East End Film Festival 2014

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The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears
The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears and You And The Night
Belladonna Of Sadness (Country: Japan; Year: 1973; Director: Eiichi Yamamoto)
The story of a peasant woman who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for magical powers, told through striking psychedelic animation.
The Blue Black Hussar (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Jack Bond; Stars: Adam Ant, John Robb, Allen Jones, Charlotte Rampling)
The story of Adam Ant's struggle with depression.
A Curious Life (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Dunstan Bruce)
The story of indie music superstars The Levellers.
Hackney's Finest (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Chris Bouchard)
A hapless gang of Hackney drug dealers incurs the wrath of corrupt police and dangerous professional gangsters.
I Dream Of Wires (Country: Canada, UK, USA; Year: 2013; Director: Robert Fantinatto)
A documentary about the resurgence of synthesiser music.
Leave To Remain (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Bruce Goodison; Writer: Charlotte Colbert, Bruce Goodison; Stars: Toby Jones, Simon Meacock, Jason Newell, Emma N Power, Farshid Rokey, Anusha Prakash, Naoufal Ousellam, Melanie Wilder, Yasmin Mwanza, Zarrien Masieh)
Bruce Goodison conceived of a 3 year project to train cast and crew for a film that would tell the unique stories of teenage asylum seekers, who unlike their adult counterparts often had no choice in their unaccompanied flight to the UK.
Mass E Bhat (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Richard York, Hannan Majid)
A social worker on the streets of Bangladesh recalls his own childhood there.
A Message To The World... Whatever Happened To Jesse Hector? (A Message To The World) (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Caroline Catz)
The story of the massive impact on modern music made by a cleaner in his spare time.
Metalhead (Málmhaus) (Country: Iceland, Norway; Year: 2013; Director: Ragnar Bragason; Stars: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Thora Bjorg Helga)
A teenager copes with the death of her brother by adopting his clothes, music and lifestyle.
Mistaken For Strangers (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Tom Berninger)
Tour doc about The National.
The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears (L’étrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears) (Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2013; Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Writer: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda, Sam Louwyck, Anna D’annunzio, Manon Beuchot)
A woman's disappearance forms the central mystery in this visually stylish neo-giallo.
Stay Greasy (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Jonathan Lowe, Melanie Malherbe)
A tale of straight razors and hair grease, this freewheeling film is proof that rockabilly is alive and well thanks to a small barber shop in the West End of London.
Taking The Dog For A Walk (Country: Luxembourg, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Antoine Prum)
An in-depth exploration of the British free improvisation movement, from Derek Bailey to the present.
We Are Mari Pepa (Somos Mari Pepa) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Samuel Kishi; Writer: Samuel Kishi, Sofía Gómez-Córdova; Stars: Alejandro Gallardo, Arnold Ramírez, Moisés Galindo, Rafael Andrade, Petra Iñiguez Robles)
The four boys in the band Mari Pepa have only one song in their repertoire. Yet music is their big hope. Friendships and dreams are suffering from the constraints of everyday life. A film as poetic as punk rock.
You And The Night (Les Rencontres D'Après Minuit) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Yann Gonzalez; Writer: Yann Gonzalez; Stars: Kate Moran, Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Eric Cantona, Fabienne Babe, Alain Delon Jr.)
A couple prepare to welcome guests for the evening but the atmosphere is tense.
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