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www.foyleﬁlmfestival.org WELCOME Welcome to the Foyle Film Festival – yes it is THAT time of year again. But this is an extra special time for the festival as it celebrates its 30th year. The programme has increased to 10 days in order to celebrate this milestone birthday in style with a jam-packed programme of screenings and special guest events.

The festival launches with the Northern Ireland Premiere of Battle Of The Sexes – the true story of the famous tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex–men’s champion Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell). The event became one of the most popular televised sports events of all time. The Closing Night ﬁlm is The Man Who Invented Christmas and recounts how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) created Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol.

Other highlights include the Shorts To Features Conference with special guest Jim Sheridan in conversation about his long and distinguished career. Jim Sheridan will also introduce a special screening of My Left Foot in Brunswick Moviebowl.

The cult movie Withnail And I shares Foyle Film Festival’s 30th birthday celebrations this year, and the festival programme includes a special screening with Richard E. Grant in attendance to talk about this hilarious classic and his career in the ﬁlm industry.

The festival pays tribute to the late Sam Shepard with a screening of Days Of Heaven. In a special event following the screening, Stephen Rea and Judith Roddy will read from the short stories of Sam Shepard.

As usual the festival champions local ﬁlm with a special screening in the Guildhall of In The Name Of Peace: John Hume In America. The ﬁlm examines John Hume’s key role in the peace process, and includes interviews with former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter as well as personal accounts from Bono, Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny.

The festival’s family movie this year is The Star – a magical seasonal animation about a brave donkey named Bo and his friends who become accidental heroes in the greatest story ever told – the ﬁrst Christmas.

The festival takes place across three main venues – Nerve Centre, Brunswick Moviebowl, and the Guildhall with over 100 feature ﬁlms, Light In Motion (LIM) Competition short ﬁlms, and educational screenings, taking place over ten days.

Bernie McLaughlin, Foyle Film Festival Director & Programmer

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FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL OFFICE FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL TEAM Nerve Centre Bernie McLaughlin Festival Director/Programmer 7-8 Magazine Street Christopher Morrison Education Programme Co-ordinator Derry~Londonderry Eavan King Competition Manager BT48 6HJ Eamon Phillips Competition Co-ordinator T: 028 7126 0562 Colum Lynch Box Office Manager Tony Morrison Festival Driver Facebook.com/FoyleFilmFest Karen Friel PR & Marketing Twitter.com/foylefilm NERVE CENTRE TICKET PRICES Pearse Moore Chief Executive BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL Opening & Closing Night Galas £6 Martin Melarkey Creative Director Family Screenings £5 John Peto Director of Education All other Brunswick Screenings £5 David Lewis Director of Communications and Digital Content Richard Taylor Facilities Manager NERVE CENTRE Film Screenings £3 Paul Halpenny Finance Film Screenings with Guest Panels/Q&As £4 From Shorts to Features Conference £5 THANKS TO THE GUILDHALL Film Screenings £5 Moyra Lock, Northern Ireland Screen Caoimhin McClafferty, Brunswick Moviebowl FESTIVAL PASS Ten Day Pass – All Events £55 Martin Bradley, Pat Nash and Deidre Gribbin Michael Bond, City of Derry Crystal

Special thanks to Harry Burke on his retirement from Foyle Film Festival this year. Harry’s hard work and dedication, for almost two decades, will be greatly missed.

PROGRAMME DESIGN

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Foyle Film Festival is a ﬂagship project of the Nerve Centre, funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and by Derry City and Strabane District Council.

The festival acknowledges the ongoing support of venue partners Brunswick Moviebowl and City of Derry Crystal.

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FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER @ 5PM UK/USA 2017 DIRECTORS: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris CAST: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Jessica McNamee, NERVE CENTRE Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman, Alan Cumming DURATION: 2hrs 1min CERT: 12A DISTRIBUTOR: 20TH Century Fox

We begin our 30th anniversary celebrations with a special In his lecture, Martin will consider key themes such as the In the wake of the sexual revolution but also struggling to come to terms “Stone has never been better…” event to honour the individuals and organisations responsible festival’s relationship with the local film sector of the 1980s and the rise of the women’s movement, with her own sexuality, as her friendship SASHA STONE, THE WRAP for founding the Foyle Film Festival, one of the highlight events and the efforts to establish a film industry; the festival’s the 1973 tennis match between women’s with Marilyn Barnett (Andrea in the city’s cultural calendar. role in providing a platform for new Irish cinema; and the world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Riseborough) developed. While Riggs, “Billie Jean King’s showdown stunt emergence of an international Irish cinema with Neil Jordan’s Stone) and ex-men’s champ and serial one of the first self-made media-age fixture against retired men’s champion Professor Martin McLoone from Ulster University, a founding Angel (1982) and Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot (1989). hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) celebrities, wrestled with his gambling Bobby Riggs is played for more than just member of the Foyle Film Festival, will explore the origins was billed as the Battle Of The Sexes demons at the expense of his family laughs in this smart, feminist comedy... of the festival in Derry and the role it played in promoting and became one of the most watched and wife Priscilla (Elisabeth Shue). Contrives to say a fair amount about cinema culture and the film industry in Northern Ireland The FREE lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. televised sports events of all time, Together, Billie and Bobby served gender discrimination and homophobia in the late 1980s. reaching 90 million viewers around up a cultural spectacle that resonated in the guise of a feel-good comedy.” the world. far beyond the tennis court, sparking TOM CHARITY, SIGHT & SOUND Foyle Film Festival was founded in 1987 by academics discussions around the world. from Ulster University’s Media Studies Department, As the rivalry between King and Riggs After Party Reception in Martha’s local filmmakers, community–based video organisations kicked into top gear, off the court each Co-produced by Danny Boyle. Vineyard, Brunswick Moviebowl. such as Derry Film, Video Collective and Northland Films and was fighting more personal and complex Enjoy a glass of wine and help us individuals prominent within the city’s art and cultural scene battles. The fiercely private King was not celebrate our 30th anniversary. such as Declan McGonagle, Director of the Orchard Gallery. only championing for equality,

6 // FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL // 2017 FOR BOOKINGS VISIT WWW.FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL.ORG // 7 WATER AND SUGAR: CARLO DI PALMA, THE COLOURS OF LIFE SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 2PM NI PREMIERE NERVE CENTRE

Italy 2016 DIRECTOR: Fariborz Kamkari WALK WITH ME CAST: Bernardo Bertolucci, Christian NI PREMIERE SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 12PM De Sica, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Woody Allen, Wim Wenders DURATION: 1hr 30mins BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL CERT: TBC LANGUAGE: Italian with English subtitles DISTRIBUTOR: Swipe Films UK 2017 DIRECTORS: Marc J. Francis, Max Pugh CAST: Thich Nhát Hanh, Brother CLOSING NIGHT GALA: DURATION: CERT: LANGUAGE: Pháp Dung, Brother Pháp Huu 1hr 28mins U English/French/ Vietnamese DISTRIBUTOR: Thunderbird Releasing Rarely do such esteemed filmmakers THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS as Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Mira Nair and Woody Allen Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. moment and our attachment to material SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 8.30PM agree so strongly on something. The one things, and a welcome antidote to the BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL This contemplative documentary common opinion of these extraordinary pressures of everyday life and a world follows in the steps of Zen master Thich talents is that Carlo Di Palma’s genius in chaos. Ireland/Canada 2017 DIRECTOR: Bharat Nalluri CAST: Dan Stevens, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Plummer, Simon Callow, Miriam Nhat Hanh and provides a rare insight as a cinematographer is unparalleled. Margolyes DURATION: TBC CERT: PG DISTRIBUTOR: Thunderbird Releasing into life inside a monastic community. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In Water And Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, Everything is peaceful as Benedict The Colours Of Life documentary “Arrestingly beautiful… The Man Who Invented Christmas tells of the magical journey “The most refreshing aspect of this film was that it offers families Cumberbatch’s composed, meditative filmmaker Fariborz Kamkari explores Highly recommended for spiritual that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher something to go and enjoy for the upcoming holiday season. voice reads an extract from Thich Nhat Di Palma’s world through the eyes audiences of all faiths.” Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from Some high drama, a glimpse into a significant portion of history Hanh’s early journals. So begins this of his wife Adriana Chiesa who JOE BENDEL, J.B. SPINS A Christmas Carol. The film shows how Charles Dickens and a hopeful message for the season. …upon leaving the theater, fascinating and immersive exploration worked with him throughout his (Dan Stevens) mixed real-life inspirations with his vivid there should be no humbugs, and all should be saying, ‘God bless of what it means to devote one’s life “Fascinating and profound.” illustrious career. imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and us, everyone.’” to mindfulness. With unprecedented SCREEN INTERNATIONAL a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the RUSS MATTHEWS, ENTERTAINMENT FUSE access to the famous secluded monastery “Introduces one to the humanity of the celebration we know today. of Plum Village in South West France, beloved Italian cinematographer Carlo Walk With Me captures the daily life and Di Palma… Highlight(s) his brilliance and applauds the enormity of his The Foyle Film Festival Light in Motion (LIM) Short Film Awards, sponsored by City rituals of monks and nuns on a mission influence and will surely encourage true Of Derry Crystal, will be announced and presented before the Closing Night Gala Screening to develop a deep sense of presence. cinema lovers to watch more of his films.” of The Man Who Invented Christmas. Followed by a special reception in Martha's Vineyard. It is an insightful exploration into the pursuit of happiness, living in the LINDSAY BELLINGER, THE UPCOMING

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France 2015 DIRECTORS: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent CAST: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion DURATION: 2hrs CERT: U LANGUAGE: French/Finnish with English subtitles

Climate is changing. But rather than “A must see for anyone who ﬁnds themselves focusing on the worst that can happen, concerned about the future…” this documentary concentrates on the RICHARD PROPES, THE INDEPENDENT CRITIC people suggesting solutions and their actions.

Winner of France’s top prize, the Cesar, for Best Documentary.

