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PORTOBELLO INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVAL WESTBOURNE STUDIOS242 ACKLAM ROAD, W10 5JJ30 August - 15 September6–11pm. Entry Free. Nonstop screenings of latest World Cinema. 12 - 9pm Weekends.Films are shown in order listed. More precise screening info can be worked out by adding timings from 6pm.Fri 30 AugDRAMAWESTBOURNE STUDIOSSun 1 SeptGERMAN FILMSWESTBOURNE STUDIOS6–11pmPaper Boxes, Ho Jia Jian, 16 mins, UWhat happens when memories are packed up inboxes? Drama SingaporeCough, Jason Kempnich, 10 mins, 12Food shortages during a pandemic force recentlywidowed George to stray far from home to survive.A simple purchase of rations derails when Georgestumbles upon a shopkeeper’s secret, placing all ofthem in, mortal jeopardy. Sc-Fi Drama AustraliaThree days In Kamakura,lec Mcaulay, 20 mins, 15, David and Keilo’s marriageis under strain. A lost boy comes into their lives andbecomes a catalyst in their troubled relationship.Drama JapanBoonrerm, Sorayos Prapapan, 17 mins, 12Boonrerm is a housemaid. Every day she relived aweird order. Drama ThailandWithout You I Will Die, MagnusAronson-Aminoff, 21 mins, 15Boy meets girl, Boy loses girl. Armageddon! Boy getsgirl back. Drama SwedenSecond Wind, Sergey Tsyss, 7 mins, UThe last performance on the Earth. Drama Russia12noon–11pmOrania, Tobias Lindner, 95 mins, 12Portrait of a private village in South Africa, solelyinhabited by white afrikaners. DocumentaryCross And Banner (Glaube Sitte Heimat),Jurgen Ellinghaus, 55 mins, U. A small town in themiddle of Germany, is hosting the annual festival ofthe “Confederation of Historical German Marksmen’sBrotherhoods”. DocumentaryThe Voice Of God, Bernd Lutzeler,10 mins, U. If God would come down to earth and tryto earn a living in Bombay, most probably he wouldvery soon become successful as a voice over artiste,lending his voice to thousands of Hindi moves...ExperimentalRev Errance, Alphonse Yambre, 4 mins, UA man from Burkina Faso writes a poem-letter abouthis loneliness in the European diaspora. ArtCoke Lukewarm, Elisa Klement,14 mins, U. Caro stays overnight at her friend’s place.Another girl joins them and Caro feels like a fifthwheel. Fortunately there is Gregor, the older brotherof her friend and Caro’s secret love. DramaSunshine At Night, Elisa Klement,14 mins, U. The piano teacher Gisela Schulte has beenliving alone for many years. One day she finds thedoor key of her neighbour Mr Sunshine and decides toget to know him better. DramaLoud & Low, Elisa Klement, 14 mins, 12Greta and Gunnar have a hut. When they decide, oneday, to meet at Greta’s house, Greta is exposed tosomeone grooming her on internet chat. Her first,curious steps exploring love get a hard blow. DramaFortune Faded, Alexander Heringer,3 mins, 12. To understand one Moment one has toknow about his background, because everything has acause and everything has an effect. DramaAndersarting (Different),Dennis Stein-Schomburg, 5 mins. Because of herdreamy and sportive nature one child doesn’t matchthe accepted behaviour of the other kids. AnimationAnkommen (Strangers We Meet),Christian Wittmoser, 30 mins, 15When his girlfriend leaves him, Nikias goes on theirplanned holiday to Majorca by himself. DramaCold Star, Kai Stanicke, 7 mins, 12AA boy experiences new desires while watching a manat an indoor swimming pool. Forced up the divingplatform by a rowdy gang, he receives help from anunexpected source. Music VideoErinnerungen An Den Sommer(Remembering The Summer), Friedrich Tiedtke,11 mins, 12A. A woman remembers her first love,realizing its true significance only in retrospective.DramaDreieinhalab (Three And A Half),Elisa Unger, 20 mins, 12. The house Martin inheritedin Transylvania turns out to be a worthless old shack.The money he borrowed for the journey is almostgone. ComedyFelix, Anselm Belser, 1 minute, UEvery action has a reaction. ComedyGeschwister (Siblings), Joya Thome,8 mins, U. “Daddy has made a mistake.” That’s whatthree siblings get served for dinner. DramaOn The Beach, Marie-Elsa Sguaido,15 mins, 12. It’s summer but life remains verycomplicated for 15-year-old Sara. Together with herlittle brother, she has been sent to spend the holidaysat her mother’s. Thankfully there’s the beach and theboys. If only they could let her do as she wants.Drama SwitzerlandApres 3 minute (After 3 Mins),Dimitric Linder, 19 mins, 12ABlandine, Jeanne