Ganges Room, Kala Sangam South Asian Arts Centre, Bradford
This is the first programme in full, preserved here for our archive. To see the amended Current Programme please click here.
Each screening will be introduced and Film Notes will be available. Refreshments are available at Kala Sangam from 6.30 pm.
Parking is free after 6pm on the streets around Kala Sangam in Little Germany and around the Cathedral. There is a council pay and display car park in Burnett Street, off Church Bank and there is paid parking at the Leisure Exchange, approx. 5 mins away.
When I Saw You
Thursday 8 January, 7 pm
Dir. Annemarie Jacir Palestine 2012 Cert 12A 97 min Arabic with English subtitles.
Annemarie Jacir‘s second feature film takes place in 1967 when the world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in ‘temporary’ refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, they wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches for a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times. Eventually his free spirit and curious nature lead him to a group of people on a journey that will change their lives.
Plot For Peace
Thursday 22 January, 7pm
Dirs. Mandy Jacobson, Carlos Agulló South Africa 2013 Cert 12A, 82 min English, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans and Spanish.
This riveting documentary, edited like a thriller, tells the story of the mysterious ‘Monsieur Jacques’, an Algerian-born French business figure who became an important international ‘fixer’ in the complex negotiations during the 1980s that eventually led to peace in Southern Africa and the possibility of the end of apartheid.
School of Babel
Thursday 5 February, 2 pm and 7 pm
Dir. Julie Bertuccelli France 2013 Cert PG, 94 min French with English subtitles.
A very different kind of documentary, School of Babel presents the students and their teacher in a Parisian ‘adaptation class’ for young people from all over the world who find themselves in France needing to learn French.
Algorithms
Thursday 19 February, 2 pm and 7 pm
Dirs. Ian McDonald, Geetha J India 2014 Cert U 100 mins English, Hindi, Tamil, Oriya.
Our third documentary is about the thriving but little known world of Blind Chess in India. Filmed over three years, Algorithms travels with three talented visually-impaired teenage boys and a totally blind player turned pioneer to competitive national and world championships and visits them in their home milieu where they reveal their struggles, anxieties and hopes.
Giovanni’s Island
Thursday 5 March, 2 pm and 7 pm
Dir. Nishikubo Mizuho Japan 2014 Cert 102 min Japanese with English subtitles.
This anime has been compared to the best output of Studio Ghibli and in particular to Grave of the Fireflies. At the end of the Second World War the Japanese Kuril islands to the North of Hokkaido were occupied by the Russians who claimed sovereignty. Two small brothers struggle to come to terms with the disruptions and dramatic conflicts of occupation. The film’s title refers to a character in a novel popular with Japanese schoolchildren at the time.
Kon-Tiki
Thursday 19 March, 2 pm and 7 pm
March 19: Kon-Tiki (Norway-UK-Denmark-Germany-Sweden 2012) Dirs. Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Norway/UK/Denmark/Germany/Sweden Cert 15 118 mins Norwegian, English, French, Swedish
This epic film, the most expensive Norwegian film production to date, re-creates the journey by raft from Peru to Polynesia undertaken by the small team led by the ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947.
Please note: The programme is subject to possible amendments because of changes to distribution arrangements. We hope to introduce matinees from 5th February. Any amendments will be posted on this website and emailed to anyone who has signed up to receive information.
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