MAY 2017 THE RED TURTLE THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. EXHIBIT It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes.

IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB MYSTERY MATINEE

This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI The IFI once again invites audiences to take a chance with and Alliance Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket – us on a Sunday afternoon, and to attend a screening of takes place on May 17th at 18.15. This month’s film is a film whose title will only be revealed when it appears François Ozon’s Frantz, a haunting elegy and poignant onscreen. Sometimes it will be a preview, but not always; commentary on Franco-German relations in the aftermath sometimes, it will be a title one might expect to see at the of World War I. See www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI, but not always. IFI Box Office for further details.

IFI EXPLORERS MANHATTAN

Become an IFI Explorer and see the best in alternative Woody Allen’s classic Manhattan is our IFI Film Club choice cinema. Open to ages 15-18, this offer gives you a chance for May – join us for a discussion following the 18.30 to explore a world of cinema that’s unavailable in your screening on May 16th. The film is also our Feast Your Eyes local multiplex. Get your loyalty card and pay less for choice for May – enjoy a New York influenced main course more! Explorers can avail of €3 tickets to a range of films following the 18.40 screening on May 17th. throughout each month between 1pm & 6pm. Buy 3 Explorer tickets and get your fourth film FREE! Explorer tickets are not on sale online and must be bought in person at the IFI Box Office. www.ifi.ie/explorers 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE

This May the IFI unveils exciting new plans for the next five years. MAY

AT THE IFI Red Turtle The For almost twelve months we have been busy at the IFI We believe that this year, the 25th anniversary of our developing a new strategy to drive the organisation for home here in Temple Bar, is the perfect time to publish our the next five years. Through the IFI Strategy 2017–2022, ambitious new plans for the future, and anticipate that our we wanted to ensure that the IFI continues to deliver world- most exciting times are yet to come. class programmes, and that it remains one of Ireland’s most effective and influential cultural organisations, attracting Later this month, we’re delighted to be unveiling the IFI a significant, loyal and engaged audience. Strategy 2017–2022. We hope you find our plans for the next five years as exciting as we do. A key component for us during this strategy development was to engage as many people as possible in a Ross Keane consultation process. With this in mind, we looked to our Director various constituencies for feedback and input. We included audiences through market research; we presented seven key questions to the IFI Council and sought their input through group sessions; the IFI Board and staff offered their unique insights into the process; and we participated in one-on- one meetings with many of our key partners, stakeholders and funders. This consultation process allowed us to examine what we do, how we do it, and why we do it.

Through this process, key priorities for the organisation began to emerge, and what proved most interesting is that the same topics were highlighted by many of the groups and people we engaged with. This allowed us to form a very clear set of objectives for the future. From these priorities, we have been able to identify a key set of strategic outcomes which we aim to have achieved by 2022.

3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

CITIZEN JANE: OPENS MAY 5TH DATE SCREENING TIME BATTLE FOR THE CITY 2ND IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 HARMONIUM OPENS MAY 5TH TUE 3RD WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: 11.00 THE JOURNEY OPENS MAY 5TH WED DARE TO BE WILD WITHOUT NAME OPENS MAY 5TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LADY MACBETH* 18.30 FRANTZ OPENS MAY 12TH 5TH WITHOUT NAME + Q&A 18.15 MANHATTAN OPENS MAY 12TH FRI IN VIEW OPENS MAY 19TH 6TH IFI & IMMA: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: WINGS OF DESIRE 16.00 SAT THE JOURNEY + Q&A 18.30 INVERSION OPENS MAY 19TH 7TH CITIZEN JANE + PANEL DISCUSSION 16.00 OPENS MAY 19TH SUN I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY OPENS MAY 26TH 9TH IRISH FOCUS: AMANDA COOGAN: 18.30 THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE OPENS MAY 26TH TUE LONG NOW + Q&A 10TH IFI & IMMA: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: 18.30 THE RED TURTLE OPENS MAY 26TH WED THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE 11TH CHINESE-LANGUAGE FILM FESTIVAL: 18.00 THU THE ASSASSIN + Q&A 12TH CHINESE-LANGUAGE FILM FESTIVAL: GET SOCIAL! FRI A TIME TO LIVE, A TIME TO DIE + Q&A 18.00 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! SMALL TALK 21.15 13TH CHINESE-LANGUAGE FILM FESTIVAL: Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, SAT HOU HSIAO-HSIEN MASTER CLASS 12.00 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI 14.30 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! THE ROAD TO MANDALAY 18.00 14TH CHINESE-LANGUAGE FILM FESTIVAL: Join the IFI Community online: SUN A TOUCH OF ZEN 14.00 MYSTERY MATINEE 15.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub CHINESE-LANGUAGE FILM FESTIVAL: 17.30 @IrishFilmInstitute 16TH IFI FILM CLUB: MANHATTAN 18.30 TUE BETWEEN LAND AND SEA 18.30 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 17TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: BLOOD FRUIT 11.00 WED IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: FRANTZ 18.15 IFI & IMMA: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: IMAGES 18.30 FEAST YOUR EYES: MANHATTAN 18.40

