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24th May 2022

Short Films Compilation

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7927" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7919" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7930" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7928" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7926" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7917" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] We've got a brilliant selection of short films lined up which will be playing on a loop throughout the festival. Just drop in to the screening room and absorb as much as you fancy! [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Broghil Valley - Umaima Soomro,...

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20th May 2022

Rebecca Lowe: London to Tehran by Bicycle

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7856" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7858" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe, a journalist specialising in human rights, set off on her bicycle from London to Tehran. Driven by a desire to learn more about this troubled region, to challenge Western myths and misconceptions...

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20th May 2022

Max Leonard: The Rough Stuff Fellowship

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7859" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7862" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7860" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]The Rough Stuff Fellowship was founded on 29 May 1955, by ‘forty members who, in pursuit of their pastime, traverse the rougher and less beaten ways’. Members of the RSF undertook the first ever bicycle crossing of Iceland’s mountainous interior, in 1958, and have travelled...

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20th May 2022

Nick Hunt: John Murray Journeys

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7868" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7896" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Alongside a screening of Double Journey (Mariann Lewinsky, Antonio Bigini), John Murray Journeys series editor Nick Hunt presents Ella K. Maillart’s The Cruel Way, accompanied by excerpts from Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s All the Roads Are Open. In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied...

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20th May 2022

Ursula Martin: One Woman Walks

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7867" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] For the last decade, Ursula Martin has either been walking or writing about walking. Her most recent journey took her 5000+ miles across Europe, from Ukraine to Spain. Living spontaneously means you’re prepared for many difficulties, but nothing prepared her for the interruption of a pandemic. Come and listen to tales...

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20th May 2022

George Miller: Kaiser George Marionettes

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7865" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Mondofest Keynote Presentation [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Kaiser George Miller is an exceptional human being. As well as being the lead singer and driving force behind ‘The Kaisers’, he is also the creator of the famous ‘Kaiser George Marionettes’. Join him on an exciting musical journey as he takes us through the A...

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Austin Vince goofing around with film cameras
20th May 2022

Austin Vince: How to Film a ‘Pop Video’ of Your Adventure

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="5411" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] How to Film a 'Pop Video' of Your Adventure [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Festival curator Austin Vince teaches how to make the most basic film of all; the 'pop video'. Two and a half mins to tell a story using only footage and music - not as simple as it sounds![/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][edgtf_portfolio_info title_tag="h4" show_tags="no"...

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John Stapleton's African record collection
20th May 2022

John Stapleton Record Collector

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7130" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7128" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Saturday Evening DJ Set [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] John Stapleton is one of the UK’s premier record collectors. Literally every curve that exists in this pastime, he has been ahead of. Some of the curves that he was ahead of he actually created in his wake! Whilst we take a break...

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20th May 2022

The Dreamrollers featuring The Dulcettes

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7879" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7880" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Saturday Night Band [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] The Dreamrollers featuring The Dulcettes are a seven piece band comprising some of the UK’s finest exponents of vintage music. Their set is built around the best of mid century grooves, including R’n’R, Jump Blues and Rockabilly. Between them, they have toured Europe, the...

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19th March 2022

TransSiberia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A taste of what a month long solo-journey is like aboard the longest train journey across the worlds largest country. Ciaran O'Connell starts out in St. Petersburg and crosses Russia to the small one-horse town of Khuzhir on Olkhon Island in the middle of Lake Baikal in deepest Siberia. Exploring the mystery of...

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