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Fabulous annual
film fest returns
Thursday, January 28, 2016
THE HEREFORD TIMES 45
Theatre, music and.
dance, film
DVD, exhibitions,
gig guide,
puzzles .
BOOKING has opened for the 14th
annual Borderlines Film Festival
which opens on Friday, February
26 and runs until Sunday, March
Rural Media Company to investi-
gate how Romani people watch
films, and what they choose to
watch,” says Jane Jackson,
13, once again incorporating The
Festival of British Cinema from
Friday, March 11 to Sunday,
March 13.‘
This year’s festival will explore
new territory as it showcases a
Romani Cinema strand, backed by
the BFI. Romani writers/film-
makers have selected three films,
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never before shown in this coun- F! L M F E S T I VA L
try, that reveal Gypsy life and Cul-
ture from the inside. The films are Romani heavyweight champion
Gypsy, an insightful and enter- ’I‘yson FUN), and The Green Green
taining portrait of the harsh life Grass Beneath, a powerful docu-
in a Roma Gypsy village from the mentary in which the Austrian
point of view of a 14-year-old boy, Roma artist Ceija Stojka relates a
Jimmy Riviére about a young boxer passionate account of her own
torn between his own path and survival as a child in Nazi death
that of his Pentecostal Gypsy camps and her life since.
community (resonances of the
controversial but charismatic
Borderlines Chair, who initiated
and has led this project. ”We want
to explore their views of how they
are currently represented in film,
something that has simply never
been looked into before.”
Over three days. the Festival of
British Cinema will comprise 30
screenings, offering some of the
best new British independent cin—
ema releases. including Ben
Wheatley’s High-Rise from the
novel by J.G. Ballard. This year's
programme has a distinctly
Scottish flavour with new releases
Sunset Song, Hector and Iona along-
side re-appraised classics and doc-
umentaries. The astounding
Picturehouse Mobile Cinema. a 55
“We’11 be working with Hereford- foot, 32 ton articulated lorry that
based Travellers’ Times at the
transforms into a pop-up screen-
ing venue equipped with the latest
technology and plush seating for
100, will be in Hay for two days.
Both Borderlines itself and the
Festival of British Cinema will
show an ever—increasing number
of previews, titles shown in
advance of their UK release,
thanks to the continuing input of
their Independent Cinema Office
programmers David Sin and
Jonny Courtney. including
Mustang, the French submission
for Academy Award for best for-
eign language film. It's the first
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f
Jeremy Irons as Anthony Royal in High-Rise
Turkish village.
Fittingly for a film fE‘SIlVa‘i that
is audience rather than industry-
orientated the programme has
remarkable breadth. from Oscar-
tipped movies like Sporlighr. The
Haleful Eight. The Rerenam.
Trumbo and Szrffi‘agerze to Lamb.
the debut feature of Ethiopian
director Yared Zeleke.
Highlights at The Courtyard
have a Russian slant with a retro—
spective 0f the work of visionary
Russian director. Andrei
Tarkovsky. acknowledged as one
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