SAT 4 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 and Families Session 1 (0–6 year-olds) (U) 1.30

THE WRECK OF THE DIDDLEY
(New Zealand 2008) dirs. Fatcat & Fishface 4m.
A wickedly good singing-pirate romp.

THE MOUSE THAT SOARED
(USA 2009) dir. Kyle Bell 6m.
A lucky mouse that gets a chance to learn to fly.

TALLY HO, PANCAKE!
(Germany 2009) dir. Kai Pannen 7m.
Anyway you want to have them, pancakes are delicious.

ORMIE
(USA 2009) dir. Rob Silvestri 4m.
This little pig will do ANYTHING to get the cookies.

WHEN APPLES ROLL
(Latvia 2008) dir. Reinis Kalnaellis 7m.
Cat and his friend have their annual apple-picking disturbed when a strange egg rolls into the orchard.

THE LITTLE BOY AND THE BEAST
(Germany 2009) dirs. Johannes Weiland & Uwe Heidschotter 7m.
When your mother has turned into a beast, a lot of things change.

KNITTED KNIGHTS
(Germany 2010) dir. Gil Alkabetz 7m.
An ambitious grandma wants to knit a sweater for the moon, but forgets to calculate the waning and waxing of her 'customer'.

MONSTER SACRE
(France 2009) dir. Jean-Claude Rozec 10m.
Born accidentally among ducks, a dragon as gigantic as he is harmless, suddenly becomes a media star.

JOSEPH'S SNAILS
(France 2009) dir. Jean-Pierre Lemouland 11m.
Joseph is a shy little boy who collects snails. One day he gets swallowed up by his own tummy-button and discovers the disturbing world of the "navel-gazers".

RUNAWAY
(Canada 2009) dir. Cordell Barker 9m.
Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the unknown fate that awaits them around the bend.

£5 Adults/£4 Children

Children and Families Session 2 (7–14 year-olds) (U) 3.30

TXT ISLAND
(UK 2009) dir. Chris Gavin 4m.
The military conquest of a tropical island and the collapse of the local amusement park are illustrated in plastic letters on a mastermind-board.

COOKED
(UK 2010) dir. Jens Blank 7m.
An unlikely love triangle between a walrus, a seal and a lobster in an Arctic sauna.

OVER AND OVER (AND OVER) AGAIN
(UK 2009) dir. Andy Glynne 4m.
An everyday routine like leaving the house for school can become the worst nightmare for a teenage boy.

SPEECHLESS
(UK 2010) dir. Daniel Greaves 7m.
A comic film about miscommunication in a world of mass communication.

MIXED BAG
(Switzerland 2009) dir. Isabelle Favez 8m.
A tale of greed, betrayal, cheap suitcases - and more greed and betrayal. A day in the life of a bag of lovely, lovely cash.

MADAGASCAR, A JOURNEY DIARY
(France 2009) dir. Bastien Dubois 12m.
This animated diary draws the journey of a European traveler confronted with the local Malagasy customs.

ANGRY MEN
(Norway 2010) dir. Anita Killi 20m.
A sumptuous film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When mummy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.

RUNAWAY
(Canada 2009) dir. Cordell Barker 9m.
Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the unknown fate that awaits them around the bend.

£5 Adults/£4 Children

SAT 11 Sep • Hackney Venezuela Solidarity Campaign presents

SOUTH OF THE BORDER (15) 1.15

(US 2009) dir. Oliver Stone 78m. Digital.
Tariq Ali, Hugo Chavez, Bart Jones, Gregory Wilpert, Eduardo Porter, Scott Wilson, Evo Morales, Cristina Kirchner, Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo, Lula da Silva, Raul Castro, Rafael Correa.

With unprecedented access to seven of South America's elected presidents, Oliver Stone sets out to record the groundbreaking transformations which are at the heart of the continent's social and political movements. It also offers a fascinating insight into some of the world's most powerful figures.

+ discussion

£6.50/£5 Concs

SAT 11 Sep • Cigarette Burns Cinema presents

DANGER: DIABOLIK (12A) 11.15pm

(1968) dir. Mario Bava 96m. Digital.
John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas.