HOTEL SALVATION THE CINEMA A JOURNEY THROUGH SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 4PM BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL TRAVELLERS FRENCH CINEMA SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 2PM SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 4PM India 2016 DIRECTOR: Shubhashish Bhutiani CAST: Adil Hussain, NERVE CENTRE BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni DURATION: 1hr 42mins CERT: 12A France 2016 DIRECTOR: Bertrand Tavernier CAST: Bertrand DISTRIBUTOR: BFI India 2016 DIRECTORS: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya Tavernier, Thierry Frémaux, André Marcon, Jacques DURATION: 1hr 36mins CERT: U Becker, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Carné, Claude FREE LUNCH SOCIETY Hotel Salvation follows Daya who, following what he believes Chabrol DURATION: 3hrs 21mins CERT: 12A LANGUAGE: French with SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 6PM to be a prophetic dream, becomes convinced that death is only Showmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder English subtitles DISTRIBUTOR: StudioCanal NERVE CENTRE weeks away and so decides to travel to the holy city of Varanasi of the movies to faraway villages in India once every year. on the banks of the Ganges to die in peace. His dutiful son Seven decades on, as their cinema projectors crumble and Bertrand Tavernier writes and directs this documentary Austria/Germany 2017 DIRECTOR: Christian Tod DURATION: 1hr Rajiv has mixed feelings about his father’s decision but decides film reels become scarce, their patrons are lured by slick profiling some of the most influential figures in the history 35mins CERT: U LANGUAGE: German, English to put work on hold and travel with his father. What plays out digital technology. A benevolent showman, a shrewd exhibitor of French cinema spanning 40 years up to the late 1970s. is a touching, delicate exploration of a father-son relationship, and a maverick projector mechanic bear a beautiful burden – A lifelong film fan himself, Tavernier concentrates on The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Basic told with gentle humour against the backdrop of an ancient to keep the last travelling cinemas of the world running. city coming to terms with modernity, as well as a frank and a number of renowned directors, actors and writers Income Ireland. The film was inspired by director Madheshiya’s award-winning as he discusses the influence they have had on his own open-hearted exploration of what it means to die. What would you do if your income was taken care of? photographs from 2010 that captured moments of joy, despair career and their wider impact on French cinema history. Receiving public funds just for being alive may seem a far- and wonderment as villagers gazed transfixed at the big screen. The documentary features archive clips and rare behind- “Absolutely magical.” fetched idea, but the concept of Universal Basic Income has the-scenes footage, and focuses on key figures such as MARK KERMODE been gathering steam. Spanning contemporary and historical “Its triumph lies in how it captures the magic of this unique, Jacques Becker, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Paul Belmond. perspectives, this playful documentary brings to life what “An instant classic.” collective movie–watching experience.” could be one of the most radical changes to our lives. NIGEL ANDREWS, FINANCIAL TIMES ALEX RITMAN, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “Outstanding and highly intelligent.” MARTIN SCORSESE “If The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had been remade by Ingmar “Intimate documentary is ode to enduring power of film…” Bergman it might have turned out a bit like this.” BENJAMIN LEE, THE GUARDIAN KEVIN MAHER, THE TIMES “Exhilarating and inspiring.” Presented by New THE NEW YORK TIMES Notions Cinema and Moving Docs Europe

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UK 2016 DIRECTOR: Bill Clark CAST: Joanne Froggatt, Tom Riley, Phoebe Nicholls DURATION: 1hr 35mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: Genesis Pictures Ltd

This true-life medical saga chronicles the struggle faced by Rutland couple Tom and Nicola Ray when he was suddenly struck down by sepsis, an often fatal response to infection that sends the body's immune system haywire. After quadruple amputation and the removal of part of his face, Tom survived to confront a future he never anticipated.

“While Starfish is deeply unsettling FILM STARS DON’T to watch… it’s also very uplifting – particularly during the final few scenes.” DIE IN LIVERPOOL PAUL HEATH, THE HOLLYWOOD NEWS MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER @ 7PM NI PREMIERE BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL REVOLT UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Paul McGuigan CAST: Annette Bening, Stephen Graham, Jamie Bell, MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER @ 9.30PM Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Leanne Best, Frances Barber, Kenneth Cranham BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL DURATION: 1hr 45mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate UK/South Africa 2017 DIRECTOR: Joe Miale CAST: Lee Pace, Annette Bening plays Gloria Grahame, an ageing Oscar®-winning actress who we Bérénice Marlohe, Kenneth Fok, Tom Fairfoot, Alan Santini meet in her dressing room preparing for a performance in a theatre somewhere in the DURATION: 1hr 22mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: Entertainment One north of England, Elton John’s ‘Song For Guy’ playing over the soundtrack. However, all is not well as she attempts to head to the stage, collapsing in a heap on the floor in When you blend the run-down environments of District 9 a rage of agony. We discover that she has an illness and wants to be with Jamie Bell’s with the survivalist elements of Falling Skies and the wasteland Peter Turner, and stay with him and his family until she recovers. Peter lives with his trek of Gareth Edwards' Monsters, you get the cool new science family – mother Bell (Julie Walters) and father Joe (Kenneth Cranham) in a modest fiction action set piece, Revolt. Featuring many derivative Liverpool terraced house, and all that Gloria wants to do is lay in bed in the spare moments and scenarios, this little gem of sci-fi goodness room until her mystery illness passes. is a good enough entry in a world lacking the genre flicks we crave. As a robotic alien species takes over the globe and “Captivates from the off, sending you on a glitzy, well-crafted journey that will leave you attempts to wipe the slate clean of humanity using advanced overcome with emotion throughout… An absolute masterpiece in filmmaking... Will it be weaponised technology, one lonesome military warrior must this year’s runaway Oscar® success?” overcome a barren world riddled with death and soulless PAUL HEATH, THE HOLLYWOOD NEWS mechanical killers.

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FILM AND OCTOBER TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER @ 8.30PM THE RUSSIAN NERVE CENTRE REVOLUTION: Soviet Union 1928 DIRECTORS: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov CAST: Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, LECTURE BY IAN Layaschenko DURATION: 1hr 43mins CERT: 15 Silent CHRISTIE A special screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s epic recreation NI PREMIERE TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM of the events that led to the storming of the Winter Palace NERVE CENTRE in October 1917. October was only his third feature film, yet Eisenstein The Russian Revolution of October 1917 triggered an explosion had already distinguished himself as a master among MARIE CURIE: of innovation and experimentation in the arts, including Russian montage filmmakers. the new artform of the moving image. The Bolshevik leaders Eisenstein declared that editing was the soul of cinema, viewed the cinema as a powerful tool of education and arguing that the juxtaposition of shots – not the shots THE COURAGE OF KNOWLEDGE instruction for the Russian people, the majority of whom themselves – gave moving images their meaning, were illiterate. During the Russian Civil War (1919-1921) and that actors were props used to serve that meaning. TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER @ 7 PM special trains were sent out into the countryside to show short BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL propaganda films about the revolution. As Shira Kizirian writes: “in October Eisenstein eschews traditional protagonists, further developing what he called Poland/Germany/France 2016 DIRECTOR: Marie Noelle CAST: Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, C harles Berling In the 1920s a visionary group of Russian filmmakers that the “mass-epical” – in which the masses rather than DURATION: 1hr 40mins CERT: 12A (TBC) LANGUAGE: French, German, Polish with English subtitles DISTRIBUTOR: Swipe Films included Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Vsevolod Pudovkin an individual hero drive events. For a time, the star-driven and Alexander Dovzhenko developed a new approach Hollywood film had a significant rival. The proletariat to cinematic storytelling. Based on the principle that editing was ready for its close-up.” The story of an incredible woman – first to win a Nobel Prize and radium. During WWI she developed mobile x-ray units, is the foundation of film art, Soviet Montage is one of the most and not just one, but two, with the second making her the first which then shaped the method of medical care in field significant aesthetic movements in the history of cinema. person to ever win two Nobel Prizes in two different fields. hospitals by providing x-ray capability, and she became The first female professor at the University of Paris. She headed director of the Red Cross Radiology Service. A wife. A mother. the Radium Institute (now the Curie Institute). She developed A physicist and chemist. She is Marie Curie, and this is her the theory of radioactivity and coined the term. She discovered incredible life story. Professor Ian Christie, author of two books on two elements now found on the Periodic Table – polonium Eisenstein, will discuss how the revolution inspired new ways of thinking about cinema that still influence film “Mesmerizing, heartfelt and powerful with an Oscar-worthy performance by Karolina Gruszka. It’s one of the best films of the year.” culture today. AVI OFFER, THE NYC MOVIE GURU

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SHOT CALLER WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER @ 9.30PM BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL

USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Ric Roman Waugh CAST: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Emory Cohen, Jeﬀrey Donovan DURATION: 2hrs 1min THE FLORIDA PROJECT CERT: 15 (TBC) DISTRIBUTOR: Altitude

WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER @ 7PM A tragedy featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones), BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL with a tour-de-force performance, as Jacob, a successful, white-collar businessman sentenced to jail for involuntary manslaughter after running USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Sean Baker CAST: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto DURATION: 1hr 55mins CERT: 12A (TBC) DISTRIBUTOR: Altitude a red light and killing his best friend while driving under the influence. Subsequently, over the course of ten years, the ‘human animal’ emerges The story of a precocious six-year old girl and her ragtag group “Expected to be in the conversation come awards season.” “Sean Baker, Tangerine, steps up to a whole in Jacob; he becomes a ruthless savage, a reluctant pawn in the corrupt, of friends whose summer holidays are filled with childhood JEREMY FUSTER, THE WRAP new level with this life–affirming story…” unorganised US prison system. wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults JORDAN HOFFMAN, THE GUARDIAN “This is a breath of fresh air in that it’s a mostly happy film about around them struggle with hard times. “A terrifyingly accurate castigation of White Supremacy…” an ugly world.” ALEX ARABIAN, FILM ENQUIRY ISABEL STEVENS, SIGHT & SOUND

