Irish Film Institute -IFI OPEN DAY 2014 (FREE FILMS!)

WHAT'S ON - 05/2014

  • 70MM SCREENING: STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

    Genetically-engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), having been exiled by Captain Kirk 15 years earlier, is hell-bent on revenge against the Enterprise and her crew following his escape. On discovery of the existence of the Genesis project, a technology... Read More

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  • A FAREWELL TO ARMS

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    A key filmmaker during the late silent and early sound era in Hollywood, Frank Borzage won the Best Director Oscar at the first Academy Awards for 7th Heaven (1927) and repeated the feat with Bad Girl (1931).... Read More

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  • A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT

    This film closes on Thursday, May 29th.

    Rebecca (Juliette Binoche) is a committed photojournalist, hardened to grim realities of the world after documenting warzones. Recuperating after suffering an injury, she recognises how her work has affected her family, and works... Read More

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  • A TOUCH OF SIN

    This film closes on Wednesday, May 28th.

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    A thrillingly forthright survey of contemporary Chinese society, Jia Zhangke’s state-of-the-nation address decries a country gradually being corrupted by capitalism and violence, as an increasing divide grows between the urban... Read More

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  • AFTERNOON TALK: 1950s IRISH TEENAGERS, CINEMA AND TEEN FILMS (FREE EVENT – MAY 2014)

    Dr. Eleanor O’Leary of NUI Maynooth Media Studies will discuss 1950s Irish Teenagers, Cinema and Teen Films in our Afternoon Talk on Wednesday, May 21st. The cinema was a crucial window into international popular culture for teenagers in essentially pre-television... Read More

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  • AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON

    IFI CLASSIC

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    Yasujiro Ozu’s plaintive final film concerns widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu regular Chishu Ryu) as he comes to terms with changing times. He has been living happily for years, cared for by his unmarried daughter Michiko... Read More

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  • AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER

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    Closing this Thursday, May 1st. Tickets are on sale now.

    Nazif is the iron picker of the title, a member of the Roma community in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has two young daughters and his... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FREE EVENT)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month we present some of the source films from our Archive from which extracts were used in RTÉ’s States of Fear, and four television programmes uncovering neglect... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MAKING THEM PAY (FREE EVENT)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month we present some of the source films from our Archive from which extracts were used in RTÉ’s States of Fear, and four television programmes uncovering neglect... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (FREE EVENT – MAY 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month we present some of the source films from our Archive from which extracts were used in RTÉ’s States of Fear, and four television programmes uncovering... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 2 (FREE EVENT – MAY 2014)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month we present some of the source films from our Archive from which extracts were used in RTÉ’s States of Fear, and four television programmes uncovering neglect... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SEX TRAFFIC (FREE EVENT)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month we present some of the source films from our Archive from which extracts were used in RTÉ’s States of Fear, and four television programmes uncovering neglect... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SINS OF THE FATHER (FREE EVENT)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This month we present some of the source films from our Archive from which extracts were used in RTÉ’s States of Fear, and four television programmes uncovering neglect... Read More

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  • BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL

    Before the Winter Chill sees novelist and filmmaker Philippe Claudel reunite with Kristin Scott Thomas after their successful collaboration on the superb I’ve Loved You So Long (2008). Here, she is Lucie, the wife of prominent neurosurgeon Paul (Daniel Auteuil).... Read More

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  • BELIEVE

    Set in 1984 Manchester and inspired by real events, Believe is a funny and touching fictional tale about the legendary Manchester United football manager, Sir Matt Busby, who helps a wayward boy fulfil his dream. An act of petty crime... Read More

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  • BLACK JACK

    When earnest young Tolly (Stephen Hirst) gets caught up with villainous French sailor Black Jack (Jean Franval), he is brought into a world of body-snatchers, lunatic asylums and travelling fairs.

    Beautifully filmed by Chris Menges in the Yorkshire countryside, Loach’s... Read More

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  • CALVARY

    Tickets are on sale now. This film closes on Thursday, May 8th.

