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Award-winning features from
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PREVIEW HEAVEN
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Welcome
to the 38th Cambridge Film Festival
One of the pleasures of running a film festival is Having also set ourselves the challenge of increasing
discovering new talent and giving it a platform. the number of women filmmakers featured in CFF,
It has been one of the great pleasures, each year, we are delighted by the wealth of female talent
seeing new filmmakers with debut features or short (though still not enough!) celebrated in this year’s
films meeting a new audience and talking about Festival: 36% of our features are directed by women
their passion for their work. We think it is something - from brilliant ‘new generation’ filmmakers such
that Cambridge audiences have shared with us over as the award-winning Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as
the years. Lazzaro) to Lois Weber, one of the great pioneers of
Over 30 years ago we set out on a journey to early Hollywood (see Restorations & Rediscoveries).
broaden the landscape for world cinema, to give While the UK is at a crossroads, and some would
people in this City and, further afield, a chance to say, about to become more insular, we feel very
see films from many different countries. This, we optimistic about the Cambridge Film Festival and
have achieved. However, our greater goal was to make the UK an exciting place its role in providing a broader view of the World and its cultures. We have expanded
to see world cinema and build a broad audience base to support the distribution our board this year; we are working with more sponsors and building more
of some wonderful titles. We made some progress, but then times changed and partnerships both within the City and internationally.
now it is very likely that the majority of films presented in this festival will never see The Cambridge Film Trust is a registered charity and depends on a range of public
distribution in the UK. grants, business sponsorship and individual donations to be able to deliver all
Nonetheless - at this historical juncture in the UK’s relationship with Europe - our of its diverse beneficial activities. All our income is reinvested back to achieve
Festival strives to reflect the vast diversity and richness of European filmmaking. our charitable mission of fostering film culture and education for the benefit of
With 57 features (two thirds of our programme) from 19 different European the public.
countries, our selection affords fascinating insights into cultures which tend to Even so, the point of the Festival is for the audience, for you to enjoy the films we
be less familiar to us. Look out for our Austrian Focus, Catalan sidebar and ‘Eye screen, to become excited about a new talent you have discovered, for you to enjoy
on Films’, a special showcase of emerging talent from countries such as Kosovo, discussions about the ideas and themes that arise in what you watch. But this is
Belgium and Macedonia. Looking not only at Europe but also beyond, CFF aims – as a partnership, and we hope you will support us, by telling friends and colleagues
always – to open up windows on the wider world, with features and documentaries about your experience, even buy them tickets (see our amazing ticket prices
addressing such urgent themes as the plight of migrants seeking a better future, the and festival pass on the centre pages) to come and see a film and get across the
rise of artificial intelligence, the need to combat prejudice in all its forms, and the threshold for the first time, or let us know how you think you can help the festival
struggles of those trapped in repressive regimes. Even our ‘classics strand’, with its grow and succeed.
tales of US presidents in crisis, is full of contemporary resonance …
This is your festival, Cambridge’s Film Festival. Join us to help secure it for future
generations. But above all, have a great time watching some fantastic movies.
Tony Jones
Contents 4 Opening and Surprise Films
5 Special Events
6 International Festival Highlights
8 Preview Heaven and Closing Film
11 Austrian Focus
11 Cambridge Connections
12 Longing and Belonging
15 Horror
Beautiful Boy p8
16 Human Rights
Colette p8 19 New Fiction by Women Directors
20 World Documentaries
22 Timetable, Venues, Ticket Information
25 Restorations & Rediscoveries
29 Camera Catalonia
30 Microcinema
32 Cambridge African Film Festival
Sunset p13 35 Eye on Films
36 Cambridge Family Film Festival
40 ShortFusion
42 Film Hub South East
42 ShortReel
43 A-Z
Life Itself p9 Lemonade p19 44 Sponsors
www.camfilmfest.com Welcome CambridgeFilmFestival2018 3
OPENING FILM APH
Thu 25
20.30
Cambridge Film
Festival STAFF
Festival Director
Tony Jones
Brochure Editor, Rights
Negotiator & Festival Logistics
Iris Ordonez
Marketing Manager
Owen Baker
Operations Manager
Cristina Roures
Events Project Manager
Elisabeth Gautier
Marketing Co-ordinator
Kayleigh Barnes
International programmers
Margaret Deriaz, Loreta Gandolfi
& Bill Lawrence
Cambridge African Film Festival
Mike Boyd
Camera Catalonia Programmer
APH Thu 25 20.30, APH Sat 27 17.30 Ramon Lamarca
Silent Cinema Programmer
THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE CFF 15 Margaret Deriaz
microcinema Programmer
Spain/France/Belgium/Portugal, 2018, 132 mins. James Mackay
Director Terry Gilliam
Family Film Festival Programmer
WITH Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro Kate Jones
PRODUCED BY Alacran Pictures, Tornasol Production, Kinology, Entre Chien et Loup, Ukbar Filmes, El Hombre Que Short Films
Mató a Don Quijote AIE, Carisco Producciones AIE & Submissions Co-ordinator
Kayleigh Barnes
The Cambridge Film Festival is delighted to be opening …it is a movie with sprightliness, innocence and
ShortReel
with Terry Gilliam’s wildest extravaganza, after decades charm and a morale boost to anyone who cares about Hugh Taylor
in the making: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. creativity that Gilliam has got the film made at all. His
Brochure design
A modern and satirical twist on the tale. Disillusioned own intelligence and joy in his work shine out of every Dan Taylor
advertising executive Toby (played by Adam Driver) frame, and his individuality is a delight when so much of Projectionists & Technical Team
returns to Spain, where he shot his graduation film. He mainstream cinema seems to have been created by George Agnew, Jonathan Carpenter,
algorithm. What a dull place the world would be without Ryd Cook, Christian Mock, Hitomi
discovers that the man he employed to play the role of
Terry Gilliam. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Shinozaki & Robin Tweed
Don Quixote has spent the intervening years believing
Photographers
that he really is Don Quixote, who soon becomes Print source Kinology Jean-Luc Benazet & David Riley
convinced that Toby is his trusted Sancho Panza. Festival interns
Closing Film see p9 Sam Astaire, Katharine Brooks,
SURPRISE FILM 2018 APH Thu 1 21.45 & 22.00
Mia Dzhurovska, Stella Frangleton,
Mehdi Iromlou, Zak Lawrence-
Often met with laughs, whoops or groans, the Surprise Film has been a staple of the Festival Earey, Lily McCarthy, Oliver Sandles,
Joshua Vallely & Stuart Wren
since 2001. Each year, rumour and speculation grow to fever pitch, and no one – not even the
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projectionist – knows the film’s title until the first few frames on screen slowly reveal its true TAKE ONE FESTIVAL
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identity. So for those amongst you who relish the taste of adventure, snap up your ticket
MAGAZINE
Surprise film
Editor-in-Chief
early on and enjoy this unique experience. Rosy Hunt
So, there will be no reviews or clues from us, but feel free to join the discussion on Managing Editor
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Twitter. Follow us at @camfilmfest and tag your suggestions #CFFSurprise. Jim Ross
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APH Mon 29 12.00, APH Tue 30 12.00, APH Wed 31 12.00 FREE SCR Simon Jones, Bill Lawrence, Chris Mann,
Isabelle McNeill, Jenny Nelson,
Mike O’Brien & Matthew Webb
ARTS PICTUREHOUSE
General Manager
Lonni Askov De Nooijer
Marketing Manager
Jack Toye
Trees Down Here Snow A Year Along the Abandoned PICTUREHOUSE CINEMAS
UK, 2018, 13 mins. UK, 1963, 8 mins. Dir. Geoffrey Jones. Road Året gjennom Børfjord
Deborah Allison, Clare Binns, Madeleine
Dir. Ben Rivers. Norway, 1991, 12 mins.
