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This gripping real-time documentary captures the harrowing rescue of 104 people from a sinking rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean, offering a raw and visceral portrayal of the global migration crisis. With multiple cameras documenting every agonising moment, One Hundred and Four immerses viewers in the tense, step-by-step operation at sea, while pushing them to confront ethical and moral boundaries.
The film is screening as part of this year's FOKUS: Film From Germany season, showcasing highlights of German cinema in venues across Scotland. The festival is realised by Goethe-Institut Glasgow in cooperation with and supported by Film Hub Scotland. Tickets are £2.50 full / £1.25 access.
Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
For this special Reel to Real Cinema evening, we will be heading across to our friends at the RBC Film Theatre for a screening of HOUSE OF GLOSS, an intimate and affectionate portrait of a queer trans femme couple — Opal, a drag queen, and Lana, a DJ & graffiti writer, created by D&G based filmmaker and sound artist Mark Lyken. After the film we will be joined by Mark for a Q&A style discussion. Please note the Stove café will not be open for this event!
Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland & Hope Scott Trust.
About Reel to Real:
Reel to Real Cinema is a monthly film space in the Stove Café. Featuring an eclectic mixture of conversational films – from artist made shorts to feature length documentaries, locally made to international cinema, Reel to Real is a space for discussion and thought-provoking films, you are welcome to join us after the film for a short discussion about the themes from this month’s selection.
In our annual Book Week Scotland event, poet JoAnne McKay will draw on her current reading to explore how museums, and archaeology, are going to be tools for dealing with the climate crisis, and how past strategies and technologies may be needed to assist with our future. Combining readings from Reinventing Sustainability (Guttman-Bond) and Museums and Societal Collapse (Robert Janes) along with her own poetry, JoAnne will offer a unique insight into this fascinating topic.
JoAnne has selected the documentary Jane Goodall - Reasons for Hope (Dir David Lickle, 2023, 45 mins). Drawing on decades of work by the world’s most famous living ethologist and environmentalist, Reasons for Hope, is an uplifting journey around the globe to highlight good news stories that will inspire people to make a difference in the world around them.
It’s the year 2073 where the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while humans hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.
The next documentary in artist-filmmaker Margy Kinmonth’s trilogy exploring how artists depict war following Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War.
War Paint – Women At War shines a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it's life or death, what do women see that men don't?
Artists featured include Dame Rachel Whiteread, Zhanna Kadyrova, Maggi Hambling, Assil Diab, Dame Laura Knight, Marcelle Hanselaar, Cornelia Parker, Maya Lin, Shirin Neshat and Lee Miller. An entirely female cast of contributors makes this film a unique undertaking – telling vital truths in turbulent times.
Screening in association with Dumfries Fairtrade in recognition of World Fairtrade Day. Followed by informal Q&A.
When a massive Chinese factory complex in rural Ethiopia plans an ambitious expansion to a second site, the realities of industrialisation are pulled into focus.
Made in Ethiopia takes a panoramic view, following three women involved in the project from polar perspectives: Motto, the formidable businesswoman in charge of the expansion project, factory worker Beti who has staked her future on the work opportunities the factory provides, and farmer Workinesh, whose land has been earmarked for the new industrial park.
Filmed over four years, Made in Ethiopia lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound change.
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