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Sun 14 Aug 18:00 – Studio Mon 15 Aug 13:00 – Pic Palace

Sun 14 Aug 18:30 – Pic Palace

Sat 27 Aug 10:15 – Studio Sat 27 Aug 18:30 – Pic Palace

HACKING JUSTICE

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

Booking Ref NOT A TAME LION

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

INTER-CONTINENTAL BUNKERMISSION

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

Booking Ref

Mon 22 Aug 11:00 – Studio

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THE CAMERA IS OURS: BRITAIN’S WOMEN DOCUMENTARY MAKERS

The trailblazing and innovative filmmakers featured in the programme all found ways to make work that showcased their distinctive talents and captured aspects of British life that would have eluded their male colleagues, in places such as the seaside, their homes, during pregnancy, the home front of WWII and through the social and domestic changes of the 1960s. The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers includes five films from key pioneers of the documentary form: ‘Beside the Seaside’ (Marion Grierson, 1935, 23m) is lyrical, inventive, and gives us all the pleasures of Britain’s coast. ‘They Also Serve’ (Ruby Grierson, 1940, 9m) is a dramatized documentary, and a hymn to the dedication of “the Housewives of Britain” during wartime. ‘Birth-day’ (Brigid ‘Budge’ Cooper, 1945, 22m) explores the mysteries of maternity – this is the real ‘Call the Midwife’! ‘Homes for the People’ (Kay Mander, 1945, 23m) uses the then-radical technique of allowing working-class women to describe their own lives. ‘Something Nice to Eat’ (Sara Erulkar, 1967, 21m) – the psychedelic spirit of the 1960s is ushered in by Sarah Erulkar’s film featuring Jean Shrimpton. UK 1935-1967 COMPILATION 100M

WOODWRITER: THE WORDLESS ART OF GEORGE A. WALKER

Wood engraver, book artist, master printer and time traveller: meet George A. Walker and enter his world of imagery, ideas and art production in this entertaining documentary. Lively, playful, and intelligent, with his signature hat and round glasses, George is an energetic and engaging man. His achievements are impressive – 15 books and numerous awards but here we focus on Mary Pickford as George creates his final wordless biography about the Canadian girl who conquered Hollywood. The film explores his ideas and passions, and the narrative is told by using a wonderful visual and musical palette which includes animation, silent film and drawings. CANADA 2022 JEFF WINCH 68M

Sat 20 Aug 10:45 – Studio

Sat 27 Aug 16:00 – Auditorium

World Premiere MARY CASSATT: PAINTING THE MODERN WOMAN

Exhibition on Screen Despite being a prolific painter of women, Mary Cassatt detested being described as a ‘woman painter’. Cassatt was born in America and became one of America’s most well-known artists. Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet she never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art. The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. UK 2022 ALI RAY 93M + INTRO “I am tremendously excited to introduce another world premiere at the Chichester International Film Festival – this time our film on Mary Cassatt. She was an extraordinary woman and artist, living in extraordinary times. As one of the remarkable group of late 19th century impressionists working in Paris, her work was both gorgeous and meaningful – and her role as a concurrent art dealer was hugely significant to where so many of the masterpieces of that era ended up. I know the lovely, cultured audience in Chichester will be enthralled.” Regards, Phil Grabsky Director/Producer We are delighted to welcome Phil Grabsky, producer of this documentary to introduce this World Premiere. Our thanks to Seventh Arts for this World Premiere.

DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD

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