Slow Food On Film

Slow Food Cork presents the 3rd year of Slow Food on Film at the Festival on Monday, October 10th 2005. One of the most successful programmes in the Festival, this endeavour brings together food and film in a unique way. Observing the tenets of the Slow Food Movement slow food producers from Cork city and county serve up their rare and tasty delights in combination with a series of interesting short films that deal with joy of food.

This year's theme for the programme is an exploration of our relationship with food. This delightful evening will be enhanced by the presence of five well known food producers who will speak and present a selection of food prior to the screening of each short.

Five Shorts will be screened throughout the evening:

• La Vida Dulce (Cuba) by Bettina Bluemner and Rouven Rech
• Table Manners (Switzerland) by Vania Aillon
• Full Moon at Volga Beach (France) by Camille Mauduech
• Kitchen (France) by Alice Winocour
• A Red Recipe to Cook Crustaceans (Mexico) by Hugo Rodriquez

The diverse selection of shorts range from a delightful Cuban short documentary which reveals the extent which Havana citizens will go for a slice of pink gooey cake, to the intricacies of cooking live lobster when you are actually afraid of lobster, to an exploration of modern day French cuisine. Many of these short films will inspire thought on the nature of our relationship with food and the politics of food production. This will be an evening to savour in the Festival.

For further information on the Slow Food Movement
please see www.slowfoodireland.com