Clones Film Festival 2014

Clones Film Festival

October 23-26

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Welcome...

It has been said of this time of year to be a “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”.

But in this part of the world it has to be a season of films and mellow fruitiness, which in our 13th year on the trot, could well describe the leviathan that is Clones Film Festival.

Yet again the committee has gathered an array of international and homegrown talent to enthral our audiences and to invigorate our town with film that will provide a platform for discussion on various themes of life that we all experience but might seldom discuss.

Yet again we have our 48 hour film challenge, where 5 teams direct, shoot and edit a film in the space of two days and then have them ready to screen at the covetous “Francies”, Clones’ answer to the Oscars. This is our 8th year running this competition and we are executive producers of, after this year’s festival, 40 films made in or around Clones.

Lest we forget our festival club in Adamson’s Bar where we have a gathering of musical talent to rival that of our filmmakers. It is such a wonderful place to while away the midnight hours in discussion about a film that you just saw or a recollection of one past.

We have 3 cinemas on the go this year: the old Clones Courthouse, the old Post Office and of course the Cinemobile. These 3 cinemas have in total roughly 250 seats combined and we hope to fill them all in a wonderful weekend of film, discussion and laughter (not excluding tears and beers!)

It would be hard to pinpoint any one film or event that stands out (a bit like falling in to a bunch of nettles and trying to find the one that stung the most), so that is the purpose of this programme - beautifully designed and assembled by Mickey Slowey. You, our patron can decide which film suits the most for your taste, your mood or whatever else catches your eye. All we ask is to go to one film and see if it sparks something inside, that combustible desire to go and see another one perhaps!

Next we would like to thank our funders: the Arts Council of Ireland, Somhairle Maconghaile at Monaghan Arts Office and all our local sponsors, who help us run a four day festival each year. Without these people on our side we would never get one festival off the ground never mind 13! We are, like the people of Clones, eternally thankful. And, not forgetting you, our audience, which we as a committee have seen growing year upon year vindicating our decision to keep the show on the road.

We would also like to extend our warmest welcome to our Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, who has honoured our festival with her decision to attend, adding further recognition to our burgeoning reputation as Ireland’s biggest little film festival.

So without further ado I would like to welcome one and all to our very own smorgasbord of film where there is something for everyone making you our “close bosom friend of the maturing sun”.

Clones Film Festival would like to especially thank the following people: Michael Slowey - miki sloe graphic design. Somhairle Mac Conghaile & Staff at Monaghan Arts Office. Una McCarthy & Regina O’Shea at The Arts Council Of Ireland. Deirdriú McQuaid & all of the staff at Monaghan County Library. Adge King, Geraldine Killen and the staff at Clones Town Council. Ernie Hamill, Enda “Shanks” Connolly and Geraldine Sheerin. John & Maria McGarry at webworks. ie. Sculptor Jason Crowley. The staff at Fáilte Clones and residents of the Diamond. Eileen Ferguson and Joanne Behan at Clones Art Studios. Annie June Callaghan. Kieran McGuigan and Frances Brogan.

James Connolly, Connolly Wines. Kim McCafferty. Kevin Allen and Owen Roberts at Ffatti Ffilms. Maeve Cooke, Karen Wall, Sarah Bredin & David O’Mahony at Access Cinema. Noreen, Goretti and staff at the Cinemobile. Rory Geary & Cianna McNally, Northern Standard. Eamon McKenna from Scanbitz Truck Parts. The staff at Snipe Design. E.T. Hamill Photography & Danny McAdam Photography. Paddy McCabe, No Borders Media and Kevin McHugh Art. Damian McCarney at Anglo Celt. Naomi at Windmill Lane Recording. Clones Credit Union Ltd, Super Valu and all of our very valued local sponsors.

Catherine Sheerin, Paula McQuillan, Thomas Zechner, Siobhan Sheerin, Seamie Mc Mahon, Stephen Mc Kenna, Geraldine Zechner, James Sheerin and Paddy McCabe

Courthouse Thursday 8pm

Thursday 7pm

October 23rd

Cert: Club 85mins

Dearcán Media, Ireland 2014, 50’ Languages: English and Irish with English subtitles The story of the 1968 gathering of pipers that saved the uilleann pipes from extinction.

