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Gomorrah Matteo Garrone, Italy, 2008 A powerful depiction of the destructive and pervasive impact of organised crime on ordinary people, GOMORRAH focuses on ﬁve inter-linked stories in the working-class suburbs of Naples. Winner of...	14:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Linha de Passe Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Brazil, 2008 Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 kilometres of traffic, 300,000 messengers on motorcycles. At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four brothers try to reinvent...	15:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Eden Declan Recks, Ireland, 2008 Set in a thriving town in the midlands of Ireland, EDEN tells the story of a week in the lives of Billy and Breda Farrell as they approach their 10th wedding anniversary. Breda is determined that...	17:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Understudy David Conolly, Hannah Davis, USA, 2008 The perfect film for all of those who ever thought that if they could just get one shot at their big break, then everything would be okay… After years of scratching around for small acting parts,...	19:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
We Dreamed America Alex Walker, UK, 2008 WE DREAMED AMERICA examines the influence of American country music on a new breed of British artists. Featuring six UK bands, from the country-tinged rock of Alabama 3 to the exuberant...	22:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Wave Dennis Gansel, Germany, 2008 Based on the social experiment undertaken by US history teacher Ron Jones in the 1960s when he attempted to demonstrate to pupils how Germany fell under the spell of Adolf Hitler, THE WAVE is a...	10:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
Transmission: La Vie Nouvelle Philippe Grandieux, France, 2002 Grandrieux is one of the most innovative francophone ﬁlmmakers to emerge in recent years. LA VIE NOUVELLE, his second feature, generated a storm of critical acclaim on its release. A terrifyingly...	12:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
Canal (Kanal) Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 1957 One of Wajda’s first films, KANAŁ asks us to bear witness to the activities of a group of resistance fighters in the last hours of their lives, on the eve of the failure of the 1944 Warsaw...	15:15 @ Arts Picturehouse
Losses To Be Expected Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 1992 A foray into the East/West divide that Seidl would revisit ﬁfteen years later in IMPORT/EXPORT, LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED explores the borders, both physical and social, that separate people from one...	17:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
Life For Sale (Luftbusiness) Dominique de Rivaz, Switzerland/Luxembourg, 2008 Looking for easy money, three young dropouts auction themselves on the internet. One sells his future, one sells his past. The third sells his soul. What starts off as an unlikely trick turns into...	20:15 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Objective Daniel Myrick, USA, 2008 From the director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT comes this supernatural horror film set in the desert landscape of Southern Afghanistan, which flirts with the issue of intelligent life and the effect...	22:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Jesus, You Know Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2003 More immediately recognisable as a documentary than some of his earlier work, Seidl employs one of the most intimate of human experiences – prayer – as an entry point into revealing the...	13:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Old Dark House James Whale, USA, 1932 Loosely based on a J.B. Priestley play, an assorted cast ﬁnd themselves stranded overnight in a sinister Welsh house in this splendidly eccentric comedy. There’s the butler Karloff ("an...	10:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Twists of Fate (Korowod) Jerzy Stuhr, Poland, 2007 This gripping film spans the moral attitudes of two generations and their complex entanglements. A former secret police officer under Polish Socialism is facing the consequences for his past...	18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Dressing Granite Bill Scott, UK, 2007 Ben and Matthew are stonemasons, living and working in a remote Cornish quarry. It's a typical father and son relationship: love never shown, son's work never good enough, father set in his ways....	20:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
European Shorts Valentin Potier, Andrea Harkin, Michele Alhaique, Vlad Trandafir, Kei Ishikawa, Paul Zinder, Various, 2008 The crème de la crème from Europe: from future Michel Gondrys (TONY ZEAR) and Lynne Ramseys (FLYER) to strange new hybrids of Tarkovsky and Kielslowski (THE END OF THE WORLD), you won’t be...	22:45 @ Arts Picturehouse