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APRIL 2019 THE DIG
THE IRISH DIRECTOR’S
FILM INSTITUTE NOTE
EXHIBIT The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s
national cultural institution for film.
April sees a packed month with the
launch of the Loopline Collection on the
PRESERVE It aims to exhibit the finest in independent,
Irish and international cinema, preserve
IFI Player, two major Irish film seasons,
and the return of the East Asia Film
EDUCATE
Ireland’s moving image heritage at Festival Ireland.
the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage
APRIL
engagement with film through its various
educational programmes.
AT THE IFI
Loro
Alive Alive O
LOOPLINE This month we’ll be launching the first volume of films from the This month, we’re proud to present, not one, but two focuses
COLLECTION IFI SPOTLIGHT Loopline Collection on the IFI Player. We’ve been busy working
on this major project over the past two years to document,
digitise and preserve this material, and to ultimately make it
on Irish film. The first is Northern Ireland – Our Battle of Images,
curated by filmmaker Dónal Foreman and IFI’s Head of Irish
Film Programming, Sunniva O’Flynn. This programme of
widely available to the public through free global access on the rarely-seen films that use alternative stylistic approaches to
This April, the IFI will make public the documentary output On May 30th, the IFI will once again invite filmmakers, critics, IFI Player. Over time, we will be unveiling over 45 different titles explore the Northern Ireland conflict will offer new delights
of pioneering Irish production company Loopline Film, academics and audiences to an engaging day of seminars and and over 900 hours worth of footage from one of Ireland’s most for audiences as many have never screened before in Ireland,
established in 1982 by filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle. With a focus panels reviewing the Irish film and television output of the last important independent production companies, Loopline Film. and they are presented here collectively for the first time.
on social activism and renowned cultural figures from at home 12 months. This year’s event will include a public interview The season will run from April 6th-30th with various special
and abroad, the first volume of films, which will be available with James Hickey, the outgoing Chief Executive of Screen Founded by Irish filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle in 1992, this introductions by guests.
free via the IFI Player and the IFI Player suite of apps, Ireland. Tickets €5.20 for a half day and €8.50 for the full day; Collection captures important chapters in Irish society, often
include portraits of Patrick Kavanagh, Margaret Atwood see www.ifi.ie/spotlight-2019 for more details. with a focus on the everyday life, in both urban and rural The second Irish focus coincides with Dublin City Council’s
and Gore Vidal. See www.ifiplayer.ie/loopline for more details. settings. It depicts traditions which are either changing or have One City One Book initiative, shining a spotlight on the work of
already changed forever, and there’s also a key focus on Irish writer Edna O’Brien with screenings of her trilogy - The Country
history and arts. We’re delighted to finally be launching the Girls (1983), Girl with Green Eyes (1964) and I Was Happy Here
first tranche of material and, given that most of this footage (1965). The screenplays for each of these adaptations were
was never broadcast, it will be the first time that much of it has also written by Edna O’Brien, and this short focus provides
ever been seen. It is an extensive collection that comprises audiences the rare opportunity to see these films again on the
master broadcast programmes along with hundreds of hours big screen – or indeed catch them for the first time.
of rushes, off-cuts and extensive interviews made during the
production process, and features a wealth of important social The IFI is also excited to welcome back the East Asia Film
and cultural footage. Festival Ireland for another season of very special screenings.
This year’s festival will contain a focus on the work of auteur
IFI IRISH FILM In partnership with our tech partners Axonista, we are
delighted to be able to introduce a new feature on the IFI
Tsai Ming-Liang and his long-term collaborator, actor Lee Kang-
Sheng, and we’re delighted to welcome them both to the IFI for
ARCHIVE TOURS MYSTERY MATINEE Player that will allow users to watch this exclusive unseen
footage, providing greater cultural context to all the films that
we publish. This technology will act like behind the scenes
a series of events and a Masterclass.
All this, plus releases of new Irish film The Dig; the latest from
bonus features and will allow users to easily navigate from the Neil Jordan, Greta; and Jacques Audiard’s (A Prophet) latest
Get a behind-the-scenes perspective of the IFI Irish Film This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just main feature and explore a little deeper. We hope you all enjoy The Sisters Brothers with John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix;
Archive and visit the film vaults beneath our building. This €5.20, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 21st. Sometimes it watching it as much as we’ve enjoyed working on it. alongside classics including a new digitally restored version of
tour gives a unique insight into the collections held in the IFI will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
Irish Film Archive, shows you around the film vaults, and talks one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for
through how we safeguard our collections that span from this month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous We very much look forward to seeing you at the IFI in April!
1897. Attendees will then be treated to lunch at the IFI Café Mystery Matinee screenings have included Stanley Kramer’s
Bar. Tours will take place in April on Fridays 5th and 19th. See Inherit the Wind and a preview of Paul Dano’s Wildlife. Ross Keane
www.ifi.ie/archivetours for further details. Director
2 3
NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS &
DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR APRIL 2019
A CLOCKWORK
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE OPENS FRI 5TH DATE SCREENING TIME
HAPPY AS LAZZARO OPENS FRI 5TH 3RD IFI & ONE CITY ONE BOOK 2019: 18.30
LAST BREATH OPENS FRI 5TH WED THE COUNTRY GIRLS
ORANGE
IFI CLASSIC
JUMPMAN 18.30
THE SISTERS BROTHERS OPENS FRI 5TH 4TH
THUR
WILD ROSE OPENS FRI 12TH 6TH OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: THE WRITING ON THE 13.00
GRETA OPENS FRI 19TH SAT WALL / WELCOME TO OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES
LORO OPENS FRI 19TH 8TH IRISH FOCUS: MÁIRÍN DE BÚRCA: 18.30
MON A LONER’S INSTINCT
THE DIG OPENS FRI 26TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: 20.40
DONBASS OPENS FRI 26TH THE SISTERS BROTHERS
OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: 13.00
STYX OPENS FRI 26TH 10TH
WED THE SISTERS BROTHERS
ASH IS PUREST WHITE OPENS FRI 26TH IFI & ONE CITY ONE BOOK 2019: 18.30 OPENS FRI 5TH Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony 2000, and this new, digitally restored
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES
Burgess’s novel has had a famously version represents the film’s first full
11TH IFI & EAST ASIA FILM FESTIVAL IRELAND 2019
FILM INFO: difficult history in Ireland. Although return to cinemas since. A Clockwork
THUR (UNTIL SUN 14TH)
136 minutes, UK-USA, banned from release in 1973, it was in Orange follows the exploits of Alex
12TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: WILD ROSE 13.20 1971, Digital any case almost immediately withdrawn (Malcolm McDowell at his most sinister
FRI Notes by Kevin Coyne
from circulation in this territory at the and charismatic) and his cronies as
15TH OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: IRISH WAYS / 18.00 request of its director after a media they indulge their pleasures through
MON THE IMAGE YOU MISSED
Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special
outcry in which it was claimed that a violence. Imprisoned for murder, Alex
screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18 16TH OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: MAEVE 18.20 number of contemporaneous violent voluntarily undergoes an experimental
TUES
years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is
required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction.
