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Expectations are confounded on more than one occasion. Michael Fassbender channels his inner Clint in the Coens-meet-Jarmusch western Slow West, showing exclusively at QFT. Ian McKellen proves there is life in an old detective yet with his take on an ageing Sherlock Holmes in Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes. We also have the first ever Iranian vampire movie, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a hit at the recent Belfast Film Festival and not to be missed. Guy Pearce in an offbeat comedy set in a gym from the director of Computer Chess? We’ve got that too in the form of Results.
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One of the most surprising and shocking films released this year is The Tribe. This is a film like no other. In Ukrainian sign language with no other dialogue and no subtitles, this is visceral and raw filmmaking that you will never forget. Academy Award-nominee and Cannes-winner Timbuktu arrives after an incredible critical reception on the festival circuit, and the praise for this poetic drama is more than justified. As usual we are flying the flag for new documentaries with Asif Kapadia’s much talked about Amy Winehouse film, Amy, leading the pack. Our Impact of Conflict strand comes to a close with Joshua Oppenheimer’s remarkable follow-up to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, alongside films from Nigeria, Venezuela and Ireland. And the Belfast Photo Festival returns with two films about wildly different photographers. There is so much more but I must mention our season of films celebrating the centenary of the great deceiver, Orson Welles. Both Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons are screening from 35mm and I can’t wait.
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NEW RELEASES
SLOW WEST FRI 26 JUN – THURS 9 JUL
DIR: JOHN MACLEAN • UK/ NEW ZEALAND • 2015 • 1 HR 24 MINS
Scottish director John Maclean, whose terrific short Pitch Black Heist also starred Michael Fassbender, has delivered on his initial promise in spades with Slow West. At once hilarious and brutal, this off-kilter revisionist western follows Jay, a naive young man (Kodi Smit-McPhee) stumbling across late 1800s America in search of his sweetheart. With his Walden-esque guide to surviving the Canadian frontier, Jay takes a rather cerebral, and it must be said, ineffective approach to navigating the travails of his romantic quest. Luckily for him, along the way he has his neck saved by laconic bounty hunter Silas (Fassbender) who proceeds, for a few silver dollars, to ride shotgun, protecting his young companion from all manner of horrifying scrapes. With its gallows humour, pitched equally between slapstick and the grotesque, gorgeous visuals and elliptical cutting, we immediately know we are in for something out of the ordinary.
MR. HOLMES FRI 19 JUN – THURS 2 JUL DIR: BILL CONDON • UK/USA • 2015 • 1 HR 44 MINS
Ian McKellen plays the man behind the myth in this new twist on the world’s most famous detective. Living in cantankerous retirement and near the end of his life, Holmes grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind and must rely on his housekeeper’s son as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him into retirement, and searches for answers to the mysteries of life and love - before it’s too late.
DOCUMENTARY
AMY
FRI 3 – THURS 9 JUL & FRI 17 – THURS 23 JUL
DIR: ASIF KAPADIA • UK • 2015 • 2 HRS 3 MINS
The 6.40pm screening on Tues 7 July will be an Access screening with audio description and on-screen captioning.
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Despite just two albums to her name, Amy Winehouse is one of the biggest music icons in British history. Director Asif Kapadia’s (Senna) film reveals the extraordinary life behind the sensational headlines by examining the story of a prodigiously talented young woman whose life ended far too young. With this film the world will fall in love with the real Amy Winehouse and her incredible music all over again.
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RESULTS
OUEEN AND COUNTRY
DIR: ANDREW BUJALSKI • USA • 2015 • 1 HR 45 MINS
DIR: JOHN BOORMAN • IRELAND/ FRANCE/ROMANIA • 2014 • 1 HR 55 MINS
FRI 29 MAY – THURS 4 JUN
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FRI 12 – THURS 18 JUN
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A well-toned comedy from writer/director Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess).
The hilarious and bittersweet follow-up to John Boorman’s 1987 film, Hope and Glory.
Kevin Corrigan plays Danny, a recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable slob who makes a stab at selfimprovement by signing up for a personal trainer at a local gym. There he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders). Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, both professionally and personally.
Queen and Country picks up the story of Bill (Callum Turner) nearly a decade later as he begins basic army training in the early 1950s, during the Korean War. A superb ensemble cast, including David Thewlis and Richard E. Grant, give a wonderfully funny and often moving depiction of a still-recovering postwar England.
