2014 Cork Film Festival brochure by Cork International Film Festival

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CONTENTS How to Book

Screen Talks

Welcome

Gate, Mallow and Midleton

Juries and Awards

Blood Rising

Gala Events

Live Events

Special Events

Talent Development

Illuminate

Features

Gradam Spriorad na Fhéile

Documentaries

School Screenings

Short Film Programmes

Polish Nights

Timetable

Farmgate Screening

Credits and Index

CorkShort

Irish Premiere

World Premiere

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- Priority and advance box-office access - A ticket to every screening (excluding simultaneous screenings and Farmgate) - An invite to both the Opening and Closing Receptions - One pass for our festival club - Your name listed on our website, Festival Brochure and on the Friends’ board in our box office - A festival t-shirt

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- Priority and advance box-office access - Four tickets to every screening (excluding simultaneous screenings and Farmgate) - Four invitations to both the Opening and Closing Receptions - Passes for our festival club for all your staff - Your company name listed in our Festival Brochure - Your company name listed on the Friends board in our box office. - Four Festival t-shirts - 30 complimentary tickets for a Cork Opera House screening (excluding opening and closing Galas)

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Concessions are available to students, the unwaged, seniors and persons with a disability. Photo ID required / recent social welfare slip. | Tickets may only be purchased or used for admission by those who are 18 years or older. | Tickets are non-refundable and nontransferable. | Please be aware that seats may be sold on unless occupied ten minutes before screening time. | While information in the brochure is correct at time of going to press, there may be programme changes due to circumstances beyond our control.

WELCOME From Festival de Cannes and Berlinale winners, via the rediscovery of Kate Price (silent era star, b. Cork c1874), through Disney’s thrilling looking Frozen Sing-Along, to the soothsaying digital Emerge conference ... this year’s Festival is packed with more treasure than Aladdin’s Cave (and of course - vale Robin Williams - we’re playing that film). As a proud Cork resident, but native South Australian, I am delighted and honoured to be opening this year’s Festival with Charlie’s Country, the latest collaboration of Adelaide based director Rolf de Heer, and David Gulpilil, one of Australia’s most beloved actors, whose performance won him Best Actor in Cannes. The film is the Australian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. And what an honour to be able to close with simply one of the greatest movies of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film about as old as me, but looking and sounding fresher brighter and more ravishing than I have ever seen or will see, thanks to the BFI’s glorious 4k digital print. One of the grandest and most profound movie going experiences ever on one of the biggest screens in Ireland it will be a cinema event talked about for years to come. Hear, Hear! to Denis’ thanking of our sponsors and supporters, old and new. My thanks to Denis and his colleagues on the Festival Board, for their support these last two years. And my deepest gratitude to my hard working and enthusiastic team, who have delivered this festival to you, dear movie lover, all of them indefatigably and calmly led by Dawn Mac Allister. James Mullighan Creative Director

Is cúis mór áthas dom an deis seo a bheith agan fáilte croíúil a chur romhaibh go léir anso le haghaidh an Cork Film Festival 2014. The Cork Film Festival is firmly fixed on the calendar of major festivals which the City Council is proud to support. We welcome to Cork filmmakers from as far afield as Ukraine to present their feature films in competition for the new Gradam Spiorad na Féile (Spirit of the Festival Award) that will deliver bold ideas, well told. Of special importance is the new Illuminate series, highlighting and opening discourse on mental health issues that society is reaching a new understanding of through endeavours like these. Our thanks to the HSE and Arts and Minds for assisting in its creation. This year the Film Festival has a wonderful Talent Development programme, and I am delighted that the it has forged a new partnership with CIT, UCC and St. John’s College enabling their students to take part in and play a role in Talent Development happenings in the Festival. Thanks to Screen Training Ireland and the Cork County Council for funding support here. The Festival team have worked hard for this programme to come together. Many volunteers, patrons and sponsors also play vital roles without which the festival could not happen. I thank all for their dedication and commitment throughout the year. Finally, I welcome you all, the faithful audience for whom this festival is ultimately for. Thank you for coming to Cork, for seeing and talking about cinema and keeping film alive. Gúim gach rath oraibh leis an chlár seo agaibh. Cllr. Mary Shields, Ardmhéara Chorcaí, Lord Mayor of Cork. 3

Welcome to the 2014 Cork Film Festival. This year’s programme is packed with stimulating, entertaining and engaging cinematic delights from Ireland and around the world. I and my colleagues on the Festival Board are pleased to report that the Festival deepens several existing partnerships this year, welcomes back some old friends, and is forging new and innovative ones, as it gazes towards its 60th Anniversary in 2015. The Festival could not present its vast and diverse programme without the benevolence and support of the Arts Council Ireland, the Arts Office of the Cork City Council, Fáilte Ireland, Culture Ireland, the Irish Examiner and RTÉ Supporting the Arts. I am delighted to welcome back the Irish Film Board and Irish Film Institute, and offer sincere thanks to the Gate Cinemas for their generous venue partnership. We are appreciating the growth of partnerships with UCC and St John's, and bid a cheery fáilte! to Today FM, the Port of Cork and CIT. As always the various embassies as imporant partners - special thanks to the Australian Embassy for their support in presenting our Opening Night Gala: Charlie’s Country. Thanks to Screen Training Ireland for sponsoring the Incubate Talent Development event, and the Cork County Council for its support of Emerge. Thank you to our core staff who are led by Creative Director James Mullighan, seasonal staff and to my fellow colleagues on the festival board. My gratitude extends to you, the festival-goer, for your enthusiasm and support which drives us as we head into our 59th year of the Cork Film Festival. Enjoy! Denis McSweeney Chairman of the Board

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JURIES

Festival Award Features Jury (CHAIR) Grainne Humphreys has worked in film programming for over twenty years, beginning her career working with young audiences at the Junior Dublin Film Festival in 1994. In 1995, she joined the Irish Film Institute as Education Officer and expanded her role to include special seasons. She was made Assistant Director in 2001 and took over both the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival and the Dublin French Film Festival from 2002 to 2007. Among other projects, she co-edited Ireland into Film, a series of publications on a number of key Irish films. She is currently Festival Director of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Conor Horgan trained as a photographer before moving into writing and directing film. His first feature film One Hundred Mornings was released throughout Ireland and garnered acclaim and awards around the world, including The Special Jury Award at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival, an IFTA for Best Cinematography, the Workbook Award in Los Angeles and the Irish Screenwriter’s Guild award for Best Feature Script. Conor’s first short film The Last Time starred Linda Bassett (East is East/ The Hours) was the recipient of seven awards including the UIP Director Award and Best Irish Short at The Cork Film Festival. Martin Rath grew up in East Berlin. He fulfilled a variety of vital roles within the minimum-wage economy across Europe (including Cork) whilst failing to accomplish anything worthy of inclusion on a curriculum vitae. Since 2009, Martin has been a student at the directing department of the Polish National Film School in Lodz. His short documentary Written in Ink premiered at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, where it won the Black Pearl Award. It went on to be the most screened Polish short film on the international film festival circuit in 2012 with over 100 official selections worldwide. His short film Arena premiered at the 58th Cork Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix International. Selecting: Gradam Spiorad na Féile (Spirit of the Festival Award)

International Shorts Jury (CHAIR) John Kelleher began his career as a television producer and director at RTÉ before becoming Controller of Programmes, RTÉ 1 Television. In 1985, he established Fastnet Films, Ireland’s leading independent film and TV company. He has produced eight cinema films, including Eat The Peach, which he co-wrote, and six television drama series, including Strumpet City. Appointed Film Censor in 2003, he was responsible for significantly modernising what is now known as the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO). In 2011, he established John Kelleher Media, an independent film and TV company, and produced its cinema feature The Guarantee, directed by Ian Power, which is currently on nationwide release. Fanny Corcelle is responsible for the programming at Silhouette Festival.Silhouette is a free short film festival which takes place in a park in Paris. Every night starts with a concert, and then when the sun has set, the screenings can begin: an eclectic selection of about a hundred shorts (fiction, documentaries, music videos or experimental films), chosen from more than 3500 films. Fanny Corcelle is also working on a documentary project as a director, and is part of a selection committee of short film scenarios for the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC) which supports the promotion and distribution of French cinema.

Selecting: Grand Prix International Award, Cork Film Festival Nomination for the 2015 European Film Academy Award

Irish Shorts Jury (CHAIR) Julie Kelleher is the Artistic Director of The Everyman. Prior to this she worked as an actor, singer and freelance theatre producer. A graduate of UCC, she holds a BA in Drama & Theatre Studies and English, and an MA in Drama & Theatre Studies. Julie is a member of the steering committee for the Theatre Development Centre at Triskel. She has been a member of the BrokenCrow Creative Ensemble since 2011. In 2012, she made her directorial debut for BrokenCrow with Ronan FitzGibbon’s Mantle. Ana David is co-director and programmer at Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival, the oldest film festival in Lisbon, Portugal. She has a degree in Communication Sciences and works in the production, sponsorship acquisition and communication fields of the festival. In early 2014, she moved to Paris where she has been collaborating with Festival Scope, the benchmark B2B online platform which streams films selected by eighty of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. Niall McKay is an Emmy award-winning independent producer, director and executive director of Irish Film NY (IFNY). He has produced documentaries for PBS and RTÉ commercials for Lego, educational soap operas for Canal Cl@se (Venezuelan TV) and interactive augmented reality games featuring Bill Nye (The Science Guy) for Chabot Space and Science Museum. Niall produced Irvine Welsh’s first short film Nuts. As a former journalist, McKay’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Irish Times, Wired Magazine and The Economist. His radio work has aired on NPR, BBC World Service and RTÉ and he also reported on air for PBS’ Frontline World on the Northern Ireland peace process. He is the founder of Irish Film New York and the founder of the San Francisco Irish Film Festival and co-founder of the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival. Selecting: Grand Prix Irish, presented by RTÉ, CorkShorts Award, presented by the Cork County Council

Cork Film Festival Audience Award and Cork Film Festival Youth Jury Award will also be presented at the Awards Ceremony, Sunday 16.

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Frank Berry is a Dublin-born director whose work began with ten years of community filmmaking. This work lead to his critically acclaimed feature documentary Ballymun Lullaby (2011), winner of the DGA Directors Finders Award, which received a cinema release in Ireland and continues to screen at film festivals around the world. His next film I Used to Live Here (2014), a drama that deals with suicide clusters among teenagers, won the Best First Feature Audience Award at the Galway Film Fleadh.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser. As played by David Gulpilil, Charlie is a gentle soul who is misunderstood by an often indifferent and paternalistic white society. It’s an inspired bit of casting and collaboration – he wrote the screenplay with de Heer – as Gulpilil marries the weight of personal experience with the audiences image of him. Seeing Gulpilil now we can’t help but be reminded of the proud youth who emerged from the Australian outback in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout and we keenly feel that history weighing down on the still proud but dishevelled and marginalised Charlie. After The Tracker (the ‘ancient history’ story) and Ten Canoes (CFF 2006, the ‘recent history’ story), this is Gulpilil’s third time (the ‘contemporary’ story) working with de Heer and his performance earned him the Best Actor Award at this year’s Cannes festival. But it’s also a perceptive and wryly observed portrait of a community and way of life under threat, full of ironic humour. The film is the Australian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. CAST DAVID GULPILIL, PETER DJIGIRR SCREENPLAY ROLF DE HEER, DAVID GULPILIL PRODUCERS ROLF DE HEER, PETER DJIGIRR

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Biophilia Live is a concert film by Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio) that captures the human element of Bjรถrk's multidisciplinary multimedia project: Biophilia. Recorded live at Bjรถrk's show at London's Alexandra Palace in 2013, the film features Bjรถrk and her band performing every song from the Biophilia album and more. Using a broad variety of instruments - digital, traditional and some completely unclassifiable. The film has already been hailed as "a captivating record of an artist in full command of her idiosyncratic powers" (Variety) and "an imaginative stand-alone artwork" (Hollywood Reporter) and is a vital piece of the grand mosaic that is Biophilia. PRODUCER JACQUI EDENBROW

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Standby is about what happens when your 20’s don't go how you planned, and is about falling in love, with a girl and a city again. Twenty-something Alan is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his mother as a part-time tourist advisor at Dublin Airport. He spends his time pointing out where the ATM machine is located, listening to endless complaints about how overpriced Dublin is and occasionally, booking accommodation for tourists that have been too lazy to book it themselves. It’s at work that he comes face to face with first love Alice, stuck on standby for a flight home to New York. Their summer romance ended eight years previously with Alan promising to return to the US one day. He never did, and they haven’t spoken since. Seizing his chance, Alan convinces a reluctant Alice to stay one more night in Dublin. Over the course of an unforgettable evening, they may just realise that they are more compatible than ever. But time is running out on this brief encounter. When does an unwanted second chance, become the one you’ve always been looking for? PRODUCER JOHN WLLACE CAST JESSICA PARÉ (MAD MEN), BRIAN GLEESON (THE STAG)

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CLOSING GALA: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY SUN 16 | 2030 | CORK OPERA HOUSE STANLEY KUBRICK | UK | 1968 | 141MINS

...a stand-alone monument, a great visionary leap, unsurpassed in its vision of man and the universe... - Roger Ebert Why close a Festival with a movie that is 46 years old? You haven’t seen it if you have to ask that - this is, quite simply, one of the greatest cinematic miracles ever created, Kubrick’s masterpiece. The use of Strauss (both R. , and J, jr.), Ligeti and Khachaturian make this one of the greatest classical concerts you’ll ever go to but, really, in a way, this is a silent film: a series of visually perfect tableaux that seek to drive narrative, or develop character. Rather, these ‘movements’ are simple and essential: shown to us for just the length of time we need to absorb and ingest. And then a razor sharp cut to the next. Upon each other they build - ravishing to both eye and ear - and powerfully cumulative in psychological and philosophical effect. One feels the meaning and purpose of being human is being explored. This is a presentation of a brand new magnificent digital transfer, released by the British Film Institute for its Science Fiction Blockbuster project. That will make for splendid viewing alright but, combined with the magnificent setting of the Cork Opera House - its enormous screen, and thudding sound system - will make this one of the most memorable Irish nights in the cinema in living memory. WRITERS ARTHUR C CLARKE, STANLEY KUBRICK CAST KEIR DULLEA, GARY LOCKWOOD, WILLIAM SYLVESTER, LEONARD ROSSITER

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FROZEN SING-ALONG SPECIAL EVENTS

SAT 8 | 1030 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

A year after the world wide phenomenon began, the highest grossing animated film of all time, FROZEN, is back, this time in a joyously fun Sing-Along version. Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio behind ‘Tangled’ and ‘Wreck-It Ralph’, presents ‘Frozen Sing-Along’, a new take on the stunning big-screen comedy adventure, before it re-releases in Irish cinemas on 28 November. Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf (voice of Josh Gad), Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. The film is directed by Chris Buck (“Tarzan’, ‘Surf’s Up’) and Jennifer Lee (screenwriter, ‘Wreck-It Ralph’), who also wrote the screenplay. It is produced by Peter Del Vecho (‘Winnie the Pooh’, ‘The Princess and the Frog’). Featuring original songs from Kristen Anderson-Lopez (‘In Transit’, ‘Winnie the Pooh’) and Tony winner Robert Lopez (‘The Book of Mormon’, ‘Avenue Q’), and an original score by Christophe Beck (‘The Muppets’ Oscar-winning short ‘Paperman’). Thanks to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Ireland.

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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR SPECIAL EVENTS

SAT 8 | 1630 | GATE

ANIMATION, ADVENTURE, COMEDY | USA | 2014

Super spy teams aren’t born - they’re hatched. The Penguins of Madagascar are back in their very own feature film! Featuring the enterprising Penguins from DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar franchise, this comedy adventure stars Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private in their very own spy thriller. Penguins of Madagascar is released nationally on 5 December 2014. Thanks to 20th Century Fox. DIRECTORS SIMON SMITH AND ERIC DARNELL. CAST TOM MCGRATH, CHRIS MILLER, CHRIS KNIGHTS, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, JOHN MALKOVICH, KEN JEONG, ANNETT MAHENDRU AND PETER STORMARE. WRITERS ERIN DARNELL, TOM MCGRATH, JOHN ABOUD, MICHAEL COLTON AND BRANDON SAWYER

SPECIAL EVENTS

christy moore with declan sinnott live at barrowland glasgow

A film by Christy Moore, Declan Sinnott and Paddy Doherty

Full film screened, with a live introduction by Christy Moore, hosted by Other Voices’ Philip King

Sunday 9 November | 1800 Cork Opera House | €15

AN IRISHMAN ABROAD - LIVE WITH PAT SHORTT SPECIAL EVENTS

SUN 9 | 1600 | CORK OPERA HOUSE | â&#x201A;Ź15 Pat Shortt and Jarlath Regan are two homegrown entertainment phenomena that we are delighted to bring together for a very special one-off live episode of An Irishman Abroad. Just last year, comedian and writer Jarlath Regan began The Irishman Abroad podcast. This unique long-form interview series is now listened to by millions across the world. In each episode, Jarlath is joined by a well known Irish writer, actor, performer, sportsperson or public figure. With it, Jarlath has crafted a wonderful sequence of warm, funny and deftly revealing chats with a who's who of Irish personalities who speak candidly about their lives and journeys outside of the country that raised them. His illustrious and diverse guestlist includes Dylan Moran, Chris O'Dowd, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Deirdre O'Kane, Dara O'Briain and Aidan Gillen. For Cork Film Festival, Jarlath will be in conversation with Pat Shortt - one of Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most beloved comedians and actors. While his work as one half of D'Unbelievables cemented his place in the public hearts, it is his work on stage and screen over the last decade that have proved him to be an enduring, versatile and award winning talent. His most recent theatre role of Johnnypateenmike in the West End production of 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' alongside Sarah Greene and Daniel Radcliffe was a renowned success that subsequently transferred to Broadway in New York. Every single young person reading this should go download this podcast and listen to it every week for the rest of time. - The Guardian Pat also appears in Queen and Country (p49)

DEREK JARMAN RETROSPECTIVE SPECIAL EVENTS

To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of painter, author, poet, queer political activist and, above all, filmmaker, Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994), Cork Film Festival is proud to present a choice selection of his finest cinematic work for a special retrospective. His unique ability to blend music and imagery, exploring both the personal and the political, is still profoundly engaging. Over the last two decades since his passing, Jarman’s films have lost none of their relevance and remain massively influential. Four feature works will be screened – Sebastiane, Jubilee, The Tempest and Caravaggio – which have been digitally restored and remastered by the British Film Institute National Archive for optimum audio and visual presentation.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE WED 12 | 2000 | GATE Stephen Warbeck was awarded the Oscar for Best Original Score in 1999 for his work on Shakespeare In Love. Stephen joins us here for an extended introduction, before a full screening of the movie.

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ILLUMINATE - ABOUT WED 12 - SAT 15 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

ILLUMINATE is a new series of “ideas on film” discursive events, this year with a focus on mental health. The programme will showcase Irish and international films which deal with mental health and the manifold ways mental health impacts upon those living with mental health conditions and the people who love and care for them. This four-part film and discussion series each time starts with film or films, and then breaks out into extended audience interactive discussion sessions, with clinicians, commentators, policy-makers, ethicists and philosophers interviewing and rejoining with artists and filmmakers. As mental health issues become more and more destigmatised and increasingly prevalent in our media and consciousness Illuminate aims to provide a forum for debate, and the sharing of knowledge, information and experience. The mind is an infinitely interesting thing and themes of medicalization; the pathologisation and criminalization of mental health issues; the location of self and the memory, the right to self-determination and issues of capacity will all be explored. Mental health issues at some point in our lives touch all of us; Illuminate invites some of Ireland’s leading artists, filmmakers, clinicians, lawyers, ethicists, psychiatrists and philosophers to ignite a much-needed conversation and to explore how these issues can be expressed through the medium of film.

