Film Festival Showtimes!

2 weeks and over 30 films to inspire compassion, empathy, mischief and action. All the films featured in the festival have been put forward by students through the I want change facebook page.

The students who proposed the films will be hosteding them accordingley. All the films will be screened in Leeds University Union's Peanut Gallery. Come along, warm up, chill out, wake up and then get a grip.

Click on the films to see more information and trailers.

Week One 26th - 30th Jan

Mon 26^th – Latin America

1pm: Estrellas de La Linea
Director: Chema Rodriguez
110 minutes
A documentary about a group of Guatemalan sex workers who formed a soccer team in 2004 and joined their local five-a-side league. The league's organiser expelled them when their profession was revealed, bringing about a media frenzy.

5.30pm: The Revolution will not be Televised
Directors: Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Brian
74 minutes
When filming a documentary about the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, an Irish film crew found themselves in the heart of government when the coup broke out. Keeping the cameras rolling producing a unique glimpse into an event usually so clouded with propaganda.

Tues 27^th – Africa

1pm: Lumumba
Director: Raoul Peck
115 minutes
The tragic tale of a man who's vision for a free and democratic Congo is betrayed by imperialism, greed for mineral wealth, neo-colonialism and ultimately his own countrymen.

5.30: Daratt
Director: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
96 minutes
Vengeance and tenderness battle each other in post-war Chad, as Atim, 16, struggles to kill his father's murderer-turned-baker. In Nassara's bakery, the pounding heat intensifies as the uneasy relationship comes to its climax.

Wed 28^th – USA

1pm: Man on Wire
Director James Marsh
90 minutes
Have you ever wondered how to break into one of the most secure buildings on earth and engage in illegal activity? Philippe Petit's disregard for authority and safety alongside his passion for tight rope walking is inspiring to say the least.

3pm: Leon
Director: Luc Besson
110 minutes
The film illustrates the widespread corruption inherent in the war on drugs and shows how many innocent bystanders suffer when you wage an unwinnable war on personal morals.

5.30pm: The Color Purple
Director: Steven Spielberg
154 minutes
An uneducated woman who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive

Thurs 29^th – UK

1pm: Dark Days
94 minutes
Director: Marc Singer
Winner of 4 awards, Dark Days follows the lives of various homeless and drug addicted people living in the dark, deserted tunnels of New York's subway systems. The film's soundtrack was created by renowned artist, DJ Shadow.

5.30pm: Injustice
Directors: Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood
100 minutes
Injustice depicts the struggle for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody. Since 1969 more than one thousand people have died in custody in England. Not one police officer has ever been convicted for these deaths.

7.30pm: This is England
Director: Shane Meadows
101 minutes
Recession, Unemployment, An Imperialist war, a lot has changed since 1982!

Fri 30^th – Middle East

1pm: Paradise Now
Director:
90 minutes
Palestinians Said and Khaled have volunteered to be suicide bombers in Israel. When the action is postponed at the last minute they get the chance to think again about what they're about to do.

5.30pm: Heavy Metal in Bagdad
Directors: Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti
84 minutes
There is only 1 heavy metal band in Iraq. This is the story of them trying to stay together and stay alive!

8.00pm Taxi to the Dark Side
Director: Alex Gibney
106 minutes
An Oscar winning documentary that investigates the shocking mistreatment of United States' prisoners of war held in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay by probing the torture and death of Dilawar, an innocent Afghan cabdriver.

Portuguese Weekend Special

Sat 31st

15.00pm Napumoceno’s Will (O testamento do Senhor Napumoceno)
Director: Francisco Manso
108 min,
The film follows Napumoceno and his decision on the beneficiary of his will. The discovery of his illegitimate daughter leads him to leave her all his fortune and a series of tapes that reveal his life; letting his daughter get close to the father she never met.

7:30pm Widow and rich no longer a bitch (Viúva rica solteira não fica)
Dir. Director: José Fonseca e Costa
135 min,
Ana Catarina returns to Brazil to marry a man whom she does not know. She becomes a widow and an orphan and meets Adriano, a farmer whom she is not allowed to marry; later he returns a rich man.

