Another high calibre 63rd Cork Film Festival just 8 days away....

9th November 2018 sees the start of Ireland's largest and longest running film festival with the banks of the lovely Lee playing host to over 250 films with themes centred on LGBT, mental health, child poverty, gender equality, and human rights over a ten day period with an incredible 90% being Irish premieres.

Float like a Butterfly - opening feature of the Cork Film Festival

With Float like a Butterfly selected as the Opening Gala Cork Film Festival has again shown it's commitment to celebrating Irish film, and CFF has also secured some of the most celebrated films of the year. These include the Irish premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’ feminist comedy The Favourite on 10 November, produced by Element Pictures and starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz; and The Dig, directed by Ryan and Andrew Tohill, starring Moe Dunford, which was awarded Best Irish Feature at Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.

The Closing Night Gala will also feature the work of an outstanding female director, with the Irish premiere of Nadine Labaki’s multi-award-winning Capernaum (18 November). This urgent and important film is on child poverty and the denial of an individual’s human rights. Other Irish premieres of international features include The Old Man and the Gun, starring Robert Redford as a septuagenarian bank robber; Peter Strickland’s sumptuous and spooky tale, In Fabric; and Wash Westmoreland’s period biopic, Colette, starring Keira Knightley

The Old man and the Gun premiering at the Cork Film Festival

This year's  programme also features 40 documentaries, with highlights to include veteran auteur Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana, and Werner Herzog’s Meeting Gorbachev, cementing Cork Film Festival as the ultimate destination festival for documentary in Ireland.

Illuminate, the Festival’s unique series of film and discussion events exploring mental health and wellbeing, is presented in association with Arts+Minds, the HSE Cork Mental Health Service and Irish Rail Iarnród Éireann. Screenings include Trauma is a Time Machine, For the Birds, and Ordinary People.

One for all the family - The Grinch screening at this years festival

The fun-packed family strand will be screened throughout the Festival at The Gate Cinema. The programme includes the highly-anticipated family friendly animations, The Grinch (10 November) and The Overcoat (17 November), which features the voice of Cork actor Cillian Murphy.

In total, 117 world-class shorts will be presented across the 10 days and will be considered for either the Grand Prix Irish Short or the Grand Prix International Short Awards. The winners of both, announced at the Awards Ceremony on 18 November at the Triskel, will be automatically longlisted for the Oscars.

What is quite clear to any fan of film (young or old) is that not only does the Cork Film Festival boast an all inclusive and highly insightful programme of film but indeed one for all ages and tastes that should be experienced over 10 quality packed days!
For further details visit http://corkfilmfest.org/