Foyle Film Festival Intercultural & Anti-Racism Programme 2015

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10th INTERCULTURAL & ANTI-RACISM PROGRAMME MONDAY 23 – SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015

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WELCOME Foyle Film Festival’s 10th annual Intercultural & Anti-Racism Programme takes place from Monday 23 to Saturday 28 March. For a decade now this important educational event offers primary, post-primary schools, colleges, community groups and the general public, a programme of international films, documentaries, workshops and outreach screenings, exploring the themes and issues involved.

COST & BOOKING FESTIVAL EDUCATION OFFICE Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6HJ If you are travelling to attend Foyle Film Festival Intercultural events we can support you with bus or transport assistance.

PLEASE NOTE: Schools must pay bus companies directly and then invoice Foyle Film Festival for the amount paid as a reimbursement following the event.

To book any educational screening, workshop or event, please complete the enclosed booking form and either post, email or fax it to the co-ordinator: CONTACT: Christopher Morrison TEL: 028 7137 3456 OR 7126 0562 FAX: 028 7137 1738 EMAIL: c.morrison@nervecentre.org

To maximise participation in this important educational programme, there is a nominal charge only for all events: SCHOOL EVENTS Brunswick Moviebowl School Screenings: £2.00 School-based Outreach Screenings: £1.00 School-based Outreach Workshops: £2.50 NO CHARGE FOR TEACHERS PUBLIC SCREENINGS Nerve Centre Screenings: Brunswick Screenings: Special Guest Presentations/Events:

£2.00 £1.50 £3.00

This annual event is aimed at raising awareness around issues such as racism, discrimination and harassment including racial bullying. It seeks to educate children, young people and the wider public, to accept, value, and embrace diversity in all its forms – whether race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, the poor, migrants, minorities, those with physical disabilities – as well as encouraging awareness of local and global issues like war, human rights abuses and the environment. The objectives of this diverse programme are to broaden children’s and young people’s cultural awareness, literacy skills and cine-literacy abilities. The long-term objectives and outcomes of the Intercultural & Anti-Racism Programme are to promote tolerance and inclusion.

Foyle Film Festival is a flagship project of the Nerve Centre.

Foyle Film Festival’s Intercultural & Anti-Racism Programme is funded

by DCAL through Northern Ireland Screen. Venue Partner is Brunswick Moviebowl.

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HOME 3D

MONDAY 23 MARCH @ 10AM

CHILDREN’S LITERARY CLASSIC ON THE BIG SCREEN: CHARLOTTE’S WEB

TUESDAY 24 MARCH @ 10AM

VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 1 & 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: PDMU / WAU THEMES: FRIENDSHIP / BEING DIFFERENT / MAKING MISTAKES

VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 1 & 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: PDMU / WAU THEMES: FRIENDSHIP / LOVE / RESPONSIBILITY / EMPATHY / RESPECT

USA.2014. Director: Tim Johnson. Cast: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones, Steve Martin. Duration: 1hr.33mins. Cert: PG. Distributor: 20th Century Fox/ Dreamworks Animation

USA.2006. Director: Gary Winick. Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Robert Redford, Kathy Bates. Duration: 1hr.37mins. Cert: U. Distributor: Park Circus

From Dreamworks comes the adventures of Oh, a lovable misfit from another planet, who lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people. As a result, Oh forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human.

And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word HOME.

Based on the beloved children's novel by E.B. White, a young girl named Fern rescues a runty piglet, raises it as her own and names him Wilbur. However, after Wilbur grows into a pig, she is compelled to sell him to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman down the street. At Zuckerman's barn, Wilbur meets a host of animals and later learns from them that come winter, he will be on the dinner menu. Fearing for his life, Charlotte, a gentle and friendly spider, hatches a plan to make Wilbur seem special enough to save by weaving messages about the "terrific" pig into her web, and she soon persuades her barnyard friends to join in her plan.

“ Beautifully photographed… an entertaining and sweet film that also opens the door to many valuable family discussions about friendship, love, life and death.”

Richard Propes, The Independent Critic

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PRIMARY OUTREACH FILM PROGRAMME Teachers can book any of the following educational packages to screen in the classroom – no need to organise buses – just choose a date and time between Monday 23 and Friday 27 March. After-school screenings can also be accommodated.

