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WELCOME...
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Munich in October has a festival of beer, Clones also boasts something it holds dear: A Festival of Film in its 14th year!
Mike Slowey at mikisloe.com; Somhairle Mac Conghail & staff at Monaghan Arts Office; Una McCarthy & Regina O’Shea at The Arts Council of Ireland; Deirdriú McQuaid & all the staff at Monaghan County Library; Adge King & staff at Ballybay – Clones Municipal District; Ernie Hamill; Enda ‘Shanks’ Connolly; Geraldine Sheerin; The staff at Fáilte Clones and the residents of the Diamond; Eileen Ferguson and Joanne Behan at Clones Arts Studio;Kieran McGuigan and Frances Brogan; Annie June Callaghan; James Connolly, Eno Wines; Maeve Cooke, Karen Wall and all the staff at Access Cinema; Noreen, Goretti and staff at the Cinemobile; Rory Geary & Cianna McNally at the Northern Standard; E. T. Hamill Photography; Paddy McCabe, No Borders Media; Damien McCarney, Anglo Celt; Naomi at Windmill Lane Recording; Orla MacDonald; Paula McDermott; Ciaran McMahon; Cleary Signs and Graphics; Monaghan County Council; Clones Credit Union; SuperValu Clones; Adamson’s Bar; Our box office volunteers & all our sponsors.
Yes indeed folks, a plethora of film parachutes into our world to enrich the already burgeoning arts scene in this wee town of ours. Film from all over the world will resonate with local audiences, supplying food for thought. Added to the menu are the short film programmes with, fiction, experimental and documentary films, showcasing emerging talent from filmmakers of the future. We feel this is an essential part of the festival and are proud to offer such a platform. We will also see the return of the, by now famous, 48 hour short film challenge where 5 teams vie for the coveted Francie awards on Sunday night and a generous prize courtesy of Windmill Lane Recording Studios. This year will bring to 40 the total number of films that have been made in and around our festival. With 3 screens running simultaneously, there has to be at least one film that will take your fancy. After the projectors cool down the craic is only warming up in our very own festival club housed in Adamson’s Bar where, along with ceoil gach oíche, debate and discussion will occur that will cover the gamut of emotions that our selection of films will surely evoke. We, the CFF committee, would once again like to thank all our sponsors and friends, big and small, for their generous contributions. For without these, we would be unable to grease the axle of this cultural chariot that is the Clones Film Festival. So without further ado, we extend to you, our patrons, a warm welcome to the biggest little film festival in the world!
James Sheerin, Chairperson, Clones Film Festival
Cover photo: Richard Brewis
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THURSDAY 8PM Dir: Michael Lennox | UK 2014 | 14 mins | Cert: Club
BOOGALOO AND GRAHAM
OPENING NIGHT Over the past few years, Clones Film Festival has made a point of showcasing films involving some of the extraordinary talent in the region. This year is no exception. We open with The Picnic, a bittersweet 1970s period drama set in Dublin, starring Chiara Vennittilli, an emerging young actress from Redhills, Co. Cavan, and directed by award-winning writer/director Ciaran Creagh (Parked, The Note) who is currently in post-production with his hotly anticipated directorial feature debut In View. We are also very proud to present a short film that has made great waves here and across the water, east and west: Academy Award nominated and BAFTA winning comedy Boogaloo and Graham, another film dealing with the trials and tribulations of childhood in 1970s’ Ireland. This time it is a comedy
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set in Belfast. The film is produced by Fermanagh-born Brian J. Falconer and its cast includes acclaimed Monaghan actress Charlene McKenna, who needs no introduction at this stage. Boogaloo and Graham producer Brian J. Falconer and members from the cast and crews of both films will attend the screening. You can also look forward to one or two other highlights from our short film competitions which will be screened during the course of the evening. As every year, this event is free of charge; wine and refreshments will be served before the screening and there will be music by Cavan’s wild men of Jazz (and Funk and Blues and…), Kinda Blutack in CFF’s Festival Club at Adamson’s Bar after the screenings.
