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 Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 September Georgia: Life Through Cinema Georgia: Life Through Cinema brings you three UK premieres, features by established directors working abroad and newly restored prints of Georgian classics.
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 Wednesday 29 September DocHouse Presents DocHouse presents a double bill which includes the UK premiere of a new documentary, a family biography and intimate portrait of the legendary film producers, the Warner Brothers.
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 Thursday 30 September Age of Extremes This new film examines the former US's War on Terror and the implications it has had on British Muslims and community cohesion.
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 Thursday 21 October DocHouse Presents Reflexive and tender, The Girl with Black Balloons is an extraordinary new documentary that develops a dialogue between filmmaker and subject born out of mutual respect, blurring the roles of confidante and muse.
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Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 October Dare to Stare The films in this season are about choices, alternatives and following your heart. We believe they are unique films that will stay with you. Each illustrates the special connection that occurs between two women.
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Thu 02 Sep Jean-Luc Godard Double Bill: Pierrot le Fou (15) 6.45pm On impulse Ferdinand abandons his wife and child to take off with an old flame on a crazy and eventually tragic adventure.
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Fri 03 Sep Double Bill: Hilary and Jackie (15) 6.20pm A film based on the true story of world-renowned classical cellist Jacqueline du Pré as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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  The Concert (15) 8.50pm Thirty years ago renowned Bolshoi conductor Andrei Filipov was fired. When he learns the Châtelet Theatre has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there he decides to gather all his former musicians and go in their place.
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Sat 04 Sep Special Multiple Screening: Double Bill: Hilary and Jackie (15) 1.45pm and 6.20pm A film based on the true story of world-renowned classical cellist Jacqueline du Pré as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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  The Concert (15) 4.10pm and 8.50pm Thirty years ago renowned Bolshoi conductor Andrei Filipov was fired. When he learns the Châtelet Theatre has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there he decides to gather all his former musicians and go in their place.
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Sun 05 Sep Afternoon - Jacques Tati Double Bill: Playtime (U) 2.00pm Monsieur Hulot on the loose in modern Paris with a group of American tourists.
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  Jour de Fete (U) 4.20pm Jour de Fete has a graceful, unassuming ease in its observation of a French village's Bastille Day celebrations.
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Mon 06 Sep New York Single Bill: Please Give (15) 7.00pm In New York City a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple own.
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   New York Single Bill: City Island (12A) 8.55pm This film is a hilarious and touching tale about a family whose comfortable co-existence is upended by surprising revelations of past secrets and present-day lies.
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Wed 08 Sep Single Bill: The Garden 7.00pm The story of an urban garden in south central Los Angeles dealing with issues of environmental sustainability and race relations.
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   Single Bill: South of the Border 8.45pm There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements.
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Thu 09 Sep Double Bill: Lebanon (15) 6.45pm The film centres on four soldiers who become trapped in an immobilised tank deep in enemy territory during the Lebanon War.
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  I Am Love (15) lo sono l’amore 8.45pm The matriarch of a wealthy family has a chance encounter that ignites repressed passions and sets her on a journey of sexual awakening.
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Fri 10 Sep Single Bill: Inception (12A) 8.00pm Don Cobb is a skilled thief but his skill has also cost him everything. Now he is being offered a chance at redemption. Instead of stealing an idea he must plant one.
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Sat 11 Sep Special Multiple Screening: Single Bill: Inception (12A) 2.00pm, 5.00pm and 8.00pm Don Cobb is a skilled thief but his skill has also cost him everything. Now he is being offered a chance at redemption. Instead of stealing an idea he must plant one.
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Sun 12 Sep Special Multiple Screening: Graham Greene Double Bill: The Third Man (15) 2.30pm and 6.30pm Vienna and a writer arrives seeking his friend, Harry Lime. An irrestible, romantic thriller.
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  Went the Day Well? (PG) 4.35pm and 8.40pm Disguised as British soldiers during the Second World War some German soldiers insinuate themselves into a pretty English village.
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Mon 13 Sep Graham Greene Double Bill: The Third Man (15) 6.30pm Vienna and a writer arrives seeking his friend, Harry Lime. An irrestible, romantic thriller.