Snow is shot during the long winter Mullet, Kerry Mutter & Peter Phillips
Ben Rivers new film takes a look Dir. Morten Skallerud.
of 1963 – Steam still operating
THE LIGHT CINEMA
in the archives for the plans alongside first generation diesel A Year Along The Abandoned Road is
Directors
for Churchill College and to hauled expresses and the short lived a meticulously planned time lapse Keith Pullinger & John Sullivan
accommodate the Trees in the PullmanTrain from Manchester to film by Morten Skallerud. Shot over a Business Manager
landscape. London. Accompanied by a superb year on 70mm around a Norwegian Hayley Croot
Print Source MUBI soundtack by Johnny Hawksworth. Fjord, painstakingly laying the Plus all the amazing volunteers, venues
track daily for a seemingly endless staff and all the hard-working film
Print Source British Film submissions reviewers
travelling shot. Accompanied by
Institute (BFI)
haunting score by Jan Garbarek.
Print Source CFT
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SPECIALEVENTS
50th Anniversary screening with book signing
by David Wood
Emma Sat 27 14.30 APH Sun 28 14.00 APH Mon 29 20.45
Comedy for Kids with If.... 15 Gentlemen Prefer
Neil Brand CFF PG UK, 1968, 111 mins. Blondes U
Director Lindsay Anderson
USA, 1920s, c. 75 mins. USA, 1953, 91 mins.
WITH Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard
This uniquely entertaining show for kids of all ages Director Howard Hawks
Warwick, Christine Noonan
celebrates some of the greatest comics in silent WITH Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell,
Lindsay Anderson’s biting satire on public school life Charles Coburn
cinema, including the inimitable Buster Keaton.
and the British establishment is generally reckoned
Created and presented by Neil Brand, acclaimed Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are two halves of a
as one of the best – and most subversive - British films
musician, broadcaster and Festival favourite, it will dynamic song-and-dance duo. They are also best
ever made. The mesmerising Malcolm McDowell plays
feature exploding houses, cars driven by dogs and friends despite their contrasting attitudes to men and
the leader of a group of disaffected sixth-formers who
trains appearing out of nowhere - all accompanied by money. But is Lorelei really just a ‘blonde man-trap’
plot to bring armed revolution to their school Founders
Neil, the fastest piano fingers in the business. The kids and ‘mercenary nitwit’ or is her gold-digging approach
Day. A brilliant distillation of the spirit of 1968, a legend
are encouraged to get involved in the music, the adults sheer common sense? Shot in glorious Technicolor,
of popular culture, and a must for anyone who has ever
get to sit back and enjoy the ride. Thanks to Neil’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes abounds in fabulous fashion,
felt stifled in school uniform.
in-depth knowledge, abundant wit and flair for musical sizzling one-liners and sensational musical numbers
storytelling, an astonishing, enthralling and hilarious The Cambridge Film Festival is delighted (‘Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend’). A five-carat
to welcome actor David Wood to the
experience is guaranteed. Pure magic! comedy classic which never loses its sparkle.
screening, for a Q&A with the audience,
In partnership with followed by a book signing of his memoir In partnership with Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery. All
Adder Technology. Filming If.... viewers are invited to join Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery
in the Arts Picturehouse bar after the screening for a
Print source Park Circus complimentary glass of English Sparkling Wine.
Restorations & Rediscoveries see p25-27
Print source Park Circus
The Personal is Political
The Films of Margarethe von Trotta
The Independent Cinema Office
will be touring The Personal is
More Human than Human CFF PG Political – The Films of Margarethe
von Trotta, starting 19 October.
The first female director to win
the Golden Lion at Venice Film
Festival, von Trotta is to thank
for some of the most trailblazing
films of the past five decades.
One of the most gifted – but often
overlooked – directors to come from the New German Cinema movement at the
same time as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog.
The Cambridge Film Festival is delighted to be showcasing one of the films from the
UK touring programme: The Second Awakening of Christa Klages.
APH Sun 28 15.30
Premiere
Belgium/Netherlands/USA, 2018, 79 mins. APH Sun 28 10.00
APH Tue 30 22.00 The Second Awakening
Directors Tommy Pallotta & Femke Wolting
Conversations with Will Jackson, Daniel H. Wilson, Garry Kasparov, of Christa Klages 15*
Nick Bostrom and others Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages
Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial Germany, 1978, 93 mins. German with English subtitles.
