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Online: corkfilmfest.org from 14 October.

For booking enquiries: boxoffice@corkfilmfest.org Ticket prices (unless otherwise stated) Gala presentations Daytime screenings (before 6pm) Evening screenings (after 6pm) Festival Fan Pass: 7 films Festival Friend Double Festival Friend

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Box office opening hours (Triskel Christchurch): 15 October - 15 November Mon - Sat 1000-1800 Sundays 1200-1800 Venue box offices will be open from 30 minutes before a screening until 15 minutes after a screening. Last minute tickets will be available from the screening venue only.

It’s always best to book in advance online or with our Box Office team. Cash is the speediest way to pay in Box Office venues.

Festival Friends To purchase a Festival Friend package, please go to corkfilmfest.org/friends Since 1956, the Cork Film Festival has brought Cork City the best in local, national and world cinema and we need your help to continue to light up the city every November. The generosity of our patrons is key to the success of the Festival.

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Terms and Conditions Concessions are available to students, seniors and persons with a disability. Photo ID is required/recent social welfare card.

Tickets may only be purchsed or used for admission by those who are 18 years or older. Tickets are non-refundable and nontransferable. Please be aware that seats may be sold on unless occupied ten minutes before screening time. While information in the brochure is correct at time of going to press, there may be programme changes due to circumstances beyond our control.

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WELCOME

It is a special honour to present this programme as the Festival reaches its 60th Edition. It is a vast, packed, panoramic line up of films and events, giving you the opportunity to visit every corner of the globe, from the comforts of Cork’s fine cinemas.

Some innovations include a new competition for feature documentaries; expanding our Ideas programme beyond Illuminate (which is back) to consider issues such as assisted dying, abortion, and the refugee crisis; and collaborating with the Festival’s new Principal Partner RTÉ to present the Gala of our David Lean Classics at the Opera House: Brief Encounter with Live Score by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. On behalf of my terrific staff - whom I thank from the bottom of my heart - I welcome you to your Cork Film Festival, proudly 60, and still dancing.

James Mullighan, Creative Director, Cork Film Festival

Welcome to the 2015 Cork Film Festival. Our 60th Edition programme is packed with stimulating, entertaining and engaging cinematic delights from Ireland and around the world.

Presenting this programme would not be possible without the support of the Arts Council Ireland, our Principal Funder, the Arts Office of the Cork City Council, Fáilte Ireland, Culture Ireland, and the Irish Examiner. The Board is delighted that our National Broadcaster has joined these ranks as a Principal Partner - read more about that on p.10. We welcome back the Irish Film Board and Irish Film Institute, and appreciate the growth of the partnerships with the National Sculpture Factory, UCC, St Johns, and CIT. Thank you to our core and seasonal staff and to my Board colleagues.

My gratitude extends to you, the festival-goer, for your enthusiasm and support which drives us as we celebrate the Jubilee of the Cork Film Festival.

Denis McSweeney Chairman of the Board

I am delighted to welcome this milestone Cork Film Festival celebrating its 60th edition, the longest running film festival in the country. We have a great tradition for film in Cork City where each year audiences from home and abroad flock to this city to see an array of international, national and local films. The festival has always been an important platform for local and national talent and we are delighted to see it become an official festival for submission for shorts for the Oscars creating very exciting potential for local filmmakers in this iconic international arena.

We need as a city to continue to support the arts to ensure that organisations and individuals have the opportunity to make work, can connect with our international partners and continue Cork’s tradition of looking outwards and welcoming new ideas and people, new culture and art to our city.

I congratulate the festival on its exciting and diverse programme this year which has something for all tastes and interests and wish you all a wonderful Cork Film Festival.

Chris O’Leary Ardmhéara Chorcaí, Lord Mayor of Cork

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SPECIAL EVENT

A genre defying ‘catastrophic’ thriller from one of the great living masters of cinema.

Opening Gala GALA

11 MINUTES / 11 MINUT Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Ireland | 81mins | Subtitled FRI 6 | 2000 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

The same 11 minute period in the lives of several different characters is revisited over and over, by the great Polish iconoclast. A sleezy Hollywood director auditions an actress. A jealous husband is out of control. An elderly man calmly sketches a bridge. A high-rise window cleaner takes an illicit break. A team of paramedics rush a pregnant woman to hospital. An ex-con serves hot dogs to hungry nuns, whilst a dog does what dogs do do (but we see this from the dog’s point of view). It is a world full of unsurety - perhaps the only surety is that anything might happen at any time.

The ever adventurous Skolimowski (Moonlighting,

the Shout, Essential Killing) turns his singular style to extracting as much tension, exhilaration, emotion and motion from that revisted brief time frame. As is often Skolimowski’s way, the striking sound design is at the fore, and Mikolaj Lebkowski’s cinematography provides many surprises and delights. A Polish co-production with Ireland’s Element Pictures (and heartfelt thanks to them), the film’s strong largely Polish cast also includes Good Vibrations star Richard Dorner. This thrilling and breathless ride will open the 60th Cork Film Festival in exhilarating style.

With thanks to Element Pictures Distribution.

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CAROL Todd Haynes | USA | UK | 2015 | 118mins SUN 15 | 2000 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love in Carol. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change.

A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens.

While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) threatens her competence as a mother when Carol’s involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) comes to light. As Carol leaves the comfort of home to travel with Therese, an internal journey of selfdiscovery coincides with her new sense of space.

Directed by Todd Haynes and written by Phyllis Nagy, Carol beautifully speaks to the transforming nature of characters within the road movie genre. In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal novel The Price of Salt, and with moving performances from a stellar cast. Carol reminds audiences that desire is often expressed in the absence of personal joy.

With thanks to STUDIOCANAL

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Irish Gala

IRISH GALA

STRANGERLAND Kim Farrant | Australia | Ireland | 2015 | 112mins SAT 14 | 2045 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

New to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, the Parker family is thrown into crisis when Catherine and Matthew discover that their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits the town.

With Nathgari now eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the locals join the search led by local cop David Rae. With temperatures rising, and the chances of survival plummeting with each passing day, Catherine and Matthew find themselves pushed to the brink as they struggle to survive the uncertainty of their children’s fate.

Emboldened by an incredibly strong cast - including Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving and an on-form Nicole Kidman - Stangerland is a wonderfully crafted piece of filmmaking from Australian Kim Farrant after a script co-written by Ireland’s Michael Kinirons, and magnificent cinematography by Kerry-born P.J. Dillon, and produced by Fastnet Film’s Macdara Kelleher. It is a gripping story told with confidence, panache and no little aplomb.

With thanks to Wildcard Distribution

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RTÉ is proud to be Principal Partner of Cork Film Festival in its 60th anniversary year. The festival transforms the city into a major hub for the international film industry, and RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service media, will be at the heart of it all – as it is everyday at its southern base on Fr Mathew’s Quay.

RTÉ events include: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Brief Encounter: Watch what is often voted the most romantic film of all time on the big screen, while the full forces of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform the score live on stage. A gala event not to be missed. See p13.

RTÉ’s long-running global affairs series, What in the World? will launch its new season with a premiere screening of Yo Cambio – about prison life in El Salvador followed by a question and answer session with producer Peadar King. See p53.

RTÉ opens the doors to its Cork studios for a masterclass with Brian Newman, one of the world’s leading media and distribution consultants, as part of CFF’s Talent Development Campus. See p29 Glen Mulcahy, Innovation Lead, RTÉ, will present a talk on new technology used in movie making, from low-cost drones to 360 immersive video, as part of Interactive@ Cork. See p29.

Once again, the RTÉ Cork prize for the Grand Prix Irish Short will be presented to the winner in the closing weekend of the festival. It includes a prize of €1500 plus a screening of the winning short on RTÉ2.

RTÉ Archives will look back at the Festival’s 60 year history and will share some footage from years gone by online. In the run-up to and during the festival, RTÉ will capture action online and on air. Follow @rte on twitter for details and information.

RTÉ Supporting the Arts, which supports over 100 regional arts events annually, is a key supporter of Cork Film Festival.

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SPECIAL EVENT

The Cork Film Festival 60th Edition Irish Premiere Gala

An all-star cast, including Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels and Seth Rogen, brings to dazzling life this fizzing biopic of the visionary who revolutionised the way we communicate.

IRISH PREMIER

STEVE JOBS Danny Boyle | USA | 2015 | 122mins SUN 8 | 2030 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

The Cork Film Festival is honoured to have this hugely anticipated movie as the Irish Premiere Gala for its 60th Edition, and delighted to play it on the giant screen at the Cork Opera House. The film’s pedigree is extraordinary: not just that amazing cast, but also director Danny Boyle (an Oscar® for Slumdog Millionaire) helming the film from Aaron Sorkin’s (an Oscar® for The Social Network) adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography Steve Jobs. It is a film in three acts, running over 14 years, with each act based around the lead up to and launch of an iconic Jobs’s product: the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT Cube in 1988

and the iMac in 1988. Through these, this structure delivers a detailed, nuanced portrait of Jobs’s life, and reminds us how these mass marketed products have changed the way we work, live and communicate.

With heartfelt thanks to David Burke and all at Universal for granting the Irish premiere of the film to Cork, home to Apple’s European headquarters.

“Fassbender is enthralling. It’s impossible to take your eyes off him”. Variety

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SPECIAL EVENT

David Lean Classics at the Cork Opera House

DAVID LEAN GALA

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SCREENING WITH LIVE SCORE: BRIEF ENCOUNTER SAT 7 | 1900 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

David Lean | UK | 1945 | 86mins

David Lean’s black and white cinematic masterpiece is often voted the most romantic film of all time. In this special presentation, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performs the score live on stage, creating the David Lean Classics at the Opera House Gala, with thanks to RTÉ.

‘There was not a dry eye in the house, not least because of the eye-watering beauty of having the score freshly created in front of us as the movie rolled.’

Classical Music Magazine

This is the story of the chance meeting of a married doctor and a suburban housewife on a train platform, which leads swiftly to an emotional love affair, with unexpected consequences. The film brought to fame Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with its lush emotional landscape.

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David Lean | UK | 1962 222mins + interval

David Lean | UK, USA 1965 | 200mins

1300 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

1530 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

David Lean’s greatest triumph, this intriguingly ambivalent 1962 account of TE Lawrence’s exploits in the Middle East during World War One is also a landmark in the epic tradition of cinema.

See p93

The enthralling historical romance - starring Julie Christie and the recently late Omar Sharif - still retains its personal intimacy and epic sweep, and looks dazzling in this new restoration.

See p101

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SPECIAL EVENT

Music Gala

An extraordinary concert film of the last gig of Rory Gallagher’s Taste, presented exclusively in Ireland with special guests.

Photograph: John Minihane

This special cinema presentation - the first in Ireland - will have an introduction and extended Q&A after with Rory’s brother Donal and Hot Press’s founder and proprietor Niall Stokes.

MUSIC GALA

WHAT’S GOING ON: TASTE LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 1970 Murray Lerner | 1971 | 82mins WED 11 | 1930 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

The third and final Isle of Wight festival, August 26-31 1970, was the largest musical event at that time, attracting over 600,000 music fans. Present was Oscar®-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner (1981 Oscar® for From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China). All rock royalty performed there that week, and over the years Lerner has dipped into his vast archive to release feature-length records of performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Miles Davis and Leonard Cohen.

Crucially on the bill was Taste, the blues-rock trio formed in Cork in 1966 by Rory Gallagher. Lerner had only intended to shoot two numbers by the band, saving his precious film stock for more ‘high profile’ artists, but immediately recognising that he was witnessing something special he kept the cameras rolling for over an hour. It was the outfit’s last gig, but if the cracks were already forming within the band they never showed to the multitudes who were present to witness one of the most underappreciated bands of the era at the peak of their powers. A mere 22-years-old at the time, Gallagher tears into such classics as What’s Going On and Sinner Boy with abandon. Before the gig, the film explores the importance of Rory Gallagher on Irish and world music, with contributions from Bob Geldof, the Edge, Brian May, director Lerner himself, and many more.

The 16mm film has been restored to Hi-Definition and the sound remixed at 5.1 for this 2015 version.

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INTERNATIONAL JURY

IRISH JURY

Joanna Łapińska

Zofia Horszczaruk

POLAND

Joanna is the Artistic Director of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Poland. Joanna also created and is the head of the Polish Days, a small film market focusing on the presentation of latest Polish film projects.

Gerard Stembridge LIMERICK

Gerard Stembridge is one of Ireland’s best known writer/directors. His films include Guiltrip, About Adam, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Nora and Alarm. He is wellknown for his radio work with Dermot Morgan (Scrap Saturday). Gerard is the 2015 UCC Screen Artist in Residence, an initiative created by the Arts Council Ireland.

Peter Foott

CORK Peter Foott is an multi-award winning filmmaker with prizes from Venice Film Festival, Cork Film Festival and the Irish Film & Television Awards. He is creator, writer and director of RTÉ’s hit comedy show The Fear which is on its fourth season. Before that he was producer, writer and director on RTÉ’s Republic of Telly.

He recently wrote and directed his first feature film entitled The Young Offenders which is due for cinema release in 2016.

Selecting: Grand Prix International short Oscar® qualifying Gradam Spiorad na Féile/ Spirit of the Festival Award Cork Film Festival Nomination for the 2016 European Film Academy Award

POLAND Zofia works in Acquisitions and Short Films Sales at New Europe Film Sales. NEFS is a boutique world sales company based in Warsaw, Poland and works with international content across the world.

Rossa Mullin CORK His Pooleen Productions took over the running of the revamped Cork Screen Commission and relaunched it as Film In Cork in June 2015. His feature Shem The Penman Sings Again (Dir. Pádraig Trehy) is this year’s Cork Gala. See p89

Dawn Morrissey CO. KILDARE / USA Dawn has been the director of Irish Film Festival, Boston since 2009. She executively produced the documentary Blazing the Trail–The O’Kalem’s in Ireland which screened at over 20 festivals worldwide and was commission for broadcast by RTÉ.

Selecting: Grand Prix Irish short presented by RTÉ Cork, Academy Awards® qualifying Best Cork Short Award

DOCUMENTARY JURY Claire Aguilar

UK / USA Director of Programming Industry Engagement for Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the leading documentary showcases for film and digital media in the world.

Colm O’Callaghan CORK As Ceannasaí Cláracha Gaeilge, Science and Education (Head of Irish Language Programmes, Science and Education), he is responsible for over 30 hours of television in the RTÉ One schedule every year.

David Rane

Cork Film Festival Audience Award Cork Film Festival Youth Jury Award Lux Prize Nomination will also be announced at the Award Ceremony, Sunday 15 November, 1900 Triskel Christchurch.

A free event.

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David has produced many award-winning documentaries, including Fairytale of Kathmandu and The Stranger, a number of animated films and shorts including the BAFTA-winning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. David is also the founder and festival director of the Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival, which held its 9th edition in October 2015.

Selecting Gradam ne Féile do Scannáin Faisnéise (Award for Cinematic Documentary) Grand Prix Documentary short award

AWARDS

Cork Film Festival

Cork Film Festival

Gradam na Féile do Scannáin Faisnéise 2015

Gradam Spiorad na Féile 2015

Gradam na Féile do Scannáin Faisnéise

Gradam Spiorad na Féile

Award for Cinematic Documentary

Spirit of the Festival Award

Documentary is a rapidly evolving genre, with aesthetic and cinematic qualities emerging as a priority in a new generation of filmmakers who are abandoning voiceover, talking heads and archive footage to embrace a new mode of storytelling. This Award celebrates documentary as an international art form, highlighting the unique beauty, horror and visceral impact that true events have to offer.

The initiation last year of the Gradam Spiorad na Féile / Spirit of the Festival Award was an exciting one. As long-time champions of a broad range of cinematic approaches it behoved us to honour those new, fresh talents, distinctive voices and bold approaches. This year we present five more we expect will surprise and delight.

Above and Below

Couple in a Hole

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Nicolas Steiner, USA

The Magic Mountain

p89

Tom Geens, UK

p80

Anca Damian, Romania, Poland, France

The Nightless City

p73

Alessandra Pescetta, Italy

My Love, Don’t Cross That River p88

Performer p95

Jin Mo-young, South Korea

Maciej Sobieszczański, Łukasz Ronduda

On The Rim of the Sky

p95

Hongjie Xe, China, Germany

The Russian Woodpecker Chad Gracia, UK, Ukraine

Ruined Heart

p88

Khavn, Philippines

p73

Tangerine p81 Sean Baker, USA.

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Illuminate mental health in film Illuminate is Cork Film Festival’s Series of carefully curated film and discussion events, which focus on different aspects of mental health.

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Mental health is a universal issue - one in three of us will be touched by it at some point in our lives. Film has a unique position as a vehicle for discussion, and Illuminate creates an open forum where experts and audience members alike come together and share their knowledge and experiences.

In an age where mental health issues are becoming increasingly de-stigmatised, discussed and understood in our society and our media, Illuminate uses the platform of film to tackle themes of medicalisation, representations of mental health in film and media, society’s attitude and responsibility toward those suffering with mental health issues and many more.

This film and discussion series each time starts with a feature length film, and then breaks out into extended audience interactive discussion sessions, with clinicians, commentators, policymakers, ethicists and philosophers interviewing and rejoining with the filmmakers.

SPECIAL EVENT

DEAD WHEN I GOT HERE THU 12 | 1800-2030 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Dir.: Mark Aitken

A film about a man finding purpose for his life in the most unlikely place after years of self-destruction. Josué was cast out of the traumatised streets of Juárez, México into the desert and dumped in a mental asylum run by its own patients. Assisted by people employing empathy as the only means of survival, Josué transcended near death - discovering compassion in his darkest hours. Six years later, Josué manages the asylum and dreams of his estranged daughter. This is a story about sorrow and hardship but also about healing and redemption.

The post screening panel discussion will explore the problem of homelessness and mental health in Ireland, and the issue of social responsibility to those suffering from mental health issues.

Speakers: Mark Aitken (Director), Richard Walden (Scottish Mental Health Film Festival), Joan Hamilton (Slí Eile) and more TBA.

GOOD GIRL FRI 13 | 1600-1930 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Dir.: Solveig Melkeraaen

Good Girl is Norwegian director Solveig Melkeraaen’s brave autobiographical documentary about her journey through acute depression. It is a film about weight: the weight Solveig feels to be the ‘Good Girl’; the weight of her depression; its weight upon her loved ones and the weight of her decision to undergo ECT treatment. Melkeraaen turns the camera on herself in a search for truth and understanding. During the film Solveig is again hit by depression and we take the journey through illness, vulnerability and treatment with her. An unflinchingly honest film which explores depression, ECT and the light and hope of recovery with bravery and humour.

The post screening panel discussion will focus on depression and its impact upon individuals and families, ECT and recovery.

HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK SAT 14 | 1330-1600 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Dir.: Sonja Heiss

Hedi’s life is seemingly perfect, a loving husband, a beautiful son and an adventure on the horizon. However, one day Hedi suffers a debilitating panic attack and the happy balance of all their lives become threatened and fragile. Hedi’s battle with illness and her dependency on medication set the family in stasis. The film is the story of a family set back by a problem that could interrupt any of our lives. Sonja Heiss’ triumph in her treatment of depression is the refreshing balance of tragedy and wry comedy the film achieves. The light touch and gentle tone of Hedi Schneider is Stuck rather than undermine the seriousness of the issues dealt with only make us realize the universal, human nature of them.

The post screening panel discussion will explore issues of anxiety, medicalisation, stigma and representations of mental health in film and media. Speakers: Dr. Peter Byrne (University College London), Ann O’ Connor (Arts+Minds) and more TBA. 21

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LUX

The European Parliament LUX Film Prize casts an annual spotlight on films that go to the heart of European public debate. The Parliament as does the Cork Film Festival - believes that cinema, a mass cultural medium, can be an ideal vehicle for debate and reflection on Europe and its future. The films celebrate the universal reach of European values, illustrate the diversity of European traditions and shed light on the process of European integration. The Festival is proud to present three from the Lux Prize 2015/16 Longlist.

All Free Events

LUX

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MEDITERRANEA

TOTO AND HIS SISTERS

THE LESSON / UROK

Alexander Nanu | USA | 2014 | 94mins

Kristina Grozeva, Peter Valchanov Bulgaria | Greece | 2015 | 110mins

Jonas Carpignano | USA | 2015 | 107mins WED 11 | 1800 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Mediterranea is one of two films the Festival is presenting from the LUX Prize longlist, for free. The film tells the story of Ayiva, who travels from his native Burkina Faso to Italy in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter, taking advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend off the continent. The gripping, humanising drama is a must for anyone who seeks to know more about the current refugee crisis. This screening is followed by a Q&A with cast and crew, beamed live from the film’s Brussels presentation.