crimes were supposedly inspired by new therapy designed to cure him of his
17TH IFI & ONE CITY ONE BOOK 2019: I WAS HAPPY HERE 18.30 the film’s content. Following Kubrick’s anti-social urges.
WED OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: WILD ROSE 20.40
† The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. All films exclusive
to the IFI are kindly supported by the Arts Council.
death in 1999, it was finally presented
18TH OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: THE BLACK AND 18.30 in its uncut form to Irish audiences in
THUR THE GREEN / THE IRISH TAPES
MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN 20.30
GET SOCIAL! 21ST
SUN
MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00
HAPPY AS
NEW RELEASE
Join the IFI community online: 22ND OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: GRETA 14.00
LAZZARO
MON
linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 23RD SÉ MERRY DOYLE – IN CONVERSATION 18.30
TUES
@IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 24TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: LEAVE NO TRACE 11.00
WED THE BIGGER PICTURE: HEARTBURN 18.20
@IrishFilmInstitute FEAST YOUR EYES: WILD ROSE 18.30
25TH OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: 18.20
THUR IRELAND – BEHIND THE WIRE
For bookings and film information, please see our OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: GRETA 20.45
website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: FINDING YOUR FEET 11.00
on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). FRI THE DIG + Q&A 18.30 OPENS FRI 5TH Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) is an with Trancredi (Tommaso Ragno),
28TH IFI FAMILY: BUMBLEBEE 11.00
uncommonly obliging young man, the Marquis’s spoilt, feckless son
SUN (LAZZARO FELICE) one of a small community of farmers who inveigles Lazzaro to act as his
Open Captioned screening 29TH IFI FILM CLUB: STYX 18.15 FILM INFO:
in a remote Italian village who tend accomplice in a fake kidnapping to
MON 125 mins, Italy, 2018, the tobacco fields for the imperious pocket his mother’s ransom money.
Audio Described screening 30TH OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: A SENSE OF LOSS 18.15 Digital, Subtitled Marquis de Luna (Nicoletta Braschi), The surprising consequences of this
TUES Notes by David O’Mahony blissfully unaware that such exploitative ploy introduce a magic realist element
sharecropping has been outlawed since to Rohrwacher’s intriguing tale that
the 1980s. Indefatigably upbeat and operates as rural fable and as creation
The F-rating is a classification accommodating, Lazzaro’s endless myth for contemporary Italy emerging
reserved for any film which is goodwill is often abused by his fellow from an idyllic past to a compromised
directed and/or written by a woman. farmers. He strikes up a friendship present.
4 5
APRIL 2019
LAST BREATH WILD
NEW RELEASE
ROSE
IFI DOC
OPENS FRI 5TH In September 2012, commercial deep diving bell. Alone in the freezing waters, OPENS FRI 12TH Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley) is just out Wild Rose is at times a familiar but
sea diver Chris Lemons was stranded without any means of communication, of prison and determined to get her ultimately empathetic tale about a
FILM INFO: on the seabed with five minutes of Chris’s chances for survival were slim. FILM INFO: singing career back on track so that young woman torn between her reality
85 mins, UK, 2018, Digital oxygen left in his tank, but no chance 100 mins, UK, 2018, Digital she can live out her dream of being and following her dreams.
Notes by David O’Mahony of rescue for a further thirty minutes. Utilising testimonies from those directly Notes by Saidhbh Ní Dhúlaing a country music star in Nashville.
Chris and his colleagues were carrying involved in the incident, recreations Her hard-working mother, played by There will be Open Captioned screenings
out routine maintenance on an oil well and vivid footage from the divers’ the ever reliable Julie Walters, would at 13.20 on Friday 12th and 20.40 on
on the bottom of the North Sea when a helmet-mounted cameras, Last Breath rather she settled down in her home Wednesday 17th.
freak accident on their support vessel, is a gripping account of a seemingly town of Glasgow to look after her two
100 metres above them, caused the ship impossible fight for survival. young children that have been waiting
FEAST YOUR EYES
to drift out of control, severing Chris’s Enjoy the film with a specially patiently for her return. Blessed with
‘umbilical’ line and leaving him without created main course following a powerful performance from multi-
breathing gas or connection to the the 18.30 screening on talented and Kerry-born Buckley,
Wednesday 24th.
THE SISTERS GRETA
NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
BROTHERS
OPENS FRI 5TH Oregon, 1850. Sibling hitmen Eli and between the two. The shifting allegiances OPENS FRI 19TH When Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) Greta’s desire for companionship takes
Charlie Sisters (John C. Reilly and lead inevitably to violence. A disarmingly finds a handbag on the subway, she on a more obsessive edge. Isabelle
FILM INFO: Joaquin Phoenix) have been tasked by warm-hearted revisionist western, The FILM INFO: doesn’t think twice about tracking down Huppert gives a superbly baroque
122 mins, USA-France, their mysterious boss with killing Herman Sisters Brothers is a successful English 98 mins, USA-Ireland, its rightful owner, who turns out to be performance in Neil Jordan’s delightfully
2018, Digital Kermit Warm, a gold rush prospector language debut for French director 2018, Digital Greta (Isabelle Huppert), a lonely piano lurid thriller that wastes no opportunity
Notes by David O’Mahony Notes by David O’Mahony
and amateur chemist who claims to Jacques Audiard (A Prophet). teacher in desperate need of company. to drop a knowing wink to the audience.
