NO.18 Belfast Film Festival She knows just what it takes to make a crow blush
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BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL
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CHAIRPERSONS INTRODUCTION This is the final note from me as the time has come to step down as chair of the magnificent Belfast Film Festival. My connection with the festival team pre-dates the formation of the annual citywide event and so I can proudly say that this is my 20th year of festival joy. To my fellow board members I give my sincerest thanks in helping to steer the festival on an upward trajectory year after year. Your support and the support of the funders, sponsors and venues has cemented the annual festival into the hearts and minds of audiences within the city and beyond. The brilliant management and programming teams, led by Michele and Stephen, have provided us with not only the most exciting, stimulating and entertaining events and films, but also continue to push themselves to improve on the excellence they have already achieved. This year is no different. The programme you are about to pore over is once again packed with some of the best dramas, documentaries and shorts that you could ever wish to see this year. We are particularly proud of the quantity of Northern Irish productions that we can bring to our screens. Intertwined with these are the many discussion fora, events and guests, all of them provide new dimensions and insights into social issues and the incredible power of filmmaking. I reflect upon the growth of the events beyond the festival period, particularly the ever expanding outreach programme, working with communities to provide them with the means to enjoy the broadest cinema and film-making experiences wherever they may be in Northern Ireland. I also look forward to the expansion of the virtual reality facility the festival now has to offer and the prospect of a new purpose built multi screen independent cinema. Mostly, like you, I look forward to the lights going down and the screens being lit up. The joy of new stories from around the world, brought to you across our city. Have a good time, come and see as much as you can. We are incredibly blessed to have Mark Cousins as our new chair and, boy, is he fired up. There are even better times ahead. Thank you BFF, my best times, and there is so much more to come. Kevin Jackson
DIRECTORS INTRODUCTION Céad míle fáilte and, we bid ye welcome tae the 18th Belfast Film Festival, our annual celebration of film across the City. BFF18 brings a showcase of 178 features, short films and VR titles applauding innovation and exciting new work from 30 countries around the world. British director Ken Loach is one of only a handful of filmmakers to twice be awarded the prestigious Palme d’Or prize at Cannes, (The Wind that Shakes the Barley 2006; I, Daniel Blake 2016). The BAFTAs, Golden Bears and various international accolades that adorn Ken’s mantelpiece, will soon be joined by the Belfast Film Festival’s Réalta award. We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Ken Loach to Belfast, to screen a selection of his film and TV work and present him with our award for his Outstanding Contribution to Cinema. Special events this year include an in-depth Q&A with multiple award winner Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd); Unknown, with a live score by Geier Hitch in Rosemary St Church; People like Us: The Mirror presenting audio-visual collage with artist Vicki Bennett; and a unique Vagina Monologues combining film with live theatre; In world cinema, Under the Tree- World of Tomorrow, Tigers are Not Afraid, The Endless, and The Rider are just a few of gems to look out for; Opening the festival is Lance Daly’s critically acclaimed, Black 47, whilst Ryan and Andrew Tohill present their accomplished debut feature ‘The Dig’ as the closing gala. This year in the film industry there has been an upsurge of activism, a loud response to systemic sexual exploitation, race and class discrimination. We stand in solidarity with equality campaigns #MeToo #Timesup and others. We hope our programming continues to contribute in both serious and fun ways, to the broader critical discourse on equality. Michele Devlin, Festival Director 3
The Belfast Film Festival Team One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee
Michele Devlin
Stephen Hackett
VITTORIA CAFOLLA
LAURA MCKEOWN
MARY LINDSAY
REBEKah DAVIS
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMER
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JASON MILLS
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NEIL JAQUES
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MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMER
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BOARD MEMBERS
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KEVIN JACKSON BRIAN HENRY MARTIN LOUSIE O MEARA MARK COUSINS LAURENCE MCKEOWN SARAH JONES CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN LISA BARROS D’SA
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SPECIAL THANKS TO: Moyra Lock & Linda Martin, Christine O’Toole, Sarah-Jane Meredith, Lynsey Carroll (Hastings Hotel Group), Arlene O’Connor & Chris Brown (Brown O’Connor) Michael McAdam, Nuala Stewart & Teri Kelly (Movie House), Joan Parsons, Michael Staley & Jenni Graham (QFT), Jennie Carlsten, Hugh Odling-Smee & Sara Gunn-Smith (Film Hub NI), Johanna Leech, Richard Gaston & Mimi Turtle (Strand Arts Centre), Karen and Alfredo at The Med, Emma Haughian (United Wines) John Brolly (The Irish News) Patricia Majury (Cool FM), Rachael Campbell Palmer (Black Box), Ciaran McNally (The Marcus Ward), Stuart Campbell (The Mac), Gerard Robinson (Data Dispatch), Michael Hewitt and Dermot Lavery (Double Band), Jo Egan & Melanie Clark Pullen (Vagina Monologues) Sean Kelly (INTO FILM), Andrea McMaster (Print Library), Visit Belfast, Belfast Exposed, David & Marilyn Hyndman (NVTV), Mary Friel (CADA), Jim (Banterflix), Richard Lavery and Emily Dedakis (Accidental Theatre), Tim Burden, Pedro Donald (The American Bar), Gerry White, Sarah Edge, Chris Martin, Charlie Craig (LadyGeekGeek), Michael Jervis & Adam Bell (Third Source), Belfast Film Festival board of directors, patrons and dedicated team of staff and volunteers. 4
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Northern Ireland’s foremost independent cinema located at Queen’s University in Belfast shows the very best in new and classic world cinema.
Exchange Place. Belfast BT1 2FF 028 9032 5913 www.belfastfilmfestival.org THE BLACK BOX A home for live music, theatre, live art, circus, cabaret and all points in between. Disabled Access - Y 18-22 Hill Street. Cathedral Quarter. Belfast BT1 2LA 028 9024 4400 www.blackboxbelfast.com MOVIEHOUSE - DUBLIN ROAD Northern Ireland’s most popular cinemas and supporter of Belfast Film Festival. 14 Dublin Road. Belfast BT2 7HN 028 9024 5700 www.moviehouse.co.uk
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Contents PAGE 8
OPENING/CLOSING PREMIERES
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KEN LOACH
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NEW CINEMA
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DOCUMENTARY PANORAMA
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ALTERED STATES
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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TALKING FILM
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TV EYE
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TWISTED CORNEA
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NI INDEPENDENTS
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SHORT FILM COMPETITION
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AT A GLANCE GUIDE
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opening night OPENING NIGHT GALA gala
BLACK 47
DIRECTOR: LANCE DALY IRELAND / LUXEMBOURG 2018. 96 MINS.
DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD. THURSDAY 12TH APRIL. 7PM . £8
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and re-unite with his estranged family. After fighting for the British crown in the war in Afghanistan, Martin Feeney returns to his Irish homeland as a deserter. He finds his country in dire straits. Potato blight has destroyed the crops and over a million people have perished in the resulting famine. Martin’s family has also been affected: his mother is among the victims and his brother has been sentenced to death by the British occupying forces. Martin’s plan to emigrate to the USA with his sister-in-law and her children fails, and witnessing his last remaining relatives wasting away almost robs him of the will to live. In desperation, he begins a bloody vendetta across the social and political hierarchy of Ireland. To stop this wrathful avenger, the British hire Inspector Hobson who fought with Martin in Afghanistan. Lance Daly draws on motifs from the western for his 8
drama about a dark chapter of British colonialism in neighbouring Ireland that has rarely been told on the big screen. The gritty realism of the film’s photography conveys the misery of a suffering people and describes individuals cast adrift in austere landscapes. Daly’s restrained, pared-down style is the opposite of flashy exploitation cinema, but watching these bastions of lethally repressive British rule get some overdue comeuppance is similarly stirring. VARIETY
closing night gala
OPENING OPENINGNIGHT NIGHTGALA GALA
Horse Money DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
THE DIG
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD . SATURDAY 21ST APRIL. 7PM . £8
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. With no memory of the murder, Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of Sean is to help him dig. The film stars Moe Dunford (Patrick’s Day, Vikings), Emily Taaffe (Beast, Paula), Francis Magee (Jimmy’s Hall, Rogue One) and Lorcan Cranitch (The Legend of Longwood, Love, Rosie). The Tohill Brothers have directed several short films together. Their most recent short, Insulin, was a prequel for the critically acclaimed The Survivalist. Their previous short, Eyeline, was very well received on the festival circuit, winning the Up and Coming Filmmakers award at the Cornwall Film Festival and was a finalist in the Soho Rushes Shorts in 2012.
The screenplay, written by Belfast native Stuart Drennan, was developed through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme with Lottery funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Brian J. Falconer is the producer. Production company:Out of Orbit Wolfhound Media
The Dig was shot entirely in Northern Ireland with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, supported by Invest NI and from post-production house, Yellow Moon.
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OPENING NIGHT GALA
KEN LOACH Horse Money IN CONVERSATION
DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
MOVIE HOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD . TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 6.30PM . £9.00 Belfast Film Festival is delighted to welcome Ken Loach to Northern Ireland to receive our Réalta award for outstanding contribution to cinema. He will also take part in a public Q & A at the Movie House with Hugh Odling Smee on his film career. Ken Loach is a British film and television director, and the UK’s foremost political filmmaker. Born in 1936 in Nuneaton, Ken Loach studied law at Oxford, but branched into a repertory stage career (at one point understudying Kenneth Williams in Leicester). Shifting into television, he forged an alliance with producer Tony Garnett and developed the docudrama format via a series of hard-hitting ‘plays’ such as Cathy Come Home. Loach made his feature debut Poor Cow in 1967 and two years later, he directed what is now acclaimed as one of the finest films ever made in Britain, with Kes. His socially combative work over the next decade or two was often kept off the radar by a combination of poor distribution and broadcasting censorship. Loach’s
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star rose again in the 1990s as award followed award for feature work no less engaged, and he came to be regarded as one of Europe’s premier filmmakers. Given his lifelong commitment to challenging the political status quo in film, television drama and documentary, it’s hardly surprising that much of Ken Loach’s work has proved highly controversial. Over the course of nearly half a century his uncompromising approach has seen him in conflict with the BBC, various ITV companies, Channel 4, the British Board of Film Classification, the Central Office of Information, several critics and columnists and even the Save the Children Fund. This event is supported by
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
FÉILE TALK
QUEENS FILM THEATRE TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 6.15PM. £7
ST.MARYS. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Ken Loach will take part in a public Q&A following the film, his Palme d’Or winning film about the Irish War of Independence
Féile an Phobail present A Conversation with Ken Loach. In Partnership with Belfast Film Festival.
We’ve seen some fine war movies recently. The Wind That Shakes the Barley ranks with the best of them – and among the best war films ever made.” Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times, 2007
Wednesday 18th April 1pm in St Mary’s University College.
In Ken Loach’s acclaimed war drama, Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney play brothers who join the Irish Republican Army in 1920 after witnessing the killing of a friend at the hands of the Black and Tans, the British body employed to suppress revolution in Ireland. As the conflict becomes increasingly violent and friends and family are tortured and murdered, the brothers become ideologically divided, with tragic results.
Ken Loach will be interviewed by Eilish Rooney, Ulster University, about the current political context, his political beliefs and the influences on his work.
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OPENING NIGHT GALA
GRAHAM LINEHAN IN CONVERSATION Horse Money DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS CONFERENCE CENTRE.WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 8.00PM . £11.00 Belfast Film Festival is delighted to welcome Graham Linehan to BFF18. Linehan co-wrote Father Ted and Black Books, writes and directs The IT Crowd for Channel 4, has won four Baftas, an International Emmy and has contributed to many of the seminal comedy shows of the last couple of decades including I’m Alan Partridge, The Day Today, Brass Eye and The Fast Show. He will discuss his career in a public Q & A with Brian Henry Martin. After an early career as a journalist for the Irish music magazine ‘Hot Press’, Graham began collaborating with writer Arthur Mathews on many high profile comedy sketch shows including Alas Smith and Jones, Harry Enfield and Chums, and the ‘Ted’ and ‘Ralph’ characters in The Fast Show. It was Linehan and Mathews’ creation of Father Ted in 1995 that brought their greatest success of their early years. The programme won countless awards, including two BAFTAs for best comedy, and is today regarded as one of the greatest British sitcoms ever produced. Linehan and Mathews then wrote the first series of the sketch show Big Train, which Graham also directed. 12
Linehan has since written for other shows, including Brass Eye. 2000 saw his next success with his cocreation of Black Books with Dylan Moran. Linehan went on to create, write and direct the 2006 Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, starring Chris O’Dowd and Richard Ayoade. Most recently Graham has been co-writing and directing his new sitcom Count Arthur Strong for BBC2, co-written with its star Steve Delaney, and co-starring Rory Kinnear.
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New Cinema Our choice of the best international cinema
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DIRECTOR: MICHEALSLABOSHPYTSKIY PEARCE. DIRECTOR MYROSLAV 107MINS2014.132 2017. UK. UKRAINE. MINS. DISTRIBUTOR: METRODOME.
DIRECTOR: CHLOÉSIMON ZHAO.STONE. 2015. AUSTRALIA. DIRECTOR 105 MINS. USA. DISTRIBUTOR: F-RATING 96MINS.
THE RIDER
BEAST
QUEENS FILM THEATRE TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 6.30 PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE FRIDAY 13TH APRIL .6.30PM. £6
. saturday . £6 community, a troubled In a 6.30PM small island Once a rising starFILM of THEATRE the rodeo circuit,18TH april. QUEENS young woman falls for a mysterious and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy outsider who empowers her to escape her Brady is warned that his riding days are oppressive family. When he comes under over, after a horse crushes his skull at a suspicion for a series of murders, she rodeo. defends him at all costs. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternative for a different way of life, Brady’s sense of inadequacy mounts as he is unable to ride or rodeo – the essentials of being a cowboy. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Heavy-hearted cowboys, wild horses and broken dreams: The Rider is a great film about what it means to be a man. LITTLE WHITE LIES The Rider confirms Zhao as one of the great new American directors, looking at the lives of people too often ignored in cinema, and in a way too often not attempted. SCREEN ANARCHY
Moll is the black sheep in her otherwise reserved, stiff-upper-lip British family and their country-club world. Her adventurous spirit and fiery temperament are too much for them to handle. Home-schooled by her controlling mother following a violent incident in her preteen past, Moll is, at first glance, quiet and unassuming; but how long will she be punished for something she did all those years ago? With an intense visual style and an eye for dirty details that evokes British auteur Andrea Arnold, Pearce sets the stage for a thriller that has you admiring and fearing its central protagonists in equal measure. TFF Michael Pearce makes a commanding feature debut with this psychological drama-thriller. THE GUARDIAN British thriller Beast takes a fistful of tired old tropes … and manages to fashion something fresh, fierce and quite striking from them. THR 17
DIRECTOR: LÉONOR SERRAILLE. FRANCE. 97 MINUTES. FRANCE. F-RATING.
DIRECTOR:HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURDSSON. 2017. ICELAND. 89MINS.
UNDER THE TREE
JEUNE FEMME QUEENS FILM THEATRE FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 6.45PM. £6
Horse Money
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 6.30 PM. £6
fences make very . £6 bad neighbors A young woman tries to reinvent . friday QUEENSherself FILM THEATREGood 17TH april. 6.30PM in Icelandic writer-director Hafsteinn after the breakdown of a 10-year Gunnar Sigurdsson’s black-frost comedy relationship in French director Léonor of suburban mores. Serraille’s well-observed debut. Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she’s determined to make a new start and she’ll do it with style and panache. Set in the Parisian Left Bank neighbourhood of the title and made with an almost entirely female crew, this loose-limbed, character-focused film is a celebration of a red-haired free spirit that doesn’t skimp on life’s darker sides. Snappily edited, and shot with intimacy and imaginative framing, the energetic Jeune Femme also skips along to a suitably spirited but melancholic electro soundtrack from composer Julie Roué. SIGHT & SOUND
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Agnes throws Atli out and does not want him to see their daughter Ása anymore. He moves in with his parents, who are involved in a bitter dispute over their big and beautiful tree that casts a shadow on the neighbours’ deck. As Atli fights for the right to see his daughter, the dispute with the neighbours intensifies, property is damaged, pets mysteriously go missing, security cameras are being installed and there is a rumour that the neighbor was seen with a chainsaw.
Each character resonates as a problematic individual whose foolishness escalates first into drama, then tragedy. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER The tone is deliberately odd ... blending the naturalism of the day-to-day emotions of relationships and grief, with the altogether more heightened tensions of a revenge thriller, while still keeping a cheeky eye on the absurdity of a mooning garden gnome EYE FOR FILM
DIRECTOR: LAURENT CANTET. 113MINS. 2018 FRANCE.
DIRECTOR: MARC MEYERS. 107MINS, 2017. USA.
