Shotgun Stories (2007, Jeff Nichols)
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
Huddersfield (2007, Ivan Zivkovic)
The monotony of a group of friends in a sleepy Serbian town is interrupted by the arrival of Igor, who moved to England in the nineties and is now visiting his hometown for the first time since. They all get together in the evening, but what begins as a cheerful high school reunion party of close friends, turns into an emotional roller coaster of reminiscing, dark humor, bitterness, uncontrollable laughter, anger and grim soul searching.
Glass Lips (2007, Lech Majewski)
The dialog-free film Glass Lips, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque. Contemporary artist and filmmaker Lech Majewski explores a hidden human frontier where memory, madness and imagination meet.
Sita Sings the Blues (2008, Nina Paley)
An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Sita is a Hindu goddess, the leading lady of the India's epic the Ramayana and a dutiful wife who follows her husband Rama on a 14 year exile to a forest, only to be kidnapped by an evil king from Sri Lanka. Despite remaining faithful to her husband, Sita is put through many tests.
Eat, for this is my Body (2007, Michelange Quay)
A visceral, hypnotic trip that takes us to the spiritual core of the suffering of Haiti. Madame has come to feed the starving black masses and they have come to be fed. This hunger, this desire, will bring Madame out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, smell the reality of their suffering, the reality of her own body.
For more information on the programme and specific times, go to the website of Smart Project Space.