The uilleann pipes, on the point of dying out in the 1960s, are now a vibrant part of the music scene in Ireland and internationally.

From a handful of pipers a few generations back, it is estimated that there are now six thousand players of this uniquely Irish instrument.

This is the story of the first piping tionól held in April 1968 in Bettystown in County Meath – a first-hand account of what happened on the day Na Píobairí Uilleann was formed, and the day the uilleann pipes were brought back from the point of extinction.

Producer Deaglán Ó Mocháin, Maitiú Ó Casaide, one of the pipers featuring in the documentary, and Na Píobairí Uilleann representative Gerry Lyons will be present at the screening.

Official Opening: Na Píobairí Uilleann

This year, Clones Film Festival will be officially opened by the Minister for Arts,

Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys T.D.

The main feature of the evening is Na Píobairí Uilleann, a fascinating documentary on the story of the 1968 gathering of pipers produced by Ballybay native Deaglán Ó Mocháin of Dearcán Media. As every year, this event is free of charge; wine and refreshments will be served and you can join filmmakers, pipers and other musicians for a traditional music session in CFF’s festival club at Adamson’s bar and lounge after the screenings.

Sponsored by: Eno Wines

Cinemobile

Dir: Jukka Kärkkäinen, Jani-Petteri Passi, Finland 2012 Finnish punk band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät are just your average hard-rocking, hard-living rockers, but for one thing: all four band members have learning disabilities. As this verité-style film shows, life on the road and in the studio isn’t all gear and groupies.

This warm, amusing but never patronising profile reveals the artistic and egotistical tensions that inspire nihilist Finnish combo Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day and their frank songs about living with Down’s Syndrome and cerebral palsy - David Parkinson, Empire Magazine “The film tells about Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day… so it’s about one retard who sings punk and three retards who play punk. You should watch it and think about whether you should hate disabled people or love and respect them.” Kari Aalto, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät.

The Punk Syndrome

Sponsored by: Feldhues Clones Film Festival is proud to present 3 films as part of the ‘North by Northwest – Films on the Fringe’ project in collaboration with Cinemobile Funded by Creative Europe, this new initiative will introduce free screenings of European films to new audiences throughout Northern Europe. Cinemobile is the lead organiser in the North by Northwest project and has selected a series of film titles to be screened in Scotland, Iceland, Norway and Finland.

Each of these countries has also selected their film choices for screening in Ireland. The project will involve a compilation of 15 films in all, (including documentaries) and 10 short films from the 5 participating countries. Screenings are free to the public and will take place in more remote regions, outside of capital cities and large urban centres, with the aim of building an audience for European cinema. The project involves partnering with cinemas in rural parts of: Iceland, Finland, Scotland and Norway. The titles that will be shown at Clones Film Festival are Finnish documentary ‘The Punk Syndrome’, ‘Happiness’, a breathtakingly shot Finnish/French production about life in the remote kingdom of Bhutan and ‘For Those in Peril’, the arresting feature debut from Scottish writer-director Paul Wright. See the following pages for screening times and more details on those films.

ADMISSION TO THE THREE NORTH BY NORTHWEST SCREENINGS AT CLONES FILM FESTIVAL IS FREE!

02 / 03

Cinemobile Friday 4pm

Friday 6pm

Cert: Club 80mins

Cert: Club 102mins

Dir: Thomas Balmès, 2013, Finland/France/Bhutan Language: Dzongkha Music by British Sea Power In 1999, King Jigme Wangchuck approved the use of television and Internet throughout the largely undeveloped nation of Bhutan, assuring the masses that rapid development was synonymous with the “gross national happiness” of his country, a term he himself coined.

Director Thomas Balmès’s film Happiness begins at the end of this process as Laya, the last remaining village tucked away within the Himalayan kingdom, becomes enmeshed in roads, electricity, and cable television. Through the eyes of an eight-year-old monk impatient with prayer and eager to acquire a TV set, we witness the seeds of this seismic shift sprouting during a three-day journey from the outskirts of Laya to the thriving capital of Thimphu. It is here the young boy discovers cars, toilets, colorful club lights, and countless other elements of modern life for the first time.

