East End Film Festival 2015 by East End Film Festival

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Elsewhere, the EEFF hosts everything from political debate to films celebrating the spirit of invention. This year’s programme features flying anarchists at the Whitechapel Gallery, masked macabre at the Masonic Temple, and the live cutting of records onto Soviet X-Rays.

Head of Programming Andrew Simpson Festival Assistant Duy Tran Marketing Team Serrena Jaeger Meng-Hao Lee Lizzy Olliver Jennifer Shearman Natalie Sutton Laura Troop Short Film Committee Ilona Cheshire Anna Coatman Fiona Fletcher Aduke King Colm McAuliffe Isabel Moir Tega Okiti Ingrid Solbrig Cutting East Team Stephanie Pamment Isma Arif PR Agency: Margaret Sarah Bemand Hilary Cornwell John Dunning Programme Designer GilesMarshDesign.com

Last year’s edition of the east End Film Festival was a milestone year. Our 13th edition, this was the year when we first became a fully independent, not-for-profit Community Interest Company. We hosted a crowdfunding campaign to help us through this exciting, if slightly acne-ridden, transition, and I wanted to start this year’s welcome, again, with a thank you to everyone who supported us in 2014. Now the EEFF has ‘come of age’. The festival has matured in its outlook and ambitions, and it’s a pleasure to be welcoming former Director of Partnerships at the BFI, Eddie Berg, to the EEFF team as our new Associate Director. He’ll be helping the EEFF develop its future strategy and resources, and has already brokered a new principal partnership deal with East London’s premier university, UEL. With a stately bill of 33 titles, 2015 represents our largest ever line-up of British cinema. London Calling have therefore chosen a great year to partner with us in celebration of our new London Focus, shining a light on works that embrace the dramatic cultural narratives of this great city. Discovering, debating, and developing new voices in cinema is an integral part of the East End Film Festival’s mission. Central to that mission is our system of awards. Our top award for Best Feature is reserved for the most outstanding film from a first or second-time director, with NOAZ DESHE a deserved winner in 2014 for his incredible debut film, White Shadow. In 2015, he returns as our Director-in-Residence, where he heads up this year’s feature jury and, in a radical departure from the usual country focus prompted by the winner of our top prize, co-curates a special festival selection under the moniker Deprogrammed.

In a very exciting development, I’m delighted to also announce the East End Film Festival’s first foray into record releasing, as we break completely new ground with the release of the East End Film Festival’s first ever soundtrack album. Centred on the savagely beautiful The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, this has been curated by Benjamin Power (F**k Buttons/Blanck Mass), and features an extraordinary array of artists. Book your place at our special World Premiere unveiling to get hold of a copy of this very limited edition vinyl release. Lastly, the EEFF is delighted to be working with our original principal partner, the Genesis Cinema, to create a genuine social hub for EEFF 2015. Join us in our very own Speakeasy for daily free drinks receptions and special events, to unwind after a festival film, or to meet filmmakers and festival staff. With so much going on around the festival in 2015, we’re sure you’ll find something that appeals to you in this year’s programme, and we look forward to showing you all the EEFF has to offer this year. www.eastendfilmfestival.com

Alison Poltock Artistic Director

CONTENTS

AWAR

p31 THE MACABRE MASONIC MASQUERADE BALL

p35 THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS p35 X-RAY AUDIO 4 Awards 4 Competition 6 Jury 7 Our Patrons 9 Deprogramme 10 Opening & Closing Night Galas 11 Centrepiece Galas 12 British Cinema 18 European Cinema 22 World Cinema

28 Shorts 30 Zoom 31 Macabre Masonic Masquerade 32 Masonic Temple 34 Events 36 Cutting East 39 Industry 42 The Genesis Speakeasy 44 Venues & Booking 46 Calendar

The East End Film Festival’s awards selection is a vital part of the festival’s commitment to bold, challenging filmmaking from breakthrough directors. Rewarding both fiction and documentary, and both long form and short, these prizes celebrate the whole variety of phenomenal work being made by directors, from the East End to the furthest reaches of the globe. The festival’s main prize is reserved for first and second features, with other awards rewarding the most powerful documentary feature, the finest short film from these shores, and an audience award, as well as a special prize focused on a particular craft in filmmaking. All that that we celebrate in film is here, and deserve to be rewarded.

COMPETITION LINE UP

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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.

from their country, 2015 sees a radical departure in our Deprogrammed strand, co-curated by this year’s Director in Residence Noaz Deshe. Previous Directors in Residence have included Bobby Parnescu (Francesca, Romania, 2010), Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan, India, 2011), Armando Bo (El Ultimo Elvis, Argentina, 2012) and Sebastian Hoffman (Halley, Mexico, 2013).

Working with the festival team, the EEFF Director in Residence co-curates a special selection within the EEFF programme. While this is normally focused on cutting edge new cinema

We are delighted to present the Official EEFF Competition line up for 2015 here.

ACCESSION AWARD

BEST FILM EEFF 2015

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

BEST UK SHORT FILM

SHORT FILM AUDIENCE AWARD

EEFF RISING STAR AWARD

Created in 2014, the Accession Award exists to champion a particularly vital craft within filmmaking, as well as the recipient’s establishment of a career within their chosen field. Focusing on a different discipline each year, the EEFF 2014 Accession Award celebrated the art of cinematography. This year’s award focuses on music composition, and the art of the soundtrack.

Recognising the most unique, human and arresting non-fiction stories in this year’s festival 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.

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

As a leading showcase for first and second features, we are proud to once again present our EEFF Best Film Award. In 2014 Noaz Deshe received the festival’s main prize for his debut feature White Shadow, and we welcome him back to the EEFF this year as our Director-in-Residence. He heads up this year’s feature jury and has co-curated a special festival selection for 2015, Deprogrammed, which marks a departure from the festival’s usual country focus.

From the first stirrings of young love to estranged families reconnecting, terrifying dystopias to seductive reveries, 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 welltrodden cliché that a short film is somehow flimsier than a feature.

New to 2015, the Cutting East Rising Star Award is awarded to the best short film of the annual EEFF partner youth festival, Cutting East. East End Film Festival in association with MMBF are delighted to support this award celebrating our futures brightest young cinematic voices.

BEST FEATURE

BEST DOCUMENTARY

CRUMBS

3 ½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS

WELCOME TO LEITH

Director: Marc Silver USA | 2015 | 85 min

Directors: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker USA | 2015 | 85 min

AMY

STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK UP

ABOVE & BELOW

STEVIE G

ESTATE, A REVERIE

TRIP ALONG EXODUS

Director: Miguel Llanso Ethiopia | 2015 | 68 min

IVY

Director: Tolga Karaçelik Turkey | 2015 | 104 min

LIFE IN A FISHBOWL

Director: Badvin Zophoniasson Iceland | 2014 | 129 min

LINE OF CREDIT (KREDITIS LIMITI)

Director: Salome Alexi Georgia, France, Germany | 2014 | 85 min

MANOS SUCIAS

Director: Josef Kubota Wladyka Colombia | 2014 | 84 min

PLEASURE ISLAND Director: Mike Doxford UK | 2014 | 98 min

ATLANTIC

Director: Jan-Willem van Ewijk The Netherlands | 2014 | 94 min

THE FIRE (EL INCENDIO) Director: Juan Schnitman Argentina | 2015 | 95 min

NORFOLK

Director: Asif Kapadia UK | 2015 | 123 min

Director: Nicolas Steiner Switzerland | 2015 | 110 min

Director: Andrew Luka Zimmerman UK | 2015 | 83 min

Director: Ross Sutherland UK | 2015 | 63 min

Director: Umut Gunduz UK | 2015 | 65 min

Director: Hind Shoufani Lebanon, Palestine | 2014 | 120 min

Director: Martin Radich UK | 2015 | 87 min

FEATURE JURY

DOCUMENTARY JURY DIRECTOR IN RESIDENCE NOAZ DESHE

Noaz Deshe is a director whose films have been presented at the Venice, San Francisco, and Sundance film festivals, amongst many others. His debut feature, White Shadow, was about a young albino boy being hunted by witchdoctors in Tanzania, and contributed towards a legal change in that country. The film won the Best Feature Award at the East End Film Festival in 2014.

KATE SMURTHWAITE

Kate Smurthwaite is an awardwinning stand-up comedian and political activist. She has toured at home and abroad with her political comedy show, scooping a coveted Three Week’s Editors Choice prize at the Edinburgh Fringe. Kate also writes for BAFTA-winning BBC3 series The Revolution Will Be Televised, as well as Have I Got News For You, and has contributed to the Guardian, Independent and Cosmopolitan among others. She has appeared on hundreds of TV and radio shows including Question Time, This Morning, The Big Questions, Moral Maze and Woman’s Hour.

ROSS CLARKE

IRVINE WELSH

ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL

VIV ALBERTINE

AMMA ASANTE

RITA DANIELS

Ross Clarke is a British director and writer. His feature debut Dermaphoria, starring Joseph Morgan and Ron Perlman, opened the East End Film Festival in 2014. He previously co-directed the award-winning documentary Skid Row (2007).

Raised in North London, Viv Albertine is best known as the trailblazing guitarist in influential band The Slits. Her solo album The Vermilion Border was released in 2012 and her autobiography published in 2014. She has also worked as a film director and actor, starring in Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition.

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His novels Trainspotting and Filth were previously adapted into critically acclaimed films. Famous for his brutal depiction of urban life, he has also written screenplays and directed several short films. He lives in Chicago.

London-born writer/director Amma Asante received the 2005 BAFTA Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement in a debut film for A Way of Life. Her second feature Belle opened to phenomenal success in America and widespread acclaim globally. She was one of CNN’s Leading Women of 2014, earning further nominations at the UK National Film Awards and US NAACP Awards.

Orlando has directed documentaries spanning Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Arctic, covering everything from a skateboard school in Afghanistan to West African piracy. His last film, Virunga, was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.

Rita Daniels is an Executive Producer in Channel 4’s Documentaries Department, overseeing such series as One Born Every Minute and First Dates as well as the debut director’s strand First Cut. She previously worked as a series director and senior producer/director for 24 Hours in A&E and 24 in Police Custody respectively.

XIAOLU GUO

Xiaolu Guo is a British Chinese prizewinning filmmaker, novelist and essayist. Her films have been the subject of a recent Cinéma du Réel retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has travelled around the world conducting master classes at film festivals and universities.

