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ANCHOR AWARDS                                                                             FEATURE DOCUMENTARY UK
               COMPETITIONS                                                                         Freedom To Learn - [U] - 82 mins                  Faith & Branco- [12] - 82 mins
                                                                                                    by Kate Jangra                                    by Catherine Harte

                                                                                                    This film is from award-winning Director          This intimate story chronicles the relation-
           FEATURE NARRATIVE UK                                                                     Kate Jangra (Babyhood).
                                                                                                    Freedom to Learn explores the current
                                                                                                                                                      ship between musicians Faith and Branko
                                                                                                                                                      over 7 years. In 2011, Faith travels from
                                                                                                    education system and looks at some of the         England to Serbia to learn gypsy accordi-
                                                                                                    ways children might benefit from a differ-        on. She meets Roma violinist Branko and
                                                                                                    ent approach to their learning than that          despite language barriers, they fall in love
Dead in October - [15] - 100 mins               Dogwood - [15] - 90 mins                            being offered right now.                          through music. Captivated by their musical
by Liam Desroy                                  by Steve Sale                                                                                         chemistry, they marry and take their duo
                                                                                                    6 June - 18h00 - Screen 3
                                                                                                                                                      abroad. Their relationship is tested when
As October and the end of the world ap-         Martin (Joe Newton) is a casualty of society.
                                                                                                                                                      they realize their differences and that music
proaches, two dysfunctional friends spend       He is unappreciated and overworked as
                                                                                                                                                      may be all they have in common.
their final days isolated in a large country    a salaryman in the city. With mounting              Who Is James Payton - [U] -
house. As they do their best to enjoy these     pressure on his shoulders, he experiences a                                                           6 June - 10h00 - Screen 1
                                                                                                    79mins
apparent last moments together, they are        breakdown at work and loses his job. After
                                                                                                    by Oliver Guy-Watkins
left desperately trying to come to terms        visiting his childhood home to collect some
with this new reality.                          possessions, he opts to not go home but
                                                instead chooses to live off grid in the vast        From playing Frank Longbottom in Harry            Handsome - [12] - 98 mins
with Tom Forbes, Eddie Arnold                                                                       Potter to Adolf Hitler in Captain America,        by Luke White
                                                woodland. Here he attempts to survive, to
3 June - 10h00 - Screen 1                       try and find himself again, through being           as well as standing in for Anthony Hopkins
                                                                                                    and Jude Law; James Payton has been part          Two brothers embark on a worldwide
                                                amongst nature and his love of writing
                                                                                                    of the British Film Industry for the best part    journey to discover what it’s like for other
                                                poetry.
                                                                                                    of 20 years. Yet he is still largely unknown.     siblings living with Down’s syndrome.
                                                with Joe Newton, John Hill
                                                                                                                                                      5 June - 11h30 - Screen 2
The World We Knew - [15] -                      6 June - 14h15 - Screen 1                           Director Oliver Guy-Watkins followed James
78 mins                                                                                             for a year as he attended Comic Cons,
by WW Jones & Luke Skinner                                                                          taught wizardry skills to children and was
                                                                                                    cast as Tony Blair in the Nick Moran helmed
After a job goes wrong, six armed robbers                                                           film Creation Stories.
must spend a single night at a deserted         Trouble Will Find Us - [PG] - 89
                                                                                                    This is a story of fandom, loneliness and
safe house. But during their stay their pasts   mins
come back to haunt them. What is real and                                                           perseverance, that plays with the bounda-
                                                by Alexander Milo Bischof                           ries of reality and fiction, but do we find out
what is the product of their tormented
minds?                                                                                              Who Is James Payton?
                                                A couple’s relationship threatens to col-
with Struan Rogers, Johann Myers and Finbar     lapse under the pressures of life.                  4 June - 10h00 - Screen 1
Lynch                                           with Ruth Kearney, Dylan Edwards and Nata-
5 June - 13h15 - Screen 2                       sha O’Keeffe
                                                5 June - 11h45 - Screen 1

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Opening Night - UK PREMIERE of ADVERSE directed by Brian A. Metcalf,
with Mickey Rourke, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Sean Astin
followed by Q&A

Thrusday 3 June - 19h30 - Screen 1
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FEATURE NARRATIVE                                                                   Poppie Nongena - [12A] - 106 mins                   Defunct- [15] - 100 mins

                    INTERNATIONAL
                                                                                                      by Christiaan Olwagen | South Africa                by Zacharias Mavroeidis | Greece
                                                                                                      (as part of Sub-saharan Africa: an open             A 30-something failed businessman moves
                                                                                                      window programme)                                   into his grandpa’s house, the defunct WW2
                                                                                                                                                          veteran. His quest to live up to his legacy,
                                                                                                      Poppie Nongena tells the story of a South           will redefine both the family hero and
Adverse - [15] - 84 mins                          The Day Of Wrath - [15] | 85 mins                   African woman, an Afrikaans speaking Xhosa          himself.
by Brian A. Metcalf | US                          by Jacek Raginis-Królikiewicz | Poland              mother, whose life revolves around her family       with Michalis Sarantis, Thanasis Papageor-
                                                                                                      and finding stability in a period of insufferable   giou, Giota Festa |
A rideshare driver discovers that his sister is   During World War II Poland is kept under            upheaval in the country. When her husband,
in debt to a dangerous crime syndicate.           German occupation. In the autumn of 1943,           Stone, became too ill to work, Poppie was           4 June - 10h00 - Screen 2
                                                  a young Jew, a refugee from a nearby ghet-          deemed by the law to be an “illegal” resident
with Mickey Rourke, Thomas Ian Nicholas,
                                                  to, appears in a Polish monastery, asking for       in her own country. She engaged in a desper-
and Sean Astin
                                                  help. German Nazis punish Poles for hiding          ate struggle with the authorities for permis-       A Story Sewn And Bound With
3 June - 19h30 - Screen 1                         Jews with death. Monks face the most                sion to stay, moving from house to house,           A Red Thread - [12A] - 99mins
                                                  difficult dilemma. An SS squadron-leader,           applying for permits, applying for extensions,      by Yuria Matsushita | Japan
                                                  responsible for the liquidation of the ghet-        extensions of extensions, and using every
                                                  to and the extermination campaign against           means at her disposal to remain with her chil-
In A Silent Way - [U] - 94 mins                   the Jews, comes to the monastery. “The Day          dren. Caught in the cross fire of her children’s
                                                                                                                                                          Once upon a time a man lived with his wife
by Collin Levin | US                                                                                                                                      Shuko and his four daughters, Kasumi aged
                                                  of Wrath” is a full of tension blend of a war       needs, her husband’s illness, community anger       14 years, Sumire aged 11, Kikuna aged 9 and
                                                  thriller and a morality play.                       and repressive laws, she was finally forced
In A Silent Way centers around a young jazz                                                                                                               Nanoka aged 7. Shuko was the stepmother
                                                  The film is based on the drama by Roman             to give in just as the 1976 riots for freedom
guitarist, Jazzen Goodman, who dreams of                                                                                                                  of the girls.
                                                  Brandstaetter under the same title.                 erupted.
becoming a jazz legend. He hires his best                                                                                                                 One day the man became very ill. The girls’
friend Dylan to film him on his journey           with Radek Pazura, Rafal Gasowski and Jan           with Clementine Mosimane, Anna-Mart van der         relationship with their stepmother wors-
through the jazz world.                           Marczewski                                          Merwe and Nomsa Nene                                ened more each day. Shuko started to go
                                                  6 June - 11h30 - Screen 1                                                                               out each night, the girls suspected it was so
                                                                                                      4 June - 19h30 - Screen 1
After being upstaged by his old bandmate                                                                                                                  she could see another man. Also, the girls
at a house show where their now dueling                                                                                                                   had to do extra work to support their father.
bands are on the same bill, Jazzen has a
                                                                                                      The Fisherman’s Diary- [15] -                       As their grief and fears increased, the girls
                                                                                                      143 mins
dream about his death.                            Only Human - [15] - 97 mins                                                                             began to create and escape into their own
                                                                                                      by Enah Johnscott | Cameroon                        fantasy world.
                                                  by Igor Ivanov Izi | Macedonia                                                                          To escape from the cruel reality of their
Haunted by this “premonition” that he will
meet his death in 30 days, Jazzen starts to                                                           TA 12-year old girl - Ekah, is inspired by the      lives and to try to reconnect their father
                                                  ONLY HUMAN - Homo - stages 6 profiles in            story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize
devise a surefire plan that will take him to                                                                                                              and stepmother, the four sisters decided
                                                  6 sequences cleverly interwoven. A dramat-          Winner - Malala Yousafzai’s. She is determined
his ultimate goal of “post-mortem solidifi-                                                                                                               to drown themselves in the river and leave
                                                  ic story featuring desperate characters in          to go to school in a village of fisherman where
cation into the annals of jazz history”. This                                                                                                             behind them a suicide note.
                                                  their quest for survival and love, or redemp-       the education of a girl child is considered
includes stalking his favorite jazz musician;                                                                                                             Only Kikuna came back alive.
                                                  tion.                                               to be a taboo. Her burning drive and deter-
and even trying to convince the head of                                                                                                                   with Chisato Kameoka, Rii Ishihara
a massive jazz label to sign him as a solo        with Natasha Petrovic, Igor Angelov and             mination to break this old adage gets her
artist.                                           Oliver Mitkovski                                    embroiled with her father’s - Solomon past          3 June - 11h45 - Screen 1
                                                                                                      experience with girl child education.
with Nicolai Dorian, Nicholas Tuttle and          5 June - 21h00 - Screen 1
Dillon Stucky                                                                                         with Kang Quintus, Ramsey Nouah and Faith
                                                                                                      Fidel
3 June - 13h30 - Screen 1
                                                                                                      3 June - 15h05 - Screen 2
                                                                                                      preceded by Not Your Bride