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QUEERAMA NI PREMIERE SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 12PM BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL

UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Daisy Asquith DURATION: 1hr 10mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: BFI THELMATHURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER @ 8PM BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL Commissioned and released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the partial DIRECTOR: CAST: Norway/France/Denmark/Sweden 2017 Joachim Trier Eili Harboe, decriminalisation of homosexuality, DURATION: CERT: Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen 1hr 56mins TBC Queerama is a powerful and moving LANGUAGE: DISTRIBUTOR: Norwegian with English subtitles Thunderbird Releasing representation of the LGBT experience 78/52 in the UK. Crafted from the treasures SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 2PM Thelma, a shy young student, has just left her religious family in a small town on the of the BFI National Archive, the film BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL west coast of Norway to study at university in Oslo. While at the library one day, she traverses a turbulent century of gay experiences a violent, unexpected seizure. Soon after, she finds herself intensely life, encompassing persecution and USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Alexandre O Philippe CAST: Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Eli Roth, Peter Bogdanovich drawn toward Anja, a beautiful young student who reciprocates Thelma’s powerful prosecution, love and desire, forbidden DURATION: 1hr 31mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: Dogwoof attraction. As the semester continues, Thelma becomes increasingly overwhelmed encounters, sexual liberation and pride. by her intense feelings for Anja, feelings she doesn’t dare acknowledge, even to Weaving in the music of John Grant, An unprecedented look at the iconic art, Alfred Hitchcock upended his “A thorough examination of a pivotal herself. As it becomes clearer that the seizures are a symptom of inexplicable, often Goldfrapp and Hercules & Love shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s own acclaimed narrative structure moment in screen history.” dangerous, supernatural abilities, Thelma is confronted with tragic secrets of her Affair, director Daisy Asquith guides Psycho and the screen murder that by violently killing off a heroine a third TODD MCCARTHY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER past, and the terrifying implications of her powers. us through queer relationships, fears, profoundly changed the course of world of the way through his film, without “Philippe’s tribute to Hollywood’s most Norway’s submission for the Foreign Language category of the 90th Academy identity and pride against a backdrop of cinema. In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the any explanation or justification. famous stabbing is an archival feast.” Awards®. incredible change. deliriously choreographed two-minute Psycho played out like a horrific prank, DAVID D’ARCY, SCREEN DAILY shower sequence dismantled cinema’s forcing audiences to recognise that even “A stylish, distinctively Scandinavian take on familiar horror themes.” “Extraordinarily moving.” definition of horror. With a shocking the most banal domestic spaces were DAVID ROONEY, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER THE GUARDIAN combination of exploitation and high now fair game for unspeakable mayhem.

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Ireland 2016 DIRECTOR: Frankie Fenton CAST: Simon Fitzmaurice, Ruth Fitzmaurice NARRATION: Colin Farrell DURATION: 1hr 21mins CERT: PG

An awe-inspiring film about the ground-breaking journey of Simon Fitzmaurice, an award-winning young Irish filmmaker struggling to pursue his career while being robbed of the use of his body by Motor Neurone Disease TOMATO RED (which recently claimed the life of Sam SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 6PM Shepard). Fitzmaurice, now completely NERVE CENTRE paralysed, continues to work as a filmmaker using only eye movement Ireland/Canada 2017 DIRECTOR: Juanita Wilson CAST: Julia Garner, Jake Weary, BETTER WATCH OUT and iris recognition software. Anna Friel, Nick Roux DURATION: 1hr 52mins CERT: 15 SOURCE: Filmbank SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 8PM “A crowd-pleasing message of the triumph BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL Producer James Flynn will introduce this screening. of will and art over physical adversity.” Australia/USA 2016 DIRECTOR: Chris Peckover CAST: Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton, Olivia DeJonge, Dacre Montgomery WENDY IDE, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL From Oscar® nominated director Juanita Wilson, and based on the acclaimed novel DURATION: 1hr 25mins CERT: TBC DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures by Daniel Woodrell (Winter’s Bone). Tomato Red is the story of small town drifter Sammy Barlach who drives into town in search of his next cold beer and a few friendly faces. However he gets much more than expected – food, lodging and the Home Alone meets Michael Haneke’s When you think the suburbs, you “Frightful and delightful.” possibility of a better future thanks to redheaded Jamalee and her brother Jason who Funny Games, the sadistic horror think safety, but this holiday night the JORDAN MINTZER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER dream of hitting the big time. But breaks aren't easy to come by if you live in Venus comedy Better Watch Out is the kind suburbs are anything but safe. Ashley Holler. Finding themselves powerless against the forces of corruption and prejudice, of film that’s tough to categorise but easy thought her babysitting job was going “Fun, frightening and festive, add this to the hardest thing Sammy has to fight is the demons inside his own head. to enjoy, especially if you like watching to be easy, but the night takes a turn your ‘to watch out for’ list now.” teenagers do some very twisted things when dangerous intruders break in and KAT HUGHES, THE HOLLYWOOD NEWS “A touching, hopeful and ultimately tragic film...” for the holiday season. terrorise her and the twelve-year-old boy SOPHIA MOSS, THE UPCOMING she's caring for.

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Argentina/Germany/Italy 2016 DIRECTOR: German Kral CAST: María Nieves Rego, Juan Carlos Copes, Melina Brutman UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Michael Roberts CAST: Manolo Blahnik, Anna Wintour, Paloma Picasso, Isaac Mizrahi, André Leon Talley DURATION: 1hr 25mins CERT: 12A LANGUAGE: Spanish with English subtitles DISTRIBUTOR: Celluloid Circus DURATION: 1hr 29mins CERT: U DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

Executive produced by Wim Wenders, Our Last Tango into incredible tango choreographies. These beautifully Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes Longtime fashion journalist Michael is the fascinating true story of the most famous dancers shot choreographies complement the soul-searching for Lizards is the charming portrait Roberts presents this never-before- in tango’s history, and their tremendous love of tango. interviews and document moments of the film to make of legendary shoe designer Manolo seen peek into Mr Blahnik’s world, María Nieves Rego (81) and Juan Carlos Copes (84) this an unforgettable journey into the heart of the tango. Blahnik, whose impeccable dedication featuring a ‘who’s who’ of the fashion met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together to his craft set a fashion standard among and entertainment industries including for nearly 50 years. Through all those years they loved “A lush and sexy portrait of a famous dance career.” celebrities, stylists and industry icons. Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Paloma and hated each other and went through several painful JOHN DEFORE, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Blahnik left the Canary Islands for Picasso, Iman, Naomi Campbell, separations, but always got back together. Now, Juan Paris and eventually moved to Rupert Everett, Karlie Kloss, André “With its theatrical approach, fascinating archive material and María are willing to open up about their love, hatred London in 1971, where he fell in love Leon Tally and more. and numerous dance sequences, this is a treat for tango fans.” and passion. with Chelsea’s bohemian art scene, WENDY IDE, THE OBSERVER befriended Bianca Jagger, opened his “The maestro of mules comes across as In Our Last Tango Juan and María tell their story first shoe shop and decided that shoes a modest, giggly sweetheart in a film “As much about dealing with the pain of parting as an artistic to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers were his destiny. that handles his achievements with the memoir, this is a bittersweet delight.” from Buenos Aires, who transform the most beautiful, seriousness they deserve.” DAVID PARKINSON, RADIO TIMES moving and dramatic moments of Juan and Maria's lives LESLIE FELPERIN, THE GUARDIAN

If you like Strictly Come Dancing then you will love Our Last Tango. If you are a Sex And The City fan you will love this documentary on the man who created the shoes loved by Carrie Bradshaw herself. SARAH JESSICA PARKER

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30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

IN CONVERSATION: RICHARD E. GRANT

Richard E. Grant made his ﬁlm debut in Bruce Robinson’s classic British comedy Withnail And I and the rest, as they WITHNAIL AND I say, is history. He is multi-talented; an actor, writer, director, SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 8PM raconteur, and not to mention, a successful entrepreneur after BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL the launch of his award-winning perfume Jack in 2014. With a hint of marijuana tones, the media immediately labelled it ‘pot UK 1987 DIRECTOR: Bruce Robinson CAST: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griﬃths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick perfume’ in reference to Grant’s role as drug-taking Withnail DURATION: 1hr 47mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: Arrow Films in the iconic movie.

His talent and versatility has enabled Grant to have a long, Introduction and post-screening discussion with courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. and "We want the finest wines known to humanity and distinguished and varied career achieving recognition in both Richard E. Grant. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, we want them now!" Withnail and I is movie magic, Hollywood blockbusters and smaller independent films with and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. enhanced by an aimless but appallingly eventful plot. titles including L.A. Story, The Age Of Innocence, Bright Young Based on the life of its writer/director Bruce Robinson, Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, Popular among students, it strikes a chord with anyone Things, Gosford Park, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Penelope. Withnail And I is set in London in 1969 with two out-of-work who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood. who has undergone a period of debauchery and More recently he played Dr Zander Rice in Marvel’s critically actors, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul impoverished squalor prior to finding their way onto acclaimed film, Logan and will soon be seen in Disney’s McGann), fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, Robinson's Withnail and I is an enduring British cult film. life's straight and narrow. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and alongside Melissa mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their Enthusiasts call out the iconic phrases from the endlessly McCarthy in the Fox Searchlight feature, Can You Ever squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, brilliant script to one another like mating calls: "Scrubbers!" Forgive Me.

