FILM: THE MAGAZINE/LONDON/FEBRUARY 2017
SUNDAY
12TH FEBRUARY SCREEN 1 10:00 Strangers on the Earth Every pilgrim goes their own way.
96 minutes
11:40 The Glove A homeless with his right hand only finds an expensive leather glove that fits his hand. One year later, when he accidentally tears the glove, replacing it appears to be harder than expected. 12 minutes
11:55 Ichiro and the Wave Ichiro was fishing near the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, when the 2004 tsunami struck his boat. Stranded on an island during the devastation he wondered if he would ever see his family again. 11 minutes
12:10 Once I was Titania This video is about MADHURA. She is an amazing woman, who has lived as many lives as a cat! 14 minutes 12:30 Just Data! People are data. Behind the data there are lives that can change if the data is in wrong hands. The film analyses congressional hearing and the gaps in our laws to protect our data.
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12:45 Mayur MAYUR, which means “peacock” in Sanskrit, is a 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution abstract, visual music animation inspired by Asian cosmologies, symbols and music. 8 minutes 13:00 A Gift Jack wants to steal money and valuable things from Margaret’s house. But Margaret, a blind elderly woman, is at home and talks with Jack as if he is her son. Margaret covers Jack from the neighbor and a police officer. After Jack knows Margaret has covered him under the condition of knowing he is not her son, Jack leaves everything he had stolen from her house behind and goes away. 17 minutes
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100 minutes
15:00 The Song of Cotton “The Song of Cotton” based on the America’s National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner China-born author Ha Jin’s novel “A Pension Plan”. 98 minutes 16:45
Traceroute
120 minutes
SCREEN 2 10:00 Zeitgeist Protest Omar, an awkward, melancholic man, is stuck in the past. He remains idle, aimless, and hangs out at bars. His cousin Youmna comes to visit him from abroad, and stays with him. She is hoping to change around her life. One day, they both decide to take the road and escape... 93 minutes
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11:40 FingerSTYLE FingerSTYLE looks at an emerging movement of modern acoustic guitarists from all over the world featuring interviews with internationally renowned artists Kaki King, Newton Faulkner and Andy Mckee. 70 minutes 12:55
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95 minutes
14:30 Wigilia A traditional Polish feast on Christmas Eve, Wigilia includes an extra place at the table should an unknown wandering pilgrim arrive. When Agata, a Polish cleaner stranded in Glasgow for Christmas prepares her Wigilia in a clients house, she could not have expected the pilgrim that would arrive at her table. Nor could she expect everything he’d do for her. 75 minutes
15:55 The Bridge A five-story tree house built by a local Hawaiian family over many decades is nestled deep in the subterranean backwoods of Hawaii’s rain-soaked Manoa valley. For generations, encounters with armed spirit warriors or Hawaiian night marchers (huak’I po) believed to be en route to and from ancient battle have occurred on the family homestead, inspiring profound spiritual experiences for those who have come into contact with the primeval Hawaiian ghosts.
17:20 Sorry for the Inconvenience Max finally gets his illegal satellite dish set-up operating and discovers a limitless amount of free entertainment right at his fingertips. However, when he stumbles upon a channel broadcasting a live camera feed from inside his own living room, Max finds that there are horrific consequences for seeking out answers. 6 minutes 17:30 Light Drifter Light Drifter is a visual narrative of my dreams realized in a surreal world populated by monsters, birds, fish and magical creatures. 3 minutes 17:35 Nine Minutes While finishing an exploratory mission on a newly discovered planet, a veteran astronaut faces the choice of completing her objective or saving her own life, after an equipment malfunction forces her to crash land.