Open Captioned screening 18TH NT LIVE: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? 19.00 THU Audio Described screening 19TH IN VIEW + Q&A 18.30 FRI 20TH DUBLIN FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL: 13.30 SAT WANDA + PANEL DISCUSSION * Denotes screenings which are open captioned and audio described. For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit 22ND THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE GO-BETWEEN 18.30 www.ifi.ie/accessible MON 23RD IRISH FOCUS: AMANDA COOGAN: LONG NOW 18.30 † The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print TUE + SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION 24TH IFI & IMMA: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: 18.30 WED THE HOLY MOUNTAIN 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: 11.00 FRI THE ANGELS’ SHARE TIMES 27TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: 13.30 SAT SCREENING X (CURATED BY PETER TAYLOR) For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New 28TH IFI FAMILY: KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (3D) 11.00 Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our SUN ILF DUBLIN: A GRAIN OF TRUTH + Q&A 13.00 weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule 30TH IFI & IMMA: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: 18.30 SHOPPING BAG SPIRITS + KENNETH ANGER or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays. TUE You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine 31ST WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: 11.00 WED THE ANGELS’ SHARE by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup. IFI & IMMA: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: 18.30

4 MAY 2017 CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR DOC IFI THE CITY

OPENS MAY 5TH When journalist, author and activist World War II by gutting its community- Jane Jacobs wrote her seminal work centric, poorer neighbourhoods to FILM INFO: The Death and Life of Great American introduce monolithic rows of apartments. 92 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Cities in 1961, she helped to change Notes by David O’Mahony the way we consider urban living, Focusing on the time in the 1960s when viewing cities as holistic networks they clashed over Moses’s plan to cut PANEL DISCUSSION of people functioning as distinct yet expressways through Greenwich Village, After the 16.00 screening on connected communities. Soho and Little Italy, Matt Tyrnauer’s May 7th, join our discussion documentary presents these two with guests Councillor Ciarán Cuffe, Natalie de Róiste, City Diametrically opposed to her figures as antagonists locked in a heated Organiser Jane's Walk Dublin, thinking was Robert Moses, the ideological battle for the future of and Alan Mee, UCD School New York construction magnate New York. of Architecture, Planning and who transformed the city after Environmental Policy.

HARMONIUM RELEASE NEW

OPENS MAY 5TH A stranger’s unexpected arrival is the neatly attired yet slightly disquieting catalyst for a series of unwelcome man named Yasaka appears and FUCHI NI TATSU changes to Toshio’s quietly unremarkable Toshio immediately offers him a life in Kôji Fukada’s slow burn, job and lodgings with his family, EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Hitchcockian thriller that reworks much to their bemused chagrin. elements of the genre to winning effect. FILM INFO: 118 mins, 2016, Japan, Toshio shares his small apartment Before long however, Yasaka bonds Digital, Subtitled with his wife and harmonium-playing with Toshio’s wife and offers musical Notes by David O’Mahony daughter; they live above the machine instruction to his daughter, and workshop where he plies his trade. all appears well until a series of revelations take the narrative into The family appears contented if not a significantly darker territory in the film’s little distant. One day a soft-spoken, consistently surprising second act.

5 MAY 2017 THE JOURNEY NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 5TH Set against the backdrop of the is equally insistent on accompanying negotiations that would ultimately him, reasoning that there is safety in FILM INFO: result in the St. Andrew’s Agreement opponents travelling together. On the 94 mins, 2016, UK, Digital of 2006, The Journey is, as it is careful drive to the airport, the gregarious, Notes by Kevin Coyne to make clear, a highly fictionalised chatty McGuinness (Colm Meaney) account of the origin of the political makes overtures, all of which are and personal relationship between the ignored by the seemingly intransigent Reverend Doctor Ian Paisley and the and diametrically opposed Paisley late Martin McGuinness. (Timothy Spall). However, as their travels continue, a chink of hope Q&A Screenwriter Colin Bateman When Paisley insists on returning appears. Watching the two actors play will join us after the 18.30 to Belfast to celebrate his fiftieth off each other is a real treat in this screening on Saturday May wedding anniversary, McGuinness engaging and unexpectedly sweet film. 6th for a Q&A. WITHOUT NAME NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 5TH Director Lorcan Finnegan’s debut Irish mythology, Without Name, while feature sees land surveyor undoubtedly taking its place in the folk FILM INFO: Eric (Alan McKenna) working in horror tradition, is equally interested 93 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital a remote woodland area. in its central character’s psychological Notes by Kevin Coyne isolation from both those around him Having begun his task alone, and his environment, to which he must the location has unsettled Eric, eventually adapt or succumb. It makes a situation not alleviated by the for hypnotic, unsettling viewing. Q&A arrival of assistant and mistress Olivia Director Lorcan Finnegan (Niamh Algar). Instead, his mental The eerie Foxes (2012), will join us after the 18.15 state worsens as the woods come Lorcan Finnegan’s acclaimed, screening on Friday May to seem increasingly threatening. award-winning short, will 5th for a Q&A. Suffused with elements taken from screen before Without Name.