THE WORKSHOP
MY FRIEND DAHMER
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 6.30PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 9.30PM. £6
. saturday FILM THEATRELaurent 18 april. Jeffrey 6.30PM .Dahmer £6 murdered 17 men and French QUEENS writer-director Cantet, boys in the Midwest United States Palme d’Or winner in 2008 for The Class, between 1978 and 1991 before being returns with a suspenseful tale, based on captured and incarcerated. He would a true story, about a writer’s relationship become one of America’s most infamous with a right-wing student who troubles serial killers. This is the story before that and intrigues her. story. TH
In the South of France, Antoine (Matthieu Lucci) attends a summer writing workshop in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime thriller with the help of famous novelist Olivia (Marina Foïs). Charged with producing a book to promote the image of La Ciotat, a small seaside town located between Marseille and Toulon, Olivia soon discovers that the one subject which unites her students is murder – though they can’t quite agree on what kind of murder they should write about, or how to treat it. Laurent Cantet makes an enthralling return to form with this topical fusion of political debate session and socially conscious thriller. VARIETY A film which demonstrates that debate, the exchange of ideas, can be as thrilling as any ramped up action flick. THE GUARDIAN
Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel’s Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighbourhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men), and copes with his unstable mother (Anne Heche) and well-intentioned father (Dallas Roberts). He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf. But this camaraderie can’t mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness. A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer’s awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated. ROLLING STONE Writer-director Marc Meyers turns Backderf’s celebrated book into an absorbing, dramatized portrait of casual cruelty and teenage desperation, equal parts The Virgin Suicides and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. TIME OUT 19
DIRECTOR: ANDREW HAIGH. 121MINS. USA.
OPENING NIGHT GALA
LEAN ON PETE QUEENS FILM THEATRE SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 9.15PM. £6
DIRECTOR: SOPHIE BROOKS. 90 MIN. USA, F-RATING
THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS
Horse Money
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 9PM. £6
DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
Charley Thompson is a 15-year-old who A young writer (Zosia Mamet) returns has no stability in his life. He wants a to 9.00pm New York . £6 after a two-year stint in Queens Film Theatre . Wednesday 20th April. home, food on the table and a high school London. She finds the perfect apartment, he can attend for more than part of a year. but soon discovers that her ex-boyfriend lives downstairs. Ravishing and doleful in equal measure, Andrew Haigh’s (45 Years) fourth feature is a resplendent portrait of a lonely neglected boy on a quest for home. While Haigh continues to make exciting, unexpected choices of material, Lean on Pete is adapted from Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel about a Huckleberry inn-esque journey across America’s sparse Northwest.It shares DNA with his last two features, skilfully making intimate emotional journeys epic, and the personal universal. Charlie Plummer is soulfully good in the lead role, his talks to the horse providing a tender and insightful interior monologue. We knew it already, but Lean on Pete once again confirms Haigh’s versatility and cements his reputation as one of the great cinematic storytellers of his generation.
From first-time writer-director Sophie Brooks, this original romantic comedy is the coming-of-age tale of a young writer looking to find her way, back in New York City after a two-year stint in London. Zosia Mamet exhibits winsome charm as Diana, navigating the rite of passage of every single New Yorker: the search for the perfect apartment. She seemingly finds such a jewel of a home, until realizing her downstairs neighbour is actually her ex whose heart she broke when she left town. Like a true New Yorker, she keeps the apartment. Making the oft-told girl-meets-boy story new again, The Boy Downstairs asks real questions about love, chemistry and growing up. Diana declares her intentions for cordial cohabitation, only to find their initially farcical arrangement giving way to more complicated feelings.
What reads on the surface like an archetypal tale of a boy and his horse becomes an affecting snapshot of the contemporary American underclass in Andrew Haigh’s lovely, slow-burning drama, Lean on Pete. THR
Brooks perfectly captures the party dynamic of young Brooklyn gatherings, vividly skewering hipster hookup culture and mustachioed meet-cutes on rooftops, while still managing to approach her central love story with maximum pathos. COLLIDER
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DIRECTOR: NATTAWUT POONPIRIYA 2017. THAILAND. 130 MINS.
DIRECTOR: SIMON HUNTER. 102 MINS. 2017. UK.
BAD GENIUS
EDIE
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD. THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 8.30PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 7.15PM. £6
. saturday . £6 QUEENS FILM THEATRE 18 april. Sheila 6.30PM Hancock is at her sublime best A genius level high school student as Edie, an elderly woman who, in the makes money after developing elaborate aftermath of the death of her controlling methods to help other students cheat. husband, decides to fulfil a long-held Ocean’s Eleven meets The Breakfast Club dream of climbing a Scottish mountain. in Bad Genius...This bitingly brilliant teen movie is deliciously clever and laugh-outloud funny. TH
Lynn is a brilliant math genius and scholar in a prestigious high school. Her richer (but not so academically blessed) classmates conscript her to let them copy her answers during major exams -rewarding her with a generous fee of 3,000 baht per exam per person, for her efforts. When the time comes for the international-based STIC exams, Lynn calls in her fellow genius scholar and competitor Bank for his incredible memory, as the stakes of their massive cheating operation are raised to reach millions of baht for both of them. It’s as if Aaron Sorkin wrote a caper flick set in high school, and it’s as much clever fun as that sounds. BRIAN TALLERICO Bad Genius is a gloriously preposterous work that is one of the most unique (and certainly one of the most enjoyable) heist movies in recent memory. ALISTAIR RYDER
Against her daughter’s wishes, she heads to Scotland and employs Jonny (Kevin Guthrie) to help her get the right equipment and train her for the gruelling climb. As the pair talk, bicker and have fun, they reveal more about their lives to each other, all set against the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Highlands. The heart and soul of Edie is Hancock’s towering lead performance. A truly charismatic and skilled presence, Hancock captures Edie’s determination and strength in the face of fear and physical constraints. The actress delivers a performance that touches a deep emotional nerve, whilst managing to be simultaneously amusing and gentle. Hancock is sublime. CULTURE FIX
Boasting two incredibly tender performances, Simon Hunter’s upbeat Scottish ramble not only showcases Scotland in all its vast rugged beauty, but does a wonderful job at challenging our social stereotypes of ageing and friendship within society. MOVIE REVIEW WORLD
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DIRECTOR: FABIO GRASSADONIA, ANTONIO PIAZZA. 122 MINUTES, 2017 ITALY-FRANCE-SWITZERLAND.
DIRECTOR: SEGEI LOZNITSA, 143 MINS, FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS AND LITHUANIA.
A GENTLE CREATURE QUEENS FILM THEATRE MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 8.00PM. £6
SICILIAN GHOST STORY
Horse Money
QUEENS FILM THEATRE 6.30 THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. £6
TH real-life . saturday gripping story A woman lives QUEENS alone on outskirts of . £6 of a Mafia FILMthe THEATRE 18.THfriday april.176.30PM QUEENS FILM THEATREA april.. £6 6.30PM kidnapping in Italy is enthrallingly rea village in Russia. One day she receives imagined as supernatural fantasy by the a parcel she sent to her incarcerated directors of the acclaimed Salvo. husband, marked ‘return to sender’. Shocked and confused, the woman has Giuseppe is the 13-year-old son of a Mafia hitman no choice but to travel to the prison in turned informant. When he disappears, it is assumed search of an explanation.
So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. Braving violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, our protagonist embarks on a blind quest for justice. A captivating, hallucinatory plunge into Russia’s atrophied civil society, in which a woman’s search for answers is rewarded with humiliation and abuse. VARIETY A wildly ambitious and persistently jaw-dropping odyssey into Russia’s heartless darkness, where humans circle one another in predatory spirals, churning up whirlpools of violence, corruption and sleaze from which there can be no escape. THE TELEGRAPH
he has been kidnapped by his father’s former bosses. Giuseppe’s girlfriend, the determined Luna, battles her mother (some kind of wicked witch) and the police authority’s sloth and corruption in her search for him. Cleverly plotting her relentless quest, while her imagination conjures up mysterious and magical visions of where Giuseppe might be, Sicilian Ghost Story contrasts these fantastical worlds with the grim reality of the boy’s cruel captivity. An enchanting, original and bittersweet film with a dark heart, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza draw out wonderful performances from their young cast, while prolific cinematographer Luca Bigazzi’s luminous images highlight both the magic and bleakness of these worlds. - Adrian Wootton. If Grassadonia and Piazza had simply retold the story, it would have been gripping enough, but they deepen the intensity and widen the meaning by letting the tale unfold in a strange filmic space between cruel reality and ghostly fantasy. THR Co-directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza beautifully mix fairy tale and mythological tropes with the harsh reality of a Mafia kidnapping. VARIETY
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DIRECTOR: JOHANNES NYHOLM 2016. SWEDEN. 86 MINUTES
LET THE CORPSES TAN
DIRECTOR: PETRA BIONDINA VOLPE. 2017. SWISS . 96 MINS.
THE DIVINE ORDER QUEENS FILM THEATRE SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 5.00PM. £6
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6
. saturday . £6 Nora is a young housewife 18 april. Set 6.30PM in 1971, Let the QUEENS CorpsesFILM TanTHEATRE is a wicked distillation and mother who lives with her husband of action cinema’s core cinematographic and two sons in a quiet Swiss village. Here ingredients (from crash zooms to whip little is known about the social upheavals pans), now radically redeployed for of the 1968 movement. The village and maximum visceral impact and delivered family peace, however, dwindles as Nora like a celluloid shotgun blast to the begins to work for women’s voting rights. synapses. TH
The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun..and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration. Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield.... Relentless and mindblowing.
Switzerland is perhaps an unexpected presence on the women’s suffrage roster of shame. Polite and picturesque, it’s hardly the first place that comes to mind as a hotbed for repressive gender politics. Nonetheless, it took until 1971 for Swiss women to gain the right to vote; even later for full emancipation. This earnest drama takes up that story, documenting the collision of 1970s protest culture with the community of a sleepy, picture postcard mountain village.
A fetishistic, ultra-violent exploitation flick that’s all kinds of artistic and exciting when it comes to midnighter execution(s). MATT DONATO
The ensemble, together with Volpe’s fine script and expert direction, make this vital tale soar. FILM FESTIVAL TODAY
Let the Corpses Tan might be the best 1970s Italian crime thriller never made. WIZARD
Leuenberger makes Nora’s gradual awakening to gender issues feel like the sun coming out on a dreary day, brimful of unexpected warmth. EYE FOR FILM
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OPENING NIGHT GALA DIRECTED BY AOIFE MCARDLE. IRELAND. 102 MINUTES.2017.
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Kissing Candice
DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
QUEENS FILM THEATRE . MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 6.30PM . £6.00
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang, in Northern Irish director Aoife McArdle’s feature debut. This searing drama about youth at risk in smalltown Ireland marks the auspicious feature debut of director Aoife McArdle, a rising star who brings a lush, sensuous eye to even the darkest scenarios. Featuring an arresting performance from Ann Skelly, Kissing Candice is about a girl growing up in a very scary place — and the imaginings that might literally represent her only way out. Seventeen-year-old Candice (Skelly) is a dreamer, and the dreams she has during her chronic seizures are the most lucid of all. In one, she meets a beautiful sleepwalking boy. It’s a dream she can’t shake off, especially given the nature of her reality. Candice longs to escape a gloomy seaside town still reeling from the disappearance of a local boy. “Things were a lot safer here during the Troubles,” Candice’s police detective father proclaims, referring to the violence regularly wreaked by a vicious gang. Candice’s world seems 24
to brighten when she meets a man who perfectly resembles her sleepwalker — until she learns he is part of the very gang her father is determined to abolish. Leaden clouds looming over water, detritus-strewn abandoned houses, and the crimson glow of streetlamps: setting after setting in Kissing Candice is evocative. McArdle slips between Candice’s hallucinatory visions and the harsh actuality of her surroundings, exercising our empathy for this troubled girl on a quest for a safer place to dream. MICHÈLE MAHEUX
THE DIRECTOR, AOIFE MC ARDLE WILL TAKE PART IN A Q & A FOLLOWING THE SCREENING.
DIRECTOR:DOMINIC COOKE 2018. 105 MINS. UK.
DIRECTOR: DEBORAH HAYWOOD 2017. 93 MINS. UK.
ON CHESIL BEACH
PIN CUSHION
QUEENS FILM THEATRE FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 9.00PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 6.30PM. £6
. £6her mother are new in town QUEENSand FILM Saoirse THEATRE .Ronan saturday 6.30PM and Billy Howle are18 onapril. Iona and excited about starting a new chapter song as the young couple in Britain’s in their lives, but things don’t go as they duffel-coated early 1960s, in a restrained hoped in this off-kilter, heart-wrenching adaptation of McEwan’s novella. film about two generations of outcasts. TH
In 1962, newlyweds Edward and Florence, both in their early 20s and also both virgins, spend their honeymoon preoccupied and terrified by the upcoming consummation of their marriage.
The lead actors are both marvellous... Yet the film’s most impressive performance might come from director Dominic Cooke, who has delivered an assured, wistful debut. GLOBE AND MAIL it’s a lyrical and rapturous film — a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking. VARIETY
Super close mother Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and daughter Iona (Lily Newmark) -Dafty One and Dafty Two- are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both mother and daughter retreat into fantasy and lies. Achingly fragile and genuinely, preciously peculiar, British writer-director Deborah Haywood’s first feature Pin Cushion ambitiously examines the psychological damage wrought by bullying at all ages, admitting the painful truth that for some of those mean girls and their beleaguered victims, growing older does not mean growing up. VARIETY DIRECTOR DEBORAH HAYWOOD WILL TAKE PART IN A Q&A FOLLOWING THE SCREENING. 25
DIRECTOR: AMIT V. MASURKAR. INDIA •2017. 106 MINS
THE BOOKSHOP
NEWTON MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD. SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 5.00PM. £6
DIRECTOR: ISABEL COIXET 2017. SPAIN‧ 1H 53M
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QUEENS FILM THEATRE WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 9.15PM. £6
Directed In this wry tragicomedy, a rookie . friday by . £6 starring Bill QUEENS FILM THEATRE 17THIsabel april. Coixet 6.30PM and Nighy and Emily Mortimer. A woman in government clerk finds himself entrusted a small town in 1959 England decides, with a task that appears deceptively against polite but ruthless local opposition, simple: collecting 76 votes in a remote to open a bookshop. By exposing the locals village in the jungle of central India. to cutting-edge literature of the day such Newton, an earnest young office worker, volunteers as Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ and Ray Bradbury’s as a poll supervisor, carrying the banner of democracy ‘Fahrenheit 451’, she sows the seeds of an into the deepest jungle. awakening in the conservative town. Director Amit V. Masurkar infuses his film with an uncannily lyrical sense of the landscape and mines both tension and deadpan comedy out of the long stretches of waiting and mutual irritation. As Newton, Rajkummar Rao is a surreptitiously charismatic comic marvel: his insistence on democratic principle may be woefully misplaced but it is also quite irresistibly touching.
A brilliantly acted, impeccably written, lovingly shot, humorous, yet poignant film that Indian audiences didn’t ask for, but need. TIMES OF INDIA A black comedy about the pale spectre of democracy in dark times. DOROTHEE WENNER, BERLINALE
The Bookshop is a sumptuous cinematic adaptation which celebrates Bibliophilia itself. Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s celebrated novel of 1978, and set in a sleepy 1950s English town, The Bookshop tells the story of Florence Green’s attempt to re-energise an out of touch, morally somnambulant rural townsfolk through the dissemination of some of the most stirring literature of the day. Leaving grief and a dead husband in the past, Florence takes life into her own hands by opening a bookshop in Hardborough, a quiet Anglian town, and one sheltered from the social and sexual revolutions taking place in the far away urban centres. Its subversive undercurrent, embodied in fine performances by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy, is what makes it really interesting. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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DIRECTOR: KOGONADA 2017. 104 MIN
Columbus
STRAND ARTS CENTRE. TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 8.30PM . £6.00
The quietly stirring, exquisitely photographed Columbus is an art house gem that beautifully illuminates not only the architecture of a small Indiana town, but also the characters who inhabit it. When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin’s estranged relationship with his father, and Casey’s reluctance to leave Columbus and her mother. With its naturalistic rhythms and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada’s Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. With strong supporting turns from Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, and Michelle Forbes, Columbus is also a showcase for its director’s striking eye for the way physical space can affect emotions. for a safer place to dream.
Rarely will images of mighty concrete and stone dwellings set against tranquil waters or a gentle spring shower resonate so powerfully as those on display every day in the southern Indiana city of Columbus, captured so breathtakingly in the film. CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Few contemporary American films operate on this level of aesthetic precision. CHICAGO TRIBUNE ... fills every frame with visually striking imagery by finding beauty in the ordinary. CINEMALOGUE.COM As much as anything, the movie is about the zen-like stillness and symmetry of the mid-century architecture that serves as the film’s backdrop. ARTSATL An impressive and sometimes mesmerizing directorial debut. ORLANDO WEEKLY 27
DIRECTED BY: NORA TWOMEY WRITTEN BY: ANITA DORON 93 MINS. IRELAND.
