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IFI Schools Programme December 2020 –June 2021
Welcome!
With so many changes in the school environment Getting to Know IFI@Schools
this year, our annual IFI Schools Programme is IFI@Schools is an online streaming platform from
looking a little different. the Irish Film Institute for primary and post-primary
schools. The platform is accessible by a school
For the first time ever, the IFI Schools’ Programme subscription.
is being presented online on our new educational
streaming service, IFI@Schools. The service is How much is a School Subscription?
an accessible and affordable way to present film €250 to access the Post-Primary collection
content in the classroom, with the usual diverse and €100 to access the Primary Collection
exciting selection of films you have come to expect
from the IFI’s annual schools offer. What comes with a School Subscription?
• Each school subscription comes with 10 teacher
Whether a Modern Foreign Languages, TY or passes.
Primary teacher, you’ll find several titles curated • Each teacher pass allows for 10 film ‘rentals’ or
for your students, arranged in easy-to-navigate ‘unlocks’
sections. If you are a school principal looking to • Each teacher with a pass can set up their own
enhance whole school resources, the platform account to select and view films.
includes content for several subject areas, and Our introductory offer price runs until June 2021.
provides a wide range of stimulus for discussion and
exploration. How do I get started?
To get started you must set up a School Account. To
Access to the platform is by annual school do this you need:
subscription, which allows ten teachers to screen • A credit card for the school account
ten films each. • An email for the school account
• A School Administrator
We hope you find IFI@Schools a useful and
stimulating way to include film in your teaching. What Is A School Administrator?
A School Administrator is a staff member who
will oversee managing the school account and
allocating the teacher passes. They’ll be a point of
contact for the IFI or within the school for queries.
This can be a dedicated IT administrator, a teacher
or principal, ideally someone who has good IT skills.
Want to get started? See page 3!
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Getting Started
I’m the administrator, what do I do first? What kind of films are available?
1 Visit www.ifischools.ie and click ‘Subscribe’. Films are curated in sections according to:
2 Next, click the relevant subscription for your • Primary
school • Junior Cycle
3 Open the account for the school and make your • TY
payment. • Senior Cycle
4 Once payment is completed, you’re ready to
generate your teacher passes! Each film relates to a different aspect of the
curriculum, which is indicated on the display banner.
What do I need to generate a Teacher Pass? More films will be added throughout the year, so
• The names for each teacher who will get a pass. keep checking back to see what’s new!
You can generate 10.
• An email for each teacher who will get a pass. Important Information
• Each teacher pass allows for a total of 10 ‘rentals’
This will send a link to the teacher, where they or ‘unlocks’
will be prompted to create their account. They • These can be used on different titles, or the same
must complete this step in order to access the title at different times throughout the year.
programme. • Films are unlocked by selecting ‘Play Now’ on
your chosen film.
I’m a teacher, what do I do? • Once unlocked, you have 14 days to watch your
Once you have received a Pass Transfer email film unless otherwise stated.
from the School Administrator, you can create an • If you are using a film specifically to assist your
individual teacher account by entering your email teaching of curricula, a viewing license is not
and a password. required. If using a film for any other reason such
as a film club or a lunchtime screening, then you
What can I do with my Teacher Pass? need a viewing license. See www.mplc.ie
You can use your pass to access films on the IFI@
Schools platform. Remember you have 10 unlocks. You can find out more at www.ifischools.ie,
You can browse without using an unlock at www. or by contacting the IFI Education team at
ifischools.ie. schools@irishfilm.ie.
