Liviff2022 official selection

Liverpool Film Festival 2022 Official Trailer

Thursday 3rd November 2022 @odeon Liverpool ONE

Opening night film

18.00 - 20.00

SAVAGE WATERS

Directed by Mikey Corker

Documentary Feature

90 minutes

18

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How far would you go searching for something that may not exist?
A 19th century treasure-hunter’s journal inspires a captivating journey to seek out and surf a mythical, never-ridden wave in some of the most remote and dangerous waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
For renowned skipper, Matt Knight, sailing to unpredictable and uncharted regions is impossible to resist. As a lifelong thrill-seeker, he is constantly testing the limits of what’s possible, something world-class big wave surfer Andrew Cotton has also built his career on.
With family and friends, they board the beautiful catamaran Hecate and follow clues to this ‘perfect wave’, but not everything goes to plan, with serious injury and life-threatening challenges testing the crew’s resilience and attitudes towards risk.
SAVAGE WATERS, narrated by the legendary Charles Dance, boasts jaw-dropping cinematography, and follows remarkable protagonists, for whom living life to the full often means putting themselves in harm’s way.
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Thursday 3rd November 2022 @odeon Liverpool ONE

Opening night narrative short films

20.00 - 22.00

COLLECTION OF NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS

Directed by various (See below for full listings of individual short films in collection)

100 minutes

18

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SUGAR BABIES

**Directed by**
Craig Trow
**Runtime**
15:40
Months after losing his job, a man is still unable to tell his wife.
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**LILLIAN**

**Directed by**
Cathy Tyson
**Runtime**
16:25
Lilian Bader, a mixed-race war veteran of Barbadian-English descent, had enlisted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1941 as an instrument repairer, and rose to the rank of Corporal…She has a past and a knock at the door from Eddy opens up a story of hidden intentions.
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**CYN**

**Directed by**
Ben Desmond
**Runtime**
7:58
Liverpool 1960. Art students, Cyn and John, find their blossoming romance in a state of flux as music and fame starts to overtake their passion.
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**THE OUTING**

**Directed by**
Joanne Mitchell
**Runtime**
15:00
All she wanted was a day to herself ...
1970's: A lonely divorcee, Nellie, meets widower Frank on a trip to the seaside. Nellie lets herself be swept away by the hope of connection. But as the seagulls circle overhead and Frank begins to ask too many questions, Nellie realises she will never be able to escape a monstrous family secret ...
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**JUNE**

**Directed by**
Joshua Thornton-Allan
**Runtime**
15:52
During a camping trip an unusual set of circumstances forces a father and daughter to confront the rift that’s grown between them.
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**LEAVE TO REMAIN**

**Directed by**
Remy Bazerque
**Runtime**
10:45
Things get wild at the 'VISA and immigration services' when Karim, a young Iranian father living in the UK is mistakenly threatened with deportation.
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**MR THEATRE COMES HOME DIFFERENT**

**Directed by**
Adam Jackson-Smith, David Symmons
**Runtime**
11:33
A funny and moving glimpse behind the safety curtain.
Witness the love scene, the storm scene, the inevitable death scene and remember, it’s all only pretend.
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2020

Directed by

Heléna Antonio

Runtime

3:47

Category

Experimental Films

2020 is the year in which everything seems to have stopped.
However, Life always has different plans.

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friday 4th November 2022 @odeon Liverpool ONE

18.00 - 20.00

CRACK IN THE MOUNTAIN

Directed by Alastair Evans

Documentary Feature

100 minutes

18

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Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom.
Hang Son Doong which translates as “mountain river cave”, is the largest cave passage in the world and a place of spectacular beauty.
With more people having climbed Everest than visited Son Doong, its pristine charm has remained undisturbed for millions of years.
In 2014, Son Doong’s future was thrown into doubt when plans were announced to build a cable car into the cave.
With many arguing that this would destroy its delicate eco-system and the local community divided over the benefits this development would bring, the film follows those caught up in the unfolding events.
Beautifully shot and scored, “A Crack In The Mountain” is a powerful exposé about how both good and bad intentions can ultimately lead to one of the world’s greatest natural wonders being trampled for money. As well as inspire those who care about our natural heritage to fight to protect it.
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FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