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Sam wrote several plays for Stephen that were premiered at the Abbey Theatre including the one-man tour-de-force, 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING Kicking A Dead Horse in 2007. The two friends appeared on screen together in the western Blackthorn (2011) in which Sam played an aged DAYS OF and grizzled Butch Cassidy, hiding out THE in Bolivia, pursued by his nemesis, HEAVEN a Pinkerton detective played by Stephen. CRYING GAME What was to be their final collaboration SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 8.30PM USA 1978 DIRECTOR: Terrence Malick came during Derry’s year as City BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL CAST: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, of Culture. Stephen approached Sam Sam Shepard, Linda Manz DURATION: 1hr to write a new play to be premiered UK/Japan/USA 1992 DIRECTOR: Neil Jordan CAST: Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, REMEMBERING 34mins CERT: PG DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount at the Playhouse, which would then Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent Pictures SOURCE: Filmbank travel to New York. A Particle of Dread DURATION: 1hr 52mins CERT: 18 DISTRIBUTOR: BFI (Oedipus Variations) with Stephen Rea in the lead role of Oedipus was one of SAM SHEPHERD A special screening of Terrence Malick’s With special introduction by Stephen Rea. the triumphs of the City of Culture year. Days of Heaven, in which Sam Shepard SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 2PM The two friends reunited exactly one An unlikely friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army made his screen debut. This 1978 film NERVE CENTRE year later in November 2014 for the volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap is justly celebrated for its painterly off-Broadway premiere of A Particle of by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage situation ends up going images of rural landscapes and the Dread at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's Foyle Film Festival will pay tribute to the In the autumn of 2013 as part of the evocative musical score by Ennio theatre in New York. lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name ‘Jimmy’ and gets a job late Sam Shepard whose untimely death City of Culture, Sam Shepard spent Morricone. A Greek tragedy plays out as a day labourer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' in late July caused great sadness in the five weeks in Derry getting to know in the wheat fields of Texas with Sam As well as being one of the 20th century’s IRA background. However, Dil is also keeping secrets from Fergus. worlds of theatre and cinema. the city and attending rehearsals for Shepard in the role of the farmer, a greatest dramatists, Sam Shepard the Field Day Theatre Company’s brooding, enigmatic figure who remains Won an Oscar® The iconic actor, playwright and director was a brilliant chronicler of the tragi- production of his new play, A Particle a mystery throughout. left behind a unique 50 year legacy of comic and the surreal in his short of Dread (Oedipus Variations), which story collections, Hawk Moon, Motel “A solid thriller with wit and plenty of grit.” classic American plays and memorable Won an Oscar® was premiered at The Playhouse. JENNIE KERMODE, EYEFORFILM.CO.UK performances in movies such as Frances, Chronicles, Cruising Paradise, Great Dream of Heaven and Day out of Days. Country, Fool for Love, Voyager, Mud, Foyle Film Festival celebrated Sam’s “Days Of Heaven is above all one of the Black Hawk Down and The Right Stuff, residency in Derry with a screening most beautiful films ever made. Malick’s Stephen Rea and Judith Roddy read for which he received an Academy of Paris, Texas, the haunting film that purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, from the short stories of Sam Shepard. Award nomination. he co-wrote for Wim Wenders. Sam took but one of loss… He evokes the loneliness part in a post-screening public interview and beauty of the limitless Texas prairie.” with the playwright, Clare Dwyer-Hogg. ROGER EBERT, ROGEREBERT.COM

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Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Maurice Fitzpatrick CAST: President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, Prime Minister John Major, Prime Minister Tony Blair DURATION: 1hr 30mins CERT: U

The director Maurice Fitzpatrick will introduce the film and join a panel discussion after the screening with Professor Paul Arthur, Dr John McLoughlin, and journalist/ broadcaster Póilín Ní Chiaráin. The panel discussion will be chaired by journalist Susan McKay. Further participants to be announced. In The Name of Peace: John Hume in America, directed PENANCE: AITHRÍ by Maurice Fitzpatrick and narrated by Ballymena-born Hollywood star Liam Neeson, examines the Derry politician’s SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 6PM key role in the peace process. It includes interviews with THE GUILDHALL former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter as well as former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major Ireland/UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Tom Collins CAST: Emma Eliza Regan, Gerard McSorley, Peter Coonan, Barry McGovern DURATION: 1hr 40mins CERT: TBC “John Hume restored to his rightful place in Irish history. Maurice Fitzpatrick’s documentary lines up luminaries eager Father Eion O’Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force to set the record straight.” Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antaine DONALD CLARKE, THE IRISH TIMES to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman. This appearance throws Eoin back to the cause of his breakdown in 1916. Eoin’s influence on young Antaine echoes in Antaine’s dark influence on an Altar boy, Feidhlim.

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SHORT FILM, POPCORN AND SANTA CHICKEN RUN CELEBRATING 45TH ANNIVERSARY This magical seasonal event includes a short ﬁlm, popcorn and a visit with Santa Claus himself. SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 11AM Cost: £2pp. Parent/Guardian: Free OF AARDMAN ANIMATION NERVE CENTRE

UK/USA 2000 DIRECTORS: Peter Lord, Nick WALLACE & GROMIT: Park CAST: Mel Gibson, Lynn Ferguson, SANTA & SHORT: Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson, SANTA & SHORT: Julia Sawalha, Imelda Staunton THE SNOWMAN THE CURSE OF THE DURATION: 1hr 24mins CERT: U DISTRIBUTOR: Pathe THE SNOWMAN AND THE SNOWDOG SOURCE: Filmbank SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 11AM SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 11AM WERE–RABBIT NERVE CENTRE NERVE CENTRE SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 11AM The hilarious story of four talking UK 1982 DIRECTORS: Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami NERVE CENTRE chickens who hatch a plot to escape UK/Ireland 2012 DIRECTOR: Hilary Audus CAST: DURATION: 24mins CAST: David Bowie, Raymond Briggs DURATION: 26mins CERT: U from a Yorkshire egg farm. Ginger, CERT: U DISTRIBUTOR: Universal DIRECTORS: CAST: DISTRIBUTOR: Universal UK/USA 2005 Steve Box, Nick Park Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Bunty, Babs and Fowler are chicks Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith, John Thomson with a mission as the farmer's wife DURATION: CERT: DISTRIBUTOR: SOURCE: A young boy and his mother move house, and the boy 1hr 25mins U 20th Century Fox Filmbank Mrs Tweedy wants to put them in a pie. One Christmas Eve, a little boy builds a snowman that discovers a secret box hidden under the floorboards of his The American rooster, Rocky (Mel magically comes to life and takes him on a magical journey bedroom. In the box he finds a hat, scarf, some lumps of coal Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, have made a modest success out of their Gibson), becomes their only chance to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. and a shrivelled tangerine – it’s a snowman-making kit! new humane pest control business, Anti Pesto. Then a large vegetable-eating of escape… Nominated for an Oscar® beast begins to terrorise the town’s vegetable plots ahead of the annual Giant When it snows the boy builds a Snowman and a Snowdog. Vegetable Competition. Nominated for a Golden Globe At midnight, both magically come to life. The boy awakes and “A magical tale of excitement and friendship.” joins them on an amazing adventure, flying over London and ALI BARCLAY, BBCI FILMS Won an Oscar® “Chicken Run has that yearning for home onwards to the North Pole. that’s at the heart of all good fables… “In Nick Park Britain has its own authentic animation genius.” It’s a great eggscape from banality.” “Sweet holiday sequel about a boy who misses his dog.” PAUL ARENDT, BBCI FILMS ELVIS MITCHELL, NEW YORK TIMES SANDIE ANGULO CHEN, COMMON SENSE MEDIA

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TOY STORY 3 SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 2PM BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL

USA 2010 DIRECTOR: Lee Unkrich CAST: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton DURATION: 1hr 43mins CERT: U DISTRIBUTOR: Disney Print SOURCE: Park Circus

Andy is heading oﬀ to college, and his toys, including Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen), are worried about their uncertain future. After some twists and turns, the toys end up at Sunnyside Daycare Centre where they meet new playmates such as Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, a stuﬀy porcupine named Mr Pricklepants, and a smooth-talking Ken doll.

Won two Oscars®

“Toy Story 3 is as sweet, as touching, as THE STAR 3D humane a movie as you are likely to see…” SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 2PM A.O. SCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES BRUNSWICK MOVIEBOWL

USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Timothy Reckart CAST: Gina Rodriguez, Kristin Chenoweth, Zachary Levi, Keegan-Michael Key, Christopher Plummer, Kris Kristoﬀerson, Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Clarkson, Aidy Bryant DURATION: 1hr 35mins CERT: U DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Releasing

In this magical seasonal animated film, a small but brave donkey named Bo yearns for a life beyond his daily grind at the village mill. One day he finds the courage to break free and finally goes on the great adventure of his dreams. On his journey, he teams up with Ruth, a lovable sheep who has lost her flock and Dave, a dove with high aspirations. Along with three wisecracking camels and some eccentric stable animals, Bo and his new friends follow the Star and become accidental heroes in the greatest story ever told – the first Christmas.

