Cork Opening and Closing Films Announced | The Irish Film & Television Network

Directed by Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo), ‘Never Let Me Go’ is based on the bestselling novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) and stars BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee, Carey Mulligan (An Education), Andrew Garfield, (The Social Network), and Oscar nominee, Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice) and Irish actor, Domhnall Gleeson (When Harvey Met Bob).

The feature centres around a group of friends who spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school where they discover a dark and haunting secret about their future. As they leave the shelter of the school behind and draw inexorably closer to the devastating fate that awaits them as adults, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.

The festival’s closing film is ‘Somewhere’, written and directed by Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) Starring Stephen Dorff (Public Enemies) the film is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles where actor Johnny Marco, played by Dorff, is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. This is until an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter, played by Elle Fanning forces him to look at the questions we must all confront.

The Corona Cork Film Festival team have also announced several of their documentary highlights which feature ‘Dreaming the Quiet Man’. Directed by Se Merry Doyle (Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien) the feature doc looks at the making of the Oscar Winning Film ‘The Quiet Man’ and features interviews from Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Jim Sheridan and Maureen O'Hara. The film will screen on Friday, November 12th at 8.30pm in the Cork Opera House and will mark the first time that a documentary will receive a gala screening at the Film Festival. ‘The Quiet Man’ actress and Cork local, Maureen O' Hara will attend the screening.

The Corona Cork Film Festival will take place from November 7-14. The Full Festival Programme is being launched on Thursday October 28th at 6pm in Cork in the Bodega and the full programme will be available on www.corkfilmfest.org/html/award.html from Thursday evening onwards.

An interview with Festival Director, Mick Hannigan will feature in next week’s IFTN newsletter.

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