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Published: 25 September 2008

Pick of the Indies

OUR friends at the London Socialist Film Co-op have just issued their programme for the next four months.
The Co-op’s remit is to promote socialist culture and features panel-led discussions after the screenings.
It brings in forgotten films from the past, trawls movies from around the world and gives a platform for low-budget documentaries.
Its quality is apparent from the films running up to Christmas. On Sunday, October 12, the Algerian 2006 hit Days Of Glory is screened, which tells the story of four North African soldiers who enlist in the French army and fight through the Second World War.
The four have different motives: one hopes to share in the spoils of war, another sees the army as a way out of deprivation. A third believes he will be able to settle in France, and the fourth hopes to further the rights of Algerians.
In November comes the premiere of Andrew Berekdaker’s A Fruit Picker’s Dream?
It was shot in the summer of 2007 and explores the lives of eastern European migrants who work in British agriculture.
• The London Socialist Film
Co-Op screens films on the second Sunday of each month at the Renoir Cinema in the Brunswick Centre. Go to www.socialistfilm.blogspot.com or telephone 020 7278 5764.

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