MON 10 Aug • Special Preview

SIN NOMBRE (15) 8.45

(Mexico/US 2009) dir. Cary Fukunaga 95m. Subtitles. Digital.
Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Luis Fernando Peña, Diana Garcia.

A remarkable film highlighting the incredible hardships faced by illegal immigrants trying to cross the Mexico/US border. Sayra is leaving Honduras with her father and brother, determined to reach the US by whatever means possible – in this case riding the roofs of the trains heading north. Willy is a young gang member tasked with robbing the tops of the trains along with his young initiate Smiley. The crossing of these stories leads to a true star-crossed romance, but it is the social realism of the film that hits home the hardest – director Fukunaga spent much time on these very train tops, and paints a vivid and haunting portrait of those reaching for the ‘American Dream’.

+ Q&A with Cary Fukunaga

£8/£6 Concs

SAT 5 Sep • Matinee

SPECIAL EVENT

SAT 5 Sep • London International Animation Festival

Featuring an array of wonderfully unique treats from around the globe, the renowned festival returns with two very special programmes to spark the imaginations of our younger audiences.

Children's and Families’ Session 1 (0-6 year-olds) (U) 1.30

MY HAPPY END
(Germany 2007) dir. Milen Vitanov 5m.
All dogs chase their tails. Will this dog succeed in catching his tail?

MIRIAM’S COLOURS
(Estonia 2008) dirs. Jelena Girlin & Mari-Liis Bassovskaja 5m.
What do you do when your whole world suddenly turns black and white? You send out your chicken with a bucket to scrape the colours off the rainbow, that’s what.

JOYETS / RADOSKY
(Poland 2007) dir. Magdalena Osinka 9m.
A magic world created entirely from kids drawings turning into 3D pop up book pages that spring up all over the place.

THE CRUMBLEGIANT
(Ireland 2007) dir. John McCloskey 5m.
Some pure Irish magic. The gentle Crumblegiant has always helped Emily shoosh away the crows but one day he is nowhere to be found.

SUSIE ASADO: "HELLO ANTENNA"
(Germany 2008) dirs. Veronika Samartseva & Anna Samoylovich 5m.
A little girl finds herself a special spot perched on an antenna, looking down over the roof tops and sharing the sky with birds and the odd stray paper aeroplane.

THE 7 DAYS OF THE WEEK
(US 2008) dirs. Sean McBride & David Cowles 2m.
Work is a really great thing – especially if you can avoid it! And extra specially if what you really want to do is play the trumpet every day.

A GIRL WHO STEPPED ON THE BREAD
(Russia 2007) dir. Elena Lapshina 11m.
It’s a really, really good idea to watch just where you put your feet – you never know what you’ll step on!

LOST AND FOUND
(UK 2009) dir. Phil Hunt 25m.
A wondrous, epic journey that proves there’s pretty much nothing a boy and a penguin can’t do when they really, really put their mind to it.

Approximate running time: 75 mins

£5/£4 Children

Children's and Families’ Session 2 (7-14 year-olds) (PG) 3.30

THE HAPPY DUCKLING
(UK 2008) dir. Gili Dolev 9m.
An animated adventure set in a pop-up book world, following the antics of a young boy in his struggles against a stalking duck. Accompanied by an original score from composer Mick Cooke of Belle and Sebastian, this film has been scooping awards everywhere it goes.

ZOO
(UK 2009) dir. Robin Bushell 3m.
A trip to the zoo ends in colourful chaos.

SIGNALIS
(Switzerland 2008) dir. Adrian Fluckiger 5m.
Erwin is a weasel that lives and works in a traffic light. His job is to switch the right light every day.

THE EMPLOYMENT
(Argentina 2008) dir. Santiago 'Bou' Grasso 7m.
Everyone finds their place in this oddest of worlds in which people are employed in the strangest of ways for the strangest of reasons.

MUTO
(Italy 2007) dir. Blu 7m.
A life-size street animation that travels across the city, consuming, co-opting and mutating its environment as it goes.

PLYWOOD PIRATES
(Germany 2008) dir. Stefan Schomerus 17m.
A friendship between three boys and the difficulties of saying goodbye. Before Konstantin leaves the ‘Plywood Pirates’ embark upon one last big adventure.

THE REASON I COLLECT
(UK 2008) dir. Emma Curtis 3m.
A totally engaging documentary about dedicated collectors of treasure, trinkets and ephemera.

