CelticMadison.org has released the schedule for their annual Celtic Film Festival, which runs Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening in the Union South Marquee. The festival — which has represented a collaboration between WUD Film, the Celtic Cultural Center of Madison and UW’s Celtic Studies Program — begins after Friday’s They Came Together–They Came Together–Super Troopers block. (Don’t worry, Super Troopers plays late on Saturday night, too.)
Highlights include Sleep Furiously (Saturday at 3:00p), Gideon Koppel’s snapshot of his Welsh hometown in the face of diminishing agriculture, the hugely popular What Richard Did, Lenny Abrahamson’s melodrama about a young athlete who ruins his life with one poor decision, and Good Vibrations, a biopic of Belfast punk legend Terri Hooley.
The festival will also feature two separate short film sections. A collection of Irish shorts, including one from Dublin’s Shimmy Marcus, plays Sunday at 2:30p. Those films are preceded by a pair of “Shorts from Brittany” on Saturday at 2:00p. For the unfamiliar, Brittany is a region in France adjacent to the Celtic Sea and the English Channel. And yes, I just read that off of Wikipedia.
- The Celtic Film Festival is presented by the Celtic Cultural Center of Madison in collaboration with the UW-Madison Celtic Studies Program and WUD Film. It runs FREE this Saturday and Sunday in the Union South Marquee.