CCMT Film Festival
The Cambridgeshire Churches Media Trust in association with the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse present the first CCMT Film Festival, a series of screenings exploring and celebrating Christianity on film, from its roots, its heritage, its history and its mythology, right up to the present day and even the future.
The event includes two different screenings of new short films showing different perspectives on Christian themes. Funny and sad, playful and challenging, dramatic and experimental, these films are a varied and fascinating selection from some of the country’s most talented up-and-coming filmmakers. The evenings include discussions with the filmmakers and an opportunity to meet them afterwards.
It promises to be an exciting series of events with something for everything - so come along and join us for these entertaining and thought-provoking evenings, which will include:
11th June, 8.30pm: The Mission (1986)
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Roland Joffé’s highly acclaimed depiction of the work of Spanish Jesuits in South America stars Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro as priests with conflicting solutions to the oppression of native South Americans. The film asks challenging questions about responses to the self-interest of 18th century colonial government which are every bit as relevant to the world we live in now. As the film contrasts nature and self-sacrifice with the brutality of “civilisation”, it reaches a climax that is moving and devastating; combined with Oscar-winning cinematography and a beautiful score by Morricone, this is arguably Joffé’s finest film.
Tickets: £6.40 (£5.40 Picturehouse members)
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14th June, 6pm: symbolism and reality
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New short films exploring perspectives on real life with different kinds of imagery. Including discussions with the filmmakers, hosted by Susan Bowden-Pickstock (BBC Radio Cambridgeshire). Also with contributions from Bishop John Inge, who gives his own response to these modern and challenging pieces of cinema.
Stones (Serpents & Doves, 2005): a story of an Everyman weighed down by his memories; unable to let go of them, his past threatens to drown him.
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For His Loving Care (Bayu Prasetyo, 2006): a woman faces up to the uncertainties of life on a day which challenges her beliefs in love.
We Three (Hurricane Films, 2006): a fairytale parable following six-year-old Amira as she tries to write the perfect story whilst surrounded by different influences.
Tickets: £3
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18th June, 8.30pm: Babette’s Feast (1987)
An award-winning film from Danish director Gabriel Axel, which shows the effect of Babette, a French stranger, on a puritanical and quarrelsome community in remote Denmark. Babette sacrifices everything she has to teach them about forgiveness and love in what turns out to be quite literally a cinematic feast. Contrasting the pitfalls of institutionalised religion with the power of grace and sensual experience, this is a poignant and appealing story about the power of grace, and one of the great foreign-language films of its era.
Tickets: £6.40 (£5.40 Picturehouse members)
21st June, 6pm: history and legend
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New short films which look at stories from the past in ways which are probing, fascinating and sometimes downright bizarre. Including discussions with the filmmakers, hosted by Susan Bowden-Pickstock (BBC Radio Cambridgeshire) and including input from writer Nick Warburton, who has written several award-winning plays and scripts for BBC television and radio.
The Chihuahua Messiah (Mark Simon Hewis, 2005): Kitty is a girl on the brink of adulthood; plagued by the distant memory of her vacant father, the gift from him of a special Chihuahua, and where he put it.
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In Search of Great Preachers – John Berridge (Noel Garner, 2006): local filmmaker Noel Garner goes on the trail of a pioneer of open-air preaching.
Summer’s End (Hired Thugs Productions, 2005): Adam has landed the dream job, as a gardener in paradise; but local garden equipment salesman Stan arrives with the tempting offer of a privilege card…
Tickets: £3
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Box Office Telephone: 08707 551242
The CCMT Film Festival is being run with the support of the Central Church Fund.
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