Sun 27 Mar • Fellini double bill

IL BIDONE (The Swindlers) (12A) 2.15

(It/Fr 1955) dir.Federico Fellini 90m. Subtitles.
Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Sue Ellen Blake.

The Swindlers of this film are a gang of three. Augusto, withdrawn and weary; Picasso, a would-be artist, weak and emotionally immature; Roberto, sensual, opportunist and impeccably second-rate. They exist by playing elaborate confidence tricks on the poor and credulous. Disguised as priests, they tell stories of buried treasure; purporting to represent the town council, they extract deposits on non-existent flats from slums dwellers. Greed and hopelessness are their allies. It would be difficult to imagine frauds meaner, or pettier, yet – and here is the true realism – the swindlers are anything but brutal or depraved.

“Broderick Crawford gives a performance of unexpected subtlety. The direction is brilliant throughout; the desolate story is given a mixture of savagery and pathos which held me transfixed. I regard this as a films not be missed.”
(Sunday Times)

+ 8 1/2 (15) 4.00

(Italy 1963) dir.Federico Fellini 139m. Subtitles.
Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk.

“Why 8 1/2? With six solo films behind him and three collaborations (counting as a half each), this film was Fellini's 8 1/2 movie. It is also perhaps his most introverted and self-referential. Marcello Mastroianni stars as a film director on the brink of making his next big movie, and possibly his first nervous breakdown. This is a film about film-making and a stricken soul trying to find solutions in a visceral form. Strong reflections of Fellini play across Mastroianni, who is suffering from the expectations of others that he is about to deliver another masterpiece.”
(Almar Haflidason, BBCi Films)

Sun 3 Apr • Double bill

VODKA LEMON (PG) 1.00

(Fr/It/Switz/Arm 2004) dir.Hiner Saleem 90m. Subtitles.
Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek, Ruzan Mesropyan, Zahal Karielachvili.

"Hiner Saleem's gentle tragi-comedy tells of Hamo, an ageing widower, who finds love in, of all places, a cemetery. But it's also the story of his tiny Kurdish village - a remote, snowbound outpost where the real and the surreal agreeably co-exist. With his wife in the ground, his only hope rests in an adult son who has immigrated to France. Saleem surrounds his protagonists with a colourful gallery of eccentrics. The real star, though, is the rugged, mountainous landscape: a winter wonderland that will have you blinking in chilly awe. The marvel is that Saleem finds human empathy and alcohol-fuelled bonhomie flourishing in such a forbidding and melancholy wilderness."
(BBCi Films)

+ TURTLES CAN FLY (15) 2.50

(Iran/Iraq 2004) dir.Bahman Ghobadi 97m. Subtitles.
Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif.

“An Iranian Kurd, Ghobadi is the first director to make a film in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. It’s the eve of the American invasion and we find ourselves with a group of refugee children living in a makeshift town. One young boy talks sagely about the Americans and with disdain about the Iraqi government. But any light banter is overshadowed by the film’s opening, flash-forward image of a teenage girl throwing herself off a precipice. Once the same girl appears in real time, we can only wait to discover how this particular circle will complete. Ghobadi leads us through a dangerous world where adults are scarce and children run their own lives in the shadow of impending doom.”
(Dave Calhoun, Time Out)

Tue 5 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

SHALL WE DANCE (12A) 11.15am

(US 2005) dir.Peter Chelsom 106m.
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Lisa Ann Walter, Stanley Tucci.

“A vision of the Lycra-clad Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) in the window of Miss Mitzi's Studio brightens up the daily commute for jaded Chicago lawyer John Clark (Richard Gere). Although he loves his wife (Susan Sarandon), he signs up for classes just for the chance to get close to her. Of course John is soon surprised to discover that his love of ballroom dancing overtakes his obsession with the lovely Latina, but not before the missus suspects he's having an affair. Gere is unusually endearing in his middle-aged awkwardness. As a closeted salsa freak with a spray-on tan, Stanley Tucci also lifts proceedings.”
(Stella Papamichael BBCi Films)

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions & Under 15’s

Wed 6 Apr • Classic Matinee

SHALL WE DANCE (12A) 2.30

(US 2005) dir.Peter Chelsom 106m.
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Lisa Ann Walter, Stanley Tucci.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions & Under 15’s/free admission for Over 60’s

Thur 7 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

DOWNFALL (Der Untergang) (15) 1.45

(Ger/It 2004) dir.Oliver Hirschbiegel 155m. Subtitles.
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch.

“In 1945, as Berlin falls to the Russians, Adolf Hitler and his inner circle retreat to a bunker for a futile, suicidal last stand. Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary, looks on as the führer veers between depression and delusion and finally marries his long-term girlfriend, Eva Braun. Most film and TV Hitler biopics end with the suicide, but this epic soldiers on grimly, presenting the appalling sacrificial murder of the five Goebbels children by their mother – who can't bear the idea of them growing up in a world without National Socialism – and the complete collapse of the Third Reich. Bruno Ganz is one of the screen's great Hitlers, performing in German with that rasping accent, a mercurial tyrant who pats dogs and children, refuses to attend to the bad news delivered by cowed or desperate loyalists, and throws those famous tantrums with shocking conviction. Having made The Experiment, a subterranean suspense film, Oliver Hirschbiegel is imaginative directorial casting and comes up trumps – we get a real sense of the enclosed, insane world of the bunker but never lose sight of the dreadful plight of the rest of the battered city, with citizens caught between Nazi death squads and onrolling Soviet tanks.”
(Kim Newman, Empire)

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sat 9 Apr • Matinee

LA NIÑA SANTA (The Holy Girl) (15) 2.15

(Arg/It/Sp/Holl 2004) dir.Lucrecia Martel 104m. Subtitles.
Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche.

