Cork Film Festival Begins Friday, 10 November with Impressive Line-up of Irish Films in Selection
Posted: 9th November 2017
The 62nd annual Cork Film Festival begins this weekend and runs until 19 November, with a a host of IFB-supported features, shorts and documentaries in the line-up.
From the world premieres of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) Focus and Real Shorts to Pat Collins' stunningly beautiful Song of Granite and Bharat Nalluri's tale of Charles Dickens' journey to publishing A Christmas Carol in The Man Who Invented Christmas, the festival offers an illuminating and exciting opportunity to experience some of the most exciting names in Irish filmmaking.
The IFB is also partnering with the Cork Film Festival on DocDay 2017 to bring you a day of round tables, case studies and keynote speakers to discuss all things documentary. The strong line up of speakers includes acclaimed Oscar winning producer Simon Chinn (MAN ON WIRE, SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE) as well as representatives from HotDocs, Tribeca, Cinetic, Impact Partners and many more. Click here to download a full schedule.
IFB Titles Screening
The Man Who Invented Christmas
October, 1843. Charles Dickens is struggling after a run of flops have left him both financially strapped and bereft of ideas. He’s distracted from his wife and children, irritated by his leech of a father and grumpy with his best friend and advocate John Foster (Justin Edwards). Yet the lively streets of London are a place where inspiration can strike in any moment, and Dickens has an idea to write a book set at Christmas about an unloved miser.
Date 10 November,
Time 7pm
Location The Everyman
Director Bharat Nalluri
Writer Susan Coyne
Cast Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow
Production Companies Parallel Films, Mazur/Kaplan, Mystic Point, The Mob Film Company, Rhombus Media
In The Name of Peace: John Hume in America
This documentary chronicles John Hume's political campaign in co-ordination with senior American political figures to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
Date 12 November
Time 4.30pm
Location The Gate
Director/Producer/Script Maurice Fitzpatrick
Condemned to Remember
Irish Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental embarks on an epic journey as he confronts the ‘crisis of shame’ that prevents an honest reckoning with the scale of local ‘collusion’ with the Nazi extermination project.
Date 12 November
Time 6.45pm
Location The Gate
Director/Producer Gerry Gregg
Script Tomi Reichental
Song of Granite
Portraying the enigmatic and fascinating life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney, Song of Granite, sees the beautiful yet harsh Connemara landscape combined with the myths, fables and songs of Heaney’s childhood which helped shape this complex and gifted character.
Date 12 November
Time 7pm
Location The Everyman
Director Pat Collins
Script Pat Collins, Eoghan Mac Gionna Bhríde, Sharon Whooley
Production Companies Marcie Films, Amerique Films, Harvest Films
Cast Macdara Ó Fathartha, Mícheál Ó Confhaola, Pól Ó Ceannabháin, Colm Seoighe
The Lodgers
The Lodgers is set in 1920's rural Ireland during its war of independence and tells the story of Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward who are just about to turn eighteen. They reside in a crumbling manor on the edge of a village, where they have lived alone since their parents' untimely death. Except they are not entirely alone.
Date 12 November
Time 9.15pm
Location The Everyman
Director Brian O’Malley
Script David Turpin
Production Company Tailored Films
Cast Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley
Michael Inside
Michael Inside tells the story of Michael McCrea, an impressionable teenager who is sentenced to three months in prison after being caught holding a bag of drugs for his friend’s older brother. Inside, Michael is exposed to violence and intimidation and when he is released the film looks at how prison has affected his thinking and his behaviour.
Date 15 November
Time 6.45pm
Location The Everyman
Director/Script Frank Berry
Production Company Subotica
Cast Lalor Roddy, Dafhyd Flynn, Moe Dunford
World Premiere of IFB Focus and Real Shorts
We are delighted to host the world premiere of our Focus and Real Short at the 62nd annual Cork Film Festival. For more info on the shorts screening at the festival, please click here.
Date 18 November
Time 4pm
Location The Everyman