THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
13:00 Only I Know
[Canada, dir Kire Paputts]
Doc about the gradual destruction and dysfunction of a family, using 21 years worth of footage more...
13:00 Floating Lamp Of The Shadow Valley
[Kashmir, dir Rajesh Jala]
Nine-year-old Arif supports his family, ferrying people across the Dal Lake. more...
15:00 Dear Pyongyang
[Japan, dir Yong-hi Yang]
A Korean-Japanese daughter tries to understand her father’s sworn political loyalty to North Korea. more...
15:15 What’s A Man Without A Moustache?
[Croatia, dir Hrvoje Hribar]
A young widow, an ex-alcoholic priest, a former emigrant and his German daughter fight the obstacles in their mind.more...
17:15 Bambi Bone
[Japan, dir Noriko Shibutani]
Two young friends in Tokyo hatch a revenge plot. more...
17:30 Height of Sky
[USA, dir Morleigh Steinberg]
After moving from the lush greenery of Japan to the concrete aridity of LA, Butoh dancer, Oguri, finds himself transplanted to an alien environment. more...
19:30 Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
[USA, dir Lian Lunson]
Tribute to one of music’s most celebrated artists. Performances from Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave and U2 with Cohen himself. more...
ALL ACCESS RAINDANCE FESTIVAL PASS
All screenings take place at the CineWorld, Trocadero Centre, Piccadilly, London W1
except Opening and Closing Night - CineWorld Haymarket
Access all areas:
- ticket to the Opening Night Gala screening of BROTHERS OF THE HEAD + the After Show Party (live music, and free booze)
- 80 of the best independent feature films
*150 short films (including animation, documentary and experimental strands)
- Q & A with film producers and
directors
- networking opportunities
- meet the people who decide what movies get made: Live Ammunition! (the super pitch event)
- exclusive tickets to Stanley Kubrick screenings and events
- four monster parties (Opening - Sept 27th, Sept 29th, October 3rd and Closing Night)
- ten industry panel seminars
- a FREE commemorative Raindance Festival Tee Shirt (while supplies last)
THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
13:00 Only I Know
[Canada, dir Kire Paputts]
Doc about the gradual destruction and dysfunction of a family, using 21 years worth of footage
13:00 Floating Lamp Of The Shadow Valley
[Kashmir, dir Rajesh Jala]
Nine-year-old Arif supports his family, ferrying people across the Dal Lake
15:00 Dear Pyongyang
[Japan, dir Yong-hi Yang]
A Korean-Japanese daughter tries to understand her father’s sworn political loyalty to North Korea
15:15 What’s A Man Without A Moustache?
[Croatia, dir Hrvoje Hribar]
A young widow, an ex-alcoholic priest, a former emigrant and his German daughter fight the obstacles in their mind.
17:15 Bambi Bone
[Japan, dir Noriko Shibutani]
Two young friends in Tokyo hatch a revenge plot
17:30 Height of Sky
[USA, dir Morleigh Steinberg]
After moving from the lush greenery of Japan to the concrete aridity of LA, Butoh dancer, Oguri, finds himself transplanted to an alien environment
19:30 Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
[USA, dir Lian Lunson]
Tribute to one of music’s most celebrated artists. Performances from Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave and U2 with Cohen himself
19:45 Straight8 Showcase
21:45 Book of the Dead
[Japan, dir Kihochiro Kawamoto]
Animation, focusing on a young noble woman who is stalked by the ghost of Prince Otsu
22:00 5 and 1/2 Roofs
[UK/Austria, dir Sepp R Bruddermann]
An eclectic spectrum of inhabitants from six different London squats
FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
13:00 Little Fugitive
[USA, dir Joanna Lipper]
Lenny is burdened with the responsibility of looking after his younger brother Joey
15:00 Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal
[USA, dir Kelly Duda]
Doc about how tainted blood was sold to patients in Canada, the UK and around the world during Clinton’s governorship
15:15 Penumbra
[Ireland, dir Gwynne Mcelveen]
Doc following Gwynne who travels from Ireland to Idaho to visit her penfriend Jim
17:00 Seven and a Half
[Serbia, dir Miroslav Momcilovi]
Seven stories from ‘the neighbourhood’ that also provide a mirror to the seven mortal sins
17:30 Shorts: Animated Display A
19:00 The Ballad of AJ Weberman
[UK, dir Oliver Ralfe & James Bluemer]
Doc chronicling the life, times and crimes of a notorious Bob Dylan obsessive
19:15 Neil Young: Heart of Gold
[USA, dir Jonathan Demme]
Neil Young’s two-night performance at the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville
21:30 A Clockwork Orange
[UK/USA, dir Stanley Kubrick]
35th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s most astonishing work
21:45 The Strange Saga of Hiroshi the Freeloading Sex Machine
[Japan, dir Yuji Tajiri]
Hiroshi lives off his single-mum girlfriend. He is drawn into the local cricket fighting craze and an epic showdown draws near.
