Naima Khan selects the five best film events taking place across London this month.
3rd-5th February
London International Student Film Festival @ London College of Communication
Over three days @SFFLondon presents a collection of the best student productions from all over the world. Their programme includes screenings, talks by industry professionals, Q&As, and networking events. Their 'Why So Serious' segment is our pick of what's on offer and it takes place on Saturday 4th.
From 9th February
The Room Live Intro and Q&A with Tommy Wiseau @ Prince Charles Cinema
'Who's Tommy Wiseau?' I hear you ask. He's a brutally unattractive film director who's known for the train wreck of a film he wrote, produced and starred in called The Room. Its relentlessly ridiculous plot centres on hilariously unbelievable characters, their mundane lives, dated values and incredibly awkward and needlessly prolonged sex scenes but there's something brilliant about it. Prince Charles Cinema regularly screen The Room as part of their Good Bad Film Club but it's Tommy's baby, he's proud as heck and this Q&A will be priceless.
3rd February
Sonic Cinema presents... Adam Smith: Live and Interactive @ BFI Southbank
In Don't Think, director Adam Smith captures a Chemical Brothers concert at Japan’s Fujirock Festival from the fan's eye view. As the band's long-term visuals collaborator, he'll lead a live exploration on the relationship between music and moving image at BFI Southbank. If the screening of Don't Think is sold out by the time you get to it, it's playing at Curzon Soho on 9th February, and Adam will be there too.
19th February
An Italian Straw Hat @ Barbican Centre
This silent satire on the middle classes and all their pretensions begins with a horse innocently gnawing on a straw hat. Set to live musical accompaniment - the ironies aren't lost on us - this looks like the hippest film event of the month.
24th-26th February
Reel Islington Film Festival @ The Old Fire Station
This film festival with a local focus has one hell of a varied programme that includes Japanese animation from the '80s and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator among the plethora of films submitted by directors working and living in Islington. The festival headliners include Battle of Orgreave by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller who'll be about for a Q&A afterwards, Leaving Baghdad by Koutaiba Al-Janabi and Ken Loach's the Wind That Shakes The Barley.
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