Director Margarethe von Trotta
intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to
WITH Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach
humanity”. More Human Than Human explores the rise of artificial intelligence
(AI) and its effects on our lives. Once the realm of science fiction and futurist The Second Awakening of Christa Klages is an acutely observed reflection of von
visions, it is now an inescapable part of our reality, with self-driving cars, Trotta’s favourite theme: the powerful and often mysterious psychic bonds that
autonomous drones seeking their next target or government agencies mining exist between women. It follows a young woman who robs a bank to pay for her
our personal data. Increasingly, we expect machines to know what we want daughter’s day-care with the help of her lover. On the run, she is pursued by the
and understand us when we talk - just ask Siri. In this personal, playful and at police and, more ambiguously, also by the young woman who was her hostage in the
times dramatic investigation, director Tommy Pallotta finds out to what extent raid. Shot on a shoestring budget, this compelling and convincing drama explores
his own creativity and human values are at stake as he builds his own robot to female relationships, sisterhood and the troubling uses
replace himself as a filmmaker. Will artificial intelligence be infinitely smarter, and effects of violence.
more interconnected and self-aware, rendering humanity obsolete? Print source Independent Cinema Office
Print source Autlook Filmsales With the support of the BFI, awarding funds
from The National Lottery
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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
GOLDEN SILVER
BEAR BEAR
PALME D’OR BERLIN FILM BERLIN FILM
FESTIVAL DE CANNES FESTIVAL FESTIVAL
Light Sun 28 12.00, APH Sun 28 18.20 APH Sat 27 21.15, APH Tue 30 10.30 Emma Thu 25 21.15, APH Sat 27 10.30
Shoplifters CFF 15 Touch Me Not CFF 18 Mug CFF 15
Manbiki kazoku Romania/Germany/Czech Republic/Bulgaria/France, Twarz
Japan, 2018, 121 mins. Japanese with English subtitles. 2018, 125 mins. English/German with English subtitles. Poland, 2018, 91 mins. Polish with English subtitles.
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda Director Adina Pintilie Director Malgorzata Szumowska
WITH Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka WITH Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, WITH Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Agnieszka
Christian Bayerlein, Grit Uhlemann Podsiadlik, Malgorzata Gorol, Roman
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film Shoplifters
won the Palme d’Or – the highest prize – at the Cannes Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival Gancarczyk
Film Festival earlier this year. After one of their 2018, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys Extremely funny and deadly serious, this brilliant black
shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply comedy centres on Jacek, a young construction worker
a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to empathic insight into their lives. Craving intimacy, in small-town Poland, who suffers a terrible work
shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old accident resulting in a face transplant. Not only does
after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the patterns, defence mechanisms and taboos, to cut the this provoke a crisis of identity, he also has to deal with
family is poor, barely making enough money to survive cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we the maddening reactions of his girlfriend, family and
through petty crime, they seem to live happily together can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how local community - not to mention the national media.
until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, to love another without losing ourselves… A lacerating attack on prejudice and bigotry, Mug was
testing the bonds that unite them… Print source MUBI awarded second prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Print source Thunderbird Releasing Print source Bulldog Films
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of all time, and the pioneer of the French New Wave spent two years documenting the
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Olivia Cooke in a romantic comedy-drama that stretches from New York City to the southern
Spanish countryside. These and other big names, coming to Cambridge months ahead of their wider
release dates.
Mark’s Festival highlights
It’s not just the obvious box-office draws that provide the highlights at this year’s festival.
Renowned Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda (Like Father, Like Son; Still Walking) picked
up the Palme D’Or at Cannes for Shoplifters, another of his restrained but deeply
affecting character dramas. South Korean mystery drama Burning, from Lee Chang-
Dong (Poetry), also picked up raves in the south of France and features the familiar face
of The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun, while Colombian crime drama Birds of Passage
is likely to be its main competition for next year’s Foreign Language Oscar. The festival
also features the best in documentaries, including Searching for Ingmar Bergman, which will
screen alongside Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal. If all that’s not enough for you, check out the
Festival’s various strands, with the best of Catalan cinema and the Cambridge African Film Festival
showcasing some of the brightest talents in world cinema, Cambridge Connections offering up local
links and Short Fusion showcasing the film making talents of the future, right here in Cambridge.
BBC Cambridgeshire – proud to support the Cambridge Film Festival.
Chris Mann hosts Mann In The Morning each weekday
from 9 – 12 on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, as well
as being a trustee of the Cambridge Film Trust.
Mark Liversidge, the self-styled Movie Evangelist,
is film critic for Chris and also for drive time host
Thordis Fridriksson every Friday.
6 CambridgeFilmFestival2018 International Festival Highlights
Un certain regard art direction aUDIENCE PRIZE
FESTIVAL DE CANNES FESTIVAL DE CANNES ROTTERDAM
APH Wed 31 20.30, APH Thu 1 15.30 APH Mon 29 20.00, APH Tue 30 13.00 Emma Thu 25 19.00, Light Fri 26 14.30
Border CFF 15 Burning CFF 15 The Guilty 15
Gräns Beoning Denmark, 2018, 85 mins. Danish with English subtitles.
Sweden/Denmark, 2018, 108 mins. Swedish with South Korea, 2018, 148 mins. Korean with Director Gustav Moller
English subtitles. English subtitles. WITH Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar
Director Ali Abbasi Director Lee Chang-dong Shargawi
WITH Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jorgen WITH Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jeon A real crowd pleaser (it won the audience award at
Thorsson, Ann Petren Fresh from this year’s Cannes Film Festival comes Rotterdam this year), The Guilty takes place in a police
Ali Abbasi’s Border, awarded Best Film at Cannes Burning, an audacious film about class and sexual control room and centres on Asger who has been taken
Un Certain Regard 2018, is a timely reboot of Nordic longings, based on the short story Barn Burning by off frontline duty while being investigated. Bored by
folklore from the writer of cult vampire fable Let The Haruki Murakami. Jong-soo, a part-time worker, answering the incoming calls, he is suddenly jolted by
Right One In. Border guard Tina is extraordinarily runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his one that is from a woman who has been kidnapped. Is
good at spotting smugglers. One day, a suspicious- neighbourhood. She asks him to watch her cat while this a chance for redemption? While not able to leave
looking man steps off the ferry. Unable to identify she is on a trip to Africa. After Hae-mi returns, Jong- the room, he coordinates the forces to rescue her.
what he’s hiding, she becomes obsessed with him Soo is dismayed when she introduces him to Ben, a Absolutely compelling and fascinating as the threads
and the disturbing aura he exudes. Her investigation mysterious man she met on the trip. One day, when slowly unravel.
reveals much more than expected, and she is soon Ben visits Jong-soo he confesses his own secret hobby. Print source Signature Entertainment
forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself Print source Thunderbird Releasing
and humankind.
