:: Kerry Film Festival ::

Introduction
Adjudicators
Welcome Palestine
Mon 24th Opening Tralee
Mon 24th Listowel Classic
Tues 25th Blasket
Tues 25th Phoenix Dingle
Wed 26th Blasket Centre
Wed 26th Caherciveen
Wed 26th Kerry Omniplex
Wed 26th Siamsa Tire
Thurs 27th Kenmare
Thurs 27th Kerry Omniplex
Thurs 27th Killarney Ciniplex
Thurs 27th Listowel
Thurs 27th Siamsa Tire
Fri 28th Killarney Ciniplex
Fri 28th Gortbrack Farm
Fri 28th Siamsa Tire
Sat 29th Siamsa Tire
Sat 29th St. Johns Listowel
Sat 29th Waterville
Sun 30th Siamsa Tire
Gallery

MONDAY 24th OCTOBER TIME 6.30pm admission €6.50 Siamsa Tire: Tralee

The Official Opening of the Kerry Film Festival
will be by Charles Asprey

Charles is the co-founder of ArtSchool Palestine, an on-line forum for the promotion of Contemporary Palestinian Art and Culture, established in 2004. He is to curate an international exhibition of wall paintings at The Peace Centre in Bethlehem in May 2006. Having worked for 14 years in the contemporary art world in London,New York and Chicago, he has gathered extensive experience as well as becoming an established collector himself.Charles also acts as an advisor to a number of UK-based collectors.

County Kerry holds a special place in his heart and he is truly grateful to the Festival committee for their invitation, and feels honoured to open the 2005 Festival.

Rainbow Abdel Salam Shehada
Palestine / 2005 / 40min / DV CAM / Colour

These are people who have crossed my path.
Some of these rose from among the debris. Carrying their tears, some were looking for
answers to worries that haunted them.Others were exhausted by contemplating the
reality. They appeared like me. I used to love the camera and believe in what it can do
to transfer the pain, forget sorrows, or may be promise of a better lif

No Man’s Land Ciaran Cassidy & Michael Kinirons
Ireland / 2005 / 10min / Beta / Colour

In 1958,Moss Moore, a fifty year old bachelor farmer was found murdered in rural Kerry.
The mountain community didn't look far for a suspect.Moore's nearest neighbour Dan Foley was involved in a bitter dispute over the positioning of a fence, separating their land.
WINNER OF KERRY FILM FESTIVAL / CORK FILM CENTRE BEST SHORT SCRIPT AWARD 2004
PRODUCED WITH THE SUPPORT OF CORK FILM CENTRE

WINNER OF THE CLAIRE LYNCH MEMORIAL AWARD

Six Shooter Martin Mc Donagh
Ireland-UK / 2004 / 27min / 35mm / Colour

On a sad train journey home through rural Ireland, an older man, whose wife has just
died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball. His
outlandish words and actions set in motion a chain of events that lead inexorably to
the tale’s dark and dangerous conclusion.
Director Martin Mc Donagh Producer Mia Bays Writer Martin Mc Donagh

Be Quiet Sameh
Zoabi Palestine / 2003 / 18.27min / 35mm / Colour

Be Quiet follows the story of a young boy and his father on their journey home to the city of Nazareth.What should be a simple car trip is beset by politically charged tension and a militarized reality - each of which serves as a foil to enhance the struggle of a complacent father raising a strong willed son.

FILM CLUB : 9.30pm til late Shanty Bar, Ballyfinane, Firies - Traditional music and dance by ‘Those Pecking Hens’