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  Went the Day Well? (PG) 8.40pm Disguised as British soldiers during the Second World War some German soldiers insinuate themselves into a pretty English village.
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  Frontier Blues (15) 8.55pm The film looks at fragments from the everyday existence of several characters that reside in Golestan, Northern Iran. It’s the story of longing, waiting, remembering, desperate men and absent women.
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Thu 16 Sep Catherine Breillat Double Bill: The Last Mistress (15) 7.00pm Secrets, rumours and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and a virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
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  Bluebeard (15) 9.10pm In France in the mid-50s Catherine enjoys toying with her sister reading her the story of the murderous and often-married Bluebeard.
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Fri 17 Sep Double Bill: Live Flesh (18) 6.30pm Almodovar's film, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell, is a remarkable tale of coincidence.
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  The Secret in Their Eyes (18) El secreto de sus ojos 8.45pm A former criminal court employee wants to write a novel about a case from the 1970s in which a woman was raped and murdered. An unpredictable crime thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruptions in Argentina.
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Sat 18 Sep Special Multiple Screening: Double Bill: Live Flesh (18) 1.50pm and 6.30pm Almodovar's film, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell, is a remarkable tale of coincidence.
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  The Secret in Their Eyes (18) El secreto de sus ojos 4.00pm and 8.45pm A former criminal court employee wants to write a novel about a case from the 1970s in which a woman was raped and murdered. An unpredictable crime thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruptions in Argentina.
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Sun 19 Sep Afternoon - Family Double Bill: Wall-E (U) 3.00pm Wall-E is a hard-working robot whose job is to clear up the mess that humans have left behind.
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  Toy Story 3 (U) 5.00pm The gang face the reality of their long, indifferent owner leaving for college and fear indefinite leave in the attic or the trash.
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   Evening - Single Bill: Apocalypse Now - Redux (15) 7.15pm Coppola’s extended reworking of his 1979 film adds new scenes and a reworked sound mix.
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Mon 20 Sep DocHouse Presents Double Bill: A Stone's Throw Away 7.00pm This powerful documentary follows the lives of three Palestinian boys from the Dheisheh refugee camp after their thirteen-year-old friend is shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
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  Budrus 8.20pm Ayar Morrar, an unlikely community organiser, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier.
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Wed 22 Sep Australia Double Bill: Somersault (15) 7.00pm A young girl begins a sensory journey and learns the difference between sex and love.
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  Beautiful Kate (15) 9.10pm A writer returns to the family home to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Being there brings back many childhood memories and awakens long-buried family secrets.
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  Street Days (15) Quchis dgeebi 7.00pm From the back streets of Tbilisi comes a tough but tender tale of friendship and betrayal, redemption and forgiveness, love and bullets.
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Fri 24 Sep Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: The Other Bank (15) gagma napiri 6.30pm Twelve-year-old Tedo, a refugee, journeys from Tbilisi to Abkhazia in search of his father in a moving tale about the internal drama of a boy, his thoughts, feelings and passions.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: Something About Georgia 8.30pm This film raises questions about political responsibility and the morality of international affairs.
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Sat 25 Sep Georgia: Life Through Cinema: Short Films (12A) 12.30pm Recent short films by young Georgian directors. Details to follow.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: Susa (12A) 2.20pm A dreamy twelve-year-old boy is running errands for an illegal vodka distillery. One day his mother tells him that his father will return soon and all will change.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: The Wishing Tree (U) Natvris Khe 4.20pm A beautifully shot love story based on the writings of Giorgi Leonidze, the film is a spectacular mosaic of village life in pre-revolutionary Georgia.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: Three Houses (U) Sami saxli 6.30pm Three separate short stories about love, death and family are set in three different centuries, but all linked by the same painting.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Double Bill: Songs of Georgia 8.30pm The film is a unique journey capturing a cultural tradition thousands of years old and still flourishing.
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  Tabuni Live Performance 9.30pm The young Georgian singer Tamta Turmanidze leads the wonderful London based women’s choir in a set of Georgian songs.
