Schedule for 11th Raindance Film Festival

Friday 24th October

Opening Night Gala - 8pm, UGC Haymarket: Capturing The Friedmans (USA, 108mins) - powerful documentary about a seemingly innocent family facing charges of paedophilia

Saturday 25th October

10am, UGC Haymarket: Australian Shorts Programme

11am, NFT2: Film Festivals: A User's Guide - discussion panel in association with the London Film Festival and the New Producers' Alliance

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Shorts Programme 13

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Interview with Ken Russell and screening of Savage Messiah

1pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: 100 Doors (UK, 58mins) - documentary about homelessness in UK

1.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: The Technical Writer (USA, 95mins) - Tatum O'Neal makes her comeback in this sexy film about a party couple who move into a recluse's apartment block

2.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Resfest Programme 1: Seven Years On

3.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Independent Films: The American Perspective - discussion panel

4.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shootout (UK, 99mins) - improvised feature about the trials and tribulations of low-budget independent filmmaking

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Man Dancin' (UK, 109mins) - a gangster movie with a difference

6.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 1 (Official Selection)

7.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Drive (Japan, 102mins) - wild and free form action comedy about a stressed out worker in Tokyo

8.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Wild Card (Korea, 105mins)

9.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Gozu (Japan, 129mins) - a visceral and humorous Yakuza film

10.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Joe Coleman: Rest In Pieces (USA, 96mins)

Midnight, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Wadd: The Life And Times Of John Holmes (USA, 109mins) - documentary about the legendary pornstar

Sunday 26th October

10am, UGC Haymarket: Documentary Shorts Programme

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Hotdog Screening: Boogie Nights (USA, 152mins)

12.15pm, UGC Haymarket: South African Shorts Programme 1

1pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Bubbles Aweigh (USA, 62mins) - documentary charting the compelling, comic stories of a swim team preparing for the 5th Gay Games in Amsterdam

1pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Conspiracy Of Silence (Ireland, 87mins) - controversial contemporary drama examining the issue of celibacy in the Catholic Church

2.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: South African Shorts Programme 2

2.50pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: No One's Ark (Japan, 111mins) - affable comedy charting a minutely observed relationship of two loveable idiots set in modern Japan

3.50pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Miles To Go (India, 92mins) - road trip documentary about Greenpeace volunteers

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Secret Things (France, 115mins) - a girl learns that sexual transgression can cause a violent pleasure and provide at the same time a frightening weapon against those who are fascinated by it

5.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Hey Boy (South Africa, 90mins) - coming-of-age story about two university graduates in Johannesburg, their sex lives and their egos

7.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Forbidden Zone (USA, 72mins) - cult chaotic musical fantasy from Richard Elfman, starring Herve Villechaize

7.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Fuse (Bosnia, 105mins) - normal people living in an abnormal situation hoping for a better life in the Balkans

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Kaos (Japan, 104mins) - Hideo Nakata's kidnapping movie is a labyrinthine tale of body doubles, double crossings and double bluffs

9.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Resfest Programme 2: Best Of Resfest 03

Monday 27th October

10am, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: The Olsen Gang Junior (Denmark, 82mins)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: Children On Their Birthdays (USA, 101mins)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: First Steps Shorts Programme - the best graduation films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Milchwald (Germany, 87mins) - modern day Hansel and Gretel examining human blindness and ignorance

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Married To The Mafia (Korea, 113mins)

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: 800 Balas (Spain, 125mins) - comic take on classic Westerns by hip Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia

7.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Phone (Korea, 100mins) - terrifying piece of modern technological horror

9.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Suor Sorriso (Italy/Germany, 98mins)- documentary about the tragic story of the chart-topping 'Singing Nun'

9.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Sexual Dependency (Bolivia, 105mins) - five portraits of disenchanted adolescents intersecting at strange angles

Tuesday 28th October

10am, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: Becassine, Le Tresor King (France, 85mins)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: PR Lab - PR advice for filmmakers

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Cinesthesia Programme 1

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Twisted (UK, 83mins) - two twins record a video diary of their killing spree

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: En Fin El Mar (Argentina/Cuba, 105mins) - story about two very different people connected by the sea

6.45pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 3 (Comedy Screen 1)

