2 – 8 July 2018
INDEPENDENT / WORLD CULT / CLASSIC PREMIERES / PREVIEWS
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WELCOME TO THE FIFTH ANNUAL HULL FILM FESTIVAL We invite you to join us and discover the very best in new film from around the world, with titles that are award-winning, critically-acclaimed, unashamedly independent, and a little out of left field. This year’s programme features 16 films, all Hull exclusive screenings, and we’re proud to be hosting multiple regional Premieres. The festival opens with the Yorkshire Premiere of the neo-noir Terminal, starring Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg and Mike Myers. Great foreign language drama comes to us from Iceland with dark comedy Under the Tree; Italy, for the unique fantasy / drama Sicilian Ghost Story; and Belgium, with Racer and The Jailbird combining crime and romance. There’s striking British film with powerhouse performances in The Escape and a stunning directorial debut in religious drama Apostasy. Three distinctly differing visions of American society are presented by The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Rider and Mobile Homes. Quirky genre gems The Endless and How to Talk to Girls at Parties will compete to be your new favourite film. Bone-crunching and visceral Thai Boxing prison drama A Prayer Before Dawn offers a sharp contrast with Mary Shelley, a sumptuous biopic of the literary trailblazer. Our long-standing screening partners WeWatchFilms and Cult Cinema Sunday and their fantastic retrospective programming bring us a chic and stylish romance classic (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and a mind-bending coming-of-age cult favourite (Donnie Darko). Our closing film, the comedy drama Lucky, is the final film of the late, great Harry Dean Stanton. Put it all together and we hope you’ll agree that this is the best Hull Film Festival line-up yet. And with great value tickets, discounts for Hull Independent Cinema members and under-25s, and daily / weekly passes you can afford to sit back and enjoy it all. We’d like to acknowledge the support this year of our host venue Vue Cinema Hull. Don’t miss the chance to join us there to enjoy films how they should be seen - on the big screen with an attentive audience. We hope you enjoy the programme we have for you this year; it’s a real pleasure to be able to share them with Hull film lovers. See you at the festival, Damien Greco Festival Director
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TICKETS AND ADMISSION TICKETS Standard
HIC Member*
Student & Under-25s
£7
£6
£5
Day Pass (Weekdays 2 films)
£12
£10
£8
Day Pass (Weekend 3 films)
£15
£12
£9
Full Festival Pass Monday 2 July - Sunday 8 July
£49
£44
£39
Individual Film
*Hull Independent Cinema Member
WHERE TO BUY Online: Book online at www.hullfilmfestival.co.uk By phone: Call Hull Box Office on 01482 221113 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm & Sat 10am-4pm)
In person: Tickets can be bought from the Hull Film Festival stand at Vue Cinema Hull 30 minutes prior to the start of a performance. They will not be sold from Vue’s concession counter or by their staff.
All films run without adverts and trailers and will be preceded by a short introduction from the festival team. The screening room opens 10-15 minutes before the programme begins, although the venue is open earlier. Hull Film Festival reserves the right to refuse admission to audience members arriving after the advertised start time. Tickets are non-refundable and nonexchangeable. Tickets are not available from the Vue Cinema website or box office on-site, and are not included in Vue’s £4.99 ticket deal. Advance tickets can only be purchased by phone or online, not in person. Full programme details and times are subject to change; please check our website and social media before purchasing tickets or travelling to an event.
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Hull Film Festival 2018 Schedule 2 - 8 July 2018 3.30PM
6.00PM
Mon 2 July
Tue 3 July
Wed 4 July
Thu 5 July
Fri 6 July
Sat 7 July
THE ESCAPE
2017 | 105 min | TBC (18+)
Sun 8 July
MOBILE HOMES
2017 | 105 min | TBC (18+)
6.30PM
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TERMINAL
THE ENDLESS
2018 | 95 min | 15
2017 | 109 min | 15
UNDER THE TREE
MARY SHELLEY
2017 | 89 min | TBC (18+)
2018 | 121 min | 12A
THE RIDER
APOSTASY
2017 | 104 min | TBC (18+)
2017 | 95 min | TBC (18+)
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
SICILIAN GHOST STORY
2018 | 91 min | 15
2017 | 122 min | TBC (18+)
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN
2017 | 103 min | 15
2017 | 116 min | TBC (18+)
WEWATCHFILMS: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
RACER AND THE JAILBIRD
1961 | 115 min | PG
2017 | 130 min | TBC (18+)
CULT CINEMA SUNDAY: DONNIE DARKO
LUCKY
2001 | 113 min | 15
2017 | 88 min | TBC (18+)
OPENING FILM YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
TERMINAL Vaughn Stein
Language English
Mon 2 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £7/£6/£5
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UK / Hong Kong / Hungary / USA / Ireland 2018 | 95 min
Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher, Max Irons, Mike Myers
TERMINAL follows two assassins with a sinister mission (Max Irons & Dexter Fletcher), a fatally ill teacher (Simon Pegg), an enigmatic janitor (Mike Myers) and a waitress with a double life (Margot Robbie). Murderous consequences unravel as their lives meet at the hands of a criminal mastermind wanting revenge.
