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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

Industry Events at Cornwall Film Festival 2024 Industry Panel Thursday 21st November 4.30 - 6pm Venue The Poly Falmouth This year at the Cornwall Film Festival, we are focusing on the evolving relationship between audiences and content creators, reflecting the shifting dynamics between viewers, commissioners, and makers in today’s changing media landscape. We have invited a professional industry panel to discuss the most pressing issues, pannel + Q&A We are delighted to confirm Professionals who work across all the major broadcast platforms from SKY Arts, BBC, NETFLIX, ITV and UKTV wll join us. Tickets Industry Panel Speakers Sam Blair Sam Blair is an Editor/ Director Shortlisted for the 2024 Grierson British Documentary Awards in Best Single Documentary - Domestic & Best Sports Documentary with Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything Claire Peate Claire Peate is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter and novelist, best known for The Colour Room (2021). The film earned her the BAFTA Rocliffe Award and a BIFA nomination. Two of her books were WHSmith’s "Pick of the Week." Claire has spoken at the Hay Festival and has two films in pre-production Mel Mackie Mel is a Senior Development Producer at Rock Oyster Media, working across Development and Production predominantly in Factual TV and documentaries for all the major UK broadcasters such as BBC, ITV, Channel 4, C5, Discovery & UKTV, including a Netflix Top 10 with Commando : Britain's Ocean Warriors. Alex Hanks Alex is a producer and director with experience spanning factual entertainment, specialist factual, and prime-time presenter-led content. With a proven track record of working with top talent, a strong background in casting, sourcing interesting locations, writing and conducting interviews working across all the major platforms including Channel 4, ITV, BBC, Nat Geo, and Channel 5. Clare Tavernor Clare is a writer and documentary filmmaker known for inquisitive, socially conscious storytelling. She directed landmark series on music, feminism, and class history for the BBC. Her projects include award-winning Rolling Stones series, an interactive doc Run The Jewels. Recently, filming a feature documentary with Metallica. BFI Network Tallent Exc BFI NETWORK exists to support, develop and fund emerging filmmakers looking to kick-start their career. Jess Wheeler is one of the BFI NETWORK South West Talent Executives and will be visiting the festival on Thursday 21 St November, from 3pm. If you would like to request a 1-2-1 with Jess then please use the following link below. Venue : Above the Book Shop, 21 Church Street, Falmouth TR113EG | Map Link Book 1-2-1 Jess Wheeler Jess is an independent producer specializing in stop-motion animation. She began by creating her own short films and now collaborates on animation, live-action, and documentaries. Her work includes projects for BBC, Channel 4, and the BFI. Jess is one of the BFI NETWORK South West Talent Executives. Dinner Thursday 21st November 6.15 - 7.45pm Venue Pizza Exxpress Falmouth Between the panel and screening we are heading out to Pizza Express to grab a bite - please join us Best of the West Thursday 21st November 8 - 10pm Venue The Poly Falmouth A celebration short films from Cornwall & the South West Full programme coming soon ! Tickets See all the short film programmes Fireside chat Mark Kermode Thursday, November 14, 2024 3.30 - 5.00PM Venue Launch Pad Join us for an exclusive event with renowned film critic and author Mark Kermode. Best known as The Observer's film critic and co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5, Mark brings his sharp insights and passion for cinema to our fireside chat. With a career that spans books like Hatchet Job, It's Only a Movie, and The Good, the Bad & the Multiplex, as well as BFI Film Classics on Silent Running and The Shawshank Redemption, Mark's depth of knowledge and enthusiasm for film make this an unmissable event. As he presents and dissects his unique perspectives, this intimate chat will provide a rare opportunity to engage with one of film criticism's most celebrated voices. Limited audience – Reserve your spot early! Tickets Screen Industry Networking Thursday, November 14, 2024 5:30 PM Venue Launch Pad The evening will begin with a reveal showcasing the exciting events happening at the 2024 Cornwall Film Festival. This will be followed by an opportunity to meet and reconnect with fellow professionals working in the region. This event is tailored for screen industry professionals based in Cornwall. Whether you're early in your career, experienced, or an expert in Film, TV or CreateTec sector, this is a great chance to engage with peers and expand your network. Spaces are limited, so be sure to book early to secure your spot. Tea, coffee, and cakes will be provided. Tickets Film themed quiz Monday 11th Nov 7.30pm Venue The Lounge Falmouth Calling all movie masterminds. Put your movie knowledge to the test! This event is being run as a fundraiser for The Cornwall Film Festival Tickets See all the Q&A's at CFF24