20.00 - 22.00

THE RUMBA KINGS

Directed by Alan Brain

Documentary Feature

94 minutes

18

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The award-winning music documentary film The Rumba Kings celebrates the epic quest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an African nation that fought colonial oppression, found freedom, and forged a new identity through music. In the 1950s, when the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a Belgian colony, a generation of Congolese musicians fused traditional African rhythms with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying beat of Congolese Rumba. A beat that would carry Congo through its independence and conquer the entire African continent with its infectious groove, captivating guitar licks, and smooth vocals.
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saturday 5th November 2022 @odeon Liverpool ONE

Bread & Butter Films Presents A Free Preview Screening: A Weekend Away

12.00 - 14.00

Directed by Rob Reed

78 Minutes

Narrative Feature

Friends and family come together to celebrate John’s 40th birthday, and it’s already not been a good year.

‘A Weekend Away’ is a five day feature looking at a 40th birthday celebration in the Welsh countryside. As the weekend progresses simmering tensions and issues arise between family and friends.

Music video, animation, student, experimental short films

14.00 - 16.00

COLLECTION OF MUSIC VIDEO, ANIMATION, STUDENT, EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS

Directed by various (See below for full listings of individual short films in collection)

85 minutes

18

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EPOCH AND SCOPE

**Directed by**
Yang Shu
**Runtime**
5:18
**Category**
Experimental Films
Hear what it hears, and see what it sees. But seeing is not necessarily true, hearing is even more false. However, all things are empty. Heaven and earth grow out of the universe, and life is between heaven and earth. No matter the spirit or the soul, a person is just a breath that travels around the world. Take the body as the world, and live life after life.
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**LONDON’S FORGOTTEN**

**Directed by**
Liam Pinheiro-Rogers
**Runtime**
10:23
**Category**
Experimental Films
A cycle that targets the few. A cycle that refuses to end. In the urban streets of London, the stories of knife crime victims are connected by a wandering drifter who has loose ends to tie.
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**OH, LITTLE SPARK!**

**Directed by**
Charlie Lyon Budden
**Runtime**
18:10
**Category**
Student Films
During a weekend together, a grandson's obsession with his Polish grandmother's wartime memories causes a rift in their relationship as a tragic secret is revealed and they must confront the finality of death and the legacy of those traumas.
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THE PARABLE OF
THE LEAF BLOWER

**Directed by**
Rachel Ara
**Runtime**
11:00
**Category**
Experimental Films
A slow, thoughtful and meditative animation with no spoken word by the internationally renowned sculptor Rachel Ara.
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**EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME(dead)BODY**

**Directed by**
George Mills, Hannah Seligman
**Runtime**
19:33
**Category**
Student Films
After a lonely housewife’s dead husband returns from the grave unexpectedly, she finds herself in a love triangle with her deceased spouse and her new boyfriend.
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**2020**

**Directed by**
Heléna Antonio
**Runtime**
3:47
**Category**
Experimental Films
2020 is the year in which everything seems to have stopped.
However, Life always has different plans.
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**THE LEGEND OF SUGI DAKKS**

**Directed by**
Seth Stern
**Runtime**
4:03
**Category**
Music Videos
Creating a cultural nod to both Sugi Dakks’ Japanese and African heritage, The Legend of Sugi Dakks displays a healthy balance of brashness and pride for oneself and one’s background.
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**MAYA YENN - HOW MUCH SADNESS CAN YOU SWALLOW? (Official Video)**

**Directed by**
Maya Yenn

**Runtime**
3:09
**Category**
Music Videos
The “How Much Sadness Can You Swallow” official music video follows the story of a woman hell-bent on ending an alien invasion as she sprints through the English countryside towards a crash-site where something strange has fallen to earth.
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**NIKGHTLINK**

