School Of Life - Filmprogramm
15.05.2006: Vom 15. bis 19. Mai 2006 zeigt britspotting im Filmmuseum Potsdam - englischsprachiges Filmprogramm für Jugendliche.
Britspotting richtet sich mit einer speziellen Filmreihe School of Life gezielt an ein jugendliches Publikum. Im fsk am Oranienplatz in Berlin und im Filmmuseum Potsdam werden neben einer eigenen Kurzfilmreihe auch Spiel- und Dokumentarfilme gezeigt, die das Abenteuer des Erwachsenwerdens mit all seinen Herausforderungen und Problemen, Höhen und Tiefen thematisieren. Angesiedelt sind die Beiträge in so unterschiedlichen sozialen und kulturellen Kontexten wie einem Londoner Sozialwohnungskomplex, einem vornehmen Mädcheninternat, einem betreuten Wohnprojekt für geistig Behinderte und den Straßen Londons aus der Sicht einer jungen Frau aus Tokio......
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Infos zum Filmprogramm und Reservierungen (Potsdam) unter: T: 0331 - 2718130 (Di - DO ab 10.00 Uhr), F: 0331 - 2728126 www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de >> Startseite >> Aktuelles Filmmuseum Potsdam, Marstall am Lustgarten / Breite Str. 1A, 14467 Potsdam
School of life - Synopses (English Version)
Short film programme (92 mins):
The Ends (UK 2005, Director: Justin Edgar, 9:00) On a sunny afternoon Angela is shot on a South London estate. While her boyfriend’s gang threatens to kill her sister and brother, if they call for an ambulance, she bleeds to death. Her boyfriend, Jaybee, sets out to avenge her death. But who was really the gunman?
Special People (UK 2005, Director: Justin Edgar, 12:20) Jasper is a film maker on the verge of a nervous breakdown whose latest project on top of a mountain with a cynical bunch of disabled kids might just push him over the edge.
Antonio’s Breakfast (UK 2005, Director: Daniel Mulloy, 15:58) Unable to dress, eat, move or breath on his own Antonio’s Father depends on him for everything. Friends gone and late for school Antonio is trapped fourteen floors from the ground. Desperate to escape he won’t let himself to leave.
Ladies in Waiting (UK 2004, Director: Hope Dickson Leach, 11:50) Nina and the other new 12 year old girls at her boarding school must visit the school doctor for a check-up. As they wait outside the doctor’s office, wondering what will happen inside, allegiances are born, and broken.
Mockingbird (UK 2005, Director: Joe Tunmer, 14:00) Jenny’s transvestite father is succumbing to a wasting disease. Through a series of tiny moments and half-remembered experiences - including a resonant mystery tour to the countryside - she weaves a recollection of their last summer together.
Imelda Marcos of Bethnal Green (UK 2004, Director: Sean Wood, 11:00) A young girl is nine years old today. Her dad’s forgotten, her mum’s remembered but can’t get in the party spirit. A pair of second hand shoes, bought as an afterthought by her dad, seems like the perfect present. Only trouble is they don’t fit properly. Little Things (UK 2005, Director: James Twyford, 4:45) Four-year-old Chloe asks her slightly distracted mum if she can copy a shoplifting man who she watches in the supermarket. Being absent minded her mum agrees, of course, only until they are stopped by a Security Guard at the check-out. As she has more sympathy for the dapper thief she denies to identify her "role model” which is rewarded with a chocolate bar by the shoplifter.
City Paradise (UK 2005, Director: Gaëlle Denis, 6:00) For those being new to London, the city can be a scaringly huge and uncomfortable. But for those who have the luck to accidentally discover a mysterious and secret underground London, everything changes. As will happen to Tomoko, the Japanese girl coming here to learn English …
Keep Going from Minema Cinema, (UK 2005, Director: Tim Hope, 7:00) Stuart is a great fan of Michael Jackson and therefore he sets out to meet his hero. But being an egg that has to escape from a fridge in Scotland, it is almost predictable that his mission will eventually turn into an adventurous quest. Together with Andrew, a lonely gorilla searching for his family, their journey leads them to both joyful and tragic ends.
Features:
Mouth to Mouth (UK 2004, Director: Alison Murray, 102:00) Sherry is searching for a place to belong where she can still be herself. She thinks she has found this in SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge. She takes off in SPARK's camper van as they cross Europe recruiting a membership of the down and out. They arrive at a disused vineyard in Portugal that promises to be their paradise. Harry, the group's leader, begins harvesting both ripe grapes and ready minds through his own methods of hard work and punishment. The stakes are high within this volatile group. Two deaths ensure the submission of most of the recruits but not Sherry… Alison Murray’s visually arresting first-time feature Mouth to Mouth is based on the director’s experiences as a teenaged squatter and cult member.
Sub Zero (UK 2005, Director: Ian Dowson, 71:00) SUB ZERO is a ‘right here, right now’ British thriller, set against the backdrop of a contemporary Middlesbrough, where the all too real lives of the people of Grangetown clash with the kind of politics & big business that would love to rule over them. Carl and Sabrina, a Romeo and Juliet for the Anti - Social Age, are drawn into the bowels of a conspiracy of intimidation and violence, that utilises our prejudices about these young people’s lives to get away with murder.
You looking at me (IRL 2005, Director: Margo Harkin, 74:00) This lively new drama tells the story of Mei, Kenny, Ciaran and Niamh - four young people coping with a tangle of friendships, family life and local politics in present-day Belfast. You Looking at Me? explores the narrow ground of conflicting loyalties, identities and family traditions against a backdrop of community fears, suspicions and aggression. The predictable sectarian tensions, which often bedevil romance across the Protestant-Catholic divide, are complicated in this story by the involvement of another culture in the shape of Mei’s traditional Chinese family ties.
Documentaries:
Village Life (UK 2005, Director: Nick O'Dwyer/ Rachel Bliss, 61:00) Botton Village - tucked away high on England's north Yorkshire moors - is part soap opera, part Village of the Damned. It's a bold social experiment where 136 special needs 'villagers' with learning difficulties live in a commune with 100 'co-workers'. Partly because of its isolation, Botton is a place of high emotion where outbursts of bizarre behaviour are part of the routine and benignly tolerated. Landmark Films was given remarkably free access to Botton and Village Life - filmed over a cold winter - is a truly extraordinary mix of conflict, emotion and weirdness. The film tracks a group of villagers through emotionally difficult events in their lives. It's an unusually 'pure' documentary and unfolds in a series of observed scenes, allowing special needs people to speak for themselves, unmediated by experts or educational therapists. The result is a film which is raw, direct, honest and provocative.
Tough Kids, Tough Love (UK 2005, Director: Lynn Alleway, 60:00) Imagine yourself walking along a gloomy street late at night, you turn around a dark corner and you can see a group of rough-looking kids. What would you do? Cross the street or even turn around? Lynn Alleway's documentary Tough Kids, Tough Love encourages the viewer to look beyond the threatening facades of violence and brutal street-credibility of those kids. The film draws a sympathetic portrait of the London charity Kids Company which offers help for troublesome and troubled children across London when the social services won't pay. Alleway's stunning and insightful documentary focuses on Kids Company's remarkable director, Iranian-born matriarch Camila Batmanghelidjh and two of the toughest children Rebecca, a depressive and suicidal crack addict with greater anger-management issues, and the hyperactive, vodka-loving wannabe model Junior. For kids like these, coming from abusive and neglectful homes the only hope and chink of light is Camila Batmanghelidjh whose simple message and ultimate victory is the power of love. Screened with The Ends by Justin Edgar, 2005, 11:00
