Cambridge Film Festival 2008 Brochure

18-28 SEP 2008 

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Welcome to the 28th Cambridge Film Festival 

2008 has signalled two 

major developments 

for the Cambridge Film 

Festival. Firstly, owing 

to changes in the UK 

festival calendar, we’ve 

moved from our usual 

July slot to September. 

We look forward to 

presenting a series of exciting and innovative 

outdoor screenings throughout Cambridge to 

celebrate these new dates (see pages 10 and 13 for 

more details on these special events). 

Secondly, this is the first full year that the Festival has 

been run by a registered charity, the Cambridge Film 

Trust, which now delivers a year-round programme of 

film-related events. The Trust has been highly active, 

hosting special screenings such as the Tangiers to 

Tehran season in February at the Arts Picturehouse, 

bringing artists’ moving image work to Addenbrooke’s 

Hospital in April and helping students at Sawston 

Village College install their own cinema during the 

summer holidays in July. 

In addition to these outreach activities, the Trust has, 

of course, been busily preparing another wide-ranging 

programme for the 28th edition of the Festival. This 

year’s highlights include homages to Austria’s Ulrich 

Seidl and to one of the UK’s most experimental 

filmmakers, Derek Jarman. We are also honoured 

to welcome Tilda Swinton to the Festival. Another 

leading figure in British independent cinema, she will 

talk about her experiences working with Jarman and 

present one of her latest films, JULIA. 

There will be a tribute to horror actor, Boris Karloff, 

and a selection of Warner Bros. classics to mark the 

renowned studio’s 85th anniversary. What’s more, 

we’ll be hosting Cambridge’s first ever Machinima 

season with screenings and interactive workshops, 

and also showcasing several new Polish titles, 

including Andrzej Wajda’s KATYN alongside his early 

masterpiece CANAL. 

As ever, we’re delighted to present you with the latest 

features, documentaries and shorts from the UK 

and around the world. We’ve had another wealth of 

submissions, many of which have made their way into 

the Festival programme and which thoroughly deserve 

your support. With the current crisis in independent 

distribution and exhibition in the UK, the Festival 

screenings may well be the only opportunity to see 

these new titles by young international filmmakers. 

We hope you’ll enjoy the Festival and continue to 

support the Trust throughout the year as it strives to 

offer Cambridge and the Eastern region a wide range 

of challenging and provocative independent cinema. 

Tony Jones, Director, Cambridge Film Trust & 

Cambridge Film Festival 

CONTENTS 

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 5-7 

SPECIAL EVENTS 8-13 

STOP PRESS 15-17 

OPENING AND CLOSING NIGHT FILMS 19 

NEW FEATURES 20-35 

DOCUMENTARIES 36-39 

FESTIVAL TIMETABLE 41-43 

POLISH CINEMA 44-45 

GAME, SET AND MACHINIMA 47-49 

MUSIC AT THE MOVIES 50-52 

REVIVALS 54-55 

DEREK JARMAN: REMEMBERED 56-60 

THE FILMS OF ULRICH SEIDL 62-63 

CELEBRATING WARNER BROS. 64-66 

BORIS KARLOFF: THE UNIVERSAL 68-69 

FACE OF HORROR 

SHORTFUSION 70-75 

EDUCATION EVENTS 76-77 

VENUE INFORMATION & BOOKING 78-79 

FESTIVAL STAFF 80 

CREDITS 81 

A-Z FILM INDEX 82 

Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk 

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FESTIVAL ONLINE – 

AND INTERACTIVE! 

Our superb website offers fast and easy access to 

information about every aspect of the Festival with 

a new and improved search, easy online booking 

and space for all of your reviews and comments. 

We’re also offering regular updates through an 

RSS feed so you can keep track of changes to the 

programme and announcements of special events. 

The Festival Top Ten is there as always but now 

it is updated as you vote. The site also includes 

everything from the Festival Daily so you can stay on 

top of the Festival news even if you don’t manage to 

pick up a printed copy. 

We’ll be recording many of the highly-regarded 

Q&A sessions with visiting directors, producers and 

performers, so if you miss anything you’ll be able to 

watch it online, and we’ll be streaming some of them 

live for those who can’t make it to Cambridge. We’ve 

even set up a separate site, CFFlive, to make it easy 

for you to find them. 

As well as the main Festival site we’re spreading 

Film Festival goodness all over the web, with daily 

podcasts on iTunes and video reports on YouTube 

and blip.tv. You can add cff2008 as a contact on 

Twitter, join Festival Director Tony Jones over on the 

Cambridge Film Festival page on Facebook or look 

at our photos on Flickr. And if you’re really keen then 

look for anything tagged ‘cff2008’ on del.icio.us, 

Technorati and Google Blogsearch. 

We’d love to hear from you too. If you tag your own 

photos, blog postings or other material with ‘cff2008’ 

we’ll be able to find it and feature it on our site. 

www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk 

www.cfflive.org.uk 

FESTIVAL 

PRACTICALITIES: 

Tickets go on sale on Monday 1 September 

for Arts Picturehouse Members and Thursday 4 

September for the general public We don’t offer 

a multi-purchase ticket offer or pass apart from 

membership, which saves you money on every ticket 

you buy (see page 80 for details) Although it’s a 

Festival, our tickets are priced at standard cinema 

rates All advance ticketing is done through the Arts 

Picturehouse. To buy a ticket on the day of screening, 

please contact the relevant venue directly We make 

every effort to bring you the films we have promised 

when we have promised them, but sometimes last 

minute changes occur. Please bear with us on these 

occasions – we will do everything we can to ensure 

your Festival experience is as enjoyable as possible 

No ads or trailers are shown with Festival films, so 

please don’t be late! Box Office: 08717 042050 


THE VENUES 

To mark our new September dates, we’ve been 

scouting out locations across the city so that you can 

experience our films in unique and creative ways. 

So in 2008 the Festival is taking place not only at 

the Arts Picturehouse and The Junction but also at 

Wesley Methodist Church and Wysing Arts Centre, 

as well as in the more unconventional settings of 

Magdalene Street and along the banks of the river 

Cam! See page 78 for further venue details. 

Most screenings and events are held in the Festival’s 

original home at the Arts Picturehouse. However, 

please double check before setting out where your 

chosen events are taking place. Do also make sure 

you leave sufficient transit time between screenings 

if attending more than one venue on the same day. 

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 


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WE LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK! 

And we’re not the only ones... Your views on Festival films are 

reported to the filmmakers and film distribution companies, eager 

to hear what the Cambridge audience made of their work – and 

it does make a difference. In 2002 Norwegian comedy ELLING 

received a nationwide release on the strength of its warm 

reception here, and the following year NOWHERE IN AFRICA was 

picked up after an enthusiastic Cambridge response. Other films 

that have been helped on their way by Festival audiences include: 

ANNA M, TENGERS, UNDER THE MUD, DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 

and ROCK, PAPER SCISSORS. Our sponsors, whose support is so 

crucial to the Festival’s development, are always keen to know 

who attended and the information you provide will be used to 

attract new supporters for future years. And, most importantly, we 

want to know what you thought, what you enjoyed and what we 

can do better next time. 

Contact information: 28th Cambridge Film Festival, 

Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew’s Street, 

Cambridge, CB2 3AR 

email: info@cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk 


Over its 28 year history, the Cambridge Film Festival has presented 

an incredible range of screenings and welcomed hundreds of 

filmmakers from around the world. The Cambridge Film Trust is now 

developing an online archive to showcase this work and some of the 

thousands of posters, photographs and recordings which have been 

accumulated over the years. But we also need your help! 

We want to show what the Cambridge Film Festival means to you, its audiences – would 

you be willing to share your memories of previous Festivals with us? If so, please email us 

at archive@cambridgefilmtrust.org.uk 

To find out more about our plans, please visit our website: 


Members of the project team will also be around after the screening of THE NEW TEN 

COMMANDMENTS, showing on Wednesday 24 September at 5.10pm (see page 37). 

BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE WITH THE 

FESTIVAL DAILY NEWSPAPER 

Festival news and reviews of every film being shown 

Interviews with celebrity guests Comment and 

features about Festival happenings Updates on The 

People’s Favourite Film Award Published every day 

from midday throughout the Festival – look out for the 

Daily in the Arts Picturehouse and at other venues 

across Cambridge. 

The extended Festival Daily is also available on the Festival 

website. Issue one will be out on Monday 15 September. 

The Festival Daily is sponsored by Cambridge University Press. 


CINEMA RETURNING 

TO SAWSTON 

Over the past months the Cambridge Film Trust 

has been working with Sawston Village College on 

a project to return cinema to Sawston. The original 

cinema in Sawston, Spicer’s Theatre, was built on 

Contact Lesley Morgan 

Tel: 01223 712825 or 

email: lmorgan@sawstonvc.org 

a site adjacent to the village college and operated from 1932 until 1968. Since its 

closure, the school has managed the building as a Youth and Community Centre. 

However, that use is now just about to be extended with the arrival and installation 

in recent weeks of a new sound system, screen and both 35mm and digital 

projection. This has all been made possible through funding from the UK Film 

Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council. The re-established cinema will 

be run by students from the college and a young peoples’ Cinema Group is already 

in existence and about to undergo training, to be conducted by the Cambridge Film 

Trust, in the skills necessary for cinema operation. Film screenings will be taking 

place there shortly so look out for more information. 

THE PEOPLE’S 

FAVOURITE FILM AWARD 

Every year the Festival encourages each and 

every one of you to register your reactions 

to everything you see by visiting the Festival 

website – www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk – 

and rating the films online. 

You can express your feelings on a scale of 

1 to 5, loathed it to loved it, and we’ll keep a daily 

tally of audience responses so you can check out the 

charts on display in the Arts Picturehouse, in the Festival Daily and online at 

Our illustrious previous winners: 

ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: 

THE WAY OF THE TOSSER (2007) 

VOLVER (2006) BROKEN 

FLOWERS (2005) STAGE 

BEAUTY (2004) SPIRITED 

AWAY (2003) ELLING (2002) 

www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk. Competition gets fierce as early winners are outpaced by 

new discoveries and the list is eagerly studied by film industry experts across the land. 

Last year Canadian spoof documentary ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE WAY OF THE TOSSER 

took the gold, thanks in part to a vigorous campaign of audience participation. But who will be 

wearing the tutus and braces this year…? 

Join in the fun of the Festival – something truly worth voting for! 

Just log on to www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk and click on “Rate a Film”. 



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SPECIAL EVENTS 

16-18 SEPTEMBER 2008: EMMANUEL COLLEGE, 

CAMBRIDGE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE, CRASSH 

This conference explores the history and future of 

the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis. 

Speakers include Kaja Silverman (Berkeley) and Mieke 

Bal (Amsterdam). The event is a collaboration between 

the Cambridge Film Festival and the Centre for Research 

in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 

University of Cambridge. It features a mixture of 

screenings and talks, and all are welcome to participate. 

TRANSMISSION: CINEMA/PSYCHOANALYSIS 

Wednesday 17 September 4.15pm Arts Picturehouse 

LAID DOWN (CFF PG) 

Director: Emily Cooper. UK 2007. 15 mins. 

DOUBLE 

BILL 

Shot in 16mm film, LAID DOWN is a short 

film exploring the world through the eyes of a 

newborn baby. Rooted in psychoanalytic understanding, the 

film raises questions about our earliest formative experiences. 

The film will be introduced by director Emily Cooper. 

Thursday 18 September 11.15am Arts Picturehouse 

BECOMING VERA (CFF PG) 

Director: Mieke Bal. The Netherlands 2008. 52 mins. 

This is an exceptional opportunity to see a powerful film by 

renowned cultural theorist, Mieke Bal. Born of a Cameroonian 

father and French-born mother of Russian descent, three 

year-old Vera is growing up in Paris. This documentary shows 

how, although seemingly unaware of her cultural inheritance, 

Vera is constantly responding to its transmission. 

The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Mieke Bal. 

FREE 

EVENT 

Tuesday 16 September 4.45pm CRASSH, 

17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX 

ECOLOGY (PG) 

Director: Sarah Turner. UK 2007. 97 mins. 

FREE 

EVENT 

Through internal monologues and scenes of daily life infused 

with underlying violence, the themes of the environment, 

family psychic structures and technology are intertwined, in an 

original take on psychoanalytical questions. The film asks us to 

reconsider “waste”, “need” and “survival”, suggesting that family 

existence is as precarious an ecology as the environment. 

The screening will be presented by director Sarah Turner and 

Professor Elizabeth Cowie. 

8 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk 

LA VIE NOUVELLE (CFF 15) 

Director: Philippe Grandrieux. France 2002. 

102 mins. French and English with English subtitles. 

Grandrieux is one of the most innovative francophone 

filmmakers to emerge in recent years. LA VIE NOUVELLE, 

his second feature, generated a storm of critical acclaim 

on its release. A terrifyingly intense vision of a world where 

human bodies are commodities, the film tells of an American 

soldier’s engulfment within the eastern European sex trade. 

Grandrieux’s unique cinematography evokes an inhuman 

underworld even in the sombre light of day. 

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Philippe Grandrieux. 

There will be another screening of LA VIE NOUVELLE on 

Friday 19 September at 12.45. 

Print source: Wild Bunch 

More information and registration forms are 

available at: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk 

The film screenings listed here are also 

open to non-delegates.


KUBRICK 

UNDER THE 

STARS 


Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September 8.00pm 

Institute of Astronomy 

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (U) 

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, 

William Sylvester, Robert Beatty. UK/USA 1968. 141 mins. 

The Festival is proud to present a spectacular screening of 

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY at the Institute 

of Astronomy on 13 and 14 September 2008 after dusk. For 

the first time in the UK, Kubrick’s sublime journey into space 

will be shown outdoors in 70mm to highlight its stunning 

cinematography and renowned soundtrack. Don’t miss this 

unique opportunity to watch Kubrick under the stars! 

Held in collaboration with The Junction and the Institute 

of Astronomy, the evenings will be complemented 

by a brief presentation on the Institute by Dr Carolin 

Crawford, and a screening of Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon’s 

THE COLOURS OF INFINITY, narrated by Sir Arthur 

C. Clarke (limited availability for 2001 ticketholders 

only, on a first-come, first-served basis). 

The presentation and screening of 

THE COLOURS OF INFINITY 

will begin at 6.00pm, 

prior to the screening of 

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. 

Print source: Warner Bros. 

With thanks to the Hauser-Raspe Foundation for its support 

Patrons are advised to bring suitable clothing. 

Tickets: Full price £12.50, Conc. and Members £10 

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 

Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA 

The Institute of Astronomy holds open evenings every Wednesday 

throughout the winter season. A public talk on Astronomy given 

by a scientist from the department is followed by a chance to 

observe through both modern and historical telescopes if the 

weather is clear. For more details of this, and the rest of the IoA’s 

outreach programme, please visit www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public 

Sunday 21 September 8.00pm Magdalene Street 

MAGDALENE STREET SCREENING (CFF U) 

On 21 September, the Festival will be making its way to 

Cambridge’s oldest shopping street and setting up three 

screens to present a unique and diverse programme of 

entertainment that’s completely free of charge. 

Wander around a traffic-free, pedestrianised area between 

Bridge Street and Magdalene Street and discover the moving 

image in an entirely new way. Head to Magdalene Street for 

archive footage showing how Cambridge has changed over 

the years. Or stroll along Quayside to view beautiful timelapse 

photography and hilarious silent comedy, projected from screens 

on Magdalene College’s immaculate lawns. The screenings 

begin at 8.00pm but come any time until 10.00pm. There’ll 

be a running programme (approx. 20 mins) so if you miss the 

beginning, you can stay until you’re back to where you started. 

As with all open air screenings, ensure that you are appropriately 

appropriately dressed for the day – screenings will only be 

cancelled in the event of very extreme weather! 

Organised in collaboration with Cafe Jello, the East Anglian Film 

Archive, Magdalene College and Sygma Safety Ltd. With thanks to 

Cambridge City and Cambridgeshire County Councils for their support. 

The Cambridge Film Festival has put together an 

excellent and entertaining programme with creative new 

approaches. We are very happy to give our support. 

FREE 

EVENT

Photo courtesy of Explorer Magazine 

FESTIVAL 

DISCOUNT AT 

DE LUCA! 

Just a short walk up St Andrew’s Street (past Parker’s 

Piece), Restaurant De Luca Cucina & Bar – the Official 

Festival Restaurant – offers all Festival ticketholders a 

generous 10% off their total bill. They guarantee to serve 

you freshly-prepared, locally-sourced modern Italian food in 

time for you to see your movie – and what’s more, they’re 

open for late drinks until 1.00am Sunday to Thursday and 

until 2.00am Friday and Saturday. The perfect venue for 

you to discuss what you’ve seen over a cocktail – or two! 

There’ll be a special Festival menu in addition to their 

regular menu, as well as Festival presentations on plasma 

screens – and we’ll be using the restaurant as our official 

venue for entertaining Festival guests, too, so you could be 

mixing with directors and stars of next year’s hit movies... 

To receive your discount, present a Festival ticket to your waiter or 

waitress as you are seated. Offer valid 18-28 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 356666 www.delucacucina.co.uk 

MASTERCLASS WITH CARL DAVIS 

Saturday 20 September 3.15pm Arts Picturehouse 

The Festival is proud to present a masterclass with 

Carl Davis, one of the UK’s leading personalities from 

the world of music who has composed extensively for 

films, television, ballet and the concert hall, garnering 

him recognition on a global stage. A passion of Carl’s 

is composing music for restored silent movies. 

During this masterclass, Carl will be comparing 

and contrasting the musical style that he used for 

underscoring the “three comic geniuses”, Lloyd, 

Chaplin and Keaton, by presenting excerpts from their 

films, including Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL and 

OUR HOSPITALITY and Harold Lloyd’s SAFETY LAST. 

The session will end with a complete presentation 

of BEHIND THE SCREEN, one of the Charlie Chaplin 

“Mutuals” (12 short films) for which Carl has 

composed some of his most highly regarded works. 

Born in New York, Carl has been living in the UK since 1960 and has 

conducted with most of the major British orchestras and a host of 

international ones. In 2005 Carl was awarded the CBE (Hon) by Her Majesty 

The Queen for the significant contribution he had made to the world of music 

as both a composer and a conductor. He was nominated once again by 

BAFTA this year for the BBC’s CRANFORD series and won Best Score from the 

UCMF (Composers Union of France) for THE UNDERSTUDY (see page 33). 



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Friday 26 September 5.00 – 7.00pm 

BIG PITCH, 

MICROBUDGET 

Co-presented by BAFTA and Screen East 

Fancy testing your microbudget feature film idea with a panel 

of producers, filmmakers and funders who might be able to help 

you go from pitch to feature? This event will give you the chance 

to do just that. 

Six filmmakers will pitch their idea for a feature of under £150,000 to a 

panel of experts who’ll give their feedback on the idea, and how feasible 

a “micro” budget production it is. The filmmaker of the best pitch will 

win a one-to-one feature film development session with The Script 

Factory (worth £300). Results will be announced in the BAFTA and 

Screen East newsletters. To enter, send a one page filmography or CV 

and a synopsis of no more than 300 words for your Microbudget idea 

of any genre to regions@bafta.org with “CAMBRIDGE PITCH” in the 

title. For more details, go to www.bafta.org/whats-on/. 

Deadline: 10 September. We will contact finalists by 15 September. 

NOTE: Finalists must pitch 

their ideas before a 

live audience on 

26 September. 

FREE 

PITCHING 

SESSION 

Tuesday 23 September 6.00 – 8.00pm Wysing Arts Centre 

STOP. WATCH. 

As part of its INSIDE OUT season of events, 

Wysing Arts Centre presents new films by 

artists that address ecological emergencies. 

Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology, in partnership 

with Arts Council England, have commissioned seven artists 

to make short films for the internet that explore ecological 

themes. Artists Jordan Baseman, Phil Coy, Manu Luksch, 

Christine Ödlund, Elodie Pong, Simon Woolham, and 

Young-Hae Chang take diverse approaches that consistently 

and powerfully challenge common perceptions and clichés 

of current debates about environmental crises and their 

human impact. 

FREE 

EVENT 

Tuesday 30 September 6.00 – 8.00pm Wysing Arts Centre 

www.screeneast.co.uk 

www.bafta.org 

Special thanks to The Script Factory 

www.scriptfactory.co.uk 

A selection of films screened in AMPHIS – Wysing’s new communal structure made entirely from recycled 

and reclaimed materials – made by international artists Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser with a host 

of community volunteers. Curated by Sarah Wood and Lotte Juul Petersen. 

INSIDE OUT 19 SEPTEMBER – 5 OCTOBER 

Wysing has given its entire site over to the 24 artists who work from it and invited 

them to turn the place literally INSIDE OUT. Expect installations in unseen locations 

from greenhouses, offices and kitchens to more formal spaces such as the Wysing 

Gallery. For details, visit: www.wysingartscentre.org 


RIVERSIDE SCREENINGS 

The Cambridge Film Festival has always been keen on 

taking cinema into the great outdoors and this year is no 

different. So, on four nights before and during the Festival 

we invite you to enjoy two great Cambridge traditions: 

watching innovative and compelling film presented by the 

Festival, and punting on the Cam at dusk. 

The meeting point will be at the Red Lion in Grantchester 

where you can take advantage of promotional offers for 

ticketholders or even enjoy a pre-punt supper. Then, as the 

sun sets, a flotilla of punts, kindly provided by Scudamores, 

will set off from Grantchester Meadows, stopping at regular 

intervals in front of screens along the riverbank. 

Tuesday 16 September 7.30pm 

GREENSCAPE (CFF U) 

To get in the outdoor mood, a selection of short films 

looking at parks and open spaces, including Christine 

Molloy’s WHO KILLED BROWN OWL and Bruce Weber’s 

WINE AND CUPCAKES. 

Wednesday 17 September 7.30pm 

BATTLEFIELD (CFF U) 

To contrast with the serenity of the Cam, BATTLEFIELD 

reflects on images of conflict and heroism, both in 

the form of archival shorts and documentary extracts. 

These include clips from FINEST HOUR – a BFI archival 

collection of Second World War public information 

films – directed by the great Humphrey Jennings. 

Tuesday 23 September 7.30pm 

RIVERRUN (CFF U) 

For the all-encompassing downriver experience, 

the films shown in Riverrun will focus on artists’ 

engagement with water. What does water mean in the 

modern world: territory, non-territory, a vital resource, 

a commodity to be taken for granted? The artists 

represented in Riverrun examine these ideas in work 

that is sensual, playful and compelling. What better 

place than a riverside screening to re-connect with the 

natural world? 

Thursday 25 September 7.30pm 

DREAM SCREEN (CFF U) 

As the sun sets and dusk settles over the landscape, 

Dream Screen lulls us downstream and delves into our 

collective unconscious. Take a journey into the twilight 

world of dreams, sleep and phantasy. This specially curated 

programme will include films from Surrealism to the present 

day, from artists unafraid to dream a new kind of cinema. 


Tickets: Full price £25, Conc. and Members £20 

Includes chauffered punt ride from Grantchester Meadows to 

Dead Man’s Corner, complimentary champagne and refreshments. 

For an additional £5, you can begin the evening early by being punted 

to the meeting point (departure times to be confirmed). 

TRUMPINGTON FARM COMPANY 


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Sunday 28 September 5.30pm 

SURPRISE MOVIE (CERT TBC) 

A Film Festival is a wonderfully moveable feast, full of 

late entries, last minute guests and surprise premieres – 

all of which not only makes the Festival fantastic fun, 

but also ensures you have the very latest, up-to-theminute 

films both large and small, often before they are 

seen anywhere else. Naturally, we’ll keep you posted 

with all the latest developments via the Festival Daily 

and our website – in all cases but one. One of our 

favourite Festival traditions – the Surprise Movie – is 

the one thing we hold back on right up until you’re sat 

in your seat. What will it be this year? Only the Festival 

Director knows for certain, and nothing will prise the 

information from him (we’ve tried everything over the 

years). Past Surprise Movies have included everything 

from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN to the first UK 

screening of A COCK AND BULL STORY (last year’s 

was Herzog’s RESCUE DAWN), so with no hype and no 

reviews to distract you, simply take your seat, let the 

lights dim and see what delights are in store! 

Thank you to the providers of the Surprise Movie – you know 

who you are... 

STOP PRESS – 

IMPORTANT NEWS! 

Smaller on the page but by no means no less important, 

here are some films, confirmed at the very last minute, 

which we couldn’t bear to leave out of the programme. 

Friday 19 September, 8.15pm 

LIFE FOR SALE (LUFTBUSINESS) (CFF 15) 

Director: Dominique de 

Rivaz. Starring: Tomas 

Lemarquis, Dominique Jann, 

Joel Basman. Switzerland/ 

Luxembourg 2008. 89 mins. 

German with English subtitles. 

