Happy Friday! This weekend is your last chance to watch some hits from CIFF2021. If it’s a movie marathon you’re looking for, we’ve got you covered.
Programme 3 of our Online Festival is now live until this Sunday, 21st November with 12 brand new features, docs and shorts programmes to be enjoyed from the comfort of your sofa.
We are delighted to extend our free online film and mental health programme for Transition Year students, Intinn, until Friday, 26th November. Our Trail of Discovery is running throughout Cork City until Sunday 21st November. Make sure to tag us in any Trail photos and to enter our competition.
View the full programme of films and events and book your tickets now at corkfilmfest.org and the myCIFF app.
ONLINE PROGRAMME 3: 19th – 21st NOVEMBER
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown and his Mormon family in the aftermath of the death of his young niece. Family relations seem as frosty as the Michigan winter. His younger sister, clearly still processing the trauma of her loss, finds herself at the centre of a police investigation into the death.
This remarkable film has all of the raw, in-the-moment observation of Capturing the Friedmans (2003), with the added nuances of family intimacy between filmmaker and subject.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
During a bright Nordic summer Ida and her older sister Anna move to a new home. Ida wants to have some fun and make new friends while paying no attention to her autistic sister. But it turns out that not all the kids in the neighbourhood are good, and they also have some scary supernatural powers…
A wonderful, slow-paced Scandinavian horror thriller, the second feature from Norwegian writer-director Eskil Vogt confirms that Vogt’s talents extend far beyond scriptwriting for Norwegian director Joachim Trier.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
ONLINE PROGRAMME 3: 19th – 21st NOVEMBER
FEATURES WITH Q&As
Blue Moon (+ Director Q&A) tells the story of Irina, who dreams of leaving the family business in rural Romania to study at the university in Bucharest. Her family want Irina to stay where she is. Irina’s older cousin, Liviu, is especially dismissive of Irina’s goals, and frequently turns to violence to undermine and belittle her. But what does it take before the oppressed can become the oppressor?
In her debut feature, Alina Grigore drops us directly into a tension-filled atmosphere and skilfully turns up the pressure as we are transfixed by Iona Chitu’s mesmerising performance as Irina. Winner of the 66th CIFF Gradam Spiorad na Féile (Spirit of The Festival Award), presented by The Gate Cinemas.
Includes a Q&A with director Alina Grigore.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
Among Us Women (+ Director Q&A) centres on Hulu Ager who is a 25-year-old inhabitant of Megendi, a village in rural northern Ethiopia. Expecting her fourth child she is caught between modern and traditional ideas of midwifery and, as check-ups at her local clinic alienate her from the medical system, she turns increasingly to the counsel of village midwife Endal.
Sarah Noa Bozenhardt’s feature documentary debut is a collaboration with Ethiopian filmmaker Daniel Abate Tilahun, offering a uniquely intimate portrait of a community of rural women and their complex relationship towards female bodily autonomy.
Includes Q&A with director Sarah Noa Bozenhardt.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
ONLINE PROGRAMME 3: 19th – 21st NOVEMBER DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS
Taming the Garden + Director Q&A
The powerful former prime minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has found himself a new and rather exquisite hobby: he collects trees. Transplanting century-old trees from across the Georgian coastline to his own private garden requires a lot of work and often a lot of extra infrastructure.
Salomé Jashi’s wonderfully surreal and wryly observed documentary asks serious questions about power, entitlement and the environment.
Includes director Q&A with Salomé Jashi
Available to book 19th – 21st November
Film, the Living Record of Our Memory
The first 100 years of cinema was shot almost entirely on physical film stock. Inés Toharia’s impressively global documentary spotlights the urgent need for film preservation and the role of film archives across the world in facilitating such efforts.
Ranging from Japan to Sudan and most places in between, Toharia’s film offers industry insights from the likes of Ken Loach (pictured above) and Martin Scorsese, as well as some of the most important archivists and film preservation specialists working today.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
ONLINE PROGRAMME 3: 19th – 21st NOVEMBER
SHORTS PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Actor As Creator
CIFF celebrates the Actor as Creator, a new initiative between Screen Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland and Bow Street Academy. FREE but ticketed. Includes CIFF’s Best Cork Short Award 2021 winner, Cleaner.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
Image: Cleaner
‘Late Night’ Shorts
Murder! Mayhem! Sex! Death! Celebrating the strange and bizarre – filmmaking from the fringes for midnight movie-lovers. Definitely NSFW!
Available to book 19th – 21st November
Image: Diversion
ONLINE PROGRAMME 2: 19th-21st INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
International Shorts 4
Check out the latest international shorts that deal with themes of spaces and places, and includes CIFF’s Grand Prix International Short 2021 winner, Fireflies.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
International Shorts 5
Even against the most awesome and epic of backdrops the personal always shines through. Enjoy the best international documentary shorts, including CIFF’s Grand Prix Documentary Short 2021 winner, The Eternal Springtime.
Available to book 19th – 21st November
Image: The Eternal Springtime
INTINN: ONLINE PROGRAMME EXTENDED
TO 26TH NOVEMBER
We are delighted to announce that our youth film and mental health programme, Intinn, has been extended until Friday, 26th November.
Intinn is our free online programme that offers Transition Year students the opportunity to explore mental health, personal well-being and strategies of resilience through film, Q&As with filmmakers and a well-being workshop led by Dr. Johnny Goodwin, mental health lecturer at UCC’s School of Nursing & Midwifery. For booking/enquiries please contact: schools@corkfilmfest.
Proudly supported by ESB Energy for Generations Fund
TRAIL OF DISCOVERY & COMPETITION
Enter our Trail of Discovery Competition and you could win a hamper of fabulous Cork goodies from CIFF and Murphy’s, including a CIFF Festival Friend membership & merchandise, 24 cans of Murphy’s + four glasses, a €100 One4All voucher, West Cork Coffee, Shandon Sweets and a notebook and storyboarder from Badly Made Books!
CIFF’s Trail of Discovery is sponsored by Murphy’s and supported by the Irish Costume Archive Project, The Gate Cinemas, The River Lee Hotel, and The Metropole Hotel. Image: Jed Niezgoda
WITH THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS & SPONSORS
