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Thu24May

Maurice + Crulic – the Path to Beyond

Venue: The Horse Hospital

24 May 2012 6:00 pm

Maurice

World Premiere Watch trailer
Patrick Kack-Brice | | 19 mins

The Beverley is the last cinema in Paris—maybe the world—still screening 35mm porn films. MAURICE captures the owner/projectionist clinging to a dying art as his entire world slips towards dodo-like extinction. ...read more

Crulic

Anca Damian | | 73 mins

This animated documentary tells the life story of Crulic, a 33 years old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while on a hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Ivanov, gives Crulic his voice. ...read more

Thu24May

Shadows of Liberty

Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE

24 May 2012 7:00 pm

Speakers: Charlie Beckett, Pratap Chatterjee, Jean-Phillipe Tremblay The Opening Gala is free to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested. A FEW TICKETS ARE LEFT FOR THIS EVENT. RESERVE YOURS HERE Presented in partnership with LSE ...read more

Shadows of Liberty

+ Panel Discussion European Premiere
Jean-Philippe Tremblay | | 93 mins

'Shadows of Liberty' is a documentary feature-film examining the media crisis in the United States. The film takes a harrowing journey through the dark corridors of the American media landscape where massive corporations exercise extraordinary political and economic power. Artfully mixing interviews, actuality, reconstructions, and archive material, we hear insider accounts from a broken media system, ...read more

Thu24May

IBIZA Occident

Venue: The Horse Hospital

24 May 2012 8:00 pm

IBIZA Occident

UK Premiere Watch trailer
GÜNTER SCHWAIGER | , | 85 mins

In the Hollywood of electronic music, musicians, DJs, gogos and promoters are working on a sophisticated entertainment machine to satisfy stressed-out Western society's desire for fun, sex and freedom. ...read more

Fri25May

International Shorts 1.

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

25 May 2012 4:00 pm

The Ambassador and Me

UK Premiere
Jan Czarlewski | | 15 mins

A son, a father. The first one holds a camera; the second one holds the title ambassador. The camera trembles, the ambassador remains still. ...read more

The Thin Line

World Premiere Watch trailer
Michel Gajardo | | 9 mins

A short documentary film about stability in our city-lives and the paths we follow to achieve this. Starring Rob Tito Cartwright an Australian slack rope walker who makes a living by performing close to the traffic lights. ...read more

Hurdy Gurdy

London Premiere
Daniel Seideneder, Daniel Pfeiffer | | 4 mins

From a point high enough, everyone's personal struggle for individuality becomes but a little movement in an ant colony. ...read more

The Panda Rabbit

World Premiere Watch trailer
Randy D. Rosario | 06:36 mins

The Panda Rabbit battling his way in a surreal, dream sequence adventure. ...read more

demo_lition

UK Premiere
Dorothea Carl I Claudia Reiche | | 12 mins

Demolition of buildings in Hamburg offer spectacles of precise destruction. The film adds in-depth interviews of those affected. ...read more

The Talking Walls of Lahore

World Premiere
Numra Siddiqui | | 14 mins

The Talking Walls of Lahore is a short documentary about gra!ti in Pakistan's cultural heartland. Words consume the city's every last visible space: from herbal practitioners advertising impotency cures to political and religious slogans. In a country battling economic & political instability, facing an uncertain future, these ‘wall chalkings’ form a rich amalgamation of contradictory ...read more

Fri25May

Paying Your Dues

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

25 May 2012 5:00 pm

Paying Your Dues – The Cost of Protection

World Premiere
Marco Battaglia, Gianluca Donati, Laura Schimmenti, Andrea Zulini | | 60 mins

The Mafia enriches itself in many ways, one of these is the demand for Pizzo, the Sicilian slang term for protection money. In Palermo 80% of businesses are believed to pay this tax to Cosa Nostra. However, over the last few years something has started to change. At the forefront of this change is a ...read more

Fri25May

The Mutability of All Things + Mind Your Mind

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

25 May 2012 6:15 pm

The mutability of all things and the possibility of changing some

UK Premiere
Anna Marziano | | 16 mins

A poetical-political experience taking place in L'Aquila, an italian town struck by an earthquake: everyone has to face the change, someone get the opportunity to live it. ...read more

Mind Your Mind – A primer for psychological independence

World Premiere
Jason Brett Serle | | 46 mins

What do we mean by 'attention', or the lack of it? Are we quite as attentive as we think? Do we miss things that are right under our nose, blinded by suggestion, assumption and 'commonsense'? If so, how might this be used against us? Are the opportunities here to manipulate beliefs, alter behaviours? If so, ...read more

Fri25May

Made in Wolverhampton

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

25 May 2012 7:30 pm

Made in Wolverhampton

World Premiere
Adam Kossoff | 74 mins

Framed as a letter from the narrator to his girlfriend in Cuba, Made in Wolverhampton is a quizzical exploration of a post-industrial city (once voted the 'fifth worst city in the world') with a combination of locked-off photography and super-dry voiceover recalling the work of Patrick Keiller. Hunting for ‘after-images of the industrial revolution’, the ...read more

Fri25May

Laura

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

25 May 2012 9:00 pm

Laura

UK Premiere Watch trailer
Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa | | 78 mins

A director tries to make a documentary about a mysterious woman, and ends up a character in his own film. ...read more

Sat26May

International Shorts 2.

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

26 May 2012 5:30 pm

Vermont, Montpelier

World Premiere
Carlos Martin - Penasco | | 22 mins

“That Sunday morning, my father woke up and went to the bathroom. After a shower, he noticed he couldn't comb his hair properly. He headed for the kitchen where my mother and some old friends of them were having breakfast. He walked in saying no word, sat at the table, stared at his cup of ...read more

Tree of Forgetting

World Premiere
Dan Luis Boord Valdovino | | 9 mins

The world's shortest short story takes a detour to a place where time is a forking path of possibilities leading to the same eventuality, the past. A place where it was possible to vanish among family and friends and where the places and things of everyday life may also take on horrific features and meanings. ...read more

HOME

UK Premiere
Kasia Køhler Larsen | | 7 mins

- A diary note about love, still alive in a house of loneliness. ...read more

THE LITTLE THAI FIGHTERS

European Premiere
Damon Logan | , | 11 mins

Follow the children who live, train and fight in a Thai Boxing camp in Bangkok. ...read more

Fishing With Popo

European Premiere Watch trailer
Wing Yan Lilian, Fu | | 9min mins

As she visits her grandmother’s grave, a girl remembers the funeral, her grandmother’s vivid storytelling and a curious dream that she had of her grandmother in her after-life. ...read more

THIS IS OUR HOUSE

European Premiere
Ramtin Nikzad | | mins

A renowned Iraqi painter, displaced by war, longs for his past while his young daughter carries only a fading memory of her birthplace. ...read more

Sat26May

The Safest Nuclear Power Plant in the World + Frayland

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

26 May 2012 6:30 pm

The Safest Nuclear Power Plant in the World

World Premiere
Helena Hufnage | | 28 mins

There is a nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf, Austria. Since 1978 the plant has been ready for operation. Shortly before it’s official opening popular protest prevented the start up of the plant – it was never put to use until today. There is a primary school in the unused office buildings, parties are held in ...read more

Frayland

UK Premiere Watch trailer
Sebastián Mayayo, Ramiro Ozer Ami | | 74 mins

A Finnish factory. A conflict between two South American countries. A woman caught between two men. ...read more

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