Archive: 2021 schedule

Friday, Nov 12 - Opening Night 

Elhum Shakerifar Festival Keynote Talk, 7pm

Documentary producer Elhum Shakerifar is one of the most innovative and thoughtful filmmakers in UK documentary culture. In this keynote talk, she’ll reflect on the documentary stories she loves to show and how filmmakers are entwined in the stories they tell. The talk explores how places like Folkestone should see themselves as centres, not margins.

7.45pm: Story Of Looking

  • Director: Mark Cousins
  • Running time: 90 minutes
  • Cert 15

Saturday Nov 13

10am: Stray (Dog-Friendly Screening)

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse

  • Director: Elizabeth Lo
  • Running time: 72mins
  • Cert 18

12pm: Island of the Hungry Ghosts + Seahorse (Short Film)

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse

Guest curated and introduced by Rachel Pronger, Writer, Curator, and Co-Founder of the feminist collective Invisible Women.

  • Director Gabrielle Brady / Nele Dehnenkamp
  • Running time: 94 mins / 16 mins
  • Cert 12A

2pm: Flee +  Q&A Panel

Showing at Silver Screen Cinema
Presented in partnership with Kent Refugee Action Network.

  • Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
  • Running time: 90 mins
  • Cert 15

3pm: Filmmaking Masterclass with Orlando von Einsiedel and Grain Media

At Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse

  • Running time: 60 minutes
  • This masterclass is available to view on the Creative Folkestone YouTube Channel.

4.30pm: Everybody In the Place

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
Following the screening, Jeremy Deller will be in conversation with Alastair Upton.

  • Director: Jeremy Deller
  • Running time: 90mins
  • Cert 12

7pm: Her Own Landscape: Outsider Artists, Environment and Resistance

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
Archive Activists Invisible Women present a programme of shorts exploring our relationship with the environment through the eyes of three unique and fascinating filmmakers.

  1. Aerial (Margaret Tait, 1974, 4 minutes)
  2. Portrait of Ga (Margaret Tait, 1952, 4 minutes)
  3. Serpent River (Sandra Lahire, 1987, 30 minutes)
  4. Jenny’s Dog Team Diary (Jenny Gilbertson, 1975, 25 minutes)

Cert 12A

8.30pm: I Get Knocked Down + Saintmaking (Short Film)

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
Q&A with Director Sophie Robinson & Dunstan Bruce

  • Director: Sophie Robinson / Marco Alessi
  • Running time: 117mins /23mins
  • Cert 15

Sunday, Nov 14

10am: Charlie Phillips Masterclass – So what makes for a good documentary?

At Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
This masterclass is available to view on the Creative Folkestone YouTube Channel.

  • Running time: 60mins

12pm: The Gleaners and I + Community Meal

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse

  • Director: Agnes Varda
  • Running time: 82mins
  • Cert PG
  • Tickets: £10 which includes the film and community meal in the Clearing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse in partnership with Andre Verissimo (Local Foreigner) and East Kent Gleaning Hub.

3pm: Bronx Gothic + The Words I Do Not Have Yet (Short Film)

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
Guest programmer, Karen Alexander, presents Ways of Being two works in which the artists use the mediums of dance and animation to celebrate and affirm female visibility, vulnerability, and power. The films address urgent questions of the public and private presence of black women.

  • Director: Andre Rossi/ Phoebe Boswell
  • Running time: 91mins/11mins
  • Cert 12

4pm: Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Showing at Silver Screen Cinema

  • Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
  • Cert 12A
  • Running time: 117mins

5pm: Songs for the River + Hanging On (Short Film)

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
Q&A with Director Charlotte Ginsborg

  • Director: Charlotte Ginsborg / Alfie Barker
  • Running time: 72 mins / 10  mins
  • Cert PG

7.30pm: Handsworth Songs (Closing Film)

Showing at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse
Presented in partnership with Origins Untold

  • Director: John Akomfrah
  • Black Audio Film Collective
  • Running time: 61mins
  • Cert 12

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