INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE 2
THE OLD PRESBYTERY, TRALEE
FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 4:00 PM
Holland - 2006 - 7mins 26secs - DVD - Colour
A fictitious documentary about a spectacular yet chronically disabling disease
Director - Floris Kaayk
IRON CURTAIN
USA - 2007 - 15mins - BETA,DVD - Colour
Between East and West...Between Murder and Treason...Between Freedom and Death...lies Iron Curtain. Haunted by his friend's death at the Berlin Wall, an East German border guard struggles to gain his freedom.
Director John Chaney
WIGALD
Germany - 2006 - 11 mins - 35mm, DVD - Colour
Wigald is the epitome of a starving poet, whose lack of income to support his passion for verse and general frustration with the world has left him struggling with his inner demons. This short film depicts the desperation of a young man, Wigald, who only has one last wish – suicide.
Director - Timon Modersohn
SCENE
Scotland - 2007 - 15mins 30sec - DVD - Colour
Television actor, Gary, gets his big break in a feature film playing the part of Nathan, a gangster with a conscience, but can’t find the right emotion to nail the scene
Director Alec Boehm & Stephanie Argy
THE WITNESS
Holland - 2006 - 10mins 5sec - 35mm/DVD Pal - Colour
A film about the shortfalls of the human memory, about prejudices and the deficiency of the judiciary. The film shows the court of law as a Kafka-esk building that, as a metaphor for the entanglement, is under reconstruction. The film refers to the Schiedammer Parkmoord in the Netherlands in which also an innocent man was sent to jail for years.
Director Erik De Bruyn
TURKISH CHICK
Holland - 2006 - 10mins - 35mm - Colour
Teenage skate boarder Fokko is attracted by a sensual headscarf-wearing girl.
Director Lodewijk Crijns
BLOOD AND CHIPS
UK - 2006 - 3mins - Digi beta - Colour
A heat wave is bringing racial tensions to boiling point in a London chip shop.
Writer/Director Ryan Phillips
LE RETOUR
USA - 2006 - 19 mins 49 sec - DVD - Colour
Katherine returns to Orange County after spending a year living and studying in France. Coming home proves more difficult then expected as she struggles to readjust. As things grow worse at home, she retreats farther and farther into her memories of her time spent abroad. Will Katherine ever be able to create harmony between her two worlds?
Directors Rachel Earnest
7.30 PM BLASKET CENTRE, DUNQUIN
Latoon Director - Séan Lynch
Bibeanna "Sin é an Saol" Director - Cathal Watters & Brenda Ní Shuilleabháin
Margaret Irwin-Magic for the Printmaker Director - Paul Murphy
Under Pressure Director - Eamonn de Staic
We Appreciate Your Help Director - John Haugh
An Damhán Alla Anbhann Writer/Director - Peter Foott
Death In The West Director - Keith Mannix
FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURE
BE HERE TO LOVE ME
POLY TUNNEL, GORTBRACK FARM 7:30 PM
Director - Margaret Brown
Documentary USA 99 mins
Steve Earle offered to "stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots" to declare him the world's greatest songwriter. In concert, Lucinda Williams often dedicates "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" to him. His songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Emmylou Harris and The Meat Puppets. In other words, the late Townes Van Zandt was a songwriter's songwriter, the kind of artist who is always more famous dead than alive.
Be Here to Love Me: The Townes Van Zandt captures the essence of the singer and the heartbreakingly lonesome and bittersweet nature of his music. The polytunnel in Gortbrack Farm will only add to the poignancy of the film and it’s sure to be a musical night to remember.