Cornwall Film Festival 2023 by www.mormediacharity.org

CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL 2 02 3 OPENING FILM All of Us Strangers

Dir Andrew Haigh | 2023| UK| 1hr 45m I CFF15

DATE 13/11/23 TIME 19.30-21.15

Adam is a screenwriter living in London. He strikes up an uneasy acquaintance with his mysterious neighbour Harry, which edges towards something more intimate. At the same time, on visiting his old family home, he discovers something quite strange and beautiful, which keeps him returning time and again. ‘Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott tremendous in a beautiful fantasy-romance’ *****- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy.

CLOSING FILM Poor Things

Dir Yorgos Lanthimos | 2023 | UK / Ireland / US | 2h 21m | CFF 12A

From festival favourite filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Lobster) and actor/producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn.

DATE 19/11/23

‘A coming-of-age story, monster movie and bawdy, foul-mouthed sex romp that the Greek alchemist (Lanthimos) has somehow forged into a masterpiece.’ - Time Out

TIME 16.30-19.00

Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe

GALA FILM Typist Artist Pirate King

Dir Carol Morley | 2022 | 1h 46 min | UK | Comedy / Drama | 12A

In Carol Morley’s fifth feature, we follow troubled, misunderstood artist Audrey Amiss and her psychiatric nurse, Sandra Panza, on a fictionalised road trip to Sunderland, in a last-ditch effort to get Amiss’ work exhibited, and reconnect with her sister Dorothy. During the course of the film, we see Amiss’ mental illness take hold, to both dramatic and darkly comic effect. ‘Carol Morley’s warm and sympathetic film imagines the artist, whose mental illness curtailed her ambitions, on a tragicomic road trip to exhibit her work’ - The Guardian

DATE 18/11/23 TIME 19.45-22.30

Starring Kelly Macdonald, Gina McKee and Monica Dolan

This film will be followed by a Q&A with the director Carol Morley. The BAFTA-nominated writerdirector, known for her startling originality and versatility, has an impressive filmography that showcases her unique storytelling abilities. Her films include Out of Blue (2018), featuring Patricia Clarkson; The Falling (2014), starring Florence Pugh, Maisie Williams and Greta Scacchi; Dreams of a Life (2011) and The Alcohol Years (2000). Morley will discuss her latest feature film, Typist Artist Pirate King (2022), which explores the fascinating reallife story of artist Audrey Amiss.

DRAMA PREVIEWS Fallen Leaves

DATE 16/11/23 TIME 19.30-21.00

Fallen Leaves tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this honourable goal is clouded by the man’s alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other’s names or addresses, and life’s general tendency to place obstacles in the way of those seeking their happiness. ‘The Finnish film-maker’s sweetnatured odd-couple romance fills you with a feelgood glow and laughs in the face of Putin’s threat to the country’ **** The Guardian

20,000 Species of Bees

A poignant debut feature from director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, 20,000 Species of Bees centres around a motherand-child quest for identity during their summer in the Basque Country. Whilst sculptor Ane struggles under the weight of her marriage, financial troubles, and the unsavory legacy of her late father, one of her children, eight-year-old Cóco, begins to question their gender identity.

DATE 17-11-23

Newcomer Sofía Otero shines in her first ever film role, alongside an incredible female ensemble cast that showcases all of the wonderful possibilities and complexities of womanhood.

TIME 17.00-19.00

The Eternal Daughter

Dir Joanna Hogg | 2022 | 1h 36 min | UK | Mystery / Drama | 12A

DATE 18/11/23 TIME 15.00-16.40

SUPER SECRET FILM !!!

1h 43 min | United States | Sports / Drama / Comedy | PG

Tilda Swinton wows in her double role as mother and daughter in Joanna Hogg's ghostly follow-up to The Souvenir: Part II. The pair return to a former family home, which has since been converted into a hotel, in order to celebrate Rosalind's birthday and also for Julie to work on her film. However, tensions eventually come to a head as a result of Julie and Rosalind's irreconcilable differences, as well as disturbances from the tragedies of Rosalind's past. ‘The Eternal Daughter is a serious, gentle moment of self-revelation for Joanna Hogg.’ - The Guardian

We promise you won’t be disappointed by our selection of Super Secret Surprise film this year! You have to guess but this director won the Cornwall Film Festival Audience Award back in 2016, is married to a certain pop star, and sharks, superheroes, Nazis and vampires have all featured in his films.

DATE 18-11-23 TIME 17.30-19.15

“Based on a true story. A film in which nothing bad happens to anyone.” Director Can you guess who it is yet?

The Taste of Things (Pot-au-feu)

DATE 11-11-23 TIME 20.00 -22.00

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel star in Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung’s culinary historical drama. The braised-beef dish of the film’s title should alert you to the sensory delights delivered by the Cannes Winner for Best Director. Eugenie (Binoche) is a cook hired by gourmet Dodin Bouffant (Magimel), their harmonious, loving relationship irreducible to employer-employee. Unsurprisingly, every meal is a work of art shown in long takes and close-ups. In The Taste of Things, cooking is an artform and cinema is a slave to that artform. “Food is a gift of love here – and romance courses through this delightful film.” Time Out.

