Friday, September 25th Double Feature: Program starts at 7:30pm CALL ME SON (short) When you've had more parents than birthdays, the last thing you want are two more. Writer/Director: Louis McCullagh Producers: Louis McCullagh, Chris Myers Starring: Ciaran Flynn, Andy Moore Official selection: Cinemagic International Film Festival, Salford Film Festival, Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, San Francisco International Children’s Film Festival, Phoenix International Film Festival, Reel Heart International Film Festival CHERRYBOMB (feature) US Premiere Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shoplifting and stealing cars. But what has started as a game turns deadly serious when they discover the wild ride they’ve set in motion won’t let them get off. Directors: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Writer: Daragh Carville Producers: Simon Basanquet, Michael Casey, Mark Huffam Starring: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, Kimberley Nixon, and James Nesbitt Official Selection: Berlin Film Festival 2009 Belfast Film Festival Dublin Film Festival Come join the Cherrybomb Facebook group! COUNTDOWN (short) Countdown is a short dramatic film about two young people, Robbie and Sinead, and their relationship in the months and the night leading up to Sinead’s overdose. It is adapted from Countdown to Ecstacy a poem by Adrian Wistreich. Director: David Tynan IDENTITIES (feature documentary) US Premiere Charting the multicoloured, multicultural transgender community in Ireland, five stories give shape to the different but parallel worlds of transvestism, transsexualism, drag, sexual identity, and gender dysphoria. At its heart, this is a film about the human spirit, overcoming stereotype and categorisation to allow personality and human emotion a path to expression. Q & A to follow. Director: Vittoria Colonna Producer: Rachel Lysaght Winner, Best Documentary, Gaze Film Festival, 2009 Official Selection: Galway Film Fleadh, 2009 Guth Gafa Film Festival, Donegal, June 2009 Divergenti Film Festival, Bologna, June 2009 Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, May 2009 Ireland on Sunday, Irish Film Institute, December 2008 53rd Corona Cork Festival, October 2008

2009 festival sep 23rd - 27th

Opening night film to launch 2009 festival

Hollywood Reporter By Doris Toumarkine