“In a quiet provincial town in northern Argentina, amid a crowd in the street, Jano presses himself up against teenage daughter Amalia, whose religious faith has prompted her to respond by embarking on a divine mission. Through carefully composed images and meticulously mixed sound, Martel creates a world that’s seemingly hermetic but strangely familiar where ‘good’ and ‘evil’, fear and desire, innocence and experience become, both literally and metaphorically, questions of perspective. That Martel establishes, sustains and intensifies that mood with such graceful expertise confirms her as an artist of enormous promise.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)

£5/£4 Concs

Sun 10 Apr • Lucrecia Martel double bill

LA CIENAGA (The Swamp) (12A) 2.30

(Arg/Fr/Sp 2001) dir.Lucrecia Martel 100m. Subtitles.
Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Baylé.

“It's steamy summer in the city in the north-west of the country they call the Swamp – a Deep South in the far, forgotten north. Mecha and her shrivelled, stumbling husband have retreated to their country estate to consume crates of Cabernet Sauvignon with their friends while her teenage kids go shooting in the sub-tropical forest. Her poorer cousin, Tali, comes up from the city with her children to visit. The teens grow up because the adults have bombed out. Martel triumphantly submerges us in the day-to-day existence of a provincial middle class. It's superbly acted by Graciela Borges, Mercedes Moran and the lissome Leonara Balcarce as the fiery daughter. You may not want to travel to La Cienaga country when you've seen it – but that's because you know, deep down, that you've been there already. (Peter Preston, The Observer)

+ LA NIÑA SANTA (The Holy Girl) (15) 4.30

(Arg/It/Sp/Holl 2004) dir.Lucrecia Martel 104m. Subtitles.
Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche.

“In a quiet provincial town in northern Argentina, amid a crowd in the street, Jano presses himself up against teenage daughter Amalia, whose religious faith has prompted her to respond by embarking on a divine mission. Through carefully composed images and meticulously mixed sound, Martel creates a world that’s seemingly hermetic but strangely familiar where ‘good’ and ‘evil’, fear and desire, innocence and experience become, both literally and metaphorically, questions of perspective. That Martel establishes, sustains and intensifies that mood with such graceful expertise confirms her as an artist of enormous promise.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)

Tue 12 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

LA NIÑA SANTA (The Holy Girl) (15) 1.00

(Arg/It/Sp/Holl 2004) dir.Lucrecia Martel 104m. Subtitles.
Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 14 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

BULLET BOY (15) 1.15

(Br 2004) dir.Saul Dibb 89m.
Ashley Walters, Luke Fraser, Leon Black, Claire Perkins, Sharea-Mounira Samuels, Curtis Walker, Clark Lawson.

“Documentary filmmaker Dibb brings a lively authenticity to this cautionary tale of inner city life that makes it thoroughly engaging and powerfully moving. As an examination of British gun culture, it's devastating stuff. But it's an even more compelling personal drama. Ricky (Walters), age 20, is just out of prison and determined to straighten up. But back home his old pal Wisdom (Black) is still in the community's violent subculture, sparking an escalating feud with another thug (Lawson) over a broken wing mirror. Meanwhile, Ricky is trying to revive his relationship with his girlfriend (Samuels), convince his mother (Perkins) that he's putting violence behind him, and help his 12-year-old brother Curtis (Fraser) stay straight. These people are genuinely trying to improve their life, even as the violent spiral threatens to consume them all. It's a remarkably affecting portrayal of life on the brink – entertaining, skilful and extremely important.”
(Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall)

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sat 16 Apr • Brief Encounters on tour matinee

Tall Orders (15)

A short films programme featuring international prize-winners and audience favourites from the the 10th Brief Encounters Short Film Festival (the UK's leading short film festival).

ALL IN ALL (Alt I alt)
(Norway 2003) dir. Torbjørn Skårild 4m. Subtitles.
Caught in a world of rhythm, repetition and CCTV, a diver prepares to take the plunge.

BIRTHDAY (Syntymäpäivä)
(Finland 2004) dir.Kari Juusonen 15m. Subtitles. Animation.
A technical malfunction at the abattoir results in a battle of wills between a man and a cow. A dark and hilarious claymation treat.

LITTLE MAN
(South Africa/Br 2004) dir.Martin Brierley 10m.
Simeon is thirteen, a silent loner growing up in poverty in redneck South Africa. Marianna, a sexually experienced girl of 19, entrances him. He begins to follow her everywhere. When he's caught peeping all hell breaks loose.

PEPTALK
(Sweden 2004) dir.Andrea Friberg 3m. Subtitles.
A life-affirming peptalk.

SHORTAGE OF SPACE (Plassmangel)
(Norway 2003) dir.Geir Henning Hopland 6m. Subtitles.
Can you imagine an episode of THE GREEN WING by Jaques Tati and scripted by Kafka? Well...

FLOATING
(Br 2004) dir.Mark Walker 18m.
Jonathan's marriage to Grace is easy. One night, working late in his office, he meets Mitsy, a cleaning woman. Intriguing though she is, the woman confronts Jonathan with a truth he would rather not acknowledge. The encounter threatens to propel Jonathan to a new and frightening place.

CUT
(Singapore 2004) dir.Royston Tan 13m. Subtitles.
The latest film from enfant terrible Royston Tan is a musical extravaganza about Singapore's repressive censorship system. En route we learn that LOST IN TRANSLATION, THE HOURS and TITANIC have all been victims of the censor's scissors. But to ensure that things don't get too glum, there are chorus lines, an homage to Abba and Tan makes an appearance dressed as a white rabbit...

Adm £5/£4 Concs

Sun 17 Apr • Double bill

MONDOVINO (PG) 12.45

(Arg/Fr/It/US 2004) dir.Jonathan Nossiter 137m. Some Subtitles. Documentary.

