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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Robert B. Weide, UK, 2008 Frequent Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B. Weide makes his feature directorial debut with this screen adaptation of British writer Toby Young's memoir of the same name. When self-promoting...	23:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Where the Water Meets the Sky David Eberts, Helen Cotton, UK, 2008 Narrated by Academy Award winning actor, Morgan Freeman, this documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of women from northern Zambia. In a place where women rarely have the chance to speak...	12:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Black Balloon Elissa Down, Australia, 2008 A story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family. When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in....	15:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia) Jose Luis Guerin, Spain, 2007 A young man arrives in Strasbourg and spends his days sitting at an outdoor café, sketching the figures of the women around him, patiently waiting for Sylvia, the woman that he fell in love with...	17:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Brideshead Revisited Julian Jarrold, UK, 2008 A provocative and suspenseful drama, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED tells a story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain...	20:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Weltstadt Christian Klandt, Germany, 2008 On the night of 16 June 2004, in a picturesque East German town, two drunk teenage boys attacked a homeless man in the streets. When they realised that he had no valuables, they beat him up and...	17:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
Algeria, Unspoken Stories Jean-Pierre Lledo, France, 2007 In 1962 Algeria gained its independence, after 132 years of French colonisation ended in a bitterly violent war. Thus began one of the largest migrations in human history, as a million...	10:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Clermont Ferrand Shorts 2008 Reto Caffi, Thierry Onillon, Matthieu Donck, Marc Roels, Wim Reygaert, Leo Marchand, Anne-Laure Daffis, Valentin Potier, France, 2008 The best of the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, presented in partnership with Alliance Française. AUF DER STRECKE Director: Reto Caffi. Germany/Switzerland 2007. German with English...	13:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Black Legion Archie Mayo, USA, 1937 This hard-hitting, socially conscious drama, the sort of story that Warner Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, stars Humphrey Bogart and Erin O’Brien Moore. Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a...	12:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
The Grocer's Son (Le fils de l'épicier) Eric Guirado, France, 2007 Having left his village for the city ten years ago, Antoine finds himself thrust back into rural life when his estranged father is taken ill and he is enlisted to drive the travelling grocery van...	15:15 @ Arts Picturehouse
Las Meninas Ihor Podolchak, Ukraine, 2008 In a strange suburban villa which resembles more an art installation than a house, live a family of four; parents, daughter and son. The family’s existence is terrorized, not by any external...	20:15 @ Arts Picturehouse
Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz, USA, 1954 This dynamic and patriotic ﬁlm tells the story of George M Cohan, the theatrical everyman who is considered to be the father of American musicals. From the his days as a child star to vaudeville...	22:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
A Streetcar Named Desire Elia Kazan, USA, 1951 Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter were all awarded oscars opposite Marlon Brando (nominated) in Elia Kazan’s hothouse adaptation of the Tennessee William play which he had originally...	10:15 @ Arts Picturehouse
UK Shorts 2 Natalie Brady, Mark Gillespie, Richard Porter, Debs Gardner-Paterson, Tom Martin, James Malcom, UK, 2008 Three eclectic programmes with contrasting themes and ideas. From the deep and meaningful questions about love, death and life in the playgound, to the more frivolous side of human nature. This...	10:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Burma All Inclusive Roland Wehap, Austria, 2007 Burma, once isolated from the outside world, is now slowly opening up to tourism and, in turn, corruption. The country has been taken hostage by those in power: this documentary goes behind the...	15:30 @ Arts Picturehouse
Conversations with My Gardener (Dialogue avec mon jardinier) Jean Becker, France, 2007 This finely observed film depicts a poignant friendship between two men from different walks of life. When a respected Parisian painter on the brink of divorce (Auteuil) returns to his childhood...	18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse
Café de los Maestros Miguel Kohan, Argentina, 2008 With the return to democracy, Argentina is experiencing an extraordinary rebirth of its main national musical tradition, the Tango. CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS is the gathering of the greatest living...	22:45 @ Arts Picturehouse
Rivals (Les liens du sang) Jacques Maillot, France, 2008 Police inspector François (Guillaume Canet) learns that his brother, Gabriel (François Cluzet), has been released from prison after serving ten years for murder. There's no happy reunion for the...	20:30 @ Arts Picturehouse