Terence Davies

Terence Davies (b. 1945, Liverpool) graduated from London’s National Film School. His acclaimed feature debut The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984), composed of short films from 1976-83, screened at a number of world festivals. His breakthrough feature, also shot in his hometown, was Distant Voices, Quiet Lives (1988), which won the Locarno festival, took the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes, and was nominated for five European Film Awards. Davies also competed at Cannes with the films The Long Day Closes (1992) and The Neon Bible (1995), the latter starring the outstanding Gena Rowlands. He then cast Gillian Anderson in the lead in The House of Mirth (2000). He returned to Cannes in 2008 with the documentary Of Time and the City, screened in the Open Eyes section at KVIFF 2008.

47. MFF Karlovy Vary