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THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER - MARCH 2019 - Irish Film Institute
THE IRISH                                                                                                                                    DIRECTOR’S
FILM INSTITUTE                                                                                                                               NOTE

EXHIBIT                                                            The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s
                                                                   national cultural institution for film.
                                                                                                                                             This month the IFI unveils its
                                                                                                                                             exciting plans for 2019.

PRESERVE                                                           It aims to exhibit the finest in independent,
                                                                   Irish and international cinema, preserve

EDUCATE
                                                                                                                                             MARCH
                                                                   Ireland’s moving image heritage at
                                                                   the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage
                                                                   engagement with film through its various
                                                                   educational programmes.

                                                                                                                                             AT THE IFI

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                                                                                                                                             2019 looks set to be one of the most significant and ambitious          in September, and IFI Horrorthon over the October Bank Holiday
                                                                                                                                             years for the IFI across its core areas of film exhibition,             weekend. Also scheduled to return are collaborations with East

                                                                                                                              Asako I & II
IFI IRISH FILM                                                     EAST ASIA FILM                                                            preservation and education. In order to successfully deliver
                                                                                                                                             many of these programmes, the IFI will undergo a major capital
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Asia Film Festival Ireland and IFI Kinopolis, the annual focus on
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     the best of new and classic Polish cinema.

ARCHIVE TOURS                                                      FESTIVAL IRELAND                                                          refurbishment project in summer 2019 which will see, amongst
                                                                                                                                             other improvements, two completely refurbished cinema spaces,
                                                                                                                                             offering IFI audiences the opportunity to see films in the most
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     2019 promises to be another key year for the award-winning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     IFI Irish Film Archive. This summer will see the launch of the
                                                                                                                                             comfortable of environments with the best of facilities. The            second part of the Irish Independence Film Collection which
Get a behind-the-scenes perspective of the IFI Irish Film          The third edition of East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI)              major refurbishment will maintain all the charm of the existing         features repatriated newsreels from international news crews,
Archive and visit the film vaults beneath our building. This       returns to the IFI from April 11th to 14th, once again                    18th century Quaker building in which the IFI makes its main            bringing material that relates to one of the most important
tour gives a unique insight into the collections held in the IFI   showcasing the rich diversity of filmmaking from East and                 home, but will see changes that will bring increased enjoyment          periods in Irish history back home, where it belongs, and
Irish Film Archive, shows you around the film vaults, and talks    South East Asia. The programme will feature a number of Irish             to the many film lovers who visit. We are really looking forward to     presented to audiences for free on the IFI Player. Meanwhile, in
through how we safeguard our collections that span from            premieres including Hong Sang-Soo’s Hotel by the River, Ming              unveiling our wonderful new facilities the summer, and offering         April, the release of the Loopline Collection will be made public on
1897. Attendees will then be treated to lunch at the IFI Café      Zhang’s The Pluto Moment, Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into                our audiences the opportunity to enjoy our curated events and           the IFI Player and apps celebrating the exceptional documentary
Bar. Tours will take place in March on Fridays 15th and 29th.      Night, and Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II. See www.ifi.ie               programmes in even better surroundings.                                 output of the pioneering Irish production company established by
See www.ifi.ie/archivetours for further details.                   and www.eaffi.ie for full details.                                                                                                                Sé Merry Doyle.
                                                                                                                                             The IFI's comprehensive exhibition programme will include a
                                                                                                                                             complete retrospective of the work of one of the most pivotal           The IFI’s education plans for the year include the hugely popular
                                                                                                                                             figures in French cinema, Robert Bresson; a season entitled             and comprehensive 2019–2020 Schools Programme which will
                                                                                                                                             Memory on Film will highlight how this most abstract of concepts        be launched in September, while the second and third phases
                                                                                                                                             has been represented on screen; a short focus will explore the          of the IFI Film Clubs pilot, offering film presentations to young
                                                                                                                                             films of Derek Jarman, one of the most influential figures in 20th      people right around the country in an after-school setting, will
                                                                                                                                             century British culture; and the return of a spotlight on the work      run throughout 2019. The IFI's commitment to lifelong learning
                                                                                                                                             of forgotten filmmakers, Hidden Figures, will this year showcase        continues with spring and autumn Evening Courses, which will
SONIC YOUTH:                                                                                                                                 American Dorothy Arzner (1897–1979), the only female director in
                                                                                                                                             Hollywood in the 1930s, who launched the careers of many of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     focus on British and Asian cinema respectively.