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TUE 10 | 1600 | GATE

TUE 10 | 1815 | GATE Filmed over 15 months in a Bucharest slum, Toto and his Sisters tells the astonishing story of Toto (10), and his sisters, Ana (17) and Andreea (15). During their mother’s imprisonment, Toto passionately learns dancing, reading and writing, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childhood should be. With extraordinary access, director Alexander Nanau presents a fascinating account of cyclical poverty, drugs and the importance of family. See p65.

The second film the Festival is able to present for free, thanks to the support of the LUX Prize. Set in Bulgaria, the film tells the story of a young teacher searching for the robber in her class, all the while getting deeper into debt with loan sharks.

New Directors Award - San Sebastian Film Festival 2014 See p66.

SPECIAL EVENT

Orson Welles To mark the centenary of Orson Welles’ birth, we present a selection of his finest achievements as a director. His debut Citizen Kane is rightly regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. Although he managed to make some exceptional films in Hollywood (such as The Lady From Shanghai), the maverick Welles had to struggle for creative freedom within the studio system.

Consequently, he made several independent features in Europe such as an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello and F For Fake, his exhilarating and marvellously idiosyncratic final feature.

01. Citizen Kane Considered by many to be Welles’ masterwork, Citizen Kane remains grand cinematic entertainment, sharply acted and directed with inspired visual flair. See p64

02. The Lady From Shanghai Michael O’Hara is an innocent man lured into a dangerous web of intrigue featuring baffling murders, multiple plot twists and remarkable camera work. See p92

03. Othello Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952, this is Welles’ dynamic version of Shakespeare’s tragedy with the director taking on the title role himself. See p100

04. F For Fake Fiction, documentary, and the poetic essay interlock, fragment, and recombine to form one of the most entertaining and profound works in all of cinema.

See p86

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Hello, Americans

This special showcase highlights the exceptional and exciting work emerging from the independent cinema scene in America. These dramas, often told with a subtle touch of humour, are written and directed with assurance and passion. They are populated by wonderful actors and deserve to be seen by a wide audience interested in wellobserved human stories that they can relate to.

We are delighted to welcome actor Eléonore Hendricks (who appears in several of the films in this programme) and filmmaker Frank Hall Green (Wildlike, Remittance) to this year’s Festival.

01. Stinking Heaven / Uncertain Terms (double bill) p70 02. Queen Of Earth

p75

03. Northeast / Come Down Molly (double bill)

p78

04. Heaven Knows What

p83

05. Christmas, Again

p86

06. Wildlike 07. Remittance

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Triskel Lates ‘Triskel Lates’ is an eclectic selection of movies for viewers interested in taking a walk on the wild side of contemporary cinema. There’s teenage angst, pain and excess in the new film from Kids director Larry Clark; a Spielberg classic reinterpreted by a group of Mississippi teenagers; Filipino mumblecore punk B movie cop horror; a very twisted love story; a psychological thriller with a streak of dark humour; a dreamy German horror thriller; off-the-wall absurdist British comedy; and a sensitive and sexy outsider drama.

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01. The Smell of Us

p48

02. Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

p55

03. Violator

p61

04. Nina Forever

p67

05. Queen of Earth

p75

06. Der Nachtmar

p83

07. Aaaaaaaah!

p90

08. Bizarre

p98

SPECIAL EVENT

Family DISNEY’S FROZEN SING-ALONG - WITH LIVE CHOIR. The biggest global animation of all time returns in a Sing-Along version, led by the Youth Choir of Cork’s Montfort Performing Arts Academy.

Disney’s FROZEN will be screened on Sunday 8th November and Sunday 15th November in the Cork Opera House in stunning high definition. The smash-hit animated film will be led by the 45 voice choir. These special screenings promise to be truly fun family events.

This event will see FROZEN screened with a bouncing snowflake over the lyrics allowing audiences to follow the music, in true sing-along tradition. Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, and voiced by Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff, this Oscar-winning snowy sensation has become the highest-grossing Disney film of all time and has spawned a succession of instant hits, including the globally-popular Let it Go! Presented in association with the Cork Choral Festival, and with heartfelt thanks to The Walt Disney Company.

© Disney 2015

FIDDLESTICKS SUN 15 | 1400 | GATE

The charming German film for ages 4 - 104.

See p101 © Disney 2015

THE LION KING SUN 15 GATE CINEMAS MALLOW AND MIDLETON

One of the most beloved family films ever, THE LION KING is the Cork Film Festival’s 60th Edition gift to Mallow and Midleton.

Three shows will be screened each day.

THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD SAT 14 | 1000 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

The thrilling live action adventure shot in Ireland, The Legend of Longwood.

See p92

FAMILY SHORTS SAT 7 | 1000 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

There’s nothing like an hour or so of fun, family friendly short films, at the lovely Cork Opera House. Suitable for 7+.

VISIT CORKCINEMAS.COM TO BOOK.

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GAZELLE TWIN AND CARLA MACKINNON

\\OUT OF BODY// WITH SUPPORTING SHORT FILMS. SAT 7 | 2130 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

€15

Puberty, mental health, and shifting states of consciousness play out through animated encounters with phobia, fever dreamscapes and biological facts about the body. Constructed from organic elements including animal flesh and organs, hair, coal, milk, and raw dough, Carla MacKinnon’s animation indulges a fascination for anatomy, using it as the central nervous system to explore the uncanny, morbid and sometimes beautiful physical experience of being-in-a-body (as well as outside of one).

Gazelle Twin is the creation of British composer, producer and artist, Elizabeth Bernholz. Her live performance personas and musical work have gathered critical acclaim internationally since her first full length release in July 2011. Most recently she completed and released the album UNFLESH, a highly visual and challenging piece of ‘horror pop’ exploring body centric themes such as puberty and phobia, and named as the best album release of 2014 by The Quietus. gazelletwin.com Carla MacKinnon graduated from Royal College of Art’s Animation Programme in 2013. Her video work combines live action and animation to create seductive and unsettling environments. mackinnonworks.com PLEASE NOTE: THIS FILM CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGERY OF ANIMAL TISSUE, BLOOD AND ORGANS

LIVE

STRANGER PRESENTS …

SAT 7 | MIDNIGHT | THEATRE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

€8

Stranger and Cork Film Festival present the festival club opening night party with guests Ellll (Live ) , MARIAH BLACK (dj) & HAMES (dj).

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LIVE

AN GLÉACHT FRI 13 | 2100 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

€15

Outsider artist Caoimhín Breathnach (1934-2009) lived as a recluse in Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon for all of his life.

Breathnach’s artistic practice focussed on the creation of ‘subliminal’ tapes and films which he believed possessed the capacity to shift consciousness. In these works, Ogham magickal scales, crystallography, astronomy, folklore & natural phenomena are combined with found audio and visual material to produce an idiosyncratic, esoteric system of correspondences. Breathnach spent the last years of his life planning a work called An Gléacht.

The work was to combine subliminal tapes and films with filmed footage showing a sequence of occult rituals. For this year’s Cork Film Festival, Breathnach’s great-niece, the composer and artist Jennifer Walshe, has completed An Gléacht which will be screened accompanied by live musicians.

Musicians: Panos Ghikas/Nick Roth/M.C. Schmidt (Matmos)/Jennifer Walshe

LIVE

WORLD DESTRUCTION? A YOUNG LOVERS’ GUIDE ...

FRI 13 | 2300 THEATRE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, TRISKEL

€10

Cork Film Festival in association with Tombstome are delighted to welcome back Robert Curgenven with his latest performance A Young Lovers’ Guide to Speculative Pataphysics. Consisting of multiple turntables, dub plates and acetates alongside roomshaking low frequency oscillators all power a tailored lighting and projection system that will re-route your senses in an immersive, physical and synesthetic audiovisual performance. Joining him on the night is Campbell Kneale, with his performance Our Love Will Destroy The World. Campbell has been on the radar of those with an ear for sensational sound for the best part of 20 years thanks to his elevated solo projects Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel, and currently, Our Love Will Destroy The World. What began then as a blurring and erasing of the distinction lines between noise and music has transformed into a reality-destroying, gnosis inducing, act that arguably bares more resemblance to ‘magic’ than to ‘music’. Monolithic tones and drones lay the structural centering for a great ‘reaching’ out into the aether in withering sound and light … a committed and compelling blasphemy of brutal ‘soul’ music in its truest sense. More is more, everything up to 11, storming the citadels of enlightenment with an army of living, breathing decibels.

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SILENT MOVES SAT 14 | 1200 (SCREENING ALONE) | 1830 (ACCOMPANIED BY MUSICIANS) | THEATRE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, TRISKEL

€5

As part of the national IGNITE Disability Arts Commissioning scheme, Ballina Arts Centre produced a film entitled Silent Moves – made by artist Aideen Barry working with two Ballina-based groups of people with disabilities: The Ridgepool Training Centre and Scannán Technologies. The film is a 28 minute silent film – inspired by the classic black and white silent films of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. Strong emphasis was placed on movement and mime and the groups also worked with dancer and choreographer Emma O’Kane. Shot on location in Ballina, the film carries a strong message about attitudes towards disability, whilst being very enjoyable, moving and beautiful. The screening will be accompanied by live music at the 1830 screening. Silent Moves was commissioned by Mayo County Council as part of Ignite.

Ignite is managed by a unique partnership involving the Arts Council, Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI), Cork City Council, Galway City and County Councils, and Mayo County Council.

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CAOS ENSEMBLE WITH NICK ROTH. SAT 14 | 1700 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

€5

In association with Cork Film Festival 2015, CAOS comes to Cork with the creation of a spontaneous live film soundtrack! CAOS ensemble is a brand new “pop-up” music ensemble experience for any instrument, any level, and any age. We encourage cross-generational participation and welcome individual musicians, family combinations, and anyone with an interest in creative and spontaneous music-making to join in. Under the expert guidance of composer, saxophonist and educator, Nick Roth, and following on from a hugely successful partnership with the Dublin Dance Festival in May, CAOS will collaborate with Cork Film Festival to create and improvise soundtracks to scenes and footage specially selected by the Festival.

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WE LIVED IN CITIES SAT 14 | 2100 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

€15

A live orchestra accompanied by projected imagery and theatre, this cross-disciplinary performance focuses an eye on the future of our ever-changing cities. A collaboration between composer BK Pepper, filmmaker Brian Benjamin Dwyre (Madra Mór Productions) and visual artists Generic People . We Lived In Cities is a dark, atmospheric, emotional and cinematic experience.

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SUNDAY TIMES DJS PRESENT …

SAT 14 | 2300 | THEATRE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, TRISKEL

€5

Sunday Times was started to allow its residents to air the often forgotten parts of their record collections to the public, this means that there is a different approach to programming the music than usually found in a club environment. Afrobeat, Jazz and Soul sit happily together with the likes of Hip Hop, House and Disco over the course of a typical dancefloor excursion by the residents.

Expect good music and good vibes from the crew for this the closing party of the Cork Film Festival!

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IFI AND BOTTLENOTE PRESENT THE SOUND OF SILENTS SUN 15 | 1615 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

€15

A programme of silent films with live improvised scores from five leading contemporary musicians. The programme comes from the IFI Irish Film Archive and includes a varied collection of rarelyseen fiction and factual films made in or about Cork and by Cork filmmakers from the 1910s to the 1940s, including the Youghal Gazette (1910s) and Dance School (1943) made by Cork–born Liam O Laoghaire. The centrepiece is Home to Innisfree (1948) depicting the return of W B Yeats remains to Ireland by the Irish Navy. Eoghan Neff (fiddle / electronics), Seán MacErlaine (reeds / electronics), Shane Latimer (guitar / electronics), Jack McMahon (aka DJackulate, turntables / reeds), and Sean Carpio (percussion / guitar) will breathe new life into these old films with a range of soundscapes from traditional to electronic.

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GULPD CAFE CORK FILM FESTIVAL CLUB Cork Film Festival is delighted to return to Gulpd cafe, located in the Triskel Arts Centre, for this year’s festivities. Expect great music, some dancing and special events, all with late opening every night throughout the festival.

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Talent Developm Campus An intensive filmmaker training campus that teaches all you need to know about the ‘business’ of being an independent filmmaker.

2015 sees the launch of the inaugural Talent Development Campus. Following the success of 2014’s Talent Development programme, the Festival is delighted to expand upon this training and networking initiative, and cement Cork’s reputation as Ireland’s premier city for the development of the careers of emerging film professionals.

In 2015 Cork will welcome over fifty film professionals from more than 15 different countries to participate in the campus. During the campus, participants will hear over forty industry experts and leaders from Ireland, UK, Europe and the US share their wealth of knowledge and experience and expound on the changing face of the film industry today.

Over the course of four days the Campus will see over ten training events, teaching everything an independent filmmaker needs to know: financing your work; marketing; distribution and audience development; innovations in transmedia content and practice; the art of sound and music in movies; digital technologies; innovations in image capture; and working with brands. The training will be interspersed with networking events where filmmakers can meet peers from around the world to network and forge collaborations and partnerships.

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CRITICS

FUND

Wednesday 11 November 1100-1400 | The River Lee

Thursday 12 November 1000-1600 | The River Lee

Discourse on Discourse

Film Finance Symposium

This new roundtable discursive event examines the nature of what it is and what it means to be a filmwriter.

Financing work is one of the biggest hurdles filmmakers face at any stage of their careers. This information rich symposium is aimed at directors and producers looking to gain an insight into the film finance landscape, both in Ireland and abroad; traditional models, co-production financing and new innovative models of film finance will all be explored.

Critics poses the questions: In the world of bedroom bloggers and twitter storms is film-writing a dying art? What are the differences in value between academic and journalistic film writing? What impact does social media have on our cultural perceptions of a film are original opinions and objective viewing still possible? Is cinephilia and film writing in all its forms still relevant, or more so than ever in the age of instantaneity? How do filmmakers and film-writers engage each other?

Speakers will include: Tara Brady (The Irish Times), John Maguire (The Sunday Business Post) , Adam Woodward (Little White Lies), Colm McAuliffe (Sight and Sound) and more TBA.

Speakers will include: BAI, IFB, RTÉ, Creative Europe, Deadpan Pictures, FundIt, the Polish Film Institute, North Norway Film Institute and more TBA.

Public Conversation hosted by the BAI Thursday 12 Nov | 1800 River Lee Hotel The Relevance and Future of Irish content in the Broadcast Media Moderated by broadcaster, Claire Byrne, the BAI’s Public Conversation will involve a panel of representatives from Irish television and radio services to discuss issues and respond to questions raised by the audience.

Tickets are free. See bai.ie

INCUBATE

Saturday 14 November | The Pav 0930 -1800

ment INTERACTIVE@CORK

BRANDED CINEMA

Friday 13 November 1000-1500 | The Pav

Friday 13 November 1700-2000 | RTÉ Cork Studios

Exploring new innovations in film and digital

BRANDED CINEMA, with Brian Newman

Digital continues to revolutionise how we direct, produce and consume film; the potential for new modes of audience engagement, development and interaction are endless and the proliferation of new techniques in interactive and digital storytelling has opened up a host of alternative career-paths for young creatives in film, digital, animation and design. This event - part-show, part-conference - is a panoptic look at this rapidly changing world of digital creativity. In a day packed with presentations, exhibition and case-studies of the most dynamic digital, interactive and crossplatform work today Interactive@ Cork equips its participants with new skillsets for this rapidly changing landscape.

Branded Cinema is on the rise. More and more filmmakers and creatives are being supported in their practice by brands, with major brands producing and backing short, feature and documentary work. This new phenomenon expands far beyond product placement, with brands realising that often the best and most potent way to amplify their message is to attach itself lock-stock to a film’s message.

In this truly unique event, the Cork Film Festival is delighted to welcome back Brian Newman, one of the world’s leading media and distribution consultants. Brian will present a keynote presentation on this new and rapidly evolving phenomenon elucidating the huge marketing potential for filmmakers to learn invaluable marketing strategies from this approach even if not working directly with a brand and teaching filmmakers invaluable tools on how to amplify and market their film’s core message.

This unique keynote will be followed by a live intensive workshop where four preselected film teams will pitch their projects to Brian and receive strategic project advice and mentoring on this important and increasingly ubiquitous financing model.

Speakers will include: Glenn Mulcahy [RTÉ], Adipat Virdi (Storyworld architect), Brendan Canty (director, Hozier’s Take Me to Church), and many more TBA. Thanks to Mark Atkin of Crossover Labs for consulting on and hosting this event.

So you’ve made a film.

Well done!

Now what?

IN ASSOCIATION WITH SCREEN TRAINING IRELAND Following the success of last year’s INCUBATE, the Cork Film Festival will again present its allday film industry professional development toolkit event. In 2015, the Festival will host some leading industry members from international festivals, film marketing strategists, sales agents and global distributors to share their knowledge and expertise.

Aimed at emerging independent professionals - shorts to feature producers and directors, or first to second features - this rich event equips emerging talents with skills and knowledge about the workings of the film industry, enabling them to get their work out there and to find their place in the international film business.

Sessions Include: the Festivals Panel; How to Market your work; the Sales and Distribution Panel; a focus on Career Sustainability; Working with brands and agencies Case Study; Producers case study; Audience Development with Brian Newman; and more.

Speakers Include: New Horizons Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, Shooting People, DocHeads, Screen Producers Ireland, Wildcard Distribution, Element Pictures, New Europe Film Sales, Metrodome Distribution, Conor Barry (Producer), and many more TBA.

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LISTEN

LISTEN provides unique training and networking for film-sound artists, in order to nurture and support both new and established Irish creatives.

Wed 11 | 1400-1700 The Pav €10

Thu 12 | 1400 The Pav €10

Sat 14 | 1400-1700 Cork School of Music, Live Room €40

LISTEN Seminar

Soundtrack Masterclass: Jed Kurzel

Foley Workshop

This seminar focusing on the aural side of the film-making process brings together a host of industry professionals and internationally acclaimed guests, who will discuss their work in film audio. Jed Kurzel is this year’s visiting guest composer, and will be discussing his work in the field.

In ‘The Sound Anatomy of a Scene’ Niall Brady and Steve Fanagan of Ardmore Studios will deconstruct the audio from key scenes in Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank (2014) on which they both worked. Filmsound specialist Liz Greene of DCU will deliver a lecture entitled ‘David Lynch and Alan Splet: Unpicking Sound Collaboration in the Archive’. Taking a different approach, music video director Bob Gallagher will be discussing how he creates visuals around a soundtrack that is already in place. Bob has worked on a string of incredible videos for the likes of Girl Band, Le Galaxie and Spies.

Full details of guests & schedule at corkfilmfest.org

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One of the most innovative composers working in cinema today, Jed Kurzel has recently worked on a string of hit films from his native Australia and beyond, including the soundtracks for Macbeth (2015), Slow West (2015), The Babadook (2014) and The Snowtown Murders (2011). In conversation, Jed Kurzel will discuss his work and offer insider tips and tricks for working in the industry. After the masterclass there will a Q&A with the composer.

Fri 13 | 1200-1600 Sat 14 | 1000-1400 Half-Light Audio Post Production Studio €35

Audio Post-Production Workshop A walk-through the audio post-production process at one of Cork’s finest studios with owner Conor Barron. Conor has worked on a wide array of documentaries, television series and advertising campaigns in a variety of roles, from sound design and sound mixing to music composition and voice-over recording.

This wide ranging workshop is aimed at filmmakers and those who would like to work in film audio, covering topics such as Location Recording, Dialogue Editing, Automated Dialogue Replacement, Foley, Sound Design, Film Scoring and Sound Mixing.

Is that really the sound of Colin Farrell’s ribs breaking or a stick of celery snapped in half? Is that tall grass blowing in the wind or the flutter of a magnetic cassette tape?

Foley is a subtle yet persuasive special effect used in film. It is an art of illusion and creativity.

Award winning Foley artists Caoimhe Doyle and Jean McGrath of Ardmore Sound will be revealing the tricks of their trade and talking us through the often surprising ways sound is produced for film and television. During this special three hour Foley workshop you will learn how to create and record realistic sound effects as well as hearing your sounds come to life when applied to video.

Thu 12 | 1900 The Pav

Synchronise Synchronise is the new music video strand and competition at the Festival.

Full details: corkfilmfest.org See p86.

Food Culinary Cinema

In celebration of the fantastic culinary culture of Cork, we have teamed up with three renowned Cork provedores. Fab Food Trails, The Farmgate Market Café and Ballymaloe Grainstore will each blend their own concoction of cuisine and film.