                                                                                                  5
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Closing Night - UK PREMIERE of Tonton Manu directed by
Patrick Puzenat, Thierry Dechilly followed by Q&A and Awards

Sunday 6 June - 17h30 - Screen 1
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY                                                                  Serenade To The Wind - [U] -                    Stromboli – As Long as the
                                                                                                                                                    Heart Beats - [U] - 102 mins
                   INTERNATIONAL
                                                                                                    60 mins
                                                                                                    by Sanela Bajric | Croatia                      by Hanspeter Aliesch | Switzerland

                                                                                                    The opera “Serenade to the Wind” had to         TA 12-year old girl - Ekah, is inspired by
                                                                                                    wait 75 years to be performed for the first     the story of the youngest Noble Peace
Tonton Manu - [U] - 90 mins                    The State Of Texas vs. Melissa -                     time. Its only flaw was that the composer       Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai’s. She is
by Patrick Puzenat, Thierry Dechilly |         [15] - 99 mins                                       was Jewish...                                   determined to go to school in a village
France                                         by Sabrina Van Tassel | France                                                                       of fisherman where the education of a
                                                                                                    6 June - 13h00 - Screen 1
                                                                                                                                                    girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her
A road movie in the footsteps of a giant.      The State of Texas vs. Melissa explores                                                              burning drive and determination to break
Manu Dibango blows the candles to cele-        the life journey of Melissa Lucio, the first                                                         this old adage gets her embroiled with her
brate his eightiest birthday. An hour and      Hispanic woman to be sentenced to death                                                              father’s - Solomon past experience with girl
a half later, he turns eight-five years old.   in the state of Texas. For over ten years            Transition and Happiness - [15]                 child education.
Tonton Manu is the portrait across three       she has been awaiting her fate, and now              - 78 mins                                       with Kang Quintus, Ramsey Nouah and Faith
continents of the legendary musician, who      faces her last appeal. No one had ever seen          by Jonas Benarroch | Spain                      Fidel
loved mixing cultures. With saxophone          Melissa be violent towards her children,
sounds of pure emotion.                        yet she was blamed for the daily abuse                                                               3 June - 15h45 - Screen 1
                                                                                                    A woman emerges from the massive and
                                               and subsequent death of her two year-old             unmistakably masculine body of an older
6 June - 17h30 - Screen 1
                                               daughter, who died from blunt head trau-             man who had been a typical macho male.          Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Block-
                                               ma. Set in the heart of the Latino commu-
                                               nity of South Texas, the film takes a look at
                                                                                                    Other than changing her penis into a vagi-      chains and the Future of the
                                                                                                    na, she makes little effort into looking like   Internet - [U] - 86 mins
The Wind: A Documentary                        Melissa’s broken childhood, her adult life           a woman. Despite her astonishing gender         by Torsten Hoffmann & Michael Watchu-
                                               plagued by poverty and prejudice, and the
Thriller - [U] - 75 mins                       miscarriage of justice Melissa faced, from
                                                                                                    expression, she manages to gain respect as
                                                                                                                                                    lonis | Australia
                                                                                                    a woman.
by Michal Bielawski | Poland                   the court appointed attorney who willingly
                                               set aside evidence, to the District attorney         4 June - 16h00 - Screen 1                       Join award-winning filmmaker Torsten
The halny wind is the most unpredictable       who used her case to help his re-election.                                                           Hoffmann, 5 years after his first Bitcoin
element in the Polish mountains. It comes      The State of Texas vs. Melissa is the portrait                                                       documentary on his journey to understand
in cycles, in every spring and autumn.         of a woman’s fight against an entire system.                                                         the potential of blockchain technology and
One never knows if or when it turns into a                                                                                                          the future of the Internet. He meets with
destructive gale. Halny particularly affects   5 June - 10h00 - Screen 1                                                                            the big brains and big egos behind this
the inhabitants of Zakopane and its area,                                                                                                           controversial industry. Can we trust them to
changing picturesque mountain trails                                                                                                                build a cyber utopia?
into a set for an untamed performance of       The Lost Brothers - [12A] - 58 mins
                                                                                                                                                    3 June - 17h45 - Screen 2
nature.                                        by Moriel Levi Fradis, Haim Etgar | Israel
5 June - 13h15 - Screen 1                      At the age of 72, Arie Perel discovers that
                                               he is an adopted child and embarks on a
                                               journey following his lost brother and sister.
                                               4 June - 15h00 - Screen 1

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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
               of

