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Under the Sun Twice upon a Time (Kan ya Ma Kan... Marratayn) (V luchakh solnca) Niam Itani/Lebanon, Qatar, USA/2016/74 min MON 20 June 20:50 Filmhouse 2 WED 22 June 16:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £10.00 (£8.00 concs) What can we learn when history repeats itself? Director Niam Itani fled with her family from Beirut to Ghazzeh in 1989, seeking refuge from the Lebanese Civil War. Despite living in poverty, Itani describes her childhood years in Ghazzeh as ‘the best days of my life’, as families lived in solidarity. Connecting with Khalil, a young Syrian refugee in Ghazzeh in 2012, Itani has created a film of profound sensitivity, chronicling the effects of trauma past and present, and their shared hopes for the future. [PG]
Vitaly Mansky/Russia, Latvia, Germany, Czech Republic, North Korea/2015/106 min SAT 25 June 20:45 Cineworld SUN 26 June 15:40 Cineworld PRICE: £10.00 (£8.00 concs) A revealing film about a ‘real life’ family in North Korea. A fascinating glimpse behind the strict façade of the North Korean regime as director Vitaly Mansky makes a film about an ordinary family in Pyongyang, his crew accompanied at all times and what they are supposed to film always carefully orchestrated. But he cleverly keeps the film rolling, picking up rehearsals and fine-tuning by authorities, and featuring telling moments as eight-year-old schoolgirl Zin-Mi delivers her lines beautifully but is also caught crying quietly at the pressure of the whole propaganda operation. [PG]
Zero Days Alex Gibney/USA/2016/116 min TUE 21 June 18:00 Cineworld SAT 25 June 15:10 Cineworld PRICE: £10.00 (£8.00 concs) Welcome to the cyber apocalypse. Taking his cue from the pioneering investigation of David Sanger of the New York Times and documents ‘leaked’ by Edward Snowden, the prolific Alex Gibney’s latest film brings his beady inquisitor’s eye to the murky world of state-sponsored cyber terrorism, and, in particular, the provenance and purpose of the computer ‘worm’ known as “Stuxnet”, which appeared to be targeting Iran and its nuclear facilities at Natanz. Fascinating, disturbing, and, worst of all, entirely plausible. [U]
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