LISTEN UP PHILIP
THE GOOB
FRI 5 – THURS 11 JUN
Introduction by Marcus Smith, Associate Tutor, Open University, on Mon 15 June, 6.20pm.
FRI 29 MAY – THURS 4 JUN
DIR: ALEX ROSS PERRY • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 49 MINS
DIR: GUY MYHILL • UK • 2014 • 1 HR 25 MINS
A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, Listen Up Philip is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit.
Rural Norfolk is the atmospheric backdrop to this accomplished debut from writer/director Guy Myhill.
Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. When Philip’s idol Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce) offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favourite subject - himself.
Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping his Mother run the transport café and harvest the surrounding pumpkin fields. When his Mother shacks up with a stock-car race driver and ladies’ man, Goob becomes an unwelcome side thought. However Goob’s world turns when exotic pumpkin picker Eva arrives. Fueled by her flirtatious comments, Goob dreams of better things.
06/07
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A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
TIMBUKTU
FRI 29 MAY – THURS 4 JUN DIR: ANA LILY AMIRPOUR • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 41 MINS • SUBTITLED
In the fictitious Iranian ghost town of Bad City, a lonely, hijab-wearing female vampire stalks the streets by night in search of prey. Handsome Arash would leave town if it wasn’t for his dying junkie father and the debt he owes. When Arash meets this enigmatic lost soul, it is the beginning of a beautiful love story. Ana Lily Amirpour’s stunning debut brings a fatalistic, feminist perspective to this sly, stylish exercise in genre subversion.
LA FRENCH
THE CONNECTION FRI 5 – THURS 11 JUN
FRI 5 – THURS 11 JUN DIR: ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO • FRANCE/MAURITANIA • 2014 • 1 HR 36 MINS • SUBTITLED
Following the recent jihadist takeover of northern Mali, a proud cattle herder comes into fateful conflict with the fundamentalist rulers of the provincial capital, in this luminous, lyrical and poetic drama from the great African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako. Winner of two awards at the Cannes Film Festival 2014, Timbuktu was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2014 Academy Awards.
PLEMYA
THE TRIBE FRI 29 MAY – MON 1 JUN
DIR: CÉDRIC JIMENEZ • FRANCE/ BELGIUM • 2014 • 2 HRS 15 MINS • SUBTITLED
DIR: MYROSLAV SLABOSHPYTSKIY • UKRAINE/NETHERLANDS • 2014 • 2 HRS 12 MIN
Director Cédric Jimenez hurls us back to the 1970s for a bold European twist on William Friedkin’s action classic The French Connection.
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s audacious debut is not only a compelling, confrontational drama, it’s also an innovative rethinking of cinema’s language of sight and sound.
Academy Award-winning actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist, The Wolf of Wall Street) plays against type in this high-octane crime epic chronicling a violent six-year campaign to bring down the kingpin of a major narcotics ring.
Part of Conversations About Cinema: Impact of Conflict (see page 18). conversationsaboutcinema.co.uk
Featuring a superb cast of young deaf performers, The Tribe is set in a boarding school, where new arrival Sergey is drawn into an institutional system of organised crime, involving robbery and prostitution. But he crosses a dangerous line when he falls for Anna, one of the girls to whom he’s assigned as pimp.
Please note: This film is in Ukrainian sign language and does not include subtitles.
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LONDON ROAD
FRI 12 – THURS 18 JUN DIR: CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW • GERMANY • 2013 • 1 HR 42 MINS • SUBTITLED
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Nelly and her young son Alexej escape from East Germany across the Berlin wall border to the West, but starting a new life is difficult as the Allied Secret Service question her links with Alexej’s late father, a suspected spy. This ‘70s-set drama captures the paranoid tension of the time, and the determination of a mother to make a better life for her son.
TUES 9 JUN (PREVIEW) & SAT 20 – THURS 25 JUN DIR: RUFUS NORRIS • UK • 2015 • 1 HR 32 MINS
The residents of London Road in Ipswich found themselves in the national headlines when, in 2006, five women were found murdered. Theatre director Rufus Norris adapted this true story into a critically praised and award-winning musical in 2011, with the lyrics taken from recorded interviews and contemporary television news coverage. The film version stars Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Kate Fleetwood and Anita Dobson.
Live satellite Q&A preview screening with key cast and crew on Tues 9 Jun, 6.45pm. Tickets £10.
