Monday 23 Apr To Sunday 29 Apr 2007
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Festival: Polytechnic: Datarama
23 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Free! With visiting artist Myron Campbell! Dominic Smith / Sarah Cook (guest) info@starandshadow.org.uk
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No Events Scheduled
24 Apr 2007
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Film: Coal Not Dole: Miners' Campaign Tapes (1984)
25 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
This collection of 10 'trigger tapes' vividly show the mass struggles of the 1984 Miners Striker, with footage from various film groups across Britain. The concise but incisive analysis of politics, the role of the media and the police at the time remain as relevant as ever.
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Film: Bamako (2006)
26 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights…
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Film: Bamako (2006)
27 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights…
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Film: Devi (1960)
28 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Devi focuses on a young woman who is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal landlord, envisions her as the Goddess Kali - a great depiction of the crisis faced by people struggling to be modern yet encumbered with the traditional systems and the spectre of having been colonized.
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Film: The Public Enemy (1931)
29 Apr 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Hey you dirty rats, come see a Jimmy Cagney Double Bill!
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Film: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
29 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
This time we see James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed up with Humphrey Bogart. A great gangster movie that follows two Hell's Kitchen street kids' lives. 'Always remember: Don't be a sucker!'