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Day 6 • County Lines • Judy & Punch • Kabul, City in the Wind • Strike • The Souvenir • Sorry We Missed You |
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We are delighted to welcome Producer David Broder and Director Henry Blake for an extended intro for the film on Tuesday 22nd and a Q&A on Wednesday 23rd.
A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen-year-old son who is groomed, and subsequently trapped, by a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise. A 'county line', is a term used when drug gangs from cities expand their operations to smaller towns, often manipulating children and vulnerable people to sell drugs with devastating consequences. This debut film from writer-director Henry Blake is inspired by his first-hand experiences as a youth worker on the frontline of the fight against child exploitation and drug trafficking in the UK.
Tuesday 22nd • 9.30pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets Wednesday 23rd • 1.00pm • The Light Tickets
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In this reinterpretation of the classic puppet show, Mia Wasikowska plays Judy, a 16th-century puppeteer. After a tragic mishap, her husband (Damon Herriman), who is also a puppeteer, gets drunk one night, beats Judy up and leaves her for dead in the forest. Judy, however, is far from dead, and soon starts to plot her revenge. Writer-director Mirrah Foulkes has created an old-school fairytale of a film: dark, violent, and funny.
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"A tonally complex comedy-drama about spousal abuse, infant mortality and misogyny told with magic tricks, puppets and slapstick." – The Hollywood Reporter
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Tuesday 22nd • 8.30pm • The Light Tickets
Wednesday 23rd • 1.30pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets
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Winner Next:Wave Award at CPH: DOX 2019.
Despite little media coverage nowadays, the war in Afghanistan is still on-going. Aboozar Amini’s documentary shows daily life through the eyes of a bus driver and a teenager, both trying to survive in a city scarred by decades of conflict. Abas has invested all his money, dreams and hopes for the future in an old bus, while teenager Afshin is thrown into the role of head of the family after his father flees to Iran. Along with other ordinary Afghans they try to get on with their lives, as security forces struggle in their fight against ISIS and the Taliban.
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"For viewers who know Afghanistan only through war scenes on TV or films about blue-veiled women in burkhas, this impressionistic documentary will feel like a melancholy poem about a half-forgotten dream.” – The Hollywood Reporter
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Wednesday 23rd • 6.30pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets
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Followed by Q&A with director Trevor Hardy. Trevor will bring the models from the film and tell you all about how the film was made.
Mungo is due to begin work at his hometown's legendary gold mine, but he secretly dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Join Mungo and friends on an epic adventure full of thrills, laughs, action and danger.
Thursday 24th • 11.00am • Arts Picturehouse Tickets
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Featuring a special introduction by Director Joanna Hogg before the screening.
Winner of Sundance 2019's Grand Jury Prize.
The Souvenir is the compelling, semi-autobiographical drama by award-winning director-writer Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition). A young, quietly ambitious film student embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man. She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as she surrenders to the relationship, which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
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"The director confirms her status as a modern visionary with a deft, distinctive and deeply personal story of young love." – Peter Bradshaw's Film Of The Week, The Guardian
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Thursday 24th • 3.30pm • The Light Tickets
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"This is not the system failing, this is the system working as it was intended" – Ken Loach at last night's UK premiere.
After his late-career hit I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach returns with Sorry We Missed You. This time he's tackling the gig economy. Ricky and his wife Deborah are both workers on zero-hour contracts. When Ricky is loaned a new delivery van by his employer, what looked like an opportunity turns out to be poison chalice. As he struggles to keep up with the payments, pressure on the family unit mounts.
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"The I, Daniel Blake director raises his game yet further with this gut-wrenching tale of a delivery worker driven to the brink...It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned, about a vital contemporary issue whose implications you somehow don’t hear on the news." – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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Thursday 24th • 9.00pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets
Thursday 24th • 9.00pm • The Light Tickets
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Explore this year's treasure trove of films on our website.
The Cambridge Film Festival is presented by the Cambridge Film Trust, a registered charity with a mission to foster film culture and education for the benefit of the public, in Cambridge and the Eastern region but also throughout the UK. |
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