30 YEARS OF                                                                                                                                  era's finest talents including Katherine Hepburn.                       IFI will continue its vast programming in IFI National and IFI
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     International strands, bringing the best of local cinema to
DAYDREAM NATION                                                    MYSTERY MATINEE                                                           Irish filmmakers and their work will remain central to the IFI's
                                                                                                                                             focus throughout the year with seasons including Neglected
                                                                                                                                             Perspectives, co-curated by director Donal Foreman, looking
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     communities across the country with Local Films for Local
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     People programmes travelling to counties including Leitrim,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Fermanagh, Cork, Sligo and Galway. IFI International, in
                                                                                                                                             at work that challenged the prevailing representations of the           collaboration with Culture Ireland, will bring the very best of
Celebrating the recent 30th anniversary of Sonic Youth's           This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just                Northern Ireland Troubles, while the work of Trish McAdam will          Irish cinema to cities and countries across the world including
seminal Daydream Nation album, the IFI is delighted to             €5.20, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 31st. Sometimes it              be celebrated with a retrospective and public interview. The IFI’s      Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia,
welcome filmmaker Lance Bangs and drummer Steve Shelley            will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title          ongoing collaboration with One City One Book will continue with         Singapore and Vietnam.
to present a programme of films related to the album on            one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for           the Edna O'Brien Trilogy, featuring screenings of The Country Girls,
Saturday 2nd, which will include excerpts from the Bangs-          this month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous               Girl with Green Eyes and I Was Happy Here. The IFI's four flagship      Full details of our plans can be found on our website.
directed concert film and Charles Atlas’s documentary              Mystery Matinee screenings have included a preview of Lenny               festivals will return, with the IFI French Film Festival in November,
Put Blood In The Music.                                            Abrahamson's The Little Stranger and Robert Altman's The                  the IFI Family Festival in August, the IFI Documentary Festival         Ross Keane
                                                                   Long Goodbye.                                                                                                                                     Director

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NEW RELEASES, IFI                                                              SEASONS &
DOCS & IFI CLASSICS                                                            EVENTS CALENDAR                                              MARCH 2019
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ALIEN                                                 OPENS FRI 1ST            DATE   SCREENING                                     TIME
AN ENGINEER IMAGINES                                  OPENS FRI 1ST            1ST    AN ENGINEER IMAGINES + Q&A                    18.20
FOXTROT                                               OPENS FRI 1ST            FRI

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         IFI CLASSIC
SAUVAGE                                               OPENS FRI 1ST            2ND    SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION      17.00
BORDER                                                OPENS FRI 8TH            SAT    SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION      20.00
EVERYBODY KNOWS                                       OPENS FRI 8TH            4TH    IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: SAUVAGE                 18.30
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER                              OPENS FRI 8TH            MON
MAIDEN                                                OPENS FRI 8TH            6TH    BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: WOMEN IN FILM AND           18.30
                                                                               WED    TELEVISION SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
GIRL                                                 OPENS FRI 15TH
                                                                                      MAIDEN + SATELLITE Q&A                        18.00
MINDING THE GAP                                      OPENS FRI 22ND            7TH
                                                                               THUR
THE WHITE CROW                                       OPENS FRI 22ND
                                                                               11TH   IFI FILM CLUB: BORDER                     18.15
AT ETERNITY’S GATE                                   OPENS FRI 29TH            MON    OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: EVERYBODY KNOWS 20.30       OPENS FRI 1ST                     Rereleased in a new 4K digital restoration   When deep-space mining vessel the
THE MAN WHO WANTED TO FLY                            OPENS FRI 29TH                                                                                                           to mark its 40th anniversary, Ridley         Nostromo is diverted to an uninhabitable
                                                                               12TH   EVENING COURSE                                18.30
3 FACES                                              OPENS FRI 29TH            TUES                                                         FILM INFO:                        Scott’s film remains an unimpeachable        moon to investigate what may be a
                                                                                                                                            117 mins, UK-USA, 1979, Digital   classic of sci-fi horror. From Sigourney     distress call of unknown origin, crew
                                                                               13TH   IRISH FOCUS: UNQUIET GRAVES + Q&A             18.20   Notes by Kevin Coyne              Weaver’s career-defining role as             member Kane (John Hurt) is attacked
                                                                               WED    FEAST YOUR EYES: THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER     18.40
                                                                                                                                                                              central character Ripley, to H.R. Giger’s    after entering a mysterious vessel. After
                                                                               14TH   OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: EVERYBODY KNOWS 13.00                                         nightmarish creature design (and the         receiving medical attention, he seems to
                                                                               THUR                                                                                           creature’s memorable first appearance),      recover, but soon his crewmates, including
Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special
                                                                               16TH   IFI FAMILY: THE ASH LAD: IN THE HALL OF THE   11.00                                     to its unusual presentation of futuristic    Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Skerritt
screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18
                                                                               SAT    MOUNTAIN KING
                                                                                                                                                                              technology with an aging-industrial          (reunited in last year’s Lucky), are being
years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is           FROM THE VAULTS: THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE      15.00
required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction.                                                                                                  aesthetic, the film has proven remarkably    picked off one by one by the relentless
                                                                               19TH   IFI & AEMI: TERROR NULLIUS + Q&A              18.30                                     enduring and influential, constantly         and lethal alien.
† The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print.                    TUES   EVENING COURSE                                18.30
                                                                                                                                                                              thrilling and terrifying new audiences.
                                                                               20TH   THE BIGGER PICTURE: COME AND SEE              20.00
                                                                               WED

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                                                                               SUN
                                                                               26TH
                                                                                      THE GREAT ESCAPE + SATELLITE EVENT
                                                                                      OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE WHITE CROW
                                                                                      EVENING COURSE
                                                                                                                                    18.00
                                                                                                                                    20.20
                                                                                                                                    18.30   AN ENGINEER
                                                                                                                                            IMAGINES
                                                                               TUES

