LIDF - The London International Documentary Festival

LIDF 2010 | 23 April - 8 May 2010
plus extra film screenings all year around
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DocSpot: Pig Business

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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.

Interview: Alexandru Solomon

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For six months Alexandru Solomon followed five drivers in Bucharest, sat in their cars with them, listened and filmed them driving around this busy city. But Apocalypse on Wheels is not really a film about the traffic. The director talks to Kamila Kuc about cars, consumerism and contemporary society in Romania

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Interview: Brian Malone

‘Life is beautiful’

Brian Malone’s photo-essay Intelligent Life examines how our comfort and convenience contribute to the greatest causes of suffering and destruction in contemporary world. In this interview Malone talks about simple behaviour adjustments that can ‘turn this world around’ by Kamila Kuc

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Interview: Franny Armstrong

Age of Stupid

We are living in the age of stupid….

Franny Armstrong, award-winning director of McLibel, spent 4 years putting together her latest film The Age of Stupid and it looks set to be a major hit – so is she really going to give up making films? By Kamila Kuc and Kate Vlckova

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