Corona Cork film Festival 2011 by John Foley

CONTENTS

The Fifty-Sixth Corona Cork Film Festival

Booking Information

Welcomes and Introductions

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Irish Film Archive Screening

The Dawn Anniversary Screening

Japanese Film Festival

Opening Gala / Like Crazy

EXPLORATIONS

Monday Gala / Best Intentions

Focus On Edgar Pêra

Tuesday Gala / The City Below

‘People Like Us’

Wednesday Gala / The Baron

The Softday Foley Orchestra

Thursday Gala / Bonsai

Seamus Murphy presents Let England Shake

Slow Food / 18 Meals

Practical Electronica with Ian Helliwell

Friday Gala / The Minister

The Buharov Brothers

Saturday Gala / The Whistleblower

Jesse Jones at the National Sculpture Factory

Lord Mayor’s Family Screening /

‘Free Radicals’ Programme

The Flying Machine

The RADE Trilogy

Closing Gala / Toomelah

Two Portraits

Aodhgán O’Flaherty and Toby Kaar

VJ Vision Collective

‘Seeing The Light’ at Tactic Gallery

‘Seesound’ at The Guesthouse

MotionCapture at The Firkin Crane

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Feature Programme / A-Z

DOCUMENTARY PANORAMA Documentary Programme / A-Z

THE WORLD OF SHORTS

CELEBRATIONS / OTHER WORLD Family Screenings

Youth and Education Programme

OutLook Programme

Industry Events

Short Film Juries

‘Made in Cork’ Shorts

Irish Shorts

Irish Film Board Premieres

INFORMATION

International Shorts

Credits & Acknowledgements

Focus on Romanian Short Film

Print Sources

‘This is Our World’ - Short Documentaries

Screening Schedule

Great Shorts

Index of Films

BOOKING INFORMATION

Title Sponsor

Ticket Prices Opening Gala

€16

1 - Box Office - Foyer, Cork Opera House

Closing Gala

€16

2 - Cork Opera House - Emmet Place

Slow Food On Film

€15

3 - Gate Multiplex - North Gate Bridge

Screenings at 6pm and after

€9/€8* 5 - Guesthouse - 10 Chapel Street, Shandon

Screenings before 6pm

€6/€5* 6 - National Sculpture Factory - Albert Road

Lord Mayor’s Family Screening With the support of the MEDIA programme of the European Union

A DIFFERENT VIEW sINcE 1841

Sponsors

€10/€9* 4 - Triskel Christchurch - Tobin Street

Opera House Gala Screenings

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Media Sponsors

Venue Info

Free (Ticketed)

7 - Firkin Crane - Shandon

*Concession rates apply to students, OAP and unwaged. ID required. Senior Citizens: Screenings before 6pm at the Opera House are free of charge.

Value Pass - €40/€30*

Box Office/Booking

A value pass includes a selection of 7 screenings. Opening Gala, Closing Gala and Slow Food on Film are not included.

Foyer, Cork Opera House www.corkfilmfest.org 021 - 427 1160

*€30 for students, OAP and unwaged. ID required.

Season Pass - €125/€100*

Opening Hours

A season pass gives you full access to a week-long extravaganza of film. The holder is entitled to attend any of our screening events, subject to availability. The sooner you get your pass the more choice you have!

Sat 29th Oct - Sat 5th Nov: 10am - 6pm Sun 30th Oct 2pm - 6pm Sun 6th Nov - Sun 13th Nov: 10am - 7.30pm*

*€100 for students, OAP and unwaged. ID required.

All Festival ticket holders receive a 10% discount on Food & Beverages in the Bodega Bar, Cornmarket St and Gulped Café, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St.

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Changes to Timetable Please note: Where there are inconsistencies in screening times between the relevant page in the catalogue and the timetable, it is the timetable which is correct. Where there are two documentaries in a programme, they will be screened in the order shown on the timetable. While information in the catalogue is correct at time of going to press, there may be programme changes due to circumstances beyond our control. Notice of changes will be posted at the venues, in the box office and on the festival website www.corkfilmfest.org.

Terms of Membership • Those wishing to attend festival screenings are obliged to become members of the 56th Corona Cork Film Festival Association. • The membership fee is €1.50 per transaction. This fee applies to bookings made in person at our box office, telephone bookings and internet bookings. • Membership is open to those who are 18 years of age or older. • Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable • Tickets alone do not guarantee seats. Please be aware that seats may be sold on unless occupied 10 minutes before screening time.

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WELCOME

Lord Mayor’s welcome to Corona Cork Film Festival 2011 Programme. It’s an honour to be asked to pen a foreword for this year’s festival programme following in a long and distinguished history. 2011 sees the festival celebrate 56 years entertaining the people of Cork. The festival has been through many incarnations during these years but at the heart of the festival there have always been three things that set it apart: the huge local following it continues to enjoy, the variety of cinematic experiences on offer and the unwavering support of the business community and individual patrons. Cork has been synonymous in particular for the quality of short films on offer but equally for its international flavour. We are delighted to welcome the Ambassador of Romania, who attends for our special Focus on Romania, which will include a special Romanian photography exhibition at Triskel Christchurch and a comprehensive programme of Romanian short film. Other special events this year will include the Japanese Film Festival which launches in Cork during our Festival, and then continues around the country and an Irish Film Archive screening of Come On Over a film from 1922 - starring Cork actress Kate Price with live accompaniment We are promised a packed programme with documentaries, shorts, galas, and features to suit all cinematic tastes. I have no doubt that 2011 will maintain the consistently high standards the festival has delivered over the years and hope to see as many of the films on offer as my schedule will allow. Cllr Terry Shannon Lord Mayor of Cork

A message from the Managing Director of Barry & Fitzwilliam, Michael Barry. As title sponsors of the Corona Cork Film Festival for the fifth year in a row, we are very proud to again be associated with such a successful festival which brings an invigorating mix of feature films, short films and documentaries to film enthusiasts from Ireland and abroad. It’s heartening to see that the Festival has gone from strength to strength throughout its 56 years and this year promises to be the most successful to date. As distributors of Corona Extra, the partnership has been a resounding success for our brand. The imaginative nature of the Festival is a great fit for lovers of Corona who appreciate ‘experiencing the extraordinary’ and we are proud to support the venture through our title sponsorship and by rolling out a strong communications strategy to promote the Corona Cork Film Festival nationwide. We are fully supportive of the Festival Board, management and tremendous staff, and applaud the efforts of the myriad filmmakers, patrons and volunteers who rally around to bring remarkable film, sociability and fun to the City. Cork has a vibrant artistic community and the festival affords everyone the opportunity to escape into the magic created by talented filmmakers from around the world. Enjoy the Corona Cork Film Festival – a refreshing slice of cinema! Michael Barry Managing Director, Barry & Fitzwilliam Ltd. www.bandf.ie

A very warm welcome to this year’s Corona Cork Film Festival. This year we have a very stimulating and exciting schedule of film features, short films and documentaries awaiting your viewing. We are especially focusing on emerging filmmakers with our Young Filmmaker Development Programme, and I would encourage all first-time attendees to embrace and enjoy the eight days of film. We are also delighted to welcome Kathryn Bolkovac, whose real life experiences are the subject of the Irish Premiere of The Whistleblower, a film which was the standout feature at the Toronto Film Festival. Another matter of great significance is the return this year of the Festival Programme to Triskel at the newly and wonderfully refurbished Christchurch and I would urge every patron of the festival to visit it at least once during the Festival. I will not detain you from what I hope will be an exciting browse through the programme but I must first gratefully acknowledge the support of The Arts Council, Cork City Council, Fáilte Ireland, MEDIA, Culture Ireland, and Screen Training Ireland during these fiscally difficult times.

A special thanks also to Michael Barry and Corona for the continued sponsorship of the Festival. Thank you also to our core staff led by Mick Hannigan, to the Board of the Festival, to our volunteers and seasonal staff. Thanks finally to you: the patrons and the festival-goers, whose presence make the year’s efforts worthwhile to everyone involved. Michael O’Connell, Festival Chairman

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Classic

Aidan Bruton Ruth Riddick

Margaret Campbell Dr. John Chandler Mike Collins Mary Crilly & Dola Twomey Eugene Freuder & Pamela Friedman Mary & Aidan Heffernan John Lucey Joe McAvoy Joanne O’ Riordan Hamid Oucherfi Jo-Ann & Tony Ryan Declan Scott Aidan Tyrell Gerald Weste Warren Pickles William Wall

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WELCOME Not Just A Cultural Event! Cork Film Festival is not just a cultural event, though that is our raison d’être – to champion creative filmmaking in all its forms. We believe that the festival plays a supportive role within the Irish film industry, particularly in the nascent careers of young directors, producers and the many others involved in a film production. Repeatedly we hear that a Cork screening of their short has provided encouragement to a young filmmaker and it is gratifying to see our short film ‘alumni’ coming back to Cork each year with feature films. We have deepened our commitment to young Irish filmmakers by expanding our Accreditation scheme giving access to all screenings, workshops and events in the belief that a productive experience in Cork will help their emerging careers. We have a Filmmakers Development Programme, including on Saturday 12th, an Industry Fair in Christchurch. This is aimed at both emerging filmmakers but also those who are interested in making films and don’t know where to start. Of particular interest to us is the growing filmmaking scene in Cork. Because of the great quality of the work submitted, our ‘Made In Cork’ section has had to be expanded to three screenings. And, as last year, three feature films shot in Cork City and County are in the programme. We congratulate the makers of The Pier, Tree Keeper and Steamin’ And Dreamin’ 2, the latter two receiving their World Premiers at the festival. We are delighted that during the festival Cork Screen Commission will be launched by Minister Jimmy Deenihan, TD. This is an initiative of Cork City and County Councils and we wish it well. Already on the back of this we have seen the emergence of Southern Screen Professionals, an indication of the strength of the local filmmaking scene. We should also pay tribute to the continued important work of Cork Film Centre in providing support, training and equipment to local filmmakers. After a two-year hiatus we are delighted to be back in the Triskel Arts Centre and in particular in Christchurch where there is a full programme of screenings and performances including by Cork based VJs and electronic musicians. We are fortunate to have the support of Cork Opera House and the Gate Multiplex as venues. But the festival programme is not confined to cinemas - we have a partnership with the National Sculpture Factory, who this year host an installation by Jenny Jones. There will be screenings

in the Tactic Gallery (in the old FÁS building), in the Firkin Crane, The Guesthouse and in The Pavilion who, in addition to screening Steamin’ And Dreamin’ 2 have established themselves this year as the venue for a Festival Fringe. We welcome that. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Festival team for their tireless work during the past months. Putting the festival together is a complex process requiring the input of many people and we are very lucky to have such a dedicated team. I especially wish to thank my full-time colleagues Úna Feely and Seán Kelly. Also the Festival Board who in the face of cutbacks in our funding – public and private – have been exemplary in their support of the festival team. I thank our many supporters, the funders – primarily the Arts Council – sponsors – primarily Barry Fitzwilliam, our advertisers and the ‘Friends of the Festival’. We salute the very many filmmakers who have provided the content of the festival, many of whom travel to Cork to present their films. And it is the audience who I finally thank. Without your support the festival would have no meaning. With your support, across the eight days and nights, it is a most enjoyable and memorable experience. Thank you. Mick Hannigan. Festival Director

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Toomelah

OPENING GALA

Sunday 6th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

MONDAY GALA

Monday 7th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

Adrian Sitaru’s sophomore feature is a deeply empathetic comedy drama focusing on the awkward problems arising from a parent struck down with a serious illness. Alex, in his mid-thirties, is quite a neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son’s life gets thrown into disarray. At the hospital, he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation while listening to everybody’s advice, he’s becoming a hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine, Alex is making his own set of mistakes – throughout with best intentions. Guided by his own paranoia and rampant insecurities, Alex’s actions offer a mirror to our own cavalier helplessness seen through the prism of what we can never control.

Best Director and Best Actor – Locarno International Film Festival, 2011 Producer Ada Solomon Leading Players Bogdan Dumitrache, Nataşa Raab, Alina Grigore, Marian Râlea Photography Adrian Silisteanu Script Adrian Sitaru Editor Andrei Gorgan Music Cornel Ilie Print Sourceinfo@filmsboutique.com

Like Crazy TUESDAY GALA

Drake Doremus

Tuesday 8th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

USA | 2011 | 89mins | 35mm | Colour A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus’ film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Best Actress at the Sundance Film Festival) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. This intimate, original and contemplative film explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart. An exquisite, beautifully acted cinematic gem, Like Crazy depicts both the hopefulness and the heartbreak of love, and the bittersweet beauty of first relationships.

Grand Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival, 2011

The City Below / Unter Dir Die Stadt Christoph Hochhäusler Germany | 2010 | 110mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled Producers Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling Leading Players Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Alex Kingston Photography John Guleserian Script Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones Editor Jonathan Alberts Music Dustin O’Halloran Print Source Paramount Pictures

The City Below is a masterful tale of fiscal and physical infidelity, as the private and professional clash beneath the backdrop of the German banking world. A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers - both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for each other. Svenja is curious and finds herself in a hotel room with Roland, but she does not consummate an affair. A powerful executive at the large bank where Svenja’s husband works, Roland is used to getting what he wants. He manipulates the transfer of her husband to Indonesia to replace a recently murdered bank manager. Unaware of Roland’s actions, Svenja now finds herself succumbing to his charms… Evocatively shot and impressively acted, Hochhäusler has crafted an incisive and often darkly humorous exploration of the malevolent world of high finance amid the climate of late capitalism on the wane. In co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland Producer Bettina Brokemper Leading Players Nicolette Krebitz, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Mark Waschke Photography Bernhard Keller Script Ulrich Peltzer, Christoph Hochhäusler Editor Stephen Stabenow Music Benedikt Schiefer Print Source info@matchfactory.

WEDNESDAY GALA

Wednesday 9th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

SLOW FOOD NIGHT GALA

The Baron / O Barão

18 Meals / 18 Comidas

Edgar Pêra

Jorge Coira

A superior mixture of German Expressionism and American Gothic, this Kafkaesque confrontation between an observer and a feudal baron reveals itself as a remake of a film destroyed in the 1940s by the then-repressive Portuguese regime. A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to report on the suspicious activities of a teacher. After arrival, the baron invites the inspector to stay with him as they discuss women, politics and horses with the inscrutable Idalina serving food and drink. Despite himself, the inspector soon finds himself caught in the trials and tribulations of the baron’s mysterious world. A remarkably ambitious film, Edgar Pêra has created a hyper-stylised drama, like an apparition from an earlier time. Cloaked in a mélange of shade and suspicion, The Baron is a mysterious and powerful arthouse tour-de-force, firmly within the lineage of Eraserhead, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.

Welcome once again to our annual celebration of all things Slow Food! This year we were delighted to discover the pleasures of 18 Meals, directed by Jorge Coira, who we welcome as our special guest for this screening. We celebrate the Slow Food movement as a global, grassroots organisation which links the importance of food diversity with the pleasure of good food and a commitment to community and the environment.

We welcome the director, Edgar Pêra and the lead actor, Nuno Melo, to introduce the film.

Thursday 10th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Ingredients 1 busker who missed his chance to be happy / 1 woman, married but who still dreams of the busker / 1 Macedonian, lost in Santiago de Compostela / 1 girl invited to the wrong meal /1 young woman who wants more than she’s getting / 1 man who can’t give everything the young girl is asking him for / 2 sisters at loggerheads because one of them wants to become a singer / 1 father and 1 son who are looking for a singer for their band.

Producer Ana Costa Leading Players Nuno Melo, Marcos Barbosa, Leonor Keil, Marina Albuquerque, Vitor Correia Photography Luís Branquinho Script Edgar Pêra, Luísa Costa Gomes, based on the novel by Branquinho da Fonseca Editors Edgar Pêra, Tiago Antunes, João Gomes Music Vozes da Rádio Print Source anacosta@cinemate.pt

Producers Fernanda de Nido, Farruco Castroman, Luis Tosar, Hugo Castro Fau Print Source david@cinemarepublic.es

THURSDAY GALA

FRIDAY GALA

Thursday 10th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

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Bonsai

The Minister / L’Exercice De L’État

Cristián Jiménez

Pierre Schoeller

Reading Flaubert and Proust with your girlfriend after a passionate bout of lovemaking…what more could a young intellectual want?

