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This year we’re asking questions. The artist is the person in society focused day events. Many of Questions of filmmakers, who is being paid to stop and our films have panels or Q&As questions of artists and also try and deal with them, and to – check the website for details, questions of ourselves - all part create a climate in which more where you will also find our useful Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences Faculty of Medical Sciences Faculty of Brain Sciences of the third edition of Open people would have occasion to links – ‘if you liked this you might Faculty of The Built Environment Faculty of Engineering Sciences UCL Slade School of Fine Art Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences City Docs Fest. And we are stop. …You want to get people’s like that’ suggesting alternative celebrating the documentarian attention, stop them dead in their journeys through the festival. who changes things. Not only tracks. Get them to say, ‘oh wait a Media Partners changing their world, but minute!’ To turn the tables! To say, There is no single way of making changing our understanding of ‘everything I thought obtained, documentary – people can’t even the wider world. So, what is the doesn’t obtain: oh my God! What agree where documentary ends onus on today’s filmmakers? does that mean?’” and fiction begins (see our Hybrid Forms strand). But all the films Interviewed in Tony Palmer’s The films we bring you do just this here do reflect that attentiveness Partners Nocturne, which we are showing – they ask you to stop, look, and to what really happened or is on Saturday night, the great think again. happening now in the world American theatre director, that marks out the documentary Peter Sellars, talks about the You will find a packed schedule mindset from the fictional. obligations of an artist. His of events, including: Cradle thoughts are as relevant to the to Grave – bringing together We welcome you all and take this art of documentary as the music people who work across the opportunity to thank our jurors of Benjamin Britten. course of their subjects’ lifetimes, from many walks of life who have with members of the 7UP team; lent us their talent, judgement “The artist is here to look at the Copyright, Copyleft, Copywrong? and time to determine who will things that people are seeing – hosting some of the most carry away the gongs at our everyday but are ignoring. The furiously innovative players in the Sunday Night Gala. things that people do know, but field; masterclasses, workshops, don’t want to stop and deal with. and youth and community Michael Stewart Festival Director

GREETINGS 1 Greetings 1 ABOUT US About us 2 AWARDS Table of Contents 2 Open City Docs Fest is a live festival devoted to exploring the world Awards 3 Grand Jury Award Emerging Emerging UK Best City Film Award we live in through the vision of documentary film. Every event is a ‘live’ For the film that exemplifies Awarded by the City Jury to the Strand Intros 4 International Filmmaker event at Open City Docs Fest, with filmmaker Q&As, film and subject an author in control of their Filmmaker Award Award film that explores life in the 21st panel discussions, live scores, comedy, theatre, guided documentary Galas 5 subject matter, craft and story – century city, hosted by Publica walks, live music, food, workshops for industry and public. It is where matching content and form in Awarded by the Open City Jury Awarded by the Open City Jury the filmmakers meet their audience. City Stories 6 powerful and persuasive fashion, to the most promising young to the most promising The 12 O’Clock Boys Science Frictions 8 awarded by the Grand Jury talent from abroad young talent from the UK Lotfy Nathan / 2013 Our diverse programme of more than 100 films comes from all around USA / 76’ the world. Like the university that houses us, our vision is truly global Hybrid Forms 10 Matthew’s Laws Elena Black Out - fighting against the parochialism of British film and cinema culture. Power Struggles 12 Marc Schmid / 2012 Petra Costa / 2012 Eva Weber/ 2012 The Human Scale We are also committed to bringing in audiences who may feel that Netherlands / 72’ Brazil / 82’ UK / 47’ Andreas M. Dalsgaard / 2012 ‘documentary’ is not for them, working in communities across London Moving Lives 14 Denmark / 83’ to do so. With the festival in venues around central London and across World Visions 16 Sofia’s Last Ambulance Espoir Voyage In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons University College London’s (UCL) WC1 campus, we open up a hidden Ilian Metev / 2012 Michel K. Zongo / 2011 in Life with Saul Leiter The Venice Syndrome Shorts 19 part of the city to Londoners and international visitors. Germany, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, France / 82’ Tomas Leach / 2012 Andreas Pichler / 2012 Focus: Theatre of the Oppressor 22 Croatia / 76’ UK / 75’ Germany, Austria, Italy / 80’ The festival presents films about real life, and about the experience Karaoke Girl Film Schedule 23 of real people, many of whose voices are not often heard. We The Act of Killing Visra Vichit Vadakan / 2013 challenge, explore, and expand ideas of what documentary can Music 27 Joshua Oppenheimer, Thailand, USA / 77’ To The Wolf Mystreet Awards be and do, provoking debate and opening minds. Open City Docs Christine Cynn Christina Koutsospyrou 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes for films Special Events 28 Fest has selected films that explore the range of modern life, from the & Anonymous / 2012 Tchoupitoulas & Aran Hughes / 2012 from the online shortlist, challenges of urban living, to the thrills of science, the subversion of Workshops & Masterclasses 34 Denmark, Norway, UK / 159’ Bill Ross, Turner Ross / 2012 Greece, France / 74’ awarded by the Grand Jury art and the restorative beauty of music. Select your viewing from our Partner Events 38 USA / 82’ handily organised festival strands, including Science Frictions, Hybrid The Machine Which Forms, Moving Lives, Power Struggles, City Stories, World Visions, The Jury 39 Makes Everything Wonder House Best Short Theatre of the Oppressor and the Shorts programmes, alongside Open City Docs School 40 Disappear Oonagh Kearney / 2012 a showcase of the winners of our nationwide, online filmmaking Tinatin Gurchiani / 2012 Ireland / 70’ Documentary Award competition, MyStreet, and fantastic titles selected for our Awards. Donate 41 Georgia, Germany / 97’ Picked from our short film A-Z Film Directory 42 programmes, awarded by Wrong Place, Wrong Time London Short Film Festival Maps 44 John Appel / 2012 Venues & Tickets 46 Netherlands / 80’ Team & Thanks 48

2 ABOUT us AWARDS 3 City Stories Science Frictions Hybrid Forms Tales of The City: a programme Investigating the impact of Films that transcend genres STRAND of films exploring how we live medical science on our lives - of documentary, fiction and in the modern city, discovering films about choices: for our art. Pushing the limits of INTROS hidden underground rivers and bodies, our sanity and our Grierson’s famous definition of rediscovering community spirit. well being. documentary as the ‘creative treatment of actuality’. OPENING GALA CLOSING GALA

12 O’Clock Boys Sofia’s Last Ambulance Lotfy Nathan / 2013 / USA / 76’ Ilian Metev / 2012 / Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia / 76’ Thur 20 June / 18:30 / Bloomsbury Theatre Sun 23 June / 18:30 / Bloomsbury Theatre UK Premiere

Power Struggles Moving Lives World Visions Shorts Determination, danger and one boy’s dream: this perilous coming- Telling a story of the strain of a broken system. In a city of two million How will we keep the lights on? A series of intimate meetings Unique stories and perspectives Exciting new shorts from the UK of-age story follows Pug, a wise-cracking thirteen-year-old living on a people, where a single rackety old ambulance is equipped with a And for whom? From tapping with extraordinary characters: from around the world. Go and beyond, ranging from the electricity to nuclear disaster via Including coming of age portraits armchair travelling with these highly experimental to the dangerous Westside Baltimore block. He has one goal in mind: to join defibrillator; Krassi, Mila and Plamen are our unlikely heroes - chain- hope and solar energy - these of teenagers in rural Nicaragua films to Burkina Faso, Iceland, deeply personal. the 12 O’Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. smoking, filling their days with humour, relentlessly saving lives against films shine a light on the battles and women defending the grass Georgia, Czech Republic, Converging from all parts of the inner city, they invade the streets all the odds. But how long can they keep fixing society’s injured? The film for power in the 21st Century. of home in a Kurdish village. Netherlands, Russia and the USA. and clash with police, who are forbidden to chase the bikes for fear uses an unorthodox creative form which dodges all sensationalism. We of endangering the public. Pug looks to the pack for mentorship, are captivated by the voices of our protagonists, by the lights and the companionship and guidance - spurred by their dangerous sounds of one of Sofia’s last ambulances. lifestyle. He narrates their world as if explaining a vivid dreamscape, Nominated for Grand Jury Award complemented with unprecedented, action-packed footage of the riders in their element. The film presents the pivotal years of change Director Q&A in a boy’s life growing up in a unique environment in one of the most The screening will be followed by the Awards Ceremony and the closing dangerous and economically depressed cities in the United States. party in the Cinema Tent with the live music performance of Orchestra Theatre of the Oppressor Music Docs Special Events Workshops & Masterclasses Elastique, London-based music improvisation collective. Cinema focusing on perpetrators The strings of life are played Expanded cinema events: Go deeper and participate in The screening will be followed by the Opening Party in the Cinema as protagonists: a disconcerting out across classical piano, Spoken Word, Listening Event, sessions ranging from interac- Tent with the live music performance of DVA, an acoustic-electric Screening in association with Edinburgh International Film Festival theme that has emerged in transcendental freak rock and a Walking Tours, JukeDox, Youth Day tive documentary to ethics of sibling duo from Czech Republic. Nominated for Grand Jury Award documentary this year. Normally space orchestra. Documentary at and Community Screenings. copyright, or join masterclasses only seen in fiction, this new the intersection of sound, art and on how leading documentary turn challenges the ethics of storytelling. directors have honed their craft. The live performance is supported by the Czech Centre and the representation and responsibility. Embassy of the Czech Republic in London. Nominated for Best City Film Award

