As part of RBK&Cs InTransit Arts Festival, Portobello Film Festival Presents an evening of free World Cinema featuring some highlights from Portobello Film Festival 2014. rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/intransit/what/portobellofilmfestival.aspx Full programme: Douglas Adams Eat Your Heart Out David Ridley 7 minutes 12A When Douglas Adams hit puberty his childhood love of space is challenged by his new found interest in women. Which one will win? Breasts or the moon? Comedy Australia Hermeneutics Alexi Duitriev 3 minutes 12 A war film Experimental Russia Second Wind Sergey Tsyss 7 minutes U The last performance on the Earth. Drama Russia You Can’t Win (No Gano) Jorge Torres-Torres 12 minutes 12A A typical night at the cockfight in the island of Puerto Rico. Documentary USA The Red Carpet (La Alfombra Roja) Manuel Fernandez & Iosu Lopez 12 minutes U 158 million people live in the Indian slums under extremely insalubrious conditions. Millions of children play surrounded by rubbish, cows, rats and excrement. Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district (Bombay) is Rubina’s home, a 12-year old girl who aims to become an actress and change the slum into a cleaner and more habitable place. Documentary Spain The Diver Damon Mohl .14 minutes U The strange life of a plastic toy diver. Fantasy USA La Luz Del Mundo (The light Of The World) Fernando J. Martinez & Alfonso Garcia 17 minutes 12A The future. Humankind lives in unground cities, where sense of sight has been lost, being forgotten it ever existed. When some people start to get it back they are accused by the government of being sick, and return to the cities outdoor where once lived the human race, finding a dormant threat that has been hidden for generations. Science Fiction Spain The Last Cry Of the Dragon Jamil Hendi 32 minutes 12A Tomas comes home from work but his neighbour Amza, was screaming all day long, so he must pay him a visit. Drama Romania On The Beach Marie-Elsa Sguaido 15 minutes 12 It’s summer but life remains very complicated for 15-year-old Sara. Together with her little brother, she has been sent to spend the holidays at her mother’s. Thankfully there’s the beach and the boys. If only they could let her do as she wants Drama Switzerland The Parakeets (Les Perruches) Julie Voisin 14 minutes U Lili is a seriously ill young woman. The imagination of her friend Laura is going to change the course of a day, which had begun badly. Drama France Monsters Do Not Exist Paul Urkijo 10 minutes 15 Nai is a child who lives in Phonm Penh, Cambodia. Recently, he is having nightmares about the Yeak, a Khmer monster that eats naughty children. Michael, his English teacher at school, tells him that monsters don’t exist. he assures him that they are just children’s fantasies. The truth, however, is very different. Drama Spain Voice Over Martin Rosete 10 minutes 12A I-won’t-tell-you-whose voice over guides us through three extreme situations, which are actually the same. Will you survive? Sc-Fi Drama Spain Beerbug Ander Mendia 8 minutes 12 Joe, who is busy running an old roadside petrol station, decides to take a break and have a beer. His efforts at enjoying his beer fail because someone is robbing him right under his nose. Animation Spain Reverie Valentin Gagarin, Shujun Wong, and Robert Wincierz 13 minutes 12A An inconspicuous citizen on the way to work is torn out of his daily routine when he witnesses a rail suicide. The event haunts him in his imagination and mixes rapidly with his own reality of social downfall in a cascade of surreal nightmare. Animation Germany First Steps (Premiers Pas) Gregory Lecocq 18 minutes 15 Lea is about to give birth. She planned everything to get rid of the child. But when the “thing” becomes a being of flesh and blood, everything is quickly challenged. Drama Belgium Achttausend (Eight thousand) Simon-Niklas Scheuring 19 minutes 12 Jens and his girlfriend Nessi live in a run-down cellar flat. One night when he comes home with his face beaten bloody, both of them are aware that they have no more money and they start to argue. Drama Germany 1 Minus 1 Equals 0 (1 Minus 1 b Leich 0) Sylvania Pen 12 minutes 15 “1 Minus 1 Equals 0” shows us the reflected thoughts of a young woman, who is at the mercy of her inner emotional chaos − looking back at a time of inner conflict between her heart and ego, illusions and reality. Drama Germany Once Upon A Time In The Country Ricardo Machado 10 minutes 15 A bizarre and dangerous love triangle. A woman and a man are caught in the act. Will it be a case of washing honour with blood? Drama Portugal The Five Stages Of A One-Night Stand Brandon Buczek 4 minutes 15 A woman goes through the five stages of grief when she is called the wrong name during a one-night stand. Comedy USA
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