SHORTS JURY

ACCESSION AWARD SOUNDTRACK

KIRSTEN BEITH

FRANK TURNER

Kirsten is the founder of and lead agent at Undercranked, a talent agency representing directors and production talent working in features, music, advertising and television. She has dealt with both sides of the camera, featuring in promos and commercials, later working as a magazine editor, producer, crew representative, agent and journalist for companies including EMAP, Time Out, STAR TV Asia Region, IMG Worldwide and Travel Channel.

Frank Turner is an English singer and songwriter strongly influenced by country and folk. Coming from a post-hardcore background – he used to lead noisy London upstarts Million Dead – Turner went solo in the mid-2000s and has released five albums to date. His imminent sixth LP is titled Positive Songs For Negative People.

OUR PATRONS STEVE ORAM

Steve Oram is an English actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker, best known for co-writing and starring in Ben Wheatley’s 2012 black comedy Sightseers. Oram has also written and directed numerous short films under the pseudonym Steve Aura, and is currently completing his debut feature Aaaaaaaah!

MUSTAPHA KSEIBATI

Screen Star of Tomorrow Mustapha Kseibati has previously made films with the UK Film Council, BBC and Sky, as well as several shorts. He has a passion for comedy, drama and action and is currently working on ‘a kick ass action comedy’ with Ken Marshall, producer of Filth.

SOPHIE MAYER

Sophie Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love. She is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and The F-Word, and a member of queer femme curatorial collective Club des Femmes.

EMMA DABIRI

Emma Dabiri is a writer and cultural commentator, specialising in African culture. She is a PhD researcher at SOAS, and has been involved in several events and projects that cross over between film and other cultural media, including the recent Afrofuturism season at the BFI.

STEVEN BERKOFF

MICHAEL NYMAN

DANNY BOYLE

JAIME WINSTONE

JOE WRIGHT

STEPHEN WOOLLEY

PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI

ASIF KAPADIA

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

is a BAFTA winning filmmaker and Hackney resident. His films include The Warrior and Senna and the eagerly awaited Amy.

JASON SOLOMONS

NITIN SAWHNEY

TONY GRISONI

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.

has made 10 studio albums and has scored over 50 films, among them his much-acclaimed new soundtrack for the restoration of Hitchock’s The Lodger.

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. His new film Pan is due later this year.

is one of Britain’s leading screenwriters, His awardwinning work for cinema and TV includes Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, In This World, Red Riding and Southcliffe.

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. His new film Carol is due later this year.

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

JEREMY WOODING

is a British film director, producer and writer, best known for Bollywood Queen as well as the first series of the muchloved Peep Show.

DIRECTOR IN RESIDENCE NOAZ DESHE THE EEFF’S DIRECTOR IN RESIDENCE FOR 2015 ON WHY HE DECIDED AGAINST PROGRAMMING A COUNTRY-SPECIFIC FOCUS AT EEFF 2015

BRAINWASHING

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell

Every person has a “priority need,” or several. By feeding the prime priority need, you can gain control over your subject, or your audience; a permanent vacation from thinking. Here are our basic priority needs, borrowed from several publications:

Stateless:One time I was in Russia and someone came up to me in the street and asked me – “Are you from?” Although most likely some mistake in translation, still, I thought – “that’s a very good question”. I think a lot about my “from”. Obviously everyone is from somewhere. I was never able to embrace a geographical origin, or to put my trust in the person who wrote our high school history books, which are often written by overly eager right wing extremists, portraying the heroic nature of their country. It always felt like a social Manual. Someone should appoint an “Independent World History High Commission”, and arrest this book. In an Arthur C. Clarke book (Childhood’s End), there is a TV feed that the aliens give to humans so that they can watch the true history of all religions with some extras. That would be a wonderful mess. It’s the God in the machine at the end of a Greek tragedy.

Some many unnecessary ideologies will disintegrate in shame, or not. What is so frightening about embracing the big nothing that is full of all things, rather than the big ‘something’? One day my mouth opened and the CD, the Software, came out. I held it against the light to appreciate all the thought that had been put into the design. The programme was ill. It was written on a bug that kept eating its own extract, exploiting the past in an endless loop. “I am from” I told the Russian. Defiantly “from.” Usually the EEFF Director in Residence section is devoted to a showcase of a country. Together with the honour of being invited, I struggled with the idea of what that should mean. My country has no passport or national borders; it does not promote a national identity It’s not connected to a land mass. I thought we should print passports and send them to whomever wants to join. So this Deprogramme of films is a start. My country is simply a like-minded place.

1 EMOTIONAL SECURITY 2 RECOGNITION OF EFFORTS/REASSURANCE OF WORTH 3 CREATIVE OUTLETS 4 A SENSE OF PERSONAL POWER 5 A SENSE OF ROOTS (BELONGING SOMEWHERE) 6 IMMORTALITY 7 EGO-GRATIFICATION 8 LOVE IN ALL ITS FORMS 9 NEW EXPERIENCES

Once these needs are monitored, you can determine which of these are ‘priority needs’. Then one can apply the “depth approach” to subconsciously feed and gratify those needs, to gain control over your subject. This is the essence of brainwashing. This is how we program.

THE DEPROGRAMME

Join the EEFF and Noaz Deshe for an exploration of our “priority needs”, and what it is about us that allows those in power to ruthlessly abuse and control us. From national myths to government mind control; and from brutal cults to extreme ideological violence; from news cycles to the emotional security that comes from filling up your fridge…This is an exercise in Deprogramming Cinema.

It is designed to ask: Why do we accept systems of control? How do we deprogram them? How do we regain our ability to make up our own minds? Taking inspiration from the MONARCH and MK-ULTRA mind control programs, EEFF welcomes you to a series of screenings, discussions and audience manipulation: a guide to ‘deprogramming’, one film at a time.

Film highlights include: ex-cult members re-enacting their past in Moonchild, a vicious act of violence on the Japanese metro in the shocking documentary A, a lone woman pursuing an act of jihad in Day Night, Day Night, society’s complicity in the crimes of Soviet Russia, a special insight into the world’s most famous deprogrammer, and an array of dissonance, public information films and subliminal messages.

VISIT

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OPENING NIGHT ONE CRAZY THING Director: Amit Gupta

UK | 2015 | 90 min International Premiere Genesis Wednesday 1 July, 7.00pm £15 for Gala Screening + Welcome Drink

East End Film Festival alumnus Ray Panthaki (Life Sentence, EEFF 2013) stars in and produces an utterly charming take on internet fame, and how a chance encounter in the city can reinvigorate you. Jay (Panthaki) is a former soap actor, but is more famous for a career-ruining sex tape scandal. Managing his parent’s Indian restaurant in a state of self-imposed exile, his

appetite for life is rekindled when he meets Hannah (Daisy Bevan), an American musician with a refreshingly innocent view of the world. But will Jay’s fear of revealing his past ruin everything? Featuring a wonderfully hangdog performance from Panthaki (who is also a BAFTA Breakthrough performer), Amit Gupta’s third feature is a wry

CLOSING NIGHT

take on the superficiality of fame and modern living, and a heartfelt statement of the things that are more important. With a host of fantastic supporting performances (including Dan Renton Skinner as Jay’s best friend Charlie), this is a perfect film about the possibilities of life in London. We are delighted to present it as our Opening Night Gala for EEFF 2015.

3 ½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS Director: Marc Silver

USA | 2015 | 85 min London Premiere Genesis Sunday 12 July, 7.00pm Another East End Film Festival alumnus, British documentary maker Marc Silver once again travels to the United States for a subject of huge topical relevance in 3 ½ Minutes. Arriving in the wake of events in Ferguson and Baltimore, Silver’s follow up to Who is Dayani Cristal? is a ruthless dissection of the aftermath of a tragic incident at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station, which resulted in the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. The slaying of an unarmed AfricanAmerican over the trivial issue of loud music, this case is surrounded in controversy. Silver’s film lays bare the grief, prejudices and public narratives around the incident, in a shocking examination of the issue of race in America. Opening a window on a cycle of violence that seemingly refuses to go away, 3 ½ Minutes is a deeply pertinent work for our times. We are delighted to present it as our Closing Night Gala.

CENTREPIECE GALAS LEE SCRATCH PERRY’S VISION OF PARADISE +Q&A Director: Volker Schaner

Germany, UK | 2015 | 100 min World Premiere Genesis Saturday 4 July, 7.00pm Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Vision of Paradise is the ultimate portrait of one of the icons of contemporary music. Shooting over 15 years, Volker Schaner had unprecedented access to the man who can lay claim to be a godfather of both reggae and dub. We are delighted to present this funny, poetic and frequently mind-blowing experience to the public for the very first time, with Perry himself in attendance. + Q&A with Director and Lee Scratch Perry

STILL +Q&A

Director: Simon Blake UK | 2014 | 97 min Genesis Saturday 12 July, 9.00pm We’re thrilled that Irish acting powerhouse Aidan Gillen will be joining us for this gala screening of Still. Simon Blake’s intense portrait of disintegration follows a North London father on his own personal warpath. Carver is bereft after the loss of his son. Feuding with local teens, he unravels as the tension escalates, making a shocking discovery that demands a terrible decision. A nail-biting revenge thriller with deep conscience, driven by a typically nuanced lead performance from our very special guest. + Q&A with Aidan Gillen

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BRITISH A home for breakthrough home-grown directors, the East End Film Festival’s British selection offers a towering line up of 33 films, with a special London flavour. 2015 sees the EEFF championing British cinema like never before. Here, filmmakers are storming the barriers thrown up by minimal funding, economic contraction, and the continued challenge of distributing independent films here, there, and everywhere. The festival is proud to offer this unprecedented, varied line up.

In this line up you will find heartwrenching works that touch on East London, such as Sing Your Heart Out, The Anarchist Rabbi, and Dressed as a Girl. British filmmakers are also heading out on odysseys, either in Britain (Pleasure Island, Norfolk, Paragraph), overseas (Udita, Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang) or to outer-space (Disaster Playground). Other directors are celebrating musical heroes, such as EEFF Patron Asif Kapadia’s heartbreaking Amy; and Graham Bendel’s post-punk portrait Derailed Sense. London is a city of drama, and nowhere is this truer than in a special selection of London features presented in partnership with London Calling. Running the gauntlet from hilarious to harrowing, Panic sees a troubled

man traversing East London in pursuit of a missing neighbour, unsure of what he’ll find, whilst the Hackney shot MLE sends a struggling actress on an undercover mission, purely for laughs. Estate: A Reverie is a beguiling homage to the residents of a doomed Hackney estate, whilst Stevie G is an intimate portrait of a brother emerging from years in the wilderness of crime and trouble. Lastly, One Crazy Thing, starring and produced by EEFF alumni Ray Panthaki, is a disarmingly charming take on internet fame and true love in this fair city. This line up of London films, then, sees filmmakers in the capital making every kind of film, and making them brilliantly.