Print source Modern Films
special PALME D’OR
JEAN-LUC GODARD
FESTIVAL DE CANNES
APH Wed 31 19.45, APH Thu 1 15.00 APH Tue 30 12.45
ALSO SHOWING
The Image Book Cff 15
Le Livre d’image (aka Image et Parole) Le MÉpris Cff 15
France/Switzerland, 2018, 84 mins. Arabic, English, French, Italian. Contempt
Director Jean-Luc Godard France/Italy, 1963, 103 mins.
WITH Jean-Luc Godard, Dimitri Basil Director Jean-Luc Godard
Earlier this year director Jean-Luc Godard won the first Special Palme The Image Book if nothing else, is WITH Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack
d’Or to be awarded in the history of the Cannes Film Festival. Almost inestimable, in that it defies normal Palance, Fritz Lang
60 years after his debut Breathless, his latest offering shows the estimation or assessment; to A sumptuously stylish study of a rocky marriage and
veteran iconoclast to be as ferociously challenging and provocative as encounter a film this intransigently fraught professional relationships, Godard’s unusually
ever. A complex, dazzling film essay on the contemporary condition, confrontational by an artist who straightforward adaptation of a novel by Moravia is
The Image Book mixes old film clips with documentary footage, music shows no sign of softening will be a also his most hauntingly beautiful film.
and his own mordant commentary. nightmare for many, but yes, for
Rich, disturbing and strange. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian many a privilege and a pleasure.
Jonathan Romney, Screen
Print source MUBI
International
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Premiere
APH Mon 29 21.30, APH Wed 31 10.30 APH Thu 1 17.00 Light Fri 26 19.15, APH Sat 27 14.45
Beautiful Boy CFF 15 Colette CFF 15 Don’t Worry, He Won’t
USA, 2018, 112 mins. UK/Hungary/USA, 2018, 111 mins. Get Far On Foot CFF 15
Director Felix Van Groeningen Director Wash Westmoreland
USA/France, 2018, 114 mins.
WITH Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura WITH Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise
Director Gus Van Sant
Tierney, Amy Ryan Gough, Fiona Shaw
WITH Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney
Based on the critically acclaimed 2008 memoir A radiant Keira Knightley gives a career-best Mara, Jack Black
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s performance in this exhilarating, entertaining and
After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing John
Addiction by David Sheff, Beautiful Boy is a harrowing timely film about the life of groundbreaking French
Callahan intends to do is give up alcohol. Encouraged
film about a father’s torment at witnessing his son’s novelist Colette, best known for Gigi. In Belle Époque
by his girlfriend and a charismatic sponsor, he
downward spiral, succumbing to the effects of crystal France, Colette’s marriage to Henry ‘Willy’ Gauthier-
reluctantly enters a treatment programme and
meth and heroin. Actors Steve Carell and Timothée Villars (Dominic West) thrusts her from a simple country
discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured
Chalamet excel in the roles of David and his son Nic, life in Burgundy to the raucous, creative demi-monde of
hands into drawing edgy, hilarious, often controversial
delivering a marvellously sensitive, largely quiet tour Paris. Swiftly developing her literary talents, Colette’s
cartoons, which bring him a national following and a
de force, as they take us on a journey of love, pain and first novels are nonetheless published under her
new lease of life. Based on a true story, this poignant,
hope, navigating through moments of happiness and Svengali-like husband’s name. Theirs is a complex
insightful and often funny drama is adapted from
of utter despair, moments of rehab and relapse. A truly marriage, depicted with intelligence and subtlety, as
Callahan’s autobiography and directed by two-time
inspiring story of survival and recovery as a family are Colette’s passionate relationships with women.
Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant. Jack Black, Carrie
copes with addiction over many years. Print source Lionsgate Brownstein, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon also star
Print source Studiocanal alongside lead actor Joaquin Phoenix.
Print source MUBI
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APH Tue 30 20.00, APH Thu 1 15.00
The Kindergarten
Teacher CFF 15
USA, 2018, 96 mins. APH Fri 26 18.15, Light Sat 27 19.20
Director Sara Colangelo
WITH Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal LIFE ITSELF CFF 15
40-year-old Lisa Spinelli spends her days teaching in a USA, 2018, 117 mins.
kindergarten with growing numbness. Her one source Director Dan Fogelman
of joy is an evening poetry class. When she discovers WITH Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Cooke
that a five-year-old in her class may be a poetic
From the creators of the TV cult This is Us, comes Life Itself, a life-affirming and
prodigy, Lisa is first fascinated, then obsessed, as she
poignant celebration of life and love. As a young New York couple goes from
struggles to protect him from neglectful parents and a
college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected
plagiarizing babysitter. Soon she finds herself risking
twists in their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and
her career, family and freedom to nurture his artistic
through lifetimes. Examining the perils and rewards of everyday life in a
promise. Gyllenhaal propels the film forward with a
multigenerational saga, it features an amazing all-star cast including
beguiling performance, proving once again that she’s
Oscar Isaac, Antonio Banderas and Annette Bening. Set in New York City
one of the most watchable actors working today.
and Carmona, Spain, Life Itself celebrates the human condition and all its
Print source Thunderbird Releasing complications with humour, poignancy and love.
Print source Altitude Film Distribution
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USA, 2018, 93 mins. APH Thu 1 20.00
Director David Lowery
WITH Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny MONSTERS AND MEN CFF 15
Glover, Tika Sumpter USA, 2018, 96 mins.