4 STRAND INTROS GALAS 5 CITY STORIES Tales of The City: a programme of films Grasp the Nettle Lost Rivers Tchoupitoulas The Human Scale The Venice Syndrome exploring how we live in the modern city, Dean Puckett / 2012 Caroline Bâcle / 2012 Bill Ross, Turner Ross / 2012 Andreas M. Dalsgaard / 2012 Andreas Pichler / 2012 discovering hidden underground rivers UK / 91’ Canada / 72’ USA / 82’ Denmark / 83’ Germany, Austria, Italy / 80’ and rediscovering community spirit. Fri 21 June / 18:00 Fri 21 June / 14:30 Fri 21 June / 18:30 Sat 22 June / 17:00 Fri 21 June / 20:30 Cinema Tent Darkroom ICA Bloomsbury Theatre Darkroom Supported by UCL The Built Environment World Premiere UK Premiere UK Premiere UK Premiere UK Premiere & The Bartlett Grasp the Nettle follows the Lost Rivers documents global The world is large when you are Do modern cities repel human For many it’s a mecca of exploits of a ragtag band of attempts to reconnect with the small. And if you are as curious interaction and how can planners unimaginable beauty and activists in London as they struggle ancient river networks that have as the three Zanders brothers, across the globe address the romance unlike anywhere against corporations, government, been buried for generations. These Tchoupitoulas Street in the intrinsic human need for inclusion else, but how do local people police – and themselves – in rivers once fed mills, factories and French neighbourhood of New and intimacy? Following Danish live in such a city? The Venice an effort to create alternative powered cities around the world, Orleans makes a whole world of architect and professor Jan Gehl, Syndrome examines what communities outside consumer but were hidden from sight as its own – with its street musicians, the film examines lives in the remains of Venetian life, beyond society. Filmmaker Dean Puckett they became carriers of deadly drunkards and cabaret dancers mega-cities of 2013, discovering the subculture of tourist service went to live among the eclectic diseases. Today, under the city, - which the three lively brothers enchanting and problematic industries, and examines how this inhabitants of an eco-village in they still flow, out of sight and set out to explore. When they real-life stories. Throughout the local yet global service industry West London, who then move to out of mind... until now. The film miss the last ferry home across film thinkers, architects and affects everyday life. As monstrous the heart of London, occupying retraces the history of these urban the Mississippi, so begins their urban planners across the globe cruise ships dominate the skyline, Parliament Square. It is an epic, waterways, plunging underground long walk of discovery through question our assumptions about Venetian residents are forced out inspiring and at times harrowing with inspiring, clandestine urban the night-time streets of one of modernity and explore what onto the mainland by rocketing journey of discovery - following explorers in Montreal, Toronto, the world’s most vibrant cities. happens when we put people at rents and crumbling infrastructure. the homeless, the visionaries and New York and up the River Following their extraordinary the heart of our planning. By 2030, the film predicts, that eccentrics against a backdrop of Tyburn in London. debut ‘45365’, Tchoupitoulas no-one will actually live in one of economic and ecological crisis. marks Bill and Turner Ross out as Panel discussion with Anna the world’s best loved and most Panel discussion with Caroline two of America’s most exciting Mansfield (Publica) and Jeff Risom beautiful cities. Panel discussion with Dean Bacle (Director), Dave Webb new talents. (Gehl Architects) Puckett (Director), Paco Sweetman (Environment Agency) & a Drain Nominated for Best City Nominated for Best City (Editor) & selected cast from the & Sewer Explorer, who wishes to Nominated for Emerging Film Award Film Award film, chaired by Nafeez Ahmed remain unnamed (Sub-Urban) International Filmmaker Award (Journalist)

6 CITY STORIES CITY STORIES 7 SCIENCE FRICTIONS Investigating the impact of medical science on Challenging Behaviour Do You Really Want To Know? Forget Me Not I Am Breathing Legally Wasted Sex Ed Films: Is sex still a our lives - films about choices: for our bodies, Fran Robertson / 2013 John Zaritsky / 2012 David Sieveking / 2012 / Emma Davie, Morag Dan Reed / 2013 thing men do and women our sanity and our wellbeing. UK / 62’ Canada / 72’ Germany / 88’ McKinnon / 2012 UK / 48’ are blamed for? Fri 21 June / 18:00 Thur 20 June / 18.45 Sun 23 June / 15:00 Scotland, Denmark / 72’ Sat 22 June / 14:30 Thur 20 June / 17:00 Supported by UCL Life & Medical Sciences Darkroom Darkroom ICA Fri 21 June / 18:30 Darkroom The Studio UK Premiere UK Premiere Bloomsbury Theatre World Premiere

Asking fundamental questions Huntington’s disease patients suffer Filmmaker David Sieveking returns Neil Platt uses voice recognition In a corner of a hangar at UK UK schools have just been told to about how we bring up children a lethal, incurable combination home to help his father care for software to type a letter to his baby customs are cages with hundreds include guidance on pornography son, trying to anticipate everything with autism, the film follows of Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, and his mother. Like millions of others, Oscar may one day want to know of packets of white powder sent in classroom sex education. In three-year-old Jack and four- schizophrenia. And anyone born she is suffering from Alzheimer’s. about his father. Shortly after Oscar’s from China and confiscated from this special archive screening year-old Jeremiah. They are to someone with Huntington’s has a David’s parents were active in the birth Neil was diagnosed with Mo- the mail; but thousands more our panel will examine the starting their first term at Treetops 50/50 chance of suffering the same student movement of the 1960s tor Neurone Disease. This intimate have got through. Customs simply uncommon history of this genre, School in Essex, the only state fate. They can be tested to predict and had an “open relationship”. As record of his last months is told haven’t got the technology, the from scare-stories aimed at the without histrionics or sentimentality, school in the UK which uses ABA their genetic future and prevent his mother’s condition worsens, old reflecting Neil’s own dignity, wry hu- money, or the resources to know troops, to the sexploitation films of (Applied Behaviour Analysis), their children inheriting the disease, wounds begin to resurface forcing mour, and Yorkshire pragmatism. It what’s in all those packages. In the 1970s. Memorable moments a controversial and intensive but the decision is far from easy. the whole family to confront the is, he says, ‘a tale of fun and laughs the past five years the market for include clips from early HIV ads intervention used to treat autism. “You can never not know your status past. With humour, candour and with a smattering of upset and so-called legal highs has exploded. and the euro-erotica films (‘based Their parents have high hopes again. You can never turn the clock great tenderness, Sieveking crafts devastation’, but it is also a subtle And as fast as the government on clinical research’), like the one and profoundly moving reflection of this ‘tough love’ approach, back”. Wanting to have children, Jeff an unaffected but loving and bans one another clone emerges. that Robert de Niro took Betsy to on human life and our legacy. but critics argue that it is and Megan Carroll must decide if affectionate family chronicle, Dan (‘The Valley’) Reed’s film on their first date in Taxi Driver. dehumanising and abusive to try they really want to know. where the human being, not the Director Q&A explores Britons’ enduring addiction to eliminate autistic behaviour. illness, lies at the centre of the Presented in partnership with to narcotic-induced ecstasy, Panel discussion chaired by This complex film asks big Panel discussion with Charles story. Critic’s Week Prize at the 2012 DocHouse, this screening is one and meets the mathematician Vivienne Parry OBE (Science questions about education and Sabine (Broadcast Journalist & Locarno Film Festival. of many around the world on Godfather of Mephedrone, the hit Journalist), with Prof. Anne Johnson how society should respond to HDA Spokesperson), Prof. Sarah 21 June to mark Motor Neuron drug which was better than cocaine (Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, people with autism. Tabrizi (Clinical Neurologist, UCL), Followed by panel discussion Disease Global Awareness Day. and E put together, putting legal UCL), Prof. Graham J. Hart (Dean and Bill Crowder (Head of Care highs firmly on the map in the UK. of the Faculty of Population Health Followed by panel discussion Services, England & Wales, HDA) Sciences, UCL), and Prof. Kaye Director Q&A with Prof. Fiona Wellings (Professor of Sexual & Measham (Criminologist, Reproductive Health Research, Durham University) LSHTM) 8 SCIENCE FRICTIONS SCIENCE FRICTIONS 9 HYBRID FORMS Films that transcend genres of documentary, Elena Karaoke Girl Silence To The Wolf Wonder House fiction and art. Pushing the limits of Grierson’s Petra Costa / 2012 Visra Vichit-Vadakan / 2013 Pat Collins / 2012 Christina Koutsospyrou Oonagh Kearney / 2012 famous definition of documentary as the Brazil / 82’ Thailand, USA / 77’ Ireland / 84’ & Aran Hughes / 2012 Ireland / 70’ ‘creative treatment of actuality’. Sat 22 June / 19:00 Sat 22 June / 16:30 Fri 21 June / 20:00 Greece, France / 74’ Sat 22 June / 18:30 Birkbeck Cinema Cinema Tent Birkbeck Cinema Sat 22 June / 14:00 / Birkbeck ICA Supported by the UCL Slade UK Premiere Cinema / UK Premiere International Premiere School of Fine Art Experience the pleasure and This is the story of the Karaoke Eoghan, a sound recordist, returns This dystopian vision of farmers in What is it that first sparks a pain of memory, longing and loss Girl, both a real person and a to Ireland for the first time in 15 the Greek mountains takes us as scientist to explore the world? through Elena’s story. Elena left her fictional character. At the age years. He has been offered a job: far from romance as real poverty Was there an object, an incident, Brazilian home and family when of 15, Sa Sitijin left her village to to record landscapes free from can. The film finds moments of an inspiring person that made Petra was seven years old. Now, as find work in Bangkok. After three any human-made sound. His dark humour and transcendent them want to discover more? an adult, Petra goes in search of years labouring in a factory for quest takes him to remote terrain. beauty as an older couple banter The curiosity of a child exploring her older sister in New York. She three dollars a day, she decided Throughout his journey he is drawn and berate one another, while the a Wonder House in the woods remembers and imagines Elena that the only way to support her into encounters and conversations adult son of an alcoholic mother takes us on a journey into the through home movie footage, family was to become an escort. which lead his attention back drowns his own desires in the local imaginary worlds of scientists. a diary, letters, and dreamlike Four years later, filmmaker Visra towards a more intangible silence, taverna. Animals move restlessly They say writing about film is sequences full of longing. A Vichit-Vadakan invited her to one that is bound up with the as though knowing something like dancing about architecture; sumptuously composed film filled be the subject/star of this film. sounds of the life he had left humans cannot, and ominous Wonder House dances about with desire; a testament to family Flicking seamlessly between verite behind. Influenced by folklore interceptions from radio and TV science, and it works. This is an bonds, identity, and catharsis footage of Sa’s personal life and and archive, Silence unfolds with broadcasts bring news of the experimental and joyous film, full through creativity. dramatised scenes of the Karaoke a quiet intensity, where poetic wake of the Greek financial crisis. of striking imagery that constantly Girl at work, Vadakan mixes images lead to an absorbing surprises. Director Q&A fact and fiction into an original meditation on sound and silence, Directors Q&A chaired by Charles Nominated for Emerging cinematographic formula. history, memory, and exile. Stewart (Anthropologist, UCL) Director Q&A International Filmmaker Award Nominated for Emerging UK Nominated for Emerging Director Q&A Panel discussion with Eoghan Filmmaker Award International Filmmaker Award Nominated for Emerging Mac Giolla Leith (writer, actor) Screening with Notes On International Filmmaker Award and Larry Sider (School of Sound) Blindness: Rainfall Screening with The Breath of the Tundra

