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Day 8 • Sorry We Missed You • The Last Black Man in San Francisco • Chained for Life • The Souvenir • ¿?Surprise Films¿? |
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“This is not the system failing, this is the system working as it was intended.” – Ken Loach
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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Winner of the Directing Award and Special Jury Award for Creative Collaboration, Sundance Film Festival 2019.
Inspired by the real-life story of Jimmie Fails, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, The Last Black Man in San Francisco elegantly engages with a loss of cross-cultural connection as one individual seeks belonging in the new incarnation of his hometown.
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"Occasionally, a film comes around that thrillingly invents its own cinematic rhythms, perfectly suited to its subject. The Last Black Man in San Francisco is such a film and it’s one to make your head sing and heart soar." – Tricia Tuttle, BFI London Film Festival
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Thursday 24th • 6.00pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets
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We are pleased to welcome award winning actor Adam Pearson for a Q&A with the audience following the screening.
Aaron Schimberg's impressive second feature is his response, as a filmmaker with facial deformity, to cinematic portrayals of disfigured people. Simultaneously empathetic and sardonic, Chained for Life's multi-layered meta-narrative casts Jess Weixler as Mabel, a well intentioned Hollywood star. She takes the role of a blind woman in a hospital based horror movie about abnormalities, directed by an egomaniacal German auteur. As shooting progresses, Mabel gradually falls for friendly British co-star Rosenthal, who has neurofibromatosis.
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"Anchored by Weixler's and Pearson's natural charm, Chained for Life stands up as both a quiet ode to the experimental, dreamlike spirit of moviemaking and a seriocomic corrective to sentimentalized sideshow portrayals." – Los Angeles Times
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Thursday 24th • 6.00pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets
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The screening on Thursday 24th features a special introduction by Director Joanna Hogg.
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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Winner of Sundance 2019's Grand Jury Prize.
Thursday 24th • 3.30pm • The Light Tickets
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Often met with laughs, whoops or groans, the Surprise Film has been a staple of the Festival since 2001. Each year, rumour and speculation grow to fever pitch, and no one – not even the projectionist – knows the film’s title until the first few frames on screen slowly reveal its true identity.
Last year the surprise film was Roma.
This year, we have TWO surprise films – and they'll be different.
We know nothing about Surprise Film 1, but we do know a couple of things about Surprise Film 2. The film will not be shown in Cambridge again and that it's too long for the 3.00pm slot...
What will it be? Only Tony knows. Grab your tickets before it's too late!
Surprise 1 • Thursday 24th • 3.00pm • Arts Picturehouse Tickets Surprise 2 • Thursday 24th • 8.30pm • Arts Picturehouse 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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