Tickets for Individual Event: €10 Concession for HSE Staff: €8 Illuminate Pass to all four events: €30 ILLUMINATE is run in partnership with ARTS+MINDS and with the support of the HSE CORK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

For more information and full lineup of speakers see: corkfilmfest.org/programme/illuminate/

Out of Mind, Out of Sight WED | 1800 - 2100

Following four patients of Brockville Mental Health Centre, a forensic psychiatric hospital for people who have committed violent crimes, this documentary powerfully explores their lives, their stories and the issues surrounding the criminalisation of the mentally ill. Speakers will include: John Kastner FOUR-TIME EMMY WINNING DOCUMENTARIAN Prof. Harry Kennedy CLINICAL DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL MENTAL HOSPITAL AND LEC-

TURER IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY Áine Hynes CHAIR OF THE IRISH MENTAL HEALTH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION AND PRACTICING EXPERT IN MENTAL HEALTH LAW

Rocks in my Pockets THURS | 1600 - 1900

A visually beautiful exploration of depression, anxiety and suicide and the legacy left by them upon director Signe Baumane and her family. Speakers will include: Gretta Crowley HSE OPERATIONS MANAGER Dylan Tighe THEATER MAKER & MUSICIAN

Patrick’s Day FRI | 1600 - 1900

When a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them. Speakers will include: Terry McMahon and cast Dr. Pat Bracken PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR AND CLINICAL DIRECTOR OF THE WEST

CORK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Dr. Ivor Browne FORMER CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST OF EASTERN HEALTH BOARD & PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PSYCHIATRY AT UCD

Disappearing Act SAT | 1700 - 2000

Saturday’s programme of shorts will begin by showcasing two shorts made by Cork service users and local mental health organisations. Following this presentation is “Disappearing Act” a carefully curated programme which explores through short film Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia. The programme looks at the effects upon those living with these illnesses and the effects upon those who love and care for them. In discussion after this programme will be artists, filmmakers, experts from the mental health sector and people who live with these issues.

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ILLUMINATE - THE FILMS

Gradam Spiorad na Féile (Spirit of the Festival Award)

The Cork Film Festival celebrates a broad range of cinematic approaches. The festival has long championed, honoured and nurtured filmmakers working in the short form. The Gradam Spiorad na Féile / Spirit of the Festival Award similarly honours those feature filmmakers who push boundaries and take risks, whether it be in fiction, documentary or a hybrid of both, expressed through live action or animation. In essence: bold ideas, well told. The award comes with a cash prize and a bursary for travel to the festival.

Cherry Pie

LORENZ MARZ | SWITZERLAND

Hide and Seek

JOANNA COATES | UK

El Futuro

LUIS LOPEZ CARRASCO | SPAIN

Yximalloo

TADHG O’SULLIVAN AND FEARGAL WARD | IRELAND

Manakamana

STEPHANIE SPRAY AND PACHO VELEZ | USA

The Tribe

MYROSLAV SLABOSHPYTSKIY | UKRAINE

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SPECIAL EVENTS

JACK AND THE CUCKOO CLOCK HEART AGE 5+ Mon 11 | 1100 | Gate

A whimsical and visually opulent animated fairy tale set in an exciting period full of fabulous inventions, unforgettable characters, enchanting music, and fantastic adventures. This is a superbly animated movie about love, tolerance and the acceptance of others. (In English) FRANCE | 2013 | 94MINS

LIFE’S NO PIECE OF CAKE (DAS LEBEN IST NICHTS FÜR FEIGLINGE) AGE 16+ TUES 12 | 1100 | GATE

When teacher Barbette dies in an absurd accident, husband Markus and 15 year old daughter Kim are left to pick up the pieces. While he tries to hide his pain behind a brave face and insists that life will continue as normal, he cannot let go of her memory. Struggling to cope with her own grief, Kim retreats into her Goth-girl persona, eventually running away to Denmark with her boyfriend. GERMANY | 2012 | 98MINS

Please note: contains sex scene

LIFE'S NO PIECE OF CAKE

POPULAIRE AGE 12+ WED 12 | 1100 | GATE

POST PRIMARY SHORTS PROGRAMME Age 12+

Country girl Rose moves to Paris to take on a secretarial job. It doesn’t take long for her boss to see the potential of Rose’s amazing typing skills. Next stop the national speed typing championships. This charming, humorous film evokes all of the glamorous and costumes of the 1950’s.

An eclectic mix of live action and animated short films for post primary school students. This year’s mix includes new and exciting Irish animation, live action from the UK and Italy and an exclusive screening of the wonderfully animated Sintel, from Germany.

TUES 11 | 1130 | GATE

FRANCE | 2012 | 110MINS

PRIMARY SHORTS PROGRAMME Age 7+

PRIVATE PEACEFUL AGE 12+

WED 12 | 1145 | GATE

A compilation of Irish and International shorts, specially chosen for primary school students. This year’s exciting short films includes the awardwinning Monsterbox from France, the struggles and adventures of Big Buck Bunny from Germany, both completely exclusive to the schools programme.

THURS 13 | 1100 | GATE

This faithful adaptation of Michael Murpurgo’s novel, set during WW1, tells the story of two brothers Tommo and Charlie Peaceful, and their teenage love for the same girl. Narrated by Tommo, he reflects on the events of his young life from his position in the trenches.

FURTHER ENQUIRIES AND INFORMATION FROM: katherine@corkfilmfest.org

UK | 2012 | 100MINS

SPECIAL EVENTS

POLISH NIGHTS A new screening series for Cork aimed both at lovers of arthouse movies generally, and at the large Polish diaspora that calls this beautiful city home.

The name Polish Nights pays tribute to Polish Days, a new Polish work screening series at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, WrocĹ&#x201A;aw, at which the Creative Director was a guest this year. The Festival commissioned Martin Rath, German born, Polish resident filmmaker, and the winner of the Grand Prix International Cork Film Festival 2013, to curate a programme, and the results see something for everyone. There are two programmes of shorts, one of recent international award sweepers, the other with four excellent films by the alumni of the New Horizon Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emerging filmmaker incubator the Studio. Two Polish box office records setters round out the programme: the fiction / hip hop biopic You Are God (Jestes Bogiem), and the tense classic thriller The Debt (Dlug).

FEATURES

THE BIRDCAGE SPECIAL EVENTS

MON 10 | 1830 | FARMGATE MARKET CAFÉ TICKETS: €40 (INCLUDES DINNER AND SCREENING)

MIKE NICHOLS | USA | 1996 | 118MINS

The sudden and shocking passing of Robin Williams earlier this year robbed us of one of the world’s finest purveyors of ebuillent physical comedy. Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage is a wonderful adaptation of the 1978 outrageous French farce La Cage Aux Folles and sees Williams at his madcap best, donning gaudy shirts and tufty tash to play the deliriously camp drag nightclub owner Armand Goldman. Armand and his partner Albert are a flamboyant gay couple in the eclectic community of South Beach, Florida, who have raised a straight son. The son announces his engagement to the daughter of a right-wing U.S. senator, and wants to bring his fianceé and her ultra-conservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. So Armand and Albert must pretend to be very straight by attempting to play out the roles of your typical heterosexual ‘husband’ and ‘wife’! Easier said than done. We advise film-goers to dress warmly for this special event.

The Salon - Pat Collins and Philip King in conversation SUN 9 | 1400 | GATE

Filmmaker and broadcaster Philip King is renowned for his work in music and film over the last 20 years as well as his atmospheric Sunday night radio show South Wind Blows. Philip will be discussing sound, music and film with film director Pat Collins (Living in a Coded Land, Tim Robinson: Connemara). It will include selected clips from some of Collins' recent work including his feature film Silence as well as archive recordings from earlier work.

UCC Film Artist in Residence Carmel Winters in conversation with Frank Berry SAT 15 | 1800 | THE BLACK MARIAH

I USED TO LIVE HERE What does it take to get a feature film made? Can you manage it without having funding? If so, how? In this masterclass, likely to inform and fascinate the curious film lover and experienced film maker alike, we will look at a low-to-no budget model of filmmaking and explore how it is possible not just to 'make a film' without money but to make a film that matters. Writer/director Frank Berry's inspiring journey to make his debut feature I Used to Live Here (SAT 15 | 1400 | GATE) raises essential questions about why we make film - and how communities can engage with filmmakers to tell their stories on screen. This free public event is hosted by Carmel Winters, the inaugural UCC Film Artist in Residence. The position of Film Artist in Residence is jointly funded by the Arts Council and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC, and is offered in association with the Cork Film Festival.

SPECIAL EVENTS

SCREEN TALKS

The Cork Film Festival comes to Gate Cinemas, Mallow and Midleton Sunday 16 November

1130 AND 1400 - ALADDIN (1992)

ÂŠ Disney 2014

Robin Williams at his comic best, in the classic Disney animated movie Aladdin, directed by John Musker and Ron Clements.

1830 - STANDBY (2014) The brand new Irish comedy romance, starring Brian Gleeson (the Stag) and Jessica ParĂŠ (Mad Men), directed by Rob and Ronan Burke.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

The mothers of the femicide victims of Juarez, Mexico, have been abandoned by their government. Only 2% of these murder cases have been investigated and many of the mothers have themselves received death threats for simply demanding justice. They have engaged the artist Brian Maguire to bring their stories to the international community. Art has become the last weapon available to them to fight the drug cartels and serial killers. For Brian it is a means of exploring how he can provide a voice for the mothers and a deeper understanding of their personal grief through his artworks. A series of the portraits made by artist Brian Maguire that feature in the film Blood Rising will be on exhibition in Triskel Christchurch on the day of the screening: Brian Maguire will take part in a postscreening discussion.

BARBARA 2010 | BRIAN MAGUIRE

Barbara Araceli Martinez Ramos was 20 years old and five months pregnant when she disappeared on the 26th December 2000, while on her way to work. She lived with her son Armando and her own mother. When Barbara disappeared Armando continued to live with his granny. Upon the granny's death a few years later, Armando went to live with Yvonne, Barbara's sister. On the 7th November 2001 the authorities claimed Barbara's body was found in the infamous ' cotton field 'in Ciudad Juarez. Eventually DNA tests proved the body was not Barbara. There has been no real investigation and no one knows where Barbara Araceli's body is. ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 138 X 100 CMS COURTESY OF KERLIN GALLERY, DUBLIN

LIVE

TIM ROBINSON: CONNEMARA + illustrated audio presentation. SAT 15 | 1415 | TRISKEL

National Sculpture Factory in collaboration with the Cork Film Festival present a special screening of Tim Robinson: Connemara (Pat Collins, 2011, 57mins) which is followed by an ‘illustrated’ audio presentation on the making of the soundscore and soundtrack with Pat Collins (Director) with Susan Stenger (Musician, Composer) and John Brennan (Sound Recordist). Director Pat Collins and cartographer and author Tim Robinson are both artists unique in their respective fields, sharing a profound, lyrical connection to the Irish landscape, its mythical properties, and the innumerable stories it has to tell us. Their joint sensibilities inform Collins’ documentary portrait, inspired by Robinson’s acclaimed trilogy of books exploring the wilds of his beloved Connemara. Illustrated Audio Presentation Pat Collins (Director) with Susan Stenger (Musician, Composer) and John Brennan (Sound Recordist) will present an illustrated discussion about the construction of, and methodologies used, in the design of the specific soundtrack and sound score for this film. This will be interspersed with extracts and examples from Tim Robinson’s writings, clips from the film, as well as recordings and compositions from both John and Sue’s practices. This event should be of keen interest to sound designers, sound recordists, musicians, composers, artists and editors.

LIVE

EAT MY NOISE: INQUYRE SAT 8 - WED 12 (EXCLUDING MON 10) 1900 & 2100 (EACH DAY) UNIT 7A, ALBERT QUAY, CORK CITY â&#x201A;Ź10 / â&#x201A;Ź8

Eat My Noise present their brand new electro-acoustic choral experience Inquyre. This unique project will place choir music at the centre of a live, electronic, interactive, and sculptured event. Singers feed into omni-directional speakers through which the audience walk, interacting with the sound and space. Eat My Noise will challenge your expectations of choral music by creating an explorative space of light and sound; an oral audio visual spectacle showcasing the voice. This playful approach is for audiences of all ages and musical tastes so as to experience a completely different treatment of the human voice. Eat My Noise are audio compositors. Their fresh, new thinking has produced a growing portfolio of multi-platform collaborative works for short film, theatre, dance and music. They have also released two EPs in the last year with Beat Poet Carl Plover (AKA Wasps Vs. Humans) under the collaborative moniker Wasps Vs. Noise. The video for the most recent EP Karaoke Queen won Best Music Video for Dare Media Underground Short Film Festival 2013. Their recent collaborations and sound design include: Enter Juliet with Broken Crow, Person at Risk & Talking Subtext with Clinic Media and Come Away O Human Child with Egomotion and How These Desperate Men Talk with Corcadorca at Kinsale Arts Festival.

WHEN I AM GONE LIVE

THURS 13 | 1900 | UNITARIAN CHURCH, PRINCES STREET FREE EVENT WITH REFRESHMENTS SERVED THROUGHOUT.

1900 - 2030

Sacred Harp Singing Workshop This four-part a cappella music dates from the 16th through to the 20th centuries, and is characterised by haunting harmonies, traditional modes, raucous songs, serene hymns, fast fugues, and high-energy anthems. The notation is written in shapes that correspond to degrees of the scale, making it easy to sight-sing. This tradition is democratic and egalitarian. We glory in the powerful and joyful experience of singing our hearts out together. Experience is not a requirement; this music is for anyone who wants to sing.

2045

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old ALAN LOMAX | USA | 1991 | 58MINS

From Alan Lomax's PBS American Patchwork series, this film shows the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and storytellers who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. With fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell of Toast, North Carolina; blues by Jack Owens and Sam Chatman of Mississippi; stories and songs by Janie Hunter of Johns Island, South Carolina; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman, of Chatteroy, West Virginia; footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, Alabama, with elderly leaders from the Wootten family; and jazz performed by old timers in Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Narrated by Alan Lomax. PRODUCERS MARK DIBB, PENNY FORSTER, ALAN LOMAX & JAIME BARRIOS

With thanks to the Alan Lomax Archive.

THIS EVENT IS SPECIALLY CURATED BY VICKY LANGAN FOR CORK FILM FESTIVAL

Glocke & Aaaa and Plugd Records present

Sir Richard Bishop THURS 13 | 2200 | THE BLACK MARIAH

An intimate evening of transcendental guitar mastery with Sir Richard Bishop, founding-member of the Sun City Girls and cofounder of the Sublime Frequencies label. TICKETS ON SALE FROM PLUGD RECORDS

FESTIVAL CLUB

GLOCKE & AAAA DJs in GULPD til late (FREE EVENT) Vicky and Dave (ex-BLACK SUN) spin avant junk, gospel wildness, weirdo sounds. 33

LIVE

RESONANT FREQUENCIES FRI 14 | 2100 | TRISKEL TICKET PRICE €15

SETI THE FIRST With Visual Artist

BRIAN KELLY

Traces Of An Empire an audio-visual collaboration between Seti The First and Brian Kelly. This performance will explore the impact of colonial imperialism on other cultures, and how they were shaped, plundered and distorted. This unique event will employ both music and live manipulated images to examine how centuries of cultural influence can create layers of shared history and fragmented identities. Instrumental artists Seti The First released their debut record Melting Cavalry in the summer of 2012 to mass critical acclaim. Described as ‘brilliant chamber rock weirdos’, the band is a cello based instrumental project spearheaded by Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh, Irish musicians long associated with experimental music.

SUPPORTED BY ROBERT CURGENVEN

They Tore the Earth and, Like a Scar, it Swallowed Them Robert Curgenven is a composer/sound artist drawing on the physicality of sound - not just in terms of the physical impact on the body but the way in which the auditory can shape our perception of space and the flow of time, from architectural to open space. They Tore the Earth … is a very physical negotiation of territories voided by history, rendered via field recordings gathered over 10 years in over 30 remote locations across Australia alongside new work with pipe organ, guitar feedback, dubplates, turntables and low frequency oscillators. Behind the music—to these ears at any rate—lurk such [disparate] presences as Alvin Lucier, King Tubby, Murray Schafer and Eliane Radigue. - The Wire

FESTIVAL CLUB

Having cut his teeth spinning on pirate radio and running gigs in Cork and Limerick, Shane Linehan is today an established DJ and producer. In 2011 Shane established his own record label Basic Grooves which has gained international support. He has also released records on Local Talk Records and Wetyourself Recordings.

2300 TIL LATE | GULPD CAFE

COLTT BLOG PRESENTS : THE INSIDERS TO COLTT BLOG PRESENTS : THE OUTSIDERS LIVE

SAT 15 | 1500 - 1800 | BLACK MARIAH | ADMISSION FREE

I hope you go to class and not to the movies. Coltt blog was established a year and a half ago as a forum for young people who live outside the boundaries of mainstream culture. Since then it has risen rapidly attracting young writers from all over Ireland and the UK. For this event, they pay tribute to their success and ethos with a film that translates literally as Band of Outsiders (Bande Á Part | FRANCE | 1964 | 97MINS). Directed by the nouvelle-vague pioneer Jean Luc-Godard, and featuring his then wife Anna Karina, Bande á Part is an undoubted masterpiece that has inspired much of Tarantino's work. Various prolific writers from the blog will be present to introduce and discuss the film – it’s not to be missed.

MONOLITH SAT 15 | 2200 - 0200 | BLACK MARIAH | ADMISSION FREE

Local sound artists James Fortune & friends present Monolith - an experiment in sound informing movement, motion manipulating light and imagery, an evening of the unusual and the oblique. Followed by unclassifiable DJ's till 2.

FESTIVAL CLUB 2300 UNTIL LATE GULPD CAFE

Jack Collins and Gilbert Steele run monthly nights Keep on Jumpin in Gulpd cafe and TNT in The Sextant. Two of the best DJ’s in their own bedrooms, Jack and Gilbert are two vinyl enthusiasts who want to make you dance. Joining them on the night will be John Hennessy, one of the founding fathers of Sunday Times. Another vinyl enthusiast, John’s been responsible for some of the best parties the city’s had over the last number of years. 35

GNODOROWSKY LIVE

SAT 15 | 2130 | TRISKEL | €15

We are very proud to present this exclusive live music and visuals event with Gnod and visual artist KHOM. Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain will play directly after Gnodorowsky. To watch Gnod is to be swept away by the power of music that almost defies categorisation or anything resembling convention. This is a melting pot of styles that encompasses space rock, madness, psychedelia, repetition, jazz, rituals and whatever else is at hand…a sonic experience that simultaneously batters and seduces. - THE QUIETUS Europe’s premier purveyors of sonic devilment Gnod will create an imagined soundtrack to arguably the greatest film never to reach the big screen: Jodorowsky’s Dune. This unique event re-imagines the startling imagery, ambition and sheer cinematic psychedelia of the great director’s doomed attempts to bring Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel to life. Working in tandem with visual artist KHOM, Gnodorowsky is a highly unique and multi-layered presentation of musical and visual abandon, a spellbinding calibration of film, music and imagination. Gnod are an Irish/English/Portuguese space noise collective operating out of Islington Mill, Salford. Having formed in 2006, the band are renowned for their allconsuming live performances, collaborations and prolific recording output. THIS GNODOROWSKY EVENT IS SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED BY COLM MCAULIFFE FOR CORK FILM FESTIVAL.

Risotto of parsnip, salsify and sage with beetroot crisps...

Cafe Paradiso Free Pint of Tiger Beer with your cinema stubb NORTH MAIN STREET, CORK

Confounding chemists for 21 years

Dinner Monday to Saturday from 5.30pm 021 4277939

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

EMERGE FRI 14 | 1000 - 1500 | â&#x201A;Ź20/â&#x201A;Ź15 CURTIS AUDITORIUM, CIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Following last year's successful inauguration, the future thinking symposium EMERGE is back to inspire and playfully explore the convergence of art, digital technology and media, this time in partnership with Cork Institute of Technology.

traditional storytelling. A series of talks and panel discussions from filmmakers, technologists, transmedia producers and distributors, EMERGE offers a unique insight into new technologies and fresh ways of crafting stories and reaching audiences.

