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Tue29May

Sudor Seco + Yakuaya

29 May 2012

Sudor Seco

World Premiere
Thomas Bouët | , | 7 mins

Buenos Aires is a port, but no-one there seems to think of it in that way. The water seems distant. To encounter it one must leave downtown and make one's way to the northern waterside path. Here there is incredible chaos, noise, and machines, people who fish, cook, and play chess. This is a different ...read more

Yakuaya

European Premiere
Marcelo Castillo | | 52 mins

'Yakuaya' means the essence of water in a native language of Ecuador. The documentary follows the journey of a drop of water from a high glacier to the sea. On the way the water touches the lives of a peasant, is enclosed in the rhythm of a water bottling factory, passes through a city, transforms ...read more

Tue29May

End of the Line + Under the Cranes

29 May 2012

End of the Line

World Premiere
Rosie Baldwin, Anna Snowball, Holly Stimson, Hannah Temple | 5:02 mins

Journey on the train that runs to the end of the world’s longest pleasure pier in Southend-On-Sea, meeting its visitors. ...read more

Under the Cranes

+ Panel Discussion
Emma-Louise Williams | | 56 mins

A wonderfully life-affirming film-poem about Hackney, its people, its streets and its history. ...read more

Tue29May

The Olympic Side of London

29 May 2012

The Olympic Side of London

+ Panel Discussion World Premiere Watch trailer
Daniele Rugo | 72 mins

A critical portrait of East London in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games ...read more

Tue29May

City World

29 May 2012 12:00 am

City World

UK Premiere
Brent Chesanek | | 70 mins

A boy recounts his days spent in the wilderness outside the Orlando suburbs. ...read more

Tue29May

Doctors

29 May 2012

Doctors

UK Premiere
Tomasz Wolski | | 80 mins

What happens behind the closed doors of surgical wards, treatment rooms and other spaces where specialist medical consultations take place? The film follows the everyday work of doctors in a surgical ward: the hierarchy between them, the need to take important decisions, the struggle with economic problems. There are jokes, insider moments, a working environment that is ...read more

Tue29May

The Job

29 May 2012

The Job

World Premiere
Didier Cros | | 94 mins

Ten job seekers. One position. Two days to impress and get that job! What starts as a simple job interview quickly becomes a brutal test of both professional skills and mental fortitude. The questions are never random and the answers are always prepared. The recruiters lay traps and the applicants try to dance around them. ...read more

Tue29May

Debtocracy

29 May 2012

Debtocracy

UK Premiere Watch trailer
Aris Chatzistefanou, Katerina Kitidi | | 74 mins

The causes of the Greek debt crisis and solutions sidelined by the mainstream media ...read more

Wed30May

Carmen + The Children of Sisyphus

30 May 2012

Carmen

World Premiere
Olatz González Abrisketa | | 4 mins

A black sock, white thread, a needle, a thimble and a plea: 'Santitum zaina urtu, zaina bere lekuen sartu', in a mixture of Latin and Basque. This is the full extent of Carmen's treatment for the healing of sprains. The mantra has to be repeated three times, on three different days. Healing rituals live on ...read more

The Children of Sisyphus

World Premiere Watch trailer
Didier Minne | | 56 mins

An encounter with the daily life of children with autism or psychosis. It is a glimpse, from the inside, of a world that has rarely been observed so freely, and for such a long time. Over an entire year in a day-care centre in the South of Belgium, we share in the children's evolution and ...read more

Wed30May

The Pacifist and the Khmer Rouge

30 May 2012

The Pacifist and the Khmer Rouge

UK Premiere
Bernard Mangiante | , | 90 mins

It is the last trial in the career of François Roux, a lawyer specialising in the defence of non-violent activists and a supporter of civil rights. He defends Kaing Guek Eav, aka Douch, considered to be one of the bloodiest tortures of our times. Douch, who directed the detention centre S21 in Phnom Penh from ...read more

Wed30May

Letters from Iran

30 May 2012

Letters from Iran

UK Premiere
Manon Loizeau | , | 78 mins

When a girl named Neda was murdered on the street during the student protests in Iran in 2009, images of her were transmitted all around the world. Since then, Western media access to the country has been very limited. The French filmmaker Manon Loizeau has attempted to reconstruct the protest, and for the last two ...read more

Wed30May

Himself He Cooks

30 May 2012

Himself He Cooks

World Premiere
Valerie Berteau | | 85 mins

In the Golden Temple in Amritsar hundreds of volunteers prepare 50,000 free meals every day. A scale of effort and devotion that must seen to be appreciated. Glorious, confusing, aesthetic. ...read more

Wed30May

Goodbye Mubarak!

30 May 2012

Goodbye Mubarak!

UK Premiere
Katia Jarjoura | | 72 mins

On January 25, 2011, the world was captivated as thousands of protesters flooded Tahrir Square in Cairo, demanding an end to the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. But the ground for the protests had been laid in the weeks and months preceding the mass outpouring of opposition. 'Goodbye Mubarak!' takes us to Egypt during the ...read more

Wed30May

Memoryland

30 May 2012

Memoryland

World Premiere
Marie-Pierre Jaury, Grégoire Bénabent | | 52 mins

Everything in the “National 9/11 Museum” is a pretext for commemoration. What sort of history is being transmitted? ...read more

Wed30May

Breathing Under Water

30 May 2012

Breathing Under Water

+ Q&A with director UK Premiere
Hinnen Andri, Stefan Muggli | | 90 mins

The Jent family watch images from their super-8 film archive of a strong, bright-eyed youth, who moves with an extraordinary grace, taking a daring high dive into a pool of water. Then comes the day when the 19-year-old almost loses his life in a motorbike accident. After four weeks in a coma he wakes up, ...read more

Sat02Jun

UK Shorts 2

2 June 2012

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

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

Sat02Jun

My Fancy High Heels

2 June 2012

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

Not Without You

2 June 2012

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

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