There will be a series of screenings of shortlisted and prizewinning films in each category throughout the festival, together with parallel screenings from last year and a number of talks by leading filmmakers on specific films. Special screenings of SW Film-makers, Poetry films and Student films were also be featured.
Timetable 2019
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Friday 5th April |
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Welcome and networking |
Video cafe / bar free refreshments |
1.00 to 2pm |
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Student films tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main hall |
Video cafe / bar.. films on a loop free |
2.00pm to 4.00pm |
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Documentary tickets £4 / £2concs |
Main Hall |
Video /cafe bar….films on a loop free |
4.00pm to 5.00pm |
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supper |
Supper |
Video / cafe bar..films on a loop free |
5.30pm to 7.00pm |
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Tin Pan Alley documentary film Q and A with director Henry Scott Irvine tickets £7 / £5 concs |
Main Hall |
Video / cafe bar…films on a loop free |
7.00pm to 9.00pm |
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Saturday 6th April |
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Venue 1 |
Venue 2 |
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Networking coffee |
Video cafe |
10.00 to 11.00am |
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Poetry films and talk Lucy English tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main Hall |
Video cafe / bar….. films on a loop |
11.00am to 12.00am |
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Animation tickets £4 / £2 |
Main Hall |
Video Cafe / bar.. films on a loop |
12.00 to 1.00pm |
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lunch |
lunch |
Lunch |
1.00pm to 2. 30pm |
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Fiction films tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main Hall |
Video cafe / bar..films on a loop |
4.30pm to 5.30pm |
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Scriptwriting for films talk by Dr Martin Kiszko tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main Hall |
Video cafe / bar…films on a loop |
4.40pm to 5.30pm |
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Evan: a survivor’s story film with Q and A film director tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main hall |
Video cafe / bar…films on a loop |
5.30pm to 6.30pm |
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Supper |
Free Choice |
Video cafe / bar |
6.30pm to 8.00pm |
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Festival Party Tickets £7/£5 (conc) |
BADLANDS BLUES BAND |
Main Hall |
8.00pm to 11.00pm |
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Sunday 7th April |
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Venue 1 |
Venue 2 |
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Networking and coffee |
Video /cafe bar |
10.00 to 11.00am |
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Cornish Films Q and A with Cornish directors tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main Hall |
Video cafe and bar/films on a loop |
11.00am to 1.00pm |
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lunch |
Lunch |
Video cafe / bar films on a loop |
1.00pm to 2.30pm |
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‘Risk’ Q and A with director with Luke Bradbury tickets £4 / £2 concs |
Main Hall |
Video cafe / bar films on a loop |
2.30pm to 3.30pm |
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More fiction films from this year’s submissions |
Main Hall |
Video cafe / bar films on a loop |
5.00pm to 6.00pm |
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Rainbow Valley Q and A |
Main Hall |
Video cafe / bar films on a loop |
6.00pm to 7.00pm |
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AWARDS AND WINNERS |
Main Hall |
Video Cafe and bar films on a loop |
7.00pm to 8.30pm |
NEWLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 FILM INFORMATION
Friday Student Films 2-4pm Main Hall
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15th August |
Anilkumar Salve India |
15th August is Independance Day A real story of helpless people .. the boy wants a uniform for the celebrations.. his mother struggles to find the |
19:38 |
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Back Home |
Haruka Motohashi US |
Back Home is an autobiographical documentary about the film maker’s personal journey to reconcile the rift between herself and her estranged mother, who is about to have a hip operation in Tokyo. Her vist will relive past trauma’s. |
12:50 |
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Airborne |
Joanna Beard UK |
Story of a little girl who grows up to be a glider pilot |
25:00 |
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Ida |
Ekaterina Rusakovich UK |