Coming soon ! Fish Factory | Penryn Friday 24th January - Sunday 26th An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Art, Ideas, and Experience through Lens-Based Media This pop-up is a dynamic investigation into the intersection of art, ideas, and human experience, using the power of lens-based media to challenge, inspire, and engage. It seeks to create a platform for innovative collaborations, fostering dialogue between artists, thinkers, and audiences to uncover new ways of seeing and understanding the world around us. At its core, this initiative celebrates the transformative potential of lens-based media to transcend disciplines, spark curiosity, and forge meaningful connections between art, ideas, and experience. Friday 24th January 2025 Artist Moving Images short films Outstanding Films from around the globe Screening at 11 am, 1.30 pm, and 4 pm + DJ set Private View Shimmer Directed by Andy Hughes Shimmer is an artist film that blends photographs, archival film, and video game visuals. Commissioned by the Burton Art Gallery and Museum in 2024, it highlights material vitality, pollution, and climate change, merging animate and inanimate elements. It opens with spaceships over a strange ocean on a virtual planet, then transitions to images of the River Torridge and the riverbank of Cyberpunk 2077's Night City. Using footage, plastic trash, animated estuary stills, and 1940s/1980s public films, the film explores pollution and climate change connected to rivers and estuaries. Rain Directed by Vasilios Papaioannu Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people. Synergy Directed by Emilie Bouet Conran and Honor West This short film explores identity and self-expression through the mediums of dance and fashion. We follow the journey of August, a gender-fluid person in their early twenties experiencing the mundanity of an urban, fast-paced environment. The film begins with August listening to a track of electronic dance music and immersing themselves in the audio. They are transported throughout the film to four dimensions in their mind's eye, reflecting separate versions of themself. The distinct layers of the music are performed by the different iterations of August, each exploring a corresponding movement vocabulary. The amalgamation of the separate versions of themself, and the way they dance, represents a synergy - an extended metaphor for how identity is fluid and multi-faceted. Audition Directed by Megan Harding Straight8 project starring the filmmaker's father as he reignites his love of acting. The North Wind and The Sun Directed by Anat Pollack Morphes Directed by Konstantinos Doxiadis Morphes is an experimental film born out of a sequence of disjointed memories. While there is some loose narrative tying the separate threads together, my main aim was to create a rhythm that suspends time and space. This was achieved through constantly shifting frame borders, extensive use of blocking and reflections to give more depth (or conversely obscure) the physical space around the camera, and strong musical guidance to give the viewer a fixed pace. Uh Oh Directed by Emily Freda Sharp Welcome to the wonderful world of Bubble inc, where tomorrow's tech is here today. Take a tour and find out what the future has in store for you! Just mind you don't burst anything. Ouroboros Directed by SyL Shiyang Liu "Ouroboros" is a student short film that embarks on an experimental exploration of the cinematic medium. Seamlessly blending CG animation with live-action, the film delves into the metaphorical borderlands of truth and falsehood in our digitally-driven era. Re-creations Directed by Polina Moshenska This is the personal and intimate story of the friendship of three women and the struggle to live their everyday life while studying abroad in Scotland as a full-scale war takes place in their home country in Ukraine, where their families and close friends are. The film details the effort and obstacles they face, the everyday relationships in their new country and their pulsing connection to home, stronger, more dedicated and painful like never before. The film focuses on the search for beauty and necessary words whilst also exploring inner conflicts and the disintegration of memories. Flickering Light Directed by Jahnavi Misra, Apoorva Mundoor Flickering Light / Peeli Batti is a poem that encapsulates the experience of a woman whose loneliness and dissociation takes her to the brink of non-existence, disappearance and ghostliness. This is a stop motion film that employs mixed media techniques, including pixilation, paper-cut, found object and sand animation. Immortals Directed by Mark Durand Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature. Sometimes one must lose oneself to find oneself better, and burn everything down to start anew on a solid foundation. semblance Directed by Anna Lukala A cyanotype animation made from 738 single cyanotypes. This was a film made with people from my local neurodivergent community as a response to the question of what it feels like to be neurodivergent in today's society, and constantly feeling of not being seen or heard. Hunky Dory Directed by Steven Vander Meer Hunky Dory juxtaposes scenes of animal life with images of human existence, observing the quirky and unexpected ways in which we are similar. The meticulously hand-drawn animation is a visual smorgasbord, moving and morphing in perfect time to the banjo music of Béla Fleck and his bandmates in My Bluegrass Heart.