Looking for easy money, 

three young dropouts 

auction themselves on the 

Internet. One sells his future, 

one sells his past. The third sells his soul. What starts off as 

an unlikely trick turns into a nightmare when they discover 

they’ve sold their very existences. And there are no refunds… 

Print source: Media Luna Entertainment 

Sat 27 Sep, 3.15pm Sun 28 Sep, 3.30pm 

THE GROCER’S SON (CFF 12A) 

(LE FILS DE L’ÉPICIER) 

Director: Eric Guirado. Starring: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, 

Daniel Duval. France 2007. 96 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Having left his village ten years ago, Antoine finds himself 

thrust back into rural life when his estranged father is taken 

ill and he is enlisted to drive the local grocery van. His 

real motivation is to be able to lend money to his flatmate 

but family tensions soon mount and Antoine is forced to 

reconsider what he really wants out of life. 

Contains moderate sex references. 

Print source: Les Films du Losange/ICA Films 

UK 

PREMIERE 

Tue 23 Sep, 10.30pm Wed 24 Sep, 10.30am (Big Scream! only) 

SAVAGE 

GRACE (15) 

Director: Tom Kalin. 

Starring: Julianne Moore, 

Stephen Dillane, Eddie 

Redmayne. Spain/USA/ 

France 2007. 97 mins. 

Based on a true story, 

SAVAGE GRACE traces the 

dramatic rise and fall of 

the charismatic Barbara 

Daly, who married Brooks 

Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only 

child is a failure in his father’s eyes, and as he matures and 

becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for 

tragedy are sown. Print source: Revolver 

Monday 22 September, 11.15pm 

THE BROKEN (CFF 18) 

Director: Sean Ellis. Starring: Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, 

Asier Newman, Michelle Duncan. France/UK 2008. 88 mins. 

In the sprawling metropolis of a grey London, Gina sees 

herself drive past in her own car. Stunned, she follows the 

woman up to her apartment and an eerie series of events 

ensue as Gina soon discovers a secret that will confirm her 

worst fears and change the boundaries of her reality forever. 

Print source: The Works 

LATE NIGHT 

HORROR 

STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STO 


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Wednesday 24 September, 6.00pm The Junction 

DR STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I 

LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING 

AND LOVE THE BOMB (PG) 

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Peter Sellers, 

George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden. UK 1964. 93 mins. 

President Merklin Muffley and Group Captain Lionel 

Mandrake are embroiled in a race against time after 

General Jack D. Ripper launches an unauthorised 

nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, little knowing 

that any attack will trigger the “Doomsday device” 

designed by ex-Nazi scientist Dr Strangelove and causing global Armageddon. Print source: Sony 

Thursday 25 September, 6.00pm The Junction 

RESTORED 

PRINT 

STANLEY KUBRICK: A LIFE IN PICTURES (CFF 15) 

Director: Jan Harlan. Narrator: Tom Cruise. USA 2001. 142 mins. 

An exploration of the life and work of the man acknowledged as one of the greatest auteur 

filmmakers of all time, this documentary by Jan Harlan draws on a huge store of interviews 

and reminiscences by those who knew and worked with the great man, ranging from Jack 

Nicholson to Woody Allen. As Nicholson himself says: Everyone pretty much acknowledges 

he’s the man, and I still think 

that underrates him...” 



STOP PRESS – 

DOCUMENTARIES 

Thursday 25 September, 9.00pm The Junction 

WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF 

ARTHUR RUSSELL (CFF 15) 

Director: Matt Wolf. USA 2008. 71 mins. 

Active in the New York art scene of the 70s and 80s, Arthur 

Russell was a prolific musician as adept at composing avantgarde 

orchestral music as he was creating disco records. 

Matt Wolf’s ambitious debut constructs a portrait of this 

extraordinary artist from rare archival footage and interviews 

with Russell’s closest friends including Philip Glass and Allan 

Ginsberg. Print source: Plexi Films 

Thursday 25 September, 10.45pm 

BI THE WAY (CFF 18) 

Directors: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker. USA 2008. 93 mins. 

Following the personal stories of five young people, BI THE 

WAY explores the changing sexual landscape of America. 

In a road trip across the States, this documentary attempts 

to uncover the reality of the bisexual fad (or should that be 

revolution?), taking viewers on every adventure from sex 

parks to swingers’ parties along the way. 

Print source: By The Way Productions 

UK 

PREMIERE 

Saturday 27 September, 3.30pm 

BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE (CFF 15) 

Director: Roland Wehap. Austria 2007. 96 mins. 

Burma, once isolated from the outside world, is now slowly 

opening up to tourism and, in turn, corruption. The country 

has been taken hostage by those in power: this documentary 

goes behind the beautiful façade created by the tourist 

trade, inviting you to book your 16-day, “all-inclusive” trip to 

discover the truth. 

Print source: Rowe Productions 


WHERE THE WATER MEETS 

THE SKY (CFF PG) 

Director: David Ebert. UK 2008. 60 mins. 

Narrated by Academy Award winning actor, Morgan Freeman, 

this documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of women 

from northern Zambia. In a place where women rarely have 

the chance to speak out, they have made a film that tackles 

the taboo subject of AIDS head on, challenging opinions and 

becoming a force for change. 

Print source: Camfed UK 

UK 

PREMIERE 


SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE 

MOON (CFF PG) 

Director: Ulrike Kubatta. UK/USA 2007. 58 mins. 

A unique blend of interviews, archive material and stylised 

dramatic sequences, this documentary tells the remarkable 

story of Jerri Truhill who, in 1961, became one of the first 

women secretly trained by NASA to go into space. An initial 

phone conversation between Truhill and the filmmaker 

inspires a journey to meet the heroine in Texas. 

This film will be screened in conjunction with FACELESS (see page 

37 for more details). 

Print source: Courtesy of Ulrike Kubatta 

Wednesday 24 September, 11.15pm 

BLOOD CAR (CFF 18) 

Director: Alex Orr. Starring: Mike Brune, Anna Chlumsky, 

Katie Rowlett. USA 2007. 76 mins. 

As petrol prices become astronomically high, vegan 

primary school teacher Archie finds an alternative source 

of energy: blood. The only guy in town with a set of wheels, 

he soon attracts a girlfriend in the guise of the sex-crazed 

Denise. But in order to keep the car and therefore the girl, 

he must continue to find a never-ending supply of blood. 

Print source: Fake Wood Wallpaper 

LATE NIGHT 

HORROR 

STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STO 


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LINHA DE PASSE (15) 

Directors: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas. Starring: 

João Baldasserini, Sandra Corveloni, Kaique 

Jesus Santos, Vinícius de Oliveira. Brazil 2008. 

113 mins. Portuguese with English subtitles. 

Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 

kilometres of traffic, 300,000 messengers 

on motorcycles. At the heart of one of the 

toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, 

four brothers try to reinvent themselves in 

different ways. With the backdrop of Brazil in 

a state of emergency, each one is looking for 

a way out… This effort from Walter Salles 

(THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) and his frequent 

collaborator Daniela Thomas (MIDNIGHT) is 

a characteristically humane and intelligent 

work. Steadfast in its refusal to glamourise 

violence and the extremity of the environment 

which the film’s characters are forced to 

inhabit, LINHA DE PASSE exudes compassion, 

drama and insight. 

Print source: Pathé 

PREVIEW 

SCREENING 

OPENING 

NIGHT 

FEATURE 

“Hats off to the fine 

ensemble acting, which 

is never over-stated and renders 

each family member intensely 

individual.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 

Sunday 28 September, 8.30pm 

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END 

OF THE WORLD (CFF 15) 

Director: Werner Herzog. USA 2007. 99 mins. 

There is a hidden society at the end of 

the world. One thousand men and women 

live together under unbelievably close 

quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and 

sanity in search of cutting-edge science. 

Now, for the first time, an outsider has 

been admitted. Filmmaker Werner Herzog, 

accompanied only by his cameraman, travels 

to the Antarctic community of McMurdo 

Station, the hub of the US Antarctic 

programme, and into the heart of one of 

the most remote 

places on earth. 

Over the course of 

his journey, Herzog 

examines human 

nature and Mother Nature, juxtaposing 

breathtaking locations with the profound, 

surreal and often absurd experiences of 

the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, 

and truck drivers who form this unique 

community. ENCOUNTERS AT THE END 

OF THE WORLD is a visually stunning 

exploration of the raw beauty of a land of 

fire, ice and corrosive solitude. 

Print source: Revolver 

CLOSING 

NIGHT 

FEATURE 

“Few filmmakers make the end of days seem as hauntingly 

beautiful as Werner Herzog does, or as inexorable.” NEW YORK TIMES 


OPENING & CLOSING NIGHT FILMS 

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UK 

PREMIERE 

UK 

PREMIERE 

Tuesday 23 September, 8.30pm Thursday 25 September, 7.45pm Friday 26 September, 7.15pm 

ALEXANDRA (ALEKSANDRA) (PG) 

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov. Starring: Galina Vishnevskaya, 

Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva. Russia/France 2007. 95 mins. 

Russian/Chechen with English subtitles. 

Perhaps most famous for his stunning feature RUSSIAN ARK, 

which was made up entirely of a 90-minute, continuous 

tracking shot, director Aleksandr Sokurov further strengthens 

his reputation as probably Russia’s greatest living filmmaker, 

offering a piece that is as intelligent and thought-provoking as 

it is beautiful. Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskya takes 

to the screen (for the first time as an actor, at the age of 81) as 

the eponymous central character who is travelling from Russia 

to Chechnya to visit her grandson, a soldier. The film unfolds 

as a powerful yet incredibly delicate anti-war film. Aleksandra 

explores her grandson’s military camp, extends the hand of 

friendship to the Chechen women she meets, and re-awakens 

in her grandson’s fellow soldiers a long-buried remembrance of 

love, of longing for home and family, and of a time before they 

lived to fight. 

Print source: Artificial Eye 

ALGERIA, UNSPOKEN STORIES (CFF 15) 

(HISTOIRES À NE PAS DIRE) 

Director: Jean-Pierre Lledo. France/Algeria 2007. 160 mins. 

French and Arabic with English subtitles. 

In 1962 Algeria gained its independence after 132 years of 

French colonisation ended in a bitterly violent war. Thus began 

one of the largest migrations in human history, as a million 

great-grandchildren of 19th century immigrants from Jewish 

and European minority communities were forced to leave Algeria, 

their birthplace. In this extraordinary, unflinching documentary, 

the stories of four Algerians of Muslim origin take us back to 

the war years. Searching for the truth reveals the entanglement 

of hatred and fraternity in the hidden memories of their 

relationships with Jewish and Christian neighbours. Such stories 

are unspoken because to speak them is to risk censorship or 

worse: more than a powerful piece of cinema, the film is an act 

of resistance. 

We are delighted to welcome director Jean-Pieree Lledo for a Q&A 

following the screening. 

Print source: Colifilms 

AÑO UÑA (CFF 15) 

(THE YEAR OF THE NAIL) 

Director: Jonás Cuarón. Starring: Diego Cataño, Eireann Harper. 

Mexico 2007. 78 mins. English and Spanish with English subtitles. 

AÑO UÑA marks an auspicious and remarkably assured debut for 

Alfonso Cuarón’s son, Jonás. Jonás began taking photographs over 

one year; spontaneous images of people in their everyday lives, with 

neither posing nor staging. Whilst he knew the characters and their 

stories would be used to create a film, there was no way a plot could 

be pre-defined. At the end of the year, Jonás and Eireann Harper 

mounted the thousands of photographic images in one room, ordered 

in scenes composed of shots. Consistencies began to emerge. The 

film’s narrative - an impossible romance between Molly, a 21-yearold 

American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty – is 

completely fictional. A beautiful mediation on impermanence and 

the passage of time, AÑO UÑA has been invariably compared to LA 

JETÉE and yet it possesses a daring and originality of its own. 

We are delighted to welcome producer Mia Bays for a Q&A following 

the screening. 

Print source: Halcyon Releasing Ltd. 



BELLE TOUJOURS (CFF 15) 

DOUBLE 

BILL 

Director: Manoel de Oliveira. Starring: Michel Piccolli, Bulle Ogier. 

Portugal/France 2006. 68 mins. French with English subtitles. 


BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (12A) 

PREVIEW 

SCREENING 

Director: Julian Jarrold. Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, 

Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon. UK 2008. 133 mins. 

Thursday 18 September, 3.30pm Saturday 20 September, 10.30am 

CAUGHT IN THE ACT (CFF 15) 

Director: Matt Lipsey. Starring: Steve Speirs, Freddie Jones, 

Maureen Lipman, Mark Lewis Jones, Ralph Brown. UK 2008. 92 mins. 

Based on two of the key characters from Buñuel’s exquisite 

1967 classic BELLE DE JOUR, veteran director Oliveira creates 

a scenario 40 years on whereby the meeting of a man, Henri 

and a woman, Severine may or may not present the truth about 

a secret only he can reveal. Severine, now a widow, awaits the 

expected revelation but Henri holds back and enjoys his sadistic 

power over a woman who never allowed him to possess her... 

Print source: ICA 

BELLE DE JOUR (18) 

Director: Luis Buñuel. Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, 

Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page. France 1967. 101 mins. French and 

Spanish with English subtitles. 

Re-issued in a new print, Buñuel’s most successful film stars a 

24-year-old Catherine Deneuve as Severine, a beautiful middleclass 

Parisian wife who indulges her masochastic fantasies by 

working afternoons in a high-class brothel. 

Print source: Optimum 

A provocative and suspenseful drama, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED 

tells a story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the 

pre-WWII era. Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the noble 

Marchmain family, first through the charming Sebastian Flyte, 

and then through his sophisticated sister, Julia. The rise and fall 

of Charles’s infatuations reflect the decline of the decadent era 

of the inter-war years. A sensitive adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 

novel by multiple BAFTA award-winner Andrew Davies and 

Jeremy Brock, the film also features a terrific supporting turn 

from Emma Thompson as the duplicitous Lady Marchmain. 

Contains one moderate sex scene. 

We hope to welcome members of the cast for a Q&A following the 

screening. 

Print source: BVI 

CAUGHT IN THE ACT is a heart-warming comedy about deceit 

and integrity, friendship and folly and the triumph of humanity 

over greed. Set in the beautiful Welsh valleys, it tells the story 

of a corrupt parish council embezzling European Union (EU) 

money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the 

cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves 

having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of 

the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival 

in the EU cultural calendar. Amidst the hilarious scenes of 

their performance, their personal dramas are played out. The 

characters discover what is truly important to them and what 

they must do to achieve their hopes. 

Print source: Courtesy of Matt Lipsey 


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UK 

PREMIERE 


CONVERSATIONS WITH MY 

GARDENER (CFF 15) 

(DIALOGUE AVEC MON JARDINIER) 

Director: Jean Becker. Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, 

Fanny Cottençon. France 2007. 110 mins. French with English subtitles. 

This finely observed film depicts a poignant friendship between 

two men from different walks of life. When a respected Parisian 

painter on the brink of divorce (Auteuil) returns to his childhood 

home and places an advert for a gardener to tame the vegetable 

plot, he realises that the retired railway worker is a former 

schoolmate. As the garden is nurtured and the painter struggles 

with his relationships and his work, a warm friendship flourishes 

between the two. Sharing a love of the place where they grew 

up, they try to understand each other’s passions and attitudes 

to life. Ultimately however, it is the painter who has the most to 

learn. The 78 year-old Becker perfectly captures the intimacy of 

the tale, yet avoids sentimentality. The film positively glows with 

life, even as it paints a tender portrait of men coping, in different 

ways, with the process of growing old. 

Print source: StudioCanal 

Saturday 27 September, 5.45pm Sunday 28 September, 10.00am 

CYCLES (CFF 15) 

Director: Cyril Gelblat. Starring: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, 

Shulamit Adar. France 2008. 92 mins. French with English subtitles. 

In this brilliantly accomplished debut feature, Gelblat weaves 

together the lives of three different generations of a Jewish 

family in Paris, each contending with family relationships at 

a critical time in their lives. Judith (a touching performance 

by Miou-Miou) is a divorced housewife and, as she enters 

middleage, she feels she is losing both her mother, a Holocaust 

survivor who is slipping into dementia, and her son, who is flying 

the nest. Her brother Simon (Berling) is a successful political 

journalist known for incisive observation but his mother’s 

increasing confusion and his daughter’s budding sexuality both 

escape his grasp. Through deft glimpses of lives that feel very 

real, the film explores how cultural heritage is transmitted, 

but also shifts and changes as older generations die out. A 

searching film of many layers, it nevertheless keeps a light touch 

and manages to be both complex and heart-warming. 

Print source: Media Luna Entertainment 


DRESSING GRANITE (CFF 15) 

Director: Bill Scott. Starring David Shaw, Darren Hawkes, 

Mary Woodvine. UK 2007. 93 mins. 

Ben and Matthew are stonemasons, living and working in a 

remote Cornish quarry. It’s a typical father and son relationship: 

love never shown, son’s work never good enough, father set 

in his ways. The more Matthew tries to embrace modernity, 

the more fractious and emotional Ben becomes, until Matthew 

realises his father has dementia and needs to go into a home. 

But this act of filial concern is to have tragic consequences 

as Matthew struggles with breaking free from tradition at the 

same time as trying to keep it alive, and facing up to some 

very harsh realities. A film about loss and renewal: the loss of 

long-established ways of living, the loss of a parent and the loss 

of memory; the need to understand the past and to take what is 

useful from it in order to make some meaning of the future. 

Print source: Wild West Films 


Friday 19 Sep, 5.00pm Wednesday 24 Sep, 10.30am (Big 

Scream! only) Saturday 27 Sep, 12.45pm 

EDEN (CFF 15) 

Director: Declan Recks. Starring: Aidan Kelly, Eileen Walsh, 

Padraic Delaney, Karl Shields, Lesley Conroy, Kate O’Toole, 

Enda Oates, Sarah Green. Ireland 2008. 83 mins. 

Set in a thriving town in the midlands of Ireland, EDEN tells 

the story of a week in the lives of Billy and Breda Farrell 

as they approach their 10th wedding anniversary. Breda is 

determined that the milestone will re-ignite the passion in 

their marriage. Billy’s got other plans. He’s become infatuated 

with the unobtainable Imelda Egan and has convinced himself 

that they will be lovers by the weekend. As the date draws 

closer, Billy’s behaviour becomes more and more chaotic, while 

Breda’s frustrations crystalise and find more mature, high-risk 

expression. EDEN is the screen adaptation of Eugene O’Brien’s 

critically acclaimed, award-winning play, marking the second 

collaboration by director Declan Recks, Eugene O’Brien and 

RTÉ Television. 

We are delighted to welcome director Declan Recks and members of 

the cast to this screening. 

Print source: Samson Films 


FAINTHEART (CFF 15) 

Director: Vito Rocco. Starring: Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner, Jessica 

Hynes, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim Healy, Anne Reid. UK 2008. 90 mins. 

User generated content charges forward with FAINTHEART, 

the new UK comedy for our socially networked times. Mildmannered 

Richard enjoys dressing up as a Viking at the 

weekend for battle re-enactments. His wife Cath doesn’t. Tiring 

of all this cosplay she wants a divorce. Soon she’s seeing, horror 

of horrors, a PE teacher! What will it take to win her back? 

Watch out too for Ewen Bremner as Richard’s best friend, a 

Trekkie caught between Valhalla and Vulcan. Developed from the 

My Movie Mashup project on MySpace, users were involved in 

selecting which project was made, adding to the script and they 

were even cast in it too. 

We are delighted to welcome the director, Vito Rocco, and 

James Fabricant from MySpace to discuss the making of this film. 

Print source: Vertigo 


FEAR(S) OF THE DARK (CFF 15) 

(PEUR(S) DU NOIR) 

Directors: Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Jerry Kramski, 

Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire, Michel Pirus, Romaine Slocombe. 

France 2007. 85 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Spiders’ legs brushing against naked skin… Unexplained 

noises heard at night in a dark bedroom… A big, empty house 

where you feel a definite presence… A hypodermic needle 

getting closer and closer… A dead thing trapped in a bottle 

of formaldehyde… A huge growling dog, baring its teeth and 

staring… FEAR(S) OF THE DARK features some of the hottest, 

hippest graphic artists in the world – including Marie Caillou, 

Romaine Slocombe and Blutch – brought together for the first 

time on celluloid to delve into the depths of what really sends 

shivers down your spine. Rendered in stark, uncompromising 

black and white, this is a truly creepy, disgusting, disturbing and 

occasionally funny ride into what keeps us all awake at night. 

Don’t see it alone... 

Print source: Metrodome 


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UK 

PREMIERE 

FREE 

SCREENING 


FEATURE (CFF 12A) 

Director: Shezad Dawood. Starring: Shezad Dawood, Jimmie Durham, 

David Medalla, Doug Fishbone, Hetna Regitze Bruun. UK 2008. 55 mins. 

What do Chief Crazy Horse, Krishna, a Valkyrie, a bunch of 

Zombies and some fetish cowboys have in common with a 

donkey and an albino snake? The directorial debut by artist 

Shezad Dawood seems to play havoc with the unwritten rules 

that determine the boundaries between cultures and peoples, 

and distinctions between fact and fiction. FEATURE clearly 

isn’t a conventional film based on the format of traditional 

westerns – David Medalla labels it a ‘zombie western’ and 

credits artist, director and actor Shezad Dawood with creating 

an entirely new genre. What distinguishes FEATURE is precisely 

this quality; mixing and mingling, linking entirely different 

historical moments with mythology and intertwining generally 

shared with intimately personal histories. 

Contains moderate violence. 

We are delighted to welcome director, Shezad Dawood, for a Q&A 

following the screening. 

Commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire. 


FERMAT’S ROOM (CFF 15) 

(LA HABITACION DE FERMAT) 

Directors: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña. Starring: Lluís Homar, 

Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Santi Millán, Federico Luppi, 

Helena Carrión. Spain 2007. 88 mins. Spanish with English subtitles. 

SAW for the mathematically minded, with less blood and more 

brains. Spanish film FERMAT’S ROOM brings together four 

mathematicians, locks them in a room and lets the walls crush 

them. The enigmatic Fermat invites four experts in their field to 

solve a puzzle. Asked to abandon their phones the trail leads 

to a remote warehouse. At which point it all seems like a bad 

joke. Until, that is, the first proper challenge arrives backed by 

some serious motivation – a shrinking space being compacted 

by hydraulic presses. Entering similar territory to CUBE the only 

way out of this deathtrap is for the foursome to solve the riddles. 

But the bigger question they must ponder is who would actually 

want to kill them? This engrossing debut by writer-directors 

Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña will keep you in its grip 

until the very end. 


Thursdy 18 September, 6.00pm Friday 19 September, 2.30pm 

GOMORRAH (15) 

Director: Matteo Garrone. Starring: Salvatore Abruzzese, 

Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Toni Servillo. Italy 2008. 

137 mins. Italian with English subtitles. 

A powerful depiction of the destructive and pervasive impact of 

organised crime on ordinary people, GOMORRAH focuses on 

five inter-linked stories in the working-class suburbs of Naples. 

Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix this summer for its groundbreaking 

adaptation of Robert Saviano’s best-selling book – a 

literary phenomenon in Italy last year – the film journeys into a 

nightmarish landscape of crumbling concrete housing blocks 

and polluted wastelands to show us everyday lives corrupted by 

crime: the young boy who betrays a family; the Scarface obsessed 

adolescents firing machine guns across a lake; the tailor trapped by 

the mob; and the kids employed to dump toxic waste. A remarkable 

indictment of the consequences of the mafia’s power and wealth. 


“Probably the most authentic and 

unsentimental mafia movie ever 

to come out of Italy” SCREEN INTERNATIONAL 


UK 

PREMIERE 

Friday 26 September, 5.30pm Tuesday 23 September, 6.00pm Friday 26 September, 8.00pm Saturday 27 September, 11.00pm 

GOOD DICK (15) 

Director: Marianna Palka. Starring: Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter. 

USA 2008. 86 mins. 

An unpredictable and darkly funny slice of Americana, where the 

usual tropes of small-town life – frustrated video store clerk in 

love with a shy, awkward yet strangely attractive young girl – 

do not quite add up to what you’d expect. For one, she has a 

porn addiction and meets our hero when checking similarly 

themed videos out of his store. Eventually she agrees to try his 

recommendations and invites him home to share them with her 

but, as the tone of what has already gone before may suggest, 

things do not go as smoothly as he hopes. A love story for 

the dysfunctional, for our times and for those who want their 

romance movies to come with something other than lashings of 

Meg Ryan looking perplexed in a pair of pyjamas. 

Print source: The Works 

“moments of such genuine 

thoughtfulness and surprises that 

wouldn’t be out-of-place in a script by Cameron 

Crowe or Richard Curtis” efilmcritic.com 

GOODNIGHT IRENE (OLHO NEGRO) (CFF 15) 

Director: Paolo Marinou-Blanco. Starring: Robert Pugh, Nuno Lopes, 

Rita Loureiro. Portugal 2008. 98 mins. Portuguese and English with 

English subtitles. 