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Sun 26 Sep Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: The Short Films of Mikhail Kobakhidze (U) 12.00 noon The visionary director leads a lunchtime workshop and introduces his catalogue of short films banned in Soviet times.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: My Grandmother (U) chemi bebia 2.30pm This satirical masterpiece unspools the foibles and follies that abound when the hero loses his job as a paper pusher.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: Gun-shy (18) Schussangst 4.00pm Gun-shy is a black comic thriller, winner of the Golden Seashell at Sebastian International Film Festival 2003.
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   Georgia: Life Through Cinema - Single Bill: Pirosmani (U) 6.10pm Pirosmani tells the story of Niko Pirosmani, Georgia’s most celebrated painter, who died homeless in the early 20th century.
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Mon 27 Sep Single Bill: Baaria (15) 8.00pm An autobiographical epic of three generations set in the Sicilian village where the director was born.
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Tue 28 Sep Double Bill: White Material (15) 7.00pm A white French family, outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the tumult.
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  Le Refuge (15) 9.05pm Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. They are also addicted to drugs. As tragedy strikes Mousse runs away to a house in the countryside. Several months later she is joined in her refuge by Louis’ brother.
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Wed 29 Sep DocHouse Presents Double Bill: The Brothers Warner (U) 7.00pm An intimate portrait and saga of the four film pioneers who founded and ran Warner Bros.
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  Confessions of a Nazi Spy (U) 8.55pm An anti-Nazi propaganda film from Warners where Robinson plays a G-Man ferreting out Nazi Fifth Columnists working in America.
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Thu 30 Sep Documentary Single Bill: Age of Extremes (12) 7.30pm This new documentary focuses on the period between 11 September 2001 and 2009 looking into some of the factors that may have led to the radicalisation of some young British Muslims.
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Fri 01 Oct Double Bill: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (U) 7.00pm Tati's most consistently enjoyable comedy - Monsieur Hulot on holiday at the seaside.
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  The Illusionist (PG) 8.55pm An account of the dying days of music hall entertainment as seen through the eyes of an illusionist whose audiences are gradually being taken away by a new breed of rock ‘n’ roll bands.
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Sat 02 Oct Special Multiple Screening: Double Bill: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (U) 2.30pm and 7.00pm Tati's most consistently enjoyable comedy - Monsieur Hulot on holiday at the seaside.
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  The Illusionist (PG) 4.20pm and 8.55pm An account of the dying days of music hall entertainment as seen through the eyes of an illusionist whose audiences are gradually being taken away by a new breed of rock ‘n’ roll bands.
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Sun 03 Oct Special Multiple Screening: Double Bill: La Vie en Rose (12A) 1.10pm A biopic on the life and career of Edith Piaf including her relationships with Marlene Dietrich and Yves Montand.
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  Gainsbourg (15) Vie héroïque 3.50pm A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s, to his death in 1991.
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Mon 04 Oct Double Bill: La Vie en Rose (12A) 6.00pm A biopic on the life and career of Edith Piaf including her relationships with Marlene Dietrich and Yves Montand.
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  Gainsbourg (15) Vie héroïque 8.45pm A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s, to his death in 1991.
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Tue 05 Oct DocHouse and More4 Single Bill: Dancing with the Devil 7.00pm A shockingly intimate and visually stunning portrait of the drug-related gang war that dominates the slums of Rio de Janeiro, following three very different men through the perilous backstreets.
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Wed 06 Oct DocHouse and More4 Single Bill: Albino United 7.00pm In Tanzania, where albinos are murdered and their body parts used for 'magic' potions, a brave group of albinos are using football to spread the message that they too are members of society.
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  Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (15) 8.40pm A film based on Chris Greenhalgh’s novel exploring the electric relationship between the French fashion icon and the radical Russian-born composer.
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Fri 08 Oct Single Bill: The Girl Who Played with Fire (15) 8.00pm As computer hacker, Lisbeth, and journalist, Mikael, investigate a sex-trafficking ring Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run.
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Sat 09 Oct Dr. Who Day: Time and Space 12 noon Meet the people behind Doctor Who at the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s one day convention Time and Space.
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Sun 10 Oct Special Multiple Screening: Single Bill: The Girl Who Played with Fire (15) 3.00pm, 5.30pm and 8.05pm As computer hacker, Lisbeth, and journalist, Mikael, investigate a sex-trafficking ring Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run.
