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Raindance Film Festival · 2012

Raindance Film Festival 2012

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16 films · 3 reviews

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Angel

A girl being watched by the audience watches back.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Gee Vaucher; Writer: Gee Vaucher)

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.

(Country: UK, Norway; Year: 2012; Director: Deeyah; Stars: Caroline Goode, Diana Nammi, Nazir Afzal) , Official site , Trailer

Black Biscuit

A young man's search for a job leads to sexual experimentation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Fabrizio Federico; Writer: Fabrizio Federico; Stars: Fabrizio Federico, Victoria Howard, Daniel Angelus)

Black Smoke Rising

An alcoholic man travels with his brother's ghost in search of something precious.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Drew Cullingham; Writer: Drew Cullingham; Stars: James Fisher, Wil Johnson, Jill Greenacre)

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.

(Year: 2012; Director: James Larkin; Writer: Michael Mueller; Stars: Fiona Gilles, Geoffrey Streatfield, Tom Conti, Adrian Lukis, Matilda Ziegler, Richard Lumsden)

Confine

A disfigured former model is threatened by a dangerous con artist.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Tobias Tobbell; Writer: Tobias Tobbell; Stars: Daisy Lowe, Alfie Allen, Eliza Bennett)

Frank

A man with obsessive compulsive disorder, living in difficult circumstances, finds his existence disrupted by two strangers.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Richard Heslop; Writer: Richard Heslop; Stars: Con O'Neill, Kellie Shirley, Darren Beaumont)

Janapar

A journey to Iran entails unexpected adventure in this travel documentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: James Newton; Writer: James Newton; Stars: Tom Allen)

Live East Die Young

Sex, drugs and rock n' roll prove more taxing than Emma anticipated.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Laura Hypponen; Writer: Laura Hypponen; Stars: Zoe Grisedale, James Jeannette Main, Lewis Grolle)

The Lottery Of Birth

An exploration of learned behaviour, its innate psychological underpinnings, and the consequences of obedience.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Raoul Martinez, Joshua van Praag; Writer: Raoul Martinez; Stars: Howard Zinn, George Monbiot, Steven Pinker)

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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Christopher Payne; Writer: Christopher Payne; Stars: Cindy Jourdain, Arionel Vargas, Max Brown, Samuel Barnett, John McArdle)

Normal

The stories of diverse individuals with experience of sex trafficking problematise the issue.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Nicola Mai; Stars: Selami Brehaj, Matthew Crowley, Annie Labura)

StringCaesar

Famous thesps work alongside prison inmates to perform Shakespeare.

(Country: UK, South Africa, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Paul Schoolman; Writer: Paul Schoolman; Stars: Derek Jacobi, Warren Adler)

Strings

Four young people about to leave home for university find themselves involved in complex romantic situations in this debut feature made on a shoestring budget by a teenager.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rob Savage; Writer: Rob Savage; Stars: Philine Lembeck, Oliver Malam, Hannah Wilder, Sid Akbar Ali)

Trashed

A look at the international trade in trash.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Candida Brady; Writer: Candida Brady; Stars: Jeremy Irons)

Vinyl

Teenage kicks.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Sara Sugarman; Writer: Sara Sugarman, Jim Cooper; Stars: Perry Benson, Phil Daniels, Jamie Blackley, Keith Allen)