Belfast Film Festival 2010 by Pauric McAnespy

BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL

15th-30th April 2010 . www.belfastfilmfestival.org

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Welcome to the 10th Belfast Film Festival Chairmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introduction

A special thanks to all our friends at Northern Ireland Screen and Belfast City Council. A big thank you to the sponsors and partner groups who have support us over the years; George and Linda at The Strand Cinema, Susan and the QFT team, Michael McAdam and the team at Movie House, Neil, Sarah, Seamus and the Black Box Crew, Julie and Bobby at the Spectrum Centre, our housemates Northern Visions and Belfast Exposed, First Light, Kate at Healing Through Remembering, Mick Beyers at CAJ, Julia at the Index on Censorship, Stuart Watson, Paul Caufield at BBC, Brian at Moving on Music, Darren at Fortune Cookie, Stuart at Oh Yeah! all our corporate sponsors and advertisers. The support of UK/Irish Distributors and Sales Agents from around the world, who give us the opportunity to screen the selection of wonderful films. Thanks to John Lynch, Ciaran Hinds, Alan Maloney, all our guests, film-makers and the festival board. To Pauric McAnespy for his brilliant website design, Stephen Hackett for programme design, Michael, Mave, Sharon, Jude, Danny and the all the volunteers and staff who have worked with us from the very beginning, it is their spirit, enthusiasm and hard work that has carried the festival forward, thank you. Michele Devlin. Festival Director.

Ten years ago, a new cinematic event was staged on the cultural calendar for the first time, the Belfast Film Festival. Now remarkably, we are celebrating a great decade of success; an unprecedented decade, which has seen the blossoming of film making, film attendance and film culture in the city. Northern Ireland is a rapidly changing society, and sometimes the pace of this change can overwhelm you. However, it is precisely by playing a culturally active part in change that makes this place such an exciting place to be. Change is the very thing that drives us at the Belfast Film Festival on. Social change as explored through the great medium of cinema, which allows us not only to hold a mirror up to ourselves but also offers us a unique window upon the world. What has not changed over the years is this cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love affair with the cinema. This year, we are not only celebrating ten years of the Film Festival, but also one hundred years since the first cinema, was opened in Belfast; the Electric Picture Palace on York Street in 1910. The cinema has been the place where we have explored our dreams, met our loves and in the darkest of times been offered a light of hope. Today, cinema is flourishing in the city with over fifty cinema screens. We are delighted to be staging events in the 21st Century picture palaces that will fuel a new generation of movie lovers. I want to pay a special tribute to two people in particular, without whose ambition and vision there would be no Film Festival, Festival Director Michele Devlin and the original Festival Chair Laurence McKeown. They both continue today, as they did ten years ago, to work tirelessly for the Festival, and we all owe them an enormous debt of gratitude. So please, I urge you filmmakers and film lovers alike, to not only share your passion for the cinema but also add your voice to the distinctive story of the Belfast Film Festival.

Brian Henry Martin

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WE ARE TEN

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

FESTIVAL MANAGER

MARKETING MANAGER

SPECIAL EVENTS AND PRODUCTION

PROGRAMMER

MICHELE DEVLIN

MAVE DEMPSTER

SHARON CURRAN

SEAN OSBORNE

MICHAEL BESNARD-SCOTT

PROGRAMMER

DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMER

WORKSHOPS CO-ORDINATOR

FESTIVAL CHAIR

STEPHEN HACKETT

CIAN SMYTH

JUDE SHARVIN

BRIAN HENRY-MARTN

BOARD MEMBER MARK COUSINS FESTIVAL PATRONS TERRY GEORGE DAVID HOLMES PAT MURPHY BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

LAURENCE MCKEOWN

LOUISE O’MEARA

KEVIN JACKSON

CONTENTS........

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 8

OPENING / GALA / CLOSING PREMIERES

NEW IRISH CINEMA

WORLD CINEMA

SPOTLIGHT ON SHYAM BENEGAL

MAYSLES BROTHERS DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

DOCUMENTARY PANORAMA

SAME SEX CINEMA

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

TWISTED CORNEA

CLASSICS

SOUND AND VISION

SPECIAL EVENTS

DIALOGUES

WORKSHOPS

AT A GLANCE GUIDE

OPENING PREMIERE

TRIAGE Moviehouse, Dublin Rd Thursday 15th April . 7pm . £7.00/£6.50 Repeat Screening at Moviehouse.Dublin Rd. Sunday 18th April. 9pm. £6.50- £6.00 Triage is based upon the novel by Scott Anderson, the screenplay is adapted by its director Danis Tanovic, the talented Bosnian filmmaker who previously delivered the powerful multi-award-and-Oscar-winning No Man’s Land. Colin Farrell plays Mark Walsh, a war photographer in the late eighties. Home in Dublin between assignments, he shares a few laughs at the pub with his friend and fellow photographer David (Jamie Sives) and the women in their lives, but they all know it’s only a matter of time before Mark’s no-nonsense editor (Juliet Stevenson) sends him back into the fray. This time it’s Kurdistan – and David goes with him. High in the arid mountains pursuing a war without borders, Mark and David witness and capture images that define this style of guerrilla warfare and tit-fortat attacks, from combatants, to a doctor who works heroically to save the wounded but shoots dead those he knows he can’t help. Triage is a slow burn, gathering more and more emotional impact as it jgoes. It’s the mystery surrounding what really happened to Mark on his recent assignment that comments the plight ofwith the homeless ultimately Quinn propels thepointedly story onforward, the final and disaffected and the films gritty, utilitarian. result a deliberately paced endeavour that’s consistently elevated byTHE Farrell’s GUARIDANeye-opening performance. But it is Christopher Lee, in perhaps his most detailed dramatic performance of a very long career, who is the revelation.

Director:Danis Tanovic. Ireland/Spain/France.2009. 99 mins. Print source: Hanway Films

PREMIERE

CLOSING PREMIERE

TETRO Moviehouse, Dublin Road . Friday 30th April . 6.45pm . £7.00/£6.50

Director: Francis Ford Coppola USA/ Italy/Spain/Argentina.2009. 127 mins.Print source: Soda Pictures

UK PREMIERE

Tetro is Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since The Conversation. It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. Fresh faced and naive, Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) arrives in Buenos Aires to search for his older brother, Tetro (Vincent Gallo) who has been missing for more than a decade. The family had emigrated from Italy to Argentina, but with the great musical success of their father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the volatile and melancholy poet Tetro, he is not at all what he expected. In the course of staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda (Maribel Verdu), the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their shared past. Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro is a film of startling beauty; it’s an incredibly pleasurable film just to look at. Shot in crisp, textured, glorious black and white, Coppola doesn’t just make a pretty picture; his entire technical presentation is flawless. We’ve seldom, in recent years anyway, seen a film that so skillfully utilizes composition, sound, hard cutting, and visual tricks to tell its story.

PREMIERE

GALA SCREENING

EMPIRE QFT . Friday 16th April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00

Director:Michael McNulty N.Ireland.2010.84mins.Cert:PG Print Source: The Director.

Empire is an independent film on a variation of the classic Greek myth Orpheus.It is set in Belfast and shot over 3 years on a zero budget. Max (Hugh Brown) is a wandering fool and Christmas is but another humdrum excuse for drinking and offending his friends, until he is captivated by Karen (Meabh Ivers), a vaudevillian can-can dancer who isn’t quite what she seems. The Empire Music Hall is a feeding ground for hungry souls, looking for more than just entertainment. When Max persuades Karen to take an evening off, it will be a time he never forgets. But how far is Max willing to go to discover the one he loves?

WORLD PREMIERE

PREMIERE

GALA SCREENING

5 DAY SHELTER QFT . Saturday 24th April . 9pm . £6.50/£6.00 Five Day Shelter is a highly visual ensemble drama interweaving the lives of several characters in a contemporary urban setting over five days. All the characters live untenable existences of quiet desperation. It is only by letting go of the lies they’ve forced themselves to live that they can ultimately find release. They can then connect with the beauty and the poetry to which their numbing routines have made them blind. Five Day Shelter looks at the interconnectivity of all things in the face of man’s inherent isolation, with themes of human nature and animal instinct, through a language beyond that of words. These lives are portrayed and betrayed by their fleeting interactions with each other and crucially the animals in their lives. This is a unique serious drama revealing the poetry of the everyday. It is this recognition of, and connection with, the beauty and poetry in and around us that can lift us out of our despair and suffering.

Director Ger Leonard.Ireland/ UK (N.I.).2009. 83 minutes .

WORLD PREMIERE

PREMIERE

GALA SCREENING

CUPCAKE Movie House- Dublin Road Wednesday 21st April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00

A 23 year old man, who lives in a world of robots, gadgets and bad cakes discovers the importance of keeping a promise to his family and following his heart. ‘P.J.’ inherits his family’s bakery following the disappearance of his parents, trouble is he’s not quite a natural baker, his interests primarily being the robots and contraptions he builds. His shocking baking and business skills lead the shop into decline. Not wanting to break the promise he made to his mum and dad, with the help of his group of slightly dysfunctional friends and his foreign love interest ‘Gala’, he manages to revive ‘Cup Cake’ and throw it back to its former glory. The reformation story does not go without the odd dodgy spray tan (Marie Jones’ tan is nothing short of brilliant), thanks to the town’s local heavies, along with some insane robotic dancing and a couple of weddings varying in scale and colour. Cupcake will remind you what it is to love as well as opening your eyes to a whole new world of fashion victims.

Director Colin McIvor. N Ireland.2010. Print source Wee Buns Ltd

GALA SCREENING

Happy 10th Birthday to Michele and her team at the Belfast Film Festival. Congratulations on the first fabulous ten years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the next great decade! From all your friends at Northern Ireland Screen.

For information on funding and how Northern Ireland Screen could help develop your project, phone +44 28 9023 2444 or visit www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk

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THE ECLIPSE QFT . Friday 23rd April . 6.45pm . £6.50/£6.00 Tony Award-nominated writer/director Conor McPherson’s latest is an exquisite and lifeaffirming atmospheric drama about the redemptive quality of love. Amid lush hills and crumbling stone abbeys, the soggy waterside town of Cobh plays host to a chaotic annual literary festival. Widower Michael (Ciarán Hinds)) has been adjusting to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two young kids. When he volunteers as a handler at the festival, chance finds him driving supernatural-fiction writer Lena (Iben Hjejle). He becomes drawn to her but finds himself competing for her attentions with internationally acclaimed author Nicholas (Aidan Quinn), also in town to plug his latest best seller and reclaim the girl he can’t get out of his head. McPherson’s special rapport with actors is evident on-screen as the three leads deliver penetrating performances. Hinds in particular reflects the film’s masterful use of subtleties—his simmering presence builds with the delicate unfolding of this unique and compelling story.

Director: Conor McPherson. Ireland.2009.86 mins.Cert: 15. Print source: Irish Film Archive.Treasure Entertainment

GALA SCREENING

MICKEY B QFT . Thursday 22nd April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 Mickey B is a world first, a feature film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, made with serving prisoners as cast, in Northern Ireland’s notorious maximum security prison HMP Maghaberry. Set in the fictional private prison of Burnam, where gangs run the wings, violence and drugs are the common currency. Duncan, the number one drug dealer, is about to be released. Mickey B is the muscle collecting on his behalf. The three witches take on the guise of three bookies, fixing the odds for their own ends. Ladyboy, Mickey B’s bitch, embodies the corrupting role of the queen of hate, scheming to reach the number one slot. Shot in hand held close-up with cold, razorblue filters, an unrelenting claustrophobic intimacy draws us into this dark world of ashen, scarred faces and tattooed flesh. Casual everyday violence, borne out of the prisoners’ first hand experiences, ensures gritty, authentic and visceral performances. The brutality of clipped street slang delivered at staccato pace punctuates the monotony of endless prison time. This is a Macbeth like no other.

Director Tom Magill.62 mins Cert 15.Print source ESC Ltd

Y The screening will be followed by a Q&A chaired by Professor Phil Scraton (QUB), with Director Tom Magilll and Sam McClean (Duncan).

GALA SCREENING

WORLD CINEMA

Director: Noah Baumbach. USA.2010. 107 mins.Print source: Universal Pictures International, Ireland

GREENBERG Moviehouse Dublin Road . Thursday 22nd April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00. Director Noah Baumbach’s (Screenwriter of Life Aqauatic, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Squid and the Whale) new film. Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is at a crossroads in his life. Out of a job and not too interested in finding one, he agrees to housesit for his younger and more successful brother’s house, thereby getting a free place to stay in Los Angeles. Once settled in, Greenberg sets out to reconnect with his old friend and former band-mate Ivan (Rhys Ifans). But times have changed, and old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends, so Greenberg finds himself spending more and more time instead with his brother’s personal assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig), an aspiring singer and herself something of a lost soul. Over the course of several weeks, we watch an uncertain and wonderfully vulnerable courtship play out, and learn how funny, and terribly unpredictable, love in the modern world can be.

WORLD CINEMA

TSAR

Director: Pavel Lungin. Russia.2009.116 mins Cert:15. Print source: Rezo Films

QFT . Thursday 29th April . 7pm . £6.50 / £6.00

STAY THE SAME , NEVER CHANGE

LYMELIFE

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9 UK PREMIERE

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan’s close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign’s mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. Tom Stern’s cinematography, majestic in the outdoor scenes of the Russian countryside imitates the extreme camera angles and disquieting, stylized architecture of Eisenstein’s two “Ivan the Terrible” classics released in 1944 and 1958. Sergei Ivanov’s striking production design, paired with the gorgeous costumes and Yuri Krassazin’s epic score, give the film a stamp of great quality.

QFT . 9.15pm . Sunday 18th April . £6.50/£6.00 Repeat Screening . QFT . 7.00pm . Saturday 24th April . £6.50/£6.00

“Isn’t it amazing that your whole life can be changed by a bug the size of a pimple on your ass?” A tick has destroyed the spirit of Charlie Bragg (Timothy Hutton) and has left Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), his wife, open to the predations of her business partner, Mickey (Alec Baldwin). Mickey’s wife knows what’s going on but tries to stand above it. Set in the late 70’s, seen through the innocent eyes of a fifteen year old boy, Scott, Lymelife is a unique take on the dangers of the American Dream. This funny, sad, violent and sometimes tragic look at first love, family dynamics and divorce weaves an intricate tapestry of American life during a time of drastic economic and emotional change. Directed by Derick Martini and produced by Martin Scorsese, Lymelife does for beer-and-pretzels Long Island what Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm did for key-party Connecticut.

Director Derick Martini. US.2008.95mins.Cert 15. Print source: Cinema Vault

Intense performances by Rory Culkin and Alec Baldwin are standouts in a movie that brims with vivid supporting turns. VARIETY

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Director Faye Jackson. UK.2009.105 min.Cert 15 Print source:St. Moritz Productions

With all the contortions and mutations that the vampire movie has taken in the past 75 years it is quite refreshing to see that there remains interesting potential in the genre. Strigoi is the story of a young man called Vlad who had returned to his grandfather’s home in Romania. He finds the people of his village to be acting very strangely. After discovering that a local man has died under suspicious circumstances without an investigation into his death, he begins to investigate himself. Faye Jackson’s slice of Romanian village life is a both a handsome curio and a modern step forward from the stake that Let The Right One In drove into the heart of the genre last year. Strigoi is a stunning film shot in Romania and based in Romanian lore.

