11/12/2023 - The festival based in the Rebel City will open with a screening of The Trouble with Jessica and will celebrate the inauguration of the new Arc Cinema

In less than a week’s time, the 11th edition of IndieCork will kick off. Set to run from 15-22 December, the Irish gathering will open with a screening of Matt Winn’s The Trouble with Jessica (UK), winner of the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Dinard Film Festival. In it, Sarah and Tom are a married couple in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along.

As usual, the programme curated by festival co-directors Úna Feely and Mick Hannigan will offer a number of Irish premieres, a special focus on Québecois cinema, industry master classes, a wide selection of shorts as well as several music- and film-related side events and performances.

The Features strand will include Katharina Woll’s Everybody Wants to Be Loved [+see also:
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interview: Katharina Woll
film profile] (Germany), Eldar Shibanov’s Mountain Onion (Kazakhstan), Felipe Gálvez’s The Settlers [+see also:
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interview: Felipe Gálvez
film profile] (Chile/Argentina/Denmark/UK/France/Germany/Taiwan), Trish McAdam’s Song of Blood and Destiny (Ireland), Ran Li’s Till Love Do Us Part (China/Czech Republic) and Patricia Kelly’s Verdigris (Ireland), alongside the world premiere of Ronan Hugh O’Leary’s A Sunken Place (Ireland).

Among the documentaries being showcased is the Irish-Lebanese co-production In the Shadow of Beirut, directed by Stephen Gerard Kelly and Garry Keane, which is the Emerald Isle’s Oscars hopeful (see the news).

This year’s International Jury members are Ian Francis, Alan Holly, Alice Shone, Ben Vandendaele, Tara Karajica and Danny Lennon, whilst the Louis Marcus Documentary Award will be handed out by Barry Monahan and Gemma Creagh. Moreover, the Made in Cork Jury will be made up of Carey Fitzgerald, Imma Pavon and Kery Mullaly, and the Prize for Best Female Director will be presented by Emma Bowell and Mary Crilly.

The Rebel City-based festival will close with Wim Wenders’ latest effort, Perfect Days [+see also:
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film profile] (Japan/Germany).

IndieCork will unspool in the new Arc Cinema, formerly known as The Gate. It will be the first event hosted by the venue, which has recently been revamped.

You can find out more about the programme by clicking here.