BEST DOC COMPETITION

UK | 2015 | 90 min Rio Thursday 2 July, 8.00pm

AMY +Q&A

Director: Asif Kapadia The story of the tragically departed five-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse, Asif Kapadia’s follow up to Senna is another tense, whirlwind tale of a superstar’s rise and fall. Working exclusively with archive footage, narrated via new interviews with those that knew her best, it is a brutally open and honest film channelling the lifeblood of a rare, authentic talent. We’re also shown the addiction and media intrusion that would feed into one another, resulting in a heartbreaking public unravelling, and an even more heartbreaking demise.

UK | 2014 | 45 min Genesis Saturday 5 July, 2.00pm

UK | 2014 | 45 min World Premiere Genesis Saturday 4 July, 1.30pm

UK | 2015 | 90 min World Premiere Genesis Thursday 9 July, 6.30pm

UK | 2015 | 93 min UK Premiere Genesis Sunday 5 July, 4.00pm

THE ANARCHIST RABBI +Q&A

ANTI-SOCIAL WORKER +Q&A

CONTAINMENT +Q&A

DENNIS RODMAN’S BIG BANG IN PYONGYANG +Q&A

Director: Adam Kossoff The Anarchist Rabbi, an experimental documentary, follows in the footsteps of Rudolf Rocker, an anarchist who campaigned with London’s East End Jewish migrants 100 years ago. Steven Berkoff narrates Rocker’s ghost who has returned to re-visit the places that were significant to him and explores how urban development forces us to forget workingclass history and political struggle.

Director: Matt Hopkins Narrated by Ras Kwame, this is a candid portrait of six nocturnal workers in a city that never sleeps. Spotlighting a baker, locksmith, club concierge, shelter supervisor and blood biker, it captures the energy that drives London by night, revealing a peculiar beauty that few of us ever see.

+ FULFILMENT

Director: Neil Mcenery-West This pulse-raising debut feature sees artist and estranged father Mark (Lee Ross) wake up to find that the door to his flat has been sealed shut. He presumes it to be some kind of prank, but when his neighbours break through his wall in order to find a way out of the building, it becomes apparent that something far more sinister is going on.

Director: Colin Offland Colin Offland’s rollicking doc follows former US basketball star Dennis Rodman as he befriends North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and decides to stage a game between the two countries – while being vilified by the NBA, White House and press. Perhaps the most bizarre sports-related story of recent times.

UK | Director: Brady Hood | 16 min

UK | 2012 | 76 min World Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Friday 10 July, 7.00pm

DERAILED SENSE: A FILM ABOUT VIC GODARD & SUBWAY SECT

Director: Graham Bendel Godfathers of post-punk, Subway Sect were one of the late 1970s’ best kept musical secrets, influencing the

likes of Joy Division and the Jesus & Mary Chain. The group was managed by Clash manager Bernie Rhodes and that’s where their bittersweet story begins. Originally scheduled for 2012, this documentary has been the subject of legal wrangling between the director and Vic Godard – a dispute that was finally resolved in March 2015. Includes appearances from Irvine Welsh, Edwyn Collins, Viv Albertine and Bobby Gillespie. 13

UK | 2015 | 67 min Rio Sunday 5 July, 1.45pm

UK | 2014 | 106 min World Premiere Genesis Wednesday 8 July, 9.00pm

DISASTER PLAYGROUND+Q&A DRAMA +Q&A Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun Nelly Ben Hayoun’s playful exploration of how our planet might deal with outer space catastrophes takes us from NASA to the UN, introducing the people responsible for dealing with a devastating asteroid impact. We learn about how they minimize the risks, including the deflection of hazardous Near Earth Objects. There’s also speculation about rebuilding human society, complete with mannequin reenactments.

Director: Sophie Mathisen Lena Dunham’s humour gets a British twist in Sophie Mathisen’s debut feature. Anna is recovering from a breakup while struggling as an actress. She escapes to Paris, staying with best friend Jean, who has given up performing for a quiet life with his boyfriend. Anna glimpses a different existence for herself, but further awkward situations loom.

UK | 2015 | 75 min Genesis Thursday 2 July, 6.00pm

THE DIVIDE +Q&A

Director: Katharine Round Inspired by the best-selling book The Spirit Level, Katharine Round’s film The Divide explores the widening gap between rich and poor, and what it means for the world we live in.

Exploring the reasons behind the everincreasing wealth-gap, its impact, and how inequality might even spell trouble for the rich, The Divide is a timely and prescient piece of globe-trotting documentary cinema; both a think piece and a powerful warning.

BEST DOC COMPETITION

UK | 2015 | 93 min Dalston Roof Park Tuesday 7 July, 7.00pm

DRESSED AS A GIRL

Director: Colin Rothbart A tale of lipstick and counterculture, Colin Rothbart’s debut documentary is a thrilling, hilarious and moving portrait of East London’s alternative drag scene, filmed over five years. Not just a

whirlwind of larger than life characters, Dressed As A Girl also showcases the real people behind the flamboyant stage personas, to universally resonant effect. Followed by live cabaret perfomances by stars of the film!

+ DRAG IS MY ECSTASY

UK | Director: Joseph Wilson | 21 min

UK | 2015 | 83 min Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 4 July, 1.00pm

ESTATE, A REVERIE +Q&A

Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman The passing of Hackney’s Haggerston Estate after 70 years is given poetic expression in A Reverie. Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film

UK/Belgium | 2014 | 72 min UK Premiere Genesis Saturday 4 July, 4.00pm

ELEPHANT’S DREAM +Q&A Director: Kristof Bilsen Kristof Bilsen’s first feature-length documentary is a poetic portrait of people working in the state-run post office, railway station and fire department in Kinshasa, the third 14

explores the death of a utopian dream, the reconfiguration of East London’s landscape, and a group of extraordinary people who refuse to be defined by economic or social brackets – even acting out stories from the past to keep the spirit alive.

largest city in Africa. Serenely composed and slightly ironic, it provides an essential insight into the Democratic Republic of Congo’s bureaucratic machinery, expertly attuned to said nation’s pace of life.

UK | 2015 | 42 min London Premiere Genesis Sunday 5 July, 4.00pm

UK | 2014 | 104 min UK Premiere Genesis Tuesday 7 July, 6.30pm

UK | 2014 | 53 min London Premiere Genesis Sunday 5 July, 1.30pm

UK | 2015 | 101 min European Premiere Genesis Wednesday 8 July, 6.30pm

GENERATION RIGHT +Q&A

HERE LIES +Q&A

LIFE’S A BEACH +Q&A

MALADY +Q&A

UK | 2015 | 70 min World Premiere Genesis Friday 3 July, 9.00pm

UK | 2014 | 83 min World Premiere Genesis Tuesday 7 July, 9.00pm

MASTERPIECE +Q&A

THE NEW BOY +Q&A

Director: Michelle Coomber This vital post-election film weighs the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Mixing archive and interviews with political figures, Generation Right examines the moment when inequality and capitalism became the driving forces of ‘progress’. Moving from 1980s turbulence through the 2008 crash and into the present day, it boldly asks what Thatcher’s story can tell us about how we live now.

Director: Mark Rivers A brilliantly witty and postmodern take on filmmaking, Mark Rivers’ debut feature sees a frustrated cameraman and would be filmmaker producing a retrospective of his life’s work, and slowly travelling into the darkest recesses of his mind. Interviewing friends, clips of his own work, archive footage and his own video diary, this is a portrait of filmmaker finally making his masterpiece, no matter what the cost.

UK | 2015 | 90 min World Premiere Genesis Friday 3 July, 6.30pm

Director: Duncan Ward Here Lies is the meta-fictional return of British director Duncan Ward. In it, he sets out to make a biopic of the controversial artist Ernst Hellmann (Daniel O’Meara). All the while Ward is being shadowed by students documenting the making of the film. As life and art begin to mirror each other in mysterious ways, both begin to unravel.

Director: Christine Lalla Two young sisters watch Sam, their new teenage neighbour from afar, tracking his movements and seeking out information about him. When they finally meet him, 10 year-old Dani strikes up a friendship and ends her spying but teenage Louisa takes a different path – during her continued surveillance of Sam she slips into obsession, before stumbling across another observer.

Director: John Baker Life’s a Beach is a moving and beautifully shot documentary about one man’s fight to live outside the system. Jerry ‘Mungo’ Francis uses driftwood, fishing debris and old car parts to build his own home on a Folkestone beach. He’s carved out an idyllic, self-sustainable lifestyle. However bureaucracy is never far away, and his mission suffers a major setback.

UK | 2014 | 100 min Genesis Saturday 11 July, 9.00pm

MLE +Q&A

Director: Sarah Warren Allegedly inspired by a true story, My Little Eye is Sarah Warren’s wickedly funny, East London-shot debut. Julie Robert has to cope with a new country, a lack of acting work,

Director: Jack James A bereaved woman finds solace in a man who connects with her through mutual grief. But guilt, shame, and skeletons in the closet will disrupt this union in Jack James’ haunting drama of love and loss. Malady is a brilliantly acted, moodily atmospheric exploration of the heights that emotions can reach in the most desperate of circumstances, and the circuitous journeys we face before reaching our final harbour.

a trouble-making best friend and people constantly mistaking her for Julia Roberts. When respite arrives via a job for a rich family intent on keeping tabs on their daughter, she finds herself embroiled in a cult – with hilarious, life-changing consequences.

