BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22807@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:🎬 Queering Albion: God’s Own Country (2017) + two short films DTSTAMP:20260524T183814Z DTSTART:20260613T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Too often the inclusion of queer narratives in the British and Irish film\nlandscape are isolated to urban tales of found family\, illici t activity and a\ngeneral modern vs traditional culture dichotomy. While t his represents vast\npopulations of the queer society\, it excludes the ‘o nes left behind’\; those that\ndon’t want to trade their relationship with the land for their relationship with\nthose they love. This programme inv estigates the nuance\, pain and joy that\nexists for queer people in rural places in the British Isles. \n \n\nLandline\nMatt Houghton | 2018 | UK | 12’ | English\n\nIn 2010\, a chaplain from Cheshire set up a helpline for gay farmers. Landline\njourneys into the world of the people who called. A Londoner of mixed British\nand Indian descent\, Matt Houghton is a BAFTA -winning filmmaker who makes films\nabout outsiders and the unheard. His w ork experiments with form\, often treading\nthe line between fact and fict ion. \n\n \nLambing Season\nJeannie Donohoe | 2013 | Ireland\, US | 15’ | English \n\nOn a sheep farm full of secrets\, nature has its way of delive ring the truth.\nJeannie Donohoe’s passion for humanist storytelling has p aved her path from a\nSouth Bronx classroom to an Irish sheep farm to bask etball courts with NBA\nchampions.\n\n \nGod’s Own Country\n Francis Lee | 2017 | UK | 104’ | English\n\nFarmer's lad Johnny is struggling to choose between family duty and finding his\nown path\, until the arrival of a mi grant worker propels him on a transformative\nemotional journey. Director Francis Lee was brought up on his parents’ farm on\nthe Pennine Hills in Y orkshire. After training at Rose Bruford College he worked\nas an actor in theatre\, television and film. Years later he started to write and\ndirec t his own short films\, mediating on different aspects of life in the area \nhe grew up in. God’s Own Country was Francis’ first feature film\, premi ering at\nSundance and Edinburgh International Film Festival\, this quiet\ , moving\nrumination on loneliness and newfound intimacy was heralded as “ the first great\nfilm of the Brexit era”. This film's authenticity\, which is both tender and\nbrutal\, displays a juxtaposition of landscape and em otion\, and centrally\nexplores the question of what it means to be a man\ , to be queer\, and to be a\nperson of the land. \n  URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/queering-albion-gods-own-country-2017-t wo-short-films GEO:52.381974;4.8703107 LOCATION:Filmhuis Cavia - Van Hallstraat 52-1\, 1051 HH Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,festivals,film,queer,staatsliedenbuurt,storytelli ng,theater X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Too often the inclusion of queer narratives in the British and Irish film landscape are isolated to urban tales of fo und family, illicit activity and a general modern vs traditional culture d ichotomy. While this represents vast populations of the queer society, it excludes the ‘ones left behind’; those that don’t want to trade their rela tionship with the land for their relationship with those they love. This p rogramme investigates the nuance, pain and joy that exists for queer peopl e in rural places in the British Isles. 
 


Landline
Matt Houghton | 2018 | UK | 12’ | English


I n 2010, a chaplain from Cheshire set up a helpline for gay farmers. La ndline journeys into the world of the people who called. A Londoner o f mixed British and Indian descent, Matt Houghton is a BAFTA-winning filmm aker who makes films about outsiders and the unheard. His work experiments with form, often treading the line between fact and fiction. 


 
Lambing Season
Jeannie Donohoe | 2013 | Ireland, US | 15’ | English 


On a sheep farm full of secret s, nature has its way of delivering the truth. Jeannie Donohoe’s passion f or humanist storytelling has paved her path from a South Bronx classroom t o an Irish sheep farm to basketball courts with NBA champions.


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God’s Own Country
 Francis Lee | 2017 | UK | 104’ | English


Farmer's lad Johnny is struggling to choose between family duty and finding his own path, until the arrival of a migra nt worker propels him on a transformative emotional journey. Director Fran cis Lee was brought up on his parents’ farm on the Pennine Hills in Yorksh ire. After training at Rose Bruford College he worked as an actor in theat re, television and film. Years later he started to write and direct his ow n short films, mediating on different aspects of life in the area he grew up in. God’s Own Country was Francis’ first feature film, premier ing at Sundance and Edinburgh International Film Festival, this quiet, mov ing rumination on loneliness and newfound intimacy was heralded as “the fi rst great film of the Brexit era”. This film's authenticity, which is both tender and brutal, displays a juxtaposition of landscape and emotion, and centrally explores the question of what it means to be a man, to be queer , and to be a person of the land. 
 

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