    Father James Lavelle could be the last good priest in Ireland, a jaded but open-hearted representative of an institution tainted with scandal and waning in influence. His parish... Read More

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  • CATHY COME HOME (FREE EVENT)

    When breadwinner Reg is injured at work, his wife Cathy has to fight to keep her family together, dealing with poverty, debt and homelessness.

    Shot on location in London on a handheld camera, with voice-over narration by the protagonists, Cathy... Read More

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  • EXHIBITION

    Closing this Thursday, May 1st. Tickets are on sale now.

    Joanna Hogg’s previous films, Unrelated and Archipelago, made astute observations on the malaises of the English middle-class, and were set among fragile families spending time away from home, in Tuscany... Read More

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  • FADING GIGOLO

    Making a rare appearance as lead actor, Woody Allen is bookshop owner Murray, who, when forced to close his business, sees an opportunity in making employee Fioaravante (John Turturro) available for ‘companionship’ to women of a certain age. The lucrative... Read More

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  • FAMILY LIFE

    The story of lower middle class parents struggling to deal with their rebellious daughter, Family Life takes on perceptions and the treatment of mental illness and is written by David Mercer, who had provided the script for Karel Reisz’ Morgan... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: DINNER RUSH

    Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.

    Lauded by Leonard Maltin in his list of 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, Dinner Rush is a little known tour de force from director and restaurateur... Read More

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  • FRANK

    Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) fancies himself as a musician, though his pitiful efforts at song writing don’t suggest a stadium tour is on the cards for him anytime soon, his limited talent unlikely to provide an escape from the day job... Read More

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  • FRANK & LENNY ABRAHAMSON Q&A

    We are delighted to welcome Lenny Abrahamson to the IFI to introduce the 18.30 screening of Frank on Friday, May 9th and take part in a post-screening Q&A hosted by IFI Head of Programming, Michael Hayden.

    Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) fancies... Read More

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  • FROM THE VAULTS: THE INFORMER

    We are delighted to welcome Charles Barr, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin who will introduce this screening.

    From the Vaults is our monthly screening from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    This fine British adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel, superior at times... Read More

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  • GIANT

    George Stevens’ adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel is unapologetically epic, ambitious and provocative. Dean appears as Jett Rink, a Texas cowboy who loses out to love rival Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) for the affection of Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor). When... Read More

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  • HELI

    This film closes on Thursday, May 29th.

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    Heli is a young factory worker trying to make an honest living for himself and his extended family. The young police cadet boyfriend of his 12-year-old sister Estela attempts to... Read More

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  • HIDDEN AGENDA

    A cracking conspiracy thriller informed by John Stalker’s exposé of the British Army’s shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland, Hidden Agenda has a great cast headed by Frances McDormand and Brian Cox. They play characters investigating the murder of an American... Read More

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  • I’M NOT SCARED

    10-year-old Michele fills long summer days riding his bike and running through wheat fields in rural southern Italy. However his playful days are interrupted with the discovery of a hole in one of the fields, revealing a young boy of... Read More

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  • IFI & DUBLIN DANCE FESTIVAL: RAIN

    On May 25th 2011, the world-renowned Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris presented Rain, its first ever performance of a choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance and founder of acclaimed dance company... Read More

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  • IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: SOCIALISM

    Godard takes an experimental approach to narrative, montage, screen text, editing and digital formats in this epic three-part film. Starting on board the ill-fated cruise ship Concordia, and moving across multiple locations, Film Socialisme explores themes such as globalisation, history,... Read More

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  • IFI & GOETHE-INSTITUT IRLAND: THE THREEPENNY OPERA

    As part of a wider programme on the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill taking place in advance of June’s co-production between Rough Magic Theatre Company and Opera Theatre Company of The Rise and Fall of the City af... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: MY NEIGHBOURS THE YAMADAS

    With this month’s release of The Wind Rises, from Japanese Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki, we are showing this earlier title from co-founder Isao Takahata. A story of Japanese family life, told with humour, insight and a bit of Japanese... Read More

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  • ILO ILO

    Tickets now on sale. This film closes on Thursday, May 8th.

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    Winner of the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes 2013, Anthony Chen’s film is set in Singapore, 1997, during a financial crisis in... Read More

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  • IN BLOOM

    This film closes on Thursday, May 15th.