The Old Man and the Gun is rumoured to be Robert Director Reinaldo Marcus Green Monsters and Men is a robust
Redford’s last movie acting role. It’s based on the true WITH John David Washington, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Anthony ensemble piece in which every
story of Forrest Tucker (Redford), from his audacious Ramos, Chanté Adams performer finds subtle shadings in
escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to a string of Monsters And Men has a ripple-effect narrative, charting the aftermath characters fully embedded in a realistic
heists that confounded the authorities and enchanted of a police killing of a black man: from an eye-witness who captures milieu. It’s a smart, urgently relevant
the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John the shooting on his phone, and an African-American police officer movie that marks an impressive
Hunt (Casey Affleck), who is captivated by Forrest’s battling with his conscience, to a local high school student who upgrade from his acclaimed short films
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Austria, 2018, 96 mins. German with English subtitles. Aufbruch UK/Malaysia, 2018, 40 mins.
Director Katharina Mückstein Austria, 2018, 103 mins. German with Director Dan Childs
WITH Sophie Stockinger, Kathrin Resetarits, English subtitles. In 1959 Dr Erik Jensen travelled to Sarawak to live and
Dominik Warta, Julia Franz Richter Director Ludwig Wüst work with the indigenous Iban Dayaks - the former
Mati dreams of becoming a vet but also enjoys WITH Ludwig Wüst, Claudia headhunters of Borneo - to study the relationship
being one of the boys. The gang, with their revved Martini, Suse Lichtenberger between religion and economic development. He
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the leader of the pack, falls in love with her and she neither of them young anymore, both on, he journeys back to meet some of his old friends
becomes friends with Carla, one of the victims of their saddled with great disappointments. They and discover how the Iban people are adapting to life
bullying, Mati runs the risk of losing her place with understand one another, even without the in a rapidly changing world.
the boys. As Mati struggles with gender identify and need for many words, each providing the Print source Dan Childs
sexuality, life is not made any easier at home with her other with support and solace for this brief SHOWING WITH
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parents navigating their own emotional problems. Kinetics
Print source Austrian Films With beautifully judged performances
UK, 2017, 51 mins. Dir. Tom Martin.
and alluring imagery, this is a film not to
What can a rebellious teenager obsessed with free
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running (parkour) and a middle-aged woman with
Print source Wide Management Parkinson’s possibly have in common? The desire
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Premiere
APH Tue 30 12.45, APH Wed 31 21.45 APH Fri 26 16.00, Light Sat 27 17.15 APH Tue 30 16.00
Gwendolyn CFF 15 The Waldheim Feline CFF 15
Austria, 2017, 85 mins. English, French, Portuguese,
Azeri, Turkish with English subtitles.
Waltz CFF 15 UK, 2018, 78 mins.
Director Joan Fuentelsaz
Director Ruth Kaaserer
Waldheims Walzer WITH Archie Renaux, Tom Forbes, Katy Reece
With Gwendolyn Leick, Joseph Leick, Austria, 2018, 93 mins. German/English/French with
David, a somewhat naive young man, has found what
English subtitles.
Charlemagne Kanon, Patrick Atteridge appears to be the perfect summer job as a grounds
Director Ruth Beckermann
Gwendolyn is in her mid-sixties and is a three-time keeper on a lavish country estate. He has the summer
Kurt Waldheim’s controversial campaign to become to himself and the opportunity to contemplate the next
world champion in weightlifting. Seemingly fragile and
President of Austria in 1986 sparked an international stage of his life. Only David isn’t alone and when he
lightweight, she is everything but a typical weight lifter.
scandal. Although he had already served as UN meets James, a charismatic manipulator, and Grace,
But when she steps towards the dumbbell, there is no
Secretary General, it was now that his war-time the beautiful, enigmatic but complex daughter of the
doubt she is serious about it. After battling cancer, the
activities returned to haunt him: had he in fact been homeowners, David’s solitary summer begins to darken.
retired anthropologist should really take a step back,
involved in Nazi war crimes? Ruth Beckermann’s
but this is far from what Gwendolyn has in mind. She Print source A National Film and Television School
shocking and suspenseful account of the affair
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combines a wealth of archive footage with her own
champion once again. SHOWING WITH
darkly reflective commentary. In our murky age of
Print source Taskovski Films ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ her insights are
The Archive
UK, 2018, 12 mins. Dir. Peter Spence.
especially timely.
Austrian Focus Set in McCarthy era America, this incredible story of
sponsored by Print source Wide Management lawyer David Drucker who was pursued for decades by
the FBI is compiled entirely from archive materials.
Print source Natural Cinema
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Premiere
APH Sun 28 21.00, APH Wed 31 15.00 APH Fri 26 14.30, Light Sat 27 21.30 APH Tue 30 17.15, APH Thu 1 12.45
Birds of Passage CFF 15 I Love My Mum CFF 15 The Skier CFF PG
Pájaros de verano UK, 2018, 92 mins. Ski Baz
Colombia/Denmark/Mexico, 2018, 125 mins. Director Alberto Sciamma Iran, 2018, 76 mins. Persian with English subtitles.
Wayuunaiki, Spanish and English with English subtitles. WITH Kierston Wareing, Tommy French, Director Fereydoun Najafi
Directors Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego Aida Folch WITH Amirreza Faramarzi, Ava Darvit,
WITH Carmiña Martínez, Jhon Narváez, José A European comedy about accidental immigration, Reza Mouri
Acosta, José Vicente Cotes I Love My Mum, is a road movie that follows a mother A mountain goat, which has taken shelter in a village,
In Birds of Passage, visual signifiers of superstition and son duo. Following a car crash, Ron and Olga are is to be sacrificed as part of a traditional ceremony.
are ever-present: talismans, decorative necklaces, inadvertently shipped in a container from London to However, Jolie, a little boy, decides to save the goat
mourning veils and traditional song all permeate the Morocco. Without money or documents, and still in before his ski match in the afternoon.
film, as augurs of the tribal clan war that descends their pyjamas, their adventure takes them through This road movie is an ethno-fictional film that
on the characters. The result is a textured and utterly Spain and France in their attempt to get back home colourfully documents vanishing tribal traditions,
unique re-imagining of the family crime saga. Set in and rebuild their rocky relationship – despite all their painting a portrait of the ethnic community of the
northern Colombia between 1968 and 1980, the film concerns with TV shows, remote controls, plastic Bakhtiari people of southwest Iran. The positive and
focuses on the Wayuu, a large indigenous group who cheeses, beach life and holidays. determined central character is an example of an
operate by their own strict codes of family honour and Print source Festival Formula (tbc) empowered young child. Director Fereydoun Najafi
ritual courtship. Rapayet is an ambitious young man
finely executes the challenging task of directing
with one foot in his cloistered community and another
children and animals (the goat is almost never off
in rapidly changing Colombia, where the burgeoning
screen) in the rarely-seen snow-covered landscapes of
marijuana market is a means to quick cash.