     PHIL LIGGETT:
 THE VOICE OF CYCLING
         presented by

               on

  Ramsgate Digital Cinema

         Saturday 5 June
         18.15 - Screen 1
The Welles Raft - [U] - 75 mins                 El Father Plays Himself - [15] -                                                 FIRST FEATURE
by Firmino Holanda, Petrus Cariry | Brazil      105 mins
                                                by Mo Scarpelli | Venezuela/Italy/UK/US
In 1942, Orson Welles was in Brazil filming
his documentary “It’s All True” about Carni-    A father and son return to the Amazon jun-
val and the Jangadeiros (Brazillian fisher-     gle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction
                                                                                                    Stand Strong - [PG] - 77 mins                    Shellfish - [15] - 82 mins
men). The leader of Jangadeiros “Manuel         and reality clash as father plays himself.          by Hisashi Kikuchi | Japan                       by Hunter Hopewell | US
Jacaré” died during filming. This fact evokes
                                                4 June - 11h45 - Screen 2                           A group of friends create a skateboarding        A coming-of-age comedy enhanced by
memories of Orson Welles in Brazil.
                                                                                                    team called Crasher. Together, they show         a bit of stop motion animation. Amidst
3 June - 13h45 - Screen 2                                                                           up at skate parks and events where their         mounting parental pressure to find a real
                                                                                                    skateboard tricks attract a growing flock of     job, college filmmaker Keller has one week
                                                Phil Liggett: The Voice Of                          admirers.                                        to secretly produce a short film with his
Long Live King David - [U] - 60                 Cycling - [U] - 114 mins                            As their reputation gains momentum -             brother and longtime crush. When their
mins                                            by Nickolas Bird & Eleanor Sharpe |                 fueled through the power of social media         shoot goes wrong, they confront each
                                                Australia                                           - their fame spreads. However, when              other about much more than production is-
by Ido Zand, Yael Leibovitz | Israel                                                                                                                 sues. Faced with his own selfishness, Keller
                                                                                                    Crasher members Ryo and K are sponsored
                                                The life of legendary television com-               by skateboard company ELEMENT, it puts           must decide which is more important, his
Is the Biblical story about David’s legendary
                                                mentator Phil Liggett MBE is inextricably           undue pressure on their friendship.              filmmaking or close relationships.
Kingdom indeed true? The film takes us on
a journey to find the answer and reveals        entwined with the history of professional           Whilst Ryo uses the opportunity to improve       with Hunter Hopewell, Savanah Joeckeli and
unexpected findings – about the present.        cycling. During a career that has spanned           his skateboard prowess, K turns to the           Mackenzie Amar
                                                five decades, 15 Olympic games and 47               allure of the nightlife. He distances himself
3 June - 15h00 - Screen 3                       Tours de France, Phil Liggett has been there        from his teammates.                              4 June - 11h30 - Screen 1
                                                for every key moment in cycling over the            As he falls over the edge, will he recover his
                                                last half century. The heroic triumphs, the         skateboard spirit before the big competi-
                                                appalling tragedies, the scandals and the           tion?
                                                controversies; Phil has seen it all, and told
                                                                                                    with Kaito Nakata, Ryo Sagawa and Takashi        External - [PG] - 83 mins
                                                us about it with passion, knowledge and                                                              by Jonathan Taub, Leandro Taub | US/
                                                                                                    Matsumoto
                                                his trademark wit. As much as anyone, Phil                                                           Argentina
                                                Liggett has shaped the way the world sees           5 June - 10h00 - Screen 2
                                                cycling.                                                                                             A revolutionary businessman tries to con-
                                                5 June - 18h15 - Screen 1                                                                            quer the world with $2,000.
                                                                                                    One Moment - [U] - 115 mins                      with Leandro Taub, Elizabeth Ehrlich and
                                                                                                    by Deirdre O’Connor | US                         Christian Bargados
                                                                                                    One Moment is a humorous, heartwarming           5 June - 16h30 - Screen 2
                                                                                                    story of middle-age siblings struggling to
                                                                                                    manage their own lives while also caring
                                                                                                    for their recently widowed aging father.
                                                                                                    Welcome to the “Sandwich Generation.”
                                                                                                    with Danny Aiello, Adria Tennor and Frankie
                                                                                                    Ingrassia
                                                                                                    3 June - 10h00 - Screen 2

                                                                                                9
Primavera - [18] - 113 mins                    Marcus - [15] - 110 mins                            I am Belmaya - [15] - 81 mins                    Mariam - [15] - 75 mins
by Carlos Porto de Andrade Júnior |            by J.R. Poli | US                                   by Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali | UK           by Sharipa Urazbayeva | Kazakhstan
Brazil
                                               Marcus has a checkered past and an unsta-           In patriarchal Nepal, Belmaya, at 21, has        In Zhanash, a far-away village nestled on
Moments before a father’s death, all of his    ble present. As he struggles mightily with          given up on finding happiness. An uned-          the Kazakh Steppe, 400 kilometers away
family memories are transferred to his son     mental illness, unexpected news brings              ucated Dalit, with an oppressive husband         from Almaty - and another three kilometers
through a dream. This story is told in par-    a new opportunity for him to right old              and baby daughter, she yearns for inde-          by foot on a dirt path off the main road -
allel with an investigation by two cousins     wrongs and make amends. He leaves his life          pendence. Rewind to 2006, when she was           Mariam (Meruert Sabbusinova) lives with
who are writing a book about a family.         behind and sets off on an adventure to find         a rebellious teenager living in a girls’ home.   her husband and four young children in a
All that is left are fragmented evidences,     purpose, forgiveness and redemption. But            Grabbing the chance to learn photogra-           home without light and water. One winter
destroyed photos and the oral history. The     Marcus will have to face the consequences           phy, she wanted to change her world.             day, her husband disappears without a
narrative develops a different visual lan-     of his past life and overcome the greatest          But the home locked away her camera. I           trace. Because there is no body, he cannot
guage to guide us through this saga about      obstacle of all in order to find happiness:         Am Belmaya follows her transformational          be officially declared dead. As a result,
an unusual family made up of contradictory     Himself.                                            journey from 2014 as she once again picks        Mariam cannot receive state financial
versions.                                                                                          up the camera, this time to train as a doc-      support. A very reserved person who buries
                                               with Owen Miller, Katana Malone and Paul
The ancestor, an Englishman living at the                                                          umentary filmmaker. But are her husband          her emotions deep inside, Mariam, alone,
                                               Wight
end of the 18th century, arrives in Brazil                                                         and community ready for this? Struggling         must take survival into her own hands.
and gets married to a Portuguese lady,         4 June - 17h30 - Screen 1                           against violent opposition, Belmaya makes        The experience changes her. Then, just as
owner of an extensive piece of land. Their                                                         a personal film, Educate Our Daughters,          everything has begun to fall into place, her
heirs will become the protagonists in this                                                         which wins hearts and awards, taking her         husband suddenly returns as if nothing has
history of conflicts, legends and mysteries.                                                       to places she never dreamed she would go.        happened and expects life to continue as
Love will lead to death but the supernatural   Safer in Silence - [U] - 91 mins                                                                     before.
                                                                                                   4 June - 21h00 - Screen 2
will inspire love again.                       by Corinne Niox Chateau | US
                                                                                                                                                    with Meruert Sabbusinova, Hamza Koksebek
with Ruth de Souza, Ana Paula Arósio and       At sixteen, Corinne receives a phone call                                                            and Almas Bektibayev
Marília Gabriela                               from a mysterious woman in a heavy                                                                   6 June - 16h00 - Screen 1
4 June - 13h00 - Screen 1                      foreign accent, claiming to be her grand-
                                               mother. The woman tells Corinne she has
                                               found her through a private detective, has
Grandpas - [PG] - 98 mins                      just arrived from Brazil, and can they meet.
by Santiago Requejo | Spain                    Thus begins a lifetime quest to understand
                                               her family’s hidden past. Uncovering Jewish
Three friends, near retirement age, have       roots, Corinne is pulled on a complex jour-
been expelled from the labor market. Since     ney that spans 30 years and five continents.
then, they decide to start a business… set     One startling revelation leads to another.
up a kindergarten.                             Safer in Silence is a story about hiding
with Carlos Iglesias, Roberto Álvarez and      and family secrets; about identity and
Rámon Barea                                    inter-generational trauma. Ultimately,
                                               it’s a story about one woman’s search for
5 June - 14h45 - Screen 1                      wholeness.
                                               5 June - 14h45 - Screen 2
                                               (Private preview)

