Clones Film Festival and the Other Was.....Something to Do with Stamps
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15 Clones October 27-30 Film twentysixteen Festival 02 Welcome... 2016 celebrates two wonderful anniversaries that have changed the path of Irish history. The first being the Fifteenth Clones Film Festival and the other was.....something to do with stamps. We, as a committee, are delighted to bring to you another taste of world cinema that will surely add to the cultural development and enhancement of Clones. It is our pleasure to share short, feature and documentary films over the 4 days of the festival with such an appreciative audience who have supported this festival year after year. The Francies, our very own version of the Oscars, have established themselves as a stepping stone for the real thing! Our 48 hour short film challenge has produced some notewor- thy winners during its ten year history. In fact CFF has played its part in the making of over 45 short films shot, directed, edited, and more importantly shown in Clones at the festival. We are immensely proud of the fact that our involvement has helped to nurture talent and potential that might have otherwise gone Thank you... unnoticed in a world of ever-increasing downloads and box sets. Unfortunately, this year, we do not have the use of the Michael Slowey at opaqism.com, Somhairle Mac Conghail Cinemobile, which will be a big miss all over the country not just & staff at Monaghan Arts Office, Una McCarthy & Regina on the Diamond where it has entertained full houses and has O’Shea at The Arts Council of Ireland, Deirdriú McQuaid been an integral part of our festival nearly from its inception. The & all the staff at Monaghan County Library, Adge King & show will go on though! staff at Ballybay – Clones Municipal District, Ernie Hamill, Many thanks to Minister Heather Humphreys who, in conjunction Enda ‘Shanks’ Connolly, Eileen Ferguson and Joanne with Clones Ballybay Municipal District, has provided new seats Behan at Clones Arts Studios, Frances Brogan and Kieran and acoustic improvements, which helped to transform the McGuigan, Annie June Callaghan, James Connolly, Courthouse into our main cinema for this year’s festival. Along Eno Wines, Maeve Cooke, Karen Wall, Michael Ryan, with the post office, two of Clones’ oldest buildings become a Beth Hayden and all the staff at access cinema, Rory hub of activity and artistic endeavour. Geary & Cianna McNally at the Northern Standard, E. T. Once again we have many thanks to offer to all our sponsors Hamill Photography, Paddy McCabe @ No Borders Media, and friends, big and small, who every year weigh in with a Damian McCarney at the Anglo Celt, Orla MacDonald, generosity that defines the word patronage, for without them Paula McDermott, Cleary Signs and Graphics, Nialler9, festivals all around Ireland would not make it over the line, never Aoife Mc Elwain, Geraldine Sheerin, Monaghan County mind reaching their fifteenth birthday. Council, Clones Credit Union, SuperValu Clones, So without further ado we welcome you, our patrons, to the Adamson’s Bar, Our box office volunteers & all our biggest little film festival in the world. sponsors. James Sheerin, Chairperson, Clones Film Festival 03 On opening night three excellent Irish short This evening of cinematic entertainment, films will be showcased; two with strong local OPENING accompanied by a cheese and wine reception involvement plus the 2015 Academy Award Winner to launch the weekend’s festivities, is a free for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer. NIGHT event and all are welcome. THURSDAY 8PM // COURTHOUSE The Boring Diary of Frances Noone Park Life Stutterer Directed by Cara Holmes Directed by Jason Shalloe Directed by Benjamin Cleary Winner Best Live Action Short Film 2015 This new comedy short stars Joanne Produced by Clones native Lee McMahon Winner, Academy Award 2015 Brennan, from Co. Monaghan. She has and starring Monaghan’s own Pat Deery. for Best Live Action Short Film appeared in RTE’s Rebellion, RAW and When Daniel and Anto, two social parasites, Blood Relations (Documentary 2009) as well are drinking in the morning hours of a For a lonely typographer, an online as various stage productions and short films. timid public park, they happen to see an relationship has helped him mask his cruel The pen is mightier than the ruler. It's 1987 in elderly lady, Florence, take a seat on a speech impediment. Now he is faced with Northern Ireland and Frances Noone is ten distant bench. However, as the young wolf the daunting prospect of finally bringing that years old and terminally bored. attempts to charm her into lowering her relationship into the real world. A roller- When Frances Noone's cruel teacher guard, he soon realises that he has bitten coaster ride of joy, doubt and romance in the McEvilly tells her to write a diary of her off more than he can chew with our cunning digital age. weekend to read out in class Frances heroine. panics. Her life is so boring. There is nothing Members of the cast