La Jaula de Oro Dir: Diego Quemada-Diez 2013 Mexico, Spain Starring: Brandon Lopez, Rodolfo Dominguez, Karen Martinez, Carlos Chajon. Language: Spanish

Happiness

Balmès illuminates the seduction of technology—as well as its rapid encroachment—on an ancient way of life with an observant eye, reminding us how complicated and bittersweet the effects of progress can be - H.V., Sundance Film Festival With a story that f lows and the delightful expressions of Peyhangki himself, this film is saved from the borders of quaintness by the jaw-dropping visuals of Bhutan; a setting that deserves a casting credit of its own - Jacqueline Valencia, nextprojection.com ADMISSION TO THIS FILM IS FREE!

Courthouse

Sponsored by: Rory Mc Mahon Flogas

In order to escape from the squalid barrio in which they live, young Guatemalan teens Juan, Sara and Samuel make the decision to attempt the 1,200 mile-long arduous border crossing into “The Golden Cage”, i.e. USA, via Mexico in search of a better life. In order to blend in with the group and protect herself from the harm a woman can suffer on the journey, Sara initially disguises herself as a boy named Oswaldo.

Not long after their departure, the group encounters Chauk, a Tzotzil Indian who speaks virtually no Spanish. Despite Juan’s fervent and passionate opposition, Sara insists they allow Chauk to join the gang. A harsh road follows as the four children show inspiring bravery in the face of relentless danger and obstacles, both natural and manmade. All the while, they risk arrest, deportation and death.

From the first frame to the last hopeless moment, this is a heart-wrenching story of hope, friendship, survival, love and desperation, and a profound homage to the treacherous journey thousands of immigrants undertake each year - Spanish Film Festival 2013 It’s notoriously difficult to make this kind of film work, both at the scripting stage and in the execution. What Quemada-Díez has achieved is a triumph - Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film

The Golden Dream

Sponsored by The Noble Grape

Cinemobile

Post Office

Friday 8pm

Friday 8.15pm

Cert: Club 83mins

Cert: G 102mins

Dir: Paul Kennedy, UK 2013 Starring: Shauna Macdonald, Bronagh Gallagher, Ciarán McMenamin Jack Kelly (Ciarán McMenamin) is a successful novelist who leads a reclusive life in his apartment in Paris. His first novel, Made in Belfast, was a critical and commercial success – there was only one problem: it exposed the private lives and innermost secrets of his close friends and family, and none of them have spoken to him since he ran away. But when circumstances conspire to bring him back to his hometown for a few days, he decides to spend that time putting things right with the friends he betrayed, the brother he abandoned, and the fiancée he jilted. Made on the most micro of micro budgets, Made in Belfast proves that money is no substitute for a good story. Featuring more genuine romance and laughs than most big-budget rom-coms as well as telling the compelling story of a man returning to a home town he no longer recognizes, Paul Kennedy’s debut feature is a minor miracle.

- Chicago Irish Film Festival

Director Paul Kennedy and lead actor Ciarán McMenamin will attend the screening Sponsored by: Paul Boyce & Co. Solicitors

Photograph by Punksatony Phil punksatonyphil.carbonmade.com/

Made in Belfast

Dir: Gabriel Axel, Denmark/France 1987 DVD Starring: Stephanie Audran, Bodil Kjer and Brigitte Federspiel. Language: Danish Based on Isak Dinesen’s novel, this classic movie and winner of the 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is a literary adaptation that makes the transition to screen with grace and dignity, matching every word of the book with a moment, an image or a sound.

The story is a simple one, uncomplicated and unfussed.

Babette has worked for her sisters all her life. When she wins the lottery, she decides to celebrate by throwing a huge dinner party for the entire village. Starting from that simple premise the story of Babette, her employers, and the residents of the village are told.

A Forkful of Film:

Babette’s Feast

Sponsored by: Fred and Jo Madden, Hilton Pk.

Forkful are a group of friends who specialise in simple recipes deliciously shot. They make videos at www.forkful.tv and write a weekly column for The Irish Independent’s Insider magazine, with a focus on seasonal and local ingredients.

Aoife McElwain is a food writer and eating enthusiast who writes the recipes for forkful.

