OPENING NIGHT: DEREK VS DEREK + DIRECTOR Q&A
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a3901860-7fff-d3e9-30bd-3d6d5ebc850f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scottish Premiere</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us for the Opening Night of the 4th Montrose LandxSea Film Fest — a chance to celebrate, raise a glass, and launch a weekend of films, conversations and connections. This screening will be followed by opening night drinks at the Playhouse bar, to which all ticket holders are invited. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In rural Devon, two neighbouring farmers — both called Derek — have become unlikely representatives of a much bigger argument about land, food, nature and change. Derek Banbury runs an intensive dairy farm and sees no reason to stop. Derek Gow has taken a radically different path, transforming his fields into a haven for beavers, wild boar and native species.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What begins as a local feud soon opens out into something richer and more revealing: a portrait of a countryside under pressure, where tradition, livelihoods, biodiversity and belonging are all up for debate.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Funny, characterful and quietly profound, this is environmental storytelling at its most human: messy, affectionate, argumentative, and full of life.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Followed by a live Q&A with director James Dawson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Director: James Dawson | Country: UK | Year: 2026 | Running Time: 88 mins | Language: English | Rating: BBFC 15 </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening Night drinks </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the screening, join us in the Playhouse Bar to meet festival filmmakers and special guests, and help us kick-off the weekend in style.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This film is subtitled. Post-film Q&A will be live captioned (CART). Learn more about </span><a href="https://www.landxsea.org/access"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(62, 124, 159); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">access at the festival </span><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(62, 124, 159); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">→</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event is part of the 4th Montrose LandxSea Film Festival, Scotland’s environmental film festival: a weekend of films, conversations and special events exploring climate, nature, place and our changing world. Find out more at </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.landxsea.org/">landxsea.org</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div></span>PT2H8M152026-09-11enJames Dawson
OPENING NIGHT: DEREK VS DEREK + DIRECTOR Q&A"OPENING NIGHT: DEREK VS DEREK + DIRECTOR Q&A"Showtimes
September 11, 7:30 pm
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