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SHORT FILMS                                                    DOCUMENTARIES                               LOCAL SHORTS:
                                                                                           PROGRAMME 1:
                                                                                                                                       Woman Band [U] - 11 mins
NARRATIVE UK                               NARRATIVE UK                                    Balkan Route - Last Stop [U] -              by Sherry Newton
PROGRAMME 1:                               PROGRAMME 2:                                    30 mins                                     Preservation [PG] - 12 mins
                                                                                           by Davide Ludovisi | Italy                  by Michael Benjamin Walker
Little Games [PG] - 14 mins                It Always Feels Like the End of                 Letter To My Mother [15] - 20 mins          Grey Sea [15] -
by Stéfane Houssier                        the World [U] - 5 mins                                                                      31 mins
                                                                                           by Amina Maher | Iran
Upside [PG] - 17 mins                      by Charlotte Halpern
                                                                                           Changing Worlds In The Atlas                by Tom Morgan
by Will Herbert                            Scrum [U] - 14 mins                                                                         Spatial Ingredients [U] - 4 mins
                                                                                           Mountains [U] - 22 mins
Learning to Walk Again [U] - 8 mins        by Kate Graham
                                                                                           by Kuba Nowak | UK                          Asia Mcneilly
by Sam Talbot                              The Rape Clause [PG] - 14 mins                                                              Birdwatching [12A] - 14 mins
                                                                                           Footsteps [U] - 14 mins
Moshe and Amira [U] - 14 mins              by Jared Watmuff
                                                                                           by Jeremy Benning | Canada                  by Harry JC Reeves
by Eliot Gelberg-Wilson                    The Snow Maze [U] - 11 mins                                                                 Emerge: An Accessible World [U]
                                                                                           Above The Troubled Water [12A] -
The Little Giant [12A] - 12 mins           by Sam Cadman
                                                                                           38 mins                                     - 6 mins
by Lee Cogswell                            On My Own [15] - 15 mins                                                                    by Cydney Adams
                                                                                           by Joe Cohen | US
Losing Grace [PG] - 15 mins                by Kristian Young                                                                           The Beast Of Romney Marsh [U]
                                                                                           5 June - 12h00 - Screen 3
by Athena Mandis                           The Wick [15] - 15 mins                                                                     - 11 mins
4 June - 16h45 - Screen 3                  by Sabine Crossen                               DOCUMENTARIES                               by Igor Emmerich
                                           5 June - 16h00 - Screen 3                       PROGRAMME 2:                                The Porch [U] - 9 mins
                                                                                                                                       by Benjamin Bowles
NARRATIVE INTERNATIONAL                                                                    Races: Act One [PG] - 15 mins
PROGRAMME 1:                               NARRATIVE INTERNATIONAL                                                                     Keep Mum [U] - 15 mins
                                                                                           by Alex Ygoa | Spain                        by Luana Di Pasquale
                                           PROGRAMME 2:
Bills Included [12] - 19 mins                                                              Camelot [U] - 13 mins                       4 June - 13h30 - Screen 3
by Javier Macipe | Spain                   Pause [12] - 9 mins                             by Alison Hargreaves | UK
U šifonjeru [12A] - 15 mins                by Tamer Shaaban | Egypt                        The Day I Had To Grow Up [12A] -
by Tamara Broćić | Serbia                  I Never Left You Alone [15] - 19 mins           20 mins
Cindy [12A ] - 17 mins by by Shemer Gaon   by Mireia Noguera | Spain                       by Stefano Da Fre & Laura Pellegrini | US
Baraba | Israel                            Sheep Will Devour Us [12] - 10 mins             Time And Tide [U] - 12 mins
Lost Rabbits [12A] - 22 mins               by Mostafa Rostampour & Atefeh Rezayan |        by Caleb Yule | UK
by Bertrand Lissoir | Belgium              Iran                                            Stigma: Invisible Wounds [15] -
Inhloso Yam [12] - 7 mins                  Memoirs Of The Non Existent Me                  17 mins
by Yam by Samkelwe Vilana & Martin         [12] - 15 mins                                  by Richard Anthony Dunford & Obie Dean
Bleazard | South Africa                    by Thiago Kistenmacker | Brazil                 | UK
Archibald Syndrome [12A] - 20 mins         Yun [PG] - 17 mins                              With Open Eyes [12A] - 30 mins
by Daniel Perez | France                   by Mauricio Corco | Chile                       by Hamutal Goren | Israel
                                           Mars Colony [15] - 35 mins                      Dusty Giant [PG] - 15 mins
4 June - 18h15 - Screen 3
                                           by Noel Fuzellier | France                      by Fabi Andrade | Brazil
                                           5 June - 14h15 - Screen 3                       5 June - 17h15 - Screen 3

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ANIMATION                                  EXPERIMENTAL                                                    WEB SERIES/TV PILOTS
PROGRAMME 1:                               PROGRAMME 1:
Awkward [U] - 4 mins                       Dear Chaemin [U] - 18 mins                 PROGRAMME 1: COMEDY                          PROGRAMME 2: DRAMA
by Nata Metlukh | US                       by Cyan Bae | South Korea                  I think I’m The One [12A] - 21 mins          The Come Up [PG] - 28 mins
Early Grief Special [PG] - 5 mins          Quite Normal [PG] - 6 mins                 by Niamh Farrelly | UK                       by E.J. NiBlack-Gray | US
by Jessica Chowdhury | UK                  by Phil Gomm | UK                          Weezy Goes Outside [PG] - 17 mins            Impetuous Series [15] - 16 mins
Out With The Old [U] - 8 mins              Keygrip [12A] - 6 mins                     by Daniel Tenenbaum | US                     by Omari Biriye | UK
by George Summers | UK                     by Nasos Gatzoulis | Greece                Space Planet [15] - 13 mins                  Farinata - The Thirteenth Night
The Rotation [U] - 7 mins                  Faces [U] - 7 mins                         by Brian Luff | UK                           [PG] - 22 mins
by Hazhir As’adi | Iran                    by Charly Wenzel | US                      The Artist Formerly Known As                 by Giovanni Guidelli | Italy
Quarantine Chorus [U] - 1 mins             Bulletes of Baptism [15] - 10 mins         Lucifer [12A] - 34 mins                      Doctor Prisoner [12] - 31 mins
by Edoardo Sartori | UK/Italy              by Zivar Hojati | Iran                     by Tom Carroll Armstrong & Jeffrey Frost |   by Hwang In-hyeok, Song, Minyeob | South
The Legend of Lwanda Magere                In A Strange Room [18] - 29 mins           US                                           Korea
[12] - 11 mins                             by Emilio J. López | Spain                 What The Fact [U] - 27 mins                  4 June - 10h00 - Screen 3
by Kwame Nyong’o | Kenya                   4 June - 15h15 - Screen 3                  by Joel Van der Molen | UK
Ian, A Moving Story [U] - 9 mins
                                                                                      3 June - 11h00 - Screen 3
by Abel Goldfarb | Argentina
                                           EXPERIMENTAL
My Favourite Hill [PG] - 5 mins
by Christopher Childs | UK
                                           PROGRAMME 2:
Malakout [12A] - 10 mins                   The Universe According To Dan
by Farnoosh Abedi | Iran                   Buckley [PG] - 10 mins
Table [U] - 10 mins                        by Roberto Santaguida | Canada
by João Fazenda | Portugal                 Emptiness [15] - 10 mins
6 June - 12h30 - Screen 3                  by Eduardo Gallardo | Mexico
                                           Algo-Rythm [PG] - 14 mins
                                           by Manu Luksch | UK/Austria/Senegal
ANIMATION
PROGRAMME 2:                               Dream/Life [U] - 22 mins
                                           by David Aufdembrinke | Germany
On Wenlock Edge [PG] - 27 mins             Baby Lies Truthfully [15] - 6 mins
by Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood | UK              by Joseph Ingham | UK
Gon, The Little Fox [PG] - 28 mins         Fame [12A] - 12 mins
by Takeshi Yashiro | Japan                 by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo | Italy
Birth, The Cycles Of Life [U] - 28 mins 6 June - 16h30 - Screen 3
by Arisa Wakami & Azuru Isshiki & Ayaka
Kawasaki | Japan
6 June - 13h345 - Screen 3