and crew from the films to do but watch the street from her window. will be in attendance. When she goes to stay with her granny she The screenings in the Courthouse will be realises her new neighbour is McEvilly. Eek! followed by music by Cavan’s wild men of But what McEvilly doesn't know is that her Jazz (and Funk and Blues and…), Daragh own secret antics with the headmaster will Slacke & Co., in CFF’s Festival Club at become the contents of Frances's diary to Adamson’s Bar. be read on Monday morning. Sponsored by: ENO wines and Fred and Jo Madden 04 Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2015 Cannes festival and Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2016 Academy Awards, Rams — a warm-hearted drama laced with moments of deadpan comedy — tells the tale of two rival sheep farmer brothers whose 40-year-long feud is interrupted by an unforeseen event that could destroy their livelihood. Mustang Gummi (Sigurdur Sigurjónsson) . and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) are brothers. They have both dedicated Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven their lives to tending sheep and their 97 minutes, France/Turkey/Germany, 2015, 15A Cast: Güneş Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit Işcan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Ilayda Akdoğan, farms are next door to each . other. But they have not (Hrutar) Ramsspoken in over 40 years, a FRIDAY 7.30PM // POST OFFICE feud that has reduced any . necessary communication between 2016 Best Foreign Film nominee “A beautifully mounted story about Dir: Grimur Hakonarson them to be carried out via written and winner of the Europa Cinemas the demonization of young female Iceland 2015 93 mins Cert: 15A messages delivered by Kiddi’s dog. Label for Best European Film in sexuality in a remote Turkish Featuring: Sigurdur Sigurjónsson, However when one of their sheep the Director’s Fortnight at the 2015 village.” - Variety Theodór Júlíusson contracts a contagious disease, the Cannes Film Festival, actress and “Essential.” . livelihood of the brothers and the first-time director Deniz Gamze Donald Clarke, The Irish Times Ergüven’s Mustang is a heady, entire rural community they are a “…a sweet, sad Turkish delight.” ` FRIDAY 5.30PM emotional and deeply personal part of comes under threat. Can the The Guardian POST OFFICE brothers set aside their differences story about five young Turkish under the circumstances? sisters and female empowerment. Academy Award Nominee 2016, Best Foreign Language Film Cannes Film Festival 2015 Writer-director Hakonarson Golden Globe Nominee 2016, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Motion Picture - Foreign beautifully captures the tragicomic 2015 Language plight of the brothers against the Venice Film Festival 2015 stark beauty of the Icelandic valleys Toronto International Film Festival 2015 Sponsored by: to deliver a charming and moving Audi Dublin International Film Festival Barry, Hickey and Henderson drama. 2016 Sponsored by Courtney Crash Repairs 05 As Radharc na Súl Out of Sight, Out of Mind An insight into how three murders over two days in Fermanagh in October 1972 left a border community feeling frightened, vulnerable and mistrustful. While two of the killings gained notoriety as the so called ‘Pitchfork Murders’, As Rad- harc na Súl – Out of Sight, Out of Mind details how historical events continue to impact on three families, and on two communities in the north of Ireland, despite the political progress made since the Belfast Agreement of 1998. On Sunday 22nd October 1972 the IRA shot dead Robin Bell, a member of the UDR, a few miles outside of Newtownbutler. His father and brother were in the car with him when it was attacked, and while they escaped serious injury, they were obviously traumatised by the event. On Monday the 24th October, a local man found the bodies of Michael Naan and Andrew Murray on the Naan family farm a few fields away from the Bells. As far as many locals were concerned, these two nationalists had been stabbed to death in revenge for the murder of Robin Bell, and an already divided community was driven further apart through mutual fear and suspicion. In 1978 a phone call by an ex-soldier triggered sensational new developments in the case. FRIDAY 8PM COURTHOUSE Re-enacted scenes in this fascinating documentary feature a host of Clones . talent. Dir: Sonia Nic Ghiolla Easbuig The producer Deaglán Ó Mocháin will attend the screening Ireland/UK 2016 52 mins . and will be available for a Q&A session afterwards. Featuring: Dónall MacRuairí, Richard Bell, James Naan, Brian MacDomhnaill, John Hanna Sponsored by: David Rafferty Financial Services 06 A gorgeous French animation (from Dir: Rémi Bezançon, writer-director Rémi Bezançon) about Jean-Christopher Lie the story of Maki, a young boy who France, Belgium escapes from slave traders to go on 2012 78mins Cert:PG an epic voyage from Africa to France - Language: English befriending a giraffe, crossing the desert Recommended Age: 6 + and meeting a pirate on his way.