Cambridge Film Festival 2019 Brochure

Portrait of a Lady on Fire CFF 15
Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu
France, 2019, 120 Mins.
French with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR Céline Sciamma
WITH
Print source Curzon
Valeria Golino, Adèle Haenel,
Noémie Merlant, Luàna Bajrami
FRI
18
19.30
APH
SUN
20
18.00
LIGHT
Céline Sciamma tells the story of a female painter who
is sent to an isolated island in Brittany at the end of
the eighteenth century and obliged to paint a wedding
portrait of a young woman. The painting must be
done in secret, and intimacy and attraction grow
between the two women. Their freedom, however,
is short-lived. Sciamma’s follow up to the wonderful
Girlhood was well worth the wait.
It’s so good you’ll want to watch again in
slow-motion immediately afterwards just to see how
she does it. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
The SOUVENIR 15
UK, 2019, 119 mins.
DIRECTOR
WITH
Joanna Hogg
Tom Burke, Honor Swinton Byrne,
Tilda Swinton
Winner of Sundance 2019’s Grand Jury Prize, The
Souvenir is a compelling, semi-autobiographical
drama by award-winning director/writer Joanna
Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition). A young,
quietly ambitious fi lm student embarks on her
fi rst serious love affair with a charismatic and
mysterious man. She tries to disentangle fact from
fi ction as she surrenders to the relationship, which
comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
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
Print Source Curzon
SAT
20.00 THUR
15.30
19 LIGHT 24
LIGHT
Stitches CFF 15
Savovi
Serbia, 2019, 97 MINS.
Serbian with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
WITH
Miroslav Terzić
Snezana Bogdanovic, Marko Bacovic,
Jovana Stojiljkovic, Vesna Trivalic
Based on true events, Stitches takes place in
contemporary Belgrade, 18 years after a young
seamstress was coldly informed of her newborn’s
sudden death. She still believes the infant was
stolen from her. Dismissed by others as paranoid
and with a mother’s determination, she summons
the strength for one last battle against the police,
the hospital bureaucracy and even her own family
to uncover the truth.
An elegant hybrid of true-story exposé and
arthouse thriller, Miroslav Terzić’s sober sophomore
feature Stitches takes a familiar idea … but delivers
an unusually thoughtful, psychologically
compelling character study. VARIETY
Print source Cercamon
FRI
17.00 SUN
11.00
FRI
17.00 SUN
11.00
SAT
22.30
18 APH 20 APH
18
APH 20
LIGHT
APH
System Crasher CFF 15
GERMANY, 2019, 119 MINS.
German with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR Nora Fingscheidt
WITH
Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch,
Gabriela Maria Schmeide,
Lisa Hagmeister
Foster families, special needs schools – nine-year
old Benni has seen it all. Rebellious, aggressive and
unpredictable, she is expelled wherever she goes.
Child protection services refer to her as a “system
crasher”. All Benni wants is to be back at home, but
her mother is scared and overwhelmed by her own
daughter. While child protection services are trying
to fi nd a permanent placement, they hire an anger
management trainer as Benni’s school escort and
suddenly there is a seed of hope. Young actress
Helena Zengel gives a remarkable performance as
the out of control Benni. Winner of the Silver Bear
Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature fi lm that opens
new perspectives.
Print source 606 Distribution
19
Why Don’t You
Just Die? CFF 15
Papa, sdokhni
Russia, 2018, 90 Mins.
Russian with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
WITH
Kirill Sokolov
Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy
Khaev,Evgeniya Kregzhde
A high-energy black comedy, almost entirely set in
a single apartment, that grabs you from the fi rst
moment and never lets go. Matvei arrives, hammer
in hand, to confront Andrei with clear intent. Andrei
is the father of Matvei’s girffriend, but also a brutal
detective who knows few things about fi ghting
without limits. The battle escalates.
Russian director Kirill Sokolov’s debut feature is
a roaring rampage of revenge with a biting comic
tone. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Print source Arrow Films
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