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         IFI DOC
        linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute                                27TH   WILD STRAWBERRIES: ALL THE MONEY              11.00
                                                                               WED    IN THE WORLD
       @IrishFilmInstitute                      @IFI_Dub                       28TH   OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE WHITE CROW      13.00
                                                                               THUR
       @IrishFilmInstitute                                                     29TH   WILD STRAWBERRIES: ALL THE MONEY              11.00
                                                                               FRI    IN THE WORLD
                                                                               31ST   MYSTERY MATINEE                               13.00
For bookings and film information, please see our                              SUN
website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office
on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily).                                                                                                  OPENS FRI 1ST                     This sumptuous documentary pays              Georges Pompidou to his untimely
                                                                                                                                                                              homage to the life and ideas of Peter        death in 1992. Using 35mm
                                                                                                                                            FILM INFO:                        Rice, widely regarded as one of the          time-lapse photography interwoven
                 Open Captioned screening                                                                                                   83 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital   most distinguished engineers of the          with reminiscences of colleagues,
                                                                                                                                            Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn          late twentieth century. Without his          family and friends, Marcus Robinson
                 Audio Described screening                                                                                                                                    innovations and collaborations with the      celebrates Rice’s extraordinary legacy,
                                                                                                                                                                              leading architects of his time, some of      unfolding the story of one of Ireland’s
                                                                                                                                             Q&A                              the most recognisable buildings in the       great minds; a man who pushed the
                                                                                                                                             The 18.20 screening on Friday    world would not have been realised.          boundaries of art and science to
                        The F-rating is a classification                                                                                     1st will be followed by a
                                                                                                                                                                              The film traces Rice’s career from his       reach unimaginable heights but who
                                                                                                                                             Q&A with Marcus Robinson
                        reserved for any film which is                                                                                       and Heidi Rice, hosted by        Dundalk childhood to his work on the         has, until now, stood in the shadow of
                        directed and/or written by a woman.                                                                                  Professor Kevin Barry.           Sydney Opera House and the Centre            architectural icons.

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              FOXTROT                                                                                                                           BORDER
NEW RELEASE

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              OPENS FRI 1ST                         Samuel Maoz's highly anticipated second        bureaucracy of the officials who deliver     OPENS FRI 8TH                   With her uncanny ability to sniff out        at the centre of a complex narrative that
                                                    feature delivers on the promise of his         the news is chillingly portrayed. Fate                                       wrongdoing and guilty thoughts in            includes Tina’s ongoing investigation
              FILM INFO:                            debut, the claustrophobic 2009 war             intervenes in unexpected ways and the        (GRÄNS)                         others, Swedish border security guard        into a paedophile ring and her issues with
              113 mins, Israel-Switzerland-         drama Lebanon, which was distinguished         plot thickens considerably in Maoz's                                         Tina (Eva Melander) is perfectly suited      her ailing father. Ali Abbasi’s wonderfully
              Germany-France, 2017,                 by being set entirely within the confines      cruel, brilliant drama that is told with a   FILM INFO:                      to her role. More problematic is her         strange and imaginative romantic
              Digital, Subtitled                                                                                                                110 mins, Sweden-Denmark,
              Notes by David O’Mahony               of a tank. The first act of Foxtrot is         streak of mordantly absurd humour.           2018, Digital, Subtitled        dysfunctional relationship with her          fantasy is based on a short story by John
                                                    similarly confined to one space, the           His confidence with camera movement          Notes by David O’Mahony         dog-breeding housemate-cum-boyfriend         Ajvide Lindqvist – of Let The Right One
                                                    well-appointed apartment of Michael            and composition in cramped spaces                                            Roland (Jörgen Thorsson). Tina’s             In fame – and, like the character of Tina,
                                                    and Daphne Feldman (Lior Ashkenazi             reveals a true cinematic sensibility.                                        horizons broaden when she encounters         the film is a true original.
                                                    and Sarah Adler), stunned parents who                                                                                       Vore (Eero Milonoff), a beguiling
                                                    have just received the awful news of                                                                                        character whose uncommon appearance          Join members of the IFI team for an
                                                    their son’s death ‘in the line of duty’ at a                                                                                and behavioural eccentricities mirror her    informal discussion following the 18.15
                                                    border shooting incident. The unfeeling                                                                                     own. Their bizarre courtship-of-sorts is     screening on Monday 11th.

              SAUVAGE                                                                                                                           EVERYBODY
NEW RELEASE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           NEW RELEASE
                                                                                                                                                KNOWS