COST: £1.00 per pupil. Teachers free. There is a minimum booking of 50 places required for outreach screenings (although exceptions may be made at the organiser’s discretion).

PLEASE NOTE: Schools booking Outreach Packages must ensure that the hall or classroom in which the screening will take place has blackout facilities in order to provide the best viewing conditions for pupils. The Nerve Centre will provide the technician and all other equipment necessary.

PACKAGE ONE

NOCTURNA

PACKAGE TWO

THE AVIATORS

PACKAGE THREE

PADDINGTON

SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 1 & 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: PDMU / WAU THEMES: TRAVEL / ADVENTURE / FAMILY / FRIENDSHIP UK/France.2014. Director: Paul King. Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw.

Duration: 1hr.35mins. Cert: PG SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 1 & 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: PDUM / WAU THEMES: FEAR / ADVENTURE / TRAVEL / COURAGE / LOVE & LOSS / LONELINESS Spain/France.2007. Director(s): Adrià García & Victor Maldonado. Cast: Imanol Arias, Hèlène Bizot, Hervè Caradec, Roger Carel. Duration: 1hr.20mins. Cert: U. Language: English Tim is a little boy in a large orphanage where he is not particularly popular. He is also terrified of the dark and sleeps near a window where he can see his star Adhara that comforts him while he sleeps. One night he is alarmed by the discovery that his star Adhara has disappeared. Tim goes to the roof to investigate and nearly falls off the building, but is saved by a strange character called the Cat Shepherd. This creature is responsible, along with his cats, for making sure little children go to sleep. As they discuss the missing star, others begin to disappear as well. The world is growing darker. Tim is soon on a journey throughout Nocturna to find the star keeper and defeat the evil that is stealing all the light. He is aided by a strange and wonderful cast of friends including the Cat Shepherd, his guardian cat Tobumori, the North Star and many others. But in the end he will have to face his own fears of the dark when things look most bleak.

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SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 1 & 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: PDMU / WAU THEMES: RESPONSIBILITY / WAR / HELPING OTHERS Spain.2008. Director: Miquel Pujol. Cast: Brad Garrett, Jeff Foxworthy, Phil Austin, Cyrille Autin, Yann Bean. Duration: 1hr.25mins. Cert: U. Language: English.

This animated feature borrows on the famous stories of carrier pigeons used by the allies during WWI to convey messages and intelligence. Aware of their responsibility to help against the enemy, a clumsy but bold group of carrier pigeons along with their sidekick engineer mouse become messengers to try and save the life of a battalion of American soldiers. They will have to endure a barrage from enemy soldiers, planes and a squadron of evil birds of prey led by the infamous Red Falcon.

Adapted from Michael Bond’s beloved books, Paddington follows the comic misadventures of a polite young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British, who travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realise that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kind Brown family, who read the label around his neck (‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’) and offer him a temporary haven. But little do the Browns realise just how much comic mayhem one young bear will bring to their family life, and when this rarest of bears catches the eye of a sinister, seductive taxidermist, it isn’t long before his home – and very existence – is under threat.

Nominated for a BAFTA.

“ Paddington is beautifully constructed, intelligently written, wondrously acted by its ensemble cast, and simply a joy to behold.”

Richard Propes, The Independent Critic

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PRIMARY OUTREACH iPAD ANIMATION WORKSHOP PROGRAMME ANIMATION FOR ACTION!

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SPECIAL WEEKEND FAMILY EVENT 75th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: PINOCCHIO SATURDAY 28 MARCH @ 11.40am

DATES AVAILABLE TO BOOK: MONDAY 23, TUESDAY 24, WEDNESDAY 25, MONDAY 30, TUESDAY 31 MARCH AND WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 2015

VENUE: SCHOOL-BASED WORKSHOP SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGE 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: PDMU / THE ARTS / UICT / WAU / LANGUAGE & LITERACY THEMES: JUSTICE / RESPONSIBILITY / DOING THE RIGHT THING DURATION: 2hrs MAXIMUM PLACES AVAILABLE: 30 COST: £2.50 Alongside our main programme exploring people who found the courage to face down injustice, pupils will use iPads to create imaginative mobile movie sequences featuring mini-sized heroes. Using animation and green screen techniques, and starring a motley crew cast, participants will create simple stop motion sequences where size doesn’t matter when you’re standing up to wrongdoing!

