The Bigger Picture Archives - Cork International Film Festival

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Derek Vs Derek

Showtime: Sun 15 Nov at 16:30, Wed 18 Nov at 17:45

Triskel Cinema, Triskel Cinema

87 mins

United Kingdom

James Dawson

On a country road in Devon, England, live two implacably opposed neighbouring farmers, both called Derek. One believes in intensive industrial farming, the other is giving his entire farm over to nature. As tempers fray, wild animals escape, and the land is transformed, the film charts the two Derek's turbulent but funny relationship. --- POST-SCREENING THE BIGGER PICTURE: The Soil That Feeds Us

If Pigeons Turned to Gold (Kdyby Se Holubi Proměnili Ve Zlato)

Showtime: Fri 13 Nov at 17:00, Sat 21 Nov (Online)

Triskel Cinema, Online Screening

110 mins

Czech Republic, Slovakia

Pepa Lubojacki

Pepa, the film’s writer and narrator, has "order" in her life, but her brother and two cousins David and Marco have taken to the street, where each faces addiction. A balancing act between love and contempt, care and destruction on film, that seeks to find whether family saves our life or – on the contrary – destroys it.

Operation Recomply

Showtime: Sat 21 Nov at 20:15

Triskel Cinema

86 mins

United Kingdom

Alex Grace

Operation Recomply follows family members of the Filton 25 and documents their fight for justice while the state escalates its crackdown on the pro Palestine movement. Strangers transform grief into a community bound by love, support and resistance as the government uses terrorism laws to criminalise peaceful protest. --- POST-SCREENING "THE BIGGER PICTURE": Democracy on Trial: The Filton 25 Example

Plan C for Civilization

Showtime: Sun 15 Nov at 19:30

Triskel Cinema

108 mins

United States, Bangladesh, Sweden, Germany, France, Canada

Ben Kalina

As the controversial planet-cooling technology called solar geoengineering moves out of the lab and into a planet in the throes of a climate meltdown, it carries deep uncertainty. Part thriller, part wake-up call, the film asks whether or not we can still afford to ignore this powerful but mad idea. ----- POST SCREENING PUBLIC SQUARE: Technology's Solutions for the Climate: Fluff, Bluff or Remedy?

What Does Art Have to do with it?

Showtime: Sun 15 Nov at 15:45

Granary Theatre

60 mins mins

Whiddy

Showtime: Fri 20 Nov at 17:30

Everyman

103 mins

Ireland, France

ADRIAN McCARTHY

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