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7:00 pm, Saturday, 20 Nov 2010 Once Dir. John Carney. Cast. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova. Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other as the Girl helps the Guy to put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. (85 minutes)

7:00 pm, Sunday, 21 Nov 2010

The Commitments Dir. . Cast. Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, . The first of Booker award winner Roddy Doyle’s ‘Barrytown Trilogy’ about the lives of the Rabbitt family. Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan. Song by song, gig by gig, the Commitments start their climb to the top: Dublin gets soul. But internal strife also builds: Deco is insufferable, Joey's a Casanova, and Jimmy may lack the seasoning to hold things together. (118 minutes)

7.00 pm, Monday, 22 Nov 2010 Kings Written & Directed by Tom Collins, based on Jimmy Murphy's play, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road the film is bilingual, having both Irish and English dialogues. In the mid 1970s a group of young men left the west of Ireland, bound for London, filled with ambition for a better life in a place where they could be kings. Thirty years have passed when they meet again. Their youngest friend, Jackie has died. For some of them those thirty years have been hard. Their muscle has been spent, their hopes dashed on the roads and building sites of Britain, to be replaced with a sense of hopeless disaffection. As the truth about Jackies death is uncovered, and long-held secrets are laid bare, the men discover that ultimately it is your friends who break your heart and your friends who can save it. This long-awaited tender film is a beautifully shot depiction of the isolation felt by long-term migrants who struggle to find a place to call home. KINGS is a story of a lost generation, rich in humanity and emotion, and with a heart-breaking resonance not just for the Irish, in today’s changing world. (88 minutes) 7:00 pm, Tuesday, 23 Nov 2010 The Wind Dir. Ken Loach. Cast. Cillian Murphy & Padraic Delaney. Incredibly believable and achingly visceral in the that shakes depiction of the conflicts of civil war, the film allows you to understand both sides of a violent divide. The the Barley title of the film was taken from a poem by 19TH Century Poet, Robert Dwyer Joyce, about a young man who joins the rebellion. Set in Ireland, 1920, Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical graduate of University College, would rather further his training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short- lived and when one faction of the freedom-fighters

accepts a treaty with the British that is regarded as unfair by the other faction, a civil war ensues, pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers again, Teddy against Damien. (127 minutes) The Field 7:00 pm, Wednesday, 24 Nov 2010

Dir. Jim Sheridan. Cast. Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker & . Set in the rugged west coast of Ireland where the land is rocky and infertile, this film explores the land lust of those left behind when the rest of the inhabitants went to seek "greener pastures." Filled with righteous indignation and contempt for the emigrants, the people of the west struggle to regain and keep their land though from it they can barely scratch out a living. Prominent to the story are the Tinkers or Travellers, those who wander Ireland in caravans. They serve as a stark reminder that there is another way. (110 minutes)

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