Cinemagic Film Festival at Queen's Film Theatre

CINEMAGIC FILM FESTIVAL AT QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE November 2014

THE CINEMAGIC INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION FESTIVAL BE INSPIRED! www.cinemagic.org.uk

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(UK Premiere) Sat 22 Nov• 10.30am •Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 15-year-old Jesse is the lone eyewitness to the murder of one of his friends. After the brutal incident Jesse returns home to his family and his BMX riders’ crew. Words cannot express the sorrow and emotional turmoil Jesse is going through - how can he explain the inexplicable? Violet is a visual account of a teenager’s mourning process.

Dir: Bas Devos – Belgium – 2013 – 85 mins – Age 15+ - Flemish with English Subtitles – Print Source: New Europe Film Sales

FALSE MOVEMENT 2 temps, 3 mouvements (UK Premiere) Sat 22 Nov • 1.00pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 Victor feels adrift. Uprooted by his mother from Paris to his new home in Quebec City, he’s still reeling from the recent death of his father. One day while skipping class, Victor stumbles upon a classmate’s suicide. A touching coming-of-age film, False Movement is a modern story of grief and connection.

Dir: Christophe Cousin – Canada – 2014 – 85 mins – Age 15+ - French with English Subtitles – Print Source: Parallaxes

THE GOOD LIFE La belle vie (UK Premiere) Sat 22 Nov• 3.00pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 This spin on the coming-of-age tale tells the story of 16-year-old Sylvain, growing up in the Loire Valley and living off the official grid with his father for reasons he is starting to realise are more pressing than philosophical. His doubts take form with his first budding love, but the film is rewardingly optimistic, seeing possibilities instead of just pitfalls.

Dir: Jean Denizot – France – 2014 – 93 mins – Age 15+ - French with English Subtitles – Print Source: The Match Factory

CLASS ENEMY Razredni sovraznik (irish Premiere) Sat 22 Nov• 6.30pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 A group of teens blame their demanding new German teacher and his demeaning methods when one of their classmates commits suicide. As a colossal battle of wills unfolds, debuting Slovenian director Rok Bicek demonstrates an impressive control of tension and suspense, making each encounter between class and instructor crackle with the possibility of violence.

Dir: Rok Bicek – Slovenia – 2013 – 112 mins – Age 15+ - Slovenian & German with English Subtitles – Print Source: Triglav Film

JACK JACK

(NI Premiere) Sun 23 Nov • 1.00pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 Jack is an urban odyssey embarked upon by a 10-year-old boy, beautifully played by the young Ivo Pietzcker, as he struggles to reunite with his mother and younger brother. Director Edward Berger and co-writer Nele Mueller-Stofen have crafted a sensitive, compassionate and engagingly unsentimental portrait of two boys and their rather brutal plight.

Dir: Edward Berger & Nele Mueller-Stofen – Germany – 2014 – 103 mins – Age: 15+ - German with English Subtitles – Print Source: Beta Cinema

METALHEAD Málmhaus (ni Premiere) Sun 23 Nov • 3.30pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 Fuelled by a remarkable breakout performance by actress Thora Bjorg Helga, director Ragnar Bragason’s intense drama of loss, faith, redemption, Megadeath and Judas Priest begins with a farming accident in the 1980s that sends a young girl, Hera, and her parents into a tail-spin of grief over the death of her Heavy Metal musicobsessed older brother.

Dir: Ragnar Bragason – Iceland – 2013 – 97 mins – Age: 16+ - Icelandic with English Subtitles – Print Source: Picture Tree International

BENEATH THE HARVEST SKY Beneath the Harvest Sky (UK premiere) Sun 23 Nov • 6.30pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 Trapped in a dead-end industrial town in Maine, two teenage best friends (The Place Beyond the Pines’ Emory Cohen and The Great Gatsby’s Callan McAuliffe) take tragically different paths to realise their dream of making it to the big city, in this vividly detailed fiction feature debut from documentary filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly.

Dir: Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly – USA – 2013 – 116 mins – Age: 18+ – English Language – Print Source: Filmmakers

ARCTIC Ärtico

(uk Premiere) Sun 23 Nov • 9.00pm • Queen’s Film Theatre • £6.00 / £5.00 A group of young ‘quinquis’ (nomadic Spaniards) try to survive in difficult economic times. More than money, what they search for in the streets is a future. Arctic is a powerfully stark drama about hopeless adolescence, violence and solitude, studded with moments and images that linger in the mind.

Dir: Gabriel Velazquez – Spain – 2014 – 78 mins – Age: 18+ - Spanish with English Subtitles – Print Source: Agencia Freak

Book Tickets: Queen’s Film Theatre Online: www.queensfilmtheatre.com or from the main festival box-office at www.wegottickets.com