Cornwall Film Festival 2014

13th International Cornwall Film Festival 31st October – 30th November 2014

REGAL REDRUTH Friday 31st October WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Start time: 19.30 Run time: 87 minutes BBFC Classification: CFF rating 15 Other info: Dir: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi | New Zealand | 2014 Genres Mockumentary/Comedy/Drama/Thriller Flatmates Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern society, but their (eternal) lives are turned upside-down when 8000 year-old flatmate Petyr turns Nick, a 20-something hipster, into a vampire. The guys must teach Nick the ins-and-outs of immortality, while learning a thing or two themselves about modern society, fashions, and technology. When the life of Nick’s human friend, Stu, is endangered, the vampires show us that even though your heart may be technically dead and cold, it doesn’t mean you can’t feel anything. This hilarious mockumentary is an absolute must-watch and the perfect way to start your Halloween evening.

REGAL REDRUTH Saturday 8th November THE BOX OF DELIGHTS Screen 4 Start time: 15.45 End 17.08 Run time: 74 mins BBFC Classification: U Other info: Dir: Various | 2012 Genres Family/Children’s/Animation Nine award-winning short films from the British Animation Awards, specially selected for 8-12s. An amazing variety of animation techniques from filmmakers around Europe, exploring stories and themes full of creativity and humour.

STILL LIFE screening at 2 venues REGAL REDRUTH Saturday 8th November Screen 2 Start time: 17.30 End 19.02 PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th Screen 1 Start time: 19.40 End 22.56 Running time: 92 minutes BBFC Classification: CFF 12A Other info: Dir:Uberto Pasolini | UK | 2014 Genres - Comedy/drama Winner of numerous Best Film awards, as well as an academy award for Best Cinematography, Still Life is beautiful, intense film on loneliness and belonging. John May (Eddie Marsan) is a lonely figure whose job is to track down relatives of people who have died alone. But when local authorities decide to let him go, his final case throws him into the path of Kelly Stoke, daughter of the deceased, and proves an unlikely and final opportunity to ensure that he, unlike those whose empty funerals he has attended, does not end up alone. Still Life is a poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife.

REGAL REDRUTH Saturday 8th November IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE Screen 4 Start time: 19.40 End 21.36 Run time: 115 minutes BBFC Classification: 12A Other info Dir: Hans Petter Moland | 2013 | Norway Norwegian with English Subtitles Genres - Thriller/Drama

Nils (Stellan Skarsg책rd) is a snow-plough driver somewhere in Norway. He learns that his son has died, allegedly due to an overdose of heroin. Nils knows, that his son has not been an addict and starts a private investigation. Soon he finds out, that it is the local drug gang that is behind the crime. He hunts down the two killers, and kills both of them, but not before they confess. Based on this information, he goes after their boss, but he finds himself in the crossfire between two rival gangs: one local, one "imported" from Serbia.

REGAL REDRUTH Saturday 8th November NIGHTCRAWLER Screen 2 Start time: 20.00 End 21.57 Run time: 117 minutes BBFC Classification: 15 Other info: Dir: Dan Gilroy | US | 2014 Genres Thriller/Drama Jake Gyllenhaal is lean and hungry in this lurid thriller, a study of the pulpy world of underground L. A. crime journalism, and the directorial debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who "nightcrawl" - that is to say, come out at night to film crashes, murders and assorted violence and sell their gruesome footage to local TV stations - Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) soon muscles in on the dangerous and morally dubious world of vigilante journalism, where each police siren equals a possible payday. A deeply satisfying modern noir with a superb performance from Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler is a fantastically compelling watch.

REGAL REDRUTH Saturday 8th November HYENA

Screen 4 Start time: 17.30 End 19.22 Run time: 112 minutes BBFC Classification: CFF 18 Other info: Dir Gerard Johnson | UK |2014 Genres Thriller/Drama Meet Michael Logan - an anti-hero for our times, a natural predator in the jungle of London’s underworld. Michael (Peter Ferdinando) leads a special task force targeting London’s biggest and baddest drug traffickers. He and his team aren’t above taking their cut from the bad guys: in the world in which they operate, that’s how things work, and the distinction between infiltrating drug gangs in order to bust them and benefitting personally from the drug trade is almost non-existent. However, the arrival on the scene of two brutal Albanian brothers threatens to change the game. Hyena demonstrates the impressive boldness and control of the medium of writer-director Gerard Johnson.