Part show and part continuing professional development conference, EMERGE is a stimulating session of talks, discussions, installations, performances and networking opportunities featuring radical thinkers, digital pioneers and innovators in moving image.

EMERGE celebrates creativity in film and moving image with a whole day of talks, screenings, demonstrations in innovation, installations and performances by forward thinking filmmakers, technologists, industry experts and audiovisual artists.

The impact of digital is driving the evolution of the film industry and pushing the bounds of creativity. EMERGE explores the convergence of digital innovations and

Programme 1000 1015

1100 1130

Keynote address Story without borders - A session of insight from storytellers unrestricted by the boundaries of different media and platforms. Includes talks and screenings from writers, producers and directors working across fiction and documentary to create narratives that span digital, social and traditional media. Case study: building a sustainable creative business Survey: adventures on the web.

1200

Break

1220

Digital Experiments - The convergence of digital, art and media is enabling a new wave of innovators to push the boundaries of creativity. This session will include a series of inspirational talks, demonstrations and screenings by innovative artists and producers creating art, music, film and interactive work using emerging technologies. What is Transmedia?: Case Study The Future of Features and the digital revolution Meet the innovators: Networking Close

1300 1400 1430 1500

Talent Development at Cork Film Festival is sponsored by 38

LISTEN Stephen Warbeck won an Oscar for this score for Shakespeare in Love. He will be available for a Q&A session after the film. THURS 13 | 1000-1500 | TRISKEL | LISTEN SEMINAR FREE | ENQUIRE AT BOX OFFICE

This seminar delves into the aural side of the filmmaking process, and sees composers and film sound professionals come together to share their knowledge and experience, exploring this often overlooked side of the creative process. THURS 13 | 1430 | CORK SCHOOL OF MUSIC | SOUND DESIGN WORKSHOP €20 UPON APPLICATION BY CV TO dave@corkfilmfestival.org

Sean Taylor and Mikael Fernström of Softday use 'found sound' and field recordings as part of its approach to soundtracking and composition. Workshop components include: Introduction to sound design; sourcing your material: field recording vs synthesis; processing and mixing soundscapes; ambiences and effects; and otherworldly sounds. THURS 13| 1900 | CORK SCHOOL OF MUSIC | COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS FREE | ENQUIRE AT BOX OFFICE

With a piano at hand, Academy Award winning composer Stephen Warbeck will talk us through some of his most well known film scores including Billy Elliot and Charlotte Gray. Details, applications and confirmations: corkfilmfest.org/programme/listen

FUND WED 12 | 1000 - 1300 | RIVER LEE HOTEL | €20

FUND is a new half day short and feature film funding seminar. It shares current best practices with independent filmmakers from across Ireland, to enable them better to understand funding landscapes, both old and new, traditional and DIY. This series of panels and case studies will include representatives from the broadcasting, crowdfunding, product placement and digital agency communities.

10:00 10:15 11:00

Registration Traditional funding and commissioning models Big in Bolivia - crowdfunding, and audience building.

11:30

Coffee and networking.

12:00

What’s outside the box? Innovative fundraising strategies, including product placement, and angel investment, and advance video on demand sales. Here’s one I made earlier - case study. Close.

Programme

12:30 13:00

Full lineup of programme and speakers: corkfilmfest.org/programme/talent-development

Talent Development at Cork Film Festival is sponsored by 39

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

WED 12 | 2000 | GATE | €10/€8 | SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

SAT 15 | 1000 - 1800 | RIVER LEE HOTEL | €40

So you’ve made a short film. Well done. Now what? Incubate has the answers. This unique new whole day conference event teaches filmmakers the business of being an independent filmmaker, and provides invaluable networking opportunities. As well as teaching filmmakers techniques in disseminating and promoting their work, it also familiarises them with industry practicalities and bestpractice methods of collaboration, self-promotion, marketing and distribution.

The journey of INCUBATE - like a good story - is an arc. It starts with the first steps a filmmaker should take when having completed a short film - targeting festivals. And it ends with a look into the crystal ball with experts predicting what’s next in distribution, and where the industry will be in ten years and beyond. And, on the way, it explores good digital practice; poses: Online or not?; asks what programmers and sales agents look for; and offers navigation of the increasingly cluttered realms of video on demand and do it yourself distribution. It even dares to suggest that not all piracy is bad.

Incubate is supported by Screen Training Ireland

Programme 1000 1030 1115 1200 1230 1315

Registration Festivals - How they work, what they look for, whether they are right for you. Sales Agents - What do they *do* anyway, and how to find them. Do you even need one? Networking and Coffee Case Study One - my life in festivals. Distribution and Sales panel

1400

Lunch

1500 1545

Case Study Two - me and my digital self. Marketing and Digital - meet the producer of Marketing and Distribution.

1630

Coffee

1645 1730 1800

Case Study Three - Building a sustainable career Keynote and final questions Close Full details of the day’s activities and speakers: corkfilmfest.org

Talent Development at Cork Film Festival is sponsored by

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

INCUBATE

SUN 16 | 1130 | GATE

A HARD DAY I (KKEUT-KKA-JI-GAN-DA)

A NIGHT AT THE CINEMA IN 1914

KIM SEONG-HUN | SOUTH KOREA | 2014 | 111MINS | SUBTITLED

VARIOUS DIRECTORS | UK | USA | 2014 | 85MINS | B&W

Channelling the fatalistic wit of the Coen brothers and taking fellow countryman’s Bong Joon-ho’s magpie approach to genre, Kim Seong-Hun’s second feature finds detective Ko Gun-su having one of those days: it’s his mother’s funeral, internal affairs are investigating his team for corruption and while speeding back to police HQ after dark he kills a pedestrian in a hit-andrun accident. Ko’s decision to cover his tracks and hide the body is just the start of a 24-hour nightmare. Furiously switching gears with each explosive revelation, Kim’s masterful, morally-shaded thriller barely pauses for breath as it hurtles to a wholly satisfying and unexpected climax. - Damon Wise, London Film Festival

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind. With feature films still rare, the programme was an entertaining, ever-changing roster of short items with live musical accompaniment. 100 years on, this special compilation from the BFI National Archive recreates the glorious miscellany of comedies, dramas, travelogues and newsreels which would have constituted a typical night out in 1914. - London Film Festival

SUN 16 | 1530 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

MON 10 | 2300 | TRISKEL

ALL IS BY MY SIDE

BLACK MAGIC RITES

JOHN RIDLEY | IRELAND | UK | 2013 | 118MINS

RENATO POSELLI | ITALY | 1973 | 98MINS | SUBTITLED

This portrait of the icon as a young man features hip-hop star Andre Benjamin (Outkast) as a sensitive, struggling guitarist on the verge of becoming a rock legend. In 1966, James Hendrix is still an unknown backup guitarist playing in New York’s Cheetah club until he becomes convinced that London is the gateway to success in America. But once there, he finds himself caught between his girlfriend’s protective grasp and the charms of a new admirer. With Kathy by his side, Jimi navigates London’s music scene and begins to make his mark in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. - Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival

In a secluded castle, devil worshippers sacrifice virgins to restore life to their Great Mistress Isabella, a witch who was burned to death centuries before. The castle is purchased by the unwitting Jack Nelson, whose niece Laureen bears a striking resemblance to Mistress Isabella. The satanic cult wish to sacrifice her in order to restore Isabella’s terrifying power. Described by Mondo Digital as “one of the wildest and most experimental films from the Italian horror boom of the early ‘70s”, Black Magic Rites is as off-the-wall as one can expect from that appraisal. CAST MICKEY HARGITAY, RITA CALDERONI, RAUL LOVECCHIO

FEATURES

FRI 7 | 2300 | GATE

SUN 16 | 1130 | TRISKEL

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA

CARAVAGGIO

SAM PECKINPAH | USA | MEXICO | 1974 | 112MINS

DEREK JARMAN | UK | 1986 | 93MINS

...that sad faced, gritty actor with the crinkled eyes... - Roger Ebert

It took seven years for Jarman to bring his portrait of 17th-century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio to the screen, and the result was well worth the wait. The narrative centres on an imagined love triangle between Caravaggio, his friend and model Ranuccio, and Ranuccio’s low-life partner Lena. Conjuring some of the artist’s most famous paintings through elaborate and beautifully photographed tableaux vivants, these works are woven into the fabric of the story, providing a starting point for its characters and narrative episodes. Caravaggio marked the first occasion that Jarman worked with Tilda Swindon, who was to become Jarman’s muse and long-time collaborator. CAST NIGEL TERRY, DEXTER FLETCHER, TILDA SWINTON

FEATURES

TUES 11 | 2300 | TRISKEL

When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced his daughter, small-town bartender Bennie becomes embroiled in a savagely violent trek across the desolate Mexican frontier. Some people will do anything for a million dollars – even if it means killing anyone who gets in their way. Dismissed by critics and a box office failure upon release, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia has rightfully become acknowledged as not only a classic but amongst Sam Peckinpah’s finest films. CAST WARREN OATES, ISELA VEGA SAT 8 | 1900 | TRISKEL

THURS 13 | 1600 | GATE

CHEATIN’

CHERRY PIE

BILL PLYMPTON | USA | 2013 | 76MINS

LORENZ MERZ | SWITZERLAND | 2013 | 85MINS

Special Jury Award - Annecy Animated Festival, 2014

Valenica Luna Prize for Best Feature Film - Valencia International Film Festival, 2014

Taking a plot device from Being John Malkovich, animation hero Bill Plympton brings his gleeful madcap humour and rapid-fire sight gags to his first feature since Idiots and Angels (CFF 2008). Jake may be every woman’s object of lust but he’s totally devoted to Ella. But when the simple-minded beefcake is presented with falsified evidence of her infidelity he embarks on a vigorous and sustained bout of revenge sex. With the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden ’soul machine’ Ella sets about evening the score.

Zoé tries to escape herself. Let down by her boyfriend, she travels north, drifting through faceless cities and gas stations, looking for the perfect place to disappear. She encounters a mysterious woman in a fur coat. As an invisible passenger she finds herself on a ferry to England where the woman suddenly disappears. In the winter coat of a stranger Zoé reaches new ground.

SAT 8 | 1400 | GATE

FEATURES

TUES 11 | 1130 | GATE

CRACKS IN CONCRETE (RISSE IM BETON)

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

UMUT DAG | AUSTRIA | 2014 | 104MINS | SUBTITLED

PATRICK RYAN | IRELAND | 2014| 87MINS

Ertan, a hardened, aggressive young man was sentenced to jail for second-degree murder. When he was released from jail ten years-later at the age of thirty-five, his prison experience turned him into a broken man. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Mikail spends his time with parties, drugs and dreaming of a life as a rapper. Ertan is looking for Mikail. Mikail has no clue who Ertan is. How do they both deal with hard realities when Mikail learns the truth?

Troubled teenage sharpshooter Cleo Callahan strives to avenge the death of her estranged elder sister after she is found murdered in a public bathroom. Unknown to Cleo, her best and only friend Robin O’Riley is the murderer she has sworn to kill. As Robin’s damaged brother Virgil also draws closer to the truth, the three become tragically entangled, leading to an inevitable bloody showdown that costs them all severely. A contemporary Irish western with art house sensibilities, Darkness on the Edge of Town takes the form of a classical tragedy exploring the limits of revenge, family and friendship. CAST EMMA ELIZA REGAN, EMMA WILLIS, BRIAN GLEESON

WED 12 | 2100 | TRISKEL

SUN 9 | 2130 | GATE

DETONATOR

ELECTRICITY

KEIR POLITZ, DAMON MAULUCCI | USA | 2013| 95MINS

BRYN HIGGINS | UK | 2014 | 96MINS

Sully is the former frontman of a once prominent punk band. He turned his back on the music scene to lead a family life, but this suburban complacency is disrupted when, out of the blue, ex-bandmate Mick turns up promising to make good on an old debt. What follows is a hellish night that stretches till dawn as Mick drags Sully through the recesses of Philadelphia. While there are elements of a gritty thriller, at heart Detonator is an effective character driven-drama. Michael Lawrence Levine’s performance perfectly captures the crossroads that Sully has come to, trapped in his current domesticity while also rejecting his former existence. CAST LAWRENCE MICHAEL LEVINE, BENJAMIN ELLIS FINE, ROBERT LONGSTREET

Based on the Ray Robinson novel, Electricity follows Lily O’Connor, a searingly defiant Northerner with epilepsy and a tough past. Discovering that the brother she long believed dead could still be alive, she leaves the comfort of the seaside town she grew up in and takes off to London to search for him. Lily’s epilepsy summons flashbacks, spectral figures, even birds emerging from her throat. And in the wrong place at the wrong time it can kill her. Knowing only too well what the risks are, Lily embarks on a journey she needs to make in order to move on with her life. CAST AGYNESS DEYN, LENORA CRICHLOW, PAUL ANDERSON, CHRISTIAN COOKE

FRI 14 | 1345 | GATE

ENEMY

FINSTERWORLD

FEATURES

THURS 13 | 2145 | GATE

DENIS VILLENEUVE | CANADA | 2013 | 91MINS

FRAUKE FINSTERWALDER | GERMANY | 2013 | 91MINS | SUBTITLED

Canadian Screen Awards 2013 - Best Director, Best Picture

The darker side of human interaction is revealed in this striking drama about a group of people that seem to be pursued by bad luck. As the individual storylines develop, a decidedly dark and surreal humour pervades, revealing a warped view of human existence. We meet: a police officer in a bear costume; a documentary filmmaker who finds it difficult to find an appropriate story; a pedicurist who works in an intricate fashion with his older female patient; a wealthy couple who find it difficult to travel in a German built car; a history student whose visit to a concentration camp turns unpleasant; and a wild man training a raven in the woods. CAST CORINNA HARFOUCH, SANDRA HÜLLER, RONALD ZEHRFELD

From the director of Incendies and Prisoners comes this intense psychological thriller. Leading a stellar cast, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a glum history professor who rents a movie on the recommendation of a colleague. The experience changes his life forever as Adam spots bit-part actor Anthony Clair in the film who is his exact double, his doppelgänger. He decides to track down this man, who is more confident and assertive, and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. CAST JAKE GYLLENHAAL, SARAH GADON, MÉLANIE LAURENT, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI MON 10 | 2100 | GATE

SAT 15 | 2130 | GATE

GERONTOPHILIA

GET UP AND GO

BRUCE LABRUCE | CANADA | 2013| 82 MINS

BRENDAN GRANT | IRELAND | 2014 | 90MINS

Controversial, transgressive Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is back but with a difference: Gerontophilia is his first big-budget, almost-mainstream, almost familyfriendly film. Inspired by both Harold and Maude and Lolita, this new departure for LaBruce is the story of Lake, a young nursing home attendant, who falls in love with Mr Peabody, an elderly but handsome patient. The filmmaker embraces his big budget, allowing his cinematographer to shoot with a pleasing style, and his editor to cut the film with an even, regular pace.

Coilin and Alex are two friends in Dublin at the wrong end of their twenties whose dreams of artistic greatness haven’t quite worked out. When Alex discovers that his girlfriend is pregnant, he refuses to allow her to derail his plans of leaving Dublin for the bright lights of London. Meanwhile Coilin’s carefully constructed world of hopes and expectations begins to come crumbling down around him. Set against the backdrop of famous Dublin locations, pubs, and clubs, this comedy drama shows a youthful and vibrant Dublin, rarely seen on film. CAST KILLIAN SCOTT, PETER COONAN, GEMMA-LEAH DEVEREAUX

THURS 13 | 2100 | GATE

FEATURES

FRI 14 | 2300 | TRISKEL

HIDE AND SEEK

HOUSEBOUND

JOANNA COATES | UK | 2014| 80MINS

GERARD JOHNSTONE | NEW ZEALAND | 2014 | 109MINS

Best British Film – Edinburgh International Film Festival

Audience Award - Dead by Dawn Festival

In an English country house, four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping. The durability of their new living arrangements is tested by the arrival of an outsider who fails to get in tune with the foursome’s radical spirit. An inventive and engaging film that uses an elegant, delicate style to gently probe both the protagonists’ ideals and our own convictions about love and sex. - Edinburgh International Film Festival CAST JOSH O’CONNOR, HANNAH ARTERTON, REA MOLE, DANIEL METZ

Kylie Bucknell is placed under house arrest and confined to the rickety old family home where she grew up. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by her mother – a well-intentioned blabbermouth who’s convinced that the house is haunted. Initially dismissive of her mother’s claims, Kylie soon starts noticing unsettling whispers and strange bumps in the night. Gerard Johnstone neatly balances comedy and horror in his feature debut. This is achieved in no small part to Morgana O’Reilly as the rebellious Kylie and Rima Te Wiata as her long-suffering mother. CAST MORGANA O’REILLY, RIMA TE WIATA, GLEN-PAUL WARU

MON 10 | 1130 | GATE

SAT 15 | 1400 | GATE

I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS

I USED TO LIVE HERE

LEAH MEYERHOFF | USA | 2014 | 78MINS

FRANK BERRY | IRELAND | 2014 | 82MINS

Grand Jury Prize Winner- Atlanta Film Festival, 2014

Best First Feature - Galway Film Fleadh

Those who recall Meyerhoff’s short Twitch (CFF 2005), her sensitively observed portrait of a young girl’s frustrated attempts to balance her first fumblings into adolescence with her responsibilities towards her wheelchair bound mother, will recognise plenty in the predicament of I Believe in Unicorns’ imaginative, strongwilled teenage heroine Davina. A girl with a rich interior life, Davina falls for smouldering older bad boy Sterling, fully believing she has found her Prince Charming. It’s an age-old tale but through the use of Super-16mm film and stop-motion animation, Meyerhoff conveys the whirlwind heat intensity of teenage longing.

Thirteen-year-old Amy Keane lives with her father Raymond in Tallaght, west Dublin. Since losing her mother to illness three years ago, Amy has taken over much of the running of the house. But when Raymond’s ex-girlfriend reappears with her baby, Amy feels displaced and troubled, and she starts to spend more time away from the house. Then news breaks in the area that a local boy has taken his own life. I Used to Live Here explores the effect this tragedy has on Amy, and on other young people in the community. CAST JORDANNE JONES, DAFHYD FLYNN, JAMES KELLY

SUN 9 | 1130 | TRISKEL

IRENE

JUBILEE

DEREK JARMAN | UK| 1977 | 109MINS

The Festival’s ‘silent’ partnership with the Irish Film Institute continues with this rags-to-riches comedy of a young Irish-American (Colleen Moore) who leaves her beer swilling father (Charles Murray) and her washerwoman mother (Kate Price) for the bright lights of New York and an independent life as a model. It is a highly entertaining vehicle for its sparkling cast of Irish and Irish-American actors including the indomitable Colleen Moore, one of the most fashionable and best loved stars of the silent era and the warmly comedic Kate Price (born Katherine Duffy, Cork 1872). The film has recently been acquired by the IFI Irish Film Archive from the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art New York. This is its first presentation in Ireland since its release in 1926.

