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The East End Film Festival

The 2009 East End Film Festival launches tomorrow - in the words of the organisers:The East End Film Festival showcases hot new talent and homegrown films alongside larger independent releases and special events, informing and inspiring a new generation of filmmakers and audiences from across London and beyond, and raising the profile of this [...]

43.3km Transylvanian Timber

43.3km Transylvanian Timber

My second review for the London International Documentary Festival website is of Georg Tiller and Claudio Pfeifer's almost wordless Austrian meditation about two very diverse professions - logging and border patrolling - operating in the same remote valley in Romania, inaccessible except by narrow-gauge railway. Much of it played out to me like [...]