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FeaturesMainAs always we are hoping to secure some more gems for you which have not made the brochure deadline. So please lookout for updates on more films and more visiting filmmakers on the Festival website www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk,on Twitter @camfilmfest as well as information on display at the cinemas.SURPRISE FILM APH SAT 12 | 6.30Without doubt the Surprise Film is the hottest ticket in the Festival. We are not giving anything away - no clueto title, director, stars or genre. Why not let us surprise you and buy a ticket to this year’s Surprise Film?DOCUKPREMIEREDOCDOCSilverScreen10 BILLION - WHAT’S ONYOUR PLATE? | CFF PG10 Milliarden - Wie werden wiralle satt?Germany 2015. 102 mins. English/German.APH Mon 7 | 3.00By 2050, the world population will grow to ten billion people.With a sixth of the world already undernourished, where will thefood come from that everyone needs daily in order to survive?How can we prevent mankind from destroying the basis of itsfood supply through nothing but an increasing population? Inthe middle of the heated debate about food security, comes thisbroad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of globalfood production and distribution - from artificial meat, insects,and industrial farming to trendy self-cultivation. Director, bestsellingauthor and Food Fighter Valentin Thurn (box office hitTaste The Waste) seeks for solutions worldwide and gives placefor innovation and visions for our future.Director Valentin ThurnPRINT SOURCE Autlook FilmsalesSilverScreenTHE AMINAPROFILE | CFF 18Le profil AminaCanada 2014. 84 mins. English/French/Arabic with English subtitles.Director Sophie DeraspePRINT SOURCE National Film Boardof CanadaEMMA Sun 6 | 8.30 APH Mon 7 | 3.30Premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, The Amina Profile is anextraordinary documentary told like a thriller about the world we create throughsocial media. Amina Arraf, an attractive Syrian-American revolutionary, whowas having an online affair with Sandra Bagaria, a young Montreal professionalwhen she launched her provocatively named blog, A Gay Girl in Damascus. Asthe uprising gains momentum, it acquires a huge following. But it’s Amina’ssubsequent abduction and worries of her torture, rape or even death that takesthings to another level drawing in American intelligence agencies, top-tier globalmedia (The Guardian, the BBC) and a host of activists and sympathisers indigging deep to find the truth. An almost unbelievable story.SilverScreenAPH Sat 5 | 8.30APH Tue 8 | 11.00am16 YEARS TILL SUMMER | CFF 15UK/Iceland 2015. 82 mins.Convicted criminal Uisdean is leaving prison after serving 16years for killing a friend, something he insists was an accidentwhich still haunts him. He is being released back into theremote, church-going village in the Scottish Highlands tonurse his dying father, bringing him with him a dangerous mixof troubled past and big ambitions into the lives of those thatlove him. The film follows the redeeming relationships Uisdeanbuilds with his father and lover, both of whom are drawn tothe ‘new start’ he promises to bring. Lou Mcloughlan’s quietdocumentary was shot over a period of four years, a simplebeautifully observed and powerful film.Director Lou McloughlanPRINT SOURCE Taskovski FilmsUKPREMIEREDOCUKPREMIEREDOCSilverScreen99 HOMES | CFF 15USA 2015. 112 mins.LIGHT Sun 6 | 6.45 APH Tue 8 | 1.00With employment opportunities drying up as a result of theUS economy’s implosion, construction worker Dennis Nash(Garfield) has fallen behind in his mortgage payments. Evictedby hard-nosed local realtor Rick Carver (Shannon), Dennisdesperately scrambles to keep a roof over his family’s heads.Soon Dennis finds Carver on his doorstep once again — thistime with an offer of a job, and a promise to help Dennis reclaimhis family home. Unable to resist, this honest, hard-workingman enters a world of shady transactions and charged moralambiguity. 99 Homes, is American director Ramin Bahrani’smost compelling and prescient work to date. A portrait of aclimate where the losses of the many are offset by the gainof a few, it’s an intimate and moving chronicle of desperationpowered by two compelling lead performances.Director Ramin BahraniStarring Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura DernPRINT SOURCE STUDIOCANALSilverScreenAPH Fri 4 | 3.30 APH Fri 11 | 1.00ATOMIC: LIVING IN DREADAND PROMISE | CFF 15UK 2015. 72 mins.70 years ago, the bombing of Hiroshima showed the appallingdestructive power of the atomic bomb. This bold newdocumentary looks at death in the atomic age, but life too.Using only archive film and a great new musical score by theband Mogwai, Atomic shows us a kaleidoscope of our nucleartimes: protest marches, Cold War sabre rattling, Chernobyland Fukishima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomicworld, and how X Rays and MRI scans have improved humanlives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamliketoo. Director Mark Cousins’ impressionistic film captures this.Director Mark CousinsPRINT SOURCE Hopscotch FilmsAPH Tue 8 | 6.30 ST PHILIP’S Fri 11 | 9.00 APH Thu 10 | 6.30 LIGHT Sat 12 | 7.00AURORA | CFF 15Chile 2014. 86 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.Sofía, a school teacher, has been trying to adopt a child formany years. There are long waiting lists and somehow sheis always rejected. When she reads in a local newspaperthat a baby has been found dead in a landfill, she becomesobsessed with the fate of the dead child, who according to thelaw has no rights; the baby may neither be named nor buried.Thus Sofía begins a legal battle to bury the child she calls‘Aurora’. Rodrigo Sepulveda’s film makes you cry but alsomakes you believe in humanity. Based on a real story, this is amoving and unique film.Director Rodrigo SepulvedaStarring Amparo Noguera, Luis Gnecco, Jaime VadellPRINT SOURCE: Films BoutiqueBIG GOLD DREAM: SCOTTISHPOST-PUNK AND INFILTRATINGTHE MAINSTREAM | CFF 15UK 2015. 94 mins.Ten years in the making, Grant McPhee’s exhaustive documentaryon Edinburgh’s Post-Punk scene finally sees the light of day.A tale never before told, the film’s focus is on trail-blazingIndependent record label Fast Product, and its subsidiaries PopAural and Earcom. Featuring candid interviews with those behindthe scenes, those in the periphery and the main-players, Rezillos,Scars, Fire Engines, Division and The Human League, Edinburghin the late 1970’s is painted in all it’s dark, gritty realism.We talk a lot these days of ‘creative industries’. Thisinspiring film shows what that bland phrase can reallymean. Big Gold Dream brilliantly captures the sound and furyof the Scottish music scene, but it’s universal, too. Anyone whois creative, or passionate, or destructive or young, or less so,will have their eyes and ears opened by Big Gold Dream. I wishI’d seen it years ago. MARK COUSINSDirector Grant McPheePRINT SOURCE Grant McPheeBox office: 0871 902 5720 Main Features | CambridgeFilmFestival2015 | 7