Screenings
Cancelled: Screening – Goodbye Mubarak
Goodbye Mubarak examines the anger and discontent brewing in Egypt before people took to the streets on 25 January and ousted President Hosni Mubarak 18 days later.
FULLY BOOKED – Screening – Page One: Inside the New York Times
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times is an investigative look into the changing face of journalism, and the conflicts that arise because of it, inside the behemoth of American print media, The New York Times.
Up in Smoke: Solving a problem like the disappearing rainforests
By Antje Bormann Environmental problems are often spoken of in rather sweeping terms, perhaps none more so than issues related to the rainforests. ‘Up in Smoke’, a documentary screened at the Frontline Club last night clears up some of the confusion about the issue. Adam Wakeling’s film accompanies British tropical ecologist Mike Hands, who developed an alternative […]
Screening – Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke examines the real cost of carbon and the attempts to stop slash and burn agriculture. The film poses complex moral questions about the demands of saving the planet for the future vs. protecting the livelihoods of people living today.
Screening – Life in a Day
From Academy Award winning director Kevin MacDonald comes the incredible cinematic experience of one day in the life of planet earth as filmed by thousands of participants around the globe and edited into one astonishing documentary.
Screening – Bobby Fischer Against the World
Bobby Fischer Against the World examines the manic, paranoid, and brilliant world of former World Chess Champion and international icon Bobby Fischer through his childhood, glory days, and downward spiral into madness.
Mimi Chakarova and her film The Price of Sex
by Antje BormannPhotojournalist and filmmaker Mimi Chakarova introduced her film The Price of Sex about women sold into sex slavery with the plea to ‘stay with us’. She was keen, she said, to observe the audience’s reaction. The film follows three women from Bulgaria and Moldova who managed to escape from the vicious trap they had […]
FULLY BOOKED: Screening – The Price of Sex
The Price of Sex gives an unparalleled view of sex trafficking, as photojournalist Mimi Chakarova goes deep undercover to explore the lives of Eastern European women who are sold as sex slaves in Western Europe and the Middle East.
Postponed: Screening – Phnom Penh Lullaby
Phnom Penh Lullaby is a gripping portrait of Ilan Schickman, an Israeli who starts a new life in Cambodia and his life with Cambodian partner Saran and their two children in Phnom Penh.
Screening – Defusing Human Bombs
Defusing Human Bombs is the story of the Sabaoon School in Pakistan which uses psychology, religious scholars, and other techniques to remove years of Taliban indoctrination from the hearts and minds of young boys.
Preview Screening – Israel vs. Israel
Israel vs israel follows the lives of a grandmother, an ex-soldier, an anarchist, and a rabbi, to expose how the actions of the Israeli government unite a disparate group of people into working towards peace.
POSTPONED: Sunday Screening – Sean Langan recommends Sherman’s March
Part Civil War documentary, part expose of the end of a relationship, Sherman’s March is Ross McElwee’s ode to love and life in the 1980s.
Special Screening – The Arbor
The multiple award winning film, The Arbor, recollects the life of Andrea Dunbar, the short-lived, alcoholic playwright from Bradford and focuses in particular on the troubled relationship between Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine. Part fact, part re-enactment and part archival footage, Clio Barnard’s debut feature seamlessly amalgamates location shots, audio interviews and lip-synched acting performances to create a unique and genre-blending ‘documentary’ experience.
Sunday Screening – Nick Fraser recommends Please Vote for Me
What do we really think of democracy? We’re all supposed to be citizens – but what does it mean to be a citizen? Please Vote For Me answers these questions briskly and hilariously, through the medium of an election staged in a Chinese classroom in which 9 year olds strive to turn themselves into politicians to get elected to the post of Class Monitor -Nick Fraser.
Sunday Screening – Clive Stafford Smith recommends Fourteen Days in May
Fourteen Days in May is the seminal documentary which examines the voices, roles, and truth behind capital punishment in America through the case of Edward Earl Johnson.
UK Premiere Screening – Prosecutor
The Prosecutor is the powerful story of Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court. His critics say that he is a threat to peace, stirring controversy in international waters, while peace advocates argue that he is too lax. Can he prove them wrong?
