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 The Last Bus Stop & The Tailor
BFF Studio Cinema
7.00PM Monday 14 April |
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£5.50/£5.00 Book Online
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A town divided by European and Russian history becomes the subject of dry political satire as a new border gateway between old soviet states and Europe is mysteriously erected overnight and gangsters move into town.
This story is one so ridiculous it is horrifically true, so funny that it is terribly shocking and so unbelievable that it wouldn’t work as a piece of fiction. It is the story of a town called Szelmenc, now known as Little Szelmenc and Great Szelmenc, situated on the border between the former Czechoslovakia and the former Soviet Union. In fact, the town has been part of so many former histories it has over time unwittingly travelled all the way around the European and Russian maps without ever moving at all. A midnight deal is struck to open a border crossing, families divided and having had to converse across fences get a chance to meet again. This is not the end of this fairytale-like film, wonderfully told with droll humour - visas, gangsters and political bureaucracy enter the fray.
Dir. Kai Salminen and Zsuzsa Boszormenyi - 2007 – Finland - 51 mins - Cert PG - Finnish Film Foundation
THE TAILOR
Mohamed, a Pakistani tailor, and Singh, his Indian employee, work together in a tiny store in one of Barcelona’s poorest neighbourhoods. Isolation and loneliness seem to be their only destiny in a strange country as a quite simple set-up is hilariously exposed even if it is very frustrating for those involved - Mohamed and Singh seem to work all hours of every day while achieving little at all to the consternation of their customers.
“A masterly example of direct cinema” IDFA
WINNER SILVER CUB COMPETITION IDFA 2007
Dir. Oscar Perez – 2007 - Spain - 30mins - Cert PG
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