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WHAT'S ON - 11/2014

  • AFTER LUCIA (EVENING COURSE: SOUTH FACING)

    When teen Ale moves with her father to Mexico City following the death of her mother, both try to find new ways of coping. Ale enters the tough world of a new school and initially manages to ignore her tormentors,... Read More

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  • AFTERNOON TALK: GETTING YOUR SCRIPT OUT THERE AND READ!

    Farah Abushwesha will give a masterclass for filmmakers, screenwriters and all creative individuals looking to connect with the film industry and develop a professional approach to presenting their work.

    Farah is a writer, film producer and founder of the BAFTA... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (PROGS 1 & 2 NOV) FREE EVENT

    Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.

    Vues de I’Irlande. Whet your appetite for the Carte Noire IFI French... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 1: TRIBULATIONS IRLANDAISES & LA RÈVE CELTIQUE

    Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.

    Vues de I’Irlande. Whet your appetite for the Carte Noire IFI... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 2: BELFAST, 1897 & 81

    Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.

    Vues de I’Irlande. Whet your appetite for the Carte Noire IFI French... Read More

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  • BIRD PEOPLE

    Director Pascale Ferran will participate in a postscreening Q&A. 

    People commute in a transitory world – a no man’s land of anonymity. The crowd as an ant hill of activity, a microcosm. Student Audrey (an angelic Anaïs Demoustier) works part-time as a chambermaid in... Read More

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  • CITIZENFOUR

    This film closes on Thursday, November 13th.

    Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras was developing a project about national surveillance intending to complete a trilogy of documentaries about post-9/11 America, when she started receiving encrypted messages by someone identifying themselves as Citizenfour.... Read More

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  • DAS LEBEN IST NICHTS FÜR FEIGLINGE

    Life’s No Piece of Cake

    An insightful and moving tragicomedy about a 15-year-old girl, Kim, and her struggle to cope with her mother’s death. Alienated by her father Markus’s grief, Kim retreats further into her Goth-like persona, eventually running away to Denmark with boyfriend... Read More

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  • DIPLOMACY

    Based on Cyril Gély’s play, this fictitious encounter compresses the extraordinary yet true circumstances of late 1944.

    Under Hitler’s orders, if Paris should fall to enemy hands then ‘only as a field of rubble’ General von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup) has mines planted and ready to... Read More

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  • DIRECTOR IN FOCUS: DONAL FOREMAN

    Donal Foreman, in conversation with the IFI’s Michael Ryan, will present a selection of his short films which stylistically and thematically foreshadow his debut feature, Out of Here which opens on November 7th at the IFI.

    PULL (20 minutes, 2009)During one... Read More

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  • EASTERN BOYS

    Gare du Nord train station in Paris, middle-aged Daniel (superbly played by Olivier Rabourdin [Of Gods and Men]), approaches Marek (Kirill Emelyanov), a male prostitute from Eastern Europe. They stare at each other and fix a price. Daniel makes an appointment for the next... Read More

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  • EAT YOUR BONES + INUPILUK

    Eat Your Bones focuses on ‘big’ Fred, returned home after serving 15 years in prison for stealing trucks. Jason, his younger half-brother is fascinated by him. On the eve of his baptism, Jason sets out with Fred and two other brothers on a crazy... Read More

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  • ELLE L’ADORE

    We are delighted to announce that Laurent Lafitte will attend this screening.

    Muriel Bayen (Sandrine Kiberlain), a beautician and divorced mother, leads an orderly daily life and an active fantasy life. For 20 years she has been the number one fan of pop... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

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

    The Film:

    Punctuated by three consecutive Thanksgiving dinners, the plot of Woody Allen’s brilliant Hannah and Her Sisters follows the lives of Mia Farrow’s self-sufficient Hannah and her... Read More

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  • FOOL CIRCLE + THE LIZARDS (DOUBLE BILL)

    We are delighted to be joined by Laurent Lafitte at this screening.

    ‘I’m calling you to bring you good news: dad is dead!’