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Mon 11 Oct Ealing Comedies Double Bill: Whisky Galore (PG) 7.00pm During World War II a ship full of whisky is wrecked on a small Hebridean island.
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  The Ladykillers (U) 8.55pm An older lady takes in a sinister lodger who, with his four friends, commits a robbery.
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Tue 12 Oct Kim Ki-Duk Double Bill: Breathe (15) 7.00pm Death Row inmate Jang Jin attempts to commit suicide. See this on the news, it captures the mind of sculptress Yeon.
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  Time (15) 8.50pm Seh-hee has been dating her boyfriend, Ji-woo, for over two years, but is fearful that he no longer finds her interesting. She decides to go under the knife for extensive plastic surgery.
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Wed 13 Oct Double Bill: The Harder They Come (15) 7.00pm A ground-breaking classic. A poor country boy goes to the city to make money and becomes a pop idol overnight.
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  Black Dynamite (15) 9.10pm When “The Man” murders his brothers, pumps heroin into local orphanages and floods the ghetto with malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight back.
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Thu 14 Oct Double Bill: Far From Heaven (12A) 6.30pm The film probes the fissures that appear in the Whitakers’ seemingly perfect marriage after Cathy finds Frank kissing a man.
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  Undertow (TBC) Contracorriente 8.45pm A well-respected fisherman and his beautiful bride, Mariela, about to welcome their firstborn, but Miguel harbours a scandalous secret.
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Fri 15 Oct Double Bill: Nowhere Boy (15) 7.00pm An astute biopic focussing on the teenage years of John Lennon.
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  The Runaways (15) 9.05pm A coming-of-age biopic about 70s teenage band The Runaways based on lead singer Cherie Currie’s book Neon Angel.
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Sat 16 Oct Special Multiple Screening: Double Bill: Nowhere Boy (15) 2.30pm and 7.00pm An astute biopic focussing on the teenage years of John Lennon.
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  The Runaways (15) 4.30pm and 9.05pm A coming-of-age biopic about 70s teenage band The Runaways based on lead singer Cherie Currie’s book Neon Angel.
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Sun 17 Oct Special Multiple Screening - Abbas Kiarostami Double Bill: A Taste of Cherry (PG) 2.30pm and 7.00pm A middle-aged man on the way to his own death tries to find someone to bury him, but can the memory of 'the taste of cherries' persuade him to live?
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  Certified Copy (15) 4.30pm and 9.05pm A French gallery owner and British author meet for the first time and allow the audience to interpret, or not, their afternoon together.
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Mon 18 Oct Abbas Kiarostami Double Bill: A Taste of Cherry (PG) 7.00pm A middle-aged man on the way to his own death tries to find someone to bury him, but can the memory of 'the taste of cherries' persuade him to live?
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  Certified Copy (15) 9.05pm A French gallery owner and British author meet for the first time and allow the audience to interpret, or not, their afternoon together.
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Tue 19 Oct 1968 Inspired - The Ferrari Dino Girl plus Jachym and Filip Topol Double Bill: The Ferrari Dino Girl (15) 6.45pm Jan Nemec's auto-documentary recounts the story of how he filmed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and smuggled the footage out of the country with the help of the Ferrari Dino Girl.
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  Jachym and Filip Topol 8.20pm An evening of literature and live music with award-winning writer Jachym Topol who will read and discuss his new book Gargling with Tar.
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Wed 20 Oct Bong Joon-Ho Double Bill: Memories of Murder (15) 6.00pm Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murders.
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  Mother (15) 8.35pm When a mother discovers her son suffering from learning difficulties has been arrested for murder, she sets out to track down the real killer and prove her son’s innocence at all costs.
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  The Girl with Black Balloons 7.45pm The Girl with Black Balloons is a multi-faceted portrait of Bettina, a reclusive artist living within the confines of Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel.
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Fri 22 Oct Double Bill: Frozen River (15) 7.00pm An upstate New York trailer mom is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl living on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border.
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  Winter's Bone (15) 9.05pm Seventeen-year-old Ree embarks on a mission to find her father after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without trace.
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Sat 23 Oct Special Multiple Screening: Double Bill: Frozen River (15) 2.30pm and 7.00pm An upstate New York trailer mom is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl living on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border.