have invented a foolproof method of Struggling to make friends in New York,
locating the precious ore. The brothers’ There will be Open Captioned screenings Frances indulges Greta and before There will be Open Captioned screenings
independent accomplice, Mr Morris at 20.40 on Monday 8th and 13.00 long a bond is formed over shared at 14.00 on Monday 22nd and 20.45 on
(Jake Gyllenhaal), has travelled ahead on Wednesday 10th. bereavements: Frances lost her mother Thursday 25th.
to intercept Warm and set up the hit. recently, and Greta is a widow who has
Morris is intrigued by Warm’s scientific become estranged from her daughter.
endeavours and a friendship develops As their friendship grows however,
6 7
APRIL 2019
LORO DONBASS
NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 19TH 2008’s Il Divo, a biopic of former Italian films, this version combines material OPENS FRI 26TH Since 2014 the war in the Donbass wryly satirical depictions of state
prime minister Giulio Andreotti, remains from both into a single feature. It follows region of eastern Ukraine has been corruption, media manipulation and
FILM INFO: one of Paolo Sorrentino’s most critically two main threads. In the first, a young, EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† raging between pro-Russian separatists the cynical fabrication of fake news
151 mins, Italy-France, 2018, and commercially successful films. regional businessman who uses escorts loyal to Putin and nationalists who to confrontational vignettes that
Digital, Subtitled A decade later, he has returned to to bribe and corrupt local officials FILM INFO: sympathise with Europe and the west. unsparingly examine the atrocities of
Notes by Kevin Coyne
politics, this time focusing on the career seeks access to Rome and Berlusconi, 110 mins, Ukraine-Germany- Memories of World War II and Stalin’s the conflict at a human level. Winner
France, 2018, Digital, Subtitled
of Silvio Berlusconi, who perhaps more hoping to acquire greater power, while Notes by David O’Mahony purges and famine lie close to the of the Un Certain Regard Best Director
than any other offers a multitude of the second sees Berlusconi (Sorrentino surface, regardless of alliances, and prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival,
possible narratives, many of his own regular Toni Servillo, bearing a truly a neutral position is not an option. Donbass is an act of protest against
creation, set amid Felliniesque excesses unsettling grin) battling personal and Constructed from thirteen distinct barbarity, corruption and inhumanity.
similar to those depicted in The Great political difficulties. yet thematically linked episodes,
Beauty (2013). Released in Italy as two Sergei Loznitsa’s corrosive, formally
daring new film alternates between
THE DIG STYX
NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 26TH This debut feature from the Tohill Callahan’s land in a relentless quest OPENS FRI 26TH On leave from her exhausting work as a the sinking boat, Rieke is faced with
Brothers will no doubt prove to be one to locate his daughter’s remains. With paramedic in Cologne, Rieke (Susanne a dilemma that her well-intentioned
FILM INFO: of the year’s strongest Irish releases, a local police refusing to move Seán from EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Wolff), a skilled amateur sailor, is interventions might cause more harm
97 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital downbeat but canny mix of thriller and his land, Callahan is faced with this daily navigating her yacht, the Asa Grey, from than good. Wolfgang Fischer’s second film
Notes by Kevin Coyne western tropes. Callahan (Moe Dunford) reminder of his actions, and ultimately FILM INFO: Gibraltar to Ascension Island, located is a stark, lean morality play that examines
has just finished his prison sentence for joins the search, hoping that both might 94 mins, Germany-Austria, between South America and Africa. the overwhelming immigration crisis in
2018, Digital, Subtitled
the murder of his girlfriend, committed find some measure of closure. A taut Notes by David O’Mahony Following a violent storm, she spies a microcosm, challenging audiences to
Q&A when he was blackout drunk. Since and visceral film, it marks an auspicious distressed shipping vessel off the coast question their assumptions of how they
The 18.30 screening on Friday he has no memory of the event, his start to the brothers’ directorial careers. of Cape Verde overloaded with refugees. might behave in such circumstances.
26th will be followed by a Q&A
with directors Andy Tohill and victim’s father Seán (a grizzled and Disobeying the coastguard’s frustrating
Ryan Tohill, producer Brian world-weary Lorcan Cranitch) has spent diktat not to engage, she rescues a Join members of the IFI team for a
Falconer, and actor the intervening 15 years painstakingly lone boy from the water. As he recovers discussion following the 18.15 screening
Moe Dunford.
digging his way through the bog on and attempts to signal to his family on on Monday 29th.
8 9
APRIL 2019 ARCHIVE AT IRISH
LUNCHTIME FOCUS
ASH IS
NEW RELEASE
PUREST
WHITE
Next Please
OPENS FRI 26TH Jia Zhangke’s typically enigmatic film drinking and presiding over games of
follows the intersecting trajectories of mahjong at their club. When they are STREET SMARTS MÁIRÍN DE BÚRCA:
(JIANG HU ER NÜ) a small-time hoodlum and the woman
who sacrifices her freedom for him.
arrested following a violent altercation
with rivals, Qiao takes the fall and is Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film A LONER’S INSTINCT
FILM INFO:
As is often the case with this director’s sentenced to five years' imprisonment Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office
138 mins, China-France-Japan,
– please see www.ifi.ie for more information. MON 8TH (18.30)
2018, Digital, Subtitled work, the action takes place at the on a trumped-up charge. Released in
Notes by David O’Mahony beginning of the new millennium, 2006, she reconnects with Bin hoping to This month’s Archive at Lunchtime features a This profile of 80-year-old feminist activist Máirín
when China was rapidly embracing resume their life together yet comes to selection of road safety films. de Búrca takes us from her childhood in Chicago,
capitalism. Qiao (played by Zhangke’s the painful realisation that nothing stays to her membership of Sinn Féin, to her role as a
partner and frequent collaborator Tao the same and there is no going back. PROGRAMME ONE founder of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement.
Zhao) is the girlfriend of Bin (Liao Fan), NEXT PLEASE She was an instigator of the Movement’s infamous
a gangster who spends most of his time In this chilling short film, the Grim Reaper awaits Contraceptive Train and later a prime mover in a
those who ignore the rules of the road. legal case which secured for women the right to
FILM INFO: William J. Moylan, 11 mins, Ireland, 1948, Digital sit on juries.
