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BFFS Yorkshire Group Viewing Day and AGM 2012

Sunday 13th May 2012 at the National Media Museum, Bradford.

Title

A

B

C

D

E nos RI
The Well Digger's Daughter

22

8

4

0

0

34

88

We Have a Pope

7

11

4

1

0

24

74

Midnight in Paris

9

4

2

1

2

18

74

Le Havre

9

11

5

4

0

29

72

Jane Eyre

3

5

7

3

0

18

61

The Kautokeino Rebellion

0

2

8

5

4

2

55

Salt of Life

1

9

3

3

4

18

50

Nostalgia for the Light

3

4

5

7

3

22

47

A Screaming Man

2

3

5

4

3

17

46

A Useful Life

0

2

2

4

5

2

45

* What is an R.I ?
Cubby Broccoli Cinema Room at the Top Conference Suite
10:00 Registration, tea/coffee
10:20 Still from 'The Well-Diggers Daughter'.THE WELL DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
Dir. Daniel Auteuil France 2011 109 mins

Set in rural pre-war Provence. Auteuil plays a widower bringing up six daughters, who is upset when his eldest daughterfalls pregnant to the rakish son of a local businessman . A striking directorial debut from Daniel Auteuil.

11:00 Still from 'A Useful Life'.A USEFUL LIFE
Dir. Federico Veiroj, Uruguay, 2010, 67mins

Cinema programmer Jorge has spent much of his life sifting through old reels and reviving classic films but his crumbling arthouse cinema in Montevideo is now under threat and he seems powerless to stop the inevitable.

11:30 Still from 'Midnight in Paris'.MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (excerpt)

Woody Allen's new romantic comedy where a Hollywood screen-writer in Paris with his fiancée takes a midnight stroll and finds himself back in the 1920s.

12:05 lunch 12:05 lunch
12:40 YORKSHIRE GROUP AGM
13:15 Still from 'Le Havre'.LE HAVRE
Dir. Aki Kaurismaki, Finland/France 2011 93 mins

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, fate throws him into the path of Marcel, an ageing bohemian, who works as a shoe-shiner and who takes pity on the boy and welcomes him into his home.

13:15 Still from 'The Salt of Life'.THE SALT OF LIFE
Dir. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2011, 90mins

Smothered by his mother, ignored by his wife and befriended (against his will) by his daughter's layabout boyfriend, Gianni finds retirement to be not quite what he'd hoped for. He sets out to find himself a love life.

15:00 Still from 'Nostalgia for the Light'.NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
Dir. Patricio Guzman, France/Chile 2010 90 mins

In Chile's Atacama Desert, 10,000 feet above sea level, the driest place on earth, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life and archaeologists study pre-Columbian rock-carvings. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

15:00 Still from 'We Have a Pope'.WE HAVE A POPE (excerpt)

A new Pope is elected but decides he does not want the job and does a runner during a walkabout in Rome.

15:30 Still from 'Jane Eyre'.JANE EYRE (excerpt)

A good-looking, serious and well-acted version of the Bronte classic with Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester

16:00 Still from 'A Screaming Man'.A SCREAMING MAN (excerpt)

A drama from Chad about betrayal, guilt and denial when a former swimming champion loses his job to his son as civil war begins to engulf the country.

16:30 Still from 'The Kautokeino Rebellion'.THE KAUTOKEINO REBELLION (excerpt)

A sweeping Nordic epic based on the Kautokeine riots in Norway in 1852 in response to the repression of the Sami people.

16:35 finish 17:00 finish