    Léon (Laurent Lafitte) and Bruno (Vincent Macaigne), brothers diametrically opposed, never hung out, and saw even less of... Read More

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  • FRENCH FEST: MASTERCLASS: LITERARY ADAPTATION AND VISUAL EFFECTS (FREE EVENT)

    Pascale Ferran will be hosting a masterclass moderated by Dr. Brigitte Le Juez (DCU) and Dr. Patrick Brereton (DCU).

    Free but ticketed. Contact the Box Office on 01-6793477 or email at boxoffice@irishfilm.ie to secure a seat.

    This masterclass will be immediately... Read More

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  • FRENCH NEW WAVE AND CINEPHILIA (FREE EVENT)

    We are delighted that Antoine de Baecque will share a one-hour conversation with Dr. Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Literature, UCD.

    The IFI would like to thank at MK2: Margot Rossi and Anne-Laure Barbarit; at l’Institut Français: Christine Houard.

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  • FROM THE VAULTS:PURPLE TAXI

    Whetting appetites for the Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival is this French/Italian/Irish oddity from the IFI Irish Film Archive collection.

    Purple Taxi follows a group of emotionally troubled expatriates living in tax exile in an Irish village. Dr. Seamus... Read More

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  • GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (3D)

    This screening will be introduced by artist Gerard Byrne. 

    Jean-Luc Godard continues to do what he’s done for his entire career, fearlessly exploring the possibilities of cinema, while consistently provoking audiences, demanding a response.

    Here, he presents a girl, a gun and a dog,... Read More

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  • HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

    Alain Resnais Tribute and Marguerite Duras Centenary: Special Screening

    Introduced by Dr. Brigitte Le Juez, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, DCU and President of the Comparative Literature Associate of Ireland.

    A film where the literary and the... Read More

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  • I AM ALI

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Having occupied an undisputable position as a defining icon of the 20th century, the life story of Mohammad Ali has been frequently told in film and literature. Clare Lewins’ enthralling documentary features incredible archive footage... Read More

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  • IDA

    In early 1960s Poland, young novitiate nun Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska, making a powerful debut) is required to visit her Aunt Wanda, her only surviving relative, before taking her final vows. Her hard-living aunt is a proud member of the Communist... Read More

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  • IF YOU DON’T, I WILL

    Amidst a schedule of art openings, sessions with their personal trainer, social events and hiking, middle-aged couple Pomme and Pierre spend their time bickering.

    During one of their woodland walks an argument erupts: Pomme, tired of always trying to patch things up, snatches Pierre’s rain-coat,... Read More

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  • IFI & KINOPOLIS: ANIMATION PROGRAMME

    This year’s animation programme features a number of award-winning shorts in a wide variety of styles. In Tomasz Ducki’s Baths, two elderly swimmers meet at the pool. Ewa Borysewicz’s To Thy Heart follows a woman’s romance from total infatuation to... Read More

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  • IFI & KINOPOLIS: DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME + GUEST

    The IFI and Kinopolis are delighted to welcome Paweł Łoziński to Dublin to present a selection of his work. In Sisters, two elderly women sitting on a park bench reveal the dynamic of their relationship, the elder sister still maintaining an... Read More

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  • IFI & KINOPOLIS: JACK STRONG

    ‘Jack Strong’ was the codename of Ryszard Kukliński, a Polish army colonel who, disillusioned under Soviet rule and fearing for his country’s future, passed Soviet secrets to the CIA during the Cold War, yet remains a divisive figure in Poland,... Read More

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  • IFI & KINOPOLIS: PAPUSZA

    SOLD OUT

    Poet Bronisława Wajs (1908-1987), better known as ‘Papusza’, and portrayed in this biopic by Jowita Budnik, was a member of the Romany community in Poland, an ethnicity whose social marginalisation throughout Europe continues to this day.

     Papusza’s literacy... Read More

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  • IFI & KINOPOLIS: THE MIGHTY ANGEL

    The new film from Wojciech Smarzowski, subject of a special focus at the 2012 edition of Kinopolis, tells the story of Jerzy (Robert Więckiewicz, Wałęsa: Man of Hope), an intelligent and talented writer battling alcoholism. When he falls in love... Read More

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  • IFI & KINOPOLIS: THE WORD

    Director Anna Kazejak long search for a lead actress paid dividends with the casting of Eliza Rycembel as Lila, the 14-year-old who, when cheated on by repentant 15-year-old boyfriend Janek (Mateusz Więcławek), forces him to earn his way back into... Read More

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  • INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

    This film closes on Thursday, November 6th. 

