APRIL 2016 DHEEPAN THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

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Join IFI Head of Cinema Programming, David O’Mahony with Enjoy a fantastic range of films all year round at the special a guest on Tuesday, April 19th for a discussion about The Brand Members’ ticket price (up to 24% saving on peak tickets) plus New Testament following the 18.00 screening. In this special a host of great benefits – all for €35 per year IFI Film Club event, audience members are invited to join in (€20 concession*). Ask at the IFI Box Office or visit and contribute to a conversation about this black comedy. www.ifi.ie/membership *Students, unwaged and seniors See page 7 for film notes. with valid I.D.

FEAST YOUR EYES FRENCH FILM CLUB

Join us on Tuesday, April 19th at 18.15 for our monthly Feast This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and Your Eyes event when we screen Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on April followed by a specially devised main course in the IFI Café Bar. 18th is The Brand New Testament, written and directed by Dheepan follows a Tamil Tiger fighter from the Sri Lankan Civil Jaco Van Dormael and starring Benoît Poelvoorde as God, War who, with a random woman and orphaned child posing as reimagined as a mean-spirited curmudgeon who lives in his family, attempts to make a new life in a housing project in an apartment in Brussels. See page 7 for film notes. a Parisian suburb. Tickets €20 (free list suspended). Please visit www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for See page 6 for film notes. further details.

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Welcome to the IFI’s April programme as we present our fourth annual focus on Irish film. APRIL

AT THE IFI Metropolis During the month of April, the IFI will, for the fourth time, In the last few weeks we’ve been delighted to have been present IFI Spotlight, our dedicated focus on Irish film. able to improve access to screenings for our visually and Throughout the year the IFI is committed to showing Irish aurally impaired audiences through a new accessible work through a combination of new releases, programming screenings initiative. We are pleased to now offer audio strands and free lunchtime archive screenings. This month, description and open captioning at selected screenings as part of our dedicated focus, we’re delighted to present whenever possible. Please check the website for details four hotly anticipated new Irish features: Atlantic (Risteard and times, as we will endeavour to offer audio description O Domhnaill), Mammal (Rebecca Daly), My Name is Emily on all screenings where it is made available by the (Simon Fitzmaurice) and I Am Belfast (Mark Cousins). distributor, alongside a selected programme of open A returning component of IFI Spotlight this year will be captioned screenings. a day of discussion and debate considering the production of film and television made in or about Ireland during We were also pleased to launch our brand new Friends' 2015. The day will comprise of panels and guest speakers, Scheme last month, offering unique benefits to our including an opening address by Dr. Roddy Flynn (DCU) and supporters. Whilst we gratefully receive 25% public funding Dr. Tony Tracy (NUIG) looking at the past year of Irish film from the Arts Council to deliver our range of activities production. This year, prompted by the broader discussion, across exhibition, preservation and education, as a charity, and highlighted by the Waking the Feminists movement, we rely on the generosity and support of film-lovers, like there will be a particular focus on women in the Irish film you, to support our work. There are Friends' levels to suit and television industry including a key address by Francine different needs and budgets, and we hope to welcome Raveney, Director of the European Women’s Audiovisual you to this special club! Alongside this new scheme, we’ve network. In a new strand, In the Pipeline, we welcome listened to feedback from our customers, and made some producer Katie Holly and director Ken Wardrop to share key changes to the Membership Scheme which continues their production experiences on their upcoming titles. to offer great perks. So whatever scheme you feel suits you We’re also delighted to welcome filmmaker Pat Murphy best, if you haven’t already, we hope you’ll join up and be to make a soapbox address. It promises to be a day of part of the home of film in Ireland. great discussion and debate. Ross Keane In addition to this focus on Irish film, we’re delighted to Director announce details of our programming partnership with the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin – one of our key new collaborators in 2016. Throughout April, we will present a season of science fiction films, paired with guest speakers, to consider how cinema has imagined our future, and to explore if it stands up to scientific scrutiny. This great selection of titles ranges from Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey presented on 70mm.

