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KESWICK FILM FESTIVAL 22–25 FEBRUARY 2018 Programme £2 2 3 Welcome to the 19th Keswick Film Festival For the average film-goer, the next few weeks will be a time of waiting for some brilliant new releases. As an anything but 02 average film-goer, you will get a chance WELCOME to see many of those films this weekend and thereby claim bragging rights. 04 OUR GUESTS This weekend, for example, Dark River opens in the UK making Keswick one of the first public screenings 08 FILMS & EVENTS for this gritty northern drama, with stand-out performances from Ruth Wilson and Mark Stanley. In March, A Fantastic Woman is released, a heart-rending Chilean drama which I am tipping to be the surprise hit of the Festival. April sees the opening of The Rider, our modern CONTENTS day western and those average Joes 20 PROGRAMME will have to wait months (enjoy that feeling!) to see Edie, Sicilian Ghost Story, L’Amant Double and That Good Night. 39 TICKETS & TRAVEL Ticket costs, discounts Coupled with some of the best and booking information. from 2017, some remarkable Directions and public documentaries, a few choices from transport details years gone by and complemented by contributions from writers and academics, KFF once again promises to be an incredible weekend of film. Ian Payne Festival Director 4 5 OUR Lewis MacDougall Anwen Hurt GUESTS Lewis MacDougall made his film We are so pleased to welcome After graduating from Film school in debut in 2015 as Nibs in Pan, Anwen back to Keswick, albeit in 1993 Simon went on to write and after attending an open audition in such poignant circumstances. direct a handful of short films - one Morningside and in 2016, he starred of which, Wired, impressed British in A Monster Calls opposite Felicity Anwen first came to Keswick in 2012 Screen so much that they invested Jones and Liam Neeson. In the in her role as Producer, when she in Lighthouse, a $2.5m feature film. film, a dark fantasy drama, he plays brought In Love with Alma Cogan At the Cannes advertising festival a boy whose mother is dying of a to the Festival as its opening film. in 2001 Lighthouse attracted the terminal illness, and who begins She also brought her husband John eye of Bob Isherwood, the creative communicating with a tree monster and Keswick fell in love with the pair director of Saatchi and Saatchi, who seemingly living outside his house. of them. Since then she has had selected Simon for the New Directors a credit on a number of films that Showcase. This prestigious honour His talent as an actor has been we have enjoyed at KFF such as is awarded to the twenty-five most recognised with a host of award Peace and Conflict and Chick Lit. promising directors in the world. nominations. in 2016, the London When the opportunity arose to Isherwood admired Lighthouse, Critics’ Circle gave him the award screen That Good Night, John saying, “few films demonstrate so for Young British/Irish Performer Simon Hunter Hurt’s last lead role, we were clearly how tension gets attention. of the Year and in 2017 he won delighted that she accepted our Simon Hunter made his first film, The tension is dynamic”. the Entertainment Award in Spaceman, at seven years old. Starring the Young Scot Awards. invitation to introduce the film. his parents and his dog, the 3 minute In 2016 Simon completed his third film told the story of a spaceman feature film, his passion project, Edie Next, he will co-star in the road flying down to earth and wreaking which tells the tale of an old lady trip drama Boundaries, opposite havoc on a remote cottage in the who heads to Scotland to climb a Vera Farmiga and Christopher Scottish Highlands. Simon then went mountain. The movie was an official Plummer, set for release in 2017. on to make nearly 50 short films, selection in the Edinburgh International whilst growing up in Dumfriesshire. Film Festival in June 2016. 6 7 Neil Sinyard Lisi Tribble Dr Patrick Glen Neil Sinyard is Emeritus Professor Lisi Tribble was born in the USA Patrick Glen is a Postdoctoral David Banning of Film Studies at the University of and was previously married to Research Associate working at UCL David is the author of An A-Z of Hull. He is the author of 25 books on Ken Russell. She is an actress History on the Arts and Humanities Cumbria & the Lake District on Film film, including studies of directors and musician, known for The Fall Research Council-funded project published by Hayloft in late 2016. such as William Wyler, Billy Wilder, of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic ‘Remembering 1960s British Cinema- After being shortlisted for the 2017 Fred Zinnemann, Woody Allen, Tale for the 21st Century, Boudica going’. Extensive interviews with Lakeland Book of