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The Fifty-Seventh Festival

11-18 November 2012

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CONTENTS The Fifty-Seventh Corona Cork Film Festival Booking Information

Welcomes and Introductions

THE CURIOUS EYE GALAS

Tribute to Paddy Jolley

Opening Gala / The Great Flood

Phil Collins at the National Sculpture Factory

Closing Gala / Seven Psychopaths

Christoph Girardet

Slow Food / Step Up to the Plate

Fire and Ice

John T. Davis: An Ulster Punk Trilogy

Free Radicals

Maurizio Valebella Exhibition

Michael Higgins Exhibition

O’Bhéal Poetry and Film

‘Seesound’ at The Guesthouse

MotionCapture

Meet Sminky

42nd Tweet

Festival Freezer Sessions

Lord Mayor’s Family Screening / Tinker Bell: The Secret of the Wings

WORLD CINEMA Feature Programme / A-Z

DOCUMENTARIES Documentary Programme / A-Z

CELEBRATIONS OF LIGHT

THE WORLD OF SHORTS Short Film Juries

Paramount Classics

‘Made in Cork’ Shorts

Family and Education

Irish Shorts

OutLook 22

Irish Film Board Shorts

Industry Events

International Shorts

Focus on Belgium

The National Film School at IADT Retrospective

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Late Great Shorts

Credits & Acknowledgements

Screen Directors’ Guild Shorts

Print Sources

Great Shorts

Screening Schedule

‘This is Our World’ - Short Documentaries

Index of Films

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BOOKING INFO

Our Documentary Panorama will take you on a rich and rewarding journey through a range of places, people, concerns and worlds. Join us at these screenings, meet the directors, and find out more about this unique part of the festival. (See Pg 29)

How to Book Your Tickets

The full festival schedule at the back of the catalogue is colour coded according to section, and laid out day by day for ease of planning. So you can jump straight to the type of films youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in. Join us for this unique week in Cork, where our meeting point is the Festival Club each night in Cork Opera House â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a great place to discuss the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s viewing!

Our World of Shorts is a large but carefully selected section of International, National, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Made In Corkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and special focus programmes. If you want to see the talent laboratory, where it all starts, this is for you! (See Pg 43)

Sat 3rd Nov 10am - 6pm

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4 - Triskel Christchurch - Tobin Street

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Discovery:

False Trail Seven Psychopaths Belgian shorts The Oranges Reality Laurence Anyways Celeste and Jesse Forever

Bestiaire Christoph Girardet Dollhouse Fire and Ice Just the Wind Tabu Pilgrim Song

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Box Office Opening Times

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Online: corkfilmfest.org

Sun 4th Nov 2pm - 6pm

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Curious Eyeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; contains special programmes, filmmakers and themes and is a great treasure chest of once-off and rare programmes. (See Pg 67)

Venue Map

*Concession rates apply to students, OAP and unwaged. ID required.

The Human Story: Pg 32 Pg 72 Pg 19 Pg 74 Pg 22 Pg 27 Pg 25

My Father And the Man In Black The Invisibles Trashed In Another Country El Huaso Come As You Are Sound It Out

Pg 36 Pg 35 Pg 39 Pg 22 Pg 33 Pg 18 Pg 38

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

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WELCOME

Lord Mayor’s welcome to Corona Cork Film Festival 2012 Programme.

Is cúis mór áthas dom an deis seo a bheith agan fáilte croíúil a chur romhaibh go léir anso le haghaidh an Corona Cork International Film Festival 2012. Corona Cork Film Festival is firmly fixed on the calendar of major festivals which the City Council is proud to support. I remember taking many a week’s holiday in my youth to sit in the dark environs of the Opera House, the old Triskel, and the Kino cinema, clutching my season ticket, as I gorged on cinematic offerings that would never be shown anywhere else in Cork or Ireland. The Festival animates the city, working with a variety of local partners, including the National Sculpture Factory and the Cork Film Centre. The Festival has helped nourish a flourishing local film culture, as evidenced by an increase in both the quantity and quality of local film-making, resulting in three programmes of ‘Made In Cork’ Shorts. It is also significant that film and cinema was the theme for the recent very successful Culture Night. This year there is a focus on Belgian cinema, presented in partnership with the Belgian Embassy in Ireland. In addition, there is a very strong international programme of films. Other aspects of the programme include Education and Youth programming, Outlook (LGBT) and special retrospectives. The Corona Cork Film Festival is truly an international festival, and a strong platform for new Irish cinema. I would like to take the opportunity to compliment the organisers of the Festival for their hard work, dedication and commitment over many years. The people of Cork and the City Council owe them an enormous depth of gratitude. I would also like to thank Corona for their continued sponsorship. In addition; thank you to the many volunteers, patrons and venues for their continued support of the Festival. Cork is a great city, with amazing venues, a fantastic social scene and is the ideal location for a film festival that is eagerly looked forward to each year. I hope that you will all enjoy it as much as I will. Gúim gach rath oraibh leis an chlár seo agaibh. Cllr John Buttimer Ard Mhéara Chorcaí, Lord Mayor of Cork

A message from the Managing Director of Barry & Fitzwilliam, Michael Barry Distributors of Corona Extra and Corona Light We are very proud to partner again with the Corona Cork Film Festival for the sixth year in a row as title sponsors. It is encouraging to see a festival that is now in its 57th year continue to thrive and bring a refreshing new mix of feature films, short films and documentaries to film enthusiasts from Ireland and abroad each year, and this year looks more exciting than ever. The partnership has been a resounding success for Corona Extra to date and this year we will focus the sponsorship on our Corona Light brand, which we launched earlier this year, and will encourage people to ‘experience the light’, cameras and action. We will continue to support the venture through our title sponsorship and by rolling out a strong communications campaign 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 and Ireland have a vibrant cultural and artistic community and the festival affords everyone the opportunity to experience the talent of filmmakers from around the world. Experience the light at the Corona Cork Film Festival! Michael Barry Managing Director, Barry & Fitzwilliam Ltd. www.bandf.ie

Fáilte You are very welcome to the 2012 Corona Cork Film Festival. We have prepared an exciting and varied schedule of documentaries and shorts as well as feature films which we hope you will find both entertaining and stimulating. We continue our emphasis on the work of emerging filmmakers, including three ‘Made In Cork’ programmes. This well-spring of new work continues to enrich our cinematic lives and gives a platform to new veins of talent across the full skill spectrum. Our International Shorts programme this year will include a special Belgian focus. We are delighted to feature, as our Opening Event, The Great Flood, a film/music collaboration by Bill Morrison and Bill Frisell, based on the catastrophic Mississippi River flood of 1927 and its dramatic longterm effects on American society. This promises to be a connoisseur’s must-view; be sure to book your ticket early. Whether you’re browsing online or reading the printed page, there is much in our Festival programme to engage and to stimulate you as a committed film buff or as a casual visitor. We couldn’t mount such an ambitious programme without the generous and encouraging support of The Arts Council, Cork City Council, Fáilte Ireland, MEDIA, Culture Ireland and FÁS Screen Training Ireland.

We are especially grateful to Michael Barry and Corona for their generous engaged sponsorship of the festival for the sixth year in succession. Thank you to our core staff led by Mick Hannigan, to the Festival Board, to our volunteers and seasonal staff. Thank you to the special patrons and friends of the festival and finally to you the festival-goers for your enthusiastic support which makes us feel that it’s all worthwhile. Enjoy! Denis McSweeney, Festival Chairman

FESTIVAL FRIENDS The Wild One Ruth Riddick Indie John Bailey Margaret Campbell Mike Collins Mary Crilly & Dola Twomey Eugene Freuder & Pamela Friedman Mary & Aidan Heffernan Kieran Hogan Joanne O’Riordan Hamid Oucherfi Warren Pickles Declan Scott Aidan Tyrell Gerald Weste

Classic Arup CIT Crawford College of Art & Design Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare (Cork) Ltd. Crowleys DFK Imperial Hotel Irish Examiner KPMG The Liberty Grill McAvoy & Associates Quay Co-Op Whazon Blockbuster Bodega Bar The Gate Cinemas Lyric FM

WELCOME Glimpses of the Future - of Cinema, of the Festival! Like other arts organisations, the Corona Cork Film Festival is operating on a reduced budget. However, we are pleased that the 2012 programme is as rich as in any other year, representing contemporary and archival cinema, providing a platform for Irish (and local) filmmaking talent and serving as a forum for discussion and debate about cinema. We are grateful to our funders for enabling this; to the Arts Council, the EU MEDIA Programme, FĂĄilte Ireland, Culture Ireland and Cork City Council; to Barry and Fitzwilliam Ltd. for the continuing Corona title sponsorship; to FĂ S Screen Training Ireland for supporting the emerging filmmaker training programme; to the many other individuals, companies and organisations who make valuable contributions to the festival. We have a track record of identifying filmmaking talent and we boast an impressive list of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Festival Alumniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; - filmmakers who came to us with shorts and who have gone on to carve out reputations for themselves in the industry. Kirsten Sheridan and Martin McDonagh, for example, have previously won awards at Cork with their shorts. Both are back this year with impressive feature films. Cathy Brady, who won our Best First Film Award in 2010, is back with two great films in our international shorts programme. There are many others. Equally, this programme represents glimpses of the future of cinema, names to watch out for. So, the festival is a festival of discovery â&#x20AC;&#x201C; of new films and of new talent. However the bulk of the programme represents new voices, new visions. Local animator Sminky â&#x20AC;&#x201C; yes, I know thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not his name - is a case in point. A fresh, Irish-accented voice amusing people across the world. We also look back. We honour Paddy Jolley whose untimely death earlier this year robbed Ireland of a great artist. We pay tribute to IADT who over 26 years have trained hundreds of filmmakers and have provided the Cork Film Festival with great shorts. We welcome back John T. Davis for an archive programme. Students of Cork Film Festival will be aware that his Shell Shock Rock was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bannedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by the festival in another era. Students of the War of Independence may be interested in the extraordinary story of Major F. (Florrie) Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue, founding member of Cork Film Festival and subject of Times Of Trouble. The latter is just one of a great number of new Irish documentaries, features and shorts. In fact each year Cork screens more Irish films to more people than any other event in Ireland.

For 57 years Cork Film Festival has given Irish audiences access to films they would otherwise not see, to filmmakers they would otherwise not meet. However, we would be remiss if we were to ignore changes - in funding and in resources, in technologies, in film culture and industry. To secure the future of the festival it is appropriate that we plot a course for the coming years. To this end the festival Board has commissioned a report, a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;blueprint for the futureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The views of our audiences are of vital importance in securing a successful future and we will be seeking those views in formal and informal ways.

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Despite the wider financial crisis, great films continue to be made. Audiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; appetite for great films is not diminished. We hope that for one week in November we provide a forum for uniting both. Mick Hannigan CEO, The Cork Film Festival Ltd.

The Oberhausen Manifesto helped launch the New German

late-night genre cinema, prizes, VIP areas, photo-calls, etc.

to, and detoxed, 90s cinema. The film festival world could

There’s a simple way of shaking film festivals out of this >torpor: we should think of them as authored, just as films

do with a manifesto too…

are authored. We should think of them as narratives – stories

Cinema; the Danish Dogme 95 manifesto brought new ideas

> In Italy in the 1930s, Mussolini

launched the world’s first film festival, Venice, to celebrate

lasting ten days or two weeks, just as films are narratives.

fascist ideas and aesthetics. To counter this, two alternative

We should think of them as shows being produced on stages,

festivals were launched, one in a former fishing town,

where each has a mise-en-scéne just as a film has a mise-en-

Cannes, and one in the ‘Athens of the North’, a centre of

scéne. A film festival is a shape, a response to the lay of the

the Enlightenment, Edinburgh.

land and light of a city, or to a flood in Pakistan, or the threat

> Now there are thousands like a Richard Dawkins meme. As the elite of the festival > circuit clink another glass of champagne at party after party

The people who run film festivals must think > of themselves as storytellers and stylists. They must ask

to salute a venerable old festival or the launch of a new one,

its aesthetic. Most of all they must, as the best filmmakers

of film festivals. They are a cultural idea that is spreading

to bomb Iran.

themselves what the narrative structure of their event is, and

> It’s about

it would be no surprise if their smiles were a little strained.

do, challenge themselves to do things differently.

Masked by glamour and ubiquity, the world of film festivals

time that, in the spirit of Dyonisus or Guy Debord or Rilke

is, in fact, in crisis.

or Patti Smith or Djibril Diop Mambety or Ritwik Ghatak

world premieres and film celebrities.

or Samira Makhmalbaf, film festivals realise that they are

> There are too many of them chasing > But they are also chasing a too narrow idea of what a film festival can be. > Marco Muller says that film festivals should ‘reveal what the

poetry not prose.

> Too many film festivals in the world are

enthralled by their function as the alternative shop window

markets hide’. Toronto International Film Festival’s Piers

for film industries. Film festivals should be more sceptical

Handling called this counter-market an ‘alternative distribu-

about business and industry. They should be the conscience

Cinema: Face to Face with

There > should, therefore, be no red

Hollywood, Thomas Elsaesser

carpets at film festivals. No

says that this network has

limos. No VIP rooms.

created ‘symbolic agoras of

things will begin to strip out

a new democracy’.

the excess and ponciness

tion network’. In European

of the film world.

Muller, > Handling and Elsaesser each

film

festivals

> These –

their

think that the purpose of a film festival is to act counter to

mannerism – and return them to something purer and more

the mainstream, cookie-cutter cinema that prevails in most

beautiful, inclusive and alive.

parts. To show a broader geographic, stylistic and thematic

use their most discrepant ideas: their funniest, most moving,

range of films than is usually available to audiences.

sexiest thought about films. Start a film in one cinema and

GREAT!

> Except that that’s the content of a film festival,

> Festival directors should

finish it in another – the audience runs between. Get Godard

a town, like the content of The Smiths’ ‘There is a Light That

Festivals should be radically about joy, > about countering alienation, about telling the world of money

Never Goes Out’ is the suicidal intensity of love, like the

and commodity that – ha ha – it doesn’t know the secrets of

content of Singin’ in the Rain is the rapture of love.

the human heart or the inexpressible, stupendous need to be

just as the content of Picasso’s Guernica is the bombing of

What’s

to recut Spielberg.

> Film festivals should be naked

exciting about Guernica is how its black and white, graphic,

with other human beings.

epic, mythic imagery shows us the tragedy in a new way.

in front of the innovative, divine, political, honest facts of life.

What’s exciting about the Smiths song is the daring of the

They should lob a thought bomb to show that cynicism is a

word and music cadences and ironies (‘to die by your side,

false lead, art is amazing, cinema is, as Roland Barthes sort

what a heavenly way to die’). What’s exciting about Singin’ in

of said, ‘light from a distant star’.

the Rain is that camera rising up to look down, from where

issue of festivity itself to restore to the centre of the world

the rain is falling, from where we think of the spirit to be, at

of film festivals. Like music festivals, film festivals should

this man who is so in love that night-time rain feels great.

realise that, especially in the age of online, it’s the offline

> are undergoing formal torpor. Too many of them use the

In other words, what’s exciting is their form.

Film festivals

same techniques – a main competition, sidebars, awards,

> And there’s the whole

communality of film festivals, the fact that we are all getting together to do the same thing, that is part of the source of their joy.

> Mark Cousins, September 2012

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME “It’s about variety and richness and giving audiences access to a smorgasbord of tastes - feature films obviously but cinema is not just about features, just as literature is not solely about the novel – we are screening the filmic equivalent of poems and short stories and journalism and graphic novels. Also it’s not just about screenings but about meeting filmmakers and about discussion and debate. For one week it’s a kind of collective madness around cinema and I love how people immerse themselves totally. We put on a kind of cinematic party for a week, and everyone is invited!” Mick Hannigan, Festival Director

Reality

OPENING GALA

Sunday 11th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

The Great Flood Corona Cork Film Festival in association with Note Productions is proud to present The Great Flood, a live performance with legendary guitarist Bill Frisell and his Quartet. The Great Flood is a film-music collaboration inspired by the catastrophic Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the ensuing transformation of American society. Musically, this fuelled the evolution of acoustic blues to electric blues bands that thrived in cities like Memphis, Detroit, and Chicago, becoming the wellspring for R&B and rock, as well as developing jazz styles. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, this will be the only Irish date for this very special performance. Frisell has drawn upon his wide musical palette, informed by elements of American-roots music and refracted through his uniquely evocative approach. Morrison’s work is based on remaining footage that is pock-marked and partially deteriorated. The degraded footage figures prominently in Morrison’s aesthetic, with distorted images emerging from nitrate prints that suggest different planes of reality in the story - those lived, dreamt, or remembered.

Film: Bill Morrison, Music: Bill Frisell We welcome Bill Frisell and his Quartet to the Corona Cork Film Festival.

Bill Frisell – Guitars Tony Scherr – Bass Ron Miles – Coronet Kenny Wollesen – Drums Bill Morrison – Film USA | 2012 | 75mins

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CLOSING GALA

Sunday 18th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House

SLOW FOOD GALA

Wednesday 14th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Welcome to our annual celebration of the Slow Food movement. Join us for this special night, that includes a glass of Beaujolais and some well-chosen locally sourced appetisers!

Step Up To The Plate (Entre Les Bras) Paul Lacoste France | 2011 | 90mins | Subtitled

In 2009 the Michelin starred French chef Michel Bras decided to hand his restaurant over to his son Sebastien, who had been working with him for fifteen years. Step Up To The Plate tells the story of these extraordinary dishes prepared by a father and a son, in the hilly landscape of Aubrac region. We follow this gastronomic transmission, and witness the intimate intricacies of their family ties. Paul Lacoste’s charming and captivating documentary draws a moving and joyful portrait of this outstanding family in their singular devotion to Haute Cuisine for three generations.

Seven Psychopaths

Producer Ada Didier Creste Print Source sales@jour2fete.com

Martin McDonagh England | 2012 | 109mins | 35mm | Colour

Irish Premiere

Step Up To The Plate will be preceded by a screening of

We are delighted to present the Irish premiere of Seven Psychopaths, the latest blockbuster from Cork Film Festival, BAFTA and Oscar®-winning writer and director Martin McDonagh, as this year’s closing gala. The film is a star studded, black comedy which follows a group of oddball friends who inadvertently find themselves entangled in Los Angeles’ criminal underworld after stealing the beloved Shih-Tzu of one dangerous gangster. McDonagh has assembled a top-notch line up for his raucous, quickfire gangster caper including Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Tom Waits. Farrell is note-perfect as Marty, the hapless writer who falls foul of Charlie, an unhinged, dog-loving gangster played with menace and aplomb by Woody Harrelson. Seven Psychopaths is an inspired, blood-splattered and utterly spellbinding triumph of tension, executed with minimum frills and maximum impact.

Producers Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh Leading Players Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken Photography Ben Davis Script Martin McDonagh Editor JLisa Gunning Music Carter Burwell Print Source Momentum Pictures

With thanks to Elke O’Mahony, Slow Food Cork City, corkcityslowfood.blogspot.ie

LORD MAYOR’S GALA

Sunday 18th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Tinker Bell: SECRET OF THE WINGS 3D Peggy Holmes USA | 2012 | 75mins | Colour

Disney’s enchanting all-new adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s masterful fairytale takes Tinker Bell, one of the world’s most beloved and iconic characters, into a breathtaking forbidden world where she makes the biggest discovery of her life. SECRET OF THE WINGS is a spectacular and fantastic story which whisks Tinker Bell from the warm world of Pixie Hollow across a great divide to the mysterious Winter Woods, introducing a whole new cast of winter fairies and revealing a magical secret – Tinker Bell has a sister, the equally effervescent and playful Periwinkle. SECRET OF THE WINGS reveals itself as a truly magical fairy-tale for all the family.

Award to Joe McCarthy Joe McCarthy is a Cork filmmaker who has a long association with Cork Film Festival. Having shown his initial documetaries to great acclaim at the festival, his 1972 entry, a 16mm production entitled But They Said It Didn’t They?, was a wonderfully whimsical take on the making of a television commercial on the streets of Cork. The production was made on a modest budget with a Cork crew, Cork actors and unsuspecting members of the public. The film won 2nd prize at that year’s festival. We are delighted and honoured to screen But They Said It Didn’t They? on the occasion of its 40th anniversary and to present Joe McCarthy with a Fin Barre Award in recognition of his filmmaking career in Cork.

