Branchage Festival, Jersey
The nation's most intrepid film festival offers up another eclectic mix of music-backed movies and screenings in whatever novel locations the island can muster. So in the latter camp, you can watch surf films at the local surfboard factory, Afghanistan doc Restrepo in the army barracks, Of Gods And Men in a church, and rustic hits like Le Quattro Volte in a barn. In the former, DJ Rob Da Bank mixes a new score for King Kong, and London psych-rockers Teeth Of The Sea "re-imagine" dystopian thriller Doomsday.
Various venues, Thu to 25 Sep
Winds Of Change: Cinema From Muslim Societies, London
There has been extra interest in Arab cinema since the Arab spring but this is the first festival to come as a direct response to it. As such, it assembles films dealing with democracy, modernity, human rights and religion. Not that Arab cinema wasn't dealing with...
The nation's most intrepid film festival offers up another eclectic mix of music-backed movies and screenings in whatever novel locations the island can muster. So in the latter camp, you can watch surf films at the local surfboard factory, Afghanistan doc Restrepo in the army barracks, Of Gods And Men in a church, and rustic hits like Le Quattro Volte in a barn. In the former, DJ Rob Da Bank mixes a new score for King Kong, and London psych-rockers Teeth Of The Sea "re-imagine" dystopian thriller Doomsday.
Various venues, Thu to 25 Sep
Winds Of Change: Cinema From Muslim Societies, London
There has been extra interest in Arab cinema since the Arab spring but this is the first festival to come as a direct response to it. As such, it assembles films dealing with democracy, modernity, human rights and religion. Not that Arab cinema wasn't dealing with...
- 9/16/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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