FAMILY FILMS Turning Red

DATE 18/11/23 TIME 10.00-11.40

Growing up can be a turbulent journey. Thirteen-year-old Chinese-Canadian Mei Lee feels pressured by her parents to be a dutiful and high-achieving daughter, so she hides her personality and interests from them - notably her crush on a local shop’s clerk and her love for the boy band 4* Town. Burying her passions becomes a challenge when Mei unexpectedly turns into a red panda every time she experiences strong emotions. It’s discovered that this transformation has been experienced by all the women in the family and that it can be removed through a ritual that must be performed on the Lunar eclipse in a month’s time.

DOCUMENTARY Is There Anybody Out There?

Dir Ella Glendining | 2023 | 1h 27m | UK | Documentary | 12A

A Sundance and Sheffield DocFest favourite, director Ella Glendining born with a condition so rare that there’s scarcely any information available about it - showcases her search for people with similar bodies to her’s. A treasure of a documentary about a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body and searches the world for another person like her.

DATE See website for details. TIME TBC

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

DATE 18/11/23 TIME 12.30-14.00

Is There Anybody Out There? is a great challenge to our society’s pervasive ableist assumptions, a powerful rejection of the norms that serve to actively harm disabled individuals, as opposed to uplift and support them. Life-Affirming Tales of Hurt and Healing in a Hotbox In the depths of a lush Estonian forest, a group of women congregate within the comforting embrace of a smoke sauna's safe darkness. Here, they embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing, shedding their deepest fears and shame in the midst of a warm, enveloping heat that courses through their beings, revitalizing their spirits. Director Anna Hints deftly captures this intimate ritual, skillfully weaving the narrative through the lens of her camera. 2023 World Cinema Documentary Award at Sundance Film Festival.

Your Fat Friend

DATE 17/11/23 TIME 19.30-21.30

Your Fat Friend is an incisive, funny, and frank portrait of bestselling author Aubrey Gordon, whose advocacy work has made an immense impact on how people view and treat fat people. In 2016, an anonymous blogger known only as @yrfatfriend started publishing popular essays addressing society’s fatphobia, discussing the realities of what it’s like to go through life as a self-described “very fat person” with candour and vulnerability. Audrey Gordon’s story has been brought to life here by Jeanie Finlay - one of Britain’s most distinctive documentary makers - who will be joining us after the screening for a virtual Q&A.

LATE NIGHT SCREENING Oldboy

Fifteen years of imprisonment, five days of vengence. One of the greatest and most jaw-droppingly shocking movies of all time, Park Chanwook’s Oldboy Featuring relentless brutality alongside a compelling plot and fantastic cinematography.

DATE 17/11/23 TIME 20.00-23.55

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix.

CLASSICS A Matter of Life and Death This iconic World War Two Dir Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell | 1946 | 1h 44m | UK | Fantasy / Romance | U

DATE 19/11/23 TIME 13.45-16.00

romance follows an RAF pilot who must defend himself in Heaven after cheating death. Powell and Pressburger’s 1946 classic traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love and is a moving masterpiece. Shot in both bold technicolour and sleek monochrome, A Matter of Life and Death is a landmark of British cinema. Featuring an introduction by Arts University Plymouth Professor of Film and the Occult, Judith Noble.

COMEDY Theatre Camp

Dir Nick Lieberman & Molly Gordon | 2023 |1h 33m | USA | Comedy / Drama | 12A

DATE 14/11/23 TIME 19.30-21.10

Theatre Camp is a mockumentary reminiscent of the films of Christopher Guest (Best In Show), following the trials and tribulations of an Upstate New York Theatre Camp attempting to create and stage a masterpiece, good enough to save the camp from imminent closure. Tony Award winner Ben Platt and Molly Gordon star in this original comedy as lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York. ****‘A sense of joy emanates from nearly every frame of Theater Camp’ The Observer

SHORTS SCREENNGS AND AWARD WINNERS SHOWCASE OF STUDENT FILMS

We bring you the class of 2023 with our annual showcase of the best new talent from Student Filmmakers. DATE - 15/11/23 TIME - 12.00-13.45

SHOWCASE OF BEST UK SHORTS - Our expert selection of

the brightest, newest and most inspiring film work from filmmakers from across the UK.

DATE - 15/11/23 TIME - 15.30-17.15

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS - A showcase of international

filmmaking talent, featuring the most innovative and adventurous ideas from filmmakers whose short films manifest stylistic boldness, strength of form, and the ambition to use the medium in a way that resists cliché. Narrative and non-narrative competition work. DATE - 15/11/23 TIME - 17.45-19.15

BEST OF THE WEST - A showcase of regional filmmaking talent from Cornwall & the South West DATE - 15/11/23 TIME - 20.00-22.00 approx

OTHER VENUES VR, AR AND 360 DOME King Charles Hall, New St, Falmouth (Behind the Poly) DATE - 18/11/23 TIME - 13.30-18.30

Step into a world beyond reality with our immersive VR experiences! With our state-of-the-art virtual reality technology, your in control, so get ready to make your wildest imaginations come to life. Come and view immersive content in the pop up dome and on VR headsets, and check out AR artwork in the King Charles Hall, behind the Poly.