7.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Twilight Samurai (Japan, 129mins) - a tender and compassionate love story by Yamada Yoji

8.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Dada Changed My Life/A Cuban Adventure (53mins)

9.45pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Sonic City Showcase - pop promos from the hottest new directors

9.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Lost Things (Australia, 83mins) - new take on teen peril horror story

11pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Porn Star: The Legend Of Ron Jeremy (USA, 76mins)

Wednesday 29th October

10am, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: Beneath Clouds (Australia, 85mins)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Cinesthesia Programme 2

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Legal Lab - legal advice for filmmakers

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Jon E. Edwards Is In Love (USA, 85 mins)- in the age of pre-packaged teeny-pop franchises, it is tough go for the true iconoclast

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Sin Retorno (Spain/USA, 101mins)- illegal immigrant goes on the run after a terrible incident

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Dillo Con Parole Mie (Italy, 97mins)- Woody Allen style comedy about mistaken identity and adolescent misunderstandings, from Daniele Luchetti

7pm, Goethe Institut: First Steps Shorts Programme - the best graduation films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland

7pm, Sway: Live!Ammunition! - Raindance's celebrated pitching panel event which has seen projects such as Meet The Parents and The 51st State be discovered

7.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Dans Ma Peau (France, 93mins) - no-holds-barred debut film from director and actress Marina de Van about self-harm

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Space Invader (UK, 102mins) - detailed perspective of a complex and contradictory father-daughter relationship

9.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Paris (USA, 97mins) - disturbing journey through the shadowy underworld of LA and Las Vegas

Thursday 30th October

10am, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: Shorts Programme 1

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: Shorts Programme 2 and Animation Workshop

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Financial Lab - financial advice for filmmakers

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Stuey (USA, 110mins) - tense biopic of the greatest poker champion of all time

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 7 (Abstract Film)

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Alexander Mackendrick Memorial - Q&A with Nic Roeg and screening of Eureka

7pm, Goethe Institut: First Steps Feature: My Friend (Germany, 102mins)

7.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Coney Island Baby (Ireland, 93mins)- warm and funny love story set in Ireland

9.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Pig's Inferno (Japan, 90mins)- bleak meditation on permanence and decay, connection and solitude, containment and release

10.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Malefique (France, 90mins) - a tense, grimly atmospheric horror film that outsmarts all others of the genre

Friday 31st October

10am, UGC Haymarket: How Do You Know My Daughter? / The Guvnor

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Eden and Polish Animation

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Raindance Kids: Falling (Belgium, 105mins)

4.30pm, Goethe Institut: Milchwald (Germany, 87mins) - modern day Hansel and Gretel examining human blindness and ignorance

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 5 (Horrorshow)

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Nate Dogg (USA, 74mins) - a teenager's struggle to keep to the straight and narrow despite impossible odds

6.30pm, Cine Lumiere: Clement (France, 120mins) - Marion, a hot-headed, free-spirited woman meets Cl»ment, a captivating, provocative 12-year-old boy - turmoil sets in, followed by desire and suddenly love...

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Fear X (Denmark/UK, 91mins) - riveting and uncompromising take on a murder mystery

7pm, Goethe Institut: First Steps Documentaries - the best graduation films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland

7.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Rockets Redglare (USA, 88mins) - an intimate, warm, funny and harrowing documentary looking at an indomitable spirit from the East Village scene

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: The Last Horror Movie (UK, 80mins) - intelligent and inventive portrait of a serial killer

9.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Out Of Bounds (UK, 89mins) - genuinely creepy psychological thriller

9.30pm, Cine Lumiere: La Puce (France, 40mins) - a non-judgmental look at a teenager's losing her virginity to a much older man

11pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Hotdog Screening - Halloween (USA, 91mins)

11.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Gory Gory Hallelujah (USA) - a Troma-esque thrill ride, bound to be a cult film

Saturday 1st November

10am, UGC Haymarket: Shorts Programme 12 (Journeys East)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Shorts Programme 13 (Comedy Screen 2)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Horseplay (Australia, 93mins) - in this romping black comedy set against a colourful horseracing world, all bets are off...

1pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 2 (UK Selection)

1pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: A Beautiful Secret (Mexico, 127mins) - South American magical realism crossed with exploration of relationship between an old woman and a young boy who share more in their attitudes than they originally think

2pm, Goethe Institut: Promoting Independent Film in the UK, France and Germany - discussion panel

2.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: VMI Workshop

3.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Mi Casa Es Tu Casa (Spain, 90mins) - a delightful romantic comedy with a spicy ending

4.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Cleaning Up! (Finland, 80mins) - documentary about probably the weirdest rock group in living memory

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Dracula (Canada, 75mins) - original take on the popular tale set in B&W ballet neo-silent form by Guy Maddin

6pm, Cine Lumiere: Zero Defaut (France, 90mins) - a terrible story of a breaking couple, filmed with accuracy and subtlety

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong, 100mins) - flashy Hong Kong action caper in an intelligent form

7pm, UGC Haymarket: Miranda (UK, 90mins)- a cross between the kitchen-sink surrealism of bathetic tales of northern loserdom and dreamlike explorations of identity and sexuality, starring Christina Ricci and Kyle Maclachlan

8.15pm, Cine Lumiere: La Chose Publique (France, 100mins) - conveyed in a series of clinical, dreamlike tableaux and underlined by a brooding electronic score, this is a chilling study of workplace alienation.

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Lost Festival

9.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Getting Hal (USA, 85mins) - spoof private investigator story which made history for being the first film to auction off parts

11pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Psychobilly: A Cancer On Rock 'N' Roll (USA, 96mins)

Sunday 2nd November

10am, UGC Haymarket: All American Boy (USA, 93mins) - coming-of-age tale set in 1960s America

Midday, UGC Haymarket: First Steps Feature: My Friend (Germany, 102mins)

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Shorts Programme 8 (North American Independents)

1pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Gaza Fish and Article 17 - two documentaries charting some of the problems in the most ignored battlefield in the world

1.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: One Night Husband (Thailand, 135mins) - a touching human story which is a character study of modern Thai women

3pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: My Roast Chicken (Poland, 58mins) - a charming, simplistic look at a couple's marital problems after they return to Poland from the West

3.40, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Dans Grozny Dans (Russia, 74mins) - a group of child dancers from Checnya use their art as a means of survival and an act of defiance in the face of the terrible tragedy occurring in their homeland

4.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 10 (Urban Tales)

5pm, Cine Lumiere: Ballroom (France, 93mins) - a troubled tale of identity and solitude, set against the industrial coastline of northern France

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Nilofar In The Rain (Afghanistan, 97mins) - an Afghani refugee falls in love in Paris in a tale of faltering love in a lonely exiled coimmunity

6.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 11 (Rural Tales)

7pm, Cine Lumiere: Videos Programme

7.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: My Easy Going Sister (Japan, 82mins) - a subtle and ambiguous tale of repressed emotions and the fragilitry of memory

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Bughouse Event

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Tattoo (Germany, 107mins) - German take on serial killer story in the style of Se7en

Monday 3rd November

10am, UGC Haymarket: European Business School Screenings

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Polish Documentaries

Midday, UGC Haymarket: New Suit (USA, 92mins) - a film that skewers Hollywood absurdity and the lying, stealing, and deception that goes with it

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Klepto (USA, 82mins) - a great indie film about the relationship that develops between a kleptomaniac and a cop

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Goldfish Memory (Ireland, 85mins0 - a film that explores the lighter side of love - straight, gay and in-between - while trying to determine the exact nature of the ideal relationship

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Raindance and Dazed and Confused Present An Evening At The Edge Of British Cinema - discussion panel

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Nine Souls (Japan, 120mins) - a powerful ensemble piece from Toshiaki Toyoda looking at the spiritual relatioship between nine prisoners on the run

9.15pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: El Destino No Tiene Favoritos (Spain, 90mins) - a delightful offbeat comedy from Alvaro Velarde

9.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Headrush (Ireland, 85mins) - a comedy adventure following the lives of a couple of lads who are orbiting society in a haze of dope and dreams, starring Steven Berkoff and Huey Morgan

Tuesday 4th November

11am, UGC Haymarket: Footprints (UK, 42mins) - special screening of documentary about landmines to mark Landmine Action Week

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Hit (USA, 88mins) - hilarious mockumentary looking at the fall of a once-great mobster family