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    IFI CLASSIC

    One of the most evergreen of science-fiction films, Invasion of the Body Snatchers has been remade by Philip Kaufman (1978), Abel Ferrara (1993), and Oliver Hirschbiegel (2007). While... Read More

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  • IRELAND ON SUNDAY: Ó CHÚIL AODHA GO hOILEÁN Í

    Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.

    A documentary tribute to a community in the West Cork Gaeltacht where men of all ages and from all walks of life gather every Sunday to sing with Cór... Read More

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  • LA ANTENA

    New Argentinian Cinema has won considerable audiences here, through the work of Trapero, Martell, Campanello and others. With the thriller and psychological drama the preferred genres, this exquisite black and white, near silent fantasy is worth a look. Telling a... Read More

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  • LA JAULA DE ORO

    The Golden Dream

    A group of Guatemalan teenagers attempt to make their way to the U.S.A., dreaming of the better life that the country promises. However, they are ill-equipped, both physically and emotionally, for the challenges they face getting there. This is an absorbing... Read More

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  • LADY CHATTERLEY

    Director Pascale Ferran will participate in a post-screening Q&A.

    Constance Chatterley’s everyday life, in a fascinating portrayal by Marina Hands, is dull and comfortable – the clock chimes, mealtime, walks in the park… Her husband Sir Clifford, crippled in the Great War, suffers from sexual... Read More

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  • LES COMBATTANTS

    This film was released on Friday 19th June 2015 and is no longer screening. 

    Following the death of their father, Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) agrees to help his brother with the family carpentry business. A chance encounter (and wrestling match) with... Read More

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  • LEVIATHAN

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Exclusively at the IFI

    Acclaimed filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has established himself as a significant presence in world cinema with films such as The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007) and Elena (2011). Winner of the best... Read More

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  • LI’L QUINQUIN

    Small-town life near Calais is disrupted when a chopped-up body is discovered inside a dead cow in a desolate WWII bunker. Inspector Van der Weyden, riddled with nervous ticks, and his sluggish, philosophical assistant Carpentier investigate, while a band of scoundrels led by ‘teenage dirtbag’... Read More

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  • LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON

    The last film in the Six Moral Tales is an opportunity for Rohmer to use the full powers of the imagination. Initially he develops the theme of the double life; can we love two people at once? As always the reply is ambiguous, ambivalent, but... Read More

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  • LOVE IS THE PERFECT CRIME

    Marc, a professor of literature, is known as a serial seducer. He lives in a mountain chalet with his hyper-stylish sister Marianne (Karin Viard). A few days after the disappearance of Barbara, his most brilliant student and latest conquest, Anna (Maïwenn) appears hoping to... Read More

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  • MARY IS HAPPY, MARY IS HAPPY

    This film is closing on Thursday, November 27th. 

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    There have been a number of films which have attempted to address the effect social media has had on people’s lives and the way we communicate in the modern... Read More

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  • MINUSCULE: VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS

    A summer’s day. A peaceful clearing in the country. It’s hard to imagine the frenetic battle that will ensue after a young couple run to shelter from a storm, leaving the remains of their picnic behind. Two tribes of ants... Read More

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  • MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

    Antoine de Baecque will introduce this screening.

    Even though it was a considerable public and critical disappointment when it came out in 1969, it is one of Truffaut’s most beautiful films: secretive, intimate, vibrant, oscillating between the wild and civilised characteristics of its author. All... Read More

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  • MR. TURNER

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Mike Leigh has fulfilled a long held ambition to make a film about British painter J.M.W. Turner. Focusing on the 25 years before his death, Mr. Turner depicts a character who, in Leigh’s words, was... Read More

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  • NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN

    Please note: this event is screening as part of the 2014 Autumn/Winter IFI Schools Programme only.