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MAMMAL OPENS APR 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME 1ST WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL 11.00 RAN OPENS APR 1ST FRI MAMMAL + GUESTS Q&A 18.30 VICTORIA OPENS APR 1ST 6TH FUTURES PAST: THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE 18.30 WED + GUEST SPEAKERS 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM) OPENS APR 8TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 DHEEPAN OPENS APR 8TH 8TH 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM SCREENING) 20.20 MY NAME IS EMILY OPENS APR 8TH FRI THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT OPENS APR 15TH 9TH FROM THE VAULTS: THE SOUND OF SILENTS 14.00 SAT 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM SCREENING) 17.45 OUR LITTLE SISTER OPENS APR 15TH FROM THE VAULTS: THE SOUND OF SILENTS 20.30 LOUDER THAN BOMBS OPENS APR 22ND 10TH FUTURES PAST: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM 14.00 SUN SCREENING) + GUEST SPEAKERS MAPPLETHORPE OPENS APR 22ND 11TH 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM SCREENING) 20.20 MILES AHEAD OPENS APR 22ND MON 12TH 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM SCREENING) 20.20 ATLANTIC OPENS APR 29TH TUES SON OF SAUL OPENS APR 29TH 13TH 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM SCREENING) 16.00 WED IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: COLLECTIVISM PART 2 18.30 FUTURES PAST: SILENT RUNNING + GUEST SPEAKERS 18.30 14TH 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM SCREENING) 20.20 THURS GET SOCIAL! 15TH IFI SPOTLIGHT (ALL DAY EVENT) 10.00 – Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! FRI 16.30 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 16TH FUTURES PAST: SOYLENT GREEN + GUEST SPEAKER 14.00 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics on SAT Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 17TH FUTURES PAST: GATTACA + GUEST SPEAKERS 14.00 Join the IFI Community online: SUN 18TH FUTURES PAST: THE BIGGER PICTURE: METROPOLIS 18.30 @IrishFilmInstitute MON 19TH IFI FILM CLUB: THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT 18.00 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub TUES FEAST YOUR EYES: DHEEPAN 18.15 20TH IRISH FOCUS: I AM BELFAST 18.30 WED 23RD FUTURES PAST: FANTASTIC VOYAGE 14.00 Open Captioned screening SAT + GUEST SPEAKERS 24TH FUTURES PAST: IFI FAMILY: WALL-E 11.00 SUN FUTURES PAST: THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: 14.00 Audio Described screening THINGS TO COME 26TH GREEN FIRE + PANEL DISCUSSION 18.30 TUES 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 11.00 WED FUTURES PAST: THX 1138 18.30 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 11.00 TIMES FRI ATLANTIC + GUESTS Q&A 20.30 For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

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MAMMAL RELEASE NEW

OPENS APR 1ST Margaret (Rachel Griffiths) lives a to Joe (Barry Keoghan), a homeless determinedly quiet life in a nondescript boy she finds beaten up outside her FILM INFO: corner of Dublin; middle-aged and house. As Margaret’s relationship with 100 minutes, Ireland, 2015, Digital divorced, she owns a second-hand store, Joe grows more intimate it becomes Notes by David O'Mahony with little social life save for solitary trips uncertain whether her attraction to the to the local swimming pool. boy is that of a surrogate son or a potential lover. Her self-imposed isolation ends when she SPECIAL GUESTS receives a phone call from ex-husband The second feature from Rebecca Daly We’re delighted to welcome director Rebecca Daly and lead Matt (Michael McElhattan) telling her (The Other Side of Sleep), Mammal is actor Barry Keoghan to the IFI the son she abandoned in infancy, now a a tightly focused exploration of the for a Q&A following the 18.30 screening of Mammal on April teenager, has gone missing, news which troubling bond formed between two 1st, in partnership with Women coincides with her decision to give shelter damaged people. in Film and Television Ireland.

RAN CLASSIC IFI

OPENS APR 1ST Kurosawa made 12 films between 1950 agitated Sengoku period. The results and 1965, including the masterpieces remain staggering. Shot in and around FILM INFO: Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Mount Aso, Japan’s largest active 160 minutes, Japan-France, The Seven Samurai (1954), but in the volcano, with a cast including 1,400 1985, Digital, Subtitled subsequent 20 years, he struggled to extras dressed in elaborate costumes Notes by Alice Butler get films made, often considered by (which took three years to make), Japanese financiers as past his prime. Ran, meaning chaos, portrays the By 1985, he had been working on Ran consequences of aging warlord Hidetora for ten years, painting storyboards for Ichimonji’s short-sighted decision to every scene and carefully devising the divide the kingdom he’s recklessly spent plot, based on Shakespeare’s King Lear a lifetime establishing between his three as well as on the legends of daimyō drastically incompatible sons. Mōri Motonari, who reigned during the