Screening with Bitter Sweet
[Japan, dir Mitsuru Meike] A woman is hesitant about her approaching wedding, while the man she is sleeping with doubts his own marriage
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
11:30 The 600 Second Short Film Project
12:00 Shorts: Official Selection
13:15 Panel: Framestore, Panavision & New Tech
13:45 Fat Girls
[USA, dir Ash Christian]
Off-beat comedy following an atypical Texas student who dreams of being on Broadway
15:00 SAE Award Showcase
16:00 Starfish Hotel
[Japan, dir John Williams]
Mysterious atmospherics and strained sexual relations
16:45 Vertigo Panel: Blurring The Lines
18:00 Johnny Was
[UK, dir Mark Hammond]
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of prison. With Vinnie Jones and Lennox Lewis
18:30 Shooting Nick
[USA, dir Daniel Yost]
A middle-aged loser is kidnapped by a manic couple
20:15 Wristcutters: A Love Story
[USA, dir Goran Dukic]
A strange afterlife limbo that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide
20:30 Texas
[Italy, dir Fausto Paravidino]
Northern Italy is supposed to be as boring as rural Texas. Not when a slacker has an affair with a married teacher
22:15 Liberty in Restraint
[Australia, dir Michael Ney]
Doc sbout S&M subculture that follows a fetish photographer’s quest for authenticity
22:30 Disorder
[USA, dir Jack Thomas Smith]
A schizophrenic tries to capture a masked killer
SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER
12:00 Taming Of The Shrew
[UK, dir Ljiljana Kojic-Bogdanovich]
A classical ballet interpretation
13:15 Who Gets To Call It Art?
[USA, dir Peter Rosen]
The New York pop art scene in the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of Henry Geldzahler
13:30 Dancing for Oliver
[UK, dir Suzanne Gielgud]
Doc about the dance scene from Oliver Stone’s Alexander, also known as ‘Bagoas Dance’
15:30 Panel: New Japanese Cinema
15:30 The Wind
[Argentina/Spain, dir Eduardo Migogna]
A farmer travels to Buenos Aires to tell his granddaughter Alina about her mother’s death
17:30 Shorts: Intimate Fiction
18:15 A Stranger of Mine
[Japan, dir Kenji Uchida]
A devastated Miyata, a tired detective, a yakuza boss, a woman with a two-timing fiancé, and a con woman who twists men around her finger, cross paths
19:30 Gower Boy
[UK, dir Gee Vaucher]
A gentle, exploration of the Gower Peninsula in Wales, accompanied live in the cinema by jazz pianist Huw Warren
20:15 Little Birds
[Japan, dir Takeharu Watai]
Doc following a Japanese filmmaker who remained in Iraq once the US armed forces entered
21:30 Really
[UK, dir Daniel Mitelpunkt]
The exploits of Eleanor, who desperately wants to change her life
22:15 True, True Lie
[USA, dir Eric Styles]
Released from a mental asylum after 12 years, Dana returns to the outside world, haunted by images of a disturbing past yet convinced she was never insane
MONDAY 2 OCTOBER
13:00 HDFest: Mars Underground
[USA, dir Scott J Gill]
Doc about the possibility of life on Mars
14:00 Shorts: Surreal Encounters
15:00 HDFest: Shorts
16:30 Shorts: Mystery Tales
17:00 HDFest Panel: Digital Special Effects
18:30 Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures
[UK, dir Jan Harlan]
Pictures, clips, old home movies and commentaries including Jack Nicholson and Scorcese. Followed by Q&A with Jan Harlan
18:45 HDFest: Expiration Date
[USA, dir Rick Stevenson]
Charlie Silvercloud III’s grandfather and father were killed on their 25th birthdays by milk trucks. He turns 25 in eight days time
20:45 Next: A Primer on Urban Painting
[Canada, dir Pablo Aravena]
Doc exploring graffiti as a worldwide cultural phenomenon
21:45 Octopus Alarm
[Austria, dir Elizabeth Schrang]
Doc following Alex, identified as male on his birth certificate, by age two reassigned as a girl