                                                                                 12
MUSIC VIDEOS                                                                        ON-SCREEN
Isaac Delusion - ”Pas L’Habi-
tude” [U] - 4 mins
                                     Dimitri & The Scarecrow- “Act Of
                                     War” [U] - 4 mins
                                                                                                             COLLECTION
by Leo Chadoutaud | US               by Dimitri D. Kwenda & Daniel Semulema |
Elektromonteur - “E-Class” [U] - 5   Zimbabwe
mins
by Egor Babichev | Russia
                                     “Chica Rara” [U] - 4 mins
                                     by Fran Gas | Spain                                        FEATURE NARRATIVE
Kavalla - “Prey” [U] - 4 mins        House Of Wire - “Miles & Miles”
by Stephan Bookas | UK               [U] - 4 mins
Patrick Martin - “Both Of You” [U]   by Philip Clyde-Smith, P Burton-Morgan |        Moira - [PG] - 93 mins                          Darkness of Otherwhere - [15]
-3 mins                              UK                                              by Daniel Lovecchio | Spain                     - 84 mins
by Theo Watkins | UK                 “Stars” [12A ] - 6 mins                                                                         by Ayoub Qanir | Japan
                                     by Robert Zerbst | Germany                      Germán is Argentine by birth, but has lived
“The Trouble With Angels” [U] - 6                                                    in Spain for thirty years with his wife Rosa    A young woman gets emotionally caught
mins                                 “If You Can Walk You Can Dance”                 and his daughter Lucia.The day of the birth-    in a voyeuristic game on the dark shades
by Sam Chegini | Iran                [U] - 5 mins                                    day girl gets a phone call that will confront   of Tokyo only to reveal a darker past of her
GA Setubal - “Departure Song”        by Moira Rowan | United Kingdom/South           his violent past.This Argentine exile must      own.
[U] - 4 mins                         Africa                                          then deal with the awful experiences that
                                                                                                                                     with Mika Hijii
by Deco Farkas | Brazil              “Mangue” [U] - 4 mins                           experienced during Argentina’s dictator-
                                                                                     ship to the same time exceeding their           3 June - 14h15 - Screen 3
 “Take Cover” [U] - 4 mins           by Marion Castera | France
                                                                                     current family problems
by Paul Stafford | UK                Marianne Dissard - “Come On,                                                                    Riptide - [12A] - 90 mins
                                                                                     with Nerea Lovecchio, Daniel Lovechio,
“Lay Waste Child” [U] - 7 mins       Let’s Go!” [U] - 5 mins                         Luciano Ciaglia                                 by Tim Barrow | UK
by Aaron Guadamuz | US               by Raphael Mann, Marianne Dissard | UK
                                                                                     6 June - 17h15 - Screen 2                       Discharged from a psychiatric hospital,
“Gun” [U] - 5 mins                   4 June - 11h45 - Screen 3
                                                                                                                                     Jacob attempts to resume his life in Edin-
by Nave Pinhas | Israel
                                                                                                                                     burgh, control his schizophrenia and be a
                                                                                     Basenji - [12A] - 81 mins                       worthy member of society. He works col-
                                                                                                                                     lecting litter from the streets. He boxes. He
                                                                                     by Ian Scott Clement | Nepal
                                                                                                                                     takes his medication. He writes everything
                                                                                     After his father is fired for writing an        down. His Dad barely wants to know him.
                                                                                     investigative report on Nepal’s agricultural    Frustrated by this existence and encour-
                                                                                     industry, a young man has his life spiral       aged by his psychiatrist to seek fulfilling op-
                                                                                     into a nightmare as a series of mysterious      portunities, Jacob sets off to the Highlands
                                                                                     and increasingly disturbing events plunges      in search of adventure. By the sea he finds
                                                                                     him deeper and deeper into the horrifying       the charismatic Eva, who claims to be the
                                                                                     secrets of his past.                            secret daughter of Ingmar Bergman. And
                                                                                                                                     she’s on a mission. Jacob and Eva join forces
                                                                                     with Asim Niroula, Supreme Rai and Sarita       and embark upon adventures.
                                                                                     Giri
                                                                                                                                     with Elspeth Turner, Tim Barrow and David
                                                                                     6 June - 19h00 - Screen 2                       Whitney
                                                                                                                                     5 June - 19h30 - Screen 2

                                                                                13
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY                                                                                St Petersburg, The City Of Ap-                     Call For A Poetic City - [U] -
                                                                                                               plause - [U] - 57 mins                             60 mins
                                                                                                               by Ricardo Marquina | Russia                       by Elisabeth Felson | UK
The Soul Of A Cyclist - [U] -                        Next Generation - [U] - 67 mins
                                                                                                               The documentary that reflects the life of          Poetic is Political. Horse-riding in a large city
74 mins                                              by Ayelet Heller and Niya Aleksandrova |
                                                                                                               the arts of St. Petersburg through 13 artists,     centre isn’t a touristic endeavor, but under-
by Nuno Tavares | Portugal                           Israel                                                    some famous, others students. The film aims        takes a unique role at the community level.
                                                                                                               to show the richness, tradition, and projec-       The Nye family, who arrived in London from
Through a group of “classic” cyclists and            A fascinating personal journey that tells the
                                                                                                               tion of Russian performing arts, especially in     Australia in the 60’s, established a stable in
their common interest in the classic bicycle,        story of the families of prominent Israeli TV
                                                                                                               St. Petersburg, a city that plays a leading role   Hyde Park, working at the community level,
we’ll discover values that are being lost in         newswoman Oshrat Kotler and former IDF
                                                                                                               in the entire film.                                democratizing riding in the city, providing
our modern society, such as the importance           Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi. Together with
of friendship, ecology, valuing the old, min-        them, we learn the unique story of the Bulgari-           4 June - 20h00 - Screen 3                          riding for the children, the handicapped,
imalism and, other important premises to             an people and their country, the only one in                                                                 and the schools, teaching young people
achieve a happier, simpler and more fulfilled        Europe that saved most of its Jews during the                                                                hard work, passing their dream from gen-
                                                                                                                                                                  eration to generation. The camera captures
life with what really matters. As in life, in this   Holocaust.                                                Stalking Chernobyl: Explora-                       the day-to-day routines and challenges of
documentary, bicycles transport us in our                                                                      tion After Apocalypse - [12A] -
                                                     3 June - 15h45 - Screen 3                                                                                    Ross Nye Stables with humour, poetry & a
discovery, in our reflection.
                                                                                                               57 mins                                            strong cinematography.
4 June - 13h45 - Screen 2                                                                                      by Iara Lee | US
                                                                                                                                                                  5 June - 21h15 - Screen 2
                                                     Last Call For Tomorow - [15] -
                                                     84 mins                                                   A documentary that examines the under-
The Nobel Snowflake - [U] -                                                                                    ground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion
                                                     by Gary Null and Valerie Van Cleve | US
60 mins                                                                                                        Zone. Three decades after the world’s most         17 Seconds - [PG] - 85 mins
by Kajsa Andersö | Sweden                            We are witnessing the 6th Mass Extinction of
                                                                                                               infamous nuclear disaster, illegal hiking          by Alon Marom | Israel
                                                                                                               adventurers (known as “stalkers”), extreme
                                                     our planet. We are loosing about 200 species
                                                                                                               sports afficionados, artists, and tour com-        An intimate coming of age drama docu-
The film “The Noble Snowflake” is about the          a day. Humanity has killed 83% of all wild
                                                                                                               panies have begun to explore anew the              ments four teenagers, outstanding athletes
actual work of designing a building.                 mammals and half of all plants. Of the birds
                                                                                                               mysterious, ghostly landscape, where trees         living in a prestigious sports academy,
For nine months, we followed Gert                    left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and
                                                                                                               and forest animals have reclaimed land             where the intense daily routine forces them
Wingårdh and his coworkers closely in their          other farmed birds.
                                                                                                               abandoned by villagers. Even as survivors          to sacrifice youth in favor of success.
practical work and creative process. Gert            Global industrial pollution is killing over 9 mil-
                                                                                                               continue to reckon with a dishonest gov-
Whas been working as an architect for more           lion people a year, through bad air and water.                                                               3 June - 17h00 - Screen 3
                                                                                                               ernment’s attempts to cover up the extent
than 40 years and has designed over 250              What recourse can the people take, when
                                                                                                               of the disaster, and as humanity faces new
listed buildings.                                    there are no effective
                                                                                                               nuclear incidents in place like Fukushima,
Through the camera, we observed discus-              institutions to deal with the global one world
                                                                                                               the Chernobyl site has turned into a bizarre
sions and considerations, doubts and the             order.
                                                                                                               tourist attraction, drawing seekers with a
scent of victory, starting points and circum-        We face a clear choice: radical political trans-
                                                                                                               taste for the post-apocalyptic.
stances, elements that together ultimately           formation or deepening mass extinction.
determine what architecture looks like - at          To secure a sustainable future, we must                   4 June - 16h30 - Screen 2
least when it comes to buildings designed            change how we think, who we are, and how
by Gert Wingårdh.                                    we live.
6 June - 15h30 - Screen 2                            6 June - 10h00 - Screen 2