10 HYBRID FORMS HYBRID FORMS 11 POWER STRUGGLES How will we keep the lights on? And for whom? From Black Out No Man’s Zone Nuclear Nation Nuclear and its Imagination: Powerless Solar Mamas tapping electricity to nuclear disaster via hope and Eva Weber / 2012 Toshi Fujiwara / 2011 Atsushi Funahashi / 2012 From Homer Simpson Deepti Kakkar, Fahad Mustafa Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim solar energy - these films shine a light on the battles UK / 47’ France, Japan / 105’ Japan / 96’ to Fukushima 2013 / India, Austria / 80’ 2012 / Egypt, Denmark, USA / 60’ for power in the 21st Century. Sun 23 June / 14:30 Sat 22 June / 14:00 Sat 22 June / 16:30 Sun 23 June / 14:30 Sun 23 June / 16:30 Sun 23 June / 12:30 Cinema Tent SOAS SOAS Lightbox Cinema Tent Lightbox Supported by UCL Engineering Sciences Preview Screening International Premiere

Every evening, during exam season, The 40-year-old nuclear power Futaba is a small town in the At the end of World War II nuclear In Kanpur, India, Loha Singh Solar Mamas is the remarkable as the sun sets over Conakry station on the coast of Fukushima shadow of Fukushima. Since the was heralded as a cheap energy earns his living through stealing story of Rafea, second wife of in Guinea, hundreds of school fell into catastrophic crisis after 1960s, Futaba had been promised to underpin prosperity and electricity, splicing into the a Bedouin and mother-of-four children begin a nightly pilgrimage. the tsunami struck on 11 March prosperity with tax breaks and reconstruction in a war-damaged power lines of the better off and living in one of Jordan’s poorest They go to the airport, petrol stations, 2011. Within 24 hours, a 20km major subsidies compensating world. But, the 1986 Chernobyl diverting electricity to those who desert villages. When Bunker Roy, and wealthy parts of the city, wide evacuation zone was for the presence of the power disaster, knocked this once can’t or won’t pay for it. In a city founder of The Barefoot College, searching for light under which they ordered. Filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara plant. In the aftermath of the championed technology from where electricity is distributed arrives in her village, he invites may study. Eva Weber’s evocative went into this zone meeting 2011 tsunami, residents of the favour, . Ecological worries around according to the number of Rafea to travel to India to train and poignant documentary shows residents as they prepared for town were relocated to an empty carbon-based energy have set paying customers, Loha’s banditry as a solar engineer. Despite how children reconcile their desire evacuation. This is a powerful school in the Tokyo suburbs. From nuclear up for a rebrand, but causes a drastic reduction the protestations of her fellow to learn with the other challenges of document of a place in time of this place of exile, Nuclear Nation then came Fukushima and new in the local power supply. But villagers and of her controlling their daily lives in one of the world’s crisis, and a poetic meditation on follows the people of Futuba as global anxieties. Where next for then a new head of the state husband, Rafea takes the trip and, poorest countries. the disruptive relationship of man they try and adapt to their new nuclear power, and how does its Electricity Company is tasked to with other women from Kenya, and nature. environment, and come to terms representation in film shape the raise investment by increasing Burkina Faso and Colombia, Nominated for Emerging with the loss of their homeland. public debate? payments. Can she overcome sets about getting to grips with UK Filmmaker Award Through their agonies and the vested interests set against electronic circuitry, solar panels, Presented as part of One World frustrations, this film questions the Panel discussion chaired by her? Powerless shines a light on and soldering. But this is only Echoes in collaboration with real costs of nuclear energy. Quentin Cooper (Radio 4, The an unexplored narrative of the the beginning of her journey: One World Prague, Czech Centre Material World), with Paul world’s developing economies. she must also learn to re-wire London, and Frontline Club. Director Q&A chaired by Griseldis Dorfman (Founder of the Nuclear the traditional mindset of her Screening with Lives by Silence Kirsch (Lecturer in Contemporary Consulting Group) and Simon Bedouin community. Japanese Culture, SOAS) Roberts (Associate Director and energy specialist in Arup’s Foresight, Screening with Taxi Sister Innovation and Incubator group).

12 powerCITY SCOPE STRUGGLES power STRUGGLES 13 MOVING LIVES A series of intimate meetings with extraordinary A Dream In The Making Grass Informant In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons Matthew’s Laws The Shark’s Eye characters: Including coming of age portraits Bartosz M. Kowalski / 2012 Caner Canerik / 2012 Jamie Meltzer / 2012 in Life with Saul Leiter Marc Schmidt / 2012 / Alejo Hoijman / 2012 of teenagers in rural Nicaragua and women Poland / 50’ Turkey / 67’ USA / 82’ Tomas Leach / 2012 Netherlands / 72’ Argentina, Spain / 93’ defending the grass of home in a Kurdish village. Sat 22 June / 19:30 Fri 21 June / 12:30 Sat 22 June / 19:00 UK / 75’ Fri 21 June / 21:00 / Sun 23 June / 12:30 Lightbox Cinema Tent Cinema Tent Fri 21 June / 15:00 Bloomsbury Theatre Cinema Tent UK Premiere International Premiere UK Premiere Cinema Tent UK Premiere UK Premiere

We are in Warsaw’s Wola district, Fatma came to Beser’s house as In 2005, Darby became an Saul Leiter could have been This profoundly moving film asks Summer is coming to Nicaragua, one of the poorest and shadiest a second wife in exchange for a overnight activist hero when he lauded as the great the pioneer how far we, as a society, are which means Maycol and Bryan areas of the Polish capital. There bull given to her natal family. Deaf travelled to Katrina-devastated of color photography, but was able to make room for people will start to learn their families’ we meet Bartek and Pawel, since birth she could expect no New Orleans and braved toxic never driven by the lure of who suffer from conditions within trade – shark hunting. In a place two best buddies struggling better. Beser’s family has since floodwaters to rescue a friend success. Instead he preferred to the autism spectrum. It follows where drug trafficking is driving with day-to-day ordeals. Bartek been displaced by the Turkish stranded in the Ninth Ward. Soon drink coffee and photograph in Matthew, who has autism, but out traditional trades, these two has a dream of becoming a state who burned down and after, he became a founding his own way, amassing an archive can for the most part lead a boys manage to choose their stuntman in the film industry. evacuated their village in the member of Common Ground, of beautiful work that is now piled life outside of institutions. But his own future in a slow-burning His vision seems reckless, but 1990s. Now their shared husband a successful grassroots relief high in his New York apartment. desperate struggle to maintain portrait. A delicate coming-of- he will stop at nothing until he is dead. Fatma may be deaf organisation. After two young An intimate and personal film, In a sense of order leads to age film set in the often forgotten succeeds. His friend Pawel is his and Beser can barely move, but activists were arrested at the 2008 No Great Hurry follows Saul as explosive confrontations with Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. soulmate, his father figure, and together they guard the grass Republican National Convention, he deals with the triple burden the outside world. The filmmaker A stunning debut. his personal trainer. A Dream in they have bought for their cattle Darby shocked close friends of clearing an apartment full follows Matthew tenderly with the Making is a story of friendship from the cows of their rapacious and activists across America by of memories, becoming world his camera and uncovers, little and determination that proves neighbours. The film explores the revealing he had been instrumental famous in his 80s and fending off by little, Matthew’s complex way everything in life is possible. meaning of kin, neighbours, class, in the activists’ indictment as an a pesky filmmaker. of thinking until he confronts the and gender as the two co-wives FBI informant. Meltzer meticulously catastrophic consequences this Screening with The Whistle deal with their struggles and reconstructs Darby’s journey from Director Q&A eventually entails. affections in a remote Kurdish left-wing radical to the toast of the Nominated for Emerging UK village in today’s Turkey. Tea Party - a riveting study of this Filmmaker Award Director Q&A chaired by charismatic, conflicted, and hugely Jonathan Wolff (Philosopher, UCL) Screening with Forget-me-not Egg divisive character. Nominated for Grand Jury Award

14 MOVING LIVES MOVING LIVES 15 World Visions Unique stories and perspectives from around the Espoir Voyage Fortress Iceland, Year Zero Our Nixon Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer world. Go armchair travelling with these films to Michel K. Zongo / 2011 Lukáš Kokeš & Klára Tasovská Sigurður Hallmar Magnusson, Penny Lane / 2013 Mike Lerner, Maxim Burkina Faso, Iceland, Georgia, Czech Republic, Burkina Faso, France / 82’ 2012 / Czech Republic / 72’ Armande Chollat-Namy / 2012 USA / 85’ Pozdorovkin / 2012 Netherlands, Russia and the USA. Sun 23 June / 12:30 Wed 19 June / 19:00 Iceland, France, Czech Sat 22 June / 16:30 Russian Federation, UK / 86’ Bloomsbury Theatre Frontline Club Republic / 52’ Birkbeck Cinema Sun 23 June / 15:00 Supported by UCL Arts & Humanities UK Premiere UK Premiere Sat 22 June / 19:00 / Darkroom UK Premiere Bloomsbury Theatre UK Premiere Joanny, like many young people, Western europeans never Throughout Richard Nixon’s Three young women face seven left Burkina Faso as a rite of understood why, throughout the In October 2008, after running a presidency, three of his top years in a Russian prison for an passage, seeking work in the Ivory 1990s, former inhabitants of the Ponzi scheme to rival any in history, White House aides obsessively extraordinary, explosive satirical Coast. After 18 years of absence, Warsaw Pact countries invariably the three main banks in Iceland documented their experiences performance in a Moscow a cousin returned to announce asserted that all they longed for collapsed, driving a nation into with Super-8 home movie cameras. cathedral. This film brings the his death. Looking to trace his was ‘normality’. Shot in the non- bankruptcy; causing thousands Young, idealistic, and dedicated, sheer, devastating power of their lost tracks, his filmmaker brother, place of Transdniester, this Czech of people to lose their jobs, and they had no idea that a few years art to life. But who is really on trial Michel K. Zongo, undertook the film reminds us why. Transdniester many more all their personal later they’d all be in prison. This in a case that has gripped the same trip, with the same bus, is a tiny, pretend independent savings and dreams. How does a unique and personal visual record, nation and the world beyond – with those who emigrate today statelet that is now stuck in a post- nation, briefly one of the richest created by H.R. Haldeman, John three young artists or the society as his brother did 32 years ago. Soviet groundhog day.The film and most developed countries Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin, they live in? Filmed over the Espoir Voyage, Zongo’s feature fixes on people who are trapped in the capitalist world, react to a was seized by the FBI during the course of six months, this film tells debut, is a journey larger than in the clutches of their monstrously total economic collapse? Iceland: Watergate investigation, then filed the remarkable story of three a brother’s quest for answers - it revived past, their lives going Year Zero is not an economic away and forgotten for almost 40 young women who embody is a remarkable portrayal of round and round in abnormality. analysis of the bankruptcy of a years. Our Nixon is an all-archival Russia’s hope: Nadia, Masha emigration, loss, and memory. nation, but rather a film about the documentary presenting those and Katia. Director Q&A aftermath - examining the impact home movies for the first time, Nominated for Emerging Festival preview screening on the people who have to deal creating an intimate and complex International Filmmaker Award presented as part of One World with an economic catastrophe. portrait of the Nixon presidency as Echoes in collaboration with never seen before. One World Prague, Czech Centre Panel discussion with Sigrún London, and Frontline Club. Davíðsdóttir (Journalist) and Liam Followed by panel discussion Graham (Economist, UCL)

