Riverside Screenings – tickets now on sale

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Posted by Festival Team at 4:55 pm , August 27, 2009

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Book now for our Riverside Screenings, the quintessentially Cambridge experience – cinema on a punt!

Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema screens on the riverbank ﬂickering into life as you approach. Welcome to our Riverside Screenings – a much-praised addition to the 2008 Festival programme, back this year.

Embark from Grantchester at dusk on a chauffeured punt to watch our selection of specially curated ﬁlms, each evening based around a different theme. We provide champagne, warm blankets and the promise of a memorable and magical event.

Check in at the Red Lion pub in Grantchester from 7.30pm where you can enjoy a drink or pre-punt supper. Once checked in, you’ll be escorted to the punts, which will be departing at 15 minute intervals between 8.00pm and 9.00pm.

What’s on

Thursday 10 September, 7.30pm | HEARTLAND (CFF PG)
Nurture your inner romantic with a series of shorts and excerpts focusing on love. In keeping with the dramatic setting, the programme explores the theme of romance and its melodramatic qualities.

Saturday 12 September, 7.30pm | UP TO THE SOUTH (CFF PG)
At once challenging and touching, personal and political, Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra’ad’s UP TO THE SOUTH (TALEEN A JUNUUB) provides a lyrical insight into the minds, hearts, and lived reality of the people of southern Lebanon – and tests the border between art and documentary. This screening is part of CARTES POSTALES: FROM BEIRUT WITH LOVE, a selection of artists’ moving image ﬁlm and video works specially curated for the Festival.

Monday 14 September, 7.30pm | PAST TIME (CFF PG)
Take a trip back into the region’s past with an archive programme featuring East Anglia in days gone by. Poignant, nostalgic, captivating – with a few comedic touches along the way.

Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm | DARKLIGHT (CFF 15)
A programme of creepy clips to chill the blood and make you wonder whether that owl you heard really was an owl. Do you dare?

Tickets

Tickets: Adults: £25, Picturehouse Members / Concessions: £20

Includes chauffeured punt from Grantchester Meadows to Dead Man’s Corner and complimentary champagne.

For only an extra £5 you can purchase a return punt trip.

How to book

Booking is through the Arts Picturehouse, either in person at the box office, over the phone on 0871 704 2050* or online.

*Calls cost 10p per minute from a landline

One Response to “Riverside Screenings – tickets now on sale”

Audrey Cook said on:

September 28th, 2009 at 12:51 am

Hi: I dropped by the Festival on the closing night, and I so wish I could have seen more. I saw “Crying with Laughter” and attended the Q & A with the director. What a terrific film. I am a trauma therapist from Vancouver, B.C. and am very involved with people who have abused in Residential School – so the topic was very interesting as well as being very moving.
“Rain of the Children” was also excellent, about a Maori woman, and the impact of colonialism. I work with aboriginals in Canada, so this film was also close to my heart.
The Festival made Alumni Weekend very special, thank you so very much. The young woman selling tix was great too, what energy and warmth.
Thanks again
Audrey