              OPENS FRI 1ST                         22-year-old Léo (Félix Maritaud) is a rent     the comforts of being a kept man. This       OPENS FRI 8TH                   When a family wedding is interrupted by      Paco runs the local vineyard which
                                                    boy on the streets of Strasbourg. He is by     bracing first feature by writer-director                                     a shocking crime, secrets and lies that      employs many villagers, yet there are
              EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI†                   turns a hustler and a lonely boy lost, who     Camille Vidal-Naquet balances raw            (TODOS LO SABEN)                span generations are brought to light in     suspicions as to how he acquired the
                                                    craves intimate connections amidst his         authenticity with moments of profound                                        Asghar Farhadi’s (A Separation) layered      land. During the wedding celebrations,
              FILM INFO:                            succession of anonymous clients. Léo is        tenderness and compassion.                   FILM INFO:                      psychological drama. Laura (Penélope         Laura’s daughter goes missing, with
              99 mins, France, 2018,                                                                                                            132 mins, Spain-France-Italy,
              Digital, Subtitled                    sick with unrequited love for one of the                                                    2018, Digital, Subtitled        Cruz) returns with her children to the       a text message revealing that she
              Notes by David O’Mahony               fraternal group of prostitutes he hangs        Sauvage is presented in association with     Notes by David O’Mahony         small Spanish village of her youth for her   has been abducted by kidnappers
                                                    with, who counsels him to find an older,       GCN, Ireland’s national LGBTQ press.                                         sister Ana’s wedding, leaving her husband    demanding a ransom.
                  IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB              financially secure man as a means of                                                                                        Alejandro behind in their adopted home
                  Tickets for the 18.30
                  screening on Monday 4th cost      escape. Although struggling with health                                                                                     in Argentina. There she is reunited with     Screenings with Hard of Hearing subtitles
                  just €7.80 for IFI and Alliance   and drug problems, Léo is reluctant to                                                                                      old flame Paco (Javier Bardem), who is       will be available at 20.30 on Monday 11th
                  Française members.                sacrifice what he views as freedom for                                                                                      now happily married to Bea.                  and 13.00 on Thursday 14th.

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              THE                                                                                                                           GIRL
NEW RELEASE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      NEW RELEASE
              KINDERGARTEN
              TEACHER
              OPENS FRI 8TH                         A schoolteacher locates an unhealthy       to recite mature, polished poetry of         OPENS FRI 15TH                A gender non-conforming teenager              Anchored by stunning central
                                                    outlet for her frustrated literary         which he is seemingly the author.                                          prepares for imminent sex reassignment        performances by 15-year-old Victor
              FILM INFO:                            ambitions in Sara Colangelo’s assured      Disapproving of her own less creatively      FILM INFO:                    surgery whilst having to prove her            Polster as Lara, and Arieh Worthalter as
              96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital           remake of Nadev Lapid’s 2014 original.     inclined teenage children, Lisa’s fixation   109 mins, Belgium, 2018,      credentials as a ballerina in Lukas Dhont’s   her concerned yet accepting single father
              Notes by David O’Mahony               The film’s knotty premise investigates     with Jimmy crosses boundaries into           Digital, Subtitled            strikingly assured debut feature, which       Mathias, Dhont’s naturalistic film grows in
                                                                                                                                            Notes by David O’Mahony
                                                    potential child abuse borne from the       increasingly ambiguous territory                                           resonates with empathy and respect for        power as Lara pushes herself to breaking
                                                    sincere, if misguided, intentions of       when she brings the boy’s work to the                                      its bravely resilient heroine. Admitted on    point in her determination to excel and be
                                                    a damaged individual. Lisa (Maggie         attention of her night course literary                                     a probationary basis to one of Belgium’s      accepted by her peers. Girl was the winner
                                                    Gyllenhaal) is a dissatisfied wife and     tutor Simon (Gael García Bernal). Maggie                                   most prestigious ballet academies, Lara       of the Queer Palme and Best Actor in the
                                                    mother who becomes convinced that          Gyllenhaal gives a nuanced performance                                     (Victor Polster) approaches her craft with    Un Certain Regard strand of last year’s
                  FEAST YOUR EYES
                  Enjoy the film with a specially   one of her pupils, five-year-old Jimmy,    as the increasingly unstable Lisa.                                         punishing discipline, whilst becoming         Cannes Film Festival.
                  created main course for €21       is a child prodigy when he begins                                                                                     increasingly impatient with delays with
                  following the 18.40 screening                                                                                                                           her hormone therapy.
                  on Wednesday 13th.

              MAIDEN                                                                                                                        MINDING
                                                                                                                                            THE GAP
IFI DOC

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      IFI DOC
              OPENS FRI 8TH                         Maiden is the inspirational story of how   sponsors rejected her, fearing they          OPENS FRI 22ND                Growing up in the economically deprived       as the years pass, his confidence as a
                                                    Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on       would die at sea and generate bad                                          town of Rockford, Illinois, teenagers Bing    director growing as he tackles the veiled
              FILM INFO:                            charter boats, became the skipper of       publicity. But Tracy refused to give up:     FILM INFO:                    Liu and his best friends Zach and Keire       subject of the trio’s variously damaged
              97 mins, UK, 2018, Digital            the first ever all-female crew to enter    she re-mortgaged her home and bought         93 mins, USA, 2018, Digital   are united by their love of skateboarding.    upbringings, cycles of abuse and toxic
                                                    the Whitbread Round the World Race         a second-hand boat, putting everything       Notes by David O’Mahony       From early on in their friendship Liu has     masculinity. Winner of the Special Jury
                                                    in 1989.                                   on the line to ensure the team made it                                     been videoing their skateboarding antics      Prize for Documentary at Sundance,
                                                                                               to the start line. With the support of her                                 with the dynamism and flair of a natural      Liu’s insightful Oscar-nominated debut
                                                    Tracy’s dream was opposed on all           remarkable crew she went on to shock                                       filmmaker. Soon the boys must negotiate       feature is graced by empathy and a great
                  PREVIEW                           sides: her male competitors thought        the sport and prove to her opposition                                      the rocky transition to adulthood: Zach       visual poetry.
                  A special preview of the film
                  including a satellite Q&A with    an all-women crew would never make         that women are the equal of men.                                           learns he is to be a father and Keire
                  Tracy Edwards will take place     it, the chauvinistic yachting press                                                                                   struggles with his identity as an African
                  on Thursday 7th at 18.00.         took bets on her failure, and potential                                                                               American. Liu begins to shift focus