Politics is a wound that never heals.

Cult Chilean director Cristián Jiménez returns with his second feature, an effortlessly shimmering, sensually Latin account of the lengthy love affair between two college students, Julio and Emilia. The two initially meet after a class in which Julio lies about reading Proust; fast-forwarding eight years into the future, Julio is still spinning tales about his literary prowess to his latest lover, Blanca, while staying up each night writing a novel about his love affair with Emilia. Jiménez’s superlative direction coupled with the stellar lead performances ensures Bonsai is a remarkably accomplished cinematic treat from the stellar new generation of exciting Chilean filmmakers. Producers Bruno Bettati, Julie Gayet, Nadia Turincev Leading Players Diego Noguera, Nathalia Galgani, Trinidad González, Gabriela Arancibia Photography Inti Briones Script Cristián Jiménez, based on the novel by Alejandro Zambra Editor Soledad Salfate Music Caroline Chaspoul, Eduardo Henriquez Print Source Source Rezo Films

Friday 11th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

Bertrand Saint-Jean is the Minister of Transport in the French government, an unglamorous position for one with ambitions, but when a bus crashes into a ravine resulting in several casualties, Saint-Jean and his team sweep into action and immediately take control of the situation. Buoyed by the flush of a successfully executed operation, the minister makes promises that enhance his stock but put him into conflict with other ministerial departments. Having commenced with one of the most arresting opening sequences committed to film – one that both signals Bertrand Saint-Jean’s inner anxiety and functions as a metaphor for the dog-eat-dog world of politics, Schoeller amps up the tension to thriller levels, highlighting the chicanery, machinations and bruised humanity native to political life. At the heart of the film is the peerless sparring act of Saint-Jean and his all-knowing private secretary Gilles (Michel Blanc, in peerless form), placing The Minister in the same traditions of Yes, Minister and The Thick Of It. Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) – Cannes, 2011 Producers Denis Freyd, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Leading Players Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker Photography Julien Hirsch Script Pierre Schoeller Editor Laurence Briaud Music Philippe Schoeller Print Source www.docandfilm.com

SATURDAY GALA

Saturday 12th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

CLOSING GALA

17 Sunday 13th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

The Whistleblower Larysa Kondracki Canada | 2010 | 112mins | 35mm | Colour

Inspired by actual events, Kathryn Bolkovac is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk. Rachel Weisz heads a strong ensemble cast that also includes Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn. Directed by Larysa Kondracki and co-written by Irish writer Eilís Kirwan, The Whistleblower is a heady mélange of political thriller, conspiracy picture and melodrama, leading all the way back to the U.S. State Department. Kondracki expertly navigates the personal and the political in this taut and powerful portrayal of inconceivable injustice and bureaucratic paralysis. Kathryn Bolkovac will introduce the film and a book signing event will follow. We are particularly delighted to welcome her to Cork for this special screening. Producers Christina Piovesan, Celine Rattray, Amy Kaufman Leading Players Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave Photography Kieran McGuigan Script Eilís Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki Editor Julian Clarke Music Michael Danna Print Source High Fliers Films

LORD MAYOR’S GALA

Sunday 13th | 12 Noon | Gate Cinema

Toomelah Ivan Sen 2011 | Australia | 106mins | 35mm | Colour

The Flying Machine Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey, Dorota Kobiela Poland | 2011 | 76mins | 35mm | Colour

The Flying Machine is a spectacular adventure in 3-D which pushes the boundaries of family animation. Aurally and visually spellbinding, the story starts in London when single mum, Georgie (voiced by Heather Graham) takes her children Jane and Fred, to see The Flying Machine, a film being accompanied live by super-star pianist, Lang Lang. The film, which we get to watch as well, is called Magic Piano. A magical event occurs which transports Georgie’s kids into the animation world and our hero, with a little help from Lang Lang, embarks on a pursuit to find Jane and Fred. Combining 3-D, stop-motion animation and live action, The Flying Machine is an enchanting and vibrant animated extravaganza, brimming with imagination, music and drama. An action-packed, life-affirming fairy tale, which is not to be missed.

This breathtaking film is set entirely in the remote indigenous community of Toomelah, located on the New South Wales/Queensland border. It was created as a mission during the 1930s, bringing together Gamilaroi and Bigambal people from the surrounding area. The story centres on Daniel, a small 10-year-old boy who dreams of being a gangster. He is kicked out of school and befriends a local gang leader, until a rival gangster arrives back from jail to reclaim his turf. A showdown ensues and Daniel is caught in the middle, leaving him with a choice to make about his uncertain future. The film reveals the challenges facing the young Gamilaroi people of the Toomelah community. It is a provocative yet comic story that transports audiences inside this community, to experience an authentic world and way of life that is Toomelah.

Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2011

Producers Hugh Welchman Leading Players Heather Graham, Lang Lang, Kizzy Mee, Jamie Munns Photography Krzystzof Ptak, Michal Stajniak Script Geoff Lindsey Editor Daniel Greenway Music Frederic Chopin Print Source maja@breakthrufilms.pl

Producer David Jowsey Leading Players Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, Dean Daley-Jones Photography, Editor, Music Ivan Sen Print Source info@visitfilms.com

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Behold The Lamb John McIlduff Ireland | 2011 | 83mins | Beta | Colour

Fri 11th | 7.00pm | Gate Cinema

Charlie Casanova Terry McMahon Ireland | 2010 | 90mins | 35mm | Colour

Fri 11th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema

FEATURES / A-Z In an attempt to save the neck of his junkie son Joe, Eddie agrees to do a mysterious pick up with the help of Joe’s girlfriend Liz. The two head off across mid-Ulster and fumble their way through a series of comic, tragic and disturbing adventures. Liz is struggling with her own drug addiction, crippling sensitivity and desire to connect with her disabled son, and Eddie is an overweight, depressed ex-accountant who does his best to assume the role of a drug trafficker, but his love of birdwatching doesn’t do a lot for his tough-guy image. Along the way, Eddie’s dysfunctional humanity connects with Liz’s tortured past and a kind of healing begins.

The director will introduce the screening

Producer Kevin Jackson Print Source dumb@dumbworld.co.uk

Charlie has it all, the perfect wife, the property portfolio and the loyalty of his friends. The fact that Charlie needs Viagra to have sex with his wife, is losing his portfolio, and has seduced his best friend’s wife, means nothing to him, because, having killed that working class girl, Charlie is living on dangerously borrowed time. Dangerously subversive, provocatively dark, and satirically disturbing, you may have already met Walter Mitty and Billy Liar but now it’s time for you to meet the darkest member of that twisted trio: Charlie Casanova. You don’t know him… but he already hates you.

The director will introduce the screening.

Producer Terry McMahon Print Source terry69@gmail.com

A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead, a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus stops by the house, bringing with them the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realise that death does not exist?

Circus Fantasticus Janez Burger Ireland, Slovenia | 2011 | 75mins | 35mm | Colour

Thur 10th | 4.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

The Conundrum Martin Radich England | 2011 | 81mins | Beta | Colour

Tue 8th | 2.00pm | Cork Opera House

Be concerned; be concerned by a man wearing fucking antlers. The director will introduce the screening. Producer Ashley Horner Print Source info@pinballfilms.com

Writer-director Jeon Kyu-hwan offers an engrossing depiction of urban solitude and the harshness of city living in Dance Town, set in present-day Seoul. When they are discovered to be in possession of foreign products and pornography, Ri Jung-Nim and her husband attempt to defect to South Korea, but only she makes it over the border. After a basic interrogation, she becomes a free South Korean citizen but finds it hard to embrace her new-found freedom. Clinging to the belief that her husband will eventually join her, she is befriended by a policeman who is struggling to make ends meet.

Dance Town Jeon Kyu-hwan

South Korea | 2010 | 95mins | Beta Colour | Subtitled

Sun 13th | 6.00pm | Cork Opera House

The Day He Arrives Producers Jožko Rutar, Petra Bašin, Morgan Bushe Print Source Fastnet Films

Day to day life often thrusts us into precarious positions; that is confrontations with unpleasant despicable people. No matter how seemingly inconsequential and trivial this is, it should be responded too. Surely? But then again, probably not. Is it really worth exacerbating this awkward and possibly stressful situation further that it might escalate into full-blown violence? Again, probably not. But never to act to correct what is wrong? Is that right too? This is the conundrum. The start of a new dawn finds David Yohannes Reeves pondering these very questions.

Producer Choi Miae Print Source treefilm@gmail.com

Sungjoon, a filmmaker who is currently not making films, visits a close friend in Seoul. His sojourn there passes by in a fog of drinking and dining. Drunken dalliances and misunderstandings are the order. After extricating himself from an awkward encounter with an old girlfriend, Sungjoon passes his time in a quaint out-of-the-way bar called Novel, where the bar owner – who strongly resembles his ex – catches his eye. Shot in sensuous monochrome, The Day He Arrives is a beautifully crafted, understated gem of comic observation, evocative of those magical early films of Jim Jarmusch that made you feel warm and fuzzy with the world.

Hong Sangsoo

South Korea | 2011 | 79mins | 35mm Black & White | Subtitled

Producer Kim Kyounghee Print Source yura@finecut.co.kr

FEATURES / A-Z Fri 11th | 6.00pm | Cork Opera House

Dharma Guns La Succession Starkov F.J. Ossang

France, Portugal | 2010 | 93mins | 35mm Colour and Black & White | Subtitled

Fri 11th | 4.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

The Door Ajar Patrick Jolley

Ireland | 2011 | 82mins | Beta Black & White | Subtitled

Tue 8th | 4.00pm | Cork Opera House

FEATURES / A-Z This stylish and mysterious punk thriller from maverick director F.J. Ossang concerns an amnesiac who finds himself in the Azores, the apparent victim of a dubious scientific procedure called Genetic Double. The tenuous nature of his condition ensures he is constantly questioning what is happening around him as he begins to wonder if he has been merely a guinea pig at the behest of a bizarre scientist. A revisiting of the Eurydice and Orpheus myth, Dharma Guns is steeped in the tradition of Nosferatu and Vampyr, and is an odyssey through dark and transgressive cinema, burning with a Dionysian intensity and rage.

The director will introduce the screening Producer F.J. Ossang Print Source www.fjossang.com

On August 14th, 1937, the French poet, Antonin Artaud arrived in Ireland. He had with him a walking stick he claimed to be St Patrick’s staff. His declared intention was to return this item to its rightful keepers. Six weeks later he was arrested while trying to gain entrance to a religious house. No other records of his journey remain except for an unpaid lodgings bill and some postcards sent from Galway. The Door Ajar uses an assembly of Artaud’s writings as the structure of a possible account of that lost time.

The director will introduce the screening.

ProducerPatrick Jolley Print Source pjolley@gmail.com

In a community of exiles located in a remote area of Iran, Soliman spends his days hunting flamingo. While frowned upon by the authorities, the brooding hunter will not be deterred, and even his marriage to the village beauty Tamay does little to deflect him from his restless quest. When Soliman apparently disappears, Tamay believes he will return, but jealous rival Davood seizes his chance to take what he believes is rightfully his. Making full use of the majestic snow covered landscape, Flamingo No. 13 has a stark mythic power and can be viewed as an allegory on the role of the artist in an unforgiving climate.

Flamingo No. 13 (Flamingo Shomare 13) Hamid Reza Aligholian

Sun 13th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema

The Future Miranda July USA | 2011 | 91mins | 35mm | Colour

Mon 7th | 4.00pm | Cork Opera House

Producers Gina Kwon, Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner Print Source info@matchfactory.de

Morteza, in his fifties and just out of jail, is suspected of being involved in the death of a drowned child. Taher, the police officer in charge of his case, first believes Morteza is guilty, like everybody else does, but then finds out that he knows Morteza. The two men’s relationship goes back 30 years, with its roots lying under the cold waters of the lake. Soon convinced by the fatalistic Morteza’s innocence, Taher decides to prove it despite everything.

The House Under The Water (Khaneye Zire âb) Sepideh Farsi

Thur 10th | 7.00pm | Gate Cinema

The Lotus Eaters Producer Houman Ahmadi Tofighi Print Source info@setakfilm.com

Multi-award winning author, performance artist and film director Miranda July returns with The Future, a wonderfully idiosyncratic take on the uncertainties of love and the terrifying possibilities of life. Sophie and Jason are frustrated with their mundane existence and quit their jobs to pursue their dreams - Sophie wants to create a dance, Jason wants to be guided by fate. But Sophie becomes increasingly paralysed and enters the suburban world of Marshall, a conservative, 50-year-old man who lives in the Valley. Living in two terrifyingly vacant and different realities, Sophie and Jason must reunite with time, space and their own souls, in order to come home.

Alexandra McGuinness Ireland, England | 2010 | 75mins | 35mm | Colour

Producer Javad Djavahery Print Source contact@revesdeau.com

The bright young things of London’s social elite lead an excessive, lavish lifestyle that allows them to luxuriate in their own self-destruction. At the centre is Alice, an ex-model unable to keep up with the opulent standards her peers feverishly chase. Alice may be in love with her on-and-off boyfriend Charlie, but the multiple pleasures of wealth and youth distract them from commitment. Meanwhile, Felix is besotted with Alice, even as he indecisively takes up with his naïve, needy girlfriend. Between wild summer nights in Glastonbury and the South of France, a lovelorn Orna gets her kicks off weaving overlapping love triangles that wreak havoc on impressionable hearts.

The director will introduce the screening Producers Morgan Bushe, Mark Lee, Kyle Blanchard, Macdara Kelleher Print Source Fastnet Films

FEATURES / A-Z Sat 12th | 6.00pm | Cork Opera House

Miss Bala Gerardo Naranjo

Mexico | 2011 | 113mins | 35mm Colour | Subtitled

Mon 7th | 6.00pm | Cork Opera House

Mothers (Majkl)

Milcho Manchevski

Republic of Macedonia | 2010 | 123min 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

Sat 12th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema

The Other Side Of Sleep Rebecca Daly

Ireland, Netherlands, Hungary | 2011 88mins | Beta | Colour

FEATURES / A-Z The exhilirating Miss Bala focuses on the plight of Laura, a ravishing beauty who dreams of being crowned Miss Baja California, as she witnesses a night-club massacre by a group of cartel members. The influence of the cartel upon the local authorities becomes clear to Laura after she speaks to a policeman about the incident, who promptly delivers her straight to the gang leader, Lino. Director Naranjo crafts a scintillating drama refracted through incisive political commentary on malevolence in Mexico. Gripping and heartbreaking in equal measure, Miss Bala is a master class in cinematic storytelling where the substance is always on a par with the style.

Producer Pablo Cruz Print Source 20th Century Fox

Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary. The three stories in Mothers highlight the delicate relationships of truth and fiction, of drama and documentary. Directed with a keen eye for contemporary Macedonia, the film eschews neat narrative devices and pushes the viewer to confront their own definitions of filmic reality.

Producers Christina Kallas, Thierry Lenouvel, Methodius Petrikov Print Source info@celluloid-dreams.com

Arlene is like a ghost in her life. She lives in a small town in the midlands – surrounded by field after field, woodlands and laneways to disappear down and never come back. One morning, Arlene wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman. Someone watches from the trees. The body is soon discovered and suspicion spreads through the community. Increasingly drawn to the girl’s family - her grieving sister and accused boyfriend - Arlene barricades herself in at night, afraid to sleep. Haunted by grief, Arlene’s sleeping and waking realities soon blur. And all the time someone is still watching her…

The director will introduce the screening. Producers Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher Print Source aoife@fastnetfilms.com

Sat 12th | 7.00pm | Gate Cinema

Jack McCarthy left Ireland for the US twenty years ago when his business failed and he had to get out in a hurry. Now he’s called home by his father, Larry, who claims he is dying. Finding his father apparently fit enough to hit golf balls in a field of cattle. Jack is furious but decides to stay in Cork when he meets an American tourist, Grace - although she’s quick to tell him she’s just out of a divorce and not ready for another relationship. Jack tries to call in debts from local people who owe his father money, but their time together becomes more and more unbearable until Larry is finally honest with his son.