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Contents
Pg 6: Modern Foreign Languages: French
Man Up! / Fahim, The Little Chess Prince
Pg 7: Modern Foreign Languages: German
A Voluntary Year / Too Far Away
Pg 8: Modern Foreign Languages: Spanish
Wolves / One for All
Pg 9: English
Winter’s Bone (Senior Cycle) / Rosie (Senior Cycle) / Wadaja (Junior Cycle)
Pg 10: English (Junior Cycle)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople / His and Hers / The Peanut Butter Falcon
Pg 11: Senior Cycle
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America / Bobby Sands: 66 Days
Pg 12: Senior Cycle
Atlantic / The Pipe
Pg 13: Transition Year
Black ’47 / Iris
Pg 14: Transition Year
Now / Spaceship Earth
Pg 15: Transition Year
Gaza / Push
Pg 16: Transition Year
3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets / Eighth Grade
Pg 17: Transition Year
Vivarium / Sea Fever
Pg 18: Transition Year
Weathering With You / Katie / Climbing Blind
Pg 19: Inclusion and Diversity
Clemency / Selma / Love, Simon
Pg 20: Primary
Little Women / A Shine of Rainbows
Pg 21: Primary
Miniscule / Dreambuilders
Pg 22: Primary
Song of the Sea / The Secret of Kells / The Breadwinner
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Careers in Screen
Careers in Screen Day 2020
Vivarium
Following the success of our Careers in Screen Event 2: First Steps
events in 2019, our Careers events for 2021 are February
going online. With the support of Screen Skills At this online event, three guest filmmakers will
Ireland, we are offering a number of different events be on hand to screen a short film each and talk
for young people (aged 15-18) that will take place through their career paths. This is a chance
on our new schools platform, IFI@Schools, starting for students to hear from filmmakers about
in January. From director Q&As to our Careers in productions during college, developing skills and
Screen Day, this programme will give young people graduating from study to the industry.
the opportunity to investigate different career paths
into Ireland’s screen industries.
Event 3: Careers in Screen Day 2021
Further details of the online events including how March 10 10.00-16.00
to book will follow soon. For more information see Our day-long event, in association with Virgin
our website www.ifi.ie/learn. Media Dublin International Film Festival, will be
a combination of physical in-screen* and online
Events 1 and 4: Screen Starts talks and seminars.
Date TBC
Screen Starts is a new addition to the Careers in Special guests and keynote speakers will talk
Screen Programme, comprising an individual Q&A about their work and answer questions. This event
with a filmmaker, about a specific feature. is a unique opportunity for young people to find out
about a whole variety of screen careers, including
The first of these will focus on director Lorcan costume, animation, cinematography, directing
Finnegan, whose feature film Vivarium starring and more.
Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots is screening on
IFI@Schools. Lorcan will be online for a virtual Q&A Students aged 15-18 can access any or all of
to answer questions about his work, getting into the these events.
industry, and directing a big budget feature film. Full booking details from January.
The second Screen Starts event will take place in *Subject to the Government guidelines
April.
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French French
Man Up! Fahim, The Little
Un vrai bonhomme Age Rec: 15+ Chess Prince
This new French language drama has some Fahim Age Rec: 12+
high-school comic moments but also a poignancy
that sensitively depicts the relationship between Based on a true story, this is the remarkable tale of
16-year-old Tom and his older brother Léo. Fahim who flees Bangladesh for France with his
Tom joins a new secondary school and, though father. However, Paris proves unwelcoming and they
charming and smart, he lacks confidence to make are refused asylum, which leads to homelessness
friends. Cocky, clever Léo is always on hand to give and despair. By chance, Fahim gets to meet top
advice, daring Tom to face up to things and take chess coach Sylvain (Gérard Depardieu as the real-
risks. The plot turns on a key revelation, and unfolds life, revered coach, Xavier Parmentier) who takes
to reveal a boy and his family trying desperately to him on. Fahim’s rise through junior chess mirrors
move on. his struggles to establish a life and identity in Paris,
overcoming obstacles and parental absence. The film
Terrific performances, funny and moving, this highly does not shirk from showing the hardships asylum
engaging film offers much to discuss by way of seekers face, but also indicates the determination
themes and characters. that drives so many to seek new homes.
France/Belgium • 2019 • 88 mins • Comedy/Drama A life-affirming story, powered by Depardieu’s
French/English subtitles understated performance.