Un Peu Plus / Conor Ferguson (See Pg 50)

Joe McCarthy (on right) receiving his award in 1972 with Special Guest, Wolf Mankowitz (on left) and Festival Director, Dermot Breen.

Producers Michael Wigert, John Lasseter Voice Talent Mae Whitman, Lucy Liu, Timothy Dalton, Anjelica Huston, Megan Hilty, Pamela Adlon Script Tom Rogers, Ryan Rowe Music Joel McNeely Print Source trish.long@disney.com

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“The satisfaction is finding a film that I thought was great, looked great and felt it was dealing with something big. People see it here in Cork and they know they’ve seen something special, with the filmmaker here to introduce it and talk to them about it. So the film hasn’t become commodified and as such, there’s a special connection at that screening because it was unique. We’re filtering through hundreds of films and making our own statement with the films we screen. The festival environment is a special thing, that whole cliché “the communal viewing experience” but it’s not passive. The festival audience expects you to throw up surprises. We have films that have garnered many awards and have all the buzz, but we’ve total left-field films that we want to share. For us it’s special because we’ve nurtured and supported certain filmmakers. It’s the notion that a festival isn’t something that’s switched on and off every year, it’s an organism, and people have invested it, as supporters or filmmakers.” Don O’Mahony, Features and Free Radicals Programmer

Hail

FEATURES / A-Z Friday 16th | 6.30pm | Triskel

FEATURES / A-Z Babeldom is a city so massive and growing at such a speed that soon, it is said, light itself will not escape its gravitational pull. This science fiction documentary is an elegy to urban life, set against the backdrop of a city of the future, a portrait assembled from film shot in modern cities all around the world, blended with a variety of animation techniques and collected from the most recent research in science, technology and architecture. But behind the veil of this gargantuan assemblage of modern metropolitan life is a tale that is all too human.

Babeldom Paul Bush

Thursday 15th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Dollhouse Producer Paul Bush Print Source paul@paulbushfilms.com www.babeldom.com

Kirsten Sheridan

Celeste and Jesse (Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg) met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Celeste is convinced that divorcing Jesse is the right thing to do–she is on her way up, he is on his way nowhere, and if they do it now instead of later, they can remain supportive friends. Jesse passively accepts this transition into friendship, even though he is still in love with her. As the reality of their separation sets in, Celeste slowly and painfully realizes she has been cavalier about their relationship, and her decision becomes increasingly shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty.

Saturday 17th | 2.00pm | Gate Cinema

Celeste and Jesse Forever

An irresistible romantic comedy that warmed my heart at Sundance earlier this year. – Entertainment Weekly

False Trail (Jägarna 2)

Lee Toland Krieger

Producers Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd Print Source trish.long@disney.com www.celesteandjesse.com

Kjell Sundvall

Three guys in their twenties love wine and women. Wine they have savoured abundantly, but they have never had a woman. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to get laid. Nothing will stop them. Not even their disabilities: one is blind, the other is confined to a wheelchair and the third is completely paralysed… While Come As You Are introduces familiar characters (the gruff but kind-hearted driver) and plays along familiar lines, Enthoven–whom Variety has named as one of its Ten Euro Directors to Watch–handles the material with verve; beautifully blending the side-splittingly comic with the quiet moments of despair, without lapsing into condescension or caricature.

Sunday 18th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

England | 2012 | 81mins | Colour

Thursday 15th | 8.30pm | Opera House

USA | 2012 | 92minutes | 35mm | Colour

Monday 12th | 8.30pm | Opera House

Come As You Are Geoffrey Enthoven Belgium | 2011 | 115mins | Colour | Subtitled

Main Prize; the Grand Prix des Amériques; and Audience Award – 35th Montreal World Film Festival Producer Mariano Vanhoof Print Source info@filmsboutique.com www.hastalavista-themovie.com

Ireland | 2012 | 99mins | Colour

Sweden | 2012 | 129mins | Colour | Subtitled

Kirsten Sheridan (Disco Pigs) returns with Dollhouse, a thrilling exploration of a night in the life of a group of street teens from Dublin’s inner city who break into a house in an upper class suburb. After the break-in, the evening quickly moves into a night of total chaos driven by a series of revelations that will leave lasting marks on each of them, resulting in an emotional conclusion that they’ll never forget. Filmed in an improvisational style, Dollhouse is a morality tale infused with a punk spirit and freeform execution. Sheridan’s unadorned characters are teeming with a carpe diem approach to life which explodes onscreen into an unpredictable and wide-eyed gem of a tale.

The director will introduce the screening. Producer John Wallace Print Source siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie www.thefactory.ie/dollhouse

False Trail, the sequel to the massive Swedish box office hit Hunters, is a taut, moody and complex murder thriller filmed in the harsh and unforgiving wilds of northern Sweden. Fifteen years have passed since Eric was hastily forced to leave the police service. He now lives in Stockholm, having befriended the homicide interrogators who were previously his mortal enemies. However, a brutal murder forces him to return to his old neighbourhood where he discovers events are far more complicated than previously thought. As the hunters, the local police and Erik all become increasingly intertwined in the murder investigation, the entire situation develops into a more extreme nightmare than Erik could ever have imagined. Producers Björn Carlström, Per Janérus, Peter Possne Print Source siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie

A mysterious natural calamity strikes a village deep in the Belgian Ardennes: spring refuses to come. The cycle of nature is capsized. Relationships deteriorate. In this village live Thomas, a reclusive teenager, and Alice, a dairy farmer’s daughter. They have befriended the philosophical Pol, an itinerant beekeeper, and his wheelchair-bound son, Octave, who live in a caravan next to the village bar. The ensuing seasons bring despair, ephemeral joy and the eventual dissolving of civility amid pagan sacrifices. After the award-winning features Khadak (Venice Lion of the Future, 2006) and Altiplano (Cannes Critics Week, 2009), The Fifth Season is the final part of Brosens and Woodworth’s trilogy.

Arca Cinema Giovani Award – Venice Film Festival, 2012 Producer Peter Brosens Print Source peter@casabo.be www.thefifthseason.be

EU LUX

FEATURES / A-Z Friday 16th | 6.30pm | Gate Cinema

The LUX Prize (in Latin, lux means light) was established in 2007 as a tangible symbol of the European Parliamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to the European film industry and its creative endeavours. Since then, the European Parliament casts an annual spotlight on films that go to the heart of the European public debate. Beyond the stories they tell, these films explore and question European shared values, look at the level of support for the project of building Europe and address cross-border concerns such as immigration, justice, solidarity, public freedoms and fundamentals rights. Each film offers a glimpse into the lives of Europeans, their convictions and doubts and their quest for identity. Three film were nominated at the recent Venice Film Festival, Tabu by Portuguese director, Miguel Gomez; Shun Li And The Poet (Io son li) by Italian director Andrea Segre; and Just The Wind (Csak a Szel) by the Hungarian, Bence Fliegauf. The winning film is selected by Parliament members but their decision is informed by European public votes. We are delighted to screen the three short-listed films and to host a Public Jury of Cork festival-goers who will watch all three and make their choices.

The Good Man

Shun Li And The Poet / Andrea Segre

Michael (Aidan Gillen) is a young Irishman on his way up in the world. But everything begins to unravel when, through a simple act of thoughtlessness, he causes a strangerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in an accident. Sifiso is a bright, sharp teenager living in an informal settlement in Cape Town. Hoping for a place at university, and a better future, he is inadvertently drawn deeper into the harsh struggles of township life, and begins to ask why the new South Africa looks so much like the old. Worlds apart, both men find themselves faced with the same question: how to be good. And when their stories unexpectedly collide, their impact on one anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives is far greater, and more surprising, than either could have imagined.

The director will introduce the screening.

Phil Harrison Ireland | 2011 | 74mins | Colour | Subtitled

Friday 16th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Just The Wind / Bence Fliegauf

Tabu / Miguel Gomes

Producer Susan Picken Print Source philharrison@themanifesto.co.uk www.thegoodmanfilm.com

Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast, when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed halfmile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nascent underground punk scene. Galvanising the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life.

The directors will introduce the screening.

ARE YOU HUNGRY?

Good Vibrations Lisa Barros Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sa, Glenn Leyburn Ireland | 2012 | 97mins | Colour

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Friday 16th | 4.00pm | Opera House

Recently released from prison, life-long felon Danny attempts to build a normal life with Leanne, his childhood sweetheart. However, Danny finds himself dragged back into his old criminal ways and the appearance of an old criminal friend of Leanneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has tragic consequences, leading Danny on a trail of retribution. Based on the experiences of the charismatic Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; P. Jones and played by Danny and his real life girlfriend Leanne, Hail positively crackles with a nervous energy that can only be felt as authentic. Described by the then-director of the Venice Film Festival Marco Mueller as: The top debut feature of Venice 2011, Hail is a bravura tour de force.

Hail

Age Critics Award â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Best Australian Feature, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2012

Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Producer Michael Cody Print Source gerda@levelk.dk www.hailmovie.com

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Producers Chris Martin, Andrew Eaton, David Holmes Print Source siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie

Australia | 2011 | 104mins | Colour

FEATURES / A-Z Tuesday 13th | 8.30pm | Opera House

In Another Country Hong Sangsoo South Korea | 2012 | 89mins | Colour | Subtitled

Wednesday 14th | 8.30pm | Opera House

Saturday 17th | 6.30pm | Triskel

The Last Time I Saw Macao João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata Portugal, France | 2012 | 85mins | Colour | Subtitled

FEATURES / A-Z Isabelle Huppert plays three roles in Hong Sangsoo’s remarkable In Another Country, centering upon a young film student and her mother who run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves. Loosely improvised, In Another Country excels through its use of sheer imagination to tell a story which weaves and ripples like a jazz riff on human interconnection. Comprised of constantly diverging narratives, Hong Sangsoo’s measured direction whisks tragedy and comedy together in a mélange of controlled confusion to ultimately expound upon the capricious nature of romance and the beguiling heart at the essence of love. Producer Kevin Jackson Print Source yura@finecut.co.kr

Mari lives with her invalid father and two children in a shack in the woods outside the city. Their living conditions are modest, like their other Romani neighbours. For centuries, their ‘kind’ has been commonly referred to as gypsies. Recently, more than ever, they must exist stealthily: five entire families in the area have already been murdered, gunned down in their own homes. The Romani community struggle to continue their simple daily routine amid the anxiety of the suspected racially motivated crimes. Mari juggles her two jobs. Teenager Anna tries to concentrate on her schoolwork and sketches. But young Rio is preoccupied with other things. He is getting ready... Inspired by real events.

Jury Grand Prix – Berlin Film Festival. Producers Ernő Mesterház, András Muhi, Mónika Mécs Print Source info@matchfactory.de

Two filmmakers depart from their native Portugal for Macao in an attempt to discover the labyrinthine remains of a metropolis whereupon the memories of their childhood intermingle with the cultural history of the former Portuguese colony. A personal memoir of physical and emotional geography, The Last Time I Saw Macao is wonderfully structured as an investigation disguised as a thriller, where the puzzle of history challenges the everyday. Languid and effortlessly shimmering between dream and reality, the entire adventure is a highly charged lyrical and sensuous rhapsody on one of the world’s most bewitching cityscapes.

Producers João Figueiras, Daniel Chabannes, Corentin Sénéchal Print Source info@filmsboutique.com

Friday 16th | 8.00pm | Opera House

Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan Canada | 2012 | 161mins | Colour | Subtitled

Tuesday 13th | 2.00pm | Triskel

Directed by Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats), Laurence Anyways chronicles the relationship between a man and woman through the 1990s, in which time Laurence undergoes a gender change. Thoughtprovoking and stylishly shot with nods to Akerman, Almodovar and Ozon, the film also dazzles with outstanding music, featuring artists including The Cure, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Visage and Scottish composer Craig Armstrong. That Dolan is a filmmaker of consummate style and flamboyance is not in doubt. But know also that here is a film that is forged not just through sheer will, but heart, also. A lot of heart.

Best Canadian Feature Film – Toronto International Film Festival. Producers Nathanael Karmitz, Lyse Lafontaine Print Source lisa.chamberlain@networkdistributing.com

Noor desperately wants to be a man. He doesn’t belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakstan’s transgender community, especially after his recent disastrous love affair which drastically changed his life. Now he finds himself doing a man’s job in a truck decoration/ painting centre and has made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is.

Noor Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti France | 2012 | 78mins | Colour | Subtitled

Saturday 17th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

The Oranges Julian Farino USA | 2011 | 90mins | Colour

Producer Cristine Asperti Print Source info@widemanagement.com

David and Paige Walling (Hugh Laurie and Catherine Keener) and Terry and Cathy Ostroff (Oliver Platt and Alison Janney) are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester), newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan, returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. When a connection between Nina and David becomes undeniable, everyone’s lives are thrown into upheaval. It’s not long before the ramifications of the affair begin to work on all of the family members in unexpected and hilarious ways, leading everyone to reawaken to their lives and reassess what it means to be happy. Producers Anthony Bregman, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech Print Source info@paramountpictures.ie www.welcometotheoranges.com

FEATURES / A-Z Thursday 15th | 4.00pm | Opera House

The Patron Saints Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky USA | 2012 | 72mins | Colour

Monday 12th | 4.00pm | Opera House

FEATURES / A-Z The Patron Saints is a disquieting and hyperrealistic glimpse into life at a nursing home. Bound by the candid confessions of a resident who recently became disabled, the film weaves haunting images, scenes and stories from within the institution walls. Sidestepping conventional documentary methods for a heightened cinematic approach to storytelling, the film employs lyrical realism and black humour in this charged portrait of fading bodies and minds. Coolly dignified, The Patron Saints can make you laugh out loud while simultaneously questioning that response, but the glimpse into the lives of these people will linger long in the corridors of the viewer’s mind.

Monday 12th | 2.00pm | Triskel

Producers Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky Print Source brian@pigeonprojects.com www.thepatronsaintsfilm.com

Martha Stephens

Linh runs a pharmacy on the outskirts of London. She feels stuck in a routine of monotonous work and solitude. Late one night she finds Jonah, wounded and hiding out in an empty shop next door. Instead of calling the police she helps him; arranging for a doctor and moving him to an obscure hotel.

Wednesday 14th | 2.00pm | Triskel

What happens when someone dies and there’s no record of any next of kin? Pursuit of Loneliness looks at that deeply personal and interpersonal question when an elderly woman dies anonymously in a county hospital, to create a film that is both poetic meditation and procedural. Four central characters try to find the deceased woman’s family over the next twentyfour hours. With a cast comprised of real doctors, nurses and investigators from the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office, Laurence Thrush’s direction blends elements of documentary realism within the boundaries of a very humane and cautionary narrative.

Pursuit of Loneliness

As nuanced as it is important… among the most accomplished films anywhere in Sundance. – Film Comment

Laurence Thrush

Producer Ken Hanada Print Source growthfilms@aol.com www.pursuitofloneliness.com

The Pharmacist

England | 2012 | 81mins | 35mm | Colour

Saturday 17th | 6.30pm | Gate Cinema

Producer Tom Dalton Print Source info@texturefilms.com

Jimmy Walsh is a middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland. Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Jimmy has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of the crumbling family farm on the outskirts of a small town. He is uneducated and isolated, yet his relentless determination gets him through each day as best he can, keeping a smile on his face.

Pilgrim Song

USA | 2012 | 113mins | Colour

USA | 2012 | 95mins | Colour

Saturday 17th | 8.30pm | Opera House

Producers Nick Case, Ryan Watt, Adam Tate, Martha Stephens Print Source nick@papermoonfilms.com www.pilgrimsongthemovie.com

Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day his family urge him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream his perception of reality begins to change. Convinced that he is assured a place on the next series, Luciano starts to behave as if he is already part of the television spectacle, alienating those closest to him in his madcap pursuit of fame. Remember the mantra: Never give up!

Pilgrim Hill sheds light on the dark side of rural Ireland, where middle-aged men and women are living out their lives in isolation and loneliness.

Pilgrim Hill

The director will introduce the screening.

Reality

Gerard Barrett

Producer Gerard Barrett Print Source barrettskerry@gmail.com www.pilgrimhillfilm.com

Matteo Garrone

Ireland | 2011 | 76mins | Colour

Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink-slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky’s Sheltowee Trace Trail. Among the verdant hills of Appalachia, he encounters various strange characters and becomes the reluctant companion of a gregarious father and son who ultimately help him rediscover what he has been missing.

Pilgrim Song is a Southern Odyssey, a journey away from isolation through a labyrinth of the curious towards a world of true redemption.

They become close and Linh allows herself to be drawn in. But when Jonah’s past catches up with them, the tragic consequences of her decision make a return to her old life impossible.

Patrick Von Boetticher

Italy | 2012 | 115mins | Colour | Subtitled

Grand Prix – Cannes Film Festival

Producers Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone Print Source sarah@independentfilmcompany.com

FEATURES / A-Z Wednesday 14th | 6.00pm | Opera House

FEATURES / A-Z Merzak Allouache’s award-winning drama raises the question: can we ever return from our mistakes? In the late 1990s, the Algerian government made an effort to end years of terrorism by offering jihadists amnesty. Rachid accepts this offer and runs away from his fundamentalist compatriots to register as a ‘repentant.’

Sunday 18th | 6.00pm | Opera House

Miguel Gomes’ Tabu, shot in gorgeous black-and-white, is a lyrical, haunting tale steeped in strangeness, transcending its environment to embrace a wonderful magical realism. Pilar, a middle-aged Lisbon resident, forges a friendship with her elderly neighbour, Aurora, during her last days. After Aurora’s demise, Pilar rummages around her home and discovers a series of letters from an epic love affair, shown in glorious flashback. There is a remarkable allure to Tabu as the story moves elegantly through emotional peaks and troughs, rueful allusions to colonialist misdeeds and ending on a note that is both supremely gorgeous and dangerously remote.

Tabu

Alfred Bauer Prize for Innovation; FIPRESCI Prize; Audience Award – Berlin Film Festival.

However, settling back into society is not as easy as he hoped; Rachid begins to develop a semblance of a normal life– until he meets pharmacist Lakhdar and his ex-wife, Djamila, whose intense desperation and sadness stir something in him.

The Repentant (Le Repenti) Merzak Allouache Algeria | 2012 | 87mins | Colour | Subtitled

Thursday 15th | 8.30pm | Triskel

Europa Cinemas Label Award – Director’s Fortnight, Cannes

Producers Yacine Djadi, Marianne Dumoulin, Jacques Bidou Print Source yura@finecut.co.kr

Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome, in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Venetian lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman nicknamed ‘the Poet’ by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years.

Miguel Gomes Portugal | 2012 | 110mins | Black & White | Subtitled

Wednesday 14th | 4.00pm | Opera House

The friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and native communities, who interfere with this new relationship, which appears to place all concerned in a state of fear. A truly poignant and poetic account of the destructive power of prejudice and friendship in a foreign territory.

Shun Li And The Poet (Io Sono Li) Andrea Segre Italy | 2011 | 100mins | Subtitled

Tuesday 13th | 4.00pm | Opera House

Tower Producers Francesco Bonsembiante. Francesca Feder Print Source info@artificial-eye.com

Kazik Radwanski Canada | 2012 | 78mins | 35mm | Colour

Northern Iraq, 2003: Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein, 12-year-old Ahmed begrudgingly follows in the shadow of his grandmother. On hearing news that prisoners of war have been found alive in the south, she is determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed’s father, who never returned from the Gulf war. From the mountains of Kurdistan to the sands of Babylon, they hitch rides from strangers and cross paths with fellow pilgrims on all-too-similar journeys. Struggling to understand his grandmother’s search, Ahmed follows in the forgotten footsteps of a father he never knew. Amnesty Film Award – Berlin NETPAC Award – Karlovry Vary Lions Award – Rotterdam

Saturday 17th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

Producer Isabelle Stead Print Source kathryn@humanfilm.co.uk www.sonofbabylon.com

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Turn Me On, Goddamit!