“Nossiter trained as a sommelier, and his expertise in and love of all things oenological come across loud and clear in this wonderfully wise and engrossing documentary on wine and its place in the world. It’s not only about wine-making, tasting, marketing and reviewing but also about how that microcosm relates to wider economic, social and political forces. Subtle, full-bodied, characterful, blessed with a long, elegant finish that keeps you thinking, the film’s likely to leave you thirsting for more.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)

+ SIDEWAYS (15) 3.20

(US 2004) dir.Alexander Payne 127m.
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh.

“Can I ask you a personal question? wonders Miles, our paunchy anti-hero, as he leans in towards Maya, a friend he knows from his regular trips to California’s vineyards. ‘Why are you so into Pinot?’ What a chat-up line. Yet this and other crucial questions concerning wine, men, love and friendship are the lifeblood of this low-key road movie about two middle-aged men, Miles and Jack, who take to the highway to explore California’s vineyards in the week before Jack gets married. This odd, contrasting pair share little more than long-gone college days. Miles is a school teacher, aspiring novelist and divorcee with an obsession for wine and a defeatist demeanour that indicates he is a depressed shell of his former self. Jack, meanwhile, is an out-of-work actor who still dines out on a long-gone stint on a television soap opera. Their ideas of a holiday are very different: Miles just wants to drink wine and and play golf, while Jack is determined to have one last fling before marriage. Depression, loss and disappointment are at the heart of this film, which grounds a simple story of mismatched friends and road-movie mishaps in serious, affecting themes. Intelligent, funny and moving.”
(Dave Calhoun, Time Out)

Tue 19 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

SIDEWAYS (15) 3.20

(US 2004) dir.Alexander Payne 127m.
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 21 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

THE EDUKATORS (Die Fetten Jahren sind vorbei) (15) 12.15

(Ger/Austria 2004) dir.Hans Weingartner 127m.
Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner.

“Daniel (GOODBYE LENIN!) Brühl is back, in Hans Weingartner's THE EDUKATORS, a sharp but funny social satire in which he plays a young, idealistic, Berlin-based anti-capitalist. Under the cover of darkness, Jan (Brühl) and Peter (Stipe Erceg), the self-styled Edukators, break into the homes of the wealthy to indulge in a spot of amateur feng shui. Rather than stealing any of the luxury items, they simply rearrange furniture and deposit a note warning of the evils of materialism. THE EDUKATORS combines political discourse, a love-triangle and a hostage plot without sacrificing its graceful humour.”
(Howard Swains, Times Online)

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Fri 22 to Thur 28 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

We are happy to be one of the venues for the th Raindance East Film Festival. Raindance East 2005 brings to the East End a phenomenal programme of this year’s hottest features, documentaries, shorts and special events that reflects the wealth of talent and celebrates the unique attitude of East London’s vibrant filmmaking community. Taking place from 21 to 28 April, and produced by Raindance, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Lee Valley Park, Raindance East provides the opportunity to view a wide range of feature films from all corners of the globe with screenings at the Genesis Mile End and UGC West India Quay as well as the Rio. Ticket prices are £5/£4 Concessions except where indicated. Pick up a programme leaflet from the Rio box office or go to: www.raindance.co.uk/east.

Fri 22 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

THE PLAGUE (15) 6.15

(Br 2005) dir.Greg Hall 104m.
Samuel Anokye, Brett Harris, David Bonnick Jr, Nur Alam Rahman, Kevin N. Golding.

A multicultural tale showing us a weekend in the life of four friends – Alex, Tom, Ravi and Matt – as they go about their lives, hanging out, meeting friends, partying and anything else that comes up to pass the time. The Plague is set against a backdrop of London’s notorious housing estates and to the tunes of Skinnyman and DJ Flip. It gives us a vibrant portrait of inner-city youth in the twenty-first century. The film was championed by Mike Leigh at Raindance’s annual British Independent Film Awards. He described the film as ‘exciting street stuff. An amazingly lively film which really points to the future and a very exciting 21st century kind of cinema’. This micro-budget feature shot on MiniDV for just £3500 is confidently directed by 23-year-old newcomer, Greg Hall, and Variety compares his work to that of a young Shane Meadows. Using a largely non-professional cast Hall conjures an authenticity and raw intensity that pulls the viewer in. This is a striking and energetic debut which holds much promise for Greg Hall’s future career prospects.

Sat 23 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

Masterclass with Simon Channing-Wiliams 1.15

Raindance East is proud to welcome multi-award winning producer Simon Channing-Williams as this year’s Producer in Residence. Long time collaborator on Mike Leigh's films, Simon has credits that include the acclaimed Secrets & Lies (1996) and this year’s award-winning VERA DRAKE. Channing-Williams first began working with Leigh as an assistant director on the 1980 BBC film Grown Ups, and moved to producing with Leigh's featurette The Short and Curlies (1981). Soon after, they formed Thin Man Films which has since offered such gems as Life Is Sweet (1991), Topsy Turvey (1999) and All or Nothing (2002). For this masterclass, Simon will be discussing his career and role as a producer, and will be introducing two films from his repertoire: Naked (1993) and Man About Dog (2004).

Sat 23 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

KEBAB CONNECTION (15) 6.30

(Ger 2005) dir.Anno Saul 96m. Subtitles.
Adnan Maral, Denis Moschitto, Kida Ramadan.

Turkish Ibo idolises Bruce Lee and wants to be known as the director of the first German kung fu film. Without experience he turns to his family for his big break — directing a kung fu filled commercial for his uncle Ahmet's Hamburg kebab shop. The spot's a huge success but family tensions mount when his German girlfriend announces she's pregnant. Kebab Connection is a high energy comedy that trades on familiar stereotypes while adding a dose of quirkiness that sets it well above others of the genre. The film was co-written by Fatih Akin, the Turkish director of the award-winning Head-On and is a second feature for Anno Saul who screened his first film, Green Desert at Raindance in 1999.