Director: Benjamin Parent
France • 2019 • 107 mins • Biography/Comedy/
Contains scenes of mild drug use Drama • French/Bengali with English subtitles
Director: Pierre-François Martin-Laval
A studyguide from the French Cultural Service is
also available to download from ifi.ie/studyguides. A studyguide from the French Cultural Service is
also available to download from ifi.ie/studyguides.
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German German
A voluntary year Too Far Away
Das freiwillige Jahr Age Rec: 15+ Zu Weit Weg Age Rec: 10+
A bittersweet comedy about parent-child relations This charming football drama is set in modern day
in which gruff single dad Urs’s plans for his teenage Germany. When a large mining company takes over
daughter’s gap year include her volunteering in a their village, Ben’s family must move to a nearby city.
Costa Rican hospital. Jette has other ideas however, Feeling displaced, he starts a new school where he
that include her boyfriend Mario. On the day of her shares his outsider status and a love of football with
departure, Urs gets completely worked up and a few Syrian refugee, Tariq. Despite Tariq’s better playing
mishaps lead to Jette finding herself in a position to skills, the pair team up. Ben brings Tariq back to his
decide her own fate. old village and learns that his friend longs to reunite
with his scattered family. Helping him locate his
This unusual take on the father-daughter tale has older brother, both boys find hope and a way to exist
plenty of narrative twists and turns that reveal Urs’s in their new surroundings.
basic desire, despite clunking missteps, to find the
best for his daughter. Germany • 2019 • 89 mins • Family/Drama
German with English subtitles
Germany • 2019 • 86 mins • Drama Director: Sarah Winkenstette
German/Spanish with English subtitles
Directors: Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler An accompanying studyguide produced by
Goethe-Institut Irland is available to download from
Contains scenes with nudity ifi.ie/studyguides.
An accompanying studyguide produced by
Goethe-Institut Irland is available to download from
ifi.ie/studyguides.
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Spanish Spanish
Wolves One for All
Los Lobos Age Rec: 14+ Uno para todos Age Rec: 12+
From Mexico comes this migrant family tale, imbued This fish-out-of-water story concerns a substitute
with a sense of magic, innocence, and poetry to teacher in a new village faced with an uncooperative
yield a wonderful story of hope. Finding a rundown 6th class. Trying to find his feet, Aleix learns about
apartment in New Mexico, Lucia and her two sons a boy who is coming back into the class after an
attempt to make their new home. With Mom out absence. Preparing the students to welcome their
working all day, the boys create fantastic worlds former classmate, the teacher learns that nobody
in their room, drawing on Mexican myths and wants the boy to return. Old scores come to the fore
recollections of their grandfather. Vivid animations as he realises that the class of children hold deep
and Halloween spirits break up the day-to-day resentments and hurt, all of which they have to deal
drabness. The boys meet kindness in their Chinese with in order to be able to move on.
neighbours and seek friendship with rough and
tough neighbourhood boys. A small film with huge Aleix (played by award-winning actor David
themes, stretching out beyond the confines of the Verdaguer) tries to negotiate a path through the
shabby room, reflected in the little family desperately young people’s emotions, while at the same time
seeking to be safe at home. face up to where he himself has landed, despite his
best plans.
Mexico • 2019 • 95 mins • Drama
Spanish with English subtitles Spain • 2020 • 91 mins • Drama
Director: Samuel Kishi Spanish with English subtitles
Director: David Ilundain
An accompanying studyguide from the
Asesoría de Educación en Irlanda is available to Contains some strong language
download from ifi.ie/studyguides.
An accompanying studyguide from the
Asesoría de Educación en Irlanda is available to
download from ifi.ie/studyguides.