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Road Dogs (USA, 90mins) - black contemporary take on Easy Rider

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Hukkle (Hungary, 75mins) - hicupping replaces dialogue in a story of mysterious murders in a small rural village

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 9 (World Independents)

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: El Robo Mas Grande Jamas Contado (Spain, 115mins) - comic heist movie

7.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Identity Kills (Germany, 81mins) - an absorbing study of alienation and mental illness

7.30pm, Cine Lumiere: Trilogie 1: On The Run (France, 111mins) - first part of Lucas Belvaux's acclaimed trilogy sees a prisoner escape into a world that has changed a great deal whereas he hasn't

7.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Falcons (Iceland, 96mins) - a wistful tale of freedom gone awry set in stunning Iceland

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Yamamura Animation - retrospective of the Japanese animator

9.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Santa Maradona (Italy, 96mins) - social comedy about two young friends growing up

Wednesday 5th November

Midday, UGC Haymarket: New Guy (USA, 85mins) - part comedy, part thriller, part tragedy about a new employee's first day in the office

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Tattoo, A Love Story (USA, 94mins) - examination of the relationship that forms between two seemingly complete opposites, a repressed schoolteacher and a tattooed biker

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Sleepwalkers (Hungary, 105mins) - a film that follows three oddball characters wandering through the streets of Budapest

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 6 (Psych-Out)

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Guerreros (Spain , 96mins) - a unit of Spanish army engineers in Kosovo are ordered to repair a power station in the exclusion zone where the Serb-Albanian conflict is still raging

7.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: And Along Came A Spider (Iran, 52mins) - documentary telling the story of a man who killed 16 prostitutes in Mashad, Iran and the reactions to it

7,20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Margarettes' Feast (Brazil, 80mins) - a stunning tribute to the glorious cinematic past, this B&W film tells the story of a man who discovers a suitcase that never runs out of money

7.30pm, Cine Lumiere: Trilogie 2: An Amazing Couple (France,97mins) - second part of Lucas Belvaux's acclaimed trilogy tells the story of a woman discovering her partner of 20 years has been hiding a secret from her

8.20pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Captain Zip's Super-8 Trip Part II (UK, 52mins) - a look at the fetish scene

9pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: The Professional (Serbia) - charting the political rise of a university professor and grassroots activist to ultimate power until one day he has to face reality

9.40pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: A Laughing Frog (Japan,. 96mins) - a bitingly satirical take on marriage in a barbed family drama dominated by strong female characters

Thursday 6th November

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Czech Shorts Programme

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Nate Dogg (USA, 74mins) - a teenager's struggle to keep to the straight and narrow despite impossible odds

Midday, UGC Haymarket: Nobody Needs To Know (USA, 96mins) - a B&W film about an actress who realises she is not willing to die for fame

5pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Shorts Programme 4 (Science Fiction)

5.10pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Dark Woods (Norway, 80mins) - a suspense-ridden thriller set in the bleak yet eerily beautiful Norwegian forest

6.35pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Pullout (USA, 69mins) - documentary from Jyllian Gunther looking at reasons behind all her failed relationships

7pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Hotdog Screening - Donnie Darko (USA, 113mins)

7pm, Goethe Institut: Identity Kills (Germany, 81mins) - an absorbing study of alienation and mental illness

7.30pm, Cine Lumiere: Trilogie 3: After Life (France, 123mins ) - third part of Lucas Belvaux's acclaimed trilogy tells the story of a cop who feeds his wife's drug addiction

8pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Making Venus (Australia, 70mins) - documentary about the trials and tribulations of making a feature film

9.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: The Sky, The Plane, The Girl (Russia, 90mins) - a Russian romantic comedy in the tradition of the French New Wave

9.30pm, UGC Shaftesbury Avenue: Addictive TV

Friday 7th November

8pm, UGC Haymarket: 16 Years Of Alcohol (UK, 102mins) - Richard Jobson's directorial debut is a foray into the mind of an alcoholic

Friday 24th October

Opening Night Gala - 8pm, UGC Haymarket: Capturing The Friedmans (USA, 108mins) - powerful documentary about a seemingly innocent family facing charges of paedophilia

September 19th 2003