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Shadows @ Raindance Europe's top independent film festival Runs annually in London
31st Raindance Film Festival 25 OCT - 6 NOV 2023 in London Opening : DAY OF THE FIGHT Closing: UN AMOR	2 0 2 3 F I L M S
	2 0 2 3 A W A R D S . . . International Feature: PETT KATA SHAW UK Feature: RED HERRING Documentary: WE ARE GUARDIANS Director: Fisnik Maxville (THE LAND WITHIN) Screenplay: Erika Calmeyer, Johan Fasting (STORM) Performance: Michael Pitt (DAY OF THE FIGHT) Cinematography: David Wyte (ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE) Discovery: Alejandro Rojas, Sebastian Vasquez (UPON ENTRY) ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE ALL THE SILENCE ANOTHER BODY AURORA'S SUNRISE BLOOD FOR DUST THE BOOKS HE DIDN'T BURN CATCHING DUST CLASHING DIFFERENCES DAY OF THE FIGHT DUSTY & STONES EMBERS HOLLYWOOD ON A SHOESTRING	THE LAND WITHIN LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER LOST SOULZ MAYA MOUNTAIN ONION OMAR AND CEDRIC: IF THIS EVER GETS WEIRD ONLY THE GOOD SURVIVE OUR KID PALIMPSEST PARACHUTE PETT KATA SHAW THE PORTRAIT RED HERRING RESTORE POINT (Hloz, Cz) SATAN WANTS YOU SEX WITH SUE SILENT ROAR LA SINGLA SISTERS SISTERS INTERRUPTED STORM SWEET SIXTEEN TENDER METALHEADS TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING (Morley, UK) UN AMOR UPON ENTRY WARHOL WE ARE GUARDIANS WHITE PLASTIC SKY

30th Raindance Film Festival 26 OCT - 7 NOV 2022 in London Opening : CORNER OFFICE Closing: PINBALL: THE MAN WHO SAVED THE GAME	2 0 2 2 F I L M S
	2 0 2 2 A W A R D S . . . Film of the Festival: TO LESLIE International Feature: SWALLOW UK Feature: WINNERS Documentary: MY NAME IS ANDREA Spirit of Raindance: SWEDE CAROLINE Director: Moshe Rosenthal (KARAOKE) Screenplay: Moshe Rosenthal (KARAOKE) Performance: Andrea Riseborough (TO LESLIE) Cinematography: Nikita Kuzmenko (PAMFIR) Discovery: Laszlo Csuja, Anna Nemes (GENTLE) Raindance Icon: Helen McCrory A BIT OF LIGHT (Moyer) ANONYMOUS CLUB (Cohen) BANGLATOWN (Husain) BAWA'S GARDEN (Isono) BLACK GIRL (Sembene) BROADWAY (Massalas, Gr) CORNER OFFICE (Back) DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (Dash) DOGWATCH (Rentis) ERIN'S GUIDE TO KISSING GIRLS (Notten) FALCON LAKE (Le Bon) FATHER'S DAY (Ruhorahoza) UNA FEMMINA (Costabile) FOUR SAMOSAS (Kapoor)	GENTLE (Csuja/Nemes) GOLDFISH (Kripalani) IGUANA LIKE THE SUN (Robles) KARAOKE (Rosenthal) LITTLE AXEL (Ronning/Greenberg) LOW LIFE (James) MARCEL (Trinca) MET MES (de Jong) MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE (Baumane) MY NAME IS ANDREA (Parmar) NANNY (Jusu, US) NIGHT BURNS LIKE CIGARETTES (Felson) OKAY (Bone) OUR RIVER ... OUR SKY (Pachachi) PALOMA (Gomes) PAMFIR (Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukr) PANTAFA (Scaringi) PINBALL: THE MAN WHO SAVED THE GAME (Bragg/Bragg, US) RAZORLIGHT: FALL TO PIECES (Lowe) RELATIVE (Smith) ROVING WOMAN (Chmielewski) SPANTON VS THE FRENCH POLICE (Ovidie) SWALLOW (Leesong) SWEDE CAROLINE (Bruce/Driver, UK) TO LESLIE (Morris, US) TRACES OF GLORY (Davis) WAKE UP, LEONARD (Martin) WHEN WE SPEAK (Brooker) WINNERS (Nazer, Irn)

