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Thank you. After a year that’s witnessed our passage to independence as a Community Interest Company, a move to fantastic new office space at 3 Mills Studios and a punishing push for funding with a major crowdfunding campaign; saying ‘thank you’ seemed the only appropriate way to start this welcome. Being carried over the Kickstarter line by the film loving community earlier this year, was an amazing and heartening experience and one the whole team will not forget in a hurry! You can see a list of some of our crowdfunding donors on page 44.

CONTENTS 4 —Jury 4 —Awards 6 —Competition 7 —Our Patrons 8 —Opening Gala 8 —Centrepiece Galas 9 —Closing Gala 9 —Closing Night Gala 10 —British Cinema 14 —European Cinema 16 —World Cinema 17 —Mexican Focus 22 —Shorts 26 —Masonic Temple 29 —Red Gallery 30 —Grits ’n’ Gravy 31 —Palestine on Film 32 —Free Events 34 —Cutting East 39 —Industry 44 —Kickstarter Thanks 45 —Venues & Booking 46 —Calendar

So, Teenage Kicks start now! We’ve shed a new skin as the festival moves into it’s 13th edition, becoming a young adult at last, a theme that is carried through several of our titles this year, from Noaz Deshe’s White Shadow about a young Albino on the run from witch doctors, to Gia Coppola’s adaptation of James Franco’s Palo Alto, to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s extraordinary recounting of his own coming of age in The Dance of Reality. This motif is carried through into our country-focus this year with The Golden Dream by Diego QuemadaDiez forming part of an 8-strong programme of contemporary Mexican cinema, co-curated by our Director-in-Residence for 2014, Sebastian Hofmann. Lucky for us, we kick off 13 days of cinema on Friday 13th June with the World Premiere of Dermaphoria, the stunning feature debut from East London filmmaker Ross Clarke, starring Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries) and Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy, Hellboy) and close with the truest of British dandy highwayman when we welcome Adam Ant and director Jack Bond to present a Closing Night Gala of The Blueblack Hussar. Like a typical teenager, we’ve cranked up the volume right across the festival, with a whole series of music docs & performances from A Curious Life with much loved British rock band the Levellers, to Mistaken for Strangers about American indie stars The National, to a visually dazzling, blood-soaked screening of The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears with a World Premiere original score curated by Ben Power (Fuck Buttons/Blanck Mass).

Some of you may have spotted that there’s a lil’ football tournament coming up, so it seems fitting that we host the UK Premiere of You and the Night and welcome that most mercurial of famed footballers to our shores, Eric Cantona; and as part of a weekend of FREE activity at East Village, East End Film Festival hosts a special footballfocused day of free family entertainment with Aardman Animation, followed by a special Fathers Days screening of Chef, directed by Jon Favreau and featuring Robert Downey Jr. There’s so much more to share, from macabre happenings in a Masonic temple to tabloid-baiting stand-up, to our ONE-STOP FILM SHOP in Old Street station, popped-up in collaboration with Little White Lies. We’ve pushed through the growing pains, disregarded the rulebook and decisively followed our own path, and the result, we believe, is our strongest edition to date. Something that was once just a head full of ideas has synthesised into 13 days of the boldest new voices in cinema. So for now, I’d like to wrap up where I came in and say, thank you so much for your support, and I hope you enjoy the festival!

Alison Poltock Artistic Director

CREDITS Festival Director Alison Poltock

Associate Art Director James Pretty

Business Outreach Officer Priscilla Adade-Helledy

Research Assistant Eleanor Palmer

Head of Programming Andrew Simpson

Film Coordinator Alay Paun

Festival Trailer Director Kieron Hawkes

Guest Liaison Bobbie Hughes

Festival Producer & Head of Industry Rachael Castell

Programming Assistant Dimitri Boutourelis

Senior Shorts Programmer Joao Serejo

Soundtrack Assistant David Tojo Baymiller

Head of Press Stuart Haggas

Festival Assistants Emily d’Silva Stephanie Palek

Head of Shorts Kirsten Geekie

Head of Content Angelica Riccardi

Production Manager Tess Maher

Marketing Team Jade Hucklesby Aileen Rainmond

Cutting East Facilitators Stephanie Pamment, Isma Arif, Nurull Islam, Assan Ali

Production Coordinator Ruben Santos

Associate Producer Mary Halton

Online Content Assistant Paul Olney

Emerge Director Christopher Ian Smith

Event Manager RED GALLERY Samir Eskanda Mind the Gap Producer Rachel King Mind the Gap Assistant Roxana Ghirbomean

#MyLondonFilm/ Communications Officer Joanna Duncombe #MyLondonFilm programmer Johanna Brooks

Shorts Programming Committee Mary Halton Kirsten Geekie Zoé Cuvillier Andaz Installation Designer Lucy Jones PR Agency Margaret_ Hilary Cornwell Sarah Bemand John Dunning Programme Designer GilesMarshDesign.com

FEATURE JURY

DOCUMENTARY JURY DIRECTOR IN RESIDENCE SEBASTIAN HOFMANN Sebastian Hofmann is an emerging Mexican filmmaker whose films have been presented at the IFFR Hivos Tiger Awards, Locarno, and Sundance, among other prestigious festivals. Halley, his first feature film, has been selected to over 50 festivals and has won nine international awards, including the East End Film Festival in 2013.

IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are British artists and filmmakers who create reenactments of cultural and art events. Working together since the mid-nineties, their series about the works of Nick Cave have previously screened at the East End Film Festival. Their new film, 20,000 Days on Earth, is released in the autumn.

EDDIE BERG

MARK ADAMS

EMAD BURNAT

GILLIAN WEARING OBE RA

PETER STRAUGHAN

SHANIDA SCOTLAND

Eddie Berg is the Director of Partnerships at the BFI. Former Artistic Director of BFI Southbank, he was also formerly the founder and Chief Executive of the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

English photographer and video artist, Wearing has described her working method as ‘editing life’. By using photography and video to record the confessions of ordinary people, her work explores the disparities between public and private life, between individual and collective experience.

AWARD CATEGORIES

Mark Adams is chief film critic for both Screen International and the Sunday Mirror. An experienced festival attendee and juror, he is the author of several books on cinema, as well as a former programmer for the National Film Theatre and Director of Cinema at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Peter Straughan is a playwright, author, and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for The Men Who Stare at Goats, Frank and the upcoming television mini-series Wolf Hall, as well as co-writing the Oscar nominated, BAFTA winning screenplay for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

BEST FILM EEFF 2014

As a leading showcase for first and second features, we are proud to once again present our EEFF Best Film Award. Last year’s winner Sebastian Hofmann received the festival’s main prize for his debut feature Halley, and we welcome him back this year as our Director-inResidence to co-curate a focus on the country of his birth, Mexico.

Emad Burnat is a Palestinian film director, storyteller, and farmer. He became the first Palestinian to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2013 for his film 5 Broken Cameras.

TRISTAN ANDERSON

Tristan Anderson is a London based BAFTA winning documentary filmmaker whose films and TV shows have been broadcast in over 15 countries. His films have garnered national press coverage and his work focuses on a variety of areas and diverse subject matters.

Shanida Scotland has worked for Storyville, the BBC’s international documentary strand, since 2006. Helping to commission and develop documentaries for the strand, recent Storyville titles include Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Recognising the most unique, human and arresting non-fiction stories of this year’s programme, the East End Film Festival’s Best Documentary Feature Award champions a film and filmmaker in whose hands bare facts become something profound and cinematic.

BEST FEATURE SOUNDTRACK

Integral to the process of a film’s emotional journey is the music within the story. Recognising the essential role that musicians and composers play in creating great cinematic works of art, the EEFF Soundtrack Award honours the capacity of music to elevate film beyond what’s merely captured on camera.

SHORTS JURY

SOUNDTRACK JURY CHRIS & BEN BLAINE

Renowned comic shorts duo the Blaine Brothers wow audiences across a variety of platforms. They have been featured by Screen International’s “Stars of Tomorrow”, have produced their own hit show at the Edinburgh Fringe, and are currently developing their first feature film, Nina Forever.

EVA WEBER

Eva Weber is a London-based director working in documentary and fiction. Her film The Solitary Life of Cranes was described as ‘one of the most absorbing documentaries of the year’ by The Observer. Her most recent documentary, Black Out, screened at this Festival in 2013.

CLINT DYER

Clint Dyer is an actor, writer, director and producer who has been involved with films, plays and television for more than 20 years. He directed The Westbridge at The Royal Court, produced and starred in Sus (EEFF 2010), and has directed several awardwinning short films.

Image: Phil Colby

FAY MILTON

JULES WOOD

GRAHAM HARTSTONE

ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS

Fay Milton is the drummer in Savages, one of the most exciting, critically acclaimed bands in the UK. Outside music, Fay also directs and produces films specialising in music documentary, live music filmmaking and comedy.

Graham V. Hartstone is a British sound engineer, nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Sound. His work includes Aliens (1986), Blade Runner (1982), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Working in film & TV sound for over 12 years, Jules has worked on some of the UK’s most creative TV dramas, comedies and independent feature films as well as many major foreign version feature releases such as The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey, The Dark Knight Rises, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Ari Benjamin Meyers lives and works in Berlin. Trained as a composer and conductor, his work has been increasingly present in the contemporary art context since 2007, and includes collaborations with artists such as Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.

ACCESSION AWARD Sponsored by One Stop Films

BARRY ACKROYD

KARL HYDE

Barry Ackroyd BSC is a versatile cinematographer known for his work with Paul Greengrass, Kathryn Bigelow and, most notably, Ken Loach with whom he has shot over 12 films, including the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm-winning The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

BEST UK SHORT FILM

From arguments between lovers to families reunited, youthful hopefulness to the regrets of old age, year on year we find ourselves overwhelmed by the unprecedented number of excellent new films from tomorrow’s rising stars of cinema. This award recognises a powerful voice emerging from short form work, one that challenges the well-trodden cliché that a short film is somehow flimsier than a feature. The winner will receive £3,000 of post production services from Prime Focus.

Karl Hyde is one half of electronic music group Underworld. Last year, he released his debut solo album Edgeland, and composed the score for The Outer Edges, winner of last year’s Best Soundtrack Award.

SHORT FILM AUDIENCE AWARD

Festivals may have programmers, juries and directors but it’s the audience who really count. Let us know your opinion after any of our shorts screenings and cast your vote for this year’s festival favourite.

ACCESSION AWARD

Newly created for 2014, the Accession Award exists to champion a particularly vital craft within filmmaking and the recipient’s establishment of a career in filmmaking within their chosen field. Focusing on a different discipline each year, the EEFF 2014 Accession Award celebrates the art of cinematography.

Sponsored by One Stop Films. The winner will receive three days hire of an Arri Alexa, a day of Steadycam operation, a Focus puller and man and van hire (See page 7).

COMPETITION The East End Film Festival’s awards system is a vital part of the festival’s mission to discover, debate and develop new voices in cinema. Our top award is reserved for the most outstanding film from a first or second time director and each year’s Best Feature Award recipient is invited back to the East End Film Festival the following year as the festival’s Director in Residence.

This year’s Director in Residence is Sebastian Hofmann (2013 Best Feature Award, Halley), who has co-curated this year’s East End Film Festival focus on Mexican cinema (see page 17).

Working with the festival team to co-curate a selection of cutting edge new cinema from their country, the festival’s annual national focus forms part of our continuing commitment to new feature filmmaking and vibrant national cinema. Previous Directors in Residence have included Bobby Parnescu (Francesca, 2010), Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan, 2011) and Armando Bo (El Ultimo Elvis, 2012), with country specific selections including Russia, Romania, India and Argentina.

“Mexican Cinema is going through a wonderful period, with films contrasting with one another while mirroring the country, compensating for the current social and political chaos we’re living through. It is a great honour to bring some of these voices to London. The East End Film Festival showcases edgy and original films. Having awarded an alternative film like Halley speaks to its modern sensibility.”

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THIS YEAR’S EEFF COMPETITION LINE UP FOR 2014: LILTING

Director: Hong Khaou UK | 2014 | 91 min

Formative cinematic moment I remember watching Kes in secondary school and not thinking anything of it, and some 10 years later I saw it again and it completely opened my eyes, changing the way I perceived films. Favourite British film I’m not sure I have any one particular favourite British films, it changes weekly or hourly even. The films that have all had a deep lasting effect on me include Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies), Brief Encounter (Noel Coward), Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg), 2001, A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski).

LA DISTANCIA (THE DISTANCE)

Sergio Caballero Spain | 2014 | 80 min Formative cinematic moment The key cinematic moment for me has been when I went to the cinema to see Nico in the Inner Scar by Philippe Garrel. I went to the movies to actually see Nico, and discovered Garrel and auteur films. I made a tribute to this moment in my first feature film Finisterrae. Favourite British film Blue by Derek Jarman. 6

YOU AND THE NIGHT

Director: Yann Gonzalez France | 2013 | 98 min Formative cinematic moment I was around 12 when I watched Suspiria by Dario Argento on an old VHS dubbed in French, but I instantly fell in love with its baroque violence, its absurd poetry and its music of course. The first 15 minutes of the film, with this beautiful young girl running through the woods and then being savagely murdered, made me realise that cinema could be as intense as my early sex fantasies.

WHISPERS BEHIND THE WALL

Director: Grzegorz Muskala Germany | 2013 | 90 min Formative cinematic moment Seeing Don’t Look Now on TV as a very young child with my father – I don’t know, why he let me see it. Today he doesn’t even remember. But I do. And I am grateful to him about that experience anyway. Favourite British film My favourite British film? One? How am I supposed to choose between Bad Timing, Blow-Up, Deep End, Peeping Tom, Repulsion, Lawrence of Arabia? Do I really have to?

Favourite British film Horror of Dracula by Terence Fisher.