Ida, an ambitious woman becomes a performer in a circus. The film was inspired by Ida Rubenstein, an ugly woman, who became the first Russian Jewish woman to perform naked on stage |
7:21 |
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Yume |
Grace Swee Japan |
A young Japanese girl keeps a secret from her family to assuage the jadedness she feels in her life. |
12:26 |
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Beyond the Pointy Hat |
Shannon Meilak Australia |
Witches are often portrayed a wart faced hags, riding around on broomsticks and adding eye of newt to their bubbling cauldron. But, have you ever met a real witch? Join four everyday Australians as they embark on a journey of truth |
6:13 |
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Searching for Happiness |
Matt Melling UK |
An unhappily married middle aged man, a greetings card writer, becomes quickly infatuated with the charming young woman who sold him a Christmas tree |
24:38 |
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Life on a Thread |
Matt Melling UK |
Life on a Thread follows paraglider Brad Nicholas as he flies above the mountainous landscape of North Wales. |
5:00 |
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The Tyger |
Radheya Jegatheva Australia |
Animated creation inspired by William Blake’s poem The Tyger, written in 1794. |
2:48 |
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Wild Beasts |
Sverre Kvamme Norway |
In the middle of winter in the North of Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend |
9:50 |
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Words Eaten |
Lada Iskanderova Russia |
19-year-old Kira is confident in herself and knows everything better than others. Having quarreled with her best friend, mother, father and aunt Olya, she realizes how much she was mistaken. |
23:00 |
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Evan- A survivors Story |
Kurdistan |
Evan, a survivor from a ISIS attack. He is from Kurdistan in the Middle East and had to leave his homeland . Now he lives far away from his family and wants to touch and smell them again. |
18:50 |
Friday Documentary Main Hall 4-5.30pm
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Blood Bikers |
David Hayes UK |
Story of unknown and essential group of volunteers delivering medical supplies for the NHS. |
9:22 |
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Zulu |
Martha Dixon UK |
A British teenager teaches himself Zulu and wins a competition to go to Zululand and have tea with the king. |
30:00 |
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A Life in a Week |
Henry Scott-Irvine UK |
Viewed through an actual week in the life of Jonny Cross, while also looking back at his entire life, Cross – aka Jonny The Fox – was the only boy dancer in a class full of girls. |
44:40 |
Saturday Poetry Films Lucy English Talk / Films 11.00-12.00 Main Hall
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Our Lady of The Rocks |
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Solstice Sol |
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Invictus. |
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Stone Life |
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Working With Light |
Saturday Poetry Films 11.00-12.00 Main Hall
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The Opened Field |
Helmie Stil Holland |
Six boys finding their own identities based on DomBury’s poem ‘The Opened Field’ |
4:15 |
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As we Embrace |
Amang Hung Taiwan |
An author-made poetry film based on the poem “As We Embrace Thousands Are Dying ALL Over the World” with chanting in many languages to form a kind of poetry mantra |
4:36 |
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Dog Daze |
Ian Gibbins Australia |
Inspired by the David Bowie song Diamond Dogs |
4:03 |
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Does This Make Sense? |
Elizabeth Godber UK |
In her hometown of Hull, Elizabeth Godber poet, walks home after a crazy night out. |
1:48 |
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Gaia Regards Her Children |
Tova Beck-Friedma US |
A poem by Alema Ostriker criticising the way we treat the earth. This film marks the anniversary of female suffrage. The film starts 100 years ago with some women making a banner on the eve of the march for women. |
2:46 |
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Small Hours and Binmen |
Paul Chambers UK |
Film about the hopelessness of spending your time on the streets getting pissed and chasing the opposite sex. |
4:45 |
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The Shell |
Lois Norman UK |
This film explores isolation and loneliness that suppressed trauma can hold and the power that compassion has to reach us. |
3:21 |
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Artica Time and Two Year Old Hands |
Stevie Ronnie UK |
