DEPTFORD CINEMA The public meetings and volunteer sessions in March are on the dates and times below and all are welcome! Sun 06.03.16 Sun 13.03.16 Sun 13.03.16 Sun 20.03.16 Sun 27.03.16 Sun 27.03.16
PUBLIC MEETING 4PM PUBLIC PROGRAMMING MEETING 2PM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 4PM PUBLIC MEETING 4PM PUBLIC PROGRAMMING MEETING 2PM PUBLIC MEETING 4PM
The London Borough of Lewisham was one of only two London boroughs with no dedicated cinema. Deptford Cinema is a not for profit, community led project that was designed to rectify this with the building of a new, affordable and accessible venue for film and arts on Deptford Broadway. Deptford Cinema is the oldest operating cinema in Lewisham. The cost of a cinema ticket today can be upwards of £12 and even more when you factor in the travel for Lewisham residents to nearby Greenwich or Southwark, or central London. It is increasingly no longer a viable night out. Cinema should be for everybody and that’s the ethos of Deptford Cinema, providing accesible and interesting cinema, that’s also affordable. Deptford Cinema is being built by the community, for the community. Although our 40 seat cinema is open for business and fully functional, we are in the process of completing our darkroom, gallery space and a fully licensed cafe/bar. The programming of events and films is open to anybody to show the films they want, and the cinema will be a hub for all things film in Lewisham. With our regular programming gaining momentum, there is still a lot of work to do, especially with finishing the internal fit out of the space. If you think you can help out and would like to get involved and become a part of the cinema, it’s easy: come along to one of our Sunday meetings, held each week within the cinema at 4PM or one of our programming meetings (Sundays fortnightly at 2PM). The organisation has no hierarchy, each volunteer is on equal footing and all decisions are made as a group at these regular meetings.
39 DEPTFORD BROADWAY SE8 4PQ WWW.DEPTFORDCINEMA.ORG /deptfordcinema @deptfordcinema
How to find deptford cinema...
The entrance to the cinema is located at 39 Deptford Broadway in Lewisham, London, SE8 4PQ. BY TRAIN The nearest station is the Deptford Bridge DLR stop, a 3 minute walk. Alternatively Deptford (5 minutes), New Cross (5 minutes) and New Cross Gate (15 minutes) overground stations are all within walking distance. BY BUS Bus routes 53, 177, 453, N89, 47 and 225 all stop close to the cinema. BY CAR There is a car park which is free to use after 18:30 behind the cinema on Vanguard Street.
WHERE TO FIND US ONLINE...
For the most recent up-to-date information, start at our website...
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TICKETS The aim of Deptford Cinema is to provide affordable access to cinema for everybody. Unless otherwise stated, our ticket prices are:
ÂŁ5 - Full ÂŁ3.50 - Concessions*
*Concessions apply to Students, Pensioners, Unemployed and thanks to generous funds from various wards they also apply to residents of Brockley Ward, New Cross Ward and Lewisham Central Ward. You can purchase tickets in advance either at the cinema or online. Please go to our website www.deptfordcinema.org and find details under the event of your choosing. Alternatively you can purchase tickets at the door of the event you wish to attend - Provided we have not sold out
Venue hire & Gallery space Would you like to hire a cinema? Please send an email to info@deptfordcinema.org
Doors - 19:00 Film - 19:30
TUESDAY
01.03.16
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep on the night before Christmas Eve.
An adaptation of the novel by the American writer Stephen Amidon, Human Capital is set against the backdrop of the global financial crisis but more broadly raises the question of values, monetary and the intangible, in the modern world.
Human Capital Paolo VirzĂŹ / 2013 / France / 111min
02.03.16
WEDNESDAY
Doors - 19:00 Film - 19:30
Southern District Juan Carlos Valdivia / 2009 / Bolivia / 108 min
Set during the dying days of Bolivian apartheid, Southern District is a bitter portrait of an upper class family unraveling as their aristocratic privileges become threatened. The mother fights with her children, none of whom care to leave the safety of their estate. Whilst the youngest and more inquisitive Andres, scrabbles around the rooftops of La Paz, witnessing an unfamilier society just beyond their gates. Continuing our season of award winning films from Latin America, Southern District from Bolivia won Best Director and Best Screenplay awards in the World Cinema section at Sundance Film Festival in 2010.
APRIL 6th The Secret In Their Eyes (2009) MAY 4th Sleep Dearer (2008)
Doors -20:00 Film - 20:30
05.03.16 & 06.03.16
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Two independent young filmmakers encounter Paolo Virno, one of the most influential contemporary Italian thinkers, who has been imprisoned in the 1970s for being a member of Potere Operaio. Virno explains the key topics of his philosophical thought and revisits the Years of Lead, a crucial period of the most recent Italian History.