5 APRIL 2016 VICTORIA NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 1ST Victoria (Laia Costa), a young Spanish continue to unfold unexpectedly. woman recently moved to Berlin, meets Unlike, for example, Hitchcock’s Rope FILM INFO: Sonne (Frederick Lau) and his friends (1948) or Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014), 138 minutes, Germany, 2015, clubbing one night. After some time Sebastian Schipper’s film really was Digital, Subtitled walking through the city with them, shot in a single, uninterrupted take. Notes by Kevin Coyne Sonne accompanies her to the restaurant Despite this undeniably impressive feat, in which she works, and which she must which makes for a thrillingly kinetic soon open. His friends follow, but with experience, Victoria never loses sight of one of them now unconscious, the group the characters at its heart, creating a faces a problem as they were due to seamless balance between the visceral carry out a bank robbery that night for and the smaller, more tender moments. a local gangster. Victoria impulsively agrees to take his place, and events DHEEPAN NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 8TH When a Tamil Tiger finds himself in a adapt to the complexities of her school refugee camp in the closing days of the environment. Although the main FILM INFO: Sri Lankan Civil War, the only way he narrative concerns Dheepan (Jesuthasan 115 minutes, France, 2015, can make a new start for himself is with Antonythasan, an author, activist and Digital, Subtitled a more sympathetic cover story. former Tamil Tiger himself) being drawn Notes by Kevin Coyne Enlisting a random woman and into gang-related violence, the film’s orphaned child to pose as his family, real strengths lie in its depiction of the the three are sent to a housing project family members’ developing bonds, FEAST YOUR EYES Join us on April 19th at 18.15 in a Parisian suburb. While he is and the fresh perspective it brings for our Feast Your Eyes appointed caretaker and she cooks to a familiar environment. screening of Dheepan with a meal afterwards for just €20. and cleans for an infirm, elderly man Free list suspended. See page 2 whose nephew heads the local gang for details. of drug dealers, their ‘daughter’ must

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OPENS APR 8TH In this fresh coming-of-age drama, The film is written and directed by super-smart but socially awkward Emily Simon Fitzmaurice, who is completely FILM INFO: (Evanna Lynch) is concerned when she paralysed by Motor Neuron Disease and 94 minutes, Ireland, 2015, Digital doesn’t receive a birthday card from her communicated using eye movement Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn loving but absent father. When she hooks and iris recognition software. In this fine up with fellow outcast Arden (George debut feature he has created a joyful story Webster) at her new school they decide of a young woman’s journey towards to embark on a road trip across Ireland self-discovery and redemption. to find him. They are an odd couple, this pale bookish girl and the boy in the velvet suit, but they find comfort in each other along the way, and uncover some hard and unexpected truths.

THE BRAND RELEASE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

OPENS APR 15TH God (Benoît Poelvoorde) lives in an by writing her own Brand New apartment in Brussels; a mean-spirited Testament, based on the lives of six (LE TOUT NOUVEAU curmudgeon in mangy pyjamas, he randomly selected ‘apostles’, and by TESTAMENT) wreaks petty torments and large-scale revealing his most cherished secret, the disasters upon his subjects. His wife date of everybody’s death, which the EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† (Yolande Moreau) knows to keep out of peoples of the world receive via text FILM INFO: his way, and focuses on her embroidery. message, the effect being an immediate 113 minutes, Belgium, 2015, outbreak of global peace. In the wake of Digital, Subtitled We know a lot about his son, JC, who is Deathleaks, God realises he “no longer Notes by David O’Mahony taking a back seat these days, but less has mankind by the balls.” IFI FILM CLUB so about headstrong daughter Ea (Pili IFI Film Club screening on April Groyne). Ea plans to escape and avenge 19th at 18.00. See page 2. her father’s mistreatment of the earth

7 APRIL 2016 OUR LITTLE SISTER NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 15TH After learning of the death of their settles in, forming bonds with her three long-estranged father, grown-up sisters older siblings whose growing fondness (UMIMACHI DIARY) Sachi (Haruka Ayase), Yoshino (Masami for her is nevertheless complicated by Nagasawa) and Chika (Kaho) travel to the fact that her mere presence reminds FILM INFO: attend his funeral where, for the first them, to varying degrees, of a turbulent 126 minutes, Japan, 2015, time, they meet their younger half-sister past. Koreeda (Like Father, Like Son, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Alice Butler Suzu (Suzu Hirose), a ruminative, soft- I Wish) allows much of this turmoil spoken teenager. Recognising that her to play out just beneath the surface stepmother is not a steadfast guardian, however, preferring instead to draw us Sachi impulsively invites Suzu to come in with understated, often bucolic scenes to Kamakura, the seaside city where the in which the relationships between these sisters live in their late grandmother’s characters gently and ineffably unfold. idyllic, secluded home. Suzu effortlessly LOUDER THAN BOMBS NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 22ND Three years have passed since the who has shielded Conrad from certain death of acclaimed war photographer facts about his mother, must prepare FILM INFO: Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) – her himself for the fallout of its revelations. 109 minutes, USA-Norway, family, especially husband Gene (Gabriel 2015, Digital Byrne), struggles to cope in her absence; Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Film notes by David O’Mahony youngest son Conrad (Devin Druid) has (Oslo, August 31st) first English-language withdrawn into online gaming, while feature skilfully shuffles chronology preoccupied older brother Jonah (Jesse and perspective to intriguing effect; he Eisenberg) has a young family of his own is aided in his approach by uniformly to support. When Isabelle’s colleague superlative performances, with Gabriel Richard (David Strathairn) preps an Byrne rarely more affecting than in his article for The Times to coincide with portrayal of the bereaved Gene. a retrospective of her work, Gene,