29th Raindance Film Festival 27 OCT - 6 NOV 2021 in London and virtually	2 0 2 1 F I L M S
	2 0 2 1 A W A R D S . . . International Feature: MEDUSA UK Feature: THE DROWNING OF ARTHUR BRAXTON Documentary: WHITE NOISE Music Documentary: I'M WANITA Director: Luana Bajrami (THE HILL WHERE LIONESSES ROAR) Screenplay: Renata Pinheiro, Sergio Olivera, Leo Pyrata (KING CAR) Performance: Lucia Moniz (LISTEN) Cinematography: Sam Levy (MAYDAY) Discovery: Luana Bajrami (THE HILL WHERE LIONESSES ROAR) Raindance Icon: Michael Caine AGAINST THE CURRENT (Sveinsson, Ice) ALL SORTS AS FAR AS I KNOW ASCENSION BEANS (Deer, Can) BEST SELLERS (Roessler, Can) A BIRD FLEW IN (Bell, UK) CARVING THE DIVINE THE CAVIAR CONNECTION CHILDREN OF THE ENEMY THE DAY I FOUND A GIRL IN THE TRASH FAR EASTERN FATHER OF FLIES (Edwards, US) THE DROWNING OF ARTHUR BRAXTON (Cutforth, UK) GOLGATHA GIRL LIKE YOU HATING PETER TATCHELL (Amos, Aus) HELMUT THE HILL WHERE LIONESSES ROAR LACHENMANN: MY WAY HOSTILE I AM GEN Z I'M WANITA IN THE MIRROR (Pakalnina, Lat)	JEAN SEBERG: ACTRESS ACTIVIST ICON KING CAR (Pinheiro, Br) THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE: THE AGE OF ELOHIM LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER LISTEN (Rocha, Por) THE MAN WITH THE ANSWERS (Kammitsis, Gr) MAYDAY MEDUSA (Rocha, Br) MIGUEL'S WAR (Raheb, Leb) MY HEART GOES BOOM (Alvarez, Sp) MY SUNNY MAAD THE NOISE OF MACHINES (Gregoire, Can) OSCAR MICHEAUX: THE SUPERHERO OF BLACK FILMMAKING PATCHWORK PAUSE THE POP SONG (Portero, Sp) PORCELAIN POWER, PROFIT AND POPULISM THE REVOLUTION GENERATION THE ROSSELLINIS (Rossellini, It) SAMI, JOE AND I SECOND THOUGHTS THE SECRET OF SINCHANEE SHADOW SHAPELESS SMUGGLING HENDRIX SOROS SUBJECTS OF DESIRE SWEET DISASTER TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: NEW ORLEANS TZAREVNA SCALING VAMPIR VIRAL THE WELDER WHERE'S ROSE WHITE NOISE YOUTH V GOV ZIP IT (Gohar, Egy)

28th Raindance Film Festival 28 OCT - 7 NOV 2020 in London and virtually 2 0 2 0 A W A R D S . . . Film of the Festival: NOT TO BE UNPLEASANT BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A SERIOUS TALK Spirit of the Festival: THE HAT Raindance Icons: Jude Law and Sally Hawkins International Feature: FORCE OF HABIT UK Feature: HE DREAMS OF GIANTS Documentary: THE STATE OF TEXAS VS MELISSA Performance: Johnny Flynn (STARDUST) Director: Milcho Manchevski (WILLOW) Screenplay: FORCE OF HABIT	2 0 2 0 F I L M S
	THE ACT (Hescott, UK) AFTER SO MANY DAYS (Hanft) ANTARCTICA (Bearden, US) APRIL 7, 1980 (Schirman, Isr) THE AVERAGE COLOR OF THE UNIVERSE (Keining) BORN TO BE (Cypriano, US) CITIZEN PENN (Hardy) DIFFERENT JOHNS (Carr, Fr) THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE (Finitzo, US) A DIM VALLEY (Colvin, US) DRAG KIDS (Wennberg, Can) THE EAGLE'S NEST (Assoua, UK) EASTERN (Adamski, Pol) END GAME: BREAKING THE SILENCE (Luneau-Daurignac) ENDLESS SUNSHINE ON A CLOUDY DAY (Connors) FOMO: FEAR OF MISSING OUT (Hartung, Hun) FORCE OF HABIT (Aalto/Haapasalo/etc, Fin) THE GREAT GREEN WALL (Scott, UK) HE DREAMS OF GIANTS (Fulton/Pepe, UK) JIMMY IS PUNK (Donk, Ned) THE HAT (Strowger, UK) HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN (Macken, Ire) KOSA (Priyadarshi) MADAME (Hethauser, Swi) MATERNA (Gutnik, US)	MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT (Lukich, Ukr) NAFI'S FATHER (Dia, Sen) NON WESTERN (Plancarte) NOT TO BE UNPLEASANT BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A SERIOUS TALK (Georgopoulos, Gr) NOW (Rakete) NUCLEAR (Linstrum, UK) ONCE YOU KNOW (Cappellin, Fr) OUR OWN (Leblanc, Can) THE PRICE OF PROGRESS (Luengo, Sp) SHOOT TO MARRY (Markle) STARDUST (Range, UK) THE STATE OF TEXAS VS MELISSA (Van Tassel, US) SUFFOCATION (Marquez) SURVIVAL SKILLS (Armstrong, US) THIS IS CRISTINA (Maza, Chl) THOU SHALT NOT HATE (Mancini, It) TRUE NORTH (Shimizu, Jpn) TWICEBORN (Akabane, Jpn) U UP? (Szemeredy, Hun) UNDER MY SKIN (O'Donnell, Aus) UPROOTED: THE JOURNEY OF JAZZ DANCE (Wong, US) THE WOMAN WITH LEOPARD SHOES (Bruchon, Fr) WILLOW (Manchevski, Mac) * reviews coming

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