Preceded by short:Joyride (Jim Gillespie, U.K., 1995). A taut thriller by the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer. With Christopher Fulford. (11 mins, Color, 35mm)Acclaimed Belfast writer Ronan Bennett contributes the taut, dry script of this Cockney gangster thriller, successfully inserting a running history of 1980s left-wing protests and everyday East End realities into a polished revision of the heist-gone-wrong genre. After a robbery leads to less money than expected, one of the thieves starts stealing from and killing his partners. Torn between his past as an idealistic trade unionist and his current situation as hard-nosed gangster, the group's leader, Ray (Robert Carlyle), must discover which of his partners is betraying him, before more of his new criminal partners, as well as old political friends, die. Drawing from the long good history of British gangland film, Face narrows its focus further to define a particular neighborhood, the East End, and the histories of working-class choices, crimes, and struggles which are brought to life within the faces and actions of its desperate, driven characters.-Jason Sanders