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Drama. Great Britain, France, Belgium 2016, 100 min. Directed by Ken Loach. Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy. In English with Russian subtitles. Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain. Awards: Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Palm Dog; Locarno Internatonal Film Festival - Audience Award.
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Drama/Thriller. USA 2016, 109 min. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts. In English with Russian subtitles. Idealistic FBI agent Nate Foster goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy.
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12:00 | Juste la fin du Monde |
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Drama. Canada, France 2016, 99 min. Directed by Xavier Dolan. Starring: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel. In French with Russian subtitles. After 12 years of absence, Louis returns home to inform his family about his terminal illness and try to revive his ruined relationship with them. He is welcomed by his eccentric mother, his sister that he barely knows, his hot-headed brother, and a veritable mountain of hurt feelings and broken dreams. If he can’t fix everything, then there will be no choice but to disappear once again – this time, for good. But hey, this isn’t the end of the world - just a family lunch. A new film by rising independent film star Xavier Dolan, based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce. At the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the film was awarded the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.
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16:30 | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World |
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Documentary. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Werner Herzog. In English with Russian subtitles. In his new documentary film, “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,” which was first shown at the Sundance Festival, Werner Herzog immerses himself in the past, present, and future of the virtual world. With his German meticulousness and romanticism, he tells the story of the Internet, from its pioneers at the University of California to contemporary visionaries like Elon Musk. However, Herzog is not merely interested by the scientific and technological achievements, nor by apocalyptic predictions connected with the development of the World Wide Web - he wants to know why the Internet has so completely changed (and continues to change) our life, to the point that even the Buddhist monks that Herzog met would check their Twitter feeds as soon as they emerged from meditation. Herzog studies the digital landscape with the same passion and dedication with which he crossed the wild landscapes of the Amazon, Sahara, or Antarctica, and tells about the mutual influence of two worlds - the online and the real - and how the latter of which, thanks to the influence of the internet, will never be the same.
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21:00 | XVII New British Film Festival. Bobby Sands: 66 days |
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Documentary. Great Britain, Ireland 2016, 105 min. Directed by Brendan Byrne. In English with Russian subtitles. In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands' 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands' emotive, non-violent protest to be classified as a political prisoner became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. Sands' death after 66 days marked a key turning point in the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and brought a global spotlight to the Northern Irish conflict which eventually triggered international efforts to resolve it. 66 DAYS is a major feature length documentary exploring Sands' remarkable life and death, 35 years on from his ultimate sacrifice. The spine of the film is comprised of Sands' own words, drawn from his hunger strike diary, a unique insight into the man and his beliefs as he embarked on his final journey.
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19:00 | XVII New British Film Festival: A Patch of Fog |
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Drama/Thriller. Great Britain 2015, 92 min. Directed by Michael Lennox. Starring: Conleth Hill, Stephen Graham, Lara Pulver. In English with Russian subtitles. A security guard catches a famous writer/television host shoplifting and blackmails him into becoming friends.
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