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The Breadwinner
DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
MOVIEHOUSE. DUBLIN ROAD . WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6.00
The Breadwinner’s stunning visuals are matched by a story that dares to confront sobering, real-life issues with uncommon and richly rewarding honesty. Presented in association with Film Hub NI and Into Film.
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Parvana is an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom-and danger.
The Breadwinner is a well-crafted and inspiring story with an important message about female empowerment, embodied in heroic Parvana, something people of all ages should embrace. TORONTO STAR
With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her family. Equal parts thrilling and enchanting, The Breadwinner is an inspiring and luminously animated tale about the power of stories to sustain hope and carry us through dark times.
This event is supported by Film Hub NI, part of the BFI Film Audience Network. As part of Anim18, Into Film and Film Hub NI will be organising special events around the screening of The Breadwinner at Belfast Film Festival. Please check www.filmhubni.org for more details.
The Breadwinner is brilliant, genuinely courageous filmmaking, and it deserves to be celebrated. It should be taught in public schools. ROBERT DENERSTEIN
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Documentary Panorama Our choice of documentary film including the Maysles Brothers competition .
DIRECTOR: P. DAVID EBERSOLE, TODD HUGHES 2017. US. 95 MINS.
MANSFIELD 66/67 QUEENS FILM THEATRE WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 6.45PM. £6
An examination of the last two years of movie star Jayne Mansfield’s life reveal an alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan. In the 1950s and 60s, Jayne Mansfield helped define the term “bombshell” as an actress, Playboy playmate, nightclub singer. Mansfield 66/67 looks at the last two years of her life and untimely death, and asks: Could the death of this all-American movie goddess really have been caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan? This is a true story, based on rumour and hearsay, directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes, and told by cult icons like Kenneth Anger, John Waters, Mamie Van Doren, Tippi Hedren and many more. Tragic, mythic and larger-than-life, it’s ultimately a celebration of a true American original. It’s not an intimate portrait of the woman, but a celebration of the sex-positive, taboo-breaking image she created for herself and the way she rocked American culture during a hugely transitional moment. LA TIMES
DIRECTOR: STEVE MITCHELL. 2017. 110 MINS.USA
KING COHEN BEANBAG CINEMA TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 9PM. £6
Featuring a veritable Who’s Who of filmmakers, from Mick Garris to Martin Scorsese, this documentary pays affectionate tribute to the director of such classics as It’s Alive and Q-The Winged Serpent. Buckle up for the true story of writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen (Black Caesar, God Told Me To, Q the Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Phone Booth). Told through stills and film/TV clips and compelling live interviews the people who helped fulfill his vision, and industry icons such as Martin Scorsese, John Landis, Michael Moriarty, Fred Williamson, Yaphet Kotto and many more, including Larry himself, bring one-ofa-kind insight into the work, process and legacy of a true American auteur. Few can boast of a career as remarkable or prolific, spanning more than 50 years of entertaining audiences worldwide! For anyone who loves Cohen’s work and offbeat storytelling sensibilities, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy what Mitchell has crafted with King Cohen, and even cinephiles in general should have a lot of fun with this one, too. DAILY DEAD
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DIRECTOR: THEO ANTHONY. 2016. USA. 82 MINS.
DIRECTOR: GÖRAN OLSSON 2017. USA. 80 MINS.
THAT SUMMER
RAT FILM
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD THURSDAY 12TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6
BEANBAG CINEMA. WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 9PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATREof. saturday 6.30PM . £6 footage from the scrapped A provocative portrait rats in 18theapril. Long-lost documentary project that led to ‘Grey American city of Baltimore and the Gardens. humans who love them, live with them, and kill them. TH
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem”. Though Theo Anthony’s eclectic documentary ‘Rat Film’ has the urban-dwelling rodent on its mind, it treats rats not as a subject but as a microcosm for systemic injustice.’ AV CLUB Rat Film offers a mesmerizing mix of straightforward documentary storytelling and experimental elements. HAMMER TO NAIL A brilliantly imaginative essay that explores the relationship between Baltimore’s rodent infestations and its economic inequity. THE NYTIMES
Original Soundtrack by Dan Deacon
From cult faves to the subjects of a Broadway musical and starry HBO movie, the kin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who lived in scandalous bohemian squalor in an oceanfront East Hampton estate, have become indelible pop-culture figures. But even if you’re the completist who’s seen the 2006 follow-up to the 1975 documentary classic Grey Gardens, you’ve never seen the mother-daughter duo quite as they’re revealed in That Summer. That Summer is a feature documentary centered on the film project artist Peter Beard initiated in 1972 with Lee Radziwill about her relatives, the Beales of Grey Gardens. Lost for decades, this extraordinary footage reemerges in a film that focuses on Beard and his family of friends, who formed an enormously influential and vibrant creative community in Montauk, Long Island in the 1970s. Featuring Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol. Including footage directed by Peter Beard, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol and with additional cinematography by Albert Maysles and Vincent Fremont. Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson, whose masterful touch with found footage made The Black Power Mix Tape 1967–1975. 33
DIRECTOR: JOAN SALICRÚ AND ARIADNA VÁZQUEZ. 2017. 60 MINS.
DIRECTOR: SUE CLAYTON 2017. UK. 62 MINS.
POLIFONIA BASCA’
CALAIS CHILDREN: A CASE TO ANSWER
QUEENS FILM THEATRE WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 9.00PM. £6
THE BLACK BOX SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 12.00PM. £5
After a lifetime devoted to the investigation of the Basque conflict, the Catalan journalist Antoni Batista returns to the Basque country to see how the situation has evolved since ETA announced the end of its violent activity five years ago. There, he meets and talks with the people who were his sources over three decades and who ended up becoming his good friends. The Basque country, states Batista, wants to turn the page as fast as possible... maybe at the risk of not developing a proper grief process. A documentary by Joan Salicrú and Ariadna Vázquez. Produced by Clack with the support of the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP), the Catalan Institute for Creative Industries (ICEC), TVC and EITB.
Calais Children: A Case to Answer is a new film revealing the desperate plight of hundreds of unaccompanied child refugees in Europe and exposing the role played by the UK government in prolonging this, against the will of Parliament. As the Calais jungle was set to be razed in October 2016, there were over 1900 unaccompanied minors stranded there, many of whom might have a legal case to enter the UK. Would the UK accept them? And if not, what would be their fate? Calais Children: A Case to Answer uniquely follows the young people over the months since they left the jungle. We speak to Lord Dubs, the volunteer groups, and the lawyers who are fighting their case in courts. We ask how can we as Europeans open our hearts to some of the 85,000 lone children in Europe. Director Sue Clayton will take part in a Q&A following the screening. Director Sue Clayton has been producing and directing films for over 30 years. She has made a number of awardwinning documentaries for UK Channel 4 and Central Television.
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DIRECTOR:. SINEAD O’SHEA, 2017, 84 MINS, IRELAND.
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A DIRECTOR: MOTHERMARKBRINGS COUSINS HER SON TO BE SHOT 2015, 84 MINS.
QUEENS FILM THEATRE . THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 6.00PM . £6
Five years in the making, this brave and level-headed documentary exposes paramilitary activity in present day Northern Ireland during a supposed time of peace.
One night Majella took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly and his shooters all live within an extraordinary community in Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Even after the Troubles this community is still at war. They do not accept the government or police. All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How does a community respond? When do wars really end?
For five years Sinéad O’Shea has filmed this shocking portrait of a post conflict society. Executive Produced by Joshua Oppenheimer. A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot is set to Compete for F:ACT Award at CPH:Dox. Northern Irish Premiere. THE DIRECTOR WILL TAKE PART IN A Q & A WITH BBC JOURNALIST DECLAN LAWN FOLLOWING THE SCREENING.
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Filmed over five years, this unflinching documentary examines violence committed by groups opposed to the peace process in Northern Ireland, long after the Troubles came to an end.
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DIRECTORS: TRAOLACH Ó MURCHÚ, JOHN MURPHY. 2017.76 MINS. IRELAND.
PHOTO CITY QUEENS FILM THEATRE FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 5.00PM. £6
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW SIRETTA, 65 MINS. 2018. USA.
DISCO’D
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BEANBAG CINEMA WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6
TH streets . saturday on the of Los . £6 Angeles at 18.THfriday april. Rochester, NY QUEENS is a FILM city THEATRE defined by QUEENS FILM THEATRESet 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM night, Disco’d explores the lives of the photography. Once dominated by Kodak, homeless community as they struggle the city now faces a new digital future. with displacement. Photo City presents a profile of the city told through the varied lives of its A couple in an encampment prepares to move for photographers.
Home to the Kodak company for over 125 years, Rochester, New York is a city uniquely defined by photography. Photo City focuses on the lives of the city’s photographic and creative community as they struggle to maintain a link to their analogue past and to forge an identity in this new digital age.
Director Statement Disco’d focuses on the current state of homelessness in Los Angeles from an immersive and personal perspective. The people in our film, and much of the homeless community, are detached from their surroundings, yet ensnared by their environment. The film deals with themes such as discombobulation, displacement, survival, addiction and sanitation. Disco’d focuses here, on this uneasy and largely unheard margin of society.
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Featuring an eclectic cast of characters, from the former factory floor workers to the father of digital photography, this is a film about how a city is shaped by its people. Their personal and professional struggles give us a glimpse of what it means to be a creative today and how in a company town weighed down by its own history, some moments never fade.
city sanitation. An elderly woman is frustrated with obtaining housing assistance. A recycler contemplates his existence. An ailing senior describes a life of heroin addiction as he tries to maintain civility. When morning comes, the homeless encampment must move for city sanitation, and the elderly woman faces the realities of homeless housing assistance.
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DIRECTOR: JIAN FAN. 2017. 98 MINS. CHINA.
DIRECTORS: AGNÈS VARDA, JR 90MINS. FRANCE.
STILL TOMORROW
FACES PLACES
BEANBAG CINEMA THURSDAY 12TH APRIL. 6.30PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 8:30PM. £6
. saturday 18andapril. It6.30PM THEATREcharming is true. £6 that there is still tomorrow, what Equal QUEENS parts FILM breezily a pity that there is still tomorrow. poignantly powerful, Faces Places is a unique cross-generational portrait of When one of her poems is shared more than a million life in rural France from the great Agnès times on Chinese social media, Xiuhua Yu suddenly Varda. TH
89 year-old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33-year-old French photographer and muralist JR team up to codirect this enchanting documentary/road movie. Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: their passion for images in general and, more particularly, questioning the places where they are showed, how they are shared, exposed. Agnès chose cinema. JR chose to create open-air photographic galleries. When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to work together, shoot a film in France, far from the cities. Faces Places is also about their friendship that grows during the shooting of the film.
finds that she is famous. The contrast with her previous life could not be greater. Yu has lived and worked all her life on her parents’ simple farm, while battling cerebral palsy. Twenty years ago, her parents arranged for her to be married to a labourer who has no feelings for her. Fame brings her financial freedom: suddenly, Xiuhua Yu is able to think about a different future, freed from her husband. In this frank and intimate portrait, we follow her in the year of her breakthrough. Yu is painfully aware that for a woman with a disability, life will never be simple. However pragmatically she speaks about it, and however eloquently she writes about it, she still struggles to escape her physical and emotional chains.
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DIR. EMMANUEL GRAS, 2017, 96 MINS, CONGO/FRANCE
DIRECTOR. HÅVARD BUSTNES, 2017, 94 MINS, GREECE/NORWAY
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GOLDEN DAWN GIRLS BEANBAG CINEMA SATURDAY 15TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6
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BEANBAG CINEMA FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 6.30PM. £6
. £6 of a young FILM THEATRE . friday 17TH april. The trials and 6.30PM tribulations A documentary which looksQUEENS at the women farmer who earns a living by making behind Greece’s far-right political party, and selling charcoal in theCongo. Golden Dawn. The key male members of Golden Dawn are imprisoned, accused of carrying out organised criminal activity. To maintain Golden Dawn’s position as the fifth largest political party in Greece, their daughters, wives and mothers step up to the task of leading the party through the upcoming elections. As the elections and trial unfold, the Norwegian film crew gains access to secret chambers and witnesses the family dynamics of one of Europe’s most notorious nationalist parties. This documentary exposes the mindset, values and personalities of the people on the front lines of modern nationalism and immigration, and that sexism does not have a political bias.
A young man from a village in the Congo hopes to offer his family a better future. His only resources are his own two hands, the surrounding bush, and an iron will. When he sets out on an exhausting, perilous journey to sell the fruit of his labour, he discovers the true value of his efforts, and the price of his dreams. Including some of the most stunning images seen in contemporary film, director and cameraman Emmanuel Gras has found some of those ‘pure and absolute images’ that Herzog has always demanded in documentary film. Winner - Critics’ Week Grand Prize Cannes Film Festival 2017
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DIRECTOR. FREDERICK WISEMAN, 2017, 197 MINS, USA DIR. FREDRICK WISEMAN, 2017, 200 MINS, CONGO/FRANCE
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DIRECTOR. MILA TURAJLIC, 2017, 100 MINS, SERBIA
THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING QUEENS FILM THEATRE FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 9.15PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 1.00PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE 18 april. Positioned 6.30PM . £6 in a Belgrade apartment, we The latest work from. saturday the great are introduced to academic and feminist documentary filmmaker Frederick activist Srbijanka Turajlic. She is being Wiseman examines the New York Public interviewed by her filmmaker daughter, Library as it reconfigures itself for the Mia, who uses her mother as a prism digital age. through which to describe the complex politics, identities and history of the In this, the 42nd documentary by Frederick Wiseman former Yugoslavia. TH
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“Trump made it a political film because it represents, in my mind, everything he doesn’t believe in or doesn’t understand,” according to Wiseman. “The movie itself is not ideological, but in the current political atmosphere, it becomes that.”
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The film has the intimacy of a home movie, containing warmth and tension, only leaving the apartment to present archive footage, which forms a poetic understanding of the often brutal Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. The film effectively combines the personal and political, asking how citizens can speak truth to power in a democracy often corrupted by nationalism and war. It creates an enlightening study of a complicated, and still haunted, corner of the world. Winner Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, 2017.
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(recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 2016), the legendary filmmaker brings his incisive vision behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning, capturing the vast programmatic scope of NYC’s library system. The NYPL is blessed with uniformly passionate staff and deeply devoted, appreciative bibliophiles and beneficiaries across its 92 branches. The film reveals a venerable place of welcome, cultural exchange, and intellectual creativity.
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Brandon Schaefer poster for ‘The Endless’.
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DIR: ADOLFO KOLMERER. WILLIAM JAMES. 2017, 120MIN. GERMANY.
DIR: ISSA LÓPEZ. 2017. 84MINS. MEXICO.
TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID
SNOWFLAKE
QUEENS FILM THEATRE THURSDAY 19TH APRIL.9PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 8.45PM. £6
Director: ANA LILY AMIRPOUR.
USA. 99MINS.FILM 2014. . £6 . £6Tan and Javid, are tracking queens film.blends theatre. sunday 19 Two april. 9PM QUEENS THEATRE saturday 18 april. 6.30PM outlaws, A jaw-dropping film that reality DISTRIBUTOR: STUDIOCANAL down the man who killed their families. and the supernatural in a beautiful way. Their hunt is going off-track until one It feels like a spiritual sequel to Guillermo day they find the screenplay… of the very del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone or Pan’s movie they are in. Labyrinth, except with a more modern, realistic setting. TH
A group of children in an unnamed Mexican city – who have lost their parents to the violent activities of gangs and drug-lords. A loyal gang of pre-teens, headed by Shine, work together to survive in their parentless world and to keep the gangs at bay. Add into the mix Estrella, who also recently lost her mother and has been granted three wishes by her teacher (classes have been discontinued due to the rampant violence). Her first wish is to have her mother back. With that wish seemingly granted (via something akin to The Monkey’s Paw), she takes up with Shine and his fellow gang members – and they work together to seek vengeance against these evil men who have destroyed their families. an unflinching look at the damages of drug culture, and a ray of hope to the end of that culture, a work of immense beauty, pain, fear and joy. SCREEN ANARCHY
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The Best Guillermo del Toro Movie He Never Made IO9
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Snowflake is an infernal genre mix of action, thriller and comedy set in the near future. Multiple exceptional characters try to survive a vicious circle of revenge and karma, challenging their own personal sense of vengeance. All this is set in a hard-boiled exaggerated world, which at second glance may not be too far out. A dentist’s mysterious screenplay sets the stage for two friends getting the blues over kebabs; you will encounter God eating ravioli from a can, a hopelessly hopeful angel, a hyper-electric superhero, as well as cannibalistic hitmen and a timid but violently obedient prototype android. THE FILMMAKERS WILL WILL TAKE PART IN A Q & A WITH ROBERT J SIMPSON FOLLOWING THE SCREENING.
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DIRECTOR:DAVID FREYNE.2018. 96 MINS.IRELAND.
