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The directorial debut from the exciting new auteur, Antonia Campbell Hughes the film stars Cosmo Jarvis (Calm With Horses), Claes Bang (The Northman), and Rhys Mannion.When Hamish arrives on the soil of his mother's birth, she is felt instantly. As he travels further into the wild Irish countryside, a shocking car accident rips him apart, shattering his clenched control. A beast broken, he finds himself lost in the world of his long-deceased mother. But when he starts to receive visits from a teenager who was involved in the crash, Hamish begins to experience the electricity of living.

Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. The 1950s societal optimism espoused by their CEO, Frank (Pine)—equal parts corporate visionary and motivational life coach—anchors every aspect of daily life in the tight-knit desert utopia.While the husbands spend every day inside the Victory Project Headquarters, working on the “development of progressive materials,” their wives—including Frank’s elegant partner, Shelley (Chan)—get to spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their community. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is discretion and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause.But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why. Just how much is Alice willing to lose to expose what’s really going on in this paradise?

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Action, comedy, animation, drama – expect this and more from Short Shorts from Europe Film Festival – a selection of European short films of ten member countries of EUNIC Ireland.Let Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, and Spain entertain you with a variety of genres from contemporary, cutting-edge filmmakers. Cork International Film Festival and TUS Limerick School of Art and Design will also present short films from Ireland on the programme.After the screening the audience will be asked to vote for their favourite film via their smartphone.Running time of the film programme: 100 min.This event is brought to you by the EUNIC Ireland network in association with Cork International Film Festival, Light House Cinema Dublin, Pálás Cinema Galway, TUS Limerick School of Art and Design and Richard Harris International Film Festival.

Róise & Frank tells the story of the recently widowed Róise (Bríd Ní Neachtain) who in a small Irish seaside town is struggling in the aftermath of her husband Frank’s passing. Grief-stricken and lonely, Róise has distanced herself from the world around her and those dearest to her. But when a stray dog starts to follow her every move, a rejuvenated Róise starts to believe in the reincarnation of her husband and the power of enduring life in its next, hopeful steps.Róise & Frank is an up-lifting tale of shaggy dogs, a grieving widow and finding hope in the darkest of places and is winning audience’s hearts everywhere it goes.

Funny Pages, the coming-of-age comedy from actor-turned-director Owen Kline, set in the world of underground comics. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, this naturalistic American indie follows a teenage boy and wannabe artist who drops out of high school to pursue his dream of making it as a comic-book creator.

From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, MOONAGE DAYDREAM is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminates the enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century.MOONAGE DAYDREAM is not a documentary. It is a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all time, destined to be one of the defining cultural moments of the year The film has the full support of Bowie’s estate and features many of his greatest tracks, as well as previously unseen concert footage.

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) takes on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.

When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner, Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

This year we foreground our festival mission to celebrate “the art of film” with shorts programmes that gleefully play with theme and content. The Art of Imagination, The Art of Cruising, The Art of Experience and The Art of Dress actively queer each of our themes to bring you diverse selections of new shorts that shine a light on the sheer artistry of LGBTQ+ lives.Ranging through sci-fi, fantasy, horror and more, the genre films in The Art of Imagination dive into the endless imagination of LGBTQ+ filmmakers. An odyssey of thrills, chills, and musical numbers.Programmed by James HudsonKISS Dir. Varun Grover India / 2022 / 15m A filmmaker screens his sci-fi film for the all-male Indian Censor Board only to find the laws of time and space warping around a kissing scene.Beyond Masks Dir. Letícia Lopez Rangueri, Lucas Brassanini Flores, Carolina Bonformagio da Silva Brazil / 2022 / 11m A secret romance is blossoming behind the scenes of a pantomime when one fearful lover loses himself in the fantasy of the Harlequin.Child of Polycritus Dir. Lauren John Joseph United Kingdom / 2022 / 18m A humorous historiography in which the Virgin Mary visits a nail salon to chat about gender nonconformity in myth and history with her gossipy manicurist.The Last Human Person on Earth Dir. Ryan Michael Hoskins United States / 2022 / 13m Two young boys act out the end of the world in a suburban garage. They are a mad scientist, his handmade robot, friends forever, Marco, Polo, and something more.Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You Dir. Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair Ireland / 2022 / 20m A composer haunted by her late lover creates a new suite of music, determined to unmask the ghost of her partner and the guilt of leaving her behind. DIRECTOR’S SPOTLIGHT: Past GAZE jury-winner Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair elevates the lesbian ghost story into high art. GT.White Wedding Dir. Lloyd Eyre-Morgan United Kingdom / 2022 / 16m A bride cursed across dimensions by her homophobic grandmother-in-law must battle through zombies, musicals and gun-toting in-laws to return to her wedding day.