OtherRealms Experience images like never before at Cornwall Film Festival See all the selected XR work at Cornwall Film Festival AR The Metaverse & Me exhibition by Deepa Mann-Kler | FREE | Sat 26th Onwards Augmented reality is an interactive experience in which a real-world environment is enhanced with computer-generated visual elements, sounds, and other stimuli. The Metaverse & Me is a virtual and/or physical installation by award-winning Deepa Mann-Kler. It features 10 artworks that combine cutting-edge digital animation with a stunning soundtrack to create 10 bespoke and unique augmented reality experiences. Each painting contains a virtual show that remains hidden until viewed through a mobile phone. It is as if each painting comes to life to reveal a poignant hidden narrative. Download The Metaverse & Me App from the Apple store or Google Play Store Letters from Australia Directed by Dave Hotchkiss 'Letters from Australia' is an engaging immersive 360 experience, based on extracts from letters home by two Cornish Boys, Thomas and William Osborne, from Zennor in West Cornwall, who emigrated to Australia the 1860's. These letters provide the catalyst and inspiration for the production, and also the overarching visual motif, dialogue and compelling lyrics of the soundtrack. Illustrating their personal experiences and bringing into context the everyday struggles and triumphs of the pioneer life in an emerging country. AiTHERION Motivation Space: Aithra's Call Directed by Panos Anestis "Aithra's Call" is an animated VR short film, originally projected in 360°, as the first part of the interactive exhibition "Democracy & Eudaimonia" which is hosted in AiTHERION (former Aylon Lyceum), in Athens, Greece. In the exhibition’s introductory Motivation Space, "Aithra", a digital A.I. entity with seemingly godlike powers, claims that she is a powerful computer system which built AiTHERION for the sole purpose of better understanding us humans. As an artificial intelligence entity, she “can make infinite calculations” and she “is constantly learning”. What Aithra cannot understand, however, and to which she needs our help, is a simple question: how do people make decisions? paSSive poWer directed by JB Singh Ghuman, Jr. Wind, Lasers, Chanting.. “paSSive poWer” aims at putting focus on the more subtle energies of human co-existence otherwise deemed as meekness. Or as filmmaker / artist JB ghuman JR has dubbed them, the "paSSive poWers.” Combining breathing / chanting / sensory & cerebral exploration into a immersive cinematic experience. Coffin Room directed by KAY KWAN & LAM NHI LE Coffin Room" is an 360-degree animation that explores the cramped living conditions in Hong Kong, focusing on an elderly couple's daily struggles. The story is narrated from the husband's perspective, immersing the audience in the couple's challenging life. This passive, immersive experience is designed to be viewed through VR goggles or on YouTube, allowing the audience to navigate the virtual space and witness the couple's obstacles firsthand. The Matriarx directed by Julia Bruton The Matriarx is an immersive VR experience taking the heroine and hero into a world where matriarchal structures have endured. It is a parallel world in which people treat each other based on a different set of societal rules. This has its effect on social, economic and the political life. Family and love relationships function differently. How do you perceive yourself in a world that follows different structures? The Matriarx will open the experiencers’ horizons by raising their curiosity and by empowering them.This experience will attract everyone who is curious about societal change. Fracture directed by Azahara Cerezo, Mayte Gómez Molina Fractura (Fracture) is an immersive essay that explores the experience of virtual reality offered by devices such as Oculus Quest 2. As we surround ourselves in immersive worlds, virtual reality headsets scan the space around us and monitor our movements with four infrared cameras and two hand controllers equipped with sensors that gather information about our body and our gestures. The device itself, along with the commercial logics that insert it in society, hide a much more dense and obscure materiality than the minimalist aesthetic approach of tech hot spots such as Silicon Valley reveal. Immersion is also way older than the smooth, apparently history-less surface that personal technological devices offer, as this phenomenon is as old as the first human hearts that dreamt about the possibility of a layered reality. Fractura proposes a 360 journey through the threads that come out of virtual reality as we understand it today, connecting this phenomenon to its material and ecological consequences, as well as exploring its roots in human consciousness. This year, as part of the Cornwall Film Festival, we are exhibiting the very latest in virtual & augmented reality & 360 content at Fun Palace, Falmouth Art Gallery on Saturday 9th November 11-4.30pm