Your hosts will welcome you into a world of local delicacies and engaging cinema, all with their own unique flavour and style.

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FAB FOOD TRAIL AN

FARMGATE MARKET CAFÉ CHOCOLAT

BALLYMALOE GRAINSTORE SOME LIKE IT HOT

Lasse Hallström | UK, USA | 2000 | 121mins

Billy Wilder | USA | 1959 | 120mins

Mon 9 | 1830 | Farmgate Market Café

Fri 13 | Meal 1800 | Film 2000

Tickets: €40 (includes meal and screening)

Ballymaloe Grainstore

Namoi Kawase | Japan | 2015 | 113mins Sat 7 | Trail starts: 1030 Trail meeting point revealed via email Film starts: 1400 in Triskel Christchurch Tickets: €55 (includes food trail and film)

Fab Food Trails is a relaxed but highly-focused walking tour with an engaging and experienced guide. You’ll visit places that are off the usual food route and the tastings are generous and frequent.

You’ll take in different markets, cheesemongers, fishmongers, butchers, bakers and more and meet the people who produce some of the best food in Ireland. On this particular trail you will end up, nicely sated, at the Triskel Christchurch to relax at a specifically selected screening of ‘Red Bean Paste (An)’ (see p45)

Tickets: €65 (includes meal and screening)

Following last year’s sell-out event, we return with another classic film, served with a bespoke menu carefully created by the wonderful team at the Farmgate Market Café. Chocolat is a delightful story, drawing you into the world of Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her young daughter Anouk. When they open an artisan chocolate shop in a conservative French village, they are met with much distrust but slowly their charm and delicious sweet treats relax the townspeople’s opinion. With a wonderful cast, including Johnny Depp, Dame Judy Dench and Alfred Molina in captivating performances, this is the perfect film to warm the dark November nights.

€10 (screening only)

Enjoy a fabulous meal in historic Ballymaloe House followed by a screening of Some Like it Hot, in the beautifully converted Grainstore.

Some Like it Hot is a multi-award winning comedy caper featuring stellar performances from Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Set in 1929, we follow the exploits of Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemon) as they create female identities to evade the Mob, skip town with a travelling band and vie for the affection of Sugar Kane (Monroe). Lose yourself in Wilder’s hilarious masterpiece in the truly exceptional setting of Ballymaloe Grainstore.

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Music Film Ideas Sun 8 – Tue 11 Triskel Christchurch

Movies, of course, should always entertain. But culture’s most accessible and widely disseminated medium is also the most potent form with which we examine, interrogate and find inspiration from the world around us. Film can highlight the elements of our society of which we are most proud or inspire us to debate and change the issues that move us all.

Since the Lumiere Brothers Workers Leaving the Factory’(1895), film has been uniquely poised as the prism through which we explore and interrogate our society. Be it malevolent like The Triumph of the Will (1935), or benevolent like Philadelphia (1993) or An Inconvenient Truth (2006), cinema has always been a powerful force in our society.

For our 60th Edition, the Festival proudly offers a showcase of films that enable us to question, debate and understand some of the burning social issues of our time. Each of these films will be followed by extensive panel discussions involving commentators, experts, filmmakers and you, the audience.

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treats the issues raised by the film with dignity, never over-simplifying them in this honest examination of end-of-life decisions. The postscreening discussion will feature some of Ireland’s leading voices on this divisive and complex issue.

FILMS

The first of these films is I Can’t, I Can’t ... (p54) presented in association with the Irish Film Institute. The film was almost banned from the Cork Film Festival when it first screened in 1969 due to its exploration of notions of sexuality in Irish society. It is timely to present it again in 2015, enabling us to reexamine these notions and contemplate how they affect us now, in our psychology, in our culture and indeed in our legislation surrounding abortion. The post screening discussion will examine how these issues are still relevant today and the implications of this movie’s social commentary for the debate that rages today around The Irish Constitution’s 8th Amendment.

The second presentation is In Your Arms (p59), a powerful feature drama which tackles the complex issue of assisted dying, one of the most morally complex questions that contemporary society faces. This fearless and entertaining drama tackles this issue with compassion, grace and without judgment. Director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrom

The last of these presentations is Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (p65) by Morgan Kibbe. This visually near-overwhelming essayistic documentary is a story silently told of the hopeless existence of refugees on the borders of Europe - of those who are at the centre of one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent human memory.

The wandering ghost of this film, who is its subjective eye, bears witness to the unbearable suffering of these refugees and the loss and trauma of statelessness.

All post screening discussions will see journalists, commentators, academics and those close to the issues debating the ideas, possibilities and morality surrounding these topics.

Mac beth SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATION

MACBETH Justin Kurzel | UK | 2015 | 103mins THURSDAY 11 | 1200 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

Long before the curtains were raised for this year’s Cannes film festival, the performance

by Michael Fassbender in the title role of Macbeth had been spoken of as a possible Oscar contender. Those expectations were given weight with the film’s screening.

Fassbender excels as the murderous thane, bringing a singular intensity to Macbeth’s fateful trajectory from loyal lord to paranoid despot.

Kurzel’s Macbeth is as visceral, bruising and elemental as the majestically framed and awe-inspiring landscape it’s set against. This heady mix of dark supernatural forces, magnificent scenery and towering performances is leant further Sturm und Drang by Jed Kurzel’s brooding score.

Composer Jed Kurzel will be present for the screening.

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WORLD SHORTS 1

WORLD SHORTS 2

World Shorts 1–2 Camera Lucida

The Dignity of Labour

WED 11 | 1115 | GATE

WED 11 | 1330 | GATE

Aubade

Castratus the Boar

Maura Carraro | Switzerland | 2015 | 5mins

Lauris Ābele, Raitis Ābele| Latvia | 2015 | 23mins

A black sun rises on Leman Lake. In a surrealist backlit scene, swimmers and birds witness the spectacle of the dawn, hypnotized by the music of a cellist.

Producer Nicolas Burlet

Valter spends his lonely days breeding pigs and singing in the church choir but when he tries to connect with a local girl named Aija, his representations of masculinity take a weird turn. Producers Thom Palmen, Dace Siatkovska

93mins

Edmond

Nina Gantz | United Kingdom | 2015 | 9mins

Dissonant

Edmond's impulse to love and be close to others is strong ... maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake contemplating his options, he revisits all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires.

Producers Emilie Jouffroy, Hemant Sharda

Jurgen Willocx | Belgium | 2015 | 17mins

A Short Walk

90 Degrees North

Jagoda Szelc | Poland | 2015 | 15mins

Detsky Graffam | Germany | 2015 | 21mins

A young man nervously traverses a city with a film crew seeking a safe place to share his story of escaping from the Donbas region. Producer Michał Korynek

One stressed businessman, one blood-thirsty traffic island in the middle of a forest and one year in 12 minutes. Producer Marianne Graffam

Dissonance

The Atom Station

Till Nowak | Germany | 2015 | 15mins

Nick Jordan | United Kingdom | 2015 | 13mins

A trip between fantasy and reality, between animation and live action drama, Dissonance tells the story of a psychotic street musician who has to leave his mental world to deal with the real one. Producer Till Nowak

A lyrical rumination on the cultural, political and ecological forces that shape the natural and industrial landscapes of Iceland. Producer Nick Jordan

Over Jorn Threlfall | United Kingdom | 2015 |14mins

Over presents a crime scene. During the course of nine wide shots (told in reverse order), we watch an intriguing story unfold. What has happened in this quiet neighbourhood? The reality is both profound, and deeply unexpected. Producer Jorn Threlfall

Pequeño Beatriz M. Calleja | Spain | 2014 | 15mins

The lonely world of Lucia is beautifully rendered in monochrome as she keeps her sadness at bay with her own makeshift pastimes. Wandering around the forest where she lives, she begins collecting all manner of insects in a glass jar. Producer Beatriz M. Calleja

Ernie Biscuit Adam Eliot | Australia | 2015 | 20mins

The clayography of a lonely deaf Parisian taxidermist whose life is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep.

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87mins

A music cassette loaded with memories which will forever change the way a father and son deal with their mourning and grief. Producers Domien Huyghe, Hilde Dhaeyere

Woollen Cogwheels Bartosz Kędzierski | Poland | 2014 | 13mins

A beautiful puppet animation focusing upon an ageing couple and a certain lack in their staggeringly wellorganised everyday existence. Producer Piotr Krzykwa

SHORTS

WORLD SHORTS 3

WORLD SHORTS 4

World Shorts 3–4 Fight the Power

This Side of Paradise

THU 12 | 1400 | GATE

FRI 13 | 1115 | GATE

87mins

75mins

Art

Ella and the Blind Witch

Adrian Sitaru | Romania | 2014 | 19mins

Michael Cimpher | United Kingdom | 2015 | 6mins

After a casting session, two film directors agree that they had found the perfect 13 years old girl to star in their new movie. Now, they have to convince the reluctant mother to let her daughter play the role of a sexually abused child. Producer Anamaria Antoci

A bedtime story about a monster who looks through children’s bedroom windows at night and, if the child is awake, the monster steals their eyes.

Producer Sarah Li

Power

Jeanny Gering | India | 2014 | 20mins

Jeanny Gering | India | 2014 | 20mins The brutal gang rape of a young woman in Delhi shocked the world. Self-defense teacher Debi Steven traveled to India to show thousands of girls and women how to fight back if they’re attacked.

Producer Jeanny Gering

Listen Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni | 2014 | 13mins Finland | Denmark

A police station in Copenhagen: a foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is filing a complaint for domestic violence.

However, it seems that the translator is not willing to report what she is telling. Producers Valeria Richter, Helen Granqvist, Nynne Marie Selin Eidnes

Dye George Teltzidis | Greece | 2014 | 25mins

A family living in Athens let out the flat above to Rashid, a young immigrant. A chance to sell the flat presents itself and each one of them will have to choose sides, with the lines between the victim and the perpetrator becoming blurred. Producers Phaedra Vokali, Dimitris Nakos

On Stage Benjamin Southwell | Australia | 2015 | 10mins

Dean is a gay male Aboriginal who is also a celebrated cabaret performer at the local night spots. When his father finds out, Dean is banished from the family home and cruelly disowned. Producer Ian Ludwick

Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale & the Rose Del Kathryn Barton, Brendan Fletcher Australia | 2014 | 14mins

A tender-breasted bird. Tumescent blossoms with sad eyes. Based on Oscar Wilde’s eponymous fairy tale, this animated version brings to life the paintings of Del Kathryn Barton. Producers Angie Fielder, Brendan Fletcher

Dog Bowl Gordy Hoffman | United States | 2014 | 19mins

A heartbroken girl spiralling through life stumbles upon the true nature of her existence after stealing the vest off of a service dog. Producer Gordy Hoffman

Bunny Megha Ramaswamy | India | 2014 | 14mins

A startling and aesthetically astounding exploration of childhood fantasies and fears as a little girl grieve for her bunny after it is found ‘dead’ under mysterious circumstances. Producer Shimit Amin

An Unsatisfied Man Oliver Wilkins | United Kingdom and France | 2015 | 4mins

In the idyllic French countryside, a strained family picnic goes from bad to worse when a mysterious stranger makes an unexpected appearance.

Producer Bérengère Dastarac

Islander’s Rest Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun Switzerland | 2015 | 18mins

A bitter-sweet, affectionate tale of innocence lost, bottled-up desires and the comfort of recycling.

Producer Claudius Gentinetta

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WORLD SHORTS 5

WORLD SHORTS 6

World Shorts 5–6 Mondo Paranoia

Innocence & Experience

FRI 13 | 1315 | GATE

SAT 14 | 1325 | GATE

94mins

99mins

Hole

Roberta

Martin Edralin | Canada | 2014 | 15mins

Caroline Monnet | Canada (Québec) | 2014 | 9mins

A daring portrait of a disabled man yearning for intimacy in a world that would rather ignore him.

Producers Martin Edralin, Laura Perlmutter, Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith

Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines to cure her boredom.

Producer Catherine Chagnon

The Farewell Party

Crack

Peter Strickland | Hungary | 2015 | 6mins

Peter King | United Kingdom | 2015 | 12mins

Two bankrupt Savile Row tailors have one drink too many at their farewell party.

Producer Peter Strickland

A new craze is taking over the streets of London. With fights, street deals and territorial warfare growing ever dangerous, it won’t be long until underground conker fighting is out of control. Producer Joseph Taussig

The Conversation

Anastasia Novikova | Russia | 2015 | 22mins

Kacey Mottet Klein

An exquisite and magnificently nuanced portrait of Valentin Stepanovich, the sole remaining inhabitant of an abandoned settlement deep in the Russian countryside. Producer Alexander Gutman

Ursula Meier | Switzerland | 2015 | 15mins

The Black Case

Throw Me To The Dogs

Caroline Monnet, Daniel Watchorn | Canada (Québec)

Aaron Dunleavy | United Kingdom | 2015 | 13mins

2014 | 13mins

A troubled teenage boy, growing up in a dreamless wilderness and isolated from those around him, is stripped of his dignity as his father abandons him for the outside world from which he is trying to retreat.

Producer Helena Lageder

In this haunting short drama, an eight-year-old girl and her infant cousin endure a traumatic experience while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school.

Producers Daniel Watchorn, Eric Cinq-Mars, Sébastian Aubin, Caroline Monnet

Greetings to the Ancestors Ben Russell | South Africa | Swaziland | United Kingdom | United States | 29mins

Set between Swaziland and South Africa, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory’s inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand. Producer Ben Russell

Sámi Boy Elle Sofe Henriksen | Norway | 2015 | 9mins

Mikkel is a reindeer herder and holds the entire responsibility for his family’s herd. He has a tough demeanour, just like a Sámi boja should have. But inside him there is chaos. Producer Elle Márjá Eira

A portrait of an adolescent who has created himself with the camera. Producers Isabelle Zampiero, Francine Pickel, Vincent Adatte

O.M.G. (Oh Máigon Girl) Marja Bål Nango | Norway | 2015 | 20mins

The midnight sun is shining; two teenage girls are bored of their small community. They want some adventure so they decide to hitchhike somewhere else and discover a ride not without risks … . Producers Marja Bål Nango, Marie Lagerkvist

Dropping Off Michael Zam Salim | United Kingdom | 2015 | 16mins

Young Michael is taken out for his last day of freedom by his uncle Duncan. As events unfold, he realises what’s at stake, and that his Uncle is leading him down a oneway path. Producer Catriona MacInnes

Waves ‘98 Ely Dagher | Lebanon | Qatar | 2015 | 15mins

In the chaos of the city, a teenager is swept on a journey that will forever change him. Producer Ely Dagher Winner Palme D’or, Cannes Film Festival 2015

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The Midnight Court TUE 10 | 2100 | GATE

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Sonya Keogh | Ireland | 10mins | 2015

Atmospheric Irish Recital: songs and rhythms from the traditional repertoire have been weaved through newly composed soundscapes and framed by an installation of Irish cinematography, stills photography and youth participants’ expressions.

Producers Sonya Keogh, ARTlifeCULTURE

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Naoimh Ní Luanaigh | Ireland | 2015 | 7mins

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Chris O’Neill | Ireland | 2015 | 10mins

Three old friends from college who meet up one afternoon and reminisce about old times over drinks while circumventing the worries and frustrations happening in their current relationships and jobs.

Producer Fiona Hegarty

A woman watches time go by from a train.

Producer Yvonne McDevitt

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Ciarán Dooley | Ireland | 2015 | 10mins

The connection between a young girl and her grandfather transcends both a generation, and family politics. Producer Mark Holland

Coil

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Stephen Kenny | Ireland | 2015 | 15mins

A lonely priest in a small rural community has his world turned upside down when a strange trinket is left anonymously at his front door leading him towards a dark encounter with the occult.

Producer Collie McCarthy

Pockets

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Lochlainn McKenna | Ireland | 2015 | 11mins

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Mary Keane | Ireland | 2015 | 12mins

A world travelled backpacker wrongly detained and a computer whizz kid anxious to depart appear suspended in time in an airport terminal, and, as we journey with them, their Sisyphean-like state is revealed.

Producer Mary Keane

An Shawlie, An Clog agus an Meall Ime c Maria Young | Ireland | 2015 | 12mins

A traditional Shawlie travels up the River Lee of Cork City to sell her lump of butter at the Shandon Market.

Producer Tina Horan

Comic Potential

Discordance

2015 | 8mins

A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural forces threatening a remote Island community.

Producer Anna O’Malley

Static

A man follows the orders of a dog to wear a coat with impossible pockets.

Producer Damien Byrne

Yvonne McDevitt | Ireland | Denmark | United Kingdom |

Brian Deane | Ireland | 15mins | 2015

The Great Wide Open

Jack O’Shea | Ireland | 2015 | 10mins

Time

Set in the Cork Docklands, we follow David as he regurgitates snippets of real-life conversations, shedding light on mental health issues.

Producers Chris Hurley, Max Le Cain

Blight

A Coat Made Dark

Two strangers – with two very different secrets – encounter each other on a rural bench in the very early hours of a Tuesday morning.

Producers Brian Deane, Donogh McCarthy-Morrogh

The Bookshop

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Anna Byrne, David Gordon | Ireland | Germany | 2015 | 24mins

An alternative documentary about a second-hand English bookshop in Berlin’s Kreuzberg and its vibrant community- the debates, the loves, the fights and the sex-changes. Producers Anna Byrne, David Gordon

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Mary Keane | Ireland | 2015 | 12mins

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Ross Carey, Emmet O’Brien | Ireland | 2014 | 15mins

A young woman decides to become a superhero in the unlikely setting of a sleepy west Cork town.

Producers Stephen Broekhuizen, Adam McCarthy

A world travelled backpacker wrongly detained and a computer whizz kid anxious to depart appear suspended in time in an airport terminal, and, as we journey with them, their Sisyphean-like state is revealed.

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The Personal is Political

An Exploded View

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Foxglove

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Brian Deane | Ireland | 13mins | 2015

Sonya Keogh | Ireland | 10mins | 2015

Plans to build wind turbines in the wilds of Connemara put an engineer and his daughter in jeopardy from an ancient force. Producer Cronán Creagh

Atmospheric Irish Recital: songs and rhythms from the traditional repertoire have been weaved through newly composed soundscapes and framed by an installation of Irish cinematography, stills photography and youth participants’ expressions.

Producers Sonya Keogh, ARTlifeCULTURE

Sineater

Bertie Brosnan | Ireland | 8mins | 2015

A foreboding tale following Jack, a successful homeward-bound businessman and a peculiar driver claiming to be a friend of Jack’s mother.

Producer Brian O’Connor

The Break

Introducing Brian

Nicholas Keogh | Ireland | United Kingdom | 14mins | 2015

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Denis Fitzpatrick, Ken Williams | Ireland | 17mins | 2015

In post-economic-crash Ireland, a family are down on their luck and have taken themselves to the beach for a break. But will they outstay their welcome?

Producer Gavin Carton

Looks Like Rain

Brian tells a story, recalling the highs and lows of his life, introducing us along the way to flora, fauna, friends and foes. Producer Manal Laginaf

Meteorology – A Guide to the Weather

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Mark Kent | Ireland | 7mins | 2015

Weather machine passes through a black hole and is split into various dimensions.

Producer Mark Kent

Kevin O’Farrell | Ireland | 8mins | 2015

Leave

A working class household in the 1960s. A boy spills tea on his father’s lap as his mother looks on in despair. Who will bear the brunt of the punishment?

Producer Liam Ryan

Mike Hayes | Ireland | 15mins | 2015

The Captors

Queen of the Plough

Chris Baugh | Ireland | United Kingdom | 20mins | 2015

Cara Holmes | Ireland | 12mins | 2015

A trio of tiger kidnappers are faced with an impossible decision when a wealthy victim calls their bluff.

Producer Brendan Mullin

Two farmers battle it out in the fields of rural Ireland to win the coveted title ‘Queen of the Plough’.

Producer Cara Holmes

Joseph’s Reel

Death of a Projectionist

Michael Lavers | Ireland | 14mins | 2015

Jonathan Beer | Ireland | United Kingdom | 14mins | 2015

An elderly man, upon dying, is given the opportunity to relive one day of his life. Producer Collie McCarthy

Gerry is a projectionist. He loves his job, his colleagues and the joy that cinema brings. But is he ready for the change that’s coming?

Producers Brian J. Falconer, Christopher Myers

A film about random events and their consequences; a film about how your life can change without warning.

Producer Laura McNicholas

Blight

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Brian Deane | Ireland | 15mins | 2015

A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural forces threatening a remote Island community.