Sat 23 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

THE EYE 2 (15) 11.30

(Hong Kong/Thai 2004) dirs.Oxide & Danny Pang 94m.
Eugenia Yuan, Qi Shu.

The Pang Brothers once again demonstrate their excellent storytelling abilities in The Eye 2, a tense atmospheric follow up to the original. Joey Cheng is vacationing in Bangkok trying to get over the split with her boyfriend Sam. A wake up call in her hotel room saves her from suicide but the near death experience leaves its mark – not only does she discover she's pregnant, but she now has the ability to see dead people.

Sun 24 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

Shorts: Documentaries (15) 2.00

E1
(Br 2004) dir.Eamonn Cullinan 22m.

Ismail and Muhuit take us on eventful election campaign through Banglatown E1. Local resident Delwar guides us through the same streets revealing a very different history to the one pedalled by the tourist guides.

STACKED
(Br 2004) dirs. Greg Villalobos & Martin Orton 3m.

A group of four boys take a reflective look at the consequences of crashing a stolen scooter. A challenging look at the internal and external stereotyping of estate kids.

POLISH YOUR SHOES
(Br 2004) dir.Sam Huntley 12m.

Six London born brothers and sisters recall memories of their dead father. A very personal film for director Sam Huntley telling the story of the grandfather he never knew.

MISSING TOM
(Br 2004) dir.Ben Moore 28m.

This film documents the filmmaker’s search for his missing brother, Tom, and also aims to challenge the doctor’s diagnosis that Tom is schizophrenic. The search continues.

CHILD OF BETHLEHEM
The Children of Hope Flowers School 19m.
produced by Stuart Bamforth & Zan Barberton.

Beautifully shot by Palestinian children themselves, these 5 self-directed vignettes show what it’s like to fall in love, fly a kite, and build a garden in a refugee camp. Refraining from sensationalism, this film shows the human side of growing up in a war zone

THE CORRIDOR
(Br 2004) dir.Zoe Neirizi 27m.

A story about a young Iranian woman who becomes politically active in opposing the Ayatollah’s regime in the 80’s. Now in London she looks back at her struggles.

STARKISS: CIRCUS GIRLS OF INDIA (PG) 4.15

(Holland 2003)
dirs.Chris Relleke & Jascha de Wilde 77m. Subtitles.

Starkiss documents the life of circus girls working for the Great Rayman Circus of India. A bittersweet tale of children (the youngest of whom are five years old) with very little option in life but to enter a world which to us appears lonely, abusive and cruel, but which to them offers a sanctuary from manual labour and the sex trade. Most of the girls are from Nepal and have been sold to the circus by their parents in order to gain an advance on their pitiful wages. These girls are completely segregated from their fellow workers, their lives mirroring those of the caged animals they work with. There are times when watching this film, that you almost forget you are watching a documentary, and feel you could be enjoying the latest dramatic offering from David Lynch, so surreal are many of the images and so intense the lives of some of these girls.

Mon 25 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

33 x AROUND THE SUN (15) 6.15

(Br 2005) dir.John Hardwick 80m.
Lars Rudolph, Eileen Walsh.

Based loosely on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice relocated in the nocturnal streets of an unnamed city, 33 x Around The Sun is a surreal, Lynch-esque piece. It follows the story of a man who wakes up one night in an apparently abandoned hospital and leaves to go in search of his home. The film charts his journey and his meetings with an insomniac dancer, a café ranter, a dog with a plan, a pair of cops from a different dimension and a jaded film crew that keeps disappearing. These characters push and pull ‘the man’ in different directions with their conflicting demands and he struggles to piece together a true picture of what is happening around him. 33 x Around the Sun is ‘magnificently out of step with current trends in British cinema’ and this is partially the result of it taking a rather unorthodox route into being. Although initially financed with a small arts grant intended to facilitate the production of a short film, the resulting forty-minute film seemed to suggest a bigger story. After consulting with the cast and crew, it was decided that the film should be allowed to grow. The producer and director gathered together their own money, the cast and crew reunited, and the rest of the film was shot. The total number of shooting days, although spread over a long period, came to a mere fourteen for the entire film. The film was finally completed in 2005, made inch by inch over a period of three years.

+ Q&A with the filmmakers

Tue 26 Apr • Parents & Babies Club

THE EDUKATORS (Die Fetten Jahren sind vorbei) (15) 12.30

(Ger/Austria 2004) dir.Hans Weingartner 127m.
Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner.

“Daniel (GOODBYE LENIN!) Brühl is back, in Hans Weingartner's THE EDUKATORS, a sharp but funny social satire in which he plays a young, idealistic, Berlin-based anti-capitalist. Under the cover of darkness, Jan (Brühl) and Peter (Stipe Erceg), the self-styled Edukators, break into the homes of the wealthy to indulge in a spot of amateur feng shui. Rather than stealing any of the luxury items, they simply rearrange furniture and deposit a note warning of the evils of materialism. THE EDUKATORS combines political discourse, a love-triangle and a hostage plot without sacrificing its graceful humour.” (Howard Swains, Times Online)

Tue 26 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

Script to Screen Masterclass with Tony Grisoni 6.30

What happens between the development of an idea for a film and its final version on screen? How does the script development process work and how does the collaboration between writer, producer and director affect the story? Feature film writer Tony Grisoni gives us a rare opportunity to hear firsthand about the development journey of three very different films; QUEEN OF HEARTS, FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS and IN THIS WORLD. Using excerpts from the scripts and scenes from the finished films he will discuss the evolution of the screenplays, and the dynamics between the personnel involved in the making of the films. Tony Grisoni has worked closely with a number of directors including John Boorman and Terry Gilliam, and is also proud to count himself amongst the crew on board the ship of fools: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE (writer). His forthcoming films are BROTHERS OF THE HEAD, directed by LOST IN LA MANCHA directors, Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe, and TIDELAND directed by Terry Gilliam.