Arctica is a series of interlinked artworks, borne from writer and artist Stevie Ronnie’s 2013 journey to the High Arctic through the Arctic Circle international residency programme. As part of Arctica, Alastair Cook was commissioned by Stevie to make a triptych of short Filmpoems with sound by Italian composer Luca Nasciuti |
2:56 |
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We are Strong We Are Brave |
Bethia Thomas UK |
This poem was written for the young people in DCH’s Foyer Federation, young people’s network who have faced barriers in their lives due to homelessness. |
2:01 |
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When the Poet Knocks |
Tautvydas BaranauskasUK |
Rowan McCabe is the original door to door poet. In 2016 he embarked on an epic journey travelling all over the UK |
2:28 |
Saturday Animation 12-1 pm Main Hall
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Butterfly and Mouse |
Mira Yankova Bulgaria |
A short jazzy film about the fears that obstruct man’s way to himself and to others. |
14:19 |
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BIWY |
Raccoon UK |
In a waiting room in a clinic, two children meet while they wait to take blood, one of them has already done it while the other is his first experience. |
3:00 |
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Post-Mortem |
James Todd UK |
A story about Death carrying out his grim job in the final days of the world. In his loneliness, he finds an unlikely friend. |
5:00 |
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Grandpa Walrus |
Caïmans Productions France |
A family take a trip to the coast where there are sand dunes. |
14:45 |
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Journey |
Radheya Jegatheva Australia |
Alone in space, an astronaut drifts through the empty void. After finding another astronaut in the same predicament, she gives him a polaroid image of the Earth. |
7:40 |
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Dont Look Under Your Bed |
Radheya Jegatheva Australia |
Someone moves from one apartment to another and it leads to some disastrous consequences, as things that go bump in the night are not merely dreams… |
4:04 |
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A Common Confusion |
Sarah Gebhard Germany |
Based on the parable by Franz Kafka. Two people try to meet unsuccessfully. Common confusion denies logic,or any access. |
6:20 |
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Late Afternoon |
Louise Bagnal Ireland |
Emily finds finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She relives different memories from her life and must look to her past to connect with the present. |
9:23 |
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Cupid is not a Terrorist |
Bellopropello Switzerland |
Love is a random thing. Finding true love is thrilling. Especially if personally involved as a target. |
5:22 |
Saturday Fiction 2.30-4.300pm Main Hall
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Rammat Gammat |
Ajitpal Singh India |
One is a better footballer, the other richer, their frienship hits a crisis when money decides the merit. |
18:22 |
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Barren |
ellipsis yu Japan |
A little girl is taken away from an orphanage by a man.She regains her freedom 10 years later without anyone realising what she has suffered. She struggles and fails, finds love but loses out. This is a story about being human and being a woman. |
45:00 |
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Cut from Cloth |
Simeon Costello UK |
After a death in the family, estranged siblings gather around their father’s coffin, to mourn and discuss their large inheritance. Tensions rise when William, the eldest sibling has different plans for the family estate from his sister Olivia. |
15:33 |
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Slaughter |
Saman Hosseinpuor |
Ghasem is forced to sell their cow to spend a hard winter in their village |
13:03 |
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There Are No Dividends |
Joe Haughey UK |
Darren Hobbs entrepreneur wants manual workers to be able to compete with robots in the automaton revolution. One day he sneaks into a conference room in a fancy hotel to conduct a Careers Day under the banner of his newly formed company Unique Automaton Consultants. |
9:00 |
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Transmission |
Varun Raman UK |
Set in a dystopian Britain, now called Britainnia the film is told from the traumatised perspective of Leonard. |
17:26 |
Sunday Cornish Films 11-1.00pm Main Hall
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St Agnes Heroes |
Annabel Aguirre UK |
Dorothy Gill Carey is a retired eminent scientist and now runs a hotel in the Cornish Village of St Agnes. In this documentary she takes us on a tour of her local area, |
18:04 |
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Serpentine |
Grace Fox UK |