Norway | 2012 | 76mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Sandro Aguilar Print Source info@newwavefilms.co.uk

Kazik Radwanski has been a Cork Film Festival favourite since his short Assault screened here in 2008. In 2010 and 2011 the respective shorts Out In The Deep Blue Sea and Green Crayons were presented as part of our Great Shorts screenings. Aficionados will recognize that Tower, his feature debut, contains those strong stylistic flourishes which made his shorts so memorable; particularly that almost documentary-style intimacy he establishes with his characters.

Tower follows Derek, a 34-year-old who lives in his parents’ basement and when he’s not haphazardly seeking female companionship harbours aspirations to make it as an animator. He does find a woman who accepts him, but a nuisance raccoon soon commands his focus. Producer Dan Montgomery Print Source info@mdff.ca www.mdff.ca

A seething volcano of libidinous urges, stuck in a sleepy backwater; what’s a 15-year-old girl to do? For Alma, relief and release comes in the form of a kinky sex hotline service. By this stage she’s clocked up so many hours that she can practically count on Stig, the voice on the other end, as a confidant. Her other waking hours are consumed with thoughts of Artur, the object of her desires. But when she tells her friends of a rather rude advance which he makes she finds herself ostracised and is left to find refuge in her fantasies. Turn Me On, Goddamit! is a brilliantly realised coming-of-age story and the pains of being young at heart never seemed so hilarious and real.

Best Screenplay – Tribeca Film Festival Producer Brede Hovland Print Source audrey@elementpictures.ie www.turnmeondammit.com

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“Watching the shelves slowly fill each year with entries, documentaries are usually the first in. These filmmakers are a bit of a renegade breed, they’re making films independently that are often very personal. This section now has a very distinct feel to it and Pamela Friedman who previews all of them puts an inordinate amount of care and consideration into their viewing. The documentary filmmaker is often the first to pitch up at the festival and their engagement with the audience matters a lot to them. Documentaries don’t get too much commercial attention, and so this kind of filmmaking brings it all back to the creative and personal reasons for making a film. That makes for a close encounter for all involved.” Úna Feely, Festival Programmer

El Hauso

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z Monday 12th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

The 16th of December 2011 was to be the final day for workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork. Their redundancy payments had been agreed but in the final days of their employment they were informed that the payments could not or would not be made. A decision was made to occupy the plant which they did for 161 days, one of the longest running industrial disputes in the history of the Irish state. The campaign attracted support from football stars Alex Ferguson and Paul McGrath, former President Mary Robinson, actor Cillian Murphy and philosopher Noam Chomsky. This is the story of the occupation.

161 Days: The Vita Cortex Workers Struggle Declan O’Connell Ireland | 2012 | 45mins | Colour

Sunday 11th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

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Am An Ghátair (Times of Trouble) Paddy Hayes Ireland | 2012 | 44mins | Colour | Subtitled

Wednesday 14th | 6.30pm | Triskel

The director will introduce the screening. Producer Barra O’Connell Print Source info@wildacre.ie

The extraordinary true story of Josephine Brown, who agreed in 1919 to spy for the IRA in Cork’s Victoria Barracks on condition that the IRA kidnap her son from her in-laws in the UK. When Josephine lost custody of her eldest child in the English courts, she returned bereft to her secretarial job in Victoria Barracks thinking that she wouldn’t see him again. Meanwhile, the IRA’s intelligence officer, Florrie O’Donoghue, desperately needed spies in the British administration to wage his intelligence war in the city. When they met, Josephine knew that she had a strong bargaining position, but would she able to convince the IRA to execute this daring child abduction in a foreign jurisdiction?

The director will introduce the screening. Producer Ciara Nic Chormaic Print Source magamedia@gmail.com

This feature documentary provides a rare insight into a forgotten land on the furthest edges of China, home to more than six million Mongolians. The film follows Anda Union, a ten strong group of young musicians, as they make a 10,000km journey through the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to discover the roots of their hauntingly beautiful music. The film is a celebration of their passion for their culture; from wild parties to moving stories of sacrifice, from the intimacies of pastoral life to the harsh realities of the city; from performing for goat herders in the Grasslands to performing to over 2000 people live in Hohhot City.

Anda Union: From The Steppes To The City Timothy Pearce

Promoting Irish Arts Worldwide

England | 2011 | 94mins | Beta | Subtitled

Producer Timothy Pearce Print Source tim.pearce@eye4films.com www.andafilm.com

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z

Sunday 18th | 12.00pm | Triskel

Tuesday 13th | 2.00pm | Gate Cinema

When a young girl’s life is thrown into darkness her mother turns fear into an energy that changes their lives and the lives of many others. This is the incredible story of how the stigma of mental illness was broken, how a family challenged the psychiatric system, facing down prejudice, bigotry and public protest. It’s a story about the triumph of will, a lust for life and the right to live it with dignity.

The director will introduce the screening.

Another Way Home

The Chebeya Affair: A State Crime? (L’Affaire Chebeya,: Un Crime d’Etat?)

Michael Twomey Ireland | 2012 | 59mins | Colour

Wednesday 14th | 8.30pm | Triskel

Producer Michael Twomey Print Source townwalls@eircom.net www.completecontrolfilms.com

Thierry Michel

Luke Haines is often described as one of the great English contemporary songwriters, a man who launched Britpop and jumped ship as soon as it set sail. His wry commentaries respect few boundaries and his musical arrangements are uniquely suited to both the worlds of music and film. Art Will Save The World explores the work, legacy, struggles, battles and the future of this perennial outsider of Britpop and the British music scene.

Saturday 17th | 6.30pm | Opera House

[The film] treats Haines’ mind as it’s always been: disturbing, intelligent, darkly curious without qualms or apology, and very, very funny. – The Quietus

Art Will Save The World Niall McCann Ireland | 2010 | 70mins | Colour

Saturday 17th | 4.00pm | Triskel

The director will introduce the screening. Producer Clare Ridge Print Source gillian@happyendings.ie

Canadian auteur Denis Côté has crafted a career concentrating his camera on those on the periphery of society but Bestiaire, his startling new documentary, focusses upon our own perception of the voyeur. Utilising the animals in Quebec’s Park Safari, Côté challenges what we see when we meet the eyes of an animal.

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope Morgan Spurlock USA | 2011 | 86mins | Colour

Thursday 15th | 6.30pm | Triskel

Unfolding rather like a filmic picture book, what results is a lyrical contemplation of mutual observation and peculiar perception. Bestiaire unquestionably approaches its subjects with respect but also a certain curiosity–a contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loss, tranquillity and the indefinable.

Bestiaire

El Huaso

After the macabre discovery of Floribert Chebeya’s body in Kinshasa, Thierry Michel set out with his camera to try to retrace the steps of this internationally known human rights activist. The deeply moving funeral was followed by impressive demonstrations demanding the truth about what quickly began to look like a political assassination. Due to strong international pressure, the trial started five months later. Thierry Michel filmed this extraordinary event where military officers judged chiefs of police. Denials, lies, forgeries, the disappearance of evidence… the trial laid bare all the stratagems the police officers had set in place to prevent the truth from getting out, camouflage their crimes, and protect those truly responsible. Producer Christine Pireaux Print Source films@passerelle.be

Have you ever imagined a place where Vulcans and vampires get along? Where wizards and wookies can be themselves? Welcome to Comic-Con San Diego. What started as a fringe comic book convention for 500 fans has grown into the pop culture event of the year that influences every form of entertainment, now attended by over 140,000 strong. Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope follows the lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek Mecca at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 and focussing upon Comic-Con veterans who have turned their passions into professions, including Stan Lee, Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Matt Groening, Seth Rogen, Eli Roth and many others. Producers Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin, Harry Knowles, Thomas Tull Print Source youn@autlookfilms.com Comicconmovie.com

Struggling with short-term memory loss, Gustavo has retired from his business and finds some solace in his homeland of Chile by pursuing a childhood dream–competing as a huaso (Chilean cowboy) in rodeos. Awaiting the results of tests to determine whether he has Alzheimer’s, and having long professed he would end his life if it became unbearable, Gustavo begins making preparations for his death, while his family struggles to accept his decision to end his life.

El Huaso explores the pivotal point in one man’s life where he takes it upon himself to shape his own mortality, and is a film imbued with a rare and deep honesty about personal choices amid the spectre of familial guilt.

Carlo Guillermo Proto Denis Côté Canada | 2012 | 72mins | Beta | Colour

Producer Sylvain Corbeil Print Source alex@figafilms.com www.figafilms.com

Canada, Chile | 2011 | 78mins Beta | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Carlo Guillermo Proto Print Source info@thehandshake.org www.thehandshake.org

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z

Saturday 17th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Wednesday 14th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Get The Picture?

Meet John G Morris, former Picture Editor for Life Magazine, The New York Times and executive editor of Magnum Photos. Morris’ unerring eye for the best shot has captured the imagination of the world and influenced our opinions. Morris’ long life and professional career in photojournalism has spanned seventy years and covered many of the great world events of the 20th Century. At 95 years of age has recently fallen in love again, proving love and romance are not bound by age. He is sharp, witty, an extremely well-informed citizen of the world and an ardent storyteller, a self-proclaimed pacifist and a political activist who currently lives in Paris, the world’s centre for photography.

Cathy Pearson Ireland | 2012 | 75mins | Beta | Colour

Monday 12th | 5.00pm | Triskel

World Premiere. The director will introduce the screening. Producer Cathy Pearson Print Source info@reelgood.com www.ferndalefilms.com

At the tender age of seventy she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. Seven years later she had fifty-nine albums to her name with more than six-hundred songs–an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pets, found toys, kitchen percussion and Casio keyboards. Sigríður Níelsdóttir is her name, and before long the Icelandic/ Danish musician and visual artist became an adored cult figure in the Icelandic music scene, represented here by her young apprentices Mugison, múm, and Sin Fang of Seabear who pay tribute to the grandma’s irresistibly catchy, yet offbeat pop tunes.

Iceland | 2012 | 62mins | Colour | Subtitled

Tuesday 13th | 4.00pm | Triskel

Claudia Cipriani Italy | 2011 | 78mins | Colour | Subtitled

Sunday 11th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

The Invisibles (Les Invisibles)

Grandma Lo-Fi (Amma Lo-Fi) Orri Jónsson, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir

Leaving King’s Bay (Lasciando La Baia Del Re)

Producer Sæmundur Nordfjord Print Source louise.johansen@gmail.com www.grandmalofi.is

Sébastien Lifshitz

The daughter of a Belgian territorial agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne was born in 1926. At the age of four her father took her away from Africa to give her a European education. She is what people in the colonial time call a mulatto - a child saved from a negro destiny.

Thursday 15th | 6.15pm | Gate Cinema

France | 2012 | 115mins | Beta | Colour

Suzanne’s father is also the director’s grandfather, who discovered only at twenty-seven that she had a mixed race aunt. This film breaks the silence that has shrouded Suzanne’s origins, crossing family history and the history of colonialism.

Let Fury Have The Hour

Greetings From The Colony (Bons Baisers De La Colonie) Nathalie Borgers Belgium | 2012 | 74mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Cyril Bibas Print Source philippe.cotte@cvb-videp.be

Antonio D’Ambrosio Italy | 2011 | 100mins | 35mm | Colour

What happens if a teacher decides to film her pupils during the lessons? And what if a pupil decides to film the teacher? This is what happens in a place on the outskirts of Milan where a group of young people organise an after-school programme. It is here that the lives and destinies of a young girl and her “mentor” meet, transforming the portrait of an odd community into a story of a catharsis from a loss. A rare look at school and friendship and the story of a journey from a popular neighbourhood named “King’s Bay” to a place at the North Pole with the same name, through the wonders of the Arctic and the threat of polar bears.

Producer Niccolo Volpati Print Source claudia.cipriani@fastwebnet.it www.lasciandolabaiadelre.it

Les Invisibles is a wonderfully warm and charming documentary centering on the often joyous recollections of a number of men and women concerning the joy, happiness, love and sex they have encountered over their long lives. While Lifshitz certainly acknowledges the homophobia and aggression they may have experienced, the camera lens shies away from victimhood and instead focuses on each individual’s journey to personal freedom. An incredibly rewarding viewing experience, Lifshitz coaxes remarkable stories from his interviewees, including an elderly French farmer discussing his various lovers who swam in the local stream with him, and a lesbian couple who were roundly supported and encouraged in their farming endeavours by others in the community. Irish Premiere. Producer Bruno Nahon Print Source www.docandfilm.com www.docandfilm.com

In his feature directorial debut, acclaimed author, visual artist and filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio has fashioned a lively social history that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers and activists used their creativity–and their creations– as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define culture in the 1980s. An exuberant mixed-media collage that incorporates graphic art, music, animation and spoken word, the film spans three decades of change–from the cynical heyday of Reagan and Thatcher through to today–and brings together over fifty writers, playwrights, painters, poets, skateboarders, dancers, musicians and rights advocates, all of whom attest to the fact that we can re-imagine the world we live in and take an active role in making that vision a reality. The director will introduce the screening. Producer Antonio D’Ambrosio, James Reid Print Source Paladin Film www.letfuryhavethehour.com

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z

Sunday 18th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Tuesday 13th | 8.30pm | Triskel

Lorg Na gCos - Súil Siar Ar Mise Éire is an hour-long documentary exploring the making and cultural impact of Ireland’s most iconic film, Mise Éire. The documentary follows the film’s director, George Morrison, as he goes on a journey of rediscovery, retracing the steps he took in the creation of Mise Éire and visiting the locations where the film took shape. Weaving a rich tapestry of archive and location footage with considered analysis from a wealth of contributors, Lorg na gCos - Súil Siar ar Mise Éire tells the unique story of Mise Éire and paints a vivid social, cultural and psychological portrait of the country into which the film was released in 1960.

Lorg Na gCos - Súil Siar Ar Mise Éire (Finding The Footprints - A Look Back At Mise Éire)

Colm Bairéad Ireland | 2011 | 62mins | Colour | Subtitled

Saturday 17th | 8.30pm | Triskel

Irish Premiere. The director will introduce the screening. Producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoí Print Source cbairead@gmail.com

My Father And The Man In Black is a universal and troubling tale of the very real walls that parents can build around themselves. Director Jonathan Holiff’s father, Saul, was Cash’s manager in the 1960s and 70s.

Punk In Africa Keith Jones, Deon Maas South Africa | 2011 | 80mins | Colour | Subtitled

Tuesday 13th | 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Holiff explores the Johnny-and-Saul relationship as a means to finally get to know his father and, ultimately, himself. Saul Holiff’s audio diaries reveal a tortured soul who lamented his long absences, who neglected his wife and children, who drank too much and who hit his own rock bottom just as his client hit the big time. In the end, the movie tells a universal story about fathers and sons.

My Father And The Man In Black Jonathan Holiff Canada | 2012 | 90mins | Beta | Colour

Thursday 15th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

The director will introduce the screening.

Roadmap To Apartheid

Producer Jonathan Holiff Print Source holifffame@gmail.com www.johnny-and-saul.com

Ana Nogueira, Eron Davidson

Not In My Backyard deals with two convicted sexual offenders in Miami, Florida and deals with one of the great taboo topics of our society: the rehabilitation of child abusers. The film seizes the unusual perspective of the offenders and speaks from their point of view.

Thursday 15th | 2.00pm | Triskel

USA, Israel, South Africa | 2012 | 95mins | Colour

Confronted with their lives on the edge of society, their past and their offences the films outlines a picture of the perpetrator which raises the question: which part society plays in the existence of repeat offenders?

Not In My Backyard

Six Million And One David Fisher

Matthias Bittner Germany | 2011 | 86mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producers Paul Zischler, Matthias Bitther Print Source kontakt@zischlermann.com www.nimby-film.com

Israel, Germany, Austria | 2011 93mins | Colour | Subtitled

Three chords, three countries, one revolution: Punk In Africa is the story of the multi-racial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three southern African countries; South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In these societies, the punk subculture represented a genuinely radical political impulse, playing out against a backdrop of intense political struggle, economic hardship and even civil war. Punk In Africa traces this previously untold story from its roots in the underground rock music of early 1970s Johannesburg to the rise of celebratory African-inspired ska bands which sprang up from Cape Town to Maputo in the democratic era of the 1990s. A labour of love that’s full of rare archival footage and wry testimonies – The Wire Magazine Producer Jeffrey Brown Print Source anja.dziersk@kloosundco.de www.punkinafrica.co.za

In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed look at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Narrated by Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple), Roadmap To Apartheid is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them. The viewer sees what life is like for Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and inside Israel while gaining a deeper understanding of the conflict with the help of informed analysis on the subject.

Producer Ana Noguiera Print Source info@roadmaptoapartheid.org www.roadmaptoapartheid.org

After the death of his Jewish father, who survived the Holocaust in Austria, director David Fisher was the only one of his siblings to read his father’s memoirs. For his film, David visits key locations in Austria and speaks with the elderly veterans in the United States who freed his father from the concentration camp. When he gets permission to visit the tunnel in Gusen, where his dad performed forced labor, he takes his two brothers and his sister along. In the voice-over, David reads from his father’s memoirs, often from the very place that is getting described. During the intimate and often difficult conversations, David’s brothers find communicating difficult but there is also a uniquely cynical humour and liberating laughs which reunite the four. Producers David Fisher, Irit Shimrat Print Source info@fisherfeatures.com www.fisherfeatures.com

DOCUMENTARIES / A-Z

Friday 16th | 8.30pm | Triskel

Sunday 18th | 2.00pm | Opera House

Courtesy: Kerlin Gallery Dublin and Brian Maguire

Skin In The Game Donald Taylor Black Ireland | 2012 | 74mins | Colour

Thursday 15th | 10.30pm | Triskel

Donald Taylor Black’s new documentary, funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board, examines the current recession/financial crisis through a number of artists, who are using it as subject matter for their work. Participants include: Christy Moore (musician); Seán Hillen (photographer); Rita Ann Higgins (poet); Brian Maguire (painter); David Quin (animator); Anthony Haughey (photographer); Nicky Gogan (film-maker); David Bolger (choreographer); Gerald Dawe (poet); and David Monahan (photographer) as they look at emigration, ghost estates and the legacy of politicians and bankers. Roddy Doyle has written texts for the film that are voiced by actors including Lorcan Cranitch and Hilda Fay.

World Premiere. The director will introduce the screening. Producer Donald Taylor Black Print Source info@poolbeg.ie k

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days. Sound It Out is the very last surviving vinyl record shop in north east England. A cultural haven in one of the poorest areas in the UK, the film documents a place that is thriving against the odds, and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed by Jeanie Finlay, a native of the area, this is a distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the north and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.

Trashed Candida Brady USA | 2011 | 100mins | 100mins | Colour

Friday 16th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Jeanie Finlay England | 2011 | 75mins | Colour

Sunday 11th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

The director will introduce the screening.

Ireland | 2011 | 26mins | Colour | Subtitled

Very Extremely Dangerous

Producer Jeanie Finlay Print Source ingrid@dogwoof.com www.sounditoutdoc.com

Paul Duane

This documentary describes the arrests, imprisonment and abuses of Palestinian children aged between nine and fifteen by the Israeli military, the impact on them and the impact on Israeli soldiers.

Friday 16th | 2.00pm | Triskel

Jerry McGill spurned a rock ‘n’ roll career for a life of crime, robbing banks and running from the FBI, while touring with country music legends and appearing in movies. After three jail sentences, aged seventy and suffering from terminal cancer, he announced his return to recording. Director Paul Duane followed a heavily-armed McGill and his long-suffering fiancé Joyce through four states as he stole whatever was not nailed down and charmed his way into and out of trouble.

Ireland | 2012 | 85mins | Beta | Colour

The director will introduce the screening.

Producer Paul Duane Print Source paul@screenworks.ie

How is one drawn to art or science? By inviting scientists to share memories of what sparked their imaginations, Wonder House explores how childhood objects and environments develop young minds.

One soldier describes how they arrested children without extracting any information from them - catching a child was considered to be a prize. He elaborates on the shocking events he encountered and the impact his military experience had on him.