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English English
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Winter’s Bone Rosie Wadjda
A A Age Rec: 12+
Before Jennifer Lawrence Written by Booker-winning Pioneering in a variety of ways, as
became one of the world’s most novelist Roddy Doyle, Rosie tells the first film shot entirely within
successful actors, she hinted at the story of a young mother’s Saudi Arabia and the first by a
her talent in this unforgettable, attempts to protect her family female Saudi Arabian director, this
stark, Ozark-set film about family, after their landlord sells their is a film about dreaming, hope
survival and quiet heroism. rented home and they become and determination. 11-year-old
As Ree Dolly, she is the eldest homeless. A timely depiction Wadjda lives with her mother and
child who cares for her two of the housing crisis in Dublin, is starting to show her initiative
young siblings in place of her Sarah Greene as Rosie and through the selling of homemade
dysfunctional parents. When her Moe Dunford as husband John bracelets on the street. Observing
drug-dealing father skips bail, Paul display a weariness yet boys on bicycles, she makes
she sets out to find him, for the determination and grit, fighting up her mind to get one despite
sole purpose of holding onto against faceless authorities to her mother’s, and society’s,
the house, which he posted as protect their family. disapproval. Undeterred by lack
collateral. Fierce, determined, of encouragement, she signs up
proud, believing that people will Ireland • 2018 • 86 mins • Drama for a Koran recitation competition,
do the right thing, Ree makes her Director: Paddy Breathnach the prize money of which will
way through the poverty-stricken get her a real two-wheeled prize.
landscape, driven by unstinting Spirited and optimistic, this is a
hope. gorgeous story of a young girl
determined to realise her dream.
USA • 2010 • 100 mins
Drama/Mystery Saudi Arabia/Netherlands/
Director: Debra Granik Germany/Jordan/UAE/USA •
2012 • 98 mins • Comedy/Drama
Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansoor
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English English/CPSE English
Hunt for the His & Hers The Peanut
Wilderpeople Butter Falcon
A A
Wide-eyed, rebellious ’gangsta’ Filmmaker Ken Wardrop drew This adventure drama stars
Ricky is bounced to yet another inspiration from his mother Shia LaBeouf and newcomer
foster home on the edge of the to make this award-winning Zack Gottsagen as Zak, a young
New Zealand wilderness. For documentary in which 70 women man with Downs Syndrome,
the welfare worker he’s a ‘real from the rural midlands speak who has been housed in a
bad egg’, but kindly foster aunt about their relationship to the retirement home where he is
Bella wins him over, helped by men in their lives. Allowing them deeply unhappy. Dreaming of his
the gift of a dog he calls Tupac. to speak openly and naturally escape to join wrestling school,
Then circumstances change, and with their own kitchens as he teams up with down-on-his-
Ricky finds himself on the run backdrop, the film offers an luck fisherman Tyler (LaBeouf),
with grumpy foster uncle, Hec insight into daily Irish life and who takes him under his wing.
(Sam Neill), who is accused of love through the decades that The pair build a raft and make
Ricky’s kidnapping. The misfit is both heartwarming and for North Carolina, encountering
pair must learn to get along as quietly affecting. That none adventure and kindness along the
the police get closer in this fresh of the women’s careers or way. Gottsagen shines in his first
adventure story from Taika Waititi achievements are mentioned lead role, recruited from a drama
(Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) that is beside the point of the film, camp for actors with disability.
is filled with heart, humour, and which may be rose-tinted, but is
‘trees, birds, rivers, sky’. nevertheless true to life. USA • 2019 • 93 mins •
Adventure/Comedy/Drama /
New Zealand • 2016 • 101 mins Ireland • 2009 • 80 mins • Sport • Directors: Tyler Nilson,
Adventure/Comedy/Drama • Documentary Michael Schwartz
Director: Taika Waititi Director: Ken Wardrop
For an additional English
Junior Cycle title, see
The Breadwinner on page 22.