Cult comic strip mix of fantasy and madcap criminality directed with camp bravado by horror specialist Mario Bava. John Phillip Law is Diabolik the world's greatest and most dapper thief, a master of making governments look stupid and a knockout in black leotards which come with the ultimate accessory: suction pads that turn him into a human fly. The finale, with its radioactive gold shower, is a classic.

+ intro and dj set after screening!

£7

Opening programme (15) 3.45

The festival opens with an eclectic mix of narrative film, animation and documentary, consisting exclusively of films born from the creative talents of Hackney-based film makers.

KINGSLAND
(UK 2009) dir. Tony Grisoni 21m.
BAFTA-nominated short film from award-winning screenwriter and director Tony Grisoni. Set in East London's Dalston, the film is a lyrical portrait of Huso, a Kurdish immigrant who has recently moved to the UK.

SCHLIMAZELTOV!
(UK 2009) dir. Chris Allen 11m.
Documentary short exploring the concept of luck or "mazel" through London's Jewish Community.

KANANANA
(UK 2009) dir. Cassiano Prado 4m.
Music video come science fiction short in which a machine built to travel beyond the depths of space and time finds a primitive dimension and a planet whose inhabitants seem to have been expecting it...

THE LOST COIN
(UK 2009) dirs. Daniel Britt & Joseph Pelling 4m.
Fantastical animated parable.

SUBURBAN MADNESS
(UK 2009) dir. Philipp Figueroa 15m.
Documentary filmed during Rio carnival, observing the interaction between the patients of one of Brazil's most innovative psychiatric institutions and the local community.

BY HOOK
(UK 2010) dir. Laura Evers Johns 5m.
Hackney nominee for this year's Best of Boroughs Film Awards, this magical surrealist story is set at the very edge of the Ocean, where a lonely fishmonger learns that he must take the bait to be with the one he loves.

WORMS
(UK 2009) dir. by Alex Dobbin 1m.
An animation short of a creepy disposition, set to music by the The Pogues

FLAK
(UK 2010) dir. Finn McGough 18m.
Inspired by 'A start in life' by Alan Sillitoe, FLAK is about adolescence, burgeoning romance and betrayal, A short film about the tests friendships must overcome to endure.

THE EAGLEMAN STAG
(UK 2010) dir. Michael Please 9m.
Darkly comedic stop motion animation about a man's obsession with his quickening perception of time and the extreme lengths he goes to in order to counter the effect.

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£5/£4 Concs

THUR 23 Sep • Special Preview

ENTER THE VOID (18) 8.30 + Q&A with Gaspar Noé SOLD OUT

(France/Germany/Italy 2009) dir. Gaspar Noé 135m. Digital.
Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn, Olly Alexander, Masato Tanno, Ed Spear, Sara Stockbridge, Sakiko Fukuhara, Nobu Imai, Emi Takeuchi, Janice Sicotte-Beliveau, Simon Chamberland.

One of contemporary cinema's most controversial directors returns to the swirling camerawork, hallucinatory sense of real time and narrative maelstrom of explicit sex, drugs and death that characterised his last movie, IRREVERSIBLE. The settings are the seedy neon-soaked backstreets of Tokyo and the transcendental worlds of the afterlife explored in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Oscar, an American living in Tokyo with his sister Linda, is shot dead. His spirit leaves his body but he continues to watch over his sister whilst being haunted by childhood nightmares that invoke deeper, weirder issues. This is cinema at its most extreme: beautiful, experimental, bold, infuriating, sadistic, original, mindblowing, exhausting, unforgettable. It might be a work of pure genius but it is certainly like nothing you've ever seen.

£8.50/£6.50 Concs

SAT 25 Sep • Matinee

LEAVING (15) 1.15

(France 2009) dir. Catherine Corsini 85m. Subtitles. Digital.
Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan, Aladin Reibel, Alexandre Vidal, Daisy Broom, Berta Esquirol.

Another superb performance from Kristin Scott Thomas powers this intense, emotional French marital drama/suspense thriller. Suzanne lives a seemingly perfect middle-class existence in the south of France. But her ideal bourgeois lifestyle begins to lose its charm and she seeks passion and excitement in local handyman Ivan but has she underestimated her husband's capacity for revenge?

£6.50/£5 Concs