She’s chosen one of her favourite food films to share at The Clones Film Festival. She’ll be talking about what it’s like to work with food for a living before introducing the film, as well as sharing a few canapés inspired by Babette’s Feast with the crowd. But, don’t worry; turtle soup is NOT on the menu.

Find out more at www.forkful.tv, on Facebook or @forkfultv.

04 / 05

Cinemobile

Post Office

Friday 10.30pm

Saturday 3.30pm

Cert: 18 93mins

110mins

Dir: Paul Wright, 2013, UK Starring: Brian McCardie, George Mackay, Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley, Nichola Burley In this affecting and atmospheric fable rising star George MacKay, a gifted and versatile actor, plays Aaron, the sole survivor of a mysterious fishing accident in which several souls were lost, including his long-idolised older brother.

Stigmatised by the insular Scottish community who blame him for the unexplained tragedy (Aaron can remember nothing) and enraptured by fairytale memories of a sea devil that swallowed children into its “dirty belly”, this wandering ghost is drawn back to the dark waters whose whispered secrets haunt his waking dreams. With its shifting visual formats (f loating vistas, handheld phone footage, news reportage) and evocative soundscapes, this is an arresting and hypnotic feature debut from writer-director Paul Wright, who won a Bafta with his short film Until the River Runs Red. A full week after first viewing, I find myself still sifting through montage images that linger in the mind like a half-remembered dream - Mark Kermode, The Observer

For Those in Peril

An eclectic mix of short-short and not-quite so short documentaries presented by the brilliant Aeon magazine, ranging from world record beating cyclists via musical chairs, penitents in Malaga, lesbian love under the Khmer Rouge to one man’s recollection of the day a bomb fell on Hiroshima. Full of visual, sonic and cerebral riches, this programme brings to the fore the powers of an art form that rarely gets the big screen outing it deserves. Highly recommended.

aeon.co/magazine Sponsored by: The Cuil Darach

Aeon Short Documentary Showcase

Post Office Saturday 2.30pm 30mins

ADMISSION TO THIS FILM IS FREE! Sponsored by: E.T.Hamill Photography

Set after an apocalyptic event has claimed the lives of his wife and son, John leaves his isolated shelter and discovers there are other survivors.

Zephra

Cinemobile

Cinemobile

Saturday 11am

Saturday 2pm

Cert: G 85mins

Cert: PG 126mins

Dir: Ben Stassen, Jérémie Degruson Belgium 2014 Featuring the voices of Cindy Adams, George Babbit, Murray Blue, Kathleen Browers, Joey Camen, Grant George.

Language: English In this beautifully animated feature from filmmakers Ben Stassen (A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures) and Jérémie Degruson, an abandoned cat named Thunder seeks refuge from the rain in a mysterious mansion belonging to Lorenz, a retired magician who has turned the old manor into a wondrous warehouse for his many gizmos and automatons. The old magician immediately welcomes the new arrival, much to the displeasure of his longtime sidekicks Jack Rabbit and Maggie Mouse, who do all they can to drive Thunder from the house. But when an accident lands Lorenz in hospital and his nefarious nephew seizes the opportunity to sell the mansion out from under him, the furry foes must join forces to save their magical home.

- Toronto International Film Festival 2014

Sponsored by: SuperValu Clones

Kaze tachinu Dir: Hayao Miyazaki 2013 Japan Featuring the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, William H. Macy, Mae Whitman, Elijah Wood, Werner Herzog, Jennifer Grey

The House of Magic

Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘final feature’ (the master announced his retirement last year) is a breathtaking dream of f lying crafted with hand-drawn attention to detail – a rich treat for the eye and soul alike. Inspired by the life of second world war Zero fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi, and the writings of Tatsuo Hori (the film is dedicated “a tribute” to both), this “work of complete fiction” plays out over a troubled historical canvas encompassing the great Kanto earthquake of 1923, years of depression, the tuberculosis epidemic, the descent into war – all of which create what the director calls “a sense of stagnation more intense than the one hanging over Japan today”.

