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Raindance Film Festival

2009

Humpday will kick off the festival
Humpday will kick off the festival

The 17th Raindance Film Festival’s programme includes 75 features and more than 150 shorts. Running from September 30 to October 11, it will be hosted by Apollo Cinemas.

The festival will open with Humpday and close with Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience.

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  • Legacy: Black Ops
    Review preview for Legacy: Black Ops

    The real star here is creator Eromose.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    A former special agent holed up in a hotel room in the aftermath of a failed Eastern European mission grows suspicious of his brother's political success.
  • Resurrecting The Street Walker
    Review preview for Resurrecting The Street Walker

    A strangely compelling and, at times, disturbing watch.

    Paul Griffiths · 3 out of 5
    A wannabe filmmaker becomes obssessed with an unfinished snuff film.
  • Down Terrace
    Review preview for Down Terrace

    By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.
  • Instant Swamp
    Review preview for Instant Swamp

    The real charm and humour comes from the characters’ feisty interplay.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    When a woman has a run of bad luck and her mother falls ill, she finds out that her family might not be everything she assumed it was.
  • Kakera
    Review preview for Kakera

    The lesbian tag need not restrict heterosexual aficionados of human relationships.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    One love, two girls, Japanese-style.
  • Crying With Laughter
    Review preview for Crying With Laughter

    Much of the plot reads as a barely tempered collection of cliches, but in the hands of writer/director Justin Molotnikov, and McCole's runaway success, becomes a highly effective character study and a well-constructed psychological thriller.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Black comedy about a comedian whose past is unearthed.
  • Until The Light Takes Us
    Review preview for Until The Light Takes Us

    The film's scope is quite narrow but what it does, it does well.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A look at the history and aesthetic of Black Metal.
  • Exam
    Review preview for Exam

    Exam drifts from being genuinely enigmatic and moody to derivative, disappointing, even ridiculous.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Eight strangers are sitting the final exam for a top-level position... but little do they know the stakes are higher than they imagine.
  • Mime-Mime
    Review preview for Mime-Mime

    Mime-Mime’s frustrations eventually outweigh its rewards.

    Emma Slawinski · 3 out of 5
    Story about an eccentric who is the black sheep of her family.
  • 1000 Voices
    Review preview for 1000 Voices

    With such powerful subject matter it would be difficult to make a film that didn't leave an impression.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Dark animation which gathers together voices of detained asylum seekers.

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