Producer Anna O’Malley

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IRISH SHORTS 5

Irish Shorts 4–5 The Word on the Street

Dead Heat THU 12 | 1345 | GATE

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THU 12 | 1815 | GATE

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Love Is A Sting

Children and Animals

Vincent Gallagher | Ireland | 2015 | 18mins

Hugh O’Conor | Ireland | 2015 | 15mins

At his lowest point, struggling children’s book writer Harold Finch gains an unexpected house guest in the form of Anabel Shine: a 20 year old, hyper-intelligent mosquito. Producer Ian Hunt Duffy

A famous actor comes to a local film school to mentor the kids in the art of filmmaking.

Producer Garry McHugh

The Great Wide Open

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Ciarán Dooley | Ireland | 2015 | 10mins

The connection between a young girl and her grandfather transcends both a generation, and family politics. Producer Mark Holland

Back Home

Eoin Naughton | Ireland | | 2015 | 10mins

A story about the difficulties of growing up in modern rural Ireland with the views of an older generation.

Producer Richard Bolger

Vulture Tim McCullough | Ireland | United Kingdom | 2015 | 13mins

A young loner from the outskirts of Belfast gets involved in a dark situation that will change his life.

Producer Simon Wood

Girona Paul McGuigan | Ireland | United Kingdom | 2015 | 27mins

A strange hotel on a stormy night and an encounter with a mysterious woman causes a man to confront his past before he can face his future. Producer Eamonn Devlin

Caught

Sarah Ahern | Ireland | 20154| 8mins

A misunderstanding and miscommunication over sexuality, between older and younger generations.

Producer Tony Flynn

Lamps

Patrick O’Mahony | Ireland | United Kingdom | 2015 | 6mins

A young, Victorian lamp-lighter named Magnet encounters a problem only he can solve.

Producer Will Bishop-Stephens

These Dog Days Paul Freaney | Ireland | 2015 | 17mins

A neo-realistic account of a rather unusual, down-atheel character, Art, and his dog Harry.

Producer Jean Rice

Liar

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Victor Kaczmarczyk | Ireland | 2015 | 10mins

A driver begins to play games with a young police officer, in order to avoid a speeding ticket.

Producer Victor Kaczmarczyk

Hen Pecked

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Marcus McSweeney | Ireland | United Kingdom | 2014 | 14mins

Mark Noonan | Ireland | 2015 | 9mins

Inspired by a vision of rebellion, the silent partner in a destructive relationship finally takes a stand against their mutual pain. Producers Gerardine O’Flynn, Rienkje Attoh

Jane is a neglected 12 year-old who has always been good with guns. One evening at the local carnival she gets a chance to prove it - forever altering the course of her young life. Producer Mark Keville

Waiting For Tom Ruth O’Looney | Ireland | 2015 | 8mins

A bitter-sweet road trip following a mother and a daughter on a journey to find Big Tom and salvage their own relationship.

Producers Jennifer Davidson, Clelia Murphy, Ruth O’Looney

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A young woman decides to become a superhero in the unlikely setting of a sleepy West Cork town.

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This is the Country

Dark Lies the Island

FRI 13 | 1315 | GATE

FRI 13 | 2000 | GATE

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Kennedy Quay

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Naoimh Ní Luanaigh | Ireland | 2015 | 7mins

Phil Sheerin | Ireland | 2015 | 22mins

Set in the Cork Docklands, we follow David as he regurgitates snippets of real-life conversations, creating a snapshot of Cork and shedding light on mental health issues. Producers Chris Hurley, Max Le Cain

Aaron, a young man isolated on a farm, fights against his family as he watches his mother willingly die.

Producer Jacob Thomas Winner Best Short Drama, Galway Film Fleadh 2015

Grey Area

Toasted

Jon Barton | Ireland | 12mins | 2015 | 12mins

Gregory Dunn | Ireland | Sweden | 2015 | 19mins

The story of a rural Irish embalmer named Eamonn Grey and his incredibly humane approach to work and life.

Producer Louise O’Gallagher

An observational documentary featuring Lars Nyberg, Sweden’s foremost fine art print-maker and more than fifty toasters. Producer Eavan Aiken

Cobh’s Lusitania

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Lauren Fee | Ireland | 2015 | 15mins

Seán Breathnach | Ireland | 2015 | 11mins

The story of the Lusitania cruise liner which sank off the coast of Kinsale and Cóbh in 1915 and the relationship between the town’s people and the Lusitania and how they keep the memory of those lost alive today.

Producer Lauren Fee

An autistic boy’s world is thrown into chaos as he searches for his mother. Producer Laura Ní Cheallaigh

2 Roads

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Marie Brett | Ireland | 2015 | 5mins

An evocative and thoughtful filmic essay exploring the elusive idea of how contemporary Ireland marks infant mortality through religious paradigm and cultural lore.

Producer Marie Brett

Connie Corcoran has dedicated his life to the mighty Blackwater River and, over the years, its currents have shaped him into a unique character who lives in harmony with this unique Irish landscape.

Producer Richard Godorecky

A richly textured documentary essay on isolation, loss and change, Aonrú offers a unique exploration of Cape Clear Island, West Cork and the extinction of its indigenous fishing industry. Producer Jason Gaffney

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A man in a dripping wet dinner suit is discovered walking on a beach. He communicates only through music when in a psychiatric hospital.

Producers Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D’sa and David Holmes

Filleadh an Athair A man gets out of prison to see his adult daughter.

Shame, rejection, trouble with his family - and his freedom - ensues. Producer Richard Bolger

Richard Godorecky | Ireland | 2015 | 16mins

Dominic deVere | Ireland | 2015 | 30mins

Paul Caddell | Ireland | United Kingdom | 2015 | 15mins

Tomasz Woszczynski | Ireland | 2015 | 10mins

The River Man

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An Shawlie, An Clog agus an Meall Ime c Maria Young | Ireland | 2015 | 12mins

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A traditional Shawlie travels up the River Lee of Cork City to sell her lump of butter at the Shandon Market.

Producer Tina Horan

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NEW ZEALAND SHORTS

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

From the whimsical to the

New Zealand Shorts / Free Radicals Classic New Zealand Shorts Programme

Free Radicals

initiative to digitise the films in its library not available in hi-res

formats and create a living archive of films for future generations

to watch and enjoy. The Festival is proud to present a selection of

these shorts curated by programmer Colm McAuliffe. With thanks to Derry O’Brien, and Network Ireland TV.

Walk Short

William Toefper | New Zealand | 1987 | 11mins

A slice of life amongst the pedestrians of Auckland’s Karangahape Road shot in an increasingly hilarious baton relay-style narrative.

Originally played Cork Film Festival 1989.

Hurtle

Shona McCullagh | New Zealand | 1998 | 10mins

Dancer Shona McCullagh’s award-winning debut short film offers a joyful fingers-up to gravity, dialogue, and the idea that nuns never get up to anything exciting. Originally played Cork Film Festival 1998.

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Welby Ings | New Zealand | 2004 | 15mins

Using typography that hovers on screen in place of dialogue, flares of bold colour, dioramic frames, and brutal portraiture reminiscent of Dianne Arbus, director Welby Ings creates a powerful, exquisite perspective on the silent claustrophobia and sexual violence of small town New Zealand.

Lemming Aid

Grant Lahood | New Zealand | 1994 | 12mins

A Cannes prize-winning film. Human nature collides with Mother Nature! In a bizarre stand-off above a Norwegian cliff top, New Zealand ecological campaigners try to stop lemmings from throwing themselves over a cliff.

Junk Gregory King | New Zealand | 2001 | 12mins

Junk comments on and shows hope for the poor and forgotten living in our cities’ suburbs. It introduces the viewer to four characters.

Two Cars, One Night Taika Waititi | New Zealand | 2004 | 11mins | Black & White

While waiting for their parents, two boys and a girl meet in the carpark of a rural pub. What at first seems to be a relationship based on rivalry soon develops into a close friendship. We learn that love can be found in the most unlikely of places.

The Lounge Bar Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair | New Zealand | 1989 | 13mins

In a seedy waterfront bar sometime during the 70s, a sideburned, bell-bottomed singer begins his song. Sheltering from the rainy night, a man and a woman meet for the first time. Originally played Cork Film Festival 1989.

Cinematic approaches that blur the line between documentary,

ethnography and dream cinema; a vortex reconfiguring disembodied feature films, amateur porn flics,

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memory or hallucinated prophecy?

SAT 7 | 1100 | GATE | 84MINS

In 2013 the New Zealand Film Commission began a curatorial

nightmarish to … the erotic?

End Of The Film / Des Films End Sybille Bauer | Austria | 2014 | 2mins

A cacophony of disturbing signals.

Production: Sybille Bauer

Scribbledub

Ross Hogg | UK | 2014 | 3mins

A film conversation using 16mm film and a projector - the ‘scribble’ creates the ‘dub’, the ‘dub’ informs the ‘scribble’.

Producer Ross Hogg

Spectrum Analysis

Ian Helliwell | UK | 2015 | 4mins

Notes from a holiday. Producer Ian Helliwell

Greetings To The Ancestors

Ben Russell | South Africa, Swaziland, UK, USA | 2015 | 29mins

Documenting the dream lives of a territory’s inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand.

Producer Ben Russell

RekonGrodek

Devin Horan, Margherita Malerba

Germany, Poland, USA | 2014 | 18mins

A maelstrom of imagery about the forces acting on the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. Producers Devin Horan, Margherita Malerba

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Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovacic Austria | 2015 | 13mins

An experimental movie about horror movies, containing ‘real’ camera footage as well as digitally and analogue generated images.

Producers Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovacic

The Farewell Party Peter Strickland | Hungary | 2015 | 6mins

Two bankrupt Savile Row tailors have one drink too many at their farewell party. Producer Peter Strickland

The Exquisite Corpus Peter Tscherkassky Austria | 2015 | 19mins

Based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. I play on the ‘cadavre exquis’ technique used by the Surrealists – Peter Tscherkassky. Producer Peter Tscherkassky WARNING: THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS THE USE OF STROBE LIGHTING EFFECTS.

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DAY 2

7 November

Friday

Saturday There’s nothing like an hour or so of fun, family friendly short films, at the lovely Cork Opera House. Suitable for 7+.

The Smell of Us: Larry Clark’s latest is our Triskel Lates Gala, and is as bold, confrontational and viscerally human as we’d expect from the director of Kids. p48 The irrepressible, gobby comedian only wants to overthrow the entire world order, as you’ll see in Ondi Timoner (Dig)’s hilarious Brand: A Second Coming. p47 The Quietus 2014 Artist of the Year Gazelle Twin’s live AV performance Out of Body, exclusive to Cork. p24

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

THE LAST OF THE ELEPHANT MEN Arnaud Bouquet, Daniel Ferguson | Canada | France 2014 | 90mins | Subtitled 1130 | GATE

For generations, the Bunong people of Cambodia have been defined by their relationship with elephants. Extending beyond a relationship of owner and livestock, human and animal share a spiritual bond and mutual respect closer to family than ownership.

As deforestation and changing laws threaten the traditional way of life, The Last of the Elephant Men bears poetic witness to a rapidly evolving people struggling not to lose hold of their history.

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CLOUD OF SKIN Maximilian Le Cain | Ireland | 2015 | 84mins 1200 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Deeply haunted by the memory of his dead lover, a man wanders through the sites of their encounters. The dead woman, a blind visionary, has transferred her perceptual powers to him as part of their undying bond. Rather than unfolding as a traditional narrative, experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain’s first feature takes the form of a visually and sonically immersive fever dream. Composer Karen Power’s intense soundscapes complete this mysterious and unusual cinematic experience.

WARNING: THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS THE USE OF STROBE LIGHTING EFFECTS.

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FAMILY SHORTS SAT 7 | 1000 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

There’s nothing like an hour or so of fun, family friendly short films, at the lovely Cork Opera House. Suitable for 7+.

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LOST IN THE LIVING Robert Manson | Ireland | Germany | 2015 | 77mins 1400 | GATE

Oisín, a musician from Dublin, travels to Berlin with his band, buzzing with the potential for adventure. He leaves behind the weight of losing his mother and an anger towards his absent father. Oisín meets Sabine, a pretty young Berliner, who shows him the secret places that belong to the people who live in the city; hot parks, uninhabited stations, and lakes in the countryside where the free body culture is still active. These pleasures are thrown into chaos when Sabine reveals that she has a boyfriend and the futility of Oisín’s situation dawns on him. His band have left, he’s lonely, homesick, homeless and broke. He embraces the darkness, tumbles through the void and out the other side.

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AN Naomi Kawase | Japan | France | Germany | 2015 | 113mins | Subtitled 1400 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

The fortunes of a pastry kiosk are transformed when 76-year-old Tokue responds to an ad for a part-time assistant. Initially reluctant to take her on, taciturn manager Sentaro relents when he samples her sweet red bean paste (an). The store’s speciality is dorayaki, a pancake-like pastry that is sandwiched around an, but Tokue’s lovingly made filling proves a hit. The wonderfully eccentric Tokue leaves an impression on Wakana, a shy school girl and regular customer. The trio prove an unlikely unit, until they become suddenly sundered. Infused with warmth and humanity, An is a generous ode to savouring the small things.

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60. Cork Film Festival SPECIAL

THE GENIUS OF GEORGE BOOLE Oxford Film and Television | UK | Ireland | 2015 | 80mins 1400 | GATE

The huge impact of George Boole’s work on technology today is explored in this stunning new film commissioned by University College Cork. Asked at one point if he thinks Boole is important, Lord David Puttnam retorts “I guess, no George Boole, no Google, no Amazon, no Intel. That makes him pretty important”. Narrated

by Oscar®-winning actor Jeremy Irons and produced by multi award-winning Oxford Film and Television, the film assembles industry leaders and academics from across the globe to explore the life and importance of one of the world’s greatest unsung heroes.

DOCUMENTARY

TAKE THE BOAT Camille Hamet, Serena Robin | France | Ireland | 2014 60mins | Subtitled 1630 | GATE

At a time of momentous change and debate, with people taking to the streets to campaign for abortion rights in Ireland this timely documentary looks at the stories of women and families who have been forced to leave Ireland for abortions. Take the Boat looks at the stigma and silence that surrounds the issue of abortion in Ireland and explores one of the darkest metaphors in Irish history.

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CRUMBS Miguel Llansó | Ethiopia | 2015 | 70mins | Subtitled 1800 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Alternately gripped by daydreams and constant fears, the strangelooking scrap collector Gagano has had enough of collecting the priceless crumbs of decayed civilization, including the most valuable: merchandise from Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan.

When a spaceship that has been hovering high in the sky for years starts showing signs of activity, our figurine-sized superman hero has to overcome his fears – as well as a witch, Santa Claus and second-generation Nazis — to discover things aren’t quite the way he thought.

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BODY Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland | 2015 | 90mins | Subtitled 1815 | GATE

An unnamed coroner investigates a range of grisly deaths, approaching them all in the same detached matter of fact manner.

However, he finds himself ill equipped to deal with his daughter Olga’s anorexia. She is still coming to terms with the death of her mother, and her relationship with her father is a frosty one.

Entering both lives is Anna, a psychologist who lost her child some years previously to cot death. From such downbeat material Szumowska has fashioned an at times blackly comic, surreal and unexpectedly tender and uplifting meditation on what it means to be human.

Silver Bear Award - Best Director, Berlin 2015

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BRAND: A SECOND COMING Ondi Timoner | UK | 2015 | 104mins 1845 | GATE

Russell Brand has been many things over the years; drug addict, teetotal activist, villain, laughing stock, hero, cult figure and occasionally comedian. As he adjusts to his newest identity as politically aware spokesman for the everyman, Brand recoils from his former decadence and celebrity. Captured by the expert gaze of Ondi Timoner, this intimate documentary exposes Brand at both his best and most vulnerable. For haters and lovers alike, an experience both entertaining and moving in equal measure.

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YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ME / SABRÁS QUÉ HACER CONMIGO Katina Medina Mora | Mexico | 2015 | 87mins | Subtitled 2045 | GATE

Katina Medina Mora’s intimate drama tells the story of two damaged lives intertwining. Nicolás, a photographer has struggled with epilepsy his whole life - vibrant and creative, he refuses treatment. Isobel struggles to find balance within herself as she struggles to care for her suicidal mother. This intelligent and subtle drama tells the story of two lives intersecting, and two people finding strength and redemption from where they least expected.

ALSO ON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH LIVE SCORE (1900) - SEE P13

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

CALL ME MARIANNA / MÓW MI MARIANNA Karolina Bielawska | Poland | 2014 | 75mins | Subtitled 2120 | GATE

Call Me Marianna follows the travails of its eponymous heroine as she transgenders, and fights to keep the love of her parents. Her mother refuses to acknowledge the process she is going through refuses to call her Marianna and to acknowledge her identity- and so, Marianna must take her parents to court and ‘divorce’ them, to proceed with her transformation. The drama of Marianna’s struggles and transformation is played out in this daringly told dramatic documentary.

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VICTORIA Sebastian Schipper | Germany | 2015 | 140mins | Subtitled 2200 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

Remember the amazement you felt at Birdman’s breathtaking photographic virtuosity? Get ready for a ratcheting up of that sense of awe, in this thrilling, pulsing, dangerous, funny Berlin hiest / caper movie ... all shot in one unfaked, uninterrupted take.

Victoria meets four likely lads outside a nightclub, and joins them for ‘one last drink’. One turns into a couple, and before she knows it, she has been convinced to help as their driver on a bank job. It’s seat belts on for a white knuckle ride that makes Run Lola Run feel like a gentle jog.

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THE SMELL OF US Larry Clark | France | 2014 | 87mins 2345 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Larry Clark’s controversial 1995 debut Kids painted a scandalous portrait of that era’s youth. Two decades later he is back with the same idea, but this time the kids are from Paris, not New York.

Clark appears on screen like an obsolete relic of a bygone era trying to make sense of the modern world of smartphones, social media, and YouTube. At the same time, he aims to immortalise whatever might be considered outré today; the result is a genuinely shocking, often gruesome film, as one would expect from a filmmaker famed for skating close to pornography’s edge.

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DAY 3

8 November

Friday

Sunday The first of two presentations of Disney’s Frozen Sing-Along with the Youth Choir of Montfort’s Academy of Performing Arts. p23 Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle’s thrilling biopic. Could this be an Oscar® for the Kerry actor? p11 Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn star in Terence Davies gorgeous adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic 1932 Scottish novel, Sunset Song. p52 Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church star in a glorious, visceral screen adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. p51 The Festival’s Ideas strand gets underway with an exploration of Irish attitudes to sex and abortion with a screening of I Can’t, I Can’t ... p54

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

MY NAZI LEGACY David Evans | UK | 2015 | 92mins 1115 | GATE

How would you react to the news you were the child of a Nazi?

My Nazi Legacy is the story of three men; Niklas Frank, who’s father was convicted and executed at the Nuremberg Trials, Horst von Wächter, the son of a Nazi working in occupied Poland, and Phillipe Sands, a human rights lawyer and relative of holocaust victims. In confronting the past and navigating these fascinating relationships, this compelling and provocative film provides a timely reminder of how close we stand to the sins of our forefathers.

DOCUMENTARY

THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST Johanna Schwartz | UK | 2015 | 100mins 1130 | GATE

In 2012, following an uprising of Islamic extremists, Mali’s most valued and celebrated form of communication was banned.

Faced by a changing country that denied them their instruments and threatened their way of life, Northern Mali’s musicians were forced to relocate and re-evaluate. Vibrant and enlightening, They Will Have To Kill Us First tells the story of a people galvanised as they fight for the thing they love the most.

DOCUMENTARY

ELEPHANT’S DREAM Kristof Bilsen | England | Belgium | 2014 | 72mins 1200 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Elephant’s Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and their workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Away from the chaos and headlines, a people left behind continue to live their lives within a state in decline. Hazy and unsettling yet scattered with hope and beauty, this is a ticket to lands unknown yet familiar and endlessly human, capturing characters held in stasis as they wait for a change that never seems to come.

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VALLEY OF LOVE Guillaume Nicloux | France | 2014 | 92mins 1300 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

A dream pairing of two French titans of the screen, but also one in which so much more is brought to their roles. Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert star as an estranged couple - both actors who find themselves reunited in Death Valley, California, in order to fulfil the last wishes of their son who died from suicide six months previously. Themes of grief and reconciliation are adroitly explored, but both leads sparkle as fish out of water acclimatising to both the absurd situation they find themselves in and the desert heat.

