Cambridge Film Festival 2009 Brochure

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Welcome
to the 29th Cambridge Film Festival
Last year, the Cambridge Film Festival
challenged the traditional limits of cinema
space, particularly through our Riverside
Screenings. This year, we’re planning to build on
this success by presenting a series of bold and
imaginative screenings throughout Cambridge.
We are honoured to host the UK premiere of
IDENTITY OF THE SOUL, a unique five-screen
cinematic installation combining music and
poetry narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, which will
be screened in the historic setting of Emmanuel
College. In addition, the Festival is delighted to
present CARTES POSTALES: WITH LOVE FROM
BEIRUT, a selection of artists’ moving image film
and video works specially curated for the Festival
and featured in a number of our special events
(see pages 14 – 15).
We will also be showcasing a diverse range of
films that reflect the increasingly transnational
nature of the film industry as part of our Border
Crossings season. A series of UK premieres
that exemplify the diversity of Germany’s
contemporary cinema proudly define our German
Cinema season and, in celebration of the 20th
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin
Without Boundaries is a selection of features
and documentaries that explore the city today.
Additional highlights include a tribute to the
late, great cinematographer and director Jack
Cardiff, who passed away earlier this year, and
a rare chance to sample the weird and wonderful
underground films of Mike and George Kuchar.
The bedrock of our Festival is, of course, the wide
selection of recent features, documentaries and
shorts we present to you from the UK and around
the world, many of them UK and even world
premieres. We are thrilled to present challenging
and provocative new titles from first-time
filmmakers and we sincerely hope you will join us
in our support of fresh talent.
As well as preparing this extensive programme for
the 29th Cambridge Film Festival, the Cambridge
Film Trust works year-round as a registered charity
to promote independent cinema in Cambridge and
the Eastern region. We are proud to have helped
bring back cinema to Sawston and that Sawston
Cinema, run entirely by young people, is a new
Festival venue this year.
We hope you enjoy the Festival and continue to
support the Trust as it endeavours to inspire you
throughout the year.
Tony Jones, Director, Cambridge Film Trust &
Cambridge Film Festival
contents
Festival Guide.......................................................4-6
Special Events......................................................8-15
Stop Press...............................................................17
Opening Film and Surprise Film..............................19
Main Features...................................................20-37
German Cinema Today.......................................38-39
Timetable..........................................................41-43
Documentaries...................................................44-47
Cinema Palestine.............................................48-49
Border Crossings................................................50-51
Berlin Without Boundaries...............................52-53
The Spying Game...............................................54-57
Revivals..................................................................59
Jack Cardiff: A Tribute.........................................60-61
Mike & George Kuchar....................................62-64
Mark Boswell: The Art of Nova-Kino.........................66
Danny Lyon: American Life..................................67
ShortFusion.........................................................68-74
Cambridgeshire Film Consortium Events.......76-77
Venue Information...................................................78
Ticket Prices & Map..............................................79
Festival Staff.............................................................80
Thanks....................................................................81
Index.......................................................................82
Welcome and Contents | 3

your Guide to the
cambridge film
festival 2009
1
All you need to get the most out of this year’s
Cambridge Film Festival, in four practical steps
Select your
films and events
What you have in your hands contains full information and listings
for all the films and events confirmed at the time of going to
print – complete with a handy day-by-day calendar in the centre
pages to help you choose by time of day, or day of the week.
2
book your tickets
Tickets go on sale to Arts Picturehouse
Members on Monday 31 August
and to the general public on
Thursday 3 September
Advance tickets for all venues
are available:
➜ in person at the Arts
Picturehouse Box Office
➜ over the phone on 0871 704 2050*
(9.30am – 8.30pm)
➜ as well as online at www.
cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
For Picturehouse screenings,
collect your tickets from the
cinema at least 15 minutes
prior to the screening from any
sales point, or from the ticket
collection machine behind the
main ticket desk.
For other screenings, collect
your tickets from the cinema
at least one hour prior to the
screening. Alternatively, collect
tickets at the venue.
Special Festival box office
hours will be in operation at
the Arts Picturehouse between
31 August and 6 September –
from 10am until 15 minutes
after the last performance.
New films, guests, events and other surprises continue to
be added to the Festival, so don’t forget to check the latest
arrivals online at www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
This year, the Festival takes place not only at our host venue,
the Arts Picturehouse, but also at Sawston Cinema
and less conventional locations, such as the historic settings
of Emmanuel College and Ely Cathedral,
Magdalene and Bridge Streets, Grantchester
Meadows and the nocturnal banks of the River Cam.
See page 78 for more information on our venues.
new
New this year is our special Festival pass. For only £30 (£25 for Picturehouse
Members / Concessions), you can buy five tickets for any screenings at the
Arts Picturehouse. You can also buy as many passes as you like, so it’s great value whether
you’re a festival regular or just coming to a film or two with a group of friends.
Your Festival pass can be used to purchase tickets for one or multiple screenings but applies during a single transaction only, whether
online, over the phone or in person. The offer excludes screenings at special ticket prices (see page 79 for details).
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Take your seat
4
Get online and
get interactive
Now for the fun part. The Festival takes place at a range
of venues across the city, so to ensure things go with a
swing check before setting out where your chosen
screenings or events are taking place. If attending more
than one venue on
the same day, do also
ensure you leave
sufficient transit time
between screenings.
At the Festival, we like
to put films and their
audiences first. There
are no adverts or trailers,
which means you get
straight on with your
chosen film without any
fuss – so please take your
seat in good time for the
start of the performance.
To avoid disruption and
ensure a better audience
experience, we will not
admit latecomers once the
performance has begun.
Drink & Dine
The late night
café-bar at the
Arts Picturehouse will be open from 10am-12pm
(10am-1am Friday and Saturdays) serving a wide
range of food and drink. The food is freshly prepared
by As You Like It, and you can order from 11am-10pm,
so please make sure you leave enough time to
eat before a screening.
www.cfflive.org.uk
captures the sights and sounds
of the Festival, including
➜ daily podcasts ➜ live
streaming of guest Q&A
sessions ➜ videos ➜ photos
It doesn’t have to end when the
lights go up. Our websites aren’t
just places to find the latest
information or book tickets –
they offer a total multimedia
experience of the Festival.
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk keeps you in the loop with
all the latest info, including ➜ up to the minute details about
every screening and event ➜ quick and easy online booking
➜ user comments, ratings and reviews ➜ Festival Daily
articles and reviews if you missed the printed copy
We’ll also be regularly uploading a host of content to Cambridge Film Festival accounts on:
We make every effort to bring you the films we have promised according to the published schedule, but sometimes
last minute changes do occur. Please bear with us on these occasions; we will do all we can to ensure your Festival
experience is as enjoyable as possible. We ask that you switch off all mobile phones before the performance
begins. Cameras or recording equipment are not permitted. All managers reserve the right of admission.
Where you see CFF next to a film title, this denotes a recommended certificate by the Cambridge Film Festival.
Links to all our accounts can be found on our main website. We’d also be thrilled if
you could tag your own content with ‘cff2009’ so that we can feature it on our site as well!
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The People’s
Favourite Film
Award
Half the fun of the Festival is discussing the films
afterwards – and we’d like to know what you think.
Go online to register your reactions and rate the
films you’ve seen.
Previous winners:
CONVERSATIONS WITH
MY GARDENER (2008) ➜
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS:
THE WAY OF THE TOSSER
(2007) ➜ VOLVER (2006) ➜
BROKEN FLOWERS (2005)
Express your feelings on a scale of 1 to 5 – from ‘loathed it’ to
‘loved it’ – and we’ll keep a daily tally of audience responses.
Check the results as and when they change online and also look
out for updates in the Festival Daily to see which film emerges
as the audience’s favourite.
It’s not only us and fellow audience members who are interested
in your views. Your list of favourites is eagerly studied by film
industry professionals – in fact, the makers of last year’s winner,
France’s CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GARDENER, were so
pleased with the award that they publicly celebrated it in the
film’s promotional materials!
To have your say, log on to:
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
Festival News, Daily
Catch the latest word on the Festival with the Festival Daily newspaper. Look out from
midday throughout the Festival for news, features and reviews of every film being shown.
Missed that talk with the must-see director or actor? Read the exclusive interview in the Daily.
Find your copy daily around the Arts Picturehouse and at other venues across Cambridge. Or read
online on the Festival website.
First issue out on Monday 14 September.
The Festival Daily is
kindly sponsored by
Festival discount at De Luca!
For the fourth year running
De Luca Cucina & Bar is serving
as the Official Festival Restaurant
– and, in what is becoming a timehonoured
tradition, they are also
offering all Festival ticketholders a
generous 10% off their total bill.
Just a short walk from the Arts Picturehouse up St Andrew’s
Street (past Parker’s Piece), De Luca is the place for freshlyprepared,
locally-sourced modern Italian food – and they
guarantee to serve you in time for you to see your movie. There’ll
be a special Festival set menu in addition to their regular menu,
and there’s also a beautiful cocktail lounge which is open late –
perfect for that post-movie cocktail.
We’ll be using the restaurant as our official venue for
entertaining Festival guests, too – so who knows who might be
on the next table? To receive your discount, simply present a
Festival ticket to your waiter or waitress as you are seated.
Offer valid 17 – 27 September, and you can claim your discount on as many
meals as you have room for!
De Luca Cucina & Bar, 83 Regent Street, Cambridge
Tel: 01223 356 666 www.delucacucina.co.uk
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special events
See page 79 for ticket prices for all special events
Friday 25 September, 5.00pm | Arts Picturehouse
Machinima: Programming with Light (CFF 15)
Machinima is a form of digital filmmaking that
uses sets and characters from videogames or
specialist tools like Moviestorm to generate
computer animations, either in real time using
multiple players to drive avatars, or by setting
up scenes and action character by character,
calling ‘action’ by clicking a mouse button.
Following the success of our presentation of the
best in Machinima at the 2008 Cambridge Film
Festival, this year we bring you new films from a
range of directors exploring the capabilities of a
medium which may lack the detail and dynamic
range of high-end CGI, but offers enormous
opportunities for creative filmmaking.
➜ The Machinima programme will be introduced by
Hugh Hancock, guru of the Machinima movement,
creator of one of the first Machinima feature films,
BLOODSPELL, and co-author with Johnnie Ingram of
Machinima for Dummies.
The programme will include films by renowned
Machinima directors,
including Lainy Voom and
Phil Rice.
Sunday 20 September, 4.30pm | Arts Picturehouse
Science on Screen: Darwin, denial and documentary
A panel debate – produced by New
Humanist magazine, in association with
the Cambridge Film Festival – featuring Sile
Lane, director of Public Liaison Sense about
Science, a charity that equips people to make
sense of science and evidence (and which is
behind the recent campaign to Keep Libel Laws
out of Science) and medical historian Louise
Foxcroft, author of The Making of Addiction
and Hot Flushes, Cold Science: The History of
Modern Menopause.
Science proceeds, often at a an
imperceptible pace, by constructing and
testing hypotheses and collecting and patiently
sifting data, never quite sure where it will end
up or which beliefs may be overturned. Film,
on the other hand, seems to require drama,
revelation, action – a story arc leading to a
big finale – in which even the twists are part
of the tale.
Free event
What are, or should be, the ethics of putting
scientific debate on screen when feature films
are desperate for audiences and low cost
technology has opened up the documentary
form to whoever wants to use it, offering those
who do not accept the findings of science a way
to reach an audience and present a biased and
distorted view of key issues?
The panel will discuss the issues raised by
four films in the Festival – the notorious
pro-Intelligent Design film EXPELLED: NO
INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED, the AIDS-denial
film HOUSE OF NUMBERS, Roger Nygard’s
exploration of belief, THE NATURE OF
EXISTENCE and the big budget Darwin biopic
CREATION – and ask if there is any evidence
that film can depict science accurately.
➜ Chair: Caspar Melville,
editor of New Humanist
magazine.
Science
on screen
‘Machinima’ are animated films that are made by ‘filming’ inside the 3-D
environment of a videogame or special machinima software. The term
comes from the combination of ‘machine’ and ‘cinema’ and is pronounced
muh-SHEEN-ih-muh or muh-SHIN-ih-muh.
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Monday 21 September, 7.00pm | Queen’s Theatre
Saturday 19 September, 5.00pm | Arts Picturehouse
gloBalisation oF indian cineMa:
oPPortunities For the west
Indian fi lms have always enjoyed a large global audience, but
it is only recently that the Indian fi lm industry has begun to
engage its Western counterparts and vice versa. Examples of
growing transnational collaboration include India-based Reliance
Entertainment’s $1 billion plan to co-develop and co-produce
fi lms with Hollywood heavy hitters – and, of course, the Oscarwinning
success of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.
Hosted by the Centre for India & Global Business at the Judge
Business School University of Cambridge, in partnership with
Blood Orange Media and the Cambridge Film Trust, this event
explores how the Indian fi lm industry is going global and the
resulting opportunities for the international cinema industry.
➜ A special screening of HAVA ANEY DEY, an Indo-French co-production
shot on location in Mumbai, will be followed by a Q&A with director
Partho Sen Gupta.
By invitation only. For further information,
please email: indiaevents@jbs.cam.ac.uk
www.india.jbs.cam.ac.uk
North Sea Screen Partnership (NSSP) seeks
to tap the potential of the creative industries to
promote innovation and growth in the NSR and
increase the region’s competitiveness in a global context.
Screen East is one of 14 delivery partners involved in the NSSP.
our hosPitality (U)
Directors: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton. Starring: Buster Keaton,
Ralph Bushman. USA 1923. 73 mins.
Buster Keaton’s fi rst feature-length comedy is also one of his fi nest.
Young man Willie McKay (Keaton) is heading to Kentucky to claim
his inheritance – but his life in the city, well away from his kinfolk,
has left him blissfully unaware of a bitter, longstanding feud between
the McKays and neighbouring family, the Canfi elds. On the train
south he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman, only to
fi nd himself a guest of her family – the Canfi elds. Full of Keaton’s
trademark slapstick and deadpan humour – plus a little social satire
– this silent classic features two legendary Keaton sequences: the
fragile railway tracks of the new steam age, and the stunning scene
in which he saves his true love as she cascades over the rapids (a
stunt which Keaton himself performed).
➜ A rare treat for silent film fans, this special screening features live
piano accompaniment from Festival regular Neil Brand, acclaimed writer,
performer and composer, described by Radio 4’s Today Programme as the
“doyen of silent film accompanists”.
Monday 21 September, 9.00pm | Queen’s Theatre
vaMPyr (PG)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer. Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz,
Rena Mandel. France/Germany 1932. 70 mins.
Loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s genre-defi ning, 1872
vampire novel Carmilla (which preceded Stoker’s Dracula by 25
years), VAMPYR is a highly atmospheric, unsettling tale of fear and
obsession from legendary Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It
follows the fortunes of Allan Gray, a young student of the occult,
who takes rooms at a village inn, little realising that the region
is cursed by vampires. In the dead of night, Gray receives a
mysterious nocturnal visitor, who leaves behind a package labelled
‘To be opened after my death’ – and from that moment on, events
take ever darker, weirder turns... Shot with a silent fi lm aesthetic
despite being within the sound era (and a year after Lugosi starred
in Universal’s DRACULA), VAMPYR is an alternative take on the
cinematic vampire, creating an intense, nightmarish atmosphere
that haunts the mind long after the lights go up.
➜ Accompanied by a new score by Paul Robinson, performed live
by HarmonieBand.
special book tickets for both live music events, oUr hosPitalitY and vamPYr
offer for £12 adults, £10 Picturehouse members / Concessions
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Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm | West Road
Concert Hall
Baroque in high
definition
Concertos used in film soundtracks
The Academy of Ancient Music opens its Wigmore
Hall and West Road Concert Hall seasons with a
panoply of baroque music featured in films, under
the direction of Richard Egarr.
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op.6 No.8 ‘Christmas
Concerto’ l MARCELLO: Concerto in D minor for oboe
l VIVALDI: Concerto in B flat major for violin l JS BACH:
Concerto in F minor for harpsichord l LULLY: Sarabande from
Les Plaisirs l LULLY: Plus j’observe ces lieux and Passacaille
from Armide l JS BACH: Concerto in D minor for 2 violins
➜ Free pre-concert talk with Carlo Cenciarelli
at 6.30pm.
Tickets: £14, £20, £27 available from the
Cambridge Arts Theatre Box Office on
01223 50 33 33. £5 tickets for students and
under 18s available on the door, subject to
availability. More details: www.aam.co.uk
Friday 25 September, 4.00-5.00pm | Sunday 27
September, 10.45-11.45am | Arts Picturehouse
Cambridge on Camera:
Alumni Screenings
As part of the University of Cambridge’s Alumni
Weekend, the Festival invites you to view
archive gems showing students participating
in great Cambridge traditions such as May
Week, punting and rowing. Spanning decades
of material, there are sure to be familiar scenes
and maybe even one or two familiar faces!
➜ If you would like to know more
about Alumni Weekend, please
contact the Cambridge
Alumni Relations Office (CARO) on
01223 332 874 or alumni@foundation.cam.ac.uk.
Wednesday 23 September, 7.30pm | Ely Cathedral
BAFTA presents Michael Palin: A Life in Pictures
In conversation with Mark Kermode at the Cambridge Film Festival
Four-time BAFTA nominee and two-time BAFTA
winner Michael Palin joins The Culture Show’s
Mark Kermode on stage at Ely Cathedral for a
special, one-night-only BAFTA event celebrating
his film career.
For this exclusive BAFTA: A Life in Pictures
interview, Palin will share anecdotes and unheard
stories from his decade in the film industry in the
1980s. The event will be illustrated with film clips
from his body of work and preceded by a signing
of his forthcoming book, Halfway to Hollywood
Diaries 1980 – 1988.
Michael Palin established his reputation with
MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS and RIPPING
YARNS. His work also includes several famous
films with Monty Python, as well as THE
MISSIONARY, A PRIVATE FUNCTION, AMERICAN
FRIENDS, FIERCE CREATURES and an awardwinning
performance in A FISH CALLED
WANDA. His television credits include two films
for the BBC’s GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS, the
plays EAST OF IPSWICH, NUMBER 27 and Alan
Bleasdale’s GBH. He has written bestselling
books to accompany his seven very successful
travel series, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS,
POLE TO POLE, FULL CIRCLE, HEMINGWAY
ADVENTURE, SAHARA, HIMALAYA and NEW
EUROPE. He is also the author of a number of
children’s stories, the play The Weekend and
In association with Screen East
the novel Hemingway’s Chair. In 2006 the first
volume of his acclaimed diaries, 1969-1979:
The Python Years, spent many weeks on the
bestseller lists.
Copies of Palin’s book Halfway to
Hollywood Diaries 1980 – 1988 can be
purchased in advance from Topping &
Company Booksellers of Ely, and there
will be an opportunity to buy copies at Ely
Cathedral on the evening of the event. The
book signing will begin at 6.15pm via the Cathedral’s
South West Transept.
Please note that this event will be
filmed and by purchasing a ticket
you agree to your image being used.
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A uniQue Five-sCReen
CinemAtiC event
to mark the beginning of a nationwide tour of independent cinemas,
Norwegian director thomas høegh’s stunning multi-screen work
receives its UK premiere at the Cambridge Film Festival.
Thursday 17 Sep, 9.00pm | Friday 18 Sep, 5.00 & 6.30pm | Sunday 20 Sep, 5.00 & 6.30pm | Monday 21 Sep, 5.00pm | Tuesday 22 Sep, 5.00 & 6.30pm | Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
uK Premiere
identity oF the soul (CFF PG)
Director: Thomas Høegh. Narrator: Vanessa
Redgrave. UK 2008. 60 mins.
Based on Norwegian playwright Henrik
Ibsen’s poem Terje Vigen and Palestinian poet
Mahmoud Darwish’s A Soldier Dreams of White
Lilies, IDENTITY OF THE SOUL is a unique, fi vescreen
cinematic installation combining poetry
and music in a tale of revenge, reconciliation
and the individual. Symbolic imagery and an
original soundtrack that fuses Scandinavian and
Arabic musical traditions with contemporary
electronic rhythms unite to complement
the stirring narrative, read in English by the
esteemed actress Vanessa Redgrave.
Featuring images taken from around the world,
archive footage from the BFI National Archive
and new work, and shown on high-defi nition
plasma screens, IDENTITY OF THE SOUL
gives the audience a sense of stepping into
landscapes where the poems can come to life.
Having already played to audiences in Norway
and across the Middle East – most recently
in Jordan – this highly-acclaimed visual and
auditory event now comes to the impressive
surroundings of Emmanuel College. The
juxtaposition of this historic setting with
state-of-the-art projection and a contemporary
soundscape helps to create the perfect
backdrop for Høegh’s stunning visuals, Ibsen
and Darwish’s contemplative words and
Redgrave’s sensitive narration.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director
Thomas Høegh and producer Martine Rød
to the opening night of IDENTITY OF THE SOUL.
With special
thanks to
“iDENTiTy OF THE SOUl immerses the audience in music, imagery and poetry; all designed to assault
and seduce them, on a scale that is intensely emotional, sensitive and thought-provoking.” Qatar Tribune
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Thursday 24 September, 8.30pm | Arts Picturehouse
BaFta Presents PeeP show Followed By q&a (CFF 15)
Join the writers and main cast of PEEP
SHOW at a special BAFTA event at the
Cambridge Film Festival. Writers Jesse
Armstrong and Sam Bain, and lead actors
David Mitchell (Mark), Robert Webb (Jez) and
Matt King (Super Hans), will appear for one
night only at the Arts Picturehouse to talk
about the brand new series and bring you a
special preview episode from series six. The
episode will be screened on Channel 4 the
following evening, so this is your chance
to see it fi rst. The event will be chaired by
Andrew Newman, Head of Entertainment
at Channel 4.
Series fi ve left us hanging… Mark and Sophie
are still married, just. She wanted to marry
someone, anyone, whilst Mark simply didn’t
have the guts to back out. Meanwhile Jeremy
and Sophie’s secret love tryst may have a
longer lasting upshot than either anticipated.
Is the baby Mark’s, or is it Jeremy’s? Who will
Sophie end up with? Join us and fi nd out.
An Objective Production for Channel 4.
This event forms part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning and
events programme which aims to provide public access
to the fi lm, TV and video games
industries. To fi nd out more
visit www.bafta.org
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Sunday 30 & Monday 31 August, 8.30pm
sunset viewings on
grantchester Meadows
A unique, eco-friendly curtain-raiser to the 2009
Cambridge Film Festival in the picturesque surroundings
of Grantchester Meadows.
On Sunday 30 August, using our much-loved infl atable screen,
we present the fi rst ever silent disco screening of the hit musical
MaMMa Mia! (PG) on the banks of the River Cam. Then,
on Monday 31 August we pay cinematic homage to the great
outdoors with a preview screening of Big river Man (CERT
TBC). The fi lm follows the world’s greatest endurance swimmer,
Martin Strel, in his epic quest to swim the length of the Amazon.
We are delighted to be joined by the man himself, who may take
a dip in the Cam!
➜ The gates to Spring Lane Field (next to The Orchard) will open at
6.00pm, and screenings start at 8.30pm. Local food and drink are
available onsite.
Please see pages 78-79 for ticket prices.
Sunday 20 September, from 8.00pm
silents on the streets (CFF U)
The Festival once again comes to Cambridge’s oldest
shopping street, setting up six screens (twice as many as
last year) to present a unique and diverse programme of
entertainment that’s completely FREE.
Taking place along Bridge Street and Magdalene Street, these
public screenings allow you to discover the moving image in an
entirely new way. Stroll from the top of Magdalene Street down
to Quayside to view screens on Magdalene College’s immaculate
lawns, and on to Bridge Street and the stunning backdrop of
St John’s College. Enjoy beautiful cinematography, hilarious
silent comedy and archive footage showing how Cambridge has
changed over the years. The screenings begin at 8.00pm – but
arrive any time until 10.00pm. There’ll be a running programme
(approx. 20 mins) so if you miss the beginning, you can simply
stay until it comes around again.
➜ Works being screened will include Lamia Joreige’s NIGHTS AND
DAYS (2007) – part of CARTES POSTALES: WITH LOVE FROM BEIRUT, a
selection of artists’ moving image film and video works specially
curated for the Festival.
PeoPle’s cineMa (CFF U)
COMING TO A SHOPFRONT NEAR YOU!
Throughout September we’re bringing cinema to the streets of
Cambridge with our pioneering People’s Cinema project. We’ll be
turning several empty units in our historic city centre into cinema
spaces with a difference. From the shopfront, you’ll be able to
view a programme of imaginative shorts, gems from the region’s
archives and a diverse range of work by international artists
and local students – all completely FREE of charge! We’ll also
be updating you on the Festival and providing you with a few
special treats along the way.
➜ Included are extracts from CARTES POSTALES: WITH LOVE FROM
BEIRUT, a selection of artists’ moving image film and video works specially
curated for the Festival (see below).
Our core programmes are compiled by pupils at Long Road Sixth
Form College and will run on a loop from approx. 5.00 – 9.00pm.
People’s Cinema is part of Changing Spaces, a groundbreaking city centre
initiative that aims to creatively enhance our high streets.