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History History
In the Name of Peace: Bobby Sands:
John Hume in America 66 Days
A
The recent death of Nobel prize-winning politician This documentary film combines original footage
John Hume brought many reminders of the tireless, with animations, interviews and reconstructions, to
quietly heroic endeavours by this Derry nationalist depict the 66 days of Bobby Sands’s hunger strike,
to create the foundations that led to the Good Friday as well as the long-term impact of the blanket
Agreement and the cessation of the Troubles. protest on the political situation after his election as
This compelling documentary, narrated by Liam MP. Friends, fellow strikers, and his election agent
Neeson, focuses on Hume’s work in the US, where offer their views, along with historians and scholars,
he galvanised support among the Irish-American all of whom provide useful material for classroom
community in Washington, which he believed work on the History topic, Politics and Society of
would influence peace-making in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland.
Inspired by Martin Luther King, Hume’s courage and
charisma drove the campaign that would ultimately Ireland • 2016 • 105 mins • Documentary
bear fruit. Director: Brendan J Byrne
Ireland • 2017 • 90 mins • Documentary Contains strong scenes which viewers may
Director: Maurice Fitzpatrick find upsetting
For an additional History title,
see Selma on page 19.
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Geography/Politics Geography/Politics
and Society and Society
Atlantic The Pipe
A
Can the fishing industry be sustainable in the light The Pipe presents an insider’s account of the
of global economic and environmental challenges? much publicised opposition to the high-pressure
Activist and filmmaker Risteard O’Domhnaill (The gas pipeline that Shell planned to route through
Pipe) looks at three different fishing communities the sleepy fishing village of Rossport, Co. Mayo.
whose livelihoods are seriously under threat. On Filmed over a number of years, this documentary
Arranmore, super-trawlers hoover up dwindling places the viewer in the midst of the community’s
stocks. In Norway, the search for new oil fields protests against the all-encroaching development,
threatens maritime life. In Newfoundland, an as they struggle to protect their environment, homes
oil boom has hit, closing off the fisherman’s and livelihoods. Highlighting issues of corporate
opportunity. Narrated by Brendan Gleeson, this responsibility and community action, O’Domhnaill
hard-hitting documentary reveals the waste and offers an update on the project and how the clash of
greed that threaten one of the oldest industries in a decade ago has had a long-lasting impact.
the world.
Ireland • 2010 • 83 mins • Documentary
Ireland/Canada/Norway • 2016 • 80 mins Director: Risteard O’Domhnaill
Documentary • Director: Risteard O’Domhnaill
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Gaeilge Art
Black ’47 Iris
A Age Rec: 12+
An Irish ranger (James Frecheville) flees the Iris Apfel is an influencer, interior designer and
British army in 1847 to return home to the west of model. With 1.6m followers on Instagram at 99
Ireland, only to find his family dead or starving in years of age there’s no sign of her losing her
the midst of the Great Famine. And so, he sets out reputation as one of New York fashion scene’s
to seek violent revenge. Cleverly set against the most glamorous, eclectic and enduring stars. In this
backdrop of Irish history, using Irish language, this affectionate celebration of her life, the legendary
boldly told thriller boasts gripping set-pieces and documentary maker Albert Maysles gets beneath
an impressive Irish cast including Barry Keoghan the surface of his subject’s madly colourful prints,
and Stephen Rea. A stimulating drama to provoke glasses and witty observations to reveal a practical
discussion amongst students about the depiction and generous woman whose belief that life is too
of Irish history on screen. short to be boring is carried through each and every
aspect of her rich life.
Ireland/Luxembourg • 2018 • 96 mins
Action/Drama • English/Irish with English subtitles USA • 2014 • 79 mins •
Director: Lance Daly Documentary/Biography/History
Director: Albert Maysles
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Geography/Politics Geography/Politics
and Society and Society
Now Spaceship Earth
Age Rec: 14+ Age Rec: 14+
‘Change is coming whether you like it or not’. Biosphere 2 was a unique experiment in 1991
Speaking at the UN in 2019, environmental in which a group of people set about creating a
activist Greta Thunberg encapsulated the mood replica of the Earth’s biosphere. Led by idealist and
and determination inspiring the wave of young environmentalist John Allen, the group built the
campaigners around the globe who are pushing to unit on a three acre site in Arizona and eight people
affect change. This documentary looks at some of were to live in it for two years. A terrific insight into
the key voices, including Felix Finkbeiner (Plant for idealism versus reality as the experiment began
the Planet), Greta Thunberg (Fridays for Future), with huge optimism but ultimately fell foul to human
and Vic Barrett (Youth v. Gov), asking them what intervention and harsh scientific realities.
it means to be an activist and also drawing on the
opinions of experienced activists and politicians who This striking film on an idealisitic era offers great
look to future scenarios. stimulus for discussions of utopias, sustainability
and community.