NORTH VS SOUTH +Q&A

Director: Steven Nesbit Steven Nesbit’s second feature spins a tale of star-crossed lovers from rival families whose illicit affair plays out against a backdrop of war between northern hard men and their southern enemies. Featuring such familiar faces as Bernard Hill, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Steven Berkoff and Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman, this is British crime cinema at its most artful and fun. 15

UK | 2015 | 87 min London Premiere Genesis Saturday 11 July, 6.30pm

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NORFOLK +Q&A

Director: Martin Radich Distinctive, risk-taking British filmmaking, Martin Radich’s third feature is a visual and aural treat with a genre twist. Ostensibly a story of father and son involved in political terrorism, Norfolk uses its bucolic setting as a backdrop for revenge, familial breakdown and elemental violence. A disturbed mercenary known only as Man (Denis Ménochet) prepares for one final mission, only for his plans to be disrupted when his son falls for the girl living with the foreign revolutionaries he is targeting. This strange, often hallucinatory experience blends rural isolation, analogue technology, Rambo and the heavy weight of past tragedy on the present.

UK | 2015 | 90 min International Premiere Genesis Wednesday 1 July, 7.00pm

ONE CRAZY THING +Q&A Director: Amit Gupta Jay (Ray Panthaki) is a daytime TV star who has hit rock bottom after a sex tape scandal. He meets dream girl Hannah (Daisy Bevan), a bright musician suspicious of the digital age. How does Jay tell her about said incident? A great new contribution to the British comedy of embarrassment.

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UK | 2014 | 84 min Genesis Wednesday 8 July, 7.00pm

PANIC +Q&A

Director: Sean Spencer An agoraphobic music journalist struggling to leave his house following a brutal attack gets sucked into the world of people trafficking in Panic, the bracing debut feature

from London-based writer-director Sean Spencer. Largely shot in East London, Spencer’s film sees Andrew (David Gyasi, last seen in Interstellar and Cloud Atlas) become obsessed with the woman living in the apartment opposite. But when she disappears in mysterious circumstances, he is forced to face his fears and head out into the night, on a quest for both his and her salvation.

UK | 2015 | 65 min World Premiere Barbican Saturday 4 July, 4.00pm

UK | 2015 | 98 min World Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Wednesday 8 July, 6.30pm

PARAGRAPH +Q&A

PLEASURE ISLAND +Q&A

UK, Ukraine | 2015 | 80 min London Premiere Genesis Friday 10 July, 9.00pm

becomes intrigued by the Duga—a huge Soviet, mysterious radio antenna near site of the nuclear plant. Discovering it to be a secret Cold War weapon, it proved to have played a role in the disaster, as well as providing the key to understanding Russia’s role in the current conflict in Ukraine. Putting himself in danger in order to reveal the truth, this a mysterious, Sundancewinning documentary journey from the Cold War to present day conflict.

Directors: Jonathan Bentovim, Emily Harris Sophia and her son wander a foreign coastline in search of food and shelter, their only property a red suitcase. Are they fleeing from a distant memory, or are they themselves remnants from someone else’s mind? What happens when past visions and future facts collide? Inspired by a real diary entry, Paragraph treads the delicate line between storytelling and memory.

THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER Director: Chad Garcia Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich has been obsessed with Chernobyl ever since the disaster struck when he was 4 years old. Desperate to know more about what happened there, Fedor 16

Director: Mike Doxford Part thriller, part western, part portrait of faded seaside glamour, this is a tightly sketched character drama set on a crumbling stretch of coastline. Dean returns to Grimsby after several years away in the army. Greeted by most with either confusion or hostility, he is back purely to reconnect with Jess, a childhood friend struggling to raise a daughter on her own.

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UK | 2014 | 46 min World Premiere Rio Saturday 4 July, 1.30pm

UK | 2015 | 84 min World Premiere Genesis Thursday 9 July, 9.00pm

SING YOUR HEART OUT +Q&A SOFT LAD +Q&A Director: Péter Akar This bittersweet doc chronicles a choir for people dealing with depression in Hackney, led by a jazz singer from New York. It’s the kind of essential community work that’s under threat in our current age of austerity.

+ THE BALLAD OF RYE LANE UK | Director: Denisha Anderson & Amy Garcia-Brooks | 14 min

Director: Leon Lopez David has it all – he’s young, attractive and gotten into a prestigious dance school. But he’s also been sleeping with his sister’s husband Jules for two years. The directorial debut from former soap star Leon Lopez, Soft Lad is a mightily impressive low-budget feature boasting a host of familiar faces: an intelligent tale of lust and jealousy in contemporary Liverpool.

UK | 2015 | 63 min London Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 4 July, 6.30pm

STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP +Q&A Director: Ross Sutherland A meta-essay for the Michael Jackson generation, Stand By For Tape Back-Up offers an endearingly esoteric take on family, memory and analogue home

recording. Produced by Charlie Lyne (Beyond Clueless), it finds poet Ross Sutherland dredging the contents of a VHS tape swapped between himself and his grandfather, taking in music videos, terrible adverts and The Wizard of Oz. Rebuilding its fragments via sprawling recollections, poetic missives and beatrapping, this is the ultimate cinematic expression of how personal media govern our understanding of time, death and cherished memories.

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UK | 2015 | 60 min World Premiere Rio Saturday 4 July, 3.45pm

STEVIE G +Q&A

Director: Umut Gunduz Umut Gunduz’s portrait of his brother is an intimate attempt at reconnection. After years of estrangement from Stevie, Umut

UK | 2015 | 87 min World Premiere Genesis Thursday 2 July, 9.00pm

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING+Q&A Director: Ewan Thomas Chris has been travelling for 5 years. Returning to the UK and moving in with his brother in Hastings, he finds himself struggling to reintegrate into normal life. Having been running away from the

begins sifting through home videos in order to learn about a sibling he never knew while growing up. A complex character emerges, driven by bad choices and trauma into a life of crime, yet also charismatic and fascinating. Produced in partnership with YouTube and NFTS, this is a moving tale of familial bonds, and a magnetic central figure trying to get back on the right path.

UK | 2014 | 97 min Genesis Saturday 11 July, 9.00pm

UK | 2014 | 69 min World Premiere Genesis Saturday 4 July, 1.30pm

STILL +Q&A

TAKE IT BACK AND START ALL OVER +Q&A

Director: Simon Blake An intense portrait of disintegration featuring a towering performance from Aidan Gillen, Still follows a North London father on his own personal warpath. Carver is bereft after the loss of his son. Feuding with local teens, he unravels as the tension escalates, making a shocking discovery that demands a terrible decision. A brilliantly acted, nail-biting revenge thriller with deep conscience.

Director: Neil Rolland Can music change your life? Neil Rolland’s debut feature thinks so. Juggling her job and family, Jeannie’s creativity is reignited when she meets passionate busker Josh. This warm drama was shot in five days for £1,000 as part of Tartan Features, an open source collective nurturing micro-budget Scottish films.

death of his parents, his own reticence is matched by that of his brother and his sister-in-law, both of whom are failing to face up to their problems in their own ways. Billed as a ‘middle-class drama about decidedly middle-class problems’, This Is Not Happening is a taut triplehander of lost souls all coming to terms with what’s missing, all leading to a dramatic denouement, helmed by first time director and Mind the Gap alumnus Ewan Thomas. 17

UK | 2015 | 75 min Genesis Saturday 11 July, 4.00pm Free community screening

UDITA +Q&A

Director: Richard York & Hannan Majid A powerful firsthand account of the struggle of female garment workers for better working conditions in Bangladesh, Udita begins in 2010, when organising in the workplace resulted in beatings, sackings and arrests. Moving through episodes like the tragic Tazreen and Rana Plaza disasters, and through to the present, when the long standoff appears to finally be producing results, Udita tells this story of progress from the point of view of the workers themselves, as well as their union and its leaders. Weaving together characters from their acclaimed documentaries The Machinists and Tears in the Fabric with new stories, directors Richard York and Hannan Majid take a trip to the frontline of a vital struggle.

+ CAN I HAVE…

UK | Directors: Hazuan Hashim & Phil Maxwell | 5 min

EUROPEAN From the moving to the downright mental, and from the satirical to the surreal, this year’s European line up offers an eclectic feast of breakthrough filmmakers. From wacky science fiction (Crumbs, The Visit, Noah’s Ark) to life at the thin end of the wedge (Line of Credit, The Fool, Life in a Fishbowl); and from celebrations of sonic luminaries (Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise, Industrial Soundtrack) to the bloom of sexual awakening (Summer, Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents), and even a trip beyond the horizon (Atlantic), this line up sees filmmakers from the continent heading out for adventures, for both good and ill, to find their place in the world.

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Switzerland | 2015 | 110 min London Premiere Rich Mix Thursday 9 July, 8.45pm

ABOVE & BELOW +Q&A

Director: Nicolas Steiner Nicolas Steiner’s documentary is about living way, way out there “from Mars to Earth, and beneath its crust”. Five survivors hustle their way through a world that feels apocalyptic: Rick,

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Cindy and Godfather Lalo in the subterranean network of storm drains under the shiny strip of Las Vegas; Dave amid the lonesome beauty of the Californian desert; and April, simulating a Mars mission in full astronaut gear in arid Utah. Funny, moving and shot in beautiful widescreen, this is a glimpse of places that might be unfamiliar, but also of people not very different from ourselves.

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Netherlands | 2014 | 94 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Sunday 12 July, 3.30pm

ATLANTIC +Q&A

Director: Jan-Willem van Ewijk Atlantic tells the story of Fettah’s search for discovery and renewal during one fateful summer, as tourists flock to Fettah’s village to ride perfect waves and enjoy the tranquil local vibe. When

a repeat visitor arrives with a beautiful new companion, Fettah senses an undeniable connection. When she leaves, Fettah is compelled to undertake a quixotic solo voyage from Morocco to Europe over 300km of ocean, with only his sail and surfboard to carry him. What awaits him on that distant shore is uncertain, but he is determined to follow the dictates of his heart.

Spain/Ethiopia | 2015 | 68 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Friday 10 July, 9.00pm

CRUMBS +Q&A

Director: Miguel Llansó The story is set against the background of spectacular post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscapes, where our diminutive superhero Gagano – on the one hand gripped by daydreams and on the other by constant fears – has had enough of collecting the valuable crumbs of decayed civilisation, the valuable high points of which are merchandise from Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan. When a spaceship that has been hovering high in the sky for years starts showing signs of activity, Gagano has to overcome his fears – but also a witch, Santa Claus and second-generation Nazis – to find out that things aren’t quite the way he thought.

Switzerland | 2015 | 90 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 11 July, 6.15pm

DORA, OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS (DORA, ODER DIE SEXUELLEN NEUROSEN UNSERER ELTERN)

longer has to take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora discovers her sexuality her strive for independence becomes increasingly risky. As her mother struggles to protect her, the family is threatened to fall apart.