The Pier Gerard Hurley Ireland | 2011 | 86mins | 35mm | Colour

Mon 7th | 2.00pm | Cork Opera House

The director will introduce the screening

Producer Gerard Hurley Print Source rathsalla@yahoo.com

Lives intertwine in this deadly thriller about betrayal, retribution and redemption. One of the protagonists, a seemingly self-confident politician, begins to execute his own blind justice that finally turns out to be a rat trap of dark oblivion.

Rat Trap (Rotilõks)

Andres Puustusmaa

Estonia | 2011 | 105mins | 35mm Colour | Subtitled

Sat 12th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Romantics Anonymous (Les Emotifs Anonymes) Jean-Pierre Améris

France, Belgium | 2010 | 80mins | 35mm Colour | Subtitled

Producer Anu Veermäe Print Source tristan@efsa.ee

This delectable Gallic comedy tells the story of Jean-René, the boss of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolatiere, two highly emotional people. Their shared passion for chocolate brings them together and they both fall in love with each other, without daring to let on. Unfortunately, their pathological timidity keeps them apart. Director Jean-Pierre Améris has crafted a wonderfully witty script, teasing out the fairytale quality of this gentle romance while grounding his characters in their authentic quest for emotional liberation. An incredibly charming comedy, Romantics Anonymous is a heart-warming tale of panicstricken, awkward, but ultimately adorable mutual attraction.

Producers Nathalie Gastaldo, Philippe Godeau Print Source contact@unifrance.org

FEATURES / A-Z

FEATURES / A-Z A fictional exploration of a scandal that rocked a tight-knit community, Sahkanaga brings a transformative power to meticulously authentic storytelling. Paul, the teenage son of the local funeral director, makes a shocking discovery when he finds that Chris, the local crematorium owner, has been dumping the bodies in the adjoining woods. Aware of the repercussions this could have for his father’s reputation, Paul keeps the news to himself. However, as he embarks upon a relationship with the granddaughter of the recently deceased sheriff, the struggle to contain the grim truth proves too much.

Wed 9th | 2.00pm | Cork Opera House

Jury Award, Best Narrative Feature - Rome International Film Festival The director will introduce the screening

Stranger Things

USA | 2011 | 80mins | HDCAM | Colour

Producer John Henry Summerour Print Source john@sahkanaga.com

USA | 2010 | 77mins | Beta | Colour

Sun 6th | 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Emma is a girl who likes to be in control. When she tries out for the local voltige (horseback acrobatics) team, she meets Cassandra, a strong, attractive and vivacious girl. As they get to know each other they share a sense of wicked fun and quickly become friends. Soon though, rapid-fire confusion sets in. Feelings of jealousy, competitiveness and sexual attraction have them pushing each other to their limits. As Emma spends more and more time away from home with Cassandra, her little sister Sara begins to discover her own sexual identity, all the while pining for affection from a reluctant babysitter.

Fri 11th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Fri 11th | 4.00pm | Cork Opera House

Sahkanaga John Henry Summerour

She Monkeys (Apflickorna) Lisa Aschan

Wed 9th | 4.00pm | Cork Opera House

This delicate and compelling film, set on the south coast of England, explores themes of friendship, grief and human vulnerability.

Eleanor Burke, Ron Eyal

Tree Keeper Producers Helene Lindholm Print Source Peccadillo Pictures

A woman lives in a castle of ice. A local witch doctor said that this is the only thing that will stop the cancer in her body. That, and some innocent blood.

Oona, a young woman dealing with the loss of her mother, reaches out to a stranger - Mani, a mysterious homeless man of Middle-Eastern origin, whom she invites to stay in her garden shed. Despite the space between them, Oona and Mani gradually form an unusual intimacy.

Patrick O’Shea Ireland | 2011 | 94mins | Beta | Colour

Wed 9th | 6.00pm | Cork Opera House

With its impressively designed ‘ice palace’, The Snow Queen is the kind of weird dream-like fairytale where you wonder if it’s occurring in the head of the cancer-ridden businesswoman, or the love-struck boy who fancies her.

Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature - Slamdance Film Festival Jury Prize – Raindance Film Festival

Producers Eleanor Burke, Ron Eyal Print Source ron@facesfilms.com

Tree Keeper is an independent feature film shot in Cork, Ireland, during the summer of 2010. Unfolding in a small rural town and its neighbouring woodlands. Doire, a young man in his mid-twenties inherits a hundred acres of mature woodlands when his father dies. A solitary and reclusive figure, he turns his back on society and decides the best way to protect and care for his inheritance is to make a home for himself deep in the woods. However, his estranged mother has contested his father’s will and he is forced to extreme measures to protect what he loves the most. The director will introduce the screening

Producer Patrick O’Shea Print Source southernmanfilms@gmail.com

On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a nightclub, alone and on the pull. Just before closing, he meets Glen. And so begins a weekend – in bars and bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex – that will resonate throughout their lives. Andrew Haigh’s film is carefully composed, interspersed with scenes of unrestrained passion and emotion laid bare.

Perfectly realized - a bracing, present tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love. - The New York Times

The Snow Queen (Lumekuninganna) Marko Raat

Estonia | 2010 | 95mins | 35mm Colour | Subtitled

Weekend Producers Kaie-Ene Rääk Print Source tristan@efsa.ee

Andrew Haigh England | 2011 | 96mins | Beta | Colour

The director will introduce the screening

Producer Tristan Goligher Print Source Pecadillo Pictures

DOCUMENTARY PANORAMA Intelligent, engaged and illuminating documentaries

Bernadette

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Thur 10th | 8.30pm | Triskel Christchurch

At Night, They Dance (La Nuit, Elles Dansent)

Sat 12th | 4.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

The Ballad of Genesis And Lady Jaye Marie Losier

France, USA | 2011 | 75mins | Beta | Colour

Sat 12th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Ballymun Lullaby Frank Berry Ireland | 2010 | 72mins | 35mm | Colour

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Seldom has Egypt’s capital been so evocatively captured. At Night, They Dance is a fly-on-the-wall documentary exploring the mysterious and hard-knocks reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo. Unparalleled access to this hidden world leaves the viewer fascinated as the documentary focuses on Reda, a charismatic widow and ex-dancer, with seven children and one on the way, her wise confidante, and three of her daughters, who now dance at raucous all-male celebrations for a living.

Such frankness among Arabic women is all too rare in film - Variety.

Producer Lucie Lambert Print Source welcome@outlookfilms.com

Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged performance art with rock music. In 2000, defying artistic and biological boundaries, P-Orridge began a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye. It was an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an invisible third and the ultimate act of devotion; Genesis’s most risky, ambitious, and subversive performance to date.

Producers Marie Losier, Steve Holmgren Print Source Cat & Docs

Ballymun Lullaby is the awe-inspiring account of Ron Cooney, the inspirational music teacher in the Ballymun Music Programme. His simple aim is to provide an introduction to music through free music lessons in a community that had almost no access to free education. This stirring documentary is the culmination of Cooney’s fifteen years of work in Ballymun, which has seen his musical endeavours result in the release of a successful album nationwide. His passion invigorates both the local community and the music they produce; this story is both heartwarming and stimulating.

Producers Joanne O’Hagan Print Source ohagan.joanne@gmail.com

Fri 11th | 11.00pm | Gate Cinema

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest

Michael Rapaport

USA | 2010 | 98mins | Beta | Colour

Sat 12th |2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Bernadette: Notes On A Political Journey

Lelia Doolan

2011 | Ireland | 90mins | Beta Colour and Black & White

Mon 7th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Crime Unpunished

Having released five gold and platinum selling albums within eight years, A Tribe Called Quest has been one of the most commercially successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history, and are regarded as iconic pioneers of hip-hop. This engaging documentary features an original soundtrack by Madlib, and includes humorous and insightful interviews with the likes of ?uestlove, De La Soul, Ghostface Killah, Pharrell Williams, Adam Horowitz and Mary J Blige, as well as extensive accounts from Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Jarobi White and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

Producers Robert Benavides, Debra Koffler, Eric Matthies, Frank Mele, Edward Parks, Michael Rapaport Print Source welcome@autlookfilms.com

This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted with Devlin McAliskey, director Lelia Doolan perfectly encapsulates the idiosyncrasies and rebelliousness which has fuelled her subject’s pivotal role at the heart of civil rights, feminism and socialism in Northern Ireland. Bernadette is a fascinating and powerful account of this firebrand figure, an impressively rounded depiction of a woman blessed with incredible eloquence, clarity and firm socialist principles.

The Director will introduce the screening Producer Lelia Doolan Print Source Digital Quilts

Crime Unpunished focuses on the life of Béla Biszku, communist ex-Minister of the Interior who was one of the masterminds of the bloody and cruel retaliations after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Biszku was in charge between 1957 and 1961 and demanded extremely severe sentences and physical eliminations of the imprisoned revolutionaries during this volatile period. His orders were routinely carried out: non-obedient judges were dismissed. Hungary was again in Soviet chains with nearly three hundred freedom fighters hanged, about twenty thousand brought to ‘justice’ and sentenced while another two hundred thousand people fled the country.

Fruzsina Skrabski, Tamás Novák Hungary | 2010 | 70mins | Beta Colour | Subtitled

Producer Fruzsina Skrabski, Tamás Novák Print Source skrabski.fruzsina@gmail.com

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Mon 7th | 7.30pm | Gate Cinema

Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man Richard Ayoade Ireland | 2011 | 75mins | Beta | Colour

Fri 11th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Give Up Tomorrow Michael Collins

USA, England | 2011 | 90mins | 35mm Colour | Subtitled

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Tommy Tiernan’s ‘Crooked Man’ international tour received rave reviews. The gloriously funny and life-affirming material showcased the comedian at his finest. For this particular performance, Tommy wanted to do something special, something that had never been done before in Ireland - shoot a stand-up comedy show on film. In collaboration with Richard Ayoade (writer and director of Submarine, and star of The IT Crowd), Tommy returned to an intimate venue that has played a big part in his career, City Limits, Cork. This performance perfectly captures the passion, vitality and hilarity of Tommy’s inimitable live show.

Tommy Tiernan will attend the world premiere of this film. Producer David Power Print Source david@powerpictures.ie

Set amidst vestiges of Old World colonialism, classism and backdoor politics in the Philippines, Give Up Tomorrow exposes a contemporary world of corruption and injustice. In a murder case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment, but fails to free an innocent man, two grieving mothers personify the chasms - both nightmarish in scope - that divide two families and, by extension, a nation. Michael Collins’ documentary is an unforgettable portrayal of flagrantly corrupt public officials, drug dealers, cops on the take, and journalists in thrall to, and in lonely stance against, a frenzied legal and media circus.

Audience Award Winner - Tribeca Film Festival, 2011

Producers Marty Syjuco Print Source info@rocolms.com

The most famous village in the world plays the greatest story of all times - and for the first time a filmmaker is really allowed to have a look backstage at the Passion Play of Oberammergau.

The Great Passion (Die Große Passion) Jörg Adolph

Germany | 2011 | 144mins | HDCAM Colour | Subtitled

From the preparations in 2008 until the last performance in the autumn of 2010, the film puts Christian Stückl at its centre, the passionate and obsessed theatre-maker and director of the play who is facing century old traditions and the challenges of reality in a small contemporary Bavarian village. The Great Passion shows what goes on behind the curtains of this great spectacle that oscillates between art and commercialism, world and village, God and humans.

Producers Ingo Fleiss Print Source fleiss@ifproductions.de

Mon 7th |6.30pm | Triskel Christchurch

Heaven’s Mirror Joshua Dylan Mellars 2011 | USA | 70mins | 35mm | Colour

Sun 6th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Heaven’s Mirror is filmmaker Joshua Dylan Mellars’ mystically wild and lushly romantic journey through the Portuguese musical genre of fado: the filmmaker travels from the ironwork balconies and narrow cobbled streets of Lisbon’s Alfama to the cool bungalow porches of India’s Goa, from the salt sprayed clapboard of New England’s former whaling ports to the dusty bullrings of Central California in search of the meaning of saudade, the essence of fado. Mimicking the Portuguese voyages of old, the filmmaker also sails an inner sea to learn from those who have lived and sung life in fado – for somewhere, somehow, sometime, we all must travel fado’s terrain.

Producer Joshua Dylan Mellars Print Source abuelaluna@mac.com

Holy Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America – made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. Having succeeded in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes gambling? When a non-Christian member joins the team, their success begins to unravel and they are kicked out of every casino in the Pacific Northwest. The team’s founders attempt to get back on the winning streak via a last-ditch road trip…

Holy Rollers: The True Story Of Card Counting Christians Bryan Storkel

USA | 2011 | 92mins | Beta | Colour

Tue 8th | 6.30pm | Triskel Christchurch

The Kingdom of Survival M.A. Littler USA | 2010 | 92mins | Beta | Colour

Producers Jason Connell, Amy Storkel Print Source info@connellcreations.com

The Kingdom of Survival combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism in order to trace possible links between survivalism, spirituality, art, radical politics, outlaw culture, alternative media and fringe philosophy. Maverick writer and filmmaker M.A. Littler hits the outlaw highway in search of visions that challenge the status quo. On his journey, Littler crosses paths with renowned linguist and dissident Professor Noam Chomsky, outlaw historian Dr. Mark Mirabello, gonzo journalist Joe Bageant, legendary reclusive cabin builder Mike Oehler, anarchist book publisher Ramsey Kanaan, egalitarian radio host Sasha Lilley and folk musician Will ‘The Bull’ Taylor. Together they explore radical and alternative visions for the 21st century. Producers Alexander S. Herbert, Philip Koepsell Print Source contact@slowboatfilms.com

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Sat 12th | 6.30pm | Triskel Christchurch

Married in Spandex Allison Kole, Devin Gallagher USA | 2011 | 55mins | Beta | Colour

Tue 8th | 4.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Wed 9th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z When Amanda and Rachel decide to get married, their trip down the aisle takes them 1200 miles, from Philadelphia to the town of Ames, Iowa. With lady rapper Leslie Hall serving as officiant, and a bridal party outfitted in gold spandex and rainbow-coloured gems they’ve created the wedding of their dreams in a style few will ever forget. But, at a time when every same-sex wedding is seen as a political act and brides-to-be are asked to walk the entire LGBT community down the aisle, will everyone be cheering Amanda and Rachel’s offbeat “I do”? Can the couple’s road trip revelry convince friends and family to get on board for the big day?

The director will introduce the screening Producer Allison Kole Print Source waitwhatproductions@gmail.com

A childhood friend reconnects with a young painter who has been confined to a wheelchair. Old jealousies are rekindled but overcome.

Lior was my role-model in high school. She was a wild but charmful punk, always surrounded with friends. I liked filming her. After being often repressed by her, I let the friendship fade… even when a rare disease left her paralyzed from the chest down. Seven years later, she contacted me. Lior is prettier than ever and still full of charm, even when she struggles to make simple actions. I find myself once again jealous with her freedom of mind and wonder who is the disabled one between us.

Producer Sivan Ben Ari Print Source festivals@beitberl.ac.il

Dieter Auner’s Off The Beaten Track is a wonderfully warm human gem which opens up all the senses to changes within the modern world and the onward march of globalisation.

Fri 11th | 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Outliving Dracula: Le Fanu’s Carmilla

Fri 11th |2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Paradiso Alessandro Negrini Ireland | 2011 | 60mins | Beta | Colour

Thur 10th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Against this changing landscape, Dieter Auner chronicles a world, untouched for centuries, struggling with profound change. Since joining the E.U., Romanians are free to work as agricultural labourers and earn more in one month than a year in their traditional occupation, as shepherds.

Off The Beaten Track Dieter Auner

Ireland, Romania | 2011 | 93mins Colour | Subtitled

The finely tuned drama is observed in the minute and one can feel the loving attention to detail the world of the rural Romanians – who seem entirely oblivious to the documentary production capturing the small changes in their lives. Producers Siún Ní Raghallaigh, Cristian Mungiu, Dieter Auner Print Source sasha@eastwest-distribution.com

The Road To Moneygall Ed Godsell Ireland | 2011 | 56mins | Beta | Colour

Irish writer J.S. Le Fanu’s creation, the female vampire Carmilla, has established a fascinating lineage through filmic adaptations, arguably inspiring a more radical and transgressive creative wellspring than her literary successor Dracula. Outliving Dracula explores the radical influence of Carmilla on generations of filmmakers – from Carl Dreyer’s extraordinary Vampyr to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, from the Gothic kitsch of Hammer through to films produced within a visual art context. Featuring interviews with leading film scholars and artists influenced by Le Fanu, this film seeks to redefine his critical importance as an Irish writer whose ghostly traces remain profound and enigmatic.