LUOGHI COMUNI
Mário gomes & Marco Ugolini / 2014 / Italy & Germany / 99 min
SPECIAL PRICE - £3/£2 conc.
08.03.16
TUESDAY
Doors -19:30 Film - 20:00
A night of short film and discussion with three filmmakers celebrating the diverse and unconventional voices of young women on International Women’s Day. Director: Tracey Francis Landscapes of Girlhood (2015) Various authors, young women aged 12-16 years old Simi (2015) Director: Alix Mumford Back to Josie (1997) Director: Rosanne Flynn Knock Off (2009) Film by: Lina Caicedo and Joe Sartorius A Running Occupation (2015)
LANDSCAPES OF GIRLHOOD INternational Women’s Day event
WEDNESDAY Doors - 19:00
Film - 19:30
APRIL 13th It’s Such a Beatiful Day + Shorts MAY 11th TBD
09.03.16
In 1948, Paul Grimault and famed French poet Jacques Prévert started production on a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep. However, due to disputes with the studio, an unfinished version was released without the approval of the film’s creators. Many years later, Grimault and Prévert regained the rights to the film and finally created a film true to their vision: Le Roi et l’Oiseau. The King and the Mockingbird is today regarded as a masterpiece of French animation and has often been cited by Japanese directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a great influence.
THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD Paul Grimault / 1980 / France / 83 min
10.03.16
THURSDAY
Doors - 19:30 Film - 20:00
Želary is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan, starring Anna Geislerová. The movie received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film is adapted from two works by Czech novelist Květa Legátová - “Želary,” a collection of short stories published in 2001, and her 2002 book, “Jozova Hanule.” A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife. CZECH & SLOVAK STORIES Present
Želary
Ondrej Trojan / 2003 / Czech Rep / 98 min
Doors - 18:00
SPECIAL PRICE £8 live music + Heima (SOLD OUT) £5 live music
SATURDAY
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12.03.16
A special screening of Heima by Sigur Rós Iceland photography exhibition by Nick Miners Live music by Mimra Art exhibition by Ella Rósinkrans Live music by ÍRiS Icelandic delicacies Sounds of Iceland by Hafdís Bjarnadóttir
...and perhaps some wool jumpers, hot springs, kleinur and a puffin or two. Schedule is as follows, times are approximate: 18:00: House and bar opens 19:00: Screening of Heima 21:00: Live music by Mimra 22:00: Live music by ÍRiS
HULDUFUGL Present
Heima
Dean Debois / 2007 / Iceland / 97 min Ethereal post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós play a string of impromptu gigs in their native Iceland after finishing a world tour in 2006. As they travel through the country, the band visits a wide variety of venues, from a large outdoor festival to a coffee shop. Footage of these atmospheric performances are intercut with images of Iceland’s breathtaking natural landscape and candid interviews with members of the band as they muse on music, travel and the rejuvenating power of returning home.
Photos from our BIG BUILD WEEKEND in February
14.03.16
MONDAY
Doors - 19:00 Film - 19:30
UK PREMIERE
GIRLS ON FILM Present
FAULTS
Riley Stearns / 2014 / USA/ 99 min A hidden gem from 2014 that owes its aesthetic allegiance to the likes of David Lynch and the Coen brothers, Faults oozes expressive tension from start to finish. It is a story about indoctrination, vulnerability and the appeal of cult mentality: a sinister juggling act in which the characters use all the tools of manipulation they posses to try and win the next round. Suffocatingly set in a few nondescript motel box rooms and a car park, stellar performances from Leland Orser (Taken, Seven, The Guest) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Final Destination) keep the dark-comedy premise of the script encapsulating at all times. For premiere screening in the UK, part of the profits will be donated to local homeless charity 999 Club.
Doors - 19:00 Film - 19:30
WEDNESDAY
16.03.16
Jan Svankmajer sHOrts Jan Svankmajer / 60’/ Czech / 95 min
This presentation of a selection of the early short films from 1964-1972 of Czech Surrealist filmmaker-animator Jan Švankmajer, is the first of Deptford Cinema’s ANALOGUE ANIMATIONS monthly screenings. ANALOGUE ANIMATIONS celebrates the pioneers of non-digital animation, those who practiced, and those who still keep, the age-old skills of claymation, silhouette animation, puppetry and stop-motion alive “The world is divided into two unequal camps: those who have never heard of Jan Švankmajer... and those who happen upon his work and know that they have come face to face with a genius.” Anthony Lane, The New Yorker. Deptford Cinema’s ANALOGUE ANIMATIONS monthly strand aims to champion the pioneers of non-digital animation: those who once practiced, and those who still keep, the age-old skills of claymation, silhouette animation, puppetry and stop-motion alive. Once per month, ANALOGUE ANIMATIONS aims to introduce audiences to the animation artists from yesteryear, like German film director and silhouette animation master Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger, as well as celebrating today’s national treasures , Aardman Animations and their beloved films made using stop-motion plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.