In Lisbon, an ageing English actor and a young Portuguese 

locksmith live finding ways to fight off the tedium of solitude. But 

their paths cross when Irene, an attractive Portuguese painter, 

moves into the apartment next to Alex’s and her joy for life 

distract them from their plight. When Irene suddenly disappears, 

however, a deeply meaningful friendship slowly starts to develop 

between the two previous rivals as they move into her apartment, 

searching for clues. When they discover Irene might be in Spain, 

and in danger, these two unlikely heroes decide to embark 

on a mission to rescue her. Featuring an outstanding central 

performance by Robert Pugh (MASTER AND COMMANDER), this 

tale of loss and recovery is beautifully realised, subtly reflecting 

the humour, drama and poignancy of life. 

We look forward to welcoming director Paolo Marinou-Blanco to 

this screening. 

Print source: Fils de Tejo 

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND 

ALIENATE PEOPLE (CFF 15) 

Director: Robert B. Weide. Starring: Simon Pegg, Gillian Anderson, 

Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst. UK 2008. 110 mins. 

Frequent Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B. Weide makes 

his feature directorial debut with this screen adaptation of 

British writer Toby Young’s painful but comedic memoir of the 

same name. When self-promoting scribe Young (Pegg, HOT 

FUZZ) accepts a position as a contributing editor for iconic 

fashion magazine Sharps, his subsequent attempts to ingratiate 

himself with both his egotistical boss, Clayton Harding, and the 

superficial celebrities who populate the pages of the magazine 

prove disastrously hilarious. A fish-out-of-water comedy at which 

Pegg is becoming such an expert, HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS… is 

not only frequently funny but also offers an uncomfortable look 

at the pitfalls of arrogance and pomposity. 

We are delighted to welcome writer and co-producer Toby Young and 

producer Stephen Woolley to this screening. 

Print source: Number 9 Films 


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proud to be a part of the 

28th Cambridge Film Festival 

and to present the best of 

the 2008 Clermont Ferrand 

Short Film Festival 

15 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD 

Tel: 01223 561854 Fax: 01223 560230 

www.france-in-cambridge.co.uk

UK 

PREMIERE 

Tuesday 23 September, 5.30pm Wednesday 24 September, 12.30pm 

IN MEMORY OF US (CFF 15) 

(EN SOUVENIR DE NOUS) 

Director: Michel Léviant. Starring: Hélène Lapiower, Marie Vinoy, 

Liliana Lolitch. France 2007. 92 mins. French with English subtitles. 

When Michel Léviant made THE FAIRY WALL in 1994, a light but 

beautifully shot TV film deemed too artistic for television, he could 

hardly have imagined its future incarnation. Years later, having 

captured producer Henri Magalon’s imagination, the film took on 

a new dimension. Revisiting the same actors and locations, IN 

MEMORY OF US depicts the original group meeting again at their 

friend’s funeral, returning to her childhood home where they spent 

an intense summer a decade before. Using the earlier footage 

as flashbacks with all the dreamlike luminosity of memories, the 

film moves between past and present in a fascinating exploration 

of friendship, guilt and the passing of time. The poignancy of the 

group’s struggle to deal with their friend’s suicide is rendered 

acute by the fact that actress Hélène Lapiower died of cancer 

before the film’s new life. The film’s reality haunts its fictional tale, 

making its evocation of memory all the more compelling. 

Print source: Maybe Movies 


IN THE CITY OF SYLIVA (CFF PG) 

(EN LA CIUDAD DE SYLVIA) 

Director: José Luis Guerín. Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier 

Lafitte. Spain 2007. 84 mins. Spanish/French with English subtitles. 

A young man arrives in Strasbourg and spends his days sitting at 

an outdoor café, sketching the figures of the women around him, 

patiently waiting for Sylvia, the woman that he fell in love with four 

years earlier, to appear. He finally thinks he sees her and gives 

chase, but it turns out to be someone else. He resumes his quest 

for his lost love and the innocence he longs to regain. Sylvia’s 

presence lingers but it is impossible to return to the past. The 

latest film by José Luis Guerín is a homage to cinema, painting, 

love and women, and imparts a nostalgia for days when it was 

possible to search for love, wander streets aimlessly and immerse 

oneself in a foreign place: the freedom to do as one pleases. 

Print source: Axiom 

“Filled with small eye-pleasing images, it’s a 

picture that audiences may wish to see more 

than once in order to relish it all.” hollywoodreporter.com 


I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (CFF 15) 

(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME) 

Director: Philippe Claudel. Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, 

Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius. France 2008. 115 mins. 

French with English subtitles. 

In this gentle yet suspenseful drama, two sisters attempt to 

reconstruct their relationship after a long separation, as haunting 

family secrets slowly emerge. Juliette (Scott Thomas) has been 

abroad for fifteen years for mysterious reasons and is outcast 

by her family. On her return, only her sister Léa is willing to take 

her in. But Juliette’s presence disturbs the household, as Léa’s 

husband is deeply suspicious of her sudden reappearance in their 

lives. The director describes it as “a film about women’s strength, 

their capacity to shine, to rebuild their lives” and this is certainly 

borne out in striking performances from both female leads. Scott 

Thomas portrays a Juliette striving for acceptance while learning 

to love life again, with flashes of mordant wit giving the character 

an edge. While it deals with the dark subjects of isolation and 

secrecy, this is ultimately an uplifting film about enduring love. 

Print source: Lionsgate 


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UK 

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JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY (CFF 15) 

(KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM) 

Director: Ole Bornedal. Starring: Anders W. Berthelsen, 

Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas. Denmark 2007. 100 mins. 

Danish with English subtitles. 

In some of our darkest, most conflicted moments lie the blackest 

instances of farce – a fact acknowledged here by Ole Bornedal 

in this compelling drama. Jonas is a married man with a family 

and a good job as a police photographer but he feels something 

is lacking in his life. Then, one day, he witnesses a girl become 

involved in a serious accident and finds himself compelled to 

visit her. When her family assumes he is her lover who they have 

never met, he gamely, politely plays along, not wanting, in some 

inexplicable way, to add to their worries. Before long the girl 

wakes from her coma and Jonas’s pretence becomes a reality; it 

is then that things really take a turn for the worse… 



KING OF THE HILL (CFF 15) 

(EL REY DE LA MONTAÑA) 

Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego: Starring: Leonardo Sbaraglia, 

María Valverde, Thomas Riordan, Andrés Juste. Spain 2007. 

Spanish with English subtitles. 90 mins. 

This is a film that promises to have everyone talking. It takes 

the “rural menace in the woods” genre as epitomised by 

DELIVERANCE (and cheekily parodied by SEVERANCE) and turns 

it absolutely and uncompromisingly on its head. The result is a 

disturbing, nail-biting thriller that will have you alternately on the 

edge of your seat and slack-jawed with horror. Quim and Bea, 

having met accidentally at a roadside garage some hours earlier, 

become the quarry of an unseen gunman in a forest in which 

they have become lost. Just as you feel sure you know what 

must surely come next, all rules change and all bets are off; let’s 

put it this way – you’ll probably never feel the same way the next 

time someone suggests a pleasant stroll in the woods. 



LAS MENINAS (CFF 15) 

Director: Ihor Podolchak. Starring: Mykola Veresen, Liubov Tymoshevska, 

Hanna Yarovenko, Dmytro Cherniavsky. Ukraine 2008. 99 mins. 

French and Ukrainian with English subtitles. 

In a strange suburban villa which resembles more an art installation 

than a house, live a family of four; parents, daughter and son. The 

family’s existence is terrorized, not by any external party but by the 

son who has suffered from asthma and eczema since childhood 

and uses his “health crises” to manipulate and command. Their life 

is characterised by the endless ritual of unsuccessfully attempting 

to satisfy his whims. Resembling the scattered pieces of a puzzle, 

LAS MENINAS invites the viewer to see what he wants in this 

investigation of daily routine and its effect on the human mind and 

psyche. Life is full of decisions and choices but when we set about 

seeing what choice we have, it turns out to be very little. 

Print source: MF Films 

“a daring, modern avant-garde 

experiment, a cross between film and 

visual arts.” INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 


UK 

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UK 

PREMIERE 


LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (CFF 18) 

(LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN) 

Director: Tomas Alfredson. Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, 

Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl. Sweden 2008. 

114 mins. Swedish with English subtitles. 

A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied 

by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. His wish for 

a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who 

moves in next door with her father. Coinciding with the girl’s 

arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. 

For an introverted boy like Oskar, who is fascinated by gruesome 

stories, it does not take long before he realises that Eli is a 

vampire. He becomes increasingly aware of the tragic, inhuman 

dimension of her plight but cannot bring himself to forsake her. 

When Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the 

only way she can. 

Print source: Momentum 

Monday 22 September, 8.15pm Tuesday 23 September, 3.30pm 

PIANO, SOLO (15) 

Director: Riccardo Milani. Starring: Kim Rossi Stuart, Jasmine Trinca, 

Paola Cortellesi. Italy 2007. 104 mins. Italian with English subtitles. 

PIANO, SOLO is based on the heart-rending true story of the life 

of Italian jazz pianist Luca Flores. A tragic destiny awaits Luca on 

a road in Africa when, at a young age, he sees his mother die in 

a car accident. Luca returns to Italy where his exceptional and 

precocious talent as a pianist soon becomes evident. But the 

inspired rhythms of his boyhood Africa and a prompt by a couple 

of soon-to-be friends turn him from a conventional classical 

career into a new jazz star, an acclaimed figure on the Italian 

and international jazz scenes, appearing with legendary greats 

such as Chet Baker and Dave Holland. Yet the unbearable feeling 

of guilt for his mother’s death grows into an obsession and each 

day, as he withdraws further into isolation, not even his music 

has the power to redeem him. 

Print source: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises 

Thursday 25 September, 8.00pm Friday 26 September, 12.45pm 

STRENGTH AND HONOUR (15) 

Director: Mark Mahon. Starring: Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, 

Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. Ireland 2007. 90 mins. 

STRENGTH AND HONOUR is a story of hope and love, sacrifice 

and devotion, set against the violent underground world of 

bare-knuckle boxing. It tells the story of an Irish-American boxer, 

Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen), who accidentally kills his friend 

in the ring and promises his dying wife that he will never box 

again. However, years later, when he discovers that his only son 

is dying of the same hereditary heart disorder that took his wife, 

he is forced to break his promise to raise money for life-saving 

surgery. Starring Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin 

and Richard Chamberlain, screenwriter Mark Mahon’s directorial 

debut has already attracted a host of accolades, including Best 

Film and Best Actor at the Boston Film Festival. 

We are delighted to welcome director Mark Mahon and members of the 

cast to this screening. 

Print source: Marion Pictures 


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SUMMER (CFF 15) 

Director: Kenneth Glenaan. Starring: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, 

Rachael Blake. UK 2008. 83 mins. 

A powerful study of social alienation and rejection from Kenneth 

Glenaan. As kids, Shaun and Daz are inseparable, skipping school, 

racing bikes, knocking about down by the lake with Katy, Shaun’s 

first love. Full of life, Shaun runs up against an education system that 

cannot contain him. He is squeezed and eventually spat out, taking 

Daz down with him as he self-destructs. Twenty years later, Daz is in 

a wheelchair and has eight weeks to live. Shaun is left to reflect on 

one gilded summer of love, sex and loyalty that marked the end of 

his innocence. His memories lead him to track down Katy, in a bid for 

personal redemption. This is a story of bright lives unfulfilled, of hopes 

that are snuffed out and then, finally, rekindled. 

Print source: Vertigo 

“This film further cements Kenny 

Glenaan as one of the best young British 

directors working today - Summer is sublime.” 

eyeforfilm.co.uk 


SUMMER SCARS (CFF 18) 

Director: Julian Richards. Starring: Kevin Howarth, Ciaran Joyce, 

Amy Harvey. UK 2007. 73 mins. 

In this disturbing British thriller, the fate of a gang of urban 

kids who skip school to play in the woods with a souped-up 

stolen moped is changed forever when they crash into Peter. 

A dishevelled drifter, Peter is delighted to have a group of 

youngsters to hang out with. First he gains their trust by joining 

in their games but then his behaviour begins to change. Peter 

uses what he has learned about the kids against them, bullying 

the alpha boys, belittling the weaker ones and saving his worst 

for the only girl of the group. The kids realise too late that they 

are being held hostage and when Peter acknowledges things 

have gone too far, the kids are forced to embrace the dark side 

of human nature if they are going to survive the ordeal. 

Print source: Prolific Films 

“a coming of age drama injected 

with an uncomfortable dose 

of darkness” bloodandfear.com 


THE BLACK BALLOON (CFF 12A) 

Director: Elissa Down. Starring: Toni Colette, Rhys Wakefield, 

Luke Ford. Australia 2008. 97 mins. 

A story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your 

family. When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to 

a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants 

is to fit in. But his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) has to take 

things easy so his father Simon (Erik Thomson) puts him in 

charge of his autistic older brother Charlie (Luke Ford). Thomas, 

with the help of his new girlfriend Jackie (Gemma Ward), faces 

his biggest challenge yet. Charlie’s unusual antics take Thomas 

on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up frustrations 

about his brother’s autism to pour out – in a story that is funny, 

confronting, and ultimately heart-warming. 

Contains one scene of nudity and moderate coarse language. 

In a post-screen discussion, Sharon Hatt from the National Autistic 

Society and Jan Osbourne from Cambridgeshire’s INSPIRE will look at the 

issues families face when dealing with autism. 

Print source: Icon 


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Saturday 20 September, 10.30pm Sunday 21 September, 8.15pm Friday 19 September, 10.30pm Sunday 21 September, 10.15am 

THE LARK (CFF 18) 

Directors: Steve Tanner and Paul Farmer. Starring: Mary Woodvine, 

Mark Jackson, Helen Rule. UK 2007. 70 mins. 

An absolutely riveting tour-de-force, on a minute budget of 

£12k, from the blossoming Cornish film-making scene. THE 

LARK is a disorientating and disturbing journey into the world 

of Niamh and her two children, a seemingly endless maze in 

which every corridor disappears into an infinite darkness that 

can suddenly part to reveal uncanny scenes and characters. Still, 

Niamh has made a home here, a shelter from a poisonous world 

outside, where they live under the protection of Niamh’s strange 

friends while she tries to discover a way they can escape to 

safety. But then the balance of the nightmare is disturbed by 

intruders from outside. The violent Jackson and the prying 

Siobhan claim to have come here in search of a missing friend. 

But the truth seems to be very different – the newcomers have 

plans for Niamh that can lead them all to disaster. 

Print source: Courtesy of Paul Farmer 

THE MAN FROM LONDON (CFF 15) 

(A LONDONI FÉRFI) 

Director: Béla Tarr. Starring: Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, 

Ági Szirtes, János Derzsi, Erika Bók. Hungary 2007. 132 mins. 

Hungarian with English subtitles. 

THE MAN FROM LONDON is the latest film by Hungarian 

auteur Béla Tarr. Concocting a rich dreamscape from a Belgium 

crime novel by Georges Simenon, Tarr enters the world of film 

noir here, which effortlessly glides along with his shadowstrewn, 

black and white aesthetic. One night a lonely dockside 

signalman spies a man throwing a suitcase overboard. Further 

investigation reveals the contents to be a sizeable amount of 

pounds sterling. Crushingly, the plot tightens as the “man from 

London” plays his hand and a police inspector gives dogged 

chase. Master of the strenuous single take, Tarr works his magic 

at a glacial pace that devastatingly plunges the audience into the 

emotional grist as it builds. Write this off as “uneventful” at your 

peril – you’ll be haunted by it for weeks. 


THE OBJECTIVE (CFF 18) 

Director: Daniel Myrick. Starring: Jonas Ball, Matt Anderson, Kenny 

Taylor, Mike C. Williams, Vanessa Johansson. USA 2008. 90 mins. 

From the director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT comes this 

supernatural horror film set in the desert landscape of Southern 

Afghanistan, which flirts with the issue of intelligent life and 

the effect of its existence on the human psyche. CIA Special 

Agent Ben Keynes’ mission is to locate Mohammed Aban, 

the legendary Mujahadeen leader who aided in defeating the 

Russians in the late 70s, and get a videotaped statement from 

Aban acknowledging his support in ridding the country of the 

Taliban. But the dynamics in the seemly straightforward game of 

chase soon change, when the chasers become the chased and 

the form “enemy” is not as expected. Keynes’ company numbers 

dwindle as they are slaughtered but he drives on, regardless, with 

his objective: to get the data sought by the CIA and to find out the 

truth behind Mohammed Aban and the “Vimanas”. 

Print source: Gearhead Pictures, Inc. 


UK 

PREMIERE 

Friday 19 September, 7.30pm Sunday 21 September, 1.00pm Thursday 18 September, 8.15pm Thursday 25 September, 11.15pm 

THE UNDERSTUDY (CFF 15) 

Directors: David Conolly, Hannah Davis. Starring: Marin Ireland, 

Paul Sparks, Aasif Mandvi. USA 2008. 104 mins. 

The perfect film for all of those who ever thought that if they 

could just get one shot at their big break, then everything would 

be okay… After years of scratching around for small acting 

parts, Rebecca is offered the chance to understudy Hollywood 

superstar Simone Harwin on stage. Things begin to look up 

when Simone is struck down with flu: Rebecca’s performance is 

feted by the great and powerful from Broadway to Hollywood and 

things look as though they may finally improve – until Simone 

returns, fully recovered, on the opening night. With so much at 

stake, it seems as though there’s really only one thing for it. And 

it’s not legal… A darkly comic take on what any one of us might 

do to get what we want. 

We are delighted to welcome the directors, the producer and composer 

Carl Davis to this screening. 

See page 11 for details of a special masterclass with Carl Davis. 

Print source: Mansion Pictures 

THE WAVE (15) 

Director: Dennis Gansel. Starring: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, 

Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich. Germany 2008. 101 mins. 


Based on the social experiment undertaken by US history 

teacher Ron Jones in the 1960s when he attempted to 

demonstrate to pupils how Germany fell under the spell of Adolf 

Hitler, THE WAVE is a powerful and shocking portrait of how 

far individuals will go to belong and to become empowered. 

Now brought into present day Germany, the action centres on 

Rainer Wegner, a popular teacher who has been given the task 

of teaching his students about autocracy. Convinced they have 

heard the story of the Nazis enough times to be bored rigid, the 

class’s reaction is one of apathy and arrogant assumption. It is 

at this point Wegner decides to see how easy it will be to create 

a little bit of Nazi Germany in his own classroom, unaware of 

how just how damaging the unfolding events will be. 

Print source: Momentum 

TIME CRIMES (CFF 15) 

(LOS CRONOCRÍMENES) 

Director: Nacho Vigalondo. Starring: Karra Elejalde, 

Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga. Spain 2007. 88 mins. 


A new house and a new life for Hector and his wife – until he 

goes out into the woods, lured by the sight of a naked woman 

through his binoculars, and is suddenly attacked by a man with 

a swathe of pink bandages for a face. Before he knows it, he 

has gone back in time by one hour to a point before this new 

and sudden nightmare has started, but just as it is only truly 

beginning. In the spirit of PRIMER, but with its own unique 

twists, this is a mind-bending roller-coaster of a film from writer 

and director Nacho Vigalondo (who is also one of the stars) 

which challenges the viewer not only with complex issues of 

time and logic but also with more basic questions concerning 

right and wrong. 



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PREMIERE 

Thursday 18 September, 9.00pm Sunday 28 September, 3.15pm Wednesday 24 September, 5.45pm 

UNRELATED (CFF 15) 

Director: Joanna Hogg. Starring: Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston, 

Mary Roscoe, David Rintoul. UK 2007. 100 mins. 

With the UK on the cusp of possible transition to a Tory 

government, do our films reflect this? Forty-something Anna 

arrives unexpectedly at a friend’s holiday villa in Tuscany minus 

her husband. An apparent spat has left its mark on her and she 

won’t tell anyone what happened. Seemingly distant, she avoids 

her friend, preferring to spend more time with the teenagers on 

the trip – which increasingly puts her at odds with adults as the 

behaviour grows steadily out of control. The first feature film of 

former photographer and TV director Joanna Hogg, UNRELATED 

depicts a rarely seen sight in modern British cinema – a 

prosperous middle class family. Avoiding the usual UK clichés, 

this is a revealing study of a family with its guard down and 

shorts out, on holiday, marking Hogg as a major new talent. 

Print source: Verve 

VANAJA (CFF 12A) 

Director: Rajnesh Donalpalli. Starring: Mamatha Bhukya, 

Urmila Dammannagari, Karan Singh, Krishna Garlapati. India 2006. 

112 mins. Telugu with English subtitles. 

Vanaja is the 14 year-old daughter of a poor, low caste 

fisherman, struggling with dwindling catches and mounting debt 

in rural South India. When a sooth-sayer predicts that she will 

be a great dancer one day, she goes to work in the house of 

the local landlady in hopes of learning Kuchipudi dance while 

earning a keep. She is hired as a farmhand; her vivacious ways 

soon catch the landlady’s eye and she manages to secure the 

landlady’s mentorship – first in music, and then in dance – at 

a game of dice. Vanaja excels at the art and seems to be on a 

steadily ascending path when Shekhar, Rama Devi’s 23 year old 

son – handsome, muscular and rather insecure, returns from the 

US to run for local political elections. 

Contains references to sexual violence. 

We hope to welcome director Rajnesh Donalpalli to the screening. 

Print source: Emerging Films 

WELTSTADT (CFF 15) 

Director: Christian Klandt. Starring: Florian Bartholomäi, Gerdy Zint, 

Karoline Schuch, Hendrik Arnst, Justus Carrière. Germany 2008. 

104 mins. German with English subtitles. 

On the night of 16 June 2004, in a picturesque East German 

town, two drunk teenage boys attacked a homeless man in the 

street. When they realised that he had no valuables, they beat 

him up and set him on fire. Based on a true story, WELTSTADT 

portrays five characters 24 hours before the crime. Karsten, Till, 

Steffi, Günter and Heinrich are average Germans, leading a small 

town life in a state of mediocrity and apathy. But sometimes 

indifference turns into aggression and boredom into violence 

as this film demonstrates in its compelling portrayal of social 

brutality and a deeply aggressive youth sub-culture. 

Print source: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf 


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UK 

PREMIERE 

Tuesday 23 September, 8.00pm Thursday 25 September, 1.15pm 

RUNNING THE SAHARA (CFF 12A) 

Director: James Moll. Narrator: Matt Damon. USA 2008. 103 mins. 

In 2006, an international expedition team of three men 

undertook a quest never before attempted by man: to run across 

the Sahara. Making its way from village to oasis to nomadic 

settlement, the documentary delves deep into the culture of the 

Sahara through the eyes of these three individuals undergoing 

a life-altering experience. Each runner brings his own unique 

story and motivations but all share a love for Africa and a 

desire to make a difference in the lives of the people of the 

Sahara by risking their own, running coast-to-coast across the 

desert to prove that the impossible is possible. They ran 4600 

miles in 111 days. With them we cross six countries: Senegal, 

Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Egypt, and interact on a daily 

basis with the locals, accept their hospitality and learn about 

their lives and the challenges they face. 

Contains moderate coarse language. 

Print source: Porchlight 

Friday 26 September, 9.15pm Sunday 28 September, 10.30am 

1000 JOURNALS (CFF 15) 

Director: Andrea Kreuzhage. USA 2007. 88 mins. 

This intriguing documentary is part of the international 

phenomenon that is the 1000 JOURNALS project: a 21st 

century take on releasing a message in a bottle. In 2000, a 

graphic artist, Someguy from San Francisco, sent 1000 blank 

journals out into the world – in 2003 he got one back. 1000 

JOURNALS is director and writer Andrea Kreuzhage’s voyage of 

discovery to locate the other 999. Where did they go? Whose 

hands have they passed through and what marks, messages or 

images have been left in each one? Moved from state to country 

to continent on a world-wide current of strangers, friends and 

relatives, the 999 journals have acquired almost mythic status 

and between them tell the stories of ordinary people who, 

through their contact with Someguy and his experiment, have 

become extraordinary. 

Print source: Courtesy of Andrea Kreuzhage 

“an intriguing documentary” 

hollywoodreporter.com 


ALONE IN FOUR WALLS (CFF 15) 

(ALLEIN IN VIER WÄNDEN) 

Director: Alexandra Westmeier. Germany 2007. 85 mins. 

Russian with English subtitles. 

Handsomely photographed – and delivered in an almost 

uncomfortably dispassionate tone – this documentary follows 

the lives of a handful of Russian boys, all under the age of 14, 

who are serving terms in a detention centre for crimes ranging 

from theft to murder. Stark, beautiful imagery of floors being 

scrubbed and beds being made with military precision by some 

of the young inmates – as emotionally challenging as it is 

visually arresting – is counter-balanced by the views of those 

affected by their crimes. Glimpses of the boys’ home lives, as 

evidenced by interviews with their parents, hint at why some 

of them seem relatively content within their four prison walls. 

