Don’t forget, you can still vote for films you’ve watched, whether in cinema or online, in our Audience Awards (Features and/or Shorts) which will be announced after 21st November.
CIFF2021 ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN
We are proud to present this online exclusive about pioneering experimental filmmaker Maya Deren. With her first film collaboration, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren changed the face of experimental cinema. In Martina Kudláček’s exceptionally constructed documentary we follow Deren’s life from her birth in Kiev through a career which enveloped film, poetry, dance and ethnography. Kudláček paints a portrait of Maya Deren as an artist rich in life and celebrates a career that spread its influence throughout the art world.
CIFF2021 ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: aemi: ARTIST IN FOCUS: LYNNE SACHS
Making work since the 1980s Lynne Sachs’ films have incorporated a cross-pollination of forms that extend to the essay film, documentary, collage, performance, and poetry. aemi is delighted to present this overview of selected short works by Lynne Sachs at Cork International Film Festival, many of which are screening in Ireland for the first time.
Heavens Above
Srdjan Dragojević’s dark comedy deals with subjects like faith and religion in three segments. In first segment, ‘Sin’, set in 1993, Stojan, a convinced communist, wakes up with a halo after an accident with a bulb. Grace is set in 2001 and focused on Gojko, who believes that a saint can talk to him via mobile phones. And in The Golden Calf, set in 2026, gallery owner Julia discovers that Gojko can paint a painting that sates hunger.
Book any time 16th – 18th November
Brother’s Keeper + Director Q&A
Yusuf and his friend Memo are pupils at a school for Kurdish boys in the remote Anatolian mountains. One morning Memo falls ill and, despite the extreme conditions, Yusuf struggles against the school’s authoritarian regime to help his friend. Ferit Karahan’s gripping drama highlights Yusuf’s determination in the face of adversity and effortlessly keeps the tension high throughout.
The film is accompanied by a Q&A with director Ferit Karahan.
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
From director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour, Drive My Car) comes a beautiful triptych of tales linked by fate, memory and coincidence. An unexpected love triangle, a failed act of revenge and a meeting of old friends following a school reunion – the three stories presented here are self-contained, but flow from one to another lightly and effortlessly, much like the music that separates them.
Winner, Silver Bear Award, Berlin International Film Festival
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This Rain Will Never Stop
Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Alina Gorlova follows up her award-winning feature debut No Obvious Signs (2018) in this darkly atmospheric confrontation with war and its consequences.
Winner of the CIFF Gradam na Féile do Scannáin Faisnéise (Award for Cinematic Documentary) 2021
Book any time 16th – 18th November
International Shorts 2: Finding that comfort zone in life’s great swirl of uncertainty. Catch up on the best and brightest international short film talent.
International Shorts 3: Strange worlds full of mystery and possibility.
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Image: Al-Sit (International Shorts 2)
Pure Cork Shorts: From the experimental and poetic to the comic, and from documentary to drama. Even to two pints of rasa! Me daza! Enjoy the finest local filmmaking talent.
Book any time 16th – 18th November
Image: A Cup of Sugar
While the physical Festival may be over, you can still follow our CIFF Trail of Discovery in Cork City using our online map and listen to podcasts on the myCIFF app or on corkfilmfest.org.
Enter our Trail of Discovery Competition and you could win a hamper of fabulous Cork goodies from CIFF and Murphy’s!
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.
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