18.03.16
THURSDAY
Doors - 19:00 Film - 19:30
PERSIAN NEW YEAR Presents
THE WHITE BALLOON Jafar Panahi / 1995 / Iran / 85 min
The first of three screenings to mark the Persian New Year, The White Balloon is the first film directed by Jafar Panahi, and the winner of the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. The White Balloon is set on the eve of the Persian New Year and is the story of a young girl’s desire to buy a new goldfish for the festivities, as she thinks the one’s in their pond at home are too skinny. The film is a real time telling of her journey through the streets of Tehran and the people she encounters, including a young Afghan balloon seller. “This is a film of small incident, minute, telling observations, and enormous heart and intelligence” Time Out Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been subject to house arrest and is still subject to a 20 year ban on making films. He continues to make films and has completed three since the ban was imposed. Panahi’s most recent film Tehran Taxi won the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlinale.
Doors - 19:30 Film - 20:00
WEDNESDAY
23.03.16
Where Should the Birds Fly, the new documentary directed and narrated by Fida Qishta, begins with chilling footage of Israeli bulldozers destroying houses in Rafah in 2004. Qishta, a native of Rafah, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip, watched her parents’ house of 30 years crumble under the bulldozers. As it was destroyed, her father told her and her family to leave and keep walking. “He feared if our eyes took in the sight, our hearts would be filled with hate.” Qishta says. The young woman channeled the intense anger and frustration felt from this episode, and many others caused by the Israeli blockade, to create a touching film that reveals many of the daily injustices in Gaza. Much of the first half of the film features scenes of everyday life for Palestinians in Gaza. Qishta left the Gaza Strip in 2006 to visit Europe; when she returned she was forced to wait for three weeks at the border. She filmed the time she spent waiting to re-enter her home. Shots of the border crossing terminal show tired men, women and children as they waited indefinitely without being offered beds or food.
Where Should the Birds Fly Fida Qishta / 2012 / Palestine / 58 min
CZECH & SLOVAK STORIES - Divided We Fall 28/01/16
THERE’S A NEW SCREEN IN TOWN If you’ve been to a screening or two recently you will have noticed that we were in the process of moving from our old temporary screen to something a little larger and more spectactular. The process is now complete and we have a wonderful new screening wall and thanks to our Kickstarter funders, the BFI and the hard work of our volunteers this sits alongside a massively upgraded projection and sound system. Come down and see what all the fuss is about...
24.03.16
Doors - 19:30 Film - 20:00
THURSDAY
THE EAR
Karel Kachyňa / 1970 / Czechoslovakia / 94 min Ucho (The Ear) is a Czech language film by Karel Kachyňa, completed in 1970. This film was banned by the nation’s ruling Communist party (who were supported by the occupying Soviet forces).It wasn’t released until late 1989, around the time of Czechoslovakia’s first democratic elections in over 40 years. A bitter married couple that consists of Ludvik, a senior official of Prague’s ruling Communist regime, and his alcoholic wife Anna. They return home after attending a political party dinner and notice their home has been broken into. Several strange occurrences, including the disappearance of their spare house keys and dead phone lines, lead them to believe that they are under surveillance by their own government. As the night progresses, the flaws of their marriage and of each other are exposed. 1990 Cannes Film Festival - Nominated for the Golden Palm for Karel Kachyňa.
Doors - 14:30
/DeptfordCinema Film - 15:00 @DeptfordCinema
FRIDAY
25.03.16
To coincide with the release of Ben Wheatley’s film of J.G. Ballard’s “High Rise” the Deptford Cinema is taking a look at how the author’s other novels have been adapted for the screen. J.G. Ballard on Film begins with “The Atrocity Exhibition”, an adaptation of the experimental novel from 1970, a book so controversial its American publisher pulped the entire first print run for the U.S. before it was even released. Today the ON FILM: novel is considered a cult classic and Jonathan Weiss’ adaptation tells PART od the Friday, story3PM of a psychiatrist’s mental breakdown while exploring the idea h March, 2016Vonnegut said, “a sane person to an insane society must that, as Kurt 00 /appear £3.5 CONC insane”. The film mixes surreal imagery, documentary film, news footage, scientific archive and drama to deliver scenes and moments that are difficult, disturbing and at times beautiful. “The Atrocity Exhibition” is a film that is not easy to watch nor, once seen, easily forgotten.