6 FRANTZ RELEASE NEW

OPENS MAY 12TH A haunting elegy set in the aftermath on his grave. Whilst exploring his of World War I, Frantz is another connection to her fiancé, Anna FILM INFO: successful change of pace for the begins to develop feelings for this 113 mins, 2016, France-Germany, prolific and versatile François Ozon intriguing Frenchman who may not Digital, Subtitled, Black and White (Swimming Pool, 8 Women, Potiche). be all that he seems. Notes by David O’Mahony Mourning the death in battle of her fiancé Frantz, Anna (Paula Beer) Beautifully filmed in striking comes to stay with his grieving monochrome, Frantz is both an parents in their idyllic German village absorbing drama and poignant until one day she comes across the commentary on Franco-German IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB Screening on Wednesday, mysterious Adrien (Pierre Niney), relations in the aftermath of May 17th at 18.15. Tickets who claims to be Frantz’s long-time the Great War. just €7.50 for IFI and Alliance friend from Paris, leaving flowers Française members.

MANHATTAN CLASSIC IFI

OPENS MAY 12TH Woody Allen was famously so 17-year-old Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), unhappy with Manhattan that he but is attracted to Mary FILM INFO: wanted to offer United Artists a (Diane Keaton), who is having 96 mins, 1979, USA, Digital, new project for free if they would an affair with a friend of his. Black and White agree not to release it, a position Notes by Kevin Coyne that will no doubt seem baffling to From its iconic opening, which sets audiences revisiting the film or seeing cinematographer Gordon Willis’ it on the big screen for the first time beautiful black and white images SPECIAL EVENTS in this new digital restoration. to the strains of Gershwin while Please see Page 2 for more Allen’s voiceover extols the city, information on our Manhattan Allen plays Isaac, a comedy writer Manhattan is a seamless blend of IFI Film Club and Feast Your whose ex-wife () is now comedy, romance, and drama, and Eyes events. living with a woman. Isaac is dating one of Allen’s most satisfying films.

7 MAY 2017 IN VIEW NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 19TH Ruth (Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a for a female role, unusually violent, woman filled with rage, guilt and Caoilfhionn Dunne presents a EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† self-loathing, unable to forgive portrait of a woman, once respected herself for a drunken indiscretion as a senior figure in a male- FILM INFO: with a colleague which resulted dominated environment, now 93 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital in the loss of her husband and her spiralling downwards into depression, Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn unborn child. As her moodswings alcoholism and despair. and angry outbursts increasingly test her workmates’ patience, she seeks Writer/director Ciaran Creagh Q&A help but is coming to believe that creates a fitting vehicle for this Actress Caoilfhionn Dunne and director Ciaran Creagh there is only one course of action to extraordinary performance in a will join us after the 18.30 ease her pain. In a characterisation tightly-scripted film that is as bleak screening on Friday May that is uncompromisingly dark and, and raw as it is memorable. 19th for a Q&A. INVERSION NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 19TH Air pollution in Tehran has reached tailoring business run aground when crisis levels, with atmospheric ‘thermal doctors order her mother to leave VAROONEGI inversions’ pushing the toxicity level to Tehran permanently on account of the point where schools are forced to her health. EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† close. This occurrence also serves as a metaphor for the repressive conditions Without consulting her, Niloofar’s FILM INFO: 84 mins, 2016, Iran, Iranian women are forced to endure in brother and sister decide she is to Digital, Subtitled Behnam Behzadi’s compelling drama. act as caregiver for their mother in Notes by David O’Mahony the family’s northern vacation villa, Niloofar (Sahar Dolatshahi) is in her effectively curtailing her ambitions. 30s, unmarried and living with her Niloofar is forced to wake up to her ailing mother, a victim of the poor air. status as a second-class citizen and Her plans to develop her late father’s take action.

8 LA STRADA CLASSIC IFI

OPENS MAY 19TH The winner of the first Academy under the title of ‘The Fool’ (Richard Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Baseheart), who becomes a rival for FILM INFO: Fellini’s fourth feature begins with Gelsomina’s affections when the 108 mins, 1954, Italy, Digital, the young and beautiful Gelsomina three find themselves employed by Subtitled, Black and White () being sold by her the same travelling circus. However, Notes by Kevin Coyne mother to brutish street performer The Fool’s constant needling of Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), whose Zampanò, combined with the jealous income is derived from his strongman and thuggish nature of the latter, act. She becomes his assistant, ultimately results in tragedy. Simple struggling to learn the ropes, her and poetic, La Strada saw Fellini naïve eagerness to please met with moving away from his neorealist roots nothing but cruelty. The two encounter and into what would become known another street performer who goes as the ‘Felliniesque’.

I AM NOT RELEASE NEW MADAME BOVARY

OPENS MAY 26TH Provincial café proprietor the little person who takes on the Li (Fan Bingbing) is striving for legal system, Xiaogang Feng’s satirical WO BU SHI PAN JIN LIAN representation in her complicated look at the Chinese judiciary is case against her husband – presented on such a broad canvas it EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† they conspired to get a ‘fake’ divorce borders on an epic narrative quest. in order to secure their dream FILM INFO: 137 mins, 2016, China, apartment, but her husband reneged The director playfully presents a Digital, Subtitled on the plan to remarry and has now distinct ratio for each of the film’s Notes by David O’Mahony shacked up with someone else. locales – a round tondo-like aperture for Li’s hometown, a vertical scroll for Fuelled by righteous indignation, Beijing – a visual leitmotif suggestive Li determines to seek justice in the of traditional Chinese painting. courts in Beijing. A familiar tale of