THIRD PARTY: Revolution uplo@ded
Organised by BBC Arabic.
Followed by a panel discussion
At a secret rendezvous on the Tunisian border, a young man hands over to Libyan rebels a crate of medical supplies. He’s hoping for a precious cargo in return – memory cards and small video tapes that he will upload to the internet and show the world what is happening inside the Libyan capitol, Tripoli. In the revolutions of 2011, these are the new weapons of the internet age.
FULLY BOOKED: Screening – My Perestroika
My Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times – from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.
Preview Sunday Screening – Donor Unknown
Funny, moving and provocative, Donor Unknown raises intriguing questions about our understanding of family, fatherhood, and the strange power of genetic connections.
Screening – Amnesty! When They Are All Free
Amnesty! When They Are Free takes an unprecedented look into the world of Amnesty International and how the organisation has changed the world for the better. Despite their efforts, however, Amnesty International cannot solve everthing, and the film leaves the lingering question: have organisations such as Amnesty curbed the number of acts of violence that people commit against each other?
FULLY BOOKED Sunday Screening – Khodorkovsky
Khodorkovsky takes an explosive look into the life of former titan of the Russian oil industry, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The film examines those who knew him best, and offers unprecedented access to Khodorkovsky as he stands trial.
FULLY BOOKED Screening – The War You Don’t See
The War You Don’t See examines the role of the media in reporting war. Combining interviews with journalists, behind-the-scenes footage, and director John Pilger’s own personal experience in the field, the film questions how much of what really happens in war is reflected in the mainstream media’s coverage.
Preview Screening – Mexico! Living With Hitmen
In Mexico’s deadliest city Cuidad Juarez, where 3,000 people were killed last year in a vicious and bloody war between drugs cartels and the security services, courageous journalist, Lucy Souza vows to continue reporting the truth.
SOLD OUT – Special Preview Screening: Blood in the Mobile
Blood in the Mobile reveals the dark, bloody side of the mobile phone industry and the link between minerals mined in Eastern DR Congo for cell phone use and the bloody civil war raging inside the country’s borders. With these minerals being exported to make cell phones for Europeans, Blood in the Mobile asks to what extent we are responsible for funding the death of 5 million Congolese in the war effort?
Sunday Screening – Budrus
Budrus follows the struggle of a father and daughter team who fight to save their village from imminent destruction at the hands of the IDF’s Separation Barrier. Combining interviews from Israelis and Palestinians, military officials and citizens, Budrus examines the need to unite different peoples together in a peaceful manner to protest.
Screening – Sex, Death and the Gods
Sex, Death, and Gods examines the devadasi, a group of Hindus who are married or dedicated to a god or temple in childhood only to be later sold as prostitutes. Combining the rich history of the group with its modern interests, the film offers an unseen glimpse into the lives of a little understood sect of Hinduism.
Sunday Screening – GasLand
When filmmaker Josh Fox was asked to lease his land for the new mode of natural energy drilling, he decided to travel across the United States in search of the reality of the little known practice. Filmed in styles ranging from expose to what the director calls a “bluegrass banjo meltdown,” Oscar nominated GasLand explores the tangled threads of the country’s search for natural energy production.
Armadillo: Janus Metz’s Fog of War
By Christopher Czechowicz “You have to be here to understand it. This place is screwed, after all. This is a fucked up country.” – ISAF Team Seven In the summer of 2009, marooned at military outpost “Armadillo” in Helmand Province, one of the most dangerous in Afghanistan and separated only by a kilometre from Taliban […]
POSTPONED Screening – Victory Day
Victory Day tells the story of an investigative journalist expelled from Russia in the 1990s who then discovers a Russian oligarch who advocates sex trafficking in Prague. Set from the fall of the Soviet Union to today, Victory Day uses suspense to alternate between exposition and revenge in a layered portrait of modern reporting in Russia.
Montt’s Day In Court: Screening of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
By Christopher Czechowicz “Because if I can not control the army, then what am I doing here?”- General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982 This excerpt from Pamela Yates’ latest work was used as evidence in a Spanish court of law against a military man wanted for genocide. Twenty-nine years after death squads murdered […]