8 MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES DOC IFI

OPENS APR 22ND Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS arts, Mapplethorpe struggled to find in 1989; his life and work, which his voice, a celebrated affair with Patti FILM INFO: juxtaposed beautiful still life images Smith helping to galvanise his vision 108 minutes, USA, 2015, Digital and striking celebrity portraits with before his association with art collector Notes by David O’Mahony wilfully confrontational material, are Sam Wagstaff, as both lover and patron, explored in this rigorously researched launched his international career. Figures and illuminating film. Directors Bailey such as Fran Lebowitz and Debbie Harry and Barbato uncovered extensive audio contribute valuable reminiscences, but recordings of the artist, which punctuate the most poignant interviews come the to-camera interviews with family from Mapplethorpe’s family, especially members, lovers and admirers. Starting his younger brother Edward, also a out in the ‘60s, when photography photographer, who speaks about their was not the equal of the other visual competitive, yet loving relationship.

MILES RELEASE NEW AHEAD

OPENS APR 22ND By the late ‘70s Miles Davis (Don their hands on new material from this Cheadle) had become a borderline highly lucrative artist. FILM INFO: recluse, holed up in his New York 100 minutes, USA, 2015, Digital apartment in a fug of drugs, memories A passion project for Cheadle, who Film notes by David O’Mahony and creative inertia. Fuelled by rumours directs, co-writes, co-produces and of a session tape of new material, stars, the success of Miles Ahead lies enterprising Rolling Stone reporter Dave in his decision to focus on the artist’s Braden (Ewan McGregor) tracks him underexplored wilderness years, with down to pen his comeback piece, initially reflections and digressions forming a earning a black eye for his efforts. If that fractured mosaic through which we wasn’t enough, Davis must also contend get a sense of the man as a whole. with greedy record executives from Columbia who will stop at little to get

9 APRIL 2016 ATLANTIC IFI DOC NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 29TH Atlantic follows the fortunes of three On Arranmore, local fishermen watch small fishing communities as they foreign super-trawlers hoover up fish EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† struggle to maintain their way of life stocks offshore while they fight to regain in the face of mounting economic and their fishing rights, forfeited by a short- FILM INFO: ecological challenges. In Norway, where sighted, EU-focused government. In this 80 minutes, Ireland, 2016, Digital the fishing industry has been aggressively visually stunning new work, persuasively Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn protected by national authorities, the narrated by Brendan Gleeson, director SPECIAL GUESTS maritime eco-system is now threatened Risteard O Domhnaill (The Pipe) brings We’re delighted to welcome by the search for new oil fields. the personal stories in the vital resource director Risteard O Domhnaill In Newfoundland an oil boom has hit, debate to the fore to explore how these who will be joined by Arranmore and Rossaveal fishermen for sounding a death knell for the work of communities must learn from the past a discussion following the the fisherman who lost their livelihoods in order to secure a brighter future. 20.30 screening of Atlantic with the 1990s cod-fishing ban. on April 29th. SON OF SAUL NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 29TH Set in Auschwitz in 1944 and depicting by Academy ratio to focus on Géza a day in the life of a Jewish-Hungarian Röhrig’s agonised Saul, a man who in a (SAUL FIA) member of the Sonderkommando – a heap of corpses finds a young boy who, unit of prisoners charged with disposing we infer, he believes is his son. From FILM INFO: of bodies amassed in the gas chambers there, we shadow Saul as he endeavours 107 minutes, Hungary, 2015, Digital, Subtitled – first-time director László Nemes’ to effect a plan to honour the tragedy Notes by Alice Butler exacting Son of Saul is a scrupulous of this single death, regardless of the drama that is both laudable and danger it presents. intensely harrowing. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes and Against a hazy backdrop of intrepid the Best Foreign Language Oscar, Son of revolt and unspeakable violence, Nemes Saul foregrounds a singular expression uses the claustrophobic space provided of compassion in a nightmarish reality.

