Che Guevara Double Bill
The Motorcycle Diaries (15)
Directed by Walter Salles
with Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro
South America, 2004, 125m subtitles
The film is based on the journals of Che Guevara. In his memoires Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 195 ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Tokyo Sonata
A drama from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who turns his back on his usual horror fare to tell a story with its own particular sense of anxiety. When Ryuhei loses his job, he hides the situation from his family, creating a collision course that negotiates black comedy and acutely observed human drama to arrive at a memorable musical conclusion. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Paula Rego and Jake Auerbach in Conversation
Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is now recognised as one of Britains leading artists. Her work is profound yet accessible, and deeply personal. This intimate film by acclaimed filmmaker Jake Auerbach follows the artist from her recent retrospective at the Reina Sofia in Madrid back to the privacy of her studio in London. The artist and filmmaker will ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Agnes Jaoui Double Bill
The Taste of Others (15)
Le Gout des Autres
Directed by Agnes Jaoui
France, 2000, 113m subtitles
An industrialist’s life changes when he goes to the theatre. He falls for the leading actress and finds a new world of philosophy and beauty in which his wife’s materialism doesn’t fit. A touching and unusual love story.
Lets Talk About the ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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USA Movie Double Bill
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (18)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
with Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire
USA, 1998, 118m
An overwhelming version of Hunter S. Thompson’s 70’s cult classic. Gilliam brings his legendary visual flair and energy to a hallucinogenic trip through the underbelly of America.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of D ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Cold Summer of 1953
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
USSR _ 1987 _ 101 min _ colour _ director Alexandr Proshkin, cast Valery Priyemykhov, Anatoly Papanov, Victor Stepanov, Nina Usatova.
A group of escaped criminals hides out in the remote wooded area of Siberia in this grim drama set in the summer of 1953. Although Stalin is already dead, the shadow ...
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Pushkin House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Brazil, Blindness
Brazil (15)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
with Bob Hoskins, Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce
UK, 1985, 142m
Gilliam’s version of the bureaucratic future. Comic and nasty by turns, it’s an extraordinary vision of a world overcome by paper, ducts and plumbing. Bob Hoskins and Robert de Niro steal the film as two versions of the plumbing trade – o ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ratcatcher, Summer
Ratcatcher (15)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
with William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews
UK, 1999, 89m
An unsentimental portrait of growing up in Glasgow in the ‘70s. Ramsay achieves a lyrical realism that manages to turn a rundown housing estate at the height of a refuse strike into fertile ground for the imagination of a twelve-year- ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Glory Days of Track Racing
Films screening this afternoon include Racing to Nowhere, the film of the 1968 Skol Six at Wembley (Philip Owtram, UK, 1969, 25m); Six Day Bicycle Race (Mark Tyson, USA, 2005, 75m), the story of six-day racing in 1930s America and miscellaneous footage of track racing in Britain in the 60s and 70s (15m). Also, unique film footage of Vin Denson’s wi ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Bernardo Bertolucci Double Bill
The Spiders Stratagem (15)
Strategia del ragno
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy, 1990, 98m subtitles
A young man revisits the village in the Po Valley where his father was murdered by the fascists in 1936. Based on Jorge Luis Borge’s story, Theme of the Traitor and The Hero.
The Conformist (18)
Il Conformista
Directed by Bern ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Last Resort, The Silence of Lorna
Last Resort (15)
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
with Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine, Steve Perry
UK, 2000, 73m
Shot on handheld camera in documentary style The Last Resort, set in bleak, out-of-season Margate, follows Tanya’s bureaucratic nightmare of seeking asylum. Her plight leads her to local arcade manager Archie and the promise of a ne ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Better Things
The quietly formidable debut feature from Duane Hopkins, whose short films Field and Love Me Or Leave Me Alone are screening for free at the ICA throughout January. This is an oblique drama that freezes a number of distinctive characters at crucial points in their lives, even if they have no way of recognising their situation. The weight of existen ...
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ICA
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London
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United Kingdom
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1 Giant Leap, What About Me?
1 Giant Leap (18)
Directed by Duncan Bridgeman/Jamie Catto
UK, 2002, 75m
Divided into a number of chapters this beautifully shot and finely edited doc meanders through several continents, alighting on a selection of affecting statements from a host of fascinating characters along the way. Its all accompanied by a constant stream of eclecti ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Screening: Alberto Giacometti
What Is A Head/A Man Among Men (1963)
This screening of two documentary films accompanies the Daan van Golden exhibition. They focus on the sculptor Alberto Giacometti and were made forty years apart. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Paris, Texas, Trade
Paris, Texas (12A)
Directed by Wim Wenders
with Harry Dean Staunton, Nastassja Kinski, Hunter Carson
W. Germany/France, 1984, 148m
A man walks out of the South Texas desert and back into the lives of the people he abandoned four years earlier. In 1984 Sam Shepherd was at the height of his powers as a writer, and Wenders a director where e ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home
In association with Kino Kino!
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
USSR _ 1974 _ 97 min _ colour _ director Nikita Mikhalkov, cast Y.Bogatyrev, N.Mikhalkov, S.Shakurov, A.Kalyagin, A.Kaidanovsky, A.Solonitsin, K.Raikin. An unenviable lot has fallen to Red Army soldier Shilov-he is suspected of stealing gold from the government. The col ...