                                                                                                          14
SHORT FILMS                                                                      LOCKDOWN STORIES:                                 NATURE & ENVIRONMENT:
                                                                                                             The need to create and tell stories never         This short film collection looks at our relation
                                                                                                             stops. During the pandemic inspiration has        with nature and helps us understand some of
FAMILY:                                            SECRETS & LIES:                                           flourished behind closed doors. Drawn from        the challenges faced by the environment today
It’s been a challenging time for families. Let’s   Things are not always quite what they seem.
                                                                                                             personal experiences, the political and social    and what impact they may have.
celebrate the importance of family in this         Sometimes, staying away from the reality and
                                                                                                             context, these short films shot in Lockdown
compilation of short stories portraying fami-      hiding the truth is for the best. Discover what is                                                          Juha - In The Life Of A Reindeer
                                                                                                             offer a great insight into these strange times,
lies willing to make sacrifices and protect one    real or not real in this compelling and captivat-
                                                                                                             dominated by virtual connections, social bub-     [U] - 35 mins
another, whatever the cost.                        ing short film compilation. You won’t be short
                                                                                                             bles and isolation.                               by Arne Kasten | Germany
                                                   of suprises!
Pola [15] - 11 mins                                                                                          103 [U] - 19 mins                                 Rahmat Creel [U] - 2 mins
by Natalia Lampropoulou | Greece                   Objet Trouvé [12A] - 4 mins                                                                                 by Bezhad Alavi | Iran
                                                   by Joaquín Pérez Ordóñez | Spain                          by José Bautista | Spain
Mother [PG] - 18 mins                                                                                                                                          Echo [PG] - 8 mins
by Chase Lee | South Korea                         The Movement [12A] - 15 mins                              Desert Island Music [U] - 14 mins
                                                                                                             by John McEwan-Whyte | UK                         by Barzan Rostami | Iran
Keys [PG] - 4 mins                                 by Rouzbeh Kazemi | Iran
                                                                                                             Changing LA [U] - 4 mins                          Forest [U] - 9 mins
by Mayra A. Flores, Nicholas Manting               The Smuggler [12A] - 20 mins                                                                                by Nils Mooij | Netherlands
Brewer | US                                        by Adrian Serecut | Romania                               by Andrea Fiorentini Del Rio | US
                                                                                                             Made In China [PG] - 7 mins                       The Whimper And Existence [U] -
All That’s Left [PG] - 26 mins                     One [U] - 10 mins                                                                                           16 mins
by Hugo Salvaire | Belgium                         by Javier Marco Rico | Spain                              by Ale Damiani | Uruguay
                                                                                                                                                               by Hossein Allahyari | Iran
The Van [15] - 15 mins                             Emi [12A] - 4 mins                                        Are You Still There? [12A] -
                                                                                                             13 mins                                           The Long Journey [U] - 22 mins
by Erenik Beqiri | France                          by Arnaud Prochasson | France                                                                               by Roberto Lo Monaco | Italy
                                                                                                             by Mónica Zamora Armero | Spain
Mariposa [12A] - 11 mins                           Memory [U] - 10 mins                                                                                        Choker [U] - 5 mins
by Dimitri Luedemann | US                          by Demet Erden | Turkey                                   We Can’t Breathe [12A] - 10 mins
                                                                                                             by Clarence Williams IV | US                      by Orson Cornick | UK
Why Do People Lie? [PG] - 13 mins                  Taxidermy Tom [PG] - 13 mins
by Dídac Cervera Casademont | Spain                by Nathalie Ekstrom | Sweden                              The Choice [PG] - 14 mins                         6 June - 11h45 - Screen 2
                                                                                                             by Manuel Juri Vitali | Italy
5 June - 19h30 - Screen 3                          The Stain [15] - 13 mins
                                                   by Shoresh Vakili | Iran                                  1NS [12] - 10 mins
                                                                                                             by Fiona Campbell, Ella Exley | UK
                                                   Divertimento [15] - 30 mins
                                                   by Keyvan Sheikhalishahi | France                         An Endless Summer [PG] - 10 mins
                                                                                                             by Patrick Crellin | Isle of Man
                                                   6 June - 13h30 - Screen 2
                                                                                                             The Granddaughter [U] - 5 mins
                                                                                                             by Mohsen Habibi, Mostafa Daryadar | Iran
                                                                                                             4 June - 17h30 - Screen 2

                                                                                                        15
LAUGHS:
After everything we’ve gone through over the
                                                                                           YOUTH
last year, why not enjoy a series of feel-good
short films designed to make you laugh. Silli-
ness is king in this selection!
                                                                                          SECTION
You Won’t Get Me [PG] - 20 mins
by Thierry Dory | Belgium
Silence [U] - 9 mins                                  8 TO 14 YEARS OLD:                                    15 TO 18 YEARS OLD:
                                                      A collection of sweet short films for the             Engaging stories about contemporary themes
by Stephan Bookas | France
                                                      younger audience                                      with the power to develop young people’s
Fargate [12A] - 19 mins                                                                                     critical mind
by Sally Cancello | UK                                The Camel Boy [U] - 15 mins
A Few Flower Branches [U] - 30                        by Chabname Zariâb | France                           Tammy [U] - 13 mins
mins                                                  Interferences [U] - 9 mins                            by Andrew T. Horng | US
by Mehrdad Parvani | Iran                             by Javier Cano Larumbe | Spain                        My Generation [U] - 2 mins
And Don’t Forget To Subscribe                         Deep Fears [U] - 4 mins                               by Thanh Ingle Lai | France
[U] - 16 mins                                         by Ryan Chu | US                                      Cheyenne [U] - 10 mins
by Jake Nielsen | Australia                           Polaris [U] - 4 mins                                  by Rich Underwood | US
Madame Grenier’ Toaster [12A] -                       by Ellen Gordon | UK                                  Mazel Tov Cocktail [12A] -
17mins                                                The Beginning [U] - 21 mins                           30 mins
by Jethro Massey | UK                                 by Sandeep Kumar Verma | India                        by Arkadij Khaet, Mickey Paatzsch |
Tastes Like Fish [15] - 9 mins                        Sfumato [U] - 30 mins                                 Germany
by Sophie Bonollo | Australia                         by Amirali Mirderikvand | Iran                        6 June - 11h30 - Screen 3
5 June - 10h00 - Screen 3                             6 June - 10h00 - Screen 3