The director will introduce the screening Producer Fergus Daly Print Source fergusjdaly@yahoo.com

Paradiso is a musical journey to capture the heyday of the Fountain estate, a disappearing protestant enclave in the heart of Derry. We follow musician Roy Arbuckle’s high risk efforts to stage a major music and dance event in the Memorial Hall by inviting formerly divided communities to celebrate the rock n’ roll and showband eras with people who desperately need to believe they are welcome in a majority nationalist city under the new vision for Northern Ireland. Winner, Best Documentary Award – Global Cinema Festival, Indore, India Winner, Audience Award – Wurzburg International Film Festival, Germany

Producer Margo Harkin Print Source margo@besomproductions.co.uk

The Road to Moneygall is a heart-warming, fascinating and disarming chronicle of three years in the life of the inhabitants of Moneygall village, Co. Offaly, which came to wholly unexpected fame in 2008 as the birthplace of Fulmouth Kearney – five-times great grandfather of U.S. President, Barack Obama. At the heart of the film is Obama’s ebullient long lost cousin, Henry Healy, and his efforts to bring the American president ‘home’. Filmed with great empathy and full-access over the course of three years, this is the story of how the most famous man of the 21st century came to the village that time forgot.

The director will introduce the screening Producers Grainne O’Carroll, Cuan MacConghail Print Source info@macallateo.com

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Thur 10th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Terminal Convention Mike Hannon Ireland | 2011 | 31mins | HDCAM | Colour

Tue 8th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Terminal Convention was an ambitious hybrid event that inhabited the disused terminal of Cork Airport for two weeks this year. In the visual art strand of the programme, curated artists were invited to create pieces that were more or less specific to the building where they would be exhibited. The resulting film, Terminal Convention, considers these new arrivals in the light of their surrounds: a terminal devoid of people as the artworks obliquely converse, and the air is heavy with the weight of all that has passed through and on. Terminal Convention was commissioned by Static Gallery, Liverpool, where it will be simultaneously exhibited throughout the duration of the film festival. The director will introduce the screening Producer Mike Hannon Print Source mikeisnice@gmail.com

The easy oil is gone. Now, the biggest construction project on the planet is transforming a pristine Canadian wilderness, and scientists are debating the environmental fall-out. In the age of the tar sands, we know there are sacrifices to be made. What no one expected was that a tiny Native community living down the river would reach out to the world for help, and be heard.

Sun 6th | 11.00am | Triskel Christchurch

The director will introduce the screening

We Are Ireland (Muide Éire) Cathal Watters

Ireland | 2010 | 60mins | 35mm | Colour

Fri 11th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Taking us inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within an environmental issue of our age, Tipping Point helps us to better understand the trade-offs we make for energy as we approach the end of the age of oil

Tipping Point: The End Of Oil Tom Radford, Niobe Thompson Canada | 2011 | 93mins | Beta | Colour

Fri 11th | 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

When The War Ends Producers Niobe Thompson, Tom Radford Print Source emma@clearwatermedia.com

The phenomenon of ghost estates – the vast number of unfinished estates that remain uninhabited – has become a familiar one.

Thijs Schreuder

The Netherlands | 2011 | 36mins | Beta Colour | Subtitled

Wed 9th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Unfinished Italy taps into this unlived environment, positing Italy as the home of ruins, depicting a limbo between perfection and nothingness, given up on halfway through their construction, and as an integral part of the Italian architectural landscape. Stadiums without audiences, hospitals without patients, theatres that after 50 years have not yet seen their premiere.

Unfinished Italy

This is a study of the potential value of unfinished buildings in Italy and of man’s ability to adapt them to his everyday needs.

Producer Rachel Lysaght Print Source info@undergroundfilms.ie

Every day Robert McClenaghan is confronted with his past. In 1974, he joined the IRA at the age of seventeen. For three decades he fought for the separation of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and a reunion with the Irish Republic. During those years, Robert saw friends getting killed but was also actively involved in committing bomb attacks. After his arrest he ended up in the Long Kesh prison, where he was heavily assaulted. Robert talks about his past, as if it is a distant friend. But with Christmas night approaching, the demons of the past are on a winning streak.

Producer Maarten van der Ven Print Source maarten@zestmovingstories.com

Wiebo’s War tells the story of a Christian community at war with the oil and gas industry. Wiebo Ludwig is a suspect in a series of pipeline bombings near his farm. The bombings echo a campaign of sabotage he waged 10 years ago: barricading roads and blowing up wells, culminating in the unsolved death of a teenaged girl. The Ludwigs live according to their religious values. They are self-sufficient in food and energy, but isolated, with seven unmarried adult children and 38 grandchildren. They believe that those who don’t share their beliefs, like filmmaker David York, are living in a terrible darkness.

Wiebo’s War David York

Print Source zeller@zeligfilm.it

Muide Éire is a feature-length documentary on the history of Ireland on screen – from the horse-drawn carriages the Lumière Brothers filmed on O’Connell Street in the 1890’s, right up to the pyrotechnics of present day blockbusters. Taking an intimate look at Ireland on film as a visual expression of Irish culture, this is a compelling, contemporary exploration of the history of filmmaking in Ireland.

Canada | 2011 | 93mins | Beta | Colour

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INTERNATIONAL JURY

This Jury will adjudicate the Best International Short Film Award and the Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards.

MADE IN CORK JURY

The Made In Cork Jury will adjudicate the Made In Cork Award for Best Short Film.

Andrei Gorzo

Alexandra Heneka

Qasim Riza Shaheen

Margaret Greene

Dan Boyle

Trish Brennan

Andrei Gorzo was born in 1978 in Romania. He studied Film History, Criticism and Theory at Bucharest’s National University of Drama and Film and at New York University. He has recently completed a PhD thesis (on the New Romanian Cinema of the 2000s) at Bucharest’s National University of Drama and Film, where he is currently teaching and doing research. He is also contributing weekly film criticism to two Romanian magazines (Dilema Veche and 24 FUN), as well as curating the Next International Short and Medium Length Film Festival (held in Bucharest).

Alexandra Heneka worked for several years in feature film script development. Looking for more creative and diverse filmmaking possibilities, she moved to the world of the short film. Since 2008, she has been a member of the sales department of KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg. She is also involved in her own photography and film projects.

Qasim Riza Shaheen is a British artist based in Manchester with an international repertoire. His work has been presented at prominent venues and festivals throughout the UK, including: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow; Liverpool Biennial and at British Dance Edition. His publications include Only the Moon To Play With (Arts Council England 2004), Khusra: Stains & Stencils (Shisha 2007), Liliquoi Blue: God Made Me A Boy (City Arts 2010) and Nine Acts of Reciprocity (Anokha Laadla 2010).

Margaret Greene is the General Manager of the Gate Cinemas (Cork, Midleton, Mallow and Douglas). Having joined The Gate Group in 1996, she began as Duty Manager in Cinema World Douglas, then becoming Manager of the Gate Cork when it opened in 1998. Cinema is in the blood for Margaret, whose parents owned and ran the Ormonde Cinema in Midleton, and booking films for the four Gate cinemas is her favourite part of the job.

Dan Boyle is a former TD, former Senator, former Cork City Councillor, and the outgoing Chair of the Green Party. A long-time friend of Cork Film Festival, he has been an active participant in the arts life of Cork City and has served on the boards of several arts centres and galleries. He is currently realising his own musical ambitions with the imminent release of his first album, Third Adolescence. In 2012, he plans to publish a book detailing the Green Party’s experiences in government.

Trish Brennan lives in Cork and is Head of Fine Art (acting) at C.I.T. Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. She studied Film, Video and Photographic Arts (BA Hons) at Westminster University, London, followed by an MA in Fine Art from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. While she currently works in education, she has a broad and diverse experience of working in the arts, including visual arts practice, production, management and policy development.

NATIONAL JURY

The National Jury will adjudicate the Best Irish Short Film Award and the Claire Lynch Award.

Felim MacDermott

Alexandra Gramatke

Tom Climent

Felim MacDermott studied Film Production at IADT and holds a Masters in Screenwriting from the Huston Film School. In 2002, with his colleague, Declan McGrath, he authored Screencraft: Screenwriting, a book exploring the craft of scriptwriting with some of its greatest exponents. In 2003, Felim and Declan ran the Visions of Kieslowski Festival in Galway, celebrating the late Polish master’s legacy with many of his closest collaborators and members of the Irish filmmaking community. From 2006 to 2010, Felim was the Artistic Director of the Galway Film Fleadh. He now lectures on Film and Television at GMIT.

After finishing her studies in Slavonic and German Literature, Alexandra Gramatke worked as a freelance interpreter for literature and documentary films. In 1994, she joined the ‘Thede,’ a Hamburg-based group of documentary filmmakers. As a member of this group, she made several films, for example, Dynamo Kiev – Good Old Boys (2000). She has also worked as a production manager, a publisher and a film curator. Since 2008, she has been the managing director of the KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg, a short film distributor, and organiser of the annual Hamburg International Short Film Festival.

Tom Climent is an artist based in Cork. Operating in both painting and sculpture, he focuses on the creation of space, investigating the boundaries between abstraction and representation. His work is in the collections of The Central Bank, The National Treasury Management Agency, UCC, The National Self-Portrait Collection, The Opera House and Cork City Council. He has also had solo shows at The Hunt Museum, The Fenton Gallery, The Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, and Triskel Arts Centre, and many more.

‘MADE IN CORK’ SHORTS

Programme 1

Programme 2

Leave To Remain

‘MADE IN CORK’ SHORTS

Participate, challenge, community...

Programme 3

through film.

Rats Island

Never Ever Open It

Monday 7th | 7pm | Gate Cinema | 78mins

Tuesday 8th | 7pm | Gate Cinema | 78mins

Wednesday 9th | 7pm | Gate Cinema | 74mins

Patience / Don Field, Roy Lecane

Baby Boots / Daniel O’Connell

Tearing Strips / Shaun O’Connor

Ireland | 2011 | 12mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

Producers Don Field, Roy Lecane Print Source roy@lamornafilms.com

Producer Frank Hurley Print Source dan@egomotion.net

The Kid / Brendan Canty

Dogmation / Seamus Hegarty

Between Two Bridges / Fiona O’Mahony

Ireland | 2011 | 24mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 2mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 17mins | Beta | Colourr

Producer Seamus Hegarty Print Source seamusmhegarty@gmail.com

Producer Fiona O’Mahony Print Source fionasaddress@yahoo.com

The Beardo Experiment / Linda Curtin

Gemma? / Kevin O’Neill

All Night Long / Mark Cogan

Ireland | 2011 | 5mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 8mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 13mins | Beta | Colour

Where would any man go when looking for male company other than the sanctuary of a barber shop?

D-Day: A young US paratrooper gets lost in a forest, whereupon he stumbles across a child.

A young couple on a long drive begin to play tricks on one another – with devastating consequences.

A paper mache dog from The Dog Project comes to life.

What charity really means to both the giver and the receiver. Producer Alice O Sullivan Print Source shaunoc1@hotmail.com

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School children build a cardboard model of old Cork.

Producer Brendan Canty Print Source brendan@feelgoodlost.me

A roundabout way of getting men to talk about themselves through the prism of facial hair.

A homeless man encounters someone from his past. Producer Amanda Ferriter Print Source kevin@savaege.com

Producer Linda Curtin Print Source lindycurtin@gmail.com

A brief but intense encounter between two lonely strangers changes both forever. Producer Amanda Ferriter Print Source m_cogan@yahoo.com

Leave To Remain / Anna Byrne

Oscar / Aoife Naughton

Hug / Shaun O’Connor

Ireland | 2011 | 13mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 4mins | Beta | Colour

A young man recalls his experience as a separated immigrant child in residential care in Ireland.

A small dog who waits on a pier in Cobh for his caretaker to return.

The music video for Exit: Pursued By A Bear tells the story of a punter and a stripper.

Producer Anna Byrne Print Source annabyrne07@gmail.com

Producer Aoife Naughton Print Source aoifeleafa@gmail.cm

Producer Shaun O’Connor Print Source shaunoc1@hotmail.com

The Overcoat / Diarmaid Shortall, Dave Carolan

Rats Island / Mike Hannon

The Popemobile / Grace O’Mahony

Ireland | 2011 | 9mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 12mins | Beta | Colour

Producer Sinéad Ní Bhroin Print Source sinead@stillfilms.org

Producer, Print Source Grace O’Mahony

Clean Teeth / Ian Ruby

Murphy’s Wall / Liz O’Donoghue

Summer Make Good Our Sins / Michael Gurhy

Ireland | 2011 | 5mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 4mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 3mins | Beta | Colour

A tramp trudges through Cork city in search of warmth. Producers Paul Hennessy, Jeannine Vossler Print Sourcediarmaidshortall@gmail.com

How clean are your teeth?

Producer Ian Ruby Print Source ianruby85@gmail.com

Eddie was unemployed and homeless when he found refuge on a small island in a river estuary.

A look at ‘the poetry wall’, the brainchild of Cork poet, Gerry Murphy and Farmgate Restaurant owner, Kay Harte.

The Lammas Hireling / Paul Casey

Brother (Dearthair) / Joan Mary McCarthy

Ireland | 2010 | 10mins | DVD | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour

A farmer hires a casual labourer from a hiring fair… but the hireling is in fact a witch.

Brother focuses on the theme of immigration in the Muskerry Gaeltacht.

Producer Paul Casey Print Source pcpoet@obheal.ie

Producer Dónal Ó Chéilleachair Print Source donaloc@imipictures.net

Screenman / Linda Curtin

Tom’s Scéadu / Liam Delahunty

Never Ever Open It / Damian McCarthy

Ireland | 2011 | 3mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 15mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 9mins | Beta | Colour

Producer Niall Owens Print Source owens.niall@yahoo.co.uk

Producer Damian McCarthy Print Source irelandhorror@gmail.com

Producer Linda Curtin Print Source lindycurtin@gmail.com

One of recently retired Tom’s little pleasures is enjoying a drop of malt while relaxing in his garden shed.

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Producer Michael Gurhy Print Source exquisitedeacdence@hotmail.com

Ireland | 2011 | 7mins | Beta | Colour

Today’s obsession for screens is affecting everyone.

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Raw, youth, innocence, experience.

Friends? / Christina Utzeri Producer Christina Utzeri Print Source transinter@eircom.net

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Charting the history surrounding the building of the original popemobile in Cork for the papal visit of 1979.

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Can bright objects in the night sky be friends?

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In an abandoned building, a bored nightwatchman follows a strange noise to its source. Mistake number 1.

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IRISH SHORTS

Programme 1

Programme 2

Dutch Darkness

Programme 3

The Heist

Programme 4

The Life, Death And Suffer Story

Thur 10th | 2pm | Cork Opera House | 85mins

Thur 10th | 6pm | Cork Opera House | 83mins

Fri 11th | 2pm | Cork Opera House | 87mins

Sat 12th | 2pm | Cork Opera House | 88mins

Dark Side Of The Lens / Mickey Smith

Amharc (Gaze) / Peter Madden

The Life, Death And Suffer Story/ Anna Fitzsimons

Refuge / Donal Foreman

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | HDCAM | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 4mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

Producer Helen Hayden Print Source helenhayden@mac.com

Producer Tony Flynn Print Source peadarmadden@gmail.com

Producer Maeve McAdam Print Source maeve@redrayfilms.com

Producer Donal Foreman Print Source dawn@annvillefilms.ie

Downpour / Claire Dix

The Heist / Thomas Hefferon

Three Degrees / Philip Sheerin

Downriver / Robert Manson

Ireland | 2011 | 9mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 15mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

Asal / Tom O’Suilleabháin

Producers Crawford Anderson-Dillon, Gary Sugarman Print Source crawford@hub-media.com

Producer David Clarke Print Source dave@elzorrerofilms.ie

Producer Ruairí McKenna Print Source robertjamesmanson@gmail.com

Scotia’s Grave / Shaun O’Connor

The Man In My Bedroom / Colin Downey

Us / Gearoid Hayes

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 5mins | Beta | Colour

A surreal, ethereal, passionate and personal glimpse into the life and motivations of an ocean based photographer.

