WED 10 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




World Documentaries 2


6 pm


WANDERING
Benoit Maestre. 44 mins. France experimental documentary. 12
A wordless film, a documentary wandering
A hallucinatory contemplative meditation
At the crossroads of the Mediterranean and Africa
Humans and the animal world
From fresh water to the desert
An escape

What I am here [Ce que je suis ici]
Stéphanie Lessard-Bérubé. Documentary, short. Canada 30 mins. U
To the rhythm of a spring day, « What I am here » paints a sensitive portrait
of four residents who invite you to step into the home they inhabit today.
Come and discover their stories for a day.

Nakatuenitam innu-aitun (Preserve our Culture)
Edouard Kaltush
Transmission, Snowshoeing Ancestral. 6 mins. U. Canada
For Edouard Kaltush, the Innu culture is a remedy that must be practised and preserved. To pass on his traditional skills, he teaches three children in his community how to weave snowshoes and fish for lobster at low tide.

CUT
ADNAN TAHERI. SHORT DOCUMENTARY, ETHNOGRAPHY. 26 mins. Iran 12
The elderly Madhoor lives with his family in Shadegan, a city where many date palms have perished due to years of drought. Despite these conditions, Madhoor is in a constant battle and supplies water for his palm trees every day with his tricycle. Being passionate about acting, his love for this acting test with his daily life. While caring for the palms, he listens to the film's soundtrack. He participates in auditions for cinema projects and in different situations, he feels a sense of kinship with scenes from various films. Watching movies and practicing acting are part of his daily routine, hoping to one day see his own image on the cinema screen.

LARA- The Man Who Took On Escobar
Mags Gavan. Documentary thriller. Human Rights 90 mins. UK. 12A
Jorge Lara returns to his homeland of Colombia after nearly three decades in exile. His father was the politician Rodrigo Lara Bonilla who exposed Pablo Escobar’s dirty money in politics and was assassinated by him. Jorge finds a hidden book with his father’s notes on Politicians who were connected to Escobar before he died, many still living free in Colombia. Jorge sets out to bring those politicians to justice but in a bizarre twist of fate, he meets Escobars son and becomes best friends.

LIVING ON THE EDGE
1987, MICHAEL GRIGSBY. DOCUMENTARY. 76 mins London. 12A
The Dark Side Of Thatcher's Britain. “One of the most original documentaries...on British national televisionduringthe1980’s” (JohnCorner,TheArtOfRecord'1996).“Grigsby’smasterpiece” (NFT Retrospective 2004)


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