Screenplay 2021 Programme

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p3 Films with Guests

p4-10, p14-15, p17, p23, p29 Down on the Farm

p13-17 Schedule

p18-19 Look North

p14-15, p20 Family Friendly

p22-24 Shorts

p24-27 Look South

p28-30 Archive / Music

p31 Workshop

p32 Fringe Event p33 Sponsors & Partners p34 Our Curators

p35 Screenplay films and events do get very busy so pre-booking is recommended. Visit our box office at Mareel, on shetlandarts.org or phone 01595 745500.

Because the usual adverts and trailers don’t apply during Screenplay films will start no later than three minutes after their advertised start time - please ensure you take your seat in plenty of time.

Some films haven’t been certificated by the BBFC but instead we’ve given them a recommended certificate, which works in the same way as an official one - please remember to bring I.D. if coming to 15 certificate films, or 12As if unaccompanied by an adult.

FESTIVAL CARDS SCREENCARD - priority booking and entry into all Screenplay screenings for only £55 (or £30 for students).

WORDCARD - priority booking and entry into all Wordplay events for only £44 (or £24 for students).

Immerse yourself in the festival experience with a FESTIVAL CARD, all of Screenplay and Wordplay for only £90 (or £45 for students).

Following the change in COVID guidance there are no longer distancing measures in place in the cinema screens, but face coverings must be worn unless you’re eating or drinking, and we’re requesting that customers take their own rubbish with them at the end of the film and put it in the bins provided.

Cinemas will be thoroughly cleaned between each screening, and there is hand sanitiser available throughout the building.

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Films will start no later than 3 mins after the listed times.

Screenplay Film Festival, curated by Kathy Hubbard, Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams. We’re delighted to be back, having had an enforced ‘year out’ due to Covid-19, and we’ve got some marvellous films for you to enjoy.

Because of the constraints of the pandemic we’ve had to make some changes to this year’s festival format – Mark and Linda will be with us virtually, online guest interviews instead of visits in-person, and the addition of the auditorium as an extra screen, for example – but we still hope to create a festival atmosphere that rejoices in the art of cinema.

You’ll see some of your favourite themes such as Look North, Family Friendly and Home Made, but we have also picked up on 2019’s Look South (this time looking south to Spain, India, the Southern states of the USA and Argentina). We’ve also introduced a new festival strand; Down on the Farm, four immersive documentaries that encourage us to think about food production, food security and the future of farming.

Our guests come, albeit virtually, from far and wide – from Scotland, England, Spain, Iceland, India and Mexico. They include Tim Barrow (making his third appearance at Screenplay), Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Icíar Bollaín, Priya Ramasubban and our own Aidan Nicol (with her first feature documentary). We are also delighted to welcome Ben Sharrock online to Screenplay.

The legend that is Guillermo del Toro, will be talking to Mark about his extraordinary career in a pre-recorded interview. Attending in person will be internationally renowned photographer Alistair Morrison, who has created a unique project born out of the pandemic.

The Covid-19 situation has presented artists with particular challenges over the last eighteen months, but we’re happy to say that our local film makers have overcome them to produce a wide range of work that is entertaining, enchanting, innovative and sometimes moving.

WELCOME

WELCOME to Shetland Arts’ fourteenth

If you’re thinking about attempting your first feature film, Tim Barrow will be holding an online workshop/discussion on how you might go about it.

Screenplay will be operated under whatever restrictions pertain due to the ongoing pandemic. Staff will do whatever they can to make your experience a safe and enjoyable one. Likewise, the education programme and the community outreach programmes will take place later in the year as circumstances allow.

Shetland Arts would like to thank the organisations and individuals who have contributed time, expertise, money and moral support to the festival. They literally make Screenplay happen, as do you, the audience.

Cinema has taken a pounding for the past eighteen months and it is a joy to experience it on the big screen again. We hope you’ll join us for five days of celebrating some of the best that it has to offer.

Kathy, Mark & Linda Screenplay programme curators

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FILMS WITH GUESTS The Devil’s Backbone 2001 | Mexico/Spain | 155m inc introduction & Q&A | Drama/Horror Subtitled | Dir: Guillermo del Toro | Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Fernando Tielve & Federico Luppi It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco’s right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos, the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate headmistress named Carmen and a kindly Professor Casares, both of whom are sympathetic to the doomed Republican cause.