GOOD KILL
LES COMBATTANTS
DIR: ANDREW NICCOL • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 42 MINS
DIR: THOMAS CAILLEY • FRANCE • 2014 • 1 HR 38 MINS • SUBTITLED
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game – only with real lives at stake.
An acerbic take on coming of age romance, French style.
WED 10 – THURS 11 JUN
After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan’s nerves – and his relationship with his wife (Mad Men’s January Jones) – begin to unravel.
FRI 19 – THURS 25 JUN
In the sun drenched summertime of southern France, Arnaud is preparing for work as a woodcutter at his family business. It’s all set to be a pretty easy ride until he comes across the statuesque Madeleine, a love interest like no other. Featuring some excellent verbal sparring between the young lovers, this expertly written gem is part screwball, part rom-com and wholly enjoyable.
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MAY
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M EVENT
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Results The Goob The Tribe A Girl Walks Home…
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.35pm 8.45pm
Sat 30
The Golden Horse The Monday Club Results The Goob The Tribe A Girl Walks Home…
4.00pm 5.00pm 6.30pm 6.40pm 8.35pm 8.45pm
F for Fake + intro Bikes vs Cars Results The Goob The Tribe A Girl Walks Home…
4.00pm 4.10pm 6.10pm 6.20pm 8.15pm 8.25pm
Sun 31
JUNE
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Mon 15
Queen and Country + intro West The Misfits The Look of Silence
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.40pm 8.45pm
Tues 16 – Wed 17
Queen and Country West The Look of Silence The Misfits
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.40pm 8.45pm
Thurs 18
Queen and Country Saoirse? West The Look of Silence
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 8.45pm
Fri 19
CACity Workshop Mr. Holmes Somewhere to Disappear + Q&A Les Combattants
3.00pm 6.20pm/8.35pm
Sat 20
Mr. Holmes London Road Les Combattants
6.20pm/8.35pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Sun 21
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Citizen Kane Mr. Holmes London Road Les Combattants
3.00pm 3.20pm 5.50pm/8.10pm 6.00pm 8.00pm
Mon 22 – Thurs 25
Mr. Holmes Les Combattants London Road
6.20pm/8.35pm 6.30pm 8.45pm
Fri 26
Mr. Holmes Slow West
6.30pm/8.45pm 6.40pm/8.35pm
DATE
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Results The Goob The Tribe A Girl Walks Home…
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.35pm 8.45pm
Tues 2 – Thurs 4
Only Angels Have Wings A Girl Walks Home… Results The Goob
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Fri 5
The Connection Listen Up Philip Timbuktu Pietà + intro
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.05pm
Sat 27
Sat 6
Listen Up Philip Timbuktu The Connection Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
4.00pm/6.30pm 4.15pm/8.50pm 6.20pm
Mr. Holmes Slow West The Terminator
4.15pm/6.30pm/8.45pm 4.45pm/6.40pm 8.35pm
Sun 28
Mr. Holmes Slow West
3.35pm/5.50pm/8.05pm 4.05pm/6.00pm/7.55pm
9.05pm
Mon 29
Listen Up Philip The Magnificent Ambersons The Connection Timbuktu Han Gong-ju
3.30pm/6.00pm
Project Monday: Rosewater 6.30pm 6.40pm/8.35pm Slow West 8.45pm Mr. Holmes
Tues 30
Mr. Holmes Slow West
Sun 7
3.45pm 5.50pm 8.20pm 8.35pm
Project Monday: Blade Runner Timbuktu The Connection Listen Up Philip
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.40pm 8.50pm
Tues 9
Timbuktu London Road + Q&A The Connection Listen Up Philip
6.30pm 6.45pm 8.40pm 9.20pm
Wed 10 – Thurs 11
Good Kill Timbuktu The Connection Listen Up Philip
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.40pm 8.50pm
Queen and Country The Supreme Price West The Look of Silence
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 8.45pm
The Misfits Queen and Country The Revolution Will Not Be Televised + Q&A The Look of Silence West
3.30pm 3.50pm/6.20pm
Queen and Country The Misfits The Look of Silence + Q&A West
3.20pm/9.15pm 5.45pm 6.00pm 8.30pm
Mon 8
Fri 12
Sat 13
Sun 14
6.30pm 8.45pm 9.00pm
6.30pm/8.45pm 6.40pm/8.35pm
DATE
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Wed 1 – Thurs 2
Mr. Holmes Slow West
6.20pm/8.35pm 6.30pm/8.25pm
Fri 3
Amy Magician: Orson Welles Slow West
6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.40pm
Sat 4
Song of the Sea Amy Magician: Orson Welles Slow West
4.00pm 4.10pm/6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.40pm
Sun 5
Amy Magician: Orson Welles Slow West
6.00pm/8.30pm 6.10pm 8.10pm
Mon 6
Amy Magician: Orson Welles Slow West
6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.40pm
Tues 7
Amy Slow West (Access screening) Magician: Orson Welles
6.30pm/9.00pm
Amy Slow West Magician: Orson Welles
6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.40pm
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Rosewater Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) makes his directorial debut with this timely political drama starring Gael García Bernal.