Don’t
miss
On Tuesday 22 September artist, fi lmmaker and
contributor to Silents on the Streets Lamia Joreige
(NIGHTS AND DAYS) will be presenting a special workshop at
Emmanuel College as part of our programme entitled CARTES
POSTALES: WITH LOVE FROM BEIRUT. Please check our
website for the latest details.
© THE DISTRICT
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RiveRsiDe sCReeninGs
the quintessentially Cambridge experience – cinema on a punt!
Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand,
cinema screens on the riverbank flickering into life as you approach. Welcome to the Cambridge Film Festival’s Riverside Screenings
– a much-praised addition to the 2008 Festival programme, back this year to offer a quintessentially Cambridge cinema experience.
“it’s dark, it’s
atmospheric, it’s ever
so slightly spooky. Go.
Even if it’s a bit chilly. it
was unforgettable.”
2008 Festivalgoer
Embark from Grantchester at dusk on a chauffeured punt to
watch our selection of specially curated fi lms, each evening
based around a different theme. We provide champagne, warm
blankets and the promise of a memorable and magical event.
➜ Check in at the Red Lion pub in Grantchester from 7.30pm where you
can enjoy a drink or pre-punt supper. Once checked in, you’ll be escorted
to the punts which will be departing at 15 minute intervals between
8.00pm and 9.00pm (you can choose your allocated time on booking).
tickets: adults: £25, Picturehouse members / Concessions: £20
includes chauffeured punt from grantchester meadows to
dead man’s Corner and complimentary champagne
For only an extra £5 you can purchase a return punt trip:
details on the Festival website
Thursday 10 September, 7.30pm
heartland (CFF PG)
Nurture your inner romantic with a series of
shorts and excerpts focusing on love. In keeping
with the dramatic setting, the programme
explores the theme of romance and its
melodramatic qualities.
Saturday 12 September, 7.30pm
uP to the south (CFF PG)
At once challenging and touching, personal and
political, Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra’ad’s UP
TO THE SOUTH (TALEEN A JUNUUB) provides a
lyrical insight into the minds, hearts, and lived
reality of the people of southern Lebanon – and
tests the border between art and documentary.
➜ This screening is part of CARTES POSTALES: FROM
BEIRUT WITH LOVE, a selection of artists’ moving image
film and video works specially curated for the Festival.
Monday 14 September, 7.30pm
Past tiMe (CFF PG)
Take a trip back into the region’s past with an
archive programme featuring East Anglia in days
gone by. Poignant, nostalgic, captivating – with
a few comedic touches along the way.
Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm
darKlight (CFF 15)
A programme of creepy clips to chill the blood
and make you wonder whether that owl you
heard really was an owl. Do you dare?
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STOP PRESS – JUST CONFIRMED!
Tuesday 22 September, 11.30pm | Wednesday 23 September, 11.30pm
ALL TOMORROW’S
PARTIES (CFF 15)
Director: Jonathan Caouette. UK 2009. 82 mins.
In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England,
cult music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady
combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the
fans and musicians themselves to capture the uncompromising
spirit of a parallel music universe.
Print source: Warp Films
Wednesday 23 September, 11.00pm | Sunday 27 September, 10.30am
BARAKA (PG)
Director: Ron Fricke. USA 1993. 96 mins.
Late night
Late night
ROCKS!
DOCS!
BARAKA is a ‘documentary’ in the tradition of Godfrey Reggio’s
KOYAANISQATSI: a film without words shot in 70mm that
attempts to transcend the boundaries of language, nationality
and religion to relate “the only myth worth thinking”, the story of
the earth and human interaction.
Print source: Magidson Films
Monday 21 September, 11.15pm
TONY (Cff 18)
Director: Gerard Johnson. Starring: Peter Ferdinando,
Ian Groombridge, Kerryann White. UK 2009. 72 mins.
Tony (Ferdinando) lives in a run-down part of London, jobless,
friendless just wanting to fit in. His only company comes in the
form of ultra-violent 1980s action movies he watches repeatedly
day after day on VHS. Tony does have one hobby, however: luring
people home and brutally murdering them…
Print source: Revolver Entertainment
Sunday 20 September, 2.45pm
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (PG)
Director: Terence Young. Starring: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi,
Lotte Lenya. UK 1963. 115 mins. English, Russian, Turkish and
Romanian with English subtitles.
The second and, according to many, best of all the Bond films
sees Sean Conney’s incarnation of Bond travelling to Turkey to
assist in the defection of a Soviet agent. Complicating matters is
the looming threat of spectre as they seek to assassinate the
troublesome hero and avenge the death of Dr No.
Print source: Park Circus
Monday 21 September, 6.30pm
LEFT (LINKS) (CFF PG)
Director: Froukje Tan. Netherlands 2008. 83 mins.
Dexter leads an ordered life in which everything is perfectly
compartmentalised. Until, that is, a woman who looks exactly like
his girlfriend appears, and things start to become very strange
indeed... A quirky tragicomedy about the little peculiarities of
life, this directorial debut also features a charming cast playing
multiple roles.
Tuesday 22 September, 3.45pm
THE JUNGLE RADIO (Cff 15)
Director: Susanne Jaeger. Germany 2009. 90 mins.
Documentary about a fearless woman who runs a citizens’ radio
station in the Nicaraguan jungle, with a unique mission: the
fight against the all-prevalent domestic violence. She has been
threatened, but refuses to be intimidated: “If they have to shoot
me down in front of the microphone, everyone will hear.”
Saturday 26 September, 1.00pm | Sunday 27 September, 4.00pm
LOSING BALANCE (Cff 15)
Director: Felix Fuchssteiner. Germany 2009. 105 mins.
The story of a girl growing
up in a family that is
slowly falling apart. After
a nightmare weekend in a
lakeside cabin, 14-year-old
Jessika realises that her
only chance is to disengage
herself from her family and
her over-protective father.
Special screening: On Tuesday 22 September at
6.30pm, Sawston Cinema will be screening PROJECTING
THE PAST, the first film to be made by the Sawston
Cinema Club, plus some archive treats!
Followed by LITTLE WHITE LIES
at 8.30pm (see page 32 for details).
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Sunday 27 September, 3.30pm
For your eyes only...
surPrise FilM (CERT TBC)
Director: Unnamed. Starring: Undisclosed. Country: Not Telling.
Every year we present a surprise movie – a fi lm which has
absolutely no advance warning of title, director, stars or genre –
just a time and a place. Every year, it sells out. Are Festival
audiences mad? Considering we lavish so much energy on
providing full information for our screenings, it may seem odd
to actively keep something secret – but we know from past
experience that you love a mystery! What will it be this year?
Only the Festival Director knows for certain, and neither truth
drugs nor hypnotic fl ashing lights have persuaded him to divulge
the information. Even the projectionists are kept in the dark (a
novelty for them, I’m sure).
Print source: Sssh! You know who you are...
➜ Past Surprise Films have included Herzog’s RESCUE DAWN, PIRATES
OF THE CARIBBEAN, the first UK screening of A COCK AND BULL STORY
and, last year, BURN AFTER READING. So with no hype and no reviews to
distract you, simply sit back in your seat, let the lights dim and watch as
the truth is finally revealed!
oPeninG
niGht
FeAtuRe
Thursday 17 September, 8.00pm
the arMy oF criMe (15)
(L’ARMÉE DU CRIME)
uK Premiere
Director: Robert Guédiguian. Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Simon
Abkarian, Robinson Stévenin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane
Ascaride. France 2009. 139 mins. French with English subtitles.
Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a group of
youngsters and émigrés in a clandestine battle against the
Nazi occupation: 22 men and 1 woman fi ghting for an ideal
and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the
assassination of an SS General, eventually reaches Berlin. Under
the orders of the Gestapo, French police and collaborators hound
Manouchian and his Résistants until, to escape torture, one of
their associates denounces the whole group. After a show trial,
the 23 heroes are brought to face a fi ring squad... Screened in
the Offi cial Selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, THE
ARMY OF CRIME features an ensemble cast of renowned actors
including Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (both
Guédiguian veterans), and Virginie Ledoyen. One of France’s
leading contemporary fi lmmakers, Robert Guédiguian depicts
a historic moment with great poignancy and relevance for
audiences even today.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Robert Guédiguian for a Q&A
following the screening.
Print source: Optimum Releasing
“a hymn to life and to resistance, a very
contemporary call to struggle for human
rights, for resistance…” Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde
special offer: Join us for our opening night gala in the arts Picturehouse bar. For only £10 (£8 Picturehouse members /
Concessions), you can enjoy a complimentary glass of bubbly and nibbles before the screening. You may also have the
chance to meet a filmmaker or two!
Price includes entry to screening. Gala begins at 7.00pm
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Saturday 19 September, 11.30pm
1234 (Cff 15)
Director: Giles Borg. Starring: Ian Bonar, Lyndsey Marshal,
Kieran Bew. UK 2008. 85 mins.
Bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie endures a job he despises
and finds himself unable to get a girlfriend – but at least he has
music. With his friend Neil, he’s been kicking about in bands
for a while, but it is not until the pair team up with Billy – a
more experienced hand with drive and ambition – and Billy’s
cute pal Emily, that there’s a real possibility they might be on to
something good. Now armed with a demo, Stevie beats a welltrodden
path to record company doors, but finds he also has to
manage the tensions developing within the band, while keeping
his own aspirations in check. Borg brings his own experiences in
music to this authentic tale of a struggling band in London; think
THIS IS SPINAL TAP, but several rungs further down the ladder.
Print source: Carson Films
main
features
Late night
ROCKS!
Sunday 20 September, 9.00pm
ADORATION (Cff 15)
Director: Atom Egoyan. Starring: Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard,
Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick, Arsinée Kanjian. Canada 2008. 100 mins.
ADORATION is celebrated director Atom Egoyan’s twelth feature
film. Sabine (Arsinée Kanjian), a high school French teacher,
gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news
story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in his pregnant
girlfriend’s luggage. The assignment has a profound effect on
orphan Simon (Devon Bostick), who re-imagines the news item
as his own family’s story. After reading his story to the class,
he takes it to the Internet and it has an unimaginable and lifechanging
impact. Inspired by a real-life news story from 1986,
ADORATION is woven with the common threads that appear in
much of Egoyan’s work and speaks to our connections – with
each other, with our family history, with technology and with the
modern world.
Print source: New Wave Pictures
“A profound and provocative exploration of cultural
inheritance, communications technology and the
roots and morality of terrorism.” The New York Times
Thursday 17 September, 6.15pm | Friday 18 September, 10.45am
THE AGENT (Cff 15)
Director: Lesley Manning. Starring: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy,
Maureen Lipman. UK 2008. 80 mins.
The story of a frustrated writer and his agent, THE AGENT is a
smart two-hander adapted from a hit source play. Skilled but selfdoubting
writer Stephen (Stephen Kennedy) hasn’t heard from his
agent Alexander (William Beck) in the four months since sending
in the final draft of his new novel, Black. Deciding to take matters
into his own hands, Stephen goes to Alexander’s office to demand
a response. What gives Alex the right to decide what people
should read? And why do so many worthless books make money?
Flustered, Alexander brushes the questions away, but a dramatic
ultimatum soon develops. A blackly comic drama, THE AGENT
takes you behind the scenes of the publishing world to witness the
wheeling and dealing required to create the next bestseller.
➜ We are delighted to welcome playwright and producer Martin Wagner
to the screening.
Print source: Pinter & Martin Ltd
“Anyone with any sort of artistic ambitions
whatsoever will love THE AGENT.” Telegraph Online
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a Bad day to go Fishing (CFF 15)
(MAL DIA PARA PESCAR)
Director: Alvaro Brechner. Starring: Gary Piquer, Jouko Ahola,
Antonella Costa. Spain/Uruguay 2009. 100 mins. Spanish and
English with English subtitles.
A BAD DAY TO GO FISHING tells the story of Orsini (Piquer),
an impresario who arrives in a small town with his protégé,
a one-time German wrestling champion named Jacob van
Oppen (Ahola). Orsini’s scheme is to use van Oppen’s status
to lure locals into duels with him, promising a large cash sum
to anybody that can pin him in three minutes. In reality, the
matches are fi xed to protect van Oppen’s reputation – and
Orsini’s income. The pair’s plan is threatened, however, when
an opponent is too drunk to wrestle and a local woman (Costa)
offers up her muscular husband as a replacement to face off
against van Oppen, who is nursing sore muscles, a nasty cough
and an even nastier alcohol habit. With plenty of deadpan satire,
this is a fi ne example of a Uruguayan cinema rarely seen outside
its own country.
Print source: Bavaria Film International
uK Premiere
Wednesday 23 September, 6.00pm | Thursday 24 September, 3.30pm
Thursday 17 September, 5.30pm
Birdwatchers (CFF 15)
(LA TERRA DEGLI UOMINI ROSSI)
Director: Marco Bechis. Starring: Claudio Santamaria, Alicelia Batista
Cabreira, Chiara Caselli. Italy/Brazil 2008. 108 mins. Portuguese,
Guaraní and English with English subtitles.
The fazendeiros lead a wealthy and leisurely existence. They
own huge fi elds with transgenic plantations and spend their
nights with tourists who come birdwatching. Meanwhile, at the
borders of their lands, the uneasiness of the indigenous Guaraní-
Kaiowà Indians is growing. Enclosed in reserves, with no other
opportunity other than working as semi-slaves in sugar beet
plantations, the suicide rate among their young people is rising.
But soon, a rebellion begins. Led by Indian Nadio and a shaman,
a group of Guaraní-Kaiowà starts camping outside the farm to
claim their land back. The two opposing worlds face each other,
engaged in a war of ideology and identity – but, as tensions
rise, curiosity begins to inspire a deep bond between the young
shaman apprentice Osvaldo and a fazendeiro’s daughter.
Print source: Artifi cial Eye
Tuesday 22 September, 8.30pm
Boogie woogie (CFF 15)
Director: Duncan Ward. Starring: Danny Huston, Stellan Skarsgård,
Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Joanna Lumley. UK 2009. 90 mins.
The sale of one of Piet Mondrian’s fi nal Boogie Woogie paintings
unleashes the false smiles and unsheathes the knives in this
savage satire on the art world, featuring an all-star ensemble
cast. Aged collector Rhinegold (Christopher Lee) owns the
work in question and he doesn’t want to sell. But his dwindling
fortunes open the door to the cutthroat competition between rival
dealers Art Spindle (Huston) and Bob Maccelstone (Skarsgård).
Comparison with THE PLAYER are inevitable as BOOGIE WOOGIE
gleefully excoriates the contemporary art scene from struggling
artists to gallery directors and all others unwittingly sucked up
in their wake. As Rhinegold paraphrases, these are people who
“know the price of everything and the value of nothing”.
Print source: Vertigo Films
Grand Arcade are proud sponsors of the BOOGIE WOOGIE screening and
delighted once again to be associated with one of our favourite actresses,
the voice of Grand Arcade, Joanna Lumley.
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Wednesday 23 September, 3.00pm
BORN IN 68 (NÉS EN 68) (CFF 15)
Directors: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau. Starring: Laetitia
Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët, Christine Citti. France 2008.
170 mins. French with English subtitles.
An epic drama of life and sexual politics in France. Friends and
lovers caught up in the excitement of May ‘68 at the Sorbonne
eventually leave Paris for a communal life in the country. The
collective seems at first like a fairytale of left-wing hippiedom,
but principles are gradually betrayed as its members drift away
to bourgeois careers. Laetitia Casta gives a great performance
as the central figure, Catherine; loved by both Hervé and Yves
and eventually left by everyone, she remains a gentle but
determined matriarch.
Print source: Peccadillo Pictures
“It offers a lesson in the hopes and dreams of the
generation of ‘68 and how we live now.” BFI
Tuesday 22 September, 9.00pm | Queen’s Theatre
BRINKMANN’S WRATH (CFF PG)
(BRINKMANN’S ZORN)
Director: Harald Bergmann. Starring: Eckhard Rhode, Alexandra Finder,
Baki Davrak. Germany 2006. 105 mins. German with English subtitles.
Harald Bergmann’s film charts the final days in the life of German
poet and novelist Rolf Dieter Brinkmann who died in an accident in
London in April 1975, aged 35. 18 months before his death, whilst
distancing himself from the literary scene, Brinkmann obtained
a Uher Reporter tape recorder and recorded his thoughts, his
friends, his environment, and the sounds of the city of Cologne, as
well as generating large quantities of Super 8 film and thousands
of Instamatic snapshots, which he collaged with texts and
printed material. BRINKMANN’S WRATH uses original material,
contemporary actors and modern cinema technology to bring
the unfinished work to life, and transcend the boundaries of both
historical fiction and documentary film-making.
Print source: Harald Bergmann Filmproduktion
Showing with: SPEAK (CFF PG)
Director: John Latham. UK 1969. 11 mins.
A stunning example of animated abstraction, in the tradition of
Len Lye’s films of the 1930s.
Print source: LUX
Friday 18 September, 6.30pm | Monday 21 September, 11.00am
THE BUTTERFLY TATTOO (Cff 15)
Director: Phil Hawkins. Starring: Duncan Stuart, Jessica Blake,
Aidan Magrath, Dan Morgan. Netherlands 2008. 101 mins.
Director Phil Hawkins teams with children’s author Stephen
Potts to adapt Philip Pullman’s novel detailing an adolescent
romance gone horribly awry. Chris (Duncan Stuart) and
Jenny (Jessica Blake) are teenage lovers from the gritty side
of modern Oxford. Chris is a naive young lad, suspended
between school and college, and Jenny is a free spirit fleeing
a traumatised childhood. They are caught in the crossfire as a
gangster gunman comes looking for Chris’ boss to avenge past
events – and heady romance gives way to growing suspense.
THE BUTTERFLY TATTOO introduces a fresh young cast, a
soundtrack of unsigned bands from Oxford’s vibrant music
scene and a score by veteran composer Ludovico Einaudi to
tell a heartbreaking story of star-crossed lovers reminiscent of
Romeo and Juliet.
➜ We hope to welcome director Phil Hawkins and actress Jessica Blake
for a Q&A following the first screening.
Print source: Courtesy of Phil Hawkins
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Sunday 20 September, 6.00pm | Monday 21 September, 3.30pm
THE CALLING (Cff pg)
Director: Jan Dunn. Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Emma Beecham,
Susannah York. UK 2009. 105 mins.
Frustrated by her relationship with a depressed boyfriend – and
driven to explore her lifelong battle with her own religious
beliefs – Joanna (Beecham) takes the unfashionable step of
entering into a convent, greatly upsetting her mother in the
process. Her new, cloistered life proves surprisingly active
however, with the eccentric nuns abuzz with secret rivalries and
tensions, including wise, progressive Sister Ignatius (Blethyn),
the allegedly screwed-up Prioress (York), and a whole host of
other Sisters, each one of them uniquely entertaining. Joanna
may have removed herself from the busy business of the wider
world, but her choices don’t get any simpler behind the convent
walls. Nor do the pressures of the outside world consent to stay
where she has left them...
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Jan Dunn and actress
Susannah York for a Q&A following the first screening.
Print source: Medb Films
Friday 18 September, 5.30pm | Monday 21 September, 1.30pm
CAN GO THROUGH SKIN (CFF 18)
(KAN DOOR HUID HEEN)
Director: Esther Rots. Starring: Rifka Lodeizen, Wim Opbrouck, Chris
Borowski. Netherlands 2008. 94 mins. Dutch with English subtitles.
Esther Rot’s outstanding film from the Netherlands tells of
the claustrophobia and trauma experienced by a young woman
(a brilliant performance by Rifka Lodeizen) after she is attacked
in her Amsterdam flat. She leaves her urban lifestyle behind
and buys an abandoned house in the Zeeland countryside –
but rather than being haunted by this uncanny building, she
literally haunts the house herself, hiding in its corners and
disappearing in cupboards, while getting further and further
drawn into violent fantasies.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Esther Rots and composer
Dan Geesin for a Q&A following the screening.
Print source: Films Boutique
Showing with: FLOOD (CFF PG)
Director: Dan Geesin. Netherlands 2005. 11 mins.
“We’re going to the country...” sings a voice as the kids head
off into the Netherlands landscape. A musical tale of tents and
water by Dan Geesin, composer of CAN GO THROUGH SKIN.
Print source: One Day Film
Thursday 17 September, 6.30pm | Tuesday 22 September, 11.00pm
COURTING CONDI (Cff 15)
Director: Sebastian Doggart. USA 2008. 107 mins.
Can one man with a dream woo the most powerful woman in
the world? COURTING CONDI will answer this very question
whilst exploring the life of one of the most inspiring and
controversial figures in American politics, Condoleezza Rice.
Love-struck everyman Devin Ratray has spent years writing
love songs for his unusual crush, but it wasn’t until he asked
his friend Sebastian Doggart to help him film music videos for
these songs that this movie was born. Doggart decided to help
Devin by introducing him to people who could potentially secure
him a meeting with the US Secretary of State, learning as much
as he can about her in the process in an effort to win her heart.
Using a combination of interviews, archive footage, animated
stills and music, COURTING CONDI is the first ever musical
docu-tragi-comedy!
Print source: Courtesy of Evan Greenhill
UK Premiere
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Saturday 19 September, 8.30pm
CREATION (Cff pg)
Preview
Science
on screen
Director: Jon Amiel. Starring: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly,
Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martha West.
UK 2009. 101 mins.
CREATION is the true story of the life of Charles Darwin and
the single most explosive idea in history. Told in a collage of
scenes from the past and present, laced with stories of exotic
animals and the dark dreams of a troubled mind, CREATION is
part ghost story, part psychological thriller, part love story. Paul
Bettany (MASTER AND COMMANDER, A BEAUTIFUL MIND) stars
as a young Charles Darwin writing On the Origin of Species. His
theory would turn the world upside down and challenge the love
of his deeply religious wife, played by real life partner and Oscarwinner
Jennifer Connelly. Coming in the year of the bicentenary
of Darwin’s birth – as well as the 150th anniversary of the
publication of On the Origin of Species – the film celebrates
ideas that remain controversial to this day.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Jon Amiel for a Q&A following
the screening.
Print source: Film Distribution
Sunday 27 September, 6.00pm
CRYING WITH LAUGHTER (Cff 18)
Director: Justin Molotnikov. Starring: Stephen McCole,
Malcolm Shields, Andrew Neil, Jo Hartley. UK 2009. 93 mins.
Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped
being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an
American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act,
his life begins to unravel. Already struggling with an addiction to
cocaine, he’s barely able to cope with his family responsibilities.
When his landlord promises to evict him for not paying his rent,
Joey retaliates that night during his act, threatening to kill the
man in front of a captive audience. Things spiral out of control
when Joey wakes up the next day and is arrested for Grievous
Bodily Harm. To make matters worse, Joey has no memory of
what happened. Looking for help, he turns to Frank Archer, a
former friend who is keen to get reacquainted. But as Joey finds
out, friendship is the last thing on Frank’s mind.
Print source: Synchronicity Films / Wellington Films
Friday 25 September, 8.30pm | Saturday 26 September, 1.15pm
Cuckoo (Cff 15)
Director: Richard Bracewell. Starring: Laura Fraser,
Richard E. Grant, Antonia Bernath. UK 2009. 80 mins.
World Premiere
CUCKOO is a thriller about sound. The film follows the where story the web works
of Polly (Fraser), a medical researcher desperate to get out of
her dead-end life. She is feeling trapped in her own flat due to
pressures from work, her jealous sister (Bernath) and obsessed
boss (Grant). Being neglected by her singer songwriter boyfriend
certainly doesn’t help matters either. After being tugged in all
directions by her nearest and dearest, Polly feels like she is
beginning to go stir crazy while all alone in her flat. Before she
knows it, sounds begin to torment her. Voices in the darkness.
Whispers of deceit. She knows she’s not cuckoo, but why won’t
the noises go away? This psychological thriller will have its
audience asking just as many questions as the excellent cast
of characters while the narrative heads inexorably towards its
dramatic climax.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Richard Bracewell and producer
Tony Bracewell to the screenings.
Print source: Cuckoo Films
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Thursday 24 September, 11.15pm
THE DESCENT: part 2 (18)
Director: Jon Harris. Starring: Shauna Macdonald,
Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Gavan O’Herlihy. UK 2009. 94 mins.
In true QUANTUM OF SOLACE style, this sequel to Neil
Marshall’s tense and claustrophobic subterranean horror THE
DESCENT (2005) picks up the moment the previous film left
off. Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) – sole survivor of an all-female
caving expedition whose members fell victim to a race of vicious,
cannibalistic creatures lurking in a remote Appalachian cave
system – staggers out into daylight, traumatised and bloodied.
But the local sheriff is dissatisfied with her crazed explanation of
her companions’ disappearance, and organises a rescue party,
which he forces Sarah to join. Before long, rock falls drive the
rescuers deeper underground, and Sarah’s worst nightmare –
the one from which she prayed she had awoken – begins to
play out all over again... Executive produced by Marshall, THE
DESCENT: part 2 marks the directorial debut of Jon Harris,
editor on a range of highly acclaimed projects, including
SNATCH, EDEN LAKE and its predecessor, THE DESCENT.