Participating KS2 pupils will explore citizenship, film language and exciting accessible ways to make films, as well as engage in teamwork under time pressure.

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VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL SUITABLE FOR: THE WHOLE FAMILY AREAS OF LEARNING: PDMU / WAU THEMES: LEARNING RIGHT FROM WRONG / PEER PRESSURE / COURAGE / TEMPTATION / HONESTY / DREAMS & WISHES USA.1940. Director(s): Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske. Cast: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc. Duration: 1hr.28mins. Cert: U. Distributor: Park Circus The most magical of animated films, Pinocchio represents a high point of cinematic invention. Its impact on fantasy is huge: Steven Spielberg quotes the soaring ballad “When You Wish Upon A Star” in his dream project Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and remade the whole movie with his robot-boy adventure A. I. Artificial Intelligence.

The first animated film to win an Academy Award, Pinocchio is a parable for children, and generations have grown up remembering the words “Let your conscience be your guide” and “A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face”.

Winner of two Oscars®.

“ Will remain immortal as long as we draw, paint, tell tall tales and wish upon stars.”

Time Out

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SELMA – 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the voting rights act it helped inspire WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH @ 10AM VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGE 3 (Yrs 9 & 10), KEY STAGE 4 & SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM LINKS: HISTORY / POLITICS / CITIZENSHIP / PDMU / WAU THEMES: HUMAN RIGHTS / CIVIL RIGHTS / DISCRIMINATION / PREJUDICE / INEQUALITY / SOLIDARITY / NON-VIOLENT OPPOSITION / HEROISM UK/USA.2014. Director: Ava DuVernay. Cast: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey. Duration: 2hrs.8mins. Cert: 12A. Distributor: Pathe

Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.

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Director Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

Nominated for two Oscars® .

“ A razor-sharp portrait of the civil rights movement.”

Variety

“ A truly great American film.”

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (GOODBYE, CHILDREN) Marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps THURSDAY 26 MARCH @ 10AM VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGE 3 (Yrs 9 & 10), KEY STAGE 4 & SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM LINKS: HISTORY / POLITICS / GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP / PDMU / WAU THEMES: WAR / RELIGION / RACISM / HATRED / THE HOLOCAUST / FRIENDSHIP / CHILDHOOD / TRUST / BETRAYAL / HELPING OTHERS France/West Germany/Italy.1987. Director: Louis Malle.

Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette.

Duration: 1hr.44mins. Cert: 12A. Distributor: BFI One of the simplest films ever made about the Holocaust, Louis Malle tackles the issue not on the war front or in a concentration camp, but at the personal level, more specifically the impact that a war and racism could have on children, one day to become adults. Malle brings his own story to the film so effectively and touchingly, without being dramatically sentimental, showing the children going out into the world prematurely with dark stories, guilt on their soul, and living with fear; or children simply marching out to concentration camps with proud defiance and the fear of dying any moment.

It’s a story of rivalry and friendship between two bright boys, out of place to the ordinary bullies around. One,

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Julien Quentin, precocious, highly intelligent, fiercely individualistic and faithless. The other, Jean Bonnet, talented, alone, constantly afraid and with a bold defiant belief in his religion. What starts out as a rivalry soon develops into friendship, but ends abruptly with the capture of one and the guilt of the other to regret forever: if he wouldn’t have turned, what would have happened?

The film’s beauty lies in that it solely concentrates on the boys and the boarding school run by the monastery. The sole ‘outside’ incident is the Vichy men’s attempt to throw an old Jewish man out of a posh restaurant, but it still impinges on school life, since Quentin knows the extent to which a man can be persecuted for religion. Soon, he is to know more, through searing experience that would maim him for life. And make him a better man.

Nominated for an Oscar®. Winner of a BAFTA for Best Direction.

“ One of the great movies about World War Two and the German Occupation… infinitely moving.”