MR CARELESS GOES TO TOWN
JOIN US AND
In a life of fearless activism, de Búrca was jailed
Liam Ó Laoghaire’s film focuses on a driver’s helter- for her anti-Vietnam War activities and fined for
skelter journey from Wicklow to Dublin and contains attacking Richard Nixon’s car during his 1970
a stern message about the perils of drink-driving. Irish visit, but has never given up.
FILM INFO: Liam Ó Laoghaire, 11 mins, Ireland, 1949, Digital
Interweaving interviews with de Búrca,
PROGRAMME TWO commentary from colleagues and poetic
ROAD SAFETY FILMLETS reimagining of moments in her life, veteran Cathal
Watch Safety on the School Run (1972), Going to Black captures the spirit of a woman with an acute
School (1972), and Goldstar: School Bus Safety (1982). sense of social justice and the intelligence and
The support of IFI Members and IFI Friends plays For just €35 per year (€20 concession), IFI Members tireless determination to achieve it.
FILM INFO: Silverpine Studios, 9 mins, Ireland, 1972–1982, Digital
a critical role in our mission to exhibit, educate and get cheaper tickets, discounts, double loyalty points,
preserve cinema for people across Ireland and lots more. THE SAFE CROSS CODE DIRECTOR: Cathal Black
and internationally. Mr Crow and Foxy from the Lambert Puppet FILM INFO: 64 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital
It’s also never been easier to become an IFI Friend. Theatre introduce The Safe Cross Code.
With your help we can fund projects including the With a direct debit of just €10 a month (€120 per Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
FILM INFO: Silverpine Studios, 3 mins, Ireland, 1974, Digital
IFI Irish Film Archive, conserving Ireland’s moving film year), you can access a host of benefits including
heritage, the IFI Player, which highlights films from free tickets, exclusive screenings and Archive tours. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with
NACH AOIBHEANN BHEITH BHEO / director Cathal Black and Máirín de Búrca.
the archive on a free-to-view digital platform, and our TOO GOOD TO MISS
extensive education programme. For more information, Sinéad Cusack and Des Cave play a young couple
please see www.ifi.ie/membership. whose dreams are dashed after an accident.
FILM INFO: George Morrison, 11 mins, Ireland, 1966, Digital
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NORTHERN IRELAND – NORTHERN IRELAND –
The Image You Missed
OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES
OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES
APRIL 6TH – 30TH
Northern Ireland – Our Battle of Images is a programme of rarely-seen films, curated
by filmmaker Dónal Foreman, that use alternative stylistic approaches to explore the
Northern Ireland conflict.
The images that have come to define the conflict Many of these films haven’t screened in Ireland
The Writing on the Wall
have been primarily those of television and fiction: since their initial circulation, if at all, and they are
news reports, talking-head documentaries, gritty presented here collectively for the first time.
crime movies and human-interest dramas. However,
there is another visual history of the conflict This programme evolved in tandem with Dónal
Irish Ways
preserved in the lesser-known work of a diverse Foreman’s documentary The Image You Missed about
group of international, politically militant and his father Arthur MacCaig, a frequent documentarian
formally experimental films of the 1970s and 1980s. of the Troubles. It has been curated in consultation
with Sunniva O’Flynn, IFI Head of Irish Film
While most could be classed as documentarians, Programming.
their innovative formal approaches discourage
any complacent acceptance of the ‘real’, and often Introduction and notes on individual films SAT 6TH (13.00) MON 15TH (18.00)
highlight how images of Northern Ireland have by Dónal Foreman.
been manipulated and weaponised by the state
and the media. Coming from various radical and
The screening on Saturday 6th will be introduced THE WRITING ON THE WALL IRISH WAYS
by Joseph Long, the screenings on Monday 15th, (NOUS ÉTIONS TOUS DES NOMS D'ARBRES) Returning to Belfast ten years after his debut success
artistic milieux in New York, London and Paris, Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th will be introduced by
the filmmakers collaborated with locals eager for “Welcome to our battle of images! An Irishman never The Patriot Game, Paris-based Irish-American Arthur
Dónal Foreman, and the screening on Thursday 25th MacCaig counters the previous film’s rough-hewn
representation outside the narrow frames of Irish will be introduced by Dr Maeve Connolly of IADT. speaks to the person in front of him, but to an image!”
and British media, and films such as The Patriot The multiple meanings of this slogan spoken by Free didacticism with a much more visually lyrical,
Game and Behind the Wire would even become Derry activist Paddy “Bogside” Doherty evoke some character-centred approach, letting the political
organising and fundraising tools for Republicans of the complexity of this docudrama produced with situation reveal itself gradually through a series of
and their international supporters. a cross-community workshop which Doherty ran individual portraits on all sides, from both Republican
in Derry. Filmed during the 1981 hunger strikes by and Loyalist paramilitaries to RUC officers and
French avant-garde theatre pioneer Armand Gatti, the victims of violence. Produced for French TV, the film’s
film mixes folk wisdom with philosophical reflections vibrant 16mm colour imagery nonetheless makes it a
on the intersections of images and power. Local teens must-see on the big screen.
play versions of themselves attempting to put on a FILM INFO: Arthur MacCaig, 55 mins, France, 1988, 16mm
play about a dead British soldier, and, as the “battle of
images” implies, much is at stake in these questions
of representation in Northern Ireland’s burgeoning THE IMAGE YOU MISSED
surveillance state. Created after MacCaig’s death by his son, Dónal
FILM INFO: Armand Gatti, 114 mins, Northern Ireland, 1982, Digital Foreman, The Image You Missed draws on the
entirety of MacCaig’s archive of Northern Ireland
(including some extraordinary outtakes from Irish
WELCOME TO OUR Ways), intercutting it with his own images to explore
the two filmmakers’ contrasting experiences of Irish
BATTLE OF IMAGES nationalism, the role of images in social struggle,
In this short documentary, Fergus Daly interviews and the competing claims of personal and
Gatti shortly before his death about his time in Derry. political responsibility.