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Films will screen with lights on low level, with no adverts or SPECIAL 75TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING trailers and the audience will be free to move around, or sing Tickets at special reduced price of £1pp. CASABLANCA TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER @ 1PM NERVE CENTRE

USA 1942 DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz CAST: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre DURATION: 1hr 42mins CERT: U DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros Print SOURCE: Park Circus

Three words – MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC… As time goes by (seven and a half decades no less), the appeal BEAUTY AND THE BEAST of Casablanca shows no sign of abating. Originally intended WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER @ 1PM as a WWII propaganda ﬁlm, it remains a wonderful blend NERVE CENTRE of bittersweet romance, wisecracking comedy and wartime intrigue. The legendary Bogie is laconic nightclub-owner Rick, USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Bill Condon CAST: Luke Evans, Josh Gad, whose life in Casablanca is turned upside down by the arrival Ewan McGregor, Dan Stevens, Emma Watson DURATION: 2hrs of former lover Elsa (Ingrid Bergman). 9mins CERT: PG DISTRIBUTOR: Disney SOURCE: Filmbank Won three Oscars® Disney’s magical animation Beauty And The Beast is “Arguably, cinema’s greatest ‘accidental masterpiece’, it still the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and amounts to some hill of beans.” independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast WALLY HAMMOND, TIME OUT in his castle…

CALAMITY JANE THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER @ 1PM NERVE CENTRE

USA 1953 DIRECTOR: David Butler CAST: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie DURATION: 1hr 41mins CERT: U BRIEF ENCOUNTER DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. PRINT SOURCE: Filmbank MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER @ 1PM Deadwood, South Dakota, is largely the abode of men, but frontier scout Calamity Jane (Doris Day) is as hard NERVE CENTRE riding, boastful and handy with a gun as any. Jane's wild promises set her oﬀ in search of a beautiful singer to grace UK 1945 DIRECTOR: David Lean CAST: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway DURATION: 1hr 26mins CERT: PG SOURCE: Filmbank the stage at the Golden Garter saloon, but her triumphant return to town might be tainted when she introduces a rival At a railway station café, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor “It is with this ﬁlm that Lean announces himself as a poet to the man she loves. Alec Harvey. Both are already married, but following their of the cinema.” Won an Oscars® chance meeting they gradually fall in love. They meet every JANE MOAT, BFI SCREEN ONLINE Thursday, but are well aware that their love is doomed. “Calamity Jane is pure unadulterated fun.” Nominated for three Oscars® ANDREA CHEE, MOVIE GAZETTE

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and Brenda Fricker Academy Awards®. he released Get Rich Or Die Tryin', a film He followed that with The Field (with starring rap star 50 Cent. Richard Harris) in 1990; then with Sheridan helmed the 2009 film Brothers, In the Name of the Father in 1993, a starring Tobey Maguire and Jake Jim Sheridan is a playwright, fictionalised re–telling of the case of the Gyllenhaal, which was shot in New screenwriter, film director and film Guildford Four. The film won the Golden Mexico. He also directed the thriller producer. From 1989 to 1993, Sheridan Bear at the 44th Berlin International Dream House, which starred Daniel made three acclaimed films set in Film Festival. Craig, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz, Ireland: My Left Foot, The Field and In 1996 he co-wrote Some Mother's Son and more recently The Secret Scripture In The Name Of The Father that with Terry George. The Boxer (with with Rooney Mara, Aidan Turner, between them received 13 Academy Daniel Day-Lewis) was nominated for Eric Bana, Vanessa Redgrave and Irish Award® nominations. Sheridan has a Golden Globe for best film drama actors Jack Reynor, Susan Lynch and personally received six Academy Award® in 1997. In 2003, he released the semi- Arian Dunbar. nominations. In addition to the above- autobiographical In America, which tells mentioned films, he is also known for He recently directed the short film, The the story of a family of Irish immigrants the films The Boxer and In America. Eleventh Hour with Salma Hayek, which trying to succeed in New York. The film screens as part of this year’s Light in In 1989, he directed My Left Foot, which received superb reviews and earned Motion Competition. became a critical and commercial Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou The Wonderful World of Aardman Academy Award® nominations. In 2005 success and won Daniel Day-Lewis Aardman Animation will talk about The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close animated feature Early Man, starring their award-winning short and feature Shave (1995), and then went on to win Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams and films, and give the audience a unique Best Animated Film for Wallace and Tom Hiddleston, will be released glimpse at some of the studio's latest Gromit’s feature debut, The Curse of in January 2018. work. the Were-Rabbit (2005), which was also awarded the BAFTA for Best British Based in Bristol and co-founded by Film. Popular theatrical releases have Peter Lord and David Sproxton, Peter My Left Foot included The Pirates! Band of Misfits and David met Nick Park at the National (2012), Arthur Christmas (2011), FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER @ 8PM BRUNSWICK Film and Television School when he Flushed Away (2006) and the studio’s was working on his student film A Grand highest grossing theatrical release, MOVIEBOWL Day Out. Nick joined Aardman full time Chicken Run (2000). One of the in 1985. Ireland/UK 1989 DIRECTOR: Jim Sheridan CAST: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan studio’s earliest stop motion animation Croghan, Cyril Cusack, Fiona Shaw, Ray McAnally DURATION: 1hr 43mins CERT: 15 DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus Aardman Animation Studio is one characters, Morph, has been a children’s of Britain’s biggest creative exports, television favourite in Britain since he first appeared on television in 1977. With introduction by Director Jim Sheridan. “My Left Foot is a great film for many reasons, but the most producing multi-award-winning feature films, television series, music important is that it gives us such a complete picture of this Aardman’s most recent productions The incredible real-life story of writer and artist Christy videos, advertisements and digital man's life.” include Shaun The Sheep The Movie and Brown. Born into a large, impoverished Irish family, Christy is entertainment. The studio won three ROGER EBERT, ROGER EBERT.COM follow-up feature Shaun The Sheep 2, paralysed from birth due to crippling cystic fibrosis and written Academy Awards® for Best Animated due for release in 2019. Aardman’s latest off as a helpless infant, only able to make guttural sounds. But “Debuting director Jim Sheridan (who co-adapted the book with Short Film – Creature Comforts (1990), trapped within his damaged body is a brilliant mind, which playwright Shane Connaughton) places this empty coalbin saga finally finds expression thanks to his own determination and in a well-directed home that mixes the tragic with the funny.” the drive of his indomitable mother, who never gives up on him. MORE CONFERENCE GUESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED DESSON HOVE, THE WASHINGTON POST Won two Oscars® VISIT WWW.FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL.ORG FOR MORE DETAILS

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FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL BATHED IN LIGHT LIGHT IN MOTION (LIM) Spain 2017 DIRECTOR: Guillem LAKESONG SCHEIDWENG/ Manzanares DURATION: 15mins Canada 2017 DIRECTOR: Douglas DURATION: COMPETITION AWARDS 2017 TEENAGE Two teenage couples are spending Gibbens 18mins a weekend together in a house by the THREESOME sea. When new feelings develop, When her grandfather mysteriously Germany 2017 DIRECTOR: Arkadij Khaet the dynamic quickly changes. drowns in the lake behind his BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM DURATION: 4mins cottage home, Claire is determined to ﬁnd answers. BEST IRISH SHORT FILM One boy, one girl and her stepbrother. BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM A date goes wrong.

Recipients of the Light in Motion (LIM) Awards at Foyle Film Festival qualify for consideration in the Short Film and Animation categories of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run. Since 1999, the Foyle Film Festival has been an Oscar® aﬃliated festival – one of only a handful of festivals to enjoy this honour. In addition, Foyle Film Festival enjoys BAFTA recognition since 2009.

Over the years the festival has been Other LIM Award winners who received films through an exciting programme FERN privileged to screen the very best Oscar® nomination include: 2014 short of panels, workshops and screenings UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Johnny Kelly in International and Irish short film film winner Parvaneh, 2014 short led by industry luminaries from Ireland DURATION: 6mins MASTERPIECE and animation to local audiences and animation winner The Dam Keeper, 2012 and beyond. Russian Federation 2017 to support local filmmakers through finalist Asad, 2011 animation winner A woman loses her husband and finds We extend our thanks to the many DIRECTOR: Irina Storozhenko exhibition at Northern Ireland’s only A Morning Stroll, 2009 Irish Short THE SILENT CHILD a potted plant. competitors, past and present who have DURATION: 15mins Oscar®-affiliated festival. winner The Crush, 2008 International participated in the Light in Motion UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Chris Overton short winner The Door and 2008 short Previous Foyle Film Festival winners Awards and whose success secures DURATION: 20mins animation winner French Roast. Women complain about their typical and competitors who have proceeded its legacy for the future. relationship problems in the office to win the Oscar® for Live Action Short To mark 30 years of the Foyle Film A caring social worker does of a young psychologist, who has a Film and Short Animation include: 2014 Festival, we are delighted to welcome everything she can to stop a deaf child unique ability to cure his patients short animation finalist Bear Story and director Jim Sheridan to the festival from being treated like a stumbling with a click of his fingers. 2013 finalist Mr Hublot. Northern Ireland as part of the 2017 Shorts to Features block in a middle-class family. native Terry George, a finalist for The conference. This annual event brings The Light In Motion Awards are Shore won the Live Action Short Oscar® full circle the path to Oscar® and BAFTA sponsored by City of Derry Crystal. in 2012 as well as Martin Mc Donagh glory that begins for so many at the Foyle for Six Shooter in 2006, Adam Elliot Film Festival. Rising filmmakers will have All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be for Harvie Krumpet in 2003 and Eric the chance to focus on the transition from upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age. Armstrong for Chubbchubbs in 2002. producing short films to feature length

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AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES BLACK LABEL MUIRGHEILT Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Helen Flanagan LUGOJ Spain 2017 DIRECTOR: David Vergés DURATION: 13mins Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Tara Hegarty DURATION: 11mins GO PAUL DURATION: 8mins Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Chris Lodge Distressed new mother Maura DURATION: 15mins Germany 2017 DIRECTOR: Felix Karolus Erik works the night shift at a lonely becomes ﬁxated on the idea that There is a legend among ﬁshermen THE GIRL DURATION: 17mins gas station and Alex is an assiduous there might be sinister forces that to have a woman on a boat is bad A stranger approaches a young army regular. Tonight something happens IN THE SNOW at work, deliberately causing her luck. Fergus is about to discover how corporal at the dawn of the Romanian baby’s unease. and it gives them the opportunity “Action, Action. You have power over this legend came about. revolution. The corporal must decide Switzerland 2017 DIRECTOR: Dennis if this stranger is friend or foe. to discover who they really are. me, nonetheless I have no need Ledergerber DURATION: 7mins of you and I don’t like you anymore.” Los Paul, Trio A day in the life of a foley artist.