Philip French

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D FRIDAY 27 MARCH @ 10AM VENUE: BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 3 & 4, SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM LINKS: HISTORY / ART HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY / WAU THEMES: EXPLORATION / TRAVEL / ADVENTURE / DISCOVERY / THE PAST USA.2010. Director: Werner Herzog. Cast: Werner Herzog, Jean Clottes, Julien Monney. Duration: 1hr.30mins. Cert: U. Distributor: BFI Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a work of communion – between the present and the past; between different modes of artistic expression; and between humanity and its environment, the animal kingdom, and the spirit world.

artefacts dating back almost 32,000 years. The oldest manmade drawings ever found, this Paleolithic artwork, mostly of horses, bison, bears and other creatures, as well as the exquisitely preserved cave itself (sealed, thousands of years earlier, by a rockslide). An act of historical reconstruction, his film aims to converse with those who created these paintings and, in doing so, to understand both a lost world and ourselves.

“ An incredible 3D journey into one of the greatest prehistory discoveries…

To call this movie fascinating is akin to calling the Grand Canyon large.”

Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

This fascinating documentary takes the audience into southern France’s renowned Chauvet cave, where in 1994 explorers discovered paintings, fossilised bones, and other

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BFI SHOWCASE

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POST-PRIMARY OUTREACH FILM PROGRAMME Teachers can book any of the following educational packages to screen in the classroom – no need to organise buses – just choose a date and time between Monday 23 and Friday 27 March. After school screenings can also be accommodated.

Cost: £1.00 per pupil. Teachers free. There is a minimum booking of 50 places required for outreach screenings (although exceptions may be made at the organiser’s discretion).

Please Note: Schools booking Outreach Packages must ensure that the hall or classroom in which the screening will take place has blackout facilities in order to provide the best viewing conditions for pupils. The Nerve Centre will provide the technician and all other equipment necessary

PACKAGE ONE

SATURDAY 28 MARCH @ 6.30PM BFI Film Academy at the Nerve Centre is a specialist skillsbased training programme in film for moving image arts students aged 16 to 19 years in the North West.

Led by industry experts, the BFI Film Academy enables young people to develop the commercial and cultural skills to make a career in film a reality. The Nerve Centre is one of only 38 delivery partners across the UK to offer this programme, which is funded by BFI through the Department for Education in England, the National Lottery, Creative Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen.

Over 18 weeks, young student filmmakers have developed their skills in all areas of filmmaking from script to screen culminating in the production of three short films, showcased as part of Foyle Film Festival’s Intercultural & Anti-Racism Festival for young people.

The screenings will be followed by a short presentation and refreshments.

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PRIDE

SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGE 4 (Yr12) & SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM LINKS: CITIZENSHIP / EMU / HISTORY / POLITICS THEMES: MINERS' STRIKE / GAY RIGHTS / JUSTICE UK/France.2014. Director: Matthew Warchus.

Cast: Ben Schnetzer, Paddy Considine, Bill Nighy, Dominic West. Duration: 2hrs. Cert: 15 Set in the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to raise money to support the families of the striking miners.

But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. But the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the Union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village in deepest Wales and set off in a minibus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

Nominated for a Golden Globe.

“ A film… that celebrates what brings us together rather than the stuff that pulls us apart.”

Neil Smith, Total Film

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PACKAGE TWO

HAWKING

SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 3 & 4 CURRICULUM LINKS: SCIENCE THEMES: DETERMINATION / STRUGGLE UK.2013. Director: Stephen Finnigan.

Cast: Stephen Hawking, Jane Hawking, Nathan Chapple.

Duration: 1hr.31mins. Cert: PG The extraordinary true story of the planet’s most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen’s world, both past and present.

An inspirational portrait of an iconic figure, Hawking relates his incredible personal journey from boyhood underachiever, to PhD genius, to being diagnosed with motor neurone disease and given just two years to live.

Despite the constant threat of death, Hawking makes amazing scientific discoveries and rises to fame and superstardom. The remarkable story of a beautiful mind.

“ Remarkably revealing and candid.”

