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Raindance Film Festival · 2013

Raindance Film Festival 2013

Reel Britannia

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14 films · 1 review

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Aluna

The Kogi tribe of Sierra Nevada connect with the spiritual aluna, emerging from their hidden realm to fulfil their inherited duty: preventing the destruction of the world.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Alan Ereira)

Convenience

Two friends attempting to rob a petrol station accidentally end up working there all night.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Keri Collins; Writer: Simon Fantauzzo; Stars: Ray Panthaki, Vicky McClure, Adeel Akhtar)

Dirtymoney

A young man is drawn into London's violent underground sex trade. Based on a true story.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Adam Tysoe; Writer: Adam Tysoe; Stars: Anthony Welsh, Elsa Mollien, Mem Ferda)

Earthbound

A man who believes his is an alien hiding on Earth from bounty hunters falls in love and risks everything by telling the truth.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Alan Brennan; Writer: Alan Brennan; Stars: Rafe Spall, Jenn Murray, Stephen Hogan, David Morrissey, Rory Keenan, Aoife Duffin)

The Machine

Review preview for The Machine

What James has tried to do is film a Hollywood Blockbuster on an independent British budget, and it shows.

Neil Mitchell · 2 out of 5
A cybernetics expert tries to create an android super-soldier.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Caradog W James; Writer: Caradog W James; Stars: Toby Stephens, Sam Hazeldine, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Lee Nicholas Harris, Ben McGregor, Stuart Matthews, Helen Griffin, Sule Rimi, Alan Low, Pooneh Hajimohammadi, Clark Fisher, James Burn)

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Mediastan

Journalists travel through Central Asia looking for newspaper editors.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Johannes Wahlstrom; Stars: Julian Assange)

Muse Of Fire

A documentary following two young actors as they take on Shakespeare, with input from theatrical greats.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Dan Poole, Giles Terera; Writer: Dan Poole, Giles Terera; Stars: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Mark Rylance, Ralph Fiennes, John Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Michael Gambon, Zoë Wanamaker, Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Alan Cumming, Helen Shaw)

Outpost 11

Arctic spiders attack a remote military base, leading to a fight for survival.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Anthony Woodley; Writer: Anthony Woodley; Stars: Billy Clarke, Luke Healy, Bernard Hill, Joshua Mayes-Cooper, Graham Till)

The Patrol

It's 2006 and British troops fight a losing battle in Afghanistan in Operation Herrick.

(Director: Tom Petch; Writer: Tom Petch; Stars: Ben Righton, Nav Sidhu, Nicholas Beveney, Owain Arthur)

Sleeping Dogs

When her fiance falls into a coma, a young woman turns to his old friends for help, only to discover secrets buried in his past.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Floris Ramaekers; Writer: Simon Clark, Floris Ramaekers; Stars: Jon Campling, Candis Nergaard, Simon Killick, Liberty Mills)

Soho Cigarette

A young London tour guide spends all his money on a Mercedes, only to discover that it's connected to a grisly crime.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Jonathan Fairbairn; Writer: Jonathan Fairbairn; Stars: Vidal Sancho, Andreea Paduraru, David Galea, Marco Aponte, Jean Baptiste Fillon, Ainlee Sonndear)

Titus

A displaced African American jazz musician struggles to come to terms with his past.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Charlie Cattrall; Writer: Nico Mensinga; Stars: Ron C. Jones, Ann Mitchell, Jasmine Cephas Jones)

Wayland's Song

A troubled soldier returns from Afghanistan to discover that his daughter has gone missing.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Jobson; Writer: Richard Jobson; Stars: Alan McKenna, Rob James-Collier, Orla Brady, Simone Lahbib, Michael Nardone, Hannah Lederer)

Whoops!

A loving wife and mother keeps accidentally murdering people.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Tony Hipwell, Miles Watts; Writer: Tony Hipwell, Sam Robinson; Stars: Andrew Dunn, Elaine Glover, Amelia Tyler, Scott Taylor, Olwen May)