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Trip to Asia (Die Suche nach dem Einklang) Thomas Grube, Germany, 2008

This compelling documentary follows the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on a concert tour of Asia, offering a unique insight into the internal dynamic of one of the world’s leading musical...

  • 12:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Cycles (Les murs porteurs) Cyril Gelblat, France, 2008

In this brilliantly accomplished debut feature, Gelblat weaves together the lives of three different generations of a Jewish family in Paris, each contending with family relationships at a critical...

  • 10:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Fermat's Room (La Habitación de Fermat) Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopena, Spain, 2007

SAW for the mathematically minded, with less blood and more brains. Spanish film FERMAT’S ROOM brings together four mathematicians, locks them in a room and lets the walls crush them. The...

  • 15:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Surprise Movie TBC, 2008

A Film Festival is a wonderfully moveable feast, full of late entries, last minute guests and surprise premieres – all of which not only makes the Festival fantastic fun, but also ensures you...

  • 17:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog, USA, 2007

There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge...

  • 20:30 @ 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...

  • 15:30 @ 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...

  • 10:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

Jarman Shorts 2 Derek Jarman, UK, 2008

The second programme of Jarman’s early work starts with two films that are bound with his first works as Director (instead of Artist). SEBASTIANE WRAP is an abstract film shot on the set...

  • 12:45 @ Arts Picturehouse

Vanaja Rajnesh Domalpalli, India, 2006

Vanaja is the 14 year-old daughter of a poor, low caste fisherman, struggling with dwindling catches and mounting debt in rural South India. When a sooth-sayer predicts that she will be a great...

  • 15:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

Crawford David Modigliani, USA, 2008

In 1999, Governor George W. Bush buys a ranch in Crawford, Texas, and calls it "home"; overnight, an insular community explodes. Bush declares candidacy for President, using Crawford as the perfect...

  • 17:45 @ Arts Picturehouse

1000 Journals Andrea Kreuzhage, USA, 2007

This intriguing documentary is part of the international phenomenon that is the 1,000 JOURNALS project: a 21st century take on releasing a message in a bottle. In 2000, a graphic artist, Someguy,...

  • 10:30 @ 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...

  • 20:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

The Raven Roger Corman, USA, 1963

Very loosely based on a poem by director Roger Corman’s frequent muse, Edgar Allen Poe, THE RAVEN tells of a trio of sorcerors – one good (Vincent Price), one bad (Peter Lorre) and one ugly...

  • 13:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

King of the Hill (El Rey de la Montaña) Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, Spain, 2007

This is a film that promises to have everyone talking. It takes the “rural menace in the woods” genre as epitomised by DELIVEREANCE (and cheekily parodied by SEVERANCE) and turns it absolutely...

  • 18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Nightwatching Peter Greenaway, Canada/France/Germany/Poland/Netherlands/UK, 2007

The first feature in Greenaway's "Dutch Masters" film series has been described by co-producer Jean Labadie as "a return to the Greenaway of The Draughtsman's Contract". As his subject he chooses...

  • 20:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

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