The Sunday Times

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THE IMITATION GAME

SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 3 & 4 CURRICULUM LINKS: HISTORY / POLITICS / SECOND WORLD WAR THEMES: WAR / TEAM WORK UK/USA.2014. Director: Morten Tyldum. Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard. Duration: 1hr.54mins. Cert: 12A Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. When Turing demands to be put in charge, even petitioning Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it seems never in doubt that he’ll solve the riddle of the Enigma machine, a device that changes its settings every 24 hours to make detecting coding patterns nigh-on impossible. But this achievement, aided by Keira Knightley’s crossword-fanatic Joan Clarke and under the watchful eye of Mark Strong’s MI6 operative, is only part of The Imitation Game, which takes a darker turn with revelations that Turing is gay. The result is less a portrait of WWII innovation than it is of a man drowning in secrets at a time when homosexuality was illegal.

Nominated for eight Oscars®.

“ A finely etched character study, with Cumberbatch on towering form.”

The Sunday Times

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DREAMCATCHER MONDAY 23 MARCH @ 8PM VENUE: NERVE CENTRE CINEMA 1 UK/USA.2015. Director: Kim Longinotto.

Cast: Brenda Myers-Powell. Duration: 1hr.38mins. Cert: 15.

Distributor: Dogwoof

Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors: Brenda Myers-Powell.

A former teenage prostitute with a drug habit, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. Dreamcatcher explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation, which each year leaves thousands upon thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive.

With unprecedented access, multi-award winning director, Kim Longinotto paints a vivid portrait of a community struggling to come to terms with some of its most painful truths and of the extraordinary woman who uses her past to inspire others to survive. With warmth and humour, Brenda gives hope to those who have none.

Winner of World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival 2015.

“ Unflinching but uplifting, Longinotto’s film shows how even one person, if they put their minds to it, can make an enormous difference.

The director, meanwhile, goes on to further cement her reputation for unsentimental but moving documentary work that looks to small stories in order to paint a bigger picture.”

Amber Wilkinson, EyeForFilm

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THE CRUMBLEGIANT BY JOHN MCCLOSKEY

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BOOK LAUNCH AND SCREENING

TUESDAY 24 MARCH @ 1PM VENUE: NERVE CENTRE COST: FREE "Every day the Crows would attack and scrawk. But that was OK because every day the Crumblegiant would appear and swish them all away into the white clouds… Then one day the giant never turned up…"

Follow Emily on her journey through a beautiful landscape of sheep and stars and fantastical imaginings in a gentle, thought-provoking exploration of grief and loss.

John McCloskey is an award-winning illustrator and animator. The Crumblegiant began life as an animated film, which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2009, and has now been turned into an amazing limited edition book and iBook by Whittrick Press and Raw Nerve Productions.

The iBook has a unique scrolling narrative and is narrated by well-known actor Bernard Hill, star of Lord of the Rings, Titanic and, most recently, Wolf Hall.

The launch will include a screening of the original animation, a Q&A with the author, refreshments, and the opportunity to get hands on with the iBook. www.whittrickpress.com

TUESDAY 24 MARCH @ 8PM

THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE (Ce qu’il faut pour vivre).

DESERT FLOWER

WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH @ 8pm

THURSDAY 26 MARCH @ 8pm

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USA.2014. Director: Justin Simien. Cast: Kyle Gallner, Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Dennis Haysbert.

Duration: 1hr.48mins. Cert: 15

Canada.2008. Director: Benoît Pilon. Cast: Natar Ungalaaq, Denis Bernard, Antoine Bertrand, Paul-André Brasseur.

Duration: 1hr.42mins. Cert: 15. Language: French & Inuktitut with English subtitles.

UK/Germany/Austria/France.2009. Director: Sherry Hormann. Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Anthony Mackie. Duration: 2hrs. Cert: 18

Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama.

Writer/director Justin Simien follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

“ A brilliant commentary on the concept of a post-racial society.”

The Necessities of Life is an engaging drama about an Inuit hunter and family man diagnosed with tuberculosis, and sent from his Far North home to a sanitarium in early’50s Quebec. Separated from his wife and daughters and only partially grasping the reasons for his interment, Tiivii struggles to connect with the French-speaking “Whites” who surround him. The film’s exploration of cultural barriers and human connections may be familiar, but Pilon’s documentarian approach elevates a potentially sentimental storyline to something much more affecting.

Misa Shikuma, Sound On Sight

“ As smart and fearless a debut as I have seen from an American filmmaker in quite some time.”

A.O. Scott, New York Times

“ Provides insightful and moving perspectives on the struggles of an indigenous society against human forces as inexorable as their rugged environment.”

Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward Review

Desert Flower has all the trappings of a good fairy tale, especially those moments of despair so extreme that a happy ending seems almost impossible. But what makes Sherry Hormann’s film astounding is that it’s real. The autobiography-turned-biopic is based on the life of African nomad, supermodel and activist Waris Dirie.

Born in Somalia, Dirie escaped marriage at 13 (she was to become the fourth wife of a 65-year-old man) by walking alone for days through the desert to find a grandmother she had never met. She then moved to London and found work as a cleaning woman at McDonald’s. While mopping the floors, she was discovered by a renowned fashion photographer who turned her into a supermodel. After finding fame, Dirie dropped a bombshell: At the age of three, she had suffered ritual female genital mutilation (FGM), a horrifying practice that meant lifelong pain for her and death for a number of her family members.

“ A well-made film that… manages to be both a classic feel-good story and about as far from a feel-good story as you can get… The film makes bluntly clear that this is a trauma that lasts a lifetime.”

Neil Genzlinger, NY Times.com

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THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE

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I AM SLAVE OUTREACH PROGRAMME @ REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY MARKING THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS

AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (GOODBYE, CHILDREN) FRIDAY 27 MARCH @ 1PM VENUE: TOWER MUSEUM Introductory talk from Donal McAnallen on ‘Rediscovering GAA members who fought in the First World War’.

The Green Fields of France is a poetic documentary exploring the role of Irish men who fought and died during the First World War. John Banville, Peter Fallon and Frank McGuinness lend their voices to the work of Irish poets Patrick McGill, Francis Ledwidge and Thomas Kettle, all of whom fought during the conflict. It is estimated that over 300,000 Irishmen fought during the First World War although their involvement has long been a sensitive issue. The work of poets such as Ledwidge and Kettle offers a unique insight into the mindset of men from Ireland fighting across the Western Front.

The screening will also include a talk by Donal McAnallen from the GAA’s ‘Forgotten Gaelic Volunteers’ project. He will show how the organisation’s nine-month research project is aiming to identify GAA members from Ulster who died during the First World War and uncover the sometimes forgotten volunteers. Donal will deliver a talk and present some of the project’s findings to date.

FRIDAY 27 MARCH @ 8pm VENUE: NERVE CENTRE CINEMA 1

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Australia.1987. Director: Steve Jodrell. Cast: Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan, Gillian Jones, David Franklin, Bill McCluskey. Duration: 1hr.34mins. Cert: 15

UK.2010. Director: Gabriel Range. Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach De Bankolé, Lubna Azabal. Duration: 1hr.22mins.

Cert: 15

Not to be confused with the more recent Michael Fassbender movie, this Australian gem follows Asta Cadell, a lawyer travelling through the Australian outback, on holiday. Asta stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes involved in helping Curtis’ teenage daughter, Lizzie, who has been recently raped by Danny Fiske, the son of a wealthy, well-known citizen and his gang. Asta persuades Lizzie to press charges against Danny, but the local population becomes determined to keep the incident a secret at any cost and soon Asta and the Curtis family’s lives are in danger.

Based on the true story of Mende Nazer who, at 12 years old, was abducted from her Sudanese village by progovernment Arab militia and sold into slavery in Khartoum.

After six years she is sent to London,where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken away and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with her family back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain. A largely hidden injustice that needs increased exposure in order to bring the problem into the open and, hopefully, help to eradicate.

“ Where The Accused manipulated sensation, this avoids the gratuitous voyeurism of including the rape scene. Working by allusion, it succeeds in striking exactly the right note, responsibly, movingly, and yet rivetingly.”

Time Out London

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“ Jeremy Brock's film gives voice to the invisible plight of the estimated 5,000 people enduring forced labour in London alone.”

TUESDAY 24 MARCH @ 10.30am EDUCATIONAL SCREENING TUESDAY 24 MARCH @ 8.00pm PUBLIC SCREENING France/West Germany/Italy.1987. Director: Louis Malle. Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette. Duration: 1hr.44mins. Cert: 12A A delicately rendered and exceptionally moving reminiscence of a boyhood friendship cut short by war. Louis Malle's semi-autobiographical film is set in January, 1944, during the German Occupation of France.

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