Taking these insights as a starting point and adopting the metaphor of a young girl discovering an old house, Wonder House combines live choreography, stop-motion animation and real scientists’ voices to offer a synthesis of science and art, fact and fiction, imagination and reality.

The director will introduce the screening.

Stolen Children, Stolen Lives Gerry O’Sullivan

Producers Candida Brady, Titus Oglivy Print Source info@trashedfilm.com www.trashedfilm.com

But when you point a camera at a man who will do anything for notoriety, how responsible are you when he goes too far?

Like a mint pressing in a bargain bin Sound It Out is a rare find. Sweet. - New York Times

Sound It Out

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution in this profoundly meticulous and brave investigative journey which takes Irons (and us) from scepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. The beauty of our planet from space forms a violent contrast to the scenes of human detritus across the globe. Vast landscapes in China are covered in tons of rubbish. Children swim among leaking bags; mothers wash in the sewage-filled supply. Each year, we now throw away fifty-eight billion disposable cups, billions of plastic bags, 200 billion litres of water bottles, billions of tons of household waste, toxic waste and e-waste. The director will introduce the screening.

Wonder House Producer Gerry O’Sullivan Print Source osullivansolutions1@gmail.com www.osullivansolutions.ie

Oonagh Kearney Ireland | 2012 | 71mins | Beta | Colour

Producer John Kelleher Print Source johnpatrickkelleher@gmail.com www.oonaghkearney.com

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for films that are arresting, humorous, imaginative, for films that show us something fresh and I truly believe that each of the shorts has earned its place in the programme, on its own cinematic terms. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also identifying talent. Each year we screen features films by filmmakers who got their first screening at Cork with their shorts. Kirsten Sheridan and Martin McDonagh for example, both won shorts awards in Cork. This is what a festival can do, provide the arena for talent to emerge.â&#x20AC;? Mick Hannigan, Festival Director â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is, for want of a better word, the art-house cinema of short film. This is the place where you can see a huge breadth of filmmaking styles and genres in one programme; here you can begin to recognise movements and styles emerging from different national cinema. Shorts are a fertile ground for discovering emerging new talent but for us itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about that. Some of these filmmakers will go on to make groundbreaking features or documentaries, some wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t but they have already succeeded in creating something really special here and we get to see it first.â&#x20AC;? Raelene Casey, International Short Film Programmer

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INTERNATIONAL JURY

‘MADE IN CORK’ JURY

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

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

Philip Ilson

Per Fikse

Nicky Gogan

Pat Kiernan

Matthew Sweeney

Jane Lee

Philip Ilson has been working as a film and event programmer since the mid-nineties, when he founded The Halloween Society multi-media club night. Since then he has worked as a programmer for the Curzon Soho and the East End Film Festival, and has worked on larger scale music and film programming for Latitude Festival, and the Branchage Jersey International Film Festival. In 2003 he founded the London Short Film Festival, now in its 10th year. He is also the short film programmer for the BFI London Film Festival.

Per Fikse is the Director of Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim from 1999 to date, a festival he has programmed for since 1994. He is simultaneously engaged as a software creator in the field of public environment surveillance. He has also committed a few shorts and written film articles published in Norwegian and international media.

Nicky Gogan was one of the first active advocates of digital film-making in Ireland and she set up the Darklight Film Festival in 1999 to celebrate the convergence of film, digital media and the creative potential of technology. She is currently developing film and TV productions with her production company Still Films both as a producer and director, having already co-directed the acclaimed Seaview (2008) and Build Something Modern (2011).

Theatre director Pat Kiernan founded Corcadorca in 1991, recognising that it was the only way he was going to work in the city. Pat has directed over 30 productions for Corcadorca, winning praise and awards for their remarkable site-specific productions, including The Trial of Jesus on Patrick’s Hill, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Fitzgerald’s Park, The Hairy Ape in the old Southern Fruit warehouse and most recently Romeo and Juliet at the Cork Opera House.

Currently writer-in-residence at University College Cork, Matthew Sweeney’s writing has garnered many prizes including the Prudence Farmer Prize (1984) and the Cholmondeley Award (1987). A member of Aosdána, he has also written poetry and fiction for children, including Up On The Roof: New & Selected Poems (Faber, 2001), and is the editor of The New Faber Book of Children’s Verse (2001).

Jane Lee is an award-winning animation director, with three internationally screened short films including the Telluride official selection Revelations, produced by Paper Plane Creations, the company she established in 2004. She has lectured in IADT, St. John’s College and Cork Film Centre, and teaches animation and film-making in workshops from Cork to Chicago.

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

Liz Harkman

Danny McCarthy

Rita Figueiredo

Liz Harkman started working in the film industry thirteen years ago in the Regional Production Unit of the British Film Institute and since then she has worked continuously on film and animation festivals including; the Sydney Film Festival and Flickerfest, both in Australia; Edinburgh International Film Festival; and Animated Exeter in the UK, before taking on the Managing Director role at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival in 2008.

Danny McCarthy has pioneered both performance art and sound art in Ireland and continues to be a leading exponent, exhibiting and performing both in Ireland and abroad. In early 2006 he founded The Quiet Club, a floating membership sound (art and electronics) performance group who have presented works all over Ireland. His work has appeared on both radio and TV. He is a founding director of the Triskel Arts Centre and of the National Sculpture Factory and is a director of Art Trail and the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh.

Rita Figueiredo was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1977. She studied Fine Arts and was later awarded a scholarship to study filmmaking. She has directed several short films that have been selected to film festivals around the world and has also been working as a camera and film editor, having edited several Portuguese documentaries and short films. She has been a short films programmer at Indielisboa International Film Festival since 2008.

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‘MADE IN CORK’ SHORTS

Programme 1

‘MADE IN CORK’ SHORTS

Programme 2

Birthday Girls

Programme 3

Claustrophobia

Twinkle Toes

Monday 12th | 6.30pm | Gate Cinema | 75mins

Tuesday 13th | 6.30pm | Gate Cinema | 70mins

Wednesday 14th | 6.30pm | Gate Cinema | 74mins

Searching For Ten / Sean Breathnach

Eggs Again / Brían Crotty

Patsy Dick / Kevin de la Isla

Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 9mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

A chick-lit novelist, who wants to be taken seriously, is in search of the perfect book review.

An artist has an eggs-estential crisis

A west Cork boatman helps an American couple.

Producer Brían Crotty Print Source crotty2@gmail.com

Producer Laura McNicholas Print Source 925productions@gmail.com

Rint / Shaun O’Connor

The Way Through / Kevin O’Neill

Girl In The Moon / Tina Horan

Ireland | 2012 | 5mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 16mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 9mins | Colour

A tenant and a landlord have a serious difference of opinion.

When a mature student moves from Dublin to Cork, she struggles to cope with her new surroundings.

A young girl journeys onwards ato find that which has eluded her.

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

Producer Cormac O’Connor Print Source themaplerooms@gmail.com

Birthday Girls / Si Edwards

Riddled / Christina Utzeri

The Deep / David Bickley

Ireland | 2011 | 8mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 4mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

Two sisters go to visit their mother on her birthday.

Over a coffee, Jon clasps an envelope that he is reluctant to let out of his sight.

Byron Copper can’t sleep. He keeps having the same haunted dream.

Producers Bertie Buckley, Christina Utzeri Print Source transinter@eircom.net

Producer David Bickley Print Source alchemyelectro@mac.com

Partly Cloudy / Mark Cogan

A Selfless Act / Daniel O’Connell

The Dying Light / John Horan

Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 6mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 10mins | Colour

Fiona is dealing with the trials of being bridesmaid to her demanding sister Gillian.

An old homeless man has a brief encounter with a wealthy young businessman.

In a trench in WWI, two soldiers facing death reflect on their lives.

Producer Amanda Ferriter Print Source m_cogan@yahoo.com

Producer Frank Hurley Print Source dan@egomotion.net

Producer John Horan Print Source johnhoran33@hotmail.com

Fluid / Jason Loughnane

Twinkle Toes / Daniel O’Connell

Mutt / Shaun O’Connor

Ireland | 2012 | 4mins | Colour | Subtitled

Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 6mins | Colour

A woman sheds the emotional baggage she has inherited from her ancestral past.

Fleeing the scene of something terrible, two childhood friends find themselves in an abandoned church.

While house-sitting for her aunt, a young woman finds that one of the household’s beloved dogs has died.

Producer Jason Loughnane Print Source jasonloughnane@gmail.com

Producer Frank Hurley Print Source dan@egomotion.net

Producer Amanda Ferriter Print Source shaunoc1@hotmail.com

The Last Round / Conor Dwane

West Cork // Kroc Tsew Brendan Canty, Conal Thomson

Claustrophobia / Shane Twomey

A middle-aged boxer is forced to make a comeback for the sake of his daughter.

Ireland | 2012 | 6mins | Colour

A music video for Dublin-based outfit No Sozopol.

An exploration into the beauty and symmetry of West Cork.

Producer Ger Browne Print Source xenoshane@gmail.com

Producer Veronica Lambert Print Source veronica.stonemad@gmail.com

Producers Brendan Canty, Conal Thomson Print Source brendan@feelgoodlost.me

Daughters Of Rome / Donogh MacCarthy-Morrogh

Dáithí Agus Goliath (David And Goliath) Gerald O’Brien

Psychosis / Blake Norton

Ireland | 2012 | 17mins | Colour | Subtitled

The fury of a woman scorned is unleashed against her psychiatrist.

Producer Valerie Hely Print Source shnaek@hotmail.com

Producer Tadhg Hickey Print Source shaunoc1@hotmail.com

Producer Michael Rob Costine Print Source edulaweb@gmail.com

Ireland | 2012 | 10mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Colour

82 AD: A troubled Roman officer struggles against his army to pursue his kidnapped family to Ireland. Producer Patrick O’Shea Print Source donogh@stormlight.ie

The classic tale of the underdog gets a reboot in Celtic Ireland.

at cafe

Paradiso

Ireland | 2012 | 4mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 11mins | Colour

Producer Blake Norton Print Source blake@blakenorton.com

Producer Martin Streit Print Source gobstar@gmail.com

Uisce Beatha / Shaun O’Connor

The Blow-Ins / CJ Scuffins

Ireland | 2012 | 8mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Colour

A young man leaves his home in rural Ireland to cross the ocean on the doomed Titanic.

A Dublin woman joins a sea rescue service in West Cork to help redeem her family name.

Producer Aideen Wylde Print Source shaunoc1@hotmail.com

Producers Jill Sartini, Raymond McSweeney Print Source cjscuffins@gmail.com

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Programme 1

Programme 2

Fear Of Flying

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Programme 3

Programme 4

Toy Soldiers

The Hood & The Collar

Macropolis

Thursday 15th | 2.00pm | Opera House | 87mins

Thursday 15th | 6.00pm | Opera House | 84mins

Friday 16th | 2.00pm | Opera House | 86mins

Friday 16th | 6.00pm | Opera House | 87mins

Fear Of Flying / Connor Finnegan

Summit Fever / Don Carey

Fionn Costello / Denise Sammon

Homemade / Luke McManus

Ireland | 2012 | 9mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 3mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 5mins | Colour

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading south for the winter.

A climber encounters an old rival in his bid to summit an inaccessible mountain.

For Fionn, dancing isn’t just a hobby, it’s his way out.

Pensioner Tommy Fogarty wants to impress his new lady friend by baking a cake…

Producer Brunella Cocchiglia Print Source studio@lovelyproductions.com

Producer Gareth Lee Print Source careydon@gmail.com

Luna / Anthony Robinson

Her Mother’s Daughters / Oonagh Kearney

Foreclosed / Eoin Heaney

Off The Board / Siobhan Perry

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 18mins | Beta | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 8mins | Colour

A young man stumbles across a mushroom ring and enters another world.

A woman’s daughters have flown the nest, but their memory is brought back to life.

An experimental film dealing with foreclosed homes in contemporary Ireland.

A poetic look at the physical beauty of diving alongside the innate expressions of fear.

Producers Ben Murphy, Aoife Kelly Print Source benji.murphy.ireland@gmail.com

Producer Rachel Lysaght Print Source rachel@undergroundfilms.ie

Producer Nora Windeck Print Source highlystimulatingproductions@gmail.com

Producer Roisin Linnie Print Source siobhanfrancesperry@gmail.com

Sassie’s Gran / Derville Quigley

Grand Opening / Liam O Mochain

A Different Perspective / Chris O’Hara

Hot Water Bottle / John Morton

Ireland | 2011 | 6mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 13mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 2mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 21mins | Colour

Jean Elliott graced catwalks in the 1960s. Now her grandson Scott follows in her stilettos.

Paudge, a cranky Irish pub owner, keeps redecorating his bar hoping to attract customers.

A visit from an alien life form results in a change of perspective in more ways than one.

Frank and Alice broke up. Now they just need to stop sleeping together.

Producers Michael Hewitt, Dermot Lavery Print Source dervillequigley@hotmail.com

Producer Bernie Grummell Print Source siar@ireland.com

Producer Chris O’Hara Print Source trainingtobeacagefighter@gmail.com

Producer Alan Slattery Print Source alan@mycrofilms.com

Bás Arto Leary (Death Of Arto Leary) / Luke McManus

Still / Gringo

Breathe In / Kate Dolan

Jeremiah O’Dea / Kamil Krolak

Ireland | 2012 | 23mins | Colour | Subtitled

Ireland | 2012 | 5mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 11mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 6mins | Colour

Arto Leary and Bríd Ní Chonaill share an illicit moment, a moment that will change their lives forever

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep…

10-year-old Grace is forced to deal with death for the first time when her best friend dies.

Hand carving works of art is my key to the walled garden, my way down the rabbit hole.

Producer Ciarán Ó Cofaigh Print Source eolas@rosg.ie

Producer Gringo Print Source gringofilm@yahoo.com

Producer Aoife Kelly Print Source kate-dolan@hotmail.com

Producer Kamil Krolak Print Source kamilfilms@gmail.com

Buried In Light / Siobhan Perry

Golgotha / Paul Daly

Loitering Theatre / Caroline Campbell, Nina McGowan

Solitude / Seán Breathnach

Ireland | 2011 | 5mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 13mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 4mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 19mins | Colour

The burial mound Tulach a’ tSolais brings the past and present together while also signifying loss and death.

A struggling family who are unable to sell their home are trapped by a gang of loitering teenagers.

A drone’s-eye view of Dublin.

Tom Casey has been pressed into a life of solitude.

Producers Caroline Campbell, Nina McGowan

Producer Seán Breathnach Print Source breathnach.sean@gmail.com

Producer Roisin Linnie Print Source roisinlinnie@gmail.com

Producer Claire Nolan Print Source info@filmbase.ie

Print Source caroline.r.campbell@gmail.com

Saving Turf / Gearóid Hayes

Small Time / Ged Murray

Toy Soldiers / Mike Hayes

Macropolis / Joel Simon

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 12mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 16mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 8mins | Colour

How does the ban on turf cutting affect the 30,000 families that rely on this precious fuel source?

When a college professor takes credit for a cocky student’s discovery of time travel, a bitter rivalry ensues.

16-year-old Shane finds himself in the reluctant position of babysitter to his kid brother Charlie.

Two disabled squeaky toys, discarded from a factory production line, find themselves lost and alone the world.

Producer Michael Mann Print Source hayesedaze@gmail.com

Producer Ian Hunt Duffy Print Source ian@failsafefilms.ie

Producer Ciara Gillan Print Source gillanciara@gmail.com

Producer Joel Simon Print Source info@flickerpix.com

Eat The Danger / Paul Ruttledge, Jack O’Shea

The Hood & The Collar / Paddy Hayes

The Tree / David Freyne

ROFLMAO / Simon O’Neill

Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 19mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 6mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 19mins | Colour

Andy doesn’t want to get his socks wet.

Belfast, 1971. Beaten, tortured and interned without trial, an IRA man plans his escape.

A weary man struggles through an arid world, desperate for food.

These days, you’re never more than a click away from an intimate encounter.

Producer Ciara Nic Chormaic Print Source magamedia@gmail.com

Producer Rachael O’Kane Print Source rachael@tiltedpictures.ie

Producer Mira Bajagic Print Source simonjosephoneill@yahoo.co.uk

No Messages / Cian McGarrigle

Blonde / Allyn Quigley

Girls / Neil O’Driscoll

Ireland | 2012 | 18mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 14mins | Colour

Ireland | 2011 | 26mins | Colour

One long day in the life of Dave, a barman who’s stuck in emotional limbo.

Upon her return to Dublin, a young hair-stylist awaits an extremely important appointment.

Over the course of several lazy summer days, two teenagers reach the closing chapter of their friendship.

Producer Eoin Lynch Print Source cianmcgarrigle@gmail.com

Producer Evan Barry Print Source evan@failsafefilms.ie

Producer Elaine Power Print Source neilodriscollo@gmail.com

Producer IADT Print Source eatthedanger@gmail.com

Producer John Keenan Print Source denise.sammon@gmail.com

Producer AnneMarie Naughton Print Source annemarie@parkfilms.ie

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IRISH SHORTS

Programme 5

Wherever you are, Escape to a better place....

Programme 6

Rhinos

Un Peu Plus

Saturday 17th | 1.30pm | Opera House | 90mins

Sunday 18th | 11.30m | Opera House | 89mins

Barry’s Bespoke Bakery / Denis McArdle

Un Peu Plus / Conor Ferguson

Ireland | 2012 | 8mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour | Subtitled

Barry’s Bespoke Bakery is a lavish wonderland of refined cakes, where almost everything has its place.

Proud Madame Rousseau embarks on an epic journey to eat cakes with sweet abandon.

Producer Ben Keenan Print Source ben@ben.ie

Producer Ailish Bracken Print Source ailish@blinderfilms.com

Irish Folk Furniture / Tony Donoghue

After You / Damien O’Connor

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland.

60 years in the life of a Dublin doorman. Producer Steve Woods Print Source damien.leatheregg@gmail.com

Producer Cathal Black Print Source tonydonoghue@gmail.com

A Promise / Luke Daly

Minim Rest / Dave Tynan

Ireland | 2011 | 11mins | Colour | Subtitled

Ireland | 2011 | 6mins | Colour

How our everyday decisions affect our lives and the real life pressures that come with adulthood.

A woman’s early-morning routine as she wakes, leaves her boyfriend’s apartment and travels through the city.

Producer Luke Daly Print Source lukedaly9@gmail.com

Producer Michael Donnelly Print Source tynandavid@gmail.com

Town / Orla Murphy

Eoinín / Tom Sullivan

Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 23mins | Colour | Subtitled

Rural towns: how they began, how they have changed and where their future may bring them.

When Máire’s 11-year-old son Eoinín is diagnosed with leukaemia, she struggles to retain control.

Producers Orla Murphy, Orla McHardy Print Source o.murphy@ucd.ie

Producer Ciarán Ó Cofaigh Print Source eolas@rosg.ie

A Day For The Fire / Maurice O’Callaghan

Motion Sickness / John McIlduff

Ireland | 2012 | 22mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 10mins | Colour

Two strangers are drawn together by the great personal tragedy one reveals to the other.

A dance film exploring ideas of need, rejection and escape. Producer Zlata Filipovic Print Source zlatafilipovic@gmail.com

Producer Maud O’Callaghan Print Source destinyfilpub@gmail.com

A Kingdom Once Again / Andrew Legge

A Removals Job / Nicholas Keogh

Ireland | 2012 | 5mins | Beta | Colour and Black & White

Ireland | 2012 | 13mins | Colour

Enda Kenny’s solution to Ireland’s troubles.

A celebration of the camaraderie of a group of workers and the unspoken exchanges between them.

Producer Rachel Lysaght Print Source rachel@undergroundfilms.ie

Producer Nicholas Keogh Print Source distribution@factotum.org.uk

Left / Eamonn O’Neill

Les Questions Élémentales / Lanka Haouche Perren

Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 8mins | Colour and Black & White

When I was twelve my best friend was Neill. As we got older we drifted apart.

An experimental film rooted in the elements and vision of Irish artist Clare Langan’s films.