The Wind Rises is a more grown-up feature than its predecessors, a far cry from the sublimely childlike joys of 2008’s Ponyo. While the title (transposed from Paul Valéry’s poetic cry “The wind is rising! We must try to live!”) is joyous and the artwork often jubilant – particularly in the dream sequences – weighty issues of conf lict, death and destruction lurk just beyond the rims of Jiro’s spectacles.

Mark Kermode, The Observer

Sponsored by: Mc Caughey Fuels, Clones.

The Wind Rises

06 / 07

Courthouse

Courthouse 06/07

Saturday 2pm

Saturday 4pm

Cert: Club 70mins

Cert: Club 52mins

Dir: Vincent McEntee, Larry Mulligan & Kevin McHugh

Dir: Sarah McCann Ireland 2013

Ireland 2014

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/35475045

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/97302997 In 2010, two young Irish guys (Larry Mulligan & Kevin McHugh) quit their jobs, packed their bags and set themselves a challenge – to cycle 26,000 kilometres across 27 countries on 5 continents in 11 months. Drawing from over 50 hours of footage from the trip, “Endure” is a first-hand account of life on the road. It takes us across some of the most difficult, remote and exciting places in the world, from Europe to the Middle East, to India, Asia, Australia, South America and on to North Africa. We see the difficulties Larry and Kevin encounter as well the joys they experience and how this once in a lifetime experience continues to affect their lives.

Endure

“One Ocean: No Limits” follows a young novice rower through the highs and lows of rowing unassisted as part of a crew of six across the vast Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Barbados. It allows the audience to become part of a record-breaking crew of six men, (2 English, 2 Irish, 1 Icelandic, 1 Maltese), on board the ocean rowing boat the Sara G – a crew who only met a few days before setting out on this momentous task.

Ocean Rowing itself is an extreme sport and, from an endurance viewpoint, the feat of crossing the Atlantic by oar is similar to running over 100 marathons back to back.

At present the number of those who have successfully crossed an ocean in this way is equal to the number of people who have been in space.

Director Vincent McEntee will be present at the screening.

However, “One Ocean: No Limits” is more than a sports documentary; at its core it is a human interest film that charts the experiences of a group of strangers undertaking an epic journey in an extremely enclosed space.

Sponsored by: Clonfad Cycles

Sponsored by: KC Tyres

One Ocean: No Limits

Cinemobile Saturday 4.30pm Cert: 15A 119mins

Dir: Matthew Warchus, UK 2014 Starring: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine and George McKay It’s the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners, and later sets off in a mini bus headed for a mining village in deepest Wales to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

Director’s Fortnight Closing Film, Cannes Film Festival 2014

Pride

No denouement to any recent film has demanded so much punching of the air. It’s never too late to shout: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie! Out, out, out!”

Tara Brady, The Irish Times

Sponsored by: Barry, Hickey and Henderson Solicitors

08 / 09

Courthouse

Courthouse

Saturday 5.30pm

Saturday 7pm

Cert: Club 68mins

Cert: PG 104mins

Dir: Shelley Hermon

Dir: Ritesh Batra 2013, India. Language: Hindi, English Starring: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddique, Denzil Smith, Bharati Achrekar, Nakul Vaid, Yashvi Puneet Nagar, Lillete Dubey

Israel 2012 Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, a Palestinian and Israeli, were once dedicated fighters willing to kill and be killed by one another for the sake of their nations. Then each had a young daughter killed in the conf lict. Left with the excruciating pain of bereavement, they did the unexpected and set out on a joint journey to humanise the very enemy that took the dearest thing from them in order to prevent the vicious cycle of retaliation in themselves and their societies.

Along the way they reveal the friendship and humour that keep them alive.

“The film is a unique portrait of two men, whose conviction and friendship triumph in the face of personal sacrifice! It is a unique, beautiful story filled with love and hope” Sundance Institute

Sponsored by: Clones Library

Within The Eye Of The Storm

Some romances are written in the stars. Others, it would seem, can be chalked up to a misread street map.

When a lunchbox painstakingly prepared by Ila (Nimrat Kaur) for her emotionally distant husband is mistakenly delivered to Saajan (the wonderful Irrfan Khan, Life of Pi), the under-appreciated Mumbai housewife and lonely accountant strike up an intimate correspondence.