16 world visions world visions 17 Rogalik The Workers leaving the Factory (again)

SHORTS Sandgrains Stone Games The Machine Which Makes Wrong Place, Wrong Time Exciting new shorts from the UK and beyond, Hybrid Shorts – Reflections On The Lens: Gabriel Manrique / 2012 Jan Gebert / 2012 Everything Disappear John Appel / 2012 ranging from the highly experimental to the Experimental Short Docs Films about Film UK / 57’ Czech Republic / 56’ Tinatin Gurchiani / 2012 Netherlands / 80’ deeply personal. Sat 22 June / 21:30 Sat 22 June / 12.00 Sun 23 June / 12:30 Sun 23 June / 17:00 Georgia, Germany / 97’ Fri 21 June / 16:00 Darkroom Cinema Tent Darkroom Lightbox Fri 21 June / 20:30 / ICA Bloomsbury Theatre UK Premiere UK Premiere UK Premiere UK Premiere New experimental work from the Celluloid is dying and the workers UK and beyond, pushing the are leaving the factory (again) After a long absence, José In a small town near the German Upon returning to Georgia to make How should a filmmaker boundaries between documentary, but as these films show, the power returns home to Cape Verde to border of Czech Republic, Sudeten a film about her homeland, Tinatin document the devastation a man fiction and artists moving image. of the moving image endures. find his community transformed. Germans were tortured and killed Gurchiani put out a casting call for like Anders Behring Breivik caused The fish that have provided food during their illegal mass expulsion 15- to 23-year-olds. When the young by his acts of murderous terror Rogalik Toxic Camera and income for generations are at the end of World War II. Do they hopefuls arrive to audition, instead in Norway? Appel’s courageous Pawel Ziemilski / 2012 Jane Wilson / 2013 disappearing from the sea, and deserve a monument or not? Stone of a script, they are subjected decision is to render Breivik almost Poland / 17’ UK / 21’ the locals are being forced to Games shows just how far this is to a series of probing questions, invisible; he listens to the survivors sell the sand from their beaches from an academic question. In through which they share personal and the relatives of those who The Sea (is still) Around Us The Workers Leaving the just to survive. The reasons for this response to the stone monument, stories and reflections. These died, trying to make sense of the Hope Tucker / 2012 Factory (again) are all around the archipelago: a group of local inhabitants stark but intimate interviews are bare fact that some survived and USA / 4’ Katharina Gruzei / 2012 European vessels draining the unleashes a hate-filled ritual dance combined with verite sketches, others died. In the face of Breivik’s Austria /11’ fish from Cape Verdean waters. of national fervour and moral following her protagonists through nihilism, Appel affirms the ability Nothing Found Sandgrains lays before us the outrage. Part Clochemerle, part scenes in their daily lives, creating to cope with the absurd, and in Charles Richardson / 2012 Snow tapes far-reaching and devastating The Sorrow and the Pity - and with a rich and fascinating portrait of doing so he reasserts the power UK / 11’ Mich’ael Zupraner / 2011 consequences of over-fishing a comic touch - Gebert reminds us post-Soviet Georgian society that of reasoning and morality that Israel / 14’ and environmental degradation. how Europe’s buried history never takes us as far from journalistic men like Breivik seek to destroy. A You Can Try But You’ll Never quite goes away. cliché as documentary can. Best profoundly moral film. Be My Mother Notes for a Film About Director Q&A Director Award, Sundance Film Marianna Simnett / 2012 My Town Presented as part of One World Festival 2013. Nominated for UK / 5’ Carlo Ghidini / 2012 / Echoes in collaboration with Grand Jury Award UK, Italy / 23’ One World Prague, Czech Centre Director Q&A Ten Five In The Grass London, and the Frontline Club. Nominated for Kevin Jerome Everson / 2012 Filmstripe Grand Jury Award USA / 32’ John Blouin / 2012 Supported by Slade School of Fine Art Canada / 18’

18 world visions SHORTS 19 Aqua Porko Da Vinci Bad Boys Some Day I’ll Find You The Breath of the Tundra Notes on Blindness: Rainfall

Taboo or Not Taboo? Yuri Ancarani: The Trilogy Long Shorts UK #1 – The Misfits Long Shorts UK #2 – The Detectives Shorts Screenings Before Features Fri 21 June / 12.30 Fri 21 June / 13.00 Fri 21 June / 16.00 Fri 21 June / 19.00 Darkroom Bloomsbury Theatre Lightbox Lightbox Forget-me-not Egg Mohammadreza Farzad / 2012 / Iran / 25’ A surrogate mother, fat activist Open City Docs Fest is proud to Whether young or old, everyone wants to be accepted. In this double-bill of Doc-noir, two filmmakers become embroiled in Screening before Grass – p. 14 synchronized swimmers, and present the newly completed two very different mysteries. the sunny side of sex tourism – trilogy from Italian artist and Bad Boys Lives by Silence human stories that shake up the filmmaker Yuri Ancarani. Marc Williamson / 2013 Looking For Kinsim Miki Ambrózy, Nick Shaw, Begüm Güleç / 2012 / France, Finland / 10’ social norm. Three astonishing films that UK / 42’ Chris Christodoulou Screening before Black Out – p. 12 together form an epic study of Two boys entering adolescence in a boarding school for the 2013 / UK / 25’ The Guest work, human action and the ‘maladjusted’. Observational and affectionate, we watch Ben and Cole At the age of 12, second generation Greek Cypriot filmmaker Chris Notes On Blindness: Rainfall Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen relationship between man and over a summer term as they confront themselves and their past trying to Christodoulou had a fight with a Turkish Cypriot boy named Kinsim. T Peter Middleton / 2012 / UK / 3’ 2012 / UK / 20’ his environment. Ancarini’s Il grow from misfits to young men. wo decades later, Chris sets out to track him down. Screening before To the Wolf – p. 11 Capo was shown at Open CIty Aqua Porko Docs Fest 2011 where it won best Railway Redemption Some Day I’ll Find You Taxi Sister Kelli Jean Drinkwater / 2013 short, and it was screened with Santiago Posada / 2012 Barney Snow / 2012 Theresa Traore Dahlberg / 2011 / Senegal, Sweden / 30’ Australia / 27’ 3 different scores including a UK / 35’ UK / 45’ Screening before Solar Mamas – p. 13 35piece choir in our 2012 festival. A 70 year-old busker decides to face up to his past and confront his family, after All across the Black Country, hand drawn portraits of Mario Lanza are Beach Boy 25 years of no contact. Observation combined with fiction, the style reflects its being left anonymously in pubs. In this art detective story Barney Snow The Breath of the Tundra Emil Langeballe / 2013 Il Capo protagonist: Vijay’s questionable past contradicts the reputable personality he follows a retired police inspector on his mission to solve the mystery of Mikhail Gorobchuk / 2012 / Russian Federation / 26’ UK / 27’ Yuri Ancarani / Italy projects in the present. the Lanza drawings. Screening before Silence – p. 11 2010 / 15’ The Story of St Damian Platform Moon Dieter Deswarte / 2012 / UK / 7’ Yuri Ancarani / Italy Screening before Magic Camp – p. 30 2011 / 25’ The Whistle Da Vinci Grzegorz Zariczny / 2012 / Poland / 17’ Yuri Ancarani / Italy Screening before A Dream in the Making – p. 14 2012 / 25’

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15.00 J 20 that has emerged in France, Cambodia / 103’ Sat 22 June / 15:00 Denmark, Norway, UK / 159’ 15.00 15.00 documentary this year. Wed 19 June / 19:30 / AV Hill ICA Sat 22 June / 13:30 15.30 Magic Camp Genomics and normally only seen in fiction, UK Premiere UK Premiere Bloomsbury Theatre Public Health 16.00 this new turn challenges the 16.00 ethics of representation and This spare, unceremonious, An unfurnished room, a chair. All Possibly the most controversial film 16.30 Fresh Talent - responsibility. interview, conducted by the around, half-light. The ‘no man’s of the year, The Act of Killing is a Future Docs 17.00 u masterful Cambodian filmmaker, land’ of the title is neutral ground deeply troubling and problematic 17.00

Rithy Panh, confronts us with the on which Paulo de Figueiredo, a film that will change how you 17.30 Sex Ed Films ne man who ran the notorious S-21 mercenary in his sixties, agrees think about cinema. The director 18.00 Khmer Rouge prison as he awaits to talk about his life. But it is also travelled to Indonesia to interview trial at the International Criminal a time still too recent and poorly survivors of the 1965 massacre 18.30 Court of Justice. From 1975 to documented, and it is also his in which communists were 19.00 18.45 1979, Kaing Guek Eav, better preferred terrain. This film offers a exterminated by the military, using 19.00 Do You Really known as Duch, commanded sublime portrayal of the cruelties ‘freemen’ (or gangsters) to carry 19.30 Opening Gala Want to Know? a killing machine with at least and paradoxes of power, of the out the murders. The freemen 12 O’Clock Boys 12,280 victims. Panh records revolutions that bring it down speak proudly of what they have 20.00 his words, unadorned, then only to erect it again in new done, while the victims remain 20.30 sets these in perspective with bureaucratic forms. silent. The film documents a 21.00 archive photographs and survivor process of recreating their killings 21.00 accounts. Duch is given all the Director Q&A as narrative cinema. In a bizarre 21.30 Opening Party rope he needs to hang himself, subversion of Augusto Boal’s but shows along the way that the cathartic methodology, a theatre 22.00 devil looks just like you or me. of the oppressor is invoked that 22.30 may bring these killers to perdition Festival preview screening in or redemption. 23.00 collaboration with Documentary Now! Conference Director Q&A Nominated for Grand Jury Award 22 THE theatre of the oppressor City Stories Science Frictions Hybrid Forms Moving Lives Power Struggles World Visions Shorts Music Docs Theatre of the Oppressor Special Events Workshops & Masterclasses 23 satu Bloomsbury Cinema Tent Darkroom Lightbox The Studio Festival Birkbeck ICA LSE/ Bloomsbury Cinema Tent Darkroom Lightbox The Studio Festival Birkbeck ICA SOAS Theatre Hub Cinema PICTUREHOUSE Theatre Hub Cinema 12.00 12.00 ne 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.30 Open City Tour 12.30 Border Reflections MyStreet 2013 Open City Tour u 12.30 12.30 Crossings on The Lens 12.30

