Gypo (15)

Director: Jan Dunn
Starring: Pauline McLynn, Paul McGann, Rula Lenska
UK, 2005, 1 hour 38 minutes

The first British Dogme film made on a shoe-string by first-time director Jan Dunn, tells of the impact a family of Czech immigrants has upon one unhappy Margate family. The same story is told from three radically different perspectives, that of the good-hearted mother who welcomes them, the teenage daughter who turns against them, and the fed-up father who loathes them. The bare bones style (no music, no artificial lighting, actual locations only) gives the story a documentary realism that combined with a determination to tackle a taboo subject head-on makes this similar in many ways to the films of Ken Loach

“...one of the finest British films of the year.” Edinburgh Film Festival

Winner British Independent Film Award Best Achievement in Production 2005

Director Jan Dunn will introduce the screening on Saturday 1 April

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