Continuing to use Mumbai’s legion of lunch couriers as their go-betweens, they share increasingly involved letters detailing their inner thoughts and life stories. The tinges of disappointment and regret that punctuate these missives ref lect the enticing soulfulness of Ritesh Batra’s debut. In turn, there’s exhilaration to be had watching these characters realize that their futures are unwritten. But will they put down their pens and overcome the obstacles keeping them from one another?

- Vancouver International Film Festival 2013 The Lunchbox is perfectly handled and beautifully acted; a quiet storm of banked emotions.

– Xan Brooks, The Observer Sponsored by: Courtney Crash Repairs

The Lunchbox

Cinemobile

Cinemobile

Saturday 7pm

Saturday 9pm

Cert: Club 78mins

Cert: 15A 99mins

Dir: GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON Sweden, US, Denmark, Finland 2014 Languages: English, Swedish, French, Portuguese Narrated by Lauryn Hill

Concerning Violence is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it.

“Lauryn Hill’s narration is nonpareil, her delivery provides Fanon’s rich critique with the anger and eloquence that it so rightly deserves. Whilst this film could’ve so easily become a political soliloquy, the deft jumps between interviews, anthropological sequences and newsreel footage, combined with Hill’s spoken accompaniment and a soundtrack as well curated as that of Black Power Mixtape, help to avoid this; the overall effect is that of an extended song by Gil Scott-Heron, rather than an 80 minute lecture.

What Olsson broadcasts without prejudice are the longterm socio-political implications of imperialism upon a nation, and the seemingly irrevocable damage it has left behind. Concerning Violence calls for a new more humane western world, whilst encouraging us to heed Fanon’s warning that violence will only be met with violence, and that the western world is not exempt from the threat of history repeating itself.” - Berlin Film Journal

Sponsored by: Morgans Hardware

Dir: Yann Demange, UK 2014 Starring: Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, David Wilmot, Martin McCann, Killian Scott, Charlie Murphy, Sam Reid

Concerning Violence

1971, and the conf lict in Northern Ireland is escalating towards civil war. Young English recruit Gary is called into action in Belfast. The situation in the city is confusing and challenging – even for experienced military commanders.

The town is divided into ‘loyal’ Protestant and ‘hostile’ Catholic areas. Both parties have paramilitary units; in addition, radical street gangs and undercover agents from all sides are trying to assert their interests on their own initiative. During a patrol, the soldiers become embroiled in a scuff le and one of them loses their weapon. Gary and a fellow soldier follow the thief who disappears into the crowd.

Suddenly Gary has to fend for himself alone in the midst of enemy territory. His journey back to his base that night is an odyssey filled with uncertainty, fear and desperation.

Director Yann Demange exposes the futility of war in which every act of violence only breeds more violence. As the film progresses, it gradually breaks free from specifics to become a more universal anti-war parable. - Berlin Film Festival 2014 ’71 is never less than exhilarating, a visceral jolt to be savoured. - Donald Clarke, The Irish Times

Sponsored by: David Rafferty Financial Services

‘71

10 / 11

Fiction - Experimental I

An Cat

The Usual

Helen Flanagan

Ruth McNally

12.30

5.04

I’ve been a Sweeper

Skunky Dog

Ciarán Dooley

James Fitzgerald

12.15

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Post Office

Post Office

Sunday

Sunday

12.30pm

4pm

Remembering Yesterday Patrick McDermott and Colin Regan 11.52

The Return John Corcoran 10.32

Sponsored by: Sean Mc Quillan, TV and Radio

Fiction - Experimental II

Short Film Programme

The Weather Report Paul Murphy 4.55

The Gravediggers Tour Stephen Ryan 14.22

Unknown Story of the 1916 Rising Dermott Petty 1.54

Human Relations Derek Keane 6.15

Céad Ghrá Brian Deane 11.40

Pricks Like Thorns Dara McCluskey 10.04 Sponsored by: Martin’s Londis, Newbliss

Short Film Programme

Documentaries

Short Film Programme // Judges CFF 2014

Post Office

The Jury

Sunday 2pm

Cáiliúil

Breaking Barriers

10.48

Alan Cantrell 10.26

The Rift Holly Sheridan and

Becoming Bollywood

Shane Stokes

Ryan Ralph

13.15

9.57

A Return to Vinyl

Analogue People in a

Anthony Geoghegan

Digital Age

8.52

Keith Walsh 13.04

Bó Oisín Bickley

Castlegrove Station

13.20

Paul Murphy 4.45

Sponsored by: Scanbitz

Short Documentaries

Vincent McEntee is a filmmaker from Co. Meath.