This year we foreground our festival mission to celebrate “the art of film” with shorts programmes that gleefully play with theme and content. The Art of Imagination, The Art of Cruising, The Art of Experience and The Art of Dress actively queer each of our themes to bring you diverse selections of new shorts that shine a light on the sheer artistry of LGBTQ+ lives. Time and ageing are tricky topics for LGBTQ+ people but these filmmakers explore them with panache, ingenuity and hilarity in equal measure. Their films look at nostalgia, ageing, passion, community, loneliness and collective futures from a range of dynamic viewpoints that honour queer experience. Move over young’uns… Programmed by Greg Thorpe Bar Stories from Queer Maine Dir. Betsy Carson, Wendy Chapkis United States / 2022 / 16m Funny and poignant accounts of gay bars as venues for community, organizing, sex, and safety, revealing the threat to queer culture of our disappearing social spaces. Grown In Darkness Dir. Devin Shears Canada / 2021 / 17m Henry lives alone growing rhubarb in the dark when his friend Emmanuel arrives to collect the harvest. Together they tentatively explore the boundaries of their relationship in a tender and touching film about loneliness and longing. I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy Dir. Orla Egan Ireland / 2021 / 18m LGBT people from Cork in the 1970s and 80s remember cherished community spaces, parties, pubs, clubs and political activism. Write Here Dir. Jake Muñoz Consing Philippines / 2022 / 15m An ageing gay man with Alzheimer’s struggles to hold onto his identity and the memory of his one true love. ‘Where do all the old gays go?’: Experiences of the older LGBTQIA+ Community in Ireland Dir. Cathy Dunne Ireland / 2022 / 18m An intimate documentary in which LGBTQ+ contributors speak openly and honestly about their lives, struggles and joys, their pasts and their imagined futures

This year we foreground our festival mission to celebrate “the art of film” with shorts programmes that gleefully play with theme and content. The Art of Imagination, The Art of Cruising, The Art of Experience and The Art of Dress actively queer each of our themes to bring you diverse selections of new shorts that shine a light on the sheer artistry of LGBTQ+ lives.Clothing for queers is a means of armour, alignment, protest and expression. Its importance within the community, though sometimes subtle, cannot be overstated. The tailor-made selection of films in The Art of Dress provides a glimpse at how garms can open minds and alter lives, with costume design that serves much more than just a look.Programmed by Alice LinehanNails & Beauty Dir. Rhona Foster United Kingdom / 2021 / 10m Lucy gets a rough and tough makeover from a team of beautiful, bearded, butch builders, causing her to rethink her idea of womanhood.Below the Surface Dir. Tomas Ponsteen Netherlands / 2022 / 14m A sex worker with various alter egos searches for himself and explores gender in this stunning and intimate documentary.Make Me A King Dir. Sofia Olins United Kingdom / 2021 / 16m In order to reconnect with their disapproving parents, one Jewish Drag King tries to use their talents to find common ground.Man & Wife Dir. Rahul Roye India / 2021 / 9m A secret unravels between a soon-to-be-married couple on their wedding day, but will the groom’s guilty pleasure plague or aid their arranged relationship?Tommies Dir. Brian Fairbairn, Karl Eccleston United Kingdom / 2022 / 15m In Regency-era London, five women waiting for a carriage descend into a frenzy of vicious gossip about a notorious gay scandal.Alfie Dir. Emily Ryder Canada / 2021 / 12m Through discovering an abandoned house on the way home from school, cousins Alfie and Julia begin a journey of self-exploration, pushing the boundaries of binary gender expression.Warsha Dir. Dania Bdeir France / 2022 / 15m Soaring high above Beirut, a Syrian migrant working on a dangerous crane finally feels free from the shackles of masculinity. Best International Fiction Winner: Sundance Film Festival 2022