Ireland | 2011 | 4mins | Beta | Colour

A celebration of Ireland and the rain. Producer Nodlag Houlihan Print Source nodlaghoulihan@gmail.com

A young boy’s concern for the welfare of a donkey sees him treading dangerous waters. Producer Aislinn Ní Chinneagain Print Source Newgrange Pictures

A look at time and movement in Irish landscapes and our place in it, then and now.

Three eager bank robbers go over the big plan before robbing a bank.

Filmed at Scotia’s Grave, outside of Tralee, Co. Kerry. Producer Emma Higginson Print Source shaunoc1@hotmail.com

The Art Of Making Friends / Paul McNulty Ireland | 2010 | 4mins | Beta | Colour

The unusual hobby of a reclusive bicycle technician. Producer Paul McNulty Print Source paulmcnulty@hotmail.co.uk

Windows / Ken Walshe Ireland | 2010 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

When John comes across a beautiful girl being held captive, he risks everything to try and save her. Producer John Wallace Print Source kenwalshe2000@yahoo.com

Dutch Darkness / Steve Woods Ireland | 2011 | 5mins | Beta | Colour

The placid and perfect setting of a masterful Dutch painting is upset. Producer Steve Woods Print Source info@stevewoods.ie

The Marvels Of Mick Murphy / Etain McGuckian Ireland | 2011 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

From circus performing to amateur boxing, this film celebrates the magical life of Munster man Mick Murphy. Producer Clare O’Connor Print Source etainmcguckian@yahoo.com

Hamster Heaven / Paul Bolger Ireland | 2011 | 3mins | Beta | Colour

Two hamsters. One cage. She is sleepy. He’s concerned… Producer Tamsin Lyons Print Source tamsin@breakthrufilms.co.uk

Alizarin Woods / Garrett Lynam Ireland | 2010 | 27mins | Beta | Colour

Starving To Death / Sam Fitzpatrick, Reuben Teskey Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

Camped out in a shed in Tipperary, Ed and Jennifer are maybe the last surviving humans on the face of the earth. Producers Sam Fitzpatrick, Reuben Teskey Print Source sam.fitzpatrick@gmail.com

Alone with her freshly broken heart, Verity’s moods swing from homicidal to pure anguish and back.

A week after the war Val and Andy find themselves confronted by one of the war’s victims.

After a troubling phone call, an office worker goes for a long walk through Dublin City.

A young couple happen upon an overgrown adventure park. Their playful exploration takes a dramatic turn.

Ireland | 2011 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

After a night out on the tiles, a husband comes home to find a man in the bedroom.

Desire has its consequences. Inside every person there is a human being struggling to get out.

Producer Michael Parle Print Source darkwindowfilms@hotmail.com

Producer Gearoid Hayes Print Source hayesedaze@gmail.com

This Is Going To Take More Than One Night / Neasa Hardiman

The Book of Voluntary Death / Fergus Daly

Ireland | 2010 | 18mins | Beta | Colour

Exploring the never-ending struggle to communicate. Whether we use singing, text, or t-shirts, what we mean is never fixed. Producer Neasa Hardiman Print Source neasa@language.ie

A response to the recent media coverage of suicide clusters that have occurred across Ireland. Producer Fergus Daly Print Source fergusjdaly@yahoo.com

Naked / Liane Costello

The County / Cathal Nally

Ireland | 2011 | 7mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

Following the death of his neighbour Paddy, Martin thinks heavily about the circumstances of the tragedy.

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney investigates mysterious goings on in the county of Leitrim.

Producer Liane Costello Print Source liane.costello@gmail.com

Producer Cathal Nally Print Source mullingarian@hotmail.com

Producer David Quin Print Source dtquin@eircom.net

Ogygia – Part One / Tony Kenny

Joy / Colm Quinn

Holidays / Cormac Cavanagh

The extraordinary odyssey of Oliver St. John Gogarty; a contemporary retelling of Homer’s Odyssey and a radical parody of Ulysses.

Teenage Nicola is visited in hospital by her best friend Tess. However, they are soon interrupted by Nicola’s mum and someone she would like Tess to meet.

An exploration into the unconscious and conscious mental blocks many experience when faced with their naked selves.

Ireland | 2011 | 26mins | Beta | Colour

Producer Tony Kenny Print Source tonyk@ireland.com

Ireland | 2011 | 8mins | Beta | Colour

Producers Emmet Fleming, Neil Wallace Print Source fleming@venom.ie

Leitronium / David Quin Ireland | 2011 | 5mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 23mins | Beta | Colour

A dark comic drama about a young girl struggling to come to terms with her mother’s death. Producer Justyna Borowski Print Source justyna.borowski@gmail.com

23 Degrees 5 Minutes / Darragh O’Connell

Unsound / N.G. Bristow

Turnip Story / Treasa O’Brien

Ireland | 2011 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

Producer Colm Tyrrell Print Source studio@brownbagfilms.com

Producer Gawain Morrison Print Source gawain@filmtrip.tv

Prodigal Son / C.J. Scuffins

A Documentary About Me And Running Really Far / Liane Costello

Pursuing the answer to the ‘unified theory’ leads Professor Orit to the edge of madness and beyond.

An educational tour for inner city youths ends in bloodshed.

Gangster’s son, Joe, is brought back from the dead by mysterious corporation Prodigal Inc. after an untimely death.

Producer Dwayne Timmons Print Source squidsnack@hotmail.com

Producer Eilís Merangh Print Source jill.kavanagh@gmail.com

One stormy night in a remote house, a frail old lady takes the wrong medication and switches her hearing aid off.

Ireland | 2011 | 11mins | Beta | Colour

A girl. A road. A journey.

Producer Clare Hynes Print Source clarefhynes@gmail.com

A family memory is interpreted through voice and film. Producer Treasa O’Brien Print Source teeobee@yahoo.co.uk

Even Gods / Phil Harrison

Ireland | 2010 | 18mins | Beta | Colour

Hughie has accommodated himself to life in a Belfast hostel. But when his estranged daughter gets in touch, the boundaries of Hughie’s solid life begin to blur. Producers Phil Harrison, Lisa Barros D’Sa Print Source philharrison@themanifesto.co.uk

On a stormy night, on-board a fishing trawler, a fisherman and his son witness a glowing object fall to sea. As they battle the elements to get it on board, the boy loses his life. The grieving father is left alone to deal with the otherworldly object, and its unexpected contents.

Home Turf / Ross Whitaker Ireland | 2011 | 12mins | Beta | Colour

A fascinating visual celebration on the ancient art of cutting turf in Co Kerry.

Stairwell Mother / Ross McDonnell Ireland | 2011 | 12mins | Beta | Colour

The harrowing but ultimately triumphant tale of one woman’s life in the iconic Ballymun flats. The Hatch

Jonny Boy / Laura Way Ireland | 2011 | 8mins | Beta | Colour

After a lifetime of love, faithfulness and loyalty, Nell’s final words before she dies give her husband Jonny the key to his heart which she has kept hidden for thirty five years.

Foxes / Lorcan Finnegan Ireland | 2011 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world. A world of the paranormal or perhaps insanity.

Buddy / Pat Comer Home Turf

Ireland | 2010 | 8mins | Beta | Colour

A good man helps a woman in distress, but a bad man wins the day and an innocent little boy is the only true victim.

Quarantine / Tadhg O’Sullivan, Feargal Ward Ireland | 2011 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

Signatures is a short film scheme for the making of live-action, fiction films that act as a proving-ground for Irish creative talents aspiring to write, direct and produce films for the cinema. The scheme aims to encourage strong, original storytelling, visual flair, and production values appropriate to the big screen.

Each Tuesday in St. Luke’s hospital the door to Radioactive Iodine Suite B is shut behind a patient who remains there, alone, until the end of the week. We witness intimate portrait of one woman’s solitary time with illness, fate and faith.

Two Hearts / Darren Thornton Ireland | 2011 | 16mins | Beta | Colour

Lorna has worked hard to stay on the right track. But when a man from her past is released from prison, her emotions spiral out of control, and she finds herself inextricably drawn back to a life, and a love, that’s forbidden.

The Fisherman / Tom Burke Ireland | 2011 | 13mins | Beta | Colour

Reality Bites is a scheme to enable the making of

Following the death of Pake Walker, his son Pat climbs the high hill of Bull na Mór, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, to honour his father’s memory and to contemplate a life spent at sea.

short documentaries. The scheme aims to encourage

Cluck / Michael Lavelle

experimentation and the realisation of fresh

Ireland | 2011 | 19mins | Beta | Colour

approaches to non-fiction filmmaking.

Feathers are ruffled at the orphanage when a new arrival threatens to upset the pecking order…

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 1

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 2

Cascade

Programme 3

Bad Night For The Blues

Programme 4

Ebony Society

Green Crayons

Sunday 6th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema | 89mins

Monday 7th | 11.30am | Cork Opera House | 83mins

Tuesday 8th | 11.30am | Cork Opera House | 88mins

Tues 8th | 6pm | Cork Opera House | 88mins

Lucky Seven / Claudia Heindel

Tasnim / Elite Zexer

A Piece of Summer (Kawalek Lata) / Marta Minorowicz

Rite / Michael Pearce

England | 2010 | 17mins | Beta | Colour

‘The Troubles’ are over but have left their mark. Three Northern Irish boys on their way to adulthood test their juvenile strength on animals, objects and humans. Producer Maximilian Plettau Print Source festival4@hff-muc.de

Tasnim, a strong and opinionated 10-year-old, lives with her mother and siblings in a neglected Bedouin village in the Negev. Producer Sivan Cohen Print Source elitezexer@gmail.com

Wild nature and remote mountainous forests is the backdrop as a boy attempts to rebuild his bond with his grandfather. Grand Prix, Best International Short Film – Clermont-Ferrand Producer Slawomir Panszczyk Print Source info@kff.com.pl

Mike takes his estranged son out for his birthday, desperate to prove he’s a reformed man. Producer Paul Welsh Print Source ashley@digicult.co.uk

Written In Ink (Co Raz Zostalo Zapisane) / Martin Rath

Dark Side Of The Lens / Mickey Smith

Stairwell Mother / Ross McDonnell

Two Hearts / Darren Thornton

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | HD CAM | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 12mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 17mins | Beta | Colour

After 14 years of non-communication, a man attempts to get back in touch with his sister.

A surreal, ethereal, passionate and personal glimpse into the life and motivations of an ocean based photographer.

The harrowing but ultimately triumphant tale of one woman’s life in the iconic Ballymun flats.

Producer Marcin Malatynski Print Source swzfilm@filmschool.lodz.pl

Producer Helen Hayden Print Source helenhayden@mac.com

Producer Morgan Bushe Print Source morgan@fastnetfilms.com

Pitch Black Heist / John Maclean

Woman Waiting / Antoine Bourges

Jan Villa / Natasha Mendonca

Charcoal Burners (Smolarze) / Piotr Zlotorowicz

England | 2010 | 14mins | 35mm | Black & White

Canada | 2010 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour

India | 2010 | 20mins | Beta | Colour

Two men are hired to rob a safe in an office. The catch; any light in the room triggers the alarm.

A middle-aged woman is faced with poverty. As she struggles to find help within the system, her only option is to wait.

Producer Gerardine O’Flynn Print Source goflynn13c@gmail.com

Producer Dan Montgomery Print Source info@mdff.ca

After the monsoon floods that submerged Bombay, the filmmaker returns to her city to examine the personal impact of the devastating event. Tiger Award Winner – International Film Festival Rotterdam

Lorna works hard to stay on the right track, but when a man from her past is released from prison her emotions spiral out of control. Producer Colette Farrell Print Source info@calipo.ie

A visual exploration of the lives of Marek and Janina, two charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains, who live purely according to nature’s rhythm. Producer Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School

Producer natasha.mendonca@gmail.com Print Source jackieboland79@yahoo.co.uk

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Capernaum (Kafarnaum) / Jasco Viefhues

Bad Night For The Blues / Chris Shepherd

Ebony Society / Tammy Davis

Green Crayons / Kazik Radwanski

England | 2010 | 16mins | Beta | Colour

New Zealand | 2011 | 12mins | 35mm | Colour

Canada | 2010 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour

Caro is torn between her sick mother, her job and her affair. Stress and love, care and frustration merge into a daily routine.

If it was your turn to take your aunt to her local Conservative Club would you bite the bullet or do a runner? International Canal+ Award – Clermont-Ferrand, 2011.

Two boys break into a house and find themselves confronted with an unexpected situation that will test their friendship.

The more they spit, the more they enjoy themselves. But when the teacher arrives, Xavier and Liam are moulded by their actions. Best Fiction – Melbourne International Film Festival

Producer German Film and Television Academy Berlin Print Source schymik@dffb.de

Producers Ainsley Gardiner, Chelsea Winstanley Print Source shorts@nzfilm.co.nz

Producer Maria Manton Print Source info@chrisshepherdfilms.com

Producer Dan Montgomery Print Source info@mdff.ca

Cascade (Cachoeira) / Sergio J. Andrade

If I Were Dead (Si J’Étais Mort) / Baptiste Debicki

Little Brother / Callum Cooper

Stick Climbing / Daniel Zimmermann

Austria | 2010 | 14mins | 35mm | Colour

A group of young natives from the Rio Negro River region in the Amazon take part in rituals with a blend of beverages and suicide.

Two divided brothers, their special reconciliation and their final separation.

A teenage boy uses his hearing impairment to escape his daily routine and the responsibility of looking after his wheelchair bound little brother. Jury Award – Ann Arbor Film Festival

A contemplative walk leads to a bizarre climbing tour. From the perspective of the invisible climber, we experience a seemingly impossible ascent.

Producer Callum Cooper Print Source callum@isore.com.au

Producer Daniel Zimmermann Print Source gerald@sixpackfilm.com

My Tired Father / Maya Vitkova

Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight / Eliza Hittman

Girl / Fijona Jonuzi

Sweden | 2011 | 15mins | HD CAM | Colour

8 year-old Daria thinks she hears a mouse in the middle of the night. But when she wakes her father, bigger problems come to light.

Sonya, a 17-year-old Russian immigrant, lives in a claustrophobic Brooklyn apartment with her dad and his ever-growing menagerie of cats.

Hanna runs in to an acquaintance, Andreas, who invites her to a party. At first, Hanna feels uncomfortable…

Producer Emil Vitkov, Maya Vitkova Print Source mayvitkovitz@yahoo.com

Producer Eliza Hittman Print Source eliza.hittman@gmail.com

Producer Géraldine Amgar Print Source festival@femis.fr

Producer Sergio J. Andrade Print Source riotaruma@gmail.com

Producer Emma Kjellander Print Source andreas.fock@sfi.se

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 5

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 6

The Corridor

Programme 7

Aglaée

Programme 8

Jam Today

Soul Catcher

Wed 9th | 11.30am | Cork Opera House | 92mins

Thurs 10th | 11.30am | Cork Opera House | 90mins

Fri 11th | 11.30am | Cork Opera House | 81mins

Sat 12th | 11.30am | Cork Opera House | 91mins

Silent River (Apele Tac) / Anca Miruna Lazarescu

Killing The Chickens To Scare The Monkeys / Jens Assur

Nena / Maria Florencia Alvarez

Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed.

In the schoolyard, Benoît loses a bet against his friends. His dare: to ask Aglaée, to go out with him. Best Short – Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto

Nena is 13-years-old. Suddenly, she grew tall and her body became clumsy. She takes shelter in her attitude but can’t escape from the world’s hostility.