BLUEBEARD QFT . Monday 19th April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00 An adaptation of Charles Perrault’s baroque fairytale, structured as a tale within a tale, Bluebeard alternates between past and present, childhood and adolescence, fiction and reality. On one level it is bright, cherubic, Catherine who sneaks away into the attic with her older, more gullible sister, Marie-Anne to read Perrault’s fairytale. On another level is the realization of the fairytale itself: the plight of dowry-less, virginal Marie-Catherine who is compelled to marry the reclusive nobleman Bluebeard in order to lift her mother and older sister Anne from a life of poverty following the accidental death of her father. Bluebeard is also a distilled and densely layered exposition on Catherine Breillat’s recurring preoccupation with socioeconomic and sexual politics.

Strigoi weaves dark comedy with small town corruption, mystery, intelligent characterization and drama.”

“Totally original and twistedly funny, STRIGOI will make you rethink what the true nature of a vampire really is.”

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Director: Catherine Breillat. France. 2009. 80 mins. Cert: 15.Print source: New Wave Films

The visuals are reminiscent somewhat of Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac. Bluebeard is yet another excellent Breillat film. THE LUMIERE READER

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ADAM RESURRECTED Moviehouse . Monday 26th April 7pm . £6.50/£6.00 Adapted from the novel that has been called Israel’s Catch-22 for its dark comedy and fierce intensity, Adam Resurrected is a provocative tale of friendship and redemption. At the centre of the story is Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), once a popular German cabaret star but now in an asylum after the second world war in the Negev Desert. Cutting between the psychiatric institute and Germany during the war years when he is in the death camps along with his wife and daughter, he strikes a bargain with the Commandant, Klein (Willem Dafoe) to serve as his “pet” in exchange for not being gassed. After the war Adam encounters a young boy who has been locked in the asylum because he believes he is a dog; it sparks powerful memories of the events that shattered Adam more than 15 years before, when his own identity was blurred.

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THE TANGO SINGER QFT . Wednesday 28th April . 9pm . £6.50/£6.00 The Tango Singer is a movie that attempts to capture on screen the emotion and rhythm of the best tango songs. Helena (Eugenia Ramírez Miori) is a rising tango talent who is deeply and madly in love. When she successfully auditions with her band for a residency in a prestigious theatre in Buenos Aires her career looks set to take off. But she is hit by the news that the man with whom she is in love no longer loves her. For Helena, who lives for songs of love, this is the end of the road. Obsessed and tortured by her loss, she can’t get over her heartbreak and becomes a shadow of her former self. But what if she took off and started all over again? Perhaps she could also leave behind the pain, and slowly, learn to live and love again… The film is punctuated by intense bursts of tango. Every song moves the story along, providing an insight into the characters and access to the protagonist’s feelings: nostalgia, passion, sadness, and joy in turn.

Director: Diego Martinez . Belguim, Argentina. Year: 2009. Duration: 102 mins. Cert: 15. Print source: Celluloid Dreams

j Director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver) establishes a structure highly akin to Fellini’s 8 1/2. Where Fellini made ecstasy contagious, Schrader is after much darker vistas. One cannot recommend this film strongly enough. THE VILLAGE VOICE

Director: Paul Schrader. Country:Germany,USA,Israel. Year:2008.106 mins.Cert:15. Print source: Bleiberg Entertainment

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DOGTOOTH

VINCERE

QFT . Saturday 17th April . 9pm . £6.50/£6.00

QFT . Friday 16th April . 9pm . £6.50/£6.00

Dogtooth concerns a family, living in a large suburban house. The parents of three adult children have kept them confined to the house since birth, teaching them their own unique vocabulary.Though the children appear to be in their twenties, they are dressed like children and spend their days engaged in competitive games to gain the favour of their parents. Only Father can go outside thanks to the protective Car, for the rest of the household there is only fear of a brutal and fiendish world on the other side of the fence. Fear and lies are used to contain the Children’s minds. With deadpan editing, satiric knowhow, and a consistent black comedy streak Lanthimos has filmed something of a Wes Anderson look-a-like, preened and lustily shot, and yet with the glacial mundaneness of a Michael Haneke tableaux.

The powerful new film from acclaimed auteur Marco Bellocchio (My Mothers Smile, The Wedding Director), Vincere is a compelling drama based on the little known story of Benito Mussolinis first wife. Ida Dalsar and Mussolini begin their liaison in 1914; she is a wellto-do beauty salon owner and he is an impoverished young Socialist and union activist. When Ida sells all her possessions to fund her lover’s new newspaper, the rise of Fascism is set into play. Vincere is a gripping film that combines drama, archive footage and music creating a highly cinematic oratorio of enormous emotional force. Vincere is a bold and unflinching tale that shows the results of Mussolini’s obsessive pursuit of power. The strong performance of Giovanna Mezzogiorno as a tragic figure who, although a victim, is never a silent one makes the film so memorable.

j This is one of the greatest depictions of the family and home concepts ever laid on film… QUIET EARTH

Director: George Lanthimos Greece. 2009.94 mins. Cert: 18.Print source: Verve Pictures

Director: Marco Bellocchio Italy/France.2009.128 mins: Print source: Artificial Eye

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Director Naoyuki Tomomatsu & Yoshihiro Nishimura. Japan.2009.85 minutes.Cert 18

VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL QFT . Tuesday 27th April . 9pm . £6.50/£6.00 The makers of the carnage-filled, blood-drenched, special effects extravaganza Tokyo Gore Police have returned with a romantic comedy. A carnage-filled, blood-drenched, special effects extravaganza romantic comedy. Monami is the new girl at school who tries to woo one of the boys in her class and gets on the bad side of Keiko who has proclaimed herself as his girlfriend. Strangeness ensues. It may be a vampire love story, but this isn’t Twilight. Steeped in ridiculously bloody sight gags from the first scene, this bit of slapstick-grindhouse features possibly the craziest high school on the planet and makes for a wickedly entertaining joyride full of ingenious visuals, memorable characters and more arterial spray than a GWAR concert.

j Blood is everywhere. Monami twirling around the arterial spray of blood rain provided by her victim in slow motion is perhaps the most beautiful rain sequence ever put on film, only comparable to Gene Kelly’s dancing in Singing in the Rain. TWITCH

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LEBANON

SHIRLEY ADAMS

QFT . Wednesday 21st April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00

QFT . Friday 16th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

It’s June, 1982 - The First Lebanonese War; a lone tank is sent into help out a group of paratroopers and enters a hostile and unforgiving landscape - a simple mission on paper turns into a nightmare. It’s an intense adventure using the same subject matter as Waltz With Bashir - this time we’re put into a tank with four Israeli soldiers, the claustrophobic situation of the men situated within a tank is reminiscent of the U-boat crews in Das Boot. There’s Assi the commander, Shmulik the gunner, Yigal the driver and Hertzel the loquacious loader. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.

Oliver Hermanus delivers an astounding and intimate portrait of a mother’s struggles to care for her quadriplegic son. In a powerhouse performance, Denise Newman plays Shirley, a Cape Town resident whose son, Donovan, was hit by a stray bullet in a gang shootout that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Already struggling to survive in the tough Cape Flats district, she finds the added challenge of Donovan’s new disability almost more than she can take. It doesn’t help that her husband walked out the door, unable to cope, or that hospital authorities suspect she’s not up to the task of caring for her son. Showing influences from both Mike Leigh and the Dardenne brothers, Hermanus keeps his approach observational as he brings us toward deeper and deeper empathy with a woman whose life might be a world away. Riddled with the sociopolitical and racial tensions that plague where she lives, Shirley Adams is the story of one woman’s amazing strength and self sacrifice, that maintains an unbroken intimacy in this insightful, heart-warming and outstanding film.

j Aiming to do what Das Boot did in capturing the confines of a submarine, Samuel Maoz’s debut feature film recently captured the Golden Lion at Venice. TWITCH

Director:Samuel Maoz. Germany,Israel,France, Lebanon.2009.94 mins. Cert:15.Print source: Metrodome Group

Director: Oliver Hermanus. South Africa,USA,UK. 2009. 92 mins. Cert: 15. Print source: Visit Films

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NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS QFT . Wednesday 21st April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

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Cats is a rendering of the true, tragic tale of two young musicians, Negar and Ashkan who attempt to put together a rock/heavy metal band after being released from prison. They had committed the crime of playing western music in an inflexible, dogmatic Islamic society. They also seek passports and visas for themselves and the bandmates they hope to find in order to emigrate to a country with freer artistic expression. Fueled by frustration with the myriad prohibitions governing life in Iran, No One Knows About Persian Cats strings an improvised tale around Tehran’s underground indie-rock scene, blending exciting musical performances with rapidly cut-to-the-beat montage sequences that show gritty aspects of Tehran life. The Band’s powerful lyrics convey Iran’s current stifling atmosphere for the country’s rebellious youth.

VISION QFT . Tuesday 27th April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00 One of the major auteurs to emerge from New German Cinema of the 70’s, Margarethe von Trotta’s new film tells the story of Hildegard who entered a Benedictine Monastery at the age of 8. Taught in the arts of herbal medicine, reading and writing by her mentor Jutta, she quickly excels in a number of disciplines. Hildegard later becomes the abbess of the convent and by subtly using her intelligence and diplomacy begins to change the laws from the highest level. Since childhood she has had powerful visions that she records. Certain these mystic perceptions are messages from God, she mentions them to her superior, without fear of the obvious scepticism and suspicion of heresy from the Christian order. Hildegard was the first composer whose life we know about, she was also the first woman to write about female sexuality. Centuries later, masters such as Dante and Leonardo di Vinci were inspired by her works. This is the fifth time that von Trotta has worked with Sukowa and their chemistry together is tangible. Sukowa brings a potent drive to Hildegard; the more resistance she meets, the more radical she becomes.

Director: Margarethe Von Trotta. Germany. 2009. 111 mins. Cert: 15. Print source: Celluloid Dreams

Director.Baham Ghobadi. Iran. 2009. 96 mins. Cert:N/A. Print source: Network Distribution Ltd

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THE HORDE QFT . Monday 19th April . 9pm . £6.50/£6.00 A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise block, these two opposing gangs find that they are not alone in the lair of bloodthirsty corridors of death. Joining forces to survive, they must reach ground level together or perish. The Horde is another example of the French investing high production values to reinvent horror for a modern audience, here producing a pacy, exciting and gory romp into the world of the undead. The Horde is quite possibly one of the finest action films of the year, more than just another zombie film, this classy French horror comes out with all guns blazing.

j Think Die Hard with zombies. Director: Marek Najbrt. Czech Rep/Germany. 2009. 98 mins. Cert:15.Print source: Negativ Film Pds

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Directors: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher.France. 2009. 90 mins.Cert: 18. Print source: Momentum Pictures

PROTEKTOR QFT . Saturday 17th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 Set in Prague from 1939 to 1942, Protektor centres on radio reporter Emil and his actress wife Hana during the German occupation. To survive and protect his wife, Emil chooses to collaborate. Ultimately, that threatens to destroy the very thing he’s trying to protect. It’s the year 1938, Hana lands her first big success in film, admirers flocking about her. Emil is jealous. The German occupation and the beginning of the war turn their lives upside down as Hana is confronted with her Jewish heritage. From the high hopes of a star at the start of her career, she falls to the bottom of society’s ladder. Emil, on the other hand, is promoted at the radio station and becomes the voice of Reich propaganda. He siezes on this chance to protect and take control over Hana’s life. Protektor brings a cool, noirish slant to a story of Czech artists and intellectuals as they accommodate and to a lesser extent resist the German occupiers; the film is considerably enhanced by the film’s ‘retro’ style, its evocation of 1930s cinema, and the creative art direction of Ondrej Nekvasil.

Director: Rachel Ward. Australia.2009.101 minutes

BEAUTIFUL KATE Moviehouse Dublin Road . Monday 19th April. 7pm . £6.50/£6.00

j Confronting in its family drama, Beautiful Kate manages to simultaneously disturb and reward its audience with a strong, well rounded story and excellent performances. FILM INK

For her feature film debut as a writer/director, Rachel Ward (Thorn Birds) has created a dark, gothic drama about family conflict and taboo relationships. Ben Mendelsohn plays Ned who is returning to his family home after a 20-year absence to see his dying father Bruce (Bryan Brown), whom he still blames for the suicide of his older brother. It’s a classic Prodigal Son narrative but made much murkier once we learn about Ned’s twin sister Kate, who also died young. Mendelsohn, Brown and Rachel Griffiths (playing Ned’s other sister) are excellent but the highlights of Beautiful Kate are the performances in the flashback sequences by newcomers Scott O’Donnell as 16-year-old Ned and Sophie Lowe as Kate. Beautiful Kate is an atmospheric, visually striking and moving piece of cinema.

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METROPIA

LEAVING (PARTIR)

QFT . Tuesday 27th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

QFT . Tuesday 20th April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00

Metropia is set in Europe in 2024, in a grim future where natural resources have dried up, financial collapse has left most people struggling, and the biggest corporation in the world is Trexx, which runs a giant Metro system all across the continent. Roger (Vincent Gallo), a callcenter worker, is considered paranoid for worrying about whether Trexx, and the Metro, are involved in some sort of oppressive conspiracy. When his bike is broken and he’s forced to ride the underground train, he has to fight a voice in his head that doesn’t quite sound like his own, as well as the urge to follow his dream girl, Nina (Juliette Lewis), whose face adorns popular shampoo ads and bottles everywhere. Metropia offers a bleak vision of the human race, but does so in an animation style so distinctive and beautiful it is hard not to be distracted by it. This film will certainly be a benchmark for animation styles, much like Ralph Bakshi or the rotoscope animation of, A Scanner Darkly.

Kristin Scott Thomas stars opposite the smouldering Catalan actor Sergi Lopez (Pan’s Labyrinth, Dirty Pretty Things) in a gripping tale of a mid-life affair. From it’s ominous ‘gunshot’ opening, Partir jumps back in time several months. Suzanne (Scott Thomas) is preparing to return to work as a physiotherapist after years at home caring for her children and doctor husband, Samuel (Yvan Attal). Ivan (Lopez) is hired to build Suzanne her own backyard clinic. Ivan is a former convict, however when an accident brings the two closer together, social barriers give way to mutual attraction. As the frustrated wife prepared to risk everything for passion, Scott Thomas gives a rich, captivating performance. Corsini’s skilful direction captures the subtleties of emotion in each character as the story propels itself toward a shocking end.

j The combination of noir and dystopia is nothing new, but the unusual style and visual details help build suspense and interest and create a fascinating world to watch.

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Director: Tarik Saleh. Sweden. 2009. 86 mins. Cert: 15. Print source: Swedish Film Institute

Quick pacing, ready engagement and another standout performance from Kristin Scott Thomas make this French potboiler a joy to watch EXCLAIM

Director: Catherine Corsini . France. 2009. 90 minutes. Cert 18A

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ADRIFT

SUMMER WARS

QFT . Saturday 17th April . 7pm . £6.50/£6.00

QFT . Thursday 29th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

Set on Brazil’s Buzios beaches in the early 1980s, the story of one girl’s coming of age is a sophisticated, handsome melodrama of considerable class.

At first sight, the world of Summer Wars looks practically identical to contemporary Japan. But there’s one big difference: the existence of Oz. A mix between social network and virtual world (think of some kind of Facebook taken to new heights), accessible through any electronic device you can think of. You can find anything inside Oz, ranging from the typical chat rooms to every kind of entertainment and even government services like traffic and police departments. Everything is connected to this massive worldwide network, all you have to do is register, create your own virtual avatar and log in. And it’s in this world where we find our characters. Kenji is a high school student who spends his summer working as an Oz operator when he receives a sudden proposal from Natsuki, one of the school’s most popular girls.