Despite their concern for him, and his gradual triumph over the usual schoolhouse bully, Carlos never feels completely comfortable in his new environment. Apart from crossing a violent caretaker, he also encounters a mysterious ghost, who is trying to warn him of the danger he is in.

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The screening will incorporate a pre-recorded introduction with Mark Kermode and Guillermo Del Toro, and an online discussion and Q&A afterwards. Shetland Arts is thrilled to welcome Mr Del Toro to Screenplay, even if we can only meet him online.

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del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and make-up artist. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.

(2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015).

As a producer and/or writer, he worked on The Orphanage (2007), Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–14), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019).

Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between personal, lower-budget Spanish language films, such as Cronos (1993) and The Devil’s Backbone (2001), and Hollywood big-hitters, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy

Del Toro’s work has been characterised by a strong connection to fairy tales and horror, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque.

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FILMS WITH GUESTS Riptide 2020 | UK | 100m | 130m inc Q&A | Drama | Dir: Tim Barrow Starring: Elspeth Turner, Tim Barrow & David Tudor Discharged from a psychiatric hospital, Jacob attempts to resume life in Edinburgh, control his schizophrenia, and be a worthy member of society. He works collecting litter from streets and parks. He boxes. He takes medication. He writes everything down. His Dad barely wants to know him. Frustrated by this banal existence and encouraged by his psychiatrist, Jacob travels to the Highlands in search of fulfilment. By the sea he encounters the charismatic Eva, who claims to be the secret daughter of Ingmar Bergman. And she’s on a mission.

Director Tim Barrow is on a mission too. “The psychiatric condition of schizophrenia affects 1 in 100 of the population and is still misunderstood, misrepresented and stigmatized. Our film aims to tell its story with integrity, authenticity, hope, and humour. The cast and crew are indebted to people of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for research,

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advice and encouragement, especially Professor Stephen Lawrie, Head of Psychiatry at Edinburgh University.”

Screening before Riptide will be Laurence’s Story, a short film made for Mind Your Head, about the importance of getting support for those suffering from mental health problems.

Shetland Arts would like to thank UNISON and Mind Your Head for their support of this event.

There will be an online Q&A with Tim Barrow, Mark Kermode & Linda Ruth Williams after the Wednesday screening.

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Barrow Born in Edinburgh, and brought up between Australia & Scotland, Tim trained as an actor at Drama Centre London. Alongside a career in theatre as an actor and playwright, he founded Lyre Productions to make contemporary Scottish feature films. He wrote, produced & starred in The Inheritance – an award-winning indie Scottish road movie. He then wrote, produced, directed & starred in Lyre’s second feature The Space

Between, and in Lyre’s third feature Riptide – a schizophrenia love story road movie.

Riptide premiered at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2020, and continues to screen at film festivals worldwide. This is Tim Barrow’s third visit to Screenplay, and we look forward to seeing him again – if only virtually!

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FILMS WITH GUESTS Limbo 2021 | UK | 134m inc Q&A | Comedy drama | Dir: Ben Sharrock Starring: Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Sidse Babett Knudson, Ola Orebiyi Ben Sharrock’s critically adored deadpan comedy-drama Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience, shining a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines.

Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, Limbo tells the story of a group of new arrivals awaiting the results of their asylum claims. It centres on Omar (played by rising star Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician who, thousands of miles from home, finds himself trapped by guilt, regret and the grief that he carries for the loss of his former identity. Separated from his family and burdened by a plaster cast on his arm, Omar wanders the epic landscapes searching for answers to a complex past and daunting future. But while he is stuck there, he isn’t alone. In between brief

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long-distance conversations with his parents and passing interactions with oddball locals, Omar and his new flatmates attend outrageously misjudged ‘cultural awareness’ classes, binge Friends boxsets, and debate attending the local open mic night, all the while waiting for the delivery of letters that will ultimately determine their future.

“This is superlative film making from Sharrock.”

- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian The screening will be followed by an online Q&A with Ben Sharrock, Mark and Linda.

Shetland Arts is grateful to Amnesty International Shetland and Shetland Solidarity With Refugees for their support of this screening.

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Sharrock Ben Sharrock is an award-winning writer and director known for his unique sense of cinematic style and voice. His work has been described as touching, absurd and visually striking. Ben graduated from The University of Edinburgh with a degree in Arabic and Politics before attending Screen Academy Scotland, where he graduated with an MA Distinction in Film Directing followed by an MFA in Advanced Film Practice, for which he was awarded the Rafford Scholarship and the university medal for outstanding achievement.

