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| Angels In The Dust and Jesus Christ Saviour |
Angels In The Dust (Country: South Africa; Director: Louise Hogarth; Writer: Louise Hogarth; Cast: Marion Cloete, Con Cloete)
Marion Cloete is a woman on a mission. She's uprooted her entire family and moved to Africa, where she does what she can to are for children with HIV and AIDS. This passionate film tells the story of her work.
UK Premiere. Full Review Official Site,
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The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins (Country: New Zealand; Director: Pietra Brettkelly; Writer: Pietra Brettkelly)
Vanessa Beecroft is obsessively determined to adopt Sudanese twin orphans. Her consuming passion drives her marriage to a breaking point and fuels her controversial art, raising troubling questions about exploitation, culture clash, and the imposition of the West on Africa.
UK Premiere. Full Review Official Site
Cafe De Los Maestros (Country: USA; Director: Miguel Kohan; Writer: Miguel Kohan, Gustavo Santaolalla)
A celebratory film about the maestros of tango.
UK Premiere. Full Review
Document Shorts
Glimpses of the weird and wonderful, the heartbreaking and hilarious, from real lives all over the world. Featuring: Bergeronnettes (Alicia Van Assche), Bullet Proof Vest (May Lin Au Yong)
I Shot The Mayor (or: Plan B) (Astrid Bussink), Kredens (Jacob Dammas), Living On The Landing (Podestleben) (Sandra Budesheim, Sabine Zimmer), Plane Days (Benjamin Kracun, Ewan McNicol), Pull, The (Andy Blubaugh), Valley of the Goats (Leon Dean).
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| Cafe De Los Maestros and The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins |
Dreams With Sharp Teeth (Country: USA; Director: Erik Nelson; Writer: Erik Nelson; Cast: Harlan Ellison, Robin Williams, Neil Gaiman, Peter David, Ronald D. Moore, Josh Olson, Tom Snyder)
Fiercely intelligent and ubiquitous writer Harlan Ellison is put under the lens by Robin Williams. UK Premiere.
Jesus Christ Saviour (Jesus Christus Erlöser) (Country: Germany; Director: Peter Geyer; Writer: Klaus Kinski; Cast: Klaus Kinski)
Klaus Kinski (so immortally captured in Werner Herzog's My Best Fiend) gives a showstopping performance with a defiant monologue.
International Premiere. Full Review
Mechanical Love (Country: Denmark; Director: Phie Ambo)
Artificial Intelligence and the Uncanny Valley, androids that we can love bookend the story.
UK Premiere. Full Review
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| Fairytale Of Kathmandu and Encounters At The End Of The World |
The New 10 Commandments (Country: UK; Director: Nick Higgins, Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jones)
Celebration the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declarations of Human Rights interpreted through the prism of Scotland today.
Official Site
Obscene (Country: USA; Director: Daniel O’Connor, Neil Ortenberg)
Documentary about Barney Rosset, who challenged obscenity laws most famously in the case of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
European Premiere. Full Review
The Order Of Myths (Country: USA; Director: Margaret Brown)
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring colour line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.
European Premiere. Full Review Official Site
Pageant (Country: USA; Director: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern)
All the glamour and glitz you'd expect from the Miss Gay America beauty pageant, with spectacular costumes, inventive dance routines and an intriguing look at the contestants' home lives.
International Premiere. Full Review Official Site
Paradise (Paradiset) (Country: Sweden; Director: Jerzy Sladkowski)
The story of wallpaper and marriage in a house on a lake in Sweden.
UK Premiere. Full Review
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| Very Young Girls and War Child |
Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening (Country: UK; Director: See individual reviews.)
Selection of the best homegrown documentaries. Films competing are all made by filmmakers from or working in Scotland. This year's selection is:
Christmas With Dad (Conor McCormack),
Half Way Home (Paul Gray),
Irene (Lindsay Goodall),
Karelian Cowgirls (Oudoille Oville, Minttu Mäntynen),
Ma Bar (Adrian McDowall, Finlay Pretsell),
Niddrie Bricks (Julian Schwanitz, Nina Topp, Andrew Steen),
Skeins (Paul Gray).
Full Review
sleep furiously (Country: United Kingdom; Director: Gideon Koppel)
Rural Wales faces change from all sides as the population ages.
World Premiere. Full Review
Very Young Girls (Country: US; Director: David Schisgall)
An examination of young girls as they are duped, tricked and coerced into selling themselves for sex in a surprising, and people-focussed film.
UK Premiere. Full Review
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| Alone In Four Walls and Pageant |
We Went To Wonderland (Country: China, United Kingdom; Director: Xiaolu Guo)
'Wonderland' - an interesting nickname for the West. Xiaolu Guo's documentary of her parent's first visit to Europe from China. UK Premiere.