Genre Crime / Drama / Thriller “This is a dark and bloody and mind-bending trip…juicy performances from one of the more eclectic casts you’ll see in a film in 2018.” – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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THE ENDLESS Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Language English
Mon 2 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£7/£6/£5 USA | 2017 | 109 min
Callie Hernandez, Emily Montague, James Jordan
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group’s beliefs may be more sane than they once thought. They find themselves drawn into a vortex of bizarre rituals, strange messages, unseen forces and sinister supernatural secrets that threaten to tear apart the very fabric of reality.
Genre Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller “A demanding, rewarding picture with moments of unusual terror and awe, offering a science fiction/horror scenario on a literally cosmic scale.” – Kim Newman, The Hollywood Reporter
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UNDER THE TREE
Rating TBC (18+)
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Language Icelandic with English subtitles
Tue 3 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £7/£6/£5 Iceland | 2017 | 89 min
When Baldwin and Inga’s next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control in this dark suburban satire.
Cast Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson Genre Drama / Black Comedy “Unsettlingly perceptive as well as absurdly comedic, Under the Tree chronicles domestic tensions left to fester.” – Sarah Ward, Screen International
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YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
MARY SHELLEY Haifaa Al-Mansour
Language English
Tue 3 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£7/£6/£5 UK / Luxembourg / USA | 2018 | 121 min
Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Maisie Williams, Bel Powley
Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork Frankenstein.
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Biography / Drama / Romance “An intelligent balance between romantic drama and literary biography.” – Allan Hunter, Screen International
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HULL PREMIERE
THE RIDER
Rating TBC (18+)
Chloé Zhao
Language
Wed 4 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
English / Indonesian / Japanese / Korean / British Sign Language / Indian Sign Language with English subtitles
£7/£6/£5 USA / UK / Japan / Indonesia / Falkland Islands 2017 | 104 min
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Cast Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau Genre Drama “As wrenching as The Rider can be at times, it’s also suspenseful and beautiful - a modern-day Western with a hero who’s a real discovery.” – Bob Mondello, NPR
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APOSTASY
Rating TBC (18+)
Daniel Kokotajlo
Language English
Wed 4 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£7/£6/£5 UK | 2017 | 95 min
Siobhan Finneran, Robert Emms, Steve Evets
Written and directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, a former Jehovah’s Witness, ‘Apostasy’ is a remarkable and authentic debut film that provides rare insight into the complex nature of faith, family, duty and love.
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A faithful Jehovah’s Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God’s love.
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Drama “Blood proves thicker than (holy) water…one of the year’s strongest British films.” – Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter
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YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST Desiree Akhavan Thu 5 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £7/£6/£5
Language English Cast Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Marin Ireland
USA | 2018 | 91 min Genre 1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy centre by her conservative guardians. This unusual setting provides her with an unlikely gay community. For the first time, Cameron connects with peers, and she’s able to find her place among fellow outcasts.
Drama / Romance “An honest reflection of harrowing uncertainty, broken up by moments of unbridled joy -which Akhavan captures like lightning in a bottle.” – Siddhant Adlakha, Slashfilm
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YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
SICILIAN GHOST STORY
Rating TBC (18+) Language Italian with English subtitles
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza Cast Thu 5 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari
£7/£6/£5 Italy / France / Switzerland | 2017 | 122 min
Genre Behind a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
Drama / Fantasy “Grassadonia and Piazza blend melancholy and horror with a haunting elegance, never losing sight of their characters inner turmoil.” – Katherine McLaughlin, SciFiNow
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HULL PREMIERE
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
Language English
John Cameron Mitchell Cast Fri 6 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £7/£6/£5
Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson
UK / USA | 2017 | 103 min Genre From the raucous dual imaginations of Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Coraline) and director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch,) comes this electrifying and singular pop extravaganza film. An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon in the 1970s.
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Comedy / Music / Romance “Gloriously bonkers, with a charming central performance from Elle Fanning.” – Matthew Bond, Daily Mail
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A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN
Rating TBC (18+) Language
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
English / Thai with English subtitles
Fri 6 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Cast
£7/£6/£5 UK / United States / France / China | 2017 | 116 min
Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Nicolas Shake Genre
The remarkable true story of Billy Moore, a young English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand’s most notorious prisons. He is quickly thrown into a terrifying world of drugs and gang violence, but when the prison authorities allow him to take part in the Muay Thai boxing tournaments, he realizes this might be his chance to get out.