Interviews with the boys themselves reveal the confused children 

behind the harsh machismo they have been forced to adopt. 

Print source: Linger On Film Production 


DOCUMENTARIES 

Thursday 25 September, 1.00pm Wednesday 24 Sep, 5.15pm Friday 26 Sep, 10.15am Saturday 20 September, 3.30pm 

FACELESS (CFF 15) 

Director: Manu Luksch. UK/Austria 2007. 50 mins. 

THE NEW TEN 

COMMANDMENTS (CFF 15) 

JUMP! (CFF PG) 

Director: Helen Hood Scheer. USA 2007. 86 mins. 

In an eerily familiar city, a reformed “Real-Time” Calendar has 

been introduced by the Big Brother state, dispensing with the 

past and the future, leaving citizens faceless, without memory 

or anticipation. Using fear to legitimise the constant observation 

of public space, people’s faces are erased, reducing them into 

a safe, anonymous collective. But one day the film’s protagonist 

abruptly regains her face and, with the help of the Spectral 

Children, she slowly discovers the lost power of the human 

individual and begins the search for its future. Using only images 

obtained from the operators of CCTV video-surveillance systems 

in London – as stated in the rules of the “Manifesto for CCTV 

Filmmakers” – Luksch transforms London using oppressively 

familiar views into a nightmarish stage. 

Showing with SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON – see page 17. 

Print source: Manu Luksch 

“It dares its audience to question 

its own culpability in this all too 

real state of affairs” THE GUARDIAN 

Directors: Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine 

Welsh, Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, 

Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jone. UK 2008. 105 mins. 

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration 

of Human Rights, Lansdowne Productions and the Scottish 

Documentary Institute have gathered together some of the 

most talented filmmakers and visual artists based in Scotland 

today. Collectively they have created the feature length 

documentary, THE NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS. United 

by a single theme – human rights in Scotland – the film 

communicates a variety of artistic visions whilst exploring the 

real life stories of those for whom the Universal Declaration 

has intimate meaning. With testimony of human rights abuses 

sitting alongside tales of human rights recognition, the film 

is both an emotionally powerful journey and an exercise in 

passionate filmmaking of the highest calibre. 

Print source: Lansdowne Productions 

A fun and fast-paced documentary about competitive jump 

rope, JUMP! follows five teams from around the United States 

who push their physical and psychological limits in pursuit of 

winning the World Rope Skipping Championship. The sport 

is part extreme athletics, part art form and the kids create 

masterfully choreographed moves that burst with rhythm, 

sweat and originality. Throughout arduous training and mindboggling 

performances, these unexpected trailblazers reveal 

what makes them tick and what sets each of them apart. 

In the end determination, rivalry and collaboration converge 

with dramatic and unexpected results – ingredients that 

made it Overall Audience Favourite at the 2007 Los Angeles 

Film Festival. If you are thinking double Dutch in a school 

playground, think again... 

Print source: Nutshell Productions LLC 

“JUMP! has all the right moves.” 

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 


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UK 

PREMIERE 

Monday 22 Sep, 10.00pm Tuesday 23 Sep, 6.00pm, The Junction 

PAGEANT (CFF 15) 

Directors: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern. USA 2008. 95 mins. 

For 34 years the Miss Gay America Pageant ® has been the 

premier pageant system in the art of female impersonation. It is 

for male artists who create the female “illusion” – no hormones 

or implants of any kind are permitted. PAGEANT takes you 

behind the scenes as 52 ordinary gentlemen go to extraordinary 

lengths in order to be crowned the 34th Miss Gay America ® . 

Following five of the most talented and beautiful female 

impersonators as they prepare to dominate in this underground 

competition, PAGEANT features stunning musical numbers, 

ecstatic highs and tearful showbiz lows as it delves into the 

heart and soul of this little-known make-believe world. We hear 

from the men behind the make-up as well as from those in 

their entourage: husbands, mothers, sons, and little brothers. 

Everybody has a dream; these men are making theirs a reality. 

Print source: Illusion Arts 

“A+... It has so much heart, love and 

acceptance” JOHN GARCIA, PEGASUS NEWS 


CRAWFORD (CFF 15) 

Director: David Modigliani. USA 2008. 74 mins. 

In 1999, Governor George W. Bush buys a ranch in Crawford, 

Texas, and calls it “home”; overnight, an insular community 

explodes. Bush declares candidacy for President, using 

Crawford as the perfect set-piece to project a folksy image, 

and the town is instantly overrun with international press 

corps and droves of flocking tourists. But soon, the town’s 

inhabitants feel the human impact of political stagecraft. The 

spotlight exacerbates tensions between freethinking and 

conformity, pushing a progressive teacher and her favorite 

student to the edge – and beyond. By 2005, the President’s 

mounting problems follow him home, and Crawford’s boom 

is busting like the Presidency itself. Tourists have stopped 

coming; land is overvalued; the bumper sticker and trinket 

shops are boarded up. Two people are dead and one is 

leaving town. Bush is soon to abscond. Left to deal with the 

aftermath are the real people of Crawford. Their lives are 

changed forever. 

Print source: Live Action Projects 

Monday 22 Sep, 4.00pm Wednesday 24 Sep, 11.00am 

GOD MADE THEM BLIND (CFF PG) 

Director: Richard Todd. Australia 2008. 73 mins. 

GOD MADE THEM BLIND is an observational documentary 

about how Australian ceramicist, John Fawcett, is devoting 

his life to reducing the enormous number of cataract blind 

people in Indonesia after narrowly escaping his own death on 

two occasions. His greatest challenge, however, is convincing 

a nation that blindness is not God’s punishment. Ironically, the 

most resistance he faces comes from the very people he is 

trying to help. Four years in the making, the film reveals how 

John’s life-altering quest brings him into conflict with Hindu 

beliefs in Karma and black magic, resulting in profound personal 

transformations on both sides. 

Print source: Aquarius Productions 


DOCUMENTARIES 

Saturday 27 September, 10.45pm Saturday 20 Sep, 5.45pm Tuesday 23 Sep, 3.00pm Saturday 20 September, 8.15pm Monday 22 September, 12.30pm 

CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS (CFF PG) 

Director: Miguel Kohan. USA/Brazil/UK/Argentina. 100 mins. 


With the return to democracy, Argentina is experiencing an 

extraordinary rebirth of its main national musical tradition, 

the Tango. CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS is the gathering of the 

greatest living legends of this formidable musical genre. 

These extraordinary men and women, ranging from 70 to 

95 years old, reveal to us the mysteries and essence of this 

melancholic and sexy music. Acclaimed musician, producer 

and composer Gustavo Santaolalla (winner of 2 Academy 

Awards) leads us on a journey to bring together these 

unique “maestros”. Reconstructing historical arrangements 

and recording unpublished material for the first time, the 

collaboration culminates with a grand performance of Tango 

music and dance at Buenos Aires’ famous Colon Theatre. 

Print source: Pathé 

THE DANCING FOREST (CFF PG) 

Director: Brice Lainé. UK 2008. 76 mins. 

Long abandoned as a land without hope, Africa has battled to 

overcome the negative stereotypes that have condemned it 

to the periphery of civilization. The damning lie is of a people 

trapped in their past; unable to break the cycle of corruption 

and apathy – a people who will always be dependent on 

foreign help as they are incapable of helping themselves. 

THE DANCING FOREST is Africa’s strident retaliation. Through 

the shining example of a small village in Togo, we find a 

community that refuses to wait for outside aid to make its 

way out of poverty and ruin. With tools in hand, its proud men 

and women stoop to build their own destiny and a model of 

self-reliance. THE DANCING FOREST is a powerfully optimistic 

vision of Africa in the 21st Century and a touching story to 

shatter many destructive myths about the Dark Continent. 

Print source: Elmadro Productions 

SLEEP FURIOUSLY (CFF 15) 

Director: Gideon Koppel. UK 2008. English and Welsh with English 

subtitles. 94 mins. 

SLEEP FURIOUSLY is set in a small farming community in mid 

Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village 

of Llareggub. This is a place where Koppel’s parents – both 

refugees – found a home. It is a landscape and population that 

is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture is disappearing 

and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world 

is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the 

writer Peter Handke, the filmmaker leads us on a poetic and 

profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a 

world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. Allied to a soundtrack by 

the revered electronic musician Aphex Twin, SLEEP FURIOUSLY 

is lyrical filmmaking at its best. 

Following the screening, we hope to welcome the director and the 

producer for a Q&A sponsored by BAFTA.. 

Print source: New Wave 


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TIMETABLE 

More screenings to come – for 

updates check the Festival website 

www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk, 

at the Arts Picturehouse, and the 

Festival Daily newspaper. 

All tickets must be collected at 

least 15 minutes prior to the start of 


Do check your tickets – we have four 

main venues this year, and would hate 

you to turn up at the wrong one! 

Remember, there are no adverts or 

trailers before Festival presentations 

We aim for films to begin at the 

advertised start time. 

SATURDAY 13 & 

SUNDAY 14 SEP 

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CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY 

6.00 THE COLOURS OF INFINITY 10 

8.00 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 10 

TUESDAY 16 

SEPTEMBER 

CRASSH 

PAGE NO. 

4.30 TRANSMISSION: ECOLOGY 8 

RIVERSIDE SCREENING 

7.30 GREENSCAPE 13 

WEDNESDAY 17 

SEPTEMBER 

PAGE NO. 

4.15 TRANSMISSION: LA VIE 

NOUVELLE & LAID DOWN 8 


7.30 BATTLEFIELD 13 

THURSDAY 18 

SEPTEMBER 

PAGE NO. 

11.15 TRANSMISSION: 

BECOMING VERA 8 

3.00 UK SHORTS 1 70 

3.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED 

3.30 CAUGHT IN THE ACT 21 

5.30 BELLE TOUJOURS & 

BELLE DE JOUR 21 

5.45 REVIVALS: LOVE LETTERS 

AND LIVE WIRES 54 

6.00 GOMORRAH 24 

8.15 THE WAVE 33 

9.00 LINHA DE PASSE 19 

9.00 UNRELATED 35 

10.30 SUMMER SCARS 31 

11.00 KARLOFF: 69 

THE OLD DARK HOUSE 

FRIDAY 19 

SEPTEMBER 



PAGE NO. 

10.30 KARLOFF: THE OLD 69 

DARK HOUSE 


12.45 LA VIE NOUVELLE 8 


2.30 GOMORRAH 24 

3.15 POLISH: CANAL 44 


5.00 EDEN 23 

5.45 SEIDL: LOSSES TO BE 62 

EXPECTED 

6.00 POLISH: 45 

TWISTS OF FATE 

7.30 THE UNDERSTUDY 33 

8.15 LIFE FOR SALE 15 

8.30 DRESSING GRANITE 22 

10.00 MUSIC: WE DREAMED 51 

AMERICA 

10.30 THE OBJECTIVE 32 

10.45 EUROPEAN SHORTS 73 

SATURDAY 20 

SEPTEMBER 


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10.30 CAUGHT IN THE ACT 21 

11.00 CFC: I MADE THIS 76 

12.30 KARLOFF DOUBLE BILL: 68 

FRANKENSTEIN & 

THE MUMMY 

12.45 EDEN 23 

1.30 CFC: MONSTERS ON FILM 76 


2.00 POLISH: KATYN 44 


3.15 MASTERCLASS WITH 

CARL DAVIS 11 

3.30 JUMP! 37 

5.00 JULIA 60 

5.45 THE DANCING FOREST 39 

6.00 SEIDL: DOG DAYS 63 

8.00 FAINTHEART 23 

8.15 SLEEP FURIOUSLY 39 

8.30 MUSIC: BLIND HUSBANDS 50 

10.30 THE LARK 32 

10.45 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 1 72 

11.00 MUSIC: PATTI SMITH: 50 

DREAM OF LIFE 

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SEPTEMBER 

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MONDAY 22 

SEPTEMBER 

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TUESDAY 23 

SEPTEMBER 

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WEDNESDAY 24 

SEPTEMBER 

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10.00 REVIVALS: LOVE LETTERS 54 

AND LIVE WIRES 

10.15 THE OBJECTIVE 32 


12.00 FEATURE 24 

12.30 REVIVALS: 

WHITE CHRISTMAS 55 

1.00 THE UNDERSTUDY 33 

2.00 MACHINIMA: 47 

SYNTHETIC CINEMA 

3.00 POLISH: TIME TO DIE 45 


4.00 SEIDL: JESUS, YOU KNOW 63 

5.00 THE OLYMPIC GAMES 76 

ON FILM 

6.00 MACHINIMA: DREAMS 48 

AND SHADOWS 

6.30 JARMAN: WAR REQUIEM 58 

8.00 MAGDALENE STREET 10 

SCREENING 

8.15 THE MAN FROM LONDON 32 

8.30 POLISH: PRESERVE 45 

8.45 I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG 27 

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10.15 SEIDL: DOG DAYS 63 


12.30 SLEEP FURIOUSLY 39 


2.00 MACHINIMA: ZERO BUDGET, 48 

BIG AUDIENCE 

3.00 POLISH: KATYN 44 

3.30 JARMAN: THE LAST OF 58, 56 

ENGLAND & ARIA 

4.00 GOD MADE THEM BLIND 38 

5.30 REVIVALS: BICYCLE THIEVES 54 

6.00 MACHINIMA: PLAY’S THE THING 48 

6.00 JARMAN: THE GARDEN & 57 

A PIECE OF MY SKY IS MISSING 

8.00 SEIDL: IMPORT/EXPORT 63 

8.15 PIANO, SOLO 29 


10.00 PAGEANT 38 

10.30 LET THE RIGHT ONE IN 29 

11.15 THE BROKEN 15 

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY 

12.00 MACHINIMA: WORKSHOP 49 


THE JUNCTION 

6.00 UK SHORTS 2 70-71 

8.30 MUSIC: HEAVY METAL IN 

BAGHDAD 52 



11.00 CFC WORKSHOP: 76 

CENSORSHIP, FILM & THE BBFC 

12.45 POLISH: TIME TO DIE 45 


3.00 THE DANCING FOREST 39 

3.30 PIANO, SOLO 29 

4.00 MACHINIMA: SCREEN STORIES 49 

5.30 IN MEMORY OF US 27 

5.45 JARMAN: DEREK 57 

6.00 GOODNIGHT IRENE 25 

8.00 RUNNING THE SAHARA 36 

8.15 JARMAN: EDWARD II 57 

8.30 ALEXANDRA 20 

10.00 KARLOFF: THE BLACK CAT & 69 

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN 

10.15 LATE NIGHT SHORTS 1 75 

10.30 SAVAGE GRACE 15 

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY 


WYSING ARTS CENTRE 

6.00 STOP. WATCH. 12 

THE JUNCTION 

6.00 PAGEANT 38 

8.30 MUSIC: A LIFE IN THE 52 

DEATH OF JOE MEEK 

WESLEY CHAPEL 

8.00 MUSIC: THE LAST LAUGH 51 


7.30 RIVERRUN 13 

10.30 BIG SCREAM!*: SAVAGE GRACE 15 

10.30 BIG SCREAM!*: EDEN 23 

11.00 GOD MADE THEM BLIND 38 

12.30 IN MEMORY OF US 27 

1.00 CFC: CAMBRIDGESHIRE ON FILM 77 

1.15 JARMAN: SHORTS 1 58 

3.00 WARNER BROS.: WHITE HEAT 65 

3.15 REVIVALS: A MATTER OF 54 

LIFE AND DEATH 


5.15 THE NEW TEN 37 

COMMANDMENTS 

5.45 WELTSTADT 35 

6.00 JARMAN: RICHARD HESLOP 59 

8.00 WARNER BROS.: YOU MUST 64 

REMEMBER THIS 

8.15 JARMAN: THE JARMAN 59 

AWARD 

8.30 SUMMER 31 

11.00 FEAR(S) OF THE DARK 23 

11.00 JARMAN: THE DEVILS 57 

11.15 BLOOD CAR 17 

THE JUNCTION 

6.00 DR STRANGELOVE 16 

8.00 MUSIC: HEAVY LOAD 51, 77 

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THURSDAY 25 

SEPTEMBER 

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10.00 CFC: FRANKENSTEIN 77 


12.45 WARNER BROS.: WHITE HEAT 65 

1.00 SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE 17, 37 

TO THE MOON & FACELESS 

1.15 RUNNING THE SAHARA 36 

3.15 JARMAN: BLUE & OSTIA 56, 59 


4.00 THE BEST OF DIGITAL 74 

SHORTS 

5.30 WARNER BROS.: I AM A 64 

FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG 

5.45 REVIVALS: LA RABBIA 55 

6.00 REVIVALS: A STREETCAR 55 

NAMED DESIRE 

8.00 STRENGTH AND HONOUR 29 

7.45 ALGERIA, UNSPOKEN STORIES 20 


10.30 WARNER BROS.: 65 

CAPTAIN BLOOD 

10.45 BI THE WAY 17 

11.15 TIME CRIMES 33 

THE JUNCTION 

6.00 STANLEY KUBRICK: 16 

A LIFE IN PICTURES 

9.00 WILD COMBINATION 17 


7.30 DREAM SCREEN 13 

FRIDAY 26 

SEPTEMBER 

PAGE NO. 

10.00 WARNER BROS.: 

CAPTAIN BLOOD 65 

10.15 THE NEW TEN 

COMMANDMENTS 37 

12.30 REVIVALS: LA RABBIA 55 

12.45 STRENGTH AND HONOUR 29 

1.00 WARNER BROS.: BABY FACE 66 

2.45 NEW ROMANIAN SHORTS 73 

3.00 MUSIC: TRIP TO ASIA 52 

3.15 WARNER BROS.: YOU MUST 64 

REMEMBER THIS 

5.00 BIG PITCH, MICROBUDGET 12 

5.30 GOOD DICK 25 

5.45 CLERMONT FERRAND 74 

SHORTS 2008 

7.15 AÑO UÑA 20 

8.00 HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS 25 

AND ALIENATE PEOPLE 

8.15 ALONE IN FOUR WALLS 36 

9.15 1000 JOURNALS 36 

10.15 WARNER BROS.: 66 

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 


11.00 LATE NIGHT SHORTS 2 75 

THE JUNCTION 

6.15 MUSIC: PATTI SMITH: 50 

DREAM OF LIFE 

8.30 MUSIC: ONE MAN IN 50 

THE BAND 

SATURDAY 27 

SEPTEMBER 



PAGE NO. 

10.30 UK SHORTS 2 70-71 

12.30 WHERE THE WATER MEETS 17 

THE SKY 


BLACK LEGION 66 

1.00 CLERMONT FERRAND 74 

SHORTS 2008 

3.00 THE BLACK BALLOON 31, 77 

3.15 THE GROCER’S SON 15 

3.30 BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE 17 

5.30 IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA 27 

5.45 CYCLES 22 

6.00 CONVERSATIONS WITH 22 

MY GARDENER 

8.00 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED 21 

8.15 LAS MENINAS 28 

8.30 JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY 28 


YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 65 

10.45 CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS 39 

11.00 HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS 25 

AND ALIENATE PEOPLE 

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going to press; we will only make changes in exceptional 

circumstances, but we do reserve the right to do so if we must. 

SUNDAY 28 

SEPTEMBER 

PAGE NO. 

10.00 CYCLES 22 

10.15 WARNERS BROS.: 65 

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 

10.30 1000 JOURNALS 36 

12.30 MUSIC: TRIP TO ASIA 52 

12.45 JARMAN: SHORTS 2 59 

1.00 KARLOFF: THE RAVEN 69 

3.00 FERMAT’S ROOM 24 

3.15 VANAJA 35 

3.30 THE GROCER’S SON 15 

5.30 SURPRISE MOVIE 15 

5.45 CRAWFORD 38 

6.00 KING OF THE HILL 28 



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Polish cinema has consistently been 

haunted by the losses and triumphs 

of historical events. Whether this 

is embodied in the physical decay 

of a city’s architecture or in the 

contemporary invocation of people’s 

memories, the past is never far below 

the surface of a Polish film. The Festival 

is pleased to bring you a selection of 

films from Poland’s most celebrated 

directors, who are finding new ways of 

engaging with history in a manner both 

aesthetically powerful and particularly 

poignant for contemporary society. 

Saturday 20 Sep, 2.00pm Monday 22 Sep, 3.00pm 

KATYN (CFF 18) 

Director: Andrzej Wajda. Starring: Jan Englert, Artur Zmijewski, 

Maja Ostaszewska. Poland 2007. 118 mins. Polish with 


Brutal and devastating, the latest film from one of Poland’s 

greatest directors revolves around the secret massacre of 

thousands of Polish officers by Soviet forces in the forests of 

Katyn in 1944, and the fates of the women and children they 

left behind them. Their attempts to ascertain the truth behind 

the disappearance of the soldiers brings them up against 

a conspiracy that was not officially unraveled until after the 

fall of the USSR in 1989. KATYN is the film that Wajda has 

always wanted to make: his own father was murdered there, 

and the film bears a personal wound that resonates through 

its haunting and beautiful cinematography. Nominated for an 

Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. 

Print source: TVP (Telewizja Polska) 


CANAL (KANAŁ) (CFF 15) 

Director: Andrzej Wajda. Starring: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz 

Janczar. Poland 1957. 91 mins. Polish with English subtitles. 

One of Wajda’s first films, CANAL asks us to bear witness to 

the activities of a group of resistance fighters in the last hours 

of their lives, on the eve of the failure of the 1944 Warsaw 

Uprising. They have only one means of escaping death at the 

hands of the Nazis: the sewers. Apocalyptic, hallucinatory, and 

tragic, the film was made under censorship during the period 

of Polish socialism and its complex layers of allusion are as 

captivating now as they were to original audiences. 

Print source: Contemporary Films 

“I spent seventeen hours in the sewers... 

Wajda’s film is telling the truth.” 

WARSAW UPRISING FIGHTER (1957) 


POLISH CINEMA 

Sunday 21 September, 3.00pm Tuesday 23 September, 12.45pm 

TIME TO DIE (PORA UMIERAC) (CFF 12A) 

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska. Starring: Danuta Szaflarska, 

Krzysztof Globisz. Poland 2007. 104 mins. Polish with 


Adored by audiences at recent international festivals, this 

stunningly shot black-and-white film features a 93 year-old 

Polish screen veteran as the feisty and spirited Aniela. 

Offset by sharp and witty monologues to her dog (for whom, 

incidentally, the prize of Best Canine Performance was 

created at The Polish Film Awards), she finds her own unique 

ways to battle against greedy property developers, old age, 

and juvenile delinquents. 

Print source: Kid Film 

“every shot is beautifully composed and 

edited...every role, even the smallest, 

is brilliantly played. This is real Polish cinema. 

Unbelievable.” MACHINA 


PRESERVE (REZERWAT) (CFF 18) 

Director: Łukasz Palkowski. Starring: Marcin Kwasny, 

Sonia Bohosiewicz. Poland 2007. 100 mins. Polish with 


After his girlfriend throws him out, photographer Marcin 

Kwasny moves into the Praga district of Warsaw, the ‘preserve’ 

of the title, infamously dilapidated and inhabited by drunks 

and delinquents. On the request of the tenement owner, who 

wants to prove to the council that the buildings should be 

destroyed, Marcin begins to photograph his neighbours and 

their run-down apartment blocks. As he does so, he becomes 

irrevocably drawn into, and increasingly fascinated by, their 

unique and hermetic world. A warm, bitter-sweet comedy 

that allows viewers to glimpse areas of Warsaw they might 

otherwise never see, Palkowski’s film has justifiably become 

a favorite on the Polish film festival circuit. Winner of the 

Audience Award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. 

Print source: Paisa Films 


TWISTS OF FATE (KOROWÓD) (CFF 15) 

Director: Jerzy Stuhr. Starring: Jan Frycz, Kamil Mackowiak. 

Poland 2007. 112 mins. Polish with English subtitles. 

This gripping film spans the moral attitudes of two 

generations and their complex entanglements. A former 

secret police officer under Polish Socialism is facing the 

consequences for his past actions. Meanwhile, Bartek, a 

student who makes a career from lying and cheating, finds 

a briefcase and coat containing a mobile phone on a train. 

When the phone begins to ring, Bartek doesn’t hesitate to 

answer it, setting off a shocking series of events that changes 

the characters’ lives forever. 

Print source: Fundacja Promocji Kina Film Polski 

“...one of the best and most 

important films in this year’s 

Gdynia Film Festival” GAZETA WYBORCZA 


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GAME, SET AND MACHINIMA 

Lights, Camera, Action in Virtual Space 


90 mins 

Machinima (from the conflation of Machine and 

Cinema) is a mix of animation, 3D film and realtime 

games technologies. Originally the province 

of hardcore gamers and codeheads, Machinima 

has exploded out of the games ghetto and is 

undergoing a revolution as artists and filmmakers 

start to exploit this new technology. Suddenly, 

creative filmmakers can make ambitious films 

without a camera, a lighting rig, or a crew. 

