A lively welcome with short film tasters of the festival, drinks, snacks and music in South Kilburn Studios, a temporary space for creative start-up businesses.
Enjoy three very original shorts:
Grandmother's Footsteps directed by Rob Curry
Under Your Skin by Cristina Picchi and Yuvi Gerstein. (National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 participation project with Goldsmiths, University of London).
Kilburn High Road, the street where you live directed by Mark James.
South Kilburn Studios, 2a Canterbury Road, NW6 5SW
Free
Washed up Love - director Dylan Cotter
Small Change - director Cathy Brady
Origin - director James Stacey
An Rinceoir- director Elaine Gallagher
23 degrees, 5 minutes - director Darragh O'COnnell
Hasan Everywhere - director Andrew Kavanagh
Free
West Hampstead Women's Centre, 26-30 Cotleigh Rd, NW6 2NP
A special event for women only: films from the Irish Film Board 2012 plus tea and cakes in the friendly atmosphere of the West Hampstead Women's Centre. www.whwc.co.uk.
St Mary's Church 134a Abbey Rd. NW6 4SN
£1 per child.
Join the young members of the St Mary's Cinema Club for:
the Most Important Thing (2011) directed by Dora Martinkova, drawn and spoken by the children of Malorees Junior School who will join the audience.
The Prince of Egypt (1998) Animated musical life of Moses.
The Most Important Thing was chosen for the Berlin International Directors' Lounge (2012) and the International Festival of Animated Films at Teplice, Czech Republic(2012)
www.schoolingtheimagination.co.uk / www.churchnw6.co.uk
Join the St. Mary's Cinema Club at a screening in the church of Helen Mirren's outstanding performance. After the death of Princess Diana, HRH Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events no-one could have predicted.
Chamber music provided by Pro Arte Stringed Instruments www.proartelondon.com
St Mary's Church,134a Abbey Rd., NW6 4SN
£5. Food and drink for sale
The world's biggest pop up film festival. Every three months, Future Shorts HQ in London puts together a programme of some of the best classic, cult and award-winning short films from around the world to be screened locally.
South Kilburn Studios, 2a Canterbury Rd., NW6 5SW
Free/donations
Films by KOVE members with chat, tea and cakes
Kingsgate Resource Centre, 208 Webheath, Palmerston Road, NW6 2JU.
KOVE (Kilburn Older Voices Exchange) shows some of their community campaigning films that help bring older voices to the fore.
In Journey to a Friend several older people show what they experience when travelling across Camden using public transport, electric wheelchair, walking and by car.
Home Care and Us from the KOVE archive shows the views of service users about receiving personal care. Where's The Green Man? is KOVE's new silent film comedy about the mysteries of the new Puffin road crossings.
Join us for the screening, a chat, afternoon tea and tell us what KOVE should film next!
Free
New films by leading conceptual artists Faisal Abdu'allah, Noemi Lakmaier and Si Sapsford who will al be there for Q&A with bar, food and accordion music from Folkies Music - www.folkiesonline.com
TIME CLIPS THE WINGS OF LOVE: Si Sapsford / 2012 . Evoking the innocence of old Hollywood films and inspired by a woman’s memory of her first sexual awakening as she reflects on the passage of time.
HOPE AND GLORY: Si Sapsford / 2012 . A boy running in snow is juxtaposed with conversation between former crew members of Steve Fosette's multihull Cheyenne reflecting on the politics and bureaucracy of the Jules Verne 2004 non-stop round the world race.
IN PROGRESS: Noemi Lakmaier /2012. Femininity, disability and the expectations and stereotypes associated with both are explored through filming a woman's face as she performs ambiguous yet seemingly private tasks. www.noemilakmaier.co.uk
DOUBLE PENDULUM: Faisal Abdu'Allah / 2012 Faisal teamed up with scientists to show how polluted air in East London could threaten athletes at the Games and how pollution shortens the lives of the people living near them, the poor, who are often from ethnic minorities. Features athlete Jeanette Kwakye and footballer Anthony Grant. www.faisalabduallah.com
Curated by Nicola Lane with Si Sapsford / www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk / and the assistance of Camden Arts Centre volunteers. / www.camdenartscentre.org
Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Rd., NW6 5BA
http:// tintabernaclekilburn.org.
Free/donations
Join the young members of St Mary's Cinema Club for The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Animated musical fairy tale set in Jazz Age New Orleans.
St Mary's Church, 134a Abbey Rd. NW6 4SN
£5.00 and food and drinks for sale
Chamber music provided by Pro Arte Stringed Instruments www.proartelondon.com
Price Brothers play the Yeats Brothers.
An evening of music, poetry and whatever happens, about the great Anglo-Irish tradition of the Yeats Brothers (Jack and WB...with references to the rest of the family.)
With Flora Mckay, Aaron Allerton, Delisia and Chris Price, Alison Marr and friends.