WHITE SHADOW

Director: Noaz Deshe Taznania, Germany, Italy | 2013 | 117 min

DERMAPHORIA Director: Ross Clarke UK, USA | 2014 | 93 min

Formative cinematic moment Being taken to the Clacton-on-Sea Mecca cinema by my dad from the age of three every week to see everything from the reverie of Zefferrelli’s Brother Sun, Sister Moon to the hysteria of Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety meant I was hooked on film – but more importantly the experience of seeing film in a cinema from day one. As much as being a film maker I really want to own and run a cinema one day. Favourite British film I love Nic Roeg (from Performance and Don’t Look Now and everything inbetween up to Eureka and Bad Timing), I love British films that break out of the Brit gangster/costume drama mould (films like Dead Man’s Shoes) but more recently I fell in love with Peter Strickland’s incredible Berberian Sound Studio – a channelling of Roeg via Mullholland Drive and Blow Out that uses British parochialism as a tense psychological foil to the world of hotblooded Italians and Argento. (Image: Peggy Nuttall)

SUMMUM BONUM

Director: Matias Penachino Mexico, USA | 2013 | 97 min

Formative cinematic moment I was 8 and wearing a samurai suit for a month to public school after watching Throne of Blood by Akira Kurosawa. I watched it many times and wanted to remake it with my friends as some sort of private live show.

Formative cinematic moment Making Summum Bonum. Filmmaking has always been like therapy for me. The film’s objective was to delve into family ties, above all brotherhood, and in one moment I realized that I was part of another family.

Favourite British film I have many, I love Raining Stones and The Third Man, and I hear A Clockwork Orange is British.

Favourite British film Riff-Raff by Ken Loach.

BLUE CAPRICE

Director: Alexandre Moors USA | 2013 | 93 min

Formative cinematic moment Catching The Belly of an Architect on late night television during my early years of college. Favourite British film The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway.

BEST DOCUMENTARY As a festival with a unique history of championing films with important social messages, powerful truths and insights into neglected ways of life, and taking inspiration from East London’s activist history, the East End Film Festival’s Best Documentary Award is a vital part of the festival’s yearly awards line up. A catalogue of the most arresting stories in non-fiction filmmaking presented to us this year, we are proud to represent this year’s Best Documentary competition line up...

CONCERNING VIOLENCE Director: Göran Olsson Sweden | 2014 | 78 min

MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS

Director: Tom Berninger USA | 2014 | 80 min

ONE ROGUE REPORTER

Director: Rich Peppiatt, Tom Jenkinson UK | 2014 | 55 min

NON FICTION DIARY

Director: Yoon-suk Jung South Korea | 2013 | 90 min

MASS E BHAT

Director: Richard York, Hannan Majid UK | 2014 | 102 min

THE WINDING STREAM

ACCESSION AWARD

SUPPORTED BY ONE STOP FILMS

The East End Film Festival is delighted to announce full details of a new award for 2014. The EEFF’s newest prize aims to recognise outstanding achievement in a British feature film within the EEFF programme. The East End Accession Award will specifically celebrate a particular ‘craft’ or specialist role, with categories to include (but not be restricted to) editing, scriptwriting, sound design and art direction. Focusing on a different craft each year, and intended to celebrate an individual establishing a professional career within their chosen field, this year’s EEFF Accession Award will champion the art of Cinematography. Celebrated cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd, famous for working on many successful and respected titles including

The Hurt Locker, Coriolanus and most recently Captain Philips, will judge the overall winner – and the the recipient will receive an unparalleled prize of a complete cinematography package from East London’s camera rental company ONE STOP FILMS based at 3 Mills Studios. One Stop Films have offered the winner, three days hire of an Arri Alexia package with all the trimmings, alongside a day of Steadicam operation with One Stop Co-director’s Daniel Bishop and Jonathan Iles; in addition to a Focus puller, man and van hire. This ONE STOP package will give our winner a tailored, unrivalled opportunity to continue producing phenomenal work in the future.

Director: Beth Harrington USA | 2014 | 90 min

OUR PATRONS STEVEN BERKOFF

MICHAEL NYMAN

DANNY BOYLE

JAIME WINSTONE

JOE WRIGHT

STEPHEN WOOLLEY

PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI

ASIF KAPADIA

JASON SOLOMONS

is an actor, writer, director and East London resident. He is known for his innovative work in theatre, as well as numerous screen roles.

is an English actress, known for her roles in Kidulthood, Made in Dagenham and the television series Dead Set.

is BAFTA winning director whose films include My Summer of Love, The Woman in the Fifth and Ida.

is a BAFTA winning British composer, known for his work on films such as The Piano, as well as a pioneering role in minimalist composition.

is a British film director. He is most well known for his adaptations of Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Anna Karenina. He is currently shooting Pan.

is a BAFTA winning filmmaker and Hackney resident. His films include The Warrior and Senna.

is an Academy Awardwinning director, best known for Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting & the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.

is a renowned film producer, whose credits include Interview with  the Vampire and Made in Dagenham. He is currently working on the film Carol with Todd Haynes.

is an English film critic and broadcaster. He is also Chairman of the London Film Critics’ Circle

OPENING NIGHT GALA DERMAPHORIA Director: Ross Clarke

UK, USA | 2014 | 93 min World Premiere Genesis Friday 13 June, 7:00pm £15 for Gala Screening + Welcome Drink £25 for Gala Screening +After Party at Trapeze Bar (with free Southern cocktails and song)

Not only does this summer mark 13 years since the first edition of the East End Film Festival, but it also represents the festival’s first outing as a fully independent body. So what better place to open this year’s East End Film Festival than at the Genesis Cinema, the festival’s original birthplace and host venue. Join us at our Opening Night Gala of Dermaphoria as we celebrate the bright future and brilliant debut of an East End filmmaker, and start the festival as we mean to go on for the next 13 days.

In Dermaphoria, East London’s Ross Clarke (working again with Teryn Fogel, the producer of Clarke’s documentary Skid Row, EEFF 2010) heads West to America to make a stylish, atmospheric feature debut. Clarke’s film sees Eric Ashworth (Joseph Morgan, The Vampire Diaries) wake up in jail accused of arson, and only able to remember the name Desiree (Nicole Badaan). A strange new hallucinogen allows him to recover his memories, but makes the world around him more and more terrifying, as past and present begin to blur together. Also starring Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Walton Goggins (The Shield, Sons of Anarchy) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy), Dermaphoria is a phenomenally realised, hallucinatory experience. Making atmospheric use of New Orleans, it recalls Angel Heart, Memento and Upstream Colour, and represents the arrival of a truly talented, distinctive new voice in cinema. Our Opening Night Gala for 2014, it represents an artistic ‘coming of age’ that couldn’t be a better fit for the East End Film Festival in its 13th year. Screening supported by Splice.

Preceded by the premiere screening of the winning film from the #MyLondonFilm short film competition hosted in conjunction with Time Out and partnered with YouTube.

CENTREPIECE GALAS MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS

Director: Tom Berninger USA | 2014 | 80 min Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 14 June, 6:30pm

YOU AND THE NIGHT (LES RENCOUNTRES D’APRÈS MINUIT) Director: Yann Gonzalez

France | 2013 | 98 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 21 June, 8:45pm

CLOSING NIGHT GALA THE BLUEBLACK HUSSAR Director: Jack Bond

UK | 2013 | 100 min + Live Performance Secret Venue (See festival website) Wednesday 25 June, 8:00pm

The East End Film Festival celebrates creative risk taking, artistic endeavour and the maverick spirit that we believe reflects the spirit of London’s most dynamic quarter. Few figures reflect that spirit quite like Stuart Goddard, aka Adam Ant, whose return to musical prominence, delivered with a spirit of defiance from the man himself, has been brilliantly captured in Jack Bond’s film The Blueblack Hussar.

A ride along with Adam Ant’s return, The Blueblack Hussar is prefaced by the once world-famous music star’s halcyon days in the 1980s, and his disappearance from public life after being sectioned. Featuring the likes of Charlotte Rampling, Mark Ronson, Allen Jones, John Robb and Jamie Reynolds, it is a film exploring the road back for a true English original. Still channelling his highwayman/soldier persona, he has, against all the odds, got himself back to playing to huge audiences once again, unapologetically and without compromise. A man after our own heart, what better way to close the festival in 2014.

FOLLOWED BY A VERY SPECIAL LIVE PERFORMANCE, AND THE EAST END FILM FESTIVAL 2014 CLOSING NIGHT PARTY!

CLOSING NIGHT FILM BLOOD TIES

Director: Guillarme Canet UK Premiere France, USA | 2013 | 127 min Hackney Picturehouse Wednesday 25 June, 6:30pm

French actor-director Guillarme Canet (Tell No One) makes his English language debut with this star studded, thrilling retro-crime drama. Written by James Gray (We Own the Night), a director seemingly bent on resurrecting 1970s Hollywood in 2014, Blood Ties is a classically realised foray into American genre. Featuring standout performances from Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cottilard, Mila Kunis and James Caan, it boasts convincing period style, suspense and tragedy. A brilliantly realised story of family loyalties, betrayal, and the lure of the underworld, it is a heart pumping way to close the 2014 East End Film Festival.

BRITISH People often say we get the cinema our times deserve, and nowhere is this more true than in this year’s British selection. Presenting 31 films from British filmmakers, this is a particularly exciting, radical year. From UK directors heading to far flung lands (Dermaphoria, Mass-eBhat, The Process, Casablanca Calling) to those telling tales of scraping by on the streets of East London (Hackney’s Finest, Greyhawk, Hot Wings, King

UK | 2014 | 43 min World Premiere Aubin Saturday 14 June, 6:30pm

A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD… WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JESSE HECTOR? +Q&A Director: Caroline Catz Jesse Hector works as a cleaner, but not many people know about his rock & roll career, which spans some 50 years. Inspiring British punks in ’76 with his

of the Road); and from refreshing departures from the clichés of British film (Hide and Seek) to portraits of our capacity for bringing people together (Lilting, Leave To Remain, Here and Now), this is a remarkably strong year, representing this island’s cinematic talent. What’s more, with the likes of Stay Greasy, A Curious Life, A Message To The World and The Blueblack Hussar, the era of the music inspired maverick lives on.

legendary stage shows and his space-age mod look, he’s a perennial influence on the UK music scene, without ever having quite hit the big time that his stature once promised. Charting his rise and fall from fame, and his attempts to answer the question ‘what ever happened to Jesse Hector and the Hammersmith Gorillas?’ Carline Catz’s film is an intimate loving look at one of British rock & roll’s cult icons, with contributions from admirers such as Mark Lamar.

UK | 2014 | 78 min World Premiere Red Gallery Sunday 15 June, 6:30pm

A CURIOUS LIFE +LIVE PERFORMANCE

story through Jeremy Cunningham, the band’s bassist. A product of Thatcher’s Britain, the Levellers achieved phenomenal success before disappearing in a train wreck of drink, drugs and creative drought. A portrait of both a fascinating character and a touchstone group this is, in Jeremy’s own words, a ”journey through 25 years of subsidised dysfunctionalism”. RR Special Event (see page 30)

UK, Romania | 2013 | 98 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 21 June, 4:00pm

UK | 2013 | 85 min World Premiere Genesis Wednesday 18 June, 6:30pm

A VERY UNSETTLED SUMMER (O VARA FOARTE INSTABILA) +Q&A

THE BEFUDDLED BOX OF BETTY BUTTIFINT +Q&A

UK | 2013 | 100 min Secret Venue (see page 9) Wednesday 25 June, 8:00pm

the planet in the 1980s, disappeared completely from public life when he suffered a recurrence of the depression that has afflicted him since he was a young man. Sectioned and forcibly sedated, few would have anticipated his return. Featuring the likes of Charlotte Rampling, Mark Ronson, Allen Jones, John Robb and Jamie Reynolds, this is a film exploring the road back for a unique British pop star. RR Closing Night Gala

Director: Dunstan Bruce “I can do whatever I like, but the most interesting thing about me is that I’m in the Levellers.” So begins A Curious Life, Bruce’s history of the 90s indie success

Director: Anca Damian An English journalist receives a message from his ex. But what seems like an opportunity to rekindle old passions is actually an offer from her to play a different version of herself. Reality and storytelling blur in this clever, bewitching drama about what we would like to believe about ourselves and others.

THE BLUEBLACK HUSSAR +Q&A +LIVE PERFORMANCE

Director: Jack Bond An engrossing portrait of a true English original, The Blueblack Hussar is Jack Bond’s ride through the world of Adam Ant. The iconic pop star, who was perhaps the biggest music star on 10

Director: Janis Pugh Janis Pugh’s debut feature portrays an elderly woman living within her own confused mind. Using the vivid landscape of Betty’s memories, Pugh’s film blurs the line between reality and fantasy, between real memories and symbols of her past. A moving, poetic take on the life, loves and losses of a person whose world is fading away.

UK | 2013 | 105 min World Premiere Genesis Friday 20 June, 9:00pm

UK, Morocco | 2014 | 70 min European Premiere Rich Mix Wednesday 18 June, 8:30pm

THE BUSKERS & LOU +Q&A

CASABLANCA CALLING +Q&A CASTLES MADE OF SAND +Q&A DERMAPHORIA +Q&A Director: Louise Orton Documenting a quiet social revolution, Casablanca Calling takes us to the heart of a fierce sociological debate currently sweeping through Morocco. In a country where 60% of women have never been to school, a new generation of women have started work as Morchidat (official Muslim leaders), working within some of the country’s poorest communities.

Director: Mungo Benson A truly micro-budget debut feature from debut director Mungo Benson, Castles Made of Sand follows a troubled and alienated man trying to adapt to life on the outside after a 12-year stint in prison. Trying to repair his relationship with his daughter, the pull of his old life threaten to prove to much, and he slowly finds himself back in dangerous territory.