Iran. Asia Pacific Screen Awards
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Sunset CFF 15
Premiere Napszállta
APH Mon 29 14.30, APH Wed 31 18.00
Hungary/France, 2018, 142 mins. Hungarian with
English subtitles.
Roobha CFF 18 Director László Nemes
Canada, 2018, 91 mins. English and Tamil with English subtitles. WITH Susanne Wuest, Vlad Ivanov, Björn
Director Lenin M. Sivam Freiberg, Urs Rechn
WITH Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Amrit Sandhu, Thenuka Kantharajah, Sornalingam Vyramuthu
László Nemes, Oscar-winning Son of Saul director,
A unique romantic tale that deals with the complexities of gender returns with Sunset. Set in pre-War Budapest in 1913,
identity. Roobha, a trans-woman, struggles to find her place after being this is the tale of young Iris Leitner who arrives in
ostracized by her family. Her chance encounter with a family man, the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a
Anthony, leads to a beautiful romance. But their blissful relationship milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to
soon comes crashing down for reasons not their own. Roobha is a her late parents. When she is turned away by the new
beautiful film that confronts the transgender stigma and biases that owner she refuses to leave the city and instead tries
exist within the Tamil community. Although revered in ancient times as to uncover her lost past. Her quest takes her through
incarnates of the Mohini, transgender members of the community now the dark streets of Budapest into the turmoil of a
often find themselves ridiculed and stigmatized. civilization on the eve of its downfall. With his signature
We hope to welcome members of the cast & crew to the screening for a elegant long takes, Nemes brings a powerful and
Q&A with the audience enthralling vision to the big screen.
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Premiere Premiere
APH Sat 27 19.30 APH Mon 29 17.30, APH Wed 31 12.45 APH Sat 27 12.45, APH Thu 1 19.30
Where I Never Lived CFF 15 The Workshop 15 You Go to My Head CFF 15
Dove Non Ho Mai Abitato L’atelier France/Germany/Belgium, 2017, 116 mins. English with
Italy, 2018, 94 mins. Italian with English subtitles. France, 2018, 113 mins. French with English subtitles. some French, Flemish & Berber with English subtitles.
Director Paolo Franchi Director Laurent Cantet Director Dimitri de Clercq
WITH Emmanuelle Devos, Giulio Brogi, WITH Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda WITH Delfine Bafort, Svetozar Cvetković,
Hippolyte Girardot, Isabella Briganti Rammach, Issam Talbi Arend Pinoy
One of the most moving melodramas of recent years, The director of The Class returns with a drama set at Following a mysterious car accident in the desert,
Where I Never Lived stars Emmanuelle Devos as a summer writing workshop in the South of France. Dafne is diagnosed with post-traumatic amnesia.
Francesca, daughter of a famous architect, whose Antoine attends the workshop in which a few young Jake, the first person she sees when she regains
desire was for her to follow him into his firm. She now people have been selected to write a crime thriller with consciousness, tells her he is her husband. While Dafne
lives in Paris with her family. Returning to Turin for her the help of famous novelist Olivia. The creative process struggles to remember who she is, Jake invents an
father’s birthday, she is coerced into helping Massimo, recalls the town’s industrial past, a form of nostalgia elaborate life they can share – the life he has always
a partner in the practice, on a project. This beautifully to which Antoine feels indifferent. More concerned yearned for. But when fragments of her past begin to
crafted film boasts exquisite cinematography and art with the fears of the modern world, the young man surface, Jake increasingly lives in fear of losing the love
direction along with subtle, intense performances from soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who seems at of his life.
the two leads. the same time alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s Print source CRM-114 / The Terminal
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HORROR
UK UK
Premiere Premiere
Light Fri 26 21.30, APH Tue 30 22.15 Light Sun 28 21.30, APH Mon 29 23.00 APH Thu 1 20.15
Is that You? CFF 15 Isabelle CFF 15 SUSPIRIA CFF 18
¿Eres tú, papá? Canada, 2018, 80 mins. Italy/USA, 2018, 152 mins.
UK, 2018, 107 mins. Spanish with English subtitles. Director Rob Heydon Director Luca Guadagnino
Director Rudy Riverón Sánchez WITH Adam Brody, Amanda Crew WITH Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia
WITH Gabriela Ramos, Eslinda Núñez, Lynn In the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, Goth, Sylvie Testud
Cruz, Jorge Enrique Caballero supernatural thriller Isabelle is about an all-American The latest film from Guadagnino (director of Call Me By
The first psychological horror film to be made in Cuba, couple, Larissa and Matt Kane, who move into the ideal Your Name),is a thrilling remake of Dario Argento’s 1977
Rudy Riverón Sánchez’s feature debut, follows 13-year- home in the ideal New England neighbourhood. Their Italian horror masterpiece, a darkness swirls at the
old Lili. She and her mother are trapped in a meagre, dream of starting a family slowly shatters before their centre of a world-renowned dance company, one that
suffocating existence by her domineering father, eyes as they descend into the depths of paranoia and will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Tilda Swinton),
Eduardo. His sudden absence should represent a new terror, struggling to survive an evil presence that wants an ambitious young dancer (Dakota Johnson), and a
freedom for them, but Lili is distraught, and we come to nothing more than their very lives. grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf). Some will
discover just how strong the influence of this monstrous Print source Rob Heydon Productions succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
man is over his family. When Lili carries out a spiritual Guadagnino’s Suspiria could set a new precedent for
ritual to help bring him back, she uncovers a disturbing horror remakes in terms of respecting the original and
truth about her father’s disappearance. serving as a companion piece instead of attempting
Print source Eres Tu Papa the impossible and trying to better it.
