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.
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. Bo Burnham (US 2018)
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.
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