Best New Irish Feature Award Archives - Cork International Film Festival

Best New Irish

Ancestors

Showtime: Fri 20 Nov at 20:45

The Everyman

105 mins

Ireland

David Turpin

1980s London. Beau (Éanna Hardwicke) returns to his London bedsit at dawn to find that his flatmate and surrogate little brother Tiny (Jack Wolfe), has vanished. His search for him, through dream and reality, memory and history, will bring him face-to-face with truths beyond life and death.

Animation Gala: Julián

Showtime: Fri 20 Nov at 10:15, Sun 22 Nov at 14:00

MTU Cork School of Music, MTU Cork School of Music

90 mins

Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, Denmark

Louise Bagnall

Wide-eyed Julián is about to spend the summer with a grandmother he barely knows. He is amazed to discover her treasure-trove apartment, his own Caribbean heritage and the lively Brooklyn community he is surrounded by. But most surprising of all, Julián discovers that he is, in fact, a mermaid! From the Academy Award® nominated director Louise Bagnall comes a joyful story of discovery and celebration, inspired by the acclaimed children’s book Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. A colourful, contemporary addition to Cartoon Saloon’s remarkable body of work.

Skintown

Showtime: Thu 19 Nov at 20:45

The Everyman

100 mins

Ireland

Kieron J. Walsh

It is the summer of 1994 and, as Northern Ireland takes its first steps towards peace, best friends Vinny (Jack Rowan) and Jonty (Chris Walley) are desperate to escape their small-town life in conflict-torn Enniskillen (Skintown). To do so, they embark on the most reckless trip of their lives.

The Pervert's Guide to Utopias

Showtime: Sat 21 Nov at 16:45

Arc Cinema - Screen 2

133 mins

Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Slovenia

Sophie Fiennes

Sophie Fiennes returns with a fantastic new iteration of her mind-expanding, intellectually stimulating Pervert’s Guide series. Guided by Slavoj Žižek’s unconventional psychoanalytic lens, she takes us on a delirious journey through cinema, ideology and our fantasies of a better world. Films from Apocalypse Now to Blade Runner 2049 provide the clues.

Tin Castle

Showtime: Sat 14 Nov at 17:15, Wed 18 Nov at 20:15

Triskel Cinema, Triskel Cinema

105 mins

Ireland

Alexander Murphy

The O’Reilly family lives in a rundown trailer along a country road. Pa’, Lisa, and their ten children weather the seasons in their tin castle, heirs to a way of life. Under threat of eviction, their tenuous balance falters, yet they resist. The children laugh, the dogs bark, the trailer holds on – but for how long?

Whiddy

Showtime: Fri 20 Nov at 17:30

The Everyman

103 mins

Ireland, France

Adrian McCarthy, Brenda Morrissey

In the late 1960s, geopolitical tensions lead American company Gulf Oil to open a massive new oil terminal in Bantry Bay. Coming with the promise of prosperity, they are welcomed with open arms, only for it to lead to tragedy. Through intimate testimony and extraordinary local archive, Whiddy explores money, power, responsibility and the enduring human cost of progress. --- POST-SCREENING THE BIGGER PICTURE: When Global Oil Ruled a Corner of Ireland