THE CURED QUEENS FILM THEATRE TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 9.30PM. £6
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What if flesh-eating zombies were returned to their old lives – and had to reintegrate back into an unforgiving society? Ellen Page and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor star in an original, innovative and surprising postzombie film from Ireland. What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan, a young man haunted by the horrific acts he committed while infected. Welcomed back into the family of his widowed sisterin-law, Senan attempts to restart his life but is society ready to forgive him and those like him? Pulsing with provocative parallels to our troubled times, The Cured is a smart, scary, and hauntingly human tale of guilt and redemption.
The result is a very creepy, suspenseful story that’s also a better-than-average character study. And as you may have inferred upon my saying the film was set in Ireland, the premise has a great deal of potential for allegory and metaphor. Freyne’s hand here is assured; his world-creation doesn’t lay things on too thick, but the points concerning trust, distrust and the weight of history and personal conscience are all hit with a satisfying directness. Freyne is a filmmaker to watch, to be sure, and “The Cured” is going to be a genre film to beat in 2018. GLENN KENNY. ROGEREBERT.COM
What lifts this Irish film above the [standard zombie flick] are the moral dilemmas, the shaky ground underneath either side of those dilemmas and performances that can be downright wrenching in their humanity. MOVIE NATION This rehabilitation of walking-dead tropes comes with unusual resonances. SIGHT AND SOUND 42
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DIRECTOR: JUSTIN BENSON, AARON MOORHEAD. 111MINS. USA.
THE ENDLESS MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD. WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6
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Two brothers return to the creepy UFO cult they escaped years before in this mind-bending third feature from resourceful indie horror duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. After escaping a cult as children, brothers Aaron and Justin are living hand-to-mouth when they receive a mysterious message in the mail that seems to be from their former “family”. Aaron insists they go back to investigate, and the protective Justin reluctantly agrees, concerned about returning to the place they worked so hard to leave behind. Once there, Aaron is quickly drawn back under the sway of the cult’s intensely magnetic leader Hal (Tate Ellington), while Justin remains uneasy. Soon inexplicable happenings begin to occur in the group’s desert encampment, and both Aaron and Justin are forced to conclude that the unsettling events seem to be in line with the cult’s strange and supernatural axioms. Will they unearth the cult’s mysterious secret in time to prevent history from repeating itself? —Karen Kammerle
The looping twilight zone that [Benson and Moorhead] have created is both a familiar retread of previous work & a springboard for something genuinely, unnervingly original... SIGHT AND SOUND [A] rich banquet of mind-bending weirdness. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ...deeply unsettling, fantastically eerie...a phantasmagoria of surreal mystery. Dread Central THE ENDLESS is the purest vision we could ever hope to see from two filmmakers who are as comfortable examining the mysteries of the universe as they are the intimacies of our own hearts. BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH. Austin Chronicle Maximum weirdness on a minimal budget. THR The overall premise of The Endless promises a Lovecraft-level mythology and the possibility for many more stories SCREEN DAILY
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DIRECTOR: XAVIER GENS.2017. 108 MIN. FRANCE. SPAIN.
DIRECTOR: MARCO DUTRA, JULIANA ROJAS. 2017 135 MIN. BRAZIL/FRANCE.
COLD SKIN
GOOD MANNERS
MOVIE HOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD. WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 9.15PM. £6
QUEENS FILM THEATRE. TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 8.45PM. £6
does begin to . describe a film The Lovecraftian tale of isolation and . friday QUEENS FILM THEATREHow 17THone april. 6.30PM £6 about which the less you know the madness is set on a desolate island. better? So strange and unexpected is this Where a young man, on his way to story that even the most straightforward assume the lonely post of weather synopsis might be considered a spoiler. observer, finds a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses Some genre films are enjoyable to watch but leave no to name. Shortly after WW1, a young man arrives at a remote barren island far from civilisation in order to take up the post of weather observer for one year. On shore he finds no trace of the man he has come to replace, and the only other island inhabitant is the deranged lighthouse keeper who rants about an unseen horror. Retreating to his wooden cabin he settles in for the night, only to be besieged by dozens of nightmarish Lovecraftian creatures. Terrified, he tries to defend himself and so begins a living nightmare. Xavier Gens (Frontieres, The Divide) brings this bestselling Spanish novel to the big screen. It’s a bleak,rather thoughtful film with bursts of exciting, but grim action and Gens’ best to date. The creature design is by Arturo Balseiro, who also created fishy things for Stuart Gordon’s Dagon and has credits ranging from to Pan’s Labyrinth. KIM NEWMAN
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trace in the brain’s synapses, whereas others dig deeper, playing with fantasy elements to address issues that matter in the real world, where mythical creatures (and superheroes, for that matter) don’t exist. Clara is a quiet nurse with a thin résumé from the outskirts of São Paulo. When she’s hired by high-class and seemingly sheltered Ana to be a nanny for her unborn child, the two develop a surprising relationship. Ana’s increasingly strange behavior, including an intense hunger for meat, leads to a fateful night that changes Clara’s life forever. The genre-bending twists and pleasures of Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s latest feature are better experienced than told. A hybrid of art-house and genre cinema, combining sharp social commentary with grand guignol fantasy. THR Good Manners is an ambitious work not only in scope but design, influenced by Jacques Tourneur’s psychological horror noirs. VARIETY
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DIR: KING HU 1979 191 MIN. TAIWAN.
DIRECTOR: DON HERTZFELDT 2015/2017 17MIN/22MIN.
OPENING NIGHT GALA
LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN
WORLD OF TOMORROW: PARTS 1 &2
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BEANBAG CINEMA FRIDAY 20TH APRIL. 9.00PM. £6
A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains. A young scholar, Ho Yunqing, is tasked by an eminent monk to transcribe a Buddhist sutra said to have immense power over the spirits of the afterlife. To execute his work in peace, he travels to an isolated monastery deep in the mountains, where he encounters a number of strange people, including the mysterious and beautiful Melody. As malicious spirits attempt to steal the sutra, Ho becomes entangled in a conflict between duelling forces of good and evil. Will he leave the mountain alive? Although most commonly associated with the Wuxia genre, in 1979 King Hu directed the epic fantasyhorror, Legend of the Mountain. Heavily influenced by traditional Chinese aesthetics and Zen Buddhist philosophy, it has come to be regarded as one of his greatest filmmaking achievements. A delightful tale of ancient magic and clueless men. THE HOLLLYWOOD REPORTER You can get lost in these pictorial reveries as you trace the rays of light piercing the trees, brightening the dark waters and the reality-softening haze. NYT
MOVIEHOUSE SATURDAY 21ST APRIL. 1.00PM. £5
DIRECTOR: MARK COUSINS 2015, 84 MINS.
World Of Tomorrow is one of the best pieces of filmmaking of the past decade, something you need to see immediately if you haven’t already. It’s weird and funny and heartbreaking and profound. Part 1: Stick-figure animations embark on a kaleidoscopic journey through an abstract vision of the future. Part 2: Emily Prime is talking to herself as she draws on the floor, until she is visited by a third-generation clone of herself. Don Hertzfeldt is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee. In 2014, his work appeared on The Simpsons. Eight of his short films have competed at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival record. Hertzfeldt crafts a vision of the future with more detail and depth than any feature length sci-fi in recent memory. THE YOUNG FOLKS Absolutely astonishing... Crams in more SF ideas than you’ll find in a decade’s worth of summer blockbusters. FLICK FILOSOPHER 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, what more of a review do you need? BFF FESTIVAL MANAGER
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ROBIN AUBERT 102 MIN DRAMA HORROR CANADA FRENCH
RAVENOUS
PIRANHA ON THE HMS CAROLINE!
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 9PM. £6
HMS CAROLINE FRIDAY 20TH APRIL. 7.30PM. £8
THdownriver . saturday came in their In a small, remote in upstate . £6 thousands. QUEENSvillage FILM THEATRE 18.THfriday april. QUEENS FILM THEATREThey 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM Their teeth could strip a living man to the Quebec, things have changed. Locals are bone in seconds.They’re here...Hungry not the same anymore, their bodies are for flesh! Watch this B-Movie classic breaking down and they have turned presented by Banterflix on board the HMS against their loved ones. A handful of Caroline!! survivors goes into hiding in the woods, looking for others like them.
One of the most unique voices in Québécois cinema, Robin Aubert has flirted with genre before. With his latest, he plunges in head (and brains) first though, as one might expect, this riveting zombie film is informed as much by Aubert’s own obsessions as it is by established conventions. Ravenous is punctuated by gallows humour and moments of twitchy surrealism, much of it propelled by the compulsive behaviour of the zombies. And, as with the best zombie movies, Ravenous is partly about politics and partly about a fear of the masses overpowering both individuals and minority groups. Robin Aubert’s idiosyncratic and nuanced drama breathes fresh life into the zombie apocalypse subgenre. VARIETY His script is yet another tale of several strangers teaming up to fight the flesh-eaters, but the director favors a more eclectic approach that’s equal parts George Romero, Robert Bresson and Monty Python. THR 46
The years following the gargantuan success of Jaws found studios releasing an endless stream of copycat flicks, but it’s generally agreed that producer Roger Corman’s Piranha remains the best of the bunch; even Jaws director Steven Spielberg counts himself among the film’s fans. The first screenwriting credit for future Oscar nominee John Sayles as well as an early assignment for director Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins), Piranha sports a sense of humour to go along with the grisly critter attacks, as a boozy woodsman and a private investigator stumble across a crazed scientist who’s experimenting on a pool full of mutated piranha; along the way, the couple accidentally release the ferocious fish into a nearby river.
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X-FILES NIGHT
THE UNKNOWN ROSEMARY STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 9PM. £6
THE BLACK BOX WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 7.30PM. £7
. £6 QUEENStoFILMcelebrate THEATRE . the saturday 18 ofapril. Todd 6.30PM Brownings’ film incorporating a new, An evening genius psychometrically recalibrated musical special agents Fox Mulder and Dana score performed live by Geier Hitch. Scully and the seminal TV show. We‘ll be screening some classics episodes and some loving spoof tributes. Presented by Belfast Film Festival in conjuncton with Ulster Film Office, presents this special screening of Tod Browning’s Agent Stephen Beggs and Agent Reggie pre FREAKS amputees, circus midgets and murder love Chamberlain-King. TH
We’ll be screening some fan favourite expisodes and agents Chamberlain- King and Beggs will test you for admittance to Quantico with a short quiz; ‘I Want To Believe’; a series of fantastic facts mythology and conspiracy where the audience have to guess which are true and which are made up! We’ll also be encouraging you to dress up with Film Fest prizes presented for the best outfits inspired by the series. Music from the X-Files album ‘Songs In The Key of X’ will be played throughout the night.
triangle silent masterpiece, THE UNKNOWN, an unsung classic of psychological horror and the macabre.
Featuring a soul penetrating performance by man-ofa-thousand-faces, Lon Chaney, as the armless Alonzo, single minded circus knife thrower with a broken past, hell bent on the heart of his performing partner, the galmourous, man hating human dartboard, Nanon, (a jaw dropping, pre coat hanger era Joan Crawford) at ANY cost. This screening incorporates a new, psychometrically recalibrated musical score performed live by Geier Hitch from the Kitsch Gehenna, courtesy of Gamma Pro Forma Records, London.
Scully: Have you ever had any dealings with a cow? Mulder: Agent Scully, WHAT are you implying?
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PINK FLOYD ONSCREEN
BFF QUIZ THE BLACK BOX SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 7.30PM. £3 PER HEAD.
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THE BLACK BOX THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 8.00PM. £8
. saturday . £6 celebrates the visual A event that Do you know which the first to QUEENSfilm FILMwas THEATRE 18THunique april. 6.30PM work of Pink Floyd and their artist and feature a flushing toilet? If you do then filmmaker collaborators over the years, this is the quiz for you (if you don’t this including concert footage, videos, film is the quiz for you). clips and more.. This year Brian Henry Martin hands over the reins to Joe Lindsay and Ronan O’ Donnell for the ultimate annual screen test for movie buffs - the Belfast Film Festival Quiz. Prepare to face an entertaining eight rounds of big screen puzzles, mysterious soundtracks and cine surprises. So get your team together, make sure they know their Shia LaBeouf from their Brad Dourif and let the games begin. Teams must be no more than a Magnificent 6 – and there will be prizes for finishing first, last and a few spot prizes along the way.
QUIZ STARTS AT 7.30PM - DOORS 7PM.
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Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. They achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music. ... Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals. This event specially curated by BFF follows their work on a visual journey from their early Syd era to collaborations with Ralph Steadman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alan Parker and more..
SING- A- LONG MARY POPPINS
LIVE READ : SPACEBALLS!!
STRAND ARTS CENTRE WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL. 6.00PM. £7
THE BLACK BOX SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 4.00PM. £7.
QUEENSto FILM THEATRE 18 ofapril.The 6.30PM £6 Mel. Brooks’ classic gets the Live Read Your chance sing along. saturday with some treatment. Brought to you by Accidental the best-known and most beloved songs Theatre and Belfast Film Festival. in motion picture history. After 54 years, Mary Poppins continues to pull lasting magic from its cinematic carpet bag of In a distant galaxy, planet Spaceball has depleted its air supply, leaving its citizens reliant on a product called tricks, while reminding new generations “Perri-Air.” In desperation, Spaceball’s leader President how a simple gift of kindness costs merely Skroob (Mel Brooks) orders the evil Dark Helmet to tuppence.. TH
SING ALONG MARY POPPINS invites audiences of all ages to step in time with Mary, Bert and the gang. This special screening of the classic 1964 film has on-screen lyrics so that audiences can join in the fun by singing along. Audience members are encouraged to dress as their favorite Mary Poppins character – or in a costume inspired by the movie. Adapted from PL Travers’ 1934 novel, Mary Poppins premiered in August 1964. It earned 13 Academy Award nominations. Over fifty years later Mary Poppins remains a family favourite and continues to entrall yet another generation of children.
kidnap Princess Vespa of oxygen-rich Druidia and hold her hostage in exchange for air. But help arrives for the Princess in the form of renegade space pilot Lone Starr and his half-man, half-dog partner, Barf (John Candy). Directed by Emily DeDakis (who has never seen Spaceballs) along with a stellar secret cast (who probably have, many times).
Live Read was created by Jason Reitman (Director of Thank You for Smoking, Juno and Up in the Air). Reitman reads the stage directions. The full cast lists and the role each actor will play is kept secret until the event itself. The actors do not rehearse ahead of time. Reitman says that the series is to show audiences how actors create characters, but it’s also a chance to just concentrate on the quality of the script without any distraction. Brought to you by the people who make FAST & LOOSE: Theatre for the Chronically Impatient.
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PEOPLE LIKE US : THE MIRROR THE CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 8PM. £7.00
ARSENAL WITH LIVE MUSIC BY BRONNT INDUSTRIES KAPITAL
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THE MAC THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 8PM. £12.
TH . saturday . £6 Belfast Film Festival and Sonorities . £6 Belfast Film QUEENS FILM THEATRE 18.THfriday april.176.30PM QUEENS FILM THEATREPresented 6.30PM byapril. The Mac and present a new live-cinema performance Festival. Set during the closing stages of by People Like Us titled The Mirror. the Eastern Front of the First World War, This immersive audio-visual piece uses Arsenal documents a Bolshevik uprising sampling and collage to explore concepts in Ukraine that was a pivotal moment of inward reflection, outward reflection in the Ukrainian War of Independence, and projection into the beyond. and the country’s war with Soviet Russia. 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki Bennet uprising.
specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio.
Since 1991 she has been working across the field of audio-visual collage and is recognised as an influential figure in the field of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use and have previously shown work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, The Barbican, Centro de Cultura Digital, Maxxi and Sonar. The People Like Us back catalogue is available online for free download hosted by UbuWeb.
Bronnt Industries Kapital is based around British composer Guy Bartell, who works in the fields of film soundtrack, electronic music and sound art. He has recorded soundtracks for British Film Institute amongst others, including contemporary scores for the cult Swedish silent film Häxan and the Soviet propaganda film Turksib. Bartell will be performing live to the film. “Bartell’s score is expertly judged – an echo chamber of horror for the film to resonate inside. I urge you to catch the film with this score whenever you can.” Pamela Hutchinson “Bartell is one of electronica’s staunchest and most singular footsoldiers” The Wire “A terrifically intense soundtrack Sight & Sound, UK
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FILM NOIR AT SIXTY6 : SUNSET BOULEVARD
LESSONS OF WAR. MATT MCGINN THE BLACK BOX . SUNDAY 15TH APRIL, 2PM. £7.