Print source: Warner Bros. Pictures UK / Pathé Productions Ltd
Late night
SHOCKS!
Friday 18 September, 8.30pm | Saturday 19 September, 3.45pm
DESIRE (Cff 18)
UK Premiere
Director: Gareth Jones. Starring: Oscar Pearce, Tella Kpomahou,
Daisy Smith. English and French with English subtitles.
UK 2009. 91 mins.
Alone in his attic, agoraphobic screenwriter Ralph wrestles with
his demons, emasculated by the success of his soap-star wife
Phoebe, unable to complete the screenplay that will rescue his
reputation and his family. With a deadline looming, he invites
student au pair Néné from Paris to look after the children. But
is she carer, muse, lover or thief? As Ralph succumbs to his
desire, Néné embarks on a passionate relationship with both
husband and wife that leads all three into areas of emotional
and creative transgression. Who is using whom? Who is really
writing the script called Desire? Where will it end? This steamy
psychodrama delivers breathtaking performances from rising
stars Oscar Pearce and Tella Kpomahou, proving director Gareth
Jones to be a mature master of the art of nuance.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Gareth Jones and producer
Fiona Howe for a Q&A following the screening.
Print source: Scenario Films
Thursday 24 September, 6.00pm | Saturday 26 September, 10.45am
EASIER WITH PRACTICE (Cff 18)
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Starring: Brian Geraghty, Kel O’Neill,
Kathryn Aselton. USA 2009. 101 mins.
Brian Geraghty plays Davy, a writer trying to draw attention to
his new, unpublished book. The answer, he decides, is a
promotional tour, and with his brother (O’Neill) in tow he
embarks on the long journey. Life on the road, however, soon
starts to lose its lustre – until, that is, Davy receives a chance
phone call in his motel room. A lengthy and heated conversation
develops with the random female caller, who he learns is named
Nicole (Aselton) and soon Davy finds himself in a long-distance
relationship with a complete stranger. Naturally, it isn’t long
before he decides he wants to meet the mysterious Nicole…
Based on a true story, this is an intriguing and gripping study
of sex, love and loneliness.
Print source: Forty Second Productions
“An unexpectedly stirring first feature…
something that really reaches out and
touches you.” Hollywood Reporter
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Sunday 20 September, 6.00pm | Monday 21 September, 1.15pm
THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST
OF YOUR LIFE (15)
(LE PREMIER JOUR DU RESTE DE TA VIE)
Director: Rémi Bezançon. Starring: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman,
Deborah Francois. France 2008. 114 mins. French with English subtitles.
Rémi Bezançon’s second feature film centres around the chaotic
but close Duval family, and how five key days change the lives
not only of each individual member, but the family unit as a
whole. Bereavement, sibling rivalry, infidelity, loss of virginity
and giving up smoking are all focal points in this kaleidoscopic
chronicle of a dysfunctional family that is, nonetheless, full of
energy. Each of the five important dates – spanning twelve
years from 1988 to the climactic 2000 – sees one of the five
members of the family take the lead, providing a unique look at
the group from a different vantage point, and director Bezançon
uses masterful camera techniques and special effects to amplify
the personalities of each family member. A funny, insightful and
moving portrait of family life.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Rémi Bezançon for a Q&A
following the first screening.
Print source: Metrodome Distribution
Saturday 26 September, 4.00pm | Sunday 27 September, 1.30pm
FOR MY FATHER (Cff 15)
(SOF SHAVUA B’TEL AVIV)
Director: Dror Zahavi. Starring: Shredi Jabarin, Hilli Yalon,
Shlomo Wishinski. Germany/Israel 2008. Hebrew and Arabic
with English subtitles.
Terek (Jabarin), a young Palestinian and would-be suicide
bomber, is on a deadly mission into Israel for the sake of his
father. But when a mechanical fault causes his bomb to fail,
and the repair of his explosive vest is delayed by the need to
send for spare parts, Terek finds himself stranded in Tel Aviv for
a weekend, forced to live among people he has been raised to
regard as enemies. Much to his surprise, he begins to connect
with the people around him, and starts to fall for a girl from
an Orthodox family named Keren (Yalon). As their relationship
blossoms, it seems that love can conquer all – but both the
police and those who sent Terek on his mission are closing in
on him...
Print source: Spring Hill Entertainment
UK Premiere
“Quite simply the most powerful and moving film
I can remember seeing in years.” The Huffington Post
Monday 21 September, 8.30pm | Tuesday 22 September, 11.15pm
the GIRL WITH THE
DRAGON TATTOO (Cff 15)
(MÄN SOM HATAR KVINNOR)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev. Starring: Naomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist,
Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson. Sweden/Denmark/Germany
2009. 152 mins. Swedish with English subtitles.
Based on the first book of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson’s
bestselling Millennium trilogy, and set in contemporary Sweden,
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO stars the popular Swedish
actor Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist hired by
a wealthy businessman to investigate the disappearance of his
niece 40 years earlier. Blomkvist – with the help of the tattooed,
ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Naomi Rapace) –
links the disappearance to a number of grotesque murders
and begins to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
The Millennium novels are probably the biggest international
phenomenon to emerge from Sweden since ABBA, and director
Niels Arden Oplev finds some elegant visual shortcuts for
Larsson’s exposition-heavy prose in this accessible thriller.
Print source: Momentum Pictures
Late night
SHOCKS!
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Monday 21 September, 9.00pm | Tuesday 22 September, 1.15pm |
Thursday 24 September, 11.30pm
HARDLY BEAR TO LOOK AT YOU (Cff pg)
Director: Huck Melnick. Starring: Jeremy Herman, Anna Neil,
Huck Melnick. UK 2009. 118 mins.
Love isn’t blind, it’s just extremely shortsighted. In this tale
of unrequited love, Daniel (Herman), a gourmet chef turned
screenwriter, does his best to win the heart of Stella, a street
performer and his muse. But Stella seems coyly determined to
remain an object of desire, teasing Daniel – and the audience.
Eschewing mainstream film techniques in favour of handheld
cameras and ambient sound, HARDLY BEAR TO LOOK AT YOU
is a smart, subtle drama that takes a quietly contemplative
look at relationships, evoked with a sense of immediacy and
realism. Whilst reflecting on the activity of filmmaking and the
act of looking, the film also questions our ability to see another
individual for who and what they really are.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Huck Melnick for a Q&A following
the first screening.
Print source: AndBut Films
“A beautifully filmed and poignant movie.”
The Huffington Post
Saturday 19 September, 11.15pm
HIERRO (Cff 18)
Director: Gabe Ibáñez. Starring: Elena Anaya, Beatriz Segura,
Andrés Herrera, Mar Sodupe. Spain 2009. 91 mins. Spanish with
English subtitles.
Named for the Spanish island to which María (Elena Anaya)
and her five-year-old son Diego are traveling by ferry when
the latter disappears, HIERRO bears comparison to Lars von
Trier’s ANTICHRIST for its reality-blurring study of a mother’s
consuming grief and eventual madness. Six months after Diego’s
vanishing, Maria returns to El Hierro and sees – or thinks she
sees – her son playing on the beach. As she travels along the
terrible path that will lead to her son, Maria will ultimately make
that most unbearable discovery of all: that some mysteries are
better left unrevealed. This visually stunning Spanish thriller
boasts the writer of KING OF THE HILL, the producers of PAN’S
LABYRINTH and THE ORPHANAGE and Guillermo del Toro
himself in the credits.
Print source: Optimum Releasing
Late night
SHOCKS!
Saturday 26 September, 8.45pm
HUMPDAY (Cff 15)
Director: Lynn Shelton. Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard,
Alycia Delmore. USA 2009. 94 mins.
Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) share a friendship that
dates back to college. Wishing to save Ben from what he
perceives as a monotonous married life, Andrew invites him to
a party attended by some very open-minded people. As it turns
out, the guests at this particular party all plan to enter a local
amateur porn festival – something for which Andrew has major
ambitions. But how to stand out from the crowd? After some
brainstorming and a great deal of alcohol, the pair decide the
best way for them to stand out is to film themselves having
sex – with each other. The next day, backing out of the plan
proves alarmingly difficult. Reassuring themselves that it’s
neither gay nor porn, but art, the pair decide nothing will get
in their way – except perhaps Ben’s wife Anna (Delmore), their
heterosexuality, and certain practical issues.
Print source: Vertigo Films
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Saturday 26 September, 11.15pm
JOHNNY MAD DOG (Cff 18)
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. Starring: Christophe Minie,
Daisy Victoria Vandy. France/Belgium/Liberia 2008. 98 mins.
15-year-old Johnny Mad Dog (Christopher Minie) heads a
platoon of soldiers who are younger than he is, fighting a war in
an unnamed African country. Charged with taking over a city in
an attempt to unseat the government, Johnny leads this band
of killers on a murderous rampage toward their destination,
leaving mayhem in their wake. Meanwhile, the studious Laokolé
(Daisy Victoria Vandy), lives with her young brother and disabled
father and dreams of a better life – until Johnny’s hurricane
of destruction comes her way. Filmed in Liberia with unknown
performers, a number of whom lived through the horrors of
conflicts similar to those depicted here, JOHNNY MAD DOG is a
visually dazzling modern war film that acknowledges the hellish
plight of children involved in warfare.
Print source: Momentum Pictures
Late night
SHOCKS!
Saturday 19 September, 6.15pm
KATALIN VARGA (15)
Director: Peter Strickland. Starring: Hilda Peter, Tibor Palffy,
Norbert Tanko. Romania/UK/Hungary 2009. 82 mins. Romanian and
Hungarian with English subtitles.
Peter Strickland’s Transylvania-set drama is a remarkable
achievement: a road movie, a revenge narrative and a
compassionate study of the drawn-out effects of trauma all tied
together in a neat package. Hilda Peter plays the titular rural
woman, whose life is irrevocably altered when she reveals a
violent secret from her past. Kicked out by her husband (Tanko),
Katalin sets out to confront her demons – an odyssey which
draws her into danger, uncertainty and possible redemption.
Meanwhile, a secondary story of two brothers seeking revenge
on Katalin weaves in and out of the narrative to set up a gripping
finale. This powerful and elegant debut by the British directorial
discovery of the year features breathtaking imagery with striking
use of colour, and a superbly atmospheric musical score.
Print source: Artificial Eye
Friday 18 September, 9.00pm
KIN (CFF 15)
Director: Brian Welsh. Starring: Dominic Kinniard, Nicola Marsland,
Jean Boht. UK 2008. 80 mins.
Frank’s life in London is uncomplicated. A game of pool, a pint
and spending time with his care worker Sally are the extent of
his wants. But Frank’s life takes a dramatic turn when a phone
call from his estranged sister forces him back home to face a life
he had long forgotten. Dealing with issues of family responsibility
that are familiar to all of us, KIN is a film about family, care,
and the distance that can grow between those who should be
closest. A painfully touching experience, this is also a remarkable
directorial debut from Brian Welsh, whose subtlety clearly singles
him out as one to watch. KIN shares common ground with Alan
Clarke, early Ken Loach and David Leland’s WISH YOU WERE
HERE, but with a low-budget approach (the film was shot for
£12.5k) that is as impressive as it is unique – and an inspiration
for fellow filmmakers.
➜ We hope to welcome director Brian Welsh for a Q&A following the screening.
Print source: National Film and Television School
UK Premiere
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Saturday 26 September, 11.30pm
LE DONK AND
SCOR-ZAY-ZEE (15)
Director: Shane Meadows. Starring: Paddy Considine, Scor-zay-zee,
Olivia Colman. UK 2009. 72 mins.
The celebrated pairing of director Shane Meadows and actor
Paddy Considine returns in this hilarious faux-rockumentary.
Considine plays Donk, a rock ‘n’ roll roadie who has lived, loved
and learned. Donk used to think he had it all, but 15 years later
he’s lost his classy, pregnant girlfriend (Colman) to another man
and is trying to turn his life around. Opportunity comes knocking
in the form of up-and-coming Nottingham rap prodigy Scor-zayzee
(playing himself). With Meadows’ fly-on-the-wall crew in tow,
Le Donk sets up for an Arctic Monkeys gig and also sets out to
make Scor-zay-zee a star – by securing him a support slot. An
unpredictable, irrepressible paean to spontaneous filmmaking –
and to a burgeoning UK rap talent – this is improvisational
British comedy at its finest.
Print source: Verve Pictures
Late night
ROCKS!
Friday 18 September, 6.45pm | Saturday 19 September, 10.45am |
Tuesday 22 September, 8.30pm (Sawston Cinema)
LITTLE WHITE LIES (Cff pg)
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller. Starring: Markus Krojer,
Zoé Mannhardt, Dominik Nowak. Germany 2009. 100 mins.
German with English subtitles.
Set in 1930s Germany and based on the novel of the same
name by Anna Maria Joki, LITTLE WHITE LIES is a humorous
and subtly portentous parable about friendship, truth and the
destructive power of lies. Life seems good for 13-year-old
Alexander. He is in the A class at school, he has his best friend
Maulwurf and a potential girlfriend in Lotte. But when Alexander
accidentally spills ink on a book he borrowed from a friend in the
B class, ruining it, he is suddenly faced with a moral dilemma.
Thinking it is the easy way out, he destroys the evidence and
denies everything – only for accusations to start flying. Before
long, the crime is being used as the basis of a hate campaign
against the B class, and it seems that everyone must choose
a side.
Print source: Die Film GmbH
UK Premiere
Friday 25 September, 9.15pm
LOOKING FOR PALLADIN (Cff pg)
Director: Andrzej Krakowski. Starring: Ben Gazzara, David Moscow,
Talia Shire, Vincent Pastore. USA 2008. 115 mins.
Few actors can boast having appeared in films by Otto
Preminger, John Cassavetes, the Coen brothers and Spike Lee.
Ben Gazzara can, and he stars here as two-time Oscar winner
Jack Palladin, a retired actor now living in Guatemala. This
gentle film sees arrogant Hollywood talent agent, Josh Ross
(David Moscow) sent, somewhat reluctantly, to lure Palladin
out of retirement. The young agent’s contempt for the ‘old’ star
mirrors his comedic distaste for the local community, whose
help he desperately needs in order to find him. The search is
further complicated – emotionally, at least – by the fact that
the retired actor was once married to Josh’s late mother, and
what Josh hopes will be a quick and lucrative deal turns into a
soul-searching journey as the two men confront the past they
had forsaken.
Print source: Looking for Palladin LLC
UK Premiere
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Friday 25 September, 6.00pm
MACHAN (CFF 12A)
Director: Uberto Pasolini. Starring: Dharmapriya Dias, Gihan De
Chickera, Dharshan Dharmaraj. Sri Lanka/Italy/Germany 2008.
109 mins. Sinhala, German and English with English subtitles.
THE FULL MONTY producer, Uberto Pasolini, directs this funny
and touching (true) story about a group of socially deprived and
pressured slum dwellers who find an invitation to a handball
tournament in Bavaria. The one-way-ticket to the West could be
the answer to their prayers and solution to all their problems,
and its chance discovery seems to them like a present from the
Gods. Despite not knowing what ‘handball’ is, they submit an
application to the tournament – and before long a mismatched
collection of friends, colleagues, creditors and policemen join
together to form the unlikely Sri Lanka National Handball Team.
MACHAN has won multiple awards in festivals around the world,
being praised both for the thought-provoking issues it explores
and the humour that persists even in the darkest hours as these
‘sportsmen’ undertake their journey.
Contains mild moderate language.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Uberto Pasolini for a Q&A
following the screening.
Print source: Yume Pictures
Monday 21 September, 5.30pm
MARY AND MAX (CFF 15)
Director: Adam Elliot. Voices: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Eric Bana. Australia 2009. 92 mins.
By citing links with 25 CHARING CROSS ROAD and ABOUT
SCHMIDT animator Adam Elliot acknowledges the adult
audience with his feature debut MARY AND MAX. Narrated
by Barry Humphries this claymation epic charts the 20 year
pen-pal relationship between the eight-year-old Mary Dinkle
(Collette), who lives in Melbourne, and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a
44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New
York. Conceived and painstakingly hand animated by Elliot and
his team, the grown-up themes of loneliness and love are far
removed from Wallace and Gromit, but MARY AND MAX shares
the visual energy of Aardman Animations. Elliot’s previous short
Harvie Krumpet won the Academy Award for Animated Short
Film in 2003.
Print source: Icon Entertainment International
“Another bold example of adult storytelling
through animation.” Screen International
Saturday 26 September, 6.30pm
MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON (12A)
Director: Lucy Akhurst. Starring: Charles Thomas Oldham,
Derek Jacobi, Naomie Harris. UK 2009. 100 mins.
Morris dancing may be an oft-mocked pastime, but it is no
laughing matter if we’re to believe the characters in this
charming British mockumentary. Derecq Twist (Oldham) is
the leader of the Millsham Morris group, considered one of
the top Morris teams in the country and now the subject of a
documentary. However, problems arise when Derecq’s
innovative avant-garde style draws the ire of Quentin Neely
(Jacobi), Chief Executive of the Morris Circle. Millsham are duly
expelled, preventing them from completing the routine they have
been rehearsing for months. At this point, the producer and
film crew break the cardinal rule of documentary, intervening
in order to fly Derecq to Los Angeles to meet his transatlantic
counterparts. Together, he and the team develop ‘New Morris’
in the hopes of fulfilling his life’s ambition, but how will Derecq
adapt to life stateside?
Contains two uses of strong language and moderate sex references.
Print source: Twist Films
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Saturday 19 September, 8.45pm
NAVIDAD (Cff 15)
Director: Sebastián Lelio. Starring: Manuela Martelli,
Alicia Rodríguez, Diego Ruiz. Chile/France 2009. 99 mins.
Spanish with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
Selected for the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at the 2009
Cannes Film Festival, NAVIDAD offers an intimate portrait
of three teenagers, each with diverse family problems. It is
Christmas Eve in Santiago de Chile and Aurora takes her
boyfriend, Alejandro, to her late father’s dilapidated house in
the country in search of his old record collection. Tensions soon
mount between the young couple and Alejandro decides to leave
Aurora – but on his way out he finds an intruder, a vulnerable
girl named Alicia, who has run away from home. The three
gradually discover a closeness that will soothe their alienation
and loneliness, even if only for one night. Elegantly shot in HD,
the film explores the thoughts and desires of a new generation
of Chileans born after the dictatorship, who come to realise that
the only revolution possible is the revolution inside.
➜ We are delighted to host an online Q&A with director Sebastián Lelio
live from Chile.
Print source: MC Films
Friday 18 September, 11.10pm
PONTYPOOL (Cff 15)
Director: Bruce McDonald. Starring: Stephen McHattie,
Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly. Canada 2008. 96 mins. English and
French with English subtitles.
Anyone familiar with GREMLINS or Orson Welles’ War of the
Worlds broadcast will know that every disaster needs a deejay.
Cue down-on-his-luck shock jock Grant Mazzy (McHattie),
banished to the small Canadian town of Pontypool. Whilst
doing his radio show, disturbing reports of bloody riots filter
in from callers – and soon the zombie-like hordes are laying
siege to his studio. Director Bruce McDonald (HIGHWAY 61)
toys with the horror genre, fashioning something fresh in the
process. Based on screenwriter Tony Burgess’ novel Pontypool
Changes Everything, this is horror with a great, big, verbose
difference – not least in character actor Stephen McHattie’s
motormouth performance.
Print source: Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
Late night
“Think of this witty, economically gory little
tour de force as 28 Days Later written by
linguist Noam Chomsky.” Entertainment Weekly
SHOCKS!
Tuesday 22 September, 6.00pm
SÉRAPHINE (CFF PG)
Director: Martin Provost. Starring: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur,
Anne Bennent. France/Belgium 2008. 125 mins. French and German
with English subtitles.
Set in Senlis, France in 1914 – and winner of seven French
César Awards, including Best Actress and Best Film –
SÉRAPHINE tells the remarkable true story of the mysterious
painter of the same name. Art patron Wilhelm Uhde (Tukur)
discovers Séraphine Louis (Moreau) while she is working as a
cleaning lady in an apartment he has rented. Despite being the
laughing stock of the town – and contrary to her cruel landlady’s
opinions – Séraphine is secretly a wonderfully gifted artist.
Uhde’s discovery of the maid’s hidden talent leads to the pair
striking up a long-lasting friendship as he attempts to inspire
confidence in the painter, encouraging her to exhibit her work in
Paris. The film explores their friendship, the struggles brought on
by the Depression, and Séraphine’s unique lifestyle habits – as
well as her declining psychological state.
Print source: Metrodome Distribution
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Sunday 20 September, 8.45pm
THE SOLOIST (12A)
UK Premiere
Director: Joe Wright. Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jamie Foxx.
UK/USA/France 2009. 117 mins.
Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr and Oscar winner Jamie Foxx star
in an extraordinary true story of how a chance meeting can change
a life. From the director of the Oscar-nominated ATONEMENT, Joe
Wright, THE SOLOIST tells the poignant tale of disenchanted Los
Angeles newspaper reporter Steve Lopez (Downey) who discovers
brilliant street musician Nathaniel Ayres (Foxx) and the unique
friendship that transforms them both. Lopez approaches Ayres as
a story idea but as he begins to unearth the mystery of how Ayres,
once a dynamic prodigy, wound up living on the streets he embarks
on a quixotic mission to get Ayres back to the world of music. As
he fights to save Ayres’ life, Lopez realises that it is Ayres – with his
unsinkable passion – who is profoundly changing him.
Contains one use of strong language, moderate threat and drug use.
Print source: Universal Pictures Ltd
“A deeply empathetic exploration of mental
illness and a winning showcase for the
talents of its two stars.” Time Magazine
Tuesday 22 September, 8.30pm
THIRST (BAKJWI) (18)
Director: Chan-wook Park. Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ok-vin Kim, Haesook
Kim. South Korea 2009. 133 mins. Korean with English subtitles.
THIRST is a vampire film with a twist. A devout, good-natured
priest (Song), loved by the local community, volunteers to take
part in a medical experiment seeking to cure a terrible disease.
The experiment fails, and, after seemingly coming back from the
dead and being heralded as a hero, the priest begins to suffer a
craving for human blood. As changes in his mind and body lead
him into a lustful affair with the wife of one of his oldest friends –
tired of the monotony of her life – the priest descends further and
further into acts of depravity, completing his transformation from
an agent of good to a being of evil, as he clings desperately to
his final shreds of humanity. THIRST presents a new take on the
archetypal story, with plenty of dark humour.
Print source: Metrodome Distribution
UK Premiere
“In its best moments, Thirst offers something
of the poetic force of cinema’s timeless
masterpieces.” Screen International
Sunday 20 September, 7.15pm | Tuesday 22 September, 1.00pm
TREELESS
MOUNTAIN (CFF 15)
Director: So Yong Kim. Starring: Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim.
Korea/USA 2008. 89 mins. Korean with English subtitles.
Jin, a feisty six-year-old, lives with her mother and chubby little
sister, Bin, in a cramped apartment in Seoul City, South Korea.
When their mother decides to go looking for their estranged
father, Jin and Bin are forced to stay with their alcoholic aunt in
a small town for the summer. The girls are given a piggy bank
with a promise from their mother that she will return when
it is full – but what at first seems like an annoying sojourn
becomes a dire situation for the girls when their aunt loses her
house. After their mother fails to return, Jin and her sister are
forced to move to a farm owned by their grandparents, and it is
through this journey of abandonments that Jin comes to learn
the importance of family bonds. Inspired by her grandmother’s
determination and hard work, she begins to understand that
taking care of her sister may be a way of filling the missing link
in her heart.
Print source: Soda Pictures
UK Premiere
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Friday 25 September, 11.20pm
TRIANGLE (15)
Director: Christopher Smith. Starring: Rachel Carpani,
Michael Dorman, Melissa George. UK 2009. 99 mins.
From the director of CREEP and SEVERANCE comes this British
horror film set in the Bermuda Triangle. When a young set of
friends embarks on a yachting trip one of them in particular,
Jess (Carpani), gets the awful feeling that all is not quite right.
Her fears are realised when a violent storm hits and the group
appear doomed until rescue miraculously comes in the form
of a passing ocean liner. However Jess’ feelings of dread are
not calmed when the crew find the vessel to be mysteriously
abandoned. Strangest of all is the overwhelming sense of déjàvu
Jess feels as she walks the oddly familiar corridors. Quickly
it becomes apparent that the group are not alone, and a sinister
stranger begins to hunt them down one by one...
Print source: Icon Film Distribution
Late night
SHOCKS!
Wednesday 23 September, 6.45pm
TULPAN (Cff pg)
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy. Starring: Tolepbergen Baisakalov,
Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova. Germany/Kazakhstan/Poland/
Russia/Switzerland 2008. 100 mins. Kazakh and Russian with
English subtitles.
Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film
Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s
first narrative feature is a gorgeous marrying of tender comedy,
ethnographic drama and wildlife extravaganza. Following his
Russian naval service, young dreamer Asa returns to his sister’s
nomadic brood on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin a career
as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa
must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles:
his mysterious neighbour, Tulpan. Accompanied by his sidekick
Boni, Asa will stop at nothing to prove he is a worthy husband
and herder. TULPAN’s gentle humour and stunning photography
transport audiences to the harshly beautiful, barren landscape
of the windy Kazakh plains and the rapidly vanishing way of life
the locals lead.
