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Ahlaam 15
From 22 – Sunday 24 August
Dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji 2005 Iraq 1hr 50 mins Subtitles
An extraordinary debut feature shot in Baghdad during the post-war aftermath, Ahlaam focuses on the lives of three Iraqi citizens in a mental institution during the chaos of the American Shock and Awe campaign. Filmed under difficult conditions, the cast and crew experienced abductions and interrogations from both sides providing an insight into the hardships that the current population have to undergo on a daily basis

Angel 15
From 29 August
Dir Francois Ozon, 2007, UK / Belgium / France, 2hrs 14mins
Angel Deverell is a talented young English writer, whose life inexperience doesn’t stop her rising to success with a series of explicit romance novels. With her new found fortune, everything seems perfect: she buys the house of her dreams, and marries the brother of her devoted secretary. However,as soon as she grabs happiness, it begins to spiral away from her. With Ozon giving full play to his love of Sirkian melodrama, camp and elegance, this is a must-see on the big screen.

 

 

Before the Rains 12A
From Friday 22 August
Dir: Santosh Sivan, USA, India, 2007, 1hr 38mins
In the dying days of British India, businessman Henry Moores has ambitions to build a new road and spice plantation in Kerala. His right hand man and connection to the locals is TK, who he hopes will get him all the manpower and support he needs to get the job done. But when it is discovered that Henry is engaged in a clandestine affair with his local, married housemaid Sanjani, T.K’s loyalties are torn between new world ambitions and old world loyalties.

 

 

Bean PG
Saturday 23 August 1.30pm
1997 | 1hr 30mins
The first feature film of Bean, superbly played by Rowan Atkinson. Bean is a walking disaster area and whatever he touches is guaranteed to fall apart. His job in an up market art gallery in L.A., leads to inevitable and total chaos.

 

 

Ben X 15
From Friday 29 August
Dir Nic Balthazar, Belgium, Netherlands 2007, 1hr 33mins, Subtitled
Ben, a teenaged autistic boy, is getting bullied at school. As an escape from his day-to-day trauma, he retreats into the world of his favourite online role playing game to find solutions to his problems. But when he befriends Scarlite in his virtual world, and she appears in the real one, they concoct an ultimate revenge. Apparently in line for an English language remake, Balthazar has made a vivid, shocking film about online and actual bullying, where fact and fantasy meet head-on.

 

 

Buddha Collapsed Out Of ShamePG
From Friday 22 August
Dir Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran, 2007, 1hr 17mins, Subtitled
Baktay, a six year old Afghan girl, lives with her family under the shadow of the wreckage of historical Buddhist statues, destroyed by the Taliban. Envying the literacy of a neighbour, she saves her money for a notebook, and sets off for her first day at school. But on the way, she is harassed by a group of boys, who mimic the day-to-day violence that goes on around them. Will she reach the classroom? This is the first feature from 18 year old Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest member of a great Iranian filmmaking dynasty.

 

El Bano Del Papa 15
From Friday 22 August
Dir. Cesar Charlone, Enrique Fernandez | Uruguay | 2005 | 1hr 37mins |
Fresh from success in Manchester Cornerhouse’s Viva Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, this quirky comedy gets a release in its own right. Uruguay’s submission to this year’s Oscar’s is based on the Pope’s visit to a small border town, where Beto (who smuggles goods on his bicycle across the border with Brazil) is caught up in the media circus surrounding the Holy Father’s arrival. While other locals plan to sell sandwiches or souvenirs to the impending tourist influx, Beto has other ideas: he will build a toilet!

 

Elegy 15
From Friday 8 August
Dir Isabel Coixet 2008 USA 1hr 48mins
David Kapesh (Kingsley) is a middle aged, respected lecturer and cultural critic in New York City. However, when he becomes determined to possess his beautiful Cuban student Consuela (Penelope Cruz), his jealousy threatens to consume him and those around him. Ben Kingsley is brilliantly cast, and carries the piece with a nuanced performance - ably backed up by the irrepressible Dennis Hopper as David’s wise-cracking poet confidante.

 

 

Elite Squad (Tropa D’Elite) 18
From Friday 8 August
Dir José Padilha, Brazil, 2007, 1hr 58mins, Subtitled
Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin this year, the award winning director of Bus 174 turns his attention to the crime and violence of Rio’s favelas in a film dubbed the new City of God. It’s 1997 and Nascimento is head of Brazil’s military police, specialising in anti-corruption, and urban warfare with armed drug dealers. When he’s assigned to clean up the area before a visit by the Pope, and can’t find a suitable successor, he takes on the leadership himself. Padhila’s film is exhilarating, violent and extremely powerful – provoking controversy surrounding his portrayal of police tactics on the edge of the law.

 

 

Ikiru PG
From 15 August
Dir. Akira Kurosawa 1952 Japan 2hrs 23 mins
Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyôko Seki, Makoto Kobori, Kumeko Urabe Kurosawa’s most contemplative film is a world away from the tension and excitement of his Samurai dramas. An elderly civil servant learns he has terminal cancer so sets out to find something that will give meaning to his life. Kurosawa undercuts the sentimentality of his subject with touches of satirical humour and sharp social observation.

 

 

Jumanji PG
Saturday 30 August 1.30pm Teenage KICs 3.30pm
1995 | 1hr 44mins
Alan Parris has been trapped in an ancient magical board game, Jumanji, for 25 years. When he is finally freed by two children, a herd of wild exotic animals have accidentally been released as well. Now, Alan must try to save his hometown from destruction.




