10.30am for 11am at the Renoir Cinema
OFFSIDE
Jafar Panahi, Iran 2006 [PG], 93 mins, Farsi with EST
A group of girls disguised as boys fail in their attempt to
watch the World Cup qualifier in Tehran's Azadi Stadium but hear the closing
victory en route to the regime's vice
squad to receive punishment for transgressing the moral code. In this witty and funny film, football is a
metaphor for criticism of the regime and the symbolic changes foreshadowed by
its young people; meanwhile the director
is held in prison and denied both personal and professional freedom.
THE GREAT TRADE ROBBERY
Grant Gilchrist, UK 2008 [12A], 7.5 mins
This incisive animation produced by Manic Films Production
and the World Trade Movement presents familiar arguments about the balance of
power in the globalised world.
Addressing the dominant players in Brussels, the capitalist wolf
outlines to an audience how the global market strategies in tourism, finance
and energy can create wealth but is foiled by the sharp sheep's exposé of the
moral issues and an alternative strategy.
Discussion led by
Majid Beheshti, Iranian film critic
and magazine editor, Azar Sephr of the Committee for the Defence of Iranian
People’s Rights (CODIR) and Megan Dobney,
Regional Secretary, Southern & Eastern Region TUC and Executive Member of
the National Assembly of Women.