Starring: Martin McCann, Charlene McKenna, Riley Hamilton and Aaron Lynch Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents them with two baby chicks
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to care for. Raising their tiny charges, declaring themselves vegetarian and dreaming of running a chicken farm, the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.
THURSDAY 8PM Dir: Ciaran Creagh | Ireland 2015 | 13 mins | Cert: Club
THE PICNIC Starring: Chiara Vennettelli, Tom Collins, Tracy Coogan, Jim Roche Betty, feeling isolated and confused about her father’s death, decides to take her little brother Brendan on a picnic to visit their father’s grave,
unbeknownst to their mother. A simple story of how children try to understand the trauma of grief and come to terms with the fact that their father is not coming home.
Sponsored by: Fred & Jo Madden and Eno Wines
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FRIDAY 5.45 Dir: Ruben Östlund | Sweden 2014 | 118 mins | Cert: Club
FORCE MAJEURE | TURIST Starring: Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius Language: Swedish, English Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s Cannes sensation combines black comedy, social satire and probing psycho-drama as a model family comes apart on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. A sardonic connoisseur of social disintegration, Östlund blends psychodrama and explosive black humour to potent effect. Östlund, who may have never composed a banal image in his life, began his career as a director of skiing films. He returns to the slopes (Les Arcs, in France) for this drama of a model Scandinavian family taking a break in an upmarket ski resort. While they pose for their perfect holiday portraits, we are aware of the looming icy vastness of the landscape that
they don’t exactly see. Ironically, the disaster we anticipate comes in the form of a ‘controlled avalanche’ that causes no physical damage at all. But when the perfect husband bolts – not forgetting his phone – and leaves his wife to rescue the kids, there’s bound to be some questions asked. Other holiday-makers ask questions too or get drawn into the marital fallout, complicating all attempts to come up with a version of events to match those beaming holiday snaps. Obliging any of us to wonder whom we might rescue first in the same scenario – or who might first tend to us – Östlund negotiates deeply uncomfortable territory with his sense of humour dangerously intact. - New Zealand International Film Festival 2014 Winner – Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2014 Sponsored by: Bank Of Ireland
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FRIDAY 8.15 Dir: Alberto Rodriguez | Spain 2014 | 104mins | Cert: Club
MARSHLAND La Isla Minima Starring: Javier Gutierrez, Raul Arevalo, Maria Varod Language: Spanish Imagine True Detective set in the Andaluz swamplands and you begin to get the measure of Alberto Rodriguez’s atmospheric, richly textured Spanish murder mystery. It is 1980 and Spain is slowly emerging from the shadows of the Franco era. In the sleepy backwater of Villafranco del Guadalquivir, two teenage girls have disappeared. Detectives Pedro (Raúl Arévalo) and Juan (Javier Gutiérrez) arrive from Madrid to
investigate and soon find themselves at odds with a community deeply suspicious of their presence and yoked to misogynistic attitudes of the past. “A superb Southern gothic thriller” Glasgow Film Festival 2014
Sponsored by: The Creighton Hotel and The Cuil Darach
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Photo: Richard Brewis
CFF presents the World Premiere of
PRISON DOOR
Dir: Kevin McCann | Ireland/Estonia/UK 2015 | 10 mins | Cert: Club
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UNDER MILK WOOD
FRIDAY 8PM Dir: Kevin Allen | UK 2015 | 89 mins | Cert: Club
Filmed in the historic H-Block prisons of Northern Ireland, ‘Prison Door’ is based on the last work from writer Dermot Healy. This short film gives a Kafkaesque glimpse into the world of a young prisoner struggling with reality and illusion. Just like every other morning, he waits for the door of his prison cell to be opened. A bird lands on his window reminding him of freedom…
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Charlotte Church, Menna Tressler, Aneirin Hughes, Karen Elli, Boyd Clack Kevin Allen’s hotly anticipated new film version of Dylan Thomas’ “Play for Voices”, the first cinematic adaptation since the version starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in 1972, is a rich, sumptuous, dream-like and somewhat saucy feast for the senses. Dylan Thomas’ poetic prose was adapted for screen by Kevin Allen, Murray Lachlan Young and Michael Breen and beautifully brought to life, in a style reminiscent of 1950s postcards from the Riviera, by cinematographer Andy Hollis. The original score by Mark Thomas for once is just that. Original. Incorporating everything from jazzy numbers and a 120-piece Welsh male voice choir to operatic and symphonic elements, the music here is more than just a backdrop to the action on screen played out by a Welsh all-star cast including Charlotte Church as good-time girl Polly Garter and Rhys Ifans as 1st Voice and Captain Cat. The Welsh language version of Under Milk Wood is the UK’s official submission for consideration as Best Foreign Language Film at next year’s Academy Awards.
