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MARCH 2019 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
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
Alien
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
2 3
NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS &
DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR MARCH 2019
ALIEN
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
GET SOCIAL!
Join the IFI community online:
24TH
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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MARCH 2019
FOXTROT BORDER
NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
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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MARCH 2019
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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MARCH 2019
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
10 11
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
tickets not individually sold.
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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