Cork International Film Festival: Highlights for the closing weekend

The 2023 festival finishes over the weekend with a programme that includes screenings in other locations around Co Cork, writes Esther McCarthy 
Cork International Film Festival: Highlights for the closing weekend

 One Night in Millstreet screens at various centres as part of the Super Cine Saturday event of Cork International Film Festival. 

FRIDAY

Histories in Progress, 1pm, online event (free, advance booking required): An online conversation between the artist Myfanwy Frost-Jones and artist and researcher
Andrea Stultiens.

Tiger Stripes, 5.30pm, Triskel: A Malaysian-language horror centred around a 12-year-old girl who discovers a terrifying secret about her body.

  Ella Glendining: Is There Anybody Out There?
  Ella Glendining: Is There Anybody Out There?

Documentary Gala: Is There Anybody Out There?, 8pm,
Triskel:
While navigating daily
discrimination, filmmaker Ella Glendining - born without hip joints and with shortened femurs - aims to find someone she can physically
relate to.

SATURDAY

Super Cine Saturday: Cork
International Film Festival has teamed up with six Cork city and county venues: The Reel Picture Ballincollig and Blackpool, Cinemax Bantry, Gate Cinemas Midleton and Mallow, and the Regal Cinema in Youghal, to screen A Taste of CIFF.

Robot Dreams, 12 noon, in all participating cinemas: Animated feature set in 1980s Manhattan focuses on a lonely dog who decides to build himself a robot companion.

One Night in Millstreet, 2.30pm in all participating cinemas: Andrew Gallimore’s lively and colourful documentary recalls the Steve Collins v Chris Eubank fight.

Fallen Leaves, 4.30pm in all participating cinemas: This comedy-drama won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival. Set in Helsinki, it focuses on two people who meet by chance in a karaoke bar.

SUNDAY

Anselm, 12 noon, Triskel:
German director Wim Wenders chronicles the work of his fellow countryman, artist Anselm Kiefer.

Deep Sea, 2.30pm, Triskel: A young girl encounters a sea monster and embarks on an epic journey.

Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers.
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers.

The Holdovers, 6pm, Triskel: Sideways director Alexander Payne is reunited with Paul Giamatti in a drama set in a school in 1970.

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