Spending summer vacation with her family in Buzios, Filipa (Laura Neiva), a fourteen-year old girl, suffers through the rites of passage into adulthood while discovering love for the first time. A rite filled with anguish when she learns that her father (Vincent Cassell), a famous author, is betraying her mother (Bebora Bloch) with a foreign woman who lives in the small seaside town. But this secret is to be only the first in a series of others, both enchanting and painful, which she discovers about her family and herself as well. Heitor Dhalia is a Brazilian filmmaker with award-winning features to his name; Adrift confirms his reputation as one of the brightest talents emerging from South America. A sophisticated, handsome melodrama of considerable class, in which the finely drawn characters and outstanding performances resonate. Newcomer Neiva marks her arrival with a striking turn, and she’s ably supported by the more established cast around her.

Director: Heitor Dhalia. Brazil. 2009. 97 mins. Cert: 15. Print source: Revolver Group

Decades from now, Summer Wars will be seen as the official arrival of Mamoru Hosoda into the realm of historically important anime directors. It’s a nearperfect blend of social satire and science fiction, at once timely and timeless, sardonic and optimistic.

Director: Mamoru Hosada. Japan. 2009. 114 mins. Cert: 15

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MIA AND THE MIGOO

2 SCREENINGS

MOLOCH TROPICAL

QFT . Saturday 17th April . 3pm . £5.00/£4.00 QFT . Sunday 18th April . 3pm . £5.00/£4.00

QFT . Sunday 25th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

Acclaimed director Jacques-Remy Girerd, returns to write and direct this animated fantasy adventure following a young girl as she encounters a strange creature who teaches her about a sacred tree that is essential to all life on the planet. After her mother’s death, eight-year-old Mia leaves her home village, and sets out to find her father, Pedro. He is one of the laborers charged with constructing the resort on an island that is currently being transformed into a lavish resort by an unscrupulous real estate developer, though lately the project has been beset by a series of mysterious problems. Those problems become rather serious when Pedro winds up buried in a tunnel after a massive landslide, and Mia races though the jungle to aid in the rescue mission. Along the way, Mia encounters the Migoo, a race of curious, identical creatures that can take any form they please, and whose purpose is to protect a tree that is crucial to the future of all living creatures on Earth. That tree is threatened by the construction of the resort, forcing the Migoo to take action. Only with the help of the resort developer’s son, can Mia save her father and the sacred tree- and ensure the future of the earth.

In a fortress perched on the top of a mountain, a democratically elected President and his closest collaborators are getting ready for a state celebration. Foreign chiefs of state and dignitaries of all sorts are expected. Director Raoul Peck references Alexander Sokurov’s film Moloch as he transplants the unsettling mountain idyll of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun from Bavaria to the green heat of Haiti. As it happens, Haiti has a castle even more impressive than Sokurov’s - Citadelle Henri, perched high atop a mountain outside Port-au-Prince. Built from massive stone blocks that seem to rise up out of the jungle, it is a remnant of colonial power and debauchery hiding in the mists. It is from this height that the President rules; styling himself an imperial monarch, he moves around the enormous castle, as isolated, paranoid and fragile as one of Shakespeare’s mad kings. Raoul Peck tucks a searing critique of absolute power within an elegant chamber drama.

j European Film Award, 2009 Best Animated film

Director: Jacques-Remy Girerd .France/Italy. 2008 91 mins. Cert: U. Print source: Celluloid Dreams

Director: Raoul Peck. Haiti/France: 2009. 107 mins. Print source: Velvet Films

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GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH

QFT . Thursday 22nd April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

QFT . Thursday 29th April . 9.30pm . £6.50/£6.00

Writer/director Damien Chazelle combines the cinematic sensibilities of Cassavetes and Godard in a gritty, 16mm, MGM-style musical. Backed by an alternately rollicking and melancholy score by Justin Hurwitz the film follows a pair of young lovers after they meet by chance in a Boston park and bond over a passion for old-time music. A magical amalgam of Miles Davis and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Guy and Madeline catches you off-guard and keeps you there. It’s not every day one finds a black-and-white movie with a score performed by the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra or one so umbilically connected to music itself, and so simultaneously immersed in observational realism and the conceits of the 1930s musical. A surprise, a delight and a whimsical experiment, it could, despite its rigorous efforts to be noncommercial, end up a bona-fide cult hit.

1 is set in a bookshop mysteriously filled with only copies of a book called “1” that contains the fate of humanity in one minute. It is the end of another working day in a bookshop renowned for its vast collection of rare works. The manageress, the owner and the janitor are closing up. A mysterious customer suddenly appears and claims to have travelled the globe in search of a book that he dreamt of being in this shop and he asks to be taken to the storeroom. They are stunned to discover that all the books in the storeroom have been replaced by thousands of copies of the same unknown work and when they return to the shop, they see that the same has happened to all of the books that were on display just a moment before. They have all been replaced by a book with no author and no publisher that carries the simple title “1”. This very clever movie is based on an essay by the late, great Polish SF writer, Stanislaw Lem (Solaris).

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Director:Damien Chazelle USA.2009.94 mins. Cert:15.Print source: The Director.

Director: Peter Sparrow. Hungary.2009.91 mins. Cert: 15. Print source:

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PASSCHENDAELE

DOWN TERRACE

Spectrum Centre. Shankill Road . Monday 19th April . 8pm . £4.50/£4.00

QFT . Monday 19th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

Inspired by the stories once passed down to him by his grandfather, writer-director Paul Gross explores a defining period of Canadian history in this epic war drama concerning the Battle of Passchendaele. Set during the height of the First World War, Passchendaele tells the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross), a soldier who is brutally wounded in France and returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred. While in the military hospital in Calgary, he meets Sarah,a mysterious and attractive nurse with whom he develops a passionate love. When Sarah’s younger asthmatic brother David signs up to fight in Europe, Michael feels compelled to return to Europe to protect him. Michael and David, like thousands of Canadians, are sent to fight in the third battle of Ypres, a battle against impossible odds, commonly known as Passchendaele. It is a story of passion, courage and dedication, showing the heroism of those that fought in battle, and of the ones that loved them.

If you can imagine Mike Leigh directing an In the Loop-esque deadpan comedy then you might be able to wrap your head around Down Terrace, a darkly comic and deeply disturbing slice of social surrealism featuring the cream of British comedy character actors. Bill and Karl are the heads of a crime family struggling to keep their business together as infighting and a police informant in their midst threaten to unravel it completely. In Down Terrace he expertly juggles a cast (some of whom are well know from TV shows such The Office and Spaced) and non actors alike to achieve a naturalistic slice of life; combine that with the crime shenanigans of the household which suggest a British Sopranos and you have a uniquely hilarious romp through gangland crime.

Director: Paul Goss Canada.2008.114 mins Cert: 15. Print source: High Fliers Films.

j “Surreal and sinister, this is a splendid exercise in anti-social realism”

Director: Ben Wheatley 2009. 87 mins. Print source: The Director.

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HEARTLESS QFT . Wednesday 21st April . 9.00pm . £6.50/£6.00 A dark, horror-tinged urban fantasy from visionary filmmaker Philip Ridley (The Reflecting Skin and The Passion Of Darkly Noon). Jamie Morgan (Jim Sturgess) plays a young photographer who feels as if his life has been blighted by the birthmark that covers half of his face, that birth mark being heart-shaped. He lives in an urban world dominated by a terrifying gang culture, whose random violence has convinced Jamie that the world is meaningless and ugly. But then Jamie meets someone who tells him the truth. The violence is not random, it’s far from chaotic, there is a reason for everything. Once Jamie accepts this the world reveals itself as a thing of great beauty... And that’s when his real nightmare starts... Heartless is an intelligent genremix of horror, black comedy and social realism.

Director: Philip Ridley UK.2009.90 mins.Cert: 18 Print source: Lionsgate UK

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A LAKE QFT . Sunday 18th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 Director Grandrieux has been hotly acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic as one of Europe’s most innovative and uncompromising filmmakers, his visionary films testing the very limits of screen language. This minimalist new work is at once Grandrieux’s most accessible film and his most abstract. In Grandrieux’s fable-like tale, the ultimate extremity of otherness is found close to home. Deep in the middle of a forest, a family ekes out a primitive existence, until one day a mysterious stranger arrives. Loosely reminiscent of Aleksandr Sokurov’s Mother and Son in its invocation of Caspar David Friedrich’s gothic landscapes to convey a sense of profound isolation, intimacy, and longing, A Lake, nevertheless, remains very much a Grandrieux film, bearing his singular imagery of synaptic, perturbating camerawork, defocused framing, and liminal compositions that transform everyday movements and rhythms into a frisson of textured, abstract impulses that feed the senses

Director: Manoel de Oliveira.Portugal/Spain/ France.2009.64 mins.Print source: New Wave films

Director: Philippe Grandrieux.France.2008. 90 mins. Print source: Films Boutique

ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLOND HAIR GIRL QFT . Saturday 24th April . 9.00pm . £6.50/6.00 The cinema’s most senior filmmaker, Manoel de Oliveira, brings us this deceptively simple, perfectly set gem. Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl is based on a short story by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, the renowned nineteenth-century author often regarded as the Flaubert of Portugal. While on a train bound for the Algarve, a beleaguered man recounts his troubles to his sympathetic neighbour. He is Macário, a former Lisbon accountant who worked for his uncle’s shop and fell madly in love with Luisa (Catarina Wallenstein), the titular blond-haired beauty who lived across the street from his office window. The film’s many references to painting and literature add rich textures to the luscious drawing rooms where the characters gather. Entertaining and enlightening, de Oliveira’s new film displays an incredible youthfulness belying his one hundred years.

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SYMBOL QFT . Wednesday 28th April . 9.30pm . £6.50/£6.00 A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.

It’s hard to pigeonhole Symbol in any particular genre, but I would best describe it as a liveaction Looney Tunes cartoon on crack. SOUNDONSIGHT

Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto.Japan.2009. 93 mins.Cert:15. Print source: Umedia.

In his new film Matsumoto builds further upon the tradition of comedy in an ambitious work that seeks to carry his sense of humor beyond cultural boundaries. Symbol covers deep philosophical ground, which under Matsumoto’s hand results in a unique film of tremendous impact. TIFF

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SPOTLIGHT ON SHYAM BENEGAL

Belfast Film festival in collaboration with the Shruti Foundation are pleased to have in attendance one of the pioneers of the new cinema in India, Shyam Benegal has been considered one of the leading filmmakers of the country ever since his first feature film, Ankur was released. His films have been seen and acclaimed widely in India and at International film festivals for the last three decades. The core subjects of his films have been varied in nature but mainly centered around contemporary Indian experience. Problems of development, social and cultural change appear on many levels as a continuing thread in practically all his films. Apart from fiction features, he has made a number of documentaries on different subjects ranging from cultural anthropology and problems of industrialization, to music and so on. His work on television consists of several popular series based on international stories, short stories by well-known Indian writers and a mammoth 53 part series on the history of India based on Jawaharlal Nehru’s book Discovery of India. He has also made an extra-mural educational series for rural children sponsored by UNICEF. Benegal has made 26 fiction features for the cinema, several documentaries and TV series.

Shruti Foundation in collaboration with Belfast City Council’s Creative industries initiative presents. The Shruti Foundation International Lecture. A public lecture by the Great Indian Film maker Shyam Benegalon 22nd April, 2010 at The Great Hall Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN Refreshments at 18.00 Lecture( with film clips) at 18.30

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THE MAKING OF THE MAHATMA QFT . Sunday 25th April . 2.00pm . £6.50/£6.00 Following the screening there will be a discussion with filmaker Shyam Benegal.

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ZUBEIDAA QFT . Monday 26th April . 6.00pm . £6.50/£6.00

This epic biopic recounts the crucial years Gandhi spent in South Africa, beginning in Bombay as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins practicing law after studying in England, before arriving in South Africa. Gandhi is totally unprepared for the racism he encounters there in South Africa; in court, he gets off to a rocky start when he refuses to doff his turban for a white judge. He becomes an activist for East Indian rights and over the next 21 years launches a major civil rights movement based on pacifism. Gandhi also sets up two major cooperative farms and during the Boer War manages a Red Cross unit for the British Army. In addition to focusing on his humanitarian efforts, the filmmakers also offer a rarely chronicled look into Gandhi’s personal life and the sacrifices his family made. While Attenborough’s Gandhi is shown more as a greater-than-human, almost Jesus-like figure,Benegal shows us the real complexities of Gandhi’s social relationships, and in his film we see the human Gandhi, and not the West’s idealization of Eastern mysticism. Benegal’s Gandhi has the same steadfast dedication to justice through non-violence.

Zubeidaa forms the third chapter in an unofficial trilogy created by Benegal and Mohamed (writer) that began in 1993 with Mammo. The second film, Sardari Begum (1996), part fairy-tale, part homage; the final installment Zubeidaa draws on several sources to weave together a complex story - the woman’s diary, relatives’ reminiscing and even archival documents that have been confiscated as a result of a cover-up. As the title character Zubeidaa is “seen” through various perspectives, Karisma is stunning as the young and effervescent Zubeidaa, expressing the young woman’s desires, and zest for life. Zubeidaa is an almost experimental film, offering great acting, deft direction and a well-crafted screenplay. Benegal presents the tale with all the accompanying emotions, emotions that permeate through to the viewer.

Director: Shyam Benegal India.2001.153 mins. Cert: 15.Print source: Directorate of Film Festivals, India

Director: Shyam Benegal India/South Africa Year: 1996. 144 mins.

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OCTOBER COUNTRY QFT . Monday 26th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

Director: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher. USA. 2009. 80 mins Print source: Wishbone Films

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Shot over the course of a year from one Halloween to the next, the film presents three generations of a working class American family in upstate New York. The film details many of the personal trials and tribulations of the Mosher family but, on a universal level, provides an honest insight into what is often too simply described as America’s obsession with violence. The film is both a cinematic poem and a dramatic record of the impact of everything from the Vietnam War to present day economic recession on one family; the grandfather is a vet who tells no war stories but watches war movies, the grandmother an eloquent rock of support, the daughter struggling to bring up two girls of her own. One of the girls struggles to avoid abusive relationships and the other an example of natural intelligence, creativity and curiosity trying to understand the world around her. Engrossing, rich, multi-layered and stunning to watch, this first feature leaves you feeling like you’ve read a seriously good book. Winner of Best US Documentary AFI, Silverdocs

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COLONY

Director: Carter Gunn,Ross McDonnell. Ireland. 2009. 88 mins. Print source: Fastnet Films

QFT . Sunday 25th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

Proving to be the king of the bee films in the past year, Colony both informs about the disorder and its impact on human food supplies and becomes a riveting depiction of how small changes in the environment can have monumental effects on our lives. It follows a couple of key characters. David Mendes who becomes a belated champion galvanising American beekeepers in a common cause fighting a giant pharmaceuticals company. We also meet a traditional, fundamentalist Christian family who have their beliefs and love tested by the tragedy of a failing business. The passion with which these stories are told is gripping, leaving you on the edge of your seat hoping for success as those on screen struggle to keep their colonies alive.

j ‘We admire some documentaries for their artistry and others for their urgency. Rarely do we see a film that combines both of these qualities as impressively as this debut’

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HIS AND HERS

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QFT . Sunday 25th April . 9.00pm . £6.50/£6.00

76 women in the Irish midlands tell a fascinating story of their relationship to men from childhood to teenage years, dating to marriage, pregnancy to old age and finally death. It is often humorous, clever, deeply felt and at its peak leaves the viewer with a sense of intimate revelation as the story progresses and the women allow you into their most personal thoughts. It reveals both an insight into Irish society and the powerful presence of the 76 women represented. The long-awaited first feature from multi award-winning short filmmaker Ken Wardrop has been an international success at Sundance and the London Film Festival. Its modest approach to a universal concept and its cinematic freshness have proved a hit with audiences worldwide. One of the best new Irish films of the year.