DOCUMENTARY

ALMOST THERE Dan Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden | USA | 2014 | 93mins 1330 | GATE

For many, Peter Anton’s house embodies an end-of-life nightmare: the utility companies long ago shut off the heat and electricity, the floorboards are rotting, and the detritus of a chaotic life is precariously stacked to the ceiling. But for filmmakers Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden, Anton’s home is a treasure trove, a startling collection of unseen and fascinating paintings, drawings, and notebooks, not to mention Anton himself, a character worthy of his own reality show. Though aging, infirm, cranky, and solitary, Anton also is funny and utterly resilient. The film’s remarkable journey follows a gifted artist through startling twists and turns.

FEATURE

UNDER MILK WOOD Kevin Allen | UK | 2015 | 88mins 1400 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Rhys Ifans returns to his South Wales roots with this lusty cinematic remake of the celebrated radio ‘play for voices’ by legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. This beautiful adaptation of Thomas’ iconic classic, stars Ifans and Charlotte Church. Very different indeed to the 1972 version, brimming wih Richard Burton gravitas, Allen’s (often very) erotic, surreal cinematic approach explores some of the more visceral elements of the funny, magical dreamscape of Thomas’ seaside village Llareggub (buggerall backwards). The film is lush and enthralling, with the lyricism of the language matched by rich, dreamlike imagery.

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DOCUMENTARY

OLDER THAN IRELAND Alex Fegan | Ireland | 2015 | 76mins 1400 | GATE

Older Than Ireland features thirty men and women aged 100 years and over. Often funny and at times poignant, the film explores each centenarian’s journey, from their birth at the dawn of Irish independence to their life as a centenarian in modern day Ireland.

The films observational style offers a rare insight into the personal lives of these remarkable individuals.

FEATURE

SUNSET SONG Terence Davies | UK | Luxembourg | 2015 | 135mins 1515 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

This visually superb adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel is exquisitely shot: each scene looks like an Old Masters painting as Davies applies his distinct ‘memory realism’ style to a twentieth-century northern British milieu that many will recognize from the writer-director’s previous films. Scratching a livelihood out of the stunning but harsh terrain, the Guthrie family cowers in obedient fear of its brooding patriarch (Peter Mullan). As Guthrie’s long-suffering wife retreats into silence, the film’s attention shifts to his beautiful and intelligent daughter Chris (Agyness Deyn), divided between her hatred for the coarse villagers and her love of the landscape. Chris dreams, of freedom and escape. Davies depicts the growth of relationships, the aura of unexpected bliss, with incomparable sensitivity. - TIFF

DOCUMENTARY

A YOUNG PATRIOT Haibin Du | China | USA | France | 2015 | 96mins | Subtitled 1600 | GATE

Intimate and sweeping in equal measure, Du Haibin’s five year coming-of-age chronicle offers a gripping insight into modern China and the universal minefield of youth. Supported by stunning cinematography, the relationship between patriotism, exploitation and propaganda is evident in spades. Most compelling however is the steady destruction of idealism, as Zhao Chantong leaves home, falls in love, and is exposed to the realities of the country he was so devoted to.

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DOCUMENTARY

YO CAMBIO / I CHANGE 1600 | GATE

Peadar King | Ireland | 75mins

Brutal, over-crowded and violent: that is the reputation of South America’s prisons. And with good reason. “When I came here I was shaking”, one prisoner admitted. “All anyone knew about the place were the massacres. There were people who’d cut your head off without fear. It was the law of the jungle.

As soon as you entered you were told: see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing”. But change is coming to El Salvador’s prisons. Slowly. How? Yo Cambio. I change.

Peadar King is a Cork-based human rights documentary film maker. For the past decade, he has highlighted human rights issues in almost fifty countries across the globe His latest book What in the World? Political Travels in Asia, Africa and The Americas (2013) recounts some of those experiences.

The ninth series of What In The World? starts on RTÉ One in November

FEATURE

GODS / BOGOWIE Lukasz Palkowski | Poland | 2014 | 120mins 1815 | GATE

This gripping, dramatic biopic - the most successful movie at the Polish box office last year - tells of the early career of Zbigniew Religa, a famous Polish cardic surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1980s communist Poland. Gods is a portrait of an extraordinary human being who dared to challenge the harsh existing rules under extremely adverse and complicated conditions. The film is full of emotion and tension and Tomasz Kot is sensational as the chain-smoking surgeon Religa. The film sweeped all trophies at the last Polish Film Awards including six Eagles for Best Actor, Director and Film.

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

DRAWING THE TIGER Amy Benson, Scott Squire, Ramyata Limbu | USA | 2015 | 96mins | Subtitled 1830 | GATE

A family in Nepal living on less than a dollar a day wins the globalisation jackpot: a charity scholarship for their daughter to go to school in the capital city. She promises to return, to free her family from poverty. From the picturesque mountains of her quiet village to the hectic noise and crowds of Kathmandu, Shanta Darnal is thrust into unfamiliar territory in a move that will change her family’s lives forever.

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I CAN’T, I CAN’T …

Amy Benson, Scott Squire, Ramyata Limbu | USA | 2015 96mins 1630 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

With a screenplay by Lee Dunne (banned author of the 1965 novel Goodbye to the Hill), I Can’t, I Can’t … tells the tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.

Followed by a post screening panel discussion.

FEATURE

BRAND NEW-U Simon Pummell | Ireland | UK | Netherlands | 2015 | 100mins 2100 | GATE

The organisation Brand New U identifies networks of Identicals – “people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives” - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the Better-Life donor, and relocating their client to that Brand New life. But errors can occur, and a Brand New life can cost more than expected. Brand New-U follows Slater as he is forced to move through a series of parallel lives. He becomes more and more obsessed as he tries to find the lover he lost, but what he must find in the end is himself.

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THE HALLOW Corin Hardy | Ireland, UK | 2015 | 92mins 2100 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

When a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland with his wife and infant child to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground by superstitious locals, his actions unwittingly disturb a horde of demonic creatures who prey upon the lost.

Alone and deep within the darkness of the remote wilderness, he must now fight back to protect his family against the ancient forces’ relentless attacks.

FEATURE

AFERIM! Kevin Allen | Romania | 2015 | 88mins 2110 | GATE

Those familiar with Radu Jude’s award-laden debut short The Tube with the Hat (CFF 2007) will recall his facility for rich and often expletive-ridden colloquial dialogue, brusque behaviour, ribald humour and gift for a memorable aphorism. Afferim! has these gifts in abundance, but there is more to it. It is also a Balkan Western with resonances for contemporary times. Set in 19th century Eastern Europe, the tale follows policeman Costandin and his son’s quest to track down a fugitive Gypsy slave who is accused of having an affair with his master’s wife.

Silver Bear Award – Berlin, 2015

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION This film is free for Raiders! (p 58) ticket holders Eric Zala | USA | 100mins | 1989 2330 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Most teenagers don’t have the dedication to see them through a month long project, let alone seven years. Not so for Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb, whose extraordinary obsession and dedication saw them devote their youth to a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The subject of endlessly charming documentary Raiders!, the Cork Film Festival is proud to present the Bugsy Malone-esque fan film that has delighted cult and late night audiences since its rediscovery by Eli Roth in 2002. Lee Sandlin of The Chicago Reader even suggested the film was ‘better than the original’. See for yourself … .

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CONTENTS How to Book

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Screen Talks

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Welcome

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Gate, Mallow and Midleton

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Juries and Awards

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Blood Rising

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Gala Events

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Live Events

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Special Events

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Talent Development

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Illuminate

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Features

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Gradam Spriorad na Fhéile

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Documentaries

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School Screenings

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Short Film Programmes

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Polish Nights

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Timetable

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Farmgate Screening

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Credits and Index

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DAY 4

9 November

Friday

Monday A conversation about assisted dying, with the beautiful and thought provoking Danish drama In Your Arms. p59 Prashant Nair’s charming comedy drama (and Sundance winner) Umrika - come see America through the eyes of Indians who wish they were there. p60 Irish filmmaker Johnny O’Reilly’s Moscow Never Sleeps, his love letter to his adopted home of two decades. p59 Kurt Russell (really!) stars alongside Sean Young (really!) in the wild Bone Tomahawk cowboys versus cannibals. p59 A mumblecore punkish B-movie cop horror from the Philippines, Violator - part of Triskel Lates - is all that. p61

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60. Cork Film Festival FEATURE

THE ROAD Rana Salem | Lebanon | 2015 | 98mins | Subtitled 1330 | GATE

Rana and Guy, a young married couple, live in today’s city of Beirut - a city forced into modernity and constantly transforming to a rhythm of an unstable environment. Rana suddenly quits her job and falls slowly into a state of lingering enuui. Guy decides they need to leave their home and go on a road-trip that leads them to the mountains. The road becomes one of remembrance and nostalgia. A road that might bring them closer to themselves and ultimately to each other.

FIPRESCI Prize - Moscow, 2015

FEATURE

SIMSHAR Rebecca Cremona | Malta | 2014 | 101mins 1330 | GATE

Malta’s first ever nomination to the Oscars® - and its first indigenous international film - is a warm, intricate portrayal of a community, overwhelmed by a rush of refugees. Based upon astonishing true events, likely to resonate with Irish audiences, the film tells two parallel stories of survival which unravel on and around the Mediterranean island, culminating when a Maltese fishing family is left stranded in open water after being mistaken for African migrants. A companion piece to the Festival’s Ideas presentation of Those Who Feel the Fire Burning documentary, (p65) this elegant drama explores a community trying to do its very best.

DOCUMENTARY

RAIDERS! Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen | USA | 2015 | 104mins 1600 | GATE

In 1981, three 11 year old boys decided to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot for shot, starring themselves and their friends.

Seven years, a house fire and numerous injuries later, the film was complete but for one scene: the airplane. Thirty years later the estranged friends put aside their differences and reunite to complete the project that defined their youth, and earned them a cult following along the way. This is the story of what is popularly known as ‘the greatest fan film ever made’, but more importantly, a tale of friendship, passion and growing up.

See The Adaptation (p55) for free for Raiders! ticket holders

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IN YOUR ARMS / I DINE HÆNDER Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm | Denmark | 2015 | 82mins | Subtitled 1800 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Assisted dying is one of the most morally complex questions that contemporary society faces. This fearless and entertaining drama tackles this issue with compassion, grace and without judgment.

The story follows Niels, a motorneuron patient in Copenhagen who wishes to die. Niels enlists the help of his nurse Maria, who herself battles with life’s struggles. The two embark on the most modern of road-trips to Switzerland in order for Niels to end his life. Sahlstrom treats the issues raised by the film with dignity, never over-simplifying them in this honest examination of end-oflife decisions. The post-screening discussion will feature some of Ireland’s leading voices on this divisive and complex issue.

FEATURE

BONE TOMAHAWK S. Craig Zahler | USA | 2015 | 133mins 1830 | GATE

After an outlaw unknowingly leads a group of cannibalistic troglodytes into the peaceful town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher (Patrick Wilson). He joins a small rescue team, consisting of sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell), his ageing deputy (Richard Jenkins) and a strong-willed gunslinger (Matthew Fox), to bring her back.

What follows is a journey into hell on earth as the posse comes to realise it is up against a merciless enemy whose savagery knows no bounds.

FEATURE

MOSCOW NEVER SLEEPS Johnny O’Reilly | Ireland | Russia | 2015 | 100mins | Subtitled 1845 | GATE

Moscow Never Sleeps is a multi-narrative drama about the hidden bonds that connects us all. The film dives headlong into the volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people: An entreprenuer whose business empire comes under siege by powerful bureaucrats, a teenage girl mired in the misery of a broken home, a young man forced to chose between his girlfriend and his grandmother; a beautiful singer torn apart by the pursuit of two men and an ailing film star who gets embroiled in a bizarre kidnapping. Over the course of one day, their lives will change forever.

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FEATURE

THE VALLEY Ghassan Salhab | Lebanon, France, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar | 2014 | 113mins | Subtitled 2045 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

A desert road in a mountainous area. A car crashes. A man emerges, covered in blood. A way down the road he encounters a group having engine trouble, and gets their car running again. Suddenly realising he cannot remember who he is he faints. Deciding to take him back to their compound, the group try to figure out what to do with this stranger.

From this enigmatic opening, Salhab expertly constructs a mystery where both the man and the group appear to play an uneasy game of cat and mouse. While they wonder who he is, he wonders will he ever escape.

FEATURE

UMRIKA Preshant Nair | India | 2015 | 100mins | Subtitled 2100 | GATE

This charming film, which won the Sundance Audience Award, and stars Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma and The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Tony Revolori, asks the viewer to contemplate quasi-mythical America through rural hindu eyes. When Udai Bhai abandons his native Jitvapur for a bigger and better life in the United States of ‘Umrika’, young Ramkant must follow in his footsteps to find out what truly happened to his brother, who seems to have vanished. Their father has died, and Ramkant worries his mother cannot survive the loss of husband and favourite son.

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FEATURE

THE CLUB / EL CLUB Pablo Larraín | Chile | 2015 | 97’ | Subtitled 2145 | GATE

A group of exiled priests find their clandestine existence rudely interrupted in Pablo Larraín’s stunning allegory for the abuses of the Catholic Church. Pablo Larraín won Berlin’s Grand Jury Prize with this mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town. Sharing both a large home and a greyhound they’re training to race, four middle-aged men and their housekeeper – in truth, defrocked priests and a nun – find their quiet lives suddenly disrupted by the shocking violence provoked by a newly arrived lodger, which then leads to investigation by a live-in representative of a ‘new church’ seemingly keen to clean up its all too often abusive act. The performances are uniformly great, while Larraín’s customarily murky visuals mirror the motives of all concerned. Note, however, that the film’s savage wit is not purely anti-clerical; once again, Larraín critiques a Chilean culture of complacency, concealment and conspiracy where wrongdoers feel they can (and should) get away with almost anything.

Stark, fearless and Bible-black (Geoff Andrew, LFF).

FEATURE

VIOLATOR Dodo Dayao | Philippines | 2014 | 101mins | Subtitled 2330 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stranded inside a police station with a prisoner who may or may not be the devil. It’s going to be a long night.

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DAY 5

10 November

Friday

Tuesday Happy 100th, Orson! We’re thrilled to be playing Citizen Kane - most folks’ favourite movie of all time - and three more of Welles classics in this retrospective. p64 A promenade style multi screen ‘performance’ of Francesco Clerici’s hypnotic bronze foundry set film, presented with and in the National Sculpture Factory. p66 The Sound Before the Fury - behind the scenes as Archie Shepp recreates his Attica Blues, 40 years after the prison rebellion which inspired the classic. p66 German actor Anne Ratte-Polle gives a world jury applauding turn in Wanja, a subtle portrait of a felon determined to put her life back on track. p67 Irish Shorts One opens the competitive strand - which Irish filmmaker will be on the road to the Oscars®? p37

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60. Cork Film Festival FEATURE

OLMO AND THE SEAGULL Petra Costa, Lea Glob | Denmark, France, Sweden | 82mins | Subtitled 1300 | GATE

Free-spirited actor Olivia is set to play Arkadina in Chekhov’s The Seagull. During rehearsals, Olivia and boyfriend and co-star Serge discover she is pregnant. Olivia nearly miscarries, and so must remain still for the term of the pregnancy. Olivia’s desire for freedom and success clashes with the limits imposed by her own body and the baby growing inside her. The film takes a further twist when what appears to be acted is revealed as life itself. This portrait of the creative process invites us to question what is real, what is imagined, and what we celebrate and sacrifice in life.

FEATURE

CITIZEN KANE Orson Welles | USA | 1941 | 120mins 1530 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

“I wished to make a motion picture which was not a narrative of action so much as an examination of character. For this, I desired a man of many sides and many aspects. It was my idea to show that six or more people could have as many widely divergent opinions concerning the nature of a single personality. Clearly such a notion could not be worked out if it would apply to an ordinary American citizen. I immediately decided that my character (Charles Foster Kane) should be a public man - an extremely public man - an extremely important one ...”. - Orson Welles See other Orson Welles films. p25

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TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER DOCUMENTARY

TOTO AND HIS SISTERS Alexander Nanau | Romania | 2014 | 93mins | Subtitled 1600 | GATE

Filmed over 15 months in a Bucharest slum, the LUX Prize nominated Toto and his Sisters tells the astonishing story of Toto (10), and his sisters, Ana (17) and Andreea (15) during their mother’s imprisonment, Toto passionately learns dancing, reading and writing, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childhood should be. With extraordinary access into a deeply moving chain of events, director Alexander Nanau presents a fascinating account of cyclical poverty, drugs and the importance of family.

DOCUMENTARY

OUR CITY Maria Tarantino | Belgium | Netherlands | 2014 | 83mins | Subtitled 1615 | GATE

Technically a film about modern Brussels, Maria Tarantino’s perfectly paced and endlessly engaging kaleidoscope of images could easily represent any European city. Whether infiltrating the European Parliament, lingering on street musicians, being regaled by the poetry of an Iranian taxi driver or observing the opulence of a night at the opera, the camera swoops through the city’s every corner to expose the warmth, challenges and diversity that lie at it’s heart. A charming portrait of humanity first, and Brussels second.

DOCUMENTARY

THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING Morgan Knibbe | Greece | Netherlands | 2014 | 74mins | Subtitled 1800 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

As a group of refugees tries to enter Europe illegally by boat, a storm suddenly appears and all hell breaks loose when an old man falls overboard. His perception shifts into another dimension: a dark, hallucinatory place. Driven by a mysterious power and desperately in search of his loved ones, his soul passes by the everyday reality of many castaway refugees at the border of the alleged paradise, Europe. The old man’s spirit observes people on the street being chased away like dogs, follows an illegal worker and a drug addicted mother and slips inside crowded refugee shelters. Wandering through this limbo, the old man questions the meaning of his existence and gives us an insight into the lives of refugees living on the edge of Europe.

Followed by a post screening panel discussion.

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60. Cork Film Festival FEATURE

THE LESSON / UROK Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov | Bulgaria | Greece | 2015 | 118mins | Subtitled | Free Event 1815 | GATE

When the theft of a pupil’s lunch money is reported to her, Nadezhda, a high school English teacher in a small Bulgarian town, is determined to find the culprit and teach them a lesson about right and wrong. In the meantime, thanks to her feckless husband, her domestic existence begins to unravel when a bailiff informs her that the bank is about to seize her house due to overdue mortgage payments. Nadezhda will do anything to keep her house but her poor choices lead her further down the road of desperation.

New Directors Award - San Sebastian Film Festival 2014

DOCUMENTARY

THE SOUND BEFORE THE FURY Lola Frederich, Martin Sarrazac | France | 2014 | 89mins 1830 | GATE

In 1971, 1000 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility seized control of the prison, taking 42 guards hostage in the process.

A year later jazz musician Archie Shepp released Attica Blues.

Framed around the extraordinary letters of Attica inmates, which continue to carry shocking and relevant weight in 2015, Shepp revisits his masterpiece with the help of 25 musicians in Paris.

We witness their struggle to capture the essence of the music’s origins in the hectic lead up to opening night, with archive footage and the voices of inmates serving as an omnipresent anchor between the past and present.

DOCUMENTARY

HAND GESTURES Francesco Clerici | Italy | 2015 | 77mins | Subtitled 2000 | NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY

Hand Gestures is a near silent Italian film about one of the oldest continuously operating bronze foundries in the world. Beautiful and abstract. Even today, in order to create a sculpture in bronze, the steps taken haven’t altered since the 5th Century BC. A wonderful opportunity to watch an hypnotic movie about a bronze foundry in the atmospheric surroundings of our beloved National Sculpture Factory.

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TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER FEATURE

PROJECT OF THE CENTURY / LA OBRA DEL SIGLO Carlos M. Quintela | Cuba, Argentina, Switzerland, Germany | 2015 | 100mins | Subtitled 2100 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Cuba’s melancholic ruins with a different, more modern face. In Juragua, a fallen city built from scratch in the 1980s near Cuba’s first nuclear power plant - a project that was scrapped after the fall of the Soviet Union - three generations of Cuban men are stuck living together in a small workers’ apartment. Crushed by frustration and a lack of hope, they are constantly searching for something in the past in order to anchor the present. Their memories are illustrated with footage from old reports on Cuban television in which propagandistic enthusiasm lends an almost erotic aura to the atomic project.

FEATURE

WANJA Carolina Hellsgård | Germany | 2015 | 97mins | Subtitled 2100 | GATE

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.

