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About Elly
Desert Flower The film explores the issue of Female Genital Mutilation, a custom deeply rooted in culture and tradition and a violation of human rights that affects millions of women and girls worldwide and puts thousands at risk in the UK. To book your free place, please contact: Kate Barrick on 01387 245 190 or at Kate.Barrick@dumgal.gov.uk Registration and tea/coffee from 5.00pm The Imposter Wed 28 & Thur 29 (7.30) November The Snows of Kilimanjaro This is an ultimately hopeful film, brimming with passion, humanity and political conviction. The Gruffalo's Child
Family workshop also available Ginger and Rosa
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Three families holiday together at a
remote and run-down cabin, taking
with them a young woman, Elly. When
she disappears, concern soon turns
to recrimination as the fabric of these
familes’ worlds is torn apart. ‘About
Elly’ is a complex moral tale whose
Hitchcockian elements make for
compelling cinema. It is directed by
Asghar Farhadi, a great talent in
Iranian cinema, whose latest film ‘A
Separation’ has been a worldwide hit.
FREE PUBLIC SCREENING
A documentary about a young French
con artist who convinces a grieving
Texas family that he is their 16 year
old son who had been missing for 3
years, despite his French accent and
different coloured eyes. This film has
testimony from both the con-artist
and the family as the film-makers try
to piece together how the deception
occurred. A gripping thriller straight
out of real life, ‘The Imposter’ is an
original film experience that walks
the razor’s edge between true-crime
documentary and stylish noir mystery.
Political storytelling at its most entertaining. This film
centres on the lives of factory workers in a working-class
district of Marseille. Union rep Michel is made redundant
and hopes to set off on a holiday of a lifetime to Tanzania
with his wife Marie-Claire. However a shocking incident
scuppers their plans and they get drawn into a tale of
conflicted morals. 
The wonderful thing about great books is that they can be
made into great films too! Once again we venture into the
deep, dark wood and encounter Snake, Owl and Fox, who
are on their way to a showdown with Mouse. But is he as
big and bad as everyone says? We also include two more
short films that complement the themes of the Gruffalo’s
Child, and provide fresh perspective on the well-loved
Gruffalo tales.
An autobiographical film by British
director Sally Potter. Set in London
in 1962 it is the tale of two best
friends caught up in their own
emotional turmoil, as well as the
political turmoil of the time. This film
expertly captures the period of early
sixties London, a time of optimism
and change but also a time of fear
as the Cuban Missile Crisis loomed.
It’s a delicate and intelligent drama
with standout performances from
newcomers Elle Fanning and Alice
Englert.