Considered to be ‘Britain’s first official punk movie’ by Time Out magazine, Derek Jarman’s Jubilee finds Queen Elizabeth 1 transported forward to a nihilistic England of the future. Chaos reigns in this dystopian society. Buckingham Palace has been purchased by a megalomaniac who has transformed it into a recording studio for punk musicians. A gang of punk girls pass the time with acts of mindless violence, sex and the occasional murder. Featuring music by Adam and The Ants, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and Brian Eno, Jubilee vividly captures the essence of the punk movement of the late seventies. CAST JENNY RUNACRE, NELL CAMPBELL, TOYAH WILLCOX

MON 10 | 1845 | GATE

SUN 9 | 1330 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

KON-TIKI

LOVE IS STRANGE

FEATURES

SUN 9 | 1700 | TRISKEL

IRA SACHS | USA | 2014 | 98MINS

Nominated for Foreign Language film - Academy Awards and Golden Globes

Ira Sachs returns with a beautiful account of romance on the streets of New York, replete with a Chopin piano score to elegantly soundtrack the lightness and sorrows of love. The film opens with George and Ben, a couple who have been together for almost forty years, exchanging their marriage vows in front of their adoring friends. However, once Ben loses his position as a music teacher at a Catholic school, the couple are forced out of their Manhattan abode and are forced to confront the pain of separation. The couple are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements. CAST ALFRED MOLINA, JOHN LITHGOW, MARISA TOMEI

The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. This masterful account of Heyerdahl’s staggeringly brave journey is unerringly faithful to the original story as we follow Heyerdahl gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, before setting off on an epic 101 day-long journey all while the world was watching. CAST PÅL SVERRE HAGEN, ANDERS BAASMO CHRISTIANSEN, GUSTAF SKARSGARD 47

WED 12 | 1130 | GATE

M CREAM

MATEO (COLUMBIA)

FEATURES

SUN 16 | 1330 | GATE

AGNEYA SINGH | INDIA | 2014 | 113MINS

An Indian Generation X parable, M Cream examines the tensions between the conservative older generation and a younger generation split between wide-eyed idealism and cool cynicism. In defiance of his parents, Figs sets out on a quest to find the M-Cream, an elusive substance found in the Himalayas that guarantees a high to anyone who finds it. But along the way tensions surface as Figs and his companions’ convictions are tested. M Cream suggests the emergence of a different voice in Indian cinema: one that is curious, playful and unafraid to see where things lead.

Mateo is a young teenager who works with his uncle extorting local small business owners, and is about to be expelled from school. The only way he can save himself is to join a theater group led by the town’s priest. Mateo’s uncle views this as an opportunity for Mateo to spy on the priest, who is extolling people to resist the extortion and the gang of kids involved, who also sell marijuana. Through art, Mateo comes to know love and a different kind of life. Is it possible to leave the world of crime? At what cost? This inspiring movie is a tribute to the people of Río Magdalena, Colombia who have transformed their communities into spaces of peace and have ended decades of death and violence. CAST DANIEL GARCÍA, MARÍA FERNANDA BARRIENTOS

SAT 8 | 1600 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

FRI 14 | 2115 | GATE

MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN JASON REITMAN | USA | 2014 | 116 MINS

PATRICK’S DAY

TERRY MCMAHON | IRELAND | 2013 | 90MINS

Men, Women and Children follows the story of a group of high-school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image and their love lives. The film attempts to stare down social issues such as video-game culture, anorexia, infidelity, fame-hunting, and the proliferation of illicit material on the Internet. As each character and each relationship is tested, we are shown the variety of roads people choose—some tragic, some hopeful—as it becomes clear that no one is immune to this enormous social change that has come through our phones, our tablets and our computers. - Vancouver IFF CAST KAITLYN DEVER, ROSEMARIE DEWITT, ANSEL ELGORT, JENNIFER GARNER, JUDY GREER, DEAN NORRIS, ADAM SANDLER

Audience Award - Galway Film Fleadh Patrick, a warm, open, twenty-six-year-old virgin schizophrenic, is on leave from the hospital in his mother’s custody to celebrate his birthday. Wandering off on his own, he meets Karen, a troubled older woman who ignores the clear warning signs and has an affair with him. Patrick’s mother, with the aid of a police detective, tries to extricate her son from his growing involvement with Karen. A provocative and heart-breaking love story about the right to intimacy for everyone.

SAT 15 | 1830 | GATE

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

POISON PEN

BRIAN DE PALMA | USA | 1974 | 92 MINS

LORNA FITZSIMMONS, JENNIFER SHORTALL, STEVEN BENEDICT | IRELAND | 2014 | 95MINS

FEATURES

SUN 9 | 2300 | TRISKEL

...that master of genre thrillers and sly hitchcockion wit... - Roger Ebert Twisted Celluloid is delighted to present a special 40th anniversary screening of Brian De Palma’s rock and roll fusion of Faust, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Passionate composer/performer Winslow Leach (De Palma regular William Finley) not only has his work stolen by ruthless record producer Swan (Paul Williams), but is also framed and sent to Sing Sing – where a horrific accident hideously deforms him. Winslow escapes and seeks revenge, but is swayed from carrying out his intentions by a naïve but ambitious singer (Jessica Harper from Suspiria) whom he secretly dotes and protects. CAST WILLIAM FINLEY, PAUL WILLIAMS, JESSICA HARPER

When Booker Prize-winning author PC Molloy is blackmailed into writing for tabloid gossip magazine Poison Pen, he is not only caught up in a world of stars and their secrets but he is also in danger of turning into a celebrity himself. Cultures clash and sparks fly as the cerebral Molloy reluctantly becomes the interviewer for vain celebrities. But as his own star rises he soon struggles to keep his own secrets off the front pages. CAST LOCHLANN O MEARAIN, AOIBHINN MCGINNITY, LAURYN CANNY, SUSAN LOUGHNANE

SUN 9 | 1430 | GATE

TUES 11 | 1630 | GATE

QUEEN AND COUNTRY

REEFER AND THE MODEL

JOHN BOORMAN | IRELAND | UK | 2014 | 110MINS

JOE COMERFORD | IRELAND | 1988 | 76MINS

Legendary director John Boorman returns with Queen and Country, a uniquely spirited memoir of his national service days. Serving as a sequel to his Oscar-nominated Hope and Glory, his latest feature picks up nine years later amid a Britain adrift and bereft in the post-war era. The protagonist Bill questions not just his own national duty but nationalism itself, wondering why Britain should support the Americans in Korea and finding himself in hot water for not just his burgeoning rebellious streak but also his naive zeal for cinema. Directed with style and aplomb worthy of an Old Master at work, Queen and Country is a magnificent account of the complexities of the post-war era. CAST CALEB LANDRY JONES, CALLUM TURNER, DAVID THEWLIS, TASMIN EGERTON

Even at this remove, Joe Comerford’s feature offers an exhilarating rush that borders on the illicit. Set in a recognisably grey, economically depressed and spiritually defeated 1980’s, Reefer and the Model is a crime caper that takes a devil-may-care attitude the prevailing societal norms.The raffish Reefer invites the pregnant ‘Model’ to join his merry crew of misfits on their dilapidated trawler. When the boat demands to be repaired they decide to embark on ‘one last job.’ Accompanying this re-edited version is the director’s playful experimental 1984 short Waterbag, which provided the genesis for the feature. CAST IAN MCELHINNEY, CAROL SCANLAN PRODUCER LELIA DOOLIN

FRI 14 | 1130 | GATE

FEATURES

THURS 13 | 1600 | TRISKEL

ROCKS IN MY POCKET

SAOL

SIGNE BAUMANE | USA |LATVIA | 2014 | 88MINS

PACO TORRES | IRELAND | 2014 | 83MINS

FIPRESCI Prize - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Rocks in my Pockets is an award-winning feature-length animation which artfully explores the legacy of suicide and depression within the filmmakers own life and the lives of the women in her family. With wit and grace the animation visually represents and explores one family’s battles with and sometime triumphs over depression. The film is replete with visual metaphors, surreal images and director Baumane’s dark sense of humour.

The sudden loss of her dad at Christmas shattered Chelsea’s world. Another Christmas arrives, but everything has changed. She has got a tremendous Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with a fear of leaving the house to meet other people. Her mother tries everything to maintain a sense of normality, but things are not moving on, specially living also with her dad, a 70 year-old man with Alzheimer’s. This is a film about anxiety, about a family with no direction and how this anxiety and fear affects human relations.

SAT 8 | 1130 | TRISKEL

FRI 14 | 1800 | GATE

SEBASTIANE

SERENA

DEREK JARMAN, PAUL HUMFRESS | UK | 1976 | 86MINS

SUSANNE BIER | USA | 2014 | 102MINS

Derek Jarman’s feature film debut (co-directed with Paul Humfress) follows the Roman soldier – and suspected Christian – Sebastian, who has been stripped of rank and exiled to a remote Sardinian outpost. Here, he becomes the object of his commanding officer’s aggressive desire. As Sebastian turns his back on his fellow soldiers in favour of his own mystical longings, the sun-bleached Mediterranean idyll becomes a psycho-sexual hothouse where lust sets the stage for a shocking tableau of death and martyrdom. In Latin with a score by Brian Eno, Sebastiane is a milestone of British independent film and a pioneering work of queer cinema. CAST BARNEY JAMES, NEIL KENNEDY, LEONARDO TREVIGLIO

Serena features two of the planet’s biggest stars in Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and an ambitious, scaled-up production that offers lush period detail of depression-era America. Based on Ron Rash’s North Carolina-set novel about logging magnate George Pemberton and his ruthless, brilliant wife Serena, the ‘perfect’ couple’s master plans come unstuck when they discover she can’t bear children and that George previously fathered a child out of wedlock. With a strong supporting cast, this is an enjoyably traditional, extravagant melodrama of bitter jealousy, murder and cold, unforgiving ambition. - Tricia Tuttle, London Film Festival

WED 12 | 2315 | TRISKEL

FEATURES

SUN 9 | 1100 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

SET FIRE TO THE STARS

STARRY EYES

ANDY GODDARD | UK | 2014 | 90MINS | B&W

KEVIN KOLSCH, DENNIS WIDMYER | USA| 2014 | 98 MINS

Andy Goddard’s directorial debut celebrates Dylan Thomas’ centenary. His quite remarkable semibiographical drama – artfully shot in black-and-white – focuses on a week in Thomas’ life as he embarks on a series of talks in the US. Featuring stellar performances from co-writer Celyn Jones as Thomas and Elijah Wood as John Malcolm Brinnin, and an accomplished original score by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), this is a candid, poignant and often highly poignant account of one of the world’s most boisterous and beloved poets.

For Sarah Walker, life is typical for a budding young actor struggling to make in Hollywood. After countless auditions while holding down a dead-end job, luck seemingly goes her way when Sarah is offered the lead role in a new film called The Silver Scream. But with this wonderful opportunity comes bizarre ramifications that will transform her – physically and mentally – into something beautiful, and all together terrifying. This occult tale of ambition, possession, and the true cost of fame was selected as one of the top ten best films of this year’s South by Southwest festival by Time magazine. CAST ALEX ESSOE, AMANDA FULLER,NOAH SEGAN, PAT HEALY

MON 10 | 2130 | GATE

SUN 9 | 1900 | GATE

STATIONS OF THE CROSS (KREUZWEG)

THE BOY CASTAWAYS

DIETRICH BRUGGEMANN GERMANY | FRANCE | 2014 | 107MINS

MICHAEL KANTOR | AUSTRALIA | 2013 | 85MINS

Silver Bear, Best Script & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Berlin, 2014

A metaphysical thriller that sees four men drawn into a grand cabaret of the soul. What happens when the stage becomes your world? Four drifters find themselves lured into a vast playhouse, deep in the heart of the city. Taken in hand by the enigmatic leading lady, the men are plunged ever deeper into a labyrinth of jealousy, betrayal, violence and sex, dissolving the lines between desire and death. Populated with Australia’s brightest lights of theatre, music and film and a remarkable score that recalls the songs of the present and the past, Kantor’s film is a haunting ode to the magic of the stage and the visceral power of music. - Adelaide Film Festival CAST PAUL CAPSIS, MARCO CHIAPPI, TIM ROGERS, MEGAN WASHINGTON

Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become a saint and go to heaven – just like all those holy children she’s always been told about. So Maria goes through 14 stations, just like Jesus did on his path to Golgatha, and reaches her goal in the end.

TUES 11 | 1900 | GATE

THE DANCE OF REALITY I (LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD)

THE DEBT (DLUG)

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY | CHILE | FRANCE | 2013 | 130MINS | SUBTITLED The legendary director of El Topo and Santa Sangre returns with his first feature in almost a quarter of a century and it has been well worth the wait. The Dance of Reality is a joyously idiosyncratic exercise in imagined autobiography that revisits defining moments from Jodorowsky’s childhood in 1930s Chile. A witty, accessible magical mystery tour through his past finds the personal roots of his life-long fascination with religion, mysticism, poetry and philosophy. His childhood in Tocopilla is a fusion of Fellini and Monty Python, with a father who constantly tests his pain threshold and a mother who sings every line of dialogue with the passion of a great opera diva. A wonderful, exuberant feast of a film. - Glasgow Film Festival

KRZYSZTOF KRAUSE | POLAND | 1999 | 106MINS

SAT 8 | 2130 | GATE

SAT 8 | 2300 | TRISKEL

FEATURES

SAT 15 | 1345 | GATE

THE DROP

One of the biggest Polish box office successes of all time, The Debt is a gripping thriller about two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug. Two friends begin a business venture of importing Italian scooters into Poland. With no collateral, they turn to a Russian acquaintance that offers money and support in the beginning and then inexplicably turns violent and vicious. Tension mounts as the two friends begin to understand what must be done. Based on a true story, The Debt is a terrifying tale of ordinary men pushed to their limit. CAST ROBERT GONERA, JACEK BORCUCH, ANDRZEJ CHYRA

THE EDITOR

MICHAËL R. ROSKAM | USA | 2013 | 107MINS

ADAM BROOKS, MATTHEW KENNEDY | CANADA | 2014| 99MINS

Bob (Tom Hardy) may not be the quickest of men, but he’s fine with his lot, tending bar for Cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), going to church and keeping his head down in a neighbourhood where Marv’s days of goodfella status have long been surpassed by a more vicious strand of gangster. But trouble finds Bob when he recovers an abandoned mutt and encounters a damaged young woman. Michaël R Roskam presents a supremely confident follow-up to his debut Bullhead, with a cast at the top of their game and who clearly relish the richly textured script. - Kate Taylor, London Film Festival

Both amusing spoof and loving tribute to the Italian Giallo thriller, with The Editor the Astron 6 team who brought you Father’s Day and Manborg present their most ambitious production yet. Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he’s resorted to cutting Z-grade exploitation flicks. When the actors from his latest production start getting murdered, Rey is the number one suspect. He struggles to prove his innocence and learn the sinister truth lurking behind the scenes as the bodies continue to pile up. CAST ADAM BROOKS,PAZ DE LA HUERTA, UDO KIER

FRI 14 | 1630 | GATE

FEATURES

SAT 8 | 1330 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

THE FUTURE (EL FUTURO)

THE GRANDMASTER

(YI DAI ZONG SHI)

LUIS LOPEZ CARRASCO SPAIN | 2013 | 69MINS | SUBTITLED

A group of young people dance and drink at a house. The atmosphere is festive and cheerful. Socialist victory in the general elections of 1982 seems recent. The night is full of euphoria and celebration. The attempt of coup d’etat made in 1981 appears to be quite far away. We could say that in Spain, in 1982, everything was about the future. However, on closer inspection, the future also looks like a black hole that devours everything in its path.

Nominated for Academy Awards in Cinematography and Costume Design Six years in the plannIng and three years in the making, The Grandmaster is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kungfu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China’s last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Filmed in a range of stunning locations that include the snow-swept landscapes of Northeast China and the subtropical South, this is a tale of betrayal, challenge, honour and love played out against the chaotic backdrop of war and occupation. CAST TONY LEUNG, ZIYI ZHANG

THURS 13 | 2030 | TRISKEL

SUN 16 | 1615 | GATE

THE HEART MACHINE

THE HIT PRODUCER

ZACHARY WIGON | USA | 2014 | 85MINS

KEVIN DE LA ISLA O’ NEILL | IRELAND | 2014 | 107MINS

Cody and Virginia are happy together – except they’ve never really met. They have an online relationship; he lives in Brooklyn while she is living in Berlin. During a Skype conversation, Cody notices something amiss, leading him to doubt that she is in Europe at all. Combing New York for clues about Virginia’s whereabouts, he becomes increasingly obsessive, overstepping boundaries of privacy in his quest for answers. With superb performances from John Gallagher Jr. and Kate Lyn Sheil, The Heart Machine has been hailed by The Village Voice as “a remarkably elegant genre film, a Pakulian thriller amply charged by anxiety and unease”. CAST KATE LYN SHEIL, JOHN GALLAGHER JR., DAVID CALL

Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer, follows the promise of money into Dublin’s drug underworld where she is forced to commit murder, and blackmailed into moonlighting as a killer for a ruthless drug supplier. Two years pass, and despite having eliminated a number of high profile names, Katelin finds herself the target when an error of judgement reveals her identity, and exposes her boss’s plans to his remaining rivals. Cut loose, and with family in the line of fire, Katelin must adapt to survive a violent, ever-escalating onslaught as the thin veil masking her double life slips away. CAST MICHELLE DOHERTY, NEILL FLEMING, FERGUS KEALY

SUN 16 | 1300 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

THE HOMESMAN

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY | MEXICO | USA | 1973 | 117MINS

TOMMY LEE JONES | USA | 2014 | 122MINS

...a great eccentric original... - Roger Ebert

After the critical success of his directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Tommy Lee Jones returns to the frontier in this tender, understated and occasionally violent tale, once again bringing something fresh and surprising to the genre. He may have cast himself front and centre as ornery old low-life George Briggs but The Homesman is very much a film that examines women’s place on the frontier. Hilary Swank plays the prim, proper and resolute Mary Bee Cuddy. A spinster, who volunteers to take three mentally ill women - all young wives – east from Nebraska to a hospice in Iowa, with Briggs riding shotgun. CAST TOMMY LEE JONES, HILARY SWANK, MERYL STREEP, JOHN LITHGOW, JAMES SPADER

FEATURES

SAT 15 | 2300 | TRISKEL | FREE

Having directed El Topo, which became a smash hit as one of the first ‘Midnight Movies’, for his next film Alejandro Jodorowsky was given a larger budget and allowed to do whatever he wanted. The result is this film: The Alchemist assembles together a group of people to represent the planets in the solar system. The intention is to put these recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. Without a doubt, The Holy Mountain is one of the most bizarre and outlandish motion pictures you are ever likely to see. CAST ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY, HORACIO SALINAS, ZAMIRA SAUNDERS

SUN 16 | 2115 | GATE

SUN 9 | 2045 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

THE IMITATION GAME

THE LAST MATCH (LA PARTIDA)

MORTEN TYLDUM | UK | USA | 2014| 114MINS | SUBTITLED

ANTONIO HENS | CUBA | SPAIN | 2013

People’s Choice Award - Toronto IFF

A fine example of modern Third Cinema, The Last Match is a brutal and harsh look at life on the margins in Havana. Rei lives with his wife, child and mother in a tiny apartment and spends his nights down at the port as a rent boy for foreign tourists. His best friend Yosvani is trapped in an engagement and lives at the mercy of his fiancée’s violent loanshark father. When the two boys find themselves falling for each other, they also find their lives falling apart around them.

The story of Alan Turing, the groundbreaking mathematical genius who cracked the German Enigma code, is brought to life in this richly engrossing drama. Balancing the intrigue and suspense of World War II espionage with his tragic personal story, the film centres on an uncompromising performance from Cumberbatch as the single minded Turing. Supported by a team of misfit cohorts and occasional antagonists, Turing achieves one of history’s single biggest contributions to the Allied victory, but finds even ending a war cannot protect him from bigotry and persecution. CAST BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, MATTHEW GOODE, MARK STRONG, CHARLES DANCE 54

THURS 13 | 2300 | TRISKEL

THE LIGHT OF DAY

THE ROVER

CONOR DOWLING, EOIN O NEILL, AMY CARROLL | IRELAND | 2014 | 75MINS

DAVID MICHOD | AUSTRALIA | USA | 2014 | 102MINS

The Light Of Day is a mockumentary of the low-budget horror film The First Bite Is The Deepest. Over the course of a tumultuous shoot, Michael, the DP, attempts to deal with all manner of obstacles, including the film’s hapless director, Ritchie, an increasingly stressed and desperate producer, Desmond, and the writer of the source material, a graphic novel called The Quench, Sarah Clarke. Can Michael ensure that the film eventually sees the light of day? CAST JACK HICKEY, LORNA LARKIN, DERMOT MAGENNIS, AIDAN LAWLOR

David Michôd follows up his acclaimed crime drama Animal Kingdom with this hard as nails thriller. It is set in the near future, when mankind’s greed and excesses have pushed civilisation to the breaking point. Hardened loner Eric (Guy Pearce) travels the desolate towns and roads of the scorched Australian outback. When a brutal gang of thieves steals his car and only remaining possession, they leave behind the wounded Rey (Robert Pattinson) in their wake. Forcing Rey to help track the gang, Eric will go to any lengths to take back the one thing that matters to him.