FEATURE

NINA FOREVER Ben and Chris Blaine | UK | 2015 | 98mins 2315 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Holly’s friends warn her that Rob is troubled, that he has never been the same since his girlfriend Nina died in a car crash a year and a half ago. Holly is undeterred: she wants him, she can fix him, she can make him happy again. They start a relationship, but the first time they’re in bed together Nina, a bloody and tangled mess, emerges from the afterlife. After the initial shock, Holly accepts this - she can deal with the dead girl sharing their bed, their lives, their minds. If it’s what Rob needs, it’s what she’ll do in this darkly humorous love story.

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DAY 6

11 November

Friday

Wednesday A pint (or two?), the gorgeous surrounds of St Luke’s, and Milos Forman’s luscious Amadeus on the big screen. p75 The Russian Woodpecker: the Ukrainian documentary hybrid is the first of five in competition for the Cinematic Documentary Award. p73 The Nightless City: the Syracusan drama is the first of five features in competition for the Spirit of the Festival Award. p73 We pay tribute to the late, great Rory Gallagher, with a big screen exclusive presentation of What’s Going On: Taste Live at the Isle of Wight. p15 Tim Roth is compelling in the slow burning thrilled Chronic, from After Lucia director Michel Franco. p75

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

FORTUNE’S WHEEL Joe Lee | Ireland | 2014 | 76mins 1130 | GATE

Bill Stephen a young man in 1950s Ireland, had an extraordinary ambition: to become an international circus star. His double act with his young and beautiful wife Mai ‘Jungle Capers’ was a series of death-defying feats with a troupe of lions and dogs designed to thrill audiences in the circus tent and on the stage. Things went terribly wrong when one of their animals escaped. The story gained national and international attention at the time, but it is only now, after 60 years of silence-that two families and a community have come together to tell the story in full.

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Nathan Silver | USA | 2015 | 71mins 1200 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Taking place at a suburban New Jersey home during the early nineties, Stinking Heaven follows a group of outcasts who seek salvation from their regular lives.

Jim and Lucy (Keith Poulson and Deragh Campbell) run this commune for sober living where people eat, bathe and work together selling homemade ‘health tea’ out of their van. They are also encouraged to relive the lowest points in their lives which are acted out in a series of outlandish scenarios captured on videotape. Featuring a strong ensemble cast including Hannah Gross, Tallie Medel, Eléonore Hendricks and Henri Douvry, Stinking Heaven is a traumatic tar black comedy.

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Nathan Silver | USA | 2014 | 72mins

After discovering his wife (Caitlin Mehner) has cheated on him, Robbie (David Dahlbom) flees the city for the countryside to stay with his neurotic aunt who runs a home for pregnant teenagers. As the only man in the house, Robbie inadvertently becomes the object of many of the girls’ attention and affection. As he goes about his handyman work, Robbie strikes up a friendship with one of the girls, Nina (India Menuez).

As they grow close, jealousy and tension mount in the house due to one of the other expecting mothers (Tallie Medel) as well as Nina’s irresponsible delinquent baby daddy, Chase (Casey Drogin).

WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER DOCUMENTARY

UNBRANDED Philip Baribeau | USA | 2015 | 105mins 1415 | GATE

Based on the best-selling book by Ben Masters, Unbranded is the story of four friends who set out on an unprecedented 3,000mile horseback journey across the jaw-dropping landscape of the American West. Armed only with their trained mustangs, Ben Masters, Jonny Fitzsimons, Thomas Glover and Ben Thamer trek from Mexico to Canada in this beautifully shot adventure through untamed and unforgiving lands. Serving both as an argument for environmental preservation and fascinating document of endurance, determination, courage and brotherhood.

FEATURE

TITUS Charlie Cattrall | UK | 2013 | 93mins 1545 | GATE

The poetic and soulful story of a virtuoso African-American jazz musician whose damaged soul has brought him to the status of a nobody. Living in London, far from home, he’s wasting away, estranged from his one true love, his vintage alto sax. All hope looks lost until a visitor arrives, Jessica, the daughter he abandoned as a baby. Over the course of a day and night together, old demons are laid to rest and new ones are stirred, and for one last time the future is back in Titus’s hands.

DOCUMENTARY

AFTER THE DANCE Daisy Asquith | Ireland | 2014 | 77mins 1530 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Acclaimed filmmaker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother’s conception after a dance in the 1940s on the remote west coast of Ireland. Her grandmother, compelled to run away to have her baby in secret, handed the child over to ‘the nuns’. Daisy’s mum was eventually adopted by English Catholics from Stoke on Trent. Her grandmother returned to Ireland and told no-one. The father remained a mystery for another 60 years, until Daisy and her mum decided it was time to find out who he was. Their desperate need to know takes them on a fascinating and moving adventure in social and sexual morality and the fear and shame that Catholicism has wrought on the Irish psyche for centuries, and connecting them with a brand new family living an extraordinarily different life.

ALSO ON: WORLD SHORTS 2 (1330) - SEE P34

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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT Lisa Immordino Vreeland | USA | 2015 | 97mins 1615 | GATE

Even within the art world, notorious for its larger than life characters and gossip fuelled inner sanctum, few figures stand out as having a more colourful a biography than Peggy Guggenheim. Whether transforming her modest fortune into a legendary and highly influential art collection, rescuing iconic works from Nazi Europe, launching the career of Jackson Pollock or flying between countries to indulge affairs with the likes of Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst and Paul Bowles, this extraordinary story is brought vividly to life through interviews, archive footage and plenty of flair.

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EUNIC IRELAND PRESENTS: SHORT SHORTS FROM EUROPE 1800 | GATE

EUNIC is an alliance of the following cultural institutes with premises in Dublin: Alliance Francaise, Austrian Embassy, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Instituto Cervantes, Greek Embassy, Instituto Italiano di Cultura and Romanian Embassy/Romanian Cultural Institute. The ‘presidency’ rotates every two years; this year it is the Goethe-Institut. Short Shorts from Europe are just that: a programme of compelling, brief shorts, one nominated by each institute. The Cork Film Festival has made a nomination of a short film from Poland. The programme is played for free, and then the audience and the institutes’ representatives repair to a Cork watering hole to discuss the fine films that have just been played.

This year the films are:

Alliance Française

Goethe-Institut Irland

Poland

Le Baiser / The Kiss

At the Door / An der Tür

Woolen Cogwheels

Stéfan Le Lay | Live Action | France |

Miriam Bliese| Live Action| Germany

Druciane Oprawki | Bartosz

2005 | 4’20”.

| 2013 | 5’

Keędzierski | Animation | Poland | 13’

Austrian Embassy

Instituto Cervantes Dublin

Irish Film Institute

Love Statements

Preferential treatment / Trato preferente

Coda

Maria Weber | Animation | Austria | 2013 | 6’

British Council

Carlos Polo | Live Action | Spain | 2014

The Italian Institute of Culture

Petros Silvestros and Andrea Allen

Office Kingdom

– 9’/

| 9’

– 3’46”.

A Confession Live Action | United Kingdom | 2015

Alan Holly | Animation | Ireland | 2014

Salvatore Centoducati, Eleonora Bertolucci, Giulio De Toma, Ruben Pirito | Animation | Italy | 2014 | 6’54”.

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ALSO ON: IRISH SHORTS TWO SEE P38, TASTE MUSIC GALA P15, MEDITERRANEA P20

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THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER Chad Garcia | UK | 2015 | 80mins | Subtitled 1930 | GATE

When the sharply charismatic (if somewhat eccentric) Ukranian artist Fedor Alexandrovich becomes transfixed by the Duga – a Soviet built radio antenna – he grows determined to lift the cloud of secrecy hovering over the construction and nearby Chernobyl site. The Russian Woodpecker is a tale of conspiracy, intrigue and corruption set against a backdrop of neo-Soviet paranoia and a Ukraine that is steadily imploding. Equally funny, tragic and thrilling, Chad Gracia’s playful and energetic approach to Fedor’s life changing investigation elevates an already compelling and thought provoking story.

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THE NIGHTLESS CITY Alessandra Pescetta | UK | Italy | 2015 | 87mins | Subtitled 2130 | GATE

Suffering from anxiety brought about by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a beautiful model convalesces at the apartment of Rocco, her Sicilian former fiancé. However, the change of scene brings no respite as she goes days without eating and nights without sleeping, until it is discovered she can only sleep when driven around at night by Rocco. She becomes revitalised, leading Rocco to subjugate himself to her in order to maintain her new lease of life. As the borders between reality and dream start dissolving, their lives move progressively towards the extreme reaches of a dream.

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BLOOMIN MUD SHUFFLE Frank V. Ross | USA | 2015 | 75mins 2100 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

If you’re looking for Lonnie, the forlorn 30-something housepainter at the centre of Bloomin Mud Shuffle, you’ll likely find him at the local watering hole, in the same Chicago suburb he grew up in, working the same dead-end job alongside his old friend from high school. Through his days of idle chatter and nights of endless booze, Lonnie is heartsick, pining for his college-aged co-worker who is hesitant to take their strictly physical relationship to the next level.

“A little gem about romantic frustration” - Hollywood Reporter

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CHRONIC Michel Franco | Mexico | France | 2015 | 92mins 2100 | GATE

Michel Franco stunned us with his searing portrait of a bullied schoolgirl, After Lucia. He returns with his latest uncompromising study of grief and isolation, which focuses on David, a full time, seemingly altruistic care-giver for the terminally ill. Chronic is an intimate and often uncomfortable piece of filmmaking, filmed in long, measured takes, meticulously framed and almost clinical in execution. Tim Roth’s portrayal of a man displaying subtly sociopathic tendencies is nothing short of revelatory. He brings a sense of empathy and humanity to a complex, often challenging character, providing an unconventional heart to a gratifyingly unconventional film.

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AMADEUS Milos Foreman | USA | 1984 | 160mins 2000 | ST LUKE’S

Milos Foreman’s eight Oscar® winning masterpiece, based on the Peter Shaffer play, needs little introduction. It’s the incredible story of the great scatalogical genuis Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri (F Murray Abraham) - now confined to an insane asylum. A glorious riot of colour, music, lewdness and drama, sure to have an extra frisson by being screened in the beautiful St Luke’s.

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QUEEN OF EARTH Alex Ross Perry | USA | 2015 | 90mins 2300 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Following the black comedy Listen Up Philip director Alex Ross Perry and actor Elisabeth Moss collaborate once again for a very different kind of picture. Moss plays Catherine, a young woman who seeks peace and solitude after a series of tragic events in her life. She retreats to a secluded lake house with her best friend, Virginia (Katherine Waterston) but this quiet country setting brings back memories and traumas of earlier times. Catherine soon finds herself on a journey into steadily mounting hysteria as past and present collide and the love-hate relationship between the two women threatens to tear them apart. Atmospherically shot on 16mm film by director of photography Sean Price Williams and featuring an unforgettable central performance by Moss, Queen Of Earth is a psychological thriller with a streak of dark humour resulting in an unsettling and immersive viewing experience.

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DAY 7

12 November

Friday

Thursday A gothic masterpiece screened in a Romanesque one: Keanu, Winona and Anthony in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula at St Luke’s. p82 Illuminate returns to Cork, with Dead When I Got Here and a weighty panel examiningthe fate of mental health patients in a Juarez asylum. p82 Justin Kurzel’s stunning Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, on the giant screen in the Opera House. p33 The Safdie brothers’ blazing heroin drama Heaven Knows What, depicting real events from Arielle Holmes’s life, with Holmes playing herself. p83 Tangerine is the raunchy, hilarious, compassionate portrait of LA’s transgender sex workers and clients - all shot on an iPhone 5S! Playing in competition. p81

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

CHAMELEON 1200 | GATE

Ryan Mullins | Canada | 2014 | 78mins

Described as the ‘James Bond’ of Ghanaian journalism, Anas operates in the shadows and in disguise, infiltrating and deceiving his targets in order to expose corruption and illegal activities.

Frequently risking his own safety and that of his colleagues at Tiger Eye Investigations Bureau exposing them to both hero worship and heavy criticism, Anas has successfully exposed human rights abuses in mental hospitals and orphanages, identified smugglers and those that aid them, busted distribution rings of illegal materials. Director Ryan Mullins closely follows the anonymous figure in this high-octane pursuit of his next scoop.

Gregory Kohn Double Bill

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COME DOWN MOLLY

Gregory Kohn | USA | 2011 | 77mins

Gregory Kohn | USA | 2015 | 81mins

1200 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

This slow-burning drama follows Will (David Call) as he hangs out with friends, moves from one casual affair to the next, and wanders around Brooklyn without a job, drive or ambition. While this laid-back existence has carried Will through his twenties, friends such as Molly (Eléonore Hendricks) and Patrick (Tate Ellington) are settling into committed relationships and progressing in their careers. It is time for Will to take stock of his life and begin contemplating the future. Shot on grainy 16mm film stock against a wintery New York City, this intimate character study is the debut feature from director Gregory Kohn.

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Taking place five years after the events depicted in Northeast, Gregory Kohn’s second feature finds Molly and Patrick now married and with a young child. All is not well, however, since Molly (Eléonore Hendricks) struggles to cope with motherhood. She takes off to join an old high school group of male friends at a secluded mountain home. Amidst tears, laughter, and magic mushrooms, they connect with nature, one another, and themselves. Shot in a crisp visual style which nicely captures the stunning Colorado landscapes, Come Down Molly features a screenplay peppered with sly wit and is anchored by a vulnerably moving performance from Hendricks.

ALSO ON: MACBETH (1200) - SEE P 33 + JED KURZEL MASTERCLASS - SEE P 30

THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER FEATURE

WINTER GUEST / WINTERGAST Andy Herzog, Matthias Guenter | Switzerland | 2015 | 82mins | Subtitled 1200 | GATE

In the six years since Stefan Keller released his celebrated short film he has been in a creative crisis. Although he already filled 2000 pages with notes for his first feature film, the rough draft is far from finished. Much to the disappointment of his girlfriend Christina, whose biological clock is ticking. Now in financial distress, Keller takes on a job as an anonymous tester of youth hostels. It’s the beginning of a mad odyssey: Keller desperately fights for his film idea, tries to save his relationship and encounters strange characters and ordinary folk, all searching for the meaning of life.

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BREAKING A MONSTER Luke Meyer | USA | 2015 | 92mins 1530 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Unlocking the Truth are a heavy metal group made up of three best friends. They draw huge crowds in Time Square, don leather and denim and have a manager with decades of experience. They are also in the 7th Grade. With the weight of expectation upon them and an ever increasing audience of suits with dollar signs in their eyes, they are soon on their way to a $1.8 million record deal.

Breaking A Monster bears witness to an industry confused, seen through the ever insightful eyes of children in an adult’s world (that is, when they manage to tear them from their iPhones).

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LIFE IS SACRED Andreas Dalsgaard | Ireland, Denmark | 2014 | 104mins 1600 | GATE

A story about a fearless politician and his devoted followers.

With an army of young people hoping for change, he uses mimes, pencils, flashmobs and superhero costumes to attack the corruption and violence in Colombia. A young woman falls in love with the movement, but to change a society penetrated by illegality, turns out to be much more difficult than she ever anticipated.

ALSO ON: IRISH (SEE P38, 39 ) AND WORLD SHORTS – SEE P35

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THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Anca Damian | Romania | France | Poland | 2015 | 99mins 1630 | GATE

The spectacular story of adventurer Adam J. Winkler – decorator, soldier, adventurer, artist, mountaineer, idealist – is told through a dizzying array of animation and live action techniques in a multitude of materials and styles. Hurtling through humour and tragedy as Winkler travels the world and battles against Communism, director Anca Damian employs illustration, photography, collage and countless styles to surreal and aweinspiring effect. This unique and inspired rendering of an extraordinary tale sweeps the audience along with a beautiful score and visual feast.

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TANGERINE Sean Baker | USA | 2015 | 88mins 1845 | GATE

A twisted, high energy Christmas tale centered on rumour, infidelity, prostitution and bar fights, Tangerine is so much more than just a film shot on an iPhone. Casting a discerning and comical eye on LA’s sex industry and trans community, the story follows Sin-Dee and Alexandra as they storm through their neighbourhood encountering an array of colourful characters, both friend and foe. A dazzling and eye opening breath of fresh air, with big laughs and unexpected poignancy.

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ABOVE AND BELOW Nicolas Steiner | Switzerland | Germany | 2015 | 118mins 2100 | GATE

Three disparate pockets of humanity weave together to redefine ‘home’; whether an abandoned bunker in the unforgiving Californian desert, a space mission’s vision of Mars on Earth or an ominous flood tunnel hidden under the chaos of Las Vegas. April zips herself into her spacesuit daily in the search for something beyond her experience, whilst David embraces solitude while exposed under the glaring sun. Rick, Cindy and Lalo experience love, heartache and loss, yet remain unseen in their own parallel universe beneath the city. Sidestepping cliché commentary and investigation, Steiner finds beauty and wonder in the lives of outcasts.

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ILLUMINATE: DEAD WHEN I GOT HERE Mark Aitken | UK | Mexico | 2015 | 72mins | Subtitled 1800 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Infested with gangrene, unable to walk, Josué was cast out of the traumatised streets of Juárez, México into the desert and dumped in a mental asylum run by its own patients. Assisted by people employing empathy as the only means of survival, Josué transcended near death - discovering compassion in his darkest hours. Six years later, Josué manages the asylum and dreams of his estranged daughter. This is a story about sorrow and hardship but also about healing and redemption.

SPECIAL

SYNCHRONISE 1900 | THE PAV

Synchronise is a new music video strand and competition that will feature videos from both Irish and International directors. A select jury from the Irish music industry will make their choice for Best Irish Music Video and Best International Music Video, two new awards at the festival. The two programmes include music videos from Squarehead, Girl Band, Meltybrains?, Hope is Noise, Jape, Overhead the Albatross and Gabrielle Aplin. This will be coupled with a chance for musicians and film-makers to meet and nurture future collaborations at a special networking event. With live music to top off the night, this is one for the music lovers as well as those in the business. Full details of music video programmes: corkfilmfest.org.

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BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA Francis Ford Coppola | USA | 1992 | 128mins 2000 | ST LUKE’S

A gothic masterpiece presented in a Romanesque one - what fun to be had as we watch Keanu, Winona and Tony battle Gary’s Transylvanian night, in Francis Ford Coppola’s triple Oscar® winning master class of ‘in camera’ effect driven filmmaking.

Even after the passing of 23 years, it’s still a ravishing, rip-roaring spectacle.

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ALSO ON: IRISH SHORTS 5 - SEE P 39

THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER FEATURE

THE WITCH Robert Eggers | USA, Canada | 2015 | 90mins 2045 | GATE.

In 17th-century New England, a devout Christian family battling the elements and scarcity of food, is traumatised when their youngest child inexplicably goes missing. As they desperately search, tensions and paranoia breed, as does the growing belief that a supernatural force is at work. Taking place decades before the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s, Robert Eggers’ gruelling tale of hysteria and sorcery is a profoundly unsettling and visionary work, capturing the unrelenting bleakness of its period setting with uncompromising conviction. This hellish descent into madness is a cruel, sometimes enigmatic and entirely singular experience.

Best Director, Sundance Film Festival

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HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT Ben and Joshua Safdie | USA | 2014 | 97mins 2100 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Both engrossing and harrowing, the latest film from the Safdie brothers (The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Daddy Longlegs) is an unflinching portrait of heroin addiction. It is based on the soon-tobe-published memoirs of the film’s leading actor, Arielle Holmes, a non-professional who proves mesmerising in the role of Harley.

She is in love with fellow addict Ilya (Caleb Landry-Jones) and their relationship is passionate and irrational as they look for their next fix on the streets of New York City. Blending fiction, formalism and raw vérité, Heaven Knows What is an uncomfortable but unforgettable picture of addiction that reeks of authenticity.

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DER NACHTMAR Akiz | Germany | 2015 | 88mins | Subtitled 2325 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

While attending a party, seventeen year old Tina (Carolyn Genzkow) has a vivid vision of being hit by a speeding car.

Disturbed by this, she leaves but hears strange noises coming from within her house. Her parents assure her that there is no one – or nothing – in their home, but Tina is not convinced. The following night she hears the noises again and decides to confront whatever is making them. She discovers a bizarre small Gollumlike creature which she is initially terrified of. But soon discovers that she has a sort of telepathic connection with it.