Print source: New Wave Pictures
Thursday 17 September, 8.45pm
WHITE LIGHTNIN’ (Cff 18)
Director: Dominic Murphy. Starring: Edward Hogg,
Stephanie Astalos-Jones, Kirk Bovill. UK 2009. 84 mins.
Growing up, Jesco White (Edward Hogg) found himself shuffling
between reform schools, work camps, and his home in West
Virginia until his father, a famous mountain dancer, taught him
how to tap. After his father’s murder, Jesco begins to dance to
control his wicked ways and takes his show on the road, where
he meets Cilla (Carrie Fisher), the love of his life. As Jesco is
forced to face his past, we bear witness to the dual powers of
revenge and redemption, and the lengths to which he will go
to have both. WHITE LIGHTNIN’ is a phantasmagoric tumble
into the dark corners of artistic genius, addiction, and insanity.
Based on the life of a fabled mountain dancer, director Dominic
Murphy’s film creates a cleverly stylised portrait that is nothing
short of sensational.
➜ We hope to welcome director Dominic Murphy for a Q&A following
the screening.
Print source: Momentum Pictures
“A demented slice of genius.” The Guardian
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german
cinema
today
The German film industry has seen a significant
resurgence in the last decade, and it is reflected
in these new features from German filmmakers,
ranging in subject from the terrors of the Red
Army Faction (RAF) to the everyday joy and pain
of loving relationships. Whether delving into
the nation’s literary heritage for a new take on a
classic text, exorcising the ghosts of the recent
past or tentatively exploring the possibilities for
a multicultural future, these films – all premiering
at the Festival – demonstrate the extraordinary
diversity of contemporary German cinema.
Sunday 20 September, 1.00pm | Tuesday 22 September, 10.45am
BUDDENBROOKS: THE DECLINE
OF A FAMILY (Cff pg)
Director: Heinrich Breloer. Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz. Germany 2008. 151 mins.
German with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
In this adaptation of Thomas Mann’s famous novel, director
Heinrich Breloer focuses on the fourth generation of the
Buddenbrook family – a once-powerful lineage tragically
hindered by personal and public failures. Set in the port city
of Lübeck during the mid-19th century, BUDDENBROOKS
follows the family’s trials as Tony and Thomas reach the age
of marriage. Seemingly impeded by fate every step of the way,
they struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh
down on familial relations. This period drama succeeds in
conveying the trauma of living in a crumbling dynasty at the end
of an era, with award-winning production and costume design.
Exceptional acting elevates BUDDENBROOKS beyond the usual
period drama clichés and highlights the gripping personalities
that breathed life into Mann’s work.
Print source: Bavaria Film International
Wednesday 23 September, 9.00pm
EVERYONE ELSE (Cff 15)
(ALLE ANDEREN)
UK Premiere
Director: Maren Ade. Starring: Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger,
Hans-Jochen Wagner. Germany 2009. 119 mins. German and
Italian with English subtitles.
On the surface, Chris and Gitti are lost in perfect amorous bliss
during a getaway in their Sardinian holiday home. But there are
unspoken tensions. Full of verve, the idiosyncratic Gitti is fearless in
expressing her love for Chris, while he is more reserved in his outlook
on life. When they meet another couple, clearly happier and more
successful than they are, Chris decides to take a more decisive role.
Gitti tries to conform to his new ideal, and with a second chance to
discover themselves – and each other – the young couple suddenly
seem to have the opportunity to be as happy as everyone else...
Award-winning director Maren Ade portrays the couple and their
contradictory longings with subtle humour and poignancy, showing
the lengths lovers will go to to save their relationship.
Print source: Bavaria Film International
“An insightful essay about the way lovers feed
on each other’s flaws.” Screen International
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Sunday 27 September, 6.30pm
UK Premiere
Saturday 26 September, 6.15pm
LONG SHADOWS (CFF 15)
(SCHATTENWELT)
Director: Connie Walther. Starring: Ulrich Noethen,
Franziska Petri, Uwe Kockisch. Germany 2008. 92 mins.
German with English subtitles.
UK Premiere
After 22 years in prison, one-time terrorist Widmer has been
released. Once a leading member of the second generation of
the RAF, Widmer led a kidnapping that backfired badly, leaving
bank director von Seichfeld and one of his employees dead. Set
up with a place in an anonymous apartment complex in Freiburg
by his lawyer Ellen, Widmer has some matters he would like to
take care of – but first he wants to make contact with his now
grown-up son, Samy. Soon a strangely compelling love-hate
relationship develops with his neighbour – a young woman
called Valerie who is also a client of Ellen. Set in contemporary
Germany, LONG SHADOWS tells of the aftermath that still
haunts victims and collaborators of the RAF today, with suitably
bleached, shadowy cinematography and a gripping script.
Print source: Sola Media
MOGADISHU WELCOME (cff 18)
Director: Roland Suso Richter. Starring: Nadia Uhl,
Saïd Taghmaoui, Thomas Kretschmann. Germany 2008. 90 mins.
German and Arabic with English subtitles.
Filmed at the same time as THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX –
in which she acted as a vicious second generation RAF
terrorist – Nadia Uhl shines here as the brave stewardess
Gabriele Dillmann, who contributed to the rescue of her
passengers following the hijacking of Lufthansa flight 188 in
October 1977. The hijacking by a Palestinian terrorist group
sympathetic to the RAF cause shook the world and changed
German policy towards terror attacks. Portrayed for the first
time in German film, this is the story of the victims and survivors
of the hijacking, and of the peak of the so-called ‘German
Autumn’ in 1977, a time marked by kidnappings, bombings and
murder throughout the country. Although originally made for
television, MOGADISHU WELCOME surpasses itself with gripping
storytelling. If you liked THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX, this is
an eye-opening companion piece.
Print source: Teamworx
Friday 25 September, 6.30pm
TANGERINE (CFF 18)
UK Premiere
Director: Irene von Alberti. Starring: Sabrina Ouazani, Nora von
Waldstätten, Alexander Scheer. Germany/Morrocco, 2008. 95 mins.
Morrocan, German and English with English subtitles.
Tangiers, Morocco. Amira (Sabrina Ouazani) finds herself on the
street after a row with her family because she wants to be a
dancer rather than getting married or work as a housekeeper.
Pia and Tom, a young couple of musicians from Germany, meet
Amira in a club, and Pia is fascinated watching Amira dance.
The three become friends, but Amira sets her sights on Tom. Pia
thinks that a love triangle might liven up her troubled relationship
with Tom – but Amira sees it as her big chance for success.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Irene von Alberti for a
Q&A following the screening.
Print source: Filmgalerie 451
“The luxury to experiment with love, and the
necessity to use it as an economic trading tool is
illuminated through a very personal story that
mirrors the global power struggle.” Der Tagesspiegel
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SUNDAY 30 AUGUST
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MONDAY 31 AUGUST
➜ Grantchester Meadows
8.30 BIG RIVER MAN 14
THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
➜ Riverside
7.30 HEARTLAND 15
SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
➜ Riverside
7.30 UP TO THE SOUTH 15
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5.30 BIRDWATCHERS 21
6.15 THE AGENT 20
6.30 COURTING CONDI 24
8.00 THE ARMY OF CRIME 19
8.45 WHITE LIGHTNIN’ 37
9.00 MENTAL 46
11.00 ShortFusion:
SHORT INTERNATIONAL DOCS 71
11.30 HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM 45
Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
9.00 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
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10.45 THE AGENT 20
11.00 Spying Game: TINKER, TAILOR,
SOLDIER, SPY: PART ONE 56
1.00 FILM TBC
1.30 MENTAL 46
2.00 HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM 45
3.30 Spying Game:
THE SECRET AGENT 54
4.00 CFC Masterclass: THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MUSIC 76
4.15 LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF 46
5.30 CAN GO THROUGH SKIN 24
6.30 the BUTTERFLY TATTOO 23
6.45 LITTLE WHITE LIES 32
8.30 DESIRE 27
8.45 EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE
ALLOWED 44
9.00 KIN 31
11.00 ShortFusion: TRIDENTFEST 73
11.10 PONTYPOOL 35
11.20 MISHIMA 59
Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
5.00 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
6.30 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
8.30 Palestine:
ART FOR THE STRUGGLE 48
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10.30 Spying Game:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER,
SPY: PART 2 56
10.45 LITTLE WHITE LIES 32
11.00 CFC: I MADE THIS! 76
12.00 Spying Game:
NEXT OF KIN &
THE MAN BETWEEN 55
1.15 Jack Cardiff:
THE RED SHOES 61
1.30 ShortFusion:
BEST OF BRITISH 69
3.30 THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE 46
3.30 Palestine: CINEMA NOW 49
3.45 DESIRE 27
6.00 THE SHOCK DOCTRINE 47
6.15 KATALIN VARGA 31
8.30 CREATION 25
8.30 CODENAME MELVILLE 44
8.45 NAVIDAD 5
11.00 ShortFusion:
NIGHTTIME FABLES 70
11.15 HIERRO 29
11.30 1234 20
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7.30 PAST TIME 15
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10.30 EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE
ALLOWED 44
10.45 Spying Game:
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY 57
11.00 FILM TBC
1.00 German Cinema:
BUDDENBROOKS 38
1.15 Jack Cardiff:
BLACK NARCISSUS 61
1.30 CFC Masterclass:
FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN 76
2.45 Spying Game:
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 17
3.00 HOUSE OF NUMBERS 45
3.45 Spying Game:
THE 39 STEPS 54
4.30 SCIENCE ON SCREEN 8
5.00 THE BEACHES OF AGNÉS 44
6.00 THE CALLING 24
6.00 THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST
OF YOUR LIFE 28
7.15 TREELESS MOUNTAIN 36
8.45 THE SOLOIST 36
8.50 THE GODFATHER 59
9.00 ADORATION 20
➜ Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
5.00 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
6.30 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
8.30 Spying Game:
THE DEADLY AFFAIR 55
➜ Magdalene & Bridge Streets
8.00 SILENTS ON THE STREETS 14
10.30 THE SHOCK DOCTRINE 47
10.45 Spying Game:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER,
SPY: PART 3 56
11.00 THE BUTTERFLY TATTOO 23
12.00 CFC Masterclass:
FILM CRITIC 76
1.15 THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST
OF YOUR LIFE 28
1.30 CAN GO THROUGH SKIN 24
2.00 FILM TBC
3.30 THE CALLING 24
3.45 Jack Cardiff:
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH 61
4.00 NOLLYWOOD BABYLON 46
5.30 MARY AND MAX 33
6.00 Berlin: BERLIN PLAYGROUND &
SHORTS 53
6.30 LEFT 17
8.30 THE GIRL WITH THE
DRAGON TATTOO 28
8.30 Spying Game:
AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD &
A QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION 56
9.00 HARDLY BEAR TO LOOK AT YOU 29
11.15 TONY 17
11.30 THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM 59
11.30 ShortFusion:
LOVE DOES GROW ON TREES 70
➜ Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
5.00 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
7.00 OUR HOSPITALITY 9
9.00 VAMPYR 9
10.00 Spying Game: TINKER, TAILOR,
SOLDIER, SPY: PART 4 56
10.30 Spying Game: GOLDENEYE 57
10.45 German Cinema:
BUDDENBROOKS 38
12.00 A HISTORY OF ISRAELI CINEMA 45
1.00 TREELESS MOUNTAIN 36
1.15 HARDLY BEAR TO LOOK AT YOU 29
3.15 Jack Cardiff:
THE RED SHOES 61
3.45 THE JUNGLE RADIO 17
4.00 Spying Game:
DEFENCE OF THE REALM 57
6.00 SÉRAPHINE 35
6.15 Border Crossings: WE THE
EMIGRANTS & LONG DISTANCE 51
6.30 Jack Cardiff:
PAINTER WITH LIGHT 61, 77
8.30 BOOGIE WOOGIE 21
8.30 THIRST 36
8.45 ‘SNO ANGEL LIKE YOU 47
11.00 COURTING CONDI 24
11.15 THE GIRL WITH THE
DRAGON TATTOO 28
11.30 ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES 17
➜ Old Library, Emmanuel College
5.00 WITH LOVE FROM BEIRUT
WORKSHOP 12
➜ Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
5.00 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
6.30 IDENTITY OF THE SOUL 12
9.00 BRINKMANN’S WRATH 23
➜ Sawston Cinema
6.00 PROJECTING THE PAST 17
10.45 Spying Game:
THE IPCRESS FILE 55
11.00 THE GODFATHER 59
11.00 Spying Game:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER,
SPY: PART 5 56
1.00 CFC:
LUNCHTIME ARCHIVE SHOW 77
1.30 FILM TBC
2.30 Spying Game:
TRAITOR & BLADE ON
THE FEATHER 56
3.00 BORN IN 68
4.00 NOLLYWOOD BABYLON 46
6.00 A BAD DAY TO GO FISHING 21
6.30 CITIZEN KANE 59
6.45 TULPAN 37
8.30 PORGY & ME 47
9.00 German Cinema:
EVERYONE ELSE 38
9.00 Border Crossings:
NOMAD’S LAND &
THE STORM BIRD 50
11.00 BARAKA 17
11.30 ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES 17
11.30 ShortFusion:
TRIDENTFEST 73
➜ Ely Cathedral
7.30 Michael Palin:
A Life in Pictures 11
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10.45 Spying Game:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER,
SPY: PART 6 56
11.00 CFC:
WORKSHOPS FOR FILMMAKERS
& PROFESSIONALS 77
1.00 Spying Game:
THE SPY WHO CAME IN
FROM THE COLD 55
1.15 PORGY & ME 47
1.30 Berlin:
BERLIN PLAYGROUND & SHORTS 53
3.30 A BAD DAY TO GO FISHING 21
4.00 ShortFusion:
SCREEN EAST 73
4.00 Border Crossings:
GHOSTED 50
6.00 EASIER WITH PRACTICE 27
6.00 BALLADA 44
6.30 Kuchar Bros:
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR 64
8.00 Spying Game:
THE THIRD MAN 54
8.30 PEEP SHOW 13
9.00 Kuchar Bros:
PROGRAMME 1 62
11.15 THE DESCENT: PART 2 27
11.15 ShortFusion:
GLOBAL ROADS 68
11.30 HARDLY BEAR TO LOOK
AT YOU 29
10.30 SECOND CHANCE
10.45 Spying Game:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER,
SPY: PART 7 56
11.00 FILM TBC
1.00 FILM TBC
1.30 ShortFusion:
CAMBRIDGE SUPER 8 74
2.00 FRAG 45
3.00 CODENAME MELVILLE 44
3.30 Berlin: IN BERLIN 52
4.00 CAMBRIDGE ON CAMERA 11
5.00 MACHINIMA 8
5.30 A HISTORY OF ISRAELI CINEMA 45
6.00 MACHAN 33
6.30 German Cinema:
TANGERINE 39
8.30 CUCKOO 25
9.00 Kuchar Bros:
PROGRAMME 2 63
9.15 LOOKING FOR PALLADIN
11.00 ShortFusion:
NIGHTTIME FABLES 70
11.20 TRIANGLE 37
11.30 Kuchar Bros:
PROGRAMME 3 64
10.30 FILM TBC
10.45 EASIER WITH PRACTICE 27
11.00 FILM TBC
1.00 German Cinema:
LOSING BALANCE 17
1.15 CUCKOO 25
1.30 ShortFusion:
ANIMATED SHORTS 72
3.45 Border Crossings:
THE OTHER IRENE 51
4.00 FOR MY FATHER 28
4.00 DANNY LYON PROGRAMME 67
6.15 German Cinema:
LONG SHADOWS 39
6.30 MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON 33
6.30 MARK BOSWELL PROGRAMME 66
8.30 THE RAINCOATS:
FAIRYTALES 47
8.45 HUMPDAY 29
9.00 Border Crossings:
WELCOME 51
11.00 FILM TBC
11.15 JOHNNY MAD DOG 31
11.30 LE DONK & SCOR-ZAY-ZEE 32
10.30 BARAKA 17
10.45 CAMBRIDGE ON CAMERA 11
11.00 ShortFusion:
LOVE DOES GROW ON TREES 70
1.00 FILM TBC
1.15 SECOND CHANCE
1.30 FOR MY FATHER 28
3.30 SUPRISE FILM 19
3.45 Berlin: MATERIAL 52
4.00 LOSING BALANCE 17
6.00 CRYING WITH LAUGHTER 25
6.30 German Cinema:
MOGADISHU WELCOME 39
6.45 FILM TBC
8.45 FILM TBC
9.00 CLOSING NIGHT FILM (TBC)
9.00 SECOND CHANCE
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documentaries
International Premiere
Director: Andreas Maus. Germany/Russia 2009.
93 mins. Russian with English subtitles.
Forty years after the Lada came into
production on the banks of the river Volga,
the ‘lunchbox on wheels’ is still common on
Russian roads, loved or at least tolerated by
drivers like Murad, a homesick Caucasian
driver living in Moscow, and Michail, the
lonesome old man who lives with his dog in
Taiga. Elsewhere police officers Oleg and
Vladimir spend their working lives in the
provinces and dream of finally catching
a terrorist in their Lada patrol car. All tell
their stories, taking us on a journey into
contemporary Russia – it’s a real road movie,
if only Michail’s damn motor will start...
Print source: Hanfgarn & Ufer Film & TV Produktion
Sunday 20 September, 5.00pm
THE BEACHES OF
AGNÈS (LES PLAGES D’AGNÈS) (CFF 12A)
Director: Agnès Varda. France 2008. 110 mins.
French with English subtitles.
Varda’s cinematic self-portrait is a modest
masterpiece. For her, turning inwards leads to
the coastal locations that marked her life, from
the Belgian beaches of childhood holidays to the
Isle of Noirmoutier where she would stay with her
late husband – fellow filmmaker, Jacques Demy.
A colourful collage of clips and reconstructions,
illuminating well-loved films such as CLEO FROM
5 TO 7 and THE GLEANERS AND I.
Contains one mild sex scene.
Print source: Artificial Eye
Thursday 24 September, 6.00pm Saturday 19 September, 8.30pm | Friday 25
BALLADA (CFF PG)
September, 3.00pm
CODENAME MELVILLE (CFF PG)
(SOUS LE NOM DE MELVILLE)
Director: Olivier Bohler. France 2008. 76 mins.
French, Japanese and Cantonese with English
subtitles.
Jean-Pierre Melville became famous in 1946
for adapting to the screen Le Silence de la
Mer, a wartime novel dealing with the French
resistance. What is less well-known is that
Melville himself spent eight years of his life
as a soldier in the French army and the Free
French Forces. Combining interviews with
filmmakers, actors, friends and relatives of
Jean-Pierre Melville with rare archival footage
and film extracts, CODENAME MELVILLE
shows how the director’s works were
influenced by his war experiences, and how
these affected his whole approach to cinema –
its themes and its aesthetics.
Print source: Nocturnes Productions
UK Premiere
Friday 18 September, 8.45pm
| Sunday 20 September, 10.30am
EXPELLED: NO
INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED (CFF 15)
Director: Nathan Frankowski. USA 2008. 97 mins.
Lawyer, actor and writer Ben Stein is the
protagonist in this documentary which
contends that scientists, teachers and
journalists who advocate the teaching or
even the consideration of Intelligent Design
as an alternative to Darwinism are unfairly
criticised and ostracised from the scientific
establishment. The controversy over the film
in the US has been extreme, with The New
York Times describing it as “a conspiracytheory
rant masquerading as investigative
inquiry” and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science calling it dishonest
and divisive propaganda. An important and
significant example of partisan documentary
making, whatever your views on the issue.
Print source: ID Communications
Science
on screen
UK Premiere
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Tuesday 22 September, 12.00pm | Friday 25
September, 5.30pm
Thursday 17 September, 11.30pm | Friday 18
September, 2.00pm
Friday 25 September, 2.00pm
FRAG (CFF PG)
Director: Mike Pasley. USA 2008. 88 mins.
Professional video gamers exist. FRAG lifts the
lid on the people that play games for a living
and the surprisingly difficult lives they lead.
Whilst competitive gaming may have begun
with 1980s coin-operated arcade machines
it is now serious business with million-dollar
tournaments commonplace the world over.
This documentary follows the lives of several
aspiring pros as they dedicate hour after hour
to achieving their ultimate dream and the
respect of their peers. Whilst gaming may
seem juvenile to some, the decisions these
youngsters have to make – often with little
support from their parents – can be shockingly
life-altering.
Print source: ID Communications
A History of Israeli
Cinema (CFF PG) UK Premiere
Director: Rapael Nadjari. France/Israel 2009.
Part 1: 103 mins, Part 2: 105 mins. Hebrew with
English subtitles.
Perhaps wisely, considering the fractious
nature of his homeland, Raphael Nadjari takes
pains to stress that his is but one ‘history’.
This documentary offers no single voice nor
narration. Instead, a living record of often
contrary participants bring alive the film
excerpts to present a dynamic vision of their
national cinema. Broken into two sections,
Part 1 covers the pioneer period 1932-1978,
including the breakthrough New Sensibility
and Bourekas cinema of the 1960s. Part 2
continues the story, featuring such powerful
works as BEYOND THE WALLS.
Both parts will be screened together with a
10-minute interval.
Print source: Films Distribution
Sunday 20 September, 3.00pm
UK Premiere
HOUSE OF NUMBERS (CFF 15)
Director: Brent Leung. Canada/USA/UK 2009.
88 mins.
In his controversial documentary on the
AIDS epidemic Canadian born director
Leung portrays a research establishment in
disarray and challenges what he terms the
‘conventional wisdom’ regarding HIV/AIDS,
using interviews with key figures including Luc
Montagnier, who shared a Nobel prize for the
discover of HIV, US researcher Robert Gallo,
biologist Peter Duesberg, who believes that
AIDS is caused by drug abuse, and journalist
Neville Hodgkinson. Since, however, several
of the scientists interviewed have signed a
statement that Leung was ‘deceptive in his
interactions’, and a post-screening debate that
challenged the film’s findings in Boston was
disrupted by supporters in the audience.
HOUSTON, WE
HAVE A
PROBLEM (CFF U)
Director: Nicole Torre. USA 2009. 85 mins.
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM is a
documentary about America’s ferocious
appetite for oil and the companies that provide
it, straight from the heart of the energy capital
of the world, Houston. Featuring insights from
some of the biggest names in the oil industry
and exploring our dependency on oil over time,
the film also reveals that many of the biggest
supposed perpetrators of the oil crisis are in
fact trying to present renewable, alternative
strategies – but governments aren’t listening.
This is an environmentalist documentary that
promises to challenge all our pre-conceived
notions about the oil industry.
Print source: Native Range Productions
Late night
DOCS!
Print source: Knowledge Matters, LLC
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UK Premiere
Thursday 17 September, 9.00pm | Friday 18
September, 1.30pm
Monday 21 September, 4.00pm | Wednesday 23
September, 4.00pm
MENTAL (SEISHIN) (CFF 15)
Nollywood Babylon (CFF 15)
Director: Kazuhiro Soda. Japan 2008. 135 mins.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Directors: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal.
Canada/Nigeria 2008. 74 mins.
Friday 18 September, 4.15pm
THE LAST DAYS OF
SHISHMAREF (CFF PG)
Director: Jan Louter. Netherlands 2008. English
and Inuit with English subtitles. 93 mins.
Shishmaref is the one and only settlement on
Sarichef, an island just south of the Arctic circle
in Alaska, home to a small community of Inupiaq.
Whilst they have traditionally lived a sustainable life,
the population is declining, and coastal erosion and
rising sea levels due to global warming threaten
the very existence of their home. Experts predict
Shishmaref will be gone in less than a decade.
The Inupiaq now face the monumental decision of
whether to move to the mainland, abandoning their
traditions and ancestors.
Print source: Miroir Film
“Every frame is a poignant
portrait.” AFI
A feature-length documentary that observes
the complex world of an outpatient mental
health clinic in Japan, interwoven with
patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and homehelpers,
in cinéma verité style. The film breaks
a major taboo against discussing mental
illness prevalent in Japanese society, and
captures the candid lives of people coping with
suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame,
apprehension, and fear of society.
Print source: Films Boutique
“A fascinating insight into a
Japanese mental-health clinic.”
The Japan Times
UK Premiere
Saturday 19 September, 3.30pm
THE NATURE OF
EXISTENCE (CFF PG)
Director: Roger Nygard. USA 2009. 94 mins.
Roger Nygard, who established a reputation
as a quirky documentary maker in 1997 with
TREKKIES, takes on a rather broader topic in
his latest work, asking spiritual leaders, artists,
scholars and scientists about their beliefs and
philosophy of life. The cast of characters is
broad and occasionally bizarre, ranging from
physicist Leonard Susskind, through Richard
Dawkins to film director Irvin Kirshner, ending
up with Rob Adonis, founder of Ultimate
Christian Wrestling, and Druid King Arthur
Pendragon. Fortunately Nygard manages to
stay in the background effectively enough to
make this a thoroughly worthwhile study of the
nature of belief.