All in aid of incomparable Tin Tabernacle
www.tintabernaclekilburn.org.uk
Q & A with writer/director Obi Emelonye and boy actor Edward Kagutuzi. Chaired by Yvonne Connikie, a distinguished specialist in Black Film exhibition and heritage.
Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR
Tickets £8.50/7.50 conc. £14/13 combi with Queens! The Destiny of Dance.
Box Office 0203281000 or www.tricycle.co.uk
The Mirror Boy won best Film, Best Young Actor and best Supporting Actor at the African Movie Academy Awards 2011.
The film is an enthralling journey through the forests of The Gambia, as seen through the eyes of a London-born twelve year old boy, Tijani. His mother, Teema (Genevieve Nnaji) thinks he needs more discipline and she takes him to live with her sister in The Gambia. When he arrives in Banjul, however, Tijani encounters what he considers to be a simple apparition - a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing afterwards.
Director: David Atkins. Actors: Seema Biswas, Vineeth, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi.
Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High road, NW6 7JR.
Box Office 02073281000 or www.tricycle.co.uk
Tickets £9.50/8.50. Combi with The Mirror Boy £14/£13.
A dramatic and beautifully shot feature film about the hijra dance community seen through the eyes of Mukta, the best dancer and leader of the 'girls' who is puzzled when a new dancer, Nandini, joins them. Who is 'she'? Why has she come?
South Kilburn Studios, 2a Canterbury Road, NW6 5SW
An introduction to documentary film making. All ages welcome.
Tin Tabernacle12-16 Cambridge Ave., NW6 5BA
www.tintabernaclekilburn.org.uk
Free/donations
Short films from all five continents with directors' Q & A, bar, music and lively discussion, bar, and live accordion music from Folkies Music, 358 Kilburn High Road, NW6 2QH www.folkiesonline.com
Sinantisi. (2010) UK. Directed by Allen Touring. An airport.
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Afrique Sur Seine - Africa on the Seine (1957) France Directed by Mamadou Sarr/Paulin Vieyra.
Widely regarded as the first film made by an African out of the Sahara.
Axe Alma de um Povo Axe: The People's Soul. (1986) Brazil Directed by Celso Prudente .
A young Brazilian woman discovers in Angola that revolution is an act of love.
Fair Call (2011) Australia. Directed by Spencer Harvey and Lloyd Harvey.
Young girls overhear their flatmates' domestic squabble.
The Last Day (2004) Brazil Directed by Luciano Monteiro.
A man, in his last hour of reflection, realizes that every relation has a beginning, a middle and an ending.
Carnations (2011) Australia Directed by Spencer Harvey and Lloyd Harvey.
A woman finds that a small flower speaks louder than words.
Plus films from Japan and Spain tba.
Curated by Paulo Rufino with support from The French Institute, the Spanish Film Festival and Zipangu Festival.
Come and see shorts by local filmmakers with directors' Q & A and awards.
Tricycle Cinema 269 Kilburn High Road NW6 7JR .
Tickets £2 Combi price with Irish films £9.50/£8.50 concs. Box Office 020732810000 or www.tricycle.co.uk
Green Man - KOVE
Will You Marry Me? - David Alain
Rousseau and the Salmon Man - Rob Munday
Hoodie Monologue - David Hewitt
Gentlemen in Squalor - Alex Suffit
Archaeology - Claire Creswell
Sunny Boy - Jane Sanchez-Gull
Ssexy Rebel Role Model - Dreadlox Holmes ft. MZ May - Cathy Hassan
Man in Fear - Will Jewell
Tricycle Cinema 269 Kilburn High rd, NW6 7JR T
Tickets £ 8.50.7.50 concs or combi with Movie makers' Matinee £9.50./£8.50. Tickets Box Office 02073281000 or www.tricycle.co.uk
Documentary about writer and map-maker Tim Robinson's vision of the Connemara landscape.
Tim Robinson has been extensively mapping and studying Connemara for the last thirty years and this film , based on his three Connemara books, is an exploration of landscape, history and mythology, and the intersection between writing, film-making and the natural world.
Plus Cricklewood Craic (2012) a short film by Andrew Berekdar.
Four retired Irish construction workers who migrated to North west London in the 1950s looking for work talk of their struggle and of the disappearance of the thriving Irish community with its dancehalls and pubs; now a new workforce gathers in Chichele Road hoping for a days casual labour.
On Friday 13 St. Mary's Church Cinema Club at St. Mary's Church, 134a Abbey Road, NW6 4SN will be showing Shrek at 4 pm for children and Elizabeth at 8 pm for grown-ups; on Friday 20 July The Lion King at 4 pm for children and Henry V at 8 pm for grown-ups.
£1 per child. £5 for 8 pm performance when food and drink will be on sale
From Nigeria, India, Ireland, Brazil, France, Senegal, Japan, Australia
and more, plus classics and films by artists, by older people, by children. With talks refreshments and music.
