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St John’s, Maddermarket
Public Spaces Trilogy:
10:00 – Awakening City dir. Fernando Ramos (competition film, 100 min, Brazil, 2015) – Tickets £2 on the door.
This film presents a universal debate about the urgency of public spaces takeover in contemporary cities. By examining the case study of the Fortaleza’s government attempt to sell out the public square to install a new by-way for traffic, the community takes action to save what they hold sacred. What is happening in Fortaleza is happening all over the world.
12:00 – “Public Spaces I” Shorts Programme (71 min) + Q&A – FREE!
Includes the films: Symbolic Threats dir. Lutz Henke, Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf (15 min, Germany, 2015), But the Paint Comes Through dir. Niyaz Saghari (20 min, UK/Mexico, 2016), Underground Notes dir. Ben Dolphin (13 min 23 sec, USA, 2015) & Infrastructures dir. Aurèle Ferrier (22 min 38 sec min, France, 2015)
13:45 – Public Spaces II – Shorts Programme (83 min) – FREE!
Includes the films: A September to Remember dir. Trefor Jones (19 min, UK, 2015), Question-in Art dir. Rocio Lira (11 min 24 sec, UK, 2016), It Happened In The City dir. Noemi Pulvirenti (21 min, Italy, 2015), Buskers: Sounds of the City dir. Megan Zebrowski (10 min, USA, 2016), Hell is Other People dir. Jessica Hutchison (21 min 41 sec, Austalia, 2015)
15:45 -“The Masks We Wear” Shorts Programme (81 min) – Tickets £2 on the door.
Includes the films: Maria Track dir. Rhalssa Monteiro Pinto (7 min 28 sec, Brazil, 2015), Jianjie dir. Nicole Chen (19 min 14 sec, New Zealand, 2015), Orient Heights dir. Samuel Goldbloom (8 min 35 sec, USA, 2015), Mascarados dir. Andréa Prado (14 min 33 sec, Brazil, 2014), Happy Thoughts dir. Layke Anderson (14 min, UK, 2014), Easy Reappearance dir. Guillaume Levil (16 min 50 sec, France, 2014)
17:30 – “Unknown Regions” Duet (56 min) – FREE!
Daylight After a Century dir. Hollie Harrington (28 min 31 sec, UK, 2015)
Unique Principality in the Balkans dir. Sinisa Kesar (27 min 15 sec, Bosnia/Herzegovina, 2015)
19:00 – “Eye on Japan” programme (43 min) – FREE!
Featuring the films: Ubuyu (First Bath) dir. Michael Lyons (6 min 20 sec, Japan, 2015), Smile dir. Natsumi Shibata (31 min 43 sec, Japan, 2015), Monotanka Derive dir. Michael Lyons (4 min 17 sec, Japan, 2014)
The Forum
10:00 – The Festival of Lies dir. Sílvia Subirós (competition film, 66 min, Spain/Brazil, 2015) Tickets £2 in advance, £3 on the door.
Part of our Brazilian programme, this feature documents the bizarre annual festival hosted in Nova Bréscia, during which the villagers compete to convince each other of the most extravagant and absurd lies.
11:30 – Animated Shorts Programme (76 min) Tickets £3 in advance, £4 on the door.
Selected animated shorts from around the world that are a treat for the eyes and food for thought!
Includes the films: Junk Girl dir. Mohammad Zare (16 min, Iran, 2016), The Legend Of The Hairy Hands dir. Anna Hepworth (7 min, UK, 2008), Castillo y el Armado dir. Pedro Harres (14 min, Brazil, 2014), War Zone dir. Oğuzhan Kaya (competition film, 5 min, Turkey, 2015), Padre dir. Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso (competition film, 12 min, Argentina, 2014), Moonshine dir. Michal Poniedzielski (11 min, Poland, 2013), Time Portal Glory Hole dir. Jason Petrovitch (11 min, USA, 2016), Life Smartphone dir. Xie Chenglin (4 min, USA)
13:00 – Satirical Shorts Programme (80 min) Tickets £3 in advance, £4 on the door.