Wed 27 Apr • Raindance East Film Festival

East End Stories Masterclass 6.30

Are you interested in a different kind of Cinema – the raft that draws upon real peoples lives? East End Stories invites acclaimed feature film directors from around the world to devise dramas with young people on the ‘edges’ – giving a voice to their unique stories. There will also be an integrated training programme, providing development opportunities for those recruited locally. Find out how East End Stories will approach putting real lives on the screen and how a group of industry professionals have come together for this innovative series of short films. From City Of God to Dead Man’s Shoes, Whale Rider to Yasmin, East End Stories draws upon a tradition of cinema focusing upon little heard voices and hidden stories. The session looks at the process of teaming up five of the most cutting edge international film directors with five marginalised groups of young people, bringing global perspectives to local lives. The producers will also be discussing the training programme that will accompany the production of the films and the unique opportunity for local people to become involved in production based training. Attend this event if you are interested in developing a career in the film industry or if you just want to help us celebrate the launch of East End Stories. East End Stories is a co-production between Hi8us, Parallax Independent, Primal Pictures & Richmix. Panel Members to include Sally Hibbin, Dhiraj Mahey, Keith Khan & Andy Porter.

Thur 28 Apr • Raindance East: Closing Night Gala

Reception 7.00

BORN INTO BROTHELS (15) 8.00

(US 2004) dirs.Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman. 85m.

Born Into Brothels directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children living in the bowels of Calcutta's red light district. Briski, a professional photographer and co-director Kaufman provide the impoverished children with cameras and follow them through the streets as they document their squalid and dismal world. In the process of learning photography, the children are exposed to a world outside of their own and a narrative unfurls during their journey of learning and self-discovery that may just provide them with the opportunity they desperately need to escape their unfortunate situations. The children are Kochi, a reserved young girl destined to follow her family’s footsteps into prostitution; Avijit, a talented and serious boy whose mother is murdered by her pimp during the shooting of the film; and Puja, an aggressive tomboy who photographs the district's most violent areas. By framing the children in extreme close-ups and juxtaposing their own images with those taken by the children, Briski and Kauffman establish the distinct personality and voice of their subjects while creating a style that is remarkably fresh and beautiful. Born Into Brothels won the Academy Award this year for best documentary film.

£8/£6.50 Concs

Fri 29 Apr • Late Night Shorts

FUTURE SHORTS (15) 11.15pm

Future Shorts launches LATE NIGHT SHORTS at the Rio with a programme of films featuring some of the most inventive and diverse short films out there. Screenings will take place on the last Friday of every month.
"A refreshingly eclectic approach to the art of short film, films range from the bracingly hilarious to the mysteriously poignant."
(Evening Standard)

BATHTIME IN CLERKENWELL
dir. Alex Budovsky
Highly inventive animation created as a music video for the band Real Tuesday Weld.

NATAN
dirs. Jonas Bergergard & Jonas Holmstrom
Natan's first day on a new job. The employment office has sent him to Viggo's hamburger joint. Munir tries to teach him the moves but Natan is a disaster waiting to happen.

JOJO IN THE STARS
dir. Marc Craste
JoJo is a story of love, self sacrifice and murderous jealousy played out in a world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful.

LE CHEVAL 2.1 dirs. Stephen Scott Hayward & Alex Kirkland
The Story of a man who thinks he's a horse. Winner of the Depict award at Brief Encounters.

LIFT
dir. Marc Isaacs
Film-maker Marc Issacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community.

I WANT MORE
dir. Dan Gordon
Faithless Music Video inspired by the acclaimed documentary A STATE OF MIND.

MUSIC FOR ONE APARTMENT AND SIX DRUMMERS
dir. Johannes Stajarne Nilsson
Six drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs. This inventive short inspired a huge advertising campaign in Sweden.

I LOVE DEATH
dir. Hannes Haya
A Short Biography of a little man.

NON FAT
dir. Olivier Manzi
Simple and brilliant. A finalist at the Brief Encounter Depict competition.

WARD 13
dir. Peter Cornwell
What price would you put on your health? Ben is about to find out. Winner of 13 awards at festivals around the world.

BLOODY OLIVE
dir. Vincent Bal
Christmas Eve 1951. Werner and Mylene are looking forward to a cosy evening with turkey and presents when the doorbell rings.

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Sat 30 Apr & Sun 1 May • Matinees

SOLARIS (PG) 1.15

(USSR 1972) dir.Andrei Tarkovsky 166m. New Print. Subtitles.
Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis.

“Both an allegory on the failing Communist experiment and a treatise on man’s potential for salvation, Tarkovsky’s mesmerising adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s novel is still superior to Steven Soderbergh’s remake. Its discussion of passion and obsession, regret and reconciliation is consistently challenging and offers few easy answers. The director refuses to be tempted by the sci-fi staples to which even Stanley Kubrick succumbed in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, so while the sets are evocative, they’re not fetishistically futuristic. Nor is the action peppered with set-pieces designed to sex up psychologist Donatas Banionis’ painful resolution of his relationship with his dead wife. Instead, Tarkovsky concentrates on the eerie realisation that there’s nothing more terrifying out in space than our own selves...”
(David Parkinson, Empire)

Tue 3 May • Parents & Babies Club

THE WOMEN (U) 12.30

(US 1939) dir.George Cukor 132m. Re-release.
Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell.