Germany • 2020 • 74 mins • Documentary
Director: Jim Rakete USA • 2020 • 115 mins • Documentary
Director: Matt Wolf
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Politics and Society Politics and Society
Gaza Push
A Age Rec: 12+
‘People should look deeper’. A quote from one of Why can’t we afford to live in our cities? This
the main characters in this striking documentary question is at the heart of this probing documentary
illustrates the approach taken by photographer in which Leilani Farha, the former UN Special
Andrew Mc Connell and filmmaker Garry Keane who Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, travels around
combined their skills to film on the ground in Gaza the world trying to find out what is happening to
between 2014 and 2018. While Gaza as a place of make homes in our cities unaffordable. When
conflict and violence appears regularly in the news, something as simple as a place to live is denied to
their aim, alongside highlighting these issues, was to so many people, she ponders why a home is not a
offer a richer view of the territory, from the viewpoint basic human right, instead of becoming a market
of ordinary citizens, revealing the vibrancy, warmth commodity that benefits faceless landlords and
and activity that persists, despite the ongoing makes housing inaccessible.
conflict.
Sweden • 2019 • 92 mins • Documentary
Ireland/Canada • 2019 • 90 mins • Documentary Director: Fredrik Gertten
Directors: Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell
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3½ Minutes, Eighth Grade
Ten Bullets A
Age Rec: 15+
Her YouTube vlogs might not be very popular, and
This gripping documentary is based on events that she sometimes struggles to make friends, but brave
started at a Florida gas station. When software 13-year-old Kayla is not giving up on trying to fit in.
developer Michael Dunn asks four young black men Keenly observed and truthfully written by musical
in an SUV to turn their music down, the ensuing comedy star Bo Burnham, this sharp coming-of-age
argument leads to a shooting, at the end of which story is refreshingly funny, honest, and endearing.
17-year-old Jordan Davis is dead. Dunn pleads With a convincing high school setting filled with
self-defence, while Jordan’s story is told through familiar hits, misses and mishaps, the well-realised
testimonials from the stand, recordings and other central character evolves with the story, her musings
footage. With gun control still on the US agenda, and offering fresh stimulus for personal and creative
the Black Lives Matter campaign resonating, the film writing.
makes for timely viewing.
USA • 2018 • 93 mins • Comedy/Drama
USA • 2016 • 98 mins • Documentary/Crime/Drama Director: Bo Burnham
Director: Marc Silver
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Vivarium Sea Fever
A A
Dublin director Lorcan Finnegan creates a chilling, Filmmaker Neasa Hardiman has progressed from
claustrophobic suburban tale which chimes award-winning shorts to TV productions and now
perfectly with lockdown times. Gemma and Tom this big budget feature, set at sea and starring
are seeking a new home and they arrange a viewing Dougray Scott and Connie Nielsen. Looking to
in a new housing development with smiling estate carry out a deep sea dive, a marine biologist takes
agent Martin. There are rows upon rows of similar passage on a worn-down trawler on the west of
box shaped houses, and once inside their own green Ireland. Venturing into deep waters outside their
unit, they find they cannot locate the way out. Jesse permitted zone in the hope of a bumper catch, the
Eisenberg and Imogen Poots are brilliant as the husband and wife crew attract the attention of a
increasingly unnerved couple who realise they are bizarre sea creature. The tension mounts as the
trapped with their new baby. Creepy, with dark comic creature makes its presence felt, ratcheted up with
touches, Finnegan’s horror mystery questions how impressive effects and sound design. A chilling
we live and what we can glean from nature to help environmental metaphor for our times.
us survive.