SIXTY6 THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 8PM. £12
. saturday . £6 of War is a global music QUEENS presents FILM THEATRE 18 april. 6.30PM Lessons The National its second evening project spear-headed by Co. Down of Film Noir at Sixty6 with Sunset songwriter, Matt McGinn. In 2017, Boulevard (1950). Set in the confines with Arts Council NI assistance, of one of Belfast most stunning cocktail ‘Lessons of War’ reached out to bars sympathetically restored to its musicians across the world from areas original period features from the 1890s, affected by war or conflict. experience an evening of Film Noir in style! TH
Sunset Boulevard (1950), Billy Wilder’s visionally stunning work of art is one of the original Film Noir movies that sets itself apart from anything else within its genre. A screenwriter is hired to rework a faded silent film star’s script only to find himself developing a dangerous relationship. Sunset Boulevard was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including nominations in all four acting categories) and won three. It was also included in the first group of films selected for preservation in the American National Film Registry. Ticket includes entry to screening with a cocktail on arrival, a small popcorn and some light bites. A bespoke cocktail menu will also be on offer tailored to the film and the cocktail bar will stay open throughout the evening. Limited spaces available! Opens at 7.30pm – Screening at 8pm Tickets £12
With the help of local film maker Colm Laverty, Matt made a live music video featuring among others, Haris, a singer from Bosnia; Seydu, a percussionist from Sierra Leone; Citizens of the World choir from London; Richard Moore, a musician from Derry, blinded at age 10 by a plastic bullet.
Matt came to know Yazan Ibrahim, a young virtuoso flamenco guitarist from Golan Heights, on the border of Syria. Matt took Yazan to Ireland where, alongside some of the North’s finest, they took to the studio for several days where they recorded several specially commissioned songs speaking out against war. At this unique event, Belfast Film Festival will be showing the Lessons of War documentary by Colm Laverty, as well as a special performance by Matt McGinn, fellow musicians and special guests. 55
ELVIS DEAD THE BLACK BOX, BELFAST FRIDAY 13TH APRIL. 8PM. £8
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THa new king...everything Fringe . saturday In Sam Raimi’sQUEENS horror man FILMclassic, THEATRE 18.THfriday april.has QUEENSaFILM THEATREThe 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM . £6 you *need* from the late night Fringe is tormented by demons and his own THE SKINNY severed hand. All the story needed was a few tunes by the King of Rock’n’Roll. When he straps on a chainsaw, there are screams of joy. Are you gruesome tonight? The comedy THE SUNDAY TIMES hit splicing Evil Dead 2 and Elvis songs.
The multi award winning and critically acclaimed show comes our way. A tribute concert to the sequel to the ultimate in gruelling terror…
“Many think they can do an Elvis impersonation but Kemp really can, belting out the tunes that oh so familiar baritone.” FEST MAGAZINE, EDINBURGH FRINGE REVIEW
Rev up the Delta and come on a trip to a cabin in the Tennessee backwoods via Graceland, to witness: Cult classic horror movie Evil Dead 2 reinterpreted through the songs of Elvis.
It’s a blood-splattered story that features decapitations, demonic possessions and a man sawing off his own hand… and it could be the feelgood hit of the summer. CHORTLE
NOMINEE: Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2017 Best Newcomer
This is the archetypal outsider hit: unlikely, made on a shoestring with love, and weirdly inspired. The Guardian
It’s a mind-bending, very funny and extraordinary performance - and you never stop laughing at the crazy juxtaposition of it all. BEYOND THE JOKE, EDINBURGH FRINGE REVIEW
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CINEMA SPORTS
FILM DEVOUR SHORT FILM FESTIVAL #25 THE BLACK BOX. MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 7PM. £5
. £6 Short Film Festival provides QUEENS FILM THEATRE saturday 6.30PM Devour Ever wanted to make a .short film18butapril. Film a platform for local filmmakers, writers never had the time? For one day ONLY, and actors to screen their films, network we will give you the time! No censor, and co-ordinate ideas. no boundaries, pure gonzo filmmaking. Special prizes for special categories. Catering to all kinds of filmmakers and genres, showing Cinema Sports Screening is a bring your everything from first time shorts, experimental, own venue, strictly over 18’s. TH
Cinema sports is a race of creativity. Teams have 10 hours to make a short film that include ingredients that will be released on the morning of the competition. Screening is on the 11th hour. Kick-off is at 10am on Satuday 21st April in Lawrence Street Workshops, Belfast. Teams will plan, write, cast, shoot and edit their movies between 10am and 8pm that day. Completed three-minute movies are delivered back to the Workshops before the 8pm deadline to be screened at 9pm.
documentary as well as more established short films with a budget. Audience choice And Directors Choice awards announced on the night. The ethos is to showcase everything to everyone.
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”– Alfred Hitchcock
Kick off time: 10am. Deadline: 8pm. Screening: 9pm event at the workshops. To sign up as an individual or a team email: mcnultymichael@outlook.com before the 11th April. £3 donation tax per person or £10 per team (4 people). 21St April at Lawrence Street Workshops, Belfast. www.lawrencestreetworkshops.com 57
BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL VIRTUAL REALITY STUDIO
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THE BARRACKS FRIDAY 13TH APRIL -21ST APRIL 11AM-7PM. PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE.
During the 2018 Belfast Film Festival we will feature virtual reality (VR) for the first time, showing extraordinary works over nine days; works that demonstrate the current capability of immersive technology in the hands of pioneering designers, both locally and internationally. How do you experiemce VR at Belfast Film Festival? Simply make a booking online for a 1 hour session where you can select the content you want to see and the time of your visit. Choose from some of the titles listed here. Visit The Barracks theatre space which we have converted into a VR studio with comfortable seating to experience the films. All films are free but there is a ÂŁ5 booking fee for technical support and venue. The Barracks First Floor, 8-12 Exchange Place, Belfast, BT1 2NA. 58
DEAR ANGELICA
From Emmy Award winning Oculus Story Studio comes Dear Angelica, a journey through the magical and dreamlike ways we remember our loved ones. Entirely painted by hand inside of VR, Dear Angelica plays out in a series of memories that unfold around you. An immersive, illustrative short story starring Geena Davis and Mae Whitman. Runtime: 13 Minutes
ALTERATION
Alexandro volunteers for a dream experiment. He is not aware that the scientists will inject him with Elsa, an Artificial Intelligence which will digitize and take over his subconscious to help her turn into a human being. Runtime: 18 Minutes
MIYUBI
MIYUBI puts you in the body and mind of a Japanese toy robot that is gifted to a young boy on his birthday in 1982 suburban America. MIYUBI is world’s first long-form scripted VR comedy. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Created by Felix & Paul Studios, in collaboration with Funny or Die, starring Jeff Goldblum. 40 minutes
HENRY
Henry is a 2015 virtual reality film created by Oculus Story Studio which premiered on July 28, 2015. The film was created in Unreal Engine 4 and narrated by Elijah Wood. 12 mins
LOST
Directed by Saschka Unseld of Pixar’s The Blue Umbrella, Lost tells the story of an unexpected encounter deep in the woods.
MANIFEST 99
An ominous and eerie story about finding redemption in the afterlife. Set on a mysterious train rambling through an unknown void, you assist four travel companions on their journey to their final destination. Using character engagement as a method of movement, Manifest 99 explores scale and navigation unlike any other VR experience. Runtime: 15 Minutes
WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS...
A virtual reality short film that takes the user on an epic journey through the history of the cosmos via the medium of poetry, music and stylised animation. We are going to summarise this history and evoke an emotional response from the viewers. A 360 experience incorporating a unique soundtrack, animation and cutting edge technology.
REALITY CHANGES PERCEPTION
VR for Good. Women’s groups at some of Belfast’s most contentious interfaces come together to imagine a new world without walls. Using cutting edge interactive VR, they developed exciting and fun ideas to create a new future for all in a shared space. (10mins) A Newred TV production in partnership with BIP (Belfast Interface Project).
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“It’s Not going to be an Orgy, It’s a Toga Party.” The ultimate frat house comedy with John Belushi at his finest and funniest. At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. Animal House is 40 this year. Still hasn’t matured. Or graduated. Come join us and celebrate. Bring your own bedsheet. To g a . . . t o g a . . . t o g a . . . T O G A . . T O G A . . . T O G A . . . TOGATOGATOGATOGA!!
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Join Brian Henry Martin who will be introducing this Italian masterpiece 30 years on. And there’s nowhere better to watch it than in Screen 2 of the Strand the original front stalls! Young Salvatore Di Vita discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo instills in the boy a deep love of films. When Salvatore grows up, falls in love with a beautiful local girl and takes over as the Paradiso’s projectionist, Alfredo must convince Salvatore to leave his small town and pursue his passion for filmmaking. “Movie lovers will lose their hearts to Cinema Paradiso, not out of nostalgia, but for Tornatore’s vigorous demonstration of the enduring power of dreams.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
CINE-ROMA- BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL OUTREACH EV 35 YEARS OF LAWRENCE KASDAN’S ‘THE BIG CHILL’
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college .friend FILM THEATRE 18 april. A6.30PM £6 (Kevin Costner) dies and his funeral GreetedQUEENS as something of .asaturday misfire upon reunites those that loved him. Featuring a song its original release, Hammer’s The soundtrack showcasing 60s & 70s classics compiled Anniversary has ripened in the vaults by Lawrence’s wife Meg Kasdan, plus an ensemble into a volatile cocktail of high style, cast which inspired a generation. This is one weekend overwrought melodrama and obsidian reunion which will change their lives forever. comedy. TH
Based on a successful play by Bill MacIlwraith, it’s a nearly perfect evening’s divertissement for these more savage times. The indomitable Bette Davis stars as Mrs. Taggart, the one-eyed, acid-tongued matriarch of a family of sons in the construction business, none of whom has learned anything from their parents about building a solid foundation, literal or metaphorical. Yet they all come to honour her on the occasion of what would have been her 40th wedding anniversary. Even if the siblings can survive the festivities unscathed, does the biggest mother of them all have a shocking final surprise for everyone? Christian Roberts and Sheila Hancock co-star in this deranged black comedy written and produced by Jimmy Sangster and directed by Roy Ward Baker (Don’t Bother to Knock, a Night to Remember) that Bette Davis fans still call one of her most outrageous performances ever!
Video Introduction (10mins) by Lawrence Kasdan and stick around after the movie for a special screening of the Toronto Film Festival’s 30th Anniversary Q&A with the cast and crew (35mins).
Starring: Glenn Close, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Kline, JoBeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Meg Tilly. Produced in association with Tim Burden.
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VAGINA MONOLOGUES BLACK BOX FRIDAY 20TH APRIL. 8PM. £7
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TH Jean Since 1998, the QUEENS Vagina Monologues been . saturday Cocteau, . £61950) is the FILM THEATRE 18.THfriday april.(dir. QUEENShasFILM THEATREOrphée 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM performed in over 200 countries and territories central part of Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy. worldwide. Its creator Eve Ensler, dives into the Set in contemporary Paris, the story is a mystery, humour, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and surreal adaptation of the classical Greek excitement in women’s experiences. Ensler is the myth of Orpheus in the Underworld. founder of the V-Day campaign and One Billion Rising Noted for simple but ingenious special a global movement of activism to highlight and end effects, Cocteau tells a story of love, death violence against women.
This performance is a film/theatre event and will incorporate film segments featuring Eve Ensler amongst others. Cast includes: Cat Barter, Vicky Blades, Melanie Clark Pullen, Marina Hampton, Nandi Jola, Mary Jordan, Anesu, Mwota, Emma McErlean, Sarah Reid, Ellen Anne Schultz, Brenda Winter, Michelle Young. This production is inspired by the Mothers, Artists, Makers (M.A.M) movement. They are a self-organising group of theatre practitioners from across the island of Ireland who campaign for, and collaborate with theatre groups and venues to develop family friendly work practices. Directed by Jo Egan. Presented by Strut and Bellow www.strutandbellow.com The Vagina Monologues, “probably the most important piece of political theatre of the last decade.” NYT 62
and jealousy, and of how art can seduce the artist away from ordinary human concerns.
Manor Street Movie House hosts a programme of special screenings, accompanied by an additional element; sound, prop, or performance, of relevance to the film. MSMH is also the home of Brown&Brí. Films are usually chosen by invited guests, this time the hosts themselves have selected Orphée. Tickets £5. Capacity 20 so please book early.
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SEINFEST THE BLACK BOX TUESDAY 17TH APRIL. 7PM. £7
SIXTY6. THURSDAY 12TH APRIL . 8.00PM . £12.
Bunch Of Cults,FILM theTHEATRE splendid lads who . saturday . £6 presents their first evening of QUEENS 18TH april. The 6.30PM National bring you a night of appreciation for New Film Noir at Sixty6 with Chinatown (1974). York’s finest foursome in the greatest TV Set in the confines of one of Belfast most show about nothing!! stunning cocktail bars sympathetically restored to its original period features We will post the ten greatest episodes on the Facebook from the 1890s, experience an evening of event page, you ‘like’ your favourite(s) and we shall Film Noir in style! screen the top five!!
Plus, Soup Nazi will be supplying you with a delicious wintery stomach-linery broth to aid you in the evening’s festivities. OR MAYBE NOT, NO SOUP FOR YOU!! Followed by Mr Pitt’s dessert, a yummy chocolate bar, to be consumed with a knife and fork, naturally..
Chinatown, Roman Polanski’s masterpiece of crime and depiction set in downtown LA tells the story of a private detective hired to expose an adulterer who finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder. Selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant” Chinatown is frequently listed as one of the greatest films of all time! Ticket includes entry to screening, with a cocktail on arrival, a small popcorn and some light bites. A bespoke cocktail menu will also be on offer tailored to the film and the cocktail bar will stay open throughout the evening. Limited spaces available! Opens at 7.30pm. Screening at 8pm Tickets £12.
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REEL STANZAS MARBLE ROOM. ERRIGLE INN THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 2PM AND 7PM. £5
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TH say. cinema . in 2017 was a . saturday might In collaboration with FILM Ó Bhéal QUEENS THEATRE 18.THfriday april. QUEENS(Cork) FILM THEATRESome 176.30PM april.£6 6.30PM £6 ‘disastrophe’. So be kind, rewind and and Quotidian (Belfast) remind yourself of the cinematic gems REEL STANZAS - WRITING YOUR POETRY-FILM remade by the Skyway Club.
2pm. Thursday 19th April.
A workshop with poet and film-maker Paul Casey (Ó’ Bhéal, Cork) - a poem to poetry-film script adaptation workshop (2 hours). Learn how to adapt your favourite poem into a poetry-film script, along with a short, workable film treatment ready for production. A technical discussion will follow the main workshop regarding choice of film/video equipment (mobile phone, simple camera, high tech gear) as well as the use of appropriate editing software. REEL STANZAS - POETRY SHORT FILMS 7pm. Thursday 19th April. Enjoy a feast of contemporary International poetryfilms, as Ó Bhéal, Cork, presents 13 films from its 2017 competition shortlist of 30 finalists chosen from 186 entries, from 29 countries. The shortlisted films achieved very high standards again this year, each cradling a poem as its core.
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For almost 10 years, the Skyway Club has worked with Belfast film maker, Michael McNulty, recreating iconic moments from the silver screen. On a shoestring budget, they have condensed a few of our favourite flicks into quirky, tongue-in-cheek bursts of enjoyment for your entertainment. Take a seat and binge on 10 classic films squeezed into an hour of romance, comedy, thriller, action and no refunds! The Skyway Club is a vibrant and creative group of adults with learning disabilities. We are actively involved in a range of projects, from arts and crafts to music and movies, or just chillin with a cuppa: There’s something for everyone! The club is a charity, run by and with the members.
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Presented by the Coalition of Aid and Development Agencies (CADA), the umbrella organisation of those overseas aid agencies with an active presence in Northern Ireland. www.cada-ni.org WASTED! THE STORY OF FOOD WASTE
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER
Tuesday 17th April, 7pm, St George’s Market, Tickets : £5. This unique venue can be cold so make sure to wrap up warm.
Wednesday 18th April, 7pm, Crescent Arts Centre, £5
Director: Anna Chai and Nari Kye. 2017. 85mins. Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. Through the the eyes of chef-heroes like Bourdain, Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura, and Danny Bowien, audiences will see how the world’s most influential chefs make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system. Wasted! exposes the criminality of food waste and how it’s directly contributing to climate change and shows us how each of us can make small changes – all of them delicious – to solve one of the greatest problems of the 21st Century. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the global issues linked to food waste and suggestions on how we can all take action.
Director: Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. 2017. 98 mins. A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought the climate crisis into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Former Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, travelling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes — in moments both private and public, funny and poignant — as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion. The screening will be followed by a short response from a climate change expert on how we can take action.
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THE CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH PRESENT: DOCUMENTARY FUNDING IN IRELAND THURSDAY APRIL 19TH AT 2PM. THE QUEENS UNIVERSITY FILM STUDIO.
MIKE CATTO IN CONVERSATION
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TH has been . saturday Catto a highly A panel discussion on THEATRE documentary . £6 renowned QUEENS FILM 18.THfriday april. QUEENS FILM THEATREMike 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM film writer and lecturer for 50 years this funding, highlighting sources from both year. He talks to Joe Lindsay about his north and south of the Irish border. passion for cinema.