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DAY 8

13 November

Friday

Friday Shem the Penman Sings Again (Cork director Pádraig Trehy) is a Joycean tale shot largely in the Everyman Palace. For this Cork Gala screening it returns to its opulent home. p89 The world premiere of the Irish misadventurous caper Monged. Expect an excited screening, with the cast and crew from the Filmbase production all present. p87 The great Canadian Bruce McDonald’s knuckle-whitening Hellions, with Chloe Rose as a pregnant teenager who fights for her life against horrific monsters. p90 Jin Mo-young’s desperately sad, wondrously beautiful South Korean documentary My Love, Don’t Cross That River. Playing in competition. p88 The great Boston master of the slow, patient documentary Frederick Wiseman’s latest: In Jackson Heights. p86

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IN JACKSON HEIGHTS Frederick Wiseman | USA | 2015 | 190mins 1100 | GATE

Documentary auteur Frederick Wiseman returns with this delightful and rewarding profile of ‘the world’s most diverse neighbourhood’. Whether lingering on support groups and council meetings or offering up harrowing tales of seeking shelter in the United States, the camera seeps into all areas of life in this vibrant and proud populace. Showcasing Wiseman’s trademark observational style, and close affinity to the world he portrays, In Jackson Heights is a richly textured and sprawling slice of Americana, and warmly relatable portrait of a community in flux.

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F FOR FAKE Orson Welles | USA | 1975 | 88mins 1130 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. Described by Orson Welles as “a new kind of film”, F for Fake is a prism of a movie, a kaleidoscope in which fiction, documentary, and the poetic essay interlock, fragment, and recombine to form one of the most entertaining and profound works in all of cinema. As Jonathan Rosenbaum puts it, “F for Fake was for Welles a playful repository of public history intertwined with private in-jokes as well as duplicitous meanings, an elaborate blend of sense and nonsense that carries us along regardless of what’s actually being said”. It was the last major film completed

by Welles.

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CHRISTMAS, AGAIN Charles Poekel | USA | 2014 | 79mins 1340 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

It’s the holiday season and Noel (Kentucker Audley), for a fifth consecutive year, returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Heartbroken and feeling sorry for himself, Noel struggles to stay awake during the long, chilly nights in his caravan, while the daytime traffic keeps him from getting uninterrupted sleep. But things begin to change for Noel after he comes to the aid of a mysterious young woman (Hannah Gross) in a nearby park. Her warming presence, matched with some colourful customers, gives him a new positive outlook on life in this subtly effective character study.

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ALSO ON: IRISH (SEE P40) AND WORLD SHORTS – SEE P35 + P36

FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER FEATURE

MONGED David Prendeville, Brian Quinn, Rory Mullen | 2015 | Ireland | 85 min 1530 | GATE

Dave is a wannabe drug dealer stuck with a batch of experimental new pills, Ray is a failing club DJ getting by on a daytime radio slot, and socially awkward office worker Bernard just turned up to the wrong party by mistake. When Dave enlists Bernard’s help to test out his new consignment, the weekend descends into a riotous cocktail of narcotics, booze, clubs and parties. Embarking on a series of drug fuelled misadventures, the three lads get more from the weekend then they’d ever bargained for.

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ILLUMINATE: GOOD GIRL / FLINK PIKE Solveig Melkeraaen | Norway | 2014 | 72mins | Subtitled 1600 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Good Girl is Norwegian director Solveig Melkeraaen’s brave autobiographical documentary about her journey through acute depression. It is a film about weight: the weight Solveig feels to be the ‘Good Girl’; the weight of her depression; its weight upon her loved ones and the weight of her decision to undergo ECT treatment. Melkeraaen turns the camera on herself in a search for truth and understanding. During the film Solveig is again hit by depression and we take the journey through illness, vulnerability and treatment with her. An unflinchingly honest film which explores depression, ECT and the light and hope of recovery with bravery and humour.

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DEARGDHÚIL: ANATOMY OF PASSION Paula Kehoe | Ireland | 2015 | 62mins | Subtitled 1745 | GATE

Deargdhúil, Anatomy of Passion explores the life, work and sensual poetic imagination of Máire Mhac an tSaoi. A revolutionary Irish poet who explores the themes of love, sacrifice, sexual awakening, betrayal, the joy of motherhood, old age and the death of loved ones - set against the backdrop of a tumultuous century in Irish history in which she and her family were centrally involved.

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RUINED HEART Khavn | Philippines | Germany | 2014 | 73mins | Subtitled 1545 | GATE

Prolific Filipino filmmaker Khavn de la Cruz has gloried in a grungy, lo-fi punk aesthetic, but Ruined Heart sees him acquire an added gloss. Fear not, this is still very much a Khavn film. The seedy Manila criminal underworld, kinetic camera work, eccentric lensing and infectious musical numbers of say a Mondomanila (CFF 2013) are all present, but this time it all looks more glorious thanks to the work of auteurist cinematographer of choice Christopher Doyle. As for the plot? Well, it’s just another love story between a criminal and a whore.

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MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER Jin Mo-young | South Korea | 2014 | 86mins | Subtitled 1830 | GATE

The most commercially successful independent film in the history of Korean cinema follows Jo Byeong-man and Kang Kye-yeol in the final months of their 76 year marriage. Emotionally devastating without being in saccharine or cliched, this tender and intimate exploration of ageing, friendship and family further serves as an unusual demonstration of the strength and power of love.

ALSO ON. Free, ticketed event: Film and the City. Gerry Stembridge (UCC’s and Arts Council Ireland’s Screen Artist in Residence) wants screenwriters to make Cork one of those cities that become a character onscreen.

Come hear his plans. The Pav | 1800 90

FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER FEATURE

SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN Pádraig Trehy | Ireland | 2015 | 80mins 2000 | THE EVERYMAN PALACE

Shem The Penman is an imagined archive of the actual and much fabled friendship of James Joyce and John McCormack. The worldrenowned writer and the superstar tenor first met in 1904 when Joyce still had hopes of becoming a professional singer himself.

They reconnected in Paris in the 1920s and Joyce was to use his first hand knowledge of McCormack to create the character of Shaun the Post in his famously ‘unreadable’ novel Finnegans Wake. As Joyce struggled with the book, he portrayed himself in it as Shaun’s lowly twin brother, Shem the Penman. Joyce’s twin obsessions, singing and literary experimentation, flow through the film as his and McCormack’s encounters are reimagined in a variety of early cinematic styles, constantly interrupted by a series of films within the film which chart the exploits of Shem and Shaun. As Joyce’s eyesight fails, the narrative is carried by a mix of archive recordings and imaginary radio broadcasts.

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COUPLE IN A HOLE Tom Geens | UK | France | 2015 | 105mins | Subtitled 2045 | GATE

Could it be the end of the world, another post-apocalyptic drama?

The ingredients are certainly in place: a dishevelled middle-aged couple reduced to living like animals, inhabiting a hole in some forest. And it feels like they’re the last people left on earth, until an aeroplane is observed flying overhead. So, they’re not entirely alone. Each tiny revelation in Geens’ assured sophomore feature serves to raise more questions, taking us further into the heart of couple’s private mystery and further unravelling the delicate web that holds them together.

ALSO ON. Free, ticketed event: come and watch the world premiere of the teaser trailer of The Young Offenders, the hilarious new comedy shot in Cork. The director Peter Foott and members of the cast will be present for a Q&A. You will be the first to have an exclusive sneak peek at some scenes before the film’s 2016 Irish release.

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AAAAAAAAH! Steve Oram | UK | 2015 | 80mins 2245 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

From Steve Oram, the co-writer and co-star of Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, comes this anarchic, disturbing and delectably funny look at the human condition. It takes place in the homes, streets and parks of South London where the characters act like animals. There is no dialogue. Instead there is a language of grunts and gibberish. Are we not men?

Or are we simply beasts? ‘Little White Lies’ describes Aaaaaaaah! as “one of the great British films of the new millennium” and it is nothing if not wonderfully bizarre.

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HELLIONS Bruce McDonald | Canada | 2015 | 82mins 2330 | GATE

Cult Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald ventured successfully into the realm of fantasy with Pontypool a few years ago, and he returns to the genre with this deliciously creepy tale. Chloe Rose plays Dora, a 17-year-old who, after getting the unwelcome news that she’s pregnant, has decided to remain alone in her isolated home on Halloween night. But things quickly turn sinister as strange trick-or-treaters lay siege to the house and Dora must defend both body and soul against these relentless Hellions, deadset on possessing something Dora will not give them. Hellions effectively combines Halloween iconography, teenage angst and a desperate struggle for survival.

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ALSO ON: LIVE @ CFF – SEE P27, AND DINNER AND A MOVIE AT GRAINSTORE BALLYMALOE – SEE P31

DAY 9

14 November

Friday

Saturday David Lean’s enormous epic biopic Lawrence of Arabia is both a timely revist as thousands flee Syria, and also a must see on the giant Cork Opera House screen. p93 Terence Malick’s Knight of Cups has Christian Bale and Natalie Portman battling for authenticity, joy, life and love. p96 The Dublin Fringe hit, We Lived in Cities, from BK Pepper / Madra Moór - theatre, orchestra and imagery to close the Festival’s Live programme. p26 The captivating, deft, gently comedic stream-of-consciusness Norwegian life crisis drama Out of Nature. Back pack on, pants down - time for a walk. p97

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60. Cork Film Festival FEATURE

THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD Lisa Mulcahy | Ireland | 2014 | 99mins 1000 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

Mickey Miller is a 12-year-old New Yorker whose move to Longwood, a windswept town in Ireland, coincides with the return of the legendary, evil Black Knight. Mickey and her new friend Sean – along with Silver, a wild stallion – set out to redeem the Knight. First she must save a precious herd of white horses and thwart the plans of a greedy woman – a mighty handful even for the bravest girl! With plenty of action - curses, fires, hauntings and a plucky young heroine this film will charm and delight all from ages 9+.

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THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI Orson Welles | USA | 1947 | 88mins 1130 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

After saving the beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from thieves in Central Park, seamanMichael O’Hara (Orson Welles) is requested to serve on the yacht owned by Elsa’s disabled husband (Everett Sloane). Enter George Grisby (Glenn Anders), a man with a very special offer for O’Hara, and so begins a classic film noir tale, in which an innocent man is lured into a dangerous web of intrigue featuring baffling murders, multiple plot twists and remarkable camera work. The film’s climax, which takes place in a hall of mirrors, is often regarded as one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. Welles can even be forgiven for his questionable Irish accent!

DOCUMENTARY

BY OUR SELVES Andrew Kotting | UK | 2015 | 83mins 1200 | GATE

Andrew Kotting’s latest foray into documentary toys with time, reality and perception in luscious black and white. The film retraces 19th-century poet John Clare’s journey on foot from Epping Forest up into Northamptonshire, and features Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore, Toby Jones (as Clare) and a giant straw bear.

Contemplating pilgrimage, the British countryside and the nature of madness, By Our Selves is a captivating work which charms and unnerves in equal measure.

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ALSO ON: WORLD SHORTS (1145) – SEE P40

SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER DOCUMENTARY

DEOCH AN DORAIS / NAME YOUR POISON Paddy Hayes | Ireland | USA | 2015 | 51mins | Subtitled 1200 | GATE

Domhillte, Dochloíte, Dochreidte...

The kind of tale handed down through families for generations, Deoch an Dorais brings to life the legend of Mike Malloy, the man who wouldn’t die. The unwitting subject of life insurance fraud at the hands of prohibition-era gangster Tony Marino, Malloy dodges poison, car accidents and exposure to extreme conditions.

Combining accounts from experts with beautifully recreated scenes of 1930s Brooklyn, this Irish language documentary immortalizes Malloy’s astonishing story with aplomb and energy, while providing a fresh approach to often explored questions regarding the Irish abroad.

FEATURE

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA David Lean | UK | 1962 | 222mins + interval 1300 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

One of the screen’s grandest epics, this monumental story recounts the true life experiences of T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia. A young, idealistic British officer in WWI, Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) is assigned to the camp of Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), an Arab tribal chieftain and leader in a revolt against the Turks. In a series of brilliant tactical maneuvers, Lawrence leads fifty of Feisal’s men in a tortured three week crossing of the Nefud Desert to attack the strategic Turkish held port of Aqaba. And following his successful raids against Turkish troops and trains, Lawrence’s triumphant leadership and unyielding courage gain him nearly god-like status among his Arab brothers. With Oscar® winning cinematography, magnificent locations and Maurice Jarre’s famed score, Lawrence of Arabia is a masterpiece.

As part of David Lean Classics at the Cork Opera House, the Festival is proud to present the 4K digital restoration of the Director’s Cut, in all its glory.

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ILLUMINATE: HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK Sonja Heiss | Germany | Norway | 2015 | 92mins | Subtitled 1330 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Hedi’s life is seemingly perfect, a loving husband, a beautiful son and an adventure on the horizon. However, one day Hedi suffers a debilitating panic attack and the happy balance of all their lives become threatened and fragile. Hedi’s battle with illness and her dependency on medication set the family in stasis. Hedi Schneider is Stuck is the story of a family set back by a problem that could interrupt any of our lives. Heiss’ triumph in her treatment of depression is the refreshing balance of tragedy and wry comedy the film achieves. The light touch and gentle tone of Hedi Schneider is Stuck rather than undermine the seriousness of the issues dealt with only make us realize the universal, human nature of them.

FEATURE

REMITTANCE Carolina Hellsgård | USA, Singapore, Philippines | 2014 | 97mins | Subtitled 1600 | GATE

Marie (Angela Barotia) is a Filipina housewife who travels to Singapore to be a domestic worker. She sends money home to support her layabout husband and her children while struggling to cope with demanding employers, long hours of work, and separation from her family. What is refreshing about Remittance is Marie’s situation becomes a journey of discovery since it allows for a range of possibilities that she has never had before – new friendships, lifestyle and a chance to re-make herself. With a remarkable performance from Barotia who, like her character in the film, in real life is a domestic worker living abroad, this is a touching and sincere drama.

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Cork Film Festival

Gradam na Féile do Scannáin Faisnéise 2015

DOCUMENTARY

ON THE RIM OF THE SKY Hongjie Xu | China | Germany | 2014 | 102mins | Subtitled 1400 | GATE

On a precarious and remote cliff in China’s Sichuan province lies the village Gulu. After 26 years of teaching, a local man’s life is thrown into chaos with the arrival of a young idealist with grand ideas of innovating and transforming the school. A classic tale of tradition struggling against revolution, On The Rim of the Sky captures the world changing effect of an outsider introduced into a contained environment, set against a breathtaking backdrop beautifully captured by director Hongjie Xu.

Cork Film Festival

Gradam Spiorad na Féile 2015

FEATURE

PERFORMER Maciej Sobieszczański, Łukasz Ronduda | Poland | 2015 | 63mins | Subtitled 1630 | GATE

Featuring real life artists playing themselves, Performer is an audacious, dazzlingly inventive, perfectly formed, self-reflexive, boundary blurring, puzzle piece that both reflects upon and questions the role of the artist in contemporary society. We follow the celebrated Polish performance artist Oskar Dawicki (played

by Oskar Dawicki) whose struggle to survive goes hand in hand with his uncompromising art practice. This is played out against the backdrop of his relationship with his art dealer lover, his much more successful childhood friend and their mentor Zbigniew Warpechowski (played by the real-life Zbigniew Warpechowski), who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

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KNIGHT OF CUPS Terence Malick | USA | 2015 | 118mins 1730 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

Rick is a slave to the Hollywood system. He is addicted to success but simultaneously despairs at the emptiness of his life. He is at home in a world of illusions but seeks real life. Like the tarot card of the title, Rick is easily bored and needs outside stimulation. But the Knight of Cups is also an artist, a romantic and an adventurer.

In Terrence Malick’s seventh film a gliding camera once again accompanies a tormented hero on his search for meaning. Once again a voiceover is laid over images which also seek their own authenticity. And once again Malick seems to put the world out of joint. His symphonic flow of images contrasts cold, functional architecture with the ageless beauty of nature. Rick’s internal monologue coalesces with the voices of the women who cross his path, women who represent different principles in life: while one lives in the real world, the other embodies beauty and sensuality.

Which path will Rick choose? In the city of angels and the desert that surrounds it, will he find his own way?

FEATURE

GRANDMA PAUL WEITZ | USA | 2014 | 80mins | 1830 | Gate 1830 | GATE

A raucous road movie starring Lily Tomlin as a foul-mouthed septuagenarian.

Elle (Lily Tomlin) is a sharp-tongued, foul-mouthed poet in her 70s.

Still reeling from the death of her long-time partner Violet, and in the process of breaking up with much younger new girlfriend Olivia, Elle’s defences are at an all-time high. When her 18-year-old granddaughter turns up needing help, the pair embark on a road trip through LA, which gives them just enough time to confront both their demons and each other. Unsurprisingly, Tomlin is nothing short of divine as the gloriously profane septuagenarian, whose curt words and emotional armour can’t quite mask her broken heart. It’s impossible to deny this is Tomlin’s film, although the excellent supporting cast all get their chance to shine. Displaying a lightness of touch, along with a fair dose of insight, About A Boy director Paul Weitz has crafted a supremely enjoyable, consistently surprising road movie. About a girl. Or two.

(Michael Blyth, LFF).

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SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER DOCUMENTARY

STRETCH AND BOBBITO Bobbito Garcia | USA | 2015 | 94mins 1845 | GATE

As hosts of the ‘Best Hip Hop radio show of all time’ (according to The Source), Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia introduced the world to an unsigned Nas, Big Pun, Big L, Notorious B.I.G. and Wu-Tang. The late night program quickly grew a cult following, with fans loyally cataloguing and recording the show’s famous freestyle sessions and unique access to the next big thing.

Featuring appearances from Jay Z, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Q Tip and Nas, alongside a plethora of unreleased footage of gems from 90s recording sessions, this funny and energetic film is unmissable for any hip-hop fan.

FEATURE

FADING AWAY Dir. Edwina Casey, David Johnson, Lisa Winstanley Ireland | 2015 | 85mins 2045 | GATE

Ardi, the front-woman in a struggling rock band, has a diehard belief that her music will change the world - the problem is finding enough of an audience that agrees. After a disastrous gig she goes on a drug and booze binge where she meets a surreal supernatural mentor and the encounter leads to Ardi inadvertently wishing an iconic album out of existence. Inspired by meeting the beautiful Kora, she decides to rerecord the classic album as her own, pushing her band to breaking point to do so. As she struggles with her music, band and new love, her supernatural mentor proves to be a darker force that she realised.

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OUT OF NATURE / MOT NATURNE Ole Glaæver | Norway | 2014 | 80mins | Subtitled 2100 | GATE

Off the sofa, on with the backpack, down with the trousers - let’s go for a stream-of-consciousness narrated, existential, life crisis trek in the great forest. It is easy to get bored with this life. Life at the office, on the sofa, or before the telly – fixed ingredients of middle-class adult life in today’s Norway. Ole Giæver’s film is a cinematic version of this recurring existential story. Martin cannot stand one more Friday on the sofa with sashimi and the usual TV talk show, or the empty small talk at work that is required to prove to the world that he is normal.

ALSO ON: STRANGERLAND – IRISH GALA – SEE P9 + WE LIVED IN CITIES - SEE P 26

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BIZARRE Étienne Faure | France | USA | 2015 | 99mins 2315 | TRISKEL

Maurice (Pierre Prieur) is a young French man with a mysterious past. He arrives in Brooklyn, New York, with no money and no place to stay. After a chance encounter, he is given room, board and a job at Bizarre, an underground club which hosts outrageous and transgressive cabaret acts. With owners Kim and Betty (Raquel Nave and Rebekah Underhill) and fellow bartender Luka (Adrian James), Maurice begins to feel like he is part of a family.

But with the increasing uncertainty of the club’s future, he realises that this new life is about to disappear and violence erupts as Maurice begins to unravel.

Supporting the European Audiovisual Sector

Congratulations to the Cork Film Festival on their 60th Anniversary!

Check out our new website www.creativeeuropeireland.eu

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FINAL DAY

15 November

Friday

Sunday Tadhg O’Sullivan’s poetic, radiant - sometimes rather frightening - abstract essayist meditation on borders, money and more, The Great Wall. p102 The new 4k restoration of David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago will be a joy on the giant Cork Opera House screen. And we miss you, Omar and Peter. p101 Sound of Silents - treasures from the Irish Film Institute archive, with a live, improvised score by acclaimed Dublin jazz musicians Bottlenote. p27

Find out who is on the road to the Oscars®, at the (free) Awards Ceremony, at which our ten Awards are announced, before ... ...we see you for the Closing Night Gala, Todd Haynes’s Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. p7

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60. Cork Film Festival FEATURE

OTHELLO Orson Welles | Morocco, Italy | 1952 | 91mins 1130 | TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952, this is Orson Welles’ dynamic version of Shakespeare’s tragedy with the director taking on the title role himself. Othello was one of Welles’s most complicated shoots: When the original financier was declared bankrupt, he poured his own money into the project.