Mamma Mia! PG
From Friday 11 July
+ Flighty (Best of DepicT! 1998 - 2006)
Dir. Phyllida Lloyd | 2008 | UK, USA | Running time TBC
The West End hit musical finally arrives on the big screen. Sophie is getting married to a wonderful man on a paradise Greek island where her mother Donna owns a hotel. However, she has one problem. She has never known the identity of her real father, so who will give her away? In step three suspects for the role Harry, Bill and Sam, shocking the life out of Donna… but who will prove to be father of the bride in time for the big day? All set to Abba’s most memorable hits – light-hearted summer fun guaranteed.

 

 

Man On Wire 12A
From Friday 1 August
Dir. James Marsh | 2008 | UK | 1hr 30 mins
Almost forgotten the extraordinary stunt, in 1974, of a tightrope walk between the twin towers of New York makes for a compelling and nerve-wracking documentary. From an early age Philippe Petit dreamt of this stunt. He had carried out many others, but this was the big one. But how to do it without permission? Petit is utterly charismatic as he and his comrades tell the tale.

 

 

Married Life 15
From Friday 1 August
Dir. Ira Sachs | 2007 | USA | 1hr 30mins
A modern film noir set in the 1940s and beautifully filmed with a great cast. Harry and Pat seem happily married, but he lusts after Kay. His best friend Richard, a committed bachelor, suddenly realizes Kay is the woman for him. The scene is set for serious intrigue in this moody thriller.


Somers Town 12A
From Friday 22 August
Dir. Shane Meadows | 2008 | UK | 1hr 11mins
Shane Meadows brings back Thomas Turgoose (the star of last year’s hit This Is England) in this tale of a lad from Nottingham who runs away to London and befriends Marek, the son of a Polish construction worker. Shot in black and white and DV, the young leads are excellent: Meadows has many points to raise about community, outsiders, and being on the edge of adulthood, but as usual makes them with gentle humour and a good deal of humanity. Winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival.

 

 

Standard Operating Procedure 15
From Friday 15 August
Dir. Errol Morris 2008 USA
Errol Morris has produced some of the finest documentaries of the last 20 years most notably, The Thin Blue Line and Fog of War. With pulsating scores (this time from Danny Elfman) and close-up/slow motion photographer he creates a dramatic sense of his subject. Here, he investigates the infamous photographs that came out of Abu Graib prison in Iraq and interviews the soldiers who were deemed responsible for the ‘torture’ of their prisoners.

The Fox and the Child (Le Renard et L’Enfant) U
From Friday 8 August
Dir. Luc Jacquet | 2007 | France | 1hr 32 mins In English
A story of two redheads: of a 10 year old French girl and her friendship with a fox. In autumn, a young country girl is on her way to school through the forest, when she spots a hunting fox. The fox flees from her, but the girl feels a strong desire to meet the fox again and over the months a kind of friendship develops between the two of them. Luc Jacquet uses the same techniques of spectacular nature
documentary footage and voice-over narration that he used to great effect with his international wildlife hit, The March Of The Penguins.

 

 

The Tales of Beatrix Potter U
Saturday 16 August
1971 | 1hr 30 mins
This bafta nominated film is a charming and delightful interpretation of The Tales of Beatrix Potter. The costumes and choreography bring well loved characters such as Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Jemina Puddleduck and Squirrel Nutkin, fabulously to life.

 

The Wackness 18
From Friday 29 August
Dir. Jonathan Levine | 2008 | USA | 1hr 50mins
The audience hit of Sundance, with a great soundtrack. Luke Shapiro, hip-hop aficionado, is graduating high school in mid 90s New York. Isolated and without a girlfriend, he deals marajuana out of an ice cream cart to keep himself and his parents afloat, and to pay his shrink, Dr Squires. A 1960s exile, Squires prefers to prescribe a diet of sex, drugs and rock n roll as a cure to Luke’s teenage inertia. But Squire’s libertarianism seems to run out of steam when Luke falls for his stepdaughter, Stephanie.

 

Taxi To The Dark Side tbc
From Friday 29 August
Dir Alex Gibney, 2007, USA, 1hr 46mins
Focusing on innocent taxi driver, Dilawar, who was brutally killed in Afghanistan in 2002 by American personnel, Gibney interrogates the torture practices of the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanemo Bay. Including frank interviews with servicemen (some court martialled for their role in Dilawar’s death), reporters, and Dilawar’s fellow inmates in Begram prison, Gibney uses a single case to illustrate a precedent for a dangerously wide policy, the ‘dark side’ that Dick Cheney insisted that the US would have to enter to win its ‘war on terror’.

 

Winter Soldier 18
Monday 25 – Thursday 28 August
Dir. Winterfilm Collective | 1972 | USA | 1hr 36mins

Shot in three days in the winter of 1971 at a Detroit conference convened by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Winter Soldier is a grainy black-and-white documentary in which several dozen American ex-servicemen, among them the 28-year-old John Kerry, recall the atrocities they heard of, witnessed or, in some cases, took part in during their time in Vietnam. The film was scarcely seen in America, though the FBI put its makers under surveillance. It should be obligatory viewing for anyone joining the American armed forces.’ – Philip French, The Observer