Producer David Lindner Leporda Print Source info@filmallee.com

Producer Kare Productions Print Source contact@unifrance.org

Plume / Barry Purves

Stones (Kamene) / Katarina Kerekesova

All Flowers In Time / Jonathan Caouette

Engine / Miguel Ildefonso

France | 2011 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

Slovakia | 2010 | 26mins | 35 mm | Colour

Canada | 2010 | 14mins | Beta SP | Colour

Portugal | 2010 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

A winged man, a fall, a hostile encounter, and a life changed forever…

Men working in a quarry are visited by the foreman’s wife. She yearns to have a child…

The director of Tarnation takes us on a guided tour through the shattered remains of memory and identity.

Producer Wendy Griffiths Print Source wendyg@darkprince.fr

Producer Katarina Kerekesova Print Source katakerekesova@gmail.com

Producer Phoebe Greenberg Print Source dboylennon@gmail.com

The Corridor/ Sarah Vanagt

The Death Of An Insect (Erään Hyönteisen Tuho) / Hannes Vartiainen Pekka Veikko

Joy / Colm Quinn

A donkey makes weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in England. The initiative inspires some startling reactions from the residents.

Producer Balthasar Print Source goran@kranfilm.net

Producer Hannes Vartiainen Pekka Veikko Print Source Otto.Suuronen@Ses.Fi

Paris Recyclers / Nikki Schuster

Deeper Than Yesterday / Ariel Kleiman

Austria | 2011 | 6mins | Beta | Colour

The colorful markings in public space are merely the stage for a ballet of overlooked things: little creatures made of trash carrying out their choreography. Producer Nikki Schuster Print Source gerald@sixpackfilm.com

The death of an insect… Best Experimental Short – Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto

After three months submerged underwater, the men have become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean losing himself. International Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival, 2011 Producer Benjamin Gilovitz Print Source contact@stoolpigeon.com.au

Nine scenes that unfold in the grey area between black and white, where national politics and strategy have unforeseen consequences on a young teacher’s life. Producer Jens Assur Print Source andreas.fock@sfi.se

Ireland | 2011 | 10mins | Beta | Colour

Teenage Nicola is visited in hospital by her best friend Tess. However, they are soon interrupted by Nicola’s mum… Producers Emmet Fleming, Neil Wallace Print Source fleming@venom.ie

Producer Rafael Alvarez Armesto Print Source 235@235.es

Man and Nature. Man and the Machine. When everything seems the same, something new emerges. A voice from the future announces, perhaps, a new world. Producer Miguel Valverde Print Source nocomboio@gmail.com

The Wind Is Blowing On My Street (Dar Kouce Baad Miayad) / Saba Riazi Iran, USA | 16mins | Colour | HD CAM | Subtitled

A young girl in Tehran is accidentally locked out of her home with no scarf on her head. Producer Mohammad Hoseseni Print Source saba0riazi@gmail.com

Wakaranai Buta / Atsushi Wada

Territory (Territorio) / Nimrod Amitai, Ignacio Arnold

Chile | 2010 | 13mins | Beta | Colour

A huge pig lies in front of the house where a family lives. While they acknowledge each other’s existence, both parties fail to understand one another.

Alfonso works as a caretaker at a rest house located next to a lake. The visit of his employer’s young nephew interrupts his routine.

Producers Atsushi Wada Print Source wada@kankaku.jp

Producer Nimrod Amitai, Ignacio Arnold Print Source iarnold@plagio.cl

In The School (Na Escola) / Jorge Cramez

Even Gods / Phil Harrison

Infinite (Infinito) / André Santos, Marco Leão

Rough Skin / Cathy Brady

Portugal | 2010 | 21mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 18mins | Beta | Colour

England | 2011 | 23mins | Beta | Colour

Indifferent to the boredom of the children around her, the teacher continues to write a poem by Camões on the blackboard. They exchange a glance and leave.

Hughie has accommodated himself to life in a Belfast hostel. But then his estranged daughter gets in touch… Best Short Drama – Galway Film Fleadh

Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.

After nine months in prison, Kelly struggles to adjust to life outside.

Producer Rui Xavier Print Source andrefcsantos@gmail.com

Producer John Chapman Print Source poppy@touchpapertv.com

Producers Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar Print Source liliana@curtas.pt

Producers Phil Harrison, Lisa Barros D’Sa Print Source philharrison@themanifesto.co.uk

Elaine Rides Again / Lisa Chatfield

Jam Today / Simon Ellis

Soul Catcher (Sielunsieppaaja) / PV Lehtinen

New Zealand | 2011 | 15mins | Beta | Colour

England | 2011 | 14mins | Beta | Colour

Elaine wants to spend time with her teenage daughter and will do just about anything to make this happen.

Impatient to grow and become a man, with only his curiosity for company, 11-year-old Robert is stuck on a boating holiday with his parents.

A film about a man who has lost his soul.

Producers Michelle Savill Print Source shorts@nzfilm.co.nz

Producer Jonas Blanchard Print Source simonellis@bubtowers.com

Producer PV Lehtinen Print Source otto.suuronen@ses.fi

FOCUS ON ROMANIA Europe loves European Festivals A privileged place for meetings, exchanges and discovery, festivals provide a vibrant and accessible environment for the widest variety of talent, stories and emotions that constitute Europe’s cinematography. The MEDIA Programme of the European Union aims to promote European audiovisual heritage, to encourage the circulation of films outside their own borders and to foster audiovisual industry competitiveness. The MEDIA Programme acknowledges the cultural, educational, social and economic role of festivals by co-financing more than 90 festivals each year, programming more than 20 000 screenings of European works to nearly 3 million audience across Europe. This year the MEDIA programme is celebrating its 20th Birthday so we are especially proud to look back on how much the European film industry has developed over this period, and to stress our continued commitment to supporting the EU film industry in the future. MEDIA is pleased to support the fifty sixth edition of the Corona Cork Film Festival and we extend our best wishes to all of the festival goers for an enjoyable and stimulating event. MEDIA PROGRAMME European Union

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Romanian cinema has been intriguing and delighting audiences in recent times and this special Focus On Romanian Short Films reveals the skill and unique artistry of Romanian film talent. In collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute and Andrei Gorzo, we are delighted to present these very special programmes of short films. Most of the great and the good Romanian cinema that has emerged since 2005 (the year of Cristi Puiu’s trail-blazing The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) has been built (often very rigorously) on a particular set of aesthetic principles which can be traced back to Italian Neorealism and to André Bazin’s theoretical writings on the subject. It is a cinema of quotidian events, more typically filmed in observational long takes rather than inflected or analysed through editing. Big dramatic points tend to receive no special highlighting, co-existing on an equal footing with small or marginal actions. The stance is unsentimentally humanistic, coolly alert, tense with moral awareness. Far from naive, this realism, at its best, has been fraught with thoughtful concern for matters of cinematic form and, increasingly, for the moral, philosophical and political questions raised by any attempt at realistic representation. Seen from the point of view of the subject matter and taken as a cycle, the films begin by covering what can be described as classically Neorealist ground, collectively depicting a frayed and battered society, haggard from totalitarian rule and from the harsh new economic realities that followed it, while also chronicling the consolidation of a new middle class. All the characteristics of this New Romanian Cinema are powerfully showcased in our selection of 13 shorts. The programme includes work by some of the strongest individual personalities in the movement – Cristi Puiu’s quietly punchy Cigarettes and Coffee, made right before he changed the course of Romanian cinema with Lăzărescu, or Corneliu

Porumboiu’s sure-footed Liviu’s Dream, made in preparation for his highly original first feature, 12:08, East of Bucharest. Films like Radu Jude’s The Tube with a Hat, Marian Crişan’s Megatron and Alexandru Mavrodineanu’s Music in the Blood are, perhaps, among the most reminiscent of old Neorealist values, while a film like Peter Kerek’s Adultery is representative of the gradual turn towards more bourgeois subject matter and more overtly formalist concerns. While the films seldom stray very far from the same core of stylistic norms – the most striking exception being Marilena from P7, whose director, the late Cristian Nemescu, inclined more towards an idiosyncratic form of pop cinema –, this stylistic formula lends itself to the good old-fashioned suspense of Anca Miruna Lăzărescu’s Silent River, as well as to the comedic intergenerational fireworks of Paul Negoescu’s Derby. – Andrei Gorzo Andrei Gorzo teaches and researches at Bucharest’s National University of Drama and Film. He is a member of the International Jury at this year’s festival.

The Focus on Romania programme is organised by Corona Cork Film Festival, in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and with support from the Embassy of Romania in Ireland.

Adultery

FOCUS ON ROMANIA Timetable

FOCUS ON ROMANIA

Programme 1

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Subjective Portraits: Photography Exhibition by Alex Galmeanu | Triskel | Nov 6 – 13

The Tube With A Hat

Oli’s Wedding

Monday 7th | 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Tuesday 8th | 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Wednesday 9th | 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Cigarettes And Coffee / Cristi Puiu

The Tube With A Hat / Radu Jude

Megatron / Marian Crisan

2003 | 13mins | 35mm | Colour

2007 | 24mins | Beta | Colour

2008 | 14mins | 35mm | Colour

A man in his sixties asks a young man to help him find new employment. The young man turns out to be his son.

A road movie about a father-and-son relationship and about the importance of the small things in life.

It’s Maxim’s 8th birthday and his mother takes him to Bucharest to meet his father.

Producers Cristina Ionescu, Dan Badea Print Source Temple Film

Producers Ada Solomon Print Source ada@hifilm.ro

Producers Anca Puiu Print Source anca@mandragora.ro

The Cage / Adrian Sitaru

Silent River / Anca Miruna Lăzărescu

Liviu’s Dream / Corneliu Porumboiu

2010 | 17mins | 35mm | Colour

2011 | 30mins | 35mm | Colour

2004 | 39mins | 35mm | Colour

When Mihaes’s little boy brings home a sick dove, this raises new conflicts between father and son, but also a possible reconciliation, that Mihaes does not want to lose.

Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night, Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.

Liviu’s Dream tells the story of a young man who was born by mistake. That is, to be precise, the fault of a Communist decree which was forbidding abortions.

Producer Monica Lazurean-Gorgan Print Source jasitaru@4prooffilm.ro

Producer Daniel Mitulescu Print Source info@filmallee.com

Producer Mihai Orasanu Print Source Filmex Romania

Music In The Blood / Alexandru Mavrodineanu

Lord / Adrian Sitaru

Adultery / Peter Kerek

2010 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour

2009 | 20mins | 35mm | Colour

2010 | 29mins | 35mm | Colour

Petre tries to make his son Robert a star at a music audition.

Toni is engaged in finding lost animals and blackmailing the masters to obtain beautiful large amounts of money.

A portrait of a woman, a pediatrician, who becomes entangled in her own existence.

Producers Lazurean-Gorgan, Ada Solomon Print Source asitaru@4prooffilm.ro

Producers Anca Puiu Print Source anca@mandragora.ro

Derby / Paul Negoescu

Alexandra / Radu Jude

Oli’s Wedding / Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

2010 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour

2007 | 25mins | 35mm | Colour

2009 | 22mins | 35mm | Colour

Mircea has a 15-year-old daughter whose boyfriend is invited to dine with the family. He arrives earlier and they go to her bedroom. While watching TV, Mircea can hear his daughter moaning from her room.

Tavi, a man in his late thirties, discovers that Alexandra, his 4-year-old daughter, is not calling him ‘Dad’ anymore.

In his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares to participate in his son’s wedding – via Skype. A bittersweet story about scattered families and lonely parents.

Producers Catalin Mitulescu, Jean Charles Mille Print Source contact@stradafilm.ro

Subjective Portraits by Alex Galmeanu Alex Galmeanu is one of the most celebrated young Romanian photographers. His latest exhibition features well-known Romanian actors and directors. An artist with a winning combination of superb vision, personal verve and riveting technical brilliance, Alex Galmeanu was born in 1978 in Bucharest. Since 1992, he has been published regularly in Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Elle, Glamour, InStyle along with international advertising campaigns.

Producer Paul Negoescu Print Source paul.ego@gmail.com

Marilena From P7 / Cristian Nemescu 2006 | 45mins | 35mm | Colour

Andrei, a 13 year old teenager living on the outskirts of Bucharest, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he has fallen in love with. Producer Ada Solomon Print Source ada@hifilm.ro

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(The Importance Of) Hair

Sun 13th | 4.00pm | Opera House | 95 mins

Sun 13th | 11.30am | Triskel Christchurch |87 mins

For those who can only make one short film programme; this is a one-stop opportunity to see what is happening in the world of great short-filmmaking.

These five shorts stand in a category of their own, united by a directness, simplicity and artfulness, in the broad spectrum of documentary.

Deeper Than Yesterday / Ariel Kleiman

Mother (Matka) / Jakub Piatek

After three months submerged underwater, the men have become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean losing himself. International Jury Prize â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sundance Film Festival

A meeting room in a Polish jail. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers.

The Death Of An Insect (ErĂ¤Ă¤n HyĂśnteisen Tuho) / Hannes Vartiainen Pekka Veikko

Wood Of Value / Bjorn Bratberg

The death of an insectâ&#x20AC;Ś Best Experimental Short â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto

The severe backdrop of wild nature and remote mountainous forests is the backdrop as a boy attempts to rebuild his bond with his grandfather. Grand Prix, Best International Short Film â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clermont-Ferrand

Producer Andrzej Wajda Print Source zofia@kff.com.pl

An observational documentary concerning a treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey from the forests of Norway to the metropolis of London. Producer Bjorn Bratberg Print Source mail@bjornbratberg.com

Green Crayons / Kazik Radwanski

I lost all my hair in three months. An amazing amount was tied up in that hair. I changed more than I could imagine. This is a film about identity, attraction and sorrow. A discussion about the value of appearances, and what is actually normal.

Canada | 2010 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour

Producer Christina HĂśglund Print Source andreas.fock@sfi.se

The more they spit, the more they enjoy themselves. But when the teacher arrives, Xavier and Liam are moulded by their actions. Best Fiction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Melbourne International Film Festival

Bad Night For The Blues / Chris Shepherd England | 2010 | 16mins | Beta | Colour

If it was your turn to take your aunt to her local Conservative Club would you bite the bullet or do a runner? International Canal+ Award â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clermont-Ferrand

Even Gods / Phil Harrison Ireland | 2010 | 18mins | Beta | Colour

Hughie has accommodated himself to life in a Belfast hostel. But then his estranged daughter gets in touchâ&#x20AC;Ś Best Short Drama â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Galway Film Fleadh

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Never Afraid! (Ik Ben Echt Niet Bang!) / Willem Baptist

Mack is an 8-year-old boy whose heart is reversed from its normal position. He finds inspiration from his deceased grandfather and support from his sister when he performs on the motorcross track. Producer Mete GĂźmĂźrhan Print Source andrenaus@eyefilm.nl

Goodbye Mandima / Robert-Jan Lacombe Switzerland, France | 2010 | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

Childhood pictures and video footage provide a retrospective goodbye for the filmmaker, ruminating on his move from African culture to Europe at the age of ten. Producer Ecal Print Source lac.filmbox@gmail.com

IRISH SHOWCASE

IFI IRISH FILM ARCHIVE Come On Over

Saturday 12th | 9.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Alfred E. Green USA | 1922 | 69mins | Digi-Beta | Black White

Continuing our collaboration with IFI National we are delighted to present Come On Over – a lively emigrant comedy – seen here first time in Ireland in living memory. The film has recently been acquired by the IFI Irish Film Archive from the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Muide Éire… freisin! The first film to screen at the festival is Muide Éire/We Are Ireland. The film documents the rich history of Ireland on screen. What is remarkable is the sheer number of films used to illustrate the film, evidence of the strength of Irish filmmaking, particularly in the past decade. An important obligation of the festival is to represent that strength, that diversity. Our programme each year reflects contemporary Irish filmmaking but, we hope, also provides support and encouragement to Irish filmmaking talent.

Come on Over is the pacy story of Moyna Killilea (the indomitable Colleen Moore) who travels from Lisdoonvarna to New York to join her beloved in a busy New York boarding house run by Delia Morahan (Cork-born, Kate Price). Romantic misunderstandings and high jinx ensue. Charlie Casanova

Recreating the Wurlitzer-style splendour of early cinema, Come On Over will be presented with accompaniment by Morgan Cooke on the Triskel’s recently restored TC Lewis organ (originally installed in 1878). And, in what is doubtless a cinema first, Cooke will be joined by Cork uileann piper, Flaithrí Neff – for a surprising and unmissable evening of early film fun.