He has made a number of short films and most recently finished his first feature documentary, Endure. He is also a freelance videographer and lectures in documentary filmmaking at Griffith College Dublin.

Paul-Michel Ledoux is founder and director of 1MINUTE40, a video agency dedicated to helping companies create online video content. Over the past decade, Paul-Michel has directed and produced web video content and on-line video distribution services for international brands under his Belgian multimedia agency Eyecone.

Before founding Eyecone, Paul-Michel produced, filmed and edited stories all around the world for press agencies and international broadcasters.

Paul-Michel has also brought many personal stories to life through documentaries for the United Nations and the International Red Cross.

Andy Sansom works for Aeon Film and Video in London, an online magazine focused on long form essays and short documentaries. Previously a judge at the Sheffield Documentary Festival he is delighted to be in Clones for the Biggest Little Film Festival in Ireland.

12 / 13

Cinemobile

`Cinemobile

Sunday 11am

Sunday 3.30pm

Cert: U (UK) 83mins

Cert: Club 92mins

Dir: Paul Grimault France 1980 Widely considered one of the best animated features of all time, and certainly a masterpiece of French animation, the Prix Louis Delluc-winning The King and the Mockingbird (Le Roi et l’Oiseau) has been cited by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a profound inf luence on their work (an inf luence most notable in Miyazaki’s 1979 The Castle of Cagliostro, as in both films a castle stretches up to the sky).

A collaboration between director Paul Grimault and French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, it’s adapted from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson about a tyrannical King ruling over the kingdom of Takicardia. Viewed with fear by his subjects, it’s only the spirited, brightly feathered Mr Bird who, from his nest near the King’s secret chambers in his gigantic palace, dares to make fun of him.

The King is in love with a beautiful shepherdess in a painting on his wall, but she is in love with a chimneysweep from another artwork. At night the paintings come to life, and together they attempt to f lee. Hiding at the top of the palace, they help Mr Bird who’s become caught up in one of the King’s cruel traps, before leading the police on a wild chase...

Sponsored by: Kelly, Rahill & Co.

Dir: Kevin Allen, UK 2013 Languages: Welsh with English subtitles/English

The King and the

Mockingbird

Starring: Saran Morgan, Aneirin Hughes, Elin Phillips, Will Thomas, Sue Roderick, Menna Trussler, Damola Adelaja, John Cronin, Kim McCafferty Y SYRCAS is a unique Victorian family film by Welsh director and erstwhile Scotshouse resident Kevin Allen, set in a tranquil mid-Wales rural town in 1848.

A remote, poverty stricken community, ruled with a rod of iron by its Calvinist Minister Tomos Williams (Aneirin Hughes) – awakens when into its midst bursts ‘Circus Supremo’, a dazzling, anarchic troupe of f lesh bearing circus performers…and the sleepy little town will never be the same again.

Beautifully shot, atmospheric and old-fashioned in the best possible sense of the word, this Welsh-language period drama provides classic entertainment for everyone between the ages of 8 and 98.

Lead actress Saran Morgan and other members of the cast will be present at the screening.

Sponsored by: Lipton’s, Clones

Y Syrcas (The Circus)

Courthouse Sunday 2.30pm Cert: 15 95mins

Dir: David Morris, Jacqui Morris, UK 2012 Ever since the invention of photography the camera has been a vital witness to war: Roger Fenton in the Crimea; Mathew Brady recording the American civil war; John Warwick Brooke on the Western Front in the first world war; Robert Capa covering the Spanish civil war, the second world war and war in Indochina, where he died in 1954.

The British photojournalist Don McCullin belongs in their company, and in this excellent documentary the careworn, ruggedly handsome McCullin talks straight to camera with great honesty about covering wars and conf licts in Cyprus, Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Cambodia and Lebanon.