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              THE WHITE                                                                                                                THE MAN WHO
NEW RELEASE

              CROW                                                                                                                     WANTED TO FLY

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      IFI DOC
              OPENS FRI 22ND                Ralph Fiennes’s latest directorial effort      unsupervised socialising with European      OPENS FRI 29TH                    Bobby Coote, 80-something Cavan               Inviting us into the quiet hinterland of the
                                            sees him working from a script by Sir          dancers and a Chilean heiress (Adèle                                          bachelor, lives next door to his brother,     Irish border, we are wholly captivated by a
              FILM INFO:                    David Hare to tell the story of legendary      Exarchopoulos), initially frustrate,        FILM INFO:                        Ernie, and spends his days pottering          gently eccentric character and his friends
              122 mins, UK-Serbia-France,   ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and his           and eventually anger his minders,           82 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital   about, fixing clocks, making violins          who are determined to realise a crazy
              2018, Digital                 defection from the Soviet Union to the         resulting in a dramatic showdown in         Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn          from old furniture and zipping about the      dream at any cost. In this debut feature,
              Notes by Kevin Coyne
                                            West. The film crosscuts between his           Le Bourget Airport.                                                           countryside on his motorbike. But despite     award-winning journalist and playwright
                                            impoverished childhood and his early                                                                                         his apparent contentment he has never         Frank Shouldice has created a truly
                                            training, but mainly focuses on the            There will be Open Captioned screenings                                       lost sight of a lifelong dream – to take      uplifting and joyful piece of cinema.
                                            fateful trip of the Kirov Ballet to Paris in   at 20.20 on Sunday 24th and at 13.00 on                                       to the skies. Securing the help of his
                                            1961. Filled with an insatiable thirst for     Thursday 28th.                                                                neighbour Sean, and to the derision of
                                            culture, his unaccompanied trips to the                                                                                      Ernie, Bobby sets about building a runway
                                            city’s museums and bars, as well as his                                                                                      and a hangar and investing his life savings
                                                                                                                                                                         in his own private flying machine.

              AT ETERNITY’S                                                                                                            3 FACES
NEW RELEASE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      NEW RELEASE
              GATE

              OPENS FRI 29TH                Vincent Van Gogh’s brief period in the         fellow painter Paul Gauguin (Oscar          OPENS FRI 29TH                    Since he was forbidden to engage in any       government-sponsored censorship, and
                                            Provençal town of Arles in the south           Isaacs), who recognised his inherent                                          filmmaking activities for 20 years after      the value of art in society. 3 Faces also
              FILM INFO:                    of France was a time of heightened             genius, provided his only connection to     (SE ROKH)                         being arrested on charges of propaganda       returns to a topic familiar to viewers
              111 mins, USA-France,         creative fervor where he completed             the art world. Eschewing the clichés of a                                     against the Iranian government, Jafar         of Panahi’s pre-2010 work, that of the
              2018, Digital                 75 paintings in 80 days, many of them          traditional biopic, Julian Schnabel’s       FILM INFO:                        Panahi has found inspiration in his           status of women in Iranian society. After
              Notes by David O’Mahony                                                                                                  100 mins, Iran, 2018, Digital,
                                            renowned masterpieces. Living in               (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)         Subtitled                         circumstances. Made through a variety         receiving an apparent suicide note from
                                            penury save for a stipend sent by his          imaginative, intimately conceived film      Notes by Kevin Coyne              of subterfuges, his productions This Is       a girl whose family oppose her decision
                                            beloved brother Theo (Rupert Friend),          recreates the artist’s process with                                           Not A Film (2011), Closed Curtain (2013),     to study drama, actress Behnaz Jafari
                                            and scorned by locals who saw him as a         vivid immediacy, his restless camera                                          and Taxi Tehran (2015) have acted as          (playing herself) and Panahi undertake
                                            dangerous eccentric, Van Gogh (Willem          capturing the agony and ecstasy of                                            multi-layered examinations of subject         to seek her out and to discover the truth
                                            Dafoe) began to succumb to debilitating        Dafoe’s remarkable performance.                                               matter such as the contemporary Iranian       of the matter.
                                            mental trauma. His friendship with                                                                                           state, the nature and motivations of