“‘This story isn’t new — it comes to most wives,’ counsels Lucile Watson’s sage matriarch upon the news that her daughter Mary (Norma Shearer) has lost her husband’s affections — to a perfume salesgirl in the man-eating mould of Joan Crawford, no less. Ma’s advice is as seasoned as her unblinking reaction: Mary should hold her tongue, because her girlfriends will never hold theirs. "I'm an old woman, my dear — I know my sex.' The tone here ranges from flappy catfights to lusty intrigue to sweet mother-daughter confidences; throughout Cukor inscribes the film with his usual subtle sophistication.”
(Nick Bradshaw, Time Out)

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Wed 4 May • Classic Matinee

THE WOMEN (U) 2.30

(US 1939) dir.George Cukor 132m. Re-release.
Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell.

NB. With a 15 minute interval

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Thur 5 May • Parents & Babies Club

TARNATION (15) 1.00

(US 2003) dir.Jonathan Caouette 88m. Documentary.

“Caouette claims a ridiculous three-figure budget, a metaphor perhaps for having ripped the movie out of his gut. The jagged cutting and supersaturated colors have the assaultive effect of a '60s light show. The structure of this lush, frenzied assemblage suggests shock therapy, which is precisely what the filmmaker's mother, a onetime child model, received after she fell off the roof of her Texas home and suffered hysterical paralysis. Raised by his grandparents, Caouette grew up as a one-boy subculture with a penchant for hysteria. Caouette arrived in New York in his twenties, finding a place for his manic energy and even his tormented mother. Adrift in a selectively arranged saga of breakdowns, foster homes, abuse, attempted suicide, and brain damage, the artist clutches his camera as though it were a life raft, and apparently he survives. Caouette recalls thinking as a teenager that his story was a potential rock opera. Only time will tell, but TARNATION surely recounts an American life — grandiose fantasies amid pop detritus, success and celebrity distilled from a miasma of pain.”
(J. Hoberman, Village Voice)

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Sat 7 May • Matinee

HOTEL RWANDA (12A) 1.15

(US/Canada/Br 2004) dir.Terry George 122m.
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, David O'Hara, Cara Seymour.

“11 yeas ago in Rwanda, Hutu extremists slaughtered almost a million of their Tutsi countrymen with guns and machetes, while the Western World stood by and refused to intervene. Hotel Rwanda, the first mainstream film to approach the subject, tells the story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, (Don Cheadle) who sheltered more than 1,200 people during the chaos. The film carries both an emotional and a political punch. The emotion comes from Don Cheadle's thrilling portrait of ordinary heroism, a performance that's matched only by the magnificent Sophie Okonedo as his wife Tatiana. The politics is left to Nick Nolte's powerless UN colonel. His disgust at the cowardice and, the film suggests, the racism displayed by Western leaders stays with you long after the lights go up.”
(Paul Arendt, BBCi Films)

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Sun 8 May • Double bill

NOWHERE IN AFRICA (15) 12.45

(Ger 2001) dir.Caroline Link 141m. Subtitles.
Juliane Köhler, Sidede Onyulo, Regine Zimmermann.

"It's 1938 and, against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism, five-year-old Regina Redlich is leaving Breslau with her mother Jettel, heading for life on a remote farm in Africa. Link's Oscar-winning feature is carefully balanced between charting the experiences of a child and those of her parents. All the performances are powerful, giving the film a warmth that is complemented by ravishing cinematography. Lovely stuff."
(Time Out)

+ HOTEL RWANDA (12A) 3.30

(US/Canada/Br 2004) dir.Terry George 122m.
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, David O'Hara, Cara Seymour.

Tue 10 May • Parents & Babies Club

HOTEL RWANDA (12A) 12.45

(US/Canada/Br 2004) dir.Terry George 122m.
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, David O'Hara, Cara Seymour.

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Thur 12 May • Parents & Babies Club

MACHUCA (15) 12.45
(Chile 2004) dir.Andrés Wood 121m. Subtitles.
Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli.

“It's taken the incarceration of the president for Chile to finally make its own movie about the US-sponsored 1973 coup that plunged the country into 30 years of horrific injustice. And Wood is clearly the right guy for the job, telling his eloquent story from a child's non-judgemental point of view. Gonzalo is an 11-year-old at a posh Catholic school in Santiago, where the American priest is determined to counteract centuries of European prejudice by allowing indigenous boys from a nearby shantytown to attend for free. Gonzalo befriends one of them, Pedro Machuca, and together they embark on several pre-adolescent adventures, including kissing their first girl. Meanwhile, the country's political situation is coming to a boil. This is incendiary subject matter, and Wood inventively tells the story from the boys' neutral perspective — they're literally from opposite sides of the tracks, with no idea what that means. But as the film progresses they begin to understand the awful truth of the world they live in. The result is one of the most startlingly effective political films in memory — gripping, entertaining, devastating."
(Rich Kline, Shadows on the Wall)

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Sat 14 May • Matinee

STALKER (PG) 2.00

(USSR 1979) dir.Andrei Tarkovsky 161m. Re-release. Subtitles.
Alksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nicolai Grinko.

“In this Soviet-era parable on the relationship between ‘faith’ and ‘freedom’, Tarkovsky turns a sci-fi template into something approaching spiritual art. In an unnamed military state exists The Zone, an off-limits area evacuated after an unexplained event: at its centre lies The Room, where wishes allegedly come true. That’s how the shaven-headed eponymous stalker comes in, part scout, part holy fool, who makes a crust guiding travellers through this mystery-shrouded landscape. His latest clients are a writer and a scientist, and debate soon rages between their contrasting worldviews as they get closer to... what, exactly? Episodic in plotting, skeletal in characterisation, it’s still a celluloid landmark. Not easy viewing, but haunting.”
(Trevor Johnston, Time Out)

Sat 14 May • Leapfrog Entertainment presents

Shortseasons Spring Fest 05 (15) 5.00

BETWEEN US
(Br 2004) dirs.Charlotte Bruus Christensen & Stefan Mork 9m.
By coincidence two children meet, and through layers of glass they establish an unforgettable moment between them. A moment we all know, meeting someone, somewhere, someday — and never forget.
2nd Prize – TCM Classic Shorts Awards 2004

BE ME
(Br 2004) dir.Farhan Qureshi 4m.
"Hate is a terrible thing, Colin is about to find out…" A thought provoking and timely short film about the dehumanising impact of football terrace racism.