Kevin Allen will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A session hosted by filmmaker Dara McCluskey after the screening. A funny, sweaty, bawdy, orgasmic, intricate, hyperactive, highly coloured fever-dream. – The Guardian I loved this film; it’s lusty, fleshy and accessible – Allen’s interpretation has a Russellian quality about it, and there can be no higher praise – Bravo ! – Mark Kermode Kaleidoscopically erotic, with an impressive ensemble of comic inhabitants – this Under Milk Wood is filthy, bonkers and fun! – Empire Dara McCluskey will also present a 5-minute short film from the ‘I Am Clones’ project, a collaboration with poet Emma Hetherington and others – an atmospheric evocation of Clones’ past and present through poetry, film and song, commissioned through the BEAM creative network.
Sponsored by: Paul Boyce Solicitors
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SATURDAY 11AM Dir: Tomm Moore | Ireland 2014 | 93 mins | Cert: PG
SONG OF THE SEA Language: English Featuring the voices of: David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan Inspired by the legend of the “selkies” – magical beings who live as seals in water and as humans on land – this captivating animated film from the director of the Academy-Awardnominated The Secret of Kells is a magical adventure steeped in the wondrous worlds of Irish myth. Young Ben and his little sister Saoirse live with their widower father in a lighthouse by the sea. When the silent Saoirse – who at six years old has yet to utter a single word – discovers a shell flute that used to belong to their mother, the spellbinding music
she creates unlocks a magical secret locked deep in their mother’s past. Ben soon realizes that his sister holds the power to bring that magic to life once again – but to do so, she needs to find her voice, and he needs to overcome his deepest fears. - Toronto International Film Festival 2014 A gorgeous, almost painterly tale of two siblings trying to reach home, but waylaid by witches, owls and faeries. Mark Kermode, The Observer Nominated – Academy Awards
Best Animated Feature Film
Sponsored by: SuperValu
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SATURDAY 3PM Dir: Brett Morgen | USA 2015 | 132 mins | Cert:16
KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK Starring: Aaron Burckhard, Chad Channing, Don Cobain Kurt Cobain remains an icon 20 years after his death. HBO’s Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is the first fully authorized documentary, a raw and visceral journey through Cobain’s life and career with Nirvana through the lens of his home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, and journals. Tribeca Film Festival 2014 “Montage of Heck” is layered with emotion throughout. Morgen holds a shot after discussing Kurt’s emotional abuse as a child – “The sad part of the whole thing is that Kurt just really wanted to be with his mom” – and then those words lead into the opening lines of “Something in the
Way”; it’s difficult not to cry at the little boy lost who turned that into art later in life. Morgen uses still photos, drawings Kurt made, animations, and then works with his editor to cut them together in rhythm with Nirvana’s music in ways that are completely mesmerizing. There’s an important critical dictum when one reviews documentaries that we need to be careful to focus on the form of the filmmaking as much as the content. Filmmaking matters more than subject matter. In this case, both are brilliant. - Brian Tallerico, rogerebert.com
Sponsored by: Kieran Coffey Tyres and Feldhues
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SATURDAY 3.30 Dir: Damian McCann | Ireland/UK 2015 | 60 mins | Club
SKEFFY Languages: Irish with English subtitles Producer Deaglán Ó Mocháin will and English attend the screening and introduce the film Léiríonn an clár Skeffy beatha Frank Sheehy Skeffington, an síochánaí a rugadh i nDún Pádraig, feimineach agus iriseoir a daoradh chun báis go truacánta ag tús Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916. Ba finné súl é ar eochairmhóimintí i stair na hÉireann cara le James Joyce, comhghleacaí le James Connolly agus céile Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, an gníomhaí feimineach ba mhó in Éirinn. Ba bhás beagchéillí é a spreag ceannlínte ar fud an domhain, ag cur go mór leis an ghéilleadh do neamhspleáchas in Éirinn réabhlóideach, ach ag cealú a ról i bhfíorú Éire na linne seo.