SAT 15 | 1130 | TRISKEL

SAT 15 | 2115 | GATE

THE TEMPEST

THE TRIBE

DEREK JARMAN | UK | 1979 | 96MINS

MYROSLAV SLABOSHPYTSKIY | UKRAINE | 2014 | 130MINS

Shot in the richly atmospheric Stoneleigh Abbey, The Tempest is Jarman’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s final great play. It is the story of Prospero the magician, who lives on an enchanted island with his nubile daughter and punishes his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Essentially a study of sexual and political power in the guise of a fairy tale, Jarman uses the Bard’s text to create a dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood pastiche, high camp, and gothic horror. Great performances from Peter Bull, David Meyer, Toyah Wilcox, but Elisabeth Welch steals the show with her delicious rendition of ‘Stormy Weather’.

A young deaf-mute newcomer at a specialised boarding school is forced to accept the harsh ‘tribal’ rules of the other boarders. Unexpected romantic leanings toward one of the gang leader’s concubines, puts him in a situation from which there is no escape. The director communicates with the viewer exclusively through sign language in a way both fascinating and new, even for experienced audiences. For me, the main goal was to make a more realistic, natural silent film, which would be easily understood without words. Sign language is like a dance, ballet, pantomime, kabuki theater, etc. At the same time, there’s no grotesque in it – people are communicating that way for real, explains Slaboshpytskiy. - Karlovy Vary FF CAST GRIGORIY FESENKO, YANA NOVIKOVA

FEATURES

SAT 15 | 2355 | GATE

TUES 11 | 1645 | GATE

TRIPTYCH

VIOLET

FEATURES

MON 10 | 1830 | GATE

ROBERT LEPAGE, PEDRO PIRES | CANADA | 2013 | 94MINS

BAS DEVOS | BELGIUM | NETHERLANDS | 2014 | 82MINS

A cinematic meditation on the influence of language and voice. Michelle leaves a psychiatric clinic and returns to her work in an antiquarian bookstore which subsequently becomes a space for her inner voices. German neurologist Thomas meets Michelle’s sister, Marie, a jazz singer whose ability to speak is jeopardised by a brain tumour. Marie is one of Thomas’ last patients. With the aid of dubbing actors and Super-8 footage of her late father, Marie begins obsessively to retrieve her forgotten memory of his voice. - Berlinale CAST LISE CASTONGUAY, FRÉDÉRIKE BÉDARD, HANS PIESBERGEN

Grand Prix - Generation Berlinale

TUES 11 | 1900 | GATE

SAT 8 | 1915 | GATE

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD

TAIKA WAITITI, JERMAINE CLEMENT | NEW ZEALAND | 2014 | 86MINS

GREGG ARAKI | USA | FRANCE | 2014 | 91MINS

Co-written and co-directed by Jemaine Clement (of Flight Of The Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark), What We Do In The Shadows follows flatmates Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav. They are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern society; from paying rent and sticking to the housework roster to trying to get invited in to nightclubs, they’re just like anyone else – except they’re immortal and must feast on human blood. In the tradition of early Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Brain Dead), this New Zealand horror comedy offers an oddball slant on the vampire genre and is very, very funny.

The latest film from Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin) follows Kate Connors, a 17 years old girl whose perfect homemaker mother, Eve, one day disappears without explanation. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother’s absence and certainly doesn’t blame her doormat of a father for the loss. But as time passes, Kate begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve’s disappearance has affected her. With a soundtrack by Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and standout performances from Shailene Woodley, Eva Green and Christopher Meloni, White Bird In A Blizzard is a highly charged and affecting coming-of-age drama. CAST SHAILENE WOODLEY, EVA GREEN, CHRISTOPHER MELONI

A beguiling portrait of grief and brotherhood seen through teenage eyes. As they cycle through the streets, a group of BMX riders remember the life of their murdered friend. The one with the real answers, however, is 15-year-old Jesse. As the only one to bear witness to the crime, he is forced to live in the shadow of what he saw. A visceral, permissive drama from a directorial newcomer, Violet uses a dreamlike style to portray a heartfelt account of a very human grieving process. - Edinburgh International Film Festival CAST CÉSAR DE SUTTER, RAF WALSCHAERTS, MIRA HELMER, BRENT MINNE

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FEATURES

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WHITE SHADOW

WILD CANARIES

LAWRENCE MICHAEL DEVINE | USA | 2014 | 99MINS

Grand Prix - New Horizons IFF

A newly-engaged Brooklyn couple discover the body of an elderly neighbour. While Noah sees nothing unusual about her passing, Barri believes all is not what it seems and, much to her fiancé’s chagrin, sets out to investigate. It soon becomes apparent, however, that her suspicions are not due to an overactive imagination, and the couple find themselves in the middle of an elaborate murder plot. Blending screwball comedy and film noir with the winning performances of real-life husband and wife team Michael Lawrence Levine and Sophia Takal, Wild Canaries is a lot of quirky fun.

In Tanzania, Kenya and Congo albinos are considered a lucrative commodity and shamans pay fortunes for body parts and organs believing that amulets they fashion from their whitened bodies bring luck and prosperity. Alias is sent to the city to find protection after witnessing the brutal murder of his albino father. But he quickly becomes disenchanted with street life and moves to a hut on the city outskirts inhabited by a group of albino children. There, he learns there is no way to escape from his genetic heritage and only acceptance offers physical and spiritual balance. - New Horizons IFF CAST HAMISI BAZILI, JAMES GAYO, GLORY MBAYUWAYU, SALUM ABDALLAH WED 12 | 1845 | GATE

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YOU ARE GOD (JESTES BOGIEM)

52 TUESDAYS

LASZEK DAWID | POLAND | 2012 | 110MINS

SOPHIE HYDE | AUSTRALIA | 2013 | 110MINS

A recent Polish record breaker, You Are God rocketed to the top of its domestic box office and earned immediate cult status due to unprecedented fascination in Paktofinika; the subversive, era defining hip-hop group upon whom the film is based. Following the formation and brief hey-day of the confrontational collective, and the final days of front man and co-founder Piotr ‘Magik’ Luszcz, magnetic performances and faithful presentation of an extraordinary story make this an unmissable milestone in Polish cinema.

Crystal Bear - Generation Berlinale Directing Award - Sundance 16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week – only on Tuesdays – these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.

DOCUMENTARIES

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1971

JOHANNA HAMILTON | USA | 2014 | 80MINS On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, PA. Calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, they removed every file in the office. Mailed anonymously, the stolen documents started to show up in newsrooms and the ensuing heist yielded a trove of damning evidence. Those responsible have never revealed their identities...until now. For the first time, the burglars have decided to speak about their actions. 1971 is their story, examining the consequences and implications of their actions then and now.

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A DOCTOR’S SWORD

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ACTRESS

GARY LENNON | IRELAND | 2014 | 74MINS

ROBERT GREENE | USA | 2014 | 86MINS

Castletownbere native Aidan MacCarthy had an incident-filled WWII. From participating in the evacuation at Dunkirk, MacCarthy went on to endure years of captivity in a Japanese concentration camp, before finding himself present at the bombing of Nagasaki. Last year, TV3 aired a documentary that shone a light on this extraordinary tale. Its makers return to tell the full story, one that focuses on the Samurai sword he received from the camp commander. Adding to the wealth of archive material, including MacCarthy’s own recorded testimony, are the editing skills of Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas (The Act of Killing) and a specially commissioned orchestral score.

Actress Brandy Burre had a recurring role on The Wire when she got pregnant with the first of her two children. She gave up her career and moved to a small town to raise her new family with her partner. But when Brandy decides to get back into acting, the foundations of her domestic life prove too fragile for her ambitions and the way she sees herself. As she tries to find balance between being a good mother and her desires for a life she once walked away from, Brandy is forced to make painful choices that will affect her family forever.

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AR LORG SHOMHAIRLE (TRACING SORLEY’S FOOTSTEPS)

ART AND CRAFT

ÉANNA DE BUIS | IRELAND | 2014 | 56MINS

SAM CULLMAN, JENNIFER GRAUSMANN | USA | 2014 | 87 MINS

Sorley MacLean is widely recognised as the most significant Gaelic poet of the twentieth century, and has been described by Seamus Heaney as a poet of world stature. Love, world politics and the tradition and heritage of his people are the driving passions of his work. This film explores how the universality of his poetry is grounded in the landscape which he loved. The awesome Cuillin mountain-range, the wonderful seascapes around the bays and inlets of the islands, the heartbreakingly empty beauty of the villages cleared by greedy landlords – these are soil in which his poetry flowered. Narrated by Paddy Bushe.

Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history, producing replicas of works from 15th century icons to Walt Disney. Posing as a philanthropic donor, a grieving brother and most recently as a Jesuit priest, Landis has given away hundreds of works to a staggering list of prestigious institutions. But after duping Matthew Leininger, a tenacious registrar who ultimately discovers the decades-long ruse, Landis must confront his own legacy and a chorus of museum professionals clamoring for him to stop.

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BEYOND CLUELESS

CONCERNING VIOLENCE

CHARLIE LYNE | UK | 2014 | 89MINS

GOREN HUGO OLSSON | SWEDEN | 2014 | 86MINS

Diving headfirst into the inner psyche of the teen genre, Beyond Clueless exists within a parallel universe - one occupied by an entire generation of big-screen teens we’ve loved and loathed in equal measure. Part adolescent fever dream, part roving visual essay, the film puts the movies themselves under the microscope on a quest to lay bare the genre’s beating heart. Forgotten classics are unearthed, old favorites are upturned to reveal new meanings, and questions are asked about what’s really going on behind the raucous house parties, glittering prom nights and joyous graduations that make up this most beguiling of cinematic worlds.

Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975), Concerning Violence is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neo-colonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. Narrated by Ms. Lauryn Hill.

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CROC-A-DYKE DUNDEE: THE LEGEND OF DAWN O’ DONNELL

DAMNATION

FIONA CUNNINGHAM-REID | UK | AUSTRALIA | 55MINS

BEN KNIGHT, TRAVIS RUMMEL | USA | 2014 | 87MINS

A riproarious account of an Australian convent girl who became a professional ice skater, who travelled the world and then settled back in Sydney, forging an empire for herself of bars, clubs, steam rooms, sex shops and drag shows. A legend in the city, she was celebrated for transforming the Antipodean backwater into one of the gayest cities in the world and credited for inspiring The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. She was also rumoured to have involved herself with Sydney’s criminal gangs, committed fraud, arson and even murder.

This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the Monkey Wrench Gang. When obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move us through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature. - SXSW

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DEEP CITY: THE BIRTH OF MIAMI SOUND I

DREAMS OF A CLOWN

DENNIS SCHOLL, MARLON JOHNSON, CHAD TINGLE | USA | 2013 | 60MINS

DIETER AUNER | IRELAND | 2014 | 84MINS

Everyone has heard of Motown, but in the 60s every city in America had its own soul scene. One such label was Miami’s Deep City Records, which was founded in the mid 60s by producers Willie Clarke and Johnny Pearsall. Theirs was the first black owned label in Florida and together they unearthed major talents including Betty Wright and Helene Smith. With stock footage, gorgeous stills and countless hits from the label’s heyday this is one for the music aficionados out there who want to delve a little deeper into the soul of the south.

Time was when children routinely dreamed of running away to join the circus, but of what do you dream when you are born into the circus. The compact Irish Circus Gerbola survives with a small but tightly knit crew. Heading it are Mikey and Tara Gerbola. As they struggle with budgets and finding new ways to keep it fresh, their two young sons balance participating in the circus with their formal educational needs. Auner, the director of the award-winning Off The Beaten Track (CFF 2011), captures the circus at a particularly challenging time but through the eyes of young Blake and Michael locates its timeless appeal.

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DUMMY JIM

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK: THE STORY OF RODRIEGO Y GABRIELA

MATT HULSE | UK | 2013 | 90MINS

ALEJANDRO FRANCO | MEXICO | 2014 | 83MINS

Dummy Jim is playfully adapted from the littleknown journal I Cycled Into The Arctic Circle (1951) by profoundly deaf cyclist James Duthie, who one day set off alone on his bicycle from a village in Scotland, bound for Morocco. How did he end up in the Arctic Circle? Led by deaf actor Samuel Dore on an increasingly bizarre 6000 mile journey, this eccentric road movie mixes documentary, fiction and animation. Sadly, Jim was killed on the road in 1965 but this film memorializes a quiet, determined maverick whilst offering an honest insight into his community, with village inhabitants emerging as creative participants and performers.

Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero began their musical careers in Mexico City playing in metal bands. But when things didn’t seem to be going anywhere they decided to hit the road. Leaving behind their electric guitars, they end up busking on the streets of Dublin, performing acoustically. Drawing on influences from flamenco, salsa, and hard rock, Rodrigo y Gabriela’s exuberant new style secured them a fan base and ultimately stardom performing on the stages of some of the most important venues and festivals around the world.

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I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFORD POOLE

I AM ALI

JIM TUSHINSKI | USA | 2013 | 93 MINS

CLAIRE LEWINS | USA | 2014 | 110MINS

I Always Said Yes is a portrait of pioneering filmmaker Wakefield Poole, whose career as dancer, choreographer, and director spanned the golden years of Broadway, television, porno chic, and gay liberation. Best known for his landmark porn film, The Boys in the Sand (reductively referred to as the gay Deep Throat), Poole made gay pornography an art form. Stretching from the heady days of 1970s New York to the grim dawn of AIDS in 1980s San Francisco, I Always Said Yes captures the life of a remarkable man, and writes a rich and important visual record in the LGBT history books.

I Am Ali is an intimate look at the man behind the boxing legend, told through exclusive, unprecedented access to Ali’s personal archive of ‘audio journals’ combined with candid and often rather poignant interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends, including his daughters, sons, ex-wife and brother, plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Gene Kilroy.

Credit: Dan Dry I

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DOCUMENTARIES

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I DREAM OF WIRES

IMMORTAL STORIES

ROBERT FANTINATTO | USA | GERMANY | UK | 2013 | 102 MINS

FERGUS DALY | IRELAND | 2014 | 94MINS

1963 saw the birth of the modular synthesizer when Moog Music Inc. and Buchla and Associates both invented their systems independently of each other. Since then the analogue modular synthesizer has struggled to remain in production amidst the onset of the digital age, but in recent years a new appreciation for analogue allows the story to come full circle. A film for both the synth nerd and the novice, this documentary chronicles the evolution of this most fascinating of musical instruments with interviews and commentary by Clark, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Throbbing Gristle, Vince Clark (Erasure) and many more.

An artist seeking inspiration for a project based on the Irish novel Melmoth the Wanderer explores the politics of memory in European cities haunted by literary ideas and characters. This analysis of place and the status of wandering in contemporary life is told by way of a cinematic examination of the individual and the crowd in the city. Experimenting with ideas of point of view and camera distance, appearance and disappearance, Immortal Stories traces the psychological effects of isolation on the endless wandering of an artist undergoing an increasingly detached and disjointed experience of contemporary life.

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IT CAME FROM CONNEMARA!!

KUNG FU ELLIOT

BRIAN REDDIN | IRELAND | 2014 | 62MINS

MATTHEW BAUCKMAN, JANET BELLIVEAU | CANADA | 2014 | 90MINS

This is the incongruous tale of when legendary Hollywood B-movie producer (of films like Swamp Women) Roger Corman created a studio in Connemara in the mid-1990s. In five years here he produced close to 20 feature films with Irish crew and Hollywood actors. Corman’s time in Ireland was somewhat controversial though, as he upset unions and the tastes of cinephiles. Meanwhile those who worked for him adored the experience. It Came from Connemara!! lovingly tells this fascinating and often amusing story, using the testimonies of those who were there to make it happen.

Grand Jury Prize: Best Documentary - Slamdance

Becoming Canada’s first action hero is Elliot ‘White Lightning’ Scott’s sole motivation. He ambitiously embarks on producing his no-budget karate epic Blood Fight, hot on the heels of his successful genre flick They Killed My Cat. With support from Linda (his girlfriend/ cinematographer/producer/caterer), and an outrageous cast, Elliot’s obsession with Eastern culture and celebrity leads him on an increasingly surreal and ultimately shocking path of discovery, confrontation and endless determination.

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LIFE ITSELF

MANAKAMANA

STEVE JAMES | USA | 2014 | 120MINS

Life Itself, the first ever feature-length documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, covers the prolific critic’s life journey from his days at the University of Illinois, to his move to Chicago where he became the first film critic ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, then to television where he and Gene Siskel became iconic stars, and finally to what Roger referred to as ‘his third act’; how he overcame disabilities wrought by cancer to became a major voice on the internet and through social media.

Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s (literally) transporting film – shot inside a cable car that carries pilgrims and tourists to and from a mountaintop temple in Nepal – is radically simple in conception. Each of its eleven shots lasts as long as a one-way ride, which corresponds to the duration of a roll of 16mm film. A kind of head movie that viewers are invited to complete as they watch, Manakamana is thrillingly mysterious in its effects. Working within a 5-by-5-foot glass and metal box, Spray and Velez have made an endlessly suggestive film that both describes and transcends the bounds of time and space.

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MATEO (CUBA)

MY PRAIRIE HOME

CHELSEA MCMULLAN | CANADA | 2013 | 77 MINS

Mateo, the notorious Gringo Mariachi, discovered his love for Mexican folk music the hard way: by doing time in an L.A. prison with a bunch of Mexican gangsters. After cleaning up his act Mateo plays any gig he can to save enough money to travel to Havana and record his unique tenor voice with the help of some of Cuba’s finest musicians. As the camera team follow his social and musical exploits it’s hard to know what to make of this unusual character. At once both morally duplicitous and musically spellbinding, Mateo is one rare gringo.

With only a guitar and a handful of cash for Greyhound fare, transgender singer-songwriter Rae Spoon, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun ‘they,’ performs across the vast and blue-skied plains of Canada, in dingy bars and badly lit concert halls. Together with filmmaker Chelsea McMullan, Rae’s songs transport audiences from small, confining nightclubs into dreamy, beautifully photographed landscapes of music and memory. My Prairie Home disposes of traditional documentary filmmaking, opting instead to explore Rae’s discovery of love outside their evangelical home with haunting visuals and a hypnotic score that go hand-in-hand with Rae’s highly personal melodies.

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NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC

Ó CHÚIL AODHA GO hOILEÁN Í (FROM COOLEA TO IONA)

ONE9 | USA | 2014 | 75MINS

DÓNAL Ó CÉILLEACHAIR | IRELAND | 2014 | 53MINS

Nas’ 1994 debut album has rightly earned an untouchable status in the pantheon of hip-hop; influencing countless artists since and perfectly distilling the experience of life in the New York projects ravaged by drugs and rivalries. Combining an intricate study of the album’s construction, with contributions from musicians, producers, visual artists and onlookers, with storytelling from Nas’ charismatic family and intimate details of an upbringing in Queensbridge New York, One9’s debut feature perfectly captures a man, a neighbourhood, and a moment in musical history.