Director: Stina Werenfels After her mother decides that eighteenyear-old mentally disabled Dora no

Russia | 2014 | 116 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Friday 10 July, 8.30pm

THE FOOL (DURAK)

Director: Yuri Bykov A black comedy depicting the present state of Russia – with more than a hint of Dostoyevsky – The Fool follows one man’s doomed quest to help his fellow man. A plumber discovers a catastrophic leak at a local Moscow housing project, then comes up against an entire system of corrupt bureaucrats.

Germany, UK | 2015 | 100 min World Premiere Genesis Saturday 4 July, 7.00pm France | 2015 | 52 min Red Gallery (See page 34) Friday 3 July, 7.30pm

INDUSTRIAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE URBAN DECAY

Director: Amélie Ravalec, Travis Collins Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Test Dept and Boyd ‘Non’ Rice are among the trailblazing participants in this first doc dedicated to industrial: a provocative, inherently politicized

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Iceland | 2014 | 129 min London Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 11 July, 3.30pm

LIFE IN A FISHBOWL +Q&A

Director: Baldvin Zophoniasson Baldvin Zophoniasson’s second feature is a gripping tale of getting by in post-2008 Iceland. The film follows three very different characters offering a cross section of society after

form of musical expression borne out of cultural oppression, societal unrest and manufacturing decline in the 1970s. Spreading from decayed European cities through America’s thriving avantgarde underground, this iconoclastic movement married cutting edge sonics with punk’s DIY spirit and radical art to forever transform rock, dance, experimental and film music.

Director: Volker Schaner This is the ultimate portrait of one of the icons of contemporary music. Shooting over 15 years, Volker Schaner had unprecedented access to the man who can lay claim to be a godfather of both reggae and dub. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Vision of Paradise is funny, poetic and frequently mind-blowing.

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the financial crash. A kind-hearted single mother takes on a demeaning career to stay afloat and protect her child; a dishevelled drifter drinks in order to forget his past; and an ambitious businessman wrestles with his conscience in the face of corporate fraud. As they each consider how to help themselves and the people around them, what emerges is an Amores Perros for the austerity generation, woven into a wildly emotional drama.

Georgia, France, Germany | 2014 | 85 min UK Premiere Barbican Thursday 9 July, 6.00pm

LINE OF CREDIT (KREDITIS LIMITI)

Director: Salomé Alexi Line of Credit is an ironic, bleakly comic drama about sliding down the economic scales in post-Soviet Georgia. Nino, a

Spain | 2014 | 76 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 4 July, 4.40pm

NOAH’S ARK

Directors: Adán Aliaga, David Valero A piquant satire on the global financial crash and Spain’s current employment crisis, Noah’s Ark follows two lowly security guards brought together by mutual redundancy. Paco and Miguel 20

LEE SCRATCH PERRY’S VISION OF PARADISE +Q&A

fortysomething woman from a well-off family, is finding it hard to make ends meet while keeping up appearances. Selling off the family jewels to keep creditors at bay, she’s constantly having to find new ways of borrowing money. Shot in beautiful widescreen tableaux, with a message about the 170,000 Georgian families who have lost their homes over the past five years, this a brilliant take on shifting social mores and fortunes in the shadow of Russia.

have both been looking after the same abandoned factory for eight years. However, by working the day and night shift alternately, they’ve never spoken. But when they’re fired, they come together to make a plan for what to do next. Their answer is to build a strange machine in order to leap between dimensions, in this sweet, Michel Gondry-esque sci-fi adventure.

Ireland | 2014 | 96 min World Premiere Genesis Saturday 11 July, 1.30pm

NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD

Director: Donal Nugent Ghostly apparitions and skeletons in the closet punctuate this tale of a married couple who move into a new house only to find history – both personal and paranormal – catching up with them.

Denmark, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Norway | 2014 | 83 min Hackney Picturehouse Tuesday 7 July, 9.10pm Stratford East Picturehouse Friday 10 July, 6.30pm

THE VISIT

Director: Michael Madsen A re-enactment of an encounter that never happened, The Visit is a visually stunning, atmospheric and darkly comic

Greece | 2014 | 128 min UK Premiere Rio Sunday 12 July, 1.00pm

XENIA

Director: Panos H. Koutras After the death of their mother, Dany, 16, leaves Crete to join his older brother, Odysseas, who lives in Athens. Born from an Albanian mother and a Greek father they never met, the two brothers,

Weather forecaster Janice is forced to work from home after having an affair with her boss. Feeling guilty, she visits a spiritual healer. Afterwards, strange spectres start appearing in the house, and Janice begins to uncover a trail of troubled matrimony and murder. By confronting the situation she will also learn dark truths about herself, in Donal Nugent’s haunting debut feature.

Netherlands | 2014 | 83 min Rich Mix Friday 10 July, 6.30pm

SUMMER (ZOMMER)

role-play documentary. A non-fiction film unlike any other, The Visit sees conceptual artist Michael Madsen land at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (the OOSA) in Vienna. Once there, its real life chief receives a phone call, and the staff are soon informed that an alien has arrived...what emerges is a story about our own galactic status anxiety and humanity’s self image, set to the beat of a sci-fi thriller.

Austria | 2014 | 90 min World Premiere Genesis Sunday 5 July, 9.00pm

poverty and loneliness, she has always kept the faith that better days would arise. When she meets Anton, one of her father’s friends, she immediately falls in love and starts believing in a fortunate destiny with him. Against all impediments, their secret love affair may help Rosemarie to find out where she really belongs.

WHERE I BELONG +Q&A

Director: Fritz Urschitz Rosemarie is a hard-working young woman living in a small English town in the 1950’s. She left Austria with her father during the war to escape the Nazi oppression and since then, despite

Director: Colette Bothof Set over one sweltering summer, this charming drama focuses on Anna, a quiet teen who yearns to escape her small town and its looming power plant. She gets a much-needed boost with the arrival of the alluring Lena. Boasting authentic performances and cinematography that captures the season’s languor, this story of sexual awakening spotlights a girl daring to be different.

strangers in their own country, decide to go to Thessaloniki to look for their father and force him to officially recognize them. At the same time in Thessaloniki, is held the selection for the cult show, “Greek Star.” Dany dreams that his brother Odysseas, a gifted singer, could become the new star of the contest, in a country that refuses to accept them.

WORLD The marginalised and the downtrodden get a thrilling cinematic platform in this line up of spiky, powerful films. Spike Lee presents a gritty story of what happens on the bottom rung of the drug war in Manos Sucias. The art of getting by, and the consequences of doing the right thing, are explored everywhere from Trinidad (God Loves the Fighter) to the West Bank (Love, Theft & Other Entanglements). Meanwhile, relationships come apart at the seams under tricky circumstances (Good

USA | 2015 | 85 min London Premiere Genesis Sunday 12 July, 7.00pm

People, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Fire), and the great Terrence Malick can lay claim to having produced two films here in The 7th Fire, and a project he intended to direct himself before handing it to protégé A.J. Edwards: the beautiful The Better Angels. Meanwhile, three of the best documentaries of the year (Black Panthers, Welcome to Leith, 3 ½ Minutes) ruthlessly expose the ongoing crisis over the question of race in America. A selection of films to rise up to.

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3 ½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS +Q&A

Director: Marc Silver Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving November 2012, four boys in a red SUV pull into a gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls. With music blaring, one boy exits the car and enters the store, a quick stop for a soda and a pack of gum. A man and a woman pull up next to the boys in the station, making a stop for a bottle of wine. The woman enters the store and an argument breaks out when the driver of the second car asks the boys to turn the music down. 3 ½ minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead. 3 ½ Minutes dissects the aftermath of this fatal encounter.

Canada | 2014 | 85 min European Premiere Genesis Tuesday 7 July, 6.30pm

THE ANNIVERSARY

Director: Valerie Buhagiar On the morning of their 20th wedding anniversary, Teresa’s husband Sam goes for a run, and keeps on running. Hosting a dinner to celebrate the day, Teresa carries on regardless. But as the 22

evening unfolds it transpires that Sam left exactly a year ago, with his wife still waiting for his return. When their teenage son Nicky spikes the food with hallucinogens, the mood of the party changes dramatically. Everybody present will learn more about themselves and each other, as well as what it means to say: ‘I love you’.

USA | 2015 | 73 min European Premiere Genesis Thursday 2 July, 6.30pm

USA | 2015 | 95 min European Premiere Genesis Friday 3 July, 6.30pm

ASPIE SEEKS LOVE

ASTRAEA

Director: Julie Sokolow Julie Sokolow’s first documentary feature tells the story of a fearless outsider who has been searching for love longer than many of us have been alive. David Matthews was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at 41. For the past 20 years he has been sticking his own homemade personal ads to telephone poles, in search of The One.

Director: Kristjan Thor Set in a near-silent future America, Kristjan Thor’s post-apocalyptic drama follows a telepathic teenage girl and her brother on a 5,000 mile trek into the snowbound wilderness of Maine, as they search for the family that she is convinced are out there.

+ KEEP MOVING

UK | Director: Burton Bowen | 15 min

USA | 2015 | 116 min London Premiere Rio Sunday 5 July, 4.00pm

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION

to disillusionment with the Civil Rights movement by forming the Black Panthers. Award-winning director Nelson’s documentary is the definitive account of an iconic movement, blending stunning archive with firsthand testimony from key players.

Director: Stanley Nelson In the wake of Ferguson and Baltimore, there is no better time to revisit the story of 1960s activists who responded

USA, Canada, Georgia | 2015 | 90 min London Premiere Rich Mix Wednesday 8 July, 6.30pm

CHAMELEON

Director: Ryan Mullins Anas has been called the James Bond of Ghanaian journalism. He’s exposed a sex-trafficking ring by masquerading as a bartender, uncovered deplorable conditions in Accra’s psychiatric

THE BETTER ANGELS

The Tree of Life or The New World. Set in wild Indiana woodland, it charts a turbulent upbringing, foregrounding two women – played by Diane Kruger and Brit Marling – who shaped the young Lincoln’s outlook.

