The Roxy loves good films and good drinks. The LIDF provides the films and the Roxy does the rest. Come and enjoy a relaxing Sunday afternoon of both. The Encore runs from 3.00pm to 6.30pm and consists of two sessions. A single ticket gets you into both or just one screening.

29th June
Session 1

Description of a Memory (Tza’ad Revi’i La’matbe’a)
Director: Dan Geva, 2006, Israel, 80min

In 1960 French film-maker Chris Marker released a hypnotic documentary about the then twelve-year-old state of Israel. Description of a Struggle (Description D’un Combat) examined a young country trying to establish its identity and grasp a sense of its future. The film won the Golden Bear for best documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

Description of a Memory, shot almost 50 years later, returns to the same places, the same people as the original documentary, confronting the old with the new and scrutinising the transformation of the state over the intervening period. The film re-invents Marker’s original philosophical and poetic commentary to give a fascinating insight into the changing currents of Israeli history.

Session 2

Coca Zero (Koka Zero)

Director: Martha Gutierrez Flores, Denmark/Bolivia, 2006, 43min

Coca leaves have been used by the people of Bolivia and Peru as a mild stimulant and for medicinal and ceremonial purposes for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. The leaves are chewed or used to make tea, flour and other products. There are many small-scale coca growers in the Andes, and for some farmers it is their only reliable cash crop. However, the leaves are also, of course, the raw material for cocaine, which presents the coca leaf growers with some powerful opposition – namely the US and the UN.

The US Drug Enforcement Agency – in ‘defence’ of America, the world’s biggest cocaine consumer – is pursuing coca leaf farmers in an attempt to eradicate the coca plant completely. And on March 4, 2008, the United Nations called on Bolivia and Peru to criminalize the chewing of coca leaves and urged them “to establish as a criminal offence” the use of the leaf in other products. This despite the objections of the Bolivian and Peruvian governments and their refusal to sanction the attempted eradication of what they consider to be a vital part of their culture.

An insight into the human consequences of poorly thought out government policy.

The Fire

Director: Rita Ribas, 2007, UK, 17min

A family get together during Easter. The grandmother tells the story of a fire.

A poetic combination of the real and the staged.

Shikashika

Director: Stephen Hyde, 2008, USA, 11min

“Glacial ice tastes sweeter.”

Twice a week, 82-year-old Maji and her family make the eight mile trek up to the glacier near their home in the Andes to harvest the finest blocks of blue ice by hand. This they transport to the town and sell as the flavoured ice delicacy Shikashika.

A rare glimpse of life in the Andean mountains of Peru.

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