Founded by legendary Irish composer Seán Ó Riada in 1963 - and continued after his death in 1971 to this day by his son Peadar - Cór Chúil Aodha (The Coolea Men’s Choir) embodies the spirit of an area that is historically rich in both poetry and music. This intimate film follows the life of the choir over an eight-week period; charting its weekly trials and tribulations - under Peadar’s watchful direction - culminating in a historical visit to the renowned island of Iona with President Michael D. Higgins in the year of the choir’s 50th anniversary.

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OFF-ROAD (FUORISTRADA)

OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON

ELISA AMORUSO | ITALY | 2013 | 68MINS | SUBTITLED

JEFF BROADWAY | USA | UK | 2014 | 94MINS

Beatrice was born male and grew up as Pino in the hypermasculine Italian society. Pino married, had a daughter, trained as a mechanic and became a champion rally driver. Then Pino began hormone treatment and transitioned to a woman, Beatrice. Off Road documents her unconventional life, shared with Marianna, her Romanian wife, Marianna’s troubled son, Daniele, and a pack of dogs. Brash and bare, the family opens wide its doors to Amoruso’s camera, allowing the filmmaker to capture a shared life both distinctively challenged and upliftingly content.

Charting the rise of Stones Throw Records, the independent L.A. based label, this stylishly crafted documentary focuses on label owner Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, and his struggle to remain independent in the face of big business take-overs. From its hip hop roots the label has grown to embrace all manner of genres, from soul and funk to psychedelia and the avant-garde. Featuring interviews with the likes of Flying Lotus, Mike D, Mayer Hawthorne, ?uestlove, Common and Kanye West, this inspiring documentary pulls together rare archival footage and live performances from the Stones Throw HQ and beyond.

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OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT

REMNANTS OF MADNESS I (CE QU’IL RESTE DE LA FOLIE)

JOHN KASTNER | CANADA | 2013 | 88MINS

Best Canadian documentary - Hot Docs

French Grand Prix - Marseille International Film Festival

What happens to people who suffer from mental illnesses and commit violent crimes? Some are sent to forensic psychiatric hospitals – once called asylums for the criminally insane – where they disappear from public view for years. Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Kastner gained unprecedented access to one such facility, the Brockville Mental Health Centre. He follows the treatment of patients struggling to gain control over their lives, so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them.

Joris Lachaise takes us to Thiaroye, in a suburb near Dakar, to enter the psychiatric hospital accompanied by writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla who has been admitted there several times. Khady Sylla meets up with her doctor, familiar patients and others with whom she discusses the delicate issue of therapeutic methods and their link with colonialism. Through the latter’s experience of mental illness and treatments, the film seeks to explore the recent history of Senegal, the country’s independence as well as the decolonization of psychiatry.

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RETURN TO HOMS

RIVER RUNNER

TALAL DERKI | GERMANY | 2013 | 90MINS

DECLAN O’ MAHONY | IRELAND | 2014 | 62MINS

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize - Sundance

This story begins in the early 1970’s when young Alan Nolan discovers the joy of catching his first fish, tiny sticklebacks, in the stream that ran close to his home in Cork City. Through his eyes we get to follow his passion for the Glashaboy River, a major tributary of the River Lee, and his deep respect for the amazing creature the Wild Atlantic Salmon. As the journey up river unfolds we discover a system that has been heavily impacted in the past by man’s endeavour to progress. This has created tragic circumstances for the oldest resident of the Lee.

Filmed over three years in Homs, Syria, the film accompanies two outstanding young men from the time they are dreaming of freedom and defending pacifism, to the time when choices are forcing them to be different. Basset, the 19 year old national football team goalkeeper, turns into an iconic demonstration leader and singer, then, becomes a fighter. Ossama, a 24 year old citizen-cameraman who is critical, pacifist, and ironic, until he is detained by the regime’s security forces. Return to Homs is a modern times epic of youth in war, and of forced choices.

SCREENING WITH

BLEAK PARADISE

HELEN SELKA | IRELAND | 2014 | 50MINS

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SÉAMUS MURPHY: A QUIET REVOLUTION

SETH’S DOMINION

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PADRAIG TREHY | IRELAND | 2014 | 59MINS

LUC CHAMBERLAND | CANADA | 2014 | 42MINS | B&W

The Cork-born sculptor Seamus Murphy (1907-1975) was one of the foremost artists in Ireland in the middle decades of the twentieth-century. Apart from a year studying in Paris in the 1930s, Murphy spent his entire working life as an artist living in Cork City. Murphy’s struggle to survive as an artist mirrored that of the emerging nation around him. In his art and craft Murphy attempted to create work which would be distinctly Irish and would encourage others to look within the bounds of the island and not without, for inspiration.

Grand Prize for Best Feature - Ottawa Animation Festival A nostalgic and candid glimpse into the fascinating life and memories of Canadian cartoonist, Seth, told through documentary style interviews and Seth’s signature illustrations. Within the four walls of his home and the rigidity of careful routine lies a wealth of creativity and curiosity, brought to life most vividly in Dominion: Seth’s fictional city. With a focus on perception and the big questions in life paired with simple drawings of complex situations, Seth’s Dominion challenges the idea that we make the best of what we’re given and suggests that we are who we make ourselves to be.

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SHOWRUNNERS

SIGO SIENDO (I’M STILL)

DES DOYLE | IRELAND |USA | 2014 | 90MINS

Featuring candid interviews from J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Steven S. Deknight and others, Showrunners is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These people are responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United States’ biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. The film intends to show audiences the huge amount of work that goes into making sure their favorite TV series airs on time as well as the many challenges that showrunners have to overcome to make sure a new series makes it onto the schedules at all.

Beginning in the verdant mangroves of the Amazon basin region and moving west across the country to Lima before reaching the Pacific Ocean, I’m Still examines the soul of a nation; its traditions, customs and folklore, through the musicians it encounters on its way. Full of spectacularly photographed images of this dusty, dramatic terrain, these wandering minstrels appear as if they emerged from the very landscape itself to share their personal stories. What lingers is a sense of their quietly indomitable spirit; the feeling that though time passes the music still remains.

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SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF PORTRAIT I

SONG FROM THE FOREST

In an era where the camera holds an omnipresent place in every mobile phone and millions of pockets around the world, the filter between audience and subject has never been thinner. When eye-witness accounts of world changing events appear in grainy youtube footage on every news broadcast, what role must the documentarian play? Activist Wiam Simav Bedirxan and exiled Syrian filmmaker Ossama Mohammed’s extraordinary collaboration embraces the wealth of footage catalogued by the Syrian people and transforms it into a meditation on cinema, war and human determination.

Louis Sarno has spent the last twenty years studying the music of the Bayaka and is now a fully integrated member of this remote African tribe. Now he plans to return to New York with his son, Samedi, who has never left the jungle. He has recorded over 1000 hours of music, some of which would have otherwise been lost forever. This beautiful and thought-provoking documentary is the kind of film that lingers long after in your thoughts, the amazing juxtaposition of the two cultures making us look deeply within our own lives and at the advancement of civilization.

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STOP MAKING SENSE

STOP-OVER (L’ESCALE)

JONATHAN DEMME | USA |1984 | 88 MINS

Digitally released to mark its 30th anniversary, this seminal Talking Heads concert film instantly became a massive cult hit among fans, with audience members taking to the aisles to dance to these upbeat and infectious hits. Beginning with only David Byrne on stage with a boom-box providing the backing track, one by one he is joined by the rest of his troupe, with drum kits, keyboards and amps being wheeled onto the stage and assembled around him. Packed full of their most well known songs including Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime, it’s a challenge to sit still during this classic performance.

When the filmmaker, a Tehran-born Swiss passport holder, met his cousin Mohsen in Greece he found him sharing a cramped flat with a number of other illegal immigrants. Embedding himself amongst them, Bakhtiari documented their daily lives, their efforts to acquire convincing forged passports, their hopes to reconnect with friends and loved ones in other European countries, and their fear of having to return home. Through this intimate film we connect with them as individuals as we witness both their moments of quiet desperation and unshakeable sense of hope and camaraderie.

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STRAY DOG

TENDER

DEBBRA GRANIK | USA | 2014 | 100MINS

LYNETTE WALLWORTH | AUSTRALIA | 2014 | 73MINS

Best Documentary - LA FF

In the face of unmanageable costs and dependency on faceless funeral corporations, the small but determined community of Port Kembla form a resolution to revolutionise the way they deal with death. Confronting fear and resistance head on, the process of educating and developing a grassroots approach to funeral care is well under way when they are forced to face the reality of grief and tradition when one of their own falls ill. Laced with humour and heart, the story of Port Kembla Community Centre is one of friendship, community and a refusal to cave into fear.

Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall lives at the At Ease RV park in South Missouri with wife Alicia, four small dogs and his Harley Davidson. We join his annual cross-country pilgrimage to the Vietnam Memorial in DC, where an array of leather-clad veterans from across the country gather in support of collective demons and shared stories. At home, Stray Dog finds his small world expand to envelop Alicia’s two sons, who travel to Missouri from their native Mexico. The ghost of war lingers over the new family’s pursuit of an evolving American dream, one rooted in trailer parks, motorcycles and community.

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THE 78 PROJECT MOVIE

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THE BATTLE OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS I

WALTER SUMMERS | UK | 1927 | 105MINS | B&W

ALEX STEYERMARK | USA | 2014 | 95 MINS Armed with a vintage 1930s’ Presto direct-to-disc acetate recorder, Alex Steyermark and Lavinia Jones Wright travel across America, inviting friends, acquaintances and renowned folk musicians to each make a one-take recording of an old folk song on the device. Gospel, blues, folk and zydeco musicians from Mississippi to California share their songs and stories, while fanatical record collectors and members of the Lomax family unearth the history of this incredible device.

To commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, the BFI National Archive has restored one of the finest films of the British silent era – a thrilling reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the early stages of the conflict. Summers’ film was originally released on Armistice Day to act as a memorial to the thousands who died. Filmed on real battleships supplied by the Admiralty, this monumental production was shot mostly at sea near Malta, with the Scilly Isles a convincing stand-in for the Falklands. It is an astonishing piece of filmmaking, which glories, like Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, in the power and beauty of the machine. - Bryony Dixon, London Film Festival

SUN 16 | 1900 | GATE

THE DOG

THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY

DOCUMENTARIES

MON 10 | 1615 | GATE

ALLISON BERG, FRANK KERAUDREN | USA | 2013 | 100MINS

BRIAN KNAPPENBERGER | USA | 2014 | 105MINS

John Wojtowicz was a libidinous, unstable Italian New Yorker, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men. In August 1972, he attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his transgendered lover’s gender-reassignment surgery. Rolling TV news coverage of the crime made Wojtowicz a household name across America and inspired Sidney Lumet’s Academy Award-winning Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino. Filmed over ten years at the end of his life, The Dog is Wojtowicz’s own account of his incredible, criminal and thrilling life.

Sheffield DocFest Youth Jury award

WED 12 | 1545 | TRISKEL

SAT 8 | 2115 | GATE

THE IRON MINISTRY

From assisting in the development of basic protocol RSS at the age of 14 to co-founding Reddit, Swartz’s fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was his groundbreaking work in social justice and information access that found him embroiled in a lengthy legal battle with the US government; a battle that would end with his suicide aged 26. Aaron’s story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity: in an era of net neutrality facing its greatest threat, Aaron’s legacy carries a personal and political weight.

THE OVERNIGHTERS

J.P. SNIADECKI | USA | 2014 | 82MINS | SUBTITLED

JESSE MOSS | USA | 2014 | 100MINS

This remarkable new film was shot over three years during a series of train journeys across China. It begins with metal: the sounds and sights of gears, wheels on tracks and linked railway cars meshing, crunching, and grinding. We are gradually introduced to the people who ride and work on the cars, with their luggage, their produce, the products they’re hawking, the goods they’re transporting. Little by little, the passengers begin to speak about their country, their lives, their dreams for the future.

A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial ‘overnighters’ programme, allowing downand-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences that he never imagined.

WED 12 | 1330 | GATE

DOCUMENTARIES

SAT 8 | 2100 | TRISKEL

THE SOUND OF BELGIUM

WAITING FOR AUGUST

JOSEF DEVILLE | BELGIUM | 2012 | 86MINS | SUBTITLED

TEODORA ANA MIHAI | ROMANIA | BELGIUM | 88MINS | SUBTITLED

At the end of the 1980s, Belgium was taken by surprise by the New Beat, a once immensely popular, almost surreal type of dance music. Its unexpected but short-lived success didn’t only leave a mark on a new generation of musicians in Belgium in the years to come; the eclectic mix of sounds and styles actually had its seeds in earlier decades. The Sound of Belgium explores the rich but untold story of Belgian electronic dance music. This is a documentary that goes in search of the spirit of a nation, by exploring the history of Belgian’s popular music and the people that danced to it.

Best Documentary - Karlovy Vary IFF

WED 12 | 1315 | TRISKEL

FRI 14 | 2130 | GATE

WATCHERS OF THE SKY

With her mother out of the country in search of work, fifteen year old Georgiana finds herself responsible for the care of herself and her six siblings; sporadic and broken phone calls provide her only source of parental guidance. Rising to the challenge with a level head, the young family navigates responsibility and adolescence with determination and charm. An intimate glimpse into the reality of life in poverty-ridden Romania, Waiting for August balances humour and empathy in the everyday story of remarkable children.

YXIMALOO

TADHG O’SULLIVAN, FEARGAL WARD | IRELAND | JAPAN | 2014 | 75MINS

Ralphael Lemkin, lawyer turned lobbyist and humanitarian, and creator of the term ‘genocide’, died anonymously in New York eighteen years after fleeing his native Poland in the wake of Hitler’s invasion. His legacy, however, lives on in the international recognition of genocide as a crime against humanity, and in the minds of those who continue fighting for the protection of marginalised groups today. Weaving tales from across the globe from the root of Lemkin’s story, this sprawling documentary forces us to confront humanity’s relationship with power, violence and moral responsibility.

Naofumi ‘Yximalloo’ Ishimaru is an obscure cult musician, living and working on the fringes of music and society for all of his storied life. A self-taught, self-styled pioneer with a vast back-catalogue, Naofumi currently lives with his disabled civil partner in an anonymous, unfriendly cul-de-sac in a Dublin suburb. Torn between his loyalties to Gerry, his yearning for Japanese society and the dream of making his international music career pay, Naofumi endures a difficult year. Moving between Dublin and Tokyo, this touching portrait opens up the world of a deeply individual character to explore universal ideas of life, love and loneliness.

SHORTS

IRISH SHORTS Irish Shorts 1: In Pursuit Of...

Irish Shorts 2: The Doors of Perception

TUES 11 | 2130 | GATE | 74MINS

WED 12 | 1615 | GATE | 74MINS

Céad Ghrá

Analogue People In A Digital Age

BRIAN DEANE | IRELAND | 2014 | 12MINS

KEITH WALSH | IRELAND | 2013 | 13MINS

Two best-friends set off on a quest in pursuit of their first crush. PRODUCER EAMONN CLEARY

Rockmount

As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit at the bar battling to remain relevant in the digital world. PRODUCER JILL BEARDSWORTH

An Cat

DAVE TYNAN | IRELAND | 2014 | 13MINS

HELEN FLANAGAN | IRELAND | 2014 | 13MINS

A comic dramatisation following the burgeoning football career of an eleven-year old Cork lad named Roy who battles against complacency with his black labrador and uncompromising attitude on the football pitch. PRODUCER MICHAEL DONNELLY

I’ve Been A Sweeper

When elderly bereaved Mairtín refuses to grieve his wife's death, his wish to be left in peace is respected by everyone except his late wife's beloved pet cat. PRODUCER TRISHA FLOOD

Miscalculation

DEIRDRE FITZGERALD | IRELAND | 2014 | 18MINS

CIARÁN DOOLEY | IRELAND | 2014 | 12MINS

Dublin, 1981: Nuala Ni Bhraonáin, electronics whizz, clashes with Donnachadh, her flatmate and an egomaniacal Gaelgóir with a penchant for passing off other people’s poems as his own. PRODUCER PATRICK SCAHILL

Aware of his fate, a sweeper reflects on his past and present on this, the very last day of his life. PRODUCER

MARK HOLLAND

Normal

BoxRoom

STEPHEN BRADY | IRELAND | 2014 | 22MINS

A chance meeting between some very unlikely people: a gym instructor, a scientific genius and an escort.

MICHAEL LATHROP | IRELAND | 2014 | 15MINS

Jerry is a strange and solitary boy who lives alone with his young neglectful mother in a rundown apartment. Behind the bedroom wall he discovers a seductive alien creature with which he has sex. PRODUCER DAVID

PRODUCER EDDIE JACKSON

Boogaloo and Graham

MICHAEL LENNOX | IRELAND | 2014 | 14MINS

LESTER MOONEY

In 1970s Belfast, two young boys discover the facts of life with the aid of their pet chickens. PRODUCER BRIAN

Anya

J. FALCONER

DAMIEN O’CONNOR | IRELAND | 2014 | 6MINS

There are thousands of forgotten orphans in Russia. This animation supports their plight. PRODUCER EDEL

BYRNE

Unreal Exile

DAVID NWAJEI | IRELAND | 2014 | 9MINS

A young man peers into a Zoetrope and embarks on a spiritual and surreal journey. PRODUCER DAVID NWAJEI

Irish Shorts 3: Anger Is An Energy

Irish Shorts 4: Wishful Thinking

THURS 13 | 1930 | GATE | 78MINS

FRI 14 | 1600 | GATE | 74MINS

Reunion

Land Is God

In a small Irish midlands town, Cillian, a wayward young man, returns home after years away to confront his abusive father. PRODUCERS FRANKIE SHINE, OLIVIA

Jim is an ageing farmer who has lost his wife and has lost contact with his son Seamus. Helped by an unlikely catalyst, Jim is inspired to re-establish contact with his son before it is too late. PRODUCER BRIAN J FALCONER

FRANKIE SHINE | IRELAND | 2014 | 10MINS

JONATHAN BEER |IRELAND | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 14MINS

JAMES

Maggie

Nostalgia.exe

AODHAGAN O'RIORDAN | IRELAND | 2014 | 8MINS

AIDAN DUFFY | IRELAND | 2014 | 17MINS

Charlie’s dementia ensures he can only look back on his better times with Maggie. PRODUCERS AODHAGAN

In the near future dream recording has become a reality. As has dream-splicing, the dangerous and illegal process of editing and altering recorded dreams for subconscious playback. PRODUCER AIDAN DUFFY

O'RIORDAN , MARIE O CONNELL

Gloria

NICHOLAS O’RIORDAN | IRELAND | 2014 | 6MINS

I Am Here

Set in Cork city, this is a memory-like view of a fractured relationship. PRODUCER GER BROWNE

DAVID HOLMES | IRELAND | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 17MINS

A man wakes keep stranded in a strange new world. As he struggles through its unfamiliar terrain, a landscape that at first seemed threatening begins to offer up unexpected glimpses of the familiar. PRODUCER DAVID

In This Place

ALEC MOORE | IRELAND | 2014 | 20MINS

Mark is living in a small rural village in Ireland during a period of emigration. Observing Mark in a day of his life as old friends are visiting and forcing Mark to take a look at the life he lives. PRODUCERS ALEC MOORE,

HOLMES

Justlikeabitch

RUAIDHRI CONROY | IRELAND | 2014 | 20MINS

TRISTAN HEANUE

Horse

Benjy is a homeless alcoholic, who has lost the only thing he loves in the world, his dog Diana, and is desperately trying to find her again. PRODUCERS

YVONNE MCDEVITT | IRELAND | 2014 | 19MINS

RUAIDHRI CONROY, VANESSA GILDEA, ETAIN MCGUCKIAN

A former war correspondent, now blind, is exiled in a derelict building. Haunted by her experience of war, she relives the pain keep...until a dying man falls through her window, and inspires her to live.

