Events on Sunday 13th November
“MARK DIGBY is a BAFTA-nominated Production Designer and regular collaborator with writer/director Alex Garland and DNA films, having recently worked with him on the acclaimed productions Men, DEVS, Ex Machina and Dredd.”
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JUDGE DREDD Vs DREDD - A Sci-Fi Double Bill
“Mangal’s cab is our opportunity to tour post-Independence Mumbai, with the film’s extensive location footage earning the city a starring credit in the opening titles. Recalling and reworking international traditions of cinematic realism, Taxi Driver offers an unusually gritty glimpse of lives at the margins of Indian society. It’s also one of several films noirs to present Dev Anand with two distinct heroines: Kalpana Karthik as Mala, the innocent newcomer seeking stardom in the big city, and Sheila Ramani as the vampish Anglo-Indian cabaret performer Sylvie.”
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Film Noir UK presents: Taxi Driver
“A riveting neorealist testimony to Angola’s anti-colonialist struggle, not screened in the country until after independence, this is an unforgettable revolutionary film and a passionate dramatisation of a pivotal moment in Angola’s fight for freedom adapted by Sarah Maldoror from a book by Portuguese-Angolan author and activist José Luandino Vieira. Maldoror was not only one of the first women to wield a camera and transform African cinema from then on, but a matriarch who did it to fight oppression.”
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Sambizanga + Q&A
“In the interest of making the Story Slam a safe and comfortable place to be, storytellers are able to attach content warnings to their stories, to warn of any sensitive or distressing topics. Details of how to do this will be explained on the day. Content warnings are read out before each story to give people a chance to leave the room if they so wish.”
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Story Slam: Instant Regret
“In modern-day Belgium, a young woman called Lokita (Mbundu Joely) and a boy called Tori (Pablo Schils), have endured a terrible journey from West Africa together to the promised land of the EU and are now in a children’s home for immigrants. Lokita must now convince the authorities that Tori is her younger brother, whilst still needing to pay off the violent smugglers who transported them.”
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Tori & Lokita + Q&A