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Home Home New Wave New Wave Journal Other Realms Film Screenings Horror Screenings Kresen Kernow About Community Stories Cornwall Industry Events Book Online Search Results Features When the Light Breaks Dir Rúnar Rúnarsson Mon Nov 18, 2024 5:00 PM @ The Poly (CS) From Europe with Love Tickets Anora Dir Sean Baker Tues Nov 19, 2024 7:30 PM @ The Poly Comedy Drama Tickets Nightbitch Dir Marielle Heller Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:30 PM @ The Poly Preview Tickets Paris, Texas Dir Wim Wenders Sun Nov 24, 2024 1:30 PM @ The Poly (RS) Classic + intro Tickets Bird Dir Andrea Arnold Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:15 PM @ The Poly Drama Premier + Q&A Tickets The Severed Sun Dir Dean Puckett Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:00 PM @ The Poly Thriller Premier + Q&A Tickets #Climatescam? Dir Bryony Stokes Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:30 PM @ The Poly Climate Premier Q&A Tickets Pipe Dream Dir Nikolay Nikolov & Zachary Alfred Sun Nov 24, 2024 4.30 PM @ The Poly Documentary Premier + Q&A Tickets A Real Pain Dir Jesse Eisenberg Sat Nov 16, 2024 8:00 PM @ The Poly Opening Film Tickets Hard Truths Dir Mike Leigh Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:30 PM @ The Poly Gala - Q&A with Director and Mark Kermode Tickets Heretic Dir Scott Beck/ Bryan Woods Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:00 PM @ The Poly Midnight Thriller Tickets Timestalker Dir Alice Lowe Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:00 PM @ The Poly Comedy Premier + Q&A with Director and Mark Kermode Tickets Features films Feature films from around the globe, screening at this years edition of Cornwall Film Festival. Featured Featured events and screenings at this years festival. La Cocina Dir Alonso Ruizpalacios Sat Nov 23, 2024 2:15 PM @ The Poly International Drama Tickets Edge of Summer Dir Lucy Cohen Monday 25th Nov 7pm @ Newlyn Newlyn Filmhouse Director Q&A Tickets No Other Land Dir Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:15 PM @ The Poly (CS) Award winning Tickets Ukraine. Displaced Thurs Nov 21, 2024 2:00 PM @ The Poly Stories from Far Tickets featured Shorts Screening Short Film Screening both regional and international short films. Best Student Short Films Nov 20, 2024 5:00 PM @ The Poly Best Student Films Listing Tickets Best of Cornwall & SW Shorts Films Nov 21, 2024 8:00 PM @ The Poly Best of the West Films Listing Tickets Best UK Short Films Nov 22, 2024 2:30 PM @ The Poly Best Uk Short Films Listing Tickets Best International Short Films Nov 23, 2024 10:00 AM @ The Poly Best International Films Listing Tickets Experimental / artists shorts 24th January, 2025 @ The Fish Factory Penryn Best Experimental Listing Tickets Industry Day Nov 21, 2pm onwards Shorts, Pannel, Networking. @ The Poly Info Cornwall My Home Nov 24, 7:00 PM @ The Poly See all the films > Tickets A New Lens: Co-Motion shorts Nov 30, 2:00 PM @ Kresen Kernow with Co-Motion info Stories of Freedom: Right to Roam Nov 19, 2024, 6:00 PM @ The Fish Factory, Pernyn Tickets Finding the Money Nov 24, 4pm @ The Princess Pavilion Tickets Coming Up The Colour Room Dir Claire McCarthy Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:30 PM @ INTO Bodmin The Colour Room Dir Claire McCarthy Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:30 PM @ INTO Bodmin The Colour Room Dir Claire McCarthy Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:30 PM @ INTO Bodmin Naila and the Uprising Dir Julia Bacha Temperance Hall Nov 2, 7:00 PM The Colour Room Dir Claire McCarthy Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:30 PM @ INTO Bodmin Past Events

