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Raindance returns in 2012 for its 20th edition, with an ever-growing international reputation. It opens with the world premiere of disturbing Mexican film Here Comes The Devil, about a couple whose missing children return to them with something unfathomable wrong, and closes with Paraguayan thriller 7 Crates. In between, British films Confine, City Slicker and Love Tomorrow will get their world premieres alongside a host of further treats from the UK and around the world. There'll also be a chance to meet Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk as he introduces Romance, one of the great short films in this year's line-up.
The festival runs from September 26 to October 7.
View Films by Strand:
- Days In Europa
- Documentary
- Feature Films
- Homegrown
- Mexican Films
- North American Indies
- Shorts
- The Reel Quebec
- Way Out East
- World Cinema
View previous years coverage of the Raindance Film Festival festival:
Raindance Latest Reviews

A teenager finds himself with the custody of seven boxes... but everyone wants the contents.

The story of Banaz Mahmod, murdered for leaving her abusive husband and falling in love with another man.

A former hitman trying to live a quiet life finds himself blackmailed at the same time as a boy arrives in desperate need of his guidance.

A guide to theories of alien contact with Earth.

An ambitious, successful woman seeks an unambitious, unsuccessful man to be a house husband.

A family is ostracised by the local community after deciding to care for a son who has become a zombie, whilst his pregnant girlfriend still hopes the local priest will marry them.

A suicidal teenager agrees to help a murderer on the run if he will kill her afterwards, but as they flee, he finds himself beginning to care for her.

Two dancers get talking on an escalator and gradually find themselves embarking on a relationship.

Triplet of short films, conforming to a fixed 'creative brief'.

Two Galician villagers use ancient rituals to challenge the will of a monster.
Raindance Film Festival News

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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