                                                      KENT FILM FOUNDATION COVID-19 CHALLENGE

                                                      Head also to https://www.strangelovefestival.com/kent-film-foundation until June 4th to wacth The Kent
                                                      Film Foundation COVID-19 short film challenge held in partnership with the Ramsgate International Film
                                                      & TV Festival.

                                                      The films are defined by three categories which
                                                      are 10-12,14-16 and 17-19. The festival celebrates
                                                      not only young filmmakers from around the world
                                                      but also reminds us of the courage and perse-
                                                      verance throughout the last 12 months and how
                                                      we continue to strive as a community around the
                                                      world.

                                                 16
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:
AN OPEN WINDOW
         picture from Poppie Nongena
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:                                                                              A Taste of Our Land - [15] - 84
                                                                                                       mins
                                                                                                                                                                    SHORT FILMS

        AN OPEN WINDOW                                                                                 by Yuhi Amuli | Rwanda

                                                                                                       While trying to provide for his pregnant
                                                                                                                                                       I’m Living In Ghana, Get Me Out
                                                                                                                                                       Of Here [U] - 15 mins
                                                                                                       wife, Yohani an old African man retrieves a     by Comfort Arthur - | Ghana
                                                                                                       gold nugget in a brutal Chinese run mine        Pause [U] - 5 mins
                              in partnership with Tidpix                                               built on his land and runs away to sell it
                                                                                                                                                       by Jammal Ibrahim | Nigeria
                                                                                                       for $100. When he learns its real value, he
                                                                                                       becomes as obsessed with it as Cheng,           Idi Admin’s Boat [PG] - 11 mins
FEATURES:                                        N.S.I.W.E - [12] - 86 mins                            the Chinese mine owner who will stop at         by Grace Nabisenke | Uganda
                                                 by Roger Matelja Mugabirwe | Uganda                   nothing to get it back.                         Algo-Rythm [U] - 14 mins
Softie - [18] - 96 mins (Documentary)                                                                  Set in an unnamed African country, A            by Manu Luksh | Austria/Senegal
by Sam Soko | Kenya                              How we make choices depends on how we                 TASTE OF OUR LAND is a film about greed
                                                 decide. Therefore priorities are the deci-            told against the backdrop of the current        6 June - 15h30 - Screen 3
Boniface Mwangi is daring and audacious,         sions we make.                                        Chinese influence in African countries.
and recognized as Kenya’s most provoc-           Jordan Batanda, a struggling lawyer (must             with Princess Aliya, Peter Kye, and Sseggujja   Not Your Bride [U] - 6 mins
ative photojournal-ist. But as a father of       choose his priorities, when he discovers a            Micheal                                         by Tapiwa Gambura | Zimbabwe
three young children, these qualities create     heartbreaking secret as he attends to his
tremendous turmoil between him and his           comatose fiancée & baby.                              3 June - 17h30 - Screen 1                       3 June - 15h15 - Screen 3
wife Njeri. When he wants to run for political                                                                                                         preceding the feature The Fisherman’s Diary
                                                 with Michael Wawuyo Jr , Aganza Kisaka and            Barakat - [12] - 98 mins
office, he is forced to choose: country or
                                                 Raymond Rushabiro
family?                                                                                                by Amy Jephta | South Africa
                                                 5 June - 18h00 - Screen 2
3 June - 12h00 - Screen 2
                                                                                                       When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to
                                                                                                                                                                DISCUSSION PANEL
                                                 Becoming Black - [12] - 90 mins                       accept a marriage proposal, she devises
                                                 by Ines Johnson-Spain | Germany                       a plan to break the news to her four sons       Rethinking distribution,
                                                                                                       over Eid. The only problem is that the two      audiences and African cinema
                                                 A white couple living in the German Dem-              eldest sons have been at loggerheads            - £5
                                                 ocratic Republic, tells their Black child that        since their father passed and refuse to be
                                                 its skin color is purely by chance and has no         in the same room at the same time. Her big      Discussion between talents and industry
                                                 meaning. This is what happened to a girl in           reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the    professionals on the new film streaming dis-
                                                 East Berlin in the 1960s.                             grapevine about their mother’s pending          tribution models and the opportunities and
                                                                                                       nuptials and come together to voice their       new challenges for African cinema.
                                                 Years before, a group of African men came             disapproval of the match. Now it’s up to
                                                 to study in a village nearby. Here the East           Aisha, her fiancé and her daughters in law      with Philipp Hoffmann (Rushlake Media, TidPix
                                                 German woman Sigrid falls in love with                to bring the sons around to her way of          ), Yuhi Amuli (Director of ‘A Taste Of Our Land’)
                                                 Lucien from Togo and gets pregnant. But               thinking using the one thing they can all       + more to be confirmed
                                                 she is already married to Armin.                      agree on - the b​ arakat​.
                                                                                                                                                       5 June - 11h00 - Screen 4
                                                 The child is filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain.            with Vinette Ebrahim, Leslie Fong, June van
                                                                                                       Merch, Joey Rasdien
                                                 5 June - 16h30 - Screen 1
                                                                                                       4 June - 19h15 - Screen 2

                                                                                                  18
WHITE TIGER
              by Karen Shakhnazarov

                      presented by

                     in partnership with
the Russian-British Sochi International Film Festival & Awards

