LIDF 2018
plus extra film screenings all year around
Sponsorship and Advertising | Press | Log in

Fri01Jun

Difficult Loves

Venue: The Horse Hospital

1 June 2012 6:00 pm

Difficult Loves

UK Premiere
Lucina Gil | | 64 mins

“In my heart, I had a thorn of passion. One day I managed to rip it out. Now I don´t feel my heart anymore”. It is summer, a town in Spain, loves unfulfilled, loves blossoming, loves dormant. A universal tale. Summer, full of hope, comes and goes. ...read more

Fri01Jun

Uncle Nashaat

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

1 June 2012 5:30 pm

Uncle Nashaat

World Premiere Watch trailer
Aseel Mansour | 68 mins

There is always a time for the truth. ...read more

Fri01Jun

INDIGNADOS. How a Protest is Born

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

1 June 2012 4:00 pm

INDIGNADOS. Como nace una protesta

World Premiere
Miko Meloni | , | 51 mins

A group of citizens are protesting to defend their homes against the bank's abuses in the context of Indignados demonstrations. ...read more

Thu31May

HONK!

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

31 May 2012 9:00 pm

Honk!

UK Premiere
Arnold Galliard, Florent Vassaul | | 62 mins

At nightfall, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, surrounded by his family, a grandmother will attend the execution of her husband's murderer. In Oklahoma, a former death row inmate exonerated after 22 years in prison tells his amazing story. In Texas, a woman struggles against the criminal justice system for his son to survive, while he ...read more

Thu31May

Station Day

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

31 May 2012 8:00 pm

Station Day

European Premiere
John Dickinson | | 63 mins

Constitucion Station is a huge railway terminal in Buenos Aires. Here, filtered through the mundane stories of a mixed cast of characters, we view a day in the life of the station, and the station in the day of the life of the characters. The building speaks of their present tribulations, and of lives lived ...read more

Thu31May

All I Wanna Do

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

31 May 2012 7:00 pm

All I Wanna Do

UK Premiere
Michelle Medina | | 59 mins

48-year-old Simohamed works as a parking guard, but the has dreams. His 17-year-old son Ayoub once acted in a Hollywood film and thought he may go to Hollywood. It doesn't happen, so Ayoub turns to music and forms a hip hop group with his father. Like two fish out of water, the duo set out ...read more

Thu31May

Sailing Lessons + Forerunners

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

31 May 2012 6:00 pm

Sailing Lessons

World Premiere
Lina Žilinskaitė | , | 5 mins

A self portrait, this short film explores the gap between dreams and reality. It is an elegy for the beautiful world promised to us in the childhood and the struggles we face accepting the real, not so simple, world. ...read more

Forerunners

UK Premiere Watch trailer
Simon Wood | | 52 mins

No one comes from nothing. ...read more

Thu31May

Phnom Penh Lullaby

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

31 May 2012 4:00 pm

Phnom Penh Lullaby

London Premiere
Pawel Kloc | | 98 mins

An intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance. ...read more

Wed30May

Breathing Under Water

Venue: Roxy Bar and Screen

30 May 2012 8:30 pm

Breathing Under Water

+ Q&A with director UK Premiere
Hinnen Andri, Stefan Muggli | | 90 mins

The Jent family watch images from their super-8 film archive of a strong, bright-eyed youth, who moves with an extraordinary grace, taking a daring high dive into a pool of water. Then comes the day when the 19-year-old almost loses his life in a motorbike accident. After four weeks in a coma he wakes up, ...read more

Wed30May

El Medico – The Cubaton Story

Venue: Portobello PopUP Cinema

30 May 2012 8:30 pm

El Medico – The Cubaton Story

UK Premiere Watch trailer
DANIEL FRIDELL | , | 85 mins

Feature length documentary about the Cuban doctor Raynier Casamajor and his colorful struggle to become an international music artist. ...read more

iCal Import