These films will send audiences home with both determination to change the world, and smiles on their faces.
Films include: The Sons of Robert Schuman dir. Tommy Conlon (competition film, 18 min, Ireland, 2015), Wall dir. Maya Tsamprou, Mark Sargent & Harris Tsambas (competition film, 14 min, Greece, 2015), West Bank Story dir. Ari Sandel (22 min, USA, 2005), The Postmodern Pioneer Plaque dir. Bors Kozlov (competition film, 8 min, Spain, 2016), Once Upon a Time in the USSR dir. Mikhail Zheleznikov (6 min, Russia, 2015), Life Smartphone dir. Xie Chenglin (4 min, USA), Time Portal Glory Hole dir. Jason Petrovitch (11 min, USA, 2016)
Dystopian Quadrilogy
NRFF’s director of programming also happens to be a professor of science fiction film… we invite you to this very special curated program!
14:45 – “Beginning of the End” shorts programme – (74 min) Q&A with local filmmakers. Tickets £3 in advance, £4 on the door.
What was once science fiction of yesterday has become the reality of today. These shorts project dystopian tendencies of current society into a very near future.
Includes the films: Above the Fold dir. Josh Trett (15 min, UK, 2016), Broke dir. James O’Halloran (13 min, UK, 2016), Evernight dir. Fatma Belkis Isik (17 min 32 sec, Turkey, 2015), Empty Diagonal dir. Guillaume Ballandras (27 min 50 sec, France, 2015)
16:30 – “Tomorrow Land” shorts programme (74 min) Tickets £3 in advance, £4 on the door.
This certainly isn’t Walt’s vision of things to come!
Includes the films: The Box dir. Sonia K. Hadad (competition film, 13 min 7 sec, USA, 2016), The Swelling dir. Tom Bewilogua (15 min, Germany, 2016), The Survivor dir. Ahmad Mokari (2 min, Iran, 2015), Genesis dir. Richard Davis (15 min, UK, 2016), Wander dir. Connor O’Hara (competition film, 15 min, UK, 2015), Colour of Life and Death dir. Danny Cotton (14 min, UK, 2015)
18:00 – “Who’s In Charge Here?” shorts programme (75 min) Tickets £3 in advance, £4 on the door.
Artificial intelligence and strangers are the source of anxiety in these struggles for power and force the redefining of identity.
Includes the films: Electric Faces dir. Johnny Herbin (11 min 6 sec, UK, 2015), Reset dir. Jeremy Lutter (15 min, 2015, Canada), The Cloud dir. Alfonso Garcia Lopez (6 min, Spain, 2015), The Invisible Hand dir. Marco Antonio Robledo (competition film, 15 min 25 sec, Spain, 2015), In the Shadow of the Mountain dir. Neith Sentis (competition film, 15 min, UK/Spain, 2015), Juliet dir. Marc-Henri Boulier (competition film, 11 min 30 sec, France, 2015)
19:30 – “Don’t Let Them Fool You” shorts programme (75 min) Tickets £3 in advance, £4 on the door.
It is difficult in a global society to challenge the status quo. These shorts encourage you to always come to your own conclusions no matter what the majority “thinks”.
Includes the films: War Zone dir. Oğuzhan Kaya (competition film, 5 min, Turkey, 2015), Half Life dir. Darya Zhuk (15 min 49 sec, Belarus/Russia/USA, 2011), The Parade dir. Arijana Lekić-Fridrih (competition film, 7 min 34 sec, Croatia, 2016), 1961 to Tuesday dir. Li Chen Kwok (9 min 32 sec, Singapore, 2015), The Greater Evil dir. William R Coughlan (7 min 35 sec, USA, 2015), Wall dir. Maya Tsamprou, Mark Sargent & Harris Tsambas (competition film, 13 min 13 sec, Greece, 2015), The Swelling dir. Tom Bewilogua (15 min, Germany, 2016)
21:00 – Roots of Oblivion dir. Jorge Monteallegre (60 min, Colombia, 2015) £1 in advance, £2 on the door.
