Niether Allah, Nor Master!

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

1 June 2012 7:00 pm

Niether Allah, Nor Master!

UK Premiere
Nadia El Fani | | 75 mins

Tunisian-Franco filmmaker Nadia El Fani, an avowed atheist, takes a personal approach to this cinematic exploration of secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the deposition of Ben Ali. The film, which was made by at the height of the 2010-2011 revolutions in North Africa, has proven so controversial that it has ...read more

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