9 MAY 2017 THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 26TH Aki Kaurismäki, the Finnish master and culture-clash previously explored of deadpan humour, tackles the in Le Havre (2011); Khaled Ali TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN immigration crisis in his inimitable (Sherwan Haji) is a Syrian refugee fashion. In the years since Leningrad who has escaped the war in Aleppo FILM INFO: Cowboys Go America (1989), and stowed away on a coal freighter, 98 mins, 2017, Finland-Germany, Kaurismäki has refined his signature seeking asylum in Helsinki. Meanwhile Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony style – droll observations of life lived hangdog travelling shirt salesman on the margins, deliberately artificial Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves sets and static cameras, plenty of his wife, offloads his stock of shirts, rockabilly, vodka and cigarettes – wins big on a poker game and buys to something approaching perfection. The Golden Pint, a shabby restaurant. The Other Side of Hope sees him The two narratives collide with expand on themes of migration delightfully unpredictable results. THE RED TURTLE NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 26TH The first international co-production The film opens with a ship on a storm- for , the world-renowned tossed sea and a man thrown overboard FILM INFO: Japanese studio responsible into the crashing waves; castaway 80 mins, 2016, for modern classics such as Princess onto a deserted island, the unnamed France-Japan, Digital Mononoke, and , protagonist is forced to subsist by Notes by David O’Mahony is directed by Michael Dudok de Wit, whatever means he can, his only Dutch-British director of the companions being a group of sand crabs. Oscar-winning short Father and The man tries to make his way back to Daughter (2000). The exquisite beauty civilisation by building a raft, but his and profound simplicity of the results efforts are repeatedly thwarted by an lend The Red Turtle the quality of an enormous red turtle who destroys his ancient fable. meagre craft every time.

10 ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for more information. Programme One will run on Mondays throughout May, Programme Two will run on Wednesdays throughout May, while a double-bill will run on Saturdays throughout May. PROGRAMME TWO TIDE ON THE TURN TOURISTIC TREATS This upbeat film designed to attract foreign industry Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn to Ireland applauds Taoiseach Seán Lemass for selling Ireland to overseas industrialists. See production PROGRAMME ONE lines at the Volkswagen, Jacobs and Erin factories HONEYMOON IN IRELAND where “the standard of intelligence of Irish workers Ireland is an enticing honeymoon destination for is comfortably above the world average!” a pair of young American newly-weds. They visit FILM INFO: 16 mins, 1963 Dublin’s Moore Street, the Bird Market and Trinity College. They also visit Waterford, Wicklow, Galway IRELAND INVITES YOU and Cork for road bowling and a spot of dancing A tourist film showing the beauties of Ireland at the crossroads. “where no-one is a stranger for very long”. FILM INFO: 28 mins, 1963 FILM INFO: 14 mins, 1966

IRISH FOCUS AMANDA COOGAN: LONG NOW

MAY 9TH & 23RD (18.30)

DIRECTOR: Amanda Coogan: Long Now is an week for the entire run. Director Paddy Paddy Cahill exploration of Coogan’s durational Cahill boldly celebrates the captured FILM INFO: performance art practice. The film stillness of the performance and, in his 60 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital follows Coogan during a gruelling six- close observation of Coogan’s barely Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn week live durational exhibition, I’ll sing perceptible movement, affords the viewer Q&A you a song from around the town. greater intimacy than the live event The 18.30 screening on Hosted in Dublin’s RHA Gallery, the could allow. The film is interwoven with May 9th will be followed by a Q&A with Paddy Cahill and exhibition became the gallery’s most Coogan’s reflections on her practice and Amanda Coogan. The 18.30 successful and visited in its history. on her upbringing as a hearing child show on May 23rd will have in a deaf family, an experience which sign language interpretation from Amanda Coogan. Spanning six weeks, Coogan performed continues to inspire her work. live for six hours a day, five days a

11 IFI FAMILY KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (3D)

MAY 28TH (11.00) This Oscar-nominated animation reminds monkey and a samurai beetle, Kubo us again of the talent and creativity of prepares to take on the enemy. DIRECTOR: Laika Studios. The lead animator on Action sequences, humour, friendship Travis Knight Coraline, Paranorman and The Boxtrolls, and monsters combine to set Kubo on Travis Knight, brings his magical, and a the right path. FILM INFO: 101 mins, 2016, USA, Digital little bit weird, stop motion style to direct Notes by Alicia McGivern this tale of young Kubo, who embarks on Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family a quest to find an ancient suit of armour ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + which will enable him stand up to the 3 children). villainous Moon King.

