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Director: Franny Armstrong
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite
The Age of Stupid is the new film from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and
producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at 'old' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
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Director: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson, Rosamund Pike, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper
Set in London in 1961, a city caught between the drab, post-war 50’s, and the glamorous, more liberated 60’s. Jenny stands on the brink of becoming a woman; a brilliantly witty, clever and attractive 17 year-old girl whose suburban life of dull family meals, giggling schoolgirls and homework is about to be blown apart by David - older, urbane and unsuitable. He introduces Jenny to an exciting new world of chic dinners, art auctions, smoky clubs and foreign trips. He charms her parents. But just as their long-held dream of Jenny getting into Oxford University seems within reach, another kind of life now tempts her. Is it one that sets her free or traps her? Will David be the making or the undoing of Jenny?
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Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Tom Hardy, Matt King, Kelly Adams, Katy Barker
In 1974, a hot-headed, 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted out of the drudgery of civilized society, and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams, he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement.
Assuming the celebrated stage name Charles Bronson, he has forged an outrageous reputation through hostage taking and rooftop protests to become a notorious figure in the public's consciousness.
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Director: Marc Price
Cast: Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Kate Alderman, Leanne Pammen, Tat Whalley
Colin is bitten by a zombie, he dies and returns from the dead, and so begins his journey into an apocalyptic suburban landscape. Colin wanders among the undead, encountering others of his kind, and the desperate reactions of the surviving humans in this gory, savage new world. One of the first films in this genre to be told entirely from a zombie's perspective, challenging an audience's perceptions about a horror movie 'monster'.
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Director: Justin Molotnikov
Cast: Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields, Jo Hartley
Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel. Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he’s barely able to cope with the responsibilities he shares with his ex-wife Karen when it comes to looking after their young daughter, Amy. When his landlord promises to evict him for not paying his rent, Joey retaliates that night during his act, threatening to kill the man in front of a captive audience. Things spiral out of control when Joey is arrested for Grievous Bodily Harm. His landlord is in hospital with a fractured skull and the police have witnesses as to Joey’s abusive threats. To make matters worse, Joey has no memory of what happened. Looking for help, he turns to Frank Archer, a former friend who has recently walked back into his life. Together at military school 25 years earlier, Frank is keen that he and Joey get reacquainted and offers to take him into his home. But as Joey finds out, friendship is the last thing on Frank’s mind. |
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Director: Oliver Irving
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Michael Irving, Alisa Arnah, Powell Jones
A wry coming-of-age comedy about 20-something Arthur who gets dumped by his girlfriend, moves back in with his parents and hits a quarter-life crisis. Arthur uses inheritance money to indulge in retail and new age therapies only to end up enlisting the help of an eccentric self-help guru, Dr. Ellington. Arthur’s painfully funny journey to define his existence brings to the fore the dysfunctional relationship he has with his parents and the importance in his life of his odd-ball friends. How To Be is a timely look at increasingly common phenomena: grown-up children living at home, frustrated creativity and self-help.
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Director: Justin Kerrigan
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Arron Fuller, David Bradley
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships his father until he slowly begins to understand that his father is occupying a quite different reality.
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Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop
Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers… His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from strange parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all – the past. As the Chinese, and one Frenchman, say, 'He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.' 
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Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson, Elisa Lasowski
The latest film from BAFTA award winning director Shane Meadows sees him reunited with Thomas Turgoose, the young star of the internationally acclaimed This is England. Shot in stunning black and white on location in the area of North London that the film takes its name from, Somers Town is Meadows' first film to be set outside the Midlands. Turgoose plays Tomo, a troubled young lad who's run away to London. There he meets Marek, a shy Polish teenager who shares a small flat with his labourer father in a rundown area. When Marek agrees to let Tomo stay with them, unbeknownst to his father, the pair form a strong bond as they work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbour and compete for the attention of Maria, a beautiful French waitress, and try to avoid discovery by Marek's father.
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Director: Jamie Jay Johnson
Sounds Like Teen Spirit... A Popumentary is an affectionate, comic and unique feature documentary that delves behind the scenes of the world's premiere youth music spectacle; The Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
While The Eurovision Song Contest has matured into the highest rating non-sporting event in the world, enjoyed by over six hundred million people annually, Junior Eurovision is somewhat more of a home-grown affair. Now in its seventh year, the Junior competition differs in one major aspect from the adult competition: all of the ten to fifteen year old amateur contestants must compose and write their own entries and sing them in their national language.
Not knowing who would make it through all seventeen participating countries' national selections, the film crew travelled from Belarus to the Ukraine, Cyprus to Belgium and Malta to Sweden to see whom each nation selected to represent them in Rotterdam at the Final.
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A special show of 8 short films produced by British and Russian students will be organised in the framework of the 10th anniversary Film Festival. Four young British directors have tried to portray the look and feel of Moscow in their works, while their Russian colleagues have expressed their vision of London. If you would like to attend the screening, please register: 7 495 287 1827 alexandra.smirnova@britishcouncil.ru Special guest of the programme – Nik Powell, Director of the NFTS. The screening is free, but strictly by registration.
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Director: Kenneth Glenaan
Cast: Rachael Blake, Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Jo Doherty, Sean Kelly, Joanna Tulej
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and for Shaun his first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labelled as a violent bully he destroys himself and takes Daz with him.
Shaun has 12 years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz’'s imminent death forces Shaun to go on a journey to confront his past. This is the story of a man full of intelligence and promise struggling to reclaim his life.
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Director: Rupert Wyatt
Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Damian Lewis, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh
Frank Perry is an institutionalised convict 12 years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London.
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Director: Alexis Dos Santos
Cast: Fernando Tielve, Déborah François
Two young foreigners living in a vibrant, hip squat in London's East End embark on separate quests. Axl is searching for his long-lost father. Vera seeks to mend a broken heart as she begins a sexy, playful relationship with a charismatic stranger.
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