Films screening on Saturday 12th November, 2011

Whilst celebrating the wonderful array of International filmmaking talent active today is undoubtedly key to the festival, it is also great to be reminded of the terrific talent working not only here in the UK but also right on our doorstep! This year’s outstanding selection includes: Tetley’s – Quality Pays, an insightful documentary about the [...]

A highly acclaimed experimental filmmaker in his own right, Pip Chodorov has crafted a highly accessible and infectiously enthusiastic history of the artists and poets of experimental cinema. His’free radicals’ are crazy about filmmaking and pushing the artform in radical new directions, trapped in a no man’s land, excluded both from the art world and [...]

Take the opportunity to see two episodes of director Krzysztof Kieslowski and writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s masterpiece on the big screen in conjunction with the University’s presentation on the duo’s work. Originally made for Polish television at the end of the communist era in 1988, this extraordinary series of films loosely based on the ten commandments [...]

Made at the end of the communist era in Hungary, Ildiko Enyedi’s surreal odyssey tracks the progress of female identity through the accelerating mechanical age of the early twentieth century. Boasting an extraordinary triple role for the excellent Dorothy Segda as identical twins Dora and Lili and their mother. Born on the day Edison invents [...]

The discovery of the Snowtown murders in 1999 shocked Australia to its core. A gang of serial killers controlled by the notorious John Bunting had butchered 11 victims around Adelaide and stored their remains in barrels of acid. One of the killers, teenager James Vlassakis, had lived with his mother and brothers in an already [...]