Corona Cork Film Festival shows more Irish films to more people than any other festival. An average of five hours of Irish film will be screened on each of the eight days, 27 programmes in all. That eight of the programmes originate from Cork is a cause for satisfaction. Local filmmaking is vibrant right now and we look forward to the impact that Cork Screen Commission – to be launched during the festival – will make. We have had to expand the ‘Made In Cork’ screenings to three – not just because of the numbers of films submitted but because of the impressive quality. And while these programmes showcase new talent, it is significant that a number of filmmakers are back with their third or fourth film, illustrating a sustained commitment to filmmaking in the region.

Producer Goldwyn Pictures Corp Print Source IFI Irish Film Archive

We celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the extraordinary achievement of The Dawn. Director Tom Coopers’ family, many of whom are Cork-based, join us for this special anniversary screening.

The Dawn Behold The Lamb

The festival is particularly geared to supporting new and emerging Irish filmmakers and we have introduced a Filmmaker Development Programme. This includes masterclasses and panel-discussions, which we hope will be of value to Irish short-filmmakers.

Sunday 13th | 2.30 pm | Gate Cinema

Tom Cooper Ireland | 1936 | 87mins | 35mm | Black & White

Filmed in Killarney, Co. Kerry, during 1934 and 1935, The Dawn was the very first full-length indigenous Irish sound feature film. Capturing the glamour, romance and tragedy of the War of Independence, the film was made with an all-amateur cast of 250 locals, who worked their way through Sundays and holidays to create what has been hailed as one of the most remarkable films made in Ireland.

And it’s not just contemporary film; The Irish Film Archive is screening Come On Over (1922) and we are delighted to present, with the support of the Cooper family, an anniversary screening of Tom Cooper’s classic The Dawn, filmed in Kerry in 1936 with an entirely amateur cast and crew. This is a big film and an extraordinary achievement.

Directed by and starring Tom Cooper, a Killarney garage and cinema owner, The Dawn is a landmark achievement in Irish filmmaking and a testament to his inspiration and vision in creating this breathtaking piece of history.

What are especially gratifying about the Irish showcase are the consistently large audiences who support and enjoy these screenings.

The Dawn stands as a remarkable project, a labour of love created with passion and ambition…under the direction of the astute and resourceful Tom Cooper. – Michael Dwyer, The Irish Times. Producer Tom Cooper Foxes

With thanks to the Cooper family.

JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

The Corona Cork Film Festival, in partnership with the Japanese Film Festival 2011 is proud to bring the best in new Japanese cinema to Cork audiences. The Japanese Film Festival 2011, the fourth collaboration between the Embassy of Japan, access>CINEMA and the Ireland Japan Association, presents a diverse line-up of feature, documentary and animation films throughout this week. Highlights in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programme include acclaimed director Yoji Yamadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gentle and moving Kabei Our Mother; the quirky drama Sawako Decides; awardwinning psychological thriller Villain; and the uniquely vibrant but tragic Memories of Matsuko from festival favourite Tetsuya Nakashima. Food enthusiasts can whet their appetites with the delightful comedy Chef Of The South Polar and the engrossing, simple documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. Meanwhile, anime fans can look forward to the emotional and visually magnificent Colourful, as well as a special screening of the epic and surreal The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya.

JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

Sun 6th | Gate Cinema | 6pm

Mon 7th | Gate Cinema | 9pm

Wed 9th | Triskel Christchurch | 7pm

Wed 9th | Gate Cinema | 9pm

The Chef Of South Polar

Sawako Decides

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi

Memories Of Matsuko

Shûichi Okita

Yuya Ishil

David Gelb

Tetsuya Nakashima

2009 | 125mins | 35mm

2010 | 112mins | 35mm

2011 | 83mins | 35mm

2006 | 130mins | 35mm

An Antarctic research station is possibly the last place anyone would expect to encounter seriously fine dining, but nevertheless this is what’s on the menu in Shuichi Okita’s delicious adaptation of Jun Nishimura’s autobiographical novel.

Maintaining a taciturn approach in the face of social, industrial and emotional embarrassment, Hikari Mitsushima makes a wonderfully unconventional heroine as she returns to the countryside from an unfulfilling stint in Tokyo to take over her father’s struggling business.

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, who presides over the esteemed 10-seat, $300-a-plate Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant in Tokyo.

When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it had any value. What he finds is a revelation.

Tue 8th | Gate Cinema | 9pm

Tues 8th |Boole 3, UCC Campus | 6pm

Thu 10th | Gate Cinema | 9pm

Fri 11th | Gate Cinema | 9pm

Kabei Our Mother

Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya

Colourful

Villain

Yoji Yamada

Tatsuya Ishihara, Yasuhiro Takemoto

Keiichi Hara

Lee Sang-il

2008 | 133mins | 35mm

2010 | 163mins | 35mm

2010 | 126mins | 35mm

2010 | 139mins | 35mm

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family is upset when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist.

After Haruhi organises a pre-Christmas party, Kyon arrives to find a world where everything has changed.

Keiichi Hara’s beautifully animated drama Colourful concerns ‘a sinful spirit granted the opportunity for re-birth.’

A difficult, realistic look at a complex situation, Villain explores good and evil in a moving and provocative fashion, centering upon the lonely Yuich, who is trying to find love in an online chatroom as the chirpy Yoshino ditches him when she meets the much cooler Masuo.

This screening will take place on UCC campus. Free screening, tickets available on door only, no advance bookings.

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The Magical Misery Tour

FOCUS ON EDGAR PÊRA

Born in Lisbon in November, 1960, Edgar Pêra graduated in the early 1980s from the Film Academy in Lisbon, where he concentrated on editing. Having spent the 1980s working variously as a producer, editor and screenwriter, he directed his first short in 1990. Since then, Pêra has gone on to direct hundreds of documentaries, short films and features for the screen, television, Internet, live shows and exhibitions. A leading light of the current generation of Portuguese experimental filmmakers, Pêra’s work is characterised by an interest in political and philosophical subject matter, blended with surreal humour and imagery. We are delighted to welcome Edgar Pêra to present these programmes as well as his gala feature The Baron.

Programme 3 Wednesday 9th | 4.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Kino-Diaries & Cine-Portraits (Cork Mix) 1982-2012 | 70mins | Beta

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Monday 7th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema

Tuesday 8th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema

Who Is The Master Who Makes The Grass Green? / Os Túneis da Realidade

2001 | 104mins | 35mm | Colour

1996 | 7mins| Beta | Colour and Black & White

Our brain receives millions of signals. We select a small portion and call it ‘reality’. A cine-dialogue exploring science-Fiction writer Robert Anton Wilson’s ideas about reality.

Manual Of Evasion Lisbon 94 / Manual De Evasão Lx94 1994 | 61mins | Beta |Colour

What is Time? How many kinds of Time are there? What’s the importance of being late? How can Temperature influence the perception of Time? Where do the Time-flies come from? Where are the Headquarters of the Short-Time Mob? How to sabotage the Ruling Time? What is the Moment and how do we live it? What is a Temporal Distortion? A trans-temporal investigation of time with interventions by Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna and Rudy Rucker.

A Janela (Maryalva Mix) Santo Antoninho Square, Bica Neighborhood. “António!” shouts a feminine shadow. Knife thrusts. The victim runs along the funicular tracks until he reaches, panting, the Ruins of his own Memory. Six female apparitions emerge at a window with different views on the life and the personality of one António, a bon vivant, lover, husband, Fado (Fate) singer, and seller of cheap combs and other extraordinary artifacts (among which there is a fabulous and legendary elixir!). The last feminine apparition, Marya de Fátyma, a popular Fado singer, an older and more experienced woman, introduces herself as António’s intimate confidante. She comments upon the rumours about António’s supposed intention to marry his supposed six lovers, and introduces the suspicion that António may have been the victim of a set up planned to have him treacherously stabbed to death. Who is the real António? How many Antónios are there after all? And how many lovers? Did they get married? Did they kill him? Is he in Purgatory? Who is the mysterious eye that is the protagonist of the film? António? Which Antónyo? Me?? Phor phuck’s sayk!

For 30 years, Edgar Pêra has compulsively recorded images and sounds, assuming the Man-Kamera persona and accumulating files, film-diaries, interviews, events, etc. Along with this re-interpretation of picto-sonic activity, Pera has portrayed, since The City Of Cassiano (1991), issues such as Work and Laziness, Time and Reality, Freedom and Tyranny, Urban Planning and Architecture, Evasion and Alienation... And the life and/or work of thinkers and creators such as Agostinho da Silva, António Pedro, H.P. Lovecraft, Erik Satie, Carlos Paredes, Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, Branquinho da Fonseca, Isabel Barreno, Luisa Costa Gomes... The first phase of Edgar Pêra’s prolific work reaches its acme in A Janela (Maryalva Mix)/The Window(Don Juan Mix). It’s his synthesis of the twentieth century, considering the link between a formalist aesthetic inherited from silent movies and an instant way of capturing reality. With the turn of the millennium, emotions overlapped sensations, both in speculative documentary (Movimentos Perpétuos and HomemTeatro) and in fiction (Rio Turvo and O Barão). These Kino-Diaries & Cine-Portraits, made especially for this retrospective, include past and future elements: film-fragments, rare or unseen kino-diaries, early-stage projects. Unique and unrepeatable visions. A singular film-event!

FOCUS ON EDGAR PÊRA

Programme 4 Thursday 10th | 6.30pm | Triskel Christchurch

We support: Film | Moving image art | Animation

Impending Doom

We provide: Equipment | Training & mentoring | Information

2006 | 8mins | Beta | Colour

A cinematic diary shot on Super-8 film in Rome and Lisbon, at the funerals of Pope John Paul II and Alvaro Cunhal, the Portuguese communist leader.

Perpetual Movements / Movimentos Perpétuos 2006 | 70mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

Utilising a rich tapestry of archive footage, testimonies from prominent personalities in Portuguese cultural life and the voice of Carlos Paredes as a narrator to his own story, Perpetual Movements pays homage to a multifaceted artist and one of the most celebrated icons of Portuguese guitar playing. Paredes was so famed for his virtuoisity on the Coimbra Fado – a traditional Portuguese guitar – he acquired the nickname ‘The Man With a Thousand Fingers.’

“SEEInG THE LIGHT”Exhibition of Irish Experimental Film at TACTIC. Open Mon 7th to Wed 9th Nov with accompanying screening series featuring: THE COnSECUTIVE IMPOSTORS (7th nov) IVAn & IGOR BUHAROV SHORTS + DISCUSSIOn (8th nov) (An)OTHER IRISH CInEMA & VICKY LAnGAn (9th nov)

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Programme 5 Friday 11th | 6.30pm | Triskel Christchurch

Muddy River (Rio Turvo)

You truffle my feathers

2007 | 77mins | Beta | Coloured | Subtitled

A topographer hired to help build an airport falls for the beautiful niece of the camp’s cook. This marks the first screening of the film outside Portugal.

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PEOPLE LIKE US We welcome People Like Us (PLU) for this first-time Irish performance of a very special presentation:

The Magical Misery Tour

Friday 11th | 9.00pm | Triskel Christchurch | 60 mins followed by Aodhgán O’Flaherty and Toby Karr (pg 84)

The Magical Misery Tour People Like Us raid the horror movie crypt to take us on The Magical Misery Tour. Sourced from over 100 horror movies, PLU reflect upon narratives that occur and repeat within the genre. By stitching together a veritable Frankenstein’s monster of fiendish horror clips and darkly witty music samples PLU have you whistling past the graveyard.

This is not a dream. This is really happening! Portraying not so much a scary nightmare but a journey through the underworld of everyday human experiences, PLU see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the most ghastly scenarios, and by accompanying the edited found feature film footage with new sample collage pop songs, elevate us from the swamp.

THE SOFTDAY FOLEY ORCHESTRA

with Caoimhe Doyle and Jean McGrath Re-Mediating Joris Ivens

The screenings of his silent documentaries Rain and The Bridge will be accompanied by a new and contemporary soundtrack created for the evening by the Softday Foley Ensemble featuring Sean Taylor, Mikael Fernstrom, Foley artist Caoimhe Doyle and Foley recording artist Jean McGrath.

Rain (Regen)

Vicki Bennett has been a very influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. By animating and recontextualising found footage collages Vicki gives an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge.

Softday are visual artist Sean Taylor and computer software designer Mikael Fernstrom who have collaborated on a number of high profile science and art projects. Both artists are interested in exploring the crack’s between expanded theatre, sound art, sculpture, music, dance and the application of new technologies.

In collaboration with Cork City Council, we present this specially commissioned performance honouring the work of the legendary Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989). Born roughly at the advent of film, Joris Ivens’ own place of prominence in that history was earned by his pioneering work in the documentary film, which combined a striking aesthetic with intense personal and political involvement.

Vicki Bennett

Caimhe Doyle is an internationally renowned Foley artist, recently nominated for an Emmy. She has worked extensively on many feature films with directors as Robert Altman, Neil Jordan and Guy Maddin. Jean McGrath is a renowned Foley recording artist and has worked on films such as The Lovely Bones, Ella Enchanted and Ondine.

1929 |12mins | Producers Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken

Discussion and Q&A | 1.30pm | 30 mins Upper Bar, Cork Opera House

The Bridge (De Brug)

Following the performance, audience members are invited to join the artists and Dr. Dara Waldron, lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at Limerick School of Art and Design. Dr. Waldron will briefly recap on Joris Ivens’ life and his life-long contribution to documentary film. This will then be followed by a discussion with the artists about the project.

1928 | 11mins | Producer Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens’ silent documentaries Rain and The Bridge are both considered masterpieces of the genre. Both also stand apart as poetic art projects, visual mediations at the tail end of the silent period. Rain follows the transformations of collective life which often go unnoticed. The Bridge documents the perfect symbol of human accomplishment in the face of nature’s challenges.

With thanks to Marceline Loridan Ivens, Mannus Franken Foundation, EYE Film Institute, Irish Film Archive.

Let England Shake Seamus Murphy

Thursday 10th | 2.30pm| Gate Cinema

BUHAROV BROTHERS Hungarian audiovisual experimentalists Igor and Ivan Buharov (Kornél Szilágyi and Nándor Hevesi) have worked together under this pseudonym since 1995. They specialise in producing and directing a wide range of experimentals, features, shorts, documentaries and animations, celebrated for their amusing, and often absurd, storylines. They usually work without a script, or deviate from it, encouraging the actors to improvise and utilise found footage and free association while often composing and performing the film music themselves. The duo are also founders and members of the avant garde jazz band Pop Ivan and are founding members of a number of collectives including Labor 40 and the Kaos Camping Group.

England | 2011 | 51mins | HDCAM | Colour

Seamus Murphy (born 1959) grew up in Ireland and lives in London. For over two decades, he has photographed extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has won seven World Press Photo Awards. His photography from Afghanistan, which he began in 1994, chronicles the life of the Afghan people over thirteen tumultuous years and won him the World Understanding Award (POYi). Murphy’s work has been published widely, including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Granta, Paris Match, Le Monde and The Guardian.

Print Source for all films igorbuharov@gmail.com

We are delighted to welcome Seamus Murphy who will present and discuss his work. PJ Harvey’s eight studio album Let England Shake was released to mass critical acclaim earlier this year, culminating in her winning the 2011 Mercury Music Prize Award. To accompany the album, award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy spent two years travelling 5,000 miles around England to create twelve films inspired by and developed from themes in the album. Each film is a combination of still and moving imagery, created in the fashion of classic photographic reportage recording real and spontaneous situations to document England and the English psyche.

Corona Cork Film Festival in association with the Cork Film Centre is delighted to welcome the Brothers to Cork to present their work.

PROGRAMME 1 Monday 7th | 4.00pm | Gate Cinema | 114mins

PRACTICAL ELECTRONICA Ian Helliwell

Rudderless

Wednesday 9th | 10.00pm| Triskel Christchurch

2010 | 30mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

The film is a journey through the world, passing through different political and economic situations, both collective and private.