This year we foreground our festival mission to celebrate “the art of film” with shorts programmes that gleefully play with theme and content. The Art of Imagination, The Art of Cruising, The Art of Experience and The Art of Dress actively queer each of our themes to bring you diverse selections of new shorts that shine a light on the sheer artistry of LGBTQ+ lives. The seven unexpected encounters in The Art of Cruising transport the viewer from late night carpark trysts, to the hot city at dawn, to petty street crime with an erotic twist, to man-on-man encounters in nature, plus a literal/metaphorical cruise into masculinity itself. Optional trip to the Phoeno after… Mars Exalté Dir. Jean-Sébastien Chauvin France / 2022 / 18m As a beautiful naked man sleeps on a hot night, the city beyond his window begins to stir and his exposed body begins to follow suit. TEDDY AWARD WINNER: BERLINALE 2022 Fado Menor Dir. Salvador Alejandro Gutiérrez Portugal / 2022 / 7m Two immigrant gay men roam the dark streets of Lisbon, reminiscing about their time together and an awkward confrontation of their sexuality. Naughty Spot Dir. Jean COSTA France / 2021 / 19m On Tonio’s first visit to Corsica he encounters the Oracle, a guide who reveals the erotic topography of gay life on the island. Dippers and Oysters Dir. Kai Fiáin United Kingdom / 2022 / 10m A sparky romance ensues between Butch / Femme East End pickpockets. Outdoors Dir. John Fitzpatrick Hoskins United Kingdom / 2022 / 13m After a casual park hook-up, Bim and Nathan have instant sexual chemistry, but Bim finds himself exposed when a chance encounter reveals the thing he wants to hide. Veni Etiam Dir. Alex Hai, Mahtab Mansour France, Italy / 2021 / 9m The waterways of Venice form a sensuous backdrop for the journey of a gondolier that is both physical and metaphorical. Hornbeam Dir. Mark Pluck United Kingdom / 2022 / 17m An intense bond forms between two strangers at a night time cruising spot but what emerges has to face the truth of day eventually.

“This is a direct attack on my divinity!” From screen bans to a place in the Library of Congress, the half-century journey of the abominably good Pink Flamingos is the history of underground cinema itself – loathed and revered in equal measures (it was even profiled in Vogue this year). It’s hard to believe this delve into the glorious grotesque was already twenty years old when GAZE got started. It is iconic beyond anyone’s wildest dreams, and its stars, “The Filthiest People Alive”, and their antics, could only have come from the filth-genius mind of director John Waters. His fabulously shambolic underground stars make Warhol’s seem like actual Hollywood royalty by contrast, and they’re out in full force here – including Mink Stole and Edith Massey. But it’s clearly Divine who rules this filthy universe and the outrageousness of her antics will shock you like the very first time. “There's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone, my kind of people, and assholes!” In an age of increasing conservatism and gate-keeping, the faint-of-heart are exactly who should be watching this movie. Bring your own barf bags. For lovers of… Female Trouble, This Filthy World, I Am Divine Pre-Feature Short: Dildo Dir. Jake Muñoz Consing / Philippines / 2021 / 1m A teenage boy discovers he can use his face massager for... not just his face.