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24 City Stories Science Frictions Hybrid Forms Moving Lives Power Struggles World Visions Shorts Music Docs Theatre of the Oppressor Special Events Workshops & Masterclasses City Stories Science Frictions Hybrid Forms Moving Lives Power Struggles World Visions Shorts Music Docs Theatre of the Oppressor Special Events Workshops & Masterclasses 25 Bloomsbury Cinema Tent Darkroom Lightbox The Studio Festival Birkbeck ICA LSE/SOAS/ Theatre Hub Cinema PICTUREHOUSE 12.00 ne 12.00 12.30 Open City Tour u 12.30 12.30 12.30 12.30 Espoir Voyage The Shark’s Eye Sandgrains Solar Mamas MUSIC 13.00

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23 J 14.30 Distribution for Space Orchestra 14.30 14.30 played out across Tony Palmer / 2013 Charles Atlas / 2012 Your Film classical piano, Nelly Ben Hayoun / 2013 UK / 135’ Denmark, USA / 76’ 15.00 Black Out Nuclear and its 15.00 15.00 15.00 Imagination Forget Me Not transcendental freak UK / 66’ Sat 22 June / 20:00 Sat 22 June / 21:30 Pussy Riot: Karel Reisz, This ay 15.30 rock and a space Sat 22 June / 14:30 Bloomsbury Theatre Cinema Tent A Punk Prayer Filming Life orchestra. Documentary Cinema Tent UK Premiere 16.00 16.00 at the intersection 16.30 Masterclass: of sound, art and Join French designer Nelly This extraordinary new film by Directed by pioneering video nd 16.30 16.30 Molly Dineen storytelling. Ben Hayoun on her mission to the multi-award winning director artist and filmmaker Charles 17.00 Powerless Stone Games assemble the world’s first orchestra Tony Palmer explores composer Atlas, Turning takes the viewer 17.30 of space scientists. Blending Benjamin Britten’s uneasy into the world of Antony and su space exploration and bassoons; relationship with the world. The the Johnsons as they tour their 18.00 planet-poking and bluegrass- bloodiest century in history astonishing live performance 18.30 playing spacecraft operators – the profoundly affected the greatest work of the same name. At its 18.30 International Space Orchestra’s British composer of the last centre are 13 intimate portraits 19.00 Closing Gala Sofia’s Last members are drawn from NASA, century. What, he asked, is the role of women from New York City, 19.30 Ambulance SETI and the International Space of the artist in such a world? What all of whom performed in this University. Together, they develop are his responsibilities? What is extraordinary show. Their very 20.00 20.00 and perform Ground Control: An the nature of creativity? What is its personal stories combine with 20.30 Awards Opera in Space, a re-enactment function? Does it have a function? Antony’s haunting songs to create Ceremony of mission control during the Man’s inhumanity to man – now a powerful journey of struggle 21.00 21.00 Apollo 11 moon landing. The and always - is what preoccupied and hope. 21.30 Closing Party opera features music by Arthur Britten, and that is the subject of Jeffes of Penguin Café, Damon this film. Presented in partnership 22.00 Albarn, Bobby Womack, libretto with Fringe! Film Fest 22.30 by science fiction author Bruce Director Q&A Sterling and more. 23.00 Director Q&A

26 City Stories Science Frictions Hybrid Forms Moving Lives Power Struggles World Visions Shorts Music Docs Theatre of the Oppressor Special Events Workshops & Masterclasses MUSIC 27 SPECIAL EVENTS Expanded cinema events: Spoken Word, Karel Reisz, This Filming Life My Child Man for a Day LISTENING! Short Stories: Spoken Word JukeDox! Listening Event, Walking Tours, JukeDox, Petra Všelichová / 2012 Can Candan / 2013 Katarina Peters / 2012 Presented by the School & Docs with Polar Bear Fri 21 June / 19:00 Youth Day and Community Screenings. Czech Republic / 74’ Turkey / 82’ Germany, UK / 96’ of Sound and Guests Festival Hub Sun 23 June / 15:00 Fri 21 June / 18:00 Fri 21 June / 21:00 Fri 21 June / 18:00 Fri 21 June / 21:00 Darkroom LSE Hackney Picturehouse Birkbeck Cinema Cinema Tent UK Premiere UK Premiere

Karel Reisz, director of the classic What happens when your child What makes the man a Listen: to make the effort to hear Documentary, literature and JukeDox! is a one-off, audience- 1958 film We Are the Lambeth Boys, comes out to you? My Child is man? What is natural, what is something; to hear with attention. spoken word comes to life with led, audio-visual feast that was a founder of the Free Cinema about a very courageous and indoctrinated, and what can It is rare to listen - just listen - as a a special one-off showcase brings film fans together to movement in Great Britain, but inspiring group of people in be learned? Legendary gender group. Whether at a concert or exploring timeless tales of share and celebrate the best in he had only come here as a Turkey, who are parents of lesbian, activist and performance artist the theatre, facing a screen or out real-life. Headlined by Polar documentary. A two-hour session child from Czechoslovakia in gay, bisexual, and transgender Diane Torr teaches women in her on the street, we have images to Bear - one of the UK’s leading of drinks, networking, and short 1938. Through interviews with individuals. Each story is an interactive workshops to become keep our hearing company. This spoken word artists, known films selected by those attending. family members, collaborators, intimate journey of transformation, the man of their choice. Each programme of narrative, abstract, for his deft storytelling and The only criteria: it must have and friends, the film paints a as they redefine what it means to woman has her own story and film, radio, and documentary hip-hop sensibility - the line-up been found on the internet and definitive portrait of one of the be parents, family, and activists in reasons for joining the workshops material, is an opportunity for features live performances it can’t be your own. It has to be founders of cinematic realism in a conservative, homophobic, and and wanting to perform as a man an audience to listen, together, from acclaimed poets from between five and eight-minutes the UK. The life of a famously kind transphobic society. rather than perform as a woman. without pictures. To immerse around the UK alongside short long – and, most importantly, the and generous patron of all those Join them in their adventure into themselves in unfamiliar worlds documentaries. Co-produced chosen film must inspire, provoke, who passed through his door Panel discussion with Can the man’s world! and strange stories; to confront by poetry organisation The Word or simply entertain. Check website celebrated in fitting form. Candan (Director) and Metehan unexpected emotions, feelings, House, it will celebrate our most for details. Ozkan (Co-producer, LISTAG Followed by a conversation impressions; to share the unseen spell-binding storytellers. Director Q&A chaired by Stephen activist) with Diane Torr. Presented in with those around you – all Presented in collaboration with Frears (Filmmaker) and producer collaboration with Fringe! Film Fest through sound. Presented in collaboration with the Kitchen Sink Collective Jarmila Hoznauerova .Organised Presented in collaboration with and Live Art Development Agency the Word House in collaboration with the Czech the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Centre London and the Embassy Human Rights of the Czech Republic in London. Followed by a drinks reception supported by Staropramen for ticket holders only. 28 SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS 29

COMMUNITY YOUTH DAY SCREENINGS SCREENINGS

Documentary transcends My Life: Breaking Free Jaywick Escapes Magic Camp Somers Town: Community Screening boundaries, and these films Kate Monaghan / 2012 Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope Judd Ehrlich / 2012 show that they also transcend UK / 29’ 2012 / UK / 48’ USA / 85’ Fresh Talent – Future Docs Salma age groups. We have curated Thur 20 June / 12:00 Thur 20 June / 13:00 Thur 20 June / 15:00 Thur 20 June / 16:00 Kim Longinotto / 2013 / UK, India / 90’ films that will delight adults Cinema Tent Bloomsbury Theatre Bloomsbury Theatre Cinema Tent Sat 22 June / 16:30 / Darkroom and young people alike. European Premiere All are welcome. Open City Docs School is teaming up with BFI Future Film and the King’s Set in South India, Kim Longinotto’s Salma is the story of a courageous Ruben, Harley and Nicole are A moving study of what is officially Move over Harry Potter and Cross Commissions to explore exciting work made by new filmmakers. woman whose journey proves that education can create change. Youth Day screenings are open three very different 12-year- Britain’s most deprived place. The welcome to the real Hogwarts. The filmmakers were all given the opportunity to share stories which were Forbidden to study and locked away until marriage, Salma’s need to for all ages to attend. Youth olds, with one very big thing in Essex town of Jaywick promises To escape the pressures of close to them, under the guidance of professionals who gave them read and express herself led her to become South India’s most famous poet. Day workshops are free and by common. They all have a dream a fresh start with sea views at growing up, magic-obsessed kids insight into documentary and what it means to tell a story. Their story. Returning to her village, she faces the same traditions and codes of conduct invitation only - please contact and they won’t let anything bargain rents. This film follows congregate at the one place they which she broke free from, revealing the work still needing to be done. [email protected] stand in the way of it - especially the lives of three newcomers to can be themselves. They want to Making films about the trials of being a single mother, the aspirations if you or a group would like to something as unimportant the town, people whose reasons prove their worth on the same for their area, or what it means to live on the outskirts of society, the films Followed by a discussion with director Kim Longinotto (Filmmaker) and participate. as having Down’s Syndrome. to escape are revealed across stage where superstar magicians bring to light the issues faced in London and our communities today. Pragna Patel (Director, Southall Black Sisters). Glimpsing into the lives of three a year. At its heart is Nick, a like Blaine and Copperfield once Open City Docs Fest is grateful out of the ordinary children, we reformed wide-boy who is recently performed. But to get there, they The King’s Cross Commissions are a series of film commissions working This film is brought to you by Community Organisers volunteers and the for the support of the Borough of watch as they prove they can do widowed. The film documents his need to learn more than sleight of with key communities within King’s Cross that are being threatened by Somers Town Community Centre, working together with Open City Docs. Camden in facilitating Youth Day anything anyone else can do and long-held dream of moving to hand and tricks of the trade. the gentrification/development programme in N1C. The OCDS work is The Community Organisers volunteers chose this film to represent the and their help in reaching out to better, and break free from their Jaywick, throwing himself into supported by The Grierson Trust and the UCL Science, Medicine and greatest desires they have for their area: education - getting it, expressing the schools and young people overprotective parents. a new life. Screening with The Story of Society Network. The Doc Next Network Media Lab films were funded by it, and living with the freedom that it can bring. of Camden. St Damian the European Cultural Foundation and supported by BFI Future Film. Workshop: Breaking Free – Workshop: Searching for This screening and Somers Town Open City Docs School work is The Art of Documentary an Escape in 70 mins supported by The Grierson Trust. The screening will be followed by Working with filmmaker Chris a Q&A and a workshop for invited Martin, invited participants will young people exploring the art of construct a short in-camera- storytelling and filmmaking, and edited film looking at the themes the chance to make short films present in Jaywick Escapes - how with the filmmakers. do you define home, what do you do to escape, and where do we go from here? All in 70 minutes! 30 SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS 31 OPEN CITY TOURS MYSTREET

