In three weeks time the 13th Keswick Film Festival will be well under way. With so much on offer, how do you pick your way through the programme? We asked David Miller, Festival Programmer, for his tips:
Friday is really a choice between Looking Good and Feeling Very Good. Our Looking Good theme features films that have scooped awards from across the globe and the Feeling Very Good selection offers humour and a little light relief but usually with a twist! The opening film at the Theatre David and Kamal is a family-friendly film depicting life in Jerusalem as experience by two very different boys who come to rely on each other despite their differences. Over at the Alhambra cinema the opening film Pardon depicts Turkish humour but with a fact-based storyline that will have you gasping in disbelief!
Mid-afternoon options then switch places with a searing prison drama at the Theatre and American humour at the Alhambra. All four films thus far are UK premieres so our audiences will be the first to see these films. The early evening titles offer the same disparity of choice! Do you go for another intense thriller or be humoured by an Icelandic comedian offering his take on the financial crisis?
And, to close the day, is it one of the bloodiest, high octane dramas ever to come out of Korea (The Yellow Sea) or the French box-office smash that may well have resonance with us too (Welcome to the Sticks)! All in all, you can plot your day to see humour from international perspectives or journey across the globe experiencing drama, intrigue and action – and, of course, you can mix them up!
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