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UK
Premiere
APH Fri 26 11.00, APH Mon 29 17.00 APH Fri 26 18.00, APH Sun 28 12.00
Ava CFF 15 Letter from Masanjia CFF 15
Iran/Canada/Qatar, 2017, 103 mins. Persian with Canada, 2018, 75 mins. English and Mandarin with
English subtitles. English subtitles.
Director Sadaf Foroughi Director Leon Lee
WITH Mahour Jabbari, Bahar Nouhian, Leili With Yi Sun, Fu Ning, Julie Keith
Rashidi, Vahid Aghapour When a SOS note, smuggled out of a Chinese labour camp, is
Winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best First discovered and goes viral, an astonishing sequence of events
Feature Film, Ava portrays the coming of age of a unfold. The now freed prisoner, a Chinese engineer who
Tehran teenager. Growing up in a world of strict had been jailed for his spiritual beliefs, decides to make
traditions, Ava’s life is dictated by rules. As she a film about the harsh reality of being a human rights
struggles to find her place within a culture of authority, defender in China, risking his life in the process. This is
Ava is pushed deeper into isolation as she challenges a gripping human rights film with an urgent message;
duty, family, and the hypocrisy of her surroundings. filmed partly by Chinese dissidents, who smuggled
Based on her own experiences, Sadaf Foroughi’s the footage out of China.
gripping debut is an intimate story, and a harsh critique We hope to welcome director Leon Lee to the
of growing up female in a claustrophobic society. screening for a Q&A with the audience.
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Fortuna CFF 15 The Silence A Woman
Switzerland/Belgium, 2018, 106 mins. French with
English subtitles.
of Others CFF 15 Captured CFF 15
Spain/USA, 2018, 96 mins. Spanish with Hungary, 2017, 89 mins. Hungarian with
Director Germinal Roaux
English subtitles. English subtitles.
WITH Kidist Siyum, Bruno Ganz, Patrick
Directors Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar Director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
d’Assumpçao
Awarded the top prize at this year’s Sheffield Doc Slavery is a European invention and still exists.
Fortuna, a 14-year-old girl, has had no news of her
Fest, this is a courageous examination of Spain’s Filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter encounters Eta in
parents since they crossed the Mediterranean. Together
ongoing failure to confront the crimes of the Franco Hungary, a woman proud of keeping domestic slaves.
with other refugees, she is given shelter in a Swiss
dictatorship. Filmed over six years, it combines archive Violent, abusive, and manipulative, Eta has stripped
Catholic monastery. While she waits for her fate to be
footage with recent interviews to reveal a country 53-year-old Marish of her belongings, her family and
decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna finds out she
where streets and squares are still named after fascist her identity. As trust builds between Marish and the
is pregnant. The choices she makes give rise to concern
generals and historical amnesia has been encouraged filmmaker, Marish begins to contemplate a dangerous
among the religious community, challenging their
by law. A devastating indictment of a culture of bid for freedom.
concept of Christian charity.
repression and a moving portrayal of the victims who We are delighted that filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Print source Loco Films still continue to fight for justice. will attend the screenings for a Q&A with the audience.
Print source Cinephil Print source Sheffield Doc/Fest Presents
www.camfilmfest.com Human Rights CambridgeFilmFestival2018 17NEW FICTION BY WOMEN DIRECTORS
APH Mon 29 12.45, APH Wed 31 15.00 APH Fri 26 17.00, APH Sun 28 10.00 APH Tue 30 17.30, APH Wed 31 22.00
3 Days in Quiberon CFF 15 The Chaotic Life of Happy as Lazzaro CFF 15
3 Tage in Quiberon Nada Kadić CFF 15 Lazzaro Felice
Germany/Austria/France, 2018, 115 mins. German and Kaotični Život Nade Kadić Italy/Switzerland/France/Germany, 2018, 125 mins.
French with English subtitles Italian with English subtitles.
Mexico, 2018, 85 mins. Bosnian with English subtitles.
Director Emily Atef Director Alice Rohrwacher
Director Marta Hernaiz Pidal
WITH Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly WITH Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba
WITH Aida Hadžibegović, Hava Đombić
Hübner, Robert Gwisdek Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani
The feature debut from Marta Hernaiz Pidal sets
1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young
its style early with a stunning opening shot that
France. Romy Schneider, the biggest female star in peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-
introduces Nada against a brutal concrete Sarajevo
Europe of her time, has retreated to a spa hotel to minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his
setting. Nada is struggling with her daughter who
escape the pressures of her life. The young journalist imagination.
has been diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. As life
Michael Jürgs and Romy’s long-time acquaintance, Alice Rohrwacher’s supernatural, sun-drenched folk
becomes increasingly oppressive she decides to head
photographer Robert Lebeck, arrive to conduct an tale of the birth of modern Italy is as sublime as it is
off with her daughter on a journey to visit her parents.
interview for the famous German magazine STERN. beautiful…With a rich, textured plot in which things are
Always compelling, not least because of the wonderful
Immediately, a cat-and-mouse game ensues between never quite what they seem, Rohrwacher paints a
relationship between mother and daughter, but also
the fragile diva and the ambitious journalist. Three magical portrait of the decay of rural life, intertwining
the eye for a stunning image and incident.
days, driven by romantic desire, professional ambition the past and the present in a work that is as
and an urge for living. Print source Cine Vendaval
exhilarating as it is sublime. Time Out
Print source Modern Films Print source Modern Films
UK
Premiere
APH Fri 26 12.30, APH Sat 27 17.00 APH Sun 28 21.15, APH Tue 30 10.00 APH Sun 28 16.45
Lemonade CFF 15 NANCY CFF 15 Shock Waves – Diary of
Romania/Germany/Canada/Sweden, 2018, 88 mins.
English, Romanian with English subtitles
USA, 2018, 86 mins. My Mind CFF 15
Director Christina Choe
Director Ioana Uricaru
Ondes de choc – Journal de ma tête
WITH Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron,
WITH Malina Manovici, Steve Bacic, Dylan Scott Switzerland, 2017, 70 mins. French with
Steve Buscemi
English subtitles.
