A second chance to see this film which played to a packed house on the opening night of the LIDF09.

Whilst the international press speculates on the imminent death of Fidel Castro and the Cuban community of Miami is already celebrating his funeral, on the island the condition of his health is a state secret. But the umbilical cord that ties every Cuban to the revolution is beginning to be severed, and a new energy is emerging in the country. A portrait of a complicated society, balanced precariously between past and future, revolution and capitalism, destined to disappear with its leader.

Fidelity screens at Barbican Cinema 3, Wednesday 15th July, 20.30.

To book tickets, click here. To read our interview with directors Alessandra Magnaghi and Ortensia Visconti, click here. To read a review of the film, click here.

Plus post-film discussion with Michael Chanan (Professor of Film & Video at Roehampton University, London and a documentary film-maker), and Stephen Wilkinson (Assistant Director of the International Institute for the Study of Cuba at the London Metropolitan University). Chaired by Nick Walker (Film Education)

Megumi was granted Special Mentions at this year’s LIDF. This touching docu-fiction about the disappearance of a 13-year old Japanese girl screens at Barbican on June 24 at 20:30. To book tickets, click here.

To read our interview with the director, Mirjan van Veelen, click here. For a film review, click here.

This year’s first DocSpot screening featured Tracy Worcester’s thought-provoking Pig Business.

Zac Goldsmith, director of The Ecologist magazine and currently overseeing the Conservative Party’s Quality of Life Policy Group, spoke to LIDF about the issues raised in the film.

LIDF09 is over but our committment to film continues  throughout the year with DocSpot – Barbican Film’s monthly documentary event. Join us at the Barbican on the 27 May at 20:30 for the screening of  Pig Business. To read our interview with Zac Goldsmith (director of The Ecologist magazine and currently overseeing the Conservative Party’s Quality of Life Policy Group), click here.

David Teague. Photo by Cattleya Katie Jaruthavee

In Intifada NYC David Teague films a controversy around opening the United States’ first public Arabic language school in Brooklyn. He talks to Kamila Kuc about the perception of Islam in New York after the 9/11, the power of media and how the film exposes racism and xenophobia in some Americans.

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