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London Film Festival 2013

Collection of experimental work, also includes shorts programmes.

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Anak Araw (Country: Philippines; Year: 2012; Director: Gym Lumbera; Writer: Gym Lumbera; Stars: Jay G De La Vega)
Magic realism in the Philippines as an albino boy muses on his supposed American father through a journey into language and identity.
From Gulf To Gulf To Gulf (Country: United Arab Emirates, India, Yemen, Somalia, Qatar, Pakistan, Oman, Kuwait, Kenya, Iraq, Iran; Year: 2013; Director: Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran)
Mobile phone video from the sailors who brave the routes between India and the Persian Gulf is used for this documentary.
Pays Barbare (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi)
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (Country: France, Germany, Estonia; Year: 2013; Director: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell; Writer: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell; Stars: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe)
A journey of the spirit across northern landscapes towards transcendence.
Taşkafa, Stories Of The Street (Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman; Writer: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Gulen Guler; Stars: John Berger)
The erosion of an Istanbul community by vested economic interests is told through the eyes of the street dogs that have always been welcome there.
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