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Get to LIAF any way you can!
Come and help us open the festival in style. We take
a collection of the hottest films from competition, mix them with
some of our favourite classics from the special programmes, add
in a glimpse of the top new British films and screen the winners
of the LIAF/Poop Creative competition – where the winning
filmmaking team will be handed a cheque for £1,000 on the
night.
Plus ….meet the festival’s special guest
from Canada - Claude Cloutier - who will screen
his hugely popular film from last year’s LIAF ‘Sleeping
Betty’.
And see the first screening on English soil of the
debut feature film from Academy Award winning writer/director Adam
Elliot – MARY AND MAX – featuring the
voice talents of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette and Barry
Humphries. Spanning 80 years and 2 continents, MARY AND
MAX tells the story of a pen-pal relationship between two
very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8 year-old
living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz,
a severely obese, 44 year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome
living in the chaos of New York City. MARY AND MAX
is both hilarious and poignant, taking us on a journey that explores
friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies
come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating
dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many more of life’s
surprises.
Shortlisted Golden Poo Awards
films:
Dancing in the loo
Delphine Mandin
For your convenience
Dan Castro
Symphony Number Two
Philip Bacon
A Film about Poo
Emily Howells and Anne Wilkins
Poo in Passing
Peter J. Speed
Are you spreading poo?
Rob and Tom Sears
Toilet Plant
Jiamin Liu |
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