Come and visit our Open City and discover the A Wall is a Screen Open City Walking Tours Make a MyStreet Film heart of London in ways you’ve never seen it before. Meeting point: Festival Hub Meeting Point: Festival Hub Fri 21 June / 22:00 Fri 21 June / 12:00 MyStreet is where you are, We are working with A Wall is a Screen and Sock Sat 22 June / 22:00 Sat 22 June / 12:00 and 18.00 who you are, and how you live... Mob Events to create bespoke tours of Open City Sun 23 June / 12.00 your place on the map. Docs Fest’s home, in and around UCL and the Bloomsbury area. Secret locations, projected films, Take a very special cinematic The big-hearted John Smallshaw A user-generated archive of everyday life, we encourage people to share MyStreet 2013 Screening forgotten stories, poetry, and cinema history will journey around Open City with will lead a bespoke walking tour their stories and bring their area to life through film. Sat 22 June / 12.00 / Darkroom bring the area to life and you will experience the Hamburg-based film community A of Open City on each day of the psychogeography of Open City as you never Wall is a Screen. See films projected festival. John works with Sock Visit the site to explore: zoom in on your town, or put in your postcode to Every street has a story. Every town has a tale to be told. could alone. onto the city’s buildings during a Mob Events, the London-based watch the world on your doorstep. Can’t find the story of your street? Get unique cinematic exploration of social enterprise that empowers filming! Everyone can contribute to our ever-evolving picture of people We’ve selected the 8 best MyStreet shorts of 2013 and will be showcasing London. A group meets at sundown homeless and ex-homeless and places. them at an exclusive screening on Saturday 22 June at 12:00 in the and is taken on a secret and people to run tours of their own Darkroom. What’s the word on your street? Join us to find out. carefully planned route, where the stomping grounds. Experience Whatever your story, upload it to www.mystreetfilms.com and make your city’s facades are the all-important the city through John’s eyes mark on the global MyStreet map. It’s as much about place-making as it The MyStreet shortlist has been viewed by the Open City Docs Fest inspiration for the choice of film. For and words, and learn about is about filmmaking. Grand Jury, this year chaired by Jeremy Irons, and their favourite three the A Wall is a Screen team, a wall the history of the area, discover films will be awarded prizes at our closing gala on Sunday 23 June. is not just a wall, but an opportunity hidden spaces, and listen to Every year MyStreet runs a filmmaking competition and our favourite The film at the top spot will be awarded £500 and a consultation with to create a symbiosis between incredible stories. A walking, shorts from across the UK are screened at Open City Docs Fest. Join us Brian Hill, the director of the BBC’s hit series, The Secret History of film and façade, with surprising talking journey of discovery for this year’s FREE screening on Saturday 22 June. Our Streets. messages. For Open City Docs to see Bloomsbury from a Fest, they transfer their concept completely different perspective. WATCH the archive of films www.mystreetfilms.com to our home in the UCL Campus, CREATE a film about your street unknown to most Londoners, using Book here: SUBMIT your film and enter the annual MyStreet competition. unexpected screening locations. www.sockmobevents.org.uk See London in a new way. All proceeds to Sock Mob Events and John Smallshaw. No Bookings. Just Show Up. A Wall is a Screen’s first visit to London is supported by the Goethe Institute 32 SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS 33

Going Global - International Filming to Change the World Copyright, Copyleft, Cradle to Grave Border Crossings - Stories in Other panels Distribution for Your Film - What makes a documentary Copywrong? Sat 22 June / 14:30 search of an author in the festival How to make sure your make a difference? Sat 22 June / 12:30 Lightbox Sat 22 June / 12:00 Sun 23 June / 13:30 Sat 22 June / 17:00 Lightbox Bloomsbury Cafe WORKSHOPS & Sex Ed Films: Is sex a thing The Studio The Studio men do and women are

MASTERCLASSES blamed for? Delivered by Irena Taskovksi of In recent years there has been a What is to be done about 7Up launched onto British TV in Border Crossings is an exciting From scare stories for the troops Go deeper and participate in sessions ranging Taskovski Films, this workshop growth in documentaries aiming copyright? Should all publicly- 1965, and has held audiences’ new ‘speed-dating’ initiative from and schools to sexploitation films from interactive documentary to ethics of will explore how different kinds to achieve political and social funded art, research, and film be imagination ever since. But Open City Docs Fest, bringing UCL that managed to slip under the copyright, or join masterclasses on how leading of stories and subjects travel change. Some have succeeded. ‘rights-free’? Is Google’s ‘world before 7UP, Britain was home researchers and documentary censor - special archive screening documentary directors have honed their craft. internationally using case studies How did they do so? Can other brain’ 1984 made flesh? Is the to a pioneering medical filmmakers together to foster and panel discussion with experts in our masterclass programme. of films from Taskovski films’ filmmakers repeat their success? threat to freedom greater from study, tracking people born dialogue and inspire collaboration. in the design and assessment of catalogue, including Czech All panellists of this workshop ‘corporations monopolising in 1946. Nearly 70 years later As a global centre of pioneering sex education programmes. See Dream by Remunda & Klusak, and believe that documentaries can information’ or ‘hordes of file- this MRC survey has changed research, ideas born at UCL inform page X. People I Could Have Been and make a difference - together with sharing hacker-anarchists’ – or understanding of the early life and stimulate minds, starting Maybe Am, winner of Open City’s the audience they will discuss are both these just fantasies origins of wellbeing. The Bristol conversations, and suggesting 2011 Emerging Filmmaker Award. how and why. that make it easier not to think ALSPAC medical study, launched solutions for the challenges Nuclear and its imagination: Topics covered include festival hard about creativity, moral in 199,1 is similarly ambitious in which we face. Groundbreaking from Homer Simpson to strategy and premieres, materials Chaired by Christo Hird rights in one’s person, and the scope. In Cradle to Grave, we documentary should do the same. Fukushima for promotion and marketing, (Dartmouth Films), with Brian revolutionary potential of a bring together experts from all 3 By bringing these two worlds With ecological anxieties around international distributors and Woods (Filmmaker, Founder of digitally linked up world? landmark investigations to explore together, and matching leading global warming, nuclear seems what they can do for you, A-Z True Vision), Sandra Whipham what we can learn from studying academic experts with acclaimed set for a rebrand as a ‘green’ of contracts with sales agents, (BRITDOC), Joanna Natasegara Panel discussion chaired by Roly people across a lifetime. independent and commissioned alternative, but can it escape basics of TV licence agreements (Filmmaker, Impact Producer of Keating (Chief Executive of the filmmakers, Border Crossings spooky images of radiation in UK and internationally, and No Fire Zone) and Nick Francis British Library), Peter Bradwell Panel discussion chaired by will build partnerships, creating sickness? See page X. sales possibilities for your films (Filmmaker, Black Gold). (Open Rights Group), Paul Mark Easton (BBC Home Editor), opportunities for UCL expertise to around the globe. Gerhardt (Archives for Creativity with Claire Lewis (Producer be translated into insightful and Genomics and Public and Film and Sound Think Tank, 7 Up), Prof. Diana Kuh (UCL), engaging documentary, and Health: South America Irena Taskovksi is founder and JISC), John Archer (Hopscotch Dr Katarzyna Kordas (ALSPAC, allowing filmmakers access to and Beyond director of Taskovski Films, a Films, Producer of History of Bristol), Jackie Bassett (7 UP) some of the most table-turning Based around extended clips from leading international distributor Cinema) and Haidy Geismar and medical study participants. research stories in the world. the Brazilian documentary ‘Four based in the UK, dealing with (Anthropologist, UCL), Prof. Lilian See website for details. Legacies: Population Medical creative and author driven Edwards (Professor of Internet Law, This is a closed event - admission Genetics’ (2012), a roundtable documentaries. Strathclyde University & Deputy by application discussion looking at opportunities Director of The CREATe Centre) and challenges of medical genetics. See website for details.