Skeffy is the life story of Frank Sheehy Skeffington, the Downpatrick born pacifist, feminist and journalist who was cruelly executed at the start of the Easter Rising in 1916. He was an eye witness to key moments in Irish history - a friend of James Joyce, a colleague of James Connolly and the partner of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Ireland’s most prominent feminist activist. His pointless murder made headlines across the world, contributing to the growing demand for independence in revolutionary Ireland, while acting to obscure his role in the formation of modern Ireland. Sponsored by: David Rafferty
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SATURDAY 4PM Dir: Paddy Slattery | Ireland 2015 | 41 min | Cert: Club
SOJOURN VOL. 1 & 2 Starring: Tristan Heanue, Nichola MacEvilly
Director Paddy Slattery will attend the screening.
Aedh finds a new muse. Her name is Aislinn; a beautiful, playful and mischievous distraction from mundanity. He falls in love and falls hard. With his regimental lifestyle, he struggles to furnish her with attention or quench her insatiable desires. We follow Aedh through the emotional highs and devastating lows of his sojourn into love and despair.
If you like to immerse yourself in the poetry of visuals, of sound, of motion, you should take 40 minutes to delve into Paddy Slattery’s poetic, non-narrative art film, beautifully photographed by Gerard Walsh, underpinned by Dave McCune’s mesmerising score and with courageous performances by Tristan Heanue as Aedh and Nichola MacEvilly as Aislinn.
Sponsored by: Healing With Hemp
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SATURDAY 5.30 Dir: Adam Low | UK 2015 | 75 min | Cert: Club
MY CURIOUS DOCUMENTARY The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night –Time, the National Theatre’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s multimillion selling novel, took Broadway by storm this year, winning 5 Tony Awards , including Best Play and Best Actor. My Curious Documentary, like the book and the play, sees the world through the eyes of Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy who finds other people frightening and confusing. The film tracks the production’s progress from novel, to stage, to the West End and Broadway - a journey that mirrors Christopher’s own adventures as he travels from Swindon to London to discover who killed a dog called Wellington. His story, and the remarkable feat of
detection at its core, becomes a way in to the extraordinary world of Autism – a condition that has recently reached almost epidemic proportions in western society, where it now affects one in every hundred children. My Curious Documentary combines Christopher Boone’s own story with the heart-rending real-life experiences of people with autism, and gives a rare insight into the challenges that they, and their families, have to overcome. The result is a dazzling, provocative and profoundly moving exploration of what it means to be on the spectrum. Director Adam Low will introduce the screening and be available for a Q&A session after the screening
Sponsored by: The Noble Grape
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SATURDAY 5.45 Dir: Terry McMahon | Ireland 2014 | 101 mins | Cert: 15A
PATRICK’S DAY Starring: Moe Dunford, Kerry Fox, Philip Jackson, Catherine Walker Language: English Patrick is a warm, open, twenty-sixyear-old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother’s protection mean he is no threat to himself or anyone else. Until he falls in love. The object of his desire is Karen, a suicidal flight attendant, who has no idea the intimacy she shares with Patrick might reintroduce her to living. Patrick’s obsessive mother Maura doesn’t realise her own misguided love may be more dangerous than hate. To pull Karen and Patrick apart, she enlists the help
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SATURDAY 6PM Dir: Donato Rotunno | Luxembourg 2015 | 90 mins | Club
BABY(A)LONE of a dysfunctional detective called Freeman, who will use his position to help her - for a price. Patrick’s Day is a provocative and heart-breaking love story about the right to intimacy for everyone. Galway Film Fleadh 2014 A fascinating collision of psychiatric drama and state-of-the nation address, grim sincerity and singularity of voice set this psychiatric drama apart. Donald Clarke, The Irish Times Winner – Woodstock Film Festival 2014, Best Feature Film Joint Winner – Galway Film Fleadh 2014, Best Irish Feature Film
