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2006 Festival programme.
Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future
Sunday 19th February 12:30 PM - Theatre By The Lake
Director:Nina Pope, Karen Guthrie
Cert:PG Year: 2005 Length:93mins
Country:UK Language:English
"A sad film about hope", this remarkable feature follows 42 former employees of closed shoe factories in Maryport, Cumbria and Essex on a coach trip across Europe to the heart of the Bata shoe empire in the Czech Republic. A bittersweet road movie, it's rendered memorable by its unsparing yet sympathetic eye and its acute observation of what Bata's maxim, 'We are not afraid of the future' means to the lives of the passengers.
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