Print source: Blink, Inc.
International Premiere
Science
on screen
This in-depth look at the Nigerian video film
industry – now officially the world’s second
largest, churning out 2,500 films a year – will
change your perceptions of filmmaking forever.
Made at breakneck speed, and on shoestring
budgets, Nollywood films have become so
popular in Nigeria, and throughout Africa and
the diaspora, that their annual profits exceed
$250 million. Directors Addelman and Mallal
put themselves behind the scenes and get to
the bottom of Nollywood’s origins and popularity,
telling a fascinating tale of the economic, political,
and spiritual landscape of Nigeria in the process.
➜ The first screening will be introduced by
Dr Lindiwe Dovey from the School of Oriental and
African Studies.
Print source: National Film Board of Canada
➜ Look out for the 8th Cambridge African Film
Festival, 29 October – 8 November 2009:
www.cambridgeafricanfilmfestival.co.uk
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Saturday 26 September, 8.30pm
Tuesday 22 September, 8.45pm
THE RAINCOATS:
FAIRYTALES (CFF 15)
’SNO ANGEL
LIKE YOU (CFF PG)
World Premiere
Director: Gina Birch. UK 2009. 50 mins.
Director: Maria Mochnacz. UK 2009. 50 mins.
Wedneday 23 September, 8.30pm | Thursday 24
September, 1.15pm
PORGY & ME (CFF U)
Director: Susanna Boehm. Germany 2009.
86 mins.
The African American singers of the New
York Harlem Theatre have been touring with
Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess, the world’s first
black opera, for decades, all over the world.
Life on tour is challenging for the singers, as
exhausting travel has forced them to give up a
normal family life. But these are the sacrifices
necessary in the still predominantly white
world of opera. Three generations of African-
American life experience are united by one
dream: to overcome the feelings of prejudice
and exclusion that have shaped their lives for
centuries and to shape their future with their
own hands.
Print source: Boomtown Media
Ana da Silva and Gina Birch met at Hornsey
School of Art and became enamoured of
Patti Smith and The Slits. They formed The
Raincoats in 1977, performed in Warsaw only
weeks after picking up their instruments, and
soon were releasing records on the legendary
Rough Trade label. This documentary in
progress follows punk legends The Raincoats
from 1977 until 1981, with footage from those
early shows, Super 8 films from art school,
and interviews with Ana, Gina, Vicky, Shirley,
Ingrid Weiss, Green, Geoff Travis, Viv Albertine,
Andy Gill, No Bra, Peaches, Neal Brown, Vivien
Goldman and many others.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Gina Birch
for a Q&A following the screening.
Print source: Courtesy of Gina Birch
Festival Premiere
Saturday 19 September, 6.00pm | Monday 21
September, 10.30am
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE (CFF 15)
Directors: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom.
Voices: Naomi Klein. UK 2009. 90 mins.
Based on the best selling book of the same
name by Naomi Klein (who provides narration),
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE uses a combination of
archive footage and animation to investigate
the author’s notion of “disaster capitalism”.
Starting in 1951 with the development of shock
therapy – which Klein uses as a metaphor
for the larger shocks that affect society – the
film explores the proposition that neo-liberal
capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and
terror to establish its dominance. Richard Nixon,
the CIA, Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman and
Boris Yeltsin are just a few of the subjects find
themselves on Klein’s operating table.
➜ We hope to welcome co-director Mat Whitecross
for a Q&A following the first screening.
Print source: Revolution Films
One of the music world’s best kept secrets,
Tucson, Arizona-based musician Howe Gelb
has remained the creative force behind the
ever-changing configurations of Giant Sand,
giving birth along the way to an extended
musical family tree that fostered the likes of
The Band of Blacky Ranchette, The Friends of
Dean Martinez, OP8, and Calexico. His most
recent album ’Sno Angel Like You brilliantly
fuses rock and gospel. Maria Mochnacz’s
documentary captures him on his recent tour
with the Voices of Praise gospel choir.
➜ We are delighted to welcome Howe Gelb to
introduce, discuss and perform live after the
screening.
Print source: Courtesy of Maria Mochnacz
➜ Look out for our international line-up of short
documentaries – see page 71 for details!
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CinemA
PALestine
to complement the UK premiere of thomas
høegh’s ideNtitY oF the soUl and its
celebration of the poetry of mahmoud darwish
(see page 12), Cinema Palestine is a brief
exploration of the recent history of Palestinian
film. From the revolutionary energy of the
first wave of political cinema through to the
questioning of representation by contemporary
artists, Cinema Palestine offers a rare opportunity
to see this ground-breaking work.
Friday 18 September, 8.30pm | Queen’s Theatre, Emmanuel College
Introduced by artist-fi lmaker Sarah Wood
“We used to say ‘art for
the Struggle’, now it’s ‘Struggle
for the art’” Mustafa Abu Ali, filmmaker
art For the struggle/struggle For the art (CFF 15) 57 mins
Taking its title from Mustafa Abu Ali’s statement – “We
used to say ‘Art for the Struggle’, now it’s ‘Struggle for the
Art’” – made as he was smuggled into Jerusalem (into
which Israel bars his entry) for a clandestine screening,
this programme offers an invaluable opportunity to watch
some of the best political documentary filmmaking which
arose from the Palestinian struggle post-1967. Many of the
films of the period disappeared when the Palestinian Film
Archive was lost in the siege of Beirut in 1982. In an age
dominated by image, these films stand as vital testimony to
what was seen, what was made, and what survived.
Far FroM the hoMeland
Director: Kais Al-Zubaidi. Syria 1969. 10 mins.
Focusing on life in the Sbeineh refugee camp near Damascus,
FAR FROM THE HOMELAND gently parallels the daily life of the
camp’s children with a discussion of their hopes and dreams.
Print source: Courtesy of Kais Al-Zubaidi
they do not eXist
Director: Mustafa Abu Ali. Palestine 1974. 25 mins.
Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director – who worked
with Godard on ICI ET AILLEURS and founded the PLO’s fi lm division
– covers conditions in Lebanon’s refugee camps, the effect of Israeli
bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. THEY
DO NOT EXIST is a stylistically unique work that demonstrates the
intersection between the political and the aesthetic.
Print source: Bissan Film
children nevertheless
Director: Khadijeh Habashneh. Palestine 1984. 22 mins.
This fi lm is about the orphan children of Tall El Zaatar refugee
camp, re-housed after the loss of their parents. Filmed in 1979,
the year designated by UNESCO as the International Year of the
Child, the fi lm compares the actual situation of Palestinian children
with the International Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Print source: Bissan Film
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Saturday 19 September, 3.30pm | Arts Picturehouse
cineMa now (CFF 15) 62 mins
The history of Palestinian cinema is characterised by its
losses. Contemporary filmmakers often use the medium
as a political tool and as such the value of homegrown
imagery becomes important in countering dominant visual
narratives. Filmmakers here re-interrogate the archival
image, playfully overturn Orientalism and poignantly
expose the conditions in which much contemporary
Palestinian art is made.
Palestine, a PeoPle’s record
(an eXtract)
Director: Kais Al-Zubaidi. Germany/Syria 1984. 10 mins.
Images of Palestine prior to the state of Israel are hard to fi nd.
Filmmaker Al-Zubaidi brings together fi lms he sourced in the
Berlin archive to create a visual history of the Palestinian people,
in this extract, up to 1967.
Print source: Courtesy of Kais Al-Zubaidi
Planet oF the araBs
Director: Jackie Salloum. USA 2004. 10 mins.
A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood’s relentless
vilifi cation and dehumanisation of Arabs and Muslims, inspired
by the book Reel Bad Arabs by Dr Jack Shaheen.
Print source: Courtesy of Jackie Salloum
reel
Director: Judy Price. UK 2008. 7 mins.
As part of her exploration of Imperial War Museum archival
material documenting the British Mandate in Palestine from
1917-1948, and Palestine before the state of Israel was
established, Price selects the disrupted residues of fi lm – the
lead-ins and endings of fi lm stock. The scuffi ng and scratching
from handling fi lm material, black cue dots, overexposing at the
end of the reel, numbering or logging marks evoke all that is not
seen in the documentation of history.
Print source: Courtesy of Judy Price
asseMBlage
Director: Judy Price. UK 2008. 6 mins.
Archive footage from the British Mandate period in Palestine
shows the raising of a British observation balloon, overlaid with
a montage of sounds from religious orders. At times the sounds
seem to imitate or respond to each other, confusing identities,
whilst also transforming the balloon from war machine to a
prophetic apparatus of the sublime.
Print source: Courtesy of Judy Price
collaPse
Directors: Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Basel Abbas. Palestine/UK 2009.
10 mins.
A sound and video collaboration, using an assemblage of audio
and fi lm archive material, COLLAPSE brings together imaginary
and actual moments of resistance and loss, and highlights the
disruptions that shape shared histories of struggle, in Palestine
and elsewhere.
Print source: Courtesy of Ruanne Abou-Rahme & Basel Abbas
araBs a-go-go
Director: Jackie Salloum. USA 2003. 2 mins.
A two-minute music video comprising found material from Arab
dramas, musicals and romantic comedies, featuring “footage of
Arabs as you’ve never seen them before – unless you’re an Arab”.
Print source: Courtesy of Jackie Salloum
liKe twenty iMPossiBles
Director: Annemarie Jacir. Palestine 2003. 17 mins.
When a Palestinian fi lm crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint
by taking a remote side road, the passengers are slowly taken
apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Both a visual
poem and a narrative, LIKE TWENTY IMPOSSIBLES wryly questions
artistic responsibility and the politics of fi lmmaking, while speaking
to the fragmentation of a people.
Print source: Mec Film
Introduced by artist-fi lmaker Sarah Wood
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BoRDeR
CRossinGs
this season of recent transnational and
travelling cinema celebrates the power of
the moving image to take the viewer on
a journey across boundaries. migration
and travel are a fundamental part of our
contemporary world, something reflected
in an increasingly global film industry
where international co-productions
are thriving. While these films often
reveal the frustrations and difficulties of
migration and exile, they also explore
the complexity of identities that traverse
national limits, showing how border
crossings open up fertile new possibilities
and cross-cultural encounters.
Wednesday 23 September, 9.00pm
noMad’s land (CFF PG)
Director: Gaël Métroz. Switzerland 2008. 90 mins.
French with English subtitles.
The young director takes to the road alone, camera in hand,
following the footsteps of the famous Swiss travel writer Nicolas
Bouvier. Discovering that the East is no longer the carefree land of
Bouvier’s writing – Iran in crisis, Pakistan shaken by tribal violence,
the Taliban, civil war in Sri Lanka – he leaves the well-travelled
routes and instead joins the nomads. A stunning journey through
the landscapes of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, India
and Sri Lanka, this fi lm explores the poetry and dangers of travel,
sometimes in alarmingly extreme conditions.
Print source: Films Distribution
the storM Bird (CFF PG)
(MORGHE TUFÂN)
Director: Tariq Marzbaan. Germany 2007. 37 mins.
Persian and German with English subtitles.
Zâher Howeida, an iconic musician in Afghanistan, has been
in exile with his family in Germany since the 1990s. He tells of
the diffi culties exile has brought him, reciting a Persian poem in
which a storm bird tries to fl ap its wings in a time of lethargy.
Print source: Courtesy of Tariq Marzbaan
Double Bill
uK Premiere
Tuesday 24 September, 4.00pm
ghosted (CFF 15)
Director: Monika Treut. Starring: Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting-Ting
Hu. Germany/Taiwan 2009. 89 mins. English, German and Mandarin
with English subtitles.
Combining the Taiwanese traditional ghost tale with a
contemporary German perspective, GHOSTED depicts a haunting
love story between a German artist, Sophie, and a young
Taiwanese woman, Ai-Ling. When Ai-Ling dies in mysterious
circumstances, Sophie is devastated. As her memories unfold
through fl ashbacks and her own video footage, the fi lm reveals
the cultural differences that both enhanced and troubled
their relationship. Travelling to Taipei, Sophie meets Mei-Li, a
journalist whose appearance in Sophie’s life seems increasingly
uncanny. Through a ghostly doubling, Mei-Li’s seductive
presence forces Sophie to confront the truth about her lost love.
A visually beautiful, subtle and moving fi lm, GHOSTED explores
the boundaries of life and death, memory and image, as well as
portraying an intercultural encounter that takes us on a journey
between two very different countries.
➜ We are delighted to host an online Q&A with director Monika Treut
following the screening.
Print source: Courtesy of Monika Treut
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Tuesday 22 September, 6.15pm
we the eMigrants (CFF PG)
(LA TRAVERSÉE)
Director: Elizabeth Leuvrey. France/Algeria 2006. 55 mins.
French and Arabic with English subtitles.
This compelling documentary focuses on one particular border
crossing, that between France and Algeria. The fi lm is woven
from conversations on the ferry between Marseille and Algiers –
a space that is neither one place nor the other, allowing
explorations of complex identities formed through a fraught
colonial history and more than a hundred years of North African
immigration to France.
➜ We are delighted to host an online Q&A with director Elizabeth Leuvrey
following the screening.
Print source: Alice Films
long distance (CFF PG)
Director: Moritz Siebert. UK 2009. 28 mins.
English and Amharic with English subtitles.
Ethopian runner Abiyot, formerly a promising member of his
national team, tries to make a new life for himself in the USA. As
he pounds the pavements of New York, this documentary shows
a precarious existence in which Abiyot is always on the move.
Print source: National Film and Television School
Double Bill
uK Premiere
Saturday 26 September, 3.45pm
the other irene (CFF 15)
(CEALALTA IRINA)
Director: Andrei Gruzsniczki. Starring: Andi Vasluianu, Doru Ana, Simona
Popescu. Romania 2008. 90 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.
Sharing themes as it does with some of the fi nest European
thrillers – such as the nerve-wrecking THE VANISHING (George
Sluizer, 1988) – it’s hard to believe THE OTHER IRENE is, in fact,
based on a true story. Reluctantly, security guard Aurel (Vasluianu)
lets his wife Irene go on a working trip to Cairo. Having had a
breath of fresh air, she returns transformed and soon sets out
again – but this time she does not come back. Now Aurel’s true
ordeal begins as he sets out on his own journey: a search for his
wife amidst dubious bureaucrats, criminal embassies and hateful
in-laws. THE OTHER IRENE reveals a political and bureaucratic
landscape that is truly eerie. The clean cinematography, especially
apparent in the mall where Aurel works, beautifully emphasises the
main character’s solitude and actor Andi Vasluianu performs the
brooding desperation inside this antihero with incredible delicacy.
➜ We are delighted to welcome director Andrei Gruzsniczki for a Q&A
thanks to the generous support of the Ratiu Family Foundation.
Print source: Libra Film
Saturday 26 September, 9.00pm
welcoMe (CFF 15)
Director: Philippe Lioret. Starring: Vincent Lindon,
Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana. France 2009. 110 mins.
English, French and Kurdish with English subtitles.
uK Premiere
Bilal (Ayverdi), a young 17-year-old Kurdish boy, has travelled
from the Middle East through Europe to join his newly emigrated
girlfriend in England. However, his journey comes to an abrupt
end when he is stopped by the authorities on the French side of
the Channel. Having decided to swim across the freezing cold
waters, Bilal goes to a local swimming pool to train. There he
meets Simon (Lindon), a swimming instructor in the midst of
a divorce. To impress his wife (Dana) and win back her heart,
Simon decides to risk everything by taking Bilal under his wing,
and a friendship develops that transcends age and cultural
differences. A wonderfully affi rming tale of adversity, redemption,
and striving for goals that seem just out of reach, WELCOME is
also a passionate response to the current French controversy
about the treatment of illegal immigrants stranded in Calais.
➜ We are delighted to welcome Philippe Lioret for a Q&A following
the screening.
Print Source: CinéFile
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BeRLin
Without
BounDARies
this year we celebrate 20 years
since the berlin Wall came down in
1989, ending the division between
east and West. to mark the occasion
we’ve selected some of the best
recent films about berlin, none of
which have been shown before
in the UK. they offer a vision of
a vibrant, creative city, full of
unexpected juxtapositions.
Friday 25 September, 3.30pm
in Berlin (CFF PG)
uK Premiere
Directors: Michael Ballhaus, Ciro Cappellari. Germany 2009.
115 mins. German with English subtitles.
A heartfelt tribute to a fascinating city, this cinematic essay is
woven from a series of encounters with the people of Berlin.
From a Turkish kiosk vendor to the Foreign Affairs Minister for
Germany, via fashion designers and fi lm students, these quirky
individuals allow us to glimpse their lives and reveal different
facets of the city. As the cinematographer for Rainer Werner
Fassbinder’s fi lms in the 1970s, Balhaus knows a thing or two
about capturing colour, light and texture on fi lm, and IN BERLIN
has an understated beauty that plays with the visual contrasts of
the urban landscape. Every scene pulses with movement, from
footsteps to transport, suggesting a city in continual fl ux. A city
symphony for the present day, this is an ideal cinematic trip for
lovers of Berlin as well as those with the urge to discover it.
➜ We are delighted to welcome Andrew Webber, author of Berlin in
the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography (CUP 2008), to introduce
the screening.
Print source: Bavaria Film International
Sunday 27 September, 3.45pm
Material (CFF 15)
Director: Thomas Heise. Germany 2009. 164 mins.
German with English subtitles.
uK Premiere
What makes up the material of history? The documentary
fi lmmaker Heise explores this question in a compelling collage
of fi lmed images of Berlin, spanning a 20-year period from
the late 1980s to the present. Drawing on his own archive of
footage and outtakes, Heise brings together striking scenes that
were never shown but yet lingered in his memory. In this way
he constructs a personal, cinematic vision of East Germany’s
transition into a unifi ed country after 44 years of postwar division
between East and West. From the mass demonstrations at the
Alexanderplatz in November 1989 to the demolition of the Palast
der Republik (the former seat of the East German parliament),
the fi lm bears witness to the past while avoiding simplistic
historical narratives. Instead, it focuses on traces, fragments and
notes, creating a space where stories and memories reverberate,
all to a haunting Charles Ives soundtrack.
Print source: Deckert Distribution
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uK Premiere
Monday 21 September, 6.00pm | Thursday 24 September, 1.30pm
triple Bill
Berlin Playground (CFF 15)
(HANS IM GLÜCK)
Director: Claudia Lehmann. Germany 2009.
60 mins. German with English subtitles.
Hans – a troubled musician awaiting
judgement on a drink driving offence – is
turning 40, having lived 20 years in the GDR
regime of old East Berlin and 20 years in
reunifi ed Berlin. As he leads us through his
old haunts, we glimpse the changing shape of
the city and discover Hans’s world. Too much
of a free spirit for the GDR regime and too
anti-materialist for the decadence of capitalist
Berlin (as well as resentful that the money
never fl owed his way), Hans has never really
fi tted in. A playful and touching documentary
portrait of a creative man caught up in the
divided history of the city.
Print source: Courtesy of Marc Minneker and
Claudia Lehmann.
the Berlin wall (CFF 15)
Director: Paul Cotter. Germany 2009. 15 mins.
German with English subtitles.
A poetic-realist fi lm touching on themes
of misunderstanding and xenophobia. A
75 year-old man one day silently begins to
rebuild the Berlin wall, attracting the help
of many volunteers – but no one knows his
true motives.
Print source: Kaminski Stiehm
the last wash (CFF 15)
Director: Ville Jankeri. Germany 2008. 15 mins.
German and Polish with English subtitles.
A black comedy about an unusual suicide
attempt. After 30 years of washing Berliners’
dirty clothes, a Polish laundry worker loads
her last wash...
Print source: Courtesy of Ville Jankeri
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the sPyinG
GAme:
BRitish CinemA
AnD the
seCRet stAte
on the 20th anniversary of the end of
the Cold War and the centenary of the
founding of mi5, the Festival explores
the adventure, intrigue, deceit and
disillusionment of the british spy
thriller: the great action chases,
from hitchcock’s the 39 steps to
Paul greengrass’ the bourne
supremacy; the heroes and antiheroes
of harry Palmer, george
smiley and bond; the acts of
betrayal by the Cambridge
spies; and the tawdry lives
and dull bureaucracy
evoked in many of the
best films. they have
captivated some
of our greatest
directors, writers
and actors, helping
us to explore
aspects of britain
and the british.
Sunday 20 September, 3.45pm
the 39 stePs (U)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Robert Donat,
Madeleine Carroll. UK 1935. 86 mins.
Faced with a murdered woman in his fl at, Robert Donat fl ees by
train to Scotland, is chased through the moors, enjoys a handcuffed
rendezvous with the beautiful Madeleine Carroll, and has a
fi nal encounter with ‘The Memory Man’. The fi lm that established
Hitchcock’s success and brought him to Hollyood’s attention,
its story of an innocent man on the run, pursued by police and
criminals, has infl uenced many but never been bettered.
Print source: Park Circus
Thursday 24 September, 8.00pm
the third Man (PG)
Director: Carol Reed. Starring: Joseph Cotten,
Alida Valli, Orson Welles. UK 1949. 104 mins.
Orson Welles thrives and captivates as black marketeer Harry
Lime in the sewers and alleys of postwar Vienna. This wonderful
collaboration between Graham Greene and director Carol Reed
works as a superb thriller, and with its extraordinary sense of
place ensnares us in crime and deceit: as Harry Lime tells Holly
Martins, “In Switerzland they had brotherly love, they had fi ve
hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock.” There’s no ‘spy’ as such, but it set
the tone for spy thrillers.
Print source: Optimum Releasing
Friday 18 September, 3.30pm
the secret agent (CFF U)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: John Gielgud,
Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll. UK 1936. 86 mins.
An early fi lm role for John Gielgud, playing
the British soldier sent to kill an enemy spy
and grappling with the moral dilemmas he
faces. Peter Lorre is his over-enthusiastic
assistant, Madeleine Carroll his new wife,
and Switzerland the location for messages
hidden in chocolate bars and exhilarating
chases. Adapted from Somerset Maugham’s
Ashenden spy stories, it looks forward to later adventures:
“You can call me R,” says Ashenden’s boss as he explains his
mission, the precursor to James Bond’s alphabetical minders.
Print source: BFI National Archive
“…timelessly enjoyable.
a true classic.”
Channel 4 Film (on 39 STEPS)
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Saturday 19 September, 12.00pm
the neXt oF Kin (CFF PG)
Director: Thorold Dickinson. Starring: Jack Hawkins,
Mervyn Johns, John Chandos. UK 1942. 102 mins.
“Careless talk costs lives” is the theme of this wartime drama,
in which Nazi agent Mervyn Johns discovers the details of a
planned commando raid through such innocent acts as a mother
talking about her son, a soldier giving details to his girlfriend,
and an offi cer leaving behind his briefcase. A fi lm that Churchill
initially tried to ban, fearing its impact on domestic morale, but in
the process providing superb publicity.
Print source: Imperial War Museum
the Man Between (CFF U)
Director: Carol Reed. Starring: James Mason, Claire Bloom,
Hildegard Knef. UK 1953. 100 mins.
Double Bill
Carol Reed’s powerful depiction of a divided and rubble-strewn,
post-war Berlin, with James Mason as the disreputable yet
urbane lawyer smuggling people between east and west, and
falling in love with the innocent English girl Claire Bloom.
Print source: Optimum Releasing
“in reed’s postwar cities, war had changed the
survivors, had made them different: they were tired,
ravaged opportunists who no longer felt or thought
like you and me.” Pauline Kael
“Espionage is treated with intelligence
and a disarming lack of sentimentality
or moralizing ...What finally impresses,
however, is the sheer seediness
of so much of the film”
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Thursday 24 September, 1.00pm
the sPy who
caMe in FroM the cold (CFF PG)
Director: Martin Ritt. Starring: Richard Burton,
Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner. UK 1965. 112 mins.
Martin Ritt’s superb adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel turned
away from the gimmicks, chases and lavish locations of the Bond
fi lms (which began in 1962) to focus on the personal rivalry,
disappointment and despair of more down-at-heel spies. Richard
Burton is the shabby British agent, washed up in a London desk job
and sent back to East Germany to search for ‘the mole’ in the British
secret service. Claire Bloom is the Communist librarian he befriends.
Print source: Paramount Pictures
Wednesday 23 September, 10.45am
the iPcress File (PG)
Director: Sidney J. Furie. Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green,
Guy Doleman. UK 1965. 109 mins.
Michael Caine is Harry Palmer, the working-class spy living in a
London bed sit, with tastes in ground coffee and imported food.
Adapted from Len Deighton’s best-selling novel – and produced
by Harry Saltzman and Albert R Broccoli as an alternative to
their Bond pictures – it’s an evocative 1960s package of gritty
London locations, colour supplement lifestyles (Deighton was
cookery correspondent for The Observer), and insolence in the
face of absurd bureaucracy.
Print source: Park Circus
Sunday 20 September, 8.30pm | Queen’s Theatre
the deadly aFFair (CFF 12A)
Director: Sidney Lumet. Starring: James Mason, Simone Signoret,
Maximilian Schell. UK 1966. 115 mins.
When a foreign offi ce diplomat supposedly commits suicide,
intelligence offi cer James Mason doubts the cause of death.