Ben’s debut feature film, Pikadero, premiered at San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2015, where he was nominated for Best New Director.

The film was recognised by the Spanish Film Academy as an “outstanding contribution to independent Spanish cinema” and while Scottish, Ben has been hailed as “a new voice in Spanish cinema”. Limbo is an industry backed and English language debut for Ben, supported by Film4, BFI and Screen Scotland.

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SCREEN 2 CINEMA HIRE Mareel is the perfect venue to host any event.

We offer hire options for many of the excellent spaces in Mareel. These include the Main Auditorium, the Green Room, the Media Lab, the Recording Studio and of course Screen 2.

Screen 2 seats up to 37 people and can been hired for a huge range of events from conferences, private film screenings, kids parties, school bookings, stag, hen and hamefarin do’s and even big screen gaming!

For more info on hiring Mareel see our hire page: www.shetlandarts.org/hire Please contact Shetland Arts to discuss on 01595 743 843 or admin@shetlandarts.org 01595 745500 | shetlandarts.org

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FILMS WITH GUESTS Time to Pause 2020 | UK | 63m | 108m inc Q&A | Documentary | Dir: Alistair Morrison Time to Pause is a unique and timely Covid-19 documentary created online by renowned photographer Alistair Morrison. A photographer out of his element, trapped in isolation, asks 1000 people from around the world to join him from their varied ‘lockdown spaces’, so he can photograph them through the computer that becomes his studio.

Conceived initially as a remote photography project, it soon became obvious that he was not merely capturing their image, but he was also being given the unique opportunity to see into the emotional lives of strangers from over 100 countries, all living under very different circumstances but connected by the same moment in time - the Covid-19 pandemic.

Alistair will be visiting Shetland along with some of the project participants, some of whom have not Thu Sun

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yet seen the film. There will be a Q&A with Alistair Morrison, Mark and Linda after the Thursday screening which may be filmed.

Alistair Morrison Alistair Morrison is a world renowned photographer whose portraits are hung in Museums and Private Collections worldwide. With over 80 of his images in the National Portrait Gallery London, Well known for his portraits of iconic celebrities from various eras, Morrison life’s work is recognised as one of the definitive photographic records of individuals who have been influential in all walks of life, from Royalty and world leaders, to dignitaries, authors, actors and legends of sport and music. Time to Pause is his directorial debut.

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GET QUALIFIED MUSIC & AUDIO | FILM & VISUAL Shetland College UHI, in partnership with Shetland Arts, offer a range of music, audio and film courses, from part time courses for school pupils through to BA (Hons) degrees.

Courses can be studied full or part time, and degree courses utilise several flexible study methods.

Visit www.shetlandarts.org/education & www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk/courses to view courses and for more details about how to apply online.

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DOWN ON THE FARM

The Truffle Hunters 2021 | Italy/Greece/USA | 90m | Documentary | Subtitled | Dirs: Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw | Featuring: Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda & Maria Cicciù Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle—which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation. They’re guided by a secret culture and training passed down through generations, as well as by the noses of their cherished and expertly-trained dogs. They live a simpler, slower way of life, in harmony with their loyal animals and their picture-perfect land, seemingly straight out of a fairy tale. They’re untethered to cell phone screens or the Internet, opting instead to make their food and drink by hand and prioritizing in-person connections and community.

soon becomes clear, these ageing men may just hold something much more valuable than even this prized delicacy: the secret to a rich and meaningful life.

And it’s Screenplay – so there are DOGS. Shetland Arts would like to thank Taste of Shetland, the Shetland Livestock Marketing Group, the COP26 Climate Fringe Fund and Stuart Hubbard for their support of this film.

“A scrumptious cinematic journey. Try not to fall hard for the joy it spreads.”

– Tomris Laffly, VARIETY

The demand for white truffles increases year after year, even as the supply decreases. As a result of climate change, deforestation, and the lack of young people taking up the mantle, the truffle hunters’ secrets are more coveted than ever. However, as it

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DOWN ON THE FARM / LOOK NORTH

The Last Autumn 2019 | Iceland | 81m | 115m inc Q&A | Documentary | Subtitled Dir: Yrsa Roca Fannberg | Featuring: Ùlfar & Oddny More than a thousand autumns ago, humans arrived with their animals to a land pushed up against the Arctic Ocean. Autumns came and autumns went.