Director: Ross Clarke Ross Clarke (Skid Row, EEFF 2010) heads West to America to make his stylish, atmospheric feature debut with Dermaphoria. A fragmented, involving plunge into a fractured psyche, it sees Eric (The Vampire Diaries) wake up in jail, accused of arson and suffering from amnesia. Also starring Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy). RR Opening Night Gala

UK | 2013 | 54 min Genesis Sunday 22 June, 6:30pm

UK | 2010 | 79 min World Premiere Genesis Sunday 15 June, 8:45pm

UK | 2014 | 90 min London Premiere Rio Sunday 22 June, 3:30pm

UK | 2014 | 10 min UK Premiere Genesis Tuesday 17 June, 8:45pm

DROWNED CITY +INTRO

GODARD & OTHERS +Q&A

GREYHAWK +Q&A

HERE AND NOW +Q&A

Director: Alex Cassun Having grown up enjoying a freewheeling bohemian lifestyle, Lou mysteriously disappears from his hometown. He returns years later without explanation determined to embark on a ‘responsible’ life. Yet when he runs into an old friend, he finds himself torn between his new setup and his old existence. This atmospheric drama asks whether growing up and letting go are the same thing.

Director: Faith Millin There are an estimated fifty illegal radio stations in London. The maximum penalties for transmitting are an unlimited fine and a jail sentence. Over three years, the filmmaker follows three pirates, from towerblock rooftops to OfCom studio raids, asking why individuals take such significant risks to their safety and welfare, for the sake of broadcasting.

UK | 2014 | 89 min World Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 14 June, 8:45pm

HACKNEY’S FINEST +Q&A

Director: Chris Bouchard A crowd-pleasing tale of mayhem and ineptitude, Hackney’s Finest pits a group of hopeless Hackney drug dealers against a group of corrupt policemen, Russian thugs & Welsh-Jamaican arms

Director: Barry Bliss Beatie and Daly are radical filmmakers looking to re-inject politics into British film. But they are consistently met with Britain’s surveillance society, particularly Section 44, which allows police to arrest anyone filming in public, that they feel could be a potential threat. Meanwhile, their charismatic teacher Torrence (Paul McGann) is lecturing on how to make movies, thereby commenting on the struggle of its lead characters.

UK | 2013 | 75 min European Premiere Genesis Saturday 14 June, 6:30pm

Director: Guy Pitt Mal Walker (Alec Newman), a blind, reclusive, disillusioned army veteran, is forced into a down-at-heel council estate called Greyhawk when his beloved dog goes missing. Part detective story, part involving relationship drama, Guy Pitt’s debut feature (written by brother Matt Pitt) is shot in and around East London, and is an atmospheric, beautifully acted story of a man making his way back to the world.

UK, USA | 2014 | 93 min World Premiere Genesis Friday 13 June, 7:00pm

Director: Lisle Turner Grace initially resists leaving East Ham for a trip to the countryside with her parents, but on meeting Say, her tough exterior begins to crumble. Spending their days together in this peaceful retreat, they begin to let go and come to understand one another beyond a simple holiday romance.

+ FAMILY REUNION

UK | Director: David Kitchen | 10 min

dealers, creating a knowing antidote to the tired British gangster genre. Much to his girlfriend’s annoyance, small time drug dealer Sirus is due to make one small ‘exchange’ from home with inevitably disastrous consequences. Debut feature from writer Thorin Seex and director Chris Bouchard (The Hunt For Gollum, one of YouTube’s most successful fan videos).

UK | 2014 | 80 min London Premiere Genesis Tuesday 24 June, 8:30pm

HIDE AND SEEK +Q&A

Director: Joanna Coates Four young people flee the big city. Establishing their own polyamorous countryside commune, they begin to apply a series of rules, games and rituals to their daily lives, the isolating nature of their environment creating a space free

from the inherited constraints of ‘real world’ existence. As their inhibitions and past traumas fade, they achieve a unique kind of personal and collective happiness. Joanna Coates’ deeply original, meditative take on a group of young, unmoored adults is many things: an evocation of retreat as protest, a tribute to spirituality in a cynical world, and a refreshingly unBritish assertion of sexuality’s role in self discovery. A refreshing, unexpected debut feature.

UK | 2013 | 78 min World Premiere Genesis Saturday 21 June, 8:30pm

UK | 2013 | 70 min Genesis Saturday 14 June, 8:45pm

KING OF THE ROAD: PETER PICKLES AND THE HOMELESS INDUSTRY +Q&A

LATE AT NIGHT: VOICES OF ORDINARY MADNESS +Q&A

Director: Patrick Steel 60 years old, and homeless for over 5 years, Peter has always had offers of lodging. However, he usually finds his way back to the streets. When his best friend Lionel is offered a permanent home, Peter considers settling down. But can they adjust to interior living? A moving story of independence and friendship, challenging dominant narratives about homelessness.

UK | 2013 | 89 min Genesis Thursday 19 June, 6:30pm

LEAVE TO REMAIN +Q&A

Director: Bruce Goodison An Afghan boy arrives at a refugee home setting off a chain of unforeseen events in this powerful film by lauded television director Goodison who worked with amateur actors to create unforgettable 12

Director: Xiaolu Guo Evoking a part of London shaped by uneven development, Guo’s film is structured like a strange, late night television programme. Introducing characters from different ends of the social spectrum, from gang members to City bankers, East London emerges as exactly what it is: a microcosm of the tensions and shifts at the heart of modern Britain.

characters. With an original soundtrack from Mercury-winners Alt-J, this is a timely cinematic take on the experience of many refugees in the UK, falling emotively between documentary realism and heightened drama.

UK | 2014 | 100 min World Premiere Stratford Picturehouse Sunday 22 June, 8:30pm

UK | 2014 | 100 min Genesis Saturday 14 June, 2:00pm

HOT WINGS +Q&A

INNA VISION FILM SCHOOL SCREENING +Q&A

Director: Mitch Panayis As the world descends on London in 2012, a very different kind of competition is taking place in the alleyways surrounding the Olympic Park. In this tale of local hoods, a group of chancers decide to cash in on the Games. DJ 2K returns home from a kind of exile to reconcile with his father only to find himself drawn into a world of criminality, deception and violence in the shadow of the Olympic development.

UK | 2014 | 91 min Hackney Picturehouse Wednesday 18 June, 8:45pm

LILTING +Q&A

Director: Hong Khaou When Kai dies, his lover Richard (Ben Whishaw) reaches out to Junn (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’s Cheng Pei Pei), Kai’s Chinese-Cambodian mother. Unaware of her son’s sexuality, and unable to speak English, she slowly

A special programme from the Inna Vision Film School in East London, who work with adults with and without experience of mental health issues to make powerful, engaging short films. This work explores various aspects of mental health, particularly among African and Caribbean communities.

comes to acknowledge, understand and share Richard’s grief, in this subtly, minimally drawn debut from Hong Khaou. Previously supported by the Tower Hamlets Film Fund (then connected to the East End Film Festival) for his 2006 short film Summer, Khaou’s film beautifully explores the limits of language to express emotion, and the ways that loss can bring the walls down. RR Unpacking British Cinema: Special Industry Event

UK | 1980 | 114 min Genesis Wednesday 18 June, 4:00pm

UK | 2014 | 102 min World Premiere Rich Mix Sunday 22 June, 2:00pm

THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY

MASS E BHAT +Q&A

Director: John Mackenzie The Long Good Friday is the perfect fit for our senior screening - documenting as it does the renovation of East London’s Docklands, and starring the sadly missed Bob Hoskins in a careerdefining role alongside Helen Mirren and a young Pierce Brosnan. A slice of East London film history. RR FREE ENTRY for the over 60s

Directors: Richard York, Hannan Majid The Rainbow Collective’s exploration of childhood in Bangladesh, Mass E Bhat sees social worker Nasir wandering through Dhaka’s Korrail slum searching for children to enrol in his school. Whilst walking he recounts the story of his own youth, creating a portrait of a nation in flux to the backdrop of an emotional and brilliant score from John Pandit (Asian Dub Foundation).

UK | 2014 | 60 min World Premiere Rio Saturday 14 June, 4:15pm

UK | 2013 | 93 min Genesis Sunday 15 June, 6:00pm

THE PROCESS +Q&A

SOHO CIGARETTE +Q&A

Director: Joshua Baker The human dimension of the recently collapsed Middle East peace talks come into view in this impressive exploration of the forces, personalities and geopolitical factors constraining the IsraelPalestine question.

Also screening as part of the Palestine on Film Programme

Director: Jonathan Fairbairn Rock n’ Roll tour guide Dee imagines himself as a modern day Henry VIII, with Soho as his hunting ground. Splashing his last penny on a classic Mercedes after his girlfriend throws him out, things begin to spiral out of control when he discovers that the daughter of the previous owner died on the backseat. This is a cool, off-kilter debut from director Jonathan Fairbairn (graduate of MIND THE GAP Industry Programme ’13).

UK | 2014 | 55 min London Premiere Rio Saturday 21 June, 4:00pm

ONE ROGUE REPORT +Q&A

Directors: Rich Peppiatt, Tom Jenkinson Recovering tabloid hack Rich Peppiatt has fallen out with the rag trade, it’s safe to say. Having turned on the tabloid industry during the Leveson Inquiry, accusing the industry of both Islamaphobia and fitting the facts to

UK | 2014 | 85 min World Premiere Red Gallery Friday 20 June, 7:00pm

STAY GREASY +EVENT

Director: Jonathan Lowe A tale of straight razors and hair grease, this freewheeling film is proof that rockabilly is alive and well thanks to a small barber shop in the West End. At It’s Something Hell’s on Carnaby Street, the Toulouse-born Mr. Ducktail and his

UK, Turkey | 2013 | 66 min Genesis Sunday 15 June, 7:00pm

TASKAFA, STORIES FROM THE STREET +Q&A

Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman An exploration of memory and belonging told through the story of Istanbul’s street dogs, Taskafa is an unusual insight into how people think about their city. With attempts by the city’s rulers to

match the story, here he turns his hand to filmmaking, delivering a mercilessly satirical dissection of his former trade. Turning the tables on unscrupulous newspaper bosses, he lampoons the hypocrisy and dishonesty of his former employers through a series of mischievous stunts and interviews with heavyweights from the worlds of journalism, ﬁlm, comedy and politics (Steve Coogan, Kelvin Mackenzie among them). A brilliant, searing and very funny exposé.

pin-up stylist wife Miss Betty ply their trade, coiffering the city’s pin-ups and hepcats. With his own brand of clothing, hair products and an enormous online following, Mr. Ducktail is something of a legend in the London rockabilly scene, and makes all his customers wait without appointment, celebrity or not. An exploration of the life and styles of a modern day 50s rocker. RR Special Event (see page 30)

exterminate Istanbul’s dog population having lasted for 400 years, this is a tale of resistance, as neither the dogs themselves nor the local population have accepted that they don’t have the right to exist. Structured around readings by internationally acclaimed Hackney-born novelist, essayist, and critic John Berger, Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film is a dialogue between power and the people, of who owns a city’s identity, and the relationships that make them whole. 13

Luxembourg, UK | 2014 | 120 min World Premiere Rio Tuesday 24 June, 6:00pm

TAKING THE DOG FOR A WALK +Q&A +LIVE EVENT

Director: Antoine Prum An in-depth exploration of the British free improvisation movement, from Derek Bailey to the present, Taking the Dog For a Walk goes to the heart of a

committed, unique music community. Partially shot in and around Hackney, a home for this particular musical form both historically and now, Antoine Prum’s film doubles as a kind of comment on the role of East London in shaping important creative movements, as well as providing the most loving and detailed tour around the highways and byways of free improvisation in Britain, celebrating its major figures, and led by interviewer Stewart Lee.

UK | 2013 | 34 min UK Premiere Red Gallery Tuesday 17 June, 7:00pm

UK | 2014 | 88 min World Premiere Genesis Tuesday 17 June, 6:15pm

THE TUNNEL +Q&A

YOU (US) ME +Q&A

France, USA | 2013 | 127 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Wednesday 25 June, 6:30pm

Switzerland | 2013 | 85 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Thursday 19 June, 6:00pm

BLOOD TIES

CHERRY PIE

Directors: Domenico Favata, Jody Vandenburg This doc recalls a venue once home to Britain’s most subversive comedy acts. Centred around the game-changing figure of Malcolm Hardee, alternative comedy’s unsung ‘godfather’, this is a funny and moving portrait of a place that Harry Enfield sums up by saying; “If you could survive there, you could survive anywhere.” RR Special Event (see page 30)

Director: Max Sobol Boy (a fledgling serial killer), meets girl (at the end of a chain of multiple failed suicide attempts), and surprisingly saves her life. Their meeting seems like a match made in heaven... until they begin to fall in love. Seemingly unable to deal with the most normal of human emotions, yet united by their own unique antipathies towards other people, debut director Sobol depicts an unlikely romance that’s alternately funny, disturbing and moving.

EUROPEAN The respectable face of continental cinema is nowhere to be seen here. The French are launching wild orgies (You & the Night), or they’re eccentric maniacs (Tip Top). The Germans are channeling Polanski via a rickety apartment block, where the corridors are full of anxiety about female sexuality’s control over impressionable young men (Whispers Behind The Wall). Eastern Europe is shown to have two very different sides, with The Gambler reflecting

Sweden | 2014 | 78 min London Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Sunday 15 June, 3:00pm

CONCERNING VIOLENCE

Director: Göran Olsson Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape) returns with another powerful filmic retrospective conjured from the archive. Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s book The Wretched of the Earth, 14

Lithuanian fears that all is not well, whilst the delightful Little Crushes brings an American indie style love triangle to Polish twenty somethings. Visual artist Neil Beloufa creates the apocalypse on the set of an American sop opera (Tonight and the People) and Spain’s Sergio Cabballero (the co-director of Barcelona’s Sonar Festival), gives us heists and psychic dwarves in a strange, alternate reality. It’s a minefield out there.

Olsson’s film takes a look back on Africa’s independence and liberation movements, and the uprisings that led to much of Africa’s decolonisation. Like his previous film, here he uses archive material filmed by Swedish documentary filmmakers and television journalists between 1966 and 1984, and this time scores the added coup of the stirring narration of Lauryn Hill. A powerful, important documentary.