Based on John Le Carré’s fi rst novel A Call for the Dead, this
adaptation stands out for its photography of London (by Freddie
Young), intelligent script (by fi lm critic Paul Dehn, who also
adapted The Spy Who Came in From the Cold), and strong
performances: not only Mason, but Simone Signoret as the
diplomat’s wife, Harry Andrews as a retired police inspector,
and Roy Kinnear as a criminal pub landlord.
Contains moderate sex references and violence.
Print source: Filmbank / Sony Pictures Releasing
“it is not at all romantic about spying
and catching spies...and has one of the
best and best-directed casts you could
wish for.” Dilys Powell, Sunday Times
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Wednesday 23 September, 2.30pm
Double Bill
Monday 21 September, 8.30pm
Double Bill
Friday 18 Sep, 11.00am | Saturday 19 Sep, 10.30am | Monday 21
Sep, 10.45am | Tuesday 22 Sep, 10.00am | Wednesday 23 Sep,
11.00am | Thursday 24 Sep, 10.45am | Friday 25 Sep, 10.45am
tinKer, tailor, soldier, sPy (CFF PG)
Director: John Irvin. Starring: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston,
Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Hywel Bennett, Terence Rigby,
Ian Bannen, Beryl Reid. UK 1979. 350 mins (7 parts).
Alec Guinness was the perfect embodiment of retired spymaster
George Smiley, in this remarkable BBC adaptation of John Le
Carré. Loosely based on the scandal surrounding Kim Philby, it
evoked a world of fading Oxbridge ideals and heroism, set in the
seedy offi ces, hotel rooms, terraces and parks of 1970s London.
Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson and Beryl Reid are among those
delivering great performances as relics of a bygone era.
Print source: BFI National Archive
special offer: see all seven parts for £12! (£4 per episode
if bought separately)
traitor (CFF PG)
Director: Alan Bridges. Starring: John Le Mesurier, Jack Hedley,
Vincent Ball. UK 1971. 61 mins.
A former double agent is questioned by journalists in his decrepit
Moscow fl at, exploring the factors that could lead a man to
betray a country he still claims to love. The central character in
Dennis Potter’s early, rarely seen TV play combines aspects of
the lives of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, but
Potter’s script and John Le Mesurier’s superb performance (he
won a BAFTA as best actor) make for a powerful drama.
Print source: BFI National Archive
Blade on the Feather (CFF 15)
Director: Richard Loncraine. Starring: Donald Pleasence, Tom Conti,
Denholm Elliott, Kika Markham. UK 1980. 82 mins.
Another Potter original. Graduate student Tom Conti arrives at
the estate of retired Cambridge professor Donald Pleasance,
and asks over dinner if he knew the Cambridge Spies...
Strong performances from Conti, Pleasance,
and Denholm Elliot.
Print source: BFI National Archive
an englishMan aBroad (CFF 12A)
Director: John Schlesinger. Starring: Alan Bates, Coral Browne.
UK 1983. 60 mins.
Isolated in his Moscow fl at, Guy Burgess invites a visiting
actress from London for lunch and reminiscences of England.
Alan Bennett based his play on a meeting in Moscow between
Burgess and actress Coral Brown (who plays herself in the fi lm),
and sensitively explores themes of Englishness and exile. Alan
Bates is superb as the Englishman out of place.
Contains moderate language.
Print source: BFI National Archive
a question oF attriBution (CFF PG)
Director: John Schlesinger. Starring: James Fox, David Calder,
Geoffrey Palmer, Prunella Scales. UK 1992. 70 mins.
A companion piece to AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD, Alan Bennett’s
drama explores Anthony Blunt with equal perception and ingenuity:
art historian, director of the Courtauld Institute, and keeper of
the Queen’s pictures prior to being exposed as a spy. James Fox
gives a sympathetic portrait, while Prunella Scales’ Queen is as
captivating as Helen Mirren.
Print source: BFI National Archive
“Potter has a
reputation for being
brilliantly unorthodox
and provocative.
BlaDE ON THE
FEaTHEr neatly
illustrates why... the
proportions of a John
le Carré thriller as
arranged by Harold
Pinter.” The New York Times
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Tuesday 22 September, 4.00pm
deFence oF the realM (PG)
Director: David Drury. Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi,
Denholm Elliott. UK 1985. 96 mins.
A thriller that stands out for its superb sense of time and place (a
1980s London, in particular Fleet Street, on the brink of radical
change, and the arrival of the US nuclear bases in the Fens),
with an impressive debut from Gabriel Byrne and a particularly
effective performance from Denholm Elliot as a veteran political
correspondent. A precursor to the BBC’s
recent STATE OF PLAY.
Print source: Park Circus
Tuesday 22 September, 10.30am
goldeneye (15)
Director: Martin Campbell. Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean,
Izabella Scorupco. UK/USA 1995. 130 mins.
The fi lm that relaunched James Bond as a modern action hero.
The stunts dominate, but Pierce Brosnan conjures up some
old-fashioned matinee idol presence, and Judi Dench’s female
controller M points out the absurdity of it all: “I think you’re a
sexist, misogynous dinosaur.”
Print source: Park Circus
“Defence of the realm
reminded me sometimes
of all THE PrESiDENT’S
MEN, but this is a bleaker,
more pessimistic movie ...
it gets there with
intelligence and
a sharp, bitter
edge.”
Roger Ebert
“The very
definition of
escapist fare.”
Variety
Sunday 20 September, 10.45am
From the Festival with love. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: keep your eyes peeled for clues
and information as to the whereabouts of our secret spy screening,
in collaboration with Zoonami. First lead: www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
the Bourne suPreMacy (12A)
Director: Paul Greengrass. Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente,
Brian Cox. USA/Germany 2004. 108 mins.
Superb Hollywood debut by British director Paul Greengrass and
perhaps the best of the Bourne fi lms; a series of action chases
across Europe that rivals anything in modern cinema for adrenalin
and ingenuity, yet also brings back memories of some earlier
espionage movies. Could Jason Bourne be Richard Hannay?
Contains scenes of violence and intense action.
Print source: Universal Pictures
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evivals
Wednesday 23 September, 6.30pm
CITIZEN KANE (U)
Director: Orson Welles. Starring: Orson Welles,
Joseph Cotton, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead.
USA 1941. 120 mins.
From the opening sequence Orson Welles’ first
film – the most famous debut in all cinema –
is replete with stylistic tropes and flourishes
which evoke the German cinema of the ‘20s
and ‘30s. Long recognised as the ancestor
of the modern sound film, the fragmented
biography of an American newspaper magnate
is as sophisticated in the aural as the visual
dimension, marking the most striking technical
and stylistic advances since Fritz Lang’s M. We
present this landmark film in a new print of the
restored version.
Print source: BFI
New Print
Sunday 20 September, 8.50pm | Wednesday 23
September, 11.00am
THE GODFATHER (15)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring: Marlon
Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan.
USA 1972. 175 mins.
By almost any criterion, the most important
American film of the 1970s, transforming a
doorstop of pulp-fiction into an epic account
of the ineradicable penetration of American
life and institutions by organised crime.
A subversive saga of family values, THE
GODFATHER is grounded in a sure sense of
period and dramatises a particular historical
moment: when a younger Mafia generation
followed political, economic and cultural trends
and transferred their focus of operations to the
West Coast. Superbly crafted, with Brando in
the role which marked one of the greatest of
comebacks, and a star-making performance
from Pacino – here presented in a frame-byframe
digitally restored, remastered version.
Print source: Park Circus
Digital Restoration
Digital Restoration
Monday 21 September, 11.30pm
THE PIT AND
THE PENDULUM (cff 15)
Late night
SHOCKS!
Director: Roger Corman. Starring: Vincent Price,
Barbara Steel, John Kerr. USA 1961. 80 mins.
Shot in just 15 days by the master of bargainbasement
horror, Roger Corman – and scripted
by science fiction author Richard Matheson –
this was also the second of his films to be
inspired by the works of Poe. Replete with
sexual motifs and almost a checklist of Freud’s
observations on ‘the Uncanny’, the narrative
has Vincent Price as a tortured 16th century
Spanish nobleman obsessed by the fear that his
wife was entombed alive in his castle’s torture
chamber – a repetition of somewhat troubled
family history. Barbara Steele, playing his wife,
embodies all the vagaries and contradictions of
Poe’s quintessential female to perfection.
Friday 18 September, 11.20pm
MISHIMA: a
Director’s Cut
life in four chapters (15)
Director: Paul Schrader. Starring: Ken Ogata,
Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami. USA 1985. 121
mins. Japanese and English with English subtitles.
A newly restored, director’s cut of Paul
Schrader’s ambitious, radically stylised film
about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima: poet,
playwright, novelist, militarist, aesthete,
homosexual, whose passion to merge life
with art led to symbolic insurrection and
ritualistic suicide in 1970. Intercut with an
account of Mishima’s last day on earth – shot
in docudrama style, with a driving, romantic
score by Philip Glass – Schrader presents
black and white scenes from the author’s life
and self-contained, studio dramatisations
of four contrasting stories from the author’s
works, encapsulating his characteristic themes
of purity, beauty, mortality and annihilation.
Print Source: Courtesy of Paul Schrader
Print source: Park Circus
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JACK CARDIFF:
A TRIBUTE
Celebrated cinematographer and director
Jack Cardiff, who died earlier this year aged
94, is perhaps best known for his beautiful
and pioneering work in Technicolor.
During a career that spanned almost nine
decades (the son of music hall entertainers,
he started as a child actor in silent films)
Cardiff was awarded two Oscars, a BAFTA
Special Award and an OBE. Almost
universally considered one of the greatest
cinematographers of all time, Cardiff was
also known as ‘the man who makes women
look beautiful’. He was Marilyn Monroe’s
favoured cinematographer, as well as
having worked with Katherine Hepburn,
Ava Gardner, and Audrey Hepburn.
In tribute to Jack Cardiff’s outstanding
contribution to filmmaking, we will be
screening three of his films and
hosting a special tribute evening.
Jack Cardiff
(1914-2009)
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Saturday 19 September, 1.15pm | Tuesday 22 September, 3.15pm
THE RED SHOES (cff U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring:
Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Jean Short.
UK 1948. 133 mins.
Loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about
a pair of enchanted crimson ballet slippers, THE RED SHOES
follows the beautiful Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), a young
socialite who loves ballet, the rising composer Julian Craster
(Marius Goring) whom she loves, and her dictatorial director,
Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). A meditation on the
mutually exclusive demands of unstoppable artistic drive and
obsessive romantic love – here presented in the first UK digital
screening of the recently restored classic – THE RED SHOES is
regularly cited as one of the most beautiful films of all time.
➜ Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.
Print source: Park Circus
Monday 21 September, 3.45pm
Digital Restoration
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring:
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Richard Attenborough, Kathleen Byron,
Robert Coote. UK 1946. 104 mins.
Emerging from a commission for a propaganda feature to
help ease tensions in Anglo-American wartime relations, this
tale tells of a young airman (David Niven) who miraculously
survives a leap from his blazing bomber without a parachute
after falling in love with the voice of an American radio
operator (Kim Hunter). When officials in the ‘other world’
realise their mistake, they despatch an angel to collect
him, and he must argue for his life before a celestial court.
A flamboyant tale of the power of love versus the ‘powers
that be’, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH is Powell and
Pressburger’s most romantic and magical film.
➜ Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.
Print source: BFI
Sunday 20 September, 1.15pm
BLACK NARCISSUS (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Deborah
Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar. UK 1947. 100 mins.
A taut melodrama of unusually fierce passions and barely
contained erotic tension, BLACK NARCISSUS, for which
Cardiff won his first Oscar for ‘Best Cinematography’, tells
the tale of a group of Anglo-Catholic nuns who open a school
and hospital in a remote Himalayan community. As they
face a series of obstacles from the villagers and a hostile
environment, tensions begin to grow. In its depiction of young
women torn between duty and passion, BLACK NARCISSUS
shares common elements with THE RED SHOES.
➜ Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.
Print source: BFI
“Simplicity…that’s the secret of good lighting and good cinematography.
Always keep it simple.” Jack Cardiff
Tuesday 22 September, 6.30pm
Special Event
JACK CARDIFF: PAINTER
WITH LIGHT
An evening with film critic and historian
Ian Christie
This special Festival tribute reveals the influences behind
Cardiff’s stunning, Oscar-winning cinematography (for by
Powell and Pressburger’s BLACK NARCISSUS) and, with clips
from some of his greatest films, explores the work that made
his name synonymous with Technicolor photography.
➜ The evening is presented by Ian Christie, Anniversary Professor of
Film and Media History at Birkbeck University of London, co-founder of
the international review Film Studies and author of several books on
cinema, including Arrows of Desire: The Fillms of Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger.
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miKe AnD GeoRGe
KuChAR:
Lust FoR
eCstAsy
“it glows with the embers of
desire! it smokes with the
revelation of men and women
longing for robust temptations
that will make them sizzle into
maturity with a furnace-blast of
unrestrained animalism. a film
for young and old to enjoy.”
George Kuchar on PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF
long before Youtube, there were
the outrageous, no-budget movies
of underground filmmaking twins
mike and george Kuchar. in the
early 1960s, alongside andy
Warhol, the Kuchar brothers
shaped the New York underground
film scene. Known as the ‘8mm mozarts’, their films were
noticeably different from other underground films of the
time – wildly funny, but also human and vulnerable. despite
having high profile fans, the Kuchars remain largely unknown
– they were only ambitious to make movies, not to be famous.
“Big…rousing…
Memorable! The incredible war saga
of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle
in the Botanical Gardens. Hear lloyd Thorner
sing the title song. you’ll come out whistling
from both ends.” George Kuchar on THE NAKED AND THE NUDE
the Cambridge Film Festival offers the opportunity
to sample a cornucopia of rare, classic films by the
brothers – some never before seen in the UK – along
with Jennifer Kroot’s revealing, sympathetic portrait
of mike and george, it Came From KUChar.
Thursday 24 September, 9.00pm
MiKe & george
Kuchar PrograMMe 1
(CFF 15) 82 mins
the naKed and the nude
Director: George Kuchar. USA 1957. 36 mins.
The oldest surviving Kuchar mini-epic,
this patriotic WWII period piece (made by
high schoolers) chronicles the desires and
destinies of carnal appetites on the front line.
Pussy on a hot tin rooF
Directors: George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar. USA 1961.
14 mins.
The salacious short that caused the Kuchars’ banishment
from meetings of the New York Eight Millimeter Motion
Picture Club.
the conFessions oF BaBette
Director: George Kuchar. USA 1963. 15 mins.
An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar in which Babette tells
all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.
hold Me while i’M naKed
Director: George Kuchar. USA 1966. 17 mins.
A camp classic, in which the sudden, unplanned departure
of lead actress Donna Kernes due to excessive shower
scenes swiftly became the subject of the fi lm.
Print source: Anthology Film Archive, New York / LUX
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Friday 25 September, 9.00pm
MiKe & george Kuchar
PrograMMe 2 (CFF 15) 82 mins
MidsuMMer’s nightMare
Director: Mike Kuchar. USA 2008. 13 mins.
A surreal exploration of a character with a creepy doll and a
character in a cow mask exploring a redwood forest.
a widow’s weB
Director: Mike Kuchar. USA 1997. 14 mins.
Over-the-top melodrama about a mother and daughter confused
about men and money. Fabulously schlocky dialogue, with an
ending that is totally outrageous and perverse.
a Fatal desire
Director: George Kuchar. USA 2004. 37 mins.
A favourite from George’s class video productions. An aspiring
singer goes to Florida with her aunt and mother – both played by
plastic skeletons, with dialogue dubbed in a kung fu style. They
encounter trailer trash, glamorous nightclubs and meteorology.
teMPle oF torMent
Director: George Kuchar. USA 2006. 18 mins.
Another summer travel video. George confronts his Catholic
upbringing and sexual shame by talking back to Mother
Angelica – Catholic TV host and nun – intercut with other New
York outings and dinner parties.
Print source: Courtesy of Mike and George Kuchar
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Friday 25 September, 11.30pm
MiKe & george Kuchar
PrograMMe 3 (CFF 18) 82 mins
a reason to live
Director: George Kuchar. USA 1976. 30 mins.
This fi lm is about depression, although it’s
not that depressing. Shot in San Francisco
and Central Oklahoma with a cast of one
man and four women, it features crushing
emotions against a massive meteorological
background that brings inspiration and
terror to the characters involved.
Thursday 24 September, 6.30pm
it caMe FroM Kuchar (CFF 15)
Director: Jennifer M. Kroot. USA 2009. 86 mins.
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious and touching story of
artistic obsession, compulsion and inspiration. Growing up in
the Bronx in the 1950s, George and Mike became so obsessed
with Hollywood melodramas they began making their own with
their aunt’s 8mm camera, using friends and family as actors.
Early Kuchar titles featured in this fi lm include I WAS A TEENAGE
RUMPOT and BORN OF THE WIND. Exerting a major infl uence
on the New York underground scene of the 1960s, they have
gone on to inspire generations of fi lmmakers, including John
Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne
Wang (all interviewed in this fi lm). Affectionately directed by
one of George’s former students, Jennifer M. Kroot, IT CAME
FROM KUCHAR introduces the amazing oeuvre of the Kuchars,
interweaving the brothers’ lives, their admirers, a history of
underground fi lm and a ‘greatest hits’ of Kuchar clips into a
mesmerizing stream-of-consciousness tale.
➜ We are delighted to host an online Q&A with the Kuchar bros and
director Jennifer M. Kroot live from San Francisco.
Print source: Tigerlilly Pictures
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“Sexual repression/shame, binge
eating, fecal mishaps and 1970s,
SF melodrama. it’s got a couple of
hilarious scenes and is odd and
almost sexy. it’s classic ‘70s Kuchar.”
Jennifer M. Kroot on A REASON TO LIVE
lust For ecstasy: a draMa oF oBsessions in
the language oF sensationalisM
Director: George Kuchar. Starring: Donna Kerness, Bob Cowan,
Mike Kuchar, Cynthia Mailman. USA 1963. 52 mins.
“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last
fi lm…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I
arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make
chopped meat out of the performances and the story… Yes, LUST FOR
ECSTASY is my subconscious, my own naked
lusts that sweep across the screen in 8mm and
colour with full-fi delity sound.” George Kuchar
Print source: Anthology Film Archive, New York
“The Kuchar twins have
become living legends in
the world of experimental
film” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

mARK
BosWeLL:
the ARt oF
novA-Kino
“Nova-Kino is an investigation
into the political structure of
the past, present, and future”
mark boswell studied film and film theory at
various institutions in switzerland, France,
germany, and the Usa from 1986-1992 and is
the author of the Nova-Kino manifesto. boswell
founded Nova-Kino in 1994 in miami beach,
Florida in order to align avant-garde cinema
conceptually, as well as technically, with the
emerging digital revolution. the first Nova-Kino
result was a five minute super 8 film entitled
KUltKiNo that premiered in 1996 at the
aNti-Film Festival.
“Nova-Kino is… a technologically
advanced medium that incorporates
digital, celluloid, analog, and
pseudo-redundant motion picture
technologies that ensomme,
actualize the free market mantra of
‘the democratization of technology.’”
➜ We are delighted to
welcome director
Mark Boswell for a Q&A
following the screening.
Saturday 26 September, 6.30pm
MarK Boswell PrograMMe (CFF 15) 55 mins
ussa: secret Manual oF the soviet
PolitBurger
Director: Mark Boswell. USA 2001. 7 mins.
A crypto-documentary about the history of the hamburger as a
Soviet conspiracy.
agent orange
Director: Mark Boswell. USA 2002. 5 mins.
AGENT ORANGE is the toxic consequence of the digital
conversion of avant-garde cinema, not only addressing the
problems of the canon, but the current political crisis brought to
a head by 9/11.
deeP Blue
Director: Mark Boswell. USA 2003. 8 mins.
A diplomat of the ‘dark fi bre’ conspiracy is sent to space to play
the IBM computer ‘Deep Blue’ in a chess match.
“Nova-Kino’s firebrand critique of Capitalism, americanism, and
Technotopia will make its acceptance into the traditional venues of
exhibition, distribution, and production DiFFiCUlT – but not impossible”
Quotes taken from The Nova-Kino Manifesto
the end oF coPenhagen
Director: Mark Boswell. USA 2004. 9 mins.
A disillusioned intelligence offi cer (Frank Sinatra) from a 1960s
classic American conspiracy fi lm wakes up in the year 2004 to
fi nd himself on the edge of an upcoming apocalypse.
“Nova-Kino is... the simultaneous raconteur
of the past and prophet of the present”
JFK
Director: Mark Boswell.
USA 2005. 5 mins.
A reel-to-reel tape recorder projected onto screen – plus live
performative interaction with fi lmmaker and audience.
the st. PetersBurg ParadoX
Director: Mark Boswell. USA 2007. 8 mins.
A gambling theory invented by a Swiss mathematician is
the crux of this found-footage experiment that appropriates
images from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, ONE PLUS ONE, and
Scorsese’s CASINO.
unKnown unKnown(s)
Director: Mark Boswell. USA 2009. 13 mins.
A Dialogue between fi lm history and art theory, utilising classic
scenes from iconic 60s cinema, re-contextualised through the
usage of subtitles that parallel and/or contradict the original intent.
Print source: Courtesy of Mark Boswell
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DANNY LYON: AMERICAN LIFE
Danny Lyon is a self-taught, American
photographer and filmmaker and also
an accomplished writer, primarily of
accompanying text for his photographs. At a
time when picture magazines were still the holy
grail for young photographers, Lyon began his
career as the first staff photographer for the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
His first book, the classic Bikeriders – made
after spending more than two years as a
member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang –
was not just a pioneering example of New
Journalism but, as he later described it, an
attempt “to destroy Life magazine” and what he
saw as its anodyne vision of American life.
Saturday 26 September, 4.00pm
DANNY LYON programme (CFF 15) 93 mins
Alongside his photographic work Danny Lyon has produced
an impressive cinematographic oeuvre, best described as
‘essay films’ – closer to his photo book work than to regular
documentaries. Here we have the pleasure of showing three
of his most recent films, which visit two of his regular subjects,
his family and outsiders.
BORN TO FILM
Director: Danny Lyon. USA 1982. 33 mins.
BORN TO FILM is an intimately autobiographical work – film
as family and social history, but about “human continuity, the
power of instinct to survive, the grace that love and play bring
to it, the wonder of being alive”.
TWO FATHERS
Director: Danny Lyon. USA 2005. 30 mins.
In this sequel, Raphael, the child star of BORN TO FILM is now
27 years old and returns to his father, Danny Lyon’s farm to plant
corn and “experience fatherhood”, intercut with the photographic
world of his grandfather Ernst, Germany of the 1920s.
MURDERERS
Director: Danny Lyon. USA 2006. 30 mins.
MURDERERS tells the story of five murderers in three American
states, one of whom explains, after beating someone with a
baseball bat, “I didn’t kill him… he died on his own”. It includes
a devastating interview with Michael Guzman, who appeared as
a teenager in Lyon’s film WILLIE.
Print source: Bleak Beauty Films
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small is beautiful. With a mix of short features, animation, documentary and
experimental films from around the globe, shortFusion presents a selection of
mini-masterpieces by some of the world’s hottest new filmmaking talents.
Thursday 24 September, 11.15pm
GLOBAL ROADS (CFF 12A) 102 mins
the last decade has seen a change in the nature of war and conflict.
a new generation of filmmakers are showing an increasing awareness
of the fear of terrorism. this highly political programme illustrates the
way young people view our conflicted 21st century world with
poignancy and beauty.
Contains moderate violence.
twist oF Fate
Director: Naren Multani. India.
6 mins.
A short fi lm that points to the irony of
being a human target in the world of
who-knows-when-they-might-strike
terror acts.
gaZa-london
Director: Dima Hamdan. UK.
15 mins.
The agonising wait of a Palestinian
student in London, desperate to
hear from his mother who is stuck in
Gaza during the Israeli operation of
January 2009.
why saBreen?
(lesh saBreen?)
Director: Muayad Alayan. Palestine.
20 mins.
Set in a Palestinian neighbourhood
in Jerusalem, WHY SABREEN? tells
the story of two young lovers as they
navigate dreams and dead-ends in
their socially conservative and Israelicontrolled
community.
on the road to tel aviv
Director: Khen Shalem. Israel. 15 mins.
A dramatic story (with comedic
elements) that shows how, under the
tense reality of war and terror, enemies
can sometimes fi nd themselves in the
same boat (or on the same bus).
letter hoMe
Director: Ken Pak. Canada. 10 mins.
In times of trouble, home is only a
letter away.
Princes oF Mars
(i PrinciPi di Marte)
Director: Giuseppe Borzone. Italy. 18 mins.
In 1969, a boy and a girl kill a
policeman. They are forced to confront
the consequences of violence and,
ultimately, the revenge of the police.
MeMory Places
Director: Piotr Cieplak. UK. 18 mins.
Made up of photographic stills depicting
the Rwandan genocide in 1994, this
fi lm explores the memorials of fi re and
the ways in which they function in the
Rwandan landscape, as well as the ways
outsiders experience them.