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EVENING COURSE

EXIT THROUGH
THE CINEMA
                                                                                                                                                                                            ROBINSON
MAR 12TH – APR 16TH                                                                                                           28 DAYS LATER                                                 IN RUINS
A Six-Week Evening                                                                                                            MAR 26TH (18.30)
Course on British Film
                                                                                                                                                                                            APR 2ND (18.30)
since the 1980s.                                                                                                              Danny Boyle’s debut, Shallow Grave, showed his                The films of Patrick Keiller show a Britain through the
                                                                                                                              distictily British cinematic style. In 28 Days Later,         eyes of wandering Robinson, researching locations
                                   Amid the trade-dominated Brexit                This six-week course will look at some      London is hit by an apocalyptic vision through viral          and commenting on an England in decline. Robinson
                                   debates, there has been much less              key British films from the past 40 years.   infection. Boyle’s digital video and effects generate         connects history and geography through imagery.
                                   discussion of the impact on British            The course will run on consecutive          enough horror, the city dark and seedy as survivors try
                                   culture, in particular cinema, which           Tuesdays, commencing at 18.30.              to escape.                                                    Rod Stoneman, former Director of the Huston School of
                                   has long enjoyed a presence on the             Order of screenings may vary slightly.                                                                    Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway, CEO of the Irish Film
                                   international stage. British cinema has                                                    Dr Sian Barber (QUB) will discuss 28 Days Later as a          Board and a commissioning editor for Channel 4, will
 TICKETS                           evolved with a wealth of talent, funding                                                   genre piece, as well as looking at the broader sphere of      discuss Keiller’s work, and its place within the broader
 €83 (including tea/coffee)        and the distinct styles and genres that                                                    British horror and sci-fi.                                    remit of television commissioning.
 for complete course
 (concessions €78). Booking        make up a recognisable national cinema,
 for the complete course           reflecting a richly diverse society.                                                       DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle                                         DIRECTOR: Patrick Keiller
 through our website. Film                                                                                                    FILM INFO: 113 mins, UK, 2002, Digital                        FILM INFO: 101 mins, UK, 2010, Digital
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MY BEAUTIFUL
LAUNDRETTE                                                      RATCATCHER                                                    IONA                                                          LADY MACBETH
MAR 12TH (18.30)                                                MAR 19TH (18.30)                                              APR 9TH (18.30)                                               APR 16TH (18.30)
A landmark film by director Stephen Frears, adapted             Scottish filmmaker and writer Lynne Ramsay burst onto         Scottish filmmaker Scott Graham followed his debut            The period drama has been a constantly revisited genre
from a Hanif Kureishi screenplay. Pakistani and                 the scene with this lyrical, evocative coming-of-age story    feature Shell with this island-set drama, in which young      in British cinema. This 19th century-set adaptation is
English communities live side by side in 1980s                  on the grim Glasgow streets, as seen through the eyes of      mother (Ruth Negga) returns to her birthplace with her        a disconcerting, pared-back revenge costume drama,
London, both caught up in the ‘loadsamoney’                     13-year-old James. Ramsay’s award-winning first feature       teenage son to escape from a violent Glasgow scene.           centring on a young woman, Katherine, stuck in a cruel
economic policies of Thatcher’s government.                     depicted grim places and characters that she imbues           Stepdad Daniel offers refuge but the claustrophobic           marriage to an older man while finding passion with the
When racist Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls in                  with her particular style.                                    atmosphere of strict religion and tradition weigh heavily.    estate’s groom.
love with laundrette manager Omar, the men are
awoken to new possibilities.                                    Artist, sculptor and photographer Ruth McHugh will            Film critic and writer, Justin MacGregor, the John Sherlock   Dr Ruth Barton (TCD) will discuss Lady Macbeth and how
                                                                present Ratcatcher in the context of Ramsay’s work to         Assistant Professor TCD, will talk about the ‘new’ new        the costume drama has evolved and been reworked up to
Dr Jennie Carlsten will discuss the film’s impact at the        date, and her status as a female filmmaker working in the     wave of British cinema and Scottish film’s place within       current hit The Favourite.
time of release.                                                international filmmaking arena.                               the genre.
                                                                                                                                                                                            DIRECTOR: William Oldroyd
DIRECTOR: Stephen Frears                                        DIRECTOR: Lynne Ramsay                                        DIRECTOR: Scott Graham                                        FILM INFO: 89 mins, UK, 2016, Digital
FILM INFO: 97 mins, UK, 1985, Blu-ray                           FILM INFO: 94 mins, UK-France, 1999, Blu-ray                  FILM INFO: 85 mins, UK , 2015, Digital

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ARCHIVE AT                                                                 IRISH                                                            FROM THE
LUNCHTIME                                                                  FOCUS                                                            VAULTS:
                                                                                                                                            THE BALLROOM
                                                                                                                                            OF ROMANCE
                                                                                                                                            SAT 16TH (15.00)