Producer Eamonn O’Neill Print Source eoneillanimation@gmail.com

Producer Lanka Haouche Perren Print Source lankaperren@aol.com

Rhinos / Shimmy Marcus

The Girl With The Mechanical Maiden / Andrew Legge

Ireland | 2012 | 17mins | Colour | Subtitled

Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Beta | Colour

Despite a language barrier, a young couple learn more about each other than they thought possible.

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

Producers Ciara Gillan, Shimmy Marcus Print Source shimmymarcus@gmail.com

Producer Helen Hayden Print Source helenhayden@mac.com

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IRISH FILM BOARD SHORTS

NEW IRISH SHORTS PREMIERE

This captures the moment in 1965 when grocery shopping changed forever. Matt Melia transformed the experience when he put baskets in the hands of Irish housewives and gave them the run of the shop. With the birth of the supermarket suddenly self-control was a vital commodity!

I Can’t See You Anymore / Michael Kinirons Ireland | 2012 | 13mins | Colour

Having woken up from a coma after an accident, psychotherapist Aidan Clifford is forced to confront the consequences of his own actions.

Home

I Can’t See You Anymore

The Girl

Two Wheels, Good

Doghouse

The End of the Counter

Alia

The Rebirth

The Girl

Home / Aoife Kelleher Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Colour

Six individuals are presented against the backdrop of their first home. We gain a sense of what it was like to grow up in these places and discover the various ways in which they have shaped the lives of their inhabitants.

The Girl / John Hayes Ireland | 2012 | 17mins | Colour

Alia

Following another devastating miscarriage, a couple move to a new life in the west of Ireland. Left alone in the old house, emotionally fragile Sophie finds a starving young girl wandering the area and all her maternal instincts surface. But is the girl a blessing or a curse?

Two Wheels, Good / Barry Gene Murphy Ireland | 2012 | 9mins | Colour

Combining live action and animation, four inspiring veterans of the open road celebrate life in the saddle.

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

Alia / Claire Dix Ireland | 2012 | 16mins | Colour

Alia is an Afghan-Irish girl torn between two lives. When her secret relationship with an Irish boy comes to her sister’s attention it forces the family to make a decision that could ultimately tear it apart.

encourage strong, original storytelling, visual flair, and production values appropriate to the big screen.

The Rebirth / Emile Dinneen Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

I didn’t get into photography to cover war. I didn’t go to Iraq or Afghanistan. I didn’t go to other wars in distant lands because I’m not interested in war. But here I am.

Doghouse / Morgan Bushe Reality Bites is a scheme to enable the making of short documentaries. The scheme aims to encourage experimentation and the realisation of fresh approaches to non-fiction filmmaking.

Ireland | 2012 | 14mins | Colour

Doug is having a very bad day. Terminally broke and facing eviction he’s charged by his estranged partner Julie with the task of looking after his son Billy for the day while simultaneously having to get shot of the family dog... Billy’s best and only friend. Welcome to the doghouse.

CORONA CORK FILM FESTIVAL 2012

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 1

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 2

The Swedish Supporter

Programme 3

Programme 4

The Great Rabbit

All Hallows Week (Hiljainen Viikko)

Meteor

Monday 12th | 11.30am | Opera House | 93mins

Monday 12th | 6.00pm | Opera House | 93mins

Tuesday 13th | 11.30am | Opera House | 94mins

Tuesday 13th | 6.00pm | Opera House | 98mins

The Companion (El Acompañante) Alvaro Delgado Aparicio

Tethered / Craig Irvin

Rule Of Three (La Règle De Trois) Louis Garrel

Rafa / João Salaviza

Peru | 2012 | 19mins | Colour | Subtitled

In the outskirts of Lima, a young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from-grace artisan.

A young man takes a job at the local slaughterhouse. As the violence of the work begins to dominate his life, he is offered something better.

Six o’clock in the morning and Rafa finds out his mother is under arrest.

Producer Enid Campos Print Source alvaro@apoyo.com.pe

Producer Ash Harris Print Source Source ash@yonniepiffen.com

The Swedish Supporter Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman

Africa (Afrikka) / Matti Harju Finland | 2012 | 9mins | Colour | Subtitled

The Great Rabbit / Atsushi Wada

Sweden | 2011 | 13mins | Colour | Subtitled

Glenn is in a state of acute psychosis.

France | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

A naïve hooligan gets stranded with some of his more experienced fellow football fans.

Producer Matti Harju Print Source mattiharju@hotmail.com

Producers Cecilia Forsberg Becker, Georgie Mathew Print Source info@stellanovafilm

Nightingales In December / Theodore Ushev

Rhinos / Shimmy Marcus

What would the world be like if nightingales no longer migrated south? A plethora of painterly images of birdmen at work and war evoke a world in disarray.

Australia | 2011 | 27mins| Colour

Louis is ready to take care of Vincent, but expects Marie to manage by herself. He forgets that for her, it’s always about something else. Producer Chaya Films Print Source mikhal.bak@gmail.com

Ireland | 2012 | 17mins | Colour | Subtitled

Rhinos tells the story of young couple Ingrid and Thomas, thrown together by circumstance, who despite a language barrier, learn more about each other than they thought possible over the course of a few eventful hours. Producera Ciara Gillan, Shimmy Marcus Print Source shimmymarcus@gmail.com

On The Beach / Marie-Elsa Sgualdo

Canada | 2012 | 3mins | Colour

Producer Nicolas Gerard Deltruc Print Source mtd:films

Bahari / Ahmed Ghoneimy

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. And though we have moved with the time, we still call it so.

Producers Armando Bautista García, Walters Navas Print Source mercaint@imcine.gob.mx

Sunday / Duane Hopkins Girls / Neil O’Driscoll Ireland | 2011 | 26mins | Colour

Over the course of several lazy summer days, two teenagers reach the closing chapter of their friendship.

England | 2011 | 10mins | Colour

Sunday deals with contemporary British youth and the relationships between identity, psychology and environment. Producer Duane Hopkins Print Source duanehopkins@hotmail.com

Producer Elaine Power Print Source neilodriscollo@gmail.com

Left / Eamonn O’Neill Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

Olli is a lonely skunk who makes trouble whenever he can.

When I was twelve my best friend was Neill. As we got older we drifted apart.

Producer Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens Print Source jan@rococo.be

Producer Eamonn O’Neill Print Source eoneillanimation@gmail.com

The Dust and The Wind (A Poeira E O Vento) Marcos Pimentel

Meteor / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

Finland | 2012 | 17mins | Colour| Subtitled

Belgium | 2012 | 18mins | Colour | Subtitled

Chairs Missing / Bea de Visser

A shooting incident takes place in a small town in Northern Finland. Two witnesses have to cope with sorrow and guilt.

Netherlands | 2011 | 19mins | Colour

Producer Kaarle Aho Print Source otto.suuronen@ses.fi

Countryside of Brazil. A small village in the middle of nowhere. Isolation. Mountains. Silence. The man. The landscape. The time.

And They Went / Sandro Aguilar

Producer Luana Melgaço Print Source marcospimentel77@yahoo.com.br

Brazil | 2011 | 18mins | Colour

One step back. One step forward.

The Centrifuge Brain Project / Till Nowak

Producer Curtas Metragens Print Source liliana@curtas.pt

Germany | 2011 | 7mins | Colour | Subtitled

From This Day To Where Matias Rygh, Mathias Eriksen

Germany | 2011 | 15mins | 35mm | Black & White

A voyage from the children’s room to outer space, through elements of feature films, fairytale moments gones astray and vintage science fiction motifs. Producers Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Print Source mueller.film@t-online.de

Ballet Story / Daria Belova

Portugal | 2011 | 6mins | Colour

Hungary | 2011 | 8mins | Colour | Subtitled Producer Balázs Simonyi Print Source simonblaze@gmail.com

A public ceremony to count the town’s money is overshadowed by the vanishing of funds.

Producer Ahmed Ghoneimy Print Source ghoneimy.a@gmail.com

Producers Elena Tatti, Elodie Brunner, Thierry Spicher Print Source gecal@ecal.ch

Two men in the night are waiting for their greatest hit.

Mexico | 2012 | 12mins | 35mm | Subtitled

Skunk (Rotkop) / Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens

All Hallows Week (Hiljainen Viikko) Jussi Hiltunen

Finale / Balázs Simonyi

The Last Council (El Último Consejo) Itandehui Jansen

One night, Amr wanders alone in the streets of Bahari, but his filming of a group of local children attracts suspicion.

15-year-old Sara is forced to spend her summer holidays with her mother…in a caravan on a campsite.

Producer Bea de Visser Print Source cmorissette@videographe.qc.ca

Producer Maria João Mayer Print Source festival@filmesdotejo.pt

Producer Sacrebleu Productions Print Source distribution@sacrebleuprod.com

Egypt | 2011 | 13mins | Colour | Subtitled

Switzerland | 2012 | 17mins | Colour

A film about encounters in a semi-closed public space: a swimming pool.

Portugal | 2012 | 25mins | Colour | Subtitled

In the 1970s a group of US scientists studied the effect of extreme amusement park rides on their passengers’ brains...

Germany | 2011 | 9mins | Colour

Ballet class. Sophie notices a boy outside. Maybe she likes him - but another girl is more decisive. Producers Kirill Krasovskiy, Philipp Reuter Print Source natalie@augohr.de

Producer Till Nowak Print Source tm@framebox.com

Norway | 2011 | 18mins | Colour | Subtitled

Premature (Prematur) / Gunhild Enger

An average day in the life of a counsellor in the war-torn territories of the eastern Congo.

Norway | 2012 | 17mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Disorder Films Print Source contact@mathiasmathias.com

Norwegian Martin comes home with his pregnant Spanish girlfriend, Lucia. Producer Gudrun Austli Print Source motlys@motlys.com

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 5

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Programme 6

Belly

Programme 7

Programme 8

Everything Falls Apart (Alt Faller Sammen)

Black Mulberry (Shavi Tuta)

Oh Willy…

Wednesday 14th | 11.30am | Opera House | 90mins

Thursday 15th | 11.30am | Opera House | 90mins

Friday 16th | 11.30am | Opera House | 90mins

Saturday 17th | 11.30am | Opera House | 89mins

Tissues From The Village (O Nylon De Minha Aldeia) / Possidónio Cachapa

Black Mulberry (Shavi Tuta) / Gabriel Razmadze

The Waves (As Ondas) / Miguel Fonseca

Lambs / Sam Kelly

Georgia | 2012 | 21mins | Colour | Subtitled

Portugal | 2012 | 22mins | Colour

New Zealand | 2012 | 15mins | Colour

Portugal | 2012 | 30mins | Colour

In the Georgian mining city of Chiatura, two teenagers spend a day together, far from their respective lives.

The vast sea, the beach, the people, all waiting, all dying gently, sadly, beautifully.

Producer Tinatin Kajrishvili Print Source sales@adastra-films.com

Producers Sandro Aguilar, Lúis Urbano Print Source agencia@curtas.pt

When Jimmy, a young Maori, decides to quit school after an argument with his teacher, nobody shows any interest in his reasons.

Body Memory (Keha Mälu) / Ülo Pikkov

Elephant Feet (Olifantenvoeten) / Dan Geesin

The Girl With The Mechanical Maiden Andrew Legge

Estonia | 2011 | 9mins | Colour

Bake A Cake / Aliocha

Netherlands | 2011 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour

Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Beta | Colour

France | 2012 | 14mins | Colour | Subtitled

From behind locked doors and surveillance cameras, Thomas sees it all working his first night shift at the gas station.

A widowed inventor comes up with an interesting approach to childcare.

Our body remembers more than we imagine. It remembers the sorrow and pain of our ancestors. Producer Arvo Nuut Print Source info@joonisfilm.ee

Producer Aliocha Print Source aliocha@gmail.com

In the 1970s, a young gay man is growing up in a rural Portuguese town.

Producer Tom Hern Print Source sales@shortfilm.com

Producer Blackmaria Print Source blackmaria@blackmaria.pt

Producer Ciara Whelan Print Source andrewlegge@ireland.com

Handshake (Handschlag) / Gregor Frei

Oh Willy… / Marc James Roels, Emma de Swaef

Bao / Sandra Desmazières

Switzerland | 2011 | 19mins | Colour | Subtitled

Belgium | 2012 | 17mins | Colour | Subtitled

France | 2011 | 11mins | Colour

Rudy’s friendship with Martin is put to the test when Asim appears at their building site.

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community where he has spend his youth to visit his dying mother.

Producer Gregor Frei Print Source ecal@ecal.ch

Producers Ben Tesseur, Steven De Beul Print Source info@beastanimation.be

Producer Dora Benousilio Print Source fariza.arlequin@gmail.com

Everything Falls Apart (Alt Faller Sammen) Andrew Amorim

House Party (Chefu’) / Adrian Sitaru

Astrid / Fijona Jonuzi

Norway | 2011 | 12mins | Colour | Subtitled

It is a summer day in Kim’s young life. He has graduated from school, his future is open. Or blank.

Neli goes to Bucharest for a few days, while Dan, her 17 year old son is left home. On her return, she is relayed spicy events from a party Dan held in her absence.

Producer Trude Refsahl Print Source post@alligator.no

Producer Monica Lazurean-Gorgan Print Source irina.malcea@gmail.com

Rae / Emmanuelle Nicot

Krump / PV Lehtinen

Belgium | 2012 | 19mins | Colour | Subtitled

Finland | 2011 | 5mins | 35mm | Colour

The shelter’s address has to remain secret, for her and for the other women. Her cell phone vibrates. She is told to turn it off…

Krump observes movements of a gymnast on rings. Movements are wild as the sound of a violin - just on the edge of being out of control.

Producer Bénédicte Lescalier Print Source diffusion@iad-arts.be

Producers V Lehtinen, Cineparadiso Print Source otto.suuronen@ses.fi

Irish Folk Furniture / Tony Donoghue

Morning / Cathy Brady

England | Ireland | 2012 | 21mins | Colour

An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland.

A ferocious headache awakens Mary from her sleep before the attentions of a persistent reporter exacerbate her misery.

Producer Cathal Black Print Source tonydonoghue@gmail.com

Producer Cathy Brady Print Source cathy@cherryredpictures.com

Producer Esther Rots, Hugo Rots Print Source annadabrowska@eyefilm.nl

Belly / Julia Pott England | 2011 | 7mins | Colour

Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgement. In doing so, he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind yet he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach. Producer Royal College of Art Print Source jane.colling@rca.ac.uk

Bao and his sister are taking the train every day. It’s always a fabulous adventure for them. But this time, everything will be different.

Sweden | 2011 | 15mins | Colour | Subtitled

Heavy Eyes (Schwere Augen) / Siegfried A. Fruhauf Austria | 2011 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour

In this hand-processed inscription of cinema negation, unnamed players in found-footage fragments shimmer hypnotically in faint exchanges as a sound engine bears down heavily from above. Producer Siegfried A. Fruhauf Print Source office@sixpackfilm.com

L Train / Anna Musso

Six men gather to spend an evening together. Tongues untie.

Astrid follows an 11-year-old rebelling against her mother and getting an unexpected problem to solve.

Romania | 2011 | 18mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Emma Kjellander Print Source info@sfi.se

tricolor / Martina Heyduk Austria | 2010 | 14mins | 35mm | Colour

In tricolor, analogue film is tinted frame by frame with a special paint for us on glass, and then the material is scratched, carved and artistically slit. Producer Sixpackfilm Print Source office@sixpackfilm.com

USA | 2011 | 10mins | Colour

A self-regarding teenager is fighting her way through an inner-city blizzard when she encounters someone who forces her to consider an altruistic, if not absurd, action.

I Too Have A Name (Enakkum Oru Per) Suba Sivakumaran

Producer Anna Musso Print Source am@adhominem.us

Kiss / Cathy Brady

In a time of violence in Sri Lanka, a nun and a servant girl move in their daily lives to reconcile their past and redirect their future.

England | Ireland | 2012 | 20mins | Colour

Producer Suba Sivakumaran, Samuel Holt Print Source suba.siva@gmail.com

The last night of the fair. From a seat on a whirling waltzer, a boy steals the attention of Laura and Claire.

Long Distance Information / Douglas Hart

Producer James Walker Print Source cathy@cherryredpictures.com

England | 2011 | 8mins | Colour

Sri Lanka | 2011 | 13mins | Colour | Subtitled

A black comedy that explores the strained relationship between fathers and sons. Producers Ohna Falby, Beth Montague Print Source hanna@hsilondon.co.uk

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Belgian Special - A focus on the weird and wonderful world of Belgian short film. Frank Moens, Programme Director of the Leuven International Short Film Festival, has curated from the vastly entertaining world of Belgian short film some of the best and brightest films from that region. Aptly divided into the descriptive titles of Love, Mystery, The Daily Life of Belgians and Surreal – we bring you a rare opportunity to see these films on the big screen.

With thanks Frank Moens, Leuven International Short Film Festival Michael Aendenhof, Embassy of Belgium

FOCUS ON BELGIUM

Programme 1

Programme 2

Programme 3

Love

Mystery

The Daily Life of Belgians Surreal

You Will Find It

Programme 4

Sundays

Carlo

Mumbler

Sunday 11th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema | 78mins

Monday 12th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema | 93mins

Tuesday 13th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema | 87mins

Wednesday 14th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema | 75mins

Argentine Tango

The Bloody Olive

The Sunflyers

Wooww

Guido Thys | 2006 | 13mins

Vincent Bal | 1997 | 10mins

Tim Mielants | 2005 | 14mins

Fien Troch | 1999 | 15mins

Despite the faceless and cold atmosphere at his work place, an office clerk tries to make his colleagues happy. Instead of the classical cliché Christmas gifts, he wants to give his colleagues something real and precious. Academy Award® nomination – Best Live Action Short Film, 2008

Christmas Eve 1951: Werner and Mylène prepare for a cosy evening when the unexpected occurs.

The final game for the aeromodelling club ‘The Sunflyers’. Producer Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussel Print Source timmielants@gmail.com

Wooww shows the absurd sides of violence within human relationships and the way it affects children. Alienation rules, but emotions and humour are still present.

Sundays

Producers Karel Ringoet, Fien Troch, Ludo Troch

The Wallet

Valéry Rosier | 2011 | 16mins

Print Source troch.mertens@skynet.be

Producers Anja Daelemans, Dries Phylpo Print Source ad.idea@pandora.be

Vincent Bierrewaerts | 2003 | 10mins

Damien Chemin | 2005 | 10mins

A man who has just missed a job opportunity finds a wallet on his way home. A part of him takes it while the other continues on his way.

The End Of The World

Double Chicken

Sundays or how Mankind faces the passage of time. That free time we are trying to fill at all costs. That same time we look at passing by, with laughter or boredom.

Choosing from a menu can be harder than you think.

Producer Arnaud Demuynck Print Source ademuynck@euroanima.net

Producer Erwin Provoost Print Source info@mmg.be

Producer Michel De Kempeneer Print Source m.dekemp@polygone-av.com

Forever Juliet

Jonas Govaerts | 2005 | 13mins

Nathalie Teirlinck | 2008 | 19mins

Anton, a slick, successful creative man, gets a tattoo to prove his wild streak to his girlfriend. A car accident with the tattoo artist results in a terrible curse...

A lively wedding on the beach of the restless North Sea. Everyone is happy except the young bride, Juliette. While smoking a cigarette she recalls a childhood memory of an innocent and early love. Producer Tim Blancke Print Source nathalie.teirlinck@hotmail.com

Alice And I Micha Wald | 2003 | 19mins

Simon has to drive his old aunt and two of her friends to the seaside. While driving, he gets a call from his girlfriend, Alice, which turns into an argument. Producer Jacqyes-Henri Bronckart Print Source info@versusproductions.be

For You I Will Fight Rachel Lang | 2010 | 21mins

Here you are only a docile body. We say to you who you are, why you are there, what you have to do. Your time and your space are marked out in squares, managed by others. Producer Annette Wauthoz Print Source wauthoz@iad-arts.be

Producers Wim Reygaert, Dimitri Karakasanis Print Source info@workfilms.net

Plot Point

Wannes Destoop | 2010 | 15mins

Nicolas Provost | 2007 | 15mins

Chantal, a chubby girl of 12, only feels at home in the local pool. Winner Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival 2011.

