Cork International Film Festival: 10 highlights for Tuesday to Thursday
Some of the highlights of Cork International Film Festival this week.
A selection of shorts that celebrate the resourceful, independent and visionary filmmakers who exist in artistic freedom - the “free radicals.”
Can a humble Neapolitan pizzeria achieve the first Michelin Star for pizza? Passionate young chef, Ciro Oliva, believes ‘Pizza means Soul’ - he is determined to be the first pizzaiolo ever awarded with a prestigious Michelin Star. A pop-up pizza party follows in Barrack Street's NeighbourFood, courtesy of Volcano Wood-Fired Pizza.
This pitch-perfect American period psychological thriller, with Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway, follows an unlikely and dangerous friendship between a young prison facility worker and her new glamorous blonde colleague.
This programme contains films that present the topic of self-harm and suicide, but also capture the beauty and wonder of everyday experiences.
Peruvian superstar chef Virgilio Martinez embarks on an expedition through his native Peru to investigate the origins of its ingredients and re-evaluate his life, his restaurants, and the sustainability of food production post-pandemic.
Young couple Anna and Aleks collect folk ballads, the rarer the better, and the more money they can sell them for. Following a tip from a fellow collector, they secretly record a song so ancient that it is in a forgotten dialect. But once they begin to translate the song, they discover the terrifying reason why it was never meant to be passed on.
Penelope and Isidoro navigate their relationship in a world where time is non-linear, and past, present and future skip back and forth arbitrarily every time they wake. The second film from Greek director Kyros Papavassiliou.
There has been much speculation over the years regarding the life of mysterious US folk singer Jackson C. Frank, the only constant being that it was mostly tragic. What was certain was that Frank recorded one album, ‘Blues Run The Game’, whilst in the UK, and its title track swept like a tsunami through the London folk scene.
The latest film from 2023 UCC Film Artist In Residence Maximilian Le Cain, Solitaire is an unsettling experimental ghost story that explores family, home and identity as unfixed parasitic entities that propagate themselves through bodies and buildings.
The tale of a crew of motorcycle enthusiasts, The Vipers, from the mid-sixties Midwest, as relayed by one of the crew’s wives, Kathy (a tremendous Jodie Comer) to a local photographer.
