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CCA 4
Friday 19th October
8.45pm-10.10pm

Mimoune
Franc Planas
Spain ï 11 mins


Illegal immigration is not only a problem for our society. Not only does the illegal immigrant suffer from social uprooting but also the most difficult part of this situation: the family division. This documentary was born of the desire to bring together a family, even if it was only through a camera, which had been apart for too long.

I for India
Sandhya Suri
England/Italy/Germany ï 2005 ï 70 mins


In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he did on his arrival in England was buy 2 Super 8 cameras, 2 projectors and 2 reel recorders. One set of equipment he sent to his family in India, the other he kept for himself. For forty years he used it to share his new life abroad with those back home - images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket - his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn, responded with their own 'cine-letters' telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life.

A bittersweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, "I for India" is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.



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Closing Party
CCA Cafe
Sunday 21st Oct 10.30pm


Sheila Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers, and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire and has a style of singing that is strong and passionate and distinctively her own yet in the fi nest mainstream of the Scottish tradition.

Last in the Line is screened in CCA 4 earlier in the day 1.15pm- 2.00pm where Sheila will also read from her biography of her mother (Belle Stewart) Queen Amang The Heather.
Music at the CCA bar

Wednesday 17th October 10.00 pm - 1.00pm
Shiona McPhail
traditional Scots singer
Roma band

Thursday 18th October 10.00 pm - 1.00pm
Political Song Night
Bring along cd's with your favorite popular, obscure, powerful, bizarre, outrageous political songs. Also open mic to sing, rant or play the guitar...