Are you ready for a weekend filled with FREE amazing films and documentaries?
A program with international films and locally made productions.
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 October 2024
All films will be shown in Screen 1 at The Mallard Cinema.
OPENING FILM
We are pleased to announce the official opening film of the GUERNSEY FILM FEST 2024 - THIS IS THE GOAT! (Les Chèvres), a French-Belgian historical comedy directed by Fred Cavayé and starring Dany Boon.
Did you know that in 17th-century France, animals could be judged for committing crimes? Pompignac (Dany Boon), laughingstock of the legal trade, thinks he’s found his first big case: defending young, innocent Josette, wrongfully accused of murdering a field marshal… He didn’t expect his adversary to be the famed and ruthless Valvert (Jérôme Commandeur). And he definitely didn’t expect Josette to be… a goat
MANCUNIAN MAN:
THE LEGENDARY LIFE
OF CLIFF TWEMLOW
Bouncer. Novelist. Composer. Screenwriter. Producer. Star. To ‘80s UK audiences, Cliff Twemlow was all of these and then some. For more than a decade, in fact, Twemlow was the UK’s most prolific indie filmmaker. But in Manchester, he was – and remains – a legend. A portrait of a man who grabbed the Hollywood dream by the bollocks.
TALLADEGA NIGHTS
The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
“If you ain't first, you're last.”
Make sure to join us to watch Christopher Nolan’s (Oppenheimer, Interstellar, Dunkirk) favourite comedy film TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY, a film by Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, Jon C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen & Leslie Bibb.
Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver, makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby's talent and devotion are put to the test.
FUNNY BONES
In collaboration with Clameur Du Cinéma we are screening FUNNY BONES, a film by Peter Chelsom.
After he bombs horribly in front of an influential Las Vegas audience that includes his comedy legend father (Jerry Lewis), aspiring comedian Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) returns to his childhood home of Blackpool, England, to find an unknown young comedian whose act he can take over. There, he meets Katie Parker (Leslie Caron), a singer who was friends with his parents in their youth. Her son, Jack (Lee Evans), is an erratically brilliant comedian who holds a secret about Tommy's father.
BABES
Lifelong friends Eden and Dawn, one single and wanting a baby, the other already a mother, navigate challenges to their bond when Eden pursues pregnancy alone after a one-night stand.
MONTY PYTHON
AND THE HOLY GRAIL
A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen.
PLEASE DON'T DESTROY:
THE TREASURE OF FOGGY MOUNTAIN
When three friends who live together realize that they don't like their life trajectory, they set off to find a gold treasure that is rumored to be buried in the nearby mountain.
HOT FUZZ
An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
ZOLA
"Y'all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It's kind of long but full of suspense." Thus began the odyssey of one A'Ziah King, aka ZOLA. From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola's stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. Zola (Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of "hoeism" rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures in this wild, see-it-to-believe-it tale.
ROSALIE
France, 1870. Rosalie is a young woman with a secret… She was born with a face and body covered in hair. A genuine bearded lady. She’s kept her secret all her life, until Abel, an indebted bar owner, marries her for her dowry. Now, she no longer wishes to hide. A story of hope and radical self-acceptance, Rosalie is a beautiful and bold romance.
THE SHINY SHRIMPS
Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, an amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia.
LAST FLAMINGO OF
THE RED SUMMER SUNSET
GUERNSEY PRODUCTION - CAMERON ASHPLANT & MATTHEW STOCKREITER
The frontier is closing, but the imagination of the West remains. Decades since the genocide of a local tribe, there is one final 'wild-man'. Benjamin wishes to rid the land of the indigenous peoples, tasking Henry with extermination.