When funds were low, he would cease filming and take on an acting role (such as Harry Lime in The Third Man) to bring in money. As a result, it took three years to complete but it was worth the wait. The final result is both bravura Orson Welles and superb cinematic Shakespeare.

DOCUMENTARY

STAR*MEN Alison Rose | Canada | 2015 | 88mins 1145 | GATE

Following Russia’s launch of Sputnik, the US hired lots of astronomers, and four young British men spent a formative year in California in the early 60s, taking holiday road-trips exploring both the earth and the skies of their new home. Now they are reuniting to recreate the trip: how has their work shaped our understanding of the universe and our humble place in it? Tracing the major discoveries in astronomy in the 20th century through these four men, the film also explores friendship and mortality – and the fleetingness of our lives played out under the stars.

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WILDLIKE Frank Hall Green | USA | 2015 | 104mins 1330 | GATE

Writer / director Frank Hall Green will attend the screening of Wildlike and of his film Remittance (p94) - has made a compelling and lushly cinematic drama, set in Alaska, which has won over 60 awards globally, and played at more than double that amount of Festivals. Troubled teen Mackenzie is sent by her mother to live with her uncle. Their relationship sours, and Mackenzie runs, attempting to reach her mother in Seattle. Lost in the Alaskan interior, Mackenzie shadows a lone backpacker, an unlikely father figure, with his own baggage. They trek together, moving toward some kind of resolution.

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ALSO ON: FROZEN SINGALONG (1000) – SEE P27

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FIDDLESTICKS / QUATSCH Veit Helmer | Germany | 2014 | 82mins 1400 | GATE

Bollersville is an average town. The inhabitants of Bollersville get to test every new product before it hits the market - they are not only proud to be average, they do all they can to stay average! And if that means putting all the grandparents into an old people’s home to keep to the statistical average, then that’s what they do! The children of Bollersville rebel, knock out the adults and start working on their own adventurous plan to set a new world record. A very wild comedy for children aged 4 to 144. Bring your grandparents!

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Cork Film Festival

BEST IRISH SHORTS 1300 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

Grand Prix Irish Short 2015

The Festival’s esteemed Irish Jury has deliberated, announced this year’s award winners, and chosen the best Irish short films of 2015. This specially priced programme is the pick of that fine bunch, and includes the winner of the Grand Prix Irish Short, presented by RTÉ Cork, which is now eligible for Academy Awards 2017 consideration. Come see the future of Irish filmmaking, on the giant screen in the Cork Opera House.

FEATURE

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO David Lean | UK, USA | 1965 | 200mins 1530 | CORK OPERA HOUSE

An epic romance set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago is one of cinema’s great love stories. It is based on Boris Pasternak’s novel of the same name, immensely popular in the West, but banned in the Soviet Union. In Moscow on the eve of the First World War, and in the lead up to the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922, medical student Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) meets the beautiful Lara (Julie Christie), setting in train a fateful romance that turns their lives upside down. The film won five Oscars, including best Original score for Maurice Jarre, and features excellent supporting performances by Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin and Tom Courtenay. Doctor Zhivago portrays at its heart an intensely human and passionate relationship, challenged by the monumental politics of tradition and war.

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60. Cork Film Festival DOCUMENTARY

THE DIVIDE Katharine Round | UK, USA | 2014 | 75mins 1600 | GATE

An ambitious Wall Street psychologist ... a carer on a zero hours contract ... a prisoner who fell to Clinton’s three strikes and you’re out policy ... rich stories these, and in telling them and four others, Katharine Round humanises the bleak fact that growing inequality is driving a terrible wedge through modern society. This is an engrossing, cinematic, thought-provoking essay which flags up some root causes of today’s societal woes - and raises disturbing questions about the future. Inspired by the best-selling book The Spirit Level, The Divide demonstrates the terrible impact that decades of misguided economic decisions is having on modern lives.

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THE GREAT WALL Tadgh O’Sullivan | Ireland | 2014 | 82mins 1800 | GATE

This bold documentary, an adaptation of a Kafka story, looks at the enclosure of Europe by a complex system of walls and fences.

Mysterious and visually dazzling, the film journeys across a range of European landscapes, and encounters those whose lives are defined by these walls. The film journeys from a Spanish enclave in North Africa where the border with Europe is marked by a three-metre barbed fence, to London and Brussels, seats of power and exclusion. Returning to the Festival after Yximalloo in 2014, O’Sullivan’s directorial strength is underpinned by his fine editing and sound artistry. (Sunniva O’Flynn). Credit: IFI / IFA

ALSO ON: DOCUMENTARY AWARD WINNER (1600) SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER (1845) CAROL – CLOSING GALA (2000) - SEE P11

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CREDITS

President The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Chris O’Leary Board Members Denis McSweeney (Chair) Helen Boyle Ernest Cantillon Daniel J Coleman (Secretary) Claire Connolly Finola Doyle-ONeill Sebastian Green Rebecca Harte Dave Macardle Michael O’Connell Tadhg O’Donovan Gary Sheehan

Talent and Audience Development Coordinator Fiona Hegarty

Protocol Manager and Jury Coordinator Sharon Cronin

Executive and Schools Assistant Angela Carew

Protocol Team Tim Thoma

Marketing and Brochure Manager Ciara Lawless Marketing Assistant River Ferris

Brochure Editorial Everyone and some passers by!

Design Hurrah Hurrah Compositor Philip Cotter

Festival Administration Ruby Moore Ciara Lawless

Web Editor Sharon Cronin

Creative Director James Mullighan

Festival Accounts Noelle Clarke

Festival Photographer Jedrzej Niezgoda

Festival Projects Manager Eileen O’Shea

Box Office Manager Hilda Goold

For Springboard PR Susie Horgan, Lonán Paul and Louise O’Sullivan

Festival Coordinator Ciara Lawless

Assistant Box Office Manager Conall Ó’Riain

Head of Programming, Features Don O’Mahony

Box Office Staff Meggan Stacey, Liam Curtin

Head of Programming, Documentaries, and Screenings Manager Ruby McGuigan

Venue Managers John Synnott Supervisors of the Gate Cinemas

Head of Shorts Colm McAuliffe

Technical Manager Seamus Hegarty

Head of Live Music and Festival Club Máire Dineen

Print Transport Manager Si Edwards

Special Programming Angela Carew - George Boole Sharon Cronin - Irish Films Dave Desmond - Listen & Synchronise Fiona Hegarty - Illuminate and Ideas Don O’Mahony - Free Radicals Chris O’Neill - Hello, Americans & Triskel Lates Eileen O’Shea - Food

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Production Manager Lucy Healy-Kelly Projection Team Kieran Fitzgerald, Caiman Walshe, Dan O Driscoll, Neil Cooney, David Coleman, Jakob Krajewski

Festival Printing Cityprint Shorts Viewing Panel Manish Agarwal, Elisenda Caamano, Daniel Callanan, Céline Cardon, Hugo Cavalier, Ciara Chambers, Michael Daly, Danny Denton, Lewis Dauber, Si Edwards, Hilda Goold, Johnathan Ilott, Ciara Lawless, Dawn MacAllister, Fiona Lucia McGarry, Noel McElligott, Barry Monahan, Ian O’Gorman, Ronan O’Reilly, Eileen O’Shea, Shane Scollard

INDEX

2 Roads 40 90 Degrees North 34 11 Minutes 5 Aaaaaaaaah! 90 Above and Below 81 Aferim!

55 After the Dance 71 AiR 37 Almost There 51 Amadeus 75 An 45 An Shawlie, An Clog agus an Meall Ime 40 Aonrú 40 Art 35 The Atom Station 34 Aubade 34 Back Home 39 Bizarre 98 The Black Case 36 Blight 38 Bloomin Mud Shuffle 74 Body 47 Bone Tomahawk 59 The Bookshop 37 Boy 41 Bram Stoker’s Dracula 82 Brand New-U 54 Brand: A Second Coming 47 The Break 38 Breaking a Monster 79 Brief Encounter 13 Bunny 35

By Our Selves 92 Call Me Marianna 48 The Captors 38 Carol 7 Castratus, The Boar 34 Caught 39 Chameleon 78 Children and Animals 39 Chocolat 31 Christmas, Again 86 Chronic 75 Citizen Kane 64 Cleansed 40 Cloud of Skin 44 A Coat Made Dark 37 Cóbh’s Lusitania 40 Coil 37 Come Down Molly 78 Comic Potential 37 The Conversation 36 Couple In A Hole 89 Crack 36 Crumbs 46 Dead When I Got Here 82 Deargdhúil 87 Death of a Projectionist 38 Deoch an Dorais / Name Your Poison 93 Der Nachtmar 83 Discordance 37 Dissonance 34 Dissonant 34

The Divide 102 Doctor Zhivago 101 Dog Bowl 35 Drawing the Tiger 54 Dropping Off Michael 36 Dye 35 Edmond 34 El Club 61 Elephant’s Dream 50 Ella and the Blind Witch 35 End Of The Film 41 Ernie Biscuit 34 EUNIC Shorts 72 The Exquisite Corpus 41 F is for Fake 86 Fading Away 97 The Farewell Party 36 Fiddlesticks 101 Filleadh an Athair 40 Fortune’s Wheel 70 Foxglove 38 Frozen Singalong 23 The Genius of George Boole 46 Girona 39 Gods / Bogowie 53 Good Girl 87 Grandma 96 Greetings To The Ancestors 36 The Great Wall 102 The Great Wide Open 39 Grey Area 40 The Hallow 55 Hand Gestures 66 Heaven Know What 83 Hedi Schneider Is Stuck 94 Hellions 90 Hen Pecked 39 Hole 36 Hurtle 41 I Can’t I Can’t...

54 In Jackson Heights 86 In Your Arms 59 Introducing Brian 38 Islander’s Rest 35 Joseph’s Reel 38 Junk 41 Kacey Mottet Klein 36 Kennedy Quay 40 Knight of Cups 96 The Lady from Shanghai 92 Lamps 39 The Last of the Elephant Men 44 Lawrence of Arabia 93 Leave 38 The Legend of Longwood 92 Lemming Aid 41 The Lesson 66 Liar 39 Life Is Sacred 79 The Lion King 23 Listen 35

Looks Like Rain 38 Lost in the Living 45 The Lounge Bar 41 Love Is A Sting 39 Macbeth 33 Maidhm 40 The Magic Mountain 80 Mediterranea 20 Meteorology – A Guide to the Weather 38 Monged 87 Moscow Never Sleeps 59 My Love, Don’t Cross That River 88 My Nazi Legacy 50 The Nightless City 73 Nina Forever 67 North 40 Northeast 78 O.M.G. (Oh Máigon Girl) 36 Older Than Ireland 52 Olmo and the Seagull 64 On Stage 35 On the Rim of the Sky 95 Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale & the Rose 35 Othello 100 Our City 65 Out of Nature 97 Over 34 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 72 Pequeño 34 Performer 95 Pockets 37 Power 35 The Project of the Century 67 Queen of Earth 75 Queen of the Plough 38 Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation 55 Raiders!

58 RekonGrodek 41 Remittance 94 The River Man 40 The Road 58 Roberta 36 Ruined Heart 88 The Russian Woodpecker 73 Sámi Boy 36 Scribbledub 41 Shem the Penman Sings Again 89 A Short Walk 34 Simshar 58 Sineater 38 The Smell of Us 48 Some Like It Hot 31 The Sound Before the Fury 66 Spectrum Analysis 41 Star*Men 100 Static 37

Steve Jobs 11 Stinking Heaven 70 Strangerland 9 Stretch and Bobbito 97 Sunset Song 53 Take the Boat 46 Tangerine 81 Taste: What’s Going On 15 The 41 These Dog Days 39 They Shoot People 39 They Will Have to Kill Us First 50 Those Who Feel the Fire Burning 65 Throw Me To The Dogs 36 Time 37 Titus 71 Toasted 40 Toto and His Sisters 65 Two Cars, One Night 41 Umrika 60 Unbranded 71 Uncertain Terms 70 Under Milk Wood 51 An Unsatisfied Man 35 Valley of Love 51 The Valley 60 Victoria 48 Violator 61 Vulture 39 Waiting For Tom 39 Walk Short 41 Wanja 67 Waves ‘98 36 Wildlike 100 The Witch 83 Winter Guest 79 Woollen Cogwheels 34 Yo Cambio 53 You Will Know What To Do With Me 47 A Young Patriot 52

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NEW ZEALAND SHORTS 1200 GATE p41

GEORGE BOOLE1400 GATE p46

LAST OF THE ELEPHANT MEN 1130 GATE p44 CLOUD OF SKIN 1200 TRISKEL p44

FAMILY SHORTS

LOST IN THE LIVING 1400 GATE p45

1000 OPERA HOUSE p44 Sunday

FROZEN SING-ALONG

8 Nov

1000 OPERA HOUSE p23

AN 1400 TRISKEL p45 ELEPHANT’S DREAM 1200 TRISKEL p50

OLDER THAN IRELAND 1400 GATE p52

VALLEY OF LOVE 1245 OPERA HOUSE p51 ALMOST THERE 1330 GATE p51

MY NAZI LEGACY 1115 GATE p50 THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST 1130 GATE p50

UNDER MILK WOOD 1400 TRISKEL p51

Monday

SIMSHAR 1330 GATE p58

9 Nov

THE ROAD 1330 GATE p58

Tuesday 10 Nov

OLMO AND THE SEAGULL 1300 GATE p64

CITIZEN K

Wednesday

WORLD SHORTS ONE 1115 GATE p34

UNBRANDED 1415 GATE p71

11 Nov STINKING HEAVEN / UNCERTAIN TERMS 1200 TRISKEL p70 FORTUNES WHEEL 1130 GATE p70

Thursday

POST PRIMARY SHORTS MACBETH 1200 OPERA HOUSE p33

12 Nov

1000 OPERA HOUSE

WORLD SHORTS TWO 1330 GATE p34

IRISH SHORTS THREE 1130 GATE p38

IRISH SHORTS 4 1345 GATE p39

CHAMELEON 1200 GATE p78

WORLD SHORTS THREE 1400 GATE p35

WINTER GUEST 1200 GATE p79

JED KURZEL: MASTERCLASS 1400 PAV p30

NORTHEAST / COME DOWN MOLLY 1200 TRISKEL p78

Friday

WORLD SHORTS FOUR 1115 GATE p35

IRISH SHORTS SIX 1315 GATE p40

13 Nov

F IS FOR FAKE 1130 TRISKEL p86

WORLD SHORTS FIVE 1315 GATE p36

IN JACKSON HEIGHTS 1100 GATE p86 CHRISTMAS AGAIN 1340 TRISKEL p86

SILENT MOVES 1200 TRISKEL p26

Saturday 14 Nov

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1300 OPERA HOUSE p93

LEGEND OF LONGWOOD

WORLD SHORTS SIX 1145 GATE p92

1000 OPERA HOUSE p92

NAME YOUR POISON 1200 GATE p93

BY OUR SELVES 1200 GATE p92

WORLD SHORTS SIX 1325 GATE p36 ON THE RIM OF THE SKY 1400 GATE p95

ILLUMINATE THREE: HEDI SCHEIDER IS STUCK 1330 TRISKEL p

LADY FROM SHANGHAI 1130 TRISKEL p92

Sunday

FROZEN SING-ALONG

15 Nov

1000 OPERA HOUSE p23 STAR*MEN 1145 GATE p100 OTHELLO 1130 TRISKEL p100

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BEST OF IRISH SHORTS 1300 OPERA HOUSE FIDDLESTICKS (KIDS) 1400 GATE p101 WILDLIKE1330 GATE p100

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BRAND: A SECOND COMING 18 TAKE THE BOAT 1630 GATE p46

BODY 1815 GATE p47 CRUMBS 1800 TRISKEL p46

BRIEF ENCOUNTER 190 DRAWING THE TIGER 1830 GATE p54 SUNSET SONG 1515 OPERA HOUSE p52 GODS 1815 GATE p53 YO CAMBIO 1600 GATE p53

I CAN’T, I CAN’T ... 1845 TRISKE

A YOUNG PATRIOT 1600 GATE p52 RAIDERS! 1600 GATE p58

BONE TOMAHAWK 1830 GATE p59 IN YOUR ARMS + Q&A 1800 TRISKEL p59

FREE RADICALS 1600 GATE p41

MOSCOW NEVER SLEEPS 1845

THE LESSON 1815 GATE p66 OUR CITY 1615 GATE p65

THE SOUND BEFORE THE FURY 1830 GAT

KANE 1500 TRISKEL p64

THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING 1800 TRISKEL p65 TOTO AND HIS SISTERS 1600 GATE p65

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT 1615 GATE p72 IRISH SHORTS TWO 1845 GATE AFTER THE DANCE 1530 TRISKEL p71

EUNIC SHORTS 1800 GATE p72

TITUS 1545 GATE p71

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MEDITERRANEA 1815 TRISKEL p20

TAST

LIFE IS SACRED 1600 GATE p79

IRISH SHORTS FIVE 1815 GATE p39

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN 1630 GATE p80

TANGERINE1845 GATE p81

SYNCHRONISE 1900 PA BREAKING A MONSTER 15:30 TRISKEL p79

ILLUMINATE ONE: DEAD WHEN I GOT HERE + panel 1800 T

MONGED 1530 GATE p87 RUINED HEART 1545 GATE p88

MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER 183

ILLUMINATE TWO GOOD GIRL 1600 TRISKEL p87 GERRY STEMBRIDGE 1830 PAV p88

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DEARGDHÚIL 1745 GATE p87 KNIGHT OF CUPS 1730 OPERA HOUSE p96 REMITTANCE 1600 GATE p94

GRANDMA 1830 GATE p96

PERFORMER 1630 GATE p95

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STRETCH AND BOBBITO 1845 G

CAOS 1700 TRISKEL p26

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 1530 OPERA HOUSE p101 THE DIVIDE 1600 GATE p102 DOCUMENTARY AWARD WINNER 1600 GATE SOUND OF SILENTS WITH MUSICIANS 1615 TRISKEL p27

THE GREAT WALL 1800 GATE p102

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VICTORIA 2200 OPERA HOUSE p48

845 GATE p47 YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ME 2045 GATE p47 OUT OF BODY 2130 TRISKEL p48

00 OPERA HOUSE p13

CALL ME MARIANNA 2120 GATE p48

THE SMELL OF US 2345 TRISKEL p48

STEVE JOBS 2030 OPERA HOUSE p11 BRAND NEW-U 2100 GATE p54 AFERIM! 2110 GATE p55

EL p54

VIOLATOR

THE HALLOW 2100 TRISKEL p55

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THE VALLEY 2045 TRISKEL p60 THE ADAPTATION 2330 TRISKEL p61 IRISH SHORTS ONE 2100 GATE p37

TE p66

WANJA 2100 GATE p67 PROJECT OF THE CENTURY 2100 TRISKEL p67 HAND GESTURES 2000 NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY p66

NINA FOREVER 2315 TRISKEL p67

AMADEUS @ ST LUKES 2000 p75

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CHRONIC 2100 GATE p75 THE NIGHTLESS CITY 2130 GATE p73

RUSSIAN WOODPECKER 1930 GATE p73

BLOOMIN MUD SHUFFLE 2100 TRISKEL p74

QUEEN OF EARTH 2300 TRISKEL p75

TE - MUSIC GALA 1930 OPERA HOUSE p15 DRACULA @ ST LUKES 2000 p82 THE WITCH 2045 GATE p83 ABOVE AND BELOW 2100 GATE p81

AVILION p82

TRISKEL p82

HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT 2100 TRISKEL p83 IRISH SHORTS SEVEN 2000 GATE p40

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COUPLE IN A HOLE 2045 GATE p89 SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN 2000 EVERYMAN p89

NG OFFENDERS LAUNCH 1930 PAV p89

AN GLÉACHT 2100 TRISKEL p25

FADING AWAY 2045 GATE p97

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DER NACHTMAR 2325 TRISKEL p83 HELLIONS

2330 GATE p90 AAAAAAAAH! 2245 TRISKEL p90 WORLD DESTRUCTION ...

2300 TRISKEL p25 BIZARRE 2315 TRISKEL p98

OUT OF NATURE 2100 GATE p97 WE LIVED IN CITIES 2100 TRISKEL p26 STRANGERLAND 2045 OPERA HOUSE p9

SUNDAY TIMES DJS 2300 TDC p27

CLOSING GALA + SPEECHES 2000 OPERA HOUSE p7

RD WINNER 1845 GATE

900 TRISKEL

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