Cambridge to open with Hawking
- Festival to celebrate the work of German cult director Roland Klick
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (September 19-29), presented by the Cambridge Film Trust, will open with Stephen Finnigan’s Hawking, starring Nathan Chapple, Martin King and Joe Lovell. The film is about theoretical physicist, cosmologist, best-selling author and Cambridge resident Stephen Hawking and will be presented in person by Professor Hawking.
Other Festival highlights include a Young American Cinema programme, showcasing the innovative new filmmakers who have emerged in the US in recent years, using alternative resources and imagination to get films made with smaller budgets. Films include the UK premiere of Matt Porterfield’s I Used To Be Darker and Only The Young by Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet.
The festival also celebrates the work of German visionary cult director Roland Klick with a retrospective programme in collaboration with Goethe-Institut. Widely regarded as the great hope of German Cinema in the 70s, Roland Klick should have had a brilliant career. But too imaginative and unconventional for the cinema of that time, marginalized by the critical establishment – although his films won several federal film awards – he did not join the ranks nor shared the success of the New German Cinema directors. The festival will screen Klick’s seminal works Deadlock (1970), Supermarket (1973) and White Star (1983) and in addition, Sandra Pretchel’s documentary Roland Klick – The Heart Is A Hungry Hunter [+see also:
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The full Cambridge Film Festival programme will be announced in mid-August.
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