Sponsored by: Rory Mc Mahon Flogas
Language: Luxembourgish
seem: the two central characters are 13 years of age; yet they are Starring: Joshua Defays, Charlotte already familiar with violence, drugs Elsen, Etienne Halsdorf, Gintare and pornography. They are being Parulyte, Fabienne Hollwege exposed to these at school and on a daily basis. An intense and intriguing drama about The two young people, who proceed lost childhoods and a desperate to forge a unique partnership, seem quest for love, Baby(a)lone is not to have lost all hope as they have set in a world of slums and crushing been forced to grow up too soon and poverty; or indeed in faraway warm too violently. Loneliness, fear and pain and exotic locations. This story takes are easier to bear when shared with place in a country at the very heart of someone who has experienced and an affluent, contemporary Europe, a seen what you have seen. western society which often claims to This drama, both extremely stylish uphold the protection of its children – and full of empathy for its young the future generation – as its laudable protagonists, has been selected objective. to represent Luxembourg in the However, things are not what they category of Best Foreign Language
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SATURDAY 8PM Dir: Keith Gordon Ireland 2015 | 8 mins | Cert: Club
SATURDAY 8PM Dir: Alex Fegan | Ireland 2015 | 81 mins | Cert: PG
THE SHADOW IN THE DARKNESS
OLDER THAN IRELAND Older Than Ireland is a landmark feature documentary that explores what it means to have lived one hundred years in Ireland, as seen through the eyes of its oldest citizens.
pays homage to this unique group of remarkable individuals. - Galway Film Fleadh 2015
Both wry treat and testament to the efficacy of modern medicine, Alex Fegan’s documentary Featuring thirty men and women, this remarkable rounds up 30 Irish centenarians, and invites them group of centenarians, all born before 1916, is the to hold forth on subjects from the civil war to last generation to have borne witness to Ireland’s Twitter. While sketching a turbulent national past, bloody transition from a newly formed fledging Fegan’s history leans towards the social, watching republic through to its development into a mature hardy sorts – caught at prayer, at bingo and in the European state. These centenarians are our living hairdresser’s chair – offer entertainingly gossipy history and it is through their wit, wisdom and titbits on courtship, beauty and other everyday philosophy that the film explores the more universal pursuits. You’ll shed a tear or two, possibly more. themes of life. From youth to true love, from loss to Mike McCahill, The Guardian regrets, from the meaning of life to the existence of a life hereafter — the centenarians have an opinion on it all. Older Than Ireland is a film that
Joe Bollard lost his sight over 75 years ago after an operation at the age of 2. In the mid-70s he became one of the first people in Ireland to be matched with a guide dog, an event which transformed his life. With characteristic candour and wit, Joe Bollard succinctly shares his experience of being blind and the difference a guide dog has made to his life. The Shadow in the Darkness is a rare and moving insight into this most unique friendship between man and dog.
Director Keith Gordon will attend the screening.
Director Alex Fegan will attend the screening and will participate in a Q&A session afterwards.
Sponsored by: Lipton’s & Clonfad Cycles
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SATURAY 8.15 Dir: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky | Ukraine, Netherlands 2014 130 mins Cert: Club
THE TRIBE PLEMYA Starring: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy One of the most exciting debut features of the past few years, this compelling drama follows a young deaf-mute newcomer to a specialised boarding school, where, to survive, he becomes part of a wild organisation – the tribe. His love for one of the girls in the group will unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the tribe’s hierarchy and into a situation from which there is no escape. All characters in the film communicate solely through Ukranian sign language, with each other and with the viewers who will nonetheless grasp very quickly what is happening.
