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- Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records-Moving Image present a selection of video documents from their archives that reveal a world of ingenious, underground musicians and artists. This includes a video collaboration with Harappian Night Recordings celebrating the rich psychedelic world of obscure 1960s/70s Asian horror movies, a video profile of the renowned John Fahey/Robbie Basho [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Presented in partnership with Together for Peace with a discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle for peace. Budrus is an award-winning documentary about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Convento is a poetic documentary, introducing an eccentric family of Dutch artists who live in a converted 400-year-old Portuguese Monastery, Sao Francisco. Christiaan Zwanikken is a kinetic artist who reanimates skeletal parts and deceased wildlife with servomotors and robotics. His parents, ex-ballet dancer Geraldine and her late husband Kees, a successful photographer, came to Portugal [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A subtle, intimate documentary portraying family life, Daughters of Malakeh transcends its gentle subject to create an insightful expose of gender politics in Iranian life. In public, Maryam wears a headscarf and obeys the rules of the state. But in the privacy of her own home, she’s the breadwinner who runs the show, along with [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Eco-Pirate profiles the controversial environmental crusader Captain Paul Watson, a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. He repeatedly flouts the law to apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers, the illegal poachers of the world. Featuring gripping verité sequences shot aboard his ship, the film interrogates his personal [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A claustrophobic and disturbing documentary, brilliantly executed (excuse the morbid pun) and shot entirely in a motel room on the US/Mexican border. El Sicario Room 164 is a feature length conversation with a masked Juarez hit man: he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and even received some training [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Ken Loach’s rarely seen early drama adapted from David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds, is a characteristically powerful slice of social realism and a bitter indictment of the British mental health system in the early 70s. 19-year-old Janice is an increasing worry for her overbearing suburban parents as she has become increasingly withdrawn and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Father is one of the great films of leading Hungarian director István Szabó, combining humour and poetic nostalgia to underscore a symbolic tale of identity crisis. The father of the title was killed in the Second World War and the film centres on his son Tako in the post-war years, who concocts a fantasy ideal [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A selection of the best short films about mental health. Includes work from the Arts & Minds Film Production Group, a Leeds based project that encourages people with personal experience of mental health issues to make films. Films include ‘Diagnosis Psychosis’, a humorous look at Hollywood cliché and “The Bus Stop” the story of one [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Apparently disparate sequences of a real estate trade show, a street market and masterpieces of world art cohere into a razor sharp critique of commercialism and spirituality in Mercedes Alvarez’s Futures Market. With a superb sense of composition, the film follows different stages in the lives of objects from the sales pitches of realtors for [...]Click to read more about this film »