In Plot Point all the actions and characters are real people, in real life, filmed with a hidden camera. Producer Nicolas Provost Print Source info@argosarts.org

Michael Havenith | 2010 | 10mins

Serge, a security agent in a supermarket, hopes to win the heart of Aline, a young cashier more concerned by the state of planet than by Serge’s advances. One evening, lightning strikes and plunges the store into darkness, leaving Serge to contain the hysterical customers. Producer Jean-Luc Van Damme Print Source jeanluc@bananafilms.eu

Mumbler Marc Roels, Wim Reygaert | 2012 | 20mins

Swimsuit 46

Producers Katleen Goossens, Wannes Destoop Print Source wannesdestoop@hotmail.com Website www.badpakje46.be

A withdrawn young man living with his mother in a little house in Flanders is upset by a surreal encounter with the nightmarish inhabitants of the region. Producers Wim Reygaert, Marc Roels Print Source prod@t42films.com

A Famous Day Jean Marie Buchet | 2005 | 11mins

Plan B Robin Pront | 2008 | 20mins

A fast and hard gangster movie.

You Will Find It

Producers Nicolas Guiot, Valéry Rosier, Fred De Loof Print Source urzzia@gmail.com

Producer Robin Pront Print Source frank@fonk.be

Jessie De Leeuw | 2011 | 17mins

While the life of 29-year-old Cilia passes quietly by behind the mini-supermarket checkout, she secretly is a master of escapism. In her dreams she escapes from dull reality and creates a colourful, musical world.

Carlo

Producer Jessie De Leeuw Print Source jessiedl@hotmail.com

Producer Ellen De Waele Print Source info@cccp.be

Michael R. Roskam | 2004 | 18mins

Carlo, a young butcher, finds out that life is a tragi-comic game where coincidence plays the part of the cynical key player.

Gridlock Dirk Beliën | 2002 | 7mins

A young manager causes irreparable damage to his wife by calling her on his new phone. Academy Award® nomination – Best Live Action Short Film, 2003 Producer Ellen De Waele Print Source info@cccp.be

The Big Game Sylvestre Sbille | 2011 | 20mins

In the Hildebrandt’s home, they are aware of the woes of the world, but they still enjoy their small comforts. During a birthday celebration, a surprise guest arrives...

Jean leaves his place. He looks at what the weather is like. He closes the door and leaves. Suzanne buys a kilo of Saveloy. Robert is having a walk. Louise has lost her house. What can be done? Producer Patrice Baudinet Print Source pbcpictures@ibelgique.com

Producer André Logie Print Source delphine@anga.be

The Fantastic Night Flatlife

Stéphane Elmadjian, Didier Poiraud, Thierry Poiraud, Hughes Poulain,

Jonas Geirnaert | 2004 | 11mins

Vincent Tavier, Adam Wolny | 2003 | 19mins

Hanging a painting on the wall, doing laundry, watching TV; all ostensibly innocent actions for four people who live next to each other.

When a general’s leg has been blown off by a grenade during a game of golf, he also loses his favourite golf shoe, the famous Wenston size 44. A group of soldiers is sent out to find the missing shoe.

Producer Nathalie Meyer Print Source thomasjans1@gmail.com

Producer Nicolas LeClercq Print Source anni.vanparys@laparti.com

THE NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL AT IADT HEADING

THE NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL AT IADT

Programme 1

Programme 2

Martin

RETROSPECTIVE

Small Change

Wednesday 14th | 4.00pm | Triskel | 93mins

Thursday 15th | 4.00pm | Triskel | 113mins

Big Swinger / Declan Recks

Changelings / Dee Armstrong

1989 | 15mins

1993 | 15mins

Jimmy, an ex-showband drummer who runs a pirate radio station in a small rural town, disrupts the peace and quiet when his radio signals interfere with passing aeroplanes.

Juno, a 9-year-old girl, in conflict with her mother, takes refuge in the world of fairies.

Boys For Rent / Liam McGrath We have been teaching film in Dun Laoghaire for almost thirty years and are immensely proud of the success of our graduates, of which a high proportion work in film and television, at home and abroad.

Fruit 15 / Claire Lynch

1993 | 17mins

1991 | 14mins

An award-winning documentary that first brought to light the issue of boy prostitution in Ireland.

A powerful story of immaculate conception as told by a mother’s as-yet unborn child.

Patterns / Kirsten Sheridan The National Film School (NFS) at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology has built its reputation on these graduates and on the breadth of professional experience of our staff, both full-time and part-time, the majority of whom continue to work in the industry. We have the broadest range of courses in the country and we offer undergraduate programmes in Film & Television Production; Animation; Modelmaking Design & Digital Effects; and Design for Stage & Screen, which has specialisms in Costume Design, Production Design, and Make-up Design; and, at postgraduate level, Screenwriting and Broadcast Production. The NFS, with financial support from the Irish Film Board, hosts a very successful annual series of NFS Lectures at IADT. Internationally respected participants have included Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan, Sir Alan Parker, Oliver Stone, John Sayles, Stephen Frears, John Landis, Mike Leigh, Terence Davies, Oliver Hirschbiegel, John Boorman and Krzysztof Zanussi (directors); Stephen Rea and Ciarán Hinds (actors); Maggie Renzi and Alison Owen (producers); Alex McDowell and Luciana Arrighi (production designers); Seamus McGarvey BSC and Barry Ackroyd BSC (cinematographers); Mick Audsley and Tony Lawson (editors); Deborah Nadoolman (costume designer); Roddy Doyle, Frederic Raphael and Jeffrey Caine (screenwriters); and Caroline Leaf and Joanna Quinn (animators). In summer 2012, we held our first NFS Animation Academy, a bridging programme for graduates to prepare them for the industry.

Dream Kitchen / Barry Dignam

1998 | 19mins

1999 | 8mins

Jimmy and Tommy are brothers. They are inseparable. The elder brother Tommy is autistic.

A young man arrives home to find his dad repairing the car again and his mum busy cooking, leading him to drift off into fairyland.

At Death’s Door / Conor Morrissey 1999 | 13mins

The Braineater / Conor McMahon 2001 | 10mins

Following a traumatic initiation, a sensitive, young Grim Reaper goes out on his first mission to claim a soul.

After a violent car crash a young boy has to eat his parents’ brains in order to survive.

The Carpenter And His Clumsy Wife / Peter Foott 2003 | 14mins

The Puppet / Ciaran Foy 2002 | 5mins

A carpenter uses his skills to repair what he believes to be his wife’s inadequacies.

Five office workers have been taken hostage by shy colleague Neil, and his evil sidekick Morgan.

Kettle / Brian Power 2009 | 8mins

Fall Into Half-Angel / Roisin Loughrey 2003 | 7mins

Ken and Tina met and fell in love… then they became trapeze artists!

Eddie has just been released from Cork Prison after only 2 months - a surprisingly short stint given his conviction. Casey, another local criminal, is suspicious.

Rose / Peter O’Brien Undressing My Mother / Ken Wardrop

2011 | 7mins

2003 | 6mins

A poignant documentary that explores a woman’s unique take on her overweight and aging body.

A short documentary that portrays a daughter’s despair as she comes to terms with having to put her own mother into a nursing home due to the onset of Alzheimer’s.

Our long-awaited NFS Building, with its state-of-the-art High Definition Television Studio will be completed in September 2013 in time for the next academic year.

Martin / Seán Branigan

Small Change / Cathy Brady

2008 | 16mins

2010 | 17mins

A lost man rediscovers his purpose when his estranged 15-year-old daughter contacts him to meet.

A young single mother is bored by routine. Slot machines have become her secret thrill and addiction.

DONALD TAYLOR BLACK Creative Director, The National Film School

King Of The Waves / Luke Leslie

Happy Birthday Timmy / Johnny Cullen

2009 | 12mins

2010 | 3mins

In 1969 Bill King, a retired WWII submarine commander, sets out to circumnavigate the world, alone.

Young Timmy receives an inappropriate present from his father, much to his mother’s shock and disgust.

The NFS is the only full member in Ireland of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools

THE NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL AT IADT

LATE GREAT SHORTS

SDGI SHORTS

Programme 3

The Platform Fear Of Flying

Plastesex

A Kingdom Once Again

Sunday 18th | 2.00pm | Triskel | 46mins

A late night show of funny and odd short films, sure to amuse, bemuse and entertain.

Screen Directors’ Guild of Ireland

Videoboy (Videogutten) / Stian Kristiansen Norway | 2011 | 33mins | Colour | Subtitled

Whatever Happened to Ultraman?

Fluffy McCloud

Friday 16th | 4.00pm | Triskel | 64mins

Kill Your Idols

Saturday 17th | 11.00pm | Gate Cinema | 73mins

Thirteen-year-old besties Hasse and Pål’s friendship is tested when they visit a mysterious young cinephile with a vast VHS video collection. Producers Sigve Endresen, Yngve Sæther Print Source post@nfi.no

SDGI is the representative organisation for Irish screen directors. SDGI partnered with ARRI Alexa to support Irish directors by giving them use of a full ARRI Alexa camera package for a series of Shorts in The SDGI Arri Alexa Take. Corona Cork Film Festival is proud to acknowledge the work of this vital resource.

The Platform / Ruairi Twohig

Tógtha / Alan Holly

La Gran Carrera / Kote Camacho

2011 | 6mins

2003 | 7mins

Spain | 2010 | 7mins | Colour | Subtitled

The Measure Of A Man / Ruth Meehan

An old man waits for a train as the world around him slowly crumbles apart.

A thoughtful and moving film about vulnerable people in a Celtic Tiger Ireland.

1914: a horrible crime is suddenly committed in the Lasarte racetrack. How it happened is a mystery.

Ireland | 2012 | 12mins | Colour

Producer Marian Fernández Pascal Print Source kimuak@filmotecavasca.com

As a condition of his estranged father’s will, Jay is forced to have a bespoke suit made for him by his father’s tailor.

Wednesday / Sam Keogh

Eat The Danger / Jack O’Shea, Paul Ruttledge

2005 | 2mins

2012 | 10mins

The day was Wednesday and this is how it happened.

Andy doesn’t want to get his socks wet.

Trouble In Paradise / Shane Collins

Plastesex / Conor Finnegan

2002 | 4mins

2008 | 3mins

An island, a coconut and a disturbed crab.

Plasticine boy meets plasticine girl.

Suiker / Jeroen Annokkee

My Day / Eamon O’Neill

On The Quiet / Eamonn O’Neill

A man returns to his brother’s house in Ireland after several years in Amsterdam. Gradually his reasons for leaving become painfully apparent.

Netherlands | 2011 | 7mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Michael Lavelle Print Source michael@michaellavelle.com

2008 | 2mins

2009 | 5mins

What happens when your day isn’t yours anymore.

A reflection on the small but beautiful things that can affect and change our daily lives.

Bert’s barely-clad downstairs neighbor comes up to borrow a cup of sugar, and then things start to go terribly wrong…

I Can’t See You Anymore / Michael Kinirons

Producer Sander Verdonk Print Source info@levpictures.com

Ireland | 2012 | 14mins | Colour

The Centrifuge Brain Project / Till Nowak

Having woken up from a coma after an accident, psychotherapist Aidan Clifford is forced to confront the consequences of his own actions.

Whatever Happened To Ultraman? / John Walsh 2010 | 7mins

Dome / Liam O Brien

A short documentary on the life of retired Dublin-based superhero, Ultraman.

2012 | 6minsr

Wobbly Land / Cat Little

A man’s lifelong quest to right the wrongs of his father’s generation.

2003 | 5mins

Fluffy McCloud / Conor Finnegan

Enjoy wobbly fun with Wobbly Red Man and his neighbours.

2010 | 3mins

Counting Sheep With The Wolves Outside Jody Barker-Rockett 2012 | 4mins

Troubled by a knocking at the door, Frank lies in bed trying to lose himself in memories which all turn sour.

A short film about man’s mixed relationship with mother nature.

A Kingdom Once Again / Andrew Legge Ireland | 2012 | 6mins | Colour

Enda Kenny’s solution to Ireland’s troubles. Producer Rachel Lysaght Print Source rachel@undergroundfilms.ie

Germany | 2011 | 7mins | Colour | Subtitled

In the 1970s a group of US scientists studied the effect of extreme amusement park rides on their passengers’ brains. Even today, research fever leads to the most fanciful experiments.

Producers Ruth Meehan, Tamsin Lyons, Tony Deegan Print Source tamsin@ink-and-light.com

Amsterdamage / Michael Lavelle Ireland | 2012 | 5mins | Colour

Producer Ailish Bracken Print Source ailish@blinderfilms.com

Kill Your Idols / Leevi Lemmetty Ireland | 2012 | 15mins | Colour

Las Palmas / Johannes Nyholm

Peppi finally gets her chance to earn the favour of her peers when their rockstar idol comes to stay at Peppi’s father’s hotel.

Sweden | 2011 | 13mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Tamsin Lyons Print Source tamsin@ink-and-light.com

Producer Till Nowak Print Source tm@framebox.com

A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time. The role is played by a one year old girl, the rest of the cast are marionette puppets. Producer Johannes Nyholm Print Source info@sfi.se

GREAT SHORTS

THIS IS OUR WORLD

Morning

Faces (Wojoh)

Sunday 18th | 4.00pm | Opera House | 84mins

Sunday 18th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema | 89mins

An opportunity to catch superb international short films. Many are award-winning, all of them memorable.

Short documentary portraits of people in places, in pleasure, in pain, in transition, in life. Hoof, Tooth & Claw / Adam Gutch England | 2011 | 17mins | Colour

Rafa / João Salaviza Portugal | 2012 | 25mins | Colour | Subtitled

Six o’clock in the morning and Rafa finds out his mother is under arrest. Winner – Golden Bear Award Berlin International Film Festival 2012

A portrait of the last days of a Welsh farming woman, Betty French. Producer Adam Gutch Print Source adam@flyingant.org.uk

I Kill / David White, Paul Wedel New Zealand | 2012 | 9mins | Colour

Producer Maria João Mayer Print Source festival@filmesdotejo.pt

The kindest slaughter: a short documentary about one man’s bloody job.

Bahari / Ahmed Ghoneimy

Producer David White Print Source shorts@nzfilm.co.nz

Egypt | 2011 | 13mins | Colour | Subtitled

One night, Amr wanders alone in the streets of Bahari but encounters difficulty when he films a group of children. Producer Ahmed Ghoneimy Print Source ghoneimy.a@gmail.com

Oh Willy… / Marc James Roels, Emma de Swaef Belgium | 2012 | 17mins | Colour | Subtitled

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community where he has spend his youth to visit his dying mother. Producers Ben Tesseur, Steven De Beul Print Source info@beastanimation.be

Long Distance Information / Douglas Hart England | 2012 | 8mins | Colour

Set one Christmas Day, between East Kilbride and London, Long Distance Information is a black comedy that explores the strained relationship between fathers and sons. Producer Ohna Falby Print Source hanna@hsilondon.co.uk

Morning / Cathy Brady England | Ireland | 21mins | Colour

A ferocious headache awakens Mary from her sleep before the attentions of a persistent reporter exacerbate her misery. Producer Cathy Brady Print Source cathy@cherryredpictures.com

Fionn Costello / Denise Sammon Ireland | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

For Fionn, dancing isn’t just a hobby, it’s his way out. Set in Dublin’s Rathmines, this documentary tells the story of a young man’s determination to make amends for his past. Producer John Keenan Print Source denise.sammon@gmail.com

Faces (Wojoh) / Said Najmi

THE CURIOUS EYE

Jordan | 2011 | 16mins | Colour | Subtitled

The deserts of Petra, Jordan, are home to Mfadi and his Bedouin family, where he is struggling to decide whether to stay in his humble home or move to the city and civilization. Producer Said Najmi Print Source sa3eed.najmi@gmail.com

Return To Mandima (Retour À Mandima) Robert-Jan Lacombe Switzerland | 2011 | 40mins | Colour | Subtitled

Director Robert-Jan Lacombe returns to his home village in the heart of the Congo to find everything has changed over the war-stricken intervening fifteen years. Producer Lionel Baier Print Source ecal@ecal.ch

“So much is happening besides mainstream filmmaking. This section gives us the opportunity to bring some really creative people and unique performances to Cork. We’re showing that it’s not always about projecting a film that’s been through a system. It’s a play area or treasure chest and you’ll find something really different, creative or meaningful in here.” Úna Feely, Festival Programmer

John T. Davis

TRIBUTE TO PADDY JOLLEY HEADING

Creative Training for Professionals

Paddy Jolley was an enormously influential Irish filmmaker, groundbreaking in his filmic vision and a great friend of the Corona Cork Film Festival. Paddy’s passing earlier this year was a massive loss to the Irish film community. This tribute is in honour to a greatly missed film artist and colleague, who attended the festival annually either to present new work, or often to delve deep into the festival programme, offering incisive comment and enthusiastic support for various elements unearthed. We screen all the short films Paddy presented here, and include his final works. He will be greatly missed by us.

Sunday 11th | 4.00pm | Triskel | 84mins

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Seven Days ‘Til Sunday / Paddy Jolley | Reynold Reynolds

Fall / Paddy Jolley

1998 | 10mins | Black & White

2008 | 11mins | Black & White

Stoic figures fall through New York’s architecture, incinerate in their front room and detonate in a wet field, all through the prism of silent comedy.

Tedium leads to displacement which further leads to events of small destruction.

The Drowning Room / Paddy Jolley | Reynold Reynolds

Snakes / Paddy Jolley

2000 | 10mins | Colour

2009 | 5mins | Black & White

The inhabitants of a tiny dwelling are impervious to the stagnant, liquid thick atmosphere.

Snakes intertwine around a man.

Burn / Paddy Jolley | Reynold Reynolds

Sitting Room / Paddy Jolley

2001 | 10mins | Colour

2012 | 15mins | Black & White

The burning of a house provokes passive acceptance rather than sheer panic in its inhabitants.

A detached house becomes swallowed up by the ground yet the occupants are too busy to react.

Here After / Paddy Jolley | Inger Lise Hansen | Rebecca Trost

Freeze / Paddy Jolley

2004 | 11mins | Black & White

2012 | 12mins | Black & White

Furniture, liberated from their people, slowly becomes melancholic within the absence.

The unfinished short film Ice (2011) was subsumed into Freeze (2012) which was completed posthumously. Print Source IFI Irish Film Archive and Zanzibar Films

FÁS activities are funded by the Irish Government, the National Training Fund and the European Union

www.screentrainingireland.ie

With thanks to: Lu Thornely & family, Edwina Forkin, Paddy Jolley’s Works Administration, Sunniva O’Flynn & The Irish Film Institute, John O’Regan Gandon Editions The publication Patrick Jolley: All That Falls (Nicolas De Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Gandon Editions | 2012) is available throughout the Festival.

PHIL COLLINS HEADING

National Sculpture Factory in collaboration with the Corona Cork Film Festival present an installation work by world renowned artist Phil Collins. Phil Collins’ films, photographs, installations, and live events often use elements of low–budget television and entertainment industry to dissect the political and aesthetic implications of popular visual formats. His collaborators have ranged from former teachers of Marxism in the GDR to anti–fascist skinheads in Malaysia; from fans of The Smiths over three continents to disco–dancing Palestinians. Collins is based in Berlin and Cologne, where he is a professor of video art at the Kunsthochschule für Medien. His works are held in public collections such as, among others, Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

This Unfortunate Thing Between Us Phil Collins Germany | 2011 | 60 mins Approx | Colour

VENUE: NSF Factory Floor TUTBU 01 | Fri 16th | 7.00pm - 12.00am TUTBU 02 | Sat 17th | 7.00pm - 12.00am Launch | Fri 16th November | 7.00pm Screenings will be on the hour approx Originally presented in 2011 at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin and on German public television, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us consisted of two separate live broadcasts in which viewers were offered a choice of experiences rather than commodities at promotional prices. Hosted by a crew of actors and porn workers, and featuring live music by Welsh musician Gruff Rhys and North Wales surf band Y Niwl, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us follows the logic and grammar of the teleshopping channel, including pitches, sales and phone–ins. TUTBU TV brings together a live audience and home viewers in what may well prove to be a glimpse into the future of consumerism while providing an opportunity to face up to our contemporary desires and fears. Phil Collins will be in attendance at the Festival. There are two distinct segments for This Unfortunate Thing Between Us that make up the greater whole, TUTBU 01 on Fri and TUTBU 02 on Sat. They are approximately one hour long each and will be run on a loop on the Factory Floor each evening beginning at 7:00pm. Please note this artwork contains adult material Tá an tionscadal seo páirt-mhaoinithe ag An Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta This project has been part-funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

for further details see www.nationalsculpturefactory.com

CHRISTOPH GIRARDET Christoph Girardet has been producing video tapes and video installations since 1999 and has participated in major shows at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, while also taking part in major film festivals worldwide. Matthias Müller is an artist working in film, video, installation and photography. He is the founder of numerous avant-garde film events and the Museum of Modern Art, New York held a retrospective of his work in 1994. The two artists have been successfully collaborating since their found footage work, Phoenix Tapes, was premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. Their work as a duo has been screened at the film festivals of Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, New York, Oberhausen, Vila do Conde, and many others.

