The first British Film Week in China for several years is being presented by the British Council in collaboration with the State Administration of Radio Film and Television. Running from 8 to 18 December 2011, seven recent British films will be screened at Broadway Cinematheque Moma in Beijing, ranging from drama and science fiction to documentaries and thrillers. Nick Whitfield, director of Skeletons, will attend the opening ceremony to share his experience with the Chinese audience as well as swapping ideas with key figures in the Chinese film world.

Time: 8 – 18 December 2011
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque Moma, F3, Building T4, The North Area, Moma, 1 Xiangheyuan Road, Beijing
Ticket price: RMB 40
http://www.bc-cinema.cn/festivalprogram.do

Screening Schedule

127 Hours (2010) 94 min Director: Danny Boyle 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he can be rescued.

Monsters (2010) 94 min Director: Gareth Edwards Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life form began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...... Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

Moon (2009) 97 min Directed: Duncan Jones Sam Bell is just two weeks away from finishing a lengthy, lonely contract mining Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3, on the dark side of the moon. Thanks to a glitch in the communications satellite, Sam's only companion on this trip is Gerty, the base's unsophisticated computer, and the odd recorded message sent from home. As his contract nears termination, Sam starts suffering from crippling headaches and vivid hallucinations, which lead to a near-fatal accident in a lunar rover. But while he's recovering back at the base, he makes a shocking discovery: a younger version of himself has arrived to fulfil the same contract Sam started all that time ago.

Skeletons (2010) 94 min Director: Nick Whitfield Davis and Bennett are a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing 'the Procedure' whereby secrets and lies are exposed. When assigned by their boss, The Colonel, to a remote family home, the duo find that they can't seem to get the job done and that sometimes there’s just no getting away from your own skeletons.

Tamara Drewe (2011) 111 min Director: Stephen Frears Once the ugly duckling in the Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns as a glamorous high-flying journalist, ruffling feathers, rekindling old passions and shaking up the sleepy village with hilarious and heart-warming consequences.

The Escapist (2008) 102 min Director: Rupert Wyatt Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict fourteen years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with unique skills required for their daring plan and united by desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London.

Touching the Void (2003) 106 min Director: Kevin MacDonald. The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.