Ireland/UK/USA/Belgium/Sweden • 2019
Ireland/Belgium/Denmark/Canada • 2019 95 mins • Drama/Horror/Mystery
97 mins • Comedy/Horror/Mystery Director: Neasa Hardiman
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
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Film/Geography PE PE
Weathering Katie Climbing Blind
With You A Age Rec: 12+
Tenko no ko A Irish boxer Katie Taylor has held Following last year’s incredible
WBA and IBF World Lightweight film Free Solo, Climbing Blind
This anime story of first love and titles, having turned professional tells its story on a smaller but no
magic comes from the maker after a disastrous campaign at less extraordinary scale. Blind
of Japanese hit Your Name. In the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. climber Jesse Dufton has a goal
contemporary Tokyo, teen boy This revealing documentary to climb The Old Man of Hoy, a
Hodaka falls for Hina and learns follows Taylor as she attempts 449ft high sea stack off the coast
that she has a special power to get back on track after that of Scotland that intimidates even
to influence the weather. The major blow to her career, and the most experienced climbers.
city is rain-soaked until Hina’s provides a candid account of this Unable to see where his next hold
praying brings glorious sun that period and her determination is, Jesse relies on the help and
shines on their budding romance. to succeed in the professional support of his wife and climbing
Despite that, there are tough boxing arena. Useful stimulus for partner Molly to make his
situations - Hodaka is homeless, PE topics such as gender, going iconic ascent. This is a gripping
while the authorities threaten professional and planning for and inspiring documentary to
Hina’s small family unit. With the optimum performance. prompt exploration of human
weather in imbalance, it is within endeavour and achievement, but
Hina’s power to reset it, but at Ireland • 2018 • 85 mins • also discussion of inclusion and
huge personal sacrifice. This is Documentary/Sport diversity in sport.
a beautiful and creative stimulus Director: Ross Whitaker
for climate action discussion and UK • 2020 • 72 mins •
debate. Documentary/Sport
Director: Alastair Lee
Japan/China • 2019 • 112 mins •
Animation/Drama
Director: Makato Shinkai
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Clemency Selma Love, Simon
Age Rec: 15+ A A
Clemency is a superb, if Set over the three-month period This funny and tender drama
tough, drama centred on a of Martin Luther King Jr’s non- was a huge success both in
female prison governor who violent campaign to secure equal terms of box office and in
has the final say on inmates’ voting rights, this Oscar-winning changing the conversation
executions. Prompting film tells the story of the 1965 and familiar tropes of the
discussion of imprisonment, 54-mile protest march from high school drama, so long
death penalty and human rights, Selma to Montgomery. Featuring dominated by the now dated
this is a gripping watch that an all-star cast including David John Hughes 1980’s titles. As
focuses on Bernadine (Alfre Oyelowo as MLK, this is a one of the first mainstream teen
Woodward) as she is forced powerful examination of one films centred on boy meets boy,
to confront the psychological of the key moments of the Civil it does not shy from highlighting
and emotional terrors her job Rights movement and of a man the efforts Simon will go to
creates, seeping into her home who altered history. The film also conceal his sexuality. Things
life. Ultimately questioning the marks a significant step in the change when he falls for a
morality of her own actions, this career of filmmaker Ava DuVernay blogger who comes out online
tough-minded film is powered as a chronicler of African and they start to email. Once
by Woodward’s towering American experience. the class bully finds Simon’s
performance. emails and threatens blackmail,
UK/USA • 2014 • 128 mins he knows it won’t be long before
USA • 2009 • 112 mins • Drama Drama/Biography/History everyone knows the truth.