BIG PLANS
(Switzerland 2008) dir. Irmgard Walthert 4m.
Despite well developed plans, it's very hard to construct a machine which sells apples. But a great idea occurs that should solve the case…

CODSWALLOP
(UK 2008) dir. The Brothers McLeod 4m.
Somewhere in the world is a button that makes everything alright.

THE BUNJIES
(Germany 2008) dirs. Ged Haney & Andreas Hykade 3m.
The Bunjies are the biggest, loudest, greatest Rock and Roll group in the world…even though they are not yet out of Junior School. They just want to rock and smash up their instruments in front of a hundred thousand screaming fans, after they’ve finished their homework of course.

Approximate running time: 65 mins

£5/£4 Children

Sun 20 Sep • The South London Gallery and the French Institute present

MATHIEU AMALRIC
Mathieu Amalric is a three-time César award winning actor and director. He is best known to British audiences for his unforgettable portrayal of the paralysed Jean-Dominique Bauby in THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY and most recently as Dominic Greene, the villain in the Bond film QUANTUM OF SOLACE. His other directorial credits include MANGE TA SOUPE (1997) and LA CHOSE PUBLIQUE (2003).

LE STADE DE WIMBLEDON (15) 2.30

(France 2002) dir. Mathieu Amalric 70m. Subtitles.
Jeanne Balibar, Esther Gorintin, Anna Prucnal.

Written and directed by Mathieu Amalric and based on the novel by Daniele Del Giudice , LE STADE DE WIMBLEDON is an hallucinatory mystery story. A young French woman's fascination for a highly regarded literary editor, a writer who never published his own work, takes her first to the Italian city of Trieste and then to London SW19. Through libraries and bookshops she tries to reconstruct the life of a man whose legend she has herself created. Finally, she meets the woman who may have known him best. With a fascinating performance from Jeanne Balibar, this is a rich layering of opposing perspectives that are mirrored and scattered to ultimately form a recognisable portrait of the unknowable.

+ MALUS, UN FILM POST-SCRIPTUM SUR LE STADE DE WIMBLEDON (15)

(France 2006) dir. Mathieu Amalric 18m. Subtitles. Digital.

Followed by a Q&A with Mathieu Amalric

£8/£6 Concs

This programme is part of 'Neighbours', a film programme curated by Pascale Cassagnau, exploring the crossed relationships which bind together contemporary art, cinema and documentary. 'Neighbours' also includes screenings at Ciné Lumière. For full listing of the programme please visit the Ciné Lumière website: www.institut-francais.org.uk See also: www.southlondongallery.org

Sun 27 Sep • The South London Gallery and the French Institute present

BERTRAND BONELLO
Bertrand Bonello is a French film director, composer and musician.who divides his time between Paris and Montreal. His acclaimed film LE PORNOGRAPHE (2001) won the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival. TIRESIA was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes film festival and his other films include: QUI JE SUIS (1996), QUELQUE CHOSE D'ORGANIQUE (1998) and MY NEW PICTURE (2007).

CINDY, THE DOLL IS MINE (15) 1.30

(France 2005) dir. Bertrand Bonello 15m. Digital.
Asia Argento.

A short film inspired by a photograph by American artist Cindy Sherman. A brunette takes a photograph of a blonde and, with the two characters both played by Asia Argento, Bonello continues the theme of ambiguity and doubling.

+ DE LA GUERRE (On War) (18)

(France 2008) dir. Bertrand Bonello. 130m. Subtitles.
Mathieu Almaric, Asia Argento, Guillaume depardieu, Michel Piccoli.

Mathieu Amalric is Bernard a film director whose research for his latest film includes asking an undertaker if he can stay in his funeral parlour overnight. Accidental incarceration in a coffin proves to be a life changing experience. A meeting with a mysterious man leads him to a country mansion, ruled over by an androgynous Asia Argento, where investigations into true, unfiltered spiritual, mental, and physical pleasure are the principal activity. As he dives deeper into his psyche, people come to take him “home,” people dance, people swim naked, people wear masks and people get shot... Inspired by Georges Bataille's writings and by Carl von Clausewitz's war strategies ("Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult."), the film is a subtle but complex tapestry that reflects Bertrand Bonello's fascination with doubling, metamorphosis and ellipsis.

Followed by a Q&A with Bertrand Bonello

£8/£6 Concs

This programme is part of 'Neighbours', a film programme curated by Pascale Cassagnau, exploring the crossed relationships which bind together contemporary art, cinema and documentary. 'Neighbours' also includes screenings at Ciné Lumière. For full listing of the programme please visit the Ciné Lumière website: www.institut-francais.org.uk See also: www.southlondongallery.org