j ‘rigorously and remarkably cinematic’ THE IRISH TIMES Director: Ken Wardrop. Ireland. 2009. 80mins. Print source: Venom Films

‘touching and exquisitely made, it is never short of charm’ VARIETY

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LAST TRAIN HOME

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QFT . Friday 23rd April . 9.00pm . £6.50/£6.00

Chinese New Year, when 200 million migrant workers travel home to families, this is the story of one. Your difficult commute to work is nothing, a stroll in the park compared to this experience. In a sea of frantic people we finally encounter the Zhangs, a couple who, sixteen years before, left their children in rural China with their grandmother to work in China’s industrialised cities. Like most migrant stories their journey is full of dreams and hope for their children’s future. It’s a catch 22 though, only seeing their children once a year threatens the very foundation of those dreams. Their eldest child Qin has just become a teenager consumed with a rebellious rage about her abandonment. Dropping out of school she runs away to work and party in the nightclubs of the big city. A shocking familial clash of values and fortunes is inevitable, and in this context it seems a familiar one to any modern Chinese family. Last Train Home is a beautifully shot and haunting largescale portrait which conveys the scale of this exodus. It also brings you close to a family whose fraught efforts to reunite are symptomatic of a deeper struggle affecting China. Director: Lixin Fan. Canada/China/UK.2009. 85 mins. Print source: Eyesteel Films

THE LIVING ROOM OF THE NATION QFT . Monday 19th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

A documentary film that portrays a number of Finnish living rooms. The film is a story of changes, the inevitable passing of time, and the human desire to be needed, visible. The living room is the centre of the home where it’s easy to relax and to feel at ease. It paints vivid pictures of its occupants. Granddad’s wall clock and a 1980s style sofa and armchairs in one room and a shabby rug and a welding machine serving as a TV table in another set the stage for everyday drama. In this film you will find the Finnish have an unending ability to shock and make you laugh at things in unusual ways. As a film you are often left wondering how on earth did the filmmaker capture that moment. One scene, fraught with hilarity and danger when a chip pan goes on fire, becomes an ode to the fear of marital commitment and the platonic love between two male friends. Director: Jukka Karkkainen Finland. 2009. 75mins. Print source: Finnish Film Foundation

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BANANAS!*

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Director: Fredrik Gertten. Sweden. 2009. 80mins. Print source: Dogwoof Pictures

QFT . Friday 16th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

A David and Goliath court-room drama like you’ve never seen before, in real time with real people. You may have heard of BANANAS!* the film, DOLE Food Company tried to legally ban it from being seen. Now’s your chance to see the story of one of the World’s largest fruit distributors and the effects their use of pesticides has on workers in their Nicaraguan banana plantations. BANANAS!* is a suspenseful courtroom drama as Juan Dominguez identifies his first defendants to test a case against DOLE Food Company in an American court. It is evident from the beginning how ambitious their plans are, a wall of money and the best legal support sit opposite them. One third of the production price of the average banana is used to purchase pesticides, pesticides that are now seriously damaging the health of many of the plantation’ workers. Through this thrilling story, BANANAS!* tells a revelatory tale that highlights gross mis-management in the global food supply chain.

RACING DREAMS QFT . Wednesday 21st April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 A hugely enjoyable film that beats most fiction cinema to its knees, Racing Dreams is the ‘Stand By Me’ of documentary films. Oscar-nominated director Marshall Curry excels with a fast paced and raw film about early teen racers facing their last year of little league and a foreboding decision about their future careers, aching for NASCAR glory. Following Annabeth, Josh and Brandon as they compete for the World Karting Association’s national championship, Racing Dreams is also about their innate desire to race and a gloriously uplifting rites of passage story. They are all tested by a last summer of first romances and troubled family backgrounds. These races are fast, dangerous and brilliantly captured on film, the competition has you on the edge of your seat and their successes and failures are powerful to watch. Already destined for a fictional remake by Spielberg’s Dreamworks, Racing Dreams is destined to be the thrilling sleeper hit of the festival.

j Director: Marshall Curry. USA. 2009. 93mins..Cert PG. Inferno Entertainment

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‘The best film of the year so far … an instant classic’ LA TIMES

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LA DANSE

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QFT . Sunday 18th April . 8.00pm . £6.50/£6.00

Director: Frederick Wiseman. France/USA. 2009.159 mins.Cert: U. Print source: Soda Pictures

Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman takes his camera to Paris, observing a few critical weeks in the life of The Paris Opera Ballet company as they prepare for a new season of dance. Wiseman handles La Danse like his previous documentary work, preferring to lead with minimal information; no talking head interviews, no names or rank, and no artificial demands of drama. It’s a verite approach that allows the viewer a choice opening to examine the ballet company as a fly on the wall, without the burden of manipulation pushing and pulling the subjects into trivial sound bites. This film injects pure creation, watching the group assemble to rehearse and refine seven ballets (including the all-powerful “The Nutcracker” and the bloodstained “Le Songe de Medee”), reviewing the arduous routines time and again, with choreographers and masters monitoring every sinewy tremble for possible imperfection. The miracle of La Danse is how Wiseman, using pure simplicity, is able to provide such enthralling cinema.

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AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY

DAUGHTER OF THE SEA

QFT . Friday 23rd April . 9.30pm . £6.50/£6.00

Cultúrlann . Thursday 22nd April . 7pm . £4.50/£4.00

At last, the true life story of the outlaw comic Bill Hicks who tried to save the world. He still might...’

Before she turned two, Haize’s father, Mikel Goikoetxea, a Basque political refugee nicknamed “Txapela”, was killed in 1984 by the Spanish death squads GAL in the north of the Basque Country (under French administration). With no recollection of the man whatsoever, 25 years down the line she starts asking questions. Daughter of the Sea is a testimony to an exercise of the memory. Piecing together the testimonies of those who knew him, Haize gradually discovers her father and his time, mixing different worlds and feelings, and converting the spectators into witnesses of the unrepeatable journey to her own roots.

Libertarian, outlaw, shaman, philosopher, romantic, preacher, genius…Bill Hicks was always something other than a comedian. His death from cancer in 1994 deprived the world of arguably the most iconic and probing voice in American culture of the period, and it’s hard to find the words to do him justice. Given the fact Hicks was much more celebrated in the UK than he was at home, it is perhaps fitting that it’s British filmmakers Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas who step up to pay him his dues. American: The Bill Hicks Story uses an innovative animation technique, some rare and previously unseen performance footage, and testimonies only from the people who knew him best, his family and close friends, to create a deeply perceptive film. American: The Bill Hicks Story is the definitive record of one of America’s most iconic modern heroes - a fearless voice as relevant today as ever.

Director: Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas.UK.2009 110 mins

Josu Martinez was the winner of the Special Rikardo Arregi Award for journalism in the Basque language in 2007.

Director: Josu Martinez. Basque. 2009. 52 Mins

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LOOT

Director: Darius Marder. USA. 2008. 86mins. Print source: ADD Studios

QFT . Saturday 17th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 This extraordinary film constantly twists and turns your expectations. Beginning with a curious indiana jones in suburbia setting, continuing through a globe-trotting personal adventure and ending with some powerful guthitting revelations, this real-life treasure hunting scenario is dramatically gripping.

SHED YOUR TEARS AND WALK AWAY QFT . Tuesday 20th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

Lance, an amateur inventor, is also an amateur treasure hunter. Befriending two world war two veterans with looted treasure hidden decades before in Europe and the Philippines. Lance’s journey begins with gold in his eyes but also an avid fascination with their stories. Stories that have yet to be resolved, one assisted by a surprising connection to a once German SS officer and the other with a hidden map in a house full of junked memories. Both stories would be hard to believe as fiction but expose dramatic emotional tragedies resulting from hidden truths. A pot of gold proves to be less satisfying when the adventures provide a hopeful future for Lance and his wayward teenage son.

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Shed Your Tears and Walk Away is an example of British documentary filmmaking at it’s best, a raw, inquisitive look at some serious social questions. The filmmaker, Jez Lewis, is from Hebden Hills. Now living in London, he is becoming increasingly confused and curious about a series of suicides amongst his peer group of hometown friends and acquaintances. Discovering the town to be hiding a rash of alcoholism and depression, his film offers the best example yet of an enquiry into English identity within one of the most liberal communities in Britain. Returning to visit an old friend, Cass, Jez discovers a whole community of drop-outs seemingly bent on self-destruction, loitering and drinking in parks, passing time with angry but exhausted questions about their future and place in society. The film offers a rich and sometimes ugly honesty, but Cass’ determination and eventual freedom from Hebden Hills finds a new life for him free from addiction and loss.

‘Shot through with compassion, Shed Your Tears ..is bold, deeply personal documentary filmmaking, providing an insight into the lives of lost souls that is both sympathetic and urgent.’ LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

DirectorJez Lewis.UK.2009 90mins.Print source: Bungalow Town

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WINNEBAGO MAN

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QFT . Tuesday 27th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00

One day, Jack Rebney was working on a corporate video promoting the eponymous American touring vehicle; the Winnebago. Through the following decade, his outtakes become the stuff of legend becoming a phenomenon in the early days of YouTube. Because of this exposure Rebney became a Salinger-like recluse because of his instant fame. The location and sight of Rebney becames the dream goal of filmmaker Ben Steinbauer. Winnebago Man quickly starts with the discovery of Jack and everything that follows becomes an entertaining and hilarious rollercoaster ride of bluff and double bluff between filmmaker and subject. The irascible Jack is as angry as his outtakes suggest, a constant performer and conspiracy activist, a challenging friend to the filmmaker and a supposed enemy to the fan. Where will their explosive series of meetings end? Director:Ben Steinbauer.USA. 2009.87mins.Cert:PG

“The funniest documentary I have seen all year.” MICHAEL MOORE Winner, Audience Award, Hot Docs, Toronto

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BANRÍON AN CHEOIL Cultúrlann. Wednesday 21st April 7pm . £4.50/£4.00 This documentary film is to be a musico-archeological “road-documentary” which explores the ancient Irish airs of Co. Derry Harpist Denis O’Hampsey as collected by Edward Bunting. Led by a group of gifted musicians who are fascinated with the origins of their Irish musical tradition and heritage, this film follows musical instrument maker Séamús O’Kane from Co. Derry and renowned Harp builder Michael Billinge from Co. Cork who are building a replica of one of the most striking historical symbols of Ireland, the Downhill Harp along with Nollaig Brolly, one of the new up and coming female artists in Ireland, who is turning her hand to learning the technics of playing this ancient instrument from renowned Celtic/European harpists.

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After a year of hard work and travails, this film culminates in a grand finale Harp concert in the style of The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792.

QFT . Friday 23rd April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 The Hamely Tongue – Cultúr Ceilte (Hidden Culture) argues for a more nuanced perspective on the language and culture of Ulster Scots. Belfast presenter Seimí MacAindreasa embarks on a personal journey of discovery into his neighbouring culture, and endeavours to find common ground between two of the major linguistic and cultural traditions of Ireland. Déanann The Hamely Tongue – Cultúr Ceilte argóint fá choinne dearcaidh níos caolchúisí ar theanga agus chultúr na hUltaise. Téann an láithreoir as Béal Feirste, Seimí MacAindreasa, ar thuras pearsanta i gcroí lár an chultúir béal dorais dó agus déanann sé a sheandíchill talamh coitinne a aimsiú idir an dá mhórthraidisiún cultúrtha agus liteartha in Éirinn.

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Director Deaglan O Mochain. N Ireland.2009.56 mins. Print Source: The Director.

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THE FIRST MOVIE QFT . Thursday 29th April . 6.45pm . £6.50/£6.00 We see Iraqi kids regularly in our media. Nearly always, they are war kids. But what about their imaginative lives? Inspired by Charles Laughton’s movie Night of the Hunter, Mark Cousins went to a small village in the Kurdish North, took a projector, some great films and 3 small cameras to give to kids. As he filmed he began to think about his native Belfast, and about what it felt like to grow up here. The resulting film is the opposite of a war movie. It’s more like a musical. Trees sing and a child flies. Filmmaker Ken Russell called it “achingly lyrical” and Wim Wenders said that he loved it. “This is a terrifically enjoyable and engaging film: open-minded and open-hearted, and utterly unlike the material on regular commercial release.” The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw

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Director: Mark Cousins UK/ Iraq, 76 mins, Cert 15.

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QFT . Wednesday 28th April . 7.00pm . £6.50/£6.00 Moviehouse, Dublin Road . Thursday 29th April. 9.00pm

The hilarious and engaging story of the world’s only yodelling, lesbian, country-and-western singing twins. Through interviews, performance footage, home videos and newsreel archives, we get to know the amazing Jools and Lynda Topp. They are one of New Zealand’s most cherished and charmingly irrepressible performing duos, and their fans range from political activists, to sheep farmers and ‘Ladies who Lunch’. The story spans fifty years, from their humble upbringing on a small dairy farm through to their internationally acclaimed tours. An effortless comical stage presence draws the audience into this honest, intimate and entertaining portrait of two sisters who resist, through satire and parody, the political and sexual norms of post-war New Zealand. Their refreshingly provocative careers are mapped alongside years of seismic social change, demonstrating their country’s struggle to find and define its national identity. The Topps maintain an aversion to classification that has allowed for limitless possibilities. As they put it, “We’re not comedians, we’re just singers who are funny.”

Director: Leanne Pooley. New Zealand.2009.84 mins Print source: New Zealand Film

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CITY OF BORDERS

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Slide, 10a Ann Street . Thursday 22nd April . 7.00pm . £5.00

QFT . Sunday 25th April . 7.00pm . £6.50/£6.00 Moviehouse. Wednesday 28th April . 9.00pm . £6.50/£6.00

This inspiring documentary tells a powerful story of an unusual symbol of unity, Jerusalem’s only gay bar, SHUSHAN; based in the heart of Jerusalem it’s patrons defy generations of segregation, violence and prejudice. We follow the daily lives of the five Israeli and Palestinian patrons as they navigate the minefield of politics, religion and discrimination to live and love openly. Israel’s own ‘Harvey Milk,’ Sa’ar, who entertainingly struggles with many Hassidic Jews in the city council; Samira and Ravit, are a Palestinian/Jewish lesbian couple; Boody, a young Palestinian man struggling with his effeminacy in a Muslim community; and Adam, a young Jewish man partying for equal rights after his stabbing by an Orthodox Jew at the Pride march. Boody leads us into their world as he secretly crosses the wall for a night out. Inside this vibrant underground on the East/West border of the Holy City, people of various nationalities, religions and sexual orientations create a community among those typically viewed as enemies. Yun Suh explores the bond forged when people from warring worlds embrace what everyone shares in common - the right to be accepted rather than be defined, or limited by their differences. Director Yun Suh USA. 2009 .Duration 84mins. Cert.NA. Print source: The Director

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One of the most talked-about directorial debuts of 2009. Dolan’s tremendous talent is showcased in triplicate as he writes, directs and stars in J’ai tué ma mère, the semi-autobiographical tale of a young gay man coming of age while struggling with his tortured relationship with his mother. Dolan plays Hubert, a super cool teenager who bickers constantly with his mom (Anne Dorval) about everything, from the trivial to the profound. He’s also repulsed by her style – the tacky furniture, her repeated trips to the tanning salon. She’s not only disagreeable and unsupportive, she’s a kitsch monster! Their arguments are alternately hilarious and horrifying, reflecting the profound pain both are suffering. Their fights escalate until mom hatches a toxic plan: Hubert will be shipped to boarding school. This leads to an ultimate standoff between them. Combining assured writing, a confident directorial style (the scene where Hubert makes love to his boyfriend is a standout) and a beautifully rendered performance. Director: Xavier Dolan Canada.2009.French.100 mins.Cert: 15.Print source: Rezo Films

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Director: Haim Tabakman. Israel.2009.90 mins.