The story of several survivors of the Armero, Colombia lahar caused by the cataclysmic volcanic eruption in November 1985. The government knew about it in advance and did nothing to evacuate the community.
Hollywood Cinema
15:30 – Fi Intithar Al Khareef (Waiting for the Fall) dir. Joud Said (77 min, Syria, 2014) Tickets £5 in advance, £7 on the door.
Heartfelt comedy following a women’s volleyball team trying to win amongst the carnage of the Civil War – and one of the only films to be produced in Syria since 2011.
17:00 – Sibylle (Like a Cast Shadow) dir. Michael Krummenacher (87 min, Germany, 2015) + Q&A. Tickets £5 in advance, £7 on the door.
No-one is what they seem, as this psychological thriller will leave you checking over your shoulder for days, while challenging social preconceptions on defining “reality”. Q&A to follow.
19:00 – Opening Night Film: Brasil Meu Amor dir. Debora Reis Totton (76 min, Brazil, 2015) + Q&A. Tickets £5 in advance, £7 on the door.
A samba dancer debates whether to return to Brazil to support the anti-government protests, as the Olympics and World Cup worsen the poverty of those living in the Favelas (slums). Q&A to follow.
Moosey Gallery
18:00 – “The Elements” programme (49 min) – FREE!
Includes the films: River dir. Stephanie Maxwell (10 min 7 sec, USA, 2015), Winter Note dir. Mika Altskan (12 min 30 sec, Russia, 2015), Verarbeitet (Processed) dir. Karsten Weber (4 min 34 sec, Germany, 2015), The Dust Machine Variation dir. Damon Mohl (8 min, USA, 2014), Local Winds dir. Daniele Maggioni (12 min 30 sec, Italy, 2016)
19:00 – “Visual Feast” programme (61 min) – FREE!
Includes the films: Node dir. Ergin Poyrazz (20 min, Turkey, 2015), The Diary of Theodore Kracklite dir. Jacques Lœuille (16 min 7 sec, France), Landscape with broken dog dir. Orazio Leogrande (14 min, Argentina, 2014), darKleto (antimedia diptych – chapter #2) dir. Gaetano Accettulli (6 min 48 sec, Italy, 2015), Giselle dir. Maria Elias (3 min 41 sec, USA, 2015)
20:00 – “Take a Second Look” programme (55 min) – FREE!
Include the films: Tissure dir. Adrian Gayer (12 min 51 sec, Venezuela, 2015), Sizes of Reflection dir. Shayan Fathi (5 min 55 sec, Iran, 2015), Triangulation dir. Jacob Juhl (14 min 45 sec, Denmark, 2015), Ostrannenie dir. Alex Anikina (8 min 13 sec, UK, 2015), Mi e Ti dir. Samuele Gottardello (7 min 15 sec, Italy, 2015), The Passive Evisceration of the Blackened Soul dir. James Quinn (5 min 3 sec, Austria, 2015)
21:00 – “Experimental Representations” programme (49 min) – FREE!
Includes the films: Out of Necktie dir. Moslem Aljubouri (5 min 28 sec, Iraq, 2016), [ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] dir. Juliane Jaschnow (13 min 13 sec, Germany, 2015), Think Twice dir. Naser Shillova (7 min 42 sec, UK, 2015), Ubuyu (First Bath) dir. Michael Lyons (6 min 20 sec, Japan, 2015), Mototanaka Dérive dir. Michael Lyons (4 min 17 sec, Japan, 2014), Savages dir. Milo Gony (9 min 33 sec, France, 2015), The Survivor dir. Ahmad Mokari (2 min, Iran, 2015)
22:00 – “Expressions and Impressions” programme – (58 min) – FREE!
Includes the films: Love In Five Parts dir. Josh Provost (7 min 54 sec, USA, 2015), Where We Begin dir. Mitsuyo Miyazaki (20 min, USA, 2015), The Calling dir. Chris Boyd (3 min 7 sec, UK, 2006), Dreams and Spaces In Between dir. John Graham (8 min 41 sec, Canada, 2015)
The Owl Sanctuary
21:30 – Opening Night Party