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22 November NOvember 6 AMPLIFY! FILM FESTIVAL amplifyfilm.org.uk BROUGHT T O YOU BY O YOU FESTIVAL Contents Welcome & What is AMPLIFY! 3 Drama & Comedy 4 Documentaries 8 Things are a little different this year! We’ve worked incredibly hard to make Catalan Cinema 12 AMPLIFY! as easy as possible for you. When the first Covid lockdown was announced back in March nobody knew exactly what it We may have turned this whole thing around in Ibero-American Focus 14 would mean for cinemas and film festivals, less than half the time we usually have for our Heritage Film 15 unfortunately four of the UK’s Film Festivals did Festivals, but we have spent more time and effort know their November Festivals were in danger. than ever making sure it runs smoothly and is as easy as possible for you to navigate. LGBTQIA Cinema 16 Unprecedented times call for an unprecedented response, so Bath, Brighton, Cambridge and There is a dedicated viewing platform which has AMPLIFY! Shorts 18 Cornwall Film Festivals reached out to each been used by festivals across the world and has other to discuss joining forces to find a way to great people working around the clock to support Live Events Industry & Q&As 21 support independent filmmakers and bring great audiences. films to the audiences in their cities even if they Full listings, how to book and everything you Schedule of Films 22 couldn’t present traditional festival screenings in need to know about AMPLIFY! is accessible via... cinemas. www.amplifyfilm.org.uk With the subsequent cinema closures and the second lockdown being announed the four TO AMPLIFY! Film Festival AMPLIFY! Film Festival TO partner Festivals have come together, pooling over 100 years of combined experience, to build a brand new online film festival from the ground up in a matter of months! HOW AMPLIFY! WORKS The result is AMPLIFY! a 17 day film festival WELCOMe • Take a look through this brochure or go to streaming nationwide from November 6 to amplifyfilm.org.uk November 22, showcasing the diverse range of films that you our audience love and supporting • Watch some trailers, read about the films them with a programme of Q&As and industry • Buy individual tickets or save money with a events which you expect from us. Festival Pass (£50/£30 for TEN films!) • Book the film(s) you want to watch We’re proud to be delivering nearly everything that’s great about our own Festivals (we’d dearly • Make a note of when the film goes live love to be in the cinema and will be back as soon • Watch the films No one ever made a as possible) to our dedicated audiences, at a time • Tell us what you think #AmplifyFilm when the arts and culture are more important difference by being like than ever and frankly under huge threat. everyone else" - The Greatest Showman Let us direct your digital journey www.studio24.net The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. If the film ALSO has significant women on screen, it receives a TRIPLE F-Rating, the gold standard. STUDIO The rating allows audiences to “vote with your seat” and proactively choose to see F-Rated films. The aim of the rating is to highlight films where the main person telling the story is a woman; to encourage Proud sponsors of the Cambridge Film Festival for 13 years film exhibitors to F-Rate their programme; to help film goers easily find films directed and written by 24 women and ultimately to change the stories we see on screen – and therefore influence our culture making it more equal. 2 AMPLIFY! Film Festival www.AMplifyfilm.org.uk AMPLIFY! Film Festival 3 Drama & Comedy FRI Thu 6 12 Luxor 12 Egypt, UK, UAE, 2020, 85 mins. DIRECTOR Zeina Durra WITH Andrea Riseborough, Karim Saleh, FRI Thu Michael Landes 6 12 Ten years after the release of her debut film, Rose Plays Julie CFF 15 writer-director Zeina Durra returns with Luxor, A young woman uncovers the truth of her own past in the idea for which came in her sleep: ‘I had this Ireland, UK, 2020, 100 Mins. this gripping, slow-burn psychological thriller. Rose really reflective moment and looked at my life and decides to take time out from her veterinary studies my choices ... That night I went to bed and had a DIRECTOR Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor to contact her birth mother, Ellen, who gave her up for dream about Luxor and a woman walking around WITH Ann Skelly, Orla Brady, Aidan Gillen adoption and went on to become a successful actress. the temples and ruins.’ In the film, that woman is This leads Rose to her biological father, Peter, a Hana (Andrea Riseborough), a British aid worker famous archaeologist, and discoveries that cut deeper seeking respite from the trauma of her work on the than she anticipated. Irish directing duo Christine Jordanian-Syrian border with a trip to the Egyptian Molloy and Joe Lawlor, aka Desperate Optimists, have city of Luxor, where she used to live in her 20s. Her developed their highly distinctive and atmospheric nostalgic longing intensifies when she bumps into brand of cinema over several films (Helen, Mister her former lover, a handsome archaeologist. John, Further Beyond), often exploring shifting identities and the elusive nature of truth. Here they have crafted an eerie and powerful drama. E E UK R UK R E E I I E M M UK R PRE PRE E PREMI Thu Wed Thu Wed 12 18 12 18 I Never Cry CFF 15 Cat in the Wall CFF 15 Jak najdalej stąd Bulgaria, UK, 2019, 92 Mins. Poland, Ireland, 2020, 93 Mins. DIRECTOR Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva WITH Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin DIRECTOR Piotr Domalewski Asenov WITH Zofia Stafiej, Kinga Preis Mon Sun Mon Sun Bulgarian documentary makers Mina Mileva Ola is a 17-year-old from Poland whose top priority 9 15 9 15 and Vesela Kazakova have been nicknamed the in life is passing her driving test and getting a car. CFF 15 ‘Demonic Duo’ by a former Communist MP because However, when her father suddenly dies while The Audition Falling CFF 15 Nina Hoss is one of Europe’s finest actors, from her of the subversive sociopolitical content of their films. Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut (which he also working on a construction site in Ireland, she Das Vorspiel award-winning performances in Barbara and Phoenix, For their fiction debut, they turn their attention to Canada, UK, Denmark, 2020, 112 Mins. wrote and stars in) is dedicated to his brothers, must reluctantly travel to bring his body home Germany, France, 2019, 99 Mins. to a prominent role in TV series Homeland. Here she another divisive subject: Brexit Britain. DIRECTOR Viggo Mortensen Charlie and Walter, so it’s no surprise to find it is a — although her main incentive is to retrieve the plays a music teacher with a fanatical and meticulous WITH Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, personal yet resonantly universal story. Grappling money he’d promised her towards a car. I Never Cry On a London council estate, the multicultural DIRECTOR Ina Weisse obsession with excellence – is there any other kind Laura Linney with dementia, Willis leaves his Midwestern farm to is a tale of teenage rationale and angst, in which residents clash over their social and economic WITH Nina Hoss, Simon Abkarian, Jens in films? She has identified a young musician with live in California with his gay son, his husband, and Ola’s journey into adulthood is set against the differences, but must come together when an Print source Projector Films Albinus stage fright as being in need of her initially protective their adopted daughter. It is a father-son relationship effects of mass economic emigration after Poland ownerless cat becomes trapped in the walls. Inviting mentoring, though her attention to him comes at the sustained by pain and resentment, dominated by a joined the European Union. comparisons to Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, this expense of her own son, also a musician. But what comedy-drama is an arresting critique of present- hot-tempered patriarch. Marbled with flashbacks to seems to be her generosity gradually reveals itself to day Britain. the abrasive but fragile earnestness of family tensions, be something much darker. Mortensen handles the characters sensitively in this Print source Modern Films Hoss is magnificent, and the film’s success depends empirical exploration of past and present. largely on her genius. 4 AMPLIFY! Film Festival www.AMplifyfilm.org.uk AMPLIFY! Film Festival 5 E UK R E PREMI Wed Tue Sat Fri 11 17 7 13 Patrick CFF 15 ADventures of a De Patrick Mathematician CFF 12 Belgium, Netherlands, 2019, 97 Mins. Germany, Poland, UK, 2020, 102 mins. DIRECTOR Tim Mielants WITH Kevin Janssens, Hannah Hoekstra, Jemaine Clement Mon Sun DIRECTOR Thor Klein WITH Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel If you’ve ever wished there were more Belgian 16 22 Sat Sun black comedies set in a nudist camp, then this is Stanislaw Ulam was a brilliant Jewish You Will Die at Twenty CFF 15 mathematician and one of the greatest scientific 7 8 your day. Experienced TV director Tim Mielants A newborn boy is taken for a blessing by his parents, has come up with a doozy of a first feature: a Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar, minds of the 20th century. Born in Lvov, Poland, but an accident causes the village’s holy man to he and his brother emigrated to the US to escape Asia CFF 15 black comedy about the eponymous hero, Patrick, 2020, 103 Mins.