the Year Awards, Steven Spielberg, Richard Lester Bites Back and Puzzleface. cinema-goers from the period it received a Runner-Up prize in the and Jack Clayton. He has also reveal much about the importance ‘Striding Edge Productions Award As with Anwen Hurt, Lisi has a written and provided commentaries of film on social attitudes and for Guides and Places’. His strong previous connection with Keswick, and interviews for a number of behaviours at a time when ‘smoking interest in film developed during a BA having accompanied Ken to the dvd and Blu-ray releases, including in the Odeon’ was the norm. History of Art course at Goldsmiths Alhambra in 2009, as part of the being interviewed for the recent College, University of London, where Film Club’s Ken Russell Weekend. He is the ideal person to set Blu-ray release of Shane. His book he graduated in 2007. He then went It is thanks to Lisi that we are the scene for our screening of on the films of George Stevens is on to study Lake District Landscape able to screen Clouds of Glory Night of the Living Dead. due to be published this year. Studies at postgraduate level at showcasing the best of the county Lancaster University in 2011. All of We are pleased to welcome Neil back – its landscape, our literary heritage these subjects combined when to Keswick. Neil was a speaker at and the amazing characters that researching the films and pieces the very first KFF in 2000, where he make Cumbria their home. of social history that were spliced spoke about Shakespeare in Film. His together throughout the A-Z. talk on George Stevens’ career is set to be a highlight for cineastes in 2018. He currently lives and works in Cumbria. 9 Best of the Fests World Cinema The 2017 Festival Season. As the When you think of French cinema or reports came back from Cannes, Japanese cinema some stereotypes Venice, Sundance and Toronto immediately jump into your head. our antennae started to twitch – How then could, say, A Woman’s what will play well at Keswick? Life and L’Amant Double (France) be bracketed together, or for that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing matter Blade of the Immortal and Missouri for a start – winner of The Third Murder (Japan)? Vastly the audience award at Toronto, it different and hugely entertaining. also won awards at Venice and San Diego. Gook won the Next Audience Our two Scandinavian screenings, Award at Sundance, A Fantastic Sami Blood and Heartstone Woman won the Teddy Award at again offer different perspectives Berlin plus the Silver Bear for Best about growing up. Screenplay and of course, The Square was winner of the Palme d’Or. Not all good things come in pairs though. Directions (Bulgaria), Mountains May Depart (China) and FILMS & Sicilian Ghost Story (Italy) are brilliant in their own way and certainly merit your time while La Isla (Morocco) is one of those quirky films that you EVENTS would only ever see at a festival. HUMAN FLOW SATURDAY 13.45, RHEGED 10 11 are trying to make the world a David Miller, our programmer, Documentaries better, greener, more sustainable Neil Sinyard on has managed to track down a place and Open Bethlehem spans rare copy of Clouds of Glory, After a thin year for documentaries seven momentous years in the George Stevens Ken Russell’s two-part film about at KFF2017, we are redressing the Sunday 15.30 life of Bethlehem, revealing a Wordsworth and Coleridge. Thought balance with some challenging city of astonishing beauty and to have been lost, our thanks go screenings that will make you If you were asked to make a list political strife under occupation. to Lisi Tribble, Ken’s widow, for think about the world we live in of the greatest ever film directors, unearthing this lost treasure. would George Stevens even be in and our own place within it. In Tawai – a Voice from the Forest, your thoughts? Yet with films such explorer Bruce Parry (The Tribe) travels Saturday sees Ai Weiwei’s remarkable as Giant, Shane, The Diary of Anne the world living with indigenous Human Flow and the visual Frank and A Place in the Sun to his peoples, delving deeper than ever Family Film Screening spectacle of Our Last Tango, both credit, Stevens must surely rank as A Monster Calls (12A) on a journey into the heart of our making best use of Rheged’s big one of the best. Neil Sinyard will tell Saturday 10.00 collective human conscience. screen. The Work (suggested by more of his story, from working on Chosen by boarders from Keswick Matt Glasby from last year’s Critical Possibly our most challenging Laurel and Hardy films to the impact School, our family screening this Acclaim) takes us to Folsom Prison documentary of all is Trophy, a of World War ll on his film making.

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