ACE

Every Sunday at 3pm; all shown at ACE. All Screenings are FREE / Donation.

currently showing:

9th March
3pm – YASMIN
[Dir. Kenneth Glenaan][2005][87mins][English subs.]
This film looks at a young Muslim woman living in Britain campaigning for
the release of her immigrant husband from his detainment in a holding
centre. Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community,
she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the
traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed
marriage with the illegal immigrant Faysal to facilitate the British stamp
in his passport, and then divorce him.

*This session also to incorporate some feminist short films in support of International Women’s Day.

16th March

3pm – Roozi Ke zan shodam (aka The day I became a woman)
[Dir. Marzieh Makhmalbaf] [2000] [78mins]

Eloquent, elegant and minimal. This is the story of women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday. The second part is about a young woman who decides to enter a bicycle race against her husband’s wishes. Finally, the third shows us an old woman who has come into some money and is now free to do what she wants. The way she chooses to use this freedom, however, makes one wonder just how free she is.
23rd March
3pm – GERMANY IN AUTUMN
[Dir. Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos et al] [1978] [123mins] [English subs.]
Melancholic semi-documentary about the West Germany’s traumatic autumn of
1977 known as “Deutschland Herbst”. The prominent businessman Hanns Martin
Schleyer who was a member of the board of directors in Daimler Benz and
leader in several employer and industry associations was kidnapped and
killed by extreme-left Red Army Faction (RAF). He was formerly SS and
worked as an important deputy and adviser to Bernhard Adolf, one of the
German economic leaders. Schleyer’s uncompromising position towards
workers made him a target in the West Germany.

30th March
3pm – WITHOUT TEARS – THE LENNY BRUCE STORY
[Dir. Fred Baker] [1972] [78mins]
The story of the pioneering taboo-breaking comedian Lenny Bruce, The film
makes the case that Bruce was impoverished and broken by a series of
unjust arrests and prosecutions in the 1960s. Clips of Bruce performances,
“bits” as he calls them, dominate the film, from Steve Allen’s TV show to
night-club appearances late in life when he would mine his arrests for
material.

6th April
3pm – FALSE-FLAG & STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM – A HISTORY
[Presented by Webster Tarpley] [2007] [120mins]
Recorded presentation given last year in Edinburgh documenting the long
history of states and governments funding and carrying out terrorist
attrocities for political, strategic and financial gain.
5pm – THE 911 ISSUE – THE KEY TO STOPPING WORLD WAR 3
[Presented by Webster Tarpley] [2005] [120mins]
An in-depth look at the media and government propagated myths surrounding
the events of 911 and their relation to subsequent formation of foreign
policy, middle-eastern invasions, resource wars and the phoney “War on
Terror”.

13th April
3pm – OUR BRAND IS CRISIS
[Dir. Rachel Boynton] [2005] [87mins]
American mercenary consultants led by James Carville go to Bolivia to
influence and control the 2002 Bolivian Presidential Campaign. They claim
to represent the candidate who stands the best chance of improving the
plight of the Bolivian people, but in fact they are representing the
candidate willing to pay them to come to Bolivia. Their client Gonzal
Sanchez De Lozada is an arrogant ruling class cigar-chomping goof who does
whatever the consultants say.
5pm – AMERICAN BLACKOUT
[Dir. Ian Inaba] [2006] [89mins]
Chronicles the recurring patterns of the disenfranchisement of African
American voters and other minority groups witnessed during US elections
from 2000 to 2004, while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney, who took an active role in investigating these election
debacles and allegations of voting fraud.

20th April
3pm – TAKING LIBERTIES SINCE 1997
[Dir. Chris Atkins] [2007] [101mins]
Film documenting the infringment of civil liberties in the UK over the
last 10 years. Looks at new legeslation, police powers and technology and
its effects on the right to free speech, the right to protest, the right
to privacy, the perpetuation of fear in the “war on terror” and the
general quashing of political dissent.
5pm – SUSPECT NATION
[Dir. Neil Ferguson] [2006] [47mins]
A technology focussed look into the UK slide towards a “Surveillance
Society”, “Big Brother”, CCTV, ID cards, Biometric Passports, and the
increasing “Database State” which is beginning to penetrate almost every
aspect of our lives. The program communicates the unfortunate reality that
these so-called security measures and legislation effectively label us all
as criminal suspects and do very little to actually protect people from
terrorism and crime (their stated purpose) in proportion to their cost.

27th April
3pm – CHAIN CAMERA
[Dir. Kirby Dick] [2001] [90mins]
From the director of “Sick” comes a film made with footage from 10
camcorders shared between 4192 school kids from John Marshall High School,
Los Angeles. Original and candid, this documentary represents our
multi-cultural environment.

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Screenings begin promtly at 3pm, please try to be there on time; sessions
also include time for discussions and a swapshop for related materials.
You are welcome to bring along drinks & snacks to share and if you have
any ideas for films you think need to be seen, or suggestions for
alternative screening times/days, please do let us know.