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IFI EVENTS IRISH FOCUS WILD STRAWBERRIES GREEN FIRE + PANEL DISCUSSION AEMI PROJECTIONS ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME FROM THE VAULTS FUTURES PAST IFI SPOTLIGHT

IRISH the city in an ethereal light not usually FOCUS associated with Belfast. No stranger to the documentary essay I AM form, Cousins (director of The Story of BELFAST Film: An Odyssey) wanted to present the city in a way it hadn't been seen before. He has created an unashamedly abstract APR 20TH (18.30) and visually beautiful tapestry, but one which is politically engaged, where DIRECTOR: Part documentary, part reverie, Belfast is embodied as a 10,000-year- Mark Cousins I Am Belfast is Mark Cousins’ film old woman who has witnessed the FILM INFO: exploration of the city he calls home. Troubles but whose streets are now 84 mins, UK, Digital enlivened by the voices of the Incorporating contemporary dream-like garrulous inhabitants. sequences, archival film and a haunting score by David Holmes, the film portrays

As a young woman, Vera sought and WILD won a place at Oxford, despite the STRAWBERRIES disapproval of her parents. Romance ensues with her brother’s TESTAMENT poet friend, Roland, but then war OF YOUTH breaks out and Vera gives up her dreams to nurse wounded soldiers. APR 27TH & 29TH The horror of war is portrayed through (11.00) its impact on this young woman and the world around her. DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our James Kent bi-monthly film club for over 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular FILM INFO: tea/coffee before the event. 129 mins, UK-Denmark, 2014 Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander brings Wild Strawberries is our film club real emotional depth to this portrait for over 55s. If you are lucky enough of writer, pacifist and feminist Vera to look younger please don’t take Brittain from her autobiography. offense if we ask your age.

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GREEN FIRE + PANEL DISCUSSION

APR 26TH (18.30) Iconic American environmental pioneer with contemporary agricultural Aldo Leopold believed the most and environmental concerns. DIRECTORS: challenging task for human inhabitants Ann Dunsky, Steve Dunksy, of the earth was “to live on Following the screening, a panel Dave Steinke a piece of land without spoiling it.” comprising of representatives FILM INFO: from conservation, farming and 73 mins, USA-Mexico, 2011 In this feature documentary, Leopold’s filmmaking and chaired by The Irish biographer Curt Meine guides us Times’ environmental writer Paddy through the life and work of the Woodworth, will discuss some great 20th century environmentalist, of Leopold’s key ideas in an connecting some of Leopold’s ideas on Irish context. what he referred to as “the land ethic”

AEMI PROJECTIONS COLLECTIVISM PART 2

APR 13TH (18.30) This programme seeks to examine what and the political, the abstract and the are the current limits of cinema as a figural. Titles included in this screening: FILM INFO: political apparatus. From the collage- Mountain Fire Personnel, Pen up the Duration approx. 72 mins works of Kelly Gallagher and Ana Vaz to Pigs, Africa, Inaudible Footsteps and the ‘crowd-sourced collectivism’ at play Sacris Pulso. in Alex Tyson’s Mountain Fire Personnel, the collective is revealed here as a Curated by Alice Butler and Daniel AEMI: supporting and exhibiting complex, multifarious construction. Fitzpatrick, AEMI presents the second in artists’ and experimental moving image. Please see a three-part programme that explores www.aemi.ie for more details For the artists and filmmakers featured, ideas around collectivism as they relate on this programme which the role of the collective now rests to contemporary film practices. continues in May. somewhere between the personal

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ARCHIVE AT FROM THE VAULTS LUNCHTIME See you at the Pillar Congregation Leaving Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin (1902) MORE DUBLIN IN THE SOUND OF SILENTS THE RARE OUL’ TIMES APR 9TH (14.00 & 20.30) Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets Reuniting Bottlenote with the treasures of the at IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for IFI Irish Film Archive, Sound of Silents presents a dates and times. new programme of silent films accompanied by six musicians working between the fields of Irish PROGRAMME 1 traditional, jazz and electronic music. CLERY’S ADVERTISEMENT An advert enticing shoppers and diners to Clery’s, Seán Mac Erlaine (woodwind/electronics), Seán Dublin’s late lamented department store. Carpio (percussion/guitar/voice), Jack McMahon FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1930s, Black and White (turntables), Eoghan Neff (fiddle) and Shane Latimer (guitar/electronics) will improvise solo AMHARC ÉIREANN: DUBLIN STORIES and ensemble accompaniments to the programme Margadh na hÉan, about Dublin’s bird market and which takes Dublin city as its theme. Ospideal na nAinmhithe, about a mobile animal hospital. FILM INFO: 7 mins, 1957, Black and White A colourful range of factual and fictional films, many not seen before in a public arena, show DUBLIN'S FAIR CITY pulsating train rides (1897); inner city streets Rex Roberts’ film introduces Dublin’s architectural, (1902); wry 1920s travelogues; 1940s school literary and cultural delights to potential visitors. children; 1950s holidaymakers; and enigmatic FILM INFO: 20 mins, 1956 short dramas.