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER
13:00 The Last Monk
[India, dir Sudipto Sen]
Newly-married Swapna is mesmerised by a mystical culture
13:15 Unauthorized and Proud of It: Todd Loren’s Rock & Roll Comics
[USA, dir Ilko Davidov]
Doc about murdered controversial publisher
15:00 Suriiwat
[Nepal, dir KP Pathak]
The problems with the caste system in a remote rural village
15:15 Shorts: Documentary
17:15 The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief
[Japan, dir Jake Clennell]
The extraordinary world of Osaka's Café Rakkyo
17:15 Shorts: Battle Zones
19:30 Live!Ammunition! Followed by party
19:15 Hounded
[Germany, dir Angelina Maccarone]
A middle aged probation officer is drawn into an S&M relationship with a teenage boy
21:15Get Thrashed
[USA, dir Rick Ernst]
Doc tracing the rise, fall and impact of thrash metal bands
21:30 Night People
[UK, dir Adrian Mead]
A journey across the city of Edinburgh on a cold October night
WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER
13:00 Yahaan
[India, dir Shoojit Sircar]
A love story amidst the death that visits the Kashmiris everyday
13:00 Karaula
[Croatia, dir Rajko Grlic]
A lieutenant discovers he has a sexually-transmitted infection and so declares a state of national emergency
16:00 Not a Photograph: Mission of Burma
[USA, dir Jeffrey Iwanicki & David A Kleiler Jr]
Doc charting the the seminal post-punk band
15:00 The Mozambique Poo Tour
[UK, dir Phil Turner]
Doc following bands Massukos, and Empty Boat, touring sanitation projects in Mozambique
18:00 Tiscali Award Showcase [and drinks]
17:00 Shorts: Pulp Fictions
19:15 Welcome Home
[Spain, dir David Trueba]
Young Samuel struggles at a magazine company, while girlfriend Eva harbours a secret: Samuel’s son
19:00 Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone
[USA, dir Mandy Stein]
September 2004, two days before Johnny Ramone’s death from cancer, a group of musicians and friends stage a benefit concert. Followed by Q&A with Marky Ramone
21:30 Cocaine Angel
[USA, dir Michael Tully]
A grinding and tragic week in the life of a drug addict
21:45 The Heirloom
[Taiwan, dir Leste Chen]
James inherits a property twenty years after the inexplicable mass suicide that took place in the Yang Household
THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER
13:00 Huldufólk 102
[Iceland/USA, dir Nisha Inalsingh]
Beneath the quiet veneer of Iceland lies an invisible nation of hidden people: its elves
13:15 Shorts: Canadian Bacon
15:00 Gradually
[Iran, dir Maziar Miri]
Mohmoud learns that his mentally unstable wife has gone missing, so he leaves his factory job and goes to find her
15:00 Tomorrow Morning
[Serbia, dir Oleg Novkovic]
An émigré’s return to Belgrade to get married becomes the occasion for drunken reunions
17:15 Rahil’s Secret
[Italy, dir Cinzia Bomroll]
Rahil walks balancing on the railroads in the direction that will carry her to become a woman
17:00 Shorts: The Best of UK
19:00 Kodak Cinematography Masterclass
18:30 2001: A Space Odyssey
[UK/USA, dir Stanley Kubrick]
Kubrick’s masterful exploration
21:15 Uprooted
[France/USA, dir Donia Mili] Doc exploring issues of resistance in the permanent war zone of the West Bank and East Jerusalem
21:45 Sanctuary
[UK, dir Clive Collier]
Doc about film composer Lisa Gerrard (ex-Dead Can Dance)
FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER
12:45 The Cats of Mirikitani
[USA, dir Linda Hattendorf]
Doc about a homeless Japanese-American artist who regains his citizenship
13:15 Perpetual Movements
[Portugal, dir Edgar Pêra]
Doc homage to the late Portuguese guitarist Carlos Paredes, interspersing archival footage with the sound of his performances and interviews