                                                                                                                                            DIRECTOR:                           In this quintessential Irish rural drama,    threatens to drive her into the arms of
                                                                                                                                            Pat O’Connor                        screening as part of the St Patrick's        drunken Bowser Egan (John Kavanagh).
                                                                   Pobal                                                                    FILM INFO:                          Festival, Bridie (Brenda Fricker), a
                                                                                                                                            52 mins, Ireland, 1982, Digital     lonely farmer’s daughter, goes to the        This is a rare chance to see Pat
                                                                                                                                            Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn            country ballroom where as a young girl       O’Connor’s film of William Trevor’s short
Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film
Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office
                                                                           UNQUIET GRAVES:                                                                                      she danced and dreamed of a happy
                                                                                                                                                                                marriage. Now, surrounded by younger,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             story (set in Leitrim but filmed in Mayo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             – a perfectly observed evocation of the
– please see www.ifi.ie for more information.                              THE STORY OF THE                                                                                     livelier women, she decides that she has     desolation and despair of Irish country
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             life in the 1950s. Fricker, outstanding as
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn                                                   GLENANNE GANG                                                                                        suffered the indignities of spinsterhood
                                                                                                                                                                                long enough and vows that tonight will       a woman stoically resigned to her fate,
                                                                                                                                                                                be her last bid to find a husband. But       is joined by a fine cast including Cyril
                                                                           WED 13TH (18.20)
SCANNÁIN GAELACH                                                                                                                                                                the eligible men have all emigrated or
                                                                                                                                                                                are already spoken for and loneliness
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Cusack, Ingrid Craigie, Mick Lally and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Niall TóibÍn.
In celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge we present a                        Unquiet Graves: The Story of the Glenanne Gang
series of short films made in the Irish language. All                      details how members of the RUC and UDR
films are presented in Irish with English subtitles.                       (a British Army regiment) were involved in the
                                                                           murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the
PROGRAMME ONE
POBAL
                                                                           recent conflict in Ireland. It reveals how state
                                                                           collusion accommodated the actions of known                      THE BIGGER
Pobal is Louis Marcus’s breathtaking panorama
of Irish life in 1970. The spirit and character of
                                                                           sectarian murderers in the assassinations of
                                                                           farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and others in a                  PICTURE
the Irish people are observed through the lens of
Bob Monks in a dynamic series of rural and urban
                                                                           campaign aimed at terrorising the most vulnerable
                                                                           in society.                                                      COME
portraits, accompanied by the rousing music of
Seán Ó Riada.
FILM INFO: Louis Marcus, 25 mins, Ireland, 1970
                                                                           The so-called Glenanne Gang rampaged through
                                                                           counties Tyrone and Armagh and across the Irish                  AND SEE
                                                                           Republic in a campaign that lasted from July
PROGRAMME TWO                                                              1972 to the end of 1978. This powerful new work,
CÁ nIMÍONN AN tAIRGEAD?                                                    narrated by Stephen Rea, continues Seán Murray’s                 WED 20TH ( 20.00)
In the first of two short films made by the                                investigation into the legacy of the Northern Irish
Department of Posts and Telegraphs to encourage                            conflict though testimony-based documentary.
                                                                                                                                            (ИДИ И СМОТРИ)                      The final film from Russian director Elem    a further series of encounters with
thrift, a slovenly housewife wastes food and                                                                                                                                    Klimov (whose wife Larisa Shepitko’s The     partisans, Nazis, and collaborators.
                                                                           The work offers an empowering voice to victims
electricity; a young woman fritters away her                                                                                                DIRECTOR:
                                                                                                                                                                                Ascent was recently screened as part of      An extremely powerful and harrowing
                                                                           and contributes to a new understanding of the                    Elem Klimov
earnings on hats and magazines; and a bachelor                                                                                                                                  this series), Come And See follows Florya,   film that is utterly unflinching in its
                                                                           complexities of the conflict.
spends his money on horses, drink and dogs.                                                                                                 FILM INFO:                          a young boy in Belarus in 1943, when         depiction of the horrors of battle, its
FILM INFO: Gerard Healy, 10 mins, Ireland, 1954, Black and White                                                                            142 mins, Soviet Union, 1985,
                                                                           DIRECTOR: Seán Murray                                            Digital, Subtitled                  the Nazis began to invade. Determined        mixture of lyricism and nightmare makes
                                                                           FILM INFO: 75 mins, Ireland-UK, 2018, Digital                                                        to fight with the partisan forces            for an unforgettable experience, and is
A THAISCE AGUS A STÓR                                                                                                                       Notes by Kevin Coyne
In this Technicolor cautionary comedy, Milo O’Shea                                                                                                                              against those attempting to occupy his       an incontrovertible reminder of the cost
                                                                           Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
and Maureen Toal play two young office workers                                                                                                                                  homeland, he is instead forced to remain     of war to its participants.
whose engagement is doomed unless they create                                                                                                                                   behind in the camp. There he meets
                                                                                                                                              This screening will be            young nurse Glasha. The two escape
some financial security.                                                    Q&A                                                               introduced by Frank Berry,
FILM INFO: Ronald Liles, 15 mins, Ireland, 1961                             The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Seán        writer-director of Michael        a sudden German attack and make for
                                                                            Murray, hosted by Margaret Urwin (Justice for the Forgotten).     Inside and I Used To Live Here.   Florya’s village, after which they endure

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a wilful narrative space where cinema                                                                                                Despite familiarity, there is a fascination
IFI & AEMI                                                                         fictions and historical facts permeate        WILD                                                                                   still in watching the rarified world of
TERROR NULLIUS                                                                     each other in new ways. The apocalyptic       STRAWBERRIES                                                                           extreme wealth versus the impoverished,
+ Q&A                                                                              desert camps of Mad Max 2 become
                                                                                   the site of refugee detention, flesh-
                                                                                                                                 ALL THE MONEY                                                                          desperate criminal, and a mother’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        unstinting love, determined as she is to
                                                                                   eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial      IN THE WORLD                                                                           save her son.
                                                                                   insurgents and a feminist motorcycle
                                                                                   gang goes vigilante on Mel Gibson.            WED 27TH &                                                                             Wild Strawberries is our film club for over
TUES 19TH (18.30)                                                                                                                FRI 29TH (11.00)                                                                       55s. Tickets: €4.45 including regular tea/
                                                                                   Terror Nullius was commissioned by the                                                                                               coffee before the event. If you happen to
DIRECTORS:                          Part political satire, eco-horror and road     Australia Centre for the Moving Image,        DIRECTOR:                               The John Paul Getty III kidnap story, the      look younger, please don’t take offence if
Soda_Jerk
                                    movie, Terror Nullius is a political revenge   and this screening is supported by the        Ridley Scott
                                                                                                                                                                         subject of a recently-aired TV series with     we ask your age.
FILM INFO:                          fable which offers an unwriting of             Glasgow Short Film Festival.                  FILM INFO:                              Donald Sutherland as the megalomaniac
55 mins, Australia, 2018, Digital                                                                                                132 mins, Italy-UK-USA, 2017, Digital
                                    Australian national mythologies. Binding       aemi is a creative platform for the support                                           oil billionaire, was given big screen
                                                                                                                                 Notes by Alicia McGivern
  This screening of Terror          together a documentary impulse with            & exhibition of artist and experimental                                               attention in this gripping mystery thriller,
  Nullius will be followed by a     the bent plotlines of Australian film texts,   moving image practice. See www.aemi.ie.                                               with Christopher Plummer in a role re-
  Q&A with Soda_Jerk.
                                    Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens                                                                                                cast after Kevin Spacey’s fall from grace.