PROGRAMME 2: Presented in association with MusicTown 2016. SAFE CYCLING EVENT INFO: Approx. 70 minutes Liam O’Laoghaire’s humorous public information film urges caution while cycling. FILM INFO: 10 mins, 1949, Black and White Tickets: €12 (€10 Concessions).

SEE YOU AT THE PILLAR An entertaining travelogue about Dublin which uses quotations from the city's literary notables to illuminate the character of the city. FILM INFO: 18 mins, 1968

13 FUTURES PAST HOW CINEMA OF THE PAST HAS IMAGINED OUR FUTURE APRIL 6TH—27TH The IFI and Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin themes expressed remain today. For example, with present Futures Past, a season of classic science-fiction nanotechnology now a reality, perhaps the advanced films paired with guest speakers, scientific experts in medical procedures of Richard Fleischer’s Fantastic Voyage their field, that will consider how cinema of the past has are not as unlikely as they must have seemed in 1966? imagined our future. The deep space travel of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (screening from a glorious new 70mm print) now seems From the earliest days of cinema, filmmakers have used the within our grasp. On a more sombre note, our poor medium as a tool for prediction and social commentary, stewardship of the earth lends Silent Running the air exploring contemporary anxieties through visions of often of inevitability. dystopian futures. The films chosen for this season speak to social, political or geographical debates as part of their We hope these screenings, framed within a scientific speculative futuristic narratives. The issues they raise, such context, will open a dialogue about representations of as population growth, ecological destruction and climate science on film and ask pertinent questions about where change, pressing in their own time, are now matters of the human race may be heading. great global concern. Introduction and film notes (unless otherwise stated) Futures Past aims to assess just how prescient these by David O’Mahony. filmmakers were, to explore the accuracy of their visions, and to take the measure of how relevant the Futures Past is a collaboration with Science Gallery Dublin. 2001: A Space Odyssey

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APR 6TH (18.30) A reporter for The Daily Express A more sober, contemplative film than gets the scoop of a lifetime when he the premise might suggest, The Day the uncovers that the Soviet Union and Earth Caught Fire’s Doomsday scenario FILM INFO: 98 mins, UK, 1961, Digital the US have detonated simultaneous speaks to Cold War anxiety over the nuclear bomb tests, the impact of bomb, while anticipating contemporary which alters the orbit of the earth, concerns around global warming and disrupting climate conditions and man’s impact on the planet. sending the planet spiralling towards GUEST SPEAKERS the sun. The only hope for humanity Oisin Coughlan (Friends of the Earth) and Diarmuid Torney lies in staging another massive nuclear (Lecturer in International explosion to rebalance the earth. Relations at DCU) will discuss this film in the context of climate change. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM)

OPENS APR 8TH SCREENING WITH INTRO APR 10TH (14.00) Stanley Kubrick’s iconic masterpiece is astonishing special effects, designed speculative sci-fi on a truly grand scale; by Douglas Trumbull (Silent Running), covering the entire history of man, the and overwhelming sense of awe FILM INFO: 141 mins, USA-UK, 1968, 70mm film dares to posit what might be the and wonder, 2001 is more aligned next evolutionary leap for our species. to philosophical enquiry than A monolith, unknowable and of alien conventional cinema. origin, is present at key moments in GUEST SPEAKERS Joseph Roche (former Mars One man’s development; from the first Tickets: €12 (€10 Concessions). Candidate/Professor of Education, discovery of tools to interplanetary Also showing as part of IFI Explorers TCD) and Peter Gallagher (Professor of Astrophysics, TCD) space travel and beyond, it acts as on April 13th. See page 19. will discuss the themes of a sentinel to our progress. With its space flight, living ‘off-earth’ and wormholes. inspired use of classical music,

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APR 13TH (18.30) The year is 2001; all plant life on earth When news comes from earth to has become extinct. The last remaining destroy the greenhouse and return with specimens have been gathered in giant immediate effect, Lowell is compelled to FILM INFO: 89 mins, USA, 1972, Digital geodesic domes on space freighters, insubordinate action. in orbit around Saturn until the time comes to return and reforest the earth. The debut film by SFX wizard Douglas Trumbull, Silent Running’s ecological Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) is the message continues to resonate. GUEST SPEAKERS resident botanist in one of the giant Ella McSweeney (Presenter, RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground) and Yvonne greenhouses, dutifully tending, with Buckley (Chair of Zoology, Head the aid of three little robots, to the of Biodiversity, TCD) will discuss the topic of extinction before plants and animals under his care. this screening. SOYLENT GREEN

