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SUMMARY:My Favourite Cake (15)
DESCRIPTION:Even to come and sit with friends\, and possibly with a glass of wine in the comfort of Ditchling Village Hall and view My Favourite Cake\, is a kind of political act\, given the nature and history of this remarkable film. Now imagine you live in Iran\, the Authorities have refused the film a public viewing licence: the film’s directors are under suspended sentence for spreading lies and producing vulgar content. They’ve had all their film making equipment confiscated. Viewing the film in private\, if you managed to get hold of a copy\, risks falling foul of the Morality Police.  \n\n\n\nNow you begin to get a sense of the context within which My Favourite Cake was made\, why it was made and the supreme artistry of its attack on the Regime’s on going repression of women’s rights. You take\, as the film’s central character an elderly woman. In itself this is an affront – you just don’t do that in Iranian cinema. Now you charge your central character with powerful feelings\, not just of the isolation that has come to her with the passing years\, but with a longing for life that refuses to lie down\, and yes lust\, and her determination to do something about it.  \n\n\n\nThere is a wonderfully comedic irony about her choice of partner\, a hapless taxi driver of her own age and every step in their whirlwind “romance” adds insult and injury to the official cultural version of how the elderly should behave.  \n\n\n\nThis is powerful cinema\, delivered with a gentleness and sense of ridicule that makes for an unexpected evening’s viewing. \n\n\n\nPersian with English subtitles. 97m Directed by Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA personal view by guest critic Beth Travers\n\n\n\nAh yes\, My Favourite Cake – though I would have appreciated a slice or twoto comfort me after this film. It is a gut-wrenching portrayal of loneliness andisolation of two\, single 70-year-olds living in the hustle of modern-day Tehran.This award-winning Iranian film follows seventy-year-old Mahin and herattempt to revitalise her life after the loss of her husband. From a hilariousdepiction of female friendships\, to heroism in the face of the oppressiveIranian morality police\, co-directors Maryam Moghadam and BehtashSanaeeha beautifully capture a revival of love and romance. \n\n\n\nThe question arises from the beginning of the film – is it possible to find loveonce again at such an age? Mahin proves quite easily that it is\, even underthe constraints of the Islamic Republic regime. She determinedly sets herheart on rediscovering life with a partner\, unabashedly inviting cab driver andmilitary veteran\, Faramarz (played by Esmail Mehrabi  ) into her home forsome of her “favourite cake”. Admittedly I felt dazzled by her boldness\, LiliFarhadpour magically captured that universal excitement and enjoyment offemale pursuit typically associated with young\, carefree (and predominantlywestern) women. She proved the desire to be seen and for physical touchnever dies as we grow older. \n\n\n\nEsmail won my heart with his loveable\, charming smile and dance moves thathad viewers (such as myself) crying on their sofas still with no cake insight… \n\n\n\nBeth
URL:https://ditchlingfilm.org.uk/event/my-favourite-cake-15/
LOCATION:Ditchling Village Hall\, 18 Lewes Road\, Ditchling\, Hassocks\, East Sussex\, BN6 8TT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Battleship Potemkin (PG)
DESCRIPTION:Screenshot\n\n\n\nAstounding… breathtaking… extraordinary… To celebrate its 80th birthday in 2005\, Sergei Eisenstein’s revolutionary cinematic masterpiece was given a Pet Shop Boys synth pop musical work over and presented publicly (and to acclaim) at the Barbican Theatre and in Trafalgar Square in London. In the 2025 remastered version we are screening at Ditchling Village Hall for our October showing\, The Pet Shop boys score is performed by the Dresden Sinfoniker and orchestrated by Torsten Rasch.  \n\n\n\nEisenstein always said his originally silent film should be accompanied by contemporary music. To keep it relevant for new audiences he suggested the musical accompaniment should be revised and updated every decade or so.  \n\n\n\nThe Edmund Meisel score was the first update and later\, the Kryukov adaptation of Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony took up the challenge. Now with the Pet Shop Boys score\, twenty years on\, the music is uncompromisingly “club”\, not at all symphonic\, but it is contemporary. It certainly is not Russian. But somehow\, perhaps because it is “club” with its relentlessly driving beat\, itmanages to work across the mass crowd scenes\, the giant machine cut-aways and the individual expressions of suffering and horror that were so brilliantly captured by Eisenstein and that are emblematic of his masterpiece. \n\n\n\nWelcome to our showing of one of the most acclaimed films in cinematichistory. \n\n\n\nWe present our film with an introduction and question time with the filmhistorian and archivist Dr Frank Grey. \n\n\n\nDirector Sergei M. Eisenstein. 72 minutes. Silent. Originally screened in 1925. This version with new accompanying soundtrack by the Pet Shop Boys. 2025
URL:https://ditchlingfilm.org.uk/event/battleship-potemkin-15/
LOCATION:Ditchling Village Hall\, 18 Lewes Road\, Ditchling\, Hassocks\, East Sussex\, BN6 8TT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)
DESCRIPTION:Screenshot\n\n\n\nThis humorous and melancholic films follows Charles (Tim Key) an eccentric lottery winner living alone on a remote island who dreams of getting his favourite folk duo back together for a gig with an audience of just one. Carey Mulligan stars as part of the once almost famous band and returns from west coast USA where she now makes chutney along with her bird watching husband who tows along for the reunion. Tim Basden plays the other part of the duo and wrote the music for the film. \n\n\n\nA powerful and beautiful story of family \, friendship and identity \n\n\n\nEnglish. 1h 40mins. Director James Griffiths.
URL:https://ditchlingfilm.org.uk/event/the-ballad-of-wallis-island-12a/
LOCATION:Ditchling Village Hall\, 18 Lewes Road\, Ditchling\, Hassocks\, East Sussex\, BN6 8TT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Tundra Within Me (12A)
DESCRIPTION:Oskai’s film shows narrative and characters richly steeped in Sami cultural and tradition. Artist Lena returns to her remote Sami homeland in order to work on a project about women herders after she herself rejected this role and headed for the city. \n\n\n\nThe stark and beautiful landscape shows the life of the herders including the women and Lena is torn between renewing this life for herself and her son whilst falling in love. \n\n\n\nThe director Oskai is also a herder and this enables her to understand the love and pain that goes into this way of life. A beautiful and enriching film.
URL:https://ditchlingfilm.org.uk/event/the-tundra-within-me-12a/
LOCATION:Ditchling Village Hall\, 18 Lewes Road\, Ditchling\, Hassocks\, East Sussex\, BN6 8TT\, United Kingdom
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