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ARE YOU HAPPY?
Saturday 29th March
6pm Curzon Soho
Chair: Patrick Hazard, Director, LIDF
Panel: Khaldoon Ahmed – Documentary filmmaker
Mitra Memarzia – UK/Iranian artist

THE UNWINKING GAZE
Saturday 29th March
6.20pm Prince Charles Cinema

Chair: Nick Walker – Events Manager, Film Education
Panel: Joshua Dugdale – director
Dibyesh Anand –
Reader in International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University
Andrew Fischer – Author of State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet, and LSE Fellow

OBCINA
Sunday 30th March
10.00am, Curzon Soho

Director Björn Reinhardt in conversation with Mike Yorke (documentary filmmaker)

THE MOTHER’S HOUSE
Sunday 30th March
12am Renoir Cinema

Chair: Georgina Denison – Documentary producer
Panel: Peter Neal – editor, The Mother’s House
Dawn Howley – Kids Company
Susanna Abse – Director, The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships

TERROR’S ADVOCATE
Sunday 30th March
3pm Curzon Mayfair

Director Barbet Schroeder in conversation with Julia Sommerville (Journalist)

H FOR HUNGER
Monday 31st March
6.30pm BP Theatre, British Museum

Chair: Geoffrey Smith – Documentary filmmaker
Panel: Neil Hollander- director
Jonathan Dumont – Head of Television Communications, The United Nations World Food Programme
Tom Rippin – Managing Director, RED
Tim Waites – Policy and Research, DFID

CASA MIA
Monday 31st March
6.30pm Barbican Cinema 3

Chair: Chris Wright – Dept. of Anthropology, Goldsmith University
Panel: Jamal Downey – Kids Company
Ger Duijzings – School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES)
Dennis Deletant – Professor of Romanian Studies, SSEES

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Tuesday 1st April
6.30pm Barbican Cinema 3

Chair: Patrick Hazard – Director, LIDF
Esmeralda Calabria – director
Professor Richard MacCrory – Faculty of Law, UCL
Patrizio Nissirio – UK correspondent for ANSA
Casper Henderson – Environmental writer and activist
Michele Celeste – Playwright and author

ACHING HEART
Tuesday 1st April
8.40pm Barbican Cinema 3

Chair: Ian Hayden Smith – Critic and writer
Panel: Oscar Hedin – director
Khaldoon Ahmed – Documentary Filmmaker

COLD WAVES
Wednesday 2nd April
6.30pm Barbican Cinema 2

Chair: Martyn Bond – former BBC Berlin Correspondent, currently deputy chairman London Press Club
Panel: Alexandru Solomon – director
Nestor Ratesh – Radio Free Europe
Adina Bradeanu – Film critic

LOW LEVEL FLIGHT
Wednesday 2nd April
9pm Barbican Cinema 2

Director Jan Sikl in conversation with Peter Hames (Film critic)

A STORY OF PEOPLE IN WAR AND PEACE
Thursday 3rd April
6.30pm Renoir Cinema

Chair: Greg Sanderson – BBC
Panel: Simon Wessely (PTSD)
Ger Duijzings – Reader in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
Marc Behrendt – Programme manager Eurasia, International Alert

NOMADAK TX
Friday 4th April
7pm The Courthouse Cinema

Director Raul de la Fuente and producer Amaia Remirez in conversation with Patrick Hazard (Director, LIDF)

PEACE WITH SEALS
Saturday 5th April
12.40pm, Stevenson Theatre, British Museum

Chair: Pete Myers – Enough’s enough
Panel: Miloslav Novák – director
Bryn Askins – Plane Stupid
Paul Earnshaw – Greenpeace
Joanne Nucho – director of ‘We Have No Name, Strange Woman’

Saturday 5th April
12.20pm, BP Theatre, British Museum
IRONEATERS

Chair: Ruhi Hamid – documentary filmmaker
Panel: Shaheen Dill-Riaz – director
Ben Moxham – TUC

WHO ARE YOU TO SPEAK
Saturday 5th April
2.15pm, Stevenson Theatre, British Museum

Chair: Kate Neilson – Director, Contaminant Media
Christina Curry – Amnesty International Turkey
Mark Barrett – Campaign group People in Common
Scott Long – Human Rights Watch

MEETING RESISTANCE
Saturday 5th April
4.15pm, BP Theatre, British Museum

Chair: Adam Shatz – senior editor, London Review of Books
Panel: Steve Connors, director
Molly Bingham – director
Dan Smith, OBE – Secretary General, International Alert

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