Quadrangle – the best possible end to the season

Quadrangle Film Festival / The Quadrangle, Shoreham, Kent / 14-15 September 2012

Our last festival of the season, and possibly one of the most glorious weekends of film viewing/discussing/snarffling ever to be, Quadrangle is a tiny documentary festival (allocating just 150 weekend-long tickets) – set in a spectacularly bucolic location in the barns, stables, granary and meadows of Quadrangle Trust farm. It even has its own little river. The people were wonderful, the film and events programme small but perfectly-formed, and the atmosphere (from being awoken by a chiming bell in the mornings, to eating banquet-style all together by candlelight) made it a simply magical festival, long to be remembered and certain to be re-attended.

We saw some awe-inspiring and thought-provoking films and talks, including:

- Salaam Cinema (with Q&A from director Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
- Kim Loginotto‘s talk on how she works (imperative to see ALL of her films now)
- Enjoy Poverty
- Facing the Music
- London: The Modern Babylon

The full film programme:

We were there just to provide a bit of sumptuousness to the Cinema in the Field, operated by our new-found friends and collaborators the Kitchen Sink Collective, (programming a happy hour audience choice of classic docs as well as their own stuff), and to shake up some decadent cocktails in the Field Bar. Oh, but there were many many Mojitos and Bloody Marys ’round the campfire! This was our last outing to the fields for the season, but we’ll be up to our tricks over the Autumn and Winter. So, see you soon!