Machinima is a world where the wardrobe 

department and casting agency are a library of 

files on your hard disk; a world where resources 

and technical know-how can no longer block you 

from making imaginative films. These screenings 

represent a snapshot of the vibrant interplay 

between computer games, 3D animation, and 

both mainstream and experimental film. 

Print source: FDMX/Short Fuze 

ENTER 

THE CURIOUS 

WORLD OF 

MACHINIMA! 

SYNTHETIC CINEMA (CFF 15) 

Machinima, borne out of games, has started a love affair 

with film. Although lacking the detail, dynamic range and 

sumptuousness of film stock, “machinimators” have made 

up for this with their flair for precision editing and cinematic 

composition, creating mood and suspense with big screen 

ambitions. In this session you’ll find a gamut of current film 

genres transported into the virtual world, from the romantic 

and mawkish through to the humourous and the horrific. 

However, these aren’t mere fan homages – these are 

engaging stories in their own right. As well as a screening 

of acclaimed films there will be a panel including Hugh 

Hancock, creator of the first Machinima feature film, and 

David Heinemann, associate film tutor of the BFI, discussing 

where cinematic Machinima is going and whether it will find 

acceptance in the wider film world – or even change it! 

Sam Goldwater 

Geliga 


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90 mins 

DREAMS AND SHADOWS (CFF 15) 

Machinimators are not bound by the resources or rendering time 

constraints animators commonly endure to achieve their vision. 

The ability to change images rapidly in 3D space has led to an 

avalanche of playful experimentation – often with evocative or 

surreal results. There’s a feeling that since there are few ground 

rules in this new media, there’s plenty of room to try out new 

ideas, to bend and disrupt narrative, to explore different kinds 

of colourful abstraction. Here we see a collection of the more 

experimental, fantastic and occasionally dark visions conjured 

up in Machinima, from the exquisite Second Life-created 

mindscape of Lainy Voom’s BLACK SWAN to the paintbox 

craziness of Phil Rice’s BODYSNATCHERS Radiohead video – 

and the feverish nightmare of Tony Bannan’s FOLIE A DEUX. 


90 mins 

ZERO BUDGET, BIG 

AUDIENCE (CFF 15) 

Making a Machinima movie on zero budget doesn’t 

mean that you can’t reach as many people as a 

TV channel. Come and see the most successful 

Machinima movies ever made, and listen to leading 

personalities from the world of amateur Machinima 

explain how YOU can reach a million people with a 

single home-produced Machinima movie. See great 

Machinima examples and hear how the creators got 

the publicity, and built on their success. Our panelists 

will be kept in check by chairperson David Bailey, CEO 

of Moviestorm. If you aspire to making your own movies 

and clocking up a million hits, this session’s for you! 

Illegal Danish 2 

Lainy Voom 

Lainy Voom 


PLAY’S THE THING: 

MACHINIMA IN THE 

GAMEWORLD (CFF 15) 

90 mins 

Games are now mainstream and the games industry outstrips 

film and TV in terms of size; more people play World of Warcraft 

on any given day than see a new blockbuster film on its first 

weekend, and recently Grand Theft Auto 4 was reportedly the 

highest grossing media product of all time. Machinima has 

its roots in the twilight worlds of “modding” and tinkering with 

games engines. Here we explore the weird world of homages, 

satires and wry social commentary made by hijacking games 

characters and environments. See familiar characters from Halo, 

Sims, Half-Life, Grand Theft Auto and even Hillary Clinton(!) 

migrate to the big screen to entertain you, crossing from 

high-octane game into drama, comedy, or even soap opera 

genres. A leading Games expert will be on hand to explain to the 

uninitiated just exactly how and why it’s done. 

Lit Fuse Films 

Ross Scott 


Riot Films 

Tuesday 23 September, 4.00pm 

SCREEN STORIES: 

NARRATIVE IN GAMES 

AND FILM 

90 mins 

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live” JOAN DIDION. 

Narrative in games has become more sophisticated thanks 

to photo-real graphics, surround-sound audio, larger screens 

and professional scriptwriters, but how does the experience 

of gaming on the latest consoles compare to storytelling 

on the big screen? Is the car chase in Bullitt better than 

running from the cops on GTA IV? Is the obelisk in 2001 more 

awe-inspiring than the Halo? And whose zombies would 

you rather have chasing you – George Romero’s or the ones 

in Dead Rising on the Xbox 360? Join technology writer Bill 

Thompson and a panel of industry experts to debate the 

future of narrative, with a batch of illustrative film clips, live 

gameplay and Machinima extracts. 

Sam Goldwater 

Myndflame 

Ross Scott 

Monday 22 September, 12.00-1.30pm 

Monday 22 September, 3.30-5.00pm 

Tuesday 23 September, 12.00-1.30pm 

MAKE A MOVIE 

IN YOUR LUNCH BREAK: 

MACHINIMA LIVE 

Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram (Moviestorm), authors of 

Machinima for Dummies, present a hands-on workshop where 

you will be able to make a complete 3D animated movie in one 

hour. All software will be provided, you don’t need 

to know anything about 3D modelling or animation, 

and you’ll get a free digital movie-making 

kit to take away with you. Try it out! 

Pre-booking through the Arts Picturehouse essential. 

Suitable for ages 13 and over. 

Game, Set and Machinima is curated by 

Saint John Walker and Matt Kelland, 

and sponsored by FDMX (The Film and 

Digital Media Exchange). 

Thanks to Short Fuze, creators of Moviestorm. 

THREE 

WORKSHOPS AT 

ANGLIA RUSKIN 

UNIVERSITY 

FREE 

EVENT 

GAME, SET AND MACHINIMA 


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UK 

PREMIERE 

Friday 26 September, 8.30pm, The Junction Saturday 20 September, 8.30pm Saturday 20 Sep, 11.00pm Friday 26 Sep, 6.15pm, The Junction 

ONE MAN IN THE BAND (CFF PG) 

Director: Adam Clitheroe. Starring: Dennis Hopper Choppers, Duracell, 

Honkeyfinger, Man from Uranus and others. UK 2008. 83 mins. 

One-man bands. Showmen, eccentrics, loners. But whatever 

you do, don’t call them buskers. Adam Clitheroe’s new feature 

documentary is a funny and moving portrait of contemporary 

musicians who play as one-person acts. For them, music just 

sounds so much better when you make it all alone. With an 

eclectic array of musical styles – ranging from theremin rock 

to hurricane drum solos and a backing band made of bicycle 

wheels – they bring to the stage noise and spectacle worthy 

of a whole band, but at a fraction of the budget. Following 

their progress with sympathetic eyes – perhaps helped by the 

fact that it’s made by a one-man band filmmaker – we meet 

a selection of contemporary one-man bands from Europe and 

the USA and join them for their lonely existence on the road. 

Life for a one-man band is a journey into solitude, and so the 

documentary asks: what drives us as humans to create, and is 

it worth the pain? 

Print source: Courtesy of Adam Clitheroe 

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BLIND HUSBANDS (CFF PG) 

Director: Erich von Stroheim. Starring: Erich von Stroheim, 

Sam de Grasse, Francelia Billington. Austria 1919. 98 mins. 

With live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand. 

BLIND HUSBANDS is the remarkable directorial debut of Erich 

von Stroheim, one of the most celebrated film-makers of the 

silent era. The film tells the story of an American couple’s 

marriage and the jealousy and repression which lurks beneath 

the surface. Vacationing in the Alps, Mrs Armstrong (Billington) 

is seduced by a heartless officer (von Stroheim) which not only 

challenges her fidelity but also the manhood of her husband 

(de Grasse). With spectacular camerawork and an exhilarating 

climax, BLIND HUSBANDS introduced to the world one of the 

finest film artists of his generation. The film is presented with 

a live piano score by Neil Brand, praised by BBC Radio 4 as 

‘…the Doyen of silent film accompanists’. 

Print source: Independent Cinema Office 

PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (15) 

Director: Steven Sebring. USA 2008. 109 mins. 

The iconoclastic punk songwriter, artist and poet Patti Smith is 

profiled in this extraordinary documentary created by acclaimed 

fashion photographer Steven Sebring. Following Smith’s return 

to the public eye after the death of her husband in 1994, the film 

captures Smith’s life both onstage and off, juxtaposing intimate 

footage of Smith offstage with friends and family with snarling 

and energetic performance film which shows her to be no less 

vital than she was 30 years ago. Artfully shot and poetically 

structured, Sebring’s vivid collage allows the footage to speak 

for itself and the result is a powerful portrait of one of the most 

important musicians in rock history. 


“…both a journey into Smith’s storied 

past and a portrait of her life today – less 

a movie about a musician than a transfixing 

meditation on her own iconography.” 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE


WE DREAMED AMERICA (CFF 15) 

Director: Alex Walker. USA/UK 2008. 48 mins. 

WE DREAMED AMERICA examines the influence of American 

country music on a new breed of British artists. Featuring 

six UK bands, from the country-tinged rock of Alabama 3 to 

the exuberant rhythm-and-blues of Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, 

the film explores the continuing interaction between British 

and American musical traditions. All the bands featured are 

united by their passion for American country and rhythm & 

blues music, and are redefining the genre from the other 

side of the Atlantic. Featuring a wide range of performance 

footage as well as musical and social commentary from 

‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, Guy Clark, Tom McRae and BJ Cole, 

WE DREAMED AMERICA offers a fresh perspective on the 

most American of musical genres. 

We are delighted to welcome the band Hey Negrita for a live 

performance following this screening. 


copyrightmorganwhite2008 

Wednesday 24 September, 8.00pm, The Junction 

HEAVY LOAD (12A) 

Director: Jerry Rothwell. UK 2008. 91 mins. 

Calling themselves Brighton’s answer to the Ramones, 

Heavy Load is a band fuelled by the same energy and 

attitude that made the original New York punks great. 

Yet Heavy Load are unique in the UK punk scene by 

virtue of the fact that they are made up of musicians 

with and without learning disabilities. Jerry Rothwell 

(DEEP WATER) follows the band recording their debut 

record The Queen Mother’s Dead and charts the band’s 

attempts at breaking the mainstream, culminating in 

an electrifying performance at the Wychwood Music 

Festival in front of hundreds of revellers. Rothwell’s 

film presents an engaging insight into the ambition 

and dreams of being in a band, and goes a long way to 

furthering Heavy Load’s stated mission “to demonstrate 

that disability rocks”. 

Contains one use 

of strong language. 

Print source: Met Films 

Tuesday 23 September, 8.00pm, Wesley Methodist Church 

THE LAST LAUGH (CFF PG) 

Director: F.W. Murnau. Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, 

Hans Unterkircher Germany 1925. Silent. 101 mins. 

With live accompaniment by jazz pianist John Law. 

Often considered to be the greatest film of the silent 

era, Friedrich Murnau’s classic tells the story of a proud 

hotel worker whose life is shattered when his attempts 

at concealing his demotion from doorman to washroom 

attendant are discovered. Technically stunning (the film is one 

of the first to use a moving camera) and emotionally complex 

despite the simplicity of the story, the film is an embodiment 

of the German Expression movement of the 1920s. 

Print source: Arrow Films 

“One of Europe’s most 

adventurous pianists.” 

JAZZWISE MAGAZINE ON PIANIST JOHN LAW 

MUSIC AT THE MOVIES 


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MUSIC AT THE MOVIES 

Friday 26 September, 3.00pm Sunday 28 September, 12.30pm 

TRIP TO ASIA (CFF PG) 

Director: Thomas Grube. Germany 2008. 108 mins. 

German, English and Spanish with English subtitles. 

This compelling documentary follows the Berlin Philharmonic 

Orchestra on a concert tour of Asia, offering a unique insight 

into the internal dynamic of one of the world’s leading musical 

ensembles. Reuniting the orchestra and its charismatic 

conductor Simon Rattle with director Thomas Grube after 

the 2004 breakthrough documentary RHYTHM IS IT! the 

film examines the nature of the orchestra as a collective 

of individuals, and documents the quest to harmonise 

the unique personalities of each musician to create the 

acclaimed orchestra’s unique sound. Beautifully shot and 

with a remarkable score by Simon Stockhausen, this subtle 

exploration of the search for harmony with oneself and one’s 

neighbours offers a truly breathtaking cinematic experience. 

Print source: Axiom 



HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD (15) 

Directors: Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti. USA 2008. 84 mins. 

English and Arabic with English subtitles. 

Offering a unique look at the situation in Iraq, Alvi and 

Moretti’s debut film follows the fortunes of Acrassicauda, 

the country’s only heavy metal band. The story begins after 

the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 as the band try to keep 

their heavy rock dreams alive despite being seen as infidels. 

From receiving death threats to being unable to perform or 

even practice due to safety fears, life is not easy for the four 

members of the band. Yet this film shows the band continuing 

despite this extraordinary adversity, and highlights the necessity 

of art to transcend even in the most difficult situations. 

Print source: Slingshot 

“Both a stirring testament to the plight 

of cultural expression in Baghdad and 

a striking report on the refugee scene in Syria, 

this rock-doc like no other electrifies its genre 

and redefines headbanging as an act of hardcore 

courage.” NEW YORK TIMES 

Tuesday 23 Sep, 8.30pm, The Junction 

A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF 

JOE MEEK (CFF 15) 

Directors: Howard S Berger, Susan Stahman. USA 2008. 

122 mins. 

Often considered to be Britain’s finest music producer, 

Joe Meek was a creative maverick with remarkable aptitude 

for making and producing successful pop records from his 

small studio in a flat above a leather goods store. Yet despite 

this commercial success Meek led a troubled personal life, 

coping with his deteriorating mental health as well as dealing 

with being a homosexual at a time when it was illegal. This 

documentary traces the rise and fall of Joe Meek from 

childhood to his death by his own hand in 1967, and includes 

interviews with some of Meek’s closest friends and fans 

including The Tornados (whose Meek-produced hit Telstar 

was the first US number one by a British group) and Alex 

Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand). 

Print source: Palm Door Films

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BICYCLE THIEVES (U) 

(LADRI DI BICICLETTE) 

Director: Vittorio De Sica. Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, 

Enzo Staiola. Italy 1948. Italian with English subtitles. 85 mins. 

Vittorio de Sica’s remarkable drama of desperation and survival in 

Italy’s post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting 

power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica uses a 

real-life environment and cast non-professional actors to frame 

this moving drama of desperation. The impoverished Antonio’s new 

job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief 

steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to 

the streets in an impossible search for the bike. This landmark film 

defined the Italian neorealist approach with its brutal portrayal of 

post-war life, its truthful acting, its compassion and poetic rhythm. 

De Sica uses the wandering pair to witness the lives of everyday 

folk whilst ultimately depicting a story of love and hope. 

To mark the 60th anniversary of the release of BICYCLE THIEVES, the 

BFI is publishing a book on the film. We are please to welcome the author, 

Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge), to this screening. 

Print source: Park Circus 


A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (U) 

Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring: 

David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey. 

UK 1946. 104 mins. 

Armed with a commission for a propaganda feature to help 

ease strains in Anglo-American wartime relations, Powell and 

Pressburger produced their most audacious, flamboyant fantasy. 

Squadron Leader Peter Carter leaps from a blazing bomber 

without a parachute but finds his entry to heaven on temporary 

hold because of bureaucratic bungling (the hereafter as radiant, 

monchrome welfare state) and the fact that he shared his last 

moments over the intercom with USAF radio operator June 

(Kim Hunter) and has fallen in love with her voice. Surgeon 

Roger Livesey recognises symptoms of brain damage and 

arranges immediate operation. Though chosen for the first 

Royal Command Performance, LIFE AND DEATH drew fire from 

contemporary critics for lack of taste and patriotism. Art 

direction by Hein Heckroth; bravura Technicolor camera by the 

great Jack Cardiff. 

Print source: BFI 

Thursday 18 September, 5.45pm Sunday 21 September, 10.00am 

LOVE LETTERS AND LIVE WIRES – 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GPO 

FILM UNIT (U) 

UK 1936-1939. 80 mins. 

As part of a special touring programme marking the 75th 

anniversary of both the British Film Institue and the General 

Post Office film unit, this collection of the GPO’s greatest 

public information films offer an evocative record of the 1930s 

zeitgeist. The selection showcases the Unit’s range: from 

documentary (NIGHT MAIL) to animation (TRADE TATTOO) 

and even musical comedy (THE FAIRY OF THE PHONE), as 

well as its use of varied talents such as Grierson, Len Lye and 

Norman Mclaren. Films illustrating instructions on the uses of 

new-fangled devices, such as the postcode and the telephone, 

are coupled with those promoting the GPO’s contribution to 

workplace efficiency, world trade and smoothing the path of 

true love. 

Presented by BFI in partnership with Royal Mail, 

The British Postal Museum and Archive, and BT Heritage. 




A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (15) 

Director: Elia Kazan. Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, 

Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. USA 1951. 122 mins. 

Probably the best known screen adaptation of Tennessee 

Williams, this is also undoubtedly one of the finest, thanks partly 

to the claustrophobic hot-house atmosphere created by Kazan’s 

close-in direction, and partly to the characteristic blend of 

subtle detail and charismatic power in Marlon Brando’s epochal 

performance. He’s simply electrifying as Stanley Kowalski, 

brutishly in conflict with the fragile Blanche (Vivien Leigh), who 

comes to visit her pregnant younger sister, Stanley’s wife Stella, 

in New Orleans. The first of several collaborations on film for the 

director and star, it remains the most fully satisfying, not least 

because they surrounded themselves with such a marvellous 

cast and creative team: Harry Stradling behind the camera, 

Richard Day as art director, Alex North as composer – and, of 

course, Williams himself ensuring a faithful transition from 

stage to screen. GEOFF ANDREW 

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Thursday 25 September, 5.45pm Friday 26 September, 12.30pm 

LA RABBIA (CFF 15) 

Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi. 

With the voices of: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Gigi Artuso, 

Carlo Romano. Italy 1963. 104 mins. Italian with English subtitles. 

In 1963 newsreel producer Gastone Ferranti commissioned 

Marxist Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovannino 

Guareschi to each make a one hour document about the state 

of things as they saw it. Using footage culled from newsreel 

archives (both used the same sources) accompanied by 

narrative voices employing poetry and prose to deliver their 

messages, Pasolini rails against the crimes committed in the 

name of Western culture – particularly those in the African 

colonies – while Guareschi sees in those same Western, 

“civilising” values hope for the future humankind. This 

unreleased and virtually unseen film is a masterclass in 1960s 

ideology from both points of view, and proved a significant 

influence on Derek Jarman, for whom Pasolini became 

a great source of inspiration – most evident in the 

British filmmaker’s mythic and poetic SEBASTIANE. 

Print source: Raro Video 


WHITE CHRISTMAS (U) 

Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, 

Rosemary Clooney. USA 1954. 120 mins. 

When former Broadway entertainer Bob Wallace (Crosby) and 

his wannabe sidekick Phil (Danny Kaye) leave the army they 

decide to team up to become a song and dance act. As the 

pair start to hit the bigtime, they meet a pair of glamorous 

showbiz sisters, who they follow to a Christmas show at a 

lodge in Vermont – only to discover that it is owned by their 

former commanding officer, General Waverly, now down on 

his luck. Mix-ups, romantic encounters and sparkling musical 

routines follow (with songs by Irving Berlin and choreography 

by an uncredited Bob Fosse) as they set about making 

Waverly’s Christmas one he’ll never forget – with a little help 

from one of the most memorable songs of all time. 

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DEREK JARMAN: REMEMBERED 


Derek Jarman died in 1994 but it is perhaps only 

now that he is becoming properly recognised 

for his extraordinary oeuvre. One of the truest 

poets of our national cinema, Jarman was an icon 

to the gay community yet widely loved for his 

intensely lyrical and committed films. He brought 

a sense of community to his oeuvre, working 

with a team of regulars in production, design and 

performance, and refusing to separate art and life. 


ARIA (SELECTED EPISODES) (18) 

Director: Derek Jarman and others. Starring: John Hurt, 

Theresa Russell. UK 1987. 89 mins. 

A portmanteau production from one of Jarman’s regular 

producers, Don Boyd, this inevitably uneven premise sees 

ten leading directors take on ten famous arias. From the off, 

the promise is high and there’s no problem with leftfield reinterpretations 

– it’s the stuff of opera after all. Audiences will 

find their favourites but for our purposes here, Jarman riffs 

on the potencies of super 8, thus continuing one of his most 

productive and rewarding lines of celluloid enquiry. 

Showing with THE LAST OF ENGLAND – see page 58. 

Print source: Courtesy of Don Boyd 


BLUE (15) 

Director: Derek Jarman. Voices: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, 

Nigel Terry, John Quentin. UK 1993. 76 mins. 

A film at the very limit of what cinema is and can be – and, 

as a result, a remarkable incarnation of the most essential 

qualities of the medium – Jarman’s final work is both a 

startlingly personal summation of the priorities of a life and a 

universally resonant document of mortality and its meaning. 

Its unchanging blue screen and collaged soundscape of 

thoughts, anxieties, meditations, create a space unique in 

visual culture. 

Print source: Courtesy of James Mackay 

Showing with OSTIA – see page 59. 

“His words are restless, a battery of 

passing, original turns of phrase. You 

may sit through BLUE with nothing to see, but 

you leave it rich with images - fading pictures 

of one man’s life” WASHINGTON POST


DEREK (15) 

Director: Isaac Julien. Starring: Tilda Swinton and others. 

UK 2008. 74 mins. 

A lovingly assembled tribute to Jarman’s life and work – built 

around Colin MacCabe’s interview with the film-maker at 

his retreat in Dungeness – Isaac Julien’s film draws on the 

influential and widely disseminated ‘letter’ to Derek by Tilda 

Swinton (delivered, in a Vertigo magazine commission, at the 

Edinburgh Film Festival in 2002). Meditating on his unique 

qualities and place in British and international moving image 

culture, Swinton provides the counterpoint to a collage of 

clips, location footage and interview extracts, making for 

a richly textured appreciation of a man whose influence 

continues to grow. 

We are delighted to welcome director Isaac Julien to this screening. 

Print source: J&N Films 


THE DEVILS (CFF 18) 

Director: Ken Russell. Starring: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave. 

UK 1971. 111 mins. 

Ken Russell’s camp-horror psychodrama, a riff on the Huxley 

chronicle The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play of 

the same, found its crucial production designer in Jarman, 

on a breakthrough commission that would change his life’s 

direction. While Russell’s ‘possessed’ nuns under Redgrave’s 

tutelage face the wrath of inquisitor Reed, Jarman’s 

astonishing expressionist sets constantly command the eye 

and remain its greatest legacy, a performer in their own right: 

brooding, threatening and urgent. 


Monday 22 September 6.00pm 

THE GARDEN (15) 

Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: 

Tilda Swinton, Kevin Collins. 

UK 1990. 92 mins. 

By the time he made this remarkable 

cine-poem to life, love and landscape, 

Jarman knew the score and had made 

some major choices. Prospect Cottage, his 

Dungeness dreamscape, offered the perfect 

space for a strikingly fresh and fecund take on 

perennial themes, encoded here within various biblical 

gardens, from Eden to Gethsemane. The baseline to the 

often-inspired image-making is an extended reflection 

on the gay condition and crisis, with Christ cast as an 

sympathetic sacrificial icon of the oppressed. 


A PIECE OF MY SKY 

IS MISSING 

Director: Davide Pepe. Italy 2007. 3 mins. 

PLUS 

SHORT 

A group of tower cranes slowly obscure the sky. 


EDWARD II (18) 

Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Steven Waddington, 

Tilda Swinton. UK 1991. 90 mins. 

Jarman was, despite – or perhaps because of – his 

iconoclasm, a genuinely English artist, and mined the canon 

on several occasions, here tackling Marlowe’s regal tragedy 

head-on in a visceral contemporary update. Outrage activists, 

business suits, army officer class symbolics: the grim 

realities of gay oppression in Thatcher’s Britain get a vigorous 

dramatisation via a doubly historical reframing. 

Print source: Salzgeber & Co 

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THE LAST OF ENGLAND (15) 

Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry. 

UK 1987. 87 mins. 

Seen now, 20 years on, this fervent visual scream is perhaps 

best considered less a ‘state of the nation’ polemic than a 

take on the corrupted imagination of a country in spiralling 

decline. While remaining a catalogue of mid-period Thatcherite 

meltdown, its allusive image-making, deployment of multiple 

formats and the Nigel Terry commentary point to an urgency 

beyond the merely political. It is as if Jarman felt the very fabric 

of possible creative response to such issues was in danger of 

unravelling and so sought to give the collective culture a startling 

hit of visionary possibility. 

Showing with selected episodes of ARIA (see page 56). 

Print source: Blue Dolphin 


WAR REQUIEM (PG) 

Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Tilda Swinton, 

Laurence Olivier. UK 1988. 93 mins. 