Director: Chinonye Chukwu Director: Ava DuVernay
Contains some disturbing USA • 2018 • 110 mins
scenes and brief violent Comedy/Drama/Romance
imagery Director: Greg Berlanti
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Little Women A Shine of Rainbows
Saoirse Ronan is brilliant as Jo March, in Greta Tomás is a shy young lad who goes to live with
Gerwig’s fresh, funny and pertinent adaptation of Máire and her husband Alec in a remote village
the classic novel about the four March sisters. Laura off the Atlantic coast. There, he has to adjust to a
Dern is Marmee, the resilient mum who will do all quiet, rural way of life, start at a new school, and
to protect her four daughters, while also preparing make new friends. Máire teaches him how to enjoy
them for futures in which they can have some the natural environment, the animals and beautiful
independence, despite Victorian mores. Jo reflects landscape in which they live. She tells him ancient
back and forth on her life as she looks to getting her stories, including the selkie myth. Just when Tomás
first novel published. is beginning to feel at home, tragedy strikes and
he has to learn to cope with another new situation.
USA • 2019 • 137 mins • Drama/Romance This is a warm and touching story about family,
Director: Greta Gerwig friendship and the natural world.
Canada/Ireland • 2009 • 101 mins • Family/Drama
Director: Vic Sarin
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Minuscule – Dreambuilders
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Far Away
Minuscule – Les mandibules A charming animation from Danish animator Kim
du bout du monde Hagen Jensen whose career began with Sullivan
Bluth Studios in Dublin.
Planning an environmental investigation? Be In this contemporary tale, Minna is a young girl
inspired by Minuscule! As preparations are being whose life with her single dad rolls along fairly
made for the cold Alpine winter ahead, a small nicely. However, Minna’s dream life shows she’s
ladybird is accidently whisked away to a Caribbean a bit unhappy, especially with the arrival of Dad’s
rainforest, which is at risk of destruction due to new partner and her Insta-loving daughter. Inside
human development. Adventure ensues as a band her head, the dreambuilding steampunk crew have
of delightful mini-beasts set out to rescue him. their work cut out in responding to the new upsets
in Minna’s world as she tries to control her world
France • 2018 • 92 mins and the people annoying her!
Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Directors: Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo A lovely detailed animation with fantastic
dreamscapes, the English language cast includes
Irish actors Karen Ardiff and Robyn Dempsey as
Minna.
Denmark • 2020 • 81 mins • Animation/Drama/
Adventure/Comedy • Directors: Kim Hagen
Jensen
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Song of The Secret The
the Sea of Kells Breadwinner
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Following their success with The The first feature animation from This extraordinary award-
Secret of Kells, the reputation of Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon which winning animation, directed
Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon went combined their unique style with by Nora Twomey, is set in the
from strength to strength with Irish myth, legend and music to Taliban-controlled Kabul of
the release of this animation. The realise this gorgeous animated 2001. It’s the story of 11-year-
studio’s increasingly recognisable action adventure. old Parvana who gives up her
style acquires new depth, drawing identity to provide for her family
on the traditional selkie myth and 12-year-old Brendan is growing and try to save her father’s life.
music of Kíla. up within the walls of the Abbey. Amid the tension, she meets
Watching the monks work on the another girl in disguise and
When Ben and Saoirse are sent legendary Book of Kells he finds together, drawing on the power
to live with their Granny in the himself on a secret quest that of storytelling, they find the
city, they quickly feel the pull will take him for the first time strength and courage to face
back to their family home by ever beyond the abbey’s walls the horrifying reality of the
the sea. Their journey becomes into the enchanted forest where encroaching war.
a race against time as they are dangerous mythical creatures
drawn into a world Ben recalls hide. With the terrifying Viking Ireland/Canada/Luxembourg
from his mother’s folktales, hordes closing in, will Brendan 2017 • 94 mins • Animation
filled with fairies and spirit folk succeed in saving the sacred Director: Nora Twomey
who want to be free. It soon book and the monastery?
becomes clear to Ben that
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seal, is the key to their survival. 75 mins • Animation/Family Junior Cycle English on
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