Director: Guillaume Canet This thrilling retro-crime drama from Guillarme Canet (Tell No One) stars Clive Owen as an ex-con emerging from prison into 1974 Brooklyn, only to clash with his cop brother Frank (Billy Crudup). Performances from Cottilard, Kunis and Caan make this a tense tale of family loyalties, betrayal, and the lure of the underworld. RR Closing Night Film

Director: Lorenz Merz Fleeing a troubled relationship, Zoé takes to the north through the everchanging landscape of Switzerland. She eventually boards a ferryboat from which a mysterious woman suddenly disappears launching Zoé’s real adventure in this staggering, beautifully atmospheric debut from one of Switzerland’s most exciting young filmmakers. Featuring an astonishing performance from lead actress Lolita Chammah.

Spain | 2014 | 80 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Friday 20 June, 6:15pm

Estonia | 2013 | 104 min London Premiere Genesis Friday 20 June, 6:00pm

THE DISTANCE (LA DISTANCIA) +Q&A

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Filmmaking legend Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) returns with his first feature film in 23 years. A poetic reflection on

Director: Sergio Caballero La Distancia (The Distance) drops us into an alternate future/universe where people communicate via telepathy, possess telekinetic powers, and a group of Russian dwarves are hired to steal a mysterious device known as ‘The Distance’. A visually spectacular, aurally monstrous vision of Sergio Caballero, co-director of Sonar festival. A comically surreal, utterly cinematic unmissable fantasy.

FREE RANGE (BALLAAD MAAILMA HEAKSKIITMISEST)

THE DANCE OF REALITY (LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD) +Q&A (tbc)

the filmmaker’s own childhood in a town on the edge of the Chilean desert, The Dance of Reality is a trademark mixture of classical biography, strange mythology, and sections of off-kilter poeticism. It ranks as another great Jodorowsky film about an utterly unique figure finding their place in the world, and seeing what lies beneath it; except this time, it’s explicitly about himself. The EEFF hopes to welcome Alejandro Jodorowsky to London for this screening.

Lithuania, Latvia | 2013 | 109 min UK Premiere Genesis Wednesday 18 June, 6:00pm

Ireland | 2014 | 90 min UK Premiere Genesis Saturday 14 June, 7:00pm

Poland | 2014 | 78 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Friday 20 June, 8:30pm

Romania | 2014 | 97 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Thursday 19 June, 9:00pm

LITTLE CRUSHES (MALE STLUCZKI) +Q&A

THE SECOND GAME (AL DOILEA JOC)

Iceland | 2014 | 97 min London Premiere Rich Mix Sunday 15 June, 6:30pm

Blaming herself for the tragedy, she takes on her brother’s love for metal, yearning for escape and a life playing music. Playing guitar at her brother’s grave, and visiting the bus stop leading out of town but never leaving, her life seems to be on hold until a group of fans arrive having somehow gotten hold of one of her tapes, and everything begins to change. A charming, funny tale of cows, snowy mountains and hard rock.

France, Chile | 2013 | 130 min London Premiere Barbican Monday 16 June, 6:00pm

THE GAMBLER (LOSEJAS) +Q&A GOLD Director: Ignas Jonynas Vincentas is an intelligent, quick thinking paramedic: good at his job, popular, compassionate. However, he is also a committed gambler. Forced to make a radical decision in an attempt to repay his debts he makes a choice that will end up putting much more than money at stake in this gripping drama thriller. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.

Director: Niall Heery After 12 years away, Ray is drawn home to reconnect with his daughter in this heartwarming, offbeat comedy. Much to his surprise, his ex-wife has built a new life with his former PE teacher, whose uptight nature contrasts wildly with his own. As Ray clumsily rebuilds his bridges, and this unconventional family adjust to one another, life becomes increasingly hilarious, as well as hopeful.

Directors: Aleksandra Gowin, Ireneusz Grzyb A fresh, youthful take on love-triangles. Kasia and Asia live and work together but the girls’ closeness is shaken with the arrival of newly single Piotr. But as tensions and emotions begin to run high, nobody seems willing to make the next move. A cool, unconventional story about love, self-knowledge and ordinary life.

METALHEAD (MÁLMHAUS)

Director: Ragnar Bragason Born on the floor of her parent’s cowshed in 1970 just as Black Sabbath were giving birth to heavy metal, Hera leads a happy childhood until her older brother is killed in a farming accident.

Director: Veiko Ounpuu Fired for writing an expletive-laden review of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, would-be writer Fred turns to manual labour in a bid to recover his personal integrity. But that’s just the start of his dawning realisation of life’s inherent absurdity, in this caustically funny tale of existential crisis from the director of The Temptation of St. Tony.

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu In a World Cup year, Porumboiu takes us back to December 1988 when his father was acting as referee in a football match between two Bucharest teams. 25 years on, the two re-watch the match together, touching on father-son relations, the transition from dictatorship to democracy, and the ways that the beautiful game can influence our hopes, fears and memories.

Belgium, France, Luxembourg|2013|102min Red Gallery Tuesday 24 June, 7:30pm

France | 2014 | 106 min UK Premiere Barbican Tuesday 17 June, 6:30pm

TIP TOP

Director: Serge Bozon French director and raconteur Serge Bozon (La France) returns with a sly, satirical take on the cop thriller. Two internal affairs investigators (Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain) join

forces with a small provincial police department to investigate the murder of an Algerian informant, only to find themselves being spied upon by another officer, which reveals an increasingly bizarre series of facts about their private lives. Funny, inventive and off the wall, this is an adaptation of the Bill James novel of the same name, and is worth the price of admission for Isabelle Huppert’s wild performance alone.

THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS (L’ ÉTRANGE COULEUR DES LARMES DE TON CORPS)

Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani A man looking for his missing wife becomes lost in the labyrinthine halls of his apartment building, in this dazzling,

blood-soaked thriller. Following cryptic messages left by his mysterious neighbours, he becomes enmeshed in a nightmare of dark fantasies and violent fetishes. This unique cinematic experience will be heightened by a phenomenal rescore curated by Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons/ Blanck Mass) composed by Blanck Mass, Helm, Konx-Om-Pax, Roll The Dice, MoonGangs and C Spencer Yeh. RR Special Event (see page 31)

France, USA | 2013 | 81 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Tuesday 17 June, 9:00pm

Germany | 2013 | 90 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Tuesday 24 June, 6:30pm

TONIGHT AND THE PEOPLE

WHISPERS BEHIND THE WALL (DIE FRAU HINTER DER WAND) +Q&A

Director: Neil Beloufa This ‘artistic sitcom’ from French film artist Neil Beloufa is a beautiful, extraordinarily weird take on American soap operas, westerns and the apocalypse. Cowboys, activists, hippies and self-obsessed twenty somethings hang out on a fake Hollywood backlot. Characters from imaginary movies mix with actors killing time off camera to come together celebrating 21st century America, and contemplating what’s next as the apocalypse looms.

Director: Grzegorz Muskala Ignoring the previous tenant’s inexplicable disappearance, Martin falls for his landlady, a potentially deadly femme fatale. An atmospheric, Polanskiesque debut, this is a frightening, blackly funny take on the horrors of first love, and parents’ worst fears about what their children might be getting up to after leaving home.

WORLD

France | 2013 | 98 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 21 June, 8:45pm

YOU AND THE NIGHT (LES RENCOUNTRES D’APRÈS MINUIT) +Q&A

Director: Yann Gonzalez This provocative, gloriously neondrenched debut opens on a young couple and their transvestite maid as they prepare for a midnight orgy. With 16

guests The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen they embark on a series of fantasies including bikers, graveyards, and a sex-crazed Russian prison guard. Featuring a career redefining performance from Eric Cantona, and a thrumming score from French electropop kingpins M83, this is a thrillingly confident film by a stylish new director.

Traverse Argentine punk-puccini Skater musicals (Pendejos) and hard knock lives on Native American reservations (Rhymes for Young Ghouls), the plains of Texas (We Gotta Get Out of This Place), and the Canadian wilderness (Whitewash). Cutting edge documentaries speak of shocking violence in Korea (the incredible Non-Fiction Diary) and internet martyr Aaron Schwartz (The Internet’s Own Boy). A day of Palestine on Film (featuring Mars at Sunrise, the source of this year’s programme cover image); barmy Indian island fantasies (Tasher Desh); exclusion in America (Blue Caprice); the sounds of shoegaze (Beautiful Noise), modular synthesisers (I Dream of Wires) and juke joints (Grits n’ Gravy); a brilliant live soundtrack (Belladonna of Sadness); and a shocking drama about the albino organ trade (White Shadow). This is a whirlwind selection of mind-altering cinema.

The festival is also delighted to present a special focus on Mexico in 2014. Co-curated by our Director in Residence Sebastian Hofmann (EEFF 2013 Best Feature Award Winner, Halley), and supported by both the Mexican Embassy and London MexFest, this line up includes festival hits Club Sandwich and The Golden Dream; tales of human tragedy in Petosi and British director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal’s Who is Dayani Cristal; bustling Mexico City films Calle Lopez and Malaventura; crowd pleasing teen punker We Are Mari Pepa; and the World Premiere of Halley DOP Matías Penachino’s debut feature Sommum Bonum, all centred on a panel discussion on the country’s thriving film culture, featuring our guest directors. Viva Mexico.

Mexico | 2013 | 80 min UK Premiere Genesis Tuesday 17 June, 7:00pm

Mexico | 2013 | 82 min London Premiere Rich Mix Monday 23 June, 6:00pm

CALLE LOPEZ

CLUB SANDWICH

Directors: Gerardo Barroso, Lisa Tillinger López Street, at the historic heart of Mexico City, is a bustling hive of activity, a slice of true working class Mexico. Filmmakers Gerardo Barroso and Lisa Tillinger capture an entire day in the life of the street, observing the local workers who, going about their days, spontaneously create a kind of living theatre.

Guatemala, Spain, Mexico | 2013 | 102 min Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 21 June, 5:00pm

journey from the slums of Guatemala to (they hope) the US, via cargo trains and railroad tracks. Meeting a Native American with no fluency in Spanish, their dreams of a better life are soon threatened by a group of people traffickers in this moving, elemental debut that wowed audiences at Cannes last year.

Director: Fernando Eimbcke Celebrated Mexican new wave director Eimbcke returns with another awkward comedy of manners. 15 year-old Héctor discovers love and sex whilst on holiday with his mother, when 16-year-old Jazmin arrives, and the two teenagers gravitate toward one another. A lovely, believable drama of shifting sands, and coming of age.

THE GOLDEN DREAM (LA JAULA DE ORO) +Q&A

Mexico | 2012 | 67min + 45 min UK Premiere Barbican Sunday 22 June, 4:00pm

Mexico | 2013 | 120 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 14 June, 8:30pm

Mexico, USA | 2013 | 97 min World Premiere Rich Mix Friday 20 June, 8:30pm

Mexico | 2013 | 100 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Wednesday 18 June, 9:00pm

MALAVENTURA +MEXICAN CINEMA PANEL

POTOSÍ

SUMMUM BONUM +Q&A

WE ARE MARI PEPA (SOMOS MARI PEPA)

UK, Mexico | 2013 | 85 min Rich Mix Tuesday 24 June, 9:00pm

another statistic in the frightening records of those who attempt unsuccessfully to make their way to America from Mexico, are the words ‘Dayani Cristal’ tattooed on his skin. Following this mystery, Mexican star Gael Garcia Bernal and British director Mac Silver take a trip to the heart of the immigrant communities trying to make their way to the promised land, discovering the human dignity and hopefulness lost in debates on immigration.

Director: Michel Lipkes Our special panel discussion on the current state of Mexican cinema; will feature directors Sebastian Hofmann (Halley), Diego Quemada-Diez (The Golden Dream) and Fernando Eimbcke (Club Sandwich). Malaventura follows an old man’s journey through the streets of Mexico City. A powerful drama centred on a man wrestling with his guilt, this is a timely portrait of modern Mexico.

WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? +Q&A

Director: Marc Silver Beneath a Cicada Tree in the Sonora Desert, the police discover a decomposing male body, identity unknown. The only distinguishing characteristic of this mystery man, yet

Director: Alfredo Castruita Castruita’s multi-layered debut centres on an accident on a deserted road in the hinterland of Mexico. Potosí, the name of towns in both Mexico and Bolivia, is cleverly drawn as being no place in particular. A lynching, a murder and a kidnapping all play a part in this sweeping, tragic tale of blood soaked crossfire, and the lives it leaves behind.

Director: Diego Quemada-Díez Examining the poisoned chalice of the American Dream by way of the leftist humanism of Ken Loach, The Golden Dream follows three teenagers

Director: Matías Penachino Two estranged brothers take a road trip together to their family home, both needing to reconnect with the past for very different reasons. What follows is a journey across stunning American landscape, as people who have left behind straight laced beginnings for exciting, ‘creative’ lives begin to reassess what’s important. A maudlin, beautifully shot, existential travelogue of twenty something apathy.

Director: Samuel Kishi Alex, a Guadalajara teen, dreams of finding a girlfriend, and winning the upcoming “battle of the bands” with his band Mari Pepa. The only problem? You need two songs, and they only have one. The band’s attempt to come up with a second track becomes a vehicle for their collective angst, and their lives begin to shift over one summer.

South Africa | 2013 | 75 min European Premiere Rich Mix Tuesday 17 June, 6:30pm

Tunisia, France, Qatar | 2013 | 106 min London Premiere Rich Mix Sunday 22 June, 3:20pm

USA | 2014 | 87 min London Premiere Aubin Sunday 15 June, 3:00pm

Japan | 1973 | 93 min Red Gallery Monday 23 June, 7:30pm

ANGELS IN EXILE

BASTARDO

BEAUTIFUL NOISE

BELLADONNA OF SADNESS (KANASHIMI NO BELLADONNA) +LIVE SCORE

Director: Billy Raftery A challenge to dominant narratives about homeless kids, Angels… sees director Raferty embed himself in the young homeless community of Durban, South Africa. Caught in a cycle of violence, rape and murder, he follows Zulieka and Ariel over 8 years, chronicling their entire adolescence, aided by insightful, moving narration from Charlize Theron, reminding us that these are indeed still children.