**Directed by**
Aidan O'Sullivan

**Runtime**
10:16
**Category**
Animations
Set in Dublin after the pubs close. While telling God what he really thinks of him Ronan aggravates a bunch of Púca who were having a few drinks in a nearby dimension. From that point on, they do what they can to lure him onto the Nightlink to the afterlife.
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saturday 5th NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

16.00 - 18.00

NOBODY KNOWS CASPER

Directed by René Odgaard

Documentary Feature

72 minutes

18

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0151: LIVERPOOL, RAP & POLITICS

Directed by Amber Oghene-Efe Akaunu

Short Documentary

19 minutes

18

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NOBODY KNOWS CASPER

**Directed by**
René Odgaard
**Runtime**
72 minutes
**Category**
Documentary Features
The self-proclaimed biggest man-child on YouTube, the character ‘Ask Casper’ (org. Spørg Casper) is successful with his transgressive and self-exhibiting videos. But as the number of subscribers grow, so does Casper’s inner unease and memories of an upbringing with a dad with schizophrenia begin to surface.
Over an eight-year period, we follow Casper and his growing internet fame as he tries navigating in the blurred lines between online and offline presence. Casper becomes a father but maybe never really an adult.
NOBODY KNOWS CASPER is an honest story about finding your place in the fast-paced internet life that quickly becomes all-consuming.
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**0151: LIVEROOL, RAP & POLITICS**

**Directed by**
Amber Oghene-Efe Akaunu
**Runtime**
19:48
**Category**
Documentary Shorts
Directed by Amber Akaunu, this short documentary pieces together the political history of Liverpool, a city with the oldest Black community in Europe, through the city's best storytellers; its rappers.
Liverpool has a long turbulent political history that has led the city to endure high unemployment, negative media targeting, and uprisings! This short documentary explores how the city's rappers, from the 1980s up until today, have used their music as a form of radical expression. The film brings together two generations of rappers; Kevin Philemon and MC Nelson. Their Nigerian heritage, South Liverpool upbringing and love of conscious rap unite them.
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saturday 5th NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

18.00 - 20.00

GROUNDS OF HOPE

Directed by Lionel BERNARDIN

Narrative Feature

Foreign Language with English Subtitles

92 minutes

18

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ONE OF THOSE GOOD LIVES

Directed by Joseph Carney

Narrative Short Film

8 minutes

18

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GROUNDS OF HOPE

**Directed by**
Lionel BERNARDIN
**Runtime**
92 mins
**Category**
International Narrative Features
In a small rural town, Alex, a former professional boxer, lives as a worker for a concrete materials company. One night, chased by armed men, his twin sister breaks into his home with a migrant and his daughter. Alex, forced by the situation, helps to hide them, unaware that they are keenly sought. The spiral starts. With no choice and under financial pressure, he starts competing in illegal boxing fights.
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**ONE OF THOSE GOOD LIVES**

**Directed by**
Joseph Carney
**Runtime**
8:00
**Category**
International Narrative Shorts
When the young, white and unencumbered Steve (Sean Depner - Riverdale, Deadly Class) is hit by a truck, he awakens in a cavernous and decaying opera house. There he meets The Ticket Taker, a shape shifting bureaucrat of death who explains that Steve must be sent back to perform one influential act before enjoying a life of guaranteed privilege and luxury. Steve must decide whether or not to uphold a status quo that benefits only him.
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saturday 5th NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

20.00 - 22.00

ALICE, THROUGH THE LOOKING: À la recherche d'un lapin perdu

Directed by Adam Donen

Narrative Feature

95 minutes

18

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CRUISE

Directed by Sam Rudykoff

Narrative Short Film

6 minutes

18

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ALICE, THROUGH THE LOOKING: À la recherche d'un lapin perdu