England | 2011 | 61mins | Beta | Colour

Producers George Durst, Kornél Szilágyi, Nandor Hevesi

Fred Judd (1914-1992) was a pioneering figure in the fields of amateur radio and electronic music. Judd enthusiastically promoted electronic music through his contribution to Amateur Tape Recording (ATR) magazine and the publication of his 1961 book Electronic Music And Musique Concrete, and by 1963 he had built his own prototype synthesizer.

Slow Mirror

In this experimental documentary, multimedia artist Ian Helliwell explores Judd’s activity during the 1950s and 60s with electronics and tape manipulation. Although high profile at that time, with regular appearances on BBC radio, and creating the soundtrack for the sci-fi puppet series Space Patrol, his story has since slipped into obscurity. Using archive footage and stills, animation and experimental video techniques, Practical Electronica fills in a lost chapter in early electronic music history.

World Premiere The director will introduce the screening. Producer Ian Helliwell Print Source ianhelliwell@yahoo.co.uk THE SCREENING WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FOUR IAN HELLIWELL SHORTS. Street Lights 2008 | 4mins The Atomium Age 2007 | 3mins

Swallow Flies East 2011 | 7mins At The Glitterball 2011 | 4mins

2007 | 84mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

Homemade and oneiric, these darkly playful hallucinations come with the aura of having been discovered in someone’s attic, precisely revealing a world perhaps subconsciously suspected but hitherto un-describable. - Maximilian Le Cain, Cork Film Centre

Do you know what the barman pours for spirits? Do you know what drink the barman pours? If your lover pours the drink, it’s your destruction; if the drink is fiery, inside it brings illumination. Producer George Durst

PROGRAMME 2 Tuesday 8th | 6:00pm | TACTIC/Sample-Studios, Old FAS building, Sullivans Quay | 29 mins | All films are DVD and Colour Metroul / 2006 / 6 mins Hotel Tubu / 2002 / 4 mins Oneheadword Protection / 2006 / 6 mins Concern For One’s Fellow Man / 1999 / 6 mins Tales For Cruel People / 1999 / 7 mins To be followed by a discussion with Ivan & Igor Buharov.

JESSE JONES Jesse Jones is one of Ireland’s leading visual artists. Her practice reflects and re-presents historical moments of collective resistance and dissent. In her films and videos she explores the gesture of the revolutionary action.Jones’ work takes many forms from gallery based film and installation to largescale public events, she has collaborated with diverse groups from Opera singers and marching bands to activists. She has recently completed a year long fellowship at Location One, New York. She has just completed a solo show in RedCat Los Angeles and a new commission for Collective gallery in Edinburgh. She has shown internationally at the 9th Istanbul Bienniale 2009, and Nought to Sixty at the ICA, London. Upcoming exhibitions include Artsonje Centre, Seoul, in 2013. Jesse Jones’ work is screened as part of a collaboration between the Corona Cork Film Festival and the National Sculpture Factory. We are jointly delighted to present the European premiere of Jesse’s new film ‘The Struggle Against Ourselves’, a trilogy of her earlier work, and to host her in conversation.

The Trilogy of Dust + the artist Jesse Jones in conversation

Friday and Saturday 10am – 5pm, lunch included. Tuesday 8th | 8.30pm | Triskel Christchurch | 50 mins

Free but spaces limited.

Mahogany

Meyerhold Workshop @ National Sculpture Factory

2009 | 35mins | 16mm | Colour

The Predicament of Man 2010 | 3mins | 16mm | Colour

The Struggle Against Ourselves 2011 | 21mins | Colour

Factory Floor @ National Sculpture Factory, Albert Road The film is presented as a looped installation at the NSF Thursday 10th | 5pm to 9pm Friday 11th | 5pm to 9pm Saturday 12th | 5pm to 12am Commissioned by REDCAT and produced at CalArts during a residency this spring in Los Angeles, Jesse Jones’ new film takes Vsevolod Meyerhold’s biomechanics études as its point of departure to position itself between the principles of Russian constructivism and its eventual appropriation by mass culture.

The Struggle Against Ourselves restages Meyerhold’s biomechanical workshops (influential to the pioneering Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein) as they appear in a series of photographs from the 1920s by the Russian photographer Alexander Grinberg. The reconstructed études depict the spectacle of movement embedded within radical political ideology while remaining filled with the pathos of the historical past. The Struggle Against Ourselves displays a convergence of Russian revolutionary art and American popular culture by emphasizing the collective human form and synchronicity of movement - brilliantly usurped and reinterpreted in the films of Busby Berkeley.

Chi-wang Yang

Against The Realm Of The Absolute 2011 | 12mins | 16mm | Colour

The Trilogy consists of a collection of three films made by the artist over the past three years; Mahogany, The Predicament of Man and Against The Realm of The Absolute. The Trilogy of Dust has an arch that shifts from Brechtian alienation to the cognitive estrangement of science fiction. Each film is connected through a series of desert, dust and ash landscapes, which form an eerie backdrop to the theatre of social and historical collapse which they cite.

Chi-wang Yang is a Los Angeles based theatre director and digital media artist. Committed to physical performance and interdisciplinary collaboration, his work synthesizes stage, media and technology. His work has featured at REDCAT, New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and San Francisco Film Festival. He is a founding member of Cloud Eye Control.

Following the screening, the artist Jesse Jones will discuss her work.

Chi-wang Yang, will host a Meyerholdian workshop at the NSF. These workshops, involve studying Meyerhold’s Études – an embodied and physical acting technique that focuses on learning gestures, poses and movements as methods to call up and portray emotions. Yang will introduce 2 full phrases; The Stone and The Bow, and introduce some histories of the Russian theatrical avant-garde.

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FREE RADICALS Two exciting filmmakers for whom the material substance of film continues to inspire and guide their work. Both Steve Sanguedolce and Ben Rivers enjoy a physical connection with 16mm film, and in their hands it becomes something vital and boundless. But as their work deftly blurs the lines between documentary and fiction, they equally resist easy categorisation.

FREE RADICALS Thursday 10th | 4.00pm | Cork Opera House

Blinding

Free Radical Shorts

Steve Sanguedolce Canada | 2011 | 72mins | Beta | Colour

As with Steve Sanguedolce’s 2005 film Dead Time, Blinding tells three parallel stories. Appropriately for a film about the beauty and curse of vision, it is a ravishing feast of textures and tones. It follows the stories of three people who have undergone major transformations in their life: Ryan, a writer who began to go blind at a young age, Jackie, an ex-cop who worked the Toronto streets for almost ten years, and Jamie, an Air Force pilot who served in some of the world’s major conflict zones.

The Voice Of God

The last year has seen Ben Rivers produce three extraordinary and diverse films that stand as a monument to the dignity of both things that are passing and refuse to pass.

Ely, the woman I loved before leaving the Earth…

Tuesday 8th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Producers Andrea Dojmi, Lorenzo Bona Print Source dojmibook@yahoo.com

Two Years At Sea

Oceano Nox / Georg Wasner

England | 2011 | 86mins | HDCAM | Black & Colour

Austria | 2011 | 15mins | Beta | Black & White

Jake lives in the middle of the forest. He goes for walks in whatever the weather, and takes naps in the misty fields and woods. He builds a raft to spend time sitting in a loch. Drives a beat-up jeep to pick up wood supplies. He is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realise.

Producer Georg Wasner Print Source gerald@sixopackfilm.com

Processed 1912 newsreel memorialising the Titanic.

Jan Villa / Natasha Mendonca India | 2010 | 20mins | Beta | Colour and Black & White

Examining the personal impact of the devastating 2005 Bombay floods. Producer Natasha Mendonca Print Source natasha.mendonca@gmail.com

The Voice of God / Bernd Lützeler

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize (Horizons section) – Venice Film Festival

India | 2010 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour

A melodramatic docudrama with voice-over in stop-motion and long-time exposure. Producer Bernd Lützeler Print Source philip@workscited.de

Thursday 10th | 10.30pm | Triskel Christchurch | 66mins

Tranquility / Siegfried A. Fruhauf

Sack Barrow

2011 | Austria | 7mins | 35mm | Black & White

England | 2011 | 21mins | HDCAM | Colour

A vacation daydream, a record of a flight of fantasy fluttering away.

Filmed during the last month of operation of a small family run metal factory. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory finally went into liquidation this year.

Producer Siegfried A. Fruhauf Print Source gerald@sixpackfilm.com

Letraglide / Ian Helliwell England | 2011 | 3mins | Beta | Colour

Strips of adhesive Letratone textures were applied to Super-8 film.

Slow Action

Producer Ian Helliwell Print Source ianhelliwell@yahoo.co.uk

England | 2010 | 45mins | Beta | Colour

Four Poster / Ian Helliwell Ireland | 2011 | 7mins | Beta | Colour

Slow Action is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film which exists somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. Earth in the distant future, when the sea level has risen to absurd heights forming new isolated islands and archipelagos.

Found Super-8 striptease footage, already displaying signs of age and decay, was further treated. Producer Ian Helliwell Print Source ianhelliwell@yahoo.co.uk

Mary / Pedro Maia Portugal | 2010 | 12mins | Beta | Colour

All films: Producer Ben Rivers Print Source gil@lux.org.uk Producer Steve Sanguedolce Print Source sweetblood@interlog.com

Mary departs from a pornographic movie of the 70’s in which the lead actress has the same name. Producer Pedro Maia Print Source liliana@curtas.pt

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Movies & Musicals

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Patrick is sent by his eccentric doctor to find an arts project in Dublin’s inner city. Patrick arrives on the day the programme’s funders are visiting. The funders are not impressed.

Hard Day / 17mins

Billy tries desperately to make some money busking. His girlfriend is running out of patience with him. When intimidating street criminal Lazer stops to watch him busking, Billy is reminded of an old injustice and decides for once to stand up for himself and put an old wrong to right.

Birthday / 20mins

Bossy Margo is busy putting the finishing touches to Mammy’s birthday party. Her sister Eliza is in tears because she can’t get pregnant, while the other sister, Sadie, is heavily pregnant. As the guests arrive and the drinks flow tension rises as curiosity over the suspected father mounts. However, the sound of moans and groans unite the partygoers as they await the new arrival. Director, Script Pom Boyd Producers Sine Lynch, Michael Egan Editor, Sound Declan Lynch Music Sean ‘Doctor’ Miller Photography Trish McAdam (Birthday), Jason Figgis (Today, Hard Day) Print Source info@rade.ie

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Movies and Musicals features a broad range of soundtracks from early classics right through to contemporary scores.

Sunday 13th| 2.00pm | Triskel Christchurch

Wednesday 9th|12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Kingerlee Colm Hogan, Martina Levitina

The Writing In The Sky Garry Keane

Ireland | 2011 | 48mins | DCP | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 53mins | Beta | Colour

Kingerlee is an experimental documentary exploring the inner world of the West Cork artist, John Kingerlee, and the nature of the creative process. It is a visual and aural exploration of the internal forces and processes – memories, feelings, thoughts and spiritual experiences – as well as the outer forces, such as the visual power of the landscape, natural sounds and textures, that shape the human experience and affect the artist’s inner world. The documentary was shot at John’s home on the Beara Peninsula and in Morocco.

This is the story of a writer and his place, of his horse, his dog and three thousand migrating barnacle geese. The writer is Dermot Healy, an outstanding poet, playwright, novelist and autobiographer who is, according to Roddy Doyle, Ireland’s greatest writer. The place is Ballyconnell, on the wild coast of Sligo, the dog is Tiny, the horse is Lucky, and the geese arrive from Greenland around October each year for a six-month stay. Filmed over those six months, The Writing in the Sky is the portrait of both an artist and of a magnificent landscape and its inhabitants, human and animal.

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Producer Aideen Kane Print Source realfilms@ymail.com

AODHGÁN O’FLAHERTY AND TOBY KAAR Friday 11th| 9.00pm Triskel Christchurch | 15mins

Aodhgán O’Flaherty and Toby Kaar are two of Cork’s most exciting electronic music producers, but both have a background in film and video. O’Flaherty graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2010; Kaar studied film and video production in St. John’s Central College. We are delighted to host this special collaboration between them for this live audio video performance.

‘SEESOUND’ AT THE GUESTHOUSE

The Guesthouse presents Seesound to coincide with the Corona Cork Film Festival. SEESOUND is an annual event where a selection of sound and moving image makers are invited to collaborate and create new audio visual works that explore the dialogue between sound and image. This event will present the SEESOUND DVD launch, Japanese animation, composed sound and a talk on curating film and moving images today.

This performance follows the People Like Us performance of The Magical Misery Tour

6.00 – 7.00pm: Launch of SEESOUND DVD 2010

We spend our life, it’s ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench. - Samuel Beckett

7.00 – 7.15pm: Screening of Japanese animation film Ristr by Takahiro Fukumori, with live sound by The Sea of Okhotsk 7.15 – 8.30pm: Talk by Chiara Liberti, film curator in residence – This Must Be the Film Place: Complexities and Nuances of Curating Film and Moving Images Today.

VJ VISION COLLECTIVE Tuesday 8th | 8.30pm Triskel Christchurch | 120mins

Continuing our focus this year on VJ culture; we present local VJs – the Vision VJ Collective; comprising VJ Paul Power (ENFPvisuals), digital media designer Arthur O’Regan and video artist Claire Guerin. This evening of audio and video delight follows on from last year’s Seesound event at the Guesthouse. The night will be host to an exciting array of live video editing by VISION, noise & drone performances by Paul Hegarty (SAFE), Stephen Barry & Graham Lynch and electronic sounds by Carried By Waves and Coherx. There will also be a special, video-mapped finale.

Wednesday 9th | 6:00 – 8:30pm | The Guesthouse

Admission is free but ticketed. Please collect tickets at box office. Miso and green tea will be served.

MOTIONCAPTURE

Friday 11th | 8:00pm | Firkin Crane, Shandon | 65mins

Stone And Form

This event follows The Trilogy of Dust.

Choreography Mairead Vaughan Photography Dara O’Brien

Flicker Choreography, Photography Patric Cashman

SEEING THE LIGHT Monday-Wednesday | 12-5pm | TACTIC

Solo Portrait Choreography Liz Roche Director Willie White Photography Kate McCullough

An exhibition of contemporary Irish experimental film curated by Maximilian Le Cain at the TACTIC gallery, in association with the Cork Film Centre. Featuring Esperanza Collado, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Michael Higgins, Chris O’Neill and Soltan Karl. The following screenings will take place at Sample Studios: The Consecutive Impostors | Mon 7th | 8pm Esperanza Collado and Maximilian Le Cain present work from or connected to ‘Operation Rewrite’. Ivan & Igor Buharov Shorts | Tuesday 8th | 6pm Programme and discussion (An)Other Irish Cinema & Vicky Langan | Wed 9th | 6 pm This programme includes Donal Foreman’s Pull and Refuge; three episodes of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s Homo Sapiens Project; and the premiere of Lullaby, a collaboration between Maximilian Le Cain and Cork-based sound/performance artist Vicky Langan.

Story Of One Director, Photography Elena Gallotta Choreography Ennio Sammarco, Cynthia Phung-Ngoc

Shakram Dance Company in association with Cork Film Festival and the Firkin Crane Presents

Evelyn Tables

MotionCapture: An evening of short Irish contemporary dance films

Eternal

Shakram Dance Company curates a selection of short Irish contemporary dance films alongside the premiere of their new work Stone And Form. In recent times, Ireland has seen a rapid growth in the genre of short dance film. This selection is a small taste of this new wave of work and a flavour of what is to come.

Warp & Weft

3 Angle Production: Becky Reilly, Jade Travers, Jeni Roddy

Director Steve Woods Choreography John Scott Photography Tim Flemming

Choreography, Photography Mary Wycherley

Free Admission: Ticketed event. Tickets available from Cork Film Festival and Firkin Crane.

LORD MAYOR’S FAMILY SCREENING

Sunday 13th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Wednesday 9th | 7.00pm |The Pavillion

Conor Stanley

The Flying Machine

Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey, Dorota Kobiela

In 2009 Séamus Kelly, a sociology student from Cork and documentary filmmaker, made a film which told the story of Cork’s most infamous rap artist, Grandmaster Cash. The film received many plaudits and gained even more fame for the Corkonian wordsmith.

Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey, Dorota Kobiela