McCullin

What dominates the film are the black-and-white still images. They engrave themselves on our minds, and McCullin talks about them with great feeling and frankness.

Philip French, The Observer

The screening will be followed by a discussion on the rise of the feature documentary with the film’s editor David Fairhead, hosted by Fergal McGrath.

Sponsored by: Danny Mc Adam Photography

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Sponsored by: Adamson’s

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CLONES

Proud Sponsors of

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Clones Film Festival

Closing Night & The Francies

Sun 26th

Closing night at CFF has come to mean only one thing – ‘The Francies’. Named in honour of Francie Brady in Pat McCabe’s ‘The Butcher Boy’, the awards are sculpted by Jason Crowley (owner / manager of the Bronze Art Foundry, Gaelic Street, Dublin). Jason responded to the motif of the pig, which is central to ‘The Butcher Boy’ and fashioned these memorable awards in solid bronze.

So who is going to win one of these gems this year..?

Awards are presented to the Best Film, as voted by the jury, and the Audience Favourite in the 48 hour short film challenge, in association with Clones Credit Union Ltd., as well as to the winners of Best Fiction / Experimental and Best Documentary from our short film programmes. It is a gala night not to be missed and since its inception has been a booked-out affair. This year the awards ceremony will once again take place in the historic surroundings of Clones Courthouse. Afterwards make your way down totthe festival club @ Adamson’s Bar for a gig by Belturbet’s finest, ‘Shuckdodgers’, as yet another CFF winds down. Don’t say you haven’t been warned… book your seat early for Clones’ very own Oscars night!

8pm Courthouse

sponsored by Clones Credit Union

Would like to thank our many local sponsors and volunteers for their ongoing generosity and support.

We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Cavan-Monaghan LEADER, the Minister and Department of Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs, the EU and EAFRD in part-funding this project.

FUNDED BY THE IRISH GOVERNMENT UNDER THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, 2007-2013 Is fiontar comhpháirteach é LEADER Cabhán-Muineacháin idir Breifne Aontaithe Teoranta agus Forbairt Aontaithe Teoranta Muineacháin chun an Clár Forbairt Tuithe Éireann 2007-2013 a thoirbhirt i gcontaetha Cabhán agus Muineacháin.

Cavan-Monaghan LEADER is a joint venture between Breffni Integrated Ltd. and Monaghan Integrated Development Ltd. for the delivery of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 in counties Cavan and Monaghan.

Clones Credit Union Ltd. Proud Sponsors of the Clones Film Festival 18 / 19

Festival Venues & Accommodation

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1 Festival Club@Adamson’s

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2 Cinema@TheCourthouse

3 Cinema/BoxOffice@TheOldPostOffice

Clones Town Centre

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4 The Cinemobile on the Diamond

5 ACCOMMODATION The Creighton Hotel 6 Cuil Darach

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Cinema at

Cinema at

Cinema at

Courthouse

Cinemobile

Post Office

McCurtain Street

The Diamond

The Diamond

Thursday October 23

8pm Opening Night Na Píobairí Uilleann

7pm - The Punk Syndrome

Friday October 24

6pm - The Golden Dream

4pm - Happiness 8pm - Made in Belfast

8.15pm - A Forkful of Film Babette’s Feast

10.30pm-For Those in Peril

Saturday October 25

2pm - Endure

11am - The House of Magic

2.30pm - Zephra

4pm - One Ocean: No Limits

2pm - The Wind Rises

3.30pm - Aeon Shorts Showcase

5.30pm - Within the Eye of the Storm

4.30pm - Pride

7pm - The Lunchbox

7pm -Concerning Violence 9pm - ‘71

Sunday October 26

2.30pm - McCullin

11am - The King and the Mockingbird

12.30pm - Short Fiction / Experimental I

3.30pm - Y Syrcas

2pm - Short Docs 4pm - Short Fiction / Experimental II

8pm - Closing Night

GET STARTED >

GET STARTED >

GET STARTED >

The Box Office is located in the old Post Office on the Diamond. As usual The Cinemobile is located on the Diamond and The Courthouse Cinema is on McCurtain St. Where you see the word Club, this means that the film has not been rated by the Film Censor. Caution is advised and you should speak to a committee member if you have concerns.