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Birdwatchers
(15)
Wed 3 Mar, 6 & 8.15pm £4.50 (£3.50)
Italy/Brazil
2009 108 mins. Dir. Marcos Bechis. With Alicelia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Claudio Santamaria.
In this amazing docu-drama, Guarani-Kaiowá Indians from the Brazilian rainforest re-enact an incident
in which a number of their fellow tribesmen leave the dispiriting reservation to which they’ve been assigned and repossess
a tract of land stolen for agricultural development.
Je Veux Voir (12A)Wed 10 Mar, 6 & 8.15pm £4.50
(£3.50)
Fr/Lebanon 2008 75
mins. Dirs. Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas. With Catherine Deneuve, Rabih Mroué. Documentary
Catherine Deneuve is the guest of honour at a gala
dinner in Beirut, but she first asks to be taken around the city and the surrounding countryside to see for herself the aftermath
of the 2006 conflict. A simple but telling expose of the human cost of war emerges from her freewheeling conversations with
Lebanese actor Mroué who acts as her chauffeur and guide.
Bright Star (PG)
Wed 17 Mar,
6 & 8.15pm £4.50 (£3.50)
GB/Aust 2009 119 mins. Dir. Jane Campion. With Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw,
Paul SchneiderCamion’s best film since ‘The Piano’
examines in a delicate, unsensationsal fashion, the meeting of the 23 year-old Keats with Fanny Brawne and their ensuing passionate
love affair. The mounting obstacles to their relationship are depicted with subtlety and unobtrusive background detail.
“Sit and savour this marvellous film until the lights come up” - THE OBSERVER
Goodbye
Solo (15)
Wed 24 Mar, 6 & 8.15pm £4.50 (£3.50)
US
2008 91 mins. Dir. Ramin Bahrani. With Red West, Souléymane Sy Savané.
William,
an elderly curmudgeon in North Carolina has a plan. But when he asks Solo, a compassionate 34-year-old Senegalese taxi driver,
to drive him to a remote spot in a fortnight’s time, drop him off and leave him there in exchange for $1,000 and his
silence, his plan begins takes an unexpected turn.
Heart
Of Fire (TBC)
Wed 31 Mar, 6 & 8.15pm £4.50 (£3.50)
It/Ger/Fr/Aust
2008 92 mins. Dir. Luigi Falorni. With Letekidan Micael, Solomie Micael, Brian Geraghty.
Based
on the autobiography of Senait Mehari, a former child soldier in the Eritrean Liberation Front, using a largely non-professional
Eritrean cast (who defied their government to take part). Awet is brought up in the safety of a convent school until her father
hands her over to one of the rival liberation armies.
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