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East End Film Festival · 2013

East End Film Festival 2013

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19 films · 9 reviews

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99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

The Occupy movement erupted in September 2011, propelling economic inequality into the spotlight. In an unprecedented collaboration, filmmakers across America tell its story, digging into big picture issues as organisers, analysts, participants and critics reveal how it happened and why.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Kristic)

La Antena (The Aerial)

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Sometimes cinema tickles the senses, sometimes it tugs at the heartstrings, sometimes it exercises the intellect – but La Antena transmits to all three at once.

Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
Dystopian fairytale about a 'city without a voice'.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2007; Director: Esteban Sapir; Writer: Esteban Sapir; Stars: Valeria Bertuccelli, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Julieta Cardinali, Rafael Ferro, Raúl Hochman, Ricardo Merkin, Sol Moreno, Gustavo Pastorini, Carlos Piñeiro, Florencia Raggi) , Official site

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After Tiller

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Some of their patients' stories are so heartbreaking that they will test the mettle of even the most steadfast opponents.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A look at the work of late term abortion providers in the US.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson)

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Any Day Now

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Laugh out loud funny and heartbreaking without resorting to neat Hollywood set-ups or resolutions.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
A gay couple fight for the right to look after a Down's Syndrome teenager.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Travis Fine; Writer: George Arthur Bloom, Travis Fine; Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin, Kelli Williams, Alan Rachins, Mindy Sterling, Miracle Laurie, Michael Nouri, Jeffrey Pierce, Anne O'Shea)

Full review See: Travis Fine in conversation about Any Day Now

Beyond The Grave

In a world struck by some unspecified disaster, a vengeful police officer is hunting a possessed killer. With the dead walking the earth, and the living that remain almost as dangerous, the Officer picks up two teenagers, Nina and The Shooter, and hits the road.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro)

Blackfish

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Tilikum, whose last victim Dawn Brancheau died in 2010, is still performing at SeaWorld - after watching this documentary, you'll think long and hard about taking your family to see him.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
The plight of killer whales in captivity.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

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Burn It Up Djassa

A story of life, dance and poetry in the Wassakara slum just before the outbreak of war.

(Country: Cote d'Ivoire, France; Year: 2012; Director: Lonesome Solo; Stars: Abdoul Karim Konaté, Adelaïde Ouattara, Mamadou Diomandé, Souleymane Bamba)

Colors (Cores)

A deadpan comedy about a tattoo artist, drug dealer and tropical fish store worker who dream of escape.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Francisco Garcia; Writer: Francisco Garcia, Gabriel Campos; Stars: Maria Célia Camargo, Graça De Andrade, Pedro di Pietro, Simone Iliesco)

Die Welt

Fiction/documentary hybrid, depicting Tunisia shortly after the 2011 Jasmine revolution.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Alex Pitstra; Writer: Thijs Gloger, Alex Pitstra, Abdallah Rezgui; Stars: Abdelhamid Nawara, Ilse Heus, Judith Van der Meulen, Mohsen Ben Hassen, Rahma Ben Hassen, Marwa Agrebi, Slim Al Amiri, Houcem Al Bib, Brahim Ben Ammar, Mehdi Ben Amor, Ons Bahri, Mariem Bedoui, Mohammed Hassine Belkhala, Kamel Ben Khalfa, Abdelmajid Bibasse)

Extraordinary Stories

An adventure in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2008; Director: Mariano Llinás)

Frances Ha

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You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
Lightning-in-a-bottle, Noah Baumbach’s love poem to his star and co-writer Greta Gerwig recalls Godard’s early celebrations of Anna Karina, but, as a New York movie, it’s beautiful in a brand new way.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig; Stars: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Patrick Heusinger, Teddy Cañez, Hannah Dunne, Grace Gummer, William Todd Levinson, Marina Squerciati, Finnerty Steeves)

Full review See: 2012 New York Film Festival - diary two

Generation Um

Stealing a video camera and recording the sights and sounds of the city almost at random, a lonely man turns the camera on others and on himself as he shares an unexpectedly intimate evening with two self destructive party girls he’s picked up along the way.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Mark Mann)

Halley

Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Sebastian Hofmann; Writer: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes; Stars: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores)

Inch'Allah

A French Canadian doctor commutes between Israel and the West Bank, bringing an outsider's perspectiveto two very different worlds.

(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2012; Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette; Stars: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Yousef Sweid, Sivan Levy, Carlo Brandt)

Kuro

Three people with nothing in common except the experience of a recent trauma in their lives, decide to leave Tokyo and live together in a deserted inn by the sea.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Daisuke Shimote)

Lions (Leones)

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Jazmin López’s debut feature is in narrative terms a bit too foggy to sustain one’s emotional engagement.

Michael Pattison · 2.5 out of 5
Five young people are lost in a forest - and perhaps in time itself.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Jazmín López; Writer: Jazmín López; Stars: Macarena del Corro, Tomas Mackinlay, Pablo Sigal, Diego Vegezzi, Julia Volpato)

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Lovelace

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The harrowing latter half of the film could easily have become alienating, but Seyfried makes it compelling.

Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
The story of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman; Writer: Andy Bellin; Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone)

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Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic

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This may be a jet-ski ride over Pryor's life rather than a deep-sea dive but it offers a firm celebration that's likely to encourage those who have watched it to seek out more material from the man himself - and that can never be a bad thing.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Profile of the stand-up comedian.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Marina Zenovich; Writer: Peter Morgan)

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Viola

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Being disorientated is part of the game of art - from William Shakespeare to the present.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
The lines between fiction and reality blur for an all-female Shakespeare troupe.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: María Villar, Romina Paula, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo, Esteban Bigliardi)

Full review See: New Directors/New Films preview