FILM INFO: Fergus Daly, 30 mins, Ireland, 2009, Digital FILM INFO: Dónal Foreman, 74 mins, Ireland-USA-France-UK, 2018, Digital
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NORTHERN IRELAND –
OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES
The Irish Tapes
TUES 16TH (18.20) THUR 18TH (18.30) THUR 25TH (18.20) TUES 30TH (18.15)
MAEVE THE BLACK AND THE GREEN IRELAND – BEHIND THE WIRE A SENSE OF LOSS
Born and raised in Belfast, Pat Murphy is The prolific New York documentarian St. Clair Bourne Produced by the London-based Berwick Street Film At first glance, A Sense of Loss may seem like a fairly
the exception in this program – but, as the complemented his career-long focus on African- Collective, Behind the Wire features some of the most conventional talking-head documentary exploring
autobiographical narrative of her debut feature Maeve American culture with this unique chronicle of a remarkable first-hand documentation of the early Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday.
makes clear, she was a kind of outsider nonetheless. fact-finding trip to Belfast made by five black civil years of the Troubles, from Bloody Sunday to the However, whereas the talking-head format is typically
rights activists. While most of the filmmakers in this burning of Dublin’s British embassy in 1972. Some of used as a way of filling out a linear narrative line,
Like Murphy, Maeve returns to Belfast after studying
programme do not explicitly reflect their position as its most searing images, such as that of internment German-born documentarian Marcel Ophuls’s
art in London, estranged from militant Republicanism
outsiders, Bourne makes it his subject, documenting arrests of 1971, would be re-used in many other exhaustive approach seems genuinely investigative.
and critical of its patriarchal limitations.
exchanges between the visitors and their Republican films including The Patriot Game, and it shares with Indeed, Ophuls defined this film as “an investigation
Her return is interwoven with fragments of memories hosts as they explore the commonalities of their MacCaig’s film an urgent sense of solidarity with of death in all its forms”, in which he would begin
and observations from her youth in war-torn Belfast, respective struggles, as well as the differences; Republican communities. Its allegiances are also with a bombing or shooting, branch out to question
as well as polemical arguments on the nature of myth most pivotally, their position on armed resistance. subtly distinct: Behind the Wire was distributed in everyone involved, and gradually draw out the
and history. Influenced by international currents of Ireland by the Official IRA, while The Patriot Game historical and ideological causes.
experimental film and feminist thought (Murphy had FILM INFO: St. Clair Bourne, 45 mins, USA, 1983, 16mm was supported by their rivals, the Provisionals.
Over 40 interviews feature, with everyone from
also spent time in New York), she and co-director victims’ families and internees, to Bernadette Devlin
John Davies were also reacting against other films in THE IRISH TAPES The Berwick Street filmmakers are also distinguished
by the visually rich and attentive care with which they and British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling. Each
this programme, particularly the work of MacCaig and The Irish Tapes is the first major documentary shot is permitted to speak at length, but is also challenged
document the daily practices of defence and survival
the Berwick Street Film Collective, which they saw on portable 1/2 inch videotape. Irish-American thoroughly, with Ophuls often presenting someone
carried out by Republican communities, particularly
as limited by an “ethnographic” approach that was directors Stefan Reilly and John Moore filmed in the with opposing views gleaned from another interview
during the hey-day of Free Derry.
unable to capture “complex political truths”. North over a three-year period in the early 1970s and intercutting the results.
FILM INFO: Pat Murphy, 115 mins, UK-Ireland, 1982, Digital with the support of the National Association for Irish FILM INFO: Berwick Street Film Collective, 111mins, UK, 1974, Digital
Freedom, a US group associated with the Official IRA. FILM INFO: Marcel Ophuls, 134 mins, Switzerland-USA, 1972, 35mm
Originally shown as a three-channel, twelve-monitor
video installation, it was later edited for broadcast on
television in the US in 1975.
FILM INFO: Stefan Reilly/John Moore, 42 mins, USA, 1975, Digital
14 15
Long Day's Journey Into Night
IFI & EAFFI 2019
HOTEL BY summons his two estranged sons,
Kyungsoo and Byungsoo, a newly
THE RIVER popular filmmaker. A depressed young
woman, Sanghee, is also staying at the
hotel, having been betrayed by the man
she loved. She passes time with her
friend Yeonju who has come to
THURS 11TH (18.30) comfort her.
(GANGBYEON HOTEL) Filmed in startling black and white
Prolific South Korean filmmaker Hong by Kim Hyung-koo, this is a fresh,
FILM INFO: Sang-Soo crafts another elegant humanistic exploration on family, life,
96 mins, South Korea, 2018, tragi-comedy, a chamber piece love and death.
Digital, Subtitled, Black and White unfolding in less than 24 hours at a
riverside hotel, where renowned and This screening will be introduced by film
EAST ASIA
ageing poet Younghwan resides. critic Tony Rayns.
Sensing his imminent death, he
FILM FESTIVAL A FAMILY
TOUR
the Chinese authorities. Her mother
Xiaolin, who lives in China, has a relapse
IRELAND 2019
of an old illness and needs urgent
surgery. Wishing to see her daughter
before the operation, they arrange to
meet in Taiwan. Xiaolin travels under
the regulated schedule of a tightly-
FRI 12TH (16.10) organised sightseeing tour of Taipei.
APRIL 11TH–14TH FILM INFO:
Yang Shu and her family check into the
same hotel, and follow the tour group
107 mins, Taiwan-Hong Kong-
Chinese writer-director Ying Liang’s to various scenic locations. With a
Singapore-Malaysia, 2018, first film since 2012’s acclaimed When radiant cast, this is a tender and heart-
Now in its third year, the East Asia Film Festival Also screening is the stunning A First Farewell, which Digital, Subtitled Night Falls is a semi-autobiographical
Ireland (EAFFI) brings together the voices of won prizes at both the Berlin and Tokyo film festivals, wrenching reflection on freedom and
account of an exiled female filmmaker, personal choice.
significant filmmakers from a multitude of plus films from Locarno, Venice and Cannes, including Yang Shu, who lives in Hong Kong with
geographical contexts: from the Han river in South Bi Gan’s Long Day's Journey Into Night, the modern her young son and husband, having
Korea to Osaka and Tokyo, from Hong Kong to Taipei, romance Asako I & II, Zhang Ming’s The Pluto Moment, made a subversive film that offended
to the Wu mountains and small villages of subtropical and the closing film, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s
China, to the villages and borders of Thailand and atmospheric Manta Ray.