    Tbilisi, 1992: the Soviet Union has collapsed and the newly independent Georgian state is in turmoil, with food shortages, desperate poverty, rumours of war and vigilantes on the streets. It’s not an easy... Read More

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  • IRELAND ON SUNDAY: CATHY BRADY – RISING STAR

    Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film. We are delighted to welcome Cathy Brady who will participate in a post-screening Q&A.

    This month we present a full programme of short film work by Cathy Brady – two-time... Read More

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  • JIMMY’S HALL

    Based on the true story of Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman deported from his own country as an “illegal alien”, what Ken Loach has announced as his last fiction feature focuses on the dance hall Gralton opened in rural Leitrim... Read More

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  • Junior Cycle Short Course in Film: Blancanieves

    Broaden your Junior Cycle group’s film horizons with this surprising and refreshing version of Snow White. Silent and in black and white, it is set in 1920s Spain. A famous bullfighter is gored in the ring, and when his wife... Read More

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  • KEN LOACH INTERVIEW

    We are thrilled to welcome Ken Loach to the IFI on Thursday, May 8th for a special interview about his career hosted by Seán Rocks (Arena, RTÉ Radio 1).

    Tickets €12 (€10 IFI Members). Free list suspended. 

    This interview will... Read More

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  • KES

    Based on Barry Hines’ novel, Kes is one of Loach’s best known works, an enduring story of a schoolboy’s passion for his pet kestrel. It remains one of cinema’s greatest depictions of childhood, evidence on its own of the director’s... Read More

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  • LADYBIRD LADYBIRD

    Maggie is a woman in her mid-30s who has had four children by four different fathers. Ill-equipped to look after the kids, Social Services step in and take them away from her. At her lowest ebb, she meets Jorge (Vladimir... Read More

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  • LIVING IN A CODED LAND

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    Closing this Thursday, May 1st. Tickets are on sale now.

    His first feature-length work since the acclaimed Silence, director Pat Collins marks his return with this mesmeric documentary, a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes... Read More

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  • LOOKS AND SMILES

    Another of Loach’s films adapted from a Barry Hines novel, Looks and Smiles was made during the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s first term as prime minister, when unemployment was reaching record levels in Britain. It follows two Sheffield school... Read More

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  • NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR

    William Shakespeare’s King Lear is this month’s presentation in National Theatre Live, a series of enthralling live performances from London’s most prestigious theatres, broadcast onto cinema screens globally.  

    Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) returns to... Read More

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  • NEXT GOAL WINS

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    Since suffering a record 31-0 defeat against Australia during a World Cup qualifying game in 2001, the pacific island of American Samoa has had the notoriety of producing the worst football team in the world, frequently trounced... Read More

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  • PATHS OF GLORY

    Tickets on sale now. This film closes on Thursday, May 8th.

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    Paths of Glory established Stanley Kubrick’s reputation as a truly great filmmaker, and was the first of his three films (along with Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal... Read More

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  • POOR COW

    Carole White, who’d appeared in both Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home, gives a committed performance as Joy, a young woman who has to deal with the consequences of the bad choices she has made. Left alone to bring... Read More

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  • RAINING STONES

    Bob (Bruce Jones) is an unemployed family man living on a Manchester council estate, a proud, unquestioning Catholic who is determined to buy his daughter a dress for her First Holy Communion. Without the means to do this, he turns... Read More

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  • RIFF-RAFF

    Stevie is an unemployed Glaswegian looking to start a new life in London. He finds a job on a building site, takes a room in a squat and starts a relationship with an aspiring singer. There’s a camaraderie with his... Read More

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  • RUN & JUMP

    This film closes on Thursday, May 15th.