Talks at Cornwall Film Festival 2024 Talks, discussions and events - jump to the speaker profile below Mike Leigh Mark Kermode Mia Bays Dean Puckett Alice Lowe Bryony Stokes Nikolay Nikolov & Zachary Alfred Claire Peate Judith Noble Linda Williams Mike Leigh Saturday 23rd November 7.30 pm Gala - Hard Truths with Q&A Hard Truths, his sixteenth feature screens at the Festival and we are delighted to welcome our Patron and acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh to discuss his five-decade career. He started out in theatre in the mid-1960s before transitioning to television drama, which saw productions of his plays Nuts in May (1976) and Abigail’s Party (1977). The varying quality of TV production saw Leigh prefer to work on theatrical features, such as his debut Bleak Moments (1971) and his 1983 follow-up Meantime, a scathing portrait of Thatcher’s Britain. High Hopes (1988) and Life Is Sweet (1990) perfectly encapsulated Leigh’s balance of characterisation and social comedy, which can also be seen in Career Girls (1997), All or Nothing (2002), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008). Secrets & Lies (1996) is arguably the apotheosis of this style. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Best British Film at the BAFTAs and was nominated for five Academy Awards. Another acclaimed film, Naked (1993), is arguably the filmmaker’s most splenetic attack on the British establishment and a drama of great verve and striking visual style. By contrast, Another Year (2010) saw Leigh grapple with the passage of time and is underpinned by profound compassion and mordant humour. Alongside his contemporary-set films, Leigh has produced a handful of period dramas whose canvases are as rich as they are potent in the themes they explore, from Vera Drake’s (2004) painful portrait of a well-meaning backstreet abortionist and Peterloo’s (2018) recounting of a dreadful episode in British history, to Topsy-Turvy’s (1999) exuberant portrait of Victorian theatrical partners Gilbert and Sullivan, and Mr. Turner’s (2014) visually rich, utterly engrossing study of one of Britain’s greatest painters. Tickets Mike Mark K Mark Kermode Screen Talk Host Mark Kermode is a writer and broadcaster. Film critic for The Observer, and co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 and The Film Review on the BBC News channel. He is the author of several books including Hatchet Job, It's Only a Movie, and The Good, the Bad & the Multiplex, and two other BFI Film Classics volumes on Silent Running and The Shawshank Redemption. He presents Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI explores, critiques and dissects movies, usually joined by a special guest or two! . Mia Mia Bays Friday 22nd November 7.15pm BIRD Presented By Mia Bays Director of the BFI Film Fund Mia Bays is the Director of the BFI Film Fund, a position she took up to reshape the future of UK cinema by supporting new talent, diverse voices, and innovative storytelling. With over 30 years of experience, Mia has been an Oscar-winning producer, distributor, and passionate advocate for inclusivity and artistic vision in filmmaking. Known for her commitment to championing underrepresented voices, Mia aims to make the BFI Film Fund a more dynamic, responsive space for filmmakers to flourish Tickets dean Dean Puckett The Severed Sun Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:00 PM @ The Poly Dean Puckett is a British writer/ director. He recently wrote and directed his debut feature ‘The Severed Sun’, which was developed through BBC Films, Creative England and the BFI. His short films have screened at festivals around the world including Sitges, BFI Flare, FrightFest, Encounters, Palm Springs Shorts Fest and more! He is currently developing a slate of feature film projects including ‘Seagull’, a vampire movie with BFI NETWORK, Rebecca Wolff & Early Day Films, and ROT, A high octane body horror with Qwerty Films. Tickets Alice Alice Lowe Timestalker Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:00 PM @ The Poly Alice Lowe is an English actress, writer and director. She began her career in experimental theatre but is well known for her work in TV comedies such as ‘Little Britain’, ‘Darkplace’ and ‘Sherlock’. Her film credits include Edgar Wright’s ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘Sightseers’ which she also co-wrote. In 2016, she made her directorial debut with her comedy slasher Prevenge, which screened at Venice, TIFF, London, and SXSW. This year, she is back writing, directing and starring her latest project, the equally ambitious and genre-defying ‘Timestalker’. Tickets Bryony Bryony Stokes #Climtescam? Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:30 PM Bryony has worked in Cornwall as a videographer for 10 years specialising in documentary environmental films. She has filmed as an independent film maker for NGOs, charities and other organisations such as Greenpeace, the Centre for Sustainable Energy, Rame Peninsula Beach Care, the Peninsula Trust and Exeter and Falmouth Universities. Previous to her move to Cornwall she worked for eight years in London for production company Salt Pictures, working as associate producer on projects in Bethlehem, Kenya and London. She then went on to work as Producer Director at CTVC, heading up over 500 short online films to start up Truetube, now a BAFTA-winning free online educational platform producing documentary, drama and animation films aimed at teachers, students and young people. Tickets Clare P Claire Peate The Colour Room Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:30 PM @ INTO Bodmin Claire Peate is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter and novelist, best known for her film ‘The Colour Room’ (2021), which starred Bridgerton's Phoebe Dynevor. The film tells the story of Art Deco designer Clarice Cliff and earned Claire the prestigious BAFTA Rocliffe Award for her screenplay. Her work on the film also led to a nomination for the Debut Screenwriter Award at the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to her success in screenwriting, two of her books were selected as WHSmith’s "Pick of the Week," and she has been a featured speaker at the Hay Festival. Excitingly, Claire also has two films in pre-production in the UK and US! Tickets Nikolay Nikolov & Zachary Alfred Pipe Dream Sun Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:30 PM @ The Poly Nikolay Nikolov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With interests in politics, philosophy, and art, he moved to the UK to study political science and international relations, earning his PhD with a dissertation on post-Soviet architecture. His career in video production began at AJ+ and later Mashable, where he produced several video pieces about large public art installations and kinetic sculptures. In 2022, he joined The New York Times as a senior video journalist. He lives in London. Zachary Alfred was born and raised in Montana. In 2012, he joined Al Jazeera English as an interview producer and two years later helped launch global social media publisher AJ+. After earning a master’s degree in Digital Media and Society in Sweden, his career focus shifted to content production and social media strategy at Swedish truckmaker Scania, where he produced award-winning editorial content. Since 2022, Zachary has dedicated his career to communications for climate and sustainable industrial transformation. He lives in Stockholm. Tickets Virtual Q&A with Theo Jansen Nikolay Nikolov & Zachary Alfred Linda Professor Linda Williams Bird with Mia Bays Friday 22nd November 7.15pm @The Poly Professor of Film at Exeter University, specialising in post-classical American cinema, British cinema, and classical Hollywood. Author of five books, including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema and Contemporary American Cinema. With a focus on gender, sexuality, censorship, and classification. Recently completing a study of Steven Spielberg's Children and co-led a major research project on women filmmakers, Calling the Shots. I also work on women's roles in the UK screen sector and film history through archives and co-curate the Shetland Film Festival Screenplay. Tickets judith Professor Judith Noble Paris, Texas Sun Nov 24, 2024 1:30 PM @ The Poly (RS) Judith Noble is a Professor of Film and the Occult at Arts University Plymouth (UK). She began her career as an artist-filmmaker, exhibiting work internationally and worked for