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Programme A-Z 2011
AN EXHIBITION OF FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO INSTALLATIONS.
March 10th – April 2nd / Wandesford Quay Gallery
AN EXHIBITION OF BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY.
March 11th – April 2nd / Alliance Française de Cork Gallery
Cartoon saloon will present how their Oscar nominated film The Secret of Kells was developed visually using early concepts and production design stills.
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An extraordinary documentary that follows the unbelievable rise of Staff Benda Bilili – a band of severely disabled Congolese and street children playing both conventional and improvised instruments.
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Boudu sauvé des eaux
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois.
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Carlos ‘the jackal’ is a central figure in the history of international terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, from pro-Palestinian activism to the Japanese Red Army.
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Copie conforme
This is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman, in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany.
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*Presented by director Agnès Varda.
From a deceptively simple narrative – pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) whiles away two hours in the cafés, shops, streets and parks of Paris as she awaits the results of recent medical tests.
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This intimate masterclass offers a unique chance to get inside the mind of one of the most significant filmmakers in cinema history.
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Visionary filmmaker Gaspar Noé’s reputation as a provocateur is sure to be solidified by Enter the Void, an audacious exploration of the connected nature of sex, drugs, life, and death.
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Etienne Jaumet of French group ZOMBIE ZOMBIE performs tracks from his solo album Night Music produced by Carl Craig in an exclusive one off show for CFFF.
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Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Georges Rouqier, is widely regarded as his finest film.
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Georges Méliès’ birth Cork French Film Festival and Ballymaloe House host a gala evening of fine food, champagne, wine, cinema and music.
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Actress Maria de Medeiros, best known from her role in Pulp Fiction, is working on a documentary about movie star Micheline Presle whose career began in the 1930s.
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*Directors Cut
Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is hunting down a serial killer responsible for the deaths of several young women when he pulls over a drunk driver.
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Agnès Varda’s very affecting tribute to her late husband Jacques Demy, mixes home-movie footage and brief clips from his films with a dramatised reenactment of his early years.
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La Belle Viste
In a corner of the Quebec countryside, between a major road and a headland overlooking the sea, sits an abandoned motel which has been converted into a home for the elderly.
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Agnès Varda’s film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village.
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At the peak of the French New Wave in 1961, one of the most beloved French directors, Jacques Demy, made this prequel to his masterpiece Les parapluies de Cherbourg.
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Des hommes et des dieux
In a monastery high in the mountains of the Maghreb, North Africa, eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.
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Tournée
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind – his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets – to start a new life in America.
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*Q&A with Director Jan Kounen
Jan Kounen, director of Dobermann and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky explores the mysteries behind Shipibo Shamanism.
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Hors-la-loi
After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe.
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes.
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*Original Scores to the Films of Germain Dulac
Katie Kim, Donal Dineen & Niwel Tsumbu
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Agent and scriptwriter, Arsène is intimately familiar with the hard knocks world of hunting down that elusive big break.
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Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Live audio/visual extravaganza featuring Solar Bears and Lionel Palun.
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Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians.
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*Q&A with Director Nicolas Saada
Vincent, a brilliant and reclusive young man, rejects an ambitious career to work in airport security.
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Les plages d'Agnès
*Q&A with director Agnès Varda
Weaving photography, archive footage, scenes from her own films and present day sequences, Varda takes us on a memorable voyage through her life, during which she confronts the joy of creation and the pain of personal loss, death and ageing.
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Varda’s ground-breaking and hugely successful documentary explores the idea of ‘gleaning’, from the ancient practice enshrined in paintings such as Jean-François Millet’s 1857 ‘Des Glaneuses’, to the victims of late capitalism who scavenge in supermarket bins both to survive and to denounce consumerist excess.
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An old-fashioned music-hall conjurer struggling to find work in 1950’s Paris is forced to accept questionable engagements in dubious basement venues, at garden parties or in bars and cafés.
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La Princesse de Montpensier
France, 1562. The wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants rage against a backdrop of intrigue and shifting alliances.
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L'épine dans le coeur
Michel Gondry is known for his quirky films and music videos and his organic playful imagery has won him many fans.
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As Uncle Boonmee lies on his deathbed, key figures from his life come to visit in the form of ghosts and other manifestations.
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Sans toit ni loi
Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond.
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We present a selection of shorts from director Agnes Varda.
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Maria (Isabelle Huppert), a fierce and fearless white woman, refuses to abandon her coffee crops, and acknowledge the danger to which she is exposing her family.
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