Where the road ends, Úlfar, the last in a long line of farmers, lives with his wife. As autumn returns their grandchildren arrive from the city to attend the last herding of the flock. Next autumn farming will cease and all the sheep will be gone.

The film was made in Árneshreppur, the smallest parish in Iceland. Director Yrsa Roca Fannberg has been helping the farmers to herd their sheep down the mountains each autumn and she sees them as her friends. In 2016, the year when The Last Autumn was shot, there were nine farms, and five children in the school and there was a small shop. Today the school and the shop has closed. With every year that passes, the population gets smaller as people leave. There are controversial plans to build a dam.

While some say the dam could save the parish,

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others warn of the irreversible damage to nature.

Farming has always formed a cornerstone of life in Árneshreppur, but the younger generations are moving away, following other paths. For now, life is as it is lived, just before the transformation that seems to be around the corner.

The edge is crumbling – will we in Shetland be the next edge?

Shetland Arts would like to thank Taste of Shetland, the Shetland Livestock Marketing Group, the COP26 Climate Fringe Fund and Stuart Hubbard for their support of this film.

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Fannberg There will be a pre-recorded Q&A with Yrsa Roca Fannberg after this screening - as she will be caa’in sheep in Árneshreppur on the actual day!

Yrsa Roca Fannberg was born in Iceland, brought up in Sweden with Catalan heritage. She holds a BA in Fine art from Chelsea College of Art, London (2000) and a master in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

(2009). Her first documentary Salóme (2014) won several awards, amongst them the Best Nordic documentary at Nordisk Panorama.

The Last Autumn (2019) is her first feature documentary and is produced by Akkeri Films and Biti aptan bæði.

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DOWN ON THE FARM Gunda

“A work of genius” - The Guardian

2021 | USA/Norway | 96m Documentary | Dir: Victor Kossakovsky Cinema in its purest form, Gunda chronicles the lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy.

Using luminous black and white cinematography and the farm’s ambient soundtrack, director Victor Kossakovsky invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do. In doing so Gunda takes us into the mystery of animal consciousness, and the role humanity plays in it. There is no voiceover, just the sounds of the farm and its inhabitants as they go about their daily lives. Writing in Sight & Sound film critic Ben Nicolson wrote “By placing us close to the pigs’ lives while resisting the temptation to narrativise, Gunda allows viewers space to observe, ruminate, and formulate their own position in response to what they are seeing and experiencing.” Watch out for the scenestealing one-legged hen …

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“A must-watch” - The Times Shetland Arts would like to thank Taste of Shetland, the Shetland Livestock Marketing Group, the COP26 Climate Fringe Fund and Stuart Hubbard for their support of this film.

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UK | 60m | 90m inc Q&A | Documentary | Captioned | Dir: Aidan Catriona Nicol Bucking the imported food trend – one goat at a time. This is the story of The Goat Dairy, its team and the goats of Grenada. Taking one small project’s story as its focus, the film hopes to share the difficulties small scale producers face and the neverthe-less worthwhile benefits that can be generated for people and our environment through increased promotion and understanding of sustainable farming practices. Aidan says “I hope it shines a light on the impacts we could be making towards increased food security, valuing nutrition, working against climate change and growing economic opportunities if we make a commitment to support and sustain a different way of producing and consuming when it comes to the future of agriculture.”

The Saturday screening will be followed by an online Q&A with Aidan Nicol, Mark & Linda.

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Shetland Arts would like to thank Taste of Shetland, the Shetland Livestock Marketing Group, the COP26 Climate Fringe Fund & Stuart Hubbard; also Felipe Bustos Sierra, Jack Coghill & Matchbox Cine for their help in bringing this film to Screenplay.

Aidan Nicol Levenwick raised and now based in Moniaive, Aidan currently works as festival and project manager for Puppet Animation Scotland. One of the founding members of Maddrim Media, Aidan studied film and media at Stirling University and went on to work in film and TV production.

She has since produced the Hebrides International Film Festival. This is her first feature documentary grown from three years of return visits to Grenada and five years of editing in between jobs!

