WELCOME TO SILK ROAD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Between 8th-12th, March, the 5th Silk Road A Masterclass in Editing on Thursday 9th International Film Festival 2017 will screen March will be presented by renowned over 60 films for the fifth time across the editor Tony Kearns whose repertoire city of Dublin - an exclusive array of Asian, includes music videos for The Prodigy, Blur Arab, Persian, Middle Eastern, African, and The Chemical Brothers, Mediterranean and European cinema. TV commercials for Lynx, Peugeot and Diesel plus film work such as Let Us Prey, Inspired to forge connections between Citadel and Kelly and Victor. culture and facilitate international contact between filmmakers the Festival’s A Masterclass in Music Scoring with directors, also filmmakers, Carla Mooney, Singaporean Alex Oh, one of Singapore’s Steinar Oli Jonsson & Delwyn Mooney most prolific and versatile film composers founded the Silk Road Film Festival (SRFF), will present the Music Scoring Masterclass. striving to incite fruitful collaborations at Alex Oh has scored for more than 16 the intersection of cinema, arts and feature films in Singapore, Australia, China business. and the United States, with genres ranging from comedy, family-oriented The SRFF welcomes productions from drama, action films, horror. regions, which were once part of the historical network of ancient trade routes of All masterclasses will be held in Trinity the great Silk Road spanning from Europe College Dublin. across to China. Besides creating a platform for The 2017 edition will showcase a rich international filmmakers to network and diversity of features, documentaries, promote their work, the Festival’s directors animations, short and international student aspire to give student filmmakers an films. This years special guest is Hungarian opportunity to showcase their work on an director Béla Tarr who will be honored at international scale and have thus the Opening Ceremony with the 5th Silk established a student filmmaking Road International Film Festival “Honorary competition as part of Film Festivals Life time Achievement Award”. Cinergy. This is a union of film festivals around the world, aiming to promote Considered to be one of the most talents in filmmaking and to foster important film directors of the past thirty cross-cultural collaboration. Each year an years, Béla Tarr’s body of work has been Irish student filmmaker has an opportunity praised by Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and to win a prize to travel to Notre Dame Martin Scorsese. Tarr will present the University International Film Festival, Director’s Masterclass “Filmtarrorisme” Lebanon to screen their film in competition. in Trinity College Dublin moderated by Katherine Waugh on Friday 10th March in Very special thank you to Sarah Alyn association with Screen Training Ireland & Stacey from Trinity College Dublin. Cardel Entertainment. We wish you a great festival! Carla Mooney, Steinar Oli Jonsson & Delwyn Mooney HONORARY GUEST BÉLA TARR Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). Béla Tarr is widely regarded as the most influential film author of the past thirty years. He is a master of the magnificent long take, a master of wonderfully shot, melancholic films that express the human con- dition. He has received over 21 wins and 6 nominations. Béla Tarr’s body of work has been praised by Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese, among others. Martin Scors- ese called Tarr “one of the cinema’s most adventurous artists, and his films, like ‘Satantan- go’ and ‘The Turin Horse,’ are truly experiences that you absorb, and that keep developing in the mind”. Tarr’s body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes. His filmography counts nine features that elevated him into the pantheon of world cinema, earning Tarr epithets as legend, master, cult or visionary, among others. Tarr started shooting films as an amateur at the age of 16, and at 22 he got a shot to make a feature-length film, Family Nest (1979), at Béla Balázs Studio. Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as “social cinema”, aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité other early films included The Outsider (1981) and The Prefab People (1982) The core of his work features his singular aesthetics and bleak visions of the post-communist landscape, notably in Damnation (1988), the cinephiliac 432-minute long treat Sátántangó (1994), and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). His distinctive style stems from black and white, spellbinding photography shot in long takes and meticulously choreographed camera movement hypnotically paced along desolate, melancholic, austere and enigmatic imagery what eventually led to Tarr’s label as a radical filmmaker. Tarr would later compete in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man from London, which opened to less enthusiastic, but nonetheless positive, reviews. In 2013 he started a film school in