We will discuss funding avenues through various national and international bodies, for all types of documentary - long or short, TV or film. The panel will be chaired by documentary filmmaker and Professor of Film at Queen’s University, Cahal McLaughlin. He will be joined by representatives from Northern Ireland Screen and Irish Film Board, as well as film makers who have done features for Netflix and international co-productions. Followed by wine reception.
The Centre for Documentary Research at QUB was launched in 2017. It is a new initiative that offers a space to debate issues and organise activities around the study and practice of documentary film. Our team in interdisciplinary, with interests in Film, Languages, English and History. We are scholars, students, curators and practitioners of documentary film, with interests including mental health, conflict, experimental film, Brazilian protest films, new media and interactivity. We intend to run workshops, screenings, seminars, and conferences; contribute to publications; and, of course, make documentary films.
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Mike Catto has loved film from an early age, devouring the silver screen in his hometown of Ayr, which, remarkably for such a small town at that time, had 7 cinemas with screenings in heavy rotation, to the point where he was able to watch up to 6 films a week. As a film writer, he has contributed to many publications and is a celebrated broadcaster on TV and radio. His is a life in cinema. Join Mike and broadcaster and fellow critic Joe Lindsay in conversation with clips from Mike’s favourite films. We promise an entertaining, revealing, fascinating and very amusing exchange.
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RON HUTCHINSON IN CONVERSATION BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE . SCHOOL OF ARTS ENGLISH AND LANGUAGES. 7.00PM - WEDNESDAY 18TH . APRIL. £6
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From Islandmagee to The Island of Doctor Moreau. The Emmy Award winning Hollywood screenwriter Ron Hutchinson grew up in Mullaghbuoy in Northern Ireland and spent thirty years working in Hollywood as well as writing for the stage internationally. In this unique talk and performance piece created especially for the Belfast Film Festival, he reveals the often blackly funny truth about working with the likes of Brando on one of the movie businesses legendary disasters and the lessons to be drawn from it. Among the other cast of characters are John Frankenheimer, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Cruise, Samuel L Jackson and a drunk on a Los Angeles bar who claimed Sean O’Casey ruined his life by bringing him to Hollywood to star in a screen adaptation of one of his plays. It all began on Islandmagee listening to stories about the Larne gunning running in 1914 and after a move to Coventry his career path was changed forever by an IRA bomb... His memoir and guide to writing and selling screenplays ‘Clinging to the Iceberg: Writing for a Living on the Stage and in Hollywood’ is published by Oberon Books.
SECOND EVENT WITH RON HUTCHINSON: PITCHING WORKSHOP SATURDAY 21ST APRIL. 3.30PM. BEANBAG CINEMA. Admission is free but please book in advance as places for this event are limited at 15. This is an opportunity for young film makers, screenwriters and those with an interest in film making to pitch their ideas to Ron Hutchinson who has years of experience in the business in the UK, Europe and the USA. You can come along and pitch your ideas for a movie, something short and snappy to give an impression of your project. He’ll take it from there! Ron can respond with suggestions about where to pitch the idea, how to tailor that pitch and where he sees the writing challenges in that idea. This is a educational yet informal event which will help you develop your passion project. By recording the session we will protect the writers’ material and advise them in advance to register it in one page at the Writers Guild West. 69
1968
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turns her . camera on an . fridayVarda 1968 was a year of social and QUEENS FILM THEATREAgnès 17TH april. 6.30PM £6 Oakland demonstration against the political change and upheavel imprisonment of activist and Black that resonates to this day. Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton. In Belfast Film Festival presents addition to evincing Varda’s fascination with her adopted surroundings and her a series of films which look empathy, this perceptive short is also a at some of the different powerful political statement. movements tha activated in 1968 to mark the 50th One of Varda’s most transformative encounters during her 1968 L.A. journey was with the Black Panthers, then anniverary of the historic year.
at the height of their influence and fame. Her casual, open-air portrait of the group, centered on a bustling “Free Huey” rally in Oakland, is more densely packed with information than many of her other documentaries, but it’s made with no less delicacy, grace, and political urgency.
If you are a fan of Agnes Varda, check out her new film ‘Faces Places’ on page 37.
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1968: THE DAY THE TROUBLES BEGAN QUEENS FILM THEATRE. SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £6
The protest movements that broke out across the western world in 1968 had captured the imagination of many people in Northern Ireland, leading to the creation of a local civil rights movement that began a series of marches and protests calling for greater equality for the Catholic/nationalist minority. Northern Ireland has had many historic days in the last 40 years. October 5th, 1968 could be the most important. In this documentary, many of those who took part in the Civil Rights march in Derry on this date talk of the international influences that drove them to take to the streets in protest. Featuring interviews with the voices of dissent in America, Europe and Northern Ireland.
Director of The Day The Troubles Began Michael Fanning and panel of other guests will take part in a discussion following the screening.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD BEANBAG CINEMA 9PM. MONDAY 16TH APRIL.£5.
When asked about his film’s reflection of those turbulent times, Director George Romero stated that “it was 1968, man … Everybody had a ‘message’. The anger and attitude and all that’s there is just because it was the Sixties...’’ Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, Night of the Living Dead.
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CINEPUNKED: ART VS ARTIST. BEANBAG CINEMA SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 4PM. £3
CODE: DEBUGGING THE GENDER GAP
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TH Festival .more is proud Viewing certainQUEENS films has . £6 to partner FILM become THEATRE saturday 18.THfriday april.Film QUEENS FILM THEATREBelfast 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM with the Lean In circle ‘Women in Tech’ to problematic than ever before. Claims of present CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap. sexual abuse and impropriety dominate the headlines leading to the #MeToo and The screening will be followed a panel discussion and #TimesUp campaigns. Once beloved Q&A session with some of Northern Ireland’s most personalities are now box office poison. influential Technology Leaders – to explore the key issues From Arbuckle to Spacey, Allen to raised in the film and the correlation to the booming Polanski, scandal clouds the filmmaking Northern Irish software industry. industry.
CinePunked’s resident hosts Robert JE Simpson and Dr Rachael Kelly (plus special guests) lead an interactive panel discussion navigating the ethics of film-watching in a post-Weinstein era. Can we separate art from artist? How is the cinema gaze being redirected? Is it ok to watch a film when the makers have been convicted of criminal activity? Where does the line sit between suffering for craft, and abuse? Expect heated debate and audience interaction. For more information: www.cinepunked.com
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CODE exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain from having more women and minorities code?... ‘Women In Tech’ Belfast exists to provide support and encouragement to Women in Technology in Northern Ireland - to encourage more girls and women into the industry. Check out www. leanincircles.org/circle/women-in-tech-belfast
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QUEENS FILM THEATRE saturday 18 april. Women 6.30PM .&£6the Law Collective produced an Mogadishu Soldier is a raw. and unfiltered incredible body of work, all produced in exploration of life in the Somalian war 1986 explored the state of the UK legal zone as seen by two Burundian soldiers. system and its means of control through The fighting is taking place in Somalia’s immigration law and forced economic capital Mogadishu, a city of 2 million dependency to maintain race, class, and people. Somalia is abandoned by relief gender hierarchies. organizations, NGOs and the press, as deployment there is extremely dangerous. TH
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Documentary film maker Torstein Grude gave two African Union soldiers a camera with instructions to film whatever they felt was important. For an entire year, they documented diverse aspects of warfare, from firefights in trenches and life on the base to the dead and wounded lying in the streets. They also filmed conversations with local people hoping for food and water, soldiers fantasizing about women, and the arrival of an embedded journalist. War is shown to be banal and chaotic, with periods of boredom and instances of both compassion and gross inhumanity. Taken from no fewer than 523 tapes, this compilation gives an honest and sometimes revealing glimpse behind the scenes of war.
New Notions is a pop-up documentary cinema. We create and host powerful real-life stories. www.newnotions.co
Director: Lai Ngan Walsh, Women and The Law Collective. 1986. Duration: 38mins.
A history of immigration law from 1903 to the present day. The film describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as ‘undesirable’. THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF SUSIE P. WINKLEPICKER Director: Deborah Hall, 1986. 35mins.
A part-dramatised, often humorous, documentary showing some of the ways the state and the system have pushed women into economic dependence on men in different historical periods and with various aspects of work and marriage as affected by the law. Cinenova is a non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing feminist film & video. 73
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ARTANGEL Household presents TheQUEENS Arbor, . friday 17THAND FILM in THEATREHOUSEHOLD april. 6.30PM . £6 PRESENT CLIO BARNARD IN CONVERSATION collaboration with Artangel and Belfast Film Festival. A series of screenings and In a community centre in North Belfast, Clio Barnard and talks. THE ARBOR SCREENINGS This remarkable film is Clio Barnard’s adaptation of The Arbor, a play written by Andrea Dunbar who, at the age of 15, wrote a script based on life in the working class Bradford estate where she lived. The film is a fusion of narrative and documentary cinema and tells the powerful true story of Andrea Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine, who was just 10 years old when her mother died in 1990. Through interviews and first-hand accounts, The Arbor offers an innovative, compelling and troubling portrait of a family trying to come to terms with abuse, death, addiction and poverty. The Arbor will be presented as a series of synchronised screenings in domestic spaces across the city, inviting audiences to view a film that deals with difficult themes in an intimate setting. To reserve a place, contact householdbelfast@gmail. com. The location of your screening will be confirmed upon booking. Friday 13 April. Various locations across Belfast. 7pm. Admission Free. Booking required. 74
invited artists and film-makers will discuss approaches to working with communities and representing people and places on film. Email Household on householdbelfast@ gmail.com to register your interest and for further updates.
Saturday 14 April. Girdwood Community Hub, 10 Girdwood Avenue, Belfast, Antrim BT14 6EG Time: 1pm. Admission Free. Booking required. The Arbor screenings and talks are generously supported by Artangel and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Belfast Film Festival present a parallel series of screenings to accompany the project: Fish Tank (2009) A British drama about a marginalised young woman, Mia, on the verge of sexual and social expression. Ratcatcher (1999) Glasgow, summer, 1973. Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.
THE INDEX AND THE UNCANNY LIFE AND DEATH IN PHOTOGRAPHY: A LECTURE BY PROFESSOR LAURA MULVEY
CAMLO QUEENS FILM THEATRE FRIDAY 14TH APRIL. 2.30PM. £2
WEDNESDAY APRIL 18TH. CONOR LECTURE THEATRE . ULSTER UNIVERSITY BELFAST CAMPUS. START 6 PM. ADM FREE.
. saturday . £6 and the Uncanny Life and QUEENS THEATRE ‘The Index Camlo tells theFILM story of a young Roma18boy,april. 6.30PM Death in Photography’: A Lecture by born and raised in Belfast, as he attempts Professor Laura Mulvey to accompany to find his footing in a city that does not the launch of Professor Sarah Edge’s fully accept him monograph The Extraordinary Archive A foreigner in a place he calls home, Camlo lives a of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class cyclical existence selling a daily newspaper when a and Gender in the Nineteenth Century. TH
chance encounter sets him on a journey. He confronts stereotypical perceptions head on, and learns what it means to be treated differently, challenging his identity and acceptance as an outcast of society.
This cross-cultural narrative attempts to open dialogue around how we treat one another, as well as challenge some of the attitudes our society may have toward a minority group. A post screening discussion will take place after the film with the cast and crew looking at the issues raised. Writer/Director: David Moody Producer: Emma Mullen Connolly Executive Producers : Out of Orbit
In this lecture Laura will specifically talk about this work on photography offering a unique opportunity to listen to and discuss ideas with this world-renowned intellectual thinker. The lecture will close with the launch of Sarah Edge’s monograph The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century published by I B Tauris.Sarah is Professor of Photography and Cultural Studies based in The Centre For Media Research at Ulster University. This event will be opened and chaired by Paul Seawright Professor of Photography and Executive Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University. The event is free to attend, register to confirm your spot.
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ROBOT CHICKEN AT THE MOVIES
WHO AM I THIS TIME? : VONNEGUT
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. saturday . £6 is an American stop motion QUEENS THEATRE 18 april. Robot 6.30PMChicken Who Am I ThisFILM Time? is Season 1, Episode sketch comedy television series, created 4 of PBS’ American Playhouse series. It and executive produced for Adult Swim was directed by Jonathan Demme and by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich based on a short story of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. TH
Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken’s Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like. In the darkest, earliest eighties, Jonathan Demme, Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, and John Cale got together to make an episode of American Playhouse based on a Kurt Vonnegut short story. If that does not sound like heaven to you, please know that we see the world very differently. WATCHEDINSTANTLY
The show mocks popular culture, referencing toys, movies, television, games, popular fads, and more obscure references like anime cartoons and older television programs, much in the same vein as comedy sketch shows like Saturday Night Live. It employs stop motion animation of toys, action figures, claymation, and various other objects, such as tongue depressors, The Game of Life pegs, and popsicle sticks. For this special screening Belfast Film Festival has selected a number of sketchs which pay homage to classic films over the course of the shows run. Including: Frankenstein, A Clockwork Orange, Watchmen, Star Wars and a host of others.
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CATHY COME HOME
KEN LOACH ON TELEVISION Horse
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BEANBAG CINEMA MONDAY 16TH APRIL. 7.00PM. £5.00
THReg fall Though Ken Loach is often characterised . saturday and on hard . £6 times when QUEENS FILM THEATRE 18.THfriday april. QUEENS FILM THEATRECathy 176.30PM april.. £6 6.30PM as having begun in television before Reg is injured at work. They begin a slide ‘graduating’ to feature films, his television into poverty, debt and homelessness, dramas are distinctive in their own right. until the authorities forcibly take Cathy’s They are not just preparation for a cinema children away. career, although they share themes, Jeremy Sandford’s drama about a young family’s techniques and collaborators with his downfall was a defining moment in 1960s television, films. His most famous dramas embraced demonstrating how far drama could influence the the space for creativity, radicalism and the political agenda. The controversy generated by Cathy airing of neglected voices to audiences Come Home led to public outrage at the state of of millions offered by the BBC’s The housing in Britain, and gave a welcome boost to the Wednesday Play and Play for Today, but also (coincidental) launch of the homelessness charity intriguingly tested that space’s limits when Shelter a few days after the play was first broadcast, as part of the BBC’s The Wednesday Play strand. interrogating broadcasters’ definition of balance.
The play follows young lovers Cathy and Reg from the optimism of their early married days through a spiral of misfortune that follows Reg’s work accident, leading to eviction and separation, and culminating, in what remains one of TV’s most memorable scenes, in a hysterical Cathy having her children forcibly taken away by Social Services. The success of Cathy Come Home established director Ken Loach as a politically committed filmmaker standing apart from the commercial mainstream, and demonstrated again his sensitivity to his characters.
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THE PRICE OF COAL
FLICKERING FLAME BEANBAG CINEMA SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 7PM. £5.00
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. saturday as THEATRE coalmine 18 itapril.Documentary 6.30PM . £6 following dockers of Life at QUEENS a SouthFILM Yorkshire Liverpool, sacked in a labour dispute and prepares for a royal visit and copes with their supporters’ group, Women of the the aftermath of a pit accident. Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at Ken Loach called The Price of Coal “a way of describing a mining community with two separate stories”. the TUC conference. TH
Filmed around the disused Thorpe Hesley pit in South Yorkshire, the project reunited the Kes (1969) team of Loach, Tony Garnett and writer Barry Hines. The plays are drawn partly from experience: Hines briefly, like his father and grandfather (killed in a roof fall), worked as a miner.
The undermining of such working-class communities would be central to Loach’s and Hines’ subsequent work, separately and together, as on Looks and Smiles (1981). In Back to Reality, Kath Storey predicts that journalists will soon return to condemning miners for “holding the country to ransom”, predicting problems faced during the 1984-85 miners strike. The controversy provoked by Loach’s own questioning of news bias and privileging of miners’ views in the likes of Which Side Are You On? demonstrated just such a shift in television’s political climate. Text from BFI
Several contemporary reviewers noted that this documentary couldn’t have been made were it not for Ken Loach and his reputation. Loach was able to provide the dockers with an opportunity to speak for themselves that had previously been largely denied to them in the British media. Loach has commented that “Working-class people have an eloquence that’s very seldom recognised,” an observation borne out in his documentary and fiction work. The articulacy of The Flickering Flame’s protagonists is striking. Doreen, spokeswoman of Women of the Waterfront, is particularly charismatic with her direct, crisp language and polite determination in the face of unresponsive authority figures such as Bill Morris and Peter Hain. The Flickering Flame represents an unofficial sequel to Loach’s 1969 Wednesday Play ‘The Big Flame’, written by his frequent collaborator Jim Allen. As the title suggests, by the time of The Flickering Flame it seems that the power of worker resistance had dwindled. Text from BFI
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HELLMARK! PRESENTS: I ME WED BEANBAG CINEMA SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 3.00PM. £4
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Do you like to weep quietly in front of your TV in the middle of the day? Do you like low budgets, melodramatic plots and overwrought acting?
Jacques Tati’s last - and least known - film, Parade, sees his return to the boisterous music hall world in which he began his career as a mime artist in the 1930s.