FOR YOU Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Brendan Canty DURATION: 12mins

A young girl struggles with an alcoholic mother, her environment UNFORGOTTEN PROMISE and entering adulthood, until an act of devotion from her boyfriend oﬀers Ireland/Canada 2017 DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: UK 2017 Neville Pierce THE KID relief and the strength to love. Alexander Wilson-Flynn DURATION: 15mins Poland 2017 DIRECTOR: Paweł Podolski SAVING SANTA DURATION: 15mins DURATION: 20mins Northern Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Keith A Syrian refugee can only stay An elderly man near the end of his WINNING MARGE O’Grady DURATION: 17mins in Britain if she becomes a surrogate life passes lonely days in an old folk’s UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Max Lincoln A smart alec eight-year-old girl mother for a desperate couple, home writing letters to an old friend. DURATION: 6mins recruits a selﬁsh grown up into A little girl, still dealing with her but their illicit pact has dark But the arrival of a new occupant a seemingly innocuous scheme. mother's death, comes across consequences. in the home opens the doors to his a destitute man, a street drinker John is with Sophie, but John wants past and changes everything. Kim. The girls have other plans. NICE NIGHT FOR IT who bears a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Rachel Carey DURATION: 7mins

Ground down by endless nights awake, an insomniac takes All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be a nighttime walk, where she finds strong language and scenes that may be upsetting to people of a sensitive upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age. comfort in a fellow sleepless stranger. nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age.

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REVELATION – TWO BALLOONS THE CITY OF HAZE USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Mark C. Smith DURATION: 9mins China 2017 DIRECTOR: Qichao Mao DURATION: TAKE ME THE WIDOW’S LAST LEAP OF FAITH 14mins Two travellers return to a place DEPARTURE crossed by stars and clouds where SWIMMING Ireland/UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Vanessa Hong Kong 2017 DIRECTOR: Khong Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Mark Smyth After witnessing his mother’s death love is at the beginning of everything. Perdriau DURATION: 22mins Chang Kong DURATION: 8mins Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Claire Dix DURATION: 13mins in a riot, Mai broke down and cannot DURATION: 15mins remember his own name since. Ireland, 1847. A destitute young 2,000 years from now, Qu Yuan, Kelly longs for a connection One day, a girl named Yi ﬁnds him and widow desperate to save her dying the poet and high priest who lived A son must overcome his own in a disconnected world. brings him back to the City of Haze. son, must make a choice, but is the conﬂicted feelings and honour his during the Warring States period cost of survival worth the price of her father’s intentions to keep his mother of ancient China, believes that man humanity? alive, despite her expressed wish can get relief from pain by giving to the contrary. up their soul.

DON’T THINK OF TIME TRAVELLER NIGHT SHADOWS A PINK ELEPHANT Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Steve Kenny UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Suraya Raja REFUGE DURATION: 12mins USA 2017 DIRECTORS: Ivan Viaranchyk & DURATION: 7mins Bat-Ami Rivlin DURATION: 7mins POLES APART Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Leticia Agudo 11TH HOUR A Back To The Future-obsessed UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Paloma Baeza DURATION: 20mins Ireland/USA 2016 DIRECTOR: Jim Layla fights daily against urges and traveller boy strives to finish building In a dark, old Victorian city, a young DURATION: 12mins Sheridan DURATION: 11mins compulsions, until challenged to face his own DeLorean replica before Based on the real stories of thousands. doctor is summoned by a mysterious her darkest fears. his family are evicted from their A young Irish man in an unfamiliar The story is based on an experience coachman to attend a patient In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry halting site. European city gets help and refuge of a journalist who was living in New in need. Rushing to meet his client, and solitary polar bear has to decide from an illegal immigrant for a night, York at the time of 9/11. the Doctor finds himself taking if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her a young man like himself. For one a dreadful journey to his own food or her friend. night, they’re equals. personal nightmare.

All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age. upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age.

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ORIENT CITY: TRUE NORTH RONIN & THE UK 2017 DIRECTOR: George Bowler CORKY HAVE HEART DREAM LOGIC DURATION: 8mins PRINCESS Hungary/USA 2017 DIRECTORS: Ryan USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Ty Primosch UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Will Anderson USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Meaghan Tosi On the long journey home, Colucci & Zsombor Huszka DURATION: DURATION: 6mins DURATION: 12mins HOMEGROWN a fisherman comes upon the wreckage DURATION: 3mins 19mins UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Quentin Haberham of a ship and rescues a small boy that A corkscrew battles a giant glass A looping GIF has an existential crisis. DURATION: 9mins he finds asleep in a barrel. A girl with chronic nightmares When a little girl’s family is bottle to uncork seven magical is given a gift to help, but when assassinated in the unforgiving lightning bugs corked inside. A film about parenthood and it's accidentally broken her biggest Orient City, the broken down, an overbearing sense of love fears become a reality and she must opium-addicted Ronin is charged and protection. find a way to fight them on her own. with protecting her.

All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age.

FIRST BLOOM BARTLEBY USA 2016 DIRECTORS: Laura Naylor & China/USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Tingting Liu Kristen Kee DURATION: 11mins DURATION: 5mins An unassuming Wall Street lawyer LIGHT IN MOTION AWARDS He is a servant in the royal palace. finds herself beset by a new employee, PROGRAMME 2 She is the emperor’s daughter. PROGRAMME DURATION: Bartleby, who refuses to work – Growing up together, they become THE FULL STORY ANIMATED SHORT FILM in an ongoing act of passive refusal, friends and soul mates. Naturally SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 2.15PM he simply ‘prefers not to’. A quiet, UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Daisy Jacobs 1HR 34MINS their budding feelings for each other NERVE CENTRE dogged battle of wills ensues DURATION: 8mins are forbidden in this feudalistic in this stop-motion reimagining kingdom. of a Melville classic. Toby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, breakdown and the helplessness and rage of being a child. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? THE HOUSE OF LATE SEASON COLOURS AFTERWORK DAM! THE STORY Austria/France/Portugal 2017 DIRECTOR: Argentina 2017 DIRECTOR: Nicolas Ecuador/Spain/Peru 2017 DIRECTOR: OF KIT THE BEAVER Daniela Leitner DURATION: 7mins Villarreal DURATION: 9mins Luis Uson DURATION: 6mins Canada 2017 DIRECTOR: Kjell Boersma DURATION: 13mins All films in the competition have An elderly couple seem to have TÊTE-À-TÊTE A young girl wishes to live inside The cartoons entertain us, they make yet to receive certification. Some lost their affections for one another. UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Natasha Tonkin her favourite television show, us laugh even though we have had Kit, the eager beaver, embarks on films contain strong language and One day at the beach, something DURATION: 8mins but the wondrous trees of La Plata, a bad day at work and they are our an odyssey through four seasons scenes that may be upsetting to incredible happens – something a mysterious house, and her loving best friends when we feel alone. in a Canadian forest where she learns people of a sensitive nature. Not that rekindles their long-lost One family’s search for connection Mother’s secret cause her to change But, do we know what they do when about compassion, failure, survival suitable for audiences under 18 romantic feelings. in a digital world. her mind. the screen goes off? and community. years of age.

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BIG FISH South Korea 2017 DIRECTOR: Jaebeom THE BLISSFUL GU FRY UP Park DURATION: 8mins DEPARTURE ACCIDENTAL DEATH China/Singapore/USA 2017 DIRECTOR: FUCKING DRAMA UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Charlotte Regan A story sea tosses mother Yona’s Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Aoife Doyle Jianjie Lin DURATION: 20mins Romania 2017 DIRECTOR: Sergiu DURATION: 8mins DURATION: 9mins Austria 2017 DIRECTOR: Guillem Michael small boat as she is out looking for Negulici DURATION: 15mins the ‘Big fish’ that swallowed her On a gloomy day, Gu takes a train Podogil DURATION: 17mins Set in the urban backdrop of North daughter Mika. An Irish grandmother’s unexpected back to his hometown for the first Entering an antique shop, a young London, Fry–up is an intimate departure from her lonely life. time in years to reunite with his wife A young couple in love experience man finds an intriguing drawing portrayal of what could be a family's and son, in court. an evening of theatre that changes which is hiding a secret love letter last day together. their lives dramatically. A brutal on the back, written 70 years ago. confrontation with the zeitgeist.

AN ISLAND Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Rory Byrne LATE AFTERNOON THE CONTRACT DURATION: 13mins MISS WAMBA Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Louise Bagnall USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Pablo Gómez Castro YOU’RE WELCOME Spain 2017 DIRECTOR: Estefanía Cortés A solitary man sets out to conquer DURATION: 9mins DURATION: 17mins Austria/Germany/Switzerland 2017 DURATION: 17mins an isolated island. DIRECTOR: Rebecca Panian DURATION: 9mins An elderly woman drifts back Whilst in the middle of their fight AN BÉAL BOCHT/ A woman tormented by her past through her memories. to find a surrogate mother in Russia, You want to drink your coffee meets an old man with whom she THE POOR MOUTH a Spanish gay couple realise there peacefully but instead you end up in immediately connects. Ireland 2017 DIRECTOR: Tom Collins is a deep wound in their relationship. a situation where people start to stir DURATION: 32mins up hatred against refugees – what do you do? An animated adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s only novel written in Irish under the pseudonym of Myles Na All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain gCopaleen. A biting satire of the life strong language and scenes that may be upsetting to people of a sensitive All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be story of a young Gael, reflecting on his nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age. upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age. life from Sligo Gaol.

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MOTHER THE INCIDENT Spain 2017 DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Sorogoyen DURATION: 18mins Lebanon/USA 2017 DIRECTOR: Meedo Taha DURATION: 21mins FRENCH A TIME TO LOVE A single mother gets a call from her seven-year-old son, A bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Lebanese woman and A REAL FAMILY France 2017 DIRECTOR: Josza Anjembe France 2016 DIRECTOR: Pierre Ferriere who is on holiday with her ex–husband in the French Basque a migrant Syrian worker get into a tumultuous moment. Spain 2017 DIRECTOR: Israel Medrano Podogil DURATION: 20mins DURATION: 10mins Country. The boy tells her he cannot find his father, Following their arrest, they must argue their innocence Perez DURATION: 17mins who has disappeared some time ago. in the face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women Seyna is a 17-year-old girl, born in Gilles is madly jealous. When his on their way to Koran school, each with a different version In a near future, a middle-aged France, with Cameroonian parents. girlfriend Lucie cancels their date, of the truth. woman decides to become a single On her 17th birthday, she asks her he is convinced that she is having mother and buys sperm through father for what he’s promised her: an affair. an internet company. the possibility to get naturalised.