Film Programme 2024 Talks Festival flyer Industry VR & AR Artist Moving Images short films Tickets Films from around the globe, screening at this years edition of Cornwall Film Festival Shimmer Directed by Andy Hughes Shimmer is an artist film that blends photographs, archival film, and video game visuals. Commissioned by the Burton Art Gallery and Museum in 2024, it highlights material vitality, pollution, and climate change, merging animate and inanimate elements. It opens with spaceships over a strange ocean on a virtual planet, then transitions to images of the River Torridge and the riverbank of Cyberpunk 2077's Night City. Using footage, plastic trash, animated estuary stills, and 1940s/1980s public films, the film explores pollution and climate change connected to rivers and estuaries. Rain Directed by Vasilios Papaioannu Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people. Synergy Directed by Emilie Bouet Conran and Honor West This short film explores identity and self-expression through the mediums of dance and fashion. We follow the journey of August, a gender-fluid person in their early twenties experiencing the mundanity of an urban, fast-paced environment. The film begins with August listening to a track of electronic dance music and immersing themselves in the audio. They are transported throughout the film to four dimensions in their mind's eye, reflecting separate versions of themself. The distinct layers of the music are performed by the different iterations of August, each exploring a corresponding movement vocabulary. The amalgamation of the separate versions of themself, and the way they dance, represents a synergy - an extended metaphor for how identity is fluid and multi-faceted. Audition Directed by Megan Harding Straight8 project starring the filmmaker's father as he reignites his love of acting. The North Wind and The Sun Directed by Anat Pollack Morphes Directed by Konstantinos Doxiadis Morphes is an experimental film born out of a sequence of disjointed memories. While there is some loose narrative tying the separate threads together, my main aim was to create a rhythm that suspends time and space. This was achieved through constantly shifting frame borders, extensive use of blocking and reflections to give more depth (or conversely obscure) the physical space around the camera, and strong musical guidance to give the viewer a fixed pace. Uh Oh Directed by Emily Freda Sharp Welcome to the wonderful world of Bubble inc, where tomorrow's tech is here today. Take a tour and find out what the future has in store for you! Just mind you don't burst anything. Ouroboros Directed by SyL Shiyang Liu "Ouroboros" is a student short film that embarks on an experimental exploration of the cinematic medium. Seamlessly blending CG animation with live-action, the film delves into the metaphorical borderlands of truth and falsehood in our digitally-driven era. Re-creations Directed by Polina Moshenska This is the personal and intimate story of the friendship of three women and the struggle to live their everyday life while studying abroad in Scotland as a full-scale war takes place in their home country in Ukraine, where their families and close friends are. The film details the effort and obstacles they face, the everyday relationships in their new country and their pulsing connection to home, stronger, more dedicated and painful like never before. The film focuses on the search for beauty and necessary words whilst also exploring inner conflicts and the disintegration of memories. Flickering Light Directed by Jahnavi Misra, Apoorva Mundoor Flickering Light / Peeli Batti is a poem that encapsulates the experience of a woman whose loneliness and dissociation takes her to the brink of non-existence, disappearance and ghostliness. This is a stop motion film that employs mixed media techniques, including pixilation, paper-cut, found object and sand animation. Immortals Directed by Mark Durand Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature. Sometimes one must lose oneself to find oneself better, and burn everything down to start anew on a solid foundation. semblance Directed by Anna Lukala A cyanotype animation made from 738 single cyanotypes. This was a film made with people from my local neurodivergent community as a response to the question of what it feels like to be neurodivergent in today's society, and constantly feeling of not being seen or heard. Hunky Dory Directed by Steven Vander Meer Hunky Dory juxtaposes scenes of animal life with images of human existence, observing the quirky and unexpected ways in which we are similar. The meticulously hand-drawn animation is a visual smorgasbord, moving and morphing in perfect time to the banjo music of Béla Fleck and his bandmates in My Bluegrass Heart.