Director: Néjib Belkadhi A magical realist fable of power and corruption, Bastardo sees social outcast Mohsen experience a reversal of fortune when a phone company installs a relay tower on his roof. As mobile phone fever grips the village, he becomes a local kingpin, driving away his friends, and antagonising a local mobster. An absurdist drama of how power corrupts, and spectacular downfall.

Director: Eric Green A passionate dive into an important indie scene, Eric Green’s film explores the innovative 80s minds who melded guitar-based noise with unforgettable pop structure: My Bloody Valentine, The Cure and the Cocteau Twins. Getting some notoriously camera shy names to speak about their work, influences and legacy, this is an insight into some legendary rule breakers and sonic innovators.

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto A cult classic with dazzling psychedelic visuals, this is the fable-like tale of a peasant woman who makes a pact with the devil. EEFF are delighted to present a world premiere live rescore for the film by lauded London psych pop outfit Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs. RR Special Event (see page 31)

USA | 2013 | 93 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Sunday 15 June, 5:30pm

USA | 2014 | 115 min East Village Sunday 15 June, 3:30pm

USA | 1974 | 83 min Red Gallery Saturday 14 June, 9:00pm

Argentina | 2013 | 98 min Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 14 June, 11:00pm

BLUE CAPRICE

CHEF +FREE OUTDOOR EVENT

COCKFIGHTER

THE DESERT (EL DESIERTO)

Director: Alexandre Moors Few films manage to seriously explore the African American experience as powerfully as Moors’ psychological drama inspired by the ‘Beltway Sniper’ shootings of 2002. Moors strips away the sensationalist aspects of the story to focus on the relationship between a disenfranchised teenager and a haunted, disturbed man who becomes a surrogate father figure, before leading him down a dark path of violence.

USA | 2013 | 91 min European Premiere Rio Friday 20 June, 11:30pm

GETTING GO, THE GO DOC PROJECT

Director: Cory James Krueckeberg A tale of cyber-obsession, lust and New York night life, Getting Go sees a college grad begin shooting a documentary about the NYC gay scene, mostly in 18

Director: Jon Favreau Fired from his restaurant job in LA, Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) returns to Miami with his tail between his legs. Renovating a food truck, he intends to drive to LA and resurrect his gastronomic career. But the experience with his new colleagues, and a reconnection with his son lead him to reassess his priorities. A film from the heart, and the stomach. RR Special Event / East Village

order to get closer to Go, a go-go dancer on whom he has an enormous crush. Ending up in the relationship that he both dreamed of and feared most, he finds the object of his affections much more complex than he imagined, and the lure of the city at night to be an intimidating place. Cory James Krueckeberg’s film is a fresh relationship drama for the digital age.

Director: Monte Hellman Adapted from cult noir writer Charles Willeford and starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton and Laurie Bird, Cockfighter is an iconic cinematic tale of redemption, game-fighting pits, bloodsport and the beauty of the Deep South. A rarely seen cult classic. Screening as part of the Grits & Gravy Programme, see page 29

Director: Christoph Behl Axel, Ana and Jonathan are trapped in a boarded-up house, surrounded by the ravages of the apocalypse. An atmospheric, minimalist take on the zombie film, Behl’s debut feature bravely focuses on the relationships and simmering tensions that exist between its three principal characters; a complex love triangle that’s challenged when Axel and Jonathan capture a zombie one afternoon.

ADOPTED FILM

USA | 2013 | 70 min London Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 14 June, 9:00pm

GOODBYE GAULEY MOUNTAIN: AN ECOSEXUAL LOVE STORY +Q&A Directors: Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle Protest and new age sexuality come together in this rollicking documentary following ‘ecosexuals’

Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle. Arriving in Appalachian West Virginia to protest against the harmful practice of MTR (mountain top removal), they preach their doctrine of “Earth as lover”, quite literally embracing the natural world. Looking to rally people to their cause by bringing sexiness and spirit to the environmental movement, this is a sensual take on sticking it to the man.

USA | 2013 | 88 min UK Premiere Red Gallery Saturday 14 June, 5:30pm

Director: Robert Fantinatto Presented with Liquid Amber, witness the resurgence of the modular synthesiser: an idiosyncratic machine that endures as a unique, iconic instrument, captured in a riveting new film. One for tech heads and beat makers alike, this screening will be accompanied by a live set from some top-secret synth performers. Produced by Liquid Amber in collaboration with the East End Film Festival. RR Special Event (see page 31)

Director: Mitchell Altieri A gripping thriller that follows a teenager looking for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, the alcoholic ex-serviceman she recruits to help her, and the snake-handling religious cult they encounter on the way. A cool dive into Southern Gothic and religious fundamentalism. Screening as part of the Grits & Gravy Programme, see page 29

Canada, UK, USA | 2013 | 102 min UK Premiere Red Gallery, Saturday 21 June, 7:30pm

I DREAM OF WIRES +LIVE MODULAR PERFORMANCE

HOLY GHOST PEOPLE

Palestine, France, Italy | 2012 | 58 min European Premiere Red Gallery Sunday 22 June, 3:30pm USA | 2014 | 105 min London Premiere Genesis Wednesday 18 June, 9:00pm

THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ

Director: Brian Knappenberger The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the

basic internet protocol RSS to his cofounding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz’s groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron’s story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity.

JUST PLAY

USA | 2014 | 83 min European Premiere Red Gallery Saturday 14 June, 1:20pm

Southern raconteurs are as practiced in spinning great yarns as they are in hard living. By combining the narration of the actual participants with feature-length re-enactment, filmmakers Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater marry broad subject – the greatest bar story ever told – with experimental form in this debut, full-length docu-comedy.

LIMO RIDE +Q&A

Dirs: Gideon C. Kennedy, Marcus Rosentrate Ten friends hire a limo to take them to the beach for New Years, only to find themselves kidnapped, stripped, stranded and left for dead. A true tale told by those who lived it, these ten

Director: Dimitri Chimenti Men and women working with a Palestinian Cultural Association in the West Bank turn music into a means of freedom and liberation. A powerful case for human dignity, and Beethoven, Mozart and Bach in instilling hope.

Screening as part of the Palestine On Film Programme, see page 29

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Palestine, Canada, USA | 2014 | 75 min UK Premiere Red Gallery Sunday 22 June, 4:30pm

MARS AT SUNRISE

Jordan, Germany, Qatar, Palestine | 2013 | 80 min UK Premiere Red Gallery Sunday 22 June, 9:00pm

Director: Tom Berninger 2010 was a big year for The National. About to embark on their biggest ever

tour after years of struggling to gain their current status as one of America’s most lauded guitar bands, Matt Berninger invited his younger brother Tom, to join the crew for the tour. Tom – a heavy metal fan and amateur horror filmmaker – brought his camera with him, and begins to make waves in a world he doesn’t understand. The result is one of the best music documentaries of recent years, as well as a funny, moving and insightful portrait of love and rivalry between siblings.

South Korea | 2013 | 90 min London Premiere Barbican Sunday 15 June, 4:00pm

Russia, USA | 2014 | 90 min European Premiere Rich Mix Tuesday 24 June, 7:00pm

Argentina | 2013 | 157 min UK Premiere Rio Sunday 15 June, 2:30pm

NON-FICTION DIARY (NON-PIK-SYEON DA-I-EO-LI) +Q&A

THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT

P3ND3JO5 +Q&A

Director: Jessica Habie A reimagining of the story of Palestinian artist Hani Zurob, starring Ali Suliman (Body of Lies) as a man arrested by Israeli authorities and forced to ‘name names’. A story about creative jealously and power, its powerful imagery provides the cover image for this year’s festival. Screening as part of the Palestine On Film Programme, see page 29

Director: Yoon-suk Jung When a group of serial killers were apprehended in South Korea in 1994, it was revealed they had forced one of their hostages to participate in their crimes. Connecting the case with disparate events to explore schisms within Korean society in the aftermath of military rule and industrialisation, this is an extraordinary documentary.

USA | 2014 | 80 min Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 14 June, 6:30pm Genesis Monday 23 June, 8:45pm

MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS +Q&A WITH TOM BERNINGER & MATT BERNINGER

Directors: Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin Now prison-bound, Viktor Bout used to be a globe-hopping arms dealer, labeled ‘The Merchant of Death”. In his view, he was merely a family man travelling the world for business, carrying a videocamera with him wherever he went… and so this documentary explores the way evil men can convince themselves of their own banality. Oscar-nominated Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot) has unsurprisingly turned his story into great cinema.

Director: Mais Darwazah Inspired by artist and writer Hasan Hourani, Mais Darwazah visits her homeland of Palestine, taking a journey to the sea at Jaffa, and connecting ideas of homeland, history and love. Screening as part of the Palestine On Film Programme, see page 29

USA | 2013 | 100 min London Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Friday 20 June, 8:45pm Aubin, Sunday 22 June, 8:45pm

Director: Raúl Perrone Veteran Argentine filmmaker Parrone makes improvised films with nonprofessional actors; with P3nd3jo5 (slang for dumbass) he returns with a film that’s destined to become a cult classic. A black and white, silent film based in Buenos Aires, it features a soundtrack of Puccini, punk and modern electronics. A stylish and gritty take on the city’s skater scene covering tales of love, violence and organised crime.

PALO ALTO

Canada | 2013 | 88 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Friday 20 June, 6:15pm

death of her mother and brother, and preparing to welcome her father home from prison. Things begin to become dangerous when her father returns from prison, thanks to escalating harassment from a local law enforcement agent – that she has been paying with funds made from selling marijuana to keep her out of a reformatory. Mixing film noir, teen caper, supernatural fable, and a refreshingly tough female protagonist, this is a stylish, hard sitting debut.

RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS

Director: Jeff Barnaby A rare film for being set on a Native American reserve, Rhymes for Young Ghouls takes us back to 1976, and follows a 15 year old girl coping with the violent 20

MY LOVE AWAITS ME BY THE SEA

Director: Gia Coppola Based on James Franco’s book, Gia Coppola’s directorial debut portrays high school kids growing up in California. April has a complex relationship with her soccer coach (Franco), Teddy casts glances at her from afar, and Fred’s outlandish behaviour threatens terrible consequences. A brilliantly drawn vision of confused youth, destined to become one of America’s iconic high school films.

France | 2014 | 78 min Premiere Status Red Gallery Sunday 22 June, 6:30pm

THE SHEBABS OF YARMOUK

Director: Axel Salvatori-Sinz Five Palestinian youths living in the Yamouk refugee camp in Syria hang out in shantytown conditions. Filmed over three years, “when fate’s your foe, decide to laugh rather than cry!” is the order of the day. A portrait of friendship, and lives permanently on hold. Screening as part of the Palestine On Film Programme, see page 29

USA | 2013 | 92 min UK Premiere Red Gallery Saturday 14 June, 3:00pm

India, Sri Lanka | 2012 | 112 min Genesis Time and date TBC

Australia | 2014 | 100 min London Premiere Rich Mix Sunday 15 June, 6:00pm

STOP AT NOTHING: THE LANCE ARMSTRONG STORY +Q&A

Director: Alex Holmes BAFTA award winning director Alex Holmes (Dunkirk, The House of Saddam) turns his attention to the Lance Armstrong scandal in Stop at Nothing,

USA | 2013 | 92 min London Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 21 June, 6:30pm

THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE Directors: Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon A step into the real of Southern Gothic and religious fundamentalism, Holy Ghost People is a gripping thriller that follows a teenager looking for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, and the alcoholic ex-serviceman she recruits to help her. Running into a snake-handling religious cult, the search to discover her sister’s fate may just seal her own. Screening as part of the Grits & Gravy Programme, see page 29

Director: Simon Hawkins, Zeke Hawkins Three teenagers enjoy a night on the tiles, until they realise their stash is stolen property. Forced to pull a heist their nerdy ways never prepared them for, this taut thriller marks a terrific debut, boasting a phenomenal sense of place, and charismatic performances from Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman and especially Mark Pellegrino as nihilistic arch-villain Giff.

USA | 2014 | 90 min European Premiere Red Gallery Saturday 14 June, 7:20pm

THE WINDING STREAM

Screening as part of the Grits & Gravy Programme, see page 29

a forensically detailed and riveting exposition of one of the biggest cons in sporting history and its aftermath. From sporting promise to spectacular downfall through life-threatening tragedy and inspiring victory, Holmes’ film may prove to be the definitive cinematic account of the how and the why of an unbelievable story leaving no stone unturned in its search for the truth. A compelling, unrivalled work of film journalism, told from the perspective of those that turned against him to bring him down.

TASHER DESH

Tanzania, Germany, Italy | 2013 | 117 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Wednesday 18 June, 6:00pm

Canada | 2013 | 90 min UK Premiere Genesis Saturday 21 June, 8:45pm

WHITE SHADOW (BALTAS SESELIS)

Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais Snowplough driver Bruce (Hayden Church, Sideways) wakes up at the wheel in the woods of Northern Quebec to find that he’s just run over a man. Burying his victim in the snow, he flees into the woods, but is constantly lead back to the crime scene, forced to examine his guilt amidst the unforgiving wilderness. A psychological survivalist thriller, anchored by a great central performance.

Director: Noaz Deshe City living and even love can’t protect young albino Alias. In Tanzania, witch doctors believe albino body parts can cure illness. This phenomenal debut feature (exec produced by Ryan Gosling) is an involving, terrifying exploration of folk religion, interspersing handheld realism with moments of dreamlike escape, and evoking a world that is all too real.

Director: Q (Kaushik Mukherjee) A world-weary prince is shipwrecked in a strange emotionless world under authoritarian regime and leads a revolution in this utterly bonkers new film from the filmmaker, artist and rapper known as Q. Adapted from a play by Rabindranath Tagore, and combining psychedelia, gritty video and classic Indian tropes, this is a fantastically original fable, with a wonderful soundtrack from the likes of Asian Dub Foundation.

