Margate Film Festival 2020: Staying Afloat
Margate Film Festival returns for its third year to present a lockdown special edition, bringing you exclusive access to films from around the world, available to watch from the comfort of your own home.
The festival kicks off on Friday 27th, with the launch of #100years from The Cabinet of Living Cinema, presenting a collection of live score performances to silent films from across the last century, with an Instagram Live introduction. Francesca Ter-Berg will close the festival on Sunday 29th with a live performance streamed from the Tom Thumb Theatre.
The stand-out features this year include yet to be released Rose Plays Julie, a gripping psychological thriller about a young woman seeking her biological mother; March For Dignity documenting the organisers of Tbilisi Pride fight for visibility in Georgia (in partnership with Margate Pride); Hurt By Paradise, partly shot in Margate following a young mother who tries to carve out a career with comically unsuccessful results; and the Most Brilliant Friends, a funny, heartbreaking and intimate documentary that unflinchingly observes the fragile relationships of Slow Club during their 2016 tour.
Amongst the short films programmes you'll find mythical creatures, mysterious strangers and magical encounters, as well as daredevil explorers, struggling artists and ancestral powers. For the first time the festival is including a family friendly programme, The Natural World, in collaboration with Rise Up Clean Up, to inspire children ages 5+ to question how we can save our oceans. MFF also teams up with DocHouse to present their lockdown-inspire short film collection.
The audience favourite seaside theme returns again this year in Coasting Along, a collection of short films that bring together characters living by the coast, who find themselves drifting through life - with films shot locally in Margate, Herne Bay and Broadstairs.
MFF is also proudly supporting PeopleDem Collective through voluntary donations for the #BlackLivesMattercollection, documenting the widespread injustice against Black communities around the world.
Audiences will also be able to access our archive film collection, The Margate Time Warp, documenting the local area from 1925 onwards.
Plus much, much more.
This year's films are all offered with sliding-scale ticket pricing, and are available for view across the whole weekend.
Explore the full programme and book tickets at https://bit.ly/MargateFF20