Today is the last day of AMPLIFY! Film Festival and we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to our wonderful Cambridge audience for supporting our first ever online Film Festival.
We're proud to have worked with our friends in Bath, Brighton and Cornwall to bring you AMPLIFY! and your support of the new online Film Festival has been amazing.
Thank you to all the people that have streamed films, watched Q&As, and tuned intoindustry events.
You still have a few hours to catch an AMPLIFY! Film
Two young Ethiopian boys run for fun, but, when they grow up, only one remains a dedicated athlete, while his friend has become involved with drugs and crime.
This beautiful and uplifting film is mainly about love, loyalty, and friendship, as well as the different paths that life can dictate, and how hardship and determination go hand in hand.
This fascinating and timely documentary deals with the overwhelmingly Orwellian issue of algorithms, specifically face recognition, whereby our whole lives can de decided by data which has been collected without our consent or knowledge, and whose accuracy is based on the biases of the person who designed the program.
It's an appropriate counterbalance, then, that the film is entirely populated by women, many of them people of colour. Remarkable and compelling viewing that remains relevant to everyone.
Nora is a young 14-year-old growing up in Berlin, where her mother is largely absent and her older sister is more interested in impressing boys. There's a danger she will become another Carrie; but this is not that kind of film. Enter Romy — young, cool, and definitely not interested in boys. She and Nora are drawn to each other, and Nora begins to discover happiness, coming out of her cocoon and emerging as a... you follow...
Leonie Krippendorff's film is full of life, energy, and fun. It speaks to any of us who remember what it was like to be young and marginalised, and then discover you can be the centre of someone else's universe.
If you are in a position to consider making a donation to support the Cambridge Film Festival and film culture across the region, that would be a great help and hugely appreciated.