Celebrate the magic of the Hallmark and Lifetime TV movies with our daytime presentation of I Me Wed. Tissues will be provided.
Ostensibly nothing more than a series of circus acts hosted by Tati and preformed for a family audience, Parade is in fact a brilliantly conceived spectacle which blurs all distinctions between performers and audience, accomplished acrobats and children at play. Offering gloriously funny visual gags that flow beautifully from one act to another - including several of his most famous pantomimes - Parade is the perfect stage for Tati’s comic genius.
Where do these films come from? Its ancestors are oldschool network made-for-TV movies, 1980s “Diseaseof-the-Week” melodramas, the telenovela-lite. It draws a steady sub-audience of fans who watch ironically or satirically, eagle-eyed for those long meaningful pauses, murdery double-entendres, weak male leads and instantly recognisable narrative shorthand. I ME WED 1999 Bad dates, teeth-pulling conversations, hours of unwanted snuggling...sometimes you almost wish you could marry yourself. Taking this idea to the next level is the flick’s successful yet unlucky-in-love Isabelle, who, sick of being nagged about when she’s going to get taken off the market, decides to take matters into her own hands—by tying the knot with herself.
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‘It’s a sign of this films greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening’s entertainments; it’s a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century’s greatest artists.’ - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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LATHE OF HEAVEN
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. saturday . £6 bill from DoubleBand, the QUEENS FILM THEATRE 18 april. A6.30PM double The Lathe of Heaven is a 1980 adaptation sponsors of our Documentary Shorts of the 1971 science fiction novel The Competition. Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was produced in 1979 as part of New “ Two very different films - one made in the York City public television station WNET’s early 90s for BBC Northern Ireland, the other Experimental TV Lab project. TH
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind - with bizarre and frightening results. The first major made-for-television movie to be produced for the non-profit Public Broadcasting Service of America, is an effective parable which reads remarkably like a book by Philip K. Dick, as it was intended by Le Guin as a tribute to that writer, for whom she had expressed intense admiration.
over a decade later for Channel 4 - but which remain firm favourites among the DoubleBand team”. Belfast Boxers. 1993. 30 mins. The incredible highs and crushing lows of the Belfast’s boxing community.
Why box? Is it the thrill of competition, or the lure of commercial riches, the chance to compete at the Olympics, or a simple need to test oneself. This film details the motivations of the Belfast boxing fraternity, as juniors and veterans, amateurs and seasoned professionals disclose their ambitions and the sacrifices they make to achieve them. Monkey Love. 2005. 50 mins. Nominated for a Grierson Documentary award, Monkey Love explores the life of American research psychologist Harry Harlow, a man responsible for some of the most controversial experiments to have been performed in animal laboratories - in the name of love.
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DIRECTOR. JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER. USA. YEAR. 1997
THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
NICKY KEOGH’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANIMALS
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Joshua Oppenheimer’s (The Act of Killing) film is the story of a woman who has an immaculate conception and murders her infant in a microwave. A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.
The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase is an imaginative and innovative film essay which combines faux and real documentary with lyrical fiction to paint a monstrous yet beautiful portrait of America at the end of the millennium. With unflinching originality, the film meditates humorously on faith, myth, scapegoats, the idea of the alien, the end of the world, and the beginnings of redemption…. Oppenheimer’s monstrous yet charming ‘history of my country’ is written by a poet, sweet and dark, joyous as the wet rats who save themselves from drowning in the film’s last sequence…. It opens a genre of film as revelatory and intelligent dream, stimulant of social memory, and means for reexamining the relationship between fact and fiction, historical truth and social myth. – Dusan Makavejev, May 1997
This collection of short films which show the wonder of wildlife is all its glory, featuring the odd and the unloved. Filmmaker Nicky Keogh will present his own work and we’ll see some classic nature film shorts from the last 100 years... ‘Wildlife landing on abandoned fridges, wildlife around old skirting boards and love in the underworld of a Belfast beach. These vignettes fullfill a practical use as second unit cut aways in my film work. They also fullfill a genuine passion for observing the drama of the wild life and world’s below our feet’. Featuring: A Film about blue bottles, A Film about slatters, A Film about sand hoppers and The best ratter in Ireland. Also featured are films by Jean Painleve and Jacques Cousteau. Keogh (b. 1977) represented Northern Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2005, represented the Republic of Ireland at Experience Pommery #5 L’art en Europe 2008. His film ‘A Removals Job’ 2012 commissioned by the MAC Belfast, received a Special Commendation at the Cork Film Festival. His 2015 film ‘Introducing Brian’ has been included in the of cial selection of Rain dance London. His first feature film ‘The Best Ratter in Ireland is currently in production.
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ULSTER TELEVISON AND THE SINGULARITY BEANBAG CINEMA THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 9PM. £3
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TH . saturday . £6the chaos of QUEENSused FILM THEATRE 18.THfriday april. £6 QUEENS april.. sense 6.30PM of Ulster Television to tellFILM usTHEATRE stories that 176.30PM made local events. But now there are no big stories and Noel Thompson reacts randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
Ulster Television and the Singularity is a new, adventurous and epic film by Ulster Film Office that explains why the stories that the media tells us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative takes in events in Ballymoney, Blackskull, Toomebridge and Cushendall- but the townland at the heart of it is Seskinore. Because Seskinore is the place that has confronted our media masters with the terrible truth - that they can no longer understand what is going on, and that the Singularity is possible.
But Ulster Television and the Singularity is also experimental. Ulster Film Office has taken almost all local television footage ever shot and used it in new and radical ways. In so doing, it builds a different and more emotional way of depicting what has happened... ....a counterpoint to what it sees as the narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power.
The film reveals the forces that over the past 30 years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand Ulster. And it shows the strange, dark role that Hugo Duncan has played in this.
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AMANDA COOGAN: LONG NOW
THE STORY OF NIGHT
BEANBAG CINEMA SATURDAY 21ST APRIL. 1.30PM. £4
STRAND ARTS CENTRE THURSDAY 19TH APRIL. 8.30PM. £5
. saturday 18thisapril. A6.30PM . £6 QUEENS FILM THEATREcomposed documentary exploring the importance Clemens Klopfenstein of time and duration through Amanda experimental ode to the city in 1979, in Coogan, the Dublin-born performance the same decade when city dwellers were artist who has been a close student and moving out en masse to the suburbs. collaborator with Marina Abramovic He filmed in no fewer than 150 urban throughout her career. centers, from Istanbul to Belfast, and from Helsinki to Rome. And he did so not Filmed during a gruelling six-week exhibition at during the daylight hours that mercilessly Ireland’s prestigious RHA Gallery, the hour-long expose the decline and depopulation of documentary follows the artist as she prepares for and shrinking cities, but under the cloak of performs daily for six hours a day, five days a week. night. TH
Shot on highly sensitive black-and-white film stock, The Story of Night is Klopfenstein’s nocturnal excursion across the European continent, boundlessly interweaving images of some 50 cities, from Dublin to Istanbul, in a kind of dream logic, and bathing them in a granular, crepuscular light. A restoration of the Cinémathèque suisse in collaboration with Basel University, with the support of Memoriav at Cinegrell laboratory. DCP.
Capturing what was the gallery’s most successful and visited show in its 187-year history, the film weaves together the beautiful live performances with Coogan’s off-screen reflections on the physical and emotional demands of her art and why her deaf family background and sign language in particular is often the inspiration for a movement or performance. Directed by Paddy Cahill http://www.paddycahill.com/
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TH HEXEN PRESENTS THE DEBUT .ofsaturday . £6 The moral, politicalQUEENS and symbolic integrityFILM the FILM THEATRE 18.THfriday april.176.30PM QUEENS THEATREDIE april.. £6 6.30PM SHORT FILM ‘AM I DEAD’. image itself is interrogated and overturned in these richly textured films. John Maybury casts Siouxsie Traumatic experiences in our past, or in our recent Sioux and fashion designer David Holah in one of ancestors’ past, leave moledular scars adhering to our the singularly most stunning and ambitious Super 8 DNA. Haunted by invisible illness, a young man is works of the era, the existential genderfuck Court of forced to confront the nightmarish reality of his own Miracles. Young filmmakers bring on the post-modern existence. Starring Tom Greenhalgh. age.
John Maybury, The Court of Miracles, 1982, 44 min Vanda Carter, Glory Boys? , 1983, 4 min Isaac Julien, Territories, 1984, 24 min Cerith Wyn Evans & John Maybury, Psychic TV: Unclean, 1984, 9 min THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK a major new touring programme rediscovering key underground films from the post-punk era in the UK (1978–85). This period saw an explosion in artist filmmaking amongst clubbers, art students, new romantics and members of the post-punk scene, who embraced cheap new domestic technologies and used them to bold and uncompromising effect.
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DIE HEXEN reimagines the score for Kenneth Anger’s cult classic THE INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME DIE HEXEN (Dianne Lucille Campbell) is an award winning composer, sound designer, vocalist, musician, visual and performance Artist turned filmmaker from the North Coast of Ireland. DIE HEXEN’S recent release ‘Gloomy Sunday’ appeared on David Holmes’ Late Night Tales and subsequent self titled album to be released this year. DIE HEXEN defies definition or categorisation, an identity and idea constantly in flux. Self produced otherworldly compositions have been likened to the works of Liszt, Lynch, Badalamenti, Vangelis and the more recent work of Scott Walker. Visual style and themes channeling inspiration from several near death experiences, ancient beliefs and rituals, the supernatural, the occult, celestial mysticism, lucid dreams, Japanese art theatre, German expressionism and surrealist film.
SNOWNY BING BONGS
ARCADIA : ERKLING STRAND ARTS CENTRE SATURDAY 21ST APRIL. 6PM. £5
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QUEENS FILM THEATRE 18 april.Scouring 6.30PM . £6 100 years of footage from the Beach balls. Doctor boners.. saturday Farts. Snow. BFI Paul Wright constructs an exhilarating This film, starring Cocoon Central Dance study of Britain’s shifting relationship to Team, just might have invented its own the land. genre: comedy-dance-sketch-fantasy. TH
This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs—Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani & Eleanore Pienta—lounge about, pass gas, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe. If there was one thing that was done well in the film, it would be the casting. The trio is in sync and simply hilarious. They feature corny choreography that is often a combination of interpretive dance and contemporary ballet with a Three Stooges’ twist. More importantly, the women’s facial expressions create the comedy. The scene that invoked the most laughter from the crowd was a close-up of the trio’s faces – with extreme facial hair – only moving their eyes, noses, mouths and heads as the solid-colored backgrounds change behind them. VOX MAGAZINE
Wright crafts a dense poetic essay of wonder, hope, horror and decay – drawing on inspiration from The Wicker Man to Winstanley. Through an intoxicating array of material, we follow an unnamed protagonist from the future as she travels through the metaphorical ‘seasons’: Set to a grand, expressive score from Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), Wright’s captivating film essay was conceived before Brexit, but it’s impossible not to see the film through the prism of it. Screening before the main feature is a Northern Irish short film:
THE ERLKING A young couple’s burgeoning love for each other grows into something darker, when they face a malevolent entity that lives in the woods. Christopher Whiteside and Madeline Graham are the co-creators of The Erlking, which they self-funded. For the last four years, the pair have collaborated on several short films and art exhibition projects together. Their background is in fine art, having both studied Fine & Applied Art at University of Ulster, where they discovered they shared a passion for film making and have been following the dream of a career in the industry every since. 89
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N.I independents A programme which presents a series of locally made feature and medium length films. Most of these projects were produced on micro-budgets and developed by their makers with their own money and in their own time.
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POOR MOUTH
THE PITTS FAMILY CIRCUS
MOVIEHOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD. SUNDAY 15TH APRIL. 2.15PM. £4
QUEENS FILM THEATRE SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 9.15PM. £5
QUEENS FILMadaptation THEATRE . saturday 18 april. A6.30PM road. £6 trip with a extraordinary An animated of Flann Australian circus family. A post truth O’Brien’s only novel written in Irish under feature mockumentary. the pseudonym of Myles Na gCopaleen, An Béal Bocht. TH
An Béal Bocht (The Poor Mouth) is the 1941 novel in Irish by Strabane-born Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), published under the pseudonym ‘Myles na gCopaleen’. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irishlanguage novels of the 20th century. It is the first time that the book has been brought to screen and is also the animated debut for critically acclaimed feature film director, Tom Collins. The film is a biting satire of the life story of a young Gael reflecting on his life from Sligo Gaol and stars Seán Misteál, Donncha Crowley, Tommy Tiernan and Bob Quinn. An Béal Bocht is a co-production between awardwinning animation production company Raw Nerve Productions and De facto Films. Principal animator at Raw Nerve is BAFTA-nominated animator, John McCloskey, who took the role of animation director working closely with writer/director Collins.
The Pitts Family Circus film was made on a micro budget and shot in 3 different countries with an international cast, and without a script. It is an Irish-Australian-Swiss Co-Production.
The feature length film is about a real life circus family who are called THE PITTS. They are unique, amazing and the world needs to know about them. The world is the first Ethereum Blockchain funded Movie that used smart contract. This will radically change the film funding business.
https://the-pitts-circus.com DIRECTOR: KEN FANNING 2017. NI. 97 MINUTES
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TH . Mick . £6 incredible true story. £6 of one elderly A documentaryQUEENS on the life of FILM FILM THEATRE saturday 18.THfriday april. QUEENS THEATREThe 176.30PM april. 6.30PM Derry woman’s unwavering quest to McElkenny, who served as personal locate and honour her uncle’s long lost bodyguard to JFK during his visit to grave in Shanghai. Ireland in 1963. Mick is a family man, a footballer, and a musician, widely On the 24th October 1937, 25-year-old Rifleman Patrick known and loved in the community of McGowan of Londonderry was killed by fire from a County Tyrone.
Mick McElkenny is a retired bodyguard. Having protected both John F Kennedy, and Pope John Paul II during their visits to Ireland in 1963, and 1979, he is a man full of both stories, and memories, of a wonderfully full life.
DIRECTOR : RYAN CONEY PRODUCER: RYAN CONEY PRODUCER: ANDREW KULLAS LISA BRADY: MUSIC COMPOSITION MICK MCELKENNY: MUSIC PERFORMED ANDREW KULLAS: EDITOR 2018. NORTHERN IRELAND. MINUTES.
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Japanese aircraft in the act of carrying a young woman to safety. Private McGowan’s death caused a political outcry and had far reaching international significance. McGowan, along with three other Ulster riflemen killed in further attacks, were buried in Shanghai with full military honours. However, in the years after the conflict their resting places were lost. More than 60 years later, Paddy’s niece Sara Moran began a journey to find out what happened to him.
DIRECTORS: PETER ROCH , JASON DAVIDSON. PRODUCERS: PETER ROCH, JASON DAVIDSON. 2018. NORTHERN IRELAND. 60 MINUTES.
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. £6 obsessed mixed-race girl FILM THEATRE saturday 18 april. A6.30PM music Off theQUEENS rails and in and . out of prison, questions her identity when she becomes Ryan’s endless promises to change only the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast. amount to empty promises and his life plummets to rock bottom. But does this Cry Rosa tells the true story of a music obsessed mixed‘chancer’ deserve another chance? TH
Having been in and out of prison, Ryan promises his girlfriend and daughter that he’s out for good this time. Old habits die hard. Directed by Patrick Maxwell, written by Maire Campbell, produced by Joan Burney Keatings MBE and with Aidan Gault as director of photography. The film stars Diarmuid Noyes, Barbra Adair, Aisling Groves McKeown, Conor MacNeill, Paul Kennedy and Maggie Cronin.
DIRECTOR : PATRICK MAXWELL WRITER: MAIRE CAMPBELL PRODUCER: JOAN BURNEY KEATINGS
race girl who questions her identity when she becomes the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast. Cry Rosa stars Kelly Gough (The Fall, Broadchurch), Martin McCann (The Survivalist, Ripper Street) and introduces gifted young actress Grace Fleming as Rosa.
The experienced and versatile film crew have worked on a large number of high calibre local productions, including Game of Thrones, Line of Duty and Good Vibrations.
DIRECTOR: IMOGEN MURPHY WRITER: DAVID MCCREA 2018. NORTHERN IRELAND. 20 MINUTES.
2018. NORTHERN IRELAND. 24 MINUTES.
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DIRECTOR: JOHNNY O’DONNELL. 2017. NI. 120 MINUTES.
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A loud gunshot rings out at a sacred religious retreat on the coast of Ireland. Only a stone statue of Jesus crucified on the cross and the fleeing birds bear witness to the mysterious crime.
