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Billy is a 15 year-old outsider growing up in small-town Maine. In many ways he’s like other teenage boys - he likes heavy metal and martial arts and desperately wants a girlfriend but, mostly, Billy is seen as different.
‘I’m not black, I’m not white, not foreign ... just different in the mind, different brains, that’s all!’ says Billy, a champion outsider and a definite cult icon for a new generation of teens, students and anyone young at heart. A purist observational piece of direct cinema, this film is cinema at its rawest and most incisive. Billy is followed through his daily routines in and out of school - his hobbies, class-work, lonesome lunches and evenings at the local diner where he meets a girl. A meeting followed by days of naïve romance, excited passions, first kisses, liberating highs and, ultimately, life’s lessons told in the sweetest, truest and, finally, coolest performance Billy could ever air guitar to.
Do not miss this film!
Dir. Jennifer Venditti - 2007 – USA - 85 mins - Cert PG
Jury Prize Winner SXSW Film Festival
Best Documentary Edinburgh International Film Festival
“Many memorable dramatic films about adolescence have been made over the decades, but few of them can match the impact of Billy The Kid”
The Hollywood Reporter
The First Day
A story about one of the most important moments in everybody’s life - the first day at school. A group of young children are taken from their families in the tundra on a long journey to an urban Russian school. This short film will leave you amazed at its beauty. You will never find anything like it at the multiplex - stunning!
Dir. Marcin Sauter - 2007 - Poland - 20 mins - Cert PG - Krakow Film Foundation
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