SOLATIUM NOT EVEN A LINE UK/Ukraine 2016 DIRECTOR: Christina Tynkevych MERRY GO ROUND DURATION: 11mins CHILD FOR A CHILD Spain 2017 DIRECTOR: Victor E. D. Somoza DURATION: 17mins Russian Federation 2017 DIRECTOR: Anna, an ambulance doctor, arrives at a night call DIRECTOR: Venezuela/USA 2017 Juan Ruslan Bratov DURATION: 17mins As they do every afternoon, Encarna and Rosario meet up which brings back her painful past and challenges her CATCH OF THE DAY DURATION: Avella 11mins to have churros in their local café. However, today is special moral compass. UK 2017 DIRECTOR: Geraint Reynolds The restaurant is closing and Oleg as it marks a change in their usual conversation topics. DURATION: 15mins The life of a Venezuelan kidnapper Maratovich wants to celebrate. takes an unexpected turn while Taking along three of his employees, As Dylan cares for his dying wife, on his last job. who are no longer able to resist Gwen, he relives bittersweet his charm, he sets off in search ON THE ROAD memories of their long and happy of adventure. life together. Poland 2017 DIRECTOR: Bartosz Nowacki DURATION: 23mins All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and During a long ride, a woman picks up a hitchhiker and scenes that may be upsetting to people of a sensitive All films in the competition have yet to receive certification. Some films contain strong language and scenes that may be another guy. In the confined space of the car the three nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 upsetting to people of a sensitive nature and may not be suitable for audiences under 18 years of age. strangers, all hiding secrets, begin a tense game. years of age.

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Ones to Watch, the brand new film programming movement for young people at the Nerve Centre is proud to bring you its first ever programme of events PAUL ONES TO as part of the 30th Foyle Film Festival. In partnership with Film Hub NI, Foyle Film Festival and THOMAS PUNCH DRUNK LOVE HARD EIGHT Bennigans Film Club, Ones to Watch brings you the best WATCH in cinema – from the early works and later masterpieces USA 2002 DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas USA 1996 DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas of the leading auteurs in cinema to a cult horror scare fest ANDERSON Anderson CAST: Adam Sandler, Emily Anderson CAST: Phillip Baker Hall, in our bean bag cinema. Watson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luis Guzman DURATION: 1hr 35 mins CERT: 15 Samuel L. Jackson, Phillip Seymour ONESTOWATCHNERVECENTRE HARD EIGHT & Hoffman DURATION: 1hr 42mins CERT: 18 WWW.NERVENCENTRE.ORG PUNCH DRUNK LOVE Barry, a lonely and troubled man finds a new enthusiasm in his life when Pro gambler Sydney comes across down DOUBLE BILL he falls in love with a charming on his luck John and teaches him SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM woman named Lena. All the while the tricks of the trade. John starts BENNIGANS BAR being extorted by a phone sex line run to rake in the money, but Sydney’s dark by a crooked mattress salesman and past eventually finds them both lost The first in our new series titled Auteur obsessively buying pudding. in a harsh criminal world. Origins, enjoy witnessing the journey of master directors from their early “For my money it’s Paul Thomas “Movies like Hard Eight remind me work to their masterpieces within the Anderson’s best film…” of what original, compelling characters casual atmosphere and good vibes MARK KERMODE, BBC the movies can sometimes give us.” of Bennigans Bar. ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN–TIMES

AUTEUR ORIGINS MARTIN SCORSESE GOODFELLAS THE DEPARTED IT FOLLOWS USA 1990 DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese USA/Hong Kong 2006 DIRECTOR: Martin GOODFELLAS & CAST: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 7PM Pesci, Paul Sorvino DURATION: 2hrs 28mins Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark NERVE CENTRE THE DEPARTED CERT: 18 LANGUAGE: English, Italian Wahlberg DURATION: 2hrs 31mins CERT: 18 DOUBLE BILL LANGUAGE: English, Cantonese USA 2014 DIRECTOR: David Robert Mitchell CAST: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi DURATION: 1hr 40mins Goodfellas follows the true life story BBFC CLASSIFICATION AGE RATING: 15 WARNING: This film contains violence, strong threat, gory images, sexual nudity and strong language SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM of Henry Hill’s fulfilment of his An undercover cop acts as a mole BENNIGANS BAR childhood dream to become a gangster. for the Boston Police Department It covers his rise and fall within as he infiltrates an Irish criminal gang It doesn't think. It doesn't feel. It doesn't give up… But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds an Italian American crime syndicate. and becomes close to a dangerous crime herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense boss. Departed is the film that finally Lock ‘n’ load for a fright night like no other in this interactive that someone, something, is following her. “This is Scorsese at the very height got the Academy to recognise Scorsese’s theatrical experience, with thrills and spills, scares and of his powers, orchestrating storytelling numerous filmmaking achievements. swirling fog, followed by a bean bag cinema screening for that "It Follows’ abides by a principle that few horror movies have with a dynamic urgency and a bravura perfect Sunday evening. the courage to embrace: The unknown is the unknown.” use of camera, music and outstanding “Martin Scorsese proves once again that STEPHEN HOLDEN, THE NY TIMES performers.” he’s the master of urban storytelling – The film follows nineteen-year-old Jay, who should be about ALLAN HUNTER, DAILY EXPRESS and of thrillingly violent filmmaking.” school, boys and weekends out at the lake. ROBERTO SADOVSKI, EMPIRE

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JUANITA WILSON & JAMES FLYNN IN CONVERSATION SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 1.30PM – 3.30PM NERVE CENTRE Piotr Smigasiewicz will provide an insight into all aspects of his work – including the making of his first feature film Juanita Wilson has been a frequent guest at the Foyle Film James Flynn has a background in production finance and film WORKSHOP Titanium White. The workshop will cover script writing, Festival since she won the festival’s award for Best Irish Short funding and is one of Ireland’s most successful film producers. fund raising, attaching talent, filming, post production for her debut film, The Door. The Door went onto to receive From 1993 to 1997, James Flynn worked as Business Manager and exhibition. an Academy Award nomination in 2010. In the same year of the fledgling Irish Film Board. James then became a full- WITH WRITER/ Juanita directed her first feature film from an original script time producer and in 1997 with Juanita Wilson established Piotr Śmigasiewicz: Writer and director Piotr studied Film Production and Direction at Huston Film School about the trauma and violence inflicted on Bosnian women Metropolitan Film Productions Limited with the intention DIRECTOR PIOTR (NUI Galway, Ireland) and International Business at the during the conflict of the 1990s. In a first for a female Irish of making strong, independent films for the international University of Wales (Cardiff, UK). In the past few years he director, As If I Am Not There swept the boards at the 2011 market. As well as feature films such as I’m Dancing (2004), has directed many short documentaries and short films shot Irish Film and Television Awards, winning the prize for best Ondine (2009), As If I Am Not There (2010) and Calvary (2014), SMIGASIEWICZ across Europe - including The Player (2008), Say Hello (2003), film, best script, and best director. James Flynn is the producer of the short film, Unforgotten, SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2011) and The Journey screening in this year’s LIM Competition. @ 10.30AM – 12.30PM (TV documentary, 2007). NERVE CENTRE Juanita and James attend the festival to talk about their extensive experience making both short and feature films.

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Spaces are limited. To book email [email protected] EXHIBITION EVENT NERVE CENTRE – FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER THE DIGGER FILM MAKERS EXHIBITION 2015 DIRECTOR: Ali Cherri DURATION: 24mins LANGUAGE: Arabic & SATURDAY and Pashto with English subtitles PRODUCED BY: Sharjah Art 14 NOVEMBER 2017 – 14 JANUARY 2018 25 NOVEMBER Foundation NERVE VISUAL GALLERY, EBRINGTON For 20 years, Sultan Zeib Khan has kept watch over a ruined 10AM AND 1PM Neolithic necropolis in the Sharjah desert in the United Arab FREE EVENT Emirates. Although majestic, the wide-angle shots have In celebration of Northern Ireland’s rich craft landscape past and 360 FILMMAKING no monumentalising intent: the beauty and extent of the site present, six contemporary makers were invited to produce new work speak for themselves. What is playing out here is the possibility in response to historic footage from the Northern Ireland Screen WORKSHOPS for one man to become part of a landscape that overwhelms Digital Film Archive. him yet seems to need his help. Seen under the silhouette Learn how to use a 360 video camera of a rock about to devour him or as a dwarfed gure spade From this inspiring starting point, TACA delved into the creative process of each to create immersive VR environments. in hand walking from the back of the frame, Sultan curiously maker and documented their journeys in a series of short ﬁlms that illuminate the AGES 16-25. busies himself from day to day to prevent the ruins... new archive-inspired works. from falling into ruin.

Visitors to Nerve Visual will encounter commissioned works by Sharon Adams, Sheena Devitt, Alison Fitzgerald, Nicola Gates, Ronan Lowery and Peter Surginor. These are accompanied by artefacts and the ﬁlms by TACA of these contemporary LES STATUES makers at work in their studios, shown alongside the Digital Film Archive footage SUNDAY that inspired them. MEURENT AUSSI The exhibition invites insights into past and present production methods and 19 NOVEMBER demonstrates the liberating force of new ideas and impulses that can emerge (STATUES ALSO DIE) from the archives. & SUNDAY 1953 DIRECTORS: Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Ghislain Cloquet DURATION: 30mins LANGUAGE: French with English subtitles 26 NOVEMBER PRODUCTION COMPANY: Presénce Africaine, Tadié Cinéma

Les statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die) is a ﬁlm by Alain Part of the Reimagine, Remake, Replay project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund's Kick the Dust 10AM AND 1PM programme. Reimagine, Remake, Replay will connect young people with heritage in meaningful ways Resnais, Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet that analyses through creative media and the latest digital technologies. The project is delivered by a consortium of VIRTUAL REALITY European perceptions of historical African art within partners including Nerve Centre, Northern Ireland Museums Council, National Museums Northern colonialism. It speculates on the spiritual properties of African Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen. traditional works (from sculptures to masks) and problematises WORKSHOPS the Western commercialisation of these pieces. Build your own 3D gallery environment Les statues meurent aussi © Revue Présence Africaine, 1953 and receive a free virtual reality headset to navigate around it. AGES 11-15. Overall screening time: 1hr approx.