GAZE is excited to partner together with aemi for a third time to present a programme of Irish and international experimental shorts for the festival’s 30th anniversary.Titled ‘Making & Unmaking’, this programme looks at constructs of identity, particularly as they relate to ideas of queerness. The films celebrate the creativity of self-invention, evoking ways in which aspects of our past can be re-made or unmade from the stories we tell, or are told of ourselves. With a focus on a wide variety of experiences of childhood and coming of age, this screening offers reflections on transitions and interior lives made manifest, drawing out compelling relationships between past and future, truth and fiction.Programmed by aemi (Alice Butler, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Emer Lynch)Followed by a Q&A with Marcus Gambrill (Director of Masc.ing, 2016, Ireland), Ryan Harman & Craig Hunter (Directors of FORT, 2021, USA), and aemi Co-Directors Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick Masc.ing Dir. Marcus Gambrill Ireland / 2016 / 3m Masc.ing uses a music video format, drawing from 90s MTV aesthetics as well as everyday domestic objects that can be perceived as queer, to explore a transition from boy to man.Angelo Dir. Alejandro Plumb Plurinational State of Bolivia / 2022 / 9m Set in the Andean nation of Bolivia, Angelo is about a shoeshine boy who uses the power of his imagination to escape the harsh reality of life on the street. DIRECTOR’S SPOTLIGHT: A small unique masterpiece melding documentary footage with a stylised narrative, stunning colour and visual tableaux. GT.A body is a body is a body Dir. Cat and Éiméar McClay Ireland / 2021 / 12m Language folds and falls in on itself in this new video work by artist duo Cat and Éiméar McClay. Animated 3D tableaus of Catholic paraphernalia and strikes of elemental weather accompany the words. Together, they enact the historically fraught relationship between queerness and the Catholic church.Call me Jonathan Dir. Bárbara Lago Argentina / 2021 / 8m After finding video material of her childhood, the director reprogrammes her mythology as an infant and reflects on her body traversed by affections, fictions and years.From a Spaceless Within Dir. Matthew LaPaglia USA / 2021 / 20m Compositing past and future, truth and fiction, From a Spaceless Within approaches the construction and dematerialization of the artist while asking where our intentions take root when we attempt to create anything at all.a story that doesn't have to do with me Dir. Kymberly McDaniel USA / 2021 / m As I seek to connect with my partner about their research in bioarchaeology, a conversation emerges about survival and what is left behind after death.My Crazy Boxers Dir. Krissy Mahan USA / 2019 / 9m Suicidal – or just a working class queer caught in the wrong underpants? Pixellated fragments slowly materialise in this powerful and distressing video based on actual meetings with hospital staff while in a psychiatric hospital system.One Magenta Afternoon Dir. Vernon Jordan, III USA / 2021 / 8m The lesson is love: when Pop Pop and his grandson, Les, play jazz, they summon six queer spirits and tumble through their memories.FORT Dir. Ryan Harman, Craig Hunter USA / 2021 / 8m Two boyfriends wander beaches near New York City, finding shade under crude shelters they build with sheets, rubber bands, and materials (like driftwood) scavenged from the shore.

“Your dear Clara would love to be done with the robberies…” For almost thirty years the Red Army Faction, aka Baader Meinhof Gang, terrorised the capitalist powers-that-be of Germany. Dagmar (Linda Sixt) is one of the final gang members to remain on the run, unable to conform or to imagine an existence beyond bank robberies, false names and hideouts. Her teenage daughter Clara (Alida Stricker) is inescapably caught up in their renegade existence, longing for a life of normality, and yearning to be with her second mother Samira who has made a break from the criminal underworld – for now at least. As Clara navigates her own burgeoning queer desire and begins to taste genuine freedom for the first time, conflicts ensue that are way beyond typical adolescent friction. With taut dialogue, nail-biting heist scenes and a gorgeous queer nightclub sequence, Generation Tochter sets a sophisticated standard for lesbian thrillers to come. For lovers of… The Baader Meinhof Complex, Monster, Free Fall Pre-Feature Short: Shall We Talk? Dir. Katya Mikheeva / Russian Federation / 2022 / 5m Polina is Russian, bisexual, and ready to come out in this vivid and delightful animated short.