EYES WIDE OPEN QFT . Sunday 18th April . 5.30pm . £6.50/£6.00 Living in one of Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox quarters, Aaron (Zohar Strauss) runs a kosher butcher shop and is the father of four young sons. His quiet life is disrupted when the arrival of Ezri (Ran Danker) awakens dormant feelings. Buried under layers of piety, unknown desires suddenly rise in Aaron like an all-enveloping tide. While the devout Jew initially believes the proximity of temptation will only make him stronger, he ultimately abandons himself to the throes of passion. Eventually, however, he will have to face up to his religious and familial responsibilities. When a next-door neighbour strays from righteousness, Aaron is forced to reassume his role in the community, and joins the rabbi in making threats that will soon be redirected at him if he doesn’t conform. First-time feature director Haim Tabakman explores the moral boundaries of his own religion with a sharp, mature investigation of a tough subject. Tabakman charges the merest touch with megawatts of emotion, delivering a restrained masterpiece of hidden tensions that wisely refuses to stoop to unnecessary dramatics. EYES WIDE OPEN will be followed by a discussion examining the issue of Religion and Politics.

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SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Programme 1 Saturday 24th April 2010 QFT. 10am – 12 Noon £4

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Living In The Half Light A film examining dual identity challenges for young people from other cultures living in Northern Ireland Director: Zhenia Madhi-Nau / N Ireland 2009 / 10.7mins

Bono & My Ex A film about love, loss and…..Bono. Just when you thought you’d closed the door on that relationship, your ex meets a rock star and stirs it all up. Director: Ross Whittaker / Ireland 2009 / 3mins Runners For eighteen year old Derek, running drugs isn’t a big deal, it’s just a job. But juggling a relationship, family and his ‘career’ isn’t easy. Something has to give. Director: Ronan Burke & Rob Burke / Ireland 2009 / 16mins The Fuse Of Peace A short documentary that dissects the riots that took place in North Belfast during this past summer’s Twelfth of July marches. Through footage from the day and interviews with those involved, this short film seeks to raise awareness of the damage riots like these have on community relations. Director: Will Maloney / N Ireland 2009 / 18mins Your Number’s Up Bernie enjoys attending wakes - usually of strangers. unusual pastime leads to a riotous series of scrapes, culminating in a heartrending twist Director: Jonson D’Angelo / Ireland 2010 / 19mins

Tom Mathews, Waiting For Goldfish This short documentary filmed around his local Dublin habitats is a quirky look at the character and the cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the Irish Times and many other publications. Director: Paddy Cahill / Ireland 2009 / 8mins The Crush An 8 year old boy challenges his teacher’s boyfriend to a duel. Director; Michael Creagh / Ireland 2009 / 15mins Latte A look at the prejudice against people from other countries who live and work in Northern Ireland from the viewpoint of four young professionals sitting in a café. Director: Matt Curry / N Ireland 2009 / 5mins

Relax The Cacks Relax The Cacks is set around temperamental couple Diarmiud and Grainne, whose relationship is on the verge of total destruction. Can Grainne (armed with a vanity mirror) and Diarmiud (golf balls at the ready) pull together and walk off hand-in-hand happily ever after??? Director: Les Doherty / Ireland 2009 / 7mins

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SHORT FILM COMPETITION Programme 2 Saturday 24th April 2010 QFT 1.00pm – 2.45pm £4

Hoodie It is early evening in a deserted, industrial place. A hooded man is walking along a quiet road. We do not see his face. His intent and destination are unknown to us. Director: Patrick Finnegan/ N Ireland 2009 / 8mins Tufty What if you knew where your Teddy Bear really came from? Director: Jason & Brendan Butler / Ireland 2009 / 8mins Erwin Erwin Schwartzer, a dark lone figure in a dystopian Belfast, grooms himself for one of his frequent visits to the city’s prostitutes. As he prepares he finds himself reflecting on a previous encounter. Director: Stephen Petticrew / N Ireland 2009 / 12mins Sundays Surrounded by the prying eyes of mourners in a cemetery, grieving teenager Tommy struggles to to visit his mother’s grave. As others fail to Tommy searches for a fitting way to feel close Director: Alanna Riddell / N Ireland / 9mins

busy city bring himself see his pain, to his mum.

Davy Jones Finally, Davy’s estranged dad comes to take him on a fishing trip. This could be an opportunity for them to get to know each other- to bond – but instead, out on the coast, their relationship flounders. Director: Richard Parkin / N Ireland 2009 / 9mins Paint After the loss of his wife Michael struggles to pick up the pieces. His emotions get the better of him and he vents his grief in ways that are both confusing and frightening for his son David. Director: Ryan Tohill / N Ireland 2009 / 9mins

The Dinner Party Brian is at a dinner party where as the conversation progresses, a very old hurt raises it’s ugly head. Twenty-five years of diligently suppressed trauma starts to seep through the cracks, turning the atmosphere nasty. Director: Michael Lennox / N Ireland 2009 / 9mins Richer Than Roses A visit to their grandmother proves more valuable than they imagined. Director: Jonny Waite / N Ireland 2009 / 4mins The Night Before A young lady goes out to the bar to meet her friends for an evening of dancing and fun.It’s the next morning, the girl wakes up back in her flat. She feels the effects of the night before and suddenly realises that someone is lying next to her Director: Terence McKenna / N Ireland 2010 / 5.10mins Questions A series of intimately observed moments between two brothers after the death of their parents, Questions takes place in a graveyard where the brothers attempt to come to terms with their new circumstances. Director: Mark Noonan / Ireland 2009 / 5.36mins The Chronoscope A short film made in the form of a faux documentary about a beautiful scientist who invents a machine that can see into the past. The film is narrated by Jeremy Irons. Director: Andrew Legge / Ireland 2009 / 20mins

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Programme 3 Saturday 24th April 2010 QFT 3.30pm – 5.30pm £4

If I Should Fall Behind An industrial water drum filled with holy water. A city canal. A tortured father. Director: Morgan Bushe / Ireland 2009 / 14mins Car Park Car Park- Noun (US, parking lot). An area of ground where cars are parked Fear- Noun. A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, whether the threat is real or imagined. Director: Diarmiud Goggins / Ireland 2010 / 9mins Tara Tara is a very clever nine year old who is desperately in love with her father. But her father leaves and her mother tells her he is never coming back. Tara believes that her mother is jealous because she thinks Tara loves her father more than her and so she sets out to ensure that she can be reunited with her daddy. Inspired by the cartoons she watches on television, Tara skips school and sets a trap. Director: Joe McStravick / N Ireland 2009 / 12mins The Man Inside A short story in memory of Lisandro, who accidently locked himself in. Director: Rory Bresnihan / Ireland / 2009 / 12mins Mea Culpa Since her mother’s death, 13 year old Peggy has taken on her role in her family. She basks in the affection of her father, Daniel but a young, new teacher, Julie threatens to usurp peggy’s place in the household through her budding relationship with Daniel. Director: Virginia Gilbert / Ireland / 2009 / 18mins

What Will Survive Of Us We meet John and Noreen, two young lovers from Boyle, Co Roscommon, at a turning point in their lives. John wants to move the relationship forward in a certain way, but Noreen is less willing. John wins over in the short-term, but Noreen, feeling manipulated, leaves him. John is left alone in a strange and open ending. Director: Domhnall Gleeson / Ireland 2009 / 14mins

Through The Night Every night, around the world, couples fall asleep side by side trusting they know what lies beside them. Director: Lee Cronin / Ireland 2009 / 10mins Separations Agency A boyfriend wakes up one morning to find out his relationship is over, with the news being delivered in the strangest way possible Director: Shane Martin / N Ireland 2009 / 5mins Blood Coloured Moon A bittersweet story about a stranger who arrives at an isolated pub in the Irish countryside on Good Friday Night 1967. After unsuccessfully attempting to get a drink from the owner, the stranger proceeds to recite a poem in a bid to persuade the owner’s wife to run away with him. Director: Marc-Ivan O’Gorman / Ireland 2009 / 12mins Con-Saw-Tina-Effect A darkly comic tale of two unlucky in love singletons, their chance meeting and how quickly the excitement of a new romance coming together can cause that same romance to quickly fall apart. Director: Terence Mckenna / Ireland 2009 / 12mins

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DOUBLE TAKE QFT . Monday 26th April . 9.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 A postmodern take on Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon, human doubles, coffee, the Cuban Missile Crisis and everything in between. Double identities and screen representations are at the heart of Double Take. Director Grimonprez mixes footage of Hitchcock, scenes from The Birds, and commercials and political news footage from the 1950s and 1960s to weave a deceptively simple connection between illusion and reality. In amongst all this are scenes of professional Hitchcock impersonator Ron Burrage bimbling about, and a fictional voiceover in which Hitch describes how, in 1962, he met his future self from 1980 and killed him. In the end Double Take is a Cold War thriller that has Hitchcock himself at the very centre.

Director: Johan Grimonprez. Belguim, Germany, The Netherlands. 2009. 80 mins. Cert: 15. Print source: Soda Pictures

j “If you meet your double, you should kill him. Or he will kill you. Two of you is one too many. By the end of the script, one of you must die.” ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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MIX UP

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Wednesday 21st April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Sunday 18th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

Hovering somewhere between Todd Solondz and Harmony Korine, Stay the Same Never Change, probes the hollowness of Middle America via sensual depiction of assorted lonely teenage girls desperately seeking a way out- or in. Artist/filmmaker Laurel Nakadate’s weird and delightful first feature film is a raw, audacious effort that burns with originality and honesty. Starring amateur actors in Kansas City, and filmed in their real homes, Stay the Same Never Change is a nonlinear yarn that skips among various vignettes depicting the solitary existence of distantly connected young women. Nakadate’s film exudes a warm sense of humor as it peers into the loneliness of the girls and their desperate attempts to find affection.

One of the most remarkable and innovative documentaries ever made, Mix up follows the famous true story of two English women who as babies got switched in the hospital and 20 years later discovered that they’d been raised by the wrong sets of parents. Romand enlists all the surviving family members in her haunting and bizarre investigation, which involves not only a recounting but a reenactment of all the significant events in the two daughters’ emotional histories. Composed in an elaborate visual form that involves diptych compositions employing windows and mirrors, home-movie footage, stylized group portraits and featuring inventive work with sound and music, the movie burrows so deeply into the subject and its ramifications that one emerges with enough material for a 500-page novel. The mix-up of the title refers not only to the putative subject but to many stylistic and formal collisions: fiction versus fact, French versus English, memory versus imagination. An astonishing film.

Director:Laurel Nakadate USA.2009.84mins.Cert:15 Print source: The director.

Director:Francoise Romand France.1985.84mins.Cert:PG Print source: Lowave

Jonathan Rosenbaum

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JG BALLARD TRIBUTE NIGHT

POST APOCALYPTIC FILM NIGHT

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Monday 19th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Saturday 24th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

Marking the first anniversary of JG Ballard’s death. In between the publication of The Atrocity Exhibition and the publication of Crash (1973), Ballard’s ideas found their way into a short film by Harley Cokliss. Not only starring but also written and narrated by Ballard himself, Crash! (1971) is somewhere between a televised essay, a work of audiovisual art and a traditional short film. This is followed by Chris Petit’s short documentary on Ballard. Following these two short films we have Jonathan Weiss’s version of J.G. Ballard’s unfilmable series of experimental writings gathered together in The Atrocity Exhibition. Weiss works creates the most Ballard-like visual representation of the author’s work on the screen, with his ubiquitous scientists, doctors and mysterious beautiful women haunting concrete bunkers, motorway underpasses, aircraft landing strips and other areas of urban isolation. The screen is also kept busy with significant and meaningful montages of archive news and documentary footage of atrocities, scientific charts and tools, autopsy reports and x-rays, close-ups of organs being operated upon and pornographic sex scenes. J.G. Ballard was full of praise for how Weiss has adapted his book – so well is it done that Ballard feared that the filmmaker showed worrying signs of relating perhaps rather too closely to the insane psychiatrist who is the protagonist of the book.

For our special Post-apocalyptic night we have a special screening of New Zealand 1975 cult classic The Quiet Earth. Zac Hobson rises one morning, and finds that he is apparently the last man on Earth; a government project Zac was working on went haywire, killing nearly everyone in the process. The landscape, however, remains unsullied. Zac at first enjoys the fruits of being Earth’s sole tenant, after all, but soon discovers two other humans struggling to survive in this empty world. The Quiet Earth is a cult classic. There’s not a moment of schlock or goofiness, and its topic is just as prescient today. As a short trailer we have a classic episode from Rod Sterling’s TV series The Twilight Zone. Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) is a bookish bank teller who has a childlike fascination for the written word. He is consistently harassed by his wife, customers and boss for his love of print to the point that he must sneak into the bank’s vault where he works to read on his lunch hour. During one such visit, a nuclear bomb blast levels his city, leaving him unscathed, whereupon he exits to find that he has “time enough at last” to read all he wants.

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HOUSE (HAUSU) Bff Beanbag Cinema . Thursday 22nd April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early. How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? A Japanese surrealist Evil Dead on ketamine? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, murderous lampshades and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality.

j Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi Japan. 1977.Cert: 15. Print source: Eurka Entertainment

Alternately satirical and disturbing, this crazed, confounding film takes horror-comedy to a new level. NUTSHELL REVIEW

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THE AMOEBA MONSTER

THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Thursday 29th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Wednesday 28th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

If your nightmares include being plucked off a beach by a giant squid, this could be the film for you...

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961) was Czechoslovakian special-effect genius Karel Zeman’s masterpiece. The film opens on the surface of the moon, where a modern-day cosmonaut confronts both Munchausen and another legendary pioneer space traveller, Cyrano de Bergerac. The cosmonaut then joins the Baron for further escapades. Combining live action, stop-motion animation and deliberately unreal backgrounds Zeman’s film is one of the most visually impressive films ever made (It makes Avatar or Lord of the Rings look like shit). Czechoslovakian director Karel Zeman was responsible for some of the most visually innovative fantasies in cinematic history. His unique blend of live action and animation is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before (except, perhaps, in Monty Python films, given that Terry Gilliam is an enormous fan of Zeman’s). It’s impossible to describe the sheer wealth of visual enjoyment Munchausen has to offer.

An alien mist, brought to Earth by an unmanned space probe that crashes on a Pacific island, causes local animals (a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle) to mutate into giant monstrosities that wreak havoc on a resort construction site. Space Amoeba is one of the more surreal and arguably the last of the classic Toho giant monster movies. The film was the last to combine the artistic talents of director Ishiro Honda (of Godzilla fame), producer Tomoyuki Tanaka with a musical score by Akira Ifukubie.

Director:Ishir Honda Japan.1970.84mins.Cert:15

Director:Francoise Romand France.1985.84mins.Cert:PG Distributor: Lowave

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RE:FRAME

DAS/DARKLIGHT

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Friday 23rd April . 7pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

Bff Beanbag Cinema . Sunday 25th April . 2pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early.

RE:FRAME is a selection of seven films from a contemporary cinema, removed from Bollywood, that testifies to the richness of creativy in India. Oscillating between documentary, video art, experimental film, and animation, this compilation explores the means with which the texture of memory is incorporated within postcolonial Indian society’s individual journeys as well as the national psyche; within private circles as well as public spaces. It allows for contrasting points of view regarding the country’s situation and its unanswered question: when the past has yet to catch up with the present, is it a threat or an alternative to the present?

