Chinese Visual Festival opens this week at BFI Southbank & King’s College London (02 to 09 MAY). Projecting “the very best in the cinema of the Chinese language speaking world” the programme combines special guests, rare screenings & plenty of Q&A. Here’s our guide to what’s on.
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An illustrated, personally inflected lecture first presented in 2014 by artist filmmaker Stuart Croft (1970-2015) is here re-performed and discussed by Stuart Croft Foundation trustees and artists Emma Bennett, Keira Greene and Anna Lucas.
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The friction between a group of British officers comes to a head as they plan their escape from a German prison camp.
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The lighter-than-air romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train is tested when revolutionary zeal meets implacable loyalty in the heightened atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. With live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.
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Newly widowed Marlina receives an unexpected & unwelcome visit from gang leader Markus. He invites himself into her home, demands food for his gang of bandits & announces that they will take everything she has &, if time allows, will sleep with her. Let’s just say that Marlina doesn’t exactly yield to their demands…
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This powerful slice of raw, angry realism by the late Lino Brocka finds a young man from the country arriving in Manila in search of work and his girlfriend – whom he hasn’t heard of since she left for the city, allegedly to receive some schooling.
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Actor Jim Howick (THE ALIENS, LOADED, YONDERLAND) has chosen to screen this classic Spielberg thriller. A great-white shark attack in the shallow waters of an American holiday town sparks a cat-and-mouse chase across the waves – but who is the hunter and who is the prey? An ideal cinematic experience.
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The proprietor of a failing LA strip-and-cabaret joint places some very risky bets…
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This powerful slice of raw, angry realism by the late Lino Brocka finds a young man from the country arriving in Manila in search of work and his girlfriend – whom he hasn’t heard of since she left for the city, allegedly to receive some schooling.
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This hugely satisfying treat (rarely seen in the UK) is from Danish animation maestro Jannik Hastrup. It tells the touching story of a boy taken from his family and raised by bears; when reclaimed by his original parents he has trouble adjusting to life in the human world.
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