STORYTRAILS VIRTUAL REALITY
TOWN HALL
Saturday 28 March 10:30 AM until 5:30 PM Book your half-hour session at the Festival Desk
FREE (no ticket or pass needed) Come and engage with a digitally created world. The StoryTrails team will guide you through immersive experiences to travel through time and space, with six different virtual worlds to explore.
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Social justice warrior Clarissa Doutherd leads a coalition fighting a tenacious battle for childcare and early education funding.
Director: Tamara Perkins | 2022 | USA | 89 mins | 15 | Documentary Q&A with activist Jane Gregory |
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WINNERS
PICTURE HOUSE
Saturday 25 March Doors 10:00 AM | Session 10:30 AM | End 12:30 PM In a small Iranian town, cinema-crazy nine-year-old Yahya and Leyla eke out a living sorting rubbish. One day they find an Oscar statuette and start their journey to find its rightful owner.
Director: Hassan Nazer | 2022 | Iran | 85 mins | PG | Farsi with subtitles Q&A with Nadira Murray (Producer) and Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (School of African Studies, University of London) Co-presented by:
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Follows designer Amy Powney (from cult brand Mother of Pearl) in her journey to create the first ever sustainable clothing collection and transform the way we engage with fashion.
Director: Becky Hutner | 2022 | UK | 100 mins | 12A | Documentary Q&A with Julia Roebuck (Upcycle Fashion) and Jean Tallis (WI) |
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Jean, a lesbian PE teacher in the time of Section 28, leads a double life. When a new student arrives, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.
Director: Georgia Oakley | 2022 | UK | 97 mins | 15 |
Q&A with Kerrie Hayes (actor), Hélène Sifre (producer), and Catherine Lee & Sarah Squires (the women who inspired the story) |
UTAMA
TOWN HALL
Saturday 25 March Doors 4:10 PM | Session 4:30 PM | End 6:00 PM In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple are threatened by an uncommonly long drought. Do they admit defeat and move to the city or maintain their traditional life?
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi | 2022 | Bolivia | 87 mins | 12A | Quechua & Spanish with subtitles
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NOBODY HAS TO KNOW
PICTURE HOUSE
Saturday 25 March Doors 4:15 PM | Session 4:45 PM | End 7:15 PM 
Director: Bouli Lanners | 2021 | Scotland | 99 mins | 12A
In the remote Outer Hebrides, Phil has a stroke and loses all memory of the past until he encounters Millie. Screening with INCOMPATIBLE Director: Maxine Peake | 2022 | UK | 15 mins | 15 Followed by Q&A with Maxine Peake and the team from Incompatible |
FULL TIME
TOWN HALL
Saturday 25 March Doors 7:40 PM | Session 8:00 PM | End 10:00 PM In this tense thriller, Julie, a single mum, juggles a stressful and low-paid job with precarious childcare and a long commute into Paris. Finally she gets an interview for a better job but is thwarted by a national transport strike.
Director: Eric Gravel | 2021 | France | 88 mins | 15 | French with subtitles
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Talented writer, investigative journalist and LGBTQ activist Lyra McKee was gunned down at the age of 29 while covering a riot in Derry. Moving and uplifting; her story, in her words.
Director: Alison Millar | 2022 | Northern Ireland | 92 mins | 15 | Documentary
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