34 WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES 35 public imagination. i-Docs Lab - Interactive Documentary Workshop Masterclass with Katerina Cizek Masterclass with Joshua Oppenheimer Masterclass with Molly Dineen Sat 22 June / 13:00 Digital Documentary in the 21st Century Cinema and Memory Portraits of Britain The Studio Fri 21 June / 18:00 / The Studio Sat 22 June / 17:00 / Lightbox Sun 23 June / 16:00 / The Studio

The i-Docs Lab is a session dedicated to the interactive documentary The internet has transformed the documentary. So, too, documentarians Join award-winning filmmaker and 2013 Open City Docs Fest Juror Molly form. How can the Web be used to offer new opportunities to speak are reinventing the language of storytelling on the web. Documentary The relationship between cinema, trauma, and memory underlie an Dineen for this special masterclass. From Heart of the Angel (1987) and about the real? How can documentary use digital interactivity to director Katerina Cizek retraces her digital tracks, and goes under the intense masterclass on the seven-year process of directing The Act of Home from the Hill (1989) through to her classic series on London Zoo transform the audience into an active force? How does the production hood of two distinct multi-award winning projects within the HIGHRISE Killing. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer will discuss the filmmaking The Ark (1993), Dineen has made some of the most influential British process work, and what are the challenges? story universe (Out My Window and One Millionth Tower) to explore process, as well as the methodology (developed with his co-directors documentaries of recent times. In a wide-ranging conversation with a new kind of documentary practice. HIGHRISE is an Emmy-winning Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian filmmaker). He will trace Kate Kellaway (The Observer), Dineen will discuss how she became a The i-Docs Lab is composed of two sessions: a detailed introduction interactive documentary at the National Film Board of Canada that the role of fiction in non-fiction, fantasy in reality, and the political fever filmmaker, the development of her approach to filmmaking, and the by Sandra Gaudenzi to the emerging field of interactive documentary, explores the human condition of vertical living around the globe. One dream. Oppenheimer’s articulation of the ethical and political issues cinema that inspires and informs her work today. followed by three case studies presented in depth by their producers. of the world’s leading digital content hubs, the NFB is renowned for its involved with making and releasing The Act of Killing is a must for anyone Each presenter will take you through the journey of their project, interactive productions and immersive online experiences. Cizek will also interested in the ethics of documentary cinema. Molly Dineen has established herself as one of Britain’s leading from idea phase through creative decisions to financial challenges. give a sneak peek into the next HIGHRISE project, a collaboration with documentary filmmakers over the past 20 years. A recipient of the Documentary filmmaker Paulina Trevo will explain how they used the The New York Times. Joshua Oppenheimer (b. USA 1974) was educated at Harvard and Flaherty Award for Home from the Hill (1989), an RTS Award for The Heart web to engage a whole community in Ethiopia in her web documentary Central St. Martin’s,London. His award-winning films include The of The Angel (1987) and two BAFTAs for The Ark (1993) and The Lie of Awra Amba; film producer Mike Paterson will share the challenges Katerina Cizek is an Emmy-winning documentary-maker working across Globalisation Tapes (2003, co-directed with Christine Cynn) and The the Land (2007). In 2003, she was awarded The Grierson Memorial Trust of crowdsourcing his project 94 Elements, and; Sidonie Garnier, co- many media platforms. Her work has documented the Digital Revolution, Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998). Based in Copenhagen Award for outstanding contribution to the art of documentary. producer of the French project Defense d’Afficher, will discuss how a and has itself become part of the movement. Currently, she is the director and London, Oppenheimer is artistic director of the Centre for mobile app can reinforce the content of a documentary by engaging of the National Film Board of Canada’s HIGHRISE project, and for five Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster, an audience ‘on the ground’. years she was the NFB’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (2008 Webby Award). and has published widely on the themes of political violence and the Her previous award-winning films include Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, The session will be hosted by Sandra Gaudenzi, co-organiser of i-Docs Human Rights and the News (2002, co-directed with Peter Wintonick). and i-docs specialist.

36 WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES 37 PARTNER EVENTS JURY ¡Documentary Now! Grand Jury Chair: Jeremy Irons ¡Documentary Now! is running once again in collaboration with Actor & Producer ‘Trashed’ Open City Docs Fest and will take place 19-20 June in UCL. This year’s Anne Applebaum conference has three main strands: Malleability; Surveillance and/as Pulitzer Prize winning author of ‘Gulag’ & ‘Iron Curtain’ Documentary, and; Enter the Perpetrator. Echoes of One World in London Photography Exhibition Molly Dineen BAFTA Award-winning Director and Producer Panels in the Malleability strand address the formal and perceptual This year’s festival is presenting three films as part ofO ne World Echoes Syria – Prisoners of the Conflict Malcolm Grant aspects that make documentary such a flexible and unpredictable form. London, an international tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of One Festival Hub President and Provost, UCL World, Europe’s largest human rights film festival established in Prague by Hanka Kastelicova The opening plenary featuring Professors Elizabeth Cowie and Czech NGO People in Need. One World Echoes London is organised by One World Echoes are accompanied by a photography exhibition ‘Syria – Executive Producer of Documentaries, HBO Europe Brian Winston, reflects on the state of observation and imposition in the Czech Centre London, the Frontline Club, and Open City Docs Fest. Prisoners of the Conflict‘. Accomplished Czech photographer Iva Zímová documentary today, asking whether documentary can be seen as a captured daily reality of common people in Aleppo, the biggest Syrian form of surveillance. Fortress city. The country has been ravaged by the conflict between the regime of Open City Jury Lukáš Kokeš & Klára Tasovská / 2012 / Czech Republic / 72’ president Bashar al-Asad and the opposition forces for almost two years Chair: Briony Hanson Enter the Perpetrator recognises a new turn in documentary, where Wed 19 June / 19:00 / Frontline Club (p.17) with its citizens being crushed by constant fighting, cold or food shortage. Director of Film, The British Council the perpetrator, not victim, is featured. Films focussing on assassins, Powerfully yet sensitively, she illustrates everyday hardships of the Syrians Kim Longinotto murderers, death squad leaders, and death camp architects make Black Out – who are first and foremost struggling for their dignity.O n location, the Sundance Award-winning Director of‘Divorce Iranian Style’ and ‘Pink Saris’ for unsettling viewing. Join us for the UK Premiere of Rithy Panh’s latest Eva Weber / 2012 / UK / 47’ conflict victims are being aided by CzechN GO People in Need. Elizabeth Wood documentary, Duch: Master of the Forges of Hell (Cambodia/France, Sun 23 June / Cinema Tent / 14:30 (p.12) Founder and Director of DocHouse 2011), introduced by Deirdre Boyle (New School for Social Research, Katerina Cizek NY). The closing Roundtable will discuss these themes. Stone Games Emmy-winning director of digital documentary ‘Highrise’ Jan Gebert / 2012 / Czech Republic / 56’ Andre Singer Documentary Now! is also pleased to be launching the new Sun 23 June / Lightbox / 17:00 (p. 18) Producer of ‘Into the Abyss’ Wallflower/CUP title Killer Images, edited by Joram Ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer, at the end of the conference. City Jury No attendance fee but registration required. Chair: Alan Penn Dean of The Bartlett Find the full programme and register at documentarynow.wordpress.com Brian Hill Director, ‘Secret History of Our Streets’ For details of the film screeningD uch: Master of the Forges of Hell, see p.22. M.J Long OBE - Architect

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Open City Docs School nurtures and trains the next generation of Open City Docs Fest is in its third year now - establishing itself as London’s documentary filmmakers. Training people to see the world differently, Global Documentary Film Festival. understanding why documentary matters, and thinking about how it can be used. From community training, through evening courses, to But we need your help to carry on using film to open up the university masters level courses - our dedicated digital training suite is open to all. to new voices, and taking our skills out into the communities in London where film provides people with a voice with which they can speak out. Upcoming courses: As a new venture we receive no funding from the traditional state spon- 15 Day Intensive Documentary Summer School sors. We need your support to keep this training work going. Mon 1 July - Fri 19 July 2013 (£1499 or £1299 for UCL students) Expert supervision from our regular tutors, with masterclasses by Olly If you would like to support our developing program of training in and Lambert. This course will run again from Monday 2 September if the July through film, please become a supporter. course is oversubscribed. Donations start from as little as £10. Interdisciplinary Masters module: Practical Documentary Filmmaking Our founding supporter scheme (from £500 a year for three years) The course runs on Thursdays 3 Oct-12 Dec, with 8-15’ films delivered for is still open. examination on 17 Feb 2014. Senior Tutor: Vikram Jayanti. This course is repeated on Fridays in term two from January-March, with Havana UCL has charitable status and all gifts can be gift aided. You can make Marking as senior tutor. your donation online or by cheque payable to UCL (with Open City on the reverse) : Reserve a place via [email protected]. See our website for details of one-week camera work and editing courses. Open City Docs Fund Development and Alumni Rel. Office In 2013-2014 AHRC funded students may take these and other film UCL, Gower St., courses for free - for details please consult the website. We gratefully London WC1H 0BW acknowledge the support of the UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. For online donations please got to DONATE on opencitydocsfest.com

