Projects matching: Mark Jenkin

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Between film screenings across the world, Mark Jenkin muses on cinematic influences, ponders cultural history and reflects upon home. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - European premiere

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In a forgotten fishing village, a boat mysteriously appears in the old harbour. The Rose of Nevada, lost at sea with all hands 30 years ago, has returned. For the few who remember, it’s a sign. The Rose of Nevada must go out to sea again, maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn. Nick takes a job aboard the boat in an attempt to provide for his young family. Alongside him, newly arrived Liam joins the crew, desperate to escape his past. They head to sea and after a successful trip return to harbour. But something is amiss. They’ve slipped back in time and the villagers greet them as if they are the original crew. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Official Competition

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A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honour. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence. Based on a story by artist Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Hobbs celebrates her startling tale with paint and collage. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022 - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - SXSW Film Festival 2023 Grand Jury Award - Winner - Animated Shorts

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Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere

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Compelled to buy an old writing case, and finding faint traces of a poem within, a young Cornish poet unknowingly calls back the previous owner from beyond the grave. Haunted into completing the poem she becomes broken and succumbs to the endless cycle of creation and death... Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020

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Behind the picture postcard idyll of a Cornish fishing village alienation, resentment and anger bubble away. The view may be beautiful, but you can’t eat it. Martin Ward, is a cove-fishermen without a boat, infuriated with his brother for using the family vessel for day-tripping, and with a brooding resentment for tourists flocking to the village while locals are relegated to an estate on the hill. Nearing the end of the summer season, an argument over a parking space with the incomers who bought his old family home comes to represent all that is wrong with the world for Martin. Tensions rise and when a misguided prank and retaliation escalates to tragedy the brothers are forced to unite and face the future together. Shifting light, captured on B&W 16mm film and processed by hand, offers a grainy black and white polemic; the state of the nation seen through a family lens. Rugged cliffs, stark seascapes, working hands, silent faces, the screech of a gull, the smoke from a barbeque, clashing classes, tensions building, a casual theft, a threat issued, a punch thrown, retribution, high tide, low water, laughter at dusk, regret in the morning, beauty, anger, compassion, hope. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum - World premiere

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A pilgrimage from Andrew Kotting to Derek Jarman along the south coast of England through a haze of post-election hope and despair.

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“I was hungry for the coast again and took a bus down along the R675, getting off to walk a while between Annestown and Dungarvan. The cliffs are imperious here and look just like home…” A Cornishman’s travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.

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Transcending a portrait of place, the quiet, eternal rhythms of the small fishing cove Penberth are caught, landed and served up in this stark and gentle handcrafted celluloid poem.

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A homage to the spontaneous prose of The Beats, from the mythical Cornish west. An audio-visual stream of consciousness. Entirely un-edited, in terms of writing, performance and visuals.

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From the far west of Cornwall comes a contemporary moral tale of love, lust, birth, death, infidelity, murder, revenge, redemption...and the housing crisis. Shot on a clockwork camera, on 16mm black & white negative stock, and processed by hand using an instant coffee based developer.

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“I’m trusted with a pair of scissors and I’m in here for murder”. Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but Francis, the current champion has other objectives on his mind. We hear dreams and aspirations of some of Scotland’s most dangerous prisoners turning their lives around through cutting the hair of fellow inmates on a daily basis. “10 minutes in here is like 10 minutes outside jail” We discover how hairdressing is helping many of Scotland’s prisoners come to terms with their crimes and preparing them for life outside.