**Directed by**
Adam Donen
**Runtime**
95 mins
**Category**
UK Narrative Features
French philosophy student Alice falls in love with a boy, “Rabbit,” at a masked ball in London, and takes him home. The next morning, Rabbit has disappeared, along with any indication that their night together ever occurred. Determined to find him, Alice sets out through a Brexit London that has turned very strange indeed, aided by the psychologist / detective Dr. Cat Pillar, BA, as reality, nightmare and cinema blur into each other.
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**Directed by**
Sam Rudykoff
**Runtime**
6:44
**Category**
International Narrative Shorts
We’ve all received scam phone calls, but what about the person making the calls? Cruise is a dark workplace satire about a hapless telemarketer trying mightily to give away a free cruise. And if he fails, there will be dire consequences.
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sunday 6th NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

12.00 - 14.00

THE UGLY TRUTH

Directed by Krishna Ashu Bhati

Narrative Feature

Foreign Language with English Subtitles

96 minutes

18

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Mona, her husband Theo and daughter Hanna live in an idyllic villa on the outskirts of Berlin. When the attractive 18 years old daughter of a friend comes to visit, the profound problems and fragility of the small family reveal, as a tragic downward spiral takes its inevitable course.
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sunday 6th NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

14.00 - 16.00

SONG FOR HOPE- THE RYAN ANTHONY STORY

Directed by Chris Haigh

Documentary Feature

80 minutes

18

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GREENS FOR GOOD

Directed by Whitney Beer-Kerr

Short Documentary

11 minutes

18

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SONG FOR HOPE- THE RYAN ANTHONY STORY

**Directed by**
Chris Haigh
**Runtime**
80 mins
**Category**
Documentary Features
“Song For Hope” is the incredible story of Ryan Anthony, the renowned principal trumpet of the Canadian Brass and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Despite being diagnosed with a rare, terminal blood cancer and given just months to live, Ryan and his wife, Niki, started a charity called “CancerBlows” which organizes huge music concerts with the world’s greatest trumpet players, raising millions for cancer research and helping Ryan to live (and play!) for a further eight years! During that time, while undergoing treatment, he climbed Mt. Fuji with his oncologist to raise further funds and awareness for his disease, playing Amazing Grace at the summit as the sun rose.
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GREENS FOR GOOD

Directed by

Whitney Beer-Kerr

Runtime

11:11

Category

Documentary Shorts

Liverpool, England is a hardscrabble city built on industry, but in its gritty center a new garden is thriving. It’s called Farm Urban. Here, a visionary young team uses hydroponics to grow fresh greens and vegetables in a Victorian tunnel beneath the city.

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sunDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

16.00 - 18.00

FRANK BEY: All My Dues Are Paid

Directed by Tom Dwyer, Lisa Palattella

Documentary Feature

88 minutes

18

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In 1977 soul-blues singer Frank Bey quit singing after a deal went terribly wrong with James Brown. Forty years later Frank was invited to record a CD in Nashville with Buddy Guy's record producer, fulfilling the dream of his lifetime. Posthumously, in 2021, Frank's final CD, All My Dues Are Paid, was nominated for a Grammy. Our feature documentary follows Frank's journey from performing in Philadelphia church basements, to making a record in one of Nashville's most prestigious recording studios, to seeing Frank record one of the final tracks for his CD that received a Grammy nomination after his passing. The film includes in-depth interviews with Frank and an assortment of friends, fans, and fellow musicians.

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sunday 6th NOVEMBER 2022 @ODEON LIVERPOOL ONE

18.00 - 1900

DEER WOMAN CHILD

Directed by Gabrielle Russell

Narrative Feature

60 minutes

18

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When Pryn’s marriage breaks down after several miscarriages, she retreats to her late grandmother’s remote and run down farm, alone. She takes solace in caring for the farm animals, feeling a sense of belonging in her grandmother’s place, but the isolation is hard as she struggles through the harsh winter.

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