and Lisa visit the same familyplanning center on the same day, all have personalissues. They would have to make a decision that willdetermine the rest of their life. Drama BelgiumThe Last Cry Of the Dragon,Jamil Hendi, 32 mins, 12A. Tomas comes home fromwork but his neighbour Amza, was screaming all daylong, so he must pay him a visit. Drama RomaniaOdium, Leszek Hendzel, 22 mins, 12Vision of the future, where all of the people’s negativeemotions are limited. Any uncontrolled behaviourresults in “extraction”. Main character NUN starts alonely fight with the system. Sc-Fi Drama PolandLittle Light (Lille Lys), Emilia Ondriasova,10 mins, 12A. About a woman who is striving forperfection. However, the more she tries, the hardershe falls, and at one point she loses it completely.Drama SlovakiaOn The Beach – 30 AugRoadside Girls, Denis Mauguit,16 mins, 15. A spring morning on a countryside road.Two hitchhikers get acquainted. Sarah, a 28 years oldbohemian lifestyle traveller meets and takes underher wing the young Alex, 19, that seems to have nopurpose but to leave. Drama BelgiumA Better World (Un Monde Meilleur),Sacha Peiner, 24 mins, 12. Henry has always workedat denunciation ministry of a pitiless dictatorship.Suddenly the regime collapses, becoming an idylliccountryside. Henry, panicked, without the rules he wasaddicted to, seems the only one to regret the oldregime. Sc-Fi Drama BelgiumItaly Belongs To Us(L’italia Ci Appartiene), Carlo Avventi, 73 mins, 12Marco, a young film director, discovers that he isterminally ill. After a long time abroad he returns toItaly, to shoot his last film. He decides to put an advertin a paper and let people tell him stories about Italy.He records the interviews with a camera. At thebeginning Marco is convinced that he is wasting histime, but slowly, as people begin to tell their stories,he realizes that all their revelations actually concernhim. Drama GermanySat 31 AugDOCUMENTARYWESTBOURNE STUDIOS12noon–11pmBig Dream Little Bears,Howard Jackson, 52 mins, U. An uplifting Borneostory of one man’s determined dream to save thesmallest, least studied and, pound for pound, mostdangerous bears on earth. Documentary AustraliaWhere There’s A Well,Tommy Flavin, 79 mins, UFollows the journey of a waste pump from factory toMalawign Village, exploring the impact clean waterhas on communities and individuals as they work toimprove their lives. Documentary IrelandRandom To Hug The Wind,Rastgece Orsa, Huseyin Bucut, 30 mins, 12About ecology and sea in Turkey. Our seas have beencontaminated for many years. Though that contaminationdoesn’t catch our eyes, fishermen are witnessesfor this, moreover they catch the contamination withtheir fishnets. Documentary TurkeyFrom New York With Love,Andre Valentim Almeida, 70 mins, 12AWandering through moving images taken with atourist camera juxtaposed with classic movies, the filmis an essay on a foreigner’s evolving relationship withhis host country. Art Documentary PortugalGood Guys Versus theGremlins, Ivan Bergerman, 23 mins, 12Johnson Dickerdsas, aspiring crypto zoologist,attempts to document the existence of the Gremlin.Mock-Documentary CanadaTruth Be Told, Gregorio Smith,86 mins, 15. An expose of the Jehovah’s WitnessesReligion. Former members discuss the effect of proselytizing,not celebrating holidays and beingdiscouraged from pursuing higher education.Documentary USANever Admit Defeat,Susane Arbizu & Henri Belin, 90 mins, 12AExiled Spanish Republican in Bobigny, DavnielSerrano, who is now 91 years old, fights from hissuburban house to clear the name of his brotherEudaldo, shot after the Spanish Civil War.Documentary SpainLe Sommeil De LafouleThe Dream Of The Crowd, Antoine Janot & CyprienLeduc, 73 mins, 12. The Parisian underground unveilsits labyrinth of corridors, in this artificial space,without day or night, the crowd slowly sinks into acollective dream. Documentary FranceA Story For the Modlins,Sergio Oksman, 25 mins, UThe tale of Elmer Modlin, who, after appearing inRosemary’s Baby, fled with his family to a far-offcountry and shut himself away in a dark apartmentfor 30 years. Documentary SpainDistorted: Reflections On EarlySydney Punk, Des Devlin, 75 mins, 12ADistorted explores the meaning of punk in the late70s for people living on the ‘other’ side of the world.Music Documentary AustraliaSolo Surf, Kevin Anderson, 60 mins, 12ASurfing movie. No soundtrack. Documentary London13