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Pushkin House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nicholas Ray Double Bill
In a Lonely Place (PG)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
with Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
USA, 1950, 94m
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbour clears him with a false alibi, but then begins to have doubts. An achingly poetic meditation on pain, distrust and loss of faith. – Time Out
Bigger Than Li ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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And Your Mother Too, The year of the Nail
Y Tu Mama Tambien (18)
And Your Mother Too
Directed by Alfonso Cauron
with Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Ana Lopez Mercado
Mexico, 2001, 106m subtitles
Two young teenage men persuade an older Spanish woman to set off with them on a road journey to the mythical Boca de Ciel (Heaven’s Mouth). Everybody gets to know everybody. One of the ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Three Colours Triple Bill
Three Colours: Blue (15)
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
with Juliette Binoche, Benoir Regent, Florence Demel
France, 1993, 97m sub-titles
The film movingly recounts the story of a woman’s reaction to the death of her husband and child in a car crash.
Three Colours: White (15)
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
with Julie Delpy, Zbig ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Screening Conditions: The Man with the Golden Arm
Frank Sinatra is drug-frazzled musician Frankie Machine in Otto Premingers gripping tale of addiction. Todays screening is the first in a series of four events exploring films about drug abuse, and is introduced by psychoanalysts Andrea Sabbadini and Earl Hopper. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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New Shorts: Leftfield and Luscious
A collection of innovative, abstract new films, plus the Wallflower Press Award for best experimental film. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Late-night Film Festival
Join us for a collection of feature films and shorts that provide fascinating fictional and real-life insights into the lives of soldiers, surgeons and civilians. Discover the perspectives of World War II bombers and Kurdish villagers, and enjoy quirky animated health warnings and field hospital high-jinks.
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Wellcome Collection
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London
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United Kingdom
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Harun Farocki: 3 early films
Cubitt Gallery presents a selection of early films by renowned filmmaker and producer, Harun Farocki. A series of talks by international speakers will frame the films with a contemporary context and means of interpretation. The events series, including An Evening with Harun Farocki at the Goethe-Institut, is co-curated by Kodwo Eshun and Antje Ehma ...
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Cubitt
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London
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United Kingdom
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Body of Work: Almost Out
In an era where there is almost no discussion about the casual use of female nudity, we revisit seminal works by women artists using the female form.
Jayne Parkers Almost Out is a statement with fragments of dialogue between a mother, daughter and a cameraman. ...
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ICA, Cinema 2
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London
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United Kingdom
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La Belle et la bete
Jean Cocteaus haunting and romantic version of the classic fairy-tale, full of ravishing black-and-white imagery and surreal moments. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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New Shorts: Femmes Fantastique
New feminsist films plus the Club des Femmes award for best woman character. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Body of Work: Shorts
A programme of ground-breaking works, including films by Martha Rosler, Marina Abramovich. Mona Hatoum and Jayne Parker. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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New Shorts: Midnight Mayhem
An adrenaline-fuelled selection of short films for midnight movie lovers everywhere. Includes the Under The Influence award. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Part of the 6th London Short Film Festival
New Shorts 6 - Gods Lonely Men
THE CONSTANT FATHER (Rupert Bryan, 13 min)_
FOTO (Tom Canning, 12 min)
TEAM SLEEP (Dannan Breathnach, 15 min)
BOY (Joe Morris, 12 min)
INSEPERABLE (Nick White, 11 min)
MADRUGADA (Michael Pearce, 23 min)
The Gallery is screening a series of short films as part of this years 6th London Short Film Festival. This ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Clint Eastwood Double Bill
Unforgiven (15)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
USA, 1992, 130m
In Eastwood’s acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Hackman), a sadistic sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, but when he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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UK Film Council Completion Fund films
For the first time ever, the London Short Film Festival will be hosting the premiere of the UK Film Councils New Cinema Funds Completion Fund shorts with a programme of eclectic shorts made by entrepreneurial filmmaking talent. The UK Film Councils Short Film Completion Fund provides finance and support for short films that show outstanding potenti ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Hansel and Gretel
In this eerie horror film from South Korea, a young man crashes his car late one night in the middle of nowhere and is rescued by a girl who leads him to the House of Happy Children. Welcomed in for the night by a perfectly hospitable family, he soon finds that his place of refuge is something of a trap. Delicately rendered shocks and insidiously c ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Duane Hopkins: Love Me or Leave Me Alone
Before making Better Things, British director Hopkins studied painting and photography, and made two highly acclaimed short films. The second, Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, is an honest examination of first love. ...
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ICA, Cinema 2
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London
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United Kingdom
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Special Preview: Milk
Sean Penn gives a remarkable performance as Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor who campaigned for gay rights during the 1970s until his assassination in 1978. This is a mainstream and largely conventional Hollywood biopic from one of our greatest indie directors, put across with real purpose and conviction. ...
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ICA, Cinema 1
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London
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United Kingdom
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Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, The Warlords
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (15)
Directed by Lu Chuan
with Duo Bujie, Zhang Lei, Qi Liang
China, 2004, 85m subtitles
A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet. A powerfully paced story about conscience and survival. – Time Out
The Warlords (15)
Directed by Peter Chan
wit ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Watermarks
Introduced by Ann-Marie Pisker
“Watermarks” is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary sports club Hakoah in Vienna. Hakoah (“The Strength” in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 against the backdrop of an increasingly confident, liberal Jewish middle class on the one hand and the growing exclusion of Jews through “Aryan Paragraphs” in ...
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Austrian Cultural Forum London
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London
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United Kingdom
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