Bait
Mark Jenkin: Bait / 2019 / 89 minutes / Rated 15
Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.
Stunningly shot on a vintage 16mm camera using monochrome Kodak stock, Mark Jenkin’s Bait is a timely and funny, yet poignant film that gets to the heart of a community facing up to unwelcome change.
Film is rated 15, for more guidance please check the BBFC website.
The film will also be preceded by a short film selected from the Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) catalogue
This project is possible with support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK
Doors & refreshments open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start.
Fabrica
40 Duke Street, Brighton
BN1 1AG
“Bait is less an argument than homage, both to the presumably dwindling traditions of the Cornish coast and to the unexhausted expressions of older but no less compelling ways of telling stories in the cinema”