APR 16TH (14.00) The year is 2022 and society is A murder investigation leads on the brink of collapse; runaway detective Frank Thorn (Charlton Heston) population growth has outstripped on a path to uncover the truth. A clever FILM INFO: 97 mins, USA, 1973, Digital food resources, the oceans are dying blend of dystopian sci-fi and police and the greenhouse effect is raising procedural, Soylent Green serves also as temperatures across the globe. a wakeup call for how industrialisation is impacting the planet. The world’s population survives GUEST SPEAKER on rations produced by the Soylent Claire Anne O’Keefe (chef/food Corporation, whose latest product, blogger/scientist) will discuss the subject of overpopulation before the titular Green, is more nutritious than this film. ever before, but what exactly is it?

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APR 17TH (14.00) In the not-too-distant future, success However, can he become ‘Valid’ if he and failure are determined at birth; uses the DNA of Jerome (Jude Law), the bio-engineered occupy the highest a genetically perfect, yet paralysed, FILM INFO: 106 mins, USA, 1997, 35mm societal rungs, while the naturally born former swimming champion? are destined to a life of menial labour. A sci-fi thriller with ideas, Gattaca Vincent (Ethan Hawke) was born the asks difficult questions about the fate old-fashioned way, and as such he’s of the individual in a highly regulated GUEST SPEAKERS an ‘In-Valid’ who works as a cleaner, social order. Shaun O’Boyle (Research Officer, Science Gallery Dublin, podcast his dreams of space travel forever producer) and Aoife McLysaght thwarted by genetic inferiority. (Professor of Genetics) will discuss the theme of eugenics before this screening. THE BIGGER PICTURE

APR 18TH (18.30) This month’s Bigger Picture Directed in 1926 by Fritz Lang, presentation, which argues for a film’s Metropolis is a seminal, ground- place within the canon, chimes with breaking work whose images of a DIRECTOR: Fritz Lang IFI’s Futures Past season throughout segregated dystopian cityscape in April, exploring how cinema of the the 21st century, where workers toil FILM INFO: past has imagined our future. underground and rulers dwell in 153 mins, Germany, 1926, luxurious skyscrapers, have left an Black and White, Digital, Silent with intertitles The screening will be introduced indelible mark on popular culture. by Lynn Scarff, Director of Science GUEST SPEAKER Gallery Dublin, with whom the IFI Lynn Scarff, Director of Science Gallery Dublin, will introduce are collaborating for this season. this screening.

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APR 23RD (14.00) Jan Benes, a brilliant scientist working They have just 60 minutes to find and in communist Russia, has discovered the destroy the clot, that is, if Benes’ white technology to miniaturise objects, blood cells don’t overcome them first. FILM INFO: 100 mins, USA, 1966, Digital albeit briefly. Fleischer’s hugely enjoyable adventure is a triumph of imagination and ‘60s The CIA attempt to smuggle him across production design. the Iron Curtain but an attack en route leaves him in a coma with a blood clot near the brain. A crack team is GUEST SPEAKERS assembled within a submersible, which Claire O’Connell (The Irish Times) and Fergal O’Brien (Professor of is shrunk to atomic size and injected Biomaterials AMBER and RSCI) into Benes' bloodstream. will discuss this film in the context of nanotechnology. T H X 113 8

APR 27TH (18.30) In the 25th century sex and emotion are for sexual perversion and drug evasion. outlawed; the drug-controlled populace George Lucas’ debut film transposes toil anonymously for an all-powerful the dystopia of George Orwell’s rubble- FILM INFO: 86 mins, USA, 1971, Blu-Ray and unseen leader. THX 1138 (Robert strewn 1984 to a pristine future of Duvall) is one such drone in a factory gleaming white spaces that are no less which makes the fearsome robotic foreboding in their antiseptic glare. police force that keeps society in check.

When LUH 3417, his female roommate, tampers with his dosage he begins to feel love for the first time, a transgression that sees him arrested

18 Kubrick collaborated with famous sci-fi IFI EXPLORERS writer Arthur C. Clarke on the script and spent years immersed in perfecting the innovative use of special effects which influenced virtually every sci-fi film made since.

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DIRECTOR: For IFI Explorers, our teen film club, Go online at www.ifi.ie/explorers Stanley Kubrick we have a special €3 offer to see and don’t miss any special screenings Stanley Kubrick’s definitive view of the and offers. FILM INFO: 141 mins, USA-UK, 1968, 70mm future. Screening as part of Futures Past Notes by Dee Quinlan in glorious 70mm, this sci-fi epic was a landmark in cinema history.