BRIGHT. DARK. RED
(Br 2004) dir.Danann Breathnach 9m.
In the dark corners of a peculiar London hotel, a lonely girl turns to the shelter of her imagination; wiling away the hours of her nightshift — daydreaming.
Winner – Best Short Film – Big Issue Film Festival 2004

DIALOG
(Br 2004) dir.Stephen Irwin 6m.
A bizarre and intriguing animation which tells the story of a town called ‘Clusterville’; a fantasy world of mad scientists, reproduction, robots and constant suicide.

NINA XXX
(Br 2004) dir.Darren Statman 19m.
Following the life of the French porn star Nina Roberts — this is a truly stunning, exploration of a divided persona. Semi-documentary in style — a graphic, moody, dark and haunting short film that will linger long in the memory.

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Sun 15 May • Tarkovsky double bill

IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (PG) 1.30

(USSR 1962) dir.Andrei Tarkovsky 92m. Subtitles.
Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko.

“Tarkovsky’s first feature is in many ways an orthodox Russian film of its period. Ivan is a teenage Soviet spy on the German front in World War II who undertakes dangerous missions behind enemy lines. Many of Tarkovsky’s later themes and images are already present: Ivan silently wading through still water, eerily immanent forestscapes, the poetry of forbidden zones, and life-and-death struggles played out in slow motion. The glittering black-and-white camerawork has a florid and bravura quality that looks hugely impressive.”
(Tony Rayns, Time Out)

+ STALKER (PG) 3.20

(USSR 1979) dir.Andrei Tarkovsky 161m. Re-release. Subtitles.
Alksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nicolai Grinko.

“In this Soviet-era parable on the relationship between ‘faith’ and ‘freedom’, Tarkovsky turns a sci-fi template into something approaching spiritual art. In an unnamed military state exists The Zone, an off-limits area evacuated after an unexplained event: at its centre lies The Room, where wishes allegedly come true. That’s how the shaven-headed eponymous stalker comes in, part scout, part holy fool, who makes a crust guiding travellers through this mystery-shrouded landscape. His latest clients are a writer and a scientist, and debate soon rages between their contrasting worldviews as they get closer to... what, exactly? Episodic in plotting, skeletal in characterisation, it’s still a celluloid landmark. Not easy viewing, but haunting.”
(Trevor Johnston, Time Out)

Tue 17 May • Parents & Babies Club

PALINDROMES (15) 1.00

(US 2004) dir.Todd Solondz 100m.
Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Ellen Barkin, Rachel Corr, Will Denton, Hannah Freiman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Shayna Levine, Valerie Shusterov, Sharon Wilkins.

“Solondz continues to engage us with real characters who do hideously real things to each other. And he also continues to venture into more surreal, twisted territory with his intelligent but often baffling approach to storytelling. Aviva (played by eight actresses of various age, size and race) is a 12-year-old struggling with the concepts of birth and death. Her parents (Barkin and Masur) continually brush such topics under the carpet, even pushing Aviva toward a hush-hush abortion when she gets pregnant by a family friend. But she runs away from home and takes a warped fairy-tale trip through a variation on her mother's emotional blackmail scenario. A palindrome is a word that reads the same forwards as backwards, like "Aviva". Solondz's main question is whether people really change, or do we stay the same inside. He addresses this from a bewildering array of angles in the film's nine chapters, examining fundamentalism and moral relativism through such issues as disability, abortion, terrorism and paedophilia. And with his blackly hilarious approach, he also gets us laughing - often uncontrollably - at the most taboo things imaginable. Having eight actresses play the protagonist is extremely gimmicky, but Solondz inventively uses this to add resonance to the character. Intriguingly, the extremely varied actresses all play the role the same way. Wilkins' sheer physicality gives her scenes an astonishing subtext; Jason Leigh's aging face adds an emotional punch in the penultimate episode; and Freiman is the other standout, a gawky redhead with braces in the film's most gruelling scenes. The stylised, fable-like acting is especially noticeable in the amazing central chapter featuring the chirpy, religious Mama Sunshine (Monk) and her 10 foster children, all of whom have some sort of disability and embrace the simplistic fundamentalism of their adoptive parents. The film is surprisingly moving on an emotional level, and it'll certainly spark a lively post-film deconstruction.”
(Rich Kline, Shadows on the Wall)

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Sat 21 May • Matinee

RAY (15) 2.00

(US 2003) dir.Taylor Hackford 152m.
Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Regina King.

“Hackford’s latest venture — this entertaining biopic of ‘The Genius’, Ray Charles — is the result of 15 years of collaboration with the great man and covers the early period of the blind Georgia-born innovator’s 60-year career. Hackford is keen to impress the importance of Charles’s dirt-poor background, plaguing him with hallucinogenic reminders of his guilt at the accidental drowning of his baby brother and wringing tears out of Sharon Warren’s beady-eyed portrayal of his cruel-to-be-kind mother. Fine cinematography, evocative production design and a gallery of superb performances.”
(Wally Hammond, Time Out)

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Sun 22 May • Double bill

RAY (15) 1.30

(US 2003) dir.Taylor Hackford 152m.
Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Regina King.