Drama / Action / Crime “A big, bleeding feat of extreme cinema, given elevating human dimension by rising star Joe Cole’s ferociously physical lead performance.” – Guy Lodge, Variety
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YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
THE ESCAPE
Rating TBC (18+)
Dominic Savage
Language English
Sat 7 July | 3.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £7/£6/£5
Cast
UK | 2017 | 105 min
Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Frances Barber
Tara, a housewife in suburban London, is living a life that is no longer hers: it belongs to her overworked, self-absorbed husband; her young son and daughter; and the numbing routine of housework and childcare. One day, in desperate need of a change, Tara makes a bold decision. Armed with a one-way ticket to Paris, she leaves everything behind to rediscover herself in a new city - but walking out on your life isn’t so simple...
Genre Drama “Gemma Arterton excels as a shattered mother of two in Savage’s absorbing and uncompromising film.” – Travis Hopson, Punch Drunk Critics
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4K RESTORATION
WEWATCHFILMS:
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
Language English
Blake Edwards
Cast
Sat 7 July | 6.00pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal
£7/£6/£5 Genre
USA | 1961 | 115 min
Comedy / Drama / Romance Blake Edwards’ screen adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, an eccentric high-class escort working in New York. When young writer Paul Varjack (George Peppard) the kept man of a wealthy older woman - moves into Holly’s apartment block, he finds inspiration when he falls in love with her.
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YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
RACER AND THE JAILBIRD
Rating TBC (18+) Language
Michaël R. Roskam
French / Dutch with English subtitles
Sat 7 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Cast
£7/£6/£5 Belgium / France / Netherlands | 2017 | 130 min
Set against the background of a brutal crime gang in Brussels, this is a tragic love story between Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts), a high-flying gangster, and Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young racing driver with very upper-class roots.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eric De Staercke Genre Crime / Drama “A love affair for the ages, and the two charismatic leads successfully bring a haunting telepathy to their affair.” – Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk
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MOBILE HOMES Vladimir de Fontenay
Language English
Sun 8 July | 3.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£7/£6/£5 Canada / France | 2017 | 105 min
Imogen Poots, Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie
A young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son.
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The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Drama “A first solo feature from French writer/director Vladimir de Fontenay, and he nicely captures the economic uncertainty of modern-day America.” – Chris Knight, National Post
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4K RESTORATION
CULT CINEMA SUNDAY:
DONNIE DARKO
Language
Richard Kelly
English
Sun 8 July | 6.00pm | Vue Cinema Hull
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£7/£6/£5 USA | 2001 | 113 min
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze Genre
Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking, and visits from a six-foot rabbit named Frank who tells him the world will end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank’s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller Presented by Cult Cinema Sunday
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CLOSING FILM YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
LUCKY
Rating TBC (18+)
John Carroll Lynch
Language
Sun 8 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
English / Spanish with English subtitles
£7/£6/£5 Cast
USA | 2018 | 88 min
Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston ‘Lucky’ follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.
Genre Comedy / Drama “Lucky serves as a first-rate showcase for its star as well as an ideal swan song. The man couldn’t have gone out any better.” – Mike D’Angelo, AV Club
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Book a BFI NETWORK 1-2-1 Film Funding Surgery BFI NETWORK has recently launched their exciting new film funding offer for new writers, directors and producers based in the North with a creative track record: network.bfi.org.uk/film-hub-north. The funding is open to live action and animation ideas, it’s rolling and you can apply for up to £15,000 for short film production and £1,500 to develop an early feature idea into a treatment. If you’re interested in finding out more about the new funding on offer or have a film project you’d like to discuss then there’s an opportunity for you to book a 1-2-1 surgery with Alice Ramsey, BFI NETWORK Talent Executive, during Hull Film Festival on Thursday 5 July from 12pm at Hull Truck Theatre. Alice is particularly keen to hear from underrepresented voices working in the creative industries who are interested in film. The only requirements you need to be eligible for a surgery are: • Based in the North of England • Haven’t had a feature film produced and distributed • A creative track record. This could be student work, or something created at a grassroots/non-professional level, and it may be in film, television, theatre or another artform. • You need to be over 18 and not in fulltime education
To book your 1-2-1 surgery with Alice visit: calendly.com/filmhubnorth/30min/ 07-05-2018 The booking system works on a firstcome first-served basis, but don’t worry if you’re unable to book yourself onto a surgery this time around, there will be other opportunities across the region in the coming months. If you need to cancel your surgery for whatever reason, please contact bfinetwork@filmhubnorth.org.uk.
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