                             on
                  Ramsgate Digital Cinema

                       Friday 4 June
                      21.00 - Screen 3
SPECIAL EVENTS                                                                   Networking Party
                                                                                                          Join us and share a drink as you mingle with
                                                                                                          filmmakers, actors and guests around a table.
                                                                                                          Attendees will be rotated every ten minutes,
                                                                                                          so you’ll get opportunities to expand your
                                                                                                          network.
To celebrate our partnership with the Rus-           CODumentary - In Conversa-                           4 June - 18h00 - Screen 4
sian-British Sochi International Film Festival       tion with Jonathan Beales - £5
& Awards, we’re presenting White Tiger the
eight time nominee and four time winner of                                                                How To Get An Agent, when
                                                     CODumentary explores how the video
the Golden Eagle, the Russian BAFTA equiva-          game Call of Duty grew into one of the               you’re an Actor - £5
lent, in association with the Russian Embassy        biggest global entertainment franchise
in London.                                           blockbusters of all time. Jonathan will talk         Actor, Ian Sharp, joins us for a discussion
                                                                                                          about how to get an agent along with a            Part of the Fight Back Film Awards pro-
                                                     about the challenges of making a feature
White Tiger - [12] - 104 mins                                                                             talent agent, Marvin Godfrey, from Revolu-        gramme
                                                     documentary single-handedly and suc-
by Karen Shakhnazarov | Russia (2012)                                                                     tion Talent.
                                                     cessfully and how to get distribution.               Ian studied acting at the Arts Educational        A chance to revisit Kajaki, a 2014 BAFTA and
In WW2, after a tank battle, a wounded Soviet        4 June - 10h30 - Screen 4                            Schools. He co-founded the film and TV pro-       BIFA awarded feature film which is widely
tank driver and mechanic is taken to the hos-                                                             duction/finance company Sharp House with          acknowledged as the best, British war movie of
pital. He suffers from amnesia and has severe        CODumentary - [12] - 93 mins                         his wife Rebecca in 2016. Whilst still treading   recent times. The team behind the film worked
burns on his body. He secretly believes he can       by Jonathan Beales | US (2017)                       the boards in various productions ranging         closely with ex-servicemen and their families
communicate with any tank, as if the tank were                                                            from Les Misérables in the West End to the        to tell the story with an authentic voice. We’re
human. After being returned to duty, the tank-       Independent documentary charting the                 upcoming feature film Code of Silence, Ian        delighted to have a screening of the film and a
man proves to be one of the best tank-men in         rise of hit video game Call Of Duty & how            has produced and executive produced mul-          case study discussion with the film team.
his unit. Rumors about a new, invincible Nazi        it grew into a global blockbuster. From              tiple feature films from The Marker, Pleasure
tank, circulate. It’s said that a huge Nazi tank     launch in 2003 through to the present                Island, The Visitor, Monsoon, Incoming,           Kajaki - Kilo Two Bravo - [15] -
often appears out of nowhere on the battlefield      day, the film tells a fascinating story cov-         Undergods, Northern Soul and the official
and it destroys dozens of Soviet tanks. The                                                               Sundance Film Festival selected Halston and       108 mins by Paul Katis | UK (2014)
                                                     ering the game’s epic rich history.
mysterious enemy tank is nicknamed White                                                                  Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist. Sharp House
                                                     4 June - 11h45 - Screen 4
Tiger by the Soviet soldiers. Our tank-man,                                                               are developing a range of high end interna-       Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British
Naydenov, is convinced that it was the White                                                              tional feature films and TV series.               soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying
Tiger that destroyed his Soviet tank and he                                                               Marvin originally started in Biochemistry         enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every
wants revenge. Naydenov is ordered to find           VFX in short films - £5                              before making the decision to pursue a            step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A
and destroy the White Tiger. But how can one                                                              career working in a field he has always been      mine that could cost you your leg - or your life.
find and destroy a ghost of war?                     Short film makers, working with limited              passionate about, talent management.
                                                     budgets and compressed timelines, often                                                                with David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle
                                                                                                          Marvin has spent nearly a decade working
with Paleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy   find themselves without funds or resources                                                             5 June - 15h30 - Screen 4
                                                                                                          with a range of talent from high profile,
Grishko                                              for visual effects. VFX veterans, Dave Kiddie        leading and award-winning actors, to recent
4 June - 21h00 - Screen 3                            and Brian Carbin of Stone Dogs, share their          graduates/ up and coming young perform-           Kajaki - Case Study & Q&A
                                                     advice and insights along with some before           ers.
                                                     and after case studies to help you shoot             Marvin has his own list spanning across Film,     with Director Paul Katis, Writer Tom Williams,
                                                     more effectively for a smoother post produc-         TV and Theatre.                                   Actor Scott Kyle and Veteran Stu Pearson
                                                     tion process.
                                                                                                          4 June - 15h00 - Screen 4
                                                     3 June - 15h00 - Screen 4                                                                              5 June - 17h30 - Screen 4

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RAMSGATE INTERNATIONAL FILM & TV FESTIVAL

                                                                          THE TEAM
Brenda Blethyn: Patron                                                                SELECTION COMMITTEE
Sylvie Bolioli: Festival Founder / Director
Christopher Scutt: Festival Co-Founder                                                Aishah Abu Bakar, Isabelle Baker, Anna Barbir, Josh Barnes, Zacchary Bartlett,
Beverley Perkins: Finance Officer                                                     Sylvie Bolioli, Freddie Bret-Day, Troy Brown, Ambhur Burghall, Cianna Canning,
Nathalie Siegel: Director of Programming / General Deputy                             Oliver Carey , Nada Cirjanic, Olwenn Collins, Mel Conneely , Richard Culling,
Adam Young: Director of Programming (Fight Back Film Awards)                          Anne-Marie Dames, Giuilia De Vita, Johanna Dorey, Alexandra Dorisca, Paul Ducker,
Zoe Kandyla: Co-Director of Programming (Features)                                    Krista Durand, Tom Dwyer, Noor Franssen, Sara Gazini, Adam Grewer, Ciara Grimes,
Johanna Dorey: Senior Programmer (Short Films)                                        Joe Hadman, Johan Hallström, Max Harding, Livia Hartmann, Fiona Hewlett,
Zacchary Bartlett: Junior Programmer                                                  Umloda Ibrahim, Dorothy Iskrzynska, Paula Jimenez, Zoe Kandyla, Anna Kozlowska,
Freddie Bret-Day: Junior Programmer                                                   Ethan Lamb, Anna Lawrence, Sara Lopo, Rebecca Mackay, Hannon Maher,
Oliver Carey: Junior Programmer / Interviewer                                         Fi McKinlay, Katarina Mihalkovicova, Josh Millmore, Peter Minning, Robyn Minshall,
Nula Millard: Junior Programmer                                                       Kathryn Mintzer, Alia Morsy, Brendan Murphy, Arzzita Nash, Helen Nicholson, Sam
Alia Morsy: Junior Programmer                                                         Oliver, Chris Peppitt, Talitha Piggott, Roberto Prestia, Simon Ramsden, Katarzyna
Robert Prestia: Junior Programmer                                                     Romatowska, Octavio Rosado, Barbara Russell, Reza Sameni, Dan Sareen, Julia
Octavio Rosado: Junior Programmer                                                     Marie Schoenheit, Nathalie Siegel, Livia Spencer, Danai Spentzou, Lorianne
Dan Sareen: Junior Programmer                                                         Stirland-Legret, Sharon Thomas, Cathie Thurgate, Edoardo Torraca, Christina
Sofia Wickerhauser: Junior Programmer / Filmmakers Liaison Officer / Interviewer      Valentine, Jack Ward, Lee Wellbrook, Sofia Wickerhauser, Ritchie Wilkinson, Gala
Denitsa Yordanova: Junior Programmer                                                  Woolley, Denisa Yordanova, Andrew Young, Maria Zani, Siamak Zolfaghari
Maria Zani: Junior Programmer
Alexandra Dorisca: Chief Curator (Sub-Saharan Africa: An Open Window)                 TRAILER MUSIC
Sam Oliver: Press Officer / Interviewer                                               Stephen Frost
Adam Grewer: Marketing Coordinator / Interviewer / Editor
Ciara Grimes: Marketing Coordinator / PR
Nada Cirjanic: Events Director                                                        BOARD MEMBERS
Isabelle Baker: Events Manager                                                        Sylvie Bolioli, Richard Selwyn-Barnett, Dee Anderson, Andy Mayson
Livia Hartmann: Interviewer / Editor
Ethan Lamb: Interviewer
Paul Ducker: Interviewer
Olwenn Collins: Interviewer
Arzzita Nash: Interviewer
Tom Dwyer: Trailer Editor
Noor Franssen: Editor
Jack Ward: Editor
                                                                                      Website: www.ramsgateiftvfest.org
Julia Marie Schoenheit: Editor
Benjamin Emanuel: Technical Director                                                  Contact: info@ramsgateiftvfest.org
Ritchie Wilkinson: Short Programme Consultant / Addition Technical Support

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