LIDF

Day 1. Programme. 23rd November

Venue: The Archivist, Unit V Reliance Wharf, 2-10 Hertford Road, London, N1 5ET http://www.thearchivist.co.uk/

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10.00 (International Shorts)

Callum Innes Exposed
Gautier Deblonde | 2017 | Scotland | 12

Callum Innes, born in 1962, is one of the most important Scottish minimalist painters of his generation. His paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of paint from the canvases surface with turpentine. Filmed during 5 days, in silent sequence shots, we see the artist at work, in the solitude of his studio.

On Such and Such a Day
Natalie Khoo | 2013 | Singapore | 14

An intimate documentary of the filmmaker’s grandmother. Natalie and her grandma Ellen’s relationship is on the brink of change. As Natalie moves out of home, old photographs are unearthed, leading to a time of recollection for Grandma, highly personal reminiscences of her life both past and present.

Hidden
Oliver Wilkins | 2017 | UK/Yemen | 9

On a remote Yemeni Island the local inhabitants debate the existence of a hidden population living in the landscape around them.

One Carefree Night
Elles van Gelder | 2017 | Netherlands/South Africa | 15

A story about teenagers growing up in the suburb Manenberg in Cape Town, South Africa, where gangsters roam and drug use is rampant. We follow the few teens who go to high-school in the hope to escape their violent neighborhood.

11.00

Ink Under the Skin (De l’encre sous la peau) 
Suzanne Chupin | 2017 | France | 51

Nowadays, seeing a tattoo is not unusual: you see them when someone rolls up their sleeves or when their sweater rises on their hips. Why do people mark their skin? Tattoos used to be subversive and shameful, but are now commonplace. What do they tell us about individual needs and contemporary body fashion?

12.30

The Horn
Frederik Jan Depickere | 2017 | Columbia/Belgium | 50

As a human being, aka “The Horn” – a former Colombian guerrilla commander – leaves much to be desired. Based on the principles laid out in Sergey Nechayev´s infamous Revolutionary Catechism, he cheated, extorted and murdered, up until reaching absolute self-fulfilment in the far north of Sweden.
A haunting, disturbing gaze into the mind of a sociopath, against the backdrop of the immigration crisis.

13.30

Welcome to Refugeestan
Anne Poiret | 2016 | France 71

Almost 17 million people – refugees, displaced persons or migrants – live in camps, in a virtual country the size of the Netherlands. And yet the names of these places do not appear on any maps. The UNHCR and NGOs have developed ways of running them that are both efficient and absurd. This film explores the land of camps, from Kenya, to Tanzania, Jordan, and the Greece-Macedonia border, as well as at the UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva. It reveals an immense system that combines humanitarian concerns with the management of undesirables who rich countries want to keep out, whatever the cost.

14.45

Braving the Waves
Mina Keshavarz | 2017 | Iran | 90

Roghieh is a woman in Southern Iran who is trying to secure jobs for women in her community. She has created and manages a Bazaar where over 800 women work, but a local politician, the mayor, threatens her. He wants to destroy the Bazaar and build a big shopping mall.

16.15 (International Shorts)

Freedom
Kathrin Steinbacher | 2017 | UK/Austria | 3

Striving for a professional skiing career means great pressure. This animated documentary explores high expectations, frustration and anxiety.

Nine Letters
Cristina Müller | 2017 | USA /Brasil | 21

The sensation of living in New York, away from home, is shared by those who come to live in this great metropolis from elsewhere.  In Nine Letters, this experience of ‘here and there’ is conveyed by letters, and by images of everyday urban life, evoking the dream state of the present imbued by the past

Giuseppe Paolino | 2013 | Italy | 19

A day in the life of the Veddasca valley, on the border between Italy and Switzerland, where a species is at risk of extinction.

The Collection
Adam Roffman | 2017 | USA | 11

Two friends stumble upon a unique and valuable piece of motion picture history in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Mechanical Ballet
Lorraine Feline | 2013 | France | 22

The Mechanical Ballet was shot in London inside a pointe shoes factory, ballet shoes worn by classical dancers. The film focuses in particular on the gesture of the workers, and the mechanics that are used in the manufacture of a future dance tool.

17.15

Curiosity, Adventure & Love
Sunshine Lichauco de Leon & Suzanne Richiardone | 2017 | Philippines | 62

The story of a 105-year old American woman who, driven by curiosity, adventure and love, journeys alone to the Philippines at age 18.

The Legend
Charlotte Bruneau | 2013 | Luxembourg | 49

Once upon a time, David Ben-Gourion dreamt of  an army that would embody the physical strength and the will to exist of the Jewish nation. More than 60 years later, many young Israelis seek a way out. We meet them in India after military service, in Berlin while they try to start a new life or in Israel where they speak out against the occupation. While their dreams might differ, they share a same longing: not for land anymore, but for identity.

19.15

Refuge
Matthew K. Firpo | 2016 | UK | 20

Refuge is a multimedia project chronicling human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. Shot on location in Greece, January 2016.

Mum, Me and the House
Marjolijn Prins |2016 | Belgium |38

When Debbie (47) is diagnosed with cancer her son Sam (27) decides to postpone his plans to travel the world. He is convinced the incessant work renovating her dream house on the French countryside is the main cause of her illness. Together they undertake a journey to find the right course of treatment. Though this brings them closer together than they’d ever been, whenever they get back to the house, Debbie falls straight back into her old, industrious habits.

20.30

Portrait of a Young Woman
Stephane Arnoux | 2017 | France | 80

‘Misungui’ is Marion’s pseudonym. Her identity is built on sensual or startling pictures that abound on social networks. In queer Parisian circles, she is famous for her erotic and situationist performances. In “real life”, the young libertarian feminist lives as a squatter, as she waits for the opportunity to carry out another self-managed project somewhere else. In the meantime, she tries to link together precariousness and invention, intimacy and politics.