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Pick of the Indies
THERE’S a decidedly righteous tone to this week’s crop, kicking off with Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, which gets another big-screen outing on Tuesday. The Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square has teamed up with Friends of the Earth for a series of screenings of Gore’s film this month accompanied by Q&As with special guests.
* The Prince Charles Cinema. Call 020 7494 3654.
Meanwhile, the Africa on Screen season continues at the Renoir with the first-feature length film by a sub-Saharan African woman. Safi Faye’s Kaddu Beykat or A Letter from my Village looks at exploitation amongst peanut farmers in a Senegalese village.
* The Renoir. Call 0870 850 6927.
Not to be outdone, the Everyman Hampstead has a special screening featuring work from the Birds Eye View Film Festival, which celebrates women film-makers and is currently on show at the ICA, NFT and Barbican.
It is screening a series of “the funniest, most entertaining and most colourful” shorts from the season on Sunday, including films from Australia, India and New Zealand.
* The Everyman. Call 08700 664777.
Finally, one for the diary –a classic Billy Wilder double bill at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley next Sunday (March 18).
Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard are both master classes in filmmaking from a director at the top of his game. Don’t miss.
* The Phoenix. Call 020 8444 6789.
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