Cambridge Film Festival 2019 Brochure

OPENING FILM
at the Arts Picturehouse
ROCKS
UK, 2019, 90 Mins.
DIRECTOR
WRITERS
WITH
12A
Sarah Gavron
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali,
D’angelou Osei Kissiedu,
Shaneigha-Monik Greyson
Print Source Altitude Film Entertainment
THUR
20.30
APH
17
We are delighted to be
opening the Festival at
the Arts Picturehouse
with Rocks and to
be able to welcome
Director Sarah Gavron
and Writers Theresa
Ikoko and Claire Wilson
to the screening.
FRI
18
16.00
LIGHT
Set in East London, the fi lm follows a group of year-11 girls, amongst them Nigerian
British girl Rocks and her younger brother.
There’s a crackling, raucous energy to Sarah Gavron’s dynamic Rocks. It’s an
energy that brilliantly conveys the jostling of still-forming personalities in a group of
teenage girls. At the heart of the story is Rocks (Bukky Bakray), a fi ft een-year-old with
a crew of close friends and ambitions to run her own business. But Rocks (whose real
name is Olushola) is forced to grow up quickly when her mother disappears, leaving
Rocks with her younger brother, an envelope of cash and a note saying “sorry”. A deft
balance of drama, humour and hormonal adolescent huffs, Rocks is a real treat: full
of warmth, honesty and authenticity. WENDY IDE, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
OPENING FILM
at The Light
THUR
20.30 FRI
12.45
17 LIGHT 18
APH
OFFICIAL SECRETS 15
Uk/USA/Germany, 2019, 112 Mins.
DIRECTOR Gavin Hood
PRODUCERS Ged Doherty, Elizabeth Fowler, Melissa Shiyu Zuo
WITH Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode,
Ralph Fiennes
We are delighted to be opening the festival at The Light with
Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew
Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, and Rhys Ifans.
In 2003, as politicians in Britain and the US angle to invade Iraq,
GCHQ translator Katharine Gun leaks a classified e-mail that
urges spying on members of the UN Security Council to force
through the resolution to go to war. Charged with breaking the
Official Secrets Act, and facing imprisonment, Katharine and
her lawyers set out to defend her actions. With her life, liberty
and marriage threatened, she must stand up for what she
believes in…
Print source Entertainment One
Sorry We Missed You 15
UK, 2019, 102 Mins.
DIRECTOR
WRITER
WITH
Ken Loach
Paul Laverty
Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood,
Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor
From director Ken Loach, writer Paul Laverty and the
award-winning team behind I, Daniel Blake, comes
Sorry We Missed You - a powerful exploration of the
contemporary world of work, the gig economy and
the challenges faced by one family trying to hold it
all together.
Ken Loach’s superb swipe at zero-hours Britain...
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 fi erce, 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
Print source Entertainment One
THUR
24
21.00
APH
THUR
24
21.00
LIGHT
CLOSING FILM
at the Arts Picturehouse & The Light
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