…one of this year’s strangest and most disturbing films. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian The Tribe is a shocking film. At times, the violence is as reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange as it is of any previous high school movie. Grigoriy’s story has grim lessons about the way corruption breeds corruption. But the brilliance of the performances, the ingenuity of the staging and originality of the storytelling are exhilarating. We will not see a more impressive film this year. It’s simply not possible. Tara Brady, The Irish Times
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SATURDAY 10.30 Dir: Tomm Moore | Ireland 2014 | 93 mins | Cert: PG
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SUNDAY 11AM Dir: Isao Takahata | Japan 2014 | 137 mins | Cert: PG
SONG OF THE SEA
THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA
Language: English Featuring the voices of: David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan
Language: Japanese / English Dub
Inspired by the legend of the “selkies” – magical beings who live as seals in water and as humans on land – this captivating animated film from the director of the Academy-Awardnominated The Secret of Kells is a magical adventure steeped in the wondrous worlds of Irish myth. Young Ben and his little sister Saoirse live with their widower father in a lighthouse by the sea. When the silent Saoirse – who at six years old has yet to utter a single word – discovers a shell flute that used to belong to their mother, the spellbinding music she
creates unlocksa magical secret locked deep in their mother’s past. Ben soon realizes that his sister holds the power to bring that magic to life once again – but to do so, she needs to find her voice, and he needs to overcome his deepest fears. - Toronto International Film Festival 2014 A gorgeous, almost painterly tale of two siblings trying to reach home, but waylaid by witches, owls and faeries. Mark Kermode, The Observer Nominated – Academy Awards
Best Animated Feature Film
Sponsored by: Papa Joe’s/Carry Out Off Licence
The first film in fourteen years from Studio Ghibli co-founder and Grave of the Fireflies director Isao Takahata is a ravishingly beautiful adaptation of a tenth-century folktale. One day in the forest, the simple bamboo cutter Okina finds a baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot, and brings the infant home to his wife Ona. Naming the child Kaguya and raising her as their own, the couple soon discovers that their daughter is truly not of this world: she grows at an unnaturally quick rate, and has soon matured into
a beautiful young woman. Discovering a cache of gold and lavish silks in the forest that he takes as a sign of Kaguya’s royal heritage, Okina moves her to a lavish home in the capital city, where she is besieged by suitors — but Kaguya soon proves to have a higher destiny. - Toronto International Film Festival 2014 “A visionary tour de force” - Variety Nominated - Best Animation, Academy Awards 2015
Sponsored by: Portree Hostel Waterford & Sean McQuillan
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SUNDAY 2.30 Dir: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
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SUNDAY 3.30 Dir: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | USA 2015 | 105 mins | Cert: 12A
THE SALT OF THE EARTH
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
Italy, Brazil, France 2014 | 110mins | Cert: 12A Language: French, Portuguese Starring: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro
some of the major projects of his career, including Workers and Genesis, an affectionate love letter to the planet.
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, Nick Offerman, RJ Cyler, Connie Britton
Oscar nominations for The Buena Vista Social Club and Pina attest to the way that the documentary seems to bring out the best in Wim Wenders. The Salt of the Earth is no exception as it pays tribute to the extraordinary life of photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado.
Salgado recalls lengthy periods of his life when he saw ample evidence of death and destruction. Typically, he found creative ways to transcend that despair and the film ends in hope as we learn of the Salgado family’s success in re-building an entire ecosystem at the Instituto Terra in Brazil. A fitting tribute to an inspirational figure. - Allan Hunter, Screen International
Working with Salgado’s son Juliano Ribeiro, Wenders has created a film entirely in keeping with the humility of the subject. Hauntingly beautiful images are matched with illuminating testimony to create an utterly absorbing portrait. Salgado is a magnetic personality and he recalls
Winner - Un Certain Regard: Special Jury Prize