14:15 Far-Off Town: Dunedin To Nashville
[USA, dir Bridget Sutherland]
Doc about David Kilgour, who joins his friends in the band Lambchop in Nashville
15:00 Bal Can Can
[Italy/Macedonia/UK, dir Darko Mitrevski]
An army dodger drives across the border to discover that his mother-in-law has perished
16:00 Shaitan’s Warrior
[Serbia, dir Stevan Filipovic]
A group of kids lay their hands on an esoteric book which can summon ‘Shaitan’s Warrior’
17:15 El Calentito
[Spain, dir Chuz Gutiérrez]
A young, innocent girl is drawn into the punk scene of 1980s Madrid while trying to lose her virginity
18:00 Moon & Cherry
[Japan, dir Yuki Tanaka]
Tadokoro’s sexual encounters with Mayama become serialised in a weekly men’s magazine
19:30 There Is No Authority But Yourself
[NL, dir Alexander Oey]
Doc about the anarchist-punk band Crass, from 1977 to 1984 through to the present day
20:00 Alice
[Portugal, dir Marco Martins]
Every day Mário leaves home to repeat exactly the same steps he took on the day his daughter Alice disappeared
21:45 Rampage
[Australia, dir George Gittoes]
Doc about hip-hop in the forbidden zones of occupied Iraq and the badlands of Miami
21:45 Gruesome
[USA, dirs Jeff Crook, Josh Crook]
A college student is stalked and killed by a serial murderer but she awakes alive and well
SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER
12:00 London Games Festival
12:00 Bill Martell on Subversive Cinema
12:00 Sonic City Showcase
13:45 Under the Sun
[Germany, dir Baran bo Odar]
12-year-old Viktor is ignored by his aunt’s family and forced into extreme circumstances. Screening with The Visitors
[Germany, dir Ulrike Molsen]
Visitors turn a young woman’s life upside down
17:30 Cargo
[UK, dir Clive Gordon]
Brookes has lost faith in his capacity for good and seeks to destroy everything that might lead him to the redemption he craves. With Peter Mullan and Daniel Brühl
15:45 Made in Jamaica
[France/USA, dir Jérôme Laperrousaz]
Made in Jamaica is a powerful portrait of the best reggae and dancehall
artists ever assembled. The film describes how they have struggled to leave their native ghetto to achieve international fame and create a musical
phenomenon in the process.
18:00 London to Brighton
[UK, dir Paul Andrew Williams]
Two girls need to stay alive for 24 hours
19:30 The Trials of Darryl Hunt
[USA, dirs Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg]
Doc about a man who spent 20 years in jail for a crime he did not commit
21:45 The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down
[USA, dir Paul Sapiano]
The vibe of the UK’s Human Traffic is transferred Stateside
20:00 The Right of the Weakest
[Belgium/ France, dir Lucas Belvaux]
Living in Liége, three friends look on impotently as their lives slip away
22:30 All Kindsa Girls
[USA, dir Cheryl Eagan-Donovan]
Doc about garage-punk, focusing on John Felice (ex-Modern Lovers) and the Real Kids
SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER
12:00 Bill Martell on Structural Freaks
12:00 The Making of Scenes Of A Sexual Nature
[UK, dir Ed Blum]
An in-depth documentary about tonight’s closing feature
12:00 Shorts: Animated Display B
14:00 Director in Residence:
Zhang Zuan followed by a screening of Little Red Flowers [China] A four-year-old rebel is placed in a minutely scrutinised kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing
14:00 My Country My Country
[USA, dir Laura Poitras]
Doc focusing on Dr Riyadh, who wants democracy in Iraq while opposing the US occupation
16:30 Shorts: Urban Tales
16:45 Mr Right
[UK, dirs David & Jacqui Morris]
A long hot London summer in the lives of four couples
2007 submissions:
Open: 15th January 2007
1st deadline: 15th May 2007
Final deadline: 15th July
Contact:submissions@raindance.co.uk
