With a crowded theatre, the British film by director John Crowley, Is anybody there was premiered as part of the XXI European Film Festival.

During her presentation of the film, the British Ambassador, Catherine Nettleton, said:

“We should be alert to discrimination which hinders retired people from contributing to and enjoying society, and we should keep creating opportunities to get the best from this important segment of our societies”.

The premiere also highlighted the important work that the British organisation HelpAge does in Peru, such as the poster contest Senior citizens: leading characters and the second workshop to raise awareness amongst journalists in order to improve the image of senior citizens in the media. HelpAge International is the biggest non-profit organisation that works in favour of the elderly worldwide.

The following screenings have been programmed for: Is anybody there?: November 1 (Filmoteca PUCP, 5:45pm), November 4 (Universidad de Lima, 12:00) and November 6 (Universidad de Lima, 7:30pm).

The Age of Stupid: November 4 (Filmoteca PUCP, 7:30pm), November 5 (Filmoteca PUCP, 10:00pm), and November 10 (Universidad de Lima, 12pm).

Synopsis

"Is Anybody There?"

Sir Michael Caine gives one of his finest performances as a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run retirement home in John Crowley’s “Is Anybody There?” Set in a seaside English town circa 1987, “Is Anybody There” charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Caine´s proud, acerbic old performer and the death-obsessed young son of the home’s overwhelmed owners (played by Son of Rambow’s Bill Milner).  Written by Peter Harness, who draws on his own experience growing up in a retirement home, this film brings a rich humour as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof. With a supporting cast that includes Anne-Marie Duff (“The Magdalene Sisters”), David Morrisey (“The Deal”) Rosemary Harris (Spiderman trilogy) and Leslie Phillips (“Venus”), “Is Anybody There” tells a charming story about growing up and growing old, and the unpredictable adventures that happen along the way.  

John Crowley

"Is Anybody There?" is directed by John Crowley whose critically acclaimed stage and screen credits include “The Pillowman” and “Boy A”.  He is an award-winning theatre director who has received critical acclaim in the film world since his first feature, “Intermission”, netted him a British Independent Film Award and an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director.

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Official web - "Is Anybody There?"

 

“The Age of Stupid”

Is the new cinema documentary from the director of “Mc Libel” and the producer of the Oscar-winning “One day in September”. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching “archive” footage from 2008 and asking: why didn´t we stop climate change while we had the chance?

Franny Armstrong

Franny Armstrong is a British documentary film director and climate change activist. Armstrong's first documentary, McLibel (1997, 2005), told the inside story of the infamous McDonald's libel trial. It was filmed over ten years with no commission, no budget and a volunteer crew – including Ken Loach, who directed the courtroom reconstructions. Armstrong's second feature documentary, Drowned Out (2002), follows an Indian family who chose to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam. It also sold around the world, was nominated for Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards 2004 and was released theatrically in America and DVD worldwide in 2006. In March 2009 Franny released “The Age of Stupid”.

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Official website - "The Age of Stupid"

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