Foyle Film Festival 2014 Programme

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LIGHT IN MOTION AWARDS SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1

LIGHT IN MOTION AWARDS SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2

SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER @ 12PM-2PM VENUE: NERVE CENTRE CINEMA 1

SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER @ 2PM-4PM VENUE: NERVE CENTRE CINEMA 1

OVERALL DURATION PROGRAMME 1: 1hr. 34mins

LOVERS LOOKOUT

OVERALL DURATION PROGRAMME 2: 1hr.33mins

A gentleman meets a lady sitting on a park bench at the famous Lovers Lookout, where all good love stories begin and end. United Kingdom. 2014. Director: Richard Anthony Dunford. Duration: 7mins

It’s a hot summer and a young inner-city boy, Donal, is trying his hand at cutting lawns for pocket money. His luck changes when he meets Gerry.

A GOOD STORY (EINE GUTE GESCHICHTE) When Helga Landowsky discovers a broken jug in an antiques store near the German/Polish border, she wants to have it at any cost. But the old lady has reckoned without Jakub Lato. In exchange for the jug, he wants Helga to tell him a story. Germany. 2013. Director: Martin Christopher Bode. Duration: 20mins

NAYAN & THE EVIL EYE CUTTING GRASS

Ireland. 2014. Directors: John Kennedy and Ruairi O’Brien. Duration: 12mins

BEFORE WE LOSE The love story of a mother and her threeyear-old son and the turn their lives take with her deteriorating health in the Black Sea Region of Turkey.

A young boy named Nayan finds a mysterious glass eye and discovers that it holds some dangerous powers: the wielder receives the gift of Evil Eye. Now Nayan can curse anyone he sets his eye on.

GOODBYE PAPA (TSCHUSS PAPA) Benedict is very attached to his father’s old set of medieval armour and it is the only thing that gives him any comfort after his father’s untimely death. His mother is forced to sell his suit of armour in an effort to help her son move on. Benedict must then go on a great adventure to get the armour back.

Canada. 2014. Director: Shaleen Sangha. Duration: 8mins

Germany. 2014. Director: Hendrik Maximilian Schmitt. Duration: 27mins

United Kingdom. 2014. Director: Cristhian Andrews. Duration: 17mins

LITTLE Lou is almost thirty and worried she’s too old to be lonely, single and selling popcorn in a cinema. Until she forms an unlikely friendship with elevenyear-old Josh, a little man with a big personality who teaches her that it’s ok not to grow up. United Kingdom. 2014. Director: Harry Jackson. Duration: 16mins

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THE STOMACH Frank’s had enough. A spirit medium whose unique and grotesque method of channelling the dead is putting his own life at risk, he wants out. But others, in this world and the next, have plans of their own. United Kingdom. 2014. Director: Ben Steiner. Duration: 15mins

MANO A MANO We can tolerate proximity with others on a crowded bus during rush hour, so long as we keep our hands to ourselves. But when Laura notices she shares the handrail with a very attractive stranger, she decides to slide her hand a few inches towards his. Spain. 2013. Director: Ignacio Tatay Duration: 7mins

DOOR GOD A seven-year-old girl, Lingli, has been waiting two years for her mother to come home. On Chinese New Year, the Door God goes up and Lingli learns that reality is not what it seems. China. 2013. Director: Yulin Liu. Duration: 24mins

CONTRAPELO

WAKING MARSHALL WALKER

A proud Mexican barber is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel. As he faces the man who is destroying his country, he is confronted by a difficult decision: to become a killer, or to let this man continue to kill.

An encounter with a mysterious stranger brings unsettling premonitions, sending Marshall Walker on a desperate race through memory and time to reunite with his estranged daughter Charlotte and undo a fateful mistake, or risk being trapped between worlds forever.

Mexico. 2014. Director: Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. Duration: 19mins

USA. 2014. Directors: Bjorn Thorstad and Gabriel Baron. Duration: 15mins FOR BOOKINGS VISIT WWW.FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL.ORG // 25


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