Tomorrow is the final day of the 69th Festival and we have outstanding features lined up.
We announced the winners of feature awards at our 2024 Awards Gala earlier this evening, including Best New Irish Feature, Spirit of the Festival and Best Documentary awards. Tomorrow we will announce the Lookout Award at our Closing Gala Rumours.
All Festival tickets and passes are on sale now at corkfilmfest.org and via the myCIFF app.
CIFF FEATURES AWARDS
This evening, we were delighted to announce the Best New Irish Feature (supported by the Irish Examiner), Gradam Spiorad na Féile/Spirit of the Festival (Best Screenplay and Best Film) and Gradam na Féile no Scannáin Faisnéise/Best Documentary Award winners at the 69th CIFF. Congratulations to all.
And the winners are…
- Gradam na Féile no Scannáin Faisnéise/Award for Best Documentary – A Family directed by Christine Angot
- Gradam Spiorad na Féile/Spirit of the Festival (Best Screenplay) – Arcadia, screenplay by Konstantina Kotzamani and Yorgos Zois. Special mention: The Imminent Age (L’Edat Imminent) by Clara Serrano Llorens, Gerald Simó Gimeno, Vigilia Collective.
- Gradam Spiorad na Féile/Spirit of the Festival (Best Film) – The Village Next to Paradise by Mo Harawe.
- Best New Irish Feature Award (supported by the Irish Examiner) – Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story by Sinéad O’Shea. Special mention: The Damned by Thordur Palsson.
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WORLD TOUR: THE BRUTALIST
The Brutalist (2pm, Sun 17 Nov, The Everyman)
The film everyone is talking about: The Brutalist will have its Irish Premiere at Cork International Film Festival.
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognises his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.
“This is a film with thrilling directness and storytelling force, a movie that fills its widescreen and three-and-a half-hour running time with absolute certainty and ease, as well as glorious amplitude, clarity and even simplicity – and yet also with something darkly mysterious and uncanny to be divined in its handsome shape.” The Guardian
Courtesy of Universal Pictures Ireland
DISRUPTORS: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE FABULOUS STAINS
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains (6.30pm, Sun 17 Nov, Arc Cinema)
Disaffected teen Corrine Burns becomes a minor celebrity after an outburst on a local television network. After plugging her band The Stains, consisting of her sister and cousin, she lands them a support slot on a tour with a has-been metal band and a young British punk group. But when Corrine’s confrontational behaviour gains more exposure on the TV network, the band unwittingly becomes role models for a generation of young girls.
The second directorial effort from producer Lou Adler (he also co-directed Cheech and Chong’s Up In Smoke) features early performances from Diane Lane and Laura Dern, and a punk band headed by a young Ray Winstone together with half the Sex Pistols and the bass player from The Clash.
Largely unnoticed upon release, the film gradually found a fanbase on nighttime cable TV in the US, and went on to influence the instigators of the feminist Riot Grrrl music scene.
To be introduced by Benoît Sabatier, Director of Fotogenico
GREEN SCREEN: SAVAGES
Savages (Sauvages) (11am, Sun 17th Nov, The Everyman):
In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Kéria is given a baby orangutan that has been rescued from the oil palm plantation where her father works. At the same time, her young cousin Selaï has come to live with them, seeking refuge from the conflict between his nomadic family and the logging companies.
A deeply moving and hopeful tale about ecosystem preservation, Savages is made in Claude Barras’ signature stop-motion animation. After the worldwide success of Ma vie de Courgette (My Life as a Courgette) (2016), the Swiss filmmaker developed for eight years this very personal – and, frankly, adorable – ecological fable alongside the indigenous Penan people who live at the heart of a tropical forest. A world without cars, where everyone lives self-sufficiently.
Carried by an undeniable sincerity, Savages plays all the right notes.
WALKING TOUR WITH CLLR KIERAN McCARTHY
Disruptors Walking Tour (1pm, Sun 17 Nov, starting at City Hall)
Explore the Festival and our city on foot with our Disruptors Walking Tour hosted by historian and former Lord Mayor, Cllr Kieran McCarthy.
The tour will start at City Hall at 1pm and will last approx one hour. It will finish at The Metropole Hotel where complimentary tea and coffee will be provided.
Supported by Cork City Council’s Community Heritage Grant Scheme.