Malaysia. Each skilfully addresses questions of
identity and the burning issues of our time including The festival would like to thank the Arts Council,
RTÉ Supporting the Arts, Dublin City Council, the
YOUR FACE After a chance meeting with Japanese
composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, and having
ethnicity, nationhood and family. pieced together the footage, he asked
Irish Film Institute, The Cultural Taiwan Foundation
Sakamoto to take a look. Tsai said, ‘A
The festival is honoured to welcome auteur Tsai Ming- and the Taipei Representative Office in Ireland for
month later, he sent me some audio files
Liang and his long-term collaborator, actor Lee Kang- their support with the Taiwanese Cinema Programme,
saying that I could use them in any way
Sheng. They are both here to present rare screenings and all our sponsors and partners for their invaluable
I wished. I was thrilled by it. It felt like an
of three of Tsai’s films: The River (1997), one of the support to EAFFI.
FRI 12TH (18.15) adventure. After more than twenty years, I
greatest films of the 1990s, I Don’t Want To Sleep
Festival Committee finally made a film with a musical score.’
Alone (2006), and his latest film, Your Face (2018).
Tsai and Lee will also lead a Masterclass on Saturday Maria O’Brien, Marie-Pierre Richard FILM INFO: Tsai Ming-Liang’s latest film is an The film will screen with Tsai's 2018 short
13th to be conducted by film critic Tony Rayns, one of East Asia Film Festival Ireland 76 mins, Taiwan, 2018,
Digital, Subtitled exquisite contemplative piece. After Light, and the screenings will be followed
the world's leading experts on Asian cinema. 第三届爱尔兰东亚电影节 2017’s The Deserted, a VR work with no by a Q&A with Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee
traditional narrative structure, and no Kang-Sheng.
The festival is pleased to offer a number of Irish
Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard. close-ups, Tsai chose to make this new
premieres, including the festival’s opening film, Hong
EAFFI is funded by the Arts Council. work exclusively with close-ups.
Sang-Soo’s latest comedy-drama Hotel by the River.
16 17
IFI & EAFFI 2019
ASAKO I & II handsome Baku (Masahiro Higashide).
It’s love at first sight and an intense,
THE PLUTO origins of heaven and the earth, creation
and reproduction cycles, a grandiose
mystical relationship forms. One day,
Baku vanishes. Two years later, Asako,
MOMENT portrayal of the Han people. But when
the urban filmmaker and his crew get
having moved to Tokyo, meets Ryohei lost in the mountains, they must hike
(also played by Higashide), Baku’s and stay with locals. Relationships are
perfect double. Although they look strained and Wang Zhun’s anxious,
FRI 12TH (20.45) identical, the two men are opposites, SAT 13TH (17.40) emotional nature is put to the test.
the two sides of one man. Beautifully Chinese writer-filmmaker Zhang Ming
(NETEMO SAMETEMO) shot in low light, this is a compelling (MING WANG ZING SHI KE) follows the characters spectre-like,
Based on Tomoka Shibasaki’s representation of love as a mystical Wang Zhun, a filmmaker living in in their moments of trial and isolation.
FILM INFO: bestselling novel Netemo Sametemo, experience, told with surprising FILM INFO: Shanghai, travels to the Wu Mountain
120 mins, Japan, 2018, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers a modernity and delicate lyricism. 110 mins, China, 2018, in southwest China to track down A slow-burning journey into the process
Digital, Subtitled. dizzyingly irresistible modern romance Digital, Subtitled. the traditional folk song The Tale of of creativity, filmmaking, politics, where
with an uncanny premise. Asako Darkness to inspire his script. Performed urban and rural cultures clash.
(Erika Karata), a reserved and sensible only at funerals, this ‘nocturnal song’ is
student in her 20s, meets young, regarded as a ‘living epic’, depicting the
TSAI MING-LIANG The Masterclass will discuss the
creative process at play in the making
LONG DAY’S distinct parts. The first, shot in 2D,
exploits voice-over and popular songs
AND LEE of artistic, complex and stunning films JOURNEY INTO to evoke memories, while the camera
KANG-SHENG such as The River, I Don’t Want to Sleep
Alone and Your Face, while examining NIGHT 3D glides through scenes filled with colour
and an atmosphere reminiscent of the
MASTERCLASS the working relationship that
has lasted between the two for
cinema of Wong Kar-Wai. Part two is a
long 3D sequence shot in a single
SAT 13TH (13.00) over 30 years. SAT 13TH (20.10) take, on notions of space, dreams
and memories.
The Masterclass is presented in (DI QIU ZUI HOU DE
Join auteur filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang association with Screen Skills Ireland. Luo Hongwu returns to his hometown Bi Gan remarks, "3D images resemble
YE WAN)
and actor Lee Kang-Sheng, his long- of Kaili in search for Wan Quiwen, the our memories… The three-dimensional
term collaborator, in conversation with TICKETS: €20; €15 conc.; €10 students FILM INFO: woman he loved and has never been feeling recalls that of our recollections
film critic Tony Rayns. 133 mins, China-France, 2018, able to forget. Chinese filmmaker Bi of the past… Like a mirror that turns our
3D Digital, Subtitled Gan's second feature is a marvel, a memories into tactile sensations."
nocturnal dream addressing issues
of time and memory, divided into two
I DON’T WANT on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. He is
found by Rawang, an immigrant worker
BABY had as an infant. With no certainty of
survival, the parents have decided to
TO SLEEP ALONE from Bangladesh, who lives in a massive
dilapidated building. Rawang carries him
refuse treatment and to allow the baby to
die peacefully in a hospice. Meng though
home, cares for him, and sleeps next to cannot accept the decision, and will stop
him. Chyi, a coffee shop waitress who at nothing to save the newborn girl who
lives in a loft above, is forced by her boss mirrors so closely who she once was.
SAT 13TH (15.15) to care for his paralysed son (also played SUN 14TH (13.00) Executive-produced by Hou Hsiao-Hsien,
by Lee Kang-Sheng). Their lives intertwine this is a tough, fast-paced, social
(HEI YAN QUAN) and a triangle forms. Nearly wordless, (BAO BEI ER) justice drama.
Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his native Tsai’s minimalist narrative style creates a Jiang Meng (a stunning Yang Mi) is a
FILM INFO: Malaysia, focusing on the city’s vast claustrophobic and hypnotic atmosphere, FILM INFO: foster child who, having reached the age
115 mins, Malaysia-Taiwan, migrant population. His ninth feature tells teeming with sexual desire. 96 mins, China, 2018, Digital, of 18, must leave the family. Finding a job
2006, Digital, Subtitled. the lives of three intersecting characters. Subtitled as a cleaner in a hospital, she encounters
Homeless man Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang- This screening will be introduced by a newborn girl in critical condition, who
Sheng) is robbed, beaten and left for dead Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng. has the same birth defect she herself
18 19IFI & EAFFI 2019 JUMPMAN
THE RIVER A young woman working as part of
a film crew runs into an old friend,
Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang-Sheng). While
hanging around the set, he is asked
to play a dead body floating in the
polluted Tamsui River. Soon after,
Hsiao-Kang develops chronic neck
SUN 14TH (15.00) pain. Characterised by slow action and THURS 4TH (18.30)
minimal dialogue, the symbolism of
(HE LIU) water becomes apparent as Hsiao- (ПОДБРОСЫ ) Denis (Denis Vlasenko) grew up in an Reunited with his mother, Denis feels
Regarded as one of the greatest films of Kang’s mysterious neck pain is mirrored
the 1990s, this is a rare screening of The orphanage where his mother left him that this new life of crime is a dream
FILM INFO: by a water leak in the bedroom that DIRECTOR:
as a baby. He is a special boy who, due come true until one day he begins to
115 mins, Taiwan, 1997, River’s restored version. Set in Taipei, it gradually becomes more serious. Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Digital, Subtitled is a tense, challenging depiction of city to a rare condition, is immune to pain. feel pain for the first time.
FILM INFO: This makes him popular among other
life, dysfunctional families, alienation, The screening will be followed by a Q&A 90 mins, Russia, 2018,
and sexual tension. Digital, Subtitled boys who take bets on how long he can
with Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng. Notes by David O’Mahony endure cruel physical challenges.
One day his mother reappears and takes
A FIRST and friends leave, as each faces the
life-changing implications of education,
him to Moscow where he becomes a
‘Jumpman’, someone who jumps in front
FAREWELL work and caring for their elderly and
sick as the region expands and is
of cars to blackmail the drivers.
modernised. A visual document of
the erosion of the Uyghur community
and the homogenisation of a unique
SUN 14TH (18.00) culture through language politics
(Mandarin becomes a requirement at
school), this story is delicately told
MONTY
PYTHON’S
FILM INFO: Chinese filmmaker Lina Wang’s
86 mins, China, 2018, Digital, from a child’s perspective. A pure,
Subtitled astonishing debut documents the lives contemplative atmosphere, combines
of China’s Uyghur Islamic minorities
in the Northwest Xinjiang Province of
China, told through the story of Isa, a
with scenes of arresting beauty, and
realist performances delivered by a non- LIFE OF BRIAN
professional cast.
Muslim farm boy, his friend Kalbinur,
and their families. One by one family
MANTA RAY refugee. The fisherman calls him
‘Thongchai’ and tells him his life story: his
THUR 18TH (20.30)
wife who left him for a navy officer and
how he digs for gemstones. Slowly the two DIRECTOR: After the broadcast of their fourth born in the stable next door to Jesus,
men bond, spending their days together.
Terry Jones and final television series, the Monty as he falls in with the People’s Front of
Thai writer-filmmaker Aroonpheng’s debut FILM INFO: Python team released their first original Judea’s fight against the Romans, and
feature tackles the refugee experience 94 mins, UK, 1979, Digital film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail eventually comes to be mistaken for the
and associated questions of identity, self,
Notes by Kevin Coyne (1975), regularly voted one of the Messiah. Hilariously irreverent, satirical,
SUN 14TH (20.00) funniest comedies ever made. After surreal, endlessly quotable, and ending
border, ethnicity and nationhood. Abstract
and highly atmospheric, the film is human a brief hiatus, the outfit returned and it all with a jaunty tune, it’s arguably the
(KRABEN RAHU) A local fisherman discovers a man and poignant yet rooted in a tough realism, outdid themselves with Life Of Brian, most enduring of the team’s output.
FILM INFO: injured and unconscious in the swamps. and is driven by meticulously constructed which saw the group shift focus from
Saving him from death, he brings him to Arthurian legend to the New Testament. Ticketholders will receive a special 40th
105 mins, Thailand-France-China, sound design. anniversary gift pack.
2018, Digital, Subtitled hospital, then back to his home to care Notoriously banned in Ireland on its
for him. Although the stranger is mute, This screening will be introduced by film initial release, the film follows its luckless
we understand him to be a Rohingyan critic Tony Rayns. hero (Graham Chapman taking the lead),
20 21FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & ONE CITY ONE BOOK
– AN EDNA O’BRIEN FILM TRILOGY SÉ MERRY
DOYLE –
THE Their boisterous antics lead to
expulsion from their convent school IN CONVERSATION
COUNTRY and catch the eye of local solicitor
Mr Gentleman (Sam Neill) who
GIRLS introduces teenage Kate to the world
of adult relationships. Director Davis
displays sensitivity to O’Brien’s work
WED 3RD (18.30) as he celebrates the innocence and TUES 23RD (18.30)
exuberance of her heroines.
DIRECTOR: Director Desmond Davis worked This screening will be introduced EVENT INFO: To coincide with the release of the first TV series, and the first tranche of the
Desmond Davis closely with Edna O’Brien who by Dr Ruth Barton, TCD.
90 mins volume of the Loopline Collection to the collection on the IFI Player not only
FILM INFO: adapted the screenplay from her book IFI Player, the IFI is delighted to welcome includes those, but also a trove of
84 mins, UK, 1983, Digital of the same name. School friends filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle for a wide- unseen material and outtakes that give
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
Kate (Maeve Germaine) and Baba ranging public interview, hosted by film an unparalleled look at the work of this
(Jill Doyle) yearn to escape their archivist Eugene Finn. pioneering filmmaker.
small-town lives of dull mediocrity.
