Forthcoming films
The following, released this month, look interesting. They may or may not get mainstream showing but will be on at Waterman's Arts Centre, Brentford, in July.
See www.watermans.org.uk or call 020 8232 1010 for times.
‘Grow Your Own’ (6 July – 12 July) A refugee family are given an allotment in Merseyside to help rehabilitate their traumatised father.
At first they are met with suspicion by the men who have worked the gardens for years but eventually they are accepted into a diverse community united by their love of making things grow.
'The
War on Democracy' (14 July – 19 July) is John Pilger's first
major film for the cinema . Bush's second inauguration address was
significant because it finally stripped noble concepts like
‘democracy' of their true meaning - government, for, by and of
the people. "The film tells a universal story," says
Pilger, "analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the
story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to
understand the true nature of the so-called war on terror". It's
a hopeful film, for it sees the world not through the eyes of the
powerful, but through the hopes and dreams and extraordinary actions
of ordinary people.