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< Programme Best International Shorts Various Friday 11th Nov | 12.30 | 14.45 | 17.15 Falmouth University, Penryn Campus Exchange Lecture Theatre 2hrs 17mins | International | Shorts The best independent short film-makers worldwide. A showcase of national and international filmmaking talent, featuring the most innovative and adventurous ideas from filmmakers whose short films manifest stylistic boldness, strength of form, and the ambition to use the medium in a way that resists cliché. See this selection of work for FREE the whole programme is screened 3 times during the day. A filmmaker will be selected for the NEW WAVE Jury Award from this programme. The best film in this section is invited to Best of the Best Screening on Saturday 19th November at 10am at The Poly Falmouth during the Film Festival 444 Alexandre Nachi 16m 40 | Canada Inside a house he doesn’t recognize, with a family he doesn’t know, a young man tries to make some sense of what is happening to him. Everything keeps changing, his mind is sick. ''Trust the protocol'' is all he can do. The Air and the Worlds Rana Ashraf 13m 5 | Egypt A contemplative journey of three parts that follow a mute poet named “This Person”. In a dreamy stream, lightly illustrating wonderings This Person has on notions of familiarity, language, impermanence and the strangeness of everything. Burros Jefferson Stein 14m 28 | USA In southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border, a young Indigenous girl discovers a Latina migrant her age who has been separated from her father while traveling through the Tohono O’odham Nation into the United States. Company Ilnaz Khirkhah 10m | Republic of Iran Company tells the story of a young boy who feels obliged to write a will for a dying woman who lives alone. Empty Little People Josh O'Caoimh and Mikai Geronimo 2m 15 | Ireland Empty little people, with an insatiable thirst for tea... begin running out of tea, on All Hallows' Eve. Eureka Miida Chu 14m 50 | USA A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California. Free Fall Emmanuel Tenen 19m 28 | France Tom is a young trader in a London bank, whose recent performance has put his job on the line. When the first plane hits the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th 2001, Tom jumps into the biggest trade of his life. Inspired by a true story. The Manager Position Craig Trow 15m 40 | USA Months after losing his job, a man is still unable to tell his wife. Philip was let go from his job five months ago due to a recession that led to his company's closing. While he has used the time to seek employment, it's been all dead ends and rejections. To make matters worse, he has yet to tell his stay-at-home wife about his termination. With no job on the horizon, and nowhere to go during working hours, he returns to his old office building to remind him of his former self. At a breaking point, he commandeers the vacant manager's office, and his world starts to open up with new opportunities as he finds himself among others that are also experiencing financial and employment hardship. The Murder Tongue Ali Sohail Jaura 17m 38 | Pakistan It is May of 1992. The state sanctioned “Operation” has put the city of Karachi at constant unrest. Abdul Aziz Ansari wakes up at night and is informed by his daughter in law, Naseema that his son hasn’t returned home. As a knock on their door later at night summons them to the hospital, what they witness along the way is known today as the most brutal chapter of the city’s history, a sentiment of hatred towards their race, deep rooted beneath the system. Sea Light John Doe 14m 46 | Spain An elder lighthouse keeper takes care of what has been his home for years. Old and secluded from society, he's disturbed by mysterious bottled letters. These and an unexpected malfunction make him doubt his job, his life and his existence.