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SCHEDULE

Wednesday 1 September Gunda Riptide + Laurence’s Story + Q&A Gay Chorus Deep South

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Thursday 2 September Gunda The Truffle Hunters Riptide + Laurence’s Story Shorts for Wee Ones A Minuscule Adventure Time to Pause A Common Crime + Intro The Last Autumn + Q&A

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Friday 3 September Shorts for Wee Ones The Truffle Hunters The Last Autumn Gay Chorus Deep South Shorts for Wee Ones Home Made 1-4 A Minuscule Adventure The Devil’s Backbone + Intro & Q&A Gay Chorus Deep South

Tickets can be booked online at shetlandarts.org, or by calling the Box Office on 01595 745500 (Wednesday to Sunday, 10am – 10pm).

All Shetland Arts events are held in accordance with current COVID guidance.

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Films will start no later than 3 mins after the listed times.

A Minuscule Adventure The Truffle Hunters Shorts for Wee Ones Grenada and the Goats + Q&A Gunda Refresh Now (Double Bill) Dive: Rituals in Water Lerwick Lockdown Riptide + Laurence’s Story The Last Autumn Limbo + Q&A A Minuscule Adventure Home Made 1-4 Rosa’s Wedding + Q&A A Common Crime + Intro

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Sunday 5 September Shorts for Wee Ones Chuskit + Q&A A Minuscule Adventure Grenada and the Goats Tim Barrow Onine Workshop Refresh Now (Double Bill) Gunda Launch!

Gay Chorus Deep South Rosa’s Wedding The Last Autumn Time to Pause Dive: Rituals in Water Lerwick Lockdown A Common Crime + Intro The Last Autumn The Truffle Hunters

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LOOK NORTH Dive: Rituals in Water Iceland | 76m | Documentary | Subtitled | Dirs: Hanna Björk Valsdottir, Elin Hansdottir & Anna Run Tryggvadottir | Featuring: Snorri Magnusson

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Three female directors explore the sensory world of newborns in this delightful depiction of an unconventional infant swim class.

The film’s gentle vibrational soundscape and lush underwater cinematography make it a meditative must-see.

For the past 25 years, swim instructor Snorri Magnusson has pushed the boundaries of what we believe tiny humans are capable of. His sundrenched circular pool in the snowy Icelandic mountains is a unique sanctuary, creating precious space for parents and their infants.

Snorri’s gentle sense of play inspires fascination and delight, and the babies throw themselves into the crystalline water with abandon or balance aloft on his hands, squealing with glee.

He works with the infants and their parents, using rhythmic vocalisations to encourage them to swim together. A trained teacher, Snorri astounds developmental psychologists with his ability to understand the early childhood psyche – “one, two, three, dive!”.

This is the festival director’s choice for Screenplay 2021. Kathy says “If you don’t come out of this film grinning, there is the splinter of an icicle where your heart ought to be.”

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FAMILY FRIENDLY A Minuscule Adventure France | 95m | Animation | No dialogue | Dir: Hélène Giraud & Thomas Szabo This charming, gorgeous and completely enchanting magical adventure follows on from the popular TV series and 2014 film, Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants which screened at the festival in 2017.

A stunning combination of live action photography and animation, A Minuscule Adventure is a funfilled adventure for all ages.

As the first snowflakes fall in the valley, it is high time to gather supplies for winter. However, in the process, a young ladybug becomes trapped in a parcel... that gets shipped off to the Caribbean!

There is only one way out: gather the dream team.

Together, they join forces on the other side of the globe to rescue the young lady-bug. A new world, new encounters and new dangers: will the rescue squad make it in time?

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2018 | India | 123m inc Q&A | Family drama | Subtitled | Dir: Priya Ramasubban Starring: Jigmet Dewa Lhamo, Morup Nangyal & Sonam Angchok Lively Chuskit’s dream of going to school is cut short when she is rendered a paraplegic after an accident. She’s confined to life indoors in the company of her strict grandfather, Dorje. Chuskit continues to harbour hopes of school but Dorje tries to make her understand that school can’t handle her needs. As life at home gets harder, her battle with her grandfather exacerbates. Caught in between their struggle are Chuskit’s parents and her enterprising brother who want to respect the old-world views that Dorje represents, but also want to keep Chuskit’s spirit alive. Chuskit will have to get her grandfather to yield or she will have to accept the reality he has chosen for her.

Smashing film with great performances by the young cast, the screening will be followed by an online Q&A with director Priya Ramasubban & Kathy Hubbard.

