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Tuesday
11
September 2007
7.30 pm |
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Born
into
Brothels |
A
tribute
to the
resiliency
of
childhood
and the
restorative
power of
art,
Born
into
Brothels
is
a
portrait
of
several
unforgettable
children
who
live in
the red
light
district
of
Calcutta,
where
their
mothers
work as
prostitutes.
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Tuesday
25
September 2007
7.30 pm |
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Catch
A Fire |
Set in
apartheid
South
Africa
in the
1980s,
this is
a
compelling
true
story of
a hero's
journey
to
freedom.
Patrick
Chamussa
is an
oil
refinery
foreman
and
soccer
coach
who
takes
part in
an act
of
sabotage
and is
imprisoned
on
Robben
Island
for a
decade. |
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Tuesday
2 October 2007
7.30 pm |
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Junoon |
An
engrossing
chronicle
of the
1857 to
1858
period
of the
Indian
Uprising.
Set
during
the heat
of
battle
the film
follows
the
story of
Javed (Shashi
Kapoor)
who
helps
massacre
a group
of
churchgoing
British
people
only to
fall in
love
with one
of the
survivors. |
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Postponed
to
January
2008 |
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Whatever
- Pax
Nindi |
Whatever
is a
live
arts,
one man
multimedia
performance
about
whatever
happens
to a
human
being
Made in
Malawi.
Anything
humanly
and
inhumanly
can
happen
in this
show
which
features
Pax
Nindi
and
several
of his
gadgets
which
end up
creating
more and
more
people
in
whatever
world
using
whatever
life has
to
offer. |
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Tuesday
30
October 2007
7.30 pm |
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Amazing
Grace |
Northern
MP
William
Wilberforce
is a man
driven
by
faith.
Sure of
the
notion
that God
created
all men
equal,
he sets
about
trying
to
abolish
slavery
within
the
British
Empire.
Driven
on by
his
friend
and
Prime
Minister
Pitt the
Younger,
and
advised
by
former
priest
John
Newton,
Wilberforce
dedicates
his life
to the
cause.
However,
Parliament
is full
of
supporters
of the
slave
trade
who
Wilberforce
will
need to
convince
otherwise. |
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Tuesday 6
November 2007
7.30 pm |
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This is
England |
This
powerful
film
draws
upon an
England
on the
verge of
multi-culturalism,
a time
when ska
and
skinhead
culture
briefly
came
together
only to
be
snuffed
out by
the rise
of the
National
Front.
Shaun is
a mouthy
yet
vulnerable
lad who
falls in
with a
friendly
and
diverse
bunch of
skinheads.
When an
older,
tougher
member
of the
group
returns
home
from
prison,
his
seductive
calls to
patriotism,
masking
overt
racism,
divide
the
group. |
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Monday
12
November 2007
7.30 pm |
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Zirkus
Is Nich |
Life is
by no
means
easy for
eight-year-old
Dominik
from the
Berlin
district
of
Hellersdorf.
Living
with his
younger
brother
and
sister
and his
single
mother,
he finds
himself
constantly
torn
between
his
sense of
responsibility
to the
family
and his
own
desires
as he
struggles
to make
his own
life.
This
documentary
portrait
of
Dominik
accompanies
him
during
the ups
and
downs of
his
daily
life. |
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Tuesday
20
November 2007
7.30 pm |
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Daratt |
Atim and
his
grandfather
crouch
by a
small
radio to
await
the
verdict
of those
accused
of war
crimes
during
Chad’s
decades
long
civil
war;
controversially,
the
government
decides
to grant
amnesty
to all
war
criminals.
This
devastating
decision
prompts
the
boy’s
grandfather
to
assign
him one
mission
in life:
Kill the
man who
murdered
Atim’s
father
during
the war.
Armed
with a
revolver,
he is
told to
return
only
when his
task has
been
completed.
When
Atim
finds
the man,
a
taciturn
baker,
the
gravity
of
taking
someone’s
life
proves
heavier
than he
first
thought
and his
promise
of
vengeance
becomes
increasingly
fraught
with
complicated
consequences.
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Tuesday
27
November 2007
7.30 pm |
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Amu |
This
award
winning
film is
the tale
of
21-year
old Kaju,
who
returns
to India
with a
desire
to
connect
with the
‘real
India’.
Here she
meets
Kabir,
who
pokes
gentle
fun at
her
American
outlook.
Undeterred
Kaju
visits
the
slums
and
roadside
cafes
where
she is
overcome
by
feelings
of
déjà-vu.
Kabir
gets
drawn
into a
mystery
as Kaju
stumbles
against
secrets
from her
past and
discovers
that a
horrifying
genocide,
where
thousands
of Sikhs
were
massacred
holds
the key
to her
own
origins. |
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Tuesday
4
December 2007
7.30 pm |
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After
The
Wedding |
A
terrifically
engaging
family
drama
that
stars
Mads
Mikkelson,
the
wonky-eyed
baddie
in
Casino
Royale,
as
charity
worker
Jacob
who
reluctantly
leaves
Mumbai
to
travel
to
Denmark
to raise
funds
for his
beloved
orphanage.
His
benefactor
is a
headstrong
businessman
used to
getting
things
done his
way, and
insists
that he
attend
his
daughter's
wedding.
In the
kind of
family-convulsing
twist of
fate, it
turns
out that
the
daughter
belongs
to
Jacob.
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Tuesday
11
December 2007
7.30 pm |
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Dor |
Meera
and
Zeenat
are two
young
women
from
different
parts of
India
whose
destinies
become
inter-twinned
when
their
worlds
collide.
Their
husbands,
Shankar
and Amir,
get jobs
in Saudi
Arabia,
where
they
become
room-mates.
Then
tragedy
strikes.
Shankar
is
killed
and Amir
arrested
for his
murder
and
sentenced
to
death.
However,
if Meera,
Shankar's
widow
agrees
to
pardon
her
husband's
killer,
his life
can be
spared.
So
Zeenat
sets out
on a
quest to
save
Amir's
life. |
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