REGAL REDRUTH Sunday 9th November BRIGHTON ROCK Screen 2 Start time15.20 End 16.52 Run time: 92 mins BBFC Classification: PG Other info: Dir: John Boulting | UK | 1947 | 92 mins Genres Crime/Drama/Thriller/Classic Rightly regarded as a genuine classic of British cinema, Brighton Rock is a classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel detailing the activities of a group of thugs in 1930s Brighton. Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the head of a gang of small time crooks who make their money from a protection racket centred around Brighton race course. Pinkie is known for his short fuse and brutality, so his murder of a rival, Fred (Alan Wheatley), is very much in character. Pinkie believes, nonetheless, that he has got away with the crime until the promptings of a suspicious local woman, Ida (Hermione Baddeley), threaten to have the case reopened. Since only one person can identify him as the murderer, the waitress, Rose Brown (Carol Marsh), Pinkie comes up with an ingenious solution - marry Rose to stop her testifying against him. But will things go to plan?

REGAL REDRUTH Sunday 9th November ELECTRICITY Screen 4 Start time: 17.30 End 19.05 Run time: 95 minutes BBFC Classification: CFF 15 Other info: Dir: Bryn Higgins | UK | 2015 Genres Drama When Lily O'Connor, a witty, sexy, searingly defiant Northerner with epilepsy and a tough past finds out that the brother she's long thought dead could still be alive, she risks her life to go in search of him.

Like THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY, ELECTRICITY is a journey through the real world and through the wildly hallucinatory inner world of epilepsy. Lily sees everything in terms of angles: you look at every surface, weigh up every corner and think of your head slamming into it. Her epilepsy summons flashbacks, spectral figures, even birds emerging from her throat. And in the wrong place at the wrong time it can kill her. As Lily abandons her safe routine in a seaside town and heads into the treacherous underbelly of London she takes us on a deeply moving, frightening but finally uplifting trip that really is like nothing you've seen before. Will Lily's bravery help her connect her past and her future - or will she die trying? A British production Directed by Bryn Higgins From the writers: Joe Fisher (screenplay), and Ray Robinson (novel) Starring Agyness Deyn.

NIGHT MOVES screening at 2 venues REGAL REDRUTH Sunday 9th November Screen 4 Start time: 19.30 End 21.23 PHOENIX FALMOUTH Sunday 16th November Screen 1 Start time: 15.00 End 16.53 Run time: 113 minutes BBFC Classification: 15

Other info: Dir: Kelly Reichardt, | USA | 2014 Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg Genres Thriller Director Kelly Reichardt’s suspense-thriller Night Moves follows three environmentalists whose homegrown plot to blow up a controversial dam unravels into a journey of doubt, paranoia and unintended consequences. As organic farmer Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), high society drop-out Dena (Dakota Fanning) and ex-Marine Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) plan, carry out and then witness the fallout of an attention-grabbing act of sabotage, they find their very limits tested.

MYSTERY ROAD screening at 2 venues REGAL REDRUTH Sunday 9th November Screen 2 Start time: 15.00 End 17.00 ROYAL ST. IVES Saturday 22nd November Screen 1 Start time: 17.15 End 19.15 Run time: 120 minutes BBFC Classification: 15 Other info: drama/thriller A brutal crime, a rookie cop out of his depth stands alone between two worlds, where the mystery lies just below the surface. Mystery Road from Director Ivan Sen is a crime thriller and winner of an impressive spread of awards, including the Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2014 Australian Film Critics Association Film & Writing Awards. An indigenous detective returns to his outback hometown and, alienated from both the police force and his own community, stands alone in his fight for his town and people.

EFFIE GRAY screening at 3 venues REGAL REDRUTH Sunday 9th November Screen 4 Start time: 17.30 End 19.10

PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th November Screen 1 Start time: 15.35 End 17.00 ROYAL ST.IVES Sunday 23rd November Screen 1 Start time: 15.00 End 16.40 Run time: 100mins BBFC Classification: 12A Other info: Dir: Richard Laxton|UK|2014 Genres - Period drama A passion project for Emma Thompson (who wrote and stars in the film), this compelling drama explores Victorian social and sexual mores via the true story of Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning). Gray was the young bride of art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), Thompson’s intelligent screenplay explores the truth of the breakdown of their marriage, its eventual annulment and Effie’s sensational new relationship with one of Ruskin’s acolytes, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge) in this handsomely shot, brilliantly performed film with a fantastic ensemble cast.

