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27th CORK FILM FESTIVAL

Cork Film Festival was non-competitive
in this year

27th Catalogue Cover
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1982 Highlights

  • Film Festival goes ahead despite speculation about its future
  • Financial difficulties result in the scrapping of the competitive short film section with the resulting absence of jurys, delegates and personalities
  • New style festival consists of 18 feature films from 12 countires. No shorts are screened
  • Arts Council agree to pay off festival debts of £41,000
  • Cork International Film Festival titled is changed to Festival of Film Cork as it is a non-competitive event
  • Opening Gala (Germany) Fitzcarraldo, directed by Werner Herzog who won Best Director Award for the film in the Cannes Film Festival
  • Screening of Neil Jordan's "Angel" the first ever Irish film written, produced and directed backed by the Irish Film Board
  • Festival is opened by Muiris MacConghal, Chairman of the Irish Film Board
  • World premiere screening of "Outcasts" by Robert Wynne Simmons
  • Festival breaks even as tickets sold for individual shows rather than for the season.
  • Closing Gala: (USA) My Favorite Year, directed by Richard Benjamin