Horse Money
The Kelly family is a close-knit Irish Catholic family. Tony and Marian Kelly have raised their children in TH THwith God’s will. As. £6 they plan to retire to . A couple from London to salvage . QUEENS attempt FILM THEATRE saturday 18 april.176.30PM QUEENS FILM THEATRE accordance friday april.. £6 6.30PM their dream home in the countryside, their children, their failing relationship on a walking now young adults, begin to stray from the path that the holiday in the Mountains of Mourne, but parents have set out for them.
things do not go as hoped. After all, isn’t every love story a ghost story? Niall Donegan and Elliot Vick founded Outer Dark Pictures in late 2015 on the premise that these days there’s no reason not to just go out and make the films you want to make. Their self-financed feature film, The Solace of Orpheus is the logical conclusion of that thought. Previously they have made short films and music videos, which are mostly available on their website (www.outerdark.co.uk).
DIRECTORS:NIALL DONEGAN ELLIOT VICK 2018. NORTHERN IRELAND. 93 MINUTES
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Jake banks his boyish ambitions of being an astronaut inside a jar of coins. But there are those who would step all over his dreams. Can he still manage to make the giant leap? DIRECTOR:CARETON RODGERS PRODUCER:MICHAEL COSTELLO 2017. NORTHERN IRELAND. 20 MINUTES.
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HERE WE ARE
NOT UNTIL I KNOW MORE
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. saturday . £6 fiction set in an alternative FILMinTHEATRE tech-noir HavingQUEENS gone bust 2012, Newry City18 AFCapril. A6.30PM Belfast, this film centres around a neurowere resurrected by a group of dedicated hacking console which offers knowledge fans. After two promotions in three years, and experience of the users choice, but they sit just one league below where they with one minor side-effect… part of the belong. However, their manager Darren user’s childhood memory is erased. must turn his team of local lads into players and battle problems on and off Since its development in 2005, ‘necking’ has ruptured the pitch to return Newry to their glory the world and is available to anyone 13 years or older. days with absolutely no budget. TH
Director Statement Here We Are has been the toughest but most rewarding project I have worked on. As my first documentary over 45 minutes in length and taking a year to complete, shooting Here We Are was a test in being able to tell a story while dealing with many strands including the subject’s personal life and the rise of the team.
DIRECTOR: ALLY MCKENZIE PRODUCER:GARETH MCCULLOUGH 47 MINS
Accessible as the latest generation games console, learning cartridges can be hired from any rental outlet or owned for an extortionate fee, resulting in abandoned schools and universities across the world. Alcohol consumption has risen more than 7000%, while users struggle to remember their past. The more you know, the more you realise you know nothing. This is the fourth feature by independent Belfast filmmaker Michael McNulty, who once again pushes the limits of ‘zero-budget-film-making’ to present us with a personal journey into knowledge and memory. Filmed in UK, Ireland and Israel/Palestine, Not Until I know More invites the viewer on a strange adventure into mind and memory. If you had the choice, what would you learn to forget?
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SHORTS COMPETITION Supported By Queens Film Theatre
Kubrick’s British army invasion of Ireland, tales of supercool ways of coping with ‘casual’ rejection, a doomed mission to find a nodge of hash, some mermaid on mermaid kissing action, big revelations in a small confessional, ash clouds and black oozing monstrosities … sounds like a good week in Stormont doesn’t it? Showcasing the best of new work from across the island of Ireland, this year’s short film competition is bursting with brilliant storytelling talent. Fledgling filmmakers writers, directors, in front of and behind the camera talent, all get a chance to shine in our annual celebration of all things short film. Judging Panel: Prof. Sarah Edge (University of Ulster), Chris Martin (Producer), Sarah Jones (BFF Board), Joan Parsons (Head of QFT) and Eoin Cleland, the director of last years winning Short, Incoming Call. All short filmmakers are invited to our Annual Film-makers Ball at the Black Box at 8pm on Saturday 14th April after the screenings, where the winning film will be announced. 98
SHORTS COMPETITION PROGRAMME 1 The 11th
An ex paramilitary man returns home to find his daughter and ask for forgiveness. Duration: 15mins
Writer/Director: Naomi Waring
Sparrow
A charming film exploring the subtle dynamics of brother and sisterhood. Cara, the first in the family to graduate, returns from a gap year, there is conflict with her brother Nathan, forced to drop out of his music degree after a life-changing hand injury. Duration: 13mins.
Writer/Director: Rebekah Davis
Lost Memories
Inspired by a true story. Sean races against the clock to his mother’s deathbed while dealing with interfamily politics over the phone. Duration: 14min
Director: Eamonn Murphy
Writers: Emmet Kelly & Eamonn Murphy
Listen
An exploration of the Irish language told through the eyes of a young family living in modern day Belfast. Duration: 10mins
Writer/Director: David Moody
Peel
A raw, powerful short film that captures the painful effects of alcoholism on a family, as witnessed through the eyes of those who pick up the pieces.
SATURDAY 14TH APRIL . 99 MINS. 10AM-11.40AM QFT . £6 Guard
An emotionally hardened young woman wrestles with difficult memories when her estranged father returns from time in prison. As he teaches her how to box, reconciliation seems possible, but their traumatic past will not be easily washed away Duration: 13mins. Director:
Jonathan Harden. Writer: Bronagh Taggart.
Muirgheilt
There is a legend, common among fishermen, that to have a woman on a boat is bad luck. Fergus, a young Lough Neagh fisherman, is about to find out why. Duration: 8mins.
Writer/Director: Tara Hegarty
Must Do is a Good Master
An Irish man picks up a moody hitch-hiker while on holidays in Czech Rep. Which leads to a personality clash. Duration: 9mins. Director: Gerard McKenzie Writer: John McFadden
Marky’s Bad Week
After having the worst week of his life, Marky decides to take the edge off with a spliff. Things go from bad to worse when he meets an old acquaintance. Duration: 6mins.
Writer/Director: Daniel Holmwood
Duration: 8.30mins
Writer/Director: Annika Cassidy
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SHORTS COMPETITION PROGRAMME 2 SATURDAY 14TH APRIL . 98 mins. 11.50am-1.30pm . QFT .£6
The Tell-Tale Heart
Adapted from ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe, this film is an Irish retelling of the classic gothic tale. 6mins. Director: Patrick Ketch
Casual
Maura, an aspiring poet, has been dumped in a voice mail. It was only a casual thing, but she’s still stuck with those grim feelings that come with rejection: self loathing, anger, resentment and an insatiable hunger for chocolate mousse. And bacon. And wine. To get out of this funk, she decides to take control. Her mate thinks she’s a dope, but Maura’s sure she’ll win the guy over. 11mins. Director: Aoife Nic Ardghail, Kate
Burglars
When 2 thieves break into a house, a shocking discovery changes their plans. 10mins.Director, Philip Lewis
Writers, Richard Kearney, Philip Lewis
Leap of Faith
Kelly longs for a connection, in a disconnected world. 14mins. Director, Mark Smyth Writer, Dave Thorpe
Coranna
A boy and his horse - Coranna, are in a race to save the lives of their parish from the Great Irish Famine. 9mins. Writer/Director, Steve Woods
Dolan. Writer: Aoife Nic Ardghail.
Transit
An exhausted factory worker has an unnerving encounter on his way home from a night shift.
6mins. Writer/Directors, Kathleen Bridget Murphy & Louis Tornero-Moffitt
Echoes
On a distant planet two blue collar workers transport a prisoner across a distant mining colony, only to discover she is not the real danger onboard. 20mins. Director John Carlin
Writers, Aaron Gray, Paul Skillen
Monkeys in the Garden
Ciara is finding it increasingly difficult to cope in her capacity as carer for her mother with dementia. The unexpected arrival of her sister Amy, the favourite, forces Ciara to re-evaluate how she deals with her mothers disease by finally trying to accept her mothers version of reality. 12mins.
Writer/Director, Marie Clare Cushinan
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The Wedding Speech
As the best man, Ed, doesn’t realise that his speech will be the most important that he will ever make. 8mins. Director, Joe McStravick
Writers, Joe McStravick, Kate McStravick, Isabelle Broom (Author of Original Short Story)
SHORTS COMPETITION PROGRAMME 3
SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 103 mins. 2.30pm-4.10pm. QFT .
Unforgotten
Kubrick By Candlelight
15mins. Writer / Director Alexander Wilson-
18mins. Writer/Director: David O’Reilly
An elderly man near the end of his life passes lonely days in an old folk’s home writing letters to an old friend. But the arrival of a new occupant in the home reopens doors to the past and changes everything. Flynn
The Music Room
10 year old Ben is something of a loner. He does piano lessons at school, but he dreams of being a conductor. Like a proper one. Like Simon Rattle. A story about the inspirational power of music. Features the Ulster Orchestra, on screen. 14mins. Director, Mick Gordon Writer, Eugene O’Hare.
Safe Haven
When a volcanic ash cloud engulfs the city 12 year old Zoran finds himself trapped at home with his elderly neighbour. This ash cloud is like no other - it carries a virulent contagion which transforms those exposed into feral, black-oozing monstrosities. 17mins. Director, Martin Stalker Writer, Spence Wright
The Date
In a strange, smokey bar on the edge of a rural Irish town, Sinead and Brian remember the love they once shared.
In 1973 Stanley Kubrick came to Ireland and brought the whole goddamn British Army. A light hearted romantic comedy set behind the scenes of the filming of Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. Narrated by Brian Cox
Soil Engineers
A Sisyphean fisherman is tied to the worms he fishes with, while carrying out his epilogue 5mins. Writer / Director, Dominic Curran
Recruited
Recruited is a short educational film aimed at young people which explores the consequences of becoming involved with paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. 10mins. Director, Declan Keeney Writer, Colin Bateman.
The Hidden People
When a reserved Yorkshire teenager discovers the potential remains of a fairy, his childlike beliefs clash with his older brother’s bleak reality. ‘The Hidden People’ is a Yorkshire-set short film loosely based on the local myth of The Cottingley Fairies. It is a poetic coming-of-age story, exploring the realities of brotherhood in rural England.” 6mins. Director, Ronan Corrigan Writer, Callum Dziedzic
16mins. Director, Selina Cartmell. Writer, Liz Quinn.
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SATURDAY 14TH APRIL. 105 mins. 4.30pm- 6.10pm . QFT. £6
The Gift
A Break in the Clouds
Police bursts into the house of two immigrants. They are taken to an unknown location. A mysterious man, interrogates them. Gradually the men realise that they are trapped in a Kafkaesque world.
A young couple struggle to adjust to life following the birth of their first child. 19mins. Writer / Director, Tristan Heanue
14mins. Writer/Director: Murat Akser
Bless Me Father
In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his. 15mins. Writer / Director, Paul M. Horan
Good Girls
Bonnie, Pinkman’s finest student and head girl, takes us on a tour of her school as she tries to round up the school captains in time for the school photo. 10mins. Writer / Director, Niamh McKeown
Calling Home
Dorota moves to London with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but her path is altered by an abusive relationship. A modern day narrative about homelessness to mark the 50th anniversary of Ken Loach’s “Cathy Come Home”. 19mins. Writer / Director, Megan K Fox
The Overcoat
A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death. 18mins. Director, Patrick Myles,
Writers, Patrick Myles, Nikolai Gogol
Young Blood
Illness and old age looming, Gerry and Margaret agree upon a blood transfusion to give them a little more zest. But their young donor has a few concerns. 8mins. Writer / Director, Rian Lennon
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As part of our 18th Film Festival QFT and BFF would like to invite all film makers and participants to the Filmmakers Ball. This is a party for all the filmmakers, actors and talent taking part in the festival. Shorts, Docs, Features, NI independent filmmakers are invited to come, meet up, talk shop and have a dance. At the Ball we will announce the winner of the short film competition which takes place earlier in the day. We’ll have DJs, Dancing and visuals. The Black Box. 8pm. Saturday 14thApril. Doors open at 8pm til Late.
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SHORT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION SUNDAY 15TH APRIL AT QUEENS FILM THEATRE. PROGRAMME 1 – 11.30- 1.30PM (117MIN RUNNING TIME) . £6.
Many interesting and diverse Irish
non-fiction shorts have been made this year. Often caught between
places to screen, a short non-fiction
film has far less opportunities to be
FARAWAY LAND
NOMAD
An intimate story of a woman’s experience with near-drowning.
Far from the ‘continental circus’ of 60s Grand Prix motorcycle racing, nestled in the harsh Canadian countryside, retired rider and transgendered woman, Michelle Duff, reflects upon the definitive, forkingpath moments of her life.
Dir: Deidre O’Toole 5m ROI
seen in a cinema environment, especially if made independently, and we
hope to address that with this event. This year has seen almost three times as many submissions.
We are delighted to announce that
DoubleBand films, will be again be sponsoring this event with a cash prize, and will pick a winner on the day.
A LITTLE BIT STRANGE Dir: Ciara Scullion, 18m NI
Through interviews, performance and abstracted images this film explores the relationship between mental illness and creativity by documenting one person’s account of living with bipolar.
BOAT BUILDERS
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A new work interweaving music, archival footage and interviews with those who worked in Belfast’s Shipyards.
HUM
Dir: Nathan Fagan, 19m, ROI ‘Hum’ is an intimate portrait of artist and singer-songwriter, diagnosed at 19 years old with schizoaffective disorder. Documenting both the day-to-day challenges of living with mental illness and the fascinating relationship between Kevin’s condition and his art, ‘Hum’ delves into the truly unique and theatrical world of Kevin Nolan.
THE ROGUE
Dir: Arjen Sinninghe Damsté, 15m ROI. In 1983 a wild bottlenose dolphin named Fungie settled down in the bay of Dingle, a town at the Atlantic in Ireland’s southwest. Over the years the dolphin built up a special bond with a number of residents of Dingle, giving hope, faith and stability to those who live beside him. As Fungie is getting older, gradually the question arises, how will life be without him…
Dir: Zoe Tweedy, 14m. ROI
ANCIENT OAK
Dir. Daniel Balteanu, 8m. ROI This is the story of Conor Lane, a professional bog oak sculptor in County Kildare, Ireland, the inspiration he gets from the bog, and the connection he has with bog oak. It also offers a glimpse of the transformation that bog oak undergoes: from a raw piece of ancient oak taken from the Irish soil to a beautifully finished sculpture piece.
SEEKERS
Dir. Rob Thompson, 20m, NI Northern Ireland is typically associated with Catholicism and Protestantism. But this intimate documentary looks at a several individuals who have moved away from their traditional backgrounds to embrace more unconventional spiritual practices.
Supported by DoubleBand SUNDAY 15TH APRIL AT QUEENS FILM THEATRE. PROGRAMME 2 – 2.15PM-4.35PM (137MIN RUNNING TIME) £6.
OF MY KIN
Dir: Joe McStravick, 14m. NI. A group of people, who suffer from a range of mental illnesses, gather together, to work together so that they can heal together.
INHALE
Dir: Eve Korzec, 16m, NI. Through horses, a man feels an irrepressible duty to move in harmony with his pain. A film exploring the infinite momentum of life via an energy never destroyed, only transformed.
THE REEK
cide prevention group. Uniquely positioned to patrol the night, the drivers keep vigil over the city’s streets and offer help to those who feel forlorn.
lowed. His love of horses and family eventually got him through the difficult times. His biggest day of the year is now ‘The Ballinasloe Horse Fair’.
TIT FOR TATT
THIS WAS TOLD TO ME
Tit for Tatt follows the experiences of two breast cancer survivors who were inspired to mark their battles by getting tattoos on their surgery scars.
This Was Told to Me is a personal essay film set in the once notorious ‘Bandit Country’ of South Armagh, and explores themes of memory, identity, love, loss and exile. The film combines photographs, video, text and sound materials to create a road movie that melds documentary and narrative, past and present.
Dir: Mairéad Ní Thréinir, 20m, ROI
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YEOOO!!” - 72 HOURS IN BELFAST’S HOLYLANDS Dir: Dominic Coyle, 22m NI
Croagh Patrick, also known as “The Reek” is Ireland’s holiest mountain, it has had symbolic importance in Christian and pre-Christian times alike. This short documentary paints a portrait of the mountain and those that visit it.
Filmed Belfast’s infamous student area known as ‘the Holylands’, this observational documentary follows students as they celebrate St. Patrick’s day. Meanwhile, the area’s long-term residents try and adapt to living in the middle of this huge street party, which has been dubbed ‘Belfast’s answer to Mardi Gras’.
THROWLINE
UP THE MOUNTAIN
Dir: Mia Mullarkey, 14m, ROI
Dir: Donal Moloney. 12m. ROI.
A group of taxi drivers in Kilkenny, Ireland, join together to form a sui-
Eddie lost his wife 20 years ago. A broken heart and depression fol-
Dir: Jamie McGoldrick, 6m.ROI.
Dir. Simon Aeppli, 12m NI
BROKEN LIVES: THE LEGACY OF CONFLICT Dir. Sean Murray, 20m NI
Examining the lives of four people who have been affected by exceptional traumatic experiences. During the conflict the community of West Belfast experienced high levels of social and economic exclusion that continue to this day. Broken Lives looks at the phenomenon of transgenerational trauma and the efforts of dedicated community workers who strive to create opportunities and inspire change for a growing number of victims. 105
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