    English National Theatre Live’s encore broadcast of Frankenstein allows cinema audiences around the world the chance to experience this thrilling and disturbing classic gothic tale. Childlike in his innocence... Read More

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  • NATIONAL THEATRE: OF MICE AND MEN

    (SOLD OUT)

    ENCORE PRESENTATION

    John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is this month’s presentation in National Theatre Live, a series of performances from the world’s most prestigious theatres, broadcast onto cinema screens globally. 

    In this landmark Broadway revival of Steinbeck’s... Read More

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  • ONE MILLION DUBLINERS

    This film closes on Thursday, November 20th. 

    Never has journeying into the world of Ireland’s dead been as enlightening an experience as it is in One Million Dubliners, a fascinating exploration of Glasnevin Cemetery that was joint winner of the... Read More

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  • OUT OF HERE

    This film closes on Thursday, November 20th. 

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Director Donal Foreman deservedly won JDIFF’s CineTALENT award with his debut feature Out of Here last spring and now his brilliant, zeitgeisty vision of Dublin’s youth comes to the IFI.... Read More

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  • PARIS FOLLIES

    Following 2010’s Copacabana, Marc Fitoussi works again with Isabelle Huppert (Brigitte) who with husband Xavier (a wonderful Jean-Pierre Darroussin), farms beef in Normandy.

    After encountering handsome young Parisian Stan (Pio Marmaï) at a neighbour’s party, Brigitte heads to Paris on the pretext of an... Read More

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  • PLAYTIME

    This film closes on Thursday, November 13th.

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    Taking over three years and costing 17 million francs to make, Jacques Tati’s Playtime was by far the director’s most ambitious and fully realised film project. Shot on a vast... Read More

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  • POPULAIRE

    It’s 1950s France and country girl Rose moves to Paris to take on a secretarial job where it doesn’t take long for her boss (Romain Duris) to see the potential of Rose’s amazing typing skills. Next stop the national speed-typing championships. The glamorous costumes, cars... Read More

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  • PRIVATE PEACEFUL

    This faithful adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel  set during WW1 tells the story of two brothers, Tommo and Charlie Peaceful, and their love for the same girl. Narrated by Tommo from his position in the trenches, the film conveys some of the intensity... Read More

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  • SACRO GRA

    This film closes on Thursday, November 13th.

    Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2013, Sacro GRA has the distinction of being the first documentary to take that prestigious award. Depicting the disparate lives close to... Read More

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  • SCHOOL OF BABEL

    Please note: a panel discussion on issues of language acquisition and language learning will take place immediately after the screening. Speakers: Dr. Barbara OToole, Marino Institute of Education; Dr. Deirdre Kirwan, Principal, Scoil Bhride Cailini; Sevak Khachatryan, New Communities Project; and Lorraine Downey, CDETB... Read More

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  • SET FIRE TO THE STARS

    This film closes on Thursday, November 20th. 

    It is New York in 1950 and John Malcolm Brinnin (Elijah Wood) is an uptight Harvard graduate, an aspiring poet and critic who is in awe of Dylan Thomas. Despite the Welsh writer’s... Read More

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  • SPECIAL EVENT: INEZ – A CHALLENGING WOMAN

    Through archive footage, an interview with Inez McCormack herself, and contributions from friends and colleagues such as Hillary Clinton, Mary Robinson and President Michael D. Higgins, this award-winning film explores the life of a remarkable woman who began her career... Read More

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  • SPUTNIK

    To mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are showing this lively new addition to the canon of ‘post-Wall’ films. Frederike is a 10-year-old girl who attempts with her friends to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back... Read More

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  • STATIONS OF THE CROSS

    Maria (Lea van Acken) is a devout 14-year-old Catholic girl counting down the days to her confirmation. She is determined to devote her life to Jesus and longs to attain sainthood. Encouraged by her fundamentalist family, and just like Jesus... Read More

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  • THE BLUE ROOM

    Julien (Mathieu Amalric) and Esther (Stéphanie Cléau), both married to other people, indulge in an illicit sexual tryst. The affair leads to Julien being arrested and interrogated by the police, questioned for motives and alibis. But what has he been accused of? A clever,... Read More

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  • THE CRITICAL TAKE: THE BIOPIC

    Join our panel of Dr Tom Walker, Ussher Lecturer in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, Dr. Zélie Asava, Programme Director of Video and Film at Dundalk Institute of Technology and Anja Mahler, Collections Assistant at the IFI for a... Read More

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  • THE GUARANTEE

    This film closes on Thursday, November 6th. 

