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Raindance Film Festival

26 September – 7 October 2012

Raindance returns in 2012 for its 20th edition, with an ever-growing international reputation. It opens with the world premiere of disturbing Mexican film Here Comes The Devil, about a couple whose missing children return to them with something unfathomable wrong, and closes with Paraguayan thriller 7 Crates. In between, British films Confine, City Slicker and Love Tomorrow will get their world premieres alongside a host of further treats from the UK and around the world. There'll also be a chance to meet Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk as he introduces Romance, one of the great short films in this year's line-up.

The festival runs from September 26 to October 7.

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  • 7 Boxes
    Review preview for 7 Boxes

    This Paraguayan thriller, featuring almost as many twists and turns as the market in which it is set, is a fast-moving, audience-pleaser with decent helpings of tension and black humour.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A teenager finds himself with the custody of seven boxes... but everyone wants the contents.
  • Banaz: A Love Story
    Review preview for Banaz: A Love Story

    This documentary attempts to piece together what happened - to solve the mystery, but also to speak up for Banaz as a person, since pretty much nobody did so when she was alive.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of Banaz Mahmod, murdered for leaving her abusive husband and falling in love with another man.
  • A Road Stained Crimson
    Review preview for A Road Stained Crimson

    Tetsuhiko Nono’s remarkable Japanese indie debut signals him as a cine-literate writer and director of verve, invention and visual panache.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A former hitman trying to live a quiet life finds himself blackmailed at the same time as a boy arrives in desperate need of his guidance.
  • The Hidden Hand
    Review preview for The Hidden Hand

    It is left for the viewer to decide, although by giving his documentary such a cabalistic title, it is clear where Carman stands.

    Paul Griffiths · 2.5 out of 5
    A guide to theories of alien contact with Earth.
  • City Slacker
    Review preview for City Slacker

    City Slacker plays its set up for breezy rom-com laughs against the backdrop of a carnivorous corporate banking culture.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    An ambitious, successful woman seeks an unambitious, unsuccessful man to be a house husband.
  • Portrait Of A Zombie
    Review preview for Portrait Of A Zombie

    The requisite staples are undead and present and while tasty chutzpah abounds, ultimately the film doesn’t deliver a totally satisfying meal.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    A family is ostracised by the local community after deciding to care for a son who has become a zombie, whilst his pregnant girlfriend still hopes the local priest will marry them.
  • Kill Me
    Review preview for Kill Me

    The moments of satisfying personal drama and suspense are built slowly rather than thumped out with high intensity.

    Paul Griffiths · 2.5 out of 5
    A suicidal teenager agrees to help a murderer on the run if he will kill her afterwards, but as they flee, he finds himself beginning to care for her.
  • Love Tomorrow
    Review preview for Love Tomorrow

    After the hard to swallow entrée and adagio, these variations do lead us to a satisfying coda.

    Paul Griffiths · 2.5 out of 5
    Two dancers get talking on an escalator and gradually find themselves embarking on a relationship.
  • The Fourth Dimension
    Review preview for The Fourth Dimension

    Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

    Paul Griffiths · 3 out of 5
    Triplet of short films, conforming to a fixed 'creative brief'.
  • The Ollaparo
    Review preview for The Ollaparo

    There are some tremendous bits of effects work, but the olláparo is mostly contrived of suggestion.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Two Galician villagers use ancient rituals to challenge the will of a monster.

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