                                                                                   and theme, they all have one thing in                                                                                                Steve McQueen classic, presented in a
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS:                                                                  common: they are directed and created         THE GREAT                                                                              4K restoration.
WOMEN IN FILM                                                                      by the Irish film industry's most talented    ESCAPE +                                                                               The Great Escape is arguably the
AND TELEVISION                                                                     up-and-coming female creatives.               SATELLITE                                                                              best World War II adventure film
SHORT FILM                                                                         IFI is pleased to provide a space to screen   EVENT                                                                                  ever made, a host of big-name stars
                                                                                   and critically engage with this work. WFT                                                                                            meshing beautifully for this meticulous
SHOWCASE                                                                           is a voluntary, members-led organisation                                                                                             recreation. Although this is a film
WED 6TH (18.30)                                                                    representing the creative, business,          SUN 24TH (18.00)                                                                       about courage, Sturges takes a low-key
                                                                                   educational and technical divisions of the                                                                                           approach, rather than allowing the cast
DIRECTORS:                          Just in time for International Women's         Irish audiovisual sector.                     DIRECTOR:                               March 24th marks the 75th anniversary          to indulge in macho antics.
Various                                                                                                                          John Sturges
                                    Day, IFI and Women in Film and Television      The films will be introduced by filmmakers                                            of the real-life POW escape from the           Tickets for this special event cost €12.
EVENT INFO:                         (WFT) present this inspiring programme         and the prize for best film (selected by a    FILM INFO:                              Luftwaffe-run Stalag Luft III prison in
90 mins                             of new short films selected from a                                                           172 mins, USA, 1963, Digital            German-occupied Poland. Historian
                                                                                   WFT jury) will be announced on the night.
                                    significant volume of work submitted           See full details of the programme on                                                  and broadcaster Dan Snow will host
                                    by WFT members. While these films              www.ifi.ie and www.wft.ie.                                                            a commemorative pre-show live from
                                    couldn’t differ more in style, scope, genre,                                                                                         London, followed by a screening of the

                                                                                   Lisa (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a dissatisfied                                                                                           company Subotica working on the post-
FEAST YOUR EYES                                                                    wife and mother who becomes                   IFI FAMILY                                                                             production, creating the scenes of magic
THE KINDERGARTEN                                                                   convinced that one of her pupils is a         THE ASH LAD:                                                                           and mystery as Ash Lad embarks on his
TEACHER                                                                            child prodigy when he begins to recite
                                                                                   mature, polished poetry of which he is
                                                                                                                                 IN THE HALL                                                                            trail. Based on an original Norwegian folk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        tale, there are fairy sprites, trolls, magic
                                                                                   seemingly the author.                         OF THE                                                                                 dust and plenty of lucky escapes to keep
                                                                                   Disapproving of her own less creatively       MOUNTAIN KING                                                                          Ash Lad on the road to his reward.
SAT 16TH (11.00)                                                                   inclined teenage children, Lisa’s fixation    SAT 16TH (11.00)                                                                       The film will be shown with English
                                                                                   with Jimmy crosses boundaries into                                                                                                   dubbing, and is recommended for
DIRECTOR:                           March’s pairing of a new release and a         increasingly ambiguous territory when         (ASKELADDEN –                           For St Patrick’s weekend, March’s IFI          children aged 10+.
Sara Colangelo
                                    specially devised main course menu will        she brings the boy’s work to the attention    I DOVREGUBBENS HALL)                    Family slot is this period adventure story
FILM INFO:                                                                         of her night course literary tutor Simon      DIRECTOR:                                                                              Tickets: €5.00 per person, €15.00 family
                                    be Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten                                                                                                 in which a poor farmer’s son embarks           ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult
96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital
                                    Teacher, followed by a specially created       (Gael García Bernal).                         Mikkel Brænne Sandemose
                                                                                                                                                                         on a quest to get a reward and save the
Notes by David O’Mahony
                                                                                                                                 FILM INFO:                                                                             + 3 children).
                                    main course in the IFI Café Bar.               Tickets cost €21, free list suspended.                                                princess from the wicked Mountain King.
                                                                                                                                 104 mins, Norway-Czech Republic-
                                                                                                                                 Ireland, 2017, Digital                  A very popular title in IFI Family Festival
                                                                                                                                 Notes by Alicia McGivern                2018, this Norwegian-set story had Irish

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