Holmfirth Film Festival - up and running for 2019 with a season of international award winners - simply the best films of the last year.
Watch out for details of regular screenings (last Sunday evening of each month) of great films at HOLMFIRTH CIVIC HALL.
2019 CELEBRATES PART TWO of
10 years of bringing film to the Holme Valley
HOLMFIRTH FILM FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 8, SATURDAY 9, SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2019
Continuing the very best of British and World Cinema.
www.holmfirthfilmfestival.co.uk
GETTING INVOLVED
We have a really great bunch of volunteers; if you would like to join us, please do contact us. We are especially looking for those who might be good on the technical side of screening films, we also need social media enthusiasts who can help promote the festival, as well as anyone interested in film who can help setting up events (lots of lifting and carrying) and working at front of house (looking after and making events enjoyable for filmgoers).
(Dir. David Wilkinson, UK 2018, 116mins PG)
Postcards from the 48% is a documentary in which British people who voted to remain in the EU discuss their reasons for campaigning to stop Brexit
Postcards from the 48% is a documentary in which British people who voted to remain in the EU discuss their reasons for campaigning to stop Brexit
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher (Italy, 2018, 130mins 12)
A kind-hearted sharecropper in rural Italy befriends a rich nobleman. This Cannes winner is a beautiful, mysterious film combining magical realism and social commentary where events take a very strange turn in a modern Brothers Grimm fairy tale. On the critics' list as one of the best films of the year.
Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot (France 1960, 128mins 15)
Bardot is magnificent in Clouzot's last masterpiece as the suicidal bohemian from the provinces with a troubled childhood who has killed her boyfriend. A scathing indictment of patriarchy and a forensic look at the nature of truth in a classic court case movie.
Dir. Benedikt Erlingson (Iceland 2018, 101mins 12)
Another wonderful success from Iceland. Hugely enjoyable taut comedy thriller about a lone female secret environmental activist who declares war on the local aluminium industry.
PLS NOTE, WE CANNOT OFFER CHILDREN'S TICKET PRICES ONLINE. FOR 12-14 YRS, PLS BUY ADVANCE TICKETS AT OXFAM BOOKSHOP, HOLMFIRTH OR PAY ON DOOR
Dir. Bo Burnham (US 2018, 94mins, 15)
Hollywood's best films are in the coming of age genre. Obama's favourite film of last year is a bold and painfully funny take on the awkwardness of adolescence in an age of social media that looks and feels like the real thing. Elsie Fisher as the 13 year-old is simply brilliant.
Dir. Tom Harper (UK 2018, 101mins 15)
Jessie Buckley lights up the screen in her debut film with strong support from Julie Walters in a refreshingly unsentimental bittersweet film of a young wayward Glaswegian young mother who dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.
Dir. Danny Boyle (UK 2019 111mins 12)
Boyle directs this Richard Curtis romantic comedy about a struggling songwriter who wakes up to a world without The Beatles' songs in a charming toe-tapping crowd pleaser.
PLS NOTE, WE CANNOT OFFER CHILDREN'S TICKET PRICES ONLINE. FOR 12-14 YRS, PLS BUY ADVANCE TICKETS AT OXFAM BOOKSHOP, HOLMFIRTH OR PAY ON DOOR
Dir. John Lasseter (US 2019, 100mins U)
A hugely enjoyable road trip of old and new friends that is a funny and emotional must-see for the young and old alike. An excellent Saturday matinee for all the family.
ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOT ABLE TO OFFER CHILDREN'S TICKET PRICES ONLINE,
ADVANCE TICKETS CAN BE BOUGHT AT OXFAM BOOKSHOP, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, HOLMFIRTH OR YOU CAN PAY ON THE DOOR ON THE DAY (PLENTY OF SEATS AT THE CIVIC HALL!)
Dir. Paul Adam (UK 2019, 89mins)
Once one of the dirtiest rivers in Europe, the Don is now alive with wildlife with fish, otters and herons. In a journey rich with insight into the history and landscape of the river environmentalists, those who worked along it and volunteers who faced a daunting task talk about how they worked together to clean the river up. Award-winning Sheffield writer, Paul Adam, travels the length of the Don, from its source high on the bleak moors of the Pennines to its mouth at Goole.
Following the film, locally-based volunteers from the River Holme Connections charity who are engaged in improving the River Holme catchment area for wildlife, people and the Holme Valley's economy, discuss their conservation efforts.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT - NO TICKET REQUIRED - ALL WELCOME
Dir. Simone de Vries (Holland 2006, 64mins)
Blond, Blue Eyes - documentary biography of Holland's most famous actor who moved effortlessly between art classics, Hollywood and cult slasher movies, producing great performances and, in Blade Runner, one of the most memorable scenes in cinema.
Followed by
Dir. Robert Harmon (US 1986, 98mins 15)
The Hitcher - a favourite of Hauer fans. A naive college boy crosses the path of the devil on a lost highway in a sleek action thriller car ride that is pure adrenalin entertainment.
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