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  Winter's Bone (15) 4.30pm and 9.05pm Seventeen-year-old Ree embarks on a mission to find her father after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without trace.
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   Evening - Warner Bros Double Bill: White Heat (15) 6.30pm Spellbinding suspense, complimented by vivid and hypnotic performances.
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  Bonnie and Clyde (15) 8.50pm Bonnie and Clyde begin a crime spree to escape the hardships of the Depression. Based on a true story.
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Mon 25 Oct Black History Month Double Bill: Borom Sarret (12A) 7.00pm The film examines the impact of economic exploitation on ordinary Senegalese citizens.
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  Black Girl (12A) 7.20pm The tragic story of a Senegalese girl employed as a servant to a French couple.
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   Black History Month Single Bill: Xala (12) The Curse 8.45pm Sembene’s satire of the modern African bourgeoisie was heavily censored at the time of its release, and it remains one of the sharpest and most incisive attacks on neo-colonialism in post-independence Africa.
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Tue 26 Oct Double Bill: An Education (12A) 6.50pm A coming-of-age story about a teenage academic girl in the 60s whose life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
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  Tamara Drewe (15) 8.55pm Once a shy and unattractive teenager from a small rural idyll, Tamara’s past catches up with her when she returns as a newspaper columnist to the village.
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Wed 27 Oct Double Bill: An Education (12A) 6.50pm A coming-of-age story about a teenage academic girl in the 60s whose life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
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  Tamara Drewe (15) 8.55pm Once a shy and unattractive teenager from a small rural idyll, Tamara’s past catches up with her when she returns as a newspaper columnist to the village.
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Thu 28 Oct Dare to Stare: Single Bill: Itty Bitty Titty Committee (15) 8.30pm This film tells the story of Anna, a receptionist. Her life changes radically when she meets Sadie, head feminist of the C.I.A. (Clits in Action) Collective.
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Fri 29 Oct Dare to Stare: Single Bill: Unveiled (15) Fremde Haut 6.50pm With July’s milestone Supreme Court ruling in favour of two gay refugees' right to claim asylum in the UK, this film is a stark reminder of how difficult it is to live freely in many countries.
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   Dare to Stare: Single Bill: 4 Minutes (15) Vier Minuten 8.55pm This stunning drama depicts the intense connection between two women. Unmissable.
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Sat 30 Oct Dare to Stare: Single Bill: Fucking Amal (15) Show Me Love 7.00pm This classic first love drama tells the story of Agnes, a sixteen-year-old misfit who is secretly in love with Elin, the most beautiful and popular girl in school.
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   Dare to Stare: Single Bill: Eloïse (15) 8.55pm Eloïse is a tender love story. Asia lies in a coma. In flashback we see what led up to her accident, her life as an architecture student and relationship with her overbearing mother.
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Sun 31 Oct Dare to Stare: Single Bill: Another Way (18) Egymásra nézve 2.30pm Set in 1958, against the backdrop of totalitarianism and the Stalinist regime, two female political journalists cautious attraction develops into an intense love affair.
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     Dare to Stare: Single Bill: High Art (18) 6.30pm Syd lives with her boyfriend James. After discovering a leak in the roof, she heads upstairs to do a bit of DIY, only to find that her neighbour is the very talented and charismatic photographer Lucy Berliner.
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   Dare to Stare: Single Bill: Highly Strung (15) Je te mangerais 8.35pm Marie is accepted in to the Conservatoire in Lyon and shares a place with a childhood friend she hasn't seen in years. An obsessive and irrepressible affair begins.
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LATECOMERS Latecomers are admitted strictly at the House Manager's discretion but only within the first 15 minutes of the film.
SATURDAY MATINEES We are continuing our new, popular Saturday afternoon matinee programmes. See full details above.
AGE RESTRICTIONS Most films are screened as double bills. Where a programme contains films with different age ratings, the highest rating governs all films in the programme as the films are sold on a single ticket. Patrons younger than the highest rating will not be admitted to the Cinema. Riverside Studios reserves the right to ask for proof of age.
COATS AND BAGS For the comfort, safety and security of all visitors and staff, backpacks and other large bags are not allowed into the auditorium. All items brought into Riverside Studios may be subject to a search.
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