USA, Mexico | 2015 | 98 min London Premiere Rich Mix Thursday 9 July, 6.30pm

USA | 2015 | 72 min European Premiere Genesis Thursday 9 July, 6.30pm

CARTEL LAND

THE CENTER

USA | 2014 | 95 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Sunday 5 July, 8.40pm

Director: A. J. Edwards Terrence Malick collaborator A.J. Edwards’ stunning debut dramatizes Abraham Lincoln’s formative experiences, refracted through visions of nature and history familiar to fans of

Director: Matthew Heineman Cartel Land is a classic western set in the 21st century, pitting vigilantes on both sides of the border against the vicious Mexican drug cartels. With unprecedented access, this characterdriven film provokes deep questions about lawlessness, the breakdown of order, and whether it is just for citizens to take up arms to fight violence with violence.

Director: Charlie Griak Executive produced by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs), The Center is a frightening vision of cultish religion. Ryan is struggling in a dead end job and has no direction in life. Encountering The Center and its charismatic leader Vincent, Ryan finds a sense of purpose and hope.

hospital, posed as a crown prince in order to bypass a rebel checkpoint. His unorthodox methods are infamous throughout Ghana, but, despite his notoriety, his face is unknown to the public. The film takes us behind the scenes of the Tiger Eye Investigations Bureau hot on the heels of his next big case.

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USA | 2014 | 102 min London Premiere Hackney Picturehouse, 2 July, 6.30pm Electric, Sunday 5 July, 6.45pm

USA | 2014 | 89 min European Premiere Genesis Thursday 9 July, 6.30pm

THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

ELSEWHERE, NY

Director: Marielle Heller Blending live action with animation, writer-director Marielle Heller’s striking adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s lauded graphic novel is a nuanced tale of burgeoning sexuality and boundary testing. Set in countercultural San Francisco, this witty, intelligent feature debut was one of the breakout hits from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Jeffrey P. Nesker A breezy tale of romance and missed opportunities, Jen meets Todd on her first night in the Big Apple. Sharing a connection, she doesn’t see him again until happenstance sees him move in with her new boyfriend. Awkwardness soon turns to passion, and Jen is faced with a difficult decision, in this impressive film, made for just $500.

Argentina | 2015 | 95 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Wednesday 8 July, 9.15pm

THE FIRE (EL INCENDIO) +Q&A Director: Juan Schnitman Lucía and Marcelo are thirty years old. They are carrying a hundred thousand dollars in cash to pay for their new house. But something comes up for the real estate agent and the signing of the

papers is postponed. Tense and filled with frustration, they head back to their old apartment and put the money away in a safe place. Marcelo says to her: “Relax, today’s just another day”. Throughout the 24 hours of wait, the true nature of the love between Lucía and Marcelo unveils, as well as the crisis they are in and the violence within themselves. The film narrates these 24 hours of unbearable tension.

Trinidad & Tobago | 2015 | 104 min UK Premiere Rio Tuesday 7 July, 6.15pm

GOD LOVES THE FIGHTER +Q&A

Director: Damian Marcano King Curtis, a vagrant on the streets of Port of Spain, is constantly ignored by passersby. He speaks and if he has to – sometimes shouts the truth about the stories behind the newspaper headlines. As the conductor of our story, King Curtis introduces us to a young man named Charlie. Charlie, a resident east of the lighthouse, is trying his best to stay on the right path. However, with no job in sight, he is finding it hard to say no to other “opportunities”. A chance of redemption presents itself when Dinah, a professional streetwalker, crosses his path in need of help. As the story unfolds, King Curtis reveals the ripple effect created by a person’s decision making; leading to moments of triumph and moments of tragedy.

Lebanon | 2014 | 100 min UK Premiere Barbican Monday 6 July, 6.20pm

GHADI

Director: Amin Dora Music teacher Leba has two beautiful daughters with his wife Lara. But when their son Ghadi is born with Down syndrome, the local residents respond by labeling the boy’s singing demonic and petitioning to send him away. Leba decides to change their minds by convincing them that Ghadi is in fact an angel. This funny, touching drama was Lebanon’s official submission for the 2015 Academy Awards.

UK, USA | 2014 | 90 min London Premiere Stratford East Picturehouse Thursday 9 July, 6.30pm Electric Saturday 11 July, 6.45pm

GOOD PEOPLE

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz Moving from America to London to renovate a house, Tom and Anna Wright (James Franco and Kate Hudson) fall 24

into debt, before a mysterious set of circumstances drops a huge pile of cash into their laps. Pursued by a suspicious detective (Tom Wilkinson), a drug dealer and a criminal laying claim to the money, this is a rivetingly tense thriller about what happens when good people do bad things, featuring riveting performances from its Hollywood leads.

Australia | 2014 | 73 min European Premiere Genesis Saturday 4 July, 4.00pm Mexico | 2014 | 89 min London Premiere Rich Mix Wednesday 8 July, 8.30pm

HILDA

when she hires a new maid. Preoccupied by both the eponymous new employee and her own participation in a documentary about the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, she might just be reaching the point of madness.

Director: Andres Clariond A taut psychological drama of class and obsession, Hilda is the story of revolutionary turned bourgeois housewife Mrs Lemarchand, whose sense of identity is thrown into disarray

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UK | 1965 | 109 min Genesis Thursday 9 July, 4.00pm Free screening for the over 60s

HOW TO LOSE JOBS & THE IPCRESS FILE ALIENATE GIRLFRIENDS +Q&A Director: Sidney J. Furie Director: Tom Meadmore Lonely Planet film editor turned documentarian Tom Meadmore follows his girlfriend and his boss as they chase their separate dreams of musical stardom in Melbourne. Meadmore’s own insecurities flare while struggling to find a story, and he begins challenging his participants on camera – jeopardizing the film, relationships and careers.

The groundbreaking 1965 adaptation of Len Deighton’s espionage and psychedelic brainwashing novel boasts a signature turn by Michael Caine as reluctant London spy Harry Palmer. He’s the sardonic, streetwise antidote to James Bond, soundtracked by a suitably haunting John Barry score. This is a free screening for the over 60s.

Turkey | 2015 | 104 min UK Premiere Rio Sunday 12 July, 3.45pm

IVY +Q&A

Director: Tolga Karaçelik A group of disgruntled sailors go off the deep end in the extraordinary second feature from director Tolga Karaçelik (Tollbooth). Set on board a hulking cargo ship moored off the coast of Egypt, Ivy follows a skeleton crew of seabound misfits, including a narky Cypriot captain, his religiously devout number two, two dishevelled dossers, and the cliff-like, monosyllabic ‘Kurd’. Forced to stay onboard after their paymasters go bust, it isn’t long before power structures are dissolving, leading to tension, factionalism, threats of violence, and strange apparitions. Shot by Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s DOP Gökhan Tiryaki, this is a brilliantly atmospheric parable of cabin fever.

USA | 2014 | 72 min UK Premiere Genesis Saturday 11 July, 6.30pm

KILLSWITCH

Director: Ali Akbarzadeh Killswitch is about the battle for control over the Internet. Lawrence Lessig, Tim Wu and Peter Ludlow frame the story of two young hactivists, Aaron Swartz & Edward Snowden, who symbolize the

disruptive and dynamic nature of the Internet. Their lives parallel one another as they free information to millions on the Internet, putting them directly in the cross-hairs of the most powerful interests in the world. Will this be a cautionary tale of what happens when you dare to take on elite power structures? Or will it be the spark that ignites a revolution that will redefine democracy in the digital age?

BEST FILM COMPETITION

Palestine | 2015 | 93 min UK Premiere Barbican Wednesday 8 July, 8.30pm

LOVE, THEFT AND OTHER ENTANGLEMENTS (ALHOB WA AL-SARIQA WA MASHAKEL UKHRA) +Q&A

Director: Muayad Alayan A Palestinian car thief gets into the trouble of his life when he steals a car. What he thought was an Israeli car and an easy way to make money in his refugee camp turns out to be a load of misfortune when he discovers a kidnapped Israeli soldier in the trunk.

USA | 2015 | 90 min London Premiere Rio Saturday 11 July, 3.30pm Colombia | 2014 | 84 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Thursday 9 July, 6.45pm

MANOS SUCIAS

Director: Josef Kubota Wladyka From the port of Buenaventura--the most dangerous city in Colombia-three men embark on a journey over the dark murky waters of the Pacific. A set of mysterious coordinates is

their guide, a fishing net is their cover, and a narco-torpedo filled with 100kg of cocaine is their cargo. Following estranged brothers as they risk everything for a chance at a better life, Manos Sucias takes a close look at life at the bottom of the food chain in the international drug trade.

SALAD DAYS +Q&A

Director: Scott Crawford Chronicling a decade of punk in Washington DC from 1980 to 1990, this is the definitive film about the scene that spawned Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Rites of Spring and Fugazi. This was a true DIY movement, driven by artists determined to sidestep the music industry. Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore and Ian MacKaye are just some of the notable contributors.

BEST DOC COMPETITION

USA | 2014 | 78 min UK Premiere Barbican Thursday 7 July, 6.30pm

USA, Ireland, France | 2015 | 74 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Sunday 12 July, 4.00pm

THE SEVENTH FIRE

SHOULDER THE LION

Director: Jack Pettibone Riccobono Produced by Natalie Portman, Terrence Malick presents this doc about the Native American gang crisis in Minnesota. The Seventh Fire is a haunting yet often beautiful portrait of how the Ojibwe community’s cultural heritage is coming apart at the seams, another victim of poverty and despair in a country increasingly defined by the people forced out to its margins.

BEST DOC COMPETITION

Directors: Erinnisse Heuer, Patryk Rebisz The film features three people: a photographer who becomes blind, a painter/sculptor who loses half her brain in a boxing match, and a musician losing his hearing to tinnitus. Using art to illustrate change, this film explores how the human spirit prevails in the face of tragedy and what new meanings emerge that otherwise would not have been found if not for their disability.

Lebanon, | 2014 | 120 min UK Premiere Rich Mix Saturday 11 July, 15.40pm

TRIP ALONG EXODUS

Director: A narrative from the Palestinian diaspora told through VHS, 8mm, 16mm, HD video, photographs and animation, Trip Along Exodus is Hind Shoufani‘s interpretation of his own father’s journey, from the Galilee in

USA | 2015 | 85 min UK Premiere Hackney Picturehouse Friday 3 July, 6.30pm

WELCOME TO LEITH

Directors: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker Welcome to Leith is non-fiction cinema moulded into a high stakes thriller. Chronicling the attempted takeover of Leith, North Dakota by white 26

1948 to Princeton in the ‘60s, Beirut in the ‘70s, and the current war in Syria, plus 25 books on politics and history, a lead role in the1983 revolution against Arafat, and a Revolutionary Council member for the Palestinians. A tribute to a dramatic life lived across several countries, both poetic and beautiful, yet harshly critical of the political developments in the Arab world.