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Saturday 19 September, 1.30pm
BEST OF BRITISH (CFF 15) 108 mins
a chance to delve into the imagination of some of the most talented British
directors. a mature selection of grit and realism from filmmakers not
afraid to raise challenging questions.
Boy
Director: Joe Morris. UK. 15 mins.
A sensitive look at the struggle of a
lonely man’s fi ght against unwanted
sexual desires.
hiP hiP hooray
Director: Lynsey Miller. UK. 8 mins.
A birthday. A rabbit. A secret admirer. Can
Pippa have a Happy Birthday?
quietus
Director: George Taylor. UK. 14 mins.
Two women. One crime. Nineteen cats. The
only witnesses to Mrs Rogers’ hideous death
are her pets and they aren’t talking.
girlliKeMe
Director: Rowland Jobson. UK. 13 mins.
Lucy is young, Lucy is damaged, Lucy is
pretty and Lucy likes to play. Texting, she
arranges to meet a boy, Tony, ‘age 16’.
Finding hoMe
Director: Stefano Margaritelli. UK. 11 mins.
Darren and Tom aspire to leave predictable
lives in search of their estranged mother.
However, such dreams of leaving are only
possible if they can raise the required cash.
As Darren learns of his brother’s success and
the conditions the money brings with it, he is
left with only one choice.
washdays
Director: Simon Neal. UK. 11 mins.
Kyle is 11 and has a problem; he’s a
bed wetter. His mum thinks making him
wash his own sheets will cure him, but it
only makes him late for school. When she
writes a note stating the unvarnished truth,
he bunks off and goes in search of his
own solution.
tender
Director: Deborah Haywood. UK. 23 mins.
When Liam wins some money on a
scratch card, Alisha is suddenly interested,
and for a while life outside home is good
for Liam. But when he uses the money to try
and solve his mum’s problems, things get
worse for everybody.
all day BreaKFast
Director: Julian Kerridge. UK. 13 mins.
Daryl is 19 and going nowhere fast. His
mother antagonises him; his ‘not-quite
girlfriend’ Juliet has big dreams, and then
there’s the boat. The huge ferry that has
beached on the shore near his home. That
massive hulk of metal that haunts him and
taunts him to leave.
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Saturday 19 September, 11.00pm | Friday 25 September, 11.00pm
NIGHTTIME FABLES (CFF 18) 123 mins
themes of escaping the norm are explored with violent relish. Philosophical
fights, an escaped animal at the zoo, and a suicidal pupil show what happens
when the boundaries of the social order are violated. not for the faint-hearted.
Monday 21 September, 11.30pm | Sunday 27 September, 11.00am
LOVE DOES GROW ON TREES (CFF 15) 81 mins
a refreshing programme of shorts exploring the weird and wonderful world of love
and the unexpected places you find it. a floating girl, the land of the dead, the
secrets of dreams and a stash of porn all reveal that love can grow on trees.
sePteMBer
Director: Esther May Campbell. UK. 21 mins.
In an in-between world of fl yovers, grass verges
and dead ends, where the motorway hum
serves as a constant reminder of the speed of
other lives, Marvin is not going anywhere. Into
this forgotten corner of English countryside and
motorway services arrives an extraordinary
adolescent, changing his world forever.
casual
Director: Aitor Echeverría. Spain. 9 mins.
As the district wakes up, the music of
everyday actions shows how the lives of the
inhabitants coincide.
Funeral Blues
Director: Stephan George. UK. 11 mins.
Nicholas has the unusual habit of attending
funerals of people he doesn’t know. When he
meets Marlene, a woman with the same habit,
an incredible and tragic journey starts…
love & roadKill
Director: John David Allen. USA. 14 mins.
A scenic ride through the country takes an
unexpected turn, resulting in a rare moment
of refl ection on life and death for an urban
executive woman.
love does grow on trees
Director: Bevan Walsh. UK. 10 mins.
A coming of age comedy about a teenage
boy whose life is thrown into chaos when
he discovers porn magazines, girls and the
embarrassment that goes with both.
all My dreaMs on vhs
Director: Timothy X Atack. UK. 14 mins.
James never misses his dreams – he records
them straight to VHS using Dreamspoon wireless
technology. But when a work colleague, Erica,
stops by one evening, she finds something
surprising amongst his collection. If you hoard your
dreams, someone is going to want to watch them.
necroMance
Director: Kerri Davenport-Burton. USA. 5 mins.
A nursery rhyme for the twisted. A
schoolboy fi nds a more interesting but
fatal use for his homework.
transgress
Director: Leanne Welham. UK. 13 mins.
Driving home one night in London, a
woman accidentally hits a man who
shouldn’t be there.
interPretation
Director: Lin Oeding. USA. 8 mins.
A romantic couple’s brief encounter with
several philosophical thugs unfolds in an
unusual way.
satisFaction
Director: Aasaf Ainapore. UK/USA. 8 mins.
An offence has been caused. Offence
has been taken. In downtown LA, two men
journey to a meeting.
huManity (de’Mut)
Director: Binh Le. Germany. 11 mins.
A fi lm about our desires and wishes. And
about the purpose of love.
Zoo
Director: Roberto Rôa. Brazil. 15 mins.
Upon arriving at the zoo, the animal dealer
realises that things are escaping out of his
control – and his comprehension.
JuMP
Director: Louisa Fielden. UK. 4 mins.
Standing on top of sagging school roof, an
obese headmaster attempts to talk down
his latest suicidal pupil.
air
Director: Luke Davies. USA. 19 mins.
The journey of a young man traversing
a deserted road intersects with that of a
young boy searching for a ride to town,
ultimately unlocking a mystery seemingly
playing out in a timeless space.
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claMP and grind
Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah. UK. 5 mins.
A black comedy about an ordinary man
with superhero aspirations, who takes to
the streets in a cape to rid the world of
wheel clamps.
disciPline (disZiPlin)
Director: Jacob Hendriks. Germany. 3 mins.
You can’t fi ght the discipline…
charlie thistle
Director: Bragi Schut Jr. USA. 15 mins.
Charlie Thistle dreams of a better world,
a world in colour, a world in which trees
grow indoors and sidewalks are made
of grass.
the Jesus sPoon
Director: Craig Fox. Australia. 7 mins.
A short comedy about two boys, a dog turd
and a decorative spoon that may, or may not,
have magical culinary powers!
silent treatMent
Director: Jonathan Rothell. USA. 7 mins.
A comedy short about life without sound.
dhelia and george
Director: Shelly Love. UK. 3 mins.
A love story based on the mating ritual
of birds and humans.
Thursday 17 September, 11.00pm
SHORT INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES (12A) 119 mins
this eclectic selection of short documentaries presents a refreshing outlook on the political and social aspects of
life (and death) on earth, both past and present.
Contains references to sexual violence.
grandMother’s FootstePs a stiFF uPPer liP the Jung Files
Director: Charlotte Wassermann. UK. 17 mins.
Filmmaker Charlotte Wassermann joins her
Austrian Jewish grandmother Edith on a
bittersweet fi nal journey to Vienna, a city
Edith fl ed as a child. They draw back the
curtains on distant memories of Edith’s long
Directors: Mike Maroney, Casper Hoskins. UK.
30 mins.
This short documentary follows Mr Dave
Hill’s progress from fresh-faced Essex boy
to his full handlebar moustache wearing
moment of glory representing his country at
(die archives von c.g Jung)
Director: Gemma Ventura. Spain. 16 mins.
A woman tells the incredible story of her
parents to a journalist who is investigating
the tragic consequences of Carl Gustav
Jung’s regressive hypnosis practices.
forgotten childhood under Nazi occupation. the Olympics of facial hair: The 2007 World
Born without a Beat
Beard and Moustache Championships.
catching sundance
Director: Oliver Riley-Smith. UK. 12 mins.
Director: George Wharmby. UK. 10 mins. doco BanKsy
This revealing and intimate documentary
A personal look into small-town eccentricity.
George Wharmby is on a journey to find a man
he has known his whole life: the self-professed
Dark Peak Cowboy, The Sundance Kid.
nisa
Director: Benet Roman. Spain. 10 mins.
Director: Dominic Wade. UK. 5 mins.
Filmmaker Dominic Wade tries to get to the
bottom of the myths behind graffi ti artist
Banksy, by interviewing people who have
been affected by his work.
out oF sPace
follows the journey of Lenny, a deaf party
animal, as she searches for the perfect
beat. Travelling to Holland, we are taken
to a groundbreaking, multi-sensory music
event designed for the hard of hearing, the
deaf rave.
In this documentary short, various Moroccan Director: Anna Cady. UK. 3 mins.
Burning Man
women – ranging from an illiterate rural OUT OF SPACE presents the dichotomy of Director: Nicholas MacNider. USA. 16mins.
woman to a fi lm director – give fi rst-person
accounts of their present situation, all
sharing their hopes, lives, and problems.
Louisa’s desire to return to her chair and her
body’s struggle to remain free in the water.
A travelogue set in the Burning Man Festival
in the USA, fi lled with colour, sunlight and
excitement.
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Saturday 26 September, 1.30pm
ANIMATED SHORTS (U) 96 mins
some eye-opening animation from around the globe. this programme promises
to tantalise the senses, showcasing films from first-time animators as well as
established artists who have inspired and influenced a new generation.
the girl with liquid eyes
Directors: Adam Smith, Charlotte Boulay-
Goldsmith. UK. 5 mins.
THE GIRL WITH THE LIQUID EYES is a
rhyming tale about love and loss.
aniMated aMerican
Directors: James Baker, Joe Haidar. USA. 15 mins.
A toon-hating executive has a hare-raising
experience when he meets an out of work
toon rabbit.
unravel
Director: Caroline Huf. Australia. 7 mins.
An experimental stop-motion animation of
emotional unravelling which reveals itself
through the movement of found objects.
They transform into strange forms that
seem to be trying to tell us something –
even in reveries, it seems, realities rise
to the surface of our consciousness to be
confronted.
in search oF the
colours
Will Kim. USA. 9 mins.
In this animated documentary fi lm, Will Kim
uses various hand-drawn and painterly
animation techniques to tell a story of his
own experiences from this home for people
with developmental disabilities.
8:15
Director: Jardine Sage. UK. 6 mins.
In a world ravaged by war, two boys fi nd
pieces of rubbish which they use to create
worlds of imagination.
unPredictaBle Behaviour
Directors: Pasha Shapiro, Ernst Weber.
Germany/USA. 6 mins.
In six short minutes, Sherlock Holmes and
Dr. Watson unravel the mystery of Jack the
Ripper for good, delivering an ending that is
haunting, unnerving, and well, unpredictable.
stay in My MeMory
Director: Grace Lee. UK. 4 mins.
Inspired by a song about loss of a loved one,
the fi lm deals with loneliness and the need
to make a fresh start. A remarkable debut by
Grace Lee, who is just 14.
the wolFMan
Director: Tim Hope. UK. 6 mins.
In the middle of woods inhabited by wolves,
an astrologer imagines what it would be
like to be a werewolf, running and howling
through the woods in a schizophrenic blur
instead of sitting in his home watching
videos. Then the moon calls to him.
Please say soMething
Director: David O’Reilly. Ireland/Germany. 10 mins.
A computer animation that depicts a
mouse and a cat in a marriage that seems
troubled and takes place in various times,
past and future.
BlueBird
Director: Monika Umba. UK. 2 mins.
A man says there is a bluebird in his heart.
He tries to conceal it and not to let anybody
see it. He only lets it out at night sometimes,
when everybody is asleep. Then he puts it
back in his heart.
circles
Director: Jonathan Shohet. Israel. 7 mins.
Structured around an insomniac’s
journey through the deserted Jerusalem
night, this fi lm is an abstract exploration
of the love-hate relationship between
man, community and urban technology.
sMile
Director: Ian Clark. UK. 7 mins.
In a Victorian studio, a fi rst-time model
poses for a callous photographer. Their
privacy is soon to be interrupted by the
most unlikely voyeurs.
PushKin
Director: Trevor Hardy. UK. 5 mins.
Poor Mrs Dombilard. Her cat Pushkin has
gone missing. Where is her little darling?
Will she ever see him again?
shut eye hotel
Director: Bill Plympton. USA. 7 mins.
A fi lm noir murder mystery that takes place
in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the
gruesome murders they become the victims
of this evil force. What JAWS did
to swimming, SHUT EYE HOTEL will do
for sleeping.
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Thursday 24 September, 4.00pm
SCREEN EAST
DIGITAL SHORTS (CFF 15) 50 mins
digital shorts is a uK-wide scheme to find and develop new and upcoming
filmmaking talent and enable them to make innovative short films using digital
technology. screen east is delighted to present the films from the 2008 scheme.
tenner
Director: David O’Neill. UK. 12 mins.
Homer’s violent attack on a shopkeeper
has serious consequences, but will an
electronic tag stop him from taking the
ultimate revenge?
shadows and dust
Director: Jon Dunleavy. UK. 5 mins.
When a greedy young girl follows the tooth
fairy into the forest in search of riches, a
dark and twisted journey ensues.
JeroMe’s weaKness
Director: Matthew McGuchan. UK. 11 mins.
A grief-stricken scientist has detected the
spirit of his dead son, attached to the boy’s
mother. In his lab, he hopes to transfer this
vital essence into a new body...
honour Me
Director: Alex Tweddle. UK. 15 mins.
Abused by her family, forced into
marriage, pregnant at 13 then hunted
down for violating her family’s honour.
HONOUR ME is the shocking true story
of Sameem Ali’s struggle to break free
from her past.
JacoB
Director: Keith Wilson-Singer. UK. 7 mins.
Young Jacob’s fantasy world of superheroes
is shattered when his overbearing,
obsessive compulsive, mother burns his
precious comics and toys. Justice must
be served, and so he sets out for
vengeance the only way he knows how...
by becoming a superhero!
➜ Following the screening, Digital Shorts Executive Producer Sam Burton will lead a Q&A
with one of the filmmakers and talk about the 2009/10 scheme.
Friday 18 September, 11.00pm | Wednesday 23 September, 11.30pm
TRIDENTFEST (CFF 18) 68 mins
Project trident presents a late night selection of short films
showcasing resourceful no-budget filmmaking at its most imaginative. subjects
range from shocking horror to touching drama to even more shocking horror...
Blood, guts, love, hate, birth and several deaths.
Mr silverFace noPe KerPlunK
Director: Carl Peck. UK. 4 mins.
A polite and well mannered
household crumbles in the
(silver) face of utter terror.
Director: Allan Melia. UK.
13 mins.
A short documentary
following a day in the life of
Director: Andrzej Sosnowski.
UK. 11 mins.
A no-budget homage to
Jason Statham’s CRANK.
Christopher, a projectionist
head oF
internal aFFairs
dePartMent
with an unusual and
Directors: Andrzej Sosnowski,
Director: Christian Lapidge. misunderstood hobby. Simon Panrucker. UK. 10 mins.
UK. 3 mins
away
George is a reliable but
A brilliant scientist lives Director: Ryd Cook. UK. 6 mins. unpopular accountant
to regret cheating his
wife’s death.
legion oF
Plotters
Director: Thom Martin. UK.
10 mins.
A mild-mannered shop
worker begins to unravel
a terrible plot against his
wellbeing.
Low-key drama of a
young boy who fl ees the
family home.
stare Bear
Director: Simon Panrucker.
UK. 3 mins.
A stern piece of garden
furniture fi nally meets
his match.
whose dull life is changed
forever when he makes an
unwise meal-time decision.
casual Friday
Director: Carl Peck. UK.
8 mins.
The second horrific
instalment of the Mr
Silverface franchise sees our
‘hero’ destroying the mind of
a meek office worker.
➜ We are delighted to welcome the filmmakers to introduce the screenings.
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Friday 25 September, 1.30pm
THE BEST OF THE CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL
SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL 2009 (CFF 15) 84 mins
the pick of the crop from around the world, freshly plucked from the 2008
cambridge super 8 Film Festival – which this year featured 98 short films and
more than 60 world, international, european and uK premieres.
rainy day
Director: Andrés Victorero Rey. Spain. 3 mins.
Documentary about a rainy day in the city of
Santiago de Compostela, where rain is art.
BricK lane MeMory
Director: Jason Edwards. UK. 2 mins.
A documentary showing a part of London now
lost or changed forever – the area around
Brick Lane where anything and everything
could be sold on Sundays.
us (nous)
Director: Oliver Hems. France. 12 mins.
A police offi cer searches a man’s apartment
and enters the life of someone who has been
forgotten by everyone.
die schneider KranKheit
Director: Javier Chillón. Spain. 10 mins.
The fi fties: a Soviet space shuttle crashes
in West Germany. The only passenger, a
chimpanzee cosmonaut, spreads a deadly
virus all over the country...
Moving on
Director: Erin Celeste Weisgerber. Canada. 4 mins.
“In 2008 I decided to move across the country
from Edmonton to Montreal...” Combining
hand- and lab-processed fi lm shot in
Edmonton shortly before leaving, with footage
shot in Montreal, this fi lm is a record of that
transition.
code grey
Director: Rob Wickings. UK. 4 mins.
A bomb disposal expert has a major problem
when facing the ‘cut the red wire’ scenario –
what do you do when you’ve been shot in gritty
monochrome and can’t tell which wire’s which?
i reMeMBer venice, caliFornia
Director: Will O’Loughlen. USA. 2 mins.
A mini-documentary / experimental short
fi lm-poem about a day in Venice, California –
shot in a single afternoon in March 2007 and
narrated and edited in September 2008.
gone Fishin’?
Director: Geoff Wolfenden. UK. 3 mins.
A short comedy which turns an everyday
activity, enjoyed by millions, upside down –
with sinister consequences!
golden Beach
Director: Miklos Csoka. Hungary. 4 mins.
The idylls of home movies don’t show reality all
the time. We are the creators of our memories.
the Penalty BoX
Directors: Arthur Franck, Oskar Forsten.
Finland. 9 mins.
The penalty box has become a chair of
confession where senior hockey players spill
their guts about fi rst loves, divorce and fi nding
a new love.
dead Joe
Director: John Aldridge. UK. 5 mins.
A horribly deformed private detective in
search of stolen drugs and money goes on a
drink and drugs binge – then inadvertently
shoots lots of innocent people while
hallucinating winged skulls.
don’t tell My Mother
Director: Sarah Moon Howe. Belgium.
26 mins.
“I have been doing striptease since I
was 22 years old. I wanted to explore
my femininity through the gaze of others.
I wanted to burn my wings, feel fear, and
at the end of each night, come out of it
alive.” This fi lm is an eyewitness account,
a slice of life.
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caMBridgeshire FilM consortiuM: young
critics at the caMBridge FilM Festival
Are you passionate about writing about fi lm? Do you enjoy
watching movies and reading reviews? If you are a young person
in full time education, why not write for the Cambridge Film
Festival? Your review could be published in the Festival Daily
newspaper and on the Festival website. You might even win a
prize as BEST YOUNG CRITIC!
Categories: Primary (up to age 11): 50-150 words l Secondary
(12-15 years): 200 words l 16-18 years and Undergraduates:
250 words
Prizes sponsored by
Submit your review to
daily@cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
Supported by Film Studies
at Anglia Ruskin University
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CAmBRiDGeshiRe
FiLm ConsoRtium
eDuCAtion events
www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org
Bookings: 01223 579 127 / gertrud.h@picturehouses.co.uk
(unless otherwise stated)
Saturday 19 September | 11.00am – 1.00pm
i Made this
Free family event
Watch fi lms on the big screen produced by young people.
They will include one-minute fi lms, WAR OF MEMORIES, THE
MACHINE, THE FREAKSHOW MURDER, WE ARE DETECTIVES,
plus delightful animations, documentaries and fi lm dramas.
Saturday 12 September | 10.00am – 5.00pm
aniMation worKshoP For Beginners
Ages: 8-12 years (max. 10 places) ➜ Venue: Anglia Ruskin University
Tutor: Animator Monika Umba ➜ Cost: £30
Films to be screened in the I MADE THIS programme.
Masterclasses For young
critics and students
Friday 18 September | 4.00pm
things you should Know aBout Music iF
you want to MaKe a FilM
Drawing on his experience of 20 years of working with TV and
fi lm, Latin American composer Dr Julio d’Escriván will discuss
issues of dramatic impact of music, image-music synchrony,
sound design, interaction between production-sound and music,
and the language the musician expects to hear when being
briefed by a director.
Sunday 20 September | 1.30pm
FroM scriPt to screen: Meet the
screenwriter
Rick Harvey will talk about his experience of writing for EON,
the company behind the James Bond fi lms, and he will give a
masterclass on the nuts and bolts of screenwriting.
➜ Look out for James Bond in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and GOLDENEYE
(see pages 17 and 57 respectively)
Monday 21 September | 12.00pm
FilM critic: eMPire
Join us for a Q&A with Ian Nathan, Executive Editor of Empire, the
monthly bestselling British fi lm magazine reviewing both mainstream
and arthouse fi lms. Previously editor of Empire for many years, he
also writes as fi lm critic for The Times and has worked in television.
Supported by Film Studies at
Anglia Ruskin University

Thursday 24 September | 11.00am – 1.00pm
worKshoPs For FilMMaKers
and ProFessionals
Raising funding for youth film projects
ProFessional FilMMaKers –
get involved with First light
Work with young people as a professional fi lmmaker, widen
networks of professional contacts and contribute to your community
with rewarding paid work on projects throughout the UK.
want to MaKe a FilM But don’t Know how
to start or where to get the Money?
First light will show you how!
New organisations, schools, youth organisations and others can
access First Light and Mediabox funding. Get advice on how to
apply for one of First Light’s funding streams and discuss the
processes and pitfalls in rewarding youth fi lm production projects.
➜ Both events will run concurrently, followed by a networking
opportunity to meet partner organisations and professional filmmakers.
The Young Film Fund is the UK Film Council’s Lottery funded fi lmmaking
initiative those aged 5 to 19. Guidelines and information on how to apply:
www.fi rstlightonline.co.uk
Mediabox, a Department for Children, Schools and Families is a fund to
help young disadvantaged people, aged 13 to 19, fi nd a positive voice in
the media. Grants of up to £40,000 available now: www.media-box.co.uk
Second Light is a talent development scheme which through productionbased
training, will give 30 talented young people aged 18 to 23, from
BME backgrounds, supported opportunities
to move into the fi lm industry.
JacK cardiFF: a triBute
➜ Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.
Sunday 20 September | 1.15pm
BlacK narcissus (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Deborah Kerr,
Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar. UK 1947. 100 mins.
Monday 21 September | 3.45pm
a Matter oF liFe and death (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring: David Niven,
Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Richard Attenborough, Kathleen Byron,
Robert Coote. UK 1946. 104 mins.
Tuesday 22 September | 3.15pm
the red shoes (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Moira Shearer,
Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Jean Short. UK 1948. 133 mins.
➜ See page 61 for full details of these films.
Tuesday 22 September | 6.30pm
JacK cardiFF: Painter with light
an evening with FilM critic and
historian ian christie
This special Festival tribute to the late Jack Cardiff reveals the
infl uences behind his stunning, Oscar-winning cinematography
(for Powell and Pressburger’s BLACK NARCISSUS) and, with
clips from some of his greatest fi lms, explores the work that
made Jack’s name synonymous with Technicolor photography.
➜ The evening is presented by Ian Christie, Anniversary Professor of Film and
Media History at Birkbeck University of London, co-founder of the international
review Film Studies and author of several books on cinema, including Arrows
of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Bookings: Arts Picturehouse 0871 704 2050
Wednesday 23 September | 1.00 – 2.30pm
lunchtiMe archive show
From the BFI, East Anglian Film Archive and Pôle Image Haute-Normandie
a good day out: cross-channel MeMories
oF leisure on FilM
➜ Introduced by Jane Jarvis, Screen East Digital Heritage Project
Manager, and Simon McCallum, BFI
If the British have family memories of cricket on the village
green or holidays by the sea, the French too remember days
at the beach under white cliffs or a picnic in the country. As
we compare and contrast our social history of the last century,
see how we spent our time at leisure, both here and across the
channel, in this screening of Linsday Anderson’s O DREAMLAND
(1956), John Taylor’s HOLIDAY (1957) and amateur archive fi lms
from the East Anglian Film Archive and Rouen’s Pôle Image
Haute-Normandie.
Special reduction of £1.00 off each ticket for senior citizens.
Bookings: Arts Picturehouse 0871 704 2050
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium screening in association with Cambridge City
Council and BFI Mediatheque. Presented as part of the DIGITAL HERITAGE cross-
Channel partnership of Screen East and Rouen’s Pôle Image Haute-Normandie.
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venues
Emmanuel College
Box Office: 0871 704 2050
(via Picturehouse box office)
www.emma.cam.ac.uk
The Arts Picturehouse
Box Office: 0871 704 2050
www.picturehouses.co.uk
38-39 St Andrew’s Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3AR
Book tickets in advance for ALL venues
through the Arts Picturehouse.
The Arts Picturehouse screens a year-round
programme of the best in new and classic
cinema over three screens (including one
THX-certificated for best quality sound). All
screens are licensed, so you can take your
drink from the café-bar in with you. You do
not have to be a member to view films at the
Arts Picturehouse, but if you are you’ll receive
discounts on tickets, free preview screenings
and priority booking for the Festival.
