SCREENTIME
SCREENTIME is a series of 5 fresh new films showing at The Radio Rooms in Berwick, on Thursday evenings during February and March.
With music as the vital connection, the films celebrate the joy and challenges of community gathering and collective identities.
Tickets are £5 or pay what you can – complimentary popcorn included!
Screentime is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network
Feature
Beats
Set in 1994, as the police are clamping down on illegal raves, we follow two friends Johnno and Spanner, in a story of friendship, class and rave culture.
Chloe Charlton
Programmer
Chloe Charlton is a moving image artist and aspiring film programmer based in Glasgow. From an ecological stance, she is directed by the sensual entanglements of the lived emerging experience.
As a programmer she aims to offer tender narratives streamed together using the film works of others, to stimulate critical conversations.
George Cochrane
Programmer
George Cochrane is a writer and filmmaker from Northumberland, now based in London. His main interests are Italian cinema and Old Hollywood.
Feature
Sing Street
It is 1985, and as part of his struggling family’s efforts to economise, fifteen-year-old Dubliner Conor Lawlor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is taken out of private school and put in a rough, strict Christian Brothers school called Synge Street. Though relentlessly bullied, Conor quickly finds his crowd here, forming a band to impress the mysterious older girl (Lucy Boynton) across the road. It works, though as Conor gets closer to ‘Raphina’ and the band gets better and better, things at home continue to deteriorate, his parents threatening to split up. Music becomes Conor’s only means of escape.
Camille Relet
Programmer
Camille Relet is a young French visual artist based in Swansea, where she graduated with a Master’s in Photography – Contemporary Dialogues. Passionate about film and cinema, she took part in the Derby Film Festival Young Programmers Group in 2021 and is now proud to be part of the team behind the Screentime programme.
Feature
The Farewell
The Farewell is the story of a Chinese born US raised woman called Billi and her nana Nai Nai who lives in Changchun and has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Chinese tradition defines that no one should tell her that she is dying. A Family wedding is organised as an excuse to gather everyone one last time to see Nai Nai and bid their farewell to her. Billi, who has voiced her opposition to this tradition and struggles to contain her emotions is not invited to the wedding in fear that she might reveal the truth to Nai Nai. However, against her family’s wishes, she decides to travel to Changchun to attend the wedding.
Ilinca Vanau
Programmer
Ilinca Vanau is a writer and photographer living in Edinburgh. Born in Romania, she moved to Scotland a decade ago to study at the University of St Andrews, where she received her undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology and Film Studies. Her academic journey has happened in tandem with ventures into publishing, curating and film programming as well as work on several long-term photographic projects. In 2018, she returned to the University of St Andrews and completed an MLitt in Film Studies with a thesis exploring the formal correspondences between films by Chantal Akerman and Sergei Loznitsa. Ilinca is drawn to cinema that touches upon the fields of documentary film, visual anthropology, sensory ethnography and is interested in cinematic thinking and the ethics of film form. More broadly, she turns to moving image practices to question and taste the intimate relationship between time, memory and identity.
Feature
Ali & Ava
Both lonely for different reasons, Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia (6), the child of Ali’s Slovakian tenants, whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness and Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. Over a lunar month, sparks fly and a deep connection begins to grow. However, the legacy of Ava’s past relationship and Ali’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage begins to overshadow their newfound passion.
