CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL in LONDON
Sorry for the plagarism, but my mate Verena from the Curzon sent this over. Thought you might be interested.
CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL in LONDON
Curzon Soho on until the 15th of July.
From 6-15 July, the Cambridge Film Festival comes to London! For the first time ever, the Curzon Soho will host a small selection of the eclectic and exciting world-cinema titles on offer at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival. The Curzon Soho is showing four features, including the Croatian film THE MELON ROUTE with actor Kresimir Mikic in attendance, plus a programme of trail-blazing shorts.
Tuesday 10 July, 6.15pm
The Melon Route, dir Branko Schmidt, Croatia 2006, 89mins
Croatian actor Kresimir Mikic will introduce The Melon Route which follows the journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Friday 13 July, 6.30pm
Waitress written and directed by Adrienne Shelly starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion Cheryl Hines, USA 2007, 104mins
An audience hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Waitress serves up a sweet, sassy and delicious slice of life, revealing the power of friendship, motherhood and the willingness to take a chance. It’s the story of a small town woman who transforms her hopeless life into a hilarious and unexpected love story. This vibrantly different romantic comedy is the final film from writer-director Adrienne Shelly.
Saturday, 14 July, 6.30pm
Shorts programme: Destination Unknown (95mins)
A programme of six shorts from Germany, Finland, Hungary, USA, Chile and Poland featuring travelling banknotes, an old house stuck in a time capsule, 1960s American hypnotised by an interstellar song… taking in abandoned landscapes in Lapland with a drunken old man challenged by rabbits and his grown-up son, two women going on a liberating road trip, and a would-be immigrant who does not end in the country she expected.
Sunday, 15 July, 6.30pm
Shorts programme: Personal Stories From Across the Globe (110mins)
The world is full of personal stories; in the larger scheme of things, a romantic liaison, a family tryst, the nuances amongst a group of kids, as well as the more harrowing personal stories we come across in footnotes inside newspapers. All these tales are universal, whether on the desert wastelands of the Middle East, the village life of rural Brazil, the idyllic coasts and wooded bays of the Greek Islands, or the harbour-front of a New Zealand port.