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COMPLIMENTARY COFFEE AND CROISSANTS COMPLIMENTARY COFFEE AND CROISSANTS SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE THE APARTMENT SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 11AM SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 11AM NERVE CENTRE NERVE CENTRE

USA 1993 DIRECTOR: Nora Ephron CAST: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rosie O’Donnell, Bill Pullman, Rita Wilson USA 1960 DIRECTOR: Billy Wilder CAST: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray DURATION: 2hrs 5mins DURATION: 1hr 45mins CERT: PG DISTRIBUTOR: SOURCE: Filmbank

C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), a junior insurance executive, “My favourite Christmas ﬁlm.” Tom Hanks is Sam, a young widower and Jonah (Ross moves up the corporate ladder by lending out his nearby ANDREW PULVER, THE GUARDIAN Malinger) is his lively eight-year-old son. In an attempt “The sublime Sleepless in Seattle (is) easily the hippest, frankest apartment for the assignations of his superiors. Complications to conquer his grief, Sam moves to Seattle, but his life remains and funniest date movie around… Hanks is sensational, but arise when Baxter falls for elevator girl Fran Kubelik empty and his son calls a network radio phone-in hosted he would have been less so without Ryan… she is wonderfully (Shirley MacLaine), who is also the girlfriend to big boss by 'Doctor Marcia'. Overcoming initial suspicion, endearing.” J.D. Sheldrake (Bill MacMurray). When Sheldrake wants Sam unburdens his sadness over the air. In Baltimore, PETER TRAVERS, ROLLING STONE to use the apartment too, Baxter has a chance to accelerate on the other side of the continent, Annie (Meg Ryan), his career, but his feelings for Fran start to make him question a newspaper feature writer soon to be married, hears him the whole arrangement. and is instantly smitten… Won ﬁve Oscars® Nominated for two Oscars®

60 // FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL // 2017 FOR BOOKINGS VISIT WWW.FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL.ORG // 61 IN ASSOCIATION WITH ME-KONG STREET FOOD OUR KRYPTON SON FESTIVAL From 17 November until 26 November, Me-kong Street Food will operate a pop MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER @ 7PM up restaurant in the Nerve Centre. From 10am until 10pm each day, Me-kong will provide a little taste of South East Asia on Magazine Street. There will be FREE ADMISSION CLUB a series of daily specials specialising in Thai and Vietnamese street food. @ NERVE CENTRE Our Krypton Son is the alter ego of Irish songwriter Christopher McConaghy. Over the years, Christopher has shared the stage with a number of acts including Snow Patrol, Duke Special, Hozier, DEUS, David Kitt, Two Door Cinema Club, Alabama 3 to name a few, performing at T Vital ROSBOROUGH and Other Voices in Dingle. His self-titled debut album was produced by Sam Williams (Supergrass, The Go Team, Gaz Coombes) and released via Smalltown America Records ALBUM LAUNCH in 2013 to great acclaim. Our Krypton Son returned in 2017 with sophomore album 'Fleas And Diamonds' which has COLM S. HERRON SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 8PM subsequently been shortlisted for the coveted NI Music FESTIVAL CLUB ADMISSION: £10 + BOOKING FEE Prize 2017. SESSIONS "A work of genius." FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER STATE @ 6PM – 7PM FREE ADMISSION NUKE IT FROM ORBIT THE BARBER WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER @ 8.30PM OF MOVILLE - ADMISSION: £5

The people behind Masons Comedy Club are proud AN ACOUSTIC to present ‘Nuke it from Orbit’, a brand new comedy panel show about all things nerdy; Marvel to DC, Star Wars to Star MOVIE Trek, various Games about various Thrones. Two teams of top local comedians will battle it out to see who is the geekiest WITH RONAN CARR of them all! Spot prizes available. AND ANN GALLAGHER TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER @ 8PM SOUNDS LIKE Come along and witness Ronan Carr’s acoustic comedic movie presenting the story of husband and wife barber A BOY’S LIFE team, Dommo and Molly, on their final voyage of operatic, THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER @ 8PM Rosborough returns for his first solo Nerve Centre gig after signing with Ignition nostalgic, comedic and matrimonial discovery. Records earlier this year. Rosborough cut his teeth in the vibrant music scene ADMISSION: £5 in Derry, playing regular shows at Bennigans and the Warehouse which allowed In this digital age one man is determined to produce the him to try new songs on an audience full of writers and performers. This cultural world’s first acoustic movie. In other words, a play. A live The event features extracts from Derry author, Tony Doherty's hub served him well, allowing him to cultivate and refine an album’s worth of songs production with live actors… all in one take. Presented in memoirs, This Man’s Wee Boy and The Dead Beside Us, that attracted the attention of Ignition Records to whom he signed in 2017. This year high definition (depending on your eyesight), this acoustic read by the author and accompanied by a group of musicians Glenn has been on tour both as a headline artist and supporting some great acts movie is in living colour and in 3D. from the Ulster Orchestra. The music is closely linked to the including The DMAs, Mew and Seafret throughout the UK and Europe. He has also The full show will be presented in Echo Echo Dance Studios readings, reflecting those pieces of music which played Colm S. Herron is a talented local singer/ appeared at festivals such as the Great Escape and Community Festival, showcasing on 1 – 2 December @ 8pm. an important part in Tony's life in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and songwriter and pianist. He draws his new songs whilst building a great live reputation and loyal following. Rosborough is a mix of arrangements and specially composed music inspiration from the likes of Tom Waits, is currently recording his debut album and the first single ‘Burn Blue’ is available by Philip Walton. UO is delighted to have Susie Blue, the Rufus Wainwright and Creedence to now. Doors for 8pm. Show at 9pm This is an exclusive event with limited places. Price: £10. prodigious local singer-songwriter, guesting on one of the name a few. Along with his originals, Includes performance and two-course meal. evening’s arrangements. he will be playing a selection of old and “Morphing a thick Derry accent into powerful, spine-tingling vocals that rival Caleb new classic blues and rock tracks for Followill.” your delectation. HOTPRESS

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30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING DIRTY DANCING KARAOKE NIGHT FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER @ 8PM

USA 1987 DIRECTOR: Emile Ardolino CAST: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Jane Brucker, Kelly Bishop DURATION: 1hr 40mins CERT: 15 SOURCE: Filmbank COST: £3

Screening will be followed by movie- a pretty middle-class teenager who finds “Endlessly quotable, strangely fascinating themed karaoke. her adult identity in her first love affair and immensely charming.” with Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), CAROLINE WESTBROOK, EMPIRE MAGAZINE This enduring classic is the story of the hotel's dance instructor. Frances Houseman (Jennifer Grey),

A FILM MUSIC JOURNEY WITH THE ULSTER STRING QUARTET, GUEST VOCALIST REBEKAH COFFEY AND TIM BURDEN SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 8PM

Even before films had sound, music was an integral part to the enjoyment of a film. Cinemas had massive organs installed and the performer would follow the action on screen with appropriate musical accents. Things have changed a little, but we take you back to those intimate days of film presentation.

This live music event sees a chronological journey through the history of ﬁlm with excerpts from Hollywood's Golden Age classics such as Now Voyager, The Wizard Of Oz; Wild West classics such as The Magniﬁcent Seven, The Big Country; to modern greats like The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. The Music Is Bond – James Bond, includes classics such as Nobody Does It Better, All Time High and Skyfall. While Disney Delights includes unforgettable music from Toy Story, Beauty And The Beast, Up and Inside Out.

This extraordinary music extravaganza features special arrangements performed T: +44 (0)28 713 700 42 E: [email protected] by the Ulster String Quartet with guest soloist and vocalist Rebekah Coﬀey, W: www.derry-crystal.com and hosted by ﬁlm music professional Tim Burden. derrycrystal

Refreshments and food included in the ticket price of £8. Venue Bar will also be open during the event. 22 The Craft Village, Shipquay Street, Derry, Northern Ireland, BT48 6AR

64 // FOYLEFILMFESTIVAL // 2017 ADDITIONAL FESTIVAL INFORMATION

REFUND POLICY

We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. Please check that you receive the correct tickets at the time of purchase.

DISABLED ACCESS

Box oﬃce and festival staﬀ are able to provide information and assistance on access to the festival venues.

STARTING TIMES

Films will generally start on time but delays can be possible – particularly when guests are in attendance.

PARKING AND COLLECTING FACILITIES

Parking facilities are available at the Brunswick Moviebowl car parks.

FESTIVAL CLUB

The Nerve Centre Bar and Venue will be open for events during the festival dates. See programme for events guide.

CERTIFICATES

U: Universal – suitable for all ages PG: Parental guidance with young children 12: Suitable for aged 12 and over 15: Suitable for aged 15 and over 18: Suitable for aged 18 and over

The Foyle Film Festival reserves the right to make changes to theadvertised programme. Special guests attend the festival ‘Schedule Permitting’ which can lead to last-minute alterations. However, you will be informed if there is a problem or change with your booking. www.foyleﬁlmfestival.org

2D & 3D & MIDNIGHT SHOW DOUBLE BILL EVE WED 13th /MORN THUR 14th DEC WEDNESDAY 13th DECEMBER Book your Tickets now

Book by phone +44 (0) 28 7137 1999 or online brunswickmoviebowl.com

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1987 - 2017