As part of the Belfast Film Festival and run in association with the Digital Arts Studios, Darklight presents a day of screenings and workshops celebrating filmmakers and animators working in Belfast and across Ireland. Expect to be educated, entertained and elated.” Darklight is an annual arts festival which takes place in Dublin showcasing future-focused and excellent new work from filmmakers and artists. Each year’s diverse programme of international and national artists is a celebration of the creative space where Art, Film and Technology intersect.

Above image: Ashish Avikunthak.

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GANDAHAR Bff Beanbag Cinema . Tuesday 20th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early. René Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Gandahar, his final animated feature film, in 1988. Based on an original story by Jean-Pierre Andrevon, and a huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. Gandahar is a fascinating, adult animation which examines genetic mutation, the importance of organic farming, and urges a respect for nature that resonates today more than ever. Life in the idyllic paradise of Gandahar seems peaceful and in joyous order, until the Mirror Birds report that inhabitants of whole villages have been turned to stone. A council of women chooses Sylvain Lanvère to uncover Gandahar’s mysterious metallic attackers. In doing so, he finds an underground race of deformed Gandaharians and an oversized motherbrain, both the result of botched genetic experiments. Previously seen in English-speaking countries as the dubbed hack-job alternatively titled Light Years (presided over by Harvey Weinstein who credited himself as “Director”, over Laloux), we present the original French version of Laloux’s distinctive vision in this newly restored edition.

PASTORAL:TO DIE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Bff Beanbag Cinema . Tuesday 27th April . 8pm . £5.00 23 Donegall Street. Seating limited to 25. Book early. Director Shuji Terayama’s (Emperor Tomato Ketchup) surreal masterpiece is an audacious and unrelentingly imaginative tale which ranks alongside Holy Mountain and The Saragossa Manuscript in scale and singular vision. Set in a dreamlike rural Japan, the story begins with an adolescent boy’s attempt to escape his overprotective mother and then suddenly shifts in focus as the filmmakers confront’s his representation of his own childhood. There is also an effort to reconcile the individual with the collective or old and new Japan through a parade of emblematic images. Gossiping women wear sinister eye patches. An outcast simple-minded woman drowns her own baby and later returns as a sophisticated prostitute. A circus fat lady yearns to have her fake body inflated by a dwarf. Curious and astounding scenes abound, all contributing to an overwhelming experience of a creative mind interrogating itself.

Nominated for a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974.

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LES DEMOISSELLES DE ROCHFORT

HIGH SOCIETY

The Strand Cinema. Monday 19h April. 8pm . £6.50/£6.00

The Strand Cinema. Tuesday 20th April . 8pm . £6.50/£6.00

Catherine Deneuve is a starry-eyed French girl with love in her heart. In Rochefort she has a twin sister (Françoise Dorléac, her actual sister); together they’re after a pair of eligible young men of Rochefort. Most musicals shift back and forth between story and song-and-dance numbers, sometimes creating queasy transitions. But Les Demoisselles often daringly places story and musical numbers on the screen simultaneously, mixing them in various ways and in different proportions. Adding dance to the magical mix that made his earlier The Umbrellas of Cherbourg such a delight, Jacques Demy here created one of the most stylish and joyously exuberant musicals ever made.

MGM’s musical remake of The Philadelphia Story has sparkling songs by Cole Porter, a star turn from Louis Armstrong, sparks from Sinatra and Holm, and a farewell performance from Grace Kelly before she packed her bags for Monaco, to become ‘her serene highness’. A prim socialite, finds herself in a the middle of a comic mess when her ex-husband (Crosby) and an amorous reporter (Sinatra) come to cover the preparations for her upcoming wedding. Adding to the tension is her skirt-chasing father, who’s also returned home for the ceremony. Includes such hit numbers as “True Love,” “You’re Sensational,” and “Did You Evah.”.

Director: Charles Walters. USA.1956.106 mins.Cert:U Print source: British Film Institute.

Director: Jacques Demy. France.1967.126 mins. Cert: U.Print source: British Film Institute.

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KISS ME KATE The Strand Cinema. Monday 26th April. 8pm . £6.50/£6.00

Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night. The sparkling score by Cole Porter is one of his best with almost every number a standard, including “So in Love”, “Why Can’t You Behave”, “Always True to You in my Fashion”, and “I’ve Come to Wife it Wealthily in Padua”. The effervescent Ann Miller not only dances superbly but performs splendidly in the Bianca role, while Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore are a delight .

MEET ME IN ST.LOUIS The Strand Cinema. Tuesday 27th April . 8pm . £6.50/£6.00

As a small tribute to that wonderful director, Vincente Minnelli (100th anniversary of his birth) we offer up for your delight one of the greatest musicals ever made. The story focuses on the upheaval that threatens the family’s cohesion: the eldest daughters are searching for husbands, the only son is due to go to Princeton, and the lovable but slightly out of touch father is about to give everyone some bad news - he’s been offered a promotion... in New York. Life, it seems, will never be the same again. Full of nostalgia for the romantic traditions of the Old South - complete with horses and traps, gentlemen callers, and evening dances - and bursting with homespun Technicolor warmth, Meet Me in St Louis is pure celluloid sugar.

Director: Vincent Minnelli .USA.1944.113 mins.Cert: U.Print source: British Film Institute. Director: George Sidney .USA.1953.110 mins.Cert: U Print source: British Film Institute

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ASCENDANCY QFT . Saturday 24th April . 7.15pm . £6.50/£6.00 Belfast, 1920. Connie Wintour, a protestant English aristocrat, is haunted by the loss of her brother, Harry, at the battle of the Somme, and is suffering from a depression which threatens to lapse into severe mental illness. Sombre and passive, she feels trapped by her bourgeois lifestyle and persecuted by the doctors and nurses who treat her. Her only emotional outlets are the letters she writes to her dead brother, which she hides among his things in his old bedroom. Wintour, Connie’s father, is an industrialist with a large shipbuilding concern in the city. He claims not to care about the difficult political climate, but is concerned by the increasing civil unrest, which is beginning to affect his business. Against his daughter’s wishes, he participates in an Orange order march and political rally, and becomes a target for sectarian violence.

Director: Edward Bennett.UK.1982. 85 mins.Cert: 15 .Print source: British Film Institute.

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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS QFT . Wednesday 28th April . 6.45pm . £6.50/£6.00 A Classic Film for a Classy Lady. Belfast Film Festival is 10 and to celebrate we’ve asked Michele Devlin the Festival director to pick her favourite film. Michele has been here since it all began and after the screening she will be interviewed about her choice and look over the highs and lows of our first decade.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo.Italy/ Algeria.1982. 121 mins.Cert: 15 .Print source: British Film Institute. Chain Productions.

One of the most influential political films in history, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Gillo Pontecorvo’s film is a tour de force—a film with astonishing relevance today. Battle of Algiers released on DVD by Argent films.

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DEAN MARTIN In song and on screen Black Box . Thursday 22nd April 8pm . £8 Doors open at 8pm. The event will start at 8.30pm. The King of Cool, Dean Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti; he was one of America’s best-loved entertainers. Who can forget the image of the handsome crooner, glass in one hand, cigarette in the other, bringing an abundance of laughter, songs and joy through film, tv and stage for more than 50 years as an actor, comedian and entertainer. In honour of his incredible talent, the Belfast Film Festival presents an evening of Dean Martin’s best-loved songs including popular classics such as Everybody Loves Somebody, Sometime, Memories are Made of This, That’s Amore, Mambo Italiano and many more. Local newcomer Kevin V Kearney will be singing the songs of Dino that cross musical genres from country and western influenced tunes, to swing, romantic ballads and beyond, evoking the ‘Ratpack Era’ of this very special movie icon. Kevin will be joined on stage by the musical talents of the fabulous Peter Benson on keyboard and trumpet, Jarlath Mulholland (saxophone), Mickey Murphy (Guitar) Kenny Graham (Bass) and Gerry Morgan (Drums). The live interpretations of Dean Martin’s songs will be complemented by clips from some of his most memorable on-screen moments from classics such as Ocean’s Eleven, The Young Lions, Airport and Rio Bravo, to name but a few. These clips remind us of how this brilliant actor moved effortlessly between comedy, thrillers and dramatic performances. Introduced by Brian Henry Martin, this promises to be a very special evening of live music and film not to be missed.

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WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE: A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS

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QFT . Tuesday 20th April . 9.00pm . £6.50/£6.00 QFT . Monday 26th April . 9.00pm . £6.50/£6.00 Award-winning writer-director Tom DiCillo’s riveting film uncovers historic, previously unseen footage from the illustrious rock quartet and provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of their music and legacy. A chronicle of the creation of The Doors’ six landmark studio albums in just five years, as well as their electrifying live performances. Rare cinèma vèritè footage offers an intimate glimpse into their musical collaboration - and their offstage lives. The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists - drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, and singer Jim Morrison - made The Doors one of America’s most iconic and influential rock bands. When You’re Strange is the first feature documentary to tell their story. Using footage shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison’s death in 1971, it follows the band from the corridors of UCLA’s film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas. The film is narrated by Johnny Depp. Director: Tom De Cillo. USA. 2009. 90 mins. Cert: 15. Print source:The Works

NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW The Black Box . Tuesday 27th April 9pm . £6.50/£6.00

In Neil Young Trunk Show Director Jonathan Demme display’s of Neil Young’s musical and spiritual soul. There are delicately offered acoustic numbers like “Sad Movies” and “Mexico”; mesmerizing electric travelogues into the artist’s psyche (“No Hidden Path”); searing, chaotic anthems including “Like a Hurricane” and “Cinammon Girl”; and rarely performed pieces like “Kansas” and “Ambulance Blues” that provide glimpses of Young’s less public persona. Shot with a mix of video and film cameras, mostly handheld, NYTS presents the kinetic reality of a Neil Young performance in breathtakingly intimate fashion. Young and his band are captured with great immediacy, often in dramatically long takes that let the viewer experience Young opening up his heart song by song, and then blowing it all away in heated, uninhibited displays of rock and roll power.

Director: Jonathan Demme. The Netherlands, USA, Canada.2009. 82 mins Cert: 15. Print source: Celluloid Dreams

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BREAKING ROCKS Oh Yeah! Centre . Monday 19th April

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8pm . £6

Originally named after a Clash B-side, Breaking Rocks charts the story of Billy Bragg’s initiative to provide instruments, specifically guitars, to prisoners as a means of rehabilitation. Bragg originally approached director Alan Miles with a request to shoot footage of a visit he was making to Guys Marsh prison in Dorset. The film features interviews with prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the experience in addition to footage of Jail Guitar Door graduates Leon Walker and Jonny Neesom. In Billy’s own words – ‘Prison has to be about much more than just locking people up – we want people to move on from their situation and reconnect with the outside world, and my hunch was that playing an instrument – particularly a guitarcould help that.’ The film also includes interviews with The Clash’s Mick Jones and Topper Headon. Miles’s impressive filmography includes The Last Night London Burned where Mick Jones and Joe Strummer are filmed performing together for the first time after a break of nineteen years and just weeks before Strummers death. The Director Alan Miles will introduce the film.

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The Black Box Cafe . Wednesday 21st April 8pm . £6.00

These two films are part of the series ‘Do you love me like I love you’ by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. Each of the 14 films in the series relate to a single album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. In this special screening we show two 40 minute films that relate to the albums; From Her To Eternity and Tender Prey. From Her To Eternity (1984), covers the early days of the band and their evolution from the Birthday Party, and Tender Prey (1986) covers an interesting and popular time in the band’s history, including their time in Berlin and recording ‘The Mercy Seat’.

Director by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.UK. 2009. 80mins. PG. Print source The Directors.

Director Alan Miles. UK. Year 2009. 78mins. Cert PG. Print source: The Director

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FRAGMENTS OF FINNEGANS WAKE Moving on Music, Belfast Film Festival and the Sonic Arts Research Centre in association present... Fragments of Finnegans Wake. With newly composed live soundtrack by 4 composers from the School of Music & Sonic Arts, Queens University Belfast. A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce’s novel, her only feature. In the transformation from Joyce’s prose to the concrete imagery of actors and sets, Passages discovers a truly oneiric film style, a weirdly post-New Wave rediscovery of Surrealism, and in her panoply of allusion – 1950s dance crazes, atomic weaponry, ICBMs, and television all make appearances – she finds a cinematic approximation of the novel’s nearly impenetrable compressed structure. With Passages from Finnegans Wake Bute was the first to adapt a work of James Joyce to film and was honored for this project at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 as best debut. Thursday 29th April. Sonic Arts Research Centre, Cloreen Park (off Malone Rd), Belfast . Doors open 8pm. Tickets £6 in advance through Moving on Music from the Belfast Welcome Centre, 47 Donegall Place, tel 028 9024 6609 or www.movingonmusic.co.uk

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WOODEN SHJIPS

A Moving on Music and Belfast Film Festival presentation

A Strange Victory and Belfast Film Festival presentation

Efterklang make music for the inspired. But don’t feel left out, for Efterklang inspire all. Otherworldly pop songs, both magnificently ambitious and engagingly intimate. Breathtaking panoramas of sound with few clear antecedents. This is music with no boundaries. Childhood friends Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the small Danish island of Als, close to the German border. Their second full-length album, Parades (2007) was ccording to Mojo and Drowned in Sound among the 25 best records released in 2007, while Clash magazine acclaimed it as one of the Top 40 albums in their five-year history. Efterklang are well-known for their stunning live shows. Following the release of Parades the band took their eight-piece live band on the road for 15 months, playing more than 130 concerts across North America, Asia and Europe. We’ll be showing a collection of Efferklang’s inspired music videos before the concert.

With Psych light show visuals from Belfast’s Cinilingus. Appropriating primitive rock riffs and then subjecting them to subversive psych-tinged FX-laden ju-ju, Wooden Shjips generate manic, warped pulses of poprock that don’t just make your ears bleed but get your toes tapping at the same time. Emanating out of the dissonant fringes of the San Francisco noise scene and drawing upon obvious influences such as the Velvet Underground and Loop, their instrumental frenzy is topped by largely indecipherable vocals. Impressionistic and resistant to any concrete meaning, they’re like a collision between Jim Morrison’s sneer and Damo Suzuki of Can’s haunted whispers. Join the trip into the coloured spiral of the consciousness when Wooden Shjips sail away.

Saturday 24 April Black Box 18-22 Hill Street

8pm. Friday 16th April Black Box. 18-22 Hill Street. Tickets £8

Doors Open: 8:00pm. Tickets: £10 • through Moving on Music from the Belfast Welcome Centre, 47 Donegall Place, tel 028 9024 6609 or www.movingonmusic.co.uk

Book through www.belfastfilmfestival.org See. www.strangevictory.co.uk for details

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LAGAN BOAT SCREENINGS As the saying goes ‘we’re going to need a bigger boat’ so we’ve got one! BFF has teamed up with the Lagan Boat company for two special screenings on the river Lagan. We’ve got a new boat with more seating and two B-Movie monster movies for your enjoyment.

Deep Rising Tuesday 20th April. Meet at the Big Fish at 9pm. Boarding boat at 9.30 prompt. Tickets £10. When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world’s most luxurious cruise ship, they’re shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn’t mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one! If you’re easily scared, this’ll do the job. If you like tongue-incheek, B-grade action flicks, this film is for you!

Lake Placid Wednesday 21st April. Meet at the Big Fish at 9pm. Boarding boat at 9.30 prompt. Tickets £10. What happens when a man-eating crocodile begins picking off tourists in beautiful Lake Placid? Lake Placid - when a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden (Bill Pullman) teams up with a paleontologist (Bridget Fonda) to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for “Crocs”, and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!

