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“We are the body. We are under attack." And so the body's immune system is triggered into action. A raging battle has begun between pro and anti-inflammatory forces in the swirling interior of a blister.
'Battle of Blister' was generated by human performers in an interactive film set.

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Based on the 1940 South African trial of a traditional herbalist accused of 'untraditional behaviour, the film explores the ideological and commercial confrontation between two different yet intertwining medicinal traditions and their uses of plants, with slippages across gender and race.

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Taking its title from the French Surrealist artist, Claude Cahun’s (1894-1954) incomplete memoir 'Confidences au miroir', Sarah Pucill's film brings life to the photographic and written archive of Claude Cahun amidst a visual extravaganza of costumes and hand-made sets.
Following Cahun’s text, the film includes Cahun’s early and later life and work, including her political propaganda activity and imprisonment in Jersey with her partner Suzanne Malherbe during the Nazi occupation of the island. The tracing of a life is made conscious through the projection of images of the couples' home in Jersey into a domestic London setting.
As a sequel to director Sarah Pucill's previous film 'Magic Mirror' (2013), this film continues her experiment to bring cinematic life to the photographic and written archive of Claude Cahun. In this film Pucill animates re-stagings of Cahun’s black and white self-portrait and still–life photographs with voices from Cahun's text 'Confidences au miroir', collaging and transposing black and white stills and words, into colour and soundscape.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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The real-life episodes contributing to a devastating hate crime are powerfully told in one shot.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand

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Stanley finds himself in prison for a crime that he believes that he didn’t commit. After many years in solitary confinement he begins to talk to his comedy heroes from the past as each one tries to help him remember what he has done. We follow Stanley through his journey of hallucinations as he faces up to his unusual upbringing and his parents’ bizarre religious beliefs.
Stanley becomes desperate to learn the truth about what happened to his daughter and what lead to having this ordinary life he has already dreamed of.
Award-winning actor Timothy Spall plays Stanley and all the characters in his hallucinations; from the flamboyant Noel Coward to the grotesque Max Wall to the ukulele king George Formby, to Egor in a Transylvanian castle.

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode is a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
LFF presents three episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: Nosedive, San Junipero and Shut Up and Dance
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - LFF Connects Television - Events Strand

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Emma a teenage girl with anxiety disorder tries to succeed in her exams and live up to her late mother’s expectations. Alongside her caring best friend, Rob, and loud-mouthed little sister, Mia, Emma must do her best to hold it together.

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Neculai, Aurel and Raj all left their homes in Romania to seek a better life for their family.
Now, with their loved ones depending on them, they survive by creating sand sculptures on London’s streets, while thoughts of their children's futures keep them going.

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Inspired by a heart-breaking true story, 'The Climb' quietly explores the concept of feeling connected to someone you have lost by immersing yourself in something they love. The painful act of remembering by doing.

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
TIFF presents two episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: San Junipero and Nosedive
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Primetime - World premiere

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Recreation of the inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the struggle, heartbreak and hope of a war-torn and famine-ridden region of Africa.
Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Gala Presentations - World premiere

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A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.