The Global Village Film Festival
a celebration of world cinema
11-18 March 2006

Previous festivals have been very successful. This year the Festival Director, Oskar Stringer says:
Portrait of Oscar Stringer. "It is our great pleasure to bring the third Global Village Film Festival to local audiences. Choosing a small collection of films from the incredible range of high quality world cinema now available is always challenging, but we hope there is something for everyone to enjoy. There’s fabulous French and Argentinian comedy, thought provoking and heart-warming films from Europe and Iraq, our first dabble in Film Noir and the ever popular silent film finale. We have some exceptional new venues this year and will be featuring short films by local film makers. Our festival saver offers incredible value for money, so cancel anything else you had planned for this week, come along and feast your senses."

Prices shown are for full / concession / family tickets. Concessions for under16’s / full-time students / those on benefits / senior citizens. Family covers 2 adults and 2 children or 1 adult and 3 children. 
Festival Saver ticket to all events: £25 full / £20 concessions.
BOX OFFICE 01249 701628
Saturday 11th March, 10am-4pm £10
ANIMATION WORKSHOP
with Oscar Stringer
at the Town Hall, High Street, Corsham.		 Spend a day with friends or family (ages 9 - 99) making a short model animation. Bring lunch and your imagination. You get the result on CD and can see it on screen before tomorrow's showing of Oliver Twist.
Poster for 'Nightmare Alley'. Saturday 11th March, 8pm £3.50/£2.50/£10

NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Edmund Goulding, UK, 1947, NR,111min

Recently re-released after fifty years out of circulation.
Still from 'Oliver Twist'. Sunday 12th March 4pm Family matinee £3.50/£2.50/£10
at Selwyn Hall, Valens Terrace, Box

OLIVER TWIST Roman Polanski, UK, 2005, PG, 130min

Roman Polanski retains the emotional punch of the classicCharles Dickens novel in thisengaging new adaptation.

Sponsored by MY SMALL WORLD
Still from 'Bad Education'. Sunday 12th March, 8pm £3.50/£2.50/£10
at Village Hall, Pool Green, Neston

BAD EDUCATION Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2004, 15, 106min, subtitles

Almodóvar’s most ambitious film to date portrays Enrique, a young movie director, looking for ideas for his next film.

Sponsored by ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Still from 'Cockles and Muscles'. Monday 13th March, Bar 7.30pm/film 8.30pm £3.50/£2.50/£10
at Chapel etc, Martingate Centre, Corsham

COCKLES AND MUSCLES by Olivier Ducastel, France, 2005,15, 90min, subtitles

For their summer vacation, Marc takes his wife Beatrix and their two children to the seaside house of his youth, where the heat of the summer stokes their desires.

Sponsored by CHAPEL etc
Still from 'The Chorus'. Tuesday 14th March, 8pm £5/£4/£15
at Lacock Abbey, Lacock

THE CHORUS Christophe Barratier, France, 2004, 12A, 96min, subtitles

In a French reform school for wayward boys, the new music teacher, Clement Mathieu, attempts to instil love and hope into his errant protégés.

Supported by
THE NATIONAL TRUST, LACOCK ABBEY RECITALS and THE PHOENIX CHOIR
Still from 'Turtles Can Fly'. Wednesday 15th March, 8pm £3.50/£2.50/£10
at Village Hall, Yatton Road, Biddestone

TURTLES CAN FLY Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2004, 15, 97min, subtitles

Bahman Ghobadi is the first director to make a film in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. A group of Kurdish refugee children living in a makeshift town of tents on the Iraq/ Turkish border await the American invasion.

Sponsored by GREENWOOD DIRECT LIMITED
Still from 'Life is Beautiful'. Thursday 16th March, 8pm £3.50/£2.50 /£10
at St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL Roberto Begnini, Italy, 1997, PG, 116min, subtitles

Guido is an energetic, creative man. When the German forces occupy Italy during World War II. he shields his young son from the horrors of concentration camp through vivid stories intended to disguise the Holocaust as an elaborate game.

Sponsored by OAKWRIGHTS
Still from 'Bombon el Perro'. Wine and dine in style at Hartham Park Friday 17th March,
7.30pm meal/film, £20;  9pm film only, £3.50

BOMBON EL PERRO Carlos Sorin, Argentina/Spain, 2005,15, 97min, subtitles

From the harsh and rugged landscape of Patagonia comes this delightful sweet-natured comedy.

Sponsored by HARTHAM PARK
Still from 'Sherlock Junior'. Saturday 18th March, 8pm £3.50/£2.50/£10
at Town Hall, High Street, Corsham
BUSTER KEATON DOUBLE BILL

Silent b/w films with live piano accompaniment by local composer James Harpham with his original piano score.

SHERLOCK JUNIOR where Keaton plays a cinema projectionist, framed for theft by a jealous rival for his girl’s hand.

ONE WEEK finds Keaton and Sybil exiting a chapel as newly weds. Among the gifts is a portable house you can easily put together in one week.....

Sponsored by THE FLEMISH WEAVER (open for dinner from 6.30pm every night during the festival. To book: 01249 701929)
Still from 'One Week'.

The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham. The HQ of the festival is the Pound Arts Centre in  Corsham, home of the society known as Film@ThePound.  Their regular programme can be seen here.