With his own gifts of storytelling and origami and with the help of a talking

THE BIGGER PICTURE THE GO-BETWEEN

MAY 22ND (18.30) ‘The past is a foreign country: they do Leo befriends his beautiful older sister things differently there’ – so begins Marian (Julie Christie) and finds himself DIRECTOR: L.P. Hartley’s classic 1953 novel of carrying messages between her and a Joseph Losey innocence lost, an elegiac tone which tenant farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess Harold Pinter perfectly captured in his (Alan Bates) with whom Marian is having FILM INFO: 116 mins, 1971, UK-USA, Digital screenplay for Joseph Losey’s delicate an illicit affair. Notes by David O’Mahony adaptation, winner of the Palme d’Or at the in 1971. This screening will be introduced The setting is 1900: young Leo Colston by Sarah Glennie, Director of is the guest of his wealthy school friend Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Marcus at his family’s Norfolk home. When Marcus falls ill with measles,

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WILD DARE TO STRAWBERRIES BE WILD & BEALTAINE MAY 3RD (11.00)

Bealtaine, the annual celebration of creativity in This year’s film choice for the annual older age, takes collectivism and protest as its access>CINEMA film tour taking place during theme for 2017. Under the banner ‘Altogether Bealtaine is this charming biopic concerning Now!’, it features a huge programme of activities Irish landscape designer Mary Reynolds, nationwide, including our own programme at IFI in who proceeded from rank outsider to winner conjunction with Wild Strawberries. The Bealtaine at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show. Festival programme launch will take place at IFI on Having developed a love for wild spaces, May 2nd at 11.00. Mary has a dream for a garden. She pulls together an unconventional bunch who help All film tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/ her realise her vision and reach for gold. coffee before the event. Wild Strawberries is our monthly film club for over 55s. If you happen Mary Reynolds will launch the film tour and sign to look younger please don’t take offence if we copies of her new book, The Garden Awakening. ask your age.

Notes by Alicia McGivern DIRECTOR: Vivienne De Courcy FILM INFO: 100 mins, 2015, Ireland, Digital

BLOOD THE ANGELS’ FRUIT SHARE

MAY 26TH MAY 17TH (11.00) & 31ST (11.00)

What happens when a low-key protest turns Few filmmakers today have collective action as into something much greater can clearly be seen central to their vision as Ken Loach. Consistently in this documentary about the Dunnes Stores pitting his characters against the system, they workers who objected to selling South African brush up against others in similar predicaments fruit during the apartheid regime. Following a and together realise their strength. The Angels’ union directive, Mary Manning refused to sell Share sees ex-con Robbie convince others in two Outspan grapefruit and she and eleven others the Glasgow community service programme to were suspended, leading to a strike. Expecting it join him in a whisky scam. Affectionate, filled all to be over quickly, the arrival of activist with humour (plus some strong language), and Nimrod Sejake set the strikers on a completely great performances, Loach reminds us again unexpected path. that people, briefly, can have the power.

DIRECTOR: Sinéad O’Brien DIRECTOR: Ken Loach FILM INFO: 80 mins, 2014, Ireland, Digital FILM INFO: 101 mins, 2012, Belgium-France-Italy-UK, Digital

13 IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS SCREENING X

MAY 27TH (13.30) aemi is delighted to welcome Peter produced through an opening to Taylor, director of Berwick Film & Media the foreign or the unanticipated – Curated by Peter Taylor Arts Festival (BFMAF), to present two provides a critical framework for the films from the festival’s 2016 New festival's selections. These films EARS, NOSE AND THROAT Cinema Competition: Cilaos, the award effortlessly capture these potentials: DIRECTOR: Kevin Jerome Everson FILM INFO: 11 mins, 2016, USA winner from Camilo Restrepo, and timeless yet deeply invested in the Vincent Meessen’s One. Two. Three. moment, they are punctuated with urgency CILAOS They will be accompanied by Ears, Nose and the power of rhythm, song and DIRECTOR: Camilo Restrepo FILM INFO: 13 mins, 2016, and Throat, a recent film from Kevin testimony. France-Columbia Jerome Everson that originally escaped ONE. TWO. THREE. the Festival’s reach. Grouped around the aemi supports and exhibits artists’ DIRECTOR: Vincent Meessen purposefully ambiguous theme of ‘X’, and experimental moving image. FILM INFO: 35 mins, 2016, Belgium a drive towards liveliness and agency – See www.aemi.ie for further details.

IFI & DUBLIN FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL WANDA + PANEL DISCUSSION

MAY 20TH (13.30) Written, directed by and starring of her children and grants her husband a Barbara Loden, Wanda is a rarely divorce. Penniless and on the road, she screened feminist masterwork. Much encounters Norman, an incompetent DIRECTOR: Barbara Loden admired by audiences in Europe – thief to whom she submits at every turn. it won the Best Foreign Film award at FILM INFO: Venice and was championed by Isabelle Following the screening, a panel 102 mins, 1970, USA, Digital Notes by Alice Butler Huppert – the film was overlooked comprising Tara Brady, film critic at in the States, preventing Loden from The Irish Times, Karla Healion, Director Digital presentation courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. securing backing to make another of Dublin Feminist Film Festival and Preservation conducted by the film. Set in the coal-mining region of IFI’s Alice Butler will consider the role UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Pennsylvania, Wanda is a young mother of passivity in Loden’s film as well as its The Film Foundation and GUCCI. who casually relinquishes guardianship reception in the US and Europe.