Ely Cathedral
Box Office: 0871 704 2050
(via Picturehouse box office)
www.elycathedral.org
Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4DL
Ely Cathedral was recently voted one of the
‘top ten must-see buildings in the UK’ by
Dorling Kindersley in The Times, and was
winner of the Best Film Location at the
Screen East awards for ELIZABETH: THE
GOLDEN AGE (2007). Ely is a 25 minute drive
from Cambridge via the A10. Alternatively, it
is a 15 minute rail journey from Cambridge to
Ely stations.
All Festival venues have full disabled access. Please see
individual venue websites for details.
St Andrew’s Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3AP
Founded in the 16th century, Emmanuel
College is a new venue for this year’s
Festival – ideally located just opposite the Arts
Picturehouse. Its historic surroundings will play
host to a number of special screenings and
events. The Queen’s Building, designed by Sir
Michael and Patty Hopkins and voted ‘Building
of the Year’ when it first opened, houses an
impressive tiered auditorium. The Festival
will also be using the Old Library. Originally
the College Chapel, this beautiful building is
lined with portraits of College dignitaries and
features a fine late medieval wood carving in
the ante room.
Sawston Cinema
Box Office: 0871 704 2050
(via Picturehouse box office)
www.sawstoncinema.org.uk
Youth Community Centre, New Road,
Sawston, CB22 3BP
Spicer’s Theatre was the home of cinema in
Sawston from 1932 until falling attendance
led to its closure in the ‘60s. Since then, it
has been a Youth and Community Centre
managed by the neighbouring secondary
school, Sawston Village College – but thanks
to support from the Cambridge Film Trust, the
UK Film Council and South Cambridgeshire
District Council, films are once again being
screened, with young people from the school
running projection and all front-of-house
operations. Sawston Cinema boasts state-ofthe-art
projection and sound equipment and is
believed to be the only cinema in the country
run by young people.
Parking is available on the Sawston Village
College site.
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arts Picturehouse
Only shows after 5.00pm have allocated seating
MON-FRI (before 5.00pm) & LATE SHOWS (after 10.30pm)
Adults..................................£6.60
Members .........................£4.60
Concessions* ...............£5.70
MON-FRI (5.00 – 10.30pm) & WEEKENDS
Adults..................................£7.60
Members .........................£5.60
Concessions* ...............£5.70
eMManuel college
Prices as above unless otherwise stated
sawston cineMa
Adults..................................£3.50
Concessions* ...............£2.50
tiCKet PRiCes
brand new this year is our Festival Pass enabling you to buy
multiple tickets at a discounted rate (see page 4 for details)
sPecial oFFers
oPening night FilM: the arMy oF criMe
(17 seP) ➜ arts Picturehouse
£10 (£8 Members / Concessions*) for entry to
opening night fi lm plus a complimentary glass of
champagne and nibbles in the bar beforehand
our hosPitality / vaMPyr (21 seP)
➜ queen’s theatre, eMManuel college
If you book both live music events, tickets cost
£12 (£10 Picturehouse Members / Concessions*)
tinKer, tailor, soldier, sPy (18 – 25 seP)
➜ arts Picturehouse
£12 for all seven parts or £4 for each part bought
separately
*Concessionary tickets are available for people in full time
studies, claimants and senior citizens (valid ID required).
sPecial events
sunset viewings (30 & 31 aug)
➜ grantchester Meadows
Adults..........................................................................................£15.00
Picturehouse Members / Concessions* ......£12.50
Family (2 Adults, 2 Children under 15 .........£25.00
riverside screenings (10, 12, 14 & 24 seP)
➜ grantchester Meadows
Adults..........................................................................................£25.00
Picturehouse Members / Concessions* ......£20.00
Includes chauffeured punt ride and complimentary
champagne
identity oF the soul (17, 18, 20, 21 &
22 seP) ➜ queen’s theatre, eMManuel
college
Adults.............................................................................................£6.00
Picturehouse Members / Concessions* .... £5.00
Michael Palin: a liFe in Pictures
(23 seP) ➜ ely cathedral
Adults..........................................................................................£15.00
Picturehouse & BAFTA Members /
Concessions* .......................................................................£12.50
caMBridge on caMera: aluMni
screenings (25 & 27 seP)
➜ arts Picturehouse
All tickets .........................£5.40
Admission is FREE for Science on Screen and our
Silents on the Streets Screenings on 20 September.
The Cambridge Film Festival is operated by the Cambridge Film Trust
(registered charity no. 1120059). We therefore regret that for Festival
screenings Picturehouse Members cannot redeem their free tickets and
Picturehouse gift vouchers cannot be used. There will also be no Student
Beans, Big Scream!, Orange Wednesdays, Kids’ Club or Silver Screen
offers for the duration of the Festival. We are, however, delighted to offer
Picturehouse Members a discounted ticket price for our screenings.
Advance web/phone booking fee £1.50 per transaction.
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A603
A1134
QUEEN’S RD
A1134
NEWNHAM RD
MAGDALENE ST BRIDGE ST
Outdoor
Screenings
SILVER ST
THE FEN CAUSEWAY
Grantchester
Meadows
SIDNEY ST
CORN EXCHANGE ST
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Arts
Picturehouse
TRUMPINGTON ST
DOWNING ST
TENNIS COURT RD
TRUMPINGTON RD
BUS
STATION
JESUS
GREEN
DRUMMER ST
ST ANDREW’S ST
CHRIST’S
PIECES
REGENT ST
LENSFIELD RD
De Luca
Sawston
Cinema
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HILLS RD
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College
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Located on bustling Regent Street,
a short walk from the Arts Picturehouse, De Luca
offers modern Italian food in a great setting. Pasta, risotto,
meat and fish dishes are served from the dramatic open plan kitchen.
De Luca are pleased to offer Film Festival ticketholders a special set
menu, or 10% off their à la carte meal. All you need to do is show your
cinema ticket on arrival. Or, try our cocktail bar after the film.
83 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1AW Tel: 01223 356 666 www.delucacucina.co.uk
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Tony Jones
Festival Director
Paula Beegan
General Manager
Verena Von Stackelberg
International Programme Coordinator
Nick Joicey, James Mackay, Brooke
McGowan, Isabelle McNeill, Sarah Wood
Programmers
Clare Leczycki
ShortFusion Programmer &
Submissions Coordinator
David Jakes
Programme Adviser
Toby Venables
Brochure Editor
Georgia King
Brochure Designer
Lou Beegan
Proofreader
Bill Thompson
Online Producer
Trish Sheil
Education Officer,
Cambridgeshire Film Consortium
Anne-Laure Cano, Rydian Cook,
Gertrud Hill, Chris O’Rourke
Education Team
Iris Ordonez
UK & International Print Transport
Clare Wilford
Press & PR Manager
FestivAL stAFF
Tom Catchesides
Festival Photographer
Emily Boldy
Screenings Coordinator
Chloe Chennells-Milton
Events Coordinator
Jonny Davey
Volunteer Coordinator
Simon White
Head Driver
Alex Phillips, Claire Rastogi, Aisleigh
Sawyer, Manuela Tise, Matt Waters
Festival Interns
Roger Smith
Technical Manager
Rydian Cook, Joe Delaney, Joe Harris,
Thom Martin, Simon White
Outdoor Screening Team
David Perilli
Festival Daily Editor
Laura J. Smith, Christopher Peck
Festival Daily Sub-Editors
FOR THE CAMBRIDGE FILM TRUST
Nick Joicey, Tony Jones, Isabelle
McNeill, Jean Khalfa, Bill Thompson
Board Members
Adam Bryan
Development Director
The Cambridge Film Festival is operated by
the Cambridge Film Trust, registered charity
number 1120059.
AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE
Keith Gehlert
General Manager
Clare Leczycki
Programme Assistant / Duty Manager
Martin Read
Bar Manager / Duty Manager
Matt Roberts
Operations / Duty Manager
Emma Woolerton
Copy Editor / Duty Manager
Jon Barrenechea, Johnny Munro
Guest Managers
Joe Delaney (Chief), Clare Mackenzie,Roger
Smith, Dermot Nolan, Christian Lapidge,
Rydian Cook, Andrew Dillon, Colin Verot
Projectionists
Alexandra Oliver
Marketing Coordinator
Carl Peck, John Davis, Holly Pearson, Jeff
Knowles, Becky Harding, Jack Toye, Elliot
Cutting, Thom Martin, Simon Panrucker,
Ruth Forgacs, Devorah Hall, Jonathan Davey,
Jennifer Hinchliffe, Emily Hammond, Melissa
Castrillon, Greg Hilson, Sara Cathie, Denise
Green, Rickie Harper, Ned Wilson Eames,
Chloe Chennells-Milton, Stephen Davidson,
Leyre Mouriz, Allan Melia, Peter Phillips, Max
Hagelburg, Caitlin Maling, Alex Woodhead
Front of House Staff
Alex Ramsey
Head of Cleaning Staff
Picturehouse
Membership
£27 Single, £17 Concessions,
£47 Joint (2 people at the same address)
Call 0871 704 2050 or visit
www.picturehouses.co.uk
Includes: 3 free tickets per
person l £2.00 discount on full price
tickets l brochure mailouts l 10%
off alcoholic beverages in the bar
Plus: no booking fees and discounts
at all other Picturehouse cinemas.
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thAnKs
Alice Films: Laurent Bécue-Renard; Nicole
Renard | Anglia Ruskin University: Tony Harrild;
Caroline Hyde; Sarah Jones; Paul Marris |
Artifi cial Eye: Richard Napper; Ben Luxford
| Arts Alliance: Tessa Pemberton; Annie
Mosebach | Arts Alliance Media: Thomas
Høegh; Gemma Richardson; Kate Pidgeon
| As You Like It: Julie Faveur | BAFTA: Alex
Cook;Lesley Jones; Tricia Tuttle | Bavaria Film
International: Gisela Wiltschek | BBC Archive:
Tony Ageh | BBC Cambridgeshire: Emma
Borley; Mandy Morton | BBC Film Network:
Claire Cook | Berlinale Forum: Hanna Keller;
Tobias Hering | BFI: Margaret Deriaz; Simon
McCallum; Isabelle Piqueras; Marcus Prince;
George Watson; Christine Whitehouse; Andrew
Yondell | Blood Orange Media: Simone Ahuja
| Café Jello: David Mitchell | Cambridge City
Council: Frances Alderton; Deborah Allison;
Georgia Artus; Neil Jones; Jas Lally; Elaine
Midgley; | Cambridge Farmers’ Market Outlet:
Kelley Green | Cambridge Fire & Rescue: Alan
Pilsworth | Cambridge International Super 8
Film Festival: Thierry Bonnaud; Simon Mullen
| Cambridge Newspapers: Paul Kirkley |
Cambridge Saab: James Howarth | Cambridge
University Alumni Relations Offi ce: Cassie
Llewellyn-Smith | Cambridge University Press:
Linda Bree; Emma Moat | Cambridgeshire
Community Foundation | Cambridgeshire
County Council: Steve Capes | Cambridgeshire
Education ICT: Mazzie Bartimus; Sally Elding;
Gareth Jones; Tim Dalnes | Catherine Jones:
Vanessa Burkitt | Centre for India & Global
Business, Judge Business School: Navi Radjou
| Chocolat Chocolat: Robin Chappell | Channel
4: Andrew Newman | Churchill College: Dr
Andrew Webber | CinéFile: Allison Gardner;
Richard Mowe | Cinéphilia: Yoram Allon | City
Screen: Marc Allenby; Clare Binns; David
Brighouse; Lyn Goleby; Vince Jervis; Alastair
Oatey; Rachel Sawyer; Gabriel Swartland;
Mark Wealthy | Corpus Christi College: Dr
Emma Wilson | DCM: David Prosser | De
Luca Cucina & Bar: Paul de Luca | Deckert
Distribution: Ina Rossow | Department of
Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge:
Dr Matilda Mroz | East Anglian Film Archive:
Jane Alvey; Katherine Mager; Richard Taylor |
ELERDS | Ely Cathedral: The Dean, Dr Michael
Chandler; Sallyann Ford | Emmanuel College:
Sarah Banbery; Dr Mike Gross; Dr Nick White;
Lord & Lady Wilson of Dinton | Films Boutique:
Charlotte Renaut | Films Distribution: Martin
Caraux | First Light: Yau Yau | Gorgameesh
Productions: Tariq Marzbaan | Grafton Centre:
Michael Wiseman | Grand Arcade: Lidia de
Luca | Hauser-Raspe Foundation: Hermann
Hauser; Pamela Raspe | Heart FM: James
Keen | Hora Mágica: Sebastián Lelio | Icon
Entertainment International: Isabelle Lherondel
| Icon Films: Zak Brilliant; Steve Oliver | Imperial
War Museum: Toby Haggith | Institut Français:
Marie Bonnel | Kaminski Stiehm: Miriam Klein |
Kaleidescope Films: Martin Myers | Libra Film:
Anca Dragoi | London Institute of Education:
Andrew Burn | Long Road Sixth Form College:
Pete Fraser; Barney Oram; Tom Woodcock
| Love Cambridge: Helen Hames; Emma
Thornton | Magdalene College: Peter Daybell;
Mike Flanagan; Allègre Hadida | Magidson
Films | MC Films: Tatiana Emden | Metrodome:
Sara Frain; Christelle Randall | Midas: David
Noble | Mills & Reeve: Christopher Townsend |
Moonshine: Mark Watch | Momentum Pictures:
Hamish Moseley | New Humanist: Caspar
Melville | New Wave Pictures: Robert Beeson;
Pamela Engel | National Film and TV School
| Norwegian Embassy: Anne Ulset | Parkside
Federation: Andrew Hutchinson | Parkside
Police Station: Trevor George | Park Circus:
Sara Carlsson; Nick Varley | Piggott Black Bear:
Nikki Beeson; Simon Singleton | Protagonist
Films: Ben Roberts | QED Productions: Paul
Wigfi eld | Objective Productions: Phil Clarke;
Sharon Trickett | Optimum Releasing: Suzanne
Noble; Danny Perkins; John Trafford-Owen
| Ratiu Foundation: Ramona Mitrica; Nicolae
Ratiu | Revolver Films: Carly Morrell; Dave
Shear | Revolution Films: Andrew Eaton;
June Goh; Michael Winterbottom | Red Lion:
Julie Manning | Sawston Village College:
June Cannie; Lesley Morgan | Screen East:
Martin Ayres; Sam Burton; Alastair Haines;
Jane Jervis; Claire Treadwell; | Scudamore’s
Punting Company: Rod Ingersent | Short Fuze:
Johnnie Ingram; Matt Kelland | SOAS: Dr
Lindiwe Dovey | Soda Pictures: Eve Gabereau;
Ed Fletcher | South Cambridgeshire County
Council: Myles Bebbington; Juli Stallabrass |
St John Ambulance: Phil Beattie | Studio 24:
Simon Jones; Sharon Van Belle; Jonathan
Woods | Sygma Safety & Events: Brian Cleary;
Ken Rankin | Teamworx | Topping & Company:
Robert Topping | Trinity College: Joel Cabrita;
Erica Segre; Emma Widdis | Trinity Hall: David
Todd | Trumpington Farm Company: Andrew
Crossley | TTP: Gerald Avison; Peter Taylor;
Jean Thompson | University of Cambridge
800th Anniversary Team: Geoff Morris; Jenny
Zinovieff | Visit Films: Aida LiPera | Universal
Pictures: Andy Leyshan; Jody Pope | Vertigo
Films: Rupert Preston; Michael Waites | Verve
Pictures: Colin Burch; Elliott Binns | Wallfl ower
Press: Lucy Hurst | Warner Bros: Bob Cockburn;
Neil Marshall | Warp Films: Mark Herbert |
Watershed: Mark Cosgrove; Madeline Probst;
Anna Searle | Wilkins Kennedy: Alison Nayler;
Samantha Stott | Wordfest: Cathy Moore |
Wysing Arts Centre: Annie Bacon | Yume
Pictures: Christ Oosterom; Patrizia Raeli |
Zoonami: Berbank Green; Martin Hollis | Lucy
Akhurst; Helen Bartlett; Lou Beegan; Olivier
Bohler; Gina Birch; Mark Boswell; Neil Brand;
Eddie Bridgeman; Ian Christie; Alastair Clark;
Melanie Coombs; Paul Cotter; Julio D’Escriván;
Jan Dunn; Edie Eligator; Danny Lyon; Cosima
Finkbeiner; Dan Geesin; Sarah Gibson; Stefanie
Grube; Andrei Gruzsniczki; Pascal Haddad;
Pete Harmer; Rick Harvey; Phil Hawkins;
Fiona Howe; Becky Innes; Ville Jankeri; Gareth
Jones; Hannah Kilduff; Jennifer Kroot; Elizabeth
Leuvrey; Claudia Lehmann; Kahloon Loke; Dan
McCulloch; Huck Melnick; Marc Minneker;
Roger Nygard;Linda Pariser; Uberto Pasolini;
Amy Rich; Paul Robinson; Rachel Robey; Esther
Rots; Robert Sansom; Moritz Siebert; Dean
Shannon; Melanie Tebb; Monika Treut; Monika
Umba; Irene von Alberti; Martin Wagner; Brian
Welsh and everyone else who has contributed
to the Festival.
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index
1234................................................................ 20
39 STEPS, THE (SPYING GAME).......................... 54
ADORATION...................................................... 20
AGENT, THE ...................................................... 20
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES (STOP PRESS)........ 17
ANIMATED SHORTS (SHORTFUSION)................... 72
ANIMATION WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS (CFC).. 76
ARMY OF CRIME, THE........................................ 19
ART FOR THE STRUGGLE (CINEMA PALESTINE)... 48
BAD DAY TO GO FISHING, A .............................. 21
BALLADA.......................................................... 44
BARAKA (STOP PRESS)...................................... 17
BAROQUE IN HIGH DEFINITION........................... 11
BEACHES OF AGNES, THE ................................. 44
BERLIN PLAYGROUND (BERLIN).......................... 53
BERLIN WALL, THE (BERLIN)............................... 53
BEST OF BRITISH (SHORTFUSION)...................... 69
BIRDWATCHERS................................................ 21
BLACK NARCISSUS (JACK CARDIFF)................... 61
BLADE ON THE FEATHER (SPYING GAME)........... 56
BOOGIE WOOGIE............................................... 21
BORN IN 68...................................................... 23
BOURNE SUPREMACY, THE (SPYING GAME)........ 57
BRINKMANN’S WRATH....................................... 23
BUDDENBROOKS (GERMAN CINEMA)................. 38
BUTTERFLY TATTOO, THE .................................. 23
CALLING, THE ................................................... 24
CAMBRIDGE ON CAMERA.................................. 11
CAMBRIDGE SUPER 8 (SHORTFUSION)............... 74
CAN GO THROUGH SKIN.................................... 24
CINEMA NOW (CINEMA PALESTINE).................... 49
CITIZEN KANE (REVIVALS).................................. 59
CODENAME MELVILLE....................................... 44
COURTING CONDI.............................................. 24
CREATION......................................................... 25
CRYING WITH LAUGHTER................................... 25
CUCKOO........................................................... 25
DANNY LYON: AMERICAN LIFE............................ 67
DARKLIGHT (RIVERSIDE).................................... 15
DEADLY AFFAIR, THE (SPYING GAME).................. 55
DEFENCE OF THE REALM (SPYING GAME)........... 57
DESCENT: PART 2, THE...................................... 27
DESIRE............................................................. 27
EASIER WITH PRACTICE..................................... 27
ENGLISHMAN ABROAD, AN (SPYING GAME)........ 56
EVERYONE ELSE (GERMAN CINEMA)................... 38
EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED............ 44
FILM CRITIC: EMPIRE (CFC)................................ 76
FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, THE ...... 28
FISH TANK (STOP PRESS)................................... 17
FOR MY FATHER................................................ 28
FRAG................................................................ 45
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
(STOP PRESS/SPYING GAME)......................... 17
FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN (CFC)........................ 76
GHOSTED (BORDER CROSSINGS)....................... 50
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE............... 28
GLOBAL ROADS (SHORTFUSION)........................ 68
GLOBALISATION OF INDIAN CINEMA..................... 9
GODFATHER, THE (REVIVALS)............................. 59
GOLDENEYE (SPYING GAME).............................. 57
GOOD DAY OUT, A (CFC).................................... 77
HARDLY BEAR TO LOOK AT YOU......................... 29
HEARTLAND (RIVERSIDE)................................... 15
HIERRO............................................................. 29
HISTORY OF ISRAELI CINEMA, A......................... 45
HOUSE OF NUMBERS........................................ 45
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM....................... 45
HUMPDAY......................................................... 29
I MADE THIS (CFC)............................................. 76
IDENTITY OF THE SOUL...................................... 12
IN BERLIN (BERLIN)............................................ 52
IPCRESS FILE, THE (SPYING GAME)..................... 55
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR (KUCHAR BROS)........... 64
JOHNNY MAD DOG............................................ 31
JUNGLE RADIO, THE (STOP PRESS).................... 17
KATALIN VARGA................................................. 31
KIN .................................................................. 31
LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF, THE....................... 46
LAST WASH, THE (BERLIN)................................. 53
LE DONK & SCOR-ZAY-ZEE................................ 32
left (STOP PRESS)........................................... 17
LITTLE WHITE LIES............................................ 32
LONG DISTANCE (BORDER CROSSINGS)............. 51
LONG SHADOWS (GERMAN CINEMA).................. 39
LOOKING FOR PALLADIN................................... 32
LOSING BALANCE
(STOP PRESS/GERMAN CINEMA).................... 17
LOVE DOES GROW ON TREES (SHORTFUSION).... 70
LUNCHTIME ARCHIVE SHOW (CFC)..................... 77
MACHAN........................................................... 33
MACHINIMA........................................................ 8
MAN BETWEEN, THE (SPYING GAME).................. 55
MARY AND MAX................................................ 33
MARK BOSWELL: THE ART OF NOVA-KINO.......... 66
MATERIAL (BERLIN)........................................... 52
MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (JACK CARDIFF) . 61
MENTAL ........................................................... 46
MICHAEL PALIN: A LIFE IN PICTURES.................. 11
MIKE & GEORGE KUCHAR 1 (KUCHAR BROS)...... 62
MIKE & GEORGE KUCHAR 2 (KUCHAR BROS)...... 63
MIKE & GEORGE KUCHAR 3 (KUCHAR BROS)...... 64
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (REVIVALS).59
MOGADISHU WELCOME (GERMAN CINEMA)........ 39
MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON........................ 33
NATURE OF EXISTENCE, THE.............................. 46
NAVIDAD........................................................... 35
NEXT OF KIN, THE (SPYING GAME)...................... 55
NIGHTTIME FABLES (SHORTFUSION)..............70-71
NOLLYWOOD BABYLON..................................... 46
NOMAD’S LAND (BORDER CROSSINGS).............. 50
OTHER IRENE, THE (BORDER CROSSINGS).......... 51
OUR HOSPITALITY............................................... 9
PAINTER WITH LIGHT (JACK CARDIFF/CFC)... 61, 77
PAST TIME (RIVERSIDE SCREENINGS)................. 15
PEEP SHOW...................................................... 13
PEOPLE’S CINEMA............................................ 14
PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE (REVIVALS)........... 59
PONTYPOOL..................................................... 35
PORGY & ME..................................................... 47
PROJECTING THE PAST (STOP PRESS)............... 17
QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION, A (SPYING GAME)... 56
RAINCOATS: FAIRYTALES, THE............................ 47
RED SHOES, THE (JACK CARDIFF)...................... 61
SCIENCE ON SCREEN.......................................... 8
SCREEN EAST (SHORTFUSION)........................... 73
SECRET AGENT, THE (SPYING GAME).................. 54
SÉRAPHINE....................................................... 35
SHOCK DOCTRINE, THE..................................... 47
SHORT INTERNATIONAL DOCS (SHORTFUSION)... 71
SILENTS ON THE STREETS ................................ 14
‘SNO ANGEL LIKE YOU....................................... 47
SOLOIST, THE.................................................... 36
SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE
(SPYING GAME).............................................. 55
STORM BIRD, THE (BORDER CROSSINGS)........... 50
SUNSET VIEWINGS............................................ 14
SURPRISE FILM ................................................ 19
TANGERINE (GERMAN CINEMA).......................... 39
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MUSIC (CFC).7 6
THIRD MAN, THE (SPYING GAME)....................... 54
THIRST............................................................. 36
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (SPYING GAME).. 56
TONY (STOP PRESS).......................................... 17
TRAITOR (SPYING GAME)................................... 56
TREELESS MOUNTAIN........................................ 36
TRIANGLE......................................................... 37
TRIDENTFEST (SHORTFUSION)........................... 73
TULPAN............................................................ 37
UP TO THE SOUTH (RIVERSIDE).......................... 15
VAMPYR............................................................. 9
WE THE EMIGRANTS (BORDER CROSSINGS)....... 51
WELCOME (BORDER CROSSINGS)...................... 51
WHITE LIGHTNIN’.............................................. 37
WORKSHOPS FOR FILMMAKERS AND
PROFESSIONALS (CFC).................................. 77
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