Every year Cherbourg’s film Festival rewards the future successes of Irish and British cinema by the way of a feature film competition. | Ces films répondent aux critères suivants | - Film inédit en France : ( non distribué)
- Nouveau réalisateur : 1er ou 2nd film
- Origine du film : Irlande ou Grande Bretagne
- Format : 35 mm
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Faker's

|  | de Richard Janes avec Matthew Rhys, Kate Ashfield, Tom Chambers, Tony Haygarth, Art Malik Année de production : 2003 durée : 1h26 Grande-Bretagne Faker's is an off-beat, comedy crime caper set in London art world. Nick Edwards( Matthew Rhys ) owes £50.000 and has no way of paying-off wannabe crime lord Foster Wright ( Art Malik ). This is until he stumbles across a lost sketch by legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini. Problem is it's only worth £15.000. A plan is hatched; to forge the drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries within an hour before anyone cottons onto the fact that there's a scam going down. |
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Adam and Paul

|  | de Lenny Abrahamson avec Mark O’Halloran, Tom Murphy Année de production : 2004 durée : 1h26 Irlande
Friend's since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hapless desperate junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. A stylised downbeat physical comedy, the film follows the boys over the course of a simple day, which like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. |
Deadlines

|  | de Ludi Boeken, Michael Alan Lerneravec Stephen Moyer, Anne Parillaud, Omid Djalili, Georges Siatides Année de production : 2003 Durée : 1h43 Grande-Bretagne
Based on real events, Deadlines is a surreal, harrowing, sometimes darkly comic thriller set in wartime Beirut. Alex Randal, a young reporter with far more bravado than experience, arrives in the war torn city to cover the deadly double bombing of America's US Marine barracks and France's paratrooper base. In the mayhem he meets Julia Muller, a beautiful, enigmatic photographer. Like Beirut itself, nothing with Julia is what it seems. |
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Out on a Limb

|  | de Robert Heath avec Henry Goodman, Neil Stuke, Julianne White, Costa Milton Année de production : 2004 durée : 1h38 Grande-Bretagne Take on television chef, past his sell-by date, add three armed robbers, stir in the police and simmer for three days. Bring to the boil and serve with a dressing of sexual tension and confusion. |
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Man Dancin

|  | de Norman Stone avec Alex Ferns, Tom Georgeson,Kenneth Cranham, James Cosmo, Jenny Foulds Année de production : 2003 durée : 1h54 Grande-Bretagne After being detained at her Majesty's pleasure, Jimmy Kerrigan returns to his family home in a tough Glaswegian estate. It's only been a few years but the Glasgow that he knew has changed, and more importantly to those who knew him, so has Jimmy Kerrigan - dramatically. Sparks fly when the new hits the old and the events that follows will soon change Kerrigan, his friends and his world forever... |
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Afterlife

|  | de Alison Peebles avec Lindsay Duncan, Kevin McKidd, Paula Sage, James Laurenson, Shirley Henderson Année de production : 2003 durée : 1h44 Grande-Bretagne Afterlife is a film about love and fillialy. It's the story's of two siblings, Kenny and Roberta Brogan. Kenny is an ambitious young journalist, on the brink of a fantastic career opportunity in New York. His sister Roberta has Down's syndrome and still lives at home with their mother, May. Two very different siblings, two very different lives. But everything is about to change when tragedy strikes and they are forced to reassess their future. |
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