Greg (Thomas Mann) is convinced that the key to surviving the high school experience is to maintain cordial relations with all of the various disparate tribes and factions while avoiding real friendships in any. His closest bond is with Earl (R.J. Cyler), with whom he makes parodies of classics of world cinema. When Greg’s parents (Connie Britton, Nick Offerman) force him to spend time with Rachel (Olivia Cooke),
a classmate who has just been diagnosed with leukaemia, he is reluctant, as, it turns out, is she. What could have been a predictable, mawkishly sentimental story is in fact anything but; director Alfonso GomezRejon, working from a script by Jesse Andrews, who adapted his own novel, has created one of the summer’s greatest pleasures, an inventive, whip-smart, touching, and genuinely funny film filled with allusions to cinematic greats. - Kevin Coyne, IFI
Winner - César Awards: Best Documentary Film
Sponsored by: Clones Photography Group
Sponsored by: Scanbitz
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SUNDAY 12NOON Short Film Programme Fiction / Experimental I Dust | Daniel Butler | 5.55 Respite at Christmas | Campbell Miller | 15.23 Small Talk | Stephen McKenna / Greg Byrne | 9.44 Barty Carty | John McGovern | 9.58 A Sign | Don Duncan | 17.52 Park Life | Jason Shalloe | 7.42 Land is God | Jonathan Beer | 14.00 Boogaloo and Graham | Michael Lennox | 14.00 Sponsored by: Mc Elvaney’s Waste
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SUNDAY 4.30PM Short Film Programme Fiction / Experimental II Today | Tristan Heanue | 20.00 Rip it Up & Start Again | Stephen Ryan | 6.31 Skit and Pebbles | Gavin Butler | 11.57 Static | Mary Keane | 11.33 The Picnic | Ciaran Creagh | 12.48 Prison Door | Kevin McCann | 10.12 Tearmann | Maureen Butler | 2.52 Love is a Sting | Vincent Gallagher | 18.20
Sponsored by: Martin’s Londis, Newbliss
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SHORT FILM PROGRAMME // JUDGES
Keith Gordon is a television cameraman and documentary filmmaker from Bray in Co.Wicklow. He has directed three short documentaries and is in production on his fourth.
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SUNDAY 2PM Short Documentaries Quill to Power | Alan Caulfield | 8.17 Hand in Hand | Sarah Dempsey | 10.20 Tonn Nua | Peter McKeown / Niall Clery | 19.34 Pregnant Box | Evan Barry | 2.52 Homelessness: A Crisis Beyond Crisis Michael O’Mahoney | 22.13 Scent of Barley | Liselott Olofsson | 17.48 A Beautiful Death | Patrick McDermott | 8.03
Sponsored by: Martin’s Londis, Newbliss
Sponsored by: E.T. Hamill Photography
Ray Fitzsimons is an up-and-coming filmmaker and established actor from Co. Cavan. Ray’s most acclaimed roles include ‘Hamm’ in The Hacklers’ Production of ‘Endgame’, ‘Frank’ in ‘Frank Pig Says Hello’ and ‘Snout’ in ‘The Begrudgers’, RTE Storyland winners. As a self-taught screenwriter, director and editor Ray has enjoyed notable success and is quickly establishing himself as a talented filmmaker, both locally and nationally.
Pádraig Conaty is an accomplished cinematographer and director. He has worked on numerous television productions, short and feature film sets as well as music and promotional videos. Pádraig is a former winner of the 48-hour Short Film Challenge at Clones Film Festival.
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SUNDAY 25TH
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 have been designed by Jason Crowley. 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..? There will also be a very special prize for the jury’s award winners of the 48hr short film challenge, a day at Windmill Lane Recording Studios. The winners can choose to avail of recording or full-post facilities, including editing, colour grading and green screen studio, to put the finishing touches to their project. Ireland’s premier recording facility, Windmill Lane Recording Studios has been at the heart of the Irish recording industry since 1978. 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. The awards ceremony will once again take place in the historic surroundings of the Courthouse. Afterwards, make your way down to the Festival Club @ Adamson’s Bar and dance the rest of the night away to a set of melodic electronic music with a penchant for current anthems and a curveball classic by renowned DJ, blogger and international event curator and Nialler9. Don’t say you haven’t been warned… book your seat early for Clones’ very own Oscars night! Sponsored by: Clones Credit Union
Would like to thank our many local sponsors and volunteers for their ongoing generosity and support.
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Sponsored by: Adamson’s Bar
CFF2015 SPONSORS
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.
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VENUES Festival Club@Adamson’s Cinema@TheCourthouse Cinema/BoxOffice@TheOldPostOffice The Cinemobile on the Diamond
FESTIVAL VENUES & ACCOMMODATION ACCOMMODATION The Creighton Hotel Cuil Darach
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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.