“There was nothing published about the culture and sociology of the gay community. I knew I was risking my career…”In an era when gay and lesbian culture was trivialised and pathologised, or at best ignored, Esther Newton broke new ground applying anthropological techniques to the study of drag queens and gay bars, insisting on the validity of gay culture as a unique existence that mattered.As a young butch lesbian in pre-Stonewall and pre-Women’s Liberation America, Newton tread a pioneering path that impacted on generations to follow.Beautifully entwining lesbian intellectualism with drag herstory, Carlomusto’s film posits a closeness in our collective queer past that will feel nostalgic for some and inspirational for others. As Esther says of her affinity with drag queens, “I felt like I had been a female impersonator my whole life.” The archive material from a pre-Gay Liberation drag underground is incredible to behold, not to mention the eye-opening insights into the lesbian-powered world of dog agility contests, of course. For lovers of… The Celluloid Closet, Ahead of the Curve, Dykes Camera Action!Pre-Feature Short: The Beyoncé Experience Dir. Blaise Singh / United Kingdom / 2021 / 10m In the lead-up to UK Black Pride, former cop Aaron Carty lives out his fantasy as a Beyoncé drag tribute.

To celebrate GAZE's 30th birthday, we’re asking the audience to choose what to watch on Saturday night! We’ve been asking GAZE-goers to tell us their favourite GAZE memory, or what film defines queer cinema for them, and we’re putting together a shortlist for our wonderful community to chose from.Some of our audience want to see classics like Trick (1999), Orlando (1992), or The Killing of Sister George (1968), while others are eager to revisit modern classics like Call Me By Your Name (2017), Pride (2014) and Tomboy (2011). And, of course, many want to relive their favourite GAZE screenings, hoping to see The Novice (2021), Strella (2009), or Beautiful Thing (1996) on the big screen once again.The shortlist will be announced on the GAZE website and social media in the lead up to the festival, so check out @GazeFlimFest on Twitter and Instagram as well as our Facebook page, cast your vote wisely, and don’t miss out on the opportunity to have your say!

An MI6 operative named Victor Blackley turns his back on the agency after his fiancée is killed on a mission gone wrong. Sometime later, he finds himself as the owner of ‘The Blue Moon’, a prestigious hotel in Barbados that acts as a safe haven for international criminals to complete under the table dealings. Though, after years of turning his head to his guest’s business, he is pulled back in to the world he left when a former agent connected to his past turns up as part of a small party, who have come to conduct business on his grounds. What begins as a chance encounter that reignites an old flame quickly becomes a life or death struggle to save not only those closest to him, but also the potential lives of millions throughout the world.

This Halloween we're reading Stephen King's terrifying novel The Shining and watching Stanley Kubrick's iconic and masterful adaptation from 1980 starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

This month we're reading Chuck Palahniuk's controversial novel Fight Club and watching David Fincher's even more controversial film adaptation.An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.

The Quiet Girl, the delicate drama that follows a shy nine-year-old who has been separated from her immediate family and left in the care of two distant relatives for the summer. After sun-dappled days spent milking cows, peeling potatoes, and fetching water from the well, the Initially uncommunicative child soon opens up to her foster parents. Textural and tender, this award-winning film shows that home is where you feel loved.

The Quiet Girl, the delicate drama that follows a shy nine-year-old who has been separated from her immediate family and left in the care of two distant relatives for the summer. After sun-dappled days spent milking cows, peeling potatoes, and fetching water from the well, the Initially uncommunicative child soon opens up to her foster parents. Textural and tender, this award-winning film shows that home is where you feel loved.

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.