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East End Film Festival · 2015

East End Film Festival 2015

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19 films · 9 reviews

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3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets

Review preview for 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets

Silver exposes is an underlying, deep-seated prejudice rather than some sort of murderous instinct.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Documentary about the trial of Michael Dunn, who shot an unarmed teenager and claimed a 'stand your ground' defence.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Marc Silver)

Amy

Review preview for Amy

An intensely sad and affecting look at a hugely talented young woman, ill equipped for the all-consuming fame which her soulful voice would bring her.

Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
A documentary about Amy Winehouse.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Asif Kapadia)

Atlantic

A young man from a tourist village makes a solo voyage from Morocco to Europe over 300 kilometres of ocean, with only his sail and surfboard to carry him, is search of a beautiful stranger.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Jan-Willem van Ewijk)

Crumbs

Review preview for Crumbs

Llansó's manages to combine the poetic sci-fi of Andrei Tarkovsky with the surrealism and dark humour of his fellow countrymen such as Luis Buñuel, Luis García Berlanga, or more recently Sergio Caballero.

Rebecca Naughten · 5 out of 5
When the spaceship in the sky begins to reactivate, Candy sets off on a quest across a post- apocalyptic Ethiopian landscape to ask Father Christmas to grant him his heart's desire.

(Country: Spain, Finland, Ethiopia; Year: 2015; Director: Miguel Llansó; Writer: Miguel Llansó; Stars: Daniel Tadesse, Selam Tesfaye, Quino Piñero, Mengistu Berhanu, Getu Fixa, Shitay Abreha)

Estate, A Reverie

The passing of Hackney’s Haggerston Estate after 70 years is given poetic expression in this documentary.

(Year: 2015; Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman)

The Fire (El Incendio)

Review preview for The Fire

Both Gamboa and Barberini acquit themselves admirably in what is almost a two-hander.

Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
A 24 hour delay in being able to purchase their first home together causes tensions to rise and Lucía and Marcelo's relationship to begin to unravel.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Juan Schnitman; Writer: Agustina Liendo; Stars: Pilar Gamboa, Juan Barberini, Luciano Suardi, Marcelo D' Andrea, Andrea Garrote)

Ivy

Sarmasik is sailing to Egypt when the ship's owner goes bankrupt. The crew learns there is a lien on the ship, and key crew members must stay on board. Ivy is the story of these six men trapped on the ship for days.

(Country: Turkey; Year: 2015; Director: Tolga Karaçelik; Writer: Tolga Karaçelik; Stars: Nadir Sarıbacak, Özgür Emre Yıldırım, Hakan Karsak, Kadir Çermik, Osman Alkaş, Seyithan Özdemiroğl)

Life In A Fishbowl (Vonarstræti)

Review preview for Life In A Fishbowl

An intelligent script and strong acting bring life and depth to the characters.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Three different lives interweave to tell the story of the impact of Iceland's economic collapse.

(Country: Iceland; Year: 2014; Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson; Writer: Birgir Örn Steinarsson, Baldvin Zophoníasson; Stars: Hera Hilmarsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Thor Kristjansso)

Line Of Credit (Kreditis limiti)

A fortysomething woman in modern Georgia struggle to cope with mounting debt.

(Country: Japan, France, Georgia; Year: 2014; Director: Salome Alexi; Writer: Salome Aleksi; Stars: Nino Kasradze)

Manos Sucias

Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine.

(Country: US, Colombia; Year: 2014; Director: Josef Wladyka; Writer: Alan Blanco, Josef Wladyka; Stars: Cristian James Abvincula, Jarlin Javier Martinez)

Mirror Image

Personal documentary.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2013; Director: Danielle Schwartz; Writer: Danielle Schwartz)

Showing with Trip Along Exodus

Norfolk

Review preview for Norfolk

Norfolk is as much a statement about land as it is about the people who live there.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
A tough-love father's strong relationship with his teenage son is tested when the boy befriends a girl.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Martin Radich; Writer: Martin Radich; Stars: Denis Ménochet, Barry Keoghan, Goda Letkauskaite, Olegar Fedoro, Jason Beeston, Paul Watkins, Lyubomir Bukov, Rupert Procter, Sean Buckley, Eileen Davies, Ella Vale, Trevor Fox)

Pleasure Island

Dean returns to Grimsby after several years away in the army. Greeted by most with either confusion or hostility, he is back purely to reconnect with Jess, a childhood friend struggling to raise a daughter on her own.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Mike Doxford)

The Seventh Fire

Review preview for The Seventh Fire

A lot of people live like this and their stories need to be told, but it's not clear here that the director is always on the right side of the line.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
A documentary about Ojibwe gangsters in Minnesota.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jack Pettibone Riccobono; Writer: Jack Pettibone Riccobono, Shane Slattery-Quintanilla, Andrew Ford)

Stand By For Tape Back-up

The director uses fragments of old films to build an audiovisual meditation on memory and death.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ross Sutherland; Writer: Ross Sutherland)

Stevie G

The director tries to use home videos to reconnect with the brother e never knew.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Umut Gunduz)

Trip Along Exodus

A narrative from the Palestinian diaspora told through VHS, 8mm, 16mm, HD video, photographs and animation.

(Country: US, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria; Year: 2014; Director: Hind Shoufani; Writer: Hind Shoufani)

Showing with Mirror Image

Welcome To Leith

Review preview for Welcome To Leith

Unsettling, probing and smart, they may only be looking at a town of 24 but this film has implications for people across the world.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A white supremacist attempts to take over a small town in North Dakota.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker; Writer: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)