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London Film Festival · 2017

London Film Festival 2017

Experimenta

A selection of short films will also screen.

Programme

18 films · 1 review

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A Blemished Code

The life and work of artist Margaret Benyon, pioneer in the artistic use of holography.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Anne-Marie Copestake; Writer: Anne-Marie Copestake)

Dead The Ends

Retelling the story of La Jetee, bookended by London's 2011 riots.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Benedict Seymour )

Erase And Forget

Documentary about Vietnam veteran James Gordon ‘Bo’ Gritz, who became the inspiration for Rambo and John 'Hannibal' Smith.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman; Writer: Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Zimmerman; Stars: Ted Kotcheff, Bo Gritz)

Les Fort Des Fous

Meditation on colonial power and its legacy.

(Year: 2017; Director: Narimane Mari; Writer: Narimane Mari)

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Frantz Fanon, peau noire masque blanc)

Documentary about the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and revolutionary.

(Country: UK; Year: 1995; Director: Isaac Julien; Writer: Isaac Julien, Mark Nash, Harold Manning; Stars: Colin Salmon, Halima Daoud, Noirin Ni Dubhgaill, Amir M. Korangy, Al Nedjari, Rachida Rahal, Ana Ramalho, John Wilson, Joey Attawia, Lavanne Carlos, Suzanne Carney, Zeina Carrington, Sally Craddock, Ouifak Gouja, Hadj Abdelhamid)

Hemlock Forest

Personal essay film inspired by the work of Chantal Akerman.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Moyra Davey; Writer: Moyra Davey; Stars: Moyra Davey)

Life Imitation

Documenting queer lives on the edge.

(Country: China; Year: 2017; Director: Zhou Chen; Writer: Zhou Chen)

Lek And The Dogs (Ivan And The Dogs)

Review preview for Lek And The Dogs

Kötting's real skill comes in the marrying together of images with Lek's memories, pushing at ideas of desolation, anxiety and trauma that take us into emotional territory that mere words cannot.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A man who lived with a pack of dogs as a child recalls his past.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Andrew Kötting; Writer: Hattie Naylor, Andrew Kotting; Stars: Xavier Tchili, Clay Barnard)

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Looking For Oum Kulthum

Mitra is an ambitious artist ho embarks on her dream project of making a film about the legendary Egyptian singer and diva Oum Kulthum.

(Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Morocco; Year: 2017; Director: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari; Writer: Shoja Azari, Ahmad Diba, Shirin Neshat; Stars: Neda Rahmanian, Yasmin Raeis, Mehdi Moinzadeh, Kais Nashif, Soumaya Akaaboune, Rainer Guldener, Najia Skalli, Nadia Niazi, Nadia Benzakour, Eric Cuvelier, Rodin Hamidi, Jalil Tijani, Nour Kamar, Bandar Atifi, Mohammed Bouih)

Strand gala

The Maersk Opera

Examination of Copenhagen's controversial performance space.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Superflex )

No Trace Of Accelerator

The impact that seemingly unconnected fires had on a small French community.

(Country: UK, Norway; Year: 2017; Director: Emily Wardill)

Om Dar-B-Dar

Experimental tale of a teenager.

(Country: India; Year: 1988; Director: Kamal Swaroop; Stars: Gopi Desai, Manish Gupta, Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia, Lakshminarayan Shastri, Lalit Tiwari)

Ouroboros

Homage to the Gaza Strip.

(Country: France, Belgium, Occupied Palestinian Territory; Year: 2017; Director: Basma Alsharif; Writer: Basma Alsharif; Stars: Jessica Bellinger, Lauren Strom Berg, Coleman Collins, Claire De Pimodan, Bo Gallerito, Neemah Abu Ghenas, Yann Gourdon, Sky Hopinka, Diego Marcon, Joseph Valdez)

The Pure Necessity

Reworking of Disney animation The Jungle Book, removing the human characters.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2017; Director: David Claerbout)

Spell Reel

Experimental documentary about a cinema movement involved in the Guinea-Bissau liberation movement.

(Country: Germany, Portugal, France, Guinea-Bissau; Year: 2017; Director: Filipa César)

Spite Your Face

Reworking of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Rachel Maclean; Writer: Rachel Maclean)

Tonsler Park

US Election Day 2016 as seen through the operations of polling stations in Charlottesville, Virginia.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kevin Jerome Everson; Stars: Sally Barbour, Shaquita Morton, Deborah Tyler, Shaka Syndor, Maurice Walker, Kenneth Banks, Marissa Turner-Harris, Joan Woodfolk, Reverend Ralph Brown, Doris Plant-Hill, Melissa Morton, Joyce Burton, Eanna Langston, Rose Clark, Regina Vaughan)

Tripoli Cancelled

Story of a man who was trapped in an airport without a passport.

(Country: US, UK, Germany, Greece, Bangladesh; Year: 2017; Director: Naeem Mohaiemen; Writer: Naeem Mohaiemen; Stars: Vassilis Koukalani)