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Priya Ramasubban Priya Ramasubban is a renowned filmmaker who has travelled the world for over fifteen years making films for National Geographic, Discovery, History Channel and other major international broadcasters. She is a storyteller at heart and has the ability to deal with complex subjects in a nuanced way allowing for textured interpretation.

Priya was one of the six people chosen from all over India as a part of a screenwriter’s lab organized by the National Film Development Corporation where she received an opportunity to evolve her story for Chuskit under the mentorship of award-winning Dutch writer Jolein Laarman. She was inspired to write Chuskit by her sister Vidya who has worked extensively with differently abled people in Ladakh.

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FAMILY FRIENDLY / SHORTS

Shorts for Wee Ones Various | 50m | Minimum or no dialogue | Various directors Nine short animated films from across the world, collected by our friends at Dundee Discovery Film Festival for young audiences. Every year Discovery puts together a programme of fabulous shorts for our youngest audience (although older folk will love them too – we do!), and they have become regular Screenplay favourites. Together they form a delightful introduction to world cinema that is sure to charm.

Patchwork Spider | 2019 | Germany Little Grey Wolfy | 2016 | Norway Leaf | 2020 | Belarus / Czech Republic Sloth | 2018 | Germany A Lynx in the Town | 2019 | France The Little Bird and the Bees | 2020 | Switzerland 6:1 | 2018 | Russia Mishou | 2020 | Germany / Bulgaria The Witch and the Baby | 2019 | Russia

The programme includes wonderful tales of sloths, little grey wolves, patchwork spiders, a cat who finds himself in the Arctic and a lynx who has an exciting night out on the town.

Thu 15.15 £5.50 Fri 11.30 £5.50 17.00 £5.50 Sat 12.00 £5.50 Sun 10.30 £5.50

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SHORTS

HOME MADE 1-4 2021 | Shetland | 120m | All genres Various local film makers Yes, it’s the annual dose of cinematic anarchy as Shetland film makers put their best feet forward and show us what they’ve been doing for the past year or two. Always a festival highlight, this year’s submissions (none longer than four minutes) range from animation to comedy to documentary, drama and music videos. The film makers also range from the professional to the first time have-a-go artists, and the whole experience will be celebratory. After a year’s absence due to Covid-19, we’re looking forward to seeing them (and you) all there!

Thanks go to Shetland ForWirds for their support of this event; once again, they are providing prizes for the most effective use of dialect in a Home Made film.

Fri Sat

17.30 20.15

£10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16) £10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16)

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SHORTS Refresh Now (Double Bill) 2021 | Shetland | Total 30m The Muckle Stane and Wildie and Lalla were commissioned by Shetland Arts as part of its Refresh Now season produced earlier this year. Refresh Now brought together Shetland grown talent, from specially commissioned films to live performances, for a celebration of culture across April 2021. This season of events was funded through Creative Scotland’s Performing Venues Relief Fund and supported by Shetland Charitable Trust.

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The Muckle Stane

Wildie and Lalla

Made by: Gilly Bridle, Jen Hadfield & Jenny Sturgeon

Made by: Catriona Macdonald, Shona Main & Angelica Kroeger

In the village of Stanewick, folk love to talk. They love to gossip, to tell tall tales and to help each other … and when they have a problem no-one can solve, they look to the hills. But when they learn to tell the time, Nature has to come to the villagers to sort things out.

This new musical composition and film by Catriona Macdonald, Shona Main and Angelica Kroeger will view Unst-born Jessie M. E. Saxby as a woman, writer, folklorist and mother through the lens of contemporary female creative practice.

Sat 13.45 Free Sun 14.00 Free

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SHORTS

Lerwick Lockdown 2020 | Shetland | 35m | Drama | Dir: Grace Barnes | Producer: Dave Hammond Written by: Gordon Dargie, Dave Hammond, Laureen Johnson, Angela Sinclair, James Sinclair & Jessie Williamson Created by Grace Barnes, written and performed by local artists, Lerwick Lockdown is a unique portrait of an island community in Scotland during the unprecedented coronavirus national emergency.

Radio and newspaper headlines combine with individual accounts of what it actually felt like to be here in the early months of the pandemic. Originally premiered online, this is a welcome opportunity to see this special film on the big screen, which features a host of local performers: Jenny Atkinson, Mary Blance, Kevin Briggs, Karen Erasmuson, Christine Geldard, Laurie Goodlad, Tom Jamieson, Donna Marie Leask, Lesley Leslie, Andy Long, Stanley Manson, Morag Maver, Stephenie Pagulayan, James Paton, Mandy Phillips, Bob Skinley, David Smith, Karl Ward and Joyce Williamson.