MR TURNER PHOENIX FALMOUTH Friday 14th November Start time: 20.15 End time 22.45 Running time: 150 minutes BBFC Classification: 12A Synopsis: - see synopses Other info: English Drama Mr Turner has been brilliantly received, premiering in competition for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2014, where Timothy Spall won Best Actor and Dick Pope received a special jury prize for the film’s cinematography. Written and directed by Mike Leigh, and starring Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey and Ruth Sheen, this new drama follows the life and career of British artist J. M. W. Turner and should not be missed.

PRESENTING… PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th Screen 2 Start time: 13.00 End time 15.00 Running time: 120 minutes BBFC Classification: CFF - PG

Synopsis: - A special selection of student work from Falmouth University's School of Film & Television with the award winners from the Cornwall Film Festival 2014 competitions.

I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th Screen 2 Start time: 15.30 End time 16.50 Running time: 80 minutes BBFC Classification: TBC CFF 12A Genre Drama/Teen/Romance I Believe In Unicorns explores young love and its troubles, beauty and complexity. The film tells the story of Davina, a young, disillusioned girl who finds refuge from reality in a beautiful fantasy life. When Davina begins a relationship with Sterling, an older boy, she is swept up by the romance and a sense of adventure.

PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th LIFE ITSELF Screen 2 Start time: 17.30 End 19.28 Run time: 118 mins BBFC Classification: CFF PG Other info: Dir: Steve James | USA | 2014 Genres – Documentary

Life Itself explores the impact and legacy of Roger Ebert’s life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.

Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present Life Itself, a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert – a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent. Based on his bestselling memoir of the same name, Life Itself, explores the legacy of Roger Ebert’s life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.

ATTILA MARCEL screening at 2 venues PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th Screen 1 Start time: 17.20 End 19.06 ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November Screen 1 Start time: 17.30 End 19.16 Run time: 106 minutes BBFC Classification: 12A Other info: Dir: Sylvain Chomet | France | 2013 French with English subtitles French writer-director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist), whimsical tale about a young piano virtuoso, his smothering aunts, and a magical brew from a very odd neighbor ! A charming comedy, with wry humour, music, fantastic production design and brilliantly fun. The film follows Paul, a man smothered by the aunts who raised him. Full of music, dance sequences, and colorful production design, Attila Marcel echoes the work of Chomet’s visionary contemporaries Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Michel Gondry, with a strong dose of legendary Jacques Tati’s influence for good measure. César nominated Guillaume Gouix makes a splendid turn as both the man-child Paul and as Paul’s father, in flashbacks. This charming, feel-good film is an unforgettable delight. This film was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was well received, and is sure to be greatly enjoyed by all.

WINTER SLEEP screening at 2 venues PHOENIX FALMOUTH Saturday 15th Screen 2 Start time: 19.40 End 22.56 ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November Screen 3 Start time: 13.30 End 16.46 Running time: 196 minutes BBFC Classification: CFF 12A Other info: Turkish with English subtitles Genre Drama

PHOENIX FALMOUTH Sunday 16th November THE OVERNIGHTERS Screen 2 Start time: 15.20 End 17.02 Running time: 102 minutes BBFC Classification: N/A Other info: Dir: Jesse Moss | USA Genres – Documentary A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor

starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences that he never imagined.

Premiered in the US Documentary Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Intuitive Filmmaking.

