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Dartmouth Food Festival Film Festival

- who needs Cannes?

From a mystical tale of a chocolatier in rural France through to pies to die for, literally – our film festival celebrates all that’s great about food, drink and romance...

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Jamon Jamon Certificate: 18 (Spanish with English subtitles)
Thursday 15th October
Organised by: The Dartmouth Film Society
After his girlfriend Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis, executive at his parents’ underwear factory, promises to marry her. However, as she is merely a lower class shop floor worker, his mother hires would-be underwear model and bullfighter Raul to seduce her.
Starring: Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem (together on screen for the first time)
Thursday 15th October; 7pm in the Guildhall for tastings of ham, bread and pickles (small additional charge). Ticket price: £3.50 to guests and non-members of the Society
Tickets from The Windjammer Pub, Victoria Road between 7.30pm and 7.55pm on the night or reserve in advance by calling Rob Bird (01803 835849)

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Certificate: 18
Monday 19th October at The Flavel
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman & Ali G.
In early 19th-century London, barber Benjamin Barker (Depp) is transported to a penal colony by Judge Turpin (Rickman), who wants Barker’s wife. Fifteen years later, Barker returns under the guise of Sweeney Todd, moves into his old room above Mrs. Lovett’s (Bonham-Carter) pie shop and starts plotting his bloody revenge...
Tastings from 7.00pm; Film starts: 8.00pm
Ticket price
(including tastings): £8 adults, £7.50 concessions (students and senior Citizens). Tickets from The Flavel Centre
Sponsored by: Chunk of Devon
Producing handmade, award-winning free-range pies

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Chocolat  Certificate: 12
Thursday 22nd October The Flavel
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina and Judi Dench
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
Tastings from 7.00pm; Film starts 8.00pm
Ticket price
(including tastings): £8 adults, £7.50 concessions (students and senior Citizens). Tickets from The Flavel Centre
Sponsored by: The Salcombe Chocolate Academy
Running chocolate workshops for chocolate connoisseurs

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06 October 2009