2011
Sept 14 Of Gods and Men
Sept 28 *The Secret in Their Eyes*
7:15 start
Oct 12 Benda Bilili
Oct 19 Winter’s Bone
Nov 2 Born and Bred
Nov 16 Les Soeurs Fâchées
Nov 30 La France
2012
Jan 25 Son of Babylon
Feb 8 Loose Cannons 7:45 start
Feb 22 Abel
Mar 7 The Illusionist
Mar 21 The Last Picture Show
7:45 start
Apr 18 The Hedgehog & AGM.
Apr 25 Heremakono
(Waiting for Happiness)
An award winner which works on more than one level. Based on actual events in 1966 , it shows Cistercian monks in Algeria confronted by Islamic jihadists . Also a secular tale of group behaviour in the face of a deadly threat.
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Those secrets resist revelation as a retired policeman seeks to find the truth behind a brutal murder that occurred in Argentina 25 years earlier. Great performances -- and the parallel love story is perfectly integrated in what many consider the best film of 2010.
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BENDA BILILI ( See Beyond ) are a band of poor and mainly handicapped musicians who were playing on the mean streets of Kinshasa and dreaming of a better life. By chance, in 2004, they met two French film makers investigating music in the Congo Republic, a meeting which changed all their lives.
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Debra Granik's much - admired second feature is set in in the Ozark woods among poor, rural Americans . Granik neither exploits these folks emotionally nor condemns them as she explores their day to day lives. A monumental performance from Jennifer Lawrence as a young woman searching for a father whose absence threatens her family's survival.
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For the protagonist in this Sight and Sound Film of the Month (September 2007) an idyllic middle class life in Buenos Aires is replaced by grief - stricken exile at an airstrip in Patagonia. Exquisite photography and director Trapero's compassion enhance this outstanding film.
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THE ANGRY SISTERS relies on talented performances from its great duo of actresses and an impressive group of secondary roles . The film which on paper promises to be lacklustre is finally transformed into a pleasant surprise, funny and sharp, tinged with a variety of different shades .
Sylvie Jacquy, CINOPSIS (translation, Ralph Willett)
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Sylvie Jacquy, CINOPSIS (translation, Ralph Willett)
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The ambitious title rightly hints that this festival favourite offers something different : its World War I soldiers frequently break into song! Yet the plot is familiar: a woman disguised as a soldier searches for her husband at the front. Elegiac and avant-garde, this is a clever and engaging fable.
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Award-winning road movie which "admirably marries poetry to agitprop" (Variety). An emotional narrative journey which powerfully evokes contemporary "post-war" Iraq.
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The popular Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek sets this comedy in the charming city of Lecce where a younger son proposes to come out to his pasta-making family, a plan ironically thwarted by his elder brother. Expect criticism of provincial attitudes with Ozpetek delivering a highly enjoyable treatment of desire running up against respectability.
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Actor Diego Luna's first film, co-produced by John Malkovich, has a 9 - year old boy abandoned by his father at its centre. An original family drama that comments sharply on fatherhood , this has had audiences cheering at film festivals.
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The protagonist , a variety show magician, has the awkward yet beguiling body movements of film-maker Jacques Tati whose unpublished script (1956) provides the basis for Sylvain Chomet's animated film. Chomet's adoration of Edinburgh is evident in the subtle colours of the townscape where a rock group demonstrates that the times are a-changing.
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Director Peter Bogdanovich has been labelled neo-classical , a view supported by the stunning black and white cinematography in this superb, sympathetic anatomy of a small Texas town in decline. It's also a lament for the values of the Old West and a masterclass in ensemble acting.
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The interaction of three outsiders in Paris: a bright but morbid 11- year old, a book-loving concierge, and a rich, elegant Japanese widower . The result, based on a bestseller, is sophisticated and engaging.
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This proceeds through a series of poetic images as well as expressive music from Mali in West Africa; together they create an atmosphere of tender melancholy . Imagine Iranian cinema crossed with Samuel Beckett set in a sand-swept coastal town where people are "Waiting For Happiness".
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