PHOENIX FALMOUTH Sunday 16th November MY NAME IS HUMMM…( Je m’appelle Hmmm…)

Screen 2 Start time: 17.30 End time 19.31 Running time: 121 minutes BBFC Classification: TBC CFF 15 Other info: Dir: agnès b | 2013 | French and English with English subtitles Genre – Drama The first feature by fashion designer and film lover agnès b. this is a deeply personal, incandescent work that filters childhood trauma through the poetry of the road. Céline (Lou-Lélia Demerliac) is an 11year old who holds her family together as she bears the weight of sexual abuse by her unemployed father (Jacques Bonnaffé) while her mother (Sylvie Testud) earns money as a waitress. During a school trip to the seaside, she runs away and hides out in the cab of a freight truck driven by a sweet middle-aged man from Scotland (artist Douglas Gordon) who is in the midst of dealing with his own trauma. The film, alive to the beauty of every face and every landscape, casts a magic spell and stays true to the lives of its characters

PHOENIX FALMOUTH Sunday 16th November SAINT LAURENT Screen 1 Start time: 17.35 End 19.50 Running time: 135 minutes

BBFC Classification: N/A Synopsis: - see other files Genre French biography drama This beautifully shot, wonderfully acted and remarkable film details the life and career of Yves Saint Laurent, a French fashion designer who revolutionised women's fashion. Directed by Jalil Lespert, the movie treads familiar biopic ground, with betrayals and addictions and scandal and love, it traces Saint Laurent’s life and work from the late 1950s in Paris, when the designer took over as artistic director of the legendary House of Dior at age 21, to the late 1970s.

VIOLETTE screening at 2 venues PHOENIX FALMOUTH Sunday 16th November Screen 2 Start time: 20.30 End 22.49 REGAL REDRUTH Saturday 8th November Screen 2 Start time: 15.00 End 17.19 Running time: 139 minutes BBFC Classification: 15 Other info: French with English subtitles Genre – Drama Director Martin Provost brings us a French biographical drama film about French novelist Violette Leduc, which screened in the Special Presentation section of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. When Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-desPrés, an intense relationship begins between these two woman that will last throughout their lives.

Simone encourages Violette, introducing her to famous contemporary intellectuals and eventually ensuring Violette’s success as an extraordinary writer.

NORTHERN SOUL screening at 2 venues PHOENIX FALMOUTH Sunday 16th November Screen 1 Start time: 20.50 End 22.32 REGAL REDRUTH Sunday 9th November Screen 2 Start time: 19.45 End 21.26 Run time: 102 mins BBFC Classification: 15 Northern Soul is the story of a youth culture in the 1970s which changed a generation. It tells the tale of a nightclub based movement which developed in Northern England. The film is an authentic and uplifting account of two young boys whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music. No longer satisfied with the prospect of a small town life and a factory production line, they dream of going to America to discover super rare records which will help them become the best DJs on the Northern Soul scene. The difficult journey forces the two best friends to confront rivalry, violence and drug abuse as their friendship and loyalties are tested to the limit.

ROYAL ST. IVES Saturday 22nd November THE YOUNG & PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET Screen 1 Start time: 15.00 End 16.45 Run time: 105 minutes BBFC Classification:12A Genre Action/Adventure film/Young person A brilliant family adventure film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie and Kyle Catlett. A child prodigy embarks on an eventful journey in this charming, visually stunning fable from the director of 'Amelie'. Tecumseh Sparrow Spivot (Kyle Catlett) is a precocious 10-year-old cartographer who resides on an idyllic ranch in Montana with his eccentric family. Dad chooses to live the life of a cowboy, even though he's a century too late. Mum, who T.S. refers to as Dr. Clair (Helena Bonham Carter), older sister Gracie is obsessed with beauty pageants, while T.S.'s twin brother Layton couldn't be any less identical ! Our pint-sized hero's amazing adventure begins when he invents a perpetual motion machine. The prestigious Smithsonian Institution gets in touch to give him an award, so he sets off alone to Washington DC to collect it. 'Amelie' director Jean-Pierre Jeunet adapts Reif

Larson's much-loved novel with typical verve, extracting a fabulous central performance from young Kyle Catlett.

ROYAL ST. IVES Saturday 22nd November HAPPY END Screen 3 Start time: 17.35 End 19.01 Run time: 86 minutes BBFC Classification: N/A Other info: German with English Subtitles Happy End is the debut feature from writer-director Petra Clever, (The Mermaids). This romantic road movie stars Sinha Gierke and Verena Wustkamp as two women who embark on a wild adventure to deliver the ashes of a friend to her final resting place - against the wishes of her family. There is irresistible chemistry as Verena’s free spirit liberates Lucca from her more conservative upbringing, and soon their lives change forever. A hit on the LGBT film festival circuit, in parts comedic this film tackles love, life and loss.