14 IFI & INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL DUBLIN A GRAIN OF TRUTH + ZYGMUNT MIŁ0SZEWSKI Q&A

MAY 28TH (13.00) The IFI is delighted to collaborate with the The trail leads him to confront International Literature Festival Dublin medieval superstition and anti-Semitism, ZIARNO PRAWDY and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland as well as his own beliefs, in a tense and in Dublin in presenting this screening of gripping thriller with strong elements of DIRECTOR: A Grain of Truth, adapted from the novel social commentary. Borys Lankosz by award-winning and bestselling crime author Zygmunt Miłoszewski, who will FILM INFO: take part in a post-screening Q&A. 112 mins, 2015, Poland, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne In director Borys Lankosz’s film, prosecutor Teodor (Robert Więckiewicz) is called upon to investigate a string of grisly murders in a provincial Polish town.

NT LIVE WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

MAY 18TH (19.00) In the early hours of the morning on the Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, campus of an American college, Martha, The Producers), Luke Treadaway DIRECTOR: much to her husband George’s displeasure, (The Curious Incident of the Dog in James MacDonald has invited the new professor and his wife the Night-Time, The Hollow Crown) FILM INFO: to their home for some after-party drinks. and Imogen Poots (A Long Way Down, 210 mins, 2017, UK, Digital ) star in James MacDonald’s As the alcohol flows and dawn new production of Edward Albee’s approaches, the young couple are drawn landmark play, which will be broadcast into George and Martha’s toxic games live to cinemas from the Harold Pinter until the evening reaches its climax in a Theatre, . moment of devastating truth-telling. Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake), Presented by Sonia Friedman Productions.

15 IFI & IMMA As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics May 6th – May 31st

As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics Alejandro Jodorowsky and Kenneth Anger feature is a major international exhibition taking place at IMMA both in the exhibition and in this film selection, from April 13th to August 27th which examines the role of thereby providing the opportunity to engage with their spirituality in visual art from a wide range of perspectives. extraordinary work in different contexts – in other cases, A saying often used to allude to the familiar but mysterious the connections are less explicit, giving the viewer the world around us, As Above, So Below also hints at a chance to perceive for her or himself possible kinships duality or a mirroring of sorts, a striking and important between specific films and artworks. feature that recurs in a number of the films selected here to respond to, reflect upon and interact with the varied Introduction and film notes by Alice Butler. themes that arise in the exhibition. As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics runs at IMMA In keeping with the artworks in the exhibition, the films until August 27th 2017. For more details on the exhibition and event that feature here, from directors as diverse as Krzysztof programme see www.imma.ie. Kieślowski, , Barbara McCullough and Robert Altman, transcend the limitations of what is conventionally understood as spiritual to embrace ideas around mysticism, ritual, human consciousness, the otherworld and the occult. While a direct correspondence or through-line can be discerned in some instances – The Holy Mountain Holy The

16 When Damiel falls in love with Solveig WINGS Dommartin’s trapeze artist, he resolves to forgo his immortality, a decision he OF DESIRE makes after hearing describe the unequalled pleasure of drinking a coffee, smoking a cigarette or sketching a picture. ( ) MAY 6TH 16.00 Shot mostly in monochrome and featuring an iconic performance from DER HIMMEL ÜBER Set in a desolate, wall-divided Berlin, , this reflexive film about Wings of Desire struck a chord with the act of watching should still feel FILM INFO: audiences worldwide upon its release. pertinent to contemporary viewers. 127 mins, 1987, - plays Damiel, one of many France, Digital, Subtitled invisible angels who populate the city, bearing witness and listening in on the thoughts of people living there.

the Cannes Jury and Critics’ Prize- THE DOUBLE winning film follows two identical women who never speak to each other LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE but nevertheless perceive an uncanny, psychic connection.

Weronika is a Polish singer who ( ) leaves her home town and takes MAY 10TH 18.30 on a demanding solo part in a concert with tragic consequences LA DOUBLE VIE DE When asked to describe what subject while Véronique, who inadvertently VÉRONIQUE matter The Double Life of Véronique photographs Weronika while on a considers, Kieślowski answered, ‘the trip to Krakow, is a music teacher FILM INFO: realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, in Paris whose life shares a number 98 mins, 1991, France-Poland- presentiments, intuition, dreams.’ of mysterious coincidences with Norway, Digital, Subtitled Starring the then unknown Irène Jacob, her Polish counterpart.

husband brings her to an isolated FROM THE cottage after she suffers a traumatic hallucinatory episode VAULTS: IMAGES in their London home. Haunted by visions of herself and of a deceased lover however, Cathryn increasingly struggles to distinguish between ( ) reality and a wholly convincing set MAY 17TH 18.30 of frightening illusions.

FILM INFO: Shot in Wicklow in 1971 with a mostly Shot by Vilmos Zsigmond and narrated 101 mins, 1972, UK-USA, 35mm Irish crew, Altman’s Images is one by York reading passages from her of the director’s most powerful and own dreamlike children’s book, this INTRODUCTION underrated works. Winner of the is a uniquely visual study on the The film’s Special Effects Best Actress Award at Cannes for her relationship between perception and Supervisor, Gerry Johnston, will introduce the screening. performance, plays human consciousness. Cathryn, a disturbed author whose

17 IFI & IMMA AS ABOVE, SO BELOW the central role of ‘The Alchemist’ in the THE HOLY film, a figure who leads a small group of disparate characters through a MOUNTAIN series of transformation rituals in order to discover the secret of immortality. A visionary spiritual quest partially based on René Daumal’s ( ) 1952 metaphysical novel ‘Mount MAY 24TH 18.30 Analogue’, Jodorowsky famously used hallucinogens on set and removed as LA MONTAÑA SAGRADA Partly financed by Yoko Ono and much dialogue from the finished film John Lennon who were unequivocal as possible to allow the spellbinding, FILM INFO: champions of the surrealist psychedelic imagery to speak for itself. 115 mins, 1973, Mexico, El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain is 35mm, Subtitled arguably an even greater cinematic This film will be introduced by accomplishment for director Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator, Jodorowsky, who also assumed Head of Exhibitions at IMMA.

