Spirit of the Festival Archives - Cork International Film Festival

Spirit of the Festival

A Common Story (Una Storia)

Showtime: Sun 15 Nov at 14:15, Sun 22 Nov at 19:00

Arc Cinema - Screen 6, Arc Cinema - Screen 6

110 mins

Italy

Anna Foglietta

Erika (Alba Rohrwacher) and Mauro (Guido Caprino) live a simple life in the countryside, their days shaped by comforting routines. When their daughter Irene leaves to study far from home, their house feels empty, and the equilibrium on which the couple has based their lives seems to crumble.

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Mia Mera Sti Zoi Tis Tzo: Kefalaio Faidra)

Showtime: Sun 15 Nov at 16:30, Fri 20 Nov at 15:30

Arc Cinema - Screen 4, Arc Cinema - Screen 4

88 mins

Greece, Germany, France

Jacqueline Lentzou

Fifteen-year-old Jo is melancholic and restless in Athens. When her classmate Phaedra’s ethereal singing moves her, Jo reaches out and discovers an unexpected connection. The dreams she had the night before were warning her about something, but she can’t remember them. Winner of the Best Director award in Venice (Orizzonti section).

Camouflage

Showtime: Sat 14 Nov at 20:00, Sun 22 Nov at 16:00

Arc Cinema - Screen 6, Arc Cinema - Screen 6

102 mins

Germany

Mykyta Gibalenko

Vitaly dreams of leaving Ukraine and starting a new life abroad. In Munich, he joins a student theatre group and, for the first time, feels free to be himself. Then Russia invades Ukraine in February 2022. His mother and sister are now refugees, suddenly in the way of his German dream.

First Zone

Showtime: Mon 16 Nov at 19:45, Fri 20 Nov at 15:00, Sat 21 Nov (Online)

Arc Cinema - Screen 2, Arc Cinema - Screen 2, Online Screening

84 mins

Netherlands

Thom Lunshof

In a future where the Netherlands has been flooded by sea-level rise, Fenna, a hardened and solitary woman, lives above the vast sea in a wind turbine. When a violent storm sweeps her far from this "home", Fenna must navigate a labyrinth of half-flooded, perilous islands and diverse communities.

Flesh & Fuel (Du Fioul Dans les Artères)

Showtime: Fri 13 Nov at 20:00, Sun 22 Nov at 19:15

Arc Cinema - Screen 4, Arc Cinema - Screen 4

90 mins

France, Poland

Pierre Le Gall

French truck driver Etienne leads a solitary life on the road. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish trucker, his solitary routine is turned upside down. As feelings develop, he struggles to balance his demanding job with a chance at intimacy and tenderness. Etienne finds himself unusually determined to make it work.

La Gradiva

Showtime: Sun 15 Nov at 19:30, Fri 20 Nov at 17:15

Arc Cinema - Screen 2, Arc Cinema - Screen 2

145 mins

France

Marine Atlan

A rowdy class of French teenagers travels to Pompeii to discover its famed bodies petrified by Vesuvius. Amid sun-dappled ruins and a world suspended in time, desire, unrequited love and adolescent tensions surface with unexpected intensity. Social dynamics shift, in ways that may be irreversible. Cannes Film Festival’s surprise sensation is coming to Cork.

Sick

Showtime: Sat 14 Nov at 17:00, Fri 20 Nov at 19:00

Arc Cinema - Screen 6, Arc Cinema - Screen 6

90 mins

Poland

Agata Trzebuchowska

During the summer holidays, 16-year-old Maks and his older sister Emma travel to the countryside to care for their ailing grandmother. As tensions rise in the summer heat and the siblings’ bond begins to shift into something unsettling, their grandmother’s frail presence takes on an increasingly disturbing quality.

Stand Up

Showtime: Fri 13 Nov at 17:00, Sun 22 Nov at 13:30

Arc Cinema - Screen 4, Arc Cinema - Screen 4

92 mins

Netherlands

Mari SANDERS

Twenty-three-year-old Vera’s carefree life changes when an accident leaves her using a wheelchair. At a rehabilitation centre, she meets Xander, a young man who has lived with a disability since birth. As their friendship deepens, Vera is caught between her old life and a new community that challenges everything she thought she knew.