Sat 15.30 Free Sun 19.15 Free

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LOOK SOUTH A Common Crime Argentina | 105m inc introduction | Drama | Subtitled | Dir: Francisco Márquez Starring: Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martínez, Eliot Otazo & Cecilia Rainero Cecilia is a single mother and a sociology teacher at the local University. One stormy night, Kevin, a poor young man, the son of her maid, desperately knocks on the door of her house. Terrified, she doesn’t open. The next day, Kevin’s body shows up floating in the river, with protestors claiming he was chased down and murdered by the police.

Cecilia begins to be haunted by the young man’s ghost. Disturbed, she tries to forget him and go on with her life, but now it seems she is the ghost.

Elisa Carricajo gives a terrific performance in this slow-burn but cracking psychological and political drama about guilt, and the nature of personal responsibility in the face of injustice.

The screening will be preceded by an online introduction from Mark Kermode.

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Thu Sat Sun

19.45 21.00 20.00

£10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16) £10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16) £10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16)

Films will start no later than 3 mins after the listed times.

Spain | 100m | 130m inc Q&A | Comedy | Subtitled | Dir: Icíar Bollaín Starring: Candela Peña, Sergi López & Nathalie Poza Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she’s always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind and take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business. Somewhere along the way she decides to get married to the person who really matters to her – herself! What follows is a comedy of errors as her family and friends fail to understand or accept her decision and start making plans of their own for Rosa’s wedding.

A fun, good-hearted romp with an excellent cast and a serious message about being accepted for your own self and not how others view you.

There will be a an online Q&A after the Saturday screening between Icíar Bollaín & Felipe.

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20.20

£10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16)

Sun

16.30

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Icíar Bollaín Icíar Bollaín was born in Madrid. As an actress she starred in numerous films including El Sur (1983, dir. Victor Erice) and Land and Freedom (1995, dir.

Ken Loach). As a writer and director she has won awards from major international festivals for films such as Flowers From Another World (1999) and Take My Eyes (2003). In 2009 her film Even the Rain, scripted by Paul Laverty, obtained national and international recognition. She and Laverty worked together again in 2016 on The Olive Tree, and again in 2018 on Yuli, the story of dancer Carlos Acosta.

LOOK SOUTH / FILMS WITH GUESTS

Rosa’s Wedding

Felipe Bustos Sierra is a Belgian-Chilean film maker based in Glasgow. His first feature Nae Pasaran became the most successful Scottish documentary in UK cinemas and won the Scottish BAFTA award for Best Feature in 2018.

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LOOK SOUTH Gay Chorus Deep South 2019 | USA | 103m | Documentary | Dir: David Charles Rodriguez Featuring: The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus & The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws and the divisive USA 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarks on a tour of the American Deep South. Led by Gay Chorus Conductor Dr. Tim Seelig and joined by The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir; the tour brings a message of music, love and acceptance to communities and individuals confronting intolerance. Over 300 singers travelled from Mississippi to Tennessee through the Carolinas and over the bridge in Selma. They performed in churches, community centres and concert halls in hopes of uniting people in a time of difference.

The journey also challenges Tim and other Chorus members who fled the South to confront their own fears, pain and prejudices on a journey towards reconciliation. The conversations and connections that emerge offer a glimpse of a less divided America, where the things that divide us—faith, politics, sexual identity—are set aside by the soaring power of music, humanity and a little drag.

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£10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16) £7.50 / £5.50 £10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16) £10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16)

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ARCHIVE / MUSIC

Launch! - On the Sea with Scotland’s Lifeboats 2020 | Scotland | 60m | Documentary/Archive | Directed & edited by Shona Thomson | Music by: John Ellis, Arun Ghosh, Jason Singh & Jenny Sturgeon Launch! dives into archive footage of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary musicians.

Directed by award-winning curator Shona Thomson (using rarely seen footage of RNLI crews past and present) Launch! takes in the length and breadth of Scotland’s coastal communities – including Aith and Lerwick. Immersive, inspiring and often moving footage takes the audience right into the experience of the crews and their supporters.