Smith
A provocative psychodrama about love, intimacy, Director Ursula Meier
For those who aspire to the American Dream, it rarely and trust – and what happens when lies become WITH Fanny Ardant, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Jean-
turns out quite as they imagined. This intriguing truth. In this age of ‘fake news’ and the curated self, Philippe Ecoffey, Stéphanie Blanchoud
drama explores the bitter-sweet experience of a young Nancy has become more comfortable assuming false Fanny Ardant gives a charismatic and nuanced
Romanian single mother desperate to secure that personas than being herself, and lines have started performance as a teacher of creative writing whose life
all-important Green Card. While working as a nurse to blur between fact and fiction, performance and changes when one of her pupils murders his parents.
on a temporary US visa, Mara is offered marriage by reality. Blindsided by the death of her mother, and As the recipient of a diary in which the young killer
one of her patients, but is this really the answer to her facing rejection by a love interest, Nancy’s life begins had outlined his plans, she finds herself increasingly
prayers? Acutely observed and unsentimental, Ioana to unravel. When she meets a couple whose daughter targeted by the police. Can her lessons in literature
Uricaru’s debut feature hints at the complex motives went missing thirty years ago, she becomes increasingly really have helped to encourage a criminal mind-
we rarely acknowledge, even to ourselves. convinced these strangers are her real parents. set? This subtle exploration of the strange, uneasy
Print source Pluto Films Print source Studiocanal relationship between student and teacher is constantly
intriguing and unsettling.
Reel Women celebrates the work of female filmmakers. Print source Bande à part Films
Look out for their logo to see which films in the programme have women directors.
www.camfilmfest.com New Fiction by Women Directors CambridgeFilmFestival2018 19WORLD DOCUMENTARIES
UK
Premiere Premiere
Emma Fri 26 17.00, Light Sat 27 12.00 APH Wed 31 17.15, APH Thu 1 10.00 APH Wed 31 19.30, APH Thu 1 12.45
América CFF 15 Eastern Memories CFF 15 From Cairo to the
USA/Mexico, 2018, 76 mins. Spanish with
English subtitles.
G. J. Ramstedtin Maailma Cloud - The World of
Directors Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside
Finland, 2018, 86 mins.
Directors Niklas Kullström & Marti Kaartinen
the Cairo Geniza CFF 15
WITH Diego Alvarez Serrano, Rodrigo Alvarez Canada/USA/Israel/UK/France/Egypt, 2018, 92 mins.
Eastern Memories is an epic road movie and
Serrano, Bruno Alvarez Serrano, Cristina Director Michelle Paymar
unexpected Odyssey into the Far East of Mongolia and
Hernández The most extraordinary saga of Jewish history you’ve
Japan. Seamlessly intertwining past and present, it
Shot over three years in southwest Mexico, the film takes us on a visually stunning journey of adventure never heard of. In 1896, Solomon Schechter entered the
follows Diego as he reunites with his brothers Rodrigo and exploration, love and death, conspiracies and the sacred storeroom of an ancient synagogue in Cairo and
and Bruno to care for their 93-year-old grandmother fall of nations. It is also the story of Finnish linguist and discovered a vast treasure trove of manuscripts that
América. Their father, who had been her carer, was diplomat G. J. Ramstedt’s travels into the old world of revolutionised our understanding of Jewish history and
jailed accused of elder neglect after América fell beliefs and traditions of the late 19th century, a world illuminated a thousand years of vibrant Jewish life in
from her bed. While they work to free him, the young that no longer exists today, replaced by ideologies and the heart of the Islamic world. An accidental archive
brothers must learn to provide daily care for their market economy. of more than half a million documents, the Cairo
grandmother. But as the brothers clash over money Geniza reveals the richness of Judeo-Arabic culture
We are delighted that filmmakers Niklas Kullström and
and the distribution of labour, difficult questions come Marti Kaartinen will attend the screenings for a Q&A and reflects periods of relative religious co-existence
to the fore – who decides what becomes of América with the audience. unimaginable today.
and how long will they put their lives on hold to care We hope to welcome director Michelle Paymar to the
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for her? screening for a Q&A with the audience.
Print source Dogwoof Print source D-Facto Filmstudio
APH Fri 26 13.45, Emma Sat 27 10.00 APH Thu 1 17.15 APH Wed 31 17.30, APH Thu 1 10.30
For the Birds CFF 15 The Image You Malcolm is a Little
USA, 2018, 90 mins. Missed CFF 15 Unwell CFF 15
Director Richard Miron
Ireland/USA/France/UK, 2018, 73 mins. UK, 2018, 80 mins.
The surprising and empathetic For the Birds, follows an Director Donal Foreman Director Malcolm Brabant, Trine Villemann
unusual woman named Kathy who lives with 200 pet WITH Malcolm Brabant, Trine Villemann, Lukas
Irish filmmaker Donal Foreman grapples with the
chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. What starts as a Brabant, Allan Little
legacy of his estranged father, the late American
story seemingly about Kathy’s battle with local animal ‘Unwell’ chronicles the descent into madness of
documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s
advocacy groups, slowly transforms into an intimate award-winning BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm
decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern
drama about her relationship with her husband Gary Brabant after he receives a routine yellow fever
Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and
and the toll the birds have taken on their marriage vaccine required for an assignment in Africa. He
never-seen-before imagery, The Image You Missed is a
and her wellbeing. This sensitive tale, poignant and begins hallucinating and starts to believe he is the new
documentary essay film that weaves together a history
absorbing in equal measure, is ultimately one of hope Messiah, being directed by the ghosts of dead friends
of the Northern Irish Troubles with the story of a son’s
about the possibility of regaining one’s life. who, like him, covered the siege of Sarajevo. Brabant
search for his father. In the process, the film creates a
Print source Dogwoof candid encounter between two filmmakers born into suffers several relapses, psychotic episodes and bouts
different political moments, revealing their contrasting of treatment in psychiatric hospital. He captures
experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in one episode on camera himself, while his wife Trine
social struggle, and the competing claims of personal Villemann keeps video diaries in order to document his
and political responsibility. transformation…
Print source Donal Foreman We are delighted that directors Malcolm Brabant and
Trine Villemann will attend the screening for a Q&A with
the audience.
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