+ MIRROR IMAGE

Lebanon, Palestine | Dir: Danielle Schwartz| 11 min

supremacist Craig Cobb, it begins as an ‘enemy within’ story, as townsfolk realise that the man buying their land is trying to create a hub for America’s neo-Nazi movement. As Cobb’s disciples arrive the locals rise up, and this documentary takes an even more sinister turn.

Free Range Shows A Graduate Art + Design Season at The Old Truman Brewery 5th June - 13th July 2015 Fashion Design Photography Art Architecture Interior Design Proudly supported by

#freerangeshows for more information visit www.free-range.org.uk Artwork by Amy Moffat

Explore York Experience Film 15 venues. 300 films. 4 days.

5 - 8 November 2015 For Tickets And more information visit

www.asff.co.uk/tickets

SHORTS

DIG ME OUT (104 min) Genesis Thursday 2 July, 6.30pm Nine tales of characters stuck in a tight spot. These tricky situations feature a reluctant guest, an incomprehensible environment, troubling neighbours, a woman confronting her past, loss of hearing, a suspicious receptacle, future dystopia, a vegan feminist horror scenario and extreme vehicular irritation. What would you do in our protagonists’ place?

LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME (95 min) Stratford Picturehouse Sunday 5 July, 6.00pm

These documentary shorts profile our city’s ever-changing faces. We meet survivors of the 1943 Bethnal Green tube disaster, a Shoreditch pub landlady, five migrant women cooks in Hackney Wick and an 81-year-old Sink The Pink clubber. Steak pies are sampled in Deptford, gentrification is discussed by residents of Bermondsey and Dagenham, before this factual journey ends on the Docklands Light Railway.

EVERYBODY DANCE (86 min)

Genesis Thursday 9 July, 9.00pm

Presented in conjunction with BalletBoyz, our dedicated dance programme will thrill lovers of fancy footwork. These six films move gracefully from sun-kissed Lisbon to nighttime New York, via awkward grooves at a Brixton wedding and fiercely struck poses in a Bethnal Green boxing club. There’s a feast of creative choreography from New Orleans, before we shuffle back to the streets of London’s East End.

REBEL GIRL (99 min) Genesis Tuesday 7 July, 9.00pm This programme focuses on female protagonists – young and young at heart – from around the world. An Iranian school pupil learns about dress codes through the ages and a trailblazing World War I heroine is celebrated. Homegrown bullies and Spanish bankers are faced down, while an Indian street kid, French-Canadian cake vendor and mixed-race rude girl each hold their own.

REFLECTIONS (90 min) Barbican Saturday 4 July, 2.00pm This multifaceted, meditative programme offers perspectives on absence, betrayal, death, God and the things we leave behind. The unseen history of UK postwar asylum life is explored through an essay film. West Midlands natives speak monologues as if from the grave. A widow considers her lot in the countryside. A spirit medium fields visitors. And a man prepares to break bread with his maker.

SPARKS FLY (102 min) Rio Saturday 11 July, 1.15pm

The course of true love never did run smooth... A young man struggles with his sexuality; another desperately craves attention. Teenage photography students get snappy; lonely strangers share an awkward, matchmaking app date. A widower unexpectedly expands his horizons; bus passengers meet notso-cute. A countryside connection is tantalized; the city nurtures soulmates.

RUNNING IN THE FAMILY (98 min)

SPELLBOUND (89 min) Hackney Picturehouse Saturday 4 July, 3.30pm

Genesis Wednesday 8 July, 9.00pm It’s all relative! Familial matters are viewed through a wide lens in this dramatic selection, showcasing an estranged dad, a not-so-grown-up mother and daughter, a child of divorce and an inspiring surrogate parent. Other stories spotlight a bizarre brother-sister combo, twins separated by space and time, young siblings left alone plus, of course, a beloved family pet.

A half dozen selections ripe with strange forces and inexorable portents. We see behind the facade of a gothic flower shop and take a sinister rural trip. Native American mythology is transposed to the Scottish Highlands. A night runner experiences transcendence. An artist is haunted by his muse. And a 1950s TV cook visits a mysterious hotel...

Genesis Sunday 5 July, 1.30pm Welcome to the ZOOM screening at the 2015 East End Film Festival. In 2008 The British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT) was set up to commission short films and television programmes made by Deaf people for Deaf people in British Sign Language (BSL). In 2009 BSLBT and Neath Films launched the ZOOM scheme to help younger, emerging Deaf filmmakers produce their first or second low budget short programme for TV broadcast on Film4 and the Community Channel.

The remit of the scheme was simple: if you are a new Deaf filmmaker you can apply for ZOOM and make a film of approx. 9-12 mins, and if you are more experienced you can make a film of 24mins under the ZOOM FOCUS banner. A total of 26 short films have been produced by 18 different directors since 2010 and many of the films have gone to have a healthy festival life winning numerous awards around the world. To see more BSL films, and more of the ZOOM films, please visit BSLBT’s website www.bslzone.co.uk For more information on the films please contact: hi@neathfilms.com *Hands in the air*

THE BIG DECISIONS

Director: John Finn | 16 min A personal documentary featuring Director John Finn and his family as they explore their decisions to give their daughter a Cochlear Implant at the age of three when she became Deaf (SL).

IF I DON’T LOSE, I’LL LOSE

Director: Jean St Clair | 14 min ‘Best Actress’ nominee Mabel Morgan needs to lose weight for her next leading film role but temptations inside her home and news that her rival is up for the same award and acting gig threaten to sabotage her chances at success.

THIS IS I: REMEMBER ME

Director: Jake Smallwood | 16 min This Is I: Remember Me touches on a sensitive topic, looking at the challenge Deaf people in their golden years face with little known disease, dementia (SL).

DOUBLE DISCRIMINATION

Director: Rinkoo Barpaga | 28 min Written and Directed by Rinkoo Barpaga, this personal documentary examines whether racism exists in the Deaf community, told from Rinkoo’s personal background and perspective (SL).

LISTEN, EVEN WHEN YOUR HEART IS CRYING

Director: Melissa Mostyn | 27 min A personal documentary by filmmaker and artist Melissa Mostyn, exploring the often taboo and unspoken grief felt by families when they find themselves with a Deaf child and the impact that that has on their offspring.

DOES DEAF FOOTBALL HAVE A FUTURE? Director: Melissa Mostyn | 27 min Exploring the rich past and uncertain future of Deaf football, this short documentary is a snapshot of the current state of an important activity for the Deaf community.

4 JULY

THE TEMPLE, ANDAZ LIVERPOOL STREET HOTEL

THE MACABRE MASQUERADE HIDDEN CRIME, SECRET VENGEANCE, AND FINAL REDEMPTION: THE PERFECT PULP FICTION COCKTAIL In homage to George Franju’s 1963 production of Judex, East End Film Festival would like to extend A Curious Invitation to a macabre night of ballroom play, immersive cinema and murder mystery masquerade in the bowels of London’s most secret Masonic Temple.

SATURDAY 4 JULY, 8.00PM THE TEMPLE AT ANDAZ LIVERPOOL STREET HOTEL TICKETS STARTING FROM £15 FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND TO BOOK YOUR PLACE: WWW.EASTENDFILMFESTIVAL.COM/EVENTS

WITH PERFORMANCES FROM:

ART MACABRE

MARNIE SCARLET

DRESS UP DOLLS

DJ DIDDY WAH

LIFE DRAWING WITH A LETHAL DOSE OF THEATRICALITY

THE SCARLET DIVA OF FETISH CABARET

CUNNING VIXENS OF PROMENADE THEATRE

TWICE SHY

TOP SHELF

MIGUEL DARE

ROCKABILLY RASCAL AND PURVEYOR OF CLASSIC BLUES, SURF, R&B, GOSPEL, SOUL AND ROCK’N’ROLL

BUNRAKU PUPPETRY AT ITS FINEST

LONDON’S PURVEYORS OF FILTHY SWING

LONDON’S HOTTEST PARTY DJ

SCREENINGS

FROM MURDER TO MIND CONTROL The Temple at Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel

Descend into the eerie confines of a masonic temple for this devilishly unsettling combination of screenings and events: taking you from murder and mayhem into the sinister sinews of the brainwashed and their puppet-masters...

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, 2015. As a core value of Hyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifestyle Andaz brand, Andaz Liverpool Street reflects the personality of its locale and through partnership with the Festival joins in the celebration of Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East End cultural scene.

SATURDAY 4 JULY

SUNDAY 5 JULY

DAYTIME

1 Session: £10 2 Sessions: £15 www.eastendfilmfestival.com/events

1.00PM: ELECTRIC SHEEP PRESENTS: THE DEAD EYES OF LONDON + TALK

SESSION 1 12.00PM–4.00PM SESSION 2 4.00PM–8.00PM

Tickets: £10 www.eastendfilmfestival.com/events

Director: Alfred Vohrer | USA | 1961 | 104 min Nothing is as it looks in this murder mystery lead by a mysterious reverend.

+ MISKATONIC GRADUATION

A ceremony for the graduates of Electric Sheep’s horror lecture series.

4.00PM: CIGARETTE BURNS PRESENTS: THE CASE OF THE SCORPION’S TAIL: 16MM

Director: Sergio Martino | Italy | 1971 | 90 min This deliciously macabre setting paired with a lustrous 16mm projection make this a rare opportunity to sample this devilishly entertaining 70s thriller as a millionaire dies in a mysterious freak accident leaving his widow set to enjoy the rich spoils.

AFTER DARK Tickets: £25 (see page 31) www.eastendfilmfestival.com/events

8.00PM: MACABRE MASONIC MASQUERADE + SCREENING OF JUDEX

Director: Georges Franju | France | 1963 | 98 min Join us for a macabre night of ballroom play, immersive cinema and murder mystery masquerade featuring a screening of Favraux’s thrilling pulp-hero remake of the 1916 French film serial of the same name.

