Event Details
Monday, 12th May
.. Monday, 12th May
Past Dates Listing
Monday, 12th May
to Monday, 12th May
Venue:
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
(United Kingdom)
(website)
Address: 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZPhone: Box Office 0131 228 2688/ Recorded programme info 0131 228 2689Email: admin@filmhousecinema.com
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Part of the
Sheffield DocFest
festival.
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Screening
Summary
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6.15pm
For the forty children who call it home, Mulberry Bush is their last chance. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often having suffered severe emotional trauma, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around.
Acclaimed documentary maker Kim Longinotto has once again turned her compassionate lens onto people living in extraordinary circumstances. The fragile young boys at the heart of her film lash out in shockingly extreme ways – hitting, swearing and spitting their way through the misery of their blighted childhoods. Endlessly patient and determined staff members verbally reason with the boys, whilst often having to restrain them physically.
Hold Me Tight... is ultimately a heartbreaking, engrossing study of dysfunction – of what happens when families break down. It also pays witness to the tremendous influence that adults hold, for bad and for good, upon growing children.
Dir. Kim Longinotto, UK 2007, 100 mins
Tickets: £6.30/£4.70