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Thu24May

Maurice + Crulic – the Path to Beyond

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

IBIZA Occident

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

Fri01Jun

Difficult Loves

1 June 2012 6:00 pm

Difficult Loves

UK Premiere
Lucina Gil | | 64 mins

“In my heart, I had a thorn of passion. One day I managed to rip it out. Now I don´t feel my heart anymore”. It is summer, a town in Spain, loves unfulfilled, loves blossoming, loves dormant. A universal tale. Summer, full of hope, comes and goes. ...read more

Fri01Jun

Derailments + Atelier Colla

1 June 2012 7:30 pm

Derailments

World Premiere
Chelsea McMullan | | 11 mins

"Milo Manara tells the story behind his illustrating Federico Fellini's vision of afterlife" ...read more

Atelier Colla

UK Premiere
Pietro De Tilla, Guglielmo Trupia, Elvio Manuzzi | | 49 mins

The sheer daily hard work of the company Carlo Colla & Figli is filmed on the quiet, in front of and behind the scenes, with empathy and respect, in the Atelier laboratory. It reveals how this art is subject to strict discipline. A group of students at the Scuola Civica in Milan are the creators of the ...read more

Fri01Jun

Radici

1 June 2012 9:00 pm

Radici

UK Premiere
Carlo Luglio | | 60 mins

The film is a musical journey with Enzo Gragnaniello through the magic, mythology and history of the Neapolitan underworld. Gragnaniello, together with the Sud Express, mixes his own music with other Neapolitan artists. A light “musicarello” of the past and present. An evocative musical and visual narrative revealing the local beauty and vitality too ...read more

Sat02Jun

Solo, Piano – NYC + The Man Who Got Away + Metro

2 June 2012 6:00 pm

Solo, Piano – NYC

European Premiere
Anthony Sherin | | 5 mins

On a cold winter morning, a lone piano stands curbside in New York City. All day long, passersby stop to play. They collect and disperse, measure and push. Who abandons a piano? Plinking slightly out-of-tune over the white noise of Broadway's cars, buses, trucks, and sirens, the piano awaits its fate. Solo, Piano - NYC is ...read more

The Man That Got Away

UK Premiere
Trevor Anderson | | 25 mins

A unique musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor's great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs. Jimmy joins the Navy, discovers gay sex, treads the boards on Broadway, meets Judy Garland before his tragic demise. ...read more

METRO

World Premiere
Guilherme Hoffmann | , | 51 mins

The underground wanderings of a not-so-young Brazilian student who, without knowing what to look for in life, goes to the Paris subway to meet those he values most... the strangers. ...read more

Sat02Jun

Grandma Neyde`s House + Aside the Sea + Crossed Out + With Fidel Whatever Happens

2 June 2012 7:30 pm

Grandma Neyde`s House

European Premiere
Caio Cavechini | | 20 mins

It had once been a full house, full of family, food, laughter. Now Grandma Neyde lives alone except for her crack addict son, whom she protects and cares for even though he is violent, keeping others from the house, shaming her and tiring her out. Finally, things must change. The last chance is to seek ...read more

Aside the Sea

European Premiere
Sine Skibsholt | | 29 mins

A portrait of a vanishing place and it's family of men: In the far North of Denmark lies the small fishing village Thorupstrand. It is the last place left where an otherwise extinct life form still exists, and where things are the way they've always been: The boats are pulled up upon the beach, there is no harbour. Weather conditions are foretold by watching the waves. Everybody knows everybody ...read more

Crossed Out

European Premiere
Roberto Duarte | , | 28 mins

Roberto's grandmother denies two of her children and no one in the family has ever dared talk to her about it… ...read more

With Fidel whatever happens

World Premiere
Goran Radovanovic | , | 47 mins

Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana.  The day before the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution.  An old man is repair a motorcycle a few decades old.  A young dentist is trying to find some transport to a clinic in a remote mountain, where - among other patients - he is to treat a ...read more

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