Tim Penhallow, a middle aged Cornishman lives and works in the close knit coastal fishing village of Coverack. The sea has taken his son, and Tim has been repressing the guilt for a long time, now he must open up his feelings for his wife. |
17:09 |
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Life on a Thread |
Matt Melling UK |
The film follows paraglider Brad Nicholas as he flies above the mountains in North Wales. |
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Tonic of the Sea |
UK |
Film shows the link between mental health and sea swimming, when Kate recuperates by swimming nearly every single day off the rocks in Penzance. |
8:16 |
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Barbara Hepworth |
UK |
Barbara Hepworth Considers the Tourists at Trenwen. Interpretation of a poem by Rosie Jackson |
2:14 |
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Land of Winter |
Tommy Creagh UK |
A lost young man walks through the cold streets of Dublin in a wintry climate. He’s trying to find a bar that will still be serving alcohol. Inspired by the works of James Joyce |
13:58 |
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Tailings |
UK |
This film is about contaminated waste at the Wheal Maid railings lagoon, Gwennnap, Cornwall. |
6:41 |
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Another April |
Julia Giles UK |
A film about reconnecting with nature and the past on a country walk to a field called Demmon |
5:39 |
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The Signalman |
Sema BasharanUK |
An oral history documentary about Albert Coad, the only violin maker in Cornwall in the early 1920’s |
8:32 |
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The Bends |
UK |
The film centers around David who witnesses a cataclysmic event at work |
12:23 |
Sunday Documentary 3.00-4.00pm Main Hall
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After Pinochet |
UK |
Chile’s journey to democracy 25 years after the end of a lengthy dictatorship by General Augusto Pinochet, Chile is still struggling to regain a sense of wellbeing. |
59:00 |
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Life Begins at 90 |
Bejay Browne Cyprus |
Ray Woolley, WW2 veteran is the world’s oldest active scuba diver. |
44:00 |
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Zulu |
30:00 |
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Right Turn |
Caroline Rumley US |
A woman driving home is stopped by the cops, arrested and taken to jail for turning left on th eve of Trump’s visit to the town. |
6:00 |
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The Sea and the Land |
Ines Reinisch Germany |
Malin Head Ireland 3 men share their personal thoughts about the past and the future. |
14:46 |
Sunday 5 Fiction April 7th 5-6pm Main Hall
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Absence |
Rob Savage UK |
A short film about the grieving process starring Paul McGann |
2.53 |
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Playing with Snowballs |
Vaibhav Kaul UK |
A dying man meets a sighing mountain. Together, they contemplate existence. Somewhere in the English Pennines, a young Himalayan poet has been living with a terminal affliction. |
9.59 |
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An Unkind Word |
Edwin Flay UK |
An ageing politician’s world is turned upside down when a new website brings him more attention and publicity than he could ever want or need… |
15.41 |
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Hummingbird |
Ajitpal Singh India |
A couple are in conflict after the husband makes a bad deal. |
13 00 |
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Ladies Most Deject |
Mark Salyer USA |
A teenage girl from the Appalachian mountains struggles to protect her siblings from an addict mother. |
15.29 |
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Needletail |
Alice Hamilton UK |
A poignant not-quite-love story about three birdwatchers who cross the country in search of something extraordinary. |
10.26 |
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Third Quarter |
Jonny Dry UK |
A bewildered elderly man desperately searches the dark corners of his mind to understand the meaning behind the appearance of a mysterious envelope. Yet he has forgotten it was he who |
29.23 |
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Sundown |
Ryan Hendrick UK |
William, a man in his 70’s is taken on a timeless journey to a remote Scottish Island to come to terms with his own mortality. Starring Caitlin Blackwood (Dr Who) & Frazer Hines (Dr Who, Emmerdale & Outlander) |
12.00 |
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N |
Iacopo Di Girolamo UK |
An expressionist nightmare in which an inventor and his colleague test the ‘Automaton’, a machine able to create things from nothing. The machine works perfectly as long as the items it’s asked to create start with the letter N…in German. The results of the test will be predictably catastrophic. |
13.41 |
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