Jarman’s movingly innovative vision of the challenging choral 

work by Benjamin Britten remains one of his most intriguing 

and ambitious works. Britten’s lyrical and religious reflection 

on the losses of war as filtered through the poetry of Wilfred 

Owen is here delivered complete in Jarman’s fragmented 

narrative response. He threads images of the poet with potent 

footage of various conflicts and a silent-movie strand featuring 

exemplary performances by Swinton and others. While a work 

of mourning, it is one in which a love of life and an attention to 

what matters shine through most strongly. 

Print source: Courtesy of Don Boyd 

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DEREK JARMAN: EARLY WORK (CFF 15) 

PROGRAMME 1 (1969 – 1975) 90 mins 

In the years between 1969 and 1982, Derek Jarman 

made over 72 longer and shorter films using S8mm. In this 

programme we see some of his earliest work. 

STUDIO BANKSIDE, edited entirely in camera, comprises 

of two films. The first is a colour study of the inside of his 

studio at Bankside, London (near what is now the Tate 

Modern) and the second documents the area surrounding 

his studio, now demolished. Featuring a soundtrack 

by Coil. 

TAROT, features Christopher Hobbs, later designer of many 

of Derek’s films, as “the Magician” and Jarman’s then lover 

Gerald Incandela as “the muse”. 

ANDREW LOGAN’S MISS WORLD is a beautiful document 

of this underground alternative to the increasingly tacky 

beauty contest. 

Gareth Evans is a writer, curator and editor of moving image journal Vertigo (www.vertigomagazine.co.uk). He is currently developing a three-year 

project, The Re-Enchantment, a mixed media artists’ project in response to the spirit. 



DEREK JARMAN: EARLY WORK (CFF 15) 

PROGRAMME 2 (1975-1982) 90 mins 

The second programme of Jarman’s early work starts with 

two films that are bound with his first works as Director 

(instead of Artist). 

SEBASTIANE WRAP is an abstract film shot on the set 

of SEBASTIANE. 

The continuing use of S8mm in JORDAN’S DANCE 

demonstrates Jarman’s determination to keep hold of his 

vision of cinema – something that he would go on to realise 

fully with the films of the 80s: ANGELIC CONVERSATION and 

LAST OF ENGLAND. 

SLOAN SQUARE features Simon Turner’s first composition 

for a Jarman film. 

GERALD’S FILM is a single reel, filmed at a dilapidated Victorian 

boathouse discovered on a stroll through the Essex countryside 

and one which Jarman considered one of his best works. 

The diary compilation B2 MOVIE was the last that he made 

entirely on his own. 

INFLUENCES, COLLABORATORS AND LEGACY 


PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 

OSTIA (Director: Julian Cole. UK 1991. 26 mins.) 

Julian Cole’s imaginative description of the last night in the 

life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, made whist he was a final year 

student at the Royal College of Art. Derek Jarman takes 

the role of his hero. 

Showing with BLUE – see page 55. See also LA RABBIA on page 

59 which, co-directed by Pasolini, had a profound effect on Jarman. 


RICHARD HESLOP 

This glimpse into the cinema of Richard Heslop – one of 

the most exciting film-makers to emerge in the post-punk 

80s – includes a rare screening of THE CHILD AND THE 

SAW, his graduation film, which took First Prize at Huesca 

Film Festival, and FLOATING which was named best 

short film at Cannes in 1993. A central collaborator with 

Jarman on LAST OF ENGLAND and THE GARDEN, he was 

also a prolific maker of music videos – a few of which are 

included in this programme. 


THE JARMAN AWARD 

The Jarman Award was launched in January 2008 as part 

of a range of activities and events celebrating the artist and 

filmmaker’s life and work. The first award went to Luke Fowler 

who was chosen from over 60 nominees. The Festival is 

delighted to present a selection of their work and hopes to 

welcome to the event some of the artists and award organisers, 

such as Christopher Hobbs, Richard Heslop, Julian Cole, 

Annie Symons and Isaac Julien. 

DEREK JARMAN REMEMBERED 


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TILDA SWINTON: THE ARTIST’S ICON 

An inspiration to many, one of Jarman’s most important fellow travellers was Tilda Swinton, 

renowned in her own terms for her unstinting advocacy of independent and imaginative 

work. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Tilda joined the Royal Shakespeare 

Company, but left after a year to pursue a working relationship with Jarman. He would become 

something of a mentor and their creative partnership would bring to fruition an impressive 

catalogue of distinctive British filmmaking. Tilda continued to have international success in 

Hollywood blockbusters like THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, while still supporting independent 

projects she has her roots in, such as THE DEEP END and THE MAN FROM LONDON and JULIA. 

Tilda also features in 

THE MAN FROM LONDON 

(page 32) and THE NEW TEN 

COMMANDMENTS (page 37). 


JULIA (CFF 15) 

Director: Erick Zonca. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, 

Kate Del Castillo, Jude Ciccolella. France/USA/Mexico/ 

Belgium 2008. 138 mins. 

Tilda Swinton plays Julia, a 40 year old alcoholic just scraping 

through a life of vodka and one night stands. Her only friend 

Mitch, himself a recovering alcoholic, encourages her to 

attend an AA meeting after she loses her job. A chance 

meeting there with her Mexican neighbour Elena provides 

Julia with a potential way out. Elena suffers from psychosis, 

so her son Tommy is in the care of his rich grandfather 

following his father’s death. Elena will pay Julia $50,000 if 

she will aid in his kidnap and ransom. Driven to the brink 

of financial and emotional desperation, Julia must make a 

decision that will either pull her back, or push her over. 

We are delighted to welcome Tilda Swinton for a Q&A following 



UK 

PREMIERE 


BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL 

THE FILMS OF ULRICH SEIDL 

From one of Europe’s most distinctive and provocative voices, Seidl’s dispassionate 

but always deeply humanistic films sit precariously on the line between fact and 

fiction. Likened to Fassbinder, Pasolini, Herzog and Haneke, Seidl investigates 

the dark corners and crevices of society not as a voyeur but actively engaging the 

camera and the audience as participants in his staging of reality. 


LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED (18) 

Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Paula Hutterová, Sepp Paur, 

Vladimir Kundrát, Rusena Machaloyá. Austria 1992. 

118 mins. German and Czech with English subtitles. 

A foray into the East/West divide that Seidl would revisit 

fifteen years later in IMPORT/EXPORT, LOSSES TO BE 

EXPECTED explores the borders, both physical and 

social, that separate people from one another. Austrian 

widower Sepp awkwardly courts Paula, a widow who 

lives just across the Czech border but, while they live 

near enough that he’s able to watch her with binoculars, 

their relationship is jeopardised by the mounting cultural 

differences between the impoverished socialism of the 

Czech Republic and the prosperous consumerism of 

Austria. Punctuating their tale with formal, painterly 

tableaux, Seidl deftly employs a visual and structural 

symmetry throughout the film to contrast the differing 

landscapes and rhythms of life in the two countries. 

Print source: Coproduction Office 


Saturday 20 September, 6.00pm Monday 22 September, 10.15am 

DOG DAYS (18) 

Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Maria Hofstätter, Erich Finsches, 

Franziska Weiß, Claudia Martini. Austria 2001. 120 mins. 


The oppressive heat virtually emanates from the screen in 

Seidl’s Venice Film Festival-winning feature debut. Over several 

long, sweltering summer days in suburban Vienna, six sets 

of characters wallow in their own and each other’s misery, 

resentment and frustrated desire; among them a divorced 

couple who still live together under the shadow of their dead 

child, a middle-aged teacher and her sadistic lover, and a 

chatty but slow-witted hitchhiker. Interspersed with nearly static 

shots of sunbathers which recall both Diane Arbus and Francis 

Bacon, DOG DAYS features an ensemble cast of professional 

and non-professional actors, all of whom contribute compelling, 

visceral performances to Seidl’s bleak but brilliant chronicle of 

middle-class desperation and disconnection. 


“I don’t seek to entertain people with 

my films, but to touch them, perhaps 

even disturb them. My films are 

critical not of individual people 

but of society... I want the people in 

the theatre to be confronted with 


JESUS, YOU KNOW (18) 

Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Elfriede Ahmad, Waltraute 

Bartel, Hans-Jürgen Eder, Thomas Ullram, Angelika Weber, 

Thomas Grandegger. Austria 2003. 87 mins. German with 


More immediately 

recognisable as a documentary 

than some of his earlier work, Seidl 

employs one of the most intimate of 

human experiences – prayer – as an 

entry point into revealing the everyday 

complaints and deepest secrets of his 

subjects. Set up in Viennese Catholic 

churches, the camera observes six 

figures as they beseech Jesus as a 

best friend, therapist and fortune teller, 

offering intimate details that range from 

the mundane to the shocking. As always, 

Seidl’s gaze keeps a clinical distance, 

letting his subjects speak for themselves 

and making the audience interrogate our 

own reaction to these people who, upon reflection, are 

perhaps more familiar than we’d like to admit. 



IMPORT/EXPORT (18) 

Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Ekateryna Rak, 

Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas. Austria 2007. 135 mins. 

German, Slovak, Russian and English with English subtitles. 

Both confrontational and compassionate, Seidl’s tale of 

migration and social borders weaves its way through 

contemporary Europe as it interrogates the political, cultural 

and economic forces which shape life here. Moving in 

diametrically opposed directions, the film traces two of its 

citizens’ peripatetic journeys toward a better life: nurse Olga 

leaves the poverty of the Ukraine for a new start in Austria, 

while unemployed Austrian Paul heads to the Ukraine in 

search of work and meaning. Real locations (including 

an internet sex agency and a geriatric care home) and 

non-professional actors soberly heighten the realism of this 

powerfully drawn drama, unafraid to show the grim, appalling, 

touching and darkly humourous extremes as it depicts the 

dissolving line between East and West. 

Following the screening, we are delighted 

to present a Q&A with Ulrich Seidl in partnership 

with Sight & Sound. 

Print source: Trinity Filmed Entertainment 

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PLUS Q&A 

Between Heaven and Hell: the Films of Ulrich Seidl is a Watershed season and will be touring independent 

cinemas across the UK this Autumn. For further information, please visit www.watershed.co.uk/seidl 

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ULRICH SEIDL 

THE FILMS OF ULRICH SEIDL

CELEBRATING WARNER BROS. 

As Warner Brothers mark their 85th birthday 

this year, we present a selection of films to help 

celebrate the veteran studio’s contribution to the 

world of cinema: classics from the Golden Age of 

Hollywood and a new documentary by Richard 

Schickel telling the full Warner Bros. story. 



I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A 

CHAIN GANG (CFF 15) 

Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, 

Helon Vinson. USA 1932. 93 mins. 

Based on the true story of Robert E Burns, Mervyn 

LeRoy’s film tells the story of Sgt James Allen a WWI 

veteran unwittingly caught up in a robbery and wrongly 

sentenced to 10 years in a brutal chain gang. After Allen 

escapes he becomes a successful businessman but has 

trouble keeping his secret. The film’s powerful critique 

of the US legal system stirred controversy on its release 

(it was banned in Georgia) and inspired the appeals and 

subsequent release of numerous chain gang prisoners 

across the United States. Beautifully paced with strong 

central performances, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN 

GANG has lost none of its power. 


Wednesday 24 Sep, 8.00pm Friday 26 Sep, 3.15pm 

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: 

THE WARNER BROS. STORY (CFF U) 

Director: Richard Schickel. USA 2008. 120 mins. 

This new documentary forms the centrepiece of Warner 

Bros Studios’ 85th Anniversary celebrations, as the awardwinning 

filmmaker and Time magazine senior film critic takes 

a look at the history and legacy of the legendary studio. 

Narrated by Clint Eastwood and including hundreds of clips 

from films and archive interviews spanning the whole history 

of Warner Bros. the film tells the story of the attitudes, values 

and mores of the times in which they were produced. This 

gives not only a fascinating history of the studio’s output and 

its place in Hollywood but also a unique look at the social 

contexts of the Warner Bros.’ output. 

We are delighted to welcome director 

Richard Schickel to this screening. 


UK 

PREMIERE 

“When I was a kid, living in a suburb 

of Milwaukee, the neighbourhood 

theaters nearest to me obviously had some sort 

of arrangement with Warner Bros. and played 

more movies from that studio than from any 

other. Somehow, for reasons I couldn’t quite 

understand, they appealed to me more than 

any of the competition’s offerings.” RICHARD SCHICKEL

Thu 25 Sep, 10.30pm Fri 26 Sep, 10.00am 

CAPTAIN BLOOD (CFF PG) 

Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: Errol Flynn, 

Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill. USA 1935. 

119 mins. 

A swashbuckling adventure, CAPTAIN 

BLOOD stars Errol Flynn as Dr Blood, 

convicted of treason and sold into slavery. 

Dr Blood leads a mutiny of the slaves on a Spanish 

ship and under his leadership the slaves make a name for 

themselves as buccaneers on the Caribbean seas. With an 

astonishing score by Erich Korngold, superb swordplay and an 

adrenaline-fuelled performance by the effusive Flynn which 

propelled him to superstardom, the film is a highly enjoyable 

romp through the high seas. Pieces of eight! 


Wednesday 24 Sep, 3.00pm Thursday 25 Sep, 12.45pm 

WHITE HEAT (CFF 15) 

Director: Raoul Walsh. Starring: James Cagney, 

Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien. USA 1949. 114 mins. 

One of the greatest gangster movies of the 

post-war period, WHITE HEAT’s influence can be 

found in countless other classics of the genre. 

James Cagney turns in perhaps his greatest 

role as Cody Jarrett, an incendiary gang leader 

who is dependent on the support of his equally psychotic 

mother. After being imprisoned after a heist botched by his 

incompetent henchmen, Jarrett escapes with his gang 

and plans a final heist. However it is not long before the 

gang is torn apart by internal rivalries, and Jarrett’s 

world spirals out of control towards a bloody and 

unforgettable climax. After WHITE HEAT, the crime 

movie would never be the same again. 

Saturday 27 Sep, 10.30pm Sunday 28 September, 10.15am 

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (U) 

Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, 

Walter Huston. USA 1942. 126 mins. 

This dynamic and patriotic film tells the 

story of George M Cohan, the theatrical 

everyman who is considered to be the 

father of American musicals. From the 

his days as a child star to vaudeville 

shows alongside his family until 

the time that he received a medal 

from the US president for his 

special contributions to the 

role. The film is positively bursting with 

energy from start to finish, and includes such 

classic songs as ‘Yankee Doodle’ and ‘Give 

My Regards to Broadway’. Yet it is Cagney’s 

Oscar-winning performance as Cohan which 

steals the show, singing and dancing with 

unparalleled vigour. 





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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (PG) 

Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, 

Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Laura Elliot. USA 1951. 101 mins. 

It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with 

shrieking excitement! Tennis star Guy Haines meets a 

stranger on the Washington-to-New York train who offers to 

exchange murders. The stranger, Bruno Anthony, will kill Guy’s 

estranged wife if Guy will kill Bruno’s hated father. Guy does 

not take Bruno seriously until his wife, Miriam, is found dead 

in an amusement park. Thus ensues a web of suspense and 

surprise, which is guaranteed to leave you on the edge of 

your seat. This 1951 masterpiece is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s 

most captivating works. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN focuses on 

questions of doppelgängers and mistaken identity, and perfectly 

exemplifies Hitchcock’s favourite theme of the evil that lurks 

just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men. 

Satrday 27 September, 12.45pm 

BLACK LEGION (CFF 15) 

Director: Archie Mayo. Starring: Humphrey 

Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Ann 

Sheridan, Helen Flint. USA 1937. 83 mins. 

This hard-hitting, socially conscious 

drama, the sort of story that Warner 

Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, stars Humphrey 

Bogart and Erin O’Brien Moore. Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a 

Detroit factory worker who becomes angry when he loses out 

on a promotion to a Polish co-worker. 

He is then recruited by the Black Legion, a secretive hate 

group similar to the Ku Klux Klan, who believe in “America 

for Americans”. As the Legion demands more and more 

of Frank’s time and energy, the rest of his life begins to 

unravel, and he is set on a path to tragedy. 

Given that racially motivated violence 

was still not uncommon in parts 

of the USA in the mid-1930s, 

BLACK LEGION won critical 

acclaim for its brave attack 

on hate groups, and 

remains socially 

relevant to this day. 



BABY FACE (CFF 15) 

Director: Alfred E Green. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, 

George Brent, John Wayne. USA 1933. 75 mins. 

Alfred Green’s gritty tale of post-Depression amorality tells the 

story of Lily Powers, a prostitute who leaves rural Pennsylvania 

for the bright lights of Manhattan after the death of her abusive 

father. Climbing the ladder of society the best way she knows 

how – sleeping her way through a string of wealthy men – 

Lily’s actions eventually bring about her downfall. Re-cut 

after being rejected by the New York State Censorship Board, 

Green’s film is racy and gritty and includes a star turn by 

Stanwyck whose portrayal of a strong female with no inhibitions 

became the template for countless female roles in Hollywood. 


Print source: Contemporary Films 

“A gripping, palm-sweating 

piece of suspense...” VARIETY 


BORIS KARLOFF: THE 

UNIVERSAL FACE OF HORROR 

Beginning with his remarkable depiction of Frankenstein’s monster 

in 1931, Boris Karloff created perhaps the most distinguished 

and memorable human monsters in the history of the movies. 

Discovered by the English director James Whale, Karloff’s best 

known performances were in the classic Universal Studios’ movies 

of the 1930s; pulp classics that continue to inspire this summer’s 

blockbusters. But many lesser-known roles were just as noteworthy: 

the butler in Whale’s wonderfully eccentric THE OLD DARK HOUSE; 

the smooth and sinister villain in his masterpiece, THE BLACK CAT. 

The horror boom ended in the 1940s and Karloff too often found 

himself in walk-on parts, adding distinction to the movie poster but 

little else. Yet there were still unforgettable performances. He never 

stopped working and at the end of his career he launched 

Peter Bogdanovich as a film director with TARGETS, a film that 

highlighted again the dignity beneath the mask. 

Sat 20 Sep, 12.30pm Thu 25 Sep, 10.00am 

FRANKENSTEIN (PG) 

Director: James Whale. Starring: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, 

Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye. USA 1931. 71 mins. 

The story of the mad scientist Dr Frankenstein who stitches 

together body parts from graves (British actor Colin Clive: “Now I 

know what it feels like to be God!’’), his sidekick, the hunchback 

Fritz who steals the brain marked “abnormal”, and the terror 

unleashed on a small Bavarian town when the lightning strikes 

and the monster awakes. The film that made the 43-year-old 

unknown “Karloff” a star to rival “Chaplin” and “Garbo”. 

Print source: Universal 

THE MUMMY (15) 

Director: Karl Freund. Starring: Boris Karloff, 

Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan. 

USA 1932. 73 mins. 

Archaeologists from the British Museum 

unearth and bring back to life an Egyptian 

mummy (Karloff). So begins this wonderful 

hokum adventure, inspired by the discovery 

of Tutankhamun’s tomb, in which Karloff 

stalks the streets of Cairo armed with a holy 

parchment and evil stare. One of the few films 

directed by the great cinematographer 

Karl Freund, photographer of Fritz 

Lang’s METROPOLIS. 


DOUBLE 

BILL 


Thursday 18 Sep, 11.00pm Friday 19 Sep, 10.30am 

THE OLD DARK HOUSE (PG) 

Director: James Whale. Starring: Raymond Massey, Gloria Stewart, 

Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton. USA 1932. 72 mins. 

Loosely based on a J.B.Priestley play, an assorted cast find 

themselves stranded overnight in a sinister Welsh house in 

this splendidly eccentric comedy. There’s the butler Karloff 

(“an uncivilized brute... A night like this will set him going and 

once he’s drunk he’s rather dangerous”), the newly married 

couple, the damaged war veteran, the northern industrialist, 

and of course the pyromaniac locked in the attic. 


THE BLACK CAT (CFF 15) 

Director: Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, 

David Manners, Julie Bishop. USA 1934. 65 mins. 

DOUBLE 

BILL 

Karloff is the evil architect, luring a young American couple 

to his modernist mansion in the Hungarian hills, where his 

arch-enemy Bela Lugosi seeks revenge for the death of his 

wife. Extraordinary art deco sets and menacing performances 

from the two horror leads (Karloff’s smooth accent and silky 

performance the model for subsequent villains) make this one 

of the most distinctive horror films of the era. 

BORIS KARLOFF 


“Karloff’s face fascinated me. I made 

drawings of his head...His physique 

was weaker than I could wish but that 

penetrating personality of his, I felt, was more 

important.” JAMES WHALE (DIRECTOR OF FRANKENSTEIN, AS 

PLAYED BY IAN MCKELLEN IN GODS AND MONSTERS) 


BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (PG) 

Director: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, 

Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester. USA 1935. 75 mins. 

Better than the original and the greatest of Universal 

Studios’ films of the 1930s, Dr Frankenstein is forced by 

the dangerously eccentric Dr Pretorius to return to the 

laboratory and create a bride (Elsa Lanchester, the then 

wife of Charles Laughton). This is a superb black comedy in 

which Karloff returns to the sympathetic monster role that 

made him a star, chased through the countryside, befriending 

a blind musician and learning to speak. But it’s Ernest 

Thesiger as Dr Pretorius who gets the immortal line: “To a 

new world of gods and monsters!” 



THE RAVEN (PG) 

Director: Roger Corman. Starring: Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter 

Lorre, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson. USA 1963. 86 mins. 

Very loosely based on a poem by director Roger Corman’s 

frequent muse, Edgar Allen Poe, THE RAVEN tells of a trio of 

sorcerors – one good (Vincent Price), one bad (Peter Lorre) 

and one ugly (Karloff) – all of whom are heading for a final 

showdown. Typically tongue-in-cheek in camp Corman style, 

and bringing together three of cinema’s creepiest screen 

presences, it provides Karloff with a lipsmackingly evil part 

in the shape of the diabolical Dr 

Scarabus – plus an early role 

for a young Jack Nicholson. 


The make-up as much as the acting made Karloff’s Frankenstein’s monster and Mummy 

such memorable monsters. It was created by Universal Studios’ legendary make up 

artist Jack Pierce, who spent 5 hours preparing Karloff each day. See page 76 for ways 

to bring your own monster to life in MONSTERS ON FILM: YOUNG PEOPLE’S 

SPECIAL EFFECTS AND FILM WORKSHOP! 

With thanks to the Boris Karloff Foundation for its generous support. 


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Monday 22 September, 6.00pm, The Junction Saturday 

 

Three eclectic programmes with 

contrasting themes and ideas. 

From the deep and meaningful 

questions about love, death and 

life in the playgound, to the more 

frivolous side of human nature. 

This selection of UK shorts brings 

together comic and tragic 

tales through digitalisation 

and animation that will 

take you on the most 

extreme rollercoaster. 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 18 September, 3.00pm Sunday 21 September, 3.30pm 

(CFF 15) 73 mins 

HAND GUM 

Director: James Farrant. UK. 9 mins. 

A poetic study on the cruelty and innocence of 

youth in modern society. 

TRIP 

Director: Harry Wootliff. UK. 9 mins. 

An emotional tale of what happens when a 

father tries to do the right thing by his two 

daughters but chooses the worst way 

to go about it. 

K 

Director: Piers Thompson. UK. 

20 mins. 

15-year-old Kaylee encounters an 

enigmatic stranger who compels 

her to re-evaluate her future. 

RIPPLE 

Director: Paul Gowers. UK. 18 mins. 

A black comedy. One small random act of 

malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road 

and on to a dark journey that he’ll never forget. 

VEILS 

Director: Dan Susman. UK. 13 mins. 

Veils is a story about a Jewish girl and a 

Palestinian guy on their wedding day. But this 

is not a standard Romeo and Juliet story of 

forbidden love... 

TIDE 

Director: Felix Wiedemann. UK. 4 mins. 

He kisses her. Is this the beginning of a great 

love – or the end ? A short film which plays 

with the audience’s perception – backwards. 


HOME TIME 

Director: Natalie Brady. UK. 6 mins. 

At the end of a school day there’s one girl in 

the playground who doesn’t want to go home. 

BREATH 

Director: Mark Gillespie. UK. 11 mins. 

Hard-hitting drama based around the 

delivery of a donor organ. 

I WAS HERE 

Director: Richard Porter. UK. 12 mins. 

I WAS HERE tells the story of a man 

who decides not to go to work one day. 

He simply walks away, with no idea of 

where he will go or what he will encounter. 

HOME 

Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson. UK. 11 mins. 

Sometimes leaving brings you back. 


27 September, 10.30am 

LEGION OF PLOTTERS 

Director: Tom Martin. UK. 10 mins. 

Conspiracy or paranoia? Plagued by a 

deluge of aggrivations, Mr Jasper draws 

a dark conclusion. 

THE IMAGINARY GIRL 

Director: Richard Porter. UK. 11 mins. 

Seven year old Amy, whose recently 

separated parents hold different views on 

her social development, is enthralled in 

her world of make-believe. 

CROSSWORDS 

Director: James Malcom. UK. 10 mins. 