SHOPPING BAG, SPIRITS of Shirley Clarke, who persistently AND FREEWAY FETISHES: encouraged experimentation with REFLECTIONS ON RITUAL both form and technology. SPACE + INVOCATION OF Opening with an extract from her MY DEMON BROTHER own landmark feminist project, Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, McCullough’s film then moves on to ( ) interview nine -based MAY 30TH 18.30 artists about how ritual informs their work and practice. FILM INFO: A key figure in the L.A. Rebellion SHOPPING BAG, SPIRITS film movement, which saw the Screening with this is Kenneth Anger’s AND FREEWAY FETISHES 60 mins, 1981, USA, Digital emergence of a Black Cinema occultish short, Invocation of My that offered a vital alternative Demon Brother, mostly shot in San INVOCATION OF MY to Hollywood output, Barbara Francisco and scored by Mick Jagger DEMON BROTHER 12 mins, 1969, USA, 16mm McCullough was also a student on an analogue synthesiser.

Enduring his own crisis of spirituality, WINTER Ericsson is unable to offer solace to a local fisherman () LIGHT suffering a debilitating fear of nuclear attack.

After reading a beseeching letter from ( ) a local schoolteacher () MAY 31ST 18.30 he has been involved with – delivered in the form of a staggering six-minute NATTVARDSGÄSTERNA The second in a trilogy of Bergman direct to-camera address – he shuns films on religious faith, Winter Light her advances only to find comfort later FILM INFO: takes place one stark afternoon in the performance of rituals that have 81 mins, 1963, Sweden, in a Swedish village where become nothing more than routine. Digital, Subtitled, Black and White Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand), a widowed pastor, struggles to preside over his dwindling congregation.

18 Made in Taiwan Chinese-language Film Festival

The inaugural edition of the Chinese-language post-screening Q&As, Irish premieres of Huang Film Festival Ireland is honoured to welcome Taiwanese Hui-Chen’s documentary Small Talk (Best Documentary, master Hou Hsiao-Hsien and his longtime collaborator, Teddy Award Berlinale 2017) and The Road to Mandalay screenwriter Chu Tien-Wen to our four day event, by Midi Z (Fedeora Award for Best Film, Venice 2016), Made in Taiwan. a special screening of A Touch of Zen (Technical Grand Prix, Cannes 1975), and a programme of six Since directing his début feature in 1980, animation short films curated by Dr. Chi-Sui Wang, Hou has enjoyed a prolific career winning awards at Executive Curator, KuanDu International Animation Venice, Berlin, and Cannes where he was awarded Festival (KDIAF) and in association with the Animation Best Director with The Assassin (2015). Department, Taipei National University of the Arts. Hou’s films offer an intimate and uncompromising The Festival organising committee would like to thank radiograph of Taiwan’s history of change. Long shots the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and largely static camera positions make his films Taiwan Film Institute, Irish Film Institute, Screen Training instantly recognisable. Ireland, and Professor Chris Berry for their invaluable The festival features rare screenings of four films contribution to this event. spanning Hou’s career. A Time to Live, A Time to Die Chinese-language Film Festival Ireland 2017 (FIPRESCI Prize, Berlinale 1985); Boys from Fengkuei; 愛爾蘭華語電影節 A City of Sadness (Golden Lion award, Venice 1989) and The Assassin (2015). The festival will also feature Festival Organising Committee a masterclass with Hou and Chu Tien-Wen and (Yvonne Kennedy, Maria O’Brien, Marie-Pierre Richard)

THE ASSASSIN A TIME TO LIVE, A TIME TO DIE

MAY 11TH (18.00) MAY 12TH (18.00)

CÌKÈ NIÈ YINNIÁNG 聶隱娘 TÓNGNIÁN WANGSHÌ 童年往事 FILM INFO: FILM INFO: 105 mins, 2015, Taiwan-China-Hong Kong-France, Digital, Subtitled 138 mins, 1985, Taiwan, Digital, Subtitled Hou’s first wuxia martial arts film is set in 9th century Hou's semi-autobiographical film looks at life and China during the last years of the Tang Dynasty and death, charting the story of his family and his own centres on the invincible Nie Yinniang, an assassin experiences growing up as a child and a teenager in tasked with killing corrupt officials by her master, rural Taiwan after they relocate from mainland China. Jiaxin, the nun who raised her from the age of ten. Through young Ah-hao, Hou revisits the small-town Shot in glorious 35mm in Taiwan, Japan, China and landscapes of his youth. Evoking impressions and Inner Mongolia, at locations that have changed little intimate memories, intertwined with national history, in decades, the film, the biggest of Hou’s career, the placid rhythm of the camera heightens the slow is ravishing and inventive. pace of time passing.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A The screening will be followed by with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Chu Tien-Wen. a Q&A with Hou Hsaio-Hsien.

