Encounters 2018: Day Five

Day five of the Encounters festival brings fun for kids (including a scratch’n’sniff Wallace & Gromit), deaf shorts, Latvian animation and Italian horror. The full programme is pasted below. Visit the Encounters website for further information and booking details.

09:30-10:30
HEY DUGGEE
WATERSHED CINEMA 1 £6 ADULTS, £1 CHILDREN
1 HR
Join us for a fun filled event with everyone’s favourite dog, Duggee! We’ll be screening eight episodes of the show in the cinema then get your pens and pencils ready for a Hey Duggee colouring in session
10.30 – 12.30 in The Link!

10:30-12:00
IL RUMORE DELLA VITTORIA
WATERSHED CINEMA 2 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
Presented in partnership Eyes Made and thanks to Cinedeaf. The documentary shows how it is possible to break all the barriers thourgh the life stories of six Deaf young sport champions.

11:00-12:00
CHILDREN’S JURY
WATERSHED CINEMA 1 £6 18 HRS 33 MINS
Working with film education charity Into Film, a programming workshop was delivered with pupils from Fairfield School in Bristol to select the films for this year’s Children’s Jury! Into Film is a nation-wide charity that places film at the core of the education and personal development of children aged 5-19.

11:30-13:00
RANDOM ACTS
WATERSHED CINEMA 3 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
Random Acts is Channel 4’s weekly late-night TV show and online short film strand featuring brilliant and disruptive art from musicians, writers, animators, artists and other random creative types. With each film clocking in around four minutes, this screening is a chance to experience a range of mini- mindblowers from the Class of 2018.

12:30-14:00
SCRATCH ’N SNIFF CINEMA PRESENT WALLACE&GROMIT: CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
WATERSHED CINEMA 1 £6 ADULTS, £1 CHILDREN
1 HR 30 MINS
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12:30-14:00
LATVIAN ANIMATION 1: BREAKOUT
WATERSHED CINEMA 2 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
This retrospective program focuses on the act of breaking out of restrictions – both as an artistic or political gesture and as a theme within the films. Here we see a comic film about the fall of Lenin’s monumet that almost cost life sentences for the makers, as well as a film about the struggle o fan explorer to capture “real life”. The animations are created in a variety of techniques – puppet and object, cut-out, drawn on celluloid, in software or on the only paper was available for amateur cinema makers.

13:30-15:00
DEAF SHORTS: SISTER ACT
WATERSHED CINEMA 3 £6 1 HR 26 MINS
For the third year running we have created a programme with the
aim of normalising on-screen D/ deafness. This year’s programme gives a nod to the centenary of the suffragette movement with all leading roles being played by D/ deaf women.

14:30-16:00
LATVIAN ANIMATION 2: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
WATERSHED CINEMA 2 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
What common desire is shared by five cats from a folktale, a circus bear and shopkeeper Olga who
is stuck in her kiosk? The motif of this retrospective program
is pursuit of happiness through time – the dreams, the beauty, the overcoming of one’s fears and prejudice. Among these films are a few classics, some lesser shown and known rarities and fresh work of the youngest generation of animation filmmakers.

15:00-16:30
TEEN SHORTS: WE SEE YOU
WATERSHED CINEMA 1 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
Being a teenager is tough, being a girl is tough, being a teenage girl is really tough. This programme highlights some of the daily struggles and also provides a little acknowledgement and let’s all young women know…we see you.

15:30-17:00
DEPICT
WATERSHED CINEMA 3 £6 1 HR 30 MINS

Depict is Watershed’s super short filmmaking competition challenging filmmakers from across the globe to create an imaginative and original short film of 90 seconds or less.

16:30-18:00
BLUESCREEN PRESENTS: 17 YEARS OF OPEN ACCESS FILM SCREENINGS
WATERSHED CINEMA 2 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
Bluescreen has hosted a Short Film program at the Cube Cinema, Bristol for the last 17 years, supporting filmmakers through their open programme.

17:30-19:00
CONTEMPORARY ITALY
WATERSHED CINEMA 3 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
The quest for realism in Italian cinema is more alive than ever. Social topics ranging from immigration to work have become widespread in Italian shorts as well as feature films.

19:30-21:00
ITALIAN HORROR SHORTS
WATERSHED CINEMA 3 £6 1 HR 30 MINS
Italian horror films are better known outside of Italy. From Bava to Fulci, the great Italian masters of this genre have emulators and devoted fans all across the globe.

20.00-21.00
SHORTS2FEATURES: TERROR NULLIUS
WATERSHED CINEMA 1 £6 1 HR
Supported by Performance Film & Media
Soda_Jerk’s TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable which offers an unwriting of Australian national mythology.
21:30-23:30

ITALIAN HORROR: BLACK SABBATH

WATERSHED CINEMA 3

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