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Raindance film festival

October 2014

  • Varvari (Barbarians).

    Film blog
    Ivan Ikić’s Varvari is an autopsy of the nihilism and destructiveness of teenage Serbians

    Aleks Eror: What’s it like growing up in a pariah state? This film about teenage hooligans in a dead-end Serbian town could have been my life

February 2014

  • Gravity film

    After Gravity, is the British film industry rocketing or crashing to Earth?

    Visual effects firm Framestore is behind the acclaimed space movie, but is UK film making a giant leap, or is funding falling?, reports Jennifer Rankin

September 2013

  • Julian Assange

    Raindance film festival jury to include Julian Assange

    WikiLeaks founder could follow example of Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi by making video-link appearance

September 2012

  • Banaz Mahmod murdered

    'They're following me': chilling words of girl who was 'honour killing' victim

    The murder of Banaz Mahmod by her family in 2006 shocked the country. A documentary now tells her story

September 2011

  • Rankin's poster for the 2011 Raindance film festival

    Poster notes
    Poster notes: Raindance film festival

    Raindance has hired celebrity photographer Rankin to create its new ad, and continued its tradition of impressive poster art, writes Paul Owen

September 2010

  • A Serbian Film

    Raindance film festival announces controversial lineup

    UK's largest indie gathering will screen A Serbian Film, which features necrophilia and rape, and a banned gay zombie porno

October 2009

  • David Carradine and Gabriel Sunday in My Suicide (2008)

    Raindance honours David Carradine film

  • Morris: A Life With Bells On

    The DIY films that vanish without trace

September 2009

  • The Clash

    The Clash's Mick Jones and Topper Headon collaborate on charity single

    News: The former bandmates join Billy Bragg and ex-prison inmates for charity single Jail Guitar Doors

  • On location: More UK film festivals

    Autumn is the season of fruitfulness for UK film festivals

  • Scene from Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience

    Raindance film festival hopes to take London by storm

    Highlights of the 17th independent film festival include Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and one of David Carradine's final performances

September 2008

  • The Duchess

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly: The Duchess and Michael Winterbottom on the Raindance festival

    On this week's podcast, Michael Winterbottom on why the Raindance open film competition Short Circuit is well worth entering. Plus Xan Brooks is back to review this week's releases with Jason, and we meet the director of The Duchess, Saul Dibb

  • 4 Creative cinema ad gives Raindance festival zombie love

    This year's Raindance independent film festival will be promoted with a 4 Creative cinema ad in a nod to movies such as the Blair Witch Project and Shaun of the Dead. By Mark Sweney

  • Creative lounge
    Raindance film festival advert

    A tongue-in-cheek promo for the Raindance film festival, in which a horror film scenario turns into a romantic movie when a female zombie and her 'victim' become lovers

September 2006

  • Raindance prepares to face the music

    Music documentaries of various guises are set to dominate the 14th Raindance film festival in London, which opens on September 27 with a screening of the acclaimed Brothers of the Head. Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the film is a faux-documentary that follows the attempts of a 1970s promoter to conjure conjoined twins into a rock'n'roll sensation. Brothers of the Head won the Michael Powell award for best new British feature at last month's Edinburgh film festival.

June 2006

  • Cash flash flood saves Raindance

    The Raindance Film Festival has been rescued from financial troubles in its 14th year by a pair of financiers who have renamed it Raindance Festivals Ltd.

October 2003

  • In brief: Z-J 'just one of the lads'

  • Reel appeal

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