Sarajevo, known as film.factory and after 4 and half years said goodbye to the school. However, Tarr intends to keep the film.factory going, provided he can find a new home. He is preparing ‘Till the End of the World,” an upcoming exhibition at the EYE Museum that will run from January to May 2017, where he will premiere two new short films. FEATURE FEATURE Bi Gan / China / 113 mins // 2015 Wang Yichun / China / 99 mins // 2015 KAILI BLUES Price: €7 WHAT´S IN THE DARKNESS Price: €7 Thursday, 9th March / 5pm Cast: Yongzhong Chen, Linyan Liu, Friday, March 10th / 4pm Cast: Su Xiaotong, Lu Qiwei, Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar Feiyang Luo, Lixun Xie, Zhuohua Yang Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar Jiang Xueming, Guo Xiao In a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, two preoccupied doctors live Qu is happiest when she’s on stage, even though it’s just a rusty container and her ghost-like lives. One of them, Chen, decides to fulfill his late mother’s wish and sets audience a deserted scrapyard. But it’s not so bad being alone sometimes – every- off on a train journey to look for his brother’s abandoned child. His partner in the thing seems so contradictory and opaque among the people in her town. Take her clinic, a lonely old lady, asks Chen to find her old lover, and give him an old pho- parents for example: why won’t they accept that Qu isn’t their real daughter? Why tograph, a shirt and a music cassette. On the way, Chen passes a mysterious town did they even get married, considering they don’t particularly like one another? A where past, present and future appears to slip away. mysterious serial killer throws the town into panic and a vague sense of unease fills the air. Qu is fascinated, and follows the events at close quarters. Tickets sold at the door and at silkroadfilmfestival.com Tickets sold at the door and at silkroadfilmfestival.com FEATURE Jihane Chouaib / France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon, UAE / 98 mins // 2015 GO HOME Price: €7 Friday, March 10th / 8pm Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Oolong, 4 Stephens Street Lower, Dublin 2 Wissam Fares, Julia Kassar Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she’s a foreigner in her own country. But there’s still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war. Something happened in this house. Something violent. A young woman searching for the truth and discovering herself. Tickets sold at the door and at silkroadfilmfestival.com Maximilian Feldmann / 51 mins / Macedonia // 2016 VALENTINA Saturday, 11th March / 8pm DOCUMENTARY Oolong, 4 Stephens Street Lower, Dublin 2 A slum in a Romani neighbourhood. Ten- year-old Valentina invites us to meet her family. What follows are bizarre anecdotes, daydreams and documentary observations – a film as lively as its roaming heroine. Specialist in DVD Mastering Screen Training Ireland part of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board is the national training and development resource specifically created for the Irish and Replication screen sectors. It was established in 1995 to provide continuing training and career development opportunities for professionals in the independent film, television and animation File to Tape Conversion sector, and is founded on a collaborative approach with industry. Screen Training Ireland in co-operation with national and international industry partners delivers a wide range of training to the sector in enterprise and business development, Blu-Ray Mastering creative IP development, and technical skills to creative and technical personnel. The Irish screen sector is part of a competitive global industry where technology is & Video Archiving changing at an incredibly fast pace. Screen Training Ireland is an on-going training resource which is dedicated to assessing skills shortages in the industry and designing courses and opportunities for practitioners to fill those gaps. 14 Emerald Cottages, Dublin 4. Phone: 01 664 1300 Fax: 01 664 1309 Email: [email protected] Web: www.specialistav.ie FEATURE FEATURE Kira Kovalenko / 78 / Russia // 2016 Masakazu Kaneko / 86 mins / Japan // 2016 SOFICHKA Price: €7 THE ALBINO’S TREES Price: €7 Sunday, 12th March / 5pm Cast: Lana Basaria, Tsiala Inapshba, Thursday, 9th March / 8pm Cast: Ryohei Matsuoka, Kanako Higashi, The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, Sergey Tomashevsky, Said Kamkia. Oolong, 4 Stephens Street Lower, Dublin 2 Yusuke Fukuchi, Kinuo Yamada Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village in Georgia after twenty years of ab- In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master sence. Seeing again home and meeting with villagers take her to memory lane and steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so all Sofichka’s life passes before her eyes: her wedding with Rufus, betrayal of the that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the neighbour Nuri, difficult years of war, exile in Siberia.