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BERGMAN

ANCHORMAN

PRETTY IN PINK NIGHT

BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL QUIZ

Thursday 29th April at 8pm. Slide . 10a Ann Street Belfast. Tickets £5.00

QFT Foyer. Sunday 18th April. 7pm. £4.00 to enter per person.

Dress up in your finest ‘New Wave’ 80’s gear or your favourite 80’s prom dress – backcombing and beehives are optional! For our special Pretty in Pink night in association with sugahfix.com . Molly Ringwald is Andie, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who has romantic interests from both sides of the spectrum; Duckie whose puppy dog love for her is both sweet and endearing to watch, and Blane (Andrew McCarthy) the rich guy who has everything going for him. What follows is Andie having to deal with this, the bitchy cheerleader type girls at school, her loving but dishonest father and through all this will she get an invitation to the prom? DJ’s and Dancing to a classic 80s soundtrack follows the screening.

So you think you know a great deal about le cinema? Fancy yourself as a movie buff? Like the smell of Napalm in the morning? (ignore that last one). Then take the ultimate film test; the Belfast Film Festival Quiz, hosted by our resident film aficionado Brian Henry Martin. Marvel as we grill, boil and marinate you on all things cinematic with a barrage of film clips, soundtracks and all round fun. Rounds will include our psychic cinema props round ‘Can You Read My Mind?’ and the Cryptic pajama photo round ‘Lady in Bed’, where you have to identify the actresses under the covers. So get your team together, make sure they know their Bergman from their Anchorman, and let the games begin. A maximum of 12 teams can enter and team size can be up to 6 people.

Sugahfix.com Northern Ireland’s No. 1 online guide to fashion, beauty, entertainment and style celebrates its 2nd birthday with a special screening of 80s cult classic Pretty in Pink. www.sugahfix.com

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THE A-Z OF BELFAST CINEMAS

ANATOMY OF 12 ANGRY MEN

including the Ritz, the Blitz and the Orchestra pits

The Black Box.Tuesday 20th April. Admission £6 Doors 7.30pm. Event starts at 8.00pm.

In 1910, Belfast’s first proper custom built cinema was opened. The Electric Picture Palace on York Street was exclusively used for showing moving pictures, as distinct from the theatres and public halls which had been previously used. Thus started a remarkable 100 year love affair between the citizens of Belfast and the Cinema. Over the years this love affair has included over 60 different cinemas - picture palaces each with own unique attractions but all with with iconic names like The Troxy, The Curzon or the The Majestic. Join film aficionado Brian Henry Martin on a journey to celebrate a century of Belfast cinema experiences from usherettes to ice cream from pathe news to popping corn. In memory of James Doherty 1920 - 2008 The Black Box Cafe . Tuesday 27th April . 18-22 Hill Street. Belfast.

BBC Broadcaster Wiiliam Crawley dissects the classic courtroom drama in a unique film screening and workshop. For one night only The Black Box will be transformed into a sixteen by twenty-four foot “jury room” - 12 men will assume the roles of the jurors on stage William will assume the role of Juror Number 8 as played by Henry Fonda. Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or innocence of a defendant on the basis ofreasonable doubt.

j Life Is In Their Hands -- Death Is On Their Minds! ...it explodes like twelve sticks of dynamite!

Doors 7.30pm. Event starts at 8.00pm. Admission £4.

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STAY THE SAME , NEVER CHANGE

9TH BELFAST WORLD PONG CHAMPIONSHIP

CINEMA SPORTS

John Hewitt Bar. 8pm Wednesday 28th April. £4 to play. Register before 8.30pm.

Cinemasports is the unique filmmaking competition, now in its 5th successful year in Belfast, where teams have 10 hours to complete a movie with a list of only three ingredients. Screening of finished movies starts the 11th hour that very night. Participation and screening is open to the public. Can teams finish a short movie before sundown that includes a flower petal, a favourite pet and extraterrestrial life? Three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch praises Cinemasports saying: “Something emerges that’s not contained in any of the films...” Kick-off will be at the Digital Arts Studios at 10am, where facilities will be available for use throughout the day. Screening will be at The Menagerie at 9pm followed by Bop Yestrum DJs.

When their title corporate sponsor Hacketts of Newtownsaville left them last year, some said it was the end for the Belfast World Pong Championships. But exciting news came recently when the Arts Council and Belfast City Council teamed up to allocate their entire arts budget for the next three years. Bad news for the Ulster Orchestra and the Waterfront Hall but good news for the Pong fraternity of Ulster! For those new to the Championship – the idea is simple. Two Bats (electronic) and One Ball (electronic) do battle (in Meatspace) to see who will become the Pong Master. With live commentary from Richard West and Sir Patrick Bloomer this promises to be a spectacular year. Cinilingus and Digital Arts Studios have come together as AV sponsors for this event and will be providing state of the art camera and projection intrusion and analysis of the competitor’s eyes, sweat glands and bladder functions. Only 32 places are available for playing so book early through the Film Festival Box Office or email: stephen@belfastfilmfestival.org

A Digital Arts Studio’s presentation Saturday 17th April.

Cinema Sports is £5 per team to participate. Entry to the screening is £2 for non-participants. Get all information and sign-up your team by contacting the Digital Arts Studios: events@digitalartsstudios.com

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BRANDON SCHAEFER: MOVIE POSTER REMAKES Open 10am-5pm 1st-30th April at The Black Box Cafe.

The Black Box Cafe 18-22 Hill Street, Belfast. 1st April -30th April.

As part of BFF 10 we’ve approached the designer Brandon Schaefer (aka seek&speak) to host an exhibition of his film poster redesign work where he takes classic films and remakes posters for them. Brandon is a 25 year freelance graphic designer who has been designing since high school. While various subjects inspire him, he has an appreciation for American Modernism during the 40’s and 50’s which clearly comes through in his style. For this exhibition we’ll be showing posters from films such as 8 ½, Rear Window, The Shining, French Connection, Ghostbusters, Sleeper, Annie Hall, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Dark Night.

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10 FOR 10

DEVIL DISCO: CINEMIXED

Exhibition at the John Hewitt Bar. Opens Monday 19th April at 7pm. Running throughout the festival.

The Black Box . Saturday 17th April. Doors 9pm . £5.

To mark our 10th birthday and also to celebrate 100 years of cinema in Belfast we’ve commissioned 10 Belfast designers to produce a film poster redesign’s of famous and not so famous films through the ages. We have chosen 1 film per decade for each graphic artist to interpert in their own style. Some of the films included are ‘A Lad from Old Ireland’ (1910). The Blue Angel (1930). Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940). La Dolce Vita (1960).

A special evening of Devil Disco with some classic film soundtracks and some disturbed visuals from Cinilingus. Expect to see a visual mash up of Holy Mountain, Len Lye, Craig Baldwin, Yookoo, Fellini and listen to some tunes by Ennio Morricone, RD Burman, Quincy Jones, Bruno Nicolai, François De Roubaix and much, much, more. They say the devil has all the best tunes and the playlist at the Devil Disco nights suggests that old Nick himself may have had some input in its compilation. A genre-defying, dancefloor-friendly mix of electro, funk, cosmic disco, plus a spot of skiffle, effortlessly makes work for idle legs, as the resident DJs veer seamlessly between the works of Glass Candy, Parliament, Larry Levan, In Flagranti and Lonnie Donegan. It’s all diabolical, but only in the literal sense. The Guardian. 2009.

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THE PRISONER at Church of Christ, Scientist in Belfast So you might ask yourself, why are we screening the classic TV show The Prisoner in a Church in Belfast? Read on…. The architect Clough Williams-Ellis designed the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Belfast, which was built in 1936-7. But his work in the village of Portmeirion in Wales is well known in popular culture as it was used as the set for the cult 1960’s TV show The Prisoner. The Prisoner was a British television series broadcast in 1967 .Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction and psychological drama. The series follows a former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious seaside village where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. The show’s combination of 1960s countercultural themes and surreal setting had a far-reaching effect on science fiction/fantasy programming, and on popular culture in general. We’ll be showing a classic episode of the series and afterwards a talk about Clough Williams-Ellis’ work and the importance of architectural heritage in Belfast. Presented by Belfast Film Festival, The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS) and the ‘Forum for Alternative Belfast’ Doors 8.00pm Event starts at 8.30pm

FORUM for Alternative Belfast

Thursday 29th April 2-4, University Avenue, Belfast. Admission £6

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THE PUZZLES OF PAISLEY Spectrum Centre . 8pm. Wednesday 21st April. £4. Culturlann . 8pm. Tuesday 20th April . £4.

MEMORY,TRUTH AND TRANSITION A series of film screenings and discussions exploring the issues of remembering and dealing with the past, and the challenges of transitions. In partnership with Healing Through Remembering. Filmed Interview Excerpts Clips from a number of projects that have, in different ways, used filmed interviews as a means of dialogue will be screened along with We Carried Your Secrets. This will be followed by a discussion on the role of personal narratives, through film and drama, when considering truth and memory in times of transition. The panel will include a number of people involved in such projects and will be chaired by Healing Through Remembering.

There are many seeming puzzles in the long public career of the Reverend Ian Paisley. Yet behind them all there is a remarkable behavioural consistency. A group of distinguished authors and journalists comment on that Ian Paisley phenomenon with help from RTE archives. This film will be followed by a discussion.

WE CARRIED YOUR SECRETS QFT . 5pm . Sunday 25th April. Admission Free. When is it the right time to tell your story? When is society ready to hear the truth about what really happened during ‘the troubles’? What effect will the truth have on those who hear it and those who dare to speak it? This film chronicles the story of a unique and ground breaking form of theatrical performance called ‘Theatre of Witness’. This form of theatre gives voice to those who have been forgotten, marginalised or are invisible to wider society, helping them to deal with the ghosts that haunt their pasts. It offers heartbreak, hope, courage and healing to those involved but challenges all of us to see a different point of view. From standing ovations to the depths of grief for those lost, this film reflects on the very personal and inspirational stories of 7 people as they come to terms with their own legacy and that of their fathers, men who were all badly affected by over thirty years of conflict in Northern Ireland. The film will be followed by filmed interview excerpts and a panel discussion. We Carried Your Secrets was commissioned by The Playhouse as part of its Peace III funded Theatre of Witness Project.

A PROJECT PARTIALLY SUPPORTED BY PEACE III PROGRAMME, MANAGED FOR THE SPECIAL EU PROGRAMMES BODY BY THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL/ POBAL CONSORTIUM.

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Healing Through Remembering is a diverse cross community organisation.

ROAD TO NAHR AL BARED BFF Beanbag Cinema . Saturday 17th April. 7pm. ÂŁ5. Seating limited to 25 so book early. There will be a short introduction to contextualise this film. The fight broke out in Nahr al Bared on 20th May 2007 after a group linked to Al-Qaeda (self-designated as fatah al-Islam) launched an attack on the Lebanese army, which resulted in the death of 27 soldiers. Some of those militiamen, supposedly, took refuge in Nahr al Bared, which was also home to 35,000 Palestinian civilians. The Lebanese army began an offensive that destroyed practically the whole camp and forced the entire population to flee. To date, almost 17,000 people have still not been able to go back, and reconstruction work is still going on. The education system was seriously affected, as the schools in Nahr al Bared were also destroyed. UNRWA has installed pre-fabricated modules which act as classrooms, in an attempt to get back to normal as soon as possible. Education will be our main theme and will allow us to deal with other important aspects connected to the tragic story of this camp. The children and young people have been particularly affected by the conflict and subsequent displacement, and above all by the loss of the security of their homes.

Members come from a wide range of political, social and community backgrounds to consider how to deal with the past. Through the Whatever You Say Say Something project HTR offers opportunities for conversations across a wide range of issues around dealing with the past.

A PROJECT PARTIALLY SUPPORTED BY PEACE III PROGRAMME, MANAGED FOR THE SPECIAL EU PROGRAMMES BODY BY THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL/ POBAL CONSORTIUM.

HTRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trained facilitators work with groups and organisations to identify their specific interests for these conversations.

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POLICING AND THE PEOPLE Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 3 – Universal Declaration on Human Rights, 1948 In association with the Policing Programme at CAJ and the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast this film strand explores the human consequences of state security, including the impact of implementing security policy on the police themselves. Through documentaries in three profoundly different contexts a people-centred view of fear, vulnerability, and insecurity emerges that challenges the traditional notion of social stability achieved through national security. In Northern Ireland the complexity involved in maintaining public order is explored in The Fuse of Peace which focuses on the events surrounding the Ardoyne Parade in 2009. Further afield the stark realities of policing at the front line of the war against the Taliban are explored in The Suvivors – Days in Zhari Police Station. Finally, the unforeseen social consequences of U.S. and Mexican border security are examined in The Fence.

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THE FENCE QFT . Tuesday 20th April . 2pm. In October 2006 the United States government decided to build a 700-mile fence along its Mexican border. Three years and 3.1 billion dollars later its stated goals— containing illegal immigration, cracking down on drug trafficking, and protecting America from ‘terrorists’ — have unforeseen consequences. Notably the director of the Fence is Bobby Kennedy’s daughter. Keynote speaker Peter Smith QC. Former member of the Patten Commission.

Director Rory Kennedy. N Ireland.2009.36 mins. Print Source: The Director

POLICING AND THE PEOPLE QFT . 2pm . Wednesday 21st April The Fuse of Peace This documentary focuses on the disturbances that occurred in North Belfast during the 13th of July Orange Parade through the predominately nationalist area of Ardoyne. Through diverse community-based perspectives the film captures the complexity of public order policing in the wake of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission’s decision to allow the Orange Order to march. Panel Discussion: The Festival and CAJ will host a panel discussion featuring Junior Minister Gerry Kelly (SF) and Chief Superintendent Mark Hamilton, District Commander ‘A’ District (North & West Belfast), PSNI to discuss the lead up to and events surrounding the Ardoyne Parade.

Director Will Maloney N Ireland.2009. 19mins. Print Source: The Director

SURVIVORS – DAYS IN ZHARI POLICE STATION BFF Beanbag Cinema . Saturday 17th April. 5pm . £5 For 2 years the camera follows the daily life of officers at the Afghan police station in the Zhari district of Kandahar which stands on the front line of the Taliban war. Bombs, death, and poverty are just a part of the everyday life here. In the summer of 2009 the Taliban’s assault becomes heavier and Zhari station becomes a more dangerous place to be in. As their family and friends starve and die the policemen join the Taliban while the allied forces chase after them. As winter arrives Zhari police station has become a place no one can reach without military escorts. During the years that the camera crew was covering Zhari most of the policemen whom they met ended up dead, injured, or missing.

Director Kyung-Ran Kang South Korea.2009. 58mins.