    On the night of September 29th, 2008, the Irish government decided to guarantee the entire domestic banking system. That decision was made by a handful of men in a room in the middle... Read More

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  • THE IMITATION GAME

    Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician who was instrumental in shortening World War II, having been employed by the British military to crack Nazi codes. His top secret work with others at Bletchley Park has been celebrated since information... Read More

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  • THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

    Purporting to be the account of a real life incident when the controversial author went AWOL on a book tour, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq features Michel Houellebecq playing Michel Houellebecq, who is taken captive in a clumsy kidnapping and ultimately gives his captors... Read More

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  • THE KING’S SPEECH

    A wonderful addition to the Leaving Certificate Comparative Study and based on the true story of King George VI (Bertie) who reluctantly assumed the throne after his brother abdicated. Although next in line, Bertie is considered unfit to be king because of a dreaded stutter.... Read More

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  • THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

     Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Edwyn Collins suffered life-threatening cerebral haemorrhages in 2005, and lost the ability to talk. As he edged towards a recovery, the only words he could initially say were “yes” and “no”, and “the possibilities are... Read More

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  • THE UNBEATABLES (3D)

    Be thrilled and entertained by this hit animation about Amadeo (voiced by Rupert Grint), the table football champ of a local rundown bar in Argentina. When football star Flash announces plans to demolish the old place to build the world’s biggest soccer stadium, the locals... Read More

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  • THE YELLOW EYES OF THE CROCODILES

    Director Cécile Telerman will participate in a post-screening Q&A. 

    Forty-something, beautiful and rich, Iris lives an easy, empty Parisian life. Exploiting her kindly lawyer husband, she fills her days lunching or sweating in a luxurious spa with her female friends. Sister, Joséphine (Julie Depardieu),... Read More

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  • THREE HEARTS

    Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde), a tax inspector travelling in provincial France, misses his train back to Paris. He asks Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) whom he meets in a café, to recommend a hotel. Striking up a conversation, they take a night-long stroll. They arrange to meet... Read More

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  • TIMBUKTU

    Timbuktu is overtaken by jihadists, who are heavily armed and emboldened with indignant righteousness. They insist women cover up visible flesh, and clamp down by banning music, smoking, football and laughter, while improvised courts mete out extreme sentences. In the dunes on the edge of... Read More

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  • TONNERRE

    Maxime (Vincent Macaigne) returns to live with his father (Bernard Ménez) in Tonnerre (meaning ‘thunder’), a small town in the Burgundy region. With the young and pretty Mélodie, a journalist at the regional newspaper, Maxime finds love when it is least expected.

    Amidst the apparent tranquility of Tonnerre, a passion is... Read More

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  • TWO IN THE WAVE

    Two in the Wave is the story of a true friendship that goes awry. Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut meet in 1950: they go to the same cinema clubs, write for the same magazines, the Cahiers du Cinéma and Arts. When Truffaut becomes a director... Read More

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  • TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER…

    This is possibly Godard’s richest film, brimming with the various experiments that so fascinated him during the mid-’60s. This examination of suburban evolution focuses on the so-called ‘shooting stars’, part-time prostitutes that sold their bodies to supplement their income, a new phenomenon borne out of... Read More

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  • WILDSTRAWBERRIES: PHILOMENA

    Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.

    Retired nurse Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) has been keeping a secret for 50 years. Whilst detained in a Magdalene Laundry in 1960s Ireland, her infant son was taken from her. The... Read More

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  • WINTER SLEEP

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Aydin (Haluk Bilginer) is a former actor, a middle-aged man now running a small hotel in Anatolian foothills. He lives with his young wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen), and the couple are offering support and shelter... Read More

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