Sun 1st

3pm Special surprise Brazilian film with an introductory talk by Dr. Stephani Dennison.
Specialist in Brazilian cinema, Portuguese Department, University of Leeds

7pm 20,13
Director: Joaquim Leitão
108 min

Week Two 2nd - 6th Feb

Mon 2^nd – Activism

1pm: No Lagers (No Detention)
39 mins.
An inspiring and powerful look at resistance to immigration detention centres from across Europe.

2pm: From the Top Down
38minutes
Director: Daniel Vockins
Students at Sussex explore what's going wrong with their university, why it's happening and what they can do to create change. What can students at Leeds learn from one of the most active groups of students in the country?

3.00pm: If you want you can
An positive documentary about a bunch of kids in Massachusetts who get together, organise punk shows, and just have FUN. If it doesn't make you want to get up and do something positive, then nothing will!

5.30: Yes Men
Directors: Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith
80 minutes
The Yes Men are a group of prankster activists who - by pretending to be the people they hate – expose the real agenda of the world’s worst organisations. This hilarious & inspiring documentary follows their actions against the WTO.

7.30: On the Verge
Directors: Smash EDO
90 minutes
Using activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement and direct action scene.

Tues 3^rd – Human Rights

1pm: Youth and Revolution in Indonesia
35 minutes
In 1998 the US-backed Suharto dictatorship – infamous for massacring over 500,000 Indonesian communists – was smashed by a mass movement of students and workers. This documentary follows the revolutionary movement of 1998 and asks “how much have things really changed?”

2.30pm: Si Nos Dejan (If they let us)
72 minutes
Dir. Ana Torres
A documentary about migrants, made by migrants in Barcelona. A beautiful tragicomedy. We follow some great characters as their stories are woven together to leave us with a real sense of solidarity.

5.30pm: The Unwinking Gaze
Director: Joshua Dugdale
69 minutes
The Unwinking Gaze is an eye-opening documentary that follows the Dalai Lama over a period of three years 'showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China.

7.30pm: In prison my whole life
Director: Marc Evens
90 minutes
Activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous and controversial Death Row inmate. This moving film is about the struggle for equality, fairness and respect, and provides insight into the subject of the death penalty.

Wed 4^th – Corporate Power

1pm: Black Gold
Directors: Marc and Nick Francis
78 minutes
As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.

3pm McLibal
85 minutes
McLibal is the incredible true story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald's in a seven year legal battle since described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history". Depicts the courageous struggle by local residents of Mayo, Western Ireland, to get Shell's toxic refinery and gas pipeline out of their community.

5.30pm Lord of War
Director: Andrew Niccol
122 minutes
This brave black-as-coal comedy follows the story of a globetrotting arms dealer (Nicolas Cage) who struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) while traveling through some of the deadliest war zones to supply some of the world’s most notorious dictators.

Thurs 5^th – Climate Change

1pm: Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip
Director: Leo
11 minutes
This really isn't about polar bears any more. At this very moment, the fate of civilization itself hangs in the balance. If this short animated film doesn’t make you wake up and freak out then nothing will!

3pm: Garbage Warrior
Director: Oliver Hodge
86 minutes
The epic story of radical Earthship eco architect Michael Reynolds, and his fight to build off-the-grid self-sufficient communities in New Mexico. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy.

5.30pm: A Crude Awakening
Directors: Basil Gelpke, Ray MocCormack and Reto Caduff
85 minutes
Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits the world's top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

Friday 6^th – The Media

1pm: Collateral Damage
Directors: National Union of Journalists
11 minutes
The beacon of a free and democratic society is a free press, unhindered by intimidation, surveillance and violence. This hard-hitting short film tackles the modern problem of police surveillance of bona fide journalists who document political dissent.

5.30pm: Wag the Dog
Director: Barry Levinson
97 minutes
As a re-election approaches, rumors start that the US president has assaulted a young girl. To distract from the story, the president's spin doctor (Robert De Niro) hires a Hollywood director (Dustin Hoffman) to conjure up a war with Albania.