19 MADE IN TAIWAN journey into the past in this intimate SMALL TALK documentary. Married off at a young age as was the custom, Huang’s mother took off at age 40 to raise her two daughters alone, earning a living as a professional mourner at funerals and in her spare time smoking and gambling ( ) with her female friends. Why did she MAY 12TH 21.15 ever marry? And why after all these years, do mother and daughter remain RI CHANG DUI HUA ‘Small Talk gleams with simplicity!’ – strangers? Questions Huang, now 日常對話 Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Executive Producer. a mother too, asks of her mother. IRISH PREMIERE An-Uh decides to talk. ‘I was a tomboy ever since I was a child FILM INFO: in a small village.’ – Taiwanese filmmaker The screening will be introduced 88 mins, 2016, Taiwan, Digital, Subtitled Huang Hui-Chen and her aged, lesbian by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. mother, An-Uh, set off together on a

creative process at play in the making MASTERCLASS of complex and stunning films such as A City of Sadness and The Assassin.

The masterclass will be led by Chinese- language cinema academic Professor Chris Berry of King’s College London. ( ) The masterclass is supported by the IFI MAY 13TH 12.00 and Screen Training Ireland.

We are delighted to announce a Tickets €20/€15 conc./€10 students. masterclass with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and his long-time collaborator, screenwriter and novelist Chu Tien-Wen. This is their first visit to Ireland and a rare opportunity for an Irish audience to have first-hand insights into the

of the big city and of growing up. THE BOYS A story based on his real-life experiences, this is Hou’s favourite FROM FENGKUEI film, his self-proclaimed ‘first real film’, and the first Taiwanese New Cinema film to gain recognition at festivals in Europe. Through the use ( ) of non-professional actors, complex MAY 13TH 14.30 sound design, prolonged duration of shots, and elliptical narrative, FENG GUI LAI DE REN Hou’s fourth feature and one of the he realised a careful new language 風櫃來的人 breakthrough works of the Taiwanese for his films, where form and content FILM INFO: New Wave follows Ah-Ching and his are equals. 106 mins, 1983, Taiwan, friends who have just finished school Digital, Subtitled on their journey away from their island The screening will be introduced fishing village to the city of Kaohsiung by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. where they face the harsh realities

20 Thailand illegally. Once in Bangkok, THE ROAD Lianqing finds underground jobs, saves some money and buys fake TO MANDALAY identity papers hoping to make it to Taiwan. But Guo plans to save his earnings for a better life back in Myanmar.

MAY 13TH (18.00) The story revolves around an ill-fated blossoming love, poetically 再見瓦城 A contemplative, visual storytelling described through luminous slow of the romance between two illegal shots and visual allegory. Midi Z IRISH PREMIERE Burmese migrants facing hardship and explores the economic and social FILM INFO: obstacles in the pursuit of happiness problems of his native country and 108 mins, 2016, in Thailand. Like many Burmese the precarious lives of migrant Taiwan-France-Germany- citizens seeking to escape the poverty workers. Absolutely unforgettable. Myanmar, Digital, Subtitled and conflict, Guo and Lianqing enter

the Shaw Brothers who dominated the A TOUCH Hong Kong film industry, King Hu’s influential three-hour wuxia opus, is OF ZEN a pure delight of imagination, with elaborate costumes, innovative editing, and choreographed combats.

( ) Drawing on Chinese opera, mystic MAY 14TH 14.00 Buddhist symbolism and tales from fantasy literature; he creates astonishing XIA NÜ Ku, a calligrapher and scholar in a visuals and splendid panoramic 俠女 remote village, crosses the path of a landscapes of bamboo forests, rocks, FILM INFO: fugitive noblewoman. A romance begins, and temples. 180 mins, 1971, Taiwan, leading Ku on an adventure filled with Digital, Subtitled intrigue, spirituality and aerial fights in Screened with the support of Taiwan the breathtaking A Touch of Zen. Film Institute. The screening will be Moving to Taiwan after splitting with introduced by Prof. Chris Berry.

China in 1949. It is not long after A CITY OF World War II and the Lin family run the ‘Little Shanghai’ tea house in Keelung. SADNESS Eldest brother Wen-Heung, seeking to profit from the postwar boom, lets it become a place for small-time gangster activities. Youngest brother Wen-Ching MAY 14TH (17.30) is a deaf-mute leftist photographer. Groundbreaking for broaching the BEIQÍNG CHÉNGSHÌ Part one of Hou’s trilogy on Taiwanese long-taboo subject of the ‘2.28 Incident’, 悲情城市 history chronicles the tale of the Lin a deep scar in Taiwanese history, FILM INFO: brothers during a complex and turbulent the film became a major international 159 mins, 1989, Hong Kong- period beginning in 1945 with the fall success despite its seemingly Taiwan, 35mm, Subtitled of the Japanese Empire, moving through uncommercial nature. the establishment of martial law, to the secession of Taiwan from mainland

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