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HACKING JUSTICE
Sun 14 Aug 18:00 – Studio Mon 15 Aug 13:00 – Pic Palace
The Julian Assange affair is given a reboot by this illuminating documentary, which is notable for its non-strident approach and unique access to the founder of WikiLeaks who became a political hot potato. The film is timely, coming ten years after Assange was granted asylum at the Ecuador Embassy in Knightsbridge, and is a testament to the patience and perseverance of the two directors. Much of their attention is given to Assange’s principal lawyer, Balthasar Garzón, himself a controversial figure. With privileged access to its protagonists for three years, the film follows the champion of transparency for the powerful, and the hacker for justice, united against the world’s most powerful state in a standoff which is not over yet. GERMANY 2021 CLARA LOPEZ RUBIO / JUAN PANCORBO 90M
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NOT A TAME LION
Sun 14 Aug 18:30 – Pic Palace
If the inspiration for the ‘Da Vinci Code’s Robert Langdon was drawn from a single living person, John Boswell was it. Boswell read and translated fourteen ancient and modern languages, became a Yale Professor by age thirty and was granted full access to the highly classified and restricted Vatican archives, making him a worldrenowned expert in Medieval History and Linguistics. John Boswell was also openly gay without apology in an era that was neither tolerant nor accepting. ‘Not A Tame Lion’ offers the first-hand accounts of Boswell’s life, his works and his final days during which he feverishly worked to complete ‘Same Sex Unions in Medieval Europe’ a book that changed the trajectory of the Marriage Equality debate. USA 2022 CRAIG BETTENDORF 119M
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INTER-CONTINENTAL BUNKER MISSION
Sat 27 Aug 10:15 – Studio Sat 27 Aug 18:30 – Pic Palace
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With the geopolitical climate at its most perilous for 60 years, this unusual, amusing and engaging film by a Swedish/Korean documentary maker based in Scotland has a topical urgency. Two friends without a clue set out on a journey to survive the end of the world. An atomic cocktail of journalistic, archival, and D.I.Y. Bunker Building, I.C.B.M. addresses the ever-growing survivalism trend, the personal price of survival, and the perpetual state of preparedness the world has found itself in since the birth of the atomic bomb. SWEDEN 2021 JULIAN VOGEL 80M