“Hackford’s latest venture — this entertaining biopic of ‘The Genius’, Ray Charles — is the result of 15 years of collaboration with the great man and covers the early period of the blind Georgia-born innovator’s 60-year career. Hackford is keen to impress the importance of Charles’s dirt-poor background, plaguing him with hallucinogenic reminders of his guilt at the accidental drowning of his baby brother and wringing tears out of Sharon Warren’s beady-eyed portrayal of his cruel-to-be-kind mother. Fine cinematography, evocative production design and a gallery of superb performances.”
(Wally Hammond, Time Out)

+ MILLION DOLLAR BABY (12A) 4.20

(US 2004) dir.Clint Eastwood 132m.
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel.

“At his gym in downtown L.A., Frankie Dunne has been training and managing boxers for years. When Maggie, a po’-white-‘trash waitress from the Ozarks, turns up asking for tuition, Frankie’s ex-boxer friend Scraps sees real talent, but Frankie insists she’s too inexperienced, too old... and a woman. And Frankie don’t train women. But this one won’t take no for an answer. To be aware of more of the plot would almost certainly diminish your enjoyment of the movie’s story-telling skills, not to mention its devastating emotional effect. This is Clint at his best: giving a beautifully nuanced performance himself, allowing Freeman and the rest of the cast enough time and space to fully inhabit their roles, eliciting and Oscar-worthy performance from Swank, and executing the whole thing with classical grace, clarity and integrity. Quietly quite magnificent.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)

Tue 24 May • Parents & Babies Club

RAY (15) 12.00

(US 2003) dir.Taylor Hackford 152m.
Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Regina King.

Hackford’s latest venture — this entertaining biopic of ‘The Genius’, Ray Charles — is the result of 15 years of collaboration with the great man and covers the early period of the blind Georgia-born innovator’s 60-year career. Hackford is keen to impress the importance of Charles’s dirt-poor background, plaguing him with hallucinogenic reminders of his guilt at the accidental drowning of his baby brother and wringing tears out of Sharon Warren’s beady-eyed portrayal of his cruel-to-be-kind mother. Fine cinematography, evocative production design and a gallery of superb performances.”
(Wally Hammond, Time Out)

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Wed 25 May • Parents & Babies Club

NOTRE MUSIQUE (12A) 12.45

(France/Switzerland 2004) dir.Jean-Luc Godard 79m. Subtitles.
Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Rony Kramer, Georges Aguilar.

“An equally authoritative follow-up to his Eloge de l'Amour, Godard's latest essay-fiction is a characteristically encyclopedic disquisition on words, images and war. Godard's own Divine Comedy is divided into three sections, Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Hell, an arresting prelude, is an assemblage of images of conflict, while Heaven is a lyrical but bitterly ironic coda. The extended centrepiece Purgatory is a sort of cinema-symposium, set at a literary conference in Sarajevo, where Godard himself holds a masterclass on language and image, with reference to Racine, Howard Hawks and the vision of Bernadette. Other participants include Spain's Juan Goytisolo, Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish – whose trenchant provocations somewhat steal the show – and an Israeli woman hoping to interview the French ambassador for (echoing a famous Godard formula) 'not a just conversation, just a conversation.' The film, however savage, expresses a faith in the enduring strength of language – apparently the 'music' of the title. Hardcore Godardians will want to bring a notepad, but everyone will relish a provocative, complex film proving that Godard, in his sixth decade of film-making, has lost none of his pugnacious invention nor his formidable intellectual curiosity about the state of the world.”
(Jonathan Romney, London Film Festival programme)

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Thur 26 May • Parents & Babies Club

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (12A) 12.00

(US 2004) dir.Clint Eastwood 132m.
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel.

“At his gym in downtown L.A., Frankie Dunne has been training and managing boxers for years. When Maggie, a po’-white-‘trash waitress from the Ozarks, turns up asking for tuition, Frankie’s ex-boxer friend Scraps sees real talent, but Frankie insists she’s too inexperienced, too old... and a woman. And Frankie don’t train women. But this one won’t take no for an answer. To be aware of more of the plot would almost certainly diminish your enjoyment of the movie’s story-telling skills, not to mention its devastating emotional effect. This is Clint at his best: giving a beautifully nuanced performance himself, allowing Freeman and the rest of the cast enough time and space to fully inhabit their roles, eliciting and Oscar-worthy performance from Swank, and executing the whole thing with classical grace, clarity and integrity. Quietly quite magnificent.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)

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Fri 27 May • Late Night Shorts

FUTURE SHORTS (15) 11.15pm

COCK FIGHT
(Israel) dir.Sigalit Liphshitz.
On his way to the market, Marziano, a chicken breeder accompanied by his romanian worker, is stopped at a roman roadblock. A powerful and well told tale from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Israel.

REVOLUTION OF THE CRABS
(France) dir.Arthur De Pins.
In the browny waters of the Gironde estuary, between the rocks and muddy sand that provide a home for the best oysters in the world live the Pachygrapsus Mormatus, commonly known as ‘depressed crabs’. This is their tragic tale.

BETWEEN THE WARS
(Br) dir.Emily Woof.
Hostility between an asylum seeker and a war veteran living on the same council estate in London makes way for an unlikely friendship.

HIS PASSIONATE BRIDE
(Br) dir.Monika Forsberg.
This is truly the greatest, sexiest, and somewhat shortest love story ever told.

THE KNIFE
(Sweden) dir.Johan Renck.
A rare and inventive music video by renowned director Johan Renck.

REVOLUTION
(Br) dirs.Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor.
The film involved 91 people from Lambeth in the shooting and was filmed on location at the YMCA on Stockwell Road during a sunny afternoon in September 2004.

HOW DID IT GET THERE?
(US) dir.Spike Jonze.
A Short film from legendary director Spike Jonze.

A SENSE OF HISTORY
(Br) dir.Mike Leigh.
Jim Broadbent plays the 23rd Earl of Leete, the aging patriarch of a respected British family who's telling the story of his twisted life to the camera.

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