Merry Doyle founded Loopline Film This special event will include a
in 1982 and quickly established its selection of clips drawn from the
GIRL WITH (Lynn Redgrave) as they discover
the temptations of Dublin city life
reputation as one of the most important
media production companies in Ireland.
Loopline Collection.
GREEN including a doomed affair with
an urbane middle-aged writer
In its over thirty years, Loopline produced
many acclaimed documentaries and
EYES (Peter Finch).
The film has the flavour of British
Realist Cinema but is firmly located
WED 10TH (18.30) in a Dublin with its Bewley’s Café,
Greene’s Bookshop and Pepperpot THE BIGGER
DIRECTOR:
Desmond Davis
Girl with Green Eyes, adapted by
Edna O’Brien from her novel “The
Church and a cast of locals including
Marie Kean, Mike Murphy and the PICTURE
HEARTBURN
FILM INFO:
91 mins, UK, 1964, 35mm, Lonely Girl”, details the exploits of recently departed Pat Laffan.
Black and White naïve Co Clare teenager Kate Brady
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
(a captivating Rita Tushingham) and
her exuberant flatmate Baba Brennan
I WAS of locals. Lively scenes of London
emigrant experience contrast starkly
WED 24TH (18.20)
HAPPY with life in the faded seaside town in
this tale of romance and melancholy. DIRECTOR:
Mike Nichols
The late Nora Ephron is perhaps best
remembered for her work on romantic
a pregnant food writer who discovers
that her husband Mark (Jack Nicholson)
HERE With a screenplay by Edna O’Brien
from her short story, ‘A Woman
FILM INFO:
108 mins, USA, 1986, 35mm
comedies, most notably as screenwriter
of When Harry Met Sally… (1989) and as
is having an affair. Rachel struggles to
credit his subsequent disavowal of his
by the Seaside’ the film features Notes by Kevin Coyne writer/director of Sleepless In Seattle mistress as they attempt reconciliation.
WED 17TH (18.30) lavish locations in London, Lahinch, (1993). Heartburn, Ephron’s second With her shrewd eye for the details
Ennistymon and Liscannor. outing as screenwriter following of relationships, Heartburn marks an
DIRECTOR: Cass (Sarah Miles), escapes from an Silkwood (1983), marked her second underrated entry in Ephron’s filmography.
Desmond Davis
arid marriage in London and returns The screening will be introduced by collaboration with director Mike Nichols. This screening will be introduced by Emilie
FILM INFO: artist Fiona O’Dwyer, Ennistymon. It is an adaptation of her own novel,
91 mins, UK, 1965, 35mm, home to Co. Clare. The rekindling Pine, academic and bestselling author of
Black and White of passion with her old sweetheart a lightly fictionalised account of the Notes To Self.
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
is complicated by the arrival of breakdown of her marriage to journalist
her husband and the disapproval Carl Bernstein. Rachel (Meryl Streep) is
22 23WILD STRAWBERRIES IFI FAMILY
This month we offer Wild Strawberries a choice of
two films – although very different stories, both
Wild Strawberries is our film club for over 55s. Tickets:
€4.45 including regular tea/coffee before the event. If you
BUMBLEBEE
feature characters who are struggling to survive in their happen to look younger, please don’t take offence if we
respective worlds, untill new encounters set significant ask your age.
changes in motion.
Notes by Alicia McGivern
SUN 28TH (11.00)
DIRECTOR: Bring the imagination of Laika animator That old VW beetle she takes on is, of
Travis Knight Travis Knight to the Transformers course, an Autobot, dispatched to earth
FILM INFO: franchise and you get this fun, girl- and missing home. The inevitable war
114 mins, USA, 2018, Digital powered, nostalgic action-adventure. with the Decepticons is given heart and
Notes by Alicia McGivern Showing the wit and artistry he brought character among the explosions in this
to directorial debut Kubo and the Two affectionate and successful prequel.
Strings, Knight wins a whole new younger
audience for the old toys. Tickets: €5.00 per person, €15.00
family ticket (2 adults + 2 children,
Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) is a hugely 1 adult + 3 children)
likable teen music fan, trying to get over
the death of her dad by spending time
tinkering with broken down cars.
LEAVE NO TRACE FINDING YOUR FEET FEAST
WED 24TH (11.00) FRI 26TH (11.00) YOUR EYES
From the director of the award-winning Winter’s Bone
comes this gritty and spare, but emotive, drama
Launching the annual Access>CINEMAS nationwide
May film tour, this year’s choice is a warm,
WILD ROSE
adapted from Peter Rock’s novel. toe-tapping drama, featuring the cream of British
acting talent.
Will and his teen daughter, Tom, are living off-grid in
Portland Forest Park, until social workers come calling When Lady Sandra (Imelda Staunton) finds her
and move them ‘into the community’, meaning a house husband canoodling with her pal, she seeks refuge WED 24TH (18.30)
for them and a school for Tom. Will struggles to settle in her sister Bif’s (Celia Imrie) bohemian apartment.
into a job, seeing their nomadic existence as one of Joining a community dance group, she finds comfort,
safety, whereas Tom starts to see the appeal of living new steps and new friends, while facing up to more DIRECTOR: April’s pairing of a new release and a her two young children that have been
among other people. serious concerns.
Tom Harper specially devised main course menu will waiting for her return.
FILM INFO: be Tom Harper’s Wild Rose, followed by
Never judgemental, Granik’s film observes the pair Finding Your Feet is a real crowd-pleaser, with plenty 100 mins, UK, 2018, Digital a specially created main course in the The menu on the evening will include a
as they struggle to cope in their new surrounds, amid of laughs, great performances and lots of joyous Notes by Saidhbh Ní Dhúlaing IFI Café Bar. choice of Bangers and Mash, Vegetarian
beautiful natural backdrops. stepping out. Haggis, and Panfried Salmon with
Rose-Lynn is just out of prison and Turnip and Potato Mash, served with
DIRECTOR: Debra Granik DIRECTOR: Richard Loncraine determined to get her singing career chive butter.
FILM INFO: 109 mins, USA-Canada, 2018, Digital. FILM INFO: 111 mins, UK, 2017, Digital. back on track so that she can live out
her dream of being a country music star Tickets €20, free list suspended.
in Nashville. However, her hard-working
mother would rather she settled down in
her home town of Glasgow to look after
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