Mrs Mitchell thinks people are sending 

her messages through crosswords. 

Her eccentric house, packed floor to 

ceiling with thousands of old puzzles, 

is about to be targeted by the Pristolux 

Homecore Company. 



SPEECHLESS 

Director: James Cooper. UK. 8 mins. 

D has plenty of time on his hands. He 

could be doing all sorts of things.... 

but generally he isn’t doing very much. 

Disillusioned with just about everything 

around him, he takes solace in gangsta 

rap and bags of family sized crisps…. 

and texting. 

TIME OUT 

Director: Angus Gafraidh. UK. 8 mins. 

What would you do if you could see twenty 

four hours into the future? 

TERRAFARMER 

Director: Will Adams. UK. 2 mins. 

A lone astronaut attempts to terraform a 

hostile planet with a malfunctioning robot 

as his only companion. 

BLUNDER 

Director: Simon J Riley. UK. 8 mins. 

A sales rep witnesses the kidnapping 

of a female jogger whilst driving to meet 

a client. After following the kidnapper to 

his house and trying to save the jogger, 

Jack realises things aren’t quite what 

they seem. 

THE LEGEND OF OL’ GOLDIE 

Director: Matthew Snyman. UK. 8 mins. 

A fairytale about a boy and his only friend... 

his pet goldfish. The thing is, Goldie isn’t 

your average goldfish. 

AND THE MAN IS BORN 

Director: Pavel Prokopic, Marie Morgan. 

UK. 9 mins. 

A comedy of life’s disappointments for one 

young woman. Realising her dreams never 

felt so bad. 

SUN IN THE NIGHT 

Director: Anne Wilkins. UK. 4 mins. 

A mother hopelessly waits for her lost son to 

return whilst her young daughter plays with 

a strange imaginary friend. 

21 SECONDS 

Director: Ru McArdle. UK. 9 mins. 

A gritty romantic tragedy. Maddie is looking 

for a place to commit suicide; security guard 

Keith is out to save her. Fairytale ending? 

Definitely not. 

CHARON 

Director: Chiara Ambrosio. UK. 13 mins. 

Charon, the mythic ferryman over the river 

Styx, sails off on a journey to recover his 

childhood and mortality. This is a film about 

loss and time. 

SUNDAYS 

Director: Sarah Bick. UK. 6 mins. 

A visual study of spending Sundays in makebelieve. 

Because six bad days is bearable. 

Seven is not. 

 


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Globalisation conjures up 

images of bustling urban 

metropolises but this 

collection of shorts from 

around the world reveals 

the international language 

of cinema. 

Saturday 20 September, 10.45pm Tuesday 23 September, 1.00pm 

(CFF 18)88 mins 

Our first programme involves tales of loss or isolation, from the solipsism of a Parisian 

clown in PUNCH to the furtive sexuality of two young girls in MAN; from an international 

student struggling to communicate in HELLO GOODBYE to the heartbreaking tale of two 

young lovers in DREAMERS, these shorts follow the lives of people across the planet 

trying to find their place in the world. 

PUNCH 

Director: Sotiris Dounoukos. Australia/France. 

10 mins. 

In a city of beauty and noise, a broken man 

tries to escape his pain and loneliness by 

playing the clown he feels like... 

HELLO, GOODBYE 

Director: Antoine Bourges. Canada. 16 mins. 

A short drama that depicts the first and last 

day of a foreign student in Vancouver, from 

his initial observations to his last farewells. 

PUPPIES & PICK UP TRUCKS 

Director: Vincent Biron. Canada/France. 18 mins. 

The chronicle of a dying childhood. 

MAN 

Director: Myna Joseph. USA. 15 mins. 

Maggie and her sister form an unusual bond 

during an encounter with a young man. 

LEGACY 

Director: Grant Sputore. Australia. 15 mins. 

A coming of age story – an account of 

innocence lost and a life saved in Australia 

during World War ll. 

DREAMERS 

Directors: Vlamyr Vizcaya, Carlos Bedoya. 

Colombia. 14 mins. 

A tender coming of age story in a 

crude world! 

Wednesday 24 September, 3.30pm Thursday 25 September, 3.30pm 

(CFF PG)55 mins 

Our second programme deals with the need to connect to our fellow man. In these shorts, it 

is the connections that people make with one another that tell a global truth, whether it be 

a child with her long lost hamster in DEAR FATTY, or the mismatched romance of an unlucky 

guy in RADU AND ANA. Night time revelations abound in THE BACK ROOM, whilst FOR YOU 

MY PEOPLE is an animated expose of greed and corruption in South America. 

DEAR FATTY 

Director: Hsin-I Tseng. USA. 7 mins. 

In this stop-motion animation,a little girl is 

writing a letter to her runaway hamster ‘Fatty’ 

and wondering about its experiences in the 

outside world. 

THE BACK ROOM 

Director: Greg Ivan Smith. USA. 17 mins. 

Two utter strangers uncover astonishing 

connections as they search for a mysterious 

Renaissance painting. 

FOR YOU MY PEOPLE 

Director: Jose Pablo Gonzalez. Canada. 5 mins. 

An animated short film that tells the 

compelling story of a senator who must 

confront his secret deeds of corruption. 

RADU AND ANA 

Director: Paul Negoescu. Romania. 8 mins. 

Radu is the unluckiest guy on earth. Things 

might change. Or not. 

AMMA 

Director: Aparna Kapur. Canada/India. 5 mins. 

After receiving a ball of yarn at her 

grandmother’s deathbed, Mia diligently 

begins to knit a weave that will eventually 

reunite the two of them. 

GIRL IN RED SARONG 

Director: Jeremy Sing. Singapore. 13 mins. 

A spoof of a Singapore national icon, 

told through a day-in-the-life tale of 

Leng, a waitress who is simply trying 

to survive. 



 


SPECIAL 

FREE 

SCREENING 

Romanian cinema has undergone a 

renaissance in recent years – witness 2007 

Cannes winner 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS 

and acclaimed releases such as THE DEATH OF 

MR LAZARESCU, 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST 

and CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’. 


 


The crème de la crème from Europe: from future Michel Gondrys (TONY ZEAR) and Lynne Ramseys (FLYER) to strange 

new hybrids of Tarkovsky and Kielslowski (THE END OF THE WORLD), you won’t be disappointed. 

Proving that these were not isolated successes and that 

the industry has plenty of new talent breaking through, 

Romanian films picked up the best short film awards at 

both this year’s Berlin Film Festival (A GOOD DAY FOR A 

SWIM) and Cannes (MEGATRON). 

Introduced by Mihai Chirilov, film critic and director of 

Transylvania International Film Festival, this programme features 

both these festival winners as part of a showcase of the best new 

Romanian cinema. 

THE BOX LESSON Director: Alexandru Mavrodineanu 

MEGATRON Director: Marian Crisan 

A GOOD DAY FOR A SWIM Director: Bogdan Mustata 

LA DRUMAL MARE Director: Gabriel Sarbu 

WAVES Director: Adrian Sitaru 

THE YELLOW SMILEY FACE 

Director: Constantin Popescu 

Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London. 

TONY ZEAR (TONY ZOREIL) 

Director: Valentin Potier. France. 20 mins. 

Quirky à la SCIENCE OF SLEEP style comedy about 

Tony Zear, who’s out to meet the girl that matches his 

ear size. Not an easy one, if you have giant piercings and 

fine hearing. 

FLYER 

Director: Andrea Harkin. Poland/UK. 15 mins. 

Ana’s from Poland and she is working as hard as she can 

in order to get her boyfriend over to the UK. This brilliant 

short shows real attention to human drama, a sensibility for 

music, and an intimate yet never intrusive cinematography 

calling to mind those MOVERN-CALLAR-like moments of 

lyrical realism. In addition, a great example of European 

short film-making. 

THE TOURNAMENT (IL TORNEO) 

Director: Michele Alhaique. Italy. 15 mins. 

Slice of life from three boys who go beyond their limits to 

get tournament-qualifying t-shirts in an environment where 

boyhood needs to be measured against manhood – a finely 

directed film by an actor-turned-director to look out for. 

SYNOPSIS DOCU DRAMA 

Director: Vlad Trandafir. Romania. 22 mins. 

A young director wants to get his first job in TV and has to 

learn how to push past all obstacles, and about “the real 

world” – a good lesson for all aspiring filmmakers. 

DEAR WORLD 

Director: Kei Ishikawa. Poland. 17 mins. 

STALKER-like landscapes are crossed, empty supermarkets 

offering masses of food are quietly used, a black dog leads 

the way to a house that looks like home, only stripped bare 

of all its interior. And all along, radio messages from Zone 

42 offer assurance that somewhere, someone is still alive 

and ready to hook up with you. An apocalyptic and strangely 

believable story of how the end might look. 

ONE OF THE LAST (UNO DEGLI ULTIMI) 

Director: Paul Zinder. Italy. 12 mins. 

A documentary short following the musings and wise 

thoughts of an old man who’s worked the Italian land all his 

life. A beautiful reflection on past and future, modernity, 

change, and a worrying look at the environment by taking a 

close up of the small things. 


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Screen East’s Digital Shorts is a short 

film scheme in partnership with the 

UK Film Council. Each year emerging 

talent get the opportunity to make a 

fully funded short film using digital 

technology. To coincide with the 

launch of the 2009 scheme, a 

selection of films from past years will be screened 

followed by a Q&A session with a past writer director 

and Sam Burton, Executive Producer of the scheme. 

THE TECHNICAL HITCH Director: Jon Dunleavy. 2006. 

Written by Luke Wright, produced by Jon Dunleavy. 

Friday 26 September, 5.45pm Saturday 27 September, 1.00pm 

(CFF 18) 110 mins. 

The best of the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, presented in partnership with Alliance Française. 

AUF DER STRECKE 

Director: Reto Caffi. Germany/Switzerland 

2007. 30 mins. German with English subtitles. 

A security guard working for a 

department store is racked with guilt 

having decided not to help a stranger 

who was being attacked on the 

underground. 

CAMERA OBSCURA 

Directors: Thierry Onillon, Jean-Michel 

Drechsler, Matthieu Buchalski. France 

2007. 7 mins. French with English subtitles. 

The blind man had been left there. A 

helmet had been placed upon his head to 

help him to see that which he couldn’t. 

MISSING 

Director: Matthieu Donck. Belgium 2007. 

15 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Bernard has disappeared. Was he ever 

really there? 

MOMPELAAR 

Directors: Wim Reygaert, Marc Roels. 

Belgium 2007. 22 mins. French with 


Lubbert is a withdrawn young man 

who lives at home with his overbearing 

mother. During a morning stroll through 

the Flemish countryside, he has a 

surreal encounter with the nightmarish 

inhabitants of the region. 

LA SAINT FESTIN 

Directors: Léo Marchand, Anne-Laure Daffis. 

France 2007. 16 mins. French with English 

subtitles. 

For an ogre to lose his teeth is bad enough, 

but for it to happen on the eve of the feast of 

Saint-Festin, the patron saint of ogres, is a 

catastrophe… 

TONY ZOREIL 

Director: Valentin Potier. France 2007. 

20 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Tony, a 28 year-old bachelor, has 

inherited a remarkable physical trait. Like 

the rest of his family, he has very big 

ears and suffers from extreme sensitivity 

to the slightest noise... 

MONOCULTURE Director: Jason Cuddy. 2007. 

Written by Simon Edmondson, produced by Jonathan Blagrove. 

BILLY’S DAY OUT Director: Iain B Macdonald. 2005. 

Written by Antony Mann, produced by Fiona McAlpine. 

BLASTED ANGELS Director: Ian Claxton. 2006. 

Written by Paul Burke, produced by Andy Pritchett. 

BLOOD ON HIS HANDS Director: Justin Coleman. 2007. 

Written by Justin Coleman, produced by Patrick McGrady. 


A selection of mind-boggling chillers 

exploring the underbelly of modern 

society. A surreal world unearthed. 



CARGO 

Director: Jennifer Harrington. USA. 

14 mins 

Hidden inside a shipping container on a 

boat headed to the United States, eight 

Colombian strangers wait for days in the 

dark to reach their destination. 

CAM TO CAM 

Director: Davy Sihali. France. 28 mins. 

A young woman talks on the Internet with 

a friend. At the beginning, she’s a little 

shy – and then she lets go in front of the 

camera. But after a while she begins to have 

some doubts... 

HUSH 

Director: Fernando Cordero. USA. 18 mins. 

A psychological thriller about Alice, a young 

woman dealing with the loss of her child and 

the growing apathy of her husband. 

STROKING THE 8 

Director: Jack Wareham. Australia. 4 mins. 

Power, strength, timing and the ability to 

push through the pain barrier. As the cox 

keeps telling his rowing eight, coming first 

requires discipline. 

PERSON, PLACE OR THING 

Director: Elle Martini. USA. 17 mins. 

A drifter’s solitary routine is interrupted by 

an unforeseen encounter. 



VIOLA 

Director: Shih-Ting Hung. USA. 9 mins. 

Stumbling on slippery moss at the 

4 o’clock bus stop, little giant Viola 

steps outside of her own world to 

embark on an adventure. She is 

going to search for the true meaning 

of loneliness. 

AN UNQUIET MIND 

Director: Chihwen Lo. Taiwan/USA. 6 mins 

Shuei-in, in a manic state, witnesses 

his body in a coffin; Samsara – the 

cycle of death and rebirth. Inspired by 

the struggle of those with bipolar 

disorder, the film follows Shuei’s 

mercurial journey of mood swings and 

deep restlessness. 

BOX 

Director: Matt Smith. UK. 12 mins. 

Social expectations are crushing his 

bones and pulping his fat; he has no 

escape and he can see no end, only the 

flashing and pulsating of The Box... 

THE ROSE AND THE POISON TREE 

Director: Alejandra Viejo Lopez de Roda. 

UK. 16 mins. 

A dark fairy-tale inspired story that tells 

of a man who is miserable with his life 

and desires only death. In order to fulfill 

his wish, he embarks on a journey in 

search of a mythical poison tree. 

DON’T LOSE HEART 

Director: Taliesyn Brown. UK. 10 mins. 

Alone, trapped and running out of 

water – Lucy wants out but all the 

zombies want to do is get in! 

 


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CAMBRIDGESHIRE FILM CONSORTIUM 

EDUCATION EVENTS 

The Cambridgeshire 

Film Consortium is a 

partnership between 

Anglia Ruskin University 

(ARU), Cambridge Arts 

Picturehouse, Cambridge Film Festival, 

Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, 

Longsands College, St Neots, Parkside 

Community College and Cambridgeshire ICT 

Education Services. It is core-funded by Screen 

East. The Consortium employs a full-time Film 

Education Officer, Trish Sheil, to implement its 

aims which are: 

Encouraging an interest in film education 

linked to cinema screenings, production work 

and other activity 

Fostering film literacy and developing links 

between informal and formal education 

Ensuring cultural diversity in the 

programming of events and activities 

Consulting with Screen East, The Film Council 

and the British Film Institute for the delivery of a 

regional film education strategy 

Contributing film education initiatives to the 

Cambridge Film Festival 

Details of the Consortium’s events are also 

published in the Consortium’s termly Education 

Newsletter and the Arts Picturehouse programme. 

Tel: 01223 579127 

email: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk 

www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org 

FREE 

EVENT 

Saturday 20 September 1.30/2.00/2.30* 

MONSTERS ON FILM: YOUNG 

PEOPLE’S SPECIAL EFFECTS AND 

FILM WORKSHOP 

Learn the tricks of special effects and make-up 

to create your own Film Monster then watch your 

creation on screen. The best monster will be 

screened before Boris Karloff films in the festival! 

* 3 x 30 minute workshops. Suitable for young people 

aged 8-16 years. Tutor: Alex Curtis. Drop in on the day, 

or book in advance to assure a place. 

See pages 68 and 69 for more Karloff films. 

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 

email: cfceducation@picturehouses.co.uk 

Saturday 20 September 11.00am – 1.00pm 

I MADE THIS 

A screening of films produced for the 

Cambridgeshire Film Consortium 2007- 

08, including delightful animations, 

documentaries and film drama, CFC film 

projects with British Antarctic Survey, 

Kettles Yard and Scott Polar Research 

Institute and Grains of Sand Climate 

Change competition. 

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 email: cfceducation@picturehouses.co.uk 

Sunday 21 September 5.00pm 

TREASURES FROM THE 

ARCHIVES: THE OLYMPIC 

GAMES ON FILM, 1906-1924 

Presented by Dr Luke McKernan (British Library) 

A screening of rare 

films with live piano 

accompaniment from the 

acclaimed Neil Brand. 

An enlightening 

commentary from Dr Luke McKernan, tracing 

the Olympic Games from 1906-1924, 

including: OLYMPIC GAMES AT ATHENS 

(1906) 1908 OLYMPICS: TRACK AND FIELD 

1908 OLYMPICS: MARATHON OLYMPIC 

GAMES 1912 STOCKHOLM OLYMPIC 

GAMES 1912 THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN 

PARIS 1924 

Kindly supported by Living 

Sport LIVING SPORT is 

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s county sports 

partnership aiming to increase participation in 

sport and supporting talented sportspeople to 

achieve their potential. Tel: 01487 841 559 or 

visit www.livingsport.co.uk to find out more. 

BOOKINGS: 0871 704 2050 

FREE 

FAMILY 

EVENT 

FREE 

EVENT 

Tuesday 23 September 11.00am – 1.00pm 

CENSORSHIP, FILM AND 

THE BRITISH BOARD OF 

FILM CLASSIFICATION 

Video Nasties, Pornography, Grand Theft Auto and 

Teletubbies. All in a day’s work at the British Board 

of Film Classification. Find out how the BBFC gets 

to make its decisions at a special presentation 

and interactive workshop event hosted by BBFC 

Education Officer, John Dyer. 

Suitable for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate Film and 

Media Studies students Check out the BBFC’s student 

website at www.sbbfc.co.uk. 

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 

or email trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk 

CAMBRIDGESHIRE FILM CONSORTIUM: YOUNG 

CRITICS AT THE CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL 2008 

Young Critics gives young people the opportunity to think and write critically 

about film. The best submissions will be published on the Festival website 

and in the Festival newspaper. Categories are Primary (up to age 11): 

50 - 150 words Pre-Sixth Form (12 to 16 year olds): 200 words 

Sixth Form (16 to 18 year olds): 250 words Undergraduate 

(18 years old or older, taking a first degree): 250 words. 

Overall winners will be chosen in each category at the end of the Festival. 

Primary school pupils should enter as a school. For all other categories 

students should enter individually. Reviews to be submitted to: daily@ 

cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk. For more info email: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk 

PRIZES 

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Wednesday 24 September 8.00pm The Junction 

HEAVY LOAD (12A) 

Director: Jerry Rothwell. UK 2008. 91 mins. PLUS Funky Flamingo. 

Jerry Rothwell’s film HEAVY LOAD (A film about happiness) follows 

this Punk band of musicians with and without learning difficulties 

on their journey of conflicting ambitions, as they move out of 

the ghetto of disability club nights to test whether their dreams 

can survive the mainstream. Featuring The Junction as one of 

their gigs their journey also leads into the national “Stay up Late” 

campaign to encourage support workers to adopt flexible shifts 

and enable people with learning disabilities to stay out late. 

Join us for a wild night of film with live music from 

Funky Flamingo – see page 51 for more details. 

BOOKINGS: 0871 704 2050 

or purchase at The Junction on the day 

Thursday 25 September 10.00am – 1.00pm 

FRANKENSTEIN, THE GOTHIC AND THE 

HORROR FILM: FRANKENSTEIN (PG) 

Director: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, 

Mae Clark, Dwight Frye. USA 1931. 71 mins. 

James Whale drew on stylistic references to German 

Expressionism for his 1931 film based on Mary Shelley’s 

Gothic novel FRANKENSTEIN. Chief make-up artist Jack 

Pierce’s design of the flat-headed creature with bolts in his 

neck also established Boris Karloff’s monster as synonymous 

with the word Frankenstein. 

Speakers: Darren Elliott, University of Hertfordshire and Dr. Nick 

Potamitis, Long Road Sixth Form College, will give presentations 

on the Horror Film genre and Gothic influences in Horror Films. 

Suitable for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate Film and Media 

Studies students. 

Cost: Students: £3.50 Accompanying Teachers FREE 

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 

or email trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk 

Wednesday 24 September 1.00 – 2.30pm 

Saturday 27 September 3.00pm 

THE BLACK BALLOON (12A) 

Director: Elissa Down. Starring: Toni Colette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford. 

Australia 2008. 97 mins. 

A story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family. 

When Thomas and his family move to a new home and he has to 

start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in. But his pregnant mother 

has to take things easy so his father Simon puts him in charge of 

his autistic older brother Charlie. Thomas, with the help of his new 

girlfriend Jackie, faces his biggest challenge yet. Charlie’s unusual 

antics take Thomas on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up 

frustrations about his brother’s autism to pour out in a story that is 

funny, confronting, and ultimately heart-warming. 

Contains moderate themes and moderate coarse language. 

We hope to welcome a representative from Cambridgeshire’s Arts 

and Health Network INSPIRE to this screening. 

BOOKINGS: 0871 704 2050 

CAMBRIDGESHIRE ON FILM: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ARCHIVES 

Join us for a screening of films from the national, regional and county film archives, featuring Cambridge City 

and County, including past Cambridge street scenes and clips of students in the colleges. Speakers from 

the British Film Institute, the East Anglian Film Archive and Cambridgeshire County Archives will introduce 

the films.The speakers will also update you on how you will be able to access a vast range of archive films 

for your own viewing, for your own curiosity or as a researcher, when the new BFI Mediatheque opens in Cambridge Central Library. 

Special reduction of £1.00 off each ticket for senior citizens. 

BOOKINGS: ARTS PICTUREHOUSE: 0871 704 2050 

CAMBRIDGESHIRE FILM CONSORTIUM EDUCATION EVENTS 


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INFORMATION 

FESTIVAL VENUES 

THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE 

BOX OFFICE: 08717 04 20 50 

www.picturehouses.co.uk 

38-39 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AR 

Book tickets in advance at the Arts Picturehouse for ALL venues. 

Home of the Cambridge Film Festival and a year-round 

programme of the best in new and classic cinema, the Arts 

Picturehouse hosts 3 screens (including one THX-certificated 

for best quality sound), the Festival late-night cafe-bar, and a 

friendly, film-loving atmosphere. All the screens are licensed, too, 

so you can take your drink with you while watching a movie! You 

don’t have to be a member by any means, but it helps - you’ll 

receive discounts on all member tickets, free preview screenings, 

priority booking for the Festival and can enjoy being part of this 

much-loved local institution. 


BOX OFFICE: 01954 718 881 

www.wysingartscentre.org 

Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX 

All screenings are free – reserve seats in advance or turn 

up on the night. 

Wysing Arts Centre is a centre for the contemporary visual arts. 

Throughout the year we focus on the development of artists 

through our studios, international residency programme and 

commissioning. Wysing is a working site with currently 24 

professional artists on our 11 acre rural site, and this sets us apart 

from other arts centres. We host a programme of exhibitions, 

events, family activities, screenings and artist talks across the year, 

as well as opening up the whole site and studios at least once a 

year to complement and develop our artistic programme overall. 


THE JUNCTION 

BOX OFFICE: 01223 511 511 

www.junction.co.uk 

Cambridge Leisure Park, Clifton Way, 

Cambridge, CB1 7GX 

Buy tickets from The Junction Box Office on the day of the 

screening or in advance at the Arts Picturehouse. 

Tickets for the outdoor of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Institute 

of Astronomy can be purchased from either The Junction Box 

Office or the Arts Picturehouse. 

The Junction is one of the most diverse cultural venues in 

the UK, a vibrant centre of youth culture and registered charity 

with a uniquely varied programme. Opened in 1990 as a 

place for the young people of Cambridge, those aged up to 

30 continue to be the primary audience. Presenting hundreds 

of performances each year to over 100,000 customers, The 

Junction covers clubs, comedy, dance, live music, theatre and 

events for young people. Operating over three spaces, The 

Junction is committed to developing new artists and providing 

cutting-edge performances. 

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH 

BOX OFFICE: 08717 04 20 50 

(ARTS PICTUREHOUSE) 

www.wesleycam.org.uk 

Christ’s Pieces, Cambridge, CB1 1LG 

All managers reserve the 

right to refuse admission 

Wesley Church is a large Methodist church in the centre of 

Cambridge at the junction of King Street and Short Street. It is 

approximately a three minute walk from Drummer Street Bus 

Station and from the Grafton Shopping Centre. 