A live debut performance at Celtic Connections 2020 saw Jason Singh, Jenny Sturgeon, Arun Ghosh and John Ellis perform the score live alongside the specially commissioned film. These world-class musicians then recorded the score during lockdown to accompany the cinema release of the film. It premiered at Mareel in June this year and this screening as a welcome opportunity

to watch it again – or to see it for the first time if you missed it then. This time we will be fortunate in having additional footage shot by Aith Lifeboat crew member Nick McCaffrey, with local fiddler and Lerwick Lifeboat member Maggie Adamson accompanying, along with guitarist Arthur Nicolson.

“It was an absolute privilege to host the premiere of Launch! at Mareel and to screen this brilliantly crafted, important and moving film to a Shetland audience. The RNLI is very much embedded in our community... and the film’s resonance with the audience was tangible.”

- Jenny Leask, Mareel Cinema Programmer Sun

14.30

£10 / £7.50 / £5.50 (-16)

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WORKSHOP Making your first feature film!

An informal discussion led by Edinburgh based film maker Tim Barrow.

If you have ever dreamed of making your own feature film, here is an opportunity to talk through some of the challenges and things to consider with someone who has done it - three times. Tim will lead an informal discussion on what is involved in getting your film made and crucially – seen by audiences. The conversation will be held online via Zoom, and we’d love to see you, wherever you are in your film making journey.

The Inheritance (2007)

This event is free to current film students.

The Space Between (2011)

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14.00 - 16.00

Online

£10/Free

Riptide (2020)

Films will start no later than 3 mins after the listed times.

FRINGE EVENT

Confusing Shadow with Substance A film and sound installation made collaboratively by artists Jo Millett and Janette Kerr with sound recording and mixing by artist Rob Gawthrop.

The 3 screen installation focuses on Shetland haaf fishing of the 18th & 19th Centuries, a unique yet elusive part of Shetland’s heritage. There were over one hundred fishing station sites around the coast of the Shetland and its islands. Once hives of activity, little is now left of the makeshift booths and bods where communities of fishermen and traders made temporary homes over the summer months. These are landscapes that now conceal more than they reveal.

Confusing Shadow with Substance examines the interplay of past with present at Stenness, Northmavine, one of Shetland’s busiest former fishing stations, where hundreds of men worked and lived. The installation is concerned with the slippage between that which is gone, that which remains, and the drift between the two.

Opening Open: Venue:

evening: Sept 3rd, from 6.30pm September 4th - 5th, 2-6pm Easthouse Heritage Centre, Papil, West Burra, Shetland, ZE2 9UY

Janette Kerr is a visual artist whose work often involves walking, and historical and sciencebased research www.janettekerr.co.uk Jo Millett is a moving image and sound artist with a particular interest in temporality and location www.jomillett.co.uk Rob Gawthrop uses projection and homemade devices to explore aural and visual phenomena www.robgawthrop.co.uk

Supported by Creative Scotland, Elephant Trust, Shetland Museum & Heritage Museum.

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Shetland Arts would like to thank the following organisations and individuals for their support of Screenplay 2021.

Stuart Hubbard (in memory of Pete Glanville)

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HUBBARD Kathy retired from her job as Head of Development at Shetland Arts in 2014, but carried on working with Screenplay until 2018, having co-curated the festival with Mark and Linda since 2009. She is an avid documentary fan, as can be seen from the programme, and a staunch supporter of local

film making. Whilst this is a festival unlike any of the others she has worked on (thanks to the pandemic) she is looking forward to seeing the Screenplay audience back in Mareel for a five day feast of local, national and international cinema.

OUR CURATORS

KATHY

MARK KERMODE Mark Kermode is chief film critic for The Observer. He co-hosts BBC Radio 5live’s weekly Kermode and Mayo Show, and The Film Review on BBC News Channel. He presents a weekly Film Music show on Scala Radio, and monthly MK3D live shows at the BFI Southbank. He hosts the Kermode on Film podcast and introduces

films for the BFI Player. He has written and presented numerous film and music documentaries for both TV and Radio. He is the author of several books on film and music. He plays Double Bass in The Dodge Brothers who provide live accompaniment to silent films.

LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS Linda Ruth Williams is Professor and Head of Film and Television Studies at Exeter University and researches women in British cinema (including for the pathbreaking Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK Film Culture project), and is writing a book on women writer-directors. She has served on juries at the

Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Regina International Film Festival and the Golden Trailer Awards, and - this year - will be at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, and has been Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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“ Now more than

ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”

- Martin Scorsese

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