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Trip to Asia (Die Suche nach dem Einklang) Thomas Grube, Germany, 2008This 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... |
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Cycles (Les murs porteurs) Cyril Gelblat, France, 2008In 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... |
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Fermat's Room (La Habitación de Fermat) Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopena, Spain, 2007SAW 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... |
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Surprise Movie TBC, 2008A 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... |
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Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog, USA, 2007There 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... |
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The Grocer's Son (Le fils de l'épicier) Eric Guirado, France, 2007Having 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... |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz, USA, 1954This 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... |
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Jarman Shorts 2 Derek Jarman, UK, 2008The 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... |
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Vanaja Rajnesh Domalpalli, India, 2006Vanaja 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... |
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Crawford David Modigliani, USA, 2008In 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... |
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1000 Journals Andrea Kreuzhage, USA, 2007This 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,... |
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Conversations with My Gardener (Dialogue avec mon jardinier) Jean Becker, France, 2007This 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... |
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The Raven Roger Corman, USA, 1963Very 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... |
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King of the Hill (El Rey de la Montaña) Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, Spain, 2007This 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... |
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Nightwatching Peter Greenaway, Canada/France/Germany/Poland/Netherlands/UK, 2007The 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... |
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