Rince

MEDB JOHNSTONE | IRELAND | 2014 | 8MINS

This is a snapshot into the lives of a family of dancers living in a rural community whose competitive edge is exposed and calculated by their mother as she prepares the dinner. PRODUCER CLODAGH NÍ BHRIC

PRODUCER ASTRID VAN DER HAUSEN

After

SEÁN BRANIGAN | IRELAND | 2014 | 15MINS

Dan's night is cut short when his new girlfriend Jenny suffers a traumatic attack. Dan faces an important decision that will define his very character and his future. PRODUCER KATHRYN KENNEDY 75

SHORTS

IRISH SHORTS

SHORTS

IRISH SHORTS Irish Shorts 6: In Profile

Irish Shorts 5: The Art Of Denial SAT 15 | 1130 | GATE | 87MINS

SAT 15 | 1615 | GATE | 82MINS

Cutting Grass

The Polling Station

Dónal is trying his hand at cutting lawns for pocket money. However, his luck changes when he meets Gerry.

A fly on the wall documentary that looks at the democratic process on Long Island, Schull, Co Cork, by following the Elections Officer as he manages the local voting system. PRODUCER HELEN SELKA

RUAIRI O’BRIEN, JOHN KENNEDY | IRELAND | 2014 | 12MINS

HELEN SELKA | IRELAND | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 14MINS

PRODUCER LAURA MCNICHOLAS

Tadhg McSweeney, Painter A Film Portrait C

Pin/Do

ALAN JOSEPH TULLY | IRELAND | 2014 | 4MINS

Pin's life is a toxic web of hazardous emotion. This is her coping mechanism. PRODUCER ALAN JOSEPH TULLY

DÓNAL Ó CÉILLEACHAIR | IRELAND | 2014 | 22MINS

ENRIQUE CARNICERO | IRELAND | 2014 | 15MINS

Born in the Muskerry West Cork Gaeltacht, Tadhg MacSweeney is a unique Irish artst who continues to find extraordinary beauty in the ordinary. PRODUCER

CARNICERO, ADAM WYETH

Seventh Son

Anywhere But Here

An exploration of the concept that since ancient times the seventh son has been said to possess great magic and is gifted with healing powers, in tune with nature, animals, and all living things. PRODUCER NODLAG

Hang Up

DÓNAL Ó CÉILLEACHAIR

Stuck alone with his thoughts, William becomes increasingly unhinged. PRODUCERS ENRIQUE

NARAYAN VAN MAELE | IRELAND | 2014 | 13MINS

JOHN HAYES | IRELAND | 2014 | 21MINS

James’ only friend is a crab called Bernard until Stacy arrives and turns his world upside down. PRODUCER ANDREW BRADFORD

HOULIHAN

Surface Deep

A Mysterious Volume of Holiday Field Recordings

CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN | Ireland | 2014 | 9MINS

Malcolm and Eva have done something horrible and try to bury their problems deep in the Irish woods.

MICHAEL RYAN | IRELAND | FRANCE | 2014 | 14MINS

PRODUCER OISÍN O’DRISCOLL

JULIEN REGNARD | IRELAND | 2014 | 11MINS

An experimental documentary, on the working process of the French filmmaker Aurélie Bonamy as she films the life of a small village in the South of France.

PRODUCER JONATHAN CLARKE

Elwha River Dam

Beth

A recreation of artificial worlds using found footage from the internet to create the models. PRODUCER

Somewhere Down the Line

PRODUCERS MICHAEL RYAN, AURÉLIE BONAMY

A man’s life. Loves and losses are shown through the exchanges he has with the passengers in his car.

JOANNE BRACKEN | IRELAND | 2014 | 5MINS

Having had the seemingly perfect doll from a young age, Beth can't help but feel attached. PRODUCER

MARK KENT

PATRICK O’CONNOR

Bó

OISÍN BICKLEY | IRELAND | 2014 | 13MINS

In November

A day in the life of Pearse O’Sullivan; a West Cork dairy farmer, cow enthusiast and now, expectant father.

RUAIRI MCKENNA | IRELAND | 2014 | 10MINS

The world of the dead encroaches on the life of a lonely young woman. PRODUCER RUAIRI MCKENNA

MARK KENT | IRELAND | 2014 | 6MINS

PRODUCERS JASON FORDE, OISÍN BICKLEY

Programme One: The Past Is A Foreign Country

Programme Two: Future Days

WED 12 | 2130 | GATE | 92MINS

THURS 13 | 1130 | GATE | 83MINS

Field Study

A Living Soul

A young, shy student on a field trip to post-communist Poland abruptly comes of age when he decides to withhold a truth. PRODUCER JULIA GODZINSKAYA

A submerged self wakes up in a laboratory. Gradually we understand that it's the subjective experience of Ypsilon, a human brain being kept alive artificially.

EWA WEBER | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 20MINS

HENRY MOORE SELDER | SWEDEN | 2014 | 29MINS

PRODUCER CECILIA NESSEN

The Book of the Dead (Les livres de morts)

Monotony

ALAIN ESCALLE | FRANCE | 2013 | 30MINS

In the rubble of a neighborhood slated for demolition, somewhere in Eastern Europe, Mikhail is grappling with his own personal demons. Faded images from the past and painful memories gradually come to life.

JOANNE POSTLEWAITE | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 2MINS

In a dystopian future a bizarre encounter breaks up the monotony of a man's working day. PRODUCER JOANNE

PRODUCER NICOLAS SCHWERIN

POSTLEWAITE

Sub Rosa

Polaris

THORA HILMARSDOTTIR | ICELAND | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 15MINS

CHRISTOPHE DEROO | FRANCE | 2014 | 17MINS

Sam is a travelling salesman. His everyday life is spent travelling on the road of California, leaving his wife and child behind. Everything seems normal, until his car breaks down in the middle of the desert and leaves him stranded in a motel. PRODUCER KATYA MOKOLO

Tilda, an eight year old girl, lives with her grandmother who runs a flower shop. She roams around freely and discovers a world of indecent activities lurking behind the flower shop walls while her self-image forms at a tremendous speed. PRODUCER SOPHIE BROOKS

Typist

In The Still of the Night (In der Stille der Nacht)

SERGEY VLASOV | ISRAEL | 2013 | 13MINS

In an underground world, a group of typists are typing texts constantly. Suddenly one of the keyboards gets broken and the typist has to exit the room to find himself a new keyboard. The thing is, he is the first ever person to exit this very room. PRODUCERS YANA

ERICH STEINER | AUSTRIA | 2014 | 13MINS

Three children are waiting for their father. When the father comes home, he looks tired and sad. Only the eldest daughter is suspicious - deep inside she feels that their parents are hiding something from them... PRODUCER ROMAN SORGER

KLUVAK, SERGEY VLASOV

The Last One (Sonuncu)

Orbit Ever After

The last living First World War veteran in the world is a lonely man, lost in time and space. He lives in his own personal world, talking to his fridge where he hides his past. PRODUCER MARIA IVANOVA

Nigel has fallen in love. But when you live in orbit aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the most risk averse family imaginable, it isn't easy to follow your heart; especially when the girl of your dreams is spinning around earth the wrong way! PRODUCER

SERGEI PIKALOV | RUSSIA | AZERBAIJAN | 2014 | 14MINS

JAMIE STONE | UNITED KINGDOM | 2013 | 21MINS

CHEE-LAN CHAN, LEN ROWLES

SHORTS

WORLD SHORTS

SHORTS

WORLD SHORTS Programme Three: Bring the Noise

Programme Four: A Lover’s Discourse

THURS 13 | 1345 | GATE | 89MINS

FRI 14 | 1130 | GATE | 94 MINS

Song

The Kármán Line

Two men make a deal to dispose of someone but first a sacrifice must be made in the name of love.

A mother is hit by a rare condition and begins to rise gradually into the air. PRODUCERS TIERNAN HANBY,

JAMIE SIVES | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 19MINS

TIERNAN HANBY | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 24MINS

PRODUCERS JAMIE SIVES, SARAH LI

CAMPBELL BEATON, MAX MCGILL

Red Hulk

Non-Euclidean Geometry (Neuklidinė geometrija)

ASIMINA PROEDROU | GREECE | 2014 | 27MINS

Giorgos lives on his own in Athens and fills the void in his life by "becoming" the Red Hulk at his football team's fan club...until the day he gets involved in racial violence, bringing new problems and dilemmas. PRODUCER ASIMINA PROEDROU

SKIRMANTA JAKAITE, SOLVEIGA MASTEIKAITE | LITHUANIA | 2013 | 11MINS

This film is about the laws of love, which are as simple as one, two, three, when we are in love, but incomprehensible once love retreats. PRODUCER

JURATE SAMULIONYTE

Happy Toys

ZAWE ASHTON | UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | 16MINS

Evicko

ASHTON

Ambitious medical student Milan is studying anatomy for his approaching exam. But although he tries really hard he can’t manage to know which bone is where and what. He decides to work on his fragile, quiet girlfriend Eva. PRODUCERS DENIZ TAN, TAHIR AKAY

Stella’s day job is to inhabit an adult bear costume and become Happy Bear, the shopfront mascot for toy store ‘Happy Toys’. PRODUCERS OLI HARBOTTLE, ZAWE

ZIYA DEMIREL | DENMARK | TURKEY | 2014 | 14MINS

Pulse

RUTH PAXTON | SCOTLAND | 2014 | 15MINS

More Than Two Hours (Bishtar az do sa'at)

A noir-like, expressionistic short about peril, rescue and the basic human need to connect. It expresses how fundamental our mental wellbeing is, how complex and sinister the territory in people’s minds can become.

ALI ASGARI | IRAN | 2013 | 15MINS

A boy and a girl are wandering through the city looking for a hospital as she is in dire need of assistance. But this is much more difficult than anticipated...

PRODUCER ROSIE CRERAR

PRODUCER SASAN SALOUR

Festus

SHAWN SNYDER | UNITED STATES | 2014 | 12MINS

Pride

PRODUCER SHAWN SNYDER

Manol, a retired general and loving grandfather, is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs. Which he has upheld in his household. The day he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.

Festus, a reclusive and melancholic middle aged man, finds solace only in music. In search of community, expression and release beyond his apartment walls, Festus must overcome his crippling social awkwardness in order to take the stage at a local Open Mic.

PAVEL G. VESNAKOV | BULGARIA | 2014 | 30MINS

PRODUCER VANYA RAINOVA

Programme Five: The Anxiety of Influence

Programme Six: Documentaries

FRI 14 | 1400 | GATE | 94MINS

SAT 15 | 1130 | GATE | 96MINS

The Chicken

Godka Circa

UNA GUNJAK | CROATIA | GERMANY | 2014 | 15MINS

As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. PRODUCERS JELENA GOLDBACH, SINIŠA JURI

In Beerato, a small, isolated, wind-swept village in Somaliland, 12-year-old Alifa tells us about her life. PRODUCER ANTONIO TIBALDI

Noema

On The Threshold (Sto Katofli)

CHRISTIANA PERSCHON | AUSTRIA | 2014 | 29MINS

Ninety-three year old painter Tatjana is losing her eyesight. The moving images explore sensory perception beyond seeing, mirroring the painter's alignment as she relys more than ever on her hand and imagination from sheer experience alone. PRODUCER

ANASTASIA KRATID | GREECE | 2013 | 19MINS

A devoted young woman does everything for her family. PRODUCER ANASTASIA KRATIDI

Cadet

KEVIN MEUL | BELGIUM | 2013 | 15MINS

CHRISTIANA PERSCHON

This is a pitch-black tragicomic story of Steve, a 13 yearold athlete who is secretly being doped by his father and coach Patrick to enhance his performance on the track. Steve is faced with the hard choice between his self-esteem and his father's wishes. PRODUCER KEVIN

Balazher, The Corrections of Reality

LESIA KORDONETS | SWITZERLAND | RUSSIA| 2014 | 29MINS

Since Soviet times, an old Ukrainian bus has been running along the outermost EU border. Passengers wait patiently at the bus stop and they dream that the bus will take them - perhaps to a better future.

MEUL

Justlikeabitch

PRODUCER LAURA ZIMMERMANN

RUAIDHRI CONROY | IRELAND | 2014 | 20MINS

Our Curse

Benjy is a homeless alcoholic, who has lost the only thing he loves in the world, his dog Diana, and is desperately trying to find her again. PRODUCERS

TOMASZ SLIWINSKI | POLAND | 2014 | 28MINS

The film shows the process of taming the fear by the parents and gradually adopting to the new situation as their child is diagnosed with a very rare and incurable disorder. PRODUCER MACIEJ SLESICKI

RUAIDHRI CONROY, VANESSA GILDEA, ETAIN MCGUCKIAN

Deserted

YOAV HOARNUNG | ISRAEL | 2013 | 25MINS

On the final assignment of their course as officer candidates in the Israeli army, two women trek through a harsh desert landscape when one suddenly remembers she’s forgotten something crucial... PRODUCER YOAV HORNUNG

SHORTS

WORLD SHORTS

SHORTS FROM EUROPE SHORTS

SAT 8 | 1700 | GATE

EUNIC Ireland presents Shorts from Europe. Free, Non-Ticketed, First Come, First Served. The EUNIC cluster is composed of the Alliance Française, the Austrian Embassy, the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, the Embassy of Greece, the Instituto Cervantes, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Embassy of Romania and the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Diagnostic

Pipas

Trespass

Loser Leg

FABRICE BRACQ (PRESENTED BY THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE) | COMEDY | FRANCE | 2013 | 8’10

MANUELA MORENO (PRESENTED BY THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES) | COMEDY | SPAIN | 2013 | 3’33

PAUL WENNINGER (PRESENTED BY THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY) | ANIMATION | AUSTRIA | 2012 | 11’

FRANCESCO FILIPPI (PRESENTED BY THE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA) | ANIMATION | ITALY | 2010 | 8’20

The Hungry Corpse

Family Issues

GERGELY WOOTSCH (PRESENTED BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL) | ANIMATION | UNITED KINGDOM | 2012 | 9’30

RUXANDRA GHITESCU (PRESENTED BY THE EMBASSY OF ROMANIA AND THE ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE) | COMEDY | ROMANIA | 2012 | 14’

Wind

On Departure

ROBERT LÖBEL (PRESENTED BY THE GOETHE-INSITUT) | ANIMATION | GERMANY | 2013 | 3’49

EOIN DUFFY (PRESENTED BY THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE) | ANIMATION | 2011 | 4’51

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NEW POLISH SHORTS Here are four of the most widely appreciated and internationally decorated Polish short films from recent years. The selection includes two graduation films (documentary and fiction) from the Polish National Film School in Lodz, a graduation short from the Gdynia Film School and an animated short from the No Label studio in Krakow. Together, the four shorts have garnered more than 60 awards at film festivals worldwide.

Ziegenort

Exit Point

Fish Boy is a teenager facing the challenges of growing up. His problems are especially severe, as he is different from all others: He is half boy, half fish.

This intimate portrait of a base jumper who leaps from the highest buildings is also a story of sacrifice in the name of superior values. What's the prize of being free and is freedom indeed worth the biggest sacrifice?

TOMASZ POPAKUL | ANIMATION | 2013 | 20MINS

JAGODA SZELC | DOCUMENTARY | 2013 | 18MINS

CAST JAKUB NOSIADEK, MACIEJ MISZCZAK, DARIA POLASIK, NATALIA BROZYNSKA, SLAWOMIR SULEJ.

Frozen Stories

GRZEGORZ JAROSZUK | DRAMA | 2011 | 27MINS

Frozen Stories is the grotesque tale about the young girl and boy who work at the same supermarket. As the worst employees of the supermarket they have been ordered to find a purpose of their lives and in just two days start a better, brand new life. CAST JUSTYNA WASILEWSKA, PIOTR ŻURAWSKI, ANDRZEJ WALDEN, PIOTR TROJAN

Mother

LUKASZ OSTALSKI | DRAMA | 2012 | 30MINS

Małgorzata - an important politician - is going to her home at the lake. Her son - a drug addict - needs her help. Małgorzata is asking her daughter for her support. At home they find Małgorzata's semiconscious son and a massacred body of a young girl. CAST DANUTA STENKA, MAGDALENA CZERWIŃSKA, RAFAŁ FUDALEJ, PAULINA SZOSTAK

SHORTS BY NEW HORIZONS STUDIO 2014 ALUMNI FRI 14 | 1900 | GATE | FREE

‘The Studio’ is a ground-breaking and potent series of networking, script development and pitching events run annually during the New Horizons Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland; James Mullighan was invited to invigilate some of this training this year. These four medium length films were made by some of the Studio’s 2014 alumni - here’s your chance to discover first in Cork four big European filmmaking names of the future.

128TH RAT /128. SZCZUR

YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW / DUN BUGUN YARIN

JAKUB PACZEK | POLAND | 2013 | 30MINS

ANIL KAYA | TURKEY | 2014 | 17MINS

LENA AND ME / LENA I JA

SUCH A LANDSCAPE / TAKI PEJZAZ

KALINA ALABRUDZINSKA | POLAND | 2014 | 18MINS

JAGODA SZELC | POLAND | 2013 | 23MINS

SHORTS

THURS 13 | 1845 | GATE

FREE RADICALS SHORTS

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS FRI 14 | 1130 | TRISKEL | 89MINS

Most of the work in the Free Radicals shorts programme was created from Super-8, 16mm and 35mm film, demonstrating that in the right hands film is still a medium full of vitality and possibility.

Sky Lines

Minore

Sets of choreographed lines dance across the screen...

An attempt for a vague description of something lost.

NADINE POULAIN | SERBIA | 2013 | 10MINS | B&W

YIORGOS NALPANTIDIS | GREECE | 2014 | 6MINS

Black Channel Forest

IAN HELLIWELL | UK | 2014 | 5MINS

A collaboration between Helliwell and Black Channels.

Water from Grain

Picture Particles

Sea of Vapors / Meer der Dünste

The filmmaker captures youths hanging out in Vienna.

Repetition is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion.

A cascade of images cut frame by frame flow into an allegory of the lunar cycle.

JOSEPHINE AHNELT | AUSTRIA | 2013 | 13MINS | B&W

Cloud Shadow / Wolkenschatten

ANJA DORNIEDEN, JUAN DAVID GONZALEZ MONROY | GERMANY | 2014 | 17MINS

This is the horror machine.

THORSTEN FLEISCH | GERMANY | 2014 | 6MINS

SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER | GERMANY | 2014 | 15MINS | B&W

The Death of Place

DIRK DE BRUYN | AUSTRALIA | 2014 | 14MINS

Half articulated childhood memories of learning to read and write.

Still Dissolution

SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF | AUSTRIA | 3MINS | 2013

Warning: contains strobe lighting effects.

There is a past. Film shows this transience.

EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB presents OUR SOULS ARE PALESTINIAN SAT 15 | 2PM | CRAWFORD ART GALLERY | 88 MINS

This programme of short artists' film works looks at Palestine from various perspectives - external, embedded and provocative. Each of the filmmakers go beyond mainstream media representations of Palestine to interrogate the emotional and political landscape through uncanny juxtaposition of image and text.

Followed by a panel discussion about film media and the current situation in Palestine including Laurence Davis (Dept of Government UCC), Rola Abu Zeid O’Neill (Dept of Sociology UCC), Harry Browne (School of Media DIT) and Francesco Mattuzzi (co-director of Future Archaeology). Curated and chaired by artist/filmmaker Aoife Desmond. 82

Programme 1: Stutter Films

Programme 2: At a Distance

SAT 8 | 1400 | TRISKEL | 87MINS

SUN 9 | 1400 | TRISKEL | 102MINS

Stutter Films is the name under which Hamid Shams Javi and Kamyar Kordestani create their bizarre and hallucinatory visions, darkly poetic personal documents that often resemble surreal horror stories.

The second programme looks at two Iranian filmmakers based in Europe. Artist Bahar Samadi’s visually exquisite, gem-like videos mysteriously suggest loss and memory. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s bleak evocation of exile, Hades of Limbo, was made using a unique concept that incoporates exile into its very making: he directed his actors and crew in Tehran remotely from his home in Dublin.

