| Tuesday 14th | 9.00pm | Triskel Arts |
 |
|
Certainly the most daring and sexually explicit portrait of homosexual life in Egypt yet to be put on screen, Maher Sabry’s wide-reaching story is imbued with palpable compassion as the director bravely details the situation for gay Egyptians in the modern era.
When Rami’s longtime lover leaves him to marry a woman and his best friends drift away, he comes face to face with the harsh realities of life as a gay man in Egypt. Against the backdrop of the crackdown on gay men in the country, Rami finds himself reduced to a series of meaningless one-night stands with closet homosexuals and tourists. Meanwhile, his best friend Kareem is arrested in a police raid on a floating discotheque in Cairo. This pivotal scene is based on a real-life incident when fifty-two people were arrested on the Queen Boat in 2001 and charged archaic laws, which are being increasingly employed to clamp down on the Egyptian gay community.
Producer Egyptian Underground Film Society
Leading Players Mazeen Nassar, Mehammed Amadeus
Photography Maher Mostafa
Script Maher Sabry
Editor Maher Sabry
Music Elias Elia
Print Source Egyptian Underground Film Society
Website www.maraiafilm.com/eufs/allmylife.html
|
|
|
| Thursday 16th | 6.00pm | Opera House |
 |
|
The rarely seen backdrop of a small Cotswolds town is the setting for this keenly observed tale of drug use and sexual awakening. In his feature debut, Hopkins examines the discreet connections between a variety of characters, each on a personal journey informed by an unexpected and seemingly unconnected series of events - Rob is a heroin addict who has just lost his girlfriend to the drug; Gail never ventures outside and prefers to immerse herself in the escapist world of romance novels, Mr. and Mrs. Gladwin are going through a rocky patch in their sixty-year relationship as years of unspoken truths build a barrier between them.
Both the old and young characters are followed on their often tumultuous journeys of withdrawal and commitment to each other and to life. Sexual awakening, boredom, and drugs inform but do not dictate the narrative, which blends gritty realism with a more poetic, reflective aspect of life on the fringes of the urban landscape.
A new voice in British cinema, Hopkins’ multi-narrative feature debut is a lyrical, honest and experimental look at intersecting lives, losses and loves in the heart of rural England.
Producers Samm Halliday, Rachel Robey
Leading Players Liam McIfatrick, Che Corr, Tara Ballard, Megan Palmer, Kurt Palmer
Photography Lol Crawley
Script Duane Hopkins
Editor Christopher Barwell
Music Dan Berridge
Print Source Soda Pictures
|
|
|
| Monday 13th | 11.00pm | Kino Cinema |
 |
|
Have you ever felt yourself change? I have. Gunning his camper van southward the only twothings Gene is aware of is that he knows not where he is going, and that he is dead. As he ventures further into Mexico he encounters Ana, a waitress who has just walked away from a car accident. Gene drives her to her rendezvous with her boyfriend but it soon begins to dawn on her that life as she once knew it no longer exists.
Circulation portrays a world in which the dead enter a purgatory where they develop the instincts of all manner of creatures. Gene becomes increasingly spider-like, Ana becomes haunted by visions of moths, and meanwhile her husband has also emerged from the wreckage and is bent on hunting his wife down.
Tipping a hat to the cult 60s chiller Carnival Of Souls director Ryan Harper has created a startling debut, and a road movie like no other. Paul Nordin’s stunning cinematography, gives the landscape a ravishing vibrancy, and adds another dimension to this tale of weirdness beneath the relentless Mexican.
Producer Ryan Harper, Jason Mitchell
Leading Players Sherman Koltz, Yvonne DeLaRosa
Photography Paul Nordi
Script Ryan Harper
Editor Jason Mitchell
Music Rafael Manriquez
Print Sourcerah138@circulationfilm.com
Website www.circulationfilm.com
|
|