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This waste-covered earth has been IFI FAMILY abandoned by humans and relies on robots to clean up the mess. WALL-E is going about his job when he comes across EVE, a reconnaissance robot who has been sent to earth to see if life is once again viable. ( ) APR 24TH 11.00 Falling in love, the resilient robot protects her from a storm till the DIRECTOR: Throughout April at the IFI we are mothership comes to call her home… Andrew Stanton looking at films that have imagined a future, in conjunction with Science Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 FILM INFO: 98 mins, US, 2008 Gallery Dublin, and for IFI Family family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, Notes by Alicia McGivern what could be more apt than the 1 adult + 3 children). Pixar vision in WALL-E?

in April of how film of the past has THE HANGOVER imagined our future, and indeed in this context William Cameron Menzies’ LOUNGE Things to Come is something of a key work. Written by H.G. Wells, and based on his own story, the film is a visionary flight of imaginative fancy. ( ) Predicting a Second World War, the APR 24TH 14.00 film posits 30 years of conflict and plagues, before a new era of peace DIRECTOR: Our monthly indulgent Sunday and technological advancement William Cameron Menzies afternoon of brunch and dawns in the 21st century. a classic film. FILM INFO: 100 mins, UK, 1936, Digital Brunch + film €16; film only is normal This month’s Hangover Lounge IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served complements the overall theme 12pm – 4pm.

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The IFI presents a range of opportunities In a new IFI Spotlight strand, In the Pipeline, for consuming and engaging with Irish film we invite filmmakers to share their throughout the year. IFI Spotlight is our annual production experience on a pre-release title, event where we dedicate a day to focusing on providing audiences with a sneak preview Irish film and television – reviewing the past year of upcoming releases along with an insight and considering current trends in production, into the creative processes adopted. distribution and consumption of new work. The day is complemented by our ongoing The day, which is chaired by Professor Margaret exhibition of Irish film throughout the Kelleher (Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature & Drama programme with a strong brace of titles at UCD and Chairperson of the IFI Board of for April, including Atlantic (Risteard Directors), again includes a formal review of 2015 O Domhnaill), Mammal (Rebecca Daly), output presented by leading Irish film scholars. My Name is Emily (Simon Fitzmaurice) This year there will be a particular focus on and I Am Belfast (Mark Cousins). women in the Irish film and television industry and an examination of moves towards creation Proceedings will be moderated by Professor of gender equality in the sector. Margaret Kelleher, and will start at 10.00.

20 2015 IN REVIEW SCREENING: (10.10) WHERE MY LADIES Dr. Roddy Flynn (DCU) and Dr. Tony Tracy (NUIG) (14.00) will together review the film and television output of 2015. They will trace prevalent themes; explore A short about Irish women in film by students critical and audience response; consider distribution at Dundalk Institute of Technology (17 mins). patterns in Dublin, Ireland and elsewhere, and identify factors which may have impacted on production throughout this period. SOAPBOX: PAT MURPHY EUROPEAN MODELS: (14.20) WOMEN IN FILM AND In a presentation by one of Ireland’s most respected TV IN EUROPE and prolific female film directors, Pat Murphy will reflect on gender and filmmaking practise, and why she (11.15) has been drawn to stories of women in her drama and documentary work. Francine Raveney (Audiovisual Consultant/EWA Network Head of Public Relations) will present a statistical overview of women in the European film industry and will evaluate a range of models designed to achieve gender equality across all IN THE PIPELINE areas of production. (14.45) In this inaugural strand we are delighted that producer Katie Holly and director Ken Wardrop will PANEL: discuss their forthcoming feature films. Katie will present on the film she produced with renowned US TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY: indie director Whit Stillman, Love and Friendship, and WOMEN IN FILM AND TV Ken will discuss Mom and Me, his much-anticipated IN IRELAND follow-up to His and Hers. (11.45) For some time now the stark disparity between the ROUND UP success of men and women in creating and producing Irish stories for film and television has been apparent. (15.30) Considerable work has already been done to identify Facilitated by Professor Margaret Kelleher. areas of gender inequality and to propose strategies to address the imbalance. Much has yet to be done. This panel will consider the value of women’s work as story tellers in film; will provide available information on women writing, directing and producing in Ireland; will consider support for these endeavours by broadcast and other commissioning agencies; and will review plans by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ The Irish Film Board to correct gender anomalies in film production in order to achieve gender equality within a declared timeframe.

Panel: Chair Siobhán Bourke (Irish Theatre Institute); Dr. Susan Liddy (Mary Immaculate College Limerick); Dr. Annie Doona (Acting Chair, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board); Francine Raveney (EWA); and Mary Kate O’Flanagan (Story Consultant).

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