EPTFORD CINEMA PRESENTS
JG BALLARD
JG BALLARD on FILM part 1
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION Jonathan Weiss / 2000 / USA / 105 min
Last Friday of the Month
FRIDAY
25.03.16
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad a place that reeks of death loneliness, the townspeople unaware they are being stalked lonesome vampire.
City, and are by a
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is our second film this month celebrating Persian New Year. Full Moon Film Night is our regular showcase of the best horror on the last Friday of each month. Doors - 19:30 Film - 20:30
Ana Lily Amirpour / 2014 / USA / 101 min
28.03.16 Doors - 19:30 Film - 20:00
MONDAY
Zdeněk Svěrák’s 80th Birthday Celebration and the Worldwide Premiere of the digitally remastered...
THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Jan Svěrák/ 1991 / Czech Republic/ 100 min
Director Jan Svěrák and Zdeněk Svěrák’s fans are organising a worldwide birthday celebration with the premiere of digitally remastered, Academy Award Nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film, The Elementary School. Set in the world of short trousers and long homework, this was the first creative collaboration by the father-and-son team which in 1997 was awarded an Oscar for their next collaborative project, Kolya. Join the celebration by coming to see The Elementary School with us and singing the birthday song written by Jaroslav Uhlíř. Nominated for an Oscar, this charming movie takes place in a single sex school in Prague following WWII. New teacher Igor, half-dictator/half-hero with a fabricated past and a great interest in women is a role model for 10- year old Eda who compares him unfavourably with his own father. Organised by the Czech Centre London, Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust and Czech and Slovak Stories in collaboration with Jan Svěrák and Artinii.
30.03.16
WEDNESDAY
Doors - 19:00 Film - 19:30
Our final screening to mark the Persian New Year, The Apple is the first film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf when she was only 17. The Apple went on to win a number of international awards amongst them the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. The Apple tells the story of two 12-year-old sisters who have been kept confined in their home by their strict religious father and blind mother, who believe exposing their daughters to the outside world will lead to their corruption, it’s a film perched on the line between fact and fiction. Not only is the situation described a real one, but each of the characters in the ‘story’ is played by their real-life counterparts. When social workers force the parents to allow their daughters out into the street, the film documents the two sisters’ tentative first impressions of an outside world that’s so long been denied to them.
PERSIAN NEW YEAR Presents
THE APPLE
Samira Makhmalbaf / 1998 / Iran & France / 86 min
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DEPTFORD CINEMA in MARCH 2016 Tue 01.03.16 Wed 02.02.16
HUMAN CAPITAL - Contemporary Italian Cinema SOUTHERN DISTRICT - Latin American Cinema Night
Sat 05.03.16 Sun 06.03.16 Sun 06.03.16
LUOGHI COMUNI LUOGHI COMUNI PUBLIC MEETING 4PM
Tue 08.03.16 Wed 09.03.16 Thu 10.03.16
LANDSCAPES OF GIRLHOOD - International Women’s Day THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD - Key Frames ZELARY - Czech & Slovak Stories
Sat 12.03.16 Sun 13.03.16 Sun 13.03.16
HEIMA presnted by Huldufugl ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 4PM PUBLIC PROGRAMMING MEETING 2PM
Tue 14.03.16 Wed 16.03.16 Fri 18.03.16
FAULTS - UK Premiere presented by Girls On Film JAN SVANKMEYER SELECTION - Analogue Animations THE WHITE BALLOON - Persian New Year
Sun 20.03.16
PUBLIC MEETING 4PM
Wed 23.03.16 Thu 24.03.16 Fri 25.03.16 Fri 25.03.16
WHERE BIRDS SHOULD FLY EAR - Czech & Slovak Stories THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION - JG Ballard on Film A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Full Moon Film Night cover image
Sun 27.03.16 Sun 27.03.16
PROGRAMMING MEETING 2PM PUBLIC MEETING 4PM
Mon 28.03.16 Wed 30.03.16
THE APPLE - Persian New Year
ZDENĚK SVĚRÁK´S 80TH BIRTHDAY + THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
39 DEPTFORD BROADWAY SE8 4PQ WWW.DEPTFORDCINEMA.ORG /deptfordcinema @deptfordcinema