SCREENING INFORMATION

Friday 23rd of June

ANOTHER DAY TO LIVE THROUGH

13:30PM

Venue: Curzon

Directed by Peter Simmons

World Premiere

In a non-linear chronology, we follow Satu, an ex-pat Finn returning to her homeland to get back to nature after a terrible loss. Here, in the wilderness, she encounters Lauri, a semi-retired military contractor and the two become trapped in a series of repeating scenarios, switching roles and identities in an isolated cabin with no apparent escape. As the climax approaches, the timelines coalesce and the truth comes into focus as time and identify take a backseat to circumstances and everything hinges on a handful of terrible choices.

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F14: EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE LOVED & SELECTED SHORT FILMS

14:00PM

Venue: Odeon Cinema – Rotunda

Directed by Katharina Woll

A blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn't have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.

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F17: SHORT FILMS 1

17:00PM

Venue: Odeon Cinema – Rotunda

Selected Short Films. Followed by Q&A with filmmakers.

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F3: FOUR O’CLOCK FLOWERS & SELECTED SHORT FILMS

19:00PM

Venue: Odeon Cinema – Rotunda

Directed by Peter Callow

In the aftermath of a violent knife crime, two mothers must face their feelings of loss, guilt and revenge.

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Saturday 24th of June

F13: MAGDALENA & SELECTED SHORT FILMS

10:00AM

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

Directed by Filip Gildeon

Magdalena is a young woman communicating with the world around her through music. She dreams of becoming a professional DJ and to move abroad, while at the same time trying to raise her five-year-old daughter, whom she cares for together with her mother. When she meets the famous DJ Julia, her dreams have a chance of coming true. Julia takes her under her wing and invites her to a world-famous DJ party in Berlin. However, old traumas from Magdalena's past have returned to haunt her and now she has to choose what is most important – her daughter or her career?

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F14: EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE LOVED & SELECTED SHORT FILMS (2nd Showing)

10:00AM

IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM - another chance to see this selection of films

Venue: Rose Studio

Directed by Katharina Woll

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F5: THE EXTRA’S JOURNEY & WRESTLING WITH CANCER

12:30PM

Venue: Rose Studio

The Extra’s Journey

Directed by Hsin-Yu WU

Would you still be willing to pursue a dream no one believes you can achieve? This documentary follows three Taiwanese extra actors of different genders, generations, and backgrounds. For them, family support is both a strength and a hindrance. As they navigate the industry’s challenges, they must strike a balance between their ideals and the realities of the industry.

Wrestling with Cancer (Starts at 2.15 pm)

Directed by Adil Malik and Saif Babur

A young upcoming professional wrestler from East London, Adil Malik struggles with his battle with cancer in and out the ring. He talks with other cancer survivors, friends and family and NHS professionals.
Will he be able to get back in the ring and pin cancer for the 3rd count?

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F1: ANOTHER DAY TO LIVE THROUGH 2nd Showing

12:30PM

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT - another chance to see this film

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

Directed by Peter Simmons

In a non-linear chronology, we follow Satu, an ex-pat Finn returning to her homeland to get back to nature after a terrible loss. Here, in the wilderness, she encounters Lauri, a semi-retired military contractor and the two become trapped in a series of repeating scenarios, switching roles and identities in an isolated cabin with no apparent escape. As the climax approaches, the timelines coalesce and the truth comes into focus as time and identity take a backseat to circumstance and everything hinges on a handful of terrible choices.

Tickets sold here.

F6: SHORT FILMS 2

14:00 PM

Venue Rose Main Auditorium

Selected Short Films. Followed by Q&A with filmmakers.

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F8: THE NEXT GENERATION

16:00PM

Venue: Rose Studio

U18 Short Films. Titles tba.

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F16: A SUMMER WITH JO, LIZ & RICHARD

18:00PM

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

Directed by Sergio Naitza

UK Premiere

The title was “Boom!” but the film was a box-office bomb, despite its outstanding artistic team: Taylor-Burton-Losey-Williams-Coward. Why? What happened? More than 50 years later – through recollections, stories and legends – the survivors of that extraordinary adventure speak out. And the set also “speaks”: the cliff where a large villa was built overlooking the sea, the visual heart of the film.