Untitled HAMID SHAMS JAVI | 5MINS | 2011 | IRAN | B&W

Turtle

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HAMID SHAMS JAVI | 9MINS | 2011 | IRAN | B&W

BAHAR SAMADI | 4MINS | 2012 | FRANCE | B&W

Full House

W.E.

KAMYAR KORDESTANI | 5MINS | 2011 | IRAN | SUBTITLES

BAHAR SAMADI | 5MINS | 2014 | FRANCE

Partizan

The Memories of Others

KAMYAR KORDESTANI | 7MINS | 2012 | IRAN | SUBTITLES

BAHAR SAMADI | 8MINS | 2012 | FRANCE

Ashes to Ashes

On the Way

HAMID SHAMS JAVI | 7MINS | 2012 | IRAN

BAHAR SAMADI | 3MINS | 2013 | FRANCE

Punishment KAMYAR KORDESTANI | 25MINS | 2013 | IRAN |SUBTITLES

Hades of Limbo

The Hell With It

HAMID SHAMS JAVI | 29MINS | 2013 | IRAN | SUBTITLES

Experimental Film Society, founded and curated by Dublin-based Iranian filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi, is a not-for-profit entity that promotes, archives and produces work by a dozen filmmakers in several different countries, with filmmakers united by an uncompromising devotion to personal, experimental cinema. They share an exploratory approach to filmmaking where films emerge from the interplay of sound, image and atmosphere rather than traditional storytelling techniques. EFS has been crucial in nurturing a new Iranian underground cinema that is significantly different from both official Iranian cinema and the politically oppositional works that western audiences are familiar with. Introspective and nightmarish, these films consist of oblique but searingly intense visions of enclosed existences. Rashidi will present both programmes. experimentalfilmsociety.com 83

SHORTS

NEW IRANIAN UNDERGROUND

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FESTIVAL CALENDAR 2014 Friday 7 November 1000

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Charlie's Country

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Art and Craft + Seth's Dominion 1415 / p61 + p68

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White Bird in a Blizzard 1915 / p56

EU Shorts

52 Tuesdays

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2130 / p52

The Overnighters

Deep City

2115 / p71

2330 / p62

New Iranian Underground: Prog. 1

Stop Making Sense

Cheatin'

The Sound of Belgium

The Editor

1130 / p70

1400 / p83

1630 / p69

1900/ p43

2100 / p72

2300 / p52

OPERA HOUSE

Frozen Sing-Along

Grandmaster

1030 / p15

1330 / p53

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Men Women And Children

1600 / p48

Björk: Biophilia Live

Standby -

1845 / p10

2100 / p11-28

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The Drop

Sebastiane OPERA HOUSE

OTHER

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Penguins of Madagascar

1130 / p70

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Darkness on the Edge of Town

Tender

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Ó Chúil Aodha go hÓileán Í + Tadhg

OPERA HOUSE IRISH GALA

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Eat My Noise

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Queen and Country

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1971

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Wild Canaries 1915 / p57

2130 / p44

Screentalk

Showrunners

The Boy Castaways

Nas: Time is Illmatic

1130 / p70

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1615 / p68

1900 / p51

Jubilee

New Iranian Underground: Prog. 2

1130 / p47

1400 / p83

OPERA HOUSE

Set Fire to the Stars

Love Is Strange

1100 / p51

1330 / p47

1715 / p60

An Irishman Abroad Live

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2115 / p66

Irene

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton

Philip King's Christy

Phantom of the Paradise

1700 / p47

1900 / p66

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2300 / p49

OPERA HOUSE

1600 / p18

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Electricity

The Battles of Coronel...

OPERA HOUSE

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A Quiet Revolution + Ar Lorg Shomhairle

OPERA HOUSE

Come All You Dreamers

The Imitation Game

1800 / p17

2045 / p54

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Eat My Noise

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Eat My Noise

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I Believe in Unicorns

Immortal Stories

The Dog

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Kon-Tiki

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Stations of the Cross

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2130 / p51

I Dream of Wires

I Always Said Yes

My Prairie Home

Triptyque

Gerontophilia

1130 / p64

1400 / p63

1630 / p65

1830 / p56

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Black Magic Rites

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The Birdcage

OTHER

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Tuesday 11 November 1000

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Dreams of a Clown

Remnants of Madness

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Violet

What We Do in the Shadow

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Irish Shorts 1 2130 / p74

Cracks in Concrete

Return to Homs

Reefer and the Model

The Debt

Life Itself

1130-1315 / p44

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2115 / p65

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

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Eat My Noise

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Waiting for August

Concerning Violence

Irish Shorts 2

Shakespeare in Love + Q&A

1130 / p63

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2000 / p39

Mateo (Columbia)

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

1130 / p48

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1500

Dummy Jim

Mateo (Cuba)

1400 / p69

You Are God

1630 / p65

Watchers Of The Sky

The Iron Ministry

Illuminate: Out of Mind, Out of Sight

1100 / p69

1315 / p72

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1800 / p67

ALBERT QUAY

Eat My Noise

OTHER

1900 / p32

FEATURES

DOCUMENTARIES

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World Shorts 1

1845 / p57

Song from the Forest

2300

2130 / p77

Detonator + Q&A

Starry Eyes

2100 / p44

2315 / p51

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Eat My Noise

2100 / p32

LIVE

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Stop-Over

GATE

1130 / p69

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White Shadow

1415 / p62 + p66

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GATE

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Off Road + Croca-Dyke Dundee

1700 / p57

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Cherry Pie

1345 / p78

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New Polish Shorts

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Enemy 2145 / p45

Hide and Seek

1845 / p81

2100 / p46

The 78 Project Movie

Illuminate: Rocks in My Pockets

Beyond Clueless

The Heart Machine

The Rover

1330 / p70

1600 / p20-21

1830 / p61

2030 / p53

2300 / p55

UNITARIAN CHURCH

When I Am Gone

OTHER

1900 / p35

Friday 14 November 1000

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Serena

1130 / p50

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1130 / p78

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1500

Finsterworld

World Shorts 4

GATE

1400

Saol

1400 / p79

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Patrick's Day 2115 / p48

El Futuro

Shorts - New Horizons Studio

1630 / p53

1900 / p81

Yximalloo + Fathom

It Came From Connemara!!

2130 / p72

2355 / p64

Free Radicals

I Am Ali

Illuminate: Patrick's Day + Q&A

Resonant Frequencies

Housebound

1130 / p82

1330 / p63

1600 / p21

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2300 / p46

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Kung Fu Elliot

OTHER

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I Used to Live Here

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The Tribe

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World Doc. Shorts

The Dance of Reality

Manakamana

DamNation

Get Up And Go + Q&A

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The Tempest

Tim Robinson: Connemara

Illuminate: Disappearing Act

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The Holy Mountain

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Our Souls Are Palestinian 1400-1630 / p28

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1800 / p27

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M Cream

1130 / p42

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Caravaggio

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A Doctor's Sword

I'm Still

The Last Match

1615 / p60

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For Those About to Rock 1900 / p63

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All Is By My Side

Awards Ceremony

1530 / p42

DOCUMENTARIES

2000

The Internet's Own Boy

Blood Rising

1130 / p43

FEATURES

1600

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A Night in the Cinema

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Stray Dog

Odyssey

1830 / p6-7

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OPERA HOUSE

CLOSING GALA - 2001: A Space 2030 / p12

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Key Venues Festival Box Office Cork Opera House Gate Cinema Triskel Arts Centre Albert Quay Farmgate Market CafĂŠ Cork School of Music Port of Cork Crawford Gallery

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All of our generous sponsors and media partners Our redoubtable board members Seán Kelly Her Excellency, Dr Ruth Adler and Paul Caball, Australian Embassy; His Excellency, Carlos Garciá de Alba, Mexican Embassy; Michael Barry, Barry & Fitzwilliam; Neil Bhatt, Studiocanal; Stacey Bowen; Dr Pat Bracken; Stuart Brown, Christine Whitehouse and all at the BFI; David Burke and all at Universal; Paula Cogan, River Lee Hotel; Nick Costello, Pat Boylan and David Reid, Warner Brothers; Claire Connolly, Barry Monahan, Dan O’ Connell, Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young and Carmel Winters at UCC; Cork Film Centre; Fiona Creedon, Irish Distillers; Hilary Creedon and all at Fáilte Ireland; Colm Crowley, Marie McInerney and all at RTÉ Cork; Des Donnelly, Metropole Hotel; Amanda Duthie and all at the Adelaide International Film Festival; Alan Fitzpatrick and Lynn Larkin, Filmbase; Karen Fleming, Hayfield Manor; Miriam Forde, and all at Cork Chamber; Keiko Funato; Orla Flynn, Rose McGrath and Trish Brennan at CIT; Margaret Greene, Brendan, Theresa, Magda, Dave and all at Gate Cinemas; Kay & Rebecca Harte and all at the Farmgate; James Hickey, Louise Ryan and all at the Irish Film Board; Mary Hickson and all at Cork Opera House; Philip Ilson; John Kastner; Ger Keohane, Ted Robinson and Colin Murphy at Studio Forty9; Ray Kelleher, Clarion Hotel; Dr Harry Kennedy; Joe Kennedy, Imperial Hotel; James King and all at Artificial Eye / Curzon; Julia Lichter; Trish Long, Maureen Ryan and Martin O’Grady at Disney; Carla MacKinnon; Kay McCarthy; Mary McCarthy; Michael McCarthy, Brendan Keating and all at the Port of Cork; Niamh McCaul and all at Paramount; Ian McDonagh, Cork County Council; Sharon McGarry, 20th Century Fox; Liz Meaney, Valerie O’Sullivan, Pat Ledwidge, Stephanie Connolly, Trish Murphy and all at Cork City Council; Mary McSweeney at Bandon Office Supplies; Helen McMahon and all at Screen Training Ireland; David Merriman; Zoe Miller, Mute Records; Christine Morrow, Northern Ireland Screen; Catherine Murray, Catherine Mulvihill, Brid Corcoran and St. John’s College; James Mulvey; Claire Nash and staff at Nash19; Aisling O’Brien, Heineken Ireland; Derry O’Brien, Network Television Ireland; Ann O’Connor and all at HSE and Arts + Minds; Sunniva O’Flynn and all at the Irish Film Institute; Ann O’Leary and all at Ford; Patrick O’Neill and Suzanne Murray at Wildcard Distribution; Tom O’Riordan, John and Cathal at the Raven Bar; Lawrence Owens, Cork Business Association; Roisin Reilly, Today FM; Andrew Roche, Irish Rail; Tony Sheehan, Chris O’Neill, Mary-Rose Murphy and all at Triskel Arts Centre; Audrey Shiels and Nell Roddy, Element Pictures; Christine Sisk and all at Culture Ireland; Damian Spandley and all at Metrodome; Fionnuala Sweeney and all at the Arts Council; Catherine Tiernan, Screen Producers Ireland; Gerald Weber, Sixpack Films; Michael White, British Council; Philippa Wilkinson, Maldron Hotel. All our fantastic volunteers

CREDITS PRESIDENT The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Cork, Mary Shields BOARD MEMBERS Denis McSweeney (Chair) Helen Boyle Ernest Cantillon Daniel J Coleman (Secretary) Finola Doyle-ONeill Sebastian Green Michael O’Connell Tadhg O’Donovan Gary Sheehan CREATIVE DIRECTOR James Mullighan ACTING FESTIVAL MANAGER Dawn Mac Allister HEAD OF PROGRAMMING Don O'Mahony HEAD OF SHORTS Colm McAuliffe HEAD OF LIVE MUSIC AND FESTIVAL CLUB Máire Dineen SPECIAL PROGRAMMING Aoife Desmond - Experimental Film Club Maximilian le Cain - Iranian Shorts Fiona Hegarty - Illuminate Dobz O’Brien - National Sculpture Factory Chris O'Neill - Twisted Celluloid Don O’Mahony - Free Radicals

SHORTS VIEWING PANEL Amanda Boka, Sara-Jayne Butler, Ciara Chambers, Michael Daly, Si Edwards, Hilda Goold, Fiona Hegarty, Rebecca Hill, Cassandra Hodges, Johnathan Illot, Seán Kelly, Val Kuzmina, Dawn Mac Allister, Carla MacKinnon, Tomás Martin, Barry Monahan, Joana Nastari, Gareth Negus, Daniel O’Connell, Ronan O’Reilly, Shane Scollard, Jane Twomey

ASSISTANT BOX OFFICE MANAGER Hilda Goold

FESTIVAL ADMINISTRATION Ruby Moore Renata Ganacharya

MARKETING COORDINATOR Aisling O'Riordan

BOX OFFICE STAFF Donna Bloss, Gareth Ewing, Breda Healy, Mika Hisatsune, Kate Magner, Jean Martin, Meggan Stacy GUEST TRANSPORT COORDINATOR Tim Thoma

COMMUNITIES ASSISTANT Val Kuzmina

DIGITAL MARKETING COORDINATOR Ciara Lawless

FESTIVAL ACCOUNTS Noelle Clarke

BROCHURE MANAGER Jane Twomey

TALENT AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Fiona Hegarty

BROCHURE EDITORIAL Don O’Mahony Colm McAuliffe Jane Twomey

GUEST SERVICES MANAGER Sharon Cronin SCHOOLS PROGRAMMER Katherine O'Riordan JURY LIAISON David Mullane PRODUCTION MANAGER Lucy Healy-Kelly

LIVE MUSIC CURATION Máire Dineen Colm McAuliffe Vicky Langan

PROJECTION TEAM Neil Cooney Kieran Fitzgerald Nisan Greenidge Seamus Hegarty Eddie Noonan

PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR Ruby McGuigan

PRINT TRANSPORT MANAGER Ruby McGuigan

PROGRAMME CONSULTANTS Sharon Cronin - Irish features Dave Desmond - Listen, Music and Sound David Mullane - LGBT Chris O’Neill - Features Ruby McGuigan - Documentaries

VENUE MANAGERS Britta Beuter Ana Mahé Chris O’Neill John Synnott BOX OFFICE MANAGER Dave Desmond 95

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Philip Cotter COVER DESIGNER Hugh Heffernan WEB EDITOR Sharon Cronin DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT Sam Fitzpatrick Robin Guiton FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHER Jedrzej Niezgoda FOR SPRINGBOARD PR Susie Horgan Louise O’Sullivan FESTIVAL PRINTING Allied Printing Ltd.

INDEX 101 1971 128th Rat 2001: A Space Odyssey 52 Tuesdays 78 Project Movie, the Actress After All Is By My Side Aladdin An Cat An Irishman Abroad - Live with Pat Shortt Analogue People in A Digital Age Anya Anywhere But Here Ar Lorg Shomhairle (Tracing Sorley's Footsteps) Art and Craft Ashes to Ashes Balhazer, The Corrections of Reality Band of Others (Band A Parte) Battle of Coronel and Falkland Islands, the Beth Beyond Clueless Birdcage, the Björk: Biophilia Live Black Channel Forest Black Magic Rites Bleak Paradise Blood Rising Bó Boogaloo and Graham Book of the Dead, the BoxRoom Boy Castaways, the Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia Cadet Caravaggio Céad Ghrá Charlie's Country Cheatin' Cherry Pie Chicken, the Cloud Shadow Come All You Dreamers Concerning Violence Cracks in Concrete Croc-a-Dyke Dundee: The Legend of Dawn O'Donnell Cutting Grass DamNation Dance of Reality, the Darkness on the Edge of Town Death of Place, the Debt, the Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound Deserted Detonator Diagnostic Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diaries #7) Doctor's Sword, a Dog, the Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old Dreams of a Clown Drop, the Dummy Jim Editor, the Electricity Elwha River Dam Enemy Evicko Exit Point Family Issues Festus Field Study Finsterworld For Those About To Rock: The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela Frozen - Singalong Frozen Stories Full House Future Archeology Future, the (El Futuro)

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Gerontophilia 45 Get Up and Go 45 Gloria 75 Godka Circa 79 Grandmaster, the 53 Hades of Limbo 83 Hang Up 76 Happy Toys 78 Hard Day, a 42 Heart Machine, the 53 Hide and Seek 46 Hit Producer, the 53 Holy Mountain, the 54 Homesman,the 54 Horse 75 Housebound 46 Hungry Corpse, the 80 I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole 63 I Am Ali 63 I Am Here 75 I Believe In Unicorns 46 I Dream of Wires 64 I Used To Live Here 46 I'm Still (Sigo Siendo) 68 I've Been A Sweeper 74 Imitation Game, the 54 Immortal Stories 64 In November 76 In The Still of the Night 77 In This Place 75 Internet's Own Boy, the 71 Irene 47 Iron Ministry, the 71 It Came From Connemara! 64 Jubilee 47 Justlikeabitch 75,79 Kármán Line, the 78 Kon-Tiki 47 Kung-Fu Elliot 64 Land Is God 75 Last Match, the 54 Last One, the 77 Lena and Me 81 Life Itself 65 Life’s No Piece of Cake 23 Light Of Day, the 55 Living Soul, a 77 Loser Leg 80 Love is Strange 47 M Cream 48 Maggie 75 Manakamana 65 Mateo (Columbia) 48 Mateo (Cuba) 65 Men Women and Children 48 Minore 82 Miscalculation 74 Monotony 77 More Than Two Hours 78 Mother 81 My Prairie Home 65 Mysterious Volume of Holiday Field Recordings, a 76 NAS: Time is Illmatic 66 Night in The Cinema 1914, a 42 Noema 79 Non-Euclidean Geometry 78 Normal 74 Nostalgia.exe 75 Ó Chúil Aodha go hÓileán I (From Coolea to Iona) 66 Off Road 66 On Departure 80 On The Threshold 79 On the Way 83 Orbit Ever After 77 Our Curse 79 Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton 66 21, 67 Out of Mind, Out of Sight 71 Overnighters, the 83 Partizan 21, 48 Patrick's Day 16 Penguins of Madagascar

49 Phantom Of The Paradise 82 Picture Particles 76 Pin/Do 80 Pipas 49 Poison Pen 77 Polaris 76 Polling Station, the 23 Populaire 78 Pride 23 Private Peaceful 78 Pulse 83 Punishment 49 Queen and Country 78 Red Hulk 49 Reefer and the Model Remnants of Madness (Ce Qu'il Reste de la Folie) 67 67 Return to Homs 75 Reunion 75 Rince 67 River Runner 74 Rockmount 21, 50 Rocks in my Pockets 55 Rover, the 50 Saol 82 Sea of Vapors 68 Seamus Murphy: A Quiet Revolution 50 Sebastiane 50 Serena 51 Set Fire to the Stars 68 Seth's Dominion 76 Seventh Son 19, 39 Shakespeare in Love 68 Showrunners 69 Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait 82 Sky Lines 76 Somewhere Down The Line 78 Song 69 Song from the Forest 72 Sound of Belgium, the 11, 28 Standby 51 Starry Eyes 51 Stations of the Cross 82 Still Dissolution 69 Stop Making Sense 69 Stopover 82 Story of I and Other Suggestive Landscapes 70 Stray Dog 77 Sub Rosa 81 Such A Landscape 76 Surface Deep 76 Tadhg McSweeney, Painter - A Film Portrait 55 Tempest, the 70 Tender 83 The Hell with It 83 The Memories of Others 82 They Do Not Exist 31 Tim Robinson: Connemara 80 Trespass 55 Tribe, the 56 Triptych 83 Turtle 83 Typist 74 Unreal Exile 83 Untitled 56 Violet 83 W.E. 72 Waiting For August 72 Watchers of the Sky 82 Water from Grain 56 What We Do in the Shadows 56 White Bird In A Blizzard 57 White Shadow 57 Wild Canaries 80 Wind 81 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow 57 You Are God 72 Yximalloo 81 Ziegenort