40 OPEN CITY DOCS SCHOOL Donate 41 Film Director Year Country Dur Strand P Film Director Year Country Dur Strand P A Dream in the Making Bartosz M. Kowalski 2012 Poland 50' Moving Lives 14 Notes On Blindness: Rainfall Peter Middleton 2012 UK 3' Shorts 21 Aqua Porko Kelli Jean Drinkwater 2013 Australia 22' Shorts 20 Nothing Found Charles Richardson 2013 UK 11' Shorts 19 Bad Boys Marc Williamson 2013 UK 42' Shorts 20 Nuclear Nation Atsushi Funahashi 2012 Japan 96’ Power Struggles 13 Beach Boy Emil Langeballe 2013 UK 27' Shorts 20 Our Nixon Penny Lane 2013 USA 85’ World Visions 17 Black out Eva Weber 2012 UK 47' Power Struggles 12 Platform Moon Yuri Ancarani 2011 Italy 25' Shorts 20 Challenging Behaviour Fran Robertson 2013 UK 62' Science Frictions 8 Powerless Deepti Kakkar, Fahad Mustafa 2013 India, Austria 80’ Power Struggles 13 Da Vinci Yuri Ancarani 2012 Italy 25' Shorts 20 Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin 2012 Russian Federation, UK 86’ World Visions 17 Do you Really Want To Know John Zaritsky 2012 Canada 72’ Science Frictions 8 Railway Redemption Santiago Posada 2012 UK 35' Shorts 20 Duch: Master of the Forges of Hell Rithy Panh 2011 France , Cambodia 03' Theatre of the Oppressor 22 Rogalik Pawel Ziemilski 2012 Poland 17' Shorts 19 Elena Petra Costa 2012 Brazil 82' Hybrid Forms 10 Salma Kim Longinotto 2013 United Kingdom, India 90’ Special Screenings 28 Gabriel Manrique, Jordie Espoir Voyage Michel K. Zongo 2011 Burkina Faso, France 82’ World Visions 16 Sandgrains 2012 UK 70’ World Visions 18 Montevecchi Filmstripe John Blouin 2012 Canada 18' Shorts 19 Silence Pat Collins 2012 Ireland 84’ Hybrid Forms 11 Forget Me Not David Sieveking 2012 Germany 88’ Science Frictions 9 Snow tapes Mich'ael Zupraner 2011 Israel 14' Shorts 19 Forget-me-not Egg Mohammadreza Farzad 2012 Iran 25' Shorts 21 Sofia's Last Ambulance Ilian Metev 2012 Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia 76’ Closing Gala 5 Fortress Lukáš Kokeš & Klára Tasovská 2012 Czech Republic 72’ World Visions 17 Solar Mamas Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim 2012 Egypt, Denmark, USA 60' Power Struggles 13 Grasp the Nettle Dean Puckett 2012 UK 91’ City Stories 6 Some Day I'll Find You Barney Snow 2012 UK 45' Shorts 21 Grass Caner Canerik 2012 Turkey 67' Moving Lives 14 Stone Games Jan Gebert 2012 Czech Republic 56’ World Visions 18 I am Breathing Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon 2012 Scotland, Denmark 72’ Science Frictions 9 Taxi Sister Theresa Traore Dahlberg 2011 Senegal/Sweeden 30' Shorts 21 Sigurður Hallmar Magnusson, Iceland, Year Zero 2012 Iceland 52' World Visions 17 Armande Chollat-Namy Tchoupitoulas Bill Ross, Turner Ross 2012 USA 82’ City Stories 7 Il Capo Yuri Ancarani 2010 Italy 15' Shorts 20 Ten Five In The Grass Kevin Jerome Everson 2012 USA 32' Shorts 19 In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter Tomas Leach 2012 UK 75' Moving Lives 15 The 12 O’Clock Boys Lotfy Nathan 2013 USA 76’ Opening Gala 5 Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn Informant Jamie Meltzer 2012 USA 82’ Moving Lives 15 The Act of Killing 2012 Denmark, Norway, UK 120’ Theatre of the Oppressor 22 & Anonymous International Space Orchestra Nelly Ben Hayoun 2013 UK 66’ Music Docs 27 The Breath of the Tundra Mikhail Gorobchuk 2012 Russian Federation 26' Shorts 21 Jaywick Escapes Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope 2012 UK 48' Special Screenings 30 The Guest Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen 2012 UK 20' Shorts 20 Karel Reisz, This Filming Life: Petra Všelichová 2012 Czech Republic 74' Special Screenings 31 The Human Scale Andreas M. Dalsgaard 2012 Denmark 83' City Stories 7 Karoake Girl Visra Vichit Vadakan 2013 Thailand, USA 77’ Hybrid Forms 11 The Machine Which Makes Everything Tinatin Gurchiani 2012 Georgia, Germany 97’ World Visions 18 Legally Wasted Dan Reed 2013 UK 48' Science Frictions 9 Disappear Lives by Silence Miki Ambrózy, Nick Shaw, Begüm Güleç 2012 France, Finland 10' Shorts 21 The Sea [is still] Around Us Hope Tucker 2012 USA 4' Shorts 19 Looking For Kinsim Chris Christodoulou 2013 UK 25' Shorts 21 The Shark's Eye Alejo Hoijman 2012 Argantina, Spain 93’ Moving Lives 15 Lost Rivers Caroline Bâcle 2012 Canada 72’ City Stories 7 The Story of St Damian Dieter Deswarte 2012 UK 7' Shorts 21 Magic Camp Judd Ehrlich 2012 USA 85' Special Screenings 30 The Venice Syndrome Andreas Pichler 2012 Germany, Austria, Italy 80’ City Stories 7 Man for a Day Katarina Peters 2012 Germany, UK 96' Special Screenings 28 The Whistle Grzegorz Zariczny 2012 Poland 17' Shorts 21 Matthew's Laws Marc Schmid 2012 Netherlands 72’ Moving Lives 15 The Workers Leaving the Factory (again) Katharina Gruzei 2012 Austria 11' Shorts 19 My Child Can Candan 2013 Turkey 82' Special Screenings 28 To The Wolf Aran Hughes, Christina Koutsospyrou 2012 Greece, France 74’ Hybrid Forms 11 My Life: Breaking Free Kate Monaghan 2012 UK 29' Special Screenings 30 Toxic Camera Jane Wilson 2013 UK 21' Shorts 19 No Man's Land Salomé Lamas 2012 Portugal 72’ Theatre of the Oppressor 22 Turning Charles Atlas 2012 Denmark, USA 76’ Music Docs 27 No Man’s Zone Toshi Fujiwara 2011 France, Japan 105' Power Struggles 12 Wonder House Oonagh Kearney 2012 Ireland 70’ Hybrid Forms 11 Nocturne Tony Palmer 2013 UK 135' Music Docs 27 Wrong Place, Wrong Time John Appel 2012 Netherlands 80' World Visions 18 Notes for a Film About My Town Carlo Ghidini 2012 UK, Italy 23' Shorts 19 You Can Try But You’ll Never Be My Mother Marianna Simnett 2013 UK 5' Shorts 19

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Located in central London, you can easily reach us by public transport. By tube, Tickets available online through our ticketing partner Eventbrite. use any of the following four stations and it’s about a five-minute walk to the festival. opencitydocsfest.eventbrite.com Euston Square Metropolitan, Circle & Hammersmith and City Lines Euston Victoria & Northern Lines For individual screenings and events click on BUY TICKETS on every page. UCL - Open TO ALL Goodge Street Northern Line You will receive an e-ticket which you can print off and bring to the event Russell Square Piccadilly Line entrance.Alternatively, download the free Eventbrite App which will store all There’s always something remarkable happening at UCL, from the latest cutting edge research to curator Plan your journey on www.tfl.gov.uk. We also have lots of “Boris Bike” your event details on your smartphone. docking stations close to our festival hub, Check out www.walkit.com lead tours in our museums. Discover for yourself a world of opportunity at UCL. for the best options. During the festival you can also come and buy your tickets from the OPEN London’s Global University ucl.ac.uk/events CITY DOCS FEST Box Office in the Festival Hub (opposite Waterstones on Torrington Place, off Gower Street) between June 20-23. Advance booking is Venues recommended. Lunch Hour Lectures Bartlett Summer Show 1. Festival Hub The Roberts Foyer, access through the main Open City Docs Festival Pass The famous UCL Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity to listen to The annual celebration of student work from The Bartlett School of gates on Torrington Place and it’s on your left, across the street £85 / £70 concessions world leading academics on topical subjects - and you can bring Architecture, UCL. One of the world’s biggest architecture degree shows from Waterstones. Unlimited films, events, workshops & masterclasses for the whole 4 days your lunch. Watch online if you can’t make it in person ucl.ac.uk/lhl sees over 500 students present an incredible range of inventive, creative 2. Bloomsbury Theatre Enter on Gordon Street, the theatre is between of the festival including Galas (excluding ICA and Hackney Picturehouse and visual work, from models, drawings and life-size fragments to films, our Festival Hub and Euston Square screenings) multimedia installations and computer fabrications. This year’s special 3. The Studio Above the Darkroom, up the stairs from the Festival Hub. Foreign Bodies Exhibition guest show opener is the renowned French architect Claude Parent. 4. Lightbox Go through the Festival Hub - left of the main gates on Open City Docs Day tickets A public exhibition curated by UCL research students, re-interpreting Torrington Place - and the Lightbox is at the back of the Festival Hub, £25 / £20 concessions the museum collections through the theme of foreign bodies. Bringing Show opens Saturday 22 June 2013 on your right Unlimited films, events, workshops &masterclasses for a full day and night together objects from across UCL collections, Foreign Bodies invites 5. Darkroom Next to the Lighbox. (excluding Galas, ICA and Hackney Picturehouse screenings) audiences to explore the idea of what is alien and how this concept 6. Cinema Tent Our special festival tent is back again. Across the street has shifted across history, culture, and even species. There will be a trail UCLTC from the Festival Hub, on Torrington Square. Opening and Closing Galas leading visitors to relevant objects in UCL museums, available during Packed with mini lectures and short films - discover the latest advances 7 Festival Bar Next to the Cinema Tent £15 / £12 concessions opening hours, Tues – Sat, 1-5pm. on UCL’s Youtube channel UCLTV. 8. SOAS The Kahlili Lecture Theatre, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, www.youtube.com/ucl WC1H 0XG Tickets for all other festival events Exhibition runs 18th March – 14th July 2013, 9. Birkbeck Cinema Use entrance at 43 Gordon Square, on the East Between £6 and £12 - please check the website for each event. Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm side of the square. 10. ICA The Mall, SW1Y 5AH 11. LSE Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB) 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ. 12. Hackney Picturehouse 270 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1HE

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open city docs fest team ADVISORY GROUP Michael Stewart - Founding Director Jonathan Blair, Karen V. Brown, Christopher Hird, David Lan, David Price Treasa O’Brien - Executive Director Jessie Teggin - Associate Director Founding Supporters Oliver Wright - Programme Manager Matthew and Pauline Bickerton, Mick Csaky, Christopher Hird, Lisya Yafet - Festival Coordinator and Programmer Frances Pine Paul Drury - Marketing, Media and Press Manager Julian Triandafyllou – Production Manager, OCDS Outreach Coordinator Thanks to Celia Turley - MyStreet and Panels Coordinator Bill Alexander, Rosemary Ashton, Laurence Avis, Juanita Baquero, Olivia Josefeen Foxter – Volunteer Coordinator Bellas, Lydia Burt, Steve Caddick, Alessia Carpegna, Renata Clark, Alice Firebrace – Programme Assistant Susan Collins, Duygu Comert, Mick Csaky, Amber Dobinson, Fiona Duffy, Olivia Pullman - Marketing Assistant Jim Dummett, Rebekah Duncan, Gareth Evans, Hannah Farr, Anthony Isobel Gladman - Communications Assistant Finkelstein, Sandra Gaudenzi, Carlo Ghidini, Malcolm Grant, Umut Ed Borgnis – Technical Manager Gunduz, Jacob Harbord, Elina Harlas, Chris Harris, Graham Hart, Muffin Hix, Dori Deng - AV Manager Jenny Horwell, Louise Howitt, Jennifer Greitschus, Lois Kaidan, James King, Nikola Harris – Box Office Robert Knowles, Susanne Kuechler, Edward Lawrenson, Mark Le Fanu, Alisa Lebow, Harriet Lewis, Richard Lilley, Gloria Lin, Justin Lyle, Ana Filipa ainecassidy.com - Art Direction & Design Marques, David Napier, Martin O’Connor, Sara O’Donnell, Jayne Parker, dojocreative.com - Web Development Vijya Patel, Steph Patten, Alan Penn, Tereza Porybna, Caterina Sartori, Ian simon-ball.com - Festival Trailer Scott, Thea Sherer, Faye Shields, John Smallshaw, Katy Staten, Andrew Steggall, Janey Stephenson, Claire Thomson, Erhan Vural, Frances, Sarah, For general enquiries [email protected] Shofi and Jamie from STCC. For press enquiries: [email protected] Facebook: OpenCityDocsFest Special Thanks to Twitter: @OpenCityDocs Paul Carter-Bowman, Chris Hagisavva, Keiko Homewood, Ronit Meranda, Sam Rogg, Michael Yorke.

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