access CINEMA has confirmed its final final films for VIEWING:SESSIONS 05 which is taking place at the Briery Gap Cultural Centre + Cinemobile, Macroom, Co. Cork from April 1-3, 2005.
The opening film will be French director Éléonore Faucher’s deubt film ‘A Common Thread’. The film follows Claire, 17, who lives in a stiflingly close-knit community in rural France. When she falls pregnant, she decides that she must keep it a secret. She leaves her dull supermarket job, and, driven by her passion for embroidery, seeks out the revered Madame Mélikian, an embroiderer for haute couture designer Christian Lacroix. Madame Mélikian, an Armenian exile whose son has recently been killed in a motorcycle accident, is initially reluctant to take Claire on.
But day by day, stitch by stitch, working together on an exquisitely intricate piece of embroidery, a strong bond grows up between the two women, and out of this friendship springs renewed hope in the future.
‘A Common Thread’ was joint Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prix at the 2004 Festival de Cannes.
Other films included in the line up are:
Bombón - El Perro
An authentic and attractive look at the desolate Patagonian landscape and the contradictions there between rich and poor. Juan Villegas convinces as a lonely man who suddenly inherits a gigantic pedigree dog. Winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the 2004 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Dir : Carlos Sorin l Argentina l 2004 l 97 mins
The Consequences of Love
The ice-cool class of Paolo Sorrentino's second feature makes for one of the most striking thrillers of the year. In a Swiss lakeside hotel, a middle-aged Italian Titta Di Girolamo has been a permanent resident for eight years. He seems to be a man without identity and with little to do, spending his time smoking and coldly observing the hotel's denizens, mostly the beautiful barmaid Sofia. But what is the story of the mysterious suitcases delivered to his door?
Dir : Paolo Sorrentino l Italy l 2004 l 100 mins
In My Father's Den
Beautifully photographed and breathtaking thriller, about a war correspondent who returns to his home village in New Zealand to bury his father. Unwillingly he becomes entangled in a mystery surrounding a missing girl and other long-hidden family secrets.
Dir: Brad McGann l New Zealand - UK l 2004 l 126 mins
Wild Side
Three social outcasts find support through each other in unusual ways, in Wild Side (the title refers to Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed). Stéphanie is 32, transsexual, a prostitute and tired of life.She lives with Jamel, who also occasionally works as a prostitute. When Stéphanie meets the Russian deserter and illegal immigrant Michael, a three-cornered relationship ensues.
Dir : Sébastien Lifshitz l France l 2004 l 94 mins
Private
This feature début by documentary film maker Saverio Costanzo is a minimalist psychological drama, inspired by a real event. Costanzo's film is the story of an English professor in Palestine whose family is literally caught in the crossfire between a Palestinian village and an Israeli base when the military occupy their home.Private won the Golden Leopard, the top award at the 2004 Locarno Film Festival.
Dir :Saverio Costanzo l Italy l 2004 l 90 minutes
Strings
A virtuoso feat of puppeteering, this amazing film combines the dark elegance of Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay, with the epic scope and irony-free solemnity of the Lord of the Rings, with ancient legends, tales of forgotten battles, medieval kingdoms, and demonic villains—all unfolding in a tale of regal intrigue that proceeds with the cruel inevitability of a Shakespeare history. Voiced by an excellent British cast, Strings offers a dramatic tale of adventure, bondage and liberation; of love and war, destiny and vitality, identity and common humanity.
Dir: Anders Rønnow-Klarlund l Denmark-UK-Sweden-Norway l 2004 l 89 mins
20:30:40
Sylvia Chang continues to push the borders of women's film with a snapshot tapestry of three women's lives at the ages of 20, 30 and 40. Engaging performances from Angelica Lee, Rene Liu and Sylvia Chang move 20 30 40 away from a simple concept as the women seek meaning and identity through their relationships, sometimes straining against and sometimes falling into the stereotypes of Taiwanese society.
Dir : Sylvia Chang l Hong Kong l 2004 l 110 mins
Torremolinos '73
Torremolinos '73 is a pleasing, subdued take on one couple’s short-lived flirtation with the 70’s porn industry toward the end of the Franco regime, when cinema sex in Spain was still a cardinal sin. The lives of Alfredo, an encyclopaedia salesman and his wife Carmen are forever changed when Alfredo’s boss offers them a proposal they can’t refuse. Down on his luck due to slow business, the boss asks the homely couple to make super 8 adult home videos to sell in the Scandinavian black market.
Dir: Pablo Berger l Spain l 2003 l 93 minutes
Festival Express
In the summer of 1970, a series of music festivals were held across Canada. After the first concert in Toronto, the musicians, roadies and a film crew boarded a private train to travel to the remaining events in Winnipeg and Calgary. Musicians included The Band, The Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin. Bob Smeaton's film documents this now legendary tour.
Dir : Bob Smeaton l Canada l 2003 l 90 mins
Yasmin
The young, free-spirited Yasmin lives in the North of England. She has to find the balance between her traditional Pakistani family and her need to enjoy the freedom of Western society.After the shocking events of September 11, her life and that of her family come under increasing pressure.
Dir : Kenny Glenaan l UK l 2004 l 87 mins
Kontroll
The massive labyrinthine netherworld that is the Budapest subway system provides the stunning setting for Kontroll, a high-style, high-speed romantic thriller in which the lives of assorted outcasts, lovers, and dreamers intersect and collide. And where one handsome young hero, one mysterious maiden, and one particularly nasty killer must conduct a race against time, trains, and destiny itself in their frantic pursuit of one another.
Dir: Nimrod Antal l Hungary l 2004 l 105 mins
Facing Windows
A rich, occasionally overwrought melodrama about the memory of lost love, Facing Windows explores the power of looking, the gaze of desire. The eyes are indeed windows to the soul -- and more. The film parallels two stories in Rome from different eras. One is set in 1943, when the Nazis rounded up residents of the Jewish Quarter; the other is contemporary, taking place in the newer suburbs. Ozpetek sometimes links the periods with a pan in a single shot, and intentionally highlights the symmetry between two couples, one from each period.
Dir : Ferzan Ozpetek lItaly-Turkey-UK-Portugal l 2003 l 106mins
There will also be an Information Seminar with Henk Camping, Director of 't Hoogt Cinema, Utrecht in The Netherlands. Camping will attend to speak about MOVIEZONE, an initiative that organises screenings of art house films - outside school hours - for young people in cinemas throughout The Netherlands once a week. Henk will discuss with access CINEMA Board Member Ruth Barton, the MOVIEZONE experience and opportunities it might suggest in an Irish context.
The seminar takes place in the Cinemobile on April 2 at 2.30pm.
The full weekend package price is €220 per person sharing / €250 single (to include all meals and film screenings). The Castle Hotel & Leisure Centre provides accommodation. Places are limited and early booking is advised.
A booking form - attached separately must accompany all bookings.
A separate package for films and meals is available at €140.00. Please ask for our list of local B&Bs.
Screenings - on 35mm and DVD - will take place at the Briery Gap Cultural Centre + Cinemobile.
access CINEMA acknowledges the support of :
The Arts Council of Ireland / Sulán Film Society / Briery Gap Cultural Centre / Cinemobile / Expert Air.
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