    Connor (Edward MacLiam) was a skilled carpenter and loving family man before a stroke derailed his life. Returning home from the hospital where he has spent time recovering from a coma, his spirited... Read More

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  • STATES OF FEAR: DISABILITY & LEGACY

    States of Fear: DisabilityThis programme focuses on the experiences of the thousands of children who grew up in hospitals, and institutions for the blind, the deaf, and for those with learning and physical disabilities. A deeply disturbing pattern emerges of... Read More

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  • STATES OF FEAR: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM AND PANEL DISCUSSION

    States of Fear: Industrial School SystemThrough survivor testimony and state archives, this episode reveals the vast network of industrial schools which existed in Ireland throughout the 20th century where tens of thousands of children were imprisoned and where many were... Read More

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  • STATES OF FEAR: PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW WILL YOU TELL MY STORY?

    Telling people’s stories lies at the heart of every film and drama, but what responsibilities go with telling the stories of personal experience? Is documentary rather than drama, a fairer way of representing an individual’s story?

    A panel discussion, illustrated... Read More

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  • THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE FILM CLUB – MAY 2014)

    Join our panel for The Critical Take on Monday, May 26th to discuss the re-issue of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory, Lenny Abrahamson’s highly anticipated Frank (now showing) and critically acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s gripping drama,... Read More

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  • THE GAMEKEEPER

    George Purse (Phil Askam) is a former steelworker who has taken the job as gamekeeper on the Yorkshire estate of a duke. He’s not popular with locals in the pub after expressing forthright views on poaching, and with his aristocratic... Read More

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  • THE LUNCHBOX

    This film closes on Thursday, May 15th.

    Mumbai has a famously efficient lunchbox delivery system. Every day, a community of 5,000 delivery men, called Dabbawallahs, bring hot meals from the kitchens at homes to office workers. They navigate a busy,... Read More

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  • THE PUNK SINGER

    This film closes Thursday, May 29th.

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    That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood. I got news for you! She is! The archive footage presented here bears witness to the amazing performer and true original Kathleen... Read More

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  • THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND FILM

    Following the success of Cathy Come Home, Loach was commissioned by Save the Children and London Weekend Television to mark the charity’s 50th anniversary. 

    Filmed in the U.K., Kenya and Uganda, Loach sought to explore the politics of poverty, class... Read More

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  • THE SEA

    Closing this Thursday, May 1st. Tickets are on sale now.

    Art historian Max Morden seeks solace in a quiet seaside resort where he spent summers as a child. Taking up residence in a once familiar boarding house, prone to increasingly... Read More

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  • THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY

    It’s 1962, and Rydal (Oscar Isaac) is a handsome American self-exiled in Athens, working as a guide for sightseers, skimming cash from tourists in cheap con tricks. When he spots the well-mannered businessman Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) at the Acropolis... Read More

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  • THE WIND RISES

    The latest film from Studio Ghibli is reported to be the last to have its creative head, Hayao Miyazaki, credited as director. If this proves to be the case, the master of Japanese anime behind such cherished films as Princess... Read More

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  • UP THE JUNCTION (FREE EVENT)

    Portraying the lives and loves of three working class women living and working in Battersea, Loach’s adaptation of Nell Dunn’s novel was made for the BBC’s Wednesday Play strand, and provoked a record number of complaints at the time. The... Read More

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  • VENUS IN FUR

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    In a Paris theatre, director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) has spent a long, frustrating day auditioning actresses for the female lead in his new play, an adaptation of Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher Masoch’s novel about... Read More

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  • WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

    Originally commissioned for The South Bank Show, Which Side Are You On? was initially suppressed on the grounds that it was not politically impartial. Setting out to document the songs and poems striking miners were singing and writing, the ban enraged... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

    When Ida, who has been treated for breast cancer, discovers her husband’s infidelity, she is left to travel alone to her daughter’s wedding in Sorrento. At the airport she backs her car into the upmarket vehicle of irritable businessman, Pierce... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: QUARTET (FREE EVENT)

    We are delighted to welcome singer Mary Coughlan who will launch the tour at the IFI.

    The Access Cinema Bealtaine Film Tour 2014 launches at the IFI with a country-house-themed FREE screening of this bittersweet drama directed by Dustin Hoffman.... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: THE AREA

    A Ciotóg production, directed by Ríonach Ní Néill and Joe Lee, The Area captures the intimate relationship between members of the Macushla Dance Club and their ever-changing Dublin city neighbourhood.

    This screening will be accompanied by short films from the... Read More

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