Salisbury International Arts Festival 21 May - 05 June 2010

Broken Promise (UK Premier) + Q&A with lead actor Samo Spisak Salisbury Arts Centre Wed 26 May @ 7.30pm

This year The Festival presents a compelling selection of classic and recently released films - including three UK premieres - programmed around the themes of Russia and Eastern Europe, Storytelling and Growing Up.

Trailers:

Highlights include: Andre Tarkovsky’s haunting 1979 Science Fiction film Stalker which will be introduced by David Gillespie, Professor of Russian at the University of Bath; UK Premiere’s of two moving films about young people coming of age in the shadow of war – Broken Promise based on a remarkable true story of survival and resilience in WW2 and multi award winning Georgian film The Other Bank, set during the recent Georgia-Azerbaijan conflict. 

The Other Bank (UK Premier) Salisbury Arts Centre Tues 01 June @ 8pm

Also being shown are: A double bill of two of the most influential silent films ever made: Man with a Movie Camera and The Battleship Potemkin; The Last Station with Christopher Plumber and Oscar nominated Helen Mirren as Leo Tolstoy and his tempestuous wife Sofya in a funny and moving account of the great author’s final months; and Tulpan, a humorous and engaging story of a love struck young Shepherd set amidst the breathtaking landscape of the Kazakhstan Steppe. 

Man With a Movie Camera + Battleship Potemkin Salisbury Arts Centre Sat 29 May @ 7pm

To complement the Festival’s artistic focus on Storytelling, we have a number of films based on classic children’s stories, such as captivating Czech film Who’s Afraid of the Wolf?, which looks at the world through the eyes of a little girl obsessed with Little Red Riding Hood, Alice, Jan Svankmajer’s darkly inventive adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and we celebrate the centenary of influential Czech animator Karel Zeman with a rare screening of The Fabulous Adventues of Baron Munchausen.

The Fabulous Adventures of Baron Munchausen (centenary screening) Salisbury Arts Centre Sat 05 June @ 2pm

Full details can be found on the Festival Website.

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