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In September 2007, after decades of oblivion, Burma became headline news across the globe when Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion against the military regime. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. With the country closed to foreign media, reporting of events fell to a handful of young Burmese Video Journalists, working clandestinely and at great risk to document events and keep the world informed.

Burma VJ tells the story of these young reporters and, for the first time, assembles their extraordinary footage to tell the complete story of the September rebellion. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, and - as the journalists become targets of the military - is a compelling reminder of the power of the camera. Burma VJ plays like a thriller, all the more scary because it is true.

Presented by Open Channel and Cinema Nova with the support of Magic Hour Films and Melbourne International Film Festival.

Winner of Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, Colin Firth stars in the cinema adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s seminal novel. The striking directorial debut of influential fashion designer Tom Ford, Firth stars as a middle aged college professor grieving the death of his lover in early 1960s Los Angeles.

NT Live is an exciting initiative to broadcast live performances of London’s National Theatre plays onto cinema screens worldwide. Broadcasts also feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with artists. This initiative opens the walls of the National Theatre and invites cinema audiences around the world to share in this fabulous theatre experience.

In a comedic look at real life events that are almost too bizarre to believe, small-time journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) discovers that the US Military undertook a program to train “psychic spies” in the 1980’s: giving soldiers the power to walk through walls, read minds and kill simply by staring at the enemy. Chasing the story to the Middle-East, Wilton meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) a man who is either an eccentric trash can salesman or the most deadly officer to emerge from the secret “New Earth” psychic branch of the US Army.

Special guest Christopher Bisset who, “fuses the skills of a magician, psychologist and hypnotist into a truly profound and enthralling show” will be onsite for some pre-screening thrills.

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.