We are delighted to welcome to Cork, Christoph Girardet, an exceptional film artist both in his own right and as collaborator of Matthias Muller. This is a rare opportunity to experience two programmes of work, curated by Christoph - representing their individual and their extraordinary creative partnership. We present this special programme in partnership with Cork Film Centre.

Programme 1

A childhood in the ‘60s. A heart beats in the cabinet. Voices rain down on the city. A tree grows on planet Mars. It’s a miracle.

Pianoforte / Christoph Girardet 2007 | 6mins | Colour

Monday 12th | 6.30pm | Triskel | 86mins

Analogous to a piano keyboard, Pianoforte combines eighty-eight film scenes in which pianos are being played into an audio-visual rhapsody.

Nero / Christophe Girardet

Manual / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

2006 | 3mins | Colour

2002 | 10mins | Colour

A boy is standing almost motionless at the window of a Roman villa. He is looking at the burning city that has been copied into the background of the image.

Combining close-ups of redundant technology gleaned from ‘60s US sci-fi television series with a female voice of a ‘40s Hollywood melodrama, Manual makes absolute detachment clash with magnified emotion.

Vacancy / Matthias Müller 1998 | 15mins | Colour

Mirror / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller 2003 | 8mins | Colour

Brasilia, the ultimate utopian city as represented in Vacancy, is a place abandoned by its inhabitants, a museum kept alive by its staff only.

Mirror creates an atmospheric image of the ‘in-between’, the nameless sphere between belonging and isolation.

Absence / Christophe Girardet

Kristall / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

2002 | 8mins | Black & White

2006 | 14mins | Colour

The presence of an invisible actor seems to influence minimal cinematic events on theatrical sets. These events combine to become an enigma regarding the phenomenon of disappearance.

Kristall creates a melodrama inside seemingly claustrophobic mirrored cabinets. Like an anonymous viewer, the mirror observes scenes of intimacy.

Beacon / Christophe Girardet, Matthias Müller

Contre-Jour / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

2002 | 15mins | Colour

2009 | 11mins | Colour and Black & White

Beacon is a montage of location shots filmed at different places around the world. Each of these sites is located by the sea.

Not for the optic neurotic; blurs, flashes and stroboscope montages disintegrate reality into shadowy images that inflict pain on the eye.

Phoenix Tapes / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

Maybe Siam / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

1999 | 45mins | Colour and Black & White

2009 | 12mins | Colour and Black & White

Shots from forty of Alfred Hitchcock’s films are reassembled in a series of rhythmic, vital and ultimately reverential permutations.

Found footage of blindness on screen are set to the tune of a classic Perry Como song.

FIRE AND ICE HEADING

Friday 16th | 11.00pm | Triskel

IFI IRISH FILM ARCHIVE

Saturday 17th | 10.30pm | Triskel

IFI National & Corona Cork Film Festival Present -

dice and splice, trigger and reconfigure

An Ulster Punk Trilogy Our annual collaboration with the Irish Film Institute allows us to rediscover treasures from the IFI Irish Film Archive and to present them to new audiences. This year, serendipitously, the completion of new feature drama Good Vibrations coincides with the digital re-mastering of John T. Davis’ Shellshock Rock, Self Conscious Over You and Protex Hurrah, three films which document the actual men, music and mayhem of Ulster punk in the late 1970s. We are delighted to present these original films as primary evidence of those pulsating times and as testament to John T. Davis’ unerring talent as an astute documentarian of a vibrant subculture.

The Corona Cork Film Festival continues our exploration of the interface between music and film in this special performance. Fire and Ice dice and splice, trigger and reconfigure film in a live electronic music and visual performance. Setting loose the narrative, a new interplay of image and sound is created. With a sensibility that is part DJ, part bricoleur, part stunt double, part smarty pants, peripheral moments are elevated to iconic status and the familiar tropes of a particular film genre are reworked into digital gold.

Once Upon a Good Time in the Bad and Ugly West In this special event, Fire and Ice performs and plays with the American Western genre. The ambiguity of the central character who is at once hero and anti-hero lights the spark for this work.

Biography Fire and Ice is Jeffrey Weeter and Paul Deuth, electronic musicians and video artists. Originally from Chicago, they are master remixers of film, television and music in live performance. This appearance at the Corona Cork Film Festival marks their 10th year as the performance duo Fire and Ice.

Shellshock Rock

Self-Conscious Over You

1979 | 50mins | Colour

1980 | 40mins | Colour

Shellshock Rock captures the bristling raw energy of the Northern Irish punk scene in the late ‘70s. Mirroring the rough aesthetic of the music, with much of the filming carried out in dingy bars and music clubs – the Harp Bar, the Pound and in Terri Hooley’s Good Vibrations record shop, the film effectively tells the story of a teen rebellion that had nothing to do with the sectarian divide. It features the music of Protex, the Undertones, Rudi, The Outcasts and Stiff Little Fingers and is punctuated by interviews with Terri Hooley, band members, and a series of disarmingly inarticulate young Belfast punks. Shellshock Rock was selected and then inexplicably and controversially deselected, deemed “not technically up to standard”, by the 1979 Cork Film Festivals Screening Committee. It went on to win a silver medal at the International Film and TV Festival in New York and to garner critical acclaim at a series of festivals around the world. Shellshock Rock returns here, triumphant, after 33 years.

In this sequel to Shellshock Rock, Davis captures the joyful concert organised by Good Vibration Records at the Ulster Hall in April 1980 when almost 1,800 people crammed in to enjoy local band The Outcasts. The concert (which provides the climax to the new feature drama) was to be a thank you and a farewell from Good Vibrations, but such was the response that Hooley changed his mind and pledged to keep the label going until the money ran out.

Protex Hurrah 1980 | 15mins | Colour

John T. Davis meets Belfast band, Protex on a US tour in 1980. They are captured in playful mode as they mingle with the crowds during the St. Patrick’s Day parade, and later that night they perform at New York’s Hurrah Club. The programme will be introduced by director John T. Davis.

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FREE RADICALS

FREE RADICALS Thursday 15th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

Through the off-screen contributions of scientists and intellectuals and the use of its omniscient camera, Michael Palm’s documentary, Low Definition Control, considers the power of surveillance images. With its warnings of an eye that is always open it surmises that the idea of an image as an image is history. As it reminds us of the danger, Low Definition Control affirms the power of images. While Palm’s film funnels back to larger democratic issues his invitation to consider images could be a guiding principal of the Free Radicals programme. Here, throughout these programmes, the filmmakers both appropriate and play with images; whether, for example, its Henry Hills’ assemblage of personally shot and found footage, Ken Jacobs’ manipulation of a moment through tinting and frame changes or Ben Russell’s capturing of something invisible to the eye. Even Manfred Neuwirth’s unyielding documentation can raise the question: Can we trust what we see or do we just enjoy the view?

Black & White and Colour | Subtitled

Friday 16th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Both films will be screened together A globally-composed, musically arranged montage-round: so Henry Hills’s Arcana appears to be, a fulminant 30-minute cut-up epic that takes footage–both found and shot by the filmmaker–and crosses it in an almost arithmetic manner with a pre-arranged soundtrack. The basis is a written film treatment of the musician John Zorn, in which 254 scenes, bundled into 15 sequences, are captured in short, sometimes cryptic descriptions.

Monday 12th | 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

A scene from Charlie Chaplin’s The Floorwalker is re-edited in a simple repetitive rhythm.

Producer Johannes Hammel Print Source office@sixpackfilm.com

Austria | 2011 | 95mins | 35mm

Shorts

Austria | 2011 | 2mins | Black & White and Colour

Low Definition Control is science fiction in a literal sense: a visionary anticipation of biopolitical/governmental processes that began some time ago, in which technology is so deeply inscribed into human behavior that a disciplined and controled society could at some point be replaced by one comprised of disembodied, predictable interface subjects.

Low Definition Control Michael Palm

Intermezzo (Notes On Film 04) Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Broken Time / Johannes Gierlinger Austria | 2011 | 1mins | 35mm | Colour

Like Jeanne d’Arc in front of the scaffold, clueless. Finally, a fight, they come to get her… Producer Johannes Gierlinger Print Source mail@johannesgierlinger.com

Arcana

Producer Norbert Pfaffenbichler Print Source office@sixpackfilm.com

Heavy Eyes (Schwere Augen) / Siegfried A. Fruhauf Hellicam Feedback / Ian Helliwell

Austria | 2011 | 10mins | 35mm | Black & White

England | 2012 | 7mins | Colour

In this hand-processed inscription of cinema negation, unnamed players in found-footage fragments shimmer hypnotically in faint exchanges as a sound engine bears down heavily from above.

Hypnotic pulses created from a modified video camera to a soundtrack of Helliwell’s self-built Hellitron tone generators. Producer Ian Helliwell Print Source ianhelliwell@yahoo.co.uk

Henry Hills Austria, USA | 2011 | 31mins | Colour

Both land- and sound-scapes are explored in this collaboration between Manfred Neuwirth and electronic musician and composer Christian Fennesz. Described as “an exercise in seeing, hearing and concentration,” Neuwirth’s camera stoically captures five tableaux dedicated to the elements: water, earth, fire, air, and space, while Fennesz augments each scene with a palette of subtly distilled location recordings and quietly smouldering electronics

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

tricolor / Martina Heyduk Austria | 2011 | 8mins | Colour

Generator / Makino Takashi

Analogue film tinted frame by frame with a special paint for use on glass, then the material artistically scratched, carved and slit.

Japan | 2011 | 20mins

Producer Martina Heyduk Print Source office@sixpackfilm.com

Generator is a response to the disaster in Fukushima and visualises Tokyo as an eroding metropolis. Accompanied by Jim O’Rourke’s dark soundscapes. Producer Takashi Echigoya Print Source makinotakashi@gmail.com

Meteor / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

Producer Henry Hills Print Source office@sixpackfilm.com

Germany | 2011 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour and Black & White

The Green Wave / Ken Jacobs

With narration from John Smith, Meteor takes its viewers along on a voyage from the childrens’ room to outer space.

Ireland | 2010 | 6mins | Colour

Producers Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Print Source mueller.film@t-online.de

Producer Ken Jacobs Print Source nervousken@aol.com

Scapes And Elements

River Rites / Ben Russell

Manfred Neuwirth

A play on perception and illusion.

USA, Surinam | 2011 | 12mins

The minor secrets of a Saramaccan animist are revealed as time itself is undone. Producer Ben Russell Print Source baptiste.degas@lightcone.org

Austria | 2011 | 52mins | Colour

Producer Manfred Neuwirth Print Source office@loop-media.at www.manfredneuwirth.at

POETRY-FILM NIGHT AT Ó BHÉAL Mon 12th Nov | 9.30pm | The Long Valley, Winthrop St. For its third year, Ó Bhéal will screen a selection of thirty poetry-films, chosen from over 500 international compositions. Films include Erin Belieu’s When at a Certain Party in NYC, Matthias Zentner’s Poem and David Lehman’s French Movie. In recent years, poetry-films have been popularised as a genre in their own right, particularly by the Zebra Poetry-Film festival in Berlin, a festival dedicated to the form which attracts nearly one thousand poetry-film entries – films that must interpret, or be based on, a poem. For the full programme visit www.obheal.ie

MICHAEL HIGGINS EXHIBITION & SCREENING

SEESOUND

Saturday 17th | 12.00pm - 10.00pm | Entry €5

@ THE GUESTHOUSE. Located in Cork’s historic Shandon area, the Guesthouse will host its annual Seesound event, now in its fourth year. Seesound is a unique artist-led initiative that sets up an opportunity for sound artists and musicians to collaborate with moving image-makers in order to explore the effective relationship between sound and image and to create new works. This diverse programme of experimental films will be an exciting sensory experience. Participating artists include Rouzbeh Rashidi, Esperanza Collado, Natalie Price Hafslund and Leonora Anstrup, Vicky Langan, Paul Hegarty, Max Le Cain, Mick O’Shea, Patricia Klich, John Godfrey, Catherine Harty, Irene Murphy, Claire Guerin, Collette Nolan, Karen Power, Maciek Klich, John Thompson, Anthony Kelly and David Stalling and others. Throughout the day food and refreshments will be available.

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The full programme will be posted on the Guesthouse website. www.theguesthouse.ie

Exhibition opening and screening: Thur Nov 8th For full details: www.corkfilmcentregallery.com Opening Hours: 10am to 5.30pm Wednesday to Saturday Gunpowder Mills Centre, Ballincollig, Co. Cork Telephone: 021 421 5160 Dublin-based experimental filmmaker Michael Higgins’ work concerns people’s perception of time and reality. He uses vintage camera equipment, expired film stocks and hand processing in order to bring out the unique characteristics of celluloid subject to destruction and decay. Cork Film Centre Gallery is hosting a film-based exhibition by Higgins that will run concurrently with Cork Film Festival. The exhibition opening will also feature a screening of his new feature Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep.

MAURIZIO VALLEBELLA / EXHIBITION

MOTIONCAPTURE

Thursday 15th | 8.30pm | Firkin Crane

An Evening of Short Contemporary Dance Films Presented by Shakram Dance Company in association with Corona Cork Film Festival and the Firkin Crane Shakram Dance Company curates a diverse selection of Irish and international short contemporary dance films alongside the Cork premiere of their work Frozen. Movement and camera inter-relate in a dialogical exchange redefining and challenging our perception of both dance and film. Each film takes us on a unique visual and visceral journey through varying landscapes. Free Admission: Ticketed Event, available from Cork Film Festival box office and Firkin Crane

Triskel Arts Centre is the venue for an exhibition of the photography by Maurizio Vallebella throughout the festival week. Maurizio was for many years our festival photographer, and our good friend. He is sadly missed. Frozen by Shakram Dance Company, pic. Dara O’Brien

FILM FESTIVAL FREEZER SESSIONS

MEET SMINKY

42ND TWEET

Wednesday 14th | 10.30pm | Triskel

Sunday 11th | 2.00pm | Triskel

Sminky’s short animations have become global internet sensations, with over 6,000,000 views in a remarkably short period of time. Catchphrases such as ‘I cannn’t do it!’ and ‘he’s shtone mad for shpeed!’ have been adapted into everyday speech across the city and country. The man behind Sminky is Jason Sullivan, a multimedia student in Cork Institute of Technology. Meet Sminky includes the best of the Sminky animations plus some never-seen-before additions.

A live-tweeting screening of some our favourite shorts of the festival.

RED FM DJ Dave MacArdle will introduce the screening and facilitate a public interview with Jason.

We want an auditorium teeming with smartphones and smartguys and smartgirls to make this a truly interactive festival experience.

Have you ever wondered how a tortoise feels when he is going too fast? Would a mouse mourn the loss of a friend? Do horses have panic attacks? Do animals judge by appearances? The following pieces of nonsense are humorous out-takes of everyday Irish life as portrayed by various animals.

We¹ll screen a programme of superb shorts for tweeters’ amusement and delectation. And after each short film there will be an opportunity for audience members to tweet a short critique for followers and the filmmakers to read. There will be prizes for sharp insights, (t)witty reports and, of course, for the 42nd tweet!

Cinema for Music Lovers at Triskel Christchurch We’ve brought together some unique cinematic creations that turn their eye on everything that is wild and beautiful about the music we love. Join us nightly in the atmospheric Triskel Christchurch for this holy union of film and music.

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CELEBRATIONS OF LIGHT

The Odd Life of Timothy Greene

“Some of these short films will never be seen in mainstream cinema, and realistically people don’t have the opportunity. Watching 1,000 children over the week engage with international filmmakers, this is creating a new experience for them. Some of the films address issues, but you trust in the audience to draw their own conclusions. This really is creating a new audience for film and a new experience for the audience.” Katherine O’Riordan, Education & Industry

PARAMOUNT CLASSICS Celebrating 100 years of Paramount we present two of their timeless classics, presented for the first time following their recent digital restoration.

Sunday 18th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

With the idiosyncratic American fable Harold and Maude, countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era. Working from a script by Colin Higgins, Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold And Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age, and it features indelible performances and a remarkable soundtrack by Cat Stevens.

Harold And Maude Hal Ashby USA | 1971 | 91mins | Colour

Friday 16th | 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

The African Queen John Huston USA | 1951 | 105mins | Colour

Producers Colin Higgins, Charles B. Mulvehill Print Source Paramount Pictures

John Huston’s The African Queen is the heart-rending tale of two companions with wildly differing personalities who find themselves catapulted into a love affair as they travel downriver in East Africa at the beginning of World War I. Romantic, exciting and often hilarious in parts, this is the pinnacle of Hollywood’s Golden Age of escapism. Based on the 1935 novel of the same name by C.S. Forester, Humphrey Bogart excels as a gin-swilling river trader, unshaven and unorthodox throughout, with Katherine Hepburn playing a prim African missionary spinster, both attempting to escape the Germans via the Ulonga-Bora River. Director Huston crafted a thoroughly quixotic film, which also served as his first outing in colour and sealed his reputation as one of Hollywood’s definitive directors of the era. Producer Sam Spiegel Print Source Paramount Pictures

With thanks to Paramount Pictures, Niamh McCaul, Anna Lavery.

FAMILY & EDUCATION YOUTH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMME This year’s Youth and Education Programme provides a diverse and thoughtprovoking series of shorts, features and documentaries for primary and post primary students. The programme has been carefully selected to educate and entertain. Screenings include the Cork premiere of Private Peaceful, Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Greene and the eco-documentary Trashed, narrated by Jeremy Irons. Also screening is an exciting selection of new Irish and international short films. From Monday November 12th – Thursday November 15th All screenings €4 per person.

CIT BLACKROCK CASTLE OBSERVATORY A specially selected programme of shorts for primary and post primary school children to be screened in the stunning surroundings of CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory. BCO is dedicated to primary, secondary and third level education in Ireland and is a crucial provider of ongoing science education for teachers. Cork Film Festival is proud to partner CIT BCO for this very special festival event. For booking information and to download booking forms, please visit our website www.corkfilmfest.org/schools. For further information or to request a Youth and Education Programme, please contact Katherine O’ Riordan, Education Officer Tel: 021 427 1711 or e-mail education@corkfilmfest.org. Film and Science Exhibition €8

WORKSHOP: STOP-MOTION ANIMATION FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS Triskel Arts Centre 14:00 – 15:00; 16:00 – 17:00 Fun animation for young people – creating movies and magic using stop-motion animation. We’ll make and move plasticine creations, produce special effects using you as actors and bring your drawings to life on this fully hands-on animation workshop. Animation director Jane Lee of Paper Plane Creations. Admission €5

LORD MAYOR’S FAMILY SCREENING Tinker Bell: SECRET OF THE WINGS 3D Take a journey with Tinker Bell in Disney’s enchanting all-new adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s masterful fairytale! (See Pg 15)

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Sun Nov 11 - Sat Nov 17 Cork Opera House Middle Bar 10pm til late Admission: Free* *with any Corona Cork Film Festival or Cork Opera House Ticket Stub

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Documentaries LGBT FILMS AT THE FESTIVAL

Tuesday 13th | 10.30pm | Triskel

Satan’s Angel: Queen Of The Fire Tassels / Josh Dragotta USA | 2012 | 72mins | Colour

Shorts For Men

Shorts For Women Monday 12th | 8.30pm | Triskel

Hit So Hard / P. David Ebersole

Lesbian burlesque star Satan’s Angel has been setting nightclubs ablaze with her legendary flaming tassel act from the early ‘60s to today. Now 68, Angel Walker recounts her childhood, affairs with movie stars and battles with addiction. Both a raucous look at the history of burlesque (featuring legends like Dixie Evans and Kitten Natividad) and a tender tale of love between Angel and her devoted girlfriend Vic, this is a must-see documentary about a unique women and her fascinating and sexy life. Producer Tony Marsico Print Source satansangelmovie@gmail.com Website www.satansangelmovie.com

USA | 2011 | 103mins | Colour

Coffee & Pie

No Clothes

Sunday 11th | 6.30pm | Triskel | 83mins

Sunday 18th | 5.00pm | Gate Cinema | 83mins

Atoms / Arnaud Dufeys

Coffee & Pie / Douglas Horn

Belgium | 2012 | 18mins | Colour | Subtitled

USA | 2011 | 15mins | Colour

At a boys’ boarding school, a teacher finds himself tested by a troubled and provocative student.