SCREEN 3 10:00 Random Karma Random Karma is a cleverly original ensemble film about an Iraqi war veteran with P.T.S.D. and his energetically naïve, yet entertaining, martial arts students who get mixed up with witty mobsters and deliciously dirty cops. 105 minutes 11:50 Brutus German shepherd named Brutus got into concentration camp and turned from a harmless pet into a killer. 38 minutes
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60 minutes
13:30 Truth Underground Three spoken word poets struggle through poverty, discrimination, PTSD and abandonment to illuminate what fellow North Carolinian poet Maya Angelou called ‘a brave and startling truth.’ 69 minutes 14:45 The Snow Queen 3 The rare gift of getting into all kinds of trouble is their family trait. What else can you expect from the ones raised among trolls in snowy lands? But now Kai and Gerda have grown up and entered a new stage - this time they are going to cause a global disaster... 78 minutes
16:05 Keep Shut When Mark’s troubled friend Christopher moves in, David’s life begins to unravel. 74 minutes
16:45 The Last Laugh Warm, funny, affectionate and moving, ‘The Last Laugh’ explores what it means to be funny and what happens when the laughter stops… 19 minutes
17:10 The Track Hee-Kyoung is an isolated woman: surrounded by people, she feels totally alone. After a night of drinking she decides to get some space and air, and ends up getting just what she didn’t realise she needed. 10 minutes
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17:50 Promises Halimo Can’t Keep An intimate portrait of a Somali refugee mother who has fled the conflict in her country leaving her two young daughters behind with her mother. 13 minutes 18:05 Zarathustra Still Speaks
57 minutes
MONDAY
22 minutes
16:25 Take A Chance Even in Japan, the ancient lifestyle of Uchi Deshi training is all but forgotten. However, a teenager from Tokyo discovers that it’s alive and well in the American Deep South. 92 minutes
15:00 The Open Bombs have exploded. The war is global.Yet André and Stéphanie won’t give up: Roland Garros is their life, the reason why they live – their history. And come what may, they will organize their Open, whatever the cost. Even without rackets, even without balls, by the sheer strength of their faith. 103 minutes
13TH FEBRUARY SCREEN 1 10:00 The Promised Band A group of upstart women with dubious musical skills use a fake band as a cover story to cross forbidden borders into each other’s tangled lives in Israel and Palestine. 89 minutes 11:40 Beast or Raven
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11:55 Numb In the wake of tragedy, Astrid struggles to find emotional connection, leading her into a dark world of promiscuity. Will she risk losing herself? 10 minutes
12:10 Backroads Europe Their network is woven like a spider’s web over an immense empire: the Roman roads. Nearly 85 000 kilometers of paved roads once traversed the Roman Empire, linking Europe to Asia Minor and the Near East. For several centuries, they served as commercial roads, military routes and communication networks – for the circulation of the traders, soldiers, civil servants and messengers of the Empire. After the fall of the Empire, the paths outlived their builders, but their usage changed. 52 minutes
13:05 The Flavor of the Moon In a little town which the time background is not clear, people follow and yearn for moon because of a legend. The events about the moon even become more and more intensified. 21 minutes 13:30
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90 minutes
17:25 Two Zions “Two Zions” focuses on the Zions of Jerusalem, Israel and Axum, Ethiopia. It describes the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba that has connected two peoples and cultures through their religious observances from approximately 950 BC till today. 58 minutes 18:30 WishMakers WishMakers is the story of the Tulip Winery that was established in a residential adult special needs community, the Village of Hope in Israel’s Jezreel Valley, and fosters a caring environment while providing employment, dignity and purpose for the residents. 35 minutes 20:00
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SCREEN 2 10:00 Home Coming A Kannada film Marali Manege (homecoming) is based on a novel by the same name written by Yogesh Master. Love is greater than adamant and relationship is superior to clashes. 127 minutes
12:10 The Bench Living rough on the Polish streets, two young boys struggle to feed and look after themselves each day. But their lives were to suddenly change forever in a way they never could have imagined. 88 minutes 13:45
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75 minutes
15:00 Get Greedy The movie centers around a group of friends who end up with a lost suitcase. A clue hidden inside leads them to a fortune. Very soon, everyone is consumed by greed and plot against each other to get rid and claim the loot. 90 minutes 16:35 Diversion End Diversion End is a story about love and vengeance... a pulpy crime thriller set in an unfamiliar, neon vision of Warsaw, Poland. 98 minutes 18:20 The Kidnapping of a Fish A mild-mannered man is kidnapped and is forced to figure out if his girlfriend is the cause of his situation in this mixed genre film. 25 minutes