CIFF2021 is well underway, why not check out what’s on tomorrow and some highlights for the week ahead at the Festival?Tickets on sale via myCIFF app and corkfilmfest.org.
AMONG US WOMEN + Q&A
Hulu Ager 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 after screening with director Sarah Noa Bozenhardt.
Thursday, 11th November, 7pm, Triskel
(Also available online,19th- 21st November)
CIFF SHORT AWARDS 2021: WATCH ONLINE!
For 66 years, Cork International Film Festival has celebrated excellence in filmmaking, championing new and emerging voices, as well as established filmmakers, through its prestigious awards. Three of our awards – the Grand Prix Irish Short, the Grand Prix International Short and the Grand Prix Documentary Short – are Academy Award®-qualifying, ensuring that the winners in Cork will be automatically long-listed for the Oscars®.
The winners of the CIFF2021 Short Awards will be announced online tomorrow, Thursday 11th November at 7pm. Watch the full awards presentation on corkfilmfest.org or on CIFF’s YouTube channel.
To celebrate the CIFF2021 Short Awards winners, join us in The Everyman at 5pm on Friday 12th November for a special screening of the winning films, as chosen by our juries. The winners of the CIFF2021 Features Awards will be announced at the Awards Gala on Friday, 12th November in The Everyman.
The Dance + Q&A
In his latest documentary, Pat Collins offers us a unique opportunity to witness the creative process of the world-renowned choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan as he works on MÁM, a new dance and theatre production that brings together twelve international dancers, concertina player Cormac Begley and the European orchestral collective s t a r g a z e. Under the gaze of the camera, Keegan-Dolan brings everyone to the Dingle peninsula for rehearsals, and from the openness of the initial conversations, improvisations and experiments the harmony of the final artwork slowly emerges.
Thursday, 11th November, 8:30pm, The Everyman
Blue Bayou
Antonio LeBlanc (played by the director himself) is a Korean adoptee married to Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and raising his beloved stepdaughter Jessie in working-class New Orleans. He learns one day that he might be deported from the only country he’s ever called home. Will he be able to face the ghosts from his past in order to save his family?
Following its international premiere at Cannes Film Festival, we are delighted to present Blue Bayou as our Awards Night Gala, closing out the physical part of the Festival with the announcement of our Features Awards, ahead of the start of our Online Festival (13th – 21st November).
Friday, 12th November, 7:30pm, The Everyman
This Rain Will Never Stop
Andriy Suleyman is a Kurdish Red Cross volunteer helping those caught up in the military conflict in Ukraine. As a result of the war in his native Syria, Andriy’s family has been scattered across Europe and the Middle East. Encompassing many of the 21st century’s most difficult and protracted conflicts, the Suleyman family’s story is one of stoic persistence through troubled times. 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.
Thursday, 11th November, 5:15pm, Gate Cinemas
My Name Is Gulpilil
Since his debut in Nicholas Roeg’s Walkabout in 1971, Indigenous Australian actor David Gulpilil has become an icon of Australian cinema, with defining roles in the likes of Rabbit Proof Fence (2002), Charlie’s Country (2013) and in the two most successful Australian films ever: Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Australia (2008). In 2017, Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer and given six months to live, yet he is still defying these odds. Now Gulpilil shares his astonishing life story, looking to his past, whilst facing his future.
Friday, 12th November, 5:45pm, Triskel
Supported by the Australian Embassy
Brother’s Keeper (Okul Tiraşi)
Yusuf and his friend Memo are pupils at a school for Kurdish boys in the remote Anatolian mountains. It is the coldest days of winter and the school heating has broken down. 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 (whilst gradually revealing the events which led to the situation), and effortlessly keeps the tension high throughout.
Thursday, 11th November 3:15pm, Triskel
Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades)
This black and white French drama, directed by Jacques Audiard, is a modern love story set in and around the residential towers known as ‘Les Olympiades’. Here Emilie meets Camille, who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. The screenplay is based on Adrian Tomine’s acclaimed graphic short stories and was written in collaboration with up-and-coming writer/directors Léa Mysius and Céline Sciamma. The story offers a contemporary twist on French New Wave cinema as the characters redefine what love means today.
Thursday, 11th November 5:30pm, The Everyman
Friday, 12th November, 3:30pm, The Gate Cinema
CIFF & NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY:
THE TWO FACES OF TOMORROW
The Two Faces of Tomorrow is an experimental documentary-fiction film by renowned visual artist Patrick Hough about algae; how they have shaped all life on the planet, from the deep past to the near future. The film follows a fictional researcher as they traverse ancient Roman baths plagued by toxic blooms
Commissioned by FLAMIN Productions through Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network with funding from Arts Council England. Co-commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. Produced by Tracy Bass. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland
Daily from Thursday, 11th November – Saturday, 13th November, 8pm and 10pm, The Event Space, Marina Market
PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS & SABINA HIGGINS ATTEND IRISH PREMIERE AT CIFF
We were honoured on Tuesday night to welcome President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins to our Irish Premiere screening of Alan Gilsenan’s film ‘The Seven Ages of Noël Browne’, a sensitive portrayal of the titular politician, at the Gate Cinemas.
Pictured: President Michael D. Higgins, Sabina Higgins, Barney Whelan (Chair of the Board), Fiona Clark (Festival Director and CEO) and Margaret Greene (General Manager Gate Cinemas).
Photo credit: Jed Niezgoda