A couple must come to terms with the fact that their love can never be.

Producer Véronique Duys Print Source duys@iad-arts.be

Producer Andrew Stoneham Print Source a_stoneham@hotmail.com

Dying And Other Superpowers / Elias Ribeiro England | 2012 | 14mins

Deep Down Ballet (Jetzt Aber Ballett) Isabell Suba

A comic fantasy tale of a young man’s battle with HIV.

Germany | 2011 | 30mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producer Elias Ribeiro Print Source er@urucumedia.com

Technical sergeants Bella and Sandra are a couple, but their troops have to fight each other during a military exercise. Under the pressure of their comrades, they battle until it no longer matters who first betrayed their love.

No Clothes / Hugo Kenzo

Hit So Hard is the never-before-seen backstage account of the band Hole, told using hours of footage recorded by the band’s drummer, Patty Schemel. Combined with new interviews featuring candid discussions about her sexuality, addiction and homelessness, this documentary recounts the stories of Love and Cobain but firmly positions Schemel centre stage. Schemel’s tale is a harrowing one, of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption. Producers Todd Hughes, Christina Soletti Print Source info@peccapics.com

Producer Hugo Kenzo Print Source hkenzo@gmail.com

Cows And Bells (Wenn Die Kühe Glocken Tragen) Christian Günzler

Lilja and Sandra decide to play a prank on Melitta. They send her a love letter signed with an invented name – a boy’s. When Lilja receives a letter in return, she begins a secret correspondence. What started off as a practical joke turns into a crucial turning point in Lilja’s life.

Germany | 2012 | 12mins | Colour | Subtitled

Producers Sascha Fülscher, PeÅ Holmquist Print Source mirja.hildbrand@sfi.se

Bumming Cigarettes / Tiona. M.

Producer Jorg Trentmann Print Source office@credofilm.de

USA | 2012 | 23mins | Colour

In the 1970s, a young gay man is growing up in a rural Portuguese town.

Coming out of the devastation of a bad break-up, Vee musters up the courage to put her worst fears to rest and take an HIV test. Sharing a cigarette with a stranger, Jimmy, during the ten minutes that she awaits her test results, Vee experiences more than she expected from her trip to the clinic.

Producer Black Maria Print Source blackmaria@blackmaria.pt.

Producer Tiona. M. Print Source bummingcigarettes.com

Tissues From The Village (O Nylon De Minha Aldeia) / Possidónio Cachapa Portugal | 2012 | 29mins | Colour | Subtitled

A wonderfully warm and charming documentary centring upon the often-joyous recollections of a number of men and women concerning their homosexuality and the joy, happiness, love and sex they have encountered in life. Producer Bruno Nahon Print Source www.docandfilm.com

Gayby / Jonathan Lisecki France | 2012 | 115mins | Colour

Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their 30s. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comicbook writer’s block and can’t get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together… the old-fashioned way. An irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness, and the family you chose.

Sweden | 2012 | 15mins | Colour | Subtitled

A summer romance is coming to an end for two German cow-herders.

France | 2012 | 115mins | Colour

Monday 12th | 10.30pm | Triskel

USA | 2012 | 10mins

Next Door Letters / Sascha Fülscher

Les Invisibles / Sébastien Lifshitz

Features

Producers Juliane Wothe, Oliver Dresselhaus Print Source natalie@augohr.de

Two young men begin an unconventional romance at the laundromat.

Sunday 11th | 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Producers Amy Hobby, Anne Hubbell Print Source info@peccapics.com

Gayby will be preceded by a screening of Barry’s Bespoke Bakery / Denis McArdle (See Pg 50)

OutLook Elsewhere: For more on Laurence Anyways (See Pg 23) For more on Les Invisibles (See Pg 35) Noor (See Pg 23)

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Friday 16th | 8.00pm | Opera House

Laurence Anyways / Xavier Dolan Canada | 2012 | 161mins | Colour | Subtitled

Laurence announces to his girlfriend Fred that he wants to become a woman and the two embark on an epic adventure which will push their relationship to the hilt. Producers Nathanael Karmitz, Lyse Lafontaine Print Source www.laurenceanyways.ca

INDUSTRY EVENTS

Cork Film Centre Gallery The Gunpowder Mills, Ballincollig, Co. Cork Opening hours: Wed - Sat 10am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.30pm corkfilmcentregallery.com corkfilmcentre.com info@ corkfilmcentre.com

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WORKSHOP: THE MAKING OF DOLLHOUSE WITH KIRSTEN SHERIDAN INCLUDING MEMBERS OF CAST AND CREW Triskel Arts Centre 9:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:00 Dollhouse, written and directed by Kirsten Sheridan, is the first film from the Filmmakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collective, The Factory. With characters created by the Actors and Director, shot in continuity without a script, genuine reaction techniques and an unknown plot until the moment of reveal, Dollhouse is filmmaking at its most creative. This is an exclusive opportunity to examine innovative filmmaking with cast and crew. For further information contact info@corkfilmfest.org or visit www.corkfilmfest.org Admission â&#x201A;Ź25

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15TH WORKSHOP: MAKING YOUR FIRST DOCUMENTARY Triskel Arts Centre 10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 An opportunity for those interested in the art of documentary film making to engage with some of the most innovative practitioners in the industry. Panellists will include filmmakers whose documentaries will screen at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival. Admission Free

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PANEL DISCUSSION: WRITING FOR THE SCREEN Triskel Arts Centre 11:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 13:00 Of particular interest to filmmakers making the daunting transition from shorts to features, panellists include first time feature writers Kevin Lehane (Grabbers) and Gerard Barrett, writer and Director of Pilgrim Hill, award winner at Galway Film Fleadh. Pilgrim Hill will screen at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival m100 y100 CC0000 255, 51, 51

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WORKSHOP: CORK SCREEN COMMISSION/SCREEN SCENE PRESENT â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE DARK ARTS OF POST PRODUCTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Triskel Arts Centre 14:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 16:00 A seminar on the use of new technologies such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Green Screenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gradingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in TV and Film. Screen Scene MD, Jim Duggan, looks at developments in Post and VFX for every size of screen, speaker and wallet. Credits include Game of Thrones, Die Hard 5, What Richard Did, Raw. Contact info@corkscreencommission.com Admission Free

PANEL DISCUSSION: DIRECTING FOR THE SCREEN Triskel Arts Centre 14:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15:30 Discussion on Film Directing includes award winning Director Ken Wardrop (His and Hers) and Phil Harisson (Even Gods) winner of Best Irish Short Film and Audience Award for Best Irish Short Film in Cork, 2011. Philâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first feature, The Good Man, will screen at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival. PANEL DISCUSSION: FILM PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION Triskel Arts Centre 16:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 17:30 Panellists discuss the vital role of the Producer in the film making process and the elusive area of Distribution. Participants include Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar Films) and Sadhbh Murphy (Network Ireland Television) For further information contact info@corkfilmfest.org or visit www.corkfilmfest.org Admission â&#x201A;Ź25 to include all 3 panel discussions Use only when space precludes use of master logo

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CREDITS President The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Cork, John Buttimer Chairperson Denis McSweeney Board Members Frances Lynch Denis McSweeney Michael O’Connell Finola Doyle O’Neill Sebastian Green Mary McCarthy Daniel J Coleman Tadhg O’Donovan Valerie O’Sullivan Company Secretary Seán Kelly Festival Director & CEO Michael Hannigan Festival Manager Seán Kelly Festival Programmer Úna Feely World Cinema Programme Don O’Mahony Mick Hannigan Úna Feely International & Irish Short Film Programmes Raelene Casey Mick Hannigan Viewing Panel Sabina Rogala Jane Twomey Tadhg Crowley Ronan Leonard

PRINT SOURCES Documentary Panorama Pamela Friedman Úna Feely Mick Hannigan Free Radicals Don O’Mahony Education & Industry Katherine O’Riordan

Catalogue Editorial Colm McAuliffe

Cork Opera House Production Jim Clancy

Website Bite! Design

Venue Managers Britta Beuter Ronan Leonard Alison Reilly

Cover Image & Design Craig Carry Guest Manager Dawn McAllister

Trophies Liz Morrissey

Outlook Programme David Mullane Dave Roche Emma Hurley

Guest Officers Sabina Rogala Gráinne Curtin

Drivers Eddie Burke John Joe Murphy Jim Sorenson

Administrator Vicky Langan

Vitaphonic Festival Club Máire Dineen & Jane Twomey

Cars Henry Ford & Sons

Administration Ruby Moore

Festival Team Sharon Cronin Keith O’Donoghue

Freight Agents Diamond Freight Services Ltd.

Marketing Officer Linda Curtin Press Eimear O’Brien PR

Sales & Advertising Anna Marie Holten Catalogue Design The Project Twins

Catalogue Manager Volunteers Manager Lucy Healy-Kelly

Chief Projectionist Ian Atherlay

Technical Services Dave Whelan

Projection Manager Shane Murphy

Print Transport Manager Audrey O’Mahony

Projection Team Shane Murphy Keith O’Shea Johann O’Toole Kieran Fitzgerald Chris O’Neill Eddie Noonan Robert O’Halloran Seamus Hegarty

Operations Manager Máire Dineen Box Office Manager Cora Keating

Festival Printing Allied Print Ltd.

With thanks to all our loyal volunteers and supporters.

Catalogue Editor Don O’Mahony

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dan O’Shea, Allied Print; Fionnuala Sweeney, The Arts Council; Arek Domanus, Breathru Films; Cathy Brady; Youn Ji, Autlook Film Sales; John Foley, Lisa Sheridan; Bite! Associates; Claire McSweeney, Blackrock Observatory; James Hickey, Suzanne Murray, Jill McGregor, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann; Holly Ducker, Candida Brady, Blenheim Films; Fiona Connolly, Bus Eireann; Colin McKeown, Cinema North West; Kevin Cullinane, Cork Airport; Liz Meaney, Cork City Council; Chris Hurley, Maximilian Le Cain, Cork Film Centre; Dave Roche, Arthur Leahy; Cork Gay Project; Mary Hickson & Staff, Cork Opera House; Christine Sisk, Culture Ireland; John T. Davis; John Greene, Diamond Freight; Hwa-Seon Choi, Doc and International Film; Ana Vicente, Dogwoof; Meghan Dufresne; Siobhán Farrell, Eclipse Pictures; Audrey Sheils, Element Pictures; Helen McMahon, FÁS Screen Training Ireland; Niamh Hatchell, EPA; Fiona Maddock, Hillary Creedon, Jennifer Churchward, Josephine O’Drisocoll, Fáilte Ireland; Carlo Guillermo Proto, Clotilde Vatrinet, Valeska Neu, Films Boutique; Les Films Du 3 Mars; Yura Kwon,

Autlook Filmsales GmbH Tel: +43 720 34 69 34 Email: stephanie@autlookfilms.com Web: www.autlookfilms.com

Lux Tel: +44 207 299 8800 Email: info@lux.org.uk Web: www.lux.org.uk

Breakthru Films Tel: +48 69 683 39939 Email: maja@breakthrufilms.pl Web: www.breakthrufilms.pl

Momentum Pictures Tel: + 44 (0) 207 534 0400 Email: information@momentumpictures.co.uk Web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk

Doc & Film International Tel: +33 1 42 77 89 66 Email: itl@docandfilm.com Web: www.docandfilm.com

Network Distributing Ltd Tel: +44 20 7605 4420 Email: lisa.chamberlain@networkdvd.co.uk Web: www.networkdvd.co.uk

Dogwoof Tel: + 44 (0) 207 831 7252 Email: info@dogwoof.com Web: www.dogwoof.com

Paramount Pictures Tel: 353 1 679 2668 Email: info@paramountpictures.ie Web: www.paramountpictures.ie

Eclipse Pictures Ltd. Tel: +353 1 634 0121 Email: siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie Web: www.eclipsepictures.ie

Peccadillo Pictures Ltd Tel: +020 7419 2710 Email: info@peccapics.com Web: www.peccapics.com Sixpack Films Tel: +43 1 5260990 Email: office@sixpackfilms.com Web: www.sixpackfilms.com

Element Pictures Tel: + 353 1 618 5032 Email: audrey@elementpictures.ie Web: www.elementpictures.ie Films Boutique Tel: +49 30 6953 7850 Email: info@filmboutique.com Web: www.filmsboutique.com Finecut Co., Ltd. Tel: +82 2 569 9266 Email: cineinfo@finecut.co.kr Web: www.finecut.co.kr Independent Film Company Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7257 8734 Email: sarah@independentfilmcompany.com Web: www.independentfilmcompany.com Irish Film Board Tel:+353 91 561398 Email: info@irishfilmboard.ie Web: www.irishfilmboard.ie

Finecut; Edwina Forkin; Pamela Friedman; Margaret Greene, Theresa Murphy, The Gate Multiplex; Mick O’Shea, The Guesthouse; Jim Horgan, Gulpd Café; Phil Harrison; Anne O’Leary, Henry Ford & Son Ltd; Alex Garcia, Figa Films; Sandro Fiorin; Donald Taylor Black, Anne O’Leary, Keith Foran, IADT; Sunniva O’Flynn, Irish Film Institute; Andrew Roche, Iarnród Éireann; Deirdre Hopkins, IFTN; Sarah Townsend, Stefanie Fahrion, Independent Film Company; Samuel Blanc, Jour 2 Fete; Kieran Kelleher; Beata Diegel, Frank Moens, Leuven International Film Festival; Luigi Malone’s Restaurant; Gil Leung, Lux; Benny McCabe & Staff, The Bodega Bar; Charles McCarthy; Ruby Moore; Liz Morrissey; Lisa Chamberlain, Network; Michael & James Fitzgerald, The Project Twins; Céire Duggan, RTE Supporting the Arts; Catherine Murray, Catherine Mulvihill, St. John’s Central College; Mirja Hildbrand Wester, Swedish Film Insitute, Simon Koenig, Marcel Muller, Swiss Films; Tony Sheehan, Chris O’Neill, Robert Habi, Seamus Hegarty, Triskel Arts Centre; Mary McCarthy, Dobz O’Brien, National Sculpture Factory;; Julie Evans & the Opera Lane; Monica Murphy, Le Febvre ; Gary Sheehan, Note Productions; Anna Lavery, Niamh McCaul, Paramount Pictures Ireland; Elke O’Mahony, Mairéad Vaughan, Dara O’Brian, Shakram Dance Company; Bia Sásta and Slow Food Cork; Lu Thornely & family; Paula Walsh. Cover image inspired by Harold And Maude.

IFI Irish Film Archive Tel: +353 16795744 Email: soflynn@irishfilm.ie Web: www.irishfilm.ie Lightcone Tel: + 33 (0) 1 46 59 01 53 Email: baptiste.degas@lightcone.org Web: www.lightcone.org

Unifrance Tel: +33 1 4753 9580 Email: contact@unifrance.org Web: www.unifrance.org Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)1 888 3620 Email: Martin.OGrady@disney.com Web: www.disney.ie/movies

SCHEDULE

THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CORONA CORK FILM FESTIVAL

SCHEDULE

THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CORONA CORK FILM FESTIVAL

Sunday 11th

Monday 12th

Tuesday 13th

Wednesday 14th

Thursday 15th

Friday 16th

Saturday 17th

Sunday 18th

The Invisibles 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

International Shorts 1 11.30am | Opera House

International Shorts 3 11.30am | Opera House

International Shorts 5 11.30am | Opera House

International Shorts 6 11.30am | Opera House

International Shorts 7 11.30am | Opera House

International Shorts 8 11.30am | Opera House

Irish Shorts 6 11.30am | Opera House

Forty Second Tweet 2.00pm | Triskel

Pilgrim Song 2.00pm | Triskel

The Chebeya Affair 2.00pm | Gate Cinema

Pursuit of Loneliness 2.00pm | Triskel

Irish Shorts 1 2.00pm | Opera House

Very Extremely Dangerous 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Get The Picture 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Tinker Bell: The Secret Of The Wings 3D 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Belgian Shorts 1 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Free Radical Shorts 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Noor 2.00pm | Triskel

Leaving Kings Bay 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Six Million And One 2.00pm | Triskel

Paddy Jolley Tribute 4.00pm | Triskel

Pharmacist 4.00pm | Opera House

Son of Babylon 4.00pm | Opera House

Tower 4.00pm | Opera House

Not In My Back Yard 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Am An Ghátair (Times of Trouble) + Stolen Children Stolen Lives 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

Belgian Shorts 2 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

Greetings from the Colony 4.00pm | Triskel

IADT Shorts 1 4.00pm | Triskel

The Patron Saint 4.00pm | Opera House

Belgian Shorts 4 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

IADT Shorts 2 4.00pm | Triskel

Outlook Shorts for Men 6.30pm | Triskel Opening Gala: The Great Flood 8.30pm | Opera House

Roadmap to Apartheid 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Slow Food Gala: Step up to the Plate 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Satan’s Angel 10.30pm | Triskel

Meet Sminky 10.30pm | Triskel

Gayby 10.30pm | Triskel

Irish Shorts 3 2.00pm | Opera House

Seesound 12.00pm The Guesthouse

This is Our World 12.00pm | Gate Cinema

Wonderhouse 2.00pm | Triskel

Irish Shorts 5 1.30pm | Opera House

Another Way Home 12.00pm | Triskel

Free Radicals: Arcana + Scapes and Elements 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

False Trail 2.00pm | Gate Cinema

Trashed 2.00pm | Opera House

Hail 4.00pm | Opera House

Irish Film Board Premieres 3.30pm | Opera House

Screen Directors’ Guild of Ireland Shorts 2.00pm | Triskel

IADT Shorts 3 4.00pm | Triskel

Bestiaire 4.00pm | Triskel

Finding the Footprints 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

The African Queen 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

Turn Me On Goddamit 4.30pm | Gate Cinema

The Fifth Season 2.30pm | Gate Cinema

Irish Shorts 4 6.00pm | Opera House

Comic-Con 6.30pm | Opera House

Great Shorts 4.00pm | Opera House

The Good Man 6.30pm | Gate Cinema

Pilgrim Hill 6.30pm | Gate Cinema

Festival Awards Ceremony 4.00pm | Triskel

Babeldom 6.30pm | Triskel

The Last Time I Saw Macau 6.30pm | Triskel

This Unfortunate Thing Between Us 1 7.00pm | National Sculpture Factory Laurence Anyways 8.00pm | Opera House Skin In The Game 8.30pm | Triskel Good Vibrations 9.00pm | Gate Cinema

Film Categories

GALAS

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FEATURES THE CURIOUS EYE

DOCUMENTARIES CELEBRATIONS OF LIGHT

Fire and Ice 11.00pm | Triskel

Harold & Maude 4.30pm | Gate Cinema Outlook Shorts for Women 5.00pm | Gate Cinema Tabu 6.00pm | Opera House Closing Gala: Seven Psychopaths 8.30pm | Opera House

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