This year we are delighted to be screening in Europe's oldest museum, the magnificently refurbished Ashmolean Museum with premiere screenings of films on Vermeer and Dutch landscape painting. Our permanent home in Europe’s oldest independent cinema, the Ultimate Picture Palace, has also been impressively refurbished complete with a cosy new bar.

The films are set on a world stage by internationally acclaimed directors and expose the global issues of importance to all of us. Films, with their directors, from architecture to Punk, from the weaponization of space to the White Stripes are all in our 2010 programme.

In 2010, we will continue with the special space created for a ‘Great Debate’ on issues that affect us all. A series of UK premiere films, with their directors attending, put the spotlight on the pharmaceutical industry and our health. Scientists Under Attack, The Idiot Cycle, and Toxic Baby expose the role of big business and government in our health. Scientists Under Attack reveals, as one example, that only 5% of medical research in genetic engineering is independent. The Idiot Cycle is an exposé of all we are not being told about cancer. My Toxic Baby takes us on a journey through a typical supermarket that is unlike any shopping trip you have ever experienced. The directors of these films alongside a panel of experts will be answering your questions after the screenings.

Rob Lemkin's multi award winning film 'Enemies of the People' follows the journey of a young journalist whose family were among the approximately 2 million killed by the Khmer Rouge, in his search for their killers. His ten year quest includes finding 'Brother Number 2' Nuon Chea, Pol Po's right-hand man. Rob Lemkin will be at the festival screening on Saturday 24th April to discuss his film with the audience, described by Andrew Marr on Radio 4's Start the Week as 'the most moving and gripping film I have ever seen'.

The UK premiere of U.N. Me with the director Ami Horowitz coming over from New York for the screening on Thursday 22nd April, is a revealing and shocking journey of corruption and incompetence through an organisation founded as the embodiment of our hopes for a safer world.

The UK premiere screenings of 'Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space', together with the director, Denis Delestrac, will open OXDOX at the Ultimate Picture Palace on Wednesday 21st April at 6.30 p.m.

For further information contact OXDOX on:

01865 421105

Email: info@oxdox.com

And at the Ultimate Picture Palace on:

01865 245288