WHITEWASH

Director: Beth Harrington The story of a roots music dynasty, from the original Carter family to the Carter Sisters, and from marital alliance with Johnny Cash to current efforts to keep their legacy alive. The first documentary to tell the full story of an incredible family, and a tribute to a musical legacy with its source at the headwaters of American roots music.

SHORTS This year’s shorts programmes have been designed to provoke thoughts and feelings of alienation, obsession, deviation, reaction, confrontation, perception and devotion. Purposefully emotive they each suggest and depict the extreme ends to which human nature can go, or think. Curated from an open submissions process the programmes are a response to a remarkable attitude shared amongst the films submitted this year – exploring the extremities of love and life from the gentle and

tender, to the humorous, silly and ridiculous, all the way out to the chilling and barbaric. Demonstrating filmmaking from around the corner there are two programmes celebrating the Best of British, as well as a selection of international films woven throughout the themed programmes. Representing live action, animation, documentary, and experimental and with Audience and Jury Awards for Best Short Film up for grabs, each programme is packed with films intent on getting a reaction whether it be affectionate or alarmed.

ALIENATION

al-ien-a-tion [eyl-yuh-ney-shuh n, ey-lee-uh-] noun Genesis Saturday 21 June, 4:15pm 1. the act of alienating; 2. the state of being alienated; 3. the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection;

CONFRONTATION

con-fron-ta-tion [kon-fruh n-tey-shuh n, – fruhn-] noun Stratford Picturehouse Tuesday 17 June, 8:30pm 1. an act of confronting; 2. a meeting of persons face to face; 3. an open conflict of opposing ideas, forces, etc;

DEVIATION

de-vi-a-tion [dee-vee-ey-shuh n] noun Rich Mix Sunday 22 June, 2:00pm 1. the act of deviating; 2. departure from a standard or norm; 3. the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances;

DEVOTION

de-vo-tion [dih-voh-shuh n] noun Genesis Saturday 21 June, 2:30pm 1. profound dedication; consecration; 2. earnest attachment to a cause, person, etc; 3. an assignment or appropriation to any purpose, cause, etc.;

PERCEPTION per-cep-tion [per-sep-shuh n] noun

Genesis Monday 23 June, 7:00pm 1. the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding; 2. immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment; 3. the result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept;

OBSESSION

REACTION

ob-ses-sion [uh b-sesh-uh n] noun Stratford Picturehouse Sunday 14 June, 3:30pm 1. the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.; 2. the idea, image, desire, feeling, etc., itself; 3. the state of being obsessed;

re-ac-tion [ree-ak-shuhn] noun Stratford Picturehouse Sunday 22 June, 6:00pm 1. Something done, felt, or thought in response to a situation or event; 2. A chemical process in which substances act mutually on each other and are changed into different substances, or one substance changes into other substances; Potasio Spain | Pedro Moreno Del Oso | 11 min Sausage UK | Robert Grieves | 7 min

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BRITAIN ON FILM #1 Rio Saturday 14 June, 1.30pm

Britain on Film #1 is the first of two East End Film Festival shorts programmes. Celebrating an extraordinary year for short films that portray life all over the UK, this programme is comprised of five moving, heartfelt dramas. With touching tales of seaside retirement homes and faded stardom; a story of a boy coming to terms with his mother’s death in Northumberland shot by Christopher Doyle; a tragic drama set around the 2011 London riots; love in rural communities; and a young boy who dreams of being a cowboy around his countryside home; these five films are examples of exciting new filmmakers telling uniquely British stories. Each film will be followed by a short Q&A.

LOOKING FOR VI

UK | David Maybrick | 29 min

THE BOY AND THE BUS UK | Simon Pitts | 23 min

VIGILANTE

UK | Benedict Sanderson | 22 min

FIRE HORSE

UK | Matt Bell | 17 min

THE CASTLE

UK | Ryan Vernava | 13 min

Total running time: 103 min

BRITAIN ON FILM #2 Rio Sunday 22 June, 12.30pm

Join the EEFF for the second Britain on Film programme, which celebrates an extraordinary year for short films portraying life in various areas of the UK. Comprised of five dramas and a documentary, here we encounter lonely river dredgers; a tragic, fading Yorkshire woman clinging to her past; a hilarious take on the tolls of the financial crisis on would be city boys; a kid in the Welsh valleys dreaming of being an astronaut; and a portrait of Harvey Gould, a man who has lived in Soho since 1938 and is a living testament to London’s twentieth century history. These films are examples of great filmmakers telling uniquely British stories. Each film will be followed by a short Q&A.

THE RIVER

UK | John Michell | 16 min

TREASURE

UK | Joe Cottrell-Boyce | 15 min

LILLY

UK | Brett Chapman | 27 min

TEMPORARY ACCOMODATION UK | Mark Jackson | 23 min

GLYN

UK | Yann Gorriz | 12 min

HARVEY’S SOHO

UK | Hazuan Hashim | 20 min & Phil Maxwell Total running time: 112 min

SCREENINGS

MAGIC & THE MACABRE AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE The Temple at Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel

Witches, ghosts and devilish mermaids invade the Andaz Hotel Liverpool Street’s Masonic Temple for this special weekend of EEFF screenings. Co-curated by Strange Attractor Press, join us for a line up of screenings and talks, taking you from Wicca to haunted Mexican convents, and from British classics to a special evening with Dave McKean.

Located on the fringes of vibrant East London, the five star boutique Andaz Liverpool Street hotel is proud once again to be the official Hotel Partner of the East End Film Festival, 2014. As a core value of Hyatt’s lifestyle Andaz brand, Andaz Liverpool Street reflects the personality of its locale and through partnership with the Festival joins in the celebration of London’s East End cultural scene.

SATURDAY 14 JUNE

SUNDAY 15 JUNE

DAYTIME

12.00PM: WITCHUMENTARY DOUBLE BILL

12.00PM: BRITISH 60s DOUBLE

with Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor) and William Fowler & Vic Pratt (BFI Flipside)

EYE OF THE DEVIL

Tickets: £13 www.seetickets.com/go/magicmacabreday14th

LEGEND OF THE WITCHES

Director: Malcolm Leigh | UK | 1970 | 72 min Featuring Alex & Maxine Sanders, the spirit of the late 1960s magical revival is captured in this exploration of the currents of English witchcraft.

+ SECRET RITES

Director: Derek Ford | UK | 1971 | 47 min in association with BFI Flipside A rarely seen mondo-esque documentary sees a young West London hairdresser join a Notting Hill coven in a spectacular nightclub rite.

3.00PM: ALUCARDA

Director: Juan Lopez Moctezuna | Mexico | 1978 | 74 min Alucarda has been brought up in a convent to shield her from her father’s evil influence, but the devil in her cannot be suppressed.

Tickets: £13 www.seetickets.com/go/magicmacabreday15th

Director: J. Lee Thompson | UK | 1966 | 92 min A vineyard owner (David Niven) returns to his castle, where he and his wife (Deborah Kerr) are confronted by a witch, calling for a blood sacrifice.

+ 2.00PM: NIGHT OF THE EAGLE

Director: Sidney Hayers | UK | 1962 | 87 min in association with BFI Flipside A psychology professor discovers that his wife has been practicing witchcraft and presses her to stop. Then things begin to go horribly, supernaturally wrong.

4.00PM: AUDREY ROSE

Director: Robert Wise | USA | 1977 | 113 min 16mm Screening A young Anthony Hopkins is unnervingly obsessed with the idea that Ivy Templeton is the reincarnation of his daughter.

+ THE MOON BIRD

Director: Brothers McLeod | UK | 2010 | 15 min An orphan girl is kidnapped by a witch in this dark animated fairy tale.

EVENING

Tickets: £13 www.seetickets.com/go/magicmacabreevening15th

EVENING

Tickets: £13 www.seetickets.com/go/magicmacabreevening14th

6.00PM: POSSESSION DOUBLE BILL INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER

Director: Kenneth Anger | USA | 1969 | 12 min Part of Anger’s Magick Lantern series with a soundtrack by a Moog-wielding Mick Jagger.

+ NIGHT TIDE

Director: Curtis Harrington | USA | 1961 | 86 min + post-screening discussion with Will Fowler (BFI Flipside) & Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor) Seaman Johnny Drake (Dennis Hopper) falls for Mora (Linda Lawson), who believes she’s descended from the sirens.

8.30PM: THE LAST WINTER

Director: Larry Fessenden | USA/Iceland | 2006 | 107 min Oil company employees, led by Ron Perlman, are building an ice road in the remote Arctic. When a member of their team is found dead, fears arise that nature may be striking back.

7.00PM: AN EVENING WITH DAVE MCKEAN

Illustrator and designer Dave McKean has created books and graphic novels of The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) and The Homecomeing (Ray Bradbury), worked with Richard Dawkins and Stephen King, designed characters for Harry Potter, and exhibited across the world. Join us for an evening with a truly unique artist, where Dave will discuss his work, and offer an exclusive first look at footage from his upcoming feature Luna. His other work can be seen on www.keanoshow.com.

MIRRORMASK

USA, UK | 2005 | 104 min + Shorts + Dave McKean in conversation with SF Said A collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Mirrormask is a dizzying journey into a complex fantasy world. 15-year-old circus worker Helena finds herself in a landscape filled with giants, monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. The mysterious Mirrormask is her only hope of escape.

+ THE WEEK BEFORE

UK | 1998 | 23 min A card game between God and the Devil, inspired by jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

+ [N]EON

UK | 2002 | 28 min Bruised from a failed marriage, a man wanders around Venice finding old books, memories, and a momentary ghost.

STEP INTO THE FUTURE OF FILM, AS THE EAST END FILM FESTIVAL EXPLORES THE CONVERGENCE OF FILM, DIGITAL AND STORYTELLING AT EMERGE – A DAY OF TALKS, DISCUSSIONS AND NETWORKING FEATURING RADICAL THINKERS, DIGITAL PIONEERS AND INNOVATORS IN FILM AND VIDEO. WE TAKE A GLIMPSE FORWARD TO THE YEAR 2024 AS WE PREDICT, SPECULATE AND DEBATE HOW THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF FILMMAKING AND AUDIENCE EXPERIENCES WILL EVOLVE OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS.

THE DAY IS DIVIDED ACROSS 3 AREAS: + EXPERIMENTS IN MOVING IMAGE + THE FUTURE OF THE FILM INDUSTRY + INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING We will also explore the impact our fast changing digital society will have on the world of film, with exclusive filmed contributions from sociologists, filmmakers and experts in the world of convergent technology.

SPEAKERS ON THE DAY INCLUDE: + SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST & CROSSOVER + SARAH TURNER : Artist, Writer and Filmmaker (Perestroika) + ANNA HIGGS: Head of Digital, Film4 + MARTIN PERCY: Interactive Director (Lifesaver) + ED COOKSON: Audiovisual Producer (The Sancho Plan) + EVAN BOEHM: Director and Coder (The Carp and The Seagull) + STEPHEN FOLLOWS: Producer, Catsnake Film + SARAH TIERNEY: Founder, We Are Colony + FERNANDO R GUTIERREZ DE JESUS: CreateYour Own Documentary

And MANY MORE NAMES to be added......

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WELCOME TO RED GALLERY ...the East End Film Festival’s very own adopted bar, evening hangout and multimedia, cross platform screening space. This is the place to find filmmakers, the festival team, and EEFF audiences passionately discussing the day’s films long into the evening. Join us upstairs for drinks, chatter and DJs every night of the festival. Meanwhile, downstairs, the EEFF hosts some of its most exciting music and cross-platform screening events, from world premieres to live scores, and from retro musical styles to the noise drenched sonic cinema of the future…

WORLD PREMIERE: A CURIOUS LIFE

WITH THE LEVELLERS (ACOUSTIC)

BELLADONNA OF SADNESS WITH WORLD PREMIERE LIVE SCORE BY CHARLIE BOYER & THE VOYEURS

UK PREMIERE: I DREAM OF WIRES WITH LIVE PERFORMANCE & MODULAR SYNTH WORKSHOP

PALESTINE ON FILM

THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS

WITH WORLD PREMIERE NEW SOUNDTRACK CURATED BY BENJAMIN JOHN POWER (FUCK BUTTONS/BLANCK MASS)

WORLD PREMIERE: STAY GREASY

WITH LIVE ROCKABILLY MUSIC NIGHT

ONE ROGUE STAND-UP

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Saturday 14 June, 1:00pm Cost for entire day: £10 Join us at any point during the screenings

1.00PM DOORS OPEN

A CINEMATIC CELEBRATION OF THE DEEP SOUTH

Dir. Gideon C. Kennedy | USA | 83 min

1.20PM LIMO RIDE

2.45PM THE CHAIR

Dir. Grainger David | USA | 12 min Join us on the opening day of the EEFF’s residency at Red for a day-long celebration of Louisianan liquored film and song! Grab some gumbo, grits and a Bloody Mary, and kick back with some Southern-fried cinema, a collection of award-winning films, which take you from lauded Southern musicians to tales of cross-burning and violence on the Bayou, culminating in an rarely seen screening of cult underground movie Cockfighter.

3.00PM THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC!

Dirs. Maureen Gosling & Chris Simon | USA | 92 min

5.20PM GOLDEN CHILD

Dir. Brantly Jackson Watts | USA | 9 min

5.30PM HOLY GHOST PEOPLE

Dir. Mitchell Altieri | USA | 88 min

7.00PM JIMBO MATHUS: FINDING YOUR ROOTS

Dir. Geoffrey Brent Shrewsbury | USA | 14 min

7.20PM THE WINDING STREAM

Dir. Beth Harrington | USA | 90 min Grits ’n’ Gravy is organised by film festival veteran Brian Gordon and theatre director Julie Alexander. Gordon grew up in Cincinnati across the Ohio River from the South’s northernmost border and served as the Artistic Director at the Nashville Film Festival. Alabama born, California raised Alexander is a documentary filmmaker who also headed a theater company in Nashville.

