Britain’s premiere women’s film festival details unveiled.
Next month’s Bird’s Eye View Film Festival - celebrating women filmmakers - has launched details of this year's event.
This is the 10th Festival edition, and it will run from 8-13 April at venues including BFI Southbank, Barbican, ICA, Curzon Soho and Electric Cinema.
At the Barbican Centre, for example, feature films include Wakolda, a taut thriller directed by Lucia Puenzo about how former Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Joseph Mengele tricked his way into the lives of an Argentinian girl and her family
As the doctor-patient relationship intensifies, his obsessive quest for genetic purity is reawakened.
This film is based on real life accounts of the former Nazi community surviving in secret in South America.
Sumurun, or One Arabian Night, a fantasy drama classic which follows the adventures of a rebellious slave girl in the court of a tyrannical sheikh, will be brought to life with a live score by the Sudanese vocalist and songwriter Amira Khier, who fuses contemporary jazz and East African music with a live band.
Other events include an intimate family portrait of internationally renowned pianist Martha Argerich; a special celebration of the pioneering post-war animator Joy Batchelor; and Gabrielle, an intimate, brave and heartfelt film from Québécois director Louise Archambault.
Events at the Barbican take place from 10-12 April.
The see the full programme click here.
The festival announced its opening and closing films last month.
The festival will open with the UK premiere of Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross's In Bloom, a drama about two young girls growing up in newly-independent Georgia in 1992.
The girls' lives are set against the changing face of the country, which is in the throes of civil war.
Eka and Natia are best friends who like to talk about music and boys, but are forced to grow up quickly as insecurity invades their everyday lives.
The festival closes with another UK premiere, a screening of Swim Little Fish Swim.
Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar's French-American comedy-drama follows three ordinary people – a scrimped nurse from New York, her head-in-the-clouds husband and the independence-seeking daughter of a world famous artist – as they try to make sense of their lives.
Swim Little Fish Swim's score has contributions from the likes of Last Good Tooth guitarist Penn Sultan, Candace Lee Camacho, and The Toys and Tiny Instruments.
There is also still time to book tickets for Bird’s Eye View’s International Women’s Day screening of Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines at BFI Southbank, London.
Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and produced by Kelcey Edwards, Wonder Women! offers a vital and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated super-hero genre.
Story published on Women's Views on News, 5 March 2014.
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