over twenty years as a production executive in the film industry, working with directors including Peter Greenaway and Amma Asante. Her current research centres on artists’ moving image, Surrealism, the occult, and work by women artists, and she has published on filmmakers including Maya Deren, Derek Jarman, and Kenneth Anger. Her most recent publication (as editor) is The Dance of Moon and Sun – Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism (2023, Fulgur). She continues to practice as an artist and filmmaker; her most recent film is Fire Spells (2022), a collaboration with director Tom Chick. Her recent work can be found at www.iseu.space . Her film work is distributed by Cinenova. Tickets

This event is now finished head over to the 2024 programme here > Programme Docs Pre-Festival More Features The Taste of Things (The Pot-au-Feu) Anh Hung Tran Sat Nov 11th, 8.00pm French Drama Tickets The Eternal Daughter (RS) Joanna Hogg Sat Nov 18th, 3:00pm British Drama Tickets 20,000 Species of Bees (CS) Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren Fri Nov 17th, 5pm Spanish Drama Tickets Turning Red Domee Shi Sat Nov 18th, 10am Family Comedy Tickets Super Secret Film ?????? Sat Nov 18th, 5:30pm *Super Secret Surprise* Tickets Theatre Camp Nick Lieberman & Molly Gordon Tues Nov 14th, 7.30pm Comedy, Drama Tickets Fallen Leaves Aki Kaurismaki Thurs Nov 16th, 7:30pm From Europe with Love Tickets A Matter of Life and Death Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell Sun Nov 19th, 1.45pm Drama, Classic + talk Tickets All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh Mon Nov 13th, 7:30pm Opening Film - SOLD OUT Tickets Typist Artist Pirate King + talk Carol Morley Sat Nov 18th, 7:45pm Gala - Carol Morley & Mark Kermode Q&A Tickets Old Boy Park Chan-wook Fri Nov 17th, 10:00pm Midnight Thriller Tickets Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos Sunday Nov 19th, 4.30pm Closing Film - SOLD OUT Tickets Features films Feature films from around the globe, screening at this years edition of Cornwall Film Festival Documentaries Documentaries Local and international documentaries screenings at this years festival. Your Fat Friend + Director Q&A Jeanie Finlay Friday Nov 17th, 7.30pm Tickets Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (CS) Anna Hints Sat Nov 18th, 12:30pm Tickets Is There Anybody Out There? Ella Glendining coming soon Tickets Savage Waters Michael Corker Tues Nov 7th, 7:30pm Tickets Shorts Screening Short Film Screening both regional and international short films. Showcase of Student Shorts Wed Nov 15th, 12:00 noon Best Student Films Tickets Best of Cornwall & SW Shorts Films Wed Nov 15th, 8.00-10pm Best of the West Films Tickets Showcase of the Best UK Short Films Wed Nov 15th, 3;30-5.15 Best Uk Short Films Tickets Tides of Connection A Cornwall Waterways Odyssey Sun Nov 19th, 7.30pm Immersive Film event Tickets International Short Films Wed Nov 15th, 5:45-7.15pm Best International Films Tickets Short Film Awards Announcment Sun Nov 19th, 12.15pm AWARDS Link community events Pub Quiz Film Themed ! Wednesday Nov 9th, 7.30pm Venue - Morgawr More Info My So-Called Selfish Life Therese Shechter Sunday Nov 12th, 5.00pm Venue - The Cornish Bank Register Expermental Film Weekender Shorts | discussion | talks | eat | network Friday 10 & Sat 11th Nov Fri 11am -Late Sat 11-5pm Info Jangling Man James Sharp Friday Nov 10th, 7.00pm Venue - CMR Project SPACE Redruth Tickets Can I Live? Dir Daniel Bailey | Performed by Fehinti Balogun Venue - The Pavillions Sunday Nov 26th, 5pm Tickets Community events Our Supporters The people who make good stuff happen Truro College Sponsor of Screen Stars of Tomorrow > Roots Press Environmentally conscious RISO printing press > St.Michaels Resort Festival accommodation partner in Falmouth > Cut By Beam Bespoke Wooden Trophies renewable resourced Substance Global Global Film & Entertainment Creative Marketing agency Screen Cornwall Filming advice, locations and crew in Cornwall Fletcher Homes 40 years of experience selling homes and land in Cornwall