9.00PM COCKFIGHTER

Dir. Monte Hellman | USA | 83 min See film listings for further details on individual titles.

Sunday 15 June, 6:30pm £10

Tuesday 17 June, 7:00pm £10

Friday 20 June, 7:00pm £10

WORLD PREMIERE: A CURIOUS LIFE + THE LEVELLERS (ACOUSTIC)

ONE ROGUE STAND-UP +GUESTS – WITH RICH PEPPIATT

WORLD PREMIERE: STAY GREASY +Q&A +LIVE ROCKABILLY MUSIC NIGHT

Director: Dunstan Bruce UK | 2014 | 78 min

This is a unique opportunity to get an unrivalled insight into one of the great music success stories of the nineties. A Curious Life (see page 10) tells the story of The Levellers, and the band’s freewheeling bass player Jeremy Cunningham, from huge commercial success to years in the wilderness, and the band’s enduring spirit. Presented by Dunstan Bruce and Jeremy Cunningham, this special screening will be followed by a live acoustic performance by the band themselves.

To celebrate the screening of his one-man journalist sting operation movie One Rogue Reporter (playing at the festival on 21 June, see page 13), former tabloid journalist turned comedian Rich Peppiatt drives a juggernaut of iconoclastic comedians into town to lay bare the truth about freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the hypocrisy of the British establishment.

+THE TUNNEL +Q&A (see page 14) Domenico Favata and Jody VandenBurg’s loving and eye-opening history of the UK’s most dangerous, forward thinking comedy club

Directors: Jonathan Lowe, Melanie Malherbe UK | 2014 | 85 min This world premiere screening is a freewheeling urban tale of straight razors and hair grease, following the life and times of Mr Ducktail, the famous ‘Demon Barber of Carnaby Street’, and his place in the UK rockabilly scene (see page 13). Get to the heart of a life defined by great hair, great music, tattoos and the true 50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll spirit. Curl up and Dye! +Followed by live performances from a selection of London’s best rockabilly bands

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PALESTINE ON FILM

Sunday 22 June, 1:00pm Cost for entire day: £10 Join us at any point during the screenings The East End Film Festival is excited to welcome Emad Burnat, the Oscar nominated Palestinian director of Five Broken Cameras, to East London as part of an entire day exploring Palestine and the Palestinian experience on film. From touching stories of Palestinian youth to the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, and from an in depth exploration of the Palestinian peace process to a poetic journey back to the homeland, these are films that speak to the length and breadth of the Palestinian experience and its diaspora, with contributions from experts and filmmakers. An unmissable day of eye opening cinema, featuring talks with experts from the Palestinian filmmaking community and beyond.

1.20PM THOUGH I KNOW THE RIVER IS DRY Dir. Omar Robert Hamilton | Occupied Palestinian Territory, Egypt, UK, Qatar | 20 min

1.45PM THE PROCESS +Q&A

Dir. Joshua Baker | UK | 60 min

3.30PM JUST PLAY

Dir. Dimitri Chimenti | Palestine, France, Italy | 58 min

4.35PM MARS AT SUNRISE

Dir. Jessica Habie | Palestine, Canada, USA | 75 min

6.30PM THE SHEBABS OF YARMOUK

Dir. Axel Salvatori-Sinz | France | 78 min

8.50PM MAQLOUBEH

Dir. Nicolas Damun | Palestine, France | 10 min

9.00PM MY LOVE AWAITS ME BY THE SEA Dir. Smais Darwazah | Jordan, Germany, Qatar, Palestine | 80 min

10.45PM–11.00PM DRINKS See film listings for further details on individual titles

Tuesday 24 June, 7.30pm £10

Saturday 21 June, 7:30pm £10

Monday 23 June, 7.30pm £10

UK PREMIERE: I DREAM OF WIRES +LIVE MODULAR PERFORMANCE

BELLADONNA OF SADNESS +WORLD PREMIERE LIVE SCORE BY CHARLIE BOYER & THE VOYEURS

Director: Robert Fantinatto UK, Canada, USA | 2013 | 102 min

I Dream Of Wires is an independent documentary about the resurgence of the modular synthesiser and the endurance of this idiosyncratic machine as a unique, iconic means of music making. Featuring interviews with modular musicians & manufactures (James Holden, Gary Numan & Chris Carter; Doepfer, Make Noise and more), this theatrical cut brings the fascinating story of the modular synthesiser’s history, demise and resurgence to the masses. For music lovers’ and purists alike, this UK premiere screening will be followed by two live modular performances from secret special guests. Produced by Liquid Amber in collaboration with the East End Film Festival.

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto Japan | 93 min

Experience a cult classic like never before with the specially commissioned, world premiere live score of Eichi Yamamoto’s bananas animation Belladonna of Sadness. The story of a peasant woman who makes a pact with the devil in exchange for magical powers, Eichi’s film features some of the most amazing psychedelic visuals ever committed to film, the perfect visual side platter to a brilliant sonic response to the film from primitive, glamorous rock ‘n’ roll wizards Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs. (see page 18)

THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS +WORLD PREMIERE NEW SOUNDTRACK CURATED BY BENJAMIN JOHN POWER (FUCK BUTTONS/BLANCK MASS) Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani Belgium, France, Luxembourg | 102 min

A dazzling tribute to the great Italian horror films of the 1970s gets a retrofit all of its own in this very special screening. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s film (see page 16) sees a man search for his missing wife in the labyrinthine halls of his apartment building, only to become submerged in the strange fantasies of sensuality and bloodshed emanating from the psyches of the building’s other inhabitants. One of the most bombastic, colourific horror movies ever committed to film, the EEFF is delighted to present The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears with a brand new pre-recorded soundtrack, curated by Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons, Blanck Mass), and composed by some of the UK’s foremost electronic pioneers, including Blanck Mass, Helm, Konx-Om-Pax, Roll The Dice, MoonGangs and C Spencer Yeh. Cutting edge, in every sense.

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VILLAGE SCREEN AT EAST VILLAGE THE BIGGEST FREE MOVIE WEEKEND OF THE YEAR! COME TO STRATFORD’S EAST VILLAGE TO CELEBRATE FOOTBALL, FOOD, FATHERS & FAMILIES – ALL ON A MASSIVE OUTDOOR SCREEN!

FOOTBALL FOCUS SCREENINGS & ACTIVITIES East Village Saturday 14 June, 12:00pm–7:00pm FREE

Copa90 is the football channel that knows there is no final whistle. Pitch, laptop, or console, the game never stops.

It seems there’s a wee football tournament happening this summer…and yes, Saturday 14th June marks the first England match of this summer’s Brazilian World Cup. So we’re getting in the mood with some football, fiesta and family-friendly cinema.

And today, the game continues on both the big and small screens with a selection of their best short films shot around the world and a broadcast by the channel from the East Village ‘pitch’.

AARDMAN ANIMATIONS RETURNS TO THE EAST END FILM FESTIVAL! FAMILY FUN WITH MORPH AT THE EAST VILLAGE! East Village Saturday 14 June FREE Aardman Animations will return to the East End Film Festival in 2014, after their hugely successful free ‘Build-your-own Gromit workshop’ in 2012. This year however, Aardman will be partnering with the East End Film Festival to host a ‘Buildyour-own Morph’ event. Morph is one of Britain’s most beloved animated characters, making his first appearance on Take Hart in 1977, a whopping 12 years before Wallace and Gromit. So, whether reliving your school days or experiencing model-making for the very first time, come down to Stratford’s East Village where famed veteran model maker Jim Parkyn from Aardman Animations will guide you through a crash course in Morph-making!

As with all Village Screen events, these workshops are FREE, with all materials provided. From 5 to 95, this fun, accessible and fully inclusive workshop is open to all ages and abilities. So come on down, enjoy and play – with Morph modeling clay! Places are FREE, and all materials are provided, however booking is essential if you wish to reserve a place at our mass animation table:

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JOIN US AT THE FIRST EVER PUBLIC SCREENING OF CHEF, WITH LONDON’S THRIVING GASTRONOMIC COMMUNITY

East Village Sunday 15 June, 3.30pm FREE

For a FREE and EXCLUSIVE gourmet combination of films, food and families, you don’t get much more delicious than Jon Favreau’s Chef – the story of a man who loses his restaurant job and decides to start up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. The film’s biggest asset is its impressive ensemble cast that includes big Hollywood stars Scarlett Johanson and Robert Downey Jr., Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara and Blue Jasmine’s Bobby

Cannavale, among others. The film is directed by Jon Favreau (Swingers, Iron Man 1 and 2), who also takes the lead role in this funny, moving new film. Chef is the perfect choice for families who want to celebrate Father’s Day with an entertaining and yet inspiring film that may leave you hungry for a bite to eat, but with a heart that’s full. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

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PORTRAITS: THE HOMELESS WORLD CUP PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION BY ANTHONY EPES Spitalfields 16–22 June, 10.30am–5.30pm FREE Each year 72 football teams of men and women from all over the world compete in The Homeless World Cup. Photographer Anthony Epes traveled to Mexico City in 2012 and Poznan in 2013 to capture the players of this annual tournament. Epes photography offers a vivid insight into the players hearts and minds. They are colourful and honest – and with humour and sincerity, Epes brings the viewer and perhaps stranger to the sport, closer to understanding the passion and enthusiasm behind this particularly unique event. www.anthonyepes.com

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An illusionistic doorway appears in the lobby space of the Liverpool Street Andaz Hotel. Viewed through this doorway, the everyday spaces of the hotel are inhabited with strange figures and out of scale, surreal and symbolic objects. Fragments of space appear in disjunction to reveal secret histories of a site with a rich and mysterious past of layers of London to the present day. The evocation of place is cast with the atmosphere and activities of the long secret and long lost space of the Masonic Lodge, the shadowy and opulent, limpid marble heart of the hotel. 33

CUTTING EAST VINE COMP

Genesis Cinema Friday 20 June – Sunday 22 June Cutting East Film Festival is a youth led programme of films, music, exhibitions and performance. Cutting East aims to give young east Londoners an opportunity to curate a festival, promote new talent and give global youth a voice. Cutting East was programmed by Diego CaicedoGalindo, Jon Caicedo-Galindo, Shanice Lawson, Alex Praag, Amran Ahmed, Miftaul Islam, Shakrul Wayas, Hamida Begum, Hanifa Rahman, Salma Islam, Akikur Rahman, Mo Malick.

Ever had a scene blow you away? Or characters that have acted in ways that you’ve wished to portray? Well, this is your moment. Re-enact your favourite scenes and impersonate your favourite characters in a video and post it on Twitter, Vine and Instagram using #CuttingEastImpersonations. With the support of Northern Trust, the most popular Vine by 18 June gets a voucher worth £100! Cutting East opening night has been supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London and a proud partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.

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OPENING NIGHT: ELECTRO CHAABI Director: Hind Meddeb France-Egypt | 2013 | 77 min Friday 20 June, 7.00pm

OM SHANTI OM

Director: Farah Khan India | 2007 | 162 min Saturday 21 June, 5.45pm

Inspired by the down-and-dirty music played at street parties, Electro Chaabi, a new populist dance form sweeping across Egypt, combines a punk spirit with a hip hop attitude. Director Hind Meddeb brings us the furious, sweaty rhythms and revolutionary lyrics of downtown Cairo offering insights into the minds of this Arab nation’s restless youth.

In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, is murdered, but is immediately reincarnated into the present day. He attempts to discover the mystery of his demise and find Shanti, the love of his previous life. A chance to catch vintage Bollywood on the big screen. Great tunes and a roll call of Bollywood Superstars. Includes an intermission.

Hind Meddeb will be attending the screening and participating in a Q&A thanks to support from the Film Hub London’s Boost Award.

CLOSING NIGHT GALA DOUBLE BILL

This event will be followed by Cutting Beats, showcasing emerging rhyme and music talent from east London.

CLOSING NIGHT DOUBLE BILL PAYDAY Director: Fred&Nick UK | 40 min Sunday 22 June, 7.00pm

Narrated by George the Poet, PAYDAY is a unique performance documentary, which delves into the finances and lives of four twenty-somethings. The film focuses on the contrasting lives of the diverse cast from the moment they receive their ‘payday’ money to how they go on to spend, save or squander it.

7.00pm A double bill of films relating stories of youth striving, surviving and succeeding in the city of London. Both films feature George the Poet who will be joining us for a Q&A and a special performance after the screening.

+IRONS IN THE FIRE FOLLOWED 8.30 SPEAKING WORDS; PERFORMANCE WITH GEORGE THE POET Director: Yoav Segal UK | 2014 | 21 min

Irons in the Fire follows five inspirational young people, facing up to struggle as they conquer success. This Film Festival Premiere delivers a powerful story of how five young people, overcome adversity to reach their current success. Elevated by Idris Elba’s narration and George the Poet’s punchy & enlivening words, the

BACK TO BOLLYWOOD

Saturday 21 June, from 2.00pm A day of events and screenings celebrating the history of Bollywood and what Bollywood means to its audience funded by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, Sharing Heritage programme.

BACK TO BOLLYWOOD EXHIBITION

Throughout the festival in Genesis Foyer The celebrations include an interactive exhibition featuring oral histories, vintage bollywood posters and commissioned portraiture, exploring the experiences of audiences attending South Asian cinema in Tower Hamlets in the 60s and 70s. Enjoy live music from AlphaNomega playing classic Bollywood and fusion sounds and pakora, samosa and chai courtesy of Sapphire London.

film explores the importance of maintaining your own identity whilst appreciating the opportunities that exist for young people. With the film Irons in the Fire you can expect a fusion of enthusiasm for creativity, hunger for success, and courage to confront fears amongst all of the characters. Prepare to be inspired, encouraged and energized to find your own success. With special thanks to Sky Arts and Sky 3D. This screening will be followed by a spoken word performance from George the Poet and other spoken word artists.