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F7: BLACK BAGS

20:00PM

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

Directed By Josh Brandon

UK Premiere

On a lonely Greyhound bus, a chance encounter between two women (Tess and Sara) with identical black travel bags sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse when Tess discovers she’s swapped bags with a killer, and that their meeting may not have been an accident.

Followed by Q&A with director and lead actress.

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Sunday 25th of June

F9: SHORT FILMS 3

10:00AM

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

Selected Short Films. Titles tba.

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F18: WE’RE ALL IN THE GUTTER

10:00AM

Venue: Rose Studio

Directed by Ruairi Hospkins

Chronicling the experiences of the homeless and squatter community living in the Bear-pit Underpass, Bristol. Using music created by a central contributor, the film focuses on the lives of members of the homeless community, as they reflect on their struggles of sleeping rough; and how the Bear-pit community has offered them a crucial sense of fellowship and safety from their destitution.

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S3: CINÉ SCHOOLS SCREENING

10:30AM

Venue: Odeon Cinema – Rotunda

Presented by George Young – Founder Ciné Schools

A celebration of the very best in Primary School film production from schools in Kingston, Richmond, Hounslow, Battersea, Kensington & Chelsea and Chiswick. This special screening will showcase a selection of short films from Silent Movies, Campaign films for national charities and Documentaries including Q+A’s with our young creatives. These productions are made entirely by children aged between 8 and 11 years old with an unencumbered passion for film making. We’ll also be showing our workshop work, these are short ‘6 shot’ films made in an hour by children at Kingston University. A completely unique opportunity to see how our next generation are engaging with film.

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F10: AGE GROUP WINNER / AGAINST THE LOCH

12:30PM

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

AGE GROUP WINNER

Directed by Lex Helgerson

In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world by becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year, each race completed in under three hours. From 2015-2020, his daughter, filmmaker Lex Helgerson, follows him with a camera in order to attempt intimacy with the man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties and his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he trains for the Boston Marathon.

AGAINST THE LOCH

Directed by Chris Nicholas

Ross Edgley, the record-breaking adventurer, embarks on his most treacherous challenge to date, braving Britain's deadliest loch in a grueling 72-hour swim with no sleep, rest, or land in sight. With a staggering 200-kilometer stretch ahead of him, Ross sets out to conquer the world's longest continuous swim, pushing his physical and mental limits to their breaking point.

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F12: COYOTE & SELECTED SHORT FILMS

12:30PM

Venue: Odeon Cinema – Rotunda

Directed by Dustin Curtis Murphy

A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future where teleportation technology enables two refugees to escape genocide. When they trust the wrong back-alley teleporter, Ekaterina and Anya are separated. In a desperate attempt to be reunited, our heroines are entwined in an insidious human trafficking ring involving corrupt politicians.

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F2 LITTLE ENGLISH

14:00 PM

Venue: Curzon Cinema

Directed by Pravesh Kumar

Pravesh Kumar’s debut feature is a laugh-out-loud story of a dysfunctional Punjabi family in the pressure cooker life of a terraced suburban home in Slough. Newly arrived from India, naive Simmy has come to marry the family’s eldest son Raj, who shockingly does a runner, leaving Simmy locked in the house by her domineering mother-in-law. However, Simmy is smarter than she appears, and soon enlists the support of the family’s disgruntled in-laws, including a sugar crazed, diabetic grandpa and dangerous, but hot, brother in law, fresh out of jail. Together they plan Simmy’s big escape.

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F4: TO A CINDER & SELECTED SHORT FILMS

14:30PM

Venue: Odeon Cinema – Rotunda

Directed by Henry Scriven

This film is about a man with a saviour complex, who is anything but. It is about the unacceptability of violence against women and girls, and ultimately a caution for us all to be aware that what we believe we are witnessing may not be everything it seems to be. There are always at least two sides to every story.

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F15: EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE & SELECTED SHORT FILMS

15:00PM

Venue: Rose Main Auditorium

Directed by Marc Shaffer

Brilliant, ambitious, and mischievous, the 19th-century San Francisco photographer Eadweard Muybridge lived the lives of a dozen men before his breakthrough photographs of running horses set the course for the development of cinema and transformed the camera into a machine of unmatched perception and persuasion.

But hiding in Muybridge's work are clues that provoke an enduring question: Can we believe what we see in a photograph?

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F11: TRIBUTE TO DAVID WARNER (1941 – 2022) / SCREENING: MORGAN A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT