1999 | Color | 94:00 Twelve-year-old James gets into a fight with another boy on the banks of the canal—and the other boy drowns. James says nothing about his role in the incident, but the memory torments him. He occupies himself with daydreams about his working-class family moving into a better house. Meanwhile, he keeps returning to the canal, where he starts to spend time with vulnerable 14-year-old Margaret Anne. Direction: Ramsay; Lynne Script: Ramsay; Lynne Production: Emerson; Gavin Photography: Küchler; Alwin Sound: Davies; Paul Music: Portman; Rachel Cast:Eadie; William, Flanagan; Tommy, Matthews; Mandy, Stewart; Michelle, Ramsay Jr.; Lynne, Mullen; Leanne, Miller; John, Ramsay; James, Quinn; Jackie Art direction: Morton; Jane, Nicholson; Robina Participation year at FICM: 2018
1999 | Color | 94:00 Twelve-year-old James gets into a fight with another boy on the banks of the canal—and the other boy drowns. James says nothing about his role in the incident, but the memory torments him. He occupies himself with daydreams about his working-class family moving into a better house. Meanwhile, he keeps returning to the canal, where he starts to spend time with vulnerable 14-year-old Margaret Anne. Direction: Ramsay; Lynne Script: Ramsay; Lynne Production: Emerson; Gavin Photography: Küchler; Alwin Sound: Davies; Paul Music: Portman; Rachel Cast:Eadie; William, Flanagan; Tommy, Matthews; Mandy, Stewart; Michelle, Ramsay Jr.; Lynne, Mullen; Leanne, Miller; John, Ramsay; James, Quinn; Jackie Art direction: Morton; Jane, Nicholson; Robina Participation year at FICM: 2018
We Need to Talk About Kevin It’s often said that sons inherit the sins of their fathers. Eva suffers the opposite: her 15-year-old son, whom she sacrificed her career to raise, has murdered several of his classmates. Haunted by all the unanswered questions about her child’s crime, she expresses her thoughts in letters to her absent husband, desperately seeking some kind of forgiveness or redemption that may never come. See More
Swimmer A poetic journey that follows a lone swimmer through the waterways and coastlines of the British Isles. See More
Small Deaths Set in and around a Glasgow housing estate, the film is based on personal memories and early experiences: a triptych of moments of reflection and loss in one girl’s childhood and adolescence. See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