MISS MATCH (WORLD PREMIERE) + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR & CAST Director: Canan Silah UK | 2014 | 90 min Saturday 21 June, 2.00pm

Starring young people from House of Talent in Tower Hamlets this bang up to date adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma intertwines music and dance bollystyle to tell its tale of a young women who can’t resist playing cupid. Featuring dance sequences from IMD and EMBRACE.

JUMANJI

Director: Joe Johnston USA | 1995 | 104 min Sunday 22 June, 11.45am Oh yes, you read it right! Start your Sunday off with classic board games and coffee in the Genesis foyer followed by a trip down memory lane with Jumanji, the story of a mysterious board game that transports you to another world. Featuring a young Kirsten Dunst.

NEIGHBOURHOODS: FROM MUMBAI TO MILE END Saturday 21 June, 12.00pm FREE

A selection of short documentary films made by young people about hoods in Mumbai and East London exploring how generations take root in, and young people make use of, their environment in these two very different but vibrant cities. The films feature rag-picking, breakdance, ghettoization and enjoying a day in the hood. The screening will be followed by a discussion on what home means. This is a collaboration between Mile End Community Project, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Queen Mary, University of London.

SCREEN TEST SHORTS UK | 70 min Saturday 21 June, 4.30pm

A collection of short films programmed in collaboration with Screen Test, the national student film festival, celebrating the best work from students based in London colleges. Followed by networking and pitching 1-2-1’s with The Smalls.

CUTTING IT SHORT & AWARDS GALA 80 min + Award Ceremony Sunday 22 June, 4.30pm

Curated by the Cutting East team, this collection of short films demonstrate the wealth of young filmmaking talent from the borough and abroad. And, making a debut in 2014, are the Cutting East Awards which, through the generous support of Northern Trust, we are able to offer a top award of £450 in Media Equipment vouchers for Best Short Film, and other awards available too! Check CE website for full details and list of other awards.

WILLOW AND THE WIND Director: Mohammad Ali Talebi Iran | 1999 | 77 min Sunday 22 June, 2.00pm

A school window is broken, and kids can’t concentrate because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn’t allowed back into class until he mends it. So he carries a large pane of glass by hand across the countryside in a gale. The wind blows; but will he crack? In the hands of writer Abbas Kiarostami and director Mohammad Ali Talebi, this simplest of stories becomes an epic quest, poetic and breathtakingly beautiful. It has big-hearted humanism, but Hitchcockian tension too. An edge-of-seat masterpiece. Unmissable.

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HOW TO MAKE IT AS A FILMMAKER BEYOND YOUR FIRST FEATURE Following the “wicked, supreme and utterly mind blowing” MTG 2013 (cheers Jon Fairbairn)* we’re back this year with a bigger and better line up!

WHAT IS MIND THE GAP? Three days of carefully curated talks, workshops and events designed to offer every insight, top tip and wise word to anyone hoping to make a career in feature films. Whether you’re crossing over from shorts to features, television to film, debut to slate, or particularly in that transition between first to second feature, Mind The Gap is here to help. EEFF’s panels, interviews, workshops and networking events will provide the roadmap that every filmmaker needs to avoid the pitfalls on the route to success. Too many first time feature filmmakers never make a second film – lets change that!

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WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? Our central aim is to collectively unpick the reasons why it can be so difficult for first time feature filmmakers (narrative or documentary) to move into their second project. We’ve teamed up with industry icons and leading organisations to share their knowledge and offer their support and services. It’s also a great opportunity to share your successes and frustrations with a like-minded peer group. Participants will enjoy panels, Q&As, workshops, interviews, networking, speed mentoring and even a studio tour!

It was an honor to be a part of the festival. Even from far away and through a staticky Skype connection, I could sense the vigor in the room, and the amazing atmosphere you created for filmmakers. You should be enormously proud.”

SESSIONS

—Nick Gonda, Producer Tree of Life

NAMES TO LOOK OUT FOR INCLUDE: Damian Jones (Producer, The Iron Lady, The History Boys), Paul Ridd (Marketing and Acquisitions Manager, Picturehouse Cinemas), Sandra Hebron (former Head of BFI Festivals and Artistic Director, BFI London Film Festival), Graham Hartstone (Sound Consultant Berberian Sound Studio, Eyes Wide Shut, Aliens), Jon Rennie (Producer, Benny and Jolene) Kerrie Hayes (Actress Nowhere Boy, Brighton Rock, The Mill), Eva Yates (Senior Development Editor, Film4), Tristan Anderson (Founder Doc Heads), David Pope (Founder, Advanced Films), Charlie Lyne (Director, Beyond Clueless), Destiny, Marceella Puppini (Puppini Sisters). ENJOY WORKSHOPS WITH:

Creative Skillset, Crossover Labs, BECTU, Pulse, School for Creative Start-ups, Film4, London Film Academy, Picturehouse Cinemas, Harbottle & Lewis, Women in Film and TV, Casting Networks, LOCO London Comedy Film Festival, Festival Formula. … AND MANY MORE TO FOLLOW 40

Although you can come down for one day at a time, we highly recommend that you attend all three days to get the benefit of the full programme. WHO CAN ATTEND?

Anyone at any stage of their career – the sessions are designed to give you insight to the internal workings of the film industry and allow pause for thought, planning, re-evaluating, expert and peer feedback and more.

PLUS: MORE SPEAKERS & SESSIONS TBC FOR FULL INFORMATION, INCLUDING TIMES ON ALL EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS PLEASE VISIT WWW.EASTENDFILMFESTIVAL.COM/ INDUSTRY-PROGRAMME-2014 ALL WORKSHOPS TAKE PLACE AT:

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SESSIONS WILL INCLUDE: WHY THE GAP?

Key experts across varying strands of the film industry debate ‘the gap’. What can we, as an industry, do to support filmmakers heading for a career transition, and what do filmmakers really need to know – even before they pick up a camera – to avoid falling off the edge…

CREATIVE SKILLSET AND CROSSOVERLABS PRESENT: DEFINING ROLES

Participants divide into two groups (documentary and fiction) to work with the teams at Creative Skillset and Crossoverlabs to identify their core strengths in an industry where many filmmakers find themselves doing everything. These workshops will outline how crews change as your career progresses – particularly in the jump from first to second film, and how and where to position yourself most strongly within them.

SECOND ALBUM SYNDROME

Whether you’re a musician, a filmmaker or an artist, the same obstacles apply when you leave your passion project behind and start putting a business head onto creative shoulders. From the difficulties in letting go of the freedom and creative control you enjoy as an unknown, or in dealing with the multiple ‘interested parties’ who move in with your success, creative careers are challenging.

STORY CAMPUS PRESENT: WRITING TO SCALE A look at storytelling within budget. This panel discussion is designed to examine the influence of finance on the stories we are able to tell early on in our careers, and how to develop a realistic and achievable slate whilst also making great films. Facilitated by David Pope and David Keating from Story Campus featuring guest micro budget feature practitioners.

THE SALON WITH STORY CAMPUS

An informal evening event over pizza and beer, sharing and feeding back on projects with peers and guests in a nurturing environment.

LONDON FILM ACADEMY & CASTING NETWORKS PRESENT: CASTING WORKSHOP This session will cover the casting process, with a focus on: working and communicating with actors, typical casting mistakes, solutions for common problems during film or TV casting, directing actors, a personal approach to actors in the work environment, casting research, working with casting directors, practical exercises and examples of casting scenarios. The session will encourage open discussion and close with a Q&A.

WHO’S GOT THE MONEY AND HOW DO I GET IT?

Nowadays it seems that although there is ‘less money around’, there are more ways to access it. But what’s best for you at this stage of your career: crowd funding, EIS schemes, public money, branded content, or something else? Funders, producers and directors discuss what approaches work where, and how to secure finance for your film.

LOCO LONDON COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: CREATING A SLATE

How to make your first feature work towards your second (and your third… etc.!) Successful filmmaking is often about identifying your area of expertise and building a career incrementally over a number of projects.The LOCO London Comedy Film Festival team are joined by expert guests to discuss the best ways to build a long-term filmmaking career.

RUNNING THROUGHOUT THE THREE DAYS 30 MINUTES WITH... CREATING YOUR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL STRATEGY

Film festivals are often the first opportunities for your early films to find their audience, their champions and potentially distribution. But once you’ve done the rounds, how do you play the circuit to your advantage? This session looks at the spectrum of potential festival strategies to ensure you know how to maximize international opportunities as your career develops.

MAKING DISTRIBUTABLE FILMS AND FINDING YOUR AUDIENCE

Distribution channels have diversified enormously with the advent of digital, but have the tenets of distributability changed? What do audiences really want to see and how do filmmakers find their audiences successfully? Our panel will discuss their own methodology and seek synergies and differences across the multiple platforms available to filmmakers today.

THE SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE START-UPS PRESENTS: BUSINESS PLANNING FOR CREATIVES:

This workshop will offer empathetic yet practical advice for the artist who is struggling to find their business head. You will look at business planning, cashflow, time management and all the potentially boring but vital skills needed to survive the early stages of your career.

These intimate sessions, will allow a small group of filmmakers direct access to some of the Industry’s key movers and shakers. Speakers include Damian Jones, Producer The History Boys, The Iron Lady. (Keep an eye on the website for details.)

ALSO OFFERED / WANTED FILMCYCLE

Got something to give? Missing something or someone? Looking for that special editor / production manager / after-effects whizz to spice up your life and make things complete? Visit our matchmakers corner and find your one true special FX supervisor.

PEER TO PEER MENTORING

It’s hard to work alone. Let’s share.

PULSE FILMS PRESENTS: HOW TO GET AN AGENT

Pulse will talk participants through the steps involved in getting an agent, how to work with them to create a dynamic and engaging showreel, and some good old-fashioned networking tips.

BECTU PRESENTS THE LEGAL LOOP: LEGAL THINGS YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO KNOW

As confusing and overwhelming as legal procedures can seem in the film biz, there are some which we simply cannot avoid. In this session, BECTU will take us through the core elements of the legalities you ignore at your peril.

SIDEKICK CREATIVES (TBC) PRESENTS: CREATING A SUCCESSFUL ONLINE PROFILE

The most superficial but often most valuable area of creative work is in our public face online. Online aficionados Sidekick will demonstrate what elements you need to embrace to keep up with the game.

GET PAID TO MAKE FILMS

How do you make your in a way that ensures you can do what you do best – make films – and still be able to pay your rent at the end of the month? Our panel manage to do just that, and are happily willing to share the secret of their success with us.

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I absorbed a mammoth amount of useful information at the Industry Programme last week, and do feel as a result that I know what I’m doing, which isn’t always the case. My focus is honed – thank you!”

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We can’t wait to start working with our new festival ambassadors who will be joining us twice yearly to assist in steering the festival as it develops: Charles Sharpe, Loveandmilk, Maverick Litchfield-Kelly, Phil Middleton, Stephen Bowen, Yvonne, Hamilton Ice Sculptors.

AN ENORMOUS AND HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED OUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

Thank you also to those of you who adopted a film – your joint contribution has made it possible for us to bring the directors of Goodbye Gauley Mountain to the festival: Andy Lowe, Emanuele, Emma-Louise Williams, Isabelle Cochrane, Jez Lewis, Kieran Evans, Lodovico Sanseverino, Pete Brown, Philip Gara, The Lab Film Festival.

We absolutely can’t thank the following people enough for pulling us through the most emotional, nervewracking and ultimately heart-warming and overwhelming experience that was our Kickstarter campaign!

And to those of you who pledged in return for a Secret Screening or tickets to our opening night – we look forward to raising a glass with you over the next few weeks! Darren Nuttall, Jackie Sharpe, Chris O’Sullivan, Cat Gregory, James Dean, Mel Gaffney, Adam Stevens, Tony and Oona Grisoni, Emma Kennedy, Ben Freeman, Ross Clarke, Jolyon Bateman, Jami Castell, Lady Cochrane, Maurice, Isabelle Cochrane, Marc Cochrane, Diane Jervis. AND TO ALL THE REST OF YOU – OUR ETERNAL GRATITUDE IS YOURS! Athena, Blair Barnette, Celia Cabrita, Melinda Olykan, Dan Edelstyn, Denise Hicks, LOCO, Diane Jervis, George Ferry, Guy Woodhouse, Heather Blake, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Marc Cochrane, Marco Sparmberg, Martin Watchorn, Maurice P Linnane, Mediah Ahmed, Michael van der Put, Mr & Mrs W Majdalawy, Parissima Darabiha, Peggy Nuttall, Piotr Klarowski, Rhett Brewer, Richard Leworthy, Rob Fletcher, Robbie Collin, Sonia Fletcher, Tendeka Matatu, Theo Epes, Vanessa Andrews, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Will Paice. And thank you to everyone else who supported our campaign, From the EEFF Team.

TRAPEZE Set over 2 levels and bathed in faded circus glamour, Trapeze will play host to the East End Film Festival 2014 Opening Night Party! Join us after Dermaphoria for a creole-smoked night of New Orleans jazz and prohibition cocktails as we celebrate the start of two weeks of great cinema! Trapeze have created a very special East End Mardi Gras cocktail for East End Film Festival friends, so join us after the credits have rolled every night of the festival for some late-night cine-astic chatter, drinks and dancing.

Trapeze is located opposite RED GALLERY at 89 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3HX Closest Tube: Old Street Tel. 0207 739 6747 www.trapezebar.com

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Rio viewing balcony is not accessible by wheelchair.

The Vibe Bar is a long-standing venue partner of the East End Film Festival and believes the festival makes a fantastic contribution to London’s cultural landscape. This year Vibe will be screening the World Cup on its huge outdoor screen around festival screenings, so come down and join us for a coffee or a cocktail, some street food, music and some live football! Find us at 91–95 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL. Tel. 020 7247 3479. www.vibe-bar.co.uk

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For detailed information about our events, venues and programme, please visit www.eastendfilmfestival.com,

Rio Cinema 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB Box Office: 020 7241 9410 To book tickets: www.riocinema.org.uk By rail: Dalston Kingsland By bus: 67 / 76 / 149 / 243 / 488 Ticket Prices: Full £8, Reduced £6.50

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