COMMUNITY Personal Weather

Writing and photograpy Anthology exhibition and launch DATE - 14/11/23 - 24/11/23 Falmouth Library/ Art Gallery

This anthology has been produced by the participants of Mor Media’s ESF Get Creative project. Over the past two years creative workshops have take place all over Cornwall. The anthology includes writing and photography from those workshops; a selection of which will be displayed in the foyer and staircase gallery of Falmouth Library/ Art Gallery.

My So Called Selfiish Life

Dir Therese Shechter | 2022 | 1h 18 min | USA | Documentary | PG | 2022 DATE - 12/11/23 TIME - 18.00-22.00 THE CORNISH BANK FALMOUTH

In partnership with 99p Films and The University of Exeter, My SoCalled Selfish Life is a revolutionary new documentary about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing not to become a mother. Titled after one of the myths it challenges, this entertaining, inspiring and thought-provoking film draws on a heady mix of pop culture, science and history to reveal the diverse lives of people who have said no to having children. With brisk, cheeky humour and an intersectional lens, My So-Called Selfish Life gives us permission to consider the futures we want, and the inspiration to fight for our reproductive freedom—whether we want children or not.

Can I Live ?

Dir Daniel Bailey | Conceived, written and performed by Fehinti Balogun | 2021 | 1h | UK | Documentary | PG DATE - 26/11/23 TIME - 17.00 PRINCESS PAVILLIONS FALMOUTH

In partnership with 99p Films. Why don’t we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun asks this urgent question and offers an invitation in Can I Live?, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times. Weaving his story with spoken word, rap, theatre, animation and the scientific facts, in the climate movement. 99p Films events include an evening of food, thought and films, see their website for more details99pfilms.com

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS WEEKENDER - CMR REDRUTH Experimental Short Film Weekender DATE - 10/11/23 - 11/11/23 TIME - 11.00-17.00

Our celebration of the wild and wonderful world of artist films with a packed weekend of screenings, workshops and open residency space and talks. Experience the avant-garde like never before at the Experimental Short Film Weekend,at CMR Project Space in Redruth. Immerse yourself in a world of thought-provoking narratives, breathtaking visuals, and cutting-edge techniques, all in one weekend. From surreal dreams to abstract realities, join us in exploring the limitless possibilities of cinema. Check website for all the details.

Jangling Man

Regarded by many as an influential figure in the history of cassette culture and DIY recording, Martin Newell has been an integral part of the British music scene since the 1970s, with his music career spanning over six decades. He’s been produced by XTC’s Andy Partridge, and written for the likes of Captain Sensible of The Damned. The film features interviews with Mac DeMarco, XTC’s Dave Gregory, DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith, Cherry Red’s Iain McNay, Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum, and more.

OTHER VENUES CMR Redruth

Cornish Bank Falmouth

Falmouth Art Gallery

DATE 10/11/23 11/11/23

MY SO CALLED SELFISH LIFE Dir Therese Shechter | 2022 | 1h 18 min | USA | Documentary | PG | 2022

PERSONAL WEATHER Writing and photograpy Anthology launch

TIME 11.00-17.00

DATE 12/11/23

Experimental Short Film Weekender

TIME 18.00-til late

DATE 14/11/23

King Charles Hall Falmouth VR, AR AND 360 DOME DATE 18/11/23 TIME 13.30-18.30

TIME 17.00-18.30

Princess Pavilions Falmouth CAN I LIVE? Dir Daniel Bailey | Conceived, written and performed by Fehinti Balogun | 2021 | 1h | UK | Documentary | PG DATE 26/11/23 TIME 17.00-til late

PAY WHAT YOU CAN POLICY ON THE FOLLOWING FILMS: All Shorts screenings Turning Red The Eternal Daughter

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LINE UP AT THE POLY Monday 13th

All of Us Strangers 19.3021.15

Tuesday 14th

Theatre Camp 19.3021.10

Wednesday 15th

Thursday 16th

Friday 17th

Saturday 18th

Student Films 12.0013.45

Turning Red 10.0011.40

Networking event 14.0015.15

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood 12.3014.00

Sunday 19th

Opening talk Dr Judith Nobel A Matter of Life & Death

BEST UK shorts 15.30

20,000 Species of Bees 17.0019.00

Eternal Daughter 15.0016.40

Best Interantional shorts 17.4519.15

Your Fat friend 19.3021.30

Super Secret Surprise film 17.30 19.15

Poor Things

Oldboy 22.0023.55

Typist Artist Pirate King

Cornwall Climate Community Event

Best of the West 20.0022.00

Fallen Leaves 19.3021.00

Carol Morley Q&A

13.45 16.00

16.3019.00

TBC

19.45 22.30

RELAXED SCREENING (RS) The Eternal Daughter

CAPTIONED SCREENINGS (CS) Smoke Sauna Sisterhood 20,000 Species of Bees.

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