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ADOBE YOUTH VOICES Spectrum Centre . 6.30pm . Thursday 22nd April Belfast Computer Clubhouse showcase Adobe Youth Voices Film Projects. Belfast Computer Clubhouse was a 2009 recipient of the AYV program and the latest Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) software for use in music and film production, animation and graphic design. The program aims to encourage participants to ‘Create with Purpose’, and speak about issues important to them in their own creative language. Clubhouse members will showcase two short films as part of the Belfast Film Festival 2010. BOOM! BOOM! BLAST! This seemingly carefree social commentary highlights the exuberance of youth through superhero characters with a social conscience who use their powers to positively change the lives of others. “Why would anyone care about what we have to say?” This short film gives an honest representation of real life issues facing teenagers living in interface areas in Belfast. Clubhouse members from Loughshore Educational Resource Centre and Lagan Valley have taken part in a virtual cross community exchange, and in their own way, have created a thought provoking piece of film. The Belfast Computer Clubhouse wish to acknowledge the BIG Lottery Fund for their continued financial support since 2007, without them, this project would not be possible”

THEN AND NOW :INDEX ON CENSORSHIP QFT . 2pm .Thursday 29th April. Admission Free. Making Political Films about The North: Then and Now. The troubles in the North of Ireland have long been the subject of film-makers. This film-making landscape has changed over the years, as has the political landscape. Self Censorship and direct Political Censorship have both been key factors in defining what films get made and which ones don’t. The panel will discuss selected issues relating to censorship. .What forms of censorship influence the work being made? .Is there any difference to the types of films being made

30 years ago and now? .What are the key examples of censorship in Ireland? Panellists will give a short presentation with reference to their area of special interest. Prof. Bill Rolston - Chair. Margo Harkin (Mother Ireland, Bloody Sunday: a Derry Diary) James Flynn (Producer, H3) Mark Cousins (The First Film, Director). This event is part of a programme run by Index on Censorship in partnerships across artforms, investigating issues of self censorship in contemporary UK culture. For more information see www.indexoncensorship.org

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SHANKILL Spectrum Centre . 8pm . Monday 26th April . £4.50/£4.00

As a follow-up to the Creggan documentary, produced in 1979, Mary Holland and Michael Whyte present a candid portrait of ordinary Protestants who live on the working-class Shankill estate. They discuss their fears and desires and express disappointment in their leaders - articulating the crisis prevalent in this once-dominant community. ‘It is an unbiased attempt to understand why the Shankill has the affinity it has towards the UK’ - Michael Whyte, Director. 16 years since this documentary was made we look at how things have changed in Skankill community. A Q&A will follow the screening.

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CHANGE OF ADDRESS The Spectrum Centre . Thursday 22nd April . 8pm . £4.50/£4 This documentary made in 1975 by BBC Northern Ireland follows the housing problems in Belfast and the proposed development of the Belfast Urban Motorway. The Belfast Urban Motorway was the name given to an ambitious scheme to build a continuous free-flow motorway around the city centre. For various reasons the scheme never went ahead. The Documetary looks at the problems of the Divis flats development on the Falls Road and the difficulty of the living enviroment. It also looks at the depopulation of the Shankill Road as people moved to the outskirts of the city to housing schemes such as Springmartin. People talk about the difficulty of this move because of the poor conditions and isolation from their orginal communities. Following the screening Jackie Redpath alonside Declan Hill and Mark Hackett (Forum for Alternative Belfast) will talk about the issues raised in the film.

FORUM for Alternative Belfast

Director: Michael Whyte.UK. 64mins. 1994.Print Source: Hot Property Films

THE TWO TRADITIONS: MYTHS & FEARS Culturlann Tuesday 20th April. 8pm. £4.50/£4.00 Beliefs and attitudes- sometimes humorous, sometimes incredible- that continue to divide Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. This film dating from 1991 shows some of the cultural fears and sterotypes that existed at the time. Screening with The Puzzles of Paisley (See page 80). ABOUT RADHARC The film unit was founded by Joe Dunn and Desmond Forristal and went on from 1961 to produce 400 documentaries for RTE from around 75 countries around the world, Radharc films ceased production after Joe Dunn’s death in 1996. All the films are preserved in the archives of the Irish Film Institute and RTE. The Radhard Trust continues to keep the name of Radharc alive by means of the Radharc Awards and other educational and promotional activities. A complete list of the films can be found on www.radharcfilms.ie

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WORKSHOPS

NORTHERN EXPOSURE DEAL CLOSURE With the creative talent and profile of the Northern Ireland sector at an all-time high and increasing numbers of aspiring film-makers, writers and producers needing to know about the “business of film”, the time is ripe for some serious industry insights. Belfast Film Festival and Northern Ireland Screen have partnered to host a 2-day seminar - NORTHERN EXPOSURE = DEAL CLOSURE - bringing in key sales agents, distributors, producers and literary and talent agents, for a series of 4 industry-focused panel sessions and discussion groups. Confirmed panelists include BAFTA nominee Tony Grisoni, Robin Gutch (producer, Warp X), Hilary Davis (Bankside Films), Julia Short (Verve Pictures), Stephen Murphy (Optimum Releasing), Mike Runagall (Pathé International), John Fletcher (Pathé Distribution), Nick Marston (Curtis Brown Agency) together with representatives from Future Shorts and Shorts International.

Panel Session 1 22nd April 09.30am – 12.30pm WHAT DOES THE MARKET WANT? • What the market is looking for in terms of sellable and marketable scripts. • Which independent films are getting financed and why. • Which sales agents and distributors are currently active in the marketplace and what they are looking for. • What are the future trends.

Panel Session 2 22nd April 2.00pm-5.00pm UNDERSTANDING THE BUSINESS OF FILM

A Northern Ireland Screen and Belfast Film Festival event.

Venue: Queens Film Theatre. 20 University Square, Belfast

• Moving on to the next stage – how do you get your project financed and produced and who do you talk to. • Specific financiers for specific genre films. • Pre-sales - still a viable way of financing independent film. • When and how to approach sales agents and/or distributors. • Market prices, commission structures and territorial rights issues. • A brief look at contracting and what is an “IPA”.

Panel Session 3

Panel Session 4

23rd April 09.30am-12.30pm

23rd April 2.00pm-5.00pm

WORKING WITH AGENTS

SELLING YOURSELF SHORT

• How to break into the industry. • What you need to secure an agent. • What is the market looking for in terms of talent. Is there a certain “type”? • How involved do agents get in terms of packaging, financing and producing. • How the partnership works and tips for good agent relations.

• The place of short films in the current marketplace. A poor cousin to features or an art form in their own right? • What are the immediate direct benefits to an emerging film maker of making a short. • Buyers of short films – who are they and where can shorts be seen, outside of the traditional festival circuit. • The short film as a calling card before making a feature. • Making feature films from shorts – how easy is it and are there any obvious success stories?

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MAKE A FILM IN A DAY

ACTING UP WITH JOHN LYNCH

Free Workshop . Make a Film in a Day (for 16-19 year olds)

QFT . Saturday 24th April. 5pm . £5 Please book in advance.

Working with industry professionals, you will learn to make a short film in a day, themed around the Olympic and Paralympic Games. All young people will learn about story, camera, sound, directing, editing and producing a short film. A one day workshop run by professional filmmakers from Northern Ireland. The workshop is managed by First Light, who provide funding and expertise to enable five to nineteen-year-olds, from all backgrounds throughout the UK, to make their own short digital films and media projects. First Light is supported by the Lottery through the UK Film Council and by DCSF. Since launching in 2001, First Light has funded over 30,000 young people to learn technical and creative skills from professionals to create their own work. Tuesday 20th April . 10am–5pm Venue: Mediazoo Studios www.firstlightonline.co.uk To Book a place please contact Jude at Belfast Film Festival on 02890 265945 Or email:jude@belfastfilmfestival.org

John Lynch will deliver an Acting Masterclass as part of this year’s festival. John received a BAFTA nomination for his haunting and memorable performance in the 1983 Irish film Cal. Since then, he has built on his early success appearing in many Irish films including In The Name Of The Father where he gave a spellbinding performance as Paul Hill. 2005 saw him give an understated, pitch- perfect performance alongside Samantha Morton and Peter O’Toole in an adaptation of the timeless classic, Lassie. His undeniable versatility was evident again as he hit the small screen in Channel 4’s recent ratings winning drama MO. In recent years John has turned his creative talent to writing. Torn Water his highly regarded debut novel is soon to be followed by a second novel, the eagerly awaited, Falling Out Of Heaven. John will read an excerpt from it and will spend some time on examining the relationship between writing and acting, two professions which are inextricably linked. In Torn Water, one character tells another “ If you have knowledge of language, you have a shot at the truth ”. The 10th Belfast Film Festival looks forward to sharing John’s knowledge of the language of film and the truth behind acting.

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SATURDAY 17th APRIL

SUNDAY 18th APRIL

MONDAY 19th APRIL

TUESDAY 20th APRIL

WED 21st APRIL

THURSDAY 22nd APRIL

EMPIRE QFT 7.00pm (P.10)

MIA AND THE MIGOO QFT 3.00pm (P.28)

BLUEBEARD QFT. 7.00pm (P.18)

LEAVING QFT. 7.00pm (P.26)

LEBANON QFT. 7.00pm(P.22)

ADRIFT QFT. 7.00pm (P.27)

BFF FESTIVAL QUIZ QFT FOYER. 7.00pm (P.73)

THE HORDE QFT. 9.00pm (P.24)

WHEN YOURE STRANGE QFT. 9.00pm(P.68)

NORTHERN EXPOSURE QFT. 9.30am5.00pm (P.86)

DOWN TERRACE QFT. 7.15pm (P.30)

STRIGOI QFT. 7.15pm (P.18)

VINCERE QFT. 9.00pm (P.20) SHIRLEY ADAMS QFT 7.15pm (P.22) BANANAS QFT 9.15pm (P.39) WOODEN SHJIPS BLACK BOX 8pm (P.71)

DOGTOOTH QFT 9.00pm (P.20) LOOT QFT 7.15pm (P.42) PROTECKTOR QFT 9.15pm (P.24) ROAD NAHR AL BARED BFF Beanbag Cinema. 7.00pm (P.81)

EYES WIDE OPEN QFT. 5.30pm (P.48) THE DANSE QFT..8.00pm (P.40) A LAKE QFT. 7.15pm (P.32) LYMELIFE (REPEAT) QFT. 9.15pm (P.17)

LIVING ROOM OF THE NATION QFT. 9.15pm (P.38) BEAUTIFUL KATE MOVIEHOUSE. 7.00pm (P.25) J.G BALLARD NIGHT BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.56)

CINEMA SPORTS MENAGERIE BAR . 9.00pm (P.75)

TRIAGE (REPEAT) MOVIEHOUSE. 9.00pm (P.8)

DEMOISSELLES DE ROCHFORT STRAND. CINEMA. 8.00pm (P.62)

DEVIL DISCO CINEMIXED BLACK BOX 9.00pm (P.77)

MIX-UP BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.55)

PASSCHENDALE SPECTRUM CENTRE. 8pm (P.30) BREAKING ROCKS OH YEAH! CENTRE 8.00pm (P.69)

SHED YOUR TEARS QFT. 9.15pm (P.42) GANDAHAR BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.60) HIGH SOCIETY THE STRAND. CINEMA. 8.00pm (P.62) DEEP RISING LAGAN BOAT. 9.00pm (P.72) ANATOMY OF 12 ANGRY MEN BLACK BOX. 8.00pm (P.74) TWO TRADITIONS CULTURLANN 8.00pm (P.85) FILM IN A DAY MEDIAZOO 10am( P.88)

HEARLESS QFT. 9.00pm(P.31) RACING DREAMS QFT. 7.15pm(P.39) NO ONE KNOWS PERSIAN CATS QFT. 9.15pm(P.23) CUPCAKE MOVIEHOUSE. 7.00pm (P.12) STAY THE SAME NEVER CHANGE BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.55) BANRION AN CHEOIL CULTURLANN 7.00pm (P.44) LAKE PLACID LAGAN BOAT. 9.00pm (P.72) NICK CAVE DOC BLACK BOX 8.00pm (P.69) PUZZLES OF PAISLEY SPECTRUM CENTRE. 8pm.

GUY AND MADELINE QFT. 7.15pm(P.29) MICKEY B QFT. 9.15pm(P.15) GREENBERG MOVIEHOUSE. 7.00pm (P.16) HOUSE BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.57) DAUGHTER OF THE SEA CULTURLANN 7.00pm (P.41) CITY OF BORDERS SLIDE. 7pm. (P.47) DEAN MARTIN NIGHT BLACK BOX. 8pm. (P.67) CHANGE OF ADDRESS SPECTRUM CENTRE..8pm. (P.85)

CLOSING NIGHT FILM TETRO 7PM FRIDAY 30th APRIL. MOVIEHOUSE. DUBLIN ROAD. P.9

Please check www.belfastfilmfestival.org for updates. All information in this brochure is correct at time of publication. Programme is subject to change.

FRIDAY 23nd APRIL

SATURDAY 24th APRIL

SUNDAY 25th APRIL

MONDAY 26th APRIL

TUESDAY 27th APRIL

WED 28th APRIL

THURSDAY 29th APRIL

NORTHERN EXPOSURE QFT. 9.30am5.00pm (P.87)

SHORTS COMPETITION QFT. 10.00am6.00pm (P.51-53)

THE MAKING OF MAHATMA QFT. 2pm (P.35)

ZUBEIDAA QFT. 6pm (P.35)

VISION QFT. 7pm (P.23)

TSAR QFT. 7.00pm(P.17)

THE ECLIPSE QFT. 6.45pm(P.14)

LYMELIFE QFT. 7.00pm(P.17)

DOUBLE TAKE QFT. 9.15pm(P.54)

VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL QFT. 9.00pm(P.21)

THEN AND NOW QFT. 2pm (P.84)

BILL HICKS QFT. 9.30pm(P.41)

FIVE DAY SHELTER QFT. 9.00pm(P.11)

HAMELY TONGUE QFT. 7.15pm (P.44) LAST TRAIN HOME QFT. 9.00pm (P.38) RE:FRAME BFF Beanbag Cinema. 7pm (P.59)

JOHN LYNCH WORKSHOP QFT. 5.00pm (P.88) ASCENDANCY QFT. 7.15pm (P.64) ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLOND GIRL QFT. 9.00pm (P.32) POST APOCALYPTIC NIGHT BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.56) EFTERKLANG BLACK BOX. 8pm (P.71)

I KILLED MY MOTHER QFT. 7.00pm(P.47) WE CARRIED YOUR SECRETS QFT. 5.00pm (P.80) COLONY QFT. 7.15pm (P.37) MOLOCH TROPICAL QFT. 9.15pm (P.28) HIS AND HERS QFT. 9.00pm(P.37) DAS: DARKLIGHT BFF Beanbag Cinema. 2pm (P.59).

OCTOBER COUNTRY QFT. 7.15pm(P.36) WHEN YOURE STRANGE (REPEAT SCREENING) QFT. 9.00pm (P.68) ADAM RESURRECTED MOVIEHOUSE. 7.00pm (P.19) KISS ME KATE THE STRAND. CINEMA. 8.00pm (P.63) SHANKILL SPECTRUM CENTRE. 8.00pm (P.85)

METROPIA QFT. 7.15pm(P.26) WINNEBAGO MAN QFT. 9.15pm (P.43) PASTORAL: TO DIE IN THE COUNTRY BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.60). MEET ME IN ST LOUIS THE STRAND. CINEMA. 8.00pm (P.63). A-Z OF BELFAST CINEMAS BLACK BOX CAFE. 8.00pm (P.74). NEIL YOUNG BLACK BOX 9.00pm (P.68)

TOPP TWINS QFT. 7.00pm(P.46) THE TANGO SINGER QFT. 9.00pm(P.19) BATTLE OF ALGIERS QFT. 6.45pm (P.65) SYMBOL QFT. 9.30pm (P.33) I KILLED MY MOTHER (REPEAT SCREENNG MOVIEHOUSE. 9.00pm (P.47) BARON MUNCHAUSEN BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.58). 9TH BELFAST WORLD PONG CHAMPIONSHIPS THE JOHN HEWITT 8.00pm (P.75)

SUMMER WARS QFT. 9.15pm(P.27) THE FIRST MOVIE QFT. 6.45pm (P.45) 1 QFT. 9.30pm (P.29) TOPP TWINS REPEAT SCREENING MOVIEHOUSE. 9.00pm (P.46) AMEOBA MONSTER BFF Beanbag Cinema. 8pm (P.58). THE PRISONER FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 8.00pm (P.78) PRETTY IN PINK SLIDE. 8pm (P.73). FRAGMENTS OF FINNEGAN’S WAKE SARC. 8pm (P.70)

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