DEPROGRAMME: A MIND CONTROL EXPERIMENT

From the outer perimeters of cultism to the inner workings of governmental institutions bent on controlling their citizens, Deprogramme invites you to test your own capacity for mind control. Across a whole day, EEFF will be communicating with you through a series of screenings, talks and interactive indulgences. We will investigate the stories behind some of history’s most renowned sects, whether their leaders were eccentric megalomaniacs or at the centre of government control. From the process of indoctrination to the terrible results of mind control, Deprogramme will lead you into thought experiments of the darkest order. It is your choice whether you follow. Highlights include: An ex-cult member re-enacts their own past in Moonchild, a vicious act of violence on the Japanese metro in the shocking documentary A, a special insight into the world’s most famous deprogrammer, and an array of dissonance, public information films and subliminal messages. Further information to be communicated to you by telepathy, listen for the white noise. Be one of us.

SEE WWW.EASTENDFILMFESTIVAL.COM FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE DEPROGRAMME

EVENTS

1.45PM FLYING ANARCHISTS

INTERVAL (30 MINUTES)

THERAIKOS ORTHROS (THERAIK DAWN)

4.15PM READING OF THREE POEMS BY KATERINA GOGOU

AS TO POSTERITY

KATERINA GOGOU: REINSTATING THE DARK SIDE + INTRODUCTION BY THE DIRECTOR

Dir. Hellenic Police Force | 2014 | 20 min Police footage of flying anarchists.

Dirs. Kostas Sfikas, Stavros Tornes | 1967 | 20 min A bittersweet tribute to the island of Santorini and the first wave of tourists to arrive there.

ATHENS

NOW CURATED BY SCHTINTER

Dir. Marina Gioti | 2014 | 12 min Athens of the near future: devoid of humans, a picturesque expedition of metal and plastic debris as the new Greek Ruins.

RETURN TO AEOLUS STREET

Dir. Maria Kourkouta | 2013 | 15 min New roles for the ghosts of Greek cinema.

THE DIVIDED LINE

Dir. Stephane Charpentier | 2013-2014 | 20 min The profound document of Greece’s humanitarian crisis.

2.30PM PERFORMANCE BY THE BOY (ALEXANDER VOULGARIS)

Whitechapel Gallery Saturday 4 July, 1.45pm For more information and to book tickets visit www.whitechapelgallery.org

20 min

TITLOI TELOUS (OUT OF FRAME)

A symposium of radical film from contemporary Greece. Athens NOW is a programme of film routed in and responding to the humanitarian crisis as experienced by the people of Greece since 2008. Covering the struggle of the past seven years, and demonstrating a positive and creative outcome beyond the inevitability of Europe’s collapse. Each film in this programme is a UK premiere.

Dirs. Yorgos Zois | 2012 | 10 min Hundreds of empty billboards across Greece say more than the adverts they once held.

ACCIDENTAL PROSECUTION OF AN ANARCHIST

Dir. Diakoptes Athens | 2013 | 20 min Radical film cooperative, Diakoptes, cover the unlawful prosecution of anarchist T. Sispas. TOTAL: 120 minutes

INDUSTRIAL SOUNDTRACK +CABARET VOLTAIRE DJ Red Gallery Friday 3 July, 7.30pm £10, www.eastendfilmfestival/events

INDUSTRIAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE URBAN DECAY

France | 2015 | 52 min Director: Amélie Ravalec, Travis Collins Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Test Dept and Boyd ‘Non’ Rice are among the trailblazing participants in this first documentary dedicated to industrial: a provocative, inherently politicized form of musical expression borne out of

cultural oppression, societal unrest and manufacturing decline in the 1970s. Don your sternest party wear for our special multimedia event, which will feature a senses-stunning DJ line-up topped by Cabaret Voltaire legend (and film interviewee) Stephen Mallinder.

Photographs by Ilias Georgiadis and Iraklis Dimitriadis projected.

(in English and Greek, from the 1983 publication ‘Three Clicks Left’)

Dir. Antonis Boskoitis | 2012 | 67 min Katerina Gogou: actress, poet and militant anarchist remembered by people who’s lives she touched.

END: 6.00PM CURATOR BIO

Schtinter deals with ‘film as liberating application in the margins in search of the real world’. He regularly collaborates with revered Dutch filmmaker / musician, Frans Zwartjes, and recently released their compositions through his own label: purge.xxx. He curated Iain Sinclair’s yearlong film season, 70x70, and is currently writing a feature film to be directed by Chris Petit. He has exhibited and curated work internationally at venues including Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Barbican (London). He lives and works in Athens and London. THANKS: Anja Kirschner, Gareth Evans, COIL magazine.

X-RAY AUDIO

Friday 3 July, 7.30pm Masonic Temple £10 To book tickets: www.eastendfilmfestival/events Cold War Russia: the recording industry is completely state controlled, but music-mad bootleggers risk imprisonment with an extraordinary means of reproduction. They cut forbidden jazz, rock ’n’ roll and banned Russian music onto used X-ray plates, creating ghostly records with images of the interiors of Soviet citizens.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Stephen came across the X-ray audio project when travelling to Russia to perform as The Real Tuesday Weld. Fellow early recording enthusiast Aleks was the 2013 artist in residence at London’s Science Museum, and also performs with wax cylinder recordings www.x-rayaudio.squarespace.com

Author, composer and musician Stephen Coates presents this incredible story of bootleg technology, Cold War culture and human endeavour. In a unique event, he and sound artist Aleks Kolkowski will explain the magical process of recording onto various discs and provide a live demonstration of cutting music onto a new X-ray.

BLANCK MASS X EAST END FILM FESTIVAL SOUNDTRACK LAUNCH

Red Gallery Friday 10 July, 7.30pm £10, www.eastendfilmfestival/events

THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS + BRAND NEW ORIGINAL SCORE

Belgium, France, Luxembrourg | 2013 | 102 min Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani A dazzling tribute to the great Italian horror films of the 1970s will get a retrofit all of its own at this very special event. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s neo-giallo 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 place’s other inhabitants. The initial release of The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears had no original score and instead used music from existing giallo films. Blanck Mass, Death Waltz Originals and East End Film Festival are now proud to present a spectacular new record that reaches beyond regular film soundtracks.

Edinburgh-based musician Ben Power (Blanck Mass, Fuck Buttons) has devised a stage for experimentation and collaboration with several artists from across the globe. Each was assigned a scene to work with and given complete freedom to score it how they wanted, without any knowledge of what was planned by the other musicians. Contributions came from Stockholm’s Roll The Dice, London’s Helm, Moon Gangs, and Phil Julian, Glasgow’s Konx-Om-Pax, and New York’s C. Spencer Yeh, as well as Blanck Mass himself. The end result is a fascinating record that enthralls, seduces and terrifies in equal measure. Death Waltz’s double vinyl is housed inside a 425gsm reverse board gatefold sleeve pressed on an exclusive screening event colour ltd to 500 units. The screening will be followed by a DJ set from Blanck Mass and friends. @BlanckMass

Founded by former Rough Trade East manager Spencer Hickman in 2012, soundtrack specialists Death Waltz Recording Company deliver high-end collector’s packages pressed on vinyl, wrapped in stunning bespoke artwork.

EVENTS

BIOSCOPE: CHARLIE CHAPLIN Genesis Sunday 5 July, 6.30pm £8, £5 concessions The Genesis has been a music hall and then a cinema for over 150 years. To celebrate both this and the fact that it once hosted the legendary Charlie Chaplin, we will be teaming up with Cyrus Gabrysch and the Bioscope team for an evening of silent cinema with live accompaniment, plus the unveiling of a special commemorative plaque.

FARE THEE WELL: GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE

MARK IT IT ALWAYS ZERO FILM RAINS ON QUIZ: EAST SUNDAY END SPECIAL

Genesis Monday 6 July, 6.30pm £15, £13 concessions

Trapeze Bar, 89 Great Eastern Street Wednesday 8 July, 7pm Free entry

Broadcast from Soldier Field in Chicago, this epic event will take place nearly 20 years to the day of the last Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia. The four original members — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir — are set to be joined by multiple Grammy-winner Bruce Hornsby.

The all-singing, all-dancing, all-cocktail making film quiz with a difference returns for an East End special. Expect to win by being silly, making drinks, acting, dancing and occasionally answering questions about films.

Genesis Friday 10 July, 6.30pm £8, £5 concessions

To celebrate London Books’ re-release of It Always Rains On Sunday we will be screening the Ealing adaptation of Arthur La Bern’s classic East London novel, with an introduction by crime novelist Cathi Unsworth. This will followed by ‘40s swing dancing with the London Swing Society in the Cornet Bar.

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CREATIVE MEDIA EDUCATION

The third edition of Cutting East Film Festival ran from 20-22 March this year, cementing its place as London’s go-to festival for celebrating, promoting and exploring young people’s achievements in film. A multi-arts event combining music, film, poetry, performance and art, Cutting East is the youth-led arm of East End Film Festival, and is a partnership between EEFF, Tower Hamlets Council, Mile End Community Project and Queen Mary’s University of London. The 2015 festival took place at Genesis Cinema and showcased the work of East London’s most talented young filmmakers. Award-winning animation team ‘A Team Arts – House of Talent’ won first prize for Hidden Heroes, a five-minute stop motion film honouring the bravery of and sacrifices made by soldiers from the Indian subcontinent on behalf of the British War effort from 1914-18. The Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund Rising Star Award was presented in partnership with the East End Film Festival and a cash prize of £250 was awarded. The winning filmmakers were all aged from 13-19.

The shortlisted films were judged by a panel of industry experts including Alison Poltock, Director of EEFF; Cairo Cannon, Producer of The Falling and Dreams of a Life and Executive Producer for Film London and the Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham Film Fund; Ally Clow, Manager of Genesis Cinema and AK Rahman, Cutting East Programmer. The Cutting East programming team is made up of ambitious, talented young people who come from Tower Hamlets. Cutting East are always searching for the next wave of programmers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, organisers, performers, DJs and, quite frankly, anyone who can get creative and have fun! The opportunities are endless.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN CUTTING EAST, AND NEXT YEAR’S PROGRAMME, VISIT WWW.CUTTINGEAST.CO.UK

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HOW TO MAKE IT AS A FILMMAKER BEYOND YOUR FIRST FEATURE Mind the Gap was an informative and inspiring week for us as we were about to embark on our first feature. We went without knowing exactly how we would fund our film and came away with a brilliant solution thanks to a session at the festival. The range of speakers was excellent and provided real food for thought, whilst the networking opportunities gave rise to meaningful and productive collaborations.” —Ewan Thomas, director This Is Not Happening, screening EEFF 2015

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 and beyond… then 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!