ROYAL ST. IVES Saturday 22nd November WE SHALL OVERCOME Screen 3 Start time: 20.10 End 21.36 Run time: 86 minutes BBFC Classification: TBC CFF 15

We Shall Overcome, award-winning family film, follows Frits. A 13 year-old in 1969 provincial Denmark, bullied by his brutal headmaster and dealing with his father’s breakdown. After listening to records of Martin Luther King’s speeches, Frits finds the inspiration to fight back at the repressive regimes in his community and to spread the winds of change. This film is beautifully acted and sensitively directed, full of exquisite moments both painful and pleasurable, with a central character that we are rooting for all the way.

ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November POST TENEBRAS LUX Screen 3 Start time: 14.15 End 16.15 Run time: 120mins BBFC Classification: 18 Other info: Dir: Carlos Reygadas|Mexico / France / Netherlands / Germany | 2012 Latin for “light after darkness”, Post Tenebras Lux is a semi-autobiographical drama follows a rural couple in Mexico. The film competed at the Cannes Film Festival where director Reygadas won the Best Director Award. POST TENEBRAS LUX (“light after darkness”), ostensibly the story of an upscale, urban family whose move to the Mexican countryside results in domestic crises and class friction, is a stunningly photographed, impressionistic psychological portrait of a family and their place within the sublime, unforgiving natural world. Reygadas conjures a host of unforgettable, ominous images: a haunting sequence at dusk as Reygadas’s real-life daughter wanders a muddy field and farm animals loudly circle and thunder and lightning threaten; a glowing-red demon gliding through the rooms of a home; a husband and wife visiting a swingers’ bathhouse with rooms named after famous philosophers. By turns entrancing and mystifying, POST TENEBRAS LUX palpably explores the primal conflicts of the human condition.

ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November JIMI: ALL BY MY SIDE Screen 1 Start time: 20.00 End 21.58 Run time: 118 minutes BBFC Classification: 15 Other info: drama Dir: John Ridley | UK / Ireland / US|2013| Outkast’s André Benjamin stars in screenwriter John Ridley’s (12 Years a Slave) directorial debut, a biopic of guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix focusing on the early stages of his career in the 60s. A struggling back-up guitarist playing in New York clubland, Jimi gets a break when hip Londoner – and girlfriend to Rolling Stone, Keith Richards – Linda (Imogen Poots) sees him play and is mesmerised by his talent.

Buying him a new guitar, she invites him into her circle, introducing him to key industry figures and bringing him to London where he makes his mark on the UK music scene, whilst also meeting Kathy (Hayley Atwell) and falling in love. Benjamin is utterly convincing as the young Hendrix, charismatic but troubled, and on the brink of greatness.

ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November

WATERMARK Screen 3 Start time: 17.15 End 18.45 Run time: 90 minutes BBFC Classification: U Other info: documentary Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We witness how humans are drawn to water, from the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach to the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, where thirty million people gather for a sacred bath in the Ganges at the same time. In Watermark, the viewer is immersed in a magnificent force of nature that we all too often take for granted - until it’s gone. Winner of the Canadian Film Award at the 2013 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, as well as being named Best Feature Length Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards.

ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November THE GRAND SEDUCTION Screen 3 Start time: 19.45 End 21.40 Run time: 115 min BBFC Classification: 12A Genres – Comedy Brendan Gleeson (Calvary) stars in this feel good droll comedy about a struggling Newfoundland town.

Tickle Cove is faced with financial ruin, determined villager, (Gleeson) convinces the locals to welcome handsome young Dr. Paul Lewis (Taylor Kitsch) with open arms in hopes of securing a contract that will bring a factory to their struggling hamlet. The Grand Seduction was nominated in four categories for the Canadian Screen Awards, with Gordon Pinsent winning the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

ROYAL ST. IVES Sunday 23rd November THE HOUR OF THE LYNX Screen 1 Start time: 20.00 End 21.46 Run time: 106 minutes BBFC Classification: 12A Other info: Staring Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling, Lia Boysen Swedish/Danish with English subtitles Genre - Thriller Danish director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s psychological thriller The Hour of the Lynx stars Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing) as a vicar, who offers her help to a wounded soul at a locked institution. After a desperate plea for help with the young man, who was part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets. It becomes a race against time as two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man’s soul. What they are about to realize will change them forever.