The second year of Camberwell Free Film Festival will take place 20 – 30 March. This year will present directors such as Charlie Chaplin, Julien Temple as well as Abdellatif Kechiche who produced last year’s winner of Cannes Film Festival, “Blue Is The Warmest Colour”.

Last year’s film festival was a great success. With 15 free events at 14 different venues the festival attracted 1750 visitors. “Last year our programme was quite eclectic and was very much about being populist and showing some guilty pleasures with a couple of surprises thrown in for a good measure” says Victor Ferriero, press officer at the festival.

This year will offer a great mix of classic, contemporary and cult films as well as documentaries with an international theme. Ferriero says, “In addition to last year we have two notable female directors, Haifaa al-Mansour and Sarah Polley”

“Blue Is The Warmest Colour” will be screened 29 March at Flying Dutchman. Accompanied by “Oil City Cofidential”, a documentary about the 70s band Dr FeelGood as well as the British supernatural gothic horror film  “The Innocent”.

After last year’s big hit “Hello Africa” at Whirled Cinema, an evening of food poetry, music and films in an African theme the festival will this year screen “Tango Negro”. In the documentary the Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro investigates the roots of tango dance in Africa. “Last year at ‘Hello Africa’, two films were shown, ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Benda Billili’. The evening ended with DJ’s playing Afrobeat”, says Ferriero.

This year the festival features 15 free film events across 15 venues located in Camberwell, SE5.

According to Ferriero the community-based film festival “seeks to offer a selection of films that a wide cross-section of everyone in the area can enjoy”.

For more information visit: http://www.freefilmfestivals.org/whats-on/camberwell.html