TICKET PRICES 

ARTS PICTUREHOUSE 

Please note that only shows after 5pm will have allocated seating 

MON TO FRI (before 5pm) & LATE SHOWS (after 10.30pm) 

Adults ........................... £6.40 Members .........£4.40 

Concessions* .........£5.50 

MON TO FRI (after 5pm) & WEEKENDS: 

Adults .............................£7.40 Members .........£5.40 

Concessions* .........£5.50 

OTHER TICKETS 

Children under 14 (at all times) ......£4.90 

Big Scream (babies free)...................... £4.80 

Big Scream Membership ........................£2.50 

(Available to parents with babies under one year old only) 

MEMBERSHIP (see page 80) 

Single....£27 Joint....£47 Concessions....£17 

Advance web/phone booking fee £1.50 per transaction 

Please note there will be no cheap day Mondays, Orange 

Wednesdays, Kid’s Club or Silver Screen offers for the duration 

of the Festival. 

THE JUNCTION 

Adults .........................................................................................................£6.00 

Picturehouse Members / Concessions*...............£4.00 


2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (13 -14 September) 

Adults ....................................................................................................£12.50 

Picturehouse Members / Concessions*..........£10.00 

RIVERSIDE SCREENINGS (16, 17, 23, 25 September) 

Adults ....................................................................................................£25.00 

Picturehouse Members / Concessions*..........£20.00 

THE LAST LAUGH (23 September) 

Adults .....................£7.40 Members .......£5.40 

Concessions.... £5.50 

*Applies to full time students with valid ID, over 60’s and those on income support 

Please note that admission is FREE for the Magdalene Street 

screening (21 September) and for screenings at Wysing Arts 

Centre (23 September).

BUYING TICKETS 

MEMBERS’ PRIORITY BOOKING from Monday 1 September 

(Visit www.picturehouses.co.uk for details on how to become a Member) 

PUBLIC BOOKING from Thursday 4 September 

ADVANCE TICKETS available ONLY through the Arts Picturehouse for ALL venues 

SPECIAL FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE HOURS: 1 – 7 September 

In person: 10am until 15 mins after last performance 

TELEPHONE BOOKINGS: 08717 04 20 50 (9.30am – 8.30pm) 

ONLINE BOOKINGS: www.picturehouses.co.uk 

When booking over the phone please make sure you have all membership card numbers 

(if applicable) and a credit or debit card to hand. Telephone and internet bookings can be made 

up to 15 minutes before the start of a screening. Please note there is a booking fee of £1.50 

per transaction for ‘phone and web bookings (except for Members). 

(All Festival venues have full disabled access. Please see individual venue websites for details.) 

BUYING TICKETS ON THE DAY OF THE PERFORMANCE 

On the day of the screening tickets are available from the relevant screening venue ONLY – see left. 

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INFORMATION 

TICKET COLLECTION 

Arts Picturehouse: At least 15 mins prior to the start of the screening from any sales point or the 

Ticket Collection Machine next to the Festival Information Desk. 

The Junction: In advance from the Arts Picturehouse or at The Junction on the day of the 

performance, at least 15 mins prior to the start of the screening. 

DON’T BE LATE! 

There are no adverts or trailers for Festival presentations; please make sure you take your seat 

in good time for the start of the performance. Latecomers will not be admitted, so please do not 

contest this with the staff. 

THE LATE NIGHT FESTIVAL BAR 

Arts Picturehouse Café-Bar will be open from 10am – 12pm (10am – 1am Friday and 

Saturdays) during the Festival fine wines, beers and spirits coffees, teas, organic juices 

and other soft drinks fresh cakes bar snacks crepes, tapas, panini and salads courtesy 

of As You Like It served 11.00am – 10.00pm (food is freshly prepared so please leave enough 

time to eat before a screening). 

83 Regent Street, Cambridge 

Tel: 01223 356666 

OFFICIAL 

FILM FESTIVAL 

RESTAURANT 

…FOR THE THIRD YEAR RUNNING! 

10% off for Festival 

ticket holders! 

Situated only 4 mins walk from the Arts Picturehouse, 

De Luca Cucina & Bar guarantees to serve you freshly 

prepared modern Italian food promptly so you won’t miss your 

film. It also offers you a fantastic environment to enjoy a great cocktail 

afterwards. The Festival team will be taking guests there most evenings, 

so you never know who might be sitting next to you… 

More information, including details of the newly opened members-only 

Regency Club, is available at www.delucacucina.co.uk. 


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CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL STAFF 

DO YOU WANT TO 

SEE LOTS OF GREAT 

FILMS AT THIS 

YEARS FESTIVAL… 

AND SAVE MONEY? 

Arts Picturehouse Membership 

gives you… 

£2.00 off every ticket 

3 free tickets to use whenever 

you like 

priority booking for the Festival 

year-round free screenings and 

special offers 

£27 Single, £17 Concessions, 

£47 for 2 people at the same address 

Call 08717 04 20 50 

visit www.picturehouses.co.uk 

or ask at the Box Office 

The Cambridge Film Festival is now run 

by the Cambridge Film Trust, a registered 

charity (no. 1120059) that promotes 

independent cinema in Cambridge 

and the Eastern region. 

Nick Joicey Tony Jones Isabelle McNeill 

Jean Khalfa Bill Thompson 

Cambridge Film Trust Board Members 

Tony Jones 

Festival Director 

Paula Beegan 

Festival Manager 

Sarah Wood 

Artists’ Moving Image Programmer 

Nick Joicey 

Boris Karloff Programmer 

James Mackay 

Derek Jarman: Remembered Programmer 

Matt Kelland Saint John Walker 

Bill Thompson 

Machinima Programmers 

Matilda Mroz 

Polish Cinema Programmer 

Clare Leczycki Verena Stackelberg 

Michael Pierce 

ShortFusion Programmers 

Isabelle McNeill 

Transmission Programmer 

Mark Cosgrove 

Ulrich Seidl Season Programmer 

Emily Boldy 

Assistant Programme Co-ordinator 

Print Transport Assistant 

Iris Ordonez 

UK & International Print Transport 

David Jakes 

Programme Adviser 

Toby Venables 

Brochure Editor 

Georgia King Design 

Brochure Designer 

Bill Thompson 

Online Producer 

Trish Sheil 

Education Officer, 

Cambridgeshire Film Consortium 

Marc Atkinson Rydian Cook Gertrud Hill 

Education Team 

Sarah Wilby Creative Publicity 

Press & PR 

David Perilli 

Festival Daily Editor 

Rebecca Hawketts Alan Smithee 

Festival Daily Sub-Editors 

Tom Catchesides 

Festival Photographer 

Roger Smith 

Technical Manager 

Joe Harris Tom Martin Simon White 

Outdoor Screening Team 

Chloe Chennells-Milton Michael Chilcott 

Alex Hall Lucy Newman Alex Oliver 

Ann Willmott 

Festival Interns 

AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE: 

Keith Gehlert 

General Manager 

Emily Boldy 

Assistant and Marketing Manager 

Martin Read 

Bar and Duty Manager 

Cosima Finkbeiner Clare Leczycki 

Duty Managers 

Tony Stevens 

Visiting Duty Manager 

Joe Delaney (Chief) Christian Lapidge Clare 

Mackenzie Dermot Nolan Roger Smith 

John Caswell Colin Verot Sammy Patterson 

Projectionists 

Carl Peck Peter Harmer Alexandra Curtis 

Alex Oliver Francesca Clouston John Davis 

Holly Pearson Jeff Knowles Kathrin Lang 

Becky Harding Mark Blay Jack Toye 

Thomas Martin Simon Panrucker Ruth 

Forgacs Devorah Hall Emma Woolerton 

Johnny Davey Andy Dillon Alice Nelson 

Louise Tan Rosie Amos 

Front of House Staff 


THANK YOU 

The Festival would not be possible without 

the support of all our sponsors and partners. 

Special thanks go to our main funders, 

Screen East, for their long-standing 

commitment to our development. We are also 

extremely grateful for all the time, energy and 

effort put in by our many volunteers, without 

whose contributions the Festival could not 

achieve so much each year. 

Nick Kilcoyne – Adriana Chiesa Enterprises; 

Christine Cellier, Francine Rounanet-Democrate 

– Alliance Francaise; Phil Birchenall, Adrian 

Slatcher – AmbITion; Sarah Barrow, Simon Daily, 

Andrea Hilliard, Caroline Hyde, Paul Marris, 

Lynsey McCulloch – Anglia Ruskin University; 

Louisa Dent, Daniel Graham – Artificial Eye; Dipak 

Mistry – Arts & Business; Thomas Hoegh – Arts 

Alliance Media; Ollie Dawson, Dawn Giles – Arts 

Council England, East;Douglas Cummins – Axiom 

Films; Tricia Tuttle – BAFTA; Pam Mungroo – BBC 

Community Action Desk; Claire Cook – BBC Film 

Network; Emma Borley – BBC Look East; Mandy 

Morton – BBC Radio Cambridgeshire; John 

Dyer – BBFC; Nigel Arthur – BFI; Margaret Deriaz, 

Isabelle Piqueras, Christine Whitehouse, Andrew 

Youdell – BFI Distribution; Rebecca Crouch 

– Borders; Peter Williamson – Boris Karloff 

Foundation; Gow Gibson, Vicky Lewis – BVI; David 

Mitchell – Café Jello; Frances Alderton, Christine 

Allison, Emma Thornton – Cambridge City 

Council; Nigel Cutting, Neil Jones – Cambridge 

City Council Arts & Entertainments; Paul Kirkley, 

Nik Shelton – Cambridge Evening News; Emma 

Bonsall, Lindsay Brand – Cambridge Film Archive; 

James Howarth – Cambridge Saab; Emma Baxter, 

Heidi Mulvey – Cambridge University Press; 

Sue Hewitt – Cambridgeshire County Council; 

Gareth Davies – Cambridgeshire County Council 

ICT Service; David Prosser – Carlton Screen 

Advertising; Lizzy Keene, Darren Pangbourne 

– Channel 4; Lou Beegan, Sue Cloke – Cheese 

at Leadenhall Market; Tim Brown – CineCity 

Brighton; Deborah Allison, Clare Binns, Jo Blair, 

David Brighouse, Rob Fredrickson, Lyn Goleby, 

Vince Jervis, Alastair Oatey, Rachel Sawyer, 

Mark Wealthy, Jason Wood, Rob Younger – City 

Screen; Roger Gonin – Clermont Ferrand Film 

Festival; Claude Nouchi – Colifilms Distribution; 

Eric Liknaitzky – Contemporary; Robert Kenny, 

Michael Pierce, Simone Pyne, Verena v. 

Stackelberg – Curzon Cinemas; Matthew Belcher, 

Paul De Luca – De Luca Cucina & Bar; Jenny 

Chamarette – Department of French, University 

of Cambridge; Jo Edwards – Discovery Films; 

Julian Hayes, Dominic Yemm – DHL; Jane Alvey, 

Katherine Mage – East Anglian Film Archive; 

Lord and Lady Wilson – Emmanuel College, 

University of Cambridge; Emily Corcoran, Saint 

John Walker – FDMX; Sarah Gibson – Film 

Sense; Michael Hewitt, James Stubbins – FOPP; 

Ian Rattray – Frightfest; Wioletta Dawidczyk – 

Fundacja Promocji Kina Film Polski; Robert 

Gordon – Gonville & Caius College, University 

of Cambridge; Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon – Gordon 

Films UK; Lidia De Luca – Grosvenor Group 

Ltd; Camille Gatin – Halcyon Pictures; Pamela 

Raspe – Hauser Raspe Foundation; Penny Price 

– Heffers; Mark Adams, Tejinder Jouhal, Sara 

Squire – ICA; Anna Kime, Simon Ward – ICO; 

Steve Oliver – Icon; Amanda Kelleher – Inspire; 

Dr Carolin Crawford – Institute of Astronomy, 

University of Cambridge; Rob Halden-Pratt, 

Venla Hellstedt – ITV Local Anglia; Toby Haggith 

– IWM; Alexander King – Leeds Film Festival; 

Steve Turvill – Limoncello; Alexandra and Inigo 

Westmeier – Linger On Films; Amanda Moore, 

Matt Smith, Andy Woodyatt – Lionsgate; Andrew 

Burn – London Institute of Education; Pete Fraser, 

Sandra Hamilton-Fox, Tanya Jones, Barney Oram, 

Nick Potamitis, Tom Woodcock – Long Road Sixth 

Form College; Patrick Neate, Lisa Plowman, Rob 

Whatmough – Longsands College; Peter Daybell, 

Mike Flanagan, Allegre Hadida – Magdalene 

College; David Conolly, Hannah Davis – Mansion 

Pictures; Mark Mahon – Maron Pictures; Sara 

Frain, John Ramchandani – Metrodome; Mia 

Bays – Mia Films; Helen Fairweather, Christopher 

Townsend – Mills & Reeve; Moira McDonagh, 

Hamish Moseley – Momentum; Fleur Buckley, 

Briony Dixon – National Film Archive; Robert 

Beeson, Pamela Engel – New Wave Films; 

Steven Woolley – Number 9 Films; Ben Luxford, 

Danny Perkins, Hugh Spearing – Optimum; 

Marta Lachacz – Paisa Films; Deborah 

Sheppard – Paramount; Colin Webb – Palazzo 

Editions Ltd; Nick Varley – Park Circus; Jackie 

Billing, Mike Clover, James Durran, Andrew 

Hutchinson – Parkside Community College; 

John Fletcher, Francois Ivernel, Kate Lambert, 

Dave Woodward – Pathe Entertainment UK; Tom 

Abell, Kahloon Loke – Peccadillo Pictures; Nikki 

Beeson, Simon Singleton – Piggott Black Bear; 

Katherine Kaufman – Porchlight Entertainment; 

James Keen, Hayley Scrivener – Q103; Paul 

Wigfield – QED; Elliot Grove – Raindance Film 

Festival; Sam – Red Lion; Brian Jamieson – Red 

Wind Productions; Joel Kennedy, Justin Marciano, 

David Shear, Gemma Spector – Revolver; Simona 

Nastac, Magda Stroe – Romanian Cultural 

Institute, London; David Collins – Samson Films; 

Lesley Morgan – Sawston Village Community 

College; Martin Ayres, Sam Burton, Maria 

Gonzalez, Claire Treadwell – Screen East; Rod 

Ingersent, Annabel Bradford – Scudamores 

Punting Company; Nick Lumby – Screenprint; 

Matt Kelland, Tiffany Kerr, John O’Boyle – Short 

Fuze; Kieron Corless, Ronnie Hackston, Rob 

Winter – Sight & Sound; Elizabeth Draper – 

Slingshot; Ed Fletcher, Marie Foulston, Eve 

Gabereau, Kate Gerova, Frances Harvey, Ben 

Metcalf – Soda Pictures; Andy O’Hanlon – South 

Cambridgeshire District Council; Leigh Adams, 

Patrick Neate, Rob Watnough – St Neots College; 

Andy Campbell – Stagecoach; Vincenzo Esposito 

– Stockholm Italian Film Festival; Edward Casbon, 

Simon Jones, Jonathan Woods – Studio 24; Brian 

Cleary – Sygma Safety; Jacqueline Clark – The 

Flower House; Pete Edwards, Amy Vaughan – The 

Junction; Lucy Fleet, Damian Spandley, Laura 

Wykes – The Works; Jon Thompson – The Workx; 

Penny Hopwood – Threefold Music; 

Mihai Chirilov – Transylvania International Film 

Festival; Professor Martin Rees – Trinity College, 

University of Cambridge; Robin Grbich – Trinity 

Filmed Entertainment; Andrew Crossley – 

Trumpington Farm Company; Gerald Avison, 

Peter Taylor, Jean Thompson – TTP Group; 

Aleksandra Biernacka – TVP; Andy Leyshon, Jody 

Pope – Universal; Gareth Evans, Peter Fraser – 

Vertigo; Wahida Begum, Rupert Preston, Michael 

Wailes – Vertigo Films; Colin Burch, Julia Short 

– Verve; Alexandria Briare – Visual Data Media 

Services Inc.; Eleanor McKeown, Amanda O’Boyle 

– Wallflower Press; Gemma Richley, Giulia 

Tobaldin – Ware Anthony Rust; Graham Heaton, 

Richard Huhndorf – Warner Bros. Distribution; 

Mark Cosgrove, Maddie Probst, Anna Searle 

– Watershed Media Centre; Samantha Stott, 

Gordon Round – Wilkins Kennedy; Mary Davies 

– Withoutabox; Helen Robinson, Donna Lynas 

– Wysing Arts Centre – Don Boyd; Neil Brand; 

Alex Curtis; Carl Davis; Darren Elliot; Felicity 

Evans; Peter Harmer; Nick Higgins; Rebecca 

Innes; Andrea Kreuzhage; Ed Lawrenson; Andrew 

Lovett; Martin Myers; Eva Novak; Dan Owen; 

Richard Schickel; Liz Scott; Nicola Upson; Alex 

van Someren 

Designed by 

Georgia King Design Ltd 

www.georgiakingdesign.com 

Printed by Piggott Black Bear 

(Cambridge) Ltd 

www.piggottblackbear.co.uk 

CREDITS 


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INDEX 

1000 JOURNALS ....................................... 36 

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ........................... 10 

A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF JOE MEEK (MUSIC) 52 

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (REVIVALS) . 54 

A PIECE OF MY SKY IS MISSING (JARMAN) .. 57 

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (REVIVALS)... 55 

ALEXANDRA .............................................. 20 

ALGERIA, UNSPOKEN STORIES ................... 20 

ALONE IN FOUR WALLS .............................. 36 

AÑO UÑA................................................... 20 

ARIA [EXCERPTS] (JARMAN) ....................... 56 

BABY FACE (WARNER BROS.) ..................... 66 

BECOMING VERA (TRANSMISSION) ............... 8 

BELLE DE JOUR ......................................... 21 

BELLE TOUJOURS ...................................... 21 

BEST OF SCREEN EAST DIGITAL SHORTS 

(SHORTFUSION) ...................................... 74 

BI THE WAY................................................ 17 

BICYCLE THIEVES (REVIVALS)...................... 54 

BIG PITCH, MICROBUDGET ......................... 12 

BLACK LEGION (WARNER BROS) ................. 66 

BLIND HUSBANDS (MUSIC) ......................... 50 

BLOOD CAR............................................... 17 

BLUE (JARMAN) ......................................... 56 

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (KARLOFF) .......... 69 

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED ............................. 21 

BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE .............................. 17 

CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS .......................... 39 

CAMBRIDGESHIRE ON FILM (CFC) ............... 77 

CANAL (POLISH SEASON) ........................... 44 

CAPTAIN BLOOD (WARNER BROS.) ............. 65 

CAUGHT IN THE ACT .................................. 21 

CENSORSHIP, FILM & BBFC WORKSHOP (CFC) ..76 

CLERMONT SHORTS 2008 (SHORTFUSION) ..74 

CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GARDENER ....... 22 

CRAWFORD ............................................... 38 

CYCLES ..................................................... 22 

DEREK (JARMAN) ....................................... 57 

DOG DAYS (ULRICH SEIDL) ......................... 63 

DR STRANGELOVE ..................................... 16 

DRESSING GRANITE ................................... 22 

ECOLOGY (CRASSH) ..................................... 8 

EDEN ........................................................ 23 

EDWARD II (JARMAN) ................................. 57 

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD . 19 

EUROPEAN SHORTS (SHORTFUSION) .......... 73 

FACELESS ................................................. 37 

FAINTHEART .............................................. 23 

FEAR(S) OF THE DARK ................................ 23 

FEATURE ................................................... 24 

FERMAT’S ROOM ....................................... 24 

FRANKENSTEIN (KARLOFF) ......................... 68 

FRANKENSTEIN, THE GOTHIC & 

THE HORROR FILM (CFC) ........................ 77 

GOD MADE THEM BLIND ............................ 38 

GOMORRAH .............................................. 24 

GOOD DICK ............................................... 25 

GOODNIGHT IRENE .................................... 25 

HEAVY LOAD (MUSIC) ........................... 51, 77 

HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD (MUSIC) ........... 52 

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND 

ALIENATE 

PEOPLE ................................................. 25 

I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG 

(WARNER BROS) ..................................... 64 

I MADE THIS (CFC) ..................................... 76 

I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG .......................... 27 

IMPORT/EXPORT (ULRICH SEIDL) ................ 63 

IN MEMORY OF US ..................................... 27 

IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA ............................... 27 

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 1 (SHORTFUSION) ..72 

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) ..72 

JARMAN SHORTS 1 (JARMAN) ................... 58 

JARMAN SHORTS 2 (JARMAN) ................... 59 

JESUS, YOU KNOW (ULRICH SEIDL) ............. 63 

JULIA ........................................................ 60 

JUMP! ....................................................... 37 

JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY ...................... 28 

KATYN (POLISH SEASON) ........................... 44 

KING OF THE HILL ...................................... 28 

LA RABBIA (REVIVALS) ............................... 55 

LA VIE NOUVELLE (TRANSMISSION) .............. 8 

LAID DOWN (TRANSMISSION) ....................... 8 

LAS MENINAS ............................................ 28 

LATE NIGHT SHORTS 1 (SHORTFUSION) ...... 75 

LATE NIGHT SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) ...... 75 

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN .............................. 29 

LIFE FOR SALE........................................... 15 

LINHA DE PASSE ........................................ 19 

LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED (ULRICH SEIDL) .. 62 

LOVE LETTERS AND LIVE WIRES (REVIVALS) ..54 

MACHINIMA WORKSHOPS .......................... 49 

MACHINIMA: DREAMS & SHADOWS ............ 48 

MACHINIMA: PLAY’S THE THING ................. 48 

MACHINIMA: SCREEN STORIES ................... 49 

MACHINIMA: SYNTHETIC CINEMA ............... 47 

MACHINIMA: ZERO BUDGET, BIG AUDIENCE ..48 

MAGDALENE STREET SCREENING .............. 10 

MASTERCLASS WITH CARL DAVIS .............. 11 

MONSTERS ON FILM (CFC) ......................... 76 

NEW ROMANIAN SHORTS (SHORTFUSION) .. 73 

ONE MAN IN THE BAND (MUSIC) ................. 50 

OSTIA........................................................ 59 

PAGEANT .................................................. 38 

PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (MUSIC) ........ 50 

PIANO, SOLO ............................................. 29 

PRESERVE (POLISH) ................................... 45 

RICHARD HESLOP (JARMAN) ...................... 59 

RIVERSIDE SCREENING: BATTLEFIELD ......... 13 

RIVERSIDE SCREENING: DREAM SCREEN .... 13 

RIVERSIDE SCREENING: GREENSCAPE ........ 13 

RIVERSIDE SCREENING: RIVERRUN .............. 13 

RUNNING THE SAHARA .............................. 36 

SAVAGE GRACE ......................................... 15 

SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON .... 17 

SLEEP FURIOUSLY ...................................... 39 

STANLEY KUBRICK: A LIFE IN PICTURES ...... 16 

STOP. WATCH. (WYSING ARTS) .................... 12 

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (WARNER BROS.) ...66 

STRENGTH AND HONOUR ........................... 29 

SUMMER SCARS ....................................... 31 

SUMMER ................................................... 31 

SURPRISE MOVIE ....................................... 15 

THE BLACK BALLOON (CFC) ................. 31, 77 

THE BLACK CAT (KARLOFF) ........................ 69 

THE BROKEN ............................................. 15 

THE COLOURS OF INFINITY ......................... 10 

THE DANCING FOREST ............................... 39 

THE DEVILS (JARMAN) ............................... 57 

THE GARDEN (JARMAN) ............................. 57 

THE GROCER’S SON .................................. 15 

THE JARMAN AWARD (JARMAN) ................. 59 

THE LARK .................................................. 32 

THE LAST LAUGH (MUSIC) .......................... 51 

THE LAST OF ENGLAND (JARMAN) ............. 58 

THE MAN FROM LONDON .......................... 32 

THE MUMMY (KARLOFF)............................. 68 

THE NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS ............... 37 

THE OBJECTIVE ......................................... 32 

THE OLD DARK HOUSE (KARLOFF) .............. 69 

THE OLYMPIC GAMES ON FILM (CFC) .......... 76 

THE RAVEN (KARLOFF) ............................... 69 

THE UNDERSTUDY ..................................... 33 

THE WAVE ................................................. 33 

TIME CRIMES............................................. 33 

TIME TO DIE (POLISH) ................................ 45 

TRIP TO ASIA (MUSIC) ................................ 52 

TWISTS OF FATE (POLISH) .......................... 45 

UK SHORTS 1 (SHORTFUSION) .................... 70 

UK SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) ...............70-71 

UK SHORTS 3 (SHORTFUSION) .................... 71 

UNRELATED ............................................... 35 

VANAJA ..................................................... 35 

WAR REQUIEM (JARMAN) ........................... 58 

WE DREAMED AMERICA (MUSIC) ................ 51 

WELTSTADT ............................................... 35 

WHERE THE WATER MEETS THE SKY........... 17 

WHITE CHRISTMAS (REVIVALS) ................... 55 

WHITE HEAT (WARNER BROS.) .................... 65 

WILD COMBINATION .................................. 17 

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (WARNER BROS.) ...65 

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS 

(WARNER BROS.) .................................... 64 


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