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OFT’s pick of restored and re-released classics, back on the big screen where they belong.
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
THE TERMINATOR
DIR: HOWARD HAWKS • USA • 1939 • 2 HRS 1 MIN
DIR: JAMES CAMERON • UK/USA • 1984 • 1 HR 47 MINS
Reissued for the first time in the UK since its original release in 1939, Howard Hawks’ high-flying aviation adventure is one of his finest films, lofted by an all-star cast that includes Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth in her first major role.
See the original and best outing for Arnie’s timetravelling assassin ahead of his return in Terminator Genisys (to give him his due, he has always been very clear about the fact that he would, indeed, be back).
TUES 2 – THURS 4 JUN
Impeccably scripted and impressively executed, Only Angels Have Wings is a finely tuned Hollywood machine, ready to soar once again thanks to this new restoration.
THE MISFITS SAT 13 – WED 17 JUN
SAT 27 JUN, 8.35PM
Sent from the future, from a world controlled by machines, the Terminator is a cyborg (part man-part machine) with a mission to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman destined to give birth to a future human rebel leader, John Connor. But you already knew that.
SPECIAL SCREENING
THE MONDAY CLUB SAT 30 MAY, 5.00PM
DIR: JOHN HUSTON • USA • 1961 • 2 HRS 6 MINS
DIR: BRIAN MULHOLLAND • UK • 2015 • 1 HR 5 MINS
The story of a dying American tradition and the lost souls struggling to keep it alive, The Misfits is a haunted piece of Hollywood heritage, troubled on and off screen by the ghosts of eras gone by.
‘The Monday Club’ was a place to go for a few drinks and great craic.
Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable gave their final performances in this troubled production (Montgomery Clift makes up the trio of leads), furthering the melancholy mystique of John Huston’s off-beat drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages.
In a Belfast pub, where the ‘magnificent seven’ met up every Monday after work. They were ‘Island men’ working in the docks. Their friendship over the years saw them share love, loss and family connections. Danny talks about his old friends and times they shared as a series of stories unravel. Monologues, verse and song combine in a film written and directed by Brian Mulholland. Tickets £4.
14/15
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SPECIAL EVENTS
ORSON WELLES: 100 YEARS
MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND WORK OF ORSON WELLES
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
FRI 3 – THURS 9 JUL DIR: CHUCK WORKMAN • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 33 MINS
SUN 7 JUN, 3.45PM CERT TBC
QFT celebrates Orson Welles’ centenary with a look back at his greatest work alongside a new documentary, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles.
An illuminating, entertaining and ultimately moving new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman.
Coming soon: Touch of Evil and The Third Man.
It tells the fascinating story of Welles’ life and career through copious interviews with the great man himself over half a century; through clips from works both familiar and seldom seen; and through testimonies from filmmakers, critics, friends and family members including Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeanne Moreau, Charlton Heston, Simon Callow and Richard Linklater, and Welles’ collaborator and companion Oja Kodar.
F FOR FAKE SUN 31 MAY, 4PM
DIR: ORSON WELLES • USA • 1942 • 1 HR 28 MINS
Among the most famous of broken films, Orson Welles’ masterful follow-up to Citizen Kane was taken out of his control and re-edited by the studio. Adapted from the 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington, Welles’ second film is an elegy for the passing way of life of an upper-class family living in a small mid-western town in the early 20th century. 35mm screening.
CITIZEN KANE SUN 21 JUN, 3.20PM
DIR: ORSON WELLES • FRANCE/IRAN/WEST GERMANY • 1975 • 1 HR 28 MINS
DIR: ORSON WELLES • USA • 1941 • 1 HR 59 MINS
Having begun his filmmaking career with the ground-breaking Citizen Kane, Orson Welles conjured up, in the last decade of his life, another hugely innovative masterpiece.
Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.
The term ‘documentary’ doesn’t do justice to this marvellously erudite and mischievously witty mix of archive footage, home-movie, magic tricks, rumination, fiction and… well, yes, documentary.
Charting the rise of Charles Foster Kane (played by Welles himself) – who decides to start a newspaper with his inherited fortune – Welles’ film is a classic story of the corrupting effects of power. 35mm screening.
Introduction by Robert J.E. Simpson, film historian.
SPECIAL EVENTS
18/19
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CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CINEMA:
IMPACT OF CONFLICT
The conclusion of our strand of film screenings, events and conversations exploring the repercussions of conflict and the multiple ways these have been represented in and through film. Our final programme includes Joshua Oppenheimer’s much-anticipated follow-up to The Act of Killing; an exploration of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria; a film by two Irish filmmakers about the coup that failed to topple Hugo Chávez; and a masterpiece ofIrish documentary cinema from George Morrison. Presented as part of Conversations About Cinema: Impact of Conflict, a BFI FAN initiative led by Watershed in partnership with QFT, Chapter Arts and supported by the BFI’s Programme Development Funds from the National Lottery.
DOCUMENTARY
THE LOOK OF SILENCE FRI 12 – THURS 18 JUN
DOCUMENTARY
THE SUPREME PRICE FRI 12 JUN, 6.30PM
DIR: JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER • DENMARK/FINLAND/ INDONESIA/NORWAY/UK • 2014 • 1 HR 43 MINS • SUBTITLED
DIR: JOANNA LIPPER • USA/NIGERIA • 2014 • 1 HR 15 MINS • SUBTITLED
A follow-up and companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling documentary, The Act of Killing.
The Supreme Price traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father’s victory in Nigeria’s Presidential Election and her mother’s assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria’s most marginalised population: women.
Through Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother’s murder – something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power. Live satellite Q&A with Joshua Oppenheimer, hosted by Louis Theroux, on Sun 14 Jun, 6pm. Tickets £8.
DOCUMENTARY
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED SAT 13 JUN, 6.30PM DIR: KIM BARTLEY & DONNACHA O’BRIAIN • IRELAND/ NETHERLANDS/USA/GERMANY/FINLAND/UK • 2003 • 1 HR 14 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
In April 2002, the democratically elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, faces a coup d’état by an American-backed opposition party. The two-day coup fails to topple Chávez, but the tumultuous event proves to be great dramatic material for two Irish filmmakers who happen to be making a documentary about Chávez as the coup erupts Followed by panel discussion with author and film academic, Dr. Rod Stoneman.
DOCUMENTARY
SAOIRSE?
THURS 18 JUN, 6.30PM DIR: GEORGE MORRISON • IRELAND • 1961 • 1 HR 32 MINS • SUBTITLED
Saoirse? chronicles the period of Irish history between 1919-1922, covering the war of independence against the British, and the civil war that followed. From its original release in 1961 the film has been hailed a masterpiece of Irish cinema. Morrison replicates the techniques espoused by Mise Éire, though this time his editing together of contemporary photographs and newspaper material is embellished by the rapid expansion of newsreel photography during the second decade of the twentieth century.
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20/21
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SPECIAL EVENTS
CINESEEKERS FILM CLUB The CineSeekers Film Club is a monthly film event for young people. Based in QFT, the club’s ethos is to promote and celebrate a diverse and varied range of international children’s films. By providing our young audience with a regular outlet for world cinema, the aim is to develop and nurture a broader appreciation, understanding and love of film; as well as celebrating the stories, peoples and cultures from around the globe. Tickets £4.
NI PREVIEW
THE GOLDEN HORSE SAT 30 MAY, 4PM DIR: REINIS KALNAELLIS • LATVIA/LITHUANIA • 2015 • 1 HR 15 MINS • ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION • AGE: 8+
An ancient Latvian folk tale is the basis for this colourful animated feature in the tradition of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. A vengeful sorceress casts a kingdom’s princess into a deep sleep at the top of an icy mountain, where she awaits release from the spell that will destroy the land. Of all the men vying for the honour, the shy outcast son of a family of thugs is the most unlikely.
NI PREVIEW
SONG OF THE SEA SAT 4 JUL, 4PM DIR: TOMM MOORE • IRELAND/DENMARK/BELGIUM/ LUXEMBOURG/FRANCE • 2014 • 1 HR 33 MINS
Irish animator Tomm Moore follows his celebrated feature debut, The Secret of Kells, with another ravishing – and Oscar-nominated – fantasy based on Irish folklore. Song of the Sea tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child – who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea.
BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL
The Belfast Photo Festival takes place in venues throughout Belfast from 4-30 June. Based on the theme of ‘Convergence’, the festival has been curated with a focus on photography’s convergence with other art forms. Find out more at belfastphotofestival.com.
DOCUMENTARY
SOMEWHERE TO DISAPPEAR + Q&A WITH ALEC SOTH FRI 19 JUN, 6.30PM DIR: LAURE FLAMMARION & ARNAUD UYTTENHOVE • FRANCE • 2010 • 57 MINS
The Festival is delighted to welcome Alec Soth to the 2015 edition. Somewhere to Disappear follows Soth on a journey of photographic discovery around the United States during his project, Broken Manual. We follow him on a search for people who live on the margins of society and find peace as modern day hermits outside the familiar cultural norms.
DOCUMENTARY
GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS SUN 21 JUN, 3PM DIR: BEN SHAPIRO • USA • 2012 • 1 HR 18 MINS
In this documentary, filmmaker Ben Shapiro captures Gregory Crewdson while working on his Beneath the Roses series of photographs from 2002 to 2008. The cinematic photographer uses actors, large-scale sets and locations to present and preserve single still images in much the same way as a film crew shooting a scene.
SPECIAL EVENTS
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SPECIAL EVENTS
DOCUMENTARY
BIKES VS CARS SUN 31 MAY 4.10PM
DIR: FREDRIK GERTTEN • SWEDEN • 2015 • 1 HR 31 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
We’ve fixed the metaphorical flat tyre and rescheduled this much-anticipated film, originally due to be screened as part of the UK Green Film Festival earlier in May. From bike activists in Sao Paulo and Los Angeles, fighting for safe bike lanes, to Copenhagen, where 40% commute by bike daily, Bikes vs Cars looks at both the struggle for bicyclists in a society dominated by cars, and the revolutionary changes that could take place if more cities moved away from car-centric models.
CACITY PRESENTS
VACANT/OCCUPIED: AN URBAN FILMMAKING WORKSHOP IN BELFAST Workshop: 8 – 12 JUN, PLACE 9 Lower Garfield Street, Belfast Screening - FRI 12 JUN, 3PM - QFT
This is a one week filmmaking workshop open to all who are interested in the relationship between cinema and architecture in the city. No filmmaking experience is expected. The target is to make a short film within the boundaries of Belfast. Visit placeni.org/events.html#CACity for more information. Tutors: Dr. Gul Kacmaz Erk, Architect, Paddy Cahill, Filmmaker. Book online at eventbrite.co.uk (search for CACity). www.CACity.org
STAGE OF MIND On the occasion of JeeYoung Lee’s exhibition Stage of Mind at the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s (4 June – 26 July), a series of films has been selected to give you a flavour of contemporary South Korean cinema. These films present an unsettling mix of stylish visuals, surreal fantasy, and shocking violence, in which the female characters are portrayed as emblems of salvation, revenge, or social injustice. The exhibition and films have been curated by Elisa Nocente.
PIETÀ FRI 5 JUN, 9.05PM
HAN GONG-JU SUN 7 JUN, 8.35PM
DIR: KIM KI-DUK • SOUTH KOREA • 2012 • 1 HR 44 MINS • SUBTITLED
DIR: LEE SU-JIN • SOUTH KOREA • 2013 • 1 HR 52 MINS • SUBTITLED
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice Film Festival, Pietà portrays the troubling relationship between a hoodlum and a mysterious middle-aged woman who claims to be his long-lost mother, mixing Christian symbolism and gory content. Introduction by Laura Shearer, film blogger.
Singled out for praise by Martin Scorsese, this gripping drama has been a huge hit across Asia. Shy and withdrawn teenager Han Gong-ju is moved to a new school in a new town and just wants to keep herself to herself. But disturbing events in her past have a tight hold on her and are not about to let go.
CHINJEOLHAN GEUMJASSI
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE SAT 6 JUN, 9.05PM DIR: PARK CHAN-WOOK • SOUTH KOREA